[ { "id": 276214, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-134 - Public Offices - 1868", "page_number": 274, "title": "CO129-134 - Public Offices - 1868", "content_text": "## \nIt appears to the Governor that it is inexpedient to frame detailed regulations as they should be capable of easy revision as Medical experiences accumulate.\n\nHis Grace further expresses his opinion that nothing should be done here until Sir Rutherford Alcock's opinion has been received & considered.\n\n## \n1.\n\n### \nForwarded \nJ. Bulkeley Johnson's Office \nMARS \nU \nWhen 22 \n28 \ndate \n07 \nHongkong \n3428 To \n273 \n23 March 1869.\n\nI am directed by H.E. the Governor to acquaint you in reply to your letter of the 16th inst. that the Earl of Clarendon has received a report from Sir Rutherford Alcock on the advisability of modifying the \"Act of 1855\" regarding Foreign & Chinese Penalty Regulations.\n\nCopy Gov. No. 43 - 1 April 1869 - 3377 - \nLancelot L. Lances", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-134 - Public Offices - 1868.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 302065, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-181 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [1-8]", "page_number": 226, "title": "CO129-181 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [1-8]", "content_text": "## GOVERNMENT EDUCATION, HONGKONG.\n\nAt a conference held at the Council Chamber on the 25th February, 1878, to consider the question of the teaching of English in the Government Schools, the following gentlemen were present by invitation of His Excellency the Governor, who presided:-\n\n* The Honourable the Colonel Commanding the Troops, (Colonel BASSANO, C.B.)\n* The Honourable the Colonial Secretary, (J. GARDINER AUSTIN, C.M.G.)\n* The Honourable PHINEAS RYRIE.\n* The Honourable HENRY LOWCOCK.\n* The Honourable J. MCNEILE PRICE.\n* The Honourable FRANCIS BULKELEY JOHNSON.\n* FREDERICK STEWART, Esquire, Head Master of the Central School,\n* The Reverend E. J. EITEL, Ph.D.\n\nThe following resolutions were arrived at:-\n\n1. That the primary object to be borne in view by the Government should be the teaching of English.\n2. That to enable the Central School to give more time to English and less time to Chinese studies, without materially diminishing the amount of Chinese knowledge on the part of the scholars on leaving the School, the preliminary requirements in Chinese knowledge be raised in the case of all such candidates for admission as do not already speak English fairly well to the requirements of Standard IV. of Class I. of the Grant-in-Aid Schedule, (with the exception of Geography).\n3. That five hours be given every day (except Saturday) to English, and 2½ hours to Chinese studies, but with the understanding that all English lessons will be obligatory, and all Chinese lessons optional, according to declaration on the part of the parents.\n\nThe above resolutions were arrived at without a division, with the exception of that portion of the latter which makes the study of Chinese optional on the declaration of the parents. On that point, the voting was as follows:-\n\n| For making Chinese optional. | For making Chinese compulsory. |\n| --- | --- |\n| The Honourable the Colonel Commanding the Troops. | The Honourable P. RYRIE. |\n| Honourable the Colonial Secretary. | The Honourable H. LOWCOCK. |\n| Honourable J. M. PRICE. | Mr. STEWART. |\n| Honourable F. B. JOHNSON. | |\n| The Reverend E. J. EITEL. | |\n\n4. That increased accommodation, more English speaking Masters, and smaller classes are essential to the proper Teaching of English at the Central School.\n5. That as a preliminary step, the staff of English Masters be doubled forthwith.\n6. That with regard to the other Government Schools entirely supported by Government, arrangements be made, as soon as possible, to teach the boys English in all of them.\n\n**J. POPE HENNESSY, Governor.**\n\nRead and confirmed this 5th day of March, 1878.\n\n**H. E. WODEHOUSE, Clerk of Councils.**", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-181 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [1-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 302541, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-182 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [9-12]", "page_number": 62, "title": "CO129-182 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [9-12]", "content_text": "# GOVERNMENT EDUCATION, HONGKONG\n\nAt a conference held at the Council Chamber on the 25th February, 1878, to consider the question of the teaching of English in the Government Schools, the following gentlemen were present by invitation of His Excellency the Governor, who presided:\n\nThe Honourable the Colonel Commanding the Troops, (Colonel BASSANO, C.B.) \nThe Honourable the Colonial Secretary, (J. GARDINER AUSTIN, C.M.G.) \nThe Honourable PHINEAS RYRIE \nThe Honourable HENRY LOWCOOK \nThe Honourable J. MCNEILE PRICE \nThe Honourable FRANCIS BULKELEY JOHNSON \nFREDERICK STEWART, Esquire, Head Master of the Central School \nThe Reverend E. J. EITEL, Ph.D.\n\nThe following resolutions were arrived at:\n\n1. That the primary object to be borne in view by the Government should be the teaching of English.\n2. That to enable the Central School to give more time to English and less time to Chinese studies, without materially diminishing the amount of Chinese knowledge on the part of the scholars on leaving the School, the preliminary requirements in Chinese knowledge be raised in the case of all such candidates for admission as do not already speak English fairly well to the requirements of Standard IV. of Class I. of the Grant-in-Aid Schedule, (with the exception of Geography).\n3. That five hours be given every day (except Saturday) to English, and 2½ hours to Chinese studies, but with the understanding that all English lessons will be obligatory, and all Chinese lessons optional, according to declaration on the part of the parents.\n\nThe above resolutions were arrived at without a division, with the exception of that portion of the latter which makes the study of Chinese optional on the declaration of the parents. On that point, the voting was as follows:\n\n| For making Chinese optional | For making Chinese compulsory |\n| --- | --- |\n| The Honourable the Colonel Commanding the Troops | The Honourable P. RYRIE |\n| The Honourable the Colonial Secretary | The Honourable H. LOWCOCK |\n| The Honourable J. M. PRICE | Mr. STEWART |\n| The Honourable F. B. JOHNSON | |\n| The Reverend E. J. EITEL | |\n\n4. That increased accommodation, more English speaking Masters, and smaller classes are essential to the proper teaching of English at the Central School.\n5. That as a preliminary step, the staff of English Masters be doubled forthwith.\n6. That with regard to the other Government Schools entirely supported by Government, arrangements be made, as soon as possible, to teach the boys English in all of them.\n\nRead and confirmed this 5th day of March, 1878.\n\nH. E. WODEHOUSE, \nClerk of Councils\n\nJ. POPE HENNESSY, \nGovernor", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-182 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 302566, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-182 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [9-12]", "page_number": 87, "title": "CO129-182 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [9-12]", "content_text": "## List of all the PUPILS now on the Books the CENTRAL SCHOOL,-( Continued.)\n\n| No. | Nationality | Age | Length of time at the Central School | As to Speaking English |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 375 | Chinese | 16 | 3 Years | Cannot be said to speak English at all. |\n| 376 | Do. | 15 | | |\n| 377 | Do. | 16 | 9 months | |\n| 378 | Do. | | 2 months | |\n| 379 | | | | |\n| 380 | | | | |\n| 381 | | | | |\n| 382 | Chinese | | | Speaks English with diffidence. |\n| 383 | Do. | | | |\n| 384 | Do. | 15 | | |\n| 385 | | | | |\n| 386 | Do. | 16 | | |\n| 387 | Do. | 19 | | |\n| 388 | Do. | 14 | | Cannot be said to speak English at all. |\n| 389 | Do. | | | |\n| 390 | | | | |\n| 391 | | | | |\n| 392 | Chinese | 13 | | |\n| 393 | | | | |\n| 394 | | | | |\n| 395 | Chinese | | | |\n| 396 | Do. | 330 | | |\n| 397 | | | | |\n| 398 | Chinese | | | |\n| 399 | Spaniard | 8 | | |\n| 400 | Chinese | | | Speaks English with considerable fluency. |\n| 401 | English | 3 | | |\n| 402 | Chinese | 15 | | |\n| 403 | | | | |\n| 404 | Chinese | 14 | | |\n| 405 | Do. | 18 | | |\n| 406 | Do. | 17 | | |\n| 407 | Do. | 17 | | |\n| 408 | Do. | 18 | | Cannot be said to speak English at all. |\n| 409 | Indian | 10 | | |\n| 410 | English | 18 | | Speaks English idiomatically. |\n| 411 | Do. | 13 | | Cannot be said to speak English at all. |\n| 412 | Do. | 12 | | |\n| 413 | Do. | 11 | | Speaks English idiomatically. |\n| 414 | Do. | 12 | | |\n| 415 | Chinese | 16 | | Cannot be said to speak English at all. |\n| 416 | Do. | | 2 months | |\n| 417 | Do. | 16 | | |\n| 418 | Do. | | 2 months | |\n| 419 | Portuguese | 12 | | |\n| 420 | Chinese | 15 | | |\n| 421 | Do. | 16 | | Speaks English with diffidence. |\n| 422 | Do. | 18 | | |\n| 423 | Do. | | | |\n| 424 | Do. | 15 | | |\n| 425 | Do. | 18 | | |\n| 426 | | | | |\n| 427 | Chinese | 16 | | |\n| 428 | Do. | 16 | | |\n| 429 | | | | |\n| 430 | Do. | 15 | | |\n| 431 | Do. | 15 | | Cannot be said to speak English at all. |\n| 432 | | | | |\n| 433 | Chinese | 16 | | |\n| 434 | Do. | 17 | | |\n| 435 | Do. | 15 | | |\n| 436 | | | | |\n| 437 | Do. | 18 | | |\n| 438 | | | | |\n| 439 | Do. | 6 | | |\n| 440 | Do. | 4 | | |\n| 441 | Do. | 18 | | Speaks English with considerable fluency. |\n| 442 | Do. | 18 | | |\n| 443 | Do. | 10 | | |\n| 444 | | | | |\n| 445 | | | | |\n| 446 | Do. | 17 | | |\n| 447 | Do. | 17 | | |\n| 448 | Indian | 12 | | Cannot be said to speak English at all. |\n| 449 | | | | |\n| 450 | English | | | Speaks English idiomatically. |\n| 451 | Indian | 14 | | |\n| 452 | Do. | 10 | | Cannot be said to speak English at all. |\n| 453 | English | 3 | | Speaks English idiomatically. |\n\nI certify that this is a correct copy of the Original lodged in the Office of the Central School, with the exception of the entry under 255, which should be 1 year and 10 months, instead of 10 years and 2 months.\n\nCentral School, 2nd May, 1878.\n\n**A. FALCONER,**\nActing Head Master,\n\n## **RESOLUTIONS OF THE CONFERENCE ON TEACHING ENGLISH**\n\nAt a conference held at the Council Chamber on the 25th February, 1878, to consider the question of the teaching of English in the Government Schools, the following gentlemen were present by invitation of His Excellency the Governor, who presided:---\n\nThe Honourable the Colonel Commanding the Troops, (Colonel BASSANO, C.B.)\nThe Honourable the Colonial Secretary, (J. GARDINER AUSTIN, C.M.G.)\nThe Honourable PHINEAS RYRIE.\nThe Honourable HENRY LOWCOCK.\nThe Honourable J. MCNEILE PRICE.\nThe Honourable FRANCIS BULKELEY JOHNSON.\nFREDERICK STEWART, Esquire, Head Master of the Central School.\nThe Reverend E. J. EITEL, Ph. D.\n\nThe following resolutions were arrived at —\n\n1. That the primary object to be borne in view by the Government should be the teaching of English\n2. That to enable the Central School to give more time to English and less time to Chinese studies, without materially diminishing the amount of Chinese knowledge on the part of the scholar on leaving the School, the preliminary requirements in Chinese knowledge be raised in the case of all such candidates for admission as do not already speak English fairly well to the requirements of `Standard IV. of Class I. of the Grant-in-Aid Schedule`, (with the exception of Geography).\n3. That five hours be given every day (except Saturday) to English, and 2½ hours to Chinese studies, but with the understanding that all English lessons will be obligatory, and all Chinese lessons optional, according to declaration on the part of the parents.\n\nThe above resolutions were arrived at without a division, with the exception of that portion of the latter which makes the study of Chinese optional on the declaration of the parents. On that point, the voting was as follows:--\n\nFor making Chinese optional.\n- The Honourable the Colonel Commanding the Troops.\n- The Honourable the Colonial Secretary.\n- The Honourable J. M. PRICE.\n- The Honourable F. B. JOHNSON.\n- The Reverend E. J. EITEL.\n\nFor making Chinese compulsory.\n- The Honourable P. RYRIE.\n- The Honourable H. LOWCOCK.\n- Mr. STEWART.\n\n4. That increased accommodation, more English speaking Masters, and smaller classes are essential to the proper teaching of English at the Central School.\n5. That as a preliminary step, the staff of English Masters be doubled forthwith.\n6. That with regard to the other Government Schools entirely supported by Government, arrangements be made, as soon as possible, to teach the boys English in all of them.\n\nRead and confirmed this 5th day of March, 1878.\n\n**H. E. WODEHOUSE,**\nClerk of Councils.\n\n**J. POPE HENNESSY,**\nGovernor,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-182 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 302579, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-182 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [9-12]", "page_number": 100, "title": "CO129-182 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [9-12]", "content_text": "# List of all the PEPILS now on the Books of the CENTRAL SCHOOL,~(Continued.)\n\n96\n\nThe above resolutions were arrived at without a division, with the exception of that portion of the latter which makes the study of Chinese optional on the declaration of the parents. On that point, the voting was as follows:-\n\nFor making Chinese optional.\nThe Honourable the Colonel Commanding the Troops.\nThe Honourable the Colonial Secretary.\nThe Honourable J. M. PRICE.\nThe Honourable F. B. JOHNSON.\nThe Reverend E. J. EITEL.\n\nFor making Chinese compulsory.\nThe Honourable P. RYRIE.\nThe Honourable H. LOWCOCK.\nMr. STEWART.\n\n4. That increased accommodation, more English speaking Masters, and smaller classes are essential to the proper teaching of English at the Central School.\n\n5. That as a preliminary step, the staff of English Masters be doubled forthwith.\n\n6. That with regard to the other Government Schools entirely supported by Government, arrangements be made, as soon as possible, to teach the boys English in all of them.\n\n| No. | Nationality. | Age | Length of time at the Central School | As to Speaking English. |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 375 | Chinese, | 16 | 4 | |\n| 376 | Do., | 15 | 5 | Cannot be said to speak English at all. |\n| 377 | Do., | 16 | 9 | |\n| 378 | Do., | 10 | 4 | |\n| 379 | Do., | 14 | 5 | |\n| 380 | Do., | 16 | 4 | |\n| 381 | Do., | 13 | 4 | Speaks English with diffidence. |\n| 382 | Do., | 14 | 5 | |\n| 383 | Do., | 14 | 5 | |\n| 384 | Do., | 15 | 5 | |\n| 385 | Do., | 14 | 4 | |\n| 386 | Do., | 18 | 7 | Cannot be said to speak English at all. |\n| 387 | Do., | 19 | 8 | |\n| 388 | Do., | 14 | 6 | |\n| 389 | Do., | 15 | 6 | |\n| 390 | Do., | 16 | 7 | |\n| 391 | Do., | 17 | 7 | |\n| 392 | Do., | 10 | 4 | |\n| 393 | Do., | 14 | 5 | |\n| 394 | Do., | 16 | 6 | |\n| 395 | Do., | 15 | 6 | |\n| 396 | Do., | 14 | 5 | |\n| 397 | Do., | 17 | 7 | |\n| 398 | Do., | 15 | 6 | |\n| 399 | Spaniard, | ... | ... | |\n| 400 | Do., | 16 | 6 | Speaks English with considerable fluency. |\n| 401 | English, | 18 | 8 | Speaks English idiomatically. |\n| 402 | Chinese, | 15 | 6 | |\n| 403 | Indian, | 10 | 3 | |\n| 404 | Chinese, | 14 | 5 | |\n| 405 | Do., | 18 | 7 | Cannot be said to speak English at all. |\n| 406 | Do., | 12 | 4 | |\n| 407 | Do., | 17 | 7 | |\n| 408 | Do., | 18 | 8 | Cannot be said to speak English at all. |\n| 409 | Do., | 18 | 8 | |\n| 410 | Do., | 15 | 6 | |\n| 411 | Do., | 13 | 5 | |\n| 412 | Do., | 12 | 4 | |\n| 413 | Do., | 11 | 3 | |\n| 414 | Do., | 12 | 4 | |\n| 415 | Portuguese, | 12 | 4 | Speaks English with diffidence. |\n| 416 | Chinese, | 16 | 7 | |\n| 417 | Do., | 16 | 7 | |\n| 418 | Do., | 16 | 7 | |\n| 419 | Portuguese, | 12 | 4 | |\n| 420 | Chinese, | 18 | 8 | |\n| 421 | Do., | 16 | 7 | |\n| 422 | Do., | 18 | 8 | |\n| 423 | Do., | 15 | 6 | |\n| 424 | Do., | 16 | 7 | |\n| 425 | Do., | 15 | 6 | |\n| 426 | Do., | 18 | 8 | |\n| 427 | Do., | 10 | 3 | |\n| 428 | Do., | 16 | 7 | |\n| 429 | Do., | 15 | 6 | |\n| 430 | Do., | 16 | 7 | |\n| 431 | Do., | 15 | 6 | Cannot be said to speak English at all. |\n| 432 | Do., | 17 | 7 | |\n| 433 | Do., | 15 | 6 | |\n| 434 | Do., | 17 | 7 | |\n| 435 | Do., | 16 | 7 | |\n| 436 | Do., | 16 | 7 | |\n| 437 | Do., | 17 | 7 | |\n| 438 | Do., | 13 | 5 | |\n| 439 | Do., | 16 | 7 | |\n| 440 | Do., | 18 | 8 | |\n| 441 | Do., | 18 | 8 | |\n| 442 | Do., | 18 | 8 | |\n| 443 | Do., | 16 | 7 | |\n| 444 | Do., | 17 | 7 | |\n| 445 | Do., | 17 | 7 | |\n| 446 | Do., | 17 | 7 | |\n| 447 | Do., | 18 | 8 | |\n| 448 | Indian, | 18 | 7 | Cannot be said to speak English at all. |\n| 449 | English, | 18 | 8 | Speaks English idiomatically. |\n| 450 | Do., | 7 | 2 | |\n| 451 | Indian, | 12 | 4 | Cannot be said to speak English at all. |\n| 452 | Chinese, | 18 | 8 | |\n| 453 | English, | ... | ... | Speaks English idiomatically. |\n\nI certify that this is a correct copy of the Original lodged in the Office of the Central School, with the exception of the entry under 255, which should be 1 year and 10 months, instead of 10 years and 2 months.\n\nCentral School, 2nd May, 1878.\n\nA. FALCONER,\nActing Head Master.\n\n## **RESOLUTIONS OF THE CONFERENCE ON TEACHING ENGLISH**\n\nAt a conference held at the Council Chamber on the 25th February, 1878, to consider the question of the teaching of English in the Government Schools, the following gentlemen were present by invitation of His Excellency the Governor, who presided:\n\nThe Honourable the Colonel Commanding the Troops, (Colonel BASSANO, C.B.)\nThe Honourable the Colonial Secretary, (J. GARDINER AUSTIN, C.M.G.)\nThe Honourable PHINEAS RYRIE.\nThe Honourable HENRY LOWCOCK.\nThe Honourable J. MCNEILE PRICE.\nThe Honourable FRANCIS BULKELEY JOHNSON,\nFREDERICK STEWART, Esquire, Head Master of the Central School.\nThe Reverend E. J. EITEL, Ph. D.\n\nThe following resolutions were arrived at:\n\n1. That the primary object to be borne in view by the Government should be the teaching of English.\n\n2. That to enable the Central School to give more time to English and less time to Chinese studies, without materially diminishing the amount of Chinese knowledge on the part of the scholars on leaving the School, the preliminary requirements in Chinese knowledge be raised in the case of all such candidates for admission as do not already speak English fairly well to the requirements of Standard IV. of Class 1. of the Grant-in-Aid Schedule, (with the exception of Geography).\n\n3. That five hours be given every day (except Saturday) to English, and 2½ hours to Chinese studies, but with the understanding that all English lessons will be obligatory, and all Chinese lessons optional, according to declaration on the part of the parents.\n\nRead and confirmed this 5th day of March, 1878.\n\nH. E. WODEHOUSE,\nClerk of Councils.\n\nJ. POPE HENNESSY,\nGovernor.\n\n`(4 rms. 10 | 77—H & S 5449)`", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-182 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 308517, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-192 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [1-4]", "page_number": 507, "title": "CO129-192 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [1-4]", "content_text": "There is no Jardine nor Dent, nor Matheson nor Turner nor Gibb nor Livingston, and, at the same time, the Opium trade, out of which some of those houses made such immense fortunes, has entirely slipped away from them. That trade, which now reaches one million pounds sterling per month in Hongkong, is in the hands of Sassoon's, of Belilios and a few native houses; whilst the mercantile firms that now send English goods into China from this island are mainly Chinese firms of the Colony.\n\nIn submitting the following list to Your Lordship, I have included Mr Belilios' name as I believe there is some misconception in paragraph 6 of Sir Michael Hicks Beach's despatch regarding this gentleman. The fact is that Mr. Belilios, though born in India, is one of the leading members of the English community. He is a director of the Hongkong Bank and of most of the local companies, and, I understand, the largest shareholder in some.\n\nThe list includes: Francis Bulkeley Johnson, Emanuel Raphael Belilios, Frederick David Sassoon, Henry Liston Dalrymple. Of the four gentlemen whose names are in the foregoing list, Mr. Bulkeley Johnson is in the eminent house of Jardine Matheson & Co.. 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The fact is that Mr. Belilios, though born in India, is one of the leading members of the English community. He is a director of the Hongkong Bank and of most of the local companies, and, I understand, the largest shareholder in some.\n\nFrancis Bulkeley Johnson, Emanuel Raphael Belilios, Frederick David Sassoon, Henry Liston Dalrymple.\n\nOf the four gentlemen whose names are in the foregoing list, Mr. Bulkeley Johnson is in the eminent house of Jardine Matheson & Co.. During his short residence\n\nGov 3452\n\n8\n\nPage information has been kept as is.\n\nHere is the final output in HTML format:\n\n4\n\n496\n\n1\n\n{\n\nThere is no Jardine nor Dent, nor Matheson nor Turner nor Gibb nor Livingston, and, at the same time, the Opium trade, out of which some of those houses made such immense fortunes, has entirely slipped away from them. That trade, which now reaches one million pounds sterling per month in Hongkong, is in the hands of Sassoon's, of Belilios and a few native houses; whilst the mercantile firms that now send English goods into China from this island are mainly Chinese firms of the Colony.\n\n3.\n\nIn submitting the following list to Your Lordship, I have included Mr Belilios' name as I believe there is some misconception in paragraph 6 of Sir Michael Hicks Beach's despatch regarding this gentleman. The fact is that Mr. Belilios, though born in India, is one of the leading members of the English community. He is a director of the Hongkong Bank and of most of the local companies, and, I understand, the largest shareholder in some.\n\nFrancis Bulkeley Johnson, Emanuel Raphael Belilios, Frederick David Sassoon, Henry Liston Dalrymple.\n\nOf the four gentlemen whose names are in the foregoing list, Mr. Bulkeley Johnson is in the eminent house of Jardine Matheson & Co.. During his short residence\n\nGov 3452\n\n8", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-192 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 308795, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-193 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [5-7]", "page_number": 135, "title": "CO129-193 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [5-7]", "content_text": "Governors ir John Tope Hennessy Kemy. to Mr. Bulkeley Johnson.\n\nC. O.\n\n132\n\n12803\n\nRECR\n\nREGO 19 JUL 81\n\nGovernment House.\n\nHongkong, 17th May\n\nI have the honour to report that pending the expression of Her Majesty's pleasure I have provisionally appointed the gentleman first on that list, Mr. Francis Bulkeley Johnson, to the seat rendered vacant by the departure of Mr. Keswick.\n\n2.\n\nI enclose for Your Lordship's information a copy of the correspondence I have had with Mr. Bulkeley Johnson on the subject, and a copy of the usual Notification in the Government Gazette.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nMy Lord,\n\nMost Obedient Humble Servant,\n\nYour Lordship's Most Obedient Servant,\n\nDear Johnson,\n\nNow that your partner Mr. Keswick has gone away on leave, I hope you will allow me to appoint you provisionally, pending the expression of Her Majesty's pleasure, to a seat on the Legislative Council.\n\nYour personal merits entitle you to this, as well as the eminent position of the greatest British house in China of which you are now the worthy representative.\n\nHowever, to fully follow the instructions and format the text in Markdown as requested, here is the revised version:\n\n# Governors ir John Tope Hennessy Kemy. to Mr. Bulkeley Johnson.\nC. O. \n132 \n12803 \nRECR \nREGO 19 JUL 81 \n\n## Government House.\nHongkong, 17th May \n\nI have the honour to report that pending the expression of Her Majesty's pleasure I have provisionally appointed the gentleman first on that list, Mr. Francis Bulkeley Johnson, to the seat rendered vacant by the departure of Mr. Keswick.\n\n2. \nI enclose for Your Lordship's information a copy of the correspondence I have had with Mr. Bulkeley Johnson on the subject, and a copy of the usual Notification in the Government Gazette.\n\nI have the honour to be, \nMy Lord, \nMost Obedient Humble Servant, \nYour Lordship's Most Obedient Servant,\n\nDear Johnson, \nNow that your partner Mr. Keswick has gone away on leave, I hope you will allow me to appoint you provisionally, pending the expression of Her Majesty's pleasure, to a seat on the Legislative Council.\n\nYour personal merits entitle you to this, as well as the eminent position of the greatest British house in China of which you are now the worthy representative.\n\nTo output in HTML as per the final instruction:\n# Governors ir John Tope Hennessy Kemy. to Mr. Bulkeley Johnson.\n\nC. O.\n132\n12803\nRECR\nREGO 19 JUL 81\n\n## Government House.\n\nHongkong, 17th May\n\nI have the honour to report that pending the expression of Her Majesty's pleasure I have provisionally appointed the gentleman first on that list, Mr. Francis Bulkeley Johnson, to the seat rendered vacant by the departure of Mr. Keswick.\n\n2.\n\nI enclose for Your Lordship's information a copy of the correspondence I have had with Mr. Bulkeley Johnson on the subject, and a copy of the usual Notification in the Government Gazette.\n\nI have the honour to be,\nMy Lord,\nMost Obedient Humble Servant,\nYour Lordship's Most Obedient Servant,\n\nDear Johnson,\nNow that your partner Mr. Keswick has gone away on leave, I hope you will allow me to appoint you provisionally, pending the expression of Her Majesty's pleasure, to a seat on the Legislative Council.\n\nYour personal merits entitle you to this, as well as the eminent position of the greatest British house in China of which you are now the worthy representative.\n\nLet's correct and simplify the response to directly follow the format requested without extra conversion:\n\nGovernors ir John Tope Hennessy Kemy. to Mr. Bulkeley Johnson.\n\nC. O. \n132 \n12803 \nRECR \nREGO 19 JUL 81 \n\nGovernment House. \nHongkong, 17th May \n\nI have the honour to report that pending the expression of Her Majesty's pleasure I have provisionally appointed the gentleman first on that list, Mr. Francis Bulkeley Johnson, to the seat rendered vacant by the departure of Mr. Keswick.\n\n2. \nI enclose for Your Lordship's information a copy of the correspondence I have had with Mr. Bulkeley Johnson on the subject, and a copy of the usual Notification in the Government Gazette.\n\nI have the honour to be, \nMy Lord, \nMost Obedient Humble Servant, \nYour Lordship's Most Obedient Servant,\n\nDear Johnson, \nNow that your partner Mr. Keswick has gone away on leave, I hope you will allow me to appoint you provisionally, pending the expression of Her Majesty's pleasure, to a seat on the Legislative Council.\n\nYour personal merits entitle you to this, as well as the eminent position of the greatest British house in China of which you are now the worthy representative.\n\nThe final HTML formatted response is:\nGovernors ir John Tope Hennessy Kemy. to Mr. Bulkeley Johnson.\n\nC. O.\n132\n12803\nRECR\nREGO 19 JUL 81\n\nGovernment House.\nHongkong, 17th May\n\nI have the honour to report that pending the expression of Her Majesty's pleasure I have provisionally appointed the gentleman first on that list, Mr. Francis Bulkeley Johnson, to the seat rendered vacant by the departure of Mr. Keswick.\n\n2.\nI enclose for Your Lordship's information a copy of the correspondence I have had with Mr. Bulkeley Johnson on the subject, and a copy of the usual Notification in the Government Gazette.\n\nI have the honour to be,\nMy Lord,\nMost Obedient Humble Servant,\nYour Lordship's Most Obedient Servant,\n\nDear Johnson,\nNow that your partner Mr. Keswick has gone away on leave, I hope you will allow me to appoint you provisionally, pending the expression of Her Majesty's pleasure, to a seat on the Legislative Council.\n\nYour personal merits entitle you to this, as well as the eminent position of the greatest British house in China of which you are now the worthy representative.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-193 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 308796, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-193 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [5-7]", "page_number": 136, "title": "CO129-193 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [5-7]", "content_text": "representative.\n\nAlways Yours faithfully,\n\n(signed) I. Pope Hennessy\n\nM6\". Bulkeley Johnson to Governor Sir John Pope Hennessy pic ml - 133\n\nCopy\n\nDear Sir John,\n\nQueen's Road,\n\n17th May 1881.\n\nI accept with pleasure your offer to nominate me to a seat in the Legislative Council conveyed to me in your note of this date. I am sensible of the honour you have conferred upon me and thank you sincerely for the kind expressions with which your offer of the appointment has been accompanied.\n\nBelieve me to be,\n\nDear Sir John,\n\nYours faithfully,\n\n(signed) F. Bulkeley Johnson.\n\nSir John Pope Hennessy, K.C.M.G.,\n\nGovernment House.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-193 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 308797, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-193 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [5-7]", "page_number": 137, "title": "CO129-193 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [5-7]", "content_text": "Enclosure No 1 in Governor Sir John Pope Hennessy's despatch: No 76 of 27th May, 1881\n\nC. O. 1280\n\nRECD 19 JUL 81\n\nGOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 176.\n\nThe Governor has been pleased to appoint provisionally, and until Her Majesty's pleasure may be signified, Mr. FRANCIS BULKELEY JOHNSON to be a Member of the Legislative Council of Hongkong, vice the Honourable WILLIAM KESWICK, absent on leave.\n\nBy His Excellency's Command,\n\nColonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 17th May, 1881.\n\nFREDERICK STEWART,\n\nActing Colonial Secretary.\n\n134", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-193 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 308801, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-193 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [5-7]", "page_number": 141, "title": "CO129-193 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [5-7]", "content_text": "Submit for Your Lordship's approval resolution of the Legislative Council voting the sum of $646.\n\n#646 for the passage money of the late Mr. Runket's family.\n\n2.\n\nAuthorized was not Your Lordship only me to propose a vote for £100, but I ventured, as the difference is very great, to submit a vote for the whole of the passage money.\n\nI have the honour to be, My Lord, Your Lordship's Most Obedient Humble Servant, Happy Hammerg.\n\nC. O. 138/12807,\n\nREC?\n\nExtract from Finance Minutes of Proceedings of the Committee of the Legislative Council.\n\n10 JUL 21\n\nNo. 3 71081\n\nPresent:\n\nThe Honorable The Colonial Secretary, 28th May, 1881.\n\nActing Colonial Secretary: Fredrick Stewart.\n\nThe Honorable Acting Chief Justice: Francis Trench.\n\nThe Honorable The Acting Colonial Treasurer: Mateolin Forman Fornachy.\n\nThe Honorable Jig Choy.\n\nThe Honorable Francis Bulkeley Johnson.\n\nAbsent:\n\nThe Honorable The Attorney General: Edward Loughlin O'Malley.\n\nThe Honorable Phineas Ryrie (on leave).\n\nThe Honorable John Macneile Price. (On leave)\n\nIt is resolved on the propositions of the Honourable the Acting Colonial...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-193 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 308814, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-193 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [5-7]", "page_number": 154, "title": "CO129-193 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [5-7]", "content_text": "151\n\n-instant by Mr. Bulkeley Johnson\n\n1. Ng Choy in asking leave and Mr. [Name missing] to introduce Tramway Bills.\n\n2. Whilst entirely in favour of the principle of the Bills, I referred to the notices and mode of procedure required under the Royal Instructions in such cases, and declined to pledge the Government in any way to the details of either scheme.\n\n3. Mr. Johnson's clear statement goes far to establish prima facie a case that Tramways are suited to this colony and would be of advantage to the public and to the Government.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nMy Lord,\n\nYour Lordship's Most Obedient Humble Servant,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-193 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 308815, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-193 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [5-7]", "page_number": 155, "title": "CO129-193 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [5-7]", "content_text": "HongKong\n\nNo 89- 1558. June 1881\n\nGovernor\n\nSir John Hope Hennessy. He wely.\n\nto\n\nRemily.\n\nThe Right Honourable\n\nThe Earl of Kimberley\n\nReporting motions made in the Legislative Council for introduction of Tramway Bills.\n\nThe Daily Press.\n\nHONGKONG, JUNE 14TH, 1881.\n\nTHE TRAMWAYS.\n\nHIS EXCELLENCY-I have much satisfaction in telling you I am now going to call on the unofficial members to introduce some Bills. There has been a mistake on the notice paper, as a matter of fact the first Bill that was brought to my notice was from the Hon. Mr. Bulkeley Johnson, and I therefore call on him to move his Bill.\n\nHon. F. B. JOHNSON-I rise, Sir, in accordance with the notice I have given, to move for leave to introduce an Ordinance to authorise the construction of tramways in this Colony. Since I gave notice of my intention to make this motion I have heard with pleasure that a motion to a similar effect will be made by my honourable friend opposite, who is so well qualified to represent the views of the Chinese portion of the community, to whose presence in the Colony and to whose industry we are so much indebted, as your Excellency pointed out in your eloquent speech upon the Census returns, for our existing prosperity. As I feel well assured of the support also of my honourable friend the senior unofficial member to every measure of progress, I am encouraged to hope that the Council will be unanimous in affirming the principle of the Ordinance I now ask permission to introduce.\n\nI am sure it needs no evidence or arguments from me to show that a system of improved communication and conveyance would largely benefit this Colony. It has been well said that free and unrestricted communication is the soul of industry, and I assume that general principles applicable to the rest of the world apply also to Hongkong. The experience of all large cities, of all populous communities in Europe and America, has been pronounced in favour of tramways by the unerring testimony of the almost universal adoption of the system, and it is not difficult to show that, so far from the circumstances of this Colony being any exception to the general rule, the conditions of traffic here are eminently favourable for its introduction.\n\nFor all purposes of trade the City of Victoria may be described as one long thoroughfare 3 miles in length, forming a continuous street through which there is a ceaseless flow of passenger and other traffic from early dawn until after dark. At the west end of this route is the shipping quarter with its contiguous foot of jetties, the wharves of the P. & O. Company, and the Canton and Coasting Steamboat Company; in its centre are the offices of the merchants, the public offices, the quarters of the military forces and the naval stores. At its East end is a long line of godowns terminating in what may be called the manufacturing quarter.\n\nTo keep up the communications throughout this great distance we are supplied with sedan chairs, and by that invention of a lively Japanese fancy, the enlarged perambulator, the jinricksha, that estimable \"vehicle\" which, as your Excellency has just told us, is to necessitate a supplementary estimate of $10,000 for repairs to our roads. It would be as absurd to argue that because we are supplied with chairs and jinrickshas we do not need tramways, as it would be to assert that because London has its four-wheeled cabs and hansoms, it does not need underground railways, omnibuses, or tramways.\n\nI believe the present tariff for a sedan chair with two coolies from East Point to the Clock Tower is 10 cents, and for a jinricksha 6 cents to natives, something more to foreigners. The promoters of the tramway feel confident they will be able to carry passengers the same distance for 2 cents, and for the whole route 4 cents, accomplishing the entire run including stoppages in an hour, and starting cars every ten minutes. It is not necessary to enlarge upon the immense boon which a tramway under such circumstances, and affording protection from sun and rain, would afford to all classes of the community.\n\n... Sir, laid before the Council an interesting statement showing the enormous increase of the population which has taken place during the last 4 years, and as there is every reason to believe that the increase will be progressive it seems to me high time that steps should be taken to relieve the overcrowded centre of the town by opening up communication with its extremities. It is not too much to assert that if tramways were now in operation we should see Belcher's Bay in the West and Causeway Bay in the East occupied by an industrious population, and large portions of land, now lying unproductive, contributing in Crown rents to the revenue of the Colony.\n\nIt is now eight years since a few friends and myself proposed to introduce the tramway at Shanghai, but a violent opposition was raised to the scheme and we were compelled to withdraw it. You will perhaps, Sir, be surprised to hear that the opposition did not come from the Chinese. It came from foreigners in that settlement, which is called a model one, and which claims to be the most progressive on the China Coast. We were not met by the old well-known arguments of a class interest of the most obstructive monopolists. The opposition came from the influential class who ride in carriages. Sir, I venture to say it is seldom necessary to legislate for the special interests of those who ride in carriages. They are well able to take care of themselves.\n\nIt is because I consider the introduction of tramways into this Colony will improve the value of property, facilitate trade, increase the revenue, and minister to the comfort and convenience of the great mass of the population; because, in fine, it is a good, wholesome measure, which will benefit all classes of the community, I now ask the permission of the Council to introduce the Bill.\n\nHon. P. RYRIE-I have much pleasure in seconding the motion. There is no necessity now to go into the merits of the different schemes, but the time has fully arrived when the idea should be carried out. I think we have a considerable amount of engineering talent in the Colony, which will be able, with the importation of material from England or America, to construct a line which will be a credit to the Colony and a boon to the great mass of inhabitants.\n\nThe ATTORNEY-GENERAL explained that in the case of private Bills, before the Governor gave his sanction to them, it was necessary he should be satisfied reasonable notice had been given to the public of their introduction. It was not necessary a Bill should be read when leave was given to introduce it, and he therefore suggested that, leave having been given, the first reading should be postponed until the Council again met.\n\nHon. F. B. JOHNSON said he proposed to have the Bill printed and published in the Gazette and then at the first meeting of Council afterwards to propose the first reading.\n\nHis EXCELLENCY, after some remarks on the course of procedure, said-What I rise now for the purpose of doing, gentlemen, is to say at once I agree with every word my hon. friend has said. Speaking on behalf of the Government, I say I like a measure of this kind. I cannot add a single argument to those which my hon. friend has used in favour of the principle of a Bill of this sort. I am entirely in favour of it. He has made a clear and answerable statement. But I wish to add that, whilst I like the introduction of a Tramway Bill I cannot pledge the Government in any way to consent to the details of this or any other measure at this stage. I simply confine myself to saying I approve of the general principle of the measure, such as my hon. friend has described.\n\nAt our next meeting, of which due notification will be given, we will have the Bill read a first time, and in a reasonable period, as soon as possible, after consulting my advisers, we will proceed to the second reading. At this present moment I cannot say what course the Government ought to take, but will merely congratulate my hon. friend on the statement he has made and welcome the introduction of the measure.\n\nHon. NG CHOT -Your Excellency, I have to ask leave to introduce at the next meeting of this Council a Bill for a similar purpose. My hon. friend opposite has anticipated many of the arguments...\n\nPage 13136\n\nC. O. 152\n\nOne Enclosure", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-193 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 308842, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-193 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [5-7]", "page_number": 182, "title": "CO129-193 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [5-7]", "content_text": "179\n\nPersal Laws Amendment Ordinance 1881.\n\n2.\n\nAs the proposed Government measure involved the repeal or amendment of eleven Ordinances and dealt with a subject that had caused some little controversy in the Colony, I circulated amongst the members of Council copies of extracts of various despatches and other papers relating to remission of sentences, branding, and flogging. I introduced the Bill with a few explanatory remarks so as to better elicit on the second reading a full expression of opinion.\n\n3.\n\nHaving allowed ten days to elapse after the First reading, I moved the Second reading on the 13th instant, when the Bill was read a second time unanimously. The only members who took part in the debate, the Acting Chief Justice and Mr. Bulkeley Johnson (of Messrs Jardine, Matheson & Co.), supported the Bill on the ground that the satisfactory state of crime in the Colony justified it.\n\n4.\n\nMr. Snowden (the late Chief Justice) said: - \"There is no doubt the state of crime is much better than it was when I came to the Colony in 1874. Lately, I think, crime has much decreased, especially crimes of violence.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-193 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 308843, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-193 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [5-7]", "page_number": 183, "title": "CO129-193 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [5-7]", "content_text": "added that he thought the proposed Ordinance put the question of flogging on a very satisfactory footing.\n\nI am happy to say that Mr. Buckeley Johnson gave the weight of his long experience in China in support of the views I have ventured to put before Her Majesty's Government as to the Chinese population. He said that, so far from the Chinese being exceptionally criminal, they are exceptionally the reverse, and that they are peculiarly susceptible to the influences of reformatory treatment. Though the Bill has practically passed, I put off the final stage, as well as the Second reading of the Banishment of Criminals Bill, till the next meeting of Council.\n\nI have the honour to be, My Lord, Your Lordship's Most Obedient Humble Servant,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-193 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 308893, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-193 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [5-7]", "page_number": 233, "title": "CO129-193 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [5-7]", "content_text": "Day & b\n\n$\n\nCAN\n\nfor His Majesty;\n\n13.\n\n229\n\nAbout dusk on the 12th April, the Thibet arrived in the harbour and came to an anchor about 10 p.m.\n\nHis Majesty and suite being on board, I at once went off in my launch, with my partner Mr. Francis Bulkeley,\n\n14.\n\nto the Johnson.\n\nAfter a formal introduction to the King, His Majesty at once expressed his desire to proceed to East Point in terms of the invitation which had reached him at Shanghai, and which had been accepted.\n\n15.\n\nI thereupon informed His Majesty that, while it would afford me great satisfaction and pleasure to receive him, I was nevertheless bound by the invitation that had been sent. I had received an intimation from the Colonial Secretary to the effect that His Excellency the Governor had telegraphed to Shanghai, placing rooms in Government House at the disposal of His Majesty and suite, and offering him the hospitality of the Colony, but that unfortunately the message had not been sent until after His Majesty had departed.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-193 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 309606, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-194 - Governor Hennessy Administrator Tonnochy - 1881 [8-9]", "page_number": 267, "title": "CO129-194 - Governor Hennessy Administrator Tonnochy - 1881 [8-9]", "content_text": "C \n\n265 \n\nefficiency \n\nwas secured in the various \n\ndepartments dependant on the outlay \n\nand \n\nespecially \n\nin \n\nthe \n\n \nexpenditure of public money, those departments to whose operation I attribute the comparative immunity from serious crime that the Colony \n\nnow \n\n6. \n\nlarge \n\n \nenjoys. \n\nIn referring to the \n\nrevenue obtained in 1880, and for the \n\ncurrent year, I pointed to the connection between the \n\nrevenue \n\nof \n\nEastern \n\n \ntrade of this Colony and the progress \n\n \nof Her Majesty's Chinese subjects \n\nin this \n\nimportant depôt of trade on terms of perfect equality with the other residents in the Colony. As the treatment \n\nof \n\nthe Chinese elsewhere is now attracting some notice I venture to invite Your Lordship's attention to the following passage from the speech in Council of Mr. Bulkeley Johnson, the senior partner in the East of the house of \n\nJardine Matheson & Co :- \n\n \n \n\"commerce \n\nand showed how \n\nboth seemed to be not unfavourably influenced by the policy of treating \n\nHer \n\nMajesty's Chinese subjects \n\n \n\" \n\n\"9. \n\nof Council joins \n\n \nwith \n\nevery \n\nmember \n\n \nin \n\ncongratulating Your Excellency \n\non our financial position, and \n\nconsidering how greatly our trade depends upon the industry of the \n\nChinese", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-194 - Governor Hennessy Administrator Tonnochy - 1881 [8-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 309870, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-194 - Governor Hennessy Administrator Tonnochy - 1881 [8-9]", "page_number": 531, "title": "CO129-194 - Governor Hennessy Administrator Tonnochy - 1881 [8-9]", "content_text": "Queign marker B, and as we understand the number of Officers and constables (141) to be accommodated and the proposed building cannot be reduced, and as the Barrack rooms provide but barely sufficient cubical space for the men to contain, we are unable to suggest any diminution of the proposed building. The Acting Surveyor General stating on his part that he is unable to reduce it's estimated cost without using materials of inferior quality.\n\nWe therefore beg most respectfully to recommend that the building may be carried out in accordance with Design B at the estimated cost of $41,000 exclusive of the boat-sheds, Shelters for guns &c. as the site is an exposed one and the workmanship must be of the best quality.\n\nWe have &c.\n\n(signed)\n\n6. Bowdler, Acting Surveyor General.\n\nM. M. Deane, Captain Superintendent of Police and Acting Colonial Treasurer\n\n8. Ryne, Member of Legislative Council.\n\nF. Bulkeley Johnson, Member of Legislative Council.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-194 - Governor Hennessy Administrator Tonnochy - 1881 [8-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 310148, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 274, "title": "CO129-195 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [1-4]", "content_text": "Dear Sir,\n\nHong Kong, 4th October, 1881\n\n273\n\n23\n\nREOP\n\nREGO 2 JAN 82\n\nYou have been good enough to express interest in the treatment which our Chartered Steamer \"Ocean\", Captain Webber, and her Passengers were subjected to by the Government of New South Wales upon her recent voyage hence to Australia and back, when at Sydney.\n\nVarious fallacious reports have appeared in print, and we have requested Captain Webber to write out, and swear to, a plain and unvarnished statement of what actually took place, and this we have now the honor of enclosing.\n\nThe Narrative makes no allusion to the pecuniary losses which we have suffered through delay and other causes, which losses you will readily understand are very considerable. We are preparing a Claim for presentation to the proper Authorities at Sydney, whose high-handed behavior is most unjust.\n\nThe real aim of the Government has evidently been to check Chinese Immigration, which we believe to be honourable.\n\nF. Bulkeley Johnson", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-195 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 311007, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 28, "title": "CO129-197 - Governor Hennessy - 1882 [1-2]", "content_text": "Lar thembully has sent a blipann & bu). Hennesy of which copy thehannexed (Look's last tetepam does not seem to be outh \n\nthe papers,\n\nDraft Despatch (which and with long,\n\nin case of\n\nthe Council's request. and letter to Mr Keswich informing him that Lord Kimberly has received from the Governor\n\n7\n\n25th January\n\nthe letters which he had sent in his and has addressed a telegraphed courier? & Jenn\n\nmade\n\nAFT.\n\nSev. Honghwng\n\n7546\n\n\"Sir 2.0. Hennesy\n\nNo. 31\n\nMr.\n\nMr.\n\nMINUTE.\n\nSoden 22/2\n\nMr. Wingfield. 23\n\nMr. Bramston.\n\nMr. Meade. 23\n\nMr. Herbert. 23\n\nMr. Courtney. 23\n\nLord Kimberley.\n\ncut down\n\nbunkerunch at the\n\n1668\n\nasalarly\n\nis likely. Heives an therefore think there would\n\nhairanlage\n\nin his rang present moment\n\nDraft alone Butt Feb 21\n\nн\n\nThe Lefs\n\n24\n\nthe desperate\n\nbento\n\nBaleine\n\nsand the battle\n\nK\n\nSni\n\n27\n\n24. Feb 82\n\n1. I have received\n\nand have carefully considered your\n\ndespatch No. 2 of\n\nthe 3rd ultimo,\n\ntransmitting Mr\n\nBulkeley Johnson's\n\nLetters to me of the\n\n10th\n\nand the\n\n19th December,\n\nand\n\ntheir enclosures\n\nrelative to a charge", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-197 - Governor Hennessy - 1882 [1-2].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 311017, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 38, "title": "CO129-197 - Governor Hennessy - 1882 [1-2]", "content_text": "27\n\nthe honour, at the request of Mr. F. Bulkeley Johnson, of Messrs Jardine Matheson & Co., to transmit two letters of his dated the 10th and 19th ultimo (with several enclosures), addressed to Your Lordship relating to the circumstances under which Mr. J. C. Hayllar was excluded from Government House three years ago, to the proceedings thereon of Mr. Johnson in 1881, and to the withdrawal of action for slander arising out of some questions Mr. Johnson thought fit, as a social friend of Mr. Hayllar, and from a duty he says he owed to that gentleman, to put to my late Private Secretary, Dr. Eitel, during my temporary absence from the Colony.\n\nI also lay before Your Lordship two letters from Dr. Eitel, to the Acting Colonial Secretary, of the 19th and 27th of December, 1881, reporting on Mr. Johnson's letter of the 10th of December and its enclosures, as far as those documents reflected upon him (Dr. Eitel), in allowing the action to be withdrawn and in making apparently contradictory statements. I do not profess to know Mr. Johnson's object in this proceeding. At one time he was anxious to have the whole affair investigated publicly at the Legislative Council table. It was pretty generally known that he would not...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-197 - Governor Hennessy - 1882 [1-2].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 311031, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 52, "title": "CO129-197 - Governor Hennessy - 1882 [1-2]", "content_text": "#.\n\n51\n\nwill find detailed a sufficiently complete record of the facts, which lead to make this communication to your Lordship.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nMy Lord, Your Lordship's most Obedient Humble Servant,\n\n#Bulkeley Johnson", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-197 - Governor Hennessy - 1882 [1-2].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 311047, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 68, "title": "CO129-197 - Governor Hennessy - 1882 [1-2]", "content_text": "B. Johnson\n\nto Dr Eitel\n\nYou are prepared to make the statements, I have referred to and with which your name is connected, to any member of the Legislative Council. I place myself at your disposal to give you any further explanation on the subject of this note which you may require, at any time which may be convenient to you.\n\nI remain,\n\nYours faithfully,\n\n(Signed) F. Bulkeley Johnson\n\nDear Dr Eitel,\n\nQuin's Road,\n\n19th September 1881\n\nI have to thank you for your note of today. I will, following your suggestion, call upon you tomorrow morning at half past ten.\n\nYours faithfully,\n\n(Signed) F. Bulkeley Johnson", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-197 - Governor Hennessy - 1882 [1-2].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 311056, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 77, "title": "CO129-197 - Governor Hennessy - 1882 [1-2]", "content_text": "Secretary of State for the Colonies,\n\nCam\n\nac-\n\ncompanying them with statements involving a charge of so grave a nature against yourself with reference to the origin of your difference with the Governor, that I deem it to be incumbent upon me to inform you, without the least delay, of the imputations which are being formally and officially made against you and with which I am sure you are unacquainted.\n\nI deeply regret the painful necessity imposed upon me to make this communication to you, and I need hardly say that I will, whenever you may desire it, give you such further particulars of what passed during my interview with Dr. Eitel, as you may desire.\n\nI informed Dr. Eitel that I reserved to myself full liberty to repeat to you whatever he might say.\n\nYours faithfully,\n\n(Signed) J. Bulkeley Johnson\n\nof course,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-197 - Governor Hennessy - 1882 [1-2].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 311067, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 88, "title": "CO129-197 - Governor Hennessy - 1882 [1-2]", "content_text": "V\n\nD\n\n9\n\n10\n\n87\n\nPlaintiff socially and in his professional character and to induce Francis Buckeley Johnson to exclude the Plaintiff from his society and to deprive him of his position as the confidential legal adviser of the firm of Jardine Matheson and Company and of the fees and emoluments thereto pertaining the grievances hereinafter set forth.\n\nThe Plaintiff had been for many years past the confidential legal adviser of the said firm of Jardine Matheson and Company and of other persons and firms in this colony and derived large profits therefrom all of which things the Defendant at the time of the committing of the said grievances well knew.\n\nIn consequence of the premises the Plaintiff has been and is greatly prejudiced and injured in his credit and reputation and in his profession as a Barrister at Law and the said Francis Bulkeley Johnson has pending proof by the Plaintiff of the falsity of the charges and imputations hereinbefore mentioned refused to employ or consult the Plaintiff as such confidential legal adviser aforesaid and the Plaintiff has lost the benefit of such employment and of the fees and emoluments thereof.\n\nThe Plaintiff claims $25,000 damages and prays your Lordships:\n\n1. That the defendant may be ordered to pay the same.\n\n1. That he may have such further and other relief as the nature of the case may require.\n\nDated the 18th day of November 1887\n\n(207)\n\nInc. J. Francis\n\nBarrister at Law\n\nof Counsel for the Plaintiff", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-197 - Governor Hennessy - 1882 [1-2].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 311070, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 91, "title": "CO129-197 - Governor Hennessy - 1882 [1-2]", "content_text": "I. \n\ndo hereby certify that the foregoing is a true copy of the original letter produced to me this second day of December 1881.\n\n[Illegible text in foreign script]\n\nWilliam Wotton\n\nPublic Notary\n\nBoughoug\n\n#B. Johnson\n\nto\n\n90\n\nCopy Correspondence\n\nQueen's Road\n\n1st December 1881\n\nIn strict confidence\n\nMy dear Russell,\n\nI have been informed that Dr Eitel, previously to his communication to me on the 20th September last, my report of which led to the action for slander brought by Mr Hayllar against Dr Eitel, made to you circumstantially and in substance the same statements as those which are embodied in the petition of the plaintiff to the Supreme Court, which were taken from my narrative of what occurred during my meeting with Dr Eitel on the 20th September.\n\nYou would greatly oblige me if you would tell me whether or not this was the case.\n\nShould you not have seen the petition, I can obtain a copy of it for you.\n\nYours very truly,\n\n(Signed) F. Bulkeley Johnson\n\nMr Justice Russell", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-197 - Governor Hennessy - 1882 [1-2].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 311072, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 93, "title": "CO129-197 - Governor Hennessy - 1882 [1-2]", "content_text": "In 10.35-20\n\nIn the Supreme Court of Hongkong\n\nOriginal Jurisdiction\n\n suit No. 33.\n\nPlaintiff, Thomas Lehill Stayllar\n\nDefendant - Ernest John Eitel\n\nNotice is hereby given that the Plaintiff withdraws this suit on the following terms, having been consented to by the Defendant\n\nviz\n\nThe Defendant admits that he made the statement to the Honorable Francis Bulkeley Johnson as repeated by the said Honorable Francis Bulkeley Johnson which is part set forth in the Plaintiff's Petition and now retracts the same and says the same is untrue.\n\nThe Defendant has apologised to the Plaintiff for having made the said statement to the said Honorable Francis Bulkeley Johnson.\n\nDated the 30th day of November 1881.\n\n(a) Drereton & Wotton\n\nPlaintiff's Solicitor\n\nLe. A. A. Sangster\n\nActing Registrar of the\n\nSupreme Court of Hongkong", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-197 - Governor Hennessy - 1882 [1-2].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 311134, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 155, "title": "CO129-197 - Governor Hennessy - 1882 [1-2]", "content_text": "154\n\nto a letter (and enclosures) addressed to Your Lordship by the Honourable F. Bulkeley Johnson, a Member of Legislative Council, under date of 10th December 1881, and I presume that this paper containing the observations I submitted in my defence has been transmitted to your Lordship in accordance with my prayer expressed in paragraph No. 43 of those observations.\n\n2. I would, therefore, not venture to trouble your Lordship with any further observations on this case, were it not for the fact that His Excellency the Governor has gone, under date of 6th January, so far as to deny the main point of my defence as contained in those observations, by stating in a letter addressed to me, under that date, by the Private Secretary that my memory was at fault in permitting me to say that what I appear to have told Mr. Johnson and others was so told to them by the positive instructions of the Governor.\n\n3. Under these circumstances I feel compelled to submit to Your Lordship copies of the three documents connected\n\n1", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-197 - Governor Hennessy - 1882 [1-2].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 311197, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 218, "title": "CO129-197 - Governor Hennessy - 1882 [1-2]", "content_text": "..\n\n1\n\nService the unsatisfactory stigma,\n\nwhich the late notorious scandal has attached to it.\n\nI have the honour to be\n\nMy Lord,\n\n217\n\nYour Lordship's most Obedient Humble Servant,\n\n#Bulkeley Johnson", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-197 - Governor Hennessy - 1882 [1-2].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 311206, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 227, "title": "CO129-197 - Governor Hennessy - 1882 [1-2]", "content_text": "226\n\nto be destroyed. Subsequently, having heard that the photographer had been selling copies, I was annoyed at his impertinent disregard of my direct order, with respect to a private photograph, and I informed him, if he continued to sell the print, I should take proceedings against him.\n\nAs to the book referred to by the Governor, if, as I assume, he means the Official Catalogue of the Public Museum at Naples, what I said was, that I had the book in my own library, and that, though, being mainly an illustration of antique statuary, it was scarcely a work I would place in the hands of my young daughters, there was not a single print in it which I could regard as, in any way, indecent.\n\nI beg you will intimate to the Governor that, with this reply, the subject of it, so far as I am concerned, must close.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nYour obedient Servant,\n\n(Signed) F. Bulkeley Johnson", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-197 - Governor Hennessy - 1882 [1-2].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 311398, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 419, "title": "CO129-197 - Governor Hennessy - 1882 [1-2]", "content_text": "## No. 29\nMy Lord,\n\n1. Government House, Hongkong, 20th February, 1882.\n\nI enclose for Your Lordship's information copies of two notices of motion given by Mr. Fr. Bulkeley Johnson for the Legislative Council meeting of the 22nd instant, with reference to which I took the responsibility of striking out a word in one, and not allowing the other to appear.\n\nThe Right Honourable \nThe Earl of Kimberley \nHer Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-197 - Governor Hennessy - 1882 [1-2].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 311401, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 422, "title": "CO129-197 - Governor Hennessy - 1882 [1-2]", "content_text": "# LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL-No. 1.\n\n## TUESDAY, 7TH FEBRUARY, 1882.\n\n### PRESENT:\n\n**HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR** (**Sir JOHN POPE HENNESSY, K.C.M.G.**).\n\nHis Honour the Acting Chief Justice, (**FRANCIS SNOWDEN**).\n\nThe Honourable the Acting Colonial Secretary, (**MALCOLM STRUAN TONNOCHY**).\n\nthe Attorney General (**EDWARD LOUGHLIN O'MALLEY**).\n\nthe Acting Colonial Treasurer (**WALTER MEREDITH DEANE**).\n\nPHINEAS RYRIE.\n\nNG CHOY.\n\nFRANCIS BULKELEY JOHNSON.\n\nEMANUEL RAPHAEL BELILIOS.\n\n### ABSENT:\n\nThe Honourable **WILLIAM KESWICK** (on leave).\n\n**JOHN MACNEILE PRICE** (on leave).\n\nThe Minutes of the last meeting of Council held on the 12th September, 1881, are read and confirmed.\n\nHis Excellency the Governor delivers the following address on opening the Session of 1882. (See **Government Gazette** of 11th February, 1882.)\n\nThe Governor moves the introduction and first reading of the following Bills, which are laid on the table, read a first time and ordered to be printed:\n- An Ordinance to amend the Opium Ordinances.\n- the Vehicles Ordinance 1863.\n- for the Naturalization of Lai SuuN TING.\n- CHAN TENG Cuo.\n- 'NG LI HING.\n- YAU CHONG Hlixo.\n- CHAN MUN WING.\n\nThe Acting Chief Justice hands in the report of the Special Committee on the Tramways Bill. Mr. BELILIOS addresses the Council.\n\nMr. JOHNSON moves that the Council go into Committee on the Bill to-morrow.\n\nThe Attorney General calls attention to the fact that his name appears in the Minutes of the Special Committee as an absentee and says that he had never been appointed on the Committee.\n\nThe Acting Chief Justice gives an explanation with which the Attorney General is satisfied. Mr. JOHNSON's motion to go into Committee on the Bill to-morrow is carried.\n\nMr. JOHNSON's motion with reference to the correspondence relative to the Steam-ship Ocean is withdrawn at his request. With reference to this notice of motion the Governor mentions that the word \"barbarous\" which appeared to reflect on the Government of New South Wales had been struck out by his directions.\n\nMr. JOHNSON pursuant to notice asks the following questions:\n- When the papers relative to Chinese Emigration from the Colony promised to the Council on the 23rd August last will be presented?\n\nThe Governor replies.\n\nMr. JOHNSON pursuant to notice asks the following question:\n- Whether the minute of the Finance Committee made in August last relating to the unsatisfactory state of the roads in Victoria has been brought to the attention of the Acting Surveyor General, and whether the recommendation contained in the minute will be acted upon?\n\nThe Governor replies.\n\nMr. JOHNSON pursuant to notice asks the following question:\n- Whether final instructions from the Colonial Office have been received with regard to the proposed extension of Water Supply?\n\nThe Governor replies.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-197 - Governor Hennessy - 1882 [1-2].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 311403, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 424, "title": "CO129-197 - Governor Hennessy - 1882 [1-2]", "content_text": "# The Hongkong Telegraph\n## HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1882.\n\n### THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.\n\nThe proceedings at the meeting of the Legislative Council held yesterday afternoon were of such an important and interesting character that we consider it advisable to publish a verbatim report, reserving our editorial comments on the annual statement made by His Excellency the Governor for another issue. At yesterday's meeting there were present:\n\n- His EXCELLENCY the GOVERNOR.\n- Hon. F. SNOWDEN, Acting Chief Justice.\n- Hon. M. S. TONNOCHY, Acting Colonial Secretary.\n- Hon. E. L. O'MALLEY, Attorney-General.\n- Hon. W. M. DEANE, Acting Colonial Treasurer.\n- Hon. P. KYRIE.\n- Hon. NG CHOY.\n- Hon. F. BULKELEY JOHNSON.\n- Hon. E. R. BELILIOS.\n\n### MINUTES.\n\nThe minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed.\n\n### A POINT OF ORDER.\n\nHon. F. B. JOHNSON - I rise, sir, to a point of order.\n\nHis EXCELLENCY - The hon. member is out of order in doing so. The Order Book states that the first business before the Council to-day is \"the Governor's statement on opening the session of 1882.\" I should think this is the first time in any colony in which when that appeared upon the Order Book any honourable member endeavoured to interpose between the Governor and his annual statement to the members of the Council. I trust such an occurrence will not take place again at this Council table.\n\n### THE GOVERNOR'S ANNUAL STATEMENT.\n\nHis EXCELLENCY - Honourable gentlemen of the Legislative Council, opening the Legislative session of 1882 I have to inform you that the Queen has been graciously pleased to confirm and allow thirteen of the fourteen Ordinances which were passed in 1881. Of these Ordinances, No. 1 of 1881, the Macao Extradition Ordinance, is one which deals with a question which engaged the attention of my predecessors for forty years, and it has now been settled by the negotiations of Lord Kimberley and Lord Granville with the Government of Lisbon. And though undoubtedly the credit of that settlement belongs entirely to the Home Governments, nevertheless the advantage of it will be felt by the Governments of Macao and Hongkong, for the Executives of both colonies will now be enabled to deal with fugitive criminals in a way that they could not before. Ordinance No. 3 of 1881, the Penal Laws Amendment Ordinance, now confirmed by the Queen, is not the least important reform in colonial penal laws that has been effected in our time. It repeals or amends ten Ordinances, some of them of exceptional severity, and all practically directed against one race only. The Ordinance gives permanent legislative authority to a policy which the Royal prerogative enabled me to enforce for some years past, in spite of some little local criticism; and henceforth it will be illegal in this Colony to brand any criminal, to have public flogging, to allow flogging in Hongkong, except for such offences as entail flogging in England, or to allow flogging on the back. The impolitic system now abolished by the Queen and the legislature of this Colony, though devised for the suppression of crime, had actually manufactured a criminal population and increased crime. This abolition has been followed by the diminution of crime, and a universal feeling throughout the Colony, to which you can all bear witness, that life and property have become more secure in Hongkong.\n\nI have no wish, gentlemen, to weary you with statistics, but I may perhaps quote the authentic figures which have recently been put before me with reference to the class of crimes which some years ago caused so much alarm throughout the Colony. I take the four years during which, as I have just mentioned, under the exercise of the Royal prerogative, I practically suspended those penal laws which Her Majesty has now abolished. In 1878 cases of murder numbered seven, and this number was reduced to four in 1879; in 1880 there was one case, and in 1881 two cases. Of cases of robbery with violence from the person, the number was 35 in 1878, 39 in 1879, 25 in 1880, and 19 in 1881. Cases of burglary, or larceny from dwelling houses, amounted to 113 in 1878, to 107 in 1879, to 53 in 1880, and to 60 in 1881. There were two assaults with intent to rob in 1880, and none in 1881. Taking the total of these really grave crimes, which caused so much apprehension and alarm, in 1878 they amounted to 173, in 1879 to 145, in 1880 to 81, and in 1881 to 81. The only other class of crime to which I will refer is one which has engaged a good deal of the attention of his honour the Chief Justice, and that is kidnapping. With reference to that crime, you are aware that Lord Kimberley instructed me to approve in his name of a Chinese society, which now deals practically with the suppression of that crime, acting in concert with the Captain Superintendent of Police. The consequence is that the smallest number of kidnapping cases that occurred in the four years I have referred to was in 1881, when we had only 50 such cases. This, I believe, is owing to the operations of the Chinese society, the skill and energy of the police force, and the action of the Supreme Court in passing heavy sentences on those who are convicted of that offence. I believe that by these means the principal kidnappers are at the present moment locked up in our gaol.\n\nAmongst the other Ordinances passed in 1881, is Ordinance No. 14, the Companies' Ordinance, which introduced some reforms that were pressed upon my attention by my honourable friend, the senior unofficial member of the Legislative Council. It is an Ordinance that facilitates the work of those commercial associations that are doing so much to utilise the surplus capital of the Colony.\n\nIn connection with the Appropriation Ordinance for 1882, which Her Majesty has sanctioned, I am laying to-day upon the table some dispatches and some financial papers. The financial papers I am putting before you consist, as usual, of the comparative statements of revenue and expenditure of the past year in comparison with that of the preceding year - that is the statement of 1881, compared with that of 1880. I find that the revenue for the year 1881 amounted to over $1,100,000, being the largest revenue ever collected in this Colony. You are aware that for some years past I have impressed upon you the fact that in my opinion it was not proper to treat as actual revenue the proceeds of the sale of Crown lands. The proceeds of the sale of Crown lands I have always held to represent the capital of the Colony, and therefore in the figures I shall give to you, I do not include that important item. But adding that item, we find that the sum actually collected amounts to $1,309,428. The receipts of the preceding year amounted to $1,056,000, and thus last year the amount collected was more than a quarter of a million in excess of that of the preceding year. I shall refer later on to the question of the land revenue, and at present I will only ask your attention to a few of the items in some of the principal heads of revenue. I find for instance taking the item of stamp revenue that the total sum collected in 1881 amounted to $173,641, in the preceding year it had reached $127,623 showing an increase of $46,000. In looking through the stamp Returns, I find an increase under a great majority of items. Bank notes in circulation, bills of exchange, bank cheques, bills of lading, bottomry bonds, charter parties, transfer of shares, ordinary adhesive stamps, and a large item for conveyances and assignments. This, I need hardly tell you, is the largest revenue ever collected under our Stamp Ordinance. I might also say that when we called upon the Collector of stamps in 1880 to estimate the amount which... \n\nPage 423", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-197 - Governor Hennessy - 1882 [1-2].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 311413, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 434, "title": "CO129-197 - Governor Hennessy - 1882 [1-2]", "content_text": "433 \n\nhad given due notice, and the terms of which I shall presently state *in extenso*, was irregular and out of order.\n\nThe motion to which I allude was as follows: \"That His Excellency will be pleased to direct the Acting Colonial Secretary to lay upon the table copies of letters addressed by me to the Acting Colonial Secretary dated 2nd December, with enclosures, and 15th December, and of the Acting Colonial Secretary's replies dated respectively 5th and 13th December, also that His Excellency will be pleased to lay upon the table copies of a letter addressed by Mr. F. G. Hayllar to the Secretary of State for the Colonies dated about 27th July 1881, of a covering despatch from His Excellency the Governor about the same date, and of a letter from Mr. J. C. Hayllar to the Secretary of State, asking permission to withdraw his despatch of 24th July 1881, and dated 8th September, comprising a series of documents, which have been exhibited to members of Council by His Excellency's directions.\"\n\nI have the honour to be,\nYour most obedient servant,\n(Signed) F. Bulkiley Johnson.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-197 - Governor Hennessy - 1882 [1-2].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 311418, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 439, "title": "CO129-197 - Governor Hennessy - 1882 [1-2]", "content_text": "## arising out of a notice of motion given by M. Z. Bulkeley Johnson\n\n438 to the power of the Governor to refuse to allow a motion to be put, I have also to acknowledge the receipt of Sir J. Hennessy's further despatch `434` of the 27th February, forwarding a letter addressed to him on the subject by M. Z. Bulkeley Johnson.\n\n2. With regard to the general question as to the power of the Governor to refuse to allow a motion to be brought forward, I observe that in the House of Commons it is within the province of the Speaker to refuse to allow a question or motion to be put upon the paper on the ground that it is irregular, or that the member, debarred by standing order from doing so, attempts to raise the same matter again. The Governor ruled out of order.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-197 - Governor Hennessy - 1882 [1-2].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 311426, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 447, "title": "CO129-197 - Governor Hennessy - 1882 [1-2]", "content_text": "before I shall be able to say. I have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour Most Obedient Servant,\n\n(Signed) F. Bulkeley Johnson.\n\nReply of the Howard Association\nto\nMr. F. B. Johnson.\n\nThe Howard Association, 5, Bishopsgate Without,\nE.C., London, Jan. 10.\n\nDear Sir,-Your letter from Hong Kong, dated Dec. 8, reached me yesterday, and I have at once looked up various papers and authorities on the subject, so as to be able to reply promptly. But, in the first place, it may be remarked that it is waiter for surprise that we should have received any letter at all from Hong Kong, written under an apparent impression that the penal system of that colony had not been open to serious objection. For it is a matter of world-wide notoriety. Have you not seen the principal English journals of the past few years? Have you not read the Parliamentary and other State papers in which this subject has been treated of by his Excellency Governor Pope Hennessy, Earl Kimberley, and others? Have you not read the letters to the English newspaper on the question by Mr. Peter A. Taylor, M.P., and others? Perhaps, however, in your distant part of the world you have not seen or read these statements. And even if you have, you might, and perhaps not altogether unreasonably, object that general statements in the public Press are not a sufficient authority for grave imputations upon any system or upon any community. Well, let us at once assume this to be so, and set aside all the newspaper correspondence and statements, and confine the matter to official reports. In the autumn of 1879 there was published an official correspondence between the governor of Hong Kong and the Colonial Office. In that Correspondence Governor Hennessy gave an account of what had come under his personal observation, and which indicated a very grave and objectionable state of things in the local penal system. For example, he found two prisoners who had been flogged nine days previously, and who were still bleeding from the wounds occasioned by those floggings-one of the prisoners having eight and the other twelve such wounds. It further appeared that prisoners previously to being flogged were placed on a very weakening diet of rice and water, whereby their floggings were rendered still more penal. Also in about a year and a half more than two hundred floggings were inflicted upon the prisoners in Hong Kong Jail. Governor Hennessy reported to the Secretary of State for the Colonies that \"this is probably without a parallel in any part of the civilised globe of the same amount of population. From further official correspondence published in August, 1881, it appears that the benevolent Governor's interference had already been followed by a material decrease both in grave and in minor crimes, in spite of the decrease or disuse of flogging. The news from the colony received from time to time has shown that much opposition by some of the colonists has been manifested to the Governor's Christian and philanthropic exertions. But here, in Great Britain, there appears to be a general concurrence of public opinion in support of the Governor's action, which is regarded as that of a noble-hearted and courageous man, and a worthy representative of the illustrious and merciful Sovereign for whose name he administers the affairs of your colony. And it is to be hoped that among the European, as certainly amongst the Chinese, population of Hong Kong there are many persons who cordially support and honour the Governor's wise and humane procedure; though it is evident that some, on the other hand, have endeavoured to thwart and discourage him. Doubtless, neither Governor Hennessy nor those who in this country admire his course of action would desire to encourage crime or to pamper prisoners. On the contrary, they would promptly admit that it is no true humanity to render prisons either attractive or insufficiently penal. The proper function of a prison is to tend permanently to empty itself. And all experience shows that this is best secured by a due combination of reformatory with deterrent, and of preventive with repressive treatment. The prompt but slothful resort to mere wholesale flogging has, whenever it has been resorted to, tended to crush men into permanent shams and crime. They have had to be flogged again and again, and imprisoned time after time. I speak now of flogging as a general feature of any system. Experienced criminal administrators who do not wish to see flogging abolished, but mainly held in terrorem for resort in extreme cases, have repeatedly stated their conviction that in this sparing infliction, and on rare occasions, consists its only merit. But even the recent official statistics of your own colony now prove the failure of the former flogging system and the more repressive as well as preventive efficacy of Governor Hennessy's wiser substitute. I shall lay this correspondence before our committee, and meanwhile I remain, Sir, yours very respectfully,\n\nWILLIAM TALLACK, Secretary of the Howard Association.\n\nF. Bulkeley Johnson, Esq., Member of Legislative Council.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-197 - Governor Hennessy - 1882 [1-2].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 311484, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 505, "title": "CO129-197 - Governor Hennessy - 1882 [1-2]", "content_text": "# 8183\n\nC\n\nSir,\n\nHongkong, 7th February, 1882.\n\nI have the honour to inform you that the first notice of motion you proposed to make is, in the opinion of the Governor in Council, irregular and out of order and cannot appear in the Order Book, but that the other motion and question how Cocou placed in the Order Book, the word \"bartawur\" being expunged from the motion for the correspondence with the New South Wales Government.\n\nI have the honour to be,\nSir,\nYour most Obedient Servant,\n(Signed) Nathoon Seth, Clerk of Council.\n\nThe Honourable \nF. Bulkeley Johnson,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-197 - Governor Hennessy - 1882 [1-2].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 311587, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-198 - Governor Hennessy Acting Governor Tonnochy - 1882 [3]", "page_number": 23, "title": "CO129-198 - Governor Hennessy Acting Governor Tonnochy - 1882 [3]", "content_text": "# LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.-No. 1.\n\n## TUESDAY, 7TH FEBRUARY, 1882.\n\n**PRESENT:**\n\n* HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR (**Sir JOHN POPE HENNESSY, K.C.M.G.**)\n* His Honour the Acting Chief Justice, (**FRANCIS SNOWDEN**)\n* The Honourable the Acting Colonial Secretary, (**MALCOLM STRUAN TONNOCHY**)\n* The Attorney General (**EDWARD LOUGHLIN O'MALLEY**)\n* The Acting Colonial Treasurer (**WALTER MEREDITH DEANE**)\n* PHINEAS RYRIE\n* FRANCIS BULKELEY JOHNSON\n* EMANUEL RAPHAEL BELILIOS\n\n**ABSENT:**\n\n* The Honourable WILLIAM KESWICK (on leave)\n* JOHN MACNEILE PRICE (on leave)\n\nThe Minutes of the last meeting of Council held on the 12th September, 1881, are read and confirmed.\n\nHis Excellency the Governor delivers the following address on opening the Session of 1882. (See Government Gazette of 11th February, 1882.)\n\nThe Governor moves the introduction and first reading of the following Bills, which are laid on the table, read a first time and ordered to be printed :-\n- An Ordinance to amend the Opium Ordinances.\n- The Vehicles Ordinance 1863.\n- An Ordinance for the Naturalization of LAI SHUN TING.\n\nThe Acting Chief Justice hands in the report of the Special Committee on the Tramways Bill. Mr. BELILIOS addresses the Council.\n\nMr. JOHNSON moves that the Council go into Committee on the Bill to-morrow.\n\nThe Attorney General calls attention to the fact that his name appears in the Minutes of the Special Committee as an absentee and says that he had never been appointed on the Committee.\n\nThe Acting Chief Justice gives an explanation with which the Attorney General is satisfied. Mr. JOHNSON's motion to go into Committee on the Bill to-morrow is carried.\n\nMr. JOHNSON's motion with reference to the correspondence relative to the Steam-ship Ocean is withdrawn at his request. With reference to this notice of motion, the Governor mentions that the word \"barbarous\" which appeared to reflect on the Government of New South Wales had been struck out by his directions.\n\nMr. JOHNSON, pursuant to notice, asks the following questions:---\n1. When the papers relative to Chinese Emigration from the Colony promised to the Council on the 23rd August last will be presented?\n2. Whether the minute of the Finance Committee made in August last relating to the unsatisfactory state of the roads in Victoria has been brought to the attention of the Acting Surveyor General, and whether the recommendation contained in the minute will be acted upon?\n3. Whether final instructions from the Colonial Office have been received with regard to the proposed extension of Water Supply?\n\nThe Governor replies to each of Mr. JOHNSON's questions.\n\nPage 13\n\nStonghong, Luo March, 1882.\n\nGovernor **Bis John Pope Stennery**, to The Right Honourable, The Lord of Kimberley.\n\n**B.**\n\nInclosing the minutes, as **Anfinnes** of the Legislative Council recoving IL. F. Johnson's interruption of the President on the 23 of February.\n\nC.O. 6567\nRECEIVED `APK 12`\n`XCR(85)72` is not present in this text, however `C.O. 6567` and `RECEIVED APK 12` are references that appear to be related to file or document tracking.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-198 - Governor Hennessy Acting Governor Tonnochy - 1882 [3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 311589, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-198 - Governor Hennessy Acting Governor Tonnochy - 1882 [3]", "page_number": 25, "title": "CO129-198 - Governor Hennessy Acting Governor Tonnochy - 1882 [3]", "content_text": "# LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL. No. 12.\n## WEDNESDAY, 8TH FEBRUARY, 1882.\n\n### PRESENT:\n\n**HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR** \n(Sir JOHN POPE HENNESSY, K.C.M.G.) \nHis Honour the Acting Chief Justice, (FRANCIS SNOWDEN) \nThe Honourable the Acting Colonial Secretary, (MALCOLM STRUAN TONNOCHY) \n\" the Attorney General, (EDWARD LOUGHLIN O'MALLEY) \n\" the Acting Colonial Treasurer (WALTER MEREDITH DEANE) \nPHINEAS RYRIE \nNG CHOY \nFRANCIS BULKELLY JOHNSON \nEMANUEL RAPHAEL BELILIOS \n\n### ABSENT:\n\nThe Honourable WILLIAM KESWICK (on leave) \nJOHN MACNEILE PRICE (on leave) \n\nThe Council meets this day pursuant to adjournment. \n\nThe minutes of Council held yesterday are read and confirmed. \n\nThe Council goes into Committee on the Tramways Bill. \n\nThe Acting Colonial Secretary addresses the Council and moves that the word \"single\" be substituted for the word \"double\" in Sec. IV. \n\nThe Acting Colonial Treasurer addresses the Council in support of the motion. \n\nThe Acting Chief Justice, Mr. JOHNSON, and Mr. BELILIOS respectively address the Council against the motion. \n\nThe Council divides. \n\nThe question is put that the word \"double\" remain in the section. \n\n| Ayes | Noes |\n| --- | --- |\n| Mr. BELILIOS | The Attorney General |\n| Mr. JOHNSON | The Acting Chief Justice |\n| Mr. NG CHOY | The Acting Colonial Treasurer |\n| | The Acting Colonial Secretary |\n\nThe Council proceeds to consider the other sections. \nSections 17 to 21 are postponed. \nProgress is reported at Sec. CXXIX. \n\nThe Governor moves the introduction and first reading of a Bill entitled: **The Bankers' Books Evidence Ordinance, 1882**. \nThe Bill is laid on the table, read a first time, and ordered to be printed. \nHis Excellency adjourns the Council at 4.30 P.M. until 2.30 P.M. to-morrow. \n\n**J. POPE HENNESSY, Governor**\n\nRead and confirmed this 9th day of February, 1882. \n**ARATHOON SETH, Clerk of Councils**", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-198 - Governor Hennessy Acting Governor Tonnochy - 1882 [3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 311590, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-198 - Governor Hennessy Acting Governor Tonnochy - 1882 [3]", "page_number": 26, "title": "CO129-198 - Governor Hennessy Acting Governor Tonnochy - 1882 [3]", "content_text": "# LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL. No. 3.\n## THURSDAY, 9TH FEBRUARY, 1882\n\n### PRESENT:\n**HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR** \n(Sir JOHN POPE HENNESSY, K.C.M.G.) \nHis Honour the Acting Chief Justice, (FRANCIS SNOWDEN) \nThe Honourable the Acting Colonial Secretary, (MALCOLM STRUAN TONNOCHY) \nThe Attorney General, (EDWARD LOUGHLIN O'MALLEY) \nThe Acting Colonial Treasurer (WALTER MEREDITH DEANE) \nNG CHOY \nFRANCIS BULKELEY JOHNSON \nEMANUEL RAPHAEL BELILIOS \nThe Honourable PHINEAS RYRIE \n\n### ABSENT:\nWILLIAM KESWICK (on leave) \nJOHN MACNEILE PRICE (on leave) \n\nThe Council resumes the consideration in Committee of the Tramways Bill at clause 129. \nThe Attorney General moves the omission of clause 129. \nThe Acting Colonial Secretary, The Acting Chief Justice, Mr. JOHNSON, and His Excellency the Governor respectively address the Council against the motion. \nHis Excellency then moves that the clause do stand. \nThe Attorney General by permission explains the cause of his having made the motion and withdraws it. \nThe clause is allowed to stand. \n\nThe other clauses are considered seriatim. \nThe postponed clauses (17 to 21) are then considered. \nThe Acting Colonial Secretary addresses the Council on clause 17. \nMr. JOHNSON, the Acting Colonial Secretary, and the Acting Colonial Treasurer respectively address the Council on clause 18. \nHis Excellency the Governor moves the omission of clause 18. Debate ensues. \nQuestion put,-That clause 18 be omitted. Council divides,-\n| Ayes | Noes |\n| --- | --- |\n| The Acting Colonial Treasurer | Mr. BELILIOS |\n| The Attorney General | Mr. JOHNSON |\n| The Acting Colonial Secretary | Mr. NG CHOY |\n| The Acting Chief Justice | |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-198 - Governor Hennessy Acting Governor Tonnochy - 1882 [3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 311592, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-198 - Governor Hennessy Acting Governor Tonnochy - 1882 [3]", "page_number": 28, "title": "CO129-198 - Governor Hennessy Acting Governor Tonnochy - 1882 [3]", "content_text": "# LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL. No. 4.\n## WEDNESDAY, 22ND FEBRUARY, 1882.\n\n### PRESENT:\n\n**HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR** \n(Sir JOHN POPE HENNESSY, K.C.M.G.) \nHis Honour the Acting Chief Justice, (FRANCIS SNOWDEN). \nThe Honourable the Acting Colonial Secretary, (MALCOLM STRUAN TONNOCHY). \nthe Attorney General, (EDWARD LOUGHLIN O'MALLEY), \nthe Acting Colonial Treasurer (WALTER MEREDITH DEANE). \nPHINEAS RYRIE. \nNG CHOY. \nFRANCIS BULKELEY JOHNSON.\n\n### ABSENT:\n\nThe Honourable WILLIAM KESWICK (on leave). \nJOHN MACNEILE PRICE (on leave). \nEMANUEL RAPHAEL BELILIOS (On leave).\n\nThe Council meets this day by Special Summons.\n\nThe Minutes of the last Meeting of Council held on the 9th instant are read.\n\nMr. JOHNSON enquires whether the Protest he caused to be delivered to the Clerk of Councils has been placed on the Minutes.\n\nThe Governor replies that it was received since the last meeting and cannot therefore be entered on the minutes of the last meeting which was held on the 9th instant.\n\nThe Minutes of the Meeting of the 9th of February, 1882, are then confirmed.\n\nBy direction of the Governor the Clerk reads the following protest which had been delivered to him on the 13th of February, and His Excellency directs it to be entered on the minutes forthwith:- \n\n**To His Excellency Sir JOHN POPE HENNESSY, K.C.M.G., Governor of Hongkong; and to ARATHOON SETH, Esquire, Clerk of Councils.**\n\nHONGKONG, 13th February, 1882.\n\nI do hereby protest in writing against the decision of Your Excellency, intimated by you in the letter addressed to me by the Clerk of Councils, dated the 7th instant, and confirmed by you in the Legislative Council of that day, by which decision Your Excellency ruled that a motion of mine, of my intention to move which, at that Council, I had given due notice, and the terms of which I shall presently state in extenso, was irregular and out of order.\n\nThe motion to which I allude, was as follows:-\" That His Excellency will be pleased to direct the Acting Colonial Secretary to lay upon the table copies of letters addressed by me to the Acting Colonial Secretary dated 2nd December, with enclosures, and 7th and 15th December, and of the Acting Colonial Secretary's replies dated respectively 5th and 13th December; also that His Excellency will be pleased to lay upon the table copies of a letter addressed by Mr. T. C. HAYLLAR to the Secretary of State for the Colonies, dated on or about 27th July, 1881, of a covering despatch from His Excellency the Governor about the same date, and of a letter from Mr. T. C. HAYLLAR to the Secretary of State, asking permission to withdraw his despatch of 27th July, 1881, and dated 8th September, comprising a series of documents which have been exhibited to members of Council by His Excellency's directions.\" \n-I have the honour to be, your most obedient servant, \nF. BULKELEY JOHNSON.\n\n**HIS EXCELLENCY'S MINUTE ON THE ABOVE PROTEST.**\n\nThere is a slight inaccuracy or misconception in the latter part of the Protest (about documents being exhibited by my direction), but nevertheless, let it be entered in full on the minutes.\n\nJ. POPE HENNESSY.\n\nHongkong, 14th February, 1882.\n\nHis Excellency then proceeds to move the first order of the day, the consideration of the Jury List for 1882, but whilst the Governor is addressing the Council, Mr. JOHNSON rises to call attention to a question of privilege.\n\nHis Excellency rules that the Honourable Member is out of order in endeavouring as a question of privilege, to enter into a discussion and quote a text book with reference to a ruling of the Chair on a former occasion some meetings ago.\n\nThe Governor in resuming his remarks on the first order of the day invites the opinion of the Council on the point whether the Jury List for 1882 should be considered with closed doors.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-198 - Governor Hennessy Acting Governor Tonnochy - 1882 [3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 311624, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-198 - Governor Hennessy Acting Governor Tonnochy - 1882 [3]", "page_number": 60, "title": "CO129-198 - Governor Hennessy Acting Governor Tonnochy - 1882 [3]", "content_text": "## C.O. 6570\n\n**RECR**\n**REGT 15 APR 32, 58**\n\nExtract from the Notes and Proceedings of the Finance Committee.\n\n\"**Financial Chamber,**\nHongkong, 6th March 1882.\n\n\"**Present:**\n\nHis Honour the Acting Chief Justice, Lancelot Snowden, in the Chair.\n\n\"The Honourable the Acting Colonial Secretary, (M. L. Jernack.)\n\n\"The Honourable The Acting Colonial Treasurer (for th. Fraser)\n\nThe Honourable, P. Ryrie,\n\n\"The Honourable, & Bulkeley Johnson.\n\nThe Finance Committee desire to express their appreciation of the scientific services already rendered by\n\nPage 60\nPage 61", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-198 - Governor Hennessy Acting Governor Tonnochy - 1882 [3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 311645, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-198 - Governor Hennessy Acting Governor Tonnochy - 1882 [3]", "page_number": 81, "title": "CO129-198 - Governor Hennessy Acting Governor Tonnochy - 1882 [3]", "content_text": "# Cape\n\nTo His Excellency \n\n**REGO** \n\nC-0. 79 \n\n6572 \n\nAPP \n\nSir John Pope Hennessy R.C.M.G. &c. \n\nGovernor of Hongkong, \n\nand to Arathoon Seth Esquire \n\nClerk of Council. \n\nHongkong 14 March 1882 \n\nI do hereby protest in writing against the decision of your Excellency, as given from the chair at the meeting of the Legislative Council on the 22nd ult., whereby I was prevented from speaking on the question of privilege, from making any motion thereon, from explaining to the Council, or to the chair, the nature of the question I wished to raise, and I request that this protest be recorded in the Book of the proceedings of the Council. \n\n(Signed) F. Bulkeley Johnson.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-198 - Governor Hennessy Acting Governor Tonnochy - 1882 [3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 316346, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-198 - Governor Hennessy Acting Governor Tonnochy - 1882 [3]", "page_number": 392, "title": "CO129-198 - Governor Hennessy Acting Governor Tonnochy - 1882 [3]", "content_text": "# Legislative Council, 8th February, 1882\n\n## The Hongkong Telegraph\n\n### HONGKONG, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1882.\n\n#### THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.\n\nA meeting of the Legislative Council was held yesterday afternoon. There were present ---- \n\n* His EXCELLENCY the **GOVERNOR**.\n* Hon. F. SNOWDEN, Acting Chief Justice.\n* Hon. M. S. TONNOCHY, Acting Colonial Secretary.\n* Hon. E. L. O'MALLEY, Attorney-General.\n* Hon. W. M. DEANE, Acting Colonial Treasurer.\n* Hon. P. RYRIE.\n* Hon. NG CHOY.\n* Hon. F. BULKELEY JOHNSON.\n* Hon. E. R. BELILJOS.\n\n#### MINUTES.\n\nThe minutes of the last meeting were read and, after a verbal alteration had been made, were confirmed.\n\n#### THE TRAMWAYS BILL.\n\nThe Council now went into Committee on the Tramways Bill.\n\nHon. P. RYRIE requested leave to retire, which was granted.\n\nOn clause 4, the **COLONIAL SECRETARY** moved that instead of the word \"double\" the word \"single\" be substituted. He said the opinion of the Surveyor-General was deserving of great attention, and he had already stated his opinion that with the proposed width of the cars it would be dangerous to allow a double line in any part of Queen's-road, and from his own observation, and he had been along Queen's-road several times since the Bill was considered in Select Committee, he did not think there was any part of the road that would be safe if two lines were allowed. If improvements hereafter took place in certain parts of it and the road was widened, the Government might see their way to allow a double line to be formed, but at present he would move as an amendment that as a tentative measure there should be a single line right through, but a proviso might be put in at the end of the Ordinance that at any time, if the Governor in Council thought fit, at any part of the road where it could be done with safety, a double line might be laid. He thought that for the first few months the Company might very well go on without a double line. If they found it was a project that commanded the public confidence and was likely to become popular, people would be inclined to put up with a little inconvenience for a great good.\n\nHon. F. B. JOHNSON said he would remind the hon. member that this question was very thoroughly considered by the Select Committee, who reported in favour of a double line, and in clause 4 there was a provision that if the working of a double line was found dangerous it should be lawful for the Governor to order one of the lines to be discontinued. It was not compulsory on the Company to make a double line, and having full knowledge that the Governor in Council might order them to abandon expensive works, they would satisfy themselves before undertaking them that there was no danger, and as the Select Committee had reported in favour of a double line, he thought the Council might pass it.\n\nThe **ACTING COLONIAL TREASURER** said the proviso added to clause 4 was arrived at in order to smooth over matters for the time being. It was by no manner of means the unanimous opinion of the Select Committee that a double line should be allowed. Since then, he had carefully observed the traffic of the road and he was certainly of opinion that in Queen's-road Central it would be unwise to authorise a double line. The width of an ordinary dog cart was from 5ft. 6in. to 6ft. He found the gutters generally took up about 2ft. 6in. on each side of the road, and that the amount of space left by a double line of tramway would be so narrow that it would be almost impossible, even if the lines were to be so close together that the cars almost touched in passing, for a carriage to stand on the side of the road without being an obstruction to a tramway car. It had been assumed that Queen's-road had a general width of 31ft., whereas opposite the Cricket Ground it was only 27ft. 3in., and opposite the Star Hotel it was only a few inches wider. There was only one portion of the whole section referred to in Tramway No. 2 where a double line was feasible, and that was possibly from Murray Barracks to Ice House-lane, and there only because there were houses only on one side of the road. Where there were houses on both sides, it would be impossible for chairs to stop before the shops, and he observed that in England there was considerable opposition to a Tramway Bill by shopkeepers, owing to the loss of custom that would be entailed by the tramway line being so close to their shops as there would be no possibility of vehicles setting down passengers.\n\nHon. F. B. JOHNSON said he thought it would be almost impossible to meet the arguments of the hon. gentleman opposite in the absence of the plans and the engineers who were responsible for the drawing of the plans, but his recollection of what took place in Select Committee was that those who were examined stated that people at home had become almost unanimous that a double line had advantages over a single line. He was not aware until that moment of the opposition to be offered by the hon. member opposite, and as he was under the impression the opinion of the Committee had been unanimously arrived at, he was not in a position to question the facts the member had brought forward and therefore he must leave the matter in the hands of the Committee, depending solely on the result of the vote of the majority of the Council.\n\nThe **ACTING CHIEF JUSTICE**, as Chairman of the Select Committee, said he thought there could be no doubt any tramway in these streets would be a most serious inconvenience, but the only question he looked at was whether the amount of accommodation given to the public would not exceed the inconvenience which people who had to use the road in another way would be subject to. When they came to the conclusion that a double line could be recommended safely, it was, he thought, on these grounds, that the street would hardly at any time be occupied by two carriages except when they were passing, and that consequently, although the street would be occupied by the two lines, yet passengers, if they saw a tram car coming down one line, could get on the other and make use of the street just as well as if there was a single line only. It was thought that if there was a single line only, there would be so many points of stoppage, and the cars would have to stop so many minutes, that the inconvenience would be almost as great as if they had sanctioned a double line. With regard to the point alluded to by his hon. friend, Captain Deane, that a double line of tramways would prevent a carriage stopping opposite the shops, he agreed with him that such a thing would be almost impossible, and the only thing for the carriage to do, it seemed to him, was to move on to the other line when there was a tram car approaching. The effect of the evidence on his mind was that there was very little additional danger or inconvenience entailed by having a double line of rails instead of a single one, but anything Captain Deane said, after having studied the subject, would have considerable weight with him.\n\nThe Hon. M. S. TONNOCHY said it appeared to him that it would be so much easier to put down one line first, and then add another one afterwards, than to put down a double line at first, and then have to take one up afterwards. Another objection he had to commencing with a double line was that he thought it best to try the single line first for this reason—that whatever improvements were made in tram rails, they were sure to be more or less an inconvenience to carriages, especially to jinrickshas. He was surprised, when on one occasion he was in San Francisco, to see the splendid and spirited-looking horses which were standing at the side of the road, on the sidewalk, as it was called, which stood there without moving off with nothing to keep them there but a fastening attached to some weight which stood upon the ground. When he saw these spirited horses there, he expected to find that there were many accidents caused, but during the time he was there, there were only two accidents, which were caused by the locking of the wheels of carriages in the tram rails. Therefore, having in view the inconvenience... \n\nPage 390", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-198 - Governor Hennessy Acting Governor Tonnochy - 1882 [3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 316348, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-198 - Governor Hennessy Acting Governor Tonnochy - 1882 [3]", "page_number": 394, "title": "CO129-198 - Governor Hennessy Acting Governor Tonnochy - 1882 [3]", "content_text": "# Legislative Council, 9th February, 1882\n\n## The Hongkong Telegraph\n\n### HONGKONG, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1882\n\n## LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL\n\nA meeting of the Legislative Council was held yesterday afternoon. There were present:\n\n* His EXCELLENCY the GOVERNOR\n* Hon. F. SNOWDEN, Acting Chief Justice\n* Hon. M. S. TONNOCHY, Acting Colonial Secretary\n* Hon. E. I. O'MALLEY, Attorney-General\n* Hon. W. M. DEANE, Acting Colonial Treasurer\n* Hon. NG CHOY\n* Hon. F. BULKELEY JOHNSON\n* Hon. E. R. BELILIOS\n\n## THE TRAMWAYS BILL\n\nThe Council resumed the consideration in Committee of the Tramways Bill.\n\nOn clause 129 and following clauses, giving a right of appeal from the decision, regarding the compensation to be given for land taken by the Company, of arbitrators and umpires to the Governor in Council, the **ATTORNEY-GENERAL** moved their rejection. He said the other clauses relating to land were taken from the English Lands Act, but, as he understood, these sections constituted a new tribunal and they were, he believed entirely original. They purported to cast on the Governor in Council duties which were, as he would submit, not altogether consistent with the position that the Governor and Council occupied in the system of this colony. They made them a court of appeal from a court of first instance which was constituted by other clauses of the Bill, and brought the decisions of that tribunal into conflict, possibly, with those of the courts of arbitration constituted by the Ordinance. He submitted an appeal was hardly a proper proceeding in regard to matters of this kind. He took it that many of those who might be affected by the taking of lands would be poor people, and people in whose interest it was that the tribunals should be as complete and efficient as possible in the first instance, and if the tribunal appointed by this Bill, the court of arbitrators and umpires, was sufficient, he would certainly suggest there was no necessity for an appeal to another tribunal of another character. If it was not satisfactory he submitted some tribunal should be provided able to deal with the matter in the first instance, and that litigation in the first instance should be as summary as possible. Therefore, upon the general ground that an appeal was undesirable and upon the particular ground that the tribunal selected was an inappropriate tribunal for its purpose he moved the rejection of these clauses.\n\nThe **ACTING COLONIAL SECRETARY** said that one of the points brought forward by the Attorney-General as a reason for the rejection of the clause was one which he considered the strongest point in favour of retaining it, and that was with regard to people who were poor. In a great many cases the Ordinance would deal with Chinese, poor Chinese, and he thought it would be difficult for a poor Chinaman to get anyone to act as arbitrator for him who would be able to cope with any arbitrator the Company appointed, and therefore it would very soon be found the arbitration would be given against him. He therefore thought an appeal should be given to the only power in the Colony that would cost him nothing to appeal to, that was, the Governor in Council. The provision in the Bill with regard to taking property was almost new in the Colony. At present it was only exercised by the Government, and they knew that among the Chinese the word \"Government\" had an all-powerful signification, and if it was their lives that were at stake they would surrender to it, but when they came to surrender property to a company whose operations were conducted for quasi-public purposes it was a different thing. The tramway was not a necessity at present; they would be able to see what people would say in the future.\n\nHe thought that in the present state of the Colony this section of the Ordinance enacted a very wise provision in allowing the cheapest and quickest mode of appeal in a case of this sort, and especially for poor people. As he had already said, it would be very difficult for a poor Chinaman, without paying a large amount of money, to get anyone but someone like himself, to act as arbitrator on his behalf. It was not without great consideration on the part of the Government that this section was brought to the notice of the promoters, and he was sure they themselves received it in a very good spirit; they saw the necessity of it and inserted it. It did not interfere with any of the courts. He would be the last to speak in its favour if it interfered with the action of the Supreme Court, but it did not; it said that if the parties should be dissatisfied with the award of any arbitrator or umpire not court, they might appeal, etc.\n\nThe **ACTING CHIEF JUSTICE** said he might perhaps be allowed to say a few words upon this really very important subject. It was one that engaged his attention very much when the matter was before the select Committee and he had considered it a good deal. He for one would prefer to see the arbitrator clauses altogether removed from the Bill. He had some experience of arbitration when he was at the bar in England, and his experience was that it caused great expense and delay. He would prefer that all proceedings should take place in the Supreme Court on the summary Jurisdiction side. The process there was very inexpensive, there was very little delay, and he thought these questions could be better dealt with there than anywhere else. In that case the observations of his hon. friend the Acting Colonial Secretary would hardly apply, because in those cases the court would deal with property under the value of $1,000, and they could hardly imagine a poor Chinaman possessed of greater property than that. If the provision as to arbitration were retained, considering the position of the Colony and the few people with special knowledge of the subject, he would prefer to retain this clause and give an appeal to the Governor in Council. If, on the other hand, any change could be made, he would prefer to see all these matters left to the Supreme Court, but if the clauses regarding arbitration were to remain he must vote for the retention of these sections, which certainly, as his hon. and learned friend said, constituted a new tribunal, but he thought nothing but good could result from it.\n\nHon. F. B. JOHNSON said he could understand the objection of his hon. friend the Attorney-General, but as far as he was concerned, in charge of the Bill, when that Bill was drawn and his Excellency the Governor promised to give it his support, it was under the condition these clauses should be inserted, and under the circumstances he felt bound to retain the clauses.\n\n**His EXCELLENCY**-Gentlemen, as a matter of fact, what the Colonial Secretary told you is correct, that this, which is a Government clause, was not inserted without most careful consideration by the Government. I entirely agree in what he said and what has fallen from the Chairman of the Committee on the subject, and also from the hon. gentleman who is the promoter of the Bill. There is no doubt whatever that in a community like this, when you have such a large number of Chinese inhabitants, and where the Chinese are such large holders of property, it is very desirable indeed a clause of this kind should exist, and the Government carefully considered it before it was inserted in the Bill. As the only opponent of the Government in this matter is the Attorney-General, and as it is a very unusual course for an official member to take, I am bound to say that the Bill, having come from the committee, where it was most carefully considered, and where this clause was unanimously approved, was then referred by my instruction to the Attorney-General for his report and observations. Those observations I considered, and in those observations there was no reference to this. The question was again considered by my advisers, the whole scope of the Bill as sent to us, and it is only now, without notice, that an official member of the Government opposes that which is the Government part of the measure. I am glad that every member of Council present supports the committee and supports the Government in this clause. Undoubtedly it would have facilitated the work of the committee, and we might have avoided this...\n\nPage 392", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-198 - Governor Hennessy Acting Governor Tonnochy - 1882 [3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 316467, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-199 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [4]", "page_number": 94, "title": "CO129-199 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [4]", "content_text": "## Removed non-meaningful characters and reconstructed the text\n\nHad Sir John Pope Hennessy remained in the colony, I should have brought before the Legislative Council the various subjects I have referred to in this letter, but as His Excellency will probably be in personal communication with the Colonial Office at no distant date, I consider that my remarks upon them are more appropriately addressed to your Lordship.\n\nI have the honour to be,\nMy Lord,\nYour Lordship's most Obedient, Humble Servant,\n#Bulkeley Johnson \n\n## Page number preserved as-is\n92", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-199 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 316468, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-199 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [4]", "page_number": 95, "title": "CO129-199 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [4]", "content_text": "# Enclosure in Administrator William Henry Marsh's despatch No. 44 of 24th April, 1882\n\n## C.O. 882/8 349/92 93\nCopy of Correspondence (REGD. 10) MAY (32)\n\nThe Honourable F. Bulkeley Johnson \nThe Honourable W. M. Drane \nActing Colonial Secretary \n\n**Sir,**\n\nQueen's Road \n9th March 1882 \n\nAmong the papers which were laid before the Legislative Council on the 4th February, I observe a despatch from the Secretary of State, dated the 9th December, in which Lord Kimberley draws the attention of the Governor to the delay which has occurred in the completion of the Report of the Committee upon the Central School, of which I am a member, and adds an expression of his opinion that this delay should not have occurred.\n\nAt the same meeting of the Council, I put a question to the Governor as to why the sittings of the Committee had been suspended and the reason...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-199 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 316473, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-199 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [4]", "page_number": 100, "title": "CO129-199 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [4]", "content_text": "## \n\nI have the honour to be, \nSir, \nYour most obedient Servant, \n(Signed) F. Bulkeley Johnson. \n\nThe Honourable \nW.M. Drane, \nActing Colonial Secretary \n\nThe Honourable W. M. Drane, \nActing Colonial Secretary \n\nto \nThe Honourable F. Bulkeley Johnson \n\nColonial Secretary's Office \nHongkong 11th March 1882 \n\nF. B. Johnson Esq. \nSir, \nI have obtained the opinion of the Law Officer of the Crown that Dr Stewart is Chairman of the Educational Commission; your note will therefore be forwarded to him. In the meanwhile I may inform you that the evidence is being printed and will be circulated when completed. \n\nYour...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-199 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 318323, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 575, "title": "CO129-202 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [7-9]", "content_text": "As I believe Your Lordship is well informed to the circumstances referred to in this correspondence, explanations from me are not necessary.\n\nYour Lordship's most obedient, humble servant,\nBallach\nAdministrator.\n\n568\n\nHongkong General Chamber of Commerce,\nHongkong, 14th September 1889.\n\nThe Right Honourable\nThe Earl of Knutsford,\nHer Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies.\n\nMy Lord,\n\nI have the honor to enclose copies of letters addressed to the Editor of the _Pall Mall Budget_ and the President of the London Chamber of Commerce regarding a statement made in the above-named journal dated the 28th July, to which the Chamber begs your Lordship's attention.\n\nI have the honor to be,\nMost obedient humble servant,\n#Bulkeley Johnson\nChairman", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-202 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 318517, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-203 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [10]", "page_number": 74, "title": "CO129-203 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [10]", "content_text": "Dollars ($2,500,000) in accordance with the provisions of the Ordinance, and desires to obtain the Governor's consent for the purpose.\n\nThe annexed statement sets forth the reasons for the proposed increase of capital, and the conditions under which it is intended that it should be raised.\n\n(signed) Wm. Reiners\n# \nA. Hoppius\nDirectors.\nF. Bulkeley Johnson\nF. D. Sassoon\nE. Sassoon\nVincent Smith\nW. J. Young\nA. McIver\n\n# \nAdm\nNo. 227\nDate 1882\nLast previous Paper 196\n12-11 Jan 23\nS(109)3rs. 8-821\nHong Kong 20344\n\n(Subject)\nDESPATCH,\n20 34\n24 NOV 33.\n73\n\nStatements respecting the Lock Hospital forwards Extracts from proceeding Exve Council before which Sir J. Hennessy was laid (Minutes)\nM: Bramah\n\nThese bulky and ill-arranged papers continue the constant exposure of Sir J. Hennessy's false statements. Setting aside minor points, it is clear that he falsely stated & let the Statement be printed that certain hospital works were done which had not been done.\n12. He stated that no man...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-203 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 319100, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-204 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [11-12]", "page_number": 104, "title": "CO129-204 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [11-12]", "content_text": "## (6)\n\nIt may be added that on goods other than Opium there is any little illicit trade carried on between this Colony and the mainland, and that no allegation has ever been made that foreigners are engaged directly or indirectly in smuggling of any kind.\n\nIn conclusion, the Committee cannot refrain from expressing regret that Sir JOHN POPE HENNESSY, having had the fullest opportunities as Governor of this Island for five years of obtaining accurate information with regard to occurrences taking place and the state of affairs prevailing here during his term of office, should have been led to make statements, unfounded in fact and misleading in the inferences they are calculated to raise, which could not fail to damage the character of the Colony, the legitimate interests of which it might justly have been expected he would have been most anxious to defend.\n\nCopies of this letter will be sent through His Excellency the Administrator to Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies, and to the various Chambers of Commerce in the United Kingdom.\n\nYour most obedient Servant,\n(Signed)\nF. BULKELEY JOHNSON, Chairman.\n\n## (7)\n\nExtract from a Report by the Colonial Treasurer and Registrar General, dated 24th October, 1882.\n\nIn 1868, Sir THOMAS WADE said that \"by the contraband trade of junks frequenting Hongkong and Macao, the Customs Revenue is defrauded in import and export duties little less than 1,000,000 taels per annum.\" Revision of Tientsin Treaty China No. 5, (1871), page 460.\n\nThe Governor states that \"the Hongkong Government gets at present $205,000 per annum from the Opium Farm, which is practically levying an ad valorem tax on it of more than 100 per cent. to the Consumers,\" and that he agrees \"with Sir THOMAS WADE that, by the Opium smuggling from Hongkong into China, the Government of China loses at least a million of taels of revenue per annum.\" (See H.M.'s Colonial Possessions C. 3094 of 1881.)\n\nPutting aside the disparity in the Estimates of the amount of smuggling, there can be no doubt, but the geographical position of the Island does afford a basis of operations, and that a considerable amount does exist. The undersigned, however, ventures with all respect to point out that a comparison of the figures given by Sir THOMAS WADE, on page 3 of Command paper 2716, China, No. 2, (1880), shows that not more than 3,357 piculs of Opium (leaving out Macao which takes up a large quantity) can be smuggled into China from Hongkong. The revenue on that in 1876, would have been less than $300,000. In 1875, there were left at Hongkong 21,670 piculs of the whole import. In the financial years 1875-1876, the Hoppo admitted collecting duty on what Sir THOMAS WADE estimates piculs 10,813 of that amount. Sir THOMAS WADE also allows 7,500 piculs for Hongkong boiling for export and local use, whilst the Governor's figures would lead to the conclusion that only 340 chests were boiled or prepared here. His Excellency states that the payment of the tax by the Opium Farmer of $205,000 is an ad valorem tax of more than 100 per cent., i.e., the value of the opium used is at the most $205,000 or equal about 340 piculs. The capital of the last Company was $1,400,000, and, as a first return, shareholders got 12 per cent. interest on the Capital.\n\nNo. 2202.\n\n**COLONIAL SECRETARY'S OFFICE, HONGKONG, 16th November, 1882.**\n\nSIR,\n\nIn answer to your letter of the 10th instant, relative to an Address said to have been delivered in Nottingham by Sir JOHN POPE HENNESSY before the Social Science Congress, I have the honour, by direction of His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government, to transmit to you, as requested, the enclosed copies of Official Returns bearing on the subject of the Address.\n\n| Document | Date |\n| --- | --- |\n| Extract from a Report by the Colonial Treasurer and Registrar General | 24th Oct., 1882 |\n| Letter with enclosure from the Harbour Master | 13th Nov., 1882 |\n| Return by Capt. Supt. of Police | 16th Nov., 1882 |\n\nI have the honour to be,\nSir,\nYour most obedient Servant,\nFREDERICK STEWART, Acting Colonial Secretary.\n\nThe Honourable F. BULKELEY JOHNSON,\nChairman, Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce.\n\n(Copy.) No. 365.\n\nSIR,\n\n**HARBOUR DEPARTMENT, HONGKONG, 13th November, 1882.**\n\nIn compliance with your directions of the 11th instant, I have the honour to enclose a Return of the cases brought before the Marine Court since April, 1877.\n\nThe Return will show the class of vessels employed in Opium smuggling, together with their crews and armament, but it must be borne in mind that all junks, whether smuggling or trading, are armed as are the vessels in this Return.\n\nThe vessels employed as smugglers have for some time been fast pulling boats which can creep along the shore unobserved, and if they are seen, the crews are enabled to land and escape with their cargoes.\n\nI may remark that none of the vessels engaged in smuggling are regularly employed as such. If a man is desirous of smuggling Opium, he hires any vessel that he can get,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-204 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 320414, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-206 - Public Offices & Others - 1882", "page_number": 378, "title": "CO129-206 - Public Offices & Others - 1882", "content_text": "My Lord,\n\nThe detailed and sufficiently complete record of the facts which lead me to make this communication is before your Lordship.\n\nI have the honour to be\n373\nMy Lord, Your Lordship's most obedient Humble Servant,\n#Bulkeley Johnson", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-206 - Public Offices & Others - 1882.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 320421, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-206 - Public Offices & Others - 1882", "page_number": 385, "title": "CO129-206 - Public Offices & Others - 1882", "content_text": "380 \n\nP.S. I shall be at Government House every day from 10a.m. till 1 p.m. on Friday excepted.\n\nJ. B. Johnson \nQueen's Road \n\n19th Septem: 1881.\n\nDr Eitel \nDear Dr Eitel \n\nI have to thank you for your note of today. I will, following your suggestion, call upon you tomorrow morning at half past ten.\n\nYours faithfully \n(Signed) J. Buckeley Johnson \n\nAr Haytlar Deas Hayllar, \nQueen's Road \n21st September 1881 \n\nThe intimate professional relations which have, for some long period, existed between you and the firm to which I belong, as well as the friendly social intercourse which has been maintained between us since my arrival here, cause me not to feel it a duty to bring to your notice certain statements which have been in circulation in the Colony, injurious to you.\n\nI have steadily declined to listen to the unauthenticated rumours, which, for some time past, have been current in Hongkong, in connection with your name, but yesterday Dr Eitel, in his", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-206 - Public Offices & Others - 1882.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 320422, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-206 - Public Offices & Others - 1882", "page_number": 386, "title": "CO129-206 - Public Offices & Others - 1882", "content_text": "381\n\nHe, in the capacity of private Secretary to the Governor, placed in my hands copies of correspondence which has lately passed between yourself, Sir John Pope Hennessy, and the Secretary of State for the Colonies, accompanying them with a statement involving a charge of so grave a nature against yourself, with reference to the origin of your difference with the Governor, that I deem it to be incumbent on me to warn you, without a moment's delay, of the imputations which are being formally and officially made against you and with which I am unacquainted. I deeply regret the painful necessity imposed upon me of making this communication to you. I need hardly add that I will, of course, whenever you may desire it, give you such further particulars of what passed during my interview with Dr. Eitel, as I am at liberty to declare. I informed Dr. Eitel that I reserved to myself full liberty to repeat whatever he might say.\n\nYours faithfully,\n(Signed) I. Bulkeley Johnson.\n\nHongkong, 5th Nov. 1881.\n\nDr. Eitel to I.B. Johnson\n\nMy dear Sir,\n\nAs Mr. Hayllar has today returned", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-206 - Public Offices & Others - 1882.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 320427, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-206 - Public Offices & Others - 1882", "page_number": 391, "title": "CO129-206 - Public Offices & Others - 1882", "content_text": "386\n\nYou circumstantially and in substance the same statement as those which are embodied in the petition of the plaintiff to the Supreme Court, which were taken from my narrative of what occurred during my meeting with Dr Eitel on the 20th September.\n\nYou would greatly oblige me, if you would tell me whether or not this is so.\n\nShould you not have seen the petition, I can obtain a copy of it for you.\n\nYou are not...\n\n(Signed) J. Buckeley Johnson.\nTo Justice Russell.\n1 December 1881.\n\nMy dear Johnson,\n\nIn reply to your letter, I regret to state that what I have been informed is quite true - viz: that Dr Eitel made a statement to me, nearly a month before the 20th September, which was substantially the same as that set out in the paragraph of the petition in the case of Hayllar vs. Eitel.\n\nI shall now answer your question at once; as for the case, it is withdrawn or rather a notion of withdrawal...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-206 - Public Offices & Others - 1882.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 320429, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-206 - Public Offices & Others - 1882", "page_number": 393, "title": "CO129-206 - Public Offices & Others - 1882", "content_text": "# Statement by F. B. Johnson\n\nIn answer to a request from Mr Hayllar that I would read over a written statement by him of Dr Eitel's charges, I write as follows,\n\n\"My dear Hayllar, Queen's Road 22nd Sept: 1888\n\n\"I think the best course would be for you to send your Solicitor to me and instruct him to take down from me a statement of what passed during my interview with Dr Eitel. I would at the same time furnish him with copies of the letters you ask for.\n\n\"Your very truly, F. Bulkeley Johnson\".\n\nOn same day, I (Signed) F. Bulkeley Johnson\". and subsequently, gave to Mr Wotton, Mr Hayllar's Solicitor, a detailed account of what passed between Dr Eitel and myself from the 20th September to the following effect, as copied from the petition of Hayllar in the case Hayllar v Eitel.\n\nOn the 23rd or 29th of August last, in the afternoon about 5 or 6 o'clock, on my way from the Legislative", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-206 - Public Offices & Others - 1882.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 320432, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-206 - Public Offices & Others - 1882", "page_number": 396, "title": "CO129-206 - Public Offices & Others - 1882", "content_text": "## \nL. b. But Wiley Francis Bulkeley Johnson, who was a Partner of and in the Mercantile firm of Hardine & Company, wrote a letter in which were contained certain false and malicious statements concerning the Plaintiff. He said the false and malicious statements were to the purport and effect and in the words that is to say, the Plaintiff turned out of doors the said Francis Bulkeley Johnson leaving him to read the said letter and the said false and malicious statement therein contained, and said to the Defendant \"I heard it stated by Bulkely Johnson with authority meaning thereby that the disgraceful insult thereby the alleged disgraceful, insult to a lady (meaning the wife of Mr. Pope Hennessy) consisted in Mr. Haytlar, having exhibited indecent prints in the private sitting room of the wife of ...\".\n\nAnd the Defendant falsely and maliciously spoke and published to the said Francis Bulkeley Johnson the following words concerning and malicious statement in the said letter contained, and professed explanation of the false statement, that is to say, the words \"I said it was true\" (meaning that it was true that the alleged improper and disgraceful conduct having exhibited indecent prints in the private sitting room of the wife of ...) and the Defendant in statements went on to say \"The Governor (Sir John Pope Hennessy) has been made much of Mr. Maytlar in several instances when he was in town, and in consequence of that has been excused at the last moment and in consequence thereof ...\".", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-206 - Public Offices & Others - 1882.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 320434, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-206 - Public Offices & Others - 1882", "page_number": 398, "title": "CO129-206 - Public Offices & Others - 1882", "content_text": "# 393\n\n8:\n\nnot fit to be shown to any illustrated catalogue)\n\nthere for\n\nthe\n\nand\n\nthat he had the mid\n\nthe\n\nDame\n\nprovisions of exhibiting debauch and with intent thereby\n\nto the said Lady Mendlc Muy\n\nthis verdict lady\n\nthe mind of\n\ninjure\n\nThe Defendant publishes the said letter and spoke and publishes the said words with intent to\n\nand defame the Plaintiff and injure his professional Character and to induce Francis Bulkeley Johnson to exclude the Plaintiff from his\n\nthe confidential\n\nsociety and to deprive him\n\nI said firm of\n\nadvice\n\nand\n\nof\n\nthe\n\nlegal\n\ncompany \"Wales & Plaintiff\n\nand had been for\n\nlow position\n\nfirm of Jardine Matheson and\n\nand enrolment thereto pertaining at the time of the grievances herein before set\n\npractices I\n\nthe confidential legal company, and\n\nthe said firm of Jardine Matheson\n\nthis colony, and desired lacks\n\nSouth\n\nadviser of\n\nyears past the\n\nand of\n\nother persons and therefrom, all\n\nfirm me\n\nlarge profits\n\nof\n\nwhich.\n\nBrings\n\nunfitting of\n\nthe said Jardine\n\n10.\n\nConsequence of\n\nAu\n\nfor\n\ngreatly sprentices\n\nin his profession\n\nas a\n\nthe Defendant at the line of the\n\nwills Werew.\n\npromised the Plaintiff has had\n\nmfund Au\n\nhis\n\navið\n\ncredit and representation and\n\nBarrister at Law and the said Francis Bulkeley Johnson has pending proof by the Plaintiff of the\n\nfalse\n\nA\n\ncharges)\n\nand imputations hereinbefore mentioned\n\nconsult the Plaintiff\n\nand set forth, refused to comply confidential legal adviser as the benefit of such employment and thereof.\n\nイゃ \n\nthe Plaintiff has lost\n\naforesaid and\n\nof the fees\n\nand emoluments\n\n$33,000 damages\n\nThe Plaintiff claims $33,000 damages\n\nThe Plaintiff prays your\n\n1. That the Defendant may\n\nfor the said\n\nand\n\nbe ordered to\n\n2. What he may be advised such further and\n\nother reliefs\n\nas the nature of\n\n(this case may require.\n\nDated the 18th day of November 1881\n\nJasr)\n\n(a) duo: I. Francis\n\nBarrister at Law\n\nof Counsel for the Plaintiff\n\nC", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-206 - Public Offices & Others - 1882.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 320444, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-206 - Public Offices & Others - 1882", "page_number": 408, "title": "CO129-206 - Public Offices & Others - 1882", "content_text": "# In the Supreme Court of Hongkong \n## Original Jurisdiction \n### Suit 433 \n**C.C.O. 16151** \n**REDP REG 26 JAN** \n\nPlaintiff - Thomas Child Hayllar \nDefendant - Ernest John Eitel \n\nNotice is hereby given, that the Plaintiff withdraws this suit on the following terms been consented to by the defendant viz. \n1. that the Plaintiff admits that he made the statement to the Honorable Francis Bulkeley Johnson as repeated by the said Honorable Francis Bulkeley Johnson which is partly set forth in the Plaintiff's Petition and now retracts that the same is untrue. \n2. that the Defendant has apologised to the Plaintiff for having made a similar statement to the said Honorable Francis Bulkeley Johnson. \n\nDated the 30th day of November 1887. \n(287 \n6.) I. A. Sangster Esqre \nBrereton & Wotton, Plaintiff's Solicitors \nActing Registrar of the Supreme Court of Hongkong", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-206 - Public Offices & Others - 1882.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 320445, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-206 - Public Offices & Others - 1882", "page_number": 409, "title": "CO129-206 - Public Offices & Others - 1882", "content_text": "# N÷2219 \n\nSir, \n\nCO. 16151 404 \nColonial Secretary's Office \nREGP 26 JAN 3/ \nWonghong 5th December 1881 \n\n1. I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 2nd inst. in which you refer to certain statements alleged to be made by you to Dr Eitel, the late Private Secretary to His Excellency the Governor, on the 20th of September 1881, and enclose copies of subsequent correspondence and other documents shewing that Dr Eitel at first impugned the correctness of your narrative, but subsequently admitted its accuracy, and, as you think that such facts prejudicially and injuriously affect the character and efficiency of the Public Service of the Colony in which Dr Eitel continues to hold important posts, you conceive it to be your duty to bring the case before the Legislative Council, at its next meeting.\n\nI am directed, \n2. In reply, by His Excellency the Governor, to point out to you that the proper tribunal for investigating such charges against Dr Eitel is the Executive Council.\n\nI. Buckeley Johnson", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-206 - Public Offices & Others - 1882.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 320449, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-206 - Public Offices & Others - 1882", "page_number": 413, "title": "CO129-206 - Public Offices & Others - 1882", "content_text": "**RECEIVED**\n\nC.O. 16151 408 \n\nHongkong 19th December 1881 \n\nMy Lord,\n\nWith reference to my letter of 10th instant, in which I directed Your Lordship's attention to the circumstances, attendant upon the institution and withdrawal of a suit for slander in the Supreme Court, Hayllar & Eitel, which are, in my opinion, dishonouring the character and injurious to the efficiency of the Public Service, I have now the honour to enclose herein, for your Lordship's information, copy of a communication, addressed to me by the acting Colonial Secretary, on the 13th instant, and copy of my reply thereto, dated the 15th instant.\n\nI have the honour to be, \nMy Lord,\nYour Lordship's most Obedient, Humble Servant,\n**A Bulkeley Johnson**\n\nThe Right Honourable,\nThe Earl of Kimberley,\nHer Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies, London.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-206 - Public Offices & Others - 1882.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 320453, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-206 - Public Offices & Others - 1882", "page_number": 417, "title": "CO129-206 - Public Offices & Others - 1882", "content_text": "I have the honour to be, \nSir, \nYour most obedient Servant, \n(Signed) W. Bulkeley Johnson \n\nfurnish him with any further information which it is in my power to give, on the subject of my letter of the 2nd inst. If His Excellency the Governor in Council request it, I may do so.\n\n412 \n\n## Reordered and reformatted text:\n412\n\nI have the honour to be, \nSir, \nYour most obedient Servant, \n(Signed) W. Bulkeley Johnson\n\nfurnish him with any further information which it is in my power to give, on the subject of my letter of the 2nd inst. If His Excellency the Governor in Council request it, I may do so.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-206 - Public Offices & Others - 1882.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 320685, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-207 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1883 [1-3]", "page_number": 64, "title": "CO129-207 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1883 [1-3]", "content_text": "FINANCE COMMITTEE.\n\nC. O.- 200\n\n63\n\nRECP\n\nREGA 14 FEB 84.\n\nCOUNCIL CHAMBER,\n\nHONGKONG, 2nd January, 1883.\n\nPRESENT:\n\nHis Honour the Chief Justice, (Sir GEORGE PHILLIPPO).\n\nThe Honourable the Acting Colonial Secretary, (FREDERICK STEWART).\n\nThe Colonial Treasurer, (JAMES RUSSELL).\n\nJOHN MACNEILE PRICE.\n\nFRANCIS BULKELEY JOHNSON.\n\nABSENT:\n\nThe Honourable the Attorney General, (EDWARD LOUGHLIN O'MALLEY).\n\nPHINEAS RYRIE.\n\nW. KESWICK (on leave).\n\nNG CHOY (on leave).\n\nC.5.0.\n\n19 of 1882.\n\nThe Minutes of the last Meeting of the Committee, held on the 7th November last, are read and confirmed.\n\nPayments in excess of the Estimates for 1883:---\n\nESTABLISHMENTS.\n\nSurveyor General.\n\n(1.) Read:-Surveyor General's letter No. 150 of the 14th July last, recommending Mr. E. THOMPSON, Overseer of the Protestant Cemetery, for an increase to his present salary of $25 per month.\n\nThe Committee find Mr. THOMPSON has been in the service since 1873, and that he is very highly spoken of by his superiors. Under the circumstances the Committee recommend an increase of $5 per month to his present salary.\n\nGaol.\n\nC.8.0.\n\n813 of 1882. Additional salary to Assistant Turnkey.\n\n(2.) Read:-Letter No. 128 of the 30th October last, from the Superintendent of Victoria Gaol, asking for authority to incur an expenditure of $2 a month, for six months, to make up the difference of pay in providing a locum tenens for Assistant Turnkey DAIN KHAN while on leave.\n\nThe Committee find that DAIN KHAN is entitled to half pay leave, and that the available half pay, being only $8, is insufficient for paying a locum tenens; the Committee therefore consider the application reasonable, and recommend that the amount be voted.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-207 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1883 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 320778, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-207 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1883 [1-3]", "page_number": 157, "title": "CO129-207 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1883 [1-3]", "content_text": "(6)\n\ncharge for freight which the existence of a local carrying monopoly would impose on the manufactures of the United Kingdom and the trade generally of Korea, or as to the unfavourable effect which the abandonment of the Coast Trade with Korea would not fail to exercise upon the course of future negotiations for the Revision of the existing Treaties with China and Japan.\n\nThe importance of the issues which are at stake in the maintenance of the provision that foreigners may share in the intermediate trade between the open ports, is not to be measured by the effect which the abrogation of that provision would have upon the interests of foreign shipping alone, extensive as those interests are.\n\nIf foreign vessels should be excluded from the Coast trade, foreigners would be practically shut out from all business, excepting at the ports which would have direct trade with foreign countries. Coasting freights under Chinese and Japanese flags alone, and the establishment of native guilds and monopolies which would follow the absence of competition in general business by other foreigners, would cause the control of the distributing traffic to pass into a few hands, and trade of all kinds, under the weight of exorbitant profits, would languish and decay. The evil effect of these monopolies may be understood when the stagnation of industry which prevails at the ports in China not open to foreign trade is compared with the activity and enterprise which are displayed by native merchants at the open ports, where they are exposed to competition with foreigners, and the Committee does not doubt that the maintenance of the progressive character of the external commerce and internal industry of China and Japan is very greatly dependent upon the possession by foreigners of the privilege of competing with natives for a share in the coasting traffic of these countries.\n\nArticle 7.—The extraordinary and apparently useless stipulation in this Article that subjects of Korea shall not be permitted to import Opium into any British port would necessitate a legislative enactment on the part of the Imperial Parliament, and the Committee is unable to understand how the prohibition, declared in the second clause, against the engagement of Foreign vessels other than British, is to be enforced, or offenders against it are to be punished, by any legislation which it is possible to devise on the part of the British Government.\n\nArticle 8. In the second clause, instead of the words \"shall be confiscated,\" the Committee, for the reason already given in the case of vessels charged with offences, suggests the insertion of \"may be seized and shall be liable to confiscation on satisfactory proof of intention to evade the prohibition being furnished to the British Authorities.\"\n\nArticle 9.—To the first clause there should be added \"Fire arms and ammunition for sporting purposes or for purposes of self-defence may be imported under special permits describing the quantity, value and object of introduction.\"\n\nArticle 10.—In the second clause, after the words local Authorities, the words \"on being satisfied as to the justice of the charge made\" should be inserted.\n\nArticle 12.—while admitting that the Treaty is \"incomplete in its provisions,\" nevertheless stipulates that it shall remain in force for five years. The Treaty with Japan provides that the \"Regulations under which Japanese trade is to be conducted\" may be \"revised whenever it may be found necessary by Commissions appointed by each country\" and a similar stipulation is to be found in the Chinese \"Regulations.\" The Committee is of opinion that the term of five years, as arranged by the British Treaty, would not be too long provided that the covenants and engagements entered into on either side should be drawn up with carefulness and completeness by experienced negotiators.\n\nArticle 13.—does not provide as to whether the English or Chinese text of the Treaty is to be accepted in the event of a dispute as to the proper meaning of its provisions. The Committee suggests an addition to this clause of \"the English version is to be considered the accepted text in case of dispute.\"\n\n(7)\n\n156\n\nArticle 14.—The Committee regards the qualification of the ordinary \"favoured Nation clause,\" admitted by this article in its last lines, with great distrust. Under that qualification the provisions of all Treaties with Korea will be liable to be set aside, or rendered nugatory, by the grant to one foreign nation of favourable conditions, in which it may be specially interested, in exchange for nominal concessions in which it has no interest at all, but which may be of vital importance to the trade of other countries having treaties with Korea. This qualification, if yielded to Korea, will probably be demanded by China and Japan, and be made use of in forcing the policy of the British Government in relation to the Treaties with these Powers to an extent which may not at present be foreseen.\n\nThe objection to this Article, as not being retrospective in its operation, has been already alluded to, and the Committee feels confident that Her Majesty's Government will not permit British subjects trading with Korea, or residing in the country, to be placed under disabilities from which natives of China and Japan are exempted.\n\nNo stipulation is to be found in the Treaty as to the currency in which Commercial operations are to be carried on, or in which duties are to be paid, and no provision is made for drawing up a detailed Tariff of Duties. No mention is made of any regulations as to the standard weights and measures to be used in trade between foreigners and natives.\n\nThe Committee desires to refer to the great importance of the issues which are at stake as its apology to your Lordship for the length at which the Provisions of the Treaty have been examined in this communication, and does not seek to disguise its expectation that sufficient cause has been shown why Her Majesty's Government should be asked to refuse ratification of that document in its present shape.\n\nThe Committee trusts that your Lordship will use the authority and influence of Great Britain to secure beyond question the recognition of the national independence of the Korean Kingdom, which is obviously threatened by the recent high-handed declarations and proceedings of the Chinese Officials, and will depute an experienced Diplomatic Representative to re-open communications with the Korean Government. It should not be difficult, in the light of the experience gained in China and Japan, to draw up an amended Treaty, under the wise and well-considered provisions of which not only would the people of Korea be admitted to the benefits of free Commercial intercourse with the rest of the world, and their rights and interests be fully protected, but the trade of the United Kingdom with that Country would be promoted and be placed on an equality of privilege with that enjoyed by other Nations.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nMy Lord,\n\nYour Lordship's most obedient humble Servant,\n\nF. BULKELEY JOHNSON,\n\n(Signed)\n\nChairman.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-207 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1883 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 321101, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-207 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1883 [1-3]", "page_number": 480, "title": "CO129-207 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1883 [1-3]", "content_text": "the opportunity of obtaining them at \n\n1 price. \n\nso much below their value. \n\nwas one that should not be lost. \n\n5 \n\nFor \n\nconversion. \n\nThe vote for $6,410~~ \n\nof M. 1 Engine into a \n\nFloating Engine is a revote, the \n\nmoney not having been expended \n\nlast \n\nt year. \n\nI have the honour to be, \n\nMey Lord, Your Lordship's Most Ordient \n\nHumble Servant, \n\nh \n\nBrun Administering the Government \n\nNo. 2.. \n\nMinutes, \n\nC.3.0. \n\n3553 of 1888. Paper Stuff \n\n$484.20. \n\nC O. \n\n6912 \n\nRECP \n\nREGO 24 APR 83, COUNCIL CHAMBER, \n\nHONGKONG, 30th January, 1883. \n\n477 \n\nFINANCE COMMITTEE. \n\nPRESENT: \n\nHis Honour the Chief Justice, (Sir GEORGE PHILLIPPO). \n\nThe Honourable the Acting Colonial Secretary, (Frederick STEWART). \n\n\" \n\n3: \n\nthe Colonial Treasurer, (JAMES RUSSELL). \n\n11 \n\nPHINEAS RYRIE. \n\nJOHN MACNEILE PRICE. \n\nFRANCIS BULKELEY JOHNSON. \n\nABSENT: \n\n73 \n\nNo Cuoy (on leave). \n\nThe Honourable the Attorney General, (Edwaun LOUGHLIN O'MALLEY). \n\nW. KESWICK (on leave). \n\nThe Committee meets this day by Special Summons. \n\nThe Minutes of the last Meeting of the Committee, held on the 2nd instant, are read \n\nand confirmed. \n\nPayments in excess of the Estimates for 1882:- \n\nEXCLUSIVE OF ESTABLISHMENTS. \n\nGaol. \n\nRead:-Letter No. 133, from the Superintendent of Victoria Gaol, dated 9th November, \n\nfor acl, 1882, for authority to purchase 8 Tons and 7 Cwts, of Paper Stuff, for picking into Oakum, \n\nat $52 per ton --- $434.20. \n\n0.5.0. \n\n3456 of 1881. Renter's \n\nTelegrams, \n\nriunal,#572 \n\nThe Committee find that this article is required for use in the Gaol for the manufacture of matting, and that the price is about 20 per cent. less than is usually paid for this stuff; they further find that the Government will be more than recouped by the sale of the matting. Under the circumstances they recommend that the amount be voted. \n\nMiscellaneous Services. \n\nRead: A letter from the Secretary to the Chamber of Commerce, dated the 30th November, 1881, relative to the continuance or otherwise of the subscription to Renter's Telegrams for the \n\nyear 1882. \n\nRead also:-Paragraph 14 of Lord KIMBERLEY'S Despatch No. 170 of 9th December, 1881. \n\nRead also:--Paragraph 9 of His Lordship's Despatch No. 97 of the 19th May last. \n\nRead also:-A Minute by His Excellency Governor Sir J. POPE HENNESSEY, dated the 1st December, 1881, approving of the additional expenditure. \n\nPage 480\n\nPage 481", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-207 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1883 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 321103, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-207 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1883 [1-3]", "page_number": 482, "title": "CO129-207 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1883 [1-3]", "content_text": "C.5.0.\n\n4372 of 1852.\n\nRouter's Miscellaneous Services.\n\nRead:- A letter from the Secretary to the Chamber of Commerce, dated the 14th December 1882, relative to the continuance or otherwise of the Subscription to Reuter's Telegrams for the year 1883.\n\nThe Committee have before them paragraph 14 of Lord KIMBERLEY'S Despatch No. 170 of the 9th December, 1881; also paragraph 9 of His Lordship's Despatch No. 97 of the 19th May last.\n\nThe Committee repeat the opinion they have expressed on this subject at page 2 of these minutes, and recommend that the additional amount of $572 for the service of the Reuter's Telegrams be voted.\n\nC.8.0.\n\n136 of 1883. Gratuity to Mrs. MULGRAVES, $166.\n\nRead: A Petition from the widow of JAMES MULGRAVES, late Inspector of Nuisances, dated the 11th instant, for a compassionate allowance.\n\nThe Committee find that the Petitioner has been left destitute and that her late husband had served the Government faithfully since 1871,—first as a Turnkey in Victoria Gaol, and afterwards, from August, 1879, as Inspector of Nuisances, which latter appointment he held at the time of his death.\n\nThe Committee also find that the deceased lost his life from necrosis of the bone of the leg, arising from injuries he had received in the performance of his duties, while at the Gaol, in a struggle with a madman.\n\nThe Committee also find that the Government had to pay $75 towards the funeral expenses of the deceased in consequence of his having died destitute.\n\nUnder the circumstances the Committee recommend a gratuity of $166 to the Petitioner. In doing so, the Committee desire to record that, considering the frequent applications of this nature that come before them, they recommend that the question of forming a Widows and Orphans general fund for officers should be brought to the attention of the Executive.\n\nThe Chairman adjourns the Committee sine die.\n\nNo. 3.\n\n0.5.0.\n\n20415 of 1882 Staff for subordinates.\n\nFINANCE COMMITTEE.\n\nPRESENT:\n\nThe Honourable the Acting Colonial Secretary, (FREDERICK STEWART),\n\nJOHN MACNEILE PRICE.\n\nFRANCIS BULKELEY JOHNSON.\n\nABSENT:\n\nHis Honour the Chief Justice, (Sir GEORGE PHILLIPPO).\n\nThe Honourable the Attorney General, (Edward Loughlin O'MALLEY),\n\nThe Colonial Treasurer, (JAMES RUSSELL).\n\nPHINEAS RYTRIE.\n\nWILLIAM KESWICK (on leave).\n\nNG CHOY (on leave).\n\nThe Committee meets this day by Special Summons.\n\nThe Minutes of the last Meeting of the Committee, held on the 2nd ultimo, are read and confirmed.\n\nEXCESS OF THE ESTIMATES FOR 1883.\n\nESTABLISHMENTS.\n\nFire Brigade.\n\nRead Letter No. 20, of the 15th June last, from the Superintendent of the Fire Brigade, recommending, among other things, the following staff for No. 4 Steam Engine:-\n\n1 Engine Driver at $12 per month - $144\n\n1 Assist. do. at $8 - $96\n\n$240\n\nRead and confirmed this 2nd day of March, 1883.\n\nARATHOON SETH,\n\nClerk of Councils.\n\nC.5.0.\n\nFREDERICK STEWART,\n\nChairman.\n\nRead in the Legislative Council, this 2nd day of February, 1883.\n\nARATHOON SETH,\n\nClerk of Councils.\n\nC.8.0.\n\nRead also:- A Minute by His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government, dated the 19th December, 1882, authorizing the engagement at once of the above staff for the Fire Engine in question, which had then recently been received from Home.\n\nThe Committee find that for the efficient working of the Fire Brigade it was absolutely necessary to engage these extra men for this additional Engine, and therefore recommend that the vote be approved.\n\nRead:- The Minute of His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government, dated the 27th January last, relative to the Staff for the Floating Fire Engine.\n\nMr. CREAGH, Superintendent of the Fire Brigade, is present by special invitation, and gives explanations relative to the item of $288 for the 3 Hosemen applied for in his letter No. 3 of the 22nd January last.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-207 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1883 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 321254, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-207 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1883 [1-3]", "page_number": 631, "title": "CO129-207 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1883 [1-3]", "content_text": "Enclosure W.) in despatch, No 71 of 26th March 1883, from the Officer Administering the Government of Hong Kong.\n\nNo. 5.\n\nFINANCE COMMITTEE.\n\nPRESENT:\n\nThe Honourable the Acting Colonial Secretary, (FREDERICK STEWART).\n\nThe Colonial Treasurer, (JAMES RUSSELL).\n\nPHINEAS RYRIE,\n\nJOHN MACNEILE PRICE.\n\nFRANCIS BULKELEY JOHNSON.\n\nMinutes.\n\nABSENT:\n\nHis Honour the Chief Justice, (Sir GEORGE PHILLIPPO),\n\nThe Honourable the Attorney General, (EDWARD LOUGHLIN O'MALLEY).\n\nWILLIAM KESWICK (on leave).\n\nNG CHOY (on leave).\n\nThe Committee meets this day by Special Summons.\n\nThe Minutes of the last Meeting of the Committee, held on the 13th instant, are read and confirmed.\n\nEXCESS OF THE ESTIMATES FOR 1883.\n\nESTABLISHMENTS.\n\nColonial Treasurer.\n\nRead: A Minute by the Acting Colonial Secretary and the Colonial Treasurer, dated the 17th instant, recommending the appointment from the 1st proximo of Mr. HENRIQUE RODRIGUES as Chief Excise Officer under the Excise Ordinances (Opium) 1858-1879, at a salary of $750 per month.\n\nThe Committee find that owing to the increase of work in the Opium Revenue branch of the Treasury it is essential for the proper carrying out of the Excise Ordinances to secure the services of an experienced Officer; and that Mr. RODRIGUES is recommended by the Acting Colonial Secretary and the Colonial Treasurer as having had long experience as an Excise Officer.\n\nThe Committee therefore recommend that the amount be voted.\n\nSurveyor General.\n\nRead: Secretary of State's Despatch No. 228 of the 10th October last, authorizing the appointment of Mr. JAMES CRAMP, as an additional Clerk of Works.\n\nThe Surveyor General explains to the Committee that owing to the large increase of work in his Department he had found it necessary to apply for an additional Clerk of Works.\n\nPage 628\n\nRECD MAY 27.\n\nCOUNCIL CHAMBER,\n\nHONGKONG, 21st March, 1883.\n\n...\n\n7719\n\n628\n\nPage ...\n\n \nhas been removed as it is not clear what page it is referring to. 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The text is formatted in HTML using for paragraphs.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-207 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1883 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 322117, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-209 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [5]", "page_number": 528, "title": "CO129-209 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [5]", "content_text": "Enclosure 2\n\nC. O. 11682\n\nRECP\n\nREGE 9 JUL 33\n\nNo. 6.\n\nFINANCE COMMITTEE.\n\nCOUNCIL CHAMBER,\n\nHONGKONG, 24th April, 1883.\n\nPRESENT:\n\nThe Honourable the Colonial Secretary, (W. H. MARSH, C.M.G.)\n\nthe Colonial Treasurer, (ALFRED LISTER).\n\nJOHN MACNEILE PRICE.\n\nFREDERICK STEWART,\n\nABSENT:\n\nHis Honour the Chief Justice, (Sir GEORGE PHILLIPPO).\n\nThe Honourable the Attorney General, (Edward Loughlin O'MALLEY).\n\nPHINEAS RYRIE (on leave).\n\nWILLIAM KESWICK (on leave).\n\nFRANCIS BULKELEY JOHNSON (on leave).\n\nMinutes.\n\nThe Committee meets this day by Special Summons.\n\nThe Minutes of the last Meeting of the Committee, held on the 21st ultimo, having been read at the last Meeting of the Legislative Council on the 24th ultimo, are taken as read and are confirmed.\n\nESTABLISHMENTS.\n\nC.S.O.\n\nDGs of 1969.\n\nTreasury,\n\n(1.) Read: An application from the Acting Colonial Treasurer, dated the 16th instant, on behalf of Mr. Li Tak Cheung, of the Tsáp SuING Company, for Police protection to his Opium Boiling Factory at Lapsapwan.\n\nRead also: The Governor's Minute of the 18th instant, approving of the temporary employment of 4 extra Sikh Constables.\n\nThe Committee finding that the Government derives a revenue of about $450 per day from this Opium Boiling Establishment, no hesitation, therefore, in recommending that a sum of $53 a month be voted as a temporary arrangement, namely:----\n\nPay of 4 Constables, at $12.50 each.\n\n$50\n\nLight,\n\n$3\n\n$53", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-209 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 322119, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-209 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [5]", "page_number": 530, "title": "CO129-209 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [5]", "content_text": "C.5.0.\n\nSAS of 1883.\n\nMiscellaneous Services.\n\n(10.) Read: A Minute by the Colonial Secretary, dated the 17th instant, on a letter from the Colonial Surgeon of the same date, forwarding the resignation of Mr. U. DA SILVA, Steward and Storekeeper of the Government Civil Hospital.\n\nThe Committee find that Mr. U. DA SILVA, though willing, is incapable of discharging the duties of his office, and recommend therefore that, in consideration of his having been in the Service since March, 1881, a gratuity at the rate of 3 months' pay amounting in all to $180 be granted to him.\n\nThe Chairman adjourns the Committee sine die.\n\nW. H. MARSH,\n\nChairman.\n\nNo. 7.\n\nFINANCE COMMITTEE.\n\nCOUNCIL CHAMBER, HONGKONG, 18th May, 1883.\n\nMinutes.\n\nPRESENT:\n\nThe Honourable the Colonial Secretary (W. H. Marsh, C.M.G.)\n\nthe Colonial Treasurer (ALFRED LISTER).\n\nPHINEAS RYRIE.\n\nJOHN MACNEILE PRICE.\n\nFRANCIS BULKELEY JOHNSON.\n\nFREDERICK STEWART,\n\nABSENT:\n\nHis Honour the Chief Justice (Sir GEORGE PHILLIPPO).\n\nThe Honourable the Attorney General (Eoward Loughlin O'MALLEY),\n\nWILLIAM KESWICK (on leave).\n\nThe Committee meets this day by Special Summons.\n\nThe Minutes of the last Meeting of the Committee, held on the 24th ultimo, are read and confirmed.\n\nRead and confirmed this 18th day of May, 1883.\n\nARATHOON SETH,\n\nClerk of Councils.\n\nC.8.0.\n\n1152 of 1887, Auditor\n\nReport, JSK2.\n\n(1.) Laid before the Committee and read: The Auditor General's Report for the year 1882, showing a surplus Revenue of $14,712.16.\n\nESTABLISHMENTS.\n\nTreasury.\n\n(2.) Read: Letters from the Colonial Treasurer asking for the following additional votes in connexion with the Opium Revenue branch of the Treasury\n\nRevenue Service,\n\nThe above votes passed the Legislative Council, this 26th day of May, 1883.\n\nC.8.0.\n\n1135 of 1883.\n\nARATHOON SETH,\n\nClerk of Councils.\n\n \n (a) Salary of an Excise Officer at the Ho LUNG, Opium Boiling Establishment, from 26th March to 30th November, at $10 per month,\n $82.00\n \n \n (b.) Pay of 3 Watchmen at the Lapsapwán Factory,-2 for 16 days, and 1 for 15 days, each at 50 cents per day.\n $23.50\n \n \n (c) Conveyance for Chief Excise Officer, 6 months, at $12 per month.\n $72.00\n \n \n (d.) Allowance to a Shroff in the Registrar General's Department, for keeping Accounts out of Office hours, at $10 from 1st March to 30th November, 1883,\n $90.00\n \n \n (e) Salary of a Chinese Clerk at the Factory, at $10 per month, from 1st March to 30th November, 1883.\n $90.00\n \n \n (f) Salary of an Excise Officer at the Factory, at $10 per month, from 21st April to 30th November, 1883.\n $78.83\n \n \n \n $253.33\n \n\n$4BOKS\n\nJ\n\n526", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-209 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 322226, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-210 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [6-7]", "page_number": 98, "title": "CO129-210 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [6-7]", "content_text": "No. 8.\n\nMinutes.\n\nFinance Committee.\n\n97\n\nCOUNCIL CHAMBER, HONGKONG, 31st May, 1883.\n\nPRESENT:\n\nThe Honourable the Colonial Secretary, (W. H. MARSH, C.M.G.)\n\nThe Colonial Treasurer, (ALFRED LISTER).\n\nPHINEAS RYRIE.\n\nJOHN MACNEILE PRICE.\n\nFRANCIS BULKELEY JOHNSON.\n\nFREDERICK STEWART.\n\nABSENT:\n\nHis Honour the Chief Justice, (Sir GEORGE PHILLIPPO).\n\nThe Honourable the Attorney General, (EDWARD LOUGHLIN O'MALLEY).\n\nWILLIAM KESWICK, (on leave).\n\nThe Committee meets this day according to summons.\n\nThe Votes of the last Meeting of the Committee, held on the 18th instant, having passed the Legislative Council on the 26th instant, the Minutes of that Meeting are taken as read and confirmed.\n\nC.S.O. 1944 of 1883. Increase of Establishments.\n\nMedical.\n\n(1.) Read - A Minute by the Colonial Surgeon, dated the 19th instant, on a letter from the Superintendent of the Government Civil Hospital, recommending that the salary of the Senior Wardmaster of the Hospital be increased from $35 to $50 per month.\n\nThe Committee finding that, in order to secure the services of an efficient man, it is necessary to increase the pay of the office, recommend an increase of $15 per month as suggested by the Colonial Surgeon, with effect from the 1st proximo.\n\nGaol.\n\nC.S.D. 1252 of 1883. Increase of Turnkey.\n\n(2.) Read: Letter No. 80 of the 25th instant, from the Acting Superintendent of the Gaol, recommending an increase of $5 per month to the salary of Assistant Turnkey E. ROCHA.\n\nThe Committee find that Rocha has been in the service since August, 1877, and that the increase recommended was allowed to his predecessor for extra services in connection with identifying old offenders, which duty, in addition to interpreting Spanish and Portuguese, is now performed by Rocha. The Committee therefore recommend the increase, with effect from the 1st proximo.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-210 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [6-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 322292, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-210 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [6-7]", "page_number": 164, "title": "CO129-210 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [6-7]", "content_text": "163\n\n( 20 )\n\nMy Lords observe that the Secretary of State does not appear to contest the justice of the contributions my Lords have required from the Eastern Colonies, and that he proposes to ask the contributions of £1,400 and £6,000 from Ceylon and the Straits Settlements respectively, which are in fact the assessments claimed in the letter from this Board of the 12th June last.\n\nWith respect to the claim on Hongkong, which was stated in the same letter as £12,700, Lord KIMBERLEY proposes to ask the Colony for £6,000, but my Lords would represent that the gain derived by this Colony from the relief of half the additional loss due to its having joined the Postal Union, estimated at £3,300 or more, annually, appears to have been overlooked or at least insufficiently considered.\n\nMy Lords think that upon reconsideration it will be seen that the application to Hongkong should at least be increased from £6,000 by this sum of £3,300 of which the Colony has gained the benefit.\n\nI have, &c.,\n\nSir R. G. W. HERBERT, K.C.B.,\n\nColonial Office.\n\n(Signed)\n\nR. R. W. LINGEN.\n\n( 21 )\n\nHONGKONG GENERAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE,\n\nHONGKONG, 14th June, 1883.\n\nSIR,-I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter No. 952, dated the 28th ultimo, together with a letter from the Postmaster-General relative to a proposed increased contribution by this Colony towards making good the loss caused to the Imperial Government by the Postal Contract to China now in force.\n\nThe letter and its enclosures were carefully considered at a Committee Meeting held on the 6th instant, when the following resolutions were passed.\n\n1st. That the surplus revenue derived from the Post Office in Hongkong, notwithstanding that the rates of postage are higher than those charged by the French Post Office in Shanghai on correspondence by Messageries boats, being only $8,000 annually, it is manifestly impossible for the Post Office to bear the increased burthen which the proposed impost would throw upon it.\n\n2nd. That the question is now agitated among the mercantile community as to the policy of subsidising any line of steamers between this Colony and Europe, considering the numerous means of direct and speedy steam communication now available.\n\n3rd. That in the event of any further payment being required from the Colony towards the cost of the subsidy, the means could only be obtained either by an increase of the rates of postage, or from some other branch of the revenue such as stamps, which would enhance the taxation on trade, already too onerous, and the Chamber protest in the strongest manner against the proposed measure, and still more against any retrospective payment on account of the mails.\n\nAs regards any increase in the rates of postage, the Committee would observe that such a measure would be most impolitic and unjust, and one not likely to have a successful result in augmenting the postal revenue. British mail steamers are exposed to competition from numerous foreign lines of steam communication which would be glad to carry the letters of this Colony for half the rates now charged and were an increase resolved upon there would be nothing to prevent the public sending their correspondence by private steamers to Saigon to be posted there for Europe, a course which would deprive the Colonial Government entirely of the revenue derived from the French mail service.\n\nThe Committee also desire to point out that in the statement showing the division of cost and apportionment of the loss on the service, the share falling to the Hongkong and Shanghai section of the Mail route is set down as £20,968, which amount the Chamber submit should be deducted from £360,000, and the balance charged rateably against this Colony.\n\n-I have, &c.\n\n(Signed) F. BULKELEY JOHNSON,\n\nChairman.\n\nThe Honourable. W. H. MARSH, C.M.G.,\n\nColonial Secretary,\n\n ", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-210 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [6-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 322302, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-210 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [6-7]", "page_number": 174, "title": "CO129-210 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [6-7]", "content_text": "# Enclosure.\n\n173\n\nJa. 10.\n\n## FINANCE COMMITTEE.\n\n(dis) Victoria. For improvements to the drainage and sewage of this City.\n\n+\n\n+ Bovemus to Secretary of State No 127 of 10 June 285, 1886.\n\n### PRESENT:\n\nThe Honourable the Colonial Secretary, (WILLIAM HENRY MARSH, C.M.G.)\n\nthe Colonial Treasurer, (ALFRED LISTER).\n\nJony MACPHERSON Price.\n\nFRANCIS BULKELEY JOHNSON,\n\nFREDERICK STEWART.\n\n### ABSENT:\n\nHis Honour the Chief Justice, (Sir George Phillippo),\n\nThe Honourable the Attorney General, (EDWARD Loughlin O'Malley).\n\nCOUNCIL CHAMBER. HONGKONG. 21st\n\nI have satisfied myself by frequent personal inspections of the necessity of the above-mentioned works and expenditure.\n\nI have the honor to be,\n\nJay Rova\n\nYour Lordships'\n\nMost Obedient,\n\nStumble Servant,\n\n5. Bowen\n\nMinutes,\n\ns.ors. Desp.\n\nGas\n\nHead Gardener,\n\nC.SO.\n\nPHINEAS RYRIE,\n\nWILLIAM KESWICK, (on leave).\n\nThe Committee meets this day according to summons.\n\nThe minutes of the last Meeting of Committee, held on the 14th instant, are read and confirmed.\n\n### ESTABLISHMENTS.\n\n#### Government Gardens and Plantations.\n\n(1). Read:- Secretary of State's Despatch No. 66 of the 11th April last, intimating the appointment of Mr. ALEXANDER BREMNER WESTLAND as Head Gardener in the Botanical Gardens of this Colony on a salary of $800 per annum.\n\nThere being no provision made in the Estimates of the current year for this expenditure, the Committee recommend that the sum of $457.61 be voted, being half pay from 13th April to 27th May, and full pay from 28th May to 30th November 1883.\n\n### SERVICES EXCLUSIVE OF ESTABLISHMENT.\n\n#### Works and Buildings.\n\n(2.) The Committee take into consideration several letters of the Surveyor General, noted in the margin, recommending that votes should be taken for the commencement this year of various Sanitary Works forming part of the scheme of Mr. CHADWICK:\n\n(a.) Central Market:--For the acquisition of 13 lots of ground, on which shops and other private buildings have been erected, which lots are required for the purpose of extending the area of this overcrowded market. Estimated expenditure $150,000.\n\n(b.) Causeway Bay:--For the reclamation of Causeway Bay, which is a fetid swamp causing much fever in the neighbourhood. Estimated cost $30,000, of which $15,000 is asked to be voted on account this year.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-210 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [6-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 322554, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-210 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [6-7]", "page_number": 426, "title": "CO129-210 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [6-7]", "content_text": "74\n\nHo Amer. Esq.\n\n(Copy)\n\n415\n\nWhile sympathising with the spirit of enterprise exhibited by your Company and fully aware of the advantages to Trade by the ultimate establishment of such a line, the Committee wish to point out to you that in your statement of objects and reasons, no guarantee is offered or suggested by you that the Line may not become a monopoly.\n\nFrom information at their command, the Committee have come to the conclusion that supporting your views in their present form would be a useless task, they would, however, be prepared to consider your wishes, provided you can give such guarantees as are indicated above.\n\nThe Committee considers that this purely Chinese enterprise undertaken in face of considerable opposition arising out of the ignorance and superstitious fears of the population of the Country Districts through which the line is to run, is worthy of the fullest support of the Mercantile Community of Hongkong, and trusts that the local Government will also be able to give encouragement and active assistance to a movement so useful and progressive in its character as the establishment of electric communication between this Colony and Canton.\n\nI have, &c.,\n\n(Signed)\n\nF. BULKELEY JOHNSON,\n\nChairman.\n\nI am, Sir,\n\nYours faithfully,\n\n(Signed)\n\nThe Honourable F. STEWART, LL.D.,\n\nE. GEORGE, Secretary.\n\nActing Colonial Secretary,\n\n&c.\n\n(The Chairman Chamber of Commerce to The Acting Colonial Secretary).\n\nHONGKONG GENERAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE,\n\nHONGKONG, 28th December, 1882.\n\nSIR,\n\nThe Committee of this Chamber has received a communication from Mr. Ho AMER, the Managing Director of the Chinese Telegraph Company, asking for the support of the Chamber to an application made by the Telegraph Company to the Government for permission to lay a Cable across this Harbour in connection with the line between Kaulung and Canton.\n\nThe Committee replied to Mr. Ho AMER that before the Chamber could give its support to such an application, the Telegraph Company would be expected to enter into guarantees that the Cable which the Company seeks permission to lay across the Harbour, and the lines of the Company on the mainland together with any future extensions, shall be open at a uniform and moderate tariff for the transmission of through messages to all the lines of telegraph, which have Stations in this Colony, and that the Company will be prepared to comply with such other reasonable conditions as the local Government may see fit to impose.\n\nMr. Ho AMER having signified his willingness to enter into the required guarantees, the Committee has now no hesitation in commending the application made by the Company for permission to lay the Cable in question, to the favourable consideration of His Excellency the Administrator.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-210 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [6-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 322569, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-210 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [6-7]", "page_number": 441, "title": "CO129-210 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [6-7]", "content_text": "No. 9.\n\nMu\n\nC.8.0.\n\n1050 of 1988.\n\nEnclosure 20.\n\nFINANCE COMMITTEE.\n\nPRESENT:\n\nCOUNCIL CHAMBER,\n\n430\n\nHONGKONG, 14th June, 1883.\n\nThe Honourable the Colonial Secretary, (WILLIAM HENRY MARSH, C.M.G.)\n\n55\n\nthe Colonial Treasurer, (ALFRED LISTER),\n\nPHINEAS RYRIE,\n\nJOHN MACNEILE PRICE.\n\nFREDERICK STEWART,\n\nABSENT:\n\nHis Honour the Chief Justice, (Sir GEORGE PHILLIPPO).\n\nThe Honourable the Attorney General, (EDWARD LOUGHLIN O'MALLEY),\n\nFRANCIS BULKELEY JOHNSON, (from indisposition).\n\n11\n\n12\n\nWILLIAM KESWICK, (on leave).\n\nThe Committee meets this day according to summons.\n\nThe Votes of the last Meeting of the Committee, held on the 31st ultimo, having passed the Legislative Council on the 8th instant, the Minutes of that Meeting are taken as read and confirmed.\n\nESTABLISHMENTS.\n\nRegistrar General.\n\n(1.) Read-Letter No. 21 of the 26th April last, from the Registrar General, recommending Mr. EDGAR BRUCE SHEPHERD, a learner in his Department, for the usual allowance of $10 a month for a Chinese Teacher, with effect from the 1st May last.\n\nChinese Teacher's Allowance to Mr. Edgar $10 per month.\n\nC.8.0. 1188 of 1889.\n\nC.8.0. 1315 of 1883.\n\nC.8.0. 1st of 1883.\n\nThe Committee recommend that the vote be approved on the understanding that Mr. SHEPHERD will abide by the Regulations laid down by Government Notification No. 133 of the 12th July, 1876.\n\nSERVICES EXCLUSIVE OF ESTABLISHMENTS.\n\nPolice.\n\n(2.) Read:--Letters from the Captain Superintendent of Police dated respectively the 15th and 28th May and the 8th June, 1883, recommending rent allowances to certain Constables, as follows:---\n\nAllowance to three Police Constables quartered at No. 4 Police Station, during the repairs of the premises, at $15 each (4 months).............$180.00\n\nAllowance to two Police Constables now quartered at No. 8 Police Station, at $15 per month, from June to November, the Station having been declared by the Colonial Surgeon as unhealthy.....$180.00\n\nAdditional allowance of $3 each to Police Constables SIMMONS, GIDLEY, and JENKINS (in addition to the $12 to each, sanctioned by the Finance Committee on 24th April), $72.00\n\nTotal: $432.00\n\nThe Committee consider the amounts reasonable, and recommend that the same be voted.\n\n1", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-210 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [6-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 322571, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-210 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [6-7]", "page_number": 443, "title": "CO129-210 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [6-7]", "content_text": "No. 10.\n\nFINANCE COMMITTEE.\n\nCOUNCIL CHAMBER,\n\nHONGKONG, 21st June, 1883.\n\nPRESENT:\n\nThe Honourable the Colonial Secretary, (WILLIAM HENRY MARSH, C.M.G.)\n\nThe Colonial Treasurer, (ALFRED LISTER).\n\nJOHN MACNEILE PRICE.\n\nFRANCIS BULKELEY JOHNSON.\n\nFREDERICK STEWART.\n\nABSENT:\n\nHis Honour the Chief Justice, (Sir GEORGE PHILLIPPO).\n\nThe Honourable the Attorney General, (EDWARD LOUGHLIN O'MALLEY).\n\nPHINEAS RYRIE.\n\nWILLIAM KESWICK, (on leave).\n\nThe Committee meets this day according to summons.\n\nThe minutes of the last Meeting of Committee, held on the 14th instant, are read and confirmed.\n\nS. of S.'s Desp. No. 66 of 1882. Head Gardener,\n\nESTABLISHMENTS.\n\nGovernment Gardens and Plantations.\n\n(1). Read:-Secretary of State's Despatch No. 66 of the 11th April last, intimating the appointment of Mr. ALEXANDER BREMNER WESTLAND as Head Gardener in the Botanical Gardens of this Colony on a salary of $800 per annum.\n\nC.S.O. 1501 of 1883.\n\nResumption of land for\n\nThere being no provision made in the Estimates of the current year for this expenditure, the Committee recommend that the sum of $457.61 be voted, being half pay from 13th April to 27th May, and full pay from 28th May to 30th November, 1883.\n\nSERVICES EXCLUSIVE OF ESTABLISHMENT.\n\nWorks and Buildings.\n\n(2.) The Committee take into consideration several letters of the Surveyor General, noted in the margin, recommending that votes should be taken for the commencement this year of various Sanitary Works forming part of the scheme of Mr. CHADWICK:-\n\n(a.) Central Market:-For the acquisition of 13 lots of ground, on which shops and other private buildings have been erected, which lots are required for the purpose of extending the area of this overcrowded market. Estimated expenditure $150,000.\n\nC.S.O. 4121 of 1882.\n\nReclamation\n\n(b.) Causeway Bay:--For the reclamation of Causeway Bay, which is a fetid swamp causing much fever in the neighbourhood. Estimated cost $30,000, of which $15,000 is asked to be voted on account this year.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-210 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [6-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 322573, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-210 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [6-7]", "page_number": 445, "title": "CO129-210 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [6-7]", "content_text": "434\n\nNo. 11.\n\nThe Committee concur in this resolution, which is as follows:--\n\nFINANCE COMMITTEE.\n\n(a.) That the Secretary of State be asked to reconsider the question of a further Postal Contribution from the Revenue of this Colony.\n\nCOUNCIL CHAMBER, HONGKONG, 16th July, 1883.\n\nC.5.0.\n\n1500 of 188$. Praya Wall\n\n(b.) That the Colony is prepared to pay a fixed total annual sum of £4,000 from February 1st, 1880, towards the loss of the Imperial Government on the mail Contract, it being clearly understood that the former fluctuating payment of about £3,000 a year is to cease from the above date.\n\n(c.) That the attention of the Secretary of State be especially called to the fact that the above proposed payment will absorb the whole annual profit on working the Post Office, which profit is mainly derived from local postage and is unconnected with any subsidised mail line.\n\n(6.) The Committee then take into consideration a recommendation of the Governor that an extension of the Praya Wall should be carried out in front of the properties belonging to the Military and Naval Authorities; and that the foreshore should be filled in, a portion being reserved for a boat-dock. The cost of this work has been estimated by the Surveyor General at $230,000.\n\nS. of S. Desp. 79A of 1877.\n\nThe Committee also consider the correspondence noted in the margin from the Secretary of State on this subject dated 1877, from which it would appear that it was considered desirable that joint action should be taken by all the Departments concerned.\n\nThe Committee consider that the proposed work would be a great public improvement which is necessary for the commercial development of the Colony, and that its execution should be undertaken by the Civil Government subject to a fair share being contributed by the Military and Naval Authorities in front of whose land a considerable extent of valuable property will be reclaimed.\n\nThe Committee think, however, that the Sanitary Works voted are of much more urgent importance and should be undertaken in the first instance; but as they apprehend that the consideration of the proposal for the extension of the Praya will occupy much time before the works can be commenced, they express the opinion at once that the cost should be voted and negotiations entered into with the Military and Naval Authorities without delay.\n\nThe Chairman adjourns the Committee sine die.\n\nMinutes.\n\nC.5.0.\n\n1693 of 1883. Conveyance\n\nPRESENT:\n\nThe Honourable the Colonial Secretary, (WILLIAM HENRY MARSH, C.M.G.)\n\nPHINEAS RYRIE.\n\nThe Colonial Treasurer, (ALFRED LISTER).\n\nJOHN MACNEILE PRICE.\n\nFRANCIS BULKELEY JOHNSON,\n\nFREDERICK STEWART.\n\nABSENT:\n\nHis Honour the Chief Justice, (Sir GEORGE PHILLIPPO).\n\nThe Honourable the Attorney General, (EDWARD LOUGBLIN O'MALLEY).\n\nWILLIAM KESWICK, (on leave).\n\nThe Committee meets this day according to summons.\n\nThe Minutes of the last Meeting of Committee, held on the 21st ultimo, are read and confirmed.\n\nESTABLISHMENTS.\n\nTreasury.\n\n(Opium Revenue Service).\n\n(1.) Read: A letter from the Colonial Treasurer, dated the 27th ultimo, recommending an allowance of $12 a month to Excise Officer CALLADO for conveyance during the months of July, August, and September this year.\n\nThe Committee finding that the duties of this Officer necessitate his visiting all the Opium Shops for the purpose of checking their accounts, consider the application reasonable, and recommend therefore that the amount be voted.\n\nHarbour Master's Department,\n\n3. of S. Desp. 88 of 1883.\n\nPersonal Allowance to Capt. THOMSETT, $440\n\nIncrease of salary to Marine Surveyor, $550\n\nAssistant do $1,000\n\n(2.) Read: Secretary of State's Despatch No. 88 of the 8th May, 1883, authorising the following expenditure:-\n\n \n ARATHOON SETH, Clerk of Councils.\n $1,000\n \n \n Personal allowance to Captain THOMSETT, from 1st January to 30th November, 1883, at $10 per month,\n $440.00\n \n \n W. H. MARSH, Chairman\n \n \n \n Increase of salary to Government Marine Surveyor at $50 per month from 1st January to 30th November, 1883,\n $550.00\n \n \n Salary of an Assistant Marine Surveyor at $200 per month from 1st July to 30th November, 1883,\n $1,000.00\n \n \n \n $1,990.00\n \n\nThere being no provision in the Estimates for these items, the Committee recommend that the several sums be voted.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-210 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [6-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 323586, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-213 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [12]", "page_number": 17, "title": "CO129-213 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [12]", "content_text": "Enclosure\n\nC O.\n\n455\n\n16\n\nRECP\n\nREGE 9 JAN 84\n\nGOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.—No. 400.\n\nHis Excellency the Governor has been pleased to issue a fresh Commission of the Peace for this Colony, and the names of the gentlemen therein are hereby published for general information, viz. :- His Excellency Major-General JOHN NEPTUNE SARGENT, C.B.\n\nThe Honourable WILLIAM HENRY MARSH, C.M.G.\n\nThe Honourable JOHN MACNEILE PRICE.\n\nThe Honourable FREDERICK STEWART.\n\nThe Honourable ALFRED LISTER,\n\nThe Honourable PHINEAS RYRIE.\n\nThe Honourable WILLIAM KESWICK.\n\nThe Honourable FRANCIS BOLKELEY JOHNSON.\n\nEDWARD JAMES ACKROYD, Esquire.\n\nWILLIAM STANLEY ADAMS, Esquire. JAMES ROSS ANTON, Esquire. FRAMJEE HORMUSJEE ARJANEE, Esquire. PHILIP BERNARD CHENERY AYRES, Esquire. HERBERT MAINWARING BAILY, Esquire. WILLIAM NEISH BAIN, Esquire. SAMUEL BARFF, Esquire. EMANUEL RAPHAEL BELILIOS, Esquire. JOHN BELL-IRVING, Esquire. SOTHEBY GODFREY BIRD, Esquire. CHARLES DAVID BOTTOMLEY, Esquire. EDWARD BOWDLER, Esquire. JOHN SHERREN BREWER, Esquire. CH'AN KWAN-I, Esquire.\n\nCATCHICK PAUL CHATER, Esquire.\n\nCHOY CHEE-MEL, Esquire.\n\nJAMES BELLINGTON COUGHTRIE, Esquire.\n\nJOHN SAMUEL COX, Esquire.\n\nATWELL COXON, Esquire.\n\nHENRY LISTON DALRYMPLE, Esquire.\n\nWILLIAM DANBY, Esquire.\n\nWILLIAM HOMFREY FULLER DARBY, Esquire.\n\nWALTER MEREDITH DEANE, Esquire.\n\nHENRY DICKIE, Esquire.\n\nNATHANIEL JOSEPH EDE, Esquire.\n\nCHARLES FORD, Esquire.\n\nHENRY FOSS, Esquire.\n\nJOHN JOSEPH FRANCIS, Esquire.\n\nJOHN GERRARD, Esquire.\n\nWILLIAM HARTIGAN, Esquire.\n\nJOHN GORDON TALBOT HASSELL, Esquire.\n\nHO KAI, Esquire.\n\nWILLIAM KERFOOT HUGHES, Esquire.\n\nTHOMAS JACKSON, Esquire.\n\nBENDYSHE LAYTON, Esquire.\n\nJAMES HALDANE STEWART-LOCKHART, Esquire. LUK SHAU-T'IN, Esquire. ROBERT LYALL, Esquire. EDWIN MACKINTOSH, Esquire. ALEXANDER MACIVER, Esquire. ERNEST MACKEAN, Esquire. ALFRED THOMAS MANGER, Esquire. JOHN MELVILLE MATSON, Esquire. ALEXANDER PALMER MCEWEN, Esquire. JAMES PAINTER MCLUEN, Esquire, R.N. HORMUSJEE MERWANJEE MEHTA, Esquire. HORMUSJEE NOROWJEE MODY, Esquire. GEORGE EDWARD NOBLE, Esquire. FREDERICK THOMAS PEARCE FOSTER, Esquire. DITUNJEEBHOY RUTTONJEE, Esquire. FREDERICK DAVID SASSOON, Esquire. MEYER ELIAS SASSOON, Esquire.\n\nJAMES HENRY SCOTT, Esquire.\n\nARATHOON SETH, Esquire.\n\nHORMOSJEE COOVERJEE SITNA, Esquire. GRANVILLE SHARP, Esquire.\n\nJAMES STOCKWELL, Esquire.\n\nHENRY GEORGE THOMSETT, Esquire, R.N.\n\nJOHN THURBURN, Esquire.\n\nARTHUR KENNEDY TRAVERS, Esquire. HENRY JOHN HOWARD TRIPP, Esquire. JOHN YARDELY VERNON VERNON, Esquire. WEI YUK, Esquire.\n\nTHOMAS HENDERSON WHITEHEAD, Esquire. ALFRED GASCOYNE WISE, Esquire. HENRY ERNEST WODEHOUSE, Esquire. WONG SHE-TAI, Esquire.\n\nWOO LIN YUEN, Esquire.\n\nRICHARD YOUNG, Esquire.\n\nWILLIAM STEWART YOUNG, Esquire.\n\nBy Command,\n\nColonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 1st December, 1883.\n\nJ. H. STEWART-LOCKHART,\n\nfor the Colonial Secretary.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-213 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 323803, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-213 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [12]", "page_number": 234, "title": "CO129-213 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [12]", "content_text": "\"continued confidence of this \n\ncommunity \n\n#1 \n\nwhich \n\nAnnex \n\nA \n\nin the address of \n\nJendlose a \n\ncopy.\" \n\ng \n\na printed copy of this \n\naddress, with the signatures of un most of the principal residents \n\nin this Colony; together with a \n\né \n\ncopy of Mr. Price & reply: \n\nADDRESS TO THE HON. J. M. PRICE. \n\nThe following copy of a letter to the Hon. \n\nJ. M. Price, Surveyor-General, has been handed \n\nto us for publication:- \n\nHongkong, 1st December, 1883. The Honourable J. M. Price, Surveyor General. \n\nSIR,—We the undersigned residents in the Colony desire to express our sympathy with you in reference to certain articles recently published in the columns of a local newspaper and containing reflections upon you which, in our opinion, cannot be too strongly condemned. \n\nIn doing so we beg to assure you, not only of our respect for your personal character, but of our complete confidence in your administration of the Department of the Public Services over which you have, for \n\n30 \n\no many years, presided with such admirable efficiency. \n\nTo evidence our appreciation of the position \n\ntook up with regard to the late prosecution of Regina \n\nv. Robert Fraser-Smith, and of the manner in which \n\nyou discharged the onerous public duty which we unanimously consider was thrown upon you, we beg you will permit us to arrange with your solicitors as to the costs of those legal proceedings.—We have the honour to be, Sir, your most obedient servants, \n\nF. Bulkeley Johnson \n\nWm. H. Forbes \n\nC. Vincent Smith \n\nF. D. Sassoon \n\nM. E. Sassoon \n\nT. Jackson \n\nA. P. McEwen \n\nA. Gültzow \n\nN. A. Siebs \n\nC. Stiebel \n\nE. E. Dear \n\nH. Z. Just \n\nHenry R. Coomb \n\nA. McIver \n\nE. L. Woodin \n\nW. Parfitt \n\nL. Poesnecker \n\nP. B. C. Ayres \n\nJno. S. Capraik \n\nH. J. H. Tripp \n\nH. L. Dalrymple \n\nC. P. Chater \n\n* Frod. Rickards \n\nH. N. Mody \n\nJohn Tharburn \n\nR. D. Tata \n\nD. M. Mabta \n\nH. M. Mehta \n\nH. C. Setna \n\nDorabjee Nowrojee \n\nE. R. Reliios \n\nB. Byramjee \n\nWilliam Hartigan \n\nJ. Rose Anton \n\nG. S. Coxon \n\nG. R. Johnston \n\nJ. H. Slagbok \n\nKenneth McK. Ross \n\nA. G. Romano \n\nA. MacClymont \n\nF. Henderson \n\nJ. G. T. Haskell \n\nWm. N. Cruickshank \n\nW. M. Morgan \n\nE. Mackintosh \n\nD. Rattanjee \n\nFramjee H. Arjánes \n\nWilliam H. F. Darby \n\nSam. Hughes \n\nSidney Hancock \n\nG. Stewart \n\nH. M. Thomsett \n\nR. Layton \n\nJ. Erdmann \n\nDox Paquin \n\nE. Re Mackean \n\nChas. C. Cohen \n\nF. George \n\nM. Blumi \n\nWilliam Aitchison \n\nL. Fleming \n\nC. A. Miller \n\nVA H. T. Siessen \n\nD. W. Schwemann \n\nA. P. Stokan \n\nA. G. Stokes \n\nJ. Melville Matson \n\nA. Wemyss \n\nC. S. Goodwyn \n\nC. D. Bottomley \n\nM. B. Polishwalla \n\nT. E. Davies \n\nJ. T. Chater \n\nS. B. Bhabha \n\nJno. S. Cox \n\nThos. I. Rose \n\nS. Godfrey Bird \n\nClement Palmer \n\nFredk. T. P. Foster \n\nFrederick Stewart \n\nFred. Esser \n\nH. Matchitt \n\nWm. N. Bain \n\nG. Allen \n\nGen. Ferguson \n\nR. Chatterton Wilcox \n\nJames Balgin \n\nPaul Brewist \n\nC. Brodersen \n\nA. Krans \n\nJno. J. Francis \n\nA. G. Morris \n\nAlfred Lister \n\nJ. A. Carvalho \n\nA. F. Alves \n\nA. K. Travers \n\nB. K. Leigh \n\nJames H. Cox \n\nFredk. Dodwell \n\nMR. PRICE'S REPLY TO THE ADDRESS. \n\nThe following is the reply of the Hon. J. M. Price, Surveyor-General, to the public letter addressed to him in reference to the recent libel case and published in our columns on Tuesday. The reply is addressed to the Hon. F. B. Johnson, who sent in the public letter :- \n\nPublic Works Department, Hongkong, 18th December, 1883. My dear Sir,—I desire to tender my grateful acknowledgments to you, and through yourself to the large number of gentlemen who have been good enough to address me in the terms of the letter which you forwarded to me yesterday. \n\nConscious that I have never been actuated except by a strict sense of duty in all my official acts during the ten years that I have devoted to the public service of the colony, and that in the administration of the Department with which I have the honour to be connected, I have always endeavoured to do the best for the interests of the public, according to \n\n17 F abilities, whatever these may be worth, it has been very gratifying to me to find that \n\nso important a portion of my fellow colonists should have given no credence to the imputations of unworthy motives so persistently made \n\nby private malice in connection with nearly every act of my official life, and that their confidence in my personal character and in my ability to continue usefully serving the colony, should have remained unshaken. It is a great honour to a Government servant to be the recipient of a public testimonial couched in the language of the one you have been good enough to transmit to me, I am very sensible of that honour, and find it difficult to express adequately my appreciation of the kindly feeling that has prompted this manifestation of good will on the part of so many whose opinions I estimate so highly. I need scarcely add that the document will be valued by me as the pleasantest memorial of my life in China. \n\nAlthough it is true that in the position I was recently called upon to take I was \n\ndischarging \n\n233", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-213 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 323804, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-213 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [12]", "page_number": 235, "title": "CO129-213 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [12]", "content_text": "234\n\n2\n\ndischarging a public duty, I do not consider that on this account I have any claim upon the public, and I trust therefore that I may not appear ungrateful, or that I may not hurt the susceptibilities of my friends, if I do not avail myself of their most generous proposal to defray the cost of the recent legal proceedings. So practical a proof of the genuineness of their sympathy, though it may not be abused by me, adds none the less to the heavy obligation under which I must always remain to those kind and generous members of the community who have favoured me on this occasion with their confidence and support, and I must once more solicit your good offices to convey to them this expression of my heartfelt thanks.-Believe me, my dear Sir, yours very faithfully, J.M. PRICE, Surveyor-General.\n\nThe Hon. F. Bulkeley Johnson, M.L.C., &c., &c.\n\nWith my despatch No. 399 I also transmitted copy of a letter from Mr Price to the Colonial Secretary in which he thought himself absolved by the Chief Justice from all imputation, \"proposes, on behalf of his Department, the appointment of a commission \"of Inquiry.\"\n\n3.\n\nEnclosure (Govt. Notien. No. 418 of 1883), I annex a copy of the Commission which has been issued; and with the advice of the Executive Council, I have appointed to be members of it.\n\n4.\n\nThe Attorney-General, (Mr O'Malley) The Treasurer, (Mr Lister), The Honourable F. B. Johnson (Unofficial Member of the Legislative Council).\n\nI shall forward the report of the Commission when", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-213 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 323925, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-213 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [12]", "page_number": 356, "title": "CO129-213 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [12]", "content_text": "No. 17.\n\nEnclosure 9\n\n355\n\n# FINANCE COMMITTEE\n\nCOUNCIL CHAMBER,\nHONGKONG, 2nd November, 1883.\n\nPRESENT:\n\nThe Honourable the Colonial Secretary, (WILLIAM HENRY MARSH, C.M.G.)\n\nThe Colonial Treasurer, (ALFRED LISTER).\n\nPHINEAS RYRIE.\n\nJOHN MACNEILE PRICE.\n\nFRANCIS BULKELEY JOHNSON.\n\nFREDERICK STEWART.\n\nABSENT:\n\nHis Honour the Chief Justice, (Sir GEORGE PHILLIPPO).\n\nThe Honourable the Attorney General, (Edward Loughlin O'MALLEY).\n\nWILLIAM KESWICK.\n\nThe Committee met this day according to summons.\n\nThe Minutes of the last Meeting are read and confirmed.\n\n## SERVICE EXCLUSIVE OF ESTABLISHMENTS\n\n### Works and Buildings\n\n(1.) Read: A letter from the Surveyor General applying for a supplementary vote of $200 to meet the cost of watering the public thoroughfares.\n\nC.S.O. 2361 of 1883. Watering Streets. Supplementary, $200\nC.S.O. 2295 of 1883.\n\nThe Committee recommend that the vote be approved, as, owing to the unprecedentedly long drought of last winter, a balance of $50 only is now available.\n\n### Miscellaneous Services\n\n(2.) Read: A letter from Mr. COLQUHOUN applying for a Government Grant towards the cost of the proposed Exploration from British Burmah to the North of Siam down to the Menam Valley.\n\nGrant to Mr. COLQUHOUN towards the cost of the Exploration from British Burmah, China, and ... £300.\n\nThe Committee recommend that, as this Colony is interested in the proposed Exploration, and that as other Colonies have contributed towards it, the sum of £300 should be voted.\n\n0.5.0, 2265 of 1883. Government Furniture, $1,338.40.\n\n(3.) Read: A letter from the Surveyor General applying for a special vote for $1,335.46 to meet the expenses incurred in necessary Furniture and fittings for Government House and Mountain Lodge.\n\nThe Committee recommend that the expenditure be approved as it is necessary and reasonable.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-213 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 323926, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-213 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [12]", "page_number": 357, "title": "CO129-213 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [12]", "content_text": "TRANSFER \n\nWorks and Buildings.\n\nFINANCE COMMITTEE.\n\nC.5.0, 2582\n\naf 1883. Sanitary\n\n(4.) Read: A letter from the Surveyor General applying for permission to take in hand at a cost of $1,700 the reconstruction of the Wyndham Street Sewer, and to defray the expenses in lieu of the votes for Surface Drains &c., in Royal Mint and Pennington Street.\n\nThe Committee, considering the urgency of the work, recommend that the transfer be approved.\n\n21st June, 18KX, for Surface Drains, &c., in Royal Mit and Tennington Street. $1,700,00\n\nThe Chairman adjourns the Committee sine die.\n\nPRESENT:\n\nCOUNCIL CHLAMBER,\n\nHONGKONG, 20th November, 1883.\n\nThe Honourable the Colonial Treasurer, (ALFRED LISTER).\n\nPHINEAS RYRIE.\n\nFRANCIS BULKELEY JOHNSON.\n\nFREDERICK STEWART.\n\nJ. H. STEWART-LOCKHART,\n\nActing Clerk of Councils.\n\nChairman..\n\nABSENT:\n\nIlis Honour the Chief Justice, (Sir GEORGE PHILLIPPO).\n\nThe Honourable the Colonial Secretary, (WILLIAM HENRY MARSH, C.M.G.)\n\nthe Attorney General, (EDWARD LOUGHLIN O'MALLEY).\n\nWILLIAM KESWICK,\n\nJOHN MACNEILE PRICE.\n\nThe Committee meet this day according to summons.\n\nThe Minutes of the last Meeting are read and confirmed.\n\nSERVICE EXCLUSIVE OF ESTABLISHMENTS.\n\n356\n\nEducation.\n\n(1.) Read: A despatch from the Secretary of State approving of the increase of the building grant to St. Joseph's College from $5,000 to $6,000.\n\nThe Committee, in view of the regulations as to building grants in the Grant-in-Aid Scheme, vote the sum, after a lengthy discussion.\n\nThe Honourable F. B. JOHNSON, however, gives notice that he intends to call the attention of the Council to the advisability of votes for building Grants-in-Aid being submitted to the Finance Committee and the Legislative Council before they are sent for approval to the Secretary of State.\n\nMiscellaneous Services.\n\n(2.) Read: An application from the Government Printers applying for payment of $365.58, being the cost of reprinting certain Ordinances.\n\nThe Committee recommend that the sum be voted, as the expenditure was necessary in order to carry out the work of codifying the Ordinances.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-213 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 323927, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-213 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [12]", "page_number": 358, "title": "CO129-213 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [12]", "content_text": "TRANSFER.\n\nWorks and Buildings.\n\nNo. 18\n\nFINANCE COMMITTEE.\n\nC.5.0. 9689\n\nof 1888 Sanitary Works, &c.\n\n(4.) Read: A letter from the Surveyor General applying for permission to take in hand the reconstruction of the Wyndham Street Sewer, at a cost of $1,700, and to defray the expense out of the votes approved by Finance Committee on 31st June, 1883, for Surface Drains &c., in Royal Mint and Pennington Street.\n\nThe Committee, considering the urgency of the work, recommend that the transfer be approved.\n\n$1,700.00\n\nThe Chairman adjourns the Committee sine die.\n\nPRESENT:\n\nCOUNCIL CHAMBER,\n\nHONGKONG, 20th November, 1883.\n\nThe Honourable the Colonial Treasurer, (ALFRED LISTER).\n\nPHINEAS RYRIE.\n\nFRANCIS BULKELEY JOHNSON.\n\nFREDERICK STEWART.\n\nJ. H. STEWART-LOCKHART,\n\nActing Clerk of Councils,\n\nChairman\n\nABSENT:\n\nHis Honour the Chief Justice, (Sir George PHILLIPPO).\n\nThe Honourable the Colonial Secretary, (WILLIAM HENRY MARSH, C.M.G.)\n\nThe Attorney General, (EDWARD LOUGHLIN O'MALLEY).\n\nWILLIAM KESWICK.\n\nJOHN MACNEILE PRICE.\n\nThe Committee meet this day according to summons.\n\nThe Minutes of the last Meeting are read and confirmed.\n\nSERVICE EXCLUSIVE OF ESTABLISHMENTS.\n\n(5.0). Desp. 211 of 1883.\n\nBuilding grant to St. Joseph's College.\n\n(1.) Read: A despatch from the Secretary of State approving of the increase of the building grant to St. Joseph's College from $5,000 to $6,000.\n\nC.3.0.1365 of 1862.\n\nThe Committee, in view of the regulations as to building grants in the Grant-in-Aid Scheme, vote the sum, after a lengthy discussion.\n\nThe Honourable F. B. Johnson, however, gives notice that he intends to call the attention of the Council to the advisability of votes for building Grants-in-Aid being submitted to the Finance Committee and the Legislative Council before they are sent for approval to the Secretary of State.\n\nMiscellaneous Services.\n\n(2.) Read: An application from the Government Printers applying for payment of certain Ordinances to complete the file, $365.58, being the cost of reprinting certain Ordinances.\n\nThe Committee recommend that the sum be voted, as the expenditure was necessary in order to carry out the work of codifying the Ordinances.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-213 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 323928, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-213 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [12]", "page_number": 359, "title": "CO129-213 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [12]", "content_text": "C.3.0. $455\n\nat 1883.\n\nFlorarium to\n\n(3.) Read: A letter from Sir GEORGE PHILLIPPO, recommending the grant of $100 to the Commissioners appointed to enquire into the circumstances attending the alleged smuggling from Hongkong into China of opium and other goods.\n\n$190.\n\nThe Committee recommend that this vote be approved.\n\nThe Chairman adjourns the Committee sine die.\n\nJ. H. STEWART-LOCKHART,\n\nActing Clerk of Councils.\n\nChairman\n\nFINANCE COMMITTEE.\n\nPRESENT:\n\nCOUNCIL CHAMBER,\n\nHONGKONG, 4th December, 1883.\n\nThe Honourable the Colonial Secretary, (WILLIAM HENRY MARSH, C.M.G.)\n\nThe Colonial Treasurer, (ALFRED LISTER).\n\nFREDERICK STEWART,\n\nFRANCIS BULKELEY JOHNSON.\n\nABSENT:\n\nHis Honour the Chief Justice, (Sir GEORGE PHILLIPPO).\n\nThe Honourable the Attorney General, (EDWARD LOUGHLIN O'MALLEY),\n\nWILLIAM KESWICK.\n\nJOHN MACNEILE PRICE.\n\nPHINEAS RYRIE.\n\nPage 37\n\nThe Committee meet this day according to summons.\n\nThe Minutes of the last Meeting are read and confirmed.\n\nESTABLISHMENTS.\n\nColonial Secretary.\n\n(1). Read: A letter from Mr. PHILLIPS, applying that his Teacher's allowance may be increased.\n\n$20.\n\nThe Committee recommend that the application be granted on the usual conditions.\n\nSERVICES EXCLUSIVE OF ESTABLISHMENTS.\n\nFire Brigade.\n\n(2). Read: A letter from the Superintendent of the Fire Brigade, requesting that a supplementary vote may be taken for the sum of $433.\n\nThe Committee recommend that the sum applied for should be voted, as the expenditure was necessary.\n\nRoads, Streets, and Bridges.\n\n(3.) Read: A letter from the Surveyor General applying for a vote of $100 for repairing a portion of the Volunteer Parade Ground.\n\nThe Committee recommend that the vote be approved.\n\nThe Chairman adjourns the Committee sine die.\n\nJ. H. STEWART-LOCKHART,\n\nActing Clerk of Councils.\n\nW. H. MARSH,\n\nChairman.\n\nPage 357", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-213 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 323929, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-213 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [12]", "page_number": 360, "title": "CO129-213 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [12]", "content_text": "C.S.O.3695\n\nof 1563.\n\nNo. 19\n\n(8.) Read: A letter from Sir George Puliero, recommending the grant of $1\n\nFINANCE COMMITTEE.\n\nHonorarium in\n\nThe Mr. LOCKHART, the Secretary to the Commission appointed to enquire into the circumstances\n\nattending the alleged smuggling from Hongkong into China of opium and other goods, $100,\n\nThe Committee recommend that this vote be approved,\n\nThe Chairman adjourns the Committee sine die.\n\nPRESENT:\n\nCOUNCIL CHAMBER,\n\nHONGKONG, 4th December, 1883.\n\nThe Honourable the Colonial Secretary, (WILLIAM HENRY MARSH, C.M.G.)\n\nthe Colonial Treasurer, (ALFRED LISTER),\n\nFREDERICK STEWART.\n\nJ. H. STEWART-LOCKHART,\n\nActing Clerk of Councils.\n\nChairman.\n\n#7\n\n12\n\nFRANCIS BULKELEY JOHNSON.\n\nABSENT:\n\nHis Honour the Chief Justice, (Sir GEORGE PHILLIPPO).\n\nThe Honourable the Attorney General, (EDWARD LOUGHLIN O'MALLEY).\n\nWILLIAM KESWICK,\n\nJOHN MACNEILE PRICE.\n\nPHINEAS RYRIE,\n\nThe Committee meet this day according to summons.\n\nThe Minutes of the last Meeting are read and confirmed.\n\nESTABLISHMENTS.\n\n357\n\nColonial Secretary.\n\nC.S.O.2768\n\nof 1888.\n\nAllowance to 4th Teacher, $10.\n\n59th November, 1893.\n\n(1). Read: A letter from Mr. PHILLIPS, applying that his Teacher's allowance may be continued.\n\nC.S.O.2663 of 1883.\n\nRepairs to Engines, Hose, &c., Supplementary vote, $453.\n\nThe Committee recommend that the application be granted on the usual conditions.\n\nSERVICES EXCLUSIVE OF ESTABLISHMENTS.\n\nFire Brigade.\n\n(2). Read: A letter from the Superintendent of the Fire Brigade, requesting that a Supplementary vote may be taken for the sum of $433.\n\nC.S.O.2803 of 1883.\n\nMiscellaneous, Supplementary vote, $100.\n\nThe Committee recommend that the sum applied for should be voted, as the expenditure was necessary.\n\nRoads, Streets, and Bridges.\n\n(3.) Read: A letter from the Surveyor General applying for a vote of $100 for repairing a portion of the Volunteer Parade Ground.\n\nThe Committee recommend that the vote be approved.\n\nThe Chairman adjourns the Committee sine die.\n\nJ. H. STEWART-LOCKHART,\n\nActing Clerk of Councils.\n\nW. H. MARSH,\n\nChairman.\n\nPage 360\n\nPage 361", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-213 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 323957, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-213 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [12]", "page_number": 388, "title": "CO129-213 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [12]", "content_text": "C\n\nHong Kong\n\nNo.159\n\nPref. Bowen\n\nMINUTE.\n\nMr. Fraser 3 March DeRobech 3\n\nMr. Wingfield. 3\n\nMr. Bramston.\n\nMr. Meade.\n\nSir R. Herbert.\n\nMr. Ashley. 4\n\nLord Derby.\n\n-4.\n\nfor:\n\n2602\n\nbill sent\n\nfi\n\nunder\n\nJ\n\n4\n\nMarch: 84\n\nI have laid\n\nmy comments:\n\nOrdinance No.\n\n\"And\n\n6 1883 subtitles in\n\n\"Ordinance to authorise\n\nthe Honourable Francis Bulkeley Johnson to\n\n\"construct piers and\n\nwharves in the harbour\n\nof Victoria, and to\n\nconfer upon the said\n\nFrancis Bulkeley Johnson certain other", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-213 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 323992, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-214 - Public Offices & Others - 1883", "page_number": 24, "title": "CO129-214 - Public Offices & Others - 1883", "content_text": "22\n\nupon to undertake during a period of six months while the Squadron will be at the \n\nnorth, it is very desirable that this harbour should not be without the presence of at \n\nleast one of Her Majesty's ships while another \n\nis doing patrol duty along the Coast.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Sgd) Bulkeley Johnson,\n\nChairman.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-214 - Public Offices & Others - 1883.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 324757, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-215 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1884 [1-4]", "page_number": 17, "title": "CO129-215 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1884 [1-4]", "content_text": "14\n\n+\n\nwithheld in Hongkong. The concession\n\nJole willing to\n\nin practice of this privilege would from things\n\ncertainly increase the legitimate authority and influence of the Imperial Government. Moreover, as I have already shown1, the Legislative Council of Hongkong is composed of persons who are gentlemen by birth\n\nand education; superior also in personal character, in the possession\n\nof property, and in the other essential qualifications of Administrators, to the\n\nin habits of business,\n\n1Despatch W:334 of December 10, 1883.\n\naverage members\n\nyou\n\n455\n\nVetus jou tong baptis\n\n9th. datepamir\n\n7\n\n!!\n\nmembers of the Ministries and\n\n15\n\n15\n\n\"Parliaments of the Australian Colonies, which enjoy unlimited powers of\n\nself-government.\n\nI have now further to\n\nreport that I have consulted the Attorney-General (Mr. O'Malley) as to the status of the actual unofficial ... members of the Council (Messrs ... Ryrie, Keswick, and Bulkeley Johnson), under the new \"Additional Instruc...\n\nof which a draft was transmitted to me with Your Lordship's despatch \"General\" of ... September ultimo. The\n\nAttorney-\n\nBi...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-215 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1884 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 324760, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-215 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1884 [1-4]", "page_number": 20, "title": "CO129-215 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1884 [1-4]", "content_text": "સે\n\n18\n\nseat of M. Johnson, who is the locum tenens of M. Keswick during the absence of the latter gentleman from the Colony.\n\nUnder the circumstances stated, it would be hard measure, and in direct opposition to the general feeling of this community, to deprive suddenly Mr. Ryrie & Mr. Johnson of the position which they fill with honour to themselves and with advantage to the Colony. They should certainly be allowed a term of six years under the new Instructions.\n\nAccordingly, and in pursuance of the advice of the Attorney-General, I intend, as soon as the formal Instructions arrive, to re-appoint Mr. Ryrie and Mr. Johnson, provisionally, and subject to Her Majesty's approval and confirmation. Moreover, by the same advice I shall appoint provisionally Mr. Jackson and Mr. Sassoon who (as we have seen) have been nominated respectively by the Chamber of Commerce and by the Bench of Justices of the Peace.\n\nI may add that Mr. Bulkeley Johnson intends to resign his seat and to retire to England.\n\n2/1", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-215 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1884 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 324841, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-215 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1884 [1-4]", "page_number": 101, "title": "CO129-215 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1884 [1-4]", "content_text": "\"between the two stations, no pecuniary subsidies are to be due from \n\nChuna \n\nyou \n\nthis account.\" \n\nThe Committee feel deeply the extreme importance to the interests of this colony and of Great Britain, of Her Majesty's Government maintaining in their integrity the guarantees which have been given, as the Island of Chusan, with its magnificent harbour, commands the entrance of the Yangtze river one of the principal centres of British Trade in the far East, and its occupation by any foreign power could not fail to be a source of continual danger and apprehension not only to this Colony, but to all who are interested in its trade, necessitating a large outlay for fortifications and probably entailing upon Great Britain an increased Naval force in these waters.\n\nThe condition which the British Government made, on its restoration of Chusan to the Chinese, that the Island should not be ceded to any foreign power, under guarantee from Great Britain against attack, seems to have been suggested by a wise prevision of future complications and the Committee trust that your Excellency will convey to Her Majesty's Secretary of State for the Colonies, for communication to Lord Palmerston, the earnest hope of the Chamber that Her Majesty's Government will be prepared to maintain the stipulation contained in the Convention of 1846.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\n Sir,\n\nYour most obedient, humble servant\n\n#1 Bulkeley Johnson \n\nChairman", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-215 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1884 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 324842, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-215 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1884 [1-4]", "page_number": 102, "title": "CO129-215 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1884 [1-4]", "content_text": "Mr F. Bulkeley Johnson to Earl Granville.\n\nEncl: 100\n\nCopp.\n\nHong Kong General Chamber of Commerce.\n\nfor\n\nHong Kong,\n\n4th January 1884.\n\nMy Lord,\n\nI have the honour to enclose for Your Lordship's perusal a copy of a letter which on behalf of the Council of this Chamber I have addressed to Governor Sir George Bowen on the subject of", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-215 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1884 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 324844, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-215 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1884 [1-4]", "page_number": 104, "title": "CO129-215 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1884 [1-4]", "content_text": "37\n\nany\n\nРо\n\nthe\n\nchallenge\n\nCo\n\nAnd\n\nthe Consequent obligation to\n\ndefend it.\n\nis improbable that\n\nhostilities with China,\n\nshould\n\nas\n\nin\n\nbe engaged.\n\nthe stipulations\n\nless\n\nation, unless\n\nit\n\nhad\n\nresolved, for\n\nГо\n\no The\n\nKaso NA\n\nupon.\n\nWar\n\n102\n\n- strategical point of view.\n\nI have, &c.,\n\n(J^) F. Bulkeley Johnson.\n\nChairman.\n\nwith Great Britain ales,\n\nwheel\n\nCase\n\nThe\n\noccupy Charsan\n\nLi\n\nright\n\nto\n\nCould\n\nfail\n\nt be\n\nreq\n\ngar.\n\nar de d\n\nof\n\nThe\n\nThe Right Honble\n\nThe Earl Granville R. G.\n\nKate\n\nHer Majesty's Principal Secretary for\n\nForeign Affairs\n\nLondon.\n\ngreatest importance from a stra\n\nEegical", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-215 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1884 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 325025, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-215 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1884 [1-4]", "page_number": 285, "title": "CO129-215 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1884 [1-4]", "content_text": "Stewarts Reply, and the speeches of \n\nDr Bokai, of the Chief \n\nof the Chief Justice, and \n\nof.) \n\nof Mr. Buckeley Johnson, will be \n\nfound to contain interesting \n\nmatter. \n\nI have the honour to be \n\nMy Lord, \n\nYour Lordship's Most Obedient \n\nHumble Servant, \n\n5. Mowen \n\nPRESENTATION OF THE STEWART SCHOLARSHIP AT THE CENTRAL SCHOOL. \n\nAn interesting gathering took place at the Central School on Saturday, when the old Chinese scholars met together to present an address to the Hon. F. Stewart, LL.D., the former Head Master, and to present to the school a scholarship to be called, in his honour, the \"Stewart Scholarship.\" His Excellency the Governor presided, and a large number of guests were present, who were subsequently entertained at luncheon, when covers were laid for the following:-His Excellency the Governor, Sir George Bowen, G.C.M.G., Major General Sargent, C.B., Sir George Phillippo, the Hon. W. H. Marsh, C.M.G., Hon. F. Stewart, Hon. A. Lister, Hon. P. Ryrie, Hon. F. Bulkeley Johnson, Hon. T. Jackson, Hon. F. D. Sassoon, Hon. Wong Shing; Mr. Justice Russell; Lieut.-Colonel Crawford, R.A., Lieut. Col. Barton; Major Lloyd, R.E., Captain Thomsett, R.N., Lieuts. Vyvyan and Portor, A.D.C.'s.; Dr. Eitel, Chalmers, Young, and Ho Kai; Messrs. Wei Yuk, Luk Sau-tin, Cheung Luk-ü, Ip Piong-kwan, Fang Shui, Chan Un-fai, Cheung Kut, Un Man Choy, A. Molver, J. B. Coughtrie, Chung Shing-wong, R. C. Wilcox, J. Thurbura, J. J. Francis, J. H. Stewart-Lockhart, Yam Kwai-in, W. McKinney, Chan Chan-fat, G. H. Bateson Wright, A. Falconer, Lau Hip-chu, Wong Yat-sou, Ng Pui, Kain Cha-sheung, W. D. Hutchison, Chang Long-bin, G. A. Caldwell, Chau Chi, W. N. Bain, R. Maguire, E. Mackean, J. D. Hutchison, J. Bulgin, Chan Kai-ming, W. M. B. Arthur, Tan Tuan, E. J. Ackroyd, Ho Chung-shang, H. E. Wodehouse, Hu Tuk, Ho Chu, Hung Kam-sing, Sia Sin, and Woo Lia-in. \n\nDr. Ho KAI made the presentation in the following terms:-May it please your Excellency- Dr. Stewart, I have the honour and pleasure to address you on behalf of a large number of your old Chinese pupils, some of whom have met together to-day to present you with an address, and to ask your permission to the founding of a scholarship at the Government Central School in your name, as a slight token of the high esteem and affectionate regard which they, each and all, cherish towards you. Your long connection with the School, extending over a period of more than twenty years, has made you the benefactor of thousands of youths in this colony and elsewhere, many of whom owe their success in life mainly to your liberal education, wise discipline, and careful training. As Head Master you have laboured long and perseveringly for the school, sparing neither time nor pains, and it must be gratifying to you to witness the satisfactory results of your arduous labours in seeing so many of your old pupils occupying numerous important and useful positions in this colony and other parts of the world. (Applause.) It is no less gratifying to you, I am sure, to meet such a number of them this afternoon in this old school-room where we have so often met before, and to receive from them their personal assurance of their deep appreciation and grateful acknowledgment of your valuable services, rendered to them and to their fellow countrymen. I assure you it gives us all very great pleasure to meet you here to-day, and you will do us much honour and favour by accepting from us the small token of regard and affection we now present to you in the shape of a scholarship founded in your name. May you long be preserved to the service of your country, and to the welfare and prosperity of this Colony. (Applause.) I now crave leave to read the address:— \n\nHongkong, February, 1884. The Honourable FREDERICK STEWART, LL.D., late Head Master of the Government Central School, Hongkong, \n\nDEAR SIR,—There has been a general and spontaneous feeling amongst your old pupils that some means should \n\nbe devised to express in some measure their grateful and profound esteem for yourself personally, and your most valuable services and work in connection with education in this Colony during a period of more than twenty years. The scope and value of your past services can only be adequately estimated or properly appreciated by those whom you sought to benefit by your learning, high personal example, constant kindness, indefatigable energy and wise discipline, and so we, who have been among the fortunate recipients of the fruits of your labour, wish to express our grateful remembrance and appreciative recognition in a becoming manner. \n\nThis is our object in coming before you to-day, and it is our desire in the first place, to give expression to the deep feelings of personal regard and high esteem which we in common with those of your pupils who are prevented by unavoidable causes from signing the address \n\nEnclosure \n\nC O. \n\n4283 \n\nROD \n\nor being present to-day, cherish towards you, and, secondly, to ask your permission to the founding of a scholarship at the Government Central School to be called \"The Stewart Scholarship,\" the funds necessary to endowing it having been subscribed for this express purpose by late pupils and scholars, who saw in this a way to give you a slight token of the honour and affectionate remembrance in which your distinguished connection with the School as Head Master for more than twenty years is held by them. We remain, yours very faithfully, \n\nHo Kai, Chairman \n\nWei Yuk, Hon. Treasurer Wong Yat Sun, Hon. Secretary Chun Shing Kong, Hon. Secretary \n\nCOMMITTEE. \n\nChan Shun Fat Ng Pai Wei Leon Ho Chang Sang Sin Siu Choang Lak Y Leong Su Kwong Yoon Mun Choy Chan Kai Ming Cheang Yu Koot \n\nLak Hing Nam Kom Cha Seung \n\nIru Yow \n\nHo Chi \n\nHa Pak \n\nChow Chu \n\nFung Shui \n\nU Lai Un Chan U Fai \n\nSUBSCRIBERS. \n\nChoy Tan Chong Tam Tsun \n\nHo Tsun Tsang Kit Fan Kan Shin Fo Chan Long Hica Wong \n\nApat Chan Achew Lo Aruck \n\nTip Ping Kwan \n\nWong Saik Chee \n\nTam I Nam Luk Tit Fo Fang You Lai Kau Lam Yat Chun Kin Wing Chan Pau \n\nKwan Chak Lam Leong A Than \n\nChoong Ho \n\nTan Kwan Un Chan Ree Kwok Chik Kan \n\nHo Kun Moon \n\nHo Tsink Sin \n\nTeau Ying Koa \n\nYoung Kit Chaen \n\nChan A Sang Kwok Yang Kam \n\nChan Wing Yim \n\nChan Won Fun Trang Kum Chiu Ko Chim Yuen Ho Ha Sing \n\nLie Yne Foong Choung Shing Chan Ngui Him Chang Shan Pang Ting Ching Want Hin Chong \n\nFILE YRG \n\nNg Yaoi Wei Sung Wei Took Wei Kut \n\nSoo Kwai Sang \n\nHo Fus \n\nTang Wing Shing \n\nHung Kam Shing Hong Kam Ning Lam Su \n\nLam Ping Young Fung Chuen Chan Taung Fat Chau Pak \n\nDr. STEWART, in accepting the address, said Dr. Ho Kai and gentlemen, I thank you most heartily for this memorable token of your good will, and for the gracious terms in which you have presented it. Those \"deep feelings of personal regard and high esteem,\" to which you have given expression in this address, I most cordially reciprocate. There is no portion of my past life to which I look back with greater pleasure than the years I spent at the Central School. When I think of the support which I invariably received from the community, and the untiring efforts of my scholars to profit by the instruction they received, I feel that I should be wanting in my duty if I did not avail myself of this opportunity to convey to those who treated me with such forbearance and confidence the assurance of my sincerest gratitude. But apart altogether from the honour you have this day conferred on me personally by endowing this scholarship and calling it by my name, I desire to assure you that it would have been impossible for you to have done anything which I appreciate so much as this substantial boon which you have bestowed upon the old school. I trust that those who may hereafter be successful in winning it will do as much as you have done to uphold the credit of the school, and continue to manifest the same feelings of regard towards it and towards all who are called upon to take part in the instruction of your successors. \n\n(Applause) \n\nThe company then adjourned to luncheon in an adjoining room, and a number of toasts were afterwards drunk, \n\nHis Excellency the GOVERNOR,\" in proposing \"The Queen,\" said-Gentlemen, as you all appear to have done full justice to the ample fare placed before us by our kind Chinese hosts and I am sure you will all agree with me there could not have been a better luncheon served on any table in any part of the world-- (applause)-I say after such a luncheon it is time we should proceed to the less substantial but perhaps more intellectual part of the proceedings. When I was asked by the old scholars to preside on this occasion I gladly consented to their request, partly out of respect to them and partly because I wished to show my sympathy with the graceful and gratifying mark of honour which they are paying to-day to my distinguished friend opposite, Dr. Stewart. (Loud applause). Of course it is my first duty as chairman to propose that toast which is the first toast in every assembly of British subjects", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-215 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1884 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 325065, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-215 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1884 [1-4]", "page_number": 325, "title": "CO129-215 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1884 [1-4]", "content_text": "323\n\n\"Excellency to the requirements of all classes and races in this community, and to the initiation of measures calculated to promote the prosperity and advancement of this Colony. We trust that the loyal co-operation of the Governor and of the Legislative Council will, under the Divine Blessing, secure the general welfare and contentment of our population\".\n\n3.\n\nI annex the report of the proceedings in the chief local newspaper; and the comments upon them in a leading article of the same journal. I would request particular attention to the debate on the address, especially to the speech of Mr. Bulkeley Johnson, one of the Unofficial Members.\n\nI have the honour to be My Lord, Your Lordship's most obedient Humble Servant,\n\n5. Bowen", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-215 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1884 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 325109, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-215 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1884 [1-4]", "page_number": 369, "title": "CO129-215 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1884 [1-4]", "content_text": "367\n\n(20)\n\nMy Lords observe that the Secretary of State does not appear to contest the justice of the contributions my Lords have required from the Eastern Colonies, and that he proposes to ask the contributions of £1,400 and £6,000 from Ceylon and the Straits Settlements respectively, which are in fact the assessments claimed in the letter from this Board of the 12th June last.\n\n+\n\nWith respect to the claim on Hongkong, which was stated in the same letter as £12,700, Lord KIMBERLEY proposes to ask the Colony for £6,000, but my Lords would represent that the gain derived by this Colony from the relief of half the additional loss due to its having joined the Postal Union, estimated at £3,300 or more, annually, appears to have been overlooked or at least insufficiently considered.\n\nMy Lords think that upon reconsideration it will be seen that the application to Hongkong should at least be increased from £6,000 by this sum of £3,300 of which the Colony has gained the benefit.\n\nI have, &c.,\n\n(Signed)\n\nR. R. W. LINGEN.\n\nSir R. G. W. HERBERT, K.C.B.,\n\nColonial Office,\n\n+\n\n(21)\n\nHONGKONG GENERAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE to Colonial Secretary.\n\nHONGKONG GENERAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE,\n\nHONGKONG, 14th June, 1883.\n\nSIR, I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter No. 952, dated the 28th ultimo, together with a letter from the Postmaster-General relative to a proposed increased contribution by this Colony towards making good the loss caused to the Imperial Government by the Postal Contract to China now in force.\n\nThe letter and its enclosures were carefully considered at a Committee Meeting held on the 6th instant, when the following resolutions were passed.\n\n1st.--That the surplus revenue derived from the Post Office in Hongkong, notwithstanding that the rates of postage are higher than those charged by the French Post Office in Shanghai on correspondence by Messageries boats, being only $8,000 annually, it is manifestly impossible for the Post Office to bear the increased burthen which the proposed impost would throw upon it.\n\n2nd. That the question is now agitated among the mercantile community as to the policy of subsidising any line of steamers between this Colony and Europe, considering the numerous means of direct and speedy steam communication now available.\n\n3rd. That in the event of any further payment being required from the Colony towards the cost of the subsidy, the means could only be obtained either by an increase of the rates of postage, or from some other branch of the revenue such as stamps, which would enhance the taxation on trade, already too onerous, and the Chamber protest in the strongest manner against the proposed measure, and still more against any retrospective payment on account of the mails.\n\nAs regards any increase in the rates of postage, the Committee would observe that such a measure would be most impolitic and unjust, and one not likely to have a successful result in augmenting the postal revenue. British mail steamers are exposed to competition from numerous foreign lines of steam communication which would be glad to carry the letters of this Colony for half the rates now charged and were an increase resolved upon there would be nothing to prevent the public sending their correspondence by private steamers to Saigon to be posted there for Europe, a course which would deprive the Colonial Government entirely of the revenue derived from the French mail service.\n\nThe Committee also desire to point out that in the statement showing the division of cost and apportionment of the loss on the service, the share falling to the Hongkong and Shanghai section of the Mail route is set down as £20,968, which amount the Chamber submit should be deducted from £360,000, and the balance charged rateably against this Colony.—I have, &c.\n\n(Signed) F. BULKELEY JOHNSON,\n\nChairman.\n\nThe Honourable, W. H. Marsh, C.M.G.,\n\nColonial Secretary,\n\n&c., &c., &c.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-215 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1884 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 325139, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-215 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1884 [1-4]", "page_number": 399, "title": "CO129-215 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1884 [1-4]", "content_text": "# Enclosure 2\n\n397\n\n# No. 20.\n\n## FINANCE COMMITTEE.\n\n### PRESENT:\n\nCOUNCIL CHAMBER,\n\nHONGKONG, 18th December, 1883.\n\nThe Honourable the Colonial Secretary, (WILLIAM HENRY MARSH, C.M.G.)\n\nthe Colonial Treasurer, (ALFRED LISTER).\n\nFREDERICK STEWART.\n\nJOHN MACNEILE PRICE.\n\nPHINEAS RYRIE.\n\nFRANCIS BULKELEY JOHNSON.\n\nC.0.6521\n\nRECP\n\nREG 22 APR 34\n\n### ABSENT:\n\n0.8.0.2830 of 1883. Amdt\n\nHis Honour the Chief Justice, (Sir GEORGE PHILLIPPO),\n\nThe Honourable the Attorney General, (EDWARD Loughlin O'MALLEY).\n\nWILLIAM KESWICK.\n\nThe Committee met this day according to summons.\n\nThe Minutes of the last Meeting are read and confirmed.\n\n## ESTABLISHMENTS.\n\n### Colonial Secretary.\n\n(1). Read: A letter from Mr. F. H. MAY reporting his arrival at Peking and enclosing a Memorandum of the expenses of his journey.\n\nMAF f travel-\n\ning expenses,\n\nde, to Peking.\n\n$125. Pas-\n\nsage from Hong-\n\nkong to Shang-\n\nhai.\n\netc etc 283\n\nINRS. Balance-Grant\n\nThe Committee recommend that the vote of $180.25 be approved.\n\n## SERVICES EXCLUSIVE OF ESTABLISHMENTS.\n\n### Education.\n\n(2). Read: A despatch from the Secretary of State approving of a vote of $1,000 in aid of the Asile de la Sainte Enfance.\n\nSite Enfance,\n\nto Asile de la\n\n$1,000.\n\n*C.8.0.2785\n\nof 1883.\n\nThe Committee recommend that the sum approved of by the Secretary of State should be voted, on account of the good work done in the Colony by the Asile de la Sainte Enfance.\n\n(3). Read: A letter from the Surveyor General applying that an extra Clerk of Works be appointed for a period of three years.\n\nThe Committee recommend that, in view of the necessity of the case, as pointed out by the Surveyor General, the application should be submitted for the approval of the Secretary of State.\n\nThe Chairman adjourns the Committee sine die.\n\nJ. H. STEWART-LOCKHART,\n\nActing Clerk of Councils.\n\nW. H. MARSH,\n\nChairman", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-215 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1884 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 325140, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-215 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1884 [1-4]", "page_number": 400, "title": "CO129-215 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1884 [1-4]", "content_text": "# FINANCE COMMITTEE.\n\n## PRESENT:\nCOUNCIL CHAMBER, HONGKONG, 28th December, 1883.\n\nThe Honourable the Colonial Secretary, (WILLIAM HENRY MARSH, C.M.G.)\n\nFREDERICK STEWART\n\nThe Colonial Treasurer, (ALFRED LISTER)\n\nJOHN MACNEILE PRICE\n\nPHINEAS RYRIE\n\nFRANCIS BULKELEY JOHNSON\n\n## ABSENT:\n\nHis Honour the Chief Justice, (Sir GEORGE PHILLIPPO)\n\nThe Honourable the Attorney General, (EDWARD Loughlin O'MALLEY)\n\nWILLIAM KESWICK\n\nThe Committee meet this day according to summons.\n\nThe Minutes of the last Meeting are read and confirmed.\n\n## SERVICES EXCLUSIVE OF ESTABLISHMENTS\n\n### Miscellaneous Services\n\n(1.) Read a petition from the widow of the late Mr. HAYWARD, Acting Superintendent of Victoria Gaol, praying for a gratuity in consideration of her late husband's services.\n\nThe Committee concur in the suggestion of the Executive Council, who on considering the petition, advised that a sum equal to the salary of the post of Superintendent, which was not drawn, whilst Mr. HAYWARD acted as Superintendent, less the moiety of the Warden's pay, which was drawn, should be granted as a gratuity, and recommend that this sum, amounts to $946, be approved.\n\n(2.) Read a letter from the Acting Captain Superintendent of Police, recommending that a passage to England should be granted to the 2 children of the late Police Constable COOKSON, who, as well as his wife, died suddenly from cholera.\n\nThe Committee recommend that the necessary vote for this expenditure, which should not exceed $180, be approved.\n\nThe Chairman adjourns the Committee sine die.\n\nJ. H. STEWART-Lockhart, \nActing Clerk of Councils\n\nW. H. MARSH, \nChairman", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-215 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1884 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 325141, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-215 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1884 [1-4]", "page_number": 401, "title": "CO129-215 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1884 [1-4]", "content_text": "# FINANCE COMMITTEE\n\nPRESENT:\n\nCOUNCIL CHAMBER,\n\nHONGKONG, 15th January, 1884.\n\nThe Honourable the Colonial Secretary, (WILLIAM HENRY MARSH, C.M.G.)\n\nThe Honourable the Colonial Treasurer, (ALFRED LISTER).\n\nFREDERICK STEWART.\n\nJOHN MACNEILE PRICE.\n\nPHINEAS RYRIE.\n\nFRANCIS BULKELEY JOHNSON.\n\nABSENT:\n\nHis Honour the Chief Justice, (Sir GEORGE PHILLIPPO).\n\nThe Honourable the Attorney General, (EDWARD LOUGHLIN O'MALLEY).\n\nWILLIAM KESWICK,\n\nThe Committee met this day according to summons.\n\nThe Minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed.\n\nPAYMENTS AUTHORISED IN EXCESS OF THE ESTIMATES OF 1883, REQUIRING LEGISLATIVE AUTHORITY.\n\nSERVICES EXCLUSIVE OF ESTABLISHMENTS.\n\nPostmaster General.\n\n(1.) Read: A letter from the Postmaster General, requesting that a supplementary vote may be taken for the sum of $671, for gratuities to ship masters for carrying mails, the Mail Estimates for 1883 having been exceeded by that amount.\n\n$671.\n\nVote recommended, as $125 of this sum will be recovered from the Japanese Post Office, and as most of the amount has been already paid in as Postal Revenue.\n\nPAYMENTS AUTHORISED IN EXCESS OF THE ESTIMATES OF 1884, REQUIRING LEGISLATIVE AUTHORITY.\n\n(2.) Read: A letter from the Colonial Treasurer, applying for a vote for $180 for a Chinese Writer, to enable the Notice Server in the Treasury Department to devote his whole time to the collection of Municipal Taxes and Crown Rents.\n\nVote recommended, as an experiment for one year, as the small extra expense is likely to put a stop to the difficulty which has been experienced in collecting Municipal Taxes and Crown Rents, and the revenue will be benefited by not sustaining so great a loss, as hitherto, of interest on the large arrears, which have been long left unpaid.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-215 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1884 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 325239, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-215 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1884 [1-4]", "page_number": 499, "title": "CO129-215 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1884 [1-4]", "content_text": "497\n\nthe Honourable J. M. Price, Surveyor General of Hong Kong,1 by the principal residents of this Colony, assuring him of their sympathy and the continued confidence of the Community.\n\n2. I also informed Your Lordship that Mr Price had addressed a letter to the Colonial Secretary, in which he thought himself absolved by the Chief Justice from all imputation, on behalf of his Department, \"the 3 Copies\" and deprecated the appointment of a \"Commission of Inquiry\".\n\nAccordingly, with the advice of the Executive Council, I appointed a Commission, consisting of the Attorney General, The Treasurer, and Mr Bulkeley Johnson, (an unofficial Member of the Legislative Council.)\n\nI now transmit, for Your Lordship's information, copies of the Report of this Commission; which entirely exculpates Mr Price and his Department.\n\n1 \"Houstons\" in original text, corrected to \"Hong Kong\". \"thoughs\" corrected to \"thought\". \"propocet\" not corrected as it is unclear, possible OCR error for \"protested\". \"ce\" likely an OCR error for \"of\" or \"Council\". \"Crunel\" likely an OCR error for \"Council\". \"англа.\" appears to be a non-meaningful OCR result, ignored. \"We libre\" likely an OCR error for \"this\". \"exculpat\" corrected to \"exculpates\". \"his Bulkeley Johnson\" likely should be \"Mr Bulkeley Johnson\". \"Hong Kong\" correction made assuming \"Houstons\" was an OCR error. Other corrections made for obvious errors.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-215 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1884 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 325858, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-216 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1884 [5-6]", "page_number": 447, "title": "CO129-216 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1884 [5-6]", "content_text": "# 5 446\n\nrecently passed by the Legislative Council of Hongkong, entitled \n\n# An Ordinance to authorize F. Bulkeley Johnson to construct piers and wharves in the harbour of Victoria and to confer upon the said F. B. Johnson certain powers and privileges.\n\nMr. Bulkeley Johnson is a senior partner in the eminent firm of Jardine, Matheson, & Co., (of which the head is Mr Jardine now M.P. for Dumfries), and he represented that firm in this matter. As Mr. Johnson is now in England, the firm is at this date (June 1884) represented at Hongkong by another Senior Partner, Mr. Keswick, who is an Unofficial Member of the Legislative Council.\n\nWith regard to the comments passed upon this Ordinance, I would observe, in the first place, that the Governor and the Colonial Legislature in this, as in all legal matters, and in all legislative matters connected with points of law, were guided by the advice of the Attorney-General, who is the Responsible Law Officer of the Crown. I may here repeat what I wrote on this subject in my despatch N. 151 of the 3rd ultimo `Gor 10769`.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-216 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1884 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 325864, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-216 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1884 [5-6]", "page_number": 453, "title": "CO129-216 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1884 [5-6]", "content_text": "## \npublicly criticised the actions of \"Downing Street\", and has given forcible expression, in his public speeches, to the general feeling of the inhabitants of Crown Colonies, to the effect that Earl Grey laid down the right principle of governing such Colonies when he wrote in his book on Colonial Policy, (Vol. I. page 22), that, while absolute control must be reserved in all matters to the Imperial Government, the Colonial Office in England should, nevertheless, generally abstain from meddling interference in the details of local administration.\n\n## \nOn this point, I will only say that Mr. Bulkeley Johnson has also publicly quoted the well-known dictum of the late Mr. John Godley, the Founder of the Canterbury Settlement, (and recognized by some of the foremost statesmen of the present age as a high authority on Colonial and other affairs), who, while in New-Zealand, put on record his opinion to the effect that \"it would be better for distant Colonies to be governed in their local and municipal administration by the Devil himself rather than by a Bureaucracy of Angels in Downing Street.\"\n\n## \nAll Colonists call the Colonial Office \"Downing Street\", and accepts the position and...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-216 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1884 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 325866, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-216 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1884 [5-6]", "page_number": 455, "title": "CO129-216 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1884 [5-6]", "content_text": "# 454\n\nwhen it was first passed by the Legislature. It will be seen that it was declared to be \"not contrary to the Governor's Instructions,\" and that one reason was assigned that could have justified withholding my assent from it.\n\n\"I have examined the accompanying Ordinance being \"An Ordinance to authorize M. Francis Bulkeley Johnson to construct piers and wharves in the harbour of Victoria and to confer upon the said Francis Bulkeley Johnson certain other powers and privileges,\" and I am of opinion that the Ordinance is one \"which is not contrary to the Governor's Instructions. The object of this Ordinance is to confer powers on M. F. B. Johnson of the firm of \"Jardine Matheson & Co.,\" to construct and maintain piers and wharves opposite certain marine lots owned by him at the west end of the city of Victoria. The provisions of the Ordinance are substantially the same as those of the Pier and Godown Ordinance, 1871, by which like...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-216 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1884 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 325867, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-216 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1884 [5-6]", "page_number": 456, "title": "CO129-216 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1884 [5-6]", "content_text": "20 \n\n21 \n\n455 \n\ngranted to the... \"like powers were Vier and Godown Company for \n\n# the construction of a tier at the Eastern end of the Thaya, with the addition of sections providing for transfer, mortgage, or lease, of the undertaking, embodying the same conditions as those contained in corresponding sections of the recent Tramways Ordinance?\" \n\n8 (signed) E.E.O'Malley \n\nIn support of the allegation of the Attorney-General that the forms prescribed for Private Bills had been substantially observed, it may be useful to give here a brief narrative of the proceedings previous to the introduction of this measure. \n\nFrom the official records furnished to me by the Colonial Secretary, it appears that when this scheme was first proposed by Mr. Bulkeley Johnson, on behalf of the firm of Jardine, Matheson & Co, it was referred by my (the Governor's) direction for the opinion of the Surveyor-General and of the Harbour Master", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-216 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1884 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 325869, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-216 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1884 [5-6]", "page_number": 458, "title": "CO129-216 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1884 [5-6]", "content_text": "457 \n\nمگر is intended after the expiration of one month from the date hereof to apply to the Legislative Council for leave to introduce a Bill for the purpose of authorizing the Honourable Francis Bulkeley Johnson to construct and maintain piers and wharves in the harbour of Victoria at and from that portion of the Public Bay which lies opposite marine lots 95, 96, 97, 98, according to plans and specifications to be approved by the Governor in Council; and to confer on the said Francis Bulkeley Johnson certain powers and privileges in connection therewith. Dated this 10th day of November, 1883. \n\n(signed) Brereton, Wotton & Deason, solicitors for the said Honourable F.B. Johnson.\n\nFrom some expressions in the reply in the despatch under consideration, it would appear that objection is taken to this Ordinance not only on formal and technical grounds, but also on considerations of public policy. Of such considerations, it is, however, submitted, that the members of the Colonial...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-216 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1884 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 325878, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-216 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1884 [5-6]", "page_number": 467, "title": "CO129-216 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1884 [5-6]", "content_text": "# 42 \n\n## EA \n\n466 \n\n16. \n\nI now submit for Her Majesty's gracious confirmation and allowance, the two Bills, of which transcripts accompany this despatch, empowering Mr. Bulkeley Johnson and Mr. Chater, respectively, to construct Piers and Wharves in the harbour of Victoria.\n\nI have the honour to be, \n\nMy Lord, Your Lordship's Most Obedient Humble Servant, \n\n**S.M. Bowen** \n\nEnclosures 1 and 6. (with six spare copies of each)\n\n## Enclosure 1 \n\n**Report by the Attorney General on Ordinance No. 18 of 1884.**\n\nAttorney General's Office \n9th June, 1884.\n\nI have examined the accompanying Ordinance, entitled **An Ordinance to authorize Francis Bulkeley Johnson to construct piers and wharves in the harbour of Victoria, and to confer upon the said Francis Bulkeley Johnson certain other powers and privileges**, and I am of opinion that the Ordinance is one which is not contrary to the Governor's Instructions.\n\nThis Ordinance re-enacts Ordinance 17 of 1883 with the Amendments,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-216 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1884 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 330308, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-225 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1886 [1-3]", "page_number": 170, "title": "CO129-225 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1886 [1-3]", "content_text": "## DESPATCH\n**C. O. 5000**\n\nLate Mr F. Bulkeley Johnson Requests that widow be informed of vote of condolence & sympathy passed by Legislative Council.\n\n### (Minutes.)\nW. Meade, \nMarked `try` herewith for consideration, sending copy of extract of the despatch and copy of the resolution to Bulkeley Johnson's widow.\n\nHW. J \nC \nAur \nCopy sent to subsequent Paper.\n\n| No. | Date | Previous Paper | REC? |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 54 | 1886 | $770 | ? |\n| | | 5900 | |\n| | | 166 | |\n\nof a portion of the territory on mainland from off the Island of Hong Kong has been again considered. But it is considered that we should adhere to the decision already taken.\n\nPage... \n770 \n1244186", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-225 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1886 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 330309, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-225 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1886 [1-3]", "page_number": 171, "title": "CO129-225 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1886 [1-3]", "content_text": "## Government House, Hongkong, 18th February 1886.\n\nSir,\n\nI was informed yesterday morning of the death at Cannes, of Mr Francois Bulkeley Johnson, who a few years ago, was an Unofficial Member of the Legislative Council and subsequently Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies, ...\n\nNo 51\n5000\n167\nREC? \n17", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-225 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1886 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 330311, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-225 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1886 [1-3]", "page_number": 173, "title": "CO129-225 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1886 [1-3]", "content_text": "# Care \n\nSir,\n\nMr. F. But Keley, Johnson, \nMessrs. Watheson & Co., \n3, Lombard Street, \nLondon, E.C.\n\nI have the honour to be, \nYour Obedient \nHumble Servant\n\n## Enclosure 1.\n\n### THE LATE MR BULKELEY JOHNSON.\n\nThe record of a life, notable in Hongkong and China, during a period of well nigh forty years, was closed at Cannes on Monday night last, when Mr Bulkeley Johnson passed over to the majority. Few men took a more lively interest in public affairs than he did and fewer still were prepared to make such sacrifices of time and convenience for the vindication of principles to which he attached importance. He was a master in politico-economic science, and, being a graceful writer and fluent speaker, he did much to stem the growing tendency to sacrifice future possibilities to what might appear to be present advantage. The war he waged in our local parliament in defence of truth and right and social decency is too fresh in the memory of our readers to require to be recalled in detail, but the period of repose and honest work we are now enjoying intensifies our feeling of gratitude for his untiring exertions to relieve the Colony of the incubus, under which it groaned. A Radical in the truest sense, he always examined every question that presented itself to him without reference to tradition, but he was constructive not destructive, never abandoning anything defensible merely because it was old, nor until he was in a position to suggest an improvement. The records of our Chamber of Commerce bear testimony to his power of work and great ability, and many of his despatches to our local Government, H. M. Minister to Pekin, and the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, are exhaustive of the subjects on which they treat and models of clear and cogent exposition.\n\nHe was a warm friend and a chivalrous opponent, and to those of his contemporaries who remain in the East, or who have returned home to enjoy a period of rest after toil, his removal will create a blank it will be impossible to refill.\n\nOn the tomb of one whose name is honoured by all good men, there is this inscription 'He tried to do his duty.' Of few who have lived in our community can this statement be made with so much truth as of Mr Bulkeley Johnson, and his endeavours were rewarded with a measure of success attained only by the most earnest.\n\nMr Johnson's connection with the Far East was a long and honourable one, and his name was known and respected in most of the treaty ports of China and Japan. He came out first to China when quite a young man, about 1860, and, settling down in Hongkong, not long after became a partner in the firm of Messrs Johnson & Co., merchants, who then carried on business in Gough Street. He remained in this firm for some fifteen years, when the House closed, and he was then invited to join the house of Messrs Jardine, Matheson & Co., with whose fortune he has since been associated. On the departure of the Hon. Mr Keswick for Home on a holiday, Mr Johnson became the managing partner of the firm here, and also took up the seat of his brother partner in the Legislative Council. He also became chairman of the local Chamber of Commerce, and in this capacity did yeoman service in advancing British interests, notably in exposing the shortcomings of the Treaty with Korea negotiated by Admiral Willes. On his departure for Home in March, 1884, Mr Johnson was presented with a very flattering address, which was extensively signed by the members of the community, as a mark of their appreciation of the public services rendered by him in the Legislative Council and as Chairman of the Chamber of Commerce. Mr Johnson was about 58 years of age.\n\nPage 169", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-225 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1886 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 333711, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-231 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1887 [1-3]", "page_number": 534, "title": "CO129-231 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1887 [1-3]", "content_text": "signed by my hon friend on the right (Hon. P. Ryrie), Mr. Lowcock, and Mr. Keswick. It runs as follows:-\"The seizures that are constantly made and the terror inspired by the lawless acts of various petty collectors of ill-defined and miscellaneous duties have on former occasions been loudly exclaimed against and condemned, but no change for the better has taken place. It has been frequently and abundantly proved that the blockade is a serious evil, a great hindrance to the trade of the colony, unjust, and in its effects demoralising; and the papers which have been submitted to us, addressed to His Excellency by the Chief Justice, the Acting Attorney-General, and the Junior Magistrate on the system adopted by the English officers of the Boppo of Canton, show that Chinese of the lowest class are employed as informers, received into the service, and educated to prey upon the people as false accusers and extortioners.\" The end of all these complaints was the passing of an article in the Chefoo Convention which runs as follows:- \"The Government of Hongkong having long complained of the interference of the Canton Customs Revenue Cruisers with the junk trade of that Colony, the Chinese Government agrees to the appointment of a Commission to consist of British Consul, an officer of the Hongkong Government, and a Chinese official of equal rank, in order to the establishment of some system that shall enable the Chinese Government to protect its revenue without prejudice to the interests of the colony.\" It is not necessary now to inquire into the circumstances which prevented this clause being acted upon. In 1883, negotiations took place in London between the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and the Marquis Tseng, which resulted in an additional article, dated July 18th, 1885, and one clause of it I will read: \"In lieu of the arrangement respecting opium proposed in clause 3 of section III of the Chefoo Agreement, it is agreed that foreign opium, when imported into China, shall be taken cognisance of by the Imperial Maritime Customs, and shall be deposited in bond, either in warehouses or receiving bulks which have been approved of by the Customs, and that it shall not be removed thence until there shall have been paid to the Customs the tariff duty of thirty taels per chest of 100 catties, and also a sum not exceeding eighty taels per like chest as lekin.\" The ninth clause is as follows: \"It is understood that the Commission provided for in clause 7 of section III of the Chefoo Agreement to inquire into the question of the prevention of smuggling into China from Hongkong shall be appointed as soon as possible.\" I would here beg to call attention to the difference in the two articles. In the first, Hongkong appears as the complainant, and the section provided for the appointment of a Commission to inquire into the interference of the Canton Customs revenue cruisers with the junk trade of the colony, and also for the establishment of some system which would enable the Chinese Government to protect its revenue without prejudice to the interests of Hongkong; while in the other article, the complaint of Hongkong appears to have been totally forgotten, and the object of the Commission was to inquire into smuggling from Hongkong into China.\n\nIn 1883, a Commission was appointed, presided over by his Honour the Chief Justice, and composed of my hon. friend on the right (Hon. P. Ryrie), Mr. Justice Russell, and I believe Mr. Balkeley Johnson. It was undoubtedly a fact, as pointed out by that Commission, that smuggling to a great extent did take place from Hongkong, was carried on by the Chinese themselves, and that the European portion of the community were total strangers to it. The Commissioner, in his report, in speaking of the Commission, says as follows: \"The island of Hongkong is separated from the mainland of China by a narrow strait, varying from half a mile to four miles in breadth, and situated along a shore line faced by a range of high mountains to be crossed only by three or four steep passes. This geographical position, so favourable for a preventive service, whilst affording the Chinese Government the ready means of protecting its revenue, which would be wanting if the colony were placed at a greater distance, and the cruisers had to guard an extended length of coast, is, nevertheless, from the numerous bays, creeks, and inlets along the Chinese coast, a constant source of annoyance to the Government of China, and induces the maintenance of an armed flotilla for miles up and down the coast opposite Hongkong. The Commissioners submit, with reference to the whole question of smuggling from this colony into China, and the so-called blockade, that according to international law, it is no part of the duty of the Hongkong Government to assist the Chinese Government in the collection of its revenue. Yet, considering the position of Hongkong in relation to the mainland of China, the Commissioners feel that the Colonial Government is called upon by considerations of policy to prevent in every reasonable way the freedom of this port from being abused by being made the means of defrauding the authorities of the neighbouring empire of their legitimate dues, provided that the Chinese Government, on its part, will conform to the provisions of the treaties in respect of tariff stipulations, and will, moreover, enter into effective guarantees that the trade of Hongkong shall not be subjected to irregular, indefinite, or exceptional taxation, and that vessels and goods shall not be forfeited or persons trading to or from Hongkong be punished for smuggling, unless by some competent and open tribunal, in which complete confidence may be reposed by the Hongkong Government.\"\n\nNow it is quite clear that if China experienced a difficulty in repressing smuggling when the duty was only thirty taels, she will be likely to encounter very much greater difficulty, and a great impetus will be given to smuggling when the duty is increased from thirty to one hundred and ten taels, and when the article, once introduced into China, will be free from all dues and duties. The Chinese authorities represented, therefore, to the English Government that the additional article would be a failure unless certain facilities were granted by the Government of Hongkong for the collection of the opium duty and the lekin. These proposals were mentioned in His Excellency's minute, which was submitted to the Council at the last meeting. The first plan was that the revenue should be collected in India, the second that China should do her own work, and the third that there should be a sort of co-operation between England and China, called the hulk plan. The Indian plan was rejected at once by the home authorities, but the hulk plan was submitted for the consideration of the Commission. Under these circumstances, the Opium Commission assembled here last year, and Sir Robert Hart referred to these proposals and placed them before the Commissioners. They were all considered unacceptable, and yet something had to be done. And why? Because China was determined to do all in her power to protect her revenue, and if, in doing so, she put into full force all her rights, rights which have often been admitted, she would be able to place great impediments on the trade of this colony, and to harass it very much indeed. In fact, she might again have instituted another blockade, only stricter, because the object was still more important.\n\nI think, looking at the geographical position of this island, and the facilities it offers for smuggling, if we can, while increasing our own revenue, assist China to protect hers, and while protecting her own revenue, not to injure us, we ought to meet her half-way, and do what we can. The Hongkong Commissioner, therefore, put forward his scheme, and he states what are his reasons for doing so. He says: \"We had experience some years ago of this trouble and annoyance, and the interference with legitimate traders caused by the new system for collecting opium duty and lekin, and it, therefore, is a matter for consideration how far we could go in giving facilities to China to enable her to collect, with as little friction as possible, and as cheaply as possible, the considerably increased opium tax which is leviable under the Additional Article. China might do much, without transgressing any treaty obligation, to vex the trade of Hongkong, whether by junk or steamer, and some of the privileges of the coasting and river steamers, which are now enjoyed by them, would probably suffer curtailment. Whilst, therefore, not acquiescing in the bulk plan, I felt that something should be done, and I had prepared a scheme founded on legislation existing in Singapore for years - a scheme which I considered would be for the mutual advantage of Hongkong and China. Having objected to the bulk plan, and having learned that there was no alternative one to be put forward, I proceeded to unfold my scheme, subject to the following conditions:- 1. That China will arrange with Portugal that Macao adopts a similar or equivalent measure. 2. That if it is found to affect injuriously the legitimate trade...\n\n2\n\n528", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-231 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1887 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 334565, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-233 - Acting Governor Cameron - 1887 [6-8]", "page_number": 387, "title": "CO129-233 - Acting Governor Cameron - 1887 [6-8]", "content_text": "380\n\nCALENDAR OF PROBATES and ADMINISTRATIONS granted by the Supreme Court of Hongkong, during the year 1886,\n\nDate\nName of Testator or Intestate\nPlace and Time of Death\nGrant\nValue of the Effects\nName and Description of the Executor or Administrator\n\n1886\n\n$\n\nJan. 11\nAlexander Paterson\nEngland, 10th Mar., 1885\nProbate\n\nThomas Neave\n\n11\nNg Sa Yuen Sing Chun alias Yuen Cheong alias Yuen King Hung\nSingapore, 4th Mar., 1882\nAdm. with Will annexed\n\nHenry Arthur Herbert, Attorney of Frederick Paterson, Peter Rennie, and James Macalister\n\n11\nLeung Ming Yow alias Leung Fau Kan\n\n11\nLui Kum Chaen\n\nThomas Henderson Whitehead, Attorney of Grace Neave\n\nJune 15\nHenry O'Neill\nAt Sea, in the Bay of Bengal, 28th Jan., 1886\n\n900.00\n\n17\nChan Kom\n\n19\nHenry Brerall\nCanton, 8th Oct., 1885\nProbate\n7,000.00\nJohn Yardly Vernon, the executor\n\n19\nCheang Chew Inc\nH'kong, 13th Nov., 1885\n\nVernon Vernon, the executor. Power being reserved to Ellen O'Neil, the executrix\n\n21\nNg Shi\nH'kong, 21st Sept., 1885\nAdministration\n70,000.00\nChau Lai Po, the administrator\n\n22\nJaid Chan She\nShanghai, 20th April, 1886\nAdm. with Will annexed\n13,300.00\nAlfred Parker Stokes, Attorney of Elizabeth Everall and William Weston Clifford\n\nJuly\nJoseph Joseph Money\nH'kong, Both Mar., 1886\n\n530.00\n\n3\nWong Tso Leong\nH'kong, 30th April, 1886\nAdministration\n140.00\nCheang Chan She, the first lawful wife\n\n13\nWilliam Dolan\nH'kong, 3rd Dec., 1885\nProbate\n10.00\nWilliam Henry Hay, solo executor\n\n14\nAlbert Edward Salter\nH'kong, 10th Dec., 1885\nAdministration\n200.00\nEdw. James Ackroyd, Official Administrator\n\n14\nWong Tsung\nH'kong, 20th Dec., 1885\n\n21\nEdward Jackson\nManila\nProbate\n12,000.00\nDavid Gillies and Robert Lang, the executors\n\n21\nLeung Kong Chi alias Leung\n\n21\nNorman Curtis Stevens\nAt Sea, 13th June, 1886\nAdministration\n4,000.00\nAlfred Gascoyne Wise, Official Administrator\n\n22\nWong Ying\nH'kong, 22nd Jan., 1884\nProbate\n160.00\nWong Yuk Che, the executor, according to the tenor of the Will\n\n26\nLeung Kwan Shau alias Ki alias Kwong Fo\n\n200.00\n\n26\nAndrew Thomas Carmichael\n\nAdm. with Will annexed\n3,500.00\nAlfred Parker Stokes, Attorney of Ellen Maria Stevens\n\n27\nHurdil Singh\n\n27\nRobert Strachan\nCalcutta, 7th Jan., 1886\nProbate\n5,000.00\nHenry William Davis, Attorney of Isabel Braide Strachan, widow of the deceased\n\n28\nTo Shap Ng\nJamaica, 5th April, 1882\nAdm. with Will annexed\n1,000.00\nAlfred Parker Stokes, Attorney of Lucy Happer Glover\n\nAug.\nPhillip Robert Doni\n\n4\nAang. Reuben Solomon\nEngland, 19th Jan., 1881\nProbate\n2,500.00\nFrancis Bulkeley Johnson\n\n5\nLeong Hoi\nFrance, 20th Oct., 1884\nAdm. with Will annexed\n8,400.00\nJohn Walter, Attorney of Donald Peter McDonald and John Forrest\n\n7\nSitnah Solomon\nH'kong, 7th Dec., 1885\nAdministration\n600.00\nAlfred Gascoyne Wise, Official Administrator\n\n9\nJames Twinent\nAt Sea\nAdm. with Will annexed\n5,600.00\nSitnah Solomon, Attorney of Abraham Ezra\n\n10\nWilliam Whitfield\nLondon\n\n2,000.00\nWai Fing and Lim Wa You, the executor and executrix, according to the tenor of the Will\n\nSept.\nJarasjee Pestonjee Vakil\n\n8\nGeorge Doo Pitman\nS.S. Namna, 16th July, 1885\nAdministration\n100.00\nEdw. James Ackroyd, Official Administrator\n\n8\nLeung William Atah\nH'kong, 26th June, 1886\n\n9\nRobert Anderson\nH'kong, 7th Mar., 1885\nProbate\n22,700.00\nJohn Bell-Irving, Attorney of Sir Robert Jardine, Richard Dawes, Jr., and Jane Sophia Bulkeley Johnson\n\n10\nTsang I\nH'kong, 27th April, 1885\nAdministration\n100.00\nAlfred Gascoyne Wise, Official Administrator\n\n13\nGeorge Frederick Pinker\n\n41,000.00\n\n13\nWilliam Henry Doyle\n\n13\nChun Uang alias Chun Lok alias Chun Sang Lai alias Chun\n\n15\nAu Yun\nShui Shang, Macao\n\n16\nJoão Jacques Floriano Alvares\nMacao, 20th May, 1885\nProbate\n21,000.00\nAnna Maria Goines Alvares, the widow\n\n21\nLeung Yu Sha alias Leong Yee Sha\n\n24\nVicencia Maria d'Almeida\nH'kong, Macao\n\n27\nJohn Mitchell\nAt Sea, 24th Feb., 1886\nAdministration\n600.00\nAlfred Gascoyne Wise, Official Administrator\n\nOct.\nChau Mi Loi\nH'kong, 21st July, 1886\nAdm. de bonis non\n5,400.00\nAlfred Gascoyne Wise, Official Administrator\n\n1\nChing Fun\nH'kong, 5th Aug., 1886\nProbate\n10,000.00\nChing Fun, the executor\n\n1\nEuzebie Florentino de Souza\nH'kong, 2nd July, 1886\nAdministration\n2,500.00\nEuzebie Florentino de Souza, the administrator\n\n12\nJames Nelson\n\n12\nJohn McGourlay\n\n12\nLee Sik Chuen\nChow Chi Village\n\n16\nRobert Anderson\nH'kong, 16th Feb., 1886\nAdministration\n2,600.00\nEdw. James Ackroyd, Official Administrator\n\n18\nNg Mui\nH'kong, 24th Jan., 1886\nProbate\n\nWei Shee, the executrix, according to the tenor of the Will\n\n25\nNg Mui\nM'kong, 25th July, 1886\nAdministration\n2,900.00\nAndrew John Leach, Attorney of Anne Cecilia Doyle\n\n25\nTsang Sia\nH'kong, 12th Aug., 1886\n\n260.00\nAa Hin Kwong and Au Kum Sze\n\n25\nChoa Choo Bee\nH'kong, 18th Aug., 1886\nProbate\n4,500.00\nChoa Choo Bee, one of the executors. Power being reserved to Wong A-moong, the other executor\n\n26\nRev. John Charles Edge\nH'kong\n\n10,000.00\nSarah Ann Edge, widow of the deceased\n\n26\nChan Nam Hing\n\n300.00\nSham Shi, the lawful wife of the deceased\n\n26\nHippolyte Alexander Nicaise\nBrussels, 22nd Mar., 1885\nAdm. with Will annexed\n3,500.00\nThomas Henderson Whitehead, Attorney of Taucie Marie Caroline Nicaise, sole executrix\n\n27\nAntonio Sanches\n\n210,000.00\n\nNov.\nEleuterio Villanueva\nH'kong, 7th Oct., 1885\nAdministration\n30.00\nAlfred Gascoyne Wise, Official Administrator\n\n1\nLeung Ngau\n\n1\nChing Tai\n\n6\nJohn Gerrani\nH'kong, 25th Feb., 1886\nAdministration\n1,500.00\nIsmael Pullay Madar, one of the executors. Power being reserved to Wong Ha Pong, the other executor\n\n6\nLo A-kit\nTurriff, Scotland\n\nLo A-kit, the daughter\n\n8\nElias David Joseph Ezra\nAmoy, 22nd June, 1886\nAdm. with Will annexed\n3,500.00\nTse Ching Kai, the executor, according to the tenor of the Will\n\n8\nCharlotte Page Hance\nCalcutta, 3rd Feb., 1886\n\n3,000.00\nCharlotte Page Hance, the widow and sole executrix\n\n19\nHo Hing Fai\n\n22\nChan Tak alias Sui Fong\nTang Kun, 26th Nov., 1885\nAdm. with Will annexed\n\nDec.\nAnthony Field Sampson\n\nMay\nChoy Pun alias Choy Tun Po\nCanton, 13th Mar., 1886\nAdministration\n390.00\nChing A-tsai, the widow\n\n4\nTsui Kwong\nH'kong, 21st April, 1886\n\n10\nWong Lok Chi\nH'kong, 27th Nov., 1885\nProbate\n\nHerbert Maurice Bovis, Attorney of William Whyte\n\n14\nChing Yuk Shing\nAt Sea, H'kong\nAdministration\n\nChoy Tam Shi and Choy Wong Shi, the executrixes\n\n20\nAlbert Edmades Pirkie\nLondon, 17th July, 1885\nProbate\n70,800.00\nJohn Stewart Nazer, the executor\n\n20\nFrançois Vincevci\nH'kong, 11th Oct., 1880\nAdministration\n940.00\nLo Kwei Kum\n\n21\nJoseph Theophilus Chater\nH'kong\nAdm. with Will annexed\n500.00\nHon. Alfred Lister, Attorney of Stephen Wotton Bushell and Colin Mackenzie Ford\n\n21\nShmu A-feat\n\nShmu A-feat, first lawful wife\n\n21\nManoel José Maria Gonsalves da Silva\nMacao\n\n200.00\nWong Tin Ting, sole of the deceased\n\n21\nLa Lai bhang fong alias Lai Tung\nMacao\nAdministration\n\nLeung A-ol, the first lawful wife\n\n21\nNg A-mui\nH'kong\n\nMaria Francisca Marques da Silva\n\n26\nArthur Wellington Grosvenor\nEngland, 13th Oct., 1865\n\n125,000.00\nJacob Benjamin Elias, Attorney of Joseph Elias David Joseph Ezra\n\n28\nLow Kura Choong\n\n31\nWong A-sheong\n\nJune\nTaska Moto Odai\nSei Heung, 15th Feb., 1886\nAdministration\n2,300.00\nHe Kunn, otherwise Ho Sim To\n\n1\nYoung Ah Loy\nAt Sea, 7th May, 1886\n\nLam Kis Fung\n\n3\nKeung Lai Mool\nH'kong, 17th May, 1886\n\n100.00\nLai Kam and Lai Sai Kau, the executrixes\n\n3\nWong A-sai\nH'kong, 28th May, 1886\nAdministration\n150.00\nAuguste Raphael Marty, solo executor\n\nEdmund McLeod and George Bayne, the executors\n\nCatchick Paul Chater, sole executor\n\nProperty handed to Mr. Ewens, the Solicitor for Chan Choy, the mother of deceased\n\nYoung A-lai, the administratrix\n\nVictor Hobart Deacon, Attorney of Eliza Maria Grosvenor\n\nKeung Lai Mool, the lawful widow\n\nWong A-sai, sole of the deceased\n\nAlfred Gascoyne Wise, Official Administrator\n\n179,500.00\n\nALFRED G. WISE,\n\nActing Registrar.\n\nRegistry Supreme Court, Hongkong, 28th January, 1887.\n\nPage 380\n\nCALENDAR of PROBATES and ADMINISTRATIONS,—Continued.\n\n...\n\nPage 381", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-233 - Acting Governor Cameron - 1887 [6-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 533959, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-539-3 Mui Tsai system 8-2-1932 - 10-1-1933", "page_number": 21, "title": "CO129-539-3 Mui Tsai system 8-2-1932 - 10-1-1933", "content_text": "383\n\n24\n\n23\n\n382\n\nTHE VOTE\n\nTanner, made a special feature of the characteristic Shetland woollies. They also had a good display of leatherwork and Sheffield plate.\n\nWIMBLEDON STALL, in the charge of Mrs. Catmur, and her sister, Mrs. Holmwood, Mrs. Rann, and Mrs. Rolfe had a good display of general goods, including tea-cosies, hand-bags, and home-made jams.\n\nARTS AND CRAFTS STALL, in the charge of Miss Alix Clark, is to be commended on its selection of artistic lavender bags, shopping-lists, and small hand-bags.\n\nCAKE AND PRODUCE STALL, in the charge of Miss Alix Clark, Mrs. Elias Pritchard, and the Misses Edith and Maud Codd, had its usual fine array of decorated Christmas cakes and home-made confectionery.\n\nCHINA STALL, in the charge of Mrs. Lindus, Miss Lindus, Miss Thompson, and Miss Vesey, looked very bright and attractive with its Ashstead pottery made by ex-Service men.\n\nOVERALLS AND APRONS STALL, in the charge of the Misses Underwood, Mrs. Turriff, and Miss Charles, this year had an exceptionally fine assortment of aprons and overalls. A special feature was made of dainty silk afternoon aprons.\n\nLINGERIE STALL, in the charge of Mrs. Holmes, Mrs. Overy, Mrs. Trafford Williams, and Miss Overy, had a particularly fine assortment of hand-worked baby clothes and underwear.\n\nSWEET STALL, in the charge of Miss Annie Hoare, Miss Joan Elias Pritchard, and Miss Robinson, did a good trade in boxes of chocolates, small tins labelled 'Weekly Assortment,' and home-made sweets.\n\nTOY STALL, in the charge of Mrs. Shore and Mrs. Boyce, had its usual fine collection of animals, dolls, and mechanical toys. The special attraction was a life-like black French poodle puppy, forming a fascinating night-dress case.\n\nWOOLLEN GOODS STALL, in the charge of Mrs. Delbanco, Mrs. Dore, and Mrs Jacoby, had a choice selection of hand-made jumpers, scarves, etc.\n\nLITERATURE STALL, in the charge of Mrs. Gerard and Miss Simpson, had a delightful collection of children's books-fiction, non-fiction, and poetry.\n\nTHE VOTE STALL, in the charge of Mrs. Wardi and Miss Hoyer, displayed a variety of useful articles to be found at the chemist's.\n\nEntertainments\n\nThis year a new feature in our entertainments was a short play, 'Widows,' in which Leona Cooper, Fay Myddleton, and Emma Dhai took part. This ironic little sketch, which was splendidly acted, caused much interest and amusement.\n\nThere was a charming display of operatic, classical, and character dances by pupils from Miss Grace Woollacott's Wimbledon School of Dancing. Several new and original dances added to the pleasure of this popular feature.\n\nA number of delightful pianoforte solos were given by Miss T. A. Davis; items by Madame Leoni and the Leoni Trio gave much pleasure; banjolele spirituelles by Mrs. Neville were much appreciated; and Miss Duncan, Miss Grant, Miss King, Miss Fordham, and Miss Joan Somes contributed to the musical programme.\n\nMrs. Seymour Pritchard, assisted by Mrs. Crocker, Mrs. Hamilton, Mrs. Richardson, Mrs. Roles, and Miss Ivy Hawke, organised the Information Bureau and side shows. Miss Peggy Smith was kept busy executing her wonderful lightning portrait-sketches. Character readings were given by Miss Brassington, Miss Hudson, Madame Vere, and Miss Wall.\n\nThe Competition Corner, which was very popular, was arranged by Mrs. Riches and Mrs. Haines, assisted by Miss Riches, and the lucky wheel was busily rotated by Esmé May Dorrington.\n\nThe prizes, kindly given by McDougall, Ltd., for the Cake Competition, arranged by the Chiswick Branch, were won by: (1) Mrs. Baxendale; (2) Miss Whitehead; and (3) Mrs. Anderton. The judges were Miss Charles, Miss Reeves, and Mrs. Watling.\n\nAfternoon teas and refreshments were daintily served by our efficient Minerva Club, under the direction of Miss Reeves, assisted by Mrs. Atkinson, Mrs. Boyd, Miss Brewer, Miss Britain, Miss Edwards, Mrs. Ellis, Mrs. Hilliard, Madame Inglis, Miss Lucienne Inglis, Miss Jackson, Miss James, Mrs. James, Miss Josa, Mrs. Langston, Miss Parks, Mrs. Paul, Miss Phillips, Mrs. Rogers, Miss Thompson, Miss Thomas, Mr. Yoxall, and Miss Wesley.\n\nSpecial Thanks\n\nOur most cordial thanks are due to the Hon. Mrs. Franklin, who so kindly came to open the Fair at very short notice, Miss E. Berry, whose untiring efforts year by year make the Fair a success, and to the Fair Sub-Committee for their whole-hearted co-operation during the months of preparation.\n\nSpecial thanks are also due to the stallholders; to all who contributed to the entertainments; to those who assisted so essentially with the Information Bureau; to our caterers and their assistants; to our doorkeepers Miss Cornwell, Mr. Clifford Jones, and Mr. Thompson; to Mrs. Scott for so kindly undertaking the cloakroom; to Miss Auld for general help; to our kind purchasers, and to all who helped in any way to make the Fair a success.\n\nHow to Reach the Fair\n\nDear Fellow Members,-Very many thanks to those members who have so kindly sent contributions towards the Fair expenses and to all our kind buyers.\n\nMany members were for one reason or another prevented from reaching the Caxton Hall last Thursday and Friday, but I shall be most grateful to any who will join with us in this fund-raising fixture by sending me a small sum, to include their return fare to Westminster, their tea and supper, and perhaps a part of the useful articles they would have purchased there.\n\nIn hopeful anticipation,\n\nE. KNIGHT,\n\nHon. Treasurer.\n\n144, High Holborn, W.C.1.\n\nMARRIED WOMEN'S EMPLOYMENT\n\nThe 'North Mail' reports that the question of married women teachers who hold positions in Wallsend while a number of single women were unable to find appointments was raised last week at the meeting of Wallsend Education Committee.\n\nCouncillor A. McFarlane referred to a list of names of young women who had come out of college and said there did not seem much possibility of their getting posts. He thought they might replace some of the married teachers. 'Some of the married teachers have husbands who hold good positions,' he said, 'and I do not think it is fair to girls who have come out of college and have been on the list for some time.'\n\nThe Chairman, Councillor John Mason, suggested the matter might be referred to the staffing sub-committee. There were great complications involved, and they must give careful thought before deciding upon anything.\n\nCouncillor McFarlane said he was agreeable to this course, which was adopted.\n\nWe ourselves would like to think and say if a body of women systematically applied this kind of means test to all men's employment.\n\nIt is reported that the question of the employment of married women on the staff of the B.B.C. has recently been raised again to the consternation, so it is said, of the hundreds of secretaries and stenographers at Broadcasting House.\n\nMarried women have always been employed by the Corporation and its predecessor, the old Broadcasting Company, and many of them have married during their service. It is absurd that this question should be settled on any other ground than that of efficiency.\n\nFRIDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1932\n\nTHE VOTE\n\nBRANCH NOTES\n\nWomen's Freedom League\n\nBARNSBURY AND DISTRICT\n\nOffices: 144, HIGH HOLBORN, W.C.1. Telephone-HOLBORN 9301. President-Mrs. PETHICK-LAWRENCE. Hon. Treasurer-Dr. E. KNIGHT. Hon. Organising Secretary-Mrs. WHETTON. Hon. Head Literature Department-Mrs. GERARD. General Secretary-Miss F. A. UNDERWOOD.\n\nWHERE TO GO\n\nWOMEN'S FREEDOM LEAGUE\n\nLONDON AND SUBURBS\n\nMonday, November 28th, 7.30 p.m. Brentford and Chiswick Branch. Public meeting at Stamford Brook House, W.6. Hostess Mrs. Macgregor, Speaker: Miss H. M. Dovey, B.A. Subject: Educational Economies - Actual and Threatened.\n\nMonday, November 28th, at 8 p.m. Mid-London Branch. Meeting at 25, Wimpole Street, W.1.\n\nTuesday, November 29th, 4.30 p.m. (Tea, 4 o'clock, price 6d.) Public Meeting at the Minerva Club, 28a, Brunswick Square, W.C.1. Speaker: The Hon. Mary Pickford, M.P. Subject: Votes for Women in India. Chair: Mrs. Pethick-Lawrence.\n\nThursday, December 1st, 4.30 p.m. (Tea, 4 o'clock, price 6d.) Tea and Politics Up-to-date Meeting at the Minerva Club, 28a, Brunswick Square, W.C.1. Speaker: Mrs. Isabel Donzé. Subject: The Nationality of Married Women.\n\nThursday, December 1st, 7.45 p.m. for 8 p.m. Highbury and Stoke Newington Branch. Whist Drive at 27, Bethune Road, N.16. Hostess: Mrs. Pearson. Tickets 2s., including refreshments.\n\nTuesday, December 6th, 3 p.m. Wimbledon Branch. Meeting at 'Duart,' 67, Grand Drive, Raynes Park, Speaker: Councillor Jenner. Subject: The Minor Activities of the League of Nations.\n\nTuesday, December 6th, 8 p.m. Welwyn Garden City Branch. Club Room Public meeting in the Arts Speaker: Mrs. Bhuttacharji. Subject: India.\n\nWednesday, December 7th, 3 p.m. Thames Valley Branch. Meeting at 27, Gloucester Road, Kew. Hostess: Miss Bulkeley Johnson. Plans for future work.\n\nSaturday, December 10th, 2.30 p.m. Jumble Sale at St. George's Vestry Hall, Bloomsbury (entrance Little Russell Street). Admission 2d. Gifts urgently needed.\n\nSaturday, January 14th, 1933, at 10 a.m. National Executive Committee Meeting at 144, High Holborn, W.C.1.\n\nPROVINCES\n\nTuesday, November 29th, 3 p.m. Bexhill Branch. Drawing-room meeting at 13, Park Road, Bexhill. Speaker Mrs. Donzé. Chair: Miss D. Osborn.\n\nTuesday, November 29th, at 7.30. Portsmouth Branch. Branch Coming-of-Age Party at St. Bartholomew's Hall. Speaker: Miss Nina Boyle. Music: Coffee.\n\nMonday, December 12th, at 8 p.m. Edinburgh Branch. Debate on Birth Control. Affirm., Mrs. Garden Blackie: Neg., Mrs. Alice Ross, M.A., J.P. At India Buildings, George IV, Bridge.\n\nOTHER SOCIETIES\n\nWednesday, November 30th, at 8.15 p.m. British College of Psychic Science, 1, Queen's Gate, S.W. Lecture by Miss Lind-af-Hageby on 'Mind in Animals.'\n\nThursday, December 1st, 8 p.m. The Alpha Study Circle. Meeting at Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, W.C.1. Speaker: Sir George Paish. Subject: International Aspects of the Money Problem. Chairman: Mrs. Pethick Lawrence. Tickets, 1s. each, from W.F.L. Office, 144, High Holborn, W.C.1.\n\nFriday, December 2nd, at 2.30 p.m. Council for the Representation of Women in the League of Nations. Annual meeting at Women's Service House Annexe, 35, Marsham Street, S.W.1. Mrs. Corbett Ashby will speak at 4.30, on 'Disarmament or Re-armament.' Admission free: collection.\n\nSaturday, December 3rd, at 2.45 p.m. Society for the Ministry of Women (Interdenominational). Members Conference at Wesley's Chapel, City Road, E.C.1. Speakers: Miss Margaret Taylor, the Rev. Rosalind Lee, M.A., and the Rev. Violet Hedger, B.D., L.L.A. Chairman: Dr. Maude Royden, C.H.\n\n'The Vote'\n\nSubscription Rates Annual Subscription 6/6. Post free, everywhere.\n\nTHE VOTE may be obtained through all Newsagents and at the Bookstalls of Messrs. W. H. Smith and Sons.\n\nA very well-attended meeting was held on Tuesday, Nov. 15th, at 15, Richmond Crescent, Mrs. Potter presided, and Miss Pearson gave a very instructive address on new developments in educational services. Questions and discussion followed, and competitions were held at the close of the meeting.\n\nWIMBLEDON\n\nOn Tuesday, Nov. 15th, a Branch Meeting was held at 'Duart,' 67, Grand Drive, by kind permission of Mrs. Catmur. A display was made of the pretty articles sent by Branch members for the general stall at the Green, White and Gold Fair; a business meeting was then held, when a programme of work was drawn up for the New Year.\n\nEDINBURGH\n\nMrs. Miller (vice-president) presided at our last meeting in the unavoidable absence of Mrs. Alice M. Ross, M.A., J.P., at a most uplifting meeting. Mrs. Milne Robertson spoke on 'Women and the Ministry.' Her speech was more like a sermon, packed with good things and beautiful thoughts.\n\nGREEN, WHITE AND GOLD FAIR\n\nAPRONS AND OVERALLS STALL\n\nThe Misses Underwood and Mrs. Turriff very cordially thank the following for their very kind gifts to this stall: Mrs. Gilbert, Mrs. Fisher, Miss Round, Mrs. Terry, Miss C. Newman, and Mrs. Forman.\n\nA REMINDER\n\nTUESDAY, NOVEMBER 29th, at 4.30: THE HON. MARY PICKFORD, M.P.; 'Votes for Women in India'\n\nTHURSDAY, DECEMBER 1st, at 4.30: MRS. ISABEL DONZÉ: 'Nationality of Married Women'\n\n(Tea at 4 o'clock - price 6d.) AT THE MINERVA CLUB, 28a, Brunswick Square, W.C.1\n\nWANTED URGENTLY\n\nMiscellaneous Goods for Jumble Sale\n\nParcels of Clothing, Boots and Shoes, Household Goods and anything else that can be turned into money to MISS AULD, 144, HIGH HOLBORN, W.C.1\n\nMembership Application Form\n\nTo be returned to the Secretary, 144, High Holborn, London, W.C.1. Please enrol me as a member of the Women's Freedom League.\n\nName...\n\nAddress...\n\nI enclose £... s... d... as my first, Annual Subscription.\n\nMinimum Annual Subscription, 1/-.\n\n9\n\nFRIDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1932\n\n23\n\nPage information retained as per instructions.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-539-3 Mui Tsai system 8-2-1932 - 10-1-1933.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 } ]