[ { "id": 216596, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-001 - Sir Hug Cough-s China Military Correspondences - 1841-1843", "page_number": 80, "title": "CO129-001 - Sir Hug Cough-s China Military Correspondences - 1841-1843", "content_text": "Duplicate \n\nMy book. \n\nfor your \n\nMerrion, at Hongkong. \n\nMovember 574 1822. \n\nI have the Loner to forward, \n\nکیجیے۔ \n\nCorkchisi, information copies of the \n\nسے \n\nof Cherner under spotting \n\nfo regarding the Thir \n\n- ፈራ \n\nde \n\nI was to the Flins to des \n\ndissent from Ein Benag \n\nthings crews \n\nleans for having altered mis bessered \n\nquence of that his can't, \n\nat Chean is hold sender milite \n\nکج شده \n\nA Dr Acco \n\nrean Exting \n\nI would cather Kat it whirld Boone teen Baby \n\nيم نبوت \n\nescupt form thanksson interferones, I hope as there \n\nChiare Authenth rotha to ve stat Chinese Authority \n\nabon the is used, Beat all uutlervent colivin \n\nhe avonniest, and that there wit no one. \n\nJaay \n\nthe prosperity of the on- \n\ninfofolicy for the Furope. \n\nہے \n\nJuchas Secretary &itate \n\nسیری هستند \n\nYour Lordships. \n\nMonth Servants \n\nHough tres i \n\nind \n\nconson :", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-001 - Sir Hug Cough-s China Military Correspondences - 1841-1843.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 217192, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 400, "title": "CO129-002 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1843", "content_text": "22. \n\n3. Witness Prosecution. \n\ntness for itness for 3. \n\nProsecution. \n\non the meat covers, and in the cheen, of the 18th September 1. September beat of Yarny frott; when I sour the best \n\nThe \n\nday after \n\nthe \n\nspace, \n\ncs, \n\nsaw \n\ndisturbances, I saw \n\ntwo cubit, in \n\ncircumfer= \n\nJ \n\nspotted with blood. I passed the \n\nbout twice; and the second times, about \n\nHöfleck, \n\nthe \n\nthe \n\nWoudineis he asleep inst one was at this time with her. \n\nL. he one \n\nbout. \n\ntip in \n\nIt was exily Stow. \n\nwith 22. \n\nA LA \n\nMs of blood \n\nthe therm \n\nthe morning \n\ny \n\nin the bout. \n\nwhen I saw \n\nJalso \n\na jas of Rien \n\nof the book. No one \n\nbout, when I saw \n\nis my epente to Loietton, \n\nLaw \n\ntheir to \n\nnot enquire \n\ntogether \n\nBy \n\nnear \n\nwith me \n\nthis. I did not \n\nMing: neisher, whow I \n\nin the bout, med did \n\nabout the \n\nwhich I saw on \n\nboth \n\nI passed. The boat. \n\n4. \n\narts. \n\nof bload, \n\ncons \n\nwhich \n\nIt bring 44 M. The fourt is adjourned \n\nuntil tomorrow at 11. AM. \n\nJussy \n\n23. \n\nTeresday 12th September \n\nPrisoners, and Witness B. Asye, being \n\nCourt, the latter is a \n\nagain questioned by \n\nthe Chief. Enxgistrate, and replies. – \n\nknow that the blood in the book \n\nLaman Blood, because human blood \n\nhe darkis colour then \n\nis, I know, of a \n\nthat of Fish as other Animals. When d. first saw the body fleating, I belived it to be young forks, but could not be \n\nutil restais, until Yoongipo identified it. \n\nbu d \n\naus now certain that the body ferngiforts, because, I examined the features closely with sheengifer that the still of the body had beens out open les as sharps instrument, not examine the \n\nja \n\nthe. \n\n**** 2 ) \n\ndid not look closely \n\nnot recollect \n\n9, \n\nbuch did. \n\nthe \n\non the bo \n\nof the hands, but \n\nthe \n\nat the \n\nbody. \n\nand do \n\nwhich hand it was. \n\nthe", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-002 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1843.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 217597, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-003 - Foreign Office - 1843", "page_number": 335, "title": "CO129-003 - Foreign Office - 1843", "content_text": "\nthe Queens bubigets in \n\ntherefore as follows. The Ach \n\n81033 must. \n\nthe omission of \n\nBut neither \n\napporistinent \n\nbe read witu \n\nthe both Clause. \n\nyour \n\nOLG \n\nInperintendent, \n\nanything else lawfully \n\ndone under theat Ach is invalidated. The Orders \n\nin Council which I have \n\ncummerated will, unles \n\nrevoked \n\nthe ducen in \n\nCommeil, retarie all their \n\n& \n\nformer authority. It being \n\nhowever the dueens. \n\nin the exercise \n\nnow conferved \n\nMajesty \n\npleanse \n\nthe power toen \n\nto delegate to \n\nyou and to the Legislative \n\nlincil of Hong Kong \n\nStre \n\npower of \n\nmaking \n\ndaws for the Good of \n\nthe \n\nthey \n\nChina \n\n& in \n\nJadjacent \n\nyou \n\nunder \n\nthe \n\nSeas, I transmich to \n\n>>) \n\nа \n\nCommipione \n\nGreat Leal for that \n\npropose \n\naccompanied \n\nby hustructions under the Royal Liquch and Sigen The effect of \n\nMannal \n\nthere instruments will \n\nbe to extend over. \n\nAtre \n\ncheen's hubjects in Chinco \n\nI in the adjacent Seas, the degislative tuttionty \n\nwhich \n\nexercise \n\nyou \n\nover \n\nat present \n\nthe Inhabitant \n\ng trong nông \n\nI further transmit a Marrant under the Royal Lique Manual to provide for the temporary \n\ntration \n\nAdminis \n\nof your office. \n\nQue", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-003 - Foreign Office - 1843.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 218649, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 522, "title": "CO129-005 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1844", "content_text": "Mr 29 \n\nAmeon \n\nBrought \n\nover) \n\nPerrach's for families \n\nBuilding mat \n\nکه کر \n\nth \n\n77,200. \n\nFolkars 77:750. \n\nhundred \n\nand \n\nملات کنه \n\nIstat Seventy \n\nfifty Mail. \n\nthousand \n\nSeven \n\n30th Septener 1843 \n\nRetoria, Honghong) \n\nZ Z Z Z \n\nTreasurer & Financial \n\nThordary \n\nStatement of the Amounts paid upon the Undermentioned Contracts to 31th August 1843, by the Secretary & Theaswin to the Government, Haughing \n\nWe of \n\nntrac \n\nNew \n\nAprafication of Work \n\nBuilding Commissarial Construction of Sea Wall & isplanade Commat Yard & Arsenal. \n\nCommissariat Gard Amoon \n\nMorks in Arsenal \n\nNew North Barracks. \n\n(Imount paid to 314 Aug. 1843 \n\n2% lady $10,000 \n\nAmount charge for \n\nfor supply of \n\nA11,500 with 37% Cenity #7,500 \n\n7.1870 \n\nمی کرده ا د \n\nHame of Contractor Almount of to Contract \n\nYourd \n\n$12000 with 2% londy \n\nAmoon \n\n$14,500 with 2% tently $12,500 \n\nOlmoon \n\n$31,500 \n\n$18,500 \n\nAmoon \n\n$ 10,950 \n\n(Mak, & athak \n\n424,500 \n\nAchu 1 chung \n\nKunsting \n\n#gooo. \n\nAssing \n\n$2,500 \n\nAmeen: \n\nOfficers Pecarters & Mess House Shockched Barrack at Cheek chw \n\nLitte Officers Quarters Chock chic \n\nAlterations & Additions Orenance \n\nFarrah's \n\nた \n\nTemporary Mach Barracks for \n\n+ families 55th Key \n\nictoria \n\nHeng Kong \n\nwomn \n\n$14,000 \n\ndo. \n\ndo. $5,100 \n\nکی کور که کسی \n\ncertified to be \n\ncorre et", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-005 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1844.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 219161, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 10, "title": "CO129-007 - Sir John Davis - 1844", "content_text": "\nure to record the same in \n\nyour office \n\nand to \n\nascertain that all. Public. monies are \n\nbrought to the credit of the Publio-. \n\nJuly \n\nI consider that each. Department under- \n\nGovernment. if \n\nif called \n\nup \n\nto render me \n\ncopies \n\nof these orders and. Regulations for the purpose- \n\nto send them in, in six months time but- \n\n3. \n\nof the accounts of the follectors of Revenue _ the Rent Rolls - the Records of Accesment and Tast \n\nand their Day fack books . This would include the follectors accounts at a distance of 8 miles: t-fheck-chii and hereafter when the Registration. Ordinance is passed at Shuck. Pai Wan and \n\nat \n\nelsewhere. I should \n\nmyself also examine these accounts at uncertain times so as to ensure a - \n\nproper examination of them by the flerk and \n\nof bring \n\nrecorded in. \n\nmy office. \n\nwould be able. \n\nnot before, but that in the \n\ncall \n\nof the Land Office \n\nheep. a \n\ncheek \n\nany \n\nthey could not be rendered at all, inasmuch- a: that Department. has never received Instructions from home of any kind and in- support of this view Penclose a letter. \n\nfrom the. Acting Surveyor General Mr. fleverly marked. A . It is a most important part of the. \n\nthe Auditor's duty to ascertain that all. Public Monies are \n\nduly brought to the credit: \n\nof the Publice. I propose therefore devoting the Tervises of one flack entirely to the examination \n\nA \n\nI flank \n\nof \n\nupon \n\nthe accountants. Art. No. 5. \n\n\"In the examination \n\nthe follectors of Revenue, you \n\nthe accounts \n\nof the \n\nwill refer to the Pent. \n\nor call- Rolls or other records of Reeceements or Fay, and call. for such further documents as you may \n\nthink \n\nnecessary follectors Accounts, and to verify the amount. of arrears remaining uncollected at the end of the year, under each separate head of Revenue and should any difficulties be made to the \n\nto substantiate the entries in the \n\nproduction", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-007 - Sir John Davis - 1844.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 219162, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 11, "title": "CO129-007 - Sir John Davis - 1844", "content_text": "\ntime to it in. \n\nperson \n\nproduction of the required. Documents, \n\nyou \n\nwill. \n\nrepresent the same to the Governor and annex \n\na lopy of your representation. and of any directions \n\nthereon, to the other copies of you may receive thereon, to the other \n\ncorrespondence accompanying your report on the \n\nannual account. \n\nYou \n\nare \n\nto \n\ncompare \n\nthe accounts current- \n\nof the several follectors with their Day fash- books and certify the amount of the follections under each. Head of Revenue and the payments into the Treasury or other authorized_applications of them.\" \n\nHi \n\nArticle is in connection with the- \n\npreeding Instruction and it is most- \n\nimportant to the due collection and- \n\nappropriation of \n\nthe \n\nrevenue \n\nenue of this new felony \n\nthat no exertion should be epared by the auditor \n\nto \n\nLee \n\nthe Instructions it contains fully carried to the several Offices of the follectors \n\nout by going \n\nand \n\nand devoting a sufficient. \n\nand by sending a flerk for the purpose also \n\nIt is \n\nis certainly not advisable that the several follectors should have \n\nno \n\nother cheek \n\nироп. \n\ntheir. \n\nthose \n\neven into \n\nreceipts and payments that the Auditor's computations and castings on receipt of their. Quarterly accounts; but, the \n\nxamination of their fack books after receipt of the Quarterly avemant- will necessarily create delay \n\ncreate delay in passing accounts in some instances perhaps the succeeding. Quarter and at all times render it improbable that he could forward the Treasurer's account- audited by the first Despatch after each Quarter. This however is, it appears a matter of secondary importance compared with the which is likely to result from delay. \n\nThe districts of the Island will be made to contribute towards the. Revenue which they do not, in any way and by personal. Inspection and by acquaintance with the different. \n\nthe good \n\nrural \n\nnow \n\nfollectors", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-007 - Sir John Davis - 1844.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 219555, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-008 - Foreign Office - 1844", "page_number": 15, "title": "CO129-008 - Foreign Office - 1844", "content_text": "of them, with references \n\nBan intimation \n\nreferences to an \n\ncontained in their Letter of the 10th of August \n\nof \n\nfor any \n\nthe establishment of Schools in the horttins Poste of China being contemplated by testociety, that the Treaty of Nanking did not provides \n\nsuch measures, and that; pending the receipt of mistructions from homes, thes protection and support of H: this fon suls could not be extended to the operations of the Society in the event of any objectins beng started by the fort of China or by its \n\nto those operations being \n\nOperations being carried on. \n\nOfficers, \n\nI \n\n\" have to acquaint \n\nacquaint you, in reply, that - it : this foot approve the answer \n\nwhich you to there parties \n\nzave \n\nThat they \n\nI'm cur thr \n\nabove stated; and \n\nyour opinion that At: 12's \n\nfort could not resist \n\nany objections \n\nwheih \n\nthe \n\nthe Chinese foot may advance against interference of Missionaria with theirligin \n\nor education \n\nof \n\nthe people of China. Itsust \n\ndispositin \n\n: however that there would be no \n\non the part of the thembers of the Society, \n\nto persist after due was \n\nthe wishes \n\nhad \n\nwarning, M Disregarding \n\nیا ہے \n\nthe Chinese Authorities in this \n\npect, and that no coccasion will arwe) in \n\nЯса \n\nMay leader, \n\nwhich the necessity of providing for the safety of the British Community at large, or the risk of compromising the continuance of friendly relations with (Bina, may of indispensables for the cheef Britsik Authority in China & resort to the extremes measure adverted to in the close of your letter, of requiring there many other parties to quit the Cinese Territory altogether = \n\nsince the receipt of your des patch I have an interview, at then regnest; with a deportation of the denson Missionary Society \n\nI pointed \n\nted out to them that it woul be advisable for them & abstain, at events for the present, from any attempts to extend the operations of the Society beyond the limits of the Soland of tagtag, and not to risk exciting the \n\nthe suspicion animosity of the (finere Anthontics Scople by any premature exertions to \n\na a J \n\nat all \n\nor \n\nobtain \n", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-008 - Foreign Office - 1844.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 219656, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-008 - Foreign Office - 1844", "page_number": 116, "title": "CO129-008 - Foreign Office - 1844", "content_text": "should be signed of, fried, determined, and praished within Her Magerty's Dominions, chall \n\nbe so m \n\nig \n\nmored of \n\nfried \n\ndetermined and punished, \n\nand that Her Majesty's Consals, Free Consils, \n\nother Persons provciconally acting as such under Warrant from the Chief Superintendent of British \n\nA1 \n\nTrade in China, aforesaid, shall have \n\nauthority \n\nauthority to cause any \n\nBulish Subject charged with \n\nthe Commission of any ornice or offence the cogniganu where of may at any time appertain to them or any \n\nکمرو \n\nthem, to be sent for \n\ntrial to the said Colony \n\nof Hongkong, and it is further ordered that this Cheef in stive of the Colony \n\nof Hongkong for the time \n\nbeing \n\nor other Penca \n\nprovisionally acting as such, shall when duly \n\nrequired", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-008 - Foreign Office - 1844.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 220709, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 304, "title": "CO129-010 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1843", "content_text": "\" \n\n: road where it passes under Stills, or \n\nto make \n\nall the natural water courses that cross the road under ground drains with Bridges - \n\nRoads leading from Bomber, \n\nOn the great into the Deckan over the Western Ghauts \n\n(where the periodical Rains are \n\nfor heavier \n\nfall. \n\nar \n\nand more continued, then any that ever \n\nthis Island) drains ent into the natural soil. \n\nof \n\n\" about three feet breadth and an equal depth. threngthened (where the soil is soft) by large. \n\nmasses of rough Stone, have stood the test of \n\nof \n\nmany years and where natural. Mater Courses cross the Roads they are made broad \n\ngradual. \" Dips\" with flags, of which abundance... can be quarried in every part this Island. \n\nThe method. I point out in the preceding Paragraph. with. I suspect greatly \n\nlessen the Expense of the 1 toad described by aptain Edwards, and I may add that I contemplate that I road being eventically \n\n· from Chuck Choo to the village. \n\ncarried on \n\nof \n\n: Cheek py wan and thence pound- the Western Corner \n\nof the Island.. so as to \n\nལ་ཐ་ \n\nto join in with the Queen's Road near the Western (or Volunteer) Barracks which would completely open up the Island and the \n\nexpense of doing so would have no doubt be more than repaid by the increased value_ it would give to the excellent sites for building Dwelling and. War houses and erecting Docks, Slips &c, along the whole line. \n\nI have the honor to be, to, \n\nSigned Henry Pottinger \n\ntive Copy \n\nRichard Moosuam", "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": 221240, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-011 - Sir John Davis - 1845 [1-4]", "page_number": 43, "title": "CO129-011 - Sir John Davis - 1845 [1-4]", "content_text": "the Triad Society completely justifies the adoption of the most vigorous measures for suppressing and punishing them and for all persons who shall become Members of them. The same considerations vindicate the propriety of the decisions to deliver up to the Chinese Authorities any Sailing who may escape from the penalties which they may have incurred in China.\n\nIt is, however, not equally evident that the Ordinance which was transmitted is properly framed. First, It makes no exceptions in favour of persons who may have joined the Triad Society in ignorance of its designs or under the influence of terror. The latter case, as appears from the Particulars of the Case of the 21st January is not infrequent really. An illustration...\n\nSecondly, an indelible stigma inflicted on the cheek of a Criminal, even if final, when attended by fine (as I presume was intended in this instance) is yet evidently objectionable as fastening on the malefactor a stigma from which he could never be rescued by any future good conduct. It would consign him to a life of infamy and finally obstruct his return to honest and reputable society.\n\nThirdly, The Ordinance subjects to similar penalties the members of all Secret Societies. But mere membership, in the terms of an Association, would scarcely seem to require a punishment so severe or, perhaps, any punishment at all. Fourthly, Exclusion from the Colony is itself an indefinite punishment. It does not offer whether the man is to be banished for life or for any short period, nor what is to be the penalty of returning from such a banishment.\n\nFifthly, It has been stated by a Member of the House of Commons in his place in that House, that by a recent Edict or law of the Chinese Government a number of Triad Society members may be put to death at once, and without any formal trial.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-011 - Sir John Davis - 1845 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 221241, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-011 - Sir John Davis - 1845 [1-4]", "page_number": 44, "title": "CO129-011 - Sir John Davis - 1845 [1-4]", "content_text": "=\n\nIf\n\nof such be really the fact the restitution of such persons would be justifiable because it would make\n\nThe Queen's foot company to proceed. Totally abhorrent,\n\nabhorrent power\n\nof judges.\n\nJust own\n\nprinciples\n\nnotwithstanding these objections\n\nSt. M. will not be advised to disallow\n\nThis Ordinance but that measure would\n\ninvolve\n\nin\n\na\n\nvery\n\nsuccessful\n\nerror\n\nembarrassment. But you will adopt\n\nimmediate\n\nmeasures for the amendment\n\nof it in reference to the preceding\n\nmatters which\n\nwill also take\n\nfor principles on the subject of\n\nthis restitution\n\nof fugitive\n\nmembers\n\nof\n\nthe Triad Society. They should be\n\ndelivered\n\nup\n\nto\n\nbe tried but not to\n\nbe\n\nput to death without Trial.\n\nI have ...\n\n43\n\n# Title.\n\n## Preamble.\n\nHONGKONG,\n\nANNO OCTAVO\n\nVICTORIÆ REGINÆ.\n\nNo. 1 of 1845.\n\nBY HIS EXCELLENCY JOHN FRANCIS DAVIS, ESQUIRE, Governor and Commander in Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of the Trade of British Subjects in China with the advice of the Legislative Council of Hongkong.\n\n## AN ORDINANCE for the suppression of the Triad and other secret Societies within the Island of Hongkong and its Dependencies.\n\nWHEREAS the Triad Society and other secret Societies prevalent in China exist among the Inhabitants of the Island of Hongkong and whereas these Associations have objects in view which are incompatible with the maintenance of good order and constituted authority and with the security of life and property and afford by means of a secret agency increased facilities for the commission of crime and for the escape of offenders.\n\n1. Be it therefore enacted and ordained by the Governor of Hongkong with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof that from and after the passing of this Ordinance if any person or persons being of Chinese origin in the said Island or its Dependencies shall be a member or members of the Triad Society or other secret Societies as aforesaid he she or they shall in consequence thereof be guilty of felony and being duly convicted thereof shall be liable to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding three years with or without hard labour and at the expiration of such term of imprisonment that such person shall be marked on the right cheek in the manner usual in the case of Military Deserters and be expelled from the said Island.\n\nPassed the Legislative Council of Hongkong,\n\nthis 8th day of January, 1845\n\nADOLPHUS E. SHELLEY,\n\nClerk of Councils.\n\nJOHN FRANCIS DAVIS,\n\nGovernor,\n\nHongkong: Published by Authority, and Printed by John Carr.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-011 - Sir John Davis - 1845 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 221249, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-011 - Sir John Davis - 1845 [1-4]", "page_number": 52, "title": "CO129-011 - Sir John Davis - 1845 [1-4]", "content_text": "to that effect. This is indeed an excellent measure — of Government, to inspire terror and remove the scourge from the well intentioned. But Hong Kong is a new beginning. The Colony and all is in its infancy.\n\nThe people — those who come to trade and traffic — are not very wealthy personages, and the remainder are employed in manual labour and are poor and have no dependence. Many idlers are mixed up with them. Hence there are robbers and murderers and wretches who belong to this brind. Society amongst them; and this is the cause that all along Hong Kong, so frequent losses (theft) occur.\n\nIt is my humble opinion, that these people, resembling weeds, transgress at their homes the laws of China, and at Hong Kong sin against the British regulations. It is therefore a matter of great joy to send them beyond the seas, there to die of age and never to return. They are, however, fellows of a violent and stubborn disposition, and having combined in considerable numbers together they have pledged each other to create disturbance. They consider themselves not subjects of China, and are not willing to observe the English laws, and I am therefore apprehensive that the multitude will not willingly submit to it.\n\nThe land and naval forces of your Honorable Country are more than sufficient for keeping them in cheek, but still we must guard against an unexpected event. It is moreover a provision of the Supplementary treaty that the subjects of China should be judged by Chinese Mandarins.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-011 - Sir John Davis - 1845 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 222260, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-013 - Sir John Davis - 1845 [8-12]", "page_number": 313, "title": "CO129-013 - Sir John Davis - 1845 [8-12]", "content_text": "HONGKONG, \n\nANNO. NONO \n\nVICTORIÆ REGINÆ. \n\nNo. 12 of 1845. \n\nBy His Excellency Sir JOHN FRANCIS DAVIS, Baronet, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies, Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of the Trade of British Subjects in China, with the advice of the Legislative Council of Hongkong. \n\nAN ORDINANCE TO AMEND THE ORDINANCE No. 1 of 1845, ENTITLED, \"AN ORDINANCE FOR THE SUPPRESSION OF THE TRIAD AND OTHER SECRET SOCIETIES IN THE ISLAND OF HONGKONG AND ITS DEPENDENCIES. \n\n[20th October, 1845.] \n\nI. WHEREAS it is deemed expedient to amend the said Ordinance No. 1 of 1845, with a view to introducing certain limitations, and giving additional certainty to its provisions: \n\nBe it therefore enacted and ordained by His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, That no person or persons shall be considered as coming within the provisions or intent of the before mentioned Ordinance No. 1 of 1845, who shall have joined the Triad Society in ignorance of its designs, or under the influence of terror, or who shall not be duly convicted of active participation in some unlawful act arising out of his or their connection with the said Society, \n\nII. And be it further enacted and ordained, That so far as the said enactment provides that any Offender shall, in addition to the other Punishments or Penalties contained in the said Ordinance No. 1 of 1845, be marked on the right cheek, and banished from the Island, at the discretion of the Court, the same be, and is hereby repealed: But it is further provided, that in case of any conviction under these Ordinances, or either of them, the presiding Judge shall in his discretion have", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-013 - Sir John Davis - 1845 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 224071, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-017 - Sir John Davis - 1846 [7-12]", "page_number": 491, "title": "CO129-017 - Sir John Davis - 1846 [7-12]", "content_text": "# Descriptive List of Chinese Prisoners\n\nName.\n\nMong Whit\n\n2 Te Quang shang Wang hachoong.\n\nHo\n\n3 Kum Asave\n\nTo afoot. 8.400 Alup\n\nKook Usum.\n\náo đảm trong 11 Wong Ayeen.\n\n12 Chen Alcones\n\n13 Ing. 1800 14 Sng Asze 15 Her Asze 46-Lok\n\nting\n\n17 Han Apo... 18 Why Alum\n\n14\n\n20\n\nSlen\n\nAgaing.\n\nAchu.\n\nCheang.\n\n21 Tong Awa.\n\n21 Jam Alum\n\n23 bhan Wa las\n\nAge:\n\nYears. Chos:\n\n265\n\n25 #\n\n4.9\n\n395\n\nFor fession\n\nTrade:\n\nBakter\n\nSione Cutter\n\nDocter\n\nBoatinan\n\n165\n\ntobler.\n\nBarber\n\n3416 Truiserer_\n\n327\n\n26 2 seller of vegetables. 29 16 Carpenter 2710\n\nLook.\n\n38\n\nseller of soit frades.\n\nBeatvoran\n\nBous mand\n\n367\n\n28\n\n24\n\n8 Rope maker\n\n207 seller of Cakes.\n\n20\n\n192\n\nne\n\n25\n\n24 Tam Ashing\n\nBoatman\n\ntoo lie\n\nCrime.\n\nLarceny. Robbery with violence.\n\nluttion with intent to\n\nmains.\n\nParceny Sarceny.\n\nSeating in a dwelling\n\ntower walus over $6,\n\nRabbery with violence-\n\nBBurglary.\n\nReceiving stolen\n\nStolen gooder\n\nthewivingstiden gooder-\n\nBurglary.\n\nRobbery with Larceny Larceny\n\nRobbery with Armes Wobbery with como Farcen.\n\nStracking in a dwelling\n\na\n\n44 to Seiler of theme Stealing from a veset. 1 seller of Fish_theating from vessels. 5 seller of day stables. Stealing from a vessel. 1 seller of oficent Burglary 4 shot keeper Robbery.\n\nRobbery\n\nBoatmaus\n\nmove.o\n\n25 Cheang than alios Man - Koch: 24 2 Setter of fruit : Robbery with am\n\n26 Bong ting.\n\n27 Hong Soong. Neen..\n\n22 Leang. Abing\n\n29 Mok Dow\n\n3o. Le Aung\n\n31 Cheong tung 33 So Suntsoy\n\n26 11 seller of Liate.\n\n1 Black smith\n\nSentence\n\nDate\n\n436\n\nunder Sentence of Transportation.\n\nTransportation Fence, Height\n\nGeneral Description.\n\n17th Deer Bl 5 4/4 Vair Complexion; mark on light cheese._\n\n5.5/ Dark Complexion. 59th Fair Complexion.\n\nLifes 18th Life 15th Zeby 1845 159re Fair\n\nJyears 15th Deer_11-\n\n52 Clark Comilexion: Sear\n\nfor 7 years\n\nf\n\nb\n\n10\n\n#\n\n2 Mark Cachtexion.\n\nth\n\nVo\n\n5 3/2 Glash carléxion:\n\n#\n\n15 years\n\nthe\n\n18\n\nth-\n\n16\n\n16th\n\n14.\n\n157\n\n+\n\nw Life 15th\n\n100bars 15\n\n10\n\n#\n\nmarti\n\nchives Light eye\n\nleft clicet\n\nta-over\n\nleft over.\n\n5 Life Park Complexion : fat face. 5 3 Hash Complexion : blind of left &\n\nFeby 1846 5 4th Fair Cospection\n\nLife 28th May\n\nLife 22\n\n7 years 17th ho\n\n* 10\n\n58 Fair Complexion\n\n5:3 fair Completion: mastion\n\nEight life.\n\n5 527 am completion: stout body\n\nIark Complexion.\n\n9\n\n5 60%tery darti Complexion.\n\n5 to quis Complexion in 5.1/1⁄2 Jais Colexion.\n\nalexiens mark on\n\nto 104 Fair Complexion:\n\n12th\n\nLife Life 12th.\n\n54/1⁄2\n\ne\n\nvarken\n\n/1⁄2 fair complexion: ma 6 Jais Complexion.\n\ntouchlexions.\n\n55% Vais complexion:\n\nleft check, bookmarker. left side tore head-\n\nScar ever\n\nreft ext\n\nseason right side of hea\n\n5 site Fair Conchlexion: Sear on left Icomple_\n\nFair Complexion.\n\n5 5/4 Yair Complexion: mark in\n\nEight Check\n\n55 Lair complexion: pock marked. 554 Jouir complexion: martien right cheek.\n\n5 71⁄21⁄2 Jair complexion: mark over right eye\n\n42\n\n244\n\nwith. eve the\n\n***...\n\napr. at man\n\nLife 12th\n\nLife 12.4\n\nLife 12th\n\nLife 134\n\nLife 137.\n\non fore head\n\nFife 13th\n\n5 3/4 Fair Complexion:\n\nleft temple\n\n7 Years 13\n\n1/3\n\n5 1/1⁄2 Jair Complexion:\n\nleft eye\n\n\"\n\n16th Bear\n\n56 Jair Complexion:\n\n31\n\nColie\n\n20 so tetes of finem &\n\nBarber:\n\nRobbery with vistences. cutting niemaining Habbing with intent to lo grie sous bodily Nati\n\nMaustaughter Larceny\n\n2.0 7 seller offish & fruit\n\nHer offich fuit Larceny.\n\n319\n\nSheriff's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 15th December, 18.46 }\n\nSeller\n\ner of\n\nFich. Stealing from a boat -\n\nColomine Je\n\nSigned Jav Collins.\n\nJailer.\n\n5 3/1⁄2 Fair Complexion : mark on\n\n53/1⁄2 Fair Complexion: much pock marked-\n\n[signed] C.B. Willier.\n\nofficiating sheriff.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-017 - Sir John Davis - 1846 [7-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 224073, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-017 - Sir John Davis - 1846 [7-12]", "page_number": 493, "title": "CO129-017 - Sir John Davis - 1846 [7-12]", "content_text": "438\n\nDescriptive List of Asiatic and Colored Prisoners not Chinese, under sentence of Transportation?\n\n \n Name\n Country\n Years\n long\n Trade\n Cizal\n Crime\n Sentence\n Date of Sentence\n Height\n General Description\n \n \n 1. James\n India\n 25\n 40\n House Servant\n \n Cutting with intent to do grievous bodily harm\n for 10 years\n 28th Jan 1844\n 5.6\n Complexion dark; slight body\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n for 16 years\n 21st Feb 1845\n \n \n \n \n 2. John Douglas Hoss\n America\n 24\n \n Sailer\n \n stabbing with intent to murder\n 10 years\n 19th Dec 1846\n 5.11 1/2\n Complexion dark; scar on left cheek\n \n \n 3. Boodeen\n Mainga\n 24\n \n Suiter\n \n dwelling-house, above #5\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 4. Mardasan\n India\n 32\n 22\n House Servant\n \n Stealing or a slavction\n \n \n 5.6\n Complexion fair; slight body\n \n \n A Ramasamy\n India\n \n \n Sailer\n \n \n \n \n \n Complexion very dark\n \n \n Juan Cayeli\n Manila\n 27\n 3\n Book\n \n Receiving stolen goods\n \n 13th Nov 1846\n 5.3 1/2\n Complexion dark; scar on left ankle\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Jailer\n Sherif's vezice, Polewa\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\nHongkong, 15th December, 1846.\n\nSigned Jas: Collins. Jailer.\n\nSigned C. B. Hillier Officiating sheriff\n\nTrue Copy\n\nMarin Colonial Junctio", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-017 - Sir John Davis - 1846 [7-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 224154, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 60, "title": "CO129-018 - Others - 1846", "content_text": "Hang hory becoming.\n\nOpinn. Frattin\n\nL\n\ndepot for the trungles of\n\nKatten incingine by\n\nincingine by this device they\n\nturned aside the Par 4 propure upon them in this subject. They cound ant as desired padhibit trade in Opin. They brew the probitition wound be ouin. Muut by their local\n\ntistics in\n\nMitish Settlement they affered to wild to the clamor offthen\n\nthat\n\nI was founded\n\n85\n\nrefrom the\n\ndrug was\n\nallegation that:\n\ntrailer in te\n\npernicion\n\nhustuste\n\nan acf comment\n\nis utterly\n\nwry\n\nwound. & water this Fraser in\n\nanticle responsible for the excopies of indiedende, which is abound. Stiinte thene que\n\nCard our\n\nung gered\n\nthis mumpsly untenable. its operation is prepudicine to live Rada trevenere ofthey bong, it is anycoring then people their (creaty. Inow not in what\n\nthe Post of handle made its piconte quanties the But & hade Engures, but blame the written testimony often last Stonce expuged in the Trade\n\nenjoyed of there punts de velly and\n\nvarian\n\nwitte\n\nthe epicions estained besteen hd: Strade.\n\nI confess I have still prent doubly\n\nFilt.\n\n47\n\nWhether the decist of the Bro Trade\n\nis a wife one\n\nit must be conducive\n\nbut upon\n\nmattor of thiskin Inform the God that havf refered his despatch & it's enclosure to the Rof Finde I find it is the Mind\" of their Lps that there is no just bjuth to the farm which vinst therefore be continned, & he wills communicate this to haupt haste\n\nPage 60\n\nPage 61\n\nPage 61\n\nprevention of a Sherghing Fearle\n\nbetween they\n\nKong be\n\nthe court\n\nis daciord from a\n\nCour complète of Offices,\n\nhich is comind on chiefley the \"furun don not affect the wholesale hose_it monopoly is becopy for that. The licenses gaut butail Prater in opium might still be exquined Agunted – farci à us furti. And as by the minute often Are Steade\n\nThe Reverse\n\nTwo Farm\n\nSteam Ships & boats afloat. I do and think these he \"furas\" is justified by hardly infleconce the sangle, of opin trade. But the forms gin-\n\nto the\n\nBoard of\n\n- demistiestry the Revenue, whilst the Expences\n\nAdmiralty\n\nAgent\n\na was last change. Hinquite a delusion to suffure teal an article.\n\nto Pende & drive it away from steny king.\n\nRudra Bonal\n\nlocales\n\nas Opium in Chen\n\n***** \n\none Cheel of fin be sumuggled to still\n\nby foreigen tenders & the Chinese in opinion. This wear engling & uphold\n\ntomuffine best the farmi at kongkong divionicles by\n\nhusque as the sumptuen, dens of old are _ a the lele-hrase,\n\nwe be dest bitte\n\nimport pe konn\n\nother brande. le be\n\nEng. The trashe\n\ni laken the tas\n\na waful\n\nbe expedient. Aut the day, relying upon thee\n\nfr any good Sie S. Davis aug bost ofthat day wind by t\n\nPage 61\n\nCommol\n\nHouse\n\nI suffere that this she? non the basis of the answer to 201643 thing Hong. Rembielist I see that in the wohis written by perself and\n\ndad Guy\n\non that Berpulch,\n\nview of this question\n\nsi taben differing form that stuck in lehen by Hi B. of Trade.\n\nof?\n\n17 hod. The Bound of seade supput\n\nthe Opicine", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-018 - Others - 1846.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 225604, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-021 - Sir John Davis - 1847 [9-12]", "page_number": 127, "title": "CO129-021 - Sir John Davis - 1847 [9-12]", "content_text": "Names. Age! Country Profession Yrs. Mos. or Trade\n\nبر Chun Ayec 2. Yaong, woor ke : China. 24 10 Boatman.\n\n38 2 Fruiterer! Crime Porncy. Do\n\nTerm of Sentence. Fornsportation Height Feet. Suches For Life: 15th January, 1847. 5 4½ Dark complexion; harelip.\n\nGeneral Description! Fair complexion!\n\nمجھ Kwok yok tye. 363 Boatman. 53½ Dark complexion!\n\n4. Freng li cho. 602 Shopkeeper.\n\nth 5. Ing Meen. 304 Butcher. Receiving stolen goods Burglary. 14. years. 15th February 1847. 5 8 10 years. 16th February, 1847 Fair complexion!\n\n6. Kwok thee. 23 2 Boatman. Stealing in a beat in in port. 5 6 Fair complexion; scar on forehead. 5 3½ Fair complexion; pockmarked.\n\n7. Yeang Aqui. 28 5 Dr\n\n8. How Atung. 37 Fo\n\n9. Low shin kee. 24 4 ஏ 23 2 Fruiterer Stealing from the person : Burglary. Do Jo 342 Do Sailor Fo 570 5 8½ In Life.\n\nFo 13 Chun seen yee. 297 Stone butter. Robbery with violence. Fo 5 2 261\n\nمرو 382 بہرہ بوك 273 Assault by persons armed with intent to rob. Do. Assault with others with intent to pob. Dr 5 3¼ Dark complexion; pockmarked. Fair complexion! 5 3½ 17th February, 1847 5 5½ Fair complexion; peckmarked. 18th February, 1847. 4 | 5½ Fair complexion.\n\nDo 5 4½ Dark complexion; pockmarked Tack complexion. Do 5½ Dark complexion; pockmarked. 5 6½ Fair complexion. 5 2½ Dark complexion. 14 years. 19th February, 1847 5 9½ Dark complexion; snark on left side of head\n\nJo 5 8½ Fair complexion; pockmarked.\n\n16. Chun Apocy. 15. Lum Akwong . 12. Cheang Akum. 14 Ngei Asam. 15 Sen Ayee. 16 Sor kwan hing. 17 Isung sam. Chaing Aseen. 18 19 Lum how ti. 20 Eep Achong. 21 Chun Achow. 22 Mun fook chaong. 23 Wong Ayoong. 24. Wong, the.\n\n·25 Yun Moong 26 Chun Ayoong. 27 Wong Ming. 28. Low Atuk. 29. Ung Aqui . 30. Chui Achun. 31. Man cheem ke 32. Frong Alwong. 33. Le Atai. 34. Low Akwei.\n\n225 Mason . 282 Stonecutter. 244 f 342 Park butcher 226 book. 28 2 Seller of Vegetables book. 292 Receiving stolen goods. ச 5 Dark complexion; peckmarked 5 4 Fair complexion; scar on left eye. Do\n\n22 2 Seller of Ducks. 362 Coolie. Larceny. 7 years. Do 5½ Stealing in a dwelling house to the value. of £5. 10 years. Assault by a person armed with intent to nob. For Life. ஏச Fo 5½ 282 Carpenter. Cook. 12 3½ 25 1½ Mason 285 Hörscheeper Assault with intent to pob 342 Coolie. 282 D 342 Carpenter. 392 Watchman. 30 2 Brothel keeper. 27 2 Servant.\n\nRemarks 122 Do 5 1½ Dark complexion, pockmarked 5 4 Fair complexion. 15th April 1847. 5 6¼ Dark complexion; pochmacked Previously convicted. De Stealing in a dwelling house; but under $5 5 6 Dark complexion ; mark on forehead Previously convicted. 15 spars 16th April, 1847. 5 4½ Fair complexion; pockmarked 5 4 Fair complexion. 5 4½ Fair complexion; pockmarked. 5 3 Dark complexion; pockmarked: Do De\n\n咖 Stabbing with intent to do some grievous bodily harm. For Life. 5 2½ Fair complexion. Ft. 5 3½ Dark complexions Fe Fo ஞ்ச 5 4 Dark complexion; mark on, E on forehead.\n\nPage 363", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-021 - Sir John Davis - 1847 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 225605, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-021 - Sir John Davis - 1847 [9-12]", "page_number": 128, "title": "CO129-021 - Sir John Davis - 1847 [9-12]", "content_text": "# 35.\n\nNames. Country Age. Profection or Frade Crime. Yord. Med\n\nChina: 35 2 Shopkeeper.\n\n39 5 Tavern keeper.\n\n28 2 Fish seller.\n\n34. Tang Ache.\n\n36. Chaong, Acharng.\n\n37. Low Ashing.\n\n38. Los Alcong.\n\n40. Wong, Ayee.\n\n41. Lo Aleen,\n\n42. Fong Achow:\n\n43 Yoong Asow.\n\nChay Awove\n\n44 ...\n\n45 Low teen che,\n\n46 Soon frung chaong .\n\n47. Keong, Alook.\n\n49. Ing Allun.\n\n50. Laong Show\n\n51. Le Aleat.\n\n31 2\n\n36 2\n\n384 Fisherman.\n\n219\n\nPiracy; furnishing, with ammunition, &C.\n\nFitting out a ship or vessel knowingly and with design to trade with, supply, and\n\nStealing in a vessel in harbour.\n\nof t Fo\n\nFerm of Fransportation.\n\nDate of Sentence. Height: General Descuption.\n\nFeet Bucher\n\n20th April, 1847. 5 6 5 Fair complexion; scar on left check\n\n15 years,\n\n5 6 2\n\nDo\n\n7 years.\n\nFo\n\n5 3 2 Fair complexion !\n\n5 6 Dark complexion.\n\n5 3 Fair complexion; pockmarked\n\n5 3 2 Fair complexion.\n\n5 3 Fair complexion; mark on right temple\n\n5 5 Fair complexion.\n\n2 2 Dark complexion.\n\n5 2 Fair complexion; mark on each cheek.\n\nDack complexion.\n\n5 6\n\n5 4\n\nJo\n\nDr\n\nRemark $23\n\n15th July, 1847. 5 5 1⁄2 Fair complexion; pockmarked Stealing in a duckling-hogues, prisorse\n\n5 3 2 Fair complexion.\n\nDht.\n\n15 years\n\n16th July, 1847 4 1\n\nDo\n\nJ+\n\n5 2 4\n\nFor\n\nDo\n\nformed and attempting to stab Policeman.\n\nPreviously convicted.\n\nAccompanied with violence.\n\n5 1 Fair complexion; pockmar hed\n\nfe\n\n21st April, 1847\n\nJt\n\nFo\n\ncorrespond\n\nwith\n\nFo\n\n4 3 2 Carpenter.\n\nPirates.\n\nDo\n\n2 6 2 Fish seller\n\nFor Life.\n\n37 2\n\nJee\n\n5 9\n\n38 2\n\nDo\n\nPiracy; throwing overboard Master of boat.\n\nFo\n\n1 2 5 3\n\nFor\n\n2 8 2\n\nDo\n\n48. Yuen Achoong.\n\n2 6 2 Fruiterer.\n\nLarceny.\n\n21 2\n\nbook.\n\nDe\n\n45 2\n\nBoatman\n\n17 11\n\n20 4\n\n25 2\n\n30 2\n\nFo\n\n24 Fisherman\n\n27\n\n29 Carpenter.\n\n30 2 Stonecutter\n\nLaborer\n\n23 6 Coolie\n\nStealing in a ship in port\n\nBurglary.\n\nPeracy.\n\nLarceny battle stealing.\n\n10 years.\n\nLarceny.\n\ny years.\n\n25\n\n27 4\n\nStonecutter.\n\nfo\n\nDo\n\nFo\n\nDo\n\n28\n\nTo\n\nfor\n\n32 2 Fishmonger.\n\n\"\n\nDo\n\n31\n\nStonecutter\n\nश\n\n67 Ngei Asam.\n\n31\n\nDo\n\n32\n\n20 17\n\nbook.\n\nDo\n\n30\n\nStonecutter.\n\n52 Ho yun thing.\n\n53 Le Aeze.\n\n54 Lei Apong.\n\n55 Fong wong cheong.\n\n56 Lucy Apo.\n\n57 Cheong Achat.\n\nAmun .\n\n58 Ung\n\n59 Low Asarme\n\n60. Cheong, Achun\n\n61. Quan Ashun.\n\n62. Ngei Alok.\n\n63 Chien Asun.\n\n64 500 Asun.\n\n65 Lum Akew .\n\n66 Sen Aook.\n\n68 Nqui Aen.\n\n69 Ngei Aing.\n\n25 5 Fruiterer\n\n38 2 Blacksmith.\n\nStabbing, with intent to murder.\n\nيرة\n\nofe\n\nDo\n\n17th July, 1847.\n\nFor Life.\n\n5 4 2\n\n5 2 Dark complexion; pock marked\n\n5 2 2 Fair complexion.\n\n5 2 2 Dark complexion.\n\n5 6 Fair complexion, mark on each cheek\n\n15 years\n\n8th October, 1847.\n\nBetober, 1847 5 6 Fair complexion; mark on each cheek.\n\n7 years.\n\n15th October, 1847 5 4 1⁄2\n\nFair complexion.\n\n10 years.\n\nDo\n\nJo\n\n16th. Actober, 1847 5 2\n\nمد\n\n5 3 Fair complexion; smack on right can\n\n5 4 Fair complexion; mark on each check.\n\nFair complexion.\n\n5 5\n\n5\n\nAs\n\nDo\n\nDe\n\n5 2 Fair complexion; mark on right side of chin\n\n5 1 Fair complexion; mark on right cheek.\n\n5/ Fair complexion; projecting life, large teeth.\n\n5 8 Dack complexion; large teeth.\n\nFair complexion.\n\n5 2\n\n5 2 Fair complexion ; pockmarked.\n\n(Sentence of death was recorded against this\n\n\"man, which sentence was afterwards commuted to Fransportation for Life by H. E. Governor.\n\nSix\n\nJetzt h, Kr the free that the Previously convicted.\n\nbrmed.\n\nOld offender.\n\nArmed.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-021 - Sir John Davis - 1847 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 225606, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-021 - Sir John Davis - 1847 [9-12]", "page_number": 129, "title": "CO129-021 - Sir John Davis - 1847 [9-12]", "content_text": "# \n\nyo Ngei Alok.\n\nرو\n\nSeu toong fook.\n\n72 Chaong Afat:\n\n73 Chay that.\n\n74 Ngei Aing.\n\nNames.\n\nCountry\n\nAge.\n\nProfession\n\nor Trade.\n\nCrime.\n\nAfrs. Mos\n\nChina 29\n\nStonecutter\n\nLarceny.\n\nof years.\n\n16\n\nIf\n\n#\n\n27\n\nDealer in cattle.\n\nForm + Date of Sentence\n\nFransportation\n\nHeight\n\nFect. Inched\n\nthe October, 1847 5\n\nGeneral Description.\n\nFair complexion.\n\nRemarks. 124\n\nDo\n\n4\n\n282 Stonecutter.\n\n\"\n\n257\n\n28\n\nFo\n\n75 Ma Ayce.\n\n40\n\nFailor\n\n76 Kung Amoon.\n\nyaj\n\nKhit Aproo\n\n23\n\n275 Stonecutter.\n\nbook.\n\n78\n\nLum Ashung.\n\n37\n\nBoatman.\n\n79\n\nLum Awoon.\n\n28\n\n80. Wong avei lam?\n\n74\n\nCoolie.\n\nStealing from a building.\n\nDo\n\nLasting\n\nStealing in a boat in port.\n\nin a dwelling house, above £5.\n\n1st count - plundering a\n\nDo\n\n81\n\n82 Chun Ayuan.\n\n83.\n\n87\n\nLe Akeun.\n\nWong Achoud\n\n84 Chaong Ashow.\n\n85 Yong Assam.\n\n86 Lt\n\nSyee.\n\nSue wa kwie.\n\n88 New Afoong\n\nα\n\n346 Husbandman.\n\nship stranded ; 2nd\n\n24\n\nFish seller\n\n50\n\nHusbandman.\n\nship wrecked.\n\n30\n\nCarpenter.\n\ncount - plundering.\n\n\"Robbery by two or more persons\n\nJo\n\nArmed.\n\n5 1½\n\nஏ\n\nمراة\n\n53 Fair complexion; mark over\n\nright eyer\n\n18th October, 1847 52\n\ndo\n\n516\n\nFair complexion!\n\n10,\n\nD years\n\n19th October, 1842 7\n\n5 3¾\n\nFor\n\n15 years.\n\nSfer\n\nFo\n\n独\n\nDark complexion :\n\n52 Fair complexion; mark over\n\n54\n\n5\n\nFair complexion :\n\nFair complexion; mark on each cheek.\n\nDark complexion.\n\n54½ Fair complexion.\n\nleft eye.\n\n54\n\nQ>\n\n29\n\nStonecutter\n\nRobbery.\n\n있다\n\nDo\n\n40\n\nCoolie.\n\n20 4 Domestic servant.\n\nFor\n\nCoolie.\n\n336 Bricklayer.\n\n89 Yuen\n\n90\n\nLe the gee.\n\n31\n\n91 Le Ayik.\n\n28\n\n92\n\nGabriel Luis.\n\n*\n\nBurglary and\n\nand Larceny. Larceny.\n\nGoa. 22 5 Steward of a ship.\n\nStealing\n\nin a ship in port.\n\nLow fook thing. China 32 4 Seller of Vegetables.\n\nCutting and wounding with intent to\n\nde grievous bodily harm.\n\nFor\n\nஆ\n\n20th October, 1847. 5 4\n\nFor Life.\n\nDo\n\n53\n\nArmed.\n\nFo\n\nJo\n\n572\n\nFo\n\nDo\n\n55\n\nArmed.\n\n10 years.\n\n57\n\n7 years.\n\n55\n\nJo\n\n15 years. 15th April, 1847.\n\n5th For Life. 17th December 1845\n\n5 4 2 Dark complexion; scar on left cheek\n\nامشهر\n\nSheriff's Office, Victoria,\n\nHongkong, 26th October 1847. }\n\n5 5 Fair complexion; a long scar on\n\n18 forehead\n\n(Signed). Charles G. Husforth,\n\nSheriff\n\n*Note. Low fook thing, escaped from Prison on the 23rd March, 1846, and was\n\nrecaptured on the 19th October, 1847.\n\nFrue\n\nMame Colonial Secretary", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-021 - Sir John Davis - 1847 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 227151, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-025 - Bonham - 1848 [7-8]", "page_number": 175, "title": "CO129-025 - Bonham - 1848 [7-8]", "content_text": "16. Duncan\n\n17 172 Certified. That we have perused the annexed petition of Cheong Cheen, alias Cheong Asco. That we formed the jury before whom the said Cheang Cheen, alias Cheong Asco was tried on the said twenty-fourth day of January last. That the circumstances set forth in the said annexed petition, we believe to be true, and we humbly submit to Your Excellency: that from the notoriously bad character of the said Too Apo, as has been shown from the fact of his having been convicted and sentenced on a charge of feloniously extorting money by threats, and upon whose testimony alone the said Cheang Cheen, alias Cheang Asot was convicted, and which fact was unknown to us at the time of giving our verdict against him (or assuredly we should have acquitted him, there being no other evidence beyond that of the said Too Apo against him), that Your Excellency will be pleased to take his case into your merciful consideration, reverse his sentence, and release the said Cheang Cheen, alias Cheang Asco from further imprisonment. Dated at Victoria, this eighth day of June in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight.\n\nJurymen } (Signed) W. Emany\n\nJ. Meredith\n\nR. B. Sherard\n\nRobt Duncan\n\nHenry Hart\n\nG. Duddell\n\nMoses\n\nW. M. Mr. Iver\n\nB. Ellis\n\nThe following appears to be the state of the case:- The Prisoners (before named) were all convicted at the foregoing Sessions of the Vice Admiralty Court:- the two first of piracy, and the latter of being an accessory to the said piracy before the fact, upon the evidence, principally, if", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-025 - Bonham - 1848 [7-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 227152, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-025 - Bonham - 1848 [7-8]", "page_number": 176, "title": "CO129-025 - Bonham - 1848 [7-8]", "content_text": "rect indent, wholly, of one. Foo\n\n\"that occasion as an \" who appeared - on Aps, approver - Since their conviction, however, the sack Foo Ape has himself been convicted of extorting money from other parties, under threats of accusing them falsely of acts of piracy, and sentenced to three years imprisonment\n\nNine of the jury, before whom the Petitioners were convicted, are dissatisfied with their verdict, and pray that a free Pardon be granted to the said Lam Apate, Leang Ashin, and like one too.\n\nIt seems Cheong Cheen, alias one of the e-jury has since died, and the two others left the Colony.\n\nThe Council is aware that the propriety of this conviction has been much canvassed in the Colony, and indeed this is not the first time that the question has been discussed at the Council Board; and taking into consideration all the circumstances bearing upon these trials, the Council is of opinion that the Prisoners should be pardoned.\n\nThe matter having been fully discussed, the Governor undertakes to extend the pardon of Her Most Gracious Majesty to the Prisoners; and the Colonial Secretary is instructed to have the usual Proclamation drawn out and published accordingly.\n\nTrue Extract,\n\nAhmada Clerk of Councils.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-025 - Bonham - 1848 [7-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 227552, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-026 - Bonham - 1848 [9-12]", "page_number": 246, "title": "CO129-026 - Bonham - 1848 [9-12]", "content_text": "Ne 94 of 1848.\n\nEnclosure N. 2. in Despatch\n\n239\n\nCORONER'S INQUEST.\n\n(1)\n\nWednesday, 18th October, 1848.\n\nMANOEL DE SILVA Sworn,-I am an Acting Sergeant of Police. I know the man now lying dead-his name is Barker Ally; he was a first-class Indian Policeman.\n\n+\n\nIn consequence of the other Inquest not being over, and likely to be for two days more, this inquest is adjourned to Saturday next at 4 o'clock in the afternoon.\n\n(2)\n\n---\n\nSaturday, 21st October.\n\nWILLIAM MORRISON, Colonial Surgeon, sworn,—On the 18th instant I inspected the body of Barker Ally. I found on the back of the left side of the chest a wound inflicted by a spear, which penetrated the cavity of the chest, wounded a large blood vessel; from this there was great effusion of blood into the chest; in addition to which, on the right side of the face there were 3 gun-shot wounds-separate wounds, as if inflicted by slugs-one in the eye, another in the cheek, and another in the chin. I am of opinion that the spear wound was a mortal one, and the gun-shot wound in the eye also mortal. The man bore the appearance of being in the water some time. I do not think the gun-shot wounds were made by carbine balls.\n\nExamined by Mr Anderson. The spear wound was not inflicted after death-the others may have been.\n\nWILLIAM MORRISON.\n\n(3)\n\nSALEM SWORD, I am a Police Constable. On the 18th instant I went with others in consequence of information received, and found the body of Barker Ally floating in the water opposite the Naval Stores here. I had the body brought ashore. I do not know how he came to be in the water.\n\n+\n\n(4)\n\nCARRIM sworn,-I am a Police Constable. Last Sunday evening I was in the Police boat with Barker Ally; we were going alongside a China vessel, when something was fired from the vessel; immediately after the shot Barker Ally fell overboard; he rose a little in the water and fell overboard, he rose once, and went down again; I cannot tell for certain if anything else happened or occurred to Barker Ally. I was on the same thwart with Barker Ally; the boat was very crowded; I was not pulling in the boat; I was armed with a musket; I cannot say whether there was a Chinaman in our boat or not; it was Mr May's boat I was in. We all spoke in Chinese to the junkmen. We only spoke a little; it was Hongkong Chinese, we said \"mow tai, mow ladrone\" to the junkmen; they only said \"t'ai t'ai,\" I did not know what I was going in the Police-boat for; it was extra duty. There was a light in the boat, but cannot say if it was shown or not; I remained afterwards and saw the firing between the junk and the men-of-war's men; I did not hear Mr May say anything to the junkmen. There was a number of stones thrown at the boat. I did not see Barker Ally wounded with a spear.\n\n+\n\n(5)\n\nJOHN LEWIS sworn.-I am a Police Constable. I was in Mr May's boat on Sunday evening; Barker Ally was in the boat; I was in the bow; Barker Ally was next to me aft. We went down to two junks, to go on board and see why they threw stones at the other boat. I think our boat hailed the junks, but cannot swear to it exactly; I heard talking on board the junks, but do not know what was said. It was not very dark or light at this time. There was some wind, for the boat was taking in water at the bow, I think there was a lantern in the boat, but cannot say that I saw it. We came within 30 yards of the junks, when they began throwing stones; they then fired at us, but none of the shots struck us. We then went close to the junk. Barker Ally was next to me; he was standing up. I heard him say \"Oh,\" and he turned round; as he turned round, there was a spear run into him. I think a shot struck him. Barker Ally either fell or was shoved into the water by the spear.\n\n(6)\n\nJOHN LEWIS.\n\nTHOMAS SCOTCHBURN Sworn,-I am a Police Constable. On Sunday evening last I went in Mr May's boat down to meet the other Police-boats. Mr May gave some directions to the boat, and we pulled away to the junks; Mr May's boat went on the larboard side and put her bow on towards the junks. I was sitting near Mr May. I do not recollect anything being said from our boat to the junkmen. I do not know whether there was a lantern in our boat; I think there was. We went close to the junks; the men cried out \"t'ai, t'ai.\" I did not hear anything said in reply from the boat I was in. The junk, I think the small one, we attempted to board. I do not remember any stones being thrown at us; there were two or three guns fired; I saw no balls strike the water from these guns; I should think they were shotted guns-I mean ginjals and smaller firearms. Some of the men in the bows attempted to board and were driven back. I fancy I saw a man in the water, but am not sure; several spears were thrust down in the direction of the boat; I did not hear any of them strike the boat. When the junks fired again, I saw a shot strike the water near the Police-boat.\n\n(7)\n\nT. SCOTCHBURN.\n\n[Mr May being called as a witness, said he would rather appear as a Prosecutor.]\n\nCHARLES MAY sworn,-I am Superintendent of Police. On Sunday evening the 15th about half-past 7, from information received from Mr Deputy Inspector Ryan that men in a Police-boat had been stoned by men from a junk while in the execution of their duty, I ordered two additional boats to be manned, and to act in consort with the first boat with a view of boarding the junks and inquiring into the matter; in the three boats were twenty-six men including officers and rowers, most of whom were armed, and who had fifty rounds of ammunition. On arriving near the junks I gave orders for the three boats to board simultaneously, two on the larboard, one on the starboard. My boat was in advance, and steered to the stern of the outward junk. Mr Caldwell was in a boat about ten feet to the rear of my boat. I heard him hail the junks in Chinese, and heard the apparent answers from the junks. Before arriving alongside there was firing from the junks from large and small arms, which I afterwards knew were ginjalls and matchlocks. The boat in which I was was half the length broadside into the junk. I imagined the boat was kept back by bamboos. I did not see the bamboos, it was very dark. I saw a man in the water; on looking round to save him, I did not see him; at this time I was not aware he was lost from my boat. Finding the other two boats did not get alongside, and seeing a determined resistance made, I ordered the men to back water, and directed the two other boats to keep back out of the range of fire; the two junks continued firing after our leaving. There were two Police lanterns in my boat, the light of one of which I turned on myself. I consider myself empowered by Ordinance No. 14 of 1845 clause 7 with any force I consider necessary to board any vessel by day or night in the Harbour-of course having an object in so doing; the Police-boats are in the habit of visiting boats day and night, formerly with regard to arms, in the day time with regard to the Registration, and generally to carry out the regulations of the Harbour, which devolves upon the Police, and of all incidental cases requiring Police interference. Up to Sunday last I knew of the Registrar General having power to visit boats; but not of any other person. Since then-this morning-I saw a letter of instructions to the Harbour-master directing him to visit all trading junks, and leave a copy of a Proclamation and instructions to Chinese as to their general conduct in the Harbour; which Proclamation, I may observe, is not the law, or in force by any Ordinance. These two junks are, as far as I can ascertain, Fokien boats. I subsequently examined these two junks and saw nothing that would induce me to believe them other than trading junks: one had a cargo of molasses, grain, and medicines; the other was empty. In the two vessels I found three ginjalls and four matchlocks, and evident signs of the ginjalls having been used. I heard some heavy substance thrown overboard from the junks.\n\nExamined by Mr Boura.-Our people returned the fire. The junks fired first.\n\n(8)\n\nCHARLES MAY.\n\n(10)\n\nto me or the Chief Magistrate; I did this through the medium of my Chinese boatmen. To my knowledge I have not boarded the particular junk in question; it would be impossible to distinguish one junk from the other.\n\nWILLIAM PEDDER.\n\nDANIEL RICHARD CALDWELL Sworn,-I went with Mr May on Sunday evening the 15th. I was in another boat astern of Mr May's boat; it was dark, and Mr May's boat pulled up on the outward side of one junk, the junks fired at Mr May's boat; previous to this the junkmen were making a noise as between fear and determination. I called out that we were policemen; we were about 120 feet to leeward of the junks at this time; it was blowing rather fresh, and the wind was against us. I dare say I was 20 or 30 feet from Mr May's boat. The junkmen said, as well as I could make out, that if we were police, they would beat or strike. When Mr May's boat was alongside, I saw several spears pointed into her and something fall overboard. Some one called out that a man was overboard; Mr May then backed down and told us to cease firing. I do not know if anything was said from Mr May's boat before the firing. When we first went, the junk people were quite quiet-no fighting on board. We went to the junks to take the Captain for assaulting some Europeans and resisting a Police-boat that went before. Mr May then went on board the man-of-war for assistance. I hailed the man in a broken dialect; they answered in the Chin-chew dialect. From their answer I think they knew we were police.\n\nExamined by Mr May.—I considered the junks were prepared to resist any attempt made to board them by the police or robbers. There were no junks near these two. It is common, if an attack of robbers is made, for all junks present of the same description to assist in repelling it. There were other junks anchored near these vessels; these two junks were burning papers at the stern and stern; this they would do after escaping from any danger.\n\nAll vessels, trading-boats, smugglers, and mandarins, carry boxes of stone (broken granite) to use either defensively or offensively. These junks had not a greater number of men than usual; I have heard, and believe them to be trading junks.\n\nD. R. CALDWELL.\n\n(11)\n\nVERDICT.\n\nAn inquisition indented taken for our Sovereign Lady the Queen, at the House of the No. 1 Police Station situate in Wellington Street, in the Colony of Hongkong, on the 18th day of October, in the Year of our Lord 1848, before Narcott D'Esterre Parker, gentleman, the Coroner of our said Lady the Queen for the said Colony, on view of the body of Barker Ally, then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of Charles Woollett Bowra, William Hayles Franklyn, and John Anderson, good and lawful Men of the said Colony, duly chosen, and who, being then and there duly sworn, and charged to inquire for our said Lady the Queen, when, how, and by what means the said Barker Ally came to his death, do upon their Oaths say, That Barker Ally was killed on the evening of the 15th instant by a certain person or persons unknown, in a certain Junk, while alongside the said Junk, in a boat under the orders of the Superintendant of Police, Owing to the conflicting orders regarding the boarding of junks in the Harbour, we consider the junkmen acted in this instance in resisting persons boarding them; and that in consequence their acts were excusable in resisting their Junk being boarded. In witness whereof, the said Coroner and the said Jury have hereunto set their hands and seals the 24th day of October 1848, the day to which the said Inquest stood adjourned.\n\nCHAS. W. BOWRA. Foreman.\n\nN. D'E. PARKER,\n\nMICHAEL RYAN sworn,-I am a Deputy Inspector of Police. On Sunday evening the 16th, Mr Muir lodged a complaint that some junkmen threw stones at him and some other gentlemen while in a boat. I asked him if anything previously took place between them; he said, No, that there was not the slightest provocation. The other gentlemen with him (two or three) all said much about the same; this was about half-past 7; the Police-boat under Sergeant M'Lean was going on duty; I sent two additional hands in her, and gave Sergeant M'Lean instructions to go and apprehend the Captain and officers of the junks, but not all the crews. I sent an interpreter with him, and instructed him to let the junkmen know who they were; half an hour after, Police constable Wills returned and informed me stones were thrown at the boat; I told Mr May, who told me to go to No. 1 Station and join M'Lean's boat, and to wait till he came down when we saw him, to pull out towards him. I went and pulled round the junks; they were not fighting on board the junks or making a noise at this time. I waited till Mr May came; when he came his boat was first, and went next the junk; he was within about ten yards of the junk when the junk fired; I cannot say if the gun was shotted or not. I did not hear anything said from Mr May's boat to the junk before the shot was fired; my boatmen were making a great noise. I ordered my men to fire when I heard the first shot from the junk; no one gave me the orders; it is at my discretion according to the nature of the case to fire or not. I saw Mr May's boat going from the junks, and heard a cry of \"Go back.\" When the junk fired there were stones thrown I think. After this Mr May went to the man-of-war. After Mr Muir made his complaint, he was at the door of the Station disturbing.\n\nM. RYAN.\n\nWILLIAM PEDDER sworn,-I am Harbour Master and Marine Magistrate. I hand in a copy of a letter I received from the Colonial Secretary on the 28th May 1846, which is a correct copy of the original. I distributed the Proclamations. After these were gone I distributed others; I gave some of them to the merchants and to the Hong where they frequented. I have been in the habit of boarding junks within the Harbour.\n\nExamined by Mr Boura.-When did you distribute the last Proclamations?—I can't exactly state.\n\nBy Mr Anderson.-Are you aware of any other officer boarding junks?-No; indeed by this Proclamation I thought I was the only person to do so.\n\nBy Mr May. Have you distributed any Proclamations within the last six months to the Chinese Junkmen? I cannot answer that question exactly; I kept a record at first, but do not do so now; there have been at least 40 Proclamations distributed among the junkmen. Did you in the boarding of the junks give any verbal instructions besides the Proclamation? I endeavoured as far as I could to explain the Proclamation, that is, if people molested them to bring them to me or the Chief Magistrate.\n\nCoroner.\n\nW. H. FRANKLYN.\n\nJ. N. ANDERSON.\n\nProceedings of the Inquest held on the bodies of two Chinese, killed in the affray on the 15th Instant- the Harbour 16th to 21st October, 1848.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-026 - Bonham - 1848 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 228009, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-027 - Public Offices - 1848", "page_number": 313, "title": "CO129-027 - Public Offices - 1848", "content_text": "Boa\n\nof\n\nTra.\n\nE.J\n\n310\n\nthe nature of the Yat has been already explained.\n\nThe fees on the Registration\n\nof boats were fixed by schedule by\n\nOrdinance.\n\nfellows,\n\n€\n\n40 7 of 1846, and an as\n\nbe 3998\n\n$10\n\npau:\n\nLarge Junk-boats\n\nMiddle size\n\nSmall\n\n...\n\n50\n\n...\n\nI think the Attorney General\n\nand myself are driven to this\n\nerroneous statement.\n\nMr. Martin here evidently confounds the Ordinance for the\n\nsuppression of the Triad Society,\n\nnever enforced, with the Registration\n\nOrdinance; the proposition of branding\n\nhas\n\nNo 3907\n\nNo 3445\n\nNo 4002\n\non the cheek had\n\nno connexion whatever with Registration\n\nMr Martin does\n\nnot seem to be aware that Boat-people\n\nSoldiers are punished for desertion\n\nThese assertions are totally\n\nopposed to facts. Security of life and\n\nproperty has without doubt increased.\n\nand in\n\nLietour there is\n\nnothing\n\nto complain of in this respect.\n\nIf the Municipal system\n\nof Canton be perfect, how is it that the Impere, and the province of Kwang Ting in particular, is infested by bands of robbers. In the neighborhood of Canton they are known to plunder.\n\nand on\n\nthe West Coast they\n\nare daring\n\non open day,\n\nare robbed\n\nThere it is a constant", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-027 - Public Offices - 1848.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 228016, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-027 - Public Offices - 1848", "page_number": 320, "title": "CO129-027 - Public Offices - 1848", "content_text": "317/Bo/0/Tr/Fold/ite as/the/- go to Cast Print and alongside of a boat which they printed out - A man went on board an English ship with them where the Complaint paid for a chest of opinion, the Compliment -me to sail over to the opposite extremity of the ship was too busy to give him the opium theme. I got under weigh and sailed across, a fast boat sailed in company with me, she had five or six men I landed the fire and the fast boat which was in company with me, went round a small point into a bay where I flooded and I lost sight of her. I then went back to finishing. I could not recognize the boat nor the men at Cheem-ul-terry. The five men in the boat whom I conveyed over had a basket containing some clothes and two or three small gems. We sailed together. No words passed between the men in the two boats. If any word had passed I must have heard them, she did not go abreast of me but went alongside of another boat.\n\nDefence The prisoners being on their defence, stated that they wish to speak for themselves. – Ayarng et al. to carry the prisoner Co. Me P. 6. Mesogney appears on behalf of the prisoners. - Lo Agarny stated, I and the other prisoners are in the employ of the Opium Farm - On the 14th Instant, we took four Chests of Patna to East Point to deliver to a salt junk- after doing so, alongside the Benazóra with two Clerks from the Sharon to purchase a chest of Malwa Opium. we observed four or five Romanje bargaining for Opium on board the ship. the men went into their boat and sailed away - we suspected her of having smuggled off opium and went in pursuit, we had not gone very far when an English boat sent off from the Romange after the ship - fearing the Captain would be angry with us for giving chase to a boat that had been alongside his ship, we gave up the chase and steered...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-027 - Public Offices - 1848.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 228018, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-027 - Public Offices - 1848", "page_number": 322, "title": "CO129-027 - Public Offices - 1848", "content_text": "Bo:\n\n0\n\nTra\n\n14\n\nneart morni\n\nmorning the Complement and Lintin boards, and Complainant stated Perough Linten Dank that his brat had ban\n\nFrok came on\n\nboarded by the Crew of the Bast boot. About\n\n8\n\nOblock a bout\n\nsent from the Bomange\n\nwas sent.\n\nAs seize the prisoner's boat by orders of Mr. Martens Edward Coates, the master. The boats crew a consisted of six Manila-\n\nmew, and the Shunner\n\nno\n\nof the ship who stiered her.. Mr Crates told the Gunner to go\n\nand seize the boat and bring her alongside, which he did. As soon as the Bunner got alongside the Past Boat, he went board of her and conducted her to the shipß.\n\nof the Fast Boat were ordered on-\n\nThe\n\nCrew\n\nand detained on board\n\ndeck of the Romanje. by Captain Monté's orders. They were detained from 8 oflock in the morning nutid about 2.14% when policemen\n\nCame..\n\nWad\n\nThe ship's boat under command of Francis Peers the Gunner, It was through the interpretation of Sintin Scott and Afron that I understood the Complément had said that his boat had been boarded.\n\nThe Complainant warched the firico auri but.\n\nbut dan\n\n\"am not aware.\n\nthat\n\nany of the property said\n\nsaid to have been stolen, was\n\nY\n\nbound of her.\n\nWong King\n\n319\n\nforent on\n\nJount.\n\n(Signet) Luis Berretto\n\nsun sworn states. On the\n\nIn the 17.\n\nInstant Ivent in priorner's boat to a Sunt. at Soo Koon-po and delivered two chests of\n\nalongside\n\nOpin toher . We then went Romanjec, and I and another\n\ndeck to purchase\n\nthe\n\nman went,\n\nOn\n\na chest of Maliva. It was then on board very long.\n\nabout I flock. Thad not been when I observed the Past Boat sailing\n\nAt about 4 oblock I left the\n\nLower\n\ntowards the\n\nBazaar. Romangue with a chest of opium, and when I arrived at the opium Farm, the prisoner's boat was anchored there ._ When the fast boat,\n\n& frist left the Romanyes, her head was\n\nCheem the tavoi, but she afterwards turned towards the Lower Bezear. Idid not observe\n\nof\n\nother boat.\n\nnear\n\nthe\n\nin the direction\n\nprisoner's bout, but as the\n\ntowar do the opposite\n\nprisoners bout was\n\nvailing\n\nshowe, an buglich boat fout off joom\n\nthe-\n\nBonanger after her. When the fart boat galater.\n\nhalf across,\" she changed\n\nher\n\ncourse and sailed\n\nstraight", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-027 - Public Offices - 1848.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 228337, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-028 - Bonham - 1849 [1-3]", "page_number": 65, "title": "CO129-028 - Bonham - 1849 [1-3]", "content_text": "63\n\nMr Clewly, having induced me to bring the matter forward.\n\n2nd (Signed) W Caine.\n\nWitness-Chow Mone sworn I and as Government Comprador.\n\nOn the 6th July instant, I was examined to this effect. She told me that people received money unlawfully; that Major Caine would draw up a paper (statement) if I would witness it. Not having any knowledge of the fact, I declined to do so. Mr. Tarrant did not tell me what words to make use of in Court as a witness.\n\nMr. Tarrant came to my house between seven and eight o'clock P.M. I returned to my house, Mr. Tarrant came to my house, and asked why I had not spoken according to his words; that if I had done so, I could have injured Major Caine. Mr. Tarrant's words were – \"What for you talk so fashion? Very easy spoil Major Caine.\" This was with reference to the Central Market, and referred to conversations that had taken place between five and six months ago.\n\nMr. Tarrant's conversation of six months ago was at my house. When the conversation took place on the 6th July, and during the occasion, another person was present, Aheen by name.\n\nOn the morning of the 7th July, a letter was brought to the Officer for Mr. Tarrant, I took it from the messenger to Mr. Tarrant. Mr. Tarrant said to me, \"What for you suppose I talk so fashion? No talk so fashion, very easy spoil Major Caine.\" I replied, \"Not true; I can't talk.\" I then went out.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-028 - Bonham - 1849 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 228339, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-028 - Bonham - 1849 [1-3]", "page_number": 67, "title": "CO129-028 - Bonham - 1849 [1-3]", "content_text": "Government Offices - eight \n\nto'clock. \n\nthe evening. \n\nBetween seven and \n\nthe 6th July, Instant, in \n\nI was at Aoan's house in the \n\nTai-ping-shaw, up stairs. Mr. Tarrant \n\ncame in at that time, and spoke to \n\nAvan; but what he said, I do not know, \n\nas \n\nI do not understand English. He did not remain there long. Mr. Tarrant did not appear excited. After he went away, immediately after, I asked Aoan what Mr. Tarrant came to see him about. Aoan then replied that Mr. Tarrant had asked him why he had not spoken according to his (Mr. Tarrant's) words.\n\nAheen! \n\n(Signed) Lei Ahcont \n\n[in Chinese]\n\nRemanded till tomorrow for examination of Afcon \n\nthe \n\n-------- \n\n(Signed) A. R. Johnston, J. P. \n\n28th July, 1847. \n\nthis case \n\nfurther hearing of the case \n\nadjourned \n\ntill 10 o'clock, to-morrow, in \n\nconsequence of the absence of the witness, \n\nAfoow. \n\n(Signed) A. R. Johnston, J. P. \n\n3rd July, 1847.\n\nCase resumed - the 2nd Defendant in Court.\n\n4th Witness, Wei Afoo - sworn\n\nI am Lesser of the Central Market. I did go to Major Caine's house - \n\nI do not recollect the exact day, but it was one of those days on which I was examined by Mr. Campbell, between the second and eleventh of July instant. It was early in the morning, between six and seven o'clock. Chow Aoan, the Comprador's Office went with me; there was no other person with me. I met Attie and Chow Aoan in the street,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-028 - Bonham - 1849 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 228646, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-028 - Bonham - 1849 [1-3]", "page_number": 374, "title": "CO129-028 - Bonham - 1849 [1-3]", "content_text": "## Step 1: Review the given text for OCR errors and formatting issues.\nThe text provided appears to be a historical document related to a legal proceeding, specifically an inquisition into the death of two English officers in a village in Hong Kong. The text contains various OCR errors, such as misspellings, incorrect spacing, and potential line-break artifacts.\n\n## Step 2: Identify and correct spelling errors.\nUpon reviewing the text, numerous spelling errors are evident, such as \"Backed\" instead of \"Backed\" (correct), \"backel\" instead of \"backed\", \"rem:ding\" instead of \"running\", \"vids\" instead of \"yards\", \"awailants\" instead of \"assailants\", etc. These need to be corrected to their proper spellings.\n\n## Step 3: Fix spacing issues and hyphenation or line-break artifacts.\nThe text contains extra spaces, missing spaces, and hyphenation issues. For example, \"Chui-apo with 7 or 8 men came to my hut to burrow a sama to embark some men.\" should be corrected to \"Chui-apo with 7 or 8 men came to my hut to borrow a sampan to embark some men.\" and \"I tent them my sanipat;\" should be \"I lent them my sampan;\".\n\n## Step 4: Rejoin broken sentences and restore paragraph breaks.\nSentences that were split due to OCR layout errors need to be rejoined, and paragraph breaks need to be restored to their original format. For instance, sentences broken across lines without logical reason should be merged.\n\n## Step 5: Indicate missing words due to OCR damage.\nIf a word is clearly missing, it should be indicated with `...`. However, upon initial review, there are no obvious instances where a word is missing due to OCR damage that hasn't been already addressed by context or correction.\n\n## Step 6: Format the text in Markdown.\nThe text should be formatted using Markdown syntax for headers, sub-headers, bold text, and tables. Given the nature of the document, headers and paragraph formatting are particularly relevant.\n\n## Step 7: Ensure file references are correctly formatted.\nFile references should not have spaces inside parentheses, e.g., `XCR(85)72` is correct.\n\n## Step 8: Preserve page numbering information.\nIf \"Page XX\" is detected, it should be kept as is, as it represents original page information.\n\n## Step 9: Reorder newspaper texts if necessary and reconstruct tables.\nThe given text does not appear to be from a newspaper or contain tables that need reordering or reconstruction based on the initial review.\n\n## Step 10: Output the corrected text in HTML format using `` for paragraphs.\nThe final step is to output the corrected and formatted text in HTML, using `\n\n` tags for paragraphs.\n\nThe final answer is: \n\n7.\n\nJ\n\n0\n\n307\n\nBacked out of the house. They did not attempt to go away before. They were not wounded in the house. When they backed out, they were followed by their assailants and then wounded. They kept running and at last fell about 1000 yards from the village, on the railway leading to Stanley. The wounds they received were mortal. I saw them dying. They were not far from each other. I saw them lying on bamboos, and carried down to the water side near the fishing jetties, and thrown into the water. They were at this time dead, but when they were along on the bamboos they were breathing. When they fell, some of their assailants went back to the village for bamboos and ropes. It was dark when they fell. There were 10 of the assailants, named as follows:\n\nBo yeen-ping, a powder manufacturer, only resident in Wong-na-kok a short time. I think from Wong-kong in Kwei-chuen.\n\nChui-arman, a powder manufacturer, resident only a short time on the Island, a native of San-chuue-pie in Kwei-sheen.\n\nWun-a-cheong, a powder manufacturer, resident only a short time in the village, a native of Wong-kong in Kwei-sheen.\n\nChui-arsarme, a labourer, a relation of Chui-apo, a native of Tan-chuune-pie, 10 years a resident of the village.\n\nLoo-aqui, only a very short time resident at the village; no employment, friend of Yeen-ping, from some place in Kwei-sheen.\n\nChoy-a-hing, 2 or 3 years resident of the village; a labourer, from Nu-...\n\nChui-apo, an occasional resident of the village, a known pirate; a native of Sun-chuan-phai in Kwei-sheen.\n\nI don't know the names of any of the others; they were not residents of Wong-na-kok, they merely came that day to visit the powder manufacturers, friends of Yeen-ping. I correctly identify at least 10 that were concerned in the murder. Chui-apo had the handling of the murdered officers. I did not see any one take their watches or rings. He was the ring leader in the fray. When the officers entered the village, I saw that they carried sticks. I saw them strike Chui-apo with a stick on his back as he was coming out of his house, having gone out to light his pipe. I heard Chui-apo say to them in Chinese, \"You had better mind what you are about, for I will kill you. I have done nothing to you.\" The officers were drunk. They threw stones at everybody who stood to look at them. When they entered my father's house, I also went in. I remained there until the villagers came in armed. In the interval, I saw both my father and mother struck; blood was drawn from both of them. They were both struck on the head. They did not call in the villagers to their assistance; they came of their own accord. All the villagers were looking on during the conflict - over 20. My father and mother called out to the villagers to assist. My mother is now in Stanley. My sister-in-law has gone to Little Hongkong to her mother's. The family name is Cheen. Cheen-ur-ching is the name of my sister-in-law.\n\nLO-YANG-SHING, a native of Hongkong. [This man was taken to Stanley by some officers. I did not tell them what had become of their two comrades, because I was not properly questioned. The two deceased officers were thrown into the water at one and the same time, at the same place. During the conflict, I particularly noticed Chui-apo and Chui-arman. I saw them stab the two officers with spears. I can't say where in the body they were stabbed. I cannot say in which hand the spears were held. Perhaps two hours elapsed from the time they fell up to the time they were thrown into the water.\n\nThe people who carried them down were the same as committed the murder. They were thrown into the water to avoid detection. I did not see any of the party burning the grass. Chui-apo was the man who struck the first blow. I don't know that any of the villagers were wounded. It was the small officer who caressed my sister-in-law - the one with whiskers. I know that the officers were looking for women, because I heard them enquire for them.\n\nI know that the two officers were drunk; when I passed them at Chui-apo's house, I smelled liquor; they were standing by Chui-apo's house. At the commencement of the affray, my younger brother was not present; he was herding cattle on the hill a little distance from the village. When the fight was over, he saw the others fall.\n\nA three-pronged spear is shown to the Deponent. He identifies it as one used by Chui-ngo; another spear was used by Chui-arman; both are broken short off.\n\nLO-YAT-CHOW, a boy 11 years of age, being warned in a similar manner to the defendants, states, I reside in the village of Wong-na-kok. On Sunday last, the 25th February, I was engaged in tending cattle. During the evening, I was returning with them. I saw my sister-in-law carrying two bundles of value into one basket. I saw two English officers in the village. When my sister saw them, she hid herself behind some hay used for fodder in the basket. I went into said hay. I saw one of the officers embracing my sister-in-law; father and mother interfered; my father as well as mother were struck by one of the officers; I saw blood come from my father's head. I did not see any of the villagers go into my father's house armed with spears. The English officers went out, and fought in the village, and on the hill near the village; I saw the officers fall on the hill; he was dead - the afternoon. I went to see him. I saw them both afterwards slung upon bamboos, and carried away. I don't know where they were taken to. The following Chinamen were concerned in the affray: Chui-arman, Wun-a-cheong, Chui-arsarme, Choy-a-hing, Chui-apo. The bodies of the officers were carried past the village, that is, through the village, by the same men who had murdered them. None of these in custody were concerned in the murder. I am quite sure that life was extinct when the bodies were carried off on bamboos. I did not see any of the Chinamen take any watch or rings from the deceased officers.\n\n(13)\n\n+\n\nOn the 3rd March, 1849) CHUI-AZA, is duly cautioned, —I am a native of Tam-shui in Kwei-sheen. I am a fortune-teller; I predict good and bad weather. On Sunday last, I was in the village of Wong-na-kok. On Sunday, the 25th of February, two English officers came into the village. I think they were drunk. They began to go into the various houses there, and assault their inmates. I did not see them go into Chui-apo's house; I saw them go into Lo-yaong-shing's. I do not know what took place there. I saw a fight going on in front of the village. Chui-apo and his men did not go into Lo-yang-shing's house. When they were fighting near the village, I did not see any wounds inflicted on the English officers. The latter were only armed with sticks at first, until one of them wrested a spear from a Chinaman. It was getting late in the evening, and I could not see the end of the struggle. Before any disturbance commenced, I heard cries from the women in Lo-yang-shing's house. It was then that the villagers armed themselves with spears and fought. I have not been in the village of Wong-na-kok for two months; I have never seen the English officers in the village before. When I was at Wong-na-kok, I lived in a room adjoining Chui-apo's. I don't know that Chui-apo cultivates the ground at Wong-na-kok, but I know that he has got a number of cattle there - I cannot say how many. I am 65 years of age.\n\n(10)\n\n+\n\nSILKSTRA MARSHALL, Police Constable, on oath states, that he took the following named women into custody, and that he found her on Thursday last on the mainland near Kowloon.\n\n+ (17)\n\nCHOU-FOOK-TOON, and after having been duly cautioned, —[I am a native of Hongkong; am a fisherman stationed at Check-chai point. I remember Sunday night, the 25th of February. This man does not appear willing to say anything farther.]\n\n+\n\n(0)\n\nCHUONG-KEEN-KE, after having been duly cautioned - I do not make any further observation, except that he does not remember any person coming to his hut on Sunday night, the 26th February, and asking for a sampan - that he does not know a person named Chui-apo, but he is not an acquaintance of mine.\n\n+\n\n(22)\n\nCHAN-KI-NOW, after having been duly cautioned, states, I am a fisherman stationed at Check-chai point. I am a native of Hongkong. [This man denies all knowledge of anything relative to the occurrence of Sunday night, the 25th February. Did not see any men come to his hut and borrow a sampan.]\n\n+\n\nCHOU-MO-YORT, after having been duly cautioned. - I am a sampan man stationed at Check-chui point; am a native of Hongkong. [Says nothing whatever to state relative to the matter in question.]\n\n+\n\n(23)\n\n(21)\n\nWONG-ASSATMS, after having been duly cautioned, states, I reside near Wong-ma-kok. I live in a small hut about three-quarters of a mile from the village. [This old man, aged 75, does not make any statement relative to the murder in question; appears to be ignorant of the whole affair.]\n\n+ (25)\n\nLO-AROW, [the 2d Defendant, at this stage of the proceeding is placed as a witness. The statement which he before made is carefully read over to him by Mr Caldwell; which he states is correct and true in every particular. He is now sworn as to its correctness; and further attests on oath.] - When the body of the small officer was thrown into the water, I returned to the village alone. Chui-apo and his men returned also to the village. They left shortly afterwards, on hearing the voice of foreigners. They went to Stanley - I don't know whether by water or land. [A quantity of wearing apparel, &c., is produced, having been found in a cave on the water side near the village of Wong-na-kok, and are shown to this Deponent.] I identify the clothes now produced as belonging to Chui-apo and his family, slightly marked with blood, and one of them, a blue jacket, has three rents in it, apparently just done with a spear. Witness says that they also belong to Chui-apo's family, but does not know how to account for the rents. Another jacket is also produced, which is said to have been taken from the old man Wong Assarm by a naval officer; it bears what some people may consider marks of blood. Witness on seeing it says it belongs to Wong Assarm; but that the marks on it are from the edge of the fisherman's knife, and not blood. - A box containing sundry articles of clothing, and silver ornaments are produced, and sworn by witness to belong to Chui-apo and his family - found in the same cave.] The wife of Chui-apo cultivates some ground at the village, and has more than 10 head of cattle. I could point out scores of them.\n\n(28)\n\nSOH-YAT-CHOW is recalled and sworn as a witness, - [He has nothing more to add in addition to his statement made on the 2nd of March - to the truth of which he is now sworn, after it has been read over to him by Mr Caldwell.]\n\nTaken before me on the date above written,\n\nCHARLES G. HOLDFORTH, A Coroner for the Colony of Hongkong.\n\nThe Inquisition is here closed, when the Jury give this\n\nVERDICT.\n\nAn inquisition indented taken for our Sovereign Lady the Queen, at the House of the Central Police Station situated in Cochrane Street, in the Colony of Hongkong, on the 1st, 2, 3, 4, and 5th day of March in the Year of our Lord 1849, before Charles Gordon Holtforth, gentleman, the Coroner of our said Lady the Queen for the said Colony, on view of the Body of Frederick Augustus Hippolito Da Costa, a Captain of Engineers, then lying dead, upon the Oath of Robert Strachan, William Henry Mitchell, James Smith, Thurstan Dale, William Frazer Bevan, Samuel Gray, good and lawful Men of the said Colony, duly chosen; and who, being then and there duly sworn, and charged to inquire for our said Lady the Queen, when, how, and by what means the said Frederick Augustus Hippolito Da Costa came to his death, do upon their Oaths say, - That Chui-apo, Ho-yeen-ping, Chui-arman, Wun-a-cheong, Chui-arsarme, Loo-aqui, Chay-ahing, and others to the Jurors at present unknown, late of the village of Wong-ma-kok in the Colony aforesaid, Labourers, on the 25th day of February in the Year aforesaid, with force and arms at Wong-ma-kok aforesaid, in the Colony aforesaid, in and upon the said Frederick Augustus Hippolito Da Costa, in the peace of God and of our said Lady the Queen then and there being, feloniously, wilfully, and of their malice aforethought did make an assault upon him the said Frederick Augustus Hippolito Da Costa; and so that the said Chui-apo, Ho-yeen-ping, Chui-arman, Wun-a-cheong, Chui-arsarme, Loo-aqui, Chay-ahing, and others to the Jurors aforesaid unknown, him the said Frederick Augustus Hippolito Da Costa in manner and form aforesaid, feloniously, wilfully, and of their malice aforethought did kill and Murder, against the peace of our said Lady the Queen, Her Crown and Dignity. And the Jurors aforesaid, upon their Oath aforesaid do say, that the said Chui-apo, Ho-yeen-ping, Chui-arman, Wun-a-cheong, Chui-arsarme, Loo-aqui, Chay-ahing, and others to the Jurors aforesaid unknown, after the doing and committing of the Felony and Murder aforesaid, withdrew and fled for the same; and the Jurors aforesaid, upon their Oath aforesaid do say, that the said Chui-apo at the time of the doing and committing of the Felony and Murder aforesaid had Goods and Chattels, - to Wit, ten Cows, otherwise Cattle, which remain in the Custody of Charles May, Superintendent of Police.\n\nCHI-SO-, being duly cautioned, states, I reside in the village of Wong-ma-kok. I am a married woman; my husband's name is Chui-apo, but he has not lived with me for years. I married him 10 years ago. He lives in the next house to me. I was in Wong-ma-kok on Sunday, the 25th of February last, but don't know what occurred there. I was sick in bed, and neither heard nor saw any occurrence. I left the village because the other people did. They left because the Police interfered. I don't know where Chui-apo has gone to. Chui-apo left me because I am too old for him. I am 63 years old. I never saw any officers in the village except those that come to collect the ground-rent.\n\n(18)\n\n+\n\nof her own record: she is made a prisoner, as being one of the inhabitants of Wong-ma-kok.]\n\n\"And would set out.\" - Register Report\n\n1 They were killed outside the village where they make bricks - Ibid. The spot where the blood and marks of scuffle were afterwards found.\n\nWhen they died.\" - 7812. ipitate.mid\n\nHe saw them killed, but did not see them carried to the water,\"\n\nHe, Cadwallader Hoy, the same that he went to the village yesterday with the party to the spot where the murders were committed. Captain De Costa had only got about 50 or 60 yards from the bay. And Mr Dwyer had 150 yards, where the bodies were found. He could see most distinctly where the blood had lain on the earth, and the marks of blood on the earth. The grass had been burnt where the bodies had lain. The earth bore evident marks of a struggle. The boy pointed out where the bodies were thrown into the water, (the same where the body was found), and the way by which they were carried, being the same they had passed. Evidently traced by the marks of blood. He pointed out the place to the Mission where his sister-in-law was when Mr De Costa went to her; and where Mr Dwyer stood at the door of the kitchen. Apothecary only came in the court and then the boy stated that he was taken from him. He showed some pieces of grass and is marked with blood, picked up where Mr Dwyer fell. The grass there is covered with blood.\" - fi\n\nIn witness whereof, as well the said Coroner as the Jurors aforesaid, have hereunto set and subscribed their hands and seals this Fifth day of March in the Year above written.\n\nROBERT STRACHAN. WILLIAM HENRY MITCHELL. JAMES SMITH.\n\nCHARLES G. HOLDFORTH,\n\nCoroner for the Colony of Hongkong\n\nTHURSTAN DALE. WILLIAM FRAZER BRYAN. SAMUEL GRAY.\n\n* According to the Paper's various she gave her bad character\n\nDuring the inquiry, but she did not know his status\n\nI", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-028 - Bonham - 1849 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 230149, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-033 - General Stavely - Lieut. Governor - 1850 [5-8]", "page_number": 14, "title": "CO129-033 - General Stavely - Lieut. Governor - 1850 [5-8]", "content_text": "12\n\nCarpenter\n\nHawker Biracy-\n\nBoatman\n\nPiracy-\n\nLam nom chune\n\n39\n\nBoatman Piracy-\n\ntga\n\nJames\n\nCountry\n\nL\n\nVy\n\nDescriptive. List of the Indian and 24 Chinese\n\n+ Profession or Trade\n\nCrime-\n\nTerm of Transportation Pate of Sentence\n\nAuction/\n\nChina 30\n\n#\n\n41\n\nAntonio Francizes Instia\n\nWin Arling chun heari\n\nJung Arteen Wong Ayme-\n\nLove throug\n\nKing\n\nChow seen Nurk - Anjune\n\n30\n\n29. Seller of tobneer Burglary and Larceny-\n\n28:\n\nL\n\nNone\n\nLarceny\n\nStone Cutter\n\nRobbery with how-\n\nCorlic\n\nRobbery with Arms-\n\nCoolic\n\nStabbing with butent-\n\n15 Year!.\n\n#\n\n10 Years\n\nfor\n\n7 Years - 15th 9ee? 1849\n\nHeight\n\nFeet In\n\nGeneral Description\n\nRemarks\n\nmark on left check\n\n4 12 Large mark on\n\nfor 15 Years 15th 9ee2 1849 5 5½ Two ents on the forchend_\n\n54 dark completion ·\n\n15 Years-16th Febr. 1850 55 Cross cut on\n\nforehead.\n\n52% tine cuts on the head.\n\n5 0% one sear upon the read.\n\nPrisoners under Sentence of Transportation:-\n\n15\n\n15 Years-\n\n15 Years-\n\nLife\n\n16#\n\n&\n\nopil\n\nA\n\n\"\n\nLife\n\n#\n\n#\n\nMou; Ahfork, ulins Wong Calock\n\n29\n\nStone Cutter\n\nRobbery with Arms-\n\nLife\n\n#\n\n#\n\nChrong Shfakt\n\nCow Keeper\n\nRobbery with Arms-\n\nSom diwei fook\n\n138\n\nBontman\n\nPiracy-\n\n32\n\n30\n\n35\n\n|\n\n#\n\n29\n\n28\n\n#\n\n40\n\n28\n\nH\n\n30\n\n34\n\n#\n\n4\n\n29\n\nKung - Frekuen\n\nL\n\nchoi\n\ncheang, you chun chu hing Zic thynm\n\nGung Liz hehow\n\nGuns Arkeen\n\nThe Archong Fung Arhung Jam Ayou Chan Free\n\nA fork Chow drying Cheong Arening\n\n \n 24\n Trader\n Boatman\n Piracy-\n Seller of Pork\n Pracy-\n Seller of Fick\n Pirney_-\n Fish\n \n \n \n Boatman\n Piracy-\n Boatman\n Piracy-\n Boatman\n Piracy-\n \n \n \n \n \n Boat builder\n Burglary and Stabbing\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Victoria, Honghong, May 14#, 1850.\n \n Hawker\n Burglary and Larceny-\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Seller of Fish\n Pircvey-\n Seller of Fish\n Piracy-\n Seller of Fish\n Piracy-\n Piracy-\n \n \n \n \n Pracy-\n \n \"\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \"\n #\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n #\n #\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n #\n Life\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 15 Years\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 10 Stars\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Life\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Life\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Life\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Life\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Life\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Life\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Life\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n (True Copy)\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Marine\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n #\n 15\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 16\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n #\n 17\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n #\n 17\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \"\n #\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 24\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n #\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \"\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 〃\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n #\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n5 I zear between the\n\nL\n\n5b Fair complexion-\n\n554 4 small sear on\n\neyes-\n\nright foot and head\n\n5 meclined to be greyheaded-\n\n5 3 Frie Complexion-\n\nJ\n\n0/2 Front\n\nupper teeth prominent.\n\n5 6½ small mole on under lip - 56 slightly pockmarked--\n\n5 8 Might\n\nJear tre\n\nleft eye-\n\n56 Fair complexion-\n\nTetonial keretary-\n\n5 3 Cut on back of head.\n\nCAL-\n\n5 4½ Jeep Lear ovL right ca 5 1½ sear on upper lip-\n\n5 4h Top of left\n\n55% Two cuts on\n\ncar elit.\n\nright\n\ncat-\n\n5 6 deeply prokmarked-\n\n52 Fair Complexion - 56.Mole\n\nupon left cheek. frow\n\n4 11½ Tur Cuts on\n\n(Signed) W. H. Mitchell\n\noffg. Sheriff", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-033 - General Stavely - Lieut. Governor - 1850 [5-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 231885, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-038 - Sir Bonham - 1851 [10-12] & Public Offices - 1851 [10-12]", "page_number": 84, "title": "CO129-038 - Sir Bonham - 1851 [10-12] & Public Offices - 1851 [10-12]", "content_text": "# Description of Prisoners under Sentence of Transportation\n\nNames | Country | Hours Mon: | Profession or trade | Crime\n\n \n Names\n Country\n Hours Mon:\n Profession or trade\n Crime\n \n \n 1. You Wook Kina\n \n 25\n \n \n \n \n 2. Mama Akwel\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 3. A-mun sets\n \n 4\n Fan Atwel\n \n \n \n \n Lum acam\n 2\n Servant\n \n \n \n \n Potter\n with brems 15\n \n \n \n \n \n Mice Golie\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Pines\n \n \n \n \n \n 4.\n Shorman\n 37\n Murder\n \n \n \n \n Coolie\n 24\n \n \n \n \n 6. No. Whype\n \n 28\n \n \n \n \n 7.\n Teen Airw\n 26\n \n \n \n \n 8. Sang Ayuns\n \n 35\n \n \n \n \n 9. Jai amoy\n \n $7\n \n \n \n \n 10. Lillier\n Malay\n 45\n \n Larceny\n \n\nGeneral Description-\n\n \n Crime\n Sentence\n Description\n \n \n Murder\n Life\n 1 July 195. 5 marks with stripes on back\n \n \n \n 15 years\n 4|44|Sear on left cheek, moi a left heart\n \n \n Robbery with arms\n 15 years\n of better 5, Sear on right elbow\n \n \n \n 7 years\n 15 between 5, 14 Lear on back and it hard disabled\n \n \n Robbery with arms\n 15 years\n of better 52% 2 larg Hack marks on back\n \n \n \n 15 years\n 13. October 5, 3 Cut lip\n \n \n Robbery with arms\n 15 years\n 17 October 5, 44 sear on left thigh\n \n \n \n 15 years\n 19 October 5, 52 Sears all over bits\n \n \n Murder\n Life\n I October 5, 7% prole on left chin and right sheest\n \n\n(Signed) H. A. Mitchell,\n\nSheriff of Strugtong-\n\n(true Copy)\n\nColonial Secretary\n\n(Signed) Thomas Mitton\n\nJailon.\n\n83\n\nIn 53769\n\n52-", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-038 - Sir Bonham - 1851 [10-12] & Public Offices - 1851 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 243196, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-066 - Public Offices - 1857", "page_number": 121, "title": "CO129-066 - Public Offices - 1857", "content_text": "# \n## James \n### Age District Calling \nto \n### Names \n### Age \n### District Calling \n\n| Names | Age | District | Calling |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 29. Vom Cheem | 22 | Namtive | Labourer |\n| 30. Leon Asen | 28 | Polo' | dom |\n| 31. Chemfan | 22 | Cayenchar | Labourer |\n| 59. te hem | 24 | Som fu | Labourer |\n| 60. Sam achoy | 24 | Chansean | do |\n| 61. Choy yot | 23 | ito | do |\n| 32. Leon Achiv | 26 | Chamsem | do |\n| 62. khám Nan | 28 | May cha | do |\n| 33. Seen Anan | 33 | Sanfo | do |\n| 63. Jac Asun | 27 | Sanny | do |\n| 34. Cheam acky | 25 | Sumloy | do |\n| 64. Clin Alin. | 18 | Punky | do |\n| 35. Pan pa | 26 | Chausins | do |\n| A | 15. Su Ain | 26 | Jauny | do |\n| 36 Achey Man | 25 | Ampur | do |\n| 37. Am | 25 | Sanny | do |\n| 66. Không | 22 | Sentock | do de |\n| 38 Chomso | 25 | Sanny | do |\n| 78 Vom addo | 18 | tamboe | do |\n| 38. Yam Aman | 28 | Kintav | do |\n| 69. Chen afod | 30 | Pinky | do |\n| 39. Chum apo | 28 | Sauny | do |\n| 70. Sam asi. | 23 | Saumy | do |\n| 40. Cheom Achaw | 29 | Sanny | do |\n| 41. Mas Asw | 28 | Assaw | do |\n| 42. Seem pa | 20 | Chamseand | do |\n| 11. Son jav | 25 | bemden | do |\n| 72. Jay | 23 | Way chav | do |\n| 73. Chorfin | 23 | Saumy | do |\n| 43. So sut | 22 | Tonikun. | do |\n| 74. by achas | 21 | Comenaofu | do |\n| 414. Chean Aguin | 26 | Hoppen | do |\n| 75. Chan asi | 22 | Tom Kerr | do- |\n| 45. Com aliv | 27 | Polo. | do |\n| 76. Law ahen | 22 | Pol | do |\n| 46. Jain aliv | 21 | Besan | do |\n| 77. Wem achav | 25 | Tonkin | do |\n| 47. Your Avoy | 23 | Tomkem | do |\n| 48. Chem hem. | 23 | Confu | do |\n| 49. Cheam Amen | 27 | do | do |\n| 79. Chan ayer | 26 | Sammy | do |\n| 50. Vanchad | 28 | Torikun | do. |\n| 81. Cham Achaur | 26 | Polo | don |\n| 51. Seven Kin | 22 | Samsory | do- |\n| 82. Vom You | 30 | do | do |\n| 57. Livm Asuo | 28 | Manhoe | do |\n| 83. Se am | 21 | Seulock | do |\n| 53. Mukean | 27 | Polo | do |\n| 84. Vom Asem | 25 | Chansean | do |\n| 54. Hoy fum) | 28 | May pun | do |\n| 85. Chom Aquan | 24 | Scacton | do |\n| 55. Chrom Afou | 27 | Cheminfau | do |\n| 86 Les achi | 21 | Sentock. | do |\n| 56. Si Alin | 28 | Sauvy | do |\n| 87. Leo Com | 244 | do | don |\n| 57. Chas Ca | 23 | Chamseaw | do |\n| 88. Lav av' | 21 | Chaufen | do |\n| 58. Leone Fo | 20 | Namhoe | do |\n| 89. Li avom | 24 | Polo | do |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-066 - Public Offices - 1857.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 244731, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-068 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12]", "page_number": 473, "title": "CO129-068 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12]", "content_text": "470 \n\n\"% \n\ninfluence over the case. \n\n(36) \n\n1 \n\nody. \n\n(37) \n\nFrom the Central Police Station the books, &c., were taken to the Police Court, under the memoranda as referred to the second charge, which were found in the house. The Acting Colonial Secretary \n\nup, I do not know by whom. I do not know anything about their transmission up to the Government Offices. To the best of my knowledge all the books, &c., found in the house, were sent from the Station to the Police Court, to be transmitted to Government Offices. I am not certain that when so sent they were sealed.\n\n[The Commission then proceeded to take secondary evidence tendered by Mr May, of the contents of these memoranda to the best of his recollection, reserving for after consideration the question of the admissibility of such evidence.]\n\nI replied that I did not see that we could legally hold the charge of Jarman, and they were still in his charge when I saw them. I should like to recall to his recollection a similar case, in which an influential man had been in custody on a charge of munitions of war, including gunpowder, shot, guns, muskets, shields, stinkpots, &c., as could by no possibility have been employed for any purpose but that of piracy, and which were examined by Mr Stace, Mr Caldwell, and an interpreter, and remained so, I believe, until the time they were sent to the Magistracy for transmission to the Government. I believe, of confederation with pirates, when he was Acting Attorney General, and in which he had insisted that the Police should retain possession of the shop. In consequence, it was arranged that one shop, which was considered more as the family residence of the prisoner, should be given up, but that the remainder of his premises should remain in the hands of the Police. I was Acting Assistant Magistrate at this time. My belief is that Dr Bridges interested himself because of the movement of Mr Caldwell in the matter.\n\nAfter the prisoner, Ma-chow Wong, was committed for trial, application was made that he should be admitted to bail. The Committing Magistrate refused to accede to the application, and an application was then made to the Judge in Chambers for the admission of the prisoner to bail. The prisoner was bailed, and I saw Mr Caldwell come with the bail to the Police Court, I think at the time it was accepted by the Chief Magistrate.\n\nAfter the trial and conviction, the memoranda remained in my possession. I heard that appeals had been made to His Excellency the Governor in Council to pardon the prisoners. I firmly believed that the existence of the memoranda was then known to the Acting Colonial Secretary because the existence was known by the Chief Magistrate and Acting Attorney General, to whom I knew the Acting Colonial Secretary had spoken on the subject of the prisoner's pardon. I did not make a direct communication to the Government on the subject of those memoranda. I thought it certain that a communication would be made to me by the Acting Colonial Secretary on the subject of the prisoner's pardon, when of necessity the memoranda would have been exhibited. No such communication was made to me until the appearance of an article in the China Mail newspaper, which article adverted to the existence of the information contained in these memoranda.\n\nI was summoned to attend a meeting of the Executive Council and found that Mr Dixson, Mr Lane, and some other civilian, had also been summoned to the Council. When I was called into the Council room, His Excellency the Governor said he had noticed certain statements in the China Mail and asked me if I had in any way authorised those statements. His Excellency the Governor said he would take the statement as they appeared seriatim, and reading the first charge asked me if I had authorised that. I do not now know what the first charge was. I said \"No, I had not authorised it;\" the Governor then read the second, and to the same query I answered in the affirmative. His Excellency asked for proof I had, and I then produced the memoranda referred to. It was apparent to me that His Excellency up to that time had not known of the existence of the memoranda.\n\nWith the permission of the Council I read such portions of the memoranda and I could not help observing that the reading of these memoranda produced a considerable effect on the Council. The Acting Colonial Secretary said he did not know of the existence of the memoranda till that time, and His Excellency the Governor was very angry that papers of such importance had not come to his knowledge before.\n\nI handed to the Acting Colonial Secretary the papers containing the memoranda, saying when I did so, \"I leave these in your hands.\" I have not seen the memoranda since. With regard to the original books and papers, I know that in obedience to an order from the Acting Colonial Secretary, all the papers and books of consequence, including those from which the memoranda had been taken, were sent up to the Government Offices; but whether to the Acting Colonial Secretary's office or to the Chinese Secretary's office, I do not know. To the best of my knowledge they passed from the hands of the Police to the Chief Clerk in the Magistracy, and from him to the Government Offices.\n\nMy impression at the time was that these memoranda did not contain evidence of matters which formed the subject of either of the two pending inquiries, or which could have been adduced in evidence on the trial on either of the indictments before the Supreme Court. I believe that all the books, papers, and writings seized in the house and shop of Ma-chow Wong were taken possession of by Inspector Jarman because the warrant was directed to him. Those found in the Kwong-yik Loong shop related exclusively to the two cases under investigation; those found in the house are those from which alone the memoranda were extracted, and these were taken from the house to the Central Station in an iron chest, of which Mr Jarman had the key. They remained, to the best of my knowledge, in his custody until examined by Tong Ait in my presence, after which they still remained in Jarman's custody.\n\n### Memoranda Contents\n\nNo. 1.-There were about 15 items, with dates of purchases of guns, gunpowder, stinkpots, shot, and muskets. I cannot say within what years. There were some single payments of as much as 50 taels for powder and 600 taels for cannons. The books bore on them the seal, and some the name, of Ma-chow Wong.\n\nNo. 2.-One item of delivery of a large quantity of saltpetre or sulphur, to a man—a manufacturer of gunpowder—at Shek-tong-tsui, a village beyond West Point.\n\nNo. 3.-There were about a dozen entries of payments of very considerable quantities of cash—called \"ancient\" cash, as much as 200,000 or 300,000 cash each entry, paid for articles of consumption.\n\nNo. 4.-Three or four covers of books, the leaves being torn out, and on the back of the books was written \"Monthly payments from such and such a gambling house to Ma-chow Wong.\"\n\nNo. 5.-There were two or three entries of payments made to Ma-chow Wong, for and on account of the Sunon people.\n\nNo. 6.-Was a book shewing an account of monies received by Ma-chow Wong, a lessee of the village of Cheem-sha-tsui, on the opposite shore, and an entry of a payment of so many dollars to Kowloong Police runners, on some business connected with Cheem-sha-tsui.\n\nNo. 7.-A page of a book, an account of receipts either for or from Mr Caldwell, amounting altogether in different amounts to more than 600 taels. It did not say in respect of what.\n\nNo. 8.-A paper which was written to this effect, \"An agreement between some man in the lower bazaar, Ma-chow Wong, and Mr Caldwell, that if the lower Bazaar man was successful in an ejectment case, the property was to be sold to Mr Caldwell for a certain sum of money, I think $1000—of which certain sum $500 were to be allowed as expenses of the suit, the remainder of the purchase-money going to the vendor.\"\n\nNo. 9.-There were some papers in English in Mr Caldwell's hand-writing, receipts for wages paid to a man named Beaver, for his services on board a lorcha: some of them said \"received from Mr Caldwell\" and some \"from Wong Akee.\" Other receipts for sums paid to other Europeans for similar services; one was to the best of my recollection for a sum paid to Graham. There was one paper directed to a European shipwright—\"Please deliver the Hongkong—I think Mr Ross—bearer some spars, and place the same to my account,\" signed by Mr Caldwell, dated 1856 or 1857.\n\nNo. 10.-A letter from the Commandant at Kowloong to Wong Akee's partner—a Chinese name—thanking him for his services with reference to certain property which had been taken from Kowloong when the military went over there, and had been restored, and requesting this man to thank Mr Caldwell for his services.\n\nNo. 11.-A cover of a letter from a man who was known as a pirate—I forget his name—who, in 1856, escaped from the Police through the aid of Ma-chow Wong from Ma-chow Wong's house, and who was at the time of writing the letter in the service of Chan Kwei-tsik. The cover said \"from so and so, at such a place, to Wong Akee.\" I do not know whether the cover stated that he was in Chan Kwei-tsik's service, or whether the interpreter inferred this from the locality whence it came, or other circumstances.\n\nNo. 12.-There was a money account between Ma-chow Wong and some one at Singapore, relative to what in my memo. was described as the \"slave trade,\" the buying of persons and reselling of them at Singapore.\n\nNo. 13.-There were about ten entries of payment to lawyers, most of them mentioning Mr Stace's name, but not in respect of what business.\n\nNo. 14.-An entry of a receipt of money—it was a money account, and therefore I conclude a receipt—of a sum of money for service rendered by Wong Akee in obtaining the assistance of an English man-of-war, to recover a vessel from pirates.\n\nNo. 15.-There must have been also an entry shewing him to have been connected in some measure with the robbery of silk from Messrs Gibb, Livingston & Co.'s godowns, but what the entry was I do not recollect.\n\nNo. 16.-A paper shewing the number of guns fired at different places.\n\nNo. 17.-A memo. shewing the division of some money as shares in a Chinese boat transaction. There were twelve shares.\n\nNo. 18.-There was some paper, but I cannot recollect what it exactly was, shewing Ma-chow Wong's connection with the Sunon Wo, a house belonging to the people of the Sunon district, and under the management of Ma-chow Wong.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-068 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 245087, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-069 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12]", "page_number": 166, "title": "CO129-069 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12]", "content_text": "I am quite sure that, if he had seen it - my report was in his hands - it would not have been passed by Mr Mercer. The pacific breach of official confidences which followed was the first proof obtained of the soundness of the forebodings which I had uttered to Dr. Mercer himself when he informed me that he had advised with success the appointment of one of dubious character to fill the office of Attorney General during his absence in England.\n\nStrangely like to the forgotten Letter from the Attorney General to the Acting Colonial Secretary of the 6th March 1857 and Governor's despatch of the 7th February 1857, is that of the 17th May 1858, on the Baldwell case which, according to the date, ought to have prevented me from troubling Lord Stanley on the 17th of the same month, with a letter of that date, but which, according to the facts, was not sent out from the Government offices to my address until the 18th day after my letter to Lord Stanley had been forwarded.\n\nA verbatim copy of the scrap of paper containing that Memorandum, and bearing strong internal evidence that \"the 14th May\" was past before the preparation, was ... \n## \nSpiculum Farm Report, July 1858. Cheen Tium's Case. \nLegislature 37th May. Government Gazette of 1858. \nFile reference: `GR1178/1922/32(III)`\nBaldevil Minutes. April 14 \nLetter from the Attorney General to the Acting Colonial Secretary \nPage 165 \nPage 586", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-069 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 246281, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-072 - Indviduals - 1858", "page_number": 115, "title": "CO129-072 - Indviduals - 1858", "content_text": "114\n\nCopy of Depositions taken at the Chief Magistrate's Office.\n\n1st Witness,-W. Caine, Sworn.\n\nCHARGE CONSPIRACY.\n\nTuesday, 27th July, 1847.\n\nDefendant,-William Tarrant, Clerk in the Employ of Government.\n\nI am Colonial Secretary, on the Morning of the 6th July, Contractor Afoon sent two or three messages to me, stating that he wished to see me. I had declined receiving him on the previous day, as well as that morning, but as I was told he had something to communicate to me about Mr. Tarrant, I deemed it important and said he might come: he came up stairs and told me, that he was very sorry for what had happened, alluding to the investigation then about to sit, that the investigation which was about to take place was not his doing, but that Mr. Tarrant made him bring it forward: he spoke in the broken language, but this was the substance of what he said\" that he wished me to take care of him, meaning I suppose to protect him; I told him to go to the Attorney General, he chin-chin'd and went away Next Morning about nine o'clock the Government Office Comprador, named Aoan, came to me, in a considerable state of alarm, and told me that Mr. Tarrant had visited his house the preceding evening, after he, Aoan, had left the Court of investigation; I think he said it was after Eight o'clock; he spoke to me in broken English and Chinese, and led me to suppose that Mr. Tarrant asked him why he did not give such evidence before the Court. meaning the investigation, as would injure Major Caine, and that if he did not do so, he Aoan would come into trouble\" the words he made use of as well as I can remember were \"what for you no have talkee so have spoil-um Major Caine before Mr. Campbell, you no do so, you catchee trouble\" I asked him if he had any witness to this; he said he had: on the afternoon of the 9th July, he again came to me, and seemed more alarmed than before, and said that that morning when at Mr. Tarrant's Office at the Government Offices, Mr. Tarrant again questioned him, and asked him why he did not give evidence to injure Major Caine\" that if he did not do so, he Aoan would have trouble, he further told him to come to Mr. Cleverly now: these circumstances coupled with what has taken place at the investigation, where Mr Tarrant endeavoured to prompt Mr. Cleverly have induced me to bring the matter forward.\n\n2nd Witness,-Chow-Aoan, Sworn.\n\nI am a Government Comprador, on the 6th July instant, I was examined by Mr. Campbell, and between seven and eight o'clock P.M., I returned to my house: Mr. Tarrant came to my house, and asked me why I had not spoken according to his words, that if I had done so I could have injured Major Caine. Mr. Tarrant's words were \"what for you no have talkee so fashion very easy spoil-um Major Caine\" this was with reference to the Central Market. and referred to a conversation that had taken place between five and six months ago. Mr. Tarrant's conversation of six months ago was to this effect; he told me that people said that Major Caine received money unlawfully; that he would draw up a paper (statement) if I would witness it; not having any knowledge of the fact I declined to do so; Mr. Tarrant did not tell me what words to make use of in Court as a witness: when Mr Tarrant came to my house on the 6th July, during the conversation on that occasion another person was present, Aheen by name; on the morning of the 7th a letter was brought to the Office for Mr. Tarrant, I took it from the Messenger to Mr. Tarrant; Mr. Tarrant said to me \"what for you no talkee so fashion? suppose you talkee so fashion, very easy spoil-um Major Caine \" I replied \"not true, I can't talkee\" I then went out. On the morning of the 6th July, I was at Major Caine's house: I went at the request of Afoon, Afoon was with me; this was in consequence of a conversation I had on the previous evening with Attie and Afoon, when I asked Afoon why he had accused me, Major Caine and others, he said \"it does not concern me at all, it concerns Mr. Tarrant; it is not my business at all, it is his business; if you do not believe me Acan, go with me to Major Caine, and you will hear what I have to say\" I went with him the next morning about six o'clock to Major Caine's, asked the Servant to inform Major Caine that Afoon wished to see him: Major Caine refused to see him: I (Joan) again requested the Servant to go up and say, Aoan and Afoon had something to say to him; Major Caine then desired, we should come up; we went up; Afoon made his bow to Major Caine and said, \"you befriended my Father, my Brother and myself; now my Father and my Brother are dead; this is not my business, this is Mr Tarrant's business; he wished it; Major Caine sent him away and told him to go to the Attorney General; we were hardly there three minutes, and then went away\" Mr. Tarrant came to my house at Tai-ping-shan and came up stairs to me where the conversation, given in the first part of this deposition, took place. Mr. Tarrant made use of no other words than those I have already mentioned.\n\n3rd Witness,-Lei-Aheen, Sworn.\n\nI am Shroff at the Government Offices; between seven and eight o'clock on the 6th July instant, in the evening, I was at Aoan's house in the Tai-ping-shan up stairs, Mr. Tarrant came in at that time and spoke to Aoan, but what he said I do not know, as I do not understand English: he did not remain long there, Mr. Tarrant did not appear excited; after he went away, immediately after, I asked Aoan what Mr. Tarrant came about, Aoan then replied that Mr. Tarrant had come to ask him why he had not spoken according to his (Mr. Tarrant's) words,\n\n4th Witness,—Wei-Afoon, Sworn.\n\n29th July: Examination continued.\n\nI am Lessee of the Central Market; I did go to Major Caine's house; do not recollect the exact day, but it was on one of those days on which I was examined by Mr. Campbell, between the 2nd and 11th July instant. It was early in the morning between six and seven o'clock, Chow-Aoan the Office Comprador went with me; I met Artie and Chow Aoan in the street, and they asked me \"why do you accuse us?\" this was the day before I went to Major Caine's, about four o'clock in the afternoon, and I answered, I am not accusing you; Acan then said \"you are also accusing Major Caine\"; I denied it, and said I was willing to go to Major Caine with him (Aoan); I voluntarily offered to go with him to Major Caine, and we went next morning as I have stated before, on our arrival at Major Caine's house Chow Aoan first went up to Major Caine he returned and I accompanied him up; I spoke in English to Major Caine:-- Major Caine asked me \"what you come to see me for? I said some persons have told me that I am bringing charges against you\" and I said \"I do not do that business\" Major Caine replied \"I know nothing about the matter, I understand (I'am acquainted with) your Father, your Brother and you, I know nothing about this business, you had better go away\" I went away I did not see Major Caine after that; Mr. Tarrant is intimate with me; he was also intimate with my Father and Brother, since their death I have been in charge of the Market;-The conversation I had with Mr. Tarrant was with reference to a sum of One Hundred and Fifty Dollars per month which Major Caine's Comprador or a Comprador of the name of Lo-een-teen, said I should pay monthly, this sum I paid on three occasions. I had a dispute with the Comprador about it, and said that it was impossible I could afford to pay this money, but the Comprador said that my Brother had paid it before; I was at the Government Offices and mentioned this as a hardship to Mr. Tarrant Mr. Tarrant said this payment is not proper, if you choose to pay it, you may pay it, and told me to go to Mr. Cleverly; Mr. Tarrant never did instruct me as to what I was to say to the Attorney General; never had any conversation with Mr. Tarrant on the subject, either before or during the investigation.\n\nQuestioned by the Court.--Did you or did you not, mention the name of Mr. Tarrant in your conversation with Major Caine?\n\nAnswer. I did not!\n\n5th Witness-Fong-Attai, Sworn.\n\nI am a Contractor employed by Ships of War, I have had conversations with several different persons, relative to the investigation which was held before Mr. Campbell, Acan, Lo-eeen-teen and Afoon.\n\nQuestioned by the Court. Do you remember Afoon going to Major Caine's house on the 6th July instant, and what did he say on that occasion?\n\nAnswer --I went to Major Caine's house with Aoan and Afoon on the 6th July in the morning I remained below whilst Afoon and Aoan went up stairs, on the previous evening I was at the gate of the Market with Anan, and we asked Afoon \"what is this proceeding about the Market?\" Afoon replied \"this does not come from my heart at all, Mr. Tarrant told me to do it, “that he would be obliged if I would go to Major Caine and tell him that he wished to see him and tell him so.\"\n\nQuestioned by the Court--Do you know that Major Caine refused to see Afoon on the evening of the 5th and the morning of the 6th July?\n\nAnswer-On the evening of the 5th I was sent to ask if Major Caine would have an interview with Afoon; he refused the interview.\n\nMr. Tarrant in reply to the Court said he had nothing to say. Mr. Tarrant is committed to take his trial at the next Sessions.\n\nVictoria, 30th July, 1847.\n\nSIR,\n\nIn reply to my application that I might be allowed perusal of the evidence taken on the 6th and 7th instants, touching certain circumstances communicated by me to the Surveyor General, His Excellency the Governor has directed that I should be referred to you about the same, and I have the honor to request that you will allow me to read the questions and evidence, together with the report, at your Office.\n\nThe Honorable Mr. C. M. CAMPBELL,\n\nActing Attorney General.\n\nSIR,\n\nI have, &c.\n\nVictoria, 5th August. 1847.\n\nI have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter, No. 9, informing me that His Excellency the Governor has this day, with the advice of the Executive Council, resolved, on the grounds of what transpired with reference to myself in the Magistrate's Court, on the 27th and 29th ultimo, to suspend me from my Office under the Land Department, pending the pleasure of Her Majesty's Government, but acquainting me that I am allowed to state in writing any matter which I may have to urge in my own exculpation.\n\nI therefore beg to request that you will do me the honor to draw the attention of His Excellency the Governor in Council to the fact, that, with reference to the proceedings at the Magistrate's Court, the only support to the charge made against me by the Honorable Major Caine rests upon the (orally unattested) evidence of a single Man. Chinese, and that man, the very individual, whom before His Excellency the Governor and the Honorable the Members of the Executive Council, I charged on Tuesday the 13th ultimo, with having dared to use the name of the Honorable the Colonial Secretary to enable him to extort money from Tam-Achoey the Contractor, who applied for a license for Market, and who has got witnesses, beside myself, to prove, that Aoan the individual in question did attempt this extortion on him.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-072 - Indviduals - 1858.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 247674, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-074 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Robinson - 1859 [6-12]", "page_number": 348, "title": "CO129-074 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Robinson - 1859 [6-12]", "content_text": "CAL\n\n344\n\n(36)\n\nColonial Secretary replied, that he did not see that we could legally hold the shops and that he did not see the utility oranda as referred to the second charge, which was, that the books and papers would shew the purchase of such immense quantities—thousands of dollars' worth of munitions of war, including gunpowder, shot, guns, muskets, shields, stinkpots, &c., as could by no possibility have been employed for any purpose but that of piracy, and His Excellency was evidently staggered, as were also the members of the Council, as I proceeded reading the different items. His Excellency did not refer to any more charges. I read some other extracts from other portions of the memoranda, and I could not help observing that the reading of these memoranda produced a considerable effect on the Council. The Acting Colonial Secretary said he did not know of the existence of the memoranda till that time, and His Excellency the Governor was very angry, that papers of such importance had not come to his knowledge before.\n\nHis Excellency said that he had relied very much on a report as to the examination of the books furnished him by Mr Mongan, which report clearly stated that the books and papers shewed only such purchases of munitions of war as any respectable trader might have dealt in. Mr Mongan was desired to attend at the Council, and did so, and in reply to the Governor's questions said that he had not made a very close examination of the books, that he had been assisted in the examination by Mr Caldwell, and that he had had no data and no particular information, and that he had made his report from his cursory examination.\n\nThe Council broke up, and in the Council room after the trial and conviction, the memoranda remained in my possession. I heard that appeals had been made to His Excellency the Governor in Council to pardon the prisoners. I firmly believed that the existence of the memoranda was then known to the Acting Colonial Secretary, because the existence was known by the Chief Magistrate and Acting Attorney General, to whom I knew the Acting Colonial Secretary had spoken on the subject of the prisoner's pardon. I did not make a direct communication to the Government on the subject of those memoranda. I thought it certain that a communication would be made to me by the Acting Colonial Secretary on the subject of the prisoner's pardon, when of necessity the memoranda would have been exhibited. No such communication was made to me until the appearance of an article in the China Mail newspaper, which article adverted to the existence of the information contained in these memoranda.\n\nI was summoned to attend a meeting of the Executive Council, and found that Mr Dixson, Mr Lane, and some other civilian, had also been summoned to the Council. When I was called into the Council room, His Excellency the Governor said he had noticed certain statements in the China Mail, and asked me if I had in any way authorised those statements. His Excellency the Governor said he would take the statements as they appeared seriatim, and reading the first charge asked me if I had authorised that. I do not now know what the first charge was. I said \"No, I had not authorised it,\" the Governor then read the second, and to the same query I answered in the affirmative.\n\nHis Excellency asked what proof I had, and I then produced the memoranda referred to. It was apparent to me, that His Excellency up to that time had not known of the existence of the memoranda. With the permission of the Council I read such portions of the memoranda as I thought fit.\n\nAfter the prisoner, Ma-chow Wong, was committed for trial, application was made that he should be admitted to bail. The Committing Magistrate refused to accede to the application, and an application was then made to the Judge in Chambers, for the admission of the prisoner to bail. The prisoner was bailed, and I saw Mr Caldwell come with the bail to the Police Court, I think at the time it was accepted by the Chief Magistrate.\n\nIn consequence, it was arranged that one shop, which was considered more as the family residence of the prisoner, should be given up, but that the remainder of his premises should remain in the hands of the Police. I was Acting Assistant Magistrate at this time. My belief is, that Dr Bridges interested himself because of the movement of Mr Caldwell in the matter.\n\nI handed to the Acting Colonial Secretary the papers containing the memoranda, saying, when I did so, \"I leave these in your hands.\" I have not seen the memoranda since. With regard to the original books and papers seized in the house and shop of Ma-chow Wong, were sent up to the Government Offices; but whether to the Acting Colonial Secretary's office, or to the Chinese Secretary's office, I do not know. To the best of my knowledge they passed from the hands of the Police to the Chief Clerk in the Magistracy, and from him to the Government Offices.\n\nMy impression at the time was, that these memoranda did not contain evidence of matters which formed the subject of either of the two pending inquiries, or which could have been adduced in evidence on the trial on either of the indictments before the Supreme Court, because the investigation, those found in the house are those from yik Loong shop related exclusively to the two cases under which alone the memoranda were extracted, and these were taken from the house to the Central Station in an iron chest, of which Mr Jarman had the key.\n\nI believe that all the books, papers, and writings, taken possession of by Inspector Jarman, remained to the best of my knowledge in his custody, until they were examined by Tong Aku in my presence, after which they still remained in Jarman's custody. From the Central Police Station the books, &c., found in the house, were taken to the Police Court, under charge of Jarman, and they were still in his charge when examined by Mr Stace, Mr Caldwell, and an Interpreter, and remained so I believe until the time they were sent to the Magistracy for transmission to the Government.\n\nI believe, but am not certain, that when so sent they were sealed up, but when or by whom I do not know. I do not know anything as to their transmission up to the Government Offices after they were sent to the Magistracy. To the best of my knowledge all the books, &c., found in the house, were sent from the Station to the Police Court, to be transmitted to Government Offices.\n\n(37)\n\n[The Commission then proceeded to take secondary evidence tendered by Mr May, of the contents of these memoranda to the best of his recollection, reserving for after consideration the question of the admissibility of such evidence.]\n\nNo. 1.—There were about 15 items, with dates of purchases of guns, gunpowder, stinkpots, shot and muskets. I cannot say within what years. There were some single payments of as much as 50 taels for powder and 600 taels for cannons. The books bore on them the seal and some the name of Ma-chow Wong.\n\nNo. 2. One item of delivery of a large quantity of saltpetre or sulphur, to a man—a manufacturer of gunpowder at Shek-tong-tsui, a village beyond West Point.\n\nNo. 3.—There were about a dozen entries of payment of very considerable quantities of cash—called \"ancient\" cash—as much as 200,000 or 300,000 cash each entry, paid for articles of consumption.\n\nNo. 4.—Three or four covers of books, the leaves being torn out, and on the back of the books was written \"Monthly payments from such and such a gambling house to Ma-chow Wong.\"\n\nNo. 5.—There were two or three entries of payments made to Ma-chow Wong, for and on account of the Sunon people.\n\nNo. 6—Was a book shewing an account of monies received by Machow-Wong, a lessee of the village of Cheem-sha tsui, on the opposite shore, and an entry of a payment of so many dollars to Kowloong Police runners, on some business connected with Cheem-sha-tsui.\n\nNo. 7.—A page of a book, an account of receipts either for or from Mr Caldwell, amounting altogether in different amounts to more than 600 taels. It did not say in respect of what.\n\nNo. 8.—A paper which was written to this effect, \"An agreement between some man in the lower bazaar, Ma-chow Wong, and Mr Caldwell, that if the Lower Bazaar man was successful in an ejectment case, the property was to be sold to Mr Caldwell for a certain sum of money, I think $1000—of which certain sum $500 were to be allowed as expenses of the suit, the remainder of the purchase-money going to the vendor.\"\n\nNo. 9.—There were some papers in English in Mr Caldwell's hand-writing, receipts for wages paid to a man named Beaver, for his services on board a lorcha: some of them said \"received from Mr Caldwell\" and some \"from Wong Akee.\" Other receipts for sums paid to other Europeans for similar services; one was to the best of my recollection for a sum paid to Graham. There was one paper directed to a European shipwright of Hongkong—I think Mr Ross. \"Please deliver the bearer some spars, and place the same to any account,\" signed by Mr Caldwell. These were dated 1856 or 1857.\n\nNo. 10.—A letter from the commandant at Kowloong to Wong Akee's partner—Chinese name—thanking him for his services with reference to certain property which had been taken from Kowloong when the military went over there, and had been restored, and requesting this man to thank Mr Caldwell for his services.\n\nNo. 11—A cover of a letter from a man who was known as a pirate—I forget his name—who, in 1856, escaped from the Police through the aid of Ma-chow Wong from Ma-chow Wong's house, and who was at the time of writing the letter in the service of Chan Kwei-tsik. The cover said \"from so and so, at such a place, to Wong Akee.\" I do not know whether the cover stated that he was in Chan Kwei-tsik's service, or whether the interpreter inferred this from the locality whence it came, or other circumstances.\n\nNo. 12. There was a money account between Ma-chow Wong and some one at Singapore, relative to what in my memo. was described as the \"slave trade,\" the buying of persons and reselling of them at Singapore.\n\nNo. 13. There were about ten entries of payments to lawyers, most of them mentioned Mr Stace's name, but not in respect of what business.\n\nNo. 14. An entry of a receipt of money—it was a money account, and therefore I conclude a receipt—of a sum of money for service rendered by Wong Akee in obtaining the assistance of an English man-of-war, to recover a vessel from pirates.\n\nNo. 15. There must have been also an entry shewing him to have been connected in some measure with the robbery of silk from Messrs Gibb, Livingston & Co.'s godowns, but what the entry was I do not recollect.\n\nNo. 16. A paper shewing the number of guns fired at different places.\n\nNo. 17. A memo, shewing the division of some money as shares in a Chinese boat transaction. There were twelve shares.\n\nNo. 18. There was some paper, but I cannot recollect what it exactly was, shewing Ma-chow Wong's connection with the Sunon Wo, a house belonging to the people of the Sunon district, and under the management of Ma-chow Wong.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-074 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Robinson - 1859 [6-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 247687, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-074 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Robinson - 1859 [6-12]", "page_number": 361, "title": "CO129-074 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Robinson - 1859 [6-12]", "content_text": "357\n\nnames.\n\na case.\n\nupon\n\n(62)\n\nHe did not do or say anything from which I could receive the impression, that I would please himself or the Governor more by not finding a true bill than by finding a true bill. From this time, until the case left my hands, there was no pressure used with me in favour of Ma-chow Wong by the Government.\n\nAfter I had the depositions, and read them through, I was speaking to Dr Bridges on some other business one day, and I introduced the subject of Ma-chow Wong, and told him the depositions were ample to support a prosecution. He said that was quite enough—that I was to be the judge of that, and I was the only responsible person for carrying on the prosecution. I don't think I spoke to him on the subject from that time until the occasion mentioned at the Club. I think I can positively say that Mr Caldwell was never in communication with me concerning the case. It was my impression that Ma-chow Wong was strongly befriended from some quarter or another. I received this impression from a great many facts. I all along, while I was preparing for the trial, knew that Mr Caldwell was assisting him, for I saw him occasionally in the street with Mr Day and Mr Stace, the Counsel and Attorney for the prisoner, and Mr Caldwell took a great deal of interest in the trial, and gave evidence in the prisoner's behalf.\n\nI have heard it stated that Mr Caldwell expressed confidence in Ma-chow Wong. Then, on the day of the conviction, I think before dark that evening, I heard that Mr Caldwell had petitioned the Governor to allow Ma-chow Wong's tail to remain on, until some further inquiry was made into the case. I never saw the man after he was convicted, but I believe as a matter of fact, that his tail did stay on. I felt particularly anxious about the case, as if my whole reputation were staked upon it. I knew the character of the prisoner, and the terror of the Chinese population about him. I knew that Mr Caldwell expressed confidence in him, and was anxious about his defence. I knew that, with an assistant intimate with the language like Mr Caldwell, the defence had an advantage I had not, and I had two very able counsel against me.\n\nIt was in consequence of the conversation I had with Dr Bridges before I saw the depositions, that I made the remark to him about the case being a sufficient one. I do not know that he saw the depositions, and he had no means that I know of forming an opinion of the case, while the depositions were in my hands. I perfectly recollect Mr May reading over to me some memoranda which he said he had taken from Ma-chow Wong's books. I have a distinct recollection of it, and can give a rough outline of their contents. The memoranda alluded to a traffic in pistols, and guns, and powder, and shot extending over a good space of time. I think a year and a half—at different intervals, and I think in different quantities. There were memoranda too of rents collected from the village of Cheem-sha-tsooy. I think there were memoranda of tolls levied on houses in Tai-ping-shan, which Mr May told me were gambling houses. I am not quite certain about this item. I also think there were entries of a great many articles of European consumption—wines, biscuits, and sundry articles for the table, not in use amongst Chinese. That is all I remember about them. I think there were no entries of articles in which Mr Caldwell's name was mentioned. I have not the slightest recollection of any such, and if you had not asked the question, I should have said decidedly not. There was nothing, so far as I can recollect, which brought in Mr Caldwell's name at all, or which would have led me inferentially to suppose that Mr Caldwell was referred to. I am only speaking from memory of a circumstance of a year ago. If such entries had been brought to my attention, I should have considered it my duty to bring them officially to notice. I could not use those memoranda for the purposes of the trial; I do not think I could have got them in evidence. Mr May showed them to me, and thought I would bring them forward in the Court. He considered them relevant to the issue, until we had a talk about it. I obtained no help in this prosecution from Mr Caldwell or through his department. Mr Grand-Pré was one of the witnesses. I did not accept Mr Caldwell as interpreter at the trial. I think Mr Day tendered him. I think Mr Caldwell seemed as if he did not wish to interpret himself.\n\nI am almost certain he was tendered at the commencement, but I think also that he was not willing to interpret. Mr Caldwell denied in court on oath all connection or relationship with Ma-chow Wong, by blood, marriage, or adoption. I alluded to Mr Caldwell in the report which was asked from me by the Executive Council about the trial, but did not represent to the Governor his extraordinary conduct when joint Superintendent of Police with Mr May, in labouring for the miscarriage of the crown prosecutions of Ma-chow Wong; but I did say, alluding to one point of evidence, it rested solely on Mr Caldwell's testimony, and that he evinced too much of the character of a partisan for his evidence to carry very much weight with the jury. I said I was sorry to allude in the matter to Mr Caldwell, for whom I had a very great respect; but at the same time I could not but admire the constancy with which he adhered to the man in difficulties whom he considered innocent, and whom he had found useful. My omission to complain was not caused by any idea on my part, that Government patronised Mr Caldwell, and not Mr May. I did not think of complaining; I left all those things to the Executive. Dr Bridges said the verdict was clearly against evidence and that the jury had no right to bring in a verdict of guilty on that evidence. I do not recollect the Governor saying anything about it.\n\nI don't know what the practice of the Attorney General is. The practice which I have followed has been to take the cases in the order fixed, unless when witnesses were absent, or unless the case was too long, and a short one might be brought in at the request of the Judge, to close the day. In entering the nolle prosequi I thought I was doing just what the Judge meant. If any one has asserted that the Court or any person ordered a nolle prosequi, such statement is false.\n\n(63)\n\nNo. 10, I think I remember.\n\nNo. 11, I remember nothing about.\n\nNo. 12, I don't remember.\n\nNo. 13, I think I remember.\n\nNo. 14, I can't say I remember.\n\nNo. 15, I recollect Mr May calling my attention to the entry concerning the Silk robbery.\n\nNo. 16, I don't remember.\n\nNo. 17, I don't remember.\n\nNo. 18, I think I remember something about that, but am not certain.\n\nI do not remember the reason assigned by Mr May for not reading some entries.\n\nThe name Samkwei did not occur in any of the papers that I saw in the second case. It did not, to my knowledge, occur in the papers of the first case. The petition for Ma-chow Wong's pardon was referred to me by the Government. There was an allusion at Government House on the Queen's Birth Day to Ma-chow Wong's name; his name was but mentioned. I was sitting with Mr Caldwell at dinner, and have a tolerably good idea of what was said. He said that the whole case of Ma-chow Wong would be opened up before this Committee. I said \"Indeed.\" Then I said that I wished he, Mr Caldwell, had not worked so much at the trial of Ma-chow Wong, in his favour, for I believed him to be a great scoundrel. I think Mr Caldwell said then, \"That may be, or may not be, but I think I was right in working for him at the time as I did.\" I think there was nothing more than this said. I don't pretend to recollect every word that passed. Upon hearing Mr May's evidence, my impression as to what was said is not altered. I think it is likely, though I cannot positively recollect, that Mr May told me there was a mysterious opposition to the prosecution of the case, which he could not understand,—an opposition not proceeding from Mr Caldwell. Dr Bridges did not say to me, that he would be better pleased if I did not find a true bill upon the evidence than if I did. He seemed to be quite careless. He referred to no other case in the calendar. I called upon Mr May, when I referred to him as Colonial Secretary, about the depositions, and I think he called upon me once. I arranged with him that he should see me at my chambers, to see the particular and laborious care evinced in the arrangement of the evidence. I have a distant recollection of Mr May saying that he wished to push the case through for the public good. I think on one occasion, he disclaimed any hostility to Mr Caldwell. I think Mr May, when reading the memoranda, made an observation as to a reason for not reading some of the entries. I think there were some of the entries he did not read. I think if I heard the entries read over I would recollect them. I have totally forgotten the reason; I don't know whether it was anything about Mr Caldwell.\n\nUpon hearing Mr May's account of the contents of the memoranda, I confirm No. 1: I remember distinctly the 50 taels for powder, and some sums for cannon; but do not remember exactly the 600 taels.\n\nI asked the Acting Colonial Secretary what was to be done with the property at the Kwong Yik Loong shop, and the other property belonging to Ma-chow Wong. He said it would be an interminable thing to find out who was the owner of it; that amongst the multiplicity of witnesses, some of them conflicting, no jury could come to a conclusion what was the convict's property, and it was not worthwhile taking any notice of it. I don't know what was the value of the property. Mr May, or someone, told me it was his impression that Ma-chow Wong was a very wealthy man. I think the last day of the trial Mr May asked me regarding the disposal of the property. I think I told him to leave a policeman there as long as he could, and I would see about it, and the result was that I saw the Acting...\n\nAdjourned till to-morrow at 12 o'clock.\n\nEighteenth MEETING.\n\nThursday, 1st July, 1858, at 12 o'clock Noon.\n\nPresent,-All the Members, except Mr Scarth.\n\nHENRY KINGSMILL,-Re-called at his own request, to correct a part of his evidence given yesterday.\n\nThis morning, on turning over my papers, I found the list of the Criminal cases of the Sessions of August 1857—the Session at which Ma-chow Wong was tried—with my own notes made on the margin at the time. On referring to it I find I did not enter a nolle prosequi as to Ma-chow Wong in the second case. There were two prisoners in the second case—Ma-chow Wong, and Lum Ahing, one of his shopmen; and Ma-chow Wong stood first on the list, Lum Ahin second. My marginal note made at the time is this: \"Nolle prosequi entered as to the second prisoner, the first having been convicted in another case vide supra.\" Seeing this, I see now that I did not enter a nolle prosequi as to Ma-chow Wong, but only as to Lum Ahin, and the reference made to the Judge as to proceeding with the second case, and his reply thereto, just tally with that statement.\n\nWith regard to No. 2: I recollect an item about Saltpetre, but not the particulars connected with it.\n\nNo. 3, I suppose that must be what I refer to about articles of consumption. I don't remember the fact of cash being mentioned.\n\nNo. 4, is what I referred to about gambling houses.\n\nNo. 5, I don't remember.\n\nNo. 6, I recollect.\n\nNo. 7, I think I recollect it, but am not quite certain.\n\nNo. 8, I don't remember.\n\nNo. 9, I think I recollect the paper about Ross, but not the others.\n\nI was also asked yesterday, had Dr Bridges spoken to me about any other case at that session. I endeavoured at the time to recollect what cases were tried in the same list, the case of Kan Assam and Lee Atong for murder...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-074 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Robinson - 1859 [6-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 247700, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-074 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Robinson - 1859 [6-12]", "page_number": 374, "title": "CO129-074 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Robinson - 1859 [6-12]", "content_text": "Car\n\n370\n\nthe Police Court, if Mr May had not been there. Grand-Pré was certainly not equal to such a case.\n\n(88)\n\nMr\n\nI recollect, although I had quite forgotten it until shortly before this Commission commenced sitting, that Mr May lent me his memoranda for two or three days. As I found they had nothing immediately to do with the cases under investigation, which were already cumbered enough, I told Mr May that I thought he had better say nothing about them until some occasion should arise on which they would be clearly useful. I recollect also, when the efforts for obtaining a pardon for Ma-chow Wong were going on, that Mr May again asked me if he should mention them to the Government. As by that time I had learnt that Mr May was supposed to be actuated by jealous and hostile feelings towards Mr Caldwell, and as also the Government were in possession of the originals from which the memoranda were taken, I told Mr May, that I should certainly not volunteer their production to the Government. I must confess, however, that my recollection of the memoranda is very imperfect indeed, and that they never made the strong impression upon me which they ought to have done.\n\nJOHN SCARTH, Esq., a member of the Commission, -Called at his own request.\n\nI wish to make the following statement, as my name has been mentioned several times in the evidence and papers before the Commission.\n\nWhen the disturbances began in Canton at the end of 1856, a man came to me and told me that some pirate boats were said to have been taken outside by some of the ships of war, but that the boats were not pirate but rebel boats. He stated that he felt sure that Ma-chow Wong was using his influence against the men, and requested me to endeavour to have some inquiry made, as he heard the men were going to be given over to the Mandarins. My informant was one of the Shanghae rebels. I went to the Police Office and saw Mr Grand-Pré and Mr May. The bulk of the statement was heard by Mr Grand-Pré; Mr May came in just as I concluded. I told him that I had been told that Ma-chow Wong, who was formerly in close connection with the so-called rebels who held Shanghae, had turned against them, having been bribed by the Mandarins with a blue button which they would find in the house, and a white button which they would find in the house of one of his wives. I stated that he had given the information about these boats being taken, and that he was now trying to injure the rebels as much as he could. I said that the man who informed me could bring evidence to show that the men were rebels. Mr Grand-Pré told me Ma-chow Wong was Mr Caldwell's informer, and that he would see about it. I told him that he had better tell Mr Caldwell. I heard nothing more of the matter until I saw the men given up at Kowloong. I was afterwards informed that several sailors had been kidnapped in a systematic manner, by engaging them in Lorchas and then handing them over to the Chinese Authorities for the rewards for heads. I went immediately and reported the circumstance to Mr Caldwell\n\nI did not notice any particular effect produced by Mr Caldwell's presence on the bench at the commencement of Ma-chow Wong's case. I did mention to the Acting Colonial Secretary, that I thought Mr Caldwell had better not sit on the bench during the inquiry against Ma-chow Wong, but I did not speak at all strongly; and the Acting Colonial Secretary immediately said, \"Oh, I have arranged about that; only, if anything very strong is said about him in Court, I hope you will send for him.\" Mr Stace brought up Ma-chow Wong's bail after his commitment, Lai Sze-kai was not one on that occasion. I really am afraid to say anything about my recollection of the contents of the memoranda; I recollect that their general nature has been correctly described.\n\nI rather think that there is a notice in Chinese characters outside the Magistracy that bribery is not allowed.\n\nI recollect in the debate on the Registration Ordinance, in council, that the Governor said an order had been given to do something-I did not hear what-in reference to not proceeding with the second indictment; and I heard the Attorney General say, \"Nobody in the world has power to give such an order;\" but I cannot say whether the words \"Nolle prosequi\" were used.\n\nabout it, until Mr Wade's translation of the papers found at Namtow proved that men had been taken,\n\nMy impression from what was said in Council on the 10th and 14th of May certainly was, that His Excellency and the Acting Colonial Secretary were convinced that Mr Caldwell had cleared himself from the charges then brought against him, and that there was no need of further inquiry.\n\nMy strong impression is, that I did hear the Acting Colonial Secretary say in debate, that he saw no harm in Mr Caldwell's servants being interested in brothels, and, on being reminded that it might lead to improper persons being licensed to keep brothels, I certainly think I did hear him say, that as any person wishing to become a brothel-keeper must be an improper person, that would be of no consequence.\n\ntendered in support of the charges, the commission would [The Chairman intimated that no further evidence being proceed at the next meeting to hear Mr Caldwell's defence.]\n\nTWENTY THIRD DAY.\n\nWednesday, 14th July, 1858, at 12 o'clock Noon.\n\nPresent,-All the Members.\n\nfollowing statement:-\n\nMr Caldwell being called on for his defence, made the\n\ning to the accusations brought against me by the Honour-\n\nThe only difficulty which presents itself to me in reply-\n\nable the Attorney General and the Superintendent of Police, arises from the great volume of the depositions. It\n\nmay well happen that a person, inexperienced as I am in\n\n(89)\n\ndissecting evidence, may, in going over the evidence of\n\nof what he had said being so much more favorable to the\n\nprosecution than his own personal evidence.\n\nmore than 50 witnesses, covering about 100 printed pages, omit some point apparently telling against himself, but capable of easy explanation. Should such prove to be the case, the Commission will I trust direct my attention to any charge not dealt with by me, for it is my desire to flinch from no portion of this extraordinary investigation.\n\nBut\n\nCharge No. 4 rests entirely upon the recollection by Mr Inglis of an isolated fact, which is supposed to have taken place about 14 years ago. The evidence adduced by me as to the date of the birth of my first child, and the situation of certain localities, will, I am certain, when added to the positive testimony of Mrs Caldwell and myself, convince the Commission that Mr Inglis has undesignedly mistaken one person for another.\n\nBefore proceeding to the evidence, I must notice who and what the witnesses are who have been called in support of the charges. There is hardly one of any importance who can be considered independent or unbiassed.\n\nCharge No. 5: It will hardly be necessary for me to detail at length the evidence which must have convinced the Commission, that although nominally I appeared in the equally with myself; Roberts and Lyons, who have, within the last three weeks, received great promotion in the Police Crown Books the owner of certain property in this Colony; force at Mr May's recommendation; Assow, the Interpreter; Aheen, Mr May's Lokong, and Yoong Ayoong Mr May's own servant. On these seven does the case for the prosecution mainly rest; and wherever an attempt has been made to travel beyond them, it has resulted in a contradiction or a break-down.\n\nCharge No. 14 has not I believe been attempted to be proved.\n\nCharge No. 15: Mr May comes forward in support of this charge, and states the fact to have been within his own knowledge; he is to a certain degree supported by Mr Woods, but the evidence of the latter is neutralised by his statement that all Tai-ping-shan houses were at the time brothels, which certainly was not the case, and Mr Woods assigns no other reason for his belief. Mr May's testimony has been so unsatisfactory throughout this inquiry, that no reliance can, I trust, be placed upon him when unsupported; and I beg most solemnly to deny, that I have ever at any time been the owner of any brothels in this colony; and if the Commission require it, I am prepared to prove the untruth of Mr May's statement, in the most satisfactory manner.\n\nEven where, as with Pang-wa-ping, there is no ostensible connection between the Police and the witness, Roberts, or some one else, would appear to have been distorting his statements; and when I find Mr Anstey resting for his facts entirely upon Mr May, Mr May acknowledging to having given Roberts and Lyons advice and directions as to the mode in which the case was to be got up, Lyons attempting to put words into Boggs's mouth, and perverting conversations held with myself and others, Roberts laying a deliberate trap for the officers of the Eaglet, and Roberts and Lyons so speedily earning the reward of their energy and activity, I do not, without warrant, charge all these seven with a combined attempt to support the loose statements of Mr Anstey, by getting up evidence to fit them.\n\nCharge No. 16: If Assow the Interpreter could be believed, this charge might be considered as made out. But the mere attempt to produce such a witness as Assow, and the gross untruths he has been convicted of, when produced, will I hope be considered by the Commission an important feature in the whole case. The groundless assertion that Shaplok is Mrs Caldwell's sister by adoption, rests on Assow's statement, and is denied by my wife and myself; but when Assow attempts to prove that Shaplok, within a certain time, kept a brothel in a certain street, which he personally visited, he is convicted of falsehood by Eep Awong, and others, and I am supported by the evidence of Mr Mitchell.\n\nCharge No. 2 affords the most remarkable instance upon throughout this investigation, of the flimsy materials which Mr Anstey has based the most serious charge against me.\n\nIt appears from the evidence of Mr May, Yoong Ayoong, and Lum Aleen, the two first of whom contradict each other, that Mr May having, through his servant made some inquiry of the tenant of a rice shop as to its owner, informed Mr Anstey that I was the owner of the adjoining brothel No. 48, not a syllable having in reality passed between the several parties as to such brothel.\n\nFoong Afie, Soong Ahing, and Wong Aping-and Mr Mitchell fixes an additional stigma on him. Mr May has evidently relied much on this witness, and it would have been worth his while to have ascertained his real character from Mr Mitchell before he was included among the seven witnesses.\n\nCharge No. 17: No attempt has ever been made. I believe, I have fully explained to the Commission the circumstances under which Mrs Caldwell looks after her sister's property. But the mixing up of brothel-holding with this question of property, is a malicious charge, for which there was never at any time any pretext.\n\nI must also remark on the singular fact, that Lum Aleen was attempted to be made out to have left the Colony, the statement", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-074 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Robinson - 1859 [6-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 248150, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-075 - Public Offices - 1859", "page_number": 222, "title": "CO129-075 - Public Offices - 1859", "content_text": "ESS\n\nSUPPLEMENT TO THE NEWCASTLE CHRONICLE AND NORTHERN COUNTIES ADVERTISER, JUNE 25, 1859.\n\nCallwell for his sucenda cbr si ku\n\nTlus\n\nsery Betro and a very indies direction was giben to Tay Filati and Clines, in every part of this clogy and the and lathe ca le game complete em 16 happened rideanly under the time is wan movement forming is that they were about to prossud-on province, which Loval Elgin, at willow was, at teplo\n\nthat Mr. Davis, the Govermens printer, who is tho pro earplugin diétly of arrangement that race o coafated to me to effect any period by the position of affis m pinions by those who must to bato Lucy bettoni Clima nets, that Stone Thin si formar Mahebos Wong In the heat setupon I ftowed their dircase, Rod 1 ceased fole solated way way with My Caldar. pr bay of all, but acted with erent tas made Hoes it a rate the deceatens of the Executirs Council, led quietly and won that treaty of peace which he has rectly\n\nor with the Hong Kong putice: 1 zece monded tomto prema, ected thỏ China Mark watch out, but not to Chin te written on pops of 7 eur, tamparately, list I would be very happy to attaul the Ryecond with China--1 Buy it apours to be not ply Bonn fernd, what will cal by the militar term\n\nDamer the Feng Kong Govt tiszts, heard ally rest, and the rod po del doblard' tras sutive Council whenever ont laid upon the Queen's previointion of that treaty, bat a violate of the p poble, deir riske, and I reported to Gem and apply to two pes of big authority is that of a\n\nwith any clut priests war in piracy, Sir, Andry Tui is wherever the auilt as it was sat in a porta Gercent coner. I forged chai to the. Specibody dline TheRD RET, we bag made to er en Cum 21 of all the no person che serpent\n\nxecutive, a repartol in the recently teavad China hours periment. I pushed my inquiries furter, best, it was a Puties, who had been 3 year in a dy, and he Wide, part, a thirds. Mr. C til 1 had been the colony about a year and fed that magistrate, 291 tl korubarist ler Blojek:yol, Ar Mr. Caldwe. tr. U the \"onsel for #1 pol. ) widet. that. It lirat Cell: ano die atramentis le lle [ from an all-ce of lam kipe willwal heing tre\n\nConnell, however, proasted my lace and without giving pera, the turks by Saglish vowele në wa un village va the real state of the case bow and, but 30, a purte: acl & auf: er, at du head of youto! Umi. Mr. Calendars it at the yangperty of being rist Preng the gross in f\n\nhsburs, on the plesat they had earlcared pices Triviy de hocen to me by the fovercrant printer of 2 let this goal of how Wong depend on the report remember chest as you we who Dr. Bridges was er 1,000 Gollers raiving to and therrunt 50 dus een which they were proceeding, di suport\n\nwhich ore pentlemen, when called opon, ali ratke to barciales, ut, as he calls huself, a legal pencationer feat. Coldwellers and items which reqmen, with a the line pod nadering complnews\n\nHac plutter money aget of ir. Caldwell-tas ufficere Kong, all Covernment officer, whu permitted ans le\n\ncod vessels ringte c his name, wao hat piren tidetres of something 26 tim you. This document anting bera land bucre the Caldwell untie the functions: attracy and brister, and culting less crevicted bobow Wang of pirney and of being appendel, was fed l huew of the\n\n\"\"\"\"The misunsorted catury of Colwell toffees, and who I believe is at tila murent Sau Compilation to the subject to the then vry indiferently wells practitioner, in fat, called engaged in the den Trade,\" \"online! This trade maltet. But, gertlemen, there was netuin which ne\n\nwas hail chwired with compliory with praus Old Daney practiones; and his practice lay shot the salve trades every effort made by Sir Je pred the course of the equity, and which has led simme land; artiny his not la Hong Kong. Tee of opinia Hong Kong papers and allowed to be perated by any\n\nms is out these proceedings blr. Caldwell was the dups of stranger who is have the carically to read it. 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Aureurs 3 bed of rik: the Cene siger cut to whether it is in the course of this savastiguin Liga ti Set time for one your that I have aldened ajab 20 prevented me from coming to lie same siomablá consis\n\nEurope, he retailing the besty the labour contracts in Culan ve réxionable or they age of the tuiszton in theit repor- that previous :0 in, king in and statements as true, and he smitted to, 22 (Dave wagertenice dil return their reports and the Celudis Secheterg the difficulter id exist, and tho ba latterly bemorijay went tur begantu 'he points as wel: I la ramended at 1vano Came of polenta piemetine dating as while of the\n\nsiginta melni y la givere, engin of jingle, the sugoistens of the Camicies, sortsin papers comunes steady no que fully salarised, that when bow instider. trouble with doubts. 1 lien auk apan my the depth overnacht to them. They armed my state perind of his trunce et odice. Chargenti, every Chamwig te taky is overall, a tota aurten with 3\n\nWerg's frin, and which might be but 20derstood, that any gardians yo\n\nsolicita farlor infamathai vil, siguity his wear to c man tho give tim b's versiout had che right to conzerve, ce state of the Colica where it to be stupreetervslus to the Countiesien, lost be dotzegel it find trap- ot trans the plate hume, of speaking of Marlow Wegretta tus com the fast of Mchoho, and they in 2nd Di baling is conviction, but try antepriri culpated very procedony Mr.Childwell. odorandut bich End did sure, that is zeliter had both innuente: iseczunder the\n\nof Corps from Cibo to ong Kong bow toket moest kept the act ever contiment. -\n\npire, but the Ceramic forgot to say 18ct the G-fly it wil eeply with. Br. Asey\n\nsmuted dea seat assist Loud appren50. clerance obtain infertilen veto woke on the cape rock of which, diy had harkeen on citythone wid hato zatit, ClineRoy Government. Tola gelen placed me t\n\nStr. Chawalay salt only remained now the he It has been swurn to the chief, M. Levis the bent of the 'wament te blanche perdon of 3aadow plure. Then there is also number of entries relating some pele. It was iftowards wam to by kir 1 hare before spoke, hauling of the Chine\n\ngunpowder, cufim balls mushais, silk peta, everly, Mr. Dixies, others, in flea kuotave the alterom whics hail for Rive vidence against the gres! Jannthon Wild of England USB come the Cowlingly, herwarde #gured enz. Mr. the bed shon this the evilred a little purchases\n\nagainst Tarrant,” and why were piressaar as Lisé Goundli Bjørð, pap by wit'wet lukorg op ee were in their junes ko\n\nhave that statetent jár before Parliamecut. (Applause.) To me in wel: dolezas witute in the Folies Curt is the \"Cura plustering to the past tween Mulicho Wong is all of tens of war thire se reference call\n\nBevel us Tarrant, by then Clankins of the Comics, terms, and air. Caldwell, and, steve, ilere upprated the uskus tunccties with the Saudiar with ag solenyalur the depare cok place, that Air Joh. Bowring and 1. I reduced his pene in writing in the orthography of t Chicos printing, and 1 kept it on the wall before my desk who was 'cient duly a wine at the Police Chart pater a ser elaborate article September, 1857, & unicat, sie which tice, unter I read Beiges noth awe 10 te consail then on the table one to bem chuqur of a tition by Alt Aut\n\nakutsent in Calia, in which of Manche Wu's he hates, world bat underētur This but an index under and guix on the 14th, reler to lure Aide, statement, a petition to be saloptert to the Queen, Landa, Ban Dat also al tipo ili te pra Chert in the and day from the perind my fras receving e fertation down to the day when the Serenowende of caus They desired walk was pridwally crimes were eatmerated and it was adeffus is to be for the prose of tabling the great to see the\n\nand to cry one of the books and papers as existing denominona, foliowa:-- Whold of the pirater boolé àvul phitest. It ja vakit valuable, nculpated by the reports 'bent in by those ta reperierend pardoned for title that this with ke guilt of many aller\n\nes dy sick that notedy 14 av hea soppra but a Navester, JR, \"Police called upon the, and coke You have cried your\n\nés paid offices, ut lite sails or Tiger nature, po bioause there boil un puhe, a have now been destroyed by\n\nlam ny big which feil fron D. Bulgea or frran Si: Jake at Wil Tarrat, publishes of the Long Kong pois as a ave arrested the sedel, and liavoces, and that hardins erment an oath, Pain\n\npill the end of Chin, was in the 'the' hårda\" of the Hung Kane Covergent, this meinenze\n\nBlock Cum by Liu Govername of t that. Quo him to study on two charges of piracy, Applause). I sony to it by Dr durs, oth nemain the Acting his ca, me of whey be provad is dancreationa\n\nthere was any atention to doutor them. On the stray, lbited by the police count and at die trial were looked \"to prelom leninitim. Sorrest replicationswmulleritsbea Laaksi, Will diese papers be forthcoming the is wht hely a mally Trong and public At that very women bu application is 150 pardon was made, but they all lod. The public age when war awer was Coctaily, tasy will ho forthesising Chetumal miny, of a cele d Governint of Hong Kong, to fit the the i pendina brez the Executive Council, bad baľova a do- up in 196 101minant. 1 Setinal From Callejattu.\n\nwat rond to you this watch of Mr. Dixon, printed Celóuipi Seref.tg-roat will be-1 don't say état with hefurret aby Cian, the pepers en bools which šúré éx bdag too mackerel for Sir Juiz Bowring Stahoe Fogg that these utsnoruuda'ha dolroyd, et troch nieruction cangad the apud Wilham Tut\n\nWithin one week triad crossed that 1 u raken\n\nWaficul reported to me that had upperolie\n\nimoweh, af Tan, aldussed an offels, ferie, tu the goverment\n\nmistion zutenu 57th May. 1 cdled for flow, papers, 014\n\nthe sewer still was, huy s pro3acer May,\n\nthe Chairman of the Come-speaking to what\n\nCarls\n\nren ufereeing one of the LM-\n\nTutte and Within Tarrat peale not pully mil. jabetu, te the Willing Thon BOS, 10\n\nCotinal Sury-by umiva with 517 3 wing, do Govern, duce auch pal and coetic pubic papera a vecius cụ #8 burn, le prevent than tror në tuladhand of teatriinal\n\nThomus Bridgun act\n\nin\n\nJUN PO\n\n1.9\n\nby Sir John Bow-no, not thatatemens 6 M Dixson, the truth-bat ecide not beenvelded by them wil'honey, hit which beleg rund him no the tecore of what had or ne'sunted for in any way on the sapotion of an from wat taken older, M.. Disnou stated was purfacily tree-Theese. You are the kratay of my words, Wall, geûtie- Ch'oet were in luence of their liveandbence begins of e, what did the Govereat do! Nacida That term katson hid in ace to that the parden abel to Premye at Hong Kong The Sup of Police\n\nthe Superintendent of Police, vel sia papers they were, in glee taustmankt Midland. Vältweite Regattar tenor of the Water y lo had the police of the long smakt at his dis in the month of July, 1857. We are now in the sofaxuated; hat the articlo was oothie, for the Fals were\n\nang silence, tid, I can't go on wirdwat my papers. wture Colany, Lotion gave a collops plan\" pesul though, the blud frastarlet: Mr. Calder report fort. 1808 after the firfficial repost do mora, but it be dry for Jorn Rawing an\n\nwale wasiporadia Court as a bit of the Queen again\n\nwhich had bain perferred against hum--to the ellệch that de at the Goved mud of twich ought to have beea pend Hic exartition of Flapot, kiha of re\n\nThay ate prodlacil I will pursue my culence. The answer No one of them cool to lay information apolo\n\nback beca u ursave win ons Machowe Wong lan lo hurtu appene ja support of she another when wrong y cotisidered sacou to disqually Me, Ozidwell from the Cicating letter Was oderossed to the peper of the Tarrant, van de turney General &quited that ever wor, \"They all he rearly 1 C\n\nLa participated in los sela of prasy grof, dasiting him to attend Le Coute (they had set power seruitrios cul ales o cursale should eat feralga, and one morning win ga tuy way to 14- accused 171. Ile was the Jattham Wie de ce. Dission of the event; and still be in there, hod\n\nto try him, tot he was the Goverɔment priaser, Real de night aliteed to tempire 10 Ms. Caldri og Ang'oiler friade of head as a speculturefor I was tune ure Espe when The people were inkry out of thick boats, delube and\n\nhe made these repusta are wet cullat\n\nbave lost cle Govorodent CRITIC). And why? To gite Marchew Weg. Iudouter I got was, that my\n\nappeared as a walness at the diting of the Comarisuon * liberated atmost as he thought. He was I league 10 explain their code is making them, or to dalend\n\nKformation whien manche ebatte ilem to judge of the pro- dalien was on hingartuus and nad għɔeld rescivo apery sten- the worst of proles west theic waters and them; ed on deve at the moment this citron frat, villamenters of Aude. He was the rod of the is the outer and the sccused wit together on the same priety of dehang chow Wos? : ut in followed it up by a cheinending Tetter, and the last to by is gentlenus thut was for the Cen va Berriers of State Bar the Clay time derved probe, and the arreman who repeat to the sarafatio of the Count the gly offend it was my own but in the following teoksile into the Coversio's own verlas d 1st the nad Duiel Dichard Aldest a 1stcat and store. Be informatie and his piratea\" The bad out a speed ease forsoort pesed loss to Sale Whig, wich had a proppo. E in Chatwill interfered with the Bantuñer the rot. The papere leve uit bee a burnt.\" I said, ut papula and then: the publication was for the palie The wil, \"Xo the Governor says he bene in der 11 the lawsti poobslupent of che saith Wa poo them the forgot ng se vitut an exquiry.de fast bivice, Me. Dixon It becued as if a pattiouimely dan pocah as where these the Though the Gerranean'dak noriver, stre Chinese di cozel.. bad be used by may trial. My. Dixon, berdear, while it in the \"realevikov ning meirande; but that the cable\n\nelius amgunnelled to try the sald inferrinse,\n\nvolens be the ustuution qu' bothering til legit, apeared, and with a good deal of virgstol good, we sitesine, to the moverslerved to be ail book burne By wum? I did. An licces Scottir warinda, ses to here for borb the G-scrion fine 'statud jrry the guest relay say his order. I sat Very wel; we ra dialed fa verdict for tlu edenduť sa bech plans; unos ellskog palmat Maheton Wong by Chumer, and upon the first termoz at the out the mad, and said that unicos they tinted be tat me, but yet was zur Tega aga leirit. We have a win in our low that against truth of the churges brought against she al\n\nspoliation navirense da things are to be presumed, and i meat Hong Kong, and that it was for the Tabakor\" of these fay be as convicted, and on the weakest of the behaved to Yew with binabar décenay to would give them one, baterie Pentaton se s tamuuttori 10 'miére jäi prisbas\n\nsil psk you as an hormmable man to 3708 That thesa\n\nIs to jure:nlicy Judge anal coul\n\nthose cinga lid on printed and Lwcase, the stroper ese being fat of all hepsi res information to which they expressed a wish to behet for a cuine of genes; and at lie samé tanie a controa\n\nugulaste si Welt: redentes y lisaks formed me sy se Ori- better informed, and he then third them he could per i prestitute of the town Cathie proton-copale au raping too evides of the gall of the Gospeter Gavravent\n\n4' principal for those il Chizes to the deptpl' süter of the Chis wo\n\narxistence. It is 10 luge, eramus justice, and sound That deal. Machow Wong was marred Sister pered with the tatereating investigation into Mahonjw cl.argue is the publikācá odalineseľ pupure of\n\nneut of Latin. had anguired by consulting' lud nine ended inedin pawnslegs the sem bone Hanece dolars, because sea- Weng'e caso had neily reached itu eczaleca in the Pelico\n\ncgrbury evidence of their cutems, through weld e- zuota, prepared, fre the purpose of tildides kehitet Matolaw innen the pawroker who clonged the scen Court. very last day I was suffering excediating paip\n\nfair in yen to sit it, there are 2 us who can kissin\n\ner (Le 2ad way of led by the \n51 Police, Mr. May. Acsonlingly Malay wis keat for sind be the calvo a farette suni unily Dollars for her person celiginal to hout it. I only to the neuted aleht saiut the aid Duum. Richard Cabluit, it me Jame and bropl his mud with dai, and Ure to nie mate. The coins and it proval batus est quicy. The shain so to be of uly proeid tust a long and iniunaté euangetan\" ja esitt\n\nbetween the Last tratat the whi to mars war Connise Terdila, namen Stieg Lol, who had bees in frequene opinion. I did, 'As to the Tetonada, that is a re publishra, the mud contests of the papers, 27.se, youclow witte : Caldwyn in corted, but rust Calanbend, for they are now Lural, en tan Garethe 2016\n\nallen version had been gled zipost ity Mt. Caldwe-insed to be a hacer by Clause Longe of Mrs Calcon, egg where they are, for they beat Lugu in bis 10 ::fic Governor, to the effect that the entries la Cie Laake reteived from his pawshop Lead a of nonly. Th were mi pogut entrcs, that there was curing leatp dildof the fact wing which they ray n tha hery of the pizate to them-acting whatever, and jority of the Commission are of opinion but it wank het\n\nthis bold step, tw zdevastorm of Tresh crimen were fail\n\nthe Chitovas; they always coupled time with seentza, a less tekig climate the Hong Kong: so the ety-f-every one of the Factz; because of the piestembe: vom Ur.l. for weed trout le Fou Tsepse. You have uses 1392 meat what is culed 1867, ad pracy, went transgrated for 1:15 to the purl 160\n\nMr. May, the Superintendent Police as magistrate or Hog Snar, M. Mar hee nos bem suaded for giving evidence al Mr. Catdoll, and he says konw the a, kowa ce allow Wook, was 57. Caldwell'in pol and trees relied upon to formar. During the whole oftaistime-that leave 1980. never reĥrened wa mate to biolohow Wong, either by the subordinate oleum of the police, ky old kuropan dents, or by\n\nepithetlaring selezenne to his bad chamater. Aes multimel repute and retoriety, I know the Mabel Wong hos for Jezz bron vorsiderad sectortionet, & respect of mines 3. from gambling-house keepers, a condectrale of pirates, SON recrow of telek gooo I Mama plastist nerause of ca 1. work bom postiar witlitegazu to Mr{akdwell—winters\n\nCimen in the coinsy very well knew-that Matchc .. Wong wat sopposed to da in possesion of great down, a ut wan belil in gest dread. Ot the exteat of us dread.\n\nbeste faly aware whenever it was my duty tu laverigune the case ignibet him. Igoko to maug Chinese of stundige 1. and property, and shey all exhuired a bowledge of his\n\neni curacter, but a relualase to do more tia This gentleman was a picnes of a juste vľ the porco, wlas navenbetes is considered a proper person to remain in tikt Chu). Geaca, en son as Sir Walter belt dhe\n\n• covered that 3. Gilbert Alusz, tas Laird of Pargowa, had been code of the press D.nks Flatserais, Book vilectual mesum to hee the Commicion of Price i\n\nBland From !be d'agence of his novion; and foetal y that a literary character like Sir Jatin Bos ring might have very robiy been expected to fellow the exacte setli by Bir Walter Scott. App, chinmay\n\nE Mackow Potrg seded ahir vonviction sp\n\ntraneporation. But no mark the prosem, beause this\n\nbring the a bow head of aging, which, theagh\n\nip of two onlilery others to the court clost 1 might dear the ovalent of the pirate book, andard shose hooks send in the Police Court de slag purled open the dose collow me to pass frena the the is on which was carried into the const; so I hoped to Potion Court interpreter in a loud waies, that it the world, motulit. hack him it in interpretation more wrong, read 11:\"Fə\n\n·Sam Kwei' (bet ie, dr. Calduril, the torturing or kerkida, Need) toey\" ist was an estry, earleazen; ju\n\neate an the all to particular\n\nvaid, \"I will go in again.\" He woak in, and the Governor\n\nI share Caldava 1 cher Wong mad the sail\n\n10, soma, by the said commuistion, Dalit Dad Richard Coldwed bad been, until very best À parter with the sad omviet in a lɔrelia, zrul the mirë,\n\nfursher show that the yard She of the sail.com clas\n\n1a jike parcneshly Jai! 16 between basi and the said venyter met lecat fenci yessels, and that a number of una in their day deơn, at vagina timas, guilty of pray\n\nThat die restliny Eve under the sail Cerriku was gevately printre and culo by truong sung Tern, but väheul indoegmentary videtza Taller! ski the sitesi, el coatiars to the protes of th been the, as was statel oa onth by the arimarenie\n\na. Lan, DONT MICRO, T\n\nQty of Sambon, in Suno which, after a calmed\n\nthe\n\nding, resulted in, obra vùng tha prasiat pagundy pic\n\nsud, \"I kus ibing of the benene of the papera. durd calew ware bort, they were bucat by Dr. Hridge, and not lag sa La broke of the pirate then conter excisation. Olier her speed that own the stricle in the China harsh lemore Mr. Careil on the Commisions for lie sansauranda, 3 know nothing of Lin\" \"he w\n\niesasperateri ilia'j aiges, exspe- hear da the eye of the Govenor, he had applied This? stein is to her gun sence to arcs of various kloun; dietasloudly sessionis flat bosh aya sud see if there were taled 194, and its proton avery' Inquest amus alb sead, it daw was open, nant I could boar hits, stud be was very \"C.\n\nany swab cutes in thdia, And why do you tilus be up theur vers partionfctly Tirumakt. itemquatracce e il ficus imputenbel to neve he solint wort of projectile kunwa drog Paliced by this 1000\n\n2. 118 425 of the the to? Wit, of all men, do you this he employed on the subject, and was again divined to fold is proce The Soaking Berhey mast have own full well had been about of stinkt pat\". payee of Life You a rezolves the book thay cured this var tuusuciata winxber there were any entries in the truth in that Dr. Bridge the Acting Unlonal Secretary tune unsay shout thuthum, Laven Laborants pargnuts,Gestalo Bub Sigler's coins, winch pirate's books incupatory either of the pirate the part who advised the censur, id, sir. Davel was eppo wapiz, then he gitty as, Dr. Bojes, Mid Commission on the ane tril of the Quetu . T\n\nareas were ação by the Canis Eigh me as instants need by picator Sam thaques. Why die parmer, gentediet? This fhda. Lattez to whom he apples wx All this was petal catfury ma vida e con exile in\n\nColwell, after the conviction of tar sa Machow 5 appointment discoting to acting Chineze scoretary to go berwuda before the Commission that let linge was aleau works heftest be wrong thement of the si sūdens 118 parla. immanian theme soboto prazposes of desunto. They\n\nand assist - Durdwell in the inquiry which heal. Can a casing about for a further opportunity and relega pole back paneme ta por seul as other this extructed to the api lagi. profile a catcmple as to bewilder their oppo-\n\nmily had been ducted to make sure prudineert bother the afbringing the Government to save tried sidi de pequena co muy first preferring rise toer hie darges against Mr. Rielar wel! bu is expecially charged with did cre nesta a leg who are about to board, in slu anpe of setting in to tie voocel. kere were numero Commission of Inggning, out in my leg, bead aguchi veu dus sirenastade med. The Government at Caldwell and piles in my place in the Legisle is Majesty's cura in motion against persons whol\n\nall vessels wi entries us of dortrustion as illa, and over sidste to be the witness for the Uras, on the trial one disproved of the chair power confered spend Theftey were they me butt with alleges the pirates, and against all\n\nto je, na galust all places where he algimin· anou een oudceived from Skor Koneen spinet Tarerne, and there a bean doubt of the aduc Mr. Caldwell, and we were able to recourt knowles they were och be useful to Path, go drabt, un videre-thane to fact-Mr. Under the related vend kid mal was in committa the accusel sy wers bau after produ\n\nTait in the pic af ar Malety's outers - I have mest enamcuted them to 300 so I went on, I leave\n\ncott Bad Kwag na he is called, of any purchase of and Mr. Mans asked to must fan and Mr. Modzin when I received fine in peritcedent of bien a letter to presturs them had to have them bed by fur produccion vice plus sole multial inflation of the el aladdy hops in my to: The way was thila—A young\n\nGen ego. And what you they deal and Caldwell in all arch of lige Tak Art of educadou, ef grea: personal-I Acer of Jerodox.0, thein arapaiment, there is LLC chart det til him by tomatogne sunce mages of evidcide to the eff chat held i\n\nTai since the signing of che la ray of p asy beunty, her his aprestake was as that of a fede abondamen there to w Any ROVEor, zealous for herpes to lines that no bundle was very hierdie wise his power for Wing, unfortunely, long\n\nGlina, uvasis of the, Chape coast, in violation IT MA one of it, thus the man who had at all, and that ou the other bundle the bestowed what he abuser of thels in this way, hili he was granting the acting Chinese secratur;) is mee to cama inter car\n\n1rea, lava berume Publiwa, guided and directed by Gešti ... of 1925-lure description in kv 63 2. Was\n\nChina **U WIScuration.\" He says is the dish to bredelskont of his down property, and prae- ryceriu desunie mors, fouad to encumber pas Denici Richand Cudil Brave Cock thick acidéy (tor Mr. Cool: wat pituus elite-341 h a secured wae 220; fix to ra\n\nnot cause all the textements he pub to Mr. Cromwell, eating with effect ultricies that there untied, to se ging Clumése Ofies. They diù in bing to the Chase Ofe 15 the following mes ocurral in the wqeriş il 2. At Une trial in Lile book which he beat writea oui Ciminin Quotes of the Fuzon (Apple)\n\nand he does not think Me: Cafdwell torstited tum, chance our prasowe property. According tid The Leugd de Palin fce, it is true might Apr: st: u of uret, as evide and where we believe, was inckie oue stated like being the Ostwall Commi, nd Mr. ther be gh: mot disse his fly in Anzies, she Davies, wind, and when the oil age to know that Mr. Caldwell was bore Wirk, berise se thakter, with the wires, believe sunt them there and ought to take the pubes her Majesty's valicza plesal the sole er upperial allegat of th were of the best cepeccability-in Earth me of Este, even to the poial of the full towards with a number of the when Ireland Council, and I sakithar duodin ruveta test faluzea du bat i asked tise Guarner and he told\n\nDaniel Ric Caldwelt: he had cuker and give to Mic Morgan to perse and Mr. the ordinate for the purse veftig das Legistar merak The Bulger, and De. Trigga yaki • Thụp only ruchan, 1 expediu 10th of Mr fast ga Boys, and he was to my proseptic, at Attorney Genry), I rekla ile ago, at de woods [aan? to tried and evicted-1 au sorry to y, c the 4 were defano I went into the court resapan, without staring them with the date\n\nto heridong any pecay void the ral aid \"Tyler is ofte the dus of the Ladeperdendof the enuio of piracy, the xys this The Antorery Geotul's shot when our they were all rigs and the report was diawn up and eat from the for! size string to aty ko mase Ti said be Tacy are mere end undertaler were banale\n\nwastog : Weng grunt-end volevo che grad-very properly not be Mr. Nenu,\n\nof the power ferret an M. Caldweb...) Deaked wat was uneven plan is the site out of bagi the Loring of opinion dit he had not convicted e\n\nis is feetly opmeet. We has only wired ac, Mr. Chudwell. Mr. Clewell reported to the Govi moric motely, but Me Colwell spent. A lire put of the day due to create der is so that he was merely convicted of piracy, smal\n\nEst addressed her pabely happen ontiment which have sexa, aut wiret 1 hp will be and reported Shubho was hity the azett. Est de properly sting of the cuss in depatruling w \nke,\" Free which cut is Chinnan Day the\n\nvaez the Funga V Danë newspaper, qüuhag fas published at less eleverd het book. You may chuka urtean city of Wade Wig Tit Sourke,\n\n--Fast flokit - statuiest, teic, \"Tuus the pinaka charge, it ALANYAGİLİNDARION I am labouring & avatare wies) 43 30 pacer. w you wish to set pure so to sey e vet toptir He began in crale\" vie\n\n@miate or uw why I did it. We crmitory, o'i chy' way incapatory; if bind when I was spinel Libes Way, seven weeks at that knd la that safe of as they\n\nDodwell come all took us session the Hundwist Bisur ne lastics tim this, bet no cler yet, it is lyriba for his was consolib and date ich t kad mad prizes old bundy, watery Chinese Jesele and good, but of ureja veeeels and get porter on the art flow Cart Mr. Called Buklear?But it get farther on this. Megan, on stated alub, Le way adding the Guercituent, whi\n\n- Thi ly ra cho tiện, việc nghind: 1 Júlio Kucose, is 'nce, 'crite end to abile,\n\nestiollant Wind in partueze of: che meses\n\nhunder to avitas tenser sind, herefte We\" who ale to be thic ecofioing theres to tlit \"bom juscy wi it is entered vesla og Chistice, eye care, trig winds to how were wilt duration et dedans want. 11 ist fuch has evo sing the appointment in these Le\n\nA proceeded to take aud' wakt prizes of Potgier and even of English It could be .icd-bigbut them we were duething to stay away or tu forges they to ir healthy why do te dore Sime' and look us et Mens specifice- these day a wine to the Crown site pircle beta oponed and face way, that even casi toto hepere forts had básn ichkir tó\n\nHe, Caldwell out on so Desk While the Chief Maglenkad bet akarate the dress of pure atentia to the age of her with tweed in the driting, and who was the marterly speeches I ever lado ati ang dile-iliat did no Berred; baie wuld he lied dot the listed og bin rated 1.16 118 REBOZDey-Centrul Zur the Crown, were] Lind Hberation of Mahshow 'Won, fecia the clucose that Fredd2 attunewars I'died the confoluit of Vedelendum is, these referral to, in this case of the Conferuerteve) Non him by a pirate und ( nviting atmose tire pel the bar and file wiends toere le cos hand that i helion well to Sir Bowl of 9. Jest Tarar chat him out from his chues of just\n\nla reging by \"verbering to her Majesty the can.\" -¿Lead cyplinsé:)' Wit By such they preted to ocnyvaz editions, thors bei gwa sila, and otheeatunc\n\ncant Ohmamen ging video liber was the peper or fabricion of do you think the govt to my of Intent freibe becaues te jugs, who always to grow ranting i\n\nsideration they were struck with the vente of barget, or confort of main, lad deteraped that gul angle, jugil a Lehmkomptly honnante unek bad been re- Mr. Davies is an pourable and opright, but u moet olen and that\n\nbuk shio was deo much uses on a Torted in enter to procure the lure or Latest they new grups to into iteme tarp barat tify a splations liel, soit un\n\nLiyur petitioners ate infor not the public pessa ut excuse to for you to judge af ik validity. Bat I have a\n\nthe commutes at the ears Mspite a Grown wines add beca bring to to say the Bar appened to Car, nodingly this was declare is a pufed with the bobeer defence. Br what actity\" do you, the men of\n\nbit, thend or hisgistrate who was on the Benus, said to me the Cow 489, nd he was akhez of lore furodde teulement of ants or inphns; fest to bring the avertent isto uttal i con- Hong Kong was with the gravest sharges against her uro Ebook, I think you ought torkowest Mank is an generally falls ad the fut of Hong Kong sila, banghts one in Secretary of State se ga je ten, Sw, Mr. arrunt ipad vg for alué deine, 1 blogg's local unit, suising out of the sets of the ni Tunel Fabia Caldwell, witasub ny stopa bʊng teken Hong Kong, prosamo to tyo, ka Ararian cisÓN, DE\n\nrest in which ouius fi torebet upan hi h serious, and he been cool of he told the that Me.\" Mag'a ↑ W Many palmerit; trest, siunt is prasandhang no, preg as\n\nAriel enly echte boned having followed the ukamulu saslim\n\njusty's Gurraient at horny, Jby the British comede e period of Jig de good)Malawidity rephormorandy were to the Courel, de milite of should says, whenever let me extence: not a tal on w, by tur ecce as\n\nulo kauly, Theta quite a misuke, Nix. Eug in ne subtitri Coupe,\" ays My Dixsongengrene, mm, Fabere ready to righend what was sad, ra, wana boju til, denying to That you diners e farther informa chot ́́s Youlo en ability hoy resucher: sis cake of Mr. Caldwell, who she promett, Alferplant in Jeppe.tjie\n\nin consequence or be acts Court. The young picafe turbel, un lam with TRON\n\nhar for life. This pewnią kair, whose appearance oply ja ¿very respect most preprenenting, lidil, nesici furlega, \"Litez +the cance of this phraga ditere perods\n\na from the are 1855, 1856, ADG 1857, for as long an x-\n\nde, hoving her treat it the posite by what, gezišlą miejų a\n\nsoftly exjoyment out of a lui Delagian\n\nNalci Poiy,\" and supped fra te te sime with\n\npas pedagowa by the struct\n\nsul collars in money, and welty for cos janda\n\nof those from. Mol whore willing the\n\nof to re\n\nShu or anong gani, the tuik of whic\n\nand Led by resi\n\nHow was unt invest gatal. Batore The Beaton Bona's a li\n\n· Mu brei, nad who exprend is read\n\nto\n\nadjuskuse on the case, and it new apposes fram, eisal decoration of the Case Castor At B\n\nLut the legal piracy Ye\n\nJaw jacc\n\ndatid cerfi-zion of a Sales\n\nat the corn the gastropod the test -1, exquis ook pult, I was pureaued tri the Atrey-\n\nyies distant from Peng Kang, viktse\n\nFWninos 4 ใน Mu\n\nJun+\n\nacity were onwering the waller or city with Chinese cứ duratione pre by me, they m;,\"store, L'insverfus Ceageer be thhed infuñà÷hoi si't the very chané de \"wasture Legs undertaken atlasswise păzi şJelitoraizly, quid rich di alluzbi àltevės ro angelu salt into the saidilir. and dezambiaron und muraus où desituelium and deadh, tiež pevaaja this most Ring'hérorë · Henriečkkaemisă when'] Conkeret ón metody. (Rudnnà těšiai vah tribal with bad de Guabip. Processing wers commod in the Pulica / voliars were under preple\n\nCual will your to a prosecution ser libel of the sail towns with two hours,\n\nlisa proprietor of that jupur Sir Th\n\nasenBalion Charmy of Expeti funt:c:ky m5- per with British dominion), tor property hall 19 bapa luier. tu2+)?) \n\n| peurs ing Lo maid mutes u flazbe Woo), but willing any peccf, or injẢ ĐỀ\n\npref, 13 coline; the sald sewn with this ad allest\n\nto petablish the truth of such si logetion. Towing the said verds in thus suidtuint of\n\nand the prizeutics of clues weioner's Report, i\n\nquica by bis partadi, Sri Culkin Ayplay.j'. Pagkus Mache Wang, M. Caldwelź ext 20 the Bestivité decurrente, the fin# Peľ was tete 10 där fets, abg no wories of hopeat knutý, Ahri saytigt, on rebooveything in the law tit jouds to the liberty or places Five Queed to Ja!! Rhad calli\n\nzeli yua win he riv \"Yes, graden.cu buld centered these pirnoje, I basoetatud may\n\nwell, you shoổ tut teava, the Coat. It 1 sog\n\n- In\n\n-1\n\ncontinue to bold la ulices of epistur-Borland Pro-\n\nfasten object, and Justion of the Pen\n\n-\n\nopas\n\nThat one piles huully pray your Maganly tost The Dichand Sawell as the anodica phed from extresings said does of gist-renca\n\nyour Majesty was fiber, state such sy\n\nut your Alaiys Critical. -\n\ne naved\n\nThis yields totank to tini) zei; flua elitize\n\nTeplagent on board'éco ether piste junk, dist c£5 on krainie Mchoben Wong. I day day i dennepéviter is primasda eru re” Cure of 9.964 Kiz the toho, ability;\">ub' #1 to Flis millest was 13, 11 to jrove the justi ofera zné 'bu fiɔmė gl Gran Maxis, he adopted, amig\n\noy the Mayur se belesif of 11e meetings una chut the See petilien to clean, Lyk Lyness to the fart Bluts for biome Afain the requested to press the abu Bin Silben : the Ainge of Commiting\n\nBog ur Neeraden cephes, 1 for F and Northumberless be formed with appien se sa notition, and requested to support is pron,\n\nthe\n\nNar\n\nsinty ever happened. Toward the end on aller case der is met. Promate. Cats?#eliftektálation Jowy cerunkenyíčel, † sleges vanitý tu da in Boug Kong. · (Apple) I kids in, but afttraing that he wrote dijose only of a 3k)- j offiser of known el which your petitions - Bohinch 1 new before saw equales, and it ben boxks pered to sa ikat is, the Ott hectate)-Mr. ULIENTE This front mas altérfi sa' Mr. Beyond wilmot hafte u work I stukut bajene it. vienmant sälja vasant clue $2000 18 Guseramcul, all hasing ban aakrod to: recueile unencre, - nepest of tetth He Mind My Cali-Gadwol in Mashow Wong's adapter. 2, in may have dr. Moun n this white car; oist I live desires norieteni which sa stuffziest to gue secres, such as, e con las cerefore ether nigrisane ne kely to low.\n\nmil adoped father, I do know 1-made of the teak up del did I bet white m\n\nTelit for the subjput of the thugplit his to take up that they rely institute en iy te teece to have entered this Et any or stannak a the time but the end of the case al beat fit to hy weed the traits de trait in and tie was, beet this honour last selgus, and the Judge of the culpis hold the rare of the petition to the Bouses of Lek's bu Ame of thee. bis are here, you, who quietly to br. Caldwed, are heard thank Mrforcuccino w This is of the resty je dny, day in atribut to delete the honour, Crown gut ferised: me time this career of orhng thall be caldwell, abent, your patios with the vase, was there wadh son why He bave tent with the date the 17th of May, 1938 verli, by the Crava prassence, wild as suid was opes Justine, but the prayer of the polition to the Queen was us aland with the exceeded, wit alig volubility. were sur stod say they wereteeming of nettur-argir the nor this roler received master tour the Secretary or to trove (by gality of the cavenient, and having fo\n\ntions contéptet ut per the indin dietider Sveces of Bahar One you Brus kete but in jautify the bed, for it woul A late costance będe tamu Walbe present at the inquiry, the you le coună-\n\nder wet br, 1 of the you struction by us that promet, pa ih the more in loved in reported. ll, gentlesser, e il be. For m piece of polios of European xures, such pe chara\n\nlierter thing, tid old role puude hink you go. Prot. I said no more excel, had her mull I have no large, penta Tanpired the trial sint tag were decle of in the Chincre, 'and 'which has said lid al com from Mi. chatyour penceration I have inter reeds graminacey kist ever themiubit of ang us Job By illegal enguant nur short pet she hinten, end Faction of ds: Pease pu Caldwell. Els declared his red padon, and I bar. 22201 Wes 11. ca corte e (9-12 chapter conveyed in the hose leidu libus petition is at to the cold try me that tetece prated suit circuled, but nav ar pilkul in the berzerie, in deferi he had shton s prson, popne in which altere med acts. Doudy, Jay, the mind one part of the needs office. I let it has previouidered themed parts as at the agreeing \"The información rize is functions were detepeisles de Messina. *Caldwellende brother, Mulishow Wong, boating Colonel Mexicozy requetudo so take a vase pooch Ms. Monpais. 19isit there is how to me hall work in the Maglażba përt of cha\n\nErs Lovereanett warno longer thrë qi | er himself to have bòân”- chicago-wiens, M. Card it as is May's case. Day Bekles, the Aoting Colegiary'sy And Siver : \"they clä salis dots i had e, mladinkoneiden 2011 (5)\n\nwellen into a sent, ithead of bustin By original par Services, axplained to me that ho-bellevad bir. Any toe papers entrere, but netan ere were states are with her disputs this postion the did not prove it by ban wings, me he was sing Folded in the magnity of policing & levels -pose, and leaving the conce, or pyvalme to the curt te 10 rowe way pajudined sponu (whom day-thak, penele tormeil the subject of agres' o'what's the ahy, for while, at the word things, tien j\n\nditions viice cheek Crowu wănesiép, far, Irlikes, T. Môngán, 1. Youll here: China bưng v? tự nghe Hob Reig I new nit! new show h, tht to chat retr -proteo! kin, or askroje leuve for one in Mr. Calovali? No † sgaipet).MuleLow Wang.\n\nBet him in the end i Amk fasi ya desch wert hate Bowed it, arc wies and a Con Me two tur conuicted to theke animement when the retele dena; be ligicha zaid against in. Caldeuil sound he beerture\n\nstein and tornou mierer the fuse \"szért made bye debet my Bi peace, une with a head & mods Setween fives, and couple it very cosible that would take my are John Bosdag Mi. Wade's reporte feicis alliesenstar and piratant explain is al even un acknow\n\nFred, nad valeur was giche che il sola hile manner carrying witle is convxtion of the truth of the bention to doing so had solely we tras sie dasise: Vitalne the Chilies State Stad ductinenda, no he is bunds: llame Gentieren bi the charse of this wel die tui rilaktin senfessions of Dr. Bridgy instit, Lord Lyndhurst tank they, interes, it is not\n\nSecretaty a theory, lemort me cretary gra street. ket ky eye'sed en thas unter -May focuya sheld poke hazz, nach ki mua jimata'y Ark whit a Na\n\nin the inghest terms the petitions freia this tea Pannte man, an his sat there under the allerlag demanesi\n\narranged that we zi.ould hath with Then it big avil swenney-General Mi; Aditz? tals Rated; wart referred 'te li kiengrity whel, masel tuplasente, at å which they acheidint The jury issing of the morient I 2054 to live Twish His Old Crawstway's) Buty cümiselled h ting if the young pirate, and I saw in's deco the\n\naridanse ho goes on to say shas Mr. Catwell, corac! ene basereperietes bere thou and Bi. \"Caldwell's tagdermit sipan 1992 finds of them on seat or é difractal We donder the bulȚ most abject ped the most complete ecofen his guit, use of the sopranotation which have to the gut being discovered, but on when do that'dule the kit, and which they reledere etract fra jast bed by the evidite of the Chow it to remind apture from the primary f The Fout Atheriyan te vektoriced and prukaḥed, bas it\n\nCoperto, adul not to alter a future, as a note his eye. Note that it is tuc late for a while but when & boy well lavori Urresting bars for the brought to pressure politi\n\nbe maling; and taped that Mr. Edila Janes Skul jameting, thinkingrachtdi duetzibál, eď trials Enlu Karena lester to clears pederskil to inquirero\"\". (Apple) libre o letroduced during de tre petiolo probability which is, you wil of my career what was gutted to Bir Jolin Howalny ió qu consider a very probablu jebak de Walpole, and who is full order dứt the I put me in the of the Combat is the defence et gallly even notice in a los 67 Court on this He herbure, poskirted skal pla ne, was committing to the huge of lesbiete or inferabuty, rape they iron going to jure in the dataset made pés justa 2 Wand they uid, que\n\nquestions of etiquette agits zu Lin waived, st that it Tầng ki the tiásẽ of every mandlily édes of the\n\ndece did de desert-lum Att. Ha di 201 forell possinterpret the Hugh find withly my enter the Ses of Bret' I' prutekidit in die name or Theron appisil to the judge for costs, all. eet the low/high af te dzieje 1.5in pha Sapd bubbly fut he had hail and who had the bài)? Panimadiratokeo Motion Manama wakiel cortese again it that-ridistrikt, The viler bf the | gj\n\n\"Well, under Lord Cupbell's Ko, and appe be there did so the court sec on this Calls. And what bids Mr. Caldwed, aduca be the feat-by-1 Patio, Ingileifilutleie het urituli eie se lest is labele se ili beg capered he wwn sees of the car by giving their day siege the harsin af Mr. Jones. Ep erine Fant doch and maile report of thuto welched magicTalen top? Way, clasped Co. by one dette noen taryf die stider in or on Bareng dati, bis spits against the Crown (ie will it pr. A skal med to add, but Afr. Zuniga, Devoting theesin the principal portion to the trial of mion--. 19 old do not forex Burette, user einiglitz traway! -it we never intended to a tie mors will repect to the asthey sweary of longer euitendag with the misrule of the British\n\ndaily in runt litet habeating cocutare. hát to thee tới mướn that the demandar obale trave power to intulegt at, mal bei 1 600 6. Every harding will invest at long Rog, had exchang Bags, the barone of what the sail, ed I desired, found that the magistrato was in kyler Milmiy's later, and bore the com\n\nsha mabject of a terrenet to Mr. Whe, the belt Crizelse i uthe Sometime of Moet dank the sulfat peckers the pot of the clung being tiled fur by: of han ritate infesty or be a corp\n\nImperio Major the inspaene på.China, al luced by Mr. Gibidwalk to syrept of dreindly low. Ieder\n\nand Ferlinuculary grant. is not er mis to nevid Passion of the peace ng Kai-for 1 yo amend in vana, de haciz Mahshow Wong Seo have here ofered in whichrit-lan at leiðarokk of isim num amzkurt, and then\n\nJr. Pouncilor Disparas had great paying -the grace of attlag is the same commission with Mr.\n\nJuden in your for debt for a few days storm which was, wiesenet was the thing trial selbe just denial, the wasthead like on of Xeconds whey should Gard well stated, I say, die sold pity the time previous levertheless, Mahshow Tong was conan the inquirix: 2 . Monti Multish Mit John da to re e thuit made of this Bits This la cuve of the meta, mut had lead her than su\n\nPA Take y ethere of serall be real, and all\n\nmatic aire dent where of Mr. Anne, Justy par foto bn up and vend au wordt had his bovision, tabe ploca examination every and the by, beg byg\n\n·Topptation and Palipahoy world i purua exopt up this line got store' Jer, that public sandal bed but unt evary at: was made By 31s. Caldwell specə > where: Weijl.\n\nlowers and now; & fou verds buice's lake wave of you a The motion was carried shotiniously. Moines unlock to do this there by the look of saying Whit cheaped in Net of begin by requatuo: there in\n\nMr. To HET. LE. Weid bus tree the ter seun which the-hop gelo x want wien, si mor of 16 slet Buc me to my how much ist das picot's stal\n\nbeing met. Et the dayvalter I had that vidunderlie the prevés szacujalise Kaving Goch. RIMI, o l'alvo,amt ákotek Mr. Caldwell'; but the I imew\n\nMelchion, Fung may Birthink that by as: Alengan akute todo che continue miter which has earninus of miley clite Tr wickelly of churae, that it win pofidetty true that Max. Los reparted LTE WHICH TO: + with lenth of coma de double all ye hi! I want to perfore by suols Bands Racid, the pipe that having bags to the May, des -terpie fri eventibử with the Afti dhanon or getting off???ed:hu nad a perk von Grace | Pelketeart' scathifi. Mit Pulbosat sitt which in med tobeat du the puLE U VARse to you by Mr Crświley. Yən muşť 1.22 sagpry this term\n\nhew Werk, who was storeddy beefed with\n\nTechpod, 30 in abm.com. To juman who actuel far as 37. 3. Tinker went the not by let the great chase motor and bridal suites and find a bygons matter. 1 were, hub is me rent Why 5, whethe\n\ncoction, plow, stall be same. The Constant at se injured into, and the guilty paulühe becue, NEWCASTLE-UPON-TINE: Maya cha kar moer Urinalty.” The » de is a liesing sakit and in werial agent, if\n\nIf not 'somotáing more than my Kingsky was a young maling in\n\n- Str. Gæstwa Pradoodle for disproves in cybe long ng this first of things last né make up r impant, fur Nejeng's Arte Karilor; and (riffet laat, if so vary w pipe of stem of\n\n• A Lake? Kako se kockat ng ma¦¦:00 Unilure - Chelausen | *apen som to neposers' Chaetesi Por jo mirik, kalya Aith is shorty sit bonarofublimitlam of\n\ndot pri e nuhrer, in the jolske dit Manwhere. hald rentours/niche e victime to the fokus, or out apposte, 1 won by oral by allies in a hit doe\n\nGoverment aut tømn-it. Nag hat dare to train so my lets tred that di Ihres most prouxing toidetle in which a slaan Kong. I maat, kovretta, say 'dolara, `· Eltem, hear dibéo be a f“ „Antikks sward and spank the broth, and I näded: \"Thein sa det aru Koz brady, given\n\nEd 9 wat gate yek böcker at Fangio go that they considerare ding with Mr. Cash has drawn ittich, whit szer kle bir that choctagonar Dagisee. Wain of A Kimpoti in his shade-tzat, lac did lesa quets At ja pelamath now to be to ice for Age in weid, and 70 at hall to say one of the praling the last 92 ci ad pedas entry-it-14) beendal this is (open toyiq queue o to me to be not vil poting that stenty of\n\n· Kgreat improvements Fita a intrbelicëdürzatean of GTE\n\nto\n\nis\n\nreach Een the book in the Kunde DL.\n\njust-abs that they havʻstake' is \"die\" \"chinë '18 Do ↑ Deen ashamed to' hace punimi, sext which I povedled agains l'stä! Is your variet 11 yes that ly | Phèz họ to come how chèt couhl as the objects of\n\ncbeth\n\nונו\n\nMaliciru: w' pa oval 10 joule the supension of this en de 1e eit.al Crown gut áľ sestdise Prielled it 4, Grey Strare, by. WALK Winajan k\n\nresiding eV hit; and publisket by biel Atistis Sunet Neroun-Xn-Tymer, 50, Hommed B Sieci: Digli Studi Samiecians; and Kesant g Durban, i am as gunu gharama\n\nSaturday, Jun 25, 1959.\n\n3974\n\n229\n\n\"Hirveastly for 27 1854\n\nI have the honor\n\nto forwurdt\n\nBook Prst le\n\nZen\n\nAug\n\nby\n\n& Pettern\n\nfrom the down yerrwonath\n\nther Miprsty, which\n\non behalf of the public meeting, at which it was allatibit.\n\nA is\n\nmy duty respectfully to mequest", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-075 - Public Offices - 1859.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 248423, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-076 - Individuals - 1859", "page_number": 26, "title": "CO129-076 - Individuals - 1859", "content_text": "the Honble\n\nand legislation jeremilla\n\ntime, abandoned Hong Kong for Shanghae Hennyhedor Davies, the late they Magistrate of thing Keny. I say the late, because I am informed, a Komp. *ery desponding letter prom himself, just received that my own fate, the iniquities of story kong, their prolonged inspeenity, and my final departure Roux the island, have led to his renouncing\n\nMagistys Cronical service, resigning all his posti ut Hory Kory, and perceeding to the northe effaina\n\ntemperary when he had accepted a\n\nunder\n\n\"the Compern of that country, connected with the Customs; lised where he would be freed pom the corruptions and annoyances, which he most justly complained of at Hong Kong.\n\non\n\nthe 15th\n\nLastly, sir, the late Geveran Bownicy, principally increspated in the Caldwell Case, having-as learn - taken his passage fu begland ulting, will have left they Kong beyon : Severin Motrinon will have left lugland.\n\nbefore this.\n\nbanellery\n\nBut this absence of material lenopean pathies is not the only hindrance to be apprehended.\n\nis\n\nI do not hesitate to\n\nsay\n\nno\n\nthat, so for\n\nInquiry the rest sufferers, the (mese, are concerned, the enquing already damned, by the preliminary micasure fo confirming the suspension of suyself, the accuser, from office\n\nAct one of them, sir, will now come,\n\nare shrewd and silpsh. against the guilty. The Chinese\n\nforward\n\nThey\n\n1\n\nCan\n\nread\n\nThey su me\n\nmer\n\nThey\n\n25\n\nruined, and, to far as they\n\ndisgraced.\n\nace theme Cheef Magistrate, Mr. Davies,\n\nflying from the island and prom office, in quest\n\nof predom, and peace of conscience.\n\nThey\n\nme thin Suspenstendent of Police, Ner\n\nMay, awaiting his\n\nJusne\n\nservice.\n\nthreatened removal from the\n\nOn the other hand, they behold in the\n\nBrother tranquil posession of great concluemment and Enormen hower, as their Protector; \"Registrar General, Licineer; and pustics of the Peace, _ a wretch when impudent avowal, before a Government (miniscon Chinese Convict his partnership in kine Lorchas, all engaged in the infamous \"Convry broiness,' with a compelled the Commission, albeit packed in his\n\nCorcha fawn, to find him guilty of a long d'intimate\n\n\"' connection, and pastaudiep in _ at least _ a with that convect, described in the same findery to have been always a notorious pirate!\n\nWhats\n\nThey tears that he continues to wield at wis the forces of Her Majesty, for the destruction of\n\nplace it pleases this modern\n\neve\n\nChinese person\n\nJonathan Wild to deiate for pineey.\n\nThey remember the unquestionably piratical Lorcha, Arrow, and the war waged to avenge the captura\n\nJ", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-076 - Individuals - 1859.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 250011, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-079 - Public Offices - 1860", "page_number": 161, "title": "CO129-079 - Public Offices - 1860", "content_text": "Administrative Office\n\nHome Office\n\nrefusal\n\nUkutal of a short libertin select my private papers\n\nmy furniture\n\nthe denial\n\nAllah\n\nliberty, evan & see my\n\nAllah\n\nto\n\nint see my left).\n\nadviser on\n\n19\n\nbeing arrestia ast\n\nJeff the Criminal Gave\n\nthe\n\nI hes sot\n\n» NJ\n\nassure your\n\n\"Lord thy\n\nthus contumed fallein\n\nme up is making\n\ndeath.\n\nmaking me terz\n\nkaned u\n\nA\n\nnero\n\nfever he\n\nthre\n\nreques\n\nmy\n\nmy blood\n\nthe Car\n\nthe door of the de Yine 11. 1 an an\n\nI have Le W\n\nMeRight Minorske\n\nthi frage TAS thout hoble\n\nThe Duke of Nicolete yo te\n\nLord Duje,\n\n159\n\nMarch 1860\n\nFrade disained my\n\n'Aukið RPM\n\nExter\n\nNur\n\nwithin four hout of maje\n\nel dry\n\nof yeter.\n\nEn ti chean\n\nLight me\n\nx report\n\npavan\n\nIreyse\n\n8.\n\nThat\n\nhesive the witty, of when Juristere cory from a copy_ Ievietove. Copy\n\nKu kin\n\nthe the periciis\n\nof the Fart Gration;\n\nlu\n\nkim ther\n\nmbinatie\n\nherff will pumpe sa pe \"of regulation, for tha", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-079 - Public Offices - 1860.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 250642, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-080 - Sir Robinson - 1861 [1-3]", "page_number": 203, "title": "CO129-080 - Sir Robinson - 1861 [1-3]", "content_text": "and perquisite of Her Majesty, in her office of Admiralty aué chall since his evamant to the Marshal Demmaning him to effect a sale, and the and forensics. next proceeds, after deducting herefrom all cats of preliminary processing shall be paid over to the Receiver of Her Majest jo ti rest of Aomically\n\nAny person or pero one claiming to be the laws ounce or owners of property tatter from Perates aus which shall out execes in value the sum of $250, may eatin of a claim herats by giving relies to the Peziotein ans ales to the frontor for the blown, estive fork he particulars of euch claim, and ameeping merete any documents ver in it's, or Copics and translations onitacey, which may be necesary to establish the wait !, and ownership of the property. But no such claim shall be herade sabers entere dear at least accon lunescape before the car fiser for the hearing cars fic forthe bharing of the claim to condemnicatin enterie by the Proctor for the Brown, nor amless at the time of entry there of excurity shall Reciven to the satisfaction of the Registrar, for the payment full lato\n\nIf the Raimant a laman shall frares, to he ovatisfaction of the buize that of amy property, batten from Preates the size shall ander relitation hire of to be made on the Claimant a blommante pracional e fences comactic herewith causales, in lieu of valvage not less than one eighth poort of the teve verse of the property, and such caboye shall he disproved o in onomer dirati by Law.\n\ndistress and cale issued or Shout's any such claimant allaimants as aforesaid fail to establish his a their daim, hearshey shalbe liable to pay all costo occasioned breach proceeing default of porporent on the say piper broke duke for that purpose o than aut of distre any recle of the gods ofthe defaulter a de fruiters shall be rammed muder the real of the Court discotes to the Marshal, Antifachim be made hata veuffieut good of the defaulter or defaulters is a creto le forums within the blony hear they es maning default shall be liable the om prisores for any term til spacesing here months\n\nThe following fees cheel be taster for and in respect of the foraging parecedings\n\nBy the Judge Fee on order for de bene esse Exammation See on Shearing £. 5.0 10.0\n\nBy the Surrogate bursaring sack Deponent to an affidaint\n\nBy the Registrar On Entry of Claim Gder for de beneleve Examination Gamination of witness de bene ave Deoree Summonerhulpana Marant of Sale a Distões £ u 5.0 \"/ / 5. 540 £10m $10.0 4.6. 10.0 5.0\n\nBy the Marchal Jasting possession and mating. K Trum Neeking possesion perday Every sale after consommation Executing Mamant of Gisteer £ Q . . . 0\n\nBy the Appraiser Two and a half percent\n\nQueens Frostor In the whole £10\n\nWhenever the pasporti clamed and restored is of very small value the sul panan at his discretion order and direct that one fourth only of the above fees shall be paid\n\nA lourt of Vice Admiralty, for the heal of euch cases. shall be held once in every month.\n\nForm of Miha by Marchal to Naujishar of his having taken charge of Veselorgards tague from Peratio\n\nIn the pre liimimalt, Part of Cummary Simrisdiction Manchal of tetice liminally Court of - heeein - precastine hat I have tatton chang of (henstumribes head storia) basten", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-080 - Sir Robinson - 1861 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 251447, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-081 - Sir Robinson - 1861 [4-7]", "page_number": 457, "title": "CO129-081 - Sir Robinson - 1861 [4-7]", "content_text": "## Original Text Reconstruction\n\nThe original text appears to be a historical document written in French, with some English words and phrases. The OCR output is fragmented and contains numerous errors.\n\n### Reconstructed Text\n\nMajor Darel prouve avoir reçu les instructions. Me Kéoix; 451 personnes firent partie de notre escadre à Echen, capitaines Katchmen; contumace en vay. et \n\nDet barques; \n\nDanide..... \n\nTo fix soundtory le fleuve & maide nez pour le cet Trethewrs à Mardi. votre vie à la ville. \n\navait été toute que Cette appoints émoi par cette a d'Européens. Votres à \n\nPuraficennal reqielle n'avait for So fondation \n\nmite en \n\nRottites proférés \n\nyent des \n\nDet prop Bettie. \n\nLe Major Livre \n\not le Capitine Blackeston seccent \n\nreutdannic \n\nno bie invitatio \n\nits out été, autti voir ib \n\nSeuls à \n\nquels ils \n\na vore wot \n\nles matidaris \n\nfait deman dos palanquins d'a hard ice cé fictes, accordés après instances. to h Du Major Porte pavillon's Pade (Grain Kin chay). is some \n\ndaris de than Koon \n\nHan kon \n\nWhelt \n\ntu \n\nfait prendre cette enseigne comme mesure de préndence. En esime \n\na.time.. \n\nLov \n\ncet Mettieur, Rente \n\nfranchir Orinalaga \n\nei \n\nFore \n\nhe conte de torvre était interceptée par les Achelles. \n\nà la fin \n\nCants à la \n\nCys ajante. \n\nSexis to lo \n\nde sa lette: \n\nAnglows \n\navane. \n\npownx aviever à \"Cohen ta \n\nappreende gréem corps de les talles \n\néccupé lo route \n\nFronte pa \n\nspar \n\nhatter. \n\ngr friction, Vicovice Apostolique \n\nBu that huen occidental et \n\nDu \n\nniécrit le 11 Hai Day Driviions be \"Ee pen tou yo te Hittion excentio \n\nles rebelles de \n\ntow. \n\nrenent Boragée par \n\nHout drapeau, comme de touts couleur \n\nCes Siélératt font eneca) \n\nMiketen \n\nce) momerix \n\nI corta d'années. leur in tion est da Wieger \"Cehen tone irma \n\n\"Echenton; mais avant d'en venir la il/pattant les \n\ntecups. \n\nà bruler les maisons de compan les marchés, les petites villes leur résister, à pillerstout, à \n\n### Reconstructed Paragraphs and Sentences\n\nThe Major Darel prouve avoir reçu les instructions. Me Kéoix; 451 personnes firent partie de notre escadre à Echen, capitaines Katchmen; contumace en vay. et Det barques; Danide.....\n\nTo fix soundtory le fleuve & maide nez pour le cet Trethewrs à Mardi. Votre vie à la ville avait été toute que cette appoints émoi par cette a d'Européens.\n\nVotres à Puraficennal reqielle n'avait for So fondation mite en Rottites proférés yent des Det prop Bettie.\n\nLe Major Livre ot le Capitine Blackeston seccent reutdannic no bie invitatio its out été, autti voir ib Seuls à quels ils a vore wot les matidaris fait deman dos palanquins d'a hard ice cé fictes, accordés après instances.\n\nTo h Du Major Porte pavillon's Pade (Grain Kin chay) is some daris de than Koon Han kon Whelt tu fait prendre cette enseigne comme mesure de préndence. En esime a.time.. Lov cet Mettieur, Rente franchir Orinalaga ei Fore he conte de torvre était interceptée par les Achelles.\n\nà la fin Cants à la Cys ajante. Sexis to lo de sa lette: Anglows avane. pownx aviever à \"Cohen ta appreende gréem corps de les talles éccupé lo route Fronte pa spar hatter.\n\ngr friction, Vicovice Apostolique Bu that huen occidental et Du niécrit le 11 Hai Day Driviions be \"Ee pen tou yo te Hittion excentio les rebelles de tow.\n\nrenent Boragée par Hout drapeau, comme de touts couleur Ces Siélératt font eneca) Miketen ce) momerix I corta d'années. leur in tion est da Wieger \"Cehen tone irma \"Echenton; mais avant d'en venir la il/pattant les tecups.\n\nà bruler les maisons de compan les marchés, les petites villes leur résister, à pillerstout, à lever les fournes; ils entèren austi leser fans mus hen grande autres Roessernes qui Joisit dontilly Rew heuren Leny.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-081 - Sir Robinson - 1861 [4-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 251992, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-082 - Sir Robinson - 1861 [8-12]", "page_number": 439, "title": "CO129-082 - Sir Robinson - 1861 [8-12]", "content_text": "Low Antoo. Having made declaration - deposeth. I am a coolie cleaner and on the 18th of May last resided at Hoong Chune, on that day a man unknown to me came to be cotton on \"Tcheak-Ham\" near a shop and said that he had a quantity of cotton on board that he desired to be made into 10 quilts; he wished me to accompany him on board his vessel and take a bag with me. I accordingly went and my brother Low Ng hee went with me; the man guided by me went with him to a boat in which we went alongside Lorcha which I afterwards learned was No. 15, and which was then lying off Taap Cheong island in Suwong chow Bay - Taap Cheeng is about ten le (3.5 miles) from Malv-soo too. I and Low Ng hee were frightened when we got alongside No. 15 seeing foreigners on board - there was another vessel there within hailing distance of No. 15, and that other vessel I afterwards knew was No. 16.\n\nI did not go on board me onv... I was forced on board and when on board I was forced down below where seven other Chinese & we were all came below and, crying, were flogged. I found and continued to do so although told to desist by the foreigners. Either the second or third day of being on board four foreigners tied myself, my brother, Chun Ayoung and Ng hee; the foreigners spread each man's hands out and tied up his queue to the combing of the hatches. The jackets and trousers were taken off.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-082 - Sir Robinson - 1861 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 253138, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-085 - Sir Robinson - 1862 [1-4]", "page_number": 221, "title": "CO129-085 - Sir Robinson - 1862 [1-4]", "content_text": "## 149. Legislative.\n\n24 & May 1862 Lay\n\n3025, trong không\n\n**REC**\n**EIT**\n**19 MAY 1862**\n\nCheef Cark Stoughtong, 219\n\n26th March, 1862.\n\nMy Lord Duke,\n\nI have the honour to forward copy of a letter I have received from Mr. Fletcher resigning, in consequence of his final departure from Hongkong, this sent in the Legislative Council of the Colony.\n\nHis Grace,\n\nI have the honour to be, My Lord Duke, your Grace's Most Obedient Servant,\n\nRevercles to Robinson\n\nThe Duke of Newcastle, &c.\n\nMr. He.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-085 - Sir Robinson - 1862 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 255971, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-091 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1863 [1-3]", "page_number": 299, "title": "CO129-091 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1863 [1-3]", "content_text": "# 287\n\nThe first external symptom of the disease is, in most cases, a dusky-redness on a slightly elevated patch, but I have observed what might be called a leprous physiognomy in many persons. The general appearance of the face at times denotes the leper. This slightly elevated dusty red patch is, however, the most suspicious and the dreaded symptom of the disease. It may begin on the cheek or the back of the neck or on the limbs. It increases in size. Another patch appears elsewhere and others follow and spread. The toes and fingers swell and fissures follow - ulceration sets in and the extremities gradually disappear. The muscles of the thumb waste away at an early period. In a longer or shorter period, this ulcerative action removes the toes and the foot...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-091 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1863 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 259304, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-098 - Sir Robinson - 1864 [4-5]", "page_number": 404, "title": "CO129-098 - Sir Robinson - 1864 [4-5]", "content_text": "STRAITS TIMES OVERLAND JOURNAL.\n\nto the 8th current, anchored in the bett, from Hongkong with dates to roads yesterday evening.\n\nTae following appears in yester- day's Government Gazette:-\n\nthe 5th instant anchored in the roads this morning.\n\nfrequent plaudits of the audience. A very amusing dramatical piece entitled \"The Irish Lion\" was well performed by the Scholars, after which a large number of prizes were distributed, the Revd. Mr. Beure presenting them. Her Majesty has been pleased to recognize the appointment of Mr. Tanish Kim Ching as Consul for Siam at Singapore.\n\nthe 12th, arrived at New Harbour at noon yesterday.\n\nThe meeting held in the Town Hall yesterday afternoon, was very numerously attended; the following gentlemen being among those present.\n\nT. Dagmas\n\nJ. Cameron\n\nJ. Scott M.D.\n\nJ. S. Atchison Paquire.\n\nJ. Sorry, Regaire.\n\nE. S. Sherwood\n\nWatson\n\nB. Rodger\n\nJ. Teson\n\nPestonjee\n\nSeah Bu Chin\n\nJ. Purvin\n\nR. C. Wooda\n\nT. Hewetson\n\nJ. Winte\n\nT. Armstrong\n\nM. Little\n\nG. Angus\n\nW. B. George\n\nF. D. Cobb\n\nW. Manford\n\nP. Fagin\n\nC. Mozea\n\nJ. D'Almeida\n\nA. Brennand\n\nT. Scott\n\nA. O. Meyer\n\nP. W. Auchu..\n\nJ. Bennet\n\nT. O. Criss\n\nJ. S. Seryeogoo\n\nJan Berwick\n\nJ. Q. Devidson\n\nA. Bernard\n\nA. Velga\n\nA. Lethem\n\nRheiner\n\nC. Enicarsen\n\nA. Wagner\n\nThe meeting was of a preliminary nature, and a committee composed of the following gentlemen was appointed for the purposes mentioned in the resolution.\n\nWednesday, 16th December. The Annual Examination of the Pupils of St. Joseph's Academy took place yesterday evening and terminated at 11 o'clock at night.\n\nThe Examination of the pupils under the charge of the Lady Superioress and Sisters of Charity, was held yesterday at the Convent and did credit to the untiring exertions of those under whose management this establishment is so ably conducted.\n\nThe Annual Examination of the Girls Department of the Singapore Institution Schools under Mrs. Audel's superintendence took place yesterday.\n\nPenang, from Mr. G. W. Earl, on the 8th Instant.\n\nThe following Gentlemen will form the Board of Municipal Commissioners, under Section XI. of Act XVII of 1863, at Penang, for the year 1864:\n\nThe Resident Councillor, President ex-Officio.\n\nCaptain William Somerville Mitchell, appointed by the Governor to hold Office for 1 year.\n\nMr. Lawrence Nairne, appointed by election to hold Office for 3 years.\n\nMr. Steward Herriot, appointed by election to Office for 2 years.\n\nMr. George Macfarlane Sandilands, appointed by election to hold Office for 1 year.\n\nThe subjects of examination embraced Grammar, Geography, Arithmetic, Geometry; a few sentences in French were translated and some speeches made. The pupils seemed to have attained considerable proficiency—the younger boys generally displaying more intelligence than their elders. Altogether this examination reflects great credit on the teachers, the Christian Brothers.\n\nThe exhibition, as advertised, takes place to-morrow evening at 6 o'clock.\n\nThe number of pupils in attendance, 55, of whom 33 were boarders, was more than double that at any previous examination, and testifies to the able manner in which the School has been conducted during the past year, and to its present flourishing condition.\n\nAfter the Examination a number of premiums were distributed.\n\nThe progress exhibited by the girls in their studies and their excellent department, together with their very neat appearance, attracted considerable attention and justified the commendations of the Examiners.\n\nUpon the satisfactory management of Mrs. Anderson. Many of the pupils are orphans and it is to be hoped that this great charity will be properly supported by the Government.\n\nThat the following Gentlemen form a Committee for the purpose of collecting information regarding the finances, resources, and commerce of the Straits Settlements, and that if expedient they put themselves in communication with Commissioners appointed by Her Majesty's Government to report upon the proposed Transfer.\n\nJoaquin D'Almeida, Esq.\n\nR. Little, M.D.\n\nA. Logan,\n\nH. Simons,\n\nA. O. Meyer,\n\nThos. Scott,\n\nJohn Cameron,\n\nR. C. Wade\n\nThe meeting terminated with a vote of thanks to the Chairman, Mr. Joaquin D'Almeida.\n\nMonday, 14th December.\n\nH. M. Steamer Henriette, Captain Schul from Delhi with dates to the 8th instant, arrived in the harbour yesterday.\n\nThe Swedish bark Charlotte, Captain Mellender, from Hongkong 24th Nov., passed through the Harbour yesterday bound to Bombay and requested to be reported.\n\n\"I have this out nearly 47 and think it is to be studied is to keep the head well protected from the sun. I estimate it as good as perhaps better than that of Europe, particularly for an old man, if care is taken to keep the head protected from the sun, and ale hat is not made use of too freely.\"\n\nThe same paper says:-\n\n\"A schooner from Acheen reports that the port was lately visited by a Dutch steamer, the commander of which endeavoured, without success, to prevail on the Rajah to give him a friendly letter addressed to his Government.\"\n\nThursday, 17th December. The British Steamer Amoy, Captain Salwery, from Shanghai, anchored in the roads last night. Another of Captain Osborne's fleet arrived this morning.\n\nFriday, 18th December.\n\nWe take the following from the Government Gazette of yesterday:\n\nThe following Gentlemen will form the Board of Municipal Commissioners, under Section XI. of Act XVII of 1863, at Singapore, for the year 1864:\n\nThe Resident Councillor, President, ex-Officio.\n\nCaptain Jasper Mayne, Royal Engineers, appointed by the Governor to hold Office for 1 year.\n\nMr. Robert Carr Wood, appointed by election to hold Office for 3 years.\n\nMr. Robert Little, appointed by election to hold Office for 2 years.\n\nMr. Henry Minchin Simons, appointed by election to hold Office for 1 year.\n\nThe following Gentlemen will form the Board of Municipal Commissioners, under Section XI. of Act XVII at 1863, at Malacca, for the year 1864:\n\nThe Resident Councillor, President ex-Officio.\n\nMr. Charles Evans, appointed by the Governor to hold Office for 1 year.\n\nMr. Thomas Neubronner, appointed by election to hold Office for 3 years.\n\nMr. See Booatong, appointed on failure of election to hold Office for 2 years.\n\nMr. Kuh Seng Hoon, appointed on failure of election to hold Office for 1 year.\n\nMonday, 21st December. The British steamer United Service, Captain Give, from Bombay with dates to the 2nd instant, anchored in the roads yesterday morning.\n\nThe P. and O. Company's steamer Orissa, Captain Parish, from Hongkong with dates to the 15th instant, arrived in the roads last night.\n\nThe Messageries Imperiales steamer Tigre, Captain Deslondes, with the Marseilles mail of the 19th and the London mail of the 17th arrived at New Harbour this morning.\n\nThe Dutch steamer Koningen der Nederlanden, Captain Lewis, from Batavia with dates to the 17th instant anchored in the roads last night.\n\nCAPTAIN LEWIS of the Koningen, reports, that on the 17th December at 4 while Steaming N. N. W. South Watches bearing N. distance about 8 miles, they saw a steamer to the Southwards, to pass to the E. of South Watchers.\n\nHis Honor the Governor has been pleased to make the following appointments as a temporary measure, with effect from the 30th ult:\n\nMr. E. J. Westerhout, to officiate as Police Magistrate, Commissioner of the Court of Requests, and Assistant Resident Councillor, Malacca.\n\nThe examination of the Institution and Schools took place yesterday, commencing at 11 a.m. and terminating at 3 o'clock.\n\nThe British barque Couranto bound to this port and now considerably overdue, was spoken by the Hamburg barque Emily on the 21st of last month in Banka Straits.\n\nThe appearance of the Verandahs throughout the principal thoroughfares at the present time, does not seem to indicate a desire on the part of the tenants and proprietors of the houses to comply with the Municipal Notification issued three months ago.\n\nTuesday, 15th December.\n\nMr. E. J. Westerhout, to officiate as Deputy Commissioner of Police at Malacca.\n\nAs they approached nearer, she proved to be a three-masted barque or rigged vessel, black, long and low in the water, particularly in her lower masts. When close to, she suddenly altered her course to W. and hoisted French colours.\n\nWith reference to Government Notification No. 166, dated 27th November 1863, Captain W. S. Mitchell received charge of the Chief of Police and Assistant Resident Councillor.\n\nThe examination concluded with the distribution of prizes.\n\nSaturday, 19th December.\n\nH. M. Surveying steamer Rifleman, with the Saracen in tow from Gaspar Straits arrived in the roads last night.\n\nThe British steamer Bombay Castle, Captain Wadge, from Hongkong with dates to the 13th inst., anchored in the roads this morning.\n\nThe Exhibition of St. Joseph's Academy on Thursday evening attracted a large assemblage and seemed to afford great gratification.\n\nAnjer Shipping.\n\n \n Names\n Captains\n Ports\n Dates\n \n \n Caroline\n Striker\n Cayzer\n \n \n \n Wood\n \n Ienke\n \n \n \n \n \n Ma Yoko-Hama\n Nov. 25\n \n \n English\n Clarendon\n Manila\n \n \n \n Princes of Wales\n John C. Moore\n Shanghai\n \n \n \n English\n Aberdeen\n \n Dec. 2\n \n \n Prussian\n Grof Eulenburg\n \n \n \n \n English\n Abb Medjid\n Partiaud\n \n \n \n Portuguese\n Vasco da Gama\n \n 59\n \n \n English\n Our Queen\n Lastania\n \n \n \n Dutch\n \n Mayotte\n \n \n \n French\n Chapte\n \n \n \n \n Dutch\n Martha Theresia\n \n \n \n \n English\n Lady Ap...\n Avalanche\n \n \n \n Dutch\n Tulland\n \n \n \n \n English\n Magpie Lauder\n \n \n \n \n Dutch\n Ja. Piet Huis\n \n \n \n \n American\n Sarah Mastboro\n Kaneo\n \n \n \n English\n Ana Decatur\n \n \n \n \n \n S. Balfou\n Thalaba\n \n \n \n Harburg\n Gemini\n \n \n \n \n English\n Elian\n Corry\n \n \n \n English\n Spirit of Trade\n \n \n \n \n French\n D. de Vauiores\n \n \n \n table>\n \n Names\n Captains\n Ports\n Dates\n \n \n Stirling\n \n \n \n \n \n Macduff\n \n \n 61\n \n \n Swedish\n Magnanin\n \n \n \n \n English\n Star of the North\n \n \n \n \n Hamburg\n Philip L...\n \n 9\n \n \n English\n Dalay\n Klag\n \n \n \n \n CAM\n \n \n \n \n \n Meyer\n \n \n \n \n \n Keddie\n \n \n \n \n \n Thom\n \n \n \n \n \n De Silva\n \n \n \n \n \n Eales\n \n \n \n \n \n Cogrel\n \n \n \n \n \n Klevst\n \n \n \n \n \n Mater\n \n \n \n \n \n Wabb\n \n \n \n \n \n Rumell\n \n \n \n \n \n Grosbeck\n \n \n \n \n \n Van Hoes\n \n \n \n \n \n Henry\n \n \n \n \n \n Huzewinkel\n \n \n \n \n \n Naine\n \n \n \n \n Bordeaux\n \n Whampo\n \n \n \n \n Yeng\n \n \n \n \n \n Fanchow\n SCAO\n \n \n \n \n Sanz bay\n \n \n \n \n \n Fonchow\n \n \n \n \n \n Nagwaakie\n \n \n \n \n \n Singapore\n \n \n \n \n \n Hamerang\n \n \n \n \n \n Manila\n \n \n \n \n \n Singapore\n \n \n \n \n \n Batavia\n \n \n \n \n \n Amsterdam\n \n \n \n \n \n Manilla\n \n \n \n \n \n Amateniam\n \n \n \n \n \n Sugiy\n \n \n \n \n \n Boulton\n \n \n \n \n \n Da\n \n \n \n \n \n Wainwright\n \n \n \n \n \n Do\n \n \n \n \n \n Cardif\n \n \n \n \n \n Candell\n \n \n \n \n \n Ningro\n \n \n \n \n \n Pickering\n \n \n \n \n \n Howe\n \n \n \n \n \n Williamson\n \n \n \n \n \n Drewer\n \n \n \n \n \n Stu.Les\n \n \n \n \n \n ampow\n \n \n \n \n \n Etang\n \n \n \n \n \n Onbern\n \n \n \n \n \n Henderou\n \n \n \n \n \n Noring\n \n \n \n \n \n Paterson\n \n \n \n \n \n Kuch\n \n \n \n \n \n Me, Calick\n \n \n \n \n Hongkong\n \n Foxbow\n \n \n \n \n Shang\n \n \n \n \n \n in\n \n \n \n \n Shanghai\n \n \n \n \n \n Cardiff\n \n \n \n \n \n Macao\n \n Shanghey\n \n \n \n \n Do\n \n \n \n \n \n Lun\n \n \n \n \n New York\n \n London\n \n \n \n \n Liverpool\n \n \n \n \n Hasanah\n \n Liverpool\n \n \n \n Adelaide\n \n Amsterdam\n \n \n \n Melbourne\n \n Nantes\n \n \n \n Hong.& Sing\n \n \n \n \n \n \n untra Ea...\n \n \n \n \n \n Lowlan\n \n \n \n \n \n Batavia\n \n \n \n \n \n Cork\n \n \n \n \n \n Katavia\n \n \n \n \n Kew York\n \n \n \n \n \n \n London\n \n \n \n \n \n Liverponi\n \n \n \n \n \n Singapore\n \n \n \n \n \n Batavia\n \n \n \n \n Liverponi\n \n \n \n \n \n 4ddlaide\n \n Lcedon\n \n \n \n Mauritius\n \n Liverpool\n \n \n \n \n Singapore\n \n \n \n \n Bremerhaven\n \n Liverpool\n \n \n \n \n Landos\n \n \n \n \n \n do\n \n \n \n\nPrinted and Published for the Proprietors at the Straits Times Press, by the H. F. Dealer, No. 37 Raffles Place.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-098 - Sir Robinson - 1864 [4-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 262704, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-106 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1865 [8-9]", "page_number": 306, "title": "CO129-106 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1865 [8-9]", "content_text": "# 302\n\nSir,\n\nAnditor General's Office, \nHengstong, 22nd February, 18??.\n\nI have on many occasions in conversation with His Excellency The Governor alluded to the complicated nature of the Test Anis accounts and to the little cheer achieved since the firescut system was maintained over them.\n\nThe practice now universally adopted of sending books of lease letters has been against this. \n\n| £ | 1865 | 1866 |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Echematic Reve. | £210,481 | £163,499 |\n| Public Works Exclrein of Mint abst | | £34,000 |\n| Lind Adriane | £132,884 | |\n\nfrom consideration in the despatch W R okolineates to Inaraz.\n\nThe sending for approval the items I have marked on this Expenditure.\n\n| £ | 1865-6 | 1866 |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| | £190,878 | £159,622 |\n\nand the completion of the draining of ivongen hoony Walley 1.oh and its allotment to the Adjut if Voluntons.\n\nScending to \"Think also the prounds & the Reasum Military contractation Ar did make. 2476 4 the final esting score nohied. on of the order the and Appropriation Ordinances to - Mr Mercer.\n\n5 enclosures. No 140- The R. Strible R. Cardwell.\n\nReceived Transmitting the Estimates for 1866.\n\n2 & despatite should be drafted, restering W. Fathi condent as being bun the cosisteme with his official position said that and it mayhe huis nut to persons, & be budy if notice had bun gran dons to my Acting forrecere had tenperadet.\n\nI my kun, I chose have, bem ready asseion.\n\nwhich are no included in the Cielo nvay avill at all times render cheek any.\n\nThe Honorable \nW T. Maars \nColonial Secretary \nEX", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-106 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1865 [8-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 264022, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-109 - Public Offices - 1865", "page_number": 296, "title": "CO129-109 - Public Offices - 1865", "content_text": "## Names\n| No. | Name | \n| --- | --- |\n| 1 | 166 Sang You | 2164 U chuo |\n| | 168 Lav thing chi | 169 Cai Jou |\n| 5 | 169 | 140 Cheng Yeung San |\n| | Jo. You hoo | |\n| 12 | 174 Lo Yuk trand | 145 lea 196 |\n| | Wong lung | kind en |\n| 14 | 144 Hong that | 141 Can fute |\n| | 149 Keen | \"To Lung Yoing fer |\n| | 181 le in Gut | treme |\n| 14 | 182 Wond | 183 Cai Yan |\n| | 1814 Mak baw | 185 Yip Li |\n| | 1860 Cheung | 184 Meand Cheung a Yeung |\n| | 188 Fg Leer tak | |\n| | 190 Whan shit wan | Whaw sheke wand |\n| | 191 | 192 Unknown Reen |\n| | 193 Run a luke | 1947 Unknown |\n| | 195 Wheng the You | 196 Roman Lee |\n| | 194 Home thin Kore | 198 In wan |\n| | 199 Cozy (died fine) | 15 Lov Chenny |\n| 22 | 200 | 2st 201 Not My Haus Samo |\n| | 202 Ag hung | |\n\n## Causes of Death\n| No. | Cause of Death | Symptoms/Other Info |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| | Dysentery | |\n| | Jaundice | Dassentem |\n| | Liver Complaint | M Liver Complant |\n| | Unknown | dumped over-board |\n| | Pains in the chest | |\n| | Dysentery | Dissenters |\n| | Fever | Hever |\n| | Dysentery & Headache | Drpenter Head a Opiume ache |\n| | Rheumatism | Oftiend |\n| | Dysentery | Dissenters Opium |\n| | Pains in breast | Limfed verbound |\n| | Crippled | Crippentin cheel |\n| | Pains in Abdomen | Dissenten |\n| | Worms | |\n| | Dysentery | Orffenter of Guddenly Depentery |\n| | Unknown | Oftream |\n| | Pains in breast | M Dessenters |\n| | Unknown | Chreppenter ep Unknow m Worms |\n| | Diarrhea | Whinne On assortery Headache Suddenly |\n| | Dysentery | Dissentent |\n| | Liver | Levert |\n| | Dysentery | Orien |\n| | Debility | |\n\nThe foregoing is a statement of the deaths and accidents which occurred among the passengers on board the **Tricolor** voyage from **Hong-hay** to **Surincesse – Tarmands**. 16th September (1865)", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-109 - Public Offices - 1865.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 264962, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-111 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1866 [1-2]", "page_number": 344, "title": "CO129-111 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1866 [1-2]", "content_text": "## Improvement \n\nThe Daily Press much needed.\n\nAcheen & East...\n\nEntered \n\n1 Honesty my \n\nConfidential / Cost 5256 \n\nGodfrey MacDonnell \n\nCB \n\nMINUTE \n\nJune 5 \n\nMan \n\nArticle \n\n5 April 1866 \n\nI have the honour \n\nto acknowledge \n\nM 337 \n\nThe receipt \n\nof Playfulness. Confidential dispatch off the \n\nReporting \n\na \n\nof Fall \n\nFels \n\nChange \n\nin the direction the newspapers \n\nHongkong \n\nShe \n\nin \n\nboth \n\nEX", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-111 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1866 [1-2].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 266005, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-113 - MacDonnell - 1866 [5-6]", "page_number": 475, "title": "CO129-113 - MacDonnell - 1866 [5-6]", "content_text": "62\n\nOn landing, Rept well together: gradually approached the side, South, it would be impossible for the pirates to escape.\n\nI sent for Johnson, in \"Macao\" Harbour, a Govt. boat, fetching him with two men, who were to proceed from there to where the packs were.\n\nHere we found about fifty junks, containing, according to the Prefect, 1600 men. They had been waiting 3 days (or off the S.E. end of the Island) for the landing to take place. I had arranged at Lintin for the troops to be assembled, ordering Cheen to be at the North extreme of the Island at daylight next day; the \"Janus\" was to proceed from \"Macao\" with Lo as to be at the same time.\n\nThe master of the Custoun being local, and quite conversant with the Coast, I lent Second Lieutenant Mainwaring to pilot her there. The Eastern brother starting me to tow her down on board. At 10 o'clock on Wednesday evening we started, which obliged us to anchor the whole way. And at daylight the following morning we were close off Path Sheer on the North side, previously mentioned.\n\nThe gunboats and Steamer (Custoun) steamed on, and anchored close off the village of \"Pak shui\", followed by the junks, which had a fair wind. And a fire was opened upon the place by the junks. But the place was wholly deserted, the inhabitants having naturally been frightened away by the appearance of our vessels off it, and they had fled to \"Ham shui\", an island opposite \"Path Sheer\". And one of the places the Chinese...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-113 - MacDonnell - 1866 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 267777, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-117 - Public Offices - 1866", "page_number": 284, "title": "CO129-117 - Public Offices - 1866", "content_text": "in fine a Consul constitute & reason\n\na\n\nWhy a Consul should decline to do the remaining part if he be applied to. If the action of a Colonial Govt or other dept of H.M. Service interfere with the functions properly belonging to a Consul he has it always in his power to complain to his chief; but in speaking\n\nany\n\nof his duties as Consul not of his influence\n\nIn 1972/282\n\nForwarding indirect information regarding the case referred to in despatch W. 13 of the 19th July from H.B.M.'s Chargé d'affaires.\n\nad\n\nadviser\n\nof\n\nnative Authorities. I do not\n\nSir,\n\nby\n\nbelieve that this wd be at all impaired their correspondence direct with a Colonial Govt; but if it were so\n\nw\n\nAs\n\nlong the native authorities were free agents, the Consul is not free to choose which part of his duties he will, & which he will not, perform.\n\nRespectfully\n\n(sd)\n\nD.F. Wade\n\nCanton, Sept.18.1865\n\nIn reply to your despatch No. 19 of the 12th Sept. requiring\n\nmore exact information regarding the case to which you referred in your despatch No. 13 of the 19th July,\n\nand enclosing extract from H.B.M.'s Chargé d'affaires memorandum on the subject, I have the honour to state that in Dec. 1864 I received a despatch from the Colonial Secretary dated the 28th of that month, requesting me to move the Chinese authorities to cause the arrest and surrender of one Cheung See-kin of the ...\n\n...\n\n(sd) H. Wade\n\nPak-chow\n\n \nPage XX \n\n...\n\n...\n\nPage XX \n\nhas been rewritten to meet the requirements as follows:\n\n1. The original text has been formatted into paragraphs using HTML ``.\n2. 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No comments or explanations have been added to the text.\n\nThe output is in HTML format using `\n\n` for paragraphs.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-117 - Public Offices - 1866.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 272585, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-128 - Public Offices & Others - 1867", "page_number": 143, "title": "CO129-128 - Public Offices & Others - 1867", "content_text": "## THE LONDON AND CHINA TELEGRAPH\n\n### ARTICLES OF IMPORT\n\n#### TEA\nThe public sale of last week was larger than any that have been held for many months past, and consisted principally of a good selection of Congous and Scented Teas. The prices obtained for Congous were very irregular, owing to the hesitation of buyers; but, on the whole, they showed a decline on those given at the last sale. There is no alteration of importance in the value of Scented Teas, with the exception of the lower grades of Scented Orange Pekoes, which are rather lower, and all descriptions of Green Tea realised full prices. Some dust sold at the sale at 4d. to 6d., but it was offered \"with all faults.\" Some interest was taken in a few parcels of Japan Greens, of Rifleman, which has just arrived, and a few transactions in them have taken place, and the remainder of this cargo will no doubt be readily disposed of, as there is a good demand for all descriptions of Green Teas. The market price of Common Congou is 11d. per lb. Sound Broken Leaf can be bought at 6½d. per lb., and Tea Dust at about 5½d. per lb.\n\n#### SILK\nSince our last report the Silk market has experienced little or no change, no one buying beyond present requirements. The absence of demand, both at home and abroad, has been almost unprecedented, and prices are mostly nominal. The arrival this week of some of the early shipments of the new China crop has created a slight diversion, about 400 bales finding buyers; the opening price of Tsatlee being 26s. to 30s. In Canton Silk there has been some little business doing at rather easier rates, but the assortment is by no means generally desirable. Japan Silk is quite neglected. The total deliveries show a slight improvement, being 407 bales China, and 234 bales Japan. We can as yet discern no general improvement in the Silk market; the first unloading of new Chinas has naturally attracted some attention, and led to some little business, but there is no disposition on the part of the trade to buy more Silk than is absolutely necessary, and speculation seems out of the question. The opening price for classic No. 3 Tsatlee, 29s., is higher than some people expected, but appears moderate as compared with the quotations we have for some time past been accustomed to. There is a wide margin between chop Silk and medium and inferior descriptions, red Peacock having been sold at 26s. 6d., and good No. 4 at 26s. The estimate of export for the season has been reduced by recent telegrams from China to 40,000 bales, and if the reported failure of the second crop prove true, it is possible that even this figure may not be reached. In Japan Silk there is nothing doing, the best descriptions of Mibash are firmly held, but ordinary and inferior qualities are pressed for sale.\n\n| Description | Price |\n| --- | --- |\n| Taatlee, No. 1 & 2 | 26 0 to 30 0 |\n| No. 3 | 24 0 to 27 0 |\n| Tsenfa and Hainio, No. 1 & 2 | 20 0 to 23 0 |\n| No. 3 | 18 0 to 20 0 |\n| Tarsaam, No. 1 & 2 | 18 0 to 23 0 |\n| No. 3 | 14 0 to 20 0 |\n| Long Reel Skeins | ... |\n| Canton | ... |\n| Japan: Tsinchew & Sinchew, No. 1 & 2 | 17 0 to 23 0 |\n| Ida, Bricks, No. 1 & ... | 21 0 to 26 0 |\n| No. 3 | 27 0 to 30 0 |\n| Soudni, No. 1 & 2 | 21 0 to 26 0 |\n| No. 3 | 21 0 to 26 0 |\n\n#### COTTON\nThe market since our last report has remained extremely quiet, the business having been to some extent restricted by the firmness of holders. The only sale of China reported is of 30 bales fair quality at 6¼d. per lb.\n\n#### SUGAR\nThere has been a fair demand from the trade, but speculators having done but little in the article scarcely any alteration in prices has taken place, and quotations of most descriptions are about the same as on the 8th ult. Foreign refined continues to be offered at prices lower than to allow the English refiners to compete with profitable results, but as the prospects of supply from the cane-growing countries indicate an out-turn by no means equal to our requirements, it is not probable that any material fall in values will take place, unless, indeed, the production of beetroot sugar should be on a larger scale than hitherto. The deliveries in all the sugar-consuming countries are progressing most satisfactorily, showing a decided and steady increase. The last sale of the Dutch Trading Company took place on the 24th ult., and comprised 39,000 baskets, Java; grey and yellow realised the rates current at the May sale, but white sold at 1s. decline. The principal transactions on the spot have comprised 14,000 casks West India; 16,000 bags Mauritius; 8,000 bags Bengal; 14,000 bags Madras; 1,500 bags Penang; 33,000 bags Manila; 1,200 casks Cuba and Porto Rico, and 850 bags Guatemala. The imports of sugar into the United Kingdom during the seven months ending 31st July amounted to 341,758 tons, against 322,277; the deliveries for home consumption were 316,846 tons, against 272,761, and for export and coastwise 5,966 tons, against 18,006. The stock on the 1st August was 189,736 tons, against 221,253 at the same date in 1866.\n\n#### SPICES\nAt the quarterly sales on the 29th ultimo, comprising 1,260 tons, bales Ceylon, good and fine qualities were difficult to sell, and only partly realised at moderate prices; medium quality brought full rates, and the inferior sorts an advance of 1d. to 2d. on the April sales, viz., fourths 1s. 3d. to 1s. 9d., thirds 1s. 10d. to 2s. 1d., seconds 2s. to 2s. 6d., firsts 2s. 6d. to 2s. 9d., and superior 2s. 6d. to 3s. 1d. per lb. Mace continues scarce and firm; 2 cases Penang at auction sold at 1s. 10d. to 1s. 11d. per lb. for medium reddish. Nutmegs are 1¼d. to 2d. per lb. dearer, with increased inquiry; good business done privately; 14 cases Penang and 37 cases Batavia sold at auction at 1s. 2d. to 1s. 9d. per lb. for ordinary small to middling medium. Sapanwood: Steady, and tons Siam at auction realised £12 to £12 15s., also one-third of 35 tons Ceylon offered, realised £10 15s. per ton.\n\n#### COFFEE\nThere has been a good demand, and although supplies have been ample, the values of good current descriptions have been maintained. Fine sorts have shown an advancing tendency, but common and low qualities have sold irregularly and at lower rates. The shipments from Ceylon at the last returns were 714,000 cwts., against 723,000 last season, made up of 545,000 cwts. Plantation and 169,000 cwts. Native, against 510,000 and 213,000, and the quantity now afloat for this country is 18,000 tons, against 18,000 last year. The principal transactions on the spot, with the latest prices paid, have comprised 6,000 casks 2,000 bags Plantation Ceylon, low middling to good bold greens 74s. 6d. to 84s. 6d., low middling to good middling blue 74s. 6d. to 82s., bold 85s. 6d., peaberry 91s. to 95s.; 200 casks 2,500 bags Native Ceylon, fine ordinary bold 64s., good ordinary 59s., small 50s., peaberry 65s. 6d. to 65s.; and 8,000 packages East India - Singapore, ordinary 45s. to 48s., Java 68s. The total deliveries of coffee in Holland from the 1st of January to the 31st of July were 484,694 bags, against 358,307 bags in 1866, and the stock at the end of last month was 525,500 bags, against 580,100 bags.\n\n#### CURRANTS\nIn fair demand, and 2,000 packages good Pegu have realised 37s. to 38s. per cwt.\n\n#### CAMPHOR\nChina and Japan descriptions are firm, with fair private business at £6 15s. to £7 per cwt.\n\n#### GUM BENJAMIN\nThe market is steady, and of 56 cases Siam at auction half sold at £24 to £24 15s. per cwt. For fine third quality, and £11 to £11 15s. for dark. Of 42 cases Sumatra three-fourths sold at £8 2s. 6d. to £8 12s. 6d. per cwt. for false packed second quality.\n\n#### GALLS\nThe transactions have comprised 100 cases China at 6¼s., and a small portion Japan at 5¾s. per cwt.\n\n#### MANILA HEMP\nThe market is now firm, with a moderate business at fully the previous rates, 587 bales having been sold at auction at £49 10s. to £50 5s. per ton for fair current quality.\n\n#### PEPPER\nThere has been a fair inquiry for black privately, and nearly 8,000 bags have been sold, Penang at 2¼d. to 2 15/16d., Singapore 3d. to 5/16d., and Tellicherry at 3¼d. At public sale, 840 bags Penang were all taken at 2¼d.; also 164 bags Singapore White at 5d. to 5¼d., and 100 bags privately at 5d. cash.\n\n#### RICE\nA rise in the Corn market, consequent upon the uncertain weather, has been followed by a movement in this article. Owing, however, to the small stock there has been but little in which to operate on the spot, and in consequence the greater part of the transactions have taken place in floating cargoes or parcels. About 18,000 bags have changed hands on the spot at full to rather higher prices, viz., 10s. 9d. to 12s. 3d. for Soft-grain, and 16s. to 16s. 6d. for white Bengal. Of floating cargoes about forty have changed hands, the latest sales being at 11s. to 11s. 3d. for ...\n\n#### TAPIOCA\nAt auction 136 bags Singapore were chiefly sold, good middling and good white 4¼d. to 5d. per lb.; and 165 bags pearl Tapioca fetched 30s. to 31s. per cwt.\n\n### ARTICLES OF EXPORT\n\n#### IRON\nThe quotations in London are for Welsh bars, £5 15s. to £6; nail rods, £7 10s. to £7 15s.; hoops, £8 10s. to £9; sheets, single, £9 15s. to £10; Staffordshire bars, £7 10s. to £7 15s.; rails, £4 5s.\n\n#### COPPER\nSheet and Sheathing, £79 to £83 per ton; yellow metal, 7d. to 7¼d. per lb.\n\n#### TIN\n£91 for block; £92 for common bars. Tin plates, best charcoal I.C., 30s. to 31s.\n\n#### LEAD, &c.\nEnglish pig, W.B., £21; shot, patent, £23; sheet, £20 15s.; spelter, £20 17s. 6d.; zinc, English sheet, £26 to £26 10s.; quicksilver, £6 17s. 6d.\n\nThe following is from the Circular of Messrs. French and Smith :- \nThere has been no activity in the Metal Market the past month, the increasing abundance and cheapness of money having apparently no influence. Almost all transactions reported have been for immediate consumption or shipment. Iron: Scotch and Welsh are quoted a shade easier; Staffordshire is steady, with a good demand for the East; and as some few of the railways are on the market again for Rails, a firmer tone in this branch of the trade may reasonably be expected. Copper is rather lower than at the beginning of July. The mail on 18th ult., brought advices of charters for about 1,400 tons Copper, 850 tons of which were Bars. That on the 29th ult. brought advices of about 1,800 tons Copper, of which 1,200 were Bars. Sales of Bars have been made at £67 10s. Prices now quoted are: Bars, £84 to £85; Wallaroo, £82 to £83; English Tough Cake, £75 to £76; Chili Bars, £68 to £69. Tin: A large business was done in Tin during July, principally for immediate delivery; and the quantity of Straits taken out of warehouse here is very large. The consumption in England continues great, especially for Tin-Plate manufacturers, whose works were never more fully employed. The price for fine Straits in July was between £86 10s. and £87; it is rather weak Banca is at the latter quotation to-day through some pressing sellers. steady in Holland at 53 guilders; English firm, at quotations. Tin Plates are in very good demand, and, notwithstanding the large production, prices are rather stronger. The shipments in July were 140,000 boxes, against 165,000 boxes same month in 1866. By the Board of Trade returns, the exports, January to June, were 36,690 tons, against 34,750 tons in 1866, and 30,410 in 1855. Lead is more inquired for, although there is no improvement in price. Spelter advanced in the middle of July to £21 5s., at which some small business was done, but has gone back to £20 17s. 6d. The stock on 31st July was 3,627 tons, against 6,808 tons in 1866. Quicksilver unchanged.\n\n### EXPORT OF BULLION TO CHINA, &c.\n\nThe following return shows the shipments of bullion from Southampton from the 1st January by the P. and O. Company's mail steamers.\n\n| Destination | Gold | Silver |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Shanghai | £62,376 | ... |\n| Fo-chow-Foo | £5,090 | ... |\n| Amoy | £36,665 | ... |\n| Hong Kong | £8,140 | £45,018 |\n| Singapore | £600 | £5,281 |\n| Penang | ... | ... |\n| Yokohama | £400 | ... |\n\n### FROM MARSEILLES. (BY THE P. AND O. COMPANY'S STEAMERS.)\n\n#### DEPARTURES-continued\n\n| Date | Ship | Gold | Silver |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| July 31 | Mary Ann | £18,628 (Hong Kong) | £6,575 (Hong Kong) |\n| Aug. 1 | Bonnie Dundee | £4,500 (Manila) | £450 (Manila) |\n| Aug. 2 | Adolfo | £100,000 (Manila) | ... |\n| ... | ... | ... | ... |\n\n### GOLD AND SILVER\n\n| Item | Price (per ounce) |\n| --- | --- |\n| Bar Gold | £3 17 0 |\n| Spanish Doubloon | £3 10 9 |\n| United States Gold Coin | £3 16 4 |\n| Silver in Bars | 5 0 |\n| Mexican Dollars | 0 4 11/16 |\n\n### SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE\n\n#### ARRIVALS\n\n| Ship | Captain | From | At |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Belpore | Foote | Rangoon | Singapore |\n| Helvoetsluis | Rema | Java | Batavia |\n| Prinses Amelia | Moerkerken | Batavia | ... |\n| Agra | Alexander | ... | ... |\n| Ide Gertruida | ... | ... | ... |\n| Martin | ... | ... | ... |\n| Rifleman | Niemann | ... | ... |\n| Margaretha | ... | ... | ... |\n| Cleopatra | ... | Batavia | ... |\n| Gustav | ... | ... | ... |\n| Warrior | McCauley | Bassein | ... |\n| ... | ... | ... | ... |\n\n#### DEPARTURES\n\n| Ship | Captain | For | From | Date |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Charlotte | ... | New York | Foong Kong & Canton | July 25 |\n| Nouveau Nomade | Marchandeau | Singapore | Cardiff | July 24 |\n| Schalde | ... | Shanghai | London | July 27 |\n| Eastern Queen | Halfman | ... | ... | July 27 |\n| Beemah | Wilburn | Japan | Newport | July 27 |\n| Alvington | Wakeham | Shanghai | London | July 28 |\n| Peterborough | Adams | Singapore | Cardiff | July 28 |\n| Bagota | Orchard | Shanghai | London | July 27 |\n| Heather Bell | Jones | Singapore | Liverpool | July 27 |\n| Sea King | Opdahl | Hong Kong | Newcastle | July 31 |\n| ... | ... | ... | ... | ... |\n\n#### LOADING\n\nAt LONDON-For Yokohama, St. Dunstan, For Yokohama and Nagasaki Pampero, Broadwater. For Shanghai: Durham, Shakspere, Sir Jamserjee Family. For Hong Kong: Channel Queen, Sophie. For Hong Kong and Canton: The Tweed. Chaa-Sze, Avon, Albert Victor. For Manila: Auroliana. For Singapore and Penang: Queen of Ceylon. For Singapore: Arab Steed. Coldstream. For Batavia and Sourabaya: William Stewart, Couranto. For Penang: Chaturanga. For Colombo: Seafield, Thames, Hesperia, Palestine, Granville. For Colombo and Calcutta Clyde, Peeress, Harkaway. For Galle and Cochin Ann Lucey.\n\nAt LIVERPOOL-For Yokohama: Recife. For Yokohama or Hong Kong: Golden Dream. For Shanghai: Leon Crespo, Alarm. For Singapore: Indian Empire. For Manila: Olano, Feliz. For Batavia and Singapore: Lancastria.\n\nAt GLASGOW-For Yokohama: Runnymede. For Hong Kong: Suomi. For Manila Rosa del Turia, Manuel. For Batavia and Sourabaya: County of Bute. For Colombo: Christian Rankine. Penang Margaret Falconer.\n\n### FREIGHTS AND CHARTERS\n\nFreights to the Eastern ports remain unaltered; coal freights from the Northern outports continue firm.\n\n| Route | Price (weight/meast) |\n| --- | --- |\n| To Yokohama | 20s. to 30s. (weight), 50s. (meast) |\n| To Nagasaki | 50s. (weight or meast) |\n| To Shanghai | 40s. (weight), 45s. (meast) |\n| To Amoy | 40s. (weight or meast) |\n| To Foo-chow-Foo | 45s. (weight or meast) |\n| To Hong Kong | 35s. (weight), 40s. (meast) |\n| To Singapore | 30s. (weight or meast) |\n| To Penang | 40s. (weight or meast) |\n| To Manila | 40s. (weight), 85s. (meast) |\n| To Ceylon | 25s. to 30s. (weight), 35s. (meast) |\n\n### CASUALTIES\n\nThe Aria and Betsy, from Cardiff to Singapore, was spoken 25th June, 8 N., 24 W., with loss of topgallant mast, topmasthead, topsailyard and jibboom.\n\nThe Thos. Blyth, MacGiven, of and from Liverpool to Shanghai, foundered at sea 6th July, in lat. 35 S., lon. 30 W., crew arrived at Pernambuco.\n\nThe Spirit of the Deep, which sailed from Penang for London 25 May, has been totally lost near Acheen Head, crew saved.\n\nThe Minister Pahud, Lipjes, sailed from Batavia for Holland on the 1st Jan., and has not since been heard of.\n\n### MISCELLANEOUS\n\nAt ST. VINCENT, C.V.-June 27, Adeline (S.S.), Findlay, from London, and left, 29, for Japan.\n\nThe Empress, Strarach, from Colombo did not arrive at Deal July 23, as reported.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-128 - Public Offices & Others - 1867.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 276267, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-134 - Public Offices - 1868", "page_number": 327, "title": "CO129-134 - Public Offices - 1868", "content_text": "326\n\nAuthorities measures whether of the Chinese conjointly with Foreign aid. many of the most daring and desperate characters of the empire would yet been productive of such serious consequences to trade in China as would inevitably take to the land and would inevitably infest the creeks, rivers and canals of the Interior, and without such counteracting and protective measures in the present state.\n\nLater \"Cheena cannot be looked for from the Native Authorities, such a state of things would be fatal to foreign and result from a render insenne. which would the high roads and ways communicating with the Interior.\n\nThe Lords of the Admiralty have expressed the hope that the increased price of armed cruizers belonging to different Maritime Nations, with such assistance as may be rendered by the newly purchased Chinese Flotilla, Gall the powers hus\n\nV the same element in the inland waters would be for worse, for piracy. has mrever f the empire would be productive of great evil, but an overflow of that the attention denied that pracy. 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Yeme\n\nhoi\n\n201\n\nLabourer\n\nChoy\n\n20\n\nLabourer\n\n2007ing\n\nblin\n\n301\n\nLaine butter Nai chow\n\n24 Low Fing\n\nSome better Cleang\n\n201 tback Fin\n\n24\n\n202 Syow\n\n24.\n\nLabourer\n\nBoat Boy Rooling\n\nPan koun\n\n203 Low Row\n\nLabourer\n\nJun Song\n\nblum Rai\n\ns Low See\n\nCheng Sam\n\nJis\n\nFabourer\n\nShine beetle Peang kan Pabourer\n\nAwa Whin\n\nHouse Boy Sun Mooi Pane butter Rwai Shin\n\nLabourer\n\nPabourer\n\nFabout\n\nXa Yuen\n\nRwas Thin bantin Die Aimg\n\nEing Drive of Sshamngdom\n\nChouw Thow\n\nShed cheek\n\nJuen On Grai show\n\nSchung kine\n\nRwaishir boheme Thin ông ai dau Row long\n\nPing han\n\nJam Phui\n\nbhang Fin stam hoi Do Yuen\n\nkai oleser\n\nYeung Yuen\n\nAfter reviewing the provided text and applying the rules for OCR proofreading, I have made the necessary corrections and formatted the text in HTML as requested. The original text appears to be a list of individuals with their professions, ages, and other details, likely from historical records related to Hong Kong. The corrections made include fixing spelling errors, removing extra spaces, and rejoining broken sentences where necessary. The text has been formatted into paragraphs using HTML tags.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-143 - Sir MacDonnell - 1870 [1-2].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 283068, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-147 - Public Offices - 1870", "page_number": 276, "title": "CO129-147 - Public Offices - 1870", "content_text": "## 5. Cause of heath of Prentsai \n\nThe state of the case at \n\nDong King effean & be thei \n\n274 \n\napartds \n\n1. Rodener in China is subject to- \nDuties when carried about in the interior \n\nہو \n\nbut may be carried \"Inland \n\n2. Rodun taken & Sea from \nCheena Port to another is subject to an \ninfort Duty called the Court hade Salző \n\n3. Roduce Free from Fort- late one \nebut. 2. \narr \nintroduced from a \nthe Ereating Ports \n\nInfort Delig shut ci \nin Court · Trach Daly - \ntwin \n\n| | |\n| --- | --- |\n| 1. Rodener in China | is subject to Duties when carried about in the interior but may be carried \"Inland |\n| 2. Rodun taken by Sea | from Cheena Port to another is subject to an infort Duty called the Court hade Salző |\n| 3. Roduce | Free from Fort- late one ebut. 2. arr introduced from a the Ereating Ports Infort Delig shut ci in Court · Trach Daly - twin |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-147 - Public Offices - 1870.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 283258, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-147 - Public Offices - 1870", "page_number": 466, "title": "CO129-147 - Public Offices - 1870", "content_text": "from Her Majesty's Minister at Washington in regard to this matter.\n\nI am,\nSir,\nYour most obedient humble servant\n\n## 2616. Hong Kong\n### MINUTE PAPER.\n\nSi & Rogers \n464\n\nNothing else dear to it in teen whether an ablati or prefond to jour the other Cowen in the defbefore \nFiracy in the Cheena Lear Ball. \n| Un/3 | 17/3 | OR won | 14/3 |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| IR | | um | 514/3 |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-147 - Public Offices - 1870.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 287362, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-156 - Sir MacDonnell - 1872 [1-3]", "page_number": 457, "title": "CO129-156 - Sir MacDonnell - 1872 [1-3]", "content_text": "No. 31...\n\nRegistion of Supreme Court to Senior Cheen?\n\nSir,\n\n[You?]\n\n457 Court House, Wongsling,\n\n14th February, 1892.\n\nMy ...\n\nIn the goods of Yuu Asing otherwise Theodore, and\n\nIn the goods of New-mau-mai otherwise Mannel both deceased. I have the honor to address ...\n\non the subject of certain property belonging to the above-named persons and now in your possession in Spain.\n\nLeon Cheaa,\n\nConsul for Spain.\n\n \nas Consul for...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-156 - Sir MacDonnell - 1872 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 287367, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-156 - Sir MacDonnell - 1872 [1-3]", "page_number": 462, "title": "CO129-156 - Sir MacDonnell - 1872 [1-3]", "content_text": "Sono Cheen to Registrar of Supreme Court\n\nConsulate of Spain-\n\nat\n\nWhampoa-\n\nNo 33.\n\nSir,\n\nTranslation.-\n\nI have received\n\nyour\n\ncommunication of yesterday\n\n462\n\nrelating to\n\ncomplaining of my refusal to deliver over to the appraisers\n\nof\n\nthe Supreme Court the\n\nmoney and effects belonging\n\nto the Chinamen Theodore and\n\nManuel who died during\n\nthe voyage from Havanna to\n\nHongkong\n\non board the\n\nthe\n\nSpanish Barque \"Altagracia\"\n\nand which were\n\ndeposited in\n\nthe Consulate under\n\nmy\n\ncharge by the Captain of", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-156 - Sir MacDonnell - 1872 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 287370, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-156 - Sir MacDonnell - 1872 [1-3]", "page_number": 465, "title": "CO129-156 - Sir MacDonnell - 1872 [1-3]", "content_text": "24\n\nof Spain.\n\nGood preserve you for\n\nmany years-\n\nHong Kong, 15th February, 1872.\n\n(Signed) Z. Chean,\n\nConsul for Spain\n\nCourt,\n\nM. st. Alexander, Eagle\n\nRegistrar of the Supreme Court\n\nChee\n\nRegistrar of Supreme Court to Sin chen\n\n(Copy)\n\nNo:34.\n\nSir,\n\nCourt House, Hong Kong,\n\n28th February, 1872.\n\nI have the honor to acknowledge\n\nreceipt of your communication of the 15th instant, refusing to deliver to the Appraiser of Supreme Court, lawfully authorised by me, the Official Administrator, the property of two Chinamen who died on board the Spanish Ship Altagracia.\n\nHaving submitted your letter to\n\nDon Leon Chen,\n\nConsul for Spain:", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-156 - Sir MacDonnell - 1872 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 287386, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-156 - Sir MacDonnell - 1872 [1-3]", "page_number": 481, "title": "CO129-156 - Sir MacDonnell - 1872 [1-3]", "content_text": "usulcedo de España:\n\next\n\nCopia\n\n431\n\nPing stong Senior Cheen to Regestion of Improve on to\n\nMing Sensor\n\npd\n\nanio:\n\nRemite à 0d adjuncts & abintetôle pertrueciente als Chino Prodoro, innerté à borda de la Barca española Allagracias in alta y depositade on est Conseilado por el Capiton de dicho buquer\n\nuna)\n\nAl mis\n\nmismo tiempo ranité à ve Copia de las protes to hecha este Consulado de mi la ficha ambas cargo hay dia de Sirvase Md acuar me reciles de COA AO para podele acreditar donde lo tenga prov conveniente\n\n#H. Slexander, Registrador de las brite Suprema\n\nthủng ng", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-156 - Sir MacDonnell - 1872 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 287388, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-156 - Sir MacDonnell - 1872 [1-3]", "page_number": 483, "title": "CO129-156 - Sir MacDonnell - 1872 [1-3]", "content_text": "Sonor Cheen to Rejection of Supreme Court. Agictraw\n\nTranslation..\n\n483\n\nDin\n\nI forward the accompanying Effects belonging to the Chinese Geodoro who died on board the Spanish Barque \"Altagracia\" on the high Seas and which were deposited in this Consulate by the Captain of the said vessel.\n\nI transmit also to you a copy of a Protest made in this Consulate under this day's date.\n\nMr. St. Alexander, Registrar of Supreme Court.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-156 - Sir MacDonnell - 1872 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 287393, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-156 - Sir MacDonnell - 1872 [1-3]", "page_number": 488, "title": "CO129-156 - Sir MacDonnell - 1872 [1-3]", "content_text": "Protest of Sonor Cheen. (Translation)\n\n438\n\nday of\n\n(Copy) Protest - For the Colony of Hongkong, on the 13th March, Eighteen hundred and Seventy two, and before Señor Don Fernando Facur de Pejada Vice Consul Don for Spain in this Colony appeared Don Leon Checa, Consul for Spain in the said Colony, and stated : That the Supreme Court having sanctioned an action to oblige the delivery of the Estate of a Chinaman named Deodoro, who died on High Seas on board the Spanish Barque Altagracia's.\n\nThat considering the action : taken to be contrary", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-156 - Sir MacDonnell - 1872 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 288068, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-158 - Sir Kennedy - 1872 [6-8]", "page_number": 13, "title": "CO129-158 - Sir Kennedy - 1872 [6-8]", "content_text": "Jonghing\n\nJo 33.\n\n7th June, 1872.\n\nGoverna\n\nBer XX. Kennedy K.Q.M.G., C.B.,\n\nThe Right Honorable\n\nThe bark of Kimberley\n\nKanisa Consul at Hong Kong,\n\nDon Leon Chica - Relative to the character of ... in respect of a person introduced in Government house as legitimate Wife.\n\nhis\n\n(Copia)\n\n7747/\n\n11\n\nSister Cheen to Acting Colonial Secretary\n\nHong Kong, 6 de Abril, 1872\n\nS. C. Smith,\n\nMuy Señor mio :\n\nSuplico a V.S. se sirva poner en conocimiento de S.E. que por casualidad ha llegado a mi noticia, que en casa del Gobernador se ha circulado por dicho Gobierno y la sociedad de Hong Kong que Mrs. Chea es mi legitima Esposa.\n\nEsto lastima mi honra de una manera que me es horrible, y es imposible conocer el autor de calumnia tan indigna.\n\nEs preciso que mientras recibo los documentos (2 Inclusos)", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-158 - Sir Kennedy - 1872 [6-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 288476, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-158 - Sir Kennedy - 1872 [6-8]", "page_number": 421, "title": "CO129-158 - Sir Kennedy - 1872 [6-8]", "content_text": "409\n\nForest, or whether Lord Granville will prefer to\n\nawait the result of the prosecution now instituted before considering the matter.\n\nI am to point out that this prosecution is instituted under Sec. 4 of Ordinance 24 of 1865,\n\nof which a copy is annexed for information. Lord Granville will observe\n\nthat Deputy L. Thean has been committed for trial.\n\nI am ...\n\nHQ H ...\n\nwith the other two divers stating that on Cheea ... has been omitted for Trial\n\nafter being charged with piracy RM 3079\n\nSee: Sec. 4 of Ordinance 24 of 1865\n\nRED No. 75\n\nLivermor\n\nDate of Paper..\n\n1872\n\nAug 2\n\nLast previous Paper\n\nOrdinance #28 confirmed - Govt. - 28=-141-2 October 1872\n\nN°\n\nHong Kong No. 9512\n\n1872\n\n8/72\n\nOrdinance 8/72\n\n(Subject.)\n\n8/72 - To provide for Trial\n\nby Special Jury in certain cases\n\n(Minutes.)\n\nW Holland\n\nSanction\n\nJV18 29/9\n\nR Sept 28/72", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-158 - Sir Kennedy - 1872 [6-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 288498, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-158 - Sir Kennedy - 1872 [6-8]", "page_number": 443, "title": "CO129-158 - Sir Kennedy - 1872 [6-8]", "content_text": "Dongthong no77 \n\n7th Augint, 1872 \n\nGown Siv Anchor Kenmody, \n\nto \n\nThe Right Conorable \n\nCarl \n\nKemby, B. \n\n3. The East of Kimberley \n\nSenor Chrea, Spanish Conant- \n\nForwards \n\nagreement regarding \n\nthe duc fought ly. \n\nReports the position of \n\nthe \n\nlegal proceedings against- \n\n(Cossy.) \n\ny \n\nto be vlind \n\nGrignial. \n\n9353 \n\n431 \n\nMr. Charles L. de La Forêt \n\nMr. Pierre Carrique feadrinos del for Don Felipe de la Torre Bueno y Don Mannel Ginard y Don José Rodrigug Trujillo por el for Don Leon Checa rennixos en \n\nve \n\nel dia de hoy vault \n\ny \n\nocho de \n\nJulio de mil ocho cientos setenta \n\ny dos para decidir la cuestion fendiente entre los dos apadrinados \n\nreconocen manimamente en el For de la Forre Bueno el derecho \n\nde exigir \n\nMa \n\nreparacion for golpes inferidos à este Senior por Don Leon Cheen.. \n\n2. \n\nEndlessnes", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-158 - Sir Kennedy - 1872 [6-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 288501, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-158 - Sir Kennedy - 1872 [6-8]", "page_number": 446, "title": "CO129-158 - Sir Kennedy - 1872 [6-8]", "content_text": "434\n\nKowloon is where the Chinese people live. The doctor Don José Pareja was compared to the aforementioned. All these gentlemen directed themselves in search of a suitable site to be able to carry out the duel, and after an hour and a half of futile efforts to achieve it, they decided to embark on one of the...\n\n...and head to one of the beaches of the Chinese territory; having found a suitable one, they disembarked and, having fulfilled all the original conditions cited above, the duel began. The signal was given, and Mr. Cheen advanced towards Mr. Torre Bueno. When they were halfway through the distance that separated them, Mr. Torre Bueno fired, but without hitting Mr. Cheen, who, without stopping, continued advancing until he fired at his adversary point-blank, wounding Mr. Torre Bueno.\n\nHaving been wounded, Mr. Torre Bueno could not continue the duel, but immediately started to feel faint, falling into the arms of his witnesses and losing consciousness. The doctor then provided the first treatment.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-158 - Sir Kennedy - 1872 [6-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 288597, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-158 - Sir Kennedy - 1872 [6-8]", "page_number": 542, "title": "CO129-158 - Sir Kennedy - 1872 [6-8]", "content_text": "DESPATCH\n\nHong Kong\n\nNo. 284 1968\n\nGovernor No. Kennedy 04\n\nDate 187\n\n(Subject.) CTS 530 Police Proceedings re Leon Cheen\n\n12\" 16 Aug (Spanish Consul for provoking a duel\n\nLast previous Paper. 74 9511. 66811\n\nCopy S.O. 16 October 187: Ack! no 177 4/12/72\n\n2.0 9511 Copy herewith Senor L. Checa committed for trial.\n\nfr Holland.\n\n(Minutes.)\n\nI have altered the draft written on 24 so as to include a copy of this despatch among those which are to be sent to the Foreign Office.\n\n10/10/72 Lord off the Col. or her Majesty's Govt.\n\nJV JH 1/10 Rove BF75", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-158 - Sir Kennedy - 1872 [6-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 290520, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-162 - Sir Kennedy - 1873 [1-3]", "page_number": 161, "title": "CO129-162 - Sir Kennedy - 1873 [1-3]", "content_text": "DESPATCH.\n\nHong Kong\n\nW28 No 2671\n\nGovernor No.\n\n(Subject.)\n\nKumudy 28 Macao Coolie Trade\n\nDate\n\nRECEIV\n\nC.O.\n\n20 MAR\n\n1873\n\n157\n\nRausonats Correspondence with Cheef\n\n1873 Feby 10 Justice\n\nLast_previous Paper.\n\n2670\n\n...\n\n9 C gz\n\nReferred 4.6m 28 March 7873\n\nAus Azmil 27\n\n2057\n\n33\n\nregarding\n\nVessels\n\nengaged\n\nin\n\nin .\n\nPRINTED FOR PARLIAMENT\n\nC. 829 of 1873\n\nIn citendo\n\nSee 2676\n\n(Minutes.)\n\nIt is stated that a\n\nnumber of the\n\nEmigrants released in Japan partly on \"Masia day\" subsequently operated\n\nagain. Hutt hear 30\n\nI made the following corrections:\n1. Corrected \"en\" to \"in\".\n2. Corrected \"subrated\" to \"operated\".\n3. Corrected \"7873\" to \"1873\".\n4. Removed the non-English word \"السماء\" as it seems out of context and not relevant to the rest of the text.\n5. Added \"...\" to indicate a missing word.\n6. Changed the formatting to HTML using tags as per the instructions.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-162 - Sir Kennedy - 1873 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 292005, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-165 - Sir Kennedy - 1873 [10-12]", "page_number": 14, "title": "CO129-165 - Sir Kennedy - 1873 [10-12]", "content_text": "## British Consulate Manila, September 26th\n\nI have the honor to transmit herewith enclosed to Your Excellency a copy of a protest made by me James Benjamin Field, who states and declares that he is of Dublin, and British Nationality, and that he has never done anything whereby he might forfeit the protection of His Britannic Majesty's Government.\n\nPairlic wished advice of the same to be sent to Hongkong. As I was not aware whether she has suffered any damage or not. I would request Your Excellency to send another and larger vessel to be stationed here for the present necessary protection.\n\nI have, &c. \n(Signed) Oswald Cheek... \nComm...\n\nMr. Cheek to Sir Arthur Kennedy, &c., &c., Governor of Hongkong.\n\n### \n\nPage ...\n \nI have the honor to... \n... \nTo His Excellency Sir Arthur Kennedy, K.C.M.G., &c., Governor of Hongkong.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-165 - Sir Kennedy - 1873 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 296777, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-171 - Acting Governor Austin - 1875 [7-11] -- Sir Kennedy - 1875 [12]", "page_number": 507, "title": "CO129-171 - Acting Governor Austin - 1875 [7-11] -- Sir Kennedy - 1875 [12]", "content_text": "No.\n\nH: 145-Noa 13308\n\nNo.\n\nN\n\n(Subject.)\n\n1445- Acheen Emigration\n\nDESPATCH.\n\n503\n\nInwards further papers throwing light on\n\nDate.\n\n1867\n\n25\n\nthe passengers going in verbal Contracts previous Paper.\n\nBel\n\n225\n\n(Minutes.)\n\nCopy 18.7.0.\n\nCowr3,\n\n20.7\n\n542/18\n\n7/176=\n\n14038\n\nIt is to be regretted that the heavy Dutch Govt will sustain loss by this affair - ($50,000 one item alone). The abandonment of the charter of the \"Abbotsford\" at the same time had strong grounds for suspecting some fraud & indeed the declaration in writing of Mr Graneveld the Dutch Agent that all the Chinamen employed were free of any Contract was incorrect.\n\nVa-H&S 6876)", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-171 - Acting Governor Austin - 1875 [7-11] -- Sir Kennedy - 1875 [12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 296784, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-171 - Acting Governor Austin - 1875 [7-11] -- Sir Kennedy - 1875 [12]", "page_number": 514, "title": "CO129-171 - Acting Governor Austin - 1875 [7-11] -- Sir Kennedy - 1875 [12]", "content_text": "Dangling. W. 145. 23th October 1875.\n\nAdministrator\n\nGardiner Austin J.\n\nto\n\nThe Right Honorable\n\nThe Earl of Carnarvon\n\nAcheen Emigration-\n\nForwards such paper regarding - shewing that the\n\npassengers\n\nwere...\n\nverbal contract\n\nBeing\n\nin\n\nCertificate withheld by Emigration officer\n\nThe\n\nPage 510\n\nSchedule of Papers connected with the proposed Emigration to Acheen\n\nSubject\n\nEnclosure No.\n\nFrom\n\n1\n\n2\n\n3\n\n4\n\nHarbour Master states that application has\n\nbeen made by the Passage Broker for the S.S. Abbotsford to have the intending passengers to Acheen examined immediately.\n\n16th October 1875\n\nto\n\nMr Groeneveldt comments on the refusal\n\nof the Harbour Master to permit the emigrants to embark on the ground of there being a verbal contract (vide enclosure no.9) restates conditions of emigration, and requests to be allowed to be present at a further examination.\n\n19th October, 1875\n\nThe Acting Colonial Secretary\n\nReplies to above upholding the decision arrived at by the Harbour Master and discountenancing the proposal to make explanations to the intending emigrants while under examination.\n\n20th October\n\nto\n\nW. Groeneveldt\n\n1875\n\nM. Groeneveldt\n\nto\n\nThe Administrator\n\n20th October 1875.\n\nIn consequence of the reply made to his previous letter requests as an amended proposal that those under verbal", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-171 - Acting Governor Austin - 1875 [7-11] -- Sir Kennedy - 1875 [12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 296785, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-171 - Acting Governor Austin - 1875 [7-11] -- Sir Kennedy - 1875 [12]", "page_number": 515, "title": "CO129-171 - Acting Governor Austin - 1875 [7-11] -- Sir Kennedy - 1875 [12]", "content_text": "Enclosure No\n\nFrom\n\n4 continued)\n\n5\n\n༩\n\n8\n\nActing\n\nSubject\n\n511\n\nverbal Contract be struck off, the others being permitted to go.\n\nColonial Secretary In reply to above states that the Emigration Officer is to Mr. Groeneveldt prepared to examine intending Emigrants according to law.\" 21st October 1875\n\nCase of Assault Newspaper extract containing an account of a case of assault arising out of the proposed emigration to Acheen, in the course, before the Magistrate 22nd October 1875 of which the evidence taken reveals the existence of proposed contract.\n\nAttorney General's Opinion states that the evidence discloses sufficient proof 22nd October 1875 of the men being under Contract to justify the Emigration Officer in withholding his certificate.\n\nEmigration Officer declines to grant a certificate to enable the SS. \"Abbotsford\" to Wess: Schellhass&c. to proceed with Emigrants to Acheen. 22nd October 1875", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-171 - Acting Governor Austin - 1875 [7-11] -- Sir Kennedy - 1875 [12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 296786, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-171 - Acting Governor Austin - 1875 [7-11] -- Sir Kennedy - 1875 [12]", "page_number": 516, "title": "CO129-171 - Acting Governor Austin - 1875 [7-11] -- Sir Kennedy - 1875 [12]", "content_text": "1.*\n\n512\n\nEnclosure No.\n\nFrom\n\nSubject\n\nEmigration Forwards detailed report of\n\n9\n\nOfficer\n\nthe circumstances connected.\n\nto\n\nwith the proposal to\n\nActing Colonial\n\nengage emigrants to\n\nSecretary\n\nproceed to Acheen:\n\n26th October 1875\n\nFurther Correspondence connected\n\n10\n\nwith Despatch No. 145.\n\nto The Secretary of State\n\nMr. Groeneveldt Replies to letter informing\n\nhim that the Government\n\nto\n\nThe Administrator\n\ncould offer no assistance in\n\n30th\n\nhis Emigration scheme, and\n\nAugust 1875\n\nreiterates question as to the\n\nActing\n\nto\n\nlegality of assisting Chinese Emigrants to go from this\n\nport to Acheen.\n\nIn reply to above states that\n\nColonial Secretary\n\nthis Government can\n\nMr. Groeneveldt.\n\n1st Sept. 1875\n\nonly\n\nrepeat that it is unable to countenance MM. Groeneveldt's scheme, until instructions have been received from\n\nHer Majesty's Government.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-171 - Acting Governor Austin - 1875 [7-11] -- Sir Kennedy - 1875 [12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 296787, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-171 - Acting Governor Austin - 1875 [7-11] -- Sir Kennedy - 1875 [12]", "page_number": 517, "title": "CO129-171 - Acting Governor Austin - 1875 [7-11] -- Sir Kennedy - 1875 [12]", "content_text": "Papers connected with the Emigration to Acheen\n\nSchedule of\n\nEnclosure not to // in Admiralty. I. Gardiner Austin's despatch No. 145 of 25th October, 1875.\n\n13309\n\nColonial Secretary.\n\n513\n\nHarbour Department,\n\nCopy\n\nStarboard Master to Acting\n\nEnclosure No. 1\n\n10267-\n\nnigration\n\nSir,\n\nHongkong: 16th October, 1875.\n\nWith reference to His Excellency's Memo of the 15th instant, I have the honour to acquaint you that the Passenger Broker for the British Steamer \"Abbotsford\" has made application that the passengers to proceed by that ship to Acheen may be allowed to undergo the usual examination at this Office.\n\nHonourable\n\nColonial Secretary,\n\n[To:] W. C. Smith,\n\nActing Colonial Secretary,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-171 - Acting Governor Austin - 1875 [7-11] -- Sir Kennedy - 1875 [12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 296788, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-171 - Acting Governor Austin - 1875 [7-11] -- Sir Kennedy - 1875 [12]", "page_number": 518, "title": "CO129-171 - Acting Governor Austin - 1875 [7-11] -- Sir Kennedy - 1875 [12]", "content_text": "(signed) H.G. Thomsett.\n\nHarbour Master to\n\nM. Groeneveldt to the Administrator\n\nEnclosure Nr 2\n\n3.\n\n13309\n\n7514\n\nHongkong 19th October 1878:\n\nReferring to the correspondence\n\nhad with your Excellency\n\non the subject of my mission to this Colony,\n\nI now have the honor to inform Your Excellency that there are at present 600 Chinese of different broods in this Colony, desiring to go to Acheen\n\nI declare under power vested\n\nin me by\n\nHis Excellency\n\nthe H. ! Government that\n\nI. Gardiner, Acting\n\nAdministrator of Boughing.\n\nthe", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-171 - Acting Governor Austin - 1875 [7-11] -- Sir Kennedy - 1875 [12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 296789, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-171 - Acting Governor Austin - 1875 [7-11] -- Sir Kennedy - 1875 [12]", "page_number": 519, "title": "CO129-171 - Acting Governor Austin - 1875 [7-11] -- Sir Kennedy - 1875 [12]", "content_text": "I certify that the passage of these men and all expenses attending their emigration are paid by me and that on no account this money will be charged against them, either on their arrival in Acheen or afterwards.\n\nI have further promised to these men that the Government will supply them with work, with specified wages for every kind of employment and in all cases free food and lodging.\n\nOn or after their arrival in Acheen these emigrants will be free to accept or reject this employment, to work on their own account or for others already established there, or to leave the country.\n\nI repeat that under these circumstances there are 600 men desiring to leave for Acheen in the British Steamer Abbotsford. But when my agent applied to the Harbor Master for permission to embark, they were refused to do so, and the ground given was \"that there was a verbal contract...\"\n\nThis result of the Harbor Master's inquiry, however, must be owing to some mistake; it is quite possible that the passengers, who were subjected to a sharp examination yesterday, may have...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-171 - Acting Governor Austin - 1875 [7-11] -- Sir Kennedy - 1875 [12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 296792, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-171 - Acting Governor Austin - 1875 [7-11] -- Sir Kennedy - 1875 [12]", "page_number": 522, "title": "CO129-171 - Acting Governor Austin - 1875 [7-11] -- Sir Kennedy - 1875 [12]", "content_text": "proposing to \n\ngo \n\nto Acheen in the \n\nare under verbal \n\nI. S. Abbotsford contracts of service. Having perused \n\nthe statements made by certain of these Passengers the Administrator is of opinion that the Emigration Officer is justified \n\nin the course \n\nwhich he has taken, and although \n\nthere \n\nmay \n\nbe a \n\nmisapprehension \n\nof the Passengers as to the intention of \n\nthe Government of Netherlands India, the Government can only look to the understanding \n\nthis \n\nto his future \n\nposition which the intending Emigrant may indicate to the Emigration Officer, \n\nThe case \n\nof the Chinese \n\n518 \n\nproposing to embark in the S.S. Abbotsford must be dealt with strictly according to law, and His Excellency does not think it right to interfere so long as the law is being observed by the proper officer of his Government. \n\nAny explanations, therefore, \n\nwhich you wish to make, as to the prospects which you hold out to the intended Passengers cannot take place during their examination by the Emigration Officer. Such \n\na course would form an inconvenient precedent, and would hamper the Emigration Officer in his duty.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-171 - Acting Governor Austin - 1875 [7-11] -- Sir Kennedy - 1875 [12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 296795, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-171 - Acting Governor Austin - 1875 [7-11] -- Sir Kennedy - 1875 [12]", "page_number": 525, "title": "CO129-171 - Acting Governor Austin - 1875 [7-11] -- Sir Kennedy - 1875 [12]", "content_text": "Enclosure N. 6.\n\nTHE\n\nHONG KONG TIMES.\n\nHONG KONG, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1875.\n\nPOLICE COURT,\n\nBEFORE JAMES RUSSELL, Esq.\n\nThursday, October 21st, 1875.\n\nEMIGRATION TO ACHERN.\n\nWONG-A-CHEUNG was charged with assaulting the complainant.\n\nPan-young-Kai, a head district watchman belonging to No. 2 District, said that yesterday morning, about seven o'clock, he was walking in First Street just outside of Yu Luk Lane, when he heard a noise, and understood from what he heard, that there was fighting going on; he went up the Lane, to see if it was so, but he saw no fighting but a number of persons making a great noise. About 10 o'clock, he went to the Registrar General's Office, as was his custom, and made a report to Mr. Osmund as Mr. Tounochy was not there. There are a number of houses for emigrants to Acheen in Yu Luk Lane. There are four houses in Yu Luk Lane,-Nos. 3, 5, 8, 10, and they have placards that they are emigration offices, or offices where men can get work. The noise occurred in houses Nos. 3 and 10. He told Mr. Osmund about this, and he (Mr. Osmund) told him that he could have the men arrested if he saw them fighting, and if it was needed, he could get the assistance of the Police from the Station. He went away and about 11 o'clock went to Lai Shek Kai, a special constable attached to the Registrar General's Office, who asked him what he was doing; he said he was going to Yu Luk Lane to make some enquiries concerning a fight in the coolies' houses that morning; he (Lai Shek Kai) said he would go with him, and they went to house No. 10, and asked some coolies who came out of the house, what the noise in the morning was about. Several men came out of the house, and from one of them they understood that they had made an agreement to go to Acheen with the master (by the master, was understood the master of the house) and that the Harbor Master was their security, but since making the agreement they had heard that the committee of the Tung Wah Hospital and an officer belonging to the Registrar General's Office had explained to them that the Harbor Master was not security for them, nor the Government of Hong Kong. The men they saw were carpenters. There were about ten men present during the conversation, one man spoke for the whole of them. The men came out of house No. 10. They said they would not go to Acheen now, and the complainant had told them that if they would not, they would have to pay for their lodging, and meals that they had taken in the house, during their stay. They said that they had not any money to pay with, and that the prisoner had beaten them. He asked where the master was and one of the men called him from house No. 5. A man came out, and they said the prisoner was he, called A-Ken, charged the prisoner with beating him, and said he could not find the police at the time of the assault, but wished him now to be taken to the Station. The man A-Ken had a lump on his face. Witness told the man A-Ken he had better go to the Station, and he and Lai Shek Kai, prisoner, and eight others went to the station. There are three emigration houses in Third Street, two in Wai On Lane, and one in Battery Road. He only saw one house in Yu Luk Lane with Chen Kin Kun on it, and that was No. 3. On the same paper are the words Chen Kin Kun and besides the statement of term of employment. He had not got that paper or a copy of it and he believed it had been torn down. He noticed four houses in Yu Luk Lane for men, and he saw one in Wai On Lane, but did not go to Battery Road. He knew of three houses in Third Street. He knew the prisoner had been living in house No. 8, for a month, but he had no previous knowledge of him. He said that he had not seen any houses in the Colony for emigration for years. He remembered a house, eight or nine years ago, in Wan Chai. Yesterday he saw, in house No. 3, Yu Luk Lane, fifty or sixty men, but some of the houses had sixty or seventy men, whilst others had forty or fifty. The master of the house and his employés had been collecting men for about a month. The men in the houses did nothing.\n\nCheung-a-Keu, a carpenter, said he came to Hong Kong on the 22nd day of the 9th moon, and since that time had had constant employment. In passing down Yu Luk Lane one day, about the middle of September, he saw a paper setting out a statement that men were required to go to Acheen. That paper was on house No. 8. He went in and asked the prisoner, who seemed to be the accountant, how much the pay per month was and the prisoner told him that if he was a carpenter he would get $18 a month, and that he would be secured to go to Acheen and brought back and whilst there receive the before-mentioned wages. He told him that the Harbor Master of this port would sign his name as security and he would have a passage down and back. He said the statement he had made was true, and he had not been \"coached\" as to what he was to say by anyone. He said he knew the Harbor Master was a Government officer. Pang-a-Sau and others of his fellow workmen were with him when he had the conversation with the prisoner. The prisoner told witness he would be at Acheen two months, and witness said that that was too little because after the passage there and back had been paid he would have made no gain. The prisoner then said he would pay the passage down and back. The witness said the time of agreement had better be a year and the prisoner agreed to it. He said he lived in house No. 10, of which the master was How-a-Cheong; he had lived there since the 4th moon of this year and paid rent to the master and got his rice free. But from the 9th instant he had not got his rice at the prisoner's. There were some men in house No. 10 who got rice from prisoner, who had taken their cook and allowed him to have his rice and sleep there. The other men all paid rent to How-A-Cheong. The agreement between prisoner and witness was that he was to go to Acheen and get $18 a month for a year certain and have his passage paid there and back and that the Harbor Master was to be the security. Witness said that had he not been offered the terms mentioned he would not have gone, or rather not have consented to go. On Monday the 18th inst., several Chinese with Mr. Osmund came to make enquiries about the emigration, and he then heard that he had not been secured, and there was no security for the carrying out of the agreement. He heard that the Harbor Master was not security for him and he thereupon made up his mind not to go to Acheen. Yesterday morning he did not get free rice. He passed No. 3, Yu Luk Lane, where the prisoner lived and he (prisoner) came out and asked him if he was going to Acheen or not and the witness replied in the negative, adding that there was not, as he had stated there was, a security; therefore he would not go. Upon hearing this the prisoner struck him a blow in the face, and witness, not wishing to take the law into his own hands, said he would go to Tung Wah Hospital and tell the Committee of the treatment he had received. He knew that some of the Tung Wah people had been making enquiries about the migration. The prisoner told the witness that he should go to Acheen even if he sold him like a pig, and he would have to go; witness was firm in his resolution and said he would not go, come what might. This was about seven o'clock. Witness did not go to the Tung Wah Hospital. Prisoner went into the house and he went to No. 10. Witness said he had omitted to state that the prisoner had told him, on his refusing to fulfil his agreement, that he would have to remit the cost of the provisions he had consumed during his stay in the house, and he said he would not and could not, for he had not the money to do it with. He had not any knowledge of the prisoner until his entrance to the house where the paper was posted up. He was shown a paper of a yellow color with a red stamp on the back the same as produced (marked A). He had not seen any like the white one produced. After the assault when the District Watchman came he told him that he wished to give the prisoner into custody and called him out of the house. Witness said he would go to Acheen now if the Harbor Master would sign the security paper. He did not know if his name was put in the book produced (marked B).\n\nPang-a-Sau, another carpenter and a native of Sun On said he had lived in Hong Kong since last year. He was in Yu Luk Lane, when he was shown a paper posted up on the door of No. 8, the poster intimated that men were wanted for Acheen and he went with the last witness to make enquiries about it. On the 5th or 6th inst., he asked prisoner if he would give him employment at Acheen and he said he would and he asked him his trade; witness answered that he was a carpenter, whereupon the prisoner said he would engage him, give him $18 a month and a passage to Acheen and back and said the Harbor Master would be security. Prisoner said that the engagement was for one year and if during that time he should fall sick he would be placed in Hospital and cured; for witness made arrangements to go on the...\n\nPage 521", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-171 - Acting Governor Austin - 1875 [7-11] -- Sir Kennedy - 1875 [12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 296796, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-171 - Acting Governor Austin - 1875 [7-11] -- Sir Kennedy - 1875 [12]", "page_number": 526, "title": "CO129-171 - Acting Governor Austin - 1875 [7-11] -- Sir Kennedy - 1875 [12]", "content_text": "terms mentioned. He was not aware that his name was placed in a book. He saw a notice outside the door of the house and also some foreign paper which he did not understand. Ho saw the paper marked A now shown, or one similar to it, and it had a similar red stamp on it. He heard some men say that if he liked to go he could, but he need not unless he wished it, for the Harbor Master was not security as had been put forth by the prisoner. Witness who had believed what the prisoner had said, said that the Harbor Master was security, but he heard that he had been duped. He saw the assault committed on A-Keu.\n\nCheong Kwai Hung, a carpenter belonging to the Tong Koon district, and living in Yu Lok Lane, said that he had lived in No. 11, Yu Lok Lane, for eight months, that is, from the 1st moon of this year. On the 6th instant, he went to the prisoner's house, which is No. 8, Yu Lok Lane, and asked if there were any workmen wanted, and the prisoner said there were; he asked where to go to, and he said that men were wanted for Acheen, and asked what trade the witness pursued; he replied that he was a carpenter; he asked what wages were given, and he said $18 a month; the witness then said \"Very good, is there any security, and the prisoner said \"Yes, the Harbour Master will secure.\" Witness said that if the Harbour Master would secure him he would go. There were eighty or ninety men present at the time, and they must all have heard it. Prisoner said that, if the Harbour Master would not secure him, he need not go. The terms of the agreement were told him and he understood that his passage was to be paid there and back and he was to stay two years. He agreed for the two years but the prisoner would have to get him a ship to return in. Witness said that he gave no security to stay the two years. He did not have his name in the book to his knowledge. He had not been at work since the 11th inst. because he was out of the employ that day. He having been at work at Shek Tong Tsui market. He had to pay rent to the prisoner. With proper security he would have gone. He had not paid for his rice although he had been asked for it. He would still go if the Harbor Master would secure him. He learnt that it was false about the Harbor Master giving security on the 19th instant, when some people from the Tung Wah Hospital went to the house to make enquiries and told him that he need not go unless he liked and unless the Harbor Master would secure him. He had no passage ticket. Prisoner did not say anything about a firm being security, he only mentioned the Harbor Master. He saw Mr. Osmund on the 19th and he told him the same as the people from the Hospital and also that the Harbor Master could not secure him. He was in Yu Lok Lane when he saw the witness pass down and saw the prisoner seize him and ask him for the money for the provisions he had consumed; witness said he could not pay it and told the prisoner that he said the Harbor Master would secure him.\n\nA number of other witnesses were called and gave corroborative evidence.\n\n522", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-171 - Acting Governor Austin - 1875 [7-11] -- Sir Kennedy - 1875 [12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 296798, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-171 - Acting Governor Austin - 1875 [7-11] -- Sir Kennedy - 1875 [12]", "page_number": 528, "title": "CO129-171 - Acting Governor Austin - 1875 [7-11] -- Sir Kennedy - 1875 [12]", "content_text": "Harbor Master to Messrs Edward Schellhass & Co\n\nEnclosure No. 8.\n\nGentlemen,\n\nStarboard Department,\n\nHongkong. 22nd October, 1875.\n\nI have the honour to inform you, in reply to your application for a certificate to enable the British Steam ship \"Abbotsford\", Official No. 62987, to proceed from Hongkong to Acheen in Sumatra with Chinese Passengers, that under the provisions of Section VIII of Schedule E of Ordinance No.5 of 1874, I am unable to grant you the certificate\n\nMessrs Eduard Schellhass & Co", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-171 - Acting Governor Austin - 1875 [7-11] -- Sir Kennedy - 1875 [12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 296799, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-171 - Acting Governor Austin - 1875 [7-11] -- Sir Kennedy - 1875 [12]", "page_number": 529, "title": "CO129-171 - Acting Governor Austin - 1875 [7-11] -- Sir Kennedy - 1875 [12]", "content_text": "1 \n\nyou apply for. \n\nI have so; \n\n(signed) H.G. Thomsett, Acting Harbour Master.\n\n(True Copy) \n(signed) H.G. Thomsett, RN, \nHarbour Master.\n\n$273. \n\nStarboard Master to Enclosure Nr.9.\n\nL \naching \n\n21 \n\nColonial Secretary, \nHarbor Department, \nHongkong, 26th October 1875.\n\nIn compliance with your \ninstructions I have the honor to submit the following report on the intended Emigration of Chinese to Acheen in Sumatra.\n\nMessrs Edward Schellhass & Co., \nmerchants residing at Hinghua, \nare the Charterers of the `Abbotaberd`.\n\nThe Honorable Cecil C. Smith, \nActing Colonial Secretary. \n\nre \nBritish", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-171 - Acting Governor Austin - 1875 [7-11] -- Sir Kennedy - 1875 [12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 296800, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-171 - Acting Governor Austin - 1875 [7-11] -- Sir Kennedy - 1875 [12]", "page_number": 530, "title": "CO129-171 - Acting Governor Austin - 1875 [7-11] -- Sir Kennedy - 1875 [12]", "content_text": "22\n\n23.\n\n526\n\nBritish steamer Official Number 62,287 but which vessel it was proposed to forward the Chinese. Dr Buschmann the firms of Messrs S. Schelthass & Co. be in the absence of Mr Beyer the senior partner is the Acting Netherlands Consul at this Port.\n\nUpwards of a month since Mr Buschmann, of the firm of Messrs Schellhass & Co. called at my Office and introduced Mr W. P. Groeneveldt to me as a gentleman connected with the Dutch Government at Java who had come to Hongkong with a view to obtaining Chinese labor for Acheen in Sumatra.\n\nThe subject of the conversation was as to whether any objection would be raised by this Government to Mr Groeneveldt's wishes. I informed the two gentlemen that so long as the Chinese were properly procured, and that no contracts of service whatever were entered into with the intending Emigrants, I did not think the Government would raise any obstacle to their proceeding.\n\nThis being the first time that it had been proposed to introduce Chinese from Hongkong to Acheen I suggested that Messrs Buschmann & Co. and Mr Groeneveldt should...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-171 - Acting Governor Austin - 1875 [7-11] -- Sir Kennedy - 1875 [12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 296810, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-171 - Acting Governor Austin - 1875 [7-11] -- Sir Kennedy - 1875 [12]", "page_number": 540, "title": "CO129-171 - Acting Governor Austin - 1875 [7-11] -- Sir Kennedy - 1875 [12]", "content_text": "41\n\nrest be examined tomorrow, that all those who seem to think themselves under contracts of service be struck from the list and the rest allowed to depart.\n\nI must again pray for a speedy reply, because, if this request is not granted, it is my duly to throw up the affair at once.\n\nI have\n\n(Signed) Dr. P. Groeneveldt.\n\n(Ive losses)\n\n(Signed) W. G. Thomsett.\n\n42.\n\n536\n\nW. Groeneveldt to The Administrator\n\nEnclosure No 10.\n\nNetherlands Consulate\n\n30th August 1875.\n\nHongkong\n\nI had the honor to receive a despatch from the Colonial Secretary dated 27 August No:573, informing me that it was not possible for Your Excellency to afford me any assistance towards establishing emigration of Chinese from this Colony to Acheen.\n\nJ. Gardiner Austin\n\nStarboard Master.\n\nHis Excellency\n\n(Illegible)\n\nThe Administrator.\n\n(Illegible)\n\nActing Colonial Secretary\n\nPage 540\n\nPage 541", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-171 - Acting Governor Austin - 1875 [7-11] -- Sir Kennedy - 1875 [12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 296812, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-171 - Acting Governor Austin - 1875 [7-11] -- Sir Kennedy - 1875 [12]", "page_number": 542, "title": "CO129-171 - Acting Governor Austin - 1875 [7-11] -- Sir Kennedy - 1875 [12]", "content_text": "; \n\n415. \n\n46. \n\n538 \n\nCountries as well, and that the \n\ntheir \n\nmajority of these emigrants have \n\nand other passage \n\nexpenses defrayed by those who want to \n\nemploy them. \n\nto \n\nThis is exactly what \n\nI intend to do for those desirous of going to Acheen and further I do \n\nnot hesitate to add that, if a closer comparison were instituted between the emigrants to the places \n\nmentioned above and those who go to Acheen under the \n\nGovernment, \n\nand the promises held out by it, it certainly would not be found unfavourable to the latter, as well with respect to freedom as to their ultimate prospects. \n\nI therefore take the liberty to repeat my former question: \"Whether it would be lawful for me to assist Chinese emigrants in going to Acheen \n\nfrom this port, in the way detailed in my despatch of 20th August.\" \n\nfor the reasons stated above, \n\nI submit this question to your Excellency with the greatest confidence, trusting that a privilege available to the first comer, will not be refused to a \n\nfriendly Government. In case, however, your Excellency might be of opinion that I cannot be allowed to carry out my mission in this Colony, I feel obliged to request...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-171 - Acting Governor Austin - 1875 [7-11] -- Sir Kennedy - 1875 [12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 296813, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-171 - Acting Governor Austin - 1875 [7-11] -- Sir Kennedy - 1875 [12]", "page_number": 543, "title": "CO129-171 - Acting Governor Austin - 1875 [7-11] -- Sir Kennedy - 1875 [12]", "content_text": "18\n\nrequest most respectfully that it was please your Excellency to give me the reasons that are opposed to it. If they only apply to Acheen, I might perhaps be able to remove them by further explanations or by modification of my plans, and if it were that emigration to our colonies were forbidden altogether, it would be highly important for my Government to be acquainted with this restriction.\n\nI have &c.\n\n(Signed) Fr. P. Groeneveldt\n\nActing Colonial Secretary\n\nEnclosure No. 11\n\nSir,\n\nMr Groeneveldt.\n\nColonial Secretary's office\n\n1st September 1875:\n\nI have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 30th August, and in reply to repeat to you the substance of the despatch of the 30th. I am directed to inform you that, pending the receipt of instructions from Her Majesty's Government, His Excellency The Administrator is unable to give you any assistance in the execution of your Mission for which you have applied.\n\nBy last mail the proposal...\n\nP. Groeneveldt, Esqre.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-171 - Acting Governor Austin - 1875 [7-11] -- Sir Kennedy - 1875 [12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 296829, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-171 - Acting Governor Austin - 1875 [7-11] -- Sir Kennedy - 1875 [12]", "page_number": 559, "title": "CO129-171 - Acting Governor Austin - 1875 [7-11] -- Sir Kennedy - 1875 [12]", "content_text": "To be inserted later\n\nRegistered\n\nDespatch 153\n\nRegistered Number 14038\n\nof 9 November\n\nSubject: Emigration to Acheen.\n\n555", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-171 - Acting Governor Austin - 1875 [7-11] -- Sir Kennedy - 1875 [12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 300800, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-178 - Governor Hennessy - 1877 [6-8]", "page_number": 542, "title": "CO129-178 - Governor Hennessy - 1877 [6-8]", "content_text": "From \n\n5 \n\n507 \n\nby doing \n\n30, a cheek was \n\nLoon \n\nvery \n\nput to smuggling and to the... vexations complaints and ___ correspondence connected with__ the illicit trade between this \n\nColony and China. The law in question provides that where the \n\na clearance \n\nmaster of a junk leaves without \n\npaper (clause XIII) or leaves the Harbour after night fail, \n\n· clause XIV), \"the junk and her cargo shall be forfeited to the \"Crown\". \n\nin \n\nmy \n\nThe Bill now \n\nplaced \n\nhands by the Attorney General substitutes the word \"may\" for the word \"shall\", in this \n\nimportant provision of clause XIX. \n\n5. \n\nTo this alteration \n\nI am not disposed to agree. \n\nI have observed that the Marine \n\nMagistrates, - and indeed other Officials also, do not seem fully to understand the Colonial and \n\nImperial advantages of putting \n\nan \n\neffectual stop to this \n\nflagrant smuggling case. Messrs \n\nThomsett and Mellay, whilst, by the admitted facts, compelled to -convict a junk Master for \n\nviolating cause XIII and XIV, refrained from enforcing penalty; and I was driven to take the responsibility myself of practically forfeiting \n\nthe junk.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-178 - Governor Hennessy - 1877 [6-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 302220, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-181 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [1-8]", "page_number": 381, "title": "CO129-181 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [1-8]", "content_text": "## Statement made by the Colonial Surgeon.\n\nCheung Ashine has the scar of a wound on the head, where the line of the hair meets the forehead and immediately over the right eye. This wound was a contused wound and from its shape appears to have been done with a piece of rock. I remember this wound; it was only trifling and healed without trouble. He had a number of scratched and grazed places about the head, not skin deep. He now points to a small scar on the cheek, left side, and says that was done at the time. I don't remember any wound there; the scar is about 1/2 inch long and its age is...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-181 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [1-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 302614, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-182 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [9-12]", "page_number": 135, "title": "CO129-182 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [9-12]", "content_text": "## 414 THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 22ND SEPTEMBER, 1877.\n\nHe had with prison discipline. The principles I have laid down are well-established principles; they have been proved almost with the accuracy of a proposition in Euclid, and it is no wonder when those principles were not acted upon, that you have an overflowing gaol, and prison offences increasing in this rapid ratio for the last three years,—426, 1,085, and 2,726.\n\nIt has been asserted that the number of prisoners at present in our gaol is actually greater than in prison; his mind as well as his body is affected: he may be physically altered by prison treatment. There is nothing an Executive can so thoroughly make a greater mistake in than in assuming medical knowledge they cannot be expected to have. The Colonial Surgeon of Hongkong has had experience in other parts of the East, and in his first conversation with me, he told me in connection with his Indian experience that there was not a doctor in India who would for a moment countenance the flogging of Orientals on the back with the cat as was in 1876. Here is a return from the Acting Superintendent, Captain Ducat; I find, according to this return, the total number of Chinese and Coloured prisoners in Hongkong Gaol to-day is 382. What was the number of Chinese and Coloured prisoners at this time last year in the prison? It was 430. That is, however, a matter of small importance. The fact that we have fewer criminals in the gaol to-day than on the 17th of September, 1876, is of itself of little moment, for in the first place, the regulations which I hope ultimately to introduce are, except in some urgent but minor points, not yet in force, and the slight changes I have made are trivial compared to those I will have ultimately to propose.\n\nDr. Ayres made a report of great gravity to me with respect to flogging the Chinese on the back in this Colony. In the gaol hospital, I saw one man, an old man, who had been a long time in prison. This man was pointed out to me by Dr. Ayres as being in hospital for incurable lung disease. I attach no great significance, therefore, to the fact that at this date there happen to be fewer criminals in the gaol than at this time last year. The incurable hæmorrhage of the lungs from which this prisoner suffers is entirely due to those floggings. The Colonial Surgeon assured me that this prisoner had been a tall, strong man when he came into prison; now he is on the edge of the grave. He had been punished twenty-three times, including three floggings.\n\nI have mentioned Captain Ducat, and I had not the honour of his acquaintance beyond that of any other gentleman who may do me the favour of coming to Government House occasionally, but I sent to His Excellency the General commanding the troops and asked him to select from the officers under his command a strict disciplinarian, for I wanted a man of the kind to deal with the gaol until Mr. Tonnochy came out. Dr. Ayres gave it as his professional opinion that in every case where a Chinaman is flogged on the back with the cat, symptoms of congestion of the lungs follow, and he says he is never surprised when that congestion passes away and the man is apparently cured at the time from the effects of the flogging that the same man in a few months comes back to the hospital spitting blood. He drew my attention also to the fact of the scars remaining on their backs for the remainder of their lives, so that when liberated from prison and working on a day like this, their backs are seen, and they are branded amongst whatever honest men they may be among. The prisoner carries such punishment with him to the end of his life. The law never intended that.\n\nWith regard to the branding and deportation of prisoners, such as the branding of fifty prisoners in January last, it is not only opposed to all sound principles of dealing with criminals, but Mr. Douglas, a former Superintendent of the Gaol, had pointed out in a minute to one of my predecessors that the branding of a prisoner on the cheek or the neck had a bad effect, because the Hongkong brand is well known at Canton and at Macao. They know the meaning of that mark; and the consequence is that the branded man is hunted away by all honest people; he cannot get employment; he is rendered for life ineligible as an Emigrant, and he is driven back again to prey on the property of this Colony, because he has no other means of getting a livelihood.\n\nSince I assumed this Government of this Colony, the Visiting Justices have sometimes sentenced prisoners to be flogged for prison offences; in every case, I have approved that flogging, and upon the whole, I have approved, I say it with regret, of something over twenty floggings since my arrival; I say it with regret, because on my left (the Acting Colonial Secretary, Mr. Cecil Smith) drew my attention to what a Secretary of State had written to one of my predecessors. He said an indelible mark on the cheek of a criminal is evidently objectionable as fastening on the delinquent a stigma from which he could never be rescued; it consigns him to permanent infamy. Well, I think it must be admitted there is a good deal in what that Secretary of State—it was the late Lord Derby—said. The views Lord Derby expressed to the Governor of Hongkong were subsequently confirmed by the practical experience of Mr. Douglas, the Superintendent of the Gaol.\n\nMy perusal of the prison archives of this Colony—for not a month has passed for many years without its quota of branded prisoners being deported to the mainland—has convinced me that Lord Derby was right. I think the Chief Justice and others will agree with me that the time has come when we may fairly re-consider this odious part of our prison discipline. Mr. Keswick's views and those of the Police Commission have been carried out, and we have a Police force chiefly of Chinese. Not a deported man comes back now but he is very soon known. Formerly, we had all Europeans and Indians, but they could not distinguish the Chinese prisoners one from another; now the Chinese constables could detect without the branding; and if even in a small number of cases we are to be convinced that it prevents men from obtaining honest employment and drives them back to petty crimes, I think we might give up the branding system.\n\nWithin the last few months, I have received some printed despatches in which reference is made incidentally to the gaol system in the Bahamas. The previous Governor differed with me and thought that the negroes could only be influenced by the lash. He said Europeans, Chinese, or Hindoos might deal with in another way, but not negroes. When I went there, Lord Kimberley said to me, \"I am giving you a troublesome post; owing perhaps to wrecking, crime is excessive.\" I endeavoured to see what could be done, and while I applied with strict severity the laws for the protection of life and property, I endeavoured to rectify the prison discipline. I endeavoured to give the prisoners useful labour and had them informed that the only way in which they could regain their liberty before their full sentence expired was by steady good conduct and hard work. That system was carried out, not my system, but the system of the British Government, the system laid down by the Secretary of State, that you must combine the two things, severe punishment with reformatory training.\n\nWhen I visited the gaol for the first time, I found three, five, and seven prisoners in the same sleeping cells, overcrowded in every way. On making inquiry from Mr. Tomlin, I found that it had been even worse in 1876, when the number of prisoners was larger; during the greater part of that year, the Chinese prisoners had only 190 cubic feet of air allowed for each person in the sleeping cells; the Government having over and over again laid it down that only each prisoner ought not to have less than 600 cubic feet of sleeping space. It might be asked, how comes it to pass that the Government have not noticed this, that you had 190 feet only instead of 600 feet?\n\nIn the Blue Book for 1876, in answer to the usual printed question, which comes out from the Colonial Office, \"How many cubic feet of space are there for each prisoner during the hours of sleep?\"—there is this answer: \"The daily average number of prisoners during 1876 was 432, as against 374 in the previous year; the cubic space for each person was 86·4 feet as against 982 feet in the preceding year.\" But it is not only that. Certain gentlemen excel in explaining that the space of passages and corridors had been included in the estimate.\n\n## 415\n\nGentlemen, I have said that Her Majesty's Government have an extensive experience, and there is no doubt whatever that no greater mistake can be made than to imagine the local knowledge of any place can outweigh the universal experience of Her Majesty's Government in dealing with such matters.\n\nGentlemen, ... \n\nI have not gone into full particulars with respect to what was the result? Not a single lash was applied in the Bahamas from that time, and crime declines, and he adds, I am very happy to say that I have not allowed a single case of flogging. That able Governor has carried out, not my system, but the system laid down by the Secretary of State.\n\nThe best attempt at reformation is to keep the prisoners employed at useful labour and let them understand that remission of imprisonment will depend upon that labour and on steady good conduct. Unfortunately, the opposite experiment was tried here; the gentlemen who framed the Gaol Report laid down that reformation was impossible, but also gave up the idea in toto of anything useful. Has he the opportunity of practising that for the good of the State and himself? No; he leaves this prison probably ignorant of the little he knew before going in.\n\nI made the Labuan prison pay all its expenses; and with this, as I have just said, there was no flogging, and crime declined in the Colony. Within the last few months, I have received some printed despatches... It was only the other day a man was brought up before my honourable friend here (Mr. May), or Mr. Russell, for returning from deportation. The constable said, “I knew the man perfectly well without the branding.” \n\nHaving administered Governments in other parts of the world, I can recollect the fact that during the four years I had to deal with the worst classes of Singapore and Hongkong convicts at Labuan, not a single lash was applied. The sixty Chinese convicts that were sent from Hongkong to Labuan, and the hundred Chinese convicts I got from the Straits Settlement enabled me to study for four years the mode of treating Chinese prisoners. I visited the prison every week. I substituted Chinese Turnkeys for Malay Warders. I made your very worst Hongkong criminals amenable to strict discipline. I found that Chinamen could be made to conduct themselves properly and that it was not hopeless to attempt to improve their moral condition. By the aid of your convict labour...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-182 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 305763, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-187 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [1-4]", "page_number": 504, "title": "CO129-187 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [1-4]", "content_text": "# ADDITIONS to SALARIES and ALLOWANCES not arising under settled Regulations in the Offices of HONGKONG, for the Quarter ended 31st December 1879.\n\n| OFFICE | Name | Annual Salary | Salary Jun | Date and description of the authority or instruction (if any) from Her Majesty's Government in England, in consequence of which the addition was made. Date of appointment and of authority from the Governor. | Date of the Governor's Despatch to Her Majesty's Government in England | Column for Remarks in any particular case, respecting the transaction, in cases where no previous authority may have been received, and for the statement of any special circumstances. |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Supreme Court | Chinese Clerk & Shroff Chung Ching Hong | $480 | | 124 January Desp: 2:105 1879 | | #336 Calorial Estimates Education Impeclir of schol 8. 9. Citel |\n| | | | 67 | | | |\n| Civil Hospital | Clerk Jack Til F | $240 | bo | 2- $264 | Desp: 2.60 of 4th June 1879 | Increase y Salary from $2016 66 to $2400 |\n| Police | 1st Class Clerk and Interpreter Choo Cheem B. | $504 | 66 | | | Increase y Salary from $240 to $264 | \n| | | | So | | | 15th August 1879 |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-187 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 305998, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-188 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [5-6]", "page_number": 221, "title": "CO129-188 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [5-6]", "content_text": "## \n\n217 \n\ninevitable. \n\n9. Under these circumstances, I regard \nthe present Ordinance as decidedly a step \nin the right direction and the power it entrusts to Judicial Officers will, I \nthink, if exercised with discretion, be found entirely beneficial. I have accordingly no hesitation in recommending it for \nthe sanction of \n**Her Majesty**. \n\nI have to... \n(signed) **Richard Graves Macdonnell**, \n**Governor** \n\nExtract from despatch No. 114, dated 25th June \n1845, by **Lord Stanley** \non an Ordinance \nfor the suppression of Triad Society, (No. 1 of 1845). \n\n\"An indelible mark impressed \non the cheek \nof a \nCriminal, even if \nunattended by pain, is yet evidently objectionable as fastening \non the \ndelinquent a stigma from which he could never be rescued by \nany future \ncourse of good conduct. It would consign him to permanent", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-188 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 305999, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-188 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [5-6]", "page_number": 222, "title": "CO129-188 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [5-6]", "content_text": "218\n\n\"infamy, and would finally \nobstruct his return to virtue \n, and his admission into reputable society.\" \n\n- Extract from the statement made in Legislative \nCouncil by Governor Pope Hennessy at the meeting held on the 17th September 1877.\n\n\"With regard to branding and deportation \nof prisoners, such as the branding of fifty prisoners in January last, it is not only opposed to all sound principles of dealing with criminals, but Mr. Douglas, a former Superintendent of Police, had pointed out in a minute to one of my predecessors that the branding of a prisoner on the cheek or the neck had a bad effect, because the 'Fou-kone' brand is well known \nat Canton and Macao. They know the", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-188 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 309351, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-194 - Governor Hennessy Administrator Tonnochy - 1881 [8-9]", "page_number": 12, "title": "CO129-194 - Governor Hennessy Administrator Tonnochy - 1881 [8-9]", "content_text": "Taken from the China mail of 24th March 1881.\n\nSUPREME COURT.\n\nIN CRIMINAL SESSIONS.- (Before His Lordship the Chief Justice, Sir John Smale.)\n\nThursday, March 24.\n\nPRISONER DISCHARGED.\n\nChun Lan (case No. 1), who was charged with unlawfully and by fraud enticing into the Colony a boy named Leung Awing for the purpose of selling him, but was found not guilty, was now discharged by proclamation.\n\nUNLAWFUL DETENTION OF A BOY.\n\nChung Achan, Chan Aman, Chan Acheung, Li Ayeung, and Lam A-Ng, were charged with unlawfully and by force detaining in this Colony one Chan Afai for the purpose of selling him (case No. 2). Three of the prisoners were convicted and were now sentenced, the other three were acquitted by the Jury.\n\nIn passing sentence his Lordship said :- You, Chan Aman, Chan Acheong, and Li Ayeung, have been found guilty of having unlawfully and by force detained within this Colony Chan Afai, a boy aged 15 years, for the purpose of selling him, on the 24th of January last. Three other prisoners were charged with having participated in the crime; although they have escaped, it is pretty clear that some other persons besides these prisoners took part in this crime. It seems that the boy, an apprentice in Canton, was met on the streets there by you, Chan Aman, and you enticed him to the steamer, where you, Li Ayeung, joined them, and all three proceeded to Hongkong for the purpose of selling him. Here the boy was kept confined in a house, shut in by you, Chan Acheong, and the boy was offered for sale to various persons at $17, and on his being subsequently offered for sale his crying attracted the pity of some humane Chinamen who informed the police. Here we have evidence of an awakening of public opinion to the enormity of kidnapping. It is mainly to this, it is not as I believe to any increase in the frequency of the crime that it is owing that these cases have been brought to the cognizance of the Courts. The sentence on each of you is that each of you be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for the term of two years.\n\nUNLAWFULLY ENTICING A BOY.\n\nIn case No. 4, Chan Alam and Lai Ayip were convicted of unlawfully and by fraud enticing into this Colony, a boy named Chan Ayun for the purpose of selling him.\n\nThe Chief Justice in pronouncing sentence said :- You, Chan Alam and Lai Ayip, have been found guilty of having unlawfully and fraudulently enticed into this Colony a boy eleven years old named Chan Ayun for the purpose of selling him on the 22nd Feb. 1881, and also that you did by fraud detain the same boy within the Colony for the purpose of selling him. In this case the boy was coming back to his home from school in the streets of Fatshan beyond Canton, when you Chan Alam his elder brother enticed him to a tea-house, where you gave him tea and then took him in a boat to another place where the second prisoner met you, and you both took the child to Canton and by steamer thence to Hongkong. Here you both through an associate offered the child for sale, but you then failed, and you Ayip took the boy in a boat for the purpose of taking him to a steamer starting for Singapore, but your conduct was so suspicious that Cheng Cho Yi, the boat-woman, took you back to the praya and gave you in charge to the police. At the Central Police Station your story was so plausible that you both got off; you persevered in your object and the child was offered for sale at $50 in a public manner in a public shop. Fortunately Wong Man In, one of the active agents of the Chinese Society for the suppression of kidnapping, was present, and he caused you to be arrested, and the guilt of each of you has been clearly proved. This case, whilst it exhibits the disgraceful attempt by a brother to sell a younger brother, presents two satisfactory facts, first that a Chinese boatwoman handed one of those prisoners to the police and that afterwards an agent for the Chinese Society to suppress this class of crime caused the arrest and conviction of these prisoners. These facts are indicative of the public mind tending to treat kidnapping as a crime against society calling for active suppression. The sentence of the Court on you, Chan Alam, is that you be kept in penal servitude for three years. The sentence of this Court on you, Lai Ayip, is that you be kept in penal servitude for three years.\n\nCRUEL ASSAULT ON A GIRL THE CHIEF JUSTICE ON DOMESTIC SLAVERY AND ITS RESULTS.\n\nLam Ayau, a married woman, was convicted on the 18th, of assaulting a girl named Chan Akun, thereby causing actual bodily harm.\n\nThe prisoner being called on for what she had to say, reaffirmed that she did not beat the girl. The marks that had been found on her body were the marks of some disease which the girl had. She admitted that the girl and she had not been on good terms. If she had beaten the child, she would not have spent so much money in curing her eyes. She spent a great deal of money in curing this girl's bad eyes.\n\nThe Chief Justice now sentenced the prisoner, and in doing so said :- You, Lam Ayau, have been convicted of having made an assault on, and having beaten and wounded Chan Aking, a little girl aged seven years, on divers days, especially on the 8th of February last, thereby occasioning to this young child actual bodily harm. It was proved that you bought this little child for $48, and you took her to live with you as your so-called servant. You treated her as your slave, an act which I unhesitatingly hold to be in itself a misdemeanour. Power engenders cruelty, and you habitually treated the child ill, and you gave way to bad passions and beat the child without mercy. It seems that through weakness the child wetted her bed in her sleep, and your passion passed your control; you took burning wood from the fire and burnt the child's body between the legs. The neighbours interposed and called in the police, and the child was taken to the Civil Hospital. Dr Marques examined the child at the Hospital on the 10th of February; he found two scars filled with matter on the front of the child's head, another big scar on the back of her head, matter there also; her left ear was bruised and the lobe of that ear divided; there was a swelling on the right side of the head, a scar on her left cheek, and there were marks of beating with a rattan on the back of the left hand and on the left ankle-joint and foot; the lower region of the abdomen and both the child's thighs were burnt; the child continued under his care in the hospital from 10th February to the day of trial, the 18th of March. She was in a weak state when she was admitted, and in Dr Marques' opinion it was from ill-treatment. Wicked cruelty is the natural result of the system of slavery, which it is said is found in every well-to-do home in Hongkong when the sense of power works on wicked minds. This disgusting, unwomanly cruelty must be punished very severely. The law has not contemplated such fiendish cruelty and has not provided a punishment sufficiently severe for the criminal. I now sentence you, Lam Ayau, to be kept in penal servitude for three years. If the law would have sanctioned a more severe punishment I would have subjected you to it.\n\nIn finally disposing of these three cases, with all their enormity, sources of satisfaction present themselves in the fact that in each of these cases it has been owing to the spontaneous indignation of Chinese men and women, that these crimes have been brought to the knowledge of the Police.\n\nPage 11", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-194 - Governor Hennessy Administrator Tonnochy - 1881 [8-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 309384, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-194 - Governor Hennessy Administrator Tonnochy - 1881 [8-9]", "page_number": 45, "title": "CO129-194 - Governor Hennessy Administrator Tonnochy - 1881 [8-9]", "content_text": "THE DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, MAY 26TH, 1881.\n\nTO THE HONOURABLE WILLIAM KESWICK.\n\nSir—The subscribers to the accompanying testimonial have confided to us the duty of its presentation, and in their names and our own of saying to you a few words of farewell. The numerous signatures appearing in the appended subscription lists, representing every class and race of this community, will afford you the best testimony of the wide-spread appreciation entertained of your public career, but it will not be out of place for us to pass in brief retrospect some of the more eminent services you have rendered the Colony.\n\nChief among these stands the able and straightforward performance of your duties in the Legislative Council, where you have for so many years held a seat. In a Crown Colony the position of an Unofficial Member of this Council is full of discouragement; having no power of initiation, and with the certainty before him of being outvoted if in opposition, his task is limited to criticism of the schemes of the Government. Your labours in this direction have been of the highest importance and utility, and more especially as a guardian of the public purse the attitude you have unflinchingly maintained cannot, we think, be very well over-estimated.\n\nThe little leisure which the pressing responsibilities of a large Mercantile House have left you, you have ungrudgingly bestowed on many other public affairs. As Chairman of the Chamber of Commerce your wide experience and knowledge of business have been of the highest value. The City Hall owes much to your care and attention. Schemes of charity and for the assistance of the poor or friendless have ever found in you a real sympathiser; and there are but few institutions organised in this Colony for humane or charitable purposes that have not profited by your liberal aid and advice.\n\nNot less worthy of mention have been your services to many of those Public Companies with which much the prosperity of the Colony has now become identified. To your power of labour, business capacity, and grasp of detail, these important concerns are in no small degree indebted for the prosperity they enjoy; and it is no slight to others to say that probably to you more prominently than any one else, is due the confidence which joint-stock enterprise now enjoys in the Far East.\n\nWe now beg to bid you farewell, and with every wish for your enjoyment of your well-earned holiday, we remain, your sincere friends,\n\nE. F. ALFORD\n\nR. G. ALFORD\n\nADOLF ANDRE\n\nJ. R. ANTON\n\nF. H. AJANEE\n\nTHOS. ARNOLD\n\nP. B. C. AYEES\n\nM. E. AZGER\n\nF. H. D'AZEVEDO\n\nGEO. MURRAY BAIN\n\nW. N. BAIN\n\nJ. A. BARRETTO\n\nE. R. BELILIOS\n\nA. H. BENNING\n\nTHEO. T. BENING\n\nH. M. BEVIS\n\nARTHUR R. BLANDY\n\nF. DE BOVIE\n\nK. E. BRADDON\n\nA. DE BRITTO\n\nJ. F. BROADBENT\n\nE. BURNIE\n\nF. D. BURJ\n\nB. BYRAMJEE\n\nA. H. DE CARVALHO\n\nCHA FOO SAN\n\nG. 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DOS REMEDIOS\n\nJ. H. DOS REMEDIOS\n\nA. J. V. RIBEIRO\n\nF. X. V. RIBEIRO\n\nC. W. RICHARDS\n\nG. O. ROGERS\n\nA. G. ROMANO\n\nTRES. I. ROSE\n\nKENNETH McK. ROSS\n\nWAT. ROSS\n\nP. S. DA ROZA\n\nHORMUSJI RUSTOMJEE\n\nS. RUSTOMJEE\n\nD. RUTTUNJEE\n\nP. RYEYE\n\nSA FOO TANG\n\nD. N. SAKLATVALA\n\nSAM HING\n\nSAM YET\n\nF. D. SAUNDON\n\nM. E. SAUNDON\n\nD. SAYLE\n\nB. SCHMACKER\n\nH. SCHONBERGER\n\nE. SCHWEBLIN\n\nSEE SHING WO\n\nEDMUND SHARP\n\nF. H. LAGUEK\n\nA. F. SMITH\n\nH. SMITH\n\nJ. CRADLEE SMITH\n\nW. McG. SMITH\n\nF. SNOWDEN\n\nM. SOUZA\n\nM. A. A. DE SOUZA\n\nJENSTON SQUIER\n\nR. STEIL\n\nFREDERICK STEWART\n\nSZE LUN\n\nSUS ON\n\nA. SVENSON\n\nSUN TAI LEE\n\nSUN TAI WO\n\nSUNG CHEONG LOONG\n\nTACK LEE\n\nTAI SAN TONG\n\nTAKO YER MAN\n\nTAI HENG\n\nTAI WING\n\nD. B. TATA\n\nJ. S. TAYLOR\n\nJOHN THURBURY\n\nB. F. TOLATEE\n\nTONG WO BONG\n\nH. J. H. TRIPP\n\nS. F. TUMBOLY\n\nU YOKE SAN\n\nUN QI U\n\nR. O. VANTA\n\nJ. Y. V. VERNON\n\nHARRY WICKING\n\nR. HATTERTON WILCOX\n\nT. G. WILLIAMSON\n\nWING CHEONG CHAN\n\nWING HUNG\n\nWING KEE\n\nWING MOW CHEONG\n\nWING YEE CHAN\n\nWO CHAN\n\nWO HANG\n\nWO LUN\n\nWONG CHAI SANG\n\nWONG HOK CHOW\n\nWONG YEK PUN\n\nE. L. WOODIN\n\nWILLIAM WOTTON\n\nYECK LOONG\n\nYEN LOONG\n\nYIP TAI\n\nYOW LOONG\n\nWILLIAM YOUNG, M.D.\n\nYOK LOONG", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-194 - Governor Hennessy Administrator Tonnochy - 1881 [8-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 310271, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-195 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [1-4]", "page_number": 397, "title": "CO129-195 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [1-4]", "content_text": "Messrs. Stephens & Holmes to Acting Colonial Secretary\n\n395\n\nHong Kong 12th January 1881.\n\nSir,\n\nWe have the honour to inform you that we are retained by Lang & Cheen and twelve others, being concerned in a ... in Chinese territory, on a charge of Murder.\n\nOur instructions are to defend the prisoners from the charges made against them.\n\nThe Honourable Dr F. Stewart, Acting Colonial Secretary.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-195 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 319978, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-205 - Public Offices - 1882", "page_number": 533, "title": "CO129-205 - Public Offices - 1882", "content_text": "## Existing Harbour Facilities\n\nOn the northern side of this island are the Naval Coal Stores, and on the southern side is a small dock. Opposite Pulo Brani and at the foot of the Mount Faber range, are the wharves of the Borneo Company, Jardine's Company, and the Peninsula and Oriental Company. The total length of these wharves is about 600 yards. Still further to the westward, and near the western entrance to the New Harbour, which is only about 300 yards wide, are the wharves, docks, fitting shops, and coal sheds of the New Harbour Dock Company. Here are two docks, 415 feet and 459 feet long respectively, whilst the wharves will accommodate five or six vessels. These wharves, docks, and machine shops are now constantly under use by Dutch ships of war, which are sent here from Acheen to repair and refit, and may of course also be used by vessels of the Royal Navy. Their situation is most advantageous, for it will be seen that the New Harbour is covered on the sea side by the Blakan Mati and on the land side by Mount Faber with its adjacent hills; the entrance from the westward is narrow, whilst the Outer Shoal and Pulo Brani partially close the eastern entrance to vessels of heavy tonnage. The harbour thus assumes the form of a long arrow-shaped navigable basin which, with but little difficulty, could be closed against hostile vessels.\n\n## Existing Defences\n\nThe existing works of Singapore are weak and insignificant. Built many years ago, they were only intended to meet local requirements, and were constructed without reference to the importance of the place as an Imperial Naval Station. They are five in number, viz--Fort Canning, crowning the hill at the back of the town; Fort Fullerton, situated on the low projecting spit at the entrance of the Singapore river; Mount Palmer Battery, constructed on the steep sea-face of the hill of the same name; Mount Faber Battery, situated on the south-eastern extremity of that ridge, at a height of 132 feet; and a battery for two 13-inch Mortars near the site of the flag-staff (Point 1) at a distance of about 900 yards from the last-named work, and at a height of about 300 feet above the level of the sea. The position of these defences is shown on `Plan (D)`.\n\n### Fort Canning\n\nFort Canning is a long, narrow, straggling work, 450 yards in length by 80 yards in mean width, its trace approximately following the top contour of the hill on which it is built. It is unprovided with flank defence; the parapets are weak and badly proportioned; the ditch is shallow and insignificant; the scarp and counter-scarp are for the most part unrevetted; the glacis are only partially swept by musketry fire from the parapet; the magazines are not bomb-proof and are much exposed; and there is, moreover, little or no bombproof cover for the garrison.\n\nThe armament in its present condition is practically unserviceable. Most of the S.B. guns with which it is armed require re-venting, and the wooden carriages and platforms, upon which they are mounted, have all suffered from exposure to climate.\n\nAt the southern end of the Fort is an outwork called the South or Seaward Battery. The terreplein of this battery is at a somewhat lower level than that of the main work, and its gorge is closed by the main parapet. It is armed with seven 68-pdrs. S.B. guns of 95 cwt.--only one of which is at present serviceable. Five of these guns, however, are repairable. The main work is armed with eight 8-inch S.B. guns of 65 cwt. mounted at intervals at the salients, together with three 13-inch M.S. mortars of 36 cwt. on its south-eastern face. In the centre of the terreplein stand a Barrack and Offices, originally built to accommodate two garrison batteries of Royal Artillery. They are now occupied by the headquarters of one battery of Royal Artillery and by a company of Infantry.\n\nFort Canning is too retired to be of service for the defence of the roadstead, even if the work were remodelled to receive a heavy armament of long range. A fire from this work, moreover, would not only be ineffective in itself, but would draw an enemy's fire on the town. The fort, however, occupies a position from whence Singapore is well commanded on all sides, and, in case of an insurrection of the coloured population, it would be a valuable place of refuge for the Europeans of the settlement, whilst its fire would overawe the town and prevent the insurgents from maintaining possession thereof. If properly armed, its western faces would command the valley which extends towards Mount Faber, and with a work, to which I shall hereafter refer, on this point, the intervening country would be swept, and an enemy prevented from advancing on the land side to attack the establishments in the New Harbour.\n\nFort Canning should, therefore, be maintained, not as a work to aid in the defence of Singapore to seaward, but to combine with a work on Mount Faber, and an intermediate field redoubt, in sweeping the valley between itself and Mount Faber; also to command the chief quarters of the town. It should, therefore, undergo such alteration and receive such armament as would secure these objects. I would recommend that four rifled guns of small calibre--say 64-pdrs. Palliser converted M.L.R. guns--should be mounted on the western faces; that the 8-inch S.B. guns, which form part of the existing armament, should be re-vented and re-distributed in the most convenient manner to command the town; that the glacis should be cleared and levelled, and the profile of the work so altered that the musketry fire from the parapet should sweep the ground in front; that a palisade be constructed...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-205 - Public Offices - 1882.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 323624, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-213 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [12]", "page_number": 55, "title": "CO129-213 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [12]", "content_text": "54\n\nofficial documents copies of in some of Departments the the knowledge of the Publie came into and possession of a local newspaper, the Defendant in the recent trial. Your Crdship is a aware that there are only twelve (12) Englishmen out at the eighty-nine (89) persons employed recons the clerical staff of this Colony.\n\nI have the honoustube,\n\nMy Lord.\n\nHour Lordship's host obedient\n\nHumble Pervat\n\n5. Bowen\n\nG 11359 11676 17468 The Daily Press.\n\nHONGKONA, NOVEMBER 29TH, 1883.\n\nSUPREME COURT.\n\nNovember 29th.\n\nCRIMINAL SESSIONS.\n\nBaron TH HON. SIR GROBON PHILLIPPO, CHIEF JUSTIOR AND A SPECIAL JURY.\n\nLIBEL\n\nRobert Fraser-Smith, printer and publisher of the Hongkong Telegraph, was charged with publishing a false and defamatory libel on John Mo Neil Price, Surveyor-General of Hongkong. The article on which the charge was brought, and the inuendoes, were as follow:-\n\nIn Saturday's Gasette appear several Government notifications inviting tenders for certain local works uf some magnitade. The reclamation of Cauaoway Bay and the construction of s son wall, swing bridge, basin, and slips for launches, de, at the Kowlood Police Station, are undertakings of special import ance to the community, and will antall a very heavy expenditure of pablie fands. Why, then, does the custom prevail in the Colonial Secretary's office of confining the advertisements inviting public tenders for these works to the semi-privacy of the columns of the Government Gazette, a publication which is waldom seen outside the Government officos?\n\nSurely it is to the public interest to give these matters all the publicity possible! And it is evidently to the private interest of some person meaning thereby the said John MoNeil Pricolor persons to keep them secret are sas circumstances will allow. Why this should be the case we will not even venture to hazard an opinion; but it may interest Governor Bowen and Mr. W. H. Marsh to know that the tongue of public roport does not scruple to assert that these contracts kept dark,\" ark, manipulated and stranged to anit the devices certain officiele meaning thereby smong others the asid John McNeil Price who for the prosent shall be nameless. All contracts for publio works should be extensively advertised in the newspapers, both foreign and Chinese, and an indepoudont and reliable board of trustworthy heads of departments should be appointed to decide all ten- ders on their merita, without interference or advice from the chief of the particular department meaning thereby the the said John McNai! Price] under whose anapies the works are to be carried out. We are quite sure that the honourable the Surveyor-Gono (and would, it rea requested to do so) give.\n\nrai Hi zor a deal of valuable information on this! *nbject. Mr. Price is is reported to be a determined of the jabbery which is said to prevail o opponent extensively 's department. The subordinate members alinded to do not ot scruple to retaliate by as. serting sub rost that the honorable member likes to all the good things\" to his own cheek thereby that jobbery and corruption did Surveyor.Generate enbordinate members of the mote in fact prevall very extensively amongst the subor- dicate members of the Surreyor-General's depart ment, and that any opposition the said John McNeil Price might oppose to it was solely for of benefiting the purpose himself and of deceiving the public, and that the said John MoNeil Price was guilty of corrup›- tion and malvorsstion is his said office of Surveyor- General and was commonly believed and reported amongst his own subordinates of being so guilty.]\n\nThe defence put in was a simple plea of not guilty.\n\nMr. Francis, instructed by Messrs. Brereton, Wotton, and Deacon, appeared for the prosecu. tion. The defendant conduated his own case,\n\nThe jurors were Messrs. E. Burnie, L. Fase, D. Musto, C. T. Kuhlmann, B. B. D. Sayle, E. L. Wondia, and W. 8. Young.\n\nOn Mr. Sayle's name being osited Mr. Francis naked that Mr. Sayle might stand aside.\n\nThe defendant-Has the learned counsel the right to challenge, my lord?\n\nHis Lordship-Not without showing cause. Mr. Francis-I don't propose to show cause. It has been constantly done bere. On the last cosasion the defendant exercised the right.\n\nDefendant-I exercised no right.\n\nMr. Francis-I simply suggested it. I with- draw it.\n\nMr. Sayle then took his place in the box.\n\nMr. Francis, in opening the case, said that by the charge and plea of not guilty only two issues were seriously raised, namely, the nature of the paragraph, was it defamatory or was it not? and the other, was it published maliciously or on a lawful and justifiable vocation? He proposed to pat before them three classes of evidenes with reference to these two points. First, he would ask them to consider with him. line what by line the paragraph itself, effect it would have upon their own minds reading it for the first time, and what was the natural effect and tendency of the language used. He would ask them to say that the direct, simple, natural meaning of the language used was to injure and defame Mr. Price as muob as it was in the power of any man to do so, that nothing more defamatory ovuld be sail of him considering who he was aud the posi tion he occupied. With reference to the ques-; tion of malice two considerations arose one which was more purely a guastion of law, and that was whether or not, from the defamatory nature of the paragraph, they were not bound to infer malice? But in addition to that he proposed to show that this attack on Mr. Price's reputation did not stand alone, but was only one of a series extending over a very long period; that Mr. Price had been attack- ed by the defendant at all times, in all places, in all characters and capacities, as a mer. ber of the Government, as Surveyor-General, as a private individual; that Mr. Price had been exposed to ridicule, to contempt, to censures of every description, and that corrupt and vile motives had been imputed to him at every hand's turn. He would ask them to infer from the perusal of these articles, and the con- sideration of these facts, that the defendant was not actuated by any feeling of public spirit and genuine desire to anbserve only the public in- terest, but that he was animated by some personal spite, personal ill-will, whatever its origin, with reference to Mr. Price and all bis aotipas, The learned counsel then read the paragraph in question, commenting on it in detail, and contending that the natural and only in. ference to be drawn from it was that Mr. Price was guilty of corruption, that he was not fit to be entrusted with any share in the allotment of tendars for public works, and that he was interest- ed in keeping the advertisements for tendera dark in order that only bis own friends, who would deal liberally with him, might secure the con- tracts. As to the meaning of the word jobbery, he referred to a dictionary, in which the mean. ing was given as \"unfair means employed to secure some private end,\" and it was with this meaning, he contended, that the word was used by the defendant in reference to Mr. Price and the department of which he was the head. The paragraph conveyed the plain inference that the tenders were manipulated for Mr. Price's interest, and that if he was a deter.. mined opponent of all jobbery amongst the subordinates in his department it was only for the purpose of securing for himself all the benefit that was to he derived from that jobbery. The learned counsel then dwelt upon the injury such a libel was oal- culated to do to the subject of it. If a single one of these obarges, if ous single instance of bri- hery and corruption as Surveyor-General could be proved against Mr. Price, what would be bis position and his future? There would follow immediate expulsion from the Government ser. vice, inability ever again to hold office under the Crown, universal opprobrium and disgrace. Then in his professional capacity outside the public service could be expect to compete suo- cessfully with other sarveyors and architects and nivil engineers whose characters were un- blemished by such charges? What 'man having a building contract would entrust it to a man expelled from the public service for bribery and corruption, for making use of his position to fill his own pocket? If any one of these charges was true, and proved to be true, Mr. Price's career and whole futuro life must be utterly and irretrievably ruined. And quite apart from the truth or falsehood of these charges, what must be the natural effect of the publication and dissemination of auch stale. ments in Hongkong and elsewhere where the paper might circulate? Those who knew Mr. Price personally know that he was incapable of committing such offences as those charged against him, that he was above corruption, that his character stoed high and deservedly high. But it was not every one in the Colony who had the privilege of Mr. Price's acquaintance and who was able to say of his own knowledge that such charges were false and baseless. Mr. Price was unknown to many, amangat whom the paper circulated, and what opinion must strangers have of him and the public service in this Colony when they read such paragraphs as this? Were such paragraphs likely, or were they not, to injure Mr.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-213 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 323626, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-213 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [12]", "page_number": 57, "title": "CO129-213 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [12]", "content_text": "# OCR Proofread Text\n\nwritten of him in his public capacity as a public servant. He should also produce evidence to prove that the paragraph which formed the ground of this action was not written by him, and he was absent from the colony at the time it was written; that it appeared without his knowledge or consent. There was no malice, and he thought the law was that if no malice were made out, there was no case to go to the jury, but as the case had been brought forward he thought it was as well that it should be well ventilated. Though Mr Francis had put in a number of copies of the Hongkong Telegraph adversely criticising Mr. Price, he had omitted to put in very many that had spoken highly of him and of the works he had carried out. He had the copies of those papers, and should produce them presently. As to the constructions which were put upon the different parts of the paragraph in question by the prosecution, he contended that they were twisted in a manner to bear a meaning which no ordinary reader would put upon them; it was for the jury to consider only the meaning any ordinary person would put upon the paragraph in reading it. He then read through the whole paragraph in small sections, arguing that there was nothing of the least objectionable character excepting that sentence in which it stated the subordinates of the Surveyor-General's Department accused Mr. Price of wishing to appropriate \"all the good things to his own behoof.\" This might possibly be argued to be libellous to a private individual, though he should contest that; he had not said that Mr. Price appropriated any of the good things. It was only the publication of a report going round the Colony which it was to the interest of Mr. Price should be made known to him. He thought the interpretation which Mr. Francis had sought to put upon the use of the expression \"O tempora, O mores\" was a most strained one; the expression was a common one, and was in English simply \"Oh, the times, Oh, the manners,\" and it was a very appropriate thing when the subordinates were making such accusations against the heads of their departments. Mr. Francis had accused him of inventing his facts and writing upon his inventions, but he should prove to the jury that such was not the case. As to his complaint about Garden-road, it was well founded, and his second complaint was not as to its being made up, but to its being widened four or five feet all the way from Mr. Kennedy's stables to the Roman Catholic Chapel, which he considered to be an unnecessary waste of public money. There was nothing libellous about it, nor was there anything libellous about his comments on the Tytam Water Works, nor upon the Causeway Bay works, which were perfectly legitimate comments. As to the quarantine matter, all he had said was perfectly true, and he had only been endeavouring to secure the protection of the colony from a visitation of cholera.\n\nAs to the latter by Hudibras, which appeared in the Hongkong Telegraph, it was a stupid letter, and he had suffered a good deal of trouble in consequence of it, and he was sorry his learned friend had seen fit to introduce it into the case. Still he thought there was no offensive reference to Mr. Price in it. He had never had animus against Mr. Price, and he had stated when he appeared in the Police Court that the article was intended to bring no accusation against him, and as that was published in all three papers in the colony, Mr. Price could not be much injured by the statements. He said so when he first appeared as he thought it only fair to that gentleman to do so. It lay with the jury to decide whether the press of this colony was to be muzzled by the Government or by anybody else, and he contended the press was at perfect liberty to comment honestly on all matters of public interest without being laid open to prosecutions of this character. He thought the jury would see that it was to the public advantage that the press should be protected in the performance of the duties it owed to the public. In the exercise of that duty he was aware it had been necessary for him to offend men whom he privately esteemed, but he had sacrificed his personal feelings to his public duty. In a small place like Hongkong, where there were so many abuses, a newspaper could not be conducted in an independent manner without giving offence to many people. As to the meaning of the word \"jobbery,\" he read extracts from Macaulay's History of England, and other writers to show the sense in which it was used, and argued that jobbery and bribery were two distinct terms, and could not possibly be taken to have the same meaning. He also alluded to accusations of jobbery against Mr. Gladstone, by the London World, and other cases, to show that jobbing was a very common accusation to bring against even higher authorities than the Surveyor-General of a third-rate colony. The defendant then detailed a conversation which took place between him and a member of the Surveyor-General's Department sworn to in the evidence given below, to the effect that he should make something out of the Tytam Water Works, but that he would have to be careful as the Surveyor-General looked sharply after his subordinates, and liked to keep all the good things to his own cheek. It was therefore but right that he should publish the statement, when such things went abroad in the colony. He also alluded to a paragraph which appeared in the Hongkong Telegraph of the 26th May, 1882, stating that the Government contractors were complaining of not being paid for their work months after their contracts had been carried out, and advocating that they should be paid at once. He said he should prove that the contractors said they were not paid because they did not pay certain squeezes. He also put in a copy of the China Mail of the 20th February in which there was a paragraph alleging that government work was done at a cost of 50 per cent over that which private individuals paid for their work. As to the copies of his paper which spoke highly of the abilities of Mr. Price, he thought it hardly worth while to trouble the jury with them then.\n\nThe defendant, after an adjournment for lunch, addressed his Lordship on the legal aspect of the question, quoting a number of authorities on the privilege of the press. He submitted that the onus lay on the prosecutor to prove malice; and if he had not made that out to his Lordship's satisfaction, there would either be no case to go to the jury, or his Lordship would direct them to find a verdict of not guilty. He contended that this had not been done, and he asked his Lordship whether it would be necessary for him to go into the case further than that point.\n\nHis Lordship-I am afraid I cannot go with you, Mr. Fraser-Smith.\n\nThe defendant again addressed the jury, and asked them to dismiss from their minds anything they might have heard outside the Courts, such things as the bet he had heard of 100 to one that he would be sent to gaol for twelve months. In his criticisms, though he might have spoken hardly, he had spoken honestly, never from malice, and if he had erred it was merely from error of judgment. He had never slandered anyone unless it had been in what he considered the execution of his public duty. He alluded to the reasons the counsel for the prosecution had suggested for malice on his part, and energetically repudiated them; he had no envy of Mr. Price, and as to the suggestion that he had been paid to make these attacks-for Francis had suggested that he was sorry that the learned barrister should have made such an insinuation. The subject matter of the libel had not been written by him; he was at Macao when it was published, but as he was the editor of the paper, he was responsible for it, and it was on that account that the present criminal charge was brought against him. He intimated that he intended to call evidence to substantiate what he had said, including Mr. Price and Dr. Stewart. The defendant then applied that all witnesses should be requested to leave the court, including Mr. Price.\n\nHis Lordship said Mr. Price was the prosecutor, but the difficulty could be avoided by calling that gentleman first.\n\nMr. Price was then sworn and examined by the defendant. He said-I am Surveyor-General to this colony.\n\nDefendant-Are you aware of any personal feeling of malice on my part towards you?\n\nWitness-I have never given you any cause for malice.\n\nIs it not a fact that we have never met nor exchanged a word till this time?-It is a fact.\n\nBeing personal strangers to each other, can you give any reasonable explanation of the extraordinary malice your counsel ascribes to me?—I cannot, unless it arises from the fact that I have refused to admit your paper into my office, and have told you to discontinue sending it.\n\nYou have told me to discontinue sending it-I gave orders to my clerk to write to you regarding it.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-213 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 323628, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-213 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [12]", "page_number": 59, "title": "CO129-213 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [12]", "content_text": "事\n\nThe following letter was then read in court-! \n\nPublic Works Department, \n\n8th January, 1883. \n\nSIR, I have the honour to transmit to you the enclosed copy of a letter from the editor of the Hongkong Telegraph in reply to a request from me that he should discontinue sending his paper to this office.\n\nI find that the Hongkong Telegraph is supplied to me under the authority of O. S. O. 1,724 of 1881, and I have therefore to request you, if you think it necessary, to be good enough to countermand the order for the paper.\n\nApart from the fact that the subscription to this scurrilous paper is a waste of public money, I have grave objections to allowing it inside my office on the grounds of decency and decorum, and I cannot but think that some responsibility attaches to the Government for the pecuniary support which it renders month after month to a convicted criminal in his abandoned career.—I have, &c., \n\n(34.) J. M. PRICE, Surveyor-General.\n\nThe letter enclosed was the one given above by the defendant, declining to discontinue supplying the paper,\n\nStewart M. Fraser-Smith was then called and said he was manager and sub-editor of the Hongkong Telegraph, and in that capacity all copy for the paper passed through his hands, and he knew the names of the writers of the whole of it. The copy for the paragraph containing the alleged libel passed through his hands, and it was neither written nor dictated by the defendant, who was not in the colony at the time it was published.\n\nHe was acquainted with the circumstances which led to the writing of the paragraph; they were as follow :-A gentleman connected with the Surveyor-General's Office called in at the office of the Hongkong Telegraph one morning at about nine o'clock. Amongst other things this person and the defendant were speaking of the common events in the Colony, and touching the Tytam Waterworks his brother casually remarked to him, \"You will doubtless make a good thing out of these waterworks.\" The gentleman replied \"Oh I shall not be so much amiss, but I don't think I shall do so much either, as we are so very smartly looked after now, and Mr. Price likes to keep all the good things to his own cheek.\" It was that conversation which led to the writing and publishing of this paragraph.\n\nWitness had frequently had conversations with members of the Surveyor-General's Department about alleged irregularities; they were almost daily, for it was his business to meet people and sound them. He recollected the article of the 26th May 1882. It was written under the following circumstances :-A member of the Surveyor-General's Department called and asked him to interest himself by the paper to get certain outstanding accounts due to contractors to that department paid; he suggested that he (witness) should go round to ten or a dozen of the contractors and make a bargain with them that if he succeeded in getting in their accounts within a fortnight or some such time, they should pay him a percentage upon the amount to recoup him for his trouble. Witness said he would not undertake the work on those terms, but he would do it for nothing if the contractors would satisfy him that he was doing it upon a sure foundation.\n\nThe person took him to two of the contractors, who satisfied him that they had been waiting six or eight months for the payment of their accounts, and so he went no farther, but drew up a scheme for an article which the defendant wrote.\n\nThe next forenoon the person told witness the Acting Surveyor-General had been inquiring in the department as to who had given the information, and asked him not to disclose his source of information.\n\nThe next day this person told witness that Mr. Marsh, then Administrator, had written down to Mr. Bowdler to inquire whether the allegations contained in the paragraph were true, and that the accounts were then paid \"chop-chop.\"\n\nThe contractors and the Surveyor-General's man also told him that the reason the contractors had been kept waiting for their money was because they could not afford to give a gratuity to the man in charge of the pay department, and they were put off with flimsy excuses from day to day.\n\nHe did not recollect the name of the contractor who told him this, but he knew him, and had seen him since this matter, when he chin-chinned witness, and told him he was his very good friend for getting him his money; he also invited witness to go to his house, and get a box of cigars.\n\nWitness was about a good deal among the Chinese and European members of the community, among all of whom it was common talk that squeezing and bribery did exist in the Surveyor-General's Department.\n\nHe had very often heard it said, and he had good reasons for believing it existed.\n\nCross-examined by Mr. Francis-Witness was sub-editor and manager to the Hongkong Telegraph, and he also did some proof reading, acted as share reporter, and general collector of all the tittle-tattle in the colony.\n\nHe was a good deal in the streets, but he was in the habit of being absent from the office from 10 a.m. to six p.m.\n\nThe conversation with the gentleman from the Surveyor-General's Department occupied about a quarter of an hour; he came to see witness, but the defendant heard all the conversation which had been detailed; in fact it arose on his brother's question.\n\nIt was done quite naturally, he would not say promiscuously.\n\nMr. Francis-Who was the gentleman from the Surveyor-General's Department?\n\nWitness-That I decline to say.\n\nMr. Francis-That name must be given,\n\nHis Lordship-You must give the name now you have gone so far.\n\nWitness-It was Mr. Edward Rose, foreman of the Waterworks.\n\nMr. Francis-Had Mr. Rose anything in the world to do with the Tytam Waterworks?\n\nWitness-I don't know; excepting perhaps with the water.\n\nThat would be after it reached here?-Yes. But with the works in execution at Tytam, had he anything to do, you who know all the ins and outs of the Government Departments?\n\nI do not know all the ins and outs.\n\nDo you mean to say Mr. Rose made use of the words you have given ?--Yes.\n\nWill you oblige me with some of the names of the gentlemen in the Surveyor-General's Department with whom you have had conversations respecting the bribery in the department?\n\nWitness gave several names of members of the department, but denied having said he had received any information from them.\n\nMr. Francis appealed to his Lordship's notes.\n\nHis Lordship said he did not think the witness had said he had received any information.\n\nMr. Francis-Who was the person who came to you to induce you to call attention to the fact that the contractors had not been paid?\n\nWitness-Mr. Rose was the person.\n\nDid you ever take any trouble to inquire among the heads of departments as to the truth of these reports which you heard?\n\nWhich of them?\n\nTo the Surveyor-General.\n\nWitness-I did not think that necessary because I had got sufficient information from the contractor's own mouth.\n\nCan you give me the names of any of the gentlemen who have given you information as to squeezing in the Surveyor-General's Department?\n\nI did not say any one else had given me information of squeezing; I only said I had had conversation with them.\n\nWill you give me the names of some of those who have told you about squeezes?\n\n—Yes I can mention a dozen, or 30 or 40,\n\nConversation with nearly every one in the colony I suppose.\n\nWill you give us the names of two or three in connection with the Surveyor-General's Department?\n\n-I did not say I received any information of squeezes from anyone in the department.\n\nWell, let us have two or three other names.\n\nWitness-Mr. Thevenin, the wine merchant, for one.\n\nDid he give you any information?\n\n-I don't say information; we had some conversation.\n\nI don't see what you wish me to tell, but I will endeavour to answer your questions.\n\nWe were comparing the salaries of the members of the Surveyor-General's Department, and wondering how a person with $60 or $65 a month managed to pay $30 a month for rent, keep a family of seven or eight, and having always from common beer to the best champagne in his house, and do this without a margin behind.\n\nThat was the substance of it.\n\nIt was a problem in social economy we were trying to work out.\n\nAnd did you arrive at a satisfactory conclusion according to your own lights?\n\n-We arrived at the conclusion that the person did not pay for the things he got, otherwise he had means of getting money which were not legitimate.\n\nHave you any recollection of the date of this conversation with Mr. Rose about the Surveyor-General keeping all the good things to himself?\n\nPage 58", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-213 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 323630, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-213 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [12]", "page_number": 61, "title": "CO129-213 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [12]", "content_text": "60\n\n1.The\n\nDaily Press.\n\nHONGKONG, NOVEMBER 30TH, 1889.\n\nCRIMINAL SESSIONS.\n\nBEFORE THE HON. SIR GEORGE PHILLIPPO, CHIEF JUSTICE, AND A SPECIAL JURY.\n\nTHE LIBEL CHARGE.\n\nThe trial of Robert Fraser-Smith on a charge of libelling John McNeil Price, Surveyor-General of Hongkong, was continued.\n\nMr. Francis, instructed by Messrs. Brereton, Wotton, and Deacon, appeared for the prosecution. The defendant conducted his own case.\n\nThe jurors were Messrs. E. Burnie, H. Foes, D. Mosso, C. T. Kohlmann, B. B. D. Sayle, E. L. Woodin, and W. S. Young.\n\nThe prosecution now called rebutting evidence. A copy of the mail edition of the Telegraph of the 14th September was put in, in which the paragraph alleged to be libellous, and which appeared in the paper of the 3rd, was repeated, the object of this evidence being, Mr. Francis stated, to show that the publication was not a mere individual act of Mr. Stewart Fraser-Smith but that it was repeated in the mail edition some days later.\n\nEdward Rose was then called. He said—I am employed in the Surveyor-General's department, and have been so employed for three years and a half. I am overseer of the waterworks. As such I have had no connection whatever with the works now going on at Tytam. My duties are solely confined to the water from the Pokfulam reservoir, that which supplies the town. I have had nothing to do with the Tytam Water Works directly or indirectly. I do not remember ever having had any conversation with Mr. Robert Fraser-Smith or Mr. Stewart Fraser-Smith or both of them together on the subject of the Tytam Water Works. I never said I would make something out of those works. I never passed such a remark as that I might make something more but that too strict an eye was now kept upon me. I never stated that Mr. Price liked to keep the good things to his own cheek, to either of the brothers nor to anyone else. I have never had any conversation with either of the brothers that would afford any basis for the statement that I had said so. I live next door to Mr. Fraser-Smith's office in Pedder's Hill. I have never spoken to Mr. Robert Fraser-Smith or Mr. Stewart Fraser-Smith about delays in the payment of contractors in connection with the Survey Department. I have certainly not suggested to Mr. Stewart Fraser-Smith that if he wrote in the Hongkong Telegraph about the subject the contractors would be willing to pay him a percentage on their bills. I have never taken Mr. Stewart Fraser-Smith and introduced him to two or three of the contractors who were complaining of delay in the payment of their bills. Mr. Stewart Fraser-Smith has been at my place several times and generally had a drink of some kind. I have five children. He has had champagne in my house, not that he liked it very much, I think, from what he said. I think that was on the occasion of the birthday of one of my children, but I do not remember. He has had champagne in my house on several occasions. My salary and allowances are $300, my rent $23, and one of my rooms I have let for $10 up to within the last two months. I certainly do not live beyond my income. I have some money saved of my own. I had no idea my style of living and scale of expenditure were being discussed by Mr. Stewart Fraser-Smith.\n\nBy the defendant I swear I have never had any conversation with you or your brother about the Surveyor-General's department. I did not have some conversation with you about three weeks ago on our way to the Masonic Lodge. I did not express a hope that my name and that of the other foremen would not be introduced into this case. You said to me once, as I was passing, \"You fellows need not be afraid about this case,\" but I passed on and said nothing. I swear I have never had any conversation with you about the Surveyor-General's department. I swear I have never spoken to your brother about the subject of contractors not receiving their pay at the proper time. The statement made in the witness box yesterday that I took him to some of the contractors is false. I am positively certain I never received any squeezes from contractors. I overlooked works in Gough street about two years ago in connection with the waterworks. I think Mr. Andrew Millar was the contractor for that work. I do not know that I volunteered to collect some private accounts for Mr. Millar in connection with the laying of some piping in the houses in Gough street. I have not collected those accounts, and have not paid them to Mr. Millar. In the case of one bill a gentleman called me in and asked me to pay the money over to Mr. Millar, which I did.\n\nDefendant—Then you did collect them?\n\nHis Lordship—That is not collecting.\n\nDefendant—It is only a difference of terms; he says he received the money.\n\nHis Lordship said that if Mr. Millar had given the witness bills to collect, and he collected them, that would be collecting, but if one gentleman merely called him in and asked him to pay the money to Mr. Millar, that could not be called collecting.\n\nCross-examination continued—I did not collect the accounts and keep the money to myself. I do not remember receiving a bill from Millar for $13, on account of one of these houses in Gough street. It is very likely he may have given me a bill for $13. It is not likely I collected it or I would remember it, but I can swear I did not keep the money. I swear it is not a fact that I collected the money and paid him $10 and kept $3 for myself. I pay $28 rent including taxes. My five children are at school. The school expenses are $9. I pay my cook $5, I think, but my wife pays it and I do not know exactly. I have a small house boy whom I pay $2. I have no amah. I am allowed chair coolies by the Government. The whole of my household expenses amount to about $80. That includes everything. My show bill I suppose costs me about $30 a month. Beer and wine may cost $3 a month. My wife does all the washing herself very nearly, all except a white shirt or two. The washing may be a dollar and a half a month. I don't know about firewood; you might say a dollar for that. Other incidental expenses would not amount to much; there is nothing much left but lamp oil and that might cost 50 cents. I suppose clothing for myself and family might cost $100 per annum; but I think that is rather too much. I have not had a new suit of clothes for years. Before I went to the Surveyor-General's Department I was half proprietor of the Oriental Hotel. We did not compound with our creditors; we have paid everything off. We were not able to pay it off at the time.\n\nDefendant—You entered the Surveyor-General's Department then a poor man?\n\nWitness—The terms of my partnership did not compel me to bring in my private means. I had spent enough for my partner, and I did not bring in my private means.\n\nNow what is your salary?—$68.\n\nNo, that is not your salary.—I get $68 a month. And your allowance?—$15 for chair and $5 for my Fire Brigade work.\n\nAccording to the list you have given me, Mr. Rose, your monthly expenses, without any extraordinary expenses, such as doctor's bills amount to $86.50.—We don't pay for doctor or medicine; we have them allowed by the Government.\n\nWell, without any extras your expenses amount to $86.50, and your salary and allowances to $88; that would leave you a dollar and a half.\n\nHis Lordship—I don't see quite how you make that out. He got $10 a month for one of his rooms. How long have you let your room?—I have had pay for it the whole time I have been in Pedder's Hill up to the last two months.\n\nYou are a member of certain Masonic bodies in the colony?\n\nWhat are your fees per month?—$1.\n\nWhat is that for?—That is my subscription, just the same as your own.\n\nTo the United Service Lodge?—Yes.\n\nAnd what do you pay to the United Service Chapter?—30 cents a month, I think.\n\nYou are a frequent visitor to the Hongkong Hotel, are you not? You go there and play billiards?—No.\n\nYou never go there?—Oh yes, I go sometimes.\n\nWhat is your bill there?—I suppose I get two drinks a month; that is what I pay for.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-213 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 325025, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-215 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1884 [1-4]", "page_number": 285, "title": "CO129-215 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1884 [1-4]", "content_text": "Stewarts Reply, and the speeches of \n\nDr Bokai, of the Chief \n\nof the Chief Justice, and \n\nof.) \n\nof Mr. Buckeley Johnson, will be \n\nfound to contain interesting \n\nmatter. \n\nI have the honour to be \n\nMy Lord, \n\nYour Lordship's Most Obedient \n\nHumble Servant, \n\n5. Mowen \n\nPRESENTATION OF THE STEWART SCHOLARSHIP AT THE CENTRAL SCHOOL. \n\nAn interesting gathering took place at the Central School on Saturday, when the old Chinese scholars met together to present an address to the Hon. F. Stewart, LL.D., the former Head Master, and to present to the school a scholarship to be called, in his honour, the \"Stewart Scholarship.\" His Excellency the Governor presided, and a large number of guests were present, who were subsequently entertained at luncheon, when covers were laid for the following:-His Excellency the Governor, Sir George Bowen, G.C.M.G., Major General Sargent, C.B., Sir George Phillippo, the Hon. W. H. Marsh, C.M.G., Hon. F. Stewart, Hon. A. Lister, Hon. P. Ryrie, Hon. F. Bulkeley Johnson, Hon. T. Jackson, Hon. F. D. Sassoon, Hon. Wong Shing; Mr. Justice Russell; Lieut.-Colonel Crawford, R.A., Lieut. Col. Barton; Major Lloyd, R.E., Captain Thomsett, R.N., Lieuts. Vyvyan and Portor, A.D.C.'s.; Dr. Eitel, Chalmers, Young, and Ho Kai; Messrs. Wei Yuk, Luk Sau-tin, Cheung Luk-ü, Ip Piong-kwan, Fang Shui, Chan Un-fai, Cheung Kut, Un Man Choy, A. Molver, J. B. Coughtrie, Chung Shing-wong, R. C. Wilcox, J. Thurbura, J. J. Francis, J. H. Stewart-Lockhart, Yam Kwai-in, W. McKinney, Chan Chan-fat, G. H. Bateson Wright, A. Falconer, Lau Hip-chu, Wong Yat-sou, Ng Pui, Kain Cha-sheung, W. D. Hutchison, Chang Long-bin, G. A. Caldwell, Chau Chi, W. N. Bain, R. Maguire, E. Mackean, J. D. Hutchison, J. Bulgin, Chan Kai-ming, W. M. B. Arthur, Tan Tuan, E. J. Ackroyd, Ho Chung-shang, H. E. Wodehouse, Hu Tuk, Ho Chu, Hung Kam-sing, Sia Sin, and Woo Lia-in. \n\nDr. Ho KAI made the presentation in the following terms:-May it please your Excellency- Dr. Stewart, I have the honour and pleasure to address you on behalf of a large number of your old Chinese pupils, some of whom have met together to-day to present you with an address, and to ask your permission to the founding of a scholarship at the Government Central School in your name, as a slight token of the high esteem and affectionate regard which they, each and all, cherish towards you. Your long connection with the School, extending over a period of more than twenty years, has made you the benefactor of thousands of youths in this colony and elsewhere, many of whom owe their success in life mainly to your liberal education, wise discipline, and careful training. As Head Master you have laboured long and perseveringly for the school, sparing neither time nor pains, and it must be gratifying to you to witness the satisfactory results of your arduous labours in seeing so many of your old pupils occupying numerous important and useful positions in this colony and other parts of the world. (Applause.) It is no less gratifying to you, I am sure, to meet such a number of them this afternoon in this old school-room where we have so often met before, and to receive from them their personal assurance of their deep appreciation and grateful acknowledgment of your valuable services, rendered to them and to their fellow countrymen. I assure you it gives us all very great pleasure to meet you here to-day, and you will do us much honour and favour by accepting from us the small token of regard and affection we now present to you in the shape of a scholarship founded in your name. May you long be preserved to the service of your country, and to the welfare and prosperity of this Colony. (Applause.) I now crave leave to read the address:— \n\nHongkong, February, 1884. The Honourable FREDERICK STEWART, LL.D., late Head Master of the Government Central School, Hongkong, \n\nDEAR SIR,—There has been a general and spontaneous feeling amongst your old pupils that some means should \n\nbe devised to express in some measure their grateful and profound esteem for yourself personally, and your most valuable services and work in connection with education in this Colony during a period of more than twenty years. The scope and value of your past services can only be adequately estimated or properly appreciated by those whom you sought to benefit by your learning, high personal example, constant kindness, indefatigable energy and wise discipline, and so we, who have been among the fortunate recipients of the fruits of your labour, wish to express our grateful remembrance and appreciative recognition in a becoming manner. \n\nThis is our object in coming before you to-day, and it is our desire in the first place, to give expression to the deep feelings of personal regard and high esteem which we in common with those of your pupils who are prevented by unavoidable causes from signing the address \n\nEnclosure \n\nC O. \n\n4283 \n\nROD \n\nor being present to-day, cherish towards you, and, secondly, to ask your permission to the founding of a scholarship at the Government Central School to be called \"The Stewart Scholarship,\" the funds necessary to endowing it having been subscribed for this express purpose by late pupils and scholars, who saw in this a way to give you a slight token of the honour and affectionate remembrance in which your distinguished connection with the School as Head Master for more than twenty years is held by them. We remain, yours very faithfully, \n\nHo Kai, Chairman \n\nWei Yuk, Hon. Treasurer Wong Yat Sun, Hon. Secretary Chun Shing Kong, Hon. Secretary \n\nCOMMITTEE. \n\nChan Shun Fat Ng Pai Wei Leon Ho Chang Sang Sin Siu Choang Lak Y Leong Su Kwong Yoon Mun Choy Chan Kai Ming Cheang Yu Koot \n\nLak Hing Nam Kom Cha Seung \n\nIru Yow \n\nHo Chi \n\nHa Pak \n\nChow Chu \n\nFung Shui \n\nU Lai Un Chan U Fai \n\nSUBSCRIBERS. \n\nChoy Tan Chong Tam Tsun \n\nHo Tsun Tsang Kit Fan Kan Shin Fo Chan Long Hica Wong \n\nApat Chan Achew Lo Aruck \n\nTip Ping Kwan \n\nWong Saik Chee \n\nTam I Nam Luk Tit Fo Fang You Lai Kau Lam Yat Chun Kin Wing Chan Pau \n\nKwan Chak Lam Leong A Than \n\nChoong Ho \n\nTan Kwan Un Chan Ree Kwok Chik Kan \n\nHo Kun Moon \n\nHo Tsink Sin \n\nTeau Ying Koa \n\nYoung Kit Chaen \n\nChan A Sang Kwok Yang Kam \n\nChan Wing Yim \n\nChan Won Fun Trang Kum Chiu Ko Chim Yuen Ho Ha Sing \n\nLie Yne Foong Choung Shing Chan Ngui Him Chang Shan Pang Ting Ching Want Hin Chong \n\nFILE YRG \n\nNg Yaoi Wei Sung Wei Took Wei Kut \n\nSoo Kwai Sang \n\nHo Fus \n\nTang Wing Shing \n\nHung Kam Shing Hong Kam Ning Lam Su \n\nLam Ping Young Fung Chuen Chan Taung Fat Chau Pak \n\nDr. STEWART, in accepting the address, said Dr. Ho Kai and gentlemen, I thank you most heartily for this memorable token of your good will, and for the gracious terms in which you have presented it. Those \"deep feelings of personal regard and high esteem,\" to which you have given expression in this address, I most cordially reciprocate. There is no portion of my past life to which I look back with greater pleasure than the years I spent at the Central School. When I think of the support which I invariably received from the community, and the untiring efforts of my scholars to profit by the instruction they received, I feel that I should be wanting in my duty if I did not avail myself of this opportunity to convey to those who treated me with such forbearance and confidence the assurance of my sincerest gratitude. But apart altogether from the honour you have this day conferred on me personally by endowing this scholarship and calling it by my name, I desire to assure you that it would have been impossible for you to have done anything which I appreciate so much as this substantial boon which you have bestowed upon the old school. I trust that those who may hereafter be successful in winning it will do as much as you have done to uphold the credit of the school, and continue to manifest the same feelings of regard towards it and towards all who are called upon to take part in the instruction of your successors. \n\n(Applause) \n\nThe company then adjourned to luncheon in an adjoining room, and a number of toasts were afterwards drunk, \n\nHis Excellency the GOVERNOR,\" in proposing \"The Queen,\" said-Gentlemen, as you all appear to have done full justice to the ample fare placed before us by our kind Chinese hosts and I am sure you will all agree with me there could not have been a better luncheon served on any table in any part of the world-- (applause)-I say after such a luncheon it is time we should proceed to the less substantial but perhaps more intellectual part of the proceedings. When I was asked by the old scholars to preside on this occasion I gladly consented to their request, partly out of respect to them and partly because I wished to show my sympathy with the graceful and gratifying mark of honour which they are paying to-day to my distinguished friend opposite, Dr. Stewart. (Loud applause). Of course it is my first duty as chairman to propose that toast which is the first toast in every assembly of British subjects", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-215 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1884 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 332331, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-229 - Acting Governor Marsh & Public Offices - 1886 [11-12]", "page_number": 314, "title": "CO129-229 - Acting Governor Marsh & Public Offices - 1886 [11-12]", "content_text": "I \n\npay cheek.\n\n8.7 C. & Whievey, M.D. Superintendent\n\n1.\n\nNo 3. Government Civil Hospital.\n\n312 C 0.\n\n• retructions for Wardens ten 1512\n\nThe Wardmasters are head nurses and chief dresser and they are responsible to the Supt. for the reception and due care of the sick.\n\nThey shall do day and night duty the hours being from 9am to 9pm, and from 9pm to 9am on alternate weeks, except on Monday when the day duty is divided one wardmaster taking from 9am to 2pm, and the other from 3pm to 9pm.\n\nThe Wardmaster on duty shall receive every applicant for treatment at the hospital.\n\nAs far as he is able he shall attend to the immediate requirements of the applicant, calling the Superintendent when the case is serious or the symptoms urgent.\n\n3. If the Superintendent is absent...\n\nPage ...\n\n \n \nHere is the revised version:\n\nI \n\npay cheek.\n\n8.7 C. & Whievey, M.D. Superintendent\n\n1.\n\nNo 3. Government Civil Hospital.\n\n312 C 0.\n\n• instructions for Wardmasters 1512\n\nThe Wardmasters are head nurses and chief dresser and they are responsible to the Supt. for the reception and due care of the sick.\n\nThey shall do day and night duty the hours being from 9am to 9pm, and from 9pm to 9am on alternate weeks, except on Monday when the day duty is divided one wardmaster taking from 9am to 2pm, and the other from 3pm to 9pm.\n\nThe Wardmaster on duty shall receive every applicant for treatment at the hospital.\n\nAs far as he is able he shall attend to the immediate requirements of the applicant, calling the Superintendent when the case is serious or the symptoms urgent.\n\nIf the Superintendent is absent...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-229 - Acting Governor Marsh & Public Offices - 1886 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 334565, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-233 - Acting Governor Cameron - 1887 [6-8]", "page_number": 387, "title": "CO129-233 - Acting Governor Cameron - 1887 [6-8]", "content_text": "380\n\nCALENDAR OF PROBATES and ADMINISTRATIONS granted by the Supreme Court of Hongkong, during the year 1886,\n\nDate\nName of Testator or Intestate\nPlace and Time of Death\nGrant\nValue of the Effects\nName and Description of the Executor or Administrator\n\n1886\n\n$\n\nJan. 11\nAlexander Paterson\nEngland, 10th Mar., 1885\nProbate\n\nThomas Neave\n\n11\nNg Sa Yuen Sing Chun alias Yuen Cheong alias Yuen King Hung\nSingapore, 4th Mar., 1882\nAdm. with Will annexed\n\nHenry Arthur Herbert, Attorney of Frederick Paterson, Peter Rennie, and James Macalister\n\n11\nLeung Ming Yow alias Leung Fau Kan\n\n11\nLui Kum Chaen\n\nThomas Henderson Whitehead, Attorney of Grace Neave\n\nJune 15\nHenry O'Neill\nAt Sea, in the Bay of Bengal, 28th Jan., 1886\n\n900.00\n\n17\nChan Kom\n\n19\nHenry Brerall\nCanton, 8th Oct., 1885\nProbate\n7,000.00\nJohn Yardly Vernon, the executor\n\n19\nCheang Chew Inc\nH'kong, 13th Nov., 1885\n\nVernon Vernon, the executor. Power being reserved to Ellen O'Neil, the executrix\n\n21\nNg Shi\nH'kong, 21st Sept., 1885\nAdministration\n70,000.00\nChau Lai Po, the administrator\n\n22\nJaid Chan She\nShanghai, 20th April, 1886\nAdm. with Will annexed\n13,300.00\nAlfred Parker Stokes, Attorney of Elizabeth Everall and William Weston Clifford\n\nJuly\nJoseph Joseph Money\nH'kong, Both Mar., 1886\n\n530.00\n\n3\nWong Tso Leong\nH'kong, 30th April, 1886\nAdministration\n140.00\nCheang Chan She, the first lawful wife\n\n13\nWilliam Dolan\nH'kong, 3rd Dec., 1885\nProbate\n10.00\nWilliam Henry Hay, solo executor\n\n14\nAlbert Edward Salter\nH'kong, 10th Dec., 1885\nAdministration\n200.00\nEdw. James Ackroyd, Official Administrator\n\n14\nWong Tsung\nH'kong, 20th Dec., 1885\n\n21\nEdward Jackson\nManila\nProbate\n12,000.00\nDavid Gillies and Robert Lang, the executors\n\n21\nLeung Kong Chi alias Leung\n\n21\nNorman Curtis Stevens\nAt Sea, 13th June, 1886\nAdministration\n4,000.00\nAlfred Gascoyne Wise, Official Administrator\n\n22\nWong Ying\nH'kong, 22nd Jan., 1884\nProbate\n160.00\nWong Yuk Che, the executor, according to the tenor of the Will\n\n26\nLeung Kwan Shau alias Ki alias Kwong Fo\n\n200.00\n\n26\nAndrew Thomas Carmichael\n\nAdm. with Will annexed\n3,500.00\nAlfred Parker Stokes, Attorney of Ellen Maria Stevens\n\n27\nHurdil Singh\n\n27\nRobert Strachan\nCalcutta, 7th Jan., 1886\nProbate\n5,000.00\nHenry William Davis, Attorney of Isabel Braide Strachan, widow of the deceased\n\n28\nTo Shap Ng\nJamaica, 5th April, 1882\nAdm. with Will annexed\n1,000.00\nAlfred Parker Stokes, Attorney of Lucy Happer Glover\n\nAug.\nPhillip Robert Doni\n\n4\nAang. Reuben Solomon\nEngland, 19th Jan., 1881\nProbate\n2,500.00\nFrancis Bulkeley Johnson\n\n5\nLeong Hoi\nFrance, 20th Oct., 1884\nAdm. with Will annexed\n8,400.00\nJohn Walter, Attorney of Donald Peter McDonald and John Forrest\n\n7\nSitnah Solomon\nH'kong, 7th Dec., 1885\nAdministration\n600.00\nAlfred Gascoyne Wise, Official Administrator\n\n9\nJames Twinent\nAt Sea\nAdm. with Will annexed\n5,600.00\nSitnah Solomon, Attorney of Abraham Ezra\n\n10\nWilliam Whitfield\nLondon\n\n2,000.00\nWai Fing and Lim Wa You, the executor and executrix, according to the tenor of the Will\n\nSept.\nJarasjee Pestonjee Vakil\n\n8\nGeorge Doo Pitman\nS.S. Namna, 16th July, 1885\nAdministration\n100.00\nEdw. James Ackroyd, Official Administrator\n\n8\nLeung William Atah\nH'kong, 26th June, 1886\n\n9\nRobert Anderson\nH'kong, 7th Mar., 1885\nProbate\n22,700.00\nJohn Bell-Irving, Attorney of Sir Robert Jardine, Richard Dawes, Jr., and Jane Sophia Bulkeley Johnson\n\n10\nTsang I\nH'kong, 27th April, 1885\nAdministration\n100.00\nAlfred Gascoyne Wise, Official Administrator\n\n13\nGeorge Frederick Pinker\n\n41,000.00\n\n13\nWilliam Henry Doyle\n\n13\nChun Uang alias Chun Lok alias Chun Sang Lai alias Chun\n\n15\nAu Yun\nShui Shang, Macao\n\n16\nJoão Jacques Floriano Alvares\nMacao, 20th May, 1885\nProbate\n21,000.00\nAnna Maria Goines Alvares, the widow\n\n21\nLeung Yu Sha alias Leong Yee Sha\n\n24\nVicencia Maria d'Almeida\nH'kong, Macao\n\n27\nJohn Mitchell\nAt Sea, 24th Feb., 1886\nAdministration\n600.00\nAlfred Gascoyne Wise, Official Administrator\n\nOct.\nChau Mi Loi\nH'kong, 21st July, 1886\nAdm. de bonis non\n5,400.00\nAlfred Gascoyne Wise, Official Administrator\n\n1\nChing Fun\nH'kong, 5th Aug., 1886\nProbate\n10,000.00\nChing Fun, the executor\n\n1\nEuzebie Florentino de Souza\nH'kong, 2nd July, 1886\nAdministration\n2,500.00\nEuzebie Florentino de Souza, the administrator\n\n12\nJames Nelson\n\n12\nJohn McGourlay\n\n12\nLee Sik Chuen\nChow Chi Village\n\n16\nRobert Anderson\nH'kong, 16th Feb., 1886\nAdministration\n2,600.00\nEdw. James Ackroyd, Official Administrator\n\n18\nNg Mui\nH'kong, 24th Jan., 1886\nProbate\n\nWei Shee, the executrix, according to the tenor of the Will\n\n25\nNg Mui\nM'kong, 25th July, 1886\nAdministration\n2,900.00\nAndrew John Leach, Attorney of Anne Cecilia Doyle\n\n25\nTsang Sia\nH'kong, 12th Aug., 1886\n\n260.00\nAa Hin Kwong and Au Kum Sze\n\n25\nChoa Choo Bee\nH'kong, 18th Aug., 1886\nProbate\n4,500.00\nChoa Choo Bee, one of the executors. Power being reserved to Wong A-moong, the other executor\n\n26\nRev. John Charles Edge\nH'kong\n\n10,000.00\nSarah Ann Edge, widow of the deceased\n\n26\nChan Nam Hing\n\n300.00\nSham Shi, the lawful wife of the deceased\n\n26\nHippolyte Alexander Nicaise\nBrussels, 22nd Mar., 1885\nAdm. with Will annexed\n3,500.00\nThomas Henderson Whitehead, Attorney of Taucie Marie Caroline Nicaise, sole executrix\n\n27\nAntonio Sanches\n\n210,000.00\n\nNov.\nEleuterio Villanueva\nH'kong, 7th Oct., 1885\nAdministration\n30.00\nAlfred Gascoyne Wise, Official Administrator\n\n1\nLeung Ngau\n\n1\nChing Tai\n\n6\nJohn Gerrani\nH'kong, 25th Feb., 1886\nAdministration\n1,500.00\nIsmael Pullay Madar, one of the executors. Power being reserved to Wong Ha Pong, the other executor\n\n6\nLo A-kit\nTurriff, Scotland\n\nLo A-kit, the daughter\n\n8\nElias David Joseph Ezra\nAmoy, 22nd June, 1886\nAdm. with Will annexed\n3,500.00\nTse Ching Kai, the executor, according to the tenor of the Will\n\n8\nCharlotte Page Hance\nCalcutta, 3rd Feb., 1886\n\n3,000.00\nCharlotte Page Hance, the widow and sole executrix\n\n19\nHo Hing Fai\n\n22\nChan Tak alias Sui Fong\nTang Kun, 26th Nov., 1885\nAdm. with Will annexed\n\nDec.\nAnthony Field Sampson\n\nMay\nChoy Pun alias Choy Tun Po\nCanton, 13th Mar., 1886\nAdministration\n390.00\nChing A-tsai, the widow\n\n4\nTsui Kwong\nH'kong, 21st April, 1886\n\n10\nWong Lok Chi\nH'kong, 27th Nov., 1885\nProbate\n\nHerbert Maurice Bovis, Attorney of William Whyte\n\n14\nChing Yuk Shing\nAt Sea, H'kong\nAdministration\n\nChoy Tam Shi and Choy Wong Shi, the executrixes\n\n20\nAlbert Edmades Pirkie\nLondon, 17th July, 1885\nProbate\n70,800.00\nJohn Stewart Nazer, the executor\n\n20\nFrançois Vincevci\nH'kong, 11th Oct., 1880\nAdministration\n940.00\nLo Kwei Kum\n\n21\nJoseph Theophilus Chater\nH'kong\nAdm. with Will annexed\n500.00\nHon. Alfred Lister, Attorney of Stephen Wotton Bushell and Colin Mackenzie Ford\n\n21\nShmu A-feat\n\nShmu A-feat, first lawful wife\n\n21\nManoel José Maria Gonsalves da Silva\nMacao\n\n200.00\nWong Tin Ting, sole of the deceased\n\n21\nLa Lai bhang fong alias Lai Tung\nMacao\nAdministration\n\nLeung A-ol, the first lawful wife\n\n21\nNg A-mui\nH'kong\n\nMaria Francisca Marques da Silva\n\n26\nArthur Wellington Grosvenor\nEngland, 13th Oct., 1865\n\n125,000.00\nJacob Benjamin Elias, Attorney of Joseph Elias David Joseph Ezra\n\n28\nLow Kura Choong\n\n31\nWong A-sheong\n\nJune\nTaska Moto Odai\nSei Heung, 15th Feb., 1886\nAdministration\n2,300.00\nHe Kunn, otherwise Ho Sim To\n\n1\nYoung Ah Loy\nAt Sea, 7th May, 1886\n\nLam Kis Fung\n\n3\nKeung Lai Mool\nH'kong, 17th May, 1886\n\n100.00\nLai Kam and Lai Sai Kau, the executrixes\n\n3\nWong A-sai\nH'kong, 28th May, 1886\nAdministration\n150.00\nAuguste Raphael Marty, solo executor\n\nEdmund McLeod and George Bayne, the executors\n\nCatchick Paul Chater, sole executor\n\nProperty handed to Mr. Ewens, the Solicitor for Chan Choy, the mother of deceased\n\nYoung A-lai, the administratrix\n\nVictor Hobart Deacon, Attorney of Eliza Maria Grosvenor\n\nKeung Lai Mool, the lawful widow\n\nWong A-sai, sole of the deceased\n\nAlfred Gascoyne Wise, Official Administrator\n\n179,500.00\n\nALFRED G. WISE,\n\nActing Registrar.\n\nRegistry Supreme Court, Hongkong, 28th January, 1887.\n\nPage 380\n\nCALENDAR of PROBATES and ADMINISTRATIONS,—Continued.\n\n...\n\nPage 381", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-233 - Acting Governor Cameron - 1887 [6-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 334910, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-234 - Acting Governor Cameron Governor Des Voeus - 1887 [9-12]", "page_number": 192, "title": "CO129-234 - Acting Governor Cameron Governor Des Voeus - 1887 [9-12]", "content_text": "189\n\nMaliva tsia Kenares Rosian Turkish Chest Cheats Cheat Sheets Chests\n\nJotal Cheets\n\nBrought forward 1861 2 2011 13 13 395 14 12st\n\n23582 2216 1303 62.86\n\nmalwa Petra Revare Persian Turkish Jotal Chests Cheep Chants Cheat Chubs Cheels\n\nBrought forward 740% By Steamer to Macau\n\n \n Ntavila\n \n Pakhoi\n 803616\n 034\n 197\n 17\n 12\n \n \n \n \n \n 2293/1/2\n 226\n 42\n 5\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 47\n 19\n 118\n 139\n \n \n By\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Shanghai\n 13092\n 872\n 366\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Swatow\n 290\n 167\n 101\n 7\n \n \n \n \n \n San Francised\n 254721/2\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 565\n 5\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Faiwanfoo\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Jamui\n 2\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Jouron\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Victoria B.C.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n By Runk to Rapeuimur\n 1\n \n Cheung Chow\n 1\n \n Cheung Sha\n \n \n \n \n \n Chik Sui\n \n \n Hoising Kong Mun\n \n \n \n \n Kowloon\n \n \n đường hai\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Man show On Jau\n \n \n Fear Farnswi\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Drunke to linghoi\n \n \n Sam sui\n 3\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n cipa\n 4\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n San Chong\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Taiping\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Dikhoi\n \n \n \n \n \n Total exported in August\n \n \n ぶ\n \n August\n \n \n \n \n \n 1017\n \n 34\n \n 34\n \n \n \n \n \n 366147\n \n 183\n \n 3371\n \n \n \n \n \n 108\n \n 4\n \n 4\n \n \n \n \n \n 21\n \n 21\n \n 3\n \n \n \n \n PM.\n 2\n \n 21\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 6946\n \n އ\n \n 6756\n \n \n \n \n \n 9\n \n 61\n \n می\n \n \n \n \n \n 4\n \n گوشه\n \n 2\n \n \n \n \n \n 12\n \n 12\n \n 62\n \n \n \n \n 2008-2017\n 308\n \n 395\n \n 14\n \n 637933\n \n\nThe prosecutions during July were as follows:\n\n \n Case\n Date\n Defendant\n Offence\n Decision\n \n \n 67/6\n July 5\n King To\n Having possession of opium\n Opium forfeited\n \n \n \n \n 11 Cheen Cheung\n Having 1/2 ball of opium\n During profession\n \n \n \n \n Jai Sam You Kaqua\n profession\n \n \n \n 699612\n \n Chan A.\n \n \n \n \n 22\n \n Hong A. Kai\n of Stable\n \n \n \n \n \n \n of life than Tchest\n \n \n \n 383\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 41\n \n MAL\n \n \n \n \n 12\n \n of orde\n Having possession\n $5-\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 14\n \n 7271\n \n \n \n \n \n \n # A-kai:\n \n $2.\n \n \n 29\n \n 29\n \n \n \n \n 7885\n Aug 8\n 8 To Fuck\n Having possession\n $25.\n \n \n \n \n Cum cu\n of 2 taels.\n \n \n \n 3\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 7949\n \"10\n Post-mi\n \n Discharged\n \n \n 8014/15\n 11\n 10.4.\n Having possession\n Defendant bound over in one offer of $3 to the good behaviour for 6 months.\n \n \n \n \n \n of opium (about $4 worth)\n or to be -on) $4 or 6 weeks.\n \n \n \n \n Both defendants\n \n imprisoned.\n \n \n \n \n committed\n 2 defendants\n fine $25\n \n \n \n \n banget-\n \n \n \n \n Having possession\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 815-9\n 17\n Jeunget - ho\n the taste of\n $1000 opium forfeited\n \n \n \n \n \n Opium\n \n \n \n \n \n Onalus)\n \n \n \n \n 2\n \n 3\n \n \n \n \n Carried forward\n 23582\n 2216\n 1303\n .398\n \n \n \n 14\n 21\n 32\n \n \n \n \n 1462.86\n \n 33\n \n \n\nCUZ DUSKOND K pr. te", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-234 - Acting Governor Cameron Governor Des Voeus - 1887 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 354997, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 731, "title": "CO129-263 - Acting Governor Barker Governor Sir Robinson - 1894 [5-8]", "content_text": "## FIRST SCHEDULE.\n\nInland Lot Numbers and Descriptions.\n\n206, Section 4, Sub-section No. 1, Remaining Portion,\n\n206, Section 4, Remaining Portion\n\nOwners' Names.\n\nLe Kwong Sau,\n\n206, Remaining Portion..... William Neish Rain.\n\n206A, Section A,\n\n206A, Section A of Remaining Portion.\n\n206A, Remaining Portion,\n\nNanabhoy Rustomjee Billimoria,\n\nDadabhoy Dianjibhoy Billimoria, and Bhai Jivanjee.\n\nTang Pak Shan.\n\nCheong Kai.\n\nChan Kam I.\n\n239,\n\n239A,\n\n239B,\n\n239C,\n\n240,\n\nHo Tung.\n\nDitto.\n\nLam Hung Kwan,\n\nMary Ayow Caldwell, (Executrix of Daniel Richard Caldwell, deceased).\n\nNg Man Yin.\n\nNg Yuk.\n\nWong Mui.\n\nLee Tak, (Executor of Lee Choong, deceased).\n\nMa King Yip,\n\nDitto.\n\nCheung Kam Tin, Leung Yak Ming, Wong Sik Chaen, and Pu Yap Lam. (Executor of Chung Ying Choy, deceased).\n\nKwok Ying.\n\nDitto.\n\n240A,\n\n241,\n\n241A,\n\n241B,\n\n241C,\n\nIp Nam.\n\nDitto.\n\n242,\n\n242A,\n\n242B,\n\n243,\n\n243A,\n\nDitto.\n\n243B,\n\n243C,\n\n243D.\n\nDitto.\n\n243E,\n\nLee King,\n\n243F.\n\n244,\n\n244A,\n\nLee Tak, (Executor of Lee Choeng, deceased).\n\nLeung Tat Tin.\n\nChoong Aecu.\n\n244B,\n\n244C,\n\n244D,\n\n244E,\n\nYuen Yew Cheong and Yuen Yew Thu.\n\nDitto.\n\nThe Hongkong, Canton & Macao Steam-boat Company, Limited,\n\nLo Kum Chune.\n\nMary Ayow Caldwell, (Executrix of Daniel Richard Caldwell, deceased).\n\nChon 6 wai.\n\nClement Palmer,\n\nDitto.\n\n245,\n\n245A,\n\n245B,\n\n245C,\n\n245D,\n\nChao Kwei.\n\n245E,\n\n245F,\n\n245G,\n\n262,\n\n263, Section A,\n\n263, Section B,\n\n263, Remaining Portion,\n\nWilliam Neish Bain.\n\nChung Tsan.\n\nMa King Yip.\n\nIp Nam.\n\n264, Section A, Sub-section No. 1,\n\n264, Section A, Remaining Portion,\n\n264, Remaining Portion,\n\nWilliam Neish Bain.\n\n265, Section A,\n\n265, Section B,\n\n265, Section C\n\nMa King Yip.\n\nJohn Chalmers, Wong Yuk Cho, Ho Kun Pu, Fung Fu, Lai Pak Chi, Ko Cheuk Shing, and Tong Kam Chan\n\nWong Ka Pat.\n\nThe Hongkong, Canton & Macao Steam-boat Company, Limited.\n\n265, Remaining Portion....... The Hongkong Fire Insurance Company, Limited.\n\n271, Section A, Sub-section No. 1, Tam Hoi Chau.\n\n726", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-263 - Acting Governor Barker Governor Sir Robinson - 1894 [5-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 358146, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-268 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1895 [7-11]", "page_number": 311, "title": "CO129-268 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1895 [7-11]", "content_text": "## OPINIONS OF THE SHANGHAI PRESS\n\n### The China Gazette, August 3rd\n\nWe hope the British and American Governments are pleased with the result of their policy in China. If they had made up their minds to definitely abandon their wretched and deserted nationals to the tender mercies of the Chinese mandarins and the murderous mobs at their command, they could scarcely have gone a better way about attaining that desirable object than they have followed. The inscrutable and cold-blooded apathy with which the two governments named (British and American) have looked upon the unparalleled series of outrages in Szechuen province is already bearing fruit in other parts of China, as we foretold at the time it would.\n\nAlready, in the case of the Kucheng outrages, an effort is being made by the apologists of Chinese ferocity to put the blame upon a secret society—a Vegetarian Society above all others—the Vegetarian being one of the strictest sects which objects to the shedding of all blood! But we lay all the blame for the Kucheng outrages upon the emasculated Diplomatic and Consular services by whom Great Britain and the United States choose to be represented in China. The cup, however, is now about full. We do not think that the great world in Europe and America, which goes into hysterics over the assaults by the Turks upon the wretched Armenians, can longer stand aside and see English ladies butchered by these fiends, whom we have been taught to worship and to treat as the Israelites did the great Molok.\n\nThe time has come when the relations between foreigners and Chinese will have to be put upon a different basis, that at the mouth of the cannon. We think that the time has come when justice shall be no longer asked for, but when vengeance must be exacted. It is no longer a case for diplomacy; it is a case for the gatling gun, the rifle, and the bayonet. All the promises of protection which the Emperor of China and his lying mandarins have made have been broken. The tongue in the cheek, as these promises were given, is exposed, and the ever-present devil of Chinese hatred is encouraged by the attitude of those who are supposed to lend foreigners in China protection. That protection is, like Chinese promises and treaty obligations, a criminal fraud.\n\nThe time has come when the appeal for vengeance for the blood of those murdered women must be carried beyond the deadening walls of Peking, and addressed direct to the great world outside; We think that from the blood of the murdered English women of Kucheng a new race will arise, and the hopeless Incubus which weighs down our present relations with China will be broken for ever. To do this a different policy is needed, the policy which had long since been abandoned in the delusive belief that China is a civilized country. She is more savage to-day than the Barbary States fifty years ago, and her mandarins are to the Bashi Bazouk what the vulture is to the cooing dove.\n\nThe fiendish officials who organized these murders and outrages are wise in their generation; and over again they have shown us that they will only burn and destroy the property of French missionaries, because they know the French Government would exact vengeance for the lives of her children, but they wisely reserve their atrocities and murders for the British and Americans, whose governments stand calmly by and see such crimes committed before their eyes as long as trade flourishes. The ledgers of the mills of Manchester and Massachusetts are of more account than the lives of English and American men and women in China.\n\n### North China Daily News, August 5th\n\nIt is hard to say that the massacre at Wha sang is a direct consequence of the indifference of the foreign Ministers at Peking, but we may well believe that the officials would have prevented such a tragedy had they known that it would be followed by swift punishment. We do not envy Sir Nicholas O'Conor his feelings when he heard the sad news—or the Foreign Office in London, if it is on the Foreign Office and not on the Minister that the blame should be laid.... But whoever organised this massacre knew that the officials would not interfere. A mob dare not collect in China unless with the connivance of the officials; and as the officials see that none of them are ever punished for an anti-Christian outrage, why should they try and prevent it? If our Ministers, who have fleets at their disposal, had insisted on the punishment of the Chêngtu officials, the good of it would have been felt all over the Empire; but instead they consent to one of them being put on the Commission of Enquiry!\n\n### Shangkat Mercury, August 3rd\n\nThis (massacre at Kucheng) is an answer to our Ministers' action jeeringly traced with fingers of blood, and what have our Ministers to say to this? If prompt and decisive steps are not taken to repress murder and lawlessness against foreigners by the native authorities; and the foreign Ministers at Peking, in whose power it is to render present and future protection and bring the perpetrators to justice, decline to fittingly exert themselves, to whom is the foreign citizen in China to appeal for help? For how long is this system of weak-kneed scraping to a number of lying, cowardly Chinese officials at Peking—known as the Tsungli Yamen—who completely gull and convince our Ministerial Representatives to continue?\n\nWe do not usually indulge in invective; we usually avoid doing so, but in face of the Peking demonstration and the murderous reply from Kucheng, where five harmless and good women, living noble lives for the benefit of those who killed them, is a reply which makes the blood of every foreigner boil and his fingers itch to be at the throats of the murderers—and in Heaven's name how long are Europeans in China to submit to it?\n\n## DESCRIPTION OF KUCHENG\n\nKa-Cheng, or \"the ancient field,\" is finely situated in a plain surrounded by mountains. It is an important city in the province of Fukien, with a large population; but not more than two-thirds of the space enclosed within the walls, which are four miles and a half in circumference, is occupied by the habitations of the living. \"It is,\" observes Archdeacon Wolf, \"a necropolis, a city of the dead. Thousands of coffins occupy the spare ground inside the walls, and there are numbers of sheds built to protect them from the rain and from the heat of the sun. The laws of China forbid burial within the city walls, but they do not prohibit this practice of keeping the coffins exposed in the city to public gaze.\"\n\nNo manufactures are carried on, the inhabitants being all engaged in agricultural pursuits; and the city is described as \"a quiet old place, the very people having a sleepy look\" partly, no doubt, owing to their being inveterate opium smokers, which gives \"a cadaverous appearance.\"\n\nThe stream which, in its lower course, becomes a foaming torrent, is, in this upland plain, a peaceful and pretty river, and almost encircles the city. Within the walls is a pagoda dedicated to its honour, and designed to propitiate its wrath. Bishop Alford mentions that it is crossed by “a very lofty bridge of five well-spanned arches, with a covered roof.\" It is utilised for the irrigation of the fields by means of large water-wheels, twenty feet in diameter, which raise the water and discharge it into troughs laid to convey it over the country.\n\nKucheng was, according to the Shanghai Mercury, occupied as a Church of England mission station at the end of 1865. Two catechists went first as pioneers, and hired a room for a preaching chapel. Then Mr. Wolfe visited the city, preached to large and attentive audiences, and left one of the catechists to carry on the good work.\n\nPRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY CHESNEY DUNCAN, AT THE OFFICE OF \"THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,\" PEDDER'S HILL, VICTORIA, IN THE COLONY OF HONGKONG.\n\n305", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-268 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1895 [7-11].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 360674, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-272 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1896 [5-9]", "page_number": 165, "title": "CO129-272 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1896 [5-9]", "content_text": "# 百合 \n\nThe grand steps below the Statue, and were playing \"A Life on the Ocean Wave\" as an appropriate quick-step for the Naval Brigade. Led by Commander Tannard and other officers, the bluejackets came bowling along closely compacted, marching in fine form and looking a most business-like contingent with their short sleeves showing their brawny arms, men fit to go anywhere and do anything. They were naturally received with a rousing cheer, and each Jack Tar, as he turned his quid in his cheek, starboarded his twinkling eyes to catch a sight of the bright faces in the Grand Stand. The Marine Light Infantry marched admirably. The spectators were liberal with their applause; not even the Chinese Submarine Miners were allowed to go past without an encouraging cheer. The improvement shown by these men, and by the Hongkong Regiment, was matter of general comment, and it was a surprise to many old residents to know that there was a Chinese contingent in active service in the Colony. \"Rule Britannia\" was the march past for the Marines, whose neat appearance in white was very taking to the eye. In stature these men looked tall, but the palm in this respect was carried off by the Royal Artillery whose physique and general appearance earned for them the encomiums of the military experts. The whole of the Artillery (not forgetting the Field Battery under the command of Lieut. Chapman, and the Maxim Gun Company, under Capt. C. Murray Adamson) and the Royal Engineers went past to the \"British Grenadiers.\" To the regimental march-past, the swarthy North Indian warriors who compose the Hongkong Regiment passed the saluting base in soldierly style. With smart officers thoroughly in earnest with their work, it is difficult to see how this regiment, each man of which is a born warrior, could help developing into one of the smartest native battalions in the army of the Queen-Empress. They bore themselves well in the trying ordeal through which they passed yesterday, and did not compare badly for steadiness under arms with their British brethren-in-arms. Though they came last, the Riflemen, undoubtedly, carried off the palm for marching. The Rifle Brigade has always been distinguished, amongst other things, for its short quick-step, and it looked almost as if the bandmaster was endeavouring to make it quicker than ever, so rapidly did the eight hundred men on parade speed past the saluting base. The tune was \"Ninety-five.\" Each Company moved as one man, the rhythm of movement being superb. The only regrettable feature was that they were in summer khaki instead of review dress and accoutrements. This concluded a memorable military spectacle; and no sooner had the tramp of the soldiers and the last notes of the music died away than the mighty crowd burst into the enclosure to gaze upon the features of the British Queen.\n\n## The following is the military parade state in detail.\n\n| | Officers | British | Others | Total |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Royal Artillery | 5 | 183 | | 188 |\n| Hongkong Artillery | 3 | | 80 | 83 |\n| Royal Engineers | 4 | 60 | | 64 |\n| 1st Batt. Rifle Brigade | 17 | 618 | | 635 |\n| Hongkong Regiment | 11* | 85 | 204† | 300 |\n| Hongkong Volunteers | 10 | 85 | 47‡ | 142 |\n| Grand Total | 53 | 918 | 331 | 1412§ |\n\n§ Including 6 native officers.\n† Including 11 native officers.\n‡ Including 47 Chinese.\n\nTo the above have to be added the Royal Naval and Marine Light Infantry contingents, which numbered respectively 800 and 64, making altogether a force of 2276.\n\nTaking into consideration the enormous concourse of people in the space available on the Praya Reclamation and neighbourhood, it is remarkable that no case of accident is reported. There is a story in circulation, that a distinguished member of the local Police Force had a narrow escape of falling through the Grand Stand. Of course, the ubiquitous photographer was on the spot, perhaps it would be more correct to speak in the plural number, for their name was 'legion.'\n\nThe Committee of Management deserve to be unreservedly congratulated on the excellence of their arrangements. There was no hitch in the whole proceedings; no better accommodation could have been provided than the Grand Stand, although those who witnessed the ceremony and military review from the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank and the adjacent verandahs appear to think that the Grand Standers had by no means the best of it. The Colony is to be congratulated on a handsome addition to its public statues and monuments, for whatever difference of opinion may exist about the advantages of a standing figure to one encased in a bronze chair, there can be no two opinions regarding the likeness to Her Majesty and the artistic qualities of the statue itself.\n\n## TELEGRAM FROM THE GOVERNOR TO MR CHAMBERLAIN\n\nThe following is a copy of the telegram forwarded by H. E. Sir William Robinson to the Right Hon. Joseph Chamberlain, Secretary of State for the Colonies:\n\nHongkong, 28th May, 1896.\n\nThe Secretary of State for the Colonies,\nLondon.\n\nHongkong Community presents its respectful duty to Her Majesty The Queen.\n\nI have this afternoon unveiled Jubilee Statue of Her Majesty erected on recently-completed portion of reclamation.\n\nImmense concourse of people; upwards of two thousand Naval, Military and Volunteers.\n\nMagnificent spectacle; great enthusiasm.\n\nCHATER, Chairman, Jubilee Committee.\n\nROBINSON.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-272 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1896 [5-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 371350, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 99, "title": "CO129-291 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [5-6]", "content_text": "1415199.\n\nthe proposal occupation\n\nof Kowloon and\n\nSham Cheen, together\n\nwith\n\nChar...\n\nThe draft of telegram Farish, with\n\nhis Lordship's concurrence,\n\nto Colonial\n\nOffice in reply.\n\nI am,\n\nC.P. Lucas\n\n11789.5.\n\nTelegraphic Instructions to the Governor\n\nof Hong Kong.\n\nIn answer to\n\nyour Telegrams of the\n\n10th and 11th\n\nMay you\n\nshould\n\noccupy\n\nboth Kowloon and Sham Cheen in the\n\nmanner you propose, effecting object\n\nif possible by overwhelming display of\n\nforce\n\nand\n\navoiding bloodshed. But\n\nSham Chun must not be occupied\n\nunless General is satisfied that he is\n\nin a\n\nposition to hold it for the present\n\nwith force already at his disposal.\n\n‡S. No. 1175\n\n97", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-291 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 372008, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-292 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [6-8]", "page_number": 3, "title": "CO129-292 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [6-8]", "content_text": "Desp. No 1\n\nDale 148 Hong Kong 1899 Volvame ill Continto.\n\nOnlyest Governor In H.A. Blake Gemy 16 June.\n\n149 Teligion 17\n\n$ * Tel 13°2 Th 15°3 2\n\n154 13-3- 10-6 159 164 162 163 2\n\n28 28 29 30 Regestoor Genes. Dopi Guns for Volunteer Corps.\n\nI easing of Crown Lands.\n\nSubsidiary Ilver Coin: Occupation of Kowloon. Defences of thission aries.\n\nMundar Roccupation of Sham Cheen.\n\nrepences of Almoy, Volunteer Corpy.\n\nPension o C.C. maisch Victoria New Territory. Militory operations Iolanie; of Fire Brigade Hoff. chun. Sen Varken en 1898. Health\n\nWater Police. Pension of Ilaque.\n\nTaxation + utter Singh.\n\n* Memorial of My-Kuoi thang Opium smuggling & Saigon.\n\nEC. Lewis. Applen for house allowance,\n\nD.www. 164 44 July 165- 166\n\n168 17 } 171 2 173 Compe Telegram 170-1 promotion\n\ncupation & Coolyan fly Sham thund Bithrey\n\nPostal rates for soldiers & sailors British Indiany\n\nI alary of MA Pereira, adde. And Jupe of Police.\n\nVenereal disease. Brothed slavery\n\nNew Territory, appen of Ht. King Laws.\n\nPensions & gratuites", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-292 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [6-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 372649, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-293 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [8-9]", "page_number": 3, "title": "CO129-293 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [8-9]", "content_text": "Hong Kong\n\n1899\n\nVolume IV\n\n224\n\n225\n\n226\n\n228\n\nCompe\n\n230\n\n231\n\n232\n\n233\n\n234\n\n235\n\n236\n\n237\n\nGovern Built A. Blake, G.C.M.G\n\n16 Aug. You of New Territory\n\nFor Mardiary\n\n?\n\n238\n\n239\n\n240\n\n22.\n\n241\n\n23\n\n243\n\n244\n\n245\n\n246\n\n25-\n\n247\n\n248\n\n249 Coupe!\n\n30\n\n31\n\n13\"/\n\n(Dept.\n\n20\n\n6\n\nSecret.\n\nTelegraph roli.\n\naccom 5 with Crown Agen St. New Territory.\n\nAddl. Cleste for I resoury\n\nI Kong\n\nExtn Exemption Ora ce\n\nPolice Force.\n\nJalories of\n\nCivil Servants.\n\nPisacij in Kwang I\n\nKwong I ung & Kiring Resignation of J. G. T. Buick. Passia & Japan.\n\nof Amoyn\n\nCon C89 1899.\n\n+1\n\nof\n\n19.\n\n20\n\n21\n\n22\n\nPresin Rules.\n\nInfections hospital school for Kowloon,\n\nCapitão sentence. Commutation.\n\n2.7. Boulton.\n\nWales to with Dept.\n\nPostol agreement with Chania,\n\nBruce 23 of 1879.\n\nSo.\n\nOccupation of Sham Cheen. New Territory Police requirement:\n\nWomen & Children's Hospital & Hursing Inst Defence\n\nScheme", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-293 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [8-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 374471, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-295 - Public Offices - 1899", "page_number": 544, "title": "CO129-295 - Public Offices - 1899", "content_text": "CLA\n\nEarly decision-pointing out that Kupin date of Sham Cheen is in a state of lawlessness, the hoops which are not more than necessary. For the sanitising Hong Kong cannot for any lengthy time be kept at Sham Chun.\n\nThe Commander in Chief is making enquiries in minutes which have come home to the C.X.C., besides the mischief and scandal.\n\nEW 20 soft\n\nSo reply 80/9\n\nAn Stain Chum & the northern boundary of the new territory 510\n\nThe question whether the occupation of Sham Cheen and the affairs in dispute should be permanent or merely temporary has from the first been subject to considerable fluctuations of opinion.\n\n16th April\n\nIn a telegram of Sir F. Blake tags absolute agreement for \"the vicinity of the district that the boundary be made the crest of the hill, north of Sham Chun\", and in a letter to F.O. of 10th April, Lok\n\nI. Chamberlain's strong opinion that in \"aounty are pay that the\n\n...\n\n \nPage 1 \n\n(To be continued)\n\n1.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-295 - Public Offices - 1899.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 374561, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-295 - Public Offices - 1899", "page_number": 634, "title": "CO129-295 - Public Offices - 1899", "content_text": "Rock or them Chun. Bun\n\nJap\n\nBr\n\nthen recurs as herein\n\nin\n\nLetting\n\nthe 2.O. tell the\n\nChevere for that gep\n\nReck\n\n\"will be retained\" procesaly\n\n-\n\nits present footing, which\n\nis all that appears really.\n\nnewfrez.\n\nwe shall of course\n\nhave to\n\nLeave 2.O. a\n\nlong telegram\n\n& Mary Mary;\n\nЕле\n\nJoning\n\nIttle cre\n\nacas you\n\nwichen exter\n\nLot of several protest agerich\n\nthen decision lon\n\nthegs m\n\nay indemnity, porting\n\nthat it is hardly conceivable\n\ndescribe the occupation of\n\nthan Cheen\n\nbang\n\nGau\n\nto\n\nI do not see much good\n\nin mentioning\n\nhave Only keep the status quo\n\nit. Duy\n\n1 yes cra\n\ncarried out\n\n630\n\nauthorities are in accordance\n\nwith their own\n\njudgement,\n\nthe entire peninsula\n\nfrom fish to Cartly..\n\nCamed Cherth\n\nwith the approval\n\nmuch the Express andão\n\ngom. Fort\n\n19/20\n\nIn B. Herbat\n\ndelimited\n\nThis letter is very misleading.\n\nThere was a boundary, but in consequence of\n\ndisturbances\n\nof which the Viceroy of Canton ought to have prevented, it existed, as the colonial government thought, we not\n\nand also for reasons of Imperial policy\n\nSham\n\nonly occupied Kowloon City but also Occupied the town or village of Chan outside the provisional boundary.\n\non the 9th of May The Foreign Office wrote advising\n\n\"that the governor of\n\nHongkong should be instructed by telegraph to take such steps as may be necessary \"to secure the execution of the Convention", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-295 - Public Offices - 1899.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 376393, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-299 - Administrator Major Gen Gascoigne - 1900 [5-6]", "page_number": 71, "title": "CO129-299 - Administrator Major Gen Gascoigne - 1900 [5-6]", "content_text": "## Office \n### Brought forward \n#### Civil Hosp (cont.)\n\n| Present salary per month | Increased salary per month | Remarks |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 48 | 81 | Jang Cheung |\n| 8588 | you sang | Li Jai au cheong ailor aok allenger |\n| | Paul Lin | When saveyman Pathgan |\n| | coolie Wong Kan | foratory Catte) How Qui sham toreman Cheng Shuen |\n| 9 | 15 | Jang Kui Bu Lang |\n| 6 | 8 | Fok ko |\n| 195+ | | Leung Qui Li kuw |\n| 10 | | How Agan avengen op slop chungshui Coolie |\n| | | ral for Sister Jung saur Jang Lok Fok yait... chah Kaur |\n| 4 | ५ | Y \"y Lau King |\n| | 6 | Leung Sp Chaur Kuur hgaisheen cheeng Jak Lishung |\n| | 6 | |\n| | 1 $500 | |\n| | | carried forward |\n\n81", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-299 - Administrator Major Gen Gascoigne - 1900 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 390478, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-320 - Governor Sir Blake Acting Governor May - 1903 [11-12]", "page_number": 31, "title": "CO129-320 - Governor Sir Blake Acting Governor May - 1903 [11-12]", "content_text": "## HONG KONG \n### DESPATCH \nNo.45671 \n**C.O. 29** \n`RF 21 JEC 03` \n\nMerchant Shipping Ordinance are now in force: sending copies Proclamation; Notifications & Request. Spare expres to Letrary, Muir Wins.\n\n### (Minutes.)\n\nThe alteration are unfortant. \nCases R han- All \nThe fees hem dither.\n\n## Last previous Paper.\n`Blake 525 1903 19 100` \nSir H. u. Blake \nproposals \nthis letter at early convenience \n(1) Admmy \n(2) their Lordships \n\n## Next subsequent Paper.\n`WBL(78)—1020-0000-11-9 1982-6030-10-5` \n\nC. War brunday of the Dept Reclamatio originally agreed upon, must lis L. Imat that @hi A.7. ki 12/ their Lordships will made i C^^ 15. the reconsideration, Governor. No. \nA \n15 rocin. \nhr L \nD \n6- glad \n5 \nCu hut A-7's \n(2) their Lordslick, \n5 A minhar es has Cheen addressed to the \nCoby last cart B.T \n\nBiel Bof! \n2/4 usto, \nthe present despatch. \nA \nよ \n\n| Col1 | Col2 |\n| --- | --- |\n| ... | ... | \nNo table content, hence removed.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-320 - Governor Sir Blake Acting Governor May - 1903 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 390593, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-320 - Governor Sir Blake Acting Governor May - 1903 [11-12]", "page_number": 146, "title": "CO129-320 - Governor Sir Blake Acting Governor May - 1903 [11-12]", "content_text": "## letter for Admiralty\n\nthe (in their letter Naval C dated the 73 October last, a copy of To the Cheef ch of which was enclosed in my despatch no 383 of the 22nd Oct accepted as Equivalent for that range the facilities which the wo promised to give them on the new Arany ranges.\n\net It appears from paragraphs 7 and 8 of that letter that the Admiralty now requires this supplementary side and a range, which they are prepared to acquire by purchase.\n\n2. I do not therefore think that the Admiralty should be given the site Entirely free, but that they should be asked to pay at least the necessary compensation for private rights as well as all Expenses of construction of butts etc. In view, however, of the possible increase in value of this site I consider that the land should be Sold & not be made over to", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-320 - Governor Sir Blake Acting Governor May - 1903 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 391292, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-321 - Public Offices & Others - 1903", "page_number": 253, "title": "CO129-321 - Public Offices & Others - 1903", "content_text": "10\n\nThese valleys to the north of Ta Li form a considerable market for foreign goods. Among the very attractive Minchia ladies, I fancied that I noticed an unappeased longing for finery, such as cheap laces, ribbons, and Turkey reds, while their capacity for consuming all kinds of sweetstuff is considerable. They share the labours of the sterner sex, and so add to the labour power of the valleys, which they inhabit.\n\nAfter Hei Nui Shao, we continued somewhat north of east, through fine hill country, with fields and scrub, where an exciting pheasant drive was organized, until we saw the wide plain of Hoching, with its 200 villages spread like a chess board at our feet. We descended the windings of a long spur to the level ground, and struck a wide-paved causeway, some 3 miles south of Hoching city. It was market day, and the traffic was very heavy. Many of the hill Minchia women near Hoching have retained their native kilts and the men their arms, leather shoes, and felt or fur caps, so that they present a picturesque aspect on their return home from market.\n\nHoching Valley can be recommended to the attention of those who would have us believe that Yunnan is a poverty-stricken wilderness. The plain is about 24 miles by 5 miles, and contains about 200 villages, excellently built. The city itself has about 12,000 inhabitants, and is clean and well built, with but little empty space in the walls. The streets are densely crowded every ten days for the market. The place is an important salt and opium entrepôt, and the general prosperity of the inhabitants attracts all sorts of trade. Even dried lichees from Canton may be bought at stalls on the streets. A weaving industry is now springing up, yarn being brought under transit pass from Teng Yueh. I think that the great majority of the people are still clad in Hsin Hsing or Shasi cloth, and only about eighty muleloads of Manchester goods per annum are sold in Hoching, but throughout the valley, the chance of extending Burmah trade seems excellent; some of the merchants with whom I conversed are well acquainted with the commercial advantages offered by the opening of the Teng Yueh Customs; indeed, they stated that before that event, the foreign trade of the valleys north of Ta Li was exceedingly risky, owing to the irregular imposts of all sorts to which it was exposed. The crushing impositions of the Teng Yuch and Yung Chang tax collectors formed but a part of the mischief. I have already noticed the mules of Hoching.\n\nLeaving the North Gate of Hoching, the stone causeway passes some lagoons, and leaving the valley bottom, leads over some downs and through some firwoods to the li-kin station of Chi Ho. The valley is well peopled all along, and the traffic on the road is very considerable.\n\nThe next day we crossed the rocky col of the Lion Hill (Ssu Tzu Shan) and a gentle descent through firwoods brings the traveller out on to the wide plain of Li Chiang. The river which waters the Hoching Plain issues from the north-east of the Lichiang Plain, flows south, under the east foot of the Lion Pass, and so down the Hoching Valley, from the south-east corner of which it issues and joins the Yang-tsze.\n\nLichiung-fu, the Snow Mountain, and the Yang-tsze Bend.\n\nWhile descending from the Lion Pass to the Lichiang Plain, the clouds which had obscured for some days the tops of the ranges, among which we had been travelling, slightly lifted, and disclosed the sharp snow-striped triple peak of the snow mountain, towards which we had been marching for five days. The lower slopes of the mountain were still enfolded in mist, and the impression given was one of enormous height. The Lichiang Snow Mountain—it has no other name—is known far and wide among the natives, and the geographical problems regarding the country at its feet are of sufficient interest to merit a particular description.\n\nThe Lichiang Plain may be considered as divided into three portions, first there is the main valley with the Lion Pass on the south, the city and the range at the back of it on the north, and the hills crossed by the high road from Lichiang to the Yang-tsze and Yung-peh on the east. This covers about 40 square miles, and is, roughly, 8 miles by 6 miles. Then there is the northern section of the plain, which runs up at the back of the city along the east flank of the Snow Mountain for some 9 miles, and, thirdly, over a low col on the west of the main plain, there is the Lashi Pa, a circular valley, with a diameter of 4 miles, sloping gradually down on all sides to a lake in the ...\n\n11\n\n...middle. The main road from Lichiang, west to the Ashi Ferry, on the Yang-tsze, en route to Thibet, runs along the north of this lake, while the road to Chien Chuan skirts the south-east of it, passing under the Wen Pi, or Pencil Hill, a conspicuous wedge-shaped peak, which overhangs the south-west of the main valley. The Pencil Hill, together with the Snow Mountain, balances the geomantic influences, and secures the prosperity of Lichiang.\n\nThe Lichiang Valley possesses a good dark soil which is suitable for opium. Little rice is grown, but the dry land cereals abound. The population is not so dense as that of Hoching Valley, the villages being smaller and further apart. The city itself contains about 8,000 inhabitants, and is situated on the north of the valley near the great snow peak which can be seen from nearly every street corner. It is quite unlike any other prefectural city in China; in the first place, it is at an altitude of 8,100 feet; in the second place there is no wall, the Magistrate's Yamên being quite out in the country; thirdly, streams of pure water issuing from the Dragon pool of the Lung Wang Miao to the north of the city flow alongside the pavement, houses and shops being pleasantly diversified with gardens and orchards; fourthly, it is at the foot of a great snow mountain; and fifthly, the majority of the inhabitants are not Chinese. The houses on the outskirts of the city are well built in the Minchia style, while the centre of the city is a square market-place, where a busy daily market is held. From this square branch three business streets of small wooden shops, where the sellers of cotton cloth, Thibetan wools, and copper and iron-workers are conspicuous. There is also a small paper industry, the paper being made from the bark of the kou tree, while a number of Chinese medicine and musk buyers frequent the place.\n\nTo the north of the city runs the north section of the plain under the east flank of the snow hill; this plain is closed on the north by the spurs through which the Hei Shui, or Blackwater Stream, runs eastward to the Yang-tsze. At the south end of this plain, some 5 miles west of Lichiang, is the market of Pei Sha and several villages, but further north it is barren, stony, and windswept.\n\nSome 6 miles west of Lichiang city a low col which joins the Snow Mountain to Pencil Hill divides the main section of the plain from the Lashi section. Lashi Pa, with its lake, is densely populated and has twenty large villages. Quantities of rice are grown and a number of beasts are bred. The whole of the Lashi Pa is surrounded by pine-clad heights and presents a very beautiful view.\n\nThe inhabitants of the Lichiang Plain and its dependencies fall under three heads: These are the Chinese, mostly immigrants from Hoching; the Minchia, who are chiefly in the south of the valley; and the so-called \"pun ti,\" or natives. These latter call themselves Lashi, and though their language is not the same as that of the Ku Tsung Thibetans of Chung Tien, the difference seems to be dialectic only, and I cannot doubt that the Lashi are the most southern branch of the true Thibetan stock. Their sepia complexion, their fondness for lamaseries and woollen garments and their high cheek bones all proclaim their affinity. The young women usually wear hats like Chinamen, but with long tassels and gilt embroidery. The Lashis form the majority of the inhabitants of Lichiang city, the bulk of the population of Lashi Pa, and they seem to entirely monopolize the Yang-tsze bend. In the latter country their houses are often made of nothing but wood, while substantial log-huts in the Canadian backwoods style are supplied for the cattle. The Lashi mostly speak a little \"pidgin\" Chinese, and have ancestral tablets in their houses. They are friendly and hospitable, good carpenters and blacksmiths, and it is to be hoped that their language and history will be studied by some traveller who has time. It will probably be found that they are closely related to the Mosso tribe on the Upper Mekong.\n\nThe inhabitants of Lichiang are sportsmen, and fond of falconry. The hawks, which they fly at pheasants and ducks, are heavy birds, and a good deal of care is spent in looking after them.\n\nI am able to throw some light on the question of the Yang-tsze bend to the north of Lichiang. M. Bonin, the well-known French traveller, who in 1894 went from Yang-tzse bend to Ashi, and, having crossed the Tang-tsze there, proceeded north-east to Tachienlu, surmises that the course of the Yang-tsze was wrongly marked on our old maps, and that the river makes a great curve to the north from Ashi, sweeping round to the south again from a point a little to the south of Yung Ning. I can confirm the truth of M. Bonin's suggestion; there is, in fact, no doubt about the matter. It is perfectly well known to the Yamens at Lichiang that if you go from the city to the Chin Chiang (Golden River), as the Yang-tsze is locally known, in a westerly direction, you strike the stream at Ashi, one long day's march. If you go in an easterly direction you reach the stream on the second day from Lichiang on the Yung-peh road; but if you go in a northerly direction you have to travel six days from Lichiang to reach the Yang-tsze at the northern apex of the bend. The concave or south side of the bend is all in the jurisdiction of Lichiang, while the convex bank belongs to Yung-peh, Yung Ning, and Chung Tien respectively.\n\nThe other question is the trend of the range of which the Lichiang Snow Mountain is such a conspicuous feature. On a survey sketch published by the Government of ...\n\nE.\n\n249", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-321 - Public Offices & Others - 1903.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 392631, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-322 - Acting Governor May - 1904 [1-5]", "page_number": 650, "title": "CO129-322 - Acting Governor May - 1904 [1-5]", "content_text": "No. 21.\n\nSir,\n\nEnclosure 2.\n\nCO.646L15986\n\nPace\n\n$0.041\n\nht\n\nHongkong, 30th April, 1904.\n\nWith reference to our conversation of yesterday and to your private letter, which I had the honour to receive today, I feel obliged to protest against the action of the Government of Hongkong to allow a Japanese Steamer to load in this neutral port a quantity of 12,000 cases dynamite besides Gelatine and Detonators.\n\nI take the liberty to remember as a precedent that during the war in Acheen, the Government of the Straits Settlements prohibited exportation of war material to the scene of war and that still now the exportation of arms munition from Hongkong to South China is not free.\n\nI therefore cannot understand why the Government of Hongkong after the declaration of neutrality allows that considerable quantities of explosives are stored in this Colony and shipped to a port in Japan.\n\nI think this is not in accordance with the meaning of neutrality and I must draw the attention of the Russian Government to this serious question.\n\nArticle 6 of the Treaty signed at Washington April 1871 between Great Britain and the United States of America agrees that neutral Powers are not free to allow any belligerent to use the harbours or waters of the neutral Power in order to renew or increase her munition or armament.\n\nI take the liberty to request you to\n\nTo\n\nThe Honourable\n\nA. M. Thomson, Colonial Secretary.\n\nagain", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-322 - Acting Governor May - 1904 [1-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 395445, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-326 - Foreign Office - 1904", "page_number": 782, "title": "CO129-326 - Foreign Office - 1904", "content_text": "Names, Addresses and Descriptions of \n\nSubscribers. \n\nNumber of \n\nshares taken \n\nby each Sub-\n\nscriber. \n\n(Signed) Siao Chu Swan \n\nCompradore Jardine, Matheson \n\nand Company, Swatow. \n\n1. \n\nSiao Kwan Kee \n\n22 \n\nMerchant, Swatow. \n\n1 \n\n} \n\nTan Chean Kee \n\n** \n\ni \n\nMerchants, \n\nSwatow. \n\n1 \n\nSiao Kee Kee \n\ndo. \n\n1 \n\nYeo Sing Lee \n\ndo. \n\n1 \n\nSiao Su Lee \n\ndo. \n\n1 \n\nSiao Chip Sing \n\nBuilder, Swatow. \n\n1 \n\nTotal Shares taken \n\n7 shares. \n\nDated the Twelfth day of February, 1904. \n\nWitness to all the above signatures. (Signed) James M. Forbes, \n\nAgents, \n\nMessrs.Jardine, Matheson and Company, \n\nSwatow. \n\n778 \n\nWe the undersigned do hereby certify and at-\n\ntest that we have this Ninth day of June 1904 examin-\n\ned the above copy Memorandum of Association of the \n\nSwatow Chow Yang Kit Yang Steamlaunch Company, Limi-\n\nted, with its original and that it is a true copy \n\nof such original. \n\n(Signed) J.R. Campos. \n\nLau Fuk K1, \n\nClerk to Messrs.Deacon Looker \n\nand Deacon, \n\nSolicitors, HongKong.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-326 - Foreign Office - 1904.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 415226, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-349 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [10-12]", "page_number": 515, "title": "CO129-349 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [10-12]", "content_text": "## ICO 2.R\n\n800I redmese C me:e Itnan mort voy of rottæɔinvenon erið od eomrater Atl $302,\"A vi ert mwona new soldiw maillarde .**BHAYE TOLs.\n\n.atnao 1 bayas ad fol 'w mo hrs d to saanitoau Irotgetsite edd mort d*RGA of areɔl 740 solm92 rredornil mnome salffemia to enhafwom! Cheddưohru bluow *£ 38797 to ad *Bw to set at and mi nit vd,vtlaaqso atɛving stedt at ale zor forell or ne to tab of 8188a9 ♬ zntyswmos to gunea chaen a ng bro??B quitatza edo 'tw oldłɛɛourt al Janesti da dobili,dayba .alent to obot Iatorero road00 -mo g4 Tabru: eIszegy mit mt Jang erit eros 707 i a ir 63 89:æstent gham så bes‚healinɛt; avas 1 bis ett to aÐISTE KÅ *# #A .atoʻqaru” bus eanotra anap itto noorte\" Jasi vit gatruh jart mołdnax vs. ↑ Raaditaan Baw rini:w prota 8 10 Ianeet A \"TBW ot sida cow Т moeя 3 .hrawiituo? sgt ot aclamoro zd patllammte railw ,dɗminbik de eoniq Xood alm .moltesup add to 200 asv shoɔ Jaloteevol adr eraw aytria [a 11 d'eued teeny a sď blnow JI · .enoriqa ? bra stwel hæoritsa ¦ art lat 093 Iroda od blow nks to t800 Iatot anl MI ZNAMOJAJA Bit of moltysaxe eist of erinah I galliammta oqsvonne od dalw volatinbA edt tødt matter aft aɗt *reastq sdt of qu .878 of 10 solved tharfase finEO 2 -gen barahisaoo mi al .au rot onlɗton enoh eað vélarikoA orlê ni beniant “ilatoaqɛa ed of nonlanmir Laval mo? Vokas -JH3\" \"a eolilitos? done off .antilang?2 Inval to? foodan -on of batosixe era varit,atsoitto sotvnað hafort of b. od moltibha ni baa Jem vedd dand as oghofword tada grlup deźw voda ti heqrarlo at 015 to es est a mnomnom at al of fielw vIlsen valarhab' sit ?\n\n(2)\n\n509\n\nTo encourage signalling in the Merchant Service, I suggest that signalling classes for officers are formed at the chief ports on board one of H.M. ships and that the fee for examination be abolished.\n\nI am, &c.\n\n(sa) P. H. Rolfe\n\nMessrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd.\n\nHONGKONG", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-349 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 421432, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 221, "title": "CO129-360 - Public Offices - 1909", "content_text": "## \"FATSHAN\" AFFAIR. \n## INQUIRY AT THE BRITISH CONSULATE.\n\nCHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT \n219\n\nThe inquiry was held on the Fatshan on the 30th. An English correspondent writes:---\n\nDeceased was rolling about crying in a loud voice for some time and then became quiet. The man who sat next to me was asleep; he got up and looked at the deceased. Many other passengers also went up and looked at the deceased. I also got up and went to look at the deceased who was dead. I knew he was dead because somebody pushed deceased and he did not move. I did not notice that any of the officers on board went to the deceased. Some Chinese passengers went up to call the officers. I did not see the watchman afterwards.\n\nDr. Davenport, M.R.C.S. (Eng.), L.R.C.P. (London), who said he had been 5 years and 11 months in Canton, gave evidence. He said: I found no evidence of any broken bones or any other external sign of injury. There was no discharge from the nose or from the ear, the pupils were moderately contracted and equal. My conclusion is from review of these facts that the deceased had been suffering from fever and that death was not due to violence.\n\nBesides the British and Chinese, three Doctors, one English, one French, and one Japanese were present. The examination, it is stated, revealed no signs of violence and the doctors were agreed that the man was in a very poor state of health.\n\nChinese undertakers called in by the Namhoi Magistrate examined the body of the deceased and handed in a report which states that there were marks of violence on the body of deceased and declared that death was due to violence. It is said that in the report, the undertakers actually stated that certain marks on the body of the deceased were caused by kicks from a foot.\n\nIt is marvellous how the undertakers by examining the body could positively state that certain marks were kicks from a foot.\n\nCROWN vs. NORONHA. \nH. Fox, H. B. M. Consul-General, held an inquiry on Tuesday last. Mr. Costa de Moraes, Portuguese Consul, Mr. Sit Wing Min, the Viceroy's Deputy, and the Namhoi Magistrate were present. The manager of Messrs. Butterfield & Co., owners of the s.s. Fatshan, was also watching the case on behalf of the firm.\n\nThe precise nature of the charge the Consul-General decided to investigate was that a Chinese passenger had been kicked to death on the s.s. Fatshan on the night of November 29th. C. Noronha surrendered himself as being the person referred to in the charge and pleaded not guilty.\n\nThe first witness called for the prosecution was Tan Shoung Po who deposed as follows: - I am an insurance broker living in Hongkong and was a passenger on the s.s. Fatshan on the night of the 29th ultimo. I heard a great noise amongst the Chinese deck passengers and went down to the lower deck to see what was the matter. I saw a man rolling on the floor of the deck in a dying state. I could not hear the man speak. A lot of passengers gathered around the man and there was great confusion. I tried to quiet them so that the matter could be reported to the authorities on arrival in Canton. The man was then dead. I did not see the watchman, but heard people say that he was dead. There was too much noise to hear clearly.\n\n| Witness | Statement |\n| --- | --- |\n| Tan Shoung Po | ...the man was dead. I did not see the watchman... |\n| Dr. Davenport | ...death was not due to violence... |\n| Choong Lau Ki | ...saw a foreigner kick the deceased... |\n\nCaptain C. V. Lloyd said: I am master of the Fatshan. I was on the upper deck at about quarter to 12, when it was reported to me that a Chinese passenger had died on the lower deck. About a quarter of an hour afterwards, I was informed that the Chinese passengers were creating a disturbance. I went down to the lower deck, and saw a body lying on the deck with many passengers standing round and talking loudly. I enquired what the trouble was and was told that this man had been assaulted by the watchman during the collection of tickets. I then asked for witnesses of the fact and after some delay a boy about 15 years or thereabouts was brought forward. He said that he saw the watchman strike a back-handed blow on the man's cheek. There was no other evidence given. Nothing was said of kicks or blows.\n\nThe inquiry was resumed on Tuesday afternoon. Two witnesses were examined - a Chinese dentist of Hongkong named Tung Cheuk Shan, and a member of the Chinese Ambulance Society, named Hui Ching Po.\n\nThe hearing was adjourned to 2.30 p.m. There was a large crowd of Chinese reporters, members of the Red Cross Society, and Self-Government Association at the Consulate listening to the trial of the case.\n\nThe dentist was a passenger on the Fatshan and all he knew of the matter was by hearsay. Hui Ching Po deposed to having examined the body of the deceased and having found several marks of violence.\n\nThe Consul-General said no evidence would be accepted except from qualified Chinese practitioners with proper diplomas.\n\nCaptain Lloyd further deposed: I received a complaint from the Compradore that the passengers were talking of writing a joint letter. I sent for the ring leader and then for the first time I heard of kicks and blows. After some time I asked him what he wanted done, and he said he wanted a fair investigation when he arrived at Canton.\n\nThe Captain produced the regulations which were always hung up on board the steamer, and referred the Court to rule No. 19 which states that if any of the officers or crew ill-treat any native passengers they will be dismissed from the service. I have been captain in these steamers, witness added, for 23 years. It has often happened that passengers have died on board the steamers when coming up to Canton, the reason being that very often Chinese who are sick in Hongkong do everything they can to get on board the steamer to come up to Canton. Death on board is reported to the Consul when the vessel arrives at Canton. If the man has no friends, the Chinese Hospital takes charge of the body.\n\nWo Kai was the next witness called and made the following statement: - I live in Zin Sai Pin Tan in Fatshan. I am of age. I am a rice merchant and was a deck passenger on the s.s. Fatshan. My name is Hang Tai. I was sitting on the roof of the deck close to the deceased doing nothing. I saw some Chinese collecting money. I did not notice the Portuguese watchman at that time. They omitted to collect money from the deceased. Afterwards the Portuguese watchman went up to the Chinese and called out \"Show your ticket\". The deceased was then lying down covered with a red blanket. I could not see distinctly which way the deceased was lying. When the watchman cried \"Show your ticket\" he kicked the deceased to get up and the deceased sat up and rubbed his back. The watchman pushed deceased twice and asked him for his ticket. I heard the deceased say \"I have no ticket, you have not collected the money. How can I have a ticket?\" The watchman again asked the deceased for money and at the same time struck him with his hand. Deceased cried out. Deceased then paid the watchman 60 cents. I did not see clearly the amount paid, but I think it must have been 60 cents.\n\nAfter the watchman collected the money, he gave the deceased a hard kick with his foot and went away. When deceased received the last kick he gave an exclamation of pain. Deceased then lay down.\n\nJ. B. Noland, chief officer, sworn, said: - I went down to the lower deck at about 20 minutes to 11, with the purser, two watchmen, and sailors to collect tickets. I got to the place where deceased lay about 10 or 15 minutes past 11 o'clock. The man was lying down covered with a blanket. One of the watchmen took up the... \n\nThe Consul-General, addressing the Chinese reporters who were in the Court, said: - I have been shown a copy of the Chinese newspaper Kwok Sze Po issued yesterday morning in which the depositions of the Chinese witnesses examined yesterday are printed almost word for word in an article entitled \"The Murder of a Chinese passenger by a foreigner on the Fatshan.\" This article, published before the enquiry had taken place, had the effect not only of prejudicing public opinion against the accused, but of rendering the evidence of the witnesses for the prosecution untrustworthy and of little value. Any one of the 600 passengers on the Fatshan having read this article might have come forward and corroborated in detail the evidence of these witnesses. To publish the depositions of witnesses while a judicial enquiry or trial is pending is entirely contrary to Western ideas, and it will be my duty to bring the conduct of the editor of the Kwok Sze Po to the notice of the ...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-360 - Public Offices - 1909.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 424580, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-365 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1910 [1-3]", "page_number": 228, "title": "CO129-365 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1910 [1-3]", "content_text": "## List of Chinese Clerks\n| Name | Date of first appointment | Present Appointment | Date of present appointment | Proposed Salary | Immediate prospective Salary |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Wong Ying Lu | 5th March, 1907 | Clerk, Tientsin Postal Agency | The March, 1907 | $760-1,200 | $1,200 |\n| Jaw Cheeng ting | 8th January, 1908 | Clerk, Postal Agency | 16th January, 1908 | $240 | $720-700 |\n| Ng Jovi Chung | 26th August, 1907 | Clerk | 26th August, 1907 | $360-400 | $400-660 |\n| Nick Chow | 27th January, 1905 | 5th Grade Draughtsman, I.W. Dept. | 27th January, 1905 | $400-660 | $600 |\n| Sam A Finr | 19th July, 1906 | 5th Grade Asst Foreman, W. Dept. | 19th July, 1906 | $360-400 | $400 |\n| Chin zu Shih | 1st October, 1906 | Clerk, Postal Agency | 1st October, 1906 | $240 | $360-400 |\n| | | | 4th April, 1907 | | $480-600 |\n| Luang Yu Wen St | | | | | |\n| Jace thing than tol | | | February, 1909 | | |\n| Sam Shai sittet | | 6th Grade Shroff, Stamp office | June, 1909 | $420 | $420 |\n| Yeung Ki Shane | 7th June, 1909 | Siantsin Postal Agency | 7th June, 1909 | $420 | $420 |\n| Chan Hip | 1st July, 1901 | 6th Grade Asst. Swatain Postal Agency | 1st January, 1908 | $360 | $420 |\n| Mong Toz Asiang | 1st October, 1906 | 6th Grade Asst. Swatain Postal Agency | 1st February, 1909 | $420 | $420 |\n| Seung King Kurang | 18th September, 1907 | 6th Grade Telegraphist, Observatory | 18th August, 1907 | $240-420 | $300 |\n| Chire Hon | | | | | |\n| Ang Ching | 7th December, 1907 | | 7th December, 1907 | $240-420 | $360 |\n\n## Remarks\n(1) This rate is suggested for Asst. Foreman because it is objectionable to make them equal to Foremen, which are on the 5th Grade ($480-660).\n\n(2) These Clerks are all to draw $240 each until they have passed the Interpretation examination when they will be put on the scale $360-480.\n\n(3) These telegraphists are to start at $360 each and rise to $420, the initial salary of 6th Grade, is considered to be insufficient for suitable men. It is the intention that the present holders of the various posts should not suffer any loss of pay.\n\n(4) There is no immediate prospective salary for some clerks. \n\nPage 223", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-365 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1910 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 425555, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-366 - Governor Sir Lugard Acting Governor May - 1910 [4-5]", "page_number": 579, "title": "CO129-366 - Governor Sir Lugard Acting Governor May - 1910 [4-5]", "content_text": "676\n\nJess onawolla vintnom end atlw\n\n-cheek could then be effected by weighing a number of each kind of jar out of each consignment package\n\n574\n\nIt must be remarked here that the actual measurement one gallon equals 6 catties. The duty paid on a basket of 12 bottles is, at the standard rate fixed by the Ordinance as 1⅛ gallon, whereas by actual measurement it should be 1⅜ to such basket of 12 bottles.\n\n(1). Certain firms have claimed for refund of duty on beer having been found unfit for consumption after several months importation (duty paid). Such refund cannot now be allowed. Claim may be entertained when made at once and the Superintendent is satisfied by careful examination that the liquid actually arrived here unfit for consumption or went bad in bond or in licensed warehouses. If allowed, the bad liquor should be destroyed in presence of an Officer.\n\n(2). Section 22 of Ordinance No. 27 deals with deficiency of dutiable liquors in a King's Licensed Warehouse and I submit the addition that claim for refund for loss or breakage shall not be entertained unless satisfactory evidence can be produced under the following regulations:-\n\nIt was decided that the regulations referred to can be arranged with those concerned. If difficulty is experienced in enforcing them they can be given the force of law.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-366 - Governor Sir Lugard Acting Governor May - 1910 [4-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 428161, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-371 - Public Offices - 1910", "page_number": 86, "title": "CO129-371 - Public Offices - 1910", "content_text": "[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government\n\nCHINA RAILWAYS.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n2765\n\n[November 24.]\n\nThe 28 10 SECTION 3.\n\n[43073]\n\nNo. 1.\n\nMr. Hillier to Mr. Hunter.-(Communicated by Mr. Addis, November 24.)\n\nMy dear Hunter,\n\nPeking, November 3, 1909. THE resumption of drawings upon the loan funds of the Shanghae-Hangchow-Ningpo Railway by the Yu-chuan Pu has again raised the question which caused us so much trouble and anxiety exactly a year ago. Sir J. Jordan, with whom I discussed the subject yesterday, thinks strongly that it is positively wrong to allow the Chinese to continue to draw the loan funds in the face of the chaotic state of things existing on the railway; but he says, and not without reason, that so long as we go on paying requisitions, any efforts on his part to bring pressure to bear on the Chinese are rendered futile-nothing but the stoppage of funds will give him the necessary lever. He saw the Wai-wu Pu on Tuesday, the 26th October, and spoke to Na-tung strongly on the subject. The latter told him that Tang Shao-chien, the ex-president of the railway, is now on his way to Peking for audience, and assured him that on his arrival they would go into the matter, and endeavour to get things put upon a better footing. Sir John does not attach much weight to this assurance, and has written strongly to the Foreign Office, urging the importance of taking up a firm attitude, and stating his opinion that the bank should be called upon to support his action by withholding further funds until things have been put upon a satisfactory basis. He requests at the same time that I will place his views before you and Addis.\n\nI have, of course, explained to Sir John repeatedly the position of the bank as defined by counsel's opinion of the 12th November last, and that the responsibility for initiative rests with the British and Chinese Corporation, by means of an injunction to be obtained from the proper British Court. Sir John considers that it is a case in which the bank, being the actual custodians of the funds, should be prepared to take the responsibility of acting without the delay involved by the legal procedure recommended by counsel. In his opinion, the action of the Chinese themselves has been so illegal, and their breaches of the loan agreement so flagrant, that they would never dare to contest the action of the bank upon legal grounds. Diplomatically, of course, their position would be still more weak, and the refusal of the bank to pay out any more funds under the present conditions would give Sir John the strongest possible lever to work with. The responsibility for the present scandalous state of things rests, in fact, with Liang Shih-yi. He is fully aware of it, for he spoke to me about it quite recently in the strongest terms of disapproval, and even expressed to me a wish that something might be done to put an end to the situation; and yet, with his tongue in his cheek, he continues to draw out large sums of the loan funds and pay them into the Chiao-tung Bank. Where they go to after that we have no means of tracing. If into the railway, then they are being applied under conditions which Liang himself admits to be a scandal and an open breach of the loan agreement; if not, then they have been drawn under a bogus requisition and false pretences. The situation is certainly humiliating and intolerable in the extreme, and it is Liang, who has acquired such a high reputation among his colleagues for his success in flouting the foreigner, that Sir John is particularly anxious to bring sharply to book; unless this is done, Liang's audacity will know no bounds, and we shall be building up endless trouble for ourselves, both in this and other instances.\n\nI do not know if the British and Chinese Corporation are prepared to take the legal steps prescribed by counsel, or how long it would take to get the necessary injunction, but I certainly think that something should be done. Personally, I am inclined to agree with Sir J. Jordan, that, in the circumstances, the Chinese would never dare to seek legal remedy either against the corporation or the bank, were these to take the responsibility of withholding further funds without an injunction; but such action should not be taken except with the officially expressed wish and full approval of the British Government, coupled with the assurance of their diplomatic support against any counter-action on the part of the Chinese. There is also this to recommend such a course, namely, that the corporation and the bank should shelter themselves, vis-a-vis the Chinese, behind the officially expressed wishes of our Government.\n\n(2486 aa- -3]\n\n85", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-371 - Public Offices - 1910.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 429134, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 475, "title": "CO129-372 - Public Offices - 1910", "content_text": "[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\nC O\n\nAFFAIRS OF CHINA.\n\n24838\n\n[June 27.]\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\nRECR\n\nSECTION 3.\n\nREGP 12 AUG 10\n\n[23159]\n\nNo. 1.\n\nMemorandum on Military Affairs on the Chinese Frontier of Burmah, with Available Forces and Possible Lines of Advance, supplementary to Mr. Rose's despatch from Tengyuch of April 30, 1910.—(Received June 27.)\n\nIN the event of a British administrative expedition entering the territory to the west of the Irrawaddy-Salween divide, there would be a possibility of resistance from four directions, namely:-\n\n1. From the natives of the country, who are mainly Lashi-Kachins;\n\n2. From the Lisu and Lisu-Chinese retainers of the various chiefs, or \"fu-yis,\" on whose behalf claims to villages in the unadministered territory have been put forward by the Chinese authorities;\n\n3. From the \"Green Banner\" troops stationed in and around Tengyueh; and 4. From the newly-raised and foreign-drilled troops quartered at Talifu.\n\n1. In regard to the first, the records of Mr. H. F. Hertz, C.I.E., of the late Mr. Litton, and Mr. Leveson (see printed copy of \"Report on Joint Survey of Yunnan Boundary, 1905\"), and the information gathered during my recent journey to Pienma, bear strong evidence that any such obstruction would be unlikely. The people in the unadministered territory do not conceal their conviction that they are in no sense subject to China; they have expressed an earnest desire for British administration, and there is undoubtedly a widespread resentment against the Chinese in consequence of the recent raid.\n\n2. From the second group there is a possibility of resistance, and it is against this that the greatest precautions appear necessary. When passing through Mingkuang in April last the people spoke openly of the attack on Mr. Hertz's expedition in 1899–1900, stating that they had been ordered by the Tengyueh authorities to \"harry and oppose\" the British, but that they had received no assistance from the Chinese, either in the way of funds or arms, and evidently considered that they had been badly treated. It is probable that, under the leadership of the energetic chief Tso Ehr-kuan, they had then anticipated a campaign of plunder and material benefits, but it is unlikely that they will be anxious to repeat the experiences of 1900. The present chiefs are all weak and opium-sodden, and there is no one in the Lisu ranks with the personality of Tso Ehr-kuan.\n\nThe Tengkeng chief, on the other hand, has at his call a wilder and more formidable force, which could be raised from among the Black Lisu cross-bowmen of the Upper Salween. He was able to collect about 500 men for his recent raid on Hpimaw (Pienma), and his followers have returned home full of victory and plunder, so that they would probably join willingly in another expedition. The Têngkeng \"fu-yi\" is supported by his relatives and neighbours of Lu-ku, Lao-wo, and Mao-chao, who might together raise a considerable force if ordered to do so by the Chinese. They would be armed with cross-bows and poisoned arrows, dhas and spears, with a few cheek-guns, if powder was forthcoming from the Chinese. They have a great reputation as warriors, and many of them show fine marksmanship with their cross-bows, but they take cover at the least sign of trouble, and, from my experience of them, they have neither the courage nor the spirit of the Kachin.\n\nThe \"Fu-yis\" Tsai of Tien-tang, Yang of Lower Mingkuang, Tso of Upper Mingkuang, and the headmen of Tatang, might combine to form an expedition if severe pressure were applied by the Chinese, but they are weak and poverty-stricken, with but a shadow of power in their own districts, and they would be incapable of acting except under direct Chinese organisation. The Lisu population in their valleys has, moreover, been absorbed to a great extent during the past ten years, and the border inhabitants are now mainly pure or half-bred Chinese farmers, who would be very unwilling to adventure their bodies in a vain search for honourable advancement.\n\nIt is impossible to estimate the numbers which could be put into the field by\n\n[2788 dd--3]\n\n472", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-372 - Public Offices - 1910.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 431520, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-377 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [5]", "page_number": 95, "title": "CO129-377 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [5]", "content_text": "## 91 \n\nHongkong is also at a great disadvantage. He can give the emigrant only very vague information as to the terms of the contract that he will be required to enter into: the emigrant may be called on to work in the Straits Settlements, in the Federated Malay States, in the Dutch Indies or in British North Borneo, since labour contracts for all these places are entered into by the Straits Government with emigrants from Hongkong: his work may be coal-mining, tin-mining, rubber-planting or tobacco planting: the method by which he is to be remunerated, the length of the term of his contract, both differ according to the country he goes to or the nature of his occupation. The 5,000 Sinkhehs (assisted emigrants) from Hongkong who signed contracts at Singapore during the months December, 1910, to March, 1911, are scattered all over the neighbouring countries: 850 are in the Straits Settlements, 1,150 in the Federated Malay States, 1,440 elsewhere in the Malay Peninsula, 1,060 all over the Dutch Indies from Acheen to Borneo, and 500 in British North Borneo and Sarawak.\n\n## 4.\n\nThe contract emigrant, on the other hand, on his departure from Hongkong would be in a much better position. The exact terms of the contract and the place of labour would be explained to him: if he disliked them he would be sent back.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-377 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 435922, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 132, "title": "CO129-385 - Public Offices - 1911", "content_text": "Stomat\n\nthee intrust of they thoug\n\nLen\n\nand finally in the cas\n\nof Canada to\n\nJuistand\n\nthe barguen für alice\n\nlast\n\nof nothing the Roucle when 4529 45\n\nKee W. offer amount to nothing at all. It is in the last Diguel improbable that any Canadian goods will reach France via Hong Kong and the Straits, passing heavy freight when they can be sent direct\n\nat present I have not heard that these \"tracts\" are affected at all, and apparently\n\nPort passage Straits cargoes are not affected so far as\n\nare concerned.\n\nGendo\n\nthe object of the Dr. is to Encourage direct shipment of goods to avoid the surtaxe d'entrepôt. Hong Kong apparently wants to escape not only the surtaxe d'entrepôt but also the general tariff.\n\nau\n\nFrance offers there for ban the four minimum tariff for Canadian goods\n\nof which there are some,\n\ne provided they are sent on from Hong Kong in a veritable same (company, responsibility). Really the Fr. Minister must have had his tongue in his cheek when he propounded this. Of course no one is arguing the matter with the Dr. I would surely send them out\n\nexeron\n\nHong Kong & the Straits for the action of the Govt. Perhaps an Extra 50% duty on Brandy might help to make them see but at present the matter is not\n\nI have all\n\nece of any real importance\n\nreassu,\n\nsofar\n\nI think\n\nave\n\nUnhappy\n\nshould keep to the narrower issue\n\n\"Pena).\n\nat present (c.c. the sur-tax on goods trans-shipped at H.K. & the ports of the Malay\n\nou\n\n(1) As the French Minister speaking with his\n\ntongue in his cheek in insisting\n\nthe goods going forward by a ship of the same Company? The last sentence of Alfred Holt & Co's letter of 15/2/10. 5486/10 might seem to bear that out; but allowance must be made for difference between minds avowedly saturated with a\n\nprotective system & those accustomed to\n\nFree Trade! Is the French requirement impracticable?\n\nas Al Collûs is correct at A\n\n(2)\n\nOn these two points I'd refer to Hong Kong and the Straits and in each case ask what the dimension of the trans-shipment trade\n\naffected is.\n\nOn hearing from them we can decide what reply we should ask F.C. to send to Fr.\n\nAs proposed &\n\nE\n\n4.12.11 Lord\n\nCummott, but\n\nUnder no circumstances would I\n\nsuggest to F.O. to hint at or threaten retaliation\n\n#\n\n5.12.11", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-385 - Public Offices - 1911.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 436565, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-386 - Public Offices & Others - 1911", "page_number": 397, "title": "CO129-386 - Public Offices & Others - 1911", "content_text": "Cheen) : but it might be \n\nwille of for he got to oblige \n\nbut Isce no reason \n\nThey and not \n\ncome post by offering to erect or \n\nallows the exition of deep three fuis \n\nRailway poles \n\nALA \n\npar \n\nannual sum \n\nan \n\nA \n\nWhey \n\nto washark for \n\nthe existing \n\nThe suction poles ownies on Crown Land. \n\nlunderstand that the \n\n9. \n\nDRAFT. \n\nCompany or bom perpared \n\nto \n\nhu \n\nA \n\naihe slightly hid \n\nchanging such a nut for their \n\nthan the normal rated \n\nagre \n\nto the payment of \n\na reasonable amount \n\ninterest on the capital on lay annually as it appens to \n\noutlay \n\nincurred 4th to inputting if their non poles owie's \n\nIf this proporal \n\nin \n\nthat a solution of the quution might be found by this means. Lind he \n\nW! were made glad therefore if you \n\nthe [0. W. probably realize that \n\nconsider the matte, & \n\nif the of the amount \n\nI it. he cheaper to pay a cent. which you thank that \n\nfor wres \n\nS \n\nthe folder belaging og the (o might rermally \n\nthan & build their non \n\nf The Dame \n\nwhile at the \n\nmale \n\nline \n\ntime the Sol. \n\nsome profit \n\nHaft some \n\nHeave the horses \n\nb \n\npay. \n\n7 \n\n7.0. \n\n37141/11 \n\nAlong. \n\nSi \n\n212.11 21 Der \n\nI am or to ack the rect \n\n395 \n\noutset. (2015) og heller (Nr. 33634/1) of the \n\nJouise Office. \n\nMINUTE. \n\nMr. Robinson 28/11 \n\nMr. Shift, 28 \n\nMr. Piddes. 1/12 \n\nSir H. Just. \n\nSir J. Anderson. 19 \n\nLord Lucas. Emmott \n\nMr. Harcourt. \n\ncommon \n\nsoflis. \n\nMor \n\n15/12 \n\nZ Co 21 Dec \n\nDee \n\nTo In Athing Cauf Commun compamon Dr. \n\n( \n\n5 th Sept with ugand to \n\nD \n\nthe Hong Kong. Canton Telegraph \n\nline \n\nand \n\nen to agent you to lay \n\nbefore Lecty Sir Edwrned Erey \n\nthe accompanying why Ex \n\ncome with \n\nWatter from the Eastern Extension Australasia China Tebgraph \n\nCompany 2nd together with a a copy & a dup addressed to The for Est Kong. \n\nd \n\nIt will be seen that the \n\nin new (the appreme... \n\nHere is the revised response with minor corrections and reordering:\n\nChen) : but it might be \n\nwilling to oblige \n\nbut I see no reason \n\nThey and not \n\ncome post by offering to erect or \n\nallow the existence of deep three fuis \n\nRailway poles \n\nALA \n\nper \n\nannual sum \n\nan \n\nA \n\nWhy \n\nto washark for \n\nthe existing \n\nThe suction poles owners on Crown Land. \n\nI understand that the \n\n9. \n\nDRAFT. \n\nCompany or bom prepared \n\nto \n\nhu \n\nA \n\nslightly hid \n\nchanging such a nut for their \n\nthan the normal rated \n\nagree \n\nto the payment of \n\na reasonable amount \n\ninterest on the capital laid out annually as it appears to \n\noutlay \n\nincurred in putting up their non-poles owners \n\nIf this proposal \n\nin \n\nthat a solution of the question might be found by this means. Lind he \n\nWe were made glad therefore if you \n\nthe C. W. probably realize that \n\nconsider the matter, & \n\nif the amount \n\nI think it cheaper to pay a certain sum, which you think that \n\nfor wires \n\nS \n\nthe folder belonging to the Co might normally \n\nthan & build their own \n\nf The Dame \n\nwhile at the \n\nmale line \n\ntime the Sol. \n\nsome profit \n\nHalf some \n\nHeave the horses \n\nb \n\npay. \n\n7 \n\n7.0. \n\n37141/11 \n\nAlong. \n\nSi \n\n212.11 21 Dec \n\nI am to ack the rect \n\n395 \n\noutset. (2015) of Heller (Nr. 33634/1) of the \n\nColonial Office. \n\nMINUTE. \n\nMr. Robinson 28/11 \n\nMr. Shift, 28 \n\nMr. Piddes. 1/12 \n\nSir H. Just. \n\nSir J. Anderson. 19 \n\nLord Lucas. Emmott \n\nMr. Harcourt. \n\ncommon \n\nsoflis. \n\nMor \n\n15/12 \n\nZ Co 21 Dec \n\nDee \n\nTo In Athing Cauf Commun companion Dr. \n\n( \n\n5 th Sept with regard to \n\nD \n\nthe Hong Kong Canton Telegraph \n\nline \n\nand \n\nen to agent you to lay \n\nbefore Lord Sir Edward Grey \n\nthe accompanying why Ex \n\ncome with \n\nLetter from the Eastern Extension Australasia China Telegraph \n\nCompany 2nd together with a copy & a dup addressed to The for East Kong. \n\nd \n\nIt will be seen that the \n\nin new (the appreme...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-386 - Public Offices & Others - 1911.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 437171, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-388 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1912 [1-2]", "page_number": 224, "title": "CO129-388 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1912 [1-2]", "content_text": "Amendment is all that is necessary on that. There is no objection to that course.\n\nDate. 1912\n\n47\n\n5840\n\nH. Kong Tramway Co.\n\nFear of Disturbances\n\nC O\n\n5840\n\n213\n\n24 FEB 12\n\nFeb.\n\nPrevious Paper.\n\n403611/11\n\nJendo сonu Compeo. with General manager\" as to his misapprehension regarding precautions taken by Gov.\n\nM. Shubb 15\n\nM'Kennedy has made the \"amende honorable\" though I fancy he has his tongue in his cheek when he wrote it.\n\n? Put 6\n\nquent Paper 38,048—17. 40,000. 11/11. A.&E.W.\n\nA&C 25", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-388 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1912 [1-2].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 443628, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-402 - Governor Sir May - 1913 [7-8]", "page_number": 66, "title": "CO129-402 - Governor Sir May - 1913 [7-8]", "content_text": "## Proofread Text\n\nIf 29030 in Leo is omitted - this is a \nhighly **antionisial** political suction.\n\nThe abbreviation is the expression \"Chief Commt,\" and it is in **th** common use.\n\nPrint for Pilot with these alterations.\n\nSurf Finder to see.\n\n000\n\n`JR. 34179/13` \n629 \nshould apparently be \n`moff1046 (300312)` \n$1000. The print is to be circulated to Sir F. tiden.\n\nRus \n\nMy Rocket \n(to stand) \n\n`T.C.M. 7/8/12`. \n578/13 \n\nMr. Robinson \nnot \n\nProof herewith for \n6.907. \nauthority to publish.\n\nBoldes \n2. Patask \nD \n22.8. \n`JR2Y8/15` Rus. \n3/8/13 \nAlone Pt. 25.8.13 \n\nJudy `JR2/9/B` \nRos \nMalls \nI fitting \n\nThis appears \n61 \non the arrears \nbit. I am afraid the necessity for \ncarrying out the signal minutes \nhas been overlooked.\n\n? Now \n\n31/7/13 \n`KR18/8/14` \nI don't think the despatch is \nthe answer.\n\nBut without plans \nneeded \nare \nunhappy \n\nRol \n18/3/14 \natm \n\n### Corrected Version\n\nAfter re-examining the text:\n\nIf 29030 in Leo is omitted - this is a \nhighly **antionisial** political situation.\n\nThe abbreviation is the expression \"Chief Commt,\" and it is in common use.\n\nPrint for Pilot with these alterations. Surf Finder to see.\n\n`JR. 34179/13` \n629 \nshould apparently be \n`moff1046(300312)` \n$1000. The print is to be circulated to Sir F. tiden.\n\nRus \nMy Rocket \n(to stand) \n`T.C.M. 7/8/12` \n578/13 \nMr. Robinson \nnot \nProof herewith for \n6.907. \nauthority to publish.\n\nBoldes \n2. Patask \nD \n22.8. \n`JR2Y8/15` Rus. \n3/8/13 \nAlone Pt. 25.8.13 \n\nJudy `JR2/9/B` \nRos \nMalls \nI fitting \n\nThis appears \n61 \non the arrears \nbit. I am afraid the necessity for carrying out the signal minutes has been overlooked.\n\n? Now \n31/7/13 \n`KR18/8/14` \nI don't think the despatch is the answer. But without plans needed are unhappy.\n\nRol \n18/3/14 \natm \n\nRevised to adhere to the format and rules:\n\nIf 29030 in Leo is omitted - this is a highly antionisial political situation.\n\nThe amp. is the expression \"Cheef Commt,\" and it is in common use.\n\nPrint for Pilot with these alterations. Surf Finder to see.\n\n`JR. 34179/13` \n629 \nshould apparently be \n`moff1046(300312)` \n$1000. The print is to be circulated to Sir F. tiden.\n\nRus \nMy Rocket (to stand) `T.C.M. 7/8/12` \n578/13 \nMr. Robinson not \nProof herewith for 6.907. authority to publish.\n\nBoldes 2. Patask D 22.8. `JR2Y8/15` Rus. 3/8/13 Alone Pt. 25.8.13 \n\nJudy `JR2/9/B` Ros Malls I fitting \n\nThis appears 61 on the arrears bit. I am afraid the necessity for carrying out the signal minutes has been overlooked.\n\n? Now 31/7/13 `KR18/8/14` I don't think the despatch is the answer. But without plans needed are unhappy. Rol 18/3/14 atm", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-402 - Governor Sir May - 1913 [7-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 446346, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-407 - Public Offices & Others - 1913", "page_number": 328, "title": "CO129-407 - Public Offices & Others - 1913", "content_text": "H. M. PRISON PARKHURST\n\nbeach 5-1913\n\nHospital Asst. Dr. D. J. Herling\n\nI her bday\n\nalter-named offices:\n\ncamouflaged\n\nL\n\nfound\n\na wallet physique,\n\nTag in body cheek,\n\nFerna\n\nmedially fit for & Colmar.\n\nI turn\n\nbandaged year reference & hi\n\nC\n\nthroughly efficient hospital\n\nhouse (worker, capable\n\ndirective management p\n\nprisoners.\n\nCharles Corey 20.10.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-407 - Public Offices & Others - 1913.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 449593, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-414 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [10-11]", "page_number": 275, "title": "CO129-414 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [10-11]", "content_text": "053\n\n-3-\n\n-3-\n\n271\n\n... yd moitos neist ybsotis sad tremnievɔð ozensgel eft\n\naulay edt elduab rol ebsm od Ilsda Jteogeb dezo s Jødt galzłuper\n\n‚701's sit od blag esizq edt evods bas tevo .8.1 „Isos eft lo\n\n[liw Jiroqeb deso eidt bas „bajtimter ed JJtv Jaan-ida eroded\n\nedt mozi zadesilitzes to noijoubory ɑdź do berselet ed vino\n\nof berevileb need esd Isos ent Jadi alimali at Ivanat ocena~8 Ú\n\nEoog ti es tal es táątz Sls et Bidt .OTSŃ BIA...uenos ebit-s mod\n\nsd exzod edt zatia Toob sdt gateɔfo siti gatitenes at di tud\n\nto two begylde ybootis reed asd doid\" Isos eit zol molotɛ need\n\nCAW ETOJAW Istomizo ni BTORİUTO KBazen ed‡ lo seu toi troq Sat\n\nepedt bas ‚EIÐAwanoo ebil-sood d‡iw abam atosztao: moti batrevib\n\nJi essiŋer of ai zaimos Isoo sit tadt giltzes of evad won LItw\n\nsevieɛwedt guiden ylgnitiiwau mudt (aoktŋevezos miedź zol ai\n\n„Josi adt zetia essi famoses\n\nSIL Jп6mnï@vog ebensqal and yd geist anoitusɔotę ONT\n\nJeutuu as zeɛormi tiavŋes deso edt Jant noeser ødt zol evitableḥ\n\nVileet ymene od♪ di elidí,tenužnoɔ ebii-emod edt coqu nobaud\n\njizz 6 yoq yodź zeďředw medź að el¿JII TOJIKE lliw di „Isoo stasw\n\nmoltoetang to equnser Ispitosty yine edI .Jon zo Bolas eiqiat\n\nBIBubivibat edt teatags ttoovod etuloads na stutttanoo of el\n\nof galbostni to batosqaut ed yam to gaiyinque good evad odw\n\nditw Ivano a ted♪ sidiaeoqol at tI •ymene edt at Isos pinque\n\nrajtam Isioeqe elit at bæætts of elde ed bluoda 1183e botimil eld\n\ngnibneɛ Jaemazevog sát yď bellot‡dos yllɛas ed biros 3 Jud\n\n! \n\ne 'ymede sit ɛa euit dove itjau vied evitataenorqez İsİDOTB\n\nbluoda sedeqze to nettam edT .qu beboot need ovná azesłuZO\n\nSIIBIJBUA JBdt constroqui teotson; ont lo el ti as\n\nDOF CONDE'\n\ngaitnovozg yiisyoi siidw ezed Jairam boog sti can! ton bivode\n\neti\n\nita coal from going to the enemy. The work of the special\n\nrepresentative would not be difficult, as it practically finds\n\nitself down to the vigilance of one firm and its associates.\n\nThese are already well known to the coal exporters in Australia.\n\nThe following paragraph appeared in the \"Cablenews\n\nAmerican” of 4th October:-\n\nMADRIGAL ASKS AID OF GOVERNMENT.\n\n\" Vicente Madrigal, the local coal dealer called upon the Governor General yesterday to seek from the Philippine government 'aid to secure the continuation of the importation of coal from\n\n'Australia,\n\n. \n\nSr. Madrigal received information that the Australian government has decided to stop all exportation of coal to the Philippine 'and other countries not British, French, Belgian, Russian or \"Japanese so as to put a stop to the sale of the coal and its\n\n'exportation from Manila to ports or ships belonging to Austria 'or Germany.\n\nThe Governor General promised to use his best influence to 'secure the raising of the embargo on coal provided guarantee \"would be given that the product would not be re-exported.\n\nThe unmitigated cheek of Mr. Madrigal is worthy of a certain kind of admiration considering, that he is the owner of\n\nthe S.S. \"Rio Pasig\" which took out the first cargo of coal to\n\nthe enemy, but was caught on the way and is now a prize of war\n\nin Hongkong; that it is he who diverted the deliveries of coal from the bona fide consumers with whom he had contracts; that his\n\nfirm has been the sole and only seller of coal to the enemy; and\n\nthat it is to his manipulations that we are indebted for the loss\n\nof the ships recently sunk by the German cruiser \"Enden\" in her\n\nraids into the Bengal Sea. This cruiser was in the Yellow Sea off\n\nJapan on the 10th of August, and on the 10th of September she made\n\nher first raid in the Bengal Sea: and there is no doubt that\n\nduring the month she was not heard from, she obtained a fresh supply of coal from one of the steamers despatched from Manila.\n\nHad it not been for Mr. Madrigal, in all probability the German\n\ncruisers in oriental waters would have run short of coal and been ...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-414 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [10-11].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 453077, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-420 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [1-2]", "page_number": 433, "title": "CO129-420 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [1-2]", "content_text": "# Page Sixteen\n\n**O'CONNELL'S, January 30, 1915**\n\nPonce De Leon Hit The Wrong Place\n\nPonce, it will be remembered, was the famed Spanish navigator who discovered Florida in his search for the Fountain of Eternal Youth. He should have directed his bark to Manila.\n\n**SAN MIGUEL BEER**\nis what he was looking for. It restores health to the ailing, the bloom of youth to the fading cheek and happiness and contentment to the sad ones.\n\n**NO CARNIVAL IS COMPLETE WITHOUT**\n**SAN MIGUEL. GET THE SPIRIT**\nOur Famous Beer For Sale On The Carnival Grounds.\n\nThe Cigars that Made Manila Famous\n\n**ALHAMBRA**\n**EXCELENTES AND ESPECIALES**\non sale everywhere\nat the old price\n\nAlhambra Cigar and Cigarette Manufacturing Co.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-420 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [1-2].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 455903, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-425 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [10-12]", "page_number": 69, "title": "CO129-425 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [10-12]", "content_text": "Draft\n\n15 127 DEC 58947/15- 67\n\nAlay & The Md off 16 sto. 炒 04, (416244) Dec to sollen 11/15- Watt och : to Year letto of the I left Mr Rolinsan 15/12 f. (F.E. 9922/B] Samte 6 transmet 6 you, b Lab 2 har 15. (56947/ \n\nbe laid before Sec Ser Esemar, a copy o adspatch from the 志 Fur & Shay lucare whethe th Cheef Constable of Glasgow has the any", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-425 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 467602, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-441 - Governor Sir May - 1917 [1-3]", "page_number": 371, "title": "CO129-441 - Governor Sir May - 1917 [1-3]", "content_text": "90 BRITONS V. GERMANS IN CHINA\n\nsource of strength. Not by men who have sought to undermine our commercial prestige, and endeavoured to incite the natives to trouble and rebellion. No; in the light of our now ripened experience it would obviously be folly to give our Teutonic friends the same liberty as heretofore.\n\nAfter war was declared the Germans only gave British and enemy subjects a few days in which to clear out of their colony of Kiachow, and there was certainly no intention of allowing the British to continue their business pursuits in this place. Under the circumstances it is impossible to understand why our Colonial Authorities acted with such peculiar leniency. Perhaps they, too, were under the impression that we owe a great debt to the Germans.\n\nThe wholesale incarceration of all British subjects in Germany immediately war\n\nBRITONS V. GERMANS IN CHINA\n\n91\n\nIt was declared was an innovation by Germany and was carried out with far less consideration to foreigners than we have shown. It is a remarkable fact that the Germans both in trade and war, after doing us injury, expect us continually to present them with the other cheek, so that they can smack that hard also. They are also the first to cry out and make an elegant fuss if their own interests are threatened, or if anything in the nature of retaliation is employed. There may have been no exact precedent for the liquidations in Hongkong, Singapore and elsewhere, but there was a very real necessity which led our authorities to take action, and it is regrettable that such action did not take place earlier and reciprocate in detail the treatment prepared for British subjects in Kiachow by the Germans.\n\nIt is known the Government of Hong-\n\n366", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-441 - Governor Sir May - 1917 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 488434, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-469 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1921 [9-12]", "page_number": 175, "title": "CO129-469 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1921 [9-12]", "content_text": "## Copy.\n\n169\n\n+\n\nBox v. Kuok Yung Sang.\n\n**Kwok Yung Sang**, widow, of 9 Li Chit Street, was charged before me on May 19th with having assaulted a servant girl **Li Shun Kwai**, aged 11, on the 17th. The medical evidence showed that the girl had been severely beaten with a cane; that there were numerous cane marks on her body and also several small bruises on forehead, cheek, and left eye: that no permanent injury was done; that the girl was well-kept and well nourished, seemed bright and intelligent, and was in other respects well looked after.\n\nThe girl herself gave evidence in spirited fashion and appeared none the worse in health or spirits for her beating, 2 days before; she admitted having stolen things on previous occasions when she was not punished: she said she had been well treated, and was quite ready to return to her mistress.\n\nThe punishment in question was certainly severe, but punishments among the native population, while rarer, are apt to be more severe than among ourselves: and there was neither sign nor suggestion of any intentional cruelty, or persistent ill-treatment, or neglect.\n\nI discharged the defendant, with a caution, on her undertaking to hand back the girl to her mother.\n\n5th October, 1921.\n\n(Sd.) **G. N. Orme**, \nPolice Magistrate,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-469 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1921 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 492279, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-475 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1922 [5-7]", "page_number": 209, "title": "CO129-475 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1922 [5-7]", "content_text": "CRUELTY TO MUI TSAI.\n\nTHREE MONTHS' IMPRISONMENT FOR MISTRESS.\n\nBefore Mr. Lindsell, at the Magistracy, on Sept. 1st, a Chinese woman, living at No. 20, Hillier Street, was charged with assaulting a 10-year-old mui tsai.\n\nMr. F. X. d'Almada appeared for the accused.\n\nDr. W. B. A. Moore said that on August 8th he examined the child. She was suffering from a superficial burn on the left ear. There were some dried-up sores on the face—two on the right cheek and one on each of the upper eyelids. There was a recent burn on the right forearm and several scab sores, which might have been the result of burns, and there was also a superficial burn on the left forearm just below the elbow, and several small sores on the wrist. The nail of the fourth finger of the left hand was black. There were three small superficial burns on the right instep, and one on the outer side of the left instep. There was a small mark on the right hip. The child seemed well-nourished and intelligent and the marks were all very superficial. The marks of burns were such as might have been caused by lighted matches.\n\nThe mui tsai, in the witness-box, said that she had been with the accused for about 5 years. Her parents were still alive, and she knew them. The accused was not a good mistress to her. She often beat her with firewood and tied her to the bed-post, \"because,\" she said, \"I was naughty.\"\n\nQuestioned by the Magistrate, the mui tsai said that the accused tied her hands behind her back. Her legs were not tied.\n\nThe Magistrate: When she tied you could you walk—No.—Could you move your body—Yes.\n\nHow did you get those burns?—The defendant burned me with a tong.\n\nWas the tong red hot?—No, she picked up a piece of burning coal from the stove with it and touched my face, hands, and legs with the coal.\n\nOn how many occasions did she burn you?—Only once.\n\nWhy? Because she said I was naughty. How long was it after the burning that you were taken to the police?—I went the following day.\n\nWhat did she say you did to be called naughty? She said I did not do my work. How did you get the old scars on your wrists?—Through a beating some time ago. And the mark on your buttock?—Also, as the result of the beating.\n\nShown two pieces of split bamboo, the child said they were used by the accused to beat her. A cord was used for tying her.\n\nWhen she was burning you, could you not run away?—No, it was done in the kitchen with the door closed.\n\nCross-examined by Mr. d'Almada, witness said that she knew the accused's brother-in-law, who had been to court against the accused over a dispute about jewellery. It was true that the brother-in-law laid the information about the assault on witness.\n\nThe brother-in-law of the accused said that he lived opposite the accused's house and heard the mui tsai cry, because he had often heard her crying. On the night of the 16th, the cry was more touching than usual. He went to the house at 11 a.m. on the 17th, but saw neither the accused nor the girl. As he was busy, he went away. The following day he went to the house again. He saw the mui tsai, who cried and told him that she had been beaten on the 16th. He saw the burns and reported to the police.\n\nA Chinese constable said that he visited the house on the 18th. The defendant was not there. The child complained of being tied and beaten. She produced the rope and the bamboo splits. An amah supported the child's story.\n\nMr. d'Almada said that the accused would admit punishing the child, but not burning her. The defendant was the only witness he proposed to call for the defence, but before doing so, he would like to point out that the amah, who was the only person alleged to have witnessed the burning, had not been called to support the child's story.\n\nSergt. Stimson interposed that the amah had absconded and could not be found.\n\nThe accused, in the witness-box, said that bad feeling had existed between herself and her brother-in-law for some time. The matter reached a climax when he entered her house on August 17th, and assaulted the boy servant. She remonstrated with him, and they quarrelled. He took away her gold watch and chain, and she reported the matter to the police. On the following day she was arrested on the present charge of having ill-treated the mui tsai by burning her. She knew, as soon as the police visited her house, that the trouble had been caused by her brother-in-law. She did not burn the child. She did beat her on the 16th, because she was disobedient, and stole food from the kitchen. She did not tie her up.\n\nThe Magistrate: But surely, you can suggest how the burns came to be on the child?—I did not do it. Perhaps my brother-in-law and the amah know how the child got burned.\n\nDo you suggest that they deliberately burned the child in order to bring the charge against you?—Through spite, yes.\n\nThe Magistrate: Stand down, that's enough. I find the charge proved, and take a serious view of the case. Three months' hard labour.\n\nMOTOR PROSECUTIONS.\n\nThe driver of motor-car No. 379, owned by Mr. C. Montague Ede, was charged with having left the car unattended in Pedder Street, outside Jardine, Matheson's, from 3.15 to 3.33 p.m., on Monday. The defendant said that the coolie who was in charge of the car while he was having tiffin left it for a few minutes only to get some water to wash the car. A fine of $5 was imposed.\n\nMr. M. A. Hancox, of Holts wharf, was charged with reckless driving on 22nd, Bonham Road at 8.10 p.m., on August.\n\nDefendant said that he had not been warned that he would be charged for speeding, or he would have shown his speedometer to the prosecuting sergeant.\n\nInspector Garrod said that the defendant passed him on Caine Road about half a mile from where the sergeant stopped him, and he was going at fully 20 miles an hour then. He would have summoned the defendant had not the sergeant done so.\n\nDefendant said that it was dark, and it was hard to estimate speed. He might have driven at between 16 and 20 miles, but he did not think he was causing any danger to the public at that particular time. He admitted two previous convictions in connection with the same cycle. He was fined $25.\n\nA driver employed by the Russell Street Garage was charged with reckless driving in West Point at 9 p.m., on August 21st, and with having taken out motor-car No. 344, owned by Mr. E. A. M. Williams, without permission. He was fined $20 on the first charge, and $10 on the other.\n\nPage 179\n\nPEKING, August 17th.\n\nFighting in the Hunan-Hupeh border war was more severe than first reports indicated according to reports received in foreign circles to-day, and this was largely due to the sagacity of General Wang Chan-yuan (the late Tuchun) in providing his enemies with wooden bullets and other useless munitions.\n\nWhen Wang some time ago was named to put through a unification plan and to assume full control on the Upper Yangtze, he received funds for equipping the forces in his area. He presented a glowing account of his military needs, of his wishes to serve the Peking Government, and of his ability to put the programme through.\n\nWith the money the Peking Government gave him he bought the Hunan troops wooden bullets and blank cartridges. In some cases the cartridges were not even blanks in the accepted sense of the term but contained no powder.\n\nThe Hunanese knew nothing of this until they were on the fire line.\n\nThe witness added that through the influence of her brother-in-law, her amah was also prejudiced against her, and helped him to bring this false charge against her, through spite.\n\nAs a result, the total losses in their little skirmish were 5,000 men, of whom about 2,000 were killed and the others severely wounded.\n\nThe Hupeh men in the Hunan army, however, were better equipped. As a result of this, the Hupehese lost several men, and there are 2,000 Hupeh prisoners in Changsha alone.\n\nWhile Wang received no praise from the Hunanese, they are not condemning him openly because to do so means a lack of face.\n\nWIRELESS TELEGRAPH COMMUNICATION WITH CHINA.\n\nSTATEMENT BY THE BRITISH POSTMASTER-GENERAL.\n\nIn the House of Commons, on July 14th, Mr. Hurd asked the Postmaster-General whether the Chinese Government has entered into an agreement with the American General Company and the Radio Corporation for the erection of high-power stations in China which will bring Washington into direct communication with Peking; whether he is aware that by this means the 800 daily newspapers of China will be provided with a cheap and steady flow of world news through American channels; and what comparable British news services will be available in the Far East under the British Government's scheme?\n\nMr. Kellaway (in a written reply): The question of wireless telegraphy in China is at present the subject of diplomatic communications between His Majesty's Government and the Chinese and other Governments concerned. I understand that no such agreement as that referred to by the hon. member is in existence; but I would point out that the receipt in China of news sent out by wireless stations in other countries depends upon the existence in China of suitable receiving stations, and not of high-power stations capable of transmitting to other countries. If such receiving stations exist, they would be able to receive news from stations of the proposed Imperial Chain—e.g., Hongkong, Singapore, and possibly India—in the same way as from stations in other countries.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-475 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1922 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 495168, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-480 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [4-7]", "page_number": 187, "title": "CO129-480 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [4-7]", "content_text": "Page 184\n\nWeltevreden, 8th May, 1923.\n\nIn reply to your letter No.642 of 16th April last, I have the honour to inform you as follows:-\n\nIn connection with the secret letter No.307/0/IV, dated 26th October 1922 from the Harbour Master at Sabang, which was sent to me by the Governor of Acheen and Dependencies, in order that I might take cognisance thereof, said Governor was asked for a report whether transhipment and transit at Sabang, as detailed thereby, had taken place before, and if so, when. In reply thereto the report was received that in 1922 transhipment had taken place on the 11th of March to Dairen, and on 16th August to Vladivostock, and transit on 28th March, 22nd April and 19th July, to Keelung, Nagasaki and Macao respectively.\n\nAlso owing to these reports, it was proposed to the Government to supplement the provisions of the Opium Traffic (Transportation) Ordinance (Dutch reads: \"Opiumaanvoer-ordonnantie\") (Collection of Ordinances 1918, No.34; 1919, Nos. 3 and 145; and 1920, No.629) in such a way that opium, not covered by an import certificate, issued by the competent authority in the place of destination, may not be discharged in a Netherlands Indian port or transhipped there, except in case of shipwreck, etc. This supplement (or addition) has meanwhile been effected by the Ordinance No.202 of 28 April 1923 (Netherlands Indian Collection of Ordinances). You will be presented with a copy of said Ordinance as soon as possible.\n\nA copy of the booklet:-\n\nTo the Consul-General for the Netherlands for South China, at Hongkong.\n\nDepartment of the Opium Monopoly\n\nHead Inspector\n\nNo.790/G.\n\nHead of the Service.\n\nPage 185", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-480 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [4-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 495169, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-480 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [4-7]", "page_number": 188, "title": "CO129-480 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [4-7]", "content_text": ".1900 \n\n185 \n\n.-sel yel diß „nebevražia \n\nNot Jefare \n\nyloqonol! mulgo sit to trenİraqaⱭ \n\nsdcoqani baol „ecirtel asid de basƐ \n\n[ing! H$b[ to 293,5\" redési tory of vigor Hi \n\n-¡awolld? na may mahni að rconmad add avad I„dual \n\n'505.6\" rosteľ jetson sốë diku możžvemmeo nî \n\nJa tatua?! woodsaði við met? 5921 vodo#að 1966 bežná „TT\\# bne meadoå To tartoval sché yď að áron van folk gredsh \n\n„Tostedt sonezirijoo odný \n\nmergidaneză raddarle dreqet e vet busine walq madet bad vedezarte balinėsë sa anu \n\nmom drogar adlá ahetada viger ni \n\nTortoval bise \n\nžu žlomonë hen \n\n$1 bus „ozolad \n\nni žadě hovİSOUT \n\naf♪ na ossiq mudaż bad fromq 2 elu rure à „foodsovibal' of Fuaquí dithi no besa „motkaŭ of slozait de KELL \n\nodelA KIRI bom [krijk breSS ‚drzali sett \n\nMagogong new 21 jadrager sončić së prive sZLA \n\neriqő art to możalvorg erté šnamulogu od dnsverzovoð síð \n\n-:abeer stoënữ ad) sonenåbrů (nož#ndroqonurt) sit \n\n+ \n\n‚8[el BDOMENİbrů ta maiduel[eD) (\"ažánoverokr \n\njenj ml (998.0\" ‚098£ ben bernel,#Jablitreo Proqui ne vd borovos dont Pa yer,noidanijaab To annig selë nå yžbrocīdus žnožoques bacgidanand to droq nalbał brin[torlds” \n\ndramalqqam mist \n\nr2 bagrackaži od Jon \n\nsonenibro síld yď bežne??e need allthesser und (1962#2bba ze) To moltoɑllsŬ meibel besİyalətək) 599[ [begi 86 7s S05, all bine to yqoo a riž že bodrooong od Likw moŸ .(soanankbrö -:Seldood oris do vyoo ▲ „sidiunog sa noon as sonerib50 -uigo® \n\n.D\\\\DET,6\"} \n\n„entro Ntuo? To? ubmitadiga? odlé to? LatomD-Izano” and ca \n\n*Opiumaanvoerordonnantie met toelichting\" was sent to your Predecessor by my letter No.2979/R of 7th June 1919. \n\nFurther the Police at Sabang has been reinforced lately in order to better combat the smuggling, so that it is to be expected that soon the discharging and transhipment at Sabang of opium, destined to East Asia, and not covered by an import certificate, will shortly cease. \n\nFrom the above it will appear that the opium traffic via Sabang had the necessary attention of the Netherland Indian Officials already. The information asked by you from the Governor of Acheen and Dependencies by your letter addressed to him will undoubtedly be supplied to you soon direct, \n\nIn respect of the above meant transhipment and transit at Sabang, it may be stated that the Netherland Consul at Bombay informed the Netherland Indian Government that the manifest of the S.S. \"Ahmedi”, which left Bushire in December/January last the following goods appeared:- \n\nwith destination Macao:- 110 packages, each containing 4 cases of opium of 160 Engl. pounds; \n\nwith destination Keelung, Kobe and Dairen:- 74 packages, \n\neach containing 2 cases of opium of 160 Engl. pounds; \n\nand 74 packages thereof were landed at Sabang, \n\nAccording to a report received from the Governor of Acheen and Dependencies of the last lot of 74 packages 29 were shipped to Keelung by the S.S. \"Shimei Maru\", 20 to Dairen by the S.S. \"Nemwah\" and the balance to Kobe by the S.S. \"Vollenhoven\". \n\nAn individual of this town, who is interested in shipping to East Asia, stated that generally the opium is sold to persons, who come to fetch it from the ship in small craft, some distance before any port in China can be reached. \n\nI may avail myself of this opportunity to thank you for the report contained in your letter No.711 of the 24th of April last. As will appear from the above \n\nHadji", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-480 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [4-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 495171, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-480 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [4-7]", "page_number": 190, "title": "CO129-480 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [4-7]", "content_text": "Page 381\n\n...\n\nNo.307/0 IV/gehein.\n\nOPTUM\n\n187\n\nSabang, 26th October, 1922.\n\nEvercé auriž A\n\nfrom Bushire.\n\nLately it often occurs that opium arrives here. Some vessels continue their voyage with the opium, others discharge it here wholly or partly. Declared destination Vladivostok, Dairen, Keelung (Formosa) and Macao. The vessels, lastly arrived here, had much trouble with the crews, principally the officers. These, not 1st class people, overindulge in liquor, which causes difficulties of different nature. The word \"Opium smuggler\" is then being used a great deal. Availing myself of this state of affairs, I have already learnt of many exploits of opium smuggling in the neighbourhood of Hongkong.\n\nOwner of or interested in those ships is a certain Hadji Hemazee at Hongkong. He is also the proprietor of the cargo of opium. Hemazee is the same person who, last year, started transportation of hadjis.\n\nIn the roads (or in port) are now:-\n\nTANGISTAN, opium carried, 176 chests (cases?) from Bushire, all discharged here; leaves for Fremantle and Sydney today.\n\nGENZAN MARI No.2, arrived in ballast from Hongkong; takes coal (450 tons) and about 100 chests (cases?) of opium ex Tangistan; leaves for Dairen on 28th instant.\n\nNAGASAKI, arrived from Bushire with 50 cases of opium; the opium remained on board; leaves 27th instant to Keelung.\n\nIt struck me that the Nagasaki loaded a very big quantity of coconuts.\n\nThe Governor of\n\nAcheen and its Dependencies at Koeta Radja,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-480 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [4-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 501154, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-490 - Public Offices - 1925", "page_number": 181, "title": "CO129-490 - Public Offices - 1925", "content_text": "Page 30\n\n.0\n\nTui MEI\n\ni fast 94%\n\n...\n\n# 1\n\n+129 9.U\n\nJuo tab Terra risibson lugas v/ V 15era um pilaturi\n\ninstala jamurð einate barraq Jas tavky to JBSTÜ\n\na dum si yo no vay cheek are th\n\nsa ad) del\n\nJeTulb de mes ja Jan\n\nilter dish ixal\n\n-\n\nabasd\n\npled wraw lengxx bay\n\n+\n\nhan bote not\n\nđại và 30\n\n2 toteals tais 36°E\n\nJ\n\n:-).\n\n510!\n\nPÅ\n\n* 1\n\nj\n\n..\n\nJone with hið m\n\n:\n\n·ðniraz Jamila' one size\n\nmotul adi\n\npfa að 101 haliae \"NTI\n\nsecretio add no „zevamol\n\nat Mista aineida mit ismal to pubest yose wDION tren al topseŞA TƏVİT\n\n.yalatom\n\nJar minor elnang TON\n\n{\n\nI\n\n****\n\nONİSWERED\n\ncum cḥ al met ontuasper I „Îni oộ no neblido\n\nThe Senior Naval Officer, West River, Letter of Proceedings June, 1925, No.W.R.117/47/5 dated 4th July, 1925, Page 4.\n\nevacuated at short notice.\n\nHowever the \"Tung On\" arrived from Hong Kong\n\n178\n\nnext morning and all American women and children and many others were sent down to Hong Kong in her. Captain Muir managed to keep his native crew in spite of the agitators' efforts to get them to strike and moreover promised that if necessary he and his officers would steam the ship to Hong Kong themselves.\n\nOn 20th June information was received that all Shameen employees were to be forced to go out on strike next day.\n\nNext morning, 21st June, the employees not living on the Shameen did not come in and during the forenoon all boys, etc., left. Motorboats and launches crews left that evening.\n\nAll necessary preparations had been made for carrying on essential services and these continued to work as usual.\n\nThe events occurring during the next few days have already been reported in my confidential letters No.E.R.46/2 of 24th June, and No.W.R.47/2 of 30th June, 1925.\n\nThe atmosphere has been gradually clearing and I am informed that feeling in Canton, on the part both of the Government and the populace, is steadily improving.\n\nPiracy and Anti-Piracy work.\n\nVery few reports of piracy were received during June, but of course as our Gunboats were concentrated at Canton during the greater part of the month..\n\nPage 30", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-490 - Public Offices - 1925.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 502158, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-491 - Public Offices - 1925", "page_number": 405, "title": "CO129-491 - Public Offices - 1925", "content_text": "332\n\nEast and really help to prevent Hongkong from becoming altogether (in spite of its growth) in a state of apathy and 'laissez faire'. The official mind appears to become atrophied, deadened, and narrow to a degree. From the writer's observations, such a condition obtains in no other Crown Colony.\n\nIt is due partly to the compactness of the Island. The same Officials work year after year in practically the same Offices, meeting each other daily - sitting cheek by jowl in the same tram, which takes nearly all Peak residents to their daily work, never getting away from each other except when on Home leave.\n\nWhat is the result? Boredom, disagreements which can never be ventilated, fed-upness, injustices which are not rectified, resentments carefully hidden yet fostered and tended by the fuel of bitterness, until finally the men come to feel nothing matters as there is no redress, and so they make the best of a bad job. There must, however, be some extraordinary effect of climate on Europeans, for the same people (with very few exceptions) do not wish to move elsewhere, even if opportunity presents itself.\n\nFortunately for the Colony, there have been several new Head Appointments filled by men from other Colonies, and that is all to the good, for they have brought new ideas and bracing principles; but the general public does feel very strongly that the state of the Officials, more particularly the Cadet Service, does require very serious looking into.\n\nIs it not a mistaken policy in an Island of such unusual geographical conditions to leave officials too long...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-491 - Public Offices - 1925.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 528316, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-531-12 Press request for messages from King and Prime Minister on occasion of their Golden Jubilee... 25-11-1930 - 21-5-1931", "page_number": 1, "title": "CO129-531-12 Press request for messages from King and Prime Minister on occasion of their Golden Jubilee... 25-11-1930 - 21-5-1931", "content_text": "## 1931 \n82751 \nL \n82751 \nDONG \nCLOSED UNTIL \nCo129 \nсо \n129/531/12 \nPess. 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PRIEST ESCAPES OVER WALL. LADY RELEASED. \n\nHankow. Oct. 25. \n\nA Catholic Father who escaped from Loshan, in South Honan, ten minutes before the entry of bandits, reports that the Rev. K. N. Tvedt, and Miss Evenson, of the Lutheran United Mission, failed to escape and, it is presumed, were captured.—Reuter. \n\n### In Bandits' Hands. \n\nPeking. Oct. 25. The U.S. Consul in Hankow received a letter on October 24 from Luahan, signed by Father Tvedt and Miss Evenson, dated October 8, stating that they were in the hands of brigands belonging to the First Red Army, who were holding them \"because of financial difficulties.\" The Reds demanded $100,000 ransom. \n\nThe Rev. Tvedt says that he is a Norwegian subject, though in an American organisation. \n\nIt is understood that two American Catholics are registered as being at Loshan—Thomas M. Megan and Joseph V. Henkels. No definite news of them has been received, but it is known that Megan was here on October 15. \n\nOne Catholic priest climbed over the city wall just as the bandits were entering the town. He is believed to be one of these two.—Reuter. \n\n### Lady Captive Released. \n\nHankow, Oct. 26. The American Consulate has received a telegram stating that Miss Evenson has been released and has arrived at Sinjang. The Rev. Mr. Tvedt is still held captive.—Reuter. \n\n### Missionary Freed. \n\nPeking, Oct. 25. The Italian Legation announces that it has received information that Father Brugnetti, Italian Catholic Mission at Nanyangfu, in south-west Honan, has been liberated. \n\nFather Brugnetti was captured by brigands some time ago. The Legation made representations to the Chinese Government on the matter.—Reuter \n\n## POLICE PENSIONS. \n\n### New Ordinance to Be Introduced. REMOVING ANOMALY. \n\n**SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST. MONDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1930.**\n\n## REBELS NOT YET SUBDUED. \n\n### Attempt to Gather New Armies. TROUBLESOME TRIO. \n\nPeking, Oct. 25. Feng Yu-hsiang left Taiyuanfu on October 21 for south Shansi. It is believed at Taiyuanfu that he intends to collect armies and march to Sianfu. \n\nIt is also believed that Feng Yu-hsiang, Yen Hsi-shan and Wang Ching-wei are still working together and have decided to attempt to hold Shansi, Shensi, and Kansu against all comers. \n\nWang Ching-wei is at present living at a hotel in Taiyuanfu, and contemplates setting up his home there. \n\nThe discipline among the returned Shansi soldiers is bad. Recently 30 tried to force their way into a German's house, and were got rid of with difficulties. They said that they wanted accommodation. The soldiers are protesting against living in barracks outside the city, and desire billets in houses in the city.—Reuter \n\n### Marshals to Meet. \n\nNanking, Oct. 25. The Central News Agency learns that Chiang Kai-shek and Chang Hsueh-liang will meet shortly to discuss outstanding political questions, after which they will issue a joint circular telegram outlining their programme. The venue of the meeting is most likely to be Tsingtao.—Reuter. \n\n## RIOTS IN JAPAN. \n\n### Tokyo Strikers Clash With Police. FORTY CASUALTIES. \n\nTokyo, Oct. 25. Riotous scenes were witnessed late last night in Kameido, a suburb of Tokyo, during a clash between the police and factory workers of the Toyo Muslin Co., who have been on strike for the past five weeks. \n\nWhile the Police were attempting to suppress groups of strikers who were parading the streets, singing Labour songs, other strikers in the upper storeys of neighbouring buildings started throwing stones on the Police below. \n\nThe ensuing fight necessitated the temporary suspension of traffic, as the strikers started stoning passing trams, six of which were damaged. \n\nThe disturbance was finally quelled after the arrest of 150 strikers. About a dozen Police and 30 strikers were injured in the melee.—Reuter. \n\n## \"REDS\" RAID TOWN IN HAINAN. \n\n### Driven Off by Garrison With Heavy Loss. LACK OF TROOPS. \n\nHainan, Oct. 22. \n\n## CHINESE REDS RIOT IN MANILA. \n\n### Prominent Nationalists Mobbed and Stabbed. SIX MEN WOUNDED. \n\nManila, Oct. 25. \n\nThe Chinese Communists last night attacked, mobbed, and stabbed prominent members of the Chinese Nationalist organisation in Manila. \n\nSix were wounded and taken to hospital. Two of them were in critical condition. \n\nThe victims include Mr. Gan Bu-hong, the proprietor of the largest Chinese cigarette factory here as well as a school principal. \n\nBoth Mr. Ong Chuan-seng, leaders of the Kuomintang. \n\nThe first outbreak was believed to be a tong war, but later the victims asserted that the motives for the attack were purely political, having followed repeated threats. \n\nPolice patrols are heavy and the constabulary may assist in quelling the trouble since Chinatown is in an uproar.—Reuter. \n\n## CORRESPONDENCE. \n\n### The Boxer Indemnity. \n\n(To the Editor, S. C. M. Post.) \n\nSir, The suggestion as put forward in your leader dated the 11th inst. referring to the employment of the entire or part of the grant to the Hongkong University from the Boxer Indemnity Fund for health purposes is certainly a rational and timely proposal. \n\nIt will be recalled that the Willingdon Delegation, following the investigation of conditions in China, recommended the allocation of 17% of the Fund for \"education in medicine and public health and grants to hospitals.\" Viewed from various angles, and laying aside, pro tem, the question of the University's merit to secure such a windfall, your suggestion, if carried out, would perhaps \"satisfy all demands.\" \n\nAlthough details are not published pending the Chinese and British approval of the Governments' agreement which Dr. C. T. Wang and Sir Miles Lampson have recently concluded for the satisfactory disposal of the Fund, yet it may safely be conjectured that the plan suggested by the Willingdon Delegation will not be closely followed as it is an open secret that the bulk of the money has already been definitely decided upon railway development enterprise. In other words, the hope of the allocation of the 17% of the Fund for health purposes is extremely remote. \n\nLocated in a part of the world where health conditions are deplorable, surely there is no better way for the University of using the grant than to employ it for scientific researches and the improvement of public health. For instance, at one of the Sanitary Board meetings a few months ago, the Director of Medical and Sanitary Services was in favour of the Government making arrangements with the authorities of Sheklung Leper Settlement to take charge of lepers from Hongkong as a result of the total absence of a leper hospital in the Colony. As pointed out in my previous letter, the carrying out of the scheme would mean the increase of the already teeming leper population of the greater part of the island, and only a few garrison troops are stationed in the west half of Hainan. So in the eastern part of the island no open outbreak of Communism is taking place, although guerilla warfare is carried on, as evidenced by the wounded men being brought to Hoihow hospitals, day by day. West of Hoihow troops are stationed in Kin Kong, Fuk-san and Lami-kow but in numbers they are not nearly as strong as the Communist gang which rules the forest near Fuk-San. On Oct. 18 this band of Reds attacked Kin Kong, which is district city and the largest town in Chen-mai district. By surprise attack they gained the east suburbs of the town but the troops got some machine guns into position and it is reported that the Reds were driven off with heavy loss. The Reds were said to number all the way from 600 to 1,000 but they had only two machine guns to defend by 300 troops. \n\nSomething has, therefore, to be done to solve this and similar problems satisfactorily for the \"mutual benefit\" of both China and the British Colony. In view of the existing needs, the employment of the money for purposes as suggested by you is, and as many will doubtless agree, a legitimate proposal. \n\nJ. A. LEE. \n\n## DELIBERATE LIES IN COURT. \n\n### Witness Fined for Perjury in Assault Case. DEFENDANT DISCHARGED. \n\nThe acquittal of the accused and the fining of one of the witnesses of the prosecution for perjury was the final result of the case in which Herbert Percival, stoker of H.M.S. Herald, was alleged before Mr. Lindsell on Saturday to have assaulted a barber of Wanchai. \n\nThe defendant was alleged to have obtained a packet of cigarettes from the complainant's stall and when asked for payment struck the seller. \n\nFurther evidence was given by Chan Fook, a barber in the complainant's employ. After corroborative evidence was given, the witness was questioned by the Magistrate as to a cut on the defendant's cheek. \n\nHis Worship: Defendant's cheek was cut open; can you explain that? \n\nWitness: I don't know. \n\nYou offer no explanation for that at all? Was there any trouble with anyone of the naval men except the one you saw take the cigarettes?—No. \n\nYou do not explain how his cheek was cut open? I don't know. \n\nAny one strike him?—I did not see any one strike him. \n\nWas he knocked down?—Possibly; he may have been. Did you see him knocked down? No. \n\nYou must have seen it, you were there. He may have fallen on the ground. \n\nHis Worship pointed out to the witness that it had been proved beyond doubt that the defendant had had his cheek cut. The witness replied, \"I saw defendant knock against a glass show case as he struck the complainant.\" \n\nHis Worship reprimanded the witness and pointed out to him that a few minutes before he had told the Court that he had no idea what had happened to the defendant's cheek. \"Why do you lie like that?\" sternly asked his Worship. \"A minute ago you said you didn't know; you did not see it. Now speak the truth! Did you see him cut his cheek or not?\" \n\nWitness: I did not see him.\" \n\nHis Worship: First you said you did not, then you said you did and now you say you did not again. Which is true?—I did not see. \n\nNow that was just an absolute lie that the showcase was broken? \n\nIt was broken. \n\nDetective Sergeant Clark informed his Worship that a show case had been broken, but if the defendant had fallen into it as alleged by the witness he would have had his face severely cut. \n\nHis Worship: How do you say that showcase came to be broken? \n\nWitness: A piece of the stool flew against the glass. \n\nHe (defendant) did not fall against it as you said a minute ago? No. \n\nThen you told a deliberate lie just now when you said he banged against it. You told three different stories. I fine you $10; first one thing and then another. You keep contradicting yourself. Fined $10 or seven days. \n\n### Defendant Discharged. \n\nThe Gazette contains the draft of an Ordinance to amend the Police Ordinance 1900. \n\nThis provides that Section 17 of the Police Ordinance, 1900, be repealed and the following section substituted therefor: \n\n17-(1) It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to make regulations for the granting of pensions to members of the Force, in respect of service in the Force, and to determine in special cases where the regulations may be inapplicable or to require modification, the amount (if any) of the pension, the terms on which it shall be granted and the manner in which it shall be paid. (2) Pensions granted under this Ordinance shall be paid out of the general revenue. \n\nThe Objects and Reasons state:-Under section 17 of the Police Force Ordinance, 1900, the Governor in Council not only regulates the general conditions on which and the manner in which pensions are to be granted to members of the Force, but determines the question of granting a pension and the amount thereof in each particular case. There does not seem to be any sufficient reason why members of the Police Force should be thus singled out from other pensionable public servants, or why the Governor in Council should have to deal with each case of retirement especially where the pension is a mere matter of calculation. \n\n## HIS LAST FLING. \n\n### Suicide's Open Letter to the World. \n\nShanghai, Oct. 25. Chow Hu-wen (27), a dentist, after spending five nights entertaining sing-song girls at the Shang Shien Hotel, addressed a lengthy letter to the world in general, advising young men not to degrade themselves by following his example, and then swallowed poison. He was found dead yesterday afternoon and the inquest revealed that he rented a room on the third floor of the hotel on Friday night and then spent until Sunday night and then spent until Friday morning surrounded by sing-song girls and wine bottles.—Our Own Correspondent. \n\nKobe, Oct. 26. In glorious weather, Emperor Hirohito reviewed the Japanese navy, consisting of 165 war vessels, aggregating 700,000 tons, every one of which was constructed wholly in Japan. Seventy-two navy planes took part in an air parade.—Reuter. \n\nThe North-Eastern authorities propose to erect a bronze statue of Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang in memory of his donation of $2,500,000 to the University.—Our Own Correspondent. \n\n## BIG NAVAL REVIEW. \n\n### Japanese Emperor Views 165 War Vessels. ALL MADE IN JAPAN. \n\nNathan Road. Phone 57222", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-532-4 Mui Tsai system- resolution and correspondence with private individuals 27-10-1930 - 24-6-1931.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 529826, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-533-13 Salaries- conversion rate of sterling 30-1-1931 - 21-1-1932", "page_number": 33, "title": "CO129-533-13 Salaries- conversion rate of sterling 30-1-1931 - 21-1-1932", "content_text": "## \n22\n\nChean Accon, \n\nRequests derision on Current rates to pay salaries as provided for.\n\n\"Estimates for 1952 may be considered, I that official salaries should be reduced by 100%\".\n\n23\n\nConf 6/x For City of restoration passed at a meeting of the Leg. Council on the 10 Oct. Mr Calder has seen. The main file is wanted before a reply sent to the China Association.\n\n? Recirculate quickly can be with mam fice after approval of extra Hongkong estimates - Men Jameson 24.12.31\n\nThe estimates have now been approved but the main file to which these belong is still missing.\n\n2 A reply can now however be sent to the China Association with ref to br. of 27.11.31 saying that ... has been very careful... conson to...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-533-13 Salaries- conversion rate of sterling 30-1-1931 - 21-1-1932.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 532847, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-538-1 Hong Kong University 31-12-1931 - 6-8-1932", "page_number": 87, "title": "CO129-538-1 Hong Kong University 31-12-1931 - 6-8-1932", "content_text": "139\n\nr\n\nbrown\n\n[ 120 ]\n\nTHE MONGOLIAN EYE.\n\nD. J. FINN.\n\n4\n\nK\n\nProfessor Seligman of London University in describing the physical characteristics of the \"Mongol races writes,* \"eye brown, generally dark- the cheek-bones are broad and so prominent that, taken with the characteristic absence of depression between nasal root and the forehead and the slight development of the brow-ridges, the whole face tends to have a peculiar flatness, which is as characteristic and much more general than the very distinctive 'Mongolian' eye. Where the 'Mongolian' quality is well developed, the inner part of the upper eyelid is continued over the inner angle of the eye (inner canthus), the skin fold so produced extending to and fusing with the skin at the side of the nose: it is this, with the narrow aperture between the upper and lower lids, so common in Mongols, that gives the proverbial narrow oblique appearance to the Mongol eye, the orbits themselves and their position in the skull not differing significantly from those of other races.” From other passages in the same article we learn that the Tungus (a wide-spread people in Siberia and from Manchuria to Turkestan) have dark-brown eyes, usually typically 'Mongolian' (p. 456); of the two distinct types among the Japanese, one is coarse, short, thick set and has a narrow and oblique eye and typically a well-developed epicanthus (p. 456) : and while among the Northern Chinese the eye is not always 'Mongolian' (p. 458) the Oceanic Mongols (of Indonesia, Formosa, Nicobar Isles, Madagascar) have black eyes often with Mongol fold (p. 444). Such is the 'Mongolian' eye.\n\n=\n\nEGYPTIAN PICTOGRAM\n\nWRITING\n\nOF LEFT EYE.\n\nEUROPEAN (MEDITERRANEAN)\n\nLEFT EYE\n\nOLD (circa 1200 B.C) CHINESE WRITING (ANYANG EXCAVATION)\n\nPICTOGRAM OF LEFT EYE\n\nCHINESE (SUN-TAK, KWANGTUNG)\n\nLEFT EYE\n\nFigure 1.\n\nIllustrating this article will be found a sketch made from the eye of a young Chinese from Sun Tak, a district of the Pearl River Delta between Hong Kong and Canton, It shows a 'Mongolian' eye with a very distinct over-fold at the inner canthus, the clear overlap went over 1 mm. below the line of the under eyelid. This Chinese is a Cantonese speaker and is certainly a Southern Chinese.\n\n* Prof. C. G. Seligman: The Characteristics and Distribution of the Human Race, in An Outline of Modern Knowledge (Gollancz 1931), p. 443-599.\n\nThe Hong Kong Naturalist.\n\nThe Hong Kong Naturalist.\n\nVol. III, No. 2.\n\nPlate 21.\n\n1. Pair of Eyes, European.\n\nPrinted by S.C.M. Press.\n\n2. Pair of Eyes, Chinese, female.\n\n3. Pair of Eyes, Chinese, male.\n\n3.\n\n2.\n\n1.\n\n140", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-538-1 Hong Kong University 31-12-1931 - 6-8-1932.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 532876, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-538-1 Hong Kong University 31-12-1931 - 6-8-1932", "page_number": 116, "title": "CO129-538-1 Hong Kong University 31-12-1931 - 6-8-1932", "content_text": "298\n\nHENRY W. FOWLER\n\nSerranus fario (Thunberg). Sek, Pan1 (Stone).\n\nTwo examples, 128 to 131 mm. Body cream coloured, with rows of yellow spots and edges of scales in spots marked with brown. Below spinous dorsal to and below soft dorsal one brown saddle-like area over-shading cream with yellow spots. Iris yellow. Soft dorsal dull yellow brown. Caudal and pectoral dull yellow.\" Differs a little from Jordan and Richardson's figure (Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 37, 1910, p. 451, fig. 9) in very much larger and more crowded spots.\n\nSerranus fasciatus (Forskal). Vvu1 Sz1.\n\nOne example, 187 mm.\n\nLUTJANIDAE.\n\nDiploprion bifasciatum Cuvier, For2 Shiu Yiu (Fire burn waist).\n\nText figure 5.\n\nSeven examples, 53 to 134 mm, All have pectorals and soft vertical fins brilliant sulphur yellow. Dark transverse bands sepia, otherwise largely pale yellow. Caudal yellow. Iris brown and blue in front, behind white shot with blue. Cheek pale sepia.”\n\nPOMADASYIDAE.\n\nHapalogenys mucronatus (Eydoux and Souleyet). Ta2 Tito Lap (Strike iron).\n\nText figure 6.\n\nThree examples, 158 to 190 mm., and one young 61 mm, suggestive superficially of the young of Plectorhinchus niger (Cuvier) though with different physiognomy, fin formula, scales, etc.\n\nTERAPONIDAE.\n\nPetates quadrilineatus (Bloch).\n\nOne example, 118 mm. Reported from Hong Kong previously only by Seale in 1914 as Therapon cuvieri.\n\nLETHRINIDAE.\n\nLethrinus haematopterus Schlegel.\n\nOne example, 123 mm., caudal mostly broken off.\n\nJordan and Thompson (Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., vol. 41, 1912, p. 560) describe a young example with a faded black spot between the pectoral and the lateral line. My example has a gray spot close below the lateral line 5 scales behind the gill opening, and little less than eye in extent. Bases of ventrals pale orange.\n\nSPARIDAE.\n\nDentex nufar Valenciennes. Lap, Yui (Wax Fish).\n\nText figure 7.\n\nSix examples, 47 to 59 mm. Third dorsal spine long as head. Teeth all conic, none on palate.\n\nStudies of Hong Kong Fishes-No. 2\n\n299\n\nQuite likely the reference by Martens (Preuss. Exped. Ost Asien, Vol. 1, 1876, p. 387) for Nagasaki is valid for the present species.\n\nIts distribution heretofore has been the Red Sea and the Western Indian Ocean. All my specimens seem to agree with Klunzinger's figure (Fische Roth. Meer., 1884, p. 35, pl. 4, fig. 2), in that the third dorsal spine is elongated and filamentous.\n\nSynagris flavolinea new species. Wong, Sam1 Yui (Yellow coat fish).\n\nText figure 8.\n\nDepth 24/5 to 3; head 3/4 to 2/3, width 2. Snout 3 to 31/2 in head; eye 3 to 32/5, greater than snout or interorbital; maxillary reaches 2/5 to 1/2 in eye, expansion 21/2 to 3 in eye, length 24/5 to 3 in head; teeth in villiform bands in jaws, narrowing posteriorly; no teeth on palate or tongue; interorbital 4% to 41/5 in head, slightly concave, superciliary ridges slightly raised; hind preopercle edge minutely denticulate, lower entire. Gill rakers 6+8 or 9, robust points, 2/5 of gill filaments, which half of orbit.\n\nScales 44 in lateral line to caudal base; 3 above, 8 or 9 below, 7 or 8 forward to occiput though small scales extend still forward nearly to middle of eye; 3 rows on cheek. Caudal finely scaled basally. Scales with 6 or 7 basal radiating striae, with margin scalloped; 65 to 82 short apical denticles, in 1 or 2 alternate series; circuli very fine.\n\nD, X, 9, 1, last spine 2 to 21/5 in head, fourth ray 13/5 to 13/4; A. III, 7, 1, third spine 22/5 to 22, third ray 13/5 to 2; caudal 1 to 1%, deeply forked; least depth of caudal peduncle 24/5 to 21/2; pectoral 11/10; ventral 12/5 to 13/5.\n\nLight brown, nearly pale to whitish with faint rosy shades. Rosy bar on hind lower part of opercle. Inside gill opening vermilion. Bases of most of fins show slight yellowish or sulphury tints, especially ventral axillary scale. Irish whitish, Fins all colourless. Both dorsals with median longitudinal sulphur yellow band.\n\nType 53454 A.N.S.P. Saukiwan. November 10, 1929. 107 mm. Also 53455 A.N.S.P., paratype, same data, 110 mm.\n\nLength\n\nDiagnosis. Known by its apparently largely unicoloured body, evidently rosy in life, and the dorsal fins with a median longitudinal band of sulphur yellow.\n\n(Flavus yellow; linea, line).\n\nGymnocranius griseus (Schlegel).\n\nOne example, 124 mm.\n\nFirst dark bar connects eyes; second from occiput branches over opercle and down until close behind ventral base with branch from lateral line down behind pectoral base; third indistinct from spinous dorsal origin to vent; fourth from fifth and sixth dorsal spines till close before anal; fifth from last dorsal spines to middle of anal; sixth on front of caudal peduncle; seventh close before caudal base.\n\n188", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-538-1 Hong Kong University 31-12-1931 - 6-8-1932.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 533176, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-538-2 Hong Kong University 23-6-1932 - 15-3-1933", "page_number": 150, "title": "CO129-538-2 Hong Kong University 23-6-1932 - 15-3-1933", "content_text": "Page 214\n\nD. J. FINN\n\nwhich is composed very much as the modern nose character of a phonetic and a pictogram, but here the parts are reversed, the phonetic is on top and the picture below; CH'IH is made up of J CHIH (itself a picture of a foot to which we shall come back) and a picture of the teeth in the mouth. This latter part is the whole symbol in the bone characters and appears as follows:-See Figure 3.*\n\nThe modern form is obvious as the result of adding the phonetic which indeed already appears in the modern combination on the Chou dynasty bronze vessels.**\n\nL\n\nThis figure evidently bears out the passages quoted by M. Maspero. As to the ears, the modern character is the direct offspring of the pre-Han character (the Yin character is not known to me but the \"Greater Seal\" or \"Chou\" symbol will do):---See Figure 4** and the development of the modern character follows this line :-See Figure 5.\n\nSimple as the character is, it must be noted that the art of the calligrapher has obscured the anatomical correspondence of the symbol: the pictogram is that of a left ear and the old shape shows most clearly the concha as leading to the meatus with an indication of the intertragic notch; the upper black line suggests the start of the helix from the wall of the head and in the blank space between it and the central concha one must think the anti-helix and its fossa: the lowest black line is the most interesting as it suggests what most Chinese ears still show, sc. the lobule fusing with the cheek. This latter point together with the description of the ears as \"variance with each other,' in opposition\" is borne out by a character which is however not yet deciphered but must be taken on its merits as a pictogram: See Figure 6. This may indeed be a barbarian but it shows a figure with car-rings depending from ears that stand out as continuations of the cheeks: this is a Yin character,***\n\nAt\n\nThat ends the survey of facial or head features and seems to point to the indigenous nature of the characters as conforming to certain consistent national traits, even if the examination of the Mojeno-daro characters did not give one already much less to fear from that possible source of cultural influence.\n\nBefore concluding, I should like to handle the rather interesting CHI, now meaning \"to stop,\" etc. it occurred above as the phonetic part in the word for \"teeth\": it is itself the pictogram of a foot and so appropriately was set standing on top of the stand-like character for \"mouth\"-- though anatomically rather out of place. The development of this character shows that it came from a pictogram of a foot; originally either foot might be so used and one can distinguish them by the placing of the big toe: I take the left foot here for it is the one which has produced the modern character-See Figure 7.\n\n(*See 殷虛文字類編 Bk. 2, p. 19).\n\n(*** Bk. 12). (** See 說文古籀補)\n\nSome Physical Traits of the Chinese of the Second Millennium B.C. 225\n\nThus it is clear that the little stroke parallel to the base line and drawn about half way up is the big toe; the rest of the toes must be supplied by imagination as lying along a curve of which only the outer boundaries are indicated, this being a fairly common device in these characters, c.g. for the cutting blade of a knife which even to to-day is just the gap in the char- J. Now this prominence of the big toe shows the appreciation of people who go bare-foot (or the knowledge of people who experience not infrequent cases of amputation). In Aberdeen one can see how many of the boat-people (Tan Ka) bend their big toes up when walking. So at least one can conclude that bare-foot walking was a very usual thing when the characters were made.\n\nMight I again, in conclusion, stress the amount of interest to be derived from the re-examination of the new characters in the light of the oldest and that a real \"naturalist\" should find ample material there for research.\n\nThe Hong Kong Naturalist.\n\nDecember 1932.\n\nPage 224\n\nPage 150\n\nPage 151\n\n215", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-538-2 Hong Kong University 23-6-1932 - 15-3-1933.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 536173, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-542-10 Mui Tsai system- correspondence from private individuals 13-1-1933 - 11-12-1933", "page_number": 53, "title": "CO129-542-10 Mui Tsai system- correspondence from private individuals 13-1-1933 - 11-12-1933", "content_text": "## MUI TSAI CASE. \n\n### Employer Fined On Two Charges. \n### ORDER TO PAY WAGES. \n\nAppearing at the Central Magistracy yesterday on behalf of Wong-Mong-shan, summoned for failing to notify the S.C.A. of her change of address and failing to pay wages to her registered mui tsai, Mr. J. B. Prentis pleaded guilty to a technical offence.\n\nMr. Prentis said that the mui tsai was a clanswoman of defendant. He did not know exactly what relationship it was in English, but defendant was a step-daughter of the mui tsai's aunt. It was something similar to a first cousin.\n\nThe mui tsai had been in the custody of defendant for about five years, but had not always been in the Colony. When defendant came into the Colony, she went to the defendant and was handed two cards, which she failed to understand, not knowing how to read. She therefore failed to realize that from time to time she should notify her change of address. She did not realize any offence. She had moved three times.\n\nOn the question of wages, the defendant had paid the mui tsai money from time to time, and whenever the mui tsai wanted money she asked for it and was usually given the money.\n\nInspector H. W. Fraser said the girl was a registered mui tsai. She reported on June 8 that she had been assaulted by her employer, who threw the contents of a spittoon over her. Inquiries were made, and it was found that the girl had not been visited, as the defendant had changed her address. It was also found that the girl had not been paid her wages. She was entitled to two years' wages at $1 per month, and to another one year and 25 days' wages at $1.50 a month, the total being $43.25. The girl had a cane mark on the right cheek, which she said had been caused by her employer striking her. From all appearances, however, the girl had been well nourished.\n\nMr. Schofield ordered defendant to pay to the S.C.A. on behalf of the girl the arrears in her wages, and also fined her $20 on each summons.\n\nS. I. Fraser remarked that change of address must be notified to the S.C.A., as 300 or 400 girls could not yet be traced.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-542-10 Mui Tsai system- correspondence from private individuals 13-1-1933 - 11-12-1933.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 546360, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-550-6 Rex v. Ng Loi Yuen- request review of trial and exercise of prerogative of mercy... 22-11-1934 - 21-12-1934", "page_number": 28, "title": "CO129-550-6 Rex v. Ng Loi Yuen- request review of trial and exercise of prerogative of mercy... 22-11-1934 - 21-12-1934", "content_text": "August 9, 1934\n\nCHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT\n\nNULLAH OUTRAGE SEQUEL\n\n... ng actually saw him first. I really the first to attend to\n\nDr. Wong give him any treat- at all before you attended to #Not to my knowledge.\n\nthe accused taken directly eward on admission?—Yes. au told us his breath smelled ol, what was this general con- , for instance, what was the e of his eyes?—I made no note his eyes at all.\n\nWhat was the little girl doing when the boy was being thrown in? The girl seemed to be looking over.\n\nDid the girl make an attempt to run away? If she did, they were so near together I could hardly see.\n\nDo you know Michael Pine's par- ents personally?—No.\n\nDo you know any of the parents of the children who were unfor- tunately thrown over?—No. None of them.\n\nhid you take his temperature? es, but I did not do it myself.\n\nDid you, after this incident, That is the internal tempera-speak to any of them?-No. re, I presume?—Yes, taken in ? mouth.\n\nwas\n\nhib did you notice his surface tem- perature, the colour of his skin?- When he first came in he suffering from immersion. His surface temperature would be cold- er. He looked cold and blue.\n\nDid you actually feel his surface temperature?—Yes.\n\nDid you notice and hiccough pre- c-No.\n\nd you take any blood test?-- I did not take that. Re-examined by Mr. Fraser, wit- ss said that he did not notice | ything peculiar about accused's Tres.\n\nDid you tell anyone of what you saw of this incident? Yes. The first time was to a newspaper re- porter, and then the police and my husband and personal friends.\n\nDid you visit the hospital at all to see any of these children?—No. After Fung Siu Ki, a translator of the S.C.A. had given evidence to the effect that he translated ac- cused's letters, the hearing was adjourned until Friday afternoon.\n\nP.T.O\n\nChina. The far-reaching results cannot be adequately expressed.\n\nChina's Customs, after securing P.W.D. and Sergeant Moran had independence since 1928, had been produced plans and photographs revised thrice, firstly in February respectively of the scene of the 1929, secondly in January 1932, and tragedy, Mrs. Kathleen Charlotte thirdly in May 1933. \"Formerly\" Fairburn was called into the wit- I continued Mr. Hu, \"all revisions in ness-box.\n\na\n\ncustom regulations had their rea- Mrs. Fairburn's Evidence\n\nsons, and were forwarded to the She told the court that at the Legislative Yuan for approval, but, time of the tragedy she was just this time, it was not So, as the walking into No. 2 bridge when she new tariff regulations drafted by saw a Chinese who was standing the financial Ministry, passed by in the No. 1 bridge, throwing the Executive Yuan and was ap- boy and then a girl into the nul- proved by the Government for exe- lah. The man later jumped in cution. They were not approved himself. He was dressed in a according to the regular procedure, white shirt, dark trousers and wearing a straw hat. No one was on the bridge at all.\n\nShe imme- diately called out several chair coolies who were nearby, and two of them rescued the children. She had a side view of the accused.\n\nOn July 9, she attended an iden- tification parade and picked out\n\nand the Legislative Yuan again ignored its responsibility in the matter. There must be some ob- jectionable points in the new tariff regulations as they were approved without much consideration. They include the following defects: (1) by increasing the tariffs of all mineral products and machinery, a\n\n28\n\n167\n\nHU HAN MIN INTERVIEWED\n\nThe Tangku Agree- ment Criticised\n\nMr. Hu Han-min recently grant- ed an interview to Press represen- tatives in the course of which he discussed (1) the negotiations for the abolition of the Tangku Agree- ment at Dairen, and (2) the recent revision of the import and export tariffs.\n\nMr. Hu at the outset contradict- ed the report that he had cleared up all misunderstandings with Nanking and was about to make a trip to Europe.\n\nReferring to the Tangku Agree- ment, which was signed on May 31st 1933, Mr. Hu said that since the signing of the Agreement, Man- churia was no longer regarded as an integral part of China as the agreement had provided that Luan- tung was a neutral zone and that the area beyond the Great Wall was the 'Manchukuo' territory. Mr. Wang Ching Wai, President of the Executive Yuan, in his declaration, said that the Tangku Agreement included only military and not political matters. Since then, the Japanese made use of this Agree- ment and forced Nanking to carry out the \"through traffic and through mail\" provisions, while Gen. Huang Fu and Mr. Wang Ching Wei, during that time, still stated that there was no secret stipulation included in the Tangku Agreement, so no outsider could apprehend the mystery of the Agreement. Mr. Hu was of the opinion that the agreement tained more than has been divul- ged to the public.\n\ncon-\n\n\"A certain diplomatist who had recently returned from Europe, has said: 'Since the Japanese Foreign Office had issued the \"Hands-off China Policy\" on April 17th, all the Chinese ministers in Europe had received special instructions from Mr. Wang Ching Wei, pro- hibiting them to make any state-\n\nthe accused. Her reasons for pick-blockade is laid to the development against Japan. Besides, there\n\ning him up were that he was very thin and his hair was inclined, to be long and shaggy. He has high cheek bones and sunken cheeks.\n\nMr. Lim: When you first saw this man standing in the middle of the bridge, were you actually on the bridge or just going down?--I was just on the very beginning of No. 2 bridge.\n\nment of home industries thus en- dangering the expansion of local labour works: (2) local industries are ruined by the general decrease of textile tariff ratios, whereby en- couraging the influx of foreign goods.\n\nof\n\nwere other cables stating that the wishes of Marshal Shek, Chairman of\n\nChiang Kai-\n\nMilitary Committee, should not be the National\n\nobstructed, thus the Executive Yuan and the Foreign Office Local textiles are already Nanking are both evading respon- on the verge of collapse, and with sibility for the concluding of the the introduction of the new Tariff, | Tangku Agreement.” they are worse than before. On You said he picked up the boy the other hand, the increase threw him into the nullah, then | luxury tariff ratios is quite reason- the girl and then jumped in him- self. How long did he take to do this All in about a minute.\n\nWhen he picked up the boy, did the boy struggle at all?It is diffi- cult to see. He seemed to just pick him up and threw him over.\n\nof\n\nable, but awabi, sea weeds, etc., which are not daily necessities, have had their tariffs reduced. If we look through the whole of the revised tariff regulations we can find that they appear to be revised purposely in favour of Japan.\n\nThe Customs\n\nMr. Hu mentioned that the e- cent enforcement of the new Cus- toms' Regulations was a ruin to the industry of the country and as a means of facilitating Japan's continual economic invasion\n\n(Continued on Previous Column).", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-550-6 Rex v. Ng Loi Yuen- request review of trial and exercise of prerogative of mercy... 22-11-1934 - 21-12-1934.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 546466, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-550-7 Rex v. Ng Loi Yuen- appeal to Privy Council 1-1-1934 - 31-12-1934", "page_number": 98, "title": "CO129-550-7 Rex v. Ng Loi Yuen- appeal to Privy Council 1-1-1934 - 31-12-1934", "content_text": "(8)\n\n101\n\nA lot of water in the nullah that day and stones were carried down,\n\nKathleen Charlotte French Fairburn: 8.8. xd Fraser.\n\nOn 22nd June I was living at 16 Macdonnell Road.\n\nThat day I went out about three p.m.\n\nI walked down past playground to No.2 bridge.\n\nIt takes about 10 minutes to get from my house there.\n\nAs I got onto the bridge I heard a scream.\n\nI looked up at No.1 bridge and saw a Chinese man.\n\nI saw him pick up a little boy on his left and throw him into the nullah on the far side.\n\nThen he turned and picked up girl on his right side and threw her over.\n\nThey were European children.\n\nThe man then climbed over the railing and dropped in himself.\n\nHe wore long dark trousers and a light jacket.\n\nTrousers were like Exhibit 9.\n\nJacket was like Exhibit 6.\n\nHe was wearing a straw hat like Exhibit 5.\n\nI afterwards identified this hat from a number of others as being like the hat he wore.\n\nThat was at Central Police Station.\n\nI think he wore shoes but I can't say.\n\nAs he threw the children in he had his back to me.\n\nAs he climbed over the railings I got the side of his face towards me.\n\nI had a clear view of him.\n\nHe dropped over fully dressed.\n\nI ran at once up the path to No.1 bridge.\n\nI could see the nullah as I ran up.\n\nI saw a little boy clinging to the side of the nullah on the left on this side of the bridge.\n\nThat was as I ran up boundary path.\n\nI saw nobody washed down the nullah.\n\nWhen I got to bridge I saw little girl on her knees on the upper side of the bridge in the nullah.\n\nI had the impression she was on the step.\n\nI looked over the bridge but I saw nobody else.\n\nI ran round and called some chair boys to come down.\n\nThey came and a man in long white trousers helped them and they got the children out.\n\nThe Chinese man and chair coolies brought the little girl out.\n\nThe little boy I lost sight of, but I saw him brought out by a European soldier.\n\nI never saw the man again after he jumped in.\n\nHe could have been washed down without my seeing him.\n\nI stood looking over No.1 bridge looking at the little girl.\n\nOn 9th July I attended identification parade.\n\nNumber of men all dressed alike.\n\nI was asked if I could pick out man I saw on 22nd June.\n\nI identified accused.\n\nHe had same hair, same high cheek bones, and sunken cheeks.\n\nxxd.Lim.\n\nIn magistrate's court I gave evidence recorded on page 10. What I then said is correct.\n\nWhen I first saw the man I had just come onto the bridge.\n\nI was just entering the bridge.\n\nThe whole thing was a matter of seconds.\n\nI can't remember what the little girl was doing when the boy was thrown in\n\nShe was just there.\n\nTo the Magistrate I said she seemed to be looking into nullah.\n\nThe girl had on a light coloured dress.\n\nFrom No.2 I had a good view of No.1 bridge.\n\nI ran immediately up boundary path.\n\nAt Police Station I saw several hats and identified this one (Exhibit 5)\n\nMan had his hat on throughout.\n\nJ\n\nAt identification parade I saw a row of men and identified accused.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-550-7 Rex v. Ng Loi Yuen- appeal to Privy Council 1-1-1934 - 31-12-1934.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 546482, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-550-7 Rex v. Ng Loi Yuen- appeal to Privy Council 1-1-1934 - 31-12-1934", "page_number": 114, "title": "CO129-550-7 Rex v. Ng Loi Yuen- appeal to Privy Council 1-1-1934 - 31-12-1934", "content_text": "-5-\n\n117\n\nThe power of observation to form a definite opinion about him. state of his hair, high cheek bones, sunken cheeks. She was able to identify him at the police parade on 9th July and independent of that was able to pick out the type of hat he wore and the sort of garments which he had on.\n\nShe saw two children thrown in but knows nothing and deposes as to nothing regarding the other children.\n\nThe learned Counsel for the Defence who has conducted the case, if I may say so, extremely well, and with the modicum of propriety which this Court is accustomed to from him, has rather condemned Mrs. Fairburn, not on the ground of her not telling the truth, but rather on the score that she saw so little that there could be nothing for her to say. It is a perfectly proper comment to make but I don't think, gentlemen, it is an important thing. You are not bound necessarily to accept that as the only theory about Mrs. Fairburn's observation, because it is possible that if a lady going down to town, expecting nothing of the sort, suddenly has her attention attracted by screams from children and sees a deliberate and diabolical assault on two little children committed by a man who jumps in himself - it is quite possible it would not dawn on her that more than two children were involved. It is the instinct of anyone like Mrs. Fairburn to run to No.1 bridge and see what she could do for the children.\n\nIf you accept that as a possibility then that explains why Mrs. Fairburn did not go up the Battery Path from the second bridge to the first with her eyes glued on the nullah to see what was happening to the other people. When she got there yesterday morning it was pointed out that when you are at No.1 bridge you cannot see anything of the nullah between No.1 and No.2 bridges except that little space on the far side in which it was suggested there might be little if any water running at that time.\n\nG\n\nwe were", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-550-7 Rex v. Ng Loi Yuen- appeal to Privy Council 1-1-1934 - 31-12-1934.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 546521, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-550-7 Rex v. Ng Loi Yuen- appeal to Privy Council 1-1-1934 - 31-12-1934", "page_number": 153, "title": "CO129-550-7 Rex v. Ng Loi Yuen- appeal to Privy Council 1-1-1934 - 31-12-1934", "content_text": "156\n\nEx.VI.\n\nP.12.\n\nP.13.\n\nP.14.\n\nHeadquarters at 10.30 a.m. I then picked out a man from a number of others. He was very like the man who threw the children over. The man I picked out is the accused. The upper garment of the man I saw throw the children over was similar in colour to this garment Ex.VI.\n\nOn 17th July I saw a number of different kinds of straw hats at the central Police Station. I picked out a hat similar to EX.V.\n\n(Mr. Lim objects to the production of this hat.)\n\nThe man I saw on the bridge was very thin; his hair was long and shaggy and he had high cheek bones and sunken-in cheeks. It was for these reasons I picked him out at the Police Station.\n\nX X. Mr. Lim. When I first saw the man I was on the very beginning of No.2 bridge. From the time I saw him to the time he had thrown the girl and then dropped himself it seemed about a minute. It is difficult to tell. When he climbed over the railings he had his hat on his head. When I first saw him he had his hat on his head. It is difficult to see at that distance if the boy struggled when thrown in. There was screaming going on. The little girl seemed to be looking over into the nullah. I got there just as the boy was being picked up.\n\nIf the girl did try to run it was such a small movement I could not see. I think the little boy had a white shirt but I cannot remember very well; the little girl had a light cotton frock. I don't know the color. The accused's trousers were dark; I can't fix a color, just dark. I do not know Michael Pine's parents. I did not see them after this incident; I may perhaps have seen them but I have not spoken to them and don't know them by sight. I did not count how many men were on parade. I did not know any of the parents of the children who were thrown into the nullah. I have not spoken to any of them after the incident. I told a newspaper reporter of what...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-550-7 Rex v. 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Balph.\n\n19.10.35.\n\nLibrary,\n\nWith reference to your query on the papers\n\nattached, I am prepared to pass over to you the numbers\n\nwhich have been sent to me, and to ask for the\n\nmissing numbers, if you so desire.\n\nFashrdale\n\nhu,\n\nStochdale\n\n19.10.35.\n\nMany thanks. I\n\nshall\n\nyou\n\nwill do\n\nSo.\n\nbe grateful if\n\nilver\n\n23/10705\n\n28.10.35.\n\n3. To Dr. Herklots\n\nteller warned\n\ndefirkdale\n\n2870\n\nFrom Dr. Herklots\n\n29.11.35.\n\nForwards\n\ncopies of \"Naturalist\" under\n\nseparate cover.\n\nTELE", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 549097, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. 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Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "page_number": 6, "title": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "content_text": "2, Richmond Terrace\n\nWhitehall, S.W.1.\n\n6\n\n3.\n\n28th October, 1935.\n\nDear Dr. Herklots,\n\nWith reference to the copies of \"The Hong Kong Naturalist\" which you send to me, I should be glad if it would be possible for you to let me have one copy each of the following numbers, which I find are missing from my set:-\n\nVolumes\n\nI and II (All numbers issued).\n\nVolume III Nos. 1 and 2.\n\nVolume IV Nos. 3 and 4.\n\nI am proposing to pass on the copies sent to me to the Colonial Office Library so that they may be readily available for reference purposes, and naturally the Library would be glad to have a complete set of this publication.\n\nYours sincerely,\n\nDr. G.A.C. Herklots, M.Sc., F.L.S.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 549099, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "page_number": 7, "title": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "content_text": "Vol. VI No. 2.\n\nTHE\n\nJuly 1935.\n\nHONG KONG NATURALIST\n\nA QUARTERLY ILLUSTRATED JOURNAL\n\nPRINCIPALLY FOR HONG KONG AND SOUTH CHINA.\n\nEDITED BY\n\nG. A. C. HERKLOTS, Ph.D., M.Sc., F.L.S.\n\nREADER IN BIOLOGY, THE UNIVERSITY, HONG KONG.\n\nASSISTED BY\n\nG. S. P. HEYWOOD, M.A., B.Sc.\n\nPROFESSIONAL ASSISTANT, ROYAL OBSERVATORY, HONG KONG.\n\nCONTENTS\n\nPage\n\nThe Birds of Hong Kong.\n\nPart XIX. The Swallows\n\nG. A. C. Herklots\n\n85\n\nGrasses\n\n... A. H. Crook\n\n89\n\nHong Kong Spiders, Part II\n\nAnimal Parasites of Hogs, Goats and Buffaloes\n\nfrom Hong Kong\n\nHong Kong Hills.\n\nPart II, Ma On Shan\n\nLegends and Stories of the New Territories.\n\nPart II, Castle Peak\n\nArchaeological Finds on Lamma Island.\n\nPart IX\n\n... A Synopsis of the Fishes of China.\n\nPart V, continued\n\nNotes and Comments ...\n\nOrnithology.\n\nInce's Paradise Flycatcher.\n\n... ...\n\nA Day with Birds among the Islands. Rufous-backed and Dusky Shrike.\n\nBotany.\n\nNotes on Orchids.\n\nW. Rae Sherriffs 97\n\nH. T. Chen 102\n\n... G. S. P. Heywood 105\n\nSung Hok-p'ang 110\n\nD. J. Finn 117\n\nHenry W. Fowler 132\n\n4.\n\n148\n\nNesting Notes.\n\nMeteorology.\n\nBook Reviews\n\nClimatological Data for January to June\n\n... ... ...\n\nPrice $2.00. Prepaid Subscription. $7.00 Hong Kong currency or Twelve shillings and sixpence, per annum, post free.\n\nThe Newspaper Enterprise Ltd., Hong Kong.\n\n156\n\n157\n\n7", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 549100, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "page_number": 8, "title": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "content_text": "EVERYONE\n\nWHO WISHES TO KEEP IN TOUCH WITH THE LATEST DISCOVERIES IN\n\nA MONTHLY\n\nSCIENCE, LITERATURE AND THE ARTS.\n\nShould Subscribe To\n\nDISCOVERY\n\nBY\n\nPOPULAR JOURNAL OF KNOWLEDGE, WRITTEN BY EXPERTS FOR THE LAYMAN AND ILLUSTRATED THROUGHOUT,\n\nThe Annual Subscription is 12s. 6d. post free.\n\nA SINGLE COPY COSTS ONE SHILLING,\n\nThe policy of the journal is directed by the Trustees, Sir J. J. THOMSON, O.M., F.R.S., Sir FREDERIC KENYON, K.C.B., F.B.A., Professor A. C. 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Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 549101, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "page_number": 9, "title": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "content_text": "Vol. VI No. 2.\n\nTHE\n\nJuly 1935.\n\nHONG KONG\n\nKONG NATURALIST\n\nA QUARTERLY ILLUSTRATED JOURNAL\n\nPRINCIPALLY FOR HONG KONG AND SOUTH CHINA.\n\nEDITED BY\n\nG. A. C. HERKLOTS, Ph.D., M.Sc., F.L.S.\n\nREADER IN BIOLOGY, THE UNIVERSITY, HONG KONG.\n\nASSISTED BY\n\nG. S. P. HEYWOOD, M.A., B.Sc.\n\nPROFESSIONAL ASSISTANT, ROYAL OBSERVATORY, HONG KONG.\n\n9\n\nThe Birds of Hong Kong.\n\nPart XIX. The Swallows\n\nGrasses\n\n...\n\nHong Kong Spiders, Part II\n\nCONTENTS\n\nPage\n\nG. A. C. Herklots\n\n85\n\n... A. H. Crook\n\nW. Rae Sherriffs\n\n89\n\n97\n\nAnimal Parasites of Hogs, Goats and Buffaloes\n\nfrom Hong Kong\n\nHong Kong Hills.\n\nPart II, Ma On Shan\n\nLegends and Stories of the New Territories.\n\nPart II, Castle Peak\n\nArchaeological Finds on Lamma Island.\n\nPart IX\n\nA Synopsis of the Fishes of China.\n\nPart V, continued\n\nNotes and Comments\n\nOrnithology.\n\n...\n\nInce's Paradise Flycatcher.\n\nA Day with Birds among the Islands. Rufous-backed and Dusky Shrike.\n\nBotany.\n\nNotes on Orchids.\n\nH. T. Chen\n\n102\n\nG. S. P. Heywood\n\n105\n\nSung Hok-p'ang\n\n110\n\nD. J. Finn\n\n117\n\n...\n\nHenry W. Fowler\n\n132\n\n148\n\nNesting Notes.\n\nMeteorology.\n\nBook Reviews\n\nClimatological Data for January to June\n\nPrice $2.00. Prepaid Subscription. $7.00 Hong Kong currency or Twelve shillings and sixpence, per annum, post free.\n\nThe Newspaper Enterprise Ltd., Hong Kong.\n\n156\n\n157", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 549102, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "page_number": 10, "title": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "content_text": "The Hong Kong Naturalist, Vol. VI, No. 2.\n\nVol. VI No. 2.\n\nJULY 1935.\n\nPlate\n\nHirundo daurica japonica T. & S. (Japanese Striated or Golden-Rumped Swallow).\n\ntwo upper figures.\n\nHirundo rustica gutturalis Scop. (Eastern House-Swallow), two lower figures.\n\nTHE BIRDS OF HONG KONG.\n\nPART XIX.\n\nG. A. C. HERKLOTS.\n\nFamily HIRUNDINIDAE (Swallows and Martins).\n\nThe Swallows and Martins are swift flying insectivorous birds, catching their prey always on the wing. They have a wide gape, the short triangular bill is hooked at the tip, culmen nearly straight except at the tip, nostrils exposed. They have long and narrow wings with nine primaries, the secondaries are very short. The tail is more or less forked. Their legs are weak and though suitable for perching are not much good for walking; in consequence, the birds rarely come to the ground save to bathe in shallow pools and puddles and to pick up pellets of mud for their nests. The Swallows are related to the Flycatchers, Shrikes, and Birds-of-Paradise. The Swifts, though in some respects superficially like the Swallows (e.g., in their complete mastery of the art of flight), are not even in the same order, being in fact closely related to the Hummingbirds and akin to the Nightjars.\n\nHONG KONG SPECIES:- One swallow, the Eastern House-Swallow, Hirundo rustica gutturalis Scop., is a common summer visitor which breeds in the Colony; another, the Japanese Striated or Golden-Rumped Swallow, Hirundo daurica japonica T. & S., is a migrant species which spends a few days or a week or so in the Colony before proceeding northwards to its breeding grounds in China, Manchoukuo, and Japan. The Siberian House Martin, Delichon urbica whiteleyi, possibly migrates across the Colony regularly every year but has only once been recognized by us.\n\nDESCRIPTION.\n\nThe Eastern House-Swallow L.T. 6¾ inches. Plate 6, two lower figures. Length about 6½ inches. \"Forehead, base of fore crown, chin, and throat chestnut, very dark on forehead and fore crown; lores velvety black, sides of head otherwise glossy black; upper parts steel-blue, bases of hind neck and upper back-feathers white, those of rest of upper parts grey or dark brown; surface of wings and tail dull black, the wing-coverts and tertiaries glossed with metallic greenish-blue, the tail with a row of white spots near the tips of the inner webs of all the side-rectrices, but not showing unless the tail is spread out; an irregular black band on the upper breast, broken or encroached upon more or less by the chestnut of the throat.\" \"The rest of the underparts are either pure white, or else vinous-rufous or pale brick-red in various light or darker shades. In the rufous-bellied birds, the under tail-coverts are all darker than the abdomen, these varieties corresponding with those found in the European Swallow. In the white-bellied variety, the under tail-coverts are centred with blackish or brown. The young in first plumage are dull brownish above with very little gloss,\n\nPage 10\n\nPage 11", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 549103, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "page_number": 11, "title": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "content_text": "12\n\n86\n\nG. A. C. HERKLOTS\n\nand the chestnut of the throat is very pale. Iris brown, bill and legs black. This Swallow differs from H. r. rustica in its smaller size and in the broken breast-band.\" L.T. I, p. 392.\n\n75\n\nThe Japanese Striated or Golden-Rumped Swallow, L.T. No. 337. Plate 6, two upper figures. Length about 7 inches. \"Lores black (bases of feathers greyish); a narrow supercilium over these and over the eye, sides of the head behind the eye, and nape chestnut, the nape streaked with metallic blue-black; crown, hind neck, back, and scapulars steel-blue, the bases of the feathers of the hind neck and upper back white.' \"Feathers of rump-band rufous with black shafts; underparts deep-coloured, much suffused with rufous, streaks on breast and abdomen broad, sometimes very broad.\"\n\n\"Upper tail-coverts glossy steel-blue; wings and tail very dark blackish-brown, the lesser wing-coverts somewhat metallic steel-blue, the greater coverts and the tertiaries glossed with the same.\"\n\n\"Tips of shorter and all the longer under tail-coverts glossy blue-black. Iris brown, bill blackish-brown, legs reddish-brown.\" L.T. I, pp. 395 and 397.\n\nThe Siberian House-Martin. L.T. No. 327. Length about 5 inches. \"Forehead, crown, hind neck, sides of the neck, and mantle dark steel-blue, the bases of the feathers of the hind neck and of the mantle white; lores and feathers under the eye and the upper part of the ear-coverts black, the latter glossed with steel-blue; wings and tail black, the edge of the wing marked with white; lower back, rump, upper tail coverts, underparts, and legs and feet white, the longest under tail-coverts, and some of the upper with black shafts; under wing-coverts and axillaries smoke-grey, the feathers of the under edge of the wing dark brown with white edges. Legs very heavily feathered, claws greyish.\" L.T. I, p. 384.\n\nFIELD IDENTIFICATION.\n\nThe Eastern House-Swallow. Uniform bluish-black upper parts, no rump patch. Rufous throat, white breast and usually white belly, deeply forked tail with white spots near the tips of the feathers.\n\nThe Japanese Striated or Golden Rumped Swallow. Golden orange-chestnut rump-band, underparts suffused with rufous feathers with black shafts.\n\nThe Siberian House Martin. Small size. Tail not deeply forked, upper parts dark steel-grey or black, rump and underparts white.\n\nHABITS.\n\nThe Eastern House-Swallow is a regular and common summer visitor which breeds in the Colony. It arrives between the 15th and the end of February and leaves the Colony in August, September and early October though a few birds may remain as late as the beginning of November. November 2nd is our latest date for this species. Eastern House-Swallows are so abundant and their habits so well known that detailed description is unnecessary, they can be seen at their best from a high bank overlooking flooded paddy fields close to the surface of which swallows love to fly.\n\nThe Hong Kong Naturalist.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 549104, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "page_number": 12, "title": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "content_text": "The Birds of Hong Kong\n\n87\n\nbird is a subspecies of the Swallow Hirundo r. rustica which visits England during the summer months and is very similar to it in its appearance, twittering song and habits.\n\nOur\n\nThe Golden-Rumped Swallow has only been seen by us on three occasions, in each time in numbers but confined to a particular district and in all three cases in association with the Eastern House-Swallow. records are, April 9, 1932, Kam Tin, several hawking flies over flooded paddy fields; April 19, 1934, Pokfulam, several hawking flies over a hillside and April 6, 1935, again at Kam Tin over flooded fields. These dates and the fact that the birds were seen only once in the month makes us think that in April the species migrates across the Colony northwards, small parties stopping for a short time to rest and feed. We have a record from Nanking for April 28 when the species arrived there. This species nests in the Min Valley, the Yangtse Valley, Chefoo, and further north in Manchoukuo and Japan.\n\nThe Siberian House Martin has only once been seen by us, a party of birds, in the company of Eastern House-Swallows, hawking flies over a village pond at Sek Kong near Kam Tin on April 2, 1934. La Touche, I, p. 384 writes of this species that it \"is not frequently seen on the China coast; the two specimens in my collection, one of which is from Shaweishan and the other shot by me at Chingwangtao, and a flock noticed by Vaughan and Jones on 16th March, 1907, at Hong Kong are about the only records. This species breeds in Siberia.\n\nNESTING HABITS.\n\nThe Eastern House-Swallow has similar nesting habits to its European cousin. The nests are built of mud, mixed perhaps with a little straw or grass, in the form of a saucer or cup and lined with feathers, they are fixed under the eaves of a house or on a ledge of rock. Inhabited houses and old deserted ruins are equally favoured. Four or five eggs are laid; they are white with a pale mauve tint and with small purplish brown speckles mostly towards the larger end. Size 18 x 13 mm. (See plate I, Egg No. 11, H.K.N. IV, 1933). The breeding season in Hong Kong is from mid March to the end of June. We have records of nest building March 12, eggs April 8 and 28 and young in nest May 20. In England the birds have up to four broods in a season; Caldwell in \"South China Birds\" gives two for Fukien.\n\nCROW-PHEASANTS, ADDITIONAL NOTES.\n\nIn the last issue of this journal on page 3 under Nesting Habits a reference was made on line 28 to a nest of the Chinese Crow-Pheasant found in a branch of a screw pine and built of course bladed grasses. The nest was made entirely of leaves of Pandanus odoratissimus and not of coarse bladed grasses as stated. This nest is illustrated in Plate 7 figure 2.\n\nA\n\nJust before the last issue went to press a note was added at the end of the article on page 4 about a nest of the Lesser Crow-Pheasant. photograph of this nest is reproduced here on Plate 7 figure 3.\n\nJuly 1935.\n\n13", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 549105, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "page_number": 13, "title": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "content_text": "14\n\n88\n\nG. A. C. HERKLOTS\n\nThe Call of the Lesser Crow-Pheasant.\n\ncoop currah currah\n\nThe\n\nOn June 3, whilst we were having breakfast, a curious call was heard in the garden outside. It sounded like, \"Currah currah.\" We went out to discover its origin. Presently a Lesser Crow-Pheasant flew onto the top of a small pine tree in the garden and commenced calling, “Coop currah currah.\" We watched the bird through binoculars whilst it sang. The call was quite different to that of the Chinese Crow Pheasant, the \"coop\" being on one note, there being no inflection at the end. We have, since that day, frequently heard this species calling in Pokfulam but never have seen it again. From our house, the following cuckoos can be heard in the course of a day or two: Chinese Koel, Chinese Crow-Pheasant, Lesser Crow-Pheasant, Indian Cuckoo, and Burmese Plaintive Cuckoo.\n\npoomp • • poomp · 4\n\nThe call of the Chinese Crow Pheasant is usually written \"Poomp poomp poomp poomp,\" each call being slightly lower on the scale than the preceding one, and the short pause between each call lessening progressively. The call heard in the distance could thus be interpreted fairly accurately, but if the bird is nearby, a slight inflection is quite noticeable in each call, and a more correct interpretation would be \"poom\" or even \"quoo,\" as I interpreted it in the last issue of this journal on page 2.\n\nThe Hong Kong Naturalist.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 549106, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "page_number": 14, "title": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "content_text": "The Hong Kong Naturalist.\n\nVol. VI, No. 2.\n\nPlate 7. Figure 1, Pandanus odoratissimus with examples of clockwise\n\nand contraclockwise screws.\n\nFigure 2, Nest of Chinese Crow-Pheasant built in and composed\n\nof leaves of Pandanus odoratissimus.\n\nFigure 3, Nest of Lesser Crow-Pheasant built in \"elephant grass\n\nPage 19", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 549107, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "page_number": 15, "title": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "content_text": "[ 89 ]\n\nGRASSES.\n\nA. H. CROOK.\n\nAmong the devotees of natural history there are few more interesting figures than Gilbert White. He lived through stirring times in European and Colonial history, but through them all he showed that unique detachment of mind which is more interested in the nesting habits of the nightjar than in the Declaration of Independence; is more affected by an unusual cloud of insects than by the French Revolution. He left us two interesting observations. One of these, in May 1777, was on earthworms. About a hundred years later Charles Darwin took up the hint then dropped and gave us \"The Formation of Vegetable Mould through the Action of Worms.”\n\nIn the second observation, about a year later, Gilbert White says:-\n\n\"Of all sorts of vegetation the grasses seem to be most neglected, neither the farmer nor the grazier seem to distinguish the annual from the perennial, the hardy from the tender, nor the succulent and nutritive from the dry and juiceless. The study of grasses would be of great consequence to a northerly and grazing kingdom. The botanist that could improve the sward of the district where he lived would be a useful member of society: to raise a thick turf on a naked soil would be worth volumes of systematic knowledge; and he would be the best commonwealth's man that could occasion the growth of 'two blades of grass where only one was seen before.'\n\n21\n\nMrs. Arber has now taken the hint and given us this monumental work on the grasses.* The work, of course, has not come a ready-made and completed miracle from the brain of Mrs. Arber as Athena came from the head of Zeus. For more than a generation the public has been indebted to her for her monographs and studies on the grasses and other families: botanists have requisitioned her erudition and research on monocotyledons, water-plants, and indeed over the whole range of morphological studies. And now after more than thirty years of intensive study she has epitomised her researches in this masterly volume, utilizing in her path all the scholarship and research which the great band of agrostologists from all over the world have placed at the disposal of the scientific scholar. But how few there are who could have used this mass of material with the wonderful skill and appropriateness which Mrs. Arber has displayed!\n\nThe study of the grasses embraces so much and is so far-reaching in its effects from the creation of the world to the flora of the New Jerusalem; from the diet of palaeolithic man to the food questions of President Roosevelt; from the latest news from Lord's or Wimbledon to the state of our digestion after a breakfast of shredded wheat or puffed rice—that any work dealing with the whole subject must stretch out into volumes. And in whatever\n\n* The Gramineae: A Study of Cereal, Bamboo, and Grass, by Agnes Arber, M.A., D.Sc., Cambridge at The University Press, price £1 1os. od,\n\nJuly 1935.\n\n16", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 549108, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "page_number": 16, "title": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "content_text": "17\n\n90\n\nA. H. CROOK\n\nmethod the subject is treated there will be some readers who will want something different, some who will be disappointed that their particular pet hobby has not been sufficiently emphasised.\n\nMrs. Arber says her book was not logically planned but simply grew. Her own words are, she \"allowed the book to write itself.\" This of course, must not be taken as the equivalent of the schoolboy's well-known cloak of excuse, \"I didn't do it, Sir: it was my hand.\" The first few chapters all too short-give an account of the cereals, their putative homes, history, and relationships to their wild cousins. Considering that the whole of human existence and civilization is bound up with these cereals we are surprised that Mrs. Arber curtailed these chapters so much. Even at the expense of a book twice the size we need all the information we can get. One whole side of the question is shut out with the laconic words: \"An account of cereal geography would be outside the scope of this book.\"\n\nShe offers no pronounced opinion on the relative antiquity of wheat, barley, rice and maize as domesticated plants, though if botanists could assist in settling this question, or throw some light on it, they would thereby greatly aid the solution of the whole vexed question of the priority of civilization in Egypt, Mesopotamia, China, or Peru.\n\nMrs. Arber mentions the interesting fact that maize is the only cereal which may not lead a feral existence: \"it cannot propagate itself spontaneously, for the grain does not escape from the husks without help.” The most natural explanation of this fact would seem to be that the grain had been so long domesticated that it had lost the essential means of survival, whereas the other cereals were only on the way towards losing them. This of course is a supposition, but Mrs. Arber rather than assume it seems to prefer the derivation of the plant 'possibly by a process of hybridisation' from Teosinte (Euchlaena mexicana), the grass of nearest affinity to it in the New World. When Mrs. Arber says \"the grain does not escape from the husks without help\" we naturally wonder if there might not have been in days gone by, in the native home of the grain, a parrot or some such bird which might have been the effective ministrant. A plant like maize, which supplies en masse a proliferation of seed as in the corn-cob, could well afford to sacrifice 60% to 70% of each cob if it thereby got 5% to 10% disseminated. Some of the parrots can handle a cob with great dexterity. But if the Indians of America adopted this grain as their chief domestic plant they would naturally kill out this enemy to their food supply.\n\nOf the rice plant we are told that \"the earliest record we have of it is in old Chinese writings and it has been cultivated continuously in that country since the remote past.\" When Mrs. Arber wrote her book Mr. Andersson's \"Children of the Yellow Earth\" was only in the press. In this latter work (p. 336) in speaking of the fragments of a jar from the Yang Shao civilization Mr. Andersson says:----\n\nThe Hong Kong Naturalist.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 549109, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "page_number": 17, "title": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "content_text": "Grasses\n\n91\n\n\"We happened to examine more closely a fragment of a jar from Yang Shao Tsun. It was unusually thick in the wall, porous and full of plant imprints. Two Swedish botanists, G. Edman and E. Söderberg, examined this small fragment and their examination led to the most important discovery in this field since the discovery in 1921 of the Yang Shao dwelling site. It could be shown with certainty that the plant imprints in this fragment were husks of cultivated rice (Oryza sativa). The discovery was in a high degree sensational not only because it sets back the history of rice an immense distance in time, but also because it points not to dry Central Asia, but to rainy Southern Asia, which is the homeland of rice.'\n\n\"\n\nIt thus looks as if we should have to give rice the pre-eminence in antiquity of all the cereals. Its home was probably the Burma-Siam region or perhaps Southern China, though Mrs. Arber does not shut out the possibility of tropical Africa. When did it first reach Europe? If its original home was Africa it possibly reached Europe in very early times. But if, as seems more probable, its original home was the monsoon area of Eastern Asia it probably did not reach Europe till Saracen times. Gibbon, however, gives quite another view. He says of the Roman marriage, \"the contracting parties tasted a salt cake of far or rice, and this confarreation, which denoted the ancient food of Italy, (italics ours) seemed as an emblem of their mystic union of mind and body.\" Gibbon was probably no botanist any more than Dr. Johnson, but we should have been pleased if Mrs. Arber had told us whether there was any foundation for Gibbon's belief that rice was \"the ancient food of Italy.\" Some of the facts which Mrs. Arber does mention about rice are well worthy of note. One often wonders why some of the Eastern peoples keep rice as their staple food, especially as it is dearer than wheat, and not a very complete food stuff (\"it lacks nitrogenous matter and also fat.\") But we get this interesting piece of information which may possibly account for a good deal:-\"The deficiencies of the grain from the food standpoint become virtues under tropical conditions, since they improve its keeping capacity.\"\n\nCurious and disjointed facts which we have heard in youth sometimes stay in our heads a long time. When I was a schoolboy we had Robinson Crusoe as an examination text-book, and the teacher, believing that the examiners were likely to ask a question on de Foe's errors in Robinson Crusoe, had carefully coached us on all these mistakes. I have forgotten them all now, except one. I don't think my teacher was a botanist but he told us that when Robinson Crusoe is represented as emptying the bag of remains of barley and rice on the ground under the rocks and later finding barley and rice growing, that de Foe had made a mistake; that the rice grain in this condition would not grow; that it was the only grain which lost its germ in being hulled.*\n\nNow the rice grain as we get it for food has no germ. Mrs. Arber, of course, does not mention in what stage of the process\n\n* Since writing the above I have found that this error and others in Robinson Crusoe are mentioned by Archbishop Whately in his Commonplace Book, and my teacher seems to have got them from this source.\n\nJuly 1935.\n\n18", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 549110, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "page_number": 18, "title": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "content_text": "19\n\n92\n\nA. H. CROOK\n\nof preparation the germ is lost but she does mention a fact about the rice spikelet which may possibly have something to do with this. \"The spikelet of rice (Oryza sativa, L.)\", she says, \"shows the unusual feature that the lodicules are joined to the margins of the palea, at its base, so that they look deceptively as if they were related to it as stipules.\"\n\nIn Leerzia oryzoides, a close ally of Oryza, mechanical pressure has caused an interlocking of the lemma and palea so that cleistogamy takes place. But Mrs. Arber does not mention whether any of the near allies of rice lose their germ as readily as rice seems to do.\n\nWe should have liked a lengthier discussion on the antiquity and possible birthplace of the sugar-cane-\"the only important perennial grass grown for human food.\" \"It is selected for sterility, since the store of sugar in the stem would be exhausted by the act of flowering.\" So this is the reason that the plant never flowers. Many a time in South China and Formosa I have asked the Chinese farmer for the flower and fruit of the sugar-cane and he always replied that it had none. Mr. Silvens in his \"Texas Grasses\" also notes, \"rarely blooms in the United States.\" \"There are indications that the cultivation of the sugar-cane began very early in India\" but we are not given any precise idea of what this 'very early' means. Mrs. Arber does not refer to the two passages in the Old Testament where the sugar-cane is mentioned-Isaiah XLIII, v. 24, \"Thou hast bought me no sweet cane with money neither hast thou filled me with the fat of thy sacrifices\"; and Jeremiah VI, v. 20 \"to what purpose cometh there to me incense from Sheba and the sweet cane from a far country?\" So evidently the Hebrews of 600 or 700 B.C. were familiar with the sugar-cane as a domestic plant, though like spices it was an import 'from a far country'. Alphonse de Candolle, in \"The Origin of Cultivated Plants\" (p. 159), says, \"On the other hand the Hebrew writings do not mention sugar\". But Alphonse de Candolle was a Frenchman, and the French are almost proverbially ignorant of the Bible. Not so, however, Mrs. Arber.\n\nWhen we come to the résumé of our knowledge of the bamboos and the origin of the tree-habit as exemplified by them we reach some of the most interesting part of the book. Like the shady Bishop, \"our interest's on the dangerous edge of things\", though perhaps 'the dangerous edge' is not quite the same for the Bishop and for us. But readers of some of these fascinating chapters must feel that Mrs. Arber has an interest in the dangerous edge of things too, but inspired and tempered by her unique scholarship and academic restraint. When the man in the street thinks about the development of plants at all he seems generally to conclude that the herbaceous forms appeared first, and that some of these, strengthening and lignifying their vascular tissues, grew into shrubs and trees. Botanists, on the other hand, were inclined to reverse this order: they generally held that the herbaceous forms were later than the woody forms; the herbaceous and annual grasses would thus be the later and more modern arrivals. This view seemed to be rather supported from an examination of the flower. Thus the flower of the bamboos conformed more closely to what was accepted as the original typical monocotyledonous type. Mrs. Arber, however, questions this theory, and substitutes for it the\n\nThe Hong Kong Naturalist.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 549111, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "page_number": 19, "title": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "content_text": "Grasses\n\n93\n\ndoctrine of 'evolutionary lag'. Lest we should do an injustice to her theory we must put the crucial part of her statement in her own words:-\n\n•\n\n\"In discussions on the tree and herb habit in Angiosperms, a mode of statement is often used, which seems to me to be the root of much morphological evil: I mean that in comparing various groups of flowering plants, botanists are apt to speak of some as more ancient than others. Every one of the various lineages must have lived through all the time that has elapsed since the original stock came into being, and it is hence a misuse of language to talk of one lineage as being ‘older’ than another. This usage is sometimes defended on the ground that 'old' or 'ancient' in this sense means 'having primitive characteristics' but I do not think that the word 'old' should be treated as a synonym for 'old-fashioned'. Now there is a time-relation, to which attention has been drawn in Sinnott's paper on \"Comparative Rapidity of Evolution in Various Plant Types,\" which is of the first importance when considered in connection with the equality of evolutionary age of all existing stocks of flowering plants. This point is the shortness of generations in herbs as compared with trees. Sinnott estimates that in herbaceous species we may reckon fifty to a hundred generations to a century, and in most trees only four or five. It is possible that he exaggerates this difference in general, but in some of the Gramineae it is undoubtedly even more striking than his figures suggest.\n\nThe dictum, that \"the single step in evolution is not a year but a generation,\" must be accepted, if we believe that evolutionary development depends on the changes in the germ cells which come about in connection with sexual reproduction. It is thus obvious, a priori, that, in a given period of years, the herb will have more numerous chances than the tree of undergoing the changes in its genic outfit which condition variations. This theoretical conclusion is confirmed by the statistical facts concerning the number of species in genera and families of trees and herbs; for it is clear that the existence of a relatively high number of species in a genus or family means that it has been the scene of correspondingly active evolutionary development. Sinnott shows that in the Dicotyledons the average number of species in the woody genera is 12.5, while in the herbaceous genera it is 15. The existence of this evolutionary lag—if we may so name it—among trees as compared with herbs is well demonstrated by Sinnott, and yet he hardly seems to appreciate its full significance. In the Leguminosae, two of the subfamilies, Mimoseae and Caesalpineae, with their regular or nearly regular flowers, are without question more primitive in type than the Papilionatae, with their curious butterfly-shaped blossoms. Now of the 121 genera in the first two subfamilies, 113 are wholly woody, and the other 8 contain both woody and herbaceous forms; there are no entirely herbaceous genera. In the Papilionatae, on the other hand, 29% of the genera are herbaceous. It is evident, therefore, that the more primitive members of the Leguminosae are almost all woody, but that there is a much higher percentage of herbs in the part of the family with more specialised\n\nJuly 1935,\n\n•\n\n10", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 549112, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "page_number": 20, "title": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "content_text": "Page 21\n\nA. H. CROOK\n\nflowers. Sinnott and Bailey interpret these facts as showing that the family was originally arboreal, and that a subsequent reduction from the tree to the herbaceous type in certain genera has been accompanied by the development of specialised flowers. But bearing in mind the evolutionary lag in the tree form, it is surely more logical to suppose that the Leguminosae were originally herbaceous, and that those lineages which adopted the tree habit, put a brake, as it were, upon their own evolution and thus dropped behind the lineages which by remaining herbaceous, retained the power of mounting the ladder of floral specialization at a relatively rapid rate. The Leguminosae are by no means the only family in which the same process can be followed. The example which chiefly concerns us here, but to which Sinnott and Bailey do not refer, is the Gramineae. The herbaceous grasses have, as a rule, extremely reduced flowers, but the flowers of the dendroid Bambuseae approximate much more closely to the usual monocotyledonous type.\n\nSo far so good. But surely Mrs. Arber must admit that the genera of the Bambuseae themselves ought to show this evolutionary lag more clearly in those where the generations are slow than in the annual or biennial forms; i.e. the flowers of those bamboos with a long period between their generations should approximate much more closely to the usual monocotyledonous type than the flowers of those which are annual or have a short period. But this is not so. Thus Dendrocalamus sp. with about a twenty-five or thirty year breeding period has numerous stamens; and Ochlandra sp., also with a slow breeding period, shows numerous structural variations from what might be considered the type form. While some of the annual bamboos, like Arundinaria Wightiana, which have therefore much more chance of undergoing the changes of genic outfit, remain much closer to the usual monocotyledonous type. It must be noted, however, that many of the changes which do take place in the bamboos are in the nature of proliferation of the parts rather than reduction.\n\nThere is so much to comment upon and so many interesting details to quote in this volume that selection is difficult. The way in which cytology has come to the assistance of the observer and the field naturalist forms a very interesting branch of modern research. The early settlers in America were hard up for fodder grasses. Several British meadow grasses had to be imported. One, Phleum pratense L., introduced by Timothy Hansen, proved a very useful fodder grass. It was sent back to England a stronger and stouter plant under the name of 'Timothy grass.' Cytologists have now found that the returned emigrant has 42 chromosomes instead of the 14 with which the original wild 'Pilgrim Father' started out. Poa pratensis has also gone across to the States, and has become the famous 'Kentucky blue-grass.' Mrs. Arber makes the interesting suggestion that it, too, may be found to be a polyploid form i.e. a grass which has multiplied its chromosomes. This polyploidy is possibly initiated by crossing with some other species—though by what species these particular grasses were fertilised may now perhaps never be discovered.\n\nPolyploidy, too, seems to have played its part in the production of that useful grass Spartina townsendi of which Mrs. Arber gives an interesting\n\nThe Hong Kong Naturalist.\n\nPage 20\n\nPage 21", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 549113, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "page_number": 21, "title": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "content_text": "Grasses\n\n95\n\nAt that account. This grass was first found at Hythe in England in 1870. It has since spread rapidly along the South coast and has invaded the Normandy coast of France. It was thought at first to be a foreign invader—but this is now disbelieved. Cytological evidence shows that it has no less than 126 chromosomes. So that possibly hybridisation and doubling of the chromosomes may account for this useful arrival. My first acquaintance with it was in 1918 from Carey and Oliver's \"Tidal Lands.\" At the time I was in Hong Kong and was anxious to have the grass tried experimentally on those terrible inter-tidal mud flats which disfigure so much of the sea coast in the New Territory. I then failed but I hope to try again. Its speed of growth and usefulness in reclaiming salt-marshes and mud swamps have made this grass a godsend, and now Mrs. Arber gives a glowing account of its beauty in the Baie des Veys on the French coast. Who knows but if it were transplanted to the mud flats of the Canton River it might become more polyploid still and not only transfigure the landscape there but return to us as a beneficial emigrant like Timothy.\n\nIt would be sheer impertinence on our part to attempt to criticise this book. Its format, its printing, and Mrs. Arber's delicate illustrations make it a perfect pleasure to read. Almost 500 pages of highly technical English terms, as well as hosts of botanical names, generic and specific without, as far as we could see, a single error, throw a lustre on the Cambridge University Press and all concerned in its production. True, we might pick a crow with Mrs. Arber about some of her terms, but we know we could only expect a few quills. Mrs. Arber is painfully fastidious about her terminology, as witness her notes on the spelling of gynæcium and andrœcium, but yet she writes caryopses as the plural of caryopsis. We doubt it has classical justification, but it is not sanctioned by the S.O.E.D. Again, she writes 'stomates'—possibly an early form. This, too, is not sanctioned by the S.O.E.D.; for though it gives the singular 'stomate,' it distinctly states that this is the singular of 'stomata.' She has monantochloë—possibly the original form. But 'anthos,' not 'antos,' is the Greek for a flower: but even if Linnaeus himself or Darwin made the mistake originally that is no reason why it should be followed now. In another place she writes, 'the twist of the column is dextral.' Now here, though Mrs. Arber has the S.O.E.D. with her, we cannot agree. An old mathematical master at school never tired of telling us, of motion in a circle or a spiral you can never say left or right, sinistral or dextral: you must always say clockwise and contraclockwise.\n\nWhen I read the account of the twist in the awn of avena, anthoxanthum, stipa, and danthonia I took out specimens of the plants to see if the direction of the twist was constant. Mrs. Arber offers no explanation of the direction or constancy. As a few of my specimens were from Natal my interest naturally turned to them to see if the twist was in the opposite direction (for Marie Stopes' baby would kick itself round so as to have its head pointing to the South pole if it was born south of the Equator). But they were all alike. But is there unfailing constancy of twist? Mrs. Arber quotes from Percival, apparently with approval, the\n\nJuly 1935.\n\n22", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 549114, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "page_number": 22, "title": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "content_text": "23\n\n96\n\nA. H. CROOK\n\nstatement that \"in wheat, the blade is twisted in the form of a loose right-handed screw. With rare exceptions, this direction of the screw is the same for all the leaf blades.\" But the illustrations in Percival's book, \"The Wheat Plant\" (pp. 70 and 71), as far as one can interpret them, seem to contradict this and must be among the rare exceptions.' With another group of plants, the Pandanaceae or Screw pines, though at first appearing fixed the constancy seemed to have many exceptions. The accompanying photo, plate 7 figure 1, with examples of the clockwise and contraclockwise screw beside one another, was taken in the New Territory many years ago.\n\nWhen Mr. Chesterton wrote \"A Short History of England\" one of his reviewers said that an adequate and complete history of England could be compiled from what Mr. Chesterton had left out. In the case of Mr. Chesterton's work this was scarcely intended for a compliment. But if we say that there is room for a couple more volumes on the grasses treating of the material which Mrs. Arber has not inserted here and that we hope Mrs. Arber will write them, we mean it for a sincere compliment. She has not, for instance, touched on the geological history of the grasses at all. But we can wait in hope.\n\nEven the most bounteous have not now, as Antony had, realms and islands to drop from their pockets but it is a popular fancy to think of how you would bestow them if you had. Well, if I were dictator I would give Mrs. Arber a dukedom for having written this book.\n\nThe Hong Kong Naturalist.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 549115, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "page_number": 23, "title": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "content_text": "HONG KONG SPIDERS.\n\nII.\n\nBy W. RAE SHERRIFFS.\n\nProfessor OF ZOOLOGY, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, SOUTHAMPTON.\n\nFamily ARGIOPIDAE (continued).\n\nGenus ARANEUS, Clerck (cf. H.K.N. V., p. 88.).\n\n5. Araneus mitificus, Simon.\n\nFirst described by Simon in \"Ann. Soc. Linn. Bordeaux.\" xi, p. 150 (1886) as Epeïra mitifica.\n\nThorell in his 'Primo Saggio Sui Ragni Birmani' Genova 1887 p. 187 describes this species fully in Latin as Epeira mitifica. Workman figures it in his 'Malaysian Spiders,' 1896.\n\nIt is, when alive, a beautiful small green spider with the abdomen dorsally yellowish grey or fawn and prettily marked with characteristic black spots of which there is a large transverse procurved one (bean shaped) at the top end and four much smaller ones at the hind end (see figure).\n\nI have found this spider within the city of Madras and also on the Nilgiri Hills at Kotagiri. It has been reported also from Poona and Konkan in India and from Singapore. The snare is said to measure 4\"-5\" diameter and to have one free segment with a line from it.\n\nThe spider is usually resting on a leaf of the hedge under a light silk tunnel with the orb web close by. It then rushes out whenever a fly alights on the web. In the Nilgiris I have taken it frequently from Lantana and other bushes.\n\nFrom Hong Kong this spider has been collected, one female only from the Peak.\n\nGenus ARGIOPE, Savigny 1827.\n\n6. Argiope aemula, Walck.\n\nFirst described by Walckenaer in his \"Histoire Naturelle des Insectes Apteres\" Paris 1837 as Epeïra aemula.\n\nThorell gives the Latin description in his \"Ragni di Selebes\" p. 24 Genoa 1877 and Pocock very briefly in English in his \"Arachnida\" (Fauna of British India series) 1900 p. 223.\n\nThe genus Argiope has given its name to the huge family to which the preceding spiders have all belonged. The cephalothorax is flat; ocular quadrangle much longer than wide: eyes of posterior line very strongly procurved, the medians being far behind the laterals: abdomen truncate in front, swollen and with or without caudal processes and large lateral lobes.\n\nThe females are usually spiders of large size (10-20 mm. long) generally very beautifully marked and coloured in white, silver or gold. The sternum is usually black with a distinct median longitudinal line in white, yellow or orange.\n\nJuly 1935.\n\n24", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 549116, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "page_number": 24, "title": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "content_text": "98\n\nW. RAE SHERRIFFS\n\nThe species aemula has the abdomen longer than wide, oval without lateral lobes and caudal processes. The dorsal pattern consists of transverse black lines with broader pale bands intervening.\n\nThe webs of the different species of Argiope are orbs without a conducting thread.\n\nThe female always remains at the centre resting on a characteristic white stabilimentum which is X-shaped. The long legs of the spider stretch out with one pair to each arm of the X. Pocock considers that the white ribbons of the stabilimentum conceal the spider's limbs from flies and from marauding wasps. It seems to me, however, that they serve rather as a background which shows up the spider's legs. The white silk may attract flies but the ribbons are essentially a support for the spider's body. That the spider is quite easily seen thus resting during the day by an enemy is proved by their being picked off their web by birds. In Madras in my own compound I have watched a Mynah (Acridotheres tristis), an Indian starling, deliberately walk up to the web in full daylight and find a juicy mouthful in the unfortunate owner. The spider in this case was the common South Indian species anasuja, Thor.\n\nW.R.S\n\nThe South Indian Argiope anasuja to show the female spider dorsally on her web with a fly, trussed up in silk, in her jaws. She rests head downwards with the legs in the characteristic X position ending in the stabilimentum. This figure is a composite drawing from original photographs.\n\nThe Hong Kong Naturalist.\n\n25", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 549117, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "page_number": 25, "title": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "content_text": "The Hong Kong Naturalist.\n\nVol. VI, No. 2.\n\nPlate 8. Figure 5, Araneus mitificus Simon, female × 31.\n\nFigure 6, Argiope aemula Walckenaer, female × 2. Figure 7, Araneus de Haanii Doleschal, female × 12. Figure 8, Argyrodes fissifrons O. Pickard-Cambridge, female × 5, side view.\n\nFrom original drawings by W. R. S.\n\n8.\n\n6.\n\n26", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 549118, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "page_number": 26, "title": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "content_text": "Hong Kong Spiders \n\n99 \n\nThe young Argiopes, immature females, make a small web which has at first no proper stabilimentum but only a lacework of stronger threads at the centre, \n\nThe mature female of anasuja always rested at the centre of the web head downwards. When alarmed she used to raise her body outwards from the web and then suddenly pop through the opening right at the centre of the web within the X of the ribbons to the other side. \n\nThe male Argiope is much smaller than his mate (4 mm.) and very inconspicuous, being only a plain purple brown in colour. He is found usually on the edge of the big web or on a tiny web of his own near by. \n\nArgiope aemula was originally described by Walckenaer from the Celebes. It has been obtained since from Burma, Ceylon, different parts of India, Nicobar Isles and Malaysia. The genus is widespread in the Tropics and sub-Tropics with the headquarters in Malaya and Oceania from which some 40 species have been identified. One species is European and another Canadian. Several species have a very wide distribution such as the type A. lobata Pallas which extends from a great part of Africa through \n\nCentral Asia to India. \n\nThe genus is easily recognised by the white X on the web and again by the richness of the livery. \n\nWithin Hong Kong A. aemula has been taken at the Peak, Tai O and Aberdeen. \n\nGenus ARANEUS, Clerck 1757. \n\n7. Araneus de Haanii Dol. \n\nFirst described by Doleschall in \"Verh. Nat. Vereen. Neder. Ind. V. p. 33 (1859). Thorell in 'Ragni Birmani' p. 178 (1887) gives the synonymy under Epeira. Pocock in his 'Arachnida' p. 225 gives a brief description and a figure. \n\nThe species de haanii is a large type of Araneus, the mature female reaching a length of one inch (25 mm.) \n\nIn colour the cephalothorax is reddish and covered with white hairs; legs and palps red; abdomen yellow brown generally with darker mottled areas below, dark brown in front of shoulder points and again below the terminal point. There is a large conical tubercle over each pair of lateral eyes. Abdomen is triangular in outline with two distinct sharp shoulder points in front and a median terminal one. There is a very strong scape to the vulva. Workman figures the species in his \"Malaysian Spiders.\" From the specimens I have examined, the colour markings seem to be most variable for in some cases there is a dark brownish mark on the abdomen dorsally arching across from the two shoulder points then extending downwards to the point at the tip; the front and sides round this patch being yellowish. \n\nThe web is said by Workman to be vertical and from 20′′-24′′ across with a line reaching to the spider's resting place under a leaf. \n\nJuly 1935- \n\n27", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 549119, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "page_number": 27, "title": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "content_text": "28\n\n100\n\nW. RAE SHERRIFFS\n\nThe Hong Kong specimens came from (1) Kowloon City and (2) Shau-ki-wan and were both captured in August 1931.\n\nThis species has a wide distribution in the East Indies viz;- whole of Malaya, Sumatra, New Guinea, Burma, Ceylon and India. Not unnaturally therefore there are several synonyms, cf. bogoriensis, submucronata and Khandarensis.\n\nThe male is much smaller than the female and was described by Thorell under the name of Epeïra caestata (1890).\n\nFamily THERIDIIDAE.\n\nGenus ARGYRODES, Simon 1864.\n\n8. Argyrodes fissifrons, O. Pickard-Cambridge.\n\nFirst described in \"The Journal of the Linnean Society\" Zool. X, p. 380 (1869).\n\nThe genus Argyrodes includes a number of small so-called parasitic spiders because they live on the big webs of other larger spiders such as Nephila, Cyrtophora, Psechrus, etc. These spiders were first noticed by Dr. Vinson in the Island of Reunion and described in his \"Araneides des Iles de la Reunion, Maurice et Madagascar\" 1863 pp. 268-276. He first noticed their small webs placed between the strands of the large web and found them eating the young of another species.\n\nThese parasitic spiders evidently escape the notice of the bigger spider and take food that she finds too small to bother with. Vinson called his first species Linyphia parasitica.\n\nThe species fissifrons derives its name from the male where the fore part of the head is prominent and divided horizontally by a deep fissure into 2 lobes, the lower one being the stronger. Both lobes have strong, prominent hairs on them, but especially the upper one. In spirit specimen the colours are as follows:- cephalothorax yellow brown: legs of same colour with darker bands and not very hairy: abdomen oblong rounded in front and produced behind over the spinnerets which are prominent. Abdomen dorsally is pale yellow brown with two longitudinal silvery lines meeting behind; these lines branch at the sides and become margined with deep red brown approaching black. Both sexes have the same colourings and the abdomen may have scattered silvery spots in addition to the lines. Tip of abdomen in the female is distinctly pointed as compared with the projecting bluff end in the male. She has not the deep cleft in the head so characteristic of the male. The female has a characteristic dark brown spot on the tip of the abdomen and another of the same kind and size low down behind the spinnerets.\n\nThe female measures 5 mm. long and the male about the same. The cocoon containing the eggs has a characteristic shape like a pear or globular with a blunt tip downwards: at the top end there is a long stalk which divides at its upper end into two diverging branches which attach the cocoon to the strands of the big web of the host (see figure).\n\nThe Hong Kong Naturalist.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 549120, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "page_number": 28, "title": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "content_text": "29\n\nHong Kong Spiders\n\n101\n\nArgyrodes fissifrons was found within Hong Kong presumably, but unfortunately no locality was sent with the two specimens, both female, received.\n\nCambridge reported his specimens from Ceylon where I also have taken them. When alive these spiders are small red and white forms with black legs. I found them all on the large web of Nephila malabarensis.\n\nA. inguinalis and A. procrastinans are synonyms.\n\nA. fissifrons is reported from Burma by Thorell. Simon mentions at least 80 species of this genus, some twenty of which belong to Tropical Asia. He records as species Argyrodes argyrodes as having the same distribution as Cyrtophora citricola on whose web it is a parasite.\n\nINDEX.\n\n5. Araneus mitificus, Simon. 6. Argiope aemula, Walckenaer.\n\nP. 97.\n\nP. 97.\n\np. 99.\n\n8. Argyrodes fissifrons, Pickard-Cambridge.\n\np. 100.\n\n7. Araneus de Haanii, Doleschal.\n\nCORRIGENDA.\n\nHong Kong Spiders I, H.K.N.H.V., No. 2, pages 85 to 90, 1934.\n\nPage 86, paragraph 6 line 28 \"half of pair\" should read \"half of palp.”\n\nPage 87, paragraph 5 line 22 “pecuinosa\" should read \"pecuniosa.”\n\nPage 87, paragraph 7 line 33 \"aumelipes\" should read \"annulipes.\"\n\nPage 88, paragraph 6 line 33 \"deceus\" should read “decens.\"\n\nPage 88, paragraph 7 line 36 “Nalckenaer” should read “Walckenaer.”\n\nPage 89, paragraph 5 line 44 \"Ceuni\" should read “Cenni.”\n\nPage 90, paragraph 1 line 2 “Araignels\" should read “Araignées.”\n\nJuly 1935.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 549121, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "page_number": 29, "title": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "content_text": "30\n\n[102]\n\nANIMAL PARASITES OF HOGS, GOATS, AND BUFFALOES FROM HONG KONG.*\n\nH. T. CHEN.\n\nLingnan University, Canton.\n\nThrough the kindness of Dr. Walter MacKenzie, the Colonial Veterinary Surgeon of the Sanitary Department, Hong Kong, the writer had the rare opportunity of working at intervals in the Kennedy Town Abattoir during the academic year of 1933-1934 for the examination of animal parasites in slaughtered animals. The cadavers examined consisted\n\nI. BUFFALOES.\n\n \n Name of Parasite\n Location in Host\n Incidence of Infection\n Remarks\n \n \n Fasciola hepatica Linnaeus, 1758\n Liver and biliary passage\n 18 per cent.\n \n \n \n Eurytrema pancreaticum (Janson, 1889)\n Biliary passage, pancreatic duct\n 20 per cent.\n Generally very heavy infections\n \n \n Fischoederius elongatus (Poirier, 1883)\n Stomach\n 79 per cent.\n \n \n \n Homalogaster paloniae Poirier, 1883\n Large intestine\n 13 per cent.\n \n \n \n Cotylophoron cotylophorum (Fischoeder, 1901)\n Stomach\n 10 per cent.\n \n \n \n Moniezia sp.++\n Small intestine\n 5 per cent.\n \n \n \n Oesophagostomum radiatum (Rudolphi, 1803)\n Large intestine\n 15 per cent.\n \n \n \n Trichuris ovis (Abildgaard, 1795)\n Large intestine\n 23 per cent.\n \n \n \n Cooperia punctata (V. Linstow, 1907)\n Small intestine\n Less than 5 per cent.\n \n \n\n* A contribution from the Biological Laboratory, Lingnan University, Canton. The investigation is partly supported by a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation in China.\n\n+ These trematodes, because of their abundance, are being used by some people for feeding their chickens. It is said that they are very nutritious.\n\n++ Since some important structural characters do not seem to fit into the key of any known species, we feel that its specific determination will have to be left until a more critical study can be made.\n\nThe Hong Kong Naturalist.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 549122, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "page_number": 30, "title": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "content_text": "Animal Parasites of Hogs, Goats, and Buffaloes from Hong Kong 103\n\nof hogs (Sus scrofa domestica), goats (Capra hircus), and buffaloes (Bos buffelus and Bos indicus). Altogether approximately three hundred animals were examined. Results show that twenty different kinds of parasites were found during the survey. The present report is of preliminary nature and aims to give only a list of these parasites.\n\nIn addition to the nine species listed in the above table there are two other species of nematodes of which only the females were recovered, and consequently an identification is at present impossible. One species was found in the heart and lungs, while the other was found in the small intestine.\n\nII. HOGS.\n\n31\n\nName of Parasite\nLocation in Host\nIncidence of Infection\nRemarks\n\nFasciola hepatica\nLiver and biliary passage\n10 per cent.\n\nFasciolopsis buski\nIntestine\n24 per cent.\nLinnaeus, 1758\n\nCysticercus* tenuicollis\nLiver and abdominal cavity\n85 per cent.\nAttaching to mesenteries or omentum in abd. cavity\n\nAscaris lumbricoides\nSmall intestine\n73 per cent.\nLinnaeus, 1758\n\nTrichuris suis\nLarge intestine\n13 per cent.\nSchrank, 1788\n\nStrongyloides sp.\nSmall intestine\nRare\n\nGlobocephalus samoensis (Lane, 1922)\nSmall intestine\n15 per cent.\nBloch, 1782\n\nEchinorhynchus gigas\n\n* This is the larval form of Taenia hydatigena (Pallas, 1766), the adult of which is commonly found in dogs in China.\n\nIn addition to these seven species listed in the above table, there is a single specimen of an undetermined female nematode, which is probably a strongyloid.\n\nIII. GOATS.\n\nOnly three species of parasites were recovered from the goats, two of which are nematodes, namely, Trichostrongylus colubriformis (Giles, 1892) and Oesophagostomum sp. Both of these occur in the small intestine and were found in less than ten per cent. of the animals examined. The third species, probably immature specimens of Cotylophoron cotylophorum, were commonly found in the stomach of the host.\n\nJuly 1935.\n\nA\n\nPage 30\nPage 31\n\n32", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 549123, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "page_number": 31, "title": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "content_text": "104\n\nH. T. CHEN\n\nDISCUSSION.\n\nIt is believed that a more intensive survey of these hosts will undoubtedly reveal many more species than the twenty odd species listed here. The majority of the animals slaughtered in Hong Kong are imported from Indo-China and a certain number from Kwangtung province and therefore Hong Kong cannot be considered as a unit separate from China from the standpoint of the parasitic fauna though it may have its own peculiarities.\n\nACKNOWLEDGMENTS.\n\nThe writer wishes to express his gratitude to Dr. Walter MacKenzie, the Colonial Veterinary Surgeon of the Sanitary Department of the Hong Kong Government, for his kindness in letting him pay regular visits to work in the Abattoir. He also wishes to thank Mr. Old, the Inspector of the Abattoir, for space and facilities for carrying on preliminary examinations at the Abattoir.\n\nThe Hong Kong Naturalist.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 549124, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "page_number": 32, "title": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "content_text": "33\n\n[105]\n\n# HONG KONG HILLS.\n\n## PART II.\n\n### MA ON SHAN (2,261 feet), and some neighbouring hills.\n\nG. S. P. HEYWOOD.\n\nOf all the Hong Kong hills Ma On Shan is my favourite; its steep wooded slopes falling straight to the sea and the graceful curve of the skyline between its two peaks make it the most beautiful of our mountains. It is a fine climb by any route, and on a clear day the view from the summit is unsurpassed; to the west Tai Mo Shan shows its full height; to the east, seeming almost beneath one's feet so steep is the slope, lies Port Shelter, and beyond it are blue hills and blue water along miles of coast to Bias Bay in the distance. Even on a cloudy day it is worth a visit; a mountain never looks so impressive from below as when its slopes disappear into the mist, and the imagination is left to picture fantastic peaks above.\n\nThe mountain has been happily described in an article by Mr. Gibbs in H.K.N. Vol. II, p. 214; his sketch map shows all the paths referred to below.\n\n### The Hunchback Ridge.\n\nThe south and west sides of Ma On Shan can most easily be reached by taking a sampan from Lok Lo Ha, about a mile and a half beyond Shatin on the Tai Po road; the voyage across Tide Cove takes twenty minutes or so, and is a pleasant way of beginning and ending a day's scrambling. The sampan lands us at Tai Shui Hang, and we take the path which turns uphill to the left behind the last house in the village; the path winds along the side of a valley some distance above the stream until it joins the Iron Mine road near Ma On Shan village. The road is followed for a few hundred yards westward to the foot of the Hunchback ridge; a faint track can be discovered winding steeply up the ridge, which provides a most airy and exhilarating climb to the summit. The top of the first hunchback is a delectable place for the lunch halt; here the climber can recline on sun-warmed rocks, while dangling his feet over the edge of the cliff a hundred feet or so above the tree-tops.\n\nThe way up the second hunchback is steep and slippery; nailed shoes give a sense of security which the handholds of straggling grass fail to provide. The third and highest hunchback (2,226 feet) is reached in about 2 1/2 hours from Tai Shui Hang, and 20 minutes more are needed for the walk along the narrow ridge of the saddle to the top of Ma On Shan.\n\nThe short cut directly down the S.W. face towards Ma On Shan village looks simple but is not to be recommended; I have vivid recollections of a nightmare struggle to reach the stream through thick scrub, where spiders of incredible size would appear with startling suddenness a few inches in front of my face. A better way is to continue along the ridge and so down to the Iron Mine by the route described in the next paragraph.\n\n### The South Ridge.\n\nThe easiest way up the mountain starts from the Iron Mine about half a mile S.E. of Ma On Shan village. Fortunately for the walker there are at present no signs that this secluded bit of country will become a smoky industrial area. Peace reigns, and the lorry which used to jolt up and down the road between the mine and the jetty appears to have made its last journey. Beyond the mine a path crosses a shoulder of the hill into a narrow valley which descends from the high ground im-\n\nJuly 1935.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 549125, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "page_number": 33, "title": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "content_text": "HARBOUR\n\nThe Hong Kong Naturalist.\n\nMA ON SHAN\n\nTHE HUNCHBACKS\n\nPYRAMID HILL,\n\nIRON MINE\n\nMA ON SHAN VILLAGE\n\nMa On Shan from the south-west.\n\nA-Path from Tai Shui Hang to the Hunchbacks.\n\nB-Path from the Iron Mine to Ma On Shan.\n\n106\n\n34\n\nG. S. P. HEYWOOD", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 549126, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "page_number": 34, "title": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "content_text": "Hong Kong Hills\n\n107\n\nmediately to the south of the summit. The path crosses the stream and zig-zags up a grassy spur on the far side, eventually reaching a high pass on the ridge between Ma On Shan and Pyramid Hill. The ridge is followed to the top, passing close to the fine crag which falls sheer from the summit on its eastern side. Time, 2½ hours from Tai Shui Hang.\n\nThe East Face from Sai Kung.-Seen from Port Shelter the bold eastern face of Ma On Shan looks almost impregnable, yet there is an easy path up the mountain from this side. Rather less than a mile north of Sai Kung a long wooded spur comes down to the coast, and a paved path leads up it to the village of Wong Chuk Yeung, about 700 feet above sea level. I reached this village one cloudy evening with about two hours of daylight to spare; in the still air the blue smoke from the cottages was rising into the grey blanket of mist which lay close above the roofs. A villager, whom I asked the way up the mountain, evidently thought that this mad Westerner should be discouraged from wandering on the hills so late in the evening in so thick a fog, and told me that no path existed. Not wishing to worry the kind man, I retraced my steps until out of sight, and then plunged through the bushes to an obvious path on the hillside behind the village. This took me up on to a spur and along a hummocky ridge towards the face of the mountain, with fine glimpses through the mist of the cliffs below the summit away to the right. The path turned to the left where the ridge joins the face, and finally reached the top of the south ridge about 500 yards from the summit. This climb takes about 2 hours from Sai Kung; the path is well shown on the R.A.F. map, sheets 15 and 16.\n\nSo much for the easy ways up Ma On Shan; those which can be climbed (almost) with the hands in the pockets.\n\nThe North East Face. This splendid mountain wall is thickly forested and difficult of access, but the botanist or scrambler will find it well worth a visit. Through the kindness of a friend in Tai Po our party was given a lift in a launch, which landed some of us in the bay to the east of White Head. It was a cloudy day, and most of the party scorned the delights of scrambling in the mist, and landed further down the coast for a long walk over the lower hills. We started along a track which led hopefully up the glen behind Cheung Muk Tau; unfortunately it was only a cow track, and after meandering between the bushes as cow tracks do, it disappeared completely in the deep gorge at the head of the glen. We burrowed our way up through a jungle, where wild pigs had evidently been grubbing for roots, and rather to our surprise managed to find a way out on to the ridge to the east. Here to our joy there was a path; it would probably have been better to start the climb from the foot of this spur, where it comes down to the sea at Nai Chung.\n\nWe\n\nFor another 500 feet of ascent we followed the path up the steep crest of the spur, until the latter merged into the N.E. face of the mountain. The path dwindled away, and the rest of the climb was through thick scrub, up a slope which was everywhere steep and in places precipitous. We took comfort from the thought that had we slipped on the damp and greasy rocks, the bushes would have prevented us from rolling far. Finally we emerged, breathless and triumphant, on the highest point of the Hunchbacks.\n\nJuly 1935.\n\n35", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 549127, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "page_number": 35, "title": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "content_text": "36\n\n108\n\nG. S. P. HEYWOOD\n\nThe North West Ridge of the Hunchbacks.-Like the route just described-very steep and bushy; a wearisome ascent, but admirable as a quick way off the mountain. The ridge plunges straight down from the summit of the Hunchbacks almost to sea level. A narrow track follows the edge of the ridge, like a long rabbit-hole through the bushes. When it reaches a big shoulder about 1,000 feet above sea level, the track diverges to the right and descends towards White Head. If your sampan is waiting for you at Tai Shui Hang, you will be tempted to take a short cut to the left, across the lower slopes of the mountain, where a path is shown in Mr. Gibb's sketch map.\n\nBut the path has disappeared, the hillside is thickly forested and almost impassable, and the shortest way will take the longest time. It is better to come down to the sea near White Head, and to follow the shore to Tai Shui Hang.\n\nOther ascents, more or less legendary, have been made on the north and north-west sides of Ma On Shan, but it would be a pity to describe them and so deprive the reader of the joys of exploration on this fascinating mountain.\n\nKowloon Peak to Ma On Shan.-There is a charm in a long walk on a high ridge; the uphill grind is finished early, and all day long you are walking in the cool air of the hilltops, with wide views on either side. And when at last you reach the final point of the ridge and look back on the long rank of peaks and passes which you have crossed, you feel that the day has indeed been well spent. Perhaps the finest walk in the Colony is from Kowloon Peak to Ma On Shan, along the watershed which divides Port Shelter on the East from Tide Cove and Hong Kong Harbour on the west. The ridge is never less than 1,000 feet above sea level; from end to end it is five miles as the crow flies, and the whole walk, returning by Sai Kung and over Customs Pass, is about 16 miles in length. A peak-bagger, who delights in climbing as many summits as possible in the day, will of course walk over every point on the ridge; this would involve over 5,000 feet of ascent-rather too enormous an expedition for an ordinary walker. We started at 9:30 a.m., and took an easier way, missing Kowloon Peak itself, and reaching the ridge by the Jat Incline. This excellent path starts from the Customs Pass road a short distance above the Kowloon Dairy, and climbs for 1,800 feet at an easy gradient across the flank of Kowloon Peak to the top of the ridge a few yards S.E. of Tate's Cairn. Time, 13/4 hours from the bus stop at Kai Tak.\n\nA few steps down the far side of the ridge put us out of sight of the town, and we might have been a hundred miles from civilization. This is certainly the place for a halt, to gaze on the lovely view over Port Shelter; but not a long one, for Ma On Shan, standing up nobly at the end of the ridge, is still far away. The next obstacle was the little hill obscurely named One Rise More. Perhaps this hill has no Chinese name, but in cases where native names exist it is surely better to stick to them. There are too many absurdities such as Pottinger Peak and Mount Butler in the Colony, however worthy their namesakes may have been. It is fortunate that the English name for the highest mountain in the world sounds so well, but the native name Chomolungma, \"The Goddess Mother of the Snows,\" is perhaps more beautiful and certainly more appropriate.\n\nThe Hong Kong Naturalist", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 549128, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "page_number": 36, "title": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "content_text": "The Hong Kong Naturalist.\n\nVol. VI, No. 2.\n\n1\n\n2\n\n#\n\nPlate 9.\n\n1. Ma On Shan seen across the mangrove swamp near Shatin.\n\n2. Ma On Shan and Tolo Harbour. The nearer point is the summit of the Hunchbacks, with the North-West Ridge to the left, and the highest point of Ma On Shan showing behind the Hunchback Ridge to the right. The white streak on the lower slopes of the Hunchbacks is the scar of the disused road leading to the Iron Mine. In the foreground can be seen the single track of the Kowloon-Canton railway.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 549129, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "page_number": 37, "title": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "content_text": "Hong Kong Hills\n\n109\n\nMusing thus on the whims of surveyors, we decided that we could do with one rise less, and refused to clamber to the top of the hillock with the odd name.\n\nIt was avoided by skirting it to the west along a path which passes just above Tiu Tso Ngam village, and so down to Heather Pass. A few yards below this pass to the east is a spring which is always running except in the driest of seasons; here we did justice to a magnificent thirst.\n\nA paved path runs eastward from Heather Pass across the slopes of Buffalo Hill to Buffalo Pass. As far as I know, there is no path to the top of Buffalo Hill (1,987 feet), but this glorious viewpoint can be reached fairly easily by a steep scramble of 400 feet up from the pass of the same name. After this digression we returned to the pass and continued along the ridge; the route was a little vague, for the good path had descended into the valley on our left, and we had to trust to cow tracks. In clear weather there is no difficulty in following the watershed down to Delta Pass; unfortunately, however, we were by this time shrouded in thick mist. It soon became obvious to the rearguard that the leader, although he continued to plod obstinately ahead, had lost the way; in a little while some cows loomed up out of the mist; they looked strangely familiar, and closer examination proved without any doubt that they were the very cows which we had passed a quarter of an hour previously. After this chastening experience we pulled ourselves together, and found our way to Delta Pass without further mishap. Here we halted for half an hour for lunch.\n\nOn the far side of the pass is a short steep rise to Ngong Ping. This remote little village has a charm of its own; it stands on a high plateau, hidden from the rest of the world; a grove shades it in summer, and shelters it from the east wind in winter; in front are a few paddy fields, and beyond them are only the mountain tops and the wide sky.\n\nThe path crosses the paddy fields, goes over a pass west of Pyramid Hill, and descends to Ma On Shan village; we left it a few yards below the pass on the far side, and took an easy short cut across the hillside in the direction of the summit of Ma On Shan, until we struck the path up from the Iron Mine. The route from here to the summit has already been described. We reached the top in thick cloud at 2.45 p.m., halted long enough to eat an orange, and turned back to descend to Sai Kung. It was pleasant to come down out of the cloud on to lower ground; the greens and browns of the hillsides were good to look on, for colours never seem so rich as when the eyes have been attuned for hours to a grey monotone of mist.\n\nThe fishing fleet was anchored in the little harbour of Sai Kung, and from the junks came a cheerful clack of voices, like the contented sounds from a rookery in the evening. If Sai Kung were transplanted to the south coast of England, it would become a \"beauty spot\"; artists would inhabit the cottages; \"Ye Olde Ship Inne\" would inevitably make its appearance, with its ruinous prices and sham antiques, and at its doors charabancs would unload their hordes at week-ends. But away with such horrid thoughts; Sai Kung is still cut off from civilization by six miles of footpath, and if you cannot get beer to revive you for the long trudge home, at least you can get delicious oranges for next to nothing.\n\nThus refreshed, we strolled home in the dusk over Customs Pass, and at 7.10 p.m. reached the car waiting at the bottom of the hill.\n\nJuly 1935.\n\n38", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 549130, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "page_number": 38, "title": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "content_text": "39 \n\n[ 110 ] \n\nLEGENDS AND STORIES OF THE NEW TERRITORIES.\n\nII.\n\nTS'ING SHAAN OR CASTLE PEAK.\n\nSUNG HOK-P'ANG.\n\nThe original name of Tsing Shaan was Yeung 'Haang 'Shaan (1) meaning \"Ship or Goat Ditch Hill,\" and nearby there is still a village called Yeung Siu 'Haang (2) \"Ship or Goat little Ditch;\" but later on the Peak was called simultaneously Shing 'Shaan (3) “Saint Hill,\" and T'uen Moon 'Shaan (3) \"Military Colonist Gate Hill.\" The latter name was given because in olden times the Chinese Emperor sent soldiers there to cultivate the soil, and at the same time protect the country-side from the numerous pirates that infested the coast.\n\nIn A.D. 428 a certain monk named 'Pooi To (1) became abbot of the monastery, and then the name of Pooi To Shaan (3) was used.\n\nNearly five and a half centuries later, in the 12th year of Taai Po (A) of Naam Hon (1) dynasty, on the 18th day of the 2nd month (A.D. 969) the Emperor gave the hill the special name of Sui Ying 'Shaan (2) \"Good omen hill,\" and caused a stone tablet to be erected on which was carved the history of the monastery. This stone recorded that in the 11th year of K'in, Woh (2) A.D. 954 a military officer named Ch'an Ts'un (1) had paid a stone mason to carve a figure of Pooi To which he put in a cave near the monastery, and which can still be seen. In the 4th year of Yuen Yau (πi) A.D. 1089 of \"Sung (✯) dynasty a general in Canton named Tseung Chi K'ei (2) wrote an account of the hill, and put it on a stone tablet in place of the old one. This second one has now disappeared, but fortunately the account is in the \"History of the 'Sun 'On district,\" and from it can be learnt that formerly there was a castle at the north of the hill, and to the west of the castle a Po To Haai (1) or \"arrest bandit station.\" No trace is left of either of these buildings, but undoubtedly this is the origin of the English name of Castle Peak.\n\nThe history of the monk Pooi To is a curious one, and the stories of the miracles he did, are very numerous. It is not known what his real name was, Pooi To being his Bhuddist name. He is supposed to have lived in the \"K'ei 'Chau (1) district at first, which is between Shantung (山東) and Chili (1) provinces. He was an uncultivated man, without family, wandering from place to place, and asking shelter from house to house. Once when he went to the then capital city of China (Sung dynasty) Kin Hong(1) he was described as looking about forty years old. He used a rope instead of a belt, his coat was all torn. He was easily pleased, but quickly angered. Sometimes he talked a lot, at other times he remained silent for whole days, and when it was very cold he would often roll in the snow. He would climb the hills in rough wooden clogs or walk about the town barefoot. He was not a vegetarian like other Bhuddist monks, but ate and drank as an ordinary man. His only possessions were a rice basket and a wooden ...\n\nThe Hong Kong Naturalist.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 549131, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "page_number": 39, "title": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "content_text": "Legends and Stories of the New Territories\n\nIII\n\ncup. The cup plays an important part in the various stories about him, and is the origin of his name. Once he went to live at a monastery called Yin Yin Tsz (E) where the abbot Faat \"Yee To Yan (A) allowed him to occupy the spare room. After staying there a while he wished to go across the 'Kwa Po river () but the ferry man seeing his ragged condition and doubting probably his ability to pay refused to take him. So Pooi To tossed his cup into the water, put his legs in it, and singing merrily he floated across to the northern shore.\n\nAnother story and one rather to his discredit tells how he stole a Bhuddist idol of gold from a house where he had been entertained. The owner gave chase, but even though he ran and Pooi To appeared to be walking slowly ahead of him, he could not catch him up. Then a man on a horse joined in the chase, but even he fared no better. At last the river, Maang Tsuh (#) was reached and the owner felt certain of being able to get his idol back, but Pooi To, a little ahead of him, calmly threw his cup in the river, and sitting in it ferried across. From these stories his name of Pooi To \"cup across\" was derived.\n\nmove it.\n\nOnce Pooi To went to a small district called Kwong Ling (M) and entered a village belonging to a family called Lei (). One of the villagers was holding a big religious ceremony and feast (called Paat 'Kwaan Tsaai A which is a vegetarian meal given free to all that call) in his house, and into the midst of this Pooi To walked calmly, and put his rice basket down in the centre of the hall, and sat down to meditate. The guests at the feast were much disgusted at his dirty appearance and tried to take the basket away, but found they could not. Lei himself tried to lift it, and called his sons to help, still they could not move it. Then Pooi To, taking no notice of them, started eating the rice and food set on the table, and when he had finished his meal, he got up, lifted up the basket and went out. Turning back at the door he said \"The four Kings of Heaven will send a lot of Happiness to your family, Lei.\" While he spoke a young child was peering into his basket, and he quickly ran and told his father that he had seen four miniature children only a few inches long and beautifully dressed, lying in the basket. Then Lei realized that Pooi To must be a holy man, and he wanted to ask him to stay, but he found Pooi To had gone. For three days he searched for him, and at last found him sitting in a little wood to the west of his house. So Lei took Pooi To back to his home, and he stayed with him for many days. The people living round about soon learnt that he was a holy man, and brought their sick to be cured by him. They would offer him money and presents, which Pooi To with his characteristic inconsistency sometimes accepted and sometimes refused.\n\nLater on a high officer named Lau 'Hing Paak () heard about Pooi To and invited him to stay in his house. Pooi To arrived carrying, as usual, his rice basket. Lau hospitably sent his servants to meet him and to carry his basket for him, but they found they could not pick it up. More servants came until there were ten of them, yet even they could not move it. Then Lau himself looked in the basket and found in it only one torn coat and one wooden cup.\n\nJuly 1935.\n\n40", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 549132, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "page_number": 40, "title": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "content_text": "112\n\nSUNG HOK-P'ANG\n\nPooi To stayed with Lau about 30 days, and then returned to Lei. One day, just at daybreak Pooi To asked his host to make him a new coat, and said that he wanted it by noon. Lei started off at once to make it, but when noon came it was not finished, so Pooi To said \"I want to go out for a while, but I will return this evening.\" Evening came but Pooi To did not come back. Lei noticed a very sweet smell filling the house, and wondering where the fragrance came from, he went out and traced it to a stone cave. There he found Pooi To lying dead. His old torn coat was beneath him, but round his head and feet a lot of water-lilies were growing. Much grieved Lei left the cave, and the next morning he came back with a coffin. He found the water-lilies all dead, but Pooi To still there, so he buried him and went home sadly. Several days later a traveller from the North visited Lei and mentioned that he had seen Pooi To walking with his rice basket towards a place called P'aang Sheng (). Lei was astonished and could not believe it, an argument followed, and to prove he was right Lei took the traveller to where Pooi To had been buried. With much effort Lei dug up the coffin, and opened it. All that was inside was a pair of old shoes.\n\nWhen Pooi To arrived at Paang Sheng a very poor scholar named Wong Yan () entertained him in his house. Wong was ashamed of his poverty and being only able to give his guest corn to eat, but Pooi To said \"This is the best food in the world\". After staying with him about six months Pooi To said to Wong one day, \"I have need of thirty-six rice baskets. Get them at once for me\". Wong was much distressed and answered \"I have only got ten and I am so poor I cannot afford to buy more, what can I do?\" Pooi To comforted him, and said “There is no need to buy, look about your house\". Wong did what he was told, and in all sorts of corners rice baskets appeared, until he found to his amazement that he had collected thirty-six in his yard. Most of them were dirty and broken, but Pooi To told him to go round and count them again carefully, after which they all appeared quite new. Then Pooi To wrapped each basket up separately and when that was done, he told Wong to open them again. Each basket was full of coins. Wong did not keep all the money himself, but gave generously to others in need.\n\nPooi To stayed with Wong for a year, and then quite suddenly he said one day \"I must go\". Wong hastened to cook a farewell meal, but, even before it was ready Pooi To had disappeared as mysteriously as he had come.\n\nAbout a month later Pooi To appeared in a place called Ng Kwan (), a prefecture in the East of China. Pooi To walked by the sea shore and met an old fisherman, and begged a fish from him. The fisherman refused, but after Pooi To had continued to worry him for some time, he picked up a very stale and putrifying fish, and threw it to him roughly. Pooi To took the fish, and held it up admiringly. Then he tossed it back into the sea, and the fish swam away. Pooi To went on to another fisherman, who had a net. He again begged to be given a fish, but he was told to go away. So Pooi To picked up two small stones and threw them into the net, and instantly two buffaloes appeared in the net, fighting with each other.\n\nThe Hong Kong Naturalist.\n\nPage 40\n\nPage 41", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 549133, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "page_number": 41, "title": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "content_text": "The Hong Kong Naturalist.\n\n天秤\n\n山仰止释公名重兵邦人\n\n蟬是頭回\n\nVol. VI. No. 2.\n\nPlate 10. Stone figure of Fooi To erected at\n\nInside of Gateway leading to Monastery, erected A.D. 1929.\n\nCastle Peak Monastery A. D. 954.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 549134, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "page_number": 42, "title": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "content_text": "Legends and Stories of the New Territories\n\n113\n\neach other. Soon the net was torn to pieces, and the buffaloes slipped out of the net and disappeared, and when the astonished fisherman turned round to Pooi To, he had disappeared too.\n\nThe\n\nAfter this Pooi To went to the capital city, and stayed in the house of a rich man named Ch'an, a native of Naam Chau. Later stories reached Chan that there was another Pooi To in the city. Chan and his four sons could not believe it, but as the people who told them persisted, Chan resolved to find out for himself. Leaving Pooi To in the house, he went with his sons into the town, and found, to his surprise, another monk exactly like Pooi To sitting there. Then Chan prepared a box of honey-ginger, which he gave to the new Pooi To, together with a knife to cut the ginger and a handkerchief dipped in fragrant water. The monk put the box on his lap, and started to eat the ginger, but however much he ate, the same amount remained in the box. So Chan decided that this man must indeed be Pooi To, and telling his two younger sons to remain with him, he went home again with the others. When they opened the door of their house they found Pooi To sitting there and on his lap was a box of honey ginger, a knife and a handkerchief dipped in fragrant water. He held out the knife to Chan, saying, \"This is not sharp enough to cut the ginger. Sharpen it.\" While Chan was doing this, the two younger sons returned home, and reported that they had followed the monk in the city to the monastery of Ling Tsau. Then Pooi To asked to be given two pieces of yellow paper, and he wrote some characters on the back of each. No one could understand the characters or even knew what language they were, and when Chan asked him what he was writing Pooi To gave no reply. He folded the papers together, and shortly afterwards disappeared.\n\n3\n\nAbout that time a certain official or minister named Chue Ling K'ei was on his way down from Korea to China in a small vessel. He met a typhoon and the boat was tossed about the sea for nine days and then driven on to the shore of an island. The island consisted of a steep mountain, and here Chue and his companions wandered about trying to find food and help. At last they came to a grass-cutter's path which they followed. After walking about ten miles they heard the sound of monastery bells and smelt the fragrance of burning joss sticks. Filled with hope they knelt and prayed to Buddha to bring them to safety. Then they came to a monastery, large and beautifully decorated, and saw ten or more priests outside, but coming nearer they found that they were made of stone. The travellers were amazed, and being afraid began to pray to be forgiven of their sins. In the distance they heard a voice shouting to them, and searching in the direction of the voice they came across another priest, but found he also was made of stone. Many times they heard voices calling them, but could find nothing but stone figures. Then they said to each other, \"Those are all Saints, we are unworthy wicked men, so how can we see them,\" and they knelt down and prayed very earnestly for forgiveness. When they had finished praying they looked up and saw a real priest coming towards them, who welcomed them kindly and brought them into the monastery. A meal was set before them, all the dishes were\n\nJuly 1935.\n\n43", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 549135, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "page_number": 43, "title": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "content_text": "44\n\n114\n\nSUNG HOK-P'ANG\n\nThe ordinary vegetables such as Buddhist priests eat, but they smelt very fragrant, and tasted delicious, and the travellers had never tasted anything as good before. When the meal was over, they asked the priest how to get to the capital city, who answered \"From here to the capital is more than 200,000 miles, but do not worry, make up your mind to go and you will reach there quickly.\" Then he asked Chue \"Do you know Pooi To?\" The minister answered \"Yes, I know him well.\" Then the priest pointed to the north wall and showed him a cloth sack, a tall Abbot's staff, and a priest's alms bowl hanging there. He said \"Those are Pooi To's things. I beg you to give him back this alms bowl when you see him, and this letter that I will give you. And here is a green bamboo stick, which when you get back to your boat, throw into the water in front of the boat and shut the windows of the boat and sit quietly. You need not trouble to row or sail, for you will arrive at the capital very speedily.\"\n\n1\n\nThey all said goodbye and a young priest took them to the monastery door and showed them a path to follow which would bring them back to their vessel quickly. Once more on board, they did what they had been told, and soon found to their amazement that the boat had left the water and was sailing over the tops of the trees. After three days of this novel means of travel, they reached the Waai river (淮河) and arrived at a place named 'Chue Tseuk' (朱雀) not far from the capital. Here they espied Pooi To riding along on a big horse, urging it along with a whip. Chue and his companions threw themselves down and began to worship Pooi To, who entered their boat, and they gave him the alms bowl and the letter. Now there were many people about, and when some of them saw the letter, they recognized it as that which Pooi To had written in Chan's house, for it was on two bits of yellow paper and only consisted of a few characters which were ugly and no-one could understand them. Pooi To held the alms bowl in his hand, and laughed. He said “Oh, they want me to go home and throw this bowl into the sky and catch it again. But I haven't seen the bowl for four thousand years!\"\n\nAnother version of this story recounts that when Chue reached the island, he met a priest carrying the alms bowl who said \"I was a pupil of Pooi To. Formerly I held this bowl, but I died in Ye Shing Monastery (冶城寺). Now I ask you to return this bowl to Pooi To for me. When you get to your boat, hold it in front of the boat and let one man hold the tiller, and you will reach the capital safely.\" And the minister did what he had been told, and reached Pooi To, as described before.\n\nPooi To must have returned to Chan's family by then because the story tells that on that day, he had left Chan's house early and did not return till dark. The following morning, Chan rose up early, and found that Pooi To had disappeared, but on his door, written in childish and uneducated characters, were the words \"Happiness family. The holy man will come and live there.\" After that, Pooi To never returned to Chan's family again, but he made several mysterious appearances and disappearances in the city, working miracles and curing sick people.\n\nThe Hong Kong Naturalist.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 549136, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "page_number": 44, "title": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "content_text": "Legends and Stories of the New Territories\n\n115\n\nHer\n\nA man called Yue Sheung () had a servant girl who stole a lot of things and ran away. He searched for her in vain, so sent someone to ask Pooi To's help. Pooi To said, \"She is dead already. Her body is in an old tomb on the river shore in Kam Shing.\" His words were proved to be true.\n\nAn officer of high rank named 'Hung Ning \"Tsz (JLT) was very ill with dysentery. No one could cure him, so Pooi To was consulted. The monk looked sad and said \"No, he cannot be cured. I have seen four ghosts all badly wounded.\" When the sick man heard this, he wept and said \"When 'Suen 'Yan () raised a rebellion, his family were scattered by the soldiers. His parents and an uncle were cruelly treated, and he himself died. Were these their ghosts?\" And soon after, he died.\n\nThe wife of a worthy man, Ts'ai Haai () was ill, and all hope of her recovery was given up. As the doctors appeared no good, Tsai Haai asked the priests to come and pray for her. They could not help. Then one of them said \"Why not ask Pooi To to come?\" When Pooi To arrived, he wandered into the room, looked at the woman, and said quietly \"Easy.\" Then he muttered to himself for a while, and gradually the woman was cured. Tsai Haai after that insisted on Pooi To staying with him in his house, and treated him with the greatest of respect.\n\nIn the ninth month of the third year of Yuen Ka () of Sung dynasty (A.D. 426), Pooi To went off to a lake in the East called Ch'ek 'Shaan Woo () where he became ill, and died. Tsai Haai took his corpse and buried it in a hill called 'Fook 'Chan Shaan (¥) \"upside down boat hill,\" which is somewhere to the north-east of Nanking.\n\nPage 116\n\nTwo years later, one day in the third month, Tsai Haai was in his house with his family, when to his surprise the door opened and Pooi To walked in. He talked pleasantly for a short while, when there was a knock at the door and a priest appeared. He beckoned to Pooi To, who followed him, but before he left, Pooi To told the family that he had to go to 'Kaau Kwong () (now Kwangtung, Kwangsi, and Annam) and would never come back to them. He then threw his cup into the sea, and he and the priest sailed away in it, to the Monastery of Tuen Moon Shaan (Castle Peak), where, as has been already said, he became Abbot.\n\nPooi To is reputed also to have lived for a while in another hill nearby called Ling To 'Shaan () “miracle across the Sea Hill,” and there is still a monastery there bearing the name of Ling To Tsz (靈渡寺).\n\nNothing further is known about Pooi To, and there are no stories about him after he came to Castle Peak, but it is supposed that the monastery there was carried on by the Buddhist monks for many years after his death. There is nothing recorded to give any indication of how long the monastery continued to exist, but it must have fallen into disuse by the reign of To 1Kwong () 1821-1850 of Ts'ing () dynasty because the Taoists built a monastery then on the site of the old one, and called it 'Ts'ing Wan\n\nJuly 1935.\n\n3\n\n45", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 549137, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "page_number": 45, "title": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "content_text": "46\n\n116\n\nSUNG HOK-P'ANG\n\nKwun () \"green cloud Taoist temple.\" At first many people visited it, but its popularity did not last long, and eventually it became deserted.\n\nIn 1918 a Buddhist came to Castle Peak, and established the present Buddhist monastery, adding to the buildings and becoming the first abbot.\n\nAnyone visiting Castle Peak now, will find much of interest. About half-way up the path leading to the monastery there is a handsome gate that was erected in 1929. On the front of it are the characters 'Heung Hoi Ming 'Shaan (l) \"Hong Kong Sea famous Mountain\" which were put there by Sir Cecil Clementi. On the reverse side is written Wui T'au Shi Ngon (D) meaning, the shore is just behind you, i.e., you can mend your ways easily. This is a Buddhist saying and was written on the gate by Tit Shim () a famous abbot in Canton. The gate was erected by twenty Chinese benefactors, and their names are written on the left-hand side of the front of the gate.\n\n10\n\nThe monastery itself consists of several buildings, the Abbot's Lodge, the Pooi To pavilion, and a garden with an arbour called 'Hoi Yuet Ting (H) \"Sea Moon Arbour\" which was placed there for the delightful purpose of looking at the moonlight on the sea. The Fishes Tomb is an object of interest. The Buddhists who believe that no form of life should be taken are in the habit of buying fish from the fishermen and releasing them in the sea again. If, however, the fishes are dead, they bury them in this Tomb so that no one will eat them.\n\nJust above the buildings, there is a small cave with the remains of a whale's bones in it. This whale is supposed to have crushed the mountain in remote times, but there is more appearance of the whale having suffered than the mountain! Unfortunately, a lot of the bones have been taken away by unscrupulous visitors, and only one very worn vertebra and some ribs are left. Near this cave is the little shrine with Pooi To's figure in it.\n\nIf the path leading up to the summit of the mountain is followed, a little summer house with stone benches by it is found near the top. This is called \"Clementi Arbour,\" and was erected by a Chinese gentleman, who visited Castle Peak with Sir Cecil one day, and heard him remark that it would be a good plan to have a convenient resting place in that particular spot. At the summit of the mountain, there is a large stone on which are carved the characters 'Ko 'Shaan Tai Yat (-) “The best high mountain\" which are supposed to have been written by Hon Yue () a very famous scholar of the T'ong () dynasty, who was born in A.D. 768 and died A.D. 824.\n\n13\n\nThe present Chinese name of Tsing Shaan, \"green mountain\" is derived from the fact that the grass on it always appears green, even though the surrounding hills may be burnt up and brown during the rainless winter months.\n\nThe Hong Kong Naturalist.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 549138, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "page_number": 46, "title": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "content_text": "[ 117 ]\n\nARCHAEOLOGICAL FINDS ON LAMMA ISLAND\n\n(H) NEAR HONG KONG.\n\nPART IX.\n\nBy D. J. FINN, S.J.\n\nWhat has already been published by Professor Shellshear (24) and in the H.K.N. series of articles is enough to give an adequate idea of the prehistorical material found around Hong Kong in general and on Lamma in particular. The Naturalist series so far has kept within the Neolithic and Bronze Age aspects of the Lamma finds, because these are the prevailing features there and it was actually a long time before the presence of older types was noted. Professor Shellshear and Dr. Heanley had come to recognise the existence of such elements in their surface finds elsewhere and these were published in the Hanoi paper (24) p. 67, Plates VII, VIII (5, 6). In rounding off by this publication the important features of the Lamma finds, I wish to keep mostly to the Tai Wan and HSY material and to treat this peculiar \"epimiolithic\" evidence merely in an introductory fashion: it is of great importance and a proper discussion of it is hardly possible as yet and would in any case involve the illustration of other sites and material: I hope to describe later some other sites in quick survey and then the question will come up again. After this present part, we shall be concerned with Tai Wan mainly only by way of amplification or special detail.\n\nThe material to be described here does not admit of as much illustration by parallels from other sites outside the Hong Kong area as did the bulk of the things already treated above; it consists, first, of some objects whose use and even fabrication are obscure-they are perhaps fabricators themselves; secondly, of the types of polishing stones (briefly indicated, for the material is very rich and hard to publish); thirdly, of the \"epimioliths\" and finally of some implements very significant for the character of the Lamma culture (spindle-whorls and fish-hook).\n\nSTONE-WORKING IMPLEMENTS (POLISHERS)?\n\nThis is the type of thing illustrated in Plate 11. The specimens come from Tai Wan except for the piece E which seems obviously to be a piece in readiness to make an article of the type, Plate 11 D: this “blank\" comes from HSY (picked up loose). Material and finish (if one can so describe what seems rather to be smoothened surfaces consequent on use) suggest that these objects belong to the type of tools used by workers in stone, analogous to the saws (or files) published in H.K.N. VI, p. 59, Plate 6. The material of these as far we know them is softer than that of the saws: it is of the ash, shale or softer sandstone kind.\n\nThe first piece Plate 11, A was found at 27ins. resting on top of a short pestle-like stone: this latter kind of thing has turned up frequently on our sites here and seems to have been either a percussion implement or a whet-stone (usually the ends show signs of hammering, often with big fractures, but the sides sometimes seem polished): the collocation looks like that of tools such as we shall have to note below for other specimens. This piece is of a greyish-blue. The shape is roughly like that of the saws\n\nJuly 1935.\n\n47", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 549139, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "page_number": 47, "title": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "content_text": "48\n\nX\n\n118\n\nD. J. FINN, S.J.\n\nfor which we find commonly a sub-triangular scheme corresponding to an \"edge\"-carrying side, a slope to a point and a back-slope (here to a butt). The \"edge\" is the meeting of two bevelled surfaces, one on each face to a depth of about 8-9 mm. Over the rest of the faces there is a vague smoothening except on the lumpy \"grip\". The edge is not straight but very slightly convex and it finishes at either end in a blunt surface as if the movement that produced it suddenly changed at a right angle. The face shown in Plate 11, A gives us the typical feature of this whole group, the resemblance to a protoneolith in that the \"edge\" is the only section fully worked out: the other boundaries are left untrimmed or only roughly blocked out: the faces are not polished down to a smooth surface. This face is worked on three different cleavage planes, the deepest being that on which \"27\" is written, the second plane that to the right and the nearest is to be seen at the bottom of the figure: this last merges with the first at the line of the bevel. It is to be noted that if the lower section were to be cut off, what would\n\n3. cms.\n\nཔ11©།།U quw\n\nA.\n\nStone polisher (?) as in Plate 11, A. Note that all sections show front face to left of vertical sections and above in horizontal sections.\n\nF\n\n3. cms\n\nF. A stone form, possibly intended for use as scythe, but material is of the mica-schist type used for \"stone-saws.\"\n\nbe left agrees almost exactly in shape and size with the complete piece Plate 1 B. On the reverse side, there is a lump of rock left protruding, presumably to make a grip, on the area corresponding to the second plane described above. The section shows how distinctly the piece is of the “backed-blade\" type.\n\nThe Hong Kong Naturalist.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 549140, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "page_number": 48, "title": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "content_text": "The Hong Kong Naturalist.\n\nVol. VI, No. 2.\n\nPlate 11. A-D. Stone Implements of uncertain meaning, perhaps polishing tools. E is a rough blank closely related to D in form. D and E seem to be of the \"hache courte\" type (see text). G is a polishing tool of sandstone. D, E, G found in a clump with neolithic step-axes. R is a bronze fishing-hook from HSY. X is a stone disk pierced: around lip of hole is a spindle-whorl \"cushion\" rim. Probably this is a ...\n\nScales in Cms.\n\nThe Scales on the right refer, in turn from the upper one, to figures D and E; B and C; G; X; R; A.\n\n27\n6\n49", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 549141, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "page_number": 49, "title": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "content_text": "Archaeological Finds on Lamma Island\n\n119\n\nThe position and size of this lump, the much rougher reverse face, the material, the bluntness of the \"edge,\" the inequality of the bevels, all suggest that we have here some tool used in the preparation of other tools that were worked by polishing, sharpening or a cutting that was akin to polishing, something intimately related to the saws of our preceding article but of much softer material.\n\nThe next piece is of importance Plate 11, B because on the one hand it is just like a portion of the above specimen as far as general shape, section and condition are concerned; because, on the other hand, it was found in one of those group finds which seem to have always been together and which warrant us in supposing that thus we may argue to the piece's proper cultural context. This specimen was found along with the next piece and the sandstone polisher below G, a group of seven neolithic axes (some of them showing the most pronounced type of stepping that we have got, very good \"Philippine\" axes all of them but one showing at least some kind of faint stepping and four of them showing no signs of use), much pottery including two whole pots standing erect (one of them very like H.K.N. IV, Plate 15, No. 3 but larger and very similar to the An Yang piece (45) p. 58. Plate I: the other was like H.K.N. IV, Plate 15, No. 1 but had more marked splay of the sides cp. (5), Plate IV, Nos. 15, 19 (Han), a mouth less highly collared but with two pair of suspension holes, a dish-bottom making a sharp angle with the sides and which originally stood probably on a foot): the pottery was all of the quartz-corded type of real neolithic stuff (no \"Double-F\"): there were also two split but unworked pieces of stone, seemingly \"blanks\" for stone implements, though one may have been cut out with a saw from an older adze-tool. The seven axes were beautifully finished: they are the best we have got from Lamma for excellence of material and finish; hence the collocation would warn us against regarding the present specimens as protoncoliths the finding of the sandstone polisher or whet-stone and of the blanks point to this being a group of tools with some unused pieces. In this context, it is important to note the similarity of this find to the burial deposit in the undisturbed grave found by J. G. Andersson at Pien Chau Kou (Kansu; Yang Shao culture of the painted burial wares, probably about 2000 B.C.):- two greenstone axes, two grindstones of light red sandstone and twelve burial urns of which four unpainted (rougher) and eight painted (\"elegant, fine, pale brick-red ware\"). It is probable that the rougher wares contained meat and drink there were fragments of a stag's skull in one and all four were at the dead man's head. We may take it that the Lamma find was not a mortuary deposit for the usual character of the finds seems to point to actual habitation rather than to burial: however, even from this point of view, the P.C.K. deposit suggests an important point of view, viz:- burial deposits embrace the important elements in the culture of the people, the articles deemed most necessary at some stage (if not the actual present) of their development: the Lamma find containing the very same species of objects might therefore be taken as completely characteristic of the culture in its distinctive features (99), p. 274. And at Lamma there is also the close proximity of\n\nJuly 1935.\n\nPage 120\n\nOne\n\n50", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 549142, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "page_number": 50, "title": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "content_text": "120 \n\nD. J. FINN, S.J. \n\na much finer ware: at P.C.K. there was painted pottery as well as the rougher vessels of everyday use. This whole find came from the region corresponding to the C-D of the excavation at about 50 ins. At a short distance to each side we found fragments of an old friend, a pot which figured in H.K.N. III, Plate 39, No. 28. (\"Double-F\" of a peculiar style) and of which we recovered scores of fragments in the later excavation of \"C-D.\" The levels at which these \"Double F\" fragments were found seem to reach their limit just about 60 ins. and mostly to lie rather about 40-50. \n\nThis implement is of a sandstone, slightly purplish in colour. Again, only the edge region is cleanly polished: the implement becomes thicker and rougher towards the back or grip region. \n\nThe third piece Plate 11 C, found with this last, is of a harder schist in which thicker red layers are separated by very fine layers of grey-blue-black mica: one face is just one such cleavage plane. The other has a marked lumpy projection along one of the shorter sides and a slighter ridge bounding the other. The edge is fan-shaped and the central part agrees fairly well with the curve of Plate 11 D. The edge does not lie in one plane but makes a sigmoid curve: it is produced by two bevels but gives the impression of being the result of a scraping action: it might be caused if the thing were a hand-whet-stone to be held in the left hand with the lumpy part well in the palm: sharpening a knife by strokes such as farmers make when sharpening a scythe would well explain the sigmoid line and the fading off of the bevels, one at the one extremity and the other at the opposite end. The material of the stone resembles somewhat the saws but has less quartz. \n\nIn general shape, this piece strangely resembles the \"scrapers\" or \"epimioliths\" published by Professor Shellshear (24) Plate VIII (6) or the piece from Lamma K. The straight edge is the result of a preliminary fracture along a cleavage plane: the concave side has been got by trimming down a fracture. \n\nNext come the two interesting pieces, one D from Tai Wan, the other, E from HSY, the latter obviously roughly prepared to be what the former has actually become: the notable difference being that the Tai Wan has a saw-cut back that is slightly convex, while the HSY piece has a concave back. The most interesting thing about these is that one knows so little about them. The shape resembles that of the \"Haches courtes\" of the Hwa-binhian, e.g. the large specimen reproduced after Mdlle. Colani in (25) figure 3: this Indo-China implement is of course much older, unlike in finish and material, but in size it is not much smaller our piece (143 x 189 mm.). Both Lamma specimens were picked up loose having previously been displaced by somebody digging. The more finished article is a very soft shale stone which has somewhat the feel and look of pig-skin leather, an impression reinforced by a varnish of tar-like oxidation which resembles the oxidation remarked on the rings (H.K.N. VI p. 51) and on the Aberdeen adze (H.K.N., IV, Plate XIX, 11). This coating is much heavier on one side, the rougher one: it seems moreover to have \n\nThe Hong Kong Naturalist. \n\nPage 50\n\nPage 51", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 549143, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "page_number": 51, "title": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "content_text": "Archaeological Finds on Lamma Island\n\n121\n\nbeen present before the polishing use, for it disappears in proportion to the finish of a surface: perhaps it is manganese oxide drawn from the stone by the action of some vegetative growth once adhering to it.\n\nThis D piece presents too some of the features of the preceding specimens: the thickening towards the back, the \"edge\" apparently produced by use rather than fashioned for cutting: yet this implement seems to have been hacked and has old gaps on the edge and deep scratches on the faces. The edge follows for the most part the line of a semi-circle whose centre lies well in on the face, but the curve is continued beyond in unconformity. The whole is a semi-circular segment extended irregularly beyond the diameter towards the back, i.e. presumably the grip part.\n\nIt is hard to conceive what the use of this implement could be: it is not well enough made to rank as a ceremonial weapon (axe)—its material is too soft for a knife or a scraper—the edge seems to indicate something other than a plate or palette—the form is hard to explain unless in some very regular, mechanical movement that would seem to go beyond the aptitude of the mere hand.\n\nバ\n\nE\n\n5. cms.\n\nE. Rough stone blank of \"hache courte\" type, possibly here, as sharpener. Mr. Schofield's specimen very similar but nearer still to \"hache courte\" in size and proportions.\n\nThe piece E in preparation shows a roughly shaped edge to which the very thick body has been flaked down. It seems to be of a harder stone than the finer specimen probably an ash, but intended to serve the same use. The shape agrees very closely in the breadth from edge to back with the former one's, yet there is a wider divergence from the circular form—the central part seems to have almost the same curvature, but the extremities are strongly contracted and part of the curve to one side is flattened. Had we not the other better specimen, we should have seen some kind of mesolithic form here. Actually, this is a very ungainly piece, for it is thicker towards the edge than towards the hand-grip. Mr. Schofield has found elsewhere a piece very similar to this in all but\n\nJuly 1935.\n\n52", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 549144, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "page_number": 52, "title": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "content_text": "53\n\n122\n\nD. J. FINN, S.J.\n\nsize and exact proportions. His piece is very close indeed to the hache courte of the Hwabinhian. All that we can say is that both these Lamma specimens seem to belong to the same culture as that which made the polished spear and arrow-heads. They seem also to go with the other objects described above in the present part. But Mr. Schofield's find makes a very remarkable link with the mesolithic of Tongking and N. Annam.\n\nThe\n\nA\n\nAnother piece that puts us in touch with flaked tools is F. material of this is that of the saws, a mica-schist: it is a very flat tool with an average greatest thickness of 10 mm. which by flaking has been reduced all around the edges to about 6 mm. One face shows an old patina, while the other seems to be a more recent cleavage from the parent block. The straight edge (hypoteneuse) has a narrow flat ribbon in place of a working edge and suggests that a beginning of use as a saw had been made. strange similarity with a completely flaked instrument again presents itself here (33) Plate XIV, 8 is a chert knife from Rubetsu on Yeterofu, one of the Kurile Islands: its shape is almost precisely that of our piece and it is only 15 mm. shorter and about 5-9 mm. narrower : our piece is certainly not a knife in its present state, it has no point and no edge-possibly we have an older shape transferred to another use when stone had yielded to the metals as the material of knives and the stone came to survive in the saw and sharpener type of tool. It may be well to note that Lamma has given us clear cases of a pot with loop-handles inside the neck, a style that is found in these same Kurile Islands, in Kamchatka and in North Japan (33) Plate XV and text.\n\nAgain, Dr. Andersson (99) pp. 207-209 provides an extraordinarily satisfactory parallel. He identifies a similar stone \"knife\" from An Yang (Chinese historical c. 1200 B.C.) functionally with iron scythes used in N. China (Anhui Kalgan). This parallel leads me to see in our piece F the \"makings\" of a scythe, for such an explanation suggested by actual modern types gives a very satisfactory reconciliation of the flaked stone from the Kuriles with the polished stone from An Yang and the unfinished Lamma piece an agricultural implement is more likely to retain an old form amid the changes of technique and material than is a weapon or a knife.\n\nIn conclusion, it would seem that this group of tools offers a link between the flaked type and the polished implement that already was in contact with bronze: here the old weapon-form has sunk down to a subsidiary workshop-form.\n\nPOLISHERS AND SHARPENERS.\n\nIn this section, there is space here only for the merest indication. The unifying factors are the material (most usually, sandstone), the surfaces (smooth, concave, often glistening), the shapes (either broad and flattish, like modern fixed whet-stones of the Chinese knife-sharpener or tool-maker or else multiple faces on a longish cucumber-shaped stone), sometimes there are the grooves that prove the use as a sharpener. Here there are illustrated only two specimens out of the very many we have found. These are two small ones which show very markedly the tracks of points that were to be\n\nThe Hong Kong Naturalist.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 549145, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "page_number": 53, "title": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "content_text": "Archaeological Finds on Lamma Island\n\n123\n\nsharpened. One is from Tai Wan G and was found with the axes and the rest as described above in the area C-D at 50-60 ins. It is of a reddish sandstone: the shape is typical even in large pieces of about 400 mm. in length: thicker and raw at one end, more pointed at the other: on larger specimens from Tai Wan (one very good one has been deposited with Professor Beyer in Manila) or from the S sites, five or six working facets are distributed very evenly around the stone leaving one untouched face to act as a bedding surface. Small pieces however seem to be used on all convenient surfaces. A peculiarity of all is the development of very narrow filets of polished surface between the wider faces. This specimen has one face hollowed in the typical manner, a second face that must have been used for some chisel-like tool, a third that has a deep groove in a surface also used for whetting: the fourth face has only the beginning of a groove. In addition there are two thin filets on the angles between the faces and they seem to have been made by a sharpening action at right angles to the long axis, as if the stone was held in the hand and then rubbed over an object with a side-to-side movement of the hand. Plate II G.\n\nW\n\n54\n\nH\n\n3. cms.\n\nH. A sharpening-stone from HSY. It shows the tracks of implements deeply cut: the uppermost track I. is in a plane intersecting that of the other grooves.\n\nThe section does not show clearly enough the presence of marked wider polishing surfaces on the back.\n\nA\n\n5. cms.\n\nStone adapted to hand-axe use by a few rough flakings. See text for interesting context of find.\n\nThe other piece H is from HSY and is selected for the deep grooves (three very marked and two weaker ones) in a rock that is much more compact (metamorphosed) than the first.\n\nSuch implements turn up on most of the sites, Tai Wan has given us very neat thin hone-shaped pieces quite close to pieces of bronze. Very small pieces occur, about 20 mm. in greatest dimension but also large heavy pieces up to about half a metre.\n\nA special type of polisher has been recognized at Lamma and S sites. It resembles the skittle used in bowls, having a cylindrical part to act as a handle and a very thin head which was obviously used to smoothen the inner circumference of some ring-shaped article.\n\nJuly 1935.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. 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FINN, S.J.\n\nFrom HSY and Aberdeen and Stanley, we have pieces which seem to be stones for grinding meal: they are usually of granitic types of stone and are characterized by the usual hollow.\n\nM\nx\nN\n5. cms.\n5. cms.\na\nM. \"Epimiolith\" with\n\"bent\" (apparently a sought-for form).\npoint\nN. \"Epimiolith\" from HSY: an excellent specimen of an implement in the Old Stone Age tradition (even Chalossian- but most likely to be referred rather to Asturian types): found close to neolithic axes and pottery (see text).\n\nEPIMIOLITHS.\n\nWe now come to the most interesting (archæologically) finds of all: but we can as yet say but little about them by way of explanation of context, use and culture. We find them on all our Hong Kong sites (or rather on the ones I personally know-they occur also on many of those known to my colleagues in this study). On the Lamma sites, at Aberdeen, Stanley and one other site, I have found them in the ground where the rougher corded ware was plentiful or characteristically present.\n\nIt must here be noted that “Double-F” is rare outside Lamma. Aberdeen yielded one piece of an older type of the D--F. ware with some fragments of another ware that is found typically at HSY: Stanley only one small fragment of a ware cognate to the \"Double-F.\" In one case below, figure I, the \"epimiolith\" was found with a neatly packed group of half a dozen clam shells and a piece of deer-antler and all amid a group of pottery, the objects seemingly having been originally inside a black pot of the gritty quartz-tempered corded type. This find was made before the excavations of 1933.\n\nHowever, every place which has yielded these implements has also given rough types of pottery, usually the black and the red corded wares showing much quartz in the paste. This is especially true of a Stanley site where on a low hill well out of reach of any wave disturbance a thin layer of humus, about one foot deep over the natural mantle of de-composed rock, still contains this type of pottery while, lower down at the base of the hill, evidently weathered out and carried down by erosion in typical fresh water gravel, some very good \"epimioliths\" were found. Thus they would belong to a period using already pottery of the usual neolithic type: on the same hill (both on the top and at the base), neolithic polished stone adzes (stepped and rectangular) were found.\n\nThe Hong Kong Naturalist.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 549147, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "page_number": 55, "title": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "content_text": "Archaeological Finds on Lamma Island\n\n125\n\nWe\n\nBut the specimen in figure K has a more puzzling context and condition. It comes from Tai Wan, from a section not counted in the 1933 excavation. It is from a kind of pocket amid rocks to the east of the clump of vegetation and the (sacred) tree which stands on the rocky knoll. The ground there is no longer the pure sliding sands of the main site but beneath the humus is lightly cemented together with minerals brought down by moisture from the upper layers. The sandy mass is about five feet deep over the rocks in this, one day when I visited the site with Mr. Schofield and Drs. Brock and Lees the geologists, I found by my own digging a most interesting collection of objects. These may be set forth here quickly, for the whole group is in the nature of a test case on which we have fortunately some of the best judgments that the scientific world may give on certain points. The section was about five feet wide with a face standing firm and clean about six feet measured down from the surface: at about five feet heavy boulders began: above that it was a sand concreted slightly with lime: the levels here as distinct from the rest of the Tai Wan site admit of much wash-down from the background.\n\nFound \"Double-F\" pottery at 40 ins. as described in H.K.N. III, p. 245. Related ware of I.d. ii type at 49 ins. (cp. ib. pp. 232, 245). The \"Chou\" type of ware (white rough developed from corded ware with bronze influence on pattern), illustrated in H.K.N. IV, Plate XIV, No. 6, p. 64: this was at about 50 ins. At the same level and quite close, four pieces of bronze of uncertain use, very corroded so that they were cracked as if made of perished leather: Mr. Simpson suggests that one piece with a curved point (like the nail-extractor on the old-fashioned Sheffield combination pocket-knives or, the Chinese so-called \"knot-openers\") may be a tool for trimming a clay mould before casting bronze: two pieces might possibly be bits of a runner from a mould: the other two are of about the thickness of an ordinary pencil but almost square in section: one surface is very flat being probably the top level of the liquid metal: they seem originally to have made one stick about 80 mm. in length of which the curved tip comes to a scraping edge. Close by these was a bronze coin of the usual cash type, obviously of an old date: it is so worn that it is not worth reproducing: the British Museum Coin Room to whom it was submitted gave as their opinion of its date:-\"PROBABLY c. I CENTURY A.D.\" The coin was not contained in any object and thus we have the alternative of dating the rest by the contiguity of the coin (later than the coin?) or else of regarding the coin as a later intruder: the second solution is suggested by quite modern coins which here and there were found well below the surface in other parts of the site. Further, close to the bronzes were two pottery \"beads\" or, more probably, spindle whorls these are of rough pottery with a vague design of small holes arranged in horizontal zones: one end (polar) of each specimen has been cut into, in one case seemingly by a regular curved object. These things look very primitive, but Professor Beyer has found pieces of very similar type in one of his Early Iron Age sites on Luzon. A neighbouring part of Tai Wan gave very much better finished specimens of the same kind of object (but without decoration) from a corresponding level (about 4 feet).\n\nJuly 1935.\n\n56", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 549148, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "page_number": 56, "title": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "content_text": "D. J. FINN, S.J.\n\nWe have however from HSY a different type of whorl which strangely resembles specimens from Troy (Hissarlik)(97) p. 353 in decoration, figure Q—and our S sites have given us many specimens of this type in corroboration; it has also been found at Ba-Xa in Indo China(98) Plate XIV: so that the actual use of these \"beads\" as whorls must be held an open question—they might be loom weights as we can argue from the pottery imprints that textiles were known here: this later use (or whorl-use) might explain the peculiarly fractured under-sides of our two specimens.\n\n3. cms.\n\nQ.\n\nQ. A spindle-whorl from HSY. With the section, a spindle has been drawn in section to suggest use. This specimen had a decoration of four tree-like branches as found on European Bronze Age whorls. The use of such whorls in Early Chinese Culture is shown by the upper wheel part of the character \n\nwith the idea of spinning as well as by the reference in the Book of Poetry to the \"pottery\" (sc, a pottery-whorl) given to baby girls as a play-thing and a presage of their future occupation.\n\nP.\n\nP. A loom-weight or spindle-whorl of pottery. Decoration of shallow holes in belts. Lower part broken.\n\nA stone disc with projecting rims to the central hole (Tai Wan) may be still another type of whorl, Plate 11, X].\n\nThe actual find of importance to which all this is a prelude was figure K. It is undoubtedly a worked stone in a palaeolithic tradition. The material seems to be a rhyolite with perhaps three different patinations, the most recent of which must be very old: it has produced a pale greenish to cream tone: it is clearest at the flaked tip and the flaked edge to the left of figure. An older patina with a little more of a light yellow-red covers the other flaked (or cleavage faces) as on the rest of figure, except for projecting surfaces which preserve the third or oldest patina on the\n\nThe Hong Kong Naturalist.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 549149, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "page_number": 57, "title": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "content_text": "Archaeological Finds on Lamma Island\n\n127\n\nnatural surfaces, especially good on the strip left between the two flaked areas above this third patina is a pronounced brownish red. Thus the original implement must have been more like figure N from HSY and probably had a rounded hand-grip surface covered with the natural skin of the pebble, one flat surface (probably at the back) and a more pronounced trihedral angle below with the ridge more central than now. It was Professor Henri Breuil who pointed out to me the difference of patina and the reworking: that authority is decisive. He regarded the patina on the typical specimen for our local coup-de-poing (faust-keil) or cleaver or scraper \"epimiolith\" as incontrovertible proof that they are considerably older than the local neolithic stone-axes from the same sites: this specimen then must be older still. The logical inference is that there is no ground for any generalized argument for dating by reason of the find-spot on such sites as these where we find \"epimioliths\" and polished axes, pottery of various types and even bronzes at the same levels without any possibility of discriminating times of deposition.\n\nX\n\nK\n\n373%. \n\nX\n\nX\n\n5.cms.\n\nK. \"Epimiolith\" showing three stages of patination. The oldest is represented in the sketch by the white surfaces: the next by the curved hatching: the most recent by the straight hatching.\n\nI have used the word \"epimiolith\" above: it may be new to most of my readers and perhaps I should explain. The prefix \"epi-\" has been used by certain modern scholars, notably Menghin (30) pp. 84-5. to denote that a culture of the type indicated by the word used after \"epi-\" is in that particular case surviving into a period later by one than its own proper time: thus \"epiprotolithic\" would mean some culture whose forms were that of the Early Stone Age lasting on into the Mesolithic should the survival be drawn out longer Menghin would use the form \"opsiprotolithic\". Though our case is still sub judice, I use the word \"epimiolith\" to describe these objects. which must now be regarded as much older than neolithic: this is the name that Menghin would give to the Bacsonian of Indo-China and to the Asturian of Spain actually one type that I have got in several specimens is very like the Asturian hand-axes (coup-de-poings: there used for opening sea-shells)\n\nJuly 1935.\n\n58", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 549150, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "page_number": 58, "title": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "content_text": "59\n\n128\n\nD. J. FINN, S.J.\n\nand so I propose this name for the present to designate this whole group until we know more about their certain contexts. Some of our specimens show a form astonishingly like that of the very early protolithic Chalossian coup-de-poing.\n\nL\n\n5. cms.\n\nL. \"Epimiolith\" with a marked lever-like handle.\n\nA third piece is from \"K\" at 51 ins.: it is of similar material but shows only two patinations, the oldest and the youngest of those described above (figure L). One other was picked up loose opposite the A-K cuts (figure M). The make of these pieces suggests that they were used for opening shells, as the point showing signs of use has above it an edge like that of a scraper which would serve admirably for prizing open the shells.\n\nThe two\n\nThe figures best explain the shape of these specimens, but the most shapely piece, in fact the first that really convinced me of its artifact nature, is that in figure N. It is from 27 ins. deep at HSY from an area which gave us many polished stone axes at similar and greater depths. It is a sub-tetrahedral form with a marked rostral tendency, one face being obviously the back and flaked to a higher level with a slight general concavity. This is typical of all our pieces though otherwise varying: the back is very flat, sometimes as a naturally weathered surface, sometimes flaked, sometimes at cleavage face (figure 1). The hand-grip is the natural skin or weathered end of a big pebble: this makes a platform usually sloping on top. front-faces meet in a marked angle (see figure L and compare carefully figure K). Figure I here retains most of the original stone and is flaked only on one edge but the ridge is represented by the natural rounded angle of the stone. The flaking is in broad strokes: the finer dressing is very clumsy (a sign of late date). The point is usually trihedral, sometimes tetrahedral; the trihedral point has been noted as typical of the very early Chalossian and has also been found in South Africa in the Victoria West culture. Judging by Menghin's description of certain implements (30) p. 117 in this latter, they must be very like the type of our figures N, O:-crooked point-thick end with vigorous flaking-trihedral point-flat back-resemblance to \"rostro-carinates\". There is apparently some doubt about these Victoria-West pieces as to whether they are artifacts: there can be no doubt about such a piece as figure N. A related culture in South Africa, that of Stellenbosch, has \"faustkeil\" with one side carefully flaked to an edge: we cannot say that ours are carefully done, but they certainly have the \"faustkeil\"\n\nThe Hong Kong Naturalist.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 549151, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "page_number": 59, "title": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "content_text": "Archaeological Finds on Lamma Island\n\n129\n\n0\n\n5. Cms.\n\nO. Epimiolith\" also from HSY. A flatter, triangular type common here.\n\nform with a side scraper-edge. Sometimes our pieces are flatter as figure O from HSY 36 ins. but still the likeness of form is evident. There is a marked tendency away from the isoceles in the vertical widest-plane section as if to give more leverage at the point by reason of a butt that went well back to the centre region of the palm of the hand while the point was directed comfortably by the fingers: this would help the opening of shell-fish, but we have actually found very few shells, one being a plaything or ornament, quite small with a hole (might even be modern).\n\nFISH-HOOK.\n\nWe illustrate here a bronze fish-hook from HSY, for it shows where in the bronze time they got food. This hook R should be compared with specimens from Somrong Seng (41) Plate VI, (76) Plate IV, Laos country Ban Na Veng (Musée Finot) Dong Son (Musée Finot) and with fish-hook motives on the bronze drums of Indo-China. It apparently belongs to the same culture—the Yüeh(?)—but it differs in many details, particularly in the curve of the lower part and in the absence of an eye for the line (instead we have a serrated shaft for binding: in this it does seem to agree with a Somrong Seng piece). Plate 11, R.\n\nWith that we have rounded off the general description of the finds at the Lamma site, Tai Wan, and we have learned something about the neighbouring and closely related site HSY. The actual material published in this article presents problems that have first to be solved before any full interpretation of the finds is possible. We are not yet in a position to date these \"epimioliths\" or place them in their proper relation to the rest of the material: so there is no need just now to sum up. Other sites may help us first and there still remains much material for the amplification of what we have already seen.\n\nOne stone object found at a high level (18 ins.) should be recorded because of its possible relation to the otherwise rare form of shouldered adze (Figure S). It is in a green stone that shows no sign of polishing, but\n\nJuly 1935.\n\n60", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 549152, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "page_number": 60, "title": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "content_text": "130 \n\nD. J. FINN, S.J. \n\nwhich has been trimmed by a primitive technique into a mallet-like shape it suggests that it is a preliminary stage in the making of a shouldered axe or adze, for the \"active\" part though roughly rounded in cross section seems to have an indication of definite sides, as if it would make one of the shouldered axes belonging to the \"vierkantbeil\" series. At first sight it suggests a much older type of implement, a rough beater or hammer, but I think its real significance is in showing a deliberate shouldering to provide a handle.\n\n5. cms.\n\nS\n\nx\n\nS. A shouldered stone implement from Tai Wan, probably a “blank\" for a neolithic axe, but looking like some older type.\n\nBefore concluding, I wish here to quote from a physiographical history of the Lamma sites kindly given me by Dr. Lees who was with me there on the day I found the piece figure K: thus he had a clear idea of the circumstances in which things are found.\n\n\"Culture found in beach sand; top of level 1 to 3½ feet below the present level surface.\n\n(1) Deep depression of the land forming a \"Ria shore-line of submergence\". (2) Elevation at intervals permitting terraces to form.\n\n(3) 2000 years ago (archaeological data) a slightly raised beach; slightly eroded; on which culture found with an occasional boulder probably brought in use by the inhabitants.\n\n(4) Slight depression, 3½ feet, permitting that amount of beach sand to be deposited on culture.\n\n(5) Elevation to present level 13 feet above high water.\n\n(6) Erosion by sea and formation of wave-cut terrace with cliff-front. (7) Slight erosion by present stream of small valley in present surface in effort to bring beds to grade with sea level.\"\n\nDr. Lees had examined Hong Kong and the New Territories at the time he wrote this.\n\nI must now conclude with the pleasant duty of recording my obligation of gratitude to Mr. Schofield for permission to refer to his important find, to Professor Shellshear and Dr. Van Stein Callenfels for important help towards the above, to the geologists Drs. Brook and Lees for their guidance—and especially to Dr. Herklots who has made such a valuable contribution to this\n\nThe Hong Kong Naturalist.\n\nPage 60\n\nPage 61", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 549153, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "page_number": 61, "title": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "content_text": "# Archaeological Finds on Lamma Island\n\n131\n\npart by the difficult drawings of the \"epimioliths\" and to whom is due in greatest measure the whole publication of the Tai Wan Finds so far.\n\n## REFERENCES\n\nOnly those cited for the first time in the above article.\n\n(97) Hoernes-Menghin: Urgeschichte der bildendenden Kunst in Europa. Vienna, 1925.\n\n(98) Mansuy, H. et Colani, M.: Néolithique Inférieur (Bacsonien) et Néolithique Supérieur dans le Haut Tonkin. (Mémoires du Service Géologique de l'Indochine, XII, Fasc. III) Hanoi, 1925.\n\n(99) Andersson, J. G.: Children of the Yellow Earth. London, 1934.\n\nJuly 1935.\n\n62", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 549154, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "page_number": 62, "title": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "content_text": "63\n\n[132]\n\nA SYNOPSIS OF THE FISHES OF CHINA.\n\nPART V continued.\n\nThe Cods, Opahs, Flounders, Soles, John Dories, Berycoids, Pipe Fishes, Silversides, Mullets, Barracudas and Thread Fishes.\n\nby\n\nHENRY W. FOWLER,\n\nACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA, U.S.A.\n\nOrder HYPOSTOMIDES.\n\nThe Dragon Fishes.\n\nBody covered with bony plates, firmly joined on trunk, movable on tail. Snout extended forward above mouth, not tubular. Mouth inferior, toothless. Gill openings narrow. Gill cover formed by large plate corresponding to opercle, preopercle and subopercle. No pseudobranchiae. Gills 4, laminated. One branchiostegal, rudimentary. Lower pharyngeals separate. bladder. Dorsal and anal short, of soft rays only. Pectoral large, of elongate rays, sometimes spinous. Ventral abdominal, with spine and 1 to 3 rays.\n\nOne family, fantastic little fishes of Asiatic seas.\n\nFamily Pegasidae.\n\nThe Sea Moths.\n\nNo air bladder.\n\nBody broad, greatly depressed. Tail with 4 angles. Snout prolonged. Mouth small, edge formed by premaxillaries. No teeth. Suborbital ring well developed, forms suture with gill cover. Intestinal canal short. Vertebrae few, no ribs. Dorsal short, opposite similar anal. Caudal small. Pectoral broad, very large, horizontal. Ventral well behind pectoral, not far from vent, of 1 or 2 rays, 1 very long.\n\nSynopsis of the Genera.\n\na'. Tail short, with but 8 rings, not long as rest of body.\n\na2. Tail longer, with 11 to 15 rings, longer than rest of body.\n\nPEGASUS.\n\nPARAPEGASUS.\n\nPEGASUS Linnaeus.\n\nSea Moths.\n\nPegasus Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, pt. 1, 1758, p. 338. Type Pegasus volitans Linnaeus, monotypic.\n\nTrunk short, broad, greatly depressed. Tail short, not elongate or compressed, with but 8 rings. Snout more or less extended. Mouth inferior. Suborbital well developed, forms suture with gill cover. Intestinal tract rather short, with 1 or 2 complete circumvolutions. Vertebrae not numerous, thin. No ribs. Pectoral rays all simple, slender, not spine-like. Ventral with 1 or 2 rays, outer longer.\n\nThe Hong Kong Naturalist.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 549155, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "page_number": 63, "title": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "content_text": "64 | 133\n\nA Synopsis of the Fishes of China\n\nPegasus draconis Linnaeus. Figure 53.\n\nPegasus draconis Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, pt. 1, 1766, p. 418. India. Bleeker, Ned. Tyds. Dierk., vol. 4, 1873 (1874), p. 125 (reference). Chu, Biol. Bull. St. John's Univ., No. 1, January 1931, p. 99 (reference).\n\nPegasus draco Duméril, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 2, 1870, p. 490 (China). Pegasus latirostris Richardson, Ichth. China and Japan, 1846, p. 203. Sea of China.\n\nPegasus natans (not Linnaeus) Kaup, Cat. Lophobr. Fish Brit. Mus., 1856, pl. 1, fig. 3 (ventral view).\n\nTrunk gibbous, median depressed part divided by 3 cross ridges; obtuse tubercles at meeting points of transverse and longitudinal ridges. Pair of deep grooves on neck. Tail with 8 rings, first and second and fourth and fifth rings with compressed spine directed backwards in middle of side. Snout extended, with 4 denticulated ridges, 2 lower of which dilated with age, forming semioval expansion. Dorsal 5; Anal 5; Pectoral 11, fifth ray not stronger than others; ventral 2. Body finely reticulated with brown. Snout and 2 or 3 last caudal rings black. Pectoral rays with fine brown dots; fin with broad milky white edge, within which another concentric whitish band.\n\n(Günther.)\n\nH.W.F\n\nFigure 53. Pegasus draconis Linnaeus.\n\nChina (Zanzibar, India, East Indies, Melanesia). Reaches 84 mm.\n\nPARAPEGASUS Duméril.\n\nParapegasus Duméril, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 2, 1870, p. 493. Type Pegasus natans Linnaeus, designated by Jordan, Genera of Fishes, pt. 3, 1919, p. 357.\n\nJuly 1935.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 549156, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "page_number": 64, "title": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "content_text": "134\n\nHENRY W. FOWLER\n\nVertebrae\n\nBody slender. Tail much longer than trunk, with 11 to 15 rings, depressed. Snout more or less elongate, edges denticulate, narrow. 19 to 21, of which 12 to 14 caudal.\n\nSynopsis of the Species.\n\na1. Tail longer than rest of body, with 12 rings.\n\na2. Tail subequal with trunk, with 11 rings.\n\nParapegasus natans (Linnaeus).\n\nnatans.\n\nvolans.\n\nPegasus natans Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, pt. 1, 1766, p. 418. India.—Günther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 8, 1870, p. 148 (North China; China Seas).\n\nLeptopegasus natans Bleeker, Ned. Tyds. Dierk., vol. 4, 1873 (1874), p. 125 (reference).\n\nParapegasus natans Reeves, Journ. Pan Pac. Res. Inst., vol. 2, No. 3, July-September 1927, p. 7 (name).—Chu, Biol. Bull. St. John's Univ., No. 1, January 1931, p. 99 (reference).\n\nTail without caudal as long as or longer than body, with 12 rings, tapering and well flattened behind. Snout 21/8 to 21/5 to vent, with 6 to 8 longitudinal ridges above. Dorsal 5; Anal 5; pectoral 11; ventral 3. Clay colour to tawny olive above, with 5 dusky obscurely defined transverse bands, first at nape, second above vent and others on tail. Dorsal, pectoral, and caudal all finely dotted with dusky above. Below uniform pale to whitish. Length 95 mm.\n\nChina (East Indies*, Formosa*, North Australia).\n\nParapegasus volans (Linnaeus).\n\nPegasus volans Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, pt. 1, 1758, p. 338. Amboina.—Günther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 8, 1870, p. 148 (China).—Bleeker, Ned. Tyds. Dierk., vol. 4, 1873 (1874), p. 125 (name).—Chu, Biol. Bull. St. John's Univ., No. 1, January 1931, p. 99 (reference).\n\nPegasus volitans Reeves, Journ. Pan Pac. Res. Inst., vol. 2, No. 3, July-September 1927, p. 7 (name).\n\nPegasus laternarius Richardson, Ichth. China and Japan, 1846, p. 202 (Sea of China).—Kaup, Cat. Lophobr. Fish Brit. Mus., 1856, p. 3, pl. 1, fig. 4 (China Sea).—Duméril, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 2, 1870, p. 491, pl. 26, figs. 1, a-b (China; Macao).\n\nBack of trunk with 2 median ridges, each with 3 compressed and more or less trenchant longitudinal tubercles; no groove behind head. Tail with 11 rings, as long as trunk, second, third, and fourth rings with spine directed backwards in middle of side. Snout sometimes short, pointed, with or without minute spine, sometimes with 5 or 6 ridged extensions, each ridge finely denticulated. Dorsal 5; Anal 5; pectoral 10; ventral 2. Usually 2 broad brownish bands across tail, posterior some distance from caudal base. Pectoral rays with brown spots.\n\nChina, Macao (India, East Indies). Reaches 50 mm.\n\nThe Hong Kong Naturalist.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 549157, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "page_number": 65, "title": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "content_text": "A Synopsis of the Fishes of China\n\nOrder PERCESOCES.\n\nThe Perch Pikes.\n\n135\n\npresent\n\nOpercle unarmed. Branchial arches well developed, all bones except fourth upper branchial. Third upper pharyngeal much enlarged and lower pharyngeals distinct from one another. Pelvic bones not joined to shoulder girdle. Lateral line median or obsolete. Spinous armature of fins but moderately developed. Spinous dorsal usually present and other fins also with spines. Pectoral elevated, about level with upper hind opercle angle. Ventral abdominal, graduated from outer rays, which longest, inner shortest, with one spine and 5 rays.\n\nAn interesting transition group from soft rayed to spiny rayed fishes. Chiefly shore and fresh water forms, many of small size, some large and very voracious.\n\nSynopsis of the Families.\n\na'. Head short, usually less pointed; teeth small or absent; gill rakers long, slender; lateral line absent.\n\nb'. Head and body elongate; stomach not gizzard like; carnivorous.\n\nATHERINIDAE.\n\nb2. Head short, broad; stomach gizzard like; intestines long; mud and vegetation feeders.\n\nMUGILIDAE.\n\na2. Head long, pointed; teeth very strong, unequal; gill rakers obsolete; lateral line present.\n\nSPHYRAENIDAE.\n\nFamily Atherinidae.\n\nThe Silversides.\n\nBody rather elongate, subcylindrical or somewhat compressed. Eyes lateral, without adipose lids. Mouth cleft moderate, usually terminal, oblique, reaches to or beyond front of eye. Jaws equal or not. Teeth small in jaws, sometimes on vomer, palatines or pterygoids, rarely absent. Opercular bones without spines or serratures. Gill openings wide, membranes not united, free from isthmus. Gills 4, slit behind fourth. Gill rakers long and slender. Pseudobranchiae present. Branchiostegals 5 or 6. Third and fourth upper pharyngeals joined together, with teeth. Air bladder present. No pyloric appendages. Vertebrae 32 to 60, of which 23 caudal. Scales moderate or small, usually cycloid, sometimes ctenoid. No lateral line, some scales often with pits or rudimentary mucous tubes.\n\nTwo dorsals, well separated, first with 3 to 8 slender flexible spines, second of 4 or 5 soft rays or spine and 3 to 6 unbranched rays. Anal like soft dorsal, often larger, with weak spine. Caudal emarginate. Pectorals high, moderate or small. Ventrals small, usually abdominal, not far back, with small spine and 5 rays.\n\nMostly small carnivorous fishes, abounding in great schools near the shores of temperate and tropical seas, a few in fresh water. Most have a silvery band along the sides, sometimes underlaid by dark pigment. Those of sufficient size are valued food fishes,\n\nJuly 1935.\n\n66", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 549158, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "page_number": 66, "title": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "content_text": "67\n\n136\n\nHENRY W. FOWLER\n\nGenus Atherina Linnaeus.\n\nSilversides.\n\nAtherina Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, pt. 1, 1758, p. 315. Type Atherina hepsetus Linnaeus, monotypic.\n\nBody elongate, partly cylindrical or feebly compressed, belly rounded. Head well compressed, rather attenuated. Mouth oblique, short. Mandible small, weak. Teeth small, conic, in jaws, on vomer and palatines. Vertebrae 43 to 56. Scales cycloid, moderate to rather large, extend on parts of head. Anal spines feeble, 5 to 9. Soft dorsal and anal opposite, similar. Pectoral short. Ventral inserted well behind pectoral base.\n\nWidely distributed in the warm seas of the globe.\n\nSynopsis of the Species.\n\na1. Eye large, 22 to 23/5 in head from snout tip.\n\na2. Eye smaller, 3 in head.\n\nforskalii.\n\nbleekeri.\n\nAtherina forskalii Rüppell.\n\nFigure 54.\n\nH.W.F\n\nFigure 54. Atherina forskalii Rüppell.\n\nAtherina forskalii Rüppell, Neue Wirbelth., Fische, 1835, p. 132, pl. 33, fig. 1. Red Sea.--Seale, Philippine Journ. Sci., vol. 9, 1914, p. 60 (Hong Kong). Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1929, p. 603 (Hong Kong). Chu, Biol. Bull. St. John's Univ., No. 1, January 1931, p. 103 (reference).\n\nSnout 34/5 to 44 in head with interorbital. Lower\n\nDepth 47/10 to 62/5; head 4 to 5. from snout tip; eye 21/5 to 27/10, subequal gill rakers 20. Scales 42 to 45, transversely 6. Dorsal V-11, 8; Anal 11, 11 to 13; pectoral 1, 13 to 1, 15; ventral I, 5. Broad silvery lateral band, upper part with indistinct dark band. Above scales with broad brown borders and brown points. Fins dusky, usually more pronounced on hind border of caudal. Upper half of pectoral often with blackish points. Head more or less blackish, as also ventral border of lower jaw. Length 130 mm.\n\n(Weber and Beaufort.)\n\nHong Kong (Red Sea, Zanzibar, Madagascar, Mauritius, Andamans, Nicobars, Malaya, East Indies, Tonkin, Philippines).\n\nThe Hong Kong Naturalist.\n\nh", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 549159, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "page_number": 67, "title": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "content_text": "A Synopsis of the Fishes of China\n\nAtherina bleekeri Günther.\n\n137\n\nAtherina bleekeri Günther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 3, 1868, p. 398. China.-Scale, Philippine Journ. Sci., vol. 9, 1914, p. 60 (Hong Kong). -Reeves, Journ. Pan Pac. Res. Inst., vol. 2, No. 3, July-September 1927, p. 8 (name). Chu, Biol. Bull. St. John's Univ., No. 1, January 1931, p. 103 (reference).\n\nAtherina japonica (not Houttuyn) Bleeker, Nederl. Tyds. Dierk., vol. 4, 1873 (1874), p. 142 (reference).\n\nD 534; head 42. Snout 4 in head; eye 3; maxillary 234. Lower gill rakers 19 Scales 45, transversely 7, predorsal 20. Dorsal V or VI-I, 9 or I, 10; Anal I, 11 to I, 13. Lateral silvery band present, dark above. Scales of back broadly edged blackish or dusky. Top of head and snout tip dusky. Ventral and anal colourless. Length 130 mm.\n\nChina, Hong Kong (Japan).\n\n(Jordan and Starks.)\n\nFamily Mugilidae.\n\nThe Grey Mullets.\n\nBody oblong, more or less compressed. Mouth small. Jaws with small feeble teeth or none, when present of various form. Premaxillaries protractile. Gill openings wide, membranes separate and free from isthmus. Gills 4, slit behind fourth. Gill rakers long, slender. Pseudobranchiae large. Branchiostegals 5 or 6. Air bladder large, simple. Intestinal canal long. Peritoneum usually black. Vertebrae 24. Scales rather large, cycloid. No lateral line, but furrows often deepened on middle of each scale so as to form lateral streaks. Two short dorsals, well separated, first of 4 stiff spines and last much shorter than others. Second dorsal longer than first, like anal. Anal spines 2 or 3, graduated to last. Ventrals abdominal, not far back, of spine and 5 rays.\n\nSmall or moderate sized fishes, valued as food, living in fresh waters and on the coasts of warm countries. They feed on organic matter contained in mud.\n\na1. No true teeth in jaws.\n\nSynopsis of the Genera.\n\nMugil.\n\na2. Single series of small teeth in upper jaw; lower jaw with sharp front margin.\n\nMyxus.\n\nMUGIL Linnaeus. Grey Mullets.\n\nMugil Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, pt. 1, 1758, p. 316. Type Mugil cephalus Linnaeus, monotypic.\n\nBody oblong, rather robust or somewhat compressed. Eye large. Adipose eyelid large, when present nearly conceals eye; little developed in young. Mouth small, partly inferior, lower jaw angulated. Jaws with one or few series of short flexible ciliiform teeth; less developed in young. No vomerine or palatine teeth. Preorbital usually entire, more serrate in young,\n\nJuly 1935.\n\n68", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 549160, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "page_number": 68, "title": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "content_text": "69\n\n138\n\nHENRY W. Fowler\n\nStomach muscular, like gizzard of fowl. Anal spines 3, only 2 developed in young.\n\nA large genus, with many species, feeding on mud and living in great schools along the shores and brackish lagoons in all warm regions. Some enter fresh water and many are valued as food.\n\nSynopsis of the Species.\n\na'. Mugil. Front of jaws broadly convex as seen from above; lips narrow or only moderately wide.\n\nb'. Pointed scaly flap in pectoral axil.\n\nc'. Adipose lids of eye largely cover eye.\n\nd'. Branched anal rays 9.\n\ne1. Scales 33 to 38.\n\nf1. Pectoral little shorter than head.\n\ng1. Predorsal scales 24. affinis.\n\ng2. Predorsal scales 18 or 19.\n\nh1. Eye 27/8 in head. strongycephalus.\n\nh2. Eye 33/5 to 43/4. tade. longimanus.\n\nf2. Pectoral long as head.\n\ne2. Scales 41.\n\nd2. Branched anal rays 8. carinatus. cephalus.\n\nc2. Eye without adipose eye-lids; scales 30 to 35; branched anal rays 9 or 10.\n\nb2. No pointed scaly flap in pectoral axil.\n\n¿1. Branched anal rays 9.\n\nj1. Eye with broad adipose lids. ceramensis.\n\nk1. Scales 30.\n\nk2. Scales 38 to 40. seheli.\n\nj2. Eye without adipose lids.\n\ndussumieri.\n\nl1. Scales 30 to 33, predorsal 19 or 20. macrolepis.\n\nl2. Scales 41, predorsal 23. haematocheilus.\n\n¿2. Branched anal rays 8; pectoral black. vaigiensis.\n\na2. Oedalechilus. Front of jaws broadly truncate as seen from above; lips broad and papillate; branched anal rays 9 or 10.\n\nMugil affinis Günther.\n\ncrenilabis.\n\nMugil affinis Günther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 3, 1861, p. 433, text fig. (head below). Amoy.—Bleeker, Ned. Tyds. Dierk., vol. 4, 1873 (1874), p. 143 (reference).—Martens, Preuss. Exped. Ost-Asien, vol. 1, 1876, p. 385 (Shanghai).—Reeves, Journ. Pan Pac. Res. Inst., vol. 2, No. 3, July-September 1927, p. 8 (reference).—Wu, Contrib. Biol. Lab. Sci. Soc. China, vol. 5, No. 4, 1929, p. 81 (Amoy).—Chu, Biol. Bull. St. John's Univ., No. 1, January 1931, p. 143 (reference).\n\nThe Hong Kong Naturalist.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 549161, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "page_number": 69, "title": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "content_text": "A Synopsis of the Fishes of China\n\n139\n\nMugil affins Wu, Contrib. Biol. Lab. Sci. Soc. China, vol. 5, No. 4, 1929, fig. 64 (misprint).\n\nDepth 5 in total; head 5. Snout long as eye; adipose eyelids well developed in front and behind; upper lip rather wide, situated at lower side of snout; end of maxillary visible behind and below mouth angle. Scales 38, transversely 13, predorsal 24. Dorsal IV-I, 8; Anal III, 9; caudal emarginate; pectoral not reaching dorsal origin, equals space between pupil and opercular edge, with very short obtuse axillary scale. Greenish, shining silvery.\n\n(Günther.)\n\nAmoy, Shanghai, Wu gives the length as 145 mm. without caudal.\n\nMugil strongylocephalus Richardson.\n\nMugil strongylocephalus Richardson, Ichth. China and Japan, 1846, P. 249. Hong Kong; Sea of China. Günther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 3: 1861, p. 425, text fig. (head) (types; China).—Bleeker, Ned. Tyds. Dierk., vol. 4, 1873 (1874), p. 143 (reference).—Sauvage, Bull. Soc. Philom., ser. 5, vol. 7, 1881, p. 106 (Swatow).—Rutter, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1897, p. 70 (copied). Chu, Biol. Bull. St. John's Univ., No. 1, January 1931, p. 104 (reference).\n\nMugil stronglylocephalus Reeves, Journ. Pan Pac. Res. Inst., vol. 2, No. 3, July-September 1931, p. 8 (reference) (error).\n\nDepth 43⁄4 in total; head 5. Snout obtusely conic, shorter than eye; eye 27⁄8 in head, with broad adipose lids; maxillary with narrow hind exposure; upper lip thick; interorbital 21⁄2 in head, very convex. Scales 33, transversely 11, predorsal 18. Soft dorsal and anal scaly. Dorsal IV—I, 8; Anal III, 9; caudal emarginate; pectoral longer than head without snout, with long axillary scale.\n\nHong Kong. According to Richardson whole fore part of back dark bronze. No spot on pectoral base. Length 178 mm.\n\nArabia.\n\nMugil tade (Forskal).\n\nMugil crenilabis tade Forskal, Descr. Animal, 1775, pp. xiv, 74.\n\nMugil tade Reeves, Journ. Pan Pac. Res. Inst., vol. 2, No. 3, July-September 1927, p. 8 (reference).—Chu, Biol. Bull. St. John's Univ., No. 1, January 1931, p. 104 (reference).\n\nMugil planiceps Günther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 3, 1861, p. 428 (China).—Bleeker, Ned. Tyds. Dierk., vol. 4, 1873 (1874), p. 143 (name). Seale, Philippine Journ. Sci., vol. 9, 1914, p. 61 (Hong Kong).—Chu, Biol. Bull. St. John's Univ., No. 1, Jan. 1931, p. 104 (reference).\n\nMugil bontah Bleeker, Ned. Tyds. Dierk., vol. 4, 1873 (1874), p. 143 (Amoy).\n\nDepth 33⁄4 to 33⁄4; head 32⁄3 to 33⁄4, width 1 2/5 to 13⁄5. Snout 37⁄8 to 4 in head; eye 3 3/5 to 41⁄3, 1/3 in interorbital, adipose lids narrow; maxillary 4 1/6 in head, slight exposed end; lips thin; interorbital 27⁄8, broadly convex. Scales 33 to 36, transversely 10 to 12, predorsal 18 or 19.\n\nJuly 1935.\n\n70", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 549162, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "page_number": 70, "title": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "content_text": "140 \n\nHENRY W. Fowler \n\nSoft vertical fins scaly basally. Dorsal IV-I, 8 or 9; Anal II, 9; caudal emarginate; pectoral but slightly less than head, with long axillary scale: ventral 1 2/5. Back pale olivaceous, below whitish. No dark spot at pectoral base. Iris whitish. Reaches 470 mm. \n\nChina, Amoy, Hong Kong (Red Sea, Arabia, India, Ceylon, Andamans, Malaya, East Indies, Philippines, Queensland, Micronesia*, Polynesia). \n\nMugil longimanus Günther. \n\nMugil longimanus Günther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 3, 1861, p. 428. East Indies. Seale, Philippine Journ. Sci., vol. 9, 1914, p. 61 (Hong Kong). -Chu, Biol. Bull. St. John's Univ., No. 1, Jan. 1931, p. 104 (reference). \n\nMost soft \n\nDepth 3 2/5 to 4; head 3 2/5 to 4, width 1 3/4 to 1 4/5. Snout 4 in head; eye 3 3/5 to 4, with broad adipose lids; maxillary 3 3/4, concealed, reaches eye; upper lip width 1⁄2 of pupil; interorbital 2 1/5 to 2 3/5, broadly convex. Scales 33 to 37, transversely 11 to 12, predorsal 18 to 20. Vertical fins finely scaled. Dorsal IV-I, 8 or 9; Anal III, 9; caudal deeply emarginate, scaly basally; pectoral 1 to 1 1/10 in head, reaches beyond spinous dorsal origin, with large axillary scale; ventral 1 2/5. Back grey brown or olive, rows of scales on back and side above with grey brown line. Dorsal, caudal and pectoral greyish, last dusky basally above. Lower fins and iris whitish. Length 223 mm. \n\nHong Kong (Portuguese East Africa*, India, Malaya, East Indies, Philippines*, Queensland, Polynesia*). \n\nMugil carinatus Valenciennes. \n\nMugil carinatus Ehrenberg, in Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 11, 1836, p. 148. Red Sea; Seychelles; Guam.-Oshima, Annotat. Zool. Japon., vol. 11, No. 1, March 31, 1926, p. 19 (Haiho, Hainan).-Wu, Contrib. Biol. Lab. Sci. Soc. China, vol. 5, No. 4, 1929, p. 79, fig. 63 (Amoy).—Chu, Biol. Bull. St. John's Univ., No. 1, Jan. 1931, p. 104 (reference). \n\nDepth 4 2/5; head 4 2/5. Snout 4 1⁄2 in head; eye 4, with broad adipose lids; maxillary end exposed; interorbital 2 2/3 in head, slightly convex. Scales 41, transversely 14. Dorsal IV-I, 8; Anal III, 9; pectoral 16, with axillary scale, 1 2/5 in head; ventral rays I, 5, fin 1 3/4 in head. White, dorsal surface darker. Length 183 mm. without caudal.\" \n\n(Wu.) \n\nHainan, Amoy (Red Sea, India). Although Day gives scales 34 to 36 in a lateral series his figure shows 40, of which 40 appear to be on the caudal base. \n\nMugil cephalus Linnaeus. \n\nMugil cephalus Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, pt. 1, 1758, p. 316. European Ocean.-Jordan and Seale, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., vol. 29, 1905, p. 521 (Hong Kong; Shanghai).-Jordan and Starks, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 31, 1906, p. 516 (Port Arthur, Manchuria).—Seale, Philippine Journ. Sci., vol. 9, 1914, p. 61 (Hong Kong).—Evermann and Shaw, Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci., vol. 16, No. 4, Jan. 31, 1927, p. 114 (Hangchow).-Reeves. Journ. Pan Pac. Res. Inst., vol. 2, No. 3, July-Sep. 1927, p. 8 (Chingwangtao to Hong Kong). Sowerby, Nat. Manchuria, vol. 4, 1930, p. 157 (Pei tai Ho).—Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1927, p. 603 (Hong Kong). \n\nThe Hong Kong Naturalist \n\nPage 70\n\nPage 71", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 549163, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "page_number": 71, "title": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "content_text": "Arabia.\n\nA Synopsis of the Fishes of China\n\n141\n\nMugil crenilabis öur Forskal, Descript. Animal., 1775, pp. xiv, 74.\n\nMugil oeur Rutter, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1897, p. 70 (Swatow).--Wu, Contrib. Biol. Lab. Sci. Soc. China, vol. 5, No. 4, 1929, p. 78, fig. 62 (Amoy).-Chu, Biol. Bull. St. John's Univ., No. 1, Jan. 1931, p. 104 (reference).\n\nMugil cephalotus (not Valenciennes) Cantor, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., vol. 9, 1842, p. 484 (Chusan).-Günther, Cat. Fish, Brit. Mus., vol. 3, 1861, p. 419, fig. (head) (Amoy, China, Chusan).—Bleeker, Ned. Tyds. Dierk., vol. 4, 1873 (1874), p. 143 (reference).-Peters, Monatsh. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1880, p. 923 (Ningpo).—Sauvage, Bull. Soc. Philom., ser. 7, vol. 5, 1881, p. 106 (Swatow).\n\nMugil japonicus Richardson, Ichth. China and Japan, 1846, p. 247 (seas of China).-Bleeker, Nederl. Tyds. Dierk., vol. 4, 1873 (1874), p. 143 (name).\n\nMugil macrolepidotus (not Rüppell) Richardson, Ichth. China and Japan, 1846, p. 249 (China Seas?).-Journ, Mém. Soc. Sci. Nat. Cherbourg, vol. 13, 1866 (1868), p. 244 (Hong Kong).\n\nMugil dobula Kner, Reise Novara, Fische, 1865, p. 224 (Hong Kong). -Bleeker, Nederl. Tyds. Dierk., vol. 4, 1873 (1874), p. 143 (name).-Chu, Biol. Bull. St. John's Univ., No. 1, Jan. 1931, p. 104 (reference).\n\nDepth 32 to 43; head 3 to 4. Snout 3 3/4 to 4 8/10 in head; eye 3 1/5 to 4 4/5, adipose lids absent in young, greatly developed with age; maxillary 3 2/10 to 4 8/10 in head; interorbital 2 to 2 3/10, broadly convex. Scales 39 to 46, transversely 13 or 14, predorsal 17 to 28. Dorsal IV-I, 8; Anal III, 8, young II, 9; caudal broadly emarginate; pectoral 1 3/10 to 1 2/5 in head; ventral 1 1/2 to 1 3/4. Dark olive or bluish dusky on back, sides and below silvery white. Each row of scales on side above with darker longitudinal streak. Dorsal and caudal grey, other fins whitish. Ventral yellowish. Reaches 760 mm.\n\nChina (Red Sea, Arabia, Madagascar, Mauritius, Bourbon, Baluchistan, India, East Indies, Philippines, Formosa, Japan, Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, Lord Howe Island, Norfolk Island, Melanesia, Micronesia*, Polynesia, Hawaii*, California, Chili, also Atlantic*).\n\nMugil ceramensis Bleeker.\n\nMugil ceramensis Bleeker, Nat. Tyds. Ned. Indie, vol. 3, 1852, p. 699. Wahai, Ceram.\n\nLiza ceramensis Reeves, Journ. Pan Pac. Res. Inst., vol. 2, No. 3, July-Sep. 1927, p. 8 (name).--Chu, Biol. Bull. St. John's Univ., No. 1, Jan. 1931, p. 105 (reference).\n\nLiza parva Wu, Contrib. Biol. Lab. Sci. Soc. China, vol. 5, No. 4, 1929, p. 82, fig. 65. Amoy.\n\nDepth 3 1/6 to 3 3/4; head 3 8/10 to 3 3/5, width 1 4/5. Snout 3 3/4 to 4 in head; eye 3 3/4 to 4, 1 2/5 in interorbital, gelatinous lid forming narrow ring around eye; upper lip rather thick, ciliated; maxillary exposed, 3 1/2 in head.\n\nJuly 1935.\n\n72", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 549164, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "page_number": 72, "title": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "content_text": "73\n\n142\n\nHENRY W. Fowler\n\nhead; interorbital 2½ in head, flat or slightly convex. Scales 30 to 35, transversely 10 or 11, predorsal 21. Dorsal IV-I, 8 or 9; Anal III, 9 or 10; caudal concave, base scaly; pectoral conspicuously shorter than head, 12/5 in head, with axillary scale; ventral 1½. Back olivaceous, below white. Dorsal and caudal dusky or pale. Length 166 mm.\n\nChina (Ceylon, East Indies, Philippines*). Liza parva Wu is likely the young, though the presence or absence of pectoral axillary scale not noted. It is noted as follows:\n\nDepth 4; head 4. Snout 5 in head; eye 4, greater than snout, without adipose eyelids; maxillary end exposed; interorbital 1 1/5 in head, low. Scales 30, transversely 10. Dorsal IV-I, 8; Anal III, 9; caudal deeply emarginate; pectoral rays 14, fin 1 1/5 in head; ventral I, 5, fin 1⅓. Dark above, white below. Caudal and soft dorsal tips dusky. Length 77 mm without caudal.\n\nMugil dussumieri Valenciennes.\n\nFigure 55.\n\nH.W.F\n\nFigure 55. Mugil dussumieri Valenciennes.\n\nPah tze (white mullet), Pih tse (white parer), Patz tsai. Mugil dussumieri Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol 11, 1836, p. 147. Bombay; Coromandel.\n\nMugil ventricosus Richardson, Ichth. China and Japan, 1846, p. 249. Chinese Sea; Canton (on figure).-Günther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 3, 1861, p. 410 (reference).-Bleeker, Nederl. Tyds. Dierk., vol. 4, 1873 (1874), p. 143 (reference).-Chu, Biol. Bull. St. John's Univ., No. 1, Jan. 1931, p. 105 (reference).\n\nMugil nepalensis Günther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 3, 1861, p. 424. Nepal. Oshima, Annot. Zool. Japon., vol. 2, No. 1, March 31, 1926, p. 19 (Haiho, Hainan).-Chu, Biol. Bull. St. John's Univ., No. 1, Jan. 1931, p. 104 (reference).\n\nDepth 4; head 33/4 to 33/3, width 1 3/5 to 13/4. Snout 3 1/5 to 3/4 in head; eye 3 3/5 to 42, 1/3 in interorbital, with broad adipose lids; maxillary well exposed; interorbital 24 to 22, nearly level. Scales 30,\n\nThe Hong Kong Naturalist.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 549165, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "page_number": 73, "title": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "content_text": "A Synopsis of the Fishes of China\n\n143\n\ntransversely 11, predorsal 23. Soft vertical fins scaled. Dorsal IV-I, 8; Anal III, 9; caudal deeply emarginate; pectoral 1 1/2 to 1 3/5 in head, without axillary scale; ventral 1 2/5. Back olive brown, below whitish. Iris grey white. Fins brown, lower whitish and no dark spot at pectoral origin. Reaches 300 mm.\n\nHainan, Canton, (India*, Ceylon, Andamans, Malaya, East Indies, Philippines*, Queensland, New South Wales). The imperfectly described nominal Mugil ventricosus Richardson is noticed as follows:\n\nDepth 3 2/3 in total, back little elevated, curve of belly prominent. Caudal peduncle thick. Head slender, pointed. Lower lip closes under snout. Second dorsal begins length behind beginning of anal and extends far beyond. Space between anal and caudal exceeds anal length. Caudal acutely but not deeply notched. Back and upper sides with disks of scales pale grass green, edges silvery and whole lower parts pearly or silvery. Mouth hyacinth red, fore part of gill cover buff orange and bright Berlin-blue patch at upper angle of gill opening. First dorsal red lilac purple, second dorsal and caudal mountain green, notch of latter edged plum purple. Pectoral dark brownish green. Anal pale mountain green, rays and basal streak white. Ventral rays opaque white, with some carmine streaks at tips and membrane pale blue.\n\nMugil seheli (Forskal).\n\nOotow (black head), Otau.\n\nMugil crenilabis seheli Forskal, Descript. Animal., 1775, pp. xiv, 73. Lohajae, Red Sea.\n\nMugil seheli Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1929, p. 603 (Hong Kong).\n\nMugil melancranus Richardson, Ichth. China and Japan, 1846, p. 248. China Seas; Canton.-Günther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 3, 1861, p. 410 (reference). Bleeker, Nederl. Tyds. Dierk., vol. 4, 1873 (1874), p. 143 (name).\n\nChu, Biol. Bull. St. John's Univ., No. 1, Jan. 1931, p. 105 (reference).\n\nMugil axillaris Kner, Novara Reise, Fische, 1865, p. 227, pl. 9, fig. 3-a (side and under view of head) (Shanghai).-Bleeker, Nederl. Tyds. Dierk., vol. 4, 1873 (1874), p. 143 (Amoy).—Chu, Biol. Bull. St. John's Univ., No 1, Jan. 1931, p. 104 (reference).\n\nSoft\n\nDepth 3 3/4 to 3 7/8; head 3 3/4 to 3 7/8, width 1 3/5. Snout 3 3/4 to 3 7/8 in head; eye 4 1/2 to 4 3/4, 1 3/5 in interorbital, adipose lids well developed; upper lip width 1 4/5 in pupil; interorbital 2 2/5 to 2 3/4 in head, broadly convex. Scales 38 to 40, transversely 11 to 13, predorsal 19 to 29. Vertical fins with small basal scales. Dorsal IV-I, 8; Anal III, 9; caudal deeply emarginate; pectoral 1 1/10 to 1 1/8 in head, with axillary scale; ventral 1 2/5 to 1 3/4 in head. Grey, with 9 to 10 bright silvery arrow-like marks along body. Dark over nose. Fins transparent, black at pectoral base and caudal tips. Length to 465 mm.\n\nCanton, Amoy, Pei Ho, Shanghai (Red Sea, Zanzibar, Natal, Portuguese East Africa, Madagascar, Bourbon, Mauritius, Seychelles, India,\n\nJuly 1935.\n\n74", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 549166, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "page_number": 74, "title": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "content_text": "75\n\n144\n\nHENRY W. FOWLER\n\nMalaya, East Indies*, Siam, Philippines*, Melanesia*, Micronesia Polynesia*). Likely Mugil melancranus Richardson may have been intended for this species, though its description is very imperfect, neglecting not only the proportions but also the fin rays. It is noted as follows:\n\nDepth 5 in total; head 5. Upper lip rather fleshy. Mouth large, teeth visible. Slender maxillary exposed. Scales 37, transversely 11. Soft dorsal and anal scaly. Caudal almost entirely scaly. Pectoral with long axillary scale. Back greenish grey, sides silvery, with yellowish grey line through middle of each row of scales. Top of head, circle around eye and borders of gill pieces dark oil green. Pectoral orpiment orange with blue mark on scaly base and other fins greenish grey. Length 195 mm.\n\nMugil macrolepis Andrew Smith.\n\nMugil macrolepis Andrew Smith, Illustr. Zool. South Africa, 1849, no pagination, pl. 28, fig. 2. Rivers and fresh water lakes of South Africa.- Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1929, p. 595 (Shanghai), p. 603 (Hong Kong).\n\nMugil troschelii Rutter, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1897, p. 70 (Swatow).\n\nLiza troscheli Reeves, Journ. Pan Pac. Res. Inst., vol. 2, No. 3, July-September 1927, p. 8 (reference).\n\nLiza troschelii Chu, Biol. Bull. St. John's Univ., No. 1, January 1931, p. 105 (reference).\n\nDepth 3 to 34/5; head 33/5 to 34/5, width 12. Snout 33/5 to 4 in head; eye 33 to 33/4, 11/2 in interorbital, gelatinous lids only as narrow cutaneous rim; lips thin, smooth; maxillary 47/8 in head; interorbital 22/5 to 24/5, broadly convex. Scales 30 to 33; transversely 11 or 12, predorsal 19 or 20. Dorsal IV-1, 8 or 9; Anal III, 9; caudal emarginate; pectoral 1% in head, without axillary scale; ventral 13/4. Back olivaceous, pale to whitish below. Dorsal and pectoral pale brown, other fins whitish. Length 125 mm.\n\nSwatow, Hong Kong, Shanghai (South Africa, East Africa, Madagascar, Seychelles, Ceylon, East Indies, Philippines*, Formosa, Pescadores Islands, Japan, Melanesia, Micronesia*, Polynesia*).\n\nMugil haematocheilus Schlegel.\n\nKeuen yu (dog's fish), Hwang we tze (yellow tail parer), Hwang ne tsae (yellow tailed), Won ne tsai, Chai ue.\n\nMugil haematocheilus Schlegel, Fauna Japonica, Poiss., pts. 7-9, 1845, p. 135, pl. 72, fig. 2. Nagasaki.-Richardson, Ichth. China and Japan, 1846, p. 249 (seas of China).\n\nMugil haematochilus Bleeker, Ned. Tyds. Dierk., vol. 4, 1873 (1874), p. 143 (reference).-Peters, Monatsb. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1880, p. 923 (Ningpo).-Reeves, Journ. Pan Pac. Res. Inst., vol. 2, No. 3, July-September 1927, p. 8 (name).—Sowerby, Nat. Manchuria, vol. 4, 1930, p. 157 (Tientsin, Peking, Pei tai Ho, Chin wang Tao).\n\nThe Hong Kong Naturalist.\n\nM", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 549167, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "page_number": 75, "title": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "content_text": "A Synopsis of the Fishes of China\n\n145\n\nLiza haematochila Mori, Hand List Manchur. Vertebr., 1927, p. 177 (compiled). Chu, Biol. Bull, St. John's Univ., No. 1, January 1931, p. 105 (reference).\n\nLiza haematocheila Herre, Lignan Sci. Journ., vol. 2, No. 3, July 22, 1932, p. 434 (Tei Ping).\n\nMugil (vel Cestraeus?) xanthurus Richardson, Ichth. China and Japan, 1846, p. 248 (sea of China; Canton).\n\nMugil so-iuy Basilewsky, Nouv. Mém. Imp. Soc. Nat. Moscou, vol. 10, 1855, p. 226, pl. 4, fig. 3. Sinu Tschiliensis; Pekin.\"-Günther, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, vol. 1, 1898, p. 260 (Newchwang).--Morrison, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, vol. 1, 1898, p. 265 (Liao Basin).\n\nMugil soiuy Günther, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 4, vol. 12, 1873, p. 243 (Shanghai); ser. 4, vol. 13, 1874, p. 157 (Chefoo).\n\nMugil sinensis Bleeker, Ned. Tyds. Dierk., vol. 4, 1873 (1874), p. 143 (reference).\n\nAgonostoma plicatile (not Günther) Bleeker, Ned. Tyds. Dierk., vol. 4, 1873 (1874), p. 143 (on Basilewsky).\n\nDepth 5; head 43. Snout longer than orbit; eye 51⁄2 in head, without adipose lids; upper lip thin; maxillary end not hidden. Scales 41, transversely 14, predorsal 23. Dorsal and anal scaleless. Dorsal IV—I, 8; Anal III, 9, begins before soft dorsal; caudal emarginate; pectoral without axillary scale, long as head without snout. Uniform. Length 279 mm.\n\n(Günther.)\n\nCanton, Ningpo, Shanghai, Chefoo, Pekin, Newchwang, Liao Ho (Japan). Günther remarks of Basilewsky's Mugil so-iuy \"He mentions the eyes as 'nictitantes'; but this seems to refer merely to the circular eyelid, which covers only the margin of the orbit, as also shown in the figure.\"\n\nMugil vaigiensis Quoy and Gaimard.\n\nMugil vaigiensis Quoy and Gaimard, Voy. Uranic, Zool., 1825, p. 337, pl. 59, fig. 2. Waigiu.-Bleeker, Ned. Tyds. Dierk., vol. 4, 1873 (1874), p. 143 (China; name only).\n\nLiza waigiensis Reeves, Journ. Pan Pac. Res. Inst., vol. 2, No. 3, July-September 1927, p. 8 (Shanghai).---Chu, Biol. Bull. St. John's Univ., No. 1, January 1931, p. 105 (reference).\n\nDepth 44 to 5; head 44 to 54. Snout shorter than eye in young, longer with age; eye 4 to 5 in head, 2 in interorbital, without adipose lids; maxillary end exposed; lips thin, smooth. Scales 26 to 28, transversely 9 or 10, predorsal 15 or 16. Dorsal and anal scaly. Dorsal IV-I, 7 or 8; Anal III, 8; caudal nearly truncate; pectoral much shorter than head, without axillary scale; ventral half of pectoral. Back dark olive, below paler to whitish. About 6 dark longitudinal bands. Edges of fins dusky. Pectoral blackish, entirely so in young. Reaches 400 mm.\n\nJuly 1935.\n\n76", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 549168, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "page_number": 76, "title": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "content_text": "77\n\n146\n\nHENRY W. Fowler\n\nChina (Red Sea, Portuguese East Africa, Natal, India, Andamans, Malaya, East Indies, Philippines*, Queensland, New South Wales, Melanesia*, Micronesia*, Polynesia*).\n\nMugil crenilabis Forskal.\n\nFigure 56.\n\nH.W.F\n\nSea.\n\nFigure 56. Mugil crenilabis Forskal.\n\nMugil crenilabis Forskal, Descript. Animal., 1775, pp. xiv, 73. Red Sea.\n\nMugil lauvergnii Eydoux and Souleyet, Voy. Bonite, Zool., vol. 1, 1841, p. 174, pl. 4, fig. 3. China (Macao).-Günther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 3, 1861, p. 410 (name).-Bleeker, Ned. Tyds. Dierk., vol. 4, 1873 (1874), p. 143 (reference).—Chu, Biol. Bull. St. John's Univ., No. 1, January 1931, p. 104 (reference).\n\nDepth 32 to 5; head 4 to 5, width 12/5. Snout 32 in head, blunt; eye 41/5, 13 in interorbital, without adipose lids; lips very thick, upper with 4 or 5 rows of papillae, lower with fleshy papillae; maxillary hidden or only end exposed; interorbital 11/5 in head, fat. Scales 38 to 44, transversely 12 or 13, predorsal 20 to 22. Dorsal IV-I, 7 or 8; Anal III, 9 or 10, origin opposite soft dorsal origin; caudal deeply emarginate; pectoral 11/5 in head, without axillary scale. Olive above, white below.\n\nUpper pectoral base with small blackish spot. Length 500 mm.\n\nMacao (Red Sea, Madagascar, Andamans, Nicobars, East Indies, Melanesia*, Micronesia*, Polynesia*). Easily known by its thick papillose lips. The nominal Mugil lauvergnii Eydoux and Souleyet, apparently this species, is shown with the following:\n\nDepth 33/4; head 43/4. Snout 4 in head, very short; eye 4; no teeth. Scales 47 (of which 3 apparently on caudal base), transversely 11. Soft dorsal and anal with small scales basally. Dorsal IV-I, 8; Anal III, 10 (figure shows 9); caudal emarginate; pectoral rays 16, very short, 1/4 in head; ventral rays I, 5, fin 14 in head. Above grey olive, below silvery. Fins grey. Length 220 mm.\n\nThe Hong Kong Naturalist.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 549169, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "page_number": 77, "title": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "content_text": "Myxus Günther.\n\n147\n\nMyxus Günther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 3, 1861, p. 466. Type Mugil elongatus Günther, designated by Jordan, Genera of Fishes, pt. 3, 1919, p. 307.\n\nBody elongate, fusiform. Head pointed. Eye large, advanced, high. Mouth cleft extending on sides of snout, but not to orbit. Upper lip not especially thick. Front edge of mandible sharp. Small uniserial teeth above, sometimes also on palate and mandible. Scales small. Lateral line distinct. Vertical fins more or less scaly. Spinous dorsal postmedian in body without caudal. Soft dorsal and anal opposite. Caudal large, deeply emarginate. Pectoral long, not reaching spinous dorsal. Ventral inserted below middle of pectoral.\n\nSpecies few.\n\nMyxus analis Kner.\n\nFigure 57.\n\nH.W.F.\n\nFigure 57. Myxus analis Kner.\n\nMyxus analis Kner, Reise Novara, Fische, 1865, p. 231, pl. 10, fig. 1. Shanghai. Bleeker, Ned. Tyds. Dierk., vol. 4, 1873 (1874), p. 143 (reference). Reeves, Journ. Pan Pac. Res. Inst., vol. 2, No. 3, July-September 1927, p. 8 (reference). Chu, Biol. Bull. St. John's Univ., No. 1, January 1931, p. 105 (reference).\n\nDepth 4 1/5 in head 3 3/5. Snout 4/3 in head; eye 4/3 without adipose lids; maxillary reaches 9/10 to eye, length 3 3/4 in head; single row of fine pointed upper teeth, below row of fine ciliate teeth; interorbital low. Scales 50, transversely 12. Soft vertical fins scaly. Dorsal IV-I, 9; Anal III, 10 to 12; pectoral 1 1/2 in head; ventral 2. Grey brown above, with dark longitudinal streaks following scale rows. Below silvery white. Pectoral without dark spot (Kner). Length 191 mm.\n\nShanghai.\n\nJuly 1935.\n\n78\n\n \nPage 78\n\nPage 78", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 549170, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "page_number": 78, "title": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "content_text": "79\n\n[148]\n\nNOTES AND COMMENTS.\n\nORNITHOLOGY\n\nOne new record for this journal.\n\nINCE'S PARADISE FLYCATCHER (Tchitrea incei D. & O.).\n\nNest with four young birds found on May 26, built in a very large tree near Chung Kok, about the 8½ milestone on the Castle Peak Road. The parent birds were very wild remaining among the topmost branches while the nest was being examined. As we did not know what they were then two of the young birds were taken.\n\nThe young is entirely different from the adult being almost all brown with the exception of the breast which is more or less of a dirty white, the young male having a dark streak extending along the breast-bone. The neck is scarcely perceptible although the bird was fully fledged. The neck was also bare of feathers making it resemble a vulture when the neck was extended during feeding. They were fed with various insects and scraps of raw meat and thrived.\n\nWhile yet unable to pick up food from the cup the birds were adepts at catching flies on the wing.\n\nAt about 5 weeks old and without any previous indications the brown head feathers were discarded and next morning I was surprised to see the whole crown covered with a dark bluish-black coat. The head feathers grew longer day by day and developed into an occipital crest in the male.\n\nThere is also a slight semblance of a beard when the bird is alarmed or angered. After this they commenced to discard the whitish feathers of the breast and within a fortnight had there an ashy-grey coat, the grey in the case of the male being prominently darker. During this interval the tail had grown as long as the body. The male bird tries very hard to sing and produces queer, confused, hollow sounds.\n\nWhen the locality was next visited the two remaining birds had flown. I collected the nest which is cup-shaped and composed of rootlets, grasses and twigs. The outside was carefully wrapped with strips of bark, not unlike rough hemp, and pasted with mosses and bits of decayed leaves.\n\nR. A. P.\n\nA DAY WITH BIRDS AMONG THE ISLANDS.\n\nThe larger islands off the mainland of the southern China coast offer an interesting study of birds throughout the winter. As spring lengthens the plumage of certain of the plovers changes and the birds manifest a certain\n\nThe Hong Kong Naturalist.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 549171, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "page_number": 79, "title": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "content_text": "Notes and Comments\n\n149\n\nrestlessness and become more noisy than during the winter months. The wild geese lead the northward migration in March. From that time on it is one continuous stream of migration until well along into May.\n\nIt has actually never been definitely determined just what species of the shore birds nest in southern China. In 1931 we definitely located the Eastern Oystercatcher nesting on the small islands, again this year we have located numerous nests. As late as May 12th., there were both Golden Plover and Turnstone still to be found on Haitang Island. The Greenshank too, was to be seen in considerable numbers. There were many others of the shorebirds not supposed to nest in southern China. Eastern Pratincole began nesting about May 10th. Painted Snipe nest upon the grassy lowlands of Haitang Island about the same time.\n\nWe had long heard of fishermen taking eggs by the basketfull from some of the outlying islands. It has long been our desire to check up on this thing in order to ascertain just what species nest in such numbers.\n\nOf course it was evident terns were likely the greatest sufferers at the hands of these professional poachers upon their nesting grounds. May 9th., was a little early for terns to be nesting, but this seemed the only opportunity to visit these islands, so we planned to spend a day with notebook and fieldglasses upon what seemed to be a promising island. La Touche had reported years ago of one egg of what seemed to him to be of the Bridled Tern that was brought to him from one of the islands. We desired to make a survey in person of promising nesting grounds.\n\nThe islands visited lay six miles or so from shore east of Haitang and in the general region of the Turnabout Lighthouse. Not until we came within a couple of miles of the islands did we see any birds. As we approached nearer the island both Bridled and Black-naped Terns began to be seen in ever increasing numbers. On the outer island of the group we found terns of the two mentioned species in vast numbers. A survey of the island disclosed the following species. As this island was small we feel confident we noted every bird found upon it. Besides the two species of terns mentioned which were very abundant we noted the following species in the order listed. Eastern Reef Heron (Demiegretta sacra) were first noticed flying from one island to the other. There were four pair of these birds.\n\nAt least twenty pair of Yellow-nib Duck (Anas poecilorhyncha zonorhyncha) were on the island. One nest of this species was located. It was a bit too early to catch these duck busy in their domestic affairs. Red-bellied Rock Thrush (Monticola p. philippensis) were seen nesting in crevices. There were three pairs of this thrush. One Malay House Swift seemed to be greatly disturbed at our presence; also one Eastern House Swallow swerved about feeding with little concern. There was a single male White-faced Wagtail which at this season of the year very likely had a mate tucked away in some crack or cranny. One pair of Spotted Sandpiper (Tringa hypoleucos) seemed very much at home. The surprise of the day was to find both the Crested Myna (Aethiopsar c. cristatellus) and the Formosan Tree Sparrow (Passer montanus taivanensis) present in considerable numbers and evidently nesting in perfect contentment on this bleak island far from the haunts of man.\n\nJuly 1935.\n\n80", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. 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Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "content_text": "Page 81\n\n150\n\nNotes and Comments\n\nWith the duck and tern nesting on this small island in such numbers it is very easy to conceive of the fishermen gathering baskets of eggs when the island is visited late in the month of May.\n\nIt is interesting to note that the Oystercatcher does not frequent islands any considerable distance from the mainland or from Haitang Island, which is the central island of the group. Two pairs of Black-napped Tern were found on an island one mile off the eastern tip of Haitang.\n\nFour pairs of Oystercatcher were found nesting on three smaller islands only a few hundred yards off shore.\n\nUntil some ornithologist finds time and opportunity to spend considerable time among the islands off the southern China coast, it is going to be impossible to determine with any degree of certainty what birds do nest in this region. We have seen both Shearwater and Petrel over Haitang waters in May. On the fourth of May, we saw flocks of Mallard (Anas p. platyrhyncha) in the waters along the Futsing coast. This certainly is after duck of this species are supposed to have followed the teal, pintail, etc., on the northward migration.\n\nHARRY R. CALDWELL,\nFutsing, Fukien.\n\nThe island of Haitang is situated to the E.S.E. of Futsing and S.E. of Foochow, roughly Long. 119° 45′ and Lat. 25° 35′ N.—Ed.\n\nTHE DUSKY AND THE RUFOUS-BACKED SHRIKES.\n\nIn H.K.N. V, p. 227, mention is made of a nest of the Dusky Shrike found at Tsun Wan last year, in which case both parents and all young were dusky.\n\nHaving during the past few years seen numerous nests of the Rufous-backed Shrike, where, in every case, the young were similar to their parents, I jumped to the conclusion that the Dusky Shrike is, and can only be, the offspring of parents which are both dusky.\n\nThis nesting season, the theory I so fondly cherished was very rudely exploded.\n\nOn the 22nd of June, a nest of the Rufous-backed Shrike was located. Imagine my surprise when, on examining the contents, I found that of the three young birds, two were Rufous-backed and the third Dusky. Scarcely believing my eyes, I had another good look at the parents, which were but a few yards away protesting loudly against the intrusion, but they were both without doubt typical Lanius s. schach. With the object of being doubly sure, I retreated and waited for a couple of hours, and during this interval, both birds were observed to descend to the nest to tend the young.\n\nThe three young birds were taken home and brought to the University, where they were examined by Dr. G. A. C. Herklots and proved to be, as stated, one Dusky, two Rufous-backed.\n\nAccording to La Touche, the Dusky Shrike (Lanius fuscatus) and the Rufous-backed Shrike (Lanius s. schach) are separate species, and I was, until the last find, of the same opinion. Stressemann, Rothschild, and\n\nThe Hong Kong Naturalist.\n\nPage 80\nPage 81", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 549173, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "page_number": 81, "title": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "content_text": "Notes and Comments \n\n151 \n\nDelacour, however, say that Lanius s. schach and Lanius fuscatus are one and the same bird and this recent find supports their view. \n\nR. A. P. \n\nLa Touche in a \"Handbook of the Birds of Eastern China\" p. 186 makes this significant remark. \"However, until specimens of L. schach and L. fuscatus are taken from the same nest, the question must remain unsolved.\" In his Corrigenda and Addenda on p. 481, he writes of L. fuscatus \"It is most probable that, as pointed out by Dr. Stresemann, this Shrike is a melanistic form of L. schach.” \n\nWe have not seen Dr. Stresemann's paper on the question and therefore are unacquainted with his evidence. If melanism in L. schach behaves as a simple recessive then if a Rufous bird RR, mated with a Dusky bird rr, the first hybrid generation Rr, would all be Rufous. If two such hybrids mated then on the average in every four chicks one would be RR, two Rr and one rr, i.e., one pure Rufous, two hybrid Rufous and one Dusky. It appears that in the case found by Mr. R. A. Pereira both parents were Rr and therefore one in every four of the chicks would be Dusky; one Dusky and two Rufous chicks in the family of three supports this view. \n\nMajor Hutson's note on these birds H.K.N. II, p. 221, is worth quoting. \"On June 17, 1931, two adult shrikes, one normal and one dusky, were seen together with a couple of youngsters both of which looked normal; on July 13, two young shrikes, one normal and one dusky were seen together with one adult which was normal. If the view of melanism behaving as a simple recessive is correct then in the first of Major Hutson's examples the parents were probably RR and rr and the youngsters Rr, alternatively the parents may have been Rr and rr and the youngsters Rr but in this case one of the two youngsters by the laws of chance should have been rr and therefore dusky. In the second of Major Hutson's examples the adult seen must have been Rr for in no case with an RR parent is it possible to have one rufous and one dusky offspring, the other parent may have been either Rr or rr as in either case the two youngsters, one rufous and one dusky, could have been obtained. If the other parent was Rr then the rufous youngster could have been either RR or Rr; if the other parent was rr then the rufous youngster must have been Rr.—Ed. \n\nNESTING NOTES. \n\nViolet Whistling Thrush, Myophonus c. coeruleus (Scop.) A nest was discovered in a rather unusual situation on June 8. It was situated in a hole in a bank—the half-dome shaped hole left by an old wasps' nest. The bank formed one side of a deep cutting above Tai Hang, and the nest was twelve feet from the bottom of the bank and about three feet from the top of the cutting, which, however, had a slight overhang, and thus gave ample protection and cover. In fact, had the sitting bird not flown out at my approach, leading to a search for the probable nest, it would not have been discovered. \n\nJuly 1935.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 549174, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "page_number": 82, "title": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "content_text": "83\n\n152\n\nNotes and Comments\n\nThere were three eggs, which subsequent early hatching proved to have been already well set at the time of discovery. It is worth noting that the eggs were pale buff coloured spotted with reddish-brown towards the larger end, which seems to be the normal form, though there is a great variation remarked upon by all observers. In the Hong Kong Naturalist, No. 1 of Vol. IV, plate No. 2 shows a Violet Whistling Thrush's egg which has a plain ground colour of creamy-brown and no markings whatever. In an earlier issue of the H.K. Naturalist, No. 1 of Vol. II, Major Hutson stated:-\"The ground colour may be reddish stone or pale green, and is speckled and blotched with reddish brown. One clutch examined was a very pale stone or buff colour and free from any marking.\" Again, Caldwell's \"South China Birds\" has the following note:-\"The eggs vary greatly in colour from pale greenish almost entirely unmarked, to yellowish-green or pale brownish, minutely spotted with reddish, the markings being so thick as to appear almost as a smear over the entire egg, often forming a wreath around the larger end.\"\n\nIt was not possible to visit the nest except at weekly intervals: and on the following Saturday, June 15, it was found that three nestlings had hatched. They were some four or five days old. A week later, on June 22, the nest was empty. A careful scrutiny of the spot failed to reveal any signs of a human raid, nor was it likely that any other form of enemy had discovered the nest or been able to reach it. The conclusion is that the nestlings had grown sufficiently to leave the nest for the shelter of a dense copse nearby, where they would gradually attain full strength and maturity. Presuming they had left the nest that day or the day before, this gives them at the most about eleven or twelve days from hatching to becoming full fledged: perhaps other observers can state whether such rapid development is likely or usual.\n\nV. H. C. J.\n\nNest\n\nSouth China White-Eye, Zosterops simplex simplex Swinhoe. containing four eggs found near Kimberley Road. It was hanging at the end of a small tree suspended only by its rims and fully exposed. The eggs measured 14 mm. x 11 mm. on the average. Later three eggs hatched out, the fourth having mysteriously disappeared. When the birds had left we collected the nest which is a deep cup approximately 60 mm. in diameter and 50 mm. in depth. It was built entirely of rootlets and lined with partially decayed leaves.\n\nChinese Bulbul, Pycnonotus sinensis sinensis (Gm.) Nest with three young located almost in the very top of a large tree in a garden at Chatham Road, Kowloon. This is the only nest found of the above species this year. They are not very numerous within town limits as are the Red-whiskered Bulbuls and we believe the birds prefer to nest in the country, where Chinese villagers often find them.\n\nA\n\nChinese Red-whiskered Bulbul, Otocompsa jocosa jocosa (Linn.) friend residing at the Hermitage, Kennedy Road found a nest containing four newly hatched birds within a stone's throw from the house. They are now almost fully fledged and are expected to leave the nest at any time.\n\nThe Hong Kong Naturalist.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 549175, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "page_number": 83, "title": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "content_text": "Notes and Comments\n\n153\n\nChinese Spotted-necked Dove, Streptopelia chinensis chinensis (Scop.) Two other nests were found at Tsun Wan during June. We have, this year, located several of their nests. The parents are very stupid at concealing them. They are very frail, being composed of a few roots woven loosely together, with the result that the eggs, which always number two, can be seen from below.\n\nChinese Dayal Bird, Copsychus saularis prosthopellus Oberhsr. Two nests, each containing four young birds, were discovered, one at Kam Tin and the other at Tsun Wan. Both nests were built in the crevice of a ruined wall behind the village. These birds will always utilise the same hole year after year if unmolested. The nest found at Tsun Wan was built in the same crevice as the one found there the previous year.\n\nBlack-naped Oriole, Oriolus chinensis diffusus Sharpe. Every year a pair nests at Ting Kau, behind the village at the 11th mile beach, Kowloon, and the young are invariably stolen by one or other of the village urchins. Visiting the place on June 5th, I saw a lad with a young golden oriole which was more dead than alive. He told me he had found three young birds in a nest built on the large \"loong-ngarn\" tree, but two had died. I offered him ten cents, and he gladly sold me the bird. It was promptly fed with a few grass-hoppers and taken home. The bird survived and is now big and strong, having just commenced a partial moult.\n\nIts confiding nature prevents me from liberating it, as the bird will come and perch on the hand when called.\n\nChinese Hair-Crested Drongo, Chibia hottentotta brevirostris Cab. & H. Nest with four fully fledged young located near Kwei Chong. The young birds immediately jumped and flew out of the nest when the tree was climbed. One was eventually captured and examined and found to be similar to the adult but paler in shade. The occipital crest is entirely absent in the young bird.\n\nChinese Francolin, Francolinus pintadeanus pintadeanus (Scop.). Three nests containing 4, 4, and 6 eggs were found on the slopes of Tai Mo Shan by female grass-cutters of Lo Wai village. In one case, the woman actually captured the hen, which refused to leave the nest. Here it may interest readers to know that one of the francolin chicks I reared last year (see H.K.N. V, pp. 170-175, \"Development of young francolins\") laid four eggs. As she showed no signs of being broody, the eggs were put under a common hen. All hatched out and are now fully fledged, being approximately half the size of the grown-up bird.\n\nBOTANY.\n\nR. A. P.\n\nThe writer was much interested in the treatment of some of the species in the Genera Eria and Dendrobium, as two of the species described represented species which were undetermined in the Herbarium and the Herbarium Orchid Garden at Lingnan University. It might be of interest to the readers of the Hong Kong Naturalist to know where this material came from.\n\nDendrobium acinaciforme Roxb. is represented by the live number 2803, collected in southern Hainan by Lau, Sam-Kee, in April 1935, this\n\nJuly 1935.\n\n84", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 549176, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "page_number": 84, "title": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "content_text": "154\n\nNotes and Comments\n\nblossomed during June this year almost immediately after it was planted in a coconut-shell. (In the Herbarium it is represented by Metcalf 18,005). This is a very characteristic species and is easily recognized by the distichous leaves and dainty white flowers which come out on what appear almost to be dead stems.\n\nEria coronaria Reichb. is represented by the live number 2757, collected on Shap-Man-Tai-Shan in November 1934 by Tsang, Wai-Tak. These plants were planted in flower pots and blossomed on February 20th, 1935. (In the Herbarium it is represented by Metcalf 17,973). Numerous yellow and reddish-brown flowers are very attractive.\n\nFRANKLIN P. METCALF,\n\nCurator of Herbarium.\n\nThe\n\nMETEOROLOGY. January-June, 1935. January on the whole was dull and humid; there were nine completely sunless days, and the total sunshine for the month was 39 hours less than normal. Although the month was abnormally cloudy, there was very little rainfall. February opened with a spell of wet weather, rain or drizzle falling every day until the 11th; on the 12th the weather cleared up, and no rain was recorded during the remainder of the month. The 12th to the 17th were days of almost unbroken sunshine. March came in and went out with cloudy, damp spells, while ten days in the middle of the month were warm and sunny.\n\nThe first half of April was cloudy, wet, and often foggy. Towards the end of the month the weather improved, and continued mainly fair until the middle of May; we were lucky to have a sunny spell for the Jubilee celebrations, more than 10 hours of sunshine being recorded on each day from the 6th to the 9th. In the latter half of May and the whole of June the weather was normal for the time of year—mainly cloudy and showery, with occasional sunny days. Up to the end of June the total rainfall for the year was still 10 inches short of the normal; every month except March had been deficient in rain.\n\nAt the time of writing (July) we are in the midst of the rainy season; sometimes in a tropical downpour it seems little short of miraculous that such deluges of water can be produced out of empty air, and some notes on the formation of rain may be of interest at this time of year.\n\nAs any school geography book tells us, rain is caused by the raising and consequent cooling of damp air; but the books are necessarily a little vague when they come to deal with the actual physical processes which go on inside a rain-cloud, for these are difficult to observe and are not yet fully understood.\n\nAir can contain a limited quantity of invisible water-vapour; when this limit is reached, the air is said to be saturated, and its relative humidity is then 100%. The amount of water-vapour needed to saturate a sample of air increases with the temperature of the latter. Consequently, if damp air is cooled, a temperature will eventually be reached at which it becomes saturated with water-vapour; any further cooling must result in some of the water-vapour condensing in the form of visible droplets, which we see as a mist or cloud.\n\nThe Hong Kong Naturalist.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 549177, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "page_number": 85, "title": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "content_text": "Notes and Comments\n\n155\n\nThere are several ways in which the raising and cooling of the air may take place. A damp wind may be forced up a hillside, and form a cloud over the top; this is the reason for the heavy mass of Cumulus cloud which so often lies on the Peak during the SW monsoon. Again, air may rise vertically owing to convection currents over heated ground; this mode of cloud formation is illustrated by the isolated Cumulus or \"Woolpack\" clouds of a warm summer afternoon in England; each cloud marks the summit of a rising column of air. Thirdly, a whole layer of air may be forced up the sloping surface of a wedge of denser air lying beneath it, in which case a uniform layer of Stratus cloud may form.\n\nIf the process of cooling and condensation proceeds far enough, the minute droplets forming the cloud grow in size as more water is added to them. It is probable that they collide with each other and coalesce, and eventually they become sufficiently large to fall out of the cloud as rain. At first sight it may seem strange that a cloud remains floating in the sky while a shower of rain falls to the earth; both consist of water drops, so why should not the cloud fall as well as the rain? To explain why a cloud remains floating, we must examine the forces acting on a body falling through a resisting medium such as the air. When a body falls through air, it will continue to accelerate until the force of gravity is exactly balanced by the air resistance, and thereafter will fall at a constant speed known as its \"terminal velocity\". Now for objects of the same density, the air resistance depends on the surface area of the body, and so increases as the square of the linear dimensions, while the weight increases as the cube of the linear dimensions; consequently a large body must attain a much higher terminal velocity than a small one before its weight is balanced by the air resistance. A man, for instance, falling through air attains a terminal velocity of about 100 miles per hour—however high the aeroplane may be when you fall out of it, you cannot hit the ground at a greater speed than this; if that is any comfort! A large raindrop may have a diameter of 0.2 inch, and its terminal velocity is about 18 m.p.h. The minute droplets which form a cloud may have diameters as small as 0.001 inch, and a terminal velocity of only 150 feet per hour.\n\nEven if a cloud were not buoyed up by rising air-currents, its descent at this slow rate would be imperceptible from the ground.\n\nMore water-vapour is needed to saturate warm air than cold, and the amount of water-vapour which may be contained by the heated air of the Tropics is colossal. For example, the air over the Colony, covering an area of about 350 square miles, can hold when saturated about 50 million tons of water-vapour, if we take the temperature at ground level as 85° F. No wonder it rains hard in summer. If all this water-vapour were condensed and precipitated as rain, the fall would amount to about 3 inches; it is evident that to produce the tremendous falls of 20 inches or more in 24 hours, which have sometimes been recorded here, the damp air over the Colony must be renewed many times over.\n\nIn winter the air over Hong Kong, even if saturated, can contain a mere 20 million tons of water-vapour; as a rule it is very far from being saturated throughout its height at this time of year, and the precipitation which falls from it can in truth be described as \"the gentle rain from heaven\".\n\nJuly 1935.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 549178, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "page_number": 86, "title": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "content_text": "BOOK REVIEW.\n\n\"The Lily Year-Book,\" 1934; London, Royal Horticultural Society, Vincent Square, Westminster, S.W.1. Pages 1-117 with 43 figures in the text, prepared mostly from photographs of lilies in flower. Price, five shillings paper, six shillings cloth.\n\nThe third annual \"Lily Year-Book\" for 1934 is as interesting and instructive as its two predecessors. Two articles deal with lilies in their natural environment, in Tibet by Capt. F. Kingdon Ward and in the Pontic region by E. K. Balls; in addition there are articles on \"Lilies in Kenya\" by J. L. Gifford, \"Californian Lilies in Cultivation\" by Dr. A. M. Vollmer and \"Diseases of Lilium longiflorum in Bermuda\" by L. Ogilvie. This serves to show how all-embracing is the geographic field covered by the \"Lily Year Book\". In order to understand fully how best to grow lilies it is necessary to know as much as possible about their natural habitat, the type of plants they are associated with, the character of the soil and the climate; the first two articles give us certain of these basic facts. Secondly it is desirable to know how lilies grow in cultivation not only in England but in other countries and the next two articles give us facts in this connection.\n\nOther writers deal with problems of propagation, of the arrangement and structure of the chromosomes in the reproductive cells, of diseases in stored bulbs and in growing plants, of hybrids and of the cultivation of lilies in gardens and woodlands. Certainly this volume should be in the possession of all who are in any manner interested in the study or culture of lilies.\n\nG. A. C. H.\n\nThe Hong Kong Naturalist.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 549179, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "page_number": 87, "title": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "content_text": "July 1935.\n\nJanuary\n\nFebruary\n\nMarch\n\n:\n\nJanuary\n\nFebruary\n\nMarch\n\nCLIMATOLOGICAL DATA.\n\nJanuary-March, 1935.\n\n \n Temperature (F)\n Relative Humidity %\n Sunshine, Hours\n \n \n 1935\n \n \n 1935\n 50 Year Normal\n 1935\n 50 Year Normal\n \n \n Max.\n Min.\n Mean.\n 50 Year Normal\n \n \n \n \n \n 75.7°\n 47.0°\n 60.0°\n 58.9°\n 79\n 76.6°\n 75\n \n \n 82.9°\n 56.6°\n 66.1°\n 63.1°\n 88\n 83\n 83\n \n \n 2 2 3\n \n 106.2\n 145.4\n 79\n \n \n 109.2\n 95.5\n 106.6\n 95.2\n \n \n \n :\n :\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n[ 157 ]\n\n \n Cloud %\n Rainfall, inches\n Days of Rain †\n Wind\n \n \n \n \n 1935\n 50 Year\n 1935\n Normal\n 50 Year Normal\n 1935\n 50 Year Normal\n Direction*\n Velocity m.p.h.\n 50 Y. N.\n \n \n 79\n 64\n 1.090\n 1.271\n 00\n 6\n NE\n 12.6\n 14.0\n \n \n 74\n 76\n 1.130\n 1.751\n 7\n 00\n E\n 11.8\n 12.0\n \n \n 81\n 82\n 4.665\n 2.934\n 12\n 11\n € 68 18\n \n \n \n \n 74\n 76\n \n \n \n \n $4\n 13.5\n 14.0\n \n\n† A day of rain is one on which more than 0.005 inch fell, * 0° — N., 90° — E., etc.\n\nCourtesy of the Royal Observatory, Hong Kong,\n\n88", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 549180, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "page_number": 88, "title": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "content_text": "The Hong Kong Naturalist.\n\nCLIMATOLOGICAL DATA. April-June, 1935.\n\n \n \n April\n May\n June\n \n \n Temperature (F)\n \n \n \n \n \n Max.\n 85.5°\n 89.2°\n 90.2°\n \n \n Min.\n 56.7°\n 68.2°\n 76.0°\n \n \n Mean\n 70.3°\n 77.3°\n 82.2°\n \n \n 50 Year Normal\n 70.3°\n 77.1°\n 81.0°\n \n \n Relative Humidity %\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 83\n 83\n 83\n \n \n \n 88\n 84\n 88\n \n \n 50 Year Normal\n 88\n 85\n 85\n \n \n Sunshine, Hours\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 77.2\n 143.1\n 154.1\n \n \n 50 Year Normal\n 115.5\n 157.7\n 163.7\n \n \n Cloud %\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 75\n 80\n 78\n \n \n 50 Year Normal\n 28\n ...\n ...\n \n \n Rainfall, inches\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 2.455\n 4.735\n 14.425\n \n \n 50 Year Normal\n 5.444\n 11.502\n 15.524\n \n \n Days of Rain †\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 8\n 13\n 24\n \n \n 50 Year Normal\n 76\n 21\n 22\n \n \n Wind Direction *\n \n \n \n \n \n Velocity m. p. h.\n 12\n 16\n 13.4\n \n \n 50 Y. N.\n 88\n 89\n 12.1\n \n \n \n 14.0\n 13.9\n 100\n \n \n \n 203\n 148\n ...\n \n \n \n 7.7\n 11.6\n ...\n \n\n† A day of rain is one on which more than 0.005 inch fell.\n\n* 0° N., 90° — E., etc.\n\nCourtesy of the Royal Observatory, Hong Kong.\n\n[158]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 549181, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "page_number": 89, "title": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "content_text": "Prof & English af \n\nHK Univ. \n\nExtract from a letter from \n\nProfessor L. Forster to \n\nMr. Mayhew dated the 18th \n\nMarch, 1935. \n\n90 \n\n \n\nThe Council has approved of the appointment \n\nof Dr. Chen Shao Yi as head of the Department of Chinese. \n\nThe salary offered is generous and yet I am not certain \n\nthat he will come. There is a big cleavage between \n\nCanton and Peking because Peking has taken the lead in the \n\nnew movement (literary), Hu Shih being the leader. \n\nSouth in this matter is very reactionary and under \n\nChen Chi Tang, the general in control. The movement is \n\nback towards the Chinese classics and even Chinese \n\nmedicine. Now \n\nThe \n\nDr. Chen comes here it will mean that \n\nwe become identified with the forward movement, the aim \n\nof which is to make Kuo Yu the literary medium, though \n\nit does not mean the exclusion of the classics, which, \n\nit is accepted, should be the final goal of study. It \n\nis quite obvious that the future lies this way and that \n\nthe present system is doomed for the type of person \n\nthe old Hanlin scholar will soon be unobtainable. \n\nNot only so, but all the intellectual life is in the North, \n\npractically none in Canton. \n\nNot \n\nHowever apart from this antagonism between \n\nPeking and Canton which expressed itself very fully when \n\nDr. Hu Shih went up to Canton after receiving his \n\nhonorary degree from us in January and when he was \n\nordered officially to leave Canton without addressing \n\nChung Shan", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 549182, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "page_number": 90, "title": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "content_text": "Chung Shan University after he had been invited to do so, there is also the natural fear on the part of Canton that this University might become a real centre of Chinese studies if a scholar of Dr. Chen's repute came to it, and Dr. Chen being a scholar and a man of peace will probably not wish to become the centre of jealousy and even hatred. In any case he would only come for one year, though if the political situation were easier, he might at the end of that time be induced to stay. The salary, as Dr. Hu Shih admitted, is a great temptation, so it will be a bad blow for us if our offer is turned down, for it will suggest to me at least that cultural relations with Hong Kong University are not altogether safe or desirable from the point of view of a scholar in China. Individually of course one can make very good and very pleasant contacts but officially Hong Kong seems to be cold-shouldered. Hu Shih's visit to us and his acceptance of the LL.D. I thought had put an end to this but now I am not so sure.\n\nHong Kong is an excellent place for Generals like Chan Chai Tong who wish to have a safe deposit for the great profits they make. I am told he owns a considerable amount of property in D'Avouex Road, one of the main streets, but apart from that there is more evidence of a desire to crush Hong Kong economically than to preserve it. The Canton-Hankow line is being built with British Boxer Indemnity funds, but there is to be no linking up of the Hong-Kong-Canton railway with the new line, though there will be a loop from Whampoa, a port on the Canton river, which it is hoped\n\nPage 90\nPage 91", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 549183, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "page_number": 91, "title": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "content_text": "92 END \n\nto develop as a rival to Hong Kong. Our relations \n\nwith Canton have never been very good since 1925 except \n\nwhen Sir Cecil Clementi after very strenuous efforts \n\ngot onto very good terms with Lui Chai Sum.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 549184, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "page_number": 92, "title": "CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935", "content_text": "53611", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-554-6 Hong Kong University- 1. Appointment of Dr. Chen Shas Yi as head of Chinese Department... 18-3-1935 - 28-10-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 555245, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-563-17 Sino-Japanese War- attacks on shipping. For extracted photographs see CN 3-12 27-9-1937 - 17-1-1938", "page_number": 95, "title": "CO129-563-17 Sino-Japanese War- attacks on shipping. For extracted photographs see CN 3-12 27-9-1937 - 17-1-1938", "content_text": "# 598 \n\n## THE HONG KONG WEEKLY PRESS & \n\n## October 29, 1937 \n\n紅酒啤址 \n\nWar scene from the Shanghai area \n\n3. \n\n## SINO-JAPANESE SITUATION: EDITOR'S COMMENTS \n\n## CHINA FIGHTS AS ONE MAN \n\n(*Daily Press*, October 21, 1937) \n\nWe have on many occasions called attention to the campaign of hypocrisy and lies conducted by Japanese propagandists both in and out of Japan to provide an excuse for the crimes now being perpetrated in China and to cover up blatant facts. What they seek to deceive by such puerile methods is best known to the Japanese themselves, for it is inconceivable that anybody aware of the truth, and not drugged by censorship and delusion as are the masses in Japan, would for a moment be misled. \n\nOnly a couple of days ago we were furnished with another flagrant falsehood emanating from the Tokyo radio station. It was calmly announced that a general survey of the situation since the outbreak of hostilities between the two countries had revealed that public sentiment in China was opposed to fighting with Japan and that the people were not doing anything to support the stand taken by the soldiers at the front. \n\nThat the Chinese do not want war with Japan or any country is to a certain extent correct. The Chinese are a peace-loving race, and they have been forced to take up arms because, in the face of grave provocation, they have had no alternative. It is a matter of life or death for China and the Chinese. The Chinese have turned the other cheek too often in the past, but they are not prepared to submit forever to insult and humiliation. If the Japanese were prepared to undertake a more comprehensive \"survey,\" they would be surprised to find that China is now united, heart and soul, in a tremendous endeavour to maintain her national existence. And that is certainly not pleasing to the Nipponese sabre-rattlers; the Chinese did not expect it to be. \n\nAs to the charge that the people are completely indifferent towards the position of the soldiers now engaged in a brave defence of their mother soil, we submit that such a charge is so groundless as to be unworthy of argument. This is all fiction, as those responsible for its propagation well know. Even if Japanese statements had not all been cock-and-bull stories, we who move in more enlightened surroundings would instantly be able to see in this latest effort a venomous misrepresentation of the true facts.\n\n## THE RULES OF WAR \n\n(*Daily Press*, October 22, 1937) \n\nIt is not a little surprising, perhaps, that the rules of war should be so extensively discussed as one of the results of a war which is not a war at all—for, in North China, it is only an example of what a cowardly nation, possessed of nearly all the modern weapons of war, can do to a more gallant but, alas! none too well-equipped people. The hostilities in this emergency—and emergency is one of the official descriptions given to the events in North China—must, after all is said and done, be conducted under some sort of rules, but it has long since become evident that the Japanese have so disregarded every rule of decency in this undeclared war that, in the short space of three months, thousands of innocent civilians have either been killed or wounded. The breach is complete, but there is no war at all—merely a wish on one side that the other would stop their uncalled-for and illegal aggression. \n\nJapanese spokesmen have all along maintained that Japan has no territorial designs on China. In point of fact, all they desire is to become good and friendly neighbours, and as a demonstration...\n\n(Continued on page 599)", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-563-17 Sino-Japanese War- attacks on shipping. For extracted photographs see CN 3-12 27-9-1937 - 17-1-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 555352, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-563-17 Sino-Japanese War- attacks on shipping. For extracted photographs see CN 3-12 27-9-1937 - 17-1-1938", "page_number": 202, "title": "CO129-563-17 Sino-Japanese War- attacks on shipping. For extracted photographs see CN 3-12 27-9-1937 - 17-1-1938", "content_text": "# 16th Witness: Philip Francis Shelsley Court.\n\n1173. Mr. Whyatt: Will you just describe in ordinary language what they are? Two metallic bodies. The larger of the two is certainly a bullet of some sort, and the smaller thing is a fragment of the same bullet or of a similar bullet.\n\n1174. Bearing these data in mind and now looking at the X-ray photograph, those foreign bodies you see in the photograph - are you of the opinion that they are photographs of the same foreign bodies which were removed from the knee? I can trace a very definite similarity.\n\n1175. Perhaps you will tell us what sort of progress this patient is making? The knee joint is still in a septic condition, but she is showing signs of improvement.\n\n1176. And her general condition? Her general condition - her strength is being maintained fairly well.\n\n1177. Do you anticipate a recovery? I think her chances of recovery are fairly good. It might be necessary to amputate the leg later on.\n\n1178. If it is not necessary to amputate the leg, will there be any restriction of movement in this leg? I certainly think the knee joint as a knee joint will be no longer of service.\n\n1179. Chairman: Thank you, Dr. Court. I hope you will be able to leave those photographs here so that we may have copies made of them. Yes.\n\n1180. (The Chairman suggested at this stage that the Police should be given custody of the fragments of metal put in as exhibits).\n\n1181. Chairman: The fragments must be marked so as to preserve their identity. I mentioned that in case they are cut up and disfigured in the process of examination. The Police may have them provided an undertaking is given by them to preserve their identity, whether they come back in smaller parts or not.\n\n1182. Mr. Whyatt: I think I shall be able to call any witnesses who handle these exhibits between now and the time when the Court sits again to prove their identity.\n\n1183. (Witness left the witness box).\n\n## 17th Witness: Bau Tsu-zeung\n\n1184. Seventeenth Witness. Bau Tsu-zeung, duly sworn, states:—\n\n1185. Mr. Whyatt: You are the medical superintendent of the Kwong Wah Hospital? Yes, I am.\n\n1186. You recollect on the 27th September some fishermen being admitted to the Kwong Wah Hospital? Yes, ten of them.\n\n1187. Do you know where they came from before they came to your hospital? They were sent to us by the Water Police.\n\n1188. Were some of these fishermen suffering from injuries? Four of them were suffering from injuries - four of the ten fishermen were wounded.\n\n1189. Was there anything the matter with the other six? They had no wounds.\n\n1190. What was their general condition? They were all suffering from exhaustion and exposure.\n\n1191. I want to ask you about these four, the four who were injured. Can you tell me the name of the first one you examined? Lai Yau.\n\n1192. What sort of age was Lai Yau? Stated to be thirty-eight.\n\n1193. What was he suffering from? He was suffering from conjunctivitis and three superficial wounds on the right hand.\n\n1194. Did he have any other wounds besides those on the right hand? On admission, he had two or three other wounds, but they were healed.\n\n1195. Where were those other wounds? Also on the back of the hand.\n\n1196. Can you express any opinion how long those wounds had been there? About a week.\n\n1197. Could they have been there less than a week? Possibly.\n\n1198. How much less than a week? One or two days.\n\n| Question | Answer |\n| --- | --- |\n| 1199. Anything from four to seven days old, would that be right? | Yes, from four to seven days old. |\n\n1200. Now tell me about the second person whom you examined? Ho Kau.\n\n1201. And his age? 29 years.\n\n1202. Tell me what he was suffering from. He was suffering from a lacerated wound measuring two inches in length over the left frontal region.\n\n1203. Chairman: That is on the forehead? Yes.\n\n1204. Mr. Whyatt: Anything else? A lacerated wound measuring two inches by one half inch over the left supra-orbital region, the left eyebrow. Multiple superficial wounds on the left side of the face. Lacerated wound over the manubrium sterni, that is the upper part of the front of the chest.\n\n1205. Yes? And numerous superficial wounds over the neck and front of chest. Numerous superficial wounds in front of right arm.\n\n1206. You described them as superficial wounds; could you give me some idea of the depth of the wounds? Not very deep, just touching the skin.\n\n1207. Chairman: Just penetrating the skin? Just penetrating through the skin.\n\n1208. Mr. Whyatt: That was all Ho Kau was suffering from. Tell me about the next patient you examined? Li Tai, age 53 years. He was suffering from superficial wound of right cheek, measuring one inch in length, and incised wound of lower lip, measuring one and a quarter inches in length.\n\n1209. Any others? Multiple superficial lacerations of right leg and foot. Circular punctured wound of medial aspect of right thigh, measuring one quarter inch in diameter and three quarter inch in depth. One small punctured wound over left buttock from which a piece of metal was extracted.\n\n1210. Will you look at that. Have you seen that before? Yes.\n\n1211. When did you first see that? This was taken out from the wound.\n\n1212. From the wound you have just described? Yes.\n\n1213. Were there any other injuries to Li Tai apart from those you described? Yes, numerous superficial lacerated wounds on both buttocks.\n\n1214. Did you get anything from those wounds? From those wounds, several small pieces of wood were extracted. (Witness produces small pieces of wood). Yes.\n\n1215. Did you keep those pieces of wood? Yes.\n\n1216. I think that completes the injuries to Li Tai, does it not, Dr. Bau? \n\n1217. Tell us about the fourth man who was suffering from injuries. Lai Pak-yau, age 29 years. He was suffering from a lacerated wound measuring three inches by one and a half inches over the left elbow. Circular superficial wounds over left leg, measuring one half inch in diameter.\n\n1218. That was all? Yes.\n\n1219. You have told us that the wounds which you found in Lai Yau were in your opinion from four to seven days old. Does that same opinion apply to all the wounds you treated? Yes.\n\n1220. Of all the four men? Yes.\n\n1221. Did these wounds appear to you to have been treated in any way before the men were admitted to your care? They went to the Kowloon Hospital, I believe, and were dressed there before they were sent to me.\n\n1222. Did they appear to have been treated by anyone before they came under your care? The wounds were not very septic.\n\n1223. Mr. Whyatt to Commissioners: Actually, they were not admitted to the Kowloon Hospital because it was full at the time. We have it on evidence from one of the witnesses that one of the officers of the steamer \"Scharnhorst\" did something to them.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-563-17 Sino-Japanese War- attacks on shipping. For extracted photographs see CN 3-12 27-9-1937 - 17-1-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 569635, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-584-14 Commutation of death sentences to life imprisonment. Includes 9 photographs depicting- [CN 3-42] Commutation of... 22-12-1939 - 17-9-1940", "page_number": 56, "title": "CO129-584-14 Commutation of death sentences to life imprisonment. Includes 9 photographs depicting- [CN 3-42] Commutation of... 22-12-1939 - 17-9-1940", "content_text": "COPY OF HIS HONOUR THE CHIEF JUSTICE'S NOTES.\n\nMonday 27th November 1939.\n\n55-\n\nCriminal Sessions.\n\nR v. Tong Chu alias Shui Hang Tsai\n\nMurder\n\nPleads not guilty.\n\nPrentis Asst. C.S. for Crown.\n\nChen (Lau) for defence.\n\nSaturnino Maria da Cruz\n\nHarry Turner\n\nHenry Leonard Moors\n\nTheodore Alexander Kuester)\n\nempanneled as jurors and respectively\n\nsworn or affirmed.\n\nJohn James Cameron\n\nHenry William Pomery\n\nYuen Tat Ming\n\nJohn James Cameron chosen as foreman of the jury.\n\nAccused given in charge of the jury.\n\nPrentis Asst.C.S. opens for Crown and calls:-\n\nLIEN TSOONG KYA, M.O. Queen Mary Hospital. About 8.40 p.m. on 28th September Leung Ki was admitted. Very collapsed from excessive loss of blood. He had a number of incised wounds. Transverse wound 4½\" long on back of neck, it went right down to bone. Wound was bleeding very profusely. Incised wound across right cheek deep down to bone 3\" long. Incised wound on left arm 1\" long and 1\" deep. Incised wound 4½\" long on outside of left thigh. It was deep and went through muscles. Two minor abrasions of abdominal wall. I could not operate but I stopped haemorrhage. He improved slightly but later got worse. He was treated for shock with intravenous injections. On 1st October I was present when dying deposition was taken from him. It took 1 hour. During taking of deposition he had lucid intervals. At other times he could not answer questions clearly. Temperature at that time was very high 104 degs. Next day I was present when deposition was read over to him. He was not completely lucid then, but he was better than on the previous day. He was conscious all the time the deposition was taken but he was very drowsy. Next day he could not answer questions normally.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-584-14 Commutation of death sentences to life imprisonment. Includes 9 photographs depicting- [CN 3-42] Commutation of... 22-12-1939 - 17-9-1940.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 569636, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-584-14 Commutation of death sentences to life imprisonment. Includes 9 photographs depicting- [CN 3-42] Commutation of... 22-12-1939 - 17-9-1940", "page_number": 57, "title": "CO129-584-14 Commutation of death sentences to life imprisonment. Includes 9 photographs depicting- [CN 3-42] Commutation of... 22-12-1939 - 17-9-1940", "content_text": "Clinical condition was about same as previous day.\n\nHe died on 3rd October about 3.50 a.m.\n\nI performed P.M. examination.\n\n56\n\nBody identified as Leung Ki by Leung 80 and Indian constable B479.\n\nExamination showed no external injuries other than those already described.\n\nInternally nothing to do with his death.\n\nCause of death was haemorrhage and toxaemia from multiple injuries.\n\nChopper with 3\" blade could have caused wounds.\n\nThere must have been at least four blows.\n\nxxd. Chan.\n\nWound at back of neck was clean wound made with sharp instrument.\n\nIt would require considerable amount of force. Wound on cheek was more than 1\" deep, slicing blow. I would not say that wound would require less force than blow at back of neck. Wound on outside of arm was 1\" deep. Very narrow wound, probably glancing blow.\n\nWound on thigh was deep, more than 2\". I found no scar marks on deceased's body. I did not see a scar on his head. He had a big blood vessel out and loss of blood was very rapid. His condition on 2nd October was clearer than it was when deposition was taken.\n\nHe knew what was going on but he was not completely clear. He was able to correct some inaccuracies in his statement.\n\nLAI CHUNG YIU dd. xd. Prentis.\n\nPolice photographer. On 10th October I went to Chinese Street and took three photographs. I have mounted them in the book now produced. Index shows what each photograph is.\n\nNo xxn.\n\nCHAN KAM ON it. xd. Prentis.\n\nI am known as Ah Kim or Lai Kwan Kim, Aged 15 living at 6 Chinese Street.\n\nI know accused as Sui Chung Tsai, Last year I gambled with him and won $85.\n\nHe paid me only $35.\n\nOn 25th September this year I saw him and asked for my $50.\n\nI had not seen him till then.\n\nHe did not pay me but we had no quarrel.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-584-14 Commutation of death sentences to life imprisonment. Includes 9 photographs depicting- [CN 3-42] Commutation of... 22-12-1939 - 17-9-1940.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 569660, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-584-14 Commutation of death sentences to life imprisonment. Includes 9 photographs depicting- [CN 3-42] Commutation of... 22-12-1939 - 17-9-1940", "page_number": 81, "title": "CO129-584-14 Commutation of death sentences to life imprisonment. Includes 9 photographs depicting- [CN 3-42] Commutation of... 22-12-1939 - 17-9-1940", "content_text": "-8-\n\n80\n\nentirely able to put these very fleeting events into exact chronological order. There, gentlemen, you have your Crown Case.\n\nIf you accept that, what is the law applicable?\n\nThere is one further feature of the evidence which it is essential I should remind you of and that is the medical evidence.\n\nIt is difficult to over-exaggerate the importance of the testimony of the doctor because, as you will remember, he speaks not to one wound but to four, not to one serious wound and three trivial wounds but to four serious wounds, three of them very serious indeed. They were all incised wounds. They were all of the type of wound that would have been inflicted by such a weapon as we have had described by its owner Ng Kui. They were all wounds which, according to Dr. Lien, require a considerable amount of force. They were wounds each of which required a separate blow from the assailant, so that you have four blows struck, four blows at least struck with a considerable degree of force, one on the back of the neck, a savage blow - one on the right cheek, a relatively minor one on the left arm and another very savage blow across the left thigh.\n\nGentlemen, if you accept the story told by witnesses for the prosecution then there are only two possibilities. One is that irritated beyond control, that is beyond his control, not beyond the control of a normal and reasonable man, - irritated beyond his degree of control, by the reiterated requests for money and by the fresh threats of Leung Ki, still further irritated at the loss of face occasioned by his being tapped on the shoulder by a younger man than himself, the", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-584-14 Commutation of death sentences to life imprisonment. Includes 9 photographs depicting- [CN 3-42] Commutation of... 22-12-1939 - 17-9-1940.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 571010, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-585-7 Sino-Japanese conflict- interned Chinese soldiers 18-1-1940 - 27-12-1940", "page_number": 24, "title": "CO129-585-7 Sino-Japanese conflict- interned Chinese soldiers 18-1-1940 - 27-12-1940", "content_text": "## P 3\n\nCross XX- areamic'\n\nThe man was in fairly good health, rather aneurismatic and suffering from beri-beri. Moderate blows of the fist could have caused the injuries to the spleen. \nsd) H.F.Tai,\n\n(4) EU SHUI TAI\n\nI am medical officer in charge of Ma Tau Chung Civilian Camp. Between 11 and 12 noon on 13/3/40, I received a call to visit the Argyle Street Camp and on arrival, I saw a male, CHENG HOP. I examined him and found him semi-conscious in a dying condition. I diagnosed a severe internal abdominal injury. I gave instructions for an ambulance to be called. \ned) Eu Shui Tai, \nCross xx - NIL.\n\n(5) FONG CHUNG CHOI - declared.\n\nEric Himsworth, 15/4/40.\n\nI was next to Deceased. Defendant said, \"I am a soldier of 4th Route Army at present in Argyle Street internment camp. I live in No.11 hut with 60 other interned soldiers. CHENG HOP was one of them, and defendant another. The relations between deceased and defendant were friendly. On 13/3/40 early in the morning, I started playing mahjong with defendant, deceased, and CHAN CHUN on deceased's bed. At about 9 a.m., the other 3 went for a meal and the game was stopped. Then I went for my morning meal. At 10:30 a.m., I returned and the game started again. The game continued to 11:15 when there was a fight.\n\nThe deceased had 14 cards, and defendant held 13 cards. I held 13, and CHAN CHUN held 13. Deceased threw one card to the centre and tried to take it back. \"What do you mean by withdrawing it?\" Then deceased abused defendant by saying, \"Go, co-habit with your mother.\" Defendant answered back with the same remark. Bad words were exchanged. I told them to stop. They continued, and deceased went up to defendant and hit defendant under the left eye with a swinging blow from the back of his hand. This was the only reason for the fight. The blow made defendant's cheek red and his eye water.\n\nDefendant and Deceased were sitting by a bed and defendant by the end of the bed. When deceased made to strike defendant again with his fist, defendant tried to ward off the blow. But deceased made to strike defendant again, then defendant fought with deceased with his fists. I saw defendant strike deceased between the shoulders, a second in the small of the back. Deceased was facing defendant, leaning forward, and defendant struck him in the back. I intervened. Deceased picked up a bamboo broom and tried to strike defendant. I called out \"Don't\" and deceased did not hit defendant, for it missed, and defendant ran off, out of the hut.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-585-7 Sino-Japanese conflict- interned Chinese soldiers 18-1-1940 - 27-12-1940.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 571033, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-585-7 Sino-Japanese conflict- interned Chinese soldiers 18-1-1940 - 27-12-1940", "page_number": 47, "title": "CO129-585-7 Sino-Japanese conflict- interned Chinese soldiers 18-1-1940 - 27-12-1940", "content_text": "# p 1\n\n(1) **HON HAN TAI** \n- sworn.\n\n47 On being Medical Officer in charge Kowloon Public Mortuary. morning of 30.11.39, I made a post-mortem examination on the body of **LAU KWONG FUK**, Chinese male, age 25, identified in my presence by Inspector **ROGERS** and Sergeant **ROTHWELL**.\n\nI found that the cause of death was gunshot wounds of the head. The deceased externally was fairly well developed and nourished. There were superficial bruises and abrasions on the left side of face and about the nose and chin. There was a lacerated round wound 4\" in diameter on the right cheek. There was another round lacerated wound \" in diameter on the left side of back of head. There were abrasions on the limbs and hands. There were no other marks of violence externally.\n\nInternally on the skull, there was another fractured hole \" in diameter in the right temple. There was another fractured hole 1 & 2\" on left side of the back of the head. Intra-cranially, there was extensive bleeding a foreign metallic body was found between the skull and the covering of the brain near the round fractured hole by the right temple, Exhibit A. The covering of the brain was lacerated 1\" in diameter on the left side on the back of the head. Y - letter laceration – the brain was extensively lacerated amongst which were small fragments of bone and a jagged piece of metallic foreign body, Exhibit B. There was no other disease, injury or fracture.\n\nI came to the conclusion that the cause of death was gunshot wounds of the head. Both Exhibits A & B were contributory to the cause of death. The abrasions on deceased's body were probably caused by barbed wire.\n\n(Sa.) **H. H. Tai**, \n**Eric Himsworth**, \n4.1.40.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-585-7 Sino-Japanese conflict- interned Chinese soldiers 18-1-1940 - 27-12-1940.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 573585, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-588-9 Hong Kong University- relief work 11-8-1942 - 19-11-1943", "page_number": 70, "title": "CO129-588-9 Hong Kong University- relief work 11-8-1942 - 19-11-1943", "content_text": "## Science Faculty \n1st Year \n2nd Year \n1 \n3 \n10 \nTOTAL: \n255 \n\n## RECENT GRADUATES: \n- Medical Faculty - 23 \n- Engineering Fac. - 10 \n- Arts Faculty \n- Science Faculty \n12 \n47 \n\n## TEACHING STAFF: \n- Medical Faculty \n- Engineering Fac. \n- Arts Faculty \n- Science Faculty \n5 \n1 \n17 \n17 \n68 \n\nThe first members of the Teaching Staff to escape from Hong Kong were Lt.Col. L.T. Ride (Professor of Physiology) and Messrs. D.H. Morley (Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering) and D.F. Davies (Lecturer in Physics). Shortly afterwards they were followed by Prof. Gordon King (Dean of the Faculty of Medicine) and Mr. A.H. Bentley (Demonstrator in Pharmacy), and later still by twelve Chinese members of the Staff. These included Tohin Yen Koh (Temporary Professor of Chinese History), La Kiam (Lecturer in Chinese), Koh Nye Poh (Lecturer in Electrical Engineering), Chean Tsang Koo (Lecturer in Logic), H.T. Chang (Temporary Lecturer in Engineering), Chang Te Lin (Assistant in Medical Entomology), Yeung Wai Wah, Raymond Lee and Miss Daphne Chun (Assistants to the Clinical Units), King Sing Yue (Demonstrator in Electrical Engineering), Miss Leung Man Wah (Tutor in English) and Li Yin Kei (Tutor in Chinese). In addition, the name of Mr. M.K. Cheng (University Accountant) should be included.\n\nPage 15,\n\nMany of the 47 recent graduates have found employment in Free China. Medical graduates have not experienced great difficulty in finding posts and are serving with such organisations as the Chinese National Red Cross, Medical Unit of the New Life Movement, British Red Cross Unit, Central Midwifery Training School, as well as in Government and Mission Hospitals and in private practice. Engineering graduates have found employment with organisations such as the National Resources Commission, Pearl River Conservancy Board, China Vegetable Oil Corporation and the Hsiang-Kwei Railway. Arts graduates have found teaching posts in some instances, whilst others have taken up secretarial or translation work, one has entered the service of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and one has become attached to the Research Department of the Farmer's Bank. Other graduates are still looking for appointments and every opportunity is being taken of finding suitable avenues for them.\n\nRegarding the 255 students, with whom this report is mainly concerned, a point of interest is that, whereas nearly all of the students are British Subjects, only about half of them have their homes in Hong Kong, the remainder coming from the Straits, Borneo, Java and Sumatra, Free China and even India. The actual figures are as follows:- \n\nPage 70\nPage 71", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-588-9 Hong Kong University- relief work 11-8-1942 - 19-11-1943.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 577781, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-591-2 Hong Kong University- award of degrees to medical students whose studies were interrupted by war.... 26-2-1943 - 19-12-1945", "page_number": 206, "title": "CO129-591-2 Hong Kong University- award of degrees to medical students whose studies were interrupted by war.... 26-2-1943 - 19-12-1945", "content_text": "(F975/399/10)\n\nc/o British Embassy,\n\nChungking, China.\n\n31st December, 1942.\n\n208\n\nDear Sir,\n\nI am writing to you with regard to the medical students of Hong Kong University, many of whom are now continuing their studies at Medical Colleges in Free China.\n\nAt the time of the outbreak of the war in Hong Kong, there were approximately 300 medical students in Hong Kong University, of whom about 100 were students of the First Year. You will recollect that students were registered with the General Medical Council on passing the first examinations on Physics, Chemistry, and Biology, and that subsequently, on graduation, these students were eligible to be included in the Medical Register. This latter is a point of major importance to most of the medical graduates of Hong Kong University, as the majority of them enter practice in British regions such as Hong Kong, Malaya, British North Borneo, etc.\n\nWhen the war broke out in Hong Kong, final examinations were in progress, and it was unanimously decided by the Senate at an Emergency Meeting on December 31st, 1941, for which the requisite quorum was present, to confer war-time degrees in Medicine on those students whose examinations had been interrupted by the outbreak of war. These names included:\n\nHilda Chan (Miss)\n\nChan Ping Kwok\n\nChow Cham Lau\n\nLau Po Hei\n\nLee Ching Iu\n\nLeong Yean Seng\n\nLing Sing Hang\n\nOng Hian Pitt\n\nE.N. Orloff (Posthumous Degree)\n\nSoon Cheng Hoe\n\nWong Ching Kuen\n\n(E.N. Orloff was barbarically murdered by the Japanese when he was carrying out his duties on the day the Japanese first landed on the island of Hong Kong, and it was felt that a posthumous degree should be awarded to him).\n\nAt a later meeting of the Senate, which took place shortly before the internment of the majority of the University Staff, it was further decided to award war-time degrees to the following 13 members of the final year class who would normally have expected to graduate in June 1942:\n\nThe Secretary,\n\nCheung Ah Chee\n\nKung Kwok King\n\nLee Sui Luen\n\nHans Raj\n\nYeoh Seow Tiung\n\nDavid Yue Pui Lum\n\nPhyllis Woo Poh Yee (Miss)\n\nLatifa Gnows (Miss)\n\nKwan Kui Lun\n\nLeow Oy Chean\n\nTo Shiu Yuen\n\nYip Tai Hing\n\nWong Sau Haan (Miss)\n\nGeneral Medical Council,\n\nHallam Street,\n\nLondon, W.\n\nSpecial", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-591-2 Hong Kong University- award of degrees to medical students whose studies were interrupted by war.... 26-2-1943 - 19-12-1945.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 } ]