[ { "id": 217072, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-002 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1843", "page_number": 280, "title": "CO129-002 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1843", "content_text": "\n\nauthorised the Building of a Barrack at check \n\nwhen the ground was selected, and it \n\nChoo, yet- \n\nis the only bit of ground there that the board. \n\nof officers, (amongst whom were the Superintending. burgeon, and another. Medical. Officer.) deemed_ fit for that purpose, as this plan. embraced_the purchase of certain. Chinese. houses, Your Sweettency Wing if I remember. right at that time at Maine, Johnster, and on. \n\ncase was remitted to Mr. \n\nthe co \n\nthe \n\nhis report Your Evecklency refused the outlay, so, of course, nothing has been. done.. \n\nWith respect to Saiwan, Your Sucellency authorized – a Barrack for 100 Mer. \n\nunder the conditions, that it was to be attached_ \n\nto a \n\nA. \n\nJaiwan, is not \n\nBattery -- Jaiwan. \n\nI beg \n\nto observe \n\narc... \n\n· fit place for a . Battery _ The Troops well posted ofor the purpose for which they \n\nwere sent there. At. Lymoon, at any point. \n\nb \n\nwere a Battery could be crccted, from the extra- \n\nA \n\ndistrinsec, and difficult. road, they would- have been perfectly useless - Linee. they have. been there - bywan - me attempt has been made by Pirates at the most distant. Village.. Chuck Man – which they \n\nwere in time to \n\nfrustrate : these . Troops have been and still.. but I am sorry to say \n\nremain under canvas, \n\nsinec. the hot weather.. has set - in, they getting very sickly \n\nare- \n\na \n\nThe fact of your having reported_ sufficiency of Darracks here is a matter_ of no importanoc__ the Government will refer it to the Beard _ of Ordnancc_, who well informed upon the subject, and - indeed so jealous \n\ncalous is this Department \n\nare \n\nof \n\nwere..", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-002 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1843.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 218215, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-005 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1844", "page_number": 88, "title": "CO129-005 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1844", "content_text": "\n\nyou \n\nwill move \n\nthe Serro able Major General \"Commanding to order nat the limits of the Cantonment at Check Choo shall be \n\ncarefully defined, and marked off by . natural marks or where they do not.. exist by pillars being built, and as sou \n\nad \n\nthis is done the limits will be. \n\n\" published for geveral information and- an Ordinances or Regulation will be pamed and passed in Council providing for all offences committed within those limits as well as all clawns \n\nas all claims for debts (both to a certain to be defined extent) being investigated and disposed of by a Military Court of Requests, which can be appointed monthly (to sit once \n\nlwice week as occasion may require) under such orders as the Honorable the Major General \n\nor \n\nα \n\nmay \n\nbe pleased to issue. \n\nIn conclusion Sam directed to \n\nfurther communicate to \n\nyou \n\nyou \n\nthe \n\nopinion of beremment, that u. Secard Theo with Hecks and lick up cells \n\nshould be built within the Cantonment \n\nlumits, for \n\nthe \n\nconfinement of all persons taken up for offences committed within the cantamens until the charges. \n\nmartil against their can be inquired into, and in cases where the punishment \n\ninclude imprisonment. \n\nawarded \n\nanay \n\nfor any period. longer than a few days (which will be denoted in the Ordinance \n\nتم پیج \n\nRegulation already adverted to) the Prisoners can be sent under \n\nа \n\nWarrant \n\nof the Commanding Officer to the Jail \n\nat Eetoria. \n\nI have to \n\n(segned) Richard. Horniam \n\nA true copy. \n\nMichard Women \n\nskilde tilt $ \n\nfurther", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-005 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1844.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 218853, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-006 - Sir John Davis - 1844", "page_number": 179, "title": "CO129-006 - Sir John Davis - 1844", "content_text": "Indecôt \n\nmay be effected in it but with adjective sumber of hands confusion. once haurric commenced will scarcely be checked My apistant Mr Spring complaining of the labour is about h leave Judecat in speaks of clwing so to day much against my expectations ceud I should think cqmenit \n\nand his now contact with the Colonial Gevement to will of cause vastly my embarrassments as I cansiot supply his place with \n\nthis doing \n\nany \n\none \n\nencrease \n\ncauriet \n\nwho has been \n\ndetails \n\nat all excenstened to the debuite of ar \n\nPost Office. \n\ntill \n\nAn as \n\nis \n\nbeng \n\nSame daily receiving complaints against the hours at which my office open from ta on hell hp that pail of the day which is the most dangerous for Cevropians to stir out in this Greellemcy I doubt riot will consider the siet justreps of the complaint and don't me \n\nupon \n\nexpon the subject. \n\nIf the six hours \n\nfrom \n\nsix \n\nwere divided thus \n\nnine am and from hoo to \"five pan I think the cause of complaint \n\nwould be removed. \n\nThe \n\nAten \n\ndelivery of letters except at the Port office is very much complament \n\nPerhaps This Creellency will also int this complanil. \n\niniguie \n\nThe difficulty in delivering letters at the domiciles of the parties is the collection of the prostays and on the delivery of Merits from Engluunt it would be impracticable from the weight of letters \n\nthat certain individuals receive. \n\nSome of the Military Gentlemen \n\nat Check choo and saiwan complain of then not having their letters out to \n\n\"they used to have before \n\nthem the \n\nMow as \n\nnew \n\nrequlsitions, and I believe that", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-006 - Sir John Davis - 1844.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 218854, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-006 - Sir John Davis - 1844", "page_number": 180, "title": "CO129-006 - Sir John Davis - 1844", "content_text": "\nI have incurred suuch blame as \n\nown \n\nhaving \n\nabolished \n\nby an cabitrary act of my that privilege. It will be observed \n\nhowever that the discontinuance was a consequence of the \n\nof the new regulations I had \n\n• authority to contime it, nor any \n\nto discontinue it, and the subject dist \n\nnot attract \n\nmy \n\nconsideration till too \n\nlate. Peiliaps thi Excellency will cause- \n\nto be made as to the necessity \n\ninquiries \n\nof reviving \n\nthis privilege to the Gentlemen \n\nat Check choo and Saiwan, and direct me upon the subiget A depy sit cuccount smight be operect by them for \n\npostages. \n\nMay \n\nthe \n\nI also beg this \n\nGrallency's directions as to what rate the Mélican dollar shall be received \n\not here, at the Port Office. It must not be forgotton that the postage \n\nrates \n\nrates \n\ncire \n\nsterling and, all \n\nmy \n\naccounts have to be kept in staling. \n\nI have Je \n\nFliquet, I. J. Serles \n\n( Free Copy) \n\nFrederick W. A. Arnice. \n\nPage 180Page 181 \n\nNo. 1781844 \n\nIncl: 2 in: Despatch", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-006 - Sir John Davis - 1844.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 219387, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-007 - Sir John Davis - 1844", "page_number": 236, "title": "CO129-007 - Sir John Davis - 1844", "content_text": "to the proposed adap= -tation of part of the Couilding for the Registons \n\nOffices \n\nے کر کے \n\nResidence for \"that Junctionary, I mart request you to inform me \n\nWhether there are any peculiar arcumstances. arsing out \n\nof the Registrar's duties which render this arangement indispensable in his particular cases if not, you \n\nwill of take care that the \n\nCourse \n\nRegiston pays a Rent to the Goot fully equivalent to the value of the \n\nAccommodation he will \n\nobtain. \n\nहै \n\nThay \n\nDuplicate \n\nDetailed Account. Disbursements \n\nof \n\nthe Land Department- \n\n1844 . \n\nfrom June 1841 to 1. January 18hts \n\nDuring whore: Superintendence. \n\nMilitary, Naval and Civil. \n\nMilitary \n\nCaptain Cotton Demolition of Forts on Howlung Peninsula. \n\nConstruction of Temporary Barracks. \n\n· Works on North Wangtong. \n\nDo \n\nH Store Houses for Commissariat. Rupences on \n\n1 on account. Barrack. Department. \n\nCaptain Mylius Demolition of Forts on Nowlung Peninsula. \n\nPart. Construction. of Fort on Kellet's Island Construction of Barracks on Cantonment. Hill \n\nGo \n\n6,160 \n\nWut Point. \n\n1,801 96 \n\nGovernment Hill.. Check choo. \n\nDo Temporary Ho \n\nPart erection of Batteries \n\nShack-pe-wan \n\nConstruction of Powder. Magazines. Construction of a Military Hospital. \n\n- Temporary Ordnance Stores.. \n\n10/25 53 \n\nStore Houses for Commissariat. 35,200 \n\nCarried over $ 60,677 bo \n\n", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-007 - Sir John Davis - 1844.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 220093, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-009 - Public Offices - 1844", "page_number": 233, "title": "CO129-009 - Public Offices - 1844", "content_text": "\nLord Stanley \n\nOw this surget Specenie that your Lordship with act \n\nhere suggested_ \n\nSee. 2130. \n\nGod. Davis \n\nForvarded & A \n\nMR do Stephen \n\nar Hope Lard Stanley \n\n3/ \n\nکوئی \n\n28132 Hongkong \n\nSir 2 Janz 59 \n\nThave track? the waith of four des alik of the 17 \n\nJanelast Noto reporting Establishment of Khony. \n\nou \n\nthe Civil: \n\nIn regard to the Police Force, andti the Establishment of a Police Station at \n\nwil \n\nCheck choo have secund \n\nlast amon \n\nthe \n\nbefore thes have receind migDespatches of the Otept.\" and 25 Oct \n\nunouncing decision of Nuclodh then points. Ewith the exception of the Offices of the Auditor and Smarzon General. \n\nthe Extablishments.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-009 - Public Offices - 1844.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 220931, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-010 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1843", "page_number": 526, "title": "CO129-010 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1843", "content_text": "Year at a \n\nvery \n\nconsiderable expence, and was, I understood, intended to be of the most lasting. and durable materials, and style of building. Is not only the preservation of the Ammuzrition and Laboratory Atires, but, it may be said, the positive safety of all that quarter of the Colong and its intrabidants including the Artillery Barracks, The fitil. & \n\n-goed Magazine being early \n\ndehend \n\nDL \n\na. \n\nprovided. for the Gunpowder, I cannot emit this opportunity of suggesting to Your Lordship, that a new Hagazine. \n\nerected. s early as possible. \n\nbetter. \n\nshould be \n\nI return Captain. Geary's Original \n\nI have &c. \n\n¡Signed) Homy Fillinger \n\nN985 \n\n4.85 Majer General \n\nThe Lord Saltown R.LB & G .CH. \n\nMy Lord. \n\nVictoria 20th bctober 1843. \n\nI have the honor to actinowledge the neovist of Your Lordship's letter. Nr 300 of yesterday's date and to express my \n\nmost perfect. \n\nof \n\nconcurrence in the propriety of the removal the public Fring \n\nnear the Barracks at \n\nChick Choo. \n\nHad I known of it sooner. as I should. \n\nhave taken immediate steps to abate the \n\na \n\nnuisance, and I will have communication. -made to the Elders of the Town of Check Choo \n\nsimilar building \n\nprohibiting the erection of any \n\nHeat \n\ncant. \n\nin \n\nany degree affect the Cantonment. The best precaution however, \n\nwill perhaps be Your Lordshipis directing \n\nthe Commanding Officer to see \n\nthat nothing of \n\nthe kind is allowed, which order I will take \n\ncare", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-010 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1843.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 220938, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-010 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1843", "page_number": 533, "title": "CO129-010 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1843", "content_text": "\nWN. \n\nNe go \n\nThe Honnable, \n\nMajor, Paine \n\nChief Magistrale. \n\nSir, \n\nVictoria, 30th October, 1843. \n\nWith reference to the amcluding paragraph of Your Letter No 195, of the 29th of Auquet, I am directed by this Excellency the Governor to say. \n\nappears \n\nthat it \n\nof- \n\nto him the best means \n\nwith the wish of the commanding \n\nComplying \n\nofficer. at Check Choo, and to afford protection to that village would be for that Officer to furnich a small- \"Guard, for the Shetter and accommodation of which. His Excellency. will with pleasure Sanction a proper \n\nbeing built. \n\nroom \n\nI have te. \n\n(Signed) Rickard Wotinam .", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-010 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1843.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 220944, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-010 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1843", "page_number": 539, "title": "CO129-010 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1843", "content_text": "Governor to request that you will, in communication with the Land. Officer, furnish for his Excellency's sanction., a Plan and retimate of a \n\na New Harbour Masters Pier which like the former \n\none \n\na. \n\nhe would wish to be constructed_ \n\nof Wood. \n\nI have to (Signed) Richard, Wortnum.. \n\nThe Amorable, \n\nMajor Caine. \n\nSir, \n\nNe98. \n\nChief Magistrate. \n\nVictoria, 6th November, 1843. \n\nI have the honor to acknowledge- the receipt of a letter. Ne 269 of the 4th Inet : from the assistant Magistrate together with its Inclosure from Colonel Campbell. \n\nreply I'am directed by. His \n\nIn \n\nRecelleney \n\nExcellency the Governor to request that ... you will. furnish for the protection of the village of Check Choo, One Head, and Four ordinary Chinese . Police Men : for the accommodation of these men. His Excellency begs you to provide in the \n\nmanner you may \n\nwishes \n\nYou \n\nto \n\nany \n\nthink best, and he \n\nto direct them to attend \n\n\"orders they may \n\nreceive \n\nColonel Campbell or the officer \n\ncommanding the Troops at \n\nCheek Choo. \n\nI have te. \n\nfrom \n\n(Signed) Richard_Worrnam. \n\nNe qq. \n\nMr Badenoch. \n\nNietoria, 6th November, 1843. \n\nSir, \n\nIam directed \n\ndirected by \n\nHis Excellency \n\nthe", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-010 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1843.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 220962, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-010 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1843", "page_number": 557, "title": "CO129-010 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1843", "content_text": "No. Date \n\nTo whome. \n\nSubject \n\nto be made that the Slip shall be available for any of Her Majesty's Ships, 117 5 440 Ford Saltoun: Expressing concurrence in tis dordships \n\nproposal for removing the Detachment fom Sarwan until permanent Barack's for it's reception \n\nbe butt \n\n118 5th Deer Majn Caine. Forwarding a letter from Mr. Scott \n\nregarding a dispute between himself \n\nand another Merchant \n\n119 5th Dec 1. J. Gordon L Forwarding Copy of a letter from Sir Yin Parker regarding the site chosen for a Naval Hospital and instructing M= Gordonr to reserve 12 acres in compliance with the Admiral's wishes. \n\n120 5th Des Major Caine (Sanctioning the Expence of 70 Suits of the Convicts \n\nthe \n\nof clothing for @ $1/4 to $2 per dust. \n\nuse \n\nthe Governor's permission for \n\n121 67 De Major Caine. hanting absence from the bot to the \n\nleave of 20th Instant. \n\n122 11 beer A. J. Gordon Exp Replying to his letter of the 11 Ultime \n\nand sanctioning \n\nan advance of $ 300 ar Rough Estimate of $450 for the repair of the road to Check Choo and the acbuilding of three Bamboo Bridges it, but requesting \n\nof the Expence \n\navu \n\nAn \n\nExact Estimate \n\n123 114 Gert 4. 7. Gordon Cape Replying to his letter No: 47 applying for a bang of Coolies for the purpose of keeping the roads in repair, directing \n\nan Estimate to be sent in at the end of each mouth for such work as may be required during the ensuing month 124 11 Dect. A. J. Gordon Ear Sanctioning the employment of Mr. \n\nTarrant as a Clerk in the Land Office and Mr. Strachan as an Inspector of Roads. \n\n25 11 Dec. I. I. Ger done by \" (Sanctioning \n\nan Additional \n\nof \n\nNe. Date. \n\nTo whom. \n\nSubjech \n\nof $$ 700 for clearing the Ground \n\nwhich the clerks houses \n\non \n\nare to be hill \n\nin consequence of its being rocky than was anticipated. \n\nbuilt \n\nmore \n\nho; 171 \n\n12 6 13 28 = Licut Pedder Ph. Replying to his letter No. \n\nHarbour master regarding a distressed Seaman \n\nYou Retter, whom he had sent to the Hospital and directing A Pedder to proure a passage to - England for him as soon as s possible. \n\nfor \n\nHt. for a 127 15 Dec Col Campbell Cd Replying to his application for \n\nH. Mrs. 98th Regh a Rhike of ground in Quarter mader Fagan on which to build a hour for the reception of his Family, whe \n\ndaily expected from England. \n\n12.8 13 Des = Sir Thos. Cochrane Representing the madrisatility of \n\non the \n\ntemporary Naval Stores and Coal Dépôt in the centre of the City until Her Majesty's Government have decided whether that site is to be \n\nretained for haval purposes. 129 15th Dec Sir That Cochrane. Rejoinder to his reply to ho : 128 \n\n1 30 15th Dec 6. E. Mewart log firecting him to retain in his Administrator to hands the proceeds of the sale of available part \n\nthe Estate of mess their Marine Lot, and not to Bates and tent, consider it as an \n\nof their Estate. \n\n181 15th Sect. A. J. Gordon to Appointing Mr Cleverly as successor to the late Captain. De Havilland on \n\nthe Committee of inquiry into the Claims of Holders of Land te, de, \n\n1 3 2 15. Dec. A. J. Gordon: Cogne Houwarding a memorandum enad \n\nby \n\nthe Govenor regarding Mr. Burd's claim to Lot No:16 for the guidance \n\nof the Committee of inquiry into, the claims of Holders of Land &e \" \n\n183 15 = Get Mr J. Burd Informing him that his claims to \n\nBest \n\nLot", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-010 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1843.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 220973, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-010 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1843", "page_number": 568, "title": "CO129-010 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1843", "content_text": "present arouth. \n\nShank (Signed) Richard Woonami \n\nNo:129 \n\nthat occured in October - three of the temporary Bamboo bridges \n\nswept away and the Road rendered for a time impassable . \n\nYou further submit that it will cost about $450 to repair the road and replace the \n\nBamboo Bridges by Wooden once \n\nof a stronger description, and apply for sanction to that \n\noutlay \n\nA. J. Gordon Esque. \n\nLand Office k \n\nVictoria, Honghong. \n\nH \n\nDecember 11 - 18413. \n\nSir, \n\nyou \n\nJam directed to achirawledge the 11\" of last. receipt of your letter dated on the it mouth (but only received three days ago) in which you report that during the very heavy Rains that occurred in August and - September last the Road leading to the Military Cantonment of Check Choo on the Southern side of the Soland \n\nwas much \n\ndamaged and that in the subsequent flords-consequent to the deluge of Rain \n\nThat \n\nIn reply I am directed to informe that His Excellency the Covernor approves of the Road king acpaired and the Bridges being replaced in the \n\nanavn er \n\nyour propose, het before the \n\nbe \n\nsanctioned you are \n\namount can \n\nin \n\nrequired to send im an ixact Estimate of the Expense. In the \n\ntime an \n\nadvance of $300 will be ordered to be- \n\nanade to \n\nyou by the Colonial Reasurer and Financial, Secretary. \n\nI have to \n\nTiquid) Richard Hamam. \n\nIto:123", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-010 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1843.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 221002, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-010 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1843", "page_number": 597, "title": "CO129-010 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1843", "content_text": "No Date. To whom . \n\nSubject \n\n43 26 Jaw = Seneral D'aquilar. Forwarding a Copy of a \n\nم کے کرنا \n\nminute in Council in which General D'Aguilar's \n\noffer of assistance towards forming Police is accepted. \n\n2. Minute in Minutes in Councile \n\nCouncil \n\nα \n\nSet 26 Jaw Major General Regarding three Houses, at present \n\nD'Aquilar. belonging to private individuals, \n\nsituated within the limits of the \n\nCantonments. \n\n26 Jan Capt. D'Aguilar. Replying to hit letter regarding the \n\nnecessitif for a Police Station at Check Choo. \n\n46 20 Janz M. Oswald: Replying to his Petition regarding the terms upon which, bround he \n\noccupies had been, confirmed to him 44 7 26 Jan & Capt. J. Edwards Requesting the delivery to the \n\nAfth Adjt General Colonial Surgeon of the medicines \n\nindented for \n\nthem that their \n\n26 Jan 2 Mesir Jardine Mathing Juser suites within the Cantonmout \n\nMost Informing \n\nN. Duns Esqu \n\nthree \n\nR. Edwards Esqpe can only be rented to Military \n\nOfficers. \n\nthe \n\n49.26 Jard Capt. D'Aguilar, Forwarding Copy of ko: 48. 5'0 20% Jan Capt. D'Aquilar. Replying to his letter requesting Establishment of a a Post Office communication between Victoria \n\nand the military stations of \n\n3 9 Jan \"Capt. D'Aquilar. Replying to an \n\n37 fan bir Thes. Corhrance \n\nCheck Chor and Lauvan. \n\napplication for a Boat to be held at the disposal of General D' Aguilar. \n\nRejoinder to the Admiral's reply \n\napplication for \n\nto \n\nan \n\none. \n\nof the Ships of War to be stationed off the Westem part of the Lown for it's protection \n\n53 ft Jebrs A. J. Gordon Er. Forwarding for explanatory \n\nobservations two memorials from Mr. R. Oswald regarding some lots of Land, of which he considered \n\nhimself \n\nNo. Date. \n\nTo whom. \n\nSubject \n\nhimself to be unjustly deprived. \n\n54+ 20 Feby Capt. D'Aquilar. Replying to his letter regarding the \n\nrenroval of the Barracks from \n\nWest Point, \n\n562 Jebry Major Caine. Forwarding a copy of Colonel - \n\nbregory's letter regarding the necefity for Some European Police at Check Chor. \n\n56 2 hd 7620 A. I.Gordon Esqre Sanctioning the sum of $249 for \n\nContingent work during the curent month \n\nbt thing the Editor of the Calling for \n\nar \n\nexplanation of his \n\n\"Friend of China\" assertion that he had been desired \n\nby High Authority to direct the attention of the Commissioners of Roads & to the state of the Town, \n\nAbs Capt Bliquilar. Forwarding a copy of Lord Stanleyg \n\n\"Desp : No: 2 regarding the Military défences of this Colony. \n\n58 ft \n\n59 7th Feby Dr. Legge. \n\nReplying \n\nto \n\narr \n\napplication for the \n\npayment to him of the annual grant of off 12.00 formerly allowed to The Anglo Chinese College at Malaces, 60 8 = tbs The Editor of the A rejoinder to his reply to ho: 67. \n\n\"Friend of China\" 61 8th Febry A. I border. Esqrt Forwarding a Petition fore \n\ncontractor. Amoon setting forth his inability to complete a portion of the Queen's Road for specified. \n\nOh \n\nthe sum \n\n62 8th Feby Capt. leguilar. Replying to a letter from General \n\nFeby \n\n\" Aquilar regarding Quarters for himself and Staff. \n\nal \n\n63 gt Jrbs Capt. D'Aquilar. Regarding a pretition from \n\nChinese at Check Choo setting forth that his rope walk had been destroyed be \n\nbor get Jeby Lieut. Fedder. Forwarding the opinion of Nor \n\nBurgass, confirmed by that of the lovernor with reference to a complains made by the Chief Officer against the master of the ship Emperor = \n\nForwarding.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-010 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1843.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 221049, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-010 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1843", "page_number": 644, "title": "CO129-010 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1843", "content_text": "list of \n\nthe necessity for an European Police Station at Check Choo, and I am to request you to place upon your Police-men, and pay \n\nthe usual allowance to, the Non Commissioned Officer and six Privates whose \n\nnames \n\nyou by Colonel \n\nwill be forwarded to Gregory, and who it is to be hoped will \n\nprove a sufficient protection to the \n\nneighbourhood until a more \n\ncomplete \n\nPolice Establishment. \n\nbe formed.\n\n(Signed) Richard Womnam-\n\nA. J. Gordon Esqre \n\nLand Officer be \n\nVictoria, Hong Kong. 2th February 18441. \n\nNo: 56 \n\n639 \n\nI have to acknowledge the receipts \n\nof your letter No: 9 of the 21st Ultimo forwarding an Estimate of the Expense of the Contingent Work in the Land-Department for the current month amounting to $249 - His Excellency the Governor in Council is pleased to sanction \n\nthis expense, \n\nI am directed to request you to prepare, in time for transmission to England on the 18th Instant, by the \"Sesostris \" a general \n\nEstimate such as shall include all sums already expended on Works of the like description and such as shall also show the sums of money that will probably be required for the continuance of them during the Current year. \n\nI have …\n\n(Signed) Richard Humam. \n\nMy…", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-010 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1843.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 221192, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-010 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1843", "page_number": 787, "title": "CO129-010 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1843", "content_text": "Your instructions in granting that temporary indulgence—His Excellency fully intended, in so far as was compatible with regard to the collection of postage, that such Establishment should, as heretofore, be employed for the benefit of the public, in, at least, the delivery of newspapers and letters \"On Service\", as well as in keeping up the former communication with Check Choo and Saiwan. As such, however, does not appear to be the case, and consequently the seven messengers entertained for that purpose are not properly employed, His Excellency is pleased to direct the immediate discharge of the whole number, with the exception of two men who are to be retained for the purpose of immediately delivering such letters as come addressed to His Excellency, No:189, the Governor, the Honorable Major General D'Aquilar, and the Honorable Major Caine, and to the other Officers connected with the Civil Government of this Colony.\n\n(Signed) Richard Hoornam\n\nThe Honorable Major Caine,\n\nColonial Secretary's Office,\n\nVictoria, Hongkong, May 4th, 1844.\n\nI am directed to acknowledge the receipt of your letter No:112 of yesterday's date, and in returning the Enclosures to be kept in your Office, to inform you that Government have nothing whatever to communicate to you on the affairs of the day.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-010 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1843.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 224613, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-018 - Others - 1846", "page_number": 519, "title": "CO129-018 - Others - 1846", "content_text": "94\n\nBRITISH POSITION\n\nRussia, Turkey, Greece, Belgium, Egypt, Persia, and other countries have been benefited by the scientific skill of Europe. Here is a region open to us for the same purpose, far exceeding in value and in extent all those kingdoms put together. If we refuse to avail ourselves\n\nChina by the celebrated Jesuit P. Verbiest, who, by casting cannon (then unknown in China), enabled the Emperor to put down a very formidable rebellion, organized by the famous Chinese general Ou-Sang-Guey, who had been the means of introducing the Tartars into China for the extermination of the rebels, and who now sought to dethrone the Tartar dynasty, and restore the Chinese sovereigns. In a short time, Ou-Sang-Guey made himself master of the provinces of Setchuen, Yunnan, and Kweitehou. His example was followed in the provinces of Canton and Fokien; and Coxinga, a naval co-operator, with a large armament, took possession of Formosa. The rebellion would probably have been successful but for the cannon cast by Verbiest for the Tartars, which they conveyed to the attack on the encampment of Ou-Sang-Guey, and which he was unable to resist. On the death of Verbiest, the Emperor himself wrote the eloge which was read over his grave. The Mahometans had, during 300 years, the direction of the tribunal of mathematics in China, and the preparation of the calendar; but this important duty was taken from them, and vested in the Jesuit Adam Schaal; and they continued to hold this, and other important stations, until their final expulsion from China, after the death of the Emperor Canghi, in his 69th year, A.D. 1722 (20 December) and on the ascent of his third son, Yong-tcheng to the throne at Pekin, who refused to check the persecution of the Christians.\n\nThe Emperor Canghi is described by the Jesuit missionaries as a man having a lofty genius, great penetration, and a faithful memory; with a solid judgment, a sense of right, and a firmness of soul; always master of himself, and capable of forming and of conducting great enterprises. He did not repose upon favourites, but took cognizance of all things, and regulated them himself. He was tender towards his subjects, and never lost sight of judgment and of justice. He studied and acquired the European arts and sciences; and geometry, physics, astronomy, medicine, and anatomy, were successively objects of his careful study. He loved to have the learned Jesuits around him; he esteemed their morals; protected them and their fellow Christians; and had given hopes, that but for his sudden death, he would have openly embraced Christianity.\n\nIn 1620 the Chinese sovereign (Tien-ki) and Government at Pekin, called in the aid of the Christian missionaries, and of the Portuguese, to aid by artillery in repelling the Tartars. This aid was given, and tranquillity was restored at Pekin, to within seven leagues of which city the Tartars had penetrated. In 1628 the Emperor Tien-ki died, and his brother, Hoai-tsong, known also under the name of Tsong-tching, ascended the throne of China.\n\nIn 1636, two leaders or chiefs of plundering banditti, organized a large force, combining all the discontented persons in the empire, as well as all who wished to profit by plunder. They marched towards Pekin, plundering towns, cities, and provinces, and devastating the land with civil war, and the Emperor fearing to fall into their hands, put himself to death. The commandant (Ou-Sang-Guey) of a body of Chinese troops on the frontiers, solicited the aid of the Tartars, to relieve Pekin; this aid was granted by Tsong-te, the Tartar chief, who retook Pekin from the rebels; and as the Chinese Emperor, Hoai-tsong, had committed suicide to prevent falling into the hands of the rebels, the vacant throne was seized by the Tartar general, Tsong-te, who, however, died very soon, and his son, Chuntchi, then only six years of age, was proclaimed Emperor of China by the Tartar garrison of Pekin. The uncle of Chuntchi, named Aniavan, became the guardian of the young prince, who at fourteen years of age ascended the throne, the sovereignty of which was still disputed by the Chinese, particularly in the sea coast and midland provinces. The Tartar troops advanced to Quantong (Canton) and Quangsi provinces, where they took some towns, but were repulsed by two Chinese generals who were Christians. The victorious Chinese declared Yang-tie, who was a prince of the imperial family, emperor, and fixed his court at Chao-king, in the Canton province. The mother of the Chinese emperor, his chief wife, and his eldest son, received the rite of Christian baptism, together with twenty\n\nAND PROSPECTS IN CHINA.\n\n95\n\nof the offer thus benignly vouchsafed to us; if we reject the means of thus benefiting ourselves and myriads of our fellow-creatures, either from apathy, selfishness, miscalled prudence, or erroneous political considerations, the opportunity may never again occur; and that which might have been converted into a source of national strength, of individual good, and of general benefit, may be converted by others, and by different means, into an engine injurious to our own interests, and productive of great and permanent national injury. Are we prepared to run the race of competition with other nations? or, after enjoying duration as a kingdom for upwards of one thousand years, and holding for the greater part of that time the dominant power of the Earth, are we disposed to shrink from the competition and descend in the scale of empires? Other kingdoms and nations are ready to rise, to build, and to strengthen their power on our downfall. We cannot shut our eyes to the fact, that we are envied and feared, rather than trusted and loved, and that if we be not true to ourselves there are none in whom we can trust.\n\nIt has not been by a timid, hesitating, dubious time-serving policy, by a craving after petty immediate gain, by crafty devices, or by subtle intrigues, that a small island in the Western Atlantic has become the mistress of the world—her power seen and felt on every shore, her flag triumphant on every sea.\n\nGreat ends can only be achieved by great means; a nobility of object consecrates the endeavour for its attainment.\n\nIf to pour a quickening life blood into China, to vivify a vast and almost stagnant mass of human beings, and thus incalculably increase our commerce*; if to construct and organize a power on the extreme East, which may eventually counterbalance the gigantic empire which stretches from the Bosphorous to the Arctic circle, from the Baltic to the Pacific; if to diffuse intelligence and science among three hundred millions of people; above all, and before all, to implant the inspiriting doctrines of Christianity over such an immense portion of the globe, that their diffusion would eventually influence all mankind; if to do this\n\nladies of rank at the court. The Chinese empress (baptized Helena Taming), and the other royal Christians, sent a learned missionary (Michael Bagm, a Pole) to Pope Alexander VII., to render obedience to the court of Rome.\n\nThe Chinese dynasty in the southern provinces was but of short duration. Hordes of Tartars poured into China, and three grand armies obliged the Emperor Yang-tie to flee. A sanguinary leader of theirs having overrun the provinces of Honan, Kiangnan, Kiangsi, &c., and committed the most appalling massacres, the peaceful Chinese were glad to accept the Tartar yoke, for the sake of secure enjoyment of their lives. And for two hundred years, 1644 to 1844, the Tartar dynasty has maintained by corruption, by stratagem, and by force, the throne and government of China.\n\n* China has rich mines of gold and silver, but it has also accumulated large quantities of the precious metals from other countries.\n\nIt is computed that 400,000,000 dollars passed from Acapulco to Manila during the 250 years of their intercourse; of this sum it is estimated that one-fourth passed from Manila to China. Since 1784, about 100,000,000 dollars have passed from the United States to China. Siam and Cochin send large quantities of gold and silver in ingots to China. Japan, it is estimated, has poured into China during sixty years of free intercourse, at least 100,000,000. From all other sources during the past century, China has received about 50,000,000. The estimated metallic circulation is equivalent to 500,000,000 dollars.\n\n512", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-018 - Others - 1846.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 301297, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-179 - Governor Hennessy - 1877 [9-12]", "page_number": 425, "title": "CO129-179 - Governor Hennessy - 1877 [9-12]", "content_text": "# 423 \n\n## THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 24TH NOVEMBER, 1877.\n\nHIS EXCELLENCY then says:-Gentlemen, it becomes my duty to lay upon the table the Estimates for the year 1878, and, in doing so, I have first to draw your attention to the financial statement which was placed in my hands immediately on my arrival in the Colony in April last. This is the return of the expenditure of the Colony for 1876, which is dated the 4th April, 1877, and was issued from the Colonial Secretary's Office on the 13th April. As you are aware, this return contains the last complete statement of any one year's financial transactions of the Colony, and on my arrival my attention was at once drawn to this important document by the Colonial Secretary, Mr. **GARDINER AUSTIN**. I found on examining it that the revenue of the year 1876 had amounted to $885,308, whereas the expenditure of the same year had amounted to $902,500. More than that, whilst the revenue of 1876 was less than the expenditure of that year, it was also less than the revenue of the preceding year, and whilst the expenditure of 1876 was in excess of the revenue, it was also in excess of the expenditure of the preceding year; or, in other words, the authentic figures placed in my hands, showed that the revenue of the Colony was declining, that the expenditure was increasing, and had passed beyond the revenue being something like $17,000 in excess of the revenue. Now, how was that $17,000 paid? The $17,000 came out of the balance in the Colonial chest. The balance in the Colonial chest when the estimates were framed, and at the end of 1876 amounted to $134,297. There is no doubt that was a very respectable balance to have in the chest, and when my predecessor framed estimates which enabled him to draw only so small a sum as $17,000 from it, every one must feel that his estimates were safe and prudent.\n\nHowever that may be, it was my duty, having to face a financial condition such as this, to look very carefully at both sides of the balance-sheet of the Colony, to endeavour on the one hand to stimulate the revenue, and on the other to carefully watch the expenditure. In a Colony such as this, a Crown Colony, the real responsibility devolves upon the representative of the Crown. The Governor is expected by his instructions to look most carefully into the expenditure of the Colony, watch it month by month, and under the Treasury regulations which give him that authority and impose the duty upon him, it is laid down that as early in each month as the expenditure for the ensuing month can be seen with sufficient accuracy, the Heads of Departments are to draw up a requisition in accordance with the classified list of heads in the estimates, to be laid before the Governor for his sanction, and if the Governor sanctions it, a letter is written to the Head of the Department to that effect. Such throughout the Colonial Empire is the manner in which the expenditure is watched by the Governor under the Treasury instructions.\n\nOn the 25th May, I made a minute that I did not see that the Treasury instructions in this respect were complied with in this Colony. On the 25th May, I received requisitions for expenditure incurred in the month of May by various Heads of Departments. What was the use of putting them before me on the 25th May? The expenditure had taken place, and I had no power of checking it if I thought it necessary to do so. Accordingly, I inquired how it came to happen that the requisitions did not come before the Governor in the time laid down in the Treasury instructions, and then I found it had been the practice for some years to send in the requisition for expenditure near the end of the month in which it had been incurred. The formality was gone through with great strictness for the Governor to approve of such requisitions; after that, a letter was written to the Heads of Departments informing them they were at liberty to incur the expenditure, which practically, had been already incurred.\n\nOf course, it may occur to some of you that the Heads of Departments are responsible officers, and that whatever Treasury instructions may say, Heads of Departments will be themselves responsible. That is a very good argument as applying to Colonies with responsible Governments; there the Heads of Departments are responsible, but in a Crown Colony it is different; the Governor is expected to look carefully into the expenditure, to check it if necessary and to stop improper expenditure. Well, it will not require much exertion, it will not be a difficult thing, for Heads of Departments to comply with my wishes in that respect, and work the requisitions in accordance with the Treasury instructions. It does not follow that the Governor is bound every month to cut down the requisitions which come before him. As you all know, the very power of cutting them down and the fact of the Governor's looking after these matters in good time from month to month will often operate to check what may be needless expenditure.\n\nWith respect to the question of revenue, I have been extremely anxious to ascertain how far the revenue we have been receiving in the Colony is a healthy revenue, and how far it may be developed, if necessary, without imposing any further taxation on the Colony. Now, to take the items as they stand in the estimates laid before you, you will find our first item is the land revenue. I estimate that for the year 1878 at $200,000. The actual sum collected in the first nine months of the present year under that head was $194,000. We expect to get a sum in the three subsequent months which will raise the total to considerably over $200,000, but in making my estimate for the next year, I have confined it to the $200,000, and I do it with the assurance of the Surveyor-General that that sum is well within the mark. I must attribute the sound state of that revenue to the admirable administration of the Department presided over by my Honourable friend the Surveyor General, Mr. **PRICE**. The improvements at the other side of the harbour, and the drainage, the many useful works he has in hand, and the good sites he has laid out for buildings along the new roads he has constructed, have no doubt in a most healthy manner stimulated the prosperity of the Colony and helped to give us this increasing income.\n\nThe next item is rents exclusive of land. I estimate that at a few thousand dollars less than actually received in 1876. It then reached $61,446. I estimate it for next year at $58,000, but it will probably reach a larger figure. I now come to the licences. Of these licences, the important ones are the spirit retailers', the pawnbrokers', and the Opium farm.\n\n## THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 24TH NOVEMBER, 1877. 523\n\nThe important licences are the spirit retailers', the pawnbrokers', and the Opium farm. Now, in every Eastern Colony they have licences or farms of this kind. I had to deal with the little Colony of Labuan, and had opportunities of consulting the neighbouring Governors, the Governors of Singapore and Saigon, and others interested in the management of such revenue farms. It is of importance to know whether these farms really bring us in the proper amount of money. Now, what has happened about the Opium farm? It fetched in 1875, $137,000 for the whole year; in 1876, $133,000; and this year we will receive from it only $132,000. The Opium farm is declining in value, because it has been sold to the Opium farmer at a slight falling-off in value. Well, it is a curious fact that, while the Opium farm has been declining in value, the number of chests of Opium forwarded to this Colony have been increasing year by year. It is very remarkable that our trade in Opium with California, Australia, and a few other places, has been increasing, that our Chinese population has not been declining, and that nevertheless our Opium farm has been declining.\n\nWhat has happened in the Straits Settlements? The farms there sold in 1876 for $837,000. They have been re-let now for $1,020,000, the increase in all the Penang farms being $161,000, and in the Singapore Opium farm $28,000. Whilst they have been increasing, we have been falling back. In Hongkong, there are 130,000 Chinese; in the Straits Settlements, 101,000. How is this to be accounted for? There are three means of ascertaining what really is the amount of Opium consumed by the Chinese, and what the Opium farmer ought to divide with the Government.\n\nThe first depends upon having an intimate business knowledge of the Chinese, of understanding especially the means they have of dealing with questions of this kind, in short to have that genuine acquaintance with the trading operations of the Chinese, which would enable the Government to form for itself an independent opinion. In addition to that, it is important to have before the Government, authentic facts and opinions from the European houses importing Opium; finally, the Hongkong Government is in a position to obtain information from the Chinese Maritime Customs, who have accurate means of knowing the number of chests of Opium consumed in this Colony. With these three sources of information at the disposal of the Government, the Opium farm ought to sell for its proper value.\n\nNow, what had the Government before it when the farm was sold? The Government had its own knowledge, somewhat imperfect, I fear, of the Chinese, of their business habits, and of the means they would endeavour to get this farm. The Government also had before it statements from some European importers of the drug into the Colony. But the Government did not appear to have any information from the Chinese Maritime Customs' officers. Now, with respect to the information obtained from European houses; in looking through the papers on the subject, I observe an important piece of information was communicated by Mr. **SASSOON**. The facts he laid before the Government, I have had an opportunity of testing, and I find they were perfectly accurate. They have been supported by the independent testimony I have obtained of the officers of the Chinese Maritime Customs.\n\n| Source | Description |\n|---------------|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|\n| Government | Knowledge of Chinese business habits |\n| European Houses| Statements from importers of Opium |\n| Chinese Maritime Customs | Accurate means of knowing the number of chests of Opium consumed |\n\nUnfortunately, the Opium farm was sold not upon the data furnished by Mr. Sassoon. Had it been, it ought to have realised a far larger sum.\n\nBut how ought an Opium farm to be sold? If you get a number of tenders, and assume that they are all genuine, you are very likely to be mistaken. If, on the other hand, you do that which the Singapore Government threatened to do, which the Government of Saigon threatened to do, which was done before now by the authorities in Netherlands-India, where they have a population of 300,000 Chinese to deal with, or what I myself had to do in Labuan, then indeed you deal with it in a way which enables you to get at its fair value, and which compels the Chinese farmer to pay to Government the fair proportion they should of a great business and large profits.\n\nWhen I went to the little Colony at the other side of the China Sea, $440 a month was received from the Opium farm. It had been $450 a month, but the farmer went to my predecessor, and explained that he was being ruined. Fortunately, on passing through Singapore, I had the opportunity of seeing Sir **HARRY ORD**, who pointed out to me the proper way of dealing with the Opium farm, and soon after arrival in Labuan, I had the satisfaction of learning from one or two of the leading Chinese merchants that they were really willing to give me the best advice and assistance they could on the question. I well remember one of them (Mr. **CHOA MAHSOO**) came to me at Govt House and said \"The Opium farm is undersold. If you choose to take it into your own hand and let the superintendent sell the Opium, instead of selling it at $440 you will be entitled to a larger sum.\" He gave me his figures. He said the number of Chinese is so much, the export of Opium so much, the Government is entitled to expect a fair share, and the farmer will have a profit.\n\nI took his advice. The result was that in a few weeks the Opium farmer came and offered $600. That was declined. He then offered $800, and before the end of the year, when we were making our preparations to deal with it, he offered $1,000; and before I left that little Colony, that Opium farm was sold for $1,450 a month. Thoroughly competent judges are of opinion that your Opium farm, instead of declining, ought to have been fetching, instead of only $132,000, ought to have fetched nearer a quarter of a million this year.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-179 - Governor Hennessy - 1877 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 308977, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 317, "title": "CO129-193 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [5-7]", "content_text": "218\n\n( 12 )\n\nLIST OF PASSENGERS,--- Continued.\n\n( 13 )\n\nLIST OF PASSENGERS, --- Continued.\n\n \n No.\n Names and Surnames of Passengers.\n Male.\n Fe-\nmale.\n Age.\n Profession, Occupation, or Calling of Passenger.\n Native Place, Village and District.\n Port at which the Passengers have Contracted to Land.\n Whether Free or Hired Emigrants.\n \n \n 533\n Tseong Yoong Fom,\n 25\n \n \n Gold Digger,\n Ty Kong,\n Sydney,\n Free.\n \n \n 534\n Cho Suey,\n \n \n 603\n Tuen Un,\n 32\n of Poon Ü,\n \n \n \n 535\n Chow Ko,-\n \n 25\n +3\n \"\n \n \n \n \n \n 536\n Loong Kwa,\n \n \n 604\n Lee Mee,\n 45\n 27\n \n \n \n 537\n Loong Ken,\n \n \n 605\n Tuen Bing,\n \"\n 24\n *\n \n \n 538\n Chow Woy,\n \n \n \n Nam Chuen,\n \n \n \n \n \n 539\n Chow Kemg,\n \n \n 606\n \n 27\n Kong Chow, -\n of Poon Ü,\n \n \n 540\n Chow Moo,\n \n \n 607\n Som Cheong,\n 40\n 22\n \n \n \n 541\n Chow Bing,\n \n \n 608\n Som Wong,\n 33\n \"\n \n \n \n 542\n Chow Yun,\n \n \n 609\n Som Sun,\n 32\n 33\n 13\n \n \n 543\n Chow Tse,\n \n \n 53\n 28\n \n \n \n \n \n 544\n Lock Bun,\n 2\n 333\n 3*******\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 610\n Som Chook,\n \"\n 21\n \"\n 27\n \n \n \n \n \n 611\n Chi Chua,\n 11\n 33\n >>\n \"\n 24\n \n \n \n \n 612\n Soe P'ho,\n 31\n 2\n 28\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 613\n Cho York,\n 73\n 31\n 24\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 614\n 73\n Yip Chuen,\n 48\n 27\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 615\n Soe She, -\n \"\n \"\n 23\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 545\n Chung Heong,\n 37\n \n \n 616\n Soe Toong,\n \"\n >\"\n \n \n 35\n \n \n \n \n وو\n \n \n \n \n \n 617\n 5-16\n Cho Pack,\n 18\n \n Soe Chap. -\n 33\n 33\n 33\n \n \n 618\n Soe Kwa,\n \n \n \n 547\n Chow Ko,-\n 45\n \">\"\n \n \n \"\n \n \n \n \n 73\n \n \n \n \n \n 548\n Cho King,\n 50\n \n \n 619\n Soe Kwan,\n 35\n \"}\"\n \n \n 22\n \n \n \n \n 620\n Soe Chee,\n \n \n \n \n \n 549\n Cho roon,\n 30\n ور\n 1\n 37\n 21\n \n \n \n \n 621\n \n \n \n 550\n Chung Chee,-\n 20\n Soe Ching,\n 73\n \n \n 37\n 37\n \n \n \n 551\n Cho Ching,\n 622\n 48\n \n \n Yü Mon,\n وو\n J\n \n 31\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 623\n \n \n 552\n Kong Ket,\n 29\n Soe Yook,-\n 32\n 15\n \n \n 37\n \n \n \n \n 624\n Soe Kee,\n \n \n \n \n \n 553\n Chow Yü,-\n >\n \"\n \"\n 625\n Choo Chec,\n \n \n \n \n \n 554\n Choi Tại,\n 34\n دو\n وو\n 5\n 11\n \n \n \n \n 626\n \n \n 555\n Chow Tson,\n 27\n Tuen Hoong,-\n **\n ,,\n \n \n 627\n Tuen Chee,\n \n 556\n Chow Yü,\n 50\n 17\n 13\n \n \n \n 628\n \n \n 557\n Chow Shing,\n 42\n Soe Choy,\n و\"\n $3\n \n \n 629\n Soe Fook,-\n \n 538\n Ho Wah,\n 40\n 12\n >>\n \"\n \n \n 630\n Soe Chee,\n \n 559\n Loong To,-\n 25\n 1\n 13\n 13\n \n \n 631\n Moo Kook,\n \n 560\n Lee Fook,\n 23\n \"\n 33\n \n \n \n 632\n Moo Lee,\n \n 561\n Lee Mun, -\n 19\n \"\n 5\n \n \n \n 633\n Moo Yuen,\n \n 562\n Lee Tick,\n 39\n 19\n 5\n \n \n \n 634\n Moo Moon,\n \n 563\n Lee She, -\n 38\n \"\n 15\n \n \n \n 635\n Mok Yom,\n \n 564\n Lee Ow,\n 26\n 2)\n \n \n \n \n 636\n Chan Mee,\n \n 565\n Wong Kun,\n 24\n >\n 23\n \n \n \n 637\n Chan To, -\n \n 566\n Chu Suey,\n 20\n 11\n J1\n \n \n \n 638\n 50%\n Lum Mce,-\n 21\n 21\n 11\n 25\n \"\n \n \n \n Kong Mee,\n \n \n \n \n 668\n Aun Ta,\n 19\n 21\n \n \n 13\n >\n \n \n \n 639\n 569\n Wo Yick,-\n 47\n \n \n Kong Toong,\n \n \n 12\n +7\n J\n \n \n \n \n \n 640\n 570\n Chow Moon,\n 44\n Melbourne,\n Kong Yun,\n 13\n >\n \n \n \n 641\n Lor Chow,\n \n 571\n Tseong Tsow,\n 30\n >>\n J7\n \n \n \n 642\n 572\n Kwon Chew,-\n 32\n +1\n Chan Sing,\n 27\n 53\n \n \n \n 573\n Chow Yook,\n 40\n >\n 19\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 643\n Kong Fook,\n \n 574\n Chow Yin,\n 26\n かす\n 71\n \n \n \n 644\n 575\n Lor Yee,\n 48\n Tin Miner,\n *\n Sydney,\n Ng Nie,\n 22\n \n \n 645\n 576\n Lor Man,\n 39\n \n Wong Shing,\n 17\n \"3\n \n \n \n 577\n Lor Kee,\n 45\n T\n *\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 646\n 578\n Lor Shee,\n 43\n Yun Kwong,-\n 22\n \n \n \n \n \n 579\n Lor Shun,-\n 25\n 11\n \n 647\n Yun Chü, .\n \n \n \n \n \n 580\n Yip Yoong,\n 28\n 25\n ་་\n \"\n \n \n \n \n \n 648\n Kwo Man Kec,\n \n 591\n Kong Bun,\n 92\n \"\n 3\n \n \n \n 582\n Cho Wai,\n 30\n 33\n 17\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 649\n \n \n 583\n Som Yuet,\n \n Kwo Ping,\n 15\n \n \n \n 650\n Tye Chack,\n \n 584\n Cho Bua,\n \n \n }\n \n \n \n 585\n Cho Kong,\n 38\n :)\n 21\n J\n \n \n \n \n \n 651\n Hoong Yuen,\n \n 586\n Cho Huen,\n 20\n #\n \n \n \n \n 662\n Hoong Poy,\n \n 587\n Cho Vịp,\n 20\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 653\n Chan Cheong,\n \n 588\n Cho Nie,\n 21\n \"\n 37\n \n \n \n 664\n Hoong Bug,\n \n 589\n Cho Ko,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 589\n Cho Hoy, -\n 24\n \n 656\n Ü Tem,-\n \n \n \n \n \n 592\n Soe Sa,\n 23\n \n 657\n Lum Sin Som,\n \n \n \n \n \n 593\n Cho Thi,\n 40\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 594\n Chow Yoong,\n 20\n \n 658\n Hor Tick Hong,\n \n \n \n \n \n 505\n Soi Choi, -\n 29\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 596\n Kong La,\n 92\n 13\n \n 659\n Chin Chee Sun,-\n \n \n \n \n \n 597\n Tuen Yut,-\n 1.7\n 23\n \"\n 660\n Shee Shoong Hing,\n \n \n \n \n \n 598\n Cho Foe,\n 39\n J\n \n 661\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 599\n Then Yook,\n 30\n \n 662\n Tan Yung Tong,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Ho Lin Ches,-\n \n \n \n 600\n Tuen Chan,\n 17\n \n \n \n \n \n 663\n Wong Hoong Churd, -\n \n 2\n =*=******=*=*==-N≈38*********\n ****\n ***\n *\n 37\n \n \n 28\n 89233\n 5*\n *\n **88*\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 14\n Tin Miner,\n \n Nam Chuen, of Poon U,\n \n Sydney,\n \n Free.\n \n \n \n \"\n 25\n **\n 23\n \n 22\n \n 23\n \n \n \n وو\n \n \n \n \n 23\n \n JJ\n \n \n \n 17\n *\n \n 予高\n \n >\n \n 1\n \n \n \n \"\n \n \n \n \n 39\n **\n 21\n \n \n \n 15\n J\n \n 23\n \n 事业\n \n \"\n \n \n \n \"\n \n \n \n \n 33\n 37\n \"\"\n \n \n \n 95\n 11\n \n 30\n \n 23\n \n J\n \n \n \n \"\"\n \n \n \n \n 24\n \"\n \"\n \n \n \n >>\n \n \n \n \n 11\n 25\n وو\n \n \n \n 23\n J\n \n >>\n \n 23\n \n 1\n \n \n \n 57\n J\n \n 24\n \n 42\n \n \n \n \n \n Gold Digger,\n \n Ting Shan,\n \n of Phar Yuen,\n \n }\n \n 27\n \n \n 24\n \n 25\n J\n \n 22\n \n وو\n \n \n \n 3\n \n 44\n *\n *\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Labourer,\n \n 26\n \n Tye Lek,\n \n of Poon Ú,\n \n \n \n \n Sheong Chuen, of Phar Yuen,\n \n Sheong Chuen, of Sun Ning,\n \n \n Lor Chow,\n \n of Heong Show,\n \n \n \n \"\n \n 33\n \n Melbourne,\n \n AARA\n \n **\n \n \n \"\"\n *\n \n བྷ རྨ ཐཱ སྐྱུ\n \n Sydney,\n \n 身\n \n \n \n Sheong Tsoong,\n \n of Toong Kwoon,\n \n \n **\n \n +\n \n \n \n Sheong Chuen, of Sun Ning,\n \n \n \n Melbourne,\n \n 93\n \n 13\n \n \n 37\n *\n \n ཀྵ མཱ མྦ ཀྵ ྐ\n \n 37\n \n Trader,\n \n \n \n Sake Keo,\n \n \n \n Labourer,\n \n of Heong Shan,\n \n Toong Chuen,\n \n \n Cooktown,\n \n Sydney,\n \n \n 33\n \n of Toong Kwoon,\n \n \n \n 25\n وو\n \n \"\n \n ور\n \n 25\n \n \n \n 37\n \"\n \n \"\n \n *\n \n 21\n \n \n \n \"\n \n \n \n \n 32\n \n Gold Digger,\n \n \n \n Leong To,\n \n \n \n 601\n \n Tuen Yook,\n \n 35\n \n \n of Heong Shan,\n \n \n 602\n \n Cho Chan,\n \n 18\n \n \n \n 313\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\nPage 219\n\n(To be continued)", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-193 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 321201, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 578, "title": "CO129-207 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1883 [1-3]", "content_text": "THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 24TH NOVEMBER, 1877.\n\nTHE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 24TH NOVEMBER, 1877.\n\nHIS EXCELLENCY then says:---Gentlemen, it becomes my duty to lay upon the table the existing probably reach larger figure. I now come to the licences. Of these licences, the important ones for the year 1878, and, in doing so, I have first to draw your attention to the financial statement which was placed in my hands immediately on my arrival in the Colony in April last. This is the return for the expenditure of the Colony for 1876, it is dated the 4th April, 1877, and was issued from the Colonial Secretary's Office on the 13th April. As you are aware, this return contains the last complete statement of any one year's financial transactions of the Colony, and on my arrival my attention was at once drawn to this important document by the Colonial Secretary, Mr. GARDINER AUSTIN. I found on examining it that the revenue of the year 1876 had amounted to $885,308, whereas the expenditure of the same year had amounted to $902,500. More than that, whilst the revenue of 1876 was less than the expenditure of that year, it was also less than the revenue of the preceding year, and while the expenditure of 1876 was in excess of the revenue, it was also in excess of the expenditure of the preceding year; or, in other words, the authentic figures placed in my hands, showed that the revenue of the Colony was declining, that the expenditure was increasing, and had passed beyond the revenue, being something like $17,000 in excess of the revenue. Now, how was that $17,000 paid? The $17,000 came out of the balance in the Colonial chest. The balance in the Colonial chest when the estimates were framed, and at the end of 1876 amounted to $134,297. There's no doubt that that was a very respectable balance to have in the chest, and when my predecessor framed estimates which enabled him to draw only so small a sum as $17,000 from it, every one must feel that his estimates were sound and prudent.\n\nHowever that may be, it was my duty, having to face a financial condition such as this, to look very carefully at both sides of the balance-sheet of the Colony, to endeavour on the one hand to stimulate the revenue, and on the other to carefully watch the expenditure. In a Colony such as this, a Crown Colony, the real responsibility devolves upon the representative of the Crown. The Governor is expected by his instructions to look most carefully into the expenditure of the Colony, watch it month by month, and under the Treasury regulations which give him that authority and impose the duty upon him, it is laid down that as early in each month as the expenditure for the ensuing month can be seen with sufficient accuracy, the Heads of Departments are to draw up a requisition in accordance with the classified list of heads in the estimates, to be laid before the Governor for his sanction, and, if the Governor sanction it, a letter is written to the Head of the Department to that effect.\n\nSuch throughout the Colonial Empire is the manner in which the expenditure in Crown Colonies is watched by the Governor under the Treasury instructions. On the 25th May, I made a minute that I did not see that the Treasury instructions in this respect were complied with in this Colony. On the 25th May, I received requisitions for expenditure to be incurred in the month of May by various Heads of Departments. What was the use of putting them before me on the 25th May? The expenditure had taken place, and I had no power of checking it if I thought it necessary to do so. Accordingly, I inquired how it came to happen that the requisitions did not come before the Governor in the time laid down in the Treasury instructions, and then I found it had been the practice for some years to send in the requisition for expenditure near the end of the month in which it had been incurred.\n\nThe formality was gone through with great strictness for the Government to approve of such requisitions; after that, a letter was written to the Heads of Departments informing them they were at liberty to incur the expenditure, which, practically, had already incurred. Of course it may occur to some of you that the Heads of Departments are responsible officers, and that whatever Treasury instructions may say, Heads of Department will be themselves responsible. That is a very good argument as applying to Colonies with responsible Governments; there the Heads of Departments are responsible, but in a Crown Colony, it is different; the Governor is expected to look carefully into the expenditure, to check it if necessary, and to stop improper expenditure.\n\nWith respect to the question of revenue, I have been extremely anxious to ascertain how far the revenue we have been receiving in the Colony is a healthy revenue, and how far it may be developed if necessary, without imposing any further taxation on the Colony. Now, to take the items as they stand in the estimates laid before you, you will find our first item is the land revenue. I estimate that for the year 1878 at $200,000. The actual sum collected in the first nine months of the present year under that head was $194,000. We expect to get a sum in the three subsequent months which will raise the total to considerably over $200,000, but in making my estimate for the next year, I have confined it to the $200,000, and I do it with the assurance of the Surveyor-General that that sum is well within the mark.\n\nHow ought an Opium farm to be sold? If you get a number of tenders, and assume that they are all genuine, you are very likely to be mistaken. If, on the other hand, you do that which the Singapore Government threatened to do, which the Government of Saigon threatened to do, which has been done before now by the authorities in Netherlands-India, where they have a population of 300,000 Chinese to deal with, or what I myself had to do in Labuan, then indeed you at once deal with it in a way which enables you to get at its fair value, and which compels the Chinese traders to give the Government the fair proportion they should of a great business and large profits.\n\nWhen I went to the little Colony at the other side of the China Sea, $730 a month was received from the Opium farm. It had been $800 a month, but the farmer went to my predecessor, and explained that he was being ruined. Fortunately, on passing through Singapore, I had the opportunity of seeing Sir HARRY ORD, who pointed out to me the proper way of dealing with the Opium farm, and soon after my arrival in Labuan, I had the satisfaction of learning from one or two of the leading Chinese merchants that they were really willing to give me the best advice and assistance they could on the question.\n\nI well remember one of them (Mr. Choa Mansoo) came to me at Government House and said-\"The Opium farm is undersold. If you choose to take it into your own hands and let the superintendent boil the Opium, instead of selling it at $730 you will be entitled to get $1,000 a month.' He gave me his figures. He said the number of Chinese is so much, the export of prepared Opium so much, the Government is entitled to expect a fair share, and the farmer will have a handsome profit. I took his advice. The result was that in a few weeks the Opium farmer came and offered $800. That was declined. He then offered $900, and before the end of the year, when we were making our preparations to deal with it, he offered $1,000; and before I left that little Colony I was able to sell that Opium farm for $1,450 a month.\n\nThoroughly competent judges—I need not quote their names—are of opinion that your Opium farm, instead of declining, ought to have been increasing, and instead of fetching only $132,000, ought to have fetched nearer a quarter of a million this year. When Sir HARRY ORD resolved to exact a larger share of the profits some of the Chinese in Singapore said the Opium farmer in Johore would make all the Chandoo, and that the Singapore Government would lose by the attempt to increase the value of the farm: and to me in Labuan it was also pointed out that the profit would go to the Opium farms in Brunei if I persisted in asking more than the $730. It is the old story. Such things are always said, and I believe they have been said here too;", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-207 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1883 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 354468, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-263 - Acting Governor Barker Governor Sir Robinson - 1894 [5-8]", "page_number": 202, "title": "CO129-263 - Acting Governor Barker Governor Sir Robinson - 1894 [5-8]", "content_text": "404\n\n06:\n\nP.C. Mahomad Bux said that on Saturday morning he was ordered to keep back a mob of Chinese, and that when he went to do so he was pelted with stones. The defendant was one of those who threw a missile, and he arrested him.\n\nFined $50 or two months' in default.\n\nTHE HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS\n\nand the unhappy patients on the bulk must be brought to the Tung Wah branch Hospital, and those of the sick who so desire could be permitted to introduce the full disease into their native villages on the mainland! Splendid illustration of the intelligence and perspicuity, to say nothing of the gratitude, of these so-called representatives of the native community!\n\nP.C. Rossball Singh charged a coolie with a similar offense on the same occasion.\n\nFined $50 or two months' in default.\n\nTwo coolies were charged with disorderly conduct in Po Yan Street on the 20th.\n\nA Sikh constable said that during the morning a Chinese gentleman came out of the Tung Wah Hospital and got into his chair. The coolies were about to carry him when a mob of Chinese turned the chair upside down, with the gentleman in it. The occupant of the chair got out and ran back into the hospital. The first defendant was one of those who got hold of the chair. Witness blew his whistle and arrested the defendants. At the same time some stones were thrown. Some watchmen belonging to the Tung Wah Hospital came to witness's assistance and the mob was cleared away.\n\nFined $50 each or two months' in default.\n\nThree old women were next brought up, charged with assaulting Inspector R. Germain, an officer of the Sanitary Board, while in the execution of his duty.\n\nComplainant said—On the 20th inst. at 8.30 a.m. I was on the house-to-house inspection duty in Station Street, Taipingshan. I was called away to Market Street for ten minutes and on returning to Station Street I found the whole place in an uproar.\n\nI pacified the people as best I could and went on with the inspection. On coming out of the next house I was met with a shower of stones and bricks and rubbish. The first defendant threw the brick produced, and the second and third defendants were the ringleaders, urging the others to attack us. I had two inkongs in uniform with me. I arrested the defendants. The people objected to the house-to-house visitation. I was the only man inspecting at the time; I had no soldiers. The house-to-house visitation has been going on for some time every day, and there have been no disturbances hitherto. I have ceased to suppose that it was in consequence of the employment of soldiers that the disturbances arose. The soldiers have been employed for four days.\n\nMr. F.H. May, Captain Superintendent of Police said—I ask for a severe penalty. This is part of an organized arrangement for disturbing the measures taken by the authorities to deal with the plague. The disturbances are only kept under control by the presence of an armed body of police in the Taipingshan district.\n\nThe first defendant was fined $10 or one month's imprisonment, and the other two defendants $5 each or six weeks' in default.\n\nNearly all the fines were paid.\n\nWe regret to learn that Inspector Quincey and several of the officers who have been so actively engaged in the work of visiting the houses are incapacitated by illness from duty.\n\nThe house-to-house visitation, which daily discloses the unreported existence of plague and sometimes discovers the dead bodies of victims in the rotting dampness of basement floors, is to be still more vigorously carried on. Fifty volunteers for this highly necessary work are asked for, and in view of the danger and gravity of the situation, not only to the trade and commerce of the port but to the health of the entire population, these volunteers and probably more, will doubtless be speedily forthcoming.\n\nThe insinuations which have been cast upon the military employed as special sanitary officers, and the reports current that it is this to which the chief objection to the house-to-house visitation is due, caused us to make enquiries in this direction. We learn on the best authority that since their enrollment in this work the military employed have worked very satisfactorily and effectively, that no complaint of their conduct has been made, and that as a matter of fact the majority of the householders were not aware that the men visiting their houses were military, until they were incited by the anti-foreign leaders behind to make demonstrations of vindictiveness. The soldiers employed are all picked men, and the majority are non-commissioned officers. Twelve men of the Shropshire regiment are still engaged in the work of inspection and twelve engineers in disinfecting. Each sanitary officer is accompanied by a likong, and there are now twenty-one men on this special duty in the infected area.\n\nWe might mention, to remove any misconception, that the Government have not completely abrogated their authority even over the Chinese Hospital at the Glassworks. Dr. Penny, R.N., makes visits twice daily to see that things are in a sanitary condition, and European police are on duty at the gates keeping statistics of cases.\n\nIt is said by some who have had so intimate an acquaintance with the development and character of the plague since its appearance here, that the attacks now do not appear to be quite as virulent as a week ago. It may be added that several of the new cases in the Glassworks have been discharged on diagnosis as not suffering from plague. Whether such are being sent to the Hospital accidentally or intentionally it is difficult to say, but plausibility is lent to the latter suggestion by the natural desire among the Chinese to be able to record in their statistics a higher percentage of \"discharged cured\" than the European doctors were able to do.\n\n23rd May. The following are the returns for the twenty-four hours to noon yesterday:\n\nHospital\nAdmissions\nDeaths\n\nKen-edy Hospital\n3\n1\n\nChinese Hospital\n19\n10\n\nCity Hospital\n7\n10\n\nTung Wah Hospital\n27\n18\n\nTotal\n56\n39\n\nThe patients under Chinese medical direction are treated with a decoction made from the root of an aquatic plant, which is said to have been wonderfully successful in dealing with serious cases at Canton. After being infused in hot water for some time for some time the liquid is strained off and administered at regular intervals, while the pulp is applied externally to the buboes as a poultice.\n\nUnder treatment 21\n\n\"A quiet day; plague in a measure abating,\" practically sums up the reports received yesterday. The concessions made by the Government in no longer insisting upon the transfer of patients to the Hygeia and in giving permission (speedily availed of) to establish a Chinese hospital under Chinese control, acted like oil on the troubled waters and no further disturbances took place, or were even attempted, after the Glassworks had been converted into a hospital. The native prejudice, however, not having been largely removed, large numbers of coolies continued yesterday in every way possible to leave the colony, both by steamer and passage-boat, and the exodus appears to be increasing.\n\nAt the Magistracy yesterday a hawker was fined $10 for creating a disturbance near the Tung Wah Hospital.\n\nDEPUTATION TO HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR.\n\nIMPORTANT PRONOUNCEMENT.\n\nAt one o'clock yesterday afternoon a deputation from the Tung Wah Hospital, accompanied by the Hon. J.H. Stewart Lockhart (Registrar-General) waited on His Excellency the Governor at Government House for the purpose of representing a certain feeling existing among some sections of the native community. The deputation presented to His Excellency a long petition, the principal points of which were:\n\n(1)—That the house-to-house visitation should cease.\n\n(2)—That sick persons should be allowed to return to their own country.\n\n(3)—That the patients on the Hygeia should be sent to the Glassworks Hospital.\n\n(4)—That all sick persons should be sent to the Glassworks Hospital.\n\nAfter listening attentively to the recital of this document, His Excellency said that he would take the last point first. In reply to that, all he had to say was that sick people might elect to go to any hospital they liked. There was no interference with their choice whatever, and no intention on the part of the Government to force patients into any particular hospital for treatment. As to the request that the sick on the Hygeia should be moved to the branch Hospital, he altogether declined such a responsibility. The idea, he said, was absurd, as if the petitioners' prayer was granted it might result in much unnecessary loss of life. He therefore declined to grant it. As to the request contained in paragraph 2, His Excellency said that he had nothing to do with the return of the people to their own country. If the authorities in Kwang-tung refused to allow persons from Hongkong to go to Macao or elsewhere, he could not coerce those authorities or interfere with their decision.\n\nAnd as regards the first point of the petition—that the house-to-house visitation should cease—His Excellency said that he considered such visitation to be absolutely necessary, and he had no intention whatever to relax the morning regulations in that respect.\n\nThe morning paper had shown how necessary it was, for they reported that three or four dead bodies had been taken out of one house, which would never have been discovered but for the house-to-house visitation. His Excellency reminded the deputation that this was an English colony, and said that the Tung Wah Committee should assist him in carrying out the law and persuading others to obey it. Holding up the proclamation he stated that that was now the law, and it would be carried out. He promised that every consideration should be shown to women and children, and that if any unnecessary damage was done on proof thereof the persons suffering would be recompensed. To show his own opinion of the necessity for visitation he had asked that all the outbuildings and coolie quarters at Government House should be inspected. His Excellency further said that he intended largely to increase the force of Sanitary Inspectors and he hoped that in a few weeks' time all danger would be at an end. He asked the Tung Wah Committee to assist him by getting additional help.\n\nA fatal case has been reported from Queen's Gardens. A day or two ago a coolie employed at the Royal Engineers' mess was taken ill and died before knowledge of the nature of his ailment—which was plague—was known to his companions. The premises have been thoroughly disinfected.\n\nHis Excellency concluded by saying that he was responsible not only for the health of the Chinese but of the Europeans and the Army and Navy, that his decision was embodied in the proclamation, that this proclamation was now the law, and that persons transgressing it would be arrested and punished.\n\nThe Registrar-General frequently interpreted His Excellency's remarks and the deputation withdrew, if not actually satisfied, at any rate fully aware of the determination of the Government to do its best to stamp out and prevent the spread of this insidious disease.\n\nTung Wah Hospital on Monday.\n\nA meeting of the Consular Body, held at Shanghai on the 15th inst., it was unanimously decided to request the taotai, through the Customs, to enforce No. 15 of the Harbour Regulations, as a measure of precaution, against vessels arriving from the South. The Regulation in question is as follows:—\"Vessel arriving from a place infected with cholera or other contagious disease on board shall not come nearer the lower limit of the Harbour than one mile, shall fly at the fore a yellow flag, and shall not allow any one to disembark or come on board without permission from the Harbour Master's Office.\"\n\nThere is some talk of closing the schools at which Chinese scholars attend. We believe that Dr. Bateson Wright has applied to the Governor for permission to close Queen's College, and it is probable if the disease does not receive a decided check during the next few days that this precautionary measure will be adopted.\n\nTHE PROCLAMATION.\n\nThe following is a precis of the proclamation issued by H.E. Sir William Robinson:\n\nWhereas Hongkong is now visited by a plague which is killing Chinese at the rate of between 30 and 40 a day, and it is understood that 8,000 people have succumbed to it since the commencement of the outbreak. It is the general opinion that the outbreak was caused simply by the bad smells from large numbers of dead rats. This has also been proved by a foreign doctor on Shameen, who, after examining some of the newly dead rats, found many worms in the lungs. He advised people not to eat them, as they are a great poison.\n\n22nd May.\n\nWe are glad to be able to announce that the plague in Canton has further diminished during the past three days. The doctors have now discovered the proper method of treating the patients, and the percentage of deaths amongst those who have been attended by them is only twenty per cent. or less.\n\n17th May.\n\nMr. Leach concluded his arguments on the point raised by Mr. Francis as to whether the case should be dealt with in its present form, and Mr. Francis replied.\n\nHis Lordship reserved his decision.\n\nIN SUMMARY JURISDICTION.\n\nBEFORE HIS HONOUR MR. A.G. WISE, ACTING PUISNE JUDGE.\n\nCHOI CHU vs. CHEUNG KAM TIM.\n\nMr. Creasy Ewens appeared for the plaintiff and Mr. Phillippo for the defendant.\n\nThis was a claim of $400. money alleged to have been lent by the plaintiff, a woman, to the defendant's wife for the purchase of necessaries.\n\nThe plaintiff gave very contradictory evidence as to the circumstances of this loan, and His Lordship, not considering that there was sufficient proof of the debt, gave judgment for the defendant with costs.\n\nALLEGED SINGULAR AND FATAL MISTAKE.\n\nA correspondent writes:—\"Is it a fact that a Chinese woman was sent on board the Hygeia by the Sanitary Authorities supposed to be suffering from the plague, but which proved to be a case of pregnancy? And is it true that the mistake was not found out until it was too late to save the patient's life? This is the tale told to me by my servants, and two of them have left my employ in a terrible fright to take their wives out of the colony.\"\n\nSUPREME COURT.\n\n15th May.\n\nIN ORIGINAL JURISDICTION.\n\nBEFORE HIS HONOUR MR. E.J. ACKROYD, ACTING CHIEF JUSTICE.\n\nIn re THE CHINA LAND AND FINANCE COMPANY, LIMITED.\n\nThe bearing was resumed of the motion by the Comptoir National d'Escompte de Paris to be placed on the register of shareholders of the China Land and Finance Company, Limited, in respect of 1,500 shares in the Company which had been deposited by Ng Chan Fong, the Bank's compradore, as security for advances made or that might be incurred in future by Ng Chan Fong to the Bank, being additional security under terms of an agreement of the 16th February, 1891, and a bond dated 14th December, 1891.\n\nMr. A.J. Leach, Q.C., instructed by Mr. G.C. Master (of Messrs. Johnson, Stokes and Master), appeared on behalf of the Bank; and Mr. J.J. Francis, Q.C. (instructed by Mr. C. Ewens), on behalf of the Company and Ng Woon Sun How Qua, who had been served with notice of the motion.\n\nHis Lordship, on taking his seat, said—In this case Mr. Leach, before answering Mr. Francis's application that I should not deal with this case at the present stage, asked me to allow him to complete his evidence by cross-examining certain parties upon the affidavits filed by Mr. Francis's clients.\n\n18th May.\n\nIN CRIMINAL SESSIONS.\n\nBEFORE HIS HONOUR MR. E.J. ACKROYD, ACTING CHIEF JUSTICE, AND COMMON JURY.\n\nATTEMPTED ARSON.\n\nChan Sik Ming, an apprentice, aged 19, was charged with feloniously and wilfully attempting to set fire to No. 7, Queen's Road West, occupied by a boot and shoe dealer who employed the defendant, on the 6th inst.\n\nMr. A.J. Leach, Acting Attorney-General (instructed by Mr. A.B. Johnson, Crown Solicitor), prosecuted for the Crown.\n\nPrisoner pleaded not guilty.\n\nAnother apprentice who had been committed as an accomplice was discharged by proclamation.\n\nThe following jury was empanelled:—Messrs. Chow Dart Tong, A. Sharp, J.M. Gutierrez, F.G. Barres, F. Hubbe, D.W. Craddock, and Thos. Grimshaw.\n\nThe facts of the case were that on the night of the day in question the proprietor of the shop awoke and found the defendant setting fire, by means of a large joss stick, gunpowder, and matches, to a box of shavings in one of the rooms on the ground floor.\n\nThe Jury returned a verdict of guilty.\n\nHis Lordship reserved sentence, which was delivered on the 22nd.\n\nHis Lordship (addressing the prisoner) said—The jury have found you guilty of preparing a joss-stick with matches and gunpowder and with having set fire to it. They found that you knew what you were doing, and that you placed it close to a box of shavings in order to set fire to the house; and everything points to the supposition that you did this because your master had given you a few slaps two or three days before. The consequence of your foolish act might have been very serious. The sentence of the Court is that you be imprisoned for one week and that you receive six strokes with a rattan.\n\n21st May.\n\nFORGERY.\n\nPun Long, a clerk, was charged with uttering a forged note purporting to be endorsed by one Chao Yan Lok in January last, with intent to defraud Messrs. Arthur and Co.\n\nMr. A.J. Leach, Acting Attorney-General (instructed by Mr. A.B. Johnson, Crown Solicitor), appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. J.J. Francis, Q.C. (instructed by Mr. H.L. Dennys), for the defence.\n\nThe following jury was empanelled:—Messrs. A.O. Gutierrez, C.F. de Carvalho, R.S. Philpott, C.A. Plumb, E.J. Moses, M.S. Northcote, and F. Gomes.\n\nPrisoner pleaded not guilty.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-263 - Acting Governor Barker Governor Sir Robinson - 1894 [5-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 371637, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-291 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [5-6]", "page_number": 386, "title": "CO129-291 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [5-6]", "content_text": "# Alation.\n\nSir,\n\n**Viceroy's Reply to Consul Mansfield**\n\nMay 18th, 1899.\n\n379\n\nWith reference to your despatch stating that numbers of local rowdies on the Chinese side of the boundary are about to make an incursion into British territory, and requesting me to take steps for the preservation of order; I have the honour to state that I at once ordered Lieut. Colonel Shih Yu-shan to despatch by steamer at least military officers in command of 300 men of the \"1st\" Battalion to take up their quarters in the neighbourhood of Samchun to preserve order. I also ordered the San On and Tung Kun Magistrates respectively to take action and report. Of this I duly informed you in my reply to your despatch. I subsequently received a report from Mr. Chao, the San On Magistrate, to the effect that he had visited several villages in person and had ascertained that no such movement was contemplated. Of this I also duly informed you.\n\nI have now received a further report from the Tung On Hsien, Liu, in which he states that he has been in person to several places and has ascertained that none of the villagers have left the district to create trouble.\n\nIt will be my duty to impose on the two Magistrates the responsibility of frequently warning the people and keeping them in check so as to prevent any disturbance.\n\nThe Officers and soldiers sent by Lieut. Colonel Shih will have to be forthwith ordered back to the Canton garrison, to which effect I have given orders.\n\nI beg that you will inform the Governor.\n\n**(Seal of Viceroy.)**\n\nTranslated by\n(Signed) G. D. Bitzipios \nVice Consul.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-291 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 403098, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-331 - Public Offices - 1905", "page_number": 7, "title": "CO129-331 - Public Offices - 1905", "content_text": "# AFFAIRS OF CHINA\n## CONFIDENTIAL\n\n2\n\naware, the capital to build the line from Swatow to Chao-chou-fu has been mainly subscribed by Chinese in the Straits and in Java. Japanese engineers are constructing the line, and we understand that some 200 Japanese all told are employed upon it in various capacities.\n\nThe experiment is being watched with the keenest interest by the Chinese, and it appears probable that, in the event of success, there will be a powerful demand from the more enlightened and wealthier classes all over the Empire to be allowed to build, under like conditions, their own railways wherever required. On the success or failure of this little enterprise would seem to depend the future course of the development of railway building in China. In the event of success, we may expect to see increased opposition offered both by officials and people to any future schemes for building railways with foreign capital.\n\nIn view of this, the importance of pressing ahead with whatever preliminaries are still necessary to prepare the way for the loan required to build the Kowloon--Canton line, in order to have it ready for floatation at a favourable moment, has become increasingly apparent. Hence our constant representations on this subject. Our idea was, and is, that if the British and Chinese Corporation could get in first with their line to Canton, the idea of starting an opposition port would receive considerable discouragement, and the movement on foot, as described, would suffer a severe check.\n\nOn the head of this came positive information that the Americans were attempting to obtain a Concession for an open port to serve as a sea terminus to their Hankow to Canton line. From the foregoing it might appear that they would be likely to encounter Chinese opposition, and possibly they may. At the same time it is equally open to anyone to surmise that they may find it convenient to join forces with the Chinese on some mutually advantageous business basis. Our information from one source colours this theory. From another we hear that the American-China Development Company are trying to get the Concession clear for themselves under a clause in their original Agreement providing for access to the sea. There would seem to be two groups of Americans at work, but there is some doubt about this. There is, however, no doubt at all about the truth of the statement made in our telegram of the 31st. \"Americans endeavouring to arrange for deep water port near Whampoa as terminus Canton-Hankow line.\"\n\nIf there had been any doubt about the matter, our message would have been couched in different terms. Often it is not possible to obtain precise information when it may, nevertheless, be advisable to utter a warning note, and in cases of this kind we shall always take the precaution of using guarded language calculated to make clear to you the uncertain nature of our information. In this case there was no doubt, and we therefore telegraph a plain statement of fact. When we adopt this course, we trust that you will give us credit for having something more to go upon than mere rumour.\n\nAs regards the railway negotiations in progress at Peking, we trust that the British and Chinese Corporation will not fail to take into consideration the danger to this Colony arising out of delay.\n\n## British and Chinese Corporation to Foreign Office.-(Received May 23.)\n\nSir,\n\n3, Lombard Street, London, May 22, 1905.\n\nIN concluding our letter to you of the 18th instant in reply to your letter of the 16th idem we stated that we were telegraphing to China for information respecting the Canton-Kowloon Railway negotiations.\n\nWe now beg leave to acquaint you, for the information of the Marquess of Lansdowne, that we have received the following reply from Messrs. Jardine, Matheson, and Co., dated Shanghae, the 20th instant :-\n\n| Date | Sender | Message |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 18th | (Our telegram) | Referring to your telegram of the 18th. We have received a telegram from C. H. Ross (Peking). The British Minister submitted our proposal to the Wai-wu Pu, but before proceeding with the negotiations they wish to consult with Sheng Kung Pao, who arrived Wednesday last, now visiting the Dowager Empress. We expect to make progress in about a week or two, but it continues very uncertain with whom will negotiate. |\n\nWe are greatly disappointed that so much delay is taking place at Peking, and that we are still in a condition of uncertainty as to the negotiations, although our past experience, and especially our knowledge of Sheng Kung Pao, should have prepared us for infinite procrastination.\n\nRumoured movements in the direction of railway construction to unite Canton and Whampoa point to the urgency of pressing to the utmost the negotiations we are engaged upon to a conclusion, and we hope His Majesty's Minister at Peking will be good enough to continue to give the Corporation's representative at Peking the benefit of his valuable support and assistance in overcoming difficulties and concluding the final Agreement.\n\nWe are, &c.\n\n(Per The British and Chinese Corporation, Limited),\n\n(Signed) W. KESWICK, Chairman.\n\nI am, &c.\n\n(Signed) M. STEWART, Hon. Secretary.\n\nPage 42 \n`18416` \n`JUN 05` \n`SECTION 2.` \n`C. O.` \n`19604` \n`Rec [REG!` \n`[May 23.]`", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-331 - Public Offices - 1905.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 403539, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-331 - Public Offices - 1905", "page_number": 448, "title": "CO129-331 - Public Offices - 1905", "content_text": "# \n募 \n\n16 \n\nconfined to the lower slopes. Half-way up the hills where our road lay opium was the most important crop, followed by a summer sowing of maize, but we also saw some patches of wheat and beans.\n\nThe Lisu are stay-at-home people, which is not surprising in view of the difficulty of getting about. Few of them can give any information about country more than three days' march from their own village, and fewer still have ever seen a town of 1,000 inhabitants or a square mile of flat country. These hills are so cut off from all relief by the outer world, and the villagers are so poor, that the problem of how to get enough to eat is the burning question of the day. There are no free-traders here. In none of the villages beyond Lu Chang could we buy a pound of rice or other cereals, though fowls and an occasional goat were forthcoming. Even paterfamilias practises high protection. He tries to get enough grain to feed himself and his family till the next harvest, and will not let a spoonful go out of the house.\n\nThe Chinese lower down the Salween regard all the country above Mao Chao as \"black\" or wild Lisu territory, utterly beyond the pale of civilization. There are no Chinese residents on the Salween north of Cheng Ka. No doubt the Lisu often raid in various directions, hunger being the chief incentive, though sometimes the object is to make slaves, or, in the case of forays towards the north, to cut off the Chinese gold-workers. The slave traffic seems fairly brisk. At Pai Pa the price of a male or female child of 8 to 10 years was about 20 rupees, but some of our porters told us that if we could come on to their village some distance further north we should find a larger selection and at easier rates. The slavery is of the domestic type, but the slave has also to work in the fields.\n\nAt Pai Pa, while I was sitting in my tent, I was surprised by a very dirty old man with remarkably brilliant black eyes, who threw himself down on the ground at the door of my tent and began a chant in a high, loud voice. I thought that he was a beggar, and asked the by-standers what his song was all about. They said in a rather awe-struck manner that they did not understand it. On inquiry I then discovered that I was in the presence of the local soothsayer, or medicine man.\n\nRealizing that he might be a person of some importance, I at once gave him a necklace of red beads and a rupee, whereupon he declared, in language which could be understood of the people, that my goings and comings in the Lisu country would be most prosperous--an announcement which had an impressive effect on the by-standers.\n\nThese \"tien ssu,\" or prophets, as the Chinese call them, are to be found in many Lisu villages. They deal in charms, medicines, funeral rites, omens, incantations, and in the knowledge of all things which, for the ordinary mortal, are hidden in the womb of time. No doubt among the ignorant villagers they have considerable influence, and could, if they wished, raise disturbances. The language of their trade is probably an archaic form of Lisu, and the various chants and invocations which they use have been handed down for generations and from times of old.\n\nI cannot confirm the reports of the savage and barbarous habits of these Lisu. I was entirely in their hands for two weeks, and I found that their good-will was very easy to win.\n\nPorters were always forthcoming so long as there was a ration of rice to give them, and I never had the least trouble. They are a hardy race, and though their manners are rough, they did not appear to be given to quarrelling among themselves like the Kachins, and the European traveller can march with them without feeling that uncontrollable desire to assault them which he nearly always feels in the case of Chinese coolies. Given the absence of Chinese soldiers and officials, and a carefully arranged supply of food, the complete exploration of the Lisu country on the Upper Salween would, for a good walker, be no difficult task, provided that he went in the autumn, when the weather is fine, when there is the minimum of snow on the passes, and local supplies of cereal food for a small party could be purchased.\n\nFrom the village of Pai Pa there is a pass via the village of Chi Me Le westwards over the great Salween divide to Langsu or the Maru country along the N Maikha, while Kang Fang on the Upper Ngaw Chang River can also be reached by this pass in four days from Pai Pa. There is said to be another route over this range some three days north of Pai Pa, but the communication between the Salween and the N'Maikha is difficult and unfrequent, as the Marus and Lisu have very little to do with each other. We had hoped to explore the Chi Me Le Pass, but the deep snows and continuous rain rendered the track quite impassable.\n\n17\n\n## Chinese Expedition to the Maru Country\n\n441\n\nThe Chinese Headman of Ku T'an, a village near Teng Keng, came into camp at Lu Chang and told me all about an attempt which had been made in the 16th year of Kwang Hsü (1890) to establish Chinese influence on the Upper N'Maikha. He had taken charge of the expedition, which consisted of fifty persons, nearly all Chinese. The venture was financed by the Teng Keng, Ta Tang, and Ming Kwang Headmen to the extent of 3,000 taels. It had two objects--firstly, to check the advance of British control from Myitkyina; and, secondly, to work the brine wells on the N'Maikha at about latitude 26° 30′.\n\nThe venture proved a failure owing to the extreme difficulty of the country, the absence of proper arrangements to bring up supplies, and the deadly climate. The Headman told me that he could speak some Maru, and had remained on the Upper N'Maikha for about seven months. The Maru villages he described as being constantly at feud with one another, and endeavouring to enlist his assistance in their quarrels.\n\nThe brine wells proved to be rich, but the expense and difficulty of transport to China rendered it impossible to make any profit, and the attempt to establish a Chinese colony had to be abandoned. This Ku Tan Headman was a particularly intelligent man, and told me that the Chinese, with their methods, would never be able to open up the country, and that they have no funds to make what was absolutely essential, namely, a passable track. He asked me to mention that he would like to serve under any British officer who might be conducting an expedition into the Maru country. His route had been via Kang Fang, then across the Ngaw Chang, and up into the mountains beyond.\n\nTo describe the government of the Lisu on the Upper Salween would be like describing the snakes of Iceland. North of latitude 26° there is practically none, except in so far as the \"prophets\" and old men of each village look after the affairs of that village. The jurisdiction of the Teng Keng Fu Yi (residing on the right bank of the Salween, latitude 26°), extends along the right bank only as far as the Ku Tan. Many of Teng Keng's villages are Chinese, or half-caste Lisu. The Teng Keng Fu Yi is a boy of about 16. Proceeding north, the next Fu Yi is at Lu Chang, to the north of the Ku Tan Stream, and situated at 6,000 feet high above the right bank of the Salween. This Fu Yi is an intelligent child of 9; he is of Lisu extraction, and the clan name is Cha. His affairs are managed by his mother and their villagers. Practically all Lisu seem to be in a prosperous and happy condition. The Lu Chang territory is about 10 miles from south to north. Next comes the Mao Chao Fu Yi. His village, like Lu Chang, is perched on a terrace 3,000 feet above the right bank of the river, and backed by the snowy Irrawaddy divide. This Fu Yi is about 35 years of age; his territory is some 14 miles from north to south, and entirely inhabited by Lisu. His rule is wholly confined to attempts, sometimes successful, sometimes otherwise, to levy money or goods from his villages. Pai Pa is the last Mao Chao village proceeding north.\n\nBeyond Pai Pa for three days the country nominally belongs to the Lao Wo Fu Yi, who resides in the hills between the Salween and the Mekong at about latitude 26°. The village of Cheng-ka, on the right bank of the Salween, below Pai Pa, and its ferry belongs to him, and his agent resides at Cheng-ka. Lao Wo's efforts at government appear to be less successful than those of Mao Chao, but they go further, for he does not confine himself to trying to levy money; he also endeavours from time to time to raid his subjects and carry off the fairest of their damsels.\n\nAgain, north of the territory claimed by Lao Wo, the Fu Yi of Chou, known as \"Lo Tu Kuan,\" i.e., the native official Lo, who has his residence on the Mekong, is supposed to be the overlord of the Lisu on both banks of the Salween; but his control, even on the left bank, and in the hills between the Salween and the Mekong, is of so shadowy a description that it may be said not to exist at all.\n\nNone of these Fu Yi appear to claim, and most certainly none of them control, any territory to the west of the great divide in the Irrawaddy basin.\n\nNorth of about latitude 27° 40′ the La Tzu tribe along the banks of the Salween are supposed to be tributary to the Moso, Thibetan Chief of Yetche, on the left bank of the Mekong. North, again, of the Lu Tzu country, i.e., from about latitude 28° 20′, the Salween Valley is, it is believed, wholly inhabited by Thibetans of the Tsarong Province.\n\n[2167 x-1]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-331 - Public Offices - 1905.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 404881, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-334 - Governor Nathan - 1906 [5-7]", "page_number": 76, "title": "CO129-334 - Governor Nathan - 1906 [5-7]", "content_text": "## ASIE 1,000,000° \n-De-Min Bang \n0 Fizy.. \ntw Galbia \nBoi-Ling Chan \nAt Pasg Chand \nJAD Shan Tchao \n· Tam Cirith jeng İHBmard Merwins \nCablo Pältarnatique de thony Kway & that they - $72. 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Compts The \nCuble de quatre The Wond \nde Bag-liny Bor-Ion 174 Reton Compte Anglus der Topher of Australie et de Orin \nCable, Todpretique to Bang King at Cap. Borinco (the them) tisur. Comp Anglais des Telégray \n\n## BARD STANFOREL \nGECCA 16 Tam KG. \n1, Lauđen, W.G \nWe Maker aut that Whampoa \nHoang hon", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-334 - Governor Nathan - 1906 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 407853, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-338 - Public Offices & Others - 1906", "page_number": 317, "title": "CO129-338 - Public Offices & Others - 1906", "content_text": "312\n\n2\n\ncannot be held by British subjects, I will forward to you a copy of the Governor-General's communication. I took the opportunity to repeat that, even as regards railways altogether in the interior, such as the projected Yunnan-Szechuan line (from Yunnan-fu to Suifu), I considered that the policy of excluding foreign capital is suicidal. The sum named in the prospectus of the Company now under discussion—20,000,000 taels (or, say, 3,000,000l)—would not be sufficient for a line of 400 miles through difficult country, while the Chinese have not yet acquired the necessary experience to enable them to undertake so large a work unaided.\n\nI may add that the Governor-General's delegates told me that his Excellency recognizes that Great Britain is entitled to equal treatment in Yünnan with France, and that, as far as this rests with him, he would most willingly accord it. But they appeared to think that a light railway from the Burmah frontier to Tengyueh was not altogether in the same category as the French metre-gauge line from Tonquin to Yunnan-fu, the provincial capital. They personally thought that, for the light line in question, either \"province,\" \"Yunnan and Burmah, might construct its own section. They did not believe that it would be found practicable to extend the line to Tali and Yunnan-fu.\n\nI answered that it was precisely in order to inquire into such practicability that permission had been asked, and, as they knew, accorded by their Governor-General, for engineers from Burmah to survey, probably this next cold season, the country between Tengyueh and Tali, Further than this, I was not acquainted with the wishes of the Indian Government. All that I am concerned with just now is to see that I do not commit myself in any way pending the communication to me of those wishes.\n\nThe delegates then left.\n\nI learn, from what I believe to be a trustworthy source, that the words \"and Tengyueh\" were inserted because it is believed that Chinese in the Straits and in Burmah will be more ready to subscribe to a Bhamo-Tengyueh than to a Yunnan-Szechuan scheme. I do not expect that the ordinary Baba will be induced to invest in a railway, especially a railway under Chinese official control, that is, to unite two provinces in which he, as a Kuangtung or Fukien man, takes little or no interest. If it could be made out that the railway is to connect with British territory, or that the British Government views it with approval, Miao's mission might prove more successful. Hence, probably, not only the insertion of the words \"and Tengyueh,\" but also the present request to your Excellency.\n\nI have been, I need hardly say, careful not to undertake to do more than simply transmit the request, which, on the face of it, does not ask for support to be given to Miao taotai, but merely such consideration and protection as is implied in the term \"chao-liao\" (to look after).\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed)\n\nInclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\nW. H. WILKINSON,\n\nTing, Governor-General of the Yun-kuei, to Consul-General Wilkinson.\n\n(Translation.)\n\nAugust 23, 1906. THE Governor-General has been honoured by an Imperial Rescript assenting to a Memorial, in which he represented to the Throne that as the expenditure requisite for the construction by Chinese of the Yünnan--Szechuan Railway will be very heavy, it is necessary to extend the area within which shares should be offered, in order that work on the road may reach completion. The officials, gentry, scholars, and merchants of the provinces along the sea and the river (Yang-tsze) will be from time to time invited to subscribe; but there are at the trading centres of the Eastern and Southern Seas very many Chinese merchants of wealth and standing who bear an ardent affection towards the land of their forefathers. Were persons sent to urge them to assist, there should be no difficulty in raising large sums,\n\nAccordingly, the Governor-General has appointed Taot'ai Miao Kuochun, an expectant Intendant in Yunnan, to be General Manager of the Yunnan-Szechuan and Tengyueh Railways, for the purpose of collecting subscriptions. He will carry with him scrip to each port in the Eastern and Southern Seas, where he will invite Chinese merchants to subscribe the amounts of the shares, and when these are collected he will return to Yunnan to commence work.\n\nNow, the most flourishing of all ports in the Southern Seas is Singapore, and Singapore is a British possession. It becomes, therefore, the duty of the Governor-General to write to the Consul-General and request him to be good enough to communicate with the Governor-General of Singapore, asking his Excellency to give instructions to the local authorities to carefully look after Miao taot'ai on his arrival within the jurisdiction.\n\nExpressing an earnest hope that all this may be done, the Governor-General requests the favour of a reply.\n\nA necessary communication.\n\nDated Kuang-hsu, 32.7.4 (August 23, 1906).\n\nInclosure 3 in No. 1.\n\nYunnan-Szechuan and Tengyueh Railways: Provisional Share Certificates.\n\n(Translation.)\n\nTHE main object of the Company in issuing shares is the construction of lines for the expansion of trade and the preservation of autonomy,\n\n2. The Company is issuing shares for the construction, by ourselves, of the Yunnan-Szechuan Railway, and that of Tengyueh. To complete the entire work will require about 20,000,000 taels,\n\n3. The Company has actually, in official and community shares, 4,000,000 taels. 4. At each port. when the number of shares issued is complete, the shareholders may elect some thoroughly trustworthy firm to be the Agency at that port for the issuing of shares in the Yunnan-Szechuan and Tengyueh Railways. Any shareholder having occasion to do so can apply direct to the Agency; the Agency having occasion can write to the Tien-shun-hsiang firm at Canton, who will forward the letter to the head office. The head office may likewise communicate, should need arise, with an Agency through the Tien-shun-hsiang firm.\n\n5. The Company takes for its standard the double-dragon dollar. Payments at outports remitted by means of negotiable instruments must make up the amount at the rate of the day for such dollars.\n\n6. The Company's share certificates are being printed, but are not yet ready. When the amount of the subscription has been settled, the agent concerned will tear out and issue a receipt, which will be exchanged for a share certificate when these are ready.\n\nAs regards the subscription, it may be paid in full at once, or it may be paid by instalments. In any case a note will be made at the top of the triplicate receipt, stating how the instalments are to be, the number of this particular instalment, and the amount in dollars. A seal will be thereupon impressed on the triplicate receipt. Instalments will not exceed five, and the interval between each call will be limited to three months.\n\n7. Where subscriptions to the amount of 100,000 dollars have been raised at any port, a Director may be elected to proceed to Yünnan and assist in the management of the line. If he is unwilling to proceed to Yunnan, well and good.\n\n8. A subscription for a 50-dollar share will draw interest as soon as he has paid up 10 dollars of the amount. Subscribers to 10-dollar or 5-dollar shares must wait until the whole amount of the share has been paid up before they can draw interest. A subscriber to several shares payable by instalment will draw interest on the instalments already paid up.\n\n9. When the Company's lines are completed, and traffic has begun, a balance of receipts will be taken once a-year. After deducting expenses under each branch, and interest payable, 10 per cent. (of the profits) will be set aside as reserve. When the reserve fund amounts to one-half the capital, payments into it will cease. The remainder will be divided into ten parts. Three parts will go to the State as royalty; five and a-half parts will be distributed among the shareholders as dividend; one part will be for repairs; half a part as bonus to the employés of the Company.\n\n10. A subscriber can only draw interest on his shares; he may not withdraw the capital. If he is hard pressed, he may sell to a Chinese subject only, he may not sell to a non-Chinese. When transferring by sale his shares he must report to the Agency, in detail, the name and address of the purchaser. The Agency will transfer the shares to the latter and will write to the Tien-shun-hsiang, who will report to the Head Office, so as to insure the proper checks. Should a share certificate be lost, the shareholder must advertise, and at the same time inform the Agency. If after three months no...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-338 - Public Offices & Others - 1906.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 416193, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-351 - Public Offices - 1908", "page_number": 358, "title": "CO129-351 - Public Offices - 1908", "content_text": "353\n\n2\n\nestablishment of regular steam communication between Ichang and Chungking would thus once more be indefinitely postponed.\n\nWhile fully sympathizing with Captain Plant's point of view, I felt convinced that the Chinese, once they had made up their minds to carry the project through, would never consent to wait two years for its fulfilment, and I felt sure that if we refused our assistance they would apply elsewhere, to Japan or Germany most probably, for what they wanted.\n\nIt seemed to me of the utmost importance that this undertaking, small at present, but big with possibilities in the future, should be started under British auspices. I therefore called on Mr. Chou, explained to him Captain Plant's position, and suggested that, if he were disinclined to postpone operations as Captain Plant proposed, he should at once secure that gentleman's co-operation by offering him the post of Marine Superintendent of the Company as soon as his services became available, and in the meantime arrange with Messrs. Yarrow and Co. for the construction of the vessels. I said Captain Plant's employment on the French gun-boat was of an intermittent nature—he sometimes remained four months at a time in Chungking—and that the French authorities would doubtless be willing to lend him to the new Company when the time came for the first tug-boat to proceed up river; if they demurred, well, perhaps the Viceroy might use his influence in the matter.\n\nMr. Chou accepted the suggestion with alacrity, and said he would at once instruct the Company to draw up a contract with Captain Plant. The latter, agreeing to this arrangement, sent up his plans and specifications on the 28th November.\n\nThe tug-boat is to be built of galvanized steel, the hull divided into ten water-tight compartments. She will have twin screws working in raised tunnels, Yarrow's patent. Length over all, 100 feet; beam, 14 feet; draught with steam up and twenty-four hours' coal on board, 2 ft. 6 in. The engines will be triple expansion with water-tube boilers developing 400-H.P., giving a speed of 14 knots in smooth water; towing flat, with 60 tons dead weight against a 6-knot current; speed, 11 knots, i.e., 5 knots over the ground. She will be fitted with powerful steam capstan and steel hausers for hauling over rapids, and will have two steel derrick masts and improved towing gear. Price, complete, £5,750 approximately.\n\nThe flat will also be of steel, 100 feet in length, 16 feet beam; carrying capacity, 60 tons dead weight, 150 tons measurement. She will have accommodation for twelve saloon passengers and fifty-two in steerage. Cost, complete, £2,500 approximately.\n\nI made a rough Chinese translation of the specifications and, with the plans, sent them into the Viceroy. On the 14th December Mr. Chou called on me and said the Viceroy approved of the plans, and desired that I would at once forward them to Messrs. Yarrow and Co., asking them if they would undertake the order on certain conditions, a list of which Mr. Chou handed to me. If they agreed, he was anxious, in order to save time, to have a reply by wire; and if the reply was satisfactory, Mr. Chou, acting on behalf of the Company, would confirm the order by cable.\n\nI have the honour to inclose copy of my letter to Messrs Yarrow, together with a Memorandum by Captain Plant on steam navigation on the Upper Yang-tsze, which I have forwarded to the firm.\n\nThe only condition that seems likely to present any difficulty is that providing for the handing over of the vessels in Shanghai. It is a point to which the Chinese attach some importance—their experience with the deputies appointed to take over the machinery for the Chungking Mint and the new Chengtu Arsenal having been particularly unfortunate—and I am in hopes Messrs. Yarrow will see their way to obliging them in the matter.\n\nThe question of gun-boats is for the moment in abeyance, but I have reason to believe that the Chinese authorities will order one or more of these vessels if the tug-boat proves a success, and in that case we may hope with some confidence that the order will go to England.\n\nI sent duplicates of the plans received in reply to my application to Mr. H. H. Fox, British Acting Consul-General at Chengtu, who succeeded in interesting the Provincial Government to such purpose that a special officer was deputed to take a trip on one of His Majesty's gun-boats.\n\nIn the meantime, by circulating the plans among the merchants of this port, I had succeeded in bringing about the discussion of a scheme for establishing a system of tug-boats between Ichang and Chungking. On the arrival of the above-mentioned officer, therefore, matters were ripe for a successful issue. This is described in the inclosure herewith. It only remains now to secure the Viceroy's approval both for the tug-boat scheme and the purchase of gun-boats.\n\nChou Taotai, the above-mentioned officer, will, if the scheme is sanctioned, place the order for tugs with Messrs. Yarrow and Co. through Mr. S. C. Plant of this port, who should be authorized to act for the firm. The order for gun-boats will in all probability be placed with the same firm, the type approved being Yarrow's No. 531A, but with speed of 15 knots. His Majesty's ship \"Widgeon's\" recent successful navigation of the gorges at high water has largely conduced to the favourable attitude of the Chinese officials and merchants.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed)\n\nH. H. BRISTOW.\n\nInclosure 3 in No. 1.\n\nSteam Navigation on the Upper Yang-tsze.\n\nAT the Chungking Chamber of Commerce on the 24th October, 1907, Chou Taotai, appointed by the Viceroy of Szechuan to inquire into the practicability of a steam navigation on the Upper Yang-tsze, addressed the meeting as follows: He alluded to the wreck of the \"Suisiang\" above Ichang and the check thereby given to mercantile enterprise in this direction; but now that three British gun-boats, one French, and one German had passed up and down many times without accident, it was time that the matter was reconsidered. If strangers dared these dangers, should our own people be backward? Besides a French Company was seeking a Concession for establishing tugs on the Upper Yang-tsze. Should not the Szechuanese be first in the field and secure the profits for themselves? In order to assist them the Provincial Government was willing to advance a sum equal to that raised by shares. Germany and England were both anxious to lend their assistance, as their trade would ultimately benefit by improved means of communication. The Taotai had himself been taken for a trip on His Majesty's ship \"Woodlark\" in company with the British Consul, and had seen for himself that steam navigation in these waters was not very different from that on the lower river. Mr. Yang Chun Ching, who had accompanied him on the trip, would give them further details.\n\nMessrs. Chang and Chao opposed the idea of official aid. Chou Taotai said that he did not wish to force assistance upon them, but it would be at their disposal when required.\n\nMr. Yang Chun Ching then explained details of engines and expenses. Merchant-ships would naturally be less expense than gun-boats.\n\nMr. Li, a banker, then proposed that those now present who refused to buy shares should never be permitted to do so; that the shareholders should have preference in shipping goods according to the amount of their shares. It was finally decided to consult the various guilds and lay their opinions before Chou Taotai. Capital of Company was fixed at 100,000 dollars in 10,000 shares of 10 taels each, 10 taels paid up.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed)\n\nHARRY H. FOX,\n\nInclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\nVice-Consul Bristow to Board of Trade,\n\nChungking, October 25, 1907.\n\nIT will be remembered that my despatch of the 19th November, 1906, called for estimates for river gun-boats suitable for these waters.\n\nGentlemen,\n\nInclosure 4 in No. 1.\n\nActing Consul-General Fox to Messrs. Yarrow and Co.\n\nChengtu, December 17, 1907.\n\nTHE Commercial Intelligence Department of the Board of Trade have doubtless communicated to you a letter from His Majesty's Consul in Chungking reporting the formation of a semi-official Chinese Company with the object of placing shallow-draft steam tugs and lighters on the Upper Yang-tsze between Ichang and Chungking.\n\n[2895 g-2]\n\nB 2", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-351 - Public Offices - 1908.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 421240, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-360 - Public Offices - 1909", "page_number": 29, "title": "CO129-360 - Public Offices - 1909", "content_text": "## 2\n\nhad been signed between the Managing Director and Mr. Foord as Engineer-in-Chief of this railway, and that in their letter of the 14th October, Messrs. Jardine, Matheson, and Co. allege that Mr. Foord's agreement is still unsigned. In reply to a question, the Peking agent ad interim of the Corporation has sent me the inclosed letter upon the discrepancy between these two statements, but his explanation is not quite satisfactory, and I have asked him to make further inquiries.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed) \nJ. N. JORDAN.\n\n## 3\n\nThe Chinese appear oblivious to the condition of affairs, and satisfied that they are constructing a first-class railway, so that no representations to the local Railway Companies are likely to have any effect, and, unless the Central Government can be induced to place the Managing Director and Engineer-in-Chief in possession of their proper and respective powers and functions, nothing but chaos can result in connection with the construction and equipment of this railway.\n\nWe trust that you will be able, with the kind assistance of Sir John Jordan, to place this matter in such a light before the Chinese Government that steps may be taken to remedy the present position of affairs.\n\nWe are, &c. \n(Signed) JARDINE, MATHESON, AND Co.\n\nDear Sir,\n\nInclosure in No. 1.\n\nMessrs. Jardine, Matheson, and Co. to Mr. Bland.\n\nShanghae, October 14, 1908.\n\nShanghae-Hangchow-Ningpo Railway.-For the information of the British Minister and your good self we think it advisable to lay before you the present unsatisfactory position of affairs on this railway, where, so far, practically no attempt has been made to proceed with the construction of the line, in accordance with the terms of the Loan Agreement, notwithstanding that the conditions of that document were relaxed to the furthest possible extent to meet the views of the Chinese Government.\n\nManaging Director.-Taotai Shih Chao Tseng (\"Sze\") has not been accepted at all by the Kiangsu Railway Company, and his appointment is only partially acknowledged by the Chekiang Company, the President of which latter line refuses to accept him \"officially\" until the Board of Communications has duly confirmed his appointment. It appears evident that, although the Board communicated Sze's appointment to the Corporation as far back as the 7th August, they have neglected to invest him with the necessary authority vis-à-vis the local Railway Companies. Managing Director Taotai Shih Chao Tseng is thus an absolute nonentity under existing conditions.\n\nEngineer-in-Chief.-Mr. Foord's agreement remains unsigned, and that gentleman has been left idle in Shanghae, with the exception of one short trip over the proposed route of the line between Hangchow and Ningpo.\n\nOne month's salary has been paid to Mr. Foord by the local office of the railway in Shanghae, but beyond this practically no notice has been taken of him.\n\nThe Kiangsu Railway Company has so far refused to have anything to do with Mr. Foord, while the Chekiang Company appears to look upon him more in the light of a consulting engineer (to be consulted when they like), and it is evidently not the Railway Company's intention to allow him to interfere in the construction of the line more than can be avoided.\n\nMeanwhile, the Chekiang Company has an engineer of its own in the person of a nondescript Greek, in whom considerable confidence is reposed, and this individual is further intended to act as a check on Mr. Foord and a counterpoise to the machinations of the Corporation.\n\nFinance. No loan funds have yet been made available to the Board of Communications, or by that Board to the Railway Companies, although the Board undertook (vide Edict of the 15th April) to pay a first instalment of 800,000 taels over to the railway before the 6th instant.\n\nA considerable number of shareholders are still averse to making use of foreign capital, and propose to leave the proceeds of the loan on deposit, in some bank, and utilize the interest thereon to pay that on the loan, continuing the construction of the railway with Chinese capital.\n\nConstruction. The construction of that part of the railway which has already been completed is exceeding bad and elementary. Not only will the greater part of the line have to be relaid, at no distant date, but, in the meantime, traffic thereon can only be attended with great risk owing to instability of the track and the bad material made use of.\n\nRolling Stock. The little rolling stock acquired is of various patterns, and has no competent or responsible official to care for it: the result is obvious.\n\n*Not printed.* \n28", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-360 - Public Offices - 1909.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 425847, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-367 - Acting Governor May - 1910 [6-7]", "page_number": 217, "title": "CO129-367 - Acting Governor May - 1910 [6-7]", "content_text": "Sub-Enclosure to Enclosure 4.\n\n215\n\nThe following regulations regarding the tax on prepared opium licences are respectfully submitted.\n\nThe Honourable merchant Liang Chao-t'ang of the Kuang Jung Yuan firm has been instructed to open the Kuang Yuan Office and undertake the collection of the license tax throughout the province of Kuangtung. He has been given a seal as evidence of his office.\n\n2.\n\nThe object of the licence tax is to obtain a record of the amounts sold, to prevent accumulation of stocks, and to restrict the number of opium smokers, in the hope that within the fixed period the habit may be entirely eradicated.\n\n3.\n\nRaw Opium merchants, when importing the drug after having paid the duty thereon, must report to the office the amount of the raw drug entering their godowns; and, when a sale has been effected, must similarly report to the Office. They will then be permitted to remove the drug from their godowns. This procedure will facilitate a check on the amounts sold.\n\n4.\n\nPrepared opium merchants, when purchasing raw opium, must first report to the office the quantities they desire to buy, and must also enter into a bond that they will boil down the opium within the prescribed time, that they will not be guilty of the offence of illegally storing the drug for an excessive time, and that, when the opium has been boiled down, they will pay the due licence tax. These formalities having been complied with, they will receive a Boiling Opium Certificate and a Purchasing Opium Certificate when they will be permitted to remove the opium for boiling.\n\n5.\n\nRaw opium merchants must satisfy themselves that purchasers have obtained Boiling Opium and Purchasing Opium Certificates before selling. From time to time they must report to the office the amounts sold and ask that such amounts against their names be cancelled, thereby facilitating supervision.\n\n6.\n\nEvery tael of boiled opium shall pay a tax of 30 cents", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-367 - Acting Governor May - 1910 [6-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 429151, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-372 - Public Offices - 1910", "page_number": 492, "title": "CO129-372 - Public Offices - 1910", "content_text": "4\n\nfrom the Opium Prohibition Board. Under the circumstances, therefore, I do not propose, unless instructed to the contrary, to take action. A copy and a translation of the regulations are enclosed.\n\nIt may interest you to know that, on the authority of the farmer, opium smoking in Canton amongst the well-to-do classes has not sensibly diminished, and amongst the lower classes only to the extent of 50 per cent. The former are willing to pay any price for their favourite drug, and are commencing to hoard opium against the time when total suppression comes into force. It is with a view to endeavouring to check this propensity, and to retain raw opium under observation, that the authorities are calling for a return of sales effected by the wholesale dealers. Prepared opium will not keep, and has to be consumed within a reasonable time.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nJ. W. JAMIESON.\n\n(Translation.)\n\nEnclosure 3 in No. 1.\n\nRegulations respecting Opium.\n\nTHE following regulations regarding the tax on prepared opium licences are respectfully submitted\n\n1. The honourable merchant Liang Chao-t'ang, of the Kuang Jung Yuan firm, has been instructed to open the Kuang Yuan office and undertake the collection of the licence tax throughout the province of Kuangtung. He has been given a seal as evidence of his office.\n\n2. The object of this licence tax is to obtain a record of the amounts sold, to prevent accumulation of stocks, and to restrict the number of opium smokers, in the hope that within the fixed period the habit may be entirely eradicated.\n\n3. Raw opium merchants, when importing the drug after having paid the duty thereon, must report to the office the amount of the raw drug entering their godowns; and, when a sale has been effected, must similarly report to the office. They will then be permitted to remove the drug from their godowns. This procedure will facilitate a check on the amounts sold.\n\n4. Prepared opium merchants, when purchasing raw opium, must first report to the office the quantities they desire to buy, and must also enter into a bond that they will boil down the opium within the prescribed time, that they will not be guilty of the offence of illegally storing the drug for an excessive time, and that, when the opium has been boiled down, they will pay the due licence tax. These formalities having been complied with, they will receive a boiling opium certificate and a purchasing opium certificate when they will be permitted to remove the opium for boiling.\n\n5. Raw opium merchants must satisfy themselves that purchasers have obtained boiling opium and purchasing opium certificates before selling. From time to time they must report to the office the amounts sold and ask that such amounts against their names be cancelled, thereby facilitating supervision.\n\n6. Every tael of boiled opium shall pay a tax of 30 cents, and this tax shall be duly collected by the Kuang Yuan office. Although this tax is levied on all firms buying raw opium and selling prepared opium, it is really ultimately paid by the opium smoker, so that the trade in raw and prepared opium will in no way be interfered with.\n\n7. Purchasers of raw opium shall convert the whole amount into prepared opium within three days, and shall not illegally store it for an excessive time, thereby frustrating the work of the suppression of opium.\n\n8. The Kuang Yuan office shall establish sub-offices in the prefectures, departments, and districts throughout the province, to administer these regulations in a uniform manner. The raw and prepared opium merchants are forbidden to cause trouble. The whole responsibility will thus rest on one body, and uniformity will be secured.\n\n9. Raw and prepared opium merchants who already hold trading licences must change them; those who do not already hold licences must obtain them within five days from the date these regulations come into force, after which only the closing of shops will be allowed and not the opening of new ones. Persons not holding licences will not be allowed either to buy or sell opium.\n\n10. Persons not holding licences to buy raw opium will not be allowed to buy raw opium; persons not holding licences to boil opium will not be allowed to boil opium. Should they infringe this regulation they will be severely dealt with.\n\n11. Should any bad characters among the merchants be guilty of offence against these regulations his licence to trade will be cancelled, and he will be compelled to close his establishment and an exemplary fine will be imposed.\n\n12. One tael of raw opium shall be calculated as producing half a tael of prepared opium. Thus, for instance, should a merchant report now that he had bought 1 tael of raw opium, later, when he had boiled it down, his tax would be calculated on half a tael of prepared opium. With this determined as an average it will be easy to know in future the amount of prepared opium sold and consumed. Besides, when collecting the tax, vexatious disputes as to the amount, more or less, of the prepared opium will be obviated.\n\n13. The raw opium merchants, on the day when these regulations come into force, must report to the office the amount of raw opium in stock before such day, so that a check may be exercised on the amount sold thereafter. Should any breach of this regulation be discovered it will be severely punished.\n\n14. In the event of any matter not being covered by these regulations, amendments and improvements will be suggested from time to time so that they may attain to efficiency.\n\nRespectfully drawn up by the Prepared Opium Licence-Tax Office for the province of Kuangtung.\n\nEnclosure 4 in No. 1.\n\nExtract from the \"Capital and Commerce\" of June 17, 1910.\n\nMISREPRESENTATION.\n\nA fall in prices of 900 rupees or £60 per chest at the Calcutta auctions of the 1st June, and that in a month, is an event which caused consternation among the opium-merchants, who have for some time been buying heavily at very high prices in the hope that the demand for opium must revive sooner or later in China. The stock in the godowns in Hong Kong and Shanghai is very heavy—7,983 chests Malwa and 8,671 chests Bengal—and after several months the Chinese dealers got tired of buying 450 chests. Whatever may be the success which has attended the efforts of the Chinese Government in the suppression of the native opium, they have surely put as many impediments as possible in the way of the sale of foreign opium, so much so, the Chinese dealers absolutely refuse to buy a commodity the possession of which in the interior is attended with heavy penalties. It is no wonder that those who bought heavily, and attempted to corner opium in the auctions should be anxious to have the sales suspended for some time.\n\nReuter's telegram relating to the opium trade, however, leads one to certain misconceptions about the present position of the trade. The telegram runs thus:—\n\n\"The Imperial and Indian Governments are exchanging communications in reference to the Canton opium monopoly, which is regarded as a violation of the convention. The Bombay opium-merchants declare that the situation is most critical and that the effect upon the Indian trade is tremendous. Merchants, it is stated, are losing heavily. They urge the Government to suspend sales pending an enforcement of treaty rights.\"\n\nWe have referred to the Canton monopoly in a previous issue, and condemned it in no measured terms; and refer to it at present so that there may be no misconception of our meaning, when we say that the opium-merchants themselves, more than the Canton monopoly or any other violation of the treaty rights, have caused the present situation. Governments and public bodies may be actuated by philanthropic motives, but not the trader in his business, and least of all the dealer in opium. He started on a fundamentally opposite point of view to that of the Chinese and British Governments, and the public bodies that have been working in the noble cause of the suppression; he never believed in China's sincerity or ability to rid herself of the opium evil, laughed at the conventions and conferences, and hoped to reap a good harvest in the\n\nC\n\nHe\n\n488", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-372 - Public Offices - 1910.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 429175, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-372 - Public Offices - 1910", "page_number": 516, "title": "CO129-372 - Public Offices - 1910", "content_text": "4\n\nfrom the Opium Prohibition Board. Under the circumstances, therefore, I do not propose, unless instructed to the contrary, to take action. A copy and a translation of the regulations are enclosed.\n\nIt may interest you to know that, on the authority of the farmer, opium smoking in Canton amongst the well-to-do classes has not sensibly diminished, and amongst the lower classes only to the extent of 50 per cent. The former are willing to pay any price for their favourite drug, and are commencing to hoard opium against the time when total suppression comes into force. It is with a view to endeavouring to check this propensity, and to retain raw opium under observation, that the authorities are calling for a return of sales effected by the wholesale dealers. Prepared opium will not keep, and has to be consumed within a reasonable time.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nJ. W. JAMIESON.\n\n(Translation.)\n\nEnclosure 3 in No. 1.\n\nRegulations respecting Opium.\n\nTHE following regulations regarding the tax on prepared opium licences are respectfully submitted:\n\n1. The honourable merchant Liang Chao-t'ang, of the Kuang Jung Yuan firm, has been instructed to open the Kuang Yuan office and undertake the collection of the licence tax throughout the province of Kuangtung. He has been given a seal as evidence of his office.\n\n2. The object of this licence tax is to obtain a record of the amounts sold, to prevent accumulation of stocks, and to restrict the number of opium smokers, in the hope that within the fixed period the habit may be entirely eradicated.\n\n3. Raw opium merchants, when importing the drug after having paid the duty thereon, must report to the office the amount of the raw drug entering their godowns; and, when a sale has been effected, must similarly report to the office. They will then be permitted to remove the drug from their godowns. This procedure will facilitate a check on the amounts sold.\n\n4. Prepared opium merchants, when purchasing raw opium, must first report to the office the quantities they desire to buy, and must also enter into a bond that they will boil down the opium within the prescribed time, that they will not be guilty of the offence of illegally storing the drug for an excessive time, and that, when the opium has been boiled down, they will pay the due licence tax. These formalities having been complied with, they will receive a boiling opium certificate and a purchasing opium certificate when they will be permitted to remove the opium for boiling.\n\n5. Raw opium merchants must satisfy themselves that purchasers have obtained boiling opium and purchasing opium certificates before selling. From time to time they must report to the office the amounts sold and ask that such amounts against their names be cancelled, thereby facilitating supervision.\n\n6. Every tael of boiled opium shall pay a tax of 30 cents, and this tax shall be duly collected by the Kuang Yuan office. Although this tax is levied on all firms buying raw opium and selling prepared opium, it is really ultimately paid by the opium smoker, so that the trade in raw and prepared opium will in no way be interfered with.\n\n7. Purchasers of raw opium shall convert the whole amount into prepared opium within three days, and shall not illegally store it for an excessive time, thereby frustrating the work of the suppression of opium.\n\n8. The Kuang Yuan office shall establish sub-offices in the prefectures, departments, and districts throughout the province, to administer these regulations in a uniform manner. The raw and prepared opium merchants are forbidden to cause trouble. The whole responsibility will thus rest on one body, and uniformity will be secured.\n\n9. Raw and prepared opium merchants who already hold trading licences must change them; those who do not already hold licences must obtain them within five days from the date these regulations come into force, after which only the closing of shops will be allowed and not the opening of new ones. Persons not holding licences will not be allowed either to buy or sell opium.\n\n10. Persons not holding licences to buy raw opium will not be allowed to buy raw opium; persons not holding licences to boil opium will not be allowed to boil opium. (Should they infringe this regulation they will be severely dealt with.)\n\n11. Should any bad characters among the merchants be guilty of any offence against these regulations his licence to trade will be cancelled, and he will be compelled to close his establishment and an exemplary fine will be imposed.\n\n12. One tael of raw opium shall be calculated as producing half a tael of prepared opium. Thus, for instance, should a merchant report now that he had bought 1 tael of raw opium, later, when he had boiled it down, his tax would be calculated on half a tael of prepared opium. With this determined as an average it will be easy to know in future the amount of prepared opium sold and consumed. Besides, when collecting the tax, vexatious disputes as to the amount, more or less, of the prepared opium will be obviated.\n\n13. The raw opium merchants, on the day when these regulations come into force, must report to the office the amount of raw opium in stock before such day, so that a check may be exercised on the amount sold thereafter. Should any breach of this regulation be discovered it will be severely punished.\n\n14. In the event of any matter not being covered by these regulations, amendments and improvements will be suggested from time to time so that they may attain to efficiency.\n\nRespectfully drawn up by the Prepared Opium Licence-Tax Office for the province of Kuangtung.\n\nEnclosure 4 in No. 1.\n\nExtract from the \"Capital and Commerce\" of June 17, 1910.\n\nMISREPRESENTATION.\n\nA fall in prices of 900 rupees or 60l. per chest at the Calcutta auctions of the 1st June, and that in a month, is an event which caused consternation among the opium-merchants, who have for some time been buying heavily at very high prices in the hope that the demand for opium must revive sooner or later in China. The stock in the godowns in Hong Kong and Shanghai is very heavy—7,983 chests Malwa and 8,671 chests Bengal—and after several months the Chinese dealers got tired of buying 450 chests. Whatever may be the success which has attended the efforts of the Chinese Government in the suppression of the native opium, they have surely put as many impediments as possible in the way of the sale of foreign opium, so much so, the Chinese dealers absolutely refuse to buy a commodity the possession of which in the interior is attended with heavy penalties. It is no wonder that those who bought heavily, and attempted to corner opium in the auctions should be anxious to have the sales suspended for some time.\n\nReuter's telegram relating to the opium trade, however, leads one to certain misconceptions about the present position of the trade. The telegram runs thus:-----\n\nconvention.\n\nThe Imperial and Indian Governments are exchanging communications in reference to the Canton opium monopoly, which is regarded as a violation of the convention. The Bombay opium-merchants declare that the situation is most critical and that the effect upon the Indian trade is tremendous. Merchants, it is stated, are losing heavily. They urge the Government to suspend sales pending an enforcement of treaty rights.\"\n\nWe have referred to the Canton monopoly in a previous issue, and condemned it in no measured terms; and refer to it at present so that there may be no misconception of our meaning, when we say that the opium-merchants themselves, more than the Canton monopoly or any other violation of the treaty rights, have caused the present situation. Governments and public bodies may be actuated by philanthropic motives, but not the trader in his business, and least of all the dealer in opium. He started out on a fundamentally opposite point of view to that of the Chinese and British Governments, and the public bodies that have been working in the noble cause of the suppression; he never believed in China's sincerity or ability to rid herself of the opium evil. He laughed at the conventions and conferences, and hoped to reap a good harvest in the\n\n[2812 -2]\n\n512", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-372 - Public Offices - 1910.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 436053, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-385 - Public Offices - 1911", "page_number": 263, "title": "CO129-385 - Public Offices - 1911", "content_text": "ন \n\n2 \n\nAnd \n\nis the only document required for the purpose; and that the enforcement on the trade of other passes, whether by officials or anti-opium societies, is contrary to treaty. it is all the more surprising to find that your Highness's board, in telegraphing to the Viceroy at Foochow to modify the regulations to which I objected in my note of the 7th, and whose immediate withdrawal, not modification, I called for in my note of the 21st September, should have stated that the \"tui-chao\" may be allowed to remain in force as before. A copy of a despatch from the Viceroy to His Majesty's consul embodying the board's instructions on this point is enclosed. \n\nI would remind your Highness that the provincial restrictions on this trade delayed for a considerable time the closing of the provinces of Fengtien, Kirin, Hei-lung-chiang, Shansi, and Szechuan to the import of Indian opium, and I should regret if the irregularities still being practised should in the future delay the object which the Central Government have at heart, and which will be best attained by a strict observance of treaties and of the opium agreement. \n\nTwice have I asked for your Highness's explicit assurance that the regulations considered necessary for the enforcement of the last paragraph of article 7 of the opium agreement shall, in accordance with the terms of that agreement, be made by the Chinese Government and not by the provincial authorities, and I shall be glad if your Highness will favour me with an early reply. \n\nI avail, &c. \n\n(Translation.) Sir, \n\nEnclosure 2 in No. 1. \n\nViceroy Sung to Consul Werner, \n\nFoochow, 3rd year, 7th month, 2nd day (August 25, 1911). \n\nI HAVE the honour to reply to your despatch of the 23rd day of the 6th intercalary moon (17th August)— \n\n[Recites despatch.] \n\nOn its receipt I instructed the Foochow Opium Prohibition Office to investigate without delay and report, and I have now received their statement that, as regards the triplicate certificate (\"san-lien-tan \"), because the English merchants had refused to recognise these, they were abolished a long while ago, and the \"tui-chao\" (checks) substituted, which are the only certificates at present in use. There are no \"lien-tan.\" Moreover, these regulations were issued on the 21st day of the 2nd moon. On the 14th of the 4th moon the change to \"tui-chao was made everywhere, and no regulations have been issued since that date. The rule which the English consul has copied is the old one before the change was made. That they were issued on the 14th of the 6th intercalary moon is not correct, We also find that the seventh clause of the newly-issued agreement states that \"the foregoing stipulations shall not derogate in any manner from the force of the laws already published, or hereafter to be published, by the Chinese Government to suppress the smoking of opium and to regulate the retail trade in the drug in general.\" The \"tui-chao\" were instituted with the object of checking the retail trade, and the laws regarding them have already been promulgated. \n\nIn a word, the duties on prepared opium, as well as those on foreign raw opium, have been abolished, and no restrictions are put on the wholesale trade between merchant and merchant. The only measures put in force are those which have for their object the discovery of smokers and the stoppage of the use of opium by them. It is obvious that this cannot be said to be a breach of the supplementary agreement. \n\nThe foreign board yesterday handed us a reply telegram from the Wai-wu Pu also stating that the \"tui-chan,\" if no charge is made and they do not set a limit to the amount of raw opium which may be purchased, and are intended merely as a means of checking the retail trade, and not as a restriction on the wholesale trade, may be allowed to remain in use as before. The board, also, has frequently discussed this matter with Wu and Ch'en, the heads of the general office for the eradication of opium, and the principal local gentry, and they all agree that the \"tui-chan\" cannot be abolished, and they requested that they might be allowed to remain in use as before. We (the Opium Bureau) request a reply to this report. \n\n3 \n\nHaving received this, besides expressing my approval to the bureau, I now have the honour of sending you this reply. \n\nWith compliments, &c. \n\n(Translation.) \n\nSir, \n\nEnclosure 3 in No. 1. \n\nPrince Ch'ing to Sir J. Jordan. \n\nPeking, October 16, 1911. I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Excellency's note of the 7th October, in which you state- \n\n[Quotes note in précis.] \n\nI have the honour to observe that my Ministry have made investigations into the matter of the use of \"tui-chao\" in the province of Fukien, and have discovered that these passes are used especially by the prepared opium shops when buying opium from the raw opium dealers, the object being to facilitate inspection of the retail trade in prepared opium; for this reason permission was given that these passes could be used as before. \n\nIt is, of course, quite improper that merchants conveying raw opium into the interior should be compelled to take out \"tui-chao.\" \n\nInstructions have accordingly been telegraphed to the Fukien Viceroy to issue orders for the immediate release of the opium seized by the Ch'ung-an magistrate. At the same time, he has been told that hereafter there must be no obstruction placed in the way of people transporting raw opium into the interior when provided with the customs transit certificate, and that only the prepared opium shops should be ordered to use \"tui-chao. \n\nThe Viceroy has now replied as follows:- \n\n\"I have issued circular instructions ordering full compliance on this point. As regards the three chests of foreign opium belonging to Messrs. Petigura and Co. which were seized by the Chung-an magistrate, I had already issued orders for their release.\" \n\nI have the honour, therefore, to address this reply for your Excellency's information. \n\nI avail, &c. \n\nPrince CHING. \n\n261 \n\n!", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-385 - Public Offices - 1911.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 445463, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-405 - Public Offices - 1913", "page_number": 537, "title": "CO129-405 - Public Offices - 1913", "content_text": "## Page 2\n\nThe months of October and November last. Suppressive measures had been vigorously conducted within the last two months and much of the crop had been destroyed. He is of opinion that there are still some patches of poppy cultivation here and there in outlying parts of the prefecture.\n\nHis Majesty's consul-general at Shanghai forwarded on the 15th March the copy of a report compiled by Mr. Ezra, who had sent two Chinese for the special purpose of investigating the conditions of opium cultivation in the province. These men left Shanghai on the 19th February and returned on the 11th March. According to their report, poppy was being grown in no great abundance in the Chinkiang prefecture. The neighbourhood of Haimen (50 miles north of Shanghai) and Tungchow (60 miles north-west of Shanghai) was full of poppy, and large fields were under cultivation. The villagers at the latter place had stated that the senior of their local headmen owned two fields, and had twice uprooted a few plants in order to show his zeal in the anti-opium campaign. In the unfrequented districts around Nanking miles upon miles of poppy-fields had been seen, and there was an area of 30 miles under cultivation in the Kiang-ning prefecture. This does not appear, however, to be borne out by the statements of His Majesty's consul at Nanking, given above. According to the two Chinese, poppy was also being grown to some extent in hundreds of places along the Kiangsu-Honan and Kiangsu-Shantung borders, and the neighbourhood of Haichow was covered with the fields for a distance of 50 miles. The report states that \"the foreign missionaries resident in the city [Haichow] confirm the fact that no attempt has yet been made by the local officials to restrict the growth.\" This is to some extent confirmed by the information furnished by His Majesty's consul at Chinkiang. In the northern district of Su-chien the poppy is reported by Mr. Ezra's two investigators to be cultivated extensively, and the supply in this district alone is declared to be adequate for the needs of thousands of smokers.\n\nHonan.\n\nThe \"Central China Post\" of the 21st March published a report on the authority of a missionary that the poppy was being grown on fields belonging to the President, Yuan Shih-kai, as well as on those belonging to his relations. The Peking \"Daily News\" of the 17th March stated that strict orders had been telegraphed to the Governor to investigate the district concerned, and to carry out prompt measures of suppression at all costs.\n\nHupeh.\n\nHis Majesty's consul at Ichang reported on the 27th February that the prefect had gone on a special tour, and had found large areas under opium cultivation in the north-west. According to information received from the Belgian missionaries, the cultivation had increased greatly in the south-west district of Li-chuan. His Majesty's consul reported that apparently poppy was not being grown elsewhere in his consular district.\n\nSzechuan.\n\nThe acting consul-general at Chengtu reported on the 2nd March that he had received information from missionaries that greatly increased cultivation had taken place in the Chien-chang Valley, in the south of the province, during the past year—more especially in the tribal territories beyond Chinese control. The poppy area in this region embraced the prefecture of Ning-yuan, and the districts of Hui-li and Yen-yuan, together with the intervening territory of the independent Lolos. Three good crops had been harvested in quick rotation. Feeble and ill-directed official efforts had been made to destroy these crops but without success. In Western Szechuan a general recrudescence had taken place in the prefecture of Ya-chou since the revolution, but the area under cultivation was less than in former years. The crop had been grown for the greater part in out-of-the-way places, and in the country under the jurisdiction of the native chieftain of Mupin and the tribal lands in the district of Fu-lin. Renewed instructions to suppress cultivation had been issued recently, but the area is difficult of control, a great part being mountainous. In Northern Szechuan there was an inconsiderable amount of cultivation in the prefecture of Pao-ning and the district of Chien-chou. A large amount was being grown in the districts of Kuang-yuan and Chao-hua. Little or no attempt at concealment was made, and the plants flourished in close proximity to the high roads. In the prefecture of Lung-an the enforcement of suppressive measures against the large crops had given rise to local disturbances. In Eastern Szechuan no effort had been made to check the cultivation around Kai-hsien. The acting consul-general also reported that, in addition to the localities mentioned above, small crops were being undoubtedly raised in the more remote places throughout the province. He added that reports from many districts showed an apparently complete suppression of cultivation, and that the cultivation did not appear to have reached really serious dimensions anywhere but in the Chien-chang Valley, where a condition resembling anarchy prevails.\n\n## Page 3\n\nThe acting consul at Chungking reported on the 3rd March that, with the exception of some districts close to the Kueichow border, opium cultivation had been effectively suppressed through Eastern Szechuan. The authorities, he stated, had been actively enforcing the removal of all poppies from these districts. The information from Chungking is not confirmed by the acting consul-general so far as Kai-hsien is concerned. A consular officer has also received information from a trustworthy source, based on observations made during a tour in the neighbourhood of Wan-hsien (25 miles south of Kai-hsien) to the effect that the poppy is growing there freely in all directions.\n\nYünnan.\n\nHis Majesty's consul-general at Yunnan-fu has forwarded information, dated the end of January, from missionaries in Northern and Eastern Yunnan, which shows a large amount of cultivation in those parts. In the Prefecture of Chao-tung the quantity under cultivation was larger than last year, and in the adjoining Prefecture of Tung-Ch'uan the poppy had been freely planted. In the Prefecture of Wu-ting the poppy, especially in remote districts, flourished probably in larger quantities than last year. Prohibitory proclamations had been issued, but little or nothing had been done to check the cultivation among the non-Chinese tribes. In the eastern Prefecture of Ch'ü-ching, the missionary had been on a recent tour, and had noticed a considerable quantity of poppy in fields along the high road. He was informed on good authority that it had also been planted in greater abundance in the hill country away from the main roads. The planting was more extensive than last year, but a large amount had been lately destroyed by soldiers, so that he estimated the local crop this spring at one-half of that of last year. Speaking generally, he considered that the officials in that prefecture were doing very little to prevent cultivation. In a later despatch His Majesty's consul-general reported, from a Chinese source, that the poppy had been sown this year in the districts of Tengyueh, Lung-ling, Yung-ping, Wei-hsi, and Chung-tien, in the west; in Szemao, Chen-pien, and Yung-kang, in the south; in Lo-ping, Chan-yi, Yung-shan, Ta-kuan, and Lu-tien in the east; in Yuan-mow and Lu-chuan in the north. He estimated, on the authority of a Chinese in touch with the local opium dealers, that the yield this season is expected to be three-quarters of the amount last year. The consul-general has received information from a native source that the tutu is doing his best to stop opium cultivation, and is constantly issuing orders to that effect. In the neighbourhood of large towns, the local officials, aided by the military, are able to prevent the planting of the poppy, but in more remote districts—especially in those inhabited by the tribes—they are quite helpless. Several have offered to resign sooner than attempt to interfere with the people's poppy fields, and the soldiers told off for the destruction are beginning to complain that they are laying up trouble for themselves when they leave the army. The tribesmen in the districts bordering on Tonkin and Burma have threatened to emigrate if they are prevented from growing opium.\n\nKueichow.\n\nHis Majesty's consul-general at Yunnan-fu has forwarded information, dated the 27th January, from a missionary at An-shun, 50 miles south-west of the provincial capital, to the effect that the poppy had been planted in greater quantities than in any season during the last six years. The local officials, however, had begun to take energetic measures for suppression, and, as a consequence, the farmers had begun to plough up the poppy and sow beans. A missionary informant writing from Kuei-yang, the provincial capital, on the 1st February, stated that the poppy was widely planted, certainly in larger quantities than before the revolution. He continued that it was reported that in some districts the officials were taking strong measures to suppress cultivation, but that they seemed helpless in the district of the provincial capital itself. In a later despatch the consul-general reported, on trustworthy information based on a recent tour, that the poppy had been seen \"growing everywhere in several districts in the Prefecture of An-shun, and also in the southern Prefecture of Hsing-yi.\n\n## Page 536", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-405 - Public Offices - 1913.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 469438, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-445 - Public Offices - 1917", "page_number": 312, "title": "CO129-445 - Public Offices - 1917", "content_text": "24\n\n25\n\n308\n\nmatter to persuade porters to carry for us. hospitable manner.\n\nBoth sides welcomed me in u most\n\nActivity of Secret Societies.\n\nThe Triad Secret Society has long been active in Southern Kiangsi, but of late there has arisen a new society commonly known as the Chi T'an Hui, although it is probable that it flourishes under other local names. This society is growing in strength in the south and south-west particularly among the agricultural population. Temples have been built and members initiated in increasing numbers and charms of invincibility and of protection against malign influences are sold and exhibited in the country places.\n\nA curious rumour has arisen among the Chinese to the effect that the new society has some secret connection with Li Lieh-chun and Dr. Sun Yat-sen. The explanation given is that Li and Sun fear a future return to the monarchial régime, and that they hope to use the members of the Chi Tan Hui as the nucleus of a Republican army. I understand also that many young men from Kiangsi have been given good positions in Kuangtung by Li Lieh-chun in order that they may acquire experience in anticipation of the time of trouble. If it be true that Dr. Sun Yat-sen is connected in some way with the Chi Tan Hui, he may reasonably have had some ground for alluding to the possibility of a second Boxer trouble in his telegram to Mr. Lloyd George.\n\nThe officials in general deny the existence of the society. The Garrison Commissioner at Kan Hsien, however, admitted that it had existed in the Kan Nan circuit two years before, but that orders had been issued to the magistrates for its suppression. No proclamations against secret societies were seen by me anywhere on my journey in the interior.\n\nIn any case the gentry are behind the Chi Tan Hui, and its progress merits close attention. The society advocates the return to the primitive faith of the lani, or, in other words, devil worship, a doctrine which appeals peculiarly to the people of these parts, and claims to have the direct protection of Heaven. The general tendency of the movement is therefore anti-missionary, but the resistance is so far passive and inappreciable. That the movement may hereafter develop a more serious aspect is shown by the following extracts from the correspondence of missionaries in the interior:\n\nMr. Hall, of the China Inland Mission at Lung Ch'uan, writes:-\n\nIf\n\nThe Chi-tan is if anything in a more flourishing state than ever throughout the whole Hsien of Lung Chuan, and some of the church members and enquirers are having a hard time of it. If something is not done soon to check it, sooner or later there is certain to be serious trouble. We hear that Wang Chih Shih received a proclamation to put out against it, but yielded to the entreaties of the gentry not to do so. As far as we know, the only places in Wanan Hsien where they dare to carry on the Chi-tan are on the borders of Lung Ch'uan.\"\n\nMr. Horne, of the China Inland Mission at Nanchang, writes:-\n\n\"At our provincial conference from the 4th to 10th April, many of the missionaries testified to the prevalence of this sect in their districts, and were at a loss to know how best to meet it. It certainly is a rapidly growing and serious menace to foreigners and mission work. It is to be hoped that they may soon overstep themselves and meet with repressive measures before any great harm is done.\"\n\nI have requested the missionaries throughout the province to furnish me with information as to the development of this society, and propose to take action as soon as a concrete case is brought to my notice.\n\nGeneral Trade Conditions.\n\nJapanese goods, mainly soap, scent, trinkets, thread, medicines, and toys figure conspicuously in most of the shops in the area visited where Japanese agents are also actively engaged in the collection of camphor, tea, oil, &c. In the two cities untaken by the Taipings, Nanchang and Kan Hsien, British and general foreign goods were found in considerable quantities. In general, the speed at which we were forced to travel prevented me from making extensive enquiries as to trade conditions. For the most part the towns visited had not recovered from the devastation of the Taiping rebellion. In the Wanan district and to the south and east of Kan Hsien ruthless deforestation now results in periodical floods of a severe nature which are a serious handicap to the local trade. In 1915 every house in Wanan district city was destroyed by water, and other cities have suffered in varying degree from the same cause.\n\nItinerary and State of Roads.\n\nMarch 19-Kiukiang to Nanchang (by rail)\n\n21-28.-Nanchang to Wanan (by water). 29-30.-Wanan to Kan Hsien (by road)\n\n73\n\nApril 1-2.-Kan Hsien to Yu Tu\n\nLi\n\n275\n\n644\n\n218\n\n170\n\nH\n\n3-5.-Yu Tu to Ningtu\n\n... \n\n240\n\n7-10.-Ningtu to Ihwang\n\n21\n\n} \n\n280\n\n+1\n\n11-12.-Ihuang to Lin Ch'uan (\n\n17\n\n>... \n\n120\n\n13-15.-Lin Chuan to Tu Chia Po (by water).\n\n310\n\nH↑\n\n\"\n\n16.-Tu Chi Po to Pai Ch'a (by road)\n\n50\n\nF\n\n\"\n\nELT\n\n17.-Pai Ch'a to Hsia Ping, Mei Ling, and Ch'uan Shan Chiu (by road) 18-19 Ch'uan Shan Chiu to Pung Hsin (by road)\n\n71\n\n114\n\nTH\n\n++\n\n\"\n\n20-Feng Hsin to Kao An (by road)\n\n60\n\n11\n\n21-22.—Kao An to Nanchang (by water) ...\n\n190\n\n2,748\n\n150\n\n2,898\n\nVisits in mountain regions away from main road (say)\n\nTotal Li\n\n-\n\nI have\n\nRoads. The roads by which our party travelled consist in the main of narrow tracks across a series of mountain ranges and valleys where rivers wandering in sandy channels are crossed on the flimsiest and most insecure of bridges. Planks or thin tree trunks of a total width of from 1 to 4 feet supported on rickety scaffolding extend from bank to bank across a space of from 20 to 1,000 and more feet. I crossed one of 85 spans of 20 feet. The crossing of such bridges on a wet dark night is a strain on the nerves and endurance of the hardiest person, and ten or more of these bridges may be encountered in a single day's journey. There is no vestige of a handrail and one is forced to make one's way across them as best one can. Travel in these parts is arduous, particularly in the spring which is the rainy season in Kiangsi province. To be carried across rough mountain-roads by amateur chair-bearers is an experience that must be felt to be truly appreciated. Better roads of course exist, but they did not serve the purpose of opium-poppy investigation.\n\nThe li are in general longer than in other parts of China, 2 and not 3 li being frequently the equivalent of 1 English mile, so that the actual mileage traversed by our party exceeded 1,000 miles.\n\nSir,\n\nHis Britannic Majesty's Consulate, Kiukiang,\n\nMay 4, 1917.\n\nEnclosure 9 in No. 1.\n\nConsul Smith to Mr. Alston.\n\nW. RUSSELL BROWN.\n\nSwatow, April 16, 1917. I HAVE the honour to report that, in accordance with the instructions contained in your despatch of the 5th ultimo, I left Swatow on the 19th ultimo, in company with the Chinese delegates, on a journey of investigation into the cultivation of the opium-poppy in Kwangtung, and returned to Swatow yesterday. All preparations for the journey had been completed several days beforehand in Swatow, but no start was possible until after the arrival of the delegates from Canton. The time at our disposal for the journey was only about a month, as the poppy harvest is practically over by the middle of April.\n\nThe Chinese officials who accompanied me were: Mr. Lam Hi Chow, the chief secretary to the Chao Hsün Taoyin, who was the representative of the Ch'ao Hsün Taoyin, the principal Chinese delegate Mr. Kum Yung Fan, the secretary to, and delegate of, the Opium Suppression Bureau, Canton; and two interpreters, Mr. Hoang Tsou Yn, English and French interpreter to the civil Governor, Canton; and Mr. Lau Wai Chi, English interpreter to the Chao Hsün Taoyin.\n\n[2729-\n\n1]\n\nI}", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-445 - Public Offices - 1917.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 476578, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-448 - Governor Sir May - 1918 [4-6]", "page_number": 393, "title": "CO129-448 - Governor Sir May - 1918 [4-6]", "content_text": "#81\n\n390\n\nAt any point where it crops out, operations are commenced without regard to private rights or official precepts. The anomalous political status and the unsettled condition of the province generally facilitates, not a little, such practices and renders disinterested control or check, were there a disposition to exercise such, difficult. Moreover, local officials and those in higher spheres elsewhere, having not failed to take note of the possibilities which the situation holds out, are eager to consider any arrangement likely to prove mutually advantageous, even if it be not possible to reconcile it with existing enactments or pledges of Government. By threats of discrimination and appeals to Treaty, it has hitherto been possible to thwart, in some degree, efforts in this direction, but a specious pretext has not been put forward by the Provincial Treasury, and communicated in a despatch by the Civil Governor on April 4th. It takes the form of an arbitrary decree, based on the plausible grounds that fraud has to be guarded against and irregularities have to be suppressed, in terms of which all foreign holders of transit passes, proceeding into the interior to buy mineral ore, must only purchase from such native sellers as are provided with triplicate transit certificates (`van chao`) issued in respect thereof by the Provincial Treasury. Purchases from others than those holding certificates are liable to seizure and confiscation at the first barrier. No time was lost in taking action on these lines, as no sooner had the Civil Governor's despatch reached this office than it was reported to me that certain cargoes of wolfram, purchased in the East River district by British and American holders of Customs Transit Passes, had, without previous warning, been thus detained. The foreigners were, however, told that on receipt of letter from me, and on payment of $1.12 per picul - a charge roughly at the rate of 2% ad valorem - their property would be released.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-448 - Governor Sir May - 1918 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 496319, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-482 - Public Offices - 1923", "page_number": 399, "title": "CO129-482 - Public Offices - 1923", "content_text": "## 2. 397\n\nIt appears that the document is related to a political situation in China, specifically involving General Ts'ai, Sun Yat-sen, and other key figures.\n\nThe Governor of Hunan was unable to assume office due to not being acceptable to General Ts'ai. Chao Heng-ti likely chose this moment to force an issue because Sun Yat-sen's position in Kwangtung remains uncertain after months of fighting, and possibly because Wu P'ei-fu and his party need to strengthen their position in Central China after their reverses in Szechuan. The outcome of the current crisis in Hunan will determine whether the province can be relied upon to check any northward advance of Sun Yat-sen and his Cantonese followers if they succeed in re-establishing control over the South.\n\nGeneral Ts'ai, as expected, refused his new appointment and declined to vacate his command, declaring that he held his current post under mandate from President Sun Yat-sen and Commander-in-Chief Tan Yen-k'ai.\n\nThis was tantamount to rebellion, and the Governor immediately appealed to the Provincial Assembly for support in dispatching a punitive expeditionary force against General Ts'ai and proclaiming martial law. On 14 July, the Assembly passed resolutions supporting the government on the following grounds:\n\n| No. | Grounds |\n| --- | --- |\n| 1. | General Ts'ai's appeal to the authority of Sun Yat-sen outlawed him under the provincial constitution. |\n| 2. | General Ts'ai was guilty of promoting the cultivation of opium in West Hunan, defying the government. |\n| 3. | General Ts'ai was the first military leader to rebel against the policy of disbanding troops as prescribed by the provincial constitution. Unless an example was made of him, other leaders would follow suit. |\n\n## Page 398 \n... (text not provided)", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-482 - Public Offices - 1923.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 531651, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-536-1 Estimates- 1932 3-9-1931 - 16-6-1933", "page_number": 143, "title": "CO129-536-1 Estimates- 1932 3-9-1931 - 16-6-1933", "content_text": "SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1931\n\nTO-DAY\nQUEEN'S THEATRE\n\nIX\n\nTHEYES OF THE WORLD\n\nA'vored drumna uf the age old baits bitrans good and arli, lors and bate.\n\n——\n\nJOSEPH SCHENCK-pros DOLORES DEL RIO BAD ONE EDME JOWN GEORGE FRIZMAURICE PRODUCTION\n\nSERVING MOODCEA.\n\nJOIN WE CONSIDINE JK ALBITED AUNTY, PICTURE\n\nTO-DAY & TO-MORROW\n\nWilliam STAR HAINES A Helen-Goldwyn-Mayer Producten\n\nat 2.30, 5.10, ||| 7.15 9.20.\n\n= 2,801, 3.20, 7.20 9.20.\n\nTHE WORLD SPORT\nCURRENT COMMENT\nThe Last Four in the Open Bowl Championship.\n\nONE TITLE HOLDER.\n\nSTATOR.MI Kanta Chamke hadap that parate talk\n\nLOCAL FOOTBALL\n\nServices Beat Malayan 'hinese Team,\n\nYESTERDAYS GAME.\n\nRUNAWAY VICTORY.\n\nE. M. Umar Shows Good Form in Bowl Game.\n\nE LAPSLEY BEATEN.\n\nPlaying on the K-WAL yesterday afternoon, L. CLC. atwn! Omar, the Laponing of the Kawinan Dank by fi akata la 7 km the last số the third round MALENA AC Ca Opan Lavy Bondi Campanelly,\n\nSPORTS FIXTURES\nProgramme of Forthcoming Hongkong Evenia.\n\nHNKEY MATCH.\n\nKackey-gang Hockey Club ATV KDPA. (king's Park).\n\nSaturday, Del 24\n\nPicket Interport Trink Hang- kang 005; Pink Dvdaka, India\n\nY. RAS.C val Engineer SAM (L);\n\nThe Happy Valley plaque ita semi- My Navy LII IC thì bay tự ti t and Irumii the beginning has the bather of win Opponent Alter taking the war wɛGE a that on the Courth head, Plaan 19- crossed his névantaen at slutat marg kanal trail the 16th, when be qualiBal Lament N. Drummand by sangyong a ent of them. Örnen.\n\nKEY QUIT 'a Thaen went a pink allminang al the Garrison growid yesterday to wha Sang Dhe nacer match hormoon, the | Heati | Malaya Kencing saam sal A CHAN\n\nWalk El Các Loài Cá Địa Jana Cal. Comena. The Servren wom\n\npod pine by T, cool, ta,\n\nThe Sirvious tonic The Band withkans\n\nThe Argylle, “hy Lamma Hiding PEL AS wc\n\nLo the J w down 1-10 Jul Kumala 3 do melaber amochur Kay-Lew Thin-chan:\n\nom diski that the¦ Choukrik, And Then Aktik; Te Tuban B dusserad his Tou-kent, Jeka. Then and Way Bew ATRANA NAJAN HAD NO alat ketang. Chất Hees. Goon_Kek-zing. un posted. Elena ly the and and ass - Taong Shutower, Foong York-long\n\nPOLNO KING KERRANANA performance | Servies--Bryan (25); Make katha member her de vie plurinn, (5.1.3) and Dion (2656); Marzan a forde prof LANK Klangh to her and Zyme (573) Ele\n\nHe had on native la\n\nComment from whatsan Devanand Ja The célják ·4 J. R. Santone who procket den A. M. Holland med\n\nRafieną, Mr. Alan LN,\n\nMalayk, wòn the lose and Langmead started the game. The Beckong at The other munte 2., uses attackal Lam Ting from Čaute van akne Žan 1. Cullen med | Davian Hazeli formad a venger an\n\nThe Keeleon placing wall from the ing Bike. Dock ally k na pood at simplen facanda tak place i le parlan ma de la un Media vienationa nad nad Yna kimad the ball in towards\n\nLast year he yu Jenten in the pre-ball into the net open the soari Habary vond U21, Baka by Kane | See the Service what almikor is,\n\nLate Digimon est in and when With Or Da bi se pusterday the Four tackled jabbed the ball in the mos\n\nBei den Tea 17 IT. WAK, J. LAGE, newch, Langmand hosting late the X. Demtemena * U. 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Aaker's Chil, man\n\nms of in hockey matchas yatandaş,\n\nthe word vielecy and a dryw then feiner shading, der spalle with Pe Kawloon 3.5FRA. MAN U Cha butter handbag the \"mengat\n\nThatch way plast Thor' School, the BE AF drency (hh winning_from_He Fir\n\nbold wear, hat bed to begin math E\n\nCapa mafia – kph core game. A part\n\nYerk gewoandeng \"van albekend.\n\nhave workers dark. Tenha trapped the hall Zesty park And I make me 1, and runding Kullaga mat in a\n\nhot. Bavage made a will. Jšek,\n\nWeber pad het missed and the bill entered the\n\nFor the time they sai Indian Kim Mo Andesh Chub an\n\nS. AFRICAN VISIT.\n\nthen put in s Cricketers Commence Their\n\nAustralian Tour.\n\nM's as escoed pul\n\nBabama. The final goal for the Bees can w the back, and by maand by langeal. Dickier took (Fall well down kid slipped to the (centre, Dingmand, suppri spine\n\nBlse Telu, pane wind sticking in in Bhat shoẽ thực Ube the 1-5 java, the goalie ma phones. The\n\nPerth sin Nary Ren Kay, Oct. 20.\n\nPeeing Meet, pang Por the Chal\n\nIM Women, Oct 2 Morty - Betim, p\n\nEl Call Club (Balm May là te it an\n\nRacing Thoroder fer Γι\n\nEary 5 2\n\nINTERIORT CRICKET.\nSome of Shanghai's Men Already Selected.\n\nSEVEN \"TERTAINTIES\"\n\n-SOINES MEYE Hook-\n\n•liber for TW beam Hader's\n\nLOCAL TRIAL GAME\n\nPlayers For To-morrow's MaLEN án Hongkong C., Ground\n\nEN ! trial math whưk a to be played in Man Bergkong 15\n\nttn following platan ten ham zelegan\n\nTKT (Pam), A Rab4, 1o D. Tomim. A 46 5. 11 kale. D. J. N\n\nspred 14 kr 1. Malaya\n\nF KOWLOON FOOTBALL CLUB\n\nANNA Cunity Taber Chowin\n\nBILLIARDS.\n\nled Team for Tomorrow Afternoon's Games.\n\nThe film — k janna pintam com two well known repérerat Kalos FC. First Flyven\n\nDA, AK Futball St. Patrick's Club Defeat\n\n„The Intent rail from America Ta That In A Patual Spermment planeta were naked fa_wa_hardpen in the Kapakah thaps been the endte Ame\n\nKhan at Kradling\"\n\nmakes mark a meg menerima se\n\nMekalsa Bla Hon Timberlake, Urland, Fanean.\n\nKenze: uttan,\n\nThe following hari kerma fon1:\n\nI'mvaulty's Team\n\nThe 1975ơmẳng hatt ban choothe Hai VOTRE ↑ T'atvaralty ind. XD ngulmet.\n\nthe Titan mema frendly.\n\nPANE AT Can A 5. k. Kyum zni\n\nMercantile Bank.\n\nLume to the Mr Kanka\n\nW P. a. A. 1. This-\n\nVardy v. 35. & K tima na the sale of a mang | repensent Kawlam P.C. Sgrond Flesen Benntnerek, Sat de Bartekin reddies, why non agtually pakke school term the Là vị di Karison themselves the vlekara, bank \"working ther why themseh Parma Cleh grenad ok 2 jam. Như\n\ncolate\" and Apunëve sin at theit - Home day:\n\nAußer 'WA, Gillekent: I OPREM\n\nvalery who hade kameed be my disenberg, Whae, Wh. 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G B\n\nSouth Africans Beat the\n\nMidland Counties.\n\n7 The grity to day mange nyt Tür, brikete vere eficed for maka ka the defraded Mingelen, wurmented to do their crow vne pommerns of Da sa, Xn\n\nde shendy apponent of the above | sang, Acrmed plunder that he got 2007 by na Termitesi Oline Men\" tickets from another went bad\n\nká nas imam that they were fabr\n\n-key are predpodle the bk Coustics. Hichem poin\n\nCENTRAL THEATRE\nCOMMENCING TO-DAY\n\nA: 2.30, 3.0, 1.la ở D.20 p\n\nGIRLS! GIRLS! GIRLS!\n\nWHAT WOULD YOU DO If you married a made all his decl slom for him?\n\nVIRTUOUS HUSBAND !\n\nArtech Hotel Zemenki vla Need a land labor male model Bačvangla kockenen\n\nIT'S THE LAUGH HIT OF THE YEAR! HCT T LA BAN 3\n\nNEXT ATTRACTION\n\nSOUTH CHINA MORNING POST. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1871\nJIM FERRIER.\n\nCHESS NOTES\nBeaton Australian Open Campionship.\n\nCapablanca Still Hopes for Return Match.\n\nA AOUTPUT. ROYAL WITH WORLD CHAMPION, Jim Ferrar MERIT Th\n\nLEY PERPETUAL CHECK:\n\nThe key mero sa laat mpaka pra Problem No. 213 A. J. Mackenze Bark ( plen Whose sa play and mate a\n\nThe detract Vention to last week's Zroblem was reparved fruen \"Anjos,\" | Paka Kadenen, formar world's themales, ka rectly returned be DET METTE ZRvman after an absence DÍ APMENT manaka. Ka exported lu ratura de New York for an rakhallen Love same time in October. The hopes\n\nJatent resect A Plan 13 Sungkai kaj ak prosky, St.\n\nIvy Wikica, A Whetsen in Tha m\n\nDuring three dug 1 24th ier Lig p\n\nThe event wers salsa DNA, the Stat Det led by abans Perrier anestesia d\n\nMAALTY Ot il Amatrulu, I mg 14 D JA%ormed.\n\nAn Australia ser just received 14 WHILLARY ure the mr je je ile bench La serango a retuen match wolle Ale | arrenga\n\nkhina bulaen the end of the year 1 turn la sua in\n\nM. PR la acting sa pobetween yandar, Colemand ka\n\n* negotiation wek Alekkim,\n\nwww cuk ve lhe (limbokalaia that th serpage Back of vergony In Alampura aleatorie sang. Use\n\nmečosdály Khanehad, backing. Lapk Bed Math and Mama Dematte detaan Dr. Bwww.\n\nshe pulplared bear in the heat Hart- - W WILL YONA DE PER Kakaj s w the\n\nNË ME 190 (7 - Tusend KTM ajské oder a cori\n\nKING'S THEATRE\n\nThe Most Comfortabte and The Only Air-Cooled Theatre in Hongkong.\n\n6 THE GAMERAMANT, SE A JOAN JE ZVIRA peitere ku a kizembly better than either Alkine | inde a fatal M or Hageljukan man able to do. Each Karely duľanked Kawa by s\n\nP 1 JUN fet from c Chike youth the b Look Alao Vi over again Like a world's champion AŬ WOMAN in the tournment hole concurrently HOM level kada sana dispari vo—it maritan: Lag Universal\n\nLAST TWO DAYS at 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.20 p.m.\n\nCYLINDER LOVE\n\nNewspaper Thrill-a-second... 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