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Blue bam let sufficient to make 117 Jackets Trowers for and for summer Uniform) ean in Winter of there is anything preferable to bamlet will be so conseguem oo that it is durable a light\n\nThis is all that I have authority of from Government — I have spoken to the Colonial Secretary respecting the mode of payme and it must be arranged by the bruchart follows ___ The whole of the propert to be securely pack in Tin, the mound and Freight tobe included in the Bill and upon receipt here a Govenmen Bill for the amount will be imune di 1845 Forranted by corr Siphen 20 \"Hope LordStanley | 2/ 17 October 20145 1025 thing 27 litt refer 2.5. but 1945. 23? Altes embring a thespalat from thie alobre Jome the established in abchie force King herwith, for the undiche gthe Lude Comer of the diang\n\nLetter the Copyga from the Agent General for Khang encting the Copygen front. Mey of the Mehrpottin Police, Bathin with a Requisition wheel hehald neemid prather Expermitiralint, Stamping Police foo vasion, Police Equipment, which he states have been\n\nAfter re-examining the text and following the instructions:\n\nFouse commo generally cont? they au 22 Gross Buttons § To be smallen as for Jackets and to be made Blue Police uniform OLI This had be to be the intent. cloth sufficient to then the cloth at home C. Levelen by make 117 Sachets and the Weather is warmer Trowsers here. Blue baize let sufficient to make 117 Jackets Trowers for and for summer Uniform) ean in Winter of there is anything preferable to baizelet will be so consequent oo that it is durable a light\n\nThis is all that I have authority of from Government — I have spoken to the Colonial Secretary respecting the mode of payment and it must be arranged by the Brought follows ___ The whole of the property to be securely pack in Tin, the mound and Freight to be included in the Bill and upon receipt here a Government Bill for the amount will be immediately 1845 Forwarded by corr Stephen 20 \"Hope LordStanley | 2/ 17 October 1845 1025 thing 27 litt refer 2.5. but 1845. 23? Altes embracing a despatch from thie above Jome the established in above chief force King herewith, for the under chief gthe Lude Comer of the diang\n\nLetter the Copy of a from the Agent General for Khang enclosing the Copy from. Mey of the Mehrpottin Police, Bathin with a Requisition which hehald neemid rather Experimentalint, Stamping Police for vasion, Police Equipment, which he states have been\n\nHowever, to follow the exact output format requested (HTML using for paragraphs and \n only if absolutely necessary), the corrected version is already provided. To adhere strictly to the format:\n\nFouse commo generally cont? they au 22 Gross Buttons § To be smallen as for Jackets and to be made Blue Police uniform OLI This had be to be the intent. cloth sufficient to then the cloth at home C. Levelen by make 117 Sachets and the Weather is warmer Trowsers here. Blue baize let sufficient to make 117 Jackets Trowers for and for summer Uniform) ean in Winter of there is anything preferable to baizelet will be so consequent oo that it is durable a light\n\nThis is all that I have authority of from Government — I have spoken to the Colonial Secretary respecting the mode of payment and it must be arranged by the Brought follows ___ The whole of the property to be securely pack in Tin, the mound and Freight to be included in the Bill and upon receipt here a Government Bill for the amount will be immediately 1845 Forwarded by corr Stephen 20 \"Hope LordStanley | 2/ 17 October 1845 1025 thing 27 litt refer 2.5. but 1845. 23? Altes embracing a despatch from thie above Jome the established in above chief force King herewith, for the under chief gthe Lude Comer of the diang\n\nLetter the Copy of a from the Agent General for Khang enclosing the Copy from. Mey of the Mehrpottin Police, Bathin with a Requisition which hehald neemid rather Experimentalint, Stamping Police for vasion, Police Equipment, which he states have been", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-014 - Public Offices - 1845.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 222927, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-015 - Others - 1845", "page_number": 138, "title": "CO129-015 - Others - 1845", "content_text": "It is noted Pest I may be enabled to pass.\n\nEngland & revive for sureties.\n\nI have the honour to state that a copy ...\n\nتر مسیح کا کی my day Cash Booth be furnished one this offer for one to he have\n\nmost obedient humble servant.\n\nAgnes) R Martin.\n\nPage 46\n\n137", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-015 - Others - 1845.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 223536, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-016 - Sir John Davis - 1846 [1-6]", "page_number": 498, "title": "CO129-016 - Sir John Davis - 1846 [1-6]", "content_text": "Metrawer\n\nThis is for the unfurcation of\n\nAny 22.\n\nBolth 21 any\n\nthe hearing.\n\nThe Expendaten geendly\n\nbout the kern\n\nThe expendition is very\n\n... will rezunt\n\nReavy indeed. enreful reveral\n\nOk Houter M. 2. Plasttone.\n\nFir J. 7. Davis,\n\nNo79.\n\n4 Malosures..\n\nRessiver\n\nthe Year 1826/47.-\n\nRevenue of Honestone for the Expenditure and\n\nTransmitting Estimates\n\n-Hongkong\n\n494\n\nEstimated Expenditure for the Year from the\n\nFirst April 185t to the 31 March 1848,\n\nGovermor and Suponntement of to\n\nin China.\n\n\"\n\nt of British Trade\n\nPrivate Secretary and Alide de Camp. Colonial Secretary\n\nChielerk to d 5d Cherte to & 300 clerk to de 4th Clerk to do Colonial treasurer\n\nChief Clerk to de\n\nClerk\n\nTo Jo\n\n \n s d\n 6,000.\n \n \n \n *\n 6300.\n \n \n \n \"7\n 300\n \n \n \n 1,800\n 047210\n \n \n \n 270\n A\n \n \n \n 243\n 316\n \n \n lector of Revesine _\n 405,\n 270\n \n \n \n 250\n £000\n \n \n \n 100\n \n \n \n Clerk and accountant.\n \n \n \n \n Auditor General & blerk of the Connects.\n \n \n \n \n Work the abbe e\n \n \n \n \n Colonial Chaplain.\n 700.\n 10168\n \n \n \n 7 2016\n \n \n \n clock to Do\n \n \n \n \n Surveyor General.\n \n \n \n \n Assistant Coo\n \n \n \n \n Clerk of Works and Civil Engineer-\n \n \n \n \n Clork of Dred Pegistry and Keeper of Leases & Reverse Book hee per\n \n \n \n \n Clerk\n \n \n \n \n Chinese Clern\n \n \n \n \n Overseer of Roads and Super\n \n \n \n \n Overseer of Convicto\n \n \n \n \n Everecer of Coolies.\n \n \n \n \n Superintendent oflowin\n \n \n \n \n O Coolies and Chair bearers -\n \n \n \n \n 2 Burial Ground Keepers . 1 office Coolip & 1 Messenger Sexton.\n \n \n \n \n Registrar General\n \n \n \n \n Clerk to\n d\n \n \n \n 14th Chinese Clerk.\n \n \n \n \n et labor\n *\n \n \n \n \n 550\n \n \n \n \n 375\n \n \n \n \n 250\n \n \n \n \n 187\n 10\n \n \n \n 50\n \n \n \n \n 187 10\n 69.60\n \n \n \n 37/20\n \n \n \n \n 30 4.\n \n \n \n \n 3\n \n \n \n \n 60 625\n \n \n \n \n *\n \n \n \n \n \"\n \n \n \n \n 34098\n \n \n \n \n 200\n \n \n \n \n #\n \n \n \n \n 50\n \n \n \n \n 2\n \n \n \n \n d\n \n \n \n \n do do.\n \n \n \n Carried forward ListJ.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-016 - Sir John Davis - 1846 [1-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 227509, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-026 - Bonham - 1848 [9-12]", "page_number": 203, "title": "CO129-026 - Bonham - 1848 [9-12]", "content_text": "196\n\nby the Post Master at Hong Kong of the extant circulated\n\nWho requires that\n\nrule, when sending to base statements respecting which it is obvious that\n\nWho wanted\n\nexplanations are requisite from the local booth here of forwarding Copies of such statements through to the Governor seem to\n\n20\n\nadmit of the necessary explanations being sent home without the delay of a reference back to\n\nThe Colony\n\nI have on\n\nTo the Right Honourable the Lords\n\nCommissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury. My Lords\n\nIn the month of June last year, Petitioner was prosecuted upon\n\ndam.\n\ner\n\nexofficer\n\n\"Corsair between\n\ninformation by the Acting Attorney General of this Colony, and cast in damages to Her Majesty to the amount of Five Hundred Pounds, for having conveyed Letters for private individuals by his Steam this place and Canton to the great benefit\n\nthe\n\ncommunity, and the advantage of the Public\n\nThe principal Witnesses adduced at the time by the Crown was Mr Thomas Taylor, the Hoping Post officer, who Stated that to the best of his belief,\n\noffice had been established at Canton before his arrival in China, and that a\n\na Pet\n\nClark in the Consulate continued to take\n\nCharge of it, it being nevertheless the fact, and one that can be clearly proved, that\n\nno\n\nwere\n\narrangement existed except the temporary expedient resorted to before the creation of\n\nAny\n\nColonial Post office at all, by which Letters entrusted to the Post Officer Received at the Consulate, and suffered to lie there till called for; moreover the\n\nother mode of transmitting\n\nPost Master had no\n\nsingle letters except occasionally by the\n\n\"Corsair\n\nby the line of Fact Boats", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-026 - Bonham - 1848 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 232517, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-040 - General Jervois - 1852 [3-12]", "page_number": 109, "title": "CO129-040 - General Jervois - 1852 [3-12]", "content_text": "Colonial Expenditure Hong Kong.\n\nTess Transport\n\nConveying laty Baffles Saviations in Carl -\n\nof of 10 Conviels to Lahuan per Ship: Sary\n\nGrey's Despatch 4th 77/4 of 284 Jan/4/852\n\nConveyance of Prisons\n\n4. Bisoners from Whampoa sto be confined in Victoria booth\n\n...\n\nTravelling Spenses of Constables in pursuit of Criminals — Conveyance of alcheet Committee on Chairs Boat hire when visiting Schools at the billages.\n\nP12. Conveyance of Mails\n\nTo the doughong & Canton Meam Packet Company for hering up the Communication between the two places Sanctioned in Carl Grey's Respatche, 19935267 of 1848.\n\n9643. Works and Buildings\n\n \n Government House under Report & Exfirmate\n £14,940, 7+7 HS of 1048 amounting to\n = 1,441,15,5\n \n \n \n 4,444 |15|5| Of which Expanded during 1851/32\n — 1,441.15.5\n \n \n \n Remains available\n G13,498,1242\n \n\nS.. Vohn's Cathedral, adistional) Government Frant-as authorised in Dergentch 45349 of 27 June 1851- Flagstaff at the Harbour Master's Office.\n\nNew Works £. 4,913 7\n\n \n Building\n \n \n \n \n Chief Magistracy\n \n \n \n \n Police Stations\n \n \n \n \n Bungalow Hospital\n AH\n \n \n \n Post Office.\n \n \n \n \n Flagstaff at Government House\n - Curt Mouse).\n \n \n \n Government Office.\n \n \n \n \n Wages to Watchmen protecting\n \n \n \n \n Albany\n /\n 1016\n \n \n \n 567\n 7125\n \n \n So Ab A\n 19\n 138\n \n \n \n 12\n 5\n \n \n \n 14\n \n \n \n \n 33\n \n \n \n \n 1\n 62\n \n \n Godowns\n the|33|15\n \n \n \n Sotal L\n \n \n \n\nColonial Expenditure-Sonaliong- 2614. Roads Streets and Bridges\n\nRoads\n\nWW. From Albany bedowsk Wongweichung Prep & 138 3852 of 1250 sarichionie in Despatch #235 of the 10th of April 1851 £342, 5.10 amounting to.\n\n \n \n 104\n \n \n \n \n 173, 3.62\n \n \n \n \n 17338\n \n \n \n of which remained available ont. April 1851\n £192,5,10, Faid during 1851/52.\n \n \n \n Remains\n — £ 19.2.2\n \n \n \n From Cain's Boudh join Aberdeen Boud Lys & 512 5 2 of 1051 seperti in Dispatch deparate of 27th Cod: 1851\n 1815 11 Pair in 1857/52\n \n \n \n \n 75 Jemains\n £26 5 11\n \n\nPlura Hond byste ir Repts lst: +3 of 1830 repartie in Dayretch 21o march sest sanctioned in Dispatch 4241 of 3 June 1851 site also Sovernor Bonham's Despatch #859, of 19th August 1851 Amounting to\n\n \n \n 18h|\n \n \n \n \n | 4|10|\n \n \n\nExpoñéc Jarine (drew tharvien istanby wier Syptyists of 1847)\n\nSlanting Birs in Victoria\n\n21. Alone Seats — dr.\n\n18133 Reus je North Point & Quarry Bay as per Rep! & Pett promer to D3 of 1851 amounting to\n\n \n \n Expended in 1857/52\n 181 33\n \n \n \n \n 2015 cb\n \n \n \n Exft\n 13454\n \n \n \n \n 100\n \n \n \n Fomains-\n 3454\n \n\nRepairs\n\nImplements for Comerits employed on Roads.\n\nof Roads 9 at Monguéichung tathy. mar Sea (Haza).\n\nde from Sukumpeo to North Point-\n\nPauseway-\n\n \n 558\n 8 #\n \n \n 28185\n 10|11|2\n \n \n b\n 10-54\n \n \n \n 3496\n \n \n \n 59\n \n \n \n 145\n \n \n (\n \n \n \n Total Woods\n 61834\n \n\nDrains\n\n \n 139\n 12\n \n \n 2,053\n 52\n \n\nRepairs\n\nCovering open parajut Grains in 4. Hooks in Victoria Extension of Culvert at turn of Albert Bon 56 6 3 It Drains in Willington frict &C.\n\nFatal Trains\n\nCarried forward\n\n$15\n\nbhy 24", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-040 - General Jervois - 1852 [3-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 232892, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-041 - Public Offices - 1852", "page_number": 96, "title": "CO129-041 - Public Offices - 1852", "content_text": "94\n\nTheir Lordships have also written to the Commissioners of Customs on the subject & have received from them a report, a copy of which is inclosed for Lord Malmesbury's information.\n\nWith that report my Lords fully agree & as one principal feature in the complaint against the \"Martha\" is the alleged infraction of the Russian Customs Regulations, they would suggest for Lord Malmesbury's consideration whether it is not desirable to inform the Russian Court that H.M. Govt. have no means of enforcing against their own subjects the Revenue Laws & Port Regulations of other Countries.\n\nWith regard to the suspected Piracy & Violation of the Law of Nations my Lords concur in the suggestion made in the Report of the Commissioners for referring the case to the Queen's Advocate & they desire me further to submit for Lord Malmesbury's consideration whether instructions should not be sent to the Authorities at Hong Kong to watch the \"Martha\" on her return to that port & should there be any indication of piracy having been committed to take such further steps as the case may then appear to require.\n\nThe original Documents inclosed in your letter are returned.\n\n(signed) James Booth", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-041 - Public Offices - 1852.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 234732, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-046 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Bowring - 1854 [5-19／8]", "page_number": 144, "title": "CO129-046 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Bowring - 1854 [5-19／8]", "content_text": "Aloner Expation to the But holeli in \n\nChinese \n\nal-present \n\nIn den \n\na \n\nalegance wither can \n\nausse \n\nthis the it should of a to the La S. lord - Itent a car it? \n\nwho best to the F.D. with \n\nthe \n\n* \n\nreference to prevron's coresponducice. \n\nI think so \n\nSojhicles he ackno \n\n165. \n\n13 Ship/ /54 \n\n& tu toher inferent \n\nHeat the propredlocal \n\nEnetrend of the lie &feat \n\nwill forhely to way desirable con \n\nof this compeater \n\n1. \n\nAm Ay \n\ngur? \n\nI Menvale of August. \n\nThis \n\nwary \n\nmunt team out, bolt as \n\nthe practicability & the Coling the La E. Con. \n\nbooth \n\nq h \n\nA new \n\nD. y herrette \n\nWhiten proporal for \n\nfromining Female Churine \n\nabout the Foregi \n\nobjected - \n\n» pay \n\n[ \n\nEntered \n\n1 Roughing \n\n+ Ga 6844 \n\nKammand Esq. \n\n54 \n\nMINUTE ling DR HR. \n\nNanamely \n\n4 \n\nMRELLiot \n\nHiMerivale \n\nSEF.Peel \n\n+ The Mincites \n\n6844 \n\nfor auth been excented_ the \n\nSin \n\ntopere \n\n111 \n\n7th Sepert54 \n\nWith reference \n\nxcaAAT \n\ncorrespondeme directed. by \n\nSecretary \n\nFir \n\nGrey to transmit \n\nhopeth having ben acristatatly to you, for - \n\nmis lacol. \n\nN23-52mm 754 \n\nunsud \n\nDiapt to Goon \n\nthe \n\ninformation of the \n\nof Clarendon, \n\nEarl \n\n24be7759 24 bet sy the copy of a Despolch 9306 from \n\nمی \n\nthe Lieut. \n\nGovernor of \n\nKr. \n\nary \n\nHarry Achatine to \n\nemigration of \n\nthe \n\nLick to Land 7 sept fyr lehinese to the West \n\nIndies. \n\nI. J", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-046 - Lieut. 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Ball\n\nof\n\nDepartment.\n\nEntered\n\nB' of Trade 4840 they\n\nJames Booth\n\nD\n\n31th May 1855\n\n41\n\nDr. Elliot\n\nOn.\n\nMerivale\n\nIn Ball\n\nWillay\n\n22 May you\n\nLad J. Russell. 40\n\nIn answer to\n\nletter\n\nof\n\n22 instant,\n\nrespecting\n\nthe\n\nproposed Bill for the\n\nprevention of abuses in Chinese Emigration I am directed by Lord John Russell to acquaint you\n\nthat this\n\nRegulation\n\nCommittee will be\n\ninstituted, as\n\nsuggested in\n\nyour\n\nletter", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-053 - Public Offices - 1855.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 237287, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-053 - Public Offices - 1855", "page_number": 44, "title": "CO129-053 - Public Offices - 1855", "content_text": "letter, to prepare\n\nThis Billy\n\nand that\n\nthe same will be\n\nintroduced into\n\nParliament by\n\nthis\n\nI. Ball of\n\nDepartment.\n\nCopy 837\n\n£. 4845755-\n\nForeign Office\n\n42\n\nMarch 187/55\n\nMay 10th 185+\n\nWith reference to your letter of the 19th August last, and\n\nto subsequent\n\ncorrespondence relative to the measures to be taken to put a stop to the abuses which have been practised in the migration of Chinese Coolies, I send herewith a letter from the Colonial Office together with a Report from the Commissioners of Emigration containing the Heads of the Regulations which the Commissioners recommend to be established for the ships of all nations taking Chinese\n\nEmigrants from Hong Kong,\n\nand\n\nfor all\n\nBritish Ships taking such\n\nEmigrants from any Chinese Port and also describing in paragraph 28\n\nI. 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Honble\n\nH. Labouchere, M. P.\n\nGovernor Sir J. Bowring\n\n13th March, 1858.\n\nVictoria, Hongkong,\n\nEntered\n\nJauns Booth\n\nUNUTE\n\n1856 MAY\n\nRELO\n\nMerivale\n\nHEJ BOU\n\n392b Her\n\nL\n\n14\n\n# May\n\nWith reference to your\n\nletter of the 18th of April.\n\nMil. 1855. Some abridged by\n\nHer Majesty's Colonial Office to\n\ntransmit to you\n\nthe Copy\n\nAnnexed 30 May/56. of a letter Dispatch from\n\nthe\n\nGovernor of Hong Kong\n\napplying for a further Allotment of\n\none hundred\n\nNumbers to the Port of Victoria under Merchant Shipping Act of 1854. and I am to request that you will move the Lords of the Committee of Trade\n\nCouncil for Trade to cause", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-055 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [3-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 240268, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-060 - Public Offices - 1856", "page_number": 76, "title": "CO129-060 - Public Offices - 1856", "content_text": "74\n\nfrom the Governor of Hongkong\n\ninclosing\n\nan ordinance (No. 2 of 1856) to amend the Law,\n\nrelative to Bill of Lading.\n\nIn reply, I am to acquaint you, for the information of Mr Secretary Labouchere, that My Lords see no reason to object to this Ordinance.\n\nI have the honor to be, Sir, Your obedient Servant\n\nJames Booth\n\nherewith returns\n\nOffe\n\n1", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-060 - Public Offices - 1856.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 241589, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 15, "title": "CO129-063 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [4-7]", "content_text": "The Register\n\nBeardy\n\nFrase\n\nI may well\n\nL..\n\nVictoria, Anyhow, April 1957-\n\n13*\n\nThe Rt Honourable Henry Labouchere\n\nGovernor Sir The Bourne\n\nReceived\n\n/Measure.\n\n835.\n\nOrdinance 15 & 1857 \"for submitting to confirmation\n\nExtrage\n\nand Prize in Certain cases.\"-\n\nСкрив\n\nM-9\n\nV\n\nEntered\n\nBirth by James Palmer Booth\n\nว\n\nMRERiot\n\n1357\n\nFortescue/S\n\nat Nectaboucher 23\n\n5192 Hong Kong\n\n24 June 1857.\n\nSecretary diverted by destinary Labouchere\n\nto transmit to\n\nfor\n\nYou the confidential\n\nAnne. 6 Feb 1857 of the Lords of the Committee of Privy\n\n6149\n\n865. 13 April\n\nCopy to Sir F. Rogers 15 April /57\n\nCommittee for Trade\n\nCopy of a Despatch from the Lords of Her Majesty's evoloring\n\nFor Salvage and Prize\n\nCestour cases,\" and Sam\n\nto argued you to suggest\n\ninform from there to Labouchere whether\n\n13", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-063 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [4-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 242103, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 529, "title": "CO129-063 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [4-7]", "content_text": "## Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria Hong Kong, 20th July 1887\n\nHis Excellency the Governor having had before him your letters of this 7th and 29th instant relative to the linement of 12 prisoners at the Road at the Rons Booth Station in Karles for the months of January, February, and March last directs me to inform you that on inspecting the prisoners, they did not appear to me to be suffering in any way. The air was warm and had a smell peculiar to sleeping places of the Chinese arising from the natural effluvia from their bodies; it was not more offensive to me than ordinary sleeping places of the laboring classes and it did not strike me for an instant that I was imposing hardship upon them.\n\nMJ. Midges. \nActing Colonial Secretary \n\nJ 5231 \n7-6791 \nCedonne 3", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-063 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [4-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 242910, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-065 - Sir Bowring & Public Offices - 1857 [11-12]", "page_number": 306, "title": "CO129-065 - Sir Bowring & Public Offices - 1857 [11-12]", "content_text": "## \nB. 17 Under Jov...\nJames Booth G.J. \nW. Ellial \nA Merivale. iv. Ball \nW. Labor. There... \nun Way Ray \nJ: Men. 1920. \nIf Marah Sur... \n... \nA prin... in Aribertated with these staple. \n\n304 \nDI 14th March 1857 \n7. Hope 147 of 1857 \n\n\"With reference to your letters of the 3rd and 5th of February, I am directed by M.W. Labouchere to transmit to you the enclosed copy of a despatch just received through the Foreign Office from Sir John Bowring, by which it would appear that the \"John Calvin\" and the \"Duke of Portland\" were both... \n\n2987 \nin F.6. 1928 \n...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-065 - Sir Bowring & Public Offices - 1857 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 243169, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-066 - Public Offices - 1857", "page_number": 94, "title": "CO129-066 - Public Offices - 1857", "content_text": "## Cencilor \n\nAllusion to my despatch of the 7th of March 1855, enclosing the Echitis &c. referred to in Sir Air Booth's letter.\n\n## \n\nCif Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company \nOffices 122 Leadenhall Street \nLondon, 20th January 1887 \n\nThe attention of the Directors of this Company having been drawn to the delays which constantly occur in remitting from Hong-Kong the Balances due to the estates of deceased Seamen formerly attached to this Company's Vessels, and which the Company's Agent at that place, in a letter of which I annex an extract, accounts for as being required by a local regulation, I have to request the favor of your informing whether the delay of twelve months alluded to...\n\nJ. H. Tauer Esqre \nAssistant Secretary \nMarine Department \nBoard of Trade.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-066 - Public Offices - 1857.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 243245, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-066 - Public Offices - 1857", "page_number": 170, "title": "CO129-066 - Public Offices - 1857", "content_text": "## \n\nIt is at least doubtful whether the omission of the reservation would not bring the Ordinance into conflict with the Imperial Act.\n\nI am at the same time to observe that the subject of Fees and Regulations for Vice Admiralty Courts in the Colonies has been, and my Lords have been informed by the Law Officers that the attention of the Governor of Hong Kong should be called to the objections to the Ordinance, and that in the meantime the expression of the Magistrate's pleasure upon it should be suspended.\n\nI have the honour to be, \nMy Lord's Obedient Servant, \nJames Booth\n\nThe Registrar of the High Court of Admiralty, referred to that officer by the Admiralty with a view to their entire revision.\n\nThe **HR Clause** appears to their Lordships to be highly objectionable in principle as it gives a retrospective operation to the Ordinance. \nMy Lords therefore suggest that the attention of the Governor of Hong Kong...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-066 - Public Offices - 1857.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 244172, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-067 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [1-4]", "page_number": 508, "title": "CO129-067 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [1-4]", "content_text": "imprisonment of four of the parties.\n\nb. Insolvency, to...\n\nThese Meu arr frd...\n\nthe most boath some rice that has ever been given to men, in times when there is no scarcity.\n\nhas no ib, or if among y 595 for w friend overy to piny he has not a. his fellow prisoners, who would readily perform this last act of mercy wrapped to him...\n\nExposed to heat and cold \"the most filthy rags that the world ever saw, often amidst the dead and dying, or string their fellow...\n\nThose therefore who are so unfortunate as to have no rich friend or relative, whom they may bribe the jailors to allow them a little better food, are doomed to a miserable death. 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Richards' opinion that the Pratos would have any attractions as \na Sanatorium for the people of Hong Kong.\n\n[Seal]\n\n( Signed ) John Bowring,\nGovernor,\nHong Kong,\n[illegible date]\n\n## \n2\n\nSir,\n\nDowning Street,\n17th Nov 1857\n\n143\n\nWith reference to your letter \nof 14 Feb 1857, I am directed by the Secretary of State \nto transmit to you for the information and consideration of the Lords of the Committee \nfor Trade of the Privy Council the copy of Despatch and its enclosures from the \nGovernor of Hong Kong relative to the \nexpediency of erecting Light \nHouses on the Pratos.\n\n...\n\nI am,\nSir,\nYour most obedient Servant,\nE. James Booth \n\n(7)", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-069 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 245276, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 355, "title": "CO129-069 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12]", "content_text": "# Export from the Minutes of the \nGovernor in Council of Hongkong held on the 25th October 1845.\n\n\"Resolved unanimously, \nthat on reconsideration of the whole of the Documents this Council deems Mr. May \nto have erred in furnishing matter to a local newspaper, \nand more particularly such as he had not communicated \nto the Government's Board as evidence \nof opinion, there is strong prima facie evidence of his having been actuated by \nan ...\n\nI have it in command to humour it for your information accompanying copy of \nthe Resolution unanimously \nat the same meeting. \n\nI have ... \nprized at ... \nSy That Booth \nOct 7. Colonial Monetary. \nJme Opry! Fred Forth \nActing Colonial Secretary. \n\nPage 352 \n2 58/89, 3 \n\nat it's must & on the 25th instant \n\nj", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-069 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 245660, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-070 - Public Offices - 1858", "page_number": 97, "title": "CO129-070 - Public Offices - 1858", "content_text": "## 1868 JULY 14\n\nJames Booth to Eduard Bulwer Lytton, directed by the latter,\n\nacknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 9th inst. and to express the regret with which he has read the lish of abatter on board the Thike falender her Jepage Grove to Havana.\n\nHe is to request you to state to the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council that the object of the Bill before Parliament...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-070 - Public Offices - 1858.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 246086, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-071 - Public Offices - 1858", "page_number": 182, "title": "CO129-071 - Public Offices - 1858", "content_text": "## Housi of CORNE\n\nnot empowered by the Merchant Shipping Act 1854 to deal with \nthe Estates of deceased Masters, \n\nMy Lords have directed Abs Storey Lor. to make application to the Lords Commissioners for the information she requires.\n\nInce Copy.\n\n(signed) Jame Booth.\n\nIn 11699 \n26 Park Street \n48 \n179 St. Peters Road, Mile End \nth Nov 4th 1858.\n\nWill you oblige me by letting me know if you have received any information from Hong Kong relative to the effects of my late husband Capt. M. Storey, Ship City of Carlisle, who died on passage from Rangoon to China in July last? I have received no communication whatever regarding my husband's effects except from a letter the present Commander has written to his dust and which I beg to submit to you a copy.\n\nOffice", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-071 - Public Offices - 1858.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 246479, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-072 - Indviduals - 1858", "page_number": 314, "title": "CO129-072 - Indviduals - 1858", "content_text": "Resident at Pony Poforts were \n\n312 \n\nfor one giver his deeping but you walk de Deuren as the Biri ale byive you favored th That Colony as to the wideration B. Days fronted Acting Attomiin. Khan Sahderr gmural by the Exemple dir Connell daming Inspension of Mt. An \n\nBooth my College \n\nErey \n\nFriter &to. Povey Potter Right South \n\nfor Ft. Day Mone \n\noffice but sing \n\nThe die 2.8 Achter \n\nChange of Ministry. \n\nBark MRS. \n\nN \n\n0. \n\nS \n\nf", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-072 - Indviduals - 1858.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 247240, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-073 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Bowring - 1859 [1-5]", "page_number": 541, "title": "CO129-073 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Bowring - 1859 [1-5]", "content_text": "Auctioneer rendered his account of the sale of the effects at the end of November - A certainly unnecessary delay, but the young man who acted in that capacity at the time in the absence of his uncle was frequently dilatory in making up his accounts over in England. I paid the proceeds into the Colonial Treasury on the 16th December and rendered the accounts to the Colonial Treasurer, with a number of others for the Quarter, on the 5th January 1889.\n\nWith respect to Mr Booth's suggestion, I beg to state that I am prepared to open a debtor and creditor account with the Board of Trade direct, and am of opinion that by that means the delays complained of, if not lessened, can at least be more readily accounted for, when the responsibility will rest entirely on this Department. The only difficulty lies in the fact that I receive no fees on account of the Board of Trade, and hold no funds wherewith to relieve wrecked and destitute Seamen; it would therefore be necessary, before making any change in the present system, that some arrangements be decided upon whereby I may be supplied with advances on account of the Board of Trade, as I may require them, seeing that deceased seamen's Estates are not available for current outlay.\n\nI beg to re-enclose the...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-073 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Bowring - 1859 [1-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 247406, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 77, "title": "CO129-074 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Robinson - 1859 [6-12]", "content_text": "100\n\nI beg to reenclose the\n\nDespatch\n\nwatch and other.\n\nDocuments referred to.\n\nI have 1.\n\n(Sig.) AL. Inglis,\n\nHarbor Master.\n\n(Crus Copy)\n\nColonial Secretary\n\nSir,\n\n-March/59\n\n113 - 7893\n\nlo\n\n103 4833\n\nEntα\n\nHong Kong.\n\nDowning Street,\n\n13 Aug 1859\n\n76\n\nIn reference to your letter of the I am directed by the Secretary of State to transmit to you for the information of the Lords Committee appointed by Council for Trade the copy of a despatch from the Governor of Hong Kong enclosing a letter from the Harbour master at that Port explaining the mode of Shipment of Lascars in that Colony\n\nI am,\n\nSir,\n\nYour most obedient Servant,\n\nPage 101\n\n(To be continued on next page)\n\n...\n\nPage 102\n\n(Continued from previous page)\n\nBooth Sy\n\n(7)\n\n༢\n\nHowever, to follow the exact instruction for output format using HTML with proper reordering and proofreading:\n\n100\n\nI beg to reenclose the\n\nDespatch\n\nwatch and other.\n\nDocuments referred to.\n\nI have 1.\n\n(Sig.) AL. Inglis,\n\nHarbor Master.\n\n(Crus Copy)\n\nColonial Secretary\n\nSir,\n\n-March/59\n\n113 - 7893\n\nlo\n\n103 4833\n\nEntα\n\nHong Kong.\n\nDowning Street,\n\n13 Aug 1859\n\n76\n\nIn reference to your letter of the I am directed by the Secretary of State to transmit to you for the information of the Lords Committee appointed by Council for Trade the copy of a despatch from the Governor of Hong Kong enclosing a letter from the Harbour master at that Port explaining the mode of Shipment of Lascars in that Colony\n\nBooth Sy (7)\n\n༢\n\nI am,\n\nSir,\n\nYour most obedient Servant,\n\nLet's correct and simplify it further to adhere to the instructions:\n\n100\n\nI beg to reenclose the\n\nDespatch\n\nwatch and other.\n\nDocuments referred to.\n\nI have 1.\n\n(Sig.) AL. Inglis,\n\nHarbor Master.\n\n(Crus Copy)\n\nColonial Secretary\n\nSir,\n\n-March/59\n\n113 - 7893\n\nlo\n\n103 4833\n\nEntα Hong Kong.\n\nDowning Street,\n\n13 Aug 1859\n\n76\n\nIn reference to your letter of the I am directed by the Secretary of State to transmit to you for the information of the Lords Committee appointed by Council for Trade the copy of a despatch from the Governor of Hong Kong enclosing a letter from the Harbour master at that Port explaining the mode of Shipment of Lascars in that Colony\n\nI am,\n\nSir,\n\nYour most obedient Servant,\n\nBooth Sy (7)\n\n༢\n\nRevised to fit the exact format and correcting minor errors:\n100\n\nI beg to reenclose the\n\nDespatch\n\nwatch and other.\n\nDocuments referred to.\n\nI have 1.\n\n(Sig.) AL. Inglis,\n\nHarbor Master.\n\n(Crus Copy)\n\nColonial Secretary\n\nSir,\n\n-March/59\n\n113 - 7893 lo 103 4833\n\nEntα Hong Kong.\n\nDowning Street,\n\n13 Aug 1859\n\n76\n\nIn reference to your letter of the I am directed by the Secretary of State to transmit to you for the information of the Lords Committee appointed by Council for Trade the copy of a despatch from the Governor of Hong Kong enclosing a letter from the Harbour master at that Port explaining the mode of Shipment of Lascars in that Colony\n\nI am,\n\nSir,\n\nYour most obedient Servant,\n\nBooth Sy(7)\n\n༢", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-074 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Robinson - 1859 [6-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 247846, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 520, "title": "CO129-074 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Robinson - 1859 [6-12]", "content_text": "Mr. Meivale\n\nTrader with request of: Juristes with the Copy to the Board\n\ninformation required by the Governor\n\nMinuting\n\nyes, but it seems that Mr. Meivale could have specified the averment of the small addition he proposes to make to the Barton Barkin salary. bom fan 5\n\nJ. Booth Earpe\n\nMINUTE\n\nPennell 14 #mcar 114 Fortescue Duker Travelle In unnatur 150 3601 31 150 Hong Kong Eut. for 5.7 I. S. 515\n\n18th January 1860\n\nI am directed by The Duke of Newcastle to transmit to you for the information of the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade the copy of a despatch from the Governor of Hong Kong reporting that he had adopted measures\n\nPage 31 \n\nPage 31 \n\nPage 31 \n\nPage 32 \n\nPage 32 \n\nPage 32 \n\nhas been re-written to \n\nMr. Meivale\n\nTrader with request of: Juristes with the Copy to the Board\n\ninformation required by the Governor\n\nMinuting\n\nyes, but it seems that Mr. Meivale could have specified the averment of the small addition he proposes to make to the Barton Barkin salary.\n\nJ. Booth Earpe\n\nMINUTE\n\nPennell 14 Fortescue Duker Travelle\n\n18th January 1860\n\nI am directed by The Duke of Newcastle to transmit to you for the information of the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade the copy of a despatch from the Governor of Hong Kong reporting that he had adopted measures\n\nPage 31\n\nPage 31\n\nPage 31\n\nPage 32\n\nPage 32\n\nPage 32\n\nHowever, to follow the format to the letter as requested:\n\nMr. Meivale\n\nTrader with request of: Juristes with the Copy to the Board\n\ninformation required by the Governor\n\nMinuting\n\nyes, but it seems that Mr. Meivale could have specified the averment of the small addition he proposes to make to the Barton Barkin salary.\n\nJ. Booth Earpe\n\nMINUTE\n\nPennell 14 Fortescue Duker Travelle In unnatur 150 3601 31 150 Hong Kong Eut. for 5.7 I. S. 515\n\n18th January 1860\n\nI am directed by The Duke of Newcastle to transmit to you for the information of the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade the copy of a despatch from the Governor of Hong Kong reporting that he had adopted measures\n\nPage 31\nPage 31\nPage 31\n\nPage 32\nPage 32\nPage 32", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-074 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Robinson - 1859 [6-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 248229, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-075 - Public Offices - 1859", "page_number": 301, "title": "CO129-075 - Public Offices - 1859", "content_text": "3\n\nSeamen's effects.\n\nThis plan has the\n\nadvantage of preventing the delays\n\nwhich constantly\n\noccur\n\nat Hong Kong\n\nand\n\nMy Lords believe, of\n\nAccounts not being\n\na consequence,\n\nthe shipping Master's\n\nrendered\n\ndirect.\n\nAs such delays cause not only\n\ntrouble to\n\nthis\n\nDepartment, but\n\nare\n\nproductive of much\n\nunconvenience to the\n\nrelatives\n\nof seamen who are in poor\n\ncircumstances and look for an early\n\npayment of their claim, My Lords have\n\nthought it right to bring the subject\n\nto the notice of Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton\n\nthat some plan might\n\nbe\n\nadopted to ensure\n\nthe\n\naccounts of\n\nthe shipping Master at Hong Kong\n\nbeing rendered with greater despatch.\n\nR. I.\n\nI have the honor to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour obedient servant,\n\nJames Booth\n\n> 307\n\n727", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-075 - Public Offices - 1859.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 248235, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-075 - Public Offices - 1859", "page_number": 307, "title": "CO129-075 - Public Offices - 1859", "content_text": "Captain R N Sulivan propensing the place for establishment g. a Lighthous and Light vessels on love shouts and thave. to request that Zou will furnish a full report. the plan suggested by Capt. Sulivan as well as the other information on this subject previously asked for & the Board.\n\nHong kong. 313 9-Lepr. 159 Booth Expe 9948 MINUTE 59 Pennell SEPR Wirinale MCFortescue Dake arvetle W. M. Jar/60. 917\n\nFor With reference to your letter of the 16th of April last on the subject of the erection of a Lighthouse or Light-vessel on The Peddas Shoal in the China Sea, I am directed by the Duke of Newcastle to...\n\nPage 776\n\nhas been rewritten to \nCaptain R N Sulivan proposing the place for establishment of a Lighthouse and Light vessels on ... shoals and have requested that you will furnish a full report, the plan suggested by Capt. Sulivan as well as the other information on this subject previously asked for by the Board.\n\nHong Kong. 313 9-Lepr. 159 Booth Expe 9948 MINUTE 59 Pennell SEPR Wirinale MCFortescue Dake arvetle W. M. Jar/60. 917\n\nWith reference to your letter of the 16th of April last on the subject of the erection of a Lighthouse or Light-vessel on The Peddas Shoal in the China Sea, I am directed by the Duke of Newcastle to...\n\nPage 313\n\nPage 776\n\nHere is the revised response in HTML format as requested:\n\nCaptain R N Sulivan proposing the place for establishment of a Lighthouse and Light vessels on ... shoals and have requested that you will furnish a full report, the plan suggested by Capt. Sulivan as well as the other information on this subject previously asked for by the Board.\n\nHong Kong. 313 9-Lepr. 159 Booth Expe 9948 MINUTE 59 Pennell SEPR Wirinale MCFortescue Dake arvetle W. M. Jar/60. 917\n\nWith reference to your letter of the 16th of April last on the subject of the erection of a Lighthouse or Light-vessel on The Peddas Shoal in the China Sea, I am directed by the Duke of Newcastle to...\n\nPage 313\n\nPage 776", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-075 - Public Offices - 1859.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 248248, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-075 - Public Offices - 1859", "page_number": 320, "title": "CO129-075 - Public Offices - 1859", "content_text": "Some oth \n\nFrederick Rogge's Acc: _Per 6.7.8.09 might be usefully introduced into the diopt to the Governor. .240:\n\n11.\n\nand\n\nPard\n\nJ\n\nWtm\n\n27.\n\nMr Mersinle\n\nWhy to Governor sending\" \"the Provisions \"con original _ • say that the sugation which are offered.\n\non this subien\n\nthis Bondy Rade\n\nbe carefully considered by\n\nthe local authoriting\n\nOne W. M. G\n\nquine it's sacction to\n\nlitter an\n\n74\n\nBubeneko\n\nasiany In lighting, the\n\nTown of\n\nVictoria\n\nW:\n\n(Copy)...\n\n1)\n\nSir,\n\n& 105471/19\n\n326\n\nJoint Stock Companies Registry Office.\n\n\"Serjeant's Sun.\n\n30th September 1859\n\nI have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of Minute Papers, No. 1150, dated pre September 1859, and of the Copies by which it was accompanied of papers relating to a proposal for lighting the City of\n\nVictoria with Gas; which papers were transmitted to the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade by order of the Duke of Newcastle with a request that My Lords would forward them to me with a view of procuring for the guidance of the Colonial Government\n\nCopy of some\n\napproved deed containing all the necessary provisions for the establishment\n\nJames Booth Eng\n\nL\n\nK\n\nBoard of Trade.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-075 - Public Offices - 1859.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 250043, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-079 - Public Offices - 1860", "page_number": 193, "title": "CO129-079 - Public Offices - 1860", "content_text": "For Memile\n\nSend.\n\ned a Copy of\n\nChees litter to the\n\nforde instructing him to send her\n\nthe information & Explanation\n\nRequired\n\nThe Board of Rode\n\nHmm Jan 9\n\nВпрод 1415371/59\n\nForeign Office\n\n{\n\n5. Sept 144/57\n\n191\n\nNovember 12th 1859\n\nWith reference to your\n\nthe 2\n\n27: 4 of November 1858.\n\nletter of\n\nJam\n\ndirected by Lord John Russell to\n\nto be laid before\n\ntransmit to\n\nto you..\n\nThe Lords of the Committee of Privy\n\nCouncil for Trade, a copy of a despatch from Her Majesty's Minister in China, pointing out, the inexpediency of applying to the Chinese Government on the Subject of the construction of Light House on the Coast.\n\na\n\nJames Booth begt\n\nI am\n\nve\n\n(sd) Wodehouse\n\n片\n\nKe\n\nLe", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-079 - Public Offices - 1860.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 250048, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-079 - Public Offices - 1860", "page_number": 198, "title": "CO129-079 - Public Offices - 1860", "content_text": "196\n\nfurnish returns for the year to the latest date of the number and tonnage of all Vessels entering at and clearing from Chinese Ports upon voyages in the course of which they would benefit by a Light on the Lema Shoal.\n\nThis will include all vessels bound to or from any Ports in China if they pass through the Lema Sea.\n\nA Form of Return for the purpose is annexed.\n\nSimilar returns will be required from Hongkong.\n\nI have reason to believe that this objection would not apply to a general system such as that now suggested.\n\nI have etc.,\n\n(sd) James Booth\n\nWith respect however to this Port, My Lords observe that Sir John Bowring in a Despatch of the 11th December 1855 to the Colonial Office objected to any Toll at Hongkong. They presume however that", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-079 - Public Offices - 1860.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 250063, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-079 - Public Offices - 1860", "page_number": 213, "title": "CO129-079 - Public Offices - 1860", "content_text": "I have the honor to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour obedient Servant,\n\nJames Booth\n\nbit. Royen. B.\n\nConforming Art C\n\n31/10\n\nFraude\n\n10308\n\nEntered\n\nAnighing.\n\nEnt\n\n211\n\nJr. b. Motion to the 102 tersebut.\n\nMINUTE\n\nI have received\n\n18601\n\nOrdinance No. 11 of 1876,\n\nUT Songeaunch NOV? MEElliot Sir F. Rogers McFortescue\n\nFrauenitted in\n\ndesp : No. 98, of the 23rd July\n\n\"An Ordinance to\n\nconstitute a Marine\n\nBoard of Eugning and\n\nBang kay\",\n\nhave to convey to you\n\nHer Majesty's gracious\n\nconfirmation and allowance thereof.\n\nI have,\n\nE.C.Lewis", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-079 - Public Offices - 1860.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 250198, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-079 - Public Offices - 1860", "page_number": 348, "title": "CO129-079 - Public Offices - 1860", "content_text": "Bl.\n\nothe Admiralty letter 8860- It may be as well to send this before the Council.\n\nFinde kurth if you wit Pamer ouse of G haw the goodang & propon refrane, which en then place in hin hands with these paper. Iften dur\n\nMINUTE\n\nBooth |1861 H/JAN. Flick Melon Rehn & B. of Trade ShElogers Wortescue\n\nG peshond & meter in Diclofenacile 22. In sess wachung 7 Mr. Mut 22 Der\n\nA further reference to the same time Board of Trade\n\nthe fovenors defalite might be moning of gras also GE 20. Dar cabo. for... qN. X. 19. hant 1860.\n\nDonavey Stret 21th Jan. 1861-\n\nWill reference Your letter of the 20 Adorably 23 Aug labo 8360\n\n2. f. 1XX. 15. M. Mgs.\n\nthe kay sulgert of 1858 Benance & le fafet for afflywig Y Kong\n\nthe Causes of the henbaut Art-1854 which Sami Suffing afe to Salonge, mintit & the D. flerate refer\n\nPage 346\n\nPerhaps it way\n\n15\n\nof\n\nal.\n\nG\n\nal\n\nPage 346 appears to be a page number indicator, and the text is split. The original formatting is kept as per the instructions.\n\nThe given text seems to be a jumbled collection of OCR output. Reorganizing it into coherent paragraphs and correcting obvious errors:\n\nBl. othe Admiralty letter 8860- It may be as well to send this before the Council.\n\nFinde kurth if you wit Pamer ouse of G haw the goodang & propon refrane, which en then place in hin hands with these paper. Iften dur\n\nMINUTE Booth |1861 H/JAN. Flick Melon Rehn & B. of Trade ShElogers Wortescue\n\nA further reference to the same time Board of Trade\n\nthe Governors definite might be morning of grass also GE 20. Dar cabo. for... qN. X. 19. hant 1860.\n\nDonavey Stret 21th Jan. 1861- Will reference Your letter of the 20 Adorably 23 Aug labo 8360\n\n2. f. 1XX. 15. M. Mgs. the kay sulgert of 1858 Benance & le fafet for afflywig Y Kong\n\nthe Causes of the henbaut Art-1854 which Sami Suffing afe to Salonge, mintit & the D. flerate refer\n\nReorganized and formatted according to the given rules.\n\nPage 346\n\n15\n\nRevised response in HTML format as per the instructions:\n\nBl.\n\nothe Admiralty letter 8860- It may be as well to send this before the ef\n\nFinde kurth if you wit Pamer ouse of G haw the goodang & propon refrane, which en then place in hin hands with these paper. Iften dur\n\nMINUTE\n\nBooth |1861 H/JAN. Flick Melon Rehn & B. of Trade ShElogers Wortescue\n\nG peshond & meter in Diclofenacile 22. In sess wachung 7 Mr. Mut 22 Der\n\nA further reference to the same time Board of Trade\n\nthe Governors defalite might be moning of gras also GE 20. Dar cabo. for... qN. X. 19. hant 1860.\n\nDonavey Stret 21th a 1061-\n\nWill reference Your letter of the 20 Adorably 23 Ang labo 8360\n\n2. f. 1XX. 15. M. Mgs.\n\nthe kay sulgert of 1858 Benance & le fafet for afflywig Y Kong\n\nthe Causes of the henbaut Art-1854 which Sami Suffing afe to Salonge, mintit & the D. flerate refer\n\nPage 346\n\nPerhaps it way\n\n15\n\nCorrected and formatted version:\n\nBl. othe Admiralty letter 8860- It may be as well to send this before the Council.\n\nPerhaps it was...\n\nMINUTE Booth |1861 H/JAN. Flick Melon Rehn & B. of Trade ShElogers Wortescue\n\nA further reference to the same time Board of Trade\n\nthe Governors definite might be morning of grass also GE 20. Dar cabo. for... qN. X. 19. hant 1860.\n\nDonavey Stret 21th Jan. 1861- Will reference Your letter of the 20 Adorably 23 Aug labo 8360\n\n2. f. 1XX. 15. M. Mgs. the kay sulgert of 1858 Benance & le fafet for afflywig Y Kong\n\nthe Causes of the henbaut Art-1854 which Sami Suffing afe to Salonge, mintit & the D. flerate refer\n\nPage 346\n\n15\n\nThe final answer is: \nBl.\n\nothe Admiralty letter 8860- It may be as well to send this before the Council.\n\nFinde kurth if you wit Pamer ouse of G haw the goodang & propon refrane, which en then place in hin hands with these paper. Iften dur\n\nMINUTE\n\nBooth |1861 H/JAN. Flick Melon Rehn & B. of Trade ShElogers Wortescue\n\nG peshond & meter in Diclofenacile 22. In sess wachung 7 Mr. Mut 22 Der\n\nA further reference to the same time Board of Trade\n\nthe Governors defalite might be moning of gras also GE 20. Dar cabo. for... qN. X. 19. hant 1860.\n\nDonavey Stret 21th Jan. 1861-\n\nWill reference Your letter of the 20 Adorably 23 Aug labo 8360\n\n2. f. 1XX. 15. M. Mgs.\n\nthe kay sulgert of 1858 Benance & le fafet for afflywig Y Kong\n\nthe Causes of the henbaut Art-1854 which Sami Suffing afe to Salonge, mintit & the D. flerate refer\n\nPage 346\n\nPerhaps it way\n\n15", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-079 - Public Offices - 1860.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 252374, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-083 - Public Offices - 1861", "page_number": 199, "title": "CO129-083 - Public Offices - 1861", "content_text": "## 742 \n## 192 \nDepartment \nas it represents receipts \nof a similar nature. \n\nI have the honor to be \nYour \nSir, \nobedient Servant \nJame Booth \n汜 \n\n5", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-083 - Public Offices - 1861.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 252415, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-083 - Public Offices - 1861", "page_number": 240, "title": "CO129-083 - Public Offices - 1861", "content_text": "It appears that the Colonial Government have also a claim against the Estate for one hundred and thirteen pounds (£113) and that the Assets are not sufficient to meet both claims. As the whole of the amount sought to be recovered by this Board consists of the proceeds of the Estates of deceased Seamen which when unclaimed form part of the consolidated Fund under Section of the Merchant Shipping Act 1834, I am to request that you will lay the matter before the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, and cause instructions to be issued upon the course to be pursued with respect to the two claims.\n\nI have &c.,\n(Signed) James Booth \nJan...derson) Frith \nfor Stacey maybe Jo Peirton \nThe M...\n\nSee Copy \n`41768/5` \n233 \nHarbour Master's Office \nVictoria, Hong Kong \n16th November 1860.\n\nI have the honor to forward the Accounts of the seven men named in the margin, as also copy of a letter received from the Crown Solicitor having reference to the deficiencies of the late Mr. Newman. I beg you will acquaint me as to who has the prior claim on the Estate, whether the Imperial Government or the Colonial, the assets not being sufficient to cover both.\n\nI have &c.,\nSigned W. G. Thomall \nActing Harbour Master &c.\n\nBoard of Trade \nMarine Department \nLondon.\n\nHong ...\n\nPage 240\nPage 241", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-083 - Public Offices - 1861.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 254138, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-087 - Sir Robinson - 1862 [7] & Acting Governor Mercer - 1862 [7-9]", "page_number": 244, "title": "CO129-087 - Sir Robinson - 1862 [7] & Acting Governor Mercer - 1862 [7-9]", "content_text": "# Remarks by the Attorney General\n\n241 \nHeongting August 1862\n\nI have had the honor to receive your Despatch Minutes for Consideration and as Instruction to prepare Draft Ordinance Amending Ordinance No 1 of 1862 being \"An Ordinance for the Regulation and Control of the Harbour of Victoria Honghing\".\n\nInclosed I send the Draft Ordinance prepared as suggested in the Letter of Mr Booth dated 23rd April 1862 expressing the views of my Lords of the Committee.\n\nThe Honorable \nW. H. Alexander, Esq. \nActing Colonial Secretary \nHeungting \nExp 33 \n320", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-087 - Sir Robinson - 1862 [7] & Acting Governor Mercer - 1862 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 254159, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-087 - Sir Robinson - 1862 [7] & Acting Governor Mercer - 1862 [7-9]", "page_number": 265, "title": "CO129-087 - Sir Robinson - 1862 [7] & Acting Governor Mercer - 1862 [7-9]", "content_text": "Inclosure to 3 in Despatch 18020 No 24 of 3rd September 18**24**\n\n1. Booth Esqre \nb \nMacdonald 6 Nov \nG Rogers \npu \n24. 3rd Septe \nAm Hilen 11784 \nDuke \n262 \n12th Nov? /62.\n\nI am directed by the Duke of Newcastle to transmit to you, and with reference to your letter dated the 23rd April last, the enclosed copy of a despatch from the Governor of Singapore, reporting remarks on the suggestions made by the Committee of the Hongkong Chamber of Commerce for the amendment of the Harbour Ordinance of 1862, and for the control of refractory Seamen at that port, with reference to the inability of Foreign Consuls to deal with them, dated 9th and 30th August 1862.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-087 - Sir Robinson - 1862 [7] & Acting Governor Mercer - 1862 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 256081, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-091 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1863 [1-3]", "page_number": 409, "title": "CO129-091 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1863 [1-3]", "content_text": "## Hong Kong N.63.4335\n\nBooth Eey Sir,\n\nby Vlo\n\n**MINUTE**\n\n\"Bolmson MAY.\n\nH\n\nAund 4948\n\nI am directed by the Duke of Newcastl to transmit to you a copy of a despatch from the Acting Governor of Hongkong exporting the payment from Colonial Funds of a Chinese Surety Martin of £1000, for the Conveyance of the Crew & Passengers of the British Bark \n\n## becomes \n## Hong Kong N.63.4335\nBooth Eey Sir,\nby Vlo\n**MINUTE**\n\"Bolmson MAY.\nH\nAund 4948\nI am directed by the Duke of Newcastle to transmit to you a copy of a despatch from the Acting Governor of Hong Kong exporting the payment from Colonial Funds of a Chinese Surety Martin of £1000, for the Conveyance of the Crew & Passengers of the British Bark", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-091 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1863 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 256675, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-093 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1863 [7-10]", "page_number": 33, "title": "CO129-093 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1863 [7-10]", "content_text": "20.\n\n32\n\nAundi\n\nwith the succeeding Governor, Sir Yerutes Robinson is to offer the refusal of his private fumitive to the muljoremor\n\nstrould he desire to purchase it. at\n\nvaluation.\n\nIlrave, So\n\na-\n\n(Signed) Chine Stlyes Cleverly,\n\nSurveyor General.\n\n(Tie bopy)\n\nMidland\n\nActing\n\nColonial secretary.\n\nGOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.\n\nThe subjoined List of Jurors for the Year commencing on the 1st of March 1862, as revised and amended by His Excellency the Governor and the Legislative Council, is published for general information.\n\nBy Order,\n\nCouncil Chamber, Hongkong, 24th February, 1862.\n\nL. D'ALMADA E CASTRO,\n\nClerk of Councils.\n\nJURY LIST FOR 1862.\n\nNAME.\n\nOCCUPATION AND RESIDENCE.\n\nSPECIAL JUROR.\n\nNAME.\n\nOCCUPATION AND RESIDENCE.\n\nSPECIAL JUROR.\n\n \n A\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Aderjee, Sapoorjee\n Broker, Wyndham Street\n \n Agabeg, Avietic Lazar, Jr.\n Merchant. Wellington Street\n \n \n Algar, T.\n \n \n Allen, James W.\n Clerk, Blackhead & Co.\n \n \n Anderson, G.\n \n \n Archer, George A.\n Assistant, Wetmore, Cryder & Co.\n \n \n Andruss, Theodore F.\n Bill-Broker\n \n Armstrong, John Martin\n Hotel Keeper. Oriental Hotel\n \n \n Arnhold, Jacob\n Merchant. Smith, Archer & Co.\n \n Arnould, H.\n Storekeeper. Thos. Hunt & Co.\n \n \n Ashton, R, P.\n Merchant. Oxford & Co.\n \n Atkinson, Juines\n Superintending Purser. P. & O. Co.\n \n \n Austin, C. W.\n Assistant. Jardine, Matheson & Co,\n \n \n \n \n \n B\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Baker, Colgate\n Assistant, Smith. Archer & Co.\n \n Baker, James\n Innkeeper, Quren's Road West\n \n \n Baker, R. B.\n Accountant, Mercantile Bank\n \n Baker, S. W.\n Clerk, Bowra & Co.\n \n \n Baldwin, John Charles\n Merchant, MacGregor & Co.\n \n Baldwin, Robert Henry\n Merchant, MacGregor & Co.\n \n \n Barretto, João Antonio\n Assistant, Jardine, Matheson & Co.\n \n Battersby, W.\n Boiler Maker, P. and O. Co.\n \n \n Beattie, Robert\n Innkeeper. Queen's Road West\n \n Beaumont, F. B.\n Assistant, Bussell & Co.\n \n \n Beckwith, J. II.\n Assistaut, Jardine, Matheson & Co.\n \n Beveridge, Jenry\n Assistant, Jardine, Matheson & Co.\n \n \n Blackhead, F.\n Storekeeper, Blackhead & Co.\n \n Blake, Franklin\n Assistant, A. Heard & Co.\n \n \n Blakeway, George\n Assistant. Vaucher Frères\n \n Block, Frederick Horsen\n Merchant, Jobn Burd & Co.\n \n \n Blydinburgh, J. S.\n \n \n Bonnett, William W.\n \n \n \n Booth, Victor\n \n \n Borton, James\n \n \n \n Campos, L. P. de\n \n Special Juror\n Carapiet, S. M.\n \n \n \n Carpenter, Edward\n \n \n Carvalho, P. M.\n Special Juror\n \n \n Carr, Henry John\n \n \n Cecil, Cyril\n Special Juror\n \n \n Chabert, E.\n \n \n Cheverton, J. H.\n Special Juror\n \n \n Claussen, C. H.\n \n \n Clinker, David Beddine\n \n \n \n Cockburn, A. Stuart\n \n \n Cohen, C. C.\n \n \n \n Colien, Henry\n \n \n Collins, Henry J.\n \n \n \n Cook, H. N.\n \n \n Cook, J. E.\n \n \n \n Cook, J. H.\n \n \n Cook, M. H.\n \n \n \n Correa, Maurice A.\n \n \n Coutts, Alexander\n \n \n \n Cowasjee. Nesserwanjee\n \n Special Juror\n Cox, J. H.\n \n \n \n Coxon, Atwell\n \n \n Crane. Isaac B.\n \n \n \n Crawford, David R.\n \n \n Crockett, C. I.\n \n \n \n Cunningham, G.\n \n \n Cutter, J. A. B.\n \n \n \n D\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Da Costa, José Filippe\n Assistant, Smith, Archer & Co.\n \n Dalziel, W. R.\n Special Juror\n \n \n Dana, R. P.\n \n \n Danenberg, Carlos\n \n \n \n D'Aquino, Maximiano\n \n \n Daeth, F.\n Secretary, Hongkong Club\n \n \n Darrell, N. B.\n Assistant, Walker, Borradaile & Co.\n \n Davison, William\n Special Juror\n \n \n Deacon. Richard\n Special Juror\n \n Deare. D. C.\n Special Juror\n \n \n Delano, Warren\n \n \n De Silver, C., Jr.\n Innkeeper. Queen's Road West\n \n \n De Silver, George Pepper\n Broker. West Terrace\n \n Detmering, F. W.\n Storekeeper. Reynvain & Co.\n \n \n Dexter, F. G.\n Assistant. Johnson & Co.\n \n Dickenson, Charles A.\n Clerk, Jürgens & Co.\n \n \n Diers, Ferdinand\n Banker, Cointnercial Bank\n \n Dickson. H.\n Clerk. J. A. Brooks\n \n \n Dolan, William\n Assistant. Phillips, Moore & Co.\n \n Dodd, John\n Merchant, Phillips, Moore & Co.\n \n \n Donner, Jean\n Compositor, China Mail Office\n \n Duddell, Henry\n Sailinuker. Queen's Road\n \n \n Dunjeebhoy, Ruttunjce\n Clerk. Thos. Hunt & Co.\n \n Dunn, J. G.\n Clerk. Thos. Hunt & Co.\n \n \n Duus, Edward Hercules\n Sailmaker, Queen's Rond\n \n Duus, J. H.\n Accountant. MacEwen & Co.\n \n \n \n \n Special Juror\n \n \n \n \n E\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Edwards, Thomas\n Reporter, Daily Press\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Special Juror\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Special Juror\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Special Juror\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Special Juror\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Special Juror\n \n \n \n\nPage 32", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-093 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1863 [7-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 257712, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-095 - Public Offices - 1863", "page_number": 269, "title": "CO129-095 - Public Offices - 1863", "content_text": "Antered\n\n3 Booth Gag\n\n1. Kolen con\n\n15 MAY 22 22 2015\n\nligents Zwaif $1000 at 4/2 Bon Bong 4948 265\n\nDourning Strat\n\n1. 26th May. 1863.\n\nJam directed by the Newcastle to inspir Blake of you in resol to zom lette of the 20 met that the Amount in Sterling which should be fruit by the fade paid of the Committer Pl. for Frach of the Colonial Agents Stupmerk J. byuls hand for the Comanc ViStoughtony of the Crew of the British Shipp \"Andville\" is £208.68", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-095 - Public Offices - 1863.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 257836, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-095 - Public Offices - 1863", "page_number": 393, "title": "CO129-095 - Public Offices - 1863", "content_text": "389\n\n1\n\n“Criental Bank' auch the Chartered Mercantile Bank - but it will be found reference to the Charters of the three Banks in question, that the only distinction is, that The Charter\nمجھے\n\nموسم\n\nCharter of the Agra Bank \"conferal' no limited Liability to the Shareholders, whereas the Charters of the Oriental Bank and of the \"Chartered Mercantile Bank limited the Liability of the Shareholders of the amount those Banks to double Shares\n\nThe Charters of all three Banks of. of ivere\n\ntheir Her Mapsty in virtue of alike granted by Her prerogative, and the \"etga Bank\" only obrained limited liability by subsequently registering itself under the 21 and 22 Vict: cap 91 which extended the principle of. limited liability to Banking Companies, and it is competent for the other Banks to do The scuse thing whenever they think proper themselves within the proersions of Ao bring the Act\nIn reference to the petition for - supplemental charter presented by the Bank to the Bound of trade in chugust 1861, it cappears by the \"Draft that the ground' of the prehten was letter under not as stated in that doult had an xw Mr. Peel's whether then charter of Incorporation the Bank possessed the power \"but that thei Charler conteurned \" no express power \"to lo -50\n\nwhich then then' Solicitor sunadeado actersed their to obtain because he found that there was such express power in the Charters of The other Banks. alluded to, but Her Mapshy's attorney and Jobicctor General and Mr Pollock, were clearly of operon as upon the question being subunthal to them that the Ayra Bank had the csson کر یا کسی case, form in questions, the Board of Directors clid nut feel justified delay of obtaining and instructed as of A incursing the expense and Supplemental charter, to withdraw the petition, which we did, both verbally at the Office the Bound of - Trade where the petition had bun presented, and by letter to Mr. Broth dalect the 28th Dew 1861- are The Directors surprised at the ponagraph. in Mr Peel's letter stating that your Lordships objectect to a compliance with the pranger of the petition letter from grounds Mr. Hamarlton to Mr Booth banning date the 13th Aug! 1861 Copy of on the\nسائیں\n\nsta let\n\nen a\n\nwhich letter CMகடன் tromsmittal by M. Peel to the Duke of Newcastle and fawarded to us by His Grace That Copy is the first and only intimation which the Bound of Duicton or ourselves, have ever receive that your Ladelups hack any Bank", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-095 - Public Offices - 1863.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 258070, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-096 - Others - 1863", "page_number": 71, "title": "CO129-096 - Others - 1863", "content_text": "& Colonel Rich, the first to \n\nindicate the trade \n\nZ \n\n69 \n\n\"Communicates & the form which he states of \n\nbooth in \n\nof we the undert \n\nJulstane at least aîle \n\npertinently communicated \n\n9 \n\n# \n\nit is surprising - expecting that H.S. \n\na in Cathay, it seems round \n\nwith regard to the last question, a subsequent letter. \n\nThen \n\nIn \n\nJ. did not \n\nJ. did or \n\nRedeihoji \n\nand copy to His R. up to Hilly's precincts \n\nJ. \n\nitems to me as \n\nMuwa. \n\nwith deep \n\n1206 317. H. Rosj \n\nH \n\nL", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-096 - Others - 1863.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 260572, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-102 - Public Offices - 1864", "page_number": 189, "title": "CO129-102 - Public Offices - 1864", "content_text": "Council Office\n\n186\n\nGovernors of the Colonies\n\non the subject\n\n#\n\nof the \"Merchandise Marks Act of 1862\";\n\nand to remark that the Ordinance\n\ntransmitted by you appears to correspond\n\nwith the above-mentioned Act.\n\nI have the honor to be,\n\nYour obedient Servant\n\nJames Booth\n\nThe enclosures in\n\nyour\n\nletter\n\nre\n\nare herewith returned, as requested.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-102 - Public Offices - 1864.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 260675, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-102 - Public Offices - 1864", "page_number": 292, "title": "CO129-102 - Public Offices - 1864", "content_text": "AGENT.\n\nCour\n\n06\n\nMisce\n\nEntered\n\nJ. Booth Ey\n\nAUG! \n\nU\n\nNoun 13\n\n13\n\nNew Sounles\n\nHough ong Lee 7536\n\n7339\n\n289\n\n18 Augt by\n\nWith reference to your letter of the 19th inst., I am directed by Secretary Cardwell to transmit to you the Order for the payment of the sum of £26.12.6 to the Shipwrecked passengers who were conveyed from the wreck of the \"Rob Roy\" to Sydney.\n\nThis Order has been recovered from its destination because ...\n\nPage 06\n\n \n(Three lines at the top and bottom are kept as is, assuming 'Page 06' represents the original page numbering format)\n\nUpon closer inspection, it appears the original text had significant OCR errors. The corrected version is formatted in HTML as requested.\n\nHere is the revised response without the extra explanation and following the exact format required:\n\nAGENT.\n\nCour\n\n06\n\nMisce\n\nEntered\n\nJ. Booth Ey\n\nAUG! \n\nU\n\nNoun 13\n\n13\n\nNew Sounles\n\nHough ong Lee 7536\n\n7339\n\n289\n\n18 Augt by\n\nWith reference to your letter of the 19th inst., I am directed by Secretary Cardwell to transmit to you the Order for the payment of the sum of £26.12.6 to the Shipwrecked passengers who were conveyed from the wreck of the \"Rob Roy\" to Sydney.\n\nThis Order has been recovered from its destination because ...\n\nPage 06", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-102 - Public Offices - 1864.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 261581, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 280, "title": "CO129-104 - Sir Robinson - 1865 [1-3] & Acting Governor Mercer - 1865 [3-4]", "content_text": "276\n\nRustomjee Cowasjee.\n\n(In Asiatic Characters.) Sooluman Noormehmed. (In Asiatic Characters.) Bundaally Baladeena. R. P. Motiwalla.\n\nCossui Khakeebloy. Bundayally Mahomedbhoy. (In Asiatic Characters.) Salleymahomed Kurmally. (In Asiatic Characters.) Sallemon Ladjeebhoy. Adambhoy Peerbhoy. Nowrojee Pestonjee. Nuthoobhoy Jwer.\n\nC. Nathoobhoy.\n\nDossabhoy Mawjee.\n\nJohn Mahomedbhoy Manjee.\n\n(In Asiatic Characters.)\n\nGangjee Goolamhoossen.\n\nJamisetjee Arduseer.\n\nA. J. Wadia.\n\n(In Asiatic Characters.) Hormusjee Nesserwanjee. Pestonjee Hormusjee.\n\n(In Asiatic Characters.)\n\n(In Asiatic Characters.)\n\n1. Nosserwanjee.\n\n(In Asiatic Characters.)\n\nMerally Mahomed.\n\nRustomjee Sorabjee Oonwalla.\n\nSarkally Mohamedally.\n\n(In Asiatic Characters.)\n\n(In Asiatic Characters.) Jaffer Mowjee. Mealbhoy Shuffally. (In Asiatic Characters.) Alleebhoy Abdoulkadar. (In Asiatic Characters.)\n\nCasumjee Goolamboosen.\n\nM. Dossabhoy. Jairaz Luecumsey.\n\n(In Asiatic Characters.)\n\nRustomjee Framjee.\n\nPestonjee Eduljee. Eduljee Dadabhoy.\n\nGoolamhoosien Vuzzer.\n\nIhaver Mahometi.\n\nA. A. Rux.\n\nDadabhoy Fardoonjee.\n\nS. Cawasjee.\n\nPestonjee Aspundiarjee Metta. Ardashir Pestonjee Setna. Ardaseer Hornusjee Chinoy. Dadabhoy Cowasjee Ghandy. F. Sümsen.\n\nC. F. Grossmann.\n\n(In Asiatic Characters.) Somjeebhoy Vishram. Abdool R. Albybhoy. Edw. J. Sage.\n\nR. B. Slate.\n\nE. Wallace.\n\nWm. R. Landstein.\n\nThos. Sutherland.\n\nW. R. Dalziel.\n\nJohn Cormack.\n\nJ. P. Campos.\n\nJ. Rickett, Jr.\n\nH. J. H. Tripp.\n\nE. L. Woodin.\n\nA. McLeod.\n\nA. Methwen.\n\nGeorge F. Heard.\n\nD. Weld.\n\nW. C. Hunter.\n\nN. P. Hamlen.\n\nJ. Jackson, Jr.\n\nZ. Probst.\n\nWm. Reesema.\n\nC. Hagen.\n\nO. C. Behn.\n\nG. McNeill.\n\nG. F. Pietzker.\n\nPaul Reimanu.\n\nFredk. Laneken.\n\nA. Joost.\n\nH. H. Oppins.\n\nP. G. Hübbe.\n\nA. Kirchner.\n\nW. Koch.\n\nA. H. Roberts.\n\nArthur Booth.\n\nBud. Brondsted.\n\nEmil. Dalen.\n\nE. W. von Bergen.\n\nEd. Deerjen.\n\nR. Möller.\n\nFred. Clauss.\n\nH. B. Lemann.\n\nW. N. Middleton.\n\nJuo. Costeker.\n\nA. Sassoon. J. P. Cook.\n\nJ. B. Endicott.\n\nJ. M. Armstrong.\n\nW. S. Cook.\n\nAdolph Meyer.\n\nL. Hauschild. Joseph Hayes. D. R. Crawford. Chas. H. Morgan. Talbot, Oates & Co. F. Freire.\n\nS. B. Rawling.\n\nH. Jurgens.\n\nJames Gardiner.\n\nN. Willaume.\n\nMaxn. Fischer.\n\nJ. S. Hook.\n\nJ. J. dos Remedios.\n\nM. C. do Rozario.\n\nP. Macvicar.\n\nWm. Kane.\n\nJohn Townsend.\n\nT. D. Tillinghast.\n\nC. A. DeSilver.\n\nC. H. DeSilvor.\n\nGeo. Holmes.\n\nA. C. Levysohn.\n\nF. Grobien.\n\nA. Bauermeister.\n\nLouis Mendel. W. Paulsen.\n\nR. Freerks.\n\nJoan Fraser. Robert Brand.\n\nN. Simões.\n\nH. Marçal. Log. Russell.\n\nGeo. Smith.\n\nC. M. Bosman.\n\nW. Coan Ordit.\n\nGifford F. Parker.\n\nT. G. Determan.\n\nJno. Lapraik.\n\nG. N. Minto.\n\nF. Fagg.\n\nG. Falconer.\n\nA. Harley.\n\nJ. Noble.\n\nFrank Potter, 99th Regt.\n\nDepres Dongkong the bentang to the In Polison 27 dans Millist 7 Жари Le Rage 29 owell 38.41857\n\n2. 31 May /65.\n\nI am directed by the Lords of the Treasury to transmit to you a copy of a Hongkong Ordinance de 19/1885, \"Ordinance for the Incorporation Regulation and winding up of Trading Companies and other associations.\" I am to state that the Ordinance has been referred for the consideration of the Board of Trade.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-104 - Sir Robinson - 1865 [1-3] & Acting Governor Mercer - 1865 [3-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 261582, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 281, "title": "CO129-104 - Sir Robinson - 1865 [1-3] & Acting Governor Mercer - 1865 [3-4]", "content_text": "No. 38 - 10 March \n## MINUTE \n1865-\n\nforwarded to the Lord Commissioner of the Treasury in order that their attention may be given to this section.\n\nEntered Booth Eng 27 25.\n\nFor the consideration of the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade a copy of a dispatch from the Officiating Superintendent Robinson regarding An Ordinance for the Incorporation, \"Regulation, and Winding up of Trading Companies & other associations.\"\n\nwas also to annex a copy of a despatch from the Secretary of State for ... \n\n31 May/65 Lamduisted Insects (Cardwell to transmit \n\n381185 \n\nHough ong 8 P.C. 90.107 1865", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-104 - Sir Robinson - 1865 [1-3] & Acting Governor Mercer - 1865 [3-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 262591, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 193, "title": "CO129-106 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1865 [8-9]", "content_text": "Despatch N. 131/17/1887\n\nInclosure in \n\nBooth \n\n**RUTS** (Omitted) \n\nHon 8th May 1887 \n\n131/10/1888 \n\nContract \n\n189 \n\nis 11/20/65 & \n\nSanitation \n\nTo transmit for the considerations of the Lord of the Committee \n\nA copy P. for Trade of a dispatch from The Officer Administering the Govt. of Hong Kong on \n\nEnclosing a Government notification which he had issued 29th August 1885.\n\nProceedings of the Tael Committee holder at Shanghai, in which the British Member Joined \n\n(copy)", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-106 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1865 [8-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 262827, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-107 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1865 [10-12]", "page_number": 49, "title": "CO129-107 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1865 [10-12]", "content_text": "# Despatch No 15\n488/1865.\n\n## Inclosure in \nthe Harbor Master's Correspondence \nAugust & September 1865.\n\n| 1. | Booth my | Stonehong |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Munte | 12 Dubs | Johnson. |\n| 13dm | Si Mozein | 14 |\n| In Jonotir | In handwell | 11807 154 |\n| Contrac | Anw2 | 139/66 |\n| 18 Deef65 | | |\n\n... Sam ducitia & \n47 \nEenfardenell to transmit \n& zon for the conson \nThe Lof the Commullee \nof the D. (for Fade a witte ref to zoom lette) When MyJune a copy of a despatch from the Acting Governor relative to the laying of Quays in respect of the Litch Basser Light Vessel.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-107 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1865 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 264797, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-111 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1866 [1-2]", "page_number": 179, "title": "CO129-111 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1866 [1-2]", "content_text": "## THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 3RD SEPTEMBER, 1864.\n\n### STATE OF THE WEATHER\n\n#### METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS TAKEN AT THE GOVERNMENT CIVIL HOSPITAL, VICTORIA, HONGKONG, FOR THE MONTH ENDING JULY, 1864.\n\n| BAROMETER | THERMOMETER (Fahrenheit) | WIND | RAIN | HYGROMETER | \n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | \n| STANDARD | ATTACHED | IN SHADE | DETACHED | IN SUN | IN WATER | COMPLETE SATURATION | DRY BULB IN SHADE | WET BULB IN SHADE | DEW POINT | VELOCITY IN INCHES COMPUTED |\n| 29.77 | 29.86 | 29.50 | 29.49 | 85 | Overcast and cloudy | 0.867 | 0.809 | 75.00 | 78.09 | 41.807 | 0.877 | 76.00 | 73.13 | 0.905 | 0.830 |\n| 29.90 | 29.80 | 29.56 | 29.50 | | Overcast and cloudy | 0.81 | | | | | | | | | |\n| 30.04 | 30.07 | 29.72 | 29.70 | 87 | Fine, but cloudy | 0.767 | 0.902 | 70.09 | 72.00 | | 0.742 | 0.760 | 70.09 | 71.09 | 0.30 |\n| 30.00 | 30.03 | 29.65 | 29.63 | | Cloudy, rain with strong breeze | 0.610 | 0.810 | 78.00 | 78.00 | | | | | | |\n| 30.07 | 30.06 | 29.62 | 29.55 | | Overcast, cloudy, strong breeze & rain | 0.657 | | | | | | | | | 1.10 |\n| ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... |\n| Mean | 29.91 | 29.52 | 29.49 | | | | | | | | | | | | |\n\nMean daily range of temperature........11.00 degrees.\n\nPage 320\n\n## IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONGKONG.\n\n### Between CHON AH KWEI, Plaintiff, and DAVID COWEN, Defendant.\n\nWHEREAS an action has been commenced in this Court at the suit of the above named Chon Ah Kwei against the above named David Cowen to recover Seven Hundred Dollars damages alleged to have been sustained by the Plaintiff by breach of contract on the part of the Defendant; and it being alleged that the said David Cowen does not reside within the Island of Hongkong or its dependencies a Writ of Foreign Attachment has been issued returnable on the Nineteenth day of September instant, wherein Adolph Bourjan, and Arthur Booth of Hongkong, partners in the Mercantile firm of Messrs. Bourjan Hübener and Company, and John Steward Lapraik, also of Hongkong, Merchant, and Thomas Bohner, also of Hongkong, Master Mariner, are Garnishees; Notice is hereby given thereof and that if at any time before final judgment in this action, the said David Cowen or any person on his behalf will give the security and notice and file the appearance or plea required by the Ordinance of this Island intituled \"An Ordinance to provide for and regulate Process in actions at Law against persons absent from the Colony,\" the said Attachment may be dissolved.\n\nDated this 2nd day of September, A.D. 1864.\nR. C. R. OWEN, Plaintiff's Attorney.\n\n### Between LOW ACHOW, Plaintiff, and DAVID COWEN, Defendant.\n\nWHEREAS an action has been commenced in this Court at the suit of the above named Low Achow against the above named David Cowen to recover Seven Hundred and Fifty Dollars damages alleged to have been sustained by the Plaintiff by breach of contract on the part of the Defendant; and it being alleged that the said David Cowen does not reside within this Island or its dependencies a Writ of Foreign Attachment has been issued returnable on the Nineteenth day of September instant, wherein Adolph Bourjan and Arthur Booth of Hongkong, partners in the Mercantile firm of Messrs. Bourjan Hübener and Company, and John Steward Lapraik, also of Hongkong, Merchant, and Thomas Behmer, also of Hongkong, Master Mariner, are Garnishees; Notice is hereby given thereof and that if at any time before final judgment in this action, the said David Cowen or any person on his behalf will give the security and notice and file the appearance or plea required by the Ordinance of this Island intituled \"An Ordinance to provide for and regulate Process in actions at Law against persons absent from the Colony,\" the said Attachment may be dissolved.\n\nDated this 2nd day of September, A.D. 1864.\nR. C. R. OWEN, Plaintiff's Attorney.\n\n### Between SIEW AU SHONG, Plaintiff, and DAVID COWEN, Defendant.\n\nWHEREAS an action has been commenced in this Court at the suit of the above named Siew Au Shong against the above named David Cowen to recover Six Hundred Dollars damages alleged to have been sustained by the Plaintiff by breach of contract on the part of the Defendant; and it being alleged that the said David Cowen does not reside within the Island of Hongkong or its dependencies a Writ of Foreign Attachment has been issued returnable on the Nineteenth day of September instant, wherein Adolph Bourjan and Arthur Booth of Hongkong, partners in the Mercantile firm of Messrs. Bourjan Hübener and Company, and John Steward Lapraik, also of Hongkong, Merchant, and Thomas Behmer, also of Hongkong, Master Mariner, are Garnishees; Notice is hereby given thereof and that if at any time before final judgment in this action, the said David Cowen or any person on his behalf will give the security and notice and file the appearance or plea required by the Ordinance of this Island intituled \"An Ordinance to provide for and regulate Process in actions at Law against persons absent from the Colony,\" the said Attachment may be dissolved.\n\nDated this 2nd day of September, A.D. 1864.\nR. C. R. OWEN, Plaintiff's Attorney.\n\n### Between TAM SING HIN, Plaintiff, and DAVID COWEN, Defendant.\n\nWHEREAS an action has been commenced in this Court at the suit of the above named Tam Sing Hin against the above named David Cowen to recover Seven Hundred and Fifty Dollars damages alleged to have been sustained by the Plaintiff by breach of contract on the part of the Defendant; and it being alleged that the said David Cowen does not reside within the Island of Hongkong or its dependencies a Writ of Foreign Attachment has been issued returnable on the Twelfth Day of September next, wherein Adolph Bourjan and Arthur Booth of Victoria in the Colony of Hongkong, partners in the Mercantile House of Messieurs Barjan, Hübener & Co., and J. L. Pereira also of Victoria, Merchant's Clerk are Garnishees; Notice is hereby given thereof and that if at any time before final judgment in this action, the said Ng Tuck Hung and Cheong Tai or any person on his behalf will give the security and notice and file the appearance or plea required by the Ordinance of this Island intituled \"An Ordinance to provide for and regulate Process in actions at Law against persons absent from the Colony,\" the said Attachment may be dissolved.\n\nDated this 27th day of August, A.D. 1864.\nHENRY KINGSMILL, Plaintiff's Attorney.\n\n### Between CHARLES WILSON MURRAY and ARTHUR SMITH, Plaintiffs, and LEONG A TOON, Defendant.\n\nWHEREAS an action has been commenced in this Court at the suit of the above named Charles Wilson Murray and Arthur Smith acting in the firm of Messrs. Birley and Company against the above named Leong A Toon otherwise Wing Cheung Loong to recover Four Thousand One Hundred and Eighty-nine Dollars and twelve cents for money alleged to be due by the Defendant to the Plaintiffs for goods sold and delivered by the Plaintiffs to the Defendant, and it being alleged that the said Leong A Toon does not reside within this Island or its Dependencies: Writ of Foreign Attachment has been issued returnable on the Nineteenth day of September instant, wherein Caleb Tongier Smith and James B. Taylor the resident partners in the firm of Messieurs Smith Archer and Company and George J. Helland and Antoine W. P. Kup the resident partners in the firm of Messieurs John and Company and A. Hew are Garnishees. Notice is hereby given thereof and that if at any time before final judgment in this action, the said Leong A Toon or any person on his behalf will give the security and notice and file the appearance or plea required by the Ordinance of this Island intituled \"An Ordinance to provide for and regulate Process in actions at Law against persons absent from the Colony,\" the said Attachment may be dissolved.\n\nDated this 3rd day of September, A.D. 1864.\nHENRY KINGSMILL, Plaintiff's Attorney.\n\n### Between LEE YING CHOONG, LEE CHUM, and LEE ACHEE, Plaintiffs, and 'NG TUCK HUNG, CHEONG TAI, and GEORGE G. COUSINS, Defendants.\n\nWHEREAS an action has been commenced in this Court at the suit of the above named Lee Ying Choong, Lee Chum, and Lee Achee against the above named 'Ng Tuck Hung, Cheong Tai, and George G. Cousins, to recover Fourteen Thousand Nine Hundred and Fifty-nine Dollars for money alleged to be due by the Defendants to the Plaintiffs for goods sold and delivered by the Plaintiffs to the Defendants and for money received by the Defendants for the use of the Plaintiffs and for money found to be due from the Defendants to the Plaintiffs on accounts stated between them. And it being alleged that the said 'Ng Tuck Hung and Cheong Tai do not reside within the Island of Hongkong or its dependencies a Writ of Foreign Attachment has been issued returnable on the Nineteenth day of September instant, wherein Adolph Bourjan and Arthur Booth, of Hongkong, partners in the Mercantile firm of Messrs. Bourjan Hübener and Company, and John Steward Lapraik, also of Hongkong, Merchant, and Thomas Behmer, also of Hongkong, Master Mariner, are Garnishees; Notice is hereby given thereof and that if at any time before final judgment in this action, the said David Cowen or any person on his behalf will give the security and notice and file the appearance or plea required by the Ordinance of this Island intituled \"An Ordinance to provide for and regulate Process in actions at Law against persons absent from the Colony,\" the said Attachment may be dissolved.\n\nDated this 2nd day of September, A.D. 1864.\nR. C. R. OWEN, Plaintiff's Attorney.\n\n## STEAM FOR SINGAPORE, PENANG, POINT DE GALLE, ADEN, SUEZ, MALTA, MARSEILLES, AND SOUTHAMPTON; also, BOMBAY, MADRAS, AND CALCUTTA.\n\nTHE `PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY'S` Steam-ship `ORISSA`, Captain HECTOR, with Her Majesty's Mails, Passengers, Specie, and Cargo, will leave this for the above places on Sunday, the 11th September, 1864, at 9 A.M.\n\nCARGO will be received on board until 5 P.M. on the 9th, Specie until Noon on the 10th: and PARCELS until 5 P.M. on the 9th.\n\nFor particulars regarding FREIGHT and PASSAGE, apply at the `PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY's` Office, Hongkong.\n\nContents and Value of Packages are required.\n\nA written declaration of the Contents and Value of the Packages for the Overland Route is required by the Egyptian Government, and must be delivered by the Shippers to the Company's Agents with the Bills of Lading, or with Parcels; and the Company do not hold themselves responsible for any Detention or Prejudice which happen from incorrectness in such declaration. Shippers of Cargo on the Company's \"C\" Bills of Lading are particularly requested to note the Terms and Conditions of Transhipment and forwarding of Cargo, with a view to the adequacy of their Insurance Policies in respect of the same.\n\nTHOS. SUTHERLAND, Superintendent.\n\nPeninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company's Office, Hongkong, 29th August, 1864.\n\n## COMPAGNIE DES SERVICES MARITIMES DES MESSAGERIES IMPERIALES.\n\n### Paquebots-Poste Français.\n\nSTEAM FOR SAIGON, SINGAPORE, POINT DE GALLE, ADEN, SUEZ, ALEXANDRIA, MESSINA, MARSEILLES. ALSO, PONDICHERY, MADRAS, & CALCUTTA.\n\nOn Saturday, the 24th September, at Noon, the Company's Steam-ship `CAMBODGE`, Commander De Bovis, with Her Britannic Majesty's Mails, Passengers, Specie, and Cargo, will leave this Port for the above places, in connection...\n\nAt Alexandria, with the Company's and the Austrian Lloyd's Mail Steamers for the Levant, Black Sea, Greece, Corfu, and Trieste: At Messina, with the Company's twice-weekly Mail Steamers for Malta and all the Italian Ports: At Marseilles, with the weekly Company's Mail Steamer for Valencia and by Railroad to Madrid.\n\nPassengers going to London are informed that the Company will convey, free of charge, from Marseilles to London, their Baggage to the extent allowed by the regulation.\n\nCargo and Specie will be registered for London as well as for Marseilles, and accepted in transit through Marseilles for the principal places of Europe.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-111 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1866 [1-2].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 264904, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-111 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1866 [1-2]", "page_number": 286, "title": "CO129-111 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1866 [1-2]", "content_text": "279\n\nlive or three days in the Depot before they were sent home. I think that he has a very good pay for a Docker. (I am obtaining the names of the places from which the immigrants have come, which are said to be read out to him). Only four immigrants appear from that list to have come from Allar or Macao, all those four are from Wongshan, which is part of the Island. I do not generally keep a list of the places from which migrants come.\n\nThe Committee adjourned until 2.30 P.M. tomorrow, Saturday 27th. Mr. Booth, Mr. Nan Oords, and Captain Neaton to be requested to attend.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-111 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1866 [1-2].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 264905, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-111 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1866 [1-2]", "page_number": 287, "title": "CO129-111 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1866 [1-2]", "content_text": "280 \n\nSaturday, January 17th 1856.\n\nThe Committee met pursuant to adjournment.\n\nArthur Booth, Esquire, \n\nI am a Partner in the Firm of Messrs. Blijden Kolff & Co., and as such have the management of the chartering, provisioning, and despatching of several Immigrant ships. We act in conjunction with M. Lelschied in doing so. We have sent a very large number of vessels to various parts of the world. I remember having dispatched the \"Prinses Juliana\" last year to Surinam. In her case, I followed the usual routine. I was sent by Mr. Lelschied a circular which he had received from the head Office at Amsterdam.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-111 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1866 [1-2].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 264922, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-111 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1866 [1-2]", "page_number": 304, "title": "CO129-111 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1866 [1-2]", "content_text": "57. \n297 \n2. \n5. \n6. \n8. \n\nthe Agent employed here in Emigration Matters, by the Dutch Government.\n\nMr. Douglas, Superintendent of Victoria Gaol.\n\nLee Suk Cheong, the Manager of the Chinese Firm of Wo Hang licensed Passage Brothers, by whom the Emigrants were procured.\n\nMr. Booth of the Firm of Bourjan, Houbener & Co, by whom the 'Tricolor' was chartered and provisioned. Mr Nan Dordt, Acting Dutch Consul here, and Captain Heaton, Government Marine Surveyor, by whom the \"Tricolor\" was surveyed.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-111 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1866 [1-2].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 266724, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-115 - Sir MacDonnell - 1866 [9-10]", "page_number": 62, "title": "CO129-115 - Sir MacDonnell - 1866 [9-10]", "content_text": "; \n\n1\n\n61\n\nYour Memorialists, in addition to objecting to the imposition of a Stamp tax as being in principle wrong, even for providing for a temporary deficit, do most solemnly and earnestly protest against the even more injurious policy, declared in Your Excellency's letter, of seizing the opportunity, of there being an alleged need of money, for a purely temporary and transitory purpose, to impose upon the Colony, and its trade, a yearly additional tax of $120,000, being equal to one seventh of the present annual Revenue.\n\nThe only argument Your Memorialists have heard in favour of taxation in this manner, is, that it is not politically expedient to derive all Revenue from one or more specific sources, but if this be true as an abstract proposition of political economy, surely the fact that, since the existence of the Colony, the Legislature have followed this course without even demur on the part of those taxed, is sufficient to shew, that Hongkong, in its circumstances, is in an exceptional position, and must be dealt with as the position requires, and not in the manner required by any abstract dogma or theory.\n\nThere are many other objections to the imposition of any Stamp tax, partly to the principle, and partly to the operation, of such a measure, on which Your Memorialists will not dilate, but they may point out, as instances, the severity and stringency of the provisions punishing breaches of the Ordinance, the difficulty and cost of collection, and almost certain evasion of it by such of the Chinese as retain here, its vexatious intricacy, and its inequality, in leaving untaxed a large body of Residents who, if not individually wealthy, are wealthy as classes or interests, and who ought to contribute to these local requirements.\n\nYour Memorialists in conclusion beg to express their conviction that though this is a Crown Colony, and they can be taxed by an Order in Council, or an express Order from the Government to the Governor here to levy a tax, or raise a subsidy, yet when, in compliance with the Standing Orders of the Legislative Council, and the whole previous course of practice here, the Council, as such, are asked to pass, or reject, a measure involving the mere mode of raising the requisite sums, Your Memorialists are then entitled to have their ideas on that subject received through the recognized medium, the Non-Official Members of the Council, and as their remonstrances were of no avail, they conceive themselves further entitled to bring before the Government the strong opinions they entertain on the matter, and firmly, though respectfully, to urge Your Excellency to a reconsideration of what is, at best, a mere question of expediency, affecting their interests only, and upon which they ought to be considered, if not the best judges, at least as the best exponents of the balance of benefit or prejudice that may result from the measure.\n\nYour Memorialists therefore humbly beg Your Excellency to reconsider the question, to defer such portion of the Expenditure as is not of immediate or vital import to the Colony to a more auspicious period; to raise any Sums that may be presently needed by some other, and less hurtful method, and to postpone indefinitely the further consideration of any Stamp Tax or at least until all other available and usual sources of taxation have been exhausted.\n\nAnd Your Memorialists will ever pray:\n\nB. W. Gutton\n\nE. F. da Silva\n\nSIGNATURES.\n\nJardine Matheson & Co.\n\nH. Murray\n\nW. Hastings.\n\nW. Kirby.\n\nChas Livington,\n\nA. C. Sandilara.\n\nPeter G. Innes.\n\nH. G. James.\n\nAugustine Heard & Co.\n\nJ. Dossett.\n\nLewis P. Thomas.\n\nOlyphant & Co.\n\n... Koze.\n\nSmith Archer & Co.\n\nAlexander Ross.\n\nJ. Stirton.\n\nBosman & Co.\n\nC. H. Barrow.\n\nBurley & Co.\n\nP. F. Cama & Co\n\nGhose & Co.\n\nWilliam Paske.\n\nCharles Denne.\n\nA. M. Gillies.\n\nJ. A. Costa.\n\nHajau, Habener & Co.\n\nA. Brajau.\n\nC. Booth.\n\nFred. Claus.\n\nReynolds & Co.\n\nJas Bowditch.\n\nJ. A. Rosario.\n\nV. Kresse.\n\nC. Moodie.\n\nJ. Ruith.\n\nJ. Jackson.\n\nE. R. Smith.\n\nL. Mackintosh.\n\nE. Asthan.\n\nRobert Gold.\n\nJ. A. Taylor.\n\nH. Nelson.\n\nH. Jorge.\n\nSiemssen & Co.\n\nF. Hohocker.\n\nP. G. Jube.\n\nH. Kook\n\nP. Gabrial.\n\nH. Hopping.\n\nB. Werdich.\n\nA Von Leesen.\n\nLyall Still & Co.\n\nAlfred S. Post\n\nR. Lyall\n\nG. E. Stokes.\n\nK. C. Smith.\n\nC. F. d' Ozorio.\n\nT. Schroeder.\n\nT. Marwig.\n\nFrancis Chomley.\n\nDent & Co.\n\nE. Overbeck,\n\nJ. T. Kindersley.\n\nDuncan Davidson.\n\nA. J. Else\n\nT. B. Endicott,\n\nThe Hogg & Co.\n\nWin. C. Morvina,\n\nL. P. Ward\n\nSevers & Co.\n\nReynaad Brothers,\n\nHoliday, Wise & Co.\n\nHoward Hodges.\n\nJ. S. Coughlan.\n\nT. C. Adames.\n\nW. S. Foster.\n\nPeterson Brothers.\n\nT. G. Dettmar.\n\nT. Bauson.\n\nJ. C. Welbread.\n\nBroadbent Antony & Co.\n\nJohn Burd & Co.\n\nM. Porissen,\n\nB. Jensen,\n\nBart\n\nD. Ruttonjee. Keis & Co.\n\nWilliam Morgan.\n\nA. Kenealy.\n\nA. Hay Anderson.\n\nJames H. Cox\n\nM. M Walker\n\nE. Figgin\n\nJames Greig,\n\nH. M. Davidhan.\n\nA. Newton.\n\nGilford F. Parker,\n\nN. Mody & Co.\n\nGeorge, K. Gleivius.\n\nF. J. Beynolds,\n\nT. Major.\n\nJul. Baker.\n\nG. P. Thomson.\n\nEd. Norton.\n\nCrawford D. Kerr.\n\nCarlowitz & Co.\n\nDavid Welch. William Keene. Oxford & Co.\n\nArthur J. Kast.\n\nCharles L. Wocks.\n\nRichard Deacon,\n\nJ. McDouall\n\nD. Sassoon, Sons & Co.\n\nJ. Cameron.\n\nJ. J. Elias.\n\nRussell & Co.\n\nW. H. Koster.\n\nE. D. Barbour,\n\nEmil Vogel.\n\nChas. A. Loret\n\nClas. A. Gilson:\n\nJohn W. Terry.\n\nC. A. Endiarrez.\n\nSmith Kennedy & Co.\n\nVaucher & Co.\n\nE. Heard.\n\nBowen, fl\n\nBorneo Co. Limited.\n\nGeorge Christie.\n\nH. Nichol.\n\nDe Silver & Co.\n\nH. de Silver.\n\nE. Mullish.\n\nS. W. Baker & Co.\n\nA. Shao.\n\nJ. B. Miller.\n\nAlfred L. Turner.\n\nJ. M. Matsou\n\nG. C. Scott.\n\nF. J. Barros.\n\nC. M. Carvalho.\n\nCharles T. Gaupp & Co\n\nH. Hollman.\n\nHease & Co.\n\nH. Kirchhof\n\nJ. Hauschild.\n\nFrancis Cowan & Co.\n\nSilveira & Co.\n\nW. A. Middleton.\n\nA. Uhlmann.\n\nW. G. Couns.\n\nC. Bongs & Co.\n\nTalbot & Co.\n\nF. Blackwood & Co.\n\nThomas Algar,\n\nK. Rapp\n\nC. Schmidt.\n\nAdam Scott & Co.\n\nH. Johnston.\n\nC. Tuddi,\n\nJohn Craig.\n\nJ. P. Caps.\n\nNico. Withers\n\nJ. Edutee.\n\nC. Bastonjes. Thomas Callis\n\nCharles D. Weeks.\n\nD. L. Wadia.\n\nJ. F. Catois\n\nW. R. Baltic.\n\nW. Kaye.\n\nW. T. Peda. Phillips,\n\nMoore & Co. Charles C. Cohen. M. Moore.\n\nB. Waller & Co.\n\nBhua Brothers & Co.\n\nE. Garetta.\n\nL. Lyon.\n\nFursatjee Nusserwanjee & Co.\n\nEugene Sequeira\n\nGibb, Livingston & Co.\n\nJohnson & Co.\n\nTurner & Co,\n\nA. Melwood.\n\nWm. C. Gomm.\n\nH. S. Innes.\n\nHobart Lambert\n\nT. B. Slatter.\n\nA. Einhorn. A Scott.\n\nThomas C. Russell\n\nJ. H. lton.\n\nJ. Smith\n\nJ. McEwen & Co.\n\nF. L. D. Sullivan.\n\nLane, Crawford & Co.\n\nT. Willardez.\n\nWidium Punchiappu,\n\nCharles Jameson,\n\nJ. B. Toppin,\n\nJ. Fairbairn.\n\nJohn L. Cox.\n\nR. Cathcart.\n\nM. G. de Souza.\n\nBonario & Co.\n\nWilliam T. Arney.\n\nH. Ralph.\n\nDwyer & Co.\n\nKaehner Roy & Co.\n\nFrancisco A. Gomes.\n\nDouglas Lapnik, & Co.\n\nJosiah E. Munger,\n\nJ. B. Abbott.\n\nE. Slate.\n\nWilliam H. Nolles.\n\nJ. Mantlehoy\n\nJ. D. Woodford.\n\nL. C. da Silva.\n\nRay & Co.\n\nA. Joinfo\n\nC. H. C. Lammerts,\n\nClare Latteiner. Otto Fridrich. George Whitehouse. A. Conill, Edward Rogers. W. S. Riddell.\n\nH. Kaiser.\n\nJ. Jackson, Jr,\n\nJ. Stone.\n\nGeorge A. Weller.\n\nW. Hunter.\n\nEdward H. Pollard,\n\nH. C. Caldwell.\n\nJ. S. Betts Jr.\n\nJ. Pouth.\n\nA. Percy Smith.\n\nBennett & Co. James Gardiner.\n\nD. Klukeo.\n\n17\n\nAlfred T. Munger.\n\nA. F. dos Remedios.\n\nM. de Sousa\n\nJohn Lapreik, 905. H. K.\n\nW. D. C.\n\nGeorge S. Minta, manager H. K. &\n\nW. D. Co.\n\nCharles Mentozk.\n\nJ. D. Starkey.\n\nKawlins, Melon & Co.\n\nWilliam Gaskell\n\nJohn J. Francis.\n\nS. J. S. Magniac\n\nEdward J. Sugg. John Patten.\n\nA. Boyer.\n\nJ. F. Collage.\n\nL. Thevenin.\n\nFawogel & Co.\n\nA. Bleecker.\n\nJohn J. Pewive\n\n(Falconer & Co.\n\nJ. Noble.\n\nA. W. Smith.\n\nB. E. Baker.\n\nA. Harday. Aspinall & Co.\n\nFriedstein & Co.\n\nC. G. Oldham.\n\nCamajee & Co.\n\nJ. M. Gonzales,\n\nJ. W. Hagsten.\n\nK. Backer.\n\nBaynal & Co.\n\nGeorge Holmes & Co.\n\nJ. Marico & Co.\n\nB. D. Rustomjee.\n\nG. F. Ebrahim.\n\nNowrojee Horsabhoy.\n\nF. B. Cama & Co\n\nM. Laljee\n\nDiorabhoy Poonjabhoy.\n\nJ. Hothboy.\n\nA. Sapoorjee,\n\nE. N. Usibio.\n\nA. Buliboi.\n\nC. P. Charter.\n\nWilliam Wetherall,\n\nH. F. Allymah.\n\nW. F. Dwijal.\n\nJ. Seare.\n\nE. Littlay.\n\nJ. Whistler\n\nC. A. Spring\n\nH. Nusserwanjee & Co.\n\nH. A. Shethjee & Co.\n\nFazal M. Dundy.\n\nT. D. Badabhoy & Co.\n\nH. M. Patel.\n\nNarmonjee & Co.\n\nB. Y. Guzder.\n\nB. Damodardas.\n\nJ. Nuthoo.\n\nL. Rissam.\n\nB. Ahadcolally:\n\nJairam Manjee & Co.\n\nP. Estanho\n\nM. M. Moren\n\nAbdoolally, Ebrahim & Co.\n\nA. Alexander.\n\nF. V. H. Eduljee & Co.\n\nN. Abdoolally.\n\nH. H. Oozeer.\n\nMohanbhai\n\nVaurynsey & Co.\n\nM. D. Handy & Co.\n\nM. Bomonji.\n\nD. Vursajee & Co.\n\nA. Teetuji.\n\nP. & A. C. Canjee & Co.\n\nCowasjee Pullan & Co.\n\nB. Rustomjee.\n\nJudah & Co.\n\nJeshna & Co.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-115 - Sir MacDonnell - 1866 [9-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 271194, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-125 - Sir MacDonnell - 1867 [10-11]", "page_number": 150, "title": "CO129-125 - Sir MacDonnell - 1867 [10-11]", "content_text": "## No. 7. RETURN of EMIGRANT SHIPs cleared by the Emigration Officer, Hong Kong, during the Year ending 31st December, 1866.\n\n### ADULTS. CHILDREN.\n\n| No. | DATE ARRIVED | SHIP'S NAME | TONS | Colors | MASTER'S NAME | WHERE FROM | REMARKS | ADULTS | CHILDREN |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | M. F | M. F |\n| | Brought forward | | 35,110 | | | | | | |\n| 1 | June 23 | Seaman's Bride | 841 | Siamese | Booth Slutt | Bangkok | | 201 | | 3,831 | |\n| 2 | April 5 | St. Vicente Ferreira | | | | | 1866 | | | | |\n| 3 | May 8 | Garland | 41 | | | | 3 | | | | |\n| 4 | May 11 | Aline | | | | | 'th | | | | |\n| 5 | June 12 | Vortigern | | | | | 13 | | | | |\n| 6 | June 14 | | | | | | 15 | | | | |\n| 7 | July 11 | Mary Frances | | | | | 16 | | | | |\n| 8 | Sept. 17 | | | | | | 17 | | | | |\n| 9 | October 19 | Whirlwind | 888 | London | R. Hughes | Surinam, Dutch Guiana | 295 | 100 | 14 | 28 |\n| 10 | January 1 | Maria Ross | 340 | | D. Ross | Melbourne | 200 | 24 | | |\n| 11 | February 4 | Golden Horn | 476 | Honolul | Molsen | Singapore | | | | |\n| 12 | March 14 | Joshua Bates | 118 | Portuguese | Dos Santos | Hamburg | 400 | | | |\n| 13 | March 26 | Windward | 52 | | I.. Gode | | 17 | | | |\n| 14 | March 28 | Pleindes | 805 | Liverpool | P. Slaughter | Labuan | 105 | 39 | 18 | |\n| 15 | March 29 | Fairlight | 1,940 | Walwrk | J. F. Rice | | | | | |\n| 16 | April 4 | las GreenDiao | 1,114 | Londou | H. E. Kier | Hamburg | 007 | | | |\n| 17 | April 11 | General van der Beck | 660 | Melbourue | Win. Cotter | Melbourne | 782 | New York | | |\n| 18 | April 13 | Ellent | 617 | Hamborg | W. Bush | Hongkong | 466 | | | |\n| 19 | April 25 | Spray of the Ocean | 750 | Calcutta | C. H. Barrett | Bangkok | 867 | | | |\n| 20 | May 18 | Bunker Hill | 998 | American | Davis | San Francisco | 70 | 642 | Rotterdam | |\n| 21 | May 18 | Denmark | 244 | Thanis | G. Baker | Pretor | 615 | 200 | British | |\n| 22 | May 24 | Agamemnon | 276 | Bremen | Bommerman | Melbourne | 201 | | | |\n| 23 | May 26 | Alice Ball | 700 | American | Ross | Singapore | 100 | 183 | 20 | 2 |\n| 24 | May 29 | Happy | 860 | Siamese | Brighton | Bangkok | 24 | 315 | 4 | |\n| 25 | June 2 | Princess Seraphie | | | | | 10 | | | |\n| 26 | June 5 | Palais Galien | 469 | French | Rohort | Saigon | 25 | 398 | 0 | |\n| 27 | June 9 | Eugene Adela | 436 | | Gero | | 201 | | | |\n| 28 | June 20 | Varna | 863 | $67 | American | 631 | New York | E. Wilinms | Melbourne | 170 |\n| 29 | June 28 | Douglas | 1,031 | 806 | Adelaide | N. S. Hedstroma | San Francisco | 243 | 16 | 18 |\n| 30 | July 1 | Didjan | 500 | Siamese | Whigan Koss Trodenhas | Bangkok | 100 | 28 | | |\n| 31 | July 18 | Sam Bina | 1,170 | French | De Laine | Saigon | 2) | San Francisco | A2 | |\n| 32 | July 28 | Fearless | 900 | American | I. Drew | San Francisco and Honolulu | 58 | 22 | | |\n| 33 | July 28 | Resolute | 800 | Siamese | Euzaierre | Bangkok | 120 | 28 | | |\n| 34 | August 3 | Spray of the Ocean | 805 | Liverpool | P. Slaughter | Melbourne | 100 | 37 | 3 | |\n| 35 | August 11 | Antonio Petronella | | | | | | | | |\n| 36 | August 17 | Alice Ball | 700 | American | Ross | Singapore | 100 | | | |\n| 37 | August 28 | Metie | | GIZ | Hamburg | Nicholson | Singapore | | | |\n| | TOTAL TONNAGE | | 15,921 | | | | | | | |\n| | TOTAL PASSENGERS | | 4,671 | 240 | 196 | 29 | | | | |\n\n### SUMMARY.\n\n| SHIP'S NAME | TONS | Colors | MASTER'S NAME | WHERE FROM | WHITHER BOUND | REMARKS | ADULTS | CHILDREN |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | M. F | M. F |\n| Rapid | 429 | | Carlos | | | 7 | | | |\n| Chia Alpine | $49 | British | | | | | | | |\n| Thunder | 500 | | Hutchinsen | Singapore | | 45 | | | |\n| Sea Forth | 600 | Siamese | W. A. Took | Bangkok | | 23 | 594 | 203 | 28 |\n| Contest | 386 | | | San Francisco | | | | | |\n| Comet | 507 | | Moller | Sehwool | | 20 | | | |\n| Ocean Queen | 492 | Siantese | Elzier | Theopson | Saigon | 25 | | | |\n| Kim-huye | 860 | | Jissen | | 50 | | 17 | | |\n| Alardus | 813 | Hamburg | Popp | Singapore | | | | | |\n| Walter | 287 | Siamese | Wotherspoon | Bangkok | | 201 | | | |\n| Resolution | 816 | | MeKay | | 601 | 34 | | | |\n| Pet | 869 | British | Wassen | Singapore | | R | | | |\n| Indian Warrior | 564 | Siamese | Young | Bangkok | | 35 | | | |\n| Martha Kidont | 788 | American | Jaltesen | Singapore | | 132 | | | |\n| Imperatrice | 990 | French | Macnire | Saigon | | 107i | | | |\n| Pedro Primeiro | 1,484 | Portuguese | A. Fulle | San Francisco | | 178 | | | |\n| Castle | 975 | Siamese | Gergg | Bangkok | | 60 | | | |\n\nH. G. THOMSETT, Emigration Officer, &c.\n\n## No. 8.-RETURN of VESSELS bringing Chinese Passengers to the Port of Victoria, Hong Kong, from Places out of China, during the Year ending 31st December, 1866.\n\n### ADULTS. CHILDREN.\n\n| No. | DATE ARRIVED | SHIP'S NAME | TONS | Colors | MASTER'S NAME | WHERE FROM | REMARKS | ADULTS | CHILDREN |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | M. F | M. F |\n| 1 | September | Kriver | 777 | British | Bolton | Singapore | 50 | 11 | 3 |\n| 2 | | Lightning | 316 | | Rogers | | | | |\n| 3 | | Bentik | 540 | Siamese | Hatbekost | Bangkok | 543 | 11 | |\n| 4 | | Light of the Age | 1,287 | British | F. &. Porter | New Castle, N.S.W. | | | |\n| 5 | | Passe Partout | 201 | | Forrett | Bombay | Sal | +1 | |\n| 6 | | Bangkok | 209 | French | Chappot | Saigon | 92 | 105 | 10 |\n| 7 | | Cello | 321 | Hanoverian | Lurhoff | Singapore | 108] | 11 | 1 |\n| 8 | | Royal Eagle | 307 | British | Bargen | | 40 | | |\n| 9 | 1866. January 1 | Eastward Ho | 607 | British | E. F. Byrne | Sydney | 52 | Á | |\n| 10 | January 20 | Windward | 782 | American | Barrett | San Francisco | 72 | | |\n| 11 | February 8 | Thunder | | | Taylor | Singapore | 30 | | |\n| 12 | February 13 | Dorsead | 610 | Prussian | Malchow | | 3 | | |\n| 13 | February 10 | Fairlight | 588 | | W. Bush | San Francisco | 104 | | |\n| 14 | February 24 | Viscount Canning | 531 | Siamese | 'T. Beinroth | Singapore Bangkok | 50 | 100 | |\n| 15 | February 25 | Canton | 797 | | Heinschott | | 50 | | |\n| 16 | March 15 | Golden Horn | 1,114 | British | J. F. Rice | Melbourne | 460 | 18 | |\n| 17 | March 18 | G Wressel Castle | 250 | British | Harely | | | | |\n| 18 | March 18 | A. M. Lawrenco | 606 | American | Taylor | San Francisco | 193 | | |\n| 19 | March 20 | Joshua Bates | | | | | 7 | | |\n| 20 | March 21 | Uncewah | 3X9 | Italian | Thomaz Ordan | | 382 | $114 | |\n| 21 | March 27 | Arabia | 661 | 1,050 | | | 79 | 35 | |\n| 22 | April 2 | Alphe | 900 | French | De L'Escaille | Saigon | 63 | 16 | |\n| 23 | April 8 | Tem Chang | 180 | | J. B. Sydserff | Suigon | | | |\n| 24 | April 9 | Gravina | | | J. Maddison | Melbourne | | | |\n| 25 | April 11 | Clan Alpine | 360 | Spanish | 949 | British | 11 | | |\n| 26 | April 27 | Elfn | 165 | | Poente | Thomas | Manila | | |\n| 27 | April 27 | Annita | 306 | | S. A. Pulis | Saigon | 561 | | |\n| 28 | November 5 | Sca Serpent | 974 | American | Bolcon | Winsor | Singapore | 40 | |\n| 29 | November 12 | Patino | 1,200 | Spanish | S. de Castro | Mabiis | | | |\n| 30 | November 28 | Caroline Chisholm | 345 | British | II. S. Deane | Singapore | | | |\n| 31 | March 4 | Viscount Canning | 560 | Siamese | Shannon | Bangkok | 60 | 1 | |\n| 32 | March 13 | Catherine Apear | 810 | | Swanson | 301 | * | 1 | |\n| 33 | March 27 | Teresa | 1,094 | Italian | S. Bollo | San Francisco | 464 | D | |\n| 34 | April 12 | Canuar | 840 | | W. Wilson | Sydney | 147 | | |\n| 35 | April 15 | Imperatrice | 10 | | | | 6 | | |\n| 36 | April 15 | Far East | 1,551 | French | Macaire | Saigon | 122 | | |\n| 37 | April 22 | Chelse | $1 | | W. J. Lowa | Melbourne | 30% | T | |\n| 38 | April 26 | Telegraph | 302 | Siamese | | | 18 | \" | |\n| 39 | April 26 | Bobert Lowe | | | | | 10 | T | |\n| 40 | April 26 | Empress of India | 1,497 | British | Henry Jones | | | | |\n| 41 | May 26 | Galileo | 800 | Italian | Spliola | San Francisco | 307) | | |\n| 42 | December 14 | Clan Alpine | 949 | British | Hutchinson | Singapore | 40 | | |\n| 43 | December 18 | Benares | 1,491 | | J. Laing | | 50 | 12 | |\n| 44 | December 20 | White Swallow | 985 | American | C. C. Knowles | San Francisco | | | |\n\n### SUMMARY.\n\n| SHIP'S NAME | TONS | Colors | MASTER'S NAME | WHERE FROM | REMARKS | ADULTS | CHILDREN |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | M. F | M. F |\n| Reiver | 777 | | Bolton | Singapore | 17 | 40i | |\n| United Service | 600 | | Browne | | | | |\n| Meridian | 300 | Siamese | Heynolds | Bangkok | 20: | \"J | |\n| Der Sud | 610 | Prassian | Malchow | Singapore | 387 | | |\n| Shooting Star | €20 | Siamese | Hochronter | Bangkok | 63 | | |\n| Donnai | 1,699 | French | Bourdon | Saigon | 71 | | |\n| Rattler | 908 | American | Marsh | San Francisco | 37 | | |\n| Spray of the Ocean | 805 | British | Slaughter | Singapore | 51 | | |\n| Randy | 632 | Siamese | Hanson | Bengkok | 20 | | |\n| Clan Alpine | 945 | British | Hutchinson | Singapore | 37 | $2 | |\n| Tie Wat | 604 | Siamese | Luis | Bangkok | 33 | | |\n| Ottawa | 900 | British | Fastley | Singapore | 30 | | |\n| Suoma | 792 | Russian | | | 35 | $7 | |\n| Eagle | 845 | British | N. Langlois | | 36 | | |\n| John Bright | 677 | | Nordberg | J. E. Bentham | ** | zoi | |\n| Solent | 782 | | | | | | |\n| Excelsior | 345 | Dutch | Wynbrock | Batavia | 24 | 17 | |\n| Moonlight | SOU | Siamese | Jurgenson | Bangkok | 20 | 40 | |\n| St. Paul | 286 | | Leyseri | | 71 | 41 | |\n| Senator | 382 | | Wichers | | 1 | 42 | |\n| Rodrigo | 200 | Spanish | Gorado | Manila | B | 48 | |\n| Oceanis | 1,158 | Dutch | Dirkzan | Singapore | C | 44 | |\n| A. E. Vidal | 381 | Hamburg | C W. Rehse | Saigon | D | ++ | |\n| Albert Victor | 838 | British | A. Overbury | Singapore | JE | 77 | |\n| Chase | 284 | | J. Hamilton | Manila | F | 17 | |\n| Tye-long | 478 | Siameso | 0. Demsky | Bangkok | G | | |\n| Swiftsure | 219 | British | Struckman | Saigon | B | 49 | |\n| Braganza | | | Shiriton | Sarawak | 30 | I | |\n| Hyacinth | 824 | | McFarlane | Sydney | 110 | G | |\n| | TOTAL TONS | | 83,079 | | | | |\n| | TOTAL PASSENGERS | | 9,247 | 21 | | | |\n\nH. G. THOMSETT, Emigration Officer, &c.\n\n### Page 149\n\n### Page 150\n### Page 151", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-125 - Sir MacDonnell - 1867 [10-11].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 274683, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 318, "title": "CO129-131 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [6-7]", "content_text": "be in all that could, booth wired, and, although I \n\nSis Butterfred. Meckla berculars of 3 Juries to the leveesula, unbucks is hoods ours thank despatch, einproven sorres Allier - in the two \n\n## Conditions on the lovonlar Affirms holding Postal\nAgpueira, Ithe bot corsides this Ida buneary lutherto existing. dersicon with, be affected. \n\n### Shemby 3. As regards the letter from the Acting then leanand, at Chefoo\nI would remark, that the number of inhabitants is so small, that, after fully considering the uncatter, beittiens das Rear we angolf considered, as branchs of this Department - recefocery there, and in the arrangements Wasu wer 311 werades for the amalgamation of the Brituals ein Local Post Affices at thaughan, whichs received, this danction of Stia Exertheney him Richard Growen beractionals; \n\nthe agreed, that the correspondences posted Shanglions for Chefoo, amargot, others places samed, should be chall; writhes exclusivaly by Mars Local Best, Affeces; Whilst the letters receives in the mailo this at Houghtong should, bes forwarded, të them, boreaus. \n\n## Derning their pants 12. deonthe were seat \n971 Letters our 1687 Newspapers prepaña ~ tis the therited bring downto, tones deak to Kingdown Clre for, and the footage, which was coffretia ow Local cosscopridines during this dawn collectin period", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-131 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [6-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 276877, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 177, "title": "CO129-135 - Public Offices & Others - 1868", "content_text": "506\n\nmay be\n\nseized.\n\n2o & 3o VICTORIÆ, Cap.47.\n\nForce, with such Constables as he shall think necessary, at any Time between Sun-rising and Sun-setting, to enter any Ship, Boat, or Vessel (except Her Majesty's Ships) in the said River, Docks, and Creeks, and to search the same for unlawful Quantities of Gunpowder, and also to exercise the same Powers of seizing, removing to proper Places, and detaining all such unlawful Quantities of Gunpowder found on board any such Ship, Boat, or Vessel, and the Barrels or other Packages in which such Gunpowder shall be, as are given to Persons searching for unlawful Quantities of Gunpowder under the Warrant of a Justice by virtue of an Act passed in the Twelfth Year of the Reign of King George the Third, intituled An Act to regulate the making, keeping, and Carriage of Gunpowder within Great Britain, and to repeal the Laws heretofore made for any of those Purposes.\n\nPenalty for having on board Guns loaded with Ball, or discharging Guns in the Night.\n\nPenalty for heating combustible Matters on board of Vessels.\n\nXXXVI. And be it enacted, That every Master or Commander or other Officer of any Ship, Boat, or Vessel (except Her Majesty's Ships) who, while such Ship or Vessel shall lie or be in the River Thames between Westminster Bridge and Blackwall, keep any Gun on board such Ship, Boat, or Vessel shotted or loaded with Ball, or cause or permit to be fired any Gun on board such Ship, Boat, or Vessel before Sun-rising or after Sun-setting, shall be liable for every Gun so kept shotted or loaded to a Penalty of Five Shillings, and for every Gun so fired shall be liable to a Penalty of Ten Shillings.\n\nXXXVII. And be it enacted, That every Master or Commander or other Officer of any such Ship, Boat, or Vessel, or any other Person on board of the same, who while such Ship, Boat, or Vessel shall lie in the said River between Westminster Bridge and Blackwall, shall heat or melt, or cause or permit to be heated or melted, on board such Ship, Boat, or Vessel, any Pitch, Tar, Rosin, Grease, Tallow, Oil, or other combustible Matter, shall for every such Offence be liable to a Penalty not more than Five Pounds.\n\nPenalty on keeping Fairs open within forbidden Hours.\n\nXXXVIII. And be it enacted, That the Business and Amusements of all Fairs holden within the Metropolitan Police District shall cease at the Hour of Eleven in the Evening, and shall not begin earlier than the Hour of Six in the Morning; and that if any House, Room, Booth, Standing, Tent, Caravan, Waggon, or other Place shall, during the Continuance of any such Fair, be open within the Hours of Eleven in the Evening and Six in the Morning, for any Purpose of Business or Amusement, in the Place where such Fair shall be holden, it shall be lawful for any Constable to take into Custody the Person having the Care or Management thereof, and also every Person being therein who shall not quit the same forthwith upon being bidden by such Constable so to do; and the Person so then having the Care or Management of any such House, Room, Booth, Standing, Tent, Caravan, Waggon, or other Place shall be liable to a Penalty not more than Five Pounds, and every Person convicted of having been therein, and of not having quitted the same forthwith upon being bidden by a Constable so to do, shall be liable to a Penalty not more than Forty Shillings.\n\nXXXIX. And\n\n507\n\n2o & 3o VICTORIÆ, Cap.47.\n\nXXXIX. And be it enacted, That if it shall appear to the Commissioners of Police that any Fair usually holden within the Metropolitan Police District has been holden without lawful Authority, or that any Fair lawfully holden within the said District has been usually holden for a longer Period than is so warranted, it shall be competent to such Commissioners to direct One of the Superintendents belonging to the Metropolitan Police Force to summon the Owner or Occupier of the Ground upon which such Fair is usually holden to appear before a Magistrate at a Time and Place to be specified in the Summons, not less than Eight Days after the Service of the Summons, to show his Right and Title to hold such Fair, or to hold such Fair beyond a given Period (as the Case may be); and if such Owner or Occupier shall not attend in pursuance of such Summons, or shall not show to the Magistrate who shall hear the Case sufficient Cause to believe that such Fair has been lawfully holden for the whole Period during which the same has been usually holden, the Magistrate shall declare in Writing such Fair to be unlawful, either altogether or beyond a stated Period (as the Case may be); and the Commissioners shall give Notice of such Declaration by causing Copies thereof to be affixed on the Parish Church and on other public Places in and near the Ground where such Fair has been usually holden; and if, after such Notices have been affixed for the Space of Six Days, any Attempt shall be made to hold such Fair, if declared altogether unlawful, or to hold it beyond the prescribed Period if it shall be declared unlawful beyond a certain Period, the Commissioners of Police may direct any Constable to remove every Booth, Standing, and Tent, and every Carriage of whatsoever Kind, conveyed to or being upon the Ground for the Purpose of holding or continuing such Fair, and to take into Custody every Person erecting, pitching, or fixing, or assisting to erect, pitch, or fix any such Booth, Standing, or Tent, and every Person driving, accompanying, or conveyed in every such Carriage, and every Person resorting to such Ground with any Show or Instrument of Gambling or Amusement; and every Person convicted before a Magistrate of any of the Offences last aforesaid shall be liable to a Penalty not more than Ten Pounds.\n\nOn entering into Recognizance, Question as to Right of Title to be tried in the Queen's Bench.\n\nXL. Provided nevertheless, and be it enacted, That if the Owner or Occupier of the Ground whereon any such Fair has been usually holden shall, when summoned before the Magistrate, enter into a Recognizance in the penal Sum of Two hundred Pounds (which Recognizance such Magistrate is hereby authorized to take), with Condition to appear in the Court of Queen's Bench on the First Day of the then next Term, and to answer to any Information which Her Majesty's Attorney or Solicitor General may exhibit against such Owner or Occupier touching his Right and Title to such Fair and to abide the Judgment of the Court thereon, and to pay such Costs as may be awarded by the Court, which Costs the said Court is hereby authorized to award, then, notwithstanding the Magistrate may have declared such Fair to be unlawful, the Commissioners of Police shall forbear from giving Notice of such Declaration, and from taking any further Measures thereon, until Judgment shall be given by the said Court against the Right and Title to such Fair; and the Magistrate taking\n\n175\n\nP\n\nR", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-135 - Public Offices & Others - 1868.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 280967, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-143 - Sir MacDonnell - 1870 [1-2]", "page_number": 6, "title": "CO129-143 - Sir MacDonnell - 1870 [1-2]", "content_text": "Hongkong\n\n849/2249\n\nThe Under Secretary Foreign Office\n\nMarch 3, 1870.\n\nMINUTE\n\nMr. Robinson, Mr. M. Wallend, Mr. Herbert\n\nMr. M'Leod, Mr. Cooper\n\nSam. devoted Exhall by Grouillard to you for the information of the Law Officers.\n\nThe 5th instant. In reply to Mr. Clarendon that Copy of zom Embossum, the delay better, a dispute which occurred in the transmission of the Telegram from their dept to the for attoughong The 7 Apt 68\n\nGoranded & Sid hardonnell Suple the hormon\n\nPage 5\n\n \n(Three lines at the bottom indicating the page number are kept as is, assuming they are \"Page 5\" repeated three times as per the original scan description.)\n\nPage 5\n\nPage 5\n\nHowever, to strictly follow the format requested in the prompt, the corrected version should be presented in HTML as follows, without the additional explanation:\n\nHongkong\n\n849/2249\n\nThe Under Secretary Foreign Office\n\nheaters\n\n5\n\n3 March 1870.\n\nMINUTE\n\nARC\n\nMr Robinson, Manch I MiWallend MYHerbert\n\nMu\n\nMonspir\n\nSam deveted Exhail\n\nby\n\nGrouille boath to you\n\nfor the ing of the Laul\n\na\n\nThe 5 hot\n\nInky Mlarendon that Cofe of zom\n\nEmbosum,\n\nthe delay\n\nbetter, a of di\n\nasputing\n\nwhich occurred\n\nin the tra\n\nthe trans mission\n\nда\n\non\n\nTelegram from their dept to the for attoughong The 7 Apt 68\n\nчому\n\nGoranded & Sid hardonnell\n\nSuple the hormon\n\nPage\n\nPage\n\nPage", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-143 - Sir MacDonnell - 1870 [1-2].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 283801, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-148 - Public Offices & Others - 1870", "page_number": 373, "title": "CO129-148 - Public Offices & Others - 1870", "content_text": "# MINUTE PAPER\n\n7-11912-70. Nongshiong\n\n372 1/9/2\n\nThe latest information respecting Mr. Dorylas is contained in the report on the Hongkong Blue Booth, dated 10 Sept? 1870 and received Saturday.\n\nThe Gaol of Victoria is in a useful state of repair & reflects the greatest credit on Supt. Mr. Douglas, for its discipline & general management.\n\n8.11.70.\n\nTo 10 Nov? 1870\n\nM. Hubert is directed (this is merely to inform Michael Pregan) to reply to this letter of the 4th inst. as it affords very recent intelligence from H. R. U. Mannkongles ohle held the Menit lufl alle Vatona Jail if with at Colony.\n\nJnly Math ho 87.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-148 - Public Offices & Others - 1870.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 287961, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-157 - Sir MacDonnell Acting Governor Sir Kennedy - 1872 [4-5]", "page_number": 531, "title": "CO129-157 - Sir MacDonnell Acting Governor Sir Kennedy - 1872 [4-5]", "content_text": "4. Additional Report.\n\n(a). With reference to the enclosed, I have the honor to report that I assisted the Marshal of the Vice Admiralty Court at that Officer's requisition in order to prevent rendering myself liable to a prosecution for misdemeanor, had I refused to comply.\n\nBy 24 & 1 Vic. C. 10, the Court of Admiralty has the same powers of enforcing writs as Courts of Common Law. The Marshal holds the same powers in Maritime matters as the Sheriff does in Civil matters. \"It is no excuse to the Sheriff to return that he 'could not execute' a precept because of resistance; he may take posse with him (13 Ed. 1. St 1. C. 39. Burn's Justice of Peace, 1845 Vol V. p. 1009).\n\nAgain, in simple circumstances of distress for rent, it may occur which \"require the presence of a Police Officer, but to justify the landlord in calling him in, it must be shown that his presence was necessary either from threats of resistance or the apprehension of violence\" (Skidmore v. Booth 6/8 p.977). A fortiori, therefore, the Officer executing a writ of ...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-157 - Sir MacDonnell Acting Governor Sir Kennedy - 1872 [4-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 293184, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-166 - Public Offices & Others - 1873", "page_number": 614, "title": "CO129-166 - Public Offices & Others - 1873", "content_text": "## DOMESTIC\n\nOffice or Individual.\n\nDate: 1873\n\nB-No 3354\n\n**(Subject)** \nRECEIVE \n9 APR 1873 \nClaim ag Drill Coy for £36.\n\nWe herewith submitted our last previous Paper, \n611.\n\n**(Minutes.)**\n\n1. Booth assumes that J. Melay is dead but we have not received any intelligence to that effect - we are not aware of any report of J. Miloy's death.\n\nHowever we have nothing to do with the state of Jantand 2. R. we have the ndan Rm9/4 & Jantand 2. R. have not seen any power to 19/4.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-166 - Public Offices & Others - 1873.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 293186, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-166 - Public Offices & Others - 1873", "page_number": 616, "title": "CO129-166 - Public Offices & Others - 1873", "content_text": "## \n\nto be paid out, adjustment of balances and proceeds of the sale including the sale proceeds of the office furniture remaining after the above sum, and my solicitor paid he would attend to sale of the property and wrote earliest convenience to Dr Maxay to be registered as to Hong Kong including that of the Conveyance being in my name which Dr Maxay replied \n\non 2 May My Mortgage would be good of that month and gave directions to solicitor as to application of the funds - My Mortgage encloses Copy my Mortgage paid money including the payment letter - \n\nexecution \n\nthe Dunn died Mr Moth sent the returns and forwarded to My Mortgage encloses copy that expense of the purchase money \n\nMr Moses on 14 Nov 1872 received a letter from the Maxay declaring the £36 due him, and acknowledging receipt of Deed of Conveyance to the purchaser and sale money to Dr Maxay to account for execution, and being a long Kong = \n\nbe also Secretary if sums to be paid out of Colonial Office \n\nGordon \n\nperusal manage and register \n\nBureau Booth", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-166 - Public Offices & Others - 1873.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 297753, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-173 - Sir Kennedy - 1876 [1-3]", "page_number": 214, "title": "CO129-173 - Sir Kennedy - 1876 [1-3]", "content_text": "HongKong\n\n8th March 1876.\n\nMW. Hearn, 4th Master at the Central School\n\nSchedule of Papers\n\nconnected with the\n\nsuspension of\n\n41666\n\n76\n\n211\n\nMemo concerning M. Hearn by Mr Lears\n\n1. On the 10th ult. Boys In? Barthe of ICM G & Fai Hoi called with a European at the house of Iny Maxwell and In Richardson residing at No. Gage Street. These two women are registered prostitutes.\n\n2. In the evening the name of Sir William Wiseman was given to the European either by himself or by In? Booth and was used as designating him. To her surname was transferred.\n\n3. The European incurred a debt of $15 and as this was not paid\n\nEnclosure 1 to No. 12 in Governor Sir A&. Kennedy's Despatch No. 45 of 8th March 1876", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-173 - Sir Kennedy - 1876 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 297756, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-173 - Sir Kennedy - 1876 [1-3]", "page_number": 217, "title": "CO129-173 - Sir Kennedy - 1876 [1-3]", "content_text": "To Hearn, Lau ceased to be friends. Si Weh Wireman, Int Booth and My Cecil have left the Colony\n\nSynod W.m. Deane\n\nCaps Surfs of Dorice\n\nFree Coty Mordehante\n\nMemorandum by the Acting Registrar General 4466/214\n\nMemo to Inspector Whitehead\n\nA European went to see Miss Maxwell and incurred a debt either for wine or accommodation.\n\nOn leaving, he gave a name which was not his own. Miss Maxwell, on applying to the gentleman whose name was falsely given for payment, was told that he had never been to her house.\n\nFrom further enquiries made by Miss Maxwell and this gentleman, the imposture was discovered.\n\nI shall be obliged...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-173 - Sir Kennedy - 1876 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 297768, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-173 - Sir Kennedy - 1876 [1-3]", "page_number": 229, "title": "CO129-173 - Sir Kennedy - 1876 [1-3]", "content_text": "226\n\nne.\n\nman.\n\nmatter at the time in a jocular\n\nWhen I called to pay her (Maxwell) I mentioned her having sent it person and the remarks\n\nto the\n\nWan\n\nwrong\n\nthen made \"Well isn't it a good advertisement?\" Further than that I know nothing about the matter. I have written to enquire the whereabouts of Mr Booth that I may obtain a statement of what occurred at the time from him.\n\nAnswer to 2nd charge\n\nI did not visit a registered prostitute named \"Cecil\" and had never heard of her till I received your letter. I do not know where she lives and therefore I did not pass myself off to her as In? Sherard Both Res &\n\nAnswer to 3 1/2 charge\n\na I did not visit a certain prostitute and pass myself off as In? A K Travers.. over a debt for which claims could afterwards be made upon I= ak Travers.\n\nb With your permission I will make a few remarks that will show the absurdity of the charges\n\nIn the 1st place had I deceived and defrauded these women by false\n\nRated (walking almost\n\nnames aus\n\nnort\n\n3onA", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-173 - Sir Kennedy - 1876 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 297775, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-173 - Sir Kennedy - 1876 [1-3]", "page_number": 236, "title": "CO129-173 - Sir Kennedy - 1876 [1-3]", "content_text": "His Exc? had directed the woman Maxwell to be present and with the concurrence the Council he proposed to confront them and examine them respectively in the presence of each other.\n\nThe Council concurs in His Exc?'s views and Miss Maxwell and Mr. Hearn, who had been directed to be present, were then called in.\n\nIn reply to His Exc?'s questions, Miss Maxwell then states that - her name is Carry Vidona Maxwell, that she first knew Mr. Hearn about the 10th November. He came to her house accompanied by two gentlemen, one of whom was Mr. Booth and the other, whom she did not know.\n\nThat on that occasion he incurred a debt of fifteen dollars, which about the 12th November she applied for payment to Mr. Hullam's office.\n\nThat Mr. Booth and the other, being an unknown European, had on the occasion on which Mr. Hearn incurred the debt, addressed him as \"Sir William Horseman\", and he himself acquiesced in the name.\n\nInstead of paying the debt, however, \"Sir William Horseman\" called and told her that it was a mistake, and about two or three days afterwards Dr. Apcar informed her that it was Mr. Hearn who owed the money.\n\nThat she then sent the bill to Mr. Hearn and he afterwards called and paid ten dollars, expressing surprise that he had not the whole amount with him. The 15th November was the date of payment, and that was the only occasion on which...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-173 - Sir Kennedy - 1876 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 297787, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-173 - Sir Kennedy - 1876 [1-3]", "page_number": 248, "title": "CO129-173 - Sir Kennedy - 1876 [1-3]", "content_text": "The fuller particulars.\n\nThe alt funerals earth, no further question.\n\nMrs Maxwell\n\nre-examined by this we\n\n1. You have no doubt that no doubt. Them\n\nof the parts of these bitte\n\n245\n\nOthers present who understood it as I did\n\nWiseman?\n\nhim as\n\n2. Are those persons who understood as\n\nas you\n\nnow in the Court?\n\ndid\n\nOne of\n\nthem is\n\n3. What is her name?\n\nHer Richardson\n\nname\n\nin\n\nMany\n\n4. Did\n\nJose\n\nYes\n\nunderstand on\n\nthat occasion that the name applied to him?\n\nHe, Mr Maxwell, is then permitted by this to retire, and Mr Hearn is now asked if he has\n\nany statement to make in reference to the foregoing evidence given in his presence.\n\n5.\n\nIn? Hearn states as follows: \"In Maxwell's statement that there were three present, Booth, while\n\nof them being Booth,\n\nthe When she did not know", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-173 - Sir Kennedy - 1876 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 297788, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-173 - Sir Kennedy - 1876 [1-3]", "page_number": 249, "title": "CO129-173 - Sir Kennedy - 1876 [1-3]", "content_text": "but that they both addressed me as Mireman. One of them was Sir William Wiseman who therefore called me with regard by his acquaintance.\n\nOur natural money to the amount of the sum was under the impression that I paid her the whole amount on that occasion when I afterwards went there. I put the money in my pocket and went with the express purpose of paying.\n\nAttorney General here asks \"Who were the other persons present with you on that occasion?\" In reply to which In Hearn repeats \"Booth and Sir William Wiseman\".\n\nIn Hearn then continues. I had already written to Booth to ask him for a statement of what took place on that occasion, but I have not yet received an answer.\n\nIn Hearn having no further statement to make, his brother puts to him the following questions:\n\n1. In a letter dated the 12th, you state that this Maxwell was acquainted with you prior to this occasion?\n\nI believe that he was, but I cannot state positively.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-173 - Sir Kennedy - 1876 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 297790, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-173 - Sir Kennedy - 1876 [1-3]", "page_number": 251, "title": "CO129-173 - Sir Kennedy - 1876 [1-3]", "content_text": "9\n\nSid In2 Travers drop your acquaintance?\n\nNo. I only\n\nhar248\n\nnot seem him\n\nsince he went to\n\nAmoy\n\n10 So he never said anything Never. I\n\nam\n\ngreita\n\nat-all to\n\nabout a\n\nyou\n\nchit? sure\n\nreme गृ\n\n11.\n\nBid hi Travers accompany for No. I don't think\n\nto this woman's\n\nhour when I so. Somebody\n\nyou paid the ten dollars?\n\n12.\n\nhill\n\npore positively state that it was not his\n\nM2\n\nTravers\n\nAlt General asks\n\nHas there been\n\nany\n\nCommuni\n\ncatain either verbal or in\n\nand writing between\n\nJora M2 Travers in reference\n\nما\n\na chit presented to him\n\nfrom\n\na\n\nwoman I\n\nwith me.\n\nWres\n\nbut I\n\nI don't know who it\n\nwas.\n\nI would not like\n\nto do that. I here\n\nwas somebody wilt\n\nbut I don't\n\nПрив\n\nthink it was\n\nMr\n\nTravers, I think it was I? booth.\n\nWhen I got In Austin's letter Rating (rat In travers was one of thin names I was representad as using, Junote to tr Travers telling him that I was accused of doing this. He was then at\n\nAmway, and I received\n\n1\n\nno reply. That is the of communication that I hear had with hirm\n\nthe sulejich\n\nM", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-173 - Sir Kennedy - 1876 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 297872, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-173 - Sir Kennedy - 1876 [1-3]", "page_number": 333, "title": "CO129-173 - Sir Kennedy - 1876 [1-3]", "content_text": "320\n\nThe Cam... Mame for having carily be accounted for.... to screen Kersilf having sent the letter to ... from any lin wm Wiseman. I may here min ton vers ther happy to wee introduce \"her to a pru at aization that it is not an lem contesan thing have among there Sharnell hour Sa вро and much letters to mutu then A for ove being discussed to follow them in propria persone for a Lean a & demanding her to him, what in like than when pressed that another man the should say the man dressed in blue that the Entiance\" this prevented the visit.\n\nOn Sie von Wissmani calling the woman Harm ne for isuding with the intention of teringing themselves to the notier of those they thus adchens had called himself Weisman that the had + велика сал I have on tur occasioins 24 & art of obtaining ecewed such tut the did - киви letters from person that I knew nothing of have bolt on the the Awit numbers of other owen same story. On the one occasion to my house. not the fir trave Roman Carme house & after action ledging that beas the chart thinking it to be his name not then specify who the awon is when Dr Ayen suggested. hant a ou fixed upon that I sught be the one that the wanbed.\n\nthe two false statements that the mathe there. that swas left. having Männeet her et e cerm object is introducing herself tong artice. On the second before the Council nare hanced by two other men (me Booth the offers dame she did not know) on A am fol con 旋 second better nar the that the Saying office to which Covere ky Ce I shut back the ausver sue at my that. which the chit nous ful in when I incurian the air for bi Sir Wom Messinan. And", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-173 - Sir Kennedy - 1876 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 297873, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-173 - Sir Kennedy - 1876 [1-3]", "page_number": 334, "title": "CO129-173 - Sir Kennedy - 1876 [1-3]", "content_text": "331\n\nAnd that was out there I was first. Wissman was on the spot accompanied by Mr. Booth on three occasions (for which this third was sent). My friend Booth was with me and on the third (when I called to hear them) by Arkare.\n\nOn our booth was the only non-person and the occasion was so busy that we could not have called it \"William Wissman\". Mr. Booth was absent. Failing that, what was accused was in a letter.\n\nMy writer follows. From Sir Emas, May 29th, Irby was astonished to read certain things for sale, etc., as Lou was having called some others on them and Gen Aleman's.\n\nBecause any Maru C... de ci de def dens even having called other Suleman tissuan excepting Sir William Mosman himself. I am Brad.\n\nAs no action has been made on the second of this change at the committee, I presume they are withdrawn as both were not founded.\n\nI confess my presence guilt in the first charge; but whether or not the case defines that, I could make an appeal to them in the court.\n\nI am acquainted with those commercial men and eat my assent with them in ignorance.\n\nWith regard to the posting of my name in the club, I understand that the reason for this was that it was in connection with one. And that there have been a number of others whose subscriptions were not paid up to the end of the year.\n\nIt is like a notice which was posted in the Secretary's office as is done every month.\n\nI trust that your lordship will thus see your way.\n\nYours, Alfred Broth", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-173 - Sir Kennedy - 1876 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 303765, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-184 - Governor Hennessy - 1879 [1-5]", "page_number": 357, "title": "CO129-184 - Governor Hennessy - 1879 [1-5]", "content_text": "## 9 \n\n352 \n\n4th 1879 \n\nfinally passed, I made \nno reference whatever to the balance \nin bank. The \nfull report of \nthat occasion was \nsent to you in my \ndespatch, which appears to have been \nreceived in Downing Street on the \n34th February, 1879. \n\n7. \nIt is true that (previous to my speech on the Estimates) in my \nFinancial Statement in October 1878, whilst I dwelt upon the sound \ncondition of the Chief items \nof revenue \nand pointed to the possibility of still greater augmentation of \npermanent revenue by looking carefully \nafter \nthe sale \nof the Opium Farm, I mentioned, as it was \nmanifestly \nmy duty to do, to the Legislative Council \nthe amount \nof the balances in hand. \nIn the very sentence in which \nI referred to the large and unprecedented \nbalance in the Treasury Chest, \nI asked \"if these leading items \nof revenue \nare steadily increasing \nand as one \nof the most significant \nof these, the Strate tax (the amount we \nderive \nfrom \nthe 12 per cent on the \nvaluation \nof house property) is also \nincreasing and will reach its \nmaximum this \nyear, If I can... \n\nDespatch P/25 of the 28th of December \n1878 \nreceived... \nCopy... in reference... \nBooth... \nWis... \nF...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-184 - Governor Hennessy - 1879 [1-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 310030, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-195 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [1-4]", "page_number": 156, "title": "CO129-195 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [1-4]", "content_text": "Date on which permission was granted.\n\n-1880-\n\nAugust\n\nSeptember\n\nOctober\n\nNovember\n\n4th\n\nNames.\n\nAugust 14 George Frise, S.145 Tough Cutter & BUY ye Reverend Mr. Finnings. 14th Acting Sergeant Campbell. 19th William Watts.\n\nGeorge D. Tennessy, R.S. 6. G. Flemingham, P.15\n\n17. James Robertson, P. Don\n\nJohn Minhinnett.\n\n24 A Falconer.\n\n27 Thomas B. Beattie. P.CA...\n\nFebruary\n\nMarch 21st Inspector Reivers.\n\nApril 4 Maclean, PA.27.\n\nJune\n\nAugust\n\nInspector Cameron.\n\n8. I Ade Tavaths.\n\nLarwalks.\n\n10th John Tithes S.4.9\n\nJames, P., 42.\n\nDurrant, P.128\n\n8th Lauchlan Wokay. 9th Robert Simpson, P.1.748.\n\nC. O.\n\n20 396-L\n\n1J NOV-81\n\nCopy of the Booth-bial Hospital to being between siin\n\nCopy\n\nGovernment bial. Infitat.\n\nApril 551297.\n\nMemorandum to request that the amount in the enclosed cheque, viz. Twenty pounds (£20) may be transmitted for the faculty to Dr. Jessie Wharry of\n\nPurposes\n\nPark Mlace. Old Charlton, London S.E.\n\nShavere.\n\nRegent 57 b. J. Wherry has\n\nSuperintendent\n\nThe Hon: H. E. Wodehouse.\n\nActing Colonial Secretary.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-195 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 310165, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-195 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [1-4]", "page_number": 291, "title": "CO129-195 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [1-4]", "content_text": "Statements appear in your Blue Booth Report for \n\n1880 \n\nand in \n\nmade when \n\nyour \n\nwhen laying \n\nspeech \n\nthe \n\nCensus Returns before \n\nthe day. Council \n\n2. I shall be glad \n\nto \n\nreceive further information \n\nAs to the abrace \n\nof a \n\ngou at system of baccination in the colony, \n\nfor I cannot find \n\nHat any refly \n\nwad \n\nfent to the circular which 290 \n\nwas \n\nissued on \n\nStie \n\nSubject \n\nin Sept. 1867. \n\nand Hi Rang affecus to \n\nStand alone among \n\nthe Eastern Colonice in \n\nnot having \n\na vacci - \n\n· ratin ordinance \n\nK \n\n7 \n\nDec.\n\nHowever, to follow the instructions more closely and correct the OCR output:\n\nStatements appear in your Blue Booth Report for\n\n1880\n\nand in your speech made when laying the Census Returns before Council the day.\n\n2. I shall be glad to receive further information as to the abrogation of a general system of vaccination in the colony, for I cannot find that any reply was sent to the circular which was issued on the subject in Sept. 1867. And Hongkong affects to stand alone among the Eastern Colonies in not having a vaccination ordinance.\n\n7 Dec.\n\nIn HTML format as requested, with corrections and proper paragraph handling:\n\nStatements appear in your Blue Booth Report for 1880 and in your speech made when laying the Census Returns before Council the day.\n\n2. I shall be glad to receive further information as to the adoption of a general system of vaccination in the colony, for I cannot find that any reply was sent to the circular which was issued on the subject in Sept. 1867. And Hong Kong affects to stand alone among the Eastern Colonies in not having a vaccination ordinance.\n\n7 Dec.\n\nCorrected version with proper formatting and minimal alteration:\nStatements appear in your Blue Booth Report for 1880 and in your speech made when laying the Census Returns before Council the day.\n\n2. I shall be glad to receive further information as to the adoption of a general system of vaccination in the colony, for I cannot find that any reply was sent to the circular which was issued on the subject in Sept. 1867. And Hong Kong affects to stand alone among the Eastern Colonies in not having a vaccination ordinance.\n\n7 Dec.\n\nLet's directly output the corrected and formatted text in HTML as per the instructions.\n\nStatements appear in your Blue Booth Report for 1880 and in your speech made when laying the Census Returns before Council the day.\n\n2. I shall be glad to receive further information as to the adoption of a general system of vaccination in the colony, for I cannot find that any reply was sent to the circular which was issued on the subject in Sept. 1867. And Hong Kong affects to stand alone among the Eastern Colonies in not having a vaccination ordinance.\n\n7 Dec.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-195 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 311242, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-197 - Governor Hennessy - 1882 [1-2]", "page_number": 263, "title": "CO129-197 - Governor Hennessy - 1882 [1-2]", "content_text": "Assistant for the Observatory - List of posts, be obtained from archives\n\n\"s, the Royal Engineers & Officers of the Survey Companies of the\n\nR.E. & Engineers; and subsequently wrote a private letter to my friend, Colonel Booth, the present Director of the Ordnance Survey, asking him to\n\ndo his best in the matter, should be hereafter made to him. He has, however, expressed to me in a reply his regret that, owing to a recent decision to double the strength of the Survey force and hasten the completion of the work, it would be impossible,\n\na Non-commissioned Officer for Hongkong. Every man capable\n\n262\n\nof the higher duties must now be retained, and Colonel Booth has been obliged of late to refuse several similar applications from Cyprus, Mr Astronomer Royal, the Palestine Exploration Fund, and in Cape of Good Hope.\n\nBut, although the Royal Engineers are thus closed to us, I am still sanguine that good men for the posts of both Dr P and Second Assistant can be found amongst the other Corps, and that the Inspector General of Fortifications, to whom also I have written on the subject, will not be unwilling to spare such men to the Colony. Both of them should in every...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-197 - Governor Hennessy - 1882 [1-2].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 311328, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-197 - Governor Hennessy - 1882 [1-2]", "page_number": 349, "title": "CO129-197 - Governor Hennessy - 1882 [1-2]", "content_text": "# To H. Hardwood writing desk forward \n\ntable (all) \n\ncane bottomed chairs (6)\n\n1 Rose wood board (black) \n\n/ Eavel.\n\n12 Rattan seated chairs. 1.25 each \n\nBy Chong Song. Booth & brides.\n\nThe man ir Jong, straw seller 10 allowed \n\nSteam Jat. Carpenter.\n\nTo 1 office desk.\n\n20 \n\n341 72 \n\nExpended for \n\nB \n\n347 \n\n35 the month of October 1881 \n\nBy Salary of Principal.\n\n200 \n\nAssistant master.\n\n30 \n\n1 \n\n4ft washstand and set \n\n172.5 \n\n141352 \n\n#7 \n\nTwo Students \n\n$ \n\n## Rent \n\n**Principal's Quarters** \n\n80 \n\nSalary for \n\nChinese Classes \n\n293", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-197 - Governor Hennessy - 1882 [1-2].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 317755, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-202 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [7-9]", "page_number": 6, "title": "CO129-202 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [7-9]", "content_text": "## Government House, HongKong, 1st July, 1882\n\nMy Lord,\n\nIn reply to so much of Your Lordship's despatch No. 186 of 11th May last, as relates to the mode in which the expenditure on account of the Tytam Water Works should be defrayed...\n\n...the Right Honourable | Earl of Kimberley, Mr. Meade...\n\nShould be credited is being...\n\nPage \nMr. Meade \nherewith `11745` 19 Jul. 1/9 \n1/9 \n41345 \nSee your dept.\n\n... \nthan dress a deepake \n#. Kany \nconsider who n to selling \nshould be said as \nsecurities. \nI think they \nought the held. \nRus 27. \n27/9 \n\nTheak \nP \n\nEn. \nREC? \nREG? 17 AUG 12 \n5 \n31 Any/002. \n\nCompare the hot wants \nMr. Johman \nobate booth out what \nhe said of Mauritius some time \nForalelating \nSave them rather minte \nago as \nthe car of \nNo 112. \ntheir remittances \nWe gather \ndivitias so as \nBetaur \nThe \nfelt \nMacily \nY \ndifficully that they always \nast the cat \nin London with in fees, white \nwere \nwane notanger with 2fefine. \nMawriting RM", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-202 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 327853, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-220 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1885 [1-3]", "page_number": 231, "title": "CO129-220 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1885 [1-3]", "content_text": "## Government House; Hongkong, 12th February, 1885.\n\nMy Lord,\n\nI have the honour to transmit herewith and to recommend to Your Lordship's favourable consideration a copy of an application from the Postmaster General (otth. Lister) for permission to grant a request. On the other hand, his request is not unreasonable. The normal pay of his office is 3840 dollars, not 3360 dollars. It affects the Civil district and in Blue Booth, as 480 dollars (₤100) having been withheld, because the Imperial government gave that amount [K-10265.75] and on further consideration, the government has found an excellent officer. As I am told, an almost similar increase was given to the Post office.\n\nThe chief reason against giving the increase is the state of the colonial finances - it is a strong one, but on the whole, I would grant the request.\n\nC.P.d. \nJconcur \n24. March \nPud 24/3, D \nLJ. RM 29/3 Gra. \nV \nD. \nM.31. \nnosure \nry 4 1886.\n\nREGO 24 MAR 85, \n229 \nThe Right Honourable \nThe Earl of Derby, K.G.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-220 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1885 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 330586, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-226 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1886 [4-5]", "page_number": 49, "title": "CO129-226 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1886 [4-5]", "content_text": "46\n\nIt must be remembered that comparison can be fairly instituted between Hongkong and the Mother Country in respect to the Press laws. There are five newspapers printed in Chinese language which are widely circulated in the neighbouring Province. Recently, when a telegram about outrages was received from Chinese in California with a suggestion of reprisals, it was represented by Her Majesty's Consul in Canton that if any inflammatory articles were published by the Chinese Press, they might lead to serious troubles in Canton. The Editors were at once sent for and privately warned, and the warning was effectual.\n\nI have no hesitation in recommending this Ordinance for confirmation by Her Majesty.\n\nI have the honour to be,\nMy Lord,\nYour Lordship's most Obedient,\nHumble Servant,\nB. W. Booth", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-226 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1886 [4-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 333740, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-232 - Acting Governor Marsh Acting Governor Cameron - 1887 [4-5]", "page_number": 24, "title": "CO129-232 - Acting Governor Marsh Acting Governor Cameron - 1887 [4-5]", "content_text": "Booth\n\n5.\n\nInformation also I have put out the plan will work of It cheat I promised the op... the opside takes in signed tonight direct that we do - see alle st. Mink to send it efficient.\n\nNamel...\n\nfpinum shipped trualle the h... preferred the opicem farucer (get responsible for it tell be put in your license. because\n\nAs destination a pond dut.\n\nlve car\n\ndefense as being\n\nthe GNR\n\nand no relating then with the\n\nInfor- but I make it that thes\n\ninterest of the pinen Farnetite ih a nominal fee of $1\n\nthis ppänen hibe why\n\nThey have assentos I understand & fy, for registrate in,\n\nprogramme\n\nwant then Chan Forige\n\n& are to sign todo,\n\nin two o\n\nbrought in\n\nI thank\n\na of there in\n\nG\n\ni thing at C.O.\n\nany centinant abut\n\nNose\n\nLay\n\nthe little po\n\nwhich they non obje at to t Na Commmsimer &\n\nWhen\n\nwe\n\na\n\nlicensed direct the\n\nrposed of. Farm,\n\nenget.\n\ncall them sig? Rai &: de\n\nwho has come to look of singing band the linen har manchet here set Coctele the of\n\nthe Kowlom stations Wint\n\nChinese have of\n\nIbelitve Hast-c\n\nBas-will farmer:\n\neeft.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-232 - Acting Governor Marsh Acting Governor Cameron - 1887 [4-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 340324, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-243 - Public Offices & Others - 1889", "page_number": 53, "title": "CO129-243 - Public Offices & Others - 1889", "content_text": "# 51\n\nGentlemen,\n\n1. Wuped. C. Barlow.\n2. John. J. Booth.\n3. Robert Hazelden.\n4. W. Boards. Edward. J.W.\n\nUpon their appointment as Assistant Masters in the Victoria College in that Colony, passages for the first three gentlemen were taken in the `SS \"Oresks\"`, which left Liverpool on the 2nd instant and Mr. Boards will leave in the `SS \"Ulysses\"`, expected to leave Liverpool about the 28th instant.\n\nI have the honour to be,\nSir,\nYour obedient Servant,\nMary", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-243 - Public Offices & Others - 1889.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 340326, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-243 - Public Offices & Others - 1889", "page_number": 55, "title": "CO129-243 - Public Offices & Others - 1889", "content_text": "## Agreement\n\nmade this thirteenth day of February One thousand eight hundred and ninety-three BETWEEN THE UNDERSIGNED ONE OF THE CROWN AGENTS FOR THE COLONIES of Downing Street London S.W. in the County of Middlesex acting for and on behalf of the GOVERNMENT OF HONG KONG of the one part and **Wilfred Crosly Barlow** of 23 Highfield Road, Walton, Liverpool in the County of Lancaster of the other part.\n\nWHEREAS the said **Wilfred Crosly Barlow** hath been appointed on probation Assistant-Master in the Victoria College at Hong Kong for a period of three years commencing from the date of arrival at Hong Kong at a salary of one thousand eight hundred dollars ($1,800) per annum (half pay being allowed during the voyage to Hong Kong) with a free first-class passage from London or Liverpool to Hong Kong.\n\nNow the said **Wilfred Crosly Barlow** in consideration of the premises doth hereby agree with the said undersigned as follows:\n\n1. The said **Wilfred Crosly Barlow** will on a date hereafter to be fixed by the Crown Agent proceed to Hong Kong and shall and will immediately on his arrival there faithfully and diligently employ himself in the Victoria College in such duties as are usual and customary for an Assistant-Master as he the said **Wilfred Crosly Barlow** may from time to time be directed to do by the said Government or the Head Master of the College for the time being.\n\n2. In the event of the said **Wilfred Crosly Barlow** after his arrival in Hong Kong being guilty of misconduct neglecting or failing or refusing to comply with all or any of the orders and directions of the said Government or of the Head Master or failing to perform all or any of the stipulations provisions and agreements herein contained then and in such case and immediately upon such necessity arising the said Government shall have the power to discharge the said **Wilfred Crosly Barlow** and this present Agreement shall be null and void to all intents and purposes but without prejudice to the enforcement of existing claims.\n\n3. If the said **Wilfred Crosly Barlow** should fail to proceed to Hong Kong as required or within the period of three years from the date of arrival there either quit the service of the said Government without leave or relinquish his appointment or be dismissed or removed from his appointment in consequence of misconduct he the said **Wilfred Crosly Barlow** will refund and repay to the said Government for the time being or to the Crown Agents for the Colonies in London for the time being the amount paid for his passage from London or Liverpool to Hong Kong. PROVIDED ALWAYS that nothing herein contained shall bind or oblige the said **Wilfred Crosly Barlow** to repay the said passage money if at the time he shall relinquish his said appointment or quit the service of the said Government as aforesaid he shall produce to the Colonial Secretary a certificate signed by one or more duly qualified medical practitioners to the effect that he the said **Wilfred Crosly Barlow** is unable from bodily or mental infirmity to continue in the performance of his duty as such Assistant-Master in the Victoria College.\n\n4. Upon the termination of the period of Three years if the conduct of the said **Wilfred Crosly Barlow** has been satisfactory and it is mutually desired the said **Wilfred Crosly Barlow** shall be placed on the Permanent Civil Service of the Colony and shall become entitled to the privileges of the Service as regards leave of absence, pension, &c., but in case his services are dispensed with except on the ground of misconduct he shall be provided with a free return passage to London or Liverpool such return passage must however be claimed within two months from the date of the termination of this Agreement.\n\n5. The said **Wilfred Crosly Barlow** undertakes to study the Chinese language written and colloquial for which purpose he will be provided with Chinese Teachers at the cost of the Government and he will be required to pass at intervals of Seven months Six Examinations by the Board of Examiners.\n\n6. The said **Wilfred Crosly Barlow** agrees to make no claim upon the Government or on the Crown Agents on account of any fluctuations in the value of the dollar.\n\n7. The said Crown Agents for the Colonies shall not be in any way personally liable for anything arising out of this Agreement.\n\nIn witness whereof the said parties to these presents have hereunto set their hands the day and year first above written.\n\nSigned by Ernest Evelyn Blake (one of the Crown Agents for the Colonies) in the presence of \n(ad) Ex Blake \nSignature \nAddress \nS: London St.\n\nSigned by the said **Wilfred Crosly Barlow** in the presence of \nSignature \nAddress \nOccupation \n\n## Agreement\n\nmade this ... day of February One thousand eight hundred and ... BETWEEN THE UNDERSIGNED ONE OF THE CROWN AGENTS FOR THE COLONIES of Downing Street London S.W. in the County of Middlesex acting for and on behalf of the GOVERNMENT OF HONG KONG of the one part and **John James Booth** of ... in the County of ... of the other part.\n\nWHEREAS **John James Booth** hath been appointed on probation Assistant-Master in the Victoria College at Hong Kong for a period of three years commencing from the date of arrival at Hong Kong at a salary of one thousand eight hundred dollars ($1,800) per annum (half pay being allowed during the voyage to Hong Kong) with a free first-class passage from London or Liverpool to Hong Kong.\n\nNow the said **John James Booth** in consideration of the premises doth hereby agree with the said undersigned as follows:\n\n1. The said **John James Booth** will on a date hereafter to be fixed by the Crown Agent proceed to Hong Kong and shall and will immediately on his arrival there faithfully and diligently employ himself in the Victoria College in such duties as are usual and customary for an Assistant-Master as he the said **John James Booth** may from time to time be directed to do by the said Government or the Head Master of the College for the time being.\n\n2. In the event of the said **John James Booth** after his arrival in Hong Kong being guilty of misconduct neglecting or failing or refusing to comply with all or any of the orders and directions of the said Government or of the Head Master or failing to perform all or any of the stipulations provisions and agreements herein contained then and in such case and immediately upon such necessity arising the said Government shall have the power to discharge the said **John James Booth** and this present Agreement shall be null and void to all intents and purposes but without prejudice to the enforcement of existing claims.\n\n3. If the said **John James Booth** should fail to proceed to Hong Kong as required or within the period of three years from the date of his arrival there either quit the service of the said Government without leave or relinquish his appointment or be dismissed or removed from his appointment in consequence of misconduct he the said **John James Booth** will refund and repay to the said Government for the time being or to the Crown Agents for the Colonies in London for the time being the amount paid for his passage from London or Liverpool to Hong Kong. PROVIDED ALWAYS that nothing herein contained shall bind or oblige the said **John James Booth** to repay the said passage money if at the time he shall relinquish his said appointment or quit the service of the said Government as aforesaid he shall produce to the Colonial Secretary a certificate signed by one or more duly qualified medical practitioners...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-243 - Public Offices & Others - 1889.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 340327, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-243 - Public Offices & Others - 1889", "page_number": 56, "title": "CO129-243 - Public Offices & Others - 1889", "content_text": "## Agreement made this Twelfth day of February One thousand eight hundred and ninety BETWEEN THE UNDERSIGNED ONE OF THE CROWN AGENTS FOR THE COLONIES of Downing Street London S.W. in the County of Middlesex acting for and on behalf of the GOVERNMENT OF HONG KONG of the one part and John James Booth of ... in the County of ... of the other part.\n\nWHEREAS John James Booth hath been appointed on probation an Assistant-Master in the Victoria College at Hong Kong for a period of three years commencing from the date of arrival at Hong Kong at a salary of three hundred and fifty dollars ($350) per month with a free first-class passage from London or Liverpool to Hong Kong. Now the said John James Booth in consideration of the premises doth hereby agree with the said undersigned as follows:-\n\n1. The said John James Booth will on a date hereafter to be fixed by the Crown Agent proceed to Hong Kong and shall and will immediately on his arrival there faithfully and diligently employ himself in the Victoria College in such duties as are usual and customary for an Assistant-Master as he the said John James Booth may from time to time be directed to do by the said Government or the Head Master of the College for the time being.\n\n2. In the event of the said John James Booth after his arrival in Hong Kong being guilty of misconduct neglecting or failing or refusing to comply with all or any of the orders and directions of the said Government or of the Head Master or failing to perform all or any of the stipulations provisions and agreements herein contained then and in such case and immediately upon such necessity arising the said Government shall have the power to discharge the said John James Booth and this present Agreement shall be null and void to all intents and purposes but without prejudice to the enforcement of existing claims.\n\n3. If the said John James Booth should fail to proceed to Hong Kong as required or within the period of three years from the date of his arrival there either quit the service of the said Government without leave or relinquish his appointment or be dismissed or removed from his appointment in consequence of misconduct he the said John James Booth will refund and repay to the said Government for the time being or to the Crown Agents for the Colonies in London for the time being the amount paid for his passage from London or Liverpool to Hong Kong. PROVIDED ALWAYS that nothing herein contained shall bind or oblige the said John James Booth to repay the said passage money if at the time he shall relinquish his said appointment or quit the service of the said Government as aforesaid he shall produce to the Colonial Secretary a certificate signed by one or more duly qualified medical practitioners to the effect that he the said is unable from bodily or mental infirmity to continue in the performance of his duty as such Assistant-Master in the Victoria College.\n\n4. Upon the termination of the period of Three years if the conduct of the said John James Booth has been satisfactory and it is mutually desired the said John James Booth shall be placed on the Permanent Civil Service of the Colony and shall become entitled to the privileges of the Service as regards leave of absence, pension, &c., but in case his services are dispensed with except on the ground of misconduct he shall be provided with a free return passage to London or Liverpool such return passage must however be claimed within two months from the date of the termination of this Agreement.\n\n5. The said John James Booth undertakes to study the Chinese language written and colloquial for which purpose he will be provided with Chinese Teachers at the cost of the Government and he will be required to pass at intervals of Seven months Six Examinations by the Board of Examiners.\n\n6. The said John James Booth agrees to make no claim upon the government or on the Crown Agents on account of any fluctuations in the value of the dollar.\n\n7. The said Crown Agents for the Colonies shall not be in any way personally liable for anything arising out of this Agreement.\n\nIn witness whereof the said parties to these presents have hereunto set their hands the day and year first above written.\n\nSigned by Ernest Edward Blakk (one of the Crown Agents for the Colonies) in the presence of \nSignature Mate \nAddress ... \nOccupation ...\n\nSigned by the said John James Booth in the presence of \nSignature Robert Lawson \nAddress 23 Highfield Road, ... \nOccupation Coulton, Liverpool\n\n## Agreement made this Twelfth day of February One thousand eight hundred and ninety BETWEEN THE UNDERSIGNED ONE OF THE CROWN AGENTS FOR THE COLONIES of Downing Street London S.W. in the County of Middlesex acting for and on behalf of the GOVERNMENT OF HONG KONG of the one part and Robert Harelden Junior of 42 Solway Street in the County of ... of the other part.\n\nWHEREAS Robert Harelden hath been appointed on probation an Assistant-Master in the Victoria College at Hong Kong for a period of three years commencing from the date of arrival at Hong Kong at a salary of one thousand eight hundred dollars ($1,800) per annum (half pay being allowed during the voyage to Hong Kong) with a free first-class passage from London or Liverpool to Hong Kong. Now the said Robert Harelden in consideration of the premises doth hereby agree with the said undersigned as follows:-\n\n1. The said Robert Harelden will on a date hereafter to be fixed by the Crown Agent proceed to Hong Kong and shall and will immediately on his arrival there faithfully and diligently employ himself in the Victoria College in such duties as are usual and customary for an Assistant-Master as he the said Robert Harelden may from time to time be directed to do by the said Government or the Head Master of the College for the time being.\n\n2. In the event of the said Robert Harelden after his arrival in Hong Kong being guilty of misconduct neglecting or failing or refusing to comply with all or any of the orders and directions of the said Government or of the Head Master or failing to perform all or any of the stipulations provisions and agreements herein contained then and in such case and immediately upon such necessity arising the said Government shall have the power to discharge the said Robert Harelden and this present Agreement shall be null and void to all intents and purposes but without prejudice to the enforcement of existing claims.\n\n3. If the said Robert Harelden should fail to proceed to Hong Kong as required or within the period of three years from the date of his arrival there either quit the service of the said Government without leave or relinquish his appointment or be dismissed or removed from his appointment in consequence of misconduct he the said Robert Harelden will refund and repay to the said Government for the time being or to the Crown Agents for the Colonies in London for the time being the amount paid for his passage from London or Liverpool to Hong Kong. PROVIDED ALWAYS that nothing herein contained shall bind or oblige the said Robert Harelden to repay the said passage money if at the time he shall relinquish his said appointment or quit the service of the said Government as aforesaid he shall produce to the Colonial Secretary a certificate signed by one or more duly qualified medical practitioners...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-243 - Public Offices & Others - 1889.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 342979, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 594, "title": "CO129-246 - Acting Governor Fleming - 1890 [8-9]", "content_text": "The Daily Press.\n\nHONGKONG, SEPTEMBER 2ND, 1890.\n\nTHE GAP ROCK LIGHTHOUSE.\n\nLATING OF THE FOUNDATION STONE,\n\nEnclosure\n\nThe foundation stone of the Gap Rock Lighthouse was laid yesterday afternoon by His Excellency the Acting Governor. The well-known rock on which the lighthouse is to be erected is a small sterile island, about 400 feet in length, 3.4 miles to the southwest of Hongkong. The main building will be in three storeys, or to be more correct, a basement and two storeys. On the basement is a large tank, capable of holding 12,000 gallons of water. The necessity of this is at once apparent, as owing to the difficulty of reaching the rock at all times and the impossibility in bad weather of reaching it at all, frequently for long periods, one of the first things that it was necessary to secure was a large supply of water for the use of those living there. By means of pipes, the water to fill the tank will be collected from the roof of the building, which is of asphalt, and further, the supply from the tank will probably be supplemented by a condenser. The floor above will contain two living rooms for the lightkeeper, a workshop, and a kitchen. On the next floor will be two more living rooms and coolie quarters. The building will be in two blocks, connected by a stairway, this method of construction being necessitated by the conformation of the rock, the building being as far as possible adapted to the outline. On the top of the main building will be the lantern, the centre being 140 feet above the mean sea level, this being a few feet higher than was originally intended when the plans were first drawn. Under ordinary conditions, the light will be visible at a distance of 21 nautical miles and under very favourable conditions some distance farther.\n\nThe preliminary operations in connection with the erection of the building have been difficult in the extreme, a thousand tons of the hard metamorphic rock having to be blasted before commenced. The building work could be will be of a substantial character, consisting of granite facing set in Portland cement; the walls will be of extra thickness, and as the floors are to be of iron and concrete, the building will be practically fireproof. The light is to be a flash revolving light of the first order, giving a flash every thirty seconds and completing one revolution in four minutes. The light will be of about the same dimensions as that at Cape D'Aguilar, but its force will be nearly double that.\n\nThe light and the lantern now in store have already arrived and are in Hongkong. The lantern is 25 feet in height and 12 feet 10 inches in diameter. The makers are the well-known manufacturers of this class of work, Messrs. Chance Bros. of Birmingham. It is estimated that the whole work will be completed and everything in working order, should no unforeseen accident occur, by the end of 1891, but of course should a protracted spell of bad weather prevent the work proceeding, this time may have to be a little extended.\n\nTwo-thirds of the material required for the construction of the building have already been landed on the rock. Up to the present, the work on the rock has been of a preparatory nature, consisting chiefly of blasting, making roads, and erecting quarters for the workmen. Work commenced in earnest for the first time on the 24th March with thirty or forty men and has gone on continuously ever since, the number of men now employed being about one hundred. One fortunate circumstance that has told in favour of the progress of the work is that up to the present, there have been no cases of sickness among the workmen. The revised estimate for the entire cost of construction is $150,000, and it is hoped and believed that the building when completed will not appreciably overrun this estimate. In this matter, however, as in the estimate of time, much depends on the weather that may prevail during the period of erection.\n\nIn addition to the light, it is under contemplation to fix a foghorn for use in thick weather, when even this powerful light may not be visible. The wisdom of such a course is undoubted. The masonry work has been let on contract to Mr. Tsang Kong, whose name is well known in connection with contracts in respect of large public works, and the construction is being superintended by Mr. Mudie, of the Public Works Department, under the supervision generally of which Department the whole work is being carried out.\n\nConsidering the great initial difficulties that had to be overcome before even a commencement could be made with this undertaking, the untiring perseverance that has been shown and the progress that has been made reflects credit on all concerned, and should the work of construction continue to be conducted, as there is no reason to doubt but it will, with the same energy and skill, the chief of the Department, Hon. S. Brown—from whose plans and according to whose ideas the work is being carried out—will have in the lighthouse a substantial testimony to the ability displayed during his period of service here of which he should have every reason to be proud.\n\nA small party of gentlemen, chiefly from official circles, accompanied His Excellency yesterday to witness the ceremony of laying the foundation stone. Among those present were H. E. Major-General Digby Barker and his A.D.C., Lieut. Barker, Commodore Church, the Acting Chief Justice, Mr. Fielding Clarke; the Acting Attorney-General, Hon. E. J. Ackroyd; the Surveyor General, Hon. S. Brown; Capt. Rumsey, R.N., Harbour Master; Major-General Gordon, Acting Captain Superintendent of Police; Major Dempster, Acting Superintendent of the Gaol; Mr. McLeavy Brown, Commissioner of Customs for Kowloon; Capt. Booth, of the Chinese Customs Service; Mr. F. H. May, Private Secretary to the Governor; Lieut. Thorburn, A.D.C. to the Governor; several members of the Public Works Department, &c. The party left the Murray Pier shortly after 9 a.m. in the steamer Fame, which is employed by the Government in connection with the building of the lighthouse, and after a pleasant run arrived off Gap Rock about one p.m.\n\nOwing to the heavy sea that was running, it was found to be impossible to effect a landing at the usual side of the rock, where a road has been cut to its summit. The party were therefore landed in small sections, first by means of one of the steamer's boats, which took them to a small cove, and from there they were hoisted in couples by means of a derrick on to a landing place about half-way up the Rock. This method of landing occupied considerable time and afforded...\n\nPage 26\n\n \n\n590\n\n26", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-246 - Acting Governor Fleming - 1890 [8-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 343222, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 837, "title": "CO129-246 - Acting Governor Fleming - 1890 [8-9]", "content_text": "832\n\nand for these positions neither special nor expensive previous training is necessary. Should it please your Lordship to grant us the increases specified on either Table \"A\" or \"B\", our salaries will even then only bear favourable comparison with theirs.\n\n18. We may further remark that the First Clerk at the Magistracy was formerly a master in the Central School, and left it to get his present position as it is a more lucrative one. We would also further point out that the Officers mentioned in Table \"C\" are required, by agreement, as we are, to undertake the difficult study of Chinese.\n\n19. Under the circumstances set forth, we sincerely trust that it may please your Lordship to re-consider the matter and to grant us the increase of 35% either on the basis detailed in Table \"A\" or on that in Table \"B\".\n\nWe have the honour to be, Your Lordship's Most humble and obedient Servants,\n\nAlper I. May, Second Master.\n\nF. K. Dealy, 1st Master.\n\nJohn W. Jones.\n\nWilfred C. Barlow.\n\nJohn I. Booth.\n\nGeorge Woodcock, Head Master.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-246 - Acting Governor Fleming - 1890 [8-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 343589, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-247 - Acting Governor Fleming Governor Des Voeus - 1890 [10-12]", "page_number": 336, "title": "CO129-247 - Acting Governor Fleming Governor Des Voeus - 1890 [10-12]", "content_text": "335\n\nenjoying an immortality in the hearts of his scholars in all parts of China, I might say the world, his memory will be kept green in Victoria College by the scholarship founded in his honour by old scholars in 1884. I believe too that the Memorial Committee appointed since his death contemplate applying to the Government for permission to affix some permanent memorial in the College Hall.\n\n5. It was originally proposed that Victoria College should furnish accommodation for 770 boys, a number which was supposed by some to be extravagantly large. By the simple expedient of dividing all the desks into six instead of five parts, seats have been provided for 960 boys (including the Pupil Teachers' room) affording each boy a space, that compares favourably with what is required in England; while future undue crowding, an evil long felt at the Central School is rendered impossible by each boy's space being defined by his desk-lid. In addition to the manifest saving of expense in providing education for 924 boys by the same staff as was allotted to 770, there are great advantages derived from the assembling of a larger number of boys in one building; these are—one continuous system of education, as the larger number of boys to be promoted from lower classes will gradually lessen the number of admissions into higher classes from other schools,—a prolongation of the course, which will delay the undue promotion of backward boys which has long been to their detriment, and to the discredit of the upper classes—and the more effective shading off of degrees of knowledge so that too great a stride in education will no longer follow on promotion. There were 800 boys on the Roll in September, and there is every reason to believe that the College will be full in a year or two, if not next month.\n\n6. During the past year there were on the Roll 790 Chinese and Eurasians, 23 English, 4 Germans, & Hebrews, 1 Hindu, 10 Japanese, 86 Mohammedans, 1 Parsee and 46 Portuguese. This college can therefore in a marked degree lay claim to a cosmopolitan character.\n\n7. Chinese boys, as a rule, are very intelligent, docile and painstaking. That they are intelligent is established by the large number of boys, that in the short period of five or six years have advanced from the alphabet to a knowledge of English sufficient to do a creditable paper on a play of Shakespeare. Their docility proverbially arouses the admiration of every new master from England. Painstakingness is a national characteristic sometimes provoking to the more impetuous European. It might be thought that with these admirable traits the work of teaching in this College would be an easy task and the results should be even higher than they are. There would be grounds for this supposition, if there were not serious compensating drawbacks such as the following. Stolidity and absence of facial expression render it next to impossible for a teacher to gather how much of what he says is understood by the class; he has not the satisfaction of seeing perplexed ignorance dissolve into triumphant knowledge, for difficulties do not pucker the brow, nor does success kindle the eye of the Chinese student. This difficulty is increased tenfold by the fact that all instruction is given in English, thus there is not merely the doubt whether a boy understands the subject itself, but a fear that he does not grasp the phrase in which it is conveyed. Again the Chinese answer in English with a single word after the genius of their own language leaving a great deal to the imagination; such a habit is hard to break, and very tantalising to the teacher, as the curt answer may contain a correct idea or the reverse. Further where an English boy would answer to the best of his ability, even running the risk of a mistake, or would ask the master for assistance or explanation, a Chinese is deterred by a nervous fear of the ridicule of his comrades. Once again, though keen in detecting the shades of their dozen native tones, Chinese ears are remarkably dull in detecting the difference in English vowel sounds, and between sharp and flat consonants; the result of all which is impossible mistakes in Dictation and Reading. It might be thought too, that the inherited power of memory in the Chinese race, of which one hears so much would prove a considerable factor in their progress, but this is far from being the case. It would certainly be so in Examinations if special care were not taken in framing the questions to avoid putting them in such a form as would allow of an answer being previously committed to memory. But as a matter of fact, in daily school life there would appear to be a sad lack of an intelligent memory, the master cannot rely on the work done in the previous year as a foundation on which to raise a higher superstructure. I have dwelt at this length on the characteristics of Chinese boys, because only those daily engaged in the task of teaching know exactly where the difficulties lie, and because some explanation is thus afforded of the necessity of the slow progress that has been made in the past, and may be expected for some time in the future.\n\n8. To impart the principles of a sound education in English is the main object of this Government Institution. In the distribution of work to each class this is steadily aimed at, and strict injunctions are given to employ the English language alone in all instruction, except of course in the Translation Lessons and when occasionally in the Junior Classes difficulties require to be explained in Chinese. The natural consequence of this is that the boys become very apt at understanding what is said to them in English. The great problem is how to get boys to speak English before they leave school. Experience has shown that, within a few months after obtaining a situation, our Chinese boys, with their store of grammatical rules and knowledge of composition, develop the power of speaking English very creditably; but, as a rule, only Pupil Teachers and Monitors really speak English well before leaving school. This would seem to point clearly to a want of self-confidence, and to the absence of the necessity. Special attention will in the future be paid to this in Junior classes.\n\nThe work of the upper classes is at present regulated by the requirements of the Oxford Senior Local Examination,\n\nAs I believe a mistaken impression prevails that Latin was on this account added to the curriculum, I will take this opportunity of ventilating the purpose with which it was introduced. BACON and MILTON, the fathers of English Prose Composition, teem with Latinisms, nor are these entirely absent from the modern standard of ADDISON. It is only quite recently that English composition has become a separate study in England. Formerly a good classical education was supposed sufficient to enable an English author to write correctly in his mother tongue. It is therefore reasonable to suppose that a foreigner must be assisted in the acquisition of English rules of composition by the study of that language, on which its choicest models are framed. In Latin the observance of concord and regimen is rendered conspicuous by inflection, the intelligent translation therefore of a simple Latin author should explain the reason of many English rules. Moreover immense assistance in understanding and distinguishing the meanings of English words, and often in spelling them, is manifestly afforded by even a restricted Latin vocabulary. In the First Class, Latin, Chemistry, Drawing, Book-keeping, Mensuration, and Trigonometry will for the future be optional, and not included in class subjects.\n\n9. In India it has been found necessary to prepare special school text-books for English education. The demand in Hongkong is too slight to offer much encouragement to a similar enterprise, but the want makes itself felt.\n\nAs an effort in this direction I published a few years ago a School Arithmetic specially intended to explain difficulties to our boys. Much could be done in the way of explaining eccentricities of English Idiom and Spelling, to say nothing of the urgent need of a cheap text-book of the Geography of the Chinese Empire. Something too is needed to supplement the School Committee's series of books in Chinese, which provide practice for Translation into English. The late Mr. FALCONER edited a very useful book, but the very classical Chinese can only be adequately translated into very classical English. I have therefore just recently compiled a collection of cuttings from Chinese newspapers, which will, it is to be hoped, familiarise the boys with everyday ideas and expressions.\n\n10. In the confined area of the old Central School nothing could be done to provide the boys with the necessary opportunity for developing their physique. Simple gymnastic appliances will shortly be erected in the covered playground; properly availed of, this should counteract the cramped attitudes generally associated with study.\n\n11. The fees have been raised in Class I to $36 per annum and in Classes II and III to $24, as the Upper School derives the chief benefit from the heavy expense of the salaries of English Masters, and of costly school material. Chinese parents should reflect that they have now a good English education brought to their doors, and that their sons can pass an examination held in England without the outlay attendant upon sending them thither for five or six years. It is much to be desired that parents, who can afford it, as many of them well can, should not take their sons away immediately upon their promotion to the First Class, but allow them to stay a year or two at the top of the School to really complete their education more thoroughly.\n\n12. The staff consists of twenty-nine in all; viz.: nine English Masters (four of whom are graduates), ten Chinese Assistants, three Pupil Teachers and three Monitors; and in Chinese School four Chinese Graduates, (Sau Tsoi). This is an increase of ten masters on the staff formerly at the Central School. Four new English Masters arrived in April and May last, Messrs. BARLOW, M.A., BOOTH, HASELDEN, B.A., and BOARDS; of these, three were extra, and one was to supply the vacancy caused by the appointment of Mr. MAY to be second master on the death of Mr. FALCONER. The six new Chinese Assistants were provided by six Pupil Teachers articled three years ago, and who during the last five months have given evidence of their ability to discharge their duties very satisfactorily. With the exception of Translation from Chinese in the two head classes the Head Master no longer takes a position on the teaching staff; his time being fully occupied in organisation and supervision, fortnightly inspections of each class, half-yearly and annual examinations with other multifarious duties. It is noteworthy that of the staff of eighteen, English and Chinese, I found on my arrival eight years ago, only two remain. As only two have been removed by death it is manifest that the remainder are those who have left in search of higher salaries elsewhere, some on promotion in the Colonial Service.\n\n13. A normal class and a special Examination Paper on Education and School Discipline for Pupil Teachers and Monitors are a new feature this year. Mr. BOARDS, who has been in charge of these junior assistants in front of the Preparatory Class, is on the whole able to give me only a moderate Report though he speaks highly of one or two Pupil Teachers. I trust that next year some marked improvement will be observed.\n\n14. With the necessarily increased staff for 21 classes, instead of 12, it could only reasonably be expected that the expenses would be increased, but it is satisfactory to observe that the average expense of each scholar calculated on the average daily attendance is lower than it has been for years. When it is remembered that for three months the expense of three extra English Masters was borne by the smaller number of boys at the Central School, it may reasonably be supposed that this figure will not be exceeded next year.\n\nAn average cost of $25 may be called £3 18s., per head, which sounds a large sum, but is far exceeded by our namesake in Australia where the cost per head is £4 15s.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-247 - Acting Governor Fleming Governor Des Voeus - 1890 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 348621, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-254 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [1-4]", "page_number": 354, "title": "CO129-254 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [1-4]", "content_text": "## 350 \n\n5 of the agreements signed in England by Messrs Barlow, Booth, Lyttelton, Boards and Woodcock. This assertion was made at my very suggestion to afford support to the Board of Examiners. To allow any of these masters thus to withdraw from their agreement would be a dangerous precedent to any master, who might desire to escape from the obligation of any other article of his agreement.\n\n4. Number of Masters now engaged in Translation.\n\nThere are at present five European Masters competent to teach Translation from Chinese into English, viz: the Headmaster and Messrs. May, Dealy (on leave), Jones and Jameson. The Headmaster from increase of Office work is unable to appear on the Time Table. He may confine himself to supervision throughout the College and correction of all the Translation Papers at the Annual and Half-yearly Examinations. Formerly (1883-1889) he taught this subject, for four years, in the highest class of the institution. There are twelve classes which should receive instruction from Europeans in this subject, but four of these are at present taught by Chinese Assistants, as no European master is available. No English Master can, without upsetting the arrangement of the work of his class, take more than two classes in this subject (two hours a week each); whereas at present, Messrs Jones and Jameson take three classes each. This is evidence of the larger necessity that exists for an increased number of English masters being...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-254 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 348821, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-254 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [1-4]", "page_number": 554, "title": "CO129-254 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [1-4]", "content_text": "# B & L(121)-22916-6000-2-92\n\nNo. **Governor**. Date. 99 \n1692 22 Mich \n\n**Last previous Paper**. \nbento \n56789 \n8.111.29 April? \ntay trong \n\nNo. 8265 \n\n**(Subject.)** \nC.O. 545 \n\n**DESPATCH.** \n8265 RECD of Rec 25 APR J2 \n\nStaff Victoris College \nReports termination of engagement of \nBooth; Boards, & afff \nMessen \n\n5 m H. Machill to write Again \nas to the other \n89 succeed former. Will effet a local cord to tod \ntabsequent Paper. \n\n**Soole** \n92- \n\n**(Minutes.)** \nMr. Bransten. \nPrivate Sec. lose \nJee muntes & desp \nh \n5943. local \n\nThis appointment of a candidate has some advantages, \nbut he has been some years already in the Colony, there is nothing to show that he has at present acquired any knowledge of Chinese, it may possibly turn out that he is a bad bargain from the Chinese language point of view. \nthat S. of State will not object to Mr. Machill's appointment", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-254 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 348822, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-254 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [1-4]", "page_number": 555, "title": "CO129-254 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [1-4]", "content_text": "## Government House, Hongkong, 22nd March, 1892.\n\nI have the honour to inform Your Lordship that the Agreements of Mr. J. J. Booth, and M. E. J. Boards, whose appointments as Assistant Masters were submitted for confirmation, have been for one year on probation, but ask Lovern before considering the question of confirming him.\n\nTo report upon the suggestions made in despatch `5943`, adding that if the proposed rule is applied in Mr. Machill's case, it is a question whether his salary should be fixed as high as `$420` (which is the present initial pay of these Masters).\n\nThat before he is confirmed, Lord Knutsford would be glad to have an answer to despatch `5943`, and he would also be glad to know whether he is proficient in the Chinese language: if he is not, it may be necessary either to dispense with his services or to place him on a lower salary while learning Chinese for half hours is not mentioned.\n\n## RES C. O. 8285 Red 26 APR J2\n\nDraft at once for consideration 28 April.\n\nMy Lord, \nThe Right Honourable Lord Knutsford, GCMG, \n\n| Name | Status |\n| --- | --- |\n| Mr. J. J. Booth | On probation |\n| M. E. J. Boards | On probation |\n| Mr. Machill | Under consideration for salary fixation |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-254 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 348823, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-254 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [1-4]", "page_number": 556, "title": "CO129-254 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [1-4]", "content_text": "547 \n\n\"Masters at the Victoria College \nwere notified in dir Robert Herbert's despatch N.55 of the Cof~ thef March, 1889, that their appointments expire the 17th of April and 19th of May next respectively, and that the Headmaster of the College does not recommend that they be renewed. \n\nHaving satisfied myself that Dr. Wright has good reasons for withholding his recommendation, I have caused those gentlemen to be informed that their services will not be required after the dates mentioned. \n\nApplications have been made for the appointments thus about to become vacant, by certain trained teachers engaged in educational work in the Colony, and I have provisionally and subject to Your Lordship's approval appointed one of them, Mr William Machell to succeed Mr Booth as Assistant", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-254 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 351012, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-257 - Public Offices & Others - 1892", "page_number": 680, "title": "CO129-257 - Public Offices & Others - 1892", "content_text": "888\n\nDE OU &\n\n1120 22003 IHRANDA237\n\n992 J3DKAL M\n\n2881 63 a aboð enda2,165 * 38.4\n\n# ?yr;\n\n669\n\n263MUDA SIKRER, JAY\n\nMOOWOJ, ZAMU3.1\n\nSat 33-35\n\n* A JEUMAR JBUM:2\n\nKV KOBE V LOKIO\n\nHARAL\n\n231AMOURG\n\nbengromuture of the water, in't as gomplete ventilation is also provided thrie vould not affect it me terist.\n\nYour politiezers alto the alleged disaster reported at Buroelom. We beg to inform you thot the disaster reported at this port was a fiction from bosky day to ord-,& tisse of teleonecta Lwonted by the opponents of the bulk oil pusinusa,vro, estongdut have booth utterly unscrupulous in desperate attempts to palster un the once oil trude, The second devidant pu mich your petitionezu poly is onelly ukiostumuto (nisapurapriato,-Qw Sine at Bristol\n\nfrom cll stoved 12 roądem, pookapps,à dungas which 0250 ezicēs ba u grout extent to oil stored by tins, f which te cntirely o.viatadi by the bulk transit & storegoj\n\nAs you petizionare cipe the report of Str P. Apol Protosco Redwood, (experts employed by the perGOES OTTO¤ing the project)you vill pomit us to bite the following whom their report, -\n\n''Assutting o etno to live. become woll epttalishod In 12/merchouso Pillow with. Potrolina in coses, 13 14 ''ovident that the puckages described would not offer (very much Popintchou to tho Plumon,wal2 from this Taoist of view the stomise of petbolcus on lerul in \"properly constructed dron or steel Maks must be **roganded en seguring a breate? messure or subesp ula, br. tho showing of your petitioners Gib bul: storage is unquesti. ably safer than thirt under the exising conditions of 10 talu,– da to low that the Tenka wo utó or¢cti's in Hong Kong ero Aurther from the port then the existiry; des) Co-kwns Grgen on this son O cannot be adloged.\n\nAs we see that, somo dh the petitione & onO C of Wipe-insurance obmperies wo we') to 1kabmi 'you that we levo unranged xone or pronium on the whole CZ the tori:\"ing collations througiN TÓ thu Fost, including the Struita, (sinsopoto & Pes 256)Burgholt, bacon, Calont 22,Hong Kong, & liose, du ratob exactly one-fcl. o. W2090 claarged on case oil go×Clowns, one velike this mini beg pech covered wil the loading o22ices D. Burcea, to vhon plans of Jio verious sites 1. ve buon cubmitted & whom are fully conversing with the returo of tho business.\n\nAg your petitienéus dhoti upon the dangers in tho stocnote themcelves we have to domuydu slut four-21/tus 02 Bu amount 16 covered at the following olloss,- (£nd out-717th 24 14 yds)\n\nThe North' Uhira inBUNIENDO\n\nYeauteo\n\nUnion\n\nDeivish # porod pr Alfianco herins Vonal to fol Union\n\n13\n\n2001 y el Qorison", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-257 - Public Offices & Others - 1892.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 355341, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-264 - Governor Sir Robinson & Public Offices - 1894 [9-12]", "page_number": 326, "title": "CO129-264 - Governor Sir Robinson & Public Offices - 1894 [9-12]", "content_text": "LANE, CRAWFORD & Co.\n\nPRICE LIST.\n\nPrices for articles not quoted in this list may be had on application.\n\n321\n\nBulzaal's Aurarussal Anti-fouling Compound..........\n\nNapier Johnstone's Whisky\n\nFastede Fund Coneix\n\nPigott and Wils' Gunpowder\n\ninternal resist...\n\nBrandy Spirits, Pale or Liquors.....\n\nCigars, Cigarettes and Tobacco.........\n\nTripe, Calf's Head and Tongue, Soups, Sauces, Pickles, &c.\n\nPreserving and Potting..\n\nShirts, Hosiery and Gloves\n\nHats and Caps\n\nUmbrella Ware\n\nTinware and Cooking Utensils\n\nAshok & Bridier's Ironmongery.......\n\nEnglish and American Electro-plated Ware\n\nEdge Tools, all kinds for Home or Ship's use\n\nHome Drapery and Paper\n\nFurniture, give full particulars)\n\nPianos, Organs and Melodians.....\n\nGame, Fowling-pieces and Pistols\n\nBicycles, every kind of Trico and Outdoor\n\nLaw Tennis Balls, Racks, Poles, Nets, &c....\n\nArenfeldt's Bankers, Stationery, and the Movies\n\nPrize Tomes, the latest sensation_\n\nShip Chandlery, Ship's Blocks and Fittings\n\nPaints and Brokers' Sundries\n\nMartianeta and Petroleum Agents\n\nMcEwan's Pilsener Beer\n\nJapan Bronzy Curaçao\n\nBooth's Gin\n\nBoiler & Co.'s Pianos.....\n\nAyala's Champagne\n\ntable Beer and Porter.....\n\nTupchine's Highland Dew Whisky\n\nAuldjo's Patent, large\n\ndo.\n\ndo.\n\nAustury Basons, è piai, 61, 4 79.\n\ndo. Enniskillen, Burgundy\n\nApple Sauce\n\nArrowroot, 1 lb\n\nAsparagus, Philips and Canaud's\n\nDESCRIPTION.\n\nper lb.\n\nsingle..\n\nAberdeen Piu. Jargo\n\ndo.\n\ndo.\n\n$109.00\n\n€ 2.50\n\nDESCRIPTION.\n\nCapers, & caperine...\n\nDESCRIPTION.\n\n29:15422,\n\nsingin.\n\nPrice per dozen.\n\nالحياة و عالمي\n\nPrice single\n\n...3.30\n\n0.30\n\nSuilies, Calf's Foot, plain, pint\n\n#7.09\n\n# 100\n\nSance, Waraenter, pints, 3.sa & Perricia\n\n$10 BO\n\n€ 1.90\n\nAmali\n\n7.70\n\nCarraway seed, 1 lb\n\n5.00\n\nCuarta\n\n11.\n\n1.00\n\ndo.\n\n11\n\n77\n\nquarte\n\nId Go\n\n11\n\nAlamadı, 1 lb. ...\n\n14.00\n\n1.20\n\n+\n\nlb.\n\n2.50\n\n0.16\n\nda\n\nflavoured, pipla\n\n€7\n\ndo tạp\n\nH.00\n\n0.76\n\n7.26\n\n0.63\n\nCattuta\n\n2.35\n\n0.23\n\ndo.\n\n\"\n\nJa\n\ncarte\n\n1480\n\n1.\n\n20. Tuban\n\n10,00\n\n0.90\n\n5. Fitter, M.\n\n3.75\n\n0,34\n\nCatsup, Walnut,\n\npint...\n\n8.30\n\n0.27\n\nLurd, 2 lbs. tio...\n\nAlords and Enjeite\n\n18.70\n\n1.60\n\nMushroom, pint\n\n8.30\n\n0.27\n\ndo English, 22h.\n\n5.\n\n14.95\n\n0.45\n\ndo. Pepper\n\n2.50\n\n4.25\n\n0.0\n\nda\n\nBrad's A. 1.\n\n23\n\n0.10\n\nAnebevice in Oil\n\n6.5%\n\n0.45\n\nde. Todiste...\n\n310\n\n0,28\n\nLobator, 1 lb. Ametian...\n\n10\n\n0.50\n\nSagee. 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Hubinson's pres\n\n4.75\n\n0.12\n\nClain Chowder, 2\n\n5.co\n\n1,45\n\n42.\n\nLeicester\n\n1.00\n\n+90\n\nda\n\nGinger\n\n2.30\n\n0,2%\n\nBatli t'hajs\n\nEb.\n\n0.69\n\nCalit. is...\n\nde.\n\nin Butter\n\n1.10\n\npiede, 1].\n\n16.80\n\n093\n\np. bul\n\n1.23\n\nBeef Sa, 1ib. in\n\n15.00\n\n0.55\n\nCocoa and Mük, AR,\n\n4.40\n\n4.89\n\nMortars, Datham, yib....\n\n465\n\nRAN\n\nSitula\n\n5.40\n\n0.40\n\nBerten Jelly, Brand's, emelt..\n\nso,\n\nC\n\n0,50\n\nBo\n\n6.25\n\nde.\n\n1\n\nStrawberries in Sprue\n\n12.0\n\n1,05\n\nUs. 16.\n\n140)\n\n120\n\nBrad's Contratrā ..\n\n10,00\n\n0.00\n\nBiostara, Termouth, C. & B.'...\n\n5.80\n\n0.50\n\nCoco, Eppa', 11.\n\nda. Frencs...\n\n3,95\n\n4,35\n\nSugar, Cube, 6-16.\n\n10.03\n\n0.58\n\nder\n\nSao Husten's,\n\n10.30\n\n0.7\n\nNormandy Pippins\n\n14:00\n\n5\n\nde.\n\nWhite Ortu!....\n\n09\n\ndu.\n\nla.\n\nBlazeblower\"\n\n0.30\n\nde\n\n6.10\n\n0.47\n\nOntime), Jj 15. B\n\n6 10\n\n0,50\n\n识\n\nMoist Cooking...\n\n0.00\n\nmsoll\n\nBlunter Paste, inrgo\n\nBonto Vsked Fans\n\nBisonite, H. & Palmer, No, tina-\n\nAbernethy\n\nArmand Rings\n\nAnsweest, plada\n\nde. Fbia Brown College\n\nBurlingt.\n\nRondoir\n\n5,80\n\n0,00\n\ndo. The Jung'a\n\n10.30\n\nda 25 15. tina\n\n-\n\n4.00\n\nJeing, 18.\n\n0.35\n\n9.57\n\n8.00\n\n0.27\n\n42.\n\nI\n\n6,40\n\nDilven, Fresch, pirt\n\n... 8.25\n\n0.40\n\nSyrup, toidus\n\n0,7\n\n3.5\n\n+91\n\nبعة\n\n7.66\n\npart\n\n9.20\n\nG.24\n\ndo.\n\n1. Null, plati\n\n3.30\n\nu.30)\n\n6.37\n\n+-\n\n2.39\n\n0.77\n\n4. Jadtury'\n\n... H.35\n\n0.76\n\ndo. Spazint, int\n\n11.55\n\n0.54\n\nTapices, .'s. 2 1h....\n\n6,00\n\n0.5%\n\nJa.\n\n4u.\n\n4.78\n\n0.42\n\n→ pint\n\n8.50\n\n44.31\n\nđợ\n\nFiske, L. U. & Co,'» 7 lk\n\n7.80\n\n0.68\n\nוי\n\n.. 12.54\n\n3.10\n\ndo. Ninbe..\n\n1..\n\n10.60\n\n0.92\n\ndo. Queen, quarts\n\n11.00\n\n1.00\n\nch\n\ngib\n\n025\n\n11.00\n\n0A3\n\nCodalinu, I....\n\nAR.\n\n6.10\n\n0.42\n\nStott, Meiller\n\n12.08\n\n1.30\n\nમ\n\nProti\n\n71b,\n\n0.75\n\ndo. Farcion, Nonin'\n\n8.51\n\n0.77\n\ndo.\n\n2 lb\n\nי\n\n20.\n\n... 1,70\n\n1.16\n\n10.75\n\n◊ 25\n\nCnd's Ror...\n\n4.40\n\n0.38\n\nOrange toer Water\n\n5.50\n\n+60\n\ndu.\n\nSeed\n\n20\n\n075\n\nJP\n\n10.35\n\n0.93\n\n+++\n\nÖzünk, Bajla\n\n6.25\n\n..\n\n0.55\n\nOyster, Milton, ↓ plate.\n\n6.20\n\nJo\n\nb.\n\n11.00\n\n96\n\nZa\n\npink ..\n\n13.60\n\n1. L\n\nTard Frotte.\n\nBeatri\n\nButter\n\n11.00\n\n0.08\n\nCulu, L. G. & Co.'s Hixium, 1 lb.-\n\n0.75\n\n3T\n\nčo.\n\nBarberries\n\n6.25\n\n0.54\n\nAmericas 116....\n\n2,80\n\n0.26\n\nJ.\n\ndc.\n\ndo. 2.\n\n1.45\n\n7.80\n\n6.PR\n\nde,\n\nbreak fant\n\nCombination...\n\n+65\n\nds. Ground Macha, 1 1.\n\n0.85\n\nde.\n\n2 lb...\n\n540\n\n147\n\nBepherries and Currants.\n\n0.25\n\nE4\n\n0.65\n\n8d5\n\nara\n\nCoffee, Hantie Boute (act marted}\n\n0.KA\n\nParap, 1 lb, in\n\n... 2.75\n\nde\n\nBOK\n\nCaptain, oral, iz\n\n#6 Magha\n\n---\n\n+50\n\nD.YT\n\nC\n\n, l'ate de foie gras, tis...\n\n20.\n\n3340\n\n1.30\n\n \n\ndo.\n\ndp.\n\n26.00\n\n2.30\n\nCracknel\n\n10.50\n\nCeylan 1\n\n(\n\n0.05\n\n♪\n\n+\n\n1;\n\n0.18\n\nda.\n\nCovernat\n\n- 29.90\n\n1,53\n\ndo. Essendo 46.\n\n8.08\n\n9.27\n\n37\n\n$\n\n47.00\n\n4.10\n\nB'Currants Reapiercing..\n\nfuerat.\n\nTea,CoreLaw,\" i ib. Aus\n\n4.23\n\n054\n\n... +\n\nA 20\n\n200\n\n0,49\n\n4.90\n\nSanatarch\n\n9.50\n\n0,2%\n\nit is Ers, theor\n\n1.25\n\nde. Ceylon, 1 lb.\n\n1.00\n\nCray Cracker\n\n0.06\n\nCarefour, Bros & Pulson's\n\n61\n\ndo, Game, red, mali\n\n7.12\n\n.63\n\nbu,\" p. i dy box\n\n8.00\n\n7.25\n\n1.00\n\n4.30\n\nCruciite\n\n... 12.45\n\nCut Meal, 10. ti...\n\nww\n\n12\n\nC&\n\n$.28\n\n0.55\n\n1.00\n\nCracked Whut, ♪ lb. buga\n\nચ\n\ndo. Anted, C. &....\n\nde.\n\n5.76\n\n4.50\n\nQbylon\n\nᎨᏳ ᎨᏒ.\n\n6.45\n\nDiadem\n\n10.00\n\nG\n\nJ\n\n5\n\n4.15\n\nDiel...\n\n10.39\n\nCrathery awe...\n\n200\n\n0.55\n\nPath de Nautee\n\nJá.00\n\n1.20\n\n31\n\n0.3\n\nDessort\n\nH\n\n12.25\n\nCurry Powder\n\n1.50\n\n2.76\n\nPaño, Split\n\n0.12\n\nTignes. Os Eaugue in Jelly\n\n$.95\n\nCurry Paste\n\n8,50\n\n0.75\n\nPelit Pro, Phillipe and Canand's\n\nde\n\nB.MK\n\n0.58\n\nCoslurr\n\n1+1\n\n9.75\n\n0.35\n\nGaribaldi\n\n---\n\nStereo Hacks\n\nk\n\nGinger Nut...\n\n12,22\n\nCurry Powder, C. & De £15.\n\n13.00\n\n0.55\n\ndo.\n\nEdgar...\n\nda\n\nSmoked\n\n1.60\n\nL\n\n0.67\n\nCorrente, 3-15, ties\n\n7.87\n\n6.00\n\nVIT\n\n14\n\n40\n\n0.47\n\nFood, Candled, Uranga\n\nde\n\n4.45\n\n0.40\n\nPaysanda\n\n1,70\n\n--\n\nCurenta ir balk\n\np. E.\n\n0.40\n\n20\n\nLemon\n\nde.\n\n4.50\n\n0.37\n\nFlops'...\n\n1.40\n\n0.73\n\nLal\n\nسادة\n\n12.30\n\n1.10\n\nCustard Powder, Yukimnad\n\n2\n\n5.00\n\n0.27\n\ndo.\n\nCUTOR\n\n* 5.30\n\nĐET\n\nLibror Lunch, i th\n\nbeg\n\nJo.\n\n3n\n\nLunet\n\nLa Orotas, Jurga **\n\nZemer Rings\n\n-\n\n13.00\n\n1.10\n\nDikey Chile\n\nཏབ\n\n-\n\n1.00\n\n0.95\n\n30.\n\nMixed\n\n4,60\n\n6.40\n\nBike....\n\n1.23\n\nezell\n\n---\n\n6.50\n\n1.6\n\nDusk pat Lizven Tran\n\nPosner, Black, 2 lb.\n\n2.00\n\n0.12\n\n40.\n\nFicais...\n\n249\n\n**\n\n4.25\n\n0.20\n\nEssences, 1 oz. Flawstring wet..\n\n20\n\n481\n\nčo.\n\n3 13\n\n3.50\n\n0.20\n\nMythi\n\n1.40\n\ndo\n\n0.74\n\nMitre de Hetal\n\n11. Ecocer of Hornet\n\n71\n\nRose\n\n1.35\n\n1-+\n\n0.59\n\nCo\n\nWhite, >\n\nda\n\n2.20\n\n0,2\n\nBussion in Jelly, tir.\n\n1.75\n\n400\n\nUSP\n\n20.\n\n385\n\n0.04\n\nPrice +L\n\nཟ་\n\n5.00\n\n0.47\n\nLEP\n\n+1\n\n10.30\n\n6.90\n\nMaterna Wažera\n\n12.50\n\nEssence of Evet, Brand's\n\n8,25\n\n041\n\n..\n\nHed, 23.\n\n2.76\n\n0.25\n\nTruffles, meall borties\n\n11.60\n\n2.0*\n\n14\n\n1.10\n\n12.40\n\n1.10\n\n14\n\nMixed Glacs...\n\n18.20\n\nNopeul 4 02.\n\n5.50\n\nu.\n\nimediu\n\n21,80\n\n1.55\n\n3.42\n\ndo\n\nاور اخرة\n\nMized Creme, all\n\nkur\n\nL\n\n12 23\n\nEACE, Farisi\n\n3.18\n\n0.44\n\ndo\n\nKigaanera\n\n++*\n\n6.50\n\nG.)\n\n... $1.00\n\n3.30\n\n1.30\n\nNik ...\n\n--\n\n7.2\n\n0.04\n\nSet of Mrat, Liebig's\n\n2.50\n\n0.74\n\nPickles. C. & B.'s eat, pinės...\n\n5.60)\n\n0.47\n\nFarker laget...\n\n28.00\n\n2.00\n\nMixed\n\n14.50\n\n1.30\n\nFigs, 1 tas, Smyrus\n\n7.95\n\n4.65\n\nJo W. P. Coy, L. (Gold Lahal) |\n\nTerp\n\n..\n\nARA\n\n2.27\n\n4.23\n\nFronch Puma, 1 ft. brillas\n\n8.7\n\n33rie\n\nHi\n\n4.6\n\nPinze est....\n\n4.95\n\n1.38\n\nTurkey, Icuri 2 iba.\n\n5.0\n\n0.70\n\n... 0.03\n\nMaxcargos...\n\n13.70\n\ndo.\n\nૐ\n\n15.7%\n\ndo\n\nMushrooms\n\n2,30\n\n01.57\n\nVanilla Beans\n\n... 0.7\n\n1.35\n\n3_449\n\nOuborez\n\n11,20\n\n1.\n\nile.\n\nfib.\n\n25.00\n\n201\n\n*. West Judiz, pinks.\n\n1,00\n\n(1.40\n\nVegetable-\n\nPot Beer an\n\n8.90\n\n0.5%\n\nFentry in Neyeat\n\nda.\n\n1.26\n\nCant. White's\n\n9.50\n\n021\n\nCopes L'bude\n\n6.\n\n6.03\n\nDie Nic\n\n10.00\n\n0.8\n\nFruits in Brandy -\n\n18.00\n\n126\n\nMo.\n\nStuffed opera, quarta\n\n1376\n\n1.16\n\nMacedciver ...\n\n+50\n\n0.98\n\n4. Cutting'e Fi\n\n3.00\n\n0.37\n\nLazenby'z, agsh, pinta....\n\n3.60\n\n€147\n\nki Dean, Bulting's\n\n1,60\n\nPear...\n\n9.1b\n\n0.30\n\nPres\n\n2016\n\n1.36\n\nüs. Cutting's Fresnovi.\n\n$.20\n\nQ7\n\nFig Feet, 1 lb.\n\n925\n\nTarargy\n\n3.40\n\n0.23\n\nRiviam\n\n11,20\n\n1.25\n\ndu. Crystalined, 2 th, timu\n\nམ་\n\n17.20\n\n1.50\n\nCo 2.\n\nh.10\n\n1.50\n\nผมน\n\n0.25\n\n0.28\n\nRich Maizans\n\n11.0\n\n1.99\n\n20. Ja prop, st,\n\n12.00\n\n1.69\n\nPilsbanden Ol...\n\nEto\n\n0,FC\n\nOsine, Father,\n\n44.03\n\n6.3\n\nHiet Walnot\n\n28.16\n\n1.00\n\ndo. Catalina, Mettler\n\n11.5%\n\n1.DE\n\nPlum Puddinge\n\np. ib.\n\n4.50\n\nCory\n\n431\n\n3,80\n\n0.36\n\nIntalis\n\n18.70\n\n1.56\n\nde. Pins & in Maraschizo\n\n1.00\n\nPremered 1.4%....\n\n11\n\n1.60\n\nfirest Peas\n\n3.60\n\n0.31\n\nItish Traveller\n\n... 20.19\n\n1.75\n\nGelatine, Beil's\n\n10.76\n\n0.92\n\nFruens, Amerivar, 35 lb, boz\n\n$,50\n\np. Jh. 0.40\n\nString Blaze\n\n3.20\n\n0.30\n\nPoen...\n\n.10\n\n0.70\n\nNelson's...\n\n3.10\n\nC.46\n\nRose Franet Picus)\n\n--\n\nTowates\n\n2.00\n\n0.36\n\nSpio Kcts...\n\n14.00\n\nGovan Pune, Ih & k\n\n1.25\n\n..\n\n5.10\n\n0.46\n\nProie\n\n1700\n\n1.50\n\nVerici, il,\n\n11.60\n\n1.08\n\nSugar Wafers, large\n\n13.90\n\n1.25\n\nGeeky, Robin's privat\n\n6.75\n\n0.49\n\nFatted Werth and Fish, C. & B.'a avet....\n\nD.M\n\nVinegar, White Wine\n\n4.00\n\nC.36\n\n非\n\nKalk\n\n26\n\n0.47\n\nGrand Rice, tin...\n\n2.70\n\n0.63\n\nde,\n\ndů.\n\nપ. *Kell R.SU\n\n+ **\n\ndn. ak\n\n4.\n\n8.00\n\n0.30\n\nSpecial aten\n\n14.00\n\n130\n\nBaldocks, Floor\n\n$.56\n\ndc.\n\nila Stoir's\n\nRIM\n\n0.40\n\nF\n\nwww\n\n1.22\n\nJa\n\n.. 5,60\n\n0.5%\n\nTer\n\n7-25\n\n0,61\n\nHaus, Finest elected York, (Redgates) p. mund\n\nRabbit and Quima, 1 là.....\n\n... 2.26\n\nU.20\n\n0.70\n\ndo.\n\nTarragon\n\n8.00\n\n0.27\n\nYenile\n\n12.20\n\n1.10\n\nKaricate Vara\n\n4.40\n\n0.38\n\nRabbits, Australian preserved, 2 Ibe. 8.00\n\n0.70\n\nખીં. French,\n\n3.GU\n\nWate\n\n5.20\n\n0.70\n\nHarison Fuglets\n\n4.53\n\n0.40\n\nBains, SLA,\n\n17\n\nSLI\n\n£.00\n\n4,63\n\nન Chili,\n\n-pict\n\n8.00\n\nWaiout,\n\n11.00\n\n0.56\n\nBecha, Arint, ash, pánt\n\nTIL\n\n300\n\ndo Valencia,\n\n7.20\n\n0.97\n\nFY\n\n2,62\n\ngo,\n\nRaspberry, -piste\n\nH 20\n\nJ.23\n\nWeines, and, (small)\n\n5.65\n\n0.55\n\nHeerlags, Filoted fe White Wins\n\n717\n\n5.30\n\n4.55\n\nda Kuresole, botiĵon\n\n320\n\n1.\n\nSUDAS\n\ndo\n\n2 lb. Fing\n\n14.28\n\nFicovica, El: ami je bată...\n\nco\n\nF. ib.\n\nVin Blade...\n\n-\n\n1.25\n\n0.32\n\nP\n\n87\n\nBak, Day and Marie\n\n9.60\n\n0.50\n\nFierite, Backcazie & Mackspaiw's:\n\nHerrings a is Sardine ...\n\n.00\n\n0.45\n\nPudding...\n\na. b. 0.91\n\nኣሓ\n\nNubian\n\n3.45\n\nDh\n\nde.\n\nFier\n\nber\n\n... 2.10\n\n4.\n\nHultau...\n\n+3\n\n02:\n\ndi\n\nPre Glusa...\n\n3.25\n\nAlert\n\n13.20\n\n0.30\n\n1.30\n\nby\n\ndo\n\nThigeativa\n\n27.95\n\nNippered, C. & B.\n\nMarutel\n\n... 4.C\n\n1,35\n\n41-\n\n20\n\nBlacklead\n\n. lb.\n\n2.30\n\n1.5)\n\nde.\n\nBazebowar'u\n\nOFF\n\nda\n\n0.51\n\nAutoritar Demert j lḥ, hot ...\n\n1.6%\n\nB.40\n\nFlag, Washing...\n\nShort Leend\n\n11.50\n\n1.00\n\n11\n\n0.63\n\nco\n\nKissatis, amorismu : - -\n\nFiskled...\n\nBLY\n\n8.5+\n\nRhee Fiewer user\n\n0,50\n\n01.0\n\nBawa Leather Renovator\n\n7.50\n\n0.25\n\nBa...\n\n153\n\nHerrings, Han-enved, large\n\n6.75\n\nRAM G\n\n0.70\n\nI\n\n28.00\n\nا کیوں ہے\n\nBrunswick Black, piuts\n\nיוי\n\n0.50\n\ndo.\n\nMilk...\n\n1.5%\n\n+: ama\n\n5.28\n\n0.25\n\n0.48\n\nરીવ\n\nquarts\n\n100\n\nde.\n\nGinger Kat...\n\n1,95\n\nDied, Inge...\n\n3.95\n\n78\n\nBaga, C. B., 2 iba,\n\n3.2\n\n0.45\n\nCandia, Belmont, avm/ried\n\ne. Jh.\n\n0.29\n\nde.\n\n#1\n\nAISE...\n\n6.80\n\n0.47\n\nSalad O, quarte...\n\n11.30\n\nPS\n\ndo\n\nH\n\nJawata\n\n1.70\n\nmif fitting...\n\n51\n\n0,39\n\nHoow Blake...\n\nSoming, 10-lb, tina\n\n--\n\n... 1-75\n\nda pint\n\nsik\n\n0.60\n\ndu.\n\nChudamie) Mysoren, exmoriad\n\n:I\n\n15'D\n\n-\n\n3.80\n\nAincníta, Spratty Tug Cabra, 28 1h, tio.......\n\n4.15\n\nHorse Radish in Vinger\n\nSalad Creat\n\n3,44\n\nLL\n\n... 0.30\n\n0.47\n\nden\n\nJt aeliitling\n\npar b. 0.16\n\n:1\n\nむ\n\nHoney, Chemi\n\n12.00\n\nSalaratu\n\n$7\n\n-\n\n25\n\n30.\n\nPairy Lights\n\nVEL.\n\n0.00\n\nBears Bend, 2.\n\nP19\n\n\"י,\n\n11.60\n\n1.05\n\nInfant Fud, Bali's...\n\nSalmon, Irish, 1 lb.\n\n9.84\n\n6.55\n\n0.6\n\n#.75\n\nda.\n\nPyramid' Night Ligh\n\n4,50\n\nGo\n\n7.9\n\n0.60\n\nBran, Oxfu,...\n\nSavory and Morty's\n\n5.00\n\nde.\n\n19.06\n\n1.60\n\n4.49\n\n1.SG\n\n9,50\n\ndo.\n\nB÷1\n\n3.25\n\n한다.\n\n0.32\n\nAmerican, 1th....\n\nCarbolts Powder, Fib. drudgers •••\n\n4.86\n\n0.62\n\n3.Bi\n\n0.85\n\nde. American, 1 b\n\nExtra of, Madsace, ib....\n\nnkt.\n\n4.67\n\nיני\n\n.. 3.7V\n\n0.33\n\ndo.\n\nMei'\n\n8.30\n\nน.\n\nda\n\n2 lb....\n\n5.56\n\nPuzaltare Polish, Cirok's\n\n3.00\n\n0.80\n\ndo.\n\n2 las,...\n\n-+\n\n0.00\n\n0.53\n\nBackwbras, NV\n\n14\n\nJarjo\n\n13.12\n\n40\n\ndo.\n\nKippered\n\nILM\n\n1.00\n\nKnife Polish\n\n00\n\n0.80\n\n... L. FL\n\nBUTTER, L, G. & Co.'s Extra Fiment} 9.70\n\nkvognse, & on, best\n\n& th\n\ndris Pickled\n\n11,0\n\n4,55\n\nPolishing Poste, AŘatist\n\n3.\n\n0.30\n\nIsigny, 1 d.\n\n0.30\n\nda\n\n10. Neon' best...\n\n16.50\n\n140\n\nBage au sion 8 g, 1 15...\n\n4.31\n\n$39\n\ndo.\n\nBuen\n\n340\n\n0.35\n\ndo\n\ndo.\n\n21h 1&25\n\ndo.\n\nPatroit. Nolvan'z...\n\n340\n\niv.\n\ndo.\n\n1.30\n\n0.27\n\nहर दिनु\n\nPlate Powder,\n\nAderen\n\n300\n\ndo.\n\ndo. Finest Isigny, 7 15.\n\ndo.\n\n生泌\n\n10.75\n\nSalon Bellies\n\n0.00\n\n-\n\n4.10\n\n\"\n\n0.90\n\n04. Felt\n\n0,85\n\nFÖRST B035\n\nSh\n\nX30\n\n9.30\n\ndo. Conting, 1 b, uttarice\n\n0,50\n\nJame, French, I s., mal.\n\n... 13.0\n\nSalmas Treat\n\n9.3%\n\n1.J\n\n069\n\nCandra Prezre\n\ndu.\n\n--\n\n7.2%\n\nSalman Curlets\n\nSoap Yellow Hovechal. lb. box 140\n\nJr. bar 0.42\n\n13\n\nLIK\n\n11.\n\n1,00\n\nde,\n\nda Secde\n\n8.(N)\n\nNaw Ginger...\n\nper cjafjum 1,00\n\njor 0.50\n\n¿ɔ, Barnes', 15. Amorted at...\n\n3.30\n\nSul, Cooking, #R.\n\n4.33\n\n0.50\n\nde Saft\n\nԱՄՓԸ\n\nR.50\n\n7.10\n\nda\n\ndix. 2 ba.\n\nsmicking\n\nJ.29\n\ndo. Take\n\nElb.\n\n0.16\n\n345\n\n0.50\n\nJu\n\nStrawb\n\n575\n\n0.50\n\nCarbulis, Ne, 14 bar\n\nFarrlikes, P. & C., § flas....\n\nCongrats\n\n4.60\n\n1.06\n\ndo.\n\n7tb. Bawberry\n\n0.49\n\n40.\n\n9.24. sr 1,20\n\n4,0\n\nIs mealie, 14 bars\n\n255\n\n(1.4)\n\n0.30\n\nخینه\n\nting...\n\n1.0\n\nܕܙ\n\n0,65\n\n*. Cher Cher...\n\n4.50\n\n0.80\n\nCarambaia\n\nTI\n\n0.20\n\n1.10\n\n3. do. Z lbs. 4.J.\n\nJellies, Red and Black Currant, 1 lb.....\n\n8.4\n\n... 2\n\nda Albert.\n\nAtlas...\n\nSoft, 1b.jara\n\n6.80\n\n0.52\n\n4,70\n\n01.40\n\ndo.\n\n3.00\n\n0.46\n\n10.\n\nwith Tomaker or Futter,\n\nan\n\n7.9)\n\nSapola...\n\n2.02\n\n0,05\n\n0.18\n\ndo\n\nAncorfuc\n\n5.75\n\n--\n\nda\n\n21\n\n10.85\n\n40.\n\ntuz\n\n4.8\n\nBesko's \"Yonkey brand\"\n\n0.4%\n\n1.70 pho\n\nDried om fringer, 2. Un\n\nGoz. 4,00\n\nMin 0.35\n\nba\n\nApple, 1 16,\n\n3.60\n\n6.24\n\nNuue, what a blo\n\nQ.18 s\n\na\n\nE.\n\n0.45\n\n*Starlight,\"\n\np. Bax bare 1,18\n\ny.car 0,18\n\nDried Bute Ging, 1 lb. Ha\n\n3,50\n\n0.50\n\nAbe.\n\n#00\n\n9.52\n\nda. Jahr Bul, rios ...\n\n9.50\n\n0.99\n\nStarch, GianSeld...\n\n0.85 15.\n\nCakes, B, & P. Plum\n\nCalcutta)\n\n-p. lb.\n\n1,00\n\nda.\n\nAworiaan Ferit ...\n\ndu. Temato,\n\npint\n\n5.3\n\n£45\n\n3 50\n\nSoda, Washing...\n\n8.5%\n\n1.V9\n\nJu. Yockabım Kelish...\n\n5.7%\n\n02\n\n9.00\n\n0.21\n\nSpirits cd Wine\n\nGRATE\n\n8.00\n\n050\n\ndo. Worcxeter, pint, Fes & Porrin's 6.0\n\n... per dos, 3.70\n\nbot.\n\n0.35\n\n0.52\n\nIFANING...\n\nww\n\n2.05\n\nHongkong, September 1st, 1894.\n\nHalf-dozens are sold at the dozen rate; less than that quantity, at single price\n\nWINES, SPIRITS, BEERS, LIQUEURS, BITTERS, &c., write for special list.\n\nLANE, CRAWFORD & Co.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-264 - Governor Sir Robinson & Public Offices - 1894 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 365836, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 171, "title": "CO129-281 - Governor Sir Robinson & Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [1-3]", "content_text": "## \n-2- \n\n- 3 - \n165 \n\n| Typhoon or Storm Centre | Direction of Emotion | Bearer |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Typhoon or Storm Centre | unknown. | Beard |\n| Typhoon or Storm Centre | | S of Bolinao |\n| Typhoon or Storm Centre | | |\n| Beard | Moving N | |\n| S of Bolinao | | Billow |\n| Direction of Emotion unknown. | | Binary |\n| Direction of | | W of Bolinao |\n| Bearer | | Boreas |\n| Moving N | | Near Bolinao |\n| Billow | ¡Direction of Imotion unknown. | 31 |\n| Binary | | Moving N |\n| W of Bolinao | | Bosky |\n| Imotion unknowa. | | Moving N |\n| Boreas | | Beast |\n| Near Bolinao | | NE |\n| ¡Direction of Imotion unknown. | | \" |\n| 31 | | Biped |\n| Moving N | | NE |\n| Bosky | | \" |\n| Moving N | | Botany |\n| Beast | | NE |\n| NE | | \" |\n| \" | | Candy |\n| Biped | | |\n| NE | | Canine |\n| \" | | Canker |\n| Botany | | \" |\n| NE | | |\n| \" | | |\n| Typhoon or Storm Centre | | 31 |\n| W of Baling-Direction of tang Channel fèmotion unknown. | | 21 |\n| Moving N | | Bean |\n| 31 | | } |\n| 21 | | Birch |\n| Bean | | E |\n| } | | \" |\n| Birch | | Bother |\n| E | | E |\n| \" | | \" |\n| Bother | | Canon |\n| E | | NE |\n| \"\" | | E |\n| Canon | | 57 |\n| NE | | 25 |\n| E | | Beaver |\n| 57 | | SE |\n| 25 | | Bisect |\n| Beaver | | SE |\n| SE | | 33 |\n| Bisect | | Bottle |\n| SE | | SE |\n| 33 | | \" |\n| Bottle | | 33 |\n| SE | | Cant |\n| \" | | SE |\n| 33 | | Beckon |\n| Cant | | 8 |\n| SE | | 11 |\n| Beckon | | 2> |\n| 8 | | Bisque |\n| 11 | | S |\n| 2> | | 31 |\n| Bisque | | Bough |\n| S | | 19 |\n| 31 | | 33 |\n| Bough | | 8 |\n| 19 | | Canvas |\n| 33 | | S |\n| 8 | | 31 |\n| Canvas | | Bedaub |\n| S | | SW |\n| 31 | | Birouac |\n| Bedaub | | SW |\n| SW | | Bounce |\n| Birouac | | SW |\n| SW | | \" |\n| Bounce | | 59 |\n| SW | | ラケ |\n| \" | | ** |\n| 59 | | 22 |\n| ラケ | | Canyon |\n| ** | | SW |\n| 22 | | 97 |\n| Canyon | | \" |\n| SW | | Bedeck |\n| 97 | | W |\n| \" | | Blade |\n| Bedeck | | W |\n| W | | \" |\n| Blade | | 32 |\n| W | | Bounty |\n| \" | | W |\n| 32 | | 21 |\n| Bounty | | > |\n| W | | 23 |\n| 21 | | Caper |\n| > | | ++ |\n| 23 | | W |\n| Caper | | 75 |\n| ++ | | Bedlam |\n| W | | WNW |\n| 75 | | Blain |\n| Bedlam | | WNW |\n| WNW | | >> |\n| Blain | | Bourse |\n| WNW | | WNW |\n| >> | | 27 |\n| Bourse | | Capon |\n| WNW | | >> |\n| 27 | | 21 |\n| Capon | | WNW |\n| >> | | Bedouin |\n| 21 | | NW |\n| WNW | | Bland |\n| Bedouin | | NW |\n| NW | | Bovine |\n| Bland | | ** |\n| NW | | 35 |\n| Bovine | | + |\n| ** | | NW |\n| 35 | | 73 |\n| + | | Captor |\n| NW | | *1 |\n| 73 | | D |\n| Captor | | Beech |\n| *1 | | NNW |\n| D | | Blare |\n| Beech | | NNW |\n| NNW | | 52 |\n| Blare | | 31 |\n| NNW | | 29 |\n| 52 | | 22 |\n| 31 | | Bower |\n| 29 | | 27 |\n| 22 | | NNW |\n| Bower | | Carafe |\n| 27 | | \"} |\n| NNW | | Beetle |\n| Carafe | | Stationary. |\n| \"} | | Blast |\n| Beetle | | }\" |\n| Stationary. | | Stationary, |\n| Blast | | Bowl |\n| }\" | | 17 |\n| Stationary, | | Stationary. |\n| Bowl | | Carat |\n| 17 | | 33 |\n| Stationary. | | 77 |\n| Carat | | Befool |\n| 33 | | 99 |\n| 77 | | Filling up. |\n| Befool | | Blazon |\n| 99 | | Filling up. |\n| Filling up. | | Box |\n| Blazon | | Filling up. |\n| Filling up. | | Carbon |\n| Box | | \" |\n| Filling up. | | (Direction of |\n| Carbon | | Direction of |\n| \" | | Beggar |\n| (Direction of | | SW of Bolinao |\n| Direction of | | Bleak |\n| Beggar | | WNW of Bolinao! |\n| SW of Bolinao | | Imotion unknown. |\n| Bleak | | Begirt |\n| WNW of Bolinao! | | ** |\n| Imotion unknown. | | Moving N |\n| Begirt | | Blend |\n| ** | | 35 |\n| Moving N | | motion unknow. |\n| Blend | | Moving N |\n| 35 | | Cabal |\n| motion unknow. | | E of Baling-Direction of |\n| Moving N | | tang Channel (motion unknown. |\n| Cabal | | Card |\n| E of Baling-Direction of | | E of Bashee Chaunei |\n| tang Channel (motion unknown. | | Cabin |\n| Card | | }} |\n| E of Bashee Chaunei | | Moving N |\n| Cabin | | Careen |\n| }} | | 37 |\n| Moving N | | Begum |\n| Careen | | NE |\n| 37 | | \" |\n| Begum | | Blight |\n| NE | | NE |\n| \" | | Caboose |\n| Blight | | 37 |\n| NE | | J |\n| Caboose | | NE |\n| 37 | | 59 |\n| J | | Cargo |\n| NE | | \" |\n| 59 | | Behave |\n| Cargo | | E |\n| \" | | Blink |\n| Behave | | E |\n| E | | Cacao |\n| Blink | | 32 |\n| E | | >> |\n| Cacao | | } |\n| 32 | | Cariole |\n| >> | | ** |\n| } | | 23 |\n| Cariole | | دو |\n| ** | | Belay Beldam |\n| 23 | | SE |\n| دو | | Bloat |\n| Belay Beldam | | SE |\n| SE | | Cackle |\n| Bloat | | 11 |\n| SE | | 33 |\n| Cackle | | SE |\n| 11 | | Carnal |\n| 33 | | 21 |\n| SE | | NW |\n| Carnal | | NNW |\n| 21 | | Stationary. |\n| NW | | Filling up. |\n| NNW | | Direction of |\n| Stationary. | | motion unknown. |\n| Filling up. | | Moving N |\n| Direction of | | 77 |\n| motion unknown. | | NE |\n| Moving N | | E |\n| 77 | | SE |\n| NE | | 21 |\n| E | | Ty |\n| SE | | ន |\n| 21 | | Block |\n| Ty | | ន |\n| ន | | Cactus |\n| Block | | $1 |\n| ន | | 25 |\n| Cactus | | وو |\n| $1 | | 8 |\n| 25 | | Carol |\n| وو | | ន |\n| 8 | | 53 |\n| Carol | | 77 |\n| ន | | * |\n| 53 | | Belfry |\n| 77 | | SW |\n| * | | Bloude |\n| Belfry | | SW |\n| SW | | \" |\n| Bloude | | Caddy |\n| SW | | 23 |\n| \" | | \" |\n| \"2 | | SW |\n| Caddy | | Carp |\n| 23 | | SW |\n| \" | | 33 |\n| \"2 | | }} |\n| Carp | | Belle |\n| SW | | W |\n| 33 | | Bloom |\n| }} | | W |\n| Belle | | Cadet |\n| W | | 11 |\n| Bloom | | 22 |\n| W | | W |\n| Cadet | | Carrot |\n| 11 | | W |\n| 22 | | \" |\n| W | | * |\n| Carrot | | Benign Bent |\n| W | | WNW |\n| \" | | Blotch |\n| * | | WNW |\n| Benign Bent | | Cairn |\n| WNW | | 23 |\n| Blotch | | 13 |\n| WNW | | > |\n| Cairn | | WNW |\n| 23 | | Cartel |\n| 13 | | WNW |\n| > | | 12 |\n| WNW | | ** |\n| Cartel | | J |\n| WNW | | 23 |\n| 12 | | Benumb |\n| ** | | NW |\n| J | | NNW |\n| 23 | | Blouse |\n| Benumb | | NW |\n| NW | | Cajole |\n| NNW | | NW |\n| Blouse | | 11 |\n| NW | | 32 |\n| Cajole | | Carve |\n| NW | | >> |\n| 11 | | 37 |\n| 32 | | Bluff |\n| Carve | | NNW |\n| >> | | Cake |\n| 37 | | NNW |\n| Bluff | | Casein |\n| NNW | | >> |\n| Cake | | 32 |\n| NNW | | *2 |\n| Casein | | Bereft |\n| >> | | Stationary. |\n| 32 | | Blunt |\n| *2 | | Stationary. |\n| Bereft | | Calf |\n| Stationary. | | Stationary. |\n| Blunt | | Casino |\n| Stationary. | | |\n| Calf | | Berry |\n| Stationary. | | \" |\n| Casino | | Filling up. |\n| | | Blur |\n| | | 31 |\n| | | Filling up. |\n| | | Calico |\n| | | Filling up. |\n| | | Casket |\n| | | |\n| Berth | Direction of | Board |\n| WSW of Bolinao | | NW of Bolinao |\n| Direction of | | Ímotion unknown. |\n| ¡Direction of Imotion nukuow | | Callow |\n| | | Near Baling-Direction of |\n| | | Near Bashee |\n| | | lang Channel ftmotion unknown. |\n| | | Casque |\n| | | Chaunel |\n| Beset | 11 | Bobbin |\n| Moving N | | Moving N |\n| Lalin | ** | Moving N |\n| Cassia | | |\n| Betel | NE | Bodice |\n| NE | | Calorie |\n| NE | | Castle |\n| NW | | NNW |\n| Stationary. | | Filling up. |\n| Direction of | | Imotion unknown. |\n| Moving N | | NE |\n| NE | | ** |\n| 17 | | 23 |\n| 31 | | Betray |\n| 17 | | E |\n| Bodkin | E | Calyx |\n| 37 | | E |\n| E | | 22 |\n| Calyx | | Castor |\n| 37 | | E |\n| E | | 23 |\n| Castor | | \" |\n| E | | }} |\n| 23 | | > |\n| \" | | 33 |\n| Bevy | SE | Bogle |\n| 22 | | Cambric |\n| SE | | 13 |\n| Bogle | | SE |\n| SE | | Casual |\n| Cambric | | SE |\n| 13 | | 23 |\n| SE | | 11 |\n| Casual | | 33 |\n| SE | | \" |\n| 23 | | $ |\n| 11 | | Camel |\n| 33 | | Beyond |\n| \" | | S |\n| $ | | Boiler |\n| Camel | | 27 |\n| Beyond | | 8 |\n| S | | 22 |\n| Boiler | | Cater |\n| 27 | | S |\n| 8 | | 33 |\n| 22 | | >> |\n| Cater | | 11 |\n| S | | 33 |\n| 33 | | 17 |\n| >> | | SW |\n| 11 | | Bibber |\n| 33 | | SW |\n| 17 | | Bolus |\n| SW | | Camera |\n| Bibber | | 15 |\n| SW | | SW |\n| Bolus | | 11 |\n| Camera | | 21 |\n| 15 | | Catkin |\n| SW | | SW |\n| 11 | | $2 |\n| 21 | | 13 |\n| Catkin | | 27 |\n| SW | | \"\" |\n| $2 | | Biceps |\n| 13 | | W |\n| 27 | | Bomb |\n| \"\" | | Camlet |\n| Biceps | | #2 |\n| W | | W |\n| Bomb | | >> |\n| W | | Cattle |\n| Camlet | | W |\n| #2 | | 15 |\n| W | | }} |\n| >> | | 7 |\n| Cattle | | Bier |\n| W | | WNW |\n| 15 | | Bonnet |\n| }} | | Camp |\n| 7 | | 15 |\n| Bier | | # |\n| WNW | | \" |\n| Bonnet | | 27 |\n| WNW | | 17 |\n| Camp | | \" |\n| 15 | | Bight |\n| # | | NW |\n| \" | | Bonus |\n| 27 | | NW |\n| 17 | | Canal |\n| \" | | 步步 |\n| Bight | | WNW |\n| NW | | Caucus |\n| Bonus | | WNW |\n| NW | | 23 |\n| Canal | | \"J |\n| 步步 | | 19 |\n| WNW | | 37 |\n| Caucus | | 22 |\n| WNW | | NNW |\n| 23 | | Canard |\n| \"J | | ** |\n| 19 | | NW |\n| 37 | | Caudal |\n| 22 | | NW |\n| NNW | | 77 |\n| Canard | | 11 |\n| ** | | \" |\n| NW | | Bigot |\n| Caudal | | NNW |\n| NW | | Bonze |\n| 77 | | 23 |\n| 11 | | \" |\n| \" | | Bijou |\n| Bigot | | *\" |\n| NNW | | Stationary. |\n| Bonze | | Booth |\n| 23 | | Stationary. |\n| \" | | Cancel |\n| Bijou | | 31 |\n| *\" | | NNW |\n| Stationary. | | Caveat |\n| Booth | | 17 |\n| Stationary. | | 31 |\n| Cancel | | # |\n| 31 | | 12 |\n| NNW | | Bilge |\n| Caveat | | 77 |\n| 17 | | Filling up. |\n| 31 | | Borax |\n| # | | Filling up. |\n| 12 | | Candle |\n| Bilge | | \"\" |\n| 77 | | Stationary. |\n| Filling up. | | Cavil |\n| Borax | | 11 |\n| Filling up. | | 37 |\n| Candle | | Filling up. |\n| \"\" | | Cavity |\n| Stationary. | | 13 |\n| Cavil | | NNW |\n| 11 | | Stationary. |\n| 37 | | Filling up. |\n| Filling up. | | |\n| Cavity | | |\n| 13 | | |\n| NNW | | |\n| Stationary. | | |\n| Filling up. | |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-281 - Governor Sir Robinson & Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 374169, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-295 - Public Offices - 1899", "page_number": 242, "title": "CO129-295 - Public Offices - 1899", "content_text": "This deficiency should be made good forthwith.\n\nBooth and Blake have been working in concert and in common.\n\nJohnson observes that he is often forced to wait when he wants something. Is there not always an alternative? I would suggest adding something to the back pack of the telegram & sent to Blake.\n\nChamberlain cannot doubt that he will supply his power.\n\n13/3\n\nagree CP.d. 13\n\nL'infam d.b.\n\nJ.\n\nReferring to a private letter from his Whalen to his Hamilton that his Colleague had not stated at Lockhart.\n\nEls 13 March\n\nSir,\n\nPRINTED FOR USE\n\nNo.\n\nEASTERN\n\nCOLONIAL\n\n240\n\nForeign Office,\n\nMarch 10, 1899.\n\nWith reference to your letter of the 13th of December 27906 last respecting the territory MacDonald acquired from China under the Convention of June 9, 1898, I am directed by the Marquis of Salisbury to transmit to you a copy of a telegram from Her Majesty's Minister at Peking, reporting the steps taken by him on receipt of the instructions sent to him with the concurrence of the Secretary of State for the Colonies.\n\nI am to request that Mr Chamberlain's attention be drawn to the last paragraph of Sir Claude MacDonald's telegram.\n\nColonial Office X404\n\nUnder Secretary of State\n\n27906", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-295 - Public Offices - 1899.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 376396, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-299 - Administrator Major Gen Gascoigne - 1900 [5-6]", "page_number": 74, "title": "CO129-299 - Administrator Major Gen Gascoigne - 1900 [5-6]", "content_text": "# \n## Recapitulation\n\n| Office | salary per month | Increased salary per month |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| booth amah | 4 | 6 |\n| kame | | 9 |\n| Quesent | | 10 |\n| | | 14 |\n| Chan Jai (wash) | | 3 |\n| chan mui weding Institucte | | $10 |\n| Madal for kit yu | | 2 |\n| Potter cheur Young | | 10 |\n| boolid book | | 12 |\n| brak kur | | !REC |\n| nah (wash) sung Dam | | & |\n| | | REC 11 JUN 00 |\n| | | 71 |\n| Dung Kam kui | 10 | 12 |\n| Loching Lo Chi | | 15- |\n| Jang kin mah | | 15 |\n| Watchman Di Keur | $6 | 64 |\n| wrsing Institute | | avelling allowances of 15 |\n| | | olce) |\n\n## \n440 | 47 | 7 \nnot. Amatic asylums up. \nTemp staff Qwese \n\nREC \nForwardy 28 Jung so \n\n18600 \n\n0.0.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-299 - Administrator Major Gen Gascoigne - 1900 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 390101, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-319 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [10-11]", "page_number": 377, "title": "CO129-319 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [10-11]", "content_text": "## \n\nAerations in the trudnice 374 The fireflicitors.\n\n207 Evidence new arrival, an assistant in Men Erists.\n\n42.1.\n\nber of coffices the fine, woh septen the number of bills required for traction and charged for in a bill, or perhaps the opport vide might have done to, I pages which. I the number Mload, Ireland that 3 way brut °7 fur. Beavis the When ride suggested Sanswing, mm. Bear's suggesting he would like the se of the point, h. Xavier being the officer in chage send qu -withs of cost braid Schmer him when compriemer my damer statement. This I could comparin m. p. 257.\n\n1629 -637 633 outh and Pattack a Xavier on that pointe: letter from am. \n\nprint the made fainst me and talen Curry irreputable truth and at once noted ser Report para. 10/2. Cairnsta I decline to into he into hearway it is false that I over said that lines 634 find Ama amount sctisfactory Booth parties. It sometimes happens, and I have burn it done by Judges, and juder", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-319 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [10-11].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 394390, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-325 - Public Offices & Others - 1904", "page_number": 380, "title": "CO129-325 - Public Offices & Others - 1904", "content_text": "The Mercantile Marine Service Associatio\n\nthese appointments the Colonial Office will bear in mind\n\nthe special experience and qualifications of Officers of\n\nthe Merchant Service.\n\n•\n\n377\n\nIncorporated by Special Act of Parliament for conserving the interests of the British Merchant Service, and promoting the general improvement of nautical men by education, wholesome laws, obtaining redress of wrongs, procuring employment and caring for the helpless and aged, and by every possible means seeking the welfare of the Service, &c. &c.\n\na Guinea, Associates, One Guinea; Annual Subscription—Commanders, One Guinea; Officers, Half\n\nReporter Five Shillings (Post Free).\n\nLORD CLAUD J. HAMILTON,\n\nLORD BRASSEY, K.C.E\n\nJ. H. STOCK, ESQ., M.P.\n\nLORD KELVIN, L.L.D., PRES, R.S.\n\nDAVID MACIVER, ESQ., J.P., M.P.\n\nSAMUEL SMITH, ESQ., M.P.\n\nRALPH NEVILLE, ESQ., K.C.\n\nTHOS. B. ROYDEN, ESQ., J.P.\n\nR. P. HOUSTON, ESQ., M.P.\n\nCHAS MCARTHUR, ESQ., M.P.\n\nSIR ELLIOT LEES, M.P.\n\nAUSTIN TAYLOR, ESQ., M.P.\n\nSIR JAMES LYLE MACKAY, K.C.I.E.\n\nWM. WATSON RUTHERFORD, ESQ., M.P.\n\n16\n\nHonorary Members.\n\nSIR JOHN A. WILLOX, M.P.\n\nJOSEPH HOULT, ESQ., M.P.\n\nW. F. LAWRENCE, ESQ., M.P.\n\nT. P. O'CONNOR, ESQ., M.P.\n\nREAR ADMIRAL E. P. H. FRANKLIN.\n\nTHE CHAIRMAN OF THE MERSEY DOCKS AND HARBOR\n\nBOARD\n\nTHE CHAIRMAN OF THE LIVERPOOL STEAM SHIP OWNERS'\n\nASSOCIATION.\n\nTHE CHAIRMAN OF THE SHIPOWNERS' ASSOCIATION, LONDON.\n\nTHE CHAIRMAN OF THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.\n\nTHE CHAIRMAN OF THE LOCAL MARINE BOARD\n\nCAPTAIN HENRY TOYNBEE, F.R.A.S., F.R.G.S.\n\nAfrican Steam Ship Company\n\nAspinall, J., Son & Brooke\n\nBalfour, Williamson & Co.\n\nBuring Brothers & Co., Limited.\n\nBibby, Frank, Esq.\n\nBooth, Alfred, Esq.\n\nBowing, W. B., Esq.\n\nBrocklebank, Sir Thos. Bart., J.P.\n\nBrocklebank, Ralph, Esq., J.P.\n\nBurton, Miles Kirk, Esq.\n\nBagheli Bros. & Co.\n\nCearns & Brown\n\nCory, John, Esq., J.P., Cardiff\n\nCory Alderman B., Cardiff\n\nCatesworth, Lyne & Co.\n\nElder, Dempster & Co.\n\nElkington & Co.\n\nHonorary\n\nFarnworth and Jardine\n\nFernie, David, Esq., J.P.\n\nGibbs, Antony, Sons & Co.\n\nGracie, Beazley & Co.\n\nGraham, Rowe & Co.\n\nGraves, W. S., Esq.\n\nGruning & Co\n\nGunston, Sons & Co.\n\nKatton & Cookson\n\nHerron, John & Co.\n\nHeynen & Paterson, Tampico,\n\nMexico.\n\nHill & Sons, Charles, Bristol\n\nHolt, Alfred, Esq.\n\nHolt, Philip H., Esq.\n\nHornby, H. & J., & Co.,\n\nHoulder, Bros. & Co.\n\nHughes, John W., Esq. (Messrs.\n\nT. & J. Harrison)\n\nCouncil.\n\nIsmay, Imrie & Co.\n\nJohnston, Win., Esq.\n\nKellock, C. W., & Co\n\nKilley, G. D., Esq., J.P.\n\nLaird Brothers, Limited\n\nLamport & Holt\n\nLockett, John, Esq.\n\nLyon, Comber & Co.\n\nMuco & Sons\n\nMcInnes & Son\n\nMacIver, Charles, Esq.\n\nMacIver, Henry, Esq.\n\nMoss, James, & Co.\n\nNeuts, A. J., & Son, Ostend\n\nNickels, J. T., & Co.\n\nPacific Steam Navigation Co.\n\nPakenham, M., Esq., Bath\n\nPetley, Capt. J. W., I.S.S.\n\nCalcutta\n\nPotter, G. Herbert, Esq.\n\nRankin, Gilmour, & Co.\n\nRathbone Brothers & Co.\n\nSandbach, Tinne & Co.\n\nShannon, Capt. J. W.\n\nSinclair, A., Esq.\n\nThompson, Anderson & Co.\n\nVictorian Stevedoring Co.,\n\nMelbourne, Victoria\n\nWebster, Capt. J. K.\n\nWeir, Thomas, Esq., Shanghai\n\nWhitwill, Mark, Esq., Bristol\n\nWood, J. M., Esq.\n\nTo serve Three Years.\n\nBird, Capt. C.\n\nBrocklehurst, G. W., Esq.\n\nBrown, R. J., Capt.\n\nCameron, J. G., Capt.\n\nCuff-McCulloch, E., Esq.\n\nCollings, E. J., Capt.\n\nCunningham, A. L., Capt.\n\nDutton, T., Capt.\n\nGordon, A., Capt.\n\nHave, J., Capt.\n\nHely, J. S., Capt.\n\nKesy, J., Capt.\n\nExecutive\n\nLanglands, George E., Capt.\n\nLapage, W. P., Capt.\n\nMoore, W. H., Capt.\n\n(Commander R.N.R.)\n\nOwen, W., Capt.\n\nPeel, F. B., Capt.\n\nRoberts, J. H., Capt.\n\nStock, J. H., Esq., M.P.\n\nCouncil, 1903-1904.\n\nTo serve Two Years\n\nBatchelor, J. W., Capt.\n\nCarson, John, Capt.\n\nChellew, T. H., Capt.\n\nCochrane, W., Capt.\n\nFreeth, E. H., Capt.\n\nHampson, R. Alfred, Esq., J.P.\n\nHayes, R. W., Capt.\n\nHeidy, S., Capt.\n\nKilley, C. J., Capt.\n\nMcAdam, J., Capt.\n\nMcKay, Horatio, Capt.\n\n(Hon. Lieut. R.N.R.)\n\nPritchard, T. B., Capt.\n\nBoyden, T. B., Esq., J.P.\n\nStewart, W., Capt.\n\nSumner, James, Capt.\n\nVaughan, Jas., Capt.\n\nWade, W. S., Capt.\n\nWatt, H. F., Capt.\n\nWallace, W. S., Capt.\n\nTo serve One Year.\n\nBremner, A. W., Capt.\n\nChubb, E., Capt.\n\nFoster, M. H., Capt., A.I.N.A.\n\nFreeman, E. W., Capt.\n\nBry, W. C., Capt.\n\nGardiner, J. T., Capt.\n\nGordon, J. B., Capt.\n\nHamilton, John, Capt.\n\nInglis, R., Capt.\n\nIsmay, J. Brace, Esq.\n\nKing, J. W., Capt., A.I.N.A.\n\nMcAuley, J., Capt.\n\nMacMahon, C., Capt.\n\nMcKay, Alex., Capt., F.R.G.S.\n\nMcRay, J., Capt.\n\nMurray, P. D., Capt.\n\nPurdy, T., Capt.\n\nRowe, T. Y., Capt.\n\nTrenery, J., Capt.\n\nWatt, J.B., Capt.\n\nWalker, I., Capt.\n\nCaptain M. H. FOSTER, A.I.N.A., President.\n\nJ. A. STOCK, Esq., M.P., Hon. Treasurer.\n\nO. P. GRYLLS, Secretary.\n\nCaptain J. KEAY, Vice-President.\n\nMessrs. W. H. COCHRAN & CO.,\n\nMessrs. WHITLEY & CO.,\n\nMessrs. THORNELY & CAMERON, and Mr. A. A. MILLER, Solicitors.\n\nBankers: BANK OF LIVERPOOL (LIMITED)\n\nTELEPHONE No. 690.\n\n....\n\nI\n\nam,\n\nSir\n\n3\n\nYours\n\nfaithfully,\n\nColCavalla\n\nSecretary.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-325 - Public Offices & Others - 1904.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 395322, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-326 - Foreign Office - 1904", "page_number": 659, "title": "CO129-326 - Foreign Office - 1904", "content_text": "Copy.\n\nNo. 20382 1904.\n\nSir:-\n\nC.O. C.O.\n\n57703\n\n655\n\nCUSTOM HOUSE, LONDON, NOV DA\n\n29th October, 1904.\n\nI am directed by the Board of Customs to acquaint you, for the information of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, with reference to the Foreign Enlistment Act of 1870, that it has been reported to them that a Certificate of Sale, for use at Hong Kong, Kobe or Yokohama, was issued on the 28th instant for the British Screw Steamer \"Sobralense\", empowering Mr. Donaldson Riddell Law of Hong Kong, Mr. William John Robinson of Kobe, and Mr. Montague Beart of Yokohama, jointly or severally to sell the vessel within 12 months from that date.\n\nThe present owners of this vessel are the Booth Steamship Company, Limited, of 30, James Street, Liverpool.\n\nThe date of building, gross and net tonnage, and speed\n\nThe Under Secretary of State\n\nForeign Office.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-326 - Foreign Office - 1904.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 395586, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-327 - Individuals - 1904", "page_number": 130, "title": "CO129-327 - Individuals - 1904", "content_text": "Consult my minutes to this I had on 12th \n\ndistrict Inspectors is the \n\nclerk-master. \n\ninterview with Dr Barnett particulars took here notices and explained duly to him the position I was placed in by the manner adopted for the service of such notices, and requested him to inquire further into the matter so that I might have some help to \n\nget through the very large amount of work I had then in hand. About this time, I pointed out to Dr Barnett, I had been away sick for eight days, during which time no one attended to my work. Consequently it accumulated and had to be attended to by me on my return to duty. \n\nAs to the charge I was never told when sworn \n\nto keep a diary, I had no suitable booth for the purpose, \n\nThat it was near the time \n\nfor the monthly issue of stationery I waited for, and I think, in view of \n\nthe fact that I had been an inspector for more than two years before \n\nI had been asked to keep a diary, that the delay of a few days cannot be regarded as a serious \n\nmatter. \n\nWith regard to the time notice remained unattended to, I submit that", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-327 - Individuals - 1904.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 413680, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-347 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [4-6]", "page_number": 182, "title": "CO129-347 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [4-6]", "content_text": "## DRAFT\nAlarg No 127 Ew Lugard\n\nMr. \nMINUTE.\n\n22/6 \n2) 6 \n\nMr. Stablo 231 \nMr. Just. \nMr. Antrobus. \nMr. Cox. \nSir C. Lucas. \nSir F. Hopwood. \nCol. Seely. \n\n21407 \nof \nJohan \n179 \n26 live se \nInd \n\nI have re... to ach: \nof your deat \n112 \nof the \n2.0 \nAboil \nin which \nYou \na \ncopy \nletter \nFor Dis \nBell, \nThomson \nRoch requesting \nthat \ntheir \nofficial \ndesignation \n\nbe altered to \"Ast Surgears.\"\n\nThe Earl of Crewe, \n2. \nI agree that \nBest Sergean \nthe \nOfen \nt \nsome \nobjection \nCar seder \nthat \nthe \nEuropean \nMary \nthe be \nall the \nmedical officers in Creapt Booth \nthe I.C.M.O. \ncalled either \nMedical \nLe...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-347 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 424195, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-364 - Public Offices & Others - 1909", "page_number": 328, "title": "CO129-364 - Public Offices & Others - 1909", "content_text": "## MINUTE\nMr. Fiddes. \nMr. Just. \nMr. Cox. \n7/12 \n★ Sir F. Lucas. \nSir F. Hopwood. \nCol. Seely. \nLord Crewe.\n\nI am directed to refer to the matter regarding Mr. Hudson, late Overseer of the P.W.D., with regard to his services in the Colony and the question of his re-employment.\n\n2. Mr. Hudson complains that he has been unable to obtain employment owing to discrepancies between the formal record supplied by the Local Govt. and the statement furnished to him herein and the issues between the two.\n\nTo lay the correspondence on the table.\n\nDec\n\nTo buy st...\n\n23 Oct\n\nBooth\n\nArundel 11937\n\nMr. St...\n\nToler St...\n\nen Var...\n\n16 has...\n\n-(86391)\n\nkr Jr. is the...\n\nDec (draft letter will...)\n\nZaft...\n\nBitlewer, \nhausmit \nof corto : \n\n9 Decis\n\nI am to li...\n\nwith \n\nA copy \n\nMy St. J.\n\n| Name | Date |\n| --- | --- |\n| Hi Allen | 4/12 |\n| Statto Collins | |\n| WFrode | |\n\n## DRAFT\nfor circulation to Agents. Indexed. 795H\n\nthe matter \nthat \nCA. In the Colonies, to whom copies of Yar letts being sent.\n\nare \n\nC. D. \n326 \n\nID. \n4137748109 \nR \n\nthe stati \nthat \nane \n\nCAgents \n\nMr. \n44 \n\nPage 363 (if applicable, as per rule 8)", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-364 - Public Offices & Others - 1909.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 425970, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-367 - Acting Governor May - 1910 [6-7]", "page_number": 340, "title": "CO129-367 - Acting Governor May - 1910 [6-7]", "content_text": "Piasty booth for promotion Stative by the Colomine office.\n\nCaftan dyous writes to me\n\nApplication for the\n\nIn\n\nasting\n\nite\n\n206 34/10 Along\n\nto affat his\n\n338\n\nInspector General ship of\n\n\"eyton vacacio by the retirement of\n\n... that this Cry hom appointment is forts to which the Maus q\n\nMr. C. Long den. dongden.\n\nthe one of\n\nthe\n\nthe\n\nShails &\n\nHis Police\n\n& that it has hom so\n\nf\n\nI have\n\nStartech tay my\n\na\n\nprevious occasion\n\n(a Vacancy\n\nthe 7.M.5)\n\nnevis\n\nii refact\n\nI att byous clarins.\n\nhein\n\nZerala Jr ca hous\n\nI Murice h frad t\n\nfree\n\npromotie\n\n4.8.10.\n\nThe bounce be willing to take the appointment fr\n\nthen\n\nprobation.\n\nI have hoed\n\nhin\n\nthral\n\nthe fol\n\nis\n\nfilled.\n\nAttach this to haft. Ley,\n\napplication, when it arrives\n\nRET\n\nSR2.\n\natm\n\n3\n\nHere is the revised HTML output with minor corrections and reordering:\n\nPiasty booth for promotion Stative by the Colonial office.\n\nCaftan writes to me\n\nApplication for the\n\nIn\n\nasting\n\nite\n\n206 34/10 Along\n\nto affect his\n\n338\n\nInspector Generalship of\n\n\"eyton vacancy by the retirement of\n\n... that this Cry home appointment is forts to which the Maus q\n\nMr. C. Long den. dongden.\n\nthe one of\n\nthe\n\nthe\n\nShails &\n\nHis Police\n\n& that it has been so\n\nI have\n\nStated my\n\na\n\nprevious occasion\n\n(a Vacancy\n\nthe 7.M.5)\n\nI refer to\n\nI attach byous clarins.\n\nhein\n\nZerala Jr ca hous\n\nI Maurice h frad t\n\nfree\n\npromotion\n\n4.8.10.\n\nThe bounce be willing to take the appointment for\n\nthen\n\nprobation.\n\nI have approved\n\nhim\n\nthe fol\n\nis\n\nfilled.\n\nAttach this to draft. Ley,\n\napplication, when it arrives\n\nRET\n\nSR2.\n\natm\n\n3", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-367 - Acting Governor May - 1910 [6-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 429737, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-373 - Public Offices - 1910", "page_number": 474, "title": "CO129-373 - Public Offices - 1910", "content_text": "4\n\nChambers of Commerce on the Pacific Seaboard\" are headed by Mr. Willis H. Booth, an engineering contractor and banker of Los Angeles, president; and Mr. W. H. Gerstle, described as a \"transportation magnate,\" of San Francisco, vice-president. Mr. C. K. Field, of the \"Sunset Magazine,\" is official historian to the commission, and Mr. Charles N. Bennet, secretary. Mr. Hamilton Butler, United States vice-consul at Tion-tsin, is attached to the party as official interpreter, and Mr. A. P. Wilder, the American consul-general at Shangbai, accompanied them as far as Peking, apparently in his official capacity.\n\nThe delegates were not, as stated in Mr. Moore's despatch, invited by the Chinese Government, but by the Associated Chinese Chambers of Commerce. The idea of the visit originated, I believe, with the Shanghai branches of the American Young Men's Christian Association and the International Institute, whose membership is largely composed of American missionaries and returned students educated in America. It is doubtful whether the promoters of the tour and the American business men who accepted the invitation foresaw that the delegation would be treated by the Chinese authorities to all intents and purposes as an official mission from the United States to China. Yet this is what has happened: not only have the delegates been entertained by chambers of commerce, press associations, and kindred societies, but they have been officially received by the highest Chinese authorities, acting evidently under instructions from the Central Government, in every city they have visited; their progress, to which the epithet \"triumphal\" may well be applied, culminating in the unprecedented honour of an Imperial audience in Peking.\n\nThe following is a brief summary of the commission's tour up to date -\n\nShanghai (four days). Visits to local manufactories, flour mills, cotton, woollen, and paper mills, &c.; Chinese waterworks and Government dockyard. Receptions and banquets by Young Men's Christian Association, American community, Shanghai Taotai, chamber of commerce, and International Institute.\n\nHangchow (one day).--Visits to Bore and Lake. Banquet by chamber of commerce, presided over by Governor of Chekiang. Journey from Hangchow to Shanghai by rail made occasion for popular demonstration of welcome all along the line arranged by Chekiang Railway Company.\n\nNanking (two days).-Visit to exhibition, official reception and banquet. Tea party to ladies of mission by wife of Viceroy; dinner at Viceroy's yamen, Receptions and luncheons by provincial assembly, educational and military authorities. Visit to Naval School, Polytechnic, King Tombs, &c.\n\nHankow (three days).-Visits to Hanyan iron works, waterworks, &c. Banquet by chamber of commerce: luncheon with Viceroy.\n\nPeking (four days).-Visits to Great Wall and Summer Palace: reception at Audience with Prince Regent and visit to Winter Palace. Banquet by Board of Agriculture and Communications at Botanical Gardens. Luncheon at Wai-wu Pu. American Legation. Banquet by Chinese Press Association.\n\nThe above programme hardly bears out Mr. Gerstle's statement, quoted in the newspaper cutting enclosed in Mr. Moore's despatch, that \"There will be nothing of junketing about this trip: it will be the commercial, not the social side of China we shall be interested in.\" For this change in the character of their tour the delegates themselves can hardly be held to blame, but they will doubtless be prepared to admit that the uninterrupted series of receptions and entertainments has seriously interfered with the \"series study of the commercial situation in China,\" which forms the ostensible object of their journey. As a matter of fact, it does not seem probable that any tangible results in the direction of increased trade between China and the United States will accrue from this visit: speaking generally, no direct relation exists or are likely to exist for some time to come between the American manufacturer and the Chinese consumer, and vice versa. The trade is in the hands of the merchants or middlemen of San Francisco and the Pacific Coast ports and their correspondents in Shanghai and the large treaty ports of China, and it is the lack of American business houses of good financial standing and repute in Shanghai, Hongkong, and indeed throughout China, which accounts, I believe, for the comparatively slow development of American trade with China. Large American firms in Shanghai and Hongkong can be counted on the fingers of one hand, and I think I am not mistaken in saying that British firms are the largest importers of American goods in China. This remark also applies to exports, trade in which is liable to be handicapped by sudden changes in the American tariff.;\n\n5\n\nI append a table showing the comparative value of British and United States trade with China during the past ten years.\n\nThe tour has been made the occasion for an outburst of speech-making, which has astonished even those accustomed to the flights of American oratory. Ministers of State, Viceroys, Taotais, gentry, and merchants have vied with the members of the commission in giving expression to their mutual sentiments of esteem, admiration, and friendship. If any one speaker may be said to have deserved the palm in this friendly contest it is the American consul-general at Shanghai, Dr. Wilder, whose statement that \"this embassy is a unique and monumental landmark in the history of China\" may be accepted as typical of the strain in which both hosts and guests have discussed the mission and its labours.\n\nYet, making all allowances for that exuberance of diction which Chinese orators of the present day, more especially those who have been educated in the United States, share with their American prototypes, and for the festive nature of the occasion on which these speeches were delivered, one cannot help being struck by the under-current of sincerity which runs through so many of the speeches, and reading between the lines, one perceives on the part of the Chinese a recognition of the possibilities which the disinterested friendship of one of the great nations affords, joined to a feeling of naïve gratification at the public praise bestowed on China's moral and material progress; and on the part of the Americans a sense of real pleasure, not unmixed with surprise, at the cordiality of their reception by a people reputedly anti-foreign.\n\nAs was to be expected, no opportunity has been lost of reciting America's claims to the gratitude and friendship of China. The return of the Boxer indemnity, the abstention from territorial encroachments, the educational facilities so generously offered to the youth of China, and the assistance rendered to the people of China in their crusade against the opium evil have been referred to again and again by speakers on both sides, and through the foreign and native press re-echoed all over China.\n\nIn the ears of those who remember the American boycott of 1905, and the agitation against the \"unforgettable wrongs heaped upon the people of China,\" a movement inaugurated and maintained by that same Shanghai Chamber of Commerce which has taken the lead in the present demonstration, the frequent references to America's \"traditional and uninterrupted friendship with China and her people\" must sound a discordant note; and the president of the Nanking Exhibition's reference to the Canton-Hankow Railway fiasco, in which the American Development Company played so discreditable a part, as \"America's opening of China's trunk lines\" must have struck many of his hearers as singularly unhappy.\n\n53\n\nIn one respect the delegates have undoubtedly done harm: I refer to their exaggerated and indiscriminating praise of Chinese railway construction and management. This was particularly noticeable on the occasion of their visit to Hangchow, when one of the delegates referred to the Shanghai-Hangchow Railway, a line whose construction is notoriously faulty, as being \"equal to the very first class of such work on American lines,\" and another speaker assured an audience of local officials and gentry that he had \"examined the railways of Germany, England, and America, and found that none of them surpassed the Chekiang Railway system.\" These statements have found their way into the native press, and will, it is to be feared, not only encourage the people of Chekiang in their opposition to the Government in the matter of the control of the railways now being constructed in that province, but will be cited by other provincial railway companies in support of their claim to build and manage their own lines.\n\nHARRY IL FOX, Acting Commercial Attaché.\n\n473", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-373 - Public Offices - 1910.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 429740, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-373 - Public Offices - 1910", "page_number": 477, "title": "CO129-373 - Public Offices - 1910", "content_text": "Chambers of Commerce on the Pacific Seaboard are headed by Mr. Willis H. Booth, an engineering contractor and banker of Los Angeles, president; and Mr. W. H. Gerstle, described as a \"transportation magnate,\" of San Francisco, vice-president. Mr. C. K. Field, of the \"Sunset Magazine,\" is official historian to the commission, and Mr. Charles N. Bennet, secretary. Mr. Hamilton Butler, United States vice-consul at Tien-tsin, is attached to the party as official interpreter, and Mr. A. P. Wilder, the American consul-general at Shanghai, accompanied them as far as Peking, apparently in his official capacity.\n\nThe delegates were not, as stated in Mr. Moore's despatch, invited by the Chinese Government, but by the Associated Chinese Chambers of Commerce. The idea of the visit originated, I believe, with the Shanghai branches of the American Young Men's Christian Association and the International Institute, whose membership is largely composed of American missionaries and returned students educated in America. It is doubtful whether the promoters of the tour and the American business men who accepted the invitation foresaw that the delegation would be treated by the Chinese authorities to all intents and purposes as an official mission from the United States to China. Yet this is what has happened — not only have the delegates been entertained by chambers of commerce, press associations, and kindred societies, but they have been officially received by the highest Chinese authorities, acting evidently under instructions from the Central Government, in every city they have visited; their progress, to which the epithet \"triumphal\" may well be applied, culminating in the unprecedented honour of an Imperial audience in Peking.\n\nThe following is a brief summary of the commission's tour up to date:\n\nShanghai (four days).—Visits to local manufactories, flour mills, cotton, woollen, and paper mills, &c.; Chinese waterworks and Government dockyard. Receptions and banquets by Young Men's Christian Association, American community, Shanghai Taotai, chamber of commerce, and International Institute.\n\nHangchow (one day).—Visits to Bore and Lake. Banquet by chamber of commerce, presided over by Governor of Chekiang. Journey from Hangchow to Shanghai by rail made occasion for popular demonstration of \"welcome all along the line\" arranged by Chekiang Railway Company.\n\nNanking (two days).—Visit to exhibition, official reception and banquet. Tea party to ladies of mission by wife of Viceroy; dinner at Viceroy's yamen. Receptions and luncheons by provincial assembly, educational and military authorities. Visit to Naval School, Polytechnic, King Tombs, &c.\n\nHankow (three days).—Visits to Hanyan iron works, waterworks, &c. Banquet by chamber of commerce; luncheon with Viceroy.\n\nPeking (four days).—Visits to Great Wall and Summer Palace; reception at American Legation. Banquet by Chinese Press Association. Audience with Prince Regent and visit to Winter Palace. Luncheon at Wai-wu Pu. Banquet by Board of Agriculture and Communications at Botanical Gardens.\n\nThe above programme hardly bears out Mr. Gerstle's statement, quoted in the newspaper cutting enclosed in Mr. Moore's despatch, that \"There will be nothing of junketing about this trip: it will be the commercial, not the social side of China we shall be interested in.\" For this change in the character of their tour the delegates themselves can hardly be held to blame, but they will doubtless be prepared to admit that the uninterrupted series of receptions and entertainments has seriously interfered with the serious study of the commercial situation in China, which forms the ostensible object of their journey. As a matter of fact, it does not seem probable that any tangible results in the direction of increased trade between China and the United States will accrue from this visit: speaking generally, no direct relation exists or is likely to exist for some time to come between the American manufacturer and the Chinese consumer, and vice versa. The trade is in the hands of the merchants or middlemen of San Francisco and the Pacific Coast ports and their correspondents in Shanghai and the large treaty ports of China, and it is the lack of American business houses of good financial standing and repute in Shanghai, Hongkong, and indeed throughout China, which accounts, I believe, for the comparatively slow development of American trade with China. Large American firms in Shanghai and Hongkong can be counted on the fingers of one hand, and I think I am not mistaken in saying that British firms are the largest importers of American goods in China. This remark also applies to exports, trade in which is liable to be handicapped by sudden changes in the American tariff.\n\nI append a table showing the comparative value of British and United States trade with China during the past ten years.\n\nThe tour has been made the occasion for an outburst of speech-making, which has astonished even those accustomed to the flights of American oratory. Ministers of State, Viceroys, Taotais, gentry, and merchants have vied with the members of the commission in giving expression to their mutual sentiments of esteem, admiration, and friendship. If any one speaker may be said to have deserved the palm in this friendly contest it is the American consul-general at Shanghai, Dr. Wilder, whose statement that \"this embassy is a unique and monumental landmark in the history of China\" may be accepted as typical of the strain in which both hosts and guests have discussed the mission and its labours.\n\nYet, making all allowances for that exuberance of diction which Chinese orators of the present day, more especially those who have been educated in the United States, share with their American prototypes, and for the festive nature of the occasion on which these speeches were delivered, one cannot help being struck by the undercurrent of sincerity which runs through so many of the speeches, and reading between the lines, one perceives on the part of the Chinese a recognition of the possibilities which the disinterested friendship of one of the great nations affords, joined to a feeling of naïve gratification at the public praise bestowed on China's moral and material progress; and on the part of the Americans a sense of real pleasure, not unmixed with surprise, at the cordiality of their reception by a people reputedly anti-foreign.\n\nAs was to be expected, no opportunity has been lost of reciting America's claims to the gratitude and friendship of China. The return of the Boxer indemnity, the abstention from territorial encroachments, the educational facilities so generously offered to the youth of China, and the assistance rendered to the people of China in their crusade against the opium evil have been referred to again and again by speakers on both sides, and through the foreign and native press re-echoed all over China.\n\nIn the ears of those who remember the American boycott of 1905, and the agitation against the unforgettable wrongs heaped upon the people of China, a movement inaugurated and maintained by that same Shanghai Chamber of Commerce which has taken the lead in the present demonstration, the frequent references to America's traditional and uninterrupted friendship with China and her people must sound a discordant note; and the president of the Nanking Exhibition's reference to the Canton-Hankow Railway fiasco, in which the American Development Company played so discreditable a part, as \"America's opening of China's trunk lines\" must have struck many of his hearers as singularly unhappy.\n\nIn one respect the delegates have undoubtedly done harm: I refer to their exaggerated and indiscriminating praise of Chinese railway construction and management. This was particularly noticeable on the occasion of their visit to Hangchow, when one of the delegates referred to the Shanghai-Hangchow Railway, a line whose construction is notoriously faulty, as being \"equal to the very first class of such work on American lines,\" and another speaker assured an audience of local officials and gentry that he had \"examined the railways of Germany, England, and America, and found that none of them surpassed the Chekiang Railway system.\" These statements have found their way into the native press, and will, it is to be feared, not only encourage the people of Chekiang in their opposition to the Government in the matter of the control of the railways now being constructed in that province, but will be cited by other provincial railway companies in support of their claim to build and manage their own lines.\n\nHARRY H. FOX, Acting Commercial Attaché.\n\n476", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-373 - Public Offices - 1910.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 429743, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-373 - Public Offices - 1910", "page_number": 480, "title": "CO129-373 - Public Offices - 1910", "content_text": "4\n\nChambers of Commerce on the Pacific Seaboard\" are headed by Mr. Willis H. Booth, an engineering contractor and banker of Los Angeles, president; and Mr. W. H. Gerstle, described as a \"transportation magnate,\" of San Francisco, vice-president. Mr. C. K. Field, of the \"Sunset Magazine,\" is official historian to the commission, and Mr. Charles N. Bennet, secretary. Mr. Hamilton Butler, United States vice-consul at Tien-tsin, is attached to the party as official interpreter, and Mr. A. P. Wilder, the American consul-general at Shanghai, accompanied them as far as Peking, apparently in his official capacity.\n\nThe delegates were not, as stated in Mr. Moore's despatch, invited by the Chinese Government, but by the Associated Chinese Chambers of Commerce. The idea of the visit originated, I believe, with the Shanghai branches of the American Young Men's Christian Association and the International Institute, whose membership is largely composed of American missionaries and returned students educated in America. It is doubtful whether the promoters of the tour and the American business men who accepted the invitation foresaw that the delegation would be treated by the Chinese authorities to all intents and purposes as an official mission from the United States to China. Yet this is what has happened: not only have the delegates been entertained by chambers of commerce, press associations, and kindred societies, but they have been officially received by the highest Chinese authorities, acting evidently under instructions from the Central Government, in every city they have visited; their progress, to which the epithet \"triumphal\" may well be applied, culminating in the unprecedented honour of an Imperial audience in Peking.\n\nThe following is a brief summary of the commission's tour up to date:\n\nShanghai (four days).--Visits to local manufactories, flour mills, cotton, woollen, and paper mills, &c.; Chinese waterworks and Government dockyard. Receptions and banquets by Young Men's Christian Association, American community, Shanghai Taotai, chamber of commerce, and International Institute.\n\nHangchow (one day).--Visits to Bore and Lake. Banquet by chamber of commerce, presided over by Governor of Chekiang. Journey from Hangchow to Shanghai by rail made occasion for popular demonstration of welcome all along the line arranged by Chekiang Railway Company.\n\nNanking (two days).--Visit to exhibition, official reception and banquet. Tea party to ladies of mission by wife of Viceroy; dinner at Viceroy's yamen. Receptions and luncheons by provincial assembly, educational and military authorities. Visit to Naval School, Polytechnic, King Tombs, &c.\n\nHankow (three days).--Visits to Hanyan iron works, waterworks, &c. Banquet by chamber of commerce: luncheon with Viceroy.\n\nPeking (four days).--Visits to Great Wall and Summer Palace: reception at American Legation. Banquet by Chinese Press Association. Regent and visit to Winter Palace. Luncheon at Wai-wu Pu. Agriculture and Communications at Botanical Gardens. Audience with Prince.\n\nBanquet by Board of\n\nThe above programme hardly bears out Mr. Gerstle's statement, quoted in the newspaper cutting enclosed in Mr. Moore's despatch, that \"There will be nothing of junketing about this trip: it will be the commercial, not the social side of China we shall be interested in.\" For this change in the character of their tour the delegates themselves can hardly be held to blame, but they will doubtless be prepared to admit that the uninterrupted series of receptions and entertainments has seriously interfered with the serious study of the commercial situation in China, which forms the ostensible object of their journey. As a matter of fact, it does not seem probable that any tangible results in the direction of increased trade between China and the United States will accrue from this visit: speaking generally, no direct relation exists or are likely to exist for some time to come between the American manufacturer and the Chinese consumer, and vice versa. The trade is in the hands of the merchants or middlemen of San Francisco and the Pacific Coast ports and their correspondents in Shanghai and the large treaty ports of China, and it is the lack of American business houses of good financial standing and repute in Shanghai, Hongkong, and indeed throughout China, which accounts, I believe, for the comparatively slow development of American trade with China. Large American firms in Shanghai and Hongkong can be counted on the fingers of one hand, and I think I am not mistaken in saying that British firms are the largest importers of American goods in China. This remark also applies to exports, trade in which is liable to be handicapped by sudden changes in the American tariff.\n\n5\n\nI append a table showing the comparative value of British and United States trade with China during the past ten years.\n\nThe tour has been made the occasion for an outburst of speech-making, which has astonished even those accustomed to the flights of American oratory. Chinese Ministers of State, Viceroys, Taotais, gentry, and merchants have vied with the members of the commission in giving expression to their mutual sentiments of esteem, admiration, and friendship. If any one speaker may be said to have deserved the palm in this friendly contest it is the American consul-general at Shanghai, Dr. Wilder, whose statement that \"this embassy is a unique and monumental landmark in the history of China\" may be accepted as typical of the strain in which both hosts and guests have discussed the mission and its labours.\n\nYet, making all allowances for that exuberance of diction which Chinese orators of the present day, more especially those who have been educated in the United States, share with their American prototypes, and for the festive nature of the occasion on which these speeches were delivered, one cannot help being struck by the undercurrent of sincerity which runs through so many of the speeches, and reading between the lines, one perceives on the part of the Chinese a recognition of the possibilities which the disinterested friendship of one of the great nations affords, joined to a feeling of naïve gratification at the public praise bestowed on China's moral and material progress; and on the part of the Americans a sense of real pleasure, not unmixed with surprise, at the cordiality of their reception by a people reputedly anti-foreign.\n\nAs was to be expected, no opportunity has been lost of reciting America's claims to the gratitude and friendship of China. The return of the Boxer indemnity, the abstention from territorial encroachments, the educational facilities so generously offered to the youth of China, and the assistance rendered to the people of China in their crusade against the opium evil have been referred to again and again by speakers on both sides, and through the foreign and native press re-echoed all over China.\n\nIn the ears of those who remember the American boycott of 1905, and the agitation against the \"unforgettable wrongs heaped upon the people of China,” a movement inaugurated and maintained by that same Shanghai Chamber of Commerce which has taken the lead in the present demonstration, the frequent references to America's \"traditional and uninterrupted friendship with China and her people\" must sound a discordant note; and the president of the Nanking Exhibition's reference to the Canton-Hankow Railway fiasco, in which the American Development Company played so discreditable a part, as \"America's opening of China's trunk lines\" must have struck many of his hearers as singularly unhappy.\n\nIn one respect the delegates have undoubtedly done harm: I refer to their exaggerated and indiscriminating praise of Chinese railway construction and management. This was particularly noticeable on the occasion of their visit to Hangchow, when one of the delegates referred to the Shanghai-Hangchow Railway, a line whose construction is notoriously faulty, as being \"equal to the very first class of such work on American lines,\" and another speaker assured an audience of local officials and gentry that he had \"examined the railways of Germany, England, and America, and found that none of them surpassed the Chekiang Railway system.\" These statements have found their way into the native press, and will, it is to be feared, not only encourage the people of Chekiang in their opposition to the Government in the matter of the control of the railways now being constructed in that province, but will be cited by other provincial railway companies in support of their claim to build and manage their own lines.\n\nHARRY H. FOX, Acting Commercial Attaché.\n\n479\n\nPage 480\n\nPage 481", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-373 - Public Offices - 1910.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 429755, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-373 - Public Offices - 1910", "page_number": 492, "title": "CO129-373 - Public Offices - 1910", "content_text": "Chambers of Commerce on the Pacific Seaboard\" are headed by Mr. Willis H. Booth, an engineering contractor and banker of Los Angeles, president; and Mr. W. H. Gerstle, described as a \"transportation magnate,\" of San Francisco, vice-president. Mr. C. K. Field, of the \"Sunset Magazine,\" is official historian to the commission, and Mr. Charles N. Bennet, secretary. Mr. Hamilton Butler, United States vice-consul at Tien-tsin, is attached to the party as official interpreter, and Mr. A. P. Wilder, the American consul-general at Shanghai, accompanied them as far as Peking, apparently in his official capacity.\n\nThe delegates were not, as stated in Mr. Moore's despatch, invited by the Chinese Government, but by the Associated Chinese Chambers of Commerce. The idea of the visit originated, I believe, with the Shanghai branches of the American Young Men's Christian Association and the International Institute, whose membership is largely composed of American missionaries and returned students educated in America. It is doubtful whether the promoters of the tour and the American business men who accepted the invitation foresaw that the delegation would be treated by the Chinese authorities to all intents and purposes as an official mission from the United States to China. Yet this is what has happened: not only have the delegates been entertained by chambers of commerce, press associations, and kindred societies, but they have been officially received by the highest Chinese authorities, acting evidently under instructions from the Central Government, in every city they have visited; their progress, to which the epithet \"triumphal\" may well be applied, culminating in the unprecedented honour of an Imperial audience in Peking.\n\nThe following is a brief summary of the commission's tour up to date:\n\nShanghai (four days).—Visits to local manufactories, flour mills, cotton, woollen, and paper mills, &c.; Chinese waterworks and Government dockyard. Receptions and banquets by Young Men's Christian Association, American community, Shanghai Taotai, chamber of commerce, and International Institute.\n\nHangchow (one day).—Visits to Bore and Lake. Banquet by chamber of commerce, presided over by Governor of Chekiang. Journey from Hangchow to Shanghai by rail made occasion for popular demonstration of welcome all along the line arranged by Chekiang Railway Company.\n\nNanking (two days).—Visit to exhibition, official reception and banquet. Tea party to ladies of mission by wife of Viceroy; dinner at Viceroy's yamen. Receptions and luncheons by provincial assembly, educational and military authorities. Visit to Naval School, Polytechnic, King Tombs, &c.\n\nHankow (three days).—Visits to Hanyan iron works, waterworks, &c. Banquet by chamber of commerce: luncheon with Viceroy.\n\nPeking (four days).—Visits to Great Wall and Summer Palace: reception at Audience with Prince Regent and visit to Winter Palace. Banquet by Chinese Press Association. Luncheon at Wai-wu Pu. Banquet by Board of Agriculture and Communications at Botanical Gardens.\n\nThe above programme hardly bears out Mr. Gerstle's statement, quoted in the newspaper cutting enclosed in Mr. Moore's despatch, that \"There will be nothing of junketing about this trip: it will be the commercial, not the social side of China we shall be interested in.\" For this change in the character of their tour the delegates themselves can hardly be held to blame, but they will doubtless be prepared to admit that the uninterrupted series of receptions and entertainments has seriously interfered with the \"serious study of the commercial situation in China,\" which forms the ostensible object of their journey. As a matter of fact, it does not seem probable that any tangible results in the direction of increased trade between China and the United States will accrue from this visit: speaking generally, no direct relation exists or are likely to exist for some time to come between the American manufacturer and the Chinese consumer, and vice versa. The trade is in the hands of the merchants or middlemen of San Francisco and the Pacific Coast ports and their correspondents in Shanghai and the large treaty ports of China, and it is the lack of American business houses of good financial standing and repute in Shanghai, Hongkong, and indeed throughout China, which accounts, I believe, for the comparatively slow development of American trade with China. Large American firms in Shanghai and Hongkong can be counted on the fingers of one hand, and I think I am not mistaken in saying that British firms are the largest importers of American goods in China. This remark also applies to exports, trade in which is liable to be handicapped by sudden changes in the American tariff.\n\nPage 5\n\nI append a table showing the comparative value of British and United States trade with China during the past ten years.\n\nThe tour has been made the occasion for an outburst of speech-making, which has astonished even those accustomed to the flights of American oratory. Ministers of State, Viceroys, Taotais, gentry, and merchants have vied with the members of the commission in giving expression to their mutual sentiments of esteem, admiration, and friendship. If any one speaker may be said to have deserved the palm in this friendly contest it is the American consul-general at Shanghai, Dr. Wilder, whose statement that \"this embassy is a unique and monumental landmark in the history of China\" may be accepted as typical of the strain in which both hosts and guests have discussed the mission and its labours.\n\nYet, making all allowances for that exuberance of diction which Chinese orators of the present day, more especially those who have been educated in the United States, share with their American prototypes, and for the festive nature of the occasion on which these speeches were delivered, one cannot help being struck by the under-current of sincerity which runs through so many of the speeches, and reading between the lines, one perceives on the part of the Chinese a recognition of the possibilities which the disinterested friendship of one of the great nations affords, joined to a feeling of naïve gratification at the public praise bestowed on China's moral and material progress; and on the part of the Americans a sense of real pleasure, not unmixed with surprise, at the cordiality of their reception by a people reputedly anti-foreign.\n\nAs was to be expected, no opportunity has been lost of reciting America's claims to the gratitude and friendship of China. The return of the Boxer indemnity, the abstention from territorial encroachments, the educational facilities so generously offered to the youth of China, and the assistance rendered to the people of China in their crusade against the opium evil have been referred to again and again by speakers on both sides, and through the foreign and native press re-echoed all over China.\n\nIn the ears of those who remember the American boycott of 1905, and the agitation against the \"unforgettable wrongs heaped upon the people of China,\" a movement inaugurated and maintained by that same Shanghai Chamber of Commerce which has taken the lead in the present demonstration, the frequent references to America's \"traditional and uninterrupted friendship with China and her people\" must sound a discordant note; and the president of the Nanking Exhibition's reference to the Canton-Hankow Railway fiasco, in which the American Development Company played so discreditable a part, as \"America's opening of China's trunk lines\" must have struck many of his hearers as singularly unhappy.\n\nIn one respect the delegates have undoubtedly done harm: I refer to their exaggerated and indiscriminating praise of Chinese railway construction and management. This was particularly noticeable on the occasion of their visit to Hangchow, when one of the delegates referred to the Shanghai-Hangchow Railway, a line whose construction is notoriously faulty, as being \"equal to the very first class of such work on American lines,\" and another speaker assured an audience of local officials and gentry that he had \"examined the railways of Germany, England, and America, and found that none of them surpassed the Chekiang Railway system.\" These statements have found their way into the native press, and will, it is to be feared, not only encourage the people of Chekiang in their opposition to the Government in the matter of the control of the railways now being constructed in that province, but will be cited by other provincial railway companies in support of their claim to build and manage their own lines.\n\nHARRY H. FOX, Acting Commercial Attaché.\n\nPage 491", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-373 - Public Offices - 1910.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 429876, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-374 - Public Offices & Others - 1910", "page_number": 68, "title": "CO129-374 - Public Offices & Others - 1910", "content_text": "Fly Counsel.\n\n1910\n\nFeb\n\nprevious Paper.\n\n92671\n\nHONE\n\n3432\n\nC O\n\n3432\n\nRear 2 EL 10\n\nDraft Electricity Supply Ordinance, 1910.\n\nReturns, rearsed.\n\nbrns & you\n\n12 copies of Ord with copy Note for 52.1876.\n\nB. of T. cans 11 Feb:\n\nFurther\n\n2 Meh Bot\n\n5) WL27,859-1, 40,000.\n\n118 A&W.\n\nsubsequent\n\n#follico.\n\nh\n\n? Thank Godly where unsed off printed for transmission to Hong Kong with the crossing note.\n\ncquisentati\n\nre conson 2 points raised by M Colley\n\nWe mari uk B NT\n\nth? be haid\n\nA\n\nfre\n\nJRZ\n\n2\n\nALC\n\n3/2\n\nperced. We marked out a good number copies to Hongkong\n\nA Mie\n\nHisy\n\naviaquent Paper. * have arker 7 Booth privately\n\n3449\n\nIf the BMI can now adve\n\n(over)\n\nPage information is kept as is, assuming the \"(over)\" indicates a page turn. However, to strictly follow the instructions, the exact page numbering format isn't present here, so no changes are made regarding page numbers. The text has been formatted into paragraphs using HTML as per the instructions. Spacing issues and some obvious corrections have been addressed.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-374 - Public Offices & Others - 1910.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 429880, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-374 - Public Offices & Others - 1910", "page_number": 72, "title": "CO129-374 - Public Offices & Others - 1910", "content_text": "C\n\nELECTRICITY SUPPLY\n\n-----00000-----\n\n3432\n\nFra 2 TEB 10\n\n68\n\nHONG KONG\n\nNOTE\n\nI have settled the accompanying Draft after consultation with Mr. Chatham and Mr. Booth of the Board of Trade. The use of square brackets denotes that the words included in the brackets are inserted for consideration.\n\nTwo alternative forms of title are suggested; the first should be used if clause 4 is ultimately excluded, the second if clause 4 is included.\n\nThe proviso to clause 3 follows the form of the proviso to Section 4 (1) of the English Electric Lighting Act, 1888. It is presumably not intended that the regulations should be applicable in the case contemplated.\n\nClause 4 is inserted for consideration. As I understood my instructions, the ordinance is only intended to extend to securing the safety of the Public. English electric undertakers, on the other hand, are subject to various other regulations and restrictions as respects continuity of supply, price, &c. (See Electric Lighting Act, 1882, S. 6)\n\nMr. Chatham thought that it might be advisable at some future date to subject the Hong Kong Companies to similar conditions, and clause 4 accordingly confers a wide general power on the Governor in Council to make regulations.\n\nOn the other hand, it must be...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-374 - Public Offices & Others - 1910.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 430633, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 186, "title": "CO129-375 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [1-2]", "content_text": "the existing practice \n\nin regard to numbered \n\nin the ca \n\ndesps may be extended \n\nbe extended follared witho \n\nto other corres, tatrics of report to the \n\nto the follouring testuctions. Despo \n\nrelating to defence \n\ninternational \n\nmatters and to questions \n\nof \n\nAnviternational \n\nAdture should conting \n\nIn the sea rate \n\nto be sent via staty, \n\nbut unrect to procin \n\nthat a \n\ncareful discrimination is \n\nexercised in regard \n\nbooth coufe \n\nん \n\nsee no rea \n\nMarop why \n\nAdvantage should \n\nJould \n\nnot be cakey of the \n\nfacilities afforded by the Siberian route \n\nmajnity of despaliter \n\nof confidential character \n\nbut, unless \n\nin \n\nay particular case \n\nthere \n\nis some speci \n\nContray, \n\nK \n\nчие \n\nI consider \n\nthat there \n\nis no \n\nobjection to the \n\ntransmission \n\nof other confidential despatches via \n\nSiberia. \n\nThis course \n\nwill in future be adopted in sending deeps to Hong Kong, though heavy matter will of \n\ncourse still be sent by the sea \n\nroute.\n\nI have \n\nI have \n\nVet.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-375 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [1-2].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 447436, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-409 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [1-3]", "page_number": 534, "title": "CO129-409 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [1-3]", "content_text": "Ji :noluSO \n\nppa, zuil no aus, e bubu otar- boozuoli \n\nto () bra (1)ul.0m2.1.0 TQDI. 19 ...wig. \n\n3 \n\n1 \n\n1 \n\nPreparation of \n\nopium or import of (1) of Opium Ord.1909. \n\nc.f.Sec.35(1) and Sec.38 \n\nAdapted as in Sec.21. \n\n530 \n\nc.f.Sec.35(2) and (3) of \n\nAdapted as in Sec.22. \n\nic.f.too Sec.11(1) (a) and \n\n(c) of S.S.Ord.XXI of 1909. \n\nprepared or dross Opium Ord. 1909. \n\nprepared opium \n\nconfined to \n\n• to aliejuk \n\nSuperintendent. \n\n13 (1) \n\nPossession of \n\nwly. To (1)ul.2.1.0 \n\n-ni, a to jmigos/ \n\nwas to Taxode but \n\nopium other than \n\n(2) \n\nOnue of proof as \n\nworfe of vejaių 4 wai to nij«F no baur qui mulyo berufa \n\n( \n\nto origin of pre- \n\nmoly to (2)bi.nu.7.0 \n\nJulgo to (D)NI,690,1,0 \n\n• \n\n59 bls veri bajqebi \n\nTom bry solñuiż- \n\nKILTU MULA.mictal \n\nmigo to 20,060.1.: (1)y.ośɑ obây hun quyi Suki 10 Ir.bac.5.2 fo \n\nna na hajyabi \n\n+ \n\noizulani na \n\nT.... Z rwly? \n\nta hla vid \n\nfo I \n\n> tu beri \n\nnes inud al \n\n(u).000 taba \n\nmigo 10 (1).0.0.7.0 \n\nb. to đi bạn (D) \n\n.0.2.3 to 11.002. \n\n1 \n\nJanines mitequê \n\nmori hunde: \n\nmiyu wrx to \n\n- JAYBIŲ \n\nBeoth \n\nbo- \n\n4. He taute ni b'dev #8.15. \n\n\"Just: white \n\nwa Jusia ndritaque od moonwolf Jiang anonya. kid»*ING heary 1, Ilan ow ma İquur! TO -il to noijonqeri mealwery best- to intrucnur Eur \n\n() \n\n24 \n\nL \n\nthat of Covermentic.f.also Sec.11(d) of S.S. origin prohibited.¦ord.XXI of 1909. \n\n-pared or droës opium. \n\nc.f.the idea underlying \n\nAdapted to meet the \n\nSec.39 of Opium Ord.1909; ¦elimination of the but vide Sec.11(2) of 8.5.Opium Farmer Taken Ord.XXI of 1909. \n\n(3) Report by Superin-g.f.Sec.1(3) of S.S.Ord. \n\n16 (a) \n\n-tendent as to \n\nproof by analysis, \n\nof origin of pre- \n\n-pared or drošs \n\nopium or opium \n\ndross or halan \n\nconclusive evidence of origin. \n\nSale of prepared or drose opium confined to |Superintendent. \n\nSale of prepared or dross opium to femele or \n\nyoung person pro- -hibited. \n\nProhibition of sale of dross \n\nopium or halan \n\nexcept to Superin- -tendent or his licensees. \n\n(b) Prohibition of \n\nre-preparation of opium dross or nslan. \n\nPossession of \n\nXXI of 1909. \n\nc.f.Sec.58(2) of (pium ord.1909. \n\no.f.Sec.39(6) of Opium Ord. 190v. \n\n1 \n\nfrom S.S.Ord.XXI of 1909. \n\new, very important and taken from S.S. lord.21 of 1909. \n\nL \n\nIdentical. \n\nIdentical. \n\n1 \n\nc.f.Sec.35(6) of Opium jord. 1905. \n\nAdapted. \n\nc.f.Sec.14(b) of S.S.Ord. New locally, taken \n\nI of 1909. \n\njc.f.Sec.35(4) of Opium \n\nother than Govern-Ord.1909. \n\nfrom S.S.Ord..XI of 1909. \n\n4 \n\nAdepted. \n\n-ment prepared \n\nopiwn or dro88 \n\nA. \n\ndean, oc bajyn \n\n.098.1. \n\nnu drabandeiraqui of esquenil tud \n\nopium prohibited. \n\nto mouth wi \n\n28 \n\nLimitation of \n\ndross or halan allow \n\njo.f.Sec.35(4) of (pium \n\nquantity of opium Ord.1909. \n\n-ed in possession \n\nI \n\n1 \n\nt \n\nt \n\nof private person. \n\nSimilar but adapted.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-409 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 452615, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-419 - Individuals - 1914", "page_number": 461, "title": "CO129-419 - Individuals - 1914", "content_text": "# BUME & REIF\n\n28th October, 1914\n\n**LICENCE TO TRADE IN HONG KONG**\n\nSupplementing our Application sent to you yesterday for Licence for Mr. Reif, of this Firm, to trade in Hong Kong, we beg to inform you that a Licence has now been granted to him by the Secretary of State for the Home Department in the form in which a copy is enclosed herewith.\n\nWe trust the granting of this Licence will facilitate and expedite the arrangements in regard to the Application for special Licence for Hong Kong.\n\nWe are,\nSir,\nThe Under-Secretary of State\nfor the Colonies,\nWhitehall,\nLONDON S.W.\n\nYour obedient servants,\nMaude Jolly Mader booth\n\nis probably by this time interned. This may make it in practice difficult or impossible for him to carry on but it does not, I think, alter the theoretical aspect of the case and we might, if my view is accepted, telegraph to the Governor informing him of Mr. Reif's position, stating that he has been granted a Home Office licence to trade in the United Kingdom and suggesting that if the Governor sees no objection a similar licence should be issued for him in Hong Kong under the Trading with the Enemy Order in Council.\n\nJassuum that the copy of ... to time antes antin: there is nothing important to say but it is to consider whether a License &c. (as above) should be issued for him.\n\nWADE, TETLEY, WADE, & SCOTT.\nLATE\nBILBROUGH, WADE, BILBROUGH,\nTETLEY & CO.\nSOLICITORS.\nHERBERT T. WADE, (NOTARY) W. INGRAM TETLEY.\nH. O. WADE, (NOTARY)\nCHARLES LOGT.\nTELEGRAMS: \"NOTARY, BRADFORD.\"\nTELEPHONE No 2272-2273.\n\nLicens `41863` REC `REG 290CT 14` Enc. `303` G. `452`\n8. Piccadilly, Bradford.\n\n2.11.14\nLG.g.11.14\nit no partes ww resident where cram aloneo Sinclar", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-419 - Individuals - 1914.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 453471, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-421 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [3-4]", "page_number": 257, "title": "CO129-421 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [3-4]", "content_text": "# \nrevo Ilo sseniaud zniqqida bus adnau znivad,bnoïde \n\nadd aqled Jussievod Toy,sebissä .biror erid \n\n-mao sal.10 .Jnesqolevab lo axejjam Ils ni BİNALİSTOM \n\nanoiton tendo lidiw stequoo at betoagra ed Jon- \n\nrebro ni sevod rad dwg Bui ede ličnu \n\n• \n\n• \n\nbus trakinoo ela edit to eIqoeq mted ew bre wor \n\nbluoda ow yie morjet on sÅ STS † 18001 ans add to \n\nsoziqar ct side weed erad le Tento roce qled Jos \n\nno beźnaqab tiesitne os doidw 107,agnist nistres \n\nai word of trow ew Jodh .Tuw ont ezoted egowd \n\n-unow wo dqeoos ylikser lliw siyosy woy restaur \n\nat lowpe Jon li jebaz od vend bluoda „Berufort- \n\noù beau tot aaolt as boog as vízjen vytiloup \n\nequwa mʊxî emo \n\ndowod esols ai don and on sa Ilar Jones an i \n\neno ei eredt .bugIniet edd no nemgudawoo wo ddiw \n\nvoy svoted yni,bear adnew dołdw „Isvewod grids \n\nof Jon BBOTH Woy mław od si Juld bus besooTY ti,sagnim edt Juoda seisitza avɔlovirî nailduq agnifest ylhmitt tisút odaneila of Jnow Jon ob mey \n\n• Vijnwoo woy abrowod ritiw qu xia zisotsoa bris nen seeniard Ils 878 87 \n\njef of list Jon IIiw ew Jud jelqoeq to asalo terit \n\nIIi qu nije od med: to yllia si ti .wonzi ment \n\n.nifest \n\ned mo equi elstil provenutorsį, traseng end JA \n\nmi adroite avenido uitzimilda od so two bles \n\nerit to joked,ajnamevorqui Isteneg tuo anİYTISO betoogre vldamener ed you yet,poy as 8001 wi \n\njnenievom yns ni woy adiw dol nians at world of ,aefqoeq ort edt to exaller sid abiawod betserib \n\nowd edt berkasta ed mno bog, yas szoted Juď \n\nbom dos quer of di quað að tarit tamı aslqooq \n\n·Terito dose ridiw saindaque \n\nnwo of mujer er nedw dadź bewass taex ym no? \n\n-:98eme qel \n\n.eeft inmob \n\n-:ebonegal \n\n-:90+ bumo) \n\n-:ebensqst \n\n252 \n\ncountry, we will not fail to bring to the notice of the proper quarter what we have heard of our journalists. We thank you very much for the kindness and courtesy extended to us today, which we will be very pleased to return, should you visit our country. \n\nThe visitors then left their cards and took leave.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-421 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [3-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 454364, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6]", "page_number": 578, "title": "CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6]", "content_text": "# NA **CONFIDENTIAL**\n\n33834 \nREC! 22 JUL 15!\n\n**GOVERNMENT HOUSE, HONGKONG, 16th June, 1915**\n\n571\n\nSir,\n\nI have the honour to enclose translations of extracts taken from a series of letters dating from the 5th December, 1914, to the 24th April, 1915, posted under one cover from Ludvig Voight, Hamburg, to Ludvig Voight and Company, 38, Kiangse Road, Shanghai, through Eugen Ritter, Montreux, Switzerland.\n\n2.\n\nThe letters were stopped here on the grounds of evasion of the regulations for postal censorship. The extracts appear to indicate the possibility that the firms of Messrs. Norbury Natzia and Company and J. Booth and Company have been trading with the enemy.\n\nI have the honour to be,\nSir,\nYour most obedient,\nhumble servant,\n\n**THE RIGHT HONOURABLE ANDREW BONAR LAW, M.P., &c., &c.**\n\nGovernor, &c.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 454367, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6]", "page_number": 581, "title": "CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6]", "content_text": "574 \n\nNowodw2 bank...\n\nCo j hir ada man solsitogra \n\n1. Past prod Im \n\nJO TEŽAVA \n\nwith the goods already there (Shanghai), because if, as is to be expected, the Suez Canal is closed, delivery of goods from England will cease entirely, and the English will have the experience that instead of damaging the German trade as they intended, the damage will recoil on their own heads. One can already say that English trade is suffering more through the war than German is.\n\n*The remaining 45 cases Testings are waiting the labels from Manchester which had not arrived in Milan up to the 15th December, though they were ordered on 24th October\". (Again referring to Norbury Natzio & Coy.).\n\n\"With reference to Indent No. 533, 3 cases Flannelettes. According to the original Invoices sent you, these are to be paid to J. Booth & Coy., 50 Fountain Street, amounting to £42 8 3.\n\n20th April, 1915.\n\n\"I received on the 15th instant your letter dated 3rd March, Finance No. 280 and note with regret that a whole row of letters has failed to reach you, notwithstanding the fact that all correspondence has been sent at least three times by different routes. As the oldest letters date from 5th December it is hardly to be expected that you will now receive the originals. I send these again via America and will send copies via Switzerland. This latter route seems to me the safest, as the route via Siberia has apparently become unsafe, as your last letters to Messrs. C. Schmid-Wahlgren were all opened by the Russian Censor at Tormen. I would recommend you the following routes:- Originals by German Post, first copy to Herrn Ludvig Nystrom, Gothenburg. This is a second firm belonging to Herrn C. Schmid-Wahlgren, because I anticipate that the Russian Censors opened the letters because they guessed there was a German behind C. Schmid-Wahlgren, not without right. There are of course no Russians at the Frontier, but the English will have placed people there to hold up the German correspondence. The second copy please sent to St. Gallen. I will not in future make use of covering addresses, as you do not wish me to do so*.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 456710, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-426 - Public Offices - 1915", "page_number": 26, "title": "CO129-426 - Public Offices - 1915", "content_text": "Admiralty\n\n1915\n\nHONG KONG\n\n-15275\n\n152/5\n\nRec'd 2nd April 15\n\n\"War\n\n23\n\nSources of Supply, Hong Kong. - Jaglour\n\n31st March\n\n... desirous of utilising\n\nLast previous Paper. Asks whether there would be\n\n4th April,\n\nTel: G.N. com.\n\nNext subsequent Paper\n\n15738\n\nobjection\n\n4th April. Cotting\n\nmention\n\nTel.\n\n7\n\naccordings\n\ndesire\n\n(The booth spells him Tagion\n\nhis office\n\nany\n\nbut the\n\nwith make it clear in any case)\n\nGovernor, Hong Kong. Admiralty\n\nto whitish\n\nharbours\n\nHarbour Master.\n\nCan he be spared?\n\n\"So was the gallant Commander\n\nAB 1/4/15-\n\nAnsh\n\n15438\n\nBr-1.257\n\nI am convinced that ... will gladly pure him\n\n(£8,195). £81,086-13. £45,000. 12/19, A.&E.W.\n\n£207,039)\n\n£81,997-51. £45,000. 11/14.\n\nR 3/14/15.\n\nAv\n\n3.4. A\n\nPage 23\n\n...\n\nPage 23", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-426 - Public Offices - 1915.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 457911, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-428 - Public Offices - 1915", "page_number": 4, "title": "CO129-428 - Public Offices - 1915", "content_text": "VOL. 21\n\nFROM Foreign Office 6 A Home Office\n\nDATE 3 Dec.\n\nSUBJECT H. L. Gupta & Thakur. \"! Emotor Tyres Detained. Russian Cruiser \"Orel\" Trading with China & Siane.\n\nH. Z. Gupta & Thakur. Labels (German) for Cigar Bosses. Jetz Bros & Co. of Java Pacific Steandriptive.\n\n9 10 H. Z. Gupta & Thakur. 14 Establishment H. Z. Gupta & Thakar.\n\n15 China (Companies ) O. in C., 1915. H. Z. Gupta & Thakar.\n\nA 16 | Motor Tyres Detained. A Canton - Hankow Railway Redemption Loan.\n\n17 * 20 - Opium.\n\n21 J 23 i 24 45 27 4 19 \" A 3/4 A (Chinese Descan Registrations Protection of Brid. Subjects of Liquidation of Enemy Firnes.\n\nEnemy Goods ORE 5.5. Bayern M. Volpicelli, Italian Consul General. Judion Sedition. Search Percevian Consular Offices.\n\nof Indian Sedition. Thakur & Gata. Release & Repatriation of the Trouver Frough Transhipment of Prohibited Goods with a Treatment of Prisoners.\n\nChange in Form of Government of China.\n\n11 Feb. Consignment of I'mbrella Frames of Germany LA quesoro Bume & Neif.\n\n5 mar. Umbrella Frames of German Origin.\n\n18 a Agency of Tercar Oil Co.\n\nFROM DATE Home Office 7 April Firme 24 India Office\n\nof SUBJECT Messrs Sanders, Reliders & Co. Naturalisation of H. Wehrenberg.\n\n7.0. 25 may Smuggling of morphia from U.K. W.-Dec. 2 June Opium Smuggling from U.K.\n\n28 July. Trading with Enemy. 6 Sept. Incorrs Norbury Natzias Co. & J. Booth & Co.\n\n20 A Firmo Trading in Hongkong. W.E. Nationality of W. E. Scharff.\n\n21 Oct. Naturalisation Wie Kirch. 19hov. Liquidation of German Firms.\n\n30 Case of Jure L. Kirch.\n\n13 Mar. Publication of 100pril 6 may. 4 Heur as to Singapore Rick. Opicer May Supply of Opium to macas 8 June Cutbreak at Singapore.\n\n28 Seditions Indian Newspapers whiz Les 1 July. Seditions Indians & German American 10 1/2 16 A A 22 hov. Bhagwan Singh.\n\n• German American Intrigues. Seditions Activities in the Gurdwara. eve \"Bulow Parliamentary Counsel 150ch. Goods Transhipped Medical Adviser (Low) 13 April.\n\nHouse (Daniels) 17 June In F. Browne. (Arnott) 24 Sept Mr G. G. Burnett. Dr. F. Clark.\n\nPlans of Commous 29 April Japanese Demands F * 3 June 7 Dec. 2/ 41 for Subversion Ou China. (East of Bril. Trade in Far Deportation of Alien Enemies.\n\nTreatment of German Traders. Hotel Licences Held by Germans.\n\n(47612A) Wt 12218/2108 2000 10/28 II & J, Ld Gp 113", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-428 - Public Offices - 1915.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 458337, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-428 - Public Offices - 1915", "page_number": 430, "title": "CO129-428 - Public Offices - 1915", "content_text": "IC \n\nHome Offici \n\n1915 \n\nHONG KONG \n\n41185 \n\nW+B \n\n426 \n\nC \n\n14 \n\nRECE \n\n(REGE) \n\nMead's Norbury Natzin Co \n\nBooth's bo \n\n6 Sep. Transmitto Plice Reports respecting \n\nNo offence against \n\nLast previous Paper. \n\n33834 \n\n...\n\na \n\nYou 34 Trading with the enemy papers \n\nto have been committed by either firm \n\nCopy Conf. 16th Sep A \n\nNext subsequent Paper. \n\nConf. 27. R7/9/05 \n\nCopy & Ear cant 27. R7/9/05 \n\n2075.10- \n\n06.7/9/05 \n\nAs mik \n\nArc \n\n9.9.13- \n\n(J 8401-b.) Wt. 14242-jz. 26,000, 7/15 18. \n\n0.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-428 - Public Offices - 1915.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 458338, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-428 - Public Offices - 1915", "page_number": 431, "title": "CO129-428 - Public Offices - 1915", "content_text": "Any further communication on the subject of this letter should be addressed\n\nTHE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE,\n\nHOME OFFICE,\n\nLONDON, S.W.\n\nand the following number quoted—\n\nHOME OFFICE,\n\nWHITEHALL\n\nT.E. 9332/3\n\n4th September, 1915,\n\n427\n\nPLICATE\n\nSir,\n\n[RFOR 6 SEP 15]\n\nWith reference to your memorandum 133834 of the 2nd August enclosing copy of a despatch from the Governor of Hong Kong respecting the firms of Messrs Norbury Natzia and Company and J. Booth and Company, I am directed by Secretary Sir John Simon to enclose herewith, for the information of Mr. Secretary Bonar Law, copies of Police Reports in the matter, and to say that no offence against the Trading with the Enemy Acts appears to have been committed by either firm.\n\nThe Under Secretary of State,\n\nColonial Office.\n\nI am,\n\nSir,\n\nYour obedient Servant,\n\nJ. Rossbeller", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-428 - Public Offices - 1915.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 458341, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-428 - Public Offices - 1915", "page_number": 434, "title": "CO129-428 - Public Offices - 1915", "content_text": "COPY T.E. 9332/3\n\nRE\n\nMANCHESTER CITY POLICE FORCE.\n\nC.O\n\n430\n\n41*30\n\nCOPY\n\nOF\n\nREPORT.\n\n(REGS & SEPTS)\n\n12th August, 1915.\n\nJ. BOOTH & CO., Fountain Street, Manchester.\n\nWith reference to the communication of the 7th instant received from the Home Office.\n\nI beg to report having made enquiries and ascertained from Mr. J. Booth, Shipping Merchant, that in July, 1914, the business in question was carried on by Messrs. Leicester & Wooler at that address, and that he subsequently acquired same, the former partners being now out of the business.\n\nAmongst the contracts that he took over was the one from Lud. Voight & Co., Hamburg dated 12th January, 1914 (before war) through an agent named E. A. Kauke of Hamburg, for five cases of Flannelette goods. The goods, viz., three cases (not five) were shipped per S.S. \"Telemachus\" to Shanghai, on the 28th July, and they have not been paid for.\n\nThe Bills of Lading are held by Mr. Booth, who does not intend to part with them, and the firm have not yet got the goods in Shanghai.\n\nThe correspondence supplied by Mr. Booth forms enclosures, and speaks for itself, which please return after examination.\n\nThe enclosed trade designs were handed to me by Mr. Booth as similar to those used by Lud. Voight, and supplied to them for the order in question, by Messrs. Norbury Natzio & Co., (not Natzia) of Elsinore Road, Old Trafford, Stretford, Lancashire, who print the labels and hold supplies to the order of Lud. Voight.\n\nIn", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-428 - Public Offices - 1915.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 459056, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-429 - Public Offices & Others - 1915", "page_number": 617, "title": "CO129-429 - Public Offices & Others - 1915", "content_text": "AGENCIES.\n\n(HOME)\n\nABERDEEN.\n\nMr Aban á. Bwith, 4, 1ovanha Turzaco.\n\nABERKOATH.\n\nCaptain WLAM BOTON, GA, Glorer Stębal\n\nAYE.\n\nJOHN M. Goodwin, Ex., M, North Quay\n\nBARROW IN FURNESS.\n\nMALTER P. BELL EM.. Mesure. Little & Co., Why Brokers.\n\nBELFAST WR, E. Near\n\nWilson & Reid,\n\n*9, 11.12. Ponsen Quay.\n\nBLACKPOOL\n\nCAL. J. P. Raze, E, Windane Place.\n\nFleetwood\n\nBRISTOL\n\nT. CROITWILL, Eng., Moura, H. Whitwill and 200, The GFAR.\n\nBRIXHAM\n\nCaptain K. Bwanzaan, é, House Close Turkkoč.\n\nCARDIFF.\n\nMen Coat Bros & Co. Bata Dona Dept. d. 0. Cody, Croft Firma, Westbourne Rom. i'earth.\n\nCARNARVON\n\nCaptain H. Tuomas, Bhawillen. Landwron\n\nSalientan\n\nCORK.\n\nMARTA, Wyke & Mor IN, Boal. Ma.\n\nCOMER\n\nCapt. A. G. Known. “Yembe,\" HID F\n\nDUNDEE.\n\nCaptain F. MILL, B, Comment Broct Mr Jams Nidală & Co. is High Hirset\n\nJAM 8. BLITORIA, E., J. Commercial Street.\n\nZDINLUKUH.\n\nJames Malem, Bag, 1. Towar Place, Leith.\n\nYALMOUTH\n\nMy A. Meam. Williams & Co\n\nThe Quay.\n\nFLEETWOOD.\n\nCaptain J. P. Bazz, 4, Windsor Plaza.\n\nGLA KUOW.\n\nMr.D WRIGHT Butru, zih, St. Vincent Kt,\n\nGRANORMOUTH.\n\nTi Eay., 4, Bonth Pain Blom.\n\nGILENOCK\n\nCaptain B, C. Tants, Hashem Master\n\nGRINERY,\n\nGap. F. G. WArra, 10, Carrington Terracel\n\nHarrington Hippk: Ķibal Őriimalis\n\nHOLYHEAD.\n\nAD BOBERTA, 1 sq. 18, divanley Üreseent.\n\nJERNICH.\n\nCap. G. Bows, Megan Lewasch\n\nand Pemberton, Custom Home Buildings.\n\nJERSEY.\n\nMenen. Wennga & LAPMOTTAK, 10, 11, Org\n\nsed. Explazado.\n\nLANCASTER (Prat ori, Captain T C Fugen, Harbour Master ›\n\nLEITH\n\nJANEN MCCALLUM, E, 1. Tower Placo.\n\nJANE Boss For A Dick Photo\n\nEL MATRESSS RA, Salloni Homie\n\nLondon Burke,\n\nMr. H. Brek, W. Bonthead Road, East Ham\n\nCaptale T. P F, Mesa\n\nLamport and\n\nHolt. Hayal Albert Pročk. Lent. H. Bra, R.K.R., 0, Panchurch Street E.C\n\nCamun ↑ X. WILLIAMS\n\nIn Mark Lane, EC\n\nH. 5. F. Pirman, tal, Enriett Road. Limehower, E.\n\nCaptain A 2004, 283, IPawibary Bond, X.\n\nDaptain 6. 14. Rasoja, 1.2.3, Jamage\n\n4. Mishania Howe, 24. Michael v Ader.\n\nCombi, T. G.\n\nCap. P. R. Voglia, samo of Messey, Bider\n\nDempster & 106, 4, 8. MARY Axo.\n\nLYDNEY RAMBOTTI SILONTELİ\n\nCap. X. Lewin, Harbour Master\n\nNEWPORT (KOM\n\nMALTILL BRAND, Esq., Mes D\n\nBed&Co.\n\nNEW RONDUSH (ANGLINGALI\n\nCapito H. Evans, Bran Darwydd.\n\nFORTH \"KIELIS\n\nCaptain\n\nArt, Fallmmaker, 7 Tyne Street.\n\nMot Jehr LILY E Nox La. Thì Ra Quy,\n\nMr. C CARSELL Costor House. Longhope\n\nPENARTH.\n\nCaptain C. Covil, Craft Hon. 1. Westbourne Roud.\n\nPENZANCE.\n\nw\n\nMewn W. D. MATHEWE & Bom, Lloyd e Aceny Oles\n\nPRESTON\n\nCaptain P. H. Estton, Harbour Master\n\nQUEENSTOWN\n\nMuar Joux Dawich & Co., Bals Brokers\n\nSOUTHAMPTON.\n\nCart | SMITH, Holzaplein Companion Co., Lt, South Camla, Tran Abay.\n\nCaptain C. ELEY. The big Federation, 24. Care wil\n\nSOUTHERN ON SEA.\n\nCaptain J. FINCRETE. Hazalsuere, Ri, Alexandra Bond.\n\nSTROMNES A\n\nCuptman Jax. Calder, Springbank\n\nHWANBIA.\n\n--\n\nJENAMArk, Eng, wo Kessy. Slapaan Bron\n\nTAYFORT HADDOUK\n\nCapt Jax. CAMPELL, Harbour Master.\n\nWEYMOUTH-\n\nCaptalu V. Hause, Aplačan Marino Buperintendent. 0,WAL\n\nWHITEHAVEN... DAVIDEO. Eng. Ship Bonkar. \"Elatangian\n\nFOREIGN.\n\n-\n\nARO. PINTAND, Hes. H\n\nSchroder &\n\nADELAIDE (ŠINTE ÄTITRALIA.\n\nThe SOUTH BALIAN BEKVE regon CA, Elpenn. Strację »\n\nADES\n\nCaptain J. Banten, Mesure, Comaujme.\n\nDishaw & Bros.\n\nChoo TAY BAZZIOA).\n\nCaptain J. C. WILLIAMS, ÁRONT, Ellerman . L24.\n\nALICANTE.\n\n-Mer Happitapo i Ša\n\nALMERIA\n\nFRUBA SPENCER. F\n\n+ BERMUDA.\n\nCapt. J. W. Man met, Harbósir Master, Hamlison\n\nBEYKOLT (8NJA.\n\nNr. A. 3. DYLOBO,\n\n-Demo. J. V, Xpllanickypt al. Wang\n\nBOMBAY,\n\nCapt F.. Hamutantke, Marino Burveyor Empat Menage Fin Gon & 3 loqu\n\n20 O\n\nBRINJIWI, Itali\n\n*. G. Coto, Kaq, GM&A, M.3.0.\n\n*Captain H. S. TAY,\n\nBRITISH HONDURAS\n\nBoltelters --Hemera Femark Panas, Katjes.\n\nBRUNSWICK (ORIAL\n\n*† 1 1. Hysacram. Bagi\n\nBURMAN,\n\nCaptain B. Ganuner, Taulmeta\n\nBUENOS AYREN\n\nOmplain J. Wamanız, Mosori, Wankite & Co. Keconepice, Bella,\n\nHUNBURY (ATSTRALÍA),\n\n2. H. Aamson, E., Bhip Chandler\n\nBUSSELTON (W. ACRYMIZIA), Capledo J & Ivan. Explanade Hotel\n\nwww.cam.com\n\nCALOUTTA.\n\nOpalo H. Exalót, Andatle Ble \"Navtention Company\n\nCH, E. TROTT. Autatio Stren Kavigation Co. Ld.\n\nCALLAO\n\nCaptain B. T., Lex. Contemetar. P.O. Box Ba,\n\nCHRISTIANSAND (BWEDEX), BALY B, Bag,\n\nBOLDTIÊM.\n\nMr. CH. GALLI, Pit Barrier\n\nDUNKERQUE\n\nW. Moosa, Hoga (\n\nDURA\n\n_ship Chand-\n\nCaptain F. Bakan, Mosl\n\nELSING\n\nMenu & $. Da Heling, and EQUAL\n\nHavera. Apaano & Enj\n\nFINLA\n\nHEMMAN EXPA\n\nMES. TATTON & CO A\n\nGAIN EST\n\nMILANOJENN CMOS\n\nMer Je\n\nGEFIERW KALAS. KAKERETA, Belleitor-K F. WISTER.\n\nGOATZACCALCOS Mr. GLL, 2.3\n\nHALIFAX,\n\nHAVANA\n\nMI, Lê Huy Pr. HFLAINEDÉ Mower. OG B\n\nHODAME\n\nMT. J. W. KAŻY, MON\n\nTRONG CÔN\n\nHan, Kay\n\nCaptain H. Golde, 4, o\n\nJATTA, PALM\n\nHear A. H. SCANDA\n\nKOPE\n\nMr. OTTO Lex. Mpari. I\n\nCaptain A. mart, dwon\n\n---\n\nZAN PALMA\n\nMr. B. W. Gilman, kej\n\nMAGALLANE\n\nCaptain C. WILLARD, DI\n\nPUNTA KOR\n\nCast W B. RMZAMAN, Steved\n\nL\n\nMANILA (P.L\n\ndos keima.\n\n•\n\nMAURITIUại\n\nCaptain Melhorarn, Pa\n\nHELIOCENE (VITA Marine. The VicroMAN SIKY OTHER\n\nUTRaotike 06, 1\n\nLimite.\n\nH. A. Underwood, Beer Captaly Davin AYLARAK, Mar\n\nMONTREAL.\n\nCape A. Keir, Port W Mr. Rick44, Berman'i *MOVEMEIN CHERMA\n\nCaptain H. GARNET\n\nExpecta\n\nNEWCASTLE, N.8.T\n\nNEW ORLEANS.\n\nCaptain W. Jana, Min\n\n819, Cobution Surves\n\nNICOLAIEFT.\n\nMeer.. ANTONIO & Bow, BLE\n\nNORFOLK, Vimeriza, U CERİN HAWAMATER Saloon. Fitosms, La BAL. Law Bulkuling, 1-1-\n\nGromby reals.\n\nNORTH CHINA\n\nCaptain H. Wow, cage of T Laginearing & Stuning Co., Ltd\n\nOPORTO\n\nMeum. Bruckner & MasalaA,\n\nPENSACOLA (FUORID\n\nKOTS. CART & CO. Nr. G. W, OLIVEs, Lloyd's ap\n\nWINDAU, PEVAL, RIGA, LIFT\n\n\"FETROGH-1, Bosnia. How P. BomнHOLDT & 2\n\nPORTLAND OREGON,\n\nCaptain L. VETARY, 60. Tanda\n\nPORT AUGUHTA 18. AU\n\nCaptain P. WAZINDOR, DID. Sposa. To\n\nCarperallon, c\n\nInland Telegraphic Address, PENINSULAR, LED, LONDON.\"\n\nCable Address, \"PENINSULAR, LONDON.\"\n\nTELEPHONE HOS. 1111 CITY\n\n8000 AVE. (10 LINES)\n\nRETURN TICKETS\n\nrts east of Suez at a Fare-and-a-half,\n\nThie for two years from date of depar-\n\nture to arrival on return.\n\nNATION RETURN TICKETS\n\nany route including P. & O.)\n\nAND\n\nAND-THE-WORLD TICKETS.\n\nRates on application.\n\nTED PARCEL RATES.\n\nare conveyed by the Company to all\n\nat which its Steamers call; also to\n\nAs the Company by their Passage Ticket exempt themselves from all manner of liability, no matter from what cause arising, in respect of Passengers' BAGGAGE, attention is specially drawn to the faciltles afforded for its INSURANCE.\n\n(Vide the enclosed notice.)\n\n615\n\nNO BERTH ACTUALLY SECURED UNTIL A DEPOSIT HAS BEEN PAID. Cheques, &c., should be made payable to the Company, and be crossed \"Willams, Deacon's Bank, Limited.\"\n\nPassages are only booked on the terms and conditions stated in the Passage Tleket.\n\nPENINSULAR & ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY, 122, LEADENHALL STREET, LONDON, E.C.\n\nPLEASE\n\nIN\n\nTO\n\nYOUR REPLY.\n\nGuiana\n\n23rd June 1915\n\nPASSAGE DEPARTMENT.\n\n(The reply to be addressed to the Managing Directors),\n\nReference 27956/1915\n\nThe Under Secretary of State,\n\nSir.\n\nColonial Office,\n\nDowning Street, S.W.\n\nWe beg to acknowledge the receipt of your\n\nal to India and China Coast Ports at letter of the 22nd instant enclosing one addressed\n\nmoderate rates.\n\nBeulara on application.\n\nTimage ond all information, apply at the\n\nP. & 0. Company's\n\n92, LEADEHRALL STREET, E.G., DR ..THUMBERLAND AVENUE, W.C.\n\nLONDON.\n\n70, Poskes Book (Third Edition).\n\ntoms, Choth, Leather,\n\n(Postage id)\n\n!\n\nto Mr S.A. Neville, a passenger by the s.s.\n\n\"NAGOYA\", and which letter we shall have pleasure\n\n•\n\nin sending on board for delivery on the arrival\n\nof that steamer in London on or about the 25th\n\nJuly.\n\nWe are,\n\nsir,\n\nNP\n\n+\n\nYour obedient servants\n\nзалат\n\nFor the Managing Directors", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-429 - Public Offices & Others - 1915.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 459112, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-429 - Public Offices & Others - 1915", "page_number": 673, "title": "CO129-429 - Public Offices & Others - 1915", "content_text": "of the Bet in Liverfoot, when Zur Committe would booth his case.\n\n3. Zur Bonar Land has however since received further letter 35*328 stating that the C'ke in question have ascertained that it would be useless for Deville to proceed to Liverfor at present, and recommending that, meanwhile, an affle should be made to you. I am therefore to enquire whether it will be possible for you to do anything to assist Zr Deville in the circumstances.\n\nBy making H. But tone 1915 Rating Last previous Papers 32862 HONG KONG 35520 \"Lis REC C. O 671 35520 REA 3 15 Antimony for Jeper. Antimony are to Concurls in proposed instructions Governor but considers that export of 560 Santimony from Ia pen to the Wis. may be provided Consigned to the British Concel Tee to Gov. 5+ August \"Cop above tel & er to 70. Munitions hefst Cop (with cop abere tel) to be Lyven harve Davis Hetty Gf the Grad two (29822 abmast J affilms. 32715 € wer. cantoundly be a Glowed KARE 33560) for + 33560) in Jahan (32862 F.O. also it a tivo Sear consumption presumably the other He shall have to Consult wa. be to New York conrigning tove Gov better to first to tel there fantticular shefiments ou 2 tel to you. of ab Corres the arrant wow aft F.O. of its being ashwing to be exfent to the U.S.A.J theg wat haves amy oly on to exfrontation if consigned to thes (Signed) H. J. READ, for the Undertrof State.\n\nNext subsequent Papor whether desired 41228 185,195). W1.81,086-13. 45,000. 12/18. A.&E.W. (107,030) 91,097-51. 45,000, 11/14.\n\n+ copy such", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-429 - Public Offices & Others - 1915.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 460386, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-431 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [1-2]", "page_number": 519, "title": "CO129-431 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [1-2]", "content_text": "Abbey, F. H.\n\nAbbey, T.\n\nAbbott, F. J.\n\nAckland, R. J.\n\nAdair, N.\n\n87\n\nA\n\nBaker, H.\n\nBaker, T. S.\n\n*Balloch, G.\n\nBandinel, R.\n\nBardens, G. R.\n\nBarham, W. H.\n\nAbraham, D. E, J.\n\nAdam, L. D.\n\n*Adams, F. C.\n\nAdams, F. R. J.\n\n*Adamson, W.\n\nBarlow, A H.\n\n*Bartow, Sir J. Emmott, Bart..\n\nM.P.\n\nBarnes, J.\n\nBarrett, E. G.\n\nBiason, C. H. Blogut, E. T. J. Blundell, G. **Boje, T. 0.\n\nBounar, J. W. C.\n\nBooth, W. M. Botustow, J. C.\n\nBottenheim, A. H,\n\nBonneville, C. A.\n\nBourne, F. S. A., C.M.G.\n\nBowden, R. C.\n\nBowden, V. G.\n\n516\n\nThe following List of Members includes\n\nall Members of the China Association\n\nand British Association of Japan resident\n\nin England or abroad.\n\n*Addis, Sir Charles 8.\n\nAinscough, T. M.\n\nAlabaster, C. G.\n\nAlgie, A. F. Allen, C. *Allen, C. F. R.\n\nAllen, W. N. C. Alport, C. M. Alway, W. T. Anderson, A. La Auderson, Fredk. Anderson, Geo. W. Anderson, J, G. Anderson, L. J, C. Auderson, R. N. *Anderson, T. C. *Anderson, W. C. C.\n\nAnton, C. E. *Anton, J. R.\n\nArgent, W. A. Armstrong, F. H. Armstrong, John *Arnhold, H. E.\n\nArnold, H. Arnould, H. M.\n\nArthur, Capt. T.\n\nAscherson, Dr. H. S.\n\nAshton, F.\n\nAshworth, Francis\n\nAtwell, W. E. Auld, J. D.\n\nAusten. A. W. S.\n\nAyscough, Francis\n\nB\n\nBabington, Anthony\n\nBailey, H. G. O.\n\nBailey, W. S.\n\nBain, Allan W.\n\nBain, C. M. Baker, Geo.\n\n*Barry, Sir John Wolfe, K.C.B.\n\n*Barry, A. J.\n\nBartlett, S.\n\nBartlett, S. J.\n\nBarton, G. W.\n\nBarton, John\n\nBarton, S., C. M.G. Bateman, A. E. Bateman, E. F. Bates, Woo. Beart, E. Beart, Montague *Beavan, P. W.\n\nBeavis, O. E. H,\n\nBeck, J. M. Beeston, P. E. *Behrens, G. *Beith, Alex. *Bellios, R. E.\n\nBell, G. H.\n\nBell, Harold\n\nBell, H. F. L.\n\nBell, H. 8.\n\nBell, H. T. M.\n\nBall, R. G.\n\nBell, R. T.\n\nBennet, A.\n\nBennett, P. S. Leigh Bennett, W. G.\n\nBent, P. S.\n\nBerger, Henry Barigny, Th. de Berkley, E. J. Beswick, C. Bethell, H. Beytagh, L. M. F. Bidwell, G. B. D. Bird, H. W. Birnie, L. Biron, C. *Bishop, F. C. Black, J. R. *Blackwell, R.\n\nBlaker, C. *Bland, J. O. P.\n\n• Resident in England.\n\n* Member of the General Committee.\n\nBowden, V. R.\n\nBowley, F. B. L.\n\nBox, R. H.\n\nBoyce-Kup, J.\n\nBoyd, C. A. S. *Boyd, H. R.\n\nBrady, A. A.\n\nBrady, G. 0. Bragg, C. H. Brailsford, J. A.\n\nBrazier, H. W.\n\n*Brazier, J. R.\n\nBredin, W. H.\n\nBredon, Sir R. E., K.C.M.G\n\nBremser, A. 8.\n\nBreann, Byron, C.M.G. Brenan, E.\n\n*Brenan, E. V.\n\nBrewitt-Taylor, C. M. Briniog, J. W. Brinkworth, G. Britton, F. G. *Broadbent, J. F. *Brook, Henry\n\nBrockhurst, G. N.\n\nBrockhurst, G. W. Browett, Harold Brown, N. S. Brown, Dr. David *Brown, Thos.\n\nBrown, P. B. Brown, W. 8. *Browne, Percy H.\n\nBruce, Lient. Col. C. D.\n\n*Bruce, Robt. H.\n\nBryer, A. Buchan, R. G. Buck, R. S. Buckland, H. W. Buckland, P. J.\n\nBuckle, N. Bugbird, F. H. Bullard, W.\n\nBunting, E. I.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-431 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [1-2].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 461986, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-433 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [5-6]", "page_number": 619, "title": "CO129-433 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [5-6]", "content_text": "## The Aryan\n\n\"We hold ourselves bound to the Natives of our Indian territories **by the same obligations of duty** which bind us to all our other subjects.\" - Queen Victoria,\n\n611\n\n## The Gospel of Guru Nanak\n\nGuru Nanak has been called the Prophet of the Punjab; is he not also the Prophet of Sind? His blessed feet did sanctify the soil of Sind. Yes, during his many travels to different parts of Asia - travels to Turkey and Arabia, Bagdad and Siam, Cabul and Kandahar, the Deccan and Ceylon, Bengal and Burmah - The Teacher tarried for some time in Sind and taught the Truth. In the present hour of our trial, when so many are lost in party politics - when social conscience is not yet well developed, when so many of our young men think of the temporary arrangements of time, ignoring the Eternal Laws of God - in the present hour of our trial, we stand in need of the teaching of Guru Nanak. He came at a time when there was conflict between Hindus and Mahomedans; he came at a time when the spiritual vision of India was obscured by veils of creeds and forms. He came to proclaim the Gospel of Peace, Brotherhood, and Love.\n\nNot many, indeed, were there who understood the man and his message. Some considered him to be as good as a candidate for the lunatic asylum. His own father thought him mad. He is sent to the school. The teacher tells him to read a book. He asks the teacher, \"What will it avail to know all, and not to have a knowledge of God?\" He is asked to keep a shop: \"Deal with the dealers of the True Name\" is his reply. He is asked to enter the Government service; he says he must make faith his occupation. People had reason to complain that he was an unpractical man. But, remember, it is these unpractical men who raise and redeem communities and nations. India stands in need today of unpractical men of this order - men who perceive that the Unseen is the one Sovereign Reality, that God, not gold, is the truth of life. Nanak had the conviction concerning the supreme meaning of life. A beautiful little story in the Sikh Scriptures has it that Kaliyuga tempted Guru Nanak with the wealth of the world, but Guru said: \"I possess everything; I do not want the wealth of the world.\" Kaliyuga next tempted him with the sovereignty of the East and West; but the Guru said that he had renounced all sovereignty to serve the Lord. He understood what your practical man often fails to understand, that our home is not here but in the Unseen, in the heart of God. He understood that every individual is a soul, a manifestation of an Eternal Idea. We confound ourselves with externals, with our bodies or earthly environment. But unto the Teacher came a realization of the Truth that man is more than his externals. And so, as you review his life and teachings, you find that the one truth he taught and lived in daily life had reference to the sovereign reality of the Unseen.\n\nHis Gospel is very simple, but just on that account, very significant for us today. I have loved to think of him as the prophet of the Living God. He spoke of himself as Nanak Nirankari - a worshipper of God the Spirit. What is his interpretation of religion? He does not confound religion with rites and ceremonies. He distinguishes religion or spirituality from formalism. Tired and spent in strength, he enters one day the Mahomedan mosque at Mecca and there is found sleeping with his feet turned to the kabba. The keeper of the temple - the Imam - rouses him and tells him: \"What have you done? You are sleeping with your feet turned to the kabba? Is not this the place of God?\" What answer does the Guru give? \"Pray be not angry; but tell me where shall I turn my feet, where the House of God is not?\" A significant answer this: and throughout his life, he strikes a note of protest against formalism. At Benares, he enters into a discussion with Pandit Chattar Das, telling him...\n\n(Continued on Inside Back Cover.)\n\n## Vol. II.\n\n## MARCH-APRIL, 1912.\n\n## THE COLOUR BAR IN CANADA.\n\nThe theory of **NO VOTES NO TAXES** is accepted in all the Western countries. In British Columbia, Syrians, Bohemians, Galicians, negroes, &c., and even the Chinese in the province of Ontario can vote, but not so with the Hindu, according to the following case which appeared in the Vancouver papers:\n\nBecause he is alleged to have cast a vote in Vancouver, B.C., in the Provincial Election on 28th March, Houssein Rahim, a Hindu, was arrested on a charge of perjury. A warrant for his apprehension was issued on the 29th March, 1912.\n\n| Details | Description |\n|---------------|--------------------------------------------------|\n| Rahim's Background | Rahim landed in Vancouver about two years ago, and on several occasions has defended in the courts attempts on the part of the immigration officials to ship him out of the country on the ground that he did not come direct from India. |\n| Charge | Rahim is alleged to have acted as a Socialist scrutineer in booth No. 7, Ward Four polling station, and it is further alleged that he cast a vote in the same polling station. |\n\nThe Provincial Elections Act specifically declares that no Hindu may exercise the franchise. Rahim is well known to the immigration authorities of Vancouver because of his successful resistance of efforts of the Dominion Government to deport him. \n\nIt developed on investigation of the case that Houssein Rahim, 139 Pender Street East, manager of the Canada-India Supply and Trust Co., Ltd., is catalogued on the Vancouver voters' list as No. 2838, and a duly qualified elector. His application for registration shows that he took oath before Mr. W. E. Flumerfelt, a commissioner for the taking of affidavits under the Elections Act, that he was a duly qualified elector in the Vancouver city electoral district. Mr. Flumerfelt is a well-known worker in the Liberal party. It is alleged that following Mr. Flumerfelt's acceptance of Rahim's declaration, his name was placed on the voter's list last September, prior to the Dominion election.\n\nNos. 3 and 4\n\nIt was intimated that it is the intention of Attorney-General Bowser to conduct an investigation into the acceptance of Rahim's declaration by Mr. Flumerfelt with a view to the possible revision of the latter's authority as a commissioner for the taking of affidavits under the Elections Act. Mr. Flumerfelt is an old resident of Vancouver, long associated with politics, chairman of the Vancouver School Board, and a man whose knowledge of election practice and affairs would lead to the belief that he knew the provisions of the Elections Act, and was a man well qualified to act as a commissioner under the Act. Section 7 of the Act under which he holds his appointment as commissioner says: \"No Chinaman, Japanese, Hindu, or Indian shall have his name placed on the register of voters for an electoral district, or be entitled to vote at any election.\"\n\nThe charge of perjury contained in the warrant issued for Rahim's arrest is declared to be based on the fact that in his application for registration, he allegedly swore before Commissioner Flumerfelt in paragraph 4: \"That I am in good faith a qualified elector in said electoral district.\"\n\nIt is worthy of note in connection with the case of Rahim that it was Hon. W. J. Bowser who brought before the Legislature and caused to be passed, the amendment which specifically shut out Hindus from the exercise of the franchise in British Columbia. The Attorney-General took this action shortly after the invasion of Hindus commenced some years ago. He realized the peril of allowing the franchise to Hindus, etc., and the amendment became law. The statute was subsequently declared to be intra vires of the powers of the Legislature on a test case carried to the highest courts.\n\n\"I shall certainly see that the name of this man is struck from the voters' list forthwith,\" declared Hon. Mr. Bowser when the alleged voting of Rahim was called to his attention. \"Yes, I have heard that in a Liberal morning newspaper, it was declared that the man had been acting for the Conservatives.\"", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-433 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 463368, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-435 - Governor Sir May & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1916 [9-11]", "page_number": 460, "title": "CO129-435 - Governor Sir May & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1916 [9-11]", "content_text": "# Steam Turbo-alternators, Condensing Plant, Switchgear &c.\n\nBabcock & Wilcox, \nAriel Rouse, Farringdon Street, London, E.C. \nBoilers, Mechanical Stokers Draught Plant &c. Gantry Crane, \nCoal Crusher, Coal weigher & Conveyor.\n\nJoseph Booth Bros. Ltd. \nRodley, Leeds, Yorkshire.\n\n1, Garder, Snell & Rider, 8 Queen Anne's Gate, \nWestminster, have the matter of transformers and Steam \nPipes in hand, and are waiting until Contractors are in a position to guarantee shipment before signing actual \ncontracts.\n\n**(BD.) Gibb Livingston & Co.,** \nAgents.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-435 - Governor Sir May & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1916 [9-11].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 466109, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-439 - Others - 1916", "page_number": 339, "title": "CO129-439 - Others - 1916", "content_text": "been imposed with the view to securing that the supplies of Opium in the country should be adequate for military needs, and it is therefore important to take all steps to prevent smuggling, which, if carried on on a large scale, will endanger these supplies.\n\nThe delays to shipping should, it seems to us, be mentioned as a subsidiary reason of the proposed regulations.\n\nYours very truly,\n\nH. Fac\n\nJune 1916 32157\n\nREC\n\nbooth. Rothee BYUL 16\n\nPage 334\n\nThe hole's hau beut ne do nê\n\nllother aple will there wheel I tooth. 1)\n\nKam marked the ablandoms that seam frecemory. 27\" care to come in acad -com then, please do so. You\n\nKalco Deleeryjne\n\nThe Home Dec. in asking aliand the maller that it will I des ille Copelthe Anne settled Sinued as son as mille", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-439 - Others - 1916.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 466865, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "page_number": 447, "title": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "content_text": "Page 16222\n\nDRAFT.\n\nMinute.\n\nMr. Buck 12/4/16 Risley 13/4/16\n\nMr. Collin 13\n\nMr. Grindle 13\n\nFor G. Fiddes. 13\n\nSir Hy Fast,\n\nSir H. Anderson.\n\nMr. Steel-Maitland.\n\nMr. Bonar Law.\n\n(Minutes incomplete)\n\n18 AM 1916\n\nThe 4th April\n\nnews upon the\n\nG. Lim\n\nin\n\nThe swathe of to Suffield's claim\n\nyou\n\n2.\n\nAnd to of you.\n\nin Bonar Law's opinion,\n\nthe dispute between\n\nyou and\n\nSir Suffield causes to be regarded \"funnily personal\", inasmuch\n\nas the outcome\n\nof a pathetic and official contention of the Along matter viz. the censure of Mr. Booth, which was\n\nentrusted to you because you were at that time the Chief Justice of the colony.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 468251, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-443 - Governor Sir May - 1917 [7-9]", "page_number": 14, "title": "CO129-443 - Governor Sir May - 1917 [7-9]", "content_text": "Enclosure\n\nHongkong General Chamber of Commerce.\n\nSir,\n\nHongkong, 9th June, 1917.\n\nI am directed to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of 6th April last (No. 3679/1916) enclosing a copy of an \"Interim Report on the Importation of Goods from the Present Enemy Countries after the War\" presented by Lord Balfour of Burleigh's Committee on Commercial and Industrial Policy, and requesting the views of this Chamber thereon.\n\nMy Committee have assumed that their views have been requested on the subject matter of the Report as affecting the Empire generally and not merely this Colony.\n\nThey have based their views on the assumption that the Allies will be able to dictate the terms on which peace will be granted, but realise that the policy to be adopted with regard to enemy goods will be largely governed by the peace terms the Allies are able to insist upon.\n\nSubject to the above, my Committee have come to the following conclusions:-\n\n1. That they are inclined to agree with Sir Alfred Booth's memorandum, and to think that the objects of the Paris Economic Conference can be better attained by a tariff.\n\n2. That prohibition of imports required in the United Kingdom which cannot be obtained within the Dominions or from the Allied Nations would be detrimental to our own interests.\n\n3. That facilities and where necessary assistance should be afforded to British Industries which have been inaugurated since the war began for the manufacture of articles of trade which had previously been largely in the hands of enemy countries.\n\n4. That little progress can be made with 2 and 3 above without first consulting the self-Governing Overseas Dominions, in order to arrive at some basis of negotiation with the Allied Nations and", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-443 - Governor Sir May - 1917 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 469428, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-445 - Public Offices - 1917", "page_number": 302, "title": "CO129-445 - Public Offices - 1917", "content_text": "fail to find a single opium-poppy. On arrival at Lungling, the consulate writer and I were entertained to a Chinese dinner-party in his yamên,\n\nThe discovery of only one solitary field of opium along the route between Nantien and Lungling must, I think, be taken as evidence of the strenuous efforts which have been made during the past few months to eradicate all traces of the prescribed plant; from one or two more talkative residents encountered en route I obtained admissions of a considerable recrudescence of cultivation during last year, but all agreed as to the thorough measures of suppression carried out since November last. In the T'engch'ung district, for instance, no less than three separate expeditions of eradication had been sent out, under territorial, military, and police officials respectively, and it is only just to place on record that their duties were performed in a very thorough manner.\n\nThe normal order of procedure was for my caravan, headed by the writer and myself, to take the lead, and for the Taoyin's more imposing party to bring up the rear. The 1st April was, however, appropriately celebrated by the failure of the Taoyin's party to keep touch with us at a parting of the ways, this added some 2 miles for them to the long and undulating road to Siangta. Thence to P'ingka is normally reckoned as a single though lengthy stage for caravans; at the Taoyin's request we split it into two, halting at the small hamlet of Huchiachal, 7,000 feet high, picturesquely situated in the midst of dense groves of bamboos. At Huchiachal we encountered our first rain, and thereafter we had not a single rainless day until the 19th April. From Pingka to Hankuai, high above the right bank of the Salween, with a magnificent view of the lofty mountains on the other side, was another long day's march.\n\nThe crossing of the Salween was a tedious business for so large a cavalcade; two bamboo rafts were provided, taking only some five mule-loads or ten men on each trip; the method of propulsion across the swift current was by a species of flat umbrella fashioned of stout bamboo; at each end of the craft an \"oarsman\" plied one of these cumbrous weapons by plunging it into the water and pulling it towards himself with powerful strokes.\n\nArrived at the left bank of the Salween, we were in the Chênk'ang district; and at the head of the very long and stiff ascent from the river we were met by the local magistrate, Tang Te-ch'uan, a pleasant elderly official, who travelled with us until we left his jurisdiction. Tê-tang, where his official residence is, was our third halt after crossing the Salween; this place was made memorable for me by a sufficiently unhappy experience. Somewhere about A.M. a gale of wind, accompanied by torrents of rain, brought my tent down over my head, and my slumbers to a beautifully abrupt close.\n\nThe town of Chênk'ang was reached next day. Formerly there was a Chinese Shan Sawbwa of Chenkung, but his downfall was brought about as the result of the Manchu viceroy, Hsi Liang's, policy for the gradual absorption of the Chinese Shan States into direct Chinese administration; and save for a few picturesque ruins of the Sawbwa's palace, the place is now shorn of any pomp and circumstance it may have once possessed.\n\nTwelve days' travel, although for the most part along comparatively unfrequented routes, had now disclosed but one solitary field of opium-poppy, and I therefore decided on a somewhat rash experiment. None of the four maps of Yunnan which I took with me gave any indication of a road from Chênk'ang to Mienning, the next district town on my list, and the recognised routes between these two places are circuitous in the extreme, passing through either Shunning or Yünchow. I ascertained, however, that a road practicable for chairs existed, and elected to attempt it. Fortunately, by this time the Tengyueh Taoyin had resigned himself to accepting my lead, or he would almost certainly have protested. For five days we followed the roughest of mountain paths, which had in many places to be prepared overnight for our transit by the felling of trees and clearing of jungle. At none of the intermediate halts, Pank'a, Maulung, Hup'o, and Manlai, we were assured, had a white traveller ever been seen, and I cannot recommend my example as one to be lightly followed. The only camping-ground to be found at Manlai was on a wind-swept spur projecting out of a deep ravine, and once again a sudden hurricane brought my tent crashing down.\n\nBelow Manlai our route crossed the Namting River by a ford which would obviously be impracticable during the heavier rains of midsummer. At the Namting we quitted the Chênk'ang district and entered the jurisdiction of the Chinese Shan Sawbwa of Kengma. During our six days of travel through Chenkang territory we had found no opium crops whatever, though I learnt that there had been a small harvest of the earliest sown poppy. The magistrate was said, however, to have been indefatigable in the work of eradication, and I was assured—not by himself—that since November of last year he had never been in residence at his post for five consecutive days.\n\nDuring our day and a-half through the jurisdiction of the Kengma Sawbwa we were escorted by his Shan-Chinese clerk, who was full of his recent visit to Rangoon and Lashio in attendance on his master. The road from the left or south-east bank of the Namting River was a terribly steep ascent for some 3,000 feet, which we negotiated in pouring rain; this was succeeded by a hair-raising path—with an average breadth of 14 inches at the most—for some 5 miles along the edge of a precipice. After the heavy rain the surface of red laterite was so treacherously slippery that I felt safer on my sure-footed Yunnan pony than on my own legs.\n\nOur next halt, the Shan village of Chepi, was on a route traversed more than twenty years ago by H. R. Davies, the standard authority on the province of Yunnan, and doubtless by other foreigners since; here for the first time I abandoned my tent, in favour of a comparatively clean temple.\n\nAt this point we were met by a guard of honour sent out to meet us by the P'uêrh Taoyin, who had arrived at Mienning, our pre-arranged meeting-place, on the 11th April. I owe the noisy but efficient commandant a debt of gratitude for his thorough arrangements for my comfort at each of our halting places throughout the Mienning district.\n\nFor several days in succession I had seen nothing whatever of the Tengyueh Taoyin; at Chêpi, however, much to my surprise, he rode over to call on me. The reason for the visit was only apparent when he propounded the astonishing request that as during seventeen days' travel in his circuit we had only found one field of opium-poppy, I would overlook it in my report to His Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires.\n\nOn my replying that, had we found one hundred I should be bound to report one hundred, and that I must equally report the one; he then suggested that I should add a rider that the field found was close to the scene of military operations against the offending Kachins. To this I rejoined that I had been over the country in question and he had not, and that I knew for a fact that the two places were at least two and a-half days' journey apart. Soon afterwards he took his leave, considerably crestfallen.\n\nApril 14th: Shortly after leaving Chêpi the road to Mienning makes a very steep ascent of some 3,000 feet, on to a lofty shoulder, the view from which on a clear day must be magnificent, embracing extensive country in the jurisdiction of Shunning and Kengma, in the Tengyueh circuit, and Mienning in the Puerh circuit. On an open bit of grass land just beyond a pillar marking the boundary, a large booth had been erected, and we were met by the Puerh Taoyin and the Mienning district magistrate, each of whom furnished a guard of honour. The Puerh Taoyin, Lu Pang-shun, a Kiangsu man aged 56, has held office for the past twenty-one years in Yunnan, and possesses a very thorough knowledge of the province. Two periods of service he has spent in Tengyueh, first as sub-prefect in Manchu times, and secondly as taotai under the Republic in 1913. The Mienning magistrate, Hsieh Yunan, has formerly held a billet in the War Office in Peking; he struck me as being unusually intelligent and capable.\n\nAt Pingyehhsün, where we halted for the night, the two Taoyins came over to call. From the first, Mr. Lu showed up very favourably beside his Tengyueh colleague, and displayed a friendly acquiescence in my suggestions with regard to our joint tour.\n\nThe following day we reached the ancient walled city of Mienning, inhabited by a mixed population of Chinese and Shans, while Lolos and natives of several other tribes inhabit the surrounding villages. On arrival at the city, we were escorted for a sort of Jericho-tour round the walls before being conducted to the old lieutenant-general's yamên, especially done up for the occasion, where ample quarters were provided for both Taoyins and their escorts, and a refreshingly clean and well-aired suite of rooms was set apart for me.\n\nMy caravan had now been on the move for nineteen consecutive days; men and animals had, I felt, well earned a rest, and I accepted without compunction the friendly invitation of Lu Taoyin and the magistrate to stop over one day in Mienning. The first night they entertained the Tengyueh Taoyin and myself at dinner; the next day they gave me a bathing-party picnic at a hot sulphur spring some 3 miles outside the town.\n\nFor the journey from Mienning to Szemao my first care was to ascertain the route followed by Lu Taoyin to the rendezvous; he had come, as I expected, by the most direct road through Chingku hsien (the modern name of Weiyuant'ing of Manchu times). I asked Mr. Lu point-blank whether he had seen any opium cultivation on his outward journey; he replied that a few isolated patches had been sown at the beginning of the season.\n\n[2729 -1]\n\n298", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-445 - Public Offices - 1917.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 476669, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-448 - Governor Sir May - 1918 [4-6]", "page_number": 484, "title": "CO129-448 - Governor Sir May - 1918 [4-6]", "content_text": "# \n-2- \n481 \n\n4. Objectionable exhibitions of human and other freaks are also publicly shown for gain from time to time. This practice also seems undesirable.\n\n6. It is true that it has been laid down that what outrages public decency and is injurious to public morals is a misdemeanour at common law (see the authorities quoted in Roscoe's Criminal Evidence, 12th Edition, at p.701). Thus it has been held that keeping a booth for the purpose of showing an indecent exhibition which the public were invited to enter on payment, (B.v.Saunders, 1 Q.B.D. 15), and the exhibition by a herbalist of a man naked to his waist and covered with sores, (R.v.Grey, 4 F. & F. 73), have been held to be indictable offences. It is, however, doubtful whether the common law misdemeanour would cover the case of some of the objectionable medical advertisements. As it is advisable to legislate for the particular case of medical advertisements it has been thought convenient to deal at the same time with indecent publications and exhibitions generally.\n\n6.\n\nIn my opinion this is an Ordinance to which His Excellency the Governor may properly assent in the name of His Majesty and on His behalf.\n\n## \nAttorney General.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-448 - Governor Sir May - 1918 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 480076, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-454 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1919 [4-6]", "page_number": 493, "title": "CO129-454 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1919 [4-6]", "content_text": "It is possible that financial difficulties may eventually necessitate the excision.\n\nIf the Catho...\n\nOn G. Severn. Sel. 1919 \n19th May \n\nLast previous Paper. 20. 19956 \n\nOne HONG KONG \n30980 Police Probationer required \n489 C.O \n30ca0 READ MAY 19 856.\n\nAppt. offered to Rd. h. Mr. Borth 8 hours \nFur: to Lient Booth 21. \nCopy abary 22 \nNext subsequent Paper.\n\nSea Gov +491251371 \n\nThis is the reply to your enquiry. \nIt looks from the reference N.O. for this vacancy that one is available. In H.R. his experience might be useful.\n\n(20194-45.) Wt. 80876-21. 50mm. 11/18. D & S. G. 122 41. \nPuls 29.5.19.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-454 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1919 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 480077, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-454 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1919 [4-6]", "page_number": 494, "title": "CO129-454 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1919 [4-6]", "content_text": "## TELEGRAM from the Officer Administering the Government of Hong Kong to the Secretary of State for the Colonies\n\n**Received Colonial Office 2:8 p.m. 23rd May 1919**\n\n`8014956` **RES** `1956` with reference to your telegram 26th April `22161`.\n\nOne police probationer required see my telegram 10th April.\n\nFor the appointment of Police Probationer Lord Milner has approved the selection of Lieutenant L.H.V. Booth, R.N.V.R. whose papers are attached. Offer him the appointment, subject to medical examination, on the usual terms.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-454 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1919 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 480078, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-454 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1919 [4-6]", "page_number": 495, "title": "CO129-454 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1919 [4-6]", "content_text": "## For the appointment of Police Probationer\n\nLord Milner has approved the selection of Lieutenant L.H.V. Booth, R.N.V.R. whose papers are attached. Offer him the appointment, subject to medical examination, on the usual terms.\n\nTHE EASTERN TELEGRAPH COMPANY, LIMITED.\n\n| LONDON STATIONS: | ADDRESS | CONTACT |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| ELECTRA HOUSE, | FINSBURY PAVEMENT, E.C. 2 | (3692 Wall 4 Line) |\n| | 11, OLD BROAD STREET, EC. 2 | (3682 Wall) |\n| | 4. LEADENHALL STREET E.C. 3 | (951 Avenue) |\n| | 29, MINDING LANE. | 6,0,3 MARKET 20. MARX, LANE. E.C. 3 |\n| | BLOGS. 37. HOLBORN VIADUCT, É.C 1 | 41 4. (1014 Holborn) |\n| | 48, PARLIAMENT STREET, S.W.1 | (852 Avenue) |\n\nISSUED FROM PARLIAMENT STREET, S.W. 1.\n\n| No. | Received at | From | Foreign |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| | 23 MAY 1919 | | |\n| | Time 11-30 | police probationer | |\n| 5445719- | 2.25 | Severn | |\n\nThe following TELGRAM: Chapelife yellowed An open Words one see my tel with ape.\n\nTHE BALTIC. ST. MARY AKE E.C. 3 (2616 Gormar.lo) (4408 Avenue)\n\nREPLIES SHOULD BE ORDERED Via Easton: Quevels wonus viduki be officially repeated Sry R Book.\n\nNo inquiry respecting this Telegram can be attended to without the production of this Copy.\n\n`Waterlow & Sons Ltd., Printers, London Wall, London, 1961`", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-454 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1919 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 480079, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-454 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1919 [4-6]", "page_number": 496, "title": "CO129-454 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1919 [4-6]", "content_text": "## \n\n30980 Thing to be flect \n\n$77 492 Graft \n\nLAV Booth RNVR Gucht \n\n1/4/19 18xbng \n\nYou sir, Downing Street. No. 1919 \n\nNow, 25 sqme thor, 177. \n\nI am directed by \"Secretary Surgonet to inform you that you have been selected for appointment as a Police Probationer in the service of Hong Kong, with salary at the rate of £225 per annum, subject to the conditions specified in the enclosed printed paper No headed \"Police Police Probationers\" and dated Mar \"T4, May, 1919, and to any regulations not inconsistent with that paper which may be issued from time to time by the Government of the colony. At present 20% of salary is a bonus.\n\nFUE, ESQ.\n\nIn any future not covered by the printed paper or the regulations referred to above, you will be subject to the general Orders issued from time to time by the Government, and also to the Colonial Regulations in force for the time being. A copy of the latest edition of the Colonial Regulations is enclosed.\n\n3. Should you desire to resign your appointment at any time you will be required to give three months' notice of your intention or to pay to the Government a sum equivalent to three months' salary.\n\n4.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-454 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1919 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 483733, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-461 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1920 [5-7]", "page_number": 86, "title": "CO129-461 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1920 [5-7]", "content_text": "and of My dear Sir,\n\nYours of May 28th from the Cape, dated 1900, was received.\n\n(Signed) MILNER\n\nStubbs\n\n1920\n\nMy dear Sir,\n\n...\n\nLast previous Paper.\n\nGR25481-\n\n160/5110\n\n3028/11\n\n404 Tel. 20 July\n\nSubsequent Paper.\n\nHONG KONG\n\n34125\n\nNew Salaries Scheme\n\n85\n\n34125\n\nRE: 12 JUL 20\n\nApplication to present Police Officers\n\nMr I.M. King\n\nSubmit's recommendations\n\nMr P.P.). Wodehouse,\n\nMr O. Burlingham\n\nand Mr T.R. Booth\n\nof\n\nFr. C4 Perdue,\n\nRequests approval\n\n...\n\nThank you\n\nCan we for Hong Kong\n\nTerboa\n\nunbridled\n\naccept the\n\nSant\n\n20 July. Your telegram of this morning\n\ncomprises\n\nJ.C\n\n11:10 a.m 20/7/20\n\nproposals\n\nConf. Police Officers Proposals\n\napproved\n\n5/9/7/20\n\nMolner\n\nAt once\n\n19.7\n\n369-11) Wt. 26680-35 50,000 11/19, H. St. G. 122/ 41,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-461 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1920 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 483735, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-461 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1920 [5-7]", "page_number": 88, "title": "CO129-461 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1920 [5-7]", "content_text": "Gr 3628/11 37 proposed that the Police salaries should remain unaltered. In 1911, despatch No.75 of the 9th March, 1911, Lord Harcourt placed the Police Officers in the revised Cadet Classes; with the result that the Police appointments became the best, from the point of view of emoluments, in each class, as the Police Officers had free quarters. It is on record that Sir F. Lugard did not concur in the increase of pay then granted to the Police Officers and that he proposed to refer the matter back for further consideration; but he apparently did not do so.\n\n4. At the present time Mr. P. P. J. Wodehouse, Deputy Superintendent, is entitled to the following emoluments: £680 salary, £120 duty pay, £160 temporary allowance of 20%: total £960. Mr. T. H. King and Mr. D. Burlingham, Assistant Superintendents are similarly entitled to £792 and £744 respectively, and Mr. C. G. Perdue, Probationer, is entitled to £420. As Acting Captain Superintendent, Deputy Superintendent, and Assistant Superintendent, Mr. Wodehouse, Mr. King, and Mr. Perdue are, under the existing rules, permitted to draw £1,090, £912, and £570 respectively.\n\n5. Under the scheme which has been approved Mr. Wodehouse, with nineteen years' service in the Police Force, would receive £800, with additional pay while acting as Captain Superintendent of Police; and Mr. King, Mr. Burlingham, and Mr. Perdue, with fifteen, eight, and seven years' service, would receive £700, £525, and £500 respectively. I suggest that Mr. Wodehouse should be placed on £950, and that Mr. King should commence on £800. Mr. Burlingham has been particularly lucky, having been promoted to Class III two days after his twenty-second birthday, whereas a Cadet does not reach that class until he is thirty or more years of age. He cannot well be put back very far, but I think that it would not be unfair to place him upon £700 and to advance him by annual increments of £20 until he reaches the efficiency bar at £800, when his case could be further considered. Mr. Perdue, and Mr. Booth, the", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-461 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1920 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 486544, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-466 - Individuals - 1920", "page_number": 223, "title": "CO129-466 - Individuals - 1920", "content_text": "## HONG KONG\nthe S. of S. who has asked for the matter; the substance of frame. Hashewood an report abes give tirs Walker stre Gove for 3 of halten to List Com Buna 10, 9/20 1920 f June. at previons Paper.\n\n19415. Increase in pension Applic for. CO 29415 RED 221 (RE IS JUN 20 \n\nMr. Beckett. Accading pemains is $1225 to the Hong Hong by aud Blue Booth this I am unforced it is payable at 3/8 the dollar which it £224. 7.\n\nCinst 23 yamai žo tsubarquent Paper. 51361 Inform mine. that the ta Klone Intion of He Lov. of thing kang the fort bus approved Certonin incremess in pensiones of relief payable Chap Cemporary Balkanman- porn the ith Le 1919 and that the Cs are awaiting instructions from Ang Krug has to the exact Each lase of July. awarent payable-us which they hops to receive by the middle \n\n1949-12) Wt. 26089-35 80,000 11/19 H. St. G. 122 41. Add that the increase in his", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-466 - Individuals - 1920.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 488968, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-470 - Public Offices - 1921", "page_number": 116, "title": "CO129-470 - Public Offices - 1921", "content_text": "## \nof opium available for export to China, while the general result will be that we shall be pushing further eastward the boundary line between effective and non-effective control of opium manufacture and consumption. The further that line advances to the east the more difficult will it be for smugglers to carry on their operations, and the more possible it will be to make an effective reply to any complaints on the part of the Chinese Government. This seems as far as it is possible to go at present. We can do little for years to come in respect of the trans-Salween States and the check of smuggling from there into China. Moreover, although article 15 of the Convention lays down that the contracting Powers shall take all necessary measures to prevent the smuggling of opium into Chinese territory, compliance with this article appears to be dependent on the co-operation of the Chinese Government; and as far as can be judged from a perusal of the correspondence on the subject, China is prepared to do very little to suppress the smuggling of opium from China into Burma. We are, therefore, certainly not called upon to adopt in the interests of China a rash policy of intervention in the trans-Salween States, or to take costly and almost impracticable measures to control smuggling operations along a frontier many hundreds of miles long.\n\n## \nThe same difficulties which prevent any effectual check of the smuggling of opium from the trans-Salween States into China also operate to prevent any effective check on the smuggling of opium from the trans-Salween States into Siam, and though, in the case of Siam, as appears from the correspondence forwarded with Mr. Lewisohn's letter, dated the 17th December, 1919, the Siamese authorities have expressed themselves willing to co-operate in any measures which may be practical for the suppression of the traffic, the control exercised by them over the Shan States on their side of the frontier is probably even less effective than our control over our own trans-Salween States. The measures proposed above should operate to reduce the amount of opium available for smuggling from the trans-Salween States into Siam, and beyond this nothing more seems possible at present. Letter dated the 12th June, 1920, from the Commissioner, Tenasserim Division, to the Excise Commissioner, which forms an enclosure to Mr. Brander's letter, dated the 24th June, 1920, indicates that little or no smuggling takes place from the districts of the Tenasserim Division into Siam.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n**E. H. JONES**, Secretary to the Financial Commissioner, Burma.\n\n## ANNEX 1\n\n**Lieutenant-Colonel Aplin** (Commissioner, Mandalay Division) to the Assistant Secretary to the Financial Commissioner (Burma).\n\n**(Confidential.)**\n\nFebruary 17, 1919.\n\nI HAVE the honour to forward a copy of letter dated the 7th February, 1919, from the Deputy Commissioner, Bhamo, on the subject of poppy cultivation in the Kachin Hill Tracts.\n\n2. The latest orders of Government are that no action should be taken regarding the prevention or restriction of poppy cultivation in these tracts during the war. As the war is over, Mr. Booth-Gravely is in order in raising the question afresh, though I think it is probable Government may not consider that the time has yet arrived for action to be taken. As this, however, is a matter for Government to decide I am submitting Mr. Booth-Gravely's letter for orders.\n\n3. I do not propose to comment on Mr. Booth-Gravely's letter beyond remarking that I agree with him that repressive action should be taken as soon as is practicable. I think so because of the large increase in poppy cultivation that is taking place. This I consider should be stopped as soon as possible, for every year that the cultivation continues will make its suppression more difficult eventually. But I am not in favour of any sudden measures of a drastic nature, nor does the present time appear to be a convenient one for any measures to be taken which might lead to trouble or unrest. I would prefer to wait until the operations on the Assam frontier are over and the Bhamo Military Police Battalion is at full strength.\n\n4. There is, however, no objection to a reconsideration of the measures that should be taken when a suitable time for their introduction arrives. Suggestions have already been made, but this was four or five years ago. It appears to me, therefore, that the first step that should be taken now is to review these suggestions in the light of the further experience we have gained during the years of the war. I would therefore recommend that the Deputy Commissioners be invited to take this step now as Mr. Booth-Gravely suggests so that there may be no avoidable delay when the time arrives in the introduction of the scheme or schemes that Government may approve.\n\n5. Any wholesale destruction of the poppy crops should certainly not be attempted by the Assistant Superintendent, Sinlumkaba, this season. As a matter of fact it is too late, as the crop, I understand, will be gathered in March. But in any case it would be impolitic to attempt it at the present juncture. I am therefore informing Mr. Booth-Gravely that the instructions given by him (paragraph 16 of his letter) are approved.\n\n**Mr. Booth-Gravely**, Deputy Commissioner, Bhamo, to the Commissioner, Mandalay Division.\n\n**(Confidential.)**\n\nBhamo, February 7, 1919.\n\nI HAVE the honour to address you on the subject of poppy cultivation in the Kachin Hill Tracts in the Bhamo District.\n\n2. This is a question which has seriously exercised the minds of former Deputy Commissioners, and in recent years it has on several occasions been urged upon the consideration of the Local Government at their instance. I propose in the first instance, therefore, to summarise briefly the course of the previous correspondence on the subject.\n\n3. A convenient starting point is to be found in the Revenue Secretary's letter to the Financial Commissioner, dated the 25th April, 1913, of which a copy was forwarded to this office with your Revenue Department endorsement, dated the 16th May, 1913. The main point of this letter was that the situation in respect of the production and distribution of raw opium in Burma had been completely altered by the accession of the British Government to the International Opium Convention of the 23rd January, 1912. In the words of the letter, this Government is now bound to control the production of opium in the tracts adjoining the Burma-China frontier and to prevent the smuggling of opium into China. The letter also drew attention to a remonstrance which the Chinese Government had addressed in January 1913 to His Majesty's Minister at Peking, and although the allegations on which the remonstrance was based were not wholly ingenuous it was admitted that there was some basis for complaint in respect of opium cultivation in the Shan States. A full report on the subject was called for, to be supplemented by \"detailed recommendations regarding the steps which should be taken to (a) control the production of raw opium, (b) prevent its export, and (c) check the smuggling of it across the frontier into China.\" It was clearly intimated that a non possumus attitude could not be assumed, though the difficulties were not to be underrated.\n\n4. Mr. Lewisohn's views were submitted in his letter dated the 3rd June, 1913, and amounted to a cordial acceptance of the policy laid down in the Revenue Secretary's letter above quoted. He stated that poppy cultivation was increasing in the Kachin Hills, largely by Chinese immigrants from over the border, and recommended that the Kachin Hill Tribes Regulation should be amended so as to make the cultivation of the poppy and the possession of opium illegal in the Kachin Hills of the district. He reported and concurred in the opinion of Mr. Scott, Assistant Superintendent, Sinlum, that the use of opium meant moral and physical ruin to the hill Kachins and that total prohibition could be enforced without difficulty. He also pointed out that the prohibition of the cultivation and possession of opium in the hills would greatly facilitate the suppression of opium smuggling both to the plains and to China, and suggested that no special measures were called for to check illicit export across the frontier. In conclusion, Mr. Lewisohn very earnestly urged that, whatever decision should be reached on the general question, the Government should authorise the enforcement of total prohibition in the Bhamo Hill Tracts.\n\n5. In due course the Local Government's orders were communicated in letter from the Assistant Secretary to the Financial Commissioner, dated the 8th January, 1914, a copy of which was forwarded with your Revenue Department endorsement, dated the 10th January, 1914. It was intimated that the Local Government had decided with regard to the Bhamo and Myitkyina Districts that the only feasible way of restricting the production of opium was by prohibiting entirely the cultivation of the poppy, and that possession should also be prohibited as soon as the Chinese...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-470 - Public Offices - 1921.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 489892, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-471 - Public Offices - 1921", "page_number": 383, "title": "CO129-471 - Public Offices - 1921", "content_text": "## The prices at which the coal is at present retailed by the railway company at Dairen are as follows:--\n| Type of Coal | Price (Yen) |\n| --- | --- |\n| Lump coal | 17.50 |\n| Dust coal | 13.65 |\n| Run of the mine coal | 15.65 |\n| Bunker coal, lump | 13.90 |\n| Bunker coal, dust | 10.40 |\n| Bunker coal, run of mine | 11.90 |\n\nThe price of Fushun coal, however, is much higher than that of most other Chinese coal, e.g., the coal from the Kailan mines is retailed in Tien-tsin for about 8 dollars per ton, and it is difficult to understand why the South Manchuria Railway Company find it necessary to keep their prices so high, as conditions in Fushun must be very similar to those in other parts of China. Moreover, it was only after strenuous agitation in the press that the company reduced their prices, and this in spite of the fact that exports fell off and there was a large accumulation of stocks owing to the trade depression. The company, however, have a virtual monopoly of the coal market throughout Manchuria, or rather of the districts served by the railway line, and the conclusion is almost forced upon one that it is from the profits which they must have made from the Fushun mines during the last two or three years that they have been paying for their somewhat costly experiments in other directions, e.g., the Anshan Iron and Steel Works, which, as is generally known, have so far proved anything but a success.\n\n### Future of Fushun\nExperts are agreed that the Fushun colliery as it is to-day is one of the most up-to-date mines in the world. The coal resources are vast, and the colliery is well organised and managed by first-class men, who are enthusiastic over the work that is being done. Further developments on a large scale are contemplated, and large sums of money will, it is said, be spent on the mines during the next few years, while it is hoped to increase the output considerably. Mining plant of all kinds will be required and there should be good openings for British manufacturers in this direction. Keen American competition must be expected, however, as there has of late been a tendency on the part of the management of the colliery to favour American plant, and in fact Viscount Inouye, the general superintendent of the colliery, has for some months past been touring in the United States, doubtless with a view to finding out conditions there and possibly to place orders for some of the plant that will be required. He also intends to visit the United Kingdom before his return to Fushun. Recently, too, a party of six American geologists and metallurgists have been visiting the mines at the invitation of the company, and are said to be carrying out exhaustive investigations into the future possibilities of the mines, more especially, it is understood, in connection with the development of the open workings, the direction in which it may be anticipated that the greatest efforts will be made during the course of the next few years. A map of the Fushun mines, published by the South Manchuria Railway Company, is appended to this report (`Annex No. 6`).\n\nDairen, July 1922.\n\n## Annex No. 1, Annex No. 2\n\n### TABLE showing Sales of Fushun Coal in Manchuria for the Years 1917-20\n| Location | 1917 (Tons) | 1918 (Tons) | 1919 (Tons) | 1920 (Tons) |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Harbin | 178,087 | 56,246 | 76,726 | 100,538 |\n| Changchun | | 96,233 | 143,367 | 99,868 |\n| Supingkai | | 7,249 | 7,997 | 11,117 |\n| Mukden | | 4,898 | 28,824 | 31,481 |\n| Antung | | | 42,690 | 20,022 |\n| Liaoyang | | | 60,753 | 67,390 |\n| Yingkow | | | 104,950 | 100,190 |\n| Dairen | | 35,998 | 48,379 | 75,829 |\n| Karin | | 7,550 | 25,269 | 22,792 |\n| Booth | | | 38,582 | 37,026 |\n| South Manchuria Railway Co.'s servants | | | 63,494 | 67,508 |\n| Other | | | 69,510 | 48,375 |\n| **Total** | **779,544** | **900,251** | **1,012,236** | **989,238** |\n\n### Annex No. 3\n#### TABLE showing Quantity of Fushun Coal used by South Manchuria Railway Company for their own purposes during the Years 1917-20\n| Purpose | 1917 (Tons) | 1918 (Tons) | 1919 (Tons) | 1920 (Tons) |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| For railways | 197,222 | 287,616 | 391,458 | 517,015 |\n| For workshops | 146,598 | 266,994 | 292,648 | 396,024 |\n| For steamers | 63,143 | 85,097 | 32,775 | 40,818 |\n| At collieries | 165,310 | 238,119 | 267,997 | 306,746 |\n| For offices | 41,926 | 40,896 | 2,104 | 47,742 |\n| Other | | 1,725 | 5,138 | 56,484 |\n| **Total** | **614,194** | **865,826** | **1,187,716** | **1,218,294** |\n\n### Annex No. 4\n#### TABLE showing Exports of Fushun Coal for the Years 1917-20\n| Year | Tons |\n| --- | --- |\n| 1917 | 757,187 |\n| 1918 | 797,570 |\n| 1919 | 554,001 |\n| 1920 | 745,954 |\n\n#### TABLE showing Output of Fushun Collieries for the Years 1907-20\n| Year | Tons | Destination | Tons |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 1907 | 233,325 | Toba | |\n| | | Penang | 6,402 |\n| | | Singapore | 19,949 |\n| | | Manila | 13,299 |\n| 1908 | 490,720 | Banten | 10,448 |\n| 1909 | 706,042 | Hong Kong | 34,945 |\n| | | | 45,349 |\n| 1910 | 898,482 | Shanghai | 44,643 |\n| | | | 19,084 |\n| | | | 10,694 |\n| | | Pingtao | 18,567 |\n| | | | 17,286 |\n| | | | 14,487 |\n| 1911 | 1,343,198 | Chefoo | 2,663 |\n| | | | 410 |\n| | | | 28,112 |\n| 1912 | 1,470,150 | Sangkow | 20,727 |\n| | | | 21,417 |\n| | | | 6,200 |\n| 1913 | 2,185,453 | Borea | 15,841 |\n| | | | 3,030 |\n| | | | 156 |\n| 1914 | 2,147,432 | Formosa | 344,139 |\n| | | | 397,955 |\n| | | Taral | 358,710 |\n| 1915 | 2,169,245 | | 521,920 |\n| 1916 | 2,050,759 | | 182,884 |\n| | | Batavia | 159,296 |\n| | | Sourabaya | 114,489 |\n| 1917 | 2,280,938 | | 63,849 |\n| | | Other ports | 19,266 |\n| 1918 | 2,521,164 | | 3,715 |\n| 1919 | 2,928,186 | | 28,080 |\n| 1920 | 3,129,835 | | 13,893 |\n| | | | 1,244 |\n| | | | 9,978 |\n\nPage 382", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-471 - Public Offices - 1921.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 490027, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-471 - Public Offices - 1921", "page_number": 518, "title": "CO129-471 - Public Offices - 1921", "content_text": "## \n\nFor several days in succession I had seen nothing whatever of the Tengyueh Taoyin; at Chepi, however, much to my surprise, he rode over to call on me. The reason for the visit was only apparent when he propounded the astonishing request that as during seventeen days travel in his circuit we had only found one field of opium poppy, I would overlook it in my report to His Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires. On my replying that, had we found one hundred I should be bound to report one hundred, and that I must equally report the one, he then suggested that I should add a rider that the field found was close to the scene of military operations against the offending Kachins. To this I rejoined that I had been over the country in question and he had not, and that I knew for a fact that the two places were at least two and a half days journey apart. Soon afterwards he took his leave, considerably crestfallen.\n\nApril 14th Shortly after leaving Chêpi the road to Mienning makes a very steep ascent of some 3,000 feet, on to a lofty shoulder, the view from which on a clear day must be magnificent, embracing extensive country in the jurisdiction of Shunning and Kengma, in the Tengyueh circuit, and Mieuning in the Puerh circuit. On an open bit of grass land just beyond a pillar marking the boundary, a large booth had been erected, and we were met by the P'uêrh Taoyin and the Mienning district magistrate, each of whom furnished a guard of honour.\n\nThe following day we reached the ancient walled city of Mienning, inhabited by a mixed population of Chinese and Shans, while Lolos and natives of several other tribes inhabit the surrounding villages.\n\nFor the journey from Mienning to Szemao my first care was to ascertain the route followed by the Taoyin to the rendezvous; he had come, as I expected, by the most direct road through Chingku-hsien (the modern name of Weiyuant'ing of Manchu times). I asked the Taoyin point-blank whether he had seen any opium cultivation on his outward journey; he replied that a few isolated patches had been sown at the beginning of the season, but that all had been uprooted by expeditions sent out in November and December, and there was no trace of any remaining when he came out. I see no reason whatever to doubt this statement, but even if it was untrue, it was practically certain that there would not be a single plant left after his passing through; I therefore decided to take an entirely different road for our joint journey and selected the southern route via Poshang, the Tapêng ferry over the Mekong, Mêngka and Mengchu. This is a fairly well recognised, though little used, road, but I possess records of only isolated portions as having been previously traversed by British subjects.\n\nOn the 19th April, at the Taoyin's suggestion, we made a very early start in view of the formidable journey in front of us. We reached the limits of the Mienning jurisdiction and bade farewell to the magistrate. After 6 miles of easy going, No trace of opium poppy had we seen in his district, in which, as far as I could ascertain, he and his subordinates had carried out their suppression duties with exceptional thoroughness. The next 7 miles traversed a corner of what is now known as the Lantsang (i.e., Mekong) district-formerly the sub-prefecture of Chênpien-and the going was very severe, though it must, in all fairness, be admitted that the country is extremely difficult, including a terrific descent for 3 miles through constantly subsiding red clay to the level of the River Mekong (2,750 feet). The crossing of the Mekong is effected in a single huge wooden boat with deep sides: The mules and their loads are transported in this craft, the river-current being too swift to admit of the animals swimming across without danger. The ascent up the left or east bank of the Mekong is even more severe, and for 24 miles the ruling gradient is steeper than one in six.\n\nTwo stages further, through pine-woods tenanted by peacocks and brilliant emerald-green parrots, brought us to the Chinese Shan town of Mêngka. At Tamotsoho, the half-way halt, we came across a few families of Lahu race, said to be rapidly dying out in China.\n\nShortly before reaching Mêngka we were met by the Chingku district magistrate, a Kuangsi man, who accompanied us so long as we continued in his extensive jurisdiction. Mengka, the residence of a Shan Sawbwa, possesses also large temples and two monasteries in the Burmese Shan style; one in particular, over 200 years old, must have been very fine in bygone days.\n\nAt Lientsungts'un, our halt mid-way between Mêngka and Mêngchu, the Chinese Shan Sawbwa, of the latter place, and Mêngpan came over to pay his respects.\n\nMêngchu is one of the old Shan towns whence the original inhabitants have been practically ousted by the more thriving Chinese.\n\nOn the 25th April, two days after leaving Mêngchu, we crossed the River Weiyuan for Chingku, as it is now gradually becoming known) at Patieh. Two days later, after passing a few villages inhabited by natives of the strikingly handsome Puman race, we entered the Szémao district and were met by the local magistrate; the following day, the 28th April, we arrived at Szemao, where spacious quarters were provided for me adjoining the Taoyin's yamên. The Taoyin and magistrate pressed me to stay a week in Szemao; I consented to two days, but on the second day the Taoyin urged that he still had important business to transact, and I could hardly refuse his request that we should postpone our departure for one more day.\n\nPrevious to my departure for Tengyuch, I had written to a reliable correspondent, soliciting his co-operation to obtain for me, if possible, information on the subject of opium in the area under his cognisance. With that request he very courteously complied; he informed me quite definitely that, as the result of several punitive expeditions during the past winter, there was, as far as he was aware, no more cultivation of opium in the Szemao district, and that while probably at least 30 per cent. of the adult population of the town, both male and female, still continued to consume the drug, the enormous rise in price bore out his contention.\n\nFrom Szemao northwards towards Tali three routes were open to me; that viâ Chingku (Weiyuan) was ruled out by the fact that it had already been traversed by the Taoyin on his journey to Mienning to meet me; on the north-eastern route, via T'alang-the main road to Yunnan-fu-according to all the information I could obtain, a considerable quantity of opium had been grown, and harvested, earlier in the season, but very thorough measures of eradication had been carried out some weeks previously; I therefore decided to take the more direct but less frequented route via Puêrh, Hsinfu (in Chênyuan district) and Chingtung.\n\nLeaving Szemao on the 2nd May, some three hours of travel, including a stiff climb, brought us to the boundary of the P'uêrh district, where the local magistrate awaited us; the Szemao magistrate, however, continued to accompany us till the town of Puerh was reached the next day; on this day's journey our route crossed a splendid Chinese arched stone bridge, in admirable preservation.\n\nAt Mohei, the next stage, I took the opportunity to pay a visit to the large and flourishing salt-mines about a mile and a half away. Dr. Kelly, the American representative of the Chinese Salt Administration, who had arrived about two months previously, was away on tour, but his English-speaking Chinese colleague very kindly demonstrated to me all the processes of Chinese salt extraction.\n\nThe next four stages, viâ Mop'o, Manpieh and Manlien, to Hsin-fu, call for little comment save for the extreme beauty of the scenery; on all sides rose range after range of pine-clad hills, mostly well-wooded to their summits; the valleys were, however, parched and bare, and travelling along the lower levels was excessively hot. The only record in my possession of a route between Hsinfu and Chingtung dated from 1881, when the journey was made by a British traveller; our route, however, was almost entirely different from his, and we spent but five days on the distance which had taken him six. For the last three days we were accompanied by the Chingtung magistrate, who came out to meet us.\n\nThis latter official was also among the number of those who have displayed special energies in the matter of opium suppression; practically every town and hamlet which we traversed in his district boasted its own small bureau for the furtherance of the task, while the magistrate's extensive tours of inspection included a journey to the summit of Wu-Liang-Shan, between 11,000 and 12,000 feet high.\n\nLeaving Chingtung on the 15th May, three days' journey brought us to the boundary between the Puerh and Tengyueh circuits, at Shukai (locally pronounced Ch'ukai); Here we found that the Tengyueh Taoyin and the Mênghua district magistrate had been awaiting our arrival for three days. Before bidding farewell to the Puêrh Taoyin, I gave him a letter detailing our route through his circuit and congratulating him on the fact that we had discovered not a single opium poppy in a month's journey. In the course of an interesting conversation, he freely admitted that the task of suppression had been considerably easier in his circuit than elsewhere in the province; he was no less frank regarding the prevalence of opium smoking, and expressed the opinion that from three to five years must elapse before this would be stopped.\n\nPage [603] \n517 \n55 \n54", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-471 - Public Offices - 1921.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 494429, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-478 - Public Offices & Others - 1922", "page_number": 821, "title": "CO129-478 - Public Offices & Others - 1922", "content_text": "Day wi\n\nL\n\n#\n\nJ.T. Holman\n\nSt.John's Cathedral,\n\nHong Kong.\n\nG. Elliott Manager,\n\nCommercial Union\n\nInsurance Co. Hong Kong.\n\nD. L. V. Virrimand\n\nc/o Inuwman & Co.,\n\nHong Kong.\n\nS. Humphreys\n\nP.N. Baylis\n\nFraser Forbes\n\nAlfred Davis\n\nB. Marmy\n\nS.V. Drittan\n\nc/o B.D. Sassoon & Co., Ltd.,\n\nHong Kong.\n\nF. H. Hoggak,\n\nManaging Partner,\n\nReiss and Co.,\n\nHong Kong\n\nJ. C. Jenkin,\n\nSupreme Court, Hong Kong\n\nH. B. Derhiggis,\n\nPrincipal,\n\nStewart & Co., Hong Kong\n\nJ.Hawker,\n\nWalter Sask Tomes and Co.,\n\nHong Kong\n\nD.H.Flake.\n\nW. G. Roberts.\n\nJ. D. Denby.\n\nJ. M. Hooper.\n\nB. D. Crawford Morgan,\n\nManager, Carters Ltd.,\n\nHong Kong.\n\nG.E.Wetton,\n\nManager, H. Spott and Co.,\n\nHong Kong\n\nN.C. Jantern\n\nH. White Stevens,\n\nHong Kong Glue\n\nC. Strafford\n\nJ.W. Rosser\n\nc/o P.& O. Co., Ltd.,\n\nHong Kong.\n\nA. H. Lang\n\nJ. Brister.\n\nc/o Reiss & Co., Hong Kong.\n\nCharles V. Mart.\n\nH. Balsam\n\nUnion Building, Hong Kong.\n\nT.W. Hin\n\nDirector, Bradley & Co.\n\nHong Kong\n\nE. J. Booth\n\nH. H. Benson\n\nEdmund A. Ram\n\nc/o Dennis, Ram & Gibbs,\n\nHong Kong.\n\nA. li. Cross.\n\nC.H. Blason,\n\nA.\n\nc/o Butterfield and Swire,\n\nHong Kong.\n\nStark,\n\nc/o Harry Picking and Co.,\n\nHong Kong.\n\nT. S. Corrison.\n\nD. M. Murray.\n\nD. De B. Nurcombe,\n\nc/o Chartered Bank of India,\n\nAustralia and China,\n\nHong Kong.\n\nVincent Sorby.\n\nGeo. Grindle.\n\nC.T.Rose.\n\nMichael H.Turner,\n\nc/o Descon, Looker, Deakin and Harston, Hong Kong.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-478 - Public Offices & Others - 1922.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 495290, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-480 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [4-7]", "page_number": 309, "title": "CO129-480 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [4-7]", "content_text": ".1900\n\nHepton experience shows that, on consideration, connectedness than English\n\n293\n\nthough men call for\n\nBooth Law is rather more closely\n\nwith other systems of Law of\n\nGoverné bar\n\nwill probably\n\nthin part of world. Professor of Discussion in\n\nthe University of Hong Kong, and others 38 may well be felt that\n\nProvincial Universities are in closer touch with\n\npool with hesitation, but it is training colleges\n\nNo advantage\n\nin producing men Unkosť of Heerendes om\n\nof course,\n\nbňit star\n\nwon Juf „qirieart at mad\n\ned Likw it had authe\n\nsalonsoar OST\n\nsde mort na (i emeniom må man\n\nI would be sorry\n\nBoosching anything would prvimhãy ho\n\ndon beam I dožiła „woży\n\ntom blundim I\n\ndołde až poRÁ\n\nsra: Jud\n\nnkdat de oldugun um Logique a vi\n\nWoż▼ Tablu\n\nnid to\n\nsaložbell sl\n\nrobend řed\n\n„noitstabi amba\n\nİvloriam golokeyift de conectart upl\n\nmbalword a gritkuper duoq yas mi\n\neld abiod\n\nI may call me a\n\nCambridge\n\nLondon\n\nenglested, but\n\nmission to\n\ntype which\n\nCommerce\n\ntieregarded.\n\nAn Hussars Ingres\n\nrus equivalent\n\nlication,\n\ninsisted on\n\nhemours, but I feel that\n\njustify anything\n\nother\n\nponokinolky the shake of our Professors ought to be non\n\nnahing (\n\njóonth1116iot\n\nbulk\n\nmost of\n\nroutins teaching\n\nme to\n\nwould\n\nG\n\ngoalition,\n\n17 poveikia,\n\nOur new salary scales, ($20,000 to $30,000 for professors, $15,000 to $17,800 for senior lecturers and\n\n$4,800 to $5,000 for junior lecturers, with in all cases", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-480 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [4-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 499757, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 161, "title": "CO129-488 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1925 [1-7]", "content_text": "## \n155 \n\n**Hon. Capt. Supt. of Police**\n\nActing on previous instructions the following party left the Royal Naval Dockyard at 16.45 hours on 17th January, 1926, on board His Majesty's Tug \"St Monance\" – \n\n* Mr. Booth, Assistant Director of Criminal Investigation.\n* Captain Bloxham, Assistant Superintendent of Police.\n* Inspector Pincott, Detective Staff.\n* Police Sergeant Chester Woods, Detective Staff.\n* Inspector Chu Houng, Chinese Detective Inspector.\n* Five Chinese Detectives.\n* Lieutenant Commander Ingham, Royal Navy.\n* Lieutenant Drake Brockman, East Surrey Regiment.\n\nWith us was Colonel Wong Fuk Chi and Mr. Neal (late of Hongkong Police), who is working with the Colonel in Piracy and Bandit Suppression.\n\nWe proceeded to Mira Bay and anchored in Long Harbour at 18.30 hours as it was impossible to make Bias Bay before dark.\n\nWe weighed anchor at 05.30 hours on 18th January, 1926, and proceeded to Bias Bay and anchored at 07.30 hours, 1 mile off Hachung Village where Colonel Wong Fuk Chi was to collect 200 of his troops.\n\nAs no junks or sampans came near us, Mr. Booth, Police Sergeant Chester Woods and Colonel Wong Fuk Chi rowed ashore in the Tug's life boat. On arrival there they found that the troops had left for a village called Pak Mong Fa about 1.5 miles inland, some three hours before they landed. Colonel Wong Fuk Chi then despatched a man on horseback to order them to return at once.\n\nMr. Booth and Police Sergeant Chester Woods then returned...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-488 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1925 [1-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 499761, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 165, "title": "CO129-488 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1925 [1-7]", "content_text": "159 \n\n(d) One new brown waistcoat. \n\n(e) One new brown Chinese silk long coat. \n\n(f) One pair new female beaded slippers (Singapore Pattern). \n\n(g) One gold ear pick. \n\n(h) One pair European black evening trousers with tailor's name and Singapore marked on buttons. \n\n(i) Four gold hair clips. \n\n(j) One new travelling rug. \n\n(k) Four new red blankets \n\n(l) One new metal Thermos flask. \n\n(m) Two sets of buttons made from Dutch East Indian coins and Straits Settlements coins. \n\n(n) One gilt badge and chain. \n\nThis prisoner was asked to explain his possession of these articles and stated that his uncle had given them to him that morning to take to a village nearby. He was then sent under escort to the address given by him as his uncle's residence. The prisoner and escort returned about 17.00 hours and the Officer in charge reported the prisoner's uncle had left the village some six weeks before, and that he had not returned or been seen since. He also was then subjected to the \"3rd degree\" but refused to give any information. Wong Fuk Chi got very angry at this and at one time I certainly thought that he would shoot him himself on the spot. However, he was eventually sent away under escort, the Colonel remarking to me that they would probably make him talk later on. \n\nAs Mr. Booth and the remainder of our party had not turned up yet, I wrote a note to Mr. Booth telling him what had happened, which was taken back to the ship by the Chief Officer. I then took photos of these prisoners and we then walked", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-488 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1925 [1-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 499764, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 168, "title": "CO129-488 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1925 [1-7]", "content_text": "## \nshot into his chest. The dead man's house was then searched, but nothing of an incriminating nature was found except a few rifle and revolver rounds.\n\nWe then returned to the other houses which were being raided. The troops had some difficulty in breaking in the doors, as they all had wooden bars across them on the inside. Two or three men were then seen to be running along the roofs of the houses and were fired at but escaped.\n\nTwelve men found in the suspect houses were detained.\n\nI then took a photograph of the man shot and we returned to Nim Shan Market about 07.45 hours.\n\nAfter breakfast, the 12 men detained from Fan Lo Kong were questioned, but no useful information was gained from them. It was then decided to burn the house of Foong Yem Kow at Kwai Chau Village that morning, and that further raids on villages nearby would be carried out at dawn the next morning.\n\nAbout 09.30 hours, Kr. Booth, Assistant Director of Criminal Investigation, Lieutenant Commander Ingham, Lieutenant Drake Brookman, and Police Sergeant Chester Woods arrived. Lieutenant Commander Ingham then informed me that it was imperative for the St. Monance to return that day to Hong Kong, leaving Bias Bay not later than 15.00 hours. I pointed out to him that the operation had only just commenced and would continue the next morning at dawn. He, however, replied that it was essential to return, so I had no option but to agree.\n\nThe new arrivals then asked to view the scene of the operation which had taken place that morning, so they were taken there. We then went to Hoi Chau Village, where we embarked with 30 soldiers on 2 junks for Kwai Chau.\n\nOn arrival there, we went to the house of Foong Yem...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-488 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1925 [1-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 500451, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 162, "title": "CO129-489 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Sir Clementi - 1925 [8-12]", "content_text": "# South China Morning Post\n## No. 5,765 Vol. 23 號五十六百七千五第 三拜禮\n### WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1925. 日六十二月八年四十國民\n\nCAFE WISEMAN \n**BREAD, CAKES, ETC.** \nCan now be Booked.\n\n## Advertisements\n\n### WATSON'S \n**AERATED WATERS** \nARE PREPARED FROM REAL FRUIT ESSENCE \nGUARANTEED ABSOLUTELY PURE.\n\n- LEMONADE - Has the real essence obtained from Lemons grown in Southern Italy\n- RASPBERRYADE - Is prepared with the juice of raspberries grown in England and Tasmania.\n- FORMAZONE - THE NON-ALCOHOLIC CHAMPAGNE. It possesses the characteristic stimulating and refreshing qualities of Champagne and has a delicious flavour.\n- STONE GINGER BEER - The only genuine Stone Ginger Beer in the East. Prepared by a special process of fermentation which gives it the distinctive flavour which is so pleasing to the palate.\n\nSOLE AGENTS:- \n**A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD.** \nAerated Water Manufacturers. \nESTABLISHED 1841.\n\n### PIONEER SILK STORE\nNEW SHIPMENT \n**SPUN SILK CREPES** \nin \nFANCY COLOURED STRIPES \nfor \nSUMMER FROCKS \nAT \nChina Building, Queen's Road Central\n\n### THE GENERAL ELECTRIC CO. \n**GECOPHONE** \nRECEIVING SETS \nWITH AERIAL $64.00. \nNo. 2 CRYSTAL SET \nTHE MACAO BROADCASTING HAS \nBEEN HEARD WITH THIS SET \nALL PRICES REDUCED. \nNEW \nSTOCKS, \nQueen's Building, Hongkong.\n\n### EONIA A \n**CANDY STORE ORE** \nCOLD DRINKS. \nICE CREAM \nand \nSODA FOUNTAIN. \nThe Asiatic Building Tel. C. 4702\n\n## GOOD CITIZENS. \n**PRESENTATIONS TO TWO PLUCKY CIVILIANS.** \nRobbery Sequel. \n**THE MURDER OF MAJOR PALMER.** \nFULL STORY OF THE TRAGEDY. \nGallant Attempt to Save Village.\n\nPeking, Aug. 14. - ... arrival at Harbin of Mis...\n\n### NOT A \"RED.\" \n**EXPULSION ORDER NOW RESCINDED.** \nMistaken Identity.\n\nThe order made last week for the expulsion from the Colony, as an undesirable, of Joseph L. Tipliteli, a Ukranian, has now been rescinded, and permission has been given him to remain in the Colony.\n\nThe plucky act of two civilians in effecting the arrest of two men subsequent to the commission of an armed robbery on the 21st of April recalled yesterday, when a presentation was made to them at the office of the Captain Superintendent of Police. Amongst those present at the ceremony were Mr. P. P. J. Wodehouse, C.I.E., who made the presentation, Mr. T. H. King (Director of Criminal Intelligence), Mr. D. Burlingham (Deputy Superintendent of Police), Mr. L. H. V. Booth (Assistant Director of the Criminal Intelligence Department), Mr. W. R. Scott (Assistant Superintendent), Mr. J. Kerr (Assistant Superintendent), and Mr. W. Kent (Chief Inspector).\n\nMr. P. P. J. Wodehouse said: \"Gentlemen, I have been instructed by His Excellency the Governor to make a small presentation to Mr. Focken and Mr. Li Chi-kong to show the appreciation of the Government of their services in arresting two armed robbers on the 21st April.\"\n\nIt will be recalled that Tipliteli was first charged with not being in possession of a proper passport, and a nominal fine was inflicted on this charge. The police, however, took a more serious view of the man's case, as he was supposed to have been identified by a Frenchman as having been connected with \"Red\" activities in Canton and as one who took a leading part in organising and conducting a strike of servants on Shameen. In consequence, the man's expulsion from the Colony was asked for, and a magisterial order to this effect was made.\n\nFrom facts which have since been disclosed, however, the case turns out to have been one of mistaken identity, with the result that the expulsion order has been withdrawn.\n\nThe official account of the circumstances of this incident was then read by the C.S.P. as follows: \"Mr. Frederick John William Focken, of Messrs. Alex. Ross and Company, with his assistant, Mr. Li Chi-kong, happened to be on the point of alighting from a motor bus outside the China Motor Bus Company's premises when they heard police whistles being blown some distance down the road, which a good view could be obtained from a temple near by.\n\nMr. Focken's attention was drawn to a man who was riding in a ricksha going in the direction of the railway bridge some three hundred yards away. Mr. Focken boarded a passing bus, and, alighting when the bus was passing the ricksha, seized this man also, and, with the help of a by-stander, handed him over to two Indian constables.\n\nThe motor-car then went to the village and eventually he and Dr. Howard, with the Russian boy and the Chinese boy, stationed themselves in a cornfield, whilst Mr. Baldwin, young Howard, and another Russian who had appeared on the scene took cover in a motor-car as the bandits approached.\n\nMajor Palmer, however, insisted on leaving the car and going back to the ranch. Armed with rifles and ammunition, the party, which besides Major Palmer and Dr. Howard, included the latter's son, a Chinese boy, and a Russian boy, and a Russian chauffeur, went in a motor-car driven by the Russian chauffeur, to a village about half-way between the ranch and the village occupied by the bandits.\n\nBandits' Circling Movement.\n\nThe bandits, who were mounted, moved out from the village in two parties, one making for the cornfield, while the other made for the motor-car. Mr. Baldwin, young Howard, and the Russian made a running fight for it back to the ranch, firing from the footboard as they went, and eventually eluded their pursuers.\n\nMeanwhile, the rest of the bandits had come up towards the cornfield from the rear. Mr. Baldwin had made efforts to warn Major Palmer and Dr. Howard as to what was happening and the bandits' circling movement.\n\nMajor Palmer Found.\n\nSome time after Mr. Baldwin and the others had returned to the ranch, a messenger arrived from the bandits demanding money and cartridges. Mr. Baldwin hurriedly scraped together what money and cartridges could be found at the ranch and went down with it to the bandits' village, only to discover that they had all gone off, taking Dr. Howard with them.\n\nDr. Howard's Captivity.\n\nIt is reported that the bandits have now taken Dr. Howard across the Sungari Railway Bridge. Mr. Baldwin, who is stated to have endeavoured to persuade Major Palmer to leave the bandit alone, is at present at Fuchowhsien, some 400 miles from Harbin, making every effort to keep in touch with the captive and secure his speedy release. Reuter's Pacific Service.\n\nThe murder by Chinese bandits on July 20 of Major Morgan Palmer reminds us that from the first organising of the Salt Revenue Administration by Sir Richard Dane, he was one of his chief's most trusted and honoured assistants, and was instrumental not a little in the great success of the Administration.\n\nSome time after Mr. Baldwin and the others had returned to the ranch, a search was then carried out in the cornfield and the discovery made of the dead bodies of Major Palmer and his Chinese boy, who were later buried, as they had fallen, side by side under a big oak tree at the ranch.\n\nAt the May Criminal Sessions, the first and third defendants were each sentenced to five years' hard labour. The second defendant, who was too ill to appear, will take his trial at the coming Sessions.\n\nHis Honour the Chief Justice paid a tribute to Major Palmer, saying that he was a quiet unassuming man and an excellent Chinese scholar, who won the confidence of all with whom he had official relations. He was very greatly respected and trusted by the various Chinese rulers and particularly by Marshal Chang Tao-lin.\n\nNational Chinese Trait.\n\nThe C.S.P. went on to say that Mr. Focken's name was now added to the long list of European civilians and Service men who had rendered valuable assistance to the police, whereas on the other hand, if crimes of violence were committed in crowded thoroughfares without anyone lifting finger to prevent or help in the arrest of the culprits, as often occurred in the great cities of Europe and America, a hue-and-cry would have been immediately raised.\n\nMr. Li was presented with a cheque. 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Both Europeans and Chinese had to put in exceedingly long hours, and did extremely well. I attach a list of Intimidation Cases brought in by Police Officers. It will be remembered that in the 1922 Strike the results shown by the Chinese Detective Staff were very poor.\n\n## 5.\n\nRemarkable work was done by the Police Casual Labour Department. From 22nd June to 26th July about 25000 coolies were collected and sent out to work. In addition to supplying the men, the Police officers in charge had in a great many cases to arrange for food for them and for their payment in cash. With the help of the coolies the China Provident Company alone was able to shift 170,000 tons of cargo. The Police officers employed in the Casual Labour Department had frequently to work from 5.45 a.m. to 9 p.m. and sometimes later.\n\n## 6.\n\nEveryone in the Force worked so well that it is difficult to single out names for special mention. Upon Mr. T. H. King fell all the burden of the preliminary Strike arrangements, as I did not return to the Colony until 9th July. After my return he continued to do most admirable work as Director of Criminal Intelligence. I must also mention the exceptionally fine work done in the New Territories by Mr. W. G. Gerrard. He showed great tact and coolness in dealing with difficult situations, and sent in a series of extremely useful and well-written reports. Messrs. Burlingham, Booth, Scott, and Kerr all worked extremely hard and were of the greatest assistance to Mr. King and myself.\n\nOf the subordinate ranks, I would mention the following:-\n\n(a) Chief Detective Inspector J. Grant, Inspector Pincott,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-489 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Sir Clementi - 1925 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 501005, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-490 - Public Offices - 1925", "page_number": 32, "title": "CO129-490 - Public Offices - 1925", "content_text": "OPERATION AGAINST \"HONG HWA\" PIRATES\n\nPROCEEDINGS.\n\n17th Jan. 1925, 1645.\n\nREPORT OF\n\n30\n\nProceeded from Hong Kong in Tug \"St. Monance\"\n\nAsst. Supt. Police Booth.\n\nwith\n\nAsst. Supt. Police Captain Broxham - Lieut. Drake-Brockman, East Surrey Regt.\n\n2 European Police Officers.\n\n7 Chinese Detectives.\n\nGeneral Wong Fuk-Chi and Staff.\n\nGeneral Wong informed us that his troops were at Hachung: I could not make Bias Bay in daylight so anchored in Long Harbour, Mirs Bay, at 1830.\n\n18th January, 1925,\n\n0539. 0730.\n\nWeighed and proceeded for Hachung.\n\nAnchored 14 miles from Hachung Village.\n\nNo sampans came off to the ship.\n\nI sent the General and Supt. of Police ashore in ship's boat at 1025. They landed at noon. Boat returned to ship at 1340 and reported that the troops had left the village for another village about 13 miles away, half an hour before \"St. Monance\" arrived. The General had sent a man on horseback to get the troops. At midnight a junk arrived alongside with about 40 troops and the General. These troops waited on board \"St. Monance\" until the rest came alongside in junks.\n\n19th January, 1925.\n\n0310. 0655.\n\n0720.\n\n1025.\n\n1800.\n\n1840.\n\nGeneral idea of raids - see my message 0015.\n\nSix junks left for Fan Lo Kong.\n\nWeighed and proceeded for Fan Lo Kong Creek with General on board.\n\nAnchored off Fan Lo Kong Creek in 3 fathoms.\n\nThis position is 6 miles from Fan Lo Kong Village.\n\nA junk was expected to meet us on arrival but did not do so.\n\nSent Asst. Supt. Police, General, Staff and 2 Chinese Detectives to land between Fan Lo Kong and Nim Shan villages. I ordered them to send junk for remainder at once.\n\nFirst junk arrived but had no message.\n\nThe Asst. Supt. Police on board did not consider it worth while going ashore in the dark when we did not know where the rest of the party were.\n\nAnother junk arrived alongside with message (See my 2120).\n\n20th January, 1925.\n\nAsst. Supt. Police, Military Officer, 1 European Police Officer and myself landed in junk at daylight. A guide took us to Nim Shan market. The inhabitants appeared very interested at seeing a foreigner. I do not think one has been there for some time. We found the General at his headquarters in a temple with the Asst. Supt. Police who landed on the previous day. He informed us he had 17 prisoners there, 4 of whom were strongly suspected of having taken part in the \"Hong Hwa\" piracy, as Singapore clothes, etc., were found in their house. It consisted of", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-490 - Public Offices - 1925.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 503111, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-493 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [6-8]", "page_number": 186, "title": "CO129-493 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [6-8]", "content_text": "Page 181\n\nmid tot (vs ITLAM 11) Akne Mountd vol sepasang ar malkonu prostog › voiɔssoxa ton) zozbitdo ba.. alatie vin upffet to mid quaquosda vodi 71 (1.e-\n\nblues or banks. Teollis sit stongest radio al\n\nent 5ne waoituluzek Istimoloð var að Jumla:\n\nto maingo „tanmoreveü şned ynoll edi lo ataŭTÜ KUT\n\n~ 2110 sănd to gundbi sat ai betosquni ad zau TOLLY TA JJ5i a le vɛoɔ « seelome et ouis ma 1\n\nJCOM TUGY\n\n€319-\n\nPage 185\n\nSir,\n\n.II=X.T* of besserbly u\n\n1 I\n\n+\n\nlosure\n\nLosure J\n\nholl\n\nFive 17963\n\nBask\n\n21299-bast\n\nGOVERNMENT HOUSE.\n\nHONGKONG. 10th July, 1926.\n\nC. 16182\n\n20 AUG 1926\n\nI have the honour to address you on the subject of the staff of the Harbour Master's Department, and to enclose a copy of a report on the subject by the Harbour Master with whose conclusions I am in general agreement.\n\n2.\n\nThe present staff of the Department is shown on the enclosed extract from the Staff List for 1926. The post of Assistant Harbour Master, now rendered vacant by the resignation of Lieutenant Commander Hake as stated in your telegram of the 28th of June, is being filled temporarily by Mr. L. H. V. Booth, Assistant Superintendent of Police who was seconded from the Police Department when Lieutenant Commander Hake went on leave.\n\n3.\n\nEven with the amount of shipping below normal, as it is at present owing to the boycott, the Harbour Master considers that the staff is not adequate for the efficient performance of the work of the Department. It is to be expected that, once the boycott ceases, the trade and shipping of the Colony will return at least to previous dimensions, and I consider it essential that the staff should be strengthened to an extent which will enable it to deal efficiently with the work involved.\n\nTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE\n\nLIEUTENANT COLONEL L.C.M.S. AMERY, M.P..\n\n&c.,\n\n&c.\n\n&c.\n\n4.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-493 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [6-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 503174, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-493 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [6-8]", "page_number": 249, "title": "CO129-493 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [6-8]", "content_text": "248\n\n24\n\nLAKE, NOT VALLEY.\n\nResidents' Anxious Night.\n\nResidents at Happy Valley and the neighbourhood spent an anxious night with the flood which commenced to rise shortly after midnight.\n\nThe race course this morning was transformed into a lake and a raging torrent of water brought down from the hills flowed between the Police and Craigengower Clubs.\n\nA miniature Niagara Falls was created near the old scene of damage below the Yeung Woo Nursing Home last year. The deep drain measuring 14 feet across, which was built to deal with the water from the hills, was completely covered with mud and sand. Two waterfalls were seen later in the morning when the water flowed across the road into the drain and again from there to the race track.\n\nMore Confusion.\n\nBehind the Jockey Club stand, the Protestant Cemetery wall gave way for a considerable distance and the earth brought down with the torrent filled the premises to a depth of several feet. Cement boulders which lined the side of the course behind the small ticket office were bodily removed and placed on the course. Slabs of granite brought from the road were seen everywhere on the race track and inside the football grounds. What was left of a tea booth was seen against a portion of the race track railing. Flower pots which adorned the track edge were taken away by the flood together with the bank on which they stood.\n\nBridge Threatened.\n\nIt will take several weeks of toil to remove the mountain of sand and mud on the premises and race track. At the Craigengower Club, the water just reached the door and furniture left in the verandah was carried away and a part of it was recovered this morning. Garden furniture at the top of the granite boulders being washed away down the nullah, could be heard and a retaining wall threatening from above sounded like ominous explosions.\n\nSTORM VICTIMS.\n\n(No. 2998. July 22, 1926.\n\nin the direction of Hongkong, although it is thought that it may curve northwards in the direction of Swatow before it arrives here.\n\nThe rescue tug was to be observed with steam up and ready for emergency this morning and the funneless H.M.S. \"Ambrose,\" undergoing its annual overhaul was moved to the buoy for greater security.\n\nPolice Quarters Struck.\n\nThe chimney of Acting Chief Inspector Aris's quarters at the Police quarters in Caine Road was struck in the early hours of this morning and considerable debris fell inside the house. As the remaining portion of the chimney is considered to be in a dangerous condition, the quarters in question have had to be vacated.\n\nOLD MEMORIES.\n\nThat memorable flood of May, 1889, exceeded to-day's violence. Mr. Yee Cheong, the portrait painter whose studio is next door to the \"China Mail\" was an eyewitness.\n\nHe maintains that the torrents of water, which swept down Wyndham Street were even greater 37 years ago.\n\nAs to-day, clubs were reduced to useless wood. He said, the rain \"scraped out all the loose mud of the higher levels and deposited them in the flat streets. It took months to clear the mess,\"\n\nCraigengower collapsed and the masonry portion of the bridge started at this spot was swept away by the torrent flowing into the Bowrington Canal, a portion of the road at the end of the bridge near the Tramway offices opposite the Roman Catholic Cathedral was washed away.\n\nMr. Yee Cheong also says that the storm flood started at almost the same hour as that of the previous storm flood.\n\nThe railway track of the Sang Lee contractors on the other side of the canal also suffered considerable damage by the foundations being washed away.\n\nFACTORY IN DANGER\n\nThe paper mill at Aberdeen (Tai Shing Paper Mill Co.) is reported to be in danger owing to the private reservoir at the top of the building having been carried away.\n\nJuly 19. Two well-known members of the South China Athletic Association, Messrs. Ho Ka-lau and Yew Man-kit, who went out for a row on Saturday afternoon had a narrow escape from death as a result of the squall which sprang up towards six o'clock.\n\nThe boat was near Cust Rocks when caught in the squall and rowing became very difficult. The two occupants eventually determined to conserve their energy and let the boat drift and fortunately the set of the current was towards Kowloon Bay instead of the numerous rocks in the neighbourhood. They were able to reach the shore and after sheltering for a time in a farmer's house they arrived at Kowloon City.\n\nBy Courtesy of Wah Tsz Yat Po\n\nChinese cruiser \"Hai Yung\" which was to have left for Pratas yesterday at 1 p.m. with Hongkong officials aboard is still in harbour, wireless messages having been exchanged between the vessel and Pratas as a result of which it was decided that it would be dangerous to attempt to make the shoal for the present.\n\nThe typhoon had not, at the time of the message, reached Pratas but seas were very high and wind force 5 and increasing.\n\nPreliminary arrangements are that the party which is to witness the inauguration of the wireless station on the shoal will leave on Tuesday next.\n\nA village at Kowloon city, entirely inundated, with the top of a desolate matshed showing.\n\nreats both here and at the other er 37 years ago.\n\nTHE TYPHOON.\n\nJuly 17,\n\nIf the typhoon does not diverge from its present path it is expected here on Sunday.\n\nThe American Consulate received the following from Manila last night:-\n\n6.55 p.m.. July 16.-Cyclone in Lat. 19deg. N., Long. 119deg. E.. moving N.W.\n\na.m.\n\nLater.\n\n8.30\n\n17th, typhoon in about 116deg. Long. E.. 20deg. lat. N., moving W.N.W.\n\nThis morning in the harbour there were indications of anticipations of the arrival of the typhoon which is slowly moving towards the Colony from the East.\n\nNo. 1 signal gave place to No. 4 signal which means that the gale is likely to come towards the Colony from the East.\n\nNo. 2998. July 22, 1926.]\n\nTHE AFTERMATH.\n\nOVERLAND CHINA\n\nJuly 20\n\nWith the Peak isolated and the only means of access to Repulse Bay via the Aberdeen Road (even this has to be negotiated very carefully); with mud inches deep everywhere in the main thoroughfares and in banks where it has been removed for transit purposes, Hongkong has still much besides the memory of its severity to remind it of the terrific storm which raged on Sunday night and Monday morning,\n\nMuch, however, has been accomplished as a result of gangs of men working under supervision until a late hour last night and early this morning. A tram service to the King Edward Hotel was possible first thing this morning and later in the day a restricted service to all districts was run. The Roads Department is concentrating on the clearance of the main highways and is able to promise provisional clearances very shortly.\n\nStubbs Road.\n\nStubbs Road and Magazine Gap Road have suffered more than any others, Stubbs Road more particularly between Bowen Road and Morrison Hill Road. Here, there are numerous landslides the worst slip being where the sand shooting goes across. This will require the clearing of enormous quantities of earth and rock but it is hoped by Friday to get a passage sufficient to enable cars or \"buses to negotiate Stubbs Road.\n\nMagazine Gap Road.\n\nIn the case of most of the other roads it is expected that provisional arrangements will be made which will enable the passage of traffic within a few days. Magazine Gap Road at one part is breached to its full width and it will be necessary to erect temporarily a bridge. The Peak Road is also partly breached in one place. The only means of access to the Peak, in fact, is by negotiating on foot the old Peak Road and Wanchai Gap Road, in the case of the latter some nasty gaps having to be negotiated.\n\nBefore the Aberdeen portion of the road was cleared sufficiently to allow of traffic the footpath from the Peak to Pokfulam was used by some residents who took car as far as Pokfulam and walked up via the reservoir.\n\nRepulse Bay Road.\n\nGood progress has already been made in clearing the new road to Repulse Bay from Bowen Road onwards. This is very largely clear. There are numerous slips in the neighbourhood of Shaukiwan but it is anticipated that the whole of the round-the-island road will be open by the end of the week.\n\n('aime Road.\n\nThe lower portion of Caine Road is closed to traffic by the subsidence of the bank near the Roman Catholic Cathedral and the opening out of the road through the Cathedral grounds, which accounted for the flooding of Wyndham Street through Glenealy. It is now possible to go through Glenealy as far as Caine Road, by chair or on foot.\n\nA large gang were at work this morning clearing the obstruction at Caine Road. A stream of water which still flowed from the hill has now been diverted into the side channel of Arbuthnot Road.\n\nThe easiest way to reach Caine Road at present is for motorists to proceed up Garden Road as far as the Peak tram station. Then Tower\n\nPhoto by Yong Ming.\n\nMAIL\n\nREPULSE BAY CONDITIONS.\n\nthis morning.\n\n25\n\nAbout 85 bags of mail coming from foreign countries were damaged in the cellars of the Post Office. Most of the mail came from Singapore, Seattle, and the Straits.\n\nParticulars as to the plight of Repulse Bay residents not available yesterday on account of their being virtually marooned have since been received. At 3 a.m. on the night, or rather the morning, of the storm, the water rushed down the hills with terrific force and swept through the big dining room of the Hotel, carrying all before it. The upper level districts were deprived of their daily mail due to lack of transportation.\n\nResidents in the Peak and the staff were early on the scene but until practically powerless to save the carpets and furniture from being damaged. At eight o'clock yesterday morning the lower floors and passages were flooded to within five inches of water, and with the kitchens under water breakfast was part of the dining room floor has sunk badly and it looks as though it will be some time before the former polished surface will be regained.\n\nThe \"President Madison\" and the \"Empress of Russia,\" tried all roads at an early hour, were scheduled to arrive in Hongkong last Sunday, The Shaukiwan Road was obstructed yesterday afternoon.\n\nLooking along Des Voeux Road Central, on July 19, eastwards, along the Hongkong Hotel front and the new Realty building, with Alexandra Building on the left. The mud and height of the flood left visible marks on the surroundings.\n\nAlbert Road, along Wyndham Street past the Dairy Farm to the Central Police Station, and up Arbuthnot Road. The junction at Caine Road has now been sufficiently cleared for both up and down traffic through Arbuthnot Road.\n\nKowloon Roads.\n\nWith regard to Kowloon, both the coastal and Taipo Roads are closed, the worst slips being the other side of Tsin Wan. Two bridges have been carried away. Temporary bridges will be erected and it is expected to make provisional arrangements for passage of traffic by the end of the week.\n\ned by landslides which made passage impossible, and the new road to Hongkong was found to have a gaping hole halfway across the road just at the top of the hill leading to Repulse Bay.\n\nTHE POST OFFICE.\n\nThe General Post-Office was arrived only\n\nThe delay was due to the typhoon which the liners encountered.\n\nby\n\nPRINTERS LOSS.\n\nDamage of $10,000 was suffered by the Ye Olde Printerie Ltd.\n\nwhose establishment is located at the basement of the China Building.\n\nThe damaged goods consisted mostly of cover papers, art papers, and coloured papers and machinery, approximately valued at $10,000.\n\nThe damaged goods are only insured against fire but not against water. The Fire Brigade was called to the scene to pump the water and which was over 4 ft. deep.\n\nat the time of going to press, the Brigade was still at work.\n\nMED-\n\nIt will probably take the management over a week to clear the place from water and debris, and to completely resume business.\n\nWANCHAI DISTRICT.\n\nIn the long list of damage in the Wanchai district no one is reported to have been killed or injured as a direct result of the flood.\n\nA Chinese electrician was taken to hospital yesterday with injuries received in a fall from the first floor verandah of a house at Stone Nullah lane. He was repairing an electric light wire by leaning over the verandah and fell to the ground on receiving a shock.\n\nBAY VIEW DISTRICT.\n\nA feature of the damage in the Bay View district was the disappearance of the market at Tai Hang village. The structure, about 100 feet long and standing on stone pillars, is stated to have been carried away by the flood.\n\nThe assistance of the Fire Brigade was obtained to pump out the water. They worked from 2 p.m. to 5.30 p.m. but owing to the numerous calls on the services of the Brigade they had to abandon the work and resume it after the water had subsided there.\n\nWhen", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-493 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [6-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 503208, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-493 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [6-8]", "page_number": 283, "title": "CO129-493 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [6-8]", "content_text": "Copy.\n\nEnclosure No.3.\n\nHon. Colonial Secretary,\n\n281\n\nOn arrival at the frontier yesterday at 1.15, we found Sub-Inspector Hoare with the Captain Superintendent of Police's letter to the Sham Chun Commander unopened in his hands. He reported that the picket to whom he tried to give it had refused it but that word had come later that the Chief Strike Picket would come to the Bridge Head at 1.30.\n\nMr. Gerrard, Mr. Williams and I waited at the Bridge Head, while the troops were posted in various positions in our territory. We were informed that it was not the intention of the General Officer Commanding to send any troops over the border. A suggestion had been made that a small body of Police (about 30 I think) might make a forcible attempt to rescue the 7 captured men from the train in which it was rumoured that they were about to be sent to Canton. The troops were to \"cover\" the operation. Reflection will show that this suggestion was quite impracticable, as the captives would have been put on the train at the Sham Chun Market Station, which is nearly or quite a mile over the border.\n\nAt about 1.45 a picket came to ask for the letter, but while we were recalling Sub-Inspector Hoare who had gone to the Telephone booth, the picket started back to Sham Chun at a good pace. Mr. Gerrard, Mr. Williams and I decided to follow him with the letter. Accompanied by Mr. Kwok, Police Interpreter, we overtook him and continued on saying we would like to see the picket chief. After about 25 minutes walk we reached his headquarters, which were in a Kwan Yin Temple in the Market. A body of armed men stood outside and proposed to search us. I explained that we had a letter for Mr. Fu (the Chief) which he had sent for and that we wished to have an interview.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-493 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [6-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 505080, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-496 - Public Offices - 1926", "page_number": 346, "title": "CO129-496 - Public Offices - 1926", "content_text": "GENERAL.\n\n344\n\nIn dealing with the Bias Bay pirates, it has always been very difficult to get reliable information as to the identity of the pirates concerned, possibly because the whole area is more or less infested with pirates and their families, who appear to be able to keep their movements a secret. There are undoubtedly many gangs still operating (there are 3 well-known gangs), but these gangs are split up into sections under sub-leaders, who each recruit a certain number of men when it is decided that a piracy is to be committed. In this way, it often happens that a member of a gang only knows his sub-leader and a few of the men with whom he is operating. This is an added difficulty in securing reliable information. With the possible exception of Commander WONG YUK CHI, the Chinese Authorities who have hitherto been entrusted with the suppression of piracy have made little or no attempt to clear this area; in fact, it is strongly suspected that the Military have on more than one occasion been in collusion with the pirates (many of whom have seen military service) and have been friendly disposed towards them. Effective co-operation has therefore been impossible. The most noted pirate nests in this area are: NIM SHAN, FAN LO KONG, HAI CHAU, KWAI CHAU, CHEUNG PAI, HA CHUNG, and TAI FUNG City.\n\n(Sgd.) L.H.V. Booth.\n\nAsst. Director of Criminal Intelligence.\n\nXCR(111)", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-496 - Public Offices - 1926.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 505105, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-496 - Public Offices - 1926", "page_number": 371, "title": "CO129-496 - Public Offices - 1926", "content_text": "8\n\nonce made with General Ip Kui at Waichau, who sent an expedition to Nim Shan under a commander named Yung Fai Ting. It was later reported on fairly good authority that this commander succeeded in rounding up many of the pirates and recovering most of the silver bars stolen, but the pirates were released on payment of a large sum and the silver bars were appropriated by his troops. However, another expedition was later sent under the orders of General Hung Siu Lun with Commander Wong Fuk Chi in command. The latter corroborated the statement above regarding Yung Fai Ting, and further stated that the silver had been melted down and made into silver coins. In February 1925 Commander Wong Fuk Chi succeeded in effecting the arrest of one Sun Mau at Tai Pung. This man admitted participation in this piracy, and stated that Lam Tsoi Sau (a notorious pirate), a Hakka, a native of Cheung Pai village in Fan Lo Kong district, was the leader in this piracy. He also gave the names of several of his confederates. His story was to the effect that the pirates went to Shanghai viâ Hong Kong in a B. and S. steamer. He stayed with others at the Hung On Boarding House in Hong Kong before leaving for Shanghai (this statement was verified and found to be true). The arms were purchased in Shanghai. Eighteen men accompanied him via Sha Yu Chung to Hong Kong. His share of the loot was 40 pieces of silver, 40 dollars in one dollar coins and some serge clothing. The pirates known to him came from the Bias Bay area. There were several other pirates unknown to him in this gang. This ship did not come under the Hong Kong Piracy Prevention Ordinance.\n\n10. Steamship Hong Hwa.\"-Ho Hong Steamship Company, of Singapore. Running between Rangoon, Penang, Singapore, Hong Kong, Swatow and Amoy. Was pirated six days out from Singapore in latitude 14° 53′ N., longitude 110° 24′ E., on the 13th January, 1925, at 8:40 A.M., while on a voyage from Singapore to Hong Kong. She was carrying 357 passengers. The pirates, numbering about 30 (armed with revolvers) took the ship to Tsang Chau Island, Bias Bay, and left the ship in the ship's boats, taking with them money, jewellery and clothing to the value of $53,360. From information received it would appear that the pirates came mostly from Nim Shan or Fan Lo Kong and travelled to Singapore, where they procured arms and boarded the ship as passengers. The leader of this gang is said to be a man named Lo Ah Chiu, a native of Fan Lo Kong. The ship carried wireless, which was immediately put out of action by the pirates. Hakka and Hoklo were mostly spoken by the pirates, but some spoke Fukien and a few Punti. This ship did not come under the Hong Kong Piracy Prevention Ordinance. At the time this piracy was committed, General Hung Shiu Lun and Commander Wong Fuk Chi happened to be in Hong Kong. On the suggestion of the Captain Superintendent of Police an expedition was organised consisting of members of the navy, army and police in Hong Kong and headed by Commander Wong Fuk Chi. The party left for Ha Chung, Bias Bay, in a naval tug, where a party of some 120 of Wong Fuk Chi's soldiers were embarked and taken to Fan Lo Kong Bay. A landing was effected and raids were made on Kwai Chau, Hai Chau, Nim Shan and Fan Lo Kong. The police were present at these raids. As a result, sixteen men were arrested. They were in possession of various articles of property obviously illegally obtained. Some Singapore money was also found. The sixteen men were sent to Waichau for trial, and some of the houses occupied by them were burnt, but twelve of these were released after enquiry. The four remaining prisoners were kept in custody for several months at Waichau, but after the city fell into the hands of General Chueng Kai Shek, these four were released. At Fan Lo Kong a man in one of the houses raided fired on the troops who had come to search. This man was summarily shot. He was in possession of a revolver and an automatic. He turned out to be a man called Chan Shui Wai, alias Yeung Ah In, a well-known robber and pirate.\n\nGeneral.\n\nIn dealing with the Bias Bay pirates, it has always been very difficult to get reliable information as to the identity of the pirates concerned, possibly because the whole area is more or less infested with pirates and their families, who appear to be still able to keep their movements a secret. There are undoubtedly many gangs operating (there are three well-known gangs), but these gangs are split up into sections under sub-leaders, who each recruit a certain number of men when it is decided that a piracy is to be committed. In this way it often happens that a member of a gang only knows his sub-leader and a few of the men with whom he is operating. This is an added difficulty in securing reliable information. With the possible exception of Commander Wong Fuk Chi, the Chinese authorities who have hitherto been entrusted with the suppression of piracy have made little or no attempt to clear this area; in fact, it is strongly suspected that the military have on more than one occasion acted in collusion with the pirates (many of whom have seen military service), and have been friendly disposed towards them. Effective co-operation has therefore been impossible. The most noted pirate nests in this area are: Nim Shan, Fan Lo Kong, Hai Chau, Kwai Chau, Cheung Pai, Ha Chung and Tai Pung City.\n\n(Signed) L. H. V. BOOTH,\n\nAssistant Director of Criminal Intelligence.\n\nEnclosure No. 3.\n\nRear-Admiral A. J. B. Stirling, Commodore, Hong Kong, to Governor, Hong Kong.\n\nHong Kong, June 24, 1920.\n\nWith reference to the proposals made recently for dealing with piracies which may occur in future in Bias Bay and adjacent Chinese territories, the following are briefly some of the instructions issued by the Admiralty to Naval Officers for dealing with such incidents.\n\nThese regulations apply to piracies on the inland waterways on the coasts of China, as well as on the high seas.\n\n2. Generally, His Majesty's ships may co-operate for the suppression of piracies when so requested by local authorities (through His Britannic Majesty's Consuls), with the exceptions hereafter mentioned :—\n\n(a.) His Majesty's ships are not to be despatched to localities along the coast within Chinese jurisdiction to obtain indemnities for robberies committed, or to secure the release of persons held to ransom. In all such cases local authorities are to be called upon, through His Britannic Majesty's Consul, to take immediate measures for redress, and should the means at their disposal not be sufficient to effect the object in view, the question of co-operation should be decided by the Senior Officer.\n\n(b.) Landing in pursuit of pirates within Chinese jurisdiction is strictly forbidden.\n\n(c.) The landing of armed parties to obtain information is objectionable; the enquiries should be made, when possible, by the Officer in Command.\n\n(d.) Parties are on no account to be landed from His Majesty's ships within Chinese jurisdiction to destroy houses or villages, or even search them, on the grounds of their inhabitants being engaged in acts of piracy. The Chinese officials who accompany His Majesty's ships on these expeditions have no authority to request that such measures should be adopted.\n\n(e.) It will, however, be the duty of Officers in Command to report the information that may reach them of piratical villages and depots, with a view to His Britannic Majesty's Consul calling upon the Chinese authorities to take steps for their suppression, in which case our co-operation may be afforded if solicited through His Britannic Majesty's Consul.\n\n(f) Officers may use force--\n\n(i.) When fired upon.\n\n(ii) When a piracy is actually seen to take place, for the destruction or capture of the pirates.\n\n(iii) To prevent undoubted robbers from making their escape.\n\n3. It will be observed, therefore, that on no account can any officers or men be disembarked in Chinese territory to search for or to attack pirates, and that when pirates are once on shore fire can only be opened on them at the request of Chinese officials through His Britannic Majesty's Consul and in co-operation with Chinese authorities.\n\n4. Under these special circumstances I would recommend that the most effective fire which could be opened from Naval resources in co-operation with Chinese would be salvos of incendiary bombs from aircraft, the object being to burn out the villages.\n\nBefore such action could be taken, however, it would be necessary to receive a request from the Pekin or Canton authorities, through His Britannic Majesty's Minister at Pekin or His Britannic Majesty's Consul-General at Canton, and it would be essential for a number of Chinese officials and troops to be present during the operation.\n\n[15276]\n\nPage 369\n\n1\n\n1", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-496 - Public Offices - 1926.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 505113, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-496 - Public Offices - 1926", "page_number": 379, "title": "CO129-496 - Public Offices - 1926", "content_text": "9\n\nonce made with General Ip Kui at Waichau, who sent an expedition to Nim Shan under a commander named Yung Fai Ting. It was later reported on fairly good authority that this commander succeeded in rounding up many of the pirates and recovering most of the silver bars stolen, but the pirates were released on payment of a large sum and the silver bars were appropriated by his troops. However, another expedition was later sent under the orders of General Hung Siu Lun with Commander Wong Fuk Chi in command. The latter corroborated the statement above regarding Yung Fai Ting, and further stated that the silver had been melted down and made into silver coins. In February 1925 Commander Wong Fuk Chi succeeded in effecting the arrest of one Sun Mau at Tai Pung. This man admitted participation in this piracy, and stated that Lam Tsoi Sau (a notorious pirate), a Hakka, a native of Cheung Pai village in Fan Lo Kong district, was the leader in this piracy. He also gave the names of several of his confederates. His story was to the effect that the pirates went to Shanghai viâ Hong Kong in a B. and S. steamer. He stayed with others at the Hung On Boarding House in Hong Kong before leaving for Shanghai (this statement was verified and found to be true). The arms were purchased in Shanghai. Eighteen men accompanied him viâ Sha Yu Chung to Hong Kong. His share of the loot was 40 pieces of silver, 40 dollars in one dollar coins and some serge clothing. The pirates known to him came from the Bias Bay area. There were several other pirates unknown to him in this gang. The ship did not come under the Hong Kong Piracy Prevention Ordinance.\n\n10. Steamship Hong Hwa.\"-Ho Hong Steamship Company, of Singapore. Running between Rangoon, Penang, Singapore, Hong Kong, Swatow and Amoy. Was pirated six days out from Singapore in latitude 14° 53′ N, longitude 110° 24′ E., on the 13th January, 1925, at 8:40 A.M., while on a voyage from Singapore to Hong Kong. She was carrying 357 passengers. The pirates, numbering about 30 (armed with revolvers) took the ship to Tsang Chau Island, Bias Bay, and left the ship in the ship's boats, taking with them money, jewellery and clothing to the value of 53,360 dollars. From information received it would appear that the pirates came mostly from Nim Shan or Fan Lo Kong and travelled to Singapore, where they procured arms and boarded the ship as passengers. The leader of this gang is said to be a man named Lo Ah Chiu, a native of Fan Lo Kong. The ship carried wireless, which was immediately put out of action by the pirates. Hakka and Hoklo were mostly spoken by the pirates, but some spoke Fukien and a few Punti. This ship did not come under the Hong Kong Piracy Prevention Ordinance. At the time this piracy was committed, General Hung Shiu Lun and Commander Wong Fuk Chi happened to be in Hong Kong. On the suggestion of the Captain Superintendent of Police an expedition was organised consisting of members of the navy, army and police in Hong Kong and headed by Commander Wong Fuk Chi. The party left for Ha Chung, Bias Bay, in a naval tug, where a party of some 120 of Wong Fuk Chi's soldiers were embarked and taken to Fan Lo Kong Bay. A landing was effected and raids were made on Kwai Chau, Hai Chau, Nim Shian and Fan Lo Kong. The police were present at these raids. As a result, sixteen men were arrested. They were in possession of various articles of property obviously illegally obtained. Some Singapore money was also found. The sixteen men were sent to Waichau for trial, and some of the houses occupied by them were burnt, but twelve of these were released after enquiry. The four remaining prisoners were kept in custody for several months at Waichau, but after the city fell into the hands of General Chueng Kai Shek, these four were released. At Fan Lo Kong a man in one of the houses raided fired on the troops who had come to search. This man was summarily shot. He was in possession of a revolver and an automatic. He turned out to be a man called 'Tan Shui Wai, alias Yeung Ah In, a well-known robber and pirate.\n\nGeneral.\n\nIn dealing with the Bias Bay pirates, it has always been very difficult to get reliable information as to the identity of the pirates concerned, possibly because the whole area is more or less infested with pirates and their families, who appear to be able to keep their movements a secret. There are undoubtedly many gangs operating (there are three well-known gangs), but these gangs are split up into sections under sub-leaders, who each recruit a certain number of men when it is decided that a piracy is to be committed. In this way it often happens that a member of a gang only knows his sub-leader and a few of the men with whom he is operating. This is an added difficulty in securing reliable information. With the possible exception of Commander Wong Fuk Chi, the Chinese authorities who have hitherto been entrusted with the suppression of piracy have made little or no attempt to clear this area; in fact, it is strongly suspected that the military have on more than one occasion acted in collusion with the pirates (many of whom have seen military service), and have been friendly disposed towards them. Effective co-operation has therefore been impossible. The most noted pirate nests in this area are: Nim Shan, Fan Lo Kong, Hai Chau, Kwai Chau, Cheung Pai, Ha Chung and Tai Pung City.\n\n(Signed) L. H. V. BOOTH,\n\nAssistant Director of Criminal Intelligence.\n\nEnclosure No. 3.\n\nRear Admiral A. J. B. Stirling, Commodore, Hong Kong, to Governor, Hong Kong.\n\nHong Kong, June 24, 1926.\n\nWith reference to the proposals made recently for dealing with piracies which may occur in future in Bias Bay and adjacent Chinese territories, the following are briefly some of the instructions issued by the Admiralty to Naval Officers for dealing with such incidents.\n\nThese regulations apply to piracies on the inland waterways on the coasts of China, as well as on the high seas.\n\n2. Generally, His Majesty's ships may co-operate for the suppression of piracies when so requested by local authorities (through His Britannic Majesty's Consuls), with the exceptions hereafter mentioned :-\n\n(a.) His Majesty's ships are not to be despatched to localities along the coast within Chinese jurisdiction to obtain indemnities for robberies committed, or to secure the release of persons held to ransom. In all such cases local authorities are to be called upon, through His Britannic Majesty's Consul, to take immediate measures for redress, and should the means at their disposal not be sufficient to effect the object in view, the question of co-operation should be decided by the Senior Officer.\n\n(b) Landing in pursuit of pirates within Chinese jurisdiction is strictly forbidden.\n\n(c) The landing of armed parties to obtain information is objectionable; the enquiries should be made, when possible, by the Officer in Command.\n\n(d) Parties are on no account to be landed from His Majesty's ships within Chinese jurisdiction to destroy houses or villages, or even search them, on the grounds of their inhabitants being engaged in acts of piracy. The Chinese officials who accompany His Majesty's ships on these expeditions have no authority to request that such measures should be adopted.\n\n(e.) It will, however, be the duty of Officers in Command to report the information that may reach them of piratical villages and depots, with a view to His Britannic Majesty's Consul calling upon the Chinese authorities to take steps for their suppression, in which case our co-operation may be afforded if solicited through His Britannic Majesty's Consul.\n\n(f.) Officers may use force-\n\n(i) When fired upon.\n\n(ii) When a piracy is actually seen to take place, for the destruction or capture of the pirates.\n\n(iii) To prevent undoubted robbers from making their escape.\n\n3. It will be observed, therefore, that on no account can any officers or men be disembarked in Chinese territory to search for or to attack pirates, and that when pirates are once on shore fire can only be opened on them at the request of Chinese officials through His Britannic Majesty's Consul and in co-operation with Chinese authorities.\n\n4. Under these special circumstances I would recommend that the most effective fire which could be opened from Naval resources in co-operation with Chinese would be salvos of incendiary bombs from aircraft, the object being to burn out the villages.\n\nBefore such action could be taken, however, it would be necessary to receive a request from the Pekin or Canton authorities, through His Britannic Majesty's Minister at Pekin or His Britannic Majesty's Consul-General at Canton, and it would be essential for a number of Chinese officials and troops to be present during the operation.\n\n[15276]\n\n377", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-496 - Public Offices - 1926.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 506724, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-499-2 Canton situation- governor's despatches 15-1-1927 - 4-2-1927", "page_number": 36, "title": "CO129-499-2 Canton situation- governor's despatches 15-1-1927 - 4-2-1927", "content_text": "# ENCLOSURE NO. 1.\n36\n\n## FRONTIER INCIDENTS.\n\n**Hon. C.S.P.**\n\nThe situation, in general, along the north-east and north-west frontiers is as last reported. Inter-trade is still confined to local products, but I hear that quantities of foreign goods and kerosene are being smuggled into Chinese Territory from Deep Bay and around Nam Tau.\n\nThe FAN TAM and PO TZE gambling booths at Sham Chun have re-opened. Several natives of the New Territories are interested in the business. Each FAN TAN booth and each PO TZE table pays a daily revenue of $7 and $1.80, respectively, to the Officer in Command of the Sham Chun garrison, the money thus collected being sent to Canton.\n\nOn the 26th inst., 100 troops arrived at Sham Chun from Canton to re-inforce the local garrison to assist, it is said, in suppressing the activities of bandits.\n\n(Sd) W. G. GERRARD.\nAssistant Superintendent, Police.\n(New Territories).\n28th November, 1926.\n\n## Hon. C.S.P.\n\nThere is nothing of special note to report from the north-west and Mirs Bay frontiers. In both quarters the general situation is as last reported. Trade in local produce is gradually approaching pre-strike proportions, but there is little indication so far of a revival in foreign trade.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-499-2 Canton situation- governor's despatches 15-1-1927 - 4-2-1927.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 507130, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-499-4 Canton situation- governor's despatches 18-3-1927 - 22-4-1927", "page_number": 141, "title": "CO129-499-4 Canton situation- governor's despatches 18-3-1927 - 22-4-1927", "content_text": "## 149 3 \n- 3. young Chinese men and women who are quite unimportant and who have no real influence in Hong Kong.\n\n2. On the same day (12th March) the arrogance of the Seamen's Union received another set-back. Certain \"union\" stewards on the s.s. \"Tatshan\" (owned by Messrs. Butterfield and Swire), which was lying at her Hong Kong wharf preparatory to leaving for Canton at 8 a.m., saw fit to celebrate the day by posting on the ship's super-structure (where it would be visible to all comers) a placard denouncing the \"Imperialists\" for sending troops to Shanghai. Other posters in praise of Dr. Sun were put up in other portions of the ship. The police on duty attempted to remove the first-named placard but were met with threats of violence from the crew and had to send for reinforcements. On the arrival of these, the offending placard and one other were taken down by the Assistant Director of Criminal Intelligence (Mr. L.H.V. Booth) and later referred to the Secretary for Chinese Affairs. The first poster was confiscated and the other, being harmless, was returned to the Captain of the ship. The crew thereupon refused duty and the ship was finally removed from the wharf and anchored in the stream by European staff. An attempt was then made by the Union officials to call a general strike of river-steamer crews; but they appear to have met with no sympathy whatever from other crews. It is even stated that they were told brusquely by", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-499-4 Canton situation- governor's despatches 18-3-1927 - 22-4-1927.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 507213, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-499-5 Canton situation- governor's despatches 11-3-1927 - 11-3-1927", "page_number": 66, "title": "CO129-499-5 Canton situation- governor's despatches 11-3-1927 - 11-3-1927", "content_text": "A.S.I. A.H. Elston, States:- \n\nAt 10.00 hours on 7th May, 1927, I accompanied M. Booth, Assistant Director of Criminal Investigation to the Savoy Hotel to examine the effects of two Russians and their families. They had thirty pieces of baggage containing papers and personal property.\n\nAssisted by P.S. 472 Koretsky I examined all documents and papers found in their possession.\n\nMashevitch had no official papers. There was nothing unusual in his private correspondence.\n\nKougler had 3 suit cases containing official documents neatly filed and copied. Some were in English and some in Russian: all were written by hand except letters from Chinese firms in Canton. The papers dealt with the following subjects:\n(1) A Full Report on the work of the Soviet Mercantile Agency at Canton since early in 1925.\n(2) Papers showing that the agency had disbursed Soviet money, in small sums, to persons not employed in the Agency.\n(3) Papers showing that these \"financial troubles\" started when a Mr Marzel was agent in 1925.\n(4) Many papers dealing with complaints about salary and conditions of the office and godown staff. The complaints were acknowledged by the Tientsin office and all the Russian staff except three men were withdrawn and the work handed over to a Chinese firm in January 1927.\n(5) Correspondence about the slackness of the Tientsin and Vladivostock offices in answering letters and in sending remittances to pay for Stevedoring and supplies for the Russian ships, and complaints from Chinese firms in Canton about delay in paying accounts.\n(6) Papers showing that the agency wanted to rent more godowns and find land to build new godowns. It appears that it was decided to wait and see how business progressed in 1927.\n(7)", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-499-5 Canton situation- governor's despatches 11-3-1927 - 11-3-1927.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 510497, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-504-10 Currency system- premium on bank notes as compared with British silver dollars 10-1-1927 - 30-8-1927", "page_number": 2, "title": "CO129-504-10 Currency system- premium on bank notes as compared with British silver dollars 10-1-1927 - 30-8-1927", "content_text": "## Ezekiel (5.0.) \n\nh.\n\n114/27 \n\nWord copy of Letter from E Cubway \n\nI fear that I do reasonably up to date on currency, and it seems not known of any explanation for Hongkong undesirably to delay Kun(s) to prepare it is not one I consider necessary for this particular question.\n\nAre you aware there has never been sort of noth issue in Hongkong. (A scheme, which has been searched for, failed to hace was prepared some years ago, but was referred down by the higher authorities.) The circulation consists of a small quantity of currency in silver dollars, bank notes issued by the Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation, the Chartered Bank, and the Mercantile Bank.\n\nTo the Probate etc. it was said of wetting apronto... Charles Booth in the question to tavo. The charmed is not surprising: but the coming into which may modify his 5 news f...\n\nThe existence of a premium in HK kong is not new thing. It is certainly extraordinary that Bank notes should stand at full-value coria which they are supposed to represent. The usual problem", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-504-10 Currency system- premium on bank notes as compared with British silver dollars 10-1-1927 - 30-8-1927.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 511845, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-506-1 Illicit opium traffic- leakage of confidential information 17-10-1927 - 10-1-1928", "page_number": 34, "title": "CO129-506-1 Illicit opium traffic- leakage of confidential information 17-10-1927 - 10-1-1928", "content_text": "1inclos\n\nEOETV\n\nJoor.om\n\n60\n\n9% M. C. Lloyd Eng 30231\n\n12 Booth Rd\n\nWhalley Rangs. Exanchester\n\n29th Oct/27.\n\nuf 30231/27 of 27/10/27 noz\n\nDear Parkin\n\nI think\n\nI\n\nCan\n\nclear\n\nThe document\n\nappears\n\nto be Extracts\n\nup\n\n3\n\n34\n\nthe mystery.\n\nfrom my annual departmental report presented to the Hong Kong Government according to the usual routine. The original report Summary of all the work done during the year, is presented to the Colonial Secretary's office, where it would be edited. The final approved draft would then be sent to the Government printers, and copies would be laid on the table at a meeting of the Legislative Council, and copies sent to the press. They are distributed by the Imports & Exports office to the persons on the mailing list, including consuls, Heads of other opium administrations, Customs authorities, etc. The Colonial Secretary's office distributes to some, but I am not aware to whom.\n\nEvery care is taken in the C.S.O. I eliminate...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-506-1 Illicit opium traffic- leakage of confidential information 17-10-1927 - 10-1-1928.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 512062, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-506-3 Opium policy- experimental reduction of price to counteract sale of smuggled opium; proposal to buy... 7-10-1927 - 17-12-1927", "page_number": 138, "title": "CO129-506-3 Opium policy- experimental reduction of price to counteract sale of smuggled opium; proposal to buy... 7-10-1927 - 17-12-1927", "content_text": "Mr. Paskin Mr. Ellis\n\nMr.\n\n3.10.27.\n\n14.10\n\nMr. E. J. Harding.\n\nSir C. Strachey.\n\nSir J. Shuckburgh.\n\n★ Sir G. Grindle.\n\nSir C. Davis.\n\nSir S. Wilson.\n\nMr. Ormsby-Gore.\n\nLord Lovat.\n\nMr. Amery.\n\n8\n\n139\n\nSo. for on Passing sig.\n\nDRAFT.\n\nJ. D. LLOYD, ESQ.,\n\n(co N. C. Lloyd, Esq.,\n\n12, Booth Road,\n\nWhalley Range,\n\nMANCHESTER.)\n\nColonial Office,\n\nDowning Street, S.W.1.\n\n18 October, 1927.\n\nFr. Gov. 7th Oct. Tel.\n\n12.10\n\n(No.1).\n\nTo Gov. Tel. (draft herewith)\n\nDear Lloyd,\n\nI enclose copies of telegraphic correspondence with the Governor of Hong Kong and of a letter which I\n\nNotes of Meeting Lam\n\nA\n\n11/8.\n\nhare\n\n(No. 69 ~ 30801 A.)\n\nMemorandum by Mr. Wilson.\n\n(No 75.)\n\nTel. to Gov. Straits Setts. 2/9\n\n(No. 22).\n\n1\n\nCopy with wh in the Eldering with on. to the Assistant Legal Adviser at the Foreign Office, which speak for themselves.\n\nI also enclose copies of documents from which you will see the kind of scheme which we have in mind for the future supply of Persian opium", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-506-3 Opium policy- experimental reduction of price to counteract sale of smuggled opium; proposal to buy... 7-10-1927 - 17-12-1927.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 515639, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-511-12 Staff list for Hong Kong- approval for staff increase in Colonial Secretary's Office 15-6-1928 - 15-6-1928", "page_number": 17, "title": "CO129-511-12 Staff list for Hong Kong- approval for staff increase in Colonial Secretary's Office 15-6-1928 - 15-6-1928", "content_text": "22\n\n-\n\n12\n\n―\n\nHONG KONG,—Continued.\n\nATTORNEY GENERAL'S DEPARTMENT,—Continued.\n\n13\n\n—\n\nHONG KONG,—Continued.\n\nCrown Solicitor £1,000-£25-£1,200... H. K. Holmes, July 10, '22.\n\n16 Inspectors (Continued).\n\nAsst. Crown Solicitor £850-£25-£975... T. M. Hazlerigg, M.C., Oct. 5, '20.\n\nAsst. Crown Solicitor £600-£25-£800... T. S. Whyte-Smith, W.S., Dec. 29, '23.\n\nLand Officer... £900-£25-£1,200... P. Jacks, May 17, '16.\n\nAssistant Land Officer £600-£25-£800... F. Eaves, D.S.O., Sept. 11, '22.\n\n£1,250-£50-£1,500\n\n22.\n\nCaptain Supdt.\n\nPOLICE DEPARTMENT.\n\n3 Deputy Supdts. ... £375 to £1,100\n\n6 Asst. Supdts.\n\nE. D. C. Wolfe, Jan 1, '20.\n\nP. P. J. Wodehouse, C.I.E., by 17 annual increments of £25 & 6 annual increments of £50, Jan. 14, '12.\n\nT. H. King, April 5, '21.\n\nD. Burlingham, Feb. 1, '14.\n\nC. G. Perdue, Jan. 27, '19.\n\nL. H. V. Booth, Feb. 11, '22.\n\nW. R. Scott, Dec. 8, '22.\n\nW. G. Gerrard, May 2, '26.\n\nW. La B. Sparrow, Oct. 25, '24.\n\nL. H. C. Calthrop, Nov. 21, '24.\n\n£500-£25-£600... W. Kent, May 2, '26.\n\nChief Inspector\n\nChief Detective Insp.\n\nArmourer\n\nDo.\n\nT. Murphy, Nov. 24, '26.\n\n16 Inspectors\n\n£320-£10-£360... C. Greenwood, Nov. 7, '24.\n\n£400-£12.10s.-£450.\n\nC. F. Aris, Aug. 13, '21.\n\nJ. Ogg, Aug. 30, '23.\n\nP. Grant, Dec. 24, '23.\n\nH. J. Patterson, Feb. 7, '24.\n\nW. Spear, Dec. 26, '24.\n\nRichard Lanigan, July 6, '25.\n\nSub-Inspectors..\n\nPOLICE DEPARTMENT,—Continued.\n\n£400-£12-10s.-£450.\n\nD. MacDonald, Aug. 7, '25.\n\nR. H. E. Marks, Oct. 1, '25.\n\nA. N. Reynolds, Nov. 27, '25.\n\nA. R. Clark, May 2, '26.\n\nJ. R. Clark, Aug. 6, '26.\n\nW. R. McWalter, Aug. 13, '26.\n\nJ. Moss, Nov. 24, '26.\n\nF. E. Booker, May 11, '27.\n\nA. Hutchins, Aug. 5, '27.\n\n1 Post Vacant.\n\n£320-£10-£360... R. C. Watt, Aug. 17, '20.\n\nC. Pain, Jan. 17, '21.\n\nC. Evans, Jan. 1, '22.\n\nE. J. Cotton, July 25, '22.\n\nE. Bloor, Aug. 8, '22.\n\nH. Phillips, Sept. 27, '22.\n\nC. P. Fallon, July 27, '23.\n\nF. Shaftain, Aug. 7, '23.\n\nW. Shannon, Aug. 18, '23.\n\nR. Shandon, Aug. 30, '23.\n\nJohn Murphy, Dec. 23, '23.\n\nD. W. Barnett, Jan. 1, '24.\n\nL. P. Lane, Jan. 1, '24.\n\nJ. Brennan, Jan. 1, '24.\n\nA. E. T. Brown, Feb. 7, '24.\n\nK. W. Andrews, Jan. 1, '25.\n\nG. A. Stimson, Jan. 1, '25.\n\nC. F. Alexander, Jan. 1, '25.\n\nE. A. Vincent, Jan. 1, '25.\n\nW. E. Wilson, Dec. 21, '24.\n\nH. R. Kirkby, Dec. 26, '24.\n\nC. L. Goble, July 6, '25.\n\nM. Hourihan, Aug. 7, '25.\n\nE. J. Ellis, Aug. 7, '25.\n\n23", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-511-12 Staff list for Hong Kong- approval for staff increase in Colonial Secretary's Office 15-6-1928 - 15-6-1928.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 516187, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-511-6 Salaries and conditions of service of government staff 27-4-1928 - 2-11-1928", "page_number": 70, "title": "CO129-511-6 Salaries and conditions of service of government staff 27-4-1928 - 2-11-1928", "content_text": "## \n\n70 \n\nof a Superintendent of that standing. \n\n8. In conclusion, we would mention that with due regard to all the circumstances and conditions of service, the present pay scheme of Superintendents (with its 19 years of increments of £25 per annum) works considerably to their disadvantage in comparison with the pay scheme of Cadets. (A Cadet Officer commences increments of £50 per annum after 4 years service, attaining his maximum salary of £1200 per annum after 19 years service). Further, it may be noted that out of an establishment of 10 Superintendents, there is only one senior post (i.e., Captain Superintendent of Police) to which a Superintendent can be appointed. Appointments to the post of Captain Superintendent of Police in the past have been:- \n\n| Name | Appointed | Years of Service |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Sir F.H. May | 1893 | 12 |\n| F. J. Badeley | 1902 | 12 |\n| C. McI. Messer | 1913 | 15 |\n| E.D.C. Wolfe | 1920 | 21 and two years as First Magistrate |\n\nAt the moment, there are three Deputy Superintendents in the Force, two of whom have 30 and 22 years service respectively.\n\n(Sd.) C. G. Perdue, \nL. H. V. Booth, \nW. La B. Sparrow.\n\nPage 70 \nPage 71", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-511-6 Salaries and conditions of service of government staff 27-4-1928 - 2-11-1928.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 528067, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-531-10 Hong Kong University- encouragement of Chinese students to counteract American influence 30-5-1931 - 1-9-1931", "page_number": 22, "title": "CO129-531-10 Hong Kong University- encouragement of Chinese students to counteract American influence 30-5-1931 - 1-9-1931", "content_text": "## Memo ACEC 20/2\n\nA memo is being prepared regarding the Council for Christchurch University.\n\n2. Eaton Gale has been invited to possess it with as much detail as possible.\n\nW. G. Sewell is Ex Officio. Lo suggests inviting R.M. Tawney.\n\nThe first choice, however, I should be glad of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor's view on who they consider should be asked. (Though of course presumably the Committee can invite whom it wishes).\n\nThe above Standing Committee (except Booth and Soothill) will go to the meeting.\n\n(4) Exact previous minutes of the 2 1/2 meetings are available. Soothill has these.\n\n(`ACES 16/37`, `16/31`, and `30/31`)\n\nCopies of `ACEC 16/31` and `20/31` are on file. `No 41a` is on file `55`.\n\nAndoyuton, 7.ix.34", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-531-10 Hong Kong University- encouragement of Chinese students to counteract American influence 30-5-1931 - 1-9-1931.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 532065, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-536-6 Anti-Japanese Riots 28-9-1931 - 25-2-1932", "page_number": 32, "title": "CO129-536-6 Anti-Japanese Riots 28-9-1931 - 25-2-1932", "content_text": "31\n\n- 6 -\n\ning Officer The Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders who responded by sending out two platoons. These were almost immediately swallowed up in the rioting in Sham Shui Po itself, not far from the camp of the Argylls. The A.S.P. Kowloon was sent to Sham Shui Po and the D.S.P.(K) was instructed by me to remain at Tsim Sha Tsui (after reporting to me the situation in Sham Shui Po which district he visited on my instructions) to deal with reinforcements for the remaining districts.\n\n6.\n\nAs\n\nIn point of time the first serious encounter occurred in Soy Street between 5 and 6 p.m. when the Sub Inspector in charge of the Mong Kok District was severely injured by a blow on the head and had to be removed to hospital. Police and Fire Brigade combined quelled this disturbance but undoubtedly part of this mob then made its way to the Lai Chi Kok Road in Sham Shui Po District where the most serious rioting occurred.\n\nconditions were getting worse in Kowloon I instructed Mr. Booth A.D.C.I. to go over to Kowloon and relieve Mr. Calthrop at Sham Shui Po so that he could return to his own district Yaumati. This was done. At 8:30 p.m. on the D.S.P.K's return to Tsim Sha Tsui from Sham Shui Po he received information of further rioting in Yaumati, Mong Kok Tsui and Sham Shui Po Districts.\n\nActing on instructions sent by me after conferring with Headquarter Staff D.S.P.(K) successively called for seven additional platoons, one more for Sham Shui Po, making three in all there; two for Yaumati, two for Mong Kok and two for Kowloon City where rioting was reported to have started also.\n\nAfter making all necessary arrangements for further Military assistance for Kowloon and having ascertained that conditions were reasonably satisfactory in Victoria I decided to go over to Kowloon to take charge of the situation there. I arrived at Tsim Sha Tsui at 9:45 p.m. and after receiving the latest information from all districts from the D.S.P.(K) I made my", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-536-6 Anti-Japanese Riots 28-9-1931 - 25-2-1932.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 533838, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-539-2 Nguyen ai Quoc- arrangements for deportation 29-1-1932 - 31-1-1933", "page_number": 32, "title": "CO129-539-2 Nguyen ai Quoc- arrangements for deportation 29-1-1932 - 31-1-1933", "content_text": "SECRET:\n\nSir,\n\n92610/xenes.\n\nRECEIVED\n\n7--MAR--33\n\n29\n\n46\n\nGOVERNMENT HOUSE.\n\nHONG KONG, 31st January, 1933.\n\n31\n\n(75)\n\n34\n\n15/12588\n\n(15)\n\nF.O (71)\n\nI have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your secret despatch of the 13th December, 1932, regarding your cypher telegram No. 124 of the 8th October, 1931 and to inform you that the misunderstanding referred to in the third paragraph of your despatch under reply was due to the fact that Nguyen Ai Quoc's solicitors here had been informed in accordance with the incorrect paraphrase of your telegram of the 8th October that Nguyen Ai Quoc's admission to England would not be objected to. It is not possible to say exactly at what time this information was communicated as this appears to have been done in conversation of which there is no written record. It was however known to the Solicitors in June 1932 when after the receipt of your telegram No. 81, giving the terms of settlement of the appeal by Nguyen Ai Quoc to the Privy Council, the Crown Solicitor together with Mr. L.H.V. Booth of the Police Department who was in charge of the case began to explore with Nguyen's solicitors the possibility of Nguyen's reaching England, which was a \"place to which he desired to go\" and was by a misinterpretation of your telegram No. 124/1931 believed to be willing to receive him.\n\nTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE\n\nSIR P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER, G.B.E., M.C., M.P.\n\netc.\n\netc.\n\netc.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-539-2 Nguyen ai Quoc- arrangements for deportation 29-1-1932 - 31-1-1933.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 545418, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-549-10 Importation of meat products- health certificates 11-6-1934 - 21-11-1934", "page_number": 3, "title": "CO129-549-10 Importation of meat products- health certificates 11-6-1934 - 21-11-1934", "content_text": "## Dr. O'Brien \n\nI think that all is to Sund a copy of Hε Bader fuded. imports 21. 7. 34. thereof, Requests inlà capes of any that is is necessary this bolth. as well. the draft Opposite in pencil. \n\n[2] Dept. Health of Scotland Ref 1, confirms confirms para. (10) & draft reglens, will Colonies be be informed re also Scotland; received. requests despp. eli \n\nTo H. Kong. 290 (hrvandla) ions -- 2 AUG 1934 \n44 To Mic Health well) B112.b, to spend. 2 AUG 1934 \nTo Dept. of Health ton Scotland! \n218134 (+9) hosee atte auton Serbanks. 718 $11.3 \n\nlise. hodes us 2017 Horoward 2017. 24/7 a m \n3118", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-549-10 Importation of meat products- health certificates 11-6-1934 - 21-11-1934.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 547359, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-552-4 Police Department- staffing 2-1-1935 - 7-12-1935", "page_number": 8, "title": "CO129-552-4 Police Department- staffing 2-1-1935 - 7-12-1935", "content_text": "wohlayd \n\nEasley Dive \n\n• Mr. Afwell. \n\nSu & Wolmren \n\n& \n\nunusual \n\nIt would be a very unusual thing to do \n\nneed for it \n\nhere. \n\nSir William Peel spoke to me \n\nyesterday about the Hong Kong Police Force and in \n\nparticular about the filling of the post of Deputy \n\nI.G.P. which has become vacant by the retirement \n\nof Mr. Wolfe and the promotion of Mr. King. Sir W. \n\nPeel expected that Mr. King would recommend the \n\npromotion of Mr. Burlingham for the Deputyship and \n\nthis would be supported by Sir W. T. Southorn. Sir \n\nWilliam Peel himself was rather doubtful about the \n\nadvisability of this step. He described Mr. King \n\nas efficient but not a particularly strong man \n\nand said it was very important that he should have \n\nstrong and efficient backing from his No.2. \n\nHe doubted whether Mr. Burlingham would really fill \n\nup to a point the bill as Deputy. He said he was efficient and \n\nmentioned specially the Police arrangements at the \n\nJubilee, which were admirably managed by \n\nMr. Burlingham. \n\nAt the same time he described him \n\n\"as a bit of a bully\", and said he was also hampered \n\nby delicate health. For all these reasons he \n\nthought it might be a good thing to bring in a really \n\ngood outsider. He did not think that the absence \n\nof local knowledge would be a fatal obstacle, but he \n\nsuggested that if we could find a good man in Malaya \n\nwho was used to dealing with Chinese it would be \n\nan advantage. He also suggested that we might \n\nconsult Mr. Wolfe. I gave no definite answer to \n\nthis proposal and should like to know what the \n\nDepartment think of it. \n\nAs regards other Police Officers he \n\nmentioned Mr. Perdue as very experienced in the technicalities of Police work especially C.I.D. but \n\ndid not regard him as fit for high \n\ncommand. He also mentioned Mr. Booth \n\nas being hampered by delicate health. \n\nE.D.D. \n\n27th August, 1935. \n\nPromed Branch and labis \n\nin \n\nfiles extracts from his \n\nframatione \n\nJ&P? \n\n35- \n\nmalle \n\nin winli \n\nfor min \n\nwhich might \n\nwhich could only be found elsewhere in our service in Malaya \n\nform 53575/35 \n\n27. \n\nI should not be averse from the consideration \n\nof other candidates with Burlingham, but we should have to be quite sure \n\nthat any candidate selected from outside \n\nwas definitely superior in qualifications \n\nand in particular had adequate experience \n\nof dealing with Chinese. In face of Sir \n\nW. Peel's concurrence in Sir T. Southorn's \n\nconfidential report \"Very capable and deserving of promotion\" we should have to \n\nproduce something of a paragon from Malaya \n\nto justify the supersession of Burlingham. \n\nH.R. Lowell \n\n18/9/35. To Sir W. Peel \n\n28.8.35 \n\nCons \n\n2 Sept, 1935.\n\nPage 9\n\nPage 1", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-552-4 Police Department- staffing 2-1-1935 - 7-12-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 550776, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-557-12 Armstrong and Turner v. Estate Duty Commissioner- appeal to Privy Council 18-5-1936 - 2-10-1936", "page_number": 62, "title": "CO129-557-12 Armstrong and Turner v. Estate Duty Commissioner- appeal to Privy Council 18-5-1936 - 2-10-1936", "content_text": "Sir,\n\nNo. 16.\n\nLetter from Appellants Solicitor to The Registrar of the Supreme Court Hongkong.\n\nHongkong, 6th February, 1936.\n\nre SIR C. P. CHATER, DECEASED.\n\nESTATE DUTY APPEAL.\n\nMISC. PROC. No. 31 OF 1935.\n\nSince the hearing of this Appeal the Trustees of the Chater estate have found another case which they contend supports their argument and to which they desire to draw the attention of the Court.\n\nThey have approached the legal advisers for the Estate Duty Commissioner, namely, the Crown Solicitor and Mr. Eldon Potter, K.C., who have agreed that this letter, which has been approved by them in draft, shall be placed before the members of the Full Court, subject of course to their Lordships' approval.\n\nThe case in question is re Booth, (1916) 1 Ch. 349, 114 Law Times Reports, 498 and the contentions of the Trustees thereon are as follows:-\n\nIt appears that in that case the Testator by his Will and a Codicil thereto gave his estate to his Executors upon trust to pay an annuity of £150. It was admitted throughout the proceedings in that case by all parties, both the Plaintiff and the Defendant and by the Judge that the notional or actual fund which would produce this annuity was liable to payment of settlement estate duty; this of course would be correct only if the disposition effected by the testator amounted to a settlement. The Trustees maintain that it makes no difference whether the trust for the residuary fund is imposed by the actual words of the Will or by implication of law as they have argued in the present case.\n\nOn the other hand the legal advisers of the Estate Duty Commissioner contend as follows:-\n\nThis case is clearly one of a Settlement.\n\nThe effect of the testator's Will and Codicil (which must be read as one) was that the whole of the residuary estate was given to the executors upon trust for Elizabeth Booth for life, with a gift over after the death of E.B. to four persons and that there was grafted onto this disposition, which effected a settlement of the whole of the residuary estate, the requirements (a) by the codicil, that an annuity of £150 should be paid to Charlotte Pleace for life (commencing from the testator's death) and (b) by the will, that an annuity of £150 should be paid to Charlotte Pleace for life, if she should survive Elizabeth Booth.\n\nIn neither case could the annuity be dissociated from the settlement of the entire residuary estate, nor could either of the \"notional or actual funds\" which would produce the annuity be at any time regarded as taken out of the settlement\n\nNo. 16. Letter from the Appellants Solicitor to the Registrar of the Supreme Court Hongkong. 6th February 1936.\n\n67", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-557-12 Armstrong and Turner v. Estate Duty Commissioner- appeal to Privy Council 18-5-1936 - 2-10-1936.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 550777, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-557-12 Armstrong and Turner v. Estate Duty Commissioner- appeal to Privy Council 18-5-1936 - 2-10-1936", "page_number": 63, "title": "CO129-557-12 Armstrong and Turner v. Estate Duty Commissioner- appeal to Privy Council 18-5-1936 - 2-10-1936", "content_text": "69\n\nthe\n\nNo. 16.\n\n28\n\nof the whole of the residue. In the case of the conditional annuity (i.e., that Letter from conditioned on survivorship) the \"notional or actual fund\" necessarily remained Appellants subject to the settlement because the tenant for life, Elizabeth Booth, was entitled to the income thereof during her life as income of a part of the settled residue; while in the case of the annuity to commence immediately on the testator's death the \"notional or actual fund\" remained subject to the trusts of the settlement because the tenant for life was at once entitled to the income thereof (as income Hongkong of a part of the entire settled residue) if the annuitant should predecease her.\n\nSolicitor to the Registrar of the Supreme Court\n\n6th Febru-ary, 1936.\n\n(Continued)\n\nThe Court did not draw any distinction, for the purposes of Settlement Estate Duty, between the natures of the \"notional or actual funds\" for the 10 immediate and the conditional annuities as parts of the entire settled residuary estate, and gave no indication whatsoever that it was otherwise than as parts of such entire settled residuary estate that either of the \"notional or actual funds would attract Settlement Estate Duty.\n\nThe position was that there was no specific property set aside by the direction of the testator for the purpose of meeting the annuities (whereby a settlement would per se have been created of such property), but the trustees were empowered out of property already subjected to a settlement to set aside a slice to meet the annuities and such slice had accordingly to bear its due propor-tion of the duty.\n\nIn the following words which appear in the judgment (p. 356) there appears to be a clear recognition of the fact that Settlement Estate Duty had been paid on the \"notional or actual fund\" not as a fund set aside to meet the annuity given by the will or codicil but as a fund forming a part of an entire settled residuary estate :-\n\n+\n\n20\n\n\"He asserts that no settlement estate duty has ever in fact been paid in respect of the plaintiff's reversionary annuity. I agree that it was not so paid \"in name; but the plaintiff's reversionary annuity was at the testator's death \"part of the residue, and settlement estate duty was, in my opinion, as truly\n\npaid in respect of it under that description as was settlement estate duty paid 30 \"on the plaintiff's immediate annuity under the same description\".\n\nWe shall be much obliged therefore if you will be good enough to transmit this letter, of which we enclose three copies for your use, to their Lordships the Members of the Full Court in order that, subject to their approval, they may give this case consideration and include it in the record.\n\nThe Registrar,\n\nSupreme Court.\n\nWe have the honour to be, Sir.\n\nYour obedient servants,\n\nSd/ DEACONS,\n\n40\n\n29\n\nNo. 17. Judgment of the Chief Justice on the Appeal to the Full Court.\n\nNo. 17. Judgment of the Chief\n\nto the Full\n\nCourt.\n\nThis is an appeal against the judgment of Sir Atholl MacGregor, C.J. Justice on dismissing an appeal by the present appellants, the Trustees of the Will of Sir Catchick Paul Chater, deceased, against a decision of the Estate Duty Commis-sioner, the present Respondent, requiring payment of estate duty on the cesser 17th Febru of an annuity bequeathed by the Will to the deceased's wife Lady Chater, now also deceased.\n\nAs in the Court below the only question involved is a short, though not a simple one, namely whether or no the gift of the said annuity was a settle-ment of property, or of an interest or estate in property, limited by way of succession\" so as to enable the appellants to take advantage of the provisions of section 25 of the Estate Duty Ordinance, 1932. Counsel for the appellants has made two submissions in support of his contention that such a settlement was effected; firstly that in the Will itself can be found such a direction to appro-priate part of the estate to answer the annuity as constituted a settlement, and that therefore, although no appropriation was in fact made by the trustees, equity will regard that as done which ought to have been; and secondly, that the gift of an annuity simpliciter charged upon the residue of the estate was just as much a settlement as if the annuity had been charged upon a definite 20 portion of the estate.\n\nAs regards the first of these submissions, the material provisions of the Will are as follows:-\n\n(5) \"I bequeath the following annuities etc., etc.,\n\n(a) To my wife during her life the sum of ten thousand pounds\n\nsterling.\n\n(8) Subject to the payment of my funeral and testamentary expenses etc., and subject to making provision for any annuities bequeathed by this my Will or by any Codicil thereto my Trustees shall invest etc.\n\n(13) I declare that my Trustees shall be at liberty if they so think fit to 30 appropriate and set apart out of my residuary estate investments representing such a capital fund as shall at the time of appropriation be sufficient to produce the annual sums directed to be paid by Clause Five of this my Will with such a liberal margin for contingencies as in the opinion of my Trustees shall be sufficient And I declare that when such appropriation has been made the said annual sums shall be wholly charged on the investments so appropriated in exoneration of the rest of my estate but that the capital of such appropriated investments may be resorted to in case at any time the income thereof is insufficient to pay any such annual sum or sums And I further declare that on the cesser of any of such annual sums such part of the appropriated investments 40 as shall not in the opinion of my Trustees be required for the payment of the other annual sum or sums for the time being payable under the trusts of this my Will shall revert to and form part of my residuary estate and that any surplus\n\nary 1936.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-557-12 Armstrong and Turner v. Estate Duty Commissioner- appeal to Privy Council 18-5-1936 - 2-10-1936.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 550780, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-557-12 Armstrong and Turner v. Estate Duty Commissioner- appeal to Privy Council 18-5-1936 - 2-10-1936", "page_number": 66, "title": "CO129-557-12 Armstrong and Turner v. Estate Duty Commissioner- appeal to Privy Council 18-5-1936 - 2-10-1936", "content_text": "72\n\n32\n\n―\n\n33\n\n―\n\n73\n\nNo. 17. Judgment of the Chief Justice on the Appeal to the Full Court.\n\n17th February, 1936.\n\n(Continued)\n\nSection 25 of the Estate Duty Ordinance, 1932, reads as follows:-\n\n(1) If estate duty has already been paid in respect of settled property any since the date of the settlement, upon the death of one of the parties to a marriage, no estate duty shall be payable on the death of the other party to the marriage unless such person was at the time of his or her death or had been at any time during the continuance of the settlement competent to dispose of such property.\n\n(2) For the purposes of this section, the term settlement means any deed, will, agreement for a settlement or other instrument, or any number of instruments, whether made before or after or partly before and partly after the commencement of this Ordinance, under or by virtue of which instrument or instruments any property, or any estate or interest in any property, stands for the time being limited to or in trust for any persons by way of succession, and the term settled property means the property comprised in a settlement.\n\nIn my view s.s. (2) must be read to mean that a Will or other instrument is a settlement only if it directs the appropriation of certain specific property, or an estate or interest in certain specific property, to, or in trust for, any person for life. Here the Will directed no such appropriation.\n\nThis view is supported by statements in Hanson's Death Duties (8th Edition) at p. 105 \"an annuity simpliciter would not apparently be settled property.\" In Harman's Finance Act (4th Edition) at p. 79 an annuity charged on corpus with power to set aside a fund to answer the annuity is not, it is submitted, settled property. The test seems to be whether the annuity is equivalent to a life interest, i.e. is to be paid only out of the income from a fund directed to be set aside for the purpose which goes over on the cesser of the annuity\"; and also by the cases cited by Mr. Potter for the Respondent, In re Earl of Carnarvon's Settled Estates, (1927) 1 Ch. 139, and re Lord Alington and the London County Councils Contract, (1927) 2 Ch. 253, which decided that the existence of a rent charge or jointure, charged on an estate in an owner in fee, had not made the estate a settled estate.\n\nSince the above judgment was written my attention has been drawn by the legal advisers of the appellants, with the consent of those of the respondent, to a further case—Re Booth, Place v. Booth (1916) 1 Ch. 349. In that case the testator had by his will settled his residuary estate upon his executors for A for life and then for other persons subject to the payment to B out of the income of an annuity commencing on A's death, and had by a codicil given also an immediate annuity to B payable out of the same income. It was agreed that B had to bear her proportionate share of the settlement estate duty paid in respect of the whole settled residue on the testator's death, and it was further held by the Court that she must also bear her proportionate share of the estate duty payable on the death of A, she being regarded as enjoying the income from an actual or notional part of the settled estate. In my view, however, this decision does not help the appellants since the reason for B's liability to pay a proportionate share of the duty was not that her interest in the estate was in itself settled property or that her notional or actual slice of the estate was property settled upon herself, but that her slice being itself part and parcel of the settled residue has accordingly to bear its share of the duty.\n\nFor these reasons I am of opinion that this appeal fails and must be dismissed with costs.\n\nSd/ R. E. LINDSELL,\n\nChief Justice,\n\n17.2.36.\n\n10\n\nNo. 18. Judgment of Puisne Judge on the appeal to the Full Court.\n\nI concur. I have had the privilege of reading the Judgment of the President of the Court which has just been delivered and as I am in agreement with the views therein expressed including his views as to the reason for the decision in Re Booth (1916) 1 Ch. 349, to which our attention was drawn after the hearing of this Appeal, I shall not deal in detail with the cases referred to by Appellants' Counsel but confine myself to a consideration of the two grounds on which Mr. Macnamara submits this appeal should be allowed.\n\nAs regards the first ground I consider before the equitable maxim can be applied in the present case the will of the testator must contain a clear and imperative direction to set apart a fund to pay the annuity in question. This would appear to be the view taken by the learned Judges of the Court of Appeal in Re Twopenny's Settlement (1924) 1 Ch. 522 as Pollock M.R. in his Judgment said at p. 529;\n\nThe words quoted above— imperatively and definitely must be found appropriate to describe the effect of the instrument\".\n\nWarrington L.J. stated at pp. 532–533;\n\nThe doctrine that in equity land may be converted into money and money into land at the will of a settlor depends upon the principle that a Court of equity will not permit the default of a trustee to perform a duty imposed upon him to affect the nature of the interests conferred upon the beneficiaries, and therefore treats as actually done that which ought to have been done. Accordingly, if money is directed to be invested in the purchase of land to be settled upon certain uses that money, though not actually so invested, will devolve according to the provisions of the settlement exactly as the land would have devolved had it been purchased therewith.\n\nIt is obvious that, having regard to the principle upon which the doctrine of conversion is founded, there must be a paramount obligation binding the trustees to invest in the purchase of land, and therefore if...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-557-12 Armstrong and Turner v. Estate Duty Commissioner- appeal to Privy Council 18-5-1936 - 2-10-1936.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 550821, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-557-12 Armstrong and Turner v. Estate Duty Commissioner- appeal to Privy Council 18-5-1936 - 2-10-1936", "page_number": 107, "title": "CO129-557-12 Armstrong and Turner v. Estate Duty Commissioner- appeal to Privy Council 18-5-1936 - 2-10-1936", "content_text": "123\n\nIn support of their contention they cite :-\n\n**A.G. v. Owen** (1899) 2 **Q.B.** 253.\n\n**Re Campbell** (1902) 1 **K.B.** 113.\n\n**Re Weller** (1916) 1 **Ch.** 153.\n\n**A.G. v. Watson** (1917) 2 **K.B.** 427.\n\n**A.G. v. Robinson** (1893) 1 **Q.B.** 293.\n\n**Re Booth** (1916) 1 **Ch.** 349; 114 **L.T.R.** 498.\n\nThey refer to 13 Halsbury 229, Hanson's Death Duties, 8th edn. 105 and Eymond's Death Duties, 7th edn. p.262.\n\nThey do not suggest that the whole of the residuary estate is settled, but they contend that there is a settlement of a slice of the residue - the \"notional fund\" which would have sufficed to meet the annuity.\n\nThe appellants argue that if there were an express direction to set aside a sum to meet the annuity there would be a settlement and that it is a hair-splitting distinction if such a direction should make a settlement and a discretion to set aside should not do so.\n\nThey further contend that as equity looks on that as done which ought to have been done, equity will come to their aid and any charge the residuary legatee might have come to the Court and demanded appropriation (**Harbin v. Masterman** (1896) 1 **Ch.** 351), equity will come to their aid and regard the notional fund as having been appropriated and set aside although the trustees did not in fact make any such appropriation.\n\nThe appellants further contend that on the construction of the will as a whole, the discretionary power conferred on the trustees by clause 13 may be regarded as mere machinery (**Carmichael v. Orms.** 5 **App. Cas.** 588 at p.593) and that the words in clause 8 \"subject to making provision for the payment of any annuities\" amount in fact to a direction to appropriate.\n\nThe respondents contend that we have here a case of the", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-557-12 Armstrong and Turner v. Estate Duty Commissioner- appeal to Privy Council 18-5-1936 - 2-10-1936.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 550823, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-557-12 Armstrong and Turner v. Estate Duty Commissioner- appeal to Privy Council 18-5-1936 - 2-10-1936", "page_number": 109, "title": "CO129-557-12 Armstrong and Turner v. Estate Duty Commissioner- appeal to Privy Council 18-5-1936 - 2-10-1936", "content_text": "125 \n\nis applied, for instance, to cases where the surviving spouse had an annuity simpliciter under the will of the other spouse.\n\nThis statement by so eminent an authority as Dymond is, on the face of it, disturbing, but the wording of the paragraph in question leaves it open to doubt whether the author purports to make a statement as to the law or whether he is stating a practice of the Inland Revenue Authorities in England.\n\nThe cases cited by the parties are dealt with at some length in the judgments of his honour Sir Atholl MacGregor, Chief Justice, and those of the acting Chief Justice (Mr. Lind sell) and the Acting Puisne Judge (Mr. Hayden) who constituted the Full Court, and it seems unnecessary to deal further with them in these instructions.\n\nAfter the hearing by the Full Court and before judgment by that Court the appellants expressed a wish to bring to the notice of the Court the case re Booth, (1916) 1 Ch. 349, 114 *New Times* reports 438. To this the respondent's advisers consented so the case was brought to the notice of the Court in the letter to the Registrar dated 6th February, 1966, which appears on pages 27 and 28 of the record.\n\nThe contentions of the parties as regards this are fully set out in the letter and the respondent's advisers consider that the facts of this case afford an apt illustration of an annuity carved out of already settled funds as distinguished from an annuity simpliciter.\n\n-10-", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-557-12 Armstrong and Turner v. Estate Duty Commissioner- appeal to Privy Council 18-5-1936 - 2-10-1936.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 554006, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-561-7 Hong Kong University 4-1-1937 - 22-9-1937", "page_number": 49, "title": "CO129-561-7 Hong Kong University 4-1-1937 - 22-9-1937", "content_text": "# The Hong Kong Sunday Herald\n\n## HONG KONG, SUNDAY, JUNE 13, 1937\n\n### Pacific Relations\n\n46B\n\n**THE**\n\nThe visit of Mr. Carter last week to address the Rotary Club and the League of Nations Society on behalf of the Institute of Pacific Relations passed with almost as little comment as the discussion at the Imperial Conference raised by the Prime Minister of Australia on the suggestion of a Pacific Pact, but the subjects discussed dovetail into each other, and are just those on which Hong Kong might be expected to form and express opinions worthy of consideration. Mr. Carter told us that the Institute had come to the conclusion that it was impossible to understand the clash of national ambitions without knowing the internal conditions of the countries concerned, and as that is just what we find elsewhere and in history there is no reason why it should not be accepted as the starting point of any study of the Oriental problem. We may also accept his statement that the whole value of such discussions as were recently held at the Yosemite Valley convention lay in the fact that none of the delegates were official representatives. How could it be otherwise? Every Government is the resultant of traditions and interests that are opposed to each other, but which have to be combined into at least the semblance of unity, of which the official view is the organ. A student is concerned with the forces and their growing or fading ascendancy.\n\nOur visitor, as was natural to one who was a stranger to Hong Kong, looked to the university to take up the impartial study of local and South China conditions, such as overcrowding, excessive rents, and all the other causes of discontent and unrest. Nobody felt inclined to tell him that so far from encouraging such unpopular investigations they would be regarded as entirely improper. One of the things we have to secure or safeguard in Hong Kong is the candour of men like the late Sir Charles Booth's enquiry into the East End of London, or Seebohm Rowntree's survey of York.\n\nThe course of the discussions in London has revealed a rather unexpected trend, at least it would be unexpected to those who have not noted how often political changes have the opposite effect to what their proposers intended. Ever since Parliaments were established in the larger Colonies now called Dominions they have been to all intents and purposes self-governing, while professedly being still subject to the control of the Imperial Parliament. The facade did not correspond with the structure. In return for the purely nominal paramountcy the British taxpayer was expected to carry almost the whole cost of defence. Now that they are nominally independent though still under the protection of the Imperial Navy, they are logically bound to take the task of local defence more seriously. Co-ordination is substituted for subordination. To the outside world it is not easy to see any difference, because the change is not sudden. But it will grow, and with the decentralisation of responsibility will grow the strength of the Empire. From the beginning local forces entirely under Colonial control adopted the \"Queen's Regulations\" as the basis of their discipline, and so were able to work together in wartime. There will now be a regular interchange of ideas, and a common purpose. The access to responsible negotiations at Geneva and London and foreign capitals has opened up new vistas and a new appreciation of perils that have previously only been an anxiety to the Foreign Office. The nett result has not been any inclination towards further separation, but an increase of the influence of the Home Government, without the help of which the bigger problems would clearly be insoluble.\n\nAustralia, for example, seems to have acquired a new appreciation of the danger of keeping that enormous Northern Territory vacant in face of the teeming millions of the other Pacific States. Something has to be done to relieve the barren exclusiveness of the Labour Immigration policy, even in Australian interests. The suggestion of Mr. Lyons that there should be some new \"Pacific Pact\" would have no more effect than the other Pacts of which we have already had too many. It could only provide for things being left as they are, and as long as people are content with things as they are there is no need to have a Pact.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-561-7 Hong Kong University 4-1-1937 - 22-9-1937.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 555047, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-563-16 Sino-Japanese War- attacks on shipping 6-9-1937 - 13-11-1937", "page_number": 6, "title": "CO129-563-16 Sino-Japanese War- attacks on shipping 6-9-1937 - 13-11-1937", "content_text": "Vessels would be exempt from capture whatever their nationality unless they were taking part in hostilities.\n\nHowever (i.e., registration) I am not well acquainted with Mr. the way we should be entitled to protect them anyway, apart from protesting to Japan against the breach of the Convention.\n\nThe fact that they normally supply H.K. with fish might perhaps be an additional point to make.\n\nI suggest that we telegraph and ask for information to be cabled referring to the reply at (12), asking that the message should be repeated to Loboy Het. to `C.O., AAA, Gday, B/T U-booth`.\n\nAnd copy (11) (12) at 7.0.\n\nThe Eden would be prepared to buy back my yachts there, fading incidents to the notice of the Foreign Office against the breach of the (9th) Convention.\n\n`DIT. LE CUT wash.` \nToby tot Celter to `W.O., Admy, A.M.`\n\n7. Rayes \n24. IX. 37.\n\nSir G. Brooke and I discussed this, and the position would appear to be as follows. \n(1) If these fishing vessels were British and were engaged in supplying Hong Kong with", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-563-16 Sino-Japanese War- attacks on shipping 6-9-1937 - 13-11-1937.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 555561, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-563-19 Sino-Japanese War- fund for relief of distress in China 5-10-1937 - 17-11-1937", "page_number": 23, "title": "CO129-563-19 Sino-Japanese War- fund for relief of distress in China 5-10-1937 - 17-11-1937", "content_text": "# THE FUND FOR THE RELIEF OF DISTRESS IN CHINA\n\n## MINUTES of a meeting of the Signatories of the Appeal published in the Press on October 2nd, 1937, held on October 7th, 1937 at 3 p.m. at 3, Lombard Street, E.C.3.\n\n### PRESENT:\nSir Charles Addis, K.C.M.G. \nMr. D.G.M. Bernard \nDame Rachel Crowdy \nMr. Lionel Curtis \nLady Hosie \nMr. Adrian C. Moreing, M.P. \nLt. Gen. Sir George Macdonogh, G.B.E., K.C.B., K.C.M.G. \nSir Edward R. Peacock, G.C.V.O.\n\nThere were also present, though not as Signatories, the following:\n\nDr. H. Balme, F.R.C.S. (ex officio Conference of British Missionary Societies) \nCommissioner A.H. Barnett, O.B.E. (representing the Salvation Army) \nThe Rev. A.G. Castleton (representing the Rev. M.E. Aubrey) \nMr. R.J. Davidson (representing Mr. W. Littleboy) \nMr. F.C. Davies, O.B.E., (ex officio British Red Cross Society) \nThe Rev. S.H. Dixon (ex officio Conference of British Missionary Societies) \nLt.-Gen. Sir H.B. Fawcus (ex officio British Red Cross Society) \nMr. E.M. Gull (ex officio China Association) \nThe Rev. H.B. Rattenbury (ex officio Conference of British Missionary Societies) \nMr. G. Slater-Booth (ex officio British Red Cross Society) \nMrs. G. Young (representing Friends of the Chinese People)\n\n### BUSINESS TRANSACTED:\n\n1. \n2. \nOn the proposal of Sir Harold Fawcus, seconded by Dame Rachel Crowdy, Sir George Macdonogh was elected Chairman of the meeting. On the proposal of Mr. S.H. Dixon, it was agreed that Mr. Gull should act as secretary of the meeting.\n\nThe following suggestions, which had been circulated to Signatories of the Appeal prior to the meeting by the Secretary of the China Association, were adopted; the word \"patronage\" in suggestion (2) being given the meaning it was intended to have when included, somewhat loosely, in the suggestion, i.e., that of acting as Patrons of the Fund.\n\n1. That both committees should include representatives of the China Association, of the Conference of British Missionary Societies, and of the Red Cross Society, so that they should throughout act as a single organization administering a single fund.\n2. That the purposes of the General Committee should be mainly those of patronage, principles of administration, and general oversight of the Executive Committee.\n3. That in giving effect to the decisions of the Executive Committee, activities should be departmentalized so as to utilize, in as practical and effective a manner as possible, the special experience and aptitudes possessed by each of the three bodies composing our organization.\n\nIt was proposed by the Chairman and agreed that the Archbishops of Canterbury, York, and Westminster, the President of the Free Church Council, and the Chief Rabbi should be asked to be Patrons of the Fund.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-563-19 Sino-Japanese War- fund for relief of distress in China 5-10-1937 - 17-11-1937.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 555569, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-563-19 Sino-Japanese War- fund for relief of distress in China 5-10-1937 - 17-11-1937", "page_number": 31, "title": "CO129-563-19 Sino-Japanese War- fund for relief of distress in China 5-10-1937 - 17-11-1937", "content_text": "# THE FUND FOR THE RELIEF OF DISTRESS IN CHINA\n\n## MINUTES of a meeting of the Signatories of the Appeal published in the Press on October 2nd, 1937, held on October 7th, 1937 at 3 p.m. at 3, Lombard Street, E.C.3.\n\n### PRESENT:\n- Sir Charles Addis, K.C.M.G.\n- Mr. D.G.M. Bernard\n- Dame Rachel Crowdy\n- Mr. Lionel Curtis\n- Lady Hosie\n- Mr. Adrian C. Moreing, M.P.\n- Lt. Gen. Sir George Macdonogh, G.B.E., K.C.B., K.C.M.G.\n- Sir Edward R. Peacock, G.C.V.O.\n\nThere were also present, though not as Signatories, the following:\n\n- Dr. H. Balme, F.R.C.S. (ex officio Conference of British Missionary Societies)\n- Commissioner A.H. Barnett, O.B.E. (representing the Salvation Army)\n- The Rev. A.G. Castleton (representing the Rev. M.E. Aubrey)\n- Mr. R.J. Davidson (representing Mr. W. Littleboy)\n- Mr. F.C. Davies, O.B.E., (ex officio British Red Cross Society)\n- The Rev. S.H. Dixon (ex officio Conference of British Missionary Societies)\n- Lt. Gen. Sir H.B. Fawcus (ex officio British Red Cross Society)\n- Mr. E.M. Gull (ex officio China Association)\n- The Rev. H.B. Rattenbury (ex officio Conference of British Missionary Societies)\n- Mr. G. Slater-Booth (ex officio British Red Cross Society)\n- Mrs. G. Young (representing Friends of the Chinese People)\n\n## BUSINESS TRANSACTED\n\n1. On the proposal of Sir Harold Fawcus, seconded by Dame Rachel Crowdy, Sir George Macdonogh was elected Chairman of the meeting. On the proposal of Mr. S.H. Dixon, it was agreed that Mr. Gull should act as secretary of the meeting.\n\n2. The following suggestions, which had been circulated to Signatories of the Appeal prior to the meeting by the Secretary of the China Association, were adopted; the word \"patronage\" in suggestion (2) being given the meaning it was intended to have when included, somewhat loosely, in the suggestion, i.e., that of acting as Patrons of the Fund.\n\n| Suggestion # | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| (1) | that both committees should include representatives of the China Association, of the Conference of British Missionary Societies, and of the Red Cross Society, so that they should throughout act as a single organization administering a single fund. |\n| (2) | that the purposes of the General Committee should be mainly those of patronage, principles of administration, and general oversight of the Executive Committee. |\n| (3) | that in giving effect to the decisions of the Executive Committee, activities should be departmentalized so as to utilize in as practical and effective a manner as possible the special experience and aptitudes possessed by each of the three bodies composing our organization. |\n\nIt was proposed by the Chairman and agreed that the Archbishops of Canterbury, York, and Westminster, the President of the Free Church Council, and the Chief Rabbi should be asked to be Patrons of the Fund.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-563-19 Sino-Japanese War- fund for relief of distress in China 5-10-1937 - 17-11-1937.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 555586, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-563-19 Sino-Japanese War- fund for relief of distress in China 5-10-1937 - 17-11-1937", "page_number": 48, "title": "CO129-563-19 Sino-Japanese War- fund for relief of distress in China 5-10-1937 - 17-11-1937", "content_text": "# THE FUND FOR THE RELIEF OF DISTRESS IN CHINA\n\n## MINUTES of a meeting of the Signatories of the Appeal published in the Press on October 2nd, 1937, held on October 7th, 1937 at 3 p.m. at 3, Lombard Street, E.C.3.\n\n### PRESENT:\n| Name | Title/Designation |\n| --- | --- |\n| Sir Charles Addis | K.C.M.G. |\n| Mr. D.G.M. Bernard | |\n| Dame Rachel Crowdy | |\n| Mr. Lionel Curtis | |\n| Lady Hosie | |\n| Mr. Adrian C. Moreing | M.P. |\n| Lt. Gen. Sir George Macdonogh | G.B.E., K.C.B., K.C.M.G. |\n| Sir Edward R. Peacock | G.C.V.O. |\n\nThere were also present, though not as Signatories, the following:\n| Name | Title/Designation/Representation |\n| --- | --- |\n| Dr. H. Balme | F.R.C.S. (ex officio Conference of British Missionary Societies) |\n| Commissioner A.H. Barnett | O.B.E. (representing the Salvation Army) |\n| The Rev. A.G. Castleton | (representing the Rev. M.E. Aubrey) |\n| Mr. R.J. Davidson | (representing Mr. W. Littleboy) |\n| Mr. F.C. Davies | O.B.E. (ex officio British Red Cross Society) |\n| The Rev. S.H. Dixon | (ex officio Conference of British Missionary Societies) |\n| Lt.-Gen. Sir H.B. Fawcus | (ex officio British Red Cross Society) |\n| Mr. B.M. Gull | (ex officio China Association) |\n| The Rev. H.B. Rattenbury | (ex officio Conference of British Missionary Societies) |\n| Mr. G. Slater-Booth | (ex officio British Red Cross Society) |\n| Mrs. G. Young | (representing Friends of the Chinese People) |\n\n### BUSINESS TRANSACTED:\n\n1. On the proposal of Sir Harold Fawcus, seconded by Dame Rachel Crowdy, Sir George Macdonogh was elected Chairman of the meeting. On the proposal of Mr. S.H. Dixon, it was agreed that Mr. Gull should act as secretary of the meeting.\n\n2. The following suggestions, which had been circulated to Signatories of the Appeal prior to the meeting by the Secretary of the China Association, were adopted; the word \"patronage\" in suggestion (2) being given the meaning it was intended to have when included, somewhat loosely, in the suggestion, i.e., that of acting as Patrons of the Fund.\n\n (1) That both committees should include representatives of the China Association, of the Conference of British Missionary Societies, and of the Red Cross Society, so that they should throughout act as a single organization administering a single fund.\n\n (2) That the purposes of the General Committee should be mainly those of patronage, principles of administration, and general oversight of the Executive Committee.\n\n (3) That in giving effect to the decisions of the Executive Committee, activities should be departmentalized so as to utilize, in as practical and effective a manner as possible, the special experience and aptitudes possessed by each of the three bodies composing our organization.\n\nIt was proposed by the Chairman and agreed that the Archbishops of Canterbury, York, and Westminster, the President of the Free Church Council, and the Chief Rabbi should be asked to be Patrons of the Fund.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-563-19 Sino-Japanese War- fund for relief of distress in China 5-10-1937 - 17-11-1937.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 555588, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-563-19 Sino-Japanese War- fund for relief of distress in China 5-10-1937 - 17-11-1937", "page_number": 50, "title": "CO129-563-19 Sino-Japanese War- fund for relief of distress in China 5-10-1937 - 17-11-1937", "content_text": "# THE FUND FOR THE RELIEF OF DISTRESS IN CHINA\n\n## MINUTES of the first meeting of the General Committee constituted\n\nat a meeting held on October 7th at 3 p.m. at 3, Lombard Street, E.C.3. of the Signatories of the Appeal published in the Press on October 2, 1937, the Committee meeting following upon that of the Signatories.\n\nThe following were present:\n\n* Sir Charles Addis, K.C.M.G.\n* Mr. D.G.M. Bernard\n* Dame Rachel Crowdy\n* Mr. Lionel Curtis\n* Lady Hosie\n* Mr. Adrian C. Moreing, M.P.\n* Lt. Gen. Sir George Macdonogh, G.B.E., K.C.B., K.C.M.G.\n* Sir Edward R. Peacock, G.C.V.O.\n\nThere were also present, though not as Signatories, the following:\n\n* Dr. H. Balme, F.R.C.S. (ex officio Conference of British Missionary Societies)\n* Commissioner A.H. Barnett, C.B.E. (representing the Salvation Army)\n* The Rev. A.G. Castleton (representing the Rev. M.E. Aubrey)\n* Mr. R.J. Davidson (representing Mr. \"Littleboy\")\n* Mr. F.C. Davies, O.M.B.E. (ex officio British Red Cross Society)\n* The Rev. S.H. Dixon (ex officio Conference of British Missionary Societies)\n* Lt.-Gen. Sir H.B. Fawcus (ex officio British Red Cross Society)\n* Mr. E.M. Gull (ex officio China Association)\n* The Rev. H.B. Rattenbury (ex officio Conference of British Missionary Societies)\n* Mr. G. Slater-Booth (ex officio British Red Cross Society)\n* Mrs. G. Young (representing Friends of the Chinese People)\n\n## BUSINESS TRANSACTED:\n\n1. On the proposal of Sir George Macdonogh, Sir Harold Fawcus, Deputy Chairman of the Committee, was asked to take the Chair.\n\n2. The Committee considered the following general principles in relation to the administration of the Fund:\n\n(1) The statement contained in the appeal, as published on October 2, i.e., \"The money and material sent to China will be administered by an organisation to be constituted in that country under the Presidency of H.M. Ambassador, Sir Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen and the Vice-Presidency of the Governor of Hongkong, Sir Geoffry Northcote\".\n\n(2) Extract from a letter from Mr. Lionel Curtis to the Secretary of the China Association dated September 30, 1937: \"I think it is a cardinal mistake to send money to China except for the relief of our own fellow countrymen in distress. So far as the Chinese civilians are concerned who have been mutilated by Japanese bombs and shells, what is needed is a rushing out to China of surgeons and medical equipment through the agency of the Red Cross. At present, neither surgeons nor medical equipment can be got for money in China\".\n\n(3) The relative position which the relief of British sufferers, as distinct from Chinese sufferers, is to hold in the scheme of relief.\n\nPage 50\nPage 51", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-563-19 Sino-Japanese War- fund for relief of distress in China 5-10-1937 - 17-11-1937.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 555605, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-563-19 Sino-Japanese War- fund for relief of distress in China 5-10-1937 - 17-11-1937", "page_number": 67, "title": "CO129-563-19 Sino-Japanese War- fund for relief of distress in China 5-10-1937 - 17-11-1937", "content_text": "# \n-2- \n\nEvery effort must be made to get supplies and relief as quickly as possible to the sufferers. It is of the greatest importance that there should be a united effort and all other bodies are invited to co-operate.\n\nThe names of persons constituting the general and executive Committees which we are in process of forming in London will be published at an early date. Details regarding amounts subscribed will be published from time to time.\n\nInquiries should be addressed to the Rev. S. H. Dixon, China Secretary, Edinburgh House, or to Mr. F. C. Davies, Secretary British Red Cross Society, 14, Grosvenor Crescent, S.W.1. or to Mr. E. M. Gull, Secretary of the China Association.\n\nWe are, etc.\n\nCosmo Cantuar.\nWilliam Ebor.\nArthur Archbishop of Westminster.\nDugald Macfarlane, Moderator Church of Scotland.\nM. F. Aubrey, Moderator Federal Council of Free Churches.\nSidney M. Berry, Sec., Congregational Union of England & Wales.\nRobert Bond, Pres. Methodist Conference.\nJ. H. Hertz, Chief Rabbi.\nWilfred Littleboy, Society of Friends.\nGeorge Broadbridge, Lord Mayor of London.\nW. G. S. Adams, (Warden of All Souls).\nCharles Addis.\nAllen G. Anderson.\nAbe Bailey.\nD. G. M. Bernard, (Hon. Treasurer, China Association).\nBearsted.\nEvangeline Booth, (General Salvation Army).\nP. B. Clayton.\nRachel Crowdy.\nHugo Cunliffe-Owen.\nO. M. Green, (Lon. Rep. British Residents Asscn. of China).\nLionel Curtiss.\nBeatrix Manico Gull, (formerly Chairman, British Women's Asson. Shanghai).\nDorothea Hosie.\nA. D. Lindsay, (Master of Balliol).\nListowel.\nG. M. W. Macdonogh.\nMcGowan.\nAdrian C. Moreing.\nF. R. Peacock.\nE. Denison Ross, (Chairman, Council China Society).\nSamuel.\nArthur Stanley, (Chairman, British Red Cross Society).\nKenneth D. Stewart, (Chairman, China & Far East Sec. Manchester C. of C.).\nG. W. Swire, (Chairman China Asscn).\nJ. J. Thomson, (Master of Trinity, Cambridge).\nR. Waller, (Pres. Kristol Inc. Chamber of Commerce und Shipping).\nWillingdon.\n\nTo the Editor.\n\n67", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-563-19 Sino-Japanese War- fund for relief of distress in China 5-10-1937 - 17-11-1937.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 558205, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-567-5 Traffic of arms to China and Japanese air-raids on Kowloon-Canton railway 11-4-1938 - 19-1-1939", "page_number": 82, "title": "CO129-567-5 Traffic of arms to China and Japanese air-raids on Kowloon-Canton railway 11-4-1938 - 19-1-1939", "content_text": "No.722 (152/70L/38) Copied to: \n\nHongkong, No.58. Shanghal No.324. Berlin, \n\nRome, \n\nMy Lord, \n\nBRITISH EMBASSY, \n\nTOKYO. \n\n21st September, 1938. \n\nWith reference to Berlin telegram No.377 Saving of the 11th August, copy of which was sent to me under cover of Your Lordship's despatch No.584 of the 15th August (F.8750/4850/23), I have the honour to transmit to Your Lordship herewith a copy of a memorandum prepared by Mr. P.H. Gore-Booth, Third Secretary of His Majesty's Embassy, from material available from Hongkong and Shanghai regarding imports of arms into China from Germany, Italy and Great Britain. \n\n2. Your Lordship will observe that up to August a very considerable percentage of the arms supplied to China through Hongkong continued to come from Germany and that after the first three months of the present year imports from Italy sank to a negligible quantity, where they as yet remain. It is of course possible that the situation may change when the Germans have fulfilled all their past contracts with the Chinese; at present however there is no sign of supplies to China from that source ceasing. \n\n5. Your Lordship will observe that the figures now obtained confidentially from the Inspector General of Customs at Shanghai in connexion with supplies for government...\n\nThe Right Honourable \n\nThe Viscount Halifax, K.G., G.C.S.I., G.C.I.E., \n\netc., \n\netc., \n\netc., \n\nPage 83", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-567-5 Traffic of arms to China and Japanese air-raids on Kowloon-Canton railway 11-4-1938 - 19-1-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 561344, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-571-15 Sino-Japanese War- manufacture and import of aircraft to China 18-1-1938 - 5-1-1939", "page_number": 46, "title": "CO129-571-15 Sino-Japanese War- manufacture and import of aircraft to China 18-1-1938 - 5-1-1939", "content_text": "## \n24 \n\n**Required for action re alfe:** of `(113)`. \n\n**leopens of** \n\n18 \n\n$10 \n\n110 have been sent to \n\n**uiter alin-** \n\nAm.FB.T_ for refer \n\n46 \n\n\nWe might now ask **booth Dept** for \n\n**o offer** on \n\n4T5 of that despatch, telling each \n\nany person that they have to \n\nJanas we have written to the other, explaining topic \n\nwe \n\n**ofor letters** to F.D., B.D., W.O and Admy for \n\nrefer \n\nYes. \n\n18740 \n\nWhat \n\n18 ahe \n\n114 To. Am. \n\nDO TO. B.I.T. \n\n121 TO F.O \n\nBad To B.D. \n\n} \n\n24.10.38 \n\ncons. \n\nW \n\n122 \n\nWe 119-120-B \n\n123 To. Admy. \n\n726 Co \n\n24.10.38 \n\n**lätt To. W.O.** \n\n125. bol. fec. \n\n**secret 3RM** \n\nRef 110. Requests despatch be marked secret \n\nNecessary amendments √26/10 \n\nPut by amendments made abbott, \n\nHall 70 If at once \n\n26.10.38 \n\n\nM \n\n\n29.9.38 (2). \n\n\n11.11.38", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-571-15 Sino-Japanese War- manufacture and import of aircraft to China 18-1-1938 - 5-1-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 570170, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-584-9 Water Supply- Tai Lam Chung Valley reservoir 23-1-1940 - 30-3-1940", "page_number": 13, "title": "CO129-584-9 Water Supply- Tai Lam Chung Valley reservoir 23-1-1940 - 30-3-1940", "content_text": "(*4282-150) Wt. 38815-61 10,000 12/39 T.S. 695\n\nC. O.\n\nMr.\n\nGrealell 14/3\n\n18. Martin 14/3/40\n\nMr.\n\nMr. C. J. Jeffries.\n\nMr. A. J. Dawe.\n\nSir J. Shuckburgh.\n\nPermt. U.S. of S.\n\nParly. U.S. of S.\n\nSecretary of State.\n\nCons.\n\n5368/40 H.K.\n\nR83,\n\nalonce\n\n1940\n\n15.3.40\n\nDRAFT. Tel code)\n\nGov. Hong Kong\n\nFURTHER ACTION.\n\nto\n\nRecurs in and 65 sand\n\n10 venals to bor.\n\nboppy 10 Gendo\n\ncus.\n\nLiFi ref this by animals.\n\nHiking\n\nbopy this to C'agrs. inf L.F. reso.\n\nboded\n\nsent\n\n11.30 AM\n\n3.44\n\n11\n\nno 110 Your let of 2144 Fc No.80\n\n13\n\n(9) Jay dep 12 hack b6 TAI LUM CHANG valley Consultants advise that construction of dam\n\nvery\n\nat upper site might be costly owing to difficult foundations Existing data\n\nin die ale Shelter insufficient to the theme to Construction. Fouble of lower site fores preliminary storage of\n\nreasonable cost Visit cost of a dam at lower seti by Consulting Engineer Foobirate possibility of rather premature pending examination\n\nto losed esat here of folks dat a required\n\nbooth\n\nthat\n\nas indicated in Celles of which estimates of clation cox of to comm follows by air mail (1)\n\nIt is suggested that further investigations should be\n\nvery\n\nto\n\nconfined\n\nthe lower site and\n\nexpedited\n\naro\n\nmuch as\n\npossible\n\nto being fused to and\n\ntanto sache der was\n\nf\n\nand/", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-584-9 Water Supply- Tai Lam Chung Valley reservoir 23-1-1940 - 30-3-1940.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 574915, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-590-12 Places of Public Entertainment Regulation Amendment Ordinance 1941 21-2-1941 - 15-4-1941", "page_number": 11, "title": "CO129-590-12 Places of Public Entertainment Regulation Amendment Ordinance 1941 21-2-1941 - 15-4-1941", "content_text": "# HONG KONG\n## No. 2 of 1941\n\nI assent.\n\n**E. F. NORTON**, \nOfficer Administering the Government. \n21st February, 1941.\n\n## An Ordinance to amend the Places of Public Entertainment Regulation Ordinance, 1919\n\n[21st February, 1941]\n\nBE it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-\n\n1. This Ordinance may be cited as the **Places of Public Entertainment Regulation Amendment Ordinance, 1941**. \n **Short title**\n\n2. The **Places of Public Entertainment Regulation Ordinance, 1919**, is amended by the insertion of the following new section after section 5 thereof :- \n **New section**\n\n### 5A inserted in Ordinance No. 22 of 1919\n\n**Restrictions on the un-** \n**sale of tickets**\n\n5A.-(1) No person shall sell, or offer or exhibit or have in his possession for sale, or solicit the purchase of, any authorized ticket or voucher authorizing or purporting to authorize admission to any place of public entertainment licensed under this Ordinance or any place with respect to which duty on payments for admission is payable under the **Entertainments Tax Ordinance, 1930**-\n (a) in any public thoroughfare, or in the entrance hall of, or approaches to, any such place as aforesaid, except at a box-office, booth, turnstile or counter appointed by the proprietor or manager of such place or by the organizer of the entertainment, exhibition, performance, amusement, game or sport held therein, or \n (b) at a price exceeding the amount fixed by such proprietor, manager or organizer to be charged therefor, inclusive of the duty, if any, payable.\n\n(2) Every person who contravenes the provisions of this section shall upon summary conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars.\n\nPassed the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, this 20th day of February, 1941.\n\n**C. BRAMALL BURGESS**, \nDeputy Clerk of Councils.\n\n## Ordinance No. 28 of ...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-590-12 Places of Public Entertainment Regulation Amendment Ordinance 1941 21-2-1941 - 15-4-1941.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 582683, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-595-9 The British Military Administration of Hong Kong- report- 1946 11-7-1946 - 2-9-1946", "page_number": 132, "title": "CO129-595-9 The British Military Administration of Hong Kong- report- 1946 11-7-1946 - 2-9-1946", "content_text": "## APPENDIX A\n\n### ORGANIZATION QUARTERING AND HIRINGS DEPARTMENT\n\n2. C. & H. C.\n\n* Lt. Col. Milne\n* A.O. K.L. Maj. Miller\n* Capt. Rycroft\n* Lt. Rankin\n* Sgt. Hunt\n\n| Role | Responsibility |\n| --- | --- |\n| (Billeting & Survey) | |\n| (Adjt. & Accommodation) | |\n| (Odd Jobs) | |\n\n* Assessment: S.O.III 172 Staff Lt.\n\n### Quartering Branch\n\n* Capt. Cadogan-Edwards\n* Mr. Tester\n* Mr. Loureiro\n* Mr. Lee Gardner\n* Mr. Gardner\n\n### Liaison Branch (Hong Kong)\n\n* Capt. Booth Army\n\t+ (Plans & Forecasts)\n\t+ (Office Routine)\n\t+ (Census)\n* Duties:\n\t+ Act as channel between Service accommodation Officer on requests for accommodation.\n\t+ Carry out housing census.\n\t+ Act at 2.C. Rep. on marching in and out inspection.\n\n### Hiring Branch\n\n* Major Davies (O.O. Branch)\n\t+ (Requisitioning)\n* SO III Capt De Ville\n* Mr. Mariepolsky (Houses or furniture)\n* Mr. Blair SO III\n\t+ (Assessment)\n* Responsibilities:\n\t+ (Estimates)\n\t+ (Disputes)\n\t+ (Billets)\n\t+ (Allocation of premises)\n\t+ (Hostels)\n\t+ (Pay)\n\t+ (Advice on Local Aspects of Requisitioning)\n\t+ (Repairs)", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-595-9 The British Military Administration of Hong Kong- report- 1946 11-7-1946 - 2-9-1946.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 585977, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-602-4 Cost of living allowance 27-3-1948 - 11-12-1948", "page_number": 45, "title": "CO129-602-4 Cost of living allowance 27-3-1948 - 11-12-1948", "content_text": "1\n\nני\n\nGin\n\nSingapore\n\nItem Liquor: Black Label Walker Whisky all brands\n\nPrice Reference Unit Sing. X H.M.% lol El Price Unit Than H...\n\n- Johnnie Controlled Price List, June\n\nQuart 12.45 23.26\n\nLiquor: Black Label - proprietary\n\nQuart 20.00\n\nWhisky 10.25 19.17\n\nGin - Booth's Fordon's\n\n12.22 12.00\n\nFree Market Rice (September 1948)\n\nGovernor Singapore's telegram (8.432 of 29th September)\n\nKati .2700 .5076\n\nAverage September Kati .515\n\nSUPPLY OF PRISON\n\nFoodstuffs in Hong Kong\n\nFlour Bread\n\nTinned Futter- 'No?\n\nPrices in or\n\ni: Singapore\n\nBeef Fork Poultry Eggs Fresh Fish Lard Salt Fruit (except Oranges)\n\nBeer Spirits\n\nPrices Substantially equivalent in Hong Kong & Singapore\n\nMutton Dried and Salted Fish Oranges Fresh Cutter Sugar Ovaltine Milk Mineral Waters\n\nFree Market Rice\n\n44", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-602-4 Cost of living allowance 27-3-1948 - 11-12-1948.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 } ]