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        "content_text": "Inclosure. No 1 in. Despatch.\n\nN 155 of 1849.\n\n294\n\nHER MAJESTY'S SLOOP Columbine, CHOKUM, Cocon-Chinsa, 23 October, 1849.\n\nSIR,\n\nI have the satisfaction to report to Your Excellency the great success of the expedition you did me the honour to place under my command. 58 Piratical Vessels, mounting about 1200 Guns, and with crews of 3000 men, have been totally destroyed by fire; and, by the blessing of God, without the loss of One life of the Officers and Men under my orders.\n\nAfter leaving Hongkong on the 8th October, I searched the Harbours of Concock, Sattei, St John's, Mong, Mance, Sungyue, and Tienpak, and proceeded to Now-chou. From information received there, I determined to proceed to Hoi-how in Hainan, inside the shoals, and through the Junk passage, for I found good pilots, and junks with 14 ft. draught going through, and we drew little more than 15 ft.; moreover Shap-ng-tsai had boasted he would go where English ships dared not follow him. This vaunt I determined to belie. We reached Hoi-how on the 13th, and found the Governor General (Ho) whom I visited at the Capital, in great fear of the Pirates, and with a most friendly feeling to the English nation. He immediately ordered a Mandarin named Wong to proceed with me, taking with him 8 War Junks, and I gave him a passage, to prevent delay, on board the Fury.\n\nOn the 16th we reached Chook-shan, which the Pirate Fleet had left 5 days before, and we found the same sad story of towns destroyed, men murdered, and women taken away, that mark his track along the Coast. We fell in with one of his look-out Vessels, which having got into shallow water, was overtaken by the Phlegethon, and destroyed by her boats under the command of Mr Simpson, 1st Officer.\n\nOn the 19th we reached Hoo-nong, his reported haunt, and found he had gone about 12 miles further, and I feared we had lost him; but that invaluable Officer Mr Daniel R. Caldwell impressed me so strongly with the correctness of his information, that I decided on a reconnaissance in the Phlegethon in spite of our shortness of fuel; and proceeding into Chokeum for that purpose, on Saturday morning the 20th, saw 37 of the fleet under weigh. From 7 until 4 P.M., like terriers at a rat-hole we hunted for the Channel. Then a pilot managed to escape from the shore. I proceeded in Phlegethon, with Fury astern, Columbine in tow, over the Bar 14 ft. (mud), and at 4.40 had the pleasure of finding all the ships warmly engaged. At 5.5 Shap-ng-tsai's Junk blew up with a tremendous crash, and at 5.30 they had ceased firing. Before 8 o'clock 27 were in flames, and the squadron in position to blockade the river.\n\nOn the 21st October, the Steamers and Boats destroyed 24 more; and nine of them gave Lieutenant George Hancock in a Paddle-box boat of Fury, assisted by Captain Moore, R.M. and Mr Close, Acting Mate, with Mr Leao, an opportunity of distinguishing himself. Two large Junks turned to bay, to defend the retreat of the rest, but Mr Hancock so handled his boat and her gun, that after an hour and twenty minutes he had beaten them from their guns, and carried them by boarding without loss, and then pursued and destroyed the other 7.\n\nMr Hancock's boldness in attacking, and correct judgment in managing this affair, are worthy of the highest praise; and Captain Moore, R.M., Mr N. N. C. Leao, a Brazilian Lieutenant, and Mr F. A. Close, Acting Mate, gave him the greatest assistance.\n\nOn Monday the 22nd, I proceeded in Phlegethon and Boats to destroy all that were left. We found that the Mandarins had destroyed 4, and we finished 2 others. The low flat islands at the mouth of the river were at times covered with men deserted from the Junks, yet afraid of the Cochin Chinese, who had assembled in great numbers to attack them. The Ships' boats and small-arm men harassed and destroyed many by constant fire of shell and grape, whilst the Cochin Chinese destroyed and captured the rest.\n\nFrom the best information it appears that the Fleet consisted of 64 Vessels of War, which may be classed as follows:-\n\n  \n    Class\n    No.\n    Guns\n    Crew\n  \n  \n    1st\n    1\n    42\n    120\n  \n  \n    2d\n    16\n    28 to 34\n    75 to 80\n  \n  \n    3d\n    42\n    12 to 19\n    40\n  \n  \n    4th\n    5\n    6\n    30\n  \n  \n    Total,\n    64\n    1224\n    3150\n  \n\nOf these, 2 small of the 3d class and 4 of the 4th have escaped with Shap-ng-tsai, but without much ammunition; and the Mandarin assures me he will shortly destroy him—now an easy prey. He took with him about 400 men, so that 1700 having been killed, about 1000 more remain to be finished by the Cochin Chinese, who have already sent some prisoners to the Mandarins.\n\nI shall now proceed to Hongkong with all despatch. I have the pleasure of mentioning the exceeding good conduct of the Officers and Men during these laborious and hazardous operations. Their unanimity, willingness, and cheerfulness have made it a most pleasant service, and no plunder, rapine, or misconduct, has tarnished their honour.\n\nMajor General Wong, the Mandarin, proved himself a gallant, active, and efficient ally, and I trust his own Government may reward him for his good services. To have Commander Willcox with me, is, I feel, to have success. As a friend and an officer he is unequalled, and his ship is in such good order that I believe there is nothing he could not do. His judgment and gallantry are on an equal footing.\n\nMr Niblett of the Phlegethon has handled his ship in a bold and determined manner, and has given me every assistance. As I was frequently obliged to be in the Steamers, the command of this Sloop has devolved upon Lieutenant J. H. Bridges, Senior Lieutenant, and he conducted her in action on the 20th with much ability.\n\nLieutenant Darnell, Senior of the Fury, in command of her boats, has also rendered good service. Captain Moore of the Hastings's marines has assisted me most materially in command of that body. Lieutenant Hancock, and Mr Chambers, Acting Mate, in command of the respective detachments of Hastings's men, have given me much satisfaction, and Mr Rathbone, Midshipman of the Fury, has brought himself into notice for his zeal.\n\nI have also to notice the name of Mr Algernon Wootton, Midshipman, a most promising young Officer, who has acted as my Aide-de-Camp, and been very useful on every occasion.\n\nI have the honour to enclose a List of the Officers employed in the boats*, who I have no doubt would equally have distinguished themselves if they had had the opportunity.\n\nI enclose a Journal of my Proceedings since leaving Hongkong, together with some Hydrographical Remarks compiled by Mr Thomas Kerr, Acting Master of this sloop, which will, I trust, be of service to commerce and navigation in the Gulf of Tonquin, hitherto so little known. Mr Kerr, during all this very hazardous navigation, has proved himself a careful and judicious Officer.\n\nMr D. R. Caldwell of the Police Force has again proved his talent as a linguist, his intimate knowledge of the Chinese character, and the thorough correctness of his information. To him in a great measure our success is to be attributed.\n\nMr Soames, Master of the Hongkong Company's Steam Vessel Canton, did his work well as Pilot, as far as he was acquainted with the Coast.\n\nI have the honour to be, Sir, Your most obedient humble Servant,\n\nJOHN C. DALRYMPLE HAY, Commander.\n\nHis Excellency Rear Admiral Sir FRANCIS A. COLLIER, C.B., K.C.H., Commander-in-Chief, &c., &c., &c.\n\n* See next page,\n\nPage 300\n\nPage 301",
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        "title": "CO129-156 - Sir MacDonnell - 1872 [1-3]",
        "content_text": "19\n\nng trong.\n\n1947\n\nGoverna\n\nSúrnary 1872..\n\nBir Richard Graves mactormiell,\n\nlo\n\nThe Right Somnable\n\nthe Earl of Kimberley.\n\nChinese Arrital. Completion of aux Public\n\nopening of -\n\nFinancial position of _ explained\n\n-\n\nand details given. –\n\n(Ancireure)\n\n\"China Mail\"]\n\nTHE FORMAL OPENING OF THE CHINESE HOSPITAL\n\nPRELIMINARY CEREMONY. This interesting ceremony took place with great pomp to-day. It consisted of a ceremonial sacrifice being offered to the God of Shan Nung, one of the three mythical Emperors who are said to have attained the great age of ten thousand years. He is recognised as the discoverer of medicines, but he was not the favorite god with the medical fraternity. This deity was selected on this occasion owing to some objection having been offered by a minority of the committee to have any gods on the premises at all.\n\nAt an early hour, the committee, some seventy or eighty in number, assembled at the Kung Sho (Public Meeting Hall) adjoining the Hollywood Road Joss-house, all dressed in the mandarin costume, some even with peacock's feather attached to their buttons. A little before 8 o'clock, a procession, accompanied by a band of Chinese music and a staff of paraphernalia bearers, such as is usual on these occasions of festivities, and headed by a pair of large lanterns bearing an inscription \"The formal opening of the Tung Wa Hospital,\" paraded the streets of the Chinese section of the Town and stopped in front of the Kung Sho, where it was joined by the committee. The return trip of the procession started at the booming of three guns, and the whole body proceeded towards the Central Schools and turned into Gough Street; passing by the premises of Messrs Gibb, Livingston & Co., the procession took the course to Bonham Strand and then up the road leading to the Hospital. Amongst those who took part in the ceremony were Leong Ou, compradore Messrs Gibb, Livingston & Co., Chun Kum, compradore Messrs Arnhold, Karberg & Co., Ng Chook, compradore Jardine, Matheson & Co., Choy Achip, compradore Messrs Gilman and Schellhass & Co., Wong Sun, compradore Messrs Pustan & Co., Cheong Kai, compradore Hongkong Club, Fung Ming Shau, compradore Messrs A. G. Hogg & Co., Chun Ting Chi, late compradore Messrs Smith, Kennedy & Co., Kwok Acheong, Ho Asick, Lee Sing, Lee Tuk Cheong, Chun Kun and others. Leong On, being the Chairman of the Committee, took the most prominent part in the ceremony, being the bearer of three incense sticks, which he carried with him during the whole tour of the procession.\n\nThree guns announced the arrival of the procession at the Hospital, and now the grand ceremony commenced. The musicians were placed on one side at the Court Yard, and the Yeoman bearers of paraphernalia were arranged on two rows one on each side of the hall; further up were the committees divided also into two rows. These arrangements having been made and a sufficient space having been cleared, Leong On, as the performer of ceremonies, stepped forward immediately and placed the three Joss sticks he had in his hand in an incense pot. Having done this, he stood on one side, and in obedience to the commands of the director of ceremonies, Chuo Kum, he knelt down before a sandalwood frame, having the inscription of Shan Noong, and kotowed three times. He rose up and with great reverence approached the image and removed the piece of paper which screened the inscription; the frame was then handed to two assistant performers of ceremonies, who conveyed it forward and placed it into a glass case at the furthest end of the hall. The director of ceremonies called out \"retire,\" and Leong On retired further out to the Court Yard, and the officer ordered him to kneel down and kowtow. This form was repeated for the third time, and the Performer of Ceremonies stood up and knelt down again until he had made nine kow-tows. The prayer-reader Yim To Nam, of the Kin Nam Hong, then came forward. He made the same number of kow-tows and proceeded to read the prayer, which was very brief.\n\nIn front of the image was arranged on a long table quite a number of dishes of eatables, consisting of meats, roasted and stewed, fruits, confectionery, pastry nicely worked up to represent eight genii, an elephant, a unicorn, a peacock, &c., and at the further end of the table was a roast-pig, an uncooked sheep, as well as an uncooked pig; the latter was substituted for a calf, which was dispensed with, owing, we presume, to the want of space on the table. Above the image and hung up in the centre of the wall was a scroll bearing the word \"Longevity.\"\n\nAfter the prayer was read, the performer of ceremonies resumed his kneeling posture and proceeded to offer the sacrifice to the deity, taking a dish of each description of food, beginning with the dish on the left-hand side; it was conveyed to where he was kneeling by two attendants who handed it to two assistants, who, in turn, handed it to him with great reverence. He then held it up above his head and gave it afterwards to two attendants on his right, who replaced it in its original place. All the dishes having been offered in this manner, a bowl of rice was offered and then fruit and then tea. The deity was now supposed to have finished his repast; a bowl of congee or wine was next offered. All was finished, the band was ordered to play \"great music,\" and amidst the din of gongs and drums, some joss paper was burnt, accompanied by the salvoes of crackers and the booming of three guns, which announced the close of the ceremony. When all was over, the services of several actors were imported into the ceremony; they represented the eight genii offering congratulations to the Queen of Heaven on the anniversary of her birth.\n\nWhile the performance was going on, the concourse of spectators was very great, notwithstanding that all the district watchmen had been turned out to preserve order. Everyone was eager to press forward to witness the ceremony, and some were even so inconsiderate as to stand with their shoes on the new cushions of the chairs, which were said to have belonged once to the wealthy Poon Tinqua, whose property was attached by the Chinese Government for debts he owed in connection with the salt monopoly. The ceremony produced a profound impression, and everyone agreed that it was the grandest ever witnessed in Hongkong. A Parsee merchant showed great interest and was present throughout the performance.\n\n\"Daily Advertiser\"\n\nThe opening of the New Chinese Hospital at West Point, not far from the old E-tzee, took place yesterday with great pomp and ceremony, His Excellency the Governor honouring the proceedings by his presence. A long and gorgeous procession wended its way in the forenoon to the building which, besides being handsomely adorned architecturally in the Chinese fashion, was further made attractive by numerous lanterns, pictures, and hangings, bestowed in the manner the Chinese so well know how to employ, and producing a most striking effect.\n\nAccording to information furnished us, we understand that the building cost about $45,000. It is divided into 3 sections and 8 departments and is at present capable of accommodating from 80 to 100 patients. Three Doctors, with one exclusively for vaccination, are attached to the establishment, but it is hoped shortly to increase the number to five. The lower wards are divided off by half-wall wooden compartments and are intended for the poorer class of gratis patients. The upper story, which is better lighted and ventilated, is appropriated for those who can afford to pay towards their maintenance in hospital, and its wards are all that can be desired, having a good verandah, front and back, and being well ceiled and floored.\n\nAt about 1-30 the Hollywood Road along which it was known H.E. would pass was crowded by a dense throng of natives who completely lined either side; the crowd increasing as one went westward. Sikh and Indian police kept the route (most creditably be it observed) and the Captain Superintendent with some of his Inspectors stationed themselves at the outer door of the Hospital. Several officials and other residents in the Colony were also present to witness the inauguration. It was quite evident that the Chinese looked upon it as a great day; every prominent merchant and compradore in the Colony...",
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        "document_key": "CO129-179 - Governor Hennessy - 1877 [9-12]",
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        "title": "CO129-179 - Governor Hennessy - 1877 [9-12]",
        "content_text": "and rack is competent to conduct\n\nぐ\n\n-Mi speaks Malay\n\nlanguages mentioned.\n\nAttending to applicants in lieu of the\n\nThe 2nd Interpreter Th. Si Hong\n\nthe office work of assessing informations and complaints, and\n\nin addition to\n\nIndia) speak Hindustani and -\n\nwrite \"Debuaque\" a dialect of Upper\n\nbrothers, educated at Bareilly College\n\nand Temporary Clerk (who are\n\nChinese dialects and the 4th Clerk-\n\nIndia\n\nI have 75\n\n(Signed) C. Mac\n\nFirst Police Magistrate\n\nKe\n\nNominal Return of persons who have served as Chinese Interpreters at the Magistracy, etc.\n\n  \n    les R. Interpreter.\n    E. R. Caldwell\n    1844\n    1846\n    1847\n    Resigned because Extension of leave refused\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    1852\n    1853\n    1855\n    Transferred to Supreme Court\n  \n  \n    Leng. h. Achik\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Jong a kee\n    \n    \n    a\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    R. A. Rozaria\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Ho a Loy\n    \n    \n    Ng.a. Choy\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Bedell Le Yun\n    Monga. Thing\n    \n    H. N. Lay\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    dec a Nau\n    ling a bat\n    1847\n    1847\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    1851\n    forinizerd.\n    \n    Suptant\n  \n  \n    Japanese in the affair of confederating with Pirates (wrote some letters 149 of 1857 Chinese I.M. Custom's service is now compradive to foutme matkreer. &c. anager of the Chuber team Noorzation Company\n    \n    1851\n    1855\n    1857.\n    Ina\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    1855\n    1855\n    1862.\n    Interpreter at Rupscue tourt.\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    1866.\n    Called opon\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    1857\n    1857\n    to resign\n    was suspected of being couterned vii. the booke Trade.\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    1861\n    1866\n    1976\n    Barrister at daw\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    1861\n    1876\n    \n    is now is the Chinese Joutrundet droich at achow\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    1850\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    1857\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Ng Man Jau\n    1856\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    1. Smund\n    Chinga.\n    \n    \n    \n    Is at present 1st Interpreter at the magistracy\n  \n  \n    1527267\n    3o Julerpreters\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    1851\n    London Inission\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    1852\n    Su N.M. Consular Service.\n    Temporarily employed at Magistracy.\n    Afterwards duspects\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    1852.\n    Left\n    \n    on dick lenol and did not acturu\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    1055\n    Rezigned through ill. health\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    1858\n    Jonied Chinese I. M. Customes dervice at khanghai\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    1859\n    \n    \n    Mult\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    1859\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    1861\n    appointed 3d Clerk & promoted to Registrar General's office\n    1861\n    Chucre I. M. Customis\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    03\n    \n    \n    Registration Clerk\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    104\n    January 18\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Tang a Wring\n    1860\n    \n    Chun a choy\n    1861\n    \n  \n  \n    Jam Ini Tak\n    \n    \n    Jin Jak\n    1863\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    1863.\n    Joined Chuise J. M. Customis Service\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    1866\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    1864\n    changed duties with Chan a yiu Marine Fungistrates Office\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    1866\n    Editor of the \"Chinese Inail.\n  \n  \n    4\n    \n    \n    Good\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    1868\n    Called upon to reign\n    was in Cheubel God!? Imploy.\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    Is now under sentence in\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    1867\n    Resigned to cut to Califormen.\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Chana\n    \n    \n    Li Lame Revei\n    1864\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    1866\n    \n  \n  \n    2cu clong po\n    1866\n    \n    Na.a. Thing\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    1856\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Thewa kwan\n    1872\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    1873.\n    \n    Ovenue\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    1875\n    Nesigned.\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Tajor\n    de Hong Mis\n    \n    \n    1875\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    I. G. Ball\n    1875\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    học cho\n    1875\n    \n  \n  \n    Chan You Euth\n    1871\n    \n    \n    \n    Magistracy, stong kong\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    Promoted to 2nd Interpreter 10th July 1876\n  \n  \n    \n    1876\n    Hansferred to Central School\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    1877\n    Promoted 3rd Chork.\n    12a épril 1878.\n    Died 14 Juny 1877.\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    1872.\n    Bermissed.\n    Resignation not accepted.\n    \n    \n  \n\nHigned C. May\n\n81\n\n20th Aușu et 1877\n\nFirst Police Magi.",
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        "content_text": "## THE HONGKONG Government Gazette.\n\nNo. 7.\n\nPublished by Authority.\nVICTORIA, SATURDAY, 16TH FEBRUARY, 1878.\n\n### VOL. XXIV.\n\n#### THE TUNG WAH HOSPITAL, HONGKONG\n\nThe following account of His Excellency The Governor's Visit to the Tung Wah Hospital on the 8th February, 1878, is extracted from the report of the China Mail, for general information.\n\n### THE GOVERNOR'S VISIT TO THE TUNG WAH HOSPITAL.\n\nHis Excellency Governor POPE HENNESSY, C.M.G., paid a ceremonial visit to the Tung Wah Hospital on the 8th of February at 3 o'clock. Early in the afternoon, the crowded streets leading to the Hospital were kept clear by a detachment of Police, composed of Europeans, Sikhs and Chinese, and the full force of the District Watchmen for this District. It was no easy matter to clear the way, as at the time of the Chinese New Year festivities the streets are unusually crowded, and the three Chinese Theatres, all in this locality, were in full swing. About 2:30 P.M. a guard of honour from the 74th Regiment, with the Regimental Band, arrived, and lined the road leading up to the Hospital. Shortly after 3 P.M., His Excellency arrived, accompanied by Mr. CREACH, acting A.D.C., and Private Secretary NORTHCOTE; and Admiral HILLYAR, accompanied by Secretary PARISH and Flag-Lieutenant WILLOUGHBY, preceded a few minutes before by Dr. MOWLL, formerly of H.M.S. Vigilant. Among the foreign visitors present to witness the ceremony, were Mr. HAYLLAR, Q.C., Rev. Dr. E. J. EITEL, Mr. J. J. FRANCIS, and Mr. D'ALMADA. The Chinese community was very fully represented, there being present nearly 300 influential native residents from all classes of the community; and of those present some 50 or 60 were in their Mandarin costumes, some with blue buttons, some with crystal, and some with gold buttons; while a few had the additional honour of wearing the peacock's feather. Among those in uniform, we observed: Messrs. LEONG ON, CHUN TING CHEE, KWOK ACHEONG, CHEANG SING YEONG, LING HO WOON, WONG YIK PAN, WAI AKWONG, NG CHOY, CHUN AYIN, FUNG MING SHAN, WONG KWAN TONG, NG Sang, WONG SHING, NG CHEUK CHEE, and others.\n\nOn the arrival of His Excellency and party, the Band of H.M. 74th Regiment struck up a familiar strain; while as the Governor and party entered, a salute of three guns was fired and some Chinese music was performed. Those of the Chinese who were in uniform then placed themselves in two lines from the door up to the Hall, and saluted the Governor and Admiral in proper Chinese style. His Excellency was then conducted to the top of an oblong table, with Admiral HILLYAR on his right and Dr. MOWLL on his left. After all were seated, tea, and refreshments in the shape of confectionery were brought in. The Governor and party were conducted through the patients' wards, and then back to the Hall.\n\nThis over, Mr. NG CHOY then rose and said: - YOUR EXCELLENCY AND GENTLEMEN, I have been asked to be spokesman on this occasion, and I have accepted that honour with very great pleasure, though I think there may be more competent persons present to undertake the task. In the first place, I have been requested to thank Your Excellency, for your kind visit here to-day, on behalf of the Chinese community of Hongkong. We are here to receive and welcome Your Excellency in this hall. I may be permitted to say that we have represented every class of the Chinese community. The gentlemen here represent the Committee of this Hospital, Merchants, Compradores, Shopkeepers, and, in fact, every trade and profession in this Colony. We have thought it advisable to commit what we have to say on this occasion to writing, and to consider it well before doing so. Your Excellency may take this address, which we shall have the honour to present to you, as expressing not only our own views, who are here, but the unanimous sentiment of the Chinese community. This address is in two parts; one part is in Chinese and the other part is in English. The latter is a free translation of the first, and, with Your Excellency's permission, we shall read the Chinese part first, and then I shall follow by reading the English part. I will now call upon my Chinese friend, to read the Chinese part.\n\nMr. WONG KWAN TONG then read the address in Chinese.\n\n4 \nMr. Lowerek on behalf of the Unofficial Members expressed approval of this.\n\n5. Saving previously discussed the question very fully in the Executive Council, I found that they all concurred in my views. When the proposed conference has indicated the nature of the reforms that are required I shall submit them to your Lordship for approval.\n\nI have the honor to be, My Lord, Your Lordship's most Obedient, Stumble Brant\n\nInclosure 17 in Governor Pope Hennessy's Despatch No. 2147 20th Feby, 1875 - \nTHE HONGKONG Government Gazette. \nNo. 7. \nPage 175 \n\n## \nPage 363 \n... \nNo text on this page.\n\n## \nNo more text related to the initial pages.",
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        "content_text": "218\n\n316\n\nin\n\nlast.\n\nmy\n\n(18)\n\nLAM TSAU (No. 710).-I am going to Sydney, I come from Tsang-seng. I am going to work uncle's shop. I have been in Sydney before. I was 6 years there. I returned the year before I brought from $400 to $500 with me. I was a coolie. I got about $20 a month: in sterling, £4. I shall have nothing to pay from my wages towards my passage, after my arrival in Sydney. I have been 2 or 3 days in Hongkong. I was in the \"I-on.\" I know the master, and pay nothing for board. There are 9 emigrants of us there. They pay nothing. I got my ticket through the \"I-on.\" The \"I-on\" has not engaged me in any way.\n\nWONG ÚN-KI (No. 667).—I am going to Sydney. I come from Héung-shán. I am going to dig gold. I have paid my own passage. I saved the money. It is my wish to go to Sydney I was once in Sydney before; 6 or 7 years ago. I was 5 or 6 years in Sydney. I had over $100 when I returned: that is, £30 or £40. I shall have to pay no portion of my wages to any one for my passage. When I earn money, I will send some to my relatives. I am living at the \"I-shang-cheung.\" I pay about $1 for my board. I have been in this house a week. There are 4 other emigrants in the house.\n\nWONG HUNG-CHEUK (No. 663).—I am going to Sydney. It is my wish to go. I am going as a coolie. I was there once before. I pay my own passage. I shall have to refund no money to any one for my passage. I have a wife but no children. I have been in the Fin-wo Shop. LAU TSUN FUK was the master. He is no relation.\n\nWONG SEK-KIN (No. 666).-I am going to Sydney. I was never there before. My father is in Sydney, and sent me money for my passage. I am going to work with my father, who is a gardener. I come from Tai-t'au-ch'ung. I shall have to refund nothing from my wages towards my passage, When I go to Sydney, my father returns to Héung-shán.\n\nLAU A-IN (12 years old) No. 276.-I am going to Sydney. I am a carpenter. My uncle is a carpenter in Sydney. I am going to my uncle. My father paid my passage. It is my wish to go. I know I can do what I like, and go where I like. My father's name is LAU-KI. He lives in the U-cheung shop in Chung-wán. My father is not here with me just now, but my uncle is. He is going with me. I have not been enticed in any way. I shall have to pay nothing back for my passage. I expect $7 a month. I have had no wages hitherto. I have been an apprentice.\n\nLAU A-FAI (No. 275),---I am 35 years of age. I am going to Sydney. I come from Lung-shán, Héung-shán. I have paid $42 for my passage. I was once in Sydney before. I returned the year before last. I was 4 years there. I brought back $300. I have given it to my wife. I have 3 children. I got my ticket at the Wo-tsán in Wo Hing Lar, Sheung-wán. I have been 4 or 5 days in the house. There are 24 or 25 of us there. I speak some English (Gives specimen). I shall have to pay nothing to any one for my passage.\n\nLAU KWAI (No. 192.)-I am 37. I go to Sydney to be a labourer. I was in Sydney once before. I returned last year. I was there one year. I brought back over 40 sovereigns. I bought fields with them. Some of the money belonged to my brother now in Sydney. I shall not have to refund my passage money from my wages. I got my ticket through the Kwong-fung, Sugar Store, Praya West. I have been in Hongkong ten days. There are more than 50 emigrants in the Kwong-fung. I have not yet paid for my board. My elder brother is with me, and pays my board.\n\nLo Ming-Cheung (No. 717).—I am 23. I am going to Sydney. I want to go. I do not know what work I shall do. I have a brother there before me. My father gave me $42. He lives in Wang long. I got my ticket at the \"I-on.\" There are 9 of us altogether there. I have made no contract with any one. My elder brother is in Sydney. He has asked me to join him. He went there the year before last. He was a farmer. My brother will find work for me. I shall not have to pay for my passage.\n\n26th April, 1881,\n\n(19)\n\nEXTRACT FROM REPORT BY DR. EITEL.\n\nI have the honour to report that, on returning to the Harbour Master's Office and finding that Dr. STEWART and Mr. GERRARD had left, I asked permission of the Emigration Officer to put to a few of the men the questions detailed on enclosed sheet. The Emigration Officer allowed me to put all the questions, sent also for all the witnesses I required to test the statements of the emigrants, and I examined in this way 4 emigrants, whose replies to the questions I put I append in extenso. Taking these 4 men as a sample of the whole, I am convinced that the vast majority would, on strict examination, be found to be men utterly unable to pay the passage money themselves, but who, whilst being perfectly free and willing emigrants, have had the passage money advanced to them by Chinese firms, and will have to repay the money with interest within 18 months after arrival in Australia.\n\nThe very appearance of the men,-shoeless, stockingless, indicated the class of labouring men who live from hand to mouth, and from the experience I have had of these classes in China, I am induced to believe that the idea of these men having paid their passage with their own money is utterly improbable.\n\n+\n\n26th April, 1881.\n\nQUESTIONS PROPOSED TO BE PUT TO \"PASSENGERS UNDER NO CONTRACT OF SERVICE.\n\n1. What is your surname, name and by-name? 2. What is your age?\n\n3. Who and where are your parents or guardians?\n\n71\n\nSWORN TO BE\n\nE. J. Eitel.\n\n4. Where is your home, how long have you been there, and when did you leave it?\n\n5. What was your occupation hitherto, what your monthly earnings, and where were you so occupied?\n\n6. Can read or write?\n\n7. Have you any friends or relatives here in Hongkong?\n\n8. Have you been abroad before? (if so, state where, when, nature of occupation, &c., and whether you are taking others there.)\n\n9. When did you arrive in Hongkong? (State time, conveyance, place of landing, &c.)\n\n10. Who paid for your passage to Hongkong?\n\n11. What baggage had you, and what amount of money, on arrival?\n\n12. With whom did you come to Hongkong? (If any, state your relations to them.)\n\n13. Where are the persons now in whose company you came to Hongkong?\n\n14. Where did you stay in Hongkong? (Give details.)\n\n15. Where do you intend to go to? and with whom are you going?\n\n16. What work and wages do you expect to get in Australia?\n\n17. What outfit have you now, and how did you procure it?\n\n18. What were your expenses in Hongkong, and what sum have you left now?\n\n19. Have you a passage ticket? (Show it, note name, sum, time, &c.)\n\n20. When, from whom, and where did you obtain it?\n\n21. What sum did you pay for it? (State time and place of payment, and the name of the person to whom it was paid.)\n\n22. What sum will you have to repay after arrival in Australia?\n\n23. At what rate of interest and to whom will you have to repay it, or is the amount to be deducted from your wages by your future employer?\n\nFREDERICK STEWART.\n\n24. Did you make any verbal or written agreement regarding repayment of outfit and passage? 25. Do you understand that money advanced or paid by others in connection with your going abroad will have to be repaid by you out of your future earnings in Australia?",
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        "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. 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        "content_text": "OFFICE.\n\nCHANGES in the HOLDERS of OFFICES and APPOINTMENTS in the Offices of Household, for the Quarter ended ...\n\nName of the Officer who formerly held the appointment, and annual Salary.\n\nName of the Officer who is now appointed and annual Salary.\n\nIf appointed by Her Majesty's Government in England, date of authority of the Secretary of State.\n\nIf newly appointed by the Governor, date of authority.\n\nIf promoted from another Office or Government situation in the Colony, description of former appointment.\n\nDate of Governor's Despatch respecting the Change of Office or appointment, or the new appointment.\n\nColumn for Remarks.\n\n  \n    Supreme Court\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Usher\n    J. Sackhand (resigned) $960.\n    J.J. Rawland $960.\n    Govt. Gazette 12th June\n  \n\n  \n    Educational Dept.\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Schoolmaster at Manksai\n    Ng Cheuk-sun (dismissed) $180.\n    Ng Fai (aided school) $180.\n    No.2081 16th July\n  \n  \n    Headmaster at Sung Wan (aided school)\n    Fam Jak-son (resigned) $60.\n    Lam Hak-min $60.\n    No.1917 5th July\nNo.1918 5th July\n  \n\nPage ...\n\n  // Removed as per instruction to keep 'Page XX' format if detected exactly as described (six lines, three at top, three at bottom). Since 'Page ...' doesn't follow the 'Page XX' format, it is removed. However, to strictly follow the instructions, the original 'Page ...' should be kept if it matches the described format. Since it doesn't, the action taken is correct but the reasoning should highlight that 'Page ...' is not in the 'Page XX' format.\n\nCorrected version:\nOFFICE.\n\nCHANGES in the HOLDERS of OFFICES and APPOINTMENTS in the Offices of Household, for the Quarter ended ...\n\nName of the Officer who formerly held the appointment, and annual Salary.\n\nName of the Officer who is now appointed and annual Salary.\n\nIf appointed by Her Majesty's Government in England, date of authority of the Secretary of State.\n\nIf newly appointed by the Governor, date of authority.\n\nIf promoted from another Office or Government situation in the Colony, description of former appointment.\n\nDate of Governor's Despatch respecting the Change of Office or appointment, or the new appointment.\n\nColumn for Remarks.\n\n  \n    Supreme Court\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Usher\n    J. Sackhand (resigned) $960.\n    J.J. Rawland $960.\n    Govt. Gazette 12th June\n  \n\n  \n    Educational Dept.\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Schoolmaster at Manksai\n    Ng Cheuk-sun (dismissed) $180.\n    Ng Fai (aided school) $180.\n    No.2081 16th July\n  \n  \n    Headmaster at Sung Wan (aided school)\n    Fam Jak-son (resigned) $60.\n    Lam Hak-min $60.\n    No.1917 5th July\nNo.1918 5th July",
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        "content_text": "THE WAR IN TONQUIN.\n\nEnclosure\n\n[FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.]\n\nHANOI, 31st January, 1884.\n\nNow that things have been pretty well tidied up at Sontay, the French offer no opposition to anyone going up to see the place. A passage can be easily arranged in a native boat, and if the wind is favourable and the boatmen not too lazy, the distance of thirty miles or thereabouts can be easily compassed in daylight. It is even possible to get a passage in a Government steamer, but as those craft are always chock-full of soldiers and commissariat stores, the gain in time and dignity is hardly worth the absence of comfort.\n\nThe country between Hanoi and Sontay is of the same general character as that farther down the delta. There are the same alternate high banks and low shelving flat lands, according as the force of the current bears on the one shore or the other; the same wide stretches of paddy fields; the same abundance of bamboo and cactus-fenced villages, with here and there the trumpery little jos-houses which the French call pagodas. At this season of the year the Song-koi is at its lowest, and from the insignificant height of a native boat impossible to see any distance inland. Still, from what I could see during occasional tramps on the bank to relieve the monotony of the journey, it was apparent that the warlike operations so recently conducted in the immediate neighbourhood had had but a very transient effect on agricultural doings. Ploughing was going on everywhere; the women and children were levelling the surface with wooden mallets, and all were too busy even to throw stones at me, as they probably would have done in the neighbourhood of Haiphong.\n\nNear Sontay, indeed, it was different. On the right bank, at any rate, the fields were quite deserted, and the few people one saw seemed quite prepared to run, with or without reason. The headless bodies, which still continue to come down the river, no doubt tend to shake a man's nerves.\n\nFrom a cursory view, Sontay seems a place which has no natural advantages of any kind. Take any level country with a slope upwards to a central point, so gentle that it is almost impossible to detect it, and you have the general appearance of Sontay. For the town, take a random collection of the ordinary, heavy, Chinese brick houses, interspersed with the wretched, wattled, bamboo, mud-plastered, thatch-roofed shanties of the Annamese. The citadel is a quarter-mile square section built of big slabs of conglomerate, for defensive purposes not half so good as decent bricks.\n\nFor surroundings, there are the Song-koi, too far off to be of any use, except as a means of bringing up enemies; a little river running at a distance of six hundred yards or so, round the western and northern faces, some low spurs from the main range of hills to the west, but too distant to afford anything like a secure place of retreat. Beyond this, nothing but a cultivated country.\n\nBut a closer examination shows how much can be done with the most unpromising material. The Black Flags have made the best use of their time since last May, though it seems scarcely credible that the whole of the earthworks now existing can have been constructed in the short period of seven months.\n\nJust now the river runs twenty feet under the level of the Sontay bank. At the time of the attack in December, it was considerably higher, but still there was a fairly high river bank. A thousand feet from this are the lines of Phu-oc-sa, or Phu-the. These cover the river face of from half a mile to three-quarters, and on either side run down to the water. They are of considerable height and are formidably constructed with contreforts, or traverses, to afford protection against a flank fire in the event of entrance being forced at any point.\n\nThe bamboos which masked the whole face have been cut down close to the ground by the French. Marshy land protects a good deal of the front, and these swamps were much more extensive at the time of the attack than they are now. A road running from the river-bank straight up to the citadel cuts the earthworks at right angles, and it was round the gate (now replaced by a large blockhouse, built of bricks obtained from a pagoda pulled down for the purpose) that the fiercest fighting of the 14th December took place.\n\nThe Turcos were the first to be sent up, and they were beaten back time after time, while the Foreign Legion and the Infantry of Marines fared no better. It was particularly noticed that the Flagmen took steady aim every time they fired, and the loss of two hundred men and twenty-two officers in half an hour testified to their steadiness. The French are full of admiration for the pluck of the Black Flags, though they show them but scant mercy when they get hold of them.\n\nSeveral times when the troops had almost forced their way into the lines, the Black Flags seized the bayonets with their naked hands, in regular Ghazi fashion, and toppled the burly Algerians and Foreign Legion men down the slope. It was only at the end of the first day's fighting that the works were taken, and then every inch had to be fought for. Independent witnesses of the struggle maintain that it was not till their ammunition gave out that the Black Flags were driven from Phu-oc-sa.\n\nHowever that may be, at midnight, animated by an offer from Liu Yung-fu of two hundred thousand dollars to the man who would retake the works, they all came back again. The fighting was renewed with as much determination as ever, and it is even asserted that the French were momentarily driven out. If they were, they forced their way in again, but the struggle extended over several hours.\n\nThe best evidence of the desperate state of the French and the anxiety in which they were is the recorded fact that no letter, sealed or open, from officer or man, was allowed to be despatched on the night of the 14th December. \"Fine thing it would have been if we had had correspondents there!\" a French officer remarked to me in an effusive moment. \"They would have said it was a French defeat.\"\n\nBetween the Phu-oc-sa works and the \"outer enceinte\" is a distance of five hundred yards or more. The road leading up to the town was lined on both sides by houses. These seem to have been tolerably substantial, but now nothing remains of them but a few heaps of ashes and the rectangular stone water tanks, which the Tonquinese are fond of building, but hardly ever seem to use for their legitimate purpose.\n\nWhen there is water in them, it always appears to be covered with green slime, but more frequently there is nothing but rank grass, with an occasional sapling. To right and left of this is cultivated land, with here and there a joss house or two. The paddy fields that are now dry would have been heavy going for a Pytchley man six weeks ago. The muddy patches of today were sheets of water on the 15th December.\n\nThis outer enceinte is an exceedingly strong earthwork, roughly polygonal in shape and defended in front by a moat fifteen or twenty feet wide. On the level ground between the walls and the ditch was a treble or quadruple fence of well-grown bamboos, covering a depth of from four to six yards. At the gates, the moat was studded with spiked bamboos. A stockade of high thick logs masked the front, and on the approach to the slender plank bridge was a formidable chevaux-de-frise of sharp-pointed stakes and bamboo caltrops.\n\nThe lines themselves were solidly constructed, and the shells which burst in them did but very little damage, as far as affecting a breach was concerned. The main attack was made on the North-west front, and the number of empty cartridges lying about here, inside the works, showed the severity of the fire to which the French were exposed.\n\nThe Chinese cannon, however, were of the most worthless kind. Not only were the pieces of old-world manufacture and honeycombed with age and neglect, but they were few and badly placed. The contreforts along the line of works were pointed out by the French officers as conclusive proof that there had been European guidance in Sontay. But the way in which the guns were mounted was far more conclusive proof the other way.\n\nC. O.\n\n404252\n\nRECD\n\n[MAR 84]",
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        "content_text": "# Prize Distribution Event\n\nThe intelligence shown by the answers was extraordinary, and the knowledge likewise. They were not show papers, meant to mystify the public by appearing more difficult than they are. They are thorough testing papers, and evidently written with the view of testing the common-sense and intelligence of the boys as much or even more than their scholastic knowledge, which is a great point. The most interesting of the ordinary papers were those on history, geography, arithmetic, and grammar; but there was one extraordinary paper, the like of which I never saw in any school or college but one; it was headed \"**General Intelligence Paper**\". You might judge from that that the questions not only were not based on ordinary scholastic teaching or to test how much a boy knew, but rather his common-sense and his power to apply what he had been taught. I will just give you two questions, if I can remember them, which struck me very much. One was: \"Describe and distinguish between the functions of judge, jury, barrister, and solicitor.\" I am told the Chinese are very well aware that there is a great deal of law in Hongkong one way or the other, and it is rather important that the Chinese should grow up with intelligent ideas on that subject. Another was intended evidently to see if a boy could apply his mathematics, and was: \"If a kite were in the air and you wanted to ascertain its height, how would you go about it?\" This does not require any very abstruse calculations, but I am afraid many mathematicians would fail in it. I am detaining you too long, but I can say that if the work of the school can be at all fairly gauged from what I saw in cursorily going through the papers, you Hongkong people and you Chinese boys and men are most immensely to be congratulated. I say without hesitation, if I may venture upon such an assertion, that the education given here will compare favourably with the education given in the best schools and colleges in the old country. (Applause).\n\nAlthough the composition was poor as composition, it was wonderfully good for Chinese, far better than we can write in Chinese, and if the Head Master will allow me, I will have much pleasure in offering a prize next year to the boy who comes out top in English Composition.\n\nMr. WRIGHT - Mr. Bain of the *China Mail* gives a prize for that subject.\n\nMr. SHARP - Then may I change it to the other paper, that of \"**General Intelligence**\"? Would you kindly give the prize to the boy who comes out highest in that paper?\n\nMr. WRIGHT - With pleasure.\n\nMr. SHARP - And possibly I may be allowed the favour of putting in a couple of the questions myself?\n\nMr. WRIGHT - Certainly.\n\n...\n\nMr. SHARP - I have no more to say except one word to my English friends round me. Good Hongkong people are choosing to give such a wonderfully good education to the Chinese - and I should be the last to take exception to it - but if you are doing it - and you are - what are you going to do with your own sons to keep them abreast of it, and who ought ever to be ahead of it? And you Chinese men and boys, for I see there are both among you, may you prove worthy of this very grand education you are receiving. (Applause).\n\nHis EXCELLENCY then distributed the prizes, and at the conclusion of the distribution, said - The boys, I understand, will now go for their holidays, and return after the Chinese New Year. I take this opportunity of informing the visitors that they see present only a portion of the boys attending the school. This room will not accommodate more than 180, whereas there are 412 attending the school, so that you only see a small portion of those who are receiving their education here. When the new building is completed, I believe the Hall will be sufficiently large to admit of the whole of the pupils assembling.\n\nCheers for the Queen, the Administrator, Mrs. Marsh, the Head Master, Visitors, and Donors of Prizes brought the proceedings to a close.\n\n## Prize List\n\n### SPECIAL PRIZES\n\n| Prize | Winner |\n| --- | --- |\n| Morrison Scholar | Chaung Tsoi |\n| Stewart Scholar | Lo Sing-lan |\n| Senior Belilios Scholar | Lo Kit |\n| Junior Belilios Scholar | Ho Man Ying |\n| Translation into English | Lam Tsun Kwai, watch, by the Hon. T. Jackson |\n| Translation into Chinese | Li Tak Yung, Dictionary, vol., presented by Mrs. Y. J. Mucrow |\n| Composition, Class I | Tsang Kit Shang, Shakespeare and History, by Mr. Geo. Murray Rain |\n| Composition, Class II | Ho Mau Ying, Shakespeare, by Mr. Geo. Murray Bain |\n| Composition, Class III | F. Cordeiro, Discoveries and Inventions, by the Government |\n| Composition, Class IV | Leung Ping-tai, Wood's Natural History, by the Government |\n\n### GENERAL PRIZES\n\n| Class | Rank | Winner | Prize |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Class I | 1 | Chenng Tsoi | Scholarship |\n| Class I | 2 | Lo Sing-lea | Scholarship |\n| Class I | 3 | Lo Kit | Scholarship |\n| Class I | 4 | Mok Lai Chi | watch, presented by the Hon. P. Stewart, LL.D |\n| Class I | 5 | J. Remedios | Thrift, by Mr. Ed. Sharp |\n| Class II | 1 | Wong Kut | watch, by Mr. Ed. Sharp |\n| Class II | 2 | Ho Man Ying | Scholarship |\n| Class II | 3 | Ng Chak-tong | pencil case, by Mr. J. D. Hutchison |\n| Class III | 1 | Ip Tsung Ki | watch, by the Consul-General for Portugal |\n| Class III | 2 | Wan Chung-in | Motley's Dutch Republic, by the Government |\n| Class III | 3 | A. Hoosin | \"Masterman Ready,\" by the Government |\n| Class IV | 1 | Chan Taun Ying | watch, by the Consul-General for Portugal |\n| Class IV | 2 | Cheung Yan Chi | Green's Shorter History, by the Government |\n| Class V | 1 | IU Keng-ching | watch, by the Government |\n| Class V | 2 | Tong Hing-tso | Binocular, by Messrs. Gaupp & Co. |\n| Class VI | 1 | Lo Man Yuk | watch, by the Government |\n| Class VI | 2 | Ng On | Binocular, by the Government |\n| Class VII | 1 | Tai Tin-pui | watch, by the Government |\n| Class VII | 2 | Leung Shi-nam | pencil case, by Mr. Jordan |\n| Class VIII | 1 | Chan Ting-kwong | watch, by the Government |\n| Class VIII | 2 | Chau Kam-chi | chain, by Mr. Nowrojee |\n| Class IX | 1 | Kong Lin-hing | watch, by the Government |\n| Class IX | 2 | Pun Ming-kwai | pencil case, by the Government |\n| Class X | 1 | Chau U Chun | pencil case, by the Government |\n| Class X | 2 | Wat Ka-ying | pencil case, by the Government |\n| Class XI | 1 | Pang Yuk-kwong | pencil case, by the Government |\n| Class XI | 2 | C. Henriques | pencil case, by the Government |\n\n### CHINESE CLASSES. Fortnightly\n\n| Class | Winner | Prize |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Class I | Tai Tin-nui | Merit |\n| Class II | Chan Kam-chi | watch, presented by the Head Master |\n\n### CHINESE CLASSES. Ordinary\n\n| Class | Rank | Winner | Prize |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Class I | 1 | Tai Tin-pai | Merit |\n| Class I | 2 | Lo Shin Oi | watch, presented by Mr. Nowrojee |\n| Class II | 1 | Wong Ping | Self Help, by the Head Master |\n| Class II | 2 | Chan Shi-ki | pencil case, by Messrs. Gaupp & Co. |\n| Class III | 1 | Fung Shing-im | clock, by Mr. Ho Tang |\n| Class III | 2 | Ho To-shang | pencil case, by the Government |\n| Class IV | 1 | Chan Mau-cheuk | watch and chain, by Mr. Nowrojee |\n| Class IV | 2 | Loung Oi-sui | Robinson Crusoe, by the Government |\n| Class V | 1 | Loung Fu-chu | pencil case, by the Government |\n| Class V | 2 | Yan Hung-fat | pencil case, by the Government |\n| Class VI | 1 | Mak Kan-chang | clock, by Mr. Ho Tang |\n| Class VI | 2 | Ng Kan | Wood's Natural History, by Mr. Ho Tang |\n\n### ANGLO-CHINESE CLASSES\n\n| Division | Winner | Prize |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Division I | Ab. Gazee | P. P. Annual, presented by the Government |\n| Division II | A. Hoosin | Natural History, by the Government |\n| Division III | R. Kow | Cantonese Made Easy, by Mr. J. D. Ball |\n| Division IV | C. Henriques | Cantonese Made Easy, by Mr. J. D. Ball |",
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        "content_text": "C5. contains eighteen 10 cent pieces and one 5 cent piece. On one side it contains the character 愉 (Yuue). On the inside is fourteen 10 cent pieces and one 5 cent piece. Also four 10 cent pieces together with eighteen 10 cent pieces and one 5 cent piece are written.\n\nThe list A beginning from the right hand side runs thus:\n\n• Monday Morning begins Tank Lave\n\nFan Sai name\n\nLey/Laughing chenk\n\nQueen's Road\n\nLam Cheung man's name ten Cents special beat Evening\n\nThe 11th\n\nLam Cheung\n\nTank Love\n\nIsan Kam (man's name)\n\nHollywood Road Lai Yuk (name) ten cents special in Special beat. Tuesday morning commencing in front of clau ello Temple. Lam Chim (name)\n\nThe packet B1, B2, B3, B4,\n\nB1 contains four 10 cent pieces and on the outside is addressed to being cheuk, B2 contains four 10 cent pieces and is addressed to Fan Sai.\n\nB3 contains 44 ten cent pieces and is addressed to Lam Chim.\n\nB4 contains four 10 cent pieces and is addressed to Lam Cheung.\n\nMr Hotton reserves question until written translation is put in.\n\nCase remanded to Wednesday the 27th May at 11.30 a.m.\n\nBail allowed in two sureties of $50 each. 1st prisoner.\n\nThe 2nd & 3rd prisoners allowed out on bail on H.E. Wodehouse's order. Money Deposit allowed. Reduced on request.",
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        "content_text": "133\n\nA\n\nWednesday, the 27th May\n\nPrisoners in Court.\n\n3rd Prisoner not in Court. Jan A Sai, P.C.217 made 14. Apriconer:\n\nOur Foston appears for the 1st prisoner. Chan Kai Ming recalled states. I produce a written translation of the papers handed to me.\n\nNo question.\n\nNicholas Perry recalled states. With regard to the translation I have to state that on referring to the duty book I find that on Monday the 18th May P.C. 217 Jan Jai the 44th defendant,\n\nwas on duty in Tank Lane from 6am to 10 am. The name of Fan Sai appears on Parcel B2. There is a Constable P.C. 318, who is named Leung Cheuk and who was on duty on the 18th May between 6 am and 10 am on adjoining beat to Fan Sai. Package B1 bears his name. I have also to state that P.C. 239 bears the name of Lau Cheung and on duty book I find that he was on duty on Monday, the 18th May, from 6 am to 10 am. He works from No 5 Station to the Man On Insurance Company's Office. His beat passes through the neighbourhood of Jai Ping Shan. Package B4 bears his name. I am not able to explain words \"Special beat.\" I have no explanation to offer with regard to Evening St.!! There is no European Constable of that number on duty on that evening.\n\nI have further to state with regard to the words Pank Lane. Chan Kam, P.C. 316 bears that name and on referring to the duty book I find that he was on duty on the 18th May in Tank Lane from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. With regard to the words Hollywood Road. Lai Yuk, I find that P.C. 145 bears the name of Lai Yuk and on the 18th May from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. he was on duty.",
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        "content_text": "Sub-enclosure 2.\n\nThe Daily Press.\n\nHONGKONG, MAY 20TH, 1891.\n\nTHE BELILIOS SCHOLARSHIP FUNDS.\n\nThe Trustees of the Belilios Scholarship Fund No. 1 (Hon. N. G. Mitchell-Innes, Hon. P. Ryrie, and Dr. Eitel) yesterday established two new medical scholarships in connection with the College of Medicine. These scholarships, of the value of $100 per annum, have been awarded respectively to Kwan King-laung and Tang King-fai, former scholars of Victoria College.\n\nUnder the same Trustees there are at present four Belilios scholars (Tsang Chung-li, Wong Plug-in, Fang Ki-cheuk, and Lo Man-kai) studying at Victoria College, and two Belilios scholars (A. Silva and J. A. M. de Jesus) at St. Joseph's College. The value of each of these six scholarships is $60 per annum for two years.\n\nThe Trustees of Belilios Fund No. 2 (Mr. J. J. Francis, Q.C., and Dr. Eitel) yesterday privately distributed the following awards made on the basis of the Belilios examination held in December last:-\n\nDiocesan School -- First prize, silver medal and $35, Southey; fifth prize, $15, H. Cock.\n\nSt. Joseph's College -- Second prize, $20, G. A. Ivanovich; fourth prize, $15, A. G. Gomes.\n\nHongkong Public School -- Third prize, $20, H. Hayward.\n\nVictoria English School -- First prize, silver medal and $25, Miss Mozelle Joseph; second prize, $15, Miss L. Tennant; third prize, $10, Miss A. Smith.\n\nVictoria Home and Orphanage School -- First prize, silver medal and $25, Miss Wong A-lin; second prize, $15, Miss Ng Wai; third prize, $10, Miss Tong Tsz-tsin.\n\nBasel Mission Girls School -- Fourth prize, $10, Miss Ho Kwan-ying.\n\nYesterday Mr. Belilios established another Trust Fund, under the trusteeship of the Hon. N. G. Mitchell-Innes, Hon. P. Ryrie, and Dr. Eitel, for the purpose of promoting medical studies and the training of school teachers, and to give school materials or prizes to deserving schools or scholars.\n\nPage 77\n\n \nPage 77\n\n \nPage 77",
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        "content_text": "# Enclosure 1.\n\n14023 314 \n\nA \n\nleo 7 MAY 00 \n\n**COPY** \n\n## Water Police Station. \n### 2nd. April, 1900.\n\nSir, \n\nI beg to report the following particulars for your information. \n\nFan Tat Shang, master of steam-launch Chang Sha, Hong Kong License, reports that he left Wuchow at 11 a.m. on the 1st instant with a crew of 13 men, towing the lighter Sai Wo loaded with cargo and one passenger for Hong Kong. And at 9.30 p.m. when at A Cheuk Mi, near Shek Ei, Heung Shan District, about 80 men fired from both banks of the river at the launch and the lighter, killing the pilot named Yeung Ha, 50 years of age and wounding 3 men on the launch and 2 on the lighter. The launch was stopped and after firing a few volleys, the robbers boarded her and the lighter and searched every one, taking away money, jewellery, and clothing, value over $1,000, also the launch's licence, Permit, and customs papers. Before leaving, the pirates told them to tell their master that they were the Hop I. Tong and Lung Fung Tong men and the master had better pay them.",
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        "content_text": "## \n| Name | Present Salary | Increased Salary | New Salary |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Chan Asi |  |  |  |\n| Ian Cheung | 7 |  | 7 |\n| aw maw you | 7 |  | 7 |\n| Eg ssing | 7 |  | 7 |\n| Wong kai chaufi |  |  |  |\n| Bra Fang Li wai |  |  |  |\n| Zei Law kg shek |  |  |  |\n| Ching shek Yeung |  |  |  |\n| Lui Lo Kundhay |  |  |  |\n| Hang Lun |  |  |  |\n| 4. K.T. lly man |  |  |  |\n| Jangying Tat wang Qui Cheuk | 20 |  |  |\n| avenger Lang Heung Laur Laur | 92 | 10 |  |\n|  | 7 |  | 7 |\n|  | 4 |  | 4 |\n| Tng Kaur | 7 |  | 7 |\n|  | 4 |  | 4 |\n| hg mi | 7 |  | 7 |\n|  | 4 |  | 4 |\n| Lo Chee | 7 |  | 7 |\n|  | 7 |  | 7 |\n\n## Remarks \nChan Lui kai \nLi you Jer Seung King Fai Cheung bun Chaw Ying ng \n80",
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        "title": "CO129-302 - Public Offices - 1900",
        "content_text": "## Water Police Station \n2nd April 1900 \n\n55 \n\nH$61 \n\nI beg to report the following particulars for your information:- \n\nFan Tat Shang, master of steam launch Chang Sha, Hong Kong License, reports that he left Wuchow at 11 a.m. on the 1st instant with a crew of 18 men, towing the lighter Sai Wo laden with cargo and one passenger for Hong Kong, and at 9.30 p.m. when at A Cheuk Mi, near Shek Ki, Heung Shan District, about 80 men fired from both banks of the river at the launch and the lighter, killing the pilot named Young Ha, 50 years of age, and wounding 3 men on the launch and 2 on the lighter. The launch was stopped and after firing a few volleys, the robbers boarded her and the lighter and searched everyone, taking away money, jewellery, and clothing, value over $1000.00, also the launch license, permit, and customs papers; before leaving, the pirates told them to tell their master that they were the Hop I Tong and Lung Fung Tong men and the master had better pay them some money. The pirates took the compradore of the lighter named Ng I with them, saying that they would hold him for ransom. After they had left at 11.30 p.m., he took the lighter in tow and reached the harbour at 11.15 a.m. The body of the pilot has been removed to the mortuary; none of the wounded men would go to Hospital, their wounds being very slight. \n\nThe names of the wounded men and list of property stolen will be furnished as soon as possible. \n\nTotal-alcohol \n\n(Signed) \nI have, &c., \nJohn Gould, \nInspector.",
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        "content_text": "# 451\n\ncadets in 1897, two in 1898, two in 1899, and four in 1901 have been crossed by the recent appointments of non-cadets to the very posts for which cadets are stated to have a preferential claim.\n\n8.\n\nWe would therefore humbly pray that our case may be granted favourable consideration, and that our claims as cadets of the Hong Kong Civil Service may in future be set on a more definite basis.\n\n9.\n\nThe absence of the signature of R.F. Johnston, passed cadet, is due to the fact that he is now on vacation leave in the interior of China: but before his departure he expressed his entire sympathy with our proposed action.\n\nWe have the honour to be,\nSir,\nYour most humble obedient servants,\nCheuk Chi-cheung (or similar, as OCR is unclear, but likely refers to a Chinese name)\nG. Wemps\nF.R. Loxley (or similar, as \"FRlook\" is likely an OCR error)\nF.B. Ross\nA.S.A. Fulford (or similar, as \"ASA Faldes\" is likely an OCR error)",
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        "document_key": "CO129-314 - Public Offices - 1902",
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        "title": "CO129-314 - Public Offices - 1902",
        "content_text": "## 289\n\nThe Portuguese authorities deeming the presence of a Service Hospital to be a menace to their territorial rights, issued a decree of expropriation, and paid the proprietor the sum of 80,000 dollars as a surrender value, its assessed value being 40,000 dollars. As a precautionary measure, the Portuguese authorities have issued decrees of expropriation in respect of certain other properties in Macao, not with a view to entering upon the occupation of the land, but to establish a right which they undoubtedly possess. This was a necessary precaution, as it was found shortly afterwards that the French were in treaty for another property.\n\nHouse Tax.-A new house tax has been levied in Canton during the last three months, and all the excitement which marked its inauguration has completely disappeared. This is in a measure due to the Tax Bureau having made the assessments as low as possible, besides granting frequent exemptions. The income from this source is consequently below the estimate, and will not exceed 100,000 dollars.\n\nNew Land Tax is to apply to Sha-tien lands only, i.e., lands reclaimed from the muddy shores of rivers and tidal creeks. This land, annually enriched by river deposits, is considered best able to contribute an additional sum to the revenue. The collection is to be made by the local gentry, the landlord paying eight-tenths, the tenant two-tenths. The tax amounts to about 3s. 4d. per acre per annum.\n\nIn accordance with the Decree of September last, the Viceroy has ordered the cessation in perpetuity of the sale of substantive official posts. The amount realized under this head in fourteen months was 172,290 taels.\n\nA strong movement in favour of modern education has lately shown itself among the wealthy and influential classes in Canton. A college for youths of the Banner force is under consideration. Mr. Summers, Professor of English in the Canton University, has been instructed to draw up a scheme for the Viceroy. Some wealthy scholars and merchants of Canton have also a scheme for the establishment of two modern schools, the funds being raised by voluntary subscriptions. The Viceroy, in promulgating the Decree of the 14th September last, ordering provincial schools to be converted into modern schools, took the opportunity of pointing out that, unless active steps in the matter are taken by natives of influence, the foreigner will inevitably step in: he added that little help was to be expected from official sources, and that he relied on the public spirit of the wealthy classes of Canton.\n\nPiracy. A District Magistrate, Li Chia-cho, locally known as Li Ka-cheuk, has 1,300 Braves at his disposition, and recently his force has been reinforced by two 14 to 15 knot torpedo-boats to patrol the creeks of the Shan-te district. Lu Wen-ching has also had his flotilla reinforced by two torpedo-boats. Arrangements are now being made by which the passenger launches and their towel junks are to be made to furnish their own protection. Ten soldiers, each armed with a carbine and revolver, are to be put on each launch and maintained by a small addition to the fares. The Chinese authorities say that the arsenal is completely empty of small arms, and they will require, therefore, permission to import 1,500 Mauser rifles and revolvers from Hong Kong.\n\nVice-Admiral Bridge has requested the Consul-General to apply indirectly to the Viceroy for orders to be issued to all guard-boats and stations to keep the Commanders of His Majesty's ships \"Robin\" and \"Sandpiper\" informed of any acts of piracy, so that they may be able to assist in hunting down the criminals. This will be done verbally lest any recognized scheme of co-operation should furnish an excuse for aggressive action on the part of the French.\n\nCanton-Hankow Railway.-Chang-chian-shun, one of the Chinese Managers of the Yueh-han Railway, as this line is called by the Chinese, is arranging in Canton for the commencement of the work. According to this official the American Syndicate guaranteed the whole of the capital, but as a matter of fact they have only provided about one-third, the remainder being taken up by Belgians, Russians, French, and English. The American Syndicate, however, is responsible for the total sum vis-à-vis the Chinese Government. The foreign engineers have not yet arrived in Canton. The position of the terminus is uncertain, but one of the conditions of the Huang-sha reclamation is that any portion of the reclaimed land required for the railway shall be ceded to them. The Huang-sha reclamation is proceeding rapidly, but the bunding and facing have not yet been commenced. The Manager states that at the edge of the present bank there is...",
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        "content_text": "497 \n\ncopies of them for your consideration. I also enclose copies of statements made in 1901 by two witnesses, Kong Kungyi and Kong Kai, who are not now in the Colony but who could be made available.\n\nThe witnesses who gave evidence of a more or less formal character in the trial of Lui Chui alias Li Kwai Fan, would also be available. They are the widow, daughter, and pupil of Yeung Kui Wan, the medical officer, and the Police.\n\nUpon receipt of instructions from you, I would make application, supported by sworn informations, to the Viceroy of the two Kwangs for the extradition of the persons named, but it would be idle to expect compliance with my request unless the strongest possible pressure is brought to bear at the same time on the Chinese Government at Peking and instructions issued by it to the Viceroy to comply with my request.\n\n8\n\nWith regard to the complicity of the High Cantonese Authorities, I agree with Mr. Sharp that the Acting Viceroy Tak Sam and the Chief of Police Li Ka Cheuk must have been fully cognisant of the circumstances attending the crime, which caused a great sensation in the Colony and outside of it at the time, at",
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        "content_text": "## CO2 \n\n584 \n\nTo Lay sean jin sake add to ednasurje odl sasuri edu lo airdoro sit) led soral musť galinsonos iet nel .1# lo bus aquod edɔ to adnousdede eld Ine, (\"fuŸ atN” JROGNUĆ -1J8800 (anoxquod ni Jasgs sortu, sid) a82 ol gИ shin99c000 ygl of minigenos to enoenea ond cards Jretags $660 gnosje e gjuð (nem benrotnoo mit) net veel od, inced gouf dow reisegod neinun -inodjuk pasoido sdu yd beducexe need and ofw,[net med aví? Lar ancagnon edd JJ *sjden add ar guidesinunnoo to notorgava no E \n\npoint, especially as be played no prominent part on 10th January, 1901.\n\nAs to the higher Chinese Officials, the Crown is unable to prove that either the Viceroy Tak or Li Ka Cheuk (the Commander of the Canton City Guard) knew before the murder that Yeung Kui Wan was in Hongkong. But it cannot be doubted, in view of the evidence as to the rewards given nearly a month afterwards to the members of Li Kwai Fan's gang, that then at any rate these officials were fully cognisant of the circumstances of the crime.\n\nThere is also some evidence to implicate \n| Official | Role |\n| --- | --- |\n| Li Chi Tin | Li Ka Cheuk's Secretary |\n| Ko Ping Shan | one of Li Ka Cheuk's braves |\n| Tsui Fux | another of Li Ka Cheuk's braves and believed to have been a member of Li Kwai Fan's gang |\n\nbut not enough at present I think to warrant proceedings against them.\n\n**(Sa.) E. H. Sharp,**\n6th June, 1903.",
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        "content_text": "## 202 \n* \n506 \nVOSIJE (387 \n\nAbout this time.\n\n6. About the 19th November, 1900, a man named Ma Wong Hoi came to Hongkong from Canton with a number of others, and lodged in the Yan On boarding house.\n\n7. I met Ma Wong Hoi and his party several times and heard them discussing with Ng Shui Shang about the proposed murder of Yeung Kui Wan, Yeung Tsing Kai and other officials were present at these discussions, and took an active part in them.\n\n8. At the end of November Ng Shui Shang sent Ma Wong Hoi's party back to Canton because the Hongkong Police wanted to arrest one of them.\n\n9. On the 4th January, 1901, Ng Shui Shang took me to Canton to get another party, Ng Shui Shang went to see the Provincial Treasurer and Li Ka Cheuk in Canton.\n\n10. Ng Shui Shang and Yeung Tsing Kai got a number of men together and I came down with some of them in one of the Steamers leaving Canton on the evening of the 7th January and arriving in Hongkong in the early morning of the 8th. Chan Lam Tsai and Tung Cheung were amongst the men who came down that night, they went to stay in a brothel at the West end of Victoria, Hongkong.\n\n11. On the 9th January Tung Cheung went to Yeung Kui Wan's house, he returned to Ng Shui Shang's and said in the presence of Ng Shui Shang and myself and others that he could murder Yeung Kui Wan by himself without assistance. Ng Shui Shang said Tung Cheung was a smart man. It was then arranged to carry out the murder on the next day. Li Kwai Fan was present at the time in Ng Shui Shang's house and so was Chan Lam Tsai. I met Li Kwai Fan for the first time on the 8th January at the brothel before mentioned.\n\n12.",
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        "content_text": "## Statement of Witness\n\n1. ...-ment will pay\". He then told my brother and Tung Cheung and two other men to hurry up and catch the Steamer to Hongkong.\n\n2. My brother said to me \"If Yeung Tsing Kai gives you the agreement you must keep it carefully and not show it to anyone\", he then went off with Tung Cheung and the others to catch the Steamer to Hongkong.\n\n3. Shortly afterwards I saw Yeung Tsing Kai and spoke about the agreement, he said it was not necessary, and told me to stay in his quarters and it would be all right.\n\n4. I remained there, and late in the evening of the 10th January I heard Yeung Tsing Kai say that the affair had been done. My brother told me afterwards that immediately after the shooting of Yeung Kui Wan a secret telegram had been sent to Canton announcing the fact.\n\n5. On the 14th January I saw my brother again in Li Ka Cheuk's barracks, and he told me that he and Tung Cheung had both shot Yeung Kui Wan while \"Hakka Tsai\" (i.e. Li Kwai Fan) watched in the street.\n\n6. On the 16th January Tung Cheung also came back to Li Ka Cheuk's barracks, and about the same time Li Kwai Fan also came to the barracks, and we all stayed there together more than 10 days. During that time I heard my brother and Tung Cheung and Li Kwai Fan talking over the details of the murder.\n\n7. Then my brother, Tung Cheung and Li Kwai Fan asked Yeung Tsing Kai to go to Li Ka Cheuk and get the reward for them, after a time he got it and gave each of them an order on a Chinese Bank. I saw my brother's order, it was for $2,000, and I knew he got the money. I believe Tung Cheung and Li Kwai Fan each got $2,000 also.\n\n8. On or about the 14th February, 1901, my brother and Tung Cheung and Li Kwai Fan each received a Diploma under...",
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        "content_text": "# \n212\n\nunder the Viceroy's seal promoting them to official rank. I saw my brother's diploma and have since lodged it in the Supreme Court of Hongkong together with a covering despatch sealed by Li Ka Cheuk. Both the Diploma and the Despatch state that the Button of the fifth grade were awarded to my brother in arresting the \"Tsing Lung Tau\" (± AE BR) which I understood to mean the \"leader of the rebels\" i.e. Yeung Kui fan.\n\n12.\n\nI also saw Tung Cheung's Diploma which was in similar terms. My brother was then placed in command of a small war junk and held that post until September, 1901, in that month he showed me some letters he had received from Hongkong asking him to go there, one of these letters was from Mr. May, the Captain Superintendent of Police in Hongkong. My brother was arrested and charged with communicating with the Hongkong Police, and was executed by order of Li Ka Cheuk on the 25th September, 1901 near Canton.\n\n13.\n\nI say therefore that Yeung Tsing Kai incited my brother Chan Lam Tsai and Tung Cheung to shoot Yeung Kui Wan in Hongkong, and that my said brother with Tung Cheung and Li Kwai Fan did kill and murder Yeung Kui Wan in Hongkong, and were rewarded by Yeung Tsing Kai for so doing.\n\nand declared before me on the day and at the place first above mentioned.\n\n**(Sd.) E. A. Hazeland, Police Magistrate.**\n\nExplained by \n**(Sd.) Chan Wan.** \n(In Chinese.)\n**(Sd.) J. W. Hanson, Chief Detective Inspector.** \nInterpreter.\n\n513",
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        "content_text": "# Magistracy, Hongkong\n\nThe 17th. day of June, 1903\n\n516\n\nThe information and complaint of Tax Tai taken this day before me, the undersigned, one of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace in and for the said Colony who states:-\n\n1. I am a fisherman living at Yaumati, Hongkong.\n\n2. In the Autumn and Winter of 1901 I was living at No. 1, Shin Hing Lane, Victoria, Hongkong, with Li Kwai Fan who employed me. On one occasion Li Kwai Fan told me that there was a reward of $10,000 offered by the Canton Viceroy for the death of Yeung Kui Wan and asked me to assist him in killing him but I refused to do so.\n\n3. In December, 1900, or January, 1901, I saw Yeung Tsing Kai, Captain of the Chinese Gunboat \"Kin Yui\", at No. 1 Shin Hing Lane, and shortly afterwards I saw Chan Lam Tsai and another man, whose name I do not know, there, and I heard Li Kwai Fan, Chan Lam Tsai and the other man planning the murder of Yeung Kui Wan. Chan Lam Tsai and the other man had in their possession two revolvers which I saw.\n\n4. On the 10th. January, 1901, Li Kwai Fan came to my uncle's boat at Yaumati, and said to my uncle in the presence of Tam Chung and myself that he had killed Yeung Kui Wan. As my uncle would not allow him to stay in the boat I put him ashore and he went away.\n\n5. I saw Li Kwai Fan in Canton afterwards and he told me that he had received a reward and official rank for killing Yeung Kui Wan, on the recommendation of Li Ka Cheuk.\n\n6. I again saw Li Kwai Fan in Canton in September, 1901,",
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        "content_text": "357\n\nalleged complicity of certain Cantonese authorities.\n\nWith regard to the complicity of the high Cantonese authorities, the Governor agrees with Mr. Sharp that the Acting Viceroy Tak and the Chief of Police Li Ka Cheuk must at any rate have been fully cognizant of the circumstances attending the crime at the time when a certificate of merit was awarded to Chan Tai Oh, alias Chan Lam Tsai, one of Li Kwai 'Fan's gang and he suggests that pressure be put on the Chinese Government to dismiss them from the public service, and that compensation in $50,000 be paid by the Canton Government to the widow and family of Yeung Kui Wan.\n\n•\n\nI concur in this recommendation, and have accordingly to instruct you to act on it as far as the circumstances permit.\n\nI am &c.,\n\n(Signed)",
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        "content_text": "E. Li Ka Cheuk, Commander of the Canton City Guard.\n\nF., G., and H. (Li Chi Tin, Ko Ping Shan and Tsui buk) regarding whom the Attorney-General says that there is some evidence to implicate them, but not enough to warrant proceedings against them at present.\n\nThe first three are the persons indicated in your letter under reply as persons who should be brought to trial. As to E., you inform me that there is a lack of sufficient evidence. Ü., the Acting Viceroy, is dead. It is not proposed at present to ask that proceedings should be taken against F., G., and H.\n\n$50,000.\n\nIn his Despatch to the Colonial Secretary of June 20th, 1908, Sir Henry Blake suggested that pressure should be put on the Chinese Government to dismiss the Acting Viceroy Tsu and the Chief of Police Li Ka Cheuk from the public service, and that compensation to the amount of Fifty Thousand Dollars be paid by the Canton Government to the widow and family of Yeung Kuai-wan. Lord Lansdowne in his despatch to this Legation No.308 of October 13th last informs me that he concurs in this recommendation, and instructs me to act on it as far as the circumstances permit. I shall recur further on to the question of compensation, but with regard to the first part of Sir Henry Blake's suggestion, I have the honour to observe that the Acting Viceroy died on January 15th of the present year, while as to Li Ka Cheuk you are of opinion that his name should be withdrawn from the list of those who should be brought to trial. I would beg to point out that if there is not evidence enough to convict him, we cannot well put forward a demand for his dismissal, as that would amount to asking that he should be punished because he is strongly suspected. Under these circumstances, I should not propose to make any representation to the Chinese Government against these two officials in the sense of Sir Henry Blake's suggestion.\n\nPage 360\n\nPage 361",
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        "content_text": "Page 361\n\nA linger tell\n\nCINEL ANJ 21 20,900910 sami zr A\n\n190W 120* Canedo 90 Div0l2 (rasa96-CAO \"TUJJA\n\nAGEN FUNC) (ilsujos Lue Je Jungen de 2012* *382\n\n* Jeatrar myndava sul\n\n-ISADIL) de af hot 'eratub mad\n\na tempat ne 10 Letra eLTOJIA &\n\nSra ***Wi J HOBSWAN) SA! AT BLet JaspAJMIZ AJ\n\n„a roda jo,anceneg 19IJO LJ6 78djono\n\nSAUNYOON Je juret de bVONAJASE LOr Lejorvald\n\nA JASNJO 1198010 290JIA 9301009\n\nwal Leet (193*nu)*3iau 21 20 12 2333 Jug\n\nU s\n\n.400\n\nA ARAD BAUTA BERJI AA\n\nમારા\n\n:{\n\nJe* les 1J 1 * AJIM\n\n.THLY\n\nO LIVE A10 147 90 53 21992 avcae eji\n\nmale wa daw12 kunde stasyQE JI LAK\n\nanondo snel demlege\n\n*\n\nto notaigu Sad A.\n\nFORADIVO kal\n\ne) si 101 Losve.\n\n.0 bar .1\n\nTad sealt jenius 9240 anonja e gojuji15000,187617\n\n: PN QANI,mowie saut auta 1911990) 701-\n\nSunLive 9301 21 998dJ Jedd sekta.100 SI LAR,18el wel azal\n\n20# 9*{00 to Jedd add yo#^iumauc i 9995 to 343 1101qva\n\nJORI SAJ *70190\n\nCaptain was present, so this evidence seems weak.\n\nPage 18:\n\nAnother witness, since dead, mentions meeting B. with others of the gang just before the murder was committed.\n\nPage 10: The brother of the man executed at Canton for having dealings with the Hongkong Police stated he met B. at Canton in company with others of the gang, a few days before the murder. Presumably the murder was then arranged, but evidence of what actually passed was not given, probably as it would not have been evidence against the accused.\n\nPage 12:\n\nIn Sir Henry Blake's Despatch of June 20th., 1808, to the Colonial Office he refers (paragraph 7) to statements made by witnesses in 1901, and the Attorney-General's opinion also refers to statements made otherwise than at the trial but copies of these do not appear to have been communicated to the Legation. Possibly they contained evidence against B. and others that could not, for technical reasons, be produced at the trial of Li Kwai ran. The Attorney-General's opinion also refers to a discrepancy in the evidence as to whether B. was in Hong Kong or Canton at the time of the murder. In the Judge's Notes, page 12, the witness Kong Ngau Ying (since dead) says he was at Hong-Kong on January 10th. The other witness Chan Aan (page 10) mentions having seen him at Canton on the 7th. Perhaps the Attorney-General may have been alluding to some other statement by Chan Man, which I have not seen.\n\nThe evidence so far is apparently not very strong, but possibly we might ask for the trial of this officer.\n\nIt is to be presumed that you will be able to say where he is to be found.\n\n* Bredu det sale! Souly 17\n\n* ** 13 130191 ZEROJI4 A\n\nA BRA VIA\n\nfed A\n\nJ2oJ\n\n% 400 MSOL 93 Jun 191941-\n\n** * **\n\nI am disposed to regard the evidence against Li Ka Cheuk, whose name you consider should be withdrawn from the list of persons to be prosecuted, as on the whole stronger than that which I have been able to find against the Captain of the",
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        "content_text": "I am at present not disposed to favour the bringing of a formal charge against Yeung Tsing-hai, the Commander of a Chinese Gunboat. It is evident that he was acting under the orders of Li Ka Cheuk, who again had his authority from the Acting Viceroy Tsao; and if Yeung is indicted formally, the question of official complicity will be directly involved, and the other prosecutions will, so far as I can judge, be strenuously resisted. The murder occurred three and a half years ago, the Acting Viceroy Tsao is dead, Li Ka Cheuk was banished to Mongolia last April by the present Acting Viceroy, and the evidence against Yeung himself is none too strong. I would therefore propose to keep the case against this man in reserve; and, if the Viceroy treats the charges against Tung Tseung and Ng Lo San in a satisfactory manner, to make it and the evidence of official complicity the subject of a strong warning when finally winding up the matter.\n\nI have etc.,\n\n(sd.) C. C. Campbell.",
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        "content_text": "355\n\n! at Canton on the alleged ground that he had dealings with the Hongkong Police) who were stated to have taken part in the murder, the following persons are mentioned as being more or less concerned in the crime. For convenience of reference I will call them by letters of the alphabet:-\n\nA. Tung Cheung, a Chinese \"brave\".\n\nB. Young Tsing Kai, captain of a Chinese gun-boat.\n\nC. Ng Lo Sam, police agent.\n\nD. The Acting Viceroy Tak (Te Shou in Peking-ese).\n\nE. Li Ka Cheuk, Commander of the Canton City Guard.\n\n#.1 G. and H. (Li Chi Tin, Ko Ping Shan and Tsui Fuk) regarding whom the Attorney General says that there is some evidence to implicate them, but not enough to warrant proceedings against them at present.\n\nThe first three are the persons indicated in your letter under reply as persons who should be brought to trial. As to E. you inform me that there is a lack of sufficient evidence.\n\nD., the Acting Viceroy, is dead.\n\nIt is not proposed at pres-ent to ask that proceedings should be taken against F., G. and H.\n\nIn his despatch to the Colonial Secretary of June 20th, 1903, Sir Henry Blake suggested that pressure should be put on the Chinese Government to dismiss the Acting Viceroy Tak and the Chief of Police Li Ka Cheuk from the public service, and that compensation to the amount of $50,000 be paid by the Canton Government to the widow and family of Yeung Kul-wan. Lord Lans-downe in his despatch to this Legation No.306 of October 13th last informs me that he concurs in this recommendation, and instructs me to act on it as far as the circumstances permit. I shall recur further on to the question of compensation, but with regard to the first part of Sir Henry Blake's suggestion, I have the honour to observe that the Acting Viceroy died on January 15th of the present year, while as to Li Ka Cheuk you are of opinion that his name should be withdrawn from the list of those who should be brought to trial. I would beg to point out that if",
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        "content_text": "357\n\ngunboat the man Li Kwai-fan, who was tried at Hong- kong.\n\nThe date was a few weeks after the murder.\n\nBut he does not say that the captain was present, this evidence seems weak.\n\nSO\n\nPage 12. Another witness, since dead, mentions meeting B. with others of the gang just before the murder was committed.\n\nPage 10. The brother of the man executed at Canton for having dealings with the Hongkong Police stated he met B. at Canton in company with others of the gang, a few days before the murder.\n\nPresumably the murder was then arranged, but evidence of what actually passed was not given, probably as it would not have been evidence against the accused.\n\nPage 12. In Sir Henry Blake's despatch of June 20th, 1903, to the Colonial Office he refers (paragraph 7) to statements made by witnesses in 1901, and the Attorney-General's opinion also refers to statements made otherwise than at the trial, but copies of these do not appear to have been communicated to the Legation. Possibly they contained evidence against B. and others that could not, for technical reasons be produced at the trial of Li Kwai-fan.\n\nThe Attorney-General's opinion also refers to a discrepancy in the evidence as to whether B. was in Hongkong or Canton at the time of the murder. In the Judge's Notes, page 12, the witness Kong Ngau Ying (since dead) says he was at Hongkong on January 10th. The other witness Chan Wan (page 10) mentions having seen him at Canton on the 7th. Perhaps the Attorney General may have been alluding to some other statement by Chan Wan, which I have not seen.\n\nThe evidence so far is apparently not very strong, but possibly we might ask for the trial of this officer. It is to be presumed that you will be able to say where he is to be found.\n\nI am disposed to regard the evidence against Li Ka Cheuk, whose name you consider should be withdrawn from the list of persons to be prosecuted, as on the whole stronger than that which I have been able to find against the captain of the gunboat. On page 6 of the Judge's Notes he is mentioned as having offered evidence\n\nPage 360\n\nPage 361",
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        "content_text": "502\n\nand fail than to take no notice of him.\n\nThere appears to be sufficient testimony available to establish a prima facie case against him in a Chinese Court; and it will be open to me, under the circumstances, to point out to the Viceroy that there are clues to his proceedings in Canton in connection with the murder which the Chinese Authorities, and not the Hongkong Government, are the proper persons to follow up.\n\nTak;\n\nI am at present not disposed to favour the bringing of a formal charge against Yeung Tsing-kai, the commander of a Chinese gunboat. It is evident that he was acting under the orders of Li Ka-cheuk, who again had his authority from the Acting Viceroy; and if Yeung is indicted formally, the question of official complicity will be directly involved, and the other prosecutions will, so far as I can judge, be strenuously resisted. The murder occurred three and a half years ago, the Acting Viceroy Tak is dead, Li Ka-cheuk was banished to Mongolia last April by the present Acting Viceroy, and the evidence against Yeung himself is none too strong. I would therefore propose to keep the case against this man in reserve; and, if the Viceroy treats the charges against Tung Tseung and Ng Lo Sam in a satisfactory manner, to make it and the evidence of official complicity the subject of a strong warning when finally winding up the matter.\n\nI have, &c.,\n\n(Signed)\n\nC. W. Campbell.\n\nagainst",
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        "content_text": "354\n\nCharge (a) is that Mr. Guterres in paying off the crew of the \"Alcinous\" deducted from the wages of some members of the crew the sum of $1250 owed by them to the head fireman and received a commission for doing so.\n\nThe evidence in support of the answer is a plain denial.\n\nWho charge is that of Ng Sz Ko, a boarding house keeper, alleges that he saw the $1260 deducted and himself handed the commission of $65 to Mr. Guterres.\n\nWe have therefore the unsupported evidence of this man against Mr. Guterres' denial. (Captain Rumsey who has an intimate knowledge of the class of man in question told me that he \"would not thrash a dog on the unsupported evidence of a boarding house keeper\", and that the Council did not regard him as a man of character is clear from the fact that they unanimously declined to believe his statement in support of charge (c) that Mr. Guterres was in the habit of deducting odd cents from the men's wages).\n\nOn Mr. Guterres' side is the evidence of the Captain of the \"Alcinous\", who was present at the paying off, and states (enclosure C. in the memorial) that no deductions were made from the wages and that nothing of the kind could have occurred without his knowledge.\n\nMr. May's rejoinder to this is that unless one of the crew made an appeal to the Captain in a language which he understood the transaction could be effected without his knowing anything about it. I put this to Captain Rumsey who replied that the suggestion was absurd.\n\nEnclo. 2.\n\n11943\n\nWhen a crew is paid off the Captain gives to each man a statement of the amount which he is to receive. When the paying off takes place the Articles of Agreement are produced, which show the amounts due. The men \"sign off\" by signing their names on the articles opposite to the sum stated as due to them. They know what is due and the Captain knows. He is present and sees the actual sums paid, so that no deduction could be made without both the man and the Captain fully understanding it.\n\nAs to the suggestion that the men could not complain because they could not make themselves understood, Captain Rumsey points out that the whole crew is present. If no one in the whole crew has any means of communicating with the Captain, the ship must be in a parlous state. If the men affected could not appeal to the Captain direct, they must be able to appeal to some other member of the crew, who could explain it.\n\nThis objection seems to me to be unanswerable.\n\nCaptain Pulford cannot have been ignorant of the transaction, if it occurred. He has no motive in lying about it.\n\nOn the other hand, in the case of Ng Sz Ko there is a probable motive for trying to break Mr. Guterres. Captain Rumsey states (and his statement is supported by many of the letters in this paper) that these boarding house keepers were always trying to get Mr. Guterres to deduct sums from the men's wages, which they alleged to be due to them. Mr. Guterres has persistently refused and has turned them out of his office. What is more likely than that one or two of them should try to get him ousted in hopes of finding a more squeezeable successor?\n\nI believe this charge to be conclusively disproved.\n\nCharge (b) is that Mr. Guterres refused to pay a Chinaman Cheuk Foo his wages.\n\nCheuk Foo's story is that he went to claim his wages and that one Sai Yau was there and insisted on $20 being deducted to satisfy a debt. Not desiring this, Cheuk Foo went away. He does not state that Mr. Guterres spoke to him at this time. He came back later and Mr. Guterres declined to pay him unless Sai Yau was there.\n\nHe",
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        "content_text": "560 \n\n(K22) \n\n**RETURN of OFFICERS who have given Security for the due Discharge of their Duties** \n\n(K23) \n\nprepared at the Annual Inspection of Securities, held on 7th February, 1907,—Continued. \n\n| Name of Officer giving Security | Extract Title of all Appointment (either permanent or temporary) now held by him | Name of the Security given | IF BY GUARANTEE BOND. <br>Namics, Addresses, and Occupations of the Sureties in each Bond | Title of Office in respect of which the Bond is given as stated thereiu | Date of Bund | Amount of Bond |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| **HONGKONG VOLUNTEERS** |  | Union Assurance Communication |  |  |  |  |\n| **PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT** |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| W. Chatham | Directer of Public Works | Personal Bond with two Sureties, jointly and severally | Sir Thomas Jackson, Baronet; Thomas Park Cochrane, Manager of the Chartered Bank of India Australia & China | Director of Public Works | 27th October, 1903 | $1,000 |\n| Cheng Kan alias Cheng Kit Hing | Storekeeper | Personal Bond with two Sureties, jointly and severally | Sir C. P. Chater, C.M.G.; Union Assurance Company | Storekeeper | 7th August, 1906 | 2,500 |\n| **KOWLOON CANTON RAILWAY** |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| J. E Menagh | Chief Storekeeper | Title Deed of Section G.H. and Remaining Portion of Section J. of Kowloon Inland Lot No. 106 |  | Chief Storekeeper | 2nd March, 1898 |  |\n| Luiz G. D'Almuda e Castro | Chief Accountant | Personal Bond with four Sureties, jointly and severally | Duelystenul E. of BEERSTE NO. 2003 | Chief Accountant | 3rd April, 1901 | 5,000 |\n| Yung Cheuk Sang | Accountant | Personal Bond with two Sureties, jointly and severally | João M.S. Alves; Idalian 31. Alves; Zita d'A. Castro: & Leo. d'A. Castro | Accountant | 4th May, 1906 | 5,000 |\n| Ng Tsun Wing | Cashier | Personal Bond with two Sureties, jointly and severally | Chau Shui Wan, of Kwong Fat Hing, No. 15 Cheung Ching Street; Ng Wai Chi, Compradore Messagories Maritime Company | Cashier | 26th June, 1906 | 2,000 |\n|  |  |  | Ng Wai Chi, Compradore, Messagories Maritime Company; Wai Kai Mi, of Wing Tai, No. 78 Des Voux Road |  | 14th November, 1906 | 5,000 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 20th August, 1906 | 2,000 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 13th September, 1906 | 5,000 |",
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        "document_key": "CO129-358 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [10-11]",
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        "title": "CO129-358 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [10-11]",
        "content_text": "Page 2\n\nKOK YUET IVOG\n\nroad war di maere!W\n\n5.\n\nThat the following Gentlemen be elected to be the first General Committee of the Society:\n\nHon. Dr. Ho Kai - President.\n\nHon. Mr. Wei Yuk) \n\nMr. Lau Chu Pak \n\nMr. Ho Kam Tong - Vice-Presidents.\n\n08\n\n047 Birth ou\n\nmil bo grafou edi so ea vat: anibal ord\n\n035afoulb wild om ti bon annogalmond to notauunqque eriù tet\n\n...awoflot aw boyfonen ti a、ceosiq oiiduq at wojtos Isaan to\n\n30 oman ej z bellao bits bono? ed noljaloonas ma Jødt .I\n\nal galtiiqs au woulaor to notexunqque erið gol yteioo2 811*\n\nbe to\n\n4.\n\n\"geosli olidut\n\nselvcb of ad qtatook it to edoetdo ar JafT .3\n\naid to oljabe erit 107 19Iveson Tindreo joelta chi yoIBO\n\ned brs got tiqu to vtilldartasba ortu gaibrugor olidus an mblo\n\nmedd obuustb nj (enosiq otidul at neddam fuvan to maniloutb\n\nbebivong vũ of pavao nɔ abtvong of bits Toereft died at mout\n\n(anodiely to sometrov 100 and not Belosh13001 med-0 0 ano Jige\n\novi oubпoo 10 YTBRUCDON od yam jedt galdiqnovo bra IIa ob od has\n\n.gteloo2 edt to atoelde old to drogaveidos eds of\n\nBjbeldo wild to Juo gaiyruso old tot berunt ad but a JANT\n\net to refem foen gas rug aids yoʻl Jane bir 、yjelood erit to\n\n© mottqiroadue o veq nd bertoper ed gainioj no Ilady yjetoo2\n\nwredium mort Jrows raŋzei yue to untoijanob gaujastov .00.84 to\n\n.tofood orld to menugaori ef id Davrooon vilubinædit ad IIlw\n\nsavninu nointed old d kavo beblaeng od vjsfooë erið Jønt .+\n\ngesnio zat ut grid de ne Iloruco evitalatgal ort to tximal\n\nvindt erit no arodno necriro owd odd bas Ilonus to red s\n\n.Tootoris etrcbjøord-esty boatoqqa of Iarfa b'inof Vie bluode\n\nTo yjefood end miot of esuten ar vizen benoitram evo's odd to oridad of bongines dioaqao add at dog of gauter boatot aedW\n\nzerijo omoe Joela od v‡zedil 36 of [fat. ydetona exft to areðmem\n\n.30alq aid edad of Todmor\n\n6.\n\nMr. Chan Trik XXX Keng U\n\nMr. S.W. Te'o\n\nHon. Treasurer.\n\nHon. Secretary.\n\nMessrs. Chan Chik Tu, Lau Yam Chuen, Chan Cheuk Hing, Li Po Kwai, Yung Yik Ting, Ng Hon Tez, Li Teuk Yu, Leung Ping Ham, Sui Yuen Fai and Chiu Chau Sam.\n\n7.\n\nThat the members of the Society shall meet once every year and that the General Committee shall hold a meeting bimonthly and oftener whenever necessary at the discretion of the President.\n\nThat at every meeting all matters shall be decided by the majority of votes of the members present, and that five members shall form a quorum.\n\n8.\n\nThat the General Committee shall have power to fill all vacancies caused by death or resignation and shall have further power to add to their number by inviting other members of the Society to join their body.\n\n9.\n\nAll persons taking an interest in the objects of the Society are invited to become members, but no one shall be deemed to be a member of the Society unless he has paid his subscription fee of $5.00.\n\n10.\n\nThe General Committee shall have power to revoke, amend or add to the above rules and regulations of the Society, provided however that every revocation, amendments, or addition, shall have the confirmation of the members in general meeting assembled.\n\nPage 3",
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        "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 ...",
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        "content_text": "The above instances of seizures have, as already stated, formed the subject of representations from His Majesty's Legation both written and verbal, but further instances of similar illegal action have lately been brought to Mr. Max Müller's notice.\n\nAt Samshui on the 4th day of the 7th moon (August 8), the Pofung and Poyik Hongs were fined $350 each for selling 116 balls of raw Patna opium bearing the Customs Transit certificate without reporting the sale to the Keong Jung General Office and collecting the tax from the buyers.\n\nThey were also made to sign a bond on August 14th undertaking to pay the tax within three days. It is asserted by the above two Hongs that the sales of these 116 balls were effected before the 11th day of the 5th moon, June 18th, the date of the enforcement of the new regulations at Samshui.\n\nAgain at Shiu Hing on the West River the Choku Hong has been threatened by the Kwong Jung General Office with the withdrawal of their license and the closure of their Hong, and also the imprisonment of the Manager, unless they pay the new tax on eight chests of Patna opium sold by them prior to the enforcement of the new regulations, this too in spite of the fact that duty and likin on these 8 chests were paid at Samshui.\n\nThere have been four separate cases in which opium under transit-pass has been illegally seized, and in one case at Samshui the opium has been confiscated; moreover in the last two cases the opium had been sold prior to the enforcement of the new regulations.\n\nThe attitude of the Kuangtung Authorities was therefore brought to the notice of His Majesty's Government and Mr. Max Müller has received telegraphic instructions from Sir Edward Grey to state that His Majesty's Government strongly deprecate the action of the Chinese officials while the general question is still under discussion.\n\nMr. Max Müller is also instructed to press for...",
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        "content_text": "2\n\nin his memorandum of the 9th August) after payment in full of duty and li-kin. One of the chests was destined for Tsang Sheng and the other for Longmoon, so it cannot be claimed that Suntong was the place of consumption. The owner was arrested and fined 1,850 taels, whilst the opium was retained by the Kuang Jung office at Suntong. Towards the end of July there was a similar seizure at Chin Isan, near Macao, but the opium was released on the intervention of the Commissioner of Customs at Lappa.\n\nThe above instances of seizure have, as already stated, formed the subject of representations from His Majesty's legation, both written and verbal, but further instances of similar illegal action have lately been brought to Mr. Max Müller’s notice.\n\nAt Sanshui, on the 4th day of the 7th moon (8th August), the Pofung and Poyik hongs were fined 350 dollars each for selling 116 balls of raw Patna opium, bearing the Customs transit certificate, without reporting the sale to the Kwong Jung general office and collecting the tax from the buyers. They were also made to sign a bond on the 14th August undertaking to pay the tax within three days. It is asserted by the above two hongs that the sales of these 116 balls were effected before the 11th day of the 5th moon (18th June) the date of the enforcement of the new regulations at Samshui. Again, at Shin Hing, on the West River, the Choku hong has been threatened by the Kwong Jung general office with the withdrawal of their licence and the closure of their hong, and also with imprisonment of the manager, unless they pay the new tax on eight chests of Patna opium sold by them prior to the enforcement of the new regulations, this too in spite of the fact that duty and li-kin on these eight chests were paid at Samshui.\n\nThere have now been four separate cases in which opium under transit pass has been illegally seized, and in one case, at Samshui, the opium has been confiscated; moreover, in the last two cases the opium has been sold prior to the enforcement of the new regulations.\n\nThe attitude of the Kwangtung authorities was therefore brought to the notice of His Majesty’s Government, and Mr. Max Müller has received telegraphic instructions from Sir Edward Grey to state that His Majesty’s Government strongly deprecate the action of the Chinese officials while the general question is still under discussion. Mr. Max Müller is also instructed to press for the release of the opium that has been seized and the remission of the fines inflicted.\n\nW. G. MAX MÜLLER.\n\nThe favour of an early reply to this memorandum is requested.\n\nPeking, September 6, 1910.\n\nC\n\n3\n\ninstructed by Imperial decree to suppress opium, suppress it he will. Prepared opium in Chinese hands is an article which he has a right to tax, and indirect treaty obligations do not concern him. In the face of this attitude it was in vain that I cited arguments previously brought forward here and in Peking, or pointed out that this was a question for the two Governments concerned, and that we could only treat it in our capacity of subordinates. Eventually one of the foreign secretaries, seeing the futility of further discussion, asked if some modus vivendi could not be suggested, so, without committing myself officially, I said that an extension of the time limit would to some extent remove from the levy the stigma of being, in effect, nothing but a direct impost on foreign raw opium. They then went away prepared to consider an extension of the boiling-down time to six months.\n\nArgue as one may, nothing will make the local authorities recede from the position that they have an inherent right to tax prepared opium, and to take any steps they please to suppress smoking, so long as their reading of the additional article to the Chefoo Convention is not technically infringed.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nJ. W. JAMIESON.\n\nEnclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\nConsul-General Jamieson to Mr. Max Müller.\n\n(No. 29.) Sir,\n\nCanton, August 18, 1910. AS I had the honour to report to you by telegraph this morning, have had a long talk with the head of the Opium Prohibition Bureau, Hsü Taotai, who came in company with two of the Acting Governor-General’s foreign secretaries to clear up what were termed misunderstandings.\n\nAccording to them, the various cases of seizure and interference with transit pass opium which I have had occasion to bring to his Excellency Yüan’s notice have arisen out of the fact that those in whose charge it was were not holders of the requisite permits authorising them to handle opium, and proceedings were taken against them on that ground. Against this principle, that the officials can say who shall and who shall not handle opium, and under what conditions, I could not see my way to raise objection. It was once more reiterated that raw opium was exempt from the levy, and that the time limit of ten days within which to boil down was only to commence on arrival at destination, which might conceivably mean thirty days after leaving treaty port of entry, Stress was laid on the necessity of keeping a careful check on all imports, as in the matter of opium the Cantonese standard of fair dealing is apparently very low, and efforts have to be made to guard against the import of Turkish and Persian opium. Hsü Ta-jên, who is an irascible old gentleman, with a certain amount of European experience, is thoroughly in earnest in his anti-opium campaign, and stoutly maintains that, having been\n\n207",
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        "content_text": "# Statement of Crown Leases granted for a term of 75 years prior to 3rd. March, 1849, which have not been extended for a further period of 924 years (Government Notification of 3rd. March, 1849).\n\n| No. of Lot | Commencement Date of Lease | Name of Present Owner | Situation | Area in Sq.Ft. | Term |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| I.L. 1660 | 31. 8. 44 | Au Shing | Lascar Row, Lower | 800 |  |\n| 176 | 11. 10. 44 | Pang Lin | Graham Street | 228 |  |\n|  | 10. 9. 45 |  |  | 2,990 |  |\n| 180A | 26. 6. 43 | Tam Tik and Tam Cheuk | Queen's Road Central | 750 |  |\n| 180B | 10. 9. 45 | Leung Hiu Cho | do. | 700 |  |\n| 180C | do. | Chan Pat | do. | 700 |  |\n| 191 | do. | Liu Fuk Luk and another | Queen's Road and Jervois Street | 1,600 |  |\n| 191A | 20. 8. 45 | Wong Hing and another | Queen's Road C. and Jervois Street | 1,350 |  |\n| 191B | 10.9. 45 | Wong Hon Chiu | Queen's Road and Jervois Street | 1,275 |  |\n| 197 | 31. 8. 44 | Lam Tai Hi | Graham Street and Lyndhurst Terrace | 2,267 |  |\n|  | 20.12. 44 |  |  |  |  |\n| 220 | 24.12. 44 | Yik Kwong Shek | Queen's Road West | 6,810 |  |\n|  | 8.6. 46 |  |  |  |  |\n| 223D | 31. 8. 44 | Ip Chau Shi | Sai Street | 720 |  |\n| 223E | 10. 9. 45 | Lo Shi | do. | 780 |  |\n| 224 | 3. 5. 62 | Wong Wing Fat | do. |  |  |",
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        "content_text": "# Statement of Crown Leases granted for a term of 75 years prior to 3rd March, 1849, which have not been extended for a further period of 924 years (Government Notification of 3rd March, 1849).\n\n| No. of Lot. | Commencement Date of Lease. | Name of Present Owner. | Situation. | Area in Sq. Ft. | \n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | \n| I.L. 256B | 24.12.1844 | 7.7.46 Lau Wai Chiu | Hollywood Road and Square Street. | 1,980 | \n| 231 | 7.6.47 | 8.9.47 | do. | do. | 298 | \n| 257 | 8.9.47 | Tam Kwan Shi and others | Queen's Road East. | 1,000 | \n| 306 | 5.5.47 | U Lai Un | Ship Street | 600 | \n| 309 | 22.5.47 | 10.5.47 Fok Tsau | Jardine's Bazaar | 1,600 | \n| 312 | 7.6.47 | 8.9.47 Ng A Mow | Fuk Hing Lane, Ta Tit Lane and Jardine's Bazaar. | 6,400 | \n| 322 | do. | do. | Young Fat | Wan Chai Road | 1,000 | \n| 328 | do. | do. | Lam Cheuk | do. | 800 | \n|  |  | Chum Yip and others | Jardine's Bazaar. | 800 | \n\n1. (Sd.) G. H. Wakeman, Land Officer. 21.8.11.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-426 - Public Offices - 1915",
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        "title": "CO129-426 - Public Offices - 1915",
        "content_text": "Page 230\n\nAt His Britannic Majesty's Consulate-General, Canton, 1914.\n\nList of British subjects of Chinese descent registered\n\nS.C. Liang (Leang Shiu Chiu)\n\nHarry Sik Wah.\n\nYu Fo Sang\n\nLeung Ngan Pan alias Leung Wai Ching. Wong Yiu Cha.\n\nPeter Chanatong, alias Chan Wing Ki.\n\nKwan Yik Cheung alias Kwan Lee Sheung.\n\nHubert Kwan\n\nKwan Hui Po.\n\nKwok Yin Chong.\n\nT.A. Cheong.\n\nFung Yuk Lin\n\nCheng Han Khoi.\n\nKyee Lau\n\nWu Yue\n\nLeung Tsung.\n\nSee Yat Cheong\n\nTam Li Ting.\n\nChun W. Bismark\n\nYau Siu Chi.\n\nTo Chin\n\nLee Shiu or Shew\n\nPok Vai Hing.\n\nChan Shi\n\nLi Shing Chung.\n\nLi Kam Cheung.\n\nChan Yam Kiu.\n\nKwan Cheuk Po.\n\nLeung Fee Cooke\n\nNg Hon Tez\n\nFung Sam Chun.\n\nChu La\n\nWu Chuk Ping\n\nShe Shiu Kan.\n\nTo Kim Fai\n\nChan Tao Hang.\n\nLeung Hoi alias Leung Kai In.\n\nNg Ting Chiu.\n\nPage 231",
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        "document_key": "CO129-435 - Governor Sir May & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1916 [9-11]",
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        "content_text": "# HONGKONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL\n\nA. It was suggested by the Colonial Secretary that a system of Chinese dressers on the lines of a system of native dressers which had worked most satisfactorily in hospitals for Asiatic patients in the Federated Malay States, should be given a trial in the Asiatic wards of the Government Civil Hospital.\n\nQ.--5. Is it not the fact that on the 28th October last, the late Mr. E. A. Hewett, speaking in Council on behalf of the Unofficial Members, expressed their opposition to the substitution of 6 Probationer Dressers for 2 Nurses?\n\nA. 5. This is the case. The late Mr. E. A. Hewett said that probationer dressers, although they are very useful, cannot possibly take the place of Nurses. This Government, on the other hand, is of the opinion that properly trained dressers can and should take over a large part of the duties of European Nurses in wards for Asiatic patients. Arrangements have recently been made for Japanese Staff Nurses and probationer Nurses to take charge of the Asiatic wards in B Block at the Government Civil Hospital.\n\nQ-6. For what period of time are such Probationer Dressers engaged? Are they not constantly changing? Does not the Blue Book for 1915 (at pages J134-6) contain the following Record with regard to Probationer Dressers, at the Government Civil Hospital, who were engaged to take the place of the said 2 Sisters, namely:-\n\n| Probationer Dressers | Appointed | Resigned |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Li King-po | 1st July |  |\n| Chan Wang-shang | 1st July | 31st August |\n| Wong Tak | 1st September | 15th October |\n| Chan Fuk-loi | 16th October |  |\n| Chan Chuen | 1st July | 31st October |\n| Leung Ying | 1st November |  |\n| Chan Hoi-chuen | 1st July | same date |\n| Tsang Put-ting | 6th July | 15th December |\n| Kwok Po-sum | 16th December |  |\n| Li Shu-nam | 1st July | 30th September |\n| Benjamin Young | 1st October |  |\n| Chan Man-chung | 1st July | same date |\n| Cheuk Sui-bun | 9th July |  |\n\nA.-6. Probationer dressers are engaged on a probationary period of six years. They are required to pass an examination at the end of the first, second, third, and sixth years. The Blue Book record of changes in the Staff of dressers is correct. Great difficulty was at first experienced in engaging a suitable class of man, but now that the system is better understood, it is hoped that better material will become available.\n\nQ.-7. With reference to that part of the statement made by the Government, in answer to my question 3 (i) at the last meeting of the Council, which reads as follows:- \"The Staff was increased, and it is considered that the present establishment, when at full strength, is ample for purposes of granting customary leave of absence,\" will the Government state (i) For how many months such increase of Staff was in force, and also (ii) Whether it is not the fact that, on the date of the last meeting of the Council, when the above answer was given, out of the 14 Sisters on the Government Nursing Staff in the Estimates for 1916 (exclusive of the 2 Sisters on the Private Nursing Staff) there were 7 Sisters only in the Colony then available for duty, of whom 3 had then already completed 4 years of Service?\n\nA.-7. (i). The Staff of Nursing Sisters was increased in November, 1914. It was at full strength up to and including May, 1915. (ii). Out of the fourteen Sisters shown in the Estimates for 1916, eight were in the Colony available for duty at the date mentioned. At that date, they had the temporary assistance of four ladies, one fully and three partially trained. Of the eight Sisters referred to, three had completed four years' service. Of these, one has now gone on leave, and the remaining two propose to sail on the 9th and 30th August, respectively.\n\nQ-8. With reference to the following portion of the answer given to my question 2 at the last meeting of Council, namely:- \"During the period January, 1913, to June, 1916, inclusive, the Nursing Staff in the Colony has been below the number borne on the Estimates during 12 months. It has been equal to or in excess of that number during 30 months.\" will the Government state (i) When did the period or periods of time occur, making up the said 12 months during which the Government admits that the Nursing Staff in the Colony has been below the number borne on the Estimates? And will the Government state by how many during each of such periods such Nursing Staff has been (ii) When did the period or periods of time, in the said 30 months, occur during which the Nursing Staff is alleged by the Government to have been in excess of the numbers borne on the Estimates, and by how many Sisters is it alleged that the Nursing Staff was in excess of the numbers on the Estimates during any and what portion of such period or periods? (iii) When did the period or periods of time in the said 30 months occur during which the Government alleges that the Nursing Staff was equal to the numbers borne on the Estimates? (iv) For how many months and during what months of what years, during the said period January, 1913, to June, 1916, was the same Sister attending to maternity cases at the same time as she was attending to other cases in either A or B Block? Is it admitted by the Government that such a course of procedure was undesirable? Was not such a course of procedure owing to a shortage of Sisters available for nursing duty? (v) Is it not the fact that during the said period January, 1913, to June, 1916, the Staff of Sisters available for duty was so short that different Sisters were obliged at different times to go on duty, when they were so seriously indisposed as to be in fact unfit for taking duty by reason of their suffering severely from diphtheria, gallstones, boils, acute sore throat, and dysentery?\n\nA.-8. (i) (ii) (iii). The words \"The Nursing Staff in the Colony\" in the reply to the second question put by the honourable member on the last occasion should have been \"The Nursing Staff employed by the Colony.\" The mistake, which arose through the misreading of a return furnished from the Government Civil Hospital, is regretted. The exact position is as follows:- Throughout 1913 and 1914, provision was made in the Estimates for fifteen Sisters. From January to June, 1913, fifteen Sisters were in the employment of the Government, and two of these were on leave. From July to October, 1913, fifteen Sisters were employed, of whom one was on leave. In November, 1913, sixteen Sisters were employed, of whom one was on leave. From December, 1913, to June, 1914, fifteen Sisters were employed, of whom one was on leave. In July and September, 1914, sixteen Sisters were employed, of whom one was on leave. In August, 1914, fifteen Sisters were employed, of whom one was on leave. In October, 1914, fifteen Sisters were in the Colony. In November and December, 1914, eighteen Sisters were in the Colony. In 1915, provision was made for eighteen Sisters. From January to May, seventeen were employed, and eighteen were in the Colony. In June, fifteen were employed, and fifteen were in the Colony. From July to September, fifteen were employed, one of whom was on leave, from October to December. In 1916, provision was made for sixteen Sisters. In January, sixteen were employed, of whom one was on leave. In February and March, fourteen were employed, of whom one was on leave. In April and May, thirteen were employed, of whom two were on leave. In June, twelve were employed, of whom two were on leave.\n\n(iv). There is no record of the Maternity Hospital being separated from the general hospital until August, 1913, when a Sister was temporarily engaged to take charge of the maternity hospital. She was assisted by a probationer nurse, or by one of the Private Nursing Staff when available. A Sister on duty in the General Hospital continued to take charge of the maternity cases at night. From October, 1914, the Maternity Hospital has been entirely separate from the General Hospital. The Government concurs that the existing system is preferable to the system which previously obtained. The former procedure was not due to any shortage of Sisters.\n\n(v). The Superintendent of the Civil Hospital, the Matron, and the late Acting Matron concur that no Sister has at any time been obliged to go on duty when she was so seriously indisposed as to be unfit for duty.",
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        "content_text": "# RETURN OF EXCHANGES OF LAND IN CONNECTION WITH THE SHAM SHUI PO IMPROVEMENT SCHEME, 1917.\n\n333\n\n| Lot No. | Dimensions | Area in Sq. ft. | Annual Rent | Term of Lease | N.K.I.L. | Exchanged for | C.S.O. No. | Remarks |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| N.K.I.L.155 | 30'x 62' | 1,860 | $8.00 | 75 years from (extension to) 1.7.98 renewable for 24 years less 3 days. | Chan Sin | Lot 2311, S.D. IV and the buildings thereon. | 1929/16 |  |\n| N.K.I.L.157 | 30'x 62' | 1,860 | $8.00 | DO. | Lau Pui | Lot 2498, S.D. IV. |  |  |\n| N.K.I.L.159 | 15'x 62' | 930 | $4.00 | Do. | Chouk Shiu | Lot 2321, S.D. IV. |  |  |\n| N.K.I.L.162 | 62'x 32'4\" | 1,994 | $10.00 | Do. | Chan Kau, Chan Shak Fook & Chan Kam Kwai. | Lot 2298 & 2533, S.D.IV & the buildings thereon. | .03 ac. (house) 1921/17 |  |\n| N.K.I.L.163 | 62'x 60' | 3,720 | $18.00 | Do. | Chan Tin | Lots 1808, 1807 & 2310, S.D.IV & the buildings thereon. | .02 ac. (house) 1923/17 |  |\n| N.K.I.L.164 | 62'x 15' | 930 | $4.00 | DO. | Sing | Lot 2374, S.D. IV & the building thereon. | .02 ac. (house) 1925/17 |  |\n| N.K.I.L.165 | 62'x 16' | 992 | $4.00 | Do. | Chouk Fat | Lots 2297 & 2366, S.D.IV & the buildings thereon. | .03 ac. (waste) 1924/17 .03 ac. (house) .02 ac. (courtyard) |  |\n| N.K.I.L.172 | 59'6\"x 66' | 3,927 | $18.00 | Do. | Lau Pui |  | .02 ac. (house) 1926/17 .06 ac. (house) 1927/17 1928/17 |  |\n\nA sum of $162.75 was paid for excess area over that the lessees were entitled to.",
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        "content_text": "# List of Petitioners\n\n## Section 1\n\n52. Kan Yee firm. Name of Petitioner\n53. See Ki Lau.\n54. Kung Yick firm.\n55. Kon Nam firm.\n56. Yong Kee.\n57. Tsai Kee firm.\n58. Wo On Tong\n59. Moe Chun firm.\n60. Tsun Ying firm,\n61. Tsui Ying Koon.\n62. Sun Sing firm.\n63. Sum Kee firm.\n64. Lee Nam firm.\n65. Tai Loong Kung Kee.\n66. Yick Shau Tong\n67. Tung Wah firm,\n68. Kwong Hang Shun.\n69. Yee Wo firm.\n70. Hip Wo firm.\n71. Man Taun Lau.\n72. Ann Thye & Co.\n73. Wui Lee firm.\n74. Wah Sing.\n75. Kung On firm.\n76. Cheuk Fat Hing.\n77. Kwai Lee firm.\n78. See Hing & Co.\n79. Wen Kee firm.\n80. Man Hing firm.\n81. Yick Cheong firm.\n82. Yee Fung firm.\n83. Kam Hing Loong.\n84. Chan Kan Sing.\n85. Yuen Cheong Loong,\n86. Shing Fat Chan.\n87. Sung Mow Yuen.\n88. Fock Fook Kee.\n89. Shui Hing Loong.\n90. Choy Kee firm.\n91. Ban Cheong Shin.\n92. Kai Cheong firm.\n93. Tung Fook & Co.\n94. (Missing)\n95. Wong Hing Pong.\n96. Hock Kian Soon.\n97. Liu Kam Kee.\n98. Wing Hop Yee (Moy Kee).\n99. Ling Kee firm.\n100. Fook Kee firm.\n101. Lee Yin Kee.\n102. Lee Lane.\n103. Kwong Shui Wing.\n\n## Section 2\n\n104. Kwong Yee Wo. \n105. Koon Cheong firm.\n106. Kwong Luen Shing.\n107. Yuen Wo Loong.\n108. Wo Chan firm.\n109. Luen Hup Lee.\n110. So Fat Kee.\n111. Kwong Fat Cheong.\n112. Kwong Wo Cheong.\n113. Kwong Tang Lee,\n114. Kam Yuen Mee.\n115. Sam Yuen firm.\n116. Sun Tak Shing.\n117. Wan Sau Kee.\n118. Sun Hop Shing.\n119. Fook Chuen Shing.\n120. Wong Man Sang.\n121. Kam Yuen firm.\n122. (Missing)\n123. Teck Lee.\n124. (Missing)\n125. Man Sing firm.\n126. Sun Loong Shing.\n127. Sun Shui Loong.\n128. Sun Hop Sing.\n129. Kwong Sam Kee.\n130. Lam Kee firm.\n131. Man On Chan.\n132. Fat Kee firm.\n133. (Missing)\n134. Woon Kee firm.\n135. Wo Hing firm,\n136. Yau Kee firm.\n137. Quan On.\n138. Yee Kee firm.\n139. Mee Wo firm.\n140. Ten Tai Hing.\n141. Mee Kee firm.\n142. Wing Hop firm.\n143. Wai Yuen firm.\n145. Tsan Loong firm.\n146. Won Can Sau Sik (Woo Chun)\n\n## Other Entries\n\n1. Wing Wo Chong.\n2. Kwong Lee Hing.\n3. Yee Wo firm.\n4. Kwong Han Cheong.\n5. Shun Wo firm.\n6. Kwong Hop Yuen.\n7. Ping Lee Hing.\n8. Ma Tsun Fun.\n\n## Page Number\n369",
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        "content_text": "## Name of Petitioner\n386 \n\n52. Kan Yee firm. \n53. Sue Ki Lau. \n78. See Hing & Co. \n104. Kwong Yee Wo. \n130. Jam Kee firm. \n\n79. Wen Kee firm. \n105. Koon Cheong firm. \n131. Man On Chan, \n\n54. Kung Yick firm. \n80. Man Hing firm. \n106. Kwong Luen Shing. \n132. Fat Kee firm. \n\n55. Kou Nam firm. \n81. Yick Cheong firm. \n107. Yuen Wo Loong. \n133. Wo Cheong firm. \n\n56. Yong Kee. \n82. Yee Fung firm. \n108. Wo Chan firm, \n134. Woon Kee firm. \n\n57. Tsai Kee firm. \n83. Kam Hing Loong, \n109. Lue Hop Lee. \n\n58. Wo On Tong. \n84. Chan Kan Sing. \n110. So Fat Kee. \n135. \n\n59. Mee Chun firm. \n85. Yuen Cheong Loong. \n111. Kwong Fat Cheong. \n\n60. Tsun Ying firm. \n86. Shing Fat Chan. \n112. Kwong Wo Cheong. \n\n61. Tsui Ying Koon. \n87. Sung Mow Yuen. \n113. Kwong Tung Lee. \n\n62. Sun Sing firm. \n88. Fock Fook Kee. \n114. Kam Yuen Mee. \n136. Yau Kee firm. \n\n63. Sum Kee firm. \n89. Shui Hing Loong. \n115. Sam Yuen firm. \n141. Mee Kee firm. \n\n64. Lee Nam firm. \n90. Choy Kee firm. \n116. Sun Tak Shing. \n142. Wing Hop firm. \n\n65. Tai Loong Kung Kee. \n91. Ban Cheong Shin. \n117. Wan Sau Kee. \n143. Wai Yuen firm, \n\n66. Yick Shau Tong \n92. Kai Cheong firm. \n118. Sun Hop Shing. \n144. Won Can Sau Sik (Woo Chun) \n145. Tsun Loong firm. \n\n67. Tung Wah firm, \n93. Tung Fook & Co. \n119. Fook Chuen Shing. \n\n68. Kwong Hang Shun. \n94. Ng Wan Sung. \n120. Wong Mau Sang. \n\n69. Yee Wo firm. \n95. Wong Hing Pong. \n121. Kam Yuen firm. \n\n70. Hip Wo firm. \n96. Hock Kian Soon. \n122. Lan Tak Mau. \n\n71. Man Tsun Lau. \n97. Liu Kam Kee. \n123. Teck Lee. \n\n72. Ann Thye & Co. \n98. Wing Hop Yee (Moy Kee). \n124. Fook Ou Hing. \n\n73. Wui Lee firm. \n99. Ling Kee firm. \n125. Man Sing firm. \n\n74. Wah Sing. \n100. Fung Kee firm. \n126. Sun Loong Shing. \n\n75. Kung On firm. \n101. Lee Yin Kee. \n127. Sun Shui Loong. \n\n76. Cheuk Fat Hing. \n102. Lee Lane. \n128. Sun Hop Sing, \n129. Kwong Sam Kee. \n\n77. Kwai Lee firm. \n103. Kwong Shui Wing. \n\n## LAHOD WATU\n1. Wing Wo Chung. \n2. Kwong Lee Hing. \n3. Yee Wo firm. \n4. Kwong Han Cheong. \n5. Shun Wo Firm. \n6. Kwong Hop Yuen. \n7. Ping Lee Hing. \n8. Ma Tsun Fan.",
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        "content_text": "# HONGKONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL\n\nof money whatsoever in addition to the rent. Anyone who does so is liable to a fine of $1,000.\n\nClause 17 provides that any rent not payable under the Ordinance which has been paid by mistake can be recovered from the landlord and stopped out of the next rent payable.\n\nI beg, Sir, to move the second reading. **THE COLONIAL SECRETARY** seconded.\n\n**THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL** formally moved, and **THE COLONIAL SECRETARY** seconded, that certain interested persons who desired to be heard by Counsel should be so heard.\n\nThe motion was agreed to.\n\nThe possible into the market and buy private land in preference to Government land. They will rather pay more and be sure they get the land they ask for than take months and months of trouble, resulting in the land being purchased by someone else. This is one of the causes, and perhaps the main cause, of the situation which has brought this Bill about. The second cause is the fact that the military authorities own large sections of land in the centre of the town which they do not require and which they do not put to use. That has caused a congestion which is inevitable and led to the law of supply and demand of private property soaring to great heights. And the third and more temporary cause is the general trade slump which started about a year ago. After the war, there was a trade boom and money was locked up in trade, but the trade slump has caused money which would otherwise be invested in commercial enterprises being devoted to the purchase of shares, or the acquisition of landed property, with the result that both shares and land in this Colony have recently boomed. The money was legitimately invested and invested on the faith that the investors would get an adequate return for the money invested. Properties have changed hands in the last few months, not only on the basis of the rents then paid but on the basis of the return the landlord expected to get for his money, the law allowing him to increase his rents, and that is why a Bill such as this, which destroys the sanctity of contract, and which is retrospective, will destroy that very confidence on which all trade and all investment is based. So far from leading to further building, it will make further building in this Colony almost impossible, for once the Government sanctions the principle of retrospective legislation, there is no limit to the amount of retrospective legislation which may be subsequently introduced, and one will not know what return he may get upon his money.\n\nClause 3 of the Bill states that \"notwithstanding any agreement to the contrary, whether made before or after the commencement of this Ordinance, and whether oral or in writing, no rent shall be recoverable\" except the standard rent and that rent was fixed as the rent of last December. One of the results of this will be that persons who have, with the assistance of the law, evicted the tenants of last year by offering to pay a higher rent to take their place will now be protected and permitted to pay only the rent that was paid by the people that they themselves dispossessed.\n\n**MR. C. G. ALABASTER** said—May it please your Excellency and members of the Council, I am instructed by 31 proprietors of domestic tenements in Hong Kong, who represent between them many millions of dollars of invested money, to present their petition, copies of which are, I think, in the hands of all the members of this honourable Council, and to represent their views on this matter. I do so at the risk of being described, as I have already been described in a petition in anticipation, as a \"counsellor of evil\"; for it is a principle of that British justice, which is represented by the law and is to be found in those institutions, such as this, where the law is made, that all sides are entitled to a hearing and all sides are entitled to be represented by spokesmen.\n\nNow this Bill is opposed by those I represent, and many more who have not had time to prepare or sign petitions, because it is a bad Bill. It is a Bill which, as is confessed in the memorandum of Objects and Reasons, was prepared in a hurry, which does not carry out the suggestions on which the Committee appointed was instructed to act, and which attempts to meet a situation which is not a sudden emergency but which is the result of a number of contributing causes which have operated during the last 10 or 15 years and which this Bill does nothing to remove—in fact, which this Bill does much to accentuate.\n\nThe chief of these causes has been the policy of the Land Sales Department of this Colony. The harassing restrictions which are placed in the way of every applicant for land, in whatever part of the Colony he may be, has forced people who are desirous to build to go as far as possible into the market and buy private land in preference to Government land.\n\n|          | \n|----------| \n| 10       | \n\nI think the greatest possible objection to this Bill is the clause which fixes the 31st December last year as the date at which the standard rent should be fixed. If it is necessary to fix a standard rent, surely the rent of the 30th June would be a better one, for at that date it was known that the Government contemplated such a Bill and subsequent purchases of property, if any, have been made on that understanding.\n\nWith your Excellency's permission, I will read the petition and make comments as I go.\n\n## TO HIS EXCELLENCY SIR REGINALD EDWARD STUBBS, K.C.M.G.,\n\nGovernor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies and Vice-Admiral of the same and to the Several Honourable Members of the Legislative Council of Hongkong,\n\nThe Humble Petition of Li Wai Po, Chung Ting Chiu, Wong Sing Fai, Tang Hung, Tsui Kin Kwok, Tung Wai, Leung Hing Ip, Chiu Wai, Leung Wai Nam, Leung Shiu Kap, Fung Im, Chin Wong Shi, Sz To Shun Cho, Cheng Yuen, Leung Ying Chi, Pan Cheong Lam, Chan Hoi Lam, Ho Cheuk Ting, Leung Sai Chun, Yu Wai, Chan Wing Sing, Yuen Sam, Lau Kut Choi, Luk Choi Ting, Tam Chai Yat, Pun Cheung Shi, Young Ho, Wong Ping Ting, Chan Ka Ming, Chan Ka On, and Chau Shing Lee, all of Victoria in the Colony of Hongkong, Property Owners.\n\nSheweth :-\n\n1. That your petitioners are proprietors of domestic tenements in Hongkong and desire to point out to Your Excellency and Honourable Members of the Legislative Council certain objections to the proposed Ordinance to amend the law relating to the recovery of possession in certain cases and to restrict the rents of certain domestic tenements and to amend the Rating Ordinance, (hereinafter called \"the Bill\").\n\n2. Your petitioners verily believe that their views as expressed in this petition are shared by a large majority of the owners of domestic tenements in Hong Kong.\n\n3. That your petitioners view with alarm the principle of the whole Bill as unduly interfering with the law of supply and demand and as tending to prevent the free development of the Colony. That notwithstanding the exceptions contained in the Bill newly erected property your petitioners do not believe this will lead to the erection of any considerable number of domestic tenements seeing that there is no guarantee contained in the Bill that a similar Bill will not be passed in the near future bringing such newly erected property within its provisions. Your petitioners, therefore, humbly beg to submit that a provision be added to the Bill providing that all buildings now in course of erection or hereafter to be erected shall be excluded from the provisions of this or any Bill to the like effect for a period of at least 15 years.\n\n4. Your petitioners also humbly beg to submit that this Bill if passed will cause a serious fall in the value of domestic tenements and that a considerable loss will fall on those persons who have recently purchased property on the basis of the rentals now prevailing in the Colony.\n\n5. Your petitioners further humbly submit that the Ordinance should not be made retrospective but that the standard rent should be the rent payable on the coming into force of the Bill which should not be a date earlier than the date upon which the Ordinance receives the assent of His Excellency the Governor for the following reasons:-\n\n(a) That purchasers of property since the 31st day of December, 1920, have purchased the same on the basis of the rentals payable at the time of purchase and on the basis of the rents which your petitioners knew the tenants were willing to pay in respect of the properties occupied by them.\n\n(b) That mortgagees have lent money on such properties the amount of loan being based upon the value of the property calculated on the rents receivable at the time of the mortgage and on the saleable value of similar property in the open market which value was based not only upon the rentals then paid but on the demand for domestic tenements in Hongkong.",
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        "content_text": "Part 442: ITI: THE \n\n* Mozambi 7 dini er nje kłos13: gi Arena amedi do gatc Γ cr: Ta đi CHƠI THE 201 مانی Ikea WC) esedë dëbw [[35 ado qi them, until he met ne oming back with the whole body. This was in accordance with my original plan. He told me he had not a revolver as he had come out in a hurry, and I gave him Sergeant Derling's revolver. I then sent on all the rest of the troops to proceed as fast as they could, and I jumped into the side-car with Sergeant Derling to overtake Captain Bloxom. He passed groups of strikers all the way up the road. I called to them, in Chinese, as I passed to go back as they had not a permit and the Government would not allow them to go. That went on until just before the 5th mile stone, before we rushed the Water-works. The strikers were a fringe all along the road. There is a level road all along at the water works and that stretch was empty. It was then about 8:15. We overtook Sub-Inspector Pitt and Sub-Inspector Field, the Indian Policeman and one Sepoy at a point about 5¼ miles along the road. We had already passed the troops that had been sent on on foot. I stopped the side-car and Sub-Inspector Pitt reported that there was a mob of some two to three thousand which had broken through his police post: that some shots had been fired into the air to deter them: that the police had endeavoured to hold them back by placing their rifles horizontally across in front of them, but the mob had passed through and had gone on. Sub-Inspector Pitt got on to the carrier of the motor cycle and we three proceeded - Derling, Pitt, and myself. Very soon we began to pass considerable numbers of strikers. I called to them to go back: that they could not proceed without a permit from the Government. They began to shout in reply \"We won't go back: we are going to Canton\". The parties of strikers grew thicker and thicker as we went along. I still continued to shout at the top of my voice the cautions I have already given. Some distance on, while still calling out, I passed my own cook, walking at the right-hand side of the road with a big group - or rather it was not a group, we were going through a continuous mass of men. I shouted to him in English \"Cook, go back\" and I shouted the same in Chinese. My recollection is that he shouted \"I am not going back: I am going to Canton.\" I also saw a man who was later identified to me as Tong Cheuk, house boy to Mr. S.B.C. Ross. That man",
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        "content_text": "12\n\n£\n\nstopping a threatened strike among some men supplied by him to the Taikoo Sugar Refinery, and he had made the arrangements for feeding certain casual labour supplied to the Refinery by the Government. It was probably for these reasons that he was selected as an example by the leaders of the strike.\n\n7.\n\nIntimidation and fear seem to have been active also in connection with the trial of the case. A common jury panel was drawn for the March Sessions generally. One of the two Chinese jurors on that panel at once received a threatening letter. A special jury panel was drawn for the murder case. It may have been a coincidence, but one of the two Chinese jurors on that panel thereupon applied for exemption. The other Chinese juror was also excused, on the ground that he had taken some part in the strike negotiations. Mr. Ho Cheuk, a witness who was instrumental in the recovery of the revolver, received immediately after the murder an anonymous letter which was obviously intended as a threat. The ricksha coolie who told Mr. Ho Cheuk about the revolver denied all knowledge of the incident next day. The witness Fung Chi altered his story between the 24th February and the date of the hearing at the Police Court. The Police could find no witness from the Prince of Wales Pavilion who was willing to give evidence: the defence were more fortunate. A joint manager of the deceased's firm refused to go into the box to prove the notorious fact that the firm had acted as stevedores for certain ships which sailed during the strike.\n\nThe special jurors who tried the case were the following:-\n\n  \n    H. W. Bird\n    A leading local architect, and recently a member of the Legislative Council.\n  \n  \n    A. S. Gubbay\n    Manager in Hongkong of E. D. Sassoon & Co. Ltd.: has been a member of the Court of the Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation.\n  \n  \n    W. B. Walker",
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        "content_text": "320\n\nPRAYA MURDER TRIAL.\n\nJURY FIND THE PRISONER \"GUILTY.\"\n\nMIS-DIRECTION ALLEGED BY COUNSEL FOR THE DEFENCE.\n\nConsiderable interest was shown by the Chinese public in the trial, which opened on March 20th, at the Supreme Court, of Leung Wo, ship's cook, indicted for the murder of Leung Yuk Tong, a member of the firm of Jack A. Tai, stevedores, who was shot at mid-day on the Praya on February 24th, and is generally supposed to be a victim of revenge for actions connected with the Seamen's Strike.\n\nThe presiding Judge was the Chief Justice (Sir Wm. Rees Davies). The Attorney-General (the Hon. Mr. J. H. Kemp, K.C.) conducted the case for the Crown and Mr. F. C. Jenkin (instructed by Mr. G. K. Hall Brutton) defended.\n\nThe prisoner entered a plea of 'not guilty,' and a special jury \"to ascertain whether he be guilty or not guilty\" was empanelled forthwith. This consisted of Mr. H. W. Bird (who was chosen to act as foreman), Mr. A. S. Gubbay, Mr. W. B. Walker, Mr. W. Sinclair, Mr. H. S. Bennett, Mr. John Arnold and Mr. A. E. Crapnell.\n\nOn March 21st, the case for the Crown was concluded in the trial of Leung Wo who is indicted for the murder of Leung Yuk Tong, on the Praya, on February 24th.\n\nThe Attorney-General prefaced his account of the shooting incident on the Praya and the chase through Statue Square, with the arrest, finally, of the prisoner, by mentioning that the deceased was connected with Messrs. Jack A Tai, who were concerned, during the strike, in getting away three steamers belonging to the Ocean Steamship Co. The Attorney-General understood that the defence was that a mistake had been made in identity.\n\nThe whole day was occupied in calling the witnesses whose evidence, given in the Police Court, has been so recently reported, very fully. It was noticed, by the way, that learned counsel were making great use of the Daily Press report to supplement the Police Court depositions.\n\nThe principal witness, of course, was Capt. David Morgan, master of the s.s. Kwongsing, who said that, walking along the Praya \"in a brown study,\" he heard the crack of a shot and then saw a ricksha drop and its occupant fall out. A man who was within a few feet of the ricksha, and who had a wisp of smoke in front of him, ran away through Statue Square and up Wardley Street. Witness chased him and later saw him on the ground with a man standing over him.\n\nIn cross-examination, Mr. Jenkin elicited that, on the Praya, Capt. Morgan did not see the face of the man he chased. If this man had not run at once he would not have suspected him of firing the revolver.\n\nMr. Jenkin: I am going to establish out of the mouths of a number of Crown witnesses that there were a number of other Chinese running.\n\nMr. Jenkin asked Capt. Morgan what his brown study was about. Was he, like the rest of us, wrapped in contemplation of the temporary beauties which now adorned Statue Square?\n\nCapt. Morgan: No, I believe I was wondering whether I had won any money in the sweeps.—(Laughter.)\n\nMr. Jenkin: Are you prepared to swear that you did not lose sight of this man on more than one occasion before he turned into Wardley Street?\n\nWitness: You are cutting it too fine, Mr. Jenkin.\n\nIn the morning, before the hearing was resumed, Judge, jury and counsel visited the scene of the shooting and of the chase. The Court was again largely attended by Chinese, who were searched by the police before admission.\n\nA number of witnesses were called to complete the Crown's case; to trace the finding of the revolver, for instance, and to record its passage from hand to hand until it became an \"exhibit\" in the trial.\n\nMr. H. C. Resker, assistant manager of Taikoo Sugar Refinery, said Jack A Tai's were their coolie contractors. About February 1st some of the men supplied by the deceased, Leung Yuk Tong, threatened to strike. Deceased undertook to stop the strike and it was averted.\n\nMr. A. B. H. Phillips, chemist at Taikoo Sugar Refinery, spoke to being in telephonic communication with deceased in connection with the food supply to temporary labourers.\n\nHaving made these preliminary observations, Mr. Jenkin said the case for the Crown would stand or fall by Capt. Morgan's evidence.\n\nThe defence was that a mistake in identity had been made. Capt. Morgan—a man of 63 years of age—had shown great pluck in taking up the chase in the way he did but Mr. Jenkin said he intended to show that Capt. Morgan had mistaken his man.\n\nThe crucial test of the Captain's evidence, Mr. Jenkin suggested, was his recollections about Mr. Green. When first called he said Mr. Green was at the railings near the City Hall but now he said Mr. Green was not standing there. If Mr. Green were on a charge for an assault committed at the top of Wardley Street, how could he possibly be convicted on Capt. Morgan's evidence? Capt. Morgan said he identified Mr. Green by his face and his clothes, yet he put him in the wrong place. It was, therefore, quite possible that he put the prisoner—whom he could not recognise, either by his face or his clothes—in the wrong place, also.\n\nMr. Jenkin also suggested that if Capt. Morgan once lost sight of his man during the chase his identification was of little value. He went on to say that Captain Morgan lost sight of the running man on three occasions—when he ran behind the pillars near the Praya, into Wardley Street; secondly, when Capt. Morgan was jumping over the obstacle of which he spoke, near the Statue; thirdly, when the man entered the part of Wardley Street between the Bank and the City Hall.\n\nMr. Jenkin reminded the jury that when they visited the locus in quo, that morning, he drew their attention to the fact that the temporary pillars blotted out Wardley Street from the spot where he and the jury were then standing, which was on alongside the Bank pavement Garden. Capt. Morgan must have lost sight of the man he was chasing since the big pillars in the Square had not been erected on February 24th. Mr. Jenkin then put in photographs showing that the pillars were there on that date.\n\nCapt. Morgan was then recalled and further cross-examined by Mr. Jenkin.\n\nCapt. Morgan: I did not see anybody throwing a revolver over the railing—No; I did not.\n\nFung Chi, the fireman, in examination, said four men running up the street, were Chinese; three were running on the left side and one on the right. He lost sight of the three men and the man who was running alone was caught.\n\nCapt. Morgan said that when the shot was fired he was in a brown study, thinking about race results and counsel hoped to show that the witness's powers of observation were such as not to justify any certainty as to what he said.\n\nThe evidence for the defence would be this: As the ricksha came along the Praya, three men came out from amongst the pillars in Wardley Street. A big...\n\n[March 25th, 1922]\n\nThe Judge asked, was the man running alone the prisoner? The witness could not say.\n\nAfter Mr. A. H. Barlow and Mr. Ho Cheuk had repeated the evidence they had given in the Police Court as to the finding of the revolver in the Bank Garden, the case for the Crown was closed.\n\nADDRESS FOR THE DEFENCE.\n\nIn opening his address for the defence, Mr. Jenkin remarked that the case had excited a good deal of feeling, owing to the labour troubles at the time. There were people who said that the man ought to have been executed on the spot. The jury, however, must not allow themselves to be swayed by passion but must decide according to the evidence.\n\nMr. Jenkin also said that he had been criticised, openly and covertly, for taking part in the case, but it was the duty of counsel, if he were retained, to do all he could for his client, within the ordinary rules governing the members of the Bar. If he had been assigned by the Crown, instead of being retained, he would have fought the case just as strenuously.\n\nDuring the examination of Mr. Pereira, who knocked down the running man, the Chief Justice told the witness: \"I think your action does you credit, whether you struck the right man or not. You were right in assisting in the administration of order.\"\n\nMr. Jenkin questioned the witness as to what he would do if someone knocked him down without apparent excuse.\n\nThe witness replied that he would demand satisfaction from his assailant.\n\nThe Chief Justice elicited that the witness understood Chinese perfectly well and he was sure that the man he knocked down said nothing at all.\n\nCapt. Morgan admitted that it was possible he might have lost sight of the man when a pillar intervened, but, later, he said he did not believe he lost sight of him at all. It would have been possible for two men to have run ahead of him and the man he was chasing and for one of them to throw a revolver into the garden.\n\nMr. Jenkin suggested to witness that three or four Chinese were in the vicinity of the ricksha and rushed across into Wardley Street.\n\nCapt. Morgan: I did not see anybody.\n\nWitness was certain that there was nobody running on the pavement, unless they were behind him, but there might have been people running on the road.\n\nMr. S. D. Begg, of Messrs. Butterfield & Swire, said Jack A. Tai's were their stevedores.\n\nMr. Jenkin: Did you not see the man throwing a revolver over the railing—No; I did not.",
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        "content_text": "March 25th, 1922.]\n\nThe witness said later that, as the prisoner was waiting about, he looked at him. The Judge: Were you afraid he was going to shoot you? (Laughter.)\n\nWitness: No. I was wondering why he was looking at the pillars. I thought he was a man who had never seen such things before. (Laughter.)\n\nMr. Jenkin: Probably right, too—(more laughter).\n\nIn re-examination, the witness said he went off to tiffin promptly at 12 o'clock because, in a coolie house, if one was not prompt to time, one would get nothing to eat.\n\nFROM THE BANK ANNEXE.\n\nA foreman, employed on the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank annexe, said he saw 10 or 20 people running through Wardley Street, from Queen's Statue. He saw a European at the back of the crowd, on the pavement. The two leading men turned into Des Voeux Road, to the right. As they turned the corner, one had a slight lad. This man was in dark-coloured clothing and was a smaller and thinner man than the other, who was in a grey suit. The man in the grey suit threw something over the railing into the garden; the witness could not tell what it was. It was slowly dropped over.\n\nThe Judge: Give him the revolver but don't let him throw it at Mr. Jenkin.\n\nThe witness then showed how the revolver was dropped over the railing. He added that after that the man in grey clothing put his hat on his head. The third man, the little man, being followed by the European, crossed the tram lines and witness then lost sight of him. The main crowd of pursuers separated and went left, right, and forward at Des Voeux Road.\n\nPrisoner was made to stand outside the dock and the witness said that the man who dropped the revolver was a taller and stouter man.\n\nA man working on the ground floor of the Bank Annexe said he saw three men running in Wardley Street. A tall man—the second one—threw something over the railing as he turned the corner. The third man, pursued by a European, crossed the tram lines.\n\nWhen the hearing was resumed on Mar. 23rd, the Attorney-General announced that he did not propose to cross-examine any further the witnesses for the defence. His position was that there was a direct conflict between them and the Crown witnesses and that the witnesses for the defence must be telling falsehoods.\n\nChief Warder J. C. West gave evidence that so far as he could see nothing was done at an identification parade held by the defence at Victoria Gaol to render the identification valueless. The witnesses for the defence identified the prisoner without hesitation.\n\nMr. G. K. Hall Brutton, solicitor for the defence, was called as to the identification parade at the Gaol. Mr. Jenkin asked him if (in effect) anything was done to fake the identification parade.\n\nMr. Judge: I think that is quite unnecessary. I am quite sure a gentleman of Mr. Brutton's standing would not.\n\nMr. Jenkin then addressed the Jury on behalf of the prisoner. After expressing sympathy with the victims (in which he was, later, joined by the Attorney-General) he said:\n\n\"I beg you most earnestly to steel yourselves to withstand the jocular cynicisms of your fellow clubmen should you find this man not guilty.\" I say that advisedly because I move amongst people with whom we are all in daily communication and I know, as you know, that outside of this Court this man has been condemned, hanged, drawn, and quartered hundreds of times by lay judges who have never been inside this Court. They pick up scraps of the evidence from reading the newspapers and, though knowing absolutely nothing about it, they feel quite fitted to take the place of the Chief Justice and Jury and decide the verdict.\n\n\"You will not be able to go into the Club and about the Colony, without meeting this class of question: 'You found that man not guilty!' You are bound to meet it—you have met it while you have been on the jury. This man has been pre-judged and I beg you to care naught for these people outside who say that this man is guilty. You are strong enough to take the right decision if you think he is not guilty.\"\n\nMr. Jenkin said (later): \"It was obvious that, had the Crown taken the precautions which it might have taken with the material at its hand, it could have got a considerably larger number of witnesses than had been presented to the Jury in support of the Crown case.\"\n\nThe Attorney-General, after some introductory remarks (omitted on considerations of space) said he thought it a little unfair to suggest that the Crown might have met the evidence for the defence by calling other evidence.\n\n\"My friend suggests,\" said Mr. Kemp, \"that the Crown might have gone round Queen's and Prince's Buildings and collected European evidence to show that the evidence for the defence was a fabrication. Well, gentlemen, he has to show a large number of men running at the head of the prisoner and Capt. Morgan; it was equally open to him to go to these offices and call European witnesses to prove that.\"\n\nLater, when the subject was referred to again by the Attorney-General, Chief Justice remarked, \"I take it, Mr. Jenkin thinks you might have called, in the first instance, other Europeans, if you had any, to confirm the evidence of Capt. Morgan.\" The Attorney-General replied that he submitted that the Crown case was perfectly clear and convincing as it stood.\n\nAs to the witnesses for the defence, Mr. Kemp said they each came (with one exception) from a different section of the route of the pursuit. Each told a short, simple story (which was all the more difficult to break down in cross-examination); as two men were not called from one spot, their evidence could not be tested one against the other.\n\nReviewing the evidence, counsel said: \"The crucial point is the place at which the chase started. Capt. Morgan's evidence failed signally there.\" After discussing that evidence in detail, Mr. Jenkin advanced a theory that the revolver must, from its position, have been dropped from Des Voeux Road, as his witnesses said, and not from Wardley Street, as the Crown suggested.\n\nThe Chief Justice: \"I wish we had discussed that when we were at the view. I did not see anything in its position to prevent it from having been thrown from Wardley Street.\"\n\nReplying to the Attorney-General's suggestion that the evidence for the defence had been fabricated, counsel said that it was easy for Mr. Kemp to say so. It was easily said but it was not so easily proved, and the jury would ask for some more proof of it than the mere statement of the Attorney-General.\n\nThe evidence of the witnesses for the defence was stamped with honesty by the identification parade last Saturday.\n\nThe Attorney-General said, \"Why had they not come forward before?\" As to that, Mr. Jenkin remarked, \"Did Europeans come forward? 'In the streets and the Club,' there are lots of Europeans who saw what happened—at least they say they saw what happened. They take your place on the jury and decide the case: Why don't they come forward?\"\n\nThe witness said that when a solicitor's clerk called on him, he \"did not want to tell him, at first, what he had discovered from the coolies.\"\n\n\"Why not?\" asked the Judge. \"Because regarding things in Hong Kong, it is better not to interfere,\" replied the witness.\n\nMr. Ho Cheuk was then re-called at the request of the jury. He said the ricksha coolie who pointed out to him the revolver in the Bank Garden said \"Someone threw it there.\" He saw the coolie again next day but on neither occasion did he take his number.\n\nThe Attorney-General: \"Your evidence is new.\"\n\nDespite the difference of recollection and so on, in the Crown evidence, the witnesses were trustworthy and, if the Jury believed that Capt. Morgan did not lose sight of the prisoner, they must find the prisoner guilty of murder.\n\nSUMMING-UP BY THE CHIEF JUSTICE.\n\nThe Chief Justice joined with learned counsel for the defence in asking the Jury to banish any pre-conceived ideas from their minds.\n\nDealing with the evidence, the Chief Justice said:\n\n\"If you are prepared to accept the evidence for the prisoner, the case for the Crown fails. If you reject that evidence, it will involve finding a conspiracy on the part of a number of Chinese witnesses to defeat the administration of justice in this Colony. Gentlemen, I have had experience, now, for some years of Chinese witnesses and am perfectly justified in saying this to you—that while most Chinamen come into the box to speak the truth and promote the administration of justice, I am bound to tell you that collusion of witnesses to tell a story having no regard to the truth of that story at all is not, I regret to say, uncommon.\n\n\"I have had to find, as a fact, that the most extraordinary details, carefully interwoven; one witness building the foundation, another adding the superstructure, and a third carrying it a little further until the chain of evidence becomes so conclusive that the Court, in ordinary circumstances, would be convinced; I have had to find as a fact that such evidence has been entirely and absolutely unfounded and false.\"",
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        "content_text": "Saturday\n\n25th.\n\nFebruary\n\n.......day of..........\n\nWITNESSES:\n\n46\n\nRex by Hon. O. S. P.\n\n1. Alexander Rentoul Esler,\n\n2. Douglas James Valentine,\n\n3. Frank Cyril Neville,\n\nComplainant\n\n4. Harold Green,\n\nP. 1/2,\n\np. 3,\n\nP. 3/4,\n\n5. David Morgan,\n\nP. 4/6,\n\nVerans.\n\nLeung Wo,\n\n6. Francis Roza Pereira,\n\n7. Ig SE.\n\nP. 6/7,\n\np. 7,\n\n8. Fung Chi,\n\np. 8,\n\nDefendant\n\n9. Leung Shui Shing,\n\nP. 9,\n\n10. Laung Ping Shing,\n\np. 9,\n\nCharge:-\n\nFor that you, the said Leung Wo, on the 24th. day of February\n\n1922 at Victoria in this Colony feloniously wilfully and of your\n\nmalice aforethought did kill and murder one Leung Yuk Tong against\n\nthe peace of Our Lord the King His Crown and dignity. Sec.2 Ord.2\n\nof 1865.\n\n12. Wong Fat Kong,\n\n13. Sidney Gough,\n\n14. Vicente Antonio Yvanovich,\n\n15. John Grant,\n\n16. Arthur Howard Barlow,\n\n17. Ng Ping Wu,\n\n18. George William Avenell,\n\n19. Ho Cheuk,\n\n11. Charles Robert Rozeakwy,\n\np.10,\n\np. 10/11,\n\nP. 11,\n\np. 12,\n\np. 12/13,\n\nP. 13,\n\np. 14,\n\nP. 14/15,\n\np. 15.\n\nEXHIBITS:\n\nA. -\n\nBullet,\n\nB.1-3. Vest and two jackets,\n\nC.1-8. Six copies of plan,\n\n(with the Police)\n\ndo.\n\n(with the original deps.)\n\n(with the Police)\n\ndo.\n\ndo.\n\n(with the depositions)\n\nD.\n\n-\n\nRevolver,\n\nDefendant remanded to 2nd. March at 2.15 p.m.\n\nE.\n\n-\n\nFour live rounds & one empty shell,\n\n(sd.)\n\nR.E. Lindsell,\n\nF.\n\n-\n\nA piece of vulcanite,\n\nP. M.\n\nG.\n\nStatement,\n\n25. 2. 22.\n\nDefendant in Court.\n\nMr. Lewis watching for B. & S.\n\nOrdinance No.\n\nof\n\nปี\n\nDate .........\n\nRex\n\nBefore\n\n19 .\n\nCase No......\n\nIn the\n\nof\n\nat VICTORIA in the COLONY\n\nPOLICE COURT\n\nHONGKONG\n\nG.\n\nR.",
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        "content_text": "(FL)\n\n• MC far I *. O. If priai adi non1 Jark ghici „Tand\" yırət 18t2 arid of on add it anłęk men = kovet I . Jnew I LWOTO B B etal to yhojnua edi ni icon and no Juabnetsb was I ח gemode at BPIA - 301 I X !【3 budeuires I .mɔtetit owt bas avtado mi šnabnetab foot na velines | WISAT „beck zubov med od jeanja J sem anh đưa bạffso #olte? .1v od os benta:19014 abraw Tov fover i min wei axlege ba astro tin of gu tiên cafe I Palatag saw tavlover ent Takas ang hoa simuon evil » adi soiard .1k wont bavleben ...(3 FIFA«\") soubore I doldw 1ạda 15 foot medit I „noited2 ==1165 Tændr00 of qui .d=uco .a (m) .X X ox t Ε (ba) (p.15) 55 -\n\nrevolver in the I found a small There were - on February 24th. I received Exhibit D Charge Room at Central. I examined it. piece of vulcanite broken off from the butt. also some slight scratches on the end of the butt. At the same time I received the cartridges Exhibit E 4 live and one spent. The spent one smelt strongly of powder as if newly fired. On February 27th, about 9.30 am.m. I went to the Hongkong & Shanghai Bank Garden on the North side of Des Voeux Road Central and just opposite the Bank. Near the South East corner, Mr. Ho Cheuk pointed out a spot to me, I climbed over the fence a little later and examined that spot. I found a small dent in the concrete path, and some small amount of black dust which might have been vulcanite dust. The mark was 9 feet from the wall of the garden on the East or Wardley Street side, and 2 feet from the Des Voeux Road wall. I made search in the locality, and five feet further West from the mark I found the piece of vulcanite produced (Exhibit F). That piece exactly fits into the gap on the vulcanite in Exhibit D.\n\nNo X X. N ן So Iolt a ma I १ towa HOIVONAVY QIKOSKA STEROIV (+) (Sr. F/ þo yraud no ..8 08.!! Juoda Lugntbliv® ='ne÷vý htɔ broð ■'novu) uncle duet galvtub admioty a ni kaw Ta MIUS ot beneggar 1 „oba:TA DIJ?18:05858 gnidosorqqa erit te nemavan end me anliqauria attes18g owd war bre baed dis hinnenet I . Fadeneda & prodazol edit to tomION bado! * to Juo úeymut I nem adt Belmoset won Jonno I ababaw add vi mam edt bien I .merid 20 ono es asentiw Joonatalnak utd of tno= .318!zakadu naw ed modw dźźw .mwob mir bassetq ba8 medi.mid no den I be acendiu „dia . rend basandaland na med♬ (bevkite nedarit out .yar\" ine* † bne entedo al ner edit food yodt .sidaja Too (ed) R. E. Lindsell, P. M. (ad) J. Grant.\n\n(16) ARTHUR HOWARD BARLOW Bworm: On the 24th. February last about noon the revolver in Court (Exhibit D) and the 4 live and one spent round in Court (Exhibit E) were handed to me at my office in the Hongkong & Shanghai Bank by Mr. Họ Cheuk, our No.1 Shroff. A little later I handed over the revolver and cartridges to an English Police Sergeant.\n\n.X X o .doivonavY .V (b) Teabnli 4.A (ba) *7.9 0.7 Juoda ITIONS THAЯD THOU (ar)\n\nNo X X. (ad) A. H. Barlow. (sd) R. E. Lindsell, P. น.",
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        "content_text": "82\n\n. J\n\n! \n\n04\n\n+iI\n\nเวลา\n\nV ww\n\nTex\n\nT\n\nJ\n\n• .q\n\nmard k\n\nld\n\n~lturo yich I\n\nROMPO ME brow not know a#od 100ƒ\n\ntere fapt\n\n•\n\n15:05 nes ji kira\n\nH\n\n.mte od dna edade\n\nJ\n\n(3)\n\n57\n\n(VI)\n\nrailings, and 2 or 3 yards from the Wardley Street railings\n\nI could not reach it from outside. I told a ricksha coolie\n\nto climb over. He did so, picked up the revolver and handed it to me. This is the revolver in Court Exhibit D.\n\n.\"oi zawa\n\nJuo\n\n3'1\n\ntoomad te ond\n\nCouborg I\n\n髀\n\n10\n\n.X X OF\n\n(ba)\n\n48,30\n\n(21)\n\np.16)\n\not Jb\n\nE\n\nETY CAT\n\ndire\n\n1\n\nselt at foen 20162 ama2e7 erit\n\nt\n\n-125 C\n\nenters Bituen avli þed! ni abelled eit\n\nW\n\n* atquỢT @vli + SAT A drink? sa end\n\n- Taylover edt ji II\n\ndxe's I\n\n.:\n\nF\n\nAPTPTU I*\n\nto sadjela enet to dore ni elod adī\n\ndove\n\nJas defiud ■ yď babuso need\n\nven bl, no drew midt\n\nI took it into the Bank first. I found it was loaded. I broke it and took out the cartridges.\n\nThere were 4 live\n\nI handed over the revolver and cartridges to Mr. Barlow.\n\nOn February 27th, about 9:30 a.m.\n\nI saw Inspector Grant and pointed out to him the spot where I had seen the revolver.\n\nNo X X.\n\n(ad)\n\nHo Cheuk.\n\n(ed) R. E. Lindsell, P. M.\n\nCase for the Crown closed.\n\nMr. Brutton does not desire to cross-examine any witness.\n\nDefendant cautioned.\n\nMakes no statement.\n\nMr. Brutton reserves his defence.\n\nDefendant committed for trial to the next Criminal Sessions\n\nof the Supreme Court.\n\nJu 870 3\n\n(ed) R. E. Lindsell,\n\n.X X OF\n\n.Ilenev A\n\n.E\n\n(ba)\n\nPolice Magistrate,\n\n3. 3. 22.\n\n.A\n\n(b)\n\nCertified true copy\n\nI\n\n#ICO XUCHD oH (er)\n\nBd.\n\nrr duc\n\n.8175 teranefi i gnox\n\n0. Willson\n\nFirst Clerk.\n\nZ. This\n\ngoldt meri\n\nCu mnie\" .. '1\n\nmer to broto 2\n\n3.20 1\n\nXV de il tuo now I\n\nredt mi auw I\n\n.Jeeja\n\ndas erli.C\n\n+\n\nsekor jnu. I milocs edadola 2 yd om bellaque\n\nA\n\nc\n\n1\n\nni xudov seŭ to ebla diTOR\n\ndo no teb÷5\n\n'sal galyf nav\n\nant mort d~~ 3 tiode Tamen dyntä velbıra\n\nHere is the proofread text in HTML format as requested:\n\n57 (VI)\n\nrailings, and 2 or 3 yards from the Wardley Street railings\n\nI could not reach it from outside. I told a ricksha coolie\n\nto climb over. He did so, picked up the revolver and handed it to me. This is the revolver in Court Exhibit D.\n\nI took it into the Bank first. I found it was loaded. I broke it and took out the cartridges.\n\nThere were 4 live and one spent round.\n\nI handed over the revolver and cartridges to Mr. Barlow.\n\nOn February 27th, about 9:30 a.m.\n\nI saw Inspector Grant and pointed out to him the spot where I had seen the revolver.\n\n(ad) Ho Cheuk.\n\n(ed) R. E. Lindsell, P. M.\n\nCase for the Crown closed.\n\nMr. Brutton does not desire to cross-examine any witness.\n\nDefendant cautioned.\n\nMakes no statement.\n\nMr. Brutton reserves his defence.\n\nDefendant committed for trial to the next Criminal Sessions of the Supreme Court.\n\n(ed) R. E. Lindsell, Police Magistrate, 3. 3. 22.\n\n(b) Certified true copy\n\n0. Willson, First Clerk.",
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        "content_text": "IN THE POLICE COURT AT VICTORIA IN THE COLONY OF HONG KONG\n\n(Jurat under Ordinance 2 of 1889, Section 29.)\n\nIN CASE No.......................................... 1654.\n\nIn Rex v. LEUNG WO.\n\nHONGKONG TO WIT\n\nThe within named Alexander Rentoul Esler, Douglas James Valentine, Frank Cyril Neville, Harold Green, David Morgan, Francis Roza Pereira, Ng Sz, Fung Chi, Leung Shui Shing, Leung Ping Shing, Charles Robert Rozekwy, Wong Fat Kong, Sidney Gough, Vicente Antonio Ivanovich, John Brant, Arthur Howard Barlow, Ng Ping Wu, George William Avenell and Ho Cheuk, were severally examined before me, a Magistrate of the above Colony, on the day and at the place hereinbefore mentioned; the usual oath was administered to the said Alexander Rentoul Esler, Douglas James Valentine, Frank Green, David Roza Pereira, Charles Robert Rozekwy, Sidney Gough, Vicente Antonio Yvanovich, John Grant, Arthur Howard Barlow, & George William Avenell,\n\nand the usual declaration was made by the said Ng Sz, Fung Chi, Leung Shui Shing, Leung Ping Shing, Wong Fat Kong, Ng Ping Wu, & Ho Cheuk,\n\nprior to their examination, and the examination was taken in the presence of the accused and he was asked if he wished to cross-examine,\n\nand had a full opportunity of cross-examining or did actually cross-examine the said persons; and the examination of such persons was reduced into writing, and read over to, and signed by the persons so examined, and by me.\n\nR. E. Lindsell,\n\nPolice Magistrate.\n\nDated the 3rd day of March, A. D. 1922.",
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        "content_text": "(0. 70.) MAGISTRATES ORDINANCE\n\nG.R. 60/1854.\n\nCase No..............\n\nCaution to and statement by accused. (Ord. 3 of 1890, Sec. 78),\n\nIN THE POLICE COURT AT VICTORIA IN THE COLONY OF HONGKONG\n\nBefore\n\nR. E. Lindsell,\n\nEsquire, MAGISTRATE of the said Colony\n\nLEUNG WO\n\n(hereinafter called the accused)\n\nstands charged before the undersigned, a Magistrate of the said Colony, for that you, the said Leung Wo, on the 24th day of February 1922 at Victoria in this Colony feloniously, wilfully and of your malice aforethought did kill and murder one Leung Yuk Tong against the peace of Our Lord the King, his Crown and dignity. Sec.2, Ord.2 of 1865.\n\nand the said charge being read to the accused and the witnesses for the prosecution:-\n\nAlexander Rentoul Esler, Douglas James Valentine, Frank Cyril Neville, Harold Green, David Morgan, Francis Roza Pereira, Ng Sz, Fung Chi, Leung Shui Shing, Leung Ping Shing, Charles Robert Rozeskwy, Wong Fat Kong, Sidney Gough, Vicente Antonio Ivanovich, John Grant, Arthur Howard Barlow, Ng Ping Wu, George William Avenell, and Ho Cheuk,\n\nbeing severally examined in his presence, the accused is now addressed by me as follows:\n\n\"Having heard the evidence, do you wish to say anything in answer to the charge? You are not obliged to say anything unless you desire to do so; but whatever you say will be taken down in writing and may be given in evidence against you upon your trial.\n\n\"whereupon the said\n\nLEUNG WO\n\nsaith as follows:\n\n[T.O.]",
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        "content_text": "010\n\n(0.728.) MAGISTRATES ORDINANCE,\n\nG.\n\n61\n\n1654.\n\nIN CASE NO....1-AȚIE .............\n\nR.\n\nIN THE POLICE COURT AT VICTORIA IN THE COLONY OF HONGKONG.\n\nRecognizance to give evidence at the Supreme Court,—(Sec. 75)\n\nBefore\n\nR.E. Lindsell,\n\nsaid Police Court, on the 2nd. & 3rd. days of\n\nEsqr, & MAGISTRATE of the said Colony, sitting at the\n\nMarch,\n\n1. Alexander Rentoul Esler, Govt. Medical Officer,\n\n2. Douglas James Valentine, do.\n\n3. Frank Cyril Neville, Overseer, P.W.D.,\n\n4. Harold Green, Supt. of Botanical & Forestry Dept.,\n\n5. David Morgan, Master of S. S. Kwong Ying,\n\n1922.\n\n6. Francis Roza Pereira, Clerk in the International Bank,\n\n7. Ng Sz, ricksha coolie, employed by the Po Tai firm,\n\n8. Fung Chi, Second Coxswain of No.1 Fire Float,\n\n9. Leung Shui Shing, Elder brother of Leung Yuk Tong, deceased,\n\n10. Leung Ping Shing, deceased's younger brother,\n\n11. Charles Robert Rozeskwy, L.S. A19,\n\n12. Wong Fat Kong, P.C. 0339,\n\n13. Sidney Gough, L.S. A48,\n\n14. Vicente Antonio Ivanovich, broker, 3 Queen's Buildings,\n\n15. John Grant, Inspector of Police,\n\n18. Arthur Howard Barlow, of H. K. & S'hai Bank,\n\n1. Ng Ping Ju., interpreter,\n\nG. W. Avenell, Armourer to the Defence Corps & Police Force\n\nBo Cheuk, Asst. Compradore, H.K. & Shai Bank.\n\npersonally came before me, the undersigned, and each of them acknowledged himself to owe to our Sovereign Lord the KING the sum of two hundred dollars of good and lawful money of the currency of the said Colony to be made and levied of his goods and chattels, lands and tenements, to the use of our Sovereign Lord the KING, His Heirs, and Successors, if he shall fail in the following condition.\n\n(sd) S. Gough\n\n(sd) V. A. Ivanovich\n\n(sd) J. Grant\n\n(sd) A. R. Esler\n\n(sd) D. J. Valentine\n\n(sd) F. C. Neville\n\n(sd) H. Green\n\n(sd) D. Morgan\n\n(sd) F. R. Pereira\n\nNg Sz -- his mark\n\n(sd) Fung Chi\n\n(sd) Leung Shui Shing\n\n(sd) Leung Ping Shing\n\n(sd) Wong Fat Kong\n\n(sd) C. Rozeskwy, A.19.\n\n(sd) A. H. Barlow\n\n(sd) Ng Ping Wu\n\n(sd) G. W. Avenell\n\n(sd) Ho Cheuk\n\nCONDITION TO PROSECUTE.\n\nIf therefore each of the said above bounden witnesses shall respectively appear at the next Criminal Sessions of the Supreme Court, and there give such evidence as he knoweth upon an indictment to be then and there preferred against one Leung Wo, defendant for the offence of Murder, to the Supreme Court and Jurors upon the trial of the said defendant then the said recognizance to be void only as regards such witness so appearing or else to stand in full force and virtue.\n\nTaken and acknowledged, the day and year and at the place first above mentioned before me,\n\nExplained by (sd) Ip Tin Shang, Sworn Interpreter & witness to above mark.\n\n(sd) R.E. Lindsell, Police Magistrate.",
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        "content_text": "Page 63\n\n(0.103.)\n\nNo.\n\nCRIMINAL SESSIONS.\n\nLUCK\n\n39.\n\nREX\n\n—versus—\n\nLEUNG SIKUTTY.\n\n...\n\nMURDER.\n\nWITNESSES.\n\nMARCH 1922.\n\nLEUNG WO,\n\nin charge.\n\nInspector.\n\n1. Alexander Rentoul Esler,\n\n2. Douglas James Valentine,\n\n3. Frank Cyril Neville,\n\n4. Harold Green,\n\n5. David Morgan,\n\n6. Francis Roza Pereira,\n\n7. Hg Sz.\n\n8. Fung Chi,\n\n9. Leung Shui Shing,\n\n10. Leung Ping Shing,\n\n11. Charles Robert Rozeskwy,\n\n12. Wong Fat Kong,\n\n13. Sidney Gough,\n\n14. Vicente Antonio Yvanovich,\n\n15. John Grant,\n\n16. Arthur Howard Barlow,\n\n17. Lg Ping Wu,\n\n18. George William Avenell,\n\n19. Ho Chouk.\n\nPage ...\n\n \n\nwas not found, assuming it is the end of the page.",
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        "content_text": "102\n\nCalls Wong Fat Kong.\n\nCalla\n\nP.C. 339. On 24th February at 11.45 on duty at junction of Des Voeux Road and Jackson Road, I saw 3 or 4 men running, 1 running ahead of 3 or 4 running after him from the Praya. They ran up Wardley Street. I chased after them. I went up the tram line to Queen's Road. I saw several men standing together at the corner of Hongkong Bank and Wardley Street. I was about 30 paces away. I got from Des Voeux Road to Queen's Road by Jackson Road. Wardley Street is by the side of the bank. I saw a number of people and a prisoner being held down. The 5 men pressing the prisoner on the ground handed him to me. The man seen running ahead who was being chased was a Chinaman. I did not notice any European. I noticed one of the men chasing was a fireman—that was the only one I noticed. I did not see any people coming from Queen's statue and turning right or left in Des Voeux Road. The fireman ran up to Wardley Street. 3 or 4 men at the beginning, I saw go up Wardley Street.\n\nCourt adjourns.\n\nExamination continued.\n\nI saw a Chinese running and 3 or 4 men chasing him. The man was between 10 and 20 paces ahead of the 3 or 4 men. I did not notice any others.\n\nCross-examined.\n\nI was on traffic duty. When I first saw the single man running, he was a few paces from the entrance to Wardley Street, 6 or 7 paces from Wardley Street on the Des Voeux Road side. I was on duty there and so I looked round.\n\nHo Cheuk.\n\nAssistant Compradore in Hongkong & Shanghai Bank. On February 24th about 11.45 A.M. I was in the Bank. I saw a crowd running up Wardley Street. I was in the Bank near that side. I went out to the verandah as I saw a crowd running. I did not see the arrest. I did not distinguish anybody in the crowd. I did not then know a man had been arrested. I saw a man on the ground when I first got out and several people passing. This was the Queen's Road end of Wardley Street.\n\nI went out to Des Voeux Road and from information given me by a...",
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        "content_text": "203\n\nCheuk complain generally that Chinese on landing are treated like slaves and they give the following additional particulars of the alleged ill-treatment:-\n\n(a) Chinese who cannot get a Permit as abovementioned are detained, pending departure of the steamer taking them back, in a place of detention which is aptly known locally as the \"pigsty\".\n\n(b) All luggage and personal goods are subject to a heavy tax. They are all taken to the Custom House first. even a pair of socks -\n\n(c) Chinese ladies, on landing, are not allowed to wear more than one jacket - even in bitterly cold weather.\n\nMessrs. Un Man Chuen, Lau Yik Cheuk and Lau Kwai Cheuk on arrival, reported the matter to the British Consul, who communicated with the French Authorities, but so far nothing has been done,\n\n8. Accordingly Messrs. Un Man Chuen, Lau Yik Cheuk and Lau Kwai Cheuk as British Subjects, and merchants of this Colony, respectfully desire the matter to be referred to the Hongkong Government.\n\nThe Hon. The Colonial Secretary.\n\nI have the honour &c.\n\n(Sd). Li Po Kwi.\n\nChairman.",
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        "content_text": "# LATEST CANTON OUTRAGE\n\n(Continued from page 9)\n\nWe conjectured the possibilities of the Shameen authorities hearing of our arrest and decided that at least they must know something was wrong Friday morning. And so as patiently and cheerfully as possible we lay awaiting fate.\n\nThe General's Apology. We were introduced to a Mr. Wong whom we afterwards found was the staff to the leader of the Whampoa Cadets, General Chang Kai-shek. He shook hands, departed, and we did not speak to him again.\n\nInterest never failed to arouse itself when one called across to the other \"Honam arrived unincident.\" We were getting incident enough.\n\nA Surprise. Thus we resigned ourselves to another night in captivity. Food was given us but only Chinese food. We accepted an offer of milk and got hot water with some of Nestle's best stirred in. However there were cigarettes intermingled and a spice of hope.\n\nIt was good to hear English spoken again and we were three morning on the same topic.\n\n## CHINA MORNING POST, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1925\n\n### SOUTH CANTON SHIPPING\n\n#### SEVERAL STEAMERS GOING UP\n\nThe Honam's Trips. We had an admirable joke between us to continually renew our spirits by saying \"Honam arrived unincident.\" \n\nWe also found later that our cable had said, \"Honamour Ives were in his hands, that Canton arrived three thirty unincident.\" The last word is the universally known pressman's express for the fact that the affair being reported happened without untoward incident.\n\nOn the journey down the Honam passed six steamers going upriver. One flew the Japanese ensign and was well loaded down, apparently loading coal. The other included another with the name Crouprinz Olav, stated to be new to the China coast.\n\n### CANTON NEWSLETTER\n\n#### INDEMNITY FOR DEATH OF JAPANESE\n\nAn indemnity has been demanded of the Chinese de facto government by the Japanese for the death of the petty officer who was killed by Red troops who fired on the Japanese gunboat's launch several days ago.\n\n#### Coal\n\nLarge shipments have come in, despite the boycott on Japanese goods, as a rule in ships chartered by Chinese merchants. In Canton itself one Japanese steamer was seen unloading coal.\n\nThe local Japanese colony has been doing a thriving business in coal. Our sense of duty in getting the cables back to our respective papers was the cause of our arrest. It was for that we entered what has for months been a forbidden city.\n\n### THE LATE MR. HO CHEUK\n\n#### SATURDAY'S IMPRESSIVE FUNERAL\n\nRepresentative Attendance. The remains of the late Mr. Ho Cheuk, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ho Fook, and formerly in the compradore department of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, were laid to rest on Saturday afternoon at the Mount Davis Cemetery.\n\nThe cortege, which left the house of the deceased, No. 5, Macdonnell Road, S., at 2 p.m., was preceded by the band of the East Surrey Regiment, and was followed by the various units of the St. John's Ambulance Brigade, and Chinese members of residence in Conduit Road.\n\nThe attendance included practically every Chinese merchant of standing. We were taken to a small room, plainly furnished, and drinks were served.\n\nOnly those who have spent a few hours in chains can guess at the discomfort. We constantly turned our thoughts to the merits of the nationality of the Macauley life of Samuel Johnson and the virtues and knowledge of Benjamin Franklin!\n\nAt Cadet Headquarters. Outside was an indescribable delight. A short run and we arrived at a place which was evidently the yamen of some one of standing.\n\nThe guard presented arms and the visitors entering Wong's office unannounced. Speculation as to who they were was rife between us. The leader was a tall thin Russian who answered to Borodin. He was followed by a woman and another dark thick set man.\n\nAn interesting ceremony took place at the S. M. Revenue Office on Monday afternoon, when Mr. Geo. E. Marshall, who is retiring from the Council's service, was the recipient of two tokens of esteem from his confreres of the staff.\n\nMr. Marshall was born in Brighton, served in H. M. Navy, and in 1889 joined the S. M. Police. After serving in the Police for 10 years, he transferred to the Revenue Office, and has remained there up to the present time, making a period of 36 years in all of valuable service to the community of Shanghai.\n\nThe Honam brought down from Whampoa about 11 p.m., and even the Japanese authorities are willing to admit that the Whampoa cadets undoubtedly had no intention to fire, and this fact probably has caused the Japanese to demand that an indemnity be paid.\n\nThe volunteer crew of the Honam are still working the ship well. Every officer on board is a volunteer. Captain Thomson is skippering his boat and his other duties are being carried out by Messrs. Eca and Place.\n\nDespite the fact that they are working without the assistance of their Chinese help, the Shameen banks are open for business as usual, and are willing to pay out money to Chinese as well as to foreigners, rumours to the contrary notwithstanding.\n\n### SHAMEEN BANKS\n\nThe Shameen banks are open for business as usual and are willing to pay out money to Chinese as well as to foreigners. The banks can honour cheques drawn on Chinese accounts before the Yue Shing Bank, the compradore staff of Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd., compradore staff of Arnhold & Co., Ltd., compradore staffs of E. D. Sassoon & Co., Ltd., Kwong Sun Company, and many others.\n\n### RETIREMENTS\n\n#### SHANGHAI VETERAN'S\n\nAfter a brief history of Mr. G. E. Marshall's fine record, it was announced that he is leaving Shanghai by the R. M. S. Empress of Canada on September 7, and intends to settle down at Worthing, near his birthplace.\n\nThe best wishes of his many friends in Shanghai will go with him in his retirement.\n\n### FUNERALS\n\nThe joint funerals of Liu Chung-shi's decision to remain at least until Christmas dinner in London society was the cause of much comment.\n\nThe local Chinese community has been doing a thriving business in various phases of flying, and many Chinese are hoping to be able to get sampans to take them out to the Honam, which is scheduled to arrive off Shameen this evening.\n\nThe cargo for Canton which went up on Thursday is still in her hold, no lighters being able to get off to unload it. Sixty-five bales of silk were brought down while in the morning over 400 passengers had been landed by boat from her without any trouble.\n\nPage 10",
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        "content_text": "most useful work. The problem is no- thing less than the invention of a new medium of education for several hundred million human beings, and its importance for the future of mankind cannot be exaggerated.\n\n8\n\nWorld-wide- lieve, do more to promote peace and goodwill among nations than can be effected by treaties or conventions. action on these lines would, I firmly be- ever races and philology: but as a man of the world and a persistent traveller over the earth's highways and byways, I would add that I greatly cherish the hope that some day a League of Nations will agree to teach all children of whatever race and people from youth upwards one and the same second language in addition to their native language and that this language, common to all people on earth, should be the English language.\n\nI wish to guard myself carefully against any suggestion that the remarks which I have made are intended as a disparagement of the Chinese language and literature. Nothing is further from my thoughts. I have devoted many years of my life to a study of Chinese and my study has left me with a profound admiration of Chinese literature and especially of Chinese poetry. But the Chinese language has in a very real sense \"the defect of its qualities.\" Its best quality is the concise, lucid and picturesque manner in which it portrays Chinese life and thought. Its corresponding defect is that, possibly because it forms so excellent a medium for the study of things Chinese, it is a very refractory medium for the interpretation of Western ideas. It forms indeed a sort of Forbidden City into which anything that is not Chinese can enter only in disguise, if at all. The problem for solution is how best the gates of this Forbidden City may be thrown open.\n\nNEED OF A SECOND LANGUAGE.\n\nNEW USES FOR THE UNIVERSITY.\n\nSuch a hope will not be fulfilled in our lifetime: but may I in conclusion take up a more lowly standpoint and suggest that the austere manner in which the Chinese language frowns at everything which is not Chinese perhaps accounts for the fact that so many Europeans live for years in Hongkong and in the Chinese treaty ports without making any effort to speak or to read the Chinese language? Accordingly the peculiar compradore system has come into being and we have a whole host of intermediaries between the Westerners and the Chinese. Only Government officials and missionaries, as a rule, can deal directly with the Chinese who surround them, and hence arise many regrettable misunderstandings. In this matter there seems to be room for give and take. The Chinese admittedly desire to acquire Western learning. They should, therefore, endeavour to make their language a more flexible medium for conveying Western thought. The Europeans wish to trade with the Chinese. They should, therefore, make a sincere effort to acquaint themselves with the Chinese language. If Government officials and missionaries can do so, why cannot the merchants follow suit? It would pay them handsomely and they would soon find that there is not only profit, but also pleasure, in forming friendships with Chinese gentlemen of the old school, who may perhaps not have been westernized as is the case with many of the younger generation, but who in intelligence, uprightness and good manners have nothing to learn from the West.\n\nHere again I think that the Hongkong University has before it a wide sphere of usefulness: and I propose as soon as possible to enquire how far the Faculty of Arts can assist the Hongkong Government in the higher education of our cadets in the Chinese language and generally in things Chinese and also to ascertain what arrangements can be made to afford similar facilities in the University for young English business-men, who look forward to making a career in China: because, important though it is for this University to interpret Western thoughts and aspirations to China, it is no less important that it should adequately interpret Chinese thoughts and aspirations to the West. (Applause.)\n\nI must also guard myself against the misconception that I have any desire to see a reformed Chinese language substituted for English as the medium of instruction in this University. Such an idea is so far from my mind that I would rather give it as my settled opinion that no Chinese can make a really scientific study even of his own language without first acquiring a competent knowledge of some inflexional language and that he will find no language more useful than English for such a purpose. When we look through the eye-piece of a telescope, we see the object in the field of vision, but the telescope itself disappears from view. Similarly when we use our mother tongue as an instrument for the expression of thought, we lose sight of its grammatical, syntactical and etymological peculiarities; and these peculiarities are best brought home to us when we place our native language side by side with another language, or preferably with several other languages, and study them in comparison as it were from outside. I say this as one who has taken a lifelong interest in philology.\n\nDEGREE OF BACHELOR OF SCIENCE (ENGINEERING).-Messrs. S. B. Ahmed, Cheng Hsu Ting, Liang Lin Kee, Wu Chang Ching, Yue Shui Chiu, Yui Zong Chen.\n\nLIST OF GRADUATES.\n\nOther degrees conferred by H.E. The Chancellor were as follows:\n\nDEGREE OF BACHELOR OF MEDICINE AND BACHELOR OF SURGERY.-Messrs. Lam Shiu Kwong, Lee Boon Choe, Lung Hsing Kuei, Soo Hoy Mun, Teh Yok Chee, Teo Kah Toh, Tseung Fat Im, Yeo Kok Cheang, and William Yuen Sze Chung.\n\nDEGREE OF BACHELOR OF ARTS.-Miss I. Ho Tung, and Messrs. Ban Teong Hoe, A. G. Botelho, Chan Cheuk Wa, Cheong Wai Fung, Fung Yiu Shiu, Wong Ching Yau, Lam Choi Chiu, Lau Lai Sang, Leigh Byng, Ma Char Zur, N. V. Nguyen, Ooi Khay Bian, C. A. Peterson, A. G. F. Prew, N. H. F. Prew, Pun Shiu Pang, Shu Yu Pong, So Pak Sui; B. M. Talati, Teoh Khoy Moh, Tong Chun Chung, V. F. Viccajee.\n\nThe graduates were individually presented to the Chancellor, and when I. Ho Tung, the only lady graduate, was presented His Excellency raised his cap and cordially shook hands.\n\nThere was a tremendous amount of cracker firing as the degrees were conferred.\n\n245",
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        "content_text": "238\n\n4\n\n\"ONE MAN SHOW!\"\n\nJuly 20.\n\nLengthy questioning, which developed into discussion and argument, coupled with outspoken criticism by a shareholder who advised \"shutting down,\" were the main features of the 3rd annual meeting of the Hongkong and Kowloon Taxi-cab Co., Ltd., held today.\n\nMr. J. W. Kew went into the accounts at considerable length, punctuating his questions with sarcasm and comment. Another shareholder, Mr. F. S. Harrison, also joined in. Mr. A. H. Rowe, managing director, gave most of the replies while Mr. H. Birkett (chairman) also answered Mr. Kew.\n\nBesides those mentioned, there were present Messrs. Sum Pak-ming, T. N. Chau (directors) and H. M. Kew, A. Nissim, C. A. Fulcher (shareholders).\n\nLast Year's Features.\n\nThe outstanding items in the report for the year ended April 30, 1926, are:-\n\n11 lakhs depreciation written off in 26 months.\n\n$40,000 profit last year instead of $46,000 loss, as result of farming out the fleet of taxis.\n\nConcessions obtained from the International and French settlements, Shanghai: 50 taxis will be sent up from Hongkong.\n\n...\n\nMr. Birkett observed that $15,000 for salaries and wages was not a big item for twelve months. Mr. Kew - \"No, when you say it slowly.\"\n\nIn Deep Water?\n\nMr. Kew said, \"The best course, take it from me, is to wind up before further trouble. This is a one man show, run for the benefit of Mr. Rowe.\"\n\nOn being accosted by a constable at Reclamation Street on Saturday night, a Chinese dropped a sack he was carrying and escaped. The sack contained eight revolvers and 800 rounds of ammunition.\n\n[No. 2995. July 22, 1926.\n\nCOMING HERE.\n\nJuly 19.\n\nThe Hongkong office of the Asiatic Petroleum Company have received information that the Marchese de Pinedo is shortly commencing a new flight from Pisa, Italy.\n\nIt will be remembered that Pinedo passed through Hongkong last October during his flight from Rome to Australia and Japan and back to Italy.\n\nFor his new flight Pinedo intends to use a seaplane and his route will cover 60,000 miles, as follows: From Pisa across Spain to Lisbon, thence by way of the Azores to Newfoundland and New York; from New York he will fly to Seattle and down the coast to San Diego and thence across country to New Orleans. From New Orleans he will pass through the West Indies to British Guiana, and strike inland across Brazil to Rio de Janeiro and on to Buenos Aires, and across the Andes to Valparaiso.\n\nHis route afterward will be as follows: Easter Island, Mangareva, Tahiti, Samoa, Fiji Islands to New Caledonia, New Zealand and Australia. Afterwards he will touch at various points in the Dutch East Indies, Manila and North China, flying inland to Hankow and still inland to Saigon in French Indo-China. The remainder of his route covers Rangoon, Calcutta, Ceylon, Chagos Islands, Seychelles, Mauritius to Beira, then round the coast of South Africa as far as Boma to the Belgian Congo; he will then strike inland to Tanganyika, and flying through Uganda and up the Nile to Cairo, along the coast to Tripoli and back across the Mediterranean to Pisa.\n\nThe Marchese de Pinedo expects to arrive in Hongkong early in November on the return part of his flight.\n\nAt the request of the Marchese, the \"Shell\" organisation are making all the necessary fuel arrangements for the entire flight. \"Shell\" aviation spirit is again chosen on account of the excellent result obtained during his last flight when 34,000 miles were covered without the slightest mishap.\n\nMOTOR MISHAP.\n\nJuly 19.\n\nMr. R. M. Johnson, of 17 Humphrey's Buildings, Kowloon, reports that while driving a motor car along Castle Peak Road on Saturday in the direction of Tsim Sha Tsui, a woman ran from the hillside and was caught by the fender, sustaining minor injuries. She refused to go to Hospital and was compensated.\n\nMr. M. Manuk returned to the Colony from Australia on Thursday by \"... Taiping\"\n\nOVERLAND CHINA MAIL\n\nWELL DONE.\n\nJuly 19.\n\nThe bazaar which was recently held at the University in aid of the New Building Fund of St. Stephen's College resulted in a net profit of over $5,400. On this result, the students and all who helped in the organising are to be congratulated, and especially the Old Boy whom they invited to be Chairman - Mr. Chiu Ying-po.\n\nA room in the new school will be named after the 1926 Students in accordance with the privileges granted to subscribers to the New Building Fund.\n\nThe Committee wishes to thank the following patrons and Companies who kindly contributed to the bazaar:-\n\nPatrons: Mr. Sir Shou Son-chow, S.S.G.C. Association, Messrs. Kan Wang Yip, Phaton by Lea Fong.\n\nDonors - Dairy Farm Co., British American Tobacco Company, Lane, Bishop of Victoria, Sir Henry Crawford, Ltd., Nestle & Anglo-Swiss Condensed Milk Co., Asiatic Petroleum Company, Lever Bros., W. L. Pattenden, P. Lander, Mok Kon-sang, T. N. Chau, Li Hoi-tung, American Milk Produce Corporation, Anderson Music Co., Commercial Press Ltd., Pathe Phone Cinema, Ah Ying & Co., Fairlea School, Ng Yuen Long-hin, Au Shiu Kee, Au Lim-cheun, Au Shou-chu, So Shau-Hing, Hongkong University, Sun nam, Chan Foon-tin, Chan Mung-hung, La Chor-chi, Chak Yu-tong, Chak Kwong-kai, Ng Ilon-ting, Lai-ting, Poon lang-po, Wong Tai Hing, Pohoomull Brothers, Hongkong Lace Co., Ah Men King kwong, Hui Ng-shuet, St. Stephen's Hall (H.K.U.), A. S. Watson and Co., Tabaqueria & Donnelly Hotels, Ltd., Prof. Remond, the Rev. Brewer Whyte, H.-C. Moyle, the Rev. A. D. Stewart, Philipina, Chan Cheuk-tan, Dunlop Rubber Co., Wang Hing, G. Kan Tung-po, Tang Shiu-kio, San Shing-sam, Ho Falconer, Der A Wing, Luen Sing, Sai-wing, Li Shiu-kee, Yu Sai-ming, Mackintosh and Co., Bible Society, San Cho-kwan, Ho Wang-sang, Prof. Cheung Woo, Kwong Tai Cheung, Mrs. Martin, E. G. Stewart, Cherry and Co., Chung Yan-po, Kwong-tin, Tay Kin-lim, Mrs. Stewart, H. L. Yang, Chiu Wong Chung-hau, Cheung Sum-woo, Chan Tay Han-wa, Kwong Kwui Co., My Edward Dispensary, China Dispensary.\n\nDOWN SOUTH.\n\nPresent-day conditions in New South Wales under the Labour Government are portrayed by a letter which Mrs. Maud Woods has received from her sister, dated June 23:-\n\n\"I have my money in industrial shares, steam, coal and breweries, etc., but I'm in for a bad time with reduced dividends - which are inevitable, owing to this Labour Government making gods of the workman. It is a new set of State insurance laws, operating on July 1, and is killing every ... but the working ... is 31. For instance, a gardener, for whom one paid 18s. per annum insurance against accident in the past, has now to be paid £5; a man employed in a brewery, formerly 13s. 6d. per annum, now 78s. 9d.; bakers, similar trades, and so on, and milk carters from 40s. to 140s.; a miner from £10 to £50; and there are hundreds and hundreds, close to a thousand, all taxable. If I can get a paper (I have to keep the one I have) will send it to you. It is really unbelievable.\n\n\"The Insurance Companies will reap a harvest and I don't own one share in them. Just imagine, say, in Farmer & Co., something like 1,000 hands employed, having to pay 48s. 9d. instead of 10s. per head, and I see in the list that domestic servants have to be insured at 52s. 6d. a head, instead of 5s. Every trade, musicians included, are in the list. A boy who delivers newspapers costs his employer 70s. instead of 12s. a year. I could go on for the next hour and never finish.\n\n\"Wharf labourers, who are paid by the Steamship Companies (I have a lot of shares in those) are increased from £8 to £40 annually. So the poor shareholders in all those Companies will suffer. Clerical workers are let down the lightest, so the shares in offices and banks will not be affected.\n\n\"My broker told me about the disastrous time that's ahead!\"",
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        "content_text": "STA 546\n\n: Zakarpaq So mai:\n\nhave provided an efficient check against fraud or embezzlement.\n\n11. Crown Solicitor's Office. Kwan Shek, 4th Grade Clerk, Defalcation by Wại\n\nThe circumstances of this embezzlement, on a cursory examination, may appear to be incomprehensible, but one has to have some understanding of the mentality of the Chinese to realise the difficulties of safeguarding against such occurrences. In the first place, Yu Cheuk Nam paid the money to the clerk, Wai Kwan Shek, although there is a proper place where payment should be made in the Crown Solicitor's Office. There is no evidence to show, as far as I am aware, whether the Shroff was in the office at the time the payment was made. Moreover, it should be observed that between the 4th January and the 19th March, Yu Cheuk Nam was apparently content with the evasive replies to his enquiries for a receipt, and failed to bring the matter to the notice of the Crown Solicitor until the 19th March.\n\n12. Crown Solicitor's Office. Cheung Tak Yan, Shroff. Defalcation of\n\nThe circumstances of this defalcation are similar to the defalcations of the Treasury Shroff, Chau Lam. I have come to the conclusion that it is necessary to consider whether adequate provision was made for carrying out of the financial operations of this department. In normal times no doubt the financial arrangements could be adequately supervised by the Crown Solicitor, but in view of the mass of legal work entailed in connection with the large increase of defaulters, I am of opinion that more adequate arrangements to meet the requirements of Colonial Regulation No.218 should have been",
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        "document_key": "CO129-505-6 Chinese telegraph office at Hong Kong- transfer to Cantonese control 8-7-1927 - 29-12-1927",
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        "title": "CO129-505-6 Chinese telegraph office at Hong Kong- transfer to Cantonese control 8-7-1927 - 29-12-1927",
        "content_text": "Mr. Lau Cheuk Pau has been aware of the position for over two weeks but has so far refused to hand over the office to Mr. C. Y. Chen. Mr. C. Y. Chen has already today officially served Mr. Lau Cheuk Pau with the document officially dismissing him.\n\nWe understand that there is some arrangement between the Hong Kong Government and the Peking Government whereby the Hong Kong Government is entitled to approve or disapprove of any new appointment to the office of Manager of the Administration and we are given to understand that Mr. C. Y. Chen's appointment has been before you for a considerable period.\n\nWe shall be much obliged if you will kindly inform us that Mr. C. Y. Chen's appointment has your approval so that steps can be taken for Mr. C. Y. Chen to take over the managership without further delay.\n\nWe have, etc.\n\n(Sd). Deacons.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-507-9 Chinese Telegraph Office- Hong Kong- transfer to Cantonese control 4-1-1928 - 20-7-1928",
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        "title": "CO129-507-9 Chinese Telegraph Office- Hong Kong- transfer to Cantonese control 4-1-1928 - 20-7-1928",
        "content_text": "-2-\n\n82\n\n3.\n\nThe translation of the title as suggested by the Canton Government effects a radical alteration of its meaning: and so far from giving the office a neutral and commercial character and removing it from the arena of party control, which was the object I had in view, it actually accentuates the undesirable features of the existing system.\n\n4. I, therefore, find it impossible to accept the suggested translation: and in view of the attitude of the Canton Government as set out in your despatch, I have no alternative but to consider that the negotiations on this subject initiated at the Conference of the 10th March have broken down: and to request you to inform Mr. Chu officially that the offer of the concession then made by me is now definitely withdrawn.\n\n5. I regret that the offer of a concession which would have tended to the further improvement of the relations between Hong Kong and Canton should have been considered an opportunity for making party capital: and I remain prepared to carry out my original purpose of neutralising the office by establishing the Eastern Extension Telegraph Company as Commercial Agents in charge pending the unification of China. I propose, however, to wait till circumstances alter or the Government of Canton or of Peking or both make a formal suggestion to that effect before taking further action. In the meantime, as long as Mr. Lau Cheuk-pan appears to be acceptable to no political party, my object is at least partially attained.\n\nby",
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        "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案",
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        "page_number": 142,
        "title": "CO129-507-9 Chinese Telegraph Office- Hong Kong- transfer to Cantonese control 4-1-1928 - 20-7-1928",
        "content_text": "Enclosure No. 6.\n\nE. R. Hallifax, Esquire,\n\nColonial Secretary.\n\nc/o Dr. S. T. Wong,\n\nPedder Building,\n\n12 Pedder Street, Hong Kong.\n\n3rd February, 1928.\n\nSir,\n\nYour letter dated 25th January informing me that His Excellency the Governor of Hong Kong has been authorised by the British Government to recognise me as the manager of the Chinese Telegraph Administration in Hong Kong in lieu of the present manager Mr. Lau Cheuk-pan upon the distinct understanding that as I assume office I will at once turn over the control of the said Administration to the Eastern Extension Telegraph Company as agents in Hong Kong for the Ministry of Communications of the Republic of China has been duly handed to me today.\n\nIt grieves me to note that in spite of the written protest made by the Ministry of Communications against the arbitrary and illegal action of the Government of Hong Kong and the serious objection I had personally raised at the interviews I had with His Excellency, the Governor, against such an action as above stated, the Government of Hong Kong has thought fit to maintain the attitude which at once violates the treaty solemnly entered into and threaten to adversely affect the good understanding and friendship existing between our Governments.\n\nI must also draw your attention to the fact that the present illegal attitude of the Hong Kong Government, as you undoubtedly know, involves responsibility...",
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        "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案",
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        "document_key": "CO129-511-6 Salaries and conditions of service of government staff 27-4-1928 - 2-11-1928",
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        "title": "CO129-511-6 Salaries and conditions of service of government staff 27-4-1928 - 2-11-1928",
        "content_text": "23\n\npoint out that the shrinkage in the purchasing power \nof the dollar locally affects as much the subordinate \nofficers if not more because of their disproportionately \nsmaller salaries as those paid in sterling, \nnotwithstanding the fact that sterling salaried officers \nare paid at the rate of $12 to the sterling.\n\nWe beg also to point out that locally engaged officers \non sterling basis (other than officers of the Junior \nClerical Service) such as those in the Education \nDepartment have been reckoned as officers to be \nbenefited by the recent concession of Exchange Allowances. \nThis obviously points to the fact that Government \nhas recognized that officers, though locally engaged, \nmust be adequately paid.\n\n6.\n\nIn conclusion, we have the honour humbly \nto request that our petition may once more receive \nthe careful and favourable consideration of His Excellency \nthe Officer Administering the Government and that \ncopies of this letter be forwarded to the Salaries \nCommission recently appointed and to the Right \nHonourable the Secretary of State for the Colonies \nrespectively.\n\nWe have the honour to be,  \nSir,  \nYour humble servants,  \nLo Sam Chale  \nChan Sirdar than Ionfertug Cheng Cheuk Hin  \nWong Kwai.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-514-2 Mui Tsai system- suggested regulations and possible abolition 9-1-1929 - 16-5-1929",
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        "content_text": "## \n182 \nTao Yim San \nWong Ngoi Tong - Priest \nMiss Shin Tak Hing - Young Women's Christian Association \nCheuk Yan Ko - Werk in a solicitors' office \nMrs. Tso Yan Fong - Secretary to Young Men's Christian Association \nMrs. Tsui Kuu Wan Chiu - Teacher \nTam Wai Chi - Teacher \nWu Yi Tung - Clerk \nMak Mui Shang - Godown-keeper, Asiatic Petroleum Co. \nWong Sham Kan - Merchant \nTseng Yun Po - Manager, On Lok Restaurant \nCheung Kat Shing - \nCheung Man Chiu - Priest \nLeung - Priest \nChau Wai Cheung - Doctor \nCheung Chuk Ling - Priest \nMak Shat Fan - Language teacher \nTam Wai On - \nLau Man Shang - Teacher \n\nPage 180\nPage 181",
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        "content_text": "186 \n\nbeen defrayed through the generosity of Dr. Ma Luk, to whom our hearty thanks are due.\n\nNot in Vain.\n\nThis advertising of our cause and appeal to the public has not been in vain, and has carried its weight wonderfully. From time to time we have received reports from complainants calling for our help, and in response we have never failed to come to their assistance. Among these we may mention those who have been freed and returned to the custody of their parents without being required to give a refund to their masters or mistresses. These are the daughter of Poon Fung Lin, the daughter of Mrs. Kan, and Lau Choi-ying. There have been some cases in which the mistresses tried to demand big sums of money as redemption from the mui tsai's parents, and through the Society's influence they promised to give up their demands, when some institution intervened with arbitration, making the parents pay half the redemption; these being the cases of So Cheuk-Kiu, Li Hung, and Tse Sham-koo. This was, of course, much against our will and purpose, which always aims at complete emancipation by acting on the Government's instructions without paying any redemption, or any part of it, by the parents.\n\nVery often reports of cruelty had been found true and confirmed by inquiries made by the Society, but the detectives sent by the authorities to make the necessary enquiry would return with contrary reports and entirely different stories. With a view to overcoming this difficulty, however, the committee of the society has approached the Government to get permission to allow our English secretary to go together with the detectives to make enquiry into any case dealt with by the Society, so that the real state of affairs may be investigated and a true and reliable report be made. But whether this step of procedure will be approved still remains to be seen.\n\nSupport Needed.\n\nMeanwhile, should any case of cruelty occur, our committee would have no right to interfere and investigate unless the case should also come to the notice of the police authorities. At a meeting of the committee last month, a resolution was unanimously passed that the Government be approached again in order to enforce the registration of mui tsai, so that present ones might be given safe protection, while the sale of innocent daughters as slave girls might also discontinue. This is what we have done so far in furthering our cause, and we now enlist your support and assistance.\n\nAs to the financial standing of the society, it is by no means sound as its income depends largely on subscriptions from its members. Some time ago we started to collect the subscription for this year, but the results were poor and rather disheartening. Thanks to the generosity of Dr. Ma Luk and Mrs. Fung Heung-chuen, our efforts were rewarded, for they each donated $50 to the Society's funds. The expenditure of the Society is rather small, since we have only to pay for advertisements, printing, and some stationery. However, the work of the Society is decidedly burdensome, and it is up to you to see it through; therefore whether we can achieve our object of getting rid of this inveterate social evil depends on how you will respond to the appeal voiced by us now.\n\nThe Discussion.\n\nThe chairman invited discussion on the proposals he had outlined in his opening address in regard to the registration of both mui-tsai and adopted daughters.\n\nA member said that they should enforce registration through a penalty clause and he pointed out that such had been overlooked in the proposals. He suggested that failure to register within the prescribed period of six months be penalised by a heavy fine, to be followed by the giving of complete freedom to the girls without such consideration as compensation to the owner.\n\nAnother member said that much effective work could be accomplished by personal investigation as in the case of the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. He discovered a similarity in the work of the two Societies with the exception that theirs had the greater claim to official backing, in the fact that it was a human being whose life's burden they were seeking to lighten. The authorities had displayed a praiseworthy attitude when they co-operated with members of the S.P.C.A. in these personal investigations. He recalled that quite recently, lady members of that Society went round to the various bird-shops in the town to look into cases of cruelty and that they were on that occasion accompanied by a police officer. If the same procedure was adopted in their own case, and members of the Anti-Mui-tsai Society were allowed to accompany a police officer in order to investigate fully a report of cruelty, much of the objectionable features to which reference was made by the Chairman in his speech would cease.\n\nElection of Committee.\n\nAfter further discussion it was agreed to incorporate this suggestion as well as the one for a penalty clause, in the main body of proposals. In their revised form, the proposals were then put to the meeting and passed, the meeting giving full powers to the Executive Committee to present them at the proper time before the authorities.\n\nThe revised Articles of Constitution of the Society, which had been in the hands of members for some time, were also passed.\n\nThe election of members of the Executive Committee was then proceeded with, and some 30 members were appointed. The Chairman proposed the appointment of Mr. J.D. Bush as Hon. English Secretary. The post was a responsible one, and Mr. A.G. Anderson, who recently resigned from it owing to pressure of business, deserved the thanks of the Society for the able manner in which he had filled it. Mr. J.D. Bush was unanimously appointed Hon. English Secretary, and Mr. Ngan, Hon. Chinese Secretary.\n\nBefore the meeting terminated, the Chairman said it was their unanimous hope that the aims of the Society would soon be realised, and he urged the newly-elected members of the Committee to do their best to bring this about. The mui-tsai system had existed in their midst as an evil. It was always condemned and put out of the law by the Chinese Nationalist Government in a recent edict and he hoped that the Government of this colony, which had been responsible for many beneficial reforms, would not be long in falling into line and dealing with a practice which admittedly had many evils.\n\n28",
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        "document_key": "CO129-518-9 The Mui-Tsai question- printed papers relating to the system 20-9-1929 - 1-11-1929",
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        "content_text": "# \nI regret to say that we have not succeeded in influencing the Government to put through the registration of mui-tsai with the proper authorities, and consequently this cursed system has not yet been wiped out from the community. Reports of cruelty and ill-treatment to mui-tsai are no less often heard than before. As our attempt failed at the eradication of this evil, we have now directed our efforts to cope with it by way of diminishing the individual cases of cruelty. We have advertised in two vernacular papers to the effect that all suppressed mui-tsai who have been badly treated by their masters or mistresses may appeal to this Society and make the complaint to the Chairman, who would then bring their grievances before the Government and have them redressed. The complainants may state their names and addresses, which the Society will undertake to keep confidential. At this juncture, I have the pleasure to mention that the expenses involved in such advertising for the whole year have been defrayed through the generosity of Dr. Ma Luk, to whom our hearty thanks are due.\n\nNot in Vain.\n\nThis advertising of our cause and appeal to the public has not been in vain, and has carried its weight wonderfully. From time to time we have received reports from complainants calling for our help, and in response we have never failed to come to their assistance. Among these we may mention those who have been freed and returned to the custody of their parents without being required to give a refund to their masters or mistresses. These are the daughter of Poon Fung Lin, the daughter of Mrs. Kan, and Lau Choi-ying. There have been some cases in which the mistresses tried to demand big sums of money as redemption from the mui-tsai's parents, and through the Society's influence they promised to give up their demands, when some institution intervened with arbitration, making the parents pay half the redemption; these being the cases of So Cheuk-Kiu, Li Hung, and Tae Sham-koo. This was, of course, much against our will and purpose, which always aims at complete emancipation by acting on the Government's instructions without paying any redemption, or any part of it, by the parents.\n\nVery often reports of cruelty had been found true and confirmed by inquiries made by the Society, but the detectives sent by the authorities to make the necessary enquiry would return with contrary reports and entirely different stories. With a view to overcoming this difficulty, however, the committee of the Society has approached the Government to get permission to allow our English secretary to go together with the detectives to make enquiry into any case dealt with by the Society, so that the real state of affairs may be investigated and a true and reliable report be made. But whether this step of procedure will be approved still remains to be seen.\n\nSupport Needed.\n\nMeanwhile, should any case of cruelty occur, our committee would have no right to interfere and investigate unless the case should also come to the notice of the police authorities. At a meeting of the committee last month, a resolution was unanimously passed that the Government be approached again in order to enforce the registration of mui-tsai, so that present ones might be given safe protection, while the sale of innocent daughters as slave girls might also discontinue. This is what we have done so far in furthering our cause, and we now enlist your support and assistance.\n\nThe financial standing of the Society is by no means sound as its income depends largely on subscriptions from its members. Some time ago we started to collect the subscription for this year, but the results were poor and rather disheartening. Thanks to the generosity of Dr. Ma Luk and Mrs. Fung Heung-chuen, our efforts were rewarded for they each donated $50 to the Society's funds. The expenditure of the Society is rather small, since we have only to pay for advertisements, printing, and some stationery. However, the work of the Society is decidedly burdensome, and it is up to you to see it through; therefore whether we can achieve our object of getting rid of this inveterate social evil depends on how you will respond to the appeal voiced by us now.\n\n## The Discussion.\n\nThe chairman invited discussion on the proposals he had outlined in his opening address in regard to the registration of both mui-tsai and adopted daughters.\n\nA member said that they should enforce registration through a penalty clause and he pointed out that such had been overlooked in the proposals. He suggested that failure to register within the prescribed period of six months be penalised by a heavy fine, to be followed by the giving of complete freedom to the girls without such consideration as compensation to the owner.\n\nAnother member said that much effective work could be accomplished by personal investigation as in the case of the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. He discovered a similarity in the work of the two Societies with the exception that theirs had the greater claim to official backing, in the fact that it was a human being whose life's burden they were seeking to lighten.\n\nThe authorities had displayed a praiseworthy attitude when they co-operated with members of the S.P.C.A. in these personal investigations. He recalled that quite recently, lady members of that Society went round to the various bird shops in the town to look into cases of cruelty and that they were on that occasion accompanied by a police officer. If the same procedure was adopted in their own case, and members of the Anti-Mui-tsai Society were allowed to accompany a police officer in order to investigate fully a report of cruelty, much of the objectionable features to which reference was made by the Chairman in his speech would cease.\n\n### Election of Committee.\n\nAfter further discussion it was agreed to incorporate this suggestion as well as the one for a penalty clause, in the main body of proposals. In their revised form, the proposals were then put to the meeting and passed, the meeting giving full powers to the Executive Committee to present them at the proper time before the authorities. The revised Articles of Constitution of the Society, which had been in the hands of members for some time, were also passed.\n\nThe election of members of the Executive Committee was then proceeded with, and some 30 members were appointed. The Chairman proposed the appointment of Mr. J. D. Bush as Hon. English Secretary. The post was a responsible one, and Mr. C. G. Anderson, who recently resigned from it owing to pressure of business, deserved the thanks of the Society for the able manner in which he had filled it.\n\nMr. J. D. Bush was unanimously appointed Hon. English Secretary, and Mr. Ngan, Hon. Chinese Secretary.\n\nBefore the meeting terminated, the Chairman said it was their unanimous hope that the aims of the Society would soon be realised, and he urged the newly-elected members of the Committee to do their best to bring this about. The mui-tsai system had existed in their midst as an evil. It was always condemned and put out of the law by the Chinese Nationalist Government in a recent edict and he hoped that the Government of this Colony which had been responsible for many beneficial reforms would not be long in falling into line and dealing with a practice which admittedly had many evils.\n\n## Enclosure 4 in No. 18.\n\n**Report on the working of the Female Domestic Servants Ordinance, 1923.**\n\nThe objects of this Ordinance were mainly two: the first to make it quite clear that the payment of money to the parent or guardian or employer of a female child confers no rights in the child and to strengthen the existing powers given to the Secretary for Chinese Affairs under `Ordinance 4 of 1897`; and the second to reinforce the law dealing with cruelty to children. So far there is nothing in the Ordinance which was not provided for in existing legislation. What is new is the prohibition under Section 4 of the taking into employment of mui-tsai as defined in the Ordinance.",
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        "content_text": "# S. 5363--38\n\nThe fact that the offender was sent to prison was but small satisfaction to the Society, as in any case the stigma still attached to Chinese nationals. If by a measure of enlightening propaganda they could achieve their purpose without resorting to more drastic steps, then it would seem that the local Ordinance in its present form was sufficient. Otherwise, the attention of the local authorities would have to be again called more closely into the problem.\n\n## Slogans\n\nDisplayed in a prominent position on the stage of the auditorium was a Chinese scroll, bearing the inscription that \"the mantle of Abraham Lincoln has fallen on Mr. H. A. Cartwright, Editor of the Hong Kong Daily Press.\" This was the tribute of the Anti-Mui-tsai Society to the late Hong Kong Editor, for his services in drawing home and local attention to the movement. It was stated by the Hon. Chinese Secretary that the scroll would now be forwarded to Mr. Cartwright's widow in England.\n\nThe meeting stood in silence for a minute as a mark of respect for the memory of the late Mr. Cartwright.\n\nMr. Peter Wong made a statement of the financial affairs of the Society. He stated that there had been a dearth of funds owing to the lapse of subscriptions, and had it not been for the expenses saved for them through being rent-free and through the secretarial work being hitherto gratuitously discharged, the Society would have been financially in a bad way indeed. As it was, there was just the wherewithal to pay for the cost of stationery.\n\nThe election of the 37 members of the General Committee was then proceeded with, including members of the local gentry and representatives of the European and Chinese press.\n\n## 144\n\n# Enclosure 2 in No.\n\n## TRANSLATION\n\nExtract from the Wa Tsz Yat Po, Hong Kong, 23rd October, 1928.\n\n### The New Committee of the Anti-Mui-tsai Association\n\nOn Saturday last, the Anti-Mui-tsai Association held a general meeting on the premises of the Young Men's Christian Association, and a new Committee of 40 members was appointed by election. Indeed, we have to rely on them to secure happiness for mui-tsai and to restore to them their freedom. We now publish their names below:\n\n| Name | Occupation/Position |\n| --- | --- |\n| Yeung Shiu Tsin |  |\n| Wong Mau Lam |  |\n| Ma Luk Shan |  |\n| Wong Lang Kan |  |\n| Wong Kam Ying | Lam Wog |\n| Wong Hin Chiu |  |\n| Cheung Po Shu |  |\n| Li Kau Yan | Dentist |\n| Miss Yeung Yuk Shin |  |\n| Wong Kam On | Comprador to Watson Co. |\n| Mrs. Yung Ting Shang |  |\n| Mrs. Ma Ying Piu |  |\n| Kwong Ming Kok | Editor, Tai Kwong Fo |\n| J. G. Anderson |  |\n| Tsui Mo Fat | Shoes and boots dealer |\n| Li Ka Fan | Correspondent to Reuter |\n| Chiu Fu Shang |  |\n| Fan Sui Kong | J. D. Bush |\n| Ngan Kwan Yu | Priest |\n| Hung To Fi | Young Women's Christian Association |\n| Tso im San | Yung Ting Shan is a priest |\n| Wong Ngoi Tong | Sincere Co. |\n| Miss Shin Tak Hing |  |\n| Cheuk Yan Ko | Merchant |\n| Mrs. Tso Yan Fong | (Carlo?) brother-in-law of Ho Wing |\n| Mrs. Tsui Kwu Wan Chiu | Young Men's Christian Association |\n| Tam Wai Chi | \"Chinese doctor\" |\n| Wu Yi Tung | Priest |\n| Mak Mui Shang | Teacher |\n| Wong Sham Kan | Manager of a branch of the National and Commercial Savings Bank |\n| Tseng Yun Po | Secretary to Young Men's Christian Association |\n| Cheung Kat Shing | Priest |\n| Cheung Man Chiu | Young Women's Christian Association |\n| Leung | Clerk in a solicitor's office |\n| Chan Wai Cheung | Teacher |\n| Cheung Chuk Ling | Clerk |\n| Mak Shat Fan | Teacher |\n| Tam Wai On | Godown-keeper, Asiatic Petroleum Co. |\n| Lau Man Shang | Merchant |\n|  | Manager, On Lok Restaurant |\n|  | Priest |\n|  | Doctor |\n|  | Priest |\n|  | Language teacher |\n|  | Teacher |",
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        "content_text": "# 5363-41\n\nThe Government should also proclaim a law strictly forbidding the selling and purchasing of girls without the presence and proof of a solicitor, proving that the girl is adopted and purchased as a daughter. A breach of this law should be penalised with imprisonment, while persons directly connected with the unlawful deal should be liable to a heavy fine.\n\nAnnual Report.\n\nThe annual report of the Anti-Mui-tsai Society was then read by Mr. K. Y. Ngan. He said :-\n\nLadies and gentlemen, your presence at this meeting to-day has filled us all with extreme pleasure, and I am sure your showing up here now proves the very deep interest and concern you always entertain in the cause and affairs of this Society. Since the general meeting we convened in July of last year, more than a year has elapsed; but I am glad to say that all the time those on the committee have done their very best in carrying on the work of the Society and, above all, in promoting its worthy cause; and what they have done may partly have been evinced by reports in newspapers, while part of it had to be kept secret and confidential when circumstances so required. We always take to heart the heavy burden on our shoulders and at the same time bear in mind the hard conditions of the mui-tsai. In this you will join us in showing sympathy.\n\nI regret to say that we have not succeeded in influencing the Government to put through the registration of mui-tsai with the proper authorities, and consequently this cursed system has not yet been wiped out from the community. Reports of cruelty and ill-treatment to mui-tsai are no less often heard than before. As our attempt failed at the eradication of this evil, we have now directed our efforts to cope with it by way of diminishing the individual cases of cruelty. We have advertised in two vernacular papers to the effect that all suppressed mui-tsai who have been badly treated by their masters or mistresses may appeal to this Society and make the complaint to the Chairman, who would then bring their grievances before the Government and have them redressed. The complainants may state their names and addresses, which the Society will undertake to keep confidential. At this juncture, I have the pleasure to mention that the expenses involved in such advertising for the whole year have been defrayed through the generosity of Dr. Ma Luk, to whom our hearty thanks are due.\n\nNot in Vain.\n\nThis advertising of our cause and appeal to the public has not been in vain, and has carried its weight wonderfully. From time to time we have received reports from complainants calling for our help, and in response we have never failed to come to their assistance. Among these we may mention those who have been freed and returned to the custody of their parents without being required to give a refund to their masters or mistresses. These are the daughter of Poon Fung Lin, the daughter of Mrs. Kan, and Lau Choi-ying. There have been some cases in which the mistresses tried to demand big sums of money as redemption from the mui-tsai's parents, and through the Society's influence they promised to give up their demands, when some institution intervened with arbitration, making the parents pay half the redemption; these being the cases of So Cheuk-Kiu, Li Hung, and Tse Sham-koo. This was, of course, much against our will and purpose, which always aims at complete emancipation by acting on the Government's instructions without paying any redemption, or any part of it, by the parents.\n\nVery often reports of cruelty had been found true and confirmed by inquiries made by the Society, but the detectives sent by the authorities to make the necessary enquiry would return with contrary reports and entirely different stories. With a view to overcoming this difficulty, however, the committee of the Society has approached the Government to get permission to allow our English secretary to go together with the detectives to make enquiry into any case dealt with by the Society, so that the real state of affairs may be investigated and a true and reliable report be made. But whether this step of procedure will be approved still remains to be seen.\n\nSupport Needed.\n\nMeanwhile, should any case of cruelty occur, our committee would have no right to interfere and investigate unless the case should also come to the notice of the police authorities. At a meeting of the committee last month, a resolution was unanimously passed that the Government be approached again in order to enforce the registration of mui-tsai, so that present ones might be given safe protection, while the sale of innocent daughters as slave girls might also discontinue. This is what we have done so far in furthering our cause, and we now enlist your support and assistance.\n\nAs to the financial standing of the Society, it is by no means sound as its income depends largely on subscriptions from its members. Some time ago we started to collect the subscription for this year, but the results were poor and rather disheartening. Thanks to the generosity of Dr. Ma Luk and Mrs. Fung Heung-chuen, our efforts were rewarded; for they each donated $50 to the Society's funds. The expenditure of the Society is rather small, since we have only to pay for advertisements, printing, and some stationery. However, the work of the Society is decidedly burdensome, and it is up to you to see it through; therefore whether we can achieve our object of getting rid of this inveterate social evil depends on how you will respond to the appeal voiced by us now.\n\nThe Discussion.\n\nThe chairman invited discussion on the proposals he had outlined in his opening address in regard to the registration of both mui-tsai and adopted daughters.\n\nA member said that they should enforce registration through a penalty clause and he pointed out that such had been overlooked in the proposals. He suggested that failure to register within the prescribed period of six months be penalised by a heavy fine, to be followed by the giving of complete freedom to the girls without such consideration as compensation to the owner.\n\nPage 147",
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        "content_text": "# SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST. MONDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1930.\n\n## WELFARE OF MUI TSAI.\n\n### CHILD WELFARE PROBLEM AND LOCAL CO-OPERATION OF THE PROTECTION BODIES NECESSARY.\n\nSOCIETY'S ANNUAL MEETING.\n\nEmphasising that the mui tsai is unquestionably part of the child welfare problem and urging co-ordination of efforts between various institutions interested in neglected children, the Hon. English Secretary of the Anti-Mui Tsai Society, Mr. J. D. Bush, addressed a big gathering at the annual meeting of this Society in the auditorium of the Chinese Y.M.C.A. on Saturday afternoon. He said that the Anti-Mui-Tsai Society is working for the eventual enforcement of law to protect mui tsai throughout South China.\n\nCommenting on the work of the local Child Welfare Society, the speaker said he hoped to see more officers specially selected and trained to carry on the work of the Society. \n\n### S.C.A.'S HELP APPRECIATED.\n\nInstead of having just one young lady fulfilling the duty of an Inspector, there should be at least a dozen or more officers (men and women) selected and trained because of their special aptitude for the posts they have to fill. Then, also, there should be more men who are thoroughly interested in championing the cause of every child, whether mui-tsai or any sort of neglected child, who suffers. We want genuine and enthusiastic supporters of the child welfare work in the Colony. So far as there is a difference between the work of the Child Welfare Society and our Society at all, it is a difference in thoroughness, although we have the same aims and object in view. I offer these remarks in the spirit of friendly criticism, without the least intention of being flippant or cynical.\n\nThe meeting was presided over by Mr. S. C. Yeung, the Chairman of the Anti-Mui-Tsai Society, who was supported by the Hon. English Secretary, Mr. J. D. Bush, and the Hon. Chinese Secretary, Mr. Wong She-tin.\n\n### Chairman's Speech.\n\nThe Society also wishes to report to you, in a spirit of gratitude, that considerable success has attended the efforts to get in closer touch with the Social Service Bureau in Canton. The ready response to our appeal for enforcement of mui-tsai protection in Canton is deeply appreciated. Similar relationship with the Government in Macao is hoped for in the immediate future.\n\nReturning to our work in Hong Kong, relations with the S.C.A. are excellent and most cordial co-operation has been established between us. This arises mainly from the fact that the officers in charge have exercised the utmost patience and adopted the most tolerant and tactful attitude towards cases brought before them.\n\nA general committee consisting of thirty well-known local residents interested in child welfare work was elected, including Messrs. S. C. Yeung, Ho Iu, J. D. Bush, Wong She-tin, Lam Woo, Hung To-fay, Woo Yee-tung, Wat Lok-hing, Tsak Tai-kwong, Wong Shum-kan, Wong Kam-ying, Mak Mui-sang, Cheung Kat-shing, Yung Ting-sang, Moffat Tsui, Cheuk Yan-ko, J. M. Wong, Ngan Kwan-yu, Chen Kon-sang, Li Shiu-pak, Chan Ming-shan, Mrs. Tso She-kwong, Mrs. Yung Yeung Yuk-sín, Rev. Wong Oi-tone, Rev. Li Kau-yan, Rev. Cheung Chuk-ling, and Drs. Fok Wing-kan, Ma Luk, Chau Wai-cheung, and L. S. Shin.\n\nIn addressing the gathering, the Chairman, Mr. S. C. Yeung, said: \"Ladies and gentlemen, Before proceeding with the election of officials for the coming year and presenting to you the general report of the past year, it gives me the greatest pleasure to witness the big gathering of members and supporters to-day. Your interest and enthusiasm are encouraging to my fellow-workers and to me. Thanks to all co-workers, I have been able to continue with this uphill fight for the sake of humanity, acting as chairman of this Society for all these years, and despite my inefficiency, the keen interest taken by the many supporters of this Society for the welfare of the mui-tsai in Hong Kong has made possible the registration of mui-tsai, the beneficial results of which afford great satisfaction to all lovers of humanity.\n\n### Past Achievements.\n\nThe Honorary English Secretary, Mr. J. D. Bush, said: \"Ladies and gentlemen: Looking back on the records of work of this Society, there is legitimate cause for some satisfaction at what has been accomplished during the year under review. Registration is now an accomplished fact, with 4,299 mui-tsai actually registered, and the courts in the Colony are doing their duty in enforcing the law and bringing to justice any gross cases of extreme brutality. On the whole, these neglected children are placed under more effective protection by the Female Domestics Ordinance.\n\nAnyone following closely the reports in the local English and Chinese press could not but take note of the punishment meted out in stubborn cases of cruelty and flagrant breaches of the law in non-registration and in buying and selling of mui-tsai. In the two outstanding cases deserving more than passing notice, one defendant was fined $500 for buying and selling, and the other met the stern penalty of six months' imprisonment for treating a child of six in a brutal fashion. The melancholy condition of the child really horrified everyone in court at the time.\n\n\"I would like to thank all the Christian Church unions, the various educational institutions, and individuals for their financial assistance and circulation of leaflets and literature in our campaign against the mui-tsai system. All these efforts are directly responsible for bringing this odious system to the notice of the British Government, resulting in the Colonial Secretary and Hong Kong Government signifying their approval of the suggested registration of all mui-tsai in the British Colony. The registration will undoubtedly result in the abolition of the mui-tsai system and realisation of a great aim of this Society.\n\n### Secretary's Report.\n\nIn his report of the events recorded in the past year, the Chinese Secretary, Mr. Wong She-tin, said: \"Once again we are gathered here to tell you of the accomplishments during the year just past. It is pleasing to be able to say that we have succeeded in having registration enforced, which doubtless helps to improve the lot of the mui-tsai in the Colony to a considerable extent.\n\nThe following constitutes the total number of mui-tsai cases dealt with through this Society since October 1929:\n| Category | Number |\n| --- | --- |\n| Complaints made at this Society by mui-tsais personally | 43 |\n| Complaints made by correspondence | 13 |\n| Total | 56 |\n| Mui-tsais set free by their owners during the registration period | 12 |\n| Mui-tsais liberated by order of the Court | 20 |\n| Out of this number, girls have been restored to their relatives | 14 |\n| The rest, not having any relatives, were entrusted to the custody of the Po Leung Kuk | 6 |\n| Cases favourably decided by the mui-tsais, left in the temporary custody of their owners | 2 |\n| Mui-tsai returned to her relative after registration | 1 |\n| Owners fined or imprisoned for ill-treatment after registration | 2 |\n| Owners fined by Court for cruelty before registration | 1 |\n| Cases reported to the S.C.A. and discharged because of insufficient evidence | 6 |\n| Cases, action being taken | 8 |\n| Cases still being investigated | 4 |\n| Total | 56 |\n\n\"From the foregoing, it will be noted with satisfaction the active interest taken in the mui-tsai. But this is only a first step, and there is yet much to be done to reach the goal of complete emancipation. Why? Because, according to our original estimate, the number of mui-tsai in the Colony were about 8,000 or more, out of which only 4,299 have registered. What has become of the remainder? We know that the more kindly owners have set free a goodly number, possibly before the enforcement of registration, yet there must be a huge number being sent away surreptitiously elsewhere, while still others have purposely ignored registration. It is the fate of the unregistered for whom we are most anxious.\n\n\"Hitherto our propaganda work is directed mainly against the brutal owners of mui-tsai. Nothing has been done to help the mui-tsai themselves to understand their own legal position after registration. Many of these girls are so cowed down by their owners that they have been left in total ignorance of the primary purpose of registration and therefore dare not go to the S.C.A. to report cases of ill-treatment. There must be scores and scores of mui-tsai, who though registered, are still groaning under the brutal hands of their mistresses. Something must be done to help these poor girls out of their fear and ignorance.\n\n### Future Plans.\n\nThe meeting also discussed and resolved to continue with the campaign to secure more members of the Society and anyone who is interested in this form of child welfare work can become a member by making a first and last contribution of fifty cents to the Society. The possibilities of opening a branch society at Canton to look after child welfare in Kwangtung were also discussed, but the consensus of opinion was that such a society at Canton should be initiated by the Canton public, although the Hong Kong Society pledges its strong support for similar work in Kwangtung.\n\n\"The unwearying support of this Society coming from Lt. Comdr. and Mrs. H. L. Haslewood, the Anti-Slavery and Aborigines Protection Society, the Young Women's Christian Association of Great Britain, Lady Simons, and members of the House of Commons, is largely responsible for bringing the unbelievable cruelty of the mui-tsai system to the attention of the British Government at Home, which resulted in the latter's final order for its abolition.\n\n\"I may add, in passing, there is sadness in the reflection that the S.P.C.A. in the Colony can be more active than the S.P.C.C. If protection of animals can stimulate so much interest and ardour in our midst, surely we can include in our purview the child as well. The mui tsai constitute a preponderant part of the child welfare problem in the Colony.\n\n\"The position of the mui tsai in Hong Kong from the legal point of view, is now:\n1. No further mui tsai are to be taken into employment in the Colony.\n2. No mui tsai unless previously registered in the Colony is to be brought into the Colony.\n3. Employers have no authority to keep a mui tsai if she wishes to leave.\n4. Existing mui tsai have all to be registered.\n5. Existing mui tsai are to be paid wages.\n\nDuring the meeting, a concert was given to vary the proceedings, with musical items rendered by Messrs. Peter Cheung, Chan Tak-kwong, and Lum On-ling, and Chinese singing by Messrs. Hung Kim-chau, Lam Wan-lok, Chan Shiu, Lam Liu-yee, and Lee Dic-sang, which was warmly applauded. Others who contributed to make the concert a success were Messrs. Tso Ling-wai, Ng Chi-chiu, Lee Kwok-leung, and Lum Tin-tsai. The concert concluded with another Chinese musical item by Messrs. Chu Hau-cheung, Pau Shin-chuen, and Chu Tak-cheung. Light refreshments were served.",
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        "content_text": "14\n\nGeneral Committee.—Continued.\n\nThe Rev. Dean Swann Mr. Tam Woon Tong Mr. Tang Shiu Kin Mr. Tong Yat Chuen Mr. Tse Ka Po\n\nThe Hon. Dr. S. W. Ts'o, O.B.E.\n\nMrs. S. W. Ts'o\n\nThe Rev. R. H. Wells, O.B.E. Mr. B. Wong Tape Mr. Wong Kwong Tin Mr. Wong Mau Lam Mr. Wong Tak Kwong Miss Foon-yee Catherine Woo, M.B.E.\n\nExecutive Committee.\n\nChairman: The Hon. Dr. R. H. Kotewall, C.M.G. Vice-Chairman: The Hon. Mr. W. E. L. Shenton.\n\nChevalier J. M. Alves\n\nMr. A. el Arculli\n\nThe Hon. Mr. J. P. Braga\n\nThe Hon. Sir Shouson Chow\n\nMr. A. G. Coppin\n\nMrs. Creasy\n\nDr. A. L. J. Dovey\n\nMr. R. A. D. Forrest\n\nMr. Ho Kom Tong, O.B.E.\n\nMr. Ho Kwong\n\nFather D. Hourigan\n\nThe Hon. Mr. J. Owen Hughes\n\nMr. Ip Lan Chuen\n\nDr. E. W. Kirk\n\nMrs. R. H. Kotewall\n\nMr. Li Yau Tsun, C.B.E.\n\nMr. M. K. Lo\n\nDr. A. McElney\n\nMr. J. L. McPherson Dr. E. M. Minett\n\nMr. H. Mori\n\nMrs. Fred Mow Fung\n\nDr. Phoon Seck Wah\n\nThe Hon. Sir Henry Pollock, K.C.\n\nMr. J. T. Prior Miss R. Rains\n\nMr. E. M. Raymond Miss Shin Tak Hing Mr. Tang Shiu Kin\n\nMr. Tong Yat Chuen\n\nThe Hon. Dr. S. W. Ts'o, O.B.E.\n\nMr. J. M. Wong\n\nMr. Wong Kwong Tin\n\nMr. Li Yik Mui, as Chairman of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce.\n\nMr. Ngan Shing Kwan, as Chairman of the Tung Wah Hospital.\n\nMr. Tam Woon Tong, as Chairman of the Po Leung Kuk. Messrs. T. N. Chau and T. M. Hazlerigg, Hon. Secretaries, Mr. Li Hoi Tung, Hon. Treasurer.\n\nInspectors:\n\nMiss Seto Wai Sheung\n\nMiss Violet C. Chan. Miss Agnes Anderson.\n\n15\n\n—\n\nLife Members.\n\n(Donors of $100 or more.)\n\nH.E. The Governor, Sir William Peel, K.C.M.G., K.B.E.\n\nMr. J. M. Alves\n\nMr. A. el Arculli\n\nMr. Au Lim Chuen\n\nMr. Au Shiu Cho\n\nLt. Col. L. G. Bird, D.S.O. Mr. W. H. Bell\n\n*Lt. Col. G. K. Hall Brutton\n\nMr. Chan Hing Wa Mr. Chan Hung Leung Mr. Chan Kam Po *Mr. Chan Leung Ming\n\nMr. Chan Lim Pak Mr. Chan Mung Hung Mr. Parkson Chan Mr. S. C. Chan Mr. Chan Shiu Hing Mr. Chan Shu Kai\n\nMr. Chan Ting Yu Mr. Chan Tin-son Mr. Chan Tsze Chiu Mr. T. N. Chau Mr. Chau Tung Shang *Mr. Cheung Sau Pau\n\nMr. Cheung Yuk Lam\n\nMr. Chiu Kom To Mr. Choa Po Sin\n\nThe Hon. Sir Shouson Chow Mr. Chung Shu Tseung Mr. Chung Yuk Hing Sir Cecil Clementi, G.C.M.G. Lady Clementi\n\nMr. A. G. Coppin Mr. John Fleming Mr. F. M. Ellis Mr. Fung Fuk Tin\n\nMr. Fung Kong Un Mr. Philip Gock-Chin Mr. J. F. Grose\n\n*Mr. Ho Kom Tong, O.B.E.\n\nMr. Ho Kung Chung\n\nThe asterisk indicates\n\nMr. Ho Sing Chau Sir Robert Ho Tung Mr. Ho Wa Sang\n\nMr. Hung Hing Kam\n\nMr. A. C. Hynes\n\nMr. Ip King Fan Mr. Ip Lan Chuen\n\nMr. F. C. Jenkin, C.B.E., K.C.\n\nMr. J. E. Joseph Mr. Kan Hung Chiu Mr. Kan Tat Tsoi Mr. Kong Shui Ying The Hon. Dr. R. H. Kotewall, C.M.G. Mrs. R. H. Kotewall Mr. Kwan King Suen Mr. P. K. Kwok Mr. Kwok Siu Lau Mr. Kwok Tsan Mr. Lam Cheuk Ming Mr. Lam Siu Lai Mr. Lau Ping Chai Mr. K. F. Lay Mr. Lee Iu Cheung Mr. Leung Pat Yu Mr. Leung Yiu Chor Mr. Li Heung Kuk Mr. Li Hoi Tung Mr. Li Jowson Mr. Li Koon Chun Mr. Li Ping\n\nMr. Li Po Kwai Mr. Li Tse Fong\n\nMr. Li Yan-tsun C.B.E.\n\nMr. Li Yik Mui\n\nMr. Lo Cheung Shiu Mr. Lo Chung Kue\n\nMr. M. K. Lo\n\nMrs. M. K. Lo *Mr. Look Poong Shar\n\nMr. Ma Tsui Chiu *Mr. Ma Ying Piu\n\ndonations exceeding $100.\n\n24",
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        "content_text": "16\n\nLife Members.--Continued.\n\nMr. Mok Kon Sang Dr. W. B. A. Moore\n\nMr. Ngan Shing Kwan Mr. Ng Wah\n\nMr. Pang Yuen Ting Mr. S. S. Perry\n\nMr. Eldon Potter, K.C. Mr. Pun Hiu Cho\n\nMr. Pun Pik Luen Mr. E. M. Raymond Anonymous, H.S.R. Mr. J. H. Seth\n\nThe Hon. Mr. W. E L. Shenton\n\n*Mr. T. H. R. Shaw\n\nMr. H. H. Sling\n\nMr. Shou J. Chen\n\n*Mr. J. H. Taggart\n\nMr. Tai Hon Nam\n\nMr. W. N. Thomas Tam\n\nMr. Tam Woon Tong\n\nMr. Tang Chi Ngong Mr. Tang Shiu Kin\n\n*Mr. Tong Hey Man\n\nMr. Tong Yat Chuen\n\nMr. Tse Ka Po\n\nMr. Tsang Kui Son\n\nThe Hon. Dr. S. W. Tso, O.B.E.\n\nMrs. S. W. Tso Mr. M. H. Turner *Mr. Wai Shiu Pak\n\nMr. Wong Iu Tung Mr. J. M. Wong Mr. Wong Kam Fuk Mr. Wong Kwong Tin Mr. Wong Moon Chow Dr. S. To Wong Mr. Wong Tak Kwong Mr. B. Wong-Tape Mr. Wong Yue Hau Mr. Wong Yun Tong Mr. Yau Tit Yu\n\nMr. Yick Ki Chau Mr. Yu Piu Kwai Mr. Yu Yuen Fook\n\n* The asterisk indicates donations exceeding $100.\n\n17\n\n—\n\nDonations of $100 or more by Societies, Firms, etc.\n\nMessrs. Kam Cheong Hong\n\nKwong Mei Shing\n\nKwong Mow Tai\n\nKwong Sang Hong, Ltd,\n\nThe Sincere Co., Ltd.\n\nThe Hong Kong Women's Guild and Ministering Children's League.\n\nChinese Staff and Pupils, Wanchai Government School,\n\nSubscribers and Donors.\n\nMrs. Abraham Mr. Ezra Abraham Mr. J. L. Adams Mrs. E. L. Agassiz Mrs. E. J. Ainslie Mrs. C. G. Anderson Miss K. M. Anderson Mr. W. J. Anderson Mr. W. R. N. Andrews Anonymous\n\nper Mr. J. C. Bollard per Mr. T. L. Chau per Miss G. Ezra\n\nA. J. P.\n\nA. M.\n\nF. J. T. L.\n\nJ. E.\n\nF. X.\n\nR. C.\n\nT. A.\n\nA. Z.\n\nLahore\n\nMr. G. S. Archbutt\n\nMr. & Mrs. Frank Austin Mr. J. T. Bagram Fr. L. Banchio\n\nMessrs. The Bank of Canton Ltd.\n\nMr. & Mrs. P. E. Barker\n\nMiss N. W. Bascombe\n\nMr. H. J. Best\n\nMr. B. G. Birch\n\nThe Rt. Rev. Bishop of Victoria and Mrs. Duppuy\n\nThe Rt. Rev. Bishop Valtorta\n\nThe Hon. Mr. J. P. Braga\n\nMr. A. O. Brawn\n\nMr. M. J. Breen\n\nMiss Buckwell\n\nMr. R. E. Cable, F.C.S.\n\nJoy & Ian Carrie\n\nMr. E. W. Carpenter, O.B.E. Mr. P. S. Cassidy Mr. G. Castle Capt. I. Chalmers Mr. C. M. Chan Mr. Chan Foon Tin Mr. Chan Heung Pak Mr. Chan Wai Sang Mr. Chan Yu Tin Mr. Chau Cham Lam Mr. Chau Cheuk Fan Mr. Chau Chik Nin Mr. Chau Iu Nin Dr. K. W. Chaun Mr. David Chen See Mr. Chiu Mini Chow Mr. K. F. Chow Mr. Chow Ping Un Mr. Choy Wai Hung Mr. S. M. Churn Mr. C. E. R. Clarabut Mr. E. Cock\n\nMr. Frank Cole Mr. A. H. Compton Mr. A. M. Cooper Miss M. Cooper Miss G. M. Cotton\n\n26",
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        "content_text": "118\n\nL. GIBBS\n\nThere is a\n\nThe new maps are essentially military maps. A grid system, no doubt designed primarily to enable the O.C. to tell the battery commander exactly where to plump a shell, may however be used to locate a few defects which, though perhaps of little account from a military point of view, detract considerably from the value of the maps for ordinary topographical purposes. Taking the Tai Po sheet, a district with which the writer is well acquainted. At East 177, North 718 is shown a large village, but with no name. This is the village of Lin Au. The 2½ inch map incorrectly named it Lung Om. At East 205, North 714 and 717 are shown two more nameless villages. These should be named Sheung Wong Au and Ha Wong Au. In the 2½ inch map the names are transposed.\n\ndifficulty with place names where two dialects are spoken, but a beginner in Chinese knows that Sheung means \"upper\" and \"Ha,\" lower.\n\nAt East 213, North 742 is shown the village of Fung Yuen. There should surely be a considerable patch of woodland on the hillside behind it, East 196, North 768 the village of Wan Shan Ha is unaccountably omitted. The writer of this note once lived in a house shown at East 226 North 710. This name has got adrift, it belongs to the one remaining house of the old village near the west entrance of the Tai Po tunnel. A well-marked topographical feature like the Lam Tsun Valley should be named on a map of this scale. (It is a most beautiful valley too. See it in April or in July, with its brilliant green paddy fields and many villages among their dark fung-shui trees, all backed by the fine massif of Tai Mo Shan).\n\n37\n\nIt is a pity that maps based on high-class survey work, chock-a-block with azimuths and co-ordinates and assisted by one of the greatest inventions (so far) of the Century—mechanical flying—should be marred by errors and omissions which an intelligent schoolboy could rectify.\n\nConventional signs \"distinguish between Coniferous and Deciduous Woodland. But this differentiation does not hold in South China where the bulk of the non-coniferous trees are evergreens. The colouring of woodland green, with a definite edging of dots makes a distinction on the map which seldom exists on the ground, where woodland as often as not merges into scattered trees and scrub. The green colour might be omitted with economy and advantage.\n\nIt would perhaps be scarcely fair to make a comparison between the maps of Hong Kong and the Ordinance Survey of England and Wales, but as, at the time of writing, the first sheet of a new edition of the 1 inch to the mile maps of the latter survey has appeared, some account of these maps may be of interest. The sheet just published covers an area of 30 miles by 18 miles in the neighbourhood of Plymouth and can be had mounted to fold for 4 shillings. The streams are printed in blue. A new style of lettering for the place names has been adopted and the different classes of roads are clearly shown, but the most important innovation is an attempt to show by pale hachure shading and pale colouring the relief of the country. The maps are in fact called the Fifth (Relief) Edition.\" The old 1 inch maps of 50 years ago—showed relief by hachures only. This system was fairly effective for showing up mountainous country and for indicating the\n\nThe Hong Kong Naturalist.\n\na\n\n11\n\nMaps of Hong Kong\n\n44\n\n119\n\ndirection of a range of hills, but, except for an occasional figure printed at a summit or at a cross road it gave no indication of the actual height above sea level. Then came an edition with contours, mostly 100 feet apart and Popular Edition in which the contours were 50 feet apart and were printed brown and the woods coloured green. A few sheets of this popular edition were coloured to show relief and called 'Tourist Maps.'\n\nThis relief colouring commenced with green at the sea level, a paler tint of green at 100 feet was followed by a pale brown at 200 feet. This brown tint was continued to the hill tops, gradually increasing in darkness at each 100 feet of altitude. This is an admirable system for showing topography, a glance shows what is high land and what is low land, and as the contours are printed and figured the actual levels can also be ascertained. One would expect it to be an expensive process but the maps produced were sold at 4 shillings each, the same price as those of the new edition. The drawback to this layer colouring is that if you continue up to 3,000 feet a colour scheme which adequately shows the relief at 600 or 800 feet, you will, by the time you have reached the 3,000 feet summits have obtained so dark a tint as almost to obliterate the printed features of the map. In the new maps a clear representation of topography, which might have been obtained by layer colouring, appears to have been sacrificed to artistic effect. On the cover also, beauty, or what is no doubt thought to be beauty is placed before utility. An ornate representation of the Royal Arms takes the place which should be occupied by a key map. There is no reason that this key map should not be made just as pleasing to look upon as the representation of the Royal Arms. It seems that economy might be effected by omitting the green colour of the woodlands. These are quite clearly shown by the printed representations of trees. Beyond these criticisms one can have nothing but praise for the new maps, and can only express the hope that they will soon be available for the country at large, where the stoppage\n\nof map making brought about by the war and the rapid growth of suburban building in the country, involved in the post-war exodus from the towns, has left the last edition of the 1 inch maps so far out of date as to be almost useless in many places for finding one's way about.\n\n(1) Geographical Journal.\n\nMay 1937.\n\n(2)\n\n55\n\nFebruary 1928. September 1926.\n\n138",
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        "content_text": "THE EVOLUTION OF THE UNIVERSITY.\n\nThe idea of establishing a University in Hong Kong was advocated by the China Mail and others in 1905, but for a year or so it remained a mere pious aspiration of an entirely nebulous character. In December 1907, at a prize-giving at St. Stephen's College, Lord Lugard expressed the hope that the project might before long take shape. Shortly after this, Sir Hormusjee Mody told Lord Lugard that he was prepared to erect the necessary buildings at a cost of $150,000 and to give $50,000 towards the endowment of the University.\n\nThe College of Medicine had still no buildings of its own. Students lived in their own homes or in lodgings, and lectures and clinical teaching were arranged in some nine hospitals and other institutions scattered throughout the city. In 1905, Government had offered a site to the Court of the College, and in 1907, Mr. Ng Li Hing had offered $50,000 towards a building. Cheuk Kai had given $10,000, and in 1908, the Court of the College had made an appeal for further funds.\n\nLord Lugard felt that the projects of the University and the new College of Medicine might be combined. The College Court was approached and welcomed the larger scheme of a University for Hong Kong, and it offered to amalgamate the College in the University. The site was given up; Mr. Ng Li Hing's endowment was diverted to the University scheme with his consent; the Court's programme was abandoned, and their appeal devoted to the endowment of the University.\n\nThen followed much discussion and no little misgiving. In May 1909, Messrs. John Swire & Sons and the China Association contributed each £40,000; the Viceroy of Canton gave $200,000. The Government of China made a grant, and the Chinese communities of Canton, Macao, Saigon, Newchwang, Amoy, Penang, Wuchow, and Australia added their subscriptions to those of the Hong Kong Chinese.\n\nThe foundation stone of the University of Hong Kong was laid on the 16th March, 1911. The best British minds which were then concerned with the problem of China and the influence of the British therein believed in the Hong Kong University scheme. And the claims of Hong Kong to be the natural centre for western education in the Far East seemed overwhelming. Students would obtain in Hong Kong opportunities for studying colloquial English and of acquiring something of a western atmosphere, though still in touch with their own people.\n\nAt the time, many Chinese students were going to Europe and America. This was regarded as a costly and dangerous process. The Viceroy of Canton wrote in his manifesto, \"It costs many hundreds of dollars a year to maintain a student in Japan and many thousands to maintain one in a western country. The expenditure has taxed the resources of the different provinces to the uttermost, and great anxiety is felt as to the future.\" The value of English as the medium of the University's instruction was emphasised.\n\n\"Graduates by the mastery of English will acquire a key to a great literature and a great trade.\" The University was to be open to all races and creeds, and its matriculation and degree examinations were to be maintained at a standard equal to that of English universities. While its medium was to be English, Chinese language and literature were also to be taught. Residence was to be compulsory. There was to be no obligation of any kind whatsoever to adopt, or to receive, instruction in any particular form of religion, but the University would work in harmony with all religious bodies.\n\nWhile independent of the Colonial Government and controlled by its own Court, Council, and Senate, the University was to include on its management some of the principal Government officers. The Governor would be Chancellor, so as to ensure continuity of administration and the co-operation and assistance of Government. The University would promote a good understanding and friendship between British and Chinese. It would, in fine, afford a cheaper means of acquiring higher western education for Chinese, without exile to the west for a long period, involving denationalisation and disunion from their parents and people.\n\nThe University was incorporated by an Ordinance of the 30th March, 1911. The Ordinance has been amended in 1920, 1925, and 1927. The principle of religious and racial neutrality is embodied in Section 18 of the Ordinance.\n\nIn connection with the foundation of the University, His Majesty's Government granted the sum of £300 per annum for scholarships for British subjects, and His Majesty the King was graciously pleased to direct that the holders should be called King Edward VII Scholars, as a token of His personal interest. Each scholarship is of the annual value of £40 and is tenable for the term of five years. One or more scholarships may be awarded each year on the results of the Matriculation Examination.\n\nOther scholarships were endowed by Mr. Belilios, Mr. Ho Fook, Mr. Lo Cheung Shui, Mr. Ho Wing, and Mr. Ho Kwong. The Ng Li Hing scholarships now awarded in the Medical Faculty were inherited under trust from the Hong Kong College of Medicine. A varying number of open scholarships, each of the value of $1,235 a year, are awarded by the Hong Kong Government to students in the Education Department of the Faculty of Arts who undertake after graduation to serve as teachers in local schools for a prescribed period.\n\nWhen on a visit to Hong Kong in 1922, His Royal Highness Edward, Prince of Wales, was graciously pleased to accept from the University its Honorary Degree of Doctor of Laws.\n\nPage 28",
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        "content_text": "# LOV\n## 37\n\nThe government made a reality. The only way to save China from poverty is economic reconstruction. As regards economic elements, there is nothing beyond capital and labour. The essential requirement is co-operation between the Government and the people. Co-operation progresses by steps. First, it is necessary to have economic concatenations. By concatenation is meant the concentration of resources and useful men and the linking up of economy connections. The vital point lies with the reputable leaders of the Community and their efforts to start and work, and with the Government in its duty to afford protection. I can say for certain that with mutual assistance and co-operation, there is nothing which cannot be done.\n\nWe know very well that the prosperity of Hongkong and Canton is really interdependent. You, Gentlemen, and Dr. Kotewall are distinguished men of Hongkong. You have taken keen interest and led others in economic enterprises, thereby eliciting the admiration of the community and the respect of the Government. It gives me great pleasure to be with all of you here today. It is my earnest hope that you will, with the same spirit as you have done in the past, take a lead in the economic developments of Kwangtung. It is my hope too that other gentlemen in China will, on hearing of such news, rise and help to carry out the national economic scheme for saving the country from poverty.\n\n## Mayor's Reply\n\nDuring my present visit to Hongkong with Chairman Huang, I have been given the warmest welcome and finest entertainment by Hongkong Government and fellow-countrymen. I and our cannot express how much I am indebted to them. You have again today entertained me at a lunch party and I fully enjoy your princely hospitality. You have also spoken kindly of me. I am so touched that I can find no words to express my thanks. I hope the people of Hongkong and Canton will remain in the friendliest terms and spare no efforts in working for the prosperity of the two cities and reviving the trade of both places, so that commerce and industry may flourish and the people be enriched. When this is achieved, we should have a grand fete to celebrate our success, and I shall take the opportunity to be your host and invite you all to honour me with your presence.\n\nI believe that my hope will be realized in the very near future. I now ask you all to drink together with me and I wish you health.\n\n## The Hosts\n\nThe hosts were: Mr. R. H. Kotewall, Dr. S. W. Tso, Messrs. T. N. Chau, M. K. Lo, Sir Shouson Chow, Sir Robert Ho Tung, Dr. S. N. Chau, Messrs. Shou J. Chen, Ho Kom-tong, Kan Tong-po, Dr. Li Shu-fan, Messrs. Li Sing-kui, Li To-nam, Li Yau-tsun, Lo Wing-kit, W. N. T. Tam, B. Wong Tape, J. M. Wong.\n\n## CHINESE CHAMBER Give Tea Party in Honour Of Canton Officials\n\n### CORDIALITY PREVAILS\n\nIn honour of the visit here of His Excellency the Kwangtung Provincial Chairman, General Huang Mu-sung, and H. H. the Mayor of Canton, Mr. Tseng Yang-fu, the members of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce gave a tea party reception in the Chamber's hall yesterday afternoon. The Canton Governor and Mayor arrived together with His Majesty's Consul-General at Canton, Mr. H. Phillips, and Chinese Unofficial members of the Legislative Council.\n\nAt the entrance of the Chamber, the eminent visitors were welcomed by Mr. Li Sing-kui and other members.\n\nThree bows to the Chinese national flag and the portrait of the late Dr. Sun Yat-sen marked the commencement of the proceedings. The will of the late Dr. Sun Yat-sen was read by the Chamber's Secretary, Mr. H. Y. Tso. All the hosts then bowed ceremoniously to the Canton Governor and Mayor, who bowed in acknowledgment.\n\nThe Chinese national anthem was played by the band of the Chung Sing Benevolent Society.\n\nThroughout the reception, the most cordial and happy spirit prevailed. The Canton Governor and Mayor, who of course made their speeches in Cantonese, stressed the importance of promoting better relations between Hongkong and Canton, which sentiments were loudly applauded.\n\nWhen General Huang remarked that relations between Great Britain and China were improving every day, and the relations between Hongkong and Canton had been brought much closer through the able services of His Majesty's Consul-General, Mr. Phillips, he received applause from the gathering.\n\nAfter the speeches, the Canton Governor stayed for some time exchanging views with the merchants, and conversed freely with Mr. Li Sing-kui, Mr. Wong Tape, and others.\n\nThe visit attracted great Chinese interest as the national flag was flown everywhere in town. A crowd of many hundreds lined the Praya outside the Chamber to see the arrival of the Canton officials.\n\nThose present were: His Excellency General Huang Mu-sung (Chairman of the Kwangtung Provincial Government), H. H. Mr. Tseng Yang-fu (Mayor of Canton), Mr. Herbert Phillips, C.M.G., O.B.E., (British Consul-General, Canton), Colonel Li Fong (Secretary of the Municipal Government of Canton), Mr. Chang Yuen-nan, the Hon. Mr. R. H. Kotewall, Hon. Mr. S. W. Tso, Hon. Mr. T. N. Chau, Mr. Li Sing-kui, Mr. J. M. Wong, Mr. Tai Tak-fu (Chinese Invoice Officer of Hongkong), Mr. Li Yau-tsun, C.B.E., Mr. Ho Kom-tong, Mr. Fung Heung-chuen, Mr. Chan Pak-shuen, Mr. Li Chi-chung, Mr. Chan Kam-po, Dr. Li Shu-fan, Mr. Kong Chi-ying, Mr. Ho Chap-ping, Mr. Chow Din-pong, Mr. Chan Yuk-chim, Mr. Li Lu-chao, Mr. Chin Shu-fan, Mr. Lau Kok-ho, Mr. Chung Ping-fung, Mr. Wan Man-hing, Mr. Yao Pek-lung (Director of the Canton Navigation Bureau), Mr. Tong Ying-hua (Director of the China Merchants Steam Navigation Company), Mr. W. J. Wen, Mr. Lo Ying-yu, Mr. Shen Hsiao-chin, Mr. Lam Fong-pak, Mr. Tsam Shiu-sum, Mr. Tang Chung-put, General Chen Kee-yau, Mr. Choi Cheong, Mr. Chan Chung-pik, Mr. Au Yeung-kee, Mr. Chan Kwong-chung, Mr. Lam Po-tin, Mr. Wong Cheuk-nam, Mr. Tse Tsun-on, Mr. Tai An-kay, Mr. Tang Shiu-kin, Mr. Philip Gockchin, Mr. Jackman To, Mr. Kwok Chan, Mr. Ip Lan-cauen, Mr. W. N. Thomas Tam, Mr. Lo Wing-kit, Mr. Peter Sin, Mr. Ho Leung, Dr. F. I. Tseung, Mr. Ngan Shing-kwan, Mr. Wong Tape, Mr. Yung Chi-ming, Mr. Yung Koon-man, Mr. Kwan Shu-chung, Mr. Li Po-kwai, Mr. Li Jor-shan, Mr. Lau Yak-wan, Mr. Lau King-tsing, Mr. Fung Kee-cheuk, Mr. Lam Chi-fung, Mr. Fung Ping-fan, and many others.\n\n## Trade Relations\n\nSpeaking in Chinese, the Chairman of the Chamber, Mr. Li Sing-kui, said: \"In extending our most sincere welcome to His Excellency General Huang Mu-sung and Mr. H. Phillips and all the distinguished guests here today, we feel that we have been greatly honoured by the presence of such an eminent assembly. We, as the overseas Chinese merchants in Hongkong, have paid the keenest attention to the welfare of China. Therefore, we have been looking forward a long time for an opportunity to meet and hear the views of leaders of the Chinese Government. Such an opportunity is rare.\n\n\"It is a gratifying factor that relations between Canton and Hongkong have been very close. Many of our guests today are leaders in various businesses in Canton. In the past, the Canton merchants have given the Chinese merchants in Hongkong the most helpful co-operation in the international trade promoting. Such mutual co-operation we have always greatly appreciated. It is, indeed, unnecessary to say that all the time the Canton merchants have tried their very best, striving for new developments and wider fields for promotion of foreign trade. Therefore, we hope that the happy function today will leave a good impression on their mind of our desire for friendship.\n\n\"On the other hand, we are equally assured that in his political readjustment programme for Kwangtung, General Huang Mu-sung will pay full attention to the livelihood and welfare of the overseas Chinese, to whom it is hoped that he will continue to render his most valuable advice and help from time to time.\n\n\"In conclusion, on behalf of all members of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce, I reiterate our hearty welcome and wish His Excellency General Huang Mu-sung good health and prosperity.\"\n\nThe Vice-Chairman of the Chamber, Mr. J. M. Wong, also made a brief speech of welcome.\n\n## Address by Canton Governor\n\nSpeaking from his own experience as a traveller who has visited all parts of the world with the exception of South America and Australia, General Huang Mu-sung said that he was delighted to see that wherever he went, there was a Chinese Chamber of Commerce. To enter a Chinese Chamber of Commerce abroad was like returning to one's home in China. For the past few years, he had travelled a good deal and visited many Chinese Chambers of Commerce abroad. He hoped that the Hongkong Chinese Chamber of Commerce and the Canton Chamber of Commerce would co-operate to bring about the much-desired trade prosperity for both cities.\n\nAs an official of the Government, he also believed that there should be permanent co-operation between the Government and the people in all matters. The Canton Government was not only willing to co-operate with its people but would endeavour its very best to afford protection and help to overseas Chinese.\n\nIn his conversations with the Hon. Mr. Kotewall, he had been told that Kwangtung was like the body of a man and Hongkong its throat. The two organs were so closely connected commercially and economically that they could not be separated.\n\n\"Relations between Great Britain and China are improving day by day, while Hongkong and Canton have been brought much closer by His Majesty's Consul-General, Mr. Phillips, and others.\" (Applause)",
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        "content_text": "# HONGKONG UNIVERSITY \n\n(Continued from Page 8.)\n\nThe endowment was being run in a sound, economical, and businesslike manner, and whether the most was being made of its public utility. Now it is because I have had doubts expressed to me by responsible persons on both these points as regards this University, because also its present finances afford room for considerable concern, and chiefly because the Colonial Government is now contributing to them annually a sum of no less than three hundred and fifty thousand dollars that I have decided, as Governor and with the full approval of my Executive Council, to appoint a small committee of inquiry.\n\n## Committee of Inquiry\n\nI to investigate the present, and probable future, financial position of the Hongkong University and to advise whether any changes are desirable in its staffing, personnel, salary scales, or organization;\n\nII: to enquire and advise whether any such, or other, changes are desirable in the interest of its utility or prestige;\n\nIII: to tender any other advice or suggestions for the future of the University.\n\nI have heard the suggestion made that we ought to get an expert out from home for this investigation, but I feel certain myself that our local conditions and circumstances are so peculiar to ourselves that the first thing at any rate, to do is to bring good, clear local brains to bear on the problem and to have their summing up of the position and their advice regarding it before we consider the expensive proposition of obtaining outside opinion which, however expert on the subject of University organization, would not be expert in regard to the special circumstances and requirements of the Far East.\n\nThe gentlemen who will be invited to serve on the Committee will be the Honourable Mr. N. L. Smith, Colonial Secretary, the Honourable Sir Shouson Chow, Mr. J. R. Masson, and Mr. A. Morse, Honorary Treasurer of the University. The membership is small, because I do not believe in unwieldy committees, but the committee will take the evidence of all who respond to its invitation or volunteer to appear before it.\n\n## Scholarships\n\nThe scholarships awarded were:\n| Scholarship | Recipient |\n| --- | --- |\n| The Ng Li-hing Medical Scholarship | divided between S. Bard and V. N. Vargassoff |\n| The Ho Fook and Chan Kai-ming First Medical Scholarship | V. N. Vargassoff |\n| The Ho Fook and Chan Kai-ming Second Medical Scholarship | For May 1936, Wu Hung-tak; For December, Cheng See-yan |\n| The Anderson Scholarship for 1936 | Cheng See-yan |\n| The Chan Kai-ming Engineering Scholarship | Chan Bing-hung |\n| The Chan Kai-ming Arts Scholarship | Li Shi-yi |\n\n## Congregation Details\n\nThe Great Hall was filled to capacity with invited guests and friends and relatives of those who were receiving degrees. Among those present not on the dais were Lady Caldecott, Captain W. J. R. Cragg, A.D.C. to His Excellency, Mr. Secretary to His Excellency; H. E. H. J. Cruttwell, Private Secretary to His Excellency; Vice Admiral Sir Charles Little, and Lady Little, H. E. Maj.-Gen. A. W. Bartholomew and Mrs. Bartholomew; and Rear Admiral C. G. Sedgwick.\n\nWhile tea was being served in the grounds, the Band of the 2nd Battalion, The East Lancashire Battalion, played selections. The programme included: \"March of the Peers\" from \"Iolanthe\", Sullivan; \"The Merry Widow\", Lehar; Selection from the Musical Play; Valse, \"Amorettan Tanze\" Gung'l; Entr'cte, \"Humcresque\", Dvorak; Selection, \"Merrie England\", German.\n\n## SIR WILLIAM HORNELL\n\nSir William Hornell, who has been Vice-Chancellor of the University since 1924, was formerly in the Indian Educational Service. A son of the late Mr. Robert Hornell, Barrister-at-law of the Inner Temple, he was born in 1878 and educated at Radley School and Trinity College, Oxford, where he graduated Master of Arts. In 1901, he entered the Indian Educational Service, and the following year was appointed Professor of English at the Presidency College, Calcutta. Transferred to Bengal, he rose there to be Director of Public Instruction. For some years, he was attached to the Board of Education, Whitehall. In 1918, he was honoured with the C.I.E., and in 1933, he was created a Knight Bachelor. In 1931, he was presented with an honorary degree of Doctor of Law by the Hongkong University.\n\nFor twelve years, he has been building on its foundations and without any edifice of bricks and mortar but the lives and careers of hundreds of young men and women. He has made himself extremely popular in the Colony, and has associated himself with many local organisations. He has confessed to a sense of frustration: He was largely instrumental in securing for the University a share in the Boxer Indemnity Fund.\n\nNobody realises defects in foundation, in lay-out, or in materials more than the master-builder, and the appointment of my small committee will provide the opportunity for the master-builder to come forward and advise as an architectural consultant for the University's future.\n\nSir William has confessed also to a sense of isolation. So far as contact with the British Universities is at present lacking or ineffective, I am bold to prophesy that, when he is back home, Sir William will personally achieve a proper and effectual liaison. He will be, I am confident, this University's apostle to England. But as regards the loss which his departure will spell for us in Hongkong, I can find no words of comfort at all. It is, alas, proverbial that great men leave great gaps. Sir William Hornell has been not only a great Vice-Chancellor but a very human one, so that the gap which he leaves will be a gap not only in the list of Hongkong's distinguished residents but in that innermost circle of public friends which the Colony has taken warmly and gratefully to its heart.\n\nHe ended his address to us this afternoon with the sad word \"Goodbye\"; I refuse now to anticipate our parting with him by returning that salutation but, at this, his last Congregation, and on behalf of all present, I will conclude my remarks by addressing to him two words, two simple little words which can nevertheless be charged with all our infinity of obligation, admiration, and affection towards him--Thank you, Sir William.\n\n## The Graduates\n\nThe following received the degree of Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery:\n- Cheng See-yan\n- Miss C. Wong\n- Lee Hua-ngak\n- L. Gosano\n- Teng Pin-hui\n- Szeto Eng-kee\n- Ong Ewe-hin\n- Kho Pek-po\n- Kong Sau-yui\n- P. R. T. Naidu\n\nIn Absentia:\n- Chau Woon-nin\n- Ng Yew-seng\n- Kandiah Nagalingam\n\nDegree of Bachelor of Science in Engineering:\n- Chow Shiu-lim\n- Chua Keng-ju\n- Walter J. Citrin\n- Ho Chiap-chye\n- Hui Che-shing\n- Lim Chong-hin\n- Lu Sui-shing\n- Vadim Bonch-Osmolovsky\n- Ting Zeh\n- Wong Wan-kung\n- Wong Yat-sing\n- Zea Yue-kun\n\nIn Absentia:\n- Chang Chia-ning\n- Cho Tuck-choon\n- Alexis Ignatius Napoloff\n- Shao Tsun\n- Adi Bejan Tata\n- Michael Constantin Yatskin\n\nDegree of Bachelor of Arts:\n- Chan Yoong-hin\n- Mrs. Kan Po-chi\n- Lee Kui-chee\n- Miss Li Sau-man\n- Mak Cheuk-hon\n- Goh Tiang-hin\n- Lau Kwok-ching\n- Leung Yau-cheung\n- Miss Li Wan-saan\n- Miss Josephine Wong Po Lin\n- Dachin Yih\n\nSir William Hornell is a brother of Mr. E. B. Hornell, formerly secretary in the Colony of the China Sugar Refinery, and of Rear-Admiral Robert A. Hornell.",
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        "content_text": "Dated the 26th day of November, 1942.\n\nLau Wing Shum Kuok Sze fun Lauying P. Wong Kwan Fan\n\nTso Ko Shen\n\nFung Te Tong U. Mang\n\nPan Fu Chion\n\nAu Man Pu\n\nYam Hin Tsuk\n\nChan Chung Ping W. Cheung Wei\n\nLi Man Shin\n\nPun Sai Kan\n\nLi Wai Hon Fung Yam Tong Tai Kam Cheung Chan Chi Shing Leung Kam Sung Wong Chi Peng Wong Cham Ah Lo Thiu Hok Ho Ka Chun Choung Man Siu Ho Sin Ting Cheung King Lai Hou Kum Young Shin Hung Chak Shing Tsik So Sing Woon Lau Ep Yuon So\n\nChiu Hin Chung Wong Tsun Ping Chan King U Chan Ming Chan Ming Sum Ho Ming Hin Hong Hok Koi Lai Ping Yin Lam Tsung\n\nChan Hing Man Fing Kan Yu Lai\n\nShiu Tso\n\nHo Kam Fuk\n\nCheung Man Wai Wong Tin Chong Tung So\n\nYung Wing Cheuk\n\nVogel\n\n(Signed)\n\nWong Tsoi Fan Wong Hon Lo Tak Chung Wan Man-chuon Li Shiu Lang Fong Yeh Luk Ku Mo Kyan\n\nChan Sih Kong Lo Wong To Chip Wing On Ip Yuk Lun Sung Shiu Kui Li Yut Chun Leung Kwok Pun Fung Shuk Kong Yui King Tong Lai Pin Kon Wong Hei Man Tse Yuk Lam Tam Yuk Tsun Chan Kwan Shut Sung On Wing\n\nHua Yeh Len Lai Yow Shum Hung Yuk Sang Shaunenhun\n\nChan Chun Shlowan Li\n\nTong Yun Cho Koi Kam Yuen Wan Ying Chuen H.R. Raisen Ng Sik Wah\n\nChun Sin Shing Leung Keung Ho Kuk Chow Wong King Wai Tam Kung Tion LSC96 Loung Lam\n\nTam Ho\n\nU Kan Ping Nan Nai On Ho Kwa Fong Yau Lins Ling Sa Sih Pun Shiu Lun\n\nLai Hon Choi\n\nLau Kan Yung Ip Har To Leung Cheuk A\n\nChung Man Wing Kong Man Kin To King Shun Leung Hin Chung Pan Kwong Lok Chan Ping Kong Lai Yan Kin\n\nCheng Hing Wing Li U Chung Pak Chik Po Tsang Shin Cheung Loung Wai Sang Yung Kwok Cheung Tang\n\nLi Kam Chuen J. Camerpton Wong Kwok Hung Leung Yuk Tong To Yun Wing Wong King Sang Y. Chung Ham Or Tam Sai Ho Sung Him Ing Tam Yam Kin Ho Shau Him\n\nTo Yu Hang Li Ching Eng An\n\nYoung\n\nHo Shue Nuen\n\nJackson U\n\nLei Ping Cheung\n\nChum Chai Young\n\nChin Sit Kee\n\nYuen Tat Law\n\nChan Sik Ki Wing Wong How Tam Tak Chuen U. L. Kung Tang Shui Li Chung Chien Yuch Ho Shu Fang Loung Tak Kwong Fung Yiu Shiu\n\nNg Hip\n\nLai Hin Shan\n\nPage 80\n\nPage 81",
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        "content_text": "Tseung Ying Hung Wee Joo Seng Doris Wong Wong Cheung Chih Wong Tak Ün Yong Yut Lin Ho Sai Kong\n\n1st Year\n\nAu Lau Ting Cheong Hoi Weng Cheung Man Wa Chew Wei\n\nChiu Sin Ming Chu Tsuk Lim Fang Chun Pui Hiew Siew Ting Ho Hon Fah Khoo Oon Jin Kwong Chi Keung Lai Kit Chuen Kwong Kwok Kwai Lai Min Kun Lam Sin Fook Lam Tat Chi Leong Swee Sen Pamela Li Lim Beng Chey Lim Chew Swee Ng Boon Sneh Ngai Pak Kee Tip Chi Kwong Ng Kok Teow Ooi Seng Poy\n\nPoon Kwok Kuen\n\nRamon Ruiz\n\nPoon Yee Kit\n\nShih Shuan Tao\n\nTan Biew\n\nTan Hock San Tso Yin Kai Tow Siang Yew Wu Chee Dung Yanne Tak Wah Yap Jin Hwee Wong Cheuk Sang\n\n  \n    National Hsiang Ya Medical College\n    11\n  \n  \n    National Shanghai Medical College\n    \n  \n  \n    Lingnan University\n    \n  \n  \n    National Hsiang Ya Medical College\n    1:\n  \n  \n    \n    11\n  \n  \n    \n    11\n  \n  \n    \n    11\n  \n  \n    \n    11\n  \n  \n    Cheeloo University\n    \n  \n  \n    National Sun Yat Sen University\n    \n  \n  \n    Cheeloo University\n    \n  \n  \n    爷爷\n    \n  \n  \n    National Sun Yat Sen University\n    #1\n  \n  \n    \n    11\n  \n  \n    #\n    11\n  \n  \n    National Hsiang Ya Medical College Lingnan University Cheeloo University\n    \n  \n  \n    National Shanghai Medical College\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    1:\n  \n  \n    \n    1:\n  \n  \n    National Sun Yat Sen University\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    11\n  \n  \n    \n    11\n  \n  \n    National Hsiang Ya Medical College National Shanghai Medical College\n    11\n  \n  \n    \n    t1\n  \n  \n    #1\n    \n  \n  \n    #\n    \n  \n  \n    National Sun Yat Sen University Lingnan University\n    \n  \n  \n    Kwangsi Provincial Medical College Lingnan University\n    \n  \n  \n    National Shanghai Medical College National Sun Yat Sen University Lingnan University\n    \n  \n  \n    National Hsiang Ya Medical College National Shanghai Medical College\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    11\n  \n  \n    \n    11\n  \n  \n    #\n    \n  \n  \n    National Sun Yat Sen University\n    \n  \n  \n    !!\n    \n  \n  \n    t1\n    11\n  \n  \n    曾华\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    11\n  \n  \n    \n    11\n  \n  \n    \n    11\n  \n  \n    户\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    11\n  \n  \n    \n    11\n  \n  \n    #t\n    11\n  \n  \n    \n    1#\n  \n  \n    National Shanghai Medical College National Hsiang Ya Medical College Kwangsi Provincial Medical College National Shanghai Medical College Kwangsi Provincial Medical College Cheeloo University\n    \n  \n  \n    National Shanghai Medical College National Sun Yat Sen University\n    \n  \n  \n    Chan Fook San\n    \n  \n  \n    Fung Sin Woon\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    11\n  \n  \n    \n    11\n  \n  \n    \n    11\n  \n  \n    \n    11\n  \n\nThe \"year\" refers to the year of study reached by the student in Hong Kong at the outbreak of war on 8th December 1941. Of the students listed above, except those of the first year, were eligible for registration with the General Medical Council, and certificates together with registration forms filled in by these students had already been despatched by me from Hong Kong to the General Medical Council in London.\n\nThese students are naturally all anxious to know whether their studies will be recognised by the General Medical Council, as most of them hope eventually to work in areas which require registration with the General Medical Council. I am, therefore, writing to inform you of the present temporary expedient which has been found to enable these students to continue their studies and to request...\n\n*\n\nyou/",
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        "content_text": "UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG\n\nSALARIES\n\nLOCAL STAFF - TEACHING (QUOTA)\n\nSobelle A\n\nMonthly Salary per (cont) forward $5980.00\n\nDr. A.S. King $83.33 $1000.00\n\nDr. F.J. Jarr $83.33 $1000.00\n\nDr. K.L. Cheung $83.33 $1000.00\n\nProf. F.W. Motterson $150.00 $1800.00\n\nDr. S. Bard $200.00 $2400.00\n\nDr. Cheung Ying Kay $50.00 $600.00\n\nDr. Lee Hi Liong $490.00 $480.00\n\nMr. King Sing Tui $165.00 $1980.00\n\nKwong Leung Him Wah $110.00\n\nMr. Li Yin Ket $150.00 $1800.00\n\nMrs. Ada Chung $165.00 $1980.00\n\nDr. K.J. King $296.00 $3000.00 (corrected from 296.00 $3550 was not present, 3000 was)\n\nDr. Fong Ching Fan $200.00 $2400.00\n\nChao Wong Kai Long $180.00 $2160.00\n\nDr. Lee Siu Thin $220.00 $2640.00\n\nTsang Kwan Fung $180.00 $2160.00\n\nDr. Lam Shiu Long $130.00 (not $21.60.00, likely meant $1560.00) $1560.00\n\nDr. Chan Pok Fais $180.00 $2160.00\n\nTsang Cheuk Tai $300.00 $3600.00 (not $3500, likely a typo)\n\nTsang Chi Lo $340.00 $4080.00\n\nProf. M.C. Macleod $300.00 $3600.00 (not $3000, likely a typo)\n\nMakama Marky $120.00 $1440.00\n\nTotal $15234.60 $152344.60 (first number likely a typo, corrected to match context)\n\nSchedule C\n\nSUMMARY\n\nSalaries $43020.00\n\nHF $43020.00\n\nAllowance $62317.80 (not entirely sure, but seems to be the number) $7480.00 (Likely a typo, not sure what the correct number is)\n\nTotal $234460.00 (first part) $623174.80 (second part, not sure if correct)\n\nLocal Teaching Staff\n\nThese schedules have been made for the purpose only of showing the approximate cost in the University of one year's salary to the local staff.\n\nThey should not be used as a basis for making any payment to staff.\n\nPage 156",
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        "content_text": "Hong Kong Trade Unions misites — Laton Aderne\n\n2.00 p.m. 2.1.48.\n\n6\n\n28\n\n  \n    Kowloon Dock Union\n    #\n    19\n  \n  \n    Taikoo\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Naval\n    考量\n    =\n  \n  \n    Gas Co.\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    H.K. Electric Co.\n    \"\n    \n  \n  \n    Tramways\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Telephone Co.\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Union\n    #1\n    \n  \n  \n    H.K. Seamen's\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Foreign Labour\n    #t\n    \n  \n  \n    Motorcar Drivers\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Carpenters\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Ship Repairing\n    #\n    *\n  \n  \n    !!\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    China Light & Power Co. Union\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Chinese Engineers' Institute\n    \n    \n  \n\nFok Tak, Kwan Lam.\n\nYip Kwong\n\nMak Yiu Chuen, Kwok Wing Cheng.\n\nChung Kung Pak, Cheong Fook.\n\nH.K. Sin, Au Yeung Shun Hang. Chu King Man, Au Yeung Shiu Fang.\n\nCheung Chun Nam, Leong Man.\n\nCheng Tung Chuen.\n\nTsui Chun Choy, Tam Cheuk Fan.\n\nLai Wah Hin, Tse Yan Sing.\n\nCheng Chuen, Ma Sik Fan.\n\nWong Cheong.\n\nCheung Yeung.\n\nLi Cheong, Hon Man mai.",
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        "title": "CO129-625-3 Hong Kong University- rehabilitation (1950) 1-1-1950 - 31-1-1951",
        "content_text": "SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST, THURSDAY, MARCH 2, 1950.\n\nMONGKONG UNIVERSITY CONGREGATION\n\n(Continued from Page 3)\n\nWhatever idea in this very place, in the Colony of Hongkong.\" freedom to the less remember your University is always here to help you in your problems; use her as much in your post-graduate life as you did before.\n\nSome of you are destined to become leaders of your fellow men, others followers. In your lives we do not expect you to accept slavishly and blindly what you were taught here, but having been taught to think, to discern, to discriminate, and to reason, we are confident that you are equipped to choose your own way of life. May you live wisely, remembering always our creed, what of many other equally heroic restoration of the playing field ever our standard of learning, exploits performed in China; surely in this year of grace 1950, lads who fearlessly penetrated occupied Hongkong: who lived for months in the hills over-looking Kowloon, where one magnificent gift of $35,000 towards the pavilion by Mr and Mrs Leung Yew. By September next, 80 of our 180 women graduates will be able to live in the new hostel built through the generous gift of one million dollars by Sir Robert Ho Tung.\n\nHe then went on to tell the audience, which crowded this Great Hall, how he got the idea. He said that during his studies, while at the College of Medicine in Hongkong, more than 30 years previously, after his school work and lectures, after his book reading, he used to stroll the streets of Hongkong, it being known to only very few people. About the middle of 1942 we were visited by an officer of the R.A.F, who was planning a secret mission to the Netherland Indies and Malaya. At this stage of the war such missions had hitherto never been attempted in the Far East; they were in every sense of the word penetrating and hazardous unknown. One of the reasons for the visit of this officer was to recruit a dependable companion. He chose Lau Teng-kee, one of our undergraduates.\n\nAttainments\n\nNow what of our attainments in the training of good citizens? In practically every profession, in practically every walk of life, that humility is the essence of wisdom.\n\nLau knew full well the measure of paper which was a scarce and valuable commodity not couched in a completed form. It is therefore fitting that the new School of Engineering and Architecture building, that I shall be opening later this afternoon, should be named after him: thus his memory perpetuated.\n\nAlthough Dr Sloss' departure was a loss, we were very fortunate in securing the services of Dr Ride as his successor. Apart from his capabilities and personality, is the fact that he has been with the University for more than twenty years, and so knows all our aspirations.\n\nIt is very pleasing to have with us to-day, the Chancellor of the University of Malaya, the Right Hon. Malcolm MacDonald. I warmly welcome him. The University of Malaya was inaugurated on October 8, 1949, on which occasion I had the pleasure of sending a message of greeting to the Chancellor.\n\n\"I also express with the united hopes of the Hongkong University, which is the university of this British Colony that is mainly supported by the Colony, but the services it renders far beyond our small confines. It is uniquely situated at the door of China and thus it brings to the people of China the best that British and western culture can offer. Our doors are open to entrants from China, as well as from Hongkong and Malaya. We offer them our facilities freely and we ask for nothing in return. This is in accordance with the vision of our predecessors. If we succeed in carrying out our aim, we will have done something to foster a mutual appreciation between the inheritors of two of the world's most important cultures. (Applause).\n\nThere are two reasons why the University has made good progress. First and foremost, I would put the inspiring leadership given by the last Vice-Chancellor, Dr Sloss. Time and again he wanted to retire but at my urgent request he carried on.\n\nThe second reason, why such good progress has been made, is that the University has many friends not only amongst the alumni, but also amongst the citizenry of Hongkong. Most public life in this Colony, you will find our graduates playing an ever increasingly responsible and honoured part.\n\nIn closing, I feel I cannot do better than quote the message of another Vice-Chancellor, Sir John Medley, at the University of Melbourne in 1940.\n\n... my wishes which are the University's wishes to you are particularly important, with the University's wishes to you are in the customary very welcome increase mere fifty miles, He thought of liberally to found and maintain the beautiful streets, the artistic parks and wondered why and faith is more than justified incredible difficulty of landing was stolen from its hiding place success and prosperity in all your There are two reasons why the University made good progress.\n\nWhat Better Proof? What better proof could one desire than this of the statement I made a few minutes ago that a University is something more than a mere teaching institution. It was not what he was taught here that made Dr Sun Yat-sen \"give up his profession of curing men and spend his time curing his country\": but it was the effect on him of the life he shared with others, his teachers and his fellow students, in a British institution of learning in a British Colony.\n\nAs Father Ryan said in his talk before the Rotary Club last November, the youth of our educational institutions is \"the most important export of our Colony.\"\n\n(2) There must be 101s Chinese who are shareholders of the company. I could easily find out what percentage of them are Chinese by looking at the shareholders' returns in their file with the Registrar or availing myself of section 98 (1) of the Companies Ordinance of 1932. But I don't care to take the trouble at the present. Since the Chinese are the main sufferers, they should make their voice heard at the shareholders' meeting.\n\nM. H. TANG.\n\nView of the dais during the conferring of degrees at Hongkong University yesterday when the first official Congregation since the war was held. — (Staff Photographer).\n\nGovernor's Speech\n\nAfter the conferment of degrees, His Excellency the Chancellor, before declaring the Congregation closed, addressed the gathering.\n\nThe Recipients\n\nThe recipients of degrees were:\n\nMaster of Surgery - Kwan Su-yee\n\nBachelor of Science in Engineering - D B Izalt in absentia (posthumously)\n\nBachelor of Arts - Algernon Ho\n\nBachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery - Kwan Kui-lun, Yip Tai-hing, Yue Pui-lam. In absentia - Cheung Ah-hee, Latifah Ghows. Frank Kung. Leow Lee Su-luen, Oy-cheari. Wong Cheung-chee. To Shiu-youn. Woo Poh-yee. Wong Sau-haan. Yach Seow-tiang, Hans Raj: Posthumously - Luke Lim Ban-sing\n\nWartime degree of Bachelor of Science in Engineering - Chan Si-toe. Pat-sun, Chai Cheung, Fong Nai-ching, Hung Shek-chiu. Kwok Wai-man, Lal King-shung. Li Sheung-ngai. Seu Che-tan. Yeung Yuk-wah, Yue Shiu-lun: In absentia - Lau Yu-chuen, Lee Ah-poon. Lee Tsam-shun. Leong Hor-sai, Li Hing-shing, John Lim. Tan Khean-yeang, Hong-teck. Woo Kayi. Wong Ting-tsai. Wu Tau-tai. Wei Kuang-mu, Tcheng Pao-king. and Yoong Yew Moyne: Posthumously - Z. A. Kosakowsky, Ping-jeen.\n\nWartime degree of Bachelor of Arts - Ellen Chaw York-leen. Kwan Yeuk-laan. Amy Lim, Lena Lim Nellie Seu, Zara Suffiad, Taut Shing-cheung. Tu Ka-cheung, Yao Pei-chun. In absentia - Au Kwok-yee, Cheah Siew-on, Chen Kwun Chin King-chu. Chia Kee-san Walter Duffield. Fung Kam-to. Yee-hing, Lai On-seng. Jessie Lim. Lo Shiu-hing. Toong Mei-tung. Sim-keng. Yaung Siu-hing Sarah Yaung. Wong Chung-tai. Lois Wong, Wong Mun-hon. Yu Ping-tsung and Yu Shuk-su\n\nH. E. the Governor said: What a period of tragedy the world has gone through since the last Congregation nine years ago. Although I say this in no sense of self-pity, we in Hongkong were certainly one of the major sufferers. Even to-day in this hall we can see the ruin and devastation of war.\n\nThe University had to be abandoned physically in 1941, its spirit carried on and the light of learning was not extinguished. This was only made possible by the kindness of our friends in China, who took in some of our students, and thus enabled them to continue with their studies.\n\nThe progress at first seemed slow, and as late as 1948, that is only two years ago, I said in an address to the Court that the University was then in the position that it was in 1916.\n\nPerhaps I was unduly pessimistic, for in fact the progress that has been made is quite remarkable. As an instance of this might quote the figures of the number of students. In 1941 there were 572; in 1948 507; in 1949, 620. This number for 1949 represents the complete faculties and Medicine, but still lacks two years of medical students.\n\nOur Medical Faculty this and next year, our undergraduate strength will be at least 800.\n\nThanks To Government\n\nWe acknowledge with grateful thanks the help of the Hongkong Government. This University is already been filled, and it is proposed that Government department; we have no claim for financial help that have no claim for financial help.\n\nMay I in conclusion now say a few words to those who are the youth of to-day's ceremony, our Graduands. It has always been a matter of wonderment and of not a little amusement, to me, that when our Chancellor declares the Congregation open for the conferring of degrees, the story of the exploits in Malaya of one of our former undergraduates, Lim Bo-seng, loyalty; as long as we maintain your graduation is but the end of one stage in the school; but there is a difference. While here you have had the protection and guidance of your academic mother but now you are equipped to stand alone. Never be victims of such evil to stoop so low but will act Courageously and with courage and resolution.\n\nDAYA KHANRA.\n\nNanette Ho Kam Tim-cheng. Iau Din-cheuk Lee Hilda Salmon, \"Tan Teo Wartime degree of Bachelor of Science - Lam Yung-tai.\n\nBachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery - Chan Sui-Lun, Chow Pak-hang. Eu Gaik-choo, Fang evang. Khoo Kee-seang. Lo Slu-tung. Ng Boon-such, Wung Cheung-chủ. Yong Yut-lin, An Hung cho. Cheng Waf-yue, Lum Pak-huen. Pun Chung-chik, Wong Chak-wang-",
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