[ { "id": 216944, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-002 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1843", "page_number": 152, "title": "CO129-002 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1843", "content_text": "ist4 \n\n} \n\nand from it there will be brauchs to Saiwan: and other places; while the way to Shek_pal_wan\", Honghong, tc., will be by Queen's Road, westward from \"Victoria\". \n\nthe \n\nThe \n\npresent path or tracing of the \"Chet_chun road will form part \n\nthe Circular road I have \n\nof \n\nsome \n\nof \n\nthe most the Island. \n\nalready spoken of, and. The new line which I have proposed will open up beautiful Situations \n\nI may remark that there is everywhere a boundless supply Stone for bridges, and all \n\nof \n\non \n\nthe works connected with the \n\nhoads and buildings. In \n\nmany \n\ninstances \n\ninstances I believe wood will be \n\nfound to be most suitable material \n\nfor Bridges, and it can be procured \n\nat a moderate rate. \n\nlist \n\nI enclose with this report \n\nof \n\nall the lots that have \n\nany way! \n\nbeen disposed of \n\nin \n\nthe Island, \n\nup \n\nM. \n\nto this date \n\nspecifying by whom granted, \n\nwhat terms, and \n\nany \n\nother \n\non \n\nparticonlors; and also dividing them into the four clasus by which they have hitherto been known, right- Town, Marine, Suburban, and Bazaar, Lots., and I would observe, that, in is only only should be plased \n\nmy \n\nopinion, \n\nthere \n\nsingle lot that \n\nthe class \n\nin \n\nof", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-002 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1843.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 221416, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-011 - Sir John Davis - 1845 [1-4]", "page_number": 219, "title": "CO129-011 - Sir John Davis - 1845 [1-4]", "content_text": "Pamised\n\nS.36.\n\nBuildings on. The Coroloon. of persons who had created\n\nRepseling reniral to Hongkong\n\nPeninsular..\n\nGovernor\n\n173. May, 1848.\n\nViatario, Fon, King,\n\nNo37\n\nMiscellaneous\n\nAUG 2\n\n1368\n\nMy Lord,\n\n216\n\ncong\n\nVictoria, Honghong,\n\n20th March, 1845.\n\nWith reference to my Despatch\n\nN. 21 of the 11th Instant, I have the horn. to acknowledge the receipt, yesterday, of Your Lordship's original Despatches from N: 30 of the 5th, to N. 113 of the 30th of September 1864, inclusive; and of 3 Circulars dated the 26th of August, the 12th and the 28th of September, with 2 inclozures.\n\nThe Right Honorable, The...\n\nThe Lord Stanley;\n\nVe tc. Cl Ye\n\nI have the honor to acknowledge the receipt, yesterday, of Your Lordship's duplicate despatches, from No 26 of the 12th of August, to N.29 of the 18th of September 1846, with its inclosures; and of duplicate circular of the 7th of August of the same year.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-011 - Sir John Davis - 1845 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 222333, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-013 - Sir John Davis - 1845 [8-12]", "page_number": 386, "title": "CO129-013 - Sir John Davis - 1845 [8-12]", "content_text": "N\n\nof\n\nDate\n\nDisp. Desp: Subject of Despatch.\n\n135 Oct 8+ Transmitting copies of Ordinances #67, 8, and 9, of 1845, which have superseded Ordinance No 15, of 1844, providing for the establishment of a Supreme Court at Hongkong.\n\n137 13th\n\n136. 8th. Transmitting Quarterly Returns, for the Quarter ending 30th September 1845. Reporting on the completion and repairs of the Aberdeen and Sywan Roads, and of the old route of communication with Stanley - also on certain works within the Town by convict labour.\n\n139\n\n140.1\n\n141.\n\n\"\n\n139 13th Transmitting copy of the Acting Colonial Treasurer's Account for the Quarter ending 30th September 1845, with Surveys on the Treasure Vault in August and October, 1845.\n\n15th Reporting imprisonment of certain inferior agents of the Chinese Government, for violating the sovereignty of the Island; and stating decrease of crime in the Colony.\n\nReporting evasion of the Boat Office Regulations by the principal mercantile Houses engaged in the Opium Trade.\n\n15th\n\n26th\n\nTransmitting copy of, and reporting Ordinance No 18 of 1845, entitled \"An Ordinance for the Naturalization of Aliens within the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies\"\n\nSubject of Despatch. 383 that\n\nFor Date\n\nA\n\nA\n\nof\n\nDesp. Desp\n\nof\n\nDependencies.\n\n142. Oct 21. Reporting proposed amount of compensation to be granted to Mr. Turncomb, late Coroner of Hongkong\n\n+22 Replying to Circular of the 13th August 1845, requiring information as to provision made in this Colony for certain classes of destitute persons\n\n143.\n\n4.\n\n6o\n\n144\n\nline.\n\n145\n\n146\n\n24th Transmitting Plans and Elevations of Civil Buildings prepared by Mr Gordon,\n\n14th Transmitting copy of Ordinance No 11 of 1845, entitled - An Ordinance for the further Regulation of the Harbour of Hongkong and to repeal Ordinance No 19, of 1844\n\nOne\n\n28th. Transmitting further Replies from the Auditor to certain queries of the Audit Board\n\n147. 29th Transmitting copy of Ordinance No 12 of 1845, entitled. An Ordinance to amend the Ordinance No 1 of 1845, entitled \"Ordinance for the suppression of the Triad and other Secret Societies in the Island of Hongkong and its Dependencies,\n\n148\n\nOne\n\n149.\n\n!\n\n\"\n\n30th Acknowledging receipt of Despatches from No 134 to No 134 of 23 August, 1845.\n\nNov 10. Transmitting copy of and reporting on, Ordinance No 13 of 1845, entitled, An Ordinance to establish a Licensed Ghaut Serang in the Colony of Hongkong \"and for the better regulation of Lascars residing therein.\"", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-013 - Sir John Davis - 1845 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 222341, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-013 - Sir John Davis - 1845 [8-12]", "page_number": 394, "title": "CO129-013 - Sir John Davis - 1845 [8-12]", "content_text": "1845\n\nSir J Davis\n\n201\n\nOct 22 143 Relief of the Poor. Ackn!. Circular Oct 29 147\n\nAugust 13. No provision has hitherto been made for the relief of the Port and Destitute, and a plan for this object is in contemplation.\n\nOct 24 144 Public Buildings. Ackr\". Despatch N 133 and 134 Aug 20 and 23. Refers to his N 116 Aug 25.\n\nEncloses the following Drawings prepared by Mr Gordon previous to his absence on leave:\n\n1st Plan and Elevation for Chewah Court Government House to cost about £10,500.\n\nElevation for a Government House to cost about £11,000.\n\nOct 24 145 Harbour Regulations. Encloses a Memorandum N11. Regulations for the Harbour.\n\nOct 28 146 Auditor's Queries. Refers to his Despatch N 132 Sept 27.\n\nEncloses a continuation of the replies to the Auditor's Queries.\n\nOct 29 147 Triad Societies. Ackn!. Despatch N 114 June 28.\n\nEncloses an Ordinance N12. Suppression of Triad Societies.\n\n1845\n\nSir J Davis\n\ncontinued\n\nNov 3 148 Acknowledgement of Despatches. Ackn!. receipt.\n\nNov 10 149 Ghaut Serang. Encloses a report on the business of the Ghaut Serang or Agent for regulating Lascar Sailors and their Boarding Hours.\n\nEncloses an Ordinance N13. Licensing a Ghaut Serang.\n\nNov 12 150 Appointments. Reports the appointments of Mr. Frotter as Clerk to the Chief Justice, vice Leggett deceased; Mr W Alexander to be Clerk, The Supreme Court; Mr Holdforth to be Registrar; Mr J D'Almada to be second Clerk in See Office; Mr H Hance to be third Clerk; Mr Grand Pre to be fourth Clerk; Mr IH Power to be Clerk in the Land Office.\n\nThe Salaries of Messrs Frotter and Alexander £300 each.\n\nNov 20 (5) Despatches: Ackn!. receipt of Despatches.\n\nPage 201\n\nPage 202\n\nPage 203\n\nPage 331", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-013 - Sir John Davis - 1845 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 224573, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-018 - Others - 1846", "page_number": 479, "title": "CO129-018 - Others - 1846", "content_text": "REPORT ON\n\nThe expense of establishments, the high rate of interest of money, and the want of trade, will, it is said, probably ere long compel the removal or breaking up of several of the small houses. There is scarcely a firm in the island but would, I understand, be glad to get back half the money they have expended in the colony, and retire from the place*. A sort of hallucination seems to have seized those who built houses here. They thought that Hong Kong would rapidly \"outrival Singapore,\" and become \"the Tyre or Carthage of the eastern hemisphere.\" Three years' residence, and the experience thence derived, have materially sobered some of their views. Unfortunately, the Government of the colony fostered the delusion respecting the colony. The leading Government officers bought land, built houses or bazars, which they rented out at high rates, and the public money was lavished in the most extraordinary manner, building up and pulling down temporary structures, making zig-zag bridle-paths over hills and mountains, and forming the \"Queen's Road,\" of from three to four miles long, on which about 180,000 dollars have been expended, but which is not passable for half the year.\n\n*\n\n56\n\nThe straggling settlement called \"Victoria,\" built along the \"Queen's Road,\" was dignified with the name of \"City\" and it was declared on the highest authority, that Hong Kong would contain a population equal to that of Ancient Rome.\" The Surveyor-General, in an official report to his relative Sir Henry Pottinger, of twenty-two pages, dated 6th July, 1843, proposed building an entirely new town or \"city\" in the Woonichung Valley, (which may be aptly called the \"Valley of Death,\") with a grand canal and many branch canals, &c. Two ranges of terraces of houses, &c.; courts of law, and various other offices; acclimatizing barracks; additions to the present government house, for the secretaries and personal staff of the Governor, isolated from all other buildings; a space of land to be reclaimed from the sea for a public landing-place, with an esplanade or public walk; a magnificent promenade of four miles, to be made on ground now covered by the sea, which was to be excluded by a sea wall, at a cost of 35 dollars per lineal yard, exclusive of filling in, &c.†; a circular road over hills and ravines round the entire island, &c., &c., adapted for carriages, and for moving troops with speed and facility to any part of the island, where they may happen to be required for the protection of the different villages! (these villages, be it remembered, containing nothing but a few hundreds of a thieving piratical population). I refer to the Government archives for full details of these and other most\n\n* \"The respectable Parsee firm whose extensive premises near Messrs. Dent and Co., are now nearly finished, have determined not to remove to Hong Kong; others, who contemplated settling here, have changed their minds and remain at Macao. Two English firms, within three months, have abandoned the island, confining their operations to Canton; and of the several new firms established within the past six months, none of them has even an office in Hong Kong. There is now positively less actual trade than we had two years ago, and the little that exists is decreasing.\"-(\"Friend of China,\" editorial article, Hong Kong, 18th June, 1845.)\n\n\"It is much to be feared that unless very different measures are speedily adopted, this colony, as a place of commerce, will be utterly ruined.”—(Ibid.)\n\n† 246,500 dollars.\n\n1\n\nHONG KONG,\n\n17\n\nridiculous projects, involving a vast expenditure of public money, which none but the wildest theorists, or self-interested persons, could have projected or entertained. On the 17th December, 1843, the Surveyor-General laid before Sir Henry Pottinger the elevation of a building for a Government office, &c., with a front of 360 feet in length, by 50 feet in depth, and which would probably cost £30,000 sterling. There seemed to be the greatest possible desire to spend a large part of the Chinese indemnity money on this wretched, barren, unhealthy and useless rock, which the whole wealth, talent, and energy of England would never render habitable, or creditable, as a colony, to the British name.* In illustration of the mode in which the public money was proposed to be spent, I give the following, which is a portion of the estimate of public works in Hong Kong for 1844, and which Sir Henry Pottinger transmitted to England for approval:-\n\nCompletion of Queen's-road from West Point to the East side of Woongnichung Valley\nDollars.\n28,000\n\nDitto to go-downs of Jardine and Co.\n\n15,000\n\nNew street formation in Victoria\n\n35,000\n\nSewers in Victoria\n\n100,000\n\nCarried forward\n\n178,000\n\n* No outlay of money would ever maintain roads in the island, even if it were supposed necessary to make roads over rotten granite and decayed sandstone mountains filled with huge boulder-stones. The \"Hong Kong Register\" of 13th May, 1845, thus describes the effect of one of the usual heavy rain-falls, which took place 7th May, 1845, and lasted only a few hours:-\"The damage was very great, both to the recently-formed roads and to many buildings in the course of erection; and had the violence of the rain continued an hour or two longer, many houses must have been undermined and destroyed. As it was, much individual inconvenience has been sustained. About 5 o'clock, the whole of the Queen's-road, from the entrance to the large bazaar to the market-place, was completely flooded, to the depth of from two to four feet. All the streets leading upwards to the hill served as feeders to this lake. In Peel-street, particularly, the torrent rushed along, bearing everything before it, and the street still resembles a dried-up watercourse, covered with stones and wrecks of buildings. The passages from the Queen's-road to the sea were all full. The one leading through Chunam's Hong for hours presented the appearance of a rapid river, and many of the houses on each side were only saved from the flood by mud walls hastily raised. About 6 o'clock the rain moderated, but for some time after the road was quite impassable. A Coolie, attempting to ford the stream rushing down D'Aguilar-street, was borne off his feet, but saved himself by coming against the frame of a mat-shed. The drain lately formed could not nearly receive the supply of water, which committed great devastation, flooding a new house in its vicinity to the depth of nearly three feet, and carrying away some new walls. All the open drains in the upper streets have suffered; many are entirely destroyed, leaving scarcely a trace of the street. A stream from a distant watercourse flowed along the road above the bungalow occupied by the Attorney-General, and descending with great fury upon the roof of one of his out-offices, carried away a great part of it. In many places the Queen's road has been covered with soil, sand, &c., to the depth of more than two feet, and nearly all the cross-drains are choked up. The bridge at the Commissariat has been carried away, and that in the Wong-nai-chung has also disappeared. Several lives were lost by the fall of a house in which some Chinese resided; and it is said the stream at Pokfowlum burst upon a mat hut in which were a number of Coolies employed upon the new road; three saved themselves in a tree, but many more are missing, and supposed to be carried out to sea.\"\n\nA\n\nC\n\n472", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-018 - Others - 1846.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 225344, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-020 - Sir John Davis - 1847 [5-8]", "page_number": 222, "title": "CO129-020 - Sir John Davis - 1847 [5-8]", "content_text": "A schooner, the property of Messrs. Delmas on shore at Circular Buildings,\n\n8. West, greatly damaged.\n\nA schooner, the property of Messrs. Suagar, totally wrecked\n\n9. on the beach westward.\n\n1 lorcha, the property of Mr. Jenkins, broken up at the same place.\n\n10. A large cutter, the property of Mr. Framjee, on shore eastward.\n\nAlso several lorchas, pleasure boats, etc., totally wrecked, the property of Europeans, and about thirty belonging to Chinese, completely wrecked. Several Chinese boats were capsized - many have been drowned, but at present it has been impracticable to ascertain the particulars.\n\nIn addition to much trifling damage on shore, the following has been observed:\n\nA pier or jetty \"Peard's house carried away.\n\nA house in rear of Mr. West on the water-side near West Market blown down.\n\nA wall and out-house in rear of Chinam's Hong, blown down.\n\n216 of And several wooden houses in rear of the East, Central, and West Markets, also the Lower Bazaar, blown down!\n\nI have, etc.,\n\n(Signed) Charles May, Superintendent of Police.\n\nExamined\n\n(Signed) C. B. Hillier, Offg. Chief Magistrate\n\n(Smallopy) Colonial Secretary", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-020 - Sir John Davis - 1847 [5-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 228152, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-027 - Public Offices - 1848", "page_number": 456, "title": "CO129-027 - Public Offices - 1848", "content_text": "Board\n\nof\n\nTrade\n\nIB\n\nAppendix.\n\nReport on the\n\nIsland of Hong Kong,\n\n[16]\n\nliterally true that after 3 years' uninterrupted settlement, there is not one respectable Chinese inhabitant on the island. One man of reputed wealth, named Chinam, who had been engaged in the opium trade, came to Hong Kong, built a good house and freighted a ship. He soon returned to Canton, and died there of a fever and cold, contracted at Hong Kong. It was understood, however, that had he lived he would have been prohibited returning to Hong Kong, the policy of the mandarins on the adjacent coast being to prevent all respectable Chinese from settling at Hong Kong, and in consequence of the hold which they possess on their families and relatives, this can be done most effectually; at the same time I believe that they encourage and promote the deportation of every thief, pirate, and idle or worthless vagabond from the main land to Hong Kong.\n\n\"It\n\nThe Rev. Dr. Gutzlaff, who has been engaged in making the recent census appended to this Report, referring to the fishermen, who formed the greater part of the population of the island on our arrival, says \"They are a roving set of beings, floating on the wide face of the ocean with their families, and committing depredations whenever it can be done with impunity.\" \"The stone-cutters have been working here for many years before our arrival; the majority of these men are unprincipled. They cannot be considered as domesticated, and are in the habit of going and coming, according to the state of trade.\" \"The most numerous class who have since our arrival fixed themselves on the island, are from Whampoa; many of them are of the worst character, and ready to commit any atrocity.\" The capital of the shopkeepers is very small; the most of them live from hand to mouth, and lead a life of expedients without principle and self control.\" is very natural that depraved, idle, and bad characters from the adjacent main and islands should flock to the colony where some money can be made.\" Dr. Gutzlaff, whose prepossessions are strongly in favour of the Chinese, concludes this portion of the memorandum with which he has favoured me, as follows: \"The moral standard of the people congregated in this place (Hong Kong) is of the lowest description.\" This observation is fully borne out by the numerous murders, piracies, burglaries, and robberies of every description which have taken place during the last three years, and with almost perfect impunity; for the Chinese are formed into secret societies for the mutual protection of villains, and no man dare inform against another. At this moment (July 1844) the European inhabitants are obliged to sleep with loaded pistols under their pillows, frequently to turn out of their beds at midnight to protect their lives and property from gangs of armed robbers, who are ready to sacrifice a few of their number if they can obtain a large plunder.\n\nThis state of things was long ago predicted. In the Canton Register of 23d February 1841 it was stated, Hong Kong will be the resort and rendezvous of all the Chinese smugglers; opium smoking shops and gambling houses will soon spread; to those haunts will flock all the discontented and bad spirits of the empire; the island will be surrounded by Shameens, and become a Gehenna of the waters.\"\n\nThree years have completely fulfilled this prediction, and neither time nor circumstances will now ever alter the character of the place. No Chinese of the humbler class will ever bring their wives and children to the colony. He must be sanguinely visionary who expects that Hong Kong will ever contain a numerous and respectable Chinese population. And, as regards the present inhabitants, (if a migratory race who are constantly changing deserve that epithet), their diminution by one-half would be satisfactory, for then a control by registration might be exercised, and life and property be rendered in some degree secure. The daring character of the population and its worthlessness for all useful civil purposes in the formation of a colony, will be seen in the following incident.\n\nOn 27th September 1843, the Honourable Major Caine, the chief magistrate, issued a proclamation for pulling down some mat sheds which harboured a gang of ruffians who were nightly engaged in plundering the town. In the beginning of October 1843, the Chinese robbers posted a counter proclamation on the gate of No. 1 Market-place, in the chief thoroughfare, declaring that if they left the island themselves they would \"compel others to do so, taking with them their merchandise and property, and warning people to be cautious how they ventured out after dark, lest they meet with some unexpected harm.\" At the same time the Government coal depots were set on fire; the mat barracks of the 41st Regiment, and the Market-place No. 1, were attempted to be burned; and at noon a number of Chinamen, armed with knives, entered the market, threatened all around, wounded a European policeman, and then walked away unmolested. The number of prisoners in the gaol of Hong Kong averaged, during 1843-44, from 60 to 90 a month; nearly every prisoner was Chinese, and the crimes with which they were charged were invariably piracy, murder, burglary, robbery, &c. There has been no diminution of crime; the number of prisoners in the jail have increased, and the nightly robberies are as frequent, if not more so, than they were three years ago. The shopkeepers do not remain more than a few months on the island, when another set takes their place. There is, in fact, a continual shifting of a Bedouin sort of population, whose migratory, predatory, gambling, and dissolute habits utterly unfit them for continuous industry, and render them not only useless, but highly injurious subjects in the attempt to form a new colony.\n\nThere cannot be said to be any other coloured race in the colony; a few Lascars seek employment in ships. The European inhabitants, independent of those in the employ of government, consist of the members of about 12 mercantile houses and their clerks, together with several European shopkeepers. A few persons have arrived here from New South Wales, to try and better their fortune, many of whom would be glad to return thither.\n\n[17]\n\nAppendix.\n\nReport on the\n\nIsland of Hong Kong.\n\nThe principal mercantile firms are those engaged in the opium trade, who have removed thither from Macao, as a safer position for an opium depot, and which they frankly admit is the only trade Hong Kong will ever possess. The opium belonging to the two principal firms is not, however, lodged on shore, it is kept in receiving ships, the \"Hormanjee Bomanjee,\" belonging to Jardine, Matheson & Co., and the \"John Barry,\" belonging to Dent & Co. Even the money in use by those firms is not entrusted on shore, but is kept in the receiving ships. These firms, and the three or four others partially engaged in the opium trade, carry on this business in Hong Kong. The tea trade is carried on distinctly at Canton, by members of the firms resident there. Excepting the six firms engaged in the opium trade, the other six houses are small, and are principally agents for manufacturers, &c. in Great Britain. The expense of establishments, the high rate of interest of money, and the want of trade, will, it is said, probably ere long compel the removal or breaking-up of several of the small houses. There is scarcely a firm in the island but would, I understand, be glad to get back half the money they have expended in the colony, and retire from the place. A sort of hallucination seems to have seized those who built houses here; they thought that Hong Kong would \"rapidly out-rival Singapore, and become the Tyre or Carthage of the Eastern hemisphere.\" Three years' residence, and the experience thence derived, have materially sobered some of their views. Unfortunately the government of the colony fostered the delusion respecting the colony. The leading government officers bought land, built houses or bazaars, which they rented out at high rates, and the public money was lavished in the most extraordinary manner, building up and pulling down temporary structures, making zig-zag bridle paths over hills and mountains, and forming the Queen's-road of three to four miles long, on which about 180,000 dollars have been expended, but which is not passable for half the year. The straggling settlement called Victoria, built along the Queen's-road, was dignified with the name of city, and it was declared on the highest authority that Hong Kong would contain a population \"equal to that of ancient Rome.\"\n\nThe Surveyor-general, in an official report to Sir Henry Pottinger, of 22 pages, dated 6 July 1843, proposed building an entirely new town or city, in the Woonichung Valley (which may be aptly called the valley of death), with a grand canal and many branch canals, &c. &c.; two ranges of terraces of houses, &c. &c.; courts of law and various other offices; acclimating barracks; additions to the present government house, for the secretaries and personal staff of the Governor, isolated from all other buildings; a space of land to be reclaimed from the sea for a public landing place, with an esplanade or public walk; a magnificent promenade of four miles to be made on ground now covered by the sea, which was to be excluded by a sea wall, at a cost of 35 dollars per lineal yard, exclusive of filling in, &c.; a circular road over hills and ravines, round the entire island, &c. &c., adapted for carriages, and for moving troops with speed and facility to any part of the island where they may happen to be required for the protection of the different villages. (These villages, be it remembered, containing nothing but a few hundreds of a thieving, piratical population.) I refer to the Government archives for full details of these and other most ridiculous projects, involving a vast expenditure of public money, which none but the wildest theorists or self-interested persons could have projected or entertained.\n\nOn 17th December 1843, the Surveyor-general laid before Sir H. Pottinger the elevation of a building for a government office, &c. with a front of 360 feet in length, by 50 feet in depth, and which would probably cost 30,000l. sterling. There seemed to be the greatest possible desire to spend a large part of the Chinese indemnity money on this wretched, barren, unhealthy, and useless rock, which the whole wealth, energy, and talent of England would never render habitable, or creditable as a colony to the British name.\n\nIn illustration of the mode in which the public money was proposed to be spent, I give the following, which is a portion of the estimate of public works in Hong Kong, for 1844, and which Sir H. Pottinger transmitted to England for approval:\n\nCompletion of Queen's-road from West Point to the east side of Wong-nichung Valley\n\nDitto, to godowns of Jardine & Co. New street formation in Victoria\n\nSewers in Victoria\n\n-\n\n-\n\nValue of houses to be removed from Upper Bazaar and other places Drainage of Woonichung Valley\n\nBridle path to Saiwan\n\nNew church\n\n-\n\nGovernment house, with suitable office, &c. House for Judge\n\nDitto, for Advocate-general\n\n28,000 dollars.\n\n15,000\n\n35,000\n\n\"\"\n\n100,000\n\n·\n\n25,000\n\n7,000\n\n3,000\n\n+\n\n35,000 \"}\n\n70,000 \"\n\n24,000 +1\n\n20,000\n\nE\n\nHouse\n\nSouth", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-027 - Public Offices - 1848.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 230475, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-033 - General Stavely - Lieut. Governor - 1850 [5-8]", "page_number": 340, "title": "CO129-033 - General Stavely - Lieut. Governor - 1850 [5-8]", "content_text": "334\n\nIt was clearly this & fault. about the Verandahs; in the Notification granting permission for the erections of Verandahs over the footpaths, &c, parties desirous of doing so were directed to apply for information, &c, at the Office, where the regulations regarding them might be seen.\n\nInland Lot 219, called the Circular Buildings, is one of the best positions in the neighbourhood, and is equal to a Marine Lot; as no Lots will ever be sold in front of it, high water coming close up to the Road.\n\nBut for the excessive competition of a Mr. McSwyney, who afterwards transferred the Lot to Mr. Duddell, the Lot would have been sold to Chinamen, who were much anxious to obtain it; the upset price was L.24-14-1¾, and it was knocked down for L.67.\n\nIn palliation of his buying this Lot, Mr. Duddell says he was smarting at an enormous outlay upon another Lot, po.35 and 9:1¼; in he says he knew perfectly, or ought to have known the peculiarities of that lot, its rocky and irregular state, as it was apparent to all, and therefore he must have anticipated that a large expenditure would be necessary, and further, he was warned regarding the Lot, but still, he purchased it: vide his remarks upon the Lot.\n\nI know it has been found difficult for Mr. Duddell to let these houses, and, after the damage they sustained in the Cyphoon, they were surrendered, but finally he took them back upon a petition to that effect: I think this Lot might be reduced to the upset price.\n\nLot 204, is situated on Hollywood Road, at the commencement of Caipingehand from the Eastward, and in a good locality for Chinese or Indian residents; the rent is nevertheless high.\n\nLot 291^. This Lot is on the Queen's Road, opposite Messrs. Lindsay's, and its position is no doubt good; it is stated that it was run-up about seventy-five per cent above its upset price, when, of necessity, it was at this time Mr. Duddell had several Lots in his possession, and I imagine could not require any except for speculative purposes.\n\nLots 292 and 293 are in his occupation, and being all situated together, the whole are rendered available for various purposes; 292 is considerably above the upset price, but I see no cause for advising a reduction.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-033 - General Stavely - Lieut. Governor - 1850 [5-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 230571, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-033 - General Stavely - Lieut. Governor - 1850 [5-8]", "page_number": 436, "title": "CO129-033 - General Stavely - Lieut. Governor - 1850 [5-8]", "content_text": "138. Wyndham St G. Guddell. 38 105 84 204 814 204 Bought 205 Caipingshaw Do. \" 205A 219. Queen's Road. Do. 67 13368 i \" 2 \" 292 || Caine Road. De 19 4 1293 15 10 294 320 1 # 29/A 35 Queen's Road. Do. 100 85 292A 29 339 15 Do. Do. 340 10 15\n\n138. At theatre is built on this lot, also on speculation. on speculation, this being the part of the town mostly occupied and owned by Chinese inhabitants: the two last lots 205, 205A purchased within the last six months.\n\nCircular buildings: six shops built on this ground, yielding about £75 per annum for three, the others being unlet.\n\n291 Known as Shelley's Gardens or Mitchell Grove: levelled, enclosed, laid out and planted by Mr. Shelley, at an enormous expense; purchased for a trifling amount by Mr. Duddell, 292. on speculation, now converted into pleasure ground. An \"Archery club\" is formed here who have built a substantial bungalow, for which, and the Archery Ground, they pay a rent of £225.\n\n291A. The Auction Mart is built on this Lot; so are also three Chinese shops, the latter yielding about £62. 10s per annum.\n\n292A, 339, 340. These 2 lots formerly occupied by 2 Coolie stands, erected by Government, afterwards sold to Mr Guddell; bought on speculation. One is used as a Farriery, and one is let to a Carpenter.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-033 - General Stavely - Lieut. Governor - 1850 [5-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 231230, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-036 - Sir Bonham - 1851 [1-5]", "page_number": 15, "title": "CO129-036 - Sir Bonham - 1851 [1-5]", "content_text": "¥20.\n\nJE\n\ngate of\n\n아\n\ngeef:\n\n#\n\n100. 10. Nov\n\nSubject of Despatch.\n\nrequesting to be permitted to act-\n\nive at the end of 1857, on certain conditions.\n\ntoo = Reporting transportation of 24 Chinese Convict to Penang on the 7th Instant\n\n101. 15. Acknowledging receipt of despatches to 1199 of 2nd September 1850, and Military despatch of the same date, together with Circular of 9th September.\n\n#\n\n103.16\n\nReporting 4 months leave of absence on Medical certificate granted to the 2nd A. J. Fuldwell, Assistant Superintendent of Police, V.C., and arrangements made for the performance of his duties\n\n17 a\n\n103.17\n\n104\n\nRequesting His Lordship's sanction to gravity of services executed in the Surveyor-General's department in the years 1848, 1849 and part of 1850, and applying for instructions relative to the nature and services appertaining to that office which may be considered necessary to obtain His Lordship's sanction\n\nTransmitting Report and returns for constructing a Road from the\n\n#\n\nBel:\n\n5\n\nDe\n\nnone.\n\n2\n\n$\n\n༡/\n\n13\n\n90tp:\n\n30\n\ngate. of\n\nDeep:\n\n#\n\nSubject of despatch.\n\nMel\n\n#\n\nAlbany Gate to the Brogneichung tally; and requesting His Lordship's sanction to the expenditure amounting to £812.5.10.\n\n105. £t too? Forwarding correspondence which has passed between the Colonial Government, and the Military authorities relative to the payment of the Police Tax on Buildings hired for Military purposes: and requesting His Lordship's instructions on the subject\n\n106.98\n\n3\n\nRecommending application from the Clerk in-Stedman, Military Chaplain to the Garrison at Hongkong, praying to be appointed Colonial Chaplain in the room of the Revd. Mr. Canton supposed to be about to resign.\n\n107. th Deck Transmitting correspondence relative to the outlay incurred by the Civil Department for affording Police protection to the Naval Stores, in consequence of the continued sickness of the Troops, and applying for instructions on the subject\n\nALL\n\nthe\n\nв\n\nne", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-036 - Sir Bonham - 1851 [1-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 233555, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-043 - Sir Bonham - 1853 [7-12]", "page_number": 64, "title": "CO129-043 - Sir Bonham - 1853 [7-12]", "content_text": "62\n\nTHE CHINA MAIL.\n\nCharitable laaits\n\n3.1.\n\nleads to the conclusiva that the expense\n\nIV—Provided always that all religious edifices, hospitals, jeme exempted from teries, and buildings strictly and exclusively appropriated tahari- of maintaining and extending it, if self- table purposes, and not being used as dwelling-houses, sall be imposed, would be less grudgingly paid, exempted from assessment under this Ordinance.\n\nGOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.\n\nNotice is hereby given, that the exclusive right of dealing in laun, Betel, and torment of col with the advice of the excentive Council, shall have powers apment. Betel Leaf, in the Colony of Hongkong, will be disposed of to the highest bidder at: Public Auction on the 20th day of June, at the Office of the Chief Magistrate of Police.\n\n[1]\n\nBy order,\n\nVictoria, Hongkong, 31st May, 1845.\n\n16\n\nProvisions for the\n\nJoctors,\n\nCollectors to malo\n\npoint such officer or officers as may be deemed requisite for te col- lection of the Rate leviable under this Ordinence, allowing in or them as remuneration for this service such a per Centage at the Governor in Council shall seem fit.\n\npaper the Report of a Trial on Appeal\n\nWe have extracted from an Edinburgh before the Louse of Lords, the subject being one of great importance to alt British colonists. The statule establish- ing dutics on legacies equaily affects England and Scotland, and the present decision settles the law, that such duties are not payable on\n\nAnd be it hereby enacted and ordained, that as soon afer the casual reters and first day of January in each year as may be founul practicale, the pablish officer collecting the assesstrent under this Ordinance shall gepare a detailed statement exhibiting the sums collected during de pre- ceding year, and the said statement, duly attested by the said ficer, shall be inserted in some newspaper published within this Clony, officer for one month from and after the date of its publicatio\n\nby a person re\n\nVI—And be it hereby enacted and ordained, that the saf rate such property being subject to the law of\n\nsiding in one of its possessions abroad- Quarterly in advance shall be payable quarterly in advance, unless otherwise prefribed the colony where the deceased\n\nand directed, as hereinberare mentioned, and that it shall be charged ciled. This judgment is not only impor was domi- and chargeable on the lands, dwelling-houses, and premises repect- ively assessed, at the time of such assessment.\n\nand shall also be open to general inspection at the office & such | England, if bequeathed invested in\n\nException as to\n\ncapted, or used\n\nFREDERICK W. A. BRUCE,\n\nColonial Secretary.\n\n憲。 告\n\nRate payalde\n\nT\n\n赴人在榔茲\n\n賣\n\n辦正等港\n\n此堂物等\n\n事衙於處\n\n者署五招\n\n特 THAA\n\n示 於投十包\n\n是如六質\n\n該要巡簍在\n\n署包理葉\n\n投\n\nB\n\n# B &\n\nexetorted.\n\nN\n\n一千八百四十五年五月 三 十\n\n日\n\n年四月\n\n二十六日\n\nFJ\n\ntant to British colunists, but may be\n\nΠΟΣ\n\nnot unwillingly substitute the following from a correspondent:-\n\nof benefit to England, by encouraging\n\nAnd be it hereby enacted and ordained that the omber of investments there. So important aid the property mat let, or any land, dwelling-house, or premises assessed, which may fot be\n\nlet to any tenant, shall be deered the occupier thereof. privided this question, that though neither he always, that if such owner can shew that the property las nt been the other low lords entertained any inhabited for a period of three months or upwards in any year, he doubt, it was submitted as an A. B ques- shall be entitled to a proportional abatement of assessment leted on the same for the said year.\n\ntion to the Judges, because, as the law\n\nAppeal against as\n\nwas to be stated definitively, for the\n\nVIII—Provided always, that if any person from whom payment British Islande, and for all its colonies, esten der pay- of the assessment leviable under this Ordinance may have been the Lords deemed it proper that the meo the\n\ndemanded, and who shall have already paid in the amount demanded decision should have all the weight of him, ohjects to the demand on any other ground than that of which the concurrent opinions of the valuation, it shall be competent to such person, after payment of Judges and of the Lords could give it.\" the amount demanded, to appeal against such demand to the Chief' Justice of the Supreme Court at such time and place as the said:\n\nWe had proposed to give a short critique\n\nChief Justice may be pleased to direct, or that if any person be dissa on the Concert of Thursday last, but tisfied, or objects to any valustion to be made under this Ordinance on the ground of over-valuation, he or they may, within the period of three calender months after such valuation, or when the said Chief: Justice may appoint or direct, appeal to him against such valuation, and that it shall be lawful for him, if he deem it advisable or neces- sary to have any three persons taken from the existing let of special jurors to assist him in ascertaining the question of value which may arise on\n\nDistricts may be\n\nIX—And be it further enacted and ordained, that it shall and n any such appeal. may be lawful for the said Governor, with the advice of the said Executive Council, to exempt such districts or portions of the said Island from the operation of this act, or from the payment of the said rates, as to him and them may seem advisable.\n\nX—And be it hereby enacted and ordained, that un asessment made under the authority of the Ordinance shall be impeached or affected by reason of any mistake in the name of any person liable to assessment, or of any thing chargeable with assessment, provided the directions of this Ordinance be in substance and effect complied with.\n\nclause.\n\nTriplomatic Department.\n\nGOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.\n\nHis Excellency Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of British Trade, &c. &c., is pleased to direct that the sunexed Circular to the address of Her Majesty's Consuls in China he published for general information.\n\nBy order,\n\nVictoria, Hongkong, 31st May, 1845.\n\nCIRCULAR No.\n\nADAM W. ELMSLIE.\n\nVictoria, Hongkong, 31st May, 1845.\n\nI have to acquaint you, that I have received the Commands of Her Most Gracious Majesty, conveyed through the Right Honourable the Earl of Aberdeen, sanctioning and confirming Ordinance No. 6 of 1844, intituled, An Ordinance to authorize the execation of the Process of the Supreme Court of Hongkong in certain Parts within the Dominions of the Emperor of China.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed)\n\nJ. F. DAVIS.\n\nTrue Copy:\n\nADAM W. ELMSLIE,\n\nTo Her Britannic Majesty's Consul at\n\nTisle.\n\nPreamble.\n\nClovernor to p\n\nIsland.\n\nHONGKONG,\n\nANNO OCTAVO, VICTORIE REGINE. No. 2 of 1845.\n\nBy His Excellency JOHN FRANCIS DAVIS, Esquie, Go- vernor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong jad its Dependencies, lur Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Sperin tendent of the Trade of British Subjects in China, with the idvice of the Legislative Council of Hongkong.\n\nAn Ordinance to raise an assessed Rate on Janda, houses, and premises, within the Colony of Hongkong, for the upholding of the requisite Police Force therein.\" WHEREAS it is deemed expedient and necessary that the Colony of Hongkong should defray the Expenses attendant on the upholding and maintaining the Police force thereof.\n\n--Be it therefore enacted and ordained by the Governor of point haters of the Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof that lands. house it shall and may be lawful to and for the said Governor, with the mies within the advice of the Executive Council, from time to time to appoint two ar more persons for the purpose of estimating the annual vaide of the lands, houses, and premises within the said Island, or within any particular district thereof, which shall be in the tenure or occupation of any person or persons; and the said valuator or valuators shall, when thereunto required, make a retum in writing and on oath of such valuation to the said Governor and Coureff; and also at the time of having valued each property respectively, he proprietor thereal, a written Notification of their having made such or they shall leave or cause to be left with some inmate or the valuation, sod of the Amount thereof.\n\nIl—And be it further enacted and ordained that for the purposes of this Ordinance, the said Governor and Council may cause a new valuation to be made annually.\n\nILL--And\n\nValuation may be made anually.\n\nAssessment to he Trade on the d\n\nJyment, andromedy for nonpayment.\n\nbe\n\n|\n\nInterpretation\n\nAnd be it further enacted and ordained, that this Ordinaner shall come into operation and take effect, from and after the first day of Julf next ensuing.\n\nPassed the Legislative Council of Hongkong this 93d day of May, 1845. ADOLPHUS E. SHELLEY,\n\nClerk of Councila.\n\nJ. F. DAVIS, Governor, &c., &c.\n\nour present rulers every thing will be done with the utmost economy: but that does not affect the principle, against which we conter.d.\n\nThe right of the mercantile commu- pity to a voice in the Legislative Council has frequently been urged, not, we think, with much force of reason; for until the revenue of the colony is sufficient to pay its expenses, we do not ace that the in- habitants can claim representation as a right, and upon any other grounds it\n\nMessrs Fiebig and lavac's Concert took place according to announcement on Thurs day evening last, and the attendance was in very respect calculated so answer the ex pectoris of the originators, who well de Berve encouragement for their attempt to the ennuyés of Victoria. afford an evening's rational entertainment to deservedly applauded for his brilliant ex\n\nM. Rarac was eeution of the very difficulty picces allotted to him, sad met with an unanimous encore in the Caroival of Venice.\" His notes are remarkably clear and expressive, and by a himself of a few mannerisms, he might with little attention to his style, in order to divest study become a first rote performer on this most difficult of instruments. M. Fiebig was not so felicitous; his well known skill and tirely unworthy of his efforts. The \"Bella\" execution, were expended on a theme on- he dimittel. le proved himself to possess\n\na correct judgment and highly cultivated\n\ntaste, by the simple yet appropriate manner in which he accompanied M. Ravac, instead of displaying in mastery over the instrument by profuse ornament, at the expense of the melody itself, a fault too common among musicisms. The programme was a striking example of the lied taste which is unfortu Dately I too prevalent in the days with thrown aside for the modern Italian school, regard to music. The great masters are new The Messiah must give place to the Stabal Mater, and Iton Giovanni to Don Pasquale. Verily, Rossint, Donizetti, Belliei, Pacini, Auber, &o, ae but peor substitutes for Handel, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Weber, Fiebig and Barac should favour the inhabi tots of Victoria with another Concert, or Gluck, Cimarosa, or Parsiella. If Messrs\n\neven a series of Concerts, and we think they have ample encouragement for so doing, what\n\nTHE CHINA MAIL.\n\nHONGKONG, THURSDAY, 8TH JUNE, 1245. Is another part of to-day's paper will be found an important Ordinance by the Governor in Council for assessing the inhabitants with the expenses of the Police establishment. The advantages\n\nwhich the community derive from a well organized system of police are so self-evident, that a reason- able rate for its support is perhaps one of would be worse than useless. the few direct taxes that in civilized the case is different with municipal of his great countryman the composer of countries are submitted to without affairs. Here, it is proposed that the Fidelio, or M. Ravac delighting his auditors de tot anticipate whole charge of upholding the police or Vietti; and, if the prevailing taste is so that even those who, like ourselves, should be defrayed by the inhabitants, strongly expressed in favour of modera with the touching compositions of Corelli maiorain that it is a mistake\" policy who thereby, we conceive, establish a music, let us have it good at least, something to overburden the youthful energies of just claim to avail themselves of the con- by Spohr, Cherubini, Mendelssolu, er the colony with taxation, will find much stitutional right of British subjects to be Beyerbeer, for instance. to complain of in being called upon consulted both as to the levying and dis- to contribute their quota for uphollingposal of the fund. In London, though\n\nmormer; and WH\n\na treat it would be for a true lover of nute to hear M. Fisbig displaying his taste nad But exception on some of the majestic sinfonias\n\nPEKING GAZETTE.\n\nhridegroom was\n\nthat\n\nthe force requisite for the protection, nearly one-fourth of the expenses of the health, and comfort of the community. police establishment is paid out of the Con-rial Princess with one of the Mangal chieft THE COURT—The marriage of an Imps- amble of the Ordinance, we conocive to watch over the interests of the rate But though we thus concur in the pre-solidated Fund, there are commissioners has given rise to not a little trouble. The that its enacting clauses are objectionable peyers; and in Edinburgh and (ilasgow, riage celebrated without delay, and he mast defining the power and jurisdiction of the assessment on the inhabitants, they at- to the customary rule, directed that astronu- on two grounds, First, not clearly where the whole amount is raised by an\n\nan early day should be fixed for the core. police, a term of wide signification, and Dually elect representatives,\n\nmony. The Emperor, however, according which in the three United Kingdoms to the sale power of determining the per Board, to ascertain when the heavens would\n\nwho have made to include very different classes of centage, as well as its appropriation. be propitions for the celebration of the nup mical observations should be made by the functions. The Ordinance does not in- These Commissioners have, properly, tials. Unfortunately the members of the for us whether this preventive branch judicial functions; but except that the Board ware not mautious in reading the of justice is to be rendered so efficient in appointment of Superintendent is lodged agus of the stars, and after a great many Hongkong as to supersede the necessity in other hands, they are onnipotent calculations, drawing of horoscopes, and con- for the individual tax which the inhabi as regards the extent and remunera tants have hitherto been compelled totion of the force, as well as in all that persofthe day, they fixed on the 23d April at submit to in maintaining private watch relates to lighting, cleansing, removal\n\nthree o'clock in the morning as the most tion is the more pointedly directed by arrangements of the fire brigade. And at that hour. This is said to be the earliest men--a circumstance to which our atten- of nuisances and obstructions, and the able for that ceremony. The Royal pair joined in drinking from the nuptial cup the intimation from the Chief Magistrate we which appeared in the Cuts MALL only Geomy, these matters are nowhere the celestial empire,\n\nbelieve that in efficiency and hoar at which a marriage has taken place in better managed out of London, if indeed The King of Korea has again asked the the metropolis is an exception. tants who might consider them worth $10\n\nEmperor to sanction is marriage with one a-month. It seems necessary to under-there aced be no fear about the sua patent for that pa pose. The Emperor Were such a plan adopted in Hongkong, of the damsels of the Court, and to grant but stand whether we are to have a police ciency of the supplies, and we should look have hitherto been carried by a body of so generally effective as to supersede the confidently to a gradually improved sys Mandarins deputed by the Emperor for has acceded to his requeat. Such documents\n\na fortnight ago, tendering the services of\n\na night constahle to any of the inhabi-\n\nsultatious with the most celebrate! philosu-\n\nThis will add\n\nit further enacted and ordained, that for the purpose valiation and provi. of levying the said rate, a per Centage at such an amount in the sic:t for periods of hundred as muy annually be determined on by the Governor with the payment, notice of advice of the Executive Council, not exceeding such a sum as sball assessment, period of be equal to the expenses of the Palice establishment, shall be as- necessity for private watchmen, or if, betem from the suggestions of a body of that purpose, but on the present occasion a sessed and paid in respect of every such valuation by the occapier sides this heavy tax, we are to be called judicious and interested commissioners, single civilian only has been despatched or owner of cach parcel of ground, house, or building, within such upon to contribute to the support of a Protection of life and property, sanatory with it to the Prince. time and times as the said Governor, with the advice of the said Council, shall direct, or as is hereinafter provided. In the absence of auch direction and in default of the same being so paid, it shall be Jawful for any person or persons oppainted to collect the suid tax to apply to the Chief Magistrate of Police of the Island, who shall, on satisfactory proof of the same having been duly demanded and being due and\n\nJunsatisfied,\n\ngrant his Warrant to levy the same by distress of any goods on or in the lands, houses, or premises so rated; and that any such\n\nrate, while unpaid, shall be a lien on the property so assessed, or charged therewith, Provided always that when and so often as any assessment shall be made on any such valuation, the particulars and nature of such assessment shall be published in one or more public newspapers of the said Colony.\n\nforee, which, from the intimation alluded regulations, and whatever tends to the another Queen to the numerous Ilarem to, it may be inferred the authorities do comfort and convenience of the public, of bis Royal Highness. not consider to be entirely efficient. are matters of imperative necessity, Tau Lord Mayor of Puking reported, that The other objection we have to the acknowledged by every friend to public beavy showers of snow had fallen in the measure is that the inhabitants are not safety and good order; and the adminis-, during the beginning of March; and allowed a voice in fixing the rate, or tration of the law for securing these ends be looked for, he suggests that a day of public as a good wheat harvest might accordingly io determining the modo in which it is to be applied no other limit being pro- those of the community who are to enjoy Emperor has received his suggestion favour\n\ncan never be placed in better hands than thanksgiving should be appointed. The posed than what may seem to the Co-the benefits, and who are caliel upon to ally. vernor, with the advice of the Executive contribute the means of securing then, Council, sufficient for upholding or main- Without forgetting or under-vaining the taining any extent of force that may he salutary efforts of our rulers to provide an appointed. We have no doubt that with organized protective force, experience\n\nSome Mandarins, of high rank, arrived\n\nfrom Kwang-tung and Yan-an, whose baggage consisted of no less than one thou- ordinary quantity, they were interrogated sand packages. This being rather an\n\nBA-\n\nas to the contents, and the reply that they contained letters and despatelies for the tribunals, no being satisfactory, they were ordered to he opened and inspected. Ten were found to contain documents, but the contents of the remaining 990 have not been made public.\n\nP\n\nOn releasing the Petit Jary from their long and fatiguing labours the fan. Recorde complimented them on the zeal and jade ment which they had displayed, and his Honour stated, that he coincided in every verdict they had given.\n\nlfonso of Lorda, February 17. THOMSON LORD ADVOCATE OF SCOTLAND.\n\nTHE CHINA MAIL.\n\nSITTING OF THE SCPI Colar, 2 June, 1945,\n\ndesired to name a son, he named 105 dollars,\n\n63\n\nA difter-\n\nstating the Admiral's desire to pay any c FOREIGN Goops with a Britist Chance- munendon for the services of the vossal\n\nT—During the past year numerous in- which Matheson might think G and stonees have occurred of goods buying bren (From the Hongkong Register] This was a writ of error against a judg\n\nA Special Jury was empanneled for thre meat of the Court of Exchequer in Scotland trial of an action raised as the instance of the manensient, but expressed his willingness to\n\nreason. Mr Matheann refused any ve brought to this country for home use or ex- The facts of the case are those John\n\nportation to foreign puits, with labek attach- Grant, a person born in Scotland, but who Crown against the Editor of the Friend of acccptacy couneration on the part of the ed, giving, or purporting to give thean, a had left that cuantry sad become domiciled: Ching, for the publication of the following\n\ncrew might think proper. When desired British character in a foreign market s in Demerara, died in that colony, in the\n\nto name a sum, be said, the Admiral may this, if allowed, would be highly detrimental Article in his 'isue of the 13th July last, Treasurer Tang-ting-ching, the late Gover-year 1887. He had acquired considerate, which was alleged to contain a libel against think very different from us and being to the British manufacturer, the goods have nor of Canton, and who will probably property while in Demerara, and had trans- Sir Thomas Cochrane:-\n\nin every instance been detained by the Reve- reesive the first van Governorship, osmitted saare portion of it to Scotland, at It will be in the all-rtion of many of our The letter M Me Matheson stated that the me officers, as being impuited contrary to recommended his inferiur officers, whe no- the time of his death, a banking house there Loaders, that Her Majesty's ship Wolf, got on a schooner had been detained 18 hours in conve the provisions of the act in that regard; the terially assisted bin in clearing large trace held property of his to the amount of\n\nbank somewhere below Woosneg, and has for the quence of the service rendered to the Wolf only relief given having been that the goods of land in Kan-sub, to the notite of govera- £18,000. Probate of his will was taken timely aid of the Schooner Fetes, Capt. Caer, sier Goddard in addressing the Jury for Mr have been allowed to be returned to the purt ment, as worthy of promotion.\n\nont in Scotland, by tho present appellant, as\n\nwould have been obliged to acrifice he cons and Carr, ill be felt eansiderable difficulty of shipment, the labels or other mode of in shot before she curld here'got n The Wolf took appearing before them in such circumstances.fringement having been firstromovel. These bis executor, and payment of the money due\n\nthe bank at high water, mud and not possibly have Mr Cur bad been accused of publishing a labels have usually contained the Royal arms having boea brained, in was transmitted to It is with touch regret we learn, from a\n\nbocu fiased again, without grandly reducing the dead hel, \"toulously, winkedly, and malicious of Enghel, will the name, in English, of Demerara. The law officers of the Crown weight on board. Then fast descried by the Fern, y\" Mr Carr, he believed, knew very little the importer in London, or other place in lang memorial of Lea, Governor-Genersi of\n\nclaimed from the executor the son of £1800 ahr, the Way had a sign.d of distress lying, ani Che-eang and Fo-keen, that the rise arup as legacy duty duo from him in respect of there can be no doubt that, hack it came in to be high and in these seas Sir Thomas, except on a person holding a the United Kingdom, ss the case may be, the in Pormasa hoe failed, also that the Granary the property of the testator existing in Scot- whilst she was lying in a mitical position, she\n\nname and description of the contents bring is now exhausted, and that the price of grain Lad. The case went before the Court of\n\nwand ham gore bo pres. The Pinot Pan niongailia, however, in this case did not act as a judge, also given in the English language, evidently is daily rising in Fo-keen. Leu has ardered Exchequer in Scotland, where Ford Gillies and took out all ver artament, 15 send 41,42 th. The ly Judge of Admiralty here is the intending to envey the impression in a extensive purchases to be made in Che-keang delivered a judgment declaring that the\n\nshot, and it was net wat relieved of this weight clut | Lord Chief Justice. Neither does he accuse foreign market that the goods were of British and other places, and wishes that the public legary duty as payable in the manner de ser altercaties fabu to the her guns overhard, either in his publie or his private character, time since of a parcel of esses containing se again loated; without this since she had no bin ofhay rbing eriminal, or of an offence mamifacture. An instance occurred a short granaries should be opened.\n\nmanded. The prosent writ of error was then brought. The ease bad been argued vage, and before any Adiralty socte sum\n\nor go to pisees on the ink. This is a clear case of which implied guilt. He never acted him paper for letter-writing being brought for of coruption. He only accuses him that he CANTON—Rumour states that the light two years ago, and now came on again for awarded the Foren for for aid would be siderable.\n\nexportation, etch sheet of paper having thos was not so bieral as he ought to be, A\n\nword Barle\" primed in the usual manner at ning struck the palace of Lieutenant-Gver. argument by one counsel on a side.\n\nAt the time the affair occurred, tar Admisal Sir Me Kelly, on the part of the appellant\n\ncriminal libel has been filed against Mr Carr, the left hand corner, and the packages them- nor [wang, and damaged, bis snutf-box. Themas Duebrang was at Chusni, when it arced. In consegnace of the way the accusation selves containing the paper the Brilish aras This, it is said, has made so strong an impres¦ (Mr Anderson was with him,) fosisted that between him are the Cipam of the Vares, that the has been brought, he was pot to great ex- einblazoned thereon. They were, of course, sion upon the grandee, that he has since been the legacy duty was not payable here. The question: of compensation atould be lett open ancil duty was demanded under 36 Geo. III, c. wrapt in deep thought and revery.\n\nSir 1 homas Cochrane avtored to this enlony. Altor penser, as the frown pays on costs; and if immediately detained, and application WAY he seeds, as I aux sure he will, he will made for permission to retard them to the 152, sec. 2, which enacted, that all legacies Thonan return, the cwners generaly waived\n\nabove the amount of £20, given by any will\n\nall claims fre salvage, marely requesting the Rear rill here to pay all his own expenses. Be port of shipment, but the intention in this (From the Singapore Free Press, 1st May.) or testamentary instrumcat, shoald pay le-\n\nAdmiral to remouense the Captain and eve for their sides the case has been deferred from time instance being so evident, the goods wer The Criminal Sessions were finished on gacy duty. Fe submitted that thang those elite similar te their own, Sir Thomas Cachane on long ago. Fir Thomas might have put ed, which was accordingly done,\n\ntrouble, never doubling then retunded by a spirit to time, whereas it might have been brought ordered to be seized and the parties prosecut Saturday Jast, the 28th ult. having lasted words were of the most extensive and gene rash hudumaly reward de vore of Fist himself into the witnesa box, and so might ence is made where the name and inscription four weeks, 18 persons were discharged on ral kind, the aut did not apply out of Great Majesty's slig. In doing thy they committed a Mr Waller, and thee we should have had an on the label is in the French or other foreign Saturday, no witnesses coming forward Britain. The aut could not extend even to\n\ncapital cere, to who justice and magnanimity opportunity of seeing what was right and language, although the British armus may be against them. No blame attaches to the our colonies, without some word expressly ey had entrusted the liquidatio of the cases what was wrong, or at least we should have Police in this instance, as the parties had including them, and there were no anche Captain and are of the Kareemid not fi\n\nengraved thereon, it being considered that words here. That being the case, the gene print much ganeanu facdage, and taking advantage\n\nhad an opportunity to cross-examine them, the act is not thereby infringed in const- been regularly bound over to appear nord\n\nquence. Timca. give evidence. In some cases there is leral rule of law applied that the personal pro- of the antideles is displast, he offered to award and of proving that Mr Matheson was not informed of the facts. Mr Bradshaw, the doubt that bribery has been resorted to inperty followed the fair of the domicile of its all $10, in the proportion of $4 for the quain\n\nfirst officer of the Fire, was on beard when I\n\nTHE HOPELESS SESSION. order to keep back evidenco. In van oase, a owner, and consequently as the domicile of $20 Ckiy Oficer; $16 Gunnar; $1 each for the Crew- charge of murder, the widow of the murder the testator here was Demerara, the low of take advantage of us Iter &iral's meannes, ant dewee was tatran in this court before a Com\n\nWe need actualy gette tha: Catón Carr would not the Wulf hoisted sigands of distress: his evi-\n\nWhat change has come over the public ed person, though she had appeared before that place unst govern the administration of\n\nwithin these few years Where be all the in is instance Her Majesty's ship has got off missioner. Mr Carr did not ferret out the the Grand Jury, was not to be found when his assets. Prubate but necessarily been fie fad the Fizen been the party cunt talon out in Scotland, because the Bankers\n\neager conjectures regarding the grent mea cireunastanees; \"hey were brought to him by the case came on for trial.\n\nwan in expardy unit the readers a Captain Carr, who complained of the waut Parliament aas supposed to lie pregnant? sares with which to coming session of who were the debtors had not honestly paid aquistanes, we would have had the matter certleil 1\n\nof liberality. F. M's Ships are generally People do not even take the treble to fore had been paid, but the claim here was what was due, and the probate duty there a very different mumer. Sie Thores mental op-\n\nvalued at £1000 per gan-the Wolf has 18 So which at times appear scleri -wor for legacy duty, which was clearly not pay\n\nguess what may be coming. Suficient for guns, nod may, therefore he vained at able As a very strong instance of the mis\n\nLeco fally opened to the importance of the service,\n\nThe day is the evil thereof. They will see and if such a question were left to his award, wo har 18,000, and for saving her 100 dollars are\n\nthe debates when they begin. Public emio- chief that would arise if the doctrine now\n\nIf Sir Thomas close to take ou nat the slightest doubt that the which awardedi. contended for by the Crowe could be sup\n\nsufficient for the 'em, would hure aweled bits himself the office of fixing the reward, be it is as languil is the opening of St A Chinese was executed on Monday week ported, it was only necessary to mention this\n\nchongauls for the War. We regret exeedingly to\n\nought to have exercised the strictest care to Stephen's as it has long been at the opening for murder. He taule a long speech when case, Suppose an Englishman resident They injure the dignity of the series not a litte: Carr, hearing that Sir Thomas was about to\n\nnatice such a crtions is the me now mantined. make himself acquainted with the facts. Mr of the patent theaires, No new pieces are the scaffold, protesting is innocence, abroad, or a foreigner traded with a person\n\nronounced as in preparation. Somo leading danouncing the witnesses against biu for in England, and at the death of the former a\n\nand alcough no thinking man would jrdys unferour-\n\nactors have cutired, and no onw ones ara commener an action against him, made every advertised. Nobody asks wht is to succeel perjury and threatening to beat them bill of exchange accnpted by the person io\n\nably of those whose merits Eater zee: so often tested, enquiry, in order that if he had done wrong. Lol Stanley in the Tybalt line, or Mr in conacquence of the lile minded actions of their afer his death. He acquitted the Judge this conmry was ranning, no parment of peat Chief, we are bound to acolodge, that to\n\nbe might rearess it by making an ample adstone in the heasy tragedy. There are and fury of all blame, as they had only acted that bill of exclange could be made without\n\napology but the more he did enqore, the to be rehearsals on Monday at Sir Robert the thoughtless and ipsmant, such tr.les uvey an according to the evidence, and be declared a deduction from the legacy duty. No one unfavourable, though file impression of the nasal stronger be found the facts. To costine Peri's (in full dress) and the Dake of Well- that in order to remove all cars from the cook pretend that a rale so mischievous to chare. Si Theme Cochrane, if we recoller Jibel it most the show that the party is Judge's mind, he, the prisoner, would bang commerce could exist, and the Hanse must, right, has been a candidate for parliamentary hưn charged with something that is criminal.ington's but the maies of the pinses in himself and he accordingly placed his head in therefore, act on the Authorities already des\n\npar: once, at least, he stood for a seaport, Mr Bradshaw's evidence is to this effect has invited his friends to be early in their\n\npreparation are not asked. the balter. He was very collected, and took cided, which had settled that the law of the\n\nthe pret buffetini inhalants of which are slip The Wolf was in great distress, firing gutus, attendances but the Opposition Fader a polite leave of those near him by bowing place where the testator died nust goverato distinguish himself in the nature of his country dwares; should the gallant Adunai ever again sek\n\nand baving her ensign with the Uniou down, ems to dust whether it is worth the to them, and at last, shaking hands with the the adutinistration of his personal property.\n\nThe Fire stood in and sent her boat to the while of his friends to we trust the affair we matrate will be prestained off to offer assistance. The Fixes had a 'Comeli whether it is worth tas while ot come, and Mr exceptioner, was launched off.\n\nThe Solicitor-General (with whom was bit the hastings, as we ate afrail would shin large pantity of specie on board. She re- bis to stay away. The Three Mays convinted of the rauder Me Crompton) did not deny the existence of in the eyes of any consergy intarestol in the\n\nThe tradesmen evince ceived 16 guns and 500 shut, and he consime animation in farbisting up the Houses, of Captain RBIsos of the Bluck twt, were some general rule as to the law of domicile, mesutile -hipping of Geet Britain.\" executed on Saturday last, and acknowledged but cuntended that it had nothing to do with\n\ndered the Voit would have been in extreme The following were the Jurymen on the\n\nand the grooms in exercising the cream- their guilt.\n\na case like the present. The principle of case,Thos. Jones, Esq., Duacan Flether, danger bl a gale come out. law that raust govern this case was, that Es, Angus Fletcher, Bay. F. T. Bush, Esq. aliona tendency to prevent others from giving pervade th actors and spectatus. Never coloured horses of the state-carriage; int TheJulge here asked, \"had not this public with these exceptions, apathy and langu where the property was balaistered the J. Leffler, Esq. and George Findlay, Esq. TRULY SEAMAN-LIKE CONDUCT. Captain legacy duty must be paid. If there had beeu The attorney-fineral in opening the case chassistance?—Mr Goddard said he thought before it the public appear to expect so Captain Caldwell, fate of the ship Durchester, of a specifs appropriation of the property in stated that this was an information on the ! \"xpressly the reverse, as it showedsuch per- little from a session will it be possible to Boston, tas pebliched the following amount: Sotland, this rule would not have applied, part of the Queen, to defend the character\n\nsous their age would be taken up by the press disappoint that little? Our faith in the Mr Bradshaw's videuce was then read. disappointing powers of Parliament is great. Captain Brition, of the Rochester, fell ja | but there was no appropriation The money of Sir Thomas Cochrane, who had awarded with the Dorchester at sea, a pertent Greek, recoveral there formed part of the general a sum of 100 dollars for services rendered and at great hazard rescued her officers, crew, assets, and was therefore liable to the lagney by the Fire to the off, as the fall salvage\n\nto an anchor near her. She had 144,000 severely trial-Sperlotur. and passengers from an untimely fate. duty. He contended that all the cases which claimed that Mr Car, well knowing the Caphan Caldwell says, \"The Rochester was bad been dated on this subject did not premises, took the occasion to vilify the stroring a course which would bare carried touch the subject of duncile, but related Commander-in-Chief as having acted aritra her about three miles north of us. The mo❘ wholly to that of the appropriation artit that when services were rendered to H. M. Barisfied with the award—He thinks the ons example of official economy. A crea-\n\nor non- rily, haughtily, and unjustly, and to state\n\nLouis Philippe's Ministers have get a tort- ment the wreck was seen, the course of the appropriation of the property, The Rochestor was altered for one directly for us. gentleman farther contended, that where a Ships, no adequate reward would be paid, remuneration illiberal, and injurious to other tion of Peers was intended, and the names of At that time,\" said Captain Britton to one party acted in the discharge of dutios of To this charge Mr Care at Girst pleaded vessels requiring assistance—Thorew help the Pencs were almost authoratively an afterwards, I had no idea that there could administration to a deceased person, the Not Guilty, but to-day he has added as a to take the guns, &c., on board—Witness nounced. Thone persons, of course, would be a living being on board of her; but I legacy daty is payable in respect of the money farther plea, that all he had stated was true, did so, and was powell in consequence—The be bound to Ministers for the coming session; have made it au invariable rate through life, he received and dealt with in that charseter, and published for the benefit of the pallie acevant in the Friend of China was not enig but what a waste of the coin of Court fa whenever I see a wreck, to get as near her The Lord Chancellor put the following Hy was aware that whenever there was angered The Fizen was detained 24 hours- vour! Ministers take second thought, and A. Matheson, Esq., being called as a vit postpone their creation until after the dis- as possible, and ascertain all I can about her, questions to the Judges:A B., a British Fattempt to check such objectionable publica- and make sure that there is nobody aliva on subject, born in England, resided in a Bri- tions, there was raised an outery that it was\n\nnews and sworn, deposed, that the Fizm be-\n\ncussion on their whole policy in the Cham- board before I leave her. We supposed, hetish colony, made his will, and died domiciled for the purpose of curbing the fibres and the chip of Jardine, Matheson, & .. hers. This is the true economy: every sup\n\nawarded nothing to the Crew continued, it was some timbership which there. At the time of his death debts were Press. The Government bero had no wish\n\nporner will wat himself down for a peerage, Secretary of Sir Thomas Cochrane called and each one prize will attract many gamblers had been drifting about here for months;awing to him in England; his executor in to do so.--an ollicer discharging the high and wished him to do so—the Viren bad for it. As if to show practically that the but resolving that I would adhere to my rule, England collected these debts, and out of duty of Admiral, and in this case acting as a I altered my course, although we all thought the money he collected paid legacies to cars\n\nJudge of the Admiralty, is complained of it useless at the time. Thus, by following tain legatees in England are such legacies a partial statement of the frots is brought the service rendered by hue was very made one sample Peer—M. Jaubert, an Op. this noble rule, Captain Britton was the able to the payment of the legacy daty? forward; for if the whole facts had been slight, and the crew were not employed at positionist. Spectator.\n\nAll—Captati Care was not satisfied with the mexas, in the hauds of God, of saving the He had fransed the question in this general stated. Sir Thomans Cochrane would have\n\nAdmiral's award, but did not ask witness's lives of 45 human beings, and in the circle of form, beranse the statute equally affected suffered no damage. A persoa in such vir-\n\nadvice as the course he ought to punue their friends and acquaintance, of making the England and Scotland,\n\ncumstances ought not to be so negligent as hearts of hundreds sing for joy. Captain The Judges requested short time to to pablish partial statements. The Admiral he is the assistance he gave was very im- portaut—Mr Waller did not make his state- Britton received me on board \"his ship with consider their answer. They retired for is charged with gross partiality and verup-\n\nment a upoo bis own knowledge, but na a welcome and a shake of the hand which this purpose, and at the end of about half an tion as a judge. You\" (the Jury) will not\n\nwhat he noderstood--Witness thinks that ac went to the heart, and spoke at once the sea- hour returned, when\n\nfail to perceive the motive on the face of the man and the gentleman. So long as memory Lord Chief Justice Tindal read their article.\n\ncording to Captain Carr's statement of the ser Will you ever believe chat Sir\n\nvices reutered, 100 Dollars was ootanfficient, retains her seat, I shall not forget his kind- answer, to the effect that, though the words Thomas was influenced by such motives, and ness. Taking me into his cabin, Consider,' of the statute could not apply everywhere, that this was published for the beaclit of the\n\nCross-examined by the Attorney-General said he, everything here at your service, the principle which ran through all the le public, and not to gratify some private feeling saw nothing on the part of Sir Thomas or Here are my clothes, use as many of them asided case was, that the domicile of the de- against him? It may produce the most\n\nMr Waller to lead him to believe they wished you need. And such was his treatment of ceased party gave the law which regulated prejudicial effoot for if this article is ciroz\n\nto retreat from their offer to give a proper us votil we arrived at New York, and then, the distribution of the personal property; lated among the mercantile wavy here, should remuneration. When asked to manie a sunt, witness said high Government officers were said he, Here is my purse at your service this ride was not affected by the situs of the another of Her Majesty's Ships got inte\n\nften stingy, and he believed Sir Thomas was for what moung you need? flow different personal property itself, or by the place tu similar circumstances, it would deter them the result, and how diferent must be the fee which the administrator received that pras from residering their services. I have au particular trouble. ings of Captain Britton from what they porty, and that, consequently, the law appli- thing to say against the serving rendered by\n\nThe Attorney-General said that Sie Thomas was of necessity discharging an office of high wonid have been, if he bad passed by and re-cable to this case was the law of the colony the Vire taking out guts, shat, &n. ported, Lat. 50 N., long. 20 W, saw a ship, where the deceased was domiciled at the This, I admit, it was a clear caso of salvage, Ministerial duty, se at that time there was no Totally dismasted, sea, making a complete time of his death, and was not the law of Sir Thomas bad to wish to deny this. Te Court of Admiralty here, breach over her: weather equally, and im England, consequently that the legacy daty said to his Secretary, Mr Waller, I know The Judge, in susuming up the case, said ing on night; could ascertain nothing further was not payable here.\n\nnothing of this case you will call on Methe bel was divided into two parts first a that the Lord had sent at thers to marry her, abour ber. Such are too often the reports, The Lord Chancellor expressed his fall Matheson and learn what be claims.\" Mrtement of facts, and secondly a commen! Betty, without much hesitation, replied,The but I hope we shall see no more of them. coneurrence with this opinion, and went Waller did call, and Mr Mathieson very tary on these facts. The first was passed Lord's will be done.\" Edinburgh Evening Courant.\n\ninto a very exact examination of the cases liberally refused to receive anything. Mr over. It was for the Jury to judge if there\n\nThe Premier\n\nThe Fixes was ordered by the Wolf to conte but on the present vesion they will be Tarls of silver on hoard. Thinks it was in\n\nsequence of the relief afforded by her that\n\nthe Wolf got off. Two vessels bave sincr bero wrecked there. The crew were all dis-\n\nHOW TO MAKE A PEERAGE GO VURTHEST,\n\nnot then returned to Hongkong Me Waller competition is open to all, Ministers have\n\nAN AMRICAN CONE AND 19 Swann, A Colonel of the Chised Sanes Army having rofused to obey the esmuunds of his superior cfficer, with sentenced by the courbeartial in↔ be deprised ní his sword for one month.\" On his weapon being demanded of her, he aroes, and in the mud gale and solema amer declared, that he didn't own one: that the sword be had been accustomed to wear Giln't being to him; but he had no dobi Mr Baker, the jeweller, f whow be hired it B waining days, would int it to the Court for the re quired mouth on the most reasonable terras 1\n\n'rovidence Guzeite\n\nFace ResigNA CON,-Deacon Mavis of Lyne Crevicu, Farge alludder and exemplary man, was exceedingly cocentre in some of his noticus. His courtship is in sus, was as follows:-aving The any pointed his horse, with only a nap-ssin fer a sad, be rede in front of the hause wherea Betty Lec lived, and, without dismounting, reguesial\n\nJetty to come to linn; on her eing, he told her\n\nyu this subject, which, he said, completely. Waller natted what compensation would be was a necessity first to publish these facts; AN EYE TO THE FUTURE—At a meeting, von justified the opinions of the learned Judges enough for the crew of the Vixen. Mr secondly was it necessary to publish this red by the friends of Clay, held in Woodstock, All sorts of people are plunging into the He begged to add, that the reasons why the Matheson said about 105 dollars, to which cotourstory. Had Mr Carr rested with a Vend, e ele oratore grew arazingly exontent, frightful whirlpool of railway speculation.Judges had been summoned to give the Mr Waller answered, say in round numbers statement of facts, it is probable you exchiring, ever heard of a woulan's warning Bankers and merchants, barristers and baber-House their resistance in this case was, tint 100 dollars. Mr Care puts an imaginary would not have been troubled with this paper sun after Jana K. Polk P\" and den pude a dashers, bankers' clerks and doctors of divi- as the law was to be stated definitively for case to injure Sir Thomas. Ho says, bail secution. Sir Thomas was not likely to have sig diffene pause, if inviting an awwer. nity, Members of Parliament and keepers of the British islands and for all our colonies, the Vixeu been the party that was in jeopac brought an autiou, and he was sure his friend did exclaims a fair decorat in the cred, win gambling-houses, old oren and young lads, the Lords had deemed it proper that the de dy,\" &. The last paragraph could only be the Attorney-General would not have taken hd boy married about six months proves, Bat married women who desire to have a good cision abould have all the weight which the pennet by some person who had a personal up such a case. But this was not the sting have en tha! intends to.\" speculation on their own account, and spin-concurrent opinions of the Judges and of spleen against the admiral. If any of you of the libel. It is for you to say whether Sir sters who think that an addition to their their Lordships could give it. He moved had been called on to act as arbiter, and ia: Thomas is charged with corruption, and if soị\n\nMas Lova, Harmony House, Concord, near fortune might give them an opportunity of that the judgment should be given for the consequence of your award had been accused it is a huel. To order that words may con- Kusing Pains,” is the adureas of a school stress in sharing it with another-all, all are rushing plaintiff in error.\n\nNew South Wales. of corruption, you would feel what damages stitute a libel, they must charge a man with on in the same course-dying after the wheel\n\nLord Brougham and Lord Campbell save ought to be given in the present case. The something criminal: but in writing whatever of fortune, which for the present is laden at rally expressed their concurrence with the affidavit of Me Walle, which will be read to, tends to bring a man into contempt is a libel. every spoke with the shares of some railway motion of the noble and leverned. Lord. you, states, that he wrote to Mr Malevon The Jury, after a short consultation, res company—Morning Post.\n\nby the direction of Sir Thomas, a letter torneil à verdict of not guilty.\"\n\nJudgment for the plaintiff is error.\n\nFon—Never tell a mun he's a frol. In the Grat place he won't believe you; in the next beŋl be sure i think you one jou buying 10,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-043 - Sir Bonham - 1853 [7-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 233854, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-043 - Sir Bonham - 1853 [7-12]", "page_number": 363, "title": "CO129-043 - Sir Bonham - 1853 [7-12]", "content_text": "N. A Date of \n\nJeep.\n\nJesp\n\nSubject of despatch.\n\n88 Continued the right of aliens to hold and transfer property\n\nwithin the Colony of Hongkong.\n\n89. Nov 22 Acknowledging receipt of His Grace's despatches\n\nNos. 126 of the 9th, Circular of the 3rd, and Despatch Military 12 of the 17th September, 1853, &c.\n\n90.\n\n26. Reporting resumption by Government of\n\nMarine Establishment, with the Buildings thereon, late the property of Messrs Carter of the Firm of Megaw & Carter.\n\nAlso - Six extra Copies of Ordinance 12 of 1853.\n\n3\n\nC\n\nGyör 8441\n\nbo hong trong\n\n359\n\nVietmin, Houghong,\n\nmel;\n\n87.\n\nRECEIVED\n\nCivil.\n\nJAN.18 1854\n\nFormer Paget.\n\n3\n\n17th November, 1853.\n\nI have the honor to\n\nMy Lord Duke,\n\nacknowledge your Grace's Despatch\n\nNo. 100 of the 27th August last, sanctioning the leave of absence granted by\n\nMr Hare, but expressing\n\nyour opinion\n\nthat it could have been preferable that the term of his leave had been confined to a few months, sufficient to have enabled him to visit the Cape of Good Hope.\n\nHis Grace\n\nThe Duke of Newcastle,\n\n&c.\n\n&c.\n\nPage 359\n\n...\n\n...\n\nPage 360", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-043 - Sir Bonham - 1853 [7-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 233875, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-043 - Sir Bonham - 1853 [7-12]", "page_number": 384, "title": "CO129-043 - Sir Bonham - 1853 [7-12]", "content_text": "Despater 190 5/853.\n\nInclosure in\n\napplying for instructions. September, 853.\n\non Marine Lot R44, and\n\nCannot recover the Pent one Secretary, revorting that he Preasiner to the Colonial\n\nLetter from the Colonial\n\nRECEIVED 1854\n\nJAN.30\n\n200 dong tang\n\n380\n\nSchedule of the transmitted by the Governing of Hong Kong.\n\nto the Secretary of State for the Colonies, by the Mail Steamer Malta, via Southampton, on the 11th December, 1853.\n\n \n M\n Date of dup:\n Subject of Despatch.\n Duplicates.\n \n \n 87.\n Nov: 17\n Replying to His Grace's Despatch 122 of the 27 August, respecting the leave of absence granted to W. John Hare in June, 1853\".\n None\n \n \n 88.\n \n Transmitting Copy of and reporting on Ordinance, M.2 of 1853, for the removal of doubts regarding the right of Aliens to hold and transfer property within the Colony of Hong Kong\".\n One\n \n \n 89.\n \n Acknowledging receipt of his Grace's Despatches to 126 of the 22, Circular of the 32, and despatch Military N. 2 of the 17th September, 1853, to.\n None\n \n \n 90.\n \n Reporting resumption by Government of Marine Lot A. 44, with the Buildings thereon, late the property of Mr Carter, of the firm of Jardine & Co.\n 3.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-043 - Sir Bonham - 1853 [7-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 234239, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-045 - Sir Bonham - 1854 [1-4]", "page_number": 12, "title": "CO129-045 - Sir Bonham - 1854 [1-4]", "content_text": "No of Gale\n\nDesp. Deep.\n\nth]\n\nSubject of Despatch.\n\ns of\n\nSnel.\n\n81. Oct. 20 Reporting decease of Mr. Morricon,\n\n82.\n\n83. - the Colonial Surgeon, as\n\nA recommending that Dr. Harland, appointed to perform those duties, be confirmed\n\nthe situation..\n\nin\n\n22 Replying to His Grace's Despatch\n\nth.\n\nNo. 20 of 18th August, respecting Colonial Chaplaincy of Hongkong..\n\n24 Acknowledging receipt of this\n\nth\n\nof\n\n18\n\nGrace's Despatches to No. 20\n\nAugust, together with Circulars\n\nand 19 of July, 1853.\n\n16th\n\n18th and\n\n84. Nov. 8 Reporting\n\n85\n\n86.\n\nth\n\n9\n\nth.\n\non\n\nDARS\n\nof\n\ns year's leave of absence,\n\nsick certificate, granted to Lieut.\n\nPedder, R.N., Harbour Master and\n\nMarine Magistrate, to proceed to\n\nments made\n\nEngland, and arrangements\n\nfor the performance of his duties during\n\nhis absence.\n\nRespecting\n\nthe\n\nnow arrival of the Idlice Clo-\n\nthing and Accoutrements applied for from England in September, 1852, and inclosing\n\na Requisition for a supply of similar articles\n\nYo of Gate\n\nDesp. Deep.\n\n-th\n\nSubject of Respalch.\n\nro. of\n\n10 hel\n\n87% Nov. 17 Replying to His Grace's Despatch No. 22\n\nOne).\n\n88.\n\n\"\n\nNone.\n\n2.\n\ndo\n\nfor the use of the Force for the years 1854, & 1855 One.\n\n10 Transmitting Quarterly Returns for the\n\nQuarter ending 30th September, 1853.\n\n4.\n\nof the\n\n27th August, respecting the leave of absence granted to Mr. John Barl\n\nin\n\n2 June,\n\n1853.\n\n25 Transmitting copy of and reporting\n\nOrdinance No. 2 of 1853, for the removal\n\nof doubts regarding\n\nthe right of aliens\n\n\"to hold and transfer property within \"the Colony of Hongkong\n\nNone.\n\n3.\n\n89. - 22 Acknowledging receipt of this Grace's Despatches to No. 26 of the 9th\n\nCircular of the 3rd, and Despatch Military No. 2 of the 17th September, 1855,\n\n4. None.\n\ngo.\n\n\"\n\n26 Reporting resumption by Government\n\nMarine Lot No. 44, with the Buildings thereon, late the property of Mr. Carter, of the firm of Megan H.\n\n91. Dec. With reference to Acting\n\n92.\n\n\"\"\n\n\"\n\nGovernor's Despatch No. 6 of 25th January last, inclosing\n\ncopy of a letter from Mr. Consul-\n\nAikin at San Francisco, California,\n\nOne.\n\nreporting wreck of the Lorcha \"Martha\". \"One\n\n30 of\n\nIn reply to His Grace's Despatch No. 30\n\n23rd September, stating that there is no\n\nobjection to the\n\nappointment of Mr. & Reimers, as Consul for Hamburg at Hongkong\n\nNone.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-045 - Sir Bonham - 1854 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 235074, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-047 - Sir Bowring and Lieut Governor Caine - 1854 [8-12]", "page_number": 113, "title": "CO129-047 - Sir Bowring and Lieut Governor Caine - 1854 [8-12]", "content_text": "3rd Section-\n\n1st Beat. Queen's Road from Bank to Chinram lating Webster's New and Hinrun Sane,\n\n2nd Do From Chinami Lane to Coves Beads, tating Chinami bacte Love and Libbé. Row\n\n3rd \" &c. Wellington Street and Stanley street, West of Br.Winger Streets, Cochrane street, and Lyndhunt Terrace.\n\n4. De Jage Street and hugh street lating Pat and Graband strats.\n\n4. Section Continued-\n\nJacen's Head\n\n1st Beat: Cross Roads along Qucous Band to West Market.\n\n2nd \" West Martiot to New Murrows Taking Circular Buildings.\n\n5th Section.\n\n1st Beat - along Buildinge. Hollywood Road to Circular Ben West Street, upper street und Central Buildings.\n\n12. Beat - From M./ Cangel's House \" The Co Blend \" from Gaol Gates, to Street.\n\n13 \" McRangel s. Co Back Road Inspingshum bt. Do\n\n56 Do Hollywood \" Elgin Street, Old Burley, Ashburton Terrace. Oo Buy Fiew Terrace. Arbuthnot Read, along Crime Read, he be turning\n\n4th Section\n\n1st Prime station.\n\n2nd Beat. From Centrance to achey's market along Bonham's strand to Acquis Huise Eating bye streets-\n\n3rd Beat. Acquis House along Bonhommis Strandté the innations of Imens Arend tationg by Streets.\n\n4. Co Upper and Lower Lavear Ruwa, Back street Snipingshan.\n\n5th De Cross Troad along Queen's Blood to Weat market entrance.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-047 - Sir Bowring and Lieut Governor Caine - 1854 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 235076, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-047 - Sir Bowring and Lieut Governor Caine - 1854 [8-12]", "page_number": 115, "title": "CO129-047 - Sir Bowring and Lieut Governor Caine - 1854 [8-12]", "content_text": "2nd Section, Continued)\n\n5th Beat: From Cathedral along Hollywood Road to Cathedral; then along Arbuthnot Road to Central Jail; then to Cleancly. Part of Stanley Street and the Wellington Street, much of Pottinger Street, and D'Aguilar Street.\n\n3rd Section\n\nExtending from Bank to Cross Roads, West Boundary: Aberdeen Street.\n\n3rd Section; Continued).\n\n9th Beat - Chief Magistrate's Residence. Police Reserve at Indian Station.\n\n4th District of Lower Bazaar including Queen's Head Beat:\n\n12. Beat, from Entrance to Askey's Market along Strand to Bequi's House.\n\n1. Beat - From Bank to Chimani's Lane taking Webster's Row & Chimani's Lane to Cross Roads; then bathing Chimani's back lane & Gibb's Row.\n\n3. Beat: parts of Wellington and Stanley Streets - West of Pottinger Street.\n\n4. Beat: Lyndhurst Terrace and Hague Street, taking Peel Street and Graham Street.\n\n6. Beat: Hollywood Road from Junction West of Morrison's Hill.\n\n7th Beat: from Belgin Street, Old Bailey - Aberdeen Terrace.\n\n8. Beat: Engine Road from Caine Road to junction with Indian Station.\n\n9. Beat: from Aquis House along Bonham Strand West to junction with Cross Roads along Jervois Street to Hillier Street, taking Hillier Street, Mercer Street, and Burd Street.\n\nHillier Street along Jervois Street to Morrison Street, (making cleverly Street, and Acqui's Alley: Cross Heads along Queen's Road West, to steps ascending to Clinic Temple. Stops to East end of Circular Buildings. East end of Circular Buildings to Mercer Street. Murrow's previous clothing factory).", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-047 - Sir Bowring and Lieut Governor Caine - 1854 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 236162, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-050 - Sir Bowring and Lieut Governor Caine - 1855 [5-6]", "page_number": 26, "title": "CO129-050 - Sir Bowring and Lieut Governor Caine - 1855 [5-6]", "content_text": "the Lieutenant Governor\n\n& Governor may be pleased to sanction them\n\non the understanding they\n\nwill render such\n\nservices which are\n\nnot beyond\n\nthe limit.\n\n1\n\nseverally\n\nauthorized previously to a reference to the Secretary of\n\nState for Lieutenant Governor\n\nthe Council,\n\nwell aware\n\nof\n\nthe\n\nlocalities\n\nin which the drains are\n\nrequired and the urgent\n\ndemand for immediate\n\nexecution.\n\nTheir\n\nReport and Estimate P3 for the erection of landing Piers,\n\nis\n\none\n\nof which it\n\nis proposed to execute at the\n\nHarbour Master's Boat house\n\nand the other\n\nBuildings &\n\nnear the Circular\n\nin the Lower-\n\n3\n\n23\n\nBazaar, at both points where works are much required\n\nas\n\nthe\n\ncrowd is\n\nin great inconvenience felt by persons having to land in consequence of the great distances of the Public Piers from each other. Sum of opinion also that as the prosperity of the Colony advances, an\n\nadditional number\n\nof Piers must be built and the existing\n\nones\n\nlengthened to provide for their wants.\n\nReport and Estimate No. 41. for the prevention of further Landslips adjoining Hollywood Road is one which it is highly desirable to commence\n\nimmediately as the\n\nweather is...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-050 - Sir Bowring and Lieut Governor Caine - 1855 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 237936, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-054 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [1-2]", "page_number": 115, "title": "CO129-054 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [1-2]", "content_text": "146\n\n199\n\nNr\n\nDate\n\nDesp.\n\nSubject of Despatch\n\n195 14. Feby 1858 Acknowledging circular of 5. August on the subject of leave of absence, and calling attention to a certain reference therein.\n\n2\n\nAcknowledging circular of 20th September, and referring to expected instructions on the subject of Emigration of Chinese\n\nReporting death of Commodore Abbot, late of H.M.'s Navy\n\nnove\n\n6. To fanuary ses. Transmitting the date of Despatches addressed to the Secretary of State for the Colonies during the year end 1885.\n\nteknowledging receipt of despatches to 22, 37 &c. 3th November, 14 nove\n\nReplying to Despatch No.23 of 25th June 1855, on the subject of Government servants residing in Government Buildings, in relation to the application of Captain Withins for free quarters\n\nnove\n\nSuclosing Notification, publishing Return of Land Sales held in the Colony during the year 1855-\n\nRespecting employment of a Foreman of Works in the Surveyor General's Department\n\nAcknowledging Despatch Nr. 92 of 7th October 1855, on the subject of the act of the Victoria Legislature to make provision for \"certain Chinese Immigrants\" (with 6 extra copies)\n\nnove\n\nWa\n\nof\n\nDate\n\nof\n\nDesp. Desp\n\nit\n\n79. January 1856\n\n10\n\n13165\n\n14 19\n\nSubject of Despatch.\n\nMeassires\n\n111\n\nWe\n\nReporting measures adopted for the disposal of Criminal and Summary Jurisdiction cases, during the continued illness of Chief Justice Hulme.\n\nTransmitting Lists of Members of the Executive and Legislative Councils for the half year ending 31 December 1855\n\nAcknwoledging Despatch No.20 of 4th October 1855; on the subject of the naturalization of Messrs. \"Rievaucher and Dalmada\n\nReporting Colonel Caine's return from India\n\nTransmitting copy of Ordinance Nr. 1 of 1836 re-enacting the provisions of the Neutrality Ordinance (Colonial) Nr. 1 of 1855. (with 6 extra copies)\n\nof\n\nSuggesting arrangements for the administration of justice, in the event of Chief Justice Hulme's retirement from the Bench.\n\nSubmitting a proposal from the Oriental Bank Corporation to receive in deposit the unappropriated Balances in the Colonial Treasury.\n\nRelative to projected formation of a Public Quay in front of houses on the north side of the Queen's Road in Victoria,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-054 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [1-2].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 238498, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-055 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [3-5]", "page_number": 320, "title": "CO129-055 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [3-5]", "content_text": "312\n\nAppendix II. (No. I. The reasons assigned in Mr Rienaecker's Letter of the 8th January, 1856, to the Colonial Secretary, and 16.)\n\ncorroborated by all but one of the witnesses (unless we also except another witness, who admits the duty, but appears to doubt the readiness of the Government), appear to us conclusive in favor of the opinion which we ourselves have formed, that the Government of this Island ought to undertake the entire construction of the Praya, and that in no other way can the purposes, which have urged the Government to propose the work, be accomplished. The state of the shore, so alarming to the public health, calls for immediate measures of prevention. The crimes and disorders which occur daily and nightly amongst the dense Chinese population of this city, demand that whatever measures facilitate the approach and action of the police, ought to be commenced and executed with all possible despatch. The danger of conflagration, so terribly recalled to our apprehension last month, must be considered as normal amongst a population inhabiting tenements constructed of fragile and inflammable materials, and nearly destitute of the means of access to the water. The necessity to commerce of an uninterrupted and a public communication with the sea are pressing and obvious. But whilst all these considerations demonstrate that it is the duty of Government to take the shortest and speediest way to the completion of the project, they seem also to impose the condition that the work shall be done efficiently and securely, and with an inflexible regard to uniformity in the execution.\n\nThe solitary witness, who thinks that some saving in the contract price may be effected by substituting the Marine-Lotholders as Contracting Parties in the place of the Government, and investing them with all the powers and rights of Government for the purposes of such contracts as they shall be able to make, is himself so strongly impressed with the force of the above-mentioned objections, as to admit that, even if his suggestion be adopted, it will still be necessary that the work should be commenced at the time, and completed in the manner, which the Surveyor-General may direct—that the Surveyor-General's eye should be constantly directed to it whilst in progress—and that \"if it be left to the Marine-Lotholders themselves, it will never be done at all.\" It is obvious that the variance between Mr Pustan's evidence and the great body of the evidence taken by us upon this First Point of Enquiry, is more apparent than real. A work so conducted as Mr Pustan proposes is, at least, a work undertaken on the part of Government, and differing from a work directly undertaken by Government, only in respect of a certain want of unity in the initiation of the work, and in the division of the expense of it; and in both of these respects, we think, the preference is clearly due to the latter—an opinion which we have the satisfaction to find is unequivocally confirmed by the great body of evidence before us.\n\nII. Some difference of views amongst the Marine-Lotholders was naturally to be anticipated upon the question as to the conditions of tenure of lands reclaimed or to be reclaimed from the sea. In one respect only they appeared to be unanimous—in ignoring the fact that at present the Crown alone has title to all such lands, whether already reclaimed, or unreclaimed, and that the Crown will continue to have title to the latter after the same shall have been reclaimed by the Crown itself, or by persons not having title to those lands against the Crown, or authority under it. This common error was the source of the numerous fallacies to be detected in their evidence on the subject of their claims, real or supposed, to the equitable consideration of Government. The jealous eye of the law scans a grant from the Crown with great rigor, and reads it in quite another light from that of a grant made by subject to subject. 5 Bac: Abr: Prerogative In the latter case the rule is, that \"a deed shall be taken most strongly against the grantor,\" i.e., the subject; in the former case the rule is, that a deed shall be taken most strongly for the grantor,\" i.e., the Crown. This is the principle upon which that other well-settled doctrine is grounded, that \"in the construction of its deed of grant nothing shall be implied against the Crown,\" and again, the doctrine that, \"unless where expressly provided to the contrary, the Crown retains all its prerogative rights in respect of the thing granted.\"\n\n17 Edw: 11, st: 2, c. 15.\n\nThere is no difficulty in the application of these familiar and wise maxims of constitutional law.\n\n\"Public notice and Declaration, &c of We have it in evidence that even at the time of the first notification of the intentions of Captain Elliot to hold the first land sales that were ever effected in this Colony, the community were not suffered to be ignorant that no 1st May 1841. Appendix II, (No. 1); and lands would be allotted here but with a general reservation of all Her Majesty's rights according to the principles and practice of British Law, upon tenure to the Crown,\" and, before all, pending Her Majesty's further pleasure.\" Sec Laws of Hongkong, P. 3.\n\n\"and no occupancy respected,\" until evidenced by the execution of a Crown Grant, and perfected by Registration of Extract from Terms the Grant \"in the Government Office.\" The first land sale took place on the 14th June 1841. The Terms of Sale of Sale,' &c. Appendix were read to the bidders before the commencement of the proceedings, and they were expressly informed by that I, (No. 3) and see document that whilst the sea-frontage of each lot was nearly ascertained, the depth from the sea would necessarily 'Laws of Hongkong, vary considerably,\" and \"the actual extent of each lot\" being still unascertained, \"the parties would have the oppor- p. 4. tunity of observing the extent for themselves.\" They were further informed, that the Crown Grant, the sole evidence of title, would not be issued to any purchaser until \"the precise measurement and registration of the lots should be completed,\" and that, on his side, the purchaser would not, until delivery of his Crown Grant, be called on to pay the rent for the first year, \"reckoning from the date of Sale\" of his lot.\n\nSir Henry Pottinger, the first Governor of this Colony, and with whom we find that the wise and far-reaching project of a Praya first originated, was even more careful than Captain Elliot to preclude the possibility of all popular error as to the rights and intentions of the Crown in this matter. Referring to the important \"Government Notification\" of the 22nd March, 1842, we learn that, at that early date, whilst as yet not a Crown Grant had been issued, the Allottees of Marine-Lots already sold, and the future bidders for such as remained to be sold, were distinctly apprised that \"the reclaiming of land beyond high-water mark must be deemed an infringement on the Royalties of Her Majesty, (and it is therefore positively prohibited) by any private persons.\"\n\nDuring the whole of the period intervening between the date of that paper and the first issue of Crown Grants to the occupants, we have failed to discover any trace whatever of the revocation of that Public Announcement, or even of any connivance being extended by the Authorities to encroachments or purprestures upon the domains of the Crown, seaward or landward. A highly respectable witness, however, whose principal establishments being at Canton and Macao during that time imposed upon him the necessity of spending the greater part of his time at those ports, intimated his very strong impression that there was some distinct encouragement held out to himself and other purchasers during that period, and even after the delivery of their Crown Grants, to reclaim as much and as far as they pleased towards the sea,\" subject however to \"the risk of the reclaimed land being resumed by Government, if wanted for public purposes,\" and without any promise of compensation for it, if resumed. It is obvious that, even if the recollection of this gentleman were so far supported by documentary or other evidence, as to establish against the Crown and in favor of himself and those particular occupants who may have acted upon the alleged encouragement, a case of royal conscience and equity, the reservations appended would reduce the case to an almost infinitesimal value. But we must observe—(1.) that we can find no vestige of any Notification,\" or \"Circular,\" printed or in manuscript, bearing on this point, except those already cited, which bear altogether the other way; (2.) that it is an error to suppose that, in 1844, or at any period however early in the history of this Colony, a \"Government Gazette\" and the printing of Government Notifications did not exist, or that such Notifications, if made, were not printed; (3.) that if even the Queen's representatives were under the necessity of reserving the Queen's further pleasure\" in their official and authoritative announcements on the subject of tenure, the community ought to have known that the Land Officer, Captain Mylins, and his successor, Captain Meik, could not possibly be authorized to hold out encouragements, private or public, in derogation at once of those Notifications of the representatives of the Crown, and of the prerogatives of the Crown itself; and (4) that the reference to a supposed stipulation in an early Crown Grant to the same effect, a reference afterwards admitted tacitly to the same effect, a reference afterwards admitted tacitly to have been made in error, makes it very probable that the entire impression which Mr Edger entertains on this subject may, at this distance of time, be very easily accounted for, if we remember that the form of the Crown Grant, a form which has never varied since the first issue, does contain a kind of stipulation within the boundaries of the registered lot (but not beyond them), subject of course to the usual right of the Crown or \"encouragement\" to reclaim or improve, and indeed to build upon the lands granted and lying to resume the whole or any portion of the lot upon three months' notice, and equitable compensation, to be determined by the Surveyor-General; and that it is very likely that the witness, speaking from memory, may have erroneously supposed that the clauses in question applied also to the sea-shore lying beyond the boundaries of the Lot.\n\nThe form of Crown Grant to which we have just alluded was first settled in 1844; and, in that year, the first issue and registration of Crown Grants took place. The Crown Grants continued to be issued and registered during the whole of that year and the next, and thus the titles of the occupants, under the old acknowledgements of their biddings, were at length made perfect. We perceive in the circumstances which ensued upon this promulgation of the form of Crown Grant another proof that, down to this time at least, no Marine-Lot-holder had felt himself in any way encouraged to encroach upon the sea, or had doubted in the least the precariousness of a tenure from the Crown subjected since its origin to \"the Queen's pleasure, the reservation of all Her Majesty's rights, the British Law and practice, and the positive prohibition of reclaiming land beyond high-water mark by any private persons as an infringement of the Royalties of the Crown.\"\n\nWe find that the terms of the \"title\" now about to be exchanged for the old \"acknowledgement,\" did, in 1844, excite complaints on the part of the Marine-Lotholders. But we also find that these complaints had no reference to the limitation of \"boundaries\" seaward or landward, as contained in the Grants, nor to the right of resumption thereby vested in the Crown, nor to the paramount claims therein asserted on behalf of public purposes\" over personal privileges, nor even to the absolute powers in respect of those reservations and thereby bestowed upon the Queen's Surveyor-General, nor indeed to any matter bearing upon the present question of Marine-Lotholders, in the slightest degree. We find that a former letter of Captain Elliot was made the groundwork of complaint. But in Appendix II, (No. 6.) we also find that in that letter only one subject is discussed, and that one entirely foreign to our enquiry. Captain Elliot had there held out some \"encouragement\" for the hope that \"the Queen's further pleasure\" might operate to the advantage of the first buyers of lots, Inland and Marine, in the way either of reduction of Quit Rent, or of transmutation into a fee simple tenure. The promulgation of the form of Crown Grant had dissipated those hopes. It was of that disappointment that the Thirteen Firms of Marine-Lotholders complained, and only of that one. \"the faith of that pledge,\" as they termed it, they told Sir Henry Pottinger that they had, down to that date, (the 4th March, 1844,) expended \"on sea-walls, warehouses, and dwellings, very considerable sums.\"\n\nExpressio unius est Hongkong,' p. 3; see Appendix II, (No. 6.) exclusio alterius. If encouragements of any other kind had been held out to them, either to build sea walls,\" or to do any other work seaward of their Northern boundaries, it is clear from this document that they had not thought themselves safe in relying upon those encouragements, and in commencing those works. The personal testimony of Marine-Lotholders themselves confirms the inferences which we have deduced. The Honble. Mr Edger, whose recollections go back to a period anterior to the formation of the Colony, \"thinks that no land at all was reclaimed \"(from the sea) before Leases were issued,\" and that indeed \"sea-walls were made before the issue of leases, but in general between the limits of the land that was measured off;\" and Mr Antrobus, whose own encroachments on the sea-shore date but from 1854, states that \"he is not aware whether any land was reclaimed from the sea before his arrival here, rather more than five years ago.\" Such being the case before the issue, what was to result from a \"title\" so onerous as that which was now to be forced upon them? If any regard we had to the strength of language, we must suppose that the Crown Grant was viewed, from its first promulgation, not only as no \"encouragement\" to costly and unauthorized encroachments upon the Marine domain of Her Majesty, but as the utter bar to all improvements whatsoever, even within the surveyed and registered boundaries of the grantee's own Lot. \"Had they been previously aware,\" say the Thirteen Firms of Marine-Lotholders,\" of the conditions now proposed, they certainly should not have expended one farthing on buildings at Hongkong.\"\n\nOn the other hand, every one of Sir Henry Pottinger's acts and words at this very juncture is utterly inconsistent with the notion that he entertained any doubt himself, or had led others into any doubt, as to his line of conduct with respect to the rights of the Crown to the sea-shore in front of the Marine Lots. His Excellency's decision on the subject already cited was notorious to the whole community. Among the principal works which, at his request, the Land Officer, Mr Gordon proposed to undertake, and which Sir Henry Pottinger referred home with approbation, but for lack of the means could not undertake without the authority and assistance of Her Majesty's Imperial Government, a prominent place was given to the following project: \"a space of land to be reclaimed from the sea in front of Government Hill, to form a Public Landing-place, with an Esplanade or Public Walk; a Praya to be carried out in front of all the buildings, both Eastward to the Point, the property of Messrs Jardine & Co., and Westward as far as Navy Bay, or four miles between the two extremities, the land thus reclaimed to form a number of Marine Lots; \"a public roadway close to the sea, of fifty feet in width to be left on the Praya, and the space between that and the houses to be the private property of the possessors of the Lots assisting in carrying out the plan paying a proportion of the expenses, and for whatever land they gained of course charged at the same rate as for the rent of the Lots.\" That the fact of such a proposal having been made, and the details of it were no secret to the community at the time, or even long afterwards, may be very fairly inferred from Mr Montgomery Martin's once celebrated Report, compiled by him within six weeks of his arrival here in the following year, when Sir John Davis had succeeded Sir Henry Pottinger in the Government of this Island. That Report contains a direct but sneering allusion to the Praya, amongst other valuable projects of Sir Henry Pottinger, all of which are ridiculed by Mr Martin, little dreaming how many of his sarcasms were soon to be refuted by the literal fulfilment of the projects. Whilst the notoriety of the fact is proved by the boldness of the sarcasm, the mild and temperate rebuke which is contained in the observations of Sir John Davis in reply, and which, together with the attack, will be found in the Appendix, is, on its side, a proof that his Government and that of his predecessor were agreed in their opinions as to the policy to be followed with respect to Crown rights to the sea-shore, and the propriety of commencing the Praya, as projected by the latter, so soon as the finances of the Colony would permit, but without impeding the construction of the other public works and improvements enumerated in Mr Martin's Report.\n\nNothing indeed but the financial difficulties under which, even in Sir Henry Pottinger's time, the Colony had been laboring, and which were greatly and notoriously aggravated in later years, appears to have led to the delay in carrying his project into execution. The formation of such a work had been strongly urged upon the Admiralty by Commodore Sir Edward Belcher, R.N., then commanding a squadron in the China Seas. It had been notified by a Government Circular to all the leading mercantile firms, perhaps to all the mercantile firms without distinction then carrying on business, and many of whom we perceive now represent themselves to be hostile to the formation of a Praya, except on the condition of being allowed to monopolise the whole benefit so far as their sea-frontage extends, with an entire exemption from Quit Rent, and without being called upon to defray any portion of the cost. Yet the project of those days had the remarkable fate of being received by them with an almost unanimous adhesion.\n\nCircular Letter of Out of eight firms, themselves Marine-Lotholders, whose replies have been recorded in the Land Office, only one Me Gordon, dated 28th (that of Messrs Holliday, Wise & Co.,) hesitated \"to add to their already heavy expenditure,\" and to incur April 1843, in Append. the loss of privacy and convenience, to say nothing of the profits of wharfage,\" privileges which they were 1, (No. 10.) nevertheless ready and willing to forego for the public advantage.\" All the rest signified their consent and proffered their co-operation. They were willing to do it at their own expense to renounce the formation of private wharves, in favor of the common advantage. They had the welfare of the community at heart, not their own individual profit. One highly respectable firm, to whom the Circular was sent, but who do not appear to have returned a direct answer, nevertheless took the opportunity, in reference to another question then at issue between themselves and the local Government on the subject of an alleged encroachment by the Land Officer upon their Southern frontage, thus to express their highly creditable repugnance to all purprestures and encroachments whatever. Messrs Dent & Co. say that the boundary marks (granite blocks) on their Water-front Lots, marked Nos. 3 and 4, and 4 and 5, were at that time in the exact situation where they were placed by the Officers of Government, and also on the spot where the \"pickets were placed on the day of public sale, when they made the purchase.\" They remark, that \"the quantity of water-frontage which they purchased was not a matter of speculation in land, but that they confined their purchase to \"what was strictly and indispensably necessary for their establishment, and had not sought to increase their interest in \"such land elsewhere. Nothing short of such reasons,\" they conclude, \"would have induced them to solicit the consideration of Government to their case, it being far from their wish or intention either to ask for anything more that (sic) what they had considered to be their actual right, or in the most remote manner to stand in the way of public \"Improvement.\" It is, we think, impossible better to describe the relative positions of Crown, Crown tenants, and the public.\n\nThis general concurrence of the Government and Community of Hongkong on the subject of the Praya, did not fail to impress the Secretary of State very strongly in favor of the measure. But the project required some consideration, and His Lordship's friendly feeling towards it was at first evinced only by privately transmitting to Sir Henry Pottinger some corroborating testimony from another quarter in favor of the project. In the following year, however, his decision was officially announced. The utmost approbation was bestowed on the works projected, especially the Praya—the Governor was invited to send home the necessary Reports and Plans;—but the question was asked whether there were the necessary funds for the execution,\" and a clear intimation was given that to the Marine Lots, rather than to the Imperial Treasury, His Excellency must be prepared to have recourse for the means whereby the Praya might be executed at the least possible\" cost to the public.\" The matter of necessity rested there until the pecuniary difficulty could be overcome. Owing to circumstances too well known to need recapitulation, it was not fully overcome until the end of our last financial year. Your Excellency is the first Governor who has been able to decline the Parliamentary Grant, and this is the first year in which you have been able to decline it.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-055 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [3-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 238779, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-056 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [6]", "page_number": 188, "title": "CO129-056 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [6]", "content_text": "8+\n\n£70212\n\nSHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.\n\nThe Hongkong Register.\n\nARRIVED.\n\n \n DATE\n NAME\n FROM\n SAILED\n CAPTAIN\n CARGO\n CONSIGNEE\n \n \n May 10\n Levant\n Shanghai\n April 29\n Allmaun\n Sundries\n John Burd and Co\n \n \n 13\n Eaglet\n New York\n Nov. 13\n Smith\n \n \n \n \n 13\n Eatont\n \n \n \n \n Dent and Co\n \n \n 13\n Vinder\n \n \n \n \n Jardine, M. and Co\n \n \n 19\n Wild Dayrell\n \n \n \n \n Jardine, M. and Co\n \n \n 13\n Masick\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 13\n Melanie\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 13\n Nina\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 14\n Lanesfell\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 14\n Antelope\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 14\n Roehampton\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\nPage 363\n\n \n DATE\n NAME\n FROM\n SAILED\n CAPTAIN\n CARGO\n CONSIGNEE\n \n \n May 14\n Evening Star\n Shanghai\n April 29\n Roberts\n \n Lyall, Still and Co\n \n \n 14\n Alligator\n \n \n Mu\n \n \n \n \n 14\n Casrier\n \n \n Rodgers\n \n Fletcher and Co\n \n \n 14\n Louise Sophie\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 16\n Neptun\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 15\n Sancho Panza\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 15\n Daring\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 15\n Bayadere\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 16\n Resolute\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 15\n P'engula\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\nPage 363\n\n \n DATE\n NAME\n FROM\n SAILED\n CAPTAIN\n CARGO\n CONSIGNEE\n \n \n May 10\n Mazuppa\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 17\n Hermanu\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 19\n Surpos\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 19\n Hervalos\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 16\n Constancia\n Amoy\n April 29\n Denia\n \n \n \n \n 18\n Sen Rainger\n \n \n Larpoor\n \n \n \n \n April 29\n Vindex\n Shanghai\n April 26\n Shungase\n \n \n \n \n 27\n Comet\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 28\n Lorenza\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n May 7\n Roa\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\nSAILED.\n\n \n DATE\n NAME\n TON\n MASTERS\n FOR\n CARGO\n CONSIGNEE\n \n \n May 8\n Henry Miller\n \n Putt\n Manila\n Sundries\n Dent and Co\n \n \n 12\n Fncounter\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 12\n Starr King\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 13\n Congo\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\nPage 364\n\n \n DATE\n NAME\n TON\n MASTERS\n FOR\n CARGO\n CONSIGNEE\n \n \n May 14\n Queen Margaret\n 538\n Spence\n Manila\n Sundries\n John Burd and Co\n \n \n 14\n Hellespont\n 336\n Keya\n Shanghai\n Sundries\n L. J. Gutierrez\n \n \n 14\n Cometa\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 14\n Kroo!\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 14\n Theodora\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 15\n Ellen\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 15\n Sophia Fraser\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 18\n Black Warrior\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 18\n Hamlison\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 18\n Amistad\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\nPage 364\n\n \n DATE\n NAME\n TON\n MASTERS\n FOR\n CARGO\n CONSIGNEE\n \n \n May 18\n Sarah Warren\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 18\n Chieftain\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 18\n Trees\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 18\n Launceston\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\nSHIPS OF WAR.\n\n \n GUNS\n COMMANDER\n AT\n \n \n Pique, ship\n 36\n F. W. Nickson\n Hongkong\n \n \n Bellona, ship\n \n \n \n \n \n Syblle, ship\n \n Comodore Elliot\n \n \n \n Christiana, barque\n American\n Bllis, Master\n Hongkong\n \n \n \n 18\n Smith\n \n \n \n \n \n Hon N. Stewart\n \n \n \n Sibylle, Frigate\n 50\n Captain Maison\n Japan\n \n \n \n \n therve\n \n \n \n Virginie, Frigate\n 50\n Captain Wilson\n \n \n \n \n 12\n Bernard\n Macao\n \n \n \n 14\n Bave\n \n \n \n Juzona, Frigate\n Portagnese\n 20\n Lopez\n \n \n\nMERCHANT VESSELS.\n\n \n DATE\n NAME\n AT\n TON\n MASTERS\n CARGO\n CONSIGNEE\n \n \n April 29\n Alligator, brig\n Hongkong\n 189\n Sinden\n \n Gibb, Livingston and Co\n \n \n May 1\n 106\n Caes\n \n Lyall, Still and Co\n \n \n \n 5\n 11\n Deza\n \n Order\n \n \n \n Sept. 26\n 43\n \n \n \n \n \n\nNOTICES OF FIRMS.\n\nNOTICE\n\nMRS. MACKRILL SMITH is authorised to Sign the Name of our Firm in China.\n\nKING & Co.\n\nCanton, 13th March, 1856.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nMR. LUDWIG WIESE is admitted a Partner in our Firm.\n\nSIEMSSEN & Co.,\n\nCanton, 31st March, 1855.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nN. WEISMANN, is this day admitted a Partner in our Firm in China.\n\nREISS and Co.\n\nCanton, 1st May, 1855.\n\nTRUSTEES-Hon. DAVID JARDINE, Esq., U. D. W. McCALMONT\n\nE. Hon. W. T. MERCER Esq., R. H. WALES\n\nSuperintendent of the P. & G. Steam Navigation Company, &c., &c.\n\nTREASURER-G. BENTHAM, Esq.\n\nRESIDENT SURGEON-W. A. HARLAND, M.D.\n\nTERMS OF ADMISSION.\n\nPublic Wards..\n\nIntermediate Wards,\n\nPrivate Rooms,\n\n.. $1\n\nper day.\n\n.. $2\n\nper day.\n\n.. $5\n\nper day.\n\nPATIENTS are also admitted on deposits, at the following\n\nrates:-\n\nPublic Wards..\n\nIntermediate..\n\nPrivate Rooms,\n\n.. $16\n\n.. $20\n\n.. $30\n\nTO BE SOLD OR LET.\n\nApply to\n\nDROM, GRAY & Co.\n\nShaughae, 8th February, 1855.\n\nFOR SALE.\n\nINSURANCES.\n\nTHE LONDON AND ORIENTAL STEAM TRANSIT INSURANCE OFFICE.\n\n(Established in 1843)\n\nNo. 1320\n\nROBERT S. WALLER, Hongkong.\n\nE. WANDEN, Shanghai.\n\nH.T. MASALL. Singapore.\n\nA. P. Love, Calcutta.\n\nROBERT FRANCK, Madras, or James Arnot, Bombay.\n\nJAMES HARTLEY & Co. London, 8th January, 1854.\n\nALLIANCE FIRE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF LONDON.\n\nW. immediate cases, 4 STAMPED THE DWELLING HOUSE and BUSINESS PREMISES of the undersigned, together with the adjoining LAND in the rear of the Godowns, situated in a most eligible position, and fronting the River,\n\nCHINA for The above COMPANY, are prepared to accept ASSURANCES as follows:-\n\n1st-On Buildings of Brick or Stone, covered with Tiles, Slates, Metal, or other fire-resisting Material, together with their Contents, when such Buildings are isolated from all others,--Rate of Premium, 1 per cent per annum.\n\n2. On such Buildings and their Contents, when not so isolated, at per cent 2 per annum.\n\nAssurances for 6 Months 1, and for 3 Months §.\n\nAnnual rate will be charged.\n\nThe Captains or Consignees of Vessels must be responsible for the expenses of Patients sent by them to the HOSPITAL.\n\nTO LET.\n\nA Hospital Building to be receipted by the Superintendent only.\n\nSituated on part of Marine Lot No. 15. True Bay only.\n\nSHIPPING.\n\nSTEAM COMMUNICATION\n\nbetween\n\nHONGKONG AND CANTON,\n\nTUTE WILLAMETTE.\n\nCaptain W. Conrad, having been fitted up expressly for the River Passenger Traffic, will now run regularly between the above Places, as follows, viz:--\n\nFrom Hongkong to Canton.\n\nevery MONDAY & TUESDAY, at 6 o'clock ..\n\nFrom Canton to Hongkong.\n\nEvery TUESDAY & FRIDAY, at 6 o'clock ..\n\nFare for Passengers-\n\nEuropean, First-class,\n\nChinese,\n\n$5 each.\n\n$3 each.\n\nEuropean, Second-class,\n\nChinese,\n\n$2 each.\n\n$1 each.\n\nCHANGE FOR REFRESHMENTS, Breakfast, &c., (including Wine and Beer)...\n\n4d:1\n\nOwing to the Willamette's large Cargo Capacity, it is intended that she shall carry Cargo on Freight, as per separate Tariff, to be had on application to the Agents.\n\nCargo, when safely large quantities, will be delivered alongside Vessels, if practicable.\n\nTowage\n\nWill be furnished on Moderate Terms; and intending Consignees will, when possible, be informed by Circular as soon as any such Service has been engaged for.\n\nFor further particulars, apply to the Agents,\n\nROBERT S. WALKER, Hongkong,\n\nMAXIMILIAN FISCHER, Canton.\n\nHongkong, 24th December, 1855.\n\nNOTICES OF FIRMS.\n\nMR. A. J. CAMPBELL is authorized to sign our Firm\n\nFLETCHER. & Co.\n\nCanton, 1st February, 1856.\n\nNOTICE\n\nMR. JAMES McCORMICK, is authorized to sign our\n\nALVORD & Co.\n\nCanton, 12th January, 1856.\n\nTERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION to the HONGKONG REGISTER and OVERLAND REGISTER AND PRICE CURRENT-For One Year, $20; Six Months, $10; Three Months, $6. To the HONGKONG REGISTER For One Year, $12; Six Months, $7; Three Months, $4. To the OVERLAND REGISTER AND PRICE CURRENT also For One Year, $8; all payable in advance.\n\nAGENTS for the HONGKONG REGISTER and OVERLAND REGISTER AND PRICE CURRENT, -J. G. ANTHONS, Esq., London; Messrs. JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., Calcutta; Messrs. BORRADAILLE & Co. Bombay W. S. DUNCAN, Esq., Singapore; Messrs. THOMPSON, ROWES & Co., Batavia; J. P. FUDA, Esq. San Francisco.\n\nEdited, Printed, and Published by ROBERT STRACHAN, at the Hongkong Register Office: Gage Street,\n\nVictoria, Hongkong, Tuesday, May 20, 1856.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nMR. HERMAN NOTMAN, having taken charge of the\n\nAgency, has ceased to sign our Firm.\n\nMR. COYLE HEBBENBR has been authorised to sign with Firm, per Procuration\n\nL.E. LEBERT\n\nCanton, 8th December, 1855.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nOXFORD.\n\nFor particulars apply to\n\nJARDINE, MATHESON & Co.\n\nHongkong, 7th March 1855.\n\nFOR SALE,\n\nSUPERIOR TINTO and WHITE WINE, in Casks\n\nex Brigrs from Lisbon.\n\nApply to\n\nBRANDAO & Co., Canton,\n\nJ. C. LUIZ DA SILVA, Macao,\n\nM. DE CARVALHO, Hongkong,\n\nHongkong, 6th March, 1856.\n\nFOR SALE.\n\nFRENCH COGNACS.\n\nCHAMPAGNE, BRANDY, PORT WINE, PALE and GOLD HERRIES,\n\nCLARETS of Superior quality, Chateau, Margaux, Mouton. St. Estephe, &c. Julian, and Leoville.\n\nApply in Hongkong and Canton\n\nLYALL, STILL & Co.\n\nHongkong, 7th September, 1855.\n\nFOR SALE,\n\n500 Bags Eureka Mill, Superfine Selected,\n\nSAN FRANCISCO FLOUR.\n\nApply to\n\nF. & D. N. CANJOC and Co.\n\nFR GRATIAM ANDERSON joined me as a Partner:\n\non the 1st of January last.\n\nThe business will be carried on in the name of D. W. MACKENZIE & Co.\n\nCanton, 5th March, 1856.\n\nD. W. MACKENZIE.\n\nALEX. WILSON, Agents, JARDINE, MATHESON & Co.'s Godowns,\n\nEast Point, 1st October, 1855.\n\nFOR SALE.\n\nDESTROYERS and Labuan STEAMERS' QUALITY.\n\nApply to\n\nLINDSAY & Co.\n\nHongkong, October, 1855\n\nZINC SHEATHING, AND NAILS FOR SALE,\n\nWILLIAMS, ANTHON & Co.\n\nFOR SALE SUPERIOR MADEIRA in Pipes, Half and Quarter\n\nPipes, apply to\n\nALEX. WILSON, Messrs. JARDINE, MATHESON & Co.'s\n\nGodowns.\n\nEast Point, 1st October, 1855.\n\nFOR SALE.\n\nSUPERIOR PORT WINE in quarter Casks, from the\n\nROYAL PORTO WINE COMPANY—just received.\n\nALEX WILSON, Messrs. JARDINE, MATHESON & Co.'s Godowns.\n\nEast Point, 15th February, 1856.\n\nINSURANCES.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nOf the 1st Class-Assurances, for the present, will be accepted to the extent of £10,000 only on one risk. And of the 2nd Class-To the extent of £8,000.\n\nAssurances on Buildings and their Contents when together form one Risk. Thus to above Sums may be underwritten either on a Building alone, or the Contents alone; or, part on the Building, and part on the Contents.\n\nNo Assurance is to be considered in force until the Premium be paid.\n\nAmongst other advantages of the Company, the Assured be entitled to participate in the Profits after Five successive payments.\n\nJARDINE, MATHESON & Co., Agents in China.\n\n[Hongkong, 1st January, 1845,\n\nLONDON AND ORIENTAL STEAM TRANSIT INSURANCE OFFICE.\n\nand after this day, M. MAXIMILIAN FISCHER\n\non\n\nCanton, is empowered to sign\n\nPOLICIES\n\nROBERT S. WALKER, Agent.\n\nHongkong, 3d March 1854.\n\nMISCELLANEOUS.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nTHE LIBRARY OF THE MORRISON EDUCATION SOCIETY, now deposited in a Room in the Chinese\n\nHall, is open every day, from 1 to 4 o'clock p.m., to Members of the Society, for the giving out and exchange of Books. Non-members of the Society, may obtain the advantages of the Library, on payment of an Annual Subscription of $5.\n\nBy order of the Trustees,\n\nHongkong, 28th October, 1855.\n\nJAMES LEGGE,\n\nSecretary\n\nHOME EDUCATION, CHELTENHAM.\n\nLADY, the Widow of a Clergyman, who has\n\nresided in the East, is desirous of receiving Pupils to educate with her own children, with the assistance of a resident Governess.\n\nFurther particulars and references will be obtained on application to the Hongkong Register Office.\n\nNOTICE\n\nTHE undersigned has received authority by the last Mail to make all LOSSES ON POLICIES issued here by the above Office, payable in THREE Months after notice, in place of Six Months as heretofore.\n\nHongkong. 6th June, 1856,\n\nNOTICE.\n\nROB. S. WALKER,\n\nAgent.\n\nLONDON ASSURANCE CORPORATION, Established by Charter 1720.\n\nTestimonial to be presented to Mr ROBERT RIENAECKEL, now lying at the \"VICTORIA LIBRARY\n\nRooms.\n\nFor Signature.\"\n\nHongkong, 1st March, 1856.\n\nBOARD AND EDUCATION.\n\nREV. ARTHUR TAYLOR, has a few vacancies for the Admission into his family of the children of English Parents at the Free Ports, who may be desirous of securing for them the comforts of a HOME, and the Advantages of a LIBERAL EDUCATION,\n\nFor Terms and Particulars apply at\n\nNo. 7 Queen Street, Victoria, HongKong.\n\nWHAT SHALL I Fr?--A young lady exiled in a\n\nPOLICIES to do something for a rash of red to the\n\nE undersigned.\n\nAgents at Hongkong for above Corporation, are prepared to ISSUE POLICIES AGAINST FIRE to the extent of £200,000, on any Building or on Merchandize in the same\n\nDENT & Co.\n\nHongkong, 12th April, 1855.\n\nI have been doctoring myself,' said the languid fair one, with a smile, to the bluff, though kind M. D. while he was feeling her pulse. Why I have taken Morrison's pills, Parr's pills, Cockle's pills, Allen and Bell's pills. Bell's balsam of liquorice, and Powell's cough electuary. I even med Beary's calcined magnesia, Fawcett's nervous pills, and Madam,\" interrupted the astonished doctor, all these to your complaint no good\" Now then what shall I take? inquired the patient. Take, exclaimed the doctor, eyeing her from head to feet, Take, echoed after a moment's reflection, take-why, take of\n\nyour stools!'\n\nNOTICE\n\nDAVID SASSOON, SONS & Co.\n\nCanton, 23d January, 1856.\n\nHONGKONG INSURANCE COMPANY.\n\nTHE undersigned hereby give notice, that on and after this date POLICIES will be granted in the above Office, payable in CASH and the various Agents, at THREE Months after first proper notice of Loss is given in lieu of Six Months as heretofore.\n\nHongkong, 13th December, 1854\n\nLINDSAY & Co.,\n\nSecretaries.\n\nWe conclude with the following, which we recommend particularly to all anxious mothers --\n\n\"One day, when Dr. Read was sitting with us, we saw from the open window his own little boy. about four years old, playing on the green with a large hatchet-\n\nWe pointed it out to the father, and urged him to go and take from his child so dangerous a play-thing.\n\n'Well now, I guess, if I did, he would find something else perhaps worse. You know that the other day he had got the percussion caps and gun-powder that your master Frank blew himself up with.' It is impossible to be always looking after them. They must take their chance.\"--(Mr. Beste, vol... 132\n\nCORRESPONDENTS of England.They told us how they should like to see England; but could not bear the idea of living there; and they asked us if we had no fear in living in England When we asked why, they said some of their priests told them that England was only a piece of land like an iceberg and just sticking out above the ice, and which might be overflowed or covered any night when there might be an extraordinary rough sea, which catastrophe they considered must at some time happen. 1 -Carr's Russia.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-056 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 238781, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-056 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [6]", "page_number": 190, "title": "CO129-056 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [6]", "content_text": "SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.\n\nThe Hongkong Register.\n\nFLAS & AR\n\nLATE NAVS\n\n4 st Sp.\n\nHongkong (Mar. 25)\n\nMacau\n\nWhang\n\n25 Concis\n\nFROM TO CAPTAIN\n\nARRIVED,\n\nSAYLKU CAHLO\n\nMar, 22\n\nMartice\n\n10p¡ Welsit Formnes\n\n¡Mantl bgi Sarria 35 Tubal Cais B. Le 147 Sloggett\n\ng. 4Dencher\n\n25 Sarah Armitage Brit. sc. 185 Wooden\n\nTim and 208Kie\n\n23. LackroaND [ g. 400 Stereking\n\nH. 202 Broken\n\nSp. al. Caldin\n\nE of landwicke Brit\n\n26 Mathilde\n\n26 Scrutina\n\n27 Nankin\n\nri, se 8.\n\nSemut\n\n28 Leopard\n\nBrit. ek.\n\n206 Richards\n\n28 Ragla\n\nra\n\n25 Vanuetrop\n\nZai Lootse\n\n27\n\n291ADIN Suenam\n\n30 Fiery Cross\n\n30 June\n\n30 Rochapter\n\n30 Lanek\n\n30 Encounter\n\nBrit. Mr. 1832jCaldwell\n\ncmus\n\nShangbai\n\nArany\n\nMar. 15 Rico\n\nMar. 120eneral\n\nM 20 Rice Niakpo Man 143mdeles Caletta Jan. 30 Rice, 8cc. Nugpo Bar Sandria Bluniis\n\nSingapore\n\nRico\n\nBio 11\n\nMar. 16 Rico\n\nCONSIGN BEN\n\nRobert S. Walker J. sierre Williama, A. Ch Jardine. M. and Co Jobu Bu and Co John Bard and Co W. Pozlan and Co Turner and Co Orler\n\nLiverpool Der. 288ondries, Wise and Co. Christ\n\nDan. Uk, 291 Simes. Siugpo\n\nBan.sch. 149Kess\n\nVingpa\n\nHam, k, 216 Christiansen Nigo Brit. bk.! 472 Amirew\n\nBeit. stri 444 Watte\n\nHaro. 288 Joyan Jam,bk. 199 Bradshaw Brit. g. 265 Crocket ET M.S\n\n30 Queen Margarnt Belo, bk, 524 Spmano\n\n36 Madra\n\n30 Berwickshire\n\nso Tiger\n\n30 Courser\n\n27 Yocana\n\n27 Safelito\n\n¡Brat. str. 1250 Down\n\n118!!\n\nBelt. g. 142 Wohnenn\n\nBril. bk. 225 Day\n\nSiam\n\nMar. 15 Suuddeles Mar. 16 General De: 31Sundries Caleutia N160pium S.Francisco Zel Baftast Calestra an. 29Cotton Shanghuse Mer, sisilk Caletta\n\nM\n\nNingpo Ma 19 Rico Barabay,&\n\nShangae Nr. 24undries\n\nBombay\n\nIsitmssen and Co\n\nJohn Burd and Co jim. Eustan and Co John Burd and Co A. Head and Co Jardine, E. sai Co Wm. Pusau and Co\n\nxder\n\nJardine, M. and C5\n\nJardins, M. and Co\n\nSECT\n\nErition\n\nMariner's Hope, brig Hencius, sligi Mix, brig\n\nPrinces, ship\n\nRoyal Jaly, barque Sex Witeb, barque Star of the Hast, ship Terror, becqno Unicorn, steamer Water Witch. barqua\n\nPortuguese Clara, beig Laba barga Emigreto, ship Ensaio Make, barg, Sophis, arque Syenu, barne Tremeiga. barque\n\nFranch Joaquim, atı\n\nAmps Buckan, ship Benjamin Blorgan, ship Black Warrior, ship Golden West, silip\n\nP. & 0.8. N. Co.ussar, shrp Order\n\nWilliams, A. and Oo\n\nGibb, J. and Co\n\nBonnay\n\n24 Cotton\n\nDe Cation\n\n3. 20 Rice\n\nM16 Bice\n\nCotton Rive\n\nTail and Co\n\nSp. g. Pempreco Sual\n\nSp. ch. 89Govorda ¡Manila\n\n360 Mackozaic Caleutia\n\n41\n\n25 ('earl\n\nApar\n\nDarie\n\n15\n\nb\n\n4. Gscreta\n\n¡¡, Guita\n\nBrandan raul Co\n\n¡Msaila\n\nSAILED.\n\nFun\n\nDat%\n\nNAMA\n\nFLAG &\n\nCAPTAIN\n\nFor\n\nCARGO\n\nCONSIGNEES\n\n10\n\nSchaefer and C's\n\nHongkong Mar. 254 Jacoba Coruchia\n\n25 Banxhoo\n\n25 Marra\n\nJJ\n\nH\n\narty Hayes\n\n26 Kuterne\n\n20, Faust\n\n26 Amistad\n\n2 netinu\n\n27ly M. Wood\n\n27 Mor\n\nDut. bk.\n\n492 Rosenboom Be hk. $35, Vincent Rria. arh. 139 Dokon Brisk 284 Walliamson Dot. bk. 403 Kuipers\n\nlau.sc 143 Subberg\n\nbg. 205 Domingues\n\nDut. bk. a Lewis\n\nBrit. 3. 655 Callesk Brit. g. 179\n\n27 Waldemar Dan. k. 261chmidt\n\nCanton Packet m bk. Berden\n\nDu bk 607 Weber\n\n271 rouw Johanna hk. 520 urriaanse\n\n26 Argo\n\n28 St. Helena\n\n28-Juno\n\n29 Aar\n\nzy rota\n\n30 City of Sydney\n\nWasimpo tel. 7\n\nMar. 22Chia Chin\n\n231.4 Houriah Jari. Confucius Feb. 22Santa Lucia\n\nSwator Aməy\n\nHELL\n\n40ces Queen\n\nJ\n\nShangli\n\n7azy! Carim\n\nHope\n\namict\n\nDutch Testarkenburg\n\nDat k 441 Klant Bril. Nr. 210 Welsh\n\nBrit. g. 203 Taloy\n\nBrit. bg. Idenersu\n\ne:100 McCaus\n\nBrit. k. 310 Cairns\n\nBM. bk, 536 Uklejama\n\nBeit. b. 175 Peny\n\np. 335 Arrigoitia\n\nsi. sh. 500 Coniers\n\nBrit. E\n\nBrit. al 10 Dewar\n\nBrit. bl. 42% Young 15. Marquard Brit. eh. 209(Calling\n\n15 Singapore Bets 74May 12Aug. Melino ¡Bro. 5k. 306Luebko\n\nLinde Jucaries Edel Coari Sundries 3. Stations\n\nSundries\n\nPart Philip Sundries Adelaide\n\nاهان را این بردار\n\nSundries Sundries\n\nMaula Sand:ins Amay Sundries Calcutta Sundries Stangliae Suudries\n\nShangha\n\njoxotk\n\nSundries\n\nBallant\n\nBandries\n\nSundries\n\nAinoy\n\niSundries\n\nEast Coast\n\n¡Sundries\n\nAdolside\n\nFat Cowet\n\nWalparden\n\nSundries\n\nThas\n\nAustralla\n\nNew York\n\nSundries\n\nHan org\n\nSingapore\n\nFuntries\n\nSundries\n\nJurdina, M. and On\n\nHardin, M. and Co 'G. Daddell\n\nSheaffer and Co\n\nWm. Pasta Gd Co\n\nW. M. Robinet and Co\n\nF. Edger\n\nP. & 0, S. N C\n\nJohn Bord and So\n\n¡Dryer and Co\n\nOrder\n\n¡Y. J. Murrow\n\nOrlan\n\nik S. Walker ¡Y, J. Murrow\n\nt. Walker\n\nA. Berenbari\n\nJardinc, M. and Co.\n\nNye Brothers and Co\n\nP. F. Cama au Co\n\nDreyer and Co\n\nnlries Order\n\nSonides. F. Syme and Co\n\nSundries\n\nManila\n\nSa\n\nSingapore\n\nSundriss\n\nSantries\n\nSingapore\n\nandries\n\nMontal\n\nTaga\n\nMERCHANT VESSELS.\n\nSusp\n\nAn\n\nDuto of Arrival\n\nTONS MARTENS\n\nFeb. 57Ball\n\nFea\n\nP. O. Sync and Co\n\nTait and Co\n\nF. D. Syme and Co\n\nandersion and Co\n\nSanderthau and Co Mait and Ca Wm. Pusiau and Co\n\nJamestown, ship\n\nKit Carson, elig\n\nLucknow, ship\n\nSarah Warren, barque\n\nSirovcu, chip\n\nBray Hound, ship\n\nStarr King, ship\n\nTatar, ehin\n\nTuakina, ship\n\nArgonaut, ship\n\nBayard, barque\n\nBarrida Brothers, ship\n\nLuniest, ship\n\nHound, ship\n\nJames Marshall, brig\n\nLemisiana, kargus\n\nMaria, arque Metro, Larque Mic scener\n\nPenguin, weloener\n\nSes Nymph, berquo\n\nFiorid, ship\n\nMERCHANT VESSELS. -Contiennent.\n\n[No. 14-APRIL 1, 1855.\n\nShanghae Feb. 10 280gers\n\nDate ut\n\nAT\n\nAriva MARELAS\n\nCONSIGNEXY\n\nUJESTINATION\n\nIntended Dumpat-ly\n\nJA. Connolly\n\nSwatow\n\nFarly\n\nShaw, Blant and Uu\n\nJader\n\nLiverpool\n\nEarly\n\nLoudon\n\nEarly\n\nSwatow\n\nEwatow\n\nFly\n\n!London\n\nEarly\n\nEyduey\n\nFor Sute\n\n2\n\nFeb. 10 310 Quirk Mar. 178 Cav\n\nMu, 19 154 Trocar FU, 21 464 3hrewbery POL, 2400 Peutruath Web. 81291 Christian Fol. 26 377 M Far. 10 786 Brown Feb. 28 263 Lewis\n\nHongkong Feb. 22 294\n\nFeb 8 520Ch Macao far. 703 Guterres\n\nMacao Fou. 11 277 Luz Mar 240, L-z\n\nDunt, Beale and Co Rasselt und Co\n\nJames Bowman and o G, Livingston and Co Bella Co\n\nDent, Bible and Co\n\nBrawlao aul Co\n\nJames Stephensca J.V. Jarge\n\nA. A, de Mello and Co\n\nadoro d'Almeida\n\nJayah. Still and Cu\n\n4.\n\nGlan 18 2721) Agalia\n\n376 Marve\n\nL. Harones\n\nWhampoa Mar.\n\n606 Delhomme Wm. Fusta and Co\n\nlongkong Feb. 17 530Smith\n\nMar 30, 468 Killing atar. 151900Murphy Mus500Tatusan Mar. 6 720 Wingar Fel, 14113 Canjage Bet. 111,20 Cowell\n\nMax 89 Paner\n\nMer 11 340 Gore\n\nMar 7570 Mix\n\nSept. 842Jones\n\nWhaipos de 25 175 ale\n\n+\n\nAmoy\n\nGeneral Piern, ech.\n\nSnute\n\nWaverley, ag\n\nWar flawk, ship\n\nCautan, ship\n\nScience, Lonyes\n\nAntelope, satorer\n\nAriel, ship\n\nfebn Wade, ship.\n\nWilmington, honner\n\nCarlow, brig\n\nMoury, bagre\n\nN. B. Palmer, ship\n\nDutch\n\nAlbaneerwaard, barque Boilers, chip\n\nCristina, barque\n\n3. Elizabeth, barque\n\nJan Hendrik, barque\n\nMar. 13 180 Peete\n\nFab.\n\nlan.\n\n1100 rewater\n\nStar. € 713 Stevens\n\nKussell and Co Order\n\nRussell and Co Rose Go Russell and Ca Russell and Co Jane Steplu rson\n\nAdel&Philtill\n\nSingapore\n\nSingapore\n\nInd.\n\nWheming\n\nPeight ur Char!\n\nSan Francisco April 10\n\nAdel. & Mel. Tad,\n\nSan Francisco April 17\n\nSan Francisco\n\nCaly\n\nAugustine ford and Co Wi Win. tusla and Co\n\nWhens, Anthou and Coban Francisco! Wilms, Anthon and Co Hondur\n\nJames Stephie:ZON\n\nMarford\n\nOvde\n\nSan Francisco April 18 Adel, & Syduty A\n\nMaz. 111185 West\n\nMa\n\n135 Lamilton\n\nMar 4117 Turner\n\nY. J. Muriou\n\nY, J. Murrow\n\nAustralia\n\nKtor and Ce\n\nBuston\n\n239 Graham\n\nRussell and Co\n\nNew York\n\nBarly\n\nPudon and Cu\n\nNow York\n\nFeb.\n\nCrosby\n\nMar. 8 $75 Peterson\n\n¡Alvoid and Co\n\nSn Prausias Ind.\n\nAugustine Heard me Co\n\n300 Pasiphor\n\nNge Brothers and Co\n\nFeb. 11 45% Whoever Jan. 28 900\n\nShangha Repairing Havana\n\nEarly\n\n¡Hevada\n\nNo. 8 188 Dyer\n\n2248 Willian\n\nMax. 6 209 Monta Mar.\n\nJan. 19 689 Nicholson\n\nMar Dee. Formona Fel\n\nNov.\n\nFuh-chau Mar. Niugpo Mar.\n\n750 Aytun\n\n150 Badger\n\n1000: siromans\n\n417 Worth\n\n400 Potter\n\n479 Mellus\n\n269 Cher\n\nMet. ¡600 peroor\n\nJac We\n\nFou\n\nShanghae Mar. 9 2 Gregory\n\nFol. 24 450 Fletcher Bet. 5/2006 Lowe\n\nHongkong Mar. 15) 730 Linduan\n\n33\n\n15\n\nKongu lamelaar, ship\n\nNeerlands Indie, siaip\n\nSamat, ship\n\nMar. 13 322 Teu Har\n\nMar. 14 350 Krauer\n\nMan Tomp\n\nMar. 2614. De Jong\n\nRussell and Co\n\nS. E. Burrows\n\nTail and Co\n\nW. M. Robinet and Co\n\n1. Pustau and Co\n\nRussell and C\n\nUnder\n\nKyu Brothers and do\n\nKussell and Co\n\nKell and Co\n\nAugustine Heard and Co\n\nRugseil und Co\n\nW. M. Rotinet and Co Russland Co\n\nRussell and Ca\n\nOnier\n\nShaffer and Co\n\nSchaefer and Co\n\nJames Stephenson Jim. Pistac and Co\n\nPub, 9698 Lindermance Stephenson\n\n3ar\n\nJan.\n\nAlbrecht Beyling, barq Whampoa Mar Aline, arqua\n\nBintang Anam, barque\n\nBroedertrouw, ship\n\nArgo, Imarque\n\n143\n\nDESTINATION\n\nIntended Thatch\n\nFatal Hair, barque\n\n34. Eulema, shooner\n\nJustine, barque\n\nProvests, barque\n\nVrouw Jotina, bq, Mercurius, barque Westkappelle, barque Beauty, torque Zuid Holland, ship\n\nDanish\n\nDannebrog, barque Lente, schooner Svendborg, Larquy Aernet, szig\n\nConm Heinrich, bg.\n\nJohannes hand\n\nUto, bu que\n\nWaldemar, herque\n\nHenbury\n\nAutralia\n\nIS. Trancisco\n\nIxel.\n\nAmoy\n\nAdel & Sydney Trid.\n\nSingapore\n\nInd.\n\nWhen pus\n\nsrdce, Matheran and Co Schaeffer and\n\nLondon\n\nAdsiaide\n\nFuruins. Matteson aud Co\n\nHavaus\n\nTernor and Co\n\n¡Turner and Co\n\nCape & Longga\n\nT. & U. S. N. C.\n\nShaughne\n\npill &\n\nPhillips, Moors Co Kurder\n\nAustralia\n\nLondon\n\nBariy\n\nand Co Holliday. Weed Co\n\nway sund\n\nRepairing Bonjay\n\nApril 15\n\nTarer, beg\n\nTubal Cain, ig\n\nWilliams, Anthon and Co\n\nPant, schooner\n\nAfghan, slip\n\nWhampoa Mar. 20 670debank\n\nLondon\n\nArturo, que\n\nFab,\n\noClarke\n\nCarlines, ship\n\nMar.\n\n370 Ferensor\n\nCELIST:L, ELERIEur\n\nMar.\n\n750 Curling\n\nD'Almeida Family, hg.\n\nNov.\n\n250\n\nEaglet, seamer\n\nMai.\n\n145 Caldwell\n\nMainas, stramer\n\nCage. Mangarel, batą.\n\nBritish\n\nAlireal, ship\n\nAfro the Great,\n\nAlligator, lig\n\nAnglia, barque\n\nA. P. Sharp, barke\n\nle\n\nMock River Jacket, bq.!\n\nCarible ship\n\nCrishan, banque\n\nDuke of Portland, ship\n\nEamon, rezoaner\n\nEmma, achooner\n\nFanny, ban\n\nForm, camer\n\nFriedrick, belg Jamiitan, slip Hazard, schocier Julinder, Jacque\n\nLuorink, big\n\no Iurie\n\nLy, thou\n\nBart of Maulwicke, by\n\nHornet, sooner\n\nLouisa Baillie, sup\n\nMalebr\n\nNina schooner\n\nPearl, stip\n\nSarai. Armitage, ship\n\nTravancare, ship\n\nVigilant, arque\n\nMazeppa, schooner\n\nFlongkong sb. 26 790 Browning\n\nReh. 13, 846 Mefntyr\n\nFeb. 26 sindi\n\nMar 989.Sharp\n\nMar. 12' 265 Sich\n\nMar. 20, $74 Winchester\n\nFeb. 1272 Tuscolt\n\n21 533 Sumor\n\nMar. 30 149ring\n\nMar. 19 120 upper\n\nMor. 5 Prasmith\n\nMar. 11 750regear\n\nJan. 16 990 Neville\n\nMar. 15 433[Fare\n\nMar. 20 184eary Jan. 24530 Bolto Mar 30 289 Crocket Mar 29 3-har's [Mar. 131 180Makelier Mar. 30/1250 lowe\n\nSaj 533 Spence ar 30 148\n\nMar. 25190leggett\n\nMar, 26247)ncher\n\nFalk, 27 168 Nordqvist\n\nMar.\n\n464 Legoe\n\nMar. 22 115 Rayer\n\nMar. 23 605 Macker.zie\n\nMar. 160-te\n\nMar. 9 582 Towa Tea\n\nS Station Mar.\n\n5953\n\n163 Button\n\n142 Marios\n\nTan Berd at Co Vacs Stephenson\n\nGrind, Fivlagston and Co\n\nY. J. Murr\n\nArmstrong and Lawrence Uriur\n\nDent and Co\n\nY. J. Murrow\n\nTurner and Co Jardins, Mathe\n\nP.&O. 5. N. Co\n\nJarl, Mathos and Co\n\nwitanie, Anthen and\n\nFlescher and Co\n\nRaseuli and Co\n\nardine, Mathagon and Co\n\nP. & S. N. Co\n\nosvenor and de Siemsson and Co\n\nOrder\n\norlowitz and Cə\n\nder\n\nNathaly and Co\n\nJohn Burd at\n\nBrandao antil Ca\n\ndarling, tiles and Co\n\nTurner and Co\n\nJ. C. Confor\n\nMarine, Mathew, and Co\n\nDent and Co\n\nJamine, Matheson and Co\n\nDent and Co\n\nOrder\n\nZephyr, schooner\n\nAmin, staler\n\n\"\n\nDas.\n\nFeb.\n\n\"\n\n346\n\nEited up\n\nisitangha\n\npore and Cal, and.\n\nLes Imm\n\nFreighbor Char\n\nCelibri, big\n\nLima, bargre Mathilde, brig\n\nNicoline, whip Quaries Ross, banyoo Qusmine Lac\n\nEnterprise, schooner\n\nPodveta, quo Crnar, barne Hularich Gustav, brig Handilai, sek\n\nFARME\n\nLevaut, xhip General laro, ship En ship\n\nL'erviun\n\nJose C. Ugarte, ship Petion, barque Carinen, barye\n\nLinin, skip\n\nMicano, banque\n\nUgaris y Santiago,\n\nCriani, dig\n\nCatalin, ship\n\nRasita, scrooner\n\nAutenia Terry, hip\n\nJ. Terry, ship\n\nAANIGRA\n\nGelender, baryas\n\nSpesiali\n\nCosta, tig\n\nDenia, echuuler\n\nScratina, sup\n\nby.\n\nV. Kinavia, bug\n\nNarciss. brig\n\nReculito, souber\n\nYlesno, trig\n\nNeptus, rig\n\nSalve, brig\n\nDurdo, brig\n\nMar\n\nKar.\n\n1 609 Wagner\n\n1780mvei\n\n507 Mubar\n\n472fheon\n\n292day\n\npar: 221 70uillardsk\n\nEnst Coast Mar.\n\n600; Weber\n\nSupt. 8 401 Thamns\n\n14\n\nMar.\n\nAmoy ¡Mar\n\nMac.\n\nד'\n\nWm. Pastu aid to\n\nJLunes Stephenson\n\nSchoofter and 6\n\nSchaefer and Co\n\nOrder\n\nHungkung\n\nNpo & 'kong Perly New York\n\nAustralia\n\nSai: Francisco\n\n1.d.\n\nSydney & Melbmd. Shanghe\n\nLord\n\nAdol&P.Phillipmd.\n\nEast Coast\n\nardino, Malleson and Co Batavia\n\nOrder\n\nOrder\n\n8 Starkenburg Order\n\n234 Lewis\n\nFeb. 21 324 kút\n\nSwating Mac\n\nOrder\n\nOrder\n\n50Jurriaanse Order\n\nSnimith Oxier\n\nFvb-chan Pah. 425 Bonderkiak'Order\n\nShangban Feb. 30 411 Verachoor Deal, Beals and Co\n\n15\n\nFeb. 28 582 Boar\n\nHongkong Mar. 22 410 Sir Ben\n\nMar. 29 180 Krase\n\n31\n\n36ar. 13 33olgensen\n\nBaal Coast Mar.\n\nShanghae Web. 10 339 Thiessen\n\nMar. Mar\n\nW sau and Co\n\nTuhchac ¡Bvalow\n\nInd Early\n\nJohn Burd sei c\n\nJardine, acheson and Co κέλτικες\n\nCowes\n\nEarly\n\nWm. I'usiau and Co\n\nWm, Ruslan and Co\n\nikeres not Co\n\nCarlowitz and Co\n\n300 Allebar\n\n264 Salmidt\n\nCharler\n\nHongkong Mar. 25 200 Kier\n\nMar\n\nJohn Burd and Co\n\n18 Christiansen John Burd and Co\n\nMar 28 202 Broken\n\nFeb. 9; 162 Wallenen Whampoa Fah. 22 230|lie Fol\n\n400 thieveking Mar. M137 Uulivenda East Coast Peh 440 Jessen\n\nMac Pcb\n\nSwator Mar\n\nMac Sanghan Mar\n\nHer and Co\n\nWin. Pusa and fa Siemasza and Co Win. l'estes and Co Wm. Pastau and Co Augustino leard and Co 148 Suhit erg Win. Pustan and Co 450ngsiboch der 238 verge Drier\n\nal Ca Lindsay at Co\n\n160 Kreutzfeldtems 110 Reiner\n\nHongkong Mar. 1 283 Couper\n\nMacao M\n\nMax.\n\nHongkong Nos. 14 589anama\n\nArmstrong and Lawrance\n\nSan Francisco\n\nHamburg\n\nส\n\nUnder seinare\n\n450 Gill\n\nAsatrug and Lawrence\n\nAustralia\n\njlund.\n\n8 244: Defervari 35oj Baker\n\nVardine, Matheson and De jamay W. M. Rubinst and Cɔ\n\nNov. 13 250 Barry\n\n21\n\nW. M. Robinet and Co Under\n\nEast Coast\n\nFeb. 16' 199!Arnie\n\nItepairing\n\nMar.\n\nWhampoa Mar.\n\nMar. 10 29Mazeres\n\nPast Const Mar\n\nSwarow\n\nDec\n\nFul-chan Mar.\n\nAugustine Heal and Co\n\nRobinct and Co 21Savason. M. Cobinet a Co\n\n600 Wilso\n\nOrder 201,Juder word, Augustin? Heard and Co\n\nShanghae Pen $2200 Giganter Russell and Co\n\nJau 1004 Cortina\n\nHongkong Feb. 17340) Hongkong dar. 25 140 Sarria\n\nStr. 225kil Mar. 28 415adiz Mar. 126arcia\n\nMaceo\n\nMar 19 150luma Mar. 13srors\n\n11 27 46empere\n\nWampon Ma Sel-Suveven\n\nW. M. Roisina 20:4 Co\n\nUnder\n\nJ. V. Torge\n\nOrder\n\nHongkong\n\nBangkok\n\nEarly\n\n!L. J. Gulierenz\n\nvall, St and Co\n\nRail\n\nR. Garreta\n\nKantla\n\nGarreta\n\nYiocos\n\norder\n\nManila\n\nTait and Co\n\nVider\n\nJ. V. Jorge\n\nMar 15 131 Summers Kinder Amoy Mar 7\n\nMar.\n\nBest Coast Mar.\n\n240 Welsh\n\n¡P. D. Syme and Co\n\nMar\n\n465 Vineent\n\nMar\n\n274jitall\n\nSwarow\n\nJan,\n\n29 Fice\n\nMar\n\n149 Mooney\n\nOrder\n\nマジョル\n\n952 Raver\n\nOrder\n\nWaton and Co\n\nShanglue\n\nder\n\naddine, Math and Co\n\nUnder\n\nOnder\n\nShangbas\n\nRussell and Co\n\nAugustine Flourd and Ca\n\nadine, Matlicon and Co Wetnore and\n\nAustralia\n\nExcu\n\nJarlie, Matheson and Co Dant and Ca\n\nSwith. Keanely and Co\n\nFreight or Char\n\n10100, Livingsted and Ch\n\nEarly\n\nEast Cuasi Fol\n\n148 Prowes\n\nReis and Co\n\n226, alerte\n\nOrder\n\nShanghe ar\n\nit. & 0. 8. X. Ch\n\nShaw, Bland and Co\n\nAustralia\n\nEarly\n\nLizzie Jarvis, ship\n\nWhan pos Mar. 11\n\nIng Crosby\n\n550 Set, www\n\nde Burcowa\n\nSyviuey\n\nChinese\n\nPretighter Char\n\nlenkin, Faraon and Co\n\nLondon\n\nsealed\n\nBaty\n\nCoz facing, steamer\n\nWan, Pustuu and Co\n\nS. E. Inerows\n\ntient, Beale and Co\n\nTotdea\n\nal\n\nBause arque\n\nLouisa, harqe\n\nCity of London, bq.\n\nForerunner, selcounter Dealong, barque Sarah Lucy, ebiy\n\nFortas, brig\n\nAt Key, Behconer\n\nEllou Oliver, barque\n\nGazelle, seboouer\n\nWhampica, barguo\n\nExcellent, brig\n\nAfrica, are\n\nAntipodes, arquc\n\nJane. Mishall, slip\n\nKolt-on, up\n\nSex, ship\n\nWild Darrell, cl\n\nAgra, ship\n\nBlenheim, ship\n\nDuck, sclismer\n\nEllen, barque\n\nErin, steamer\n\nFormass, ship\n\nHistle, Ach.\n\nJane Maria, orig\n\nLady kingson, ab.\n\nLord of the lea. ship:\n\nMori, plep\n\nJan.\n\n450 Day\n\nChinniew Jan. 28orst\n\nAmey Mar 5 121 Wilson\n\nTait and Go\n\n083 Henderson Fisicher and Co\n\n11 Fax\n\nFeb. 17 876 Gale Ningpo Feb. 335 Curtis Ful-chau Mar. 615 Woot\n\nFeb. 24, 420 Turboil Yor.\n\n98% Young\n\nFeb. 11 846 Pant\n\nFeb. 16 D Seal\n\nWonging Mar. 190 Farlane\n\nShanghac Feb. 23 714 Bulgo\n\nFeb. 24 300 Walker\n\nEeb. 22 809iSanks\n\nMar\n\n$59 Jamieson\n\nJan. 25 40 Rollason\n\nFor 11 50Cces\n\nFair. 25 226 Bovey\n\nFch. 81200 Wilson\n\nMar. 13 sataxi Peb.\n\npremier\n\nLindras and Co.\n\nDent, Beale and C\n\nAnn, ship\n\nfar\n\nFe.\n\nMarine. Matheson and Co Lendon\n\nella Co\n\nSwedish Chieftain, burque\n\nKramn Augusto, brig\n\nChilias Frolic, hin\n\nOudenbury Schlosser, barque\n\nNew Grenadian\n\nWhatupo Mar 1 298 gera\n\nWhempos Mar. 20 250 Hasselhoff Dreyer and Co\n\nOrder\n\nShaughse Mar. 430 Gough\n\nEdited, Printed, sud Published by ROBERT STRACHAN, at the longlowy Register Office: Dage Ste\n\nVictoria, Hongkuag. Tuesday, April 1. 1889.\n\n188\n\nThe Hongkong Register.\n\nVol. XXIX. Na. 23.\n\nINTIMATIONS.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nATHEREAS the Firm of NYE BROTHERS & ..\n\nWo Cuntat, Chica, did, on the 11th day of March,\n\nVICTORIA, TUESDAY, JUNE 3, 1856.\n\nNOTICES OF FIRMS.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nE have established at Hongkong, under the same\n\nstyle, a branch of our business. MR. LUDWIG WIESE is admitted a Partuer in our\n\n1866, at the Office of the United States Cosmulate in tlanton, execute an Assignment of all their Property, real¦ Firm. and personal, in trust for the benefit of their Creditors, to the undersigned: We hereby give notice to all cuncorn ed to make payment to us of all uns de te, and to present to us any claims against the arid Firm.\n\nRUSSELL & 670.\n\nCanton, 18th March, 1556.\n\nJAMES PURDON & O»,\n\nNOTICE\n\nSeamen's Hospital.\n\nTrustees JARDINE, Esq., C. D. WILLIAMS,\n\nSIEMSSEN & Ca,\n\nCanton, 31st March, 1855.\n\nNOTICE MRJ MACKRILL SMITH is authorised to Sign the\n\nKING & Co.\n\nMane of our Firms in China per peenrastin,\n\nCanton, 13th March, 1856.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nKey. Hon. W. T. Maxes, Fag., R.S. WALKER, E. Ma\n\nSuperintendent of the P. & U. Steam Navigation Com pany, (ex officio)\n\nPreueurer, MANIAC, Esq.\n\nBaristent Surgeon-RARD, JAOX.\n\nConsulting Surgeon W. A. HARLAND, M.D.\n\n75 cents per day.\n\ndoilar\n\nTERMS OF ADMISSION.\n\nPublic Warda,...\n\nIntermediate Wards,\n\nPrivate Rooms,..\n\n2 dullars\n\nPatients are also admitted on deposits, at the following rates, renewable one day previour to the amount depozited baving been expended,\n\nPublic Wards,\n\nintermediate,..\n\nPrivate Rooms,\n\n$15\n\n$20\n\n$30\n\nThe Captains or Consignees of Vessels must be respon sible for the expense of Patients sont by them to the Hospital.\n\nMB-A Hospital Bills to be reneipted by the Erasurer only.\n\nTHE\n\nSHIPPING.\n\nERPULAR\n\nSTEAM COMMUNICATION\n\nLytworn\n\nHONGKONG AND CANTON.\n\nTHE WILLAMETTE, Captain W. Conss.\n\nFrum Honyhang to Canton,\n\nwary MONDAY & THURSDAY, at è s'elock s.M. From Canton a laughong,\n\nevery TUESDAY & FRIDAY, at 10 o'clock a.m. For further particulars, apply to the Agents,\n\nROBERT S. WALKER, Hongkony, MAXIMILIAN FISCHER, Canton. Hongkong, 20th May, 1856.\n\nREGULAR\n\nSTEAM COMMUNICATION batwest\n\nHONGKONG AND CANTÓN.\n\nLE SIN CHARLES FORBES,\n\nTHE\n\nFrom Mongkong in Ornton,\n\nOVORY FUSSDAY and FRIDAY, at Pelock ..\n\nfrom Canton w Hongkong,\n\nevery WEDNESDAY and SATURDAY at 8 o'clock ..\n\nFo further particulers, apply to the Agents,\n\nROBERT S. WALKER, Hangbong, K.ROTTUNJKE & Co., Canë\n\nHongkong, 20th May, 1856.\n\nNOTICES OF FIRMS.\n\nNOTICE\n\nHE interest and responsibility of Mr. J. F. B. TRAUTMANN Firm ceased by his retire- iment therefrom on His March fast, and our Business will be sonducted nonauforward under the maponsibility of the remaining Partuen Mx. G. C. SCHWADE and M. FREDNIK BOWER\n\nShanghu, 10th May, 1850.\n\nM\n\nG. C. SCHWABE & Co.\n\nTHOMAS 1 WALKER.\n\nArchitect and Surveyor,\n\nQueen's Road, Victoria, Hongkong.\n\nNOTICE\n\nE undersigned have established themselves as Mer\n\nchures üşü Ayenis in this place, je Copartnership, Wider the style and Firm of FRAMJEE BOMANJEÉ CAMA & Gill,\n\nBOMANJEE FRAMJEE CAMA. FRAMJKE EDULINE.\n\nCanton, 1st May, 1836.\n\nNOTICE\n\nJAMES CROSSLEY saved to be a partner in\n\nMore on its dugast lost, on which date his\n\nJuverest and responsibility termuntert,\n\nG. C. SCHWARE & Co. Shanglue, 27th March, 1856.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nTHE Business of the late MR. JOZE VICENTE\n\nJORGE will from this riste de encried on by the undemned under the name of JUZE JUROE & Co. All outstanding accounts of the Estate will be received aud settled by the new firm.\n\nR. N. WEISMANN, in this day admitted a Pattuor\n\nin our Pure in Chius.\n\nREISS and Cu.\n\nCanton, 1st May, 1885.\n\nNOTICE\n\nTR. LUGH BOLD GIBB sa admitted a Partner\n\nGIBB, LIVINGSTON & Co.\n\nMin our Firma ou let Jetz. 1855.\n\nHongkong, 27th July, 1855.\n\nHOUSES.\n\nTO BE SOLD OR LET.\n\nITE imodisto passession, as SHANGHAE, The DWELLING Ilouse and BUSINESS PRE- MISES of the undersigned, together with the adjoining LAN in the roar of the Godowna, situated in a most con bral position, and fronting the River.\n\nApply to\n\nDIRON, GRAY & Co. Shaughse, 16th February, 1855.\n\nFOR SALE. HOSE Two HOUSES, with excellent Crowns, LAND- Wawel, as present in the op- tion of Messrs. LVAL, SL & Co. and símated on part of Marine Lot No. 10.\n\nFor particulars apply to\n\nJARDINE, MATHESON & Co.\n\nHongkong, 7th March 1855.\n\nFOR SALE.\n\nFOR SALE.\n\nUST received by the undersigned, ---- 100 Barrels Hall FLOUR.\n\n1,000 51th-bags Chili\n\n6,000\n\nRAISINS.\n\nAles, on hand,-\n\nINSURANCES,\n\nUNIVERSAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY. ESTARIISAB 18 LONDON AND Calcutta, 1834. CONFIRMED BY SPECIAL ACT OF PARIJAMENT\n\n-\n\n6 William VI. Chap. 54. Invested Capital, B HUNDRED & FIFTY THOUSAND Pounds Sterling, of which Fry Lacs of Rupers are held by the Tian Branch,\n\nLondon Offics, No. 1, King William Street.\n\nChairman,\n\nSIR RENAY WILLO, KLS.\n\nINDIAN BRANCH, Directors,\n\nCHARLES R. PRINGLE, FL ALEXANDER WALLAGA, DE,\n\nWILLIAM B. SHOUL, E\n\nGEORGE BARZON Esq.,\n\nE. MACDONALD STEPHENACY, Esq.\n\nPhysician,\n\nAWAN WEEB, Bag, M.D.\n\nAgents and Sereiaris, M. BRADDON & Co\n\nMadras Agents,\n\nMessi BAINURADOK & Co.\n\nBombay Agents, Mears. LECSIR & Co.\n\n1. The marked success which has attended the opera tions of this society, justits the Directors in calling the ottention of the Public to the peruliar advantages held oul by this Luutitution to sil clag-en desirous of effecting\n\nBUTANCE Apor lives.\n\n2. The Tabies of Premium have been framed with the greadust cars. Toone applicable to India Eves have been Especially prepared from the experience of Indian mortal ity, and from the records of the Bast Indian Govern sent, and are an poderate as is deemed oonsistent with perfosi security.\n\n3. Proposals are received for Insuranets for the whale term of Life, either on a participating scale or ou & TUR parte puting scale at a lower rate of premium. Also for short perivda varying from one to seven years on very modcrate terms,\n\n4. An Annual division is made of One-fifth of the ascertained profits of the five preceding years, the other Pensfifth being set upart to enter into the average of of acreeding years.\n\n5. Of the gura annually divisible, heventy-five per cent\n\nINSURANCES.\n\nNo. 1,329\n\nRELIANCE MARINE INSURANCE SOCIETY. THE undersigned having been appointel Agonie Š\n\nPOLICIES, payable in loNDON, CALCUTTA, BOMBAY, KANGOON, PENAS, and SINGAPORK.\n\nCIBB, LIVINGSTON & Co. Hongkong, 26th April, 1856\n\nTHE LONDON AND ORIENTAL STEAM TRANSIT INSURANCE OFFICE 1 Established in 1849.,\n\nTHE findersigned are prepared to accept RISKS (covered by protecting POLICIES at bors and the varigan LoNON INUAR COMPANIES, by the PEN. INSULAR AND ORIENTAL STEAMERS from Can con und Bangkung, u Amoy, Shungiae, the Straits, Ceylon, the Prendencies of Iulia, Sues, and England.\n\nThe interest in the protecting Pocies is aseigned to be P. and 0. 5. N. Company for the purpose of their becoming the Medium of Paytast in the event of 1,000, For RATA OF PERICH and other information, apply fo\n\nROBERT & WADAs, Bmyksng.\n\nMATHILIAN FIS, C\n\nK. WABLES, Shangkur.\n\nH. T. Mansa, Singapore.\n\nA. P. LOVELL, Calcura.\n\nHORT FRANK, Madras, or\n\nJONN RI, Banbay.\n\nJAMES HARTLEY & Co.\n\nLondon, Bih January, 1851.\n\nALLIANER FIRE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF LONDON.\n\nTHE Undersigned having hotel uzat\n\nCure for the above COMPANY, are prepared to aucept ASSURANORS at Hongkong, as under\n\n1st-On Buildinga ot Brick or Stune, covered with Tiler, States, Metal, or other combustible Material, together with their Contents, when such Buildings are isolated from all others,-Kute of Pranium, per vend per Annua\n\nad-on ench Buildings and their Contents, when not so isolated, at the Rate of 1 per cent per Atore.\n\nAuces for 5 Months, and for 3 Mouths, of the Awal date will be churyou.\n\nOf the 1st Class-Assurances, for the present, will be accepted to the extent of £13,000 only vn og Risk. And of the 26 Class-To the extent of £8,500. A Building and its Contents taken together form oue Risk. Thus the above Smas may be udurwritten either on a Building alone, or the Contents alone; or, part on the Building, and part on the Contenta.\n\nNo Arazce is to be considered a force until the Premium be paid.\n\nAmongst other advantages of the Company, the As- eured will be natitled to participate in the Fronts alter Five successive payments.\n\nParties applying for ASSURANCES will please send\n\nis apportiosed to polley holders on the participating in full particulers of the Rish to be taken; any Deviation scale, we have paid six annual premiuus, and thans from which is one of the Company, wi profie can be applied either in reduction of subsequent visate the Policy. 40,000 Frach-baked NAVY BISCUIT, made of Chiti premiums, or usa Bouse to the original amount of the Flock, and guaranteed to keep weli.\n\nHongkong, 7th May, 1850.\n\nFOR SALE,\n\nESING\n\npolicy.\n\n3. The Annual redustion has averaged considerably | above 40 per cent, and in no one year as Ellen below\n\nthat sonnt\n\n7. The following table will shew the result of the last\n\nDORT WINE in Botle, SHEKEY in Bottle and Wood, divisita of profits as declared on the 9th May, 1855, at\n\naud BEER in Bottle.\n\ntan rate of 40 per cent, on the original manual premium:—\n\nReduced Original!\n\nAnnual Reduction. Annual Prynism\n\nApply\n\nALEX. WILSON. El Polar Godowns, 15th april, 1856.\n\nFOR SALE\n\nApply to\n\nBRST AN COAL\n\nHongkong, 7th April, 1855.\n\nFOR SALE.\n\nAge.\n\nDate of Sam As\n\nPolicy.\n\nsurof.\n\nPresi\n\n30\n\nOu cr\n\n10,000\n\n120\n\nCold Ro It-\n\n30\n\nbefore\n\nLINDSAY & Co.\n\n40\n\nthe 9th\n\n10.020\n\n590\n\nC\n\nMay,\n\n10.000\n\n150)\n\n10,000\n\n740 1,000\n\nREST Labuan STEAM COAL. PRICE, &350 per Ton.\n\nApply to\n\nHongkong, 7th April, 185tì.\n\nTRENCH CORKS.\n\nFOR SALE\n\nLINDSAY & Co.\n\nCHAMPAGNE, BRANDY, PORT WINE, PALE ¦and Gezper SHERRIES.\n\nCLARETS of Superior quailty. Chaters. Maxg 2, Moviny, St. Cslepke, St. Julien, and Lesviite.\n\nApply in HongKong and CANTON to\n\nLYALL, STILL & Co. flongkong, 7ih September, 1855.\n\nFOR SALE. CUPERIOR MADEIRA in Pipes, Half and Quarter?\n\nPipes, apply to\n\nALEX. WILSON, Menar. Jannis, Mayurson & Co.\n\nGallorans. East Point, 31st October, 1853.\n\nINSURANCES,\n\nNOTICK\n\nLONDON & ORIENTAL STEAM TRANSIT INSURANCE OFFICE, undersigned has received authority by the last bail to make all LOSSES ON POLICIES issued JOZE JORGE.\n\nhere by tbo above filice, payable in THREE MONTHS ZIDURO ANTONIO DE ALMEIDA. after oties, in place of six Months Macao, 3d April, 1956,\n\nROB. 3. WALKER, Agrante\n\nM\n\nNOTICE.\n\nFR JAMES McCORMICK is authorised to sigu vut\n\nFm per procuration.\n\nALVORD & Co.\n\nCanton, 12th Jannary, 1856.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nFR. THOMAS D. BOYU is authorized to sign our Mr Ficto\n\nP. D. SYME & C\n\nAmoy, 12th May. 1855.\n\nMR\n\nNOTICE.\n\nR. GRAHAM ANDERSON foinet me as a Partner on the 1st of January lušt. The buginese will be cried an in the base of D. W. MACKENZIE & Co.\n\nD. W. MACKENZIE.\n\nCanton, 5th Muralt, 1860.\n\nM. JAMES BROWN, Notary Public, MESURS, GASKELL & BROWN, Solicitora, Notaries Public, de\n\nQueen's Road, Victoria.\n\nHongkong. 6th Jan, 1855\n\nheretofore.\n\nNOTICE. LONDON ASSURANCE CORPORATION, Established by Charter 1720. E undersigned, Agouts at Hongkong for the above Corporation, Are prepared to grant POLICIES AGAINST FIRE, to the extent of £10,000, on any Huilding or Murthandize in the same.\n\nDENT & Co.. dynie\n\nIlangkung, 12th Aprit, 1855.\n\n------\n\nLONDON AND ORIENTAL STEAM TRANSIT\n\nINSURANCE OFFICE. and after this way, ir. MAXIMIZA FISCHER of and after this waves det sks\n\nof this Office.\n\nBOBERT S. WALKER,\n\nHongkong, 3 March 1854.\n\nAgent.\n\nof\n\n25%-0\n\n459 9?-> 298-0 296-0 851-0 444-C\n\n26-18\n\n112 0 618-0\n\na. Following in an Extract of the rates of Precium\n\nAnnual Premium for an Assurance on Rs 1,000.\n\n8858 1 Feer.\n\n98% 3 Fears.\n\nCIVIL\n\n128823\n\n*R\n\npete Profs.\n\n22\n\nના\n\nMr.\n\nEnglish\n\nJitter\n\n£ 18 %\n\nAge. 1 Year 3 Years5 Fears 7 Faith with life with-\n\n32588+\n\n38899\n\n45\n\nJARDINE, MATHESON & Co., Agema in Chron.\n\nHongkong, 1st January, 1845.\n\nMISCELLANEOUS.\n\nBREAD AND BISCUIT BAKERY, SINO, Bread and Biscuit Baker, and General Store Leper, bega to intimate, that he has consented arogiments to establish a Branch of his House at CANTON, in New French Hong, sud will be happy to supply Ladies and Gentlemen of the latter plac with that great Gesideralno-z superior article of Bread He Daltora Linsel that, from his long experience in sale, siness, and trom the facilities he posts of procuring, Et all times at finest brand of American Flour, viz., Gallego, he will be able to give a better article to int | furuishod by any rival establish uc\n\nBar wo keep constantly on hand, an assort ment of the best WINES, LIQUORS, BEER, sud PORTER in Quars and Pinda, OHMAN'S STORES, PERFUMERY, and STATIONERY, K., &c.\n\nHongkong, 1st May, 1956.\n\nSAN MIGUEL BRASS AND IRON FOUNDRY.\n\n\"NDER the Superlateniques of an Experiched Ba\n\nGILEER Orlere for all kinds of MACHINERY exented with despatch. Erxam ENGINES & BOILERS repaired. SHAFTS of the best Englen Tron from 5 to Orders to be aduresed Mussre. 9 inches diameter. 3. A. BARRETTO & Co., Maurier.\n\nA Cuniors LOT ATPAL-Dr. Wallis, while re siding near the Mississippi, married his landlady, an intercating young woman, aged twenty-sighs; after which he sled in Washington, a short distance from Columbia, where he enjoyed all the happiness that a worried man could desire.\n\n38\n\nBut his happiness was to be of short duration. Une morning a middle-aged ma waited upon him, and after some questions upon ja.\n\nPrijes.\n\n27\n\n28\n\n17\n\n33\n\n34\n\n40\n\n**\n\n55\n\n48\n\n13\n\n64\n\nJ5\n\n-------\n\n45\n\nIf that\n\ndifferent matters, he axited him he was married? The doctor replied \"yes\" \"And to a lady of colour 9. On return of Aesuere to Eatope for a permanent residing foredly in a town on the Mississippi\"\n\n\"Yea. Well that is my slave, and, although she is residence, their Premiums are immediately reduced to\n\nworth 2.000 dollars, I will only ask 300 for her, the English rate, hath on the participating and ou\n\nsum he not paid within an hour, I will advertise her as participating scales. If the Policy be according to the\n\nTUNAWAY. During the tour, the husband asked his participating scale, the reduction arising from profine ja allowed on the English race, thus admitting of a con-\n\nwife if she were a slave, and the property of the man tinuance of the Asserance in Europe on most moderate who had just left the buse?\" Yes,\" replied the wife, while teurs rulled down her cheeks; \"I am a slave, thus\n\nLerms.\n\n10. Military Officers holding Civil appointments are property of that man, who is my father.\" The busland allowed to subscribe at the Civil rates of Premium.\n\nkissed har, wiped away her tears, forgare the deception the bad practiced, to which love had instigated her, and then paid the required sun which made her his für life.\n\n11. Premiuma are payable citberannually. hall yearly, or quarterly, or monthly, and a guare of 28 days in allow- ed for such payment.\n\n12. Melical referees se renerated by the Society.\n\n---\n\nA SHORT PARLIAMENT.-The shortest parliament an\n\n13. At she period of last annual valuation, the Aseta record was that of 1390, which had but one session of\n\nof this Society were ascertained to be upwards of £550,000. a single day, and during that short space contrived to The amount of Potieres in force about £2,003,000 and upset one king and set up another.\n\nthe annual income arising frora przesiums thereon 200,099, exclusive of Interest ou the invested Capital.\n\nTables of ales, forma and instructions for cffecting Assuraneva, can be obtained un application to the Secre torics, or to\n\nROBERT S. WALKER,\n\nAceni.\n\nHangkong, 20th March, 1866.\n\nNOTICE\n\nHe undersigned, having heen appointed Agents for the CALCUTTA MERCANTILE MARINE INSURANCE SOCIETY, aro zady to save Policies in behalf of that Orbice, payahie in SINDACH, Penang, RANGOON, CALCUTTA, BONDAY, LORDON, and in CHINA.\n\nDAVID SASSOON, SONS & Co.\n\nCanton, 231 Jannury, 1856.\n\nMYSTICAL POLYGAMY.-The King of the Ashantees is allowed by law 3333 wives-at being the precise mystical number on which, it is said, the prosperity of the native depends.\n\nTRE\" AULING Passion.\"-On his death-bed a dia. tinguished humorist requested that no one might be Javited to his funeral, \"because,\" gasperl out the dying man, it is a civility I can never repay.\"\"\n\ndefire that officers of the Lavy should not wear bearda An admiralty circular may :-\"It is their furdships'\n\nof moustaches on board Her Majesty's ships.\n\nIn consequence of the probability of peace, an order\n\nhar beco already sed prohibiting nsval otcets from wearing moustaches while on full pay.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-056 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 239665, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-058 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [8-10]", "page_number": 303, "title": "CO129-058 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [8-10]", "content_text": "Calcutta Mint was 24 lakhs Rupees of which 11 lakhs were expended on the Machinery and 13 lakhs on the Buildings.\n\nThe Silver Melting Room contains 16 furnaces, 4 Cranes, pouring frames, 3 Triturating Mills, and 2 washing Machines or dross Agitators.\n\nThe Laminating Room is composed of two 10-H.P.S. Engines, Breaking down Mills & Rolling Mills, 2 large pairs of Shears, 4 pairs of Circular Shears and 8 Reverberatory furnaces.\n\nThe five rolling cutting Milling Departments are worked jointly by a 24 H.P.S. Engine and the Machinery consists of 6 fire rolling Mills, 18 Cutting presses & double Milling frames and 11 Shaking Machines.\n\nThe annealing pickling and drying Room Contains 44 Reverberatory furnaces, Blanching pickling boiler & drying Moves and 8 shaking Machines.\n\nThe Coining Department Composed of a 20 H.P.S. Engine and air exhausting Machinery. There are 12 stamping presses capable of turning out about 350,000 pieces in a working day of 7 hours.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-058 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [8-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 239748, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-058 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [8-10]", "page_number": 386, "title": "CO129-058 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [8-10]", "content_text": "this Colony to defeat the operation of the Buildings and Nuisances Ordinances of 1856, and that to do so, they are prepared to set at nought the express letter as well as the spirit of those enactments. It further appears that the acting Chief Magistrate of Police, although not personally concurring in the views of his brother justices, gave them the opportunity of attending at the late hearing, by Circular dated the 7th instant requesting those gentlemen (of whom the vast majority\n\nwere to his knowledge determined to set aside the Ordinances in question upon every possible occasion) to do him the personal favor of their attendance on this occasion, informing them, at the same time, that the matter in hand was \"an alleged Nuisance, under Ordinance No 2 of 1856\". They attended accordingly in number of five:- and to the Offence having been fully proved, I presume to their Satisfaction in other respects, - they unanimously absolved\n\nPage 384", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-058 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [8-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 241299, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-062 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [1-3]", "page_number": 324, "title": "CO129-062 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [1-3]", "content_text": "27\n\nMina to pag-did not give him so understand that I was scale he was not going away.\n\n\"Gerard by Belles,\n\nhey thos\n\nmen de finally\n\nExtra to The Hongkong Register, No. 6.\n\nMare. I saw the birth and tenth priscacs n board the ma-ter of Alluny's business. I said that if he diwas paid. He owed about 15,000-partly for four others of the Badly on the passage they overmied Chim several tens of dollars or a badrcil. I made tud Thistle. I believe 300 is due on the promissory only when in sight of the Prais Chande, but I see not press the business, I would set my shop, and gipartly prouissory notes for hire of the same s in the sb, the dotresites and his father and brolis fore-entia. Esing empradore i busrd, offer entirely en\n\nAl sets the Insitus in the reta:) shoe it thit 100 songst the prisoners; i dones know fleiri en Day of Abluto's funt's in the subject our abacush previous, I selit li 16 dags of 2013, vwn responsibility, I have uotes, oud the rest for flour which I sappiled about one\n\nench did not suspect that be was going to icare The Cowel sentence the last wires to six sunthu' in Island, until he had left he promissory nets fril I did not reate there. Ithak, plize abent 9. Ablam said he had very important business 11\n\ndue on the 5th January, it was drawn about four au to 400 peple, awue tints are at leasecord-\n\nDOUGELY LAPIAIN-I Bougkeng and an sked the Caplaid to lake the steam-auner is his father, the fat is n entiers of Bility stay-drawn on the sue date. Titis witness gir ing the goator of the bread prutace- did or back to Hongking The Capris said he contal thians. The R-sing firm had two establishment. his evidence un eros, examination very reluctantly, the perintend the aging of the bread-Bones 1 do it. Ahlus said i had very supertant business kenw the retail shop Ablue is er or master, à Attorney Generell its ceply said har to drag it hat two Evropen forthes and some Chinese bakere, Hongkong, in answer to the Captain, who asked him father superinters the shop ustness, I am not aware, out by air force.) Ponais e Change arman; and somariose de why he was a hurry to go back, kala conversation thing berst up and there was no korvan a alt. My with: Ablam soos after. I said the wul that was pur-bread of him on 15th and was aude sick by it\n\nkhus share. Inta a customer of -sing broug Boris magh the Chinese how to make broal,\n\nYKONG Kwa Sow, -1 cu a builder. I have three chase. this morning from your shop male every and the mechanic part of the baking was done hair very sick; he replid, that was the resou hetou for the Port of Steamers Between & and monthly for an indefinute period. He asked me to wake by Cal-sc. 1 csider the bakery is worth 100,\n\nA Ben was Agent for Mr. Murrow in Choses beland theEing batery. I am sequainted with\n\nAhlum--On the 19th January, I let the houses to Ahl elling the penis, ne more u tom de heto him, saying, that it was very probalde dat all the Pedders' wharf. I saw a boat passing in the entwan month each-3 months payable in odrame.\n\nwanted to get back to liongkong. I went u uslking to 7. I was in a small boat is the Labor, not fur ir ovens in this for him hakery. They were let a m E-sing ces was courly increasing, and tutely pee who eat his bread were sitt be left very met 9. Mang entirely supplies the Counissariat Hongkong the same day; and thou ke asked if the\n\ndirection and rocognised one man, Ablulu, on boa color tot wah £2,000, the maenines $3,00 Captan would take the reamer back the same eveniny fur\n\nI have been acquainted with him for about sendwall of the business, $1.600, and stock $3,000 on the $100. I said I did not know. ith Jary. I was in the Colony when she shops were thought of sis bastuces lie said it is a little thing which naked his was he\n\nyears. I had meen him on the 28th Dec. in the shop conversed with him; he recognised me the porter shot me in November. I don't know the forcuan of the litru ruerteciue will make all proper. This was ter\n\nwed. I called hic by Lame, I was 50 paces from him lakery tanne I know the name of the man that called the most active man, I know hitaas I have son\n\nbe offered Mr. Agabes and the Captain together $156 to\n\nhad an object in bailing him, it was to ascertain wheti ! him in the hipnoz doprtment; and know putting of the which they sit they could not do; and that it was seird the Steamer back to Hongkong that evening,\n\nsteaper was going to start for Macua. He made no bread department I know him to se ha most active better to wait until next morning. The fire was pub\n\nI strange at the time. in the bakery, The bay was being enlarged and snt inmediately me: we arrived in the inner harbour. pr wel in December last\n\nHe acele e isle anle ranga, The fast jure I wae Ahium on our was when! European not even Mr Morrow, bread bi ta commnunty, com say my so he dado ao was talking to the Captain; he then offered $59 if h\n\nbay ay lust, Wien ut the bakery business would tagg lúm kurie to: Fungkong that night; 15; Captin i present fur contes know Ahim, the last propaths ego. There is another promissory nofs due\n\nhat which was not the one I was accustomed in w balted him only once, Re evomized-it did not occurred to me that wy & would make Allum not recognize me.\n\nuf\n\nNo - a working haker, Long Ahoy la my master. He is the commissarrin haker-I am fere- man. Jang Ahoy does not superintend the Bakery, but leaves it entirely to me.\n\nCrossmined by the Attorney General,I a Ablum's friend-ne elution-no relation by earringe\n\nmonths' real was gaid on the 13th, in advance. One of the Jupes is still in my possession, the upper story is broken up for the purpose of buikling the ovens. I have given up possession, of the two others. There are now er to my bail and tumed away his head; I though ply four barrels in them. Cozamined by Dr. Bridges.---I was in a China be Toususamer å boy-woodenter at the sing he went in tow the parish steamer to the inner ba-beur,\n\nThe elame anised of the Praia Grande, and thesiliout a cover, I was denseed, mach na usul. I had ry, rocog med at the prisoners except the 31 pioner; they belonged to the Esing bakury on in and hatwe blom sad the Capturis soon after we got into Crained my Mr. Day heard nonversation Tak Ja mary. The 3 and 46 prisomes are brund the inner haroser; it took plñen en the deck spousite the Inkara\n\nCaptain's stock ruota. I could not go forward, the place Creamed by Mr. Day was captured with a burrianded, and all the Chinese passengers wore cleven others n the 15:1, January in the upper part of forend of tin harricade. I heard that sum of the F-ei the takery; the eleven were bleet kera. There were\n\nothers on the piers at the sime To S 6th and Chicae pese gers that pay $1, al Another that pay $2 family on tammi, were sick Tha ja one class of 8th prisoners were among these arrested. There were both are be rented out. The 12 passengers are in the no other perpen in the house than ise arvestat. We fore-cata; and t passengers down slow, forward. ram taken to the palice stacion. I was questioned by-sug and his family were in the cabin, and lus onder Mr. Mag together wet til uther eleven me. Thurs and ather Chines were an deck, the barriquis is were only guiva pesent us the time, We were al sent isun mal confica! by uncive. I do not szil al 's family had been sick, I saw no of the\n\ntaean the und the after part of the steamer. Alumif know Mickson, or Mr. Turner, or the detorney very sick an Serd, could not see the rest of his Gonerat, (who are pointed out to lika.) So one femily who wers in the in Ahlem said that he als spokann na about giving evidenon. I was brought was sick, he was not sick in my presence. I do not from the cell to the place below and brought up here,\n\n1. 31, RN, 1 was it from eating broad absinus sous-I do know them, of the bags w\n\nknow if these two boys, who werd very sick, wựn Al- from the B-sing shop, on the 15th January last, in pensei somuching like the 2nd prisoner bezwen isend 17. yours yance of which I made gagnvies after the misere: fag. Bore offers ware made in the inner harley, Antons, sed à fouel he had leg the Colony for Mano That unborning.\n\nANTONIO XAVIK,- ans Captain of the Shamrock\n\nIncertainthe goverment had not de-\n\nAfter the orgina. 12as taken, of which Loveha I w\n\neffect that he had secreted the E-sing preatises on Diputy frapector Boyle's \"depositions read to 15th January but found nothing of a spicious natu Join Dunn-Police Inspector-I proceeded to Esing shop in Queen's Road Bass, on the morning gave them to Mr. Grande, the lath, had brought bread and dour front there,\n\nI remeber only ou, the Grat prisoner. I de net kan Create camined by Dr. Bridgea-I apprehended in\n\ninquiry if any had absconded. I searched the sho any one had abscended that drunking. I did not na ncing suspicions was found!\n\nHO ACHAT, WomanOn the 15th January, I was resuled in Alto's Bakery, Queen's Road East. I lived with Ahium's family, and it consists of Cheng Aliee bla an A-One child is 3 years, 1 child 3 months, wife, 2 children, servant giri, myself, and u temule relation old both boys. They lived in the up part of the house lacing the road. I herd with them for four years. The bakery is at the back, tiny make wont und biscolt, night and day. The dough for the bread is put info the oven all o'clock e.. I do not know, when the Breed bread baking was finished, no ruport was mule up-stales baking is frished-70 tile wight of the 14th after the\n\nconting up, and he did say that after supper all the work Ahyow, clerk, did cure that night, he is in the habit of ater were voiting Geard them vuiling, Ahlem does not often sleep in the inkery with his family aerly 2 or 3 times a mouth. Alama did not sleep there on the 14th Jan, le game there on the morning of the 13th, soon after dry-Byld and requested bis family to get ready to go by the steamer, to their village, Long. They had no breakfast before Acung near Macno. they startril. They took to the steamer two kind of bread large and sniall, the large was commun loof, she swall Joat way made for the occasion by order for pre- were 4 Inrge loaves, these were brought to me by Ali- seats to their friends in the aforrasid village. There\n\nThis cut the ease fur the Crown, nt 4.30 1. Dr. Bridges Intiated that he would not be able emmene his defence that night, and though the day Court consented to ajourn. ware auxions to go on and get done with the adfuir,\n\n(journed 4.50 PM\n\n(Fourth Day, 5th February.)\n\nfe\n\nmany strong observation ugadunt the manner in which Dr. Bridges commenced his spreeb at noon and we\n\nthe crown had undated the case, and agaiter the volum. The Bread were made the night before. I only mittingjuetimos la cullod\n\nci 1 chartering any steamer; chewupon chartered Captain, ce she th of January I took the command of the the Rerace Spark at has en use to go to Me Mr. Ma pointed me. On the the men We arrived at 6.30 o'clock that evening. So pocenions of the 17th January, I left fur bliscau, dust before were tenderci tand by the Govern, has left, thism and a family came on board the steamer, his a lot with polcomen coming. fearing that Ahlin father was amongst them.-wy brought an order frota might have spes alone I told the Cpini: not to wait for then as we were underweigh.\n\nMr. Mure for their passage (order presented by the W. LE MESURIER-1 un head of the Comissat 10 Macan I made a statement that the police were\n\nWhen I got whitness). Allum hituself presented the order and I indenriment, I know Ahlam by the name of sing 1 coming in the steamer wich was to leave in the\n\nmediately put hiau ar his family in the fore cabin, made a contract with him on the 14th January. Os at Aftenbos. I did not apply to the Macao audierities.\n\nOrder red] Shaurant, please give Ablum's family days tender was accepted for the supply of 100,000 ba but I went on hoard the Shrmport abent 7 e.., nter using of betweet. 8 and 9 persons, a passage to facs biscuit by sing. I had transacted Cusiness with bia making enquiries, there I found Ahlem in the forenin\n\nin the fare calia. None of them appeared to be sick oz before, and was quite andisfied with bis conduct I wodd with several Chinamen, women and children.\n\ntheir coming on board. I say some of the passenger? I put\n\nhave entered at any time into other contracts with him. my hand on his tail and told him he was my prisoner, made enquiry as the evose of the sickness, whether they about six oths in this Colony.\n\nwho were sailors and exalkers sick about 11 d'clock. if Crozanawaśned by the Attorney General-I have Sien and muss some on shom with me. i did not tell hire un what charge arrested hou. The prisoner saidave of the net and wite not aick, but the bread was new and ens bread cat.They said they had on here any om die at Hengkung.\" To which I replet bread and the fore they craoluded in to be the effect of you have poisoned for every boy wite arsenic. enting that bust. Baving attained slut the Bruxd Is asked me what nesenie was, I sold bin it was the tain they sad to destroy rats. He sait ha did xut bed was purchased; and they and at the E-sing shop. was the cause of the sickness, I asked, where the know want that I then sail this was very lod thing for him after having heen snapccied to tre\n\nI arrived of the main Grands at about 1 oeber and had something to do with the Thistle's athir.\n\ntion went to tow the Spanish steuer inte the inner he was very sorry for it, bot that he did not knew any\n\nharbor, where I arived at 9. Ahlam did not leave thing about either fair. I asked him why he had taken\n\nthe steamer. I had the tention Aptale him on board la funily over from Hongkong. He sud because the\n\nIndoconversion with Allum on the passage previons been threatened that his house would he barn i asked\n\nto the scammer cloring in the inner harbor. Abium hise if he had a house in Macau for his family. He sait said that he would give $50. I t I was not sked if he could leave for longkong the same evening, he had na, but is intended to leave them there with gig and could not ge, fining cargo to deliver\n\nAs I was going to the Governor to explain board and Aldam offered lur $100 to send the steamer lart I haut dore I act some of the Hongkong police. 1 Park Litas sveoing which, waa refused, and Mr. Aguleg rammed with them to the guard boss and give prisoner stiet li could not send then steamer back before text into easy: then returned to Hongkong in the work. inorning as 5 o'clock. Ahira then asked me whether Whea (first went on board the Shamrock, I told the it would a heater for him to go back to Hongkong in mare no to allow any o to go on shure wot the Hongkong police arrived.\n\na Chinese boat that evening or to wait for the ausner next morning t 1 advised him to wait for the\n\nAnd\n\n|\n\nof\n\nsaw one of the maull loaves given by Allan) to one the children before they left, it was to the eldest child. efter the child eat the bread be voulted. My master At the time the bread was given the child was well,\n\nsked why the child vomited. I aud the other servant RB well, aswered that it was owing to the cold, air of the morning. We all wear to the steainer, we were all toget- her in the fore cabin. There were some other people there who i do not kasw. There was a sereen, a cloth, hanging between the men and the women. There was\n\naware of his having tendered to supply the Commiserinting to the same visage, I heese bur name is Aher-ake R. A. ONDE-I am nequninted with Aldom. Iancnother tough not belonging to the family, but belang- with biscuit, he had to sign an agreement after the terder was there before we arrived. Whde on board we only eat was accepted. & 4 or 4 & 5, 1 wes not certain of time corrcer the bread were given to the infant chilld.\n\nI do not know if he be it signes, Isaw bread. and dething else. The bread eat by us, on board, him on the 14th of January in the afternoon between 3 was cut by Ahlum, he eat of the bread first, comic of the wanted to know when he meant to deliver some parted in ny snouth first, and then gave it to him; he then I gave it, I chew- of the biscuit. He said he was going to Macao, and that vomited. We e voisited-ties and we all felt he world bring say servant hack with him. I understood alike. The sickness continued until we arrived at he was to go the next dry. He said be would be hack Macao, then the vomiting ceased, the giddiness con- in the course of a week and would bring my servant tinued. The children were ill after they got back to with his\n\nHongkong on the 15. The whole family were\n\n$2392riend. I then took him ashura tu the Governor's Incac. Aerwards the Agent Mr. Agaber caine ou the Inst contract. When I suy tread I mes: Liscultiple in Honung mla be sick too, therefore we nust\n\nKitard,\n\nwith a ever since I came into the Colony. I had a reh, and women wore sick from eating the bread, peo- W. Spine, I tu . S. Naval Storekeeper, I know brought back here by the police. I heard the unver- Ah'um. In my offelel capacity, I bad business transadiensation between Ahiura and bis father, that as the child- contract with him for 108.000 lbs. it was the largest and was always perfectly antisfied with the manner he failed his contracts. Most Fasuredly i would have been ready to enter with him into further contracts had this affair not happened.\n\n[ go hnek,\n\non the 15th Janury, only 9,005 s. of hecnit ready, Crosscamins by the Attorney General, There was\n\nCrossezamined by the Attorney General-I did not\n\nCrosseramizat by Dr. Bridges, some mede consteamer, Ablam Haid he world remain on board 1 wovording to his stetergent, which he made a few ways give one saul: leaf to the chid in the bout: be gave\n\nsapon took place on hore. De Shamrock. When I told statuer aul the following morning, Ahers said him seni had been used; he said his own children had further three would land his family in the morning, ben sick, and asked me to come and see them. I do\n\nlined to do so. I do not know whether 1 gave the co-That lio did not care if his family were to die so long as lie and himself and his father wohl go back to Hongkong. versation in the saras order before the Magistrate; I was could go back to Hongkong, because he zupplied the nci particularly asked to do so. but I do so how that it is particularly beught to my memory. He volancered went ou board, may mate was.\n\nGovernment. I was not on board when M Robinet to go burk with me in the Spark. He told me that he had offered 1100 to the master of the steamer to take -in back to Hongkong at night, hit that the Captair had refused. I know that Allem had gone in the Sun- ruck. I did not goot board dieetly fearing that he might escape. und bin in the Surecakin standing sulking\n\nith sathe Unese,\n\nThird day, at Februrg.)\n\nCreuseumined Mr. Day-The fret time I an Alium on road at 7A..when he presented to the order of Mr. Murronext time I saw him was when the wearer arrived close to 4 o'clock-if Ahlum wished he canid have spoken to me ut any time through the barricade. When the steamier was anchored the har riende was opened, then the conversation took place--\n\nprevious my last contract was in December some time\n\nIt was a verbal contract. A. G. Acame, am the Agent of the Shamrock between 124 40 1 2.4r. The ordinary course is for the steamer at Macna. I remember un the 15th January the Shamrock anrrived in Maco, and reacted the Prolu Grandle\n\nvessel to return to Hongkong the same day between 2 and 3. On this occasion I had actor work for her, it was arrived in the immer harbor about 34, but I are not sure. not previously kupwa by the Captain. The steamer I went on board before shestopped at the Praia Grande. harbour. When I was on board at the Praia Grande, I The barricade was removed before she went to the inner sw all the Chinees passengers coming out from where hat I sun is when be offered the Captain $100 in the they were barricaded. I saw Alum-nt at that time. inner barbor. O the Teuin Grande, i mernly want\n\nway the child was sick owing to as coldness of the morning, but the father said so. The child lives upstairs shut up from the wind. My monster brought the bread did not see from where he got the bread below. He upstairs from below. I only saw bist bring the bread\n\none tuoltar of the children between the time they lea the hour and getding on board the slenaver. It was about on when the bread was our and distributed. I did not\n\nand 2 baskets containing bread and oranges, with chin observed my master bringing that morning ang clothes to the Lonse, the family took will them way bedding some clothing for the children. I heard master say, when the Mandarina are less trombiccome the faraily will come back again; and flat when he got to Mars his father would take them home, and be would return to Rong- kong you so they were lauded. I am dry murine\n\nain to Antum's family. I am not Aklum's wife, no\n\nMy husband is in California. We brought back I we taken to the Police Station. there I remained the whole of taxt day nad she exi 1 Anjum geing in to be examined; he did and passi through the riem I was in,-but through the veranla\n\nOn the count asectbling Mr. Sutton & juror said my When the pfer, of 600 was made Ablam said, thet e boy Ashow asked me if I was going to the Court as applied bread for many families in Hongkong and that he apprehended there was something wrong there, and that was the reason why he wanted to ges back to\n\nou be in give direction and went back on shore. Sionging to it. Assow and several other called me Hongkong to wake inquirica about the poisoned bread\n\nIt was half past 4 o'clock when I went back to lens here today. I did not objeer to be examined at because he supplied the fiscernment and troops. When\n\nstremer in the inner unchar. The chief mete told pic\n\nthe Police Station. M. Agabeg asked him why he was in a hurry to go to\n\nAblam offered 100 to go back to longhong. Some By the Jury-Cannot say what hour the bakers had longlong he gave the same reusons---I think that Grande. The Captain told me that some of his menyn eat is wasatrange, but e caquiries were rasle. of the menger meul on shore at the Prais their supper fat sight. I live upstats I cannot my what Aillum did not know of my intention to detain him on\n\nhour they had their suppor, but know they take appre bord. I had only gives orders to my mate not to uile were sick, bot le did not my polsoped. He said muilunk Avow cares up to tell Ahium's wife she cfremstance, any sumpar to come alongside.\n\nWhen went and I hear it. There was an opening in the screen on board the sb pc mc side. I could see Abian euthing\n\njayman. I said yes, but I could not speak any thing about the case matil the trial was over. He said Ablam's cousin offered to pay me $100, and the same amount to any other person of the jury who would help Aalum te Escape conviction. The Court orderen the arrest of the boy Accord Ablum's consia and that ties be brenght bore the Court.\n\nALEX. MACHINE-I am Kozerd of the steamet Slickar in the habit of purchasing bread from che Sing. I generally receive my head on ene of the boys of the shop and the inney is al generally in the first prisoner. In the shop fie beiind alie manter, believe he is slabenilen in the shop: I have soen rèé second prisoner in the shop, he belonged to the Thistle before she was taken. Thure en him in the shop after the Thistle was ken; he appeared to be one of the boys in the shop. I have seen hit nasist others in the Aelivery of bread. I only cognize three of the prisoners S having seen the f the shop, ti Arst, second Ani a. On the morning of the 15th January, I benght breal at the -si shop for the use of the cabin, between half past & and half past A.M. I was not very long in the shop, do not rollees having seen that gay any of le priserers in the shep, I was there at the time to receive the breil und pay fit. About Ho'clock luft at the nner for Marzo After leaving Hongkong most of the Eareas papers in the form part hesame sick, name of them were saitors. This took place one df an hour after we left Hongkong. At first I thought it might to go eickness, but as you of thera Bilen got sick daught the water cask on bei\n\nright he poisoned. As they said they had drank no\n\nBy the Fury.The temaer was off the Preis Gende about 10 minutes before she went to the Road to tow the Spanish steamer,\n\nthe Shamrock--the crew breakfasted on board on the ANTONIO GONGALVEZ-1 at Chiat Oficer on board\n\nof his intention to detain Arlum.\n\nversation with Ahiana; he said he wanted to go back un beard in the inner harbor, 1 had a rou- to Hongkong ta een now his bread in Ilongsong the head on found the seater. had turned out; he offered to pay $100 if I would ing-I declined his offer. I did nothing to prevent lur allow the steamer to go back to Hongkong that even-\n\nbeen in custody since the 15th January. On the 14th & Cara-TO-I am clerk to the K-eing hakery. I have\n\none of the priest. Wong Ataol was one of the bukor was at the bakery. Alus was the bead baker-he iz aut\n\nmet was mixing the yeset and making the bread. alo, he is not aroong the prisoners. Atrofa depart\n\nThere were 42 prisoners aken on the 16th. An ad\n\nAt wore not wegst them- The night it was\n\nAt night\n\nafterward three of them were able to work, I saw knowledge; he could have gone with the other passen 15th January niter 3 o'clock--they became sick 5 muutes from going on shore, nor any other person to my the prisoner and his family on board efter the steamer gers if he had been so disposed. He mentioned that his drrived in the inner harbour. I saw three of his family family were ill by eating poisoned brand in hoard. 1ful\n\nand that it would be time cough the his purpose. Flels 10 the bread is bakod. After the work is over That were sick, but Ahlum was talking to toe, and did him that he could return re next momlag to ilangkong, Ateoy's turn to taix the cast at o'clock.\n\nnot see them vaniting. The children uppcure sick. peuple were ill, but some of the men vomited steakon hir or troard. After he was prested I saw his family. the workaea get their chw-how. Nothing particular Crasetammed in the Attorney General-didecarred after the work was owy, war after supper, no My reasou lur set sending the stemmer to Hongkong asin of soup. I went upstair. Ever since I was the same evening was, because the men were all set. alea I have been under the custody of the Government out of the hold, and to take in other cargo he crew I was obliged to employ emolies to discharge, the cargo CHEONG-AC-1 am Cek is Chong-Asow who is\n\nnot appear to be sick. Taw the three of Ablam's family sirk after their arrival in the inner barbera. There was ring men, they were all sick-It was after 'clock coulker on board sunong the passengers, and other sea I find a conversation with Ablue, and ther was the only coveration had with him when he said his family sick. Mr. Robinet and on board at o'clock - sked if Ahlum was on hard anebook bin on shore steamer and we returard west morning to longsung. afterwards Serjeant de Silva brought him back to the (Cauet aljourned at 3. 55 a fer quacier of an hour.) CHEUNG-ACHONG,Emined in the matlier of the fer water, but having eat brand, we eunclade the brend way to bribe the jury.]-- am smaker with Mr. Sutton. I enquired from them where they purchase 1 I know him to he nun of the jury. I had a conversa- po:sone their bread. I made out by the description they give off tion with Ablum's cousin aed Akeen, he lives in the shop that it was the E-sing shop. They were Mans Endicott's Bazuar, he is a hook-binder. He kilt me Tung and did not know the E-sing mate. Some of them to let my master with reference to the case, sunt to or belonging to the steaner had some of the saine bread press the mster and that he would give 100 The offer from the passengers, and after we arrived at Macao they got sick. I had te passengers in the aftur rabin one, Pussc, who cat nothing but read was very sick, the other a Lumpen pussenger and the officers of the steamer who had only tones were not sick. I ent seme of the brut, And was sick. The bread I car was the same go at\n\nwas to him alone. My coaster said no, he hau becn sworn in Court and world not de it.\n\nWANG-ACE(Recognized by the last witness, as the person who spoke to her.) I am a Foreign book naker, I am a friend of Aliam's, but not related to him.\n\nKnow the last witness, I never spoke about Abluza'a\n\nthe E-sing shop. Some of the E sing family had on order poisoning business to him; the only thing I spoke of from Mr. Murrow to have a cabin for themselves to was that I heard his master was in the Court pressing\n\nmaster and the mate tolt ne so. were all it with the exception of the officers. The January I and my wifs want to Maco in the sale boat Chinese Government Head Overauer. On the 15th The crew were all with blum. We were in the sarav cabin, screened off by below and roue deck. The master told me at the Praia Grande that the men were sick, and gave it his father, Duideli's comprador and other siratpers a curtain, Ahlum's wife childrou and servate, Aklan, as an excuse for not going to to the Spanish steamer in the Roads. The steamer all the time remained in\n\ncharge of the Captain und Mate\n\nin all 7 or 8 people. Our fue was $teach, we all eat bread or the panga, it was square bread. The bread was cus\n\nby Ahlum, I first eat it about 12 celoek; minato\n\nthe stence when there is cargo to land or to take in also were sick. I never cases sek. Allum was sick, By the Jury never employ coolies to discharge afterwards eating it I felt giddy and vomtiel, ottery 1 Mana.\n\nu wol as his father. Abium readu a rear, that W. Fuscan, are a merchant in this colony. In the red made them sick he would go back to Hong- know the ninth prisoner by the names of Ahlau orang, I went on shore at once, ou arriving of the Praia H-sing, he was indebted to me $800. I sent to col. Grude i get some melosine-állum did not lang as lect the money, but did not press it, a few days previous pe was going hark. Thory was nothing to prevent int frum ianding. I saw his children on board sick, they\n\nto 14th January. Without further spplication he paid.\n\nto the 14th, an application was made, and on the 14th!\n\nCrossermined by the Attorney General-Previous wore a cker than any of ne\n\nCamined by the Attorney General,-Qaly Ablum\n\nJanuary another application was made, and the coney had bread in the cabin, he had four loaves of k aquaro\n\nshabout a pound each, and he cut all 4 louvou eat one fica lem then the thicknem of my little dogur, About dusk I get well, after waking the medicine. 1 st feel my bowel disordered, I feel no pain but an uncari-\n\nD. May-15ek an Iron Cheat from the shop of Allum, there were several papers and books in it and $1229 odd,\n\n*\n\nExtra to The Hongkong Register, No. 6.\n\n28\n\nBuildings, 1 am slightly acquainted with Akiom know of the mob saying they would rob un if we did not shut | Mercer, Mr. Mercer was one of his best friends, and where the Esing shop was I seelisen the time the up, thou we did shut.\n\nhe would rather that his tongue should drop out of Chinese made some disturbance and shutting up their GoPro TK-was called much to his astonish-his mouth than attack Mr. Biercer in the way it was\n\nment to break down the exit of one important witness asserted he had done. for the Crowa--but the attempt totally failed. [6] P..\n\nudjourned.)\n\n(Fifth Day, 5th February.)\n\nThe second part of the speech was occupied in a very scute disacation of the exlitence-Very well performed, with a strong leaning to the Crown aido. Mr. Anstey boldly professed that he had not the astrel indifference\n\nshops; it was 1 balieve in November, Alluin kept lis shop opened. It was the vuly chop I saw upon.\n\nChan-Amox,—I am xayior living in a Cilman's Bazaar Queen's Road. 1 know the Raing shop remember the shatting of the hope; fel day Allam did not Cruse examined by the Attorney General,-The ba\n\nsaat op. He ok at the 28 day. His bread was enivad by\n\nThe Attorney General replied in a very able speseb. of Crown prosecutors in ordinary cases, this was an ex- Kory prutson 1 belleve do not belong to Ablum, they are rented by him.\n\nThe first part was employed in defeating the government traordinary case in which he felt in a different manner, the wch, and stones thrown as bis shop.\n\nand Mr. Mercer for the harsh course usected to have and was not anxious thas a verdict of guilty should be Cnos-Ann Woman, -I am wife of inet witness Cras camined by the Attorney Genemy---I was as been pursued in this case. This summed totally une\n\ngiven.* [Not Mr. May's wife but wife of the last Chlem witness] the Jas House that day, the shop keepers said they were cessary, as the government was more to blame for tou I was on board the steamer going to Maran in the santé\n\naitald of the bad people, but a son as the soldiers came must leniency than too much severity, and Dr. Bridges's eabin with Allam's tatuily. 1 c some bread after 11 and cleared the hob they would epen the shops. Did examination as to the examination taking plsed at o'clock. Al eat the bread. The bread was cut by Ahlum not ses Allam there. All the respectable shop-keepera the police statica\" was morely paltry claptraps and returned a \"verdiet of not guilty. And given to on. After a while had a elabs and were there, about 300, they did not say that they would were that gentlemen not s leaned doctor of laws w vomiter All vomited. Ablam elder child was sick shut the Market outil the Governant cisted the should designate it as ignorant waddle. Or Mr. Mercomon report could not do it justice, in the contrary it first small the other afterwards.\n\nFines. I cannot say who was the leading party in pomposer, Dr. Beiges said in rectification of the Aturney would do it great Injustice. W. Garze,-Boarding house keeper living in circular ing to shut the shops. They were shut in cansequence General's defcuce, \"het be had sever attacked Mr.ace to speak for itsalf-KER.\n\nEdited, Protod, and Published by ROBERT STRAUHAN, at the Hongkong Register Offco: Gago Street, Victoria, Hongkong. Tharaday, February 12, 1887.\n\nThe Chief Justice summed up decidedly against Al- Inma aur accessory before the fact.\n\nThe Jury retired and after about half an hour's absencu\n\nWe regret our inability to give the speech entire.\n\nWe therefore leave the evid\n\nA\n\n322\n\nExtra to The Hongkong Register, No. 6.\nPage 28\n\nTRIAL OF AH LUM\n[...]\n\nPage 322", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-062 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 241302, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-062 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [1-3]", "page_number": 327, "title": "CO129-062 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [1-3]", "content_text": "THE CHINA MAIL EXTRA.\n\nTHE CHINA MAIL EXTRA.\n\n325\n\na motive was posted up in his native place by the authorities, ordering persons in Hongkong to seize; if they did not, they would be seized and treated as traitors. On 10th of the 12th month, soldiers went to his grandmother's house, trying to extort money from her, saying that as his grandson had not returned the promised money, he would return in a few days. On the 15th she wrote to his father, who was living with him, informing him of this, and requesting him to return with the family, except himself; and that he was not to return under any circumstances, as a reward of $5,000 had been offered for him and he was to be very careful, while here, where he went to, and how he went out, and that he was to be very cautious, as it was known that, in consequence of his supplying bread, this place would be fired. He and his father then agreed to take their family home about the 20th of the month. The night before that, he ordered his servant to make a few small loaves for his children, to take on board the steamer with him. The next morning (yesterday) he went down early in a boat to take his family on board the steamer. While there, his gang of night workers informed him, that the night before, after taking their usual supper, they were all made sick by vegetable soup. I asked them where they had purchased the vegetables. They mentioned a man named Akaw.\n\n...\n\n[The rest of the text is not included as it is quite long and appears to be a continuation of the court testimony.]\n\nPage 325\n\n...\n\nWose A, Comprador of the Lieut. Governor, and part owner of the meat shop Lee Chong, in the same premises, with the King shop. On the 14th of January, I had no conversation with Alum. About the 8th or 9th of the month, I had a conversation with Alum about going away—he said his wife wanted to go home to spend the New Year, and wished him to accompany her, but as he had a great deal of business unsettled, he could not do so; he had several hundred piculs of bread to supply to Mr. Drinker, which he had not yet finished. I examined by Mr. May on the 15th about this business; did not tell us any more about Mr. Drinker then, than I have now said to you (the Attorney General) about what evidence to give.\n\n...\n\n[The text continues with more testimony from various witnesses, including H. Rousse, merchant; Thomas F. Wade, Chinese Secretary to the Superintendent; George Bordell, Auctioneer; Antonio Unsale, chief officer of the steamer Shomrock; and others.]\n\nPage ...\n\n[The text is quite long and includes many pages and witnesses. The formatting has been done to reflect the original layout as closely as possible.]\n\n(HERE ENDED THE CASE FOR THE CROWN)\n\nThursday, 5th February\n\n...\n\nTUNG AYEE, a weed-cutter at the Faing Bakery, and his family had been sick; he was not sick but very tired. [Cross-examined by Mr. ANSTEY.]—I have known the prisoners—No. 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 (the foreman), my master, and 14 (a great many of his men) belonged to the bakery.\n\n...\n\n[The text continues with more testimony from various witnesses, including K.W. DUNN, acquainted with the prisoner Alum; W. Sex, United States Naval Storekeeper; CHARLES MAY, when he took charge of Alum's premises; CHONG OW, wife of the last witness; YOK KWAN LOW, a baker; and others.]\n\n...\n\nW. PESTAU, I am a merchant in the colony—know the 9th prisoner by the name of Ahun or Esung.\n\nWILLIAM GATEN, — I am a boarding-house keeper, living in Circular Buildings—am slightly acquainted with Alum—know where his shop is.\n\n...\n\n[The text continues with more testimony and appears to be concluding the court case.]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-062 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 242323, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-064 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [8-10]", "page_number": 209, "title": "CO129-064 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [8-10]", "content_text": "## THE FRIEND OF CHINA AND HONGKONG GAZETTE\n### SATURDAY, JANUARY 3, 1857\n\n**PRICE $1 per annum**\n\n#### TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION \nto the FRIEND OF CHINA AND HONGKONG GAZETTE, per Annum, 18 Spanish Dollars, payable in advance quarterly or otherwise at option. 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It penetrates the sources of irritation and corruption which underlie the external evidences of disease, and neutralizes the very elements which fret and cause the malady.\n\nRHEUMATISM, SCROFOLA, ERYSIPELAS\nThese are among the most terrible and agonizing diseases, yet in their worst forms, and are still incurable, invariably cured under a persevering application of this king, healing, antidote to pain and inflammation.\n\nBut the Ointment and Pills must be used in the following\n\nBad Legs | CASAR- | Bite of Moschetas | Elephantiasis | Keune lisen | Scalds | Sore Nipples | Sore-throats | HAD DICARIS | Cancer | Barce | Contracted and | Burners | Stiff joints | and Sand-Flies | talan | Coco-lay | Cont | Salo-discs | Scurvy | Sore-heads | Ching-loa | Chin | Chapped hands | ent | Glandar Suell | Tumours | Wounds | Yawa | jegs | Labago | File\n\nMold by all Druggists, and at Professor Holloway's Establishment, 244, Strand, London.\n\n#### VESSELS AT HONGKONG AND MACAO\nUNDER DESPATCH For Landun: Day Spring, H. Kate; ether, M.; North, H.; Par Baby- Shanghai, H.; For Beavk Orests, M.; For Joon: R van Reener; For Sing Sport d: Adela, M.; Star King, E.; For San Franciao: Elizabeth Martin, I.; Lizzie Jarvis, H.; For Manila, Juharna, M.; tur diam. Annic, 37.; For New York: Independence, H.; For Maveric: Fianco, M.; For Australia: Kensington, 11.; Phillip Laing, H.; For Shanglur: Blackburn, H.; Quickeup, 11.; Remi, H.; Wellington, $1.; W. J. Lewis, H.; For fe chose fu: Venili, H.; For Amoy, Aon, 17.\n\n#### TREATY TO CORRESPOND TO PAGE \nby W...\n\n#### VESSELS FROM ENGLAND FOR CHINA\nThe figures after each name denote the number of days out on the list of the current mail.\n\n| MERCHANT VESSELS | Days Out | \n| --- | --- | \n| British | | \n| ... | ... | \n| At Bonghang | | \n| ... | ... | \n| ... | ... |\n\n#### SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE\nARRIVALS.\n\nAT HONGKONG.\n17, Semor (T), from Java.\n18. Helene (Br) from Hongkong\nJuly\nAT BANGSAR\n1, Ferie England, Kelly, om Hongkong.\n12, Charger, Kilich, from London and Anop.\n12, Am Str. Antelope, Lunch, from Heugknag\n13, 1.3 Pertmonth, Capt. Feste, front f'king\n13, Sir Lade Nession, Pirosst, from Cardiff, is\nApol\n43. Sling, Wentwons, from langkong.\n13, #ld haurell, MacFarlane, from Bangkong\n13, Str. Shanghai, Resk- from Hongkong.\n13, Gold Siete Am), Hepburn, St Hongkong.\n13, n. Baskervik, irote Flongkong.\n13, Wild Tare, Cheyan, from Singapore and Ful-chow.ta.\n13, anker, Thoms firm Swattw,\n13, John Jay (Amt, Wade, frogs New York.\n\n#### DEPARTURES.\nFROM HONGKONG.\n22, Reggard (kur, Drew, Shanghaa.\nForester\nTaughty\nFlightyer\n156-lis. Sir M. Saps. ¿W. K. Heli Fubchau 1.8 16 Delville Amor L.M.S4Jenkins Hangkong M. 3ouglas The River H.M.S17 Fellowes\n12 Panilion\nGabandones\nElonghong Guns Hawillen\nHospilet 10,\nHongkong (4.4.Ser! Goodenougla\nShaughne F.M.SForsyth\nHongkong H. M. SW\nMacan 31. 30e.Stewat Hongkong H., Ste 11 lon'ble Certrane\nThe River.M.S-Dew\n- Campbell\nSymask 'kerass, is\nRua Count\nCelesial, shi Estheit, sest\nHardweke.\nMum, schonies\nDutch Anos, brig Janibe, baryEZ Crestes algae\n\n#### PASSENGERS\nPer Sternhai, Mr Bor, and 7 Chinese.\nPer Lence, Hon. T. C. Anstey,\n\n#### SHIPS OF WAR IN CHINA AND NORTHERN WATERS\n| Ship | Guns | Commander | \n| --- | --- | --- | \n| ... | ... | ... |\n\n#### NOTICE\nIS HEREBY GIVEN THAT in future under the Style of GILMAN & Co. as at Canton and Foochow.\n\nTHE A. pership KATE ROOPER (UR. Business in Sheage will be conducted Captain Jackor, kazing a taaside abla par- tion of hot sargo engaged, will have quick des patch. For freight of Passage, apply to JAS. STEPHENSON. Hongkong, 10th January, 1857.\n\n#### POSTAL STEAMERS TO MACAO\nAlteration in Time of Departure.\nTHE hours of departure for the\" ROSE\" and \"ROCK\" will in future b at a. M.\n\n#### TRIESTE ROUTE\nTHE AUSTRIA LLOYD'S STEAM NAVIGATION Company's STEAMERS ply regularly between Alexandria and Trieste, corresponding with the monthly and by monthly Indian Steamera.\n\n#### FOR SALE\nTHE HOUSE and PROPERTY belonging to A. R. Jounaco, Esq., situated on Irland Lot No. 92, near St. John's Cathedral. Apply to DENT & Co.\n\n#### TO BE LET OR SOLD\nWith immediate possession. THAT Large and Commodicus HOUSE in San Courengo, Macao, (the one rere in the former ly occupied as B. B. M. Superintendary). For particulis apply by letter addressed B, care of the Editor of the Friend of China.\n\n#### TO LET\nTHE PREMISES No. 11 Praya de Manden, River side, containing DeFLLING HOUSES and spacious Copowys for Cotton and other Goods.\n\n#### NOTICE\nWE have established a Branch of our Firm at Foochow, and M ROBERT R. WES-TALL is authorized to sign our Firm at est l'ort by proellation.\n\n#### TELEGRAPHIC MESSAGES\nTHE Directors of the AustaaN LLOYDS STRAY NAVIGATION COMPANY in Tris, have male Arcangements for TELEGRAPHIC MESSA-CES to Losion, or to any Part of the Continent sent to them froin China.\n\n#### NOTICE\nMRA. A. De MELLO is. iz anthand to sign the cams of our Firma per procunition frera the 1st instant.\n\n#### FOR SALE\nA Pong Baskets of Janequzsan's CHAMPAGNE superior quality.\n\n#### NOTICE\nTHE Partnership heretofore existing at this Port between the undersigned under the Style of WILLIAMS, ANTHON & Co, expires this day by lege vitice uml mutual consent.\n\n#### SHIP CHANDLERY AT FOO-CHOW\nApply to STONE & Co. Foo-chow, 1st December, 1868.\n\n#### FOR SALE\nCOPPER SHEATING, for 19 to 80 oz and NAILS. Apply to GIEB. LIVINGSTON & Co.\n\n#### FIRE INSURANCE\nTHE undersigned, Agentia for the LONDON ASSURANCE CORPORATION and IMPERIAL INSURANCE COMPANY, are prepared to grant Policies on MERCHANDISE and i BUILDINGS at this Pert.\n\n#### COMMITTAG ON MARITIME INSURANCE OF PARIS\nTHE undersigned having been appointed Agents for the Marine Insurance Ofits of Paris, aro anthorized to examine and approve ciuins for Gen etui and Particular Averages un Risks insured by them.\n\n#### SAN MIGUEL BRASS AND IRON FOUNDRY, MANILA\nUNDER the Superintendenes of an Experienced ENGINEER. Orders for all kinds of binebi pery executed with despatch.\n\n#### JUST RECEIVED\nTHE finest usecrtment of Elighland Tweeta Turons, Plaids, Hoce, superfine Broadcloths Athol, Baimeral and Glengary Bonnets, S., &s. &, ever imported into this Colony.\n\n#### FOR SALE\nFINE Feschow BACON, MACEWEN & Co.\n\n#### MRS. LOSEE STRAW BONNET\nMaker and Cleaner No. 502 Lundbars Terrass. Felt Flags anil Davers renovate] Orders received of Miss GARRETT's, Millinery Hums, Queen's Road. and Mrs. Boom Aura's, Cochrane Stre.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-064 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [8-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 244031, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-067 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [1-4]", "page_number": 367, "title": "CO129-067 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [1-4]", "content_text": "Dispatch No. 36 of 1858.\n\nInclosure No. 2 in Letter on the Blue Book for 1857. 20th March, 1858.\n\nColonial Secretary's report conveying being\n\n1. In Circular No. 4993, Hong Kong.\n\nby J. Bowring, Commissioner\n\n364 with recapitulating the principal Buildings and tanks required. On this subject Lord Stanley has given him full and complete instructions.\n\nAt page 8, and page &, the Admission of the public to the debates of the Legislative Council. From Mr. Blackwood's Minute, I conclude that this has already been decided in the affirmative.\n\nAt page 16 of his despatch, and at page 26 of Mr. Bridges's Report, there are strictures on the Police. I agree with Mr. Blackwood that part of them (but not the severest portions) ought to be published. I would recommend that both...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-067 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 244715, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-068 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12]", "page_number": 457, "title": "CO129-068 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12]", "content_text": "# 454\n\nChairman, Did he state anything further? \nMr Lyons, Nothing.\n\n(4)\n\nChairman, Do you remember the date of the last fire? \nMr Lyons, The fire took place about the end of March last year. \nChairman, When was this conversation? \nMr Lyons, Between the 15th April and the 1st May.\n\nCross-examined,— \nChairman, Do you recollect any further conversation with Mr Caldwell near Augustine Heard & Co.'s? \nMr Lyons, No. \nChairman, Do you recollect Mr Caldwell telling you that he had mentioned the matter to the Surveyor General? \nMr Lyons, I do remember some conversation at that time, the purport of which was, that Mr Caldwell had spoken to the Surveyor General concerning the building of the front wall. \nChairman, Did Mr Caldwell say that he or some one else was going to build the wall? \nMr Lyons, I do not remember Mr Caldwell saying that any one else was connected with the property. \nChairman, Are you certain that Mr Caldwell spoke of himself with reference to the matter? \nMr Lyons, I am quite certain that he did. He did not refer to any other property; he said he would speak to the Surveyor General on the matter. \nChairman, Have you, within the last few days, been actively employed in making any inquiries regarding Mr Caldwell? \nMr Lyons, No, I have not been actively employed, and have not been instigated to make any inquiry concerning Mr Caldwell. \nChairman, Do you know Cheong Assow? \nMr Lyons, I know Assow the Road Surveyor. \nChairman, Have you been to him lately to inquire for a man named Lum Ateen? \nMr Lyons, Yes. \nChairman, Why? \nMr Lyons, I went to him and asked him to get an Interpreter. He produced some papers of the Government Offices on several lots - not 206, but, I remember, lots 241 B and C. They were certificates of rent paid to the Government by Mr Caldwell on account of a Chinaman. The papers had a Chinese name, but I do not recollect it. The papers for lot 206 he told me were in the hands of Mr Stace. I told him then to see to the nuisance, and to get the drainage attended to.\n\nChairman, Will you tell the Commission if you ever saw Lum Ateen before? \nMr Lyons, I do not know him. \nChairman, How did you find where he lived? \nMr Lyons, The tenants told me. \nChairman, Where was it? \nMr Lyons, In a lane at the back of Circular Buildings. \nChairman, Have you any means of knowing what occupation Lum Ateen follows? \nMr Lyons, I do not know - he was dressed well when I saw him first. \nChairman, Why did you not go to Mr Caldwell, as you supposed him to be the landlord? \nMr Lyons, I went to Lum Ateen, because he was the nearest, and I thought it possible the houses might have changed hands. \nChairman, Did you go to any one else? \nMr Lyons, I went to Yee Wo Fook the Coffin-maker, and asked him if he was the owner of lots 241 B and C. He told me that he was not; that he rented them from Lum Ateen. Lum Ateen told me that he owned all the lots, and that he sublet lots 241 B and C to Yee Wo Fook.\n\nChairman, Have you within the last few days had any conversation with Chinese females concerning Mr Caldwell? \nMr Lyons, Yes. \nChairman, What is the female's name? \nMr Lyons, I think her name is Lin-hee. \nChairman, Who is Lin-hee? \nMr Lyons, She is the owner of some property in Taipingshan. She was building some houses there, which she asked me to look after because she was anxious to get the roofs on before the wet weather set in. I stayed there some time, and asked her if she was not a relation of Mrs Caldwell. She said, No, she was not a relation, but they had been companions from childhood together. I believe from what I see that this woman is a Procuress. She said that they both came from one place, Macao, but she had not spoken to Mrs Caldwell since she lived in the station. I went round yesterday to lot 206, and found that the space where the houses abut was filled with filth, also 241 C and B. I inquired who rented the houses of 241 C and B and 206. I could not find out, and was told the parties were out. I then directed the attention of the tenants to the nuisance, and asked them who their landlord was. Some of them told me Samkwei [Mr Caldwell], and some of them told me Lum Ateen.\n\nChairman, Have you any recollection how many houses there were? \nMr Lyons, There were five or more. Some said that the proprietor was Yee Wo Fook the Coffin-maker. I went to Lum Ateen, and asked him if he was the owner. He told me, Yes, that he was owner of all the lots. I then thought that he was not telling the truth, and asked if Mr Caldwell was the owner. He said, No - that he himself had been owner for twelve months past. I spoke to him through an Interpreter.\n\nChairman, Did you ask her if she knew Shap-lok, a female? \nMr Lyons, She said, Yes. I asked, was she a sister of Mrs Caldwell. She said, No, that she was a sort of god-sister. I then told her not to forget to put on the roof as soon as she could, as we might have some wet weather.\n\nChairman, Had you any conversation with any other Chinese female? \nMr Lyons, I do not recollect any conversation.\n\n(5)\n\nChairman, Have you had any conversation with any Chinamen on the subject? \nMr Lyons, Yes. \nChairman, With whom? \nMr Lyons, Awai, formerly an Interpreter at the Police Station. \nChairman, When did this conversation occur? \nMr Lyons, This morning. \nChairman, Where? \nMr Lyons, In Queen's Road West.\n\nRe-examined,— \nChairman for Mr Caldwell, Had you any particular reason for inquiring about Lin-hee's relationship? \nChairman, Was it with a view to give evidence before the Commission concerning Mr Caldwell? \nMr Lyons, No. It was only with a view to protect myself. \nChairman, Did you get the paper? \nMr Lyons, No, I did not. The fact is, I have been in a lorcha myself, and I believe that most people who have been in lorchas have an inward feeling that Mr Caldwell can do them injury at any time; and I wished to get the paper to protect myself. I had no idea of being brought before this Commission. \nChairman, To whom did the lorcha in which you were belong? \nMr Lyons, To Achong, the P. & O. Co.'s Comprador. Beaver was with Akwai, not with me.\n\nChairman, Have you any cause for the belief concerning Mr Caldwell? \nMr Lyons, She said she was a poor woman; to which I said, you are Mr Caldwell's cousin. My question concerning Shap-lok was merely an idle one. \nChairman, Were the names Lin-hee and Shap-lok given you by Mr May? \nMr Lyons, Yes. \nChairman, Did Mr May ask you to make the inquiry? \nMr Lyons, No. He asked me if I knew them. \nMr Lyons, He asked me some days ago if I knew the parties, and I said that I knew them by repute.\n\nChairman, What was your conversation with Awai? \nMr Lyons, I asked him if he knew Shap-lok. He said yes; I asked who she was, and he said she was Mrs Caldwell's sister.\n\nChairman, Did you make any further inquiry? \nMr Lyons, No. That was the only conversation about Mrs Caldwell. \nChairman, Was that an idle question? \nMr Lyons, I asked him because he is a man who knows almost everything about Hongkong.\n\nChairman, Have you been lately at the Gaol making inquiries about Mr Caldwell? \nMr Lyons, I have two days ago. \nChairman, What inquiry did you make? \nMr Lyons, I inquired concerning the man Beaver, having some reference to Mr Caldwell. \nChairman, Of whom did you make this inquiry? \nMr Lyons, I made it of the convict Boggs, because I felt convinced that he was with Beaver in the employ of Akwai [the pirate], for whose apprehension a reward is offered; and to learn as to the truth of a statement made to me by Beaver after he had been released, and whether he knew who was in possession of the paper which was laid on the table of the Supreme Court at the time of his (Eli Boggs') trial.\n\nChairman, Did you get your information? \nMr Lyons, I did. \nChairman, Had that paper any reference to Mr Caldwell? \nMr Lyons, It was stated by Boggs to have been written by Mr Caldwell.\n\nChairman, What were the contents of that paper? \nMr Lyons, I do not know personally what the paper was about. I was anxious to obtain the paper, thinking it might be of service to myself.\n\nChairman, Do you know in whose employ Beaver was before he was in Akwai's? \nMr Lyons, In Mr Caldwell's, in the lorcha `Kee-loong-poon`. \nChairman, Do you know who her part-owner was? \nMr Lyons, Her register gave Mr Caldwell as the sole owner.\n\nChairman, Do you remember a piracy committed by Beaver on Achong? \nMr Lyons, I only know it from hearsay. Beaver told me that he went on board Achong's lorcha, and asked whom the lorcha belonged to. They told him it belonged to Achong. His party then agreed with a party on board Achong's lorcha for a gun that was on board. He (Beaver) told them that the gun was sold, and an order for the money passed on some person in Hongkong.\n\nChairman, In what way would Boggs' paper have enabled you to make your defence if an accusation had been made against you? \nMr Lyons, In case of my being brought up, I wished to be able to show by it that Mr Caldwell was connected with that sort of people himself. The paper was said to be written by Mr Caldwell, and recommended Ma-chow Wong, Mr Caldwell's brother, to the notice of the pirates for the purchasing of provisions and other matters. I can prove that Beaver said this, by another European who was present at the time.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-068 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 244716, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-068 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12]", "page_number": 458, "title": "CO129-068 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12]", "content_text": "## SECOND DAY, Friday, 28th May, 1858, at 12 Noon\n\nPresent,-All the Members of Commission.\n\n(6)\n\n(7)\n\n455\n\nChairman, Where is Beaver now?\n\nMr Lyons,-I believe he has gone to Sydney as an ordinary seaman.\n\nChairman, Do you know who Samkwei is?\n\nMr Lyons,-Yes.\n\nChairman, Have you ever seen Mr Caldwell in any of his cruises?\n\nMr Lyons,-No.\n\nChairman, Do you know anything of the Convoy business?\n\nMr Lyons, Only by repute by conversation with Beaver and others.\n\nChairman, Can you specify any one besides Beaver with whom you have conversed?\n\nMr Lyons,-Yes; but I cannot give the names of persons who have witnessed anything.\n\nChairman, Do you know the Eaglet?\n\nMr Lyons,-Yes.\n\nChairman, Do you know what was done with any of her prizes.\n\nMr Lyons,-Only from hearsay. I have had no conversations with any who witnessed anything done with them. I do not know whether Ma-chow Wong had any share in the Eaglet.\n\nChairman,-Do you know where Shap-lok lives.\n\nMr Lyons,-Opposite Circular Buildings.\n\nChairman,-Have you ever visited Mr Caldwell's house?\n\nMr Lyons,--Never, except on business as Inspector of Nuisances with Mr Caldwell.\n\nChairman, Are you aware that Mr Caldwell is intimate with Ma-chow Wong.\n\nMr Lyons, I do not know except from hear-say; I do not know Ma-chow Wong.\n\nChairman,-Were you present at Eli Boggs' trial?\n\nMr Lyons,-Yes.\n\n[Extract of a letter from Attorney General of 13th May, regarding statement made by Boggs in his defence, read. Extract acknowledged by witness to agree with his impression of what took place at the trial concerning Mr Caldwell, although he did not vouch for its correctness.]\n\nIt was accordingly proposed by Mr Lyall, seconded by Mr Fletcher, and unanimously agreed to,\n\nThat the case to be inquired into by the Commission be placed in the hands of a Barrister to prepare, who shall receive his instructions from the Chairman, and assist the Commission in the inquiry.\n\nThe Public were then informed of the above resolution, and of the postponement of the meeting until 11 o'clock on Tuesday.\n\nMr Anstey said, that Mr Dixson, who had some important evidence to give, intended going to Ningpo in two days; upon which the Commission determined to hear Mr Dixson's evidence.\n\nMr Anstey,I arrived in this colony on the 30th January, 1856. Within 3, certainly 4, months after, I was strongly exhorted again and again by Mr Dixson, to do what he said would be an act of the greatest benefit to the entire community, but particularly to the Chinese portion of it. He said that the Chinese were in terror of their lives and fortunes because of a man, or monster, who had the police of the colony almost at his disposal through the blind trust that Mr Caldwell reposed in him. Not one of them, he said, dared to lay informations against him, or to appear in support of one another when wrongfully accused by him. He was the Jonathan Wild of the place; people were taken up, boats seized, and the one and the other liberated, almost as he thought fit. He was in league with the worst of the pirates who infested these waters, and with villains and robbers of all kinds. He was at the head of a Secret Society or Clan, that served his purposes afloat and ashore as informers and as pirates. Of the date I am quite sure, because Mr Dixson mentioned a scowling look and threatening gesture which Ma-chow Wong had used to him, at the time of a recent fire in Tai-ping-shan. From that time until my unfortunate illness obliged me to go away and abandon the prosecution of that miscreant in July last, I took all the means within my very limited range of ascertaining some tangible fact which should force the executive into action against him; because these statements of Mr Dixson appeared to be so well supported, that they made on me a much stronger impression than that which was afterwards made by the corroborative statement of Eli Boggs. I may be permitted to say what that impression was.\n\n[Read extract from letter to the Acting Colonial Secretary of 13th instant (C), commencing \"surprising volubility,\" and ending \"all false.\"]\n\nThe only difficulty which I had in comprehending Mr Dixson's views, consisted in his belief that Mr Caldwell was the dupe and not the accomplice of Ma-chow Wong in the incidents which he mentioned to me. However, I being a stranger in the colony, for some time continued to hope that this might be so, and that my contrary judgment might be wrong. That hope has been completely dissipated as far as I am concerned during the year and half in which Mr Caldwell has held the offices of Registrar General and Justice of the Peace. That I might not forget my determination to bring Ma-chow Wong to justice if possible, I desired Mr Dixson to write me his name and alias correctly, which he did thus: \"Wong Akee alias Ma-chow Wong,\" and I kept that paper always before my eyes in my private residence, fastened to the wall, where it remained until he was brought to justice in the month of July 1857. My report of the Criminal Sessions of June 1857, contained in my Letter of the 8th of July, 1857, to the Acting Colonial Secretary, and the consequent reports of Mr May, then Acting Sheriff and Assistant Police Magistrate, and Mr Inglis, then and now Governor of the Gaol, will shew the Commission what steps were considered by myself and those two gentlemen necessary to the bringing of this powerful criminal before the bar of public justice.\n\nANDREW S. DIXSON,-Called and examined.\n\nChairman,---Will you tell the Commission what you know about Ma-chow Wong.\n\nMr Dixson, The man had been a notoriously bad character, and I have known him as such almost from my first arrival in this colony. What Mr Anstey has stated of my conversations with him regarding Ma-chow Wong, is perfectly correct. I had heard from many Chinese that he was a notorious extortioner, owner of pirate vessels, and fitter out of piratical expeditions; that occasionally he gave information of piracies to Mr Caldwell, but only when it suited his own purposes, and chiefly in cases in which he had not received hush-money. I frequently received complaints of extortion, but on no occasion could I induce the complainants to appear against him, except in one case, as they said they were in terror of their lives on that account of him.\n\nChairman, Can you hand in to the Commission the names of any of your informants?\n\nMr Dixson,--I intend to quote one instance of extortion, in which Ma-chow Wong professed to act as agent for a Procuress, who had compelled a Chinawoman to acknowledge a debt of $71, out of which Ma-chow Wong levied $30, to raise which sum the woman had sold herself to a brothel-keeper for two years. The balance being demanded on the first charge of piracy, the woman had expressed her determination to commit suicide, as she could not raise the money. The circumstance coming to my ears, I induced the woman to have a summons taken out against Ma-chow Wong for extorting money. The case was tried before Mr Hillier, the Chief Magistrate, and the money and expenses ordered to be repaid—the more serious charge of extortion failing, from the plea of Ma-chow Wong that he was merely acting as agent, and had no direct interest in the matter. The only connection that Mr Caldwell had with this case was, that he told me, when I mentioned the circumstance to him at the time, that Ma-chow Wong had spoken to him...\n\nIt is noticeable, that the first and weaker of the two charges against the pirate was in fact brought in about a week after those reports came in; and that the second and stronger charge, which for some very mysterious reason was not, as it ought to have been, brought forward at the Supreme Court, was laid by other Chinamen about 4 days afterwards. The cases had nearly gone through the Police Court, when I was obliged by sickness to sail for Calcutta; and I have heard that Ma-chow Wong said that, now that I was gone, he was sure of getting off. The Governor stated in Council, on the 10th instant, (as appears by my letter of the 13th,) in my absence, Mr Kingsmill, the Acting Attorney General, afterwards, and before Mr Caldwell's application for the scoundrel's pardon had been decided on, had entered a nolle prosequi on the stronger charge upon which he had not been tried, and this in obedience to orders. His Excellency also stated that Mr Caldwell's application for his pardon was sent up, and purported to come from a number of Chinamen, and that Mr Dixson and others had opposed the application. This was of course after his conviction, and the unseemly spectacle was exhibited in the Executive Council, of trying over again without oath the guilt or innocence of a convicted culprit. I am informed-I think by Mr Dixson, but certainly by some of the witnesses-that every effort was made by the Governor in Council to get the criminal off-the impression having been produced on their minds by Mr Caldwell and his Chinese evidence above, why, I know not, to the prejudice of the sworn testimony taken in the Court below. The result, however, was the signal discomfiture of the application, and the man remains a convict. But I have understood-and again I think from Mr Dixson--that Mr Caldwell was doing now, or was a short time ago, all he could to get Ma-chow Wong pardoned. I would suggest that Mr Dixson be asked whether these circumstances have or have not materially altered his former opinion that Mr Caldwell was only a dupe, not an accomplice, of the criminal.\n\nOn other matters referred to this Commission,-I know that Mr Dixson is able either to give, or to name those who can give, very important testimony. These are for instance those relating to the wife, Chinese relatives by blood, adoption, or usage, and the Chinese associates, of Mr Caldwell-matters which his Excellency has referred to this Commission, but certainly not at my suggestion, and against my opinion. I, not wishing to encumber your minutes with these painful details, will only say, that there is not one of those matters stated in which Sir John Bowring calls the \"list of charges,\" on which I have not at some time or other heard from the lips of Mr Dixson himself the averment of their truth.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-068 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 244727, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-068 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12]", "page_number": 469, "title": "CO129-068 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12]", "content_text": "# TENTH DAY\n## Wednesday, 16th June, 1858, at 12 o'clock Noon\n\nPresent,—All the Members.\n\n### A. L. INGLIS,--Recalled.\n\n(28)\n\nThe brothel of which I spoke to the Commission as the one in which I saw Mrs Caldwell, was situate in Taipingshan. I am not sure whether the whole of the houses had been removed from the Choong Wan at this time, but I am quite clear as to the situation of this house. I went to this brothel purposely to see the intended Mrs Caldwell, and this was the first occasion on which I did see her. I do not know anything about a formal marriage according to Chinese usage between this girl and Mr Caldwell. The first time I knew of Mrs Caldwell living with Mr Caldwell, Mr Caldwell resided at the Gaol. This may have been two or three weeks, or two or three months from the time I saw her at the brothel. I do not recollect now in what other place Mr and Mrs Caldwell resided after they left the Gaol, and before they went to the bungalow called \"Retreat.\" I do not recollect Mrs Caldwell's mother.\n\nwas watched by another interpreter; and further, that I would not now believe him on his oath.\n\nCross-examined,--On the 10th June instant, he was charged before me with receiving goods, which had been stolen about the 30th May, and was discharged because the prosecutor was a convicted felon, a notoriously bad character, and bore the marks of former floggings. The principal witness also failed to appear. I allowed the prosecutor's fellow-convict to go out with a Policeman, to find the man who the prosecutor said had gone with him to Assow's house—but he could not find him.\n\n### D. R. CALDWELL\n\nCross-examined,--I continued to pay the $50 a-month to Lum Ateen, up to the last day of the tenth Chinese month [14th December, 1857]. He himself has since then received the rent. I do not know what has become of the mesne assignments of the lots sold to Lum Ateen. I may have them still, but do not know. They were in Chinese. There was no deed or conveyance by which I surrendered my property in 1857 for the benefit of my creditors; it was done in a private manner, and I refer the commission to Siemssen & Co.'s letter. The title deeds of the property sold to pay my debts were not given up to Siemssen & Co., because they were mortgaged to Chinese creditors. The deeds relating to the lots sold to Woods, except lot 263, were also mortgaged, but were given up to the purchaser, upon Siemssen & Co.'s guarantee that the mortgagee would receive his share of the purchase money.\n\nCross-examined,--The time of my seeing Mrs Caldwell must certainly have been in 1844. I joined the Police Department in March 1844, and it was shortly after this that I saw her. I do not recollect Mrs Caldwell's being confined. Mrs Caldwell only lived in the Gaol a fortnight or three weeks. She then left because Awoon, (a Chinese woman who had previously lived with Mr Caldwell,) returned. It was not my impression that Mrs Caldwell was married to Mr Caldwell according to Chinese usage, because it is not customary in such cases; there was nothing whatever in her manner to denote that she was married; she was dressed as a Chinese.\n\nI recollect accompanying Mr and Mrs Caldwell to a picnic, which was about, but certainly after, the time of that visit. Mrs Caldwell, so far as I can recollect, was never in my house for at least a year-and-a-half after this time. I recollect her having been in my house in the Old Bailey, after my return from Check-chu.\n\n### WILLIAM HENRY MITCHELL,--Called and examined.\n\nI am Assistant Magistrate of Police. I knew Assow, the Police Court Interpreter, before he joined the Chief Magistrate's Office. I think he joined the office either at the end of 1855, or beginning of 1856, but am not certain as to the time. I recollect his being charged with perjury before me, in June 1855. It arose out of a case in which he had been to a certain extent a party concerned. I recollect discharging the case on the grounds of conflicting evidence, but was not satisfied that he had exculpated himself from the charge, and I believe I said I should not in future believe him on his oath. I think I could not have said I should not allow him to interpret for me, because he was not at that time attached to the office. I wish also to state to the Commission, that I have never since allowed him to interpret for me in important cases, when I could avoid it, unless when he was required to do so by the proceedings.\n\n### D. R. CALDWELL (Continued)\n\nI sold all my landed property under Siemssen & Co.'s directions—for account of the estate, and the purchase money was paid over to Siemssen & Co. I could never have mortgaged any of these lots twice over, because I had not possession of the leases. I cannot remember the numbers of the lots mortgaged, but the names of the mortgagees are Wong Cheeyun, Lum Ateen, and Low Ashü. I do not know in what way Mrs Caldwell may be speculating beyond what she tells me. Supposing she wished to deceive me, it is possible she might speculate in brothel property. She has invested money of her sister's in houses. I can state on my honour, that she has, to my knowledge, no connection nor interest of any kind, in any brothel property, or any houses to which prostitutes resort.\n\nI never heard or was aware of any rumours of Mrs Caldwell's coming from a brothel, and no one would have dared to tell me so.\n\nI was never in the house in which my wife lived up to the time of my marriage. I am quite certain that this house was not a brothel, because at that time I knew most of the brothels here, and that was not one. It was also to be a family house. In April and May 1844, I lived in the Gaol. When I speak of my wife living with me, I mean that she lived in a private house which I kept for her; she did not live in the Gaol with me.\n\nI recollect Boyle who was Deputy Inspector of Police, and formerly master of the lorcha Centaur. I cannot recollect having ever had a contest in the street with Inspector Boyle concerning Mrs Caldwell.\n\nI once brought up a Chinaman before the Police Court, for insulting Mrs Caldwell in the street.\n\nI generally know to within $10 what money Mrs Caldwell has of mine, as I have nothing but my monthly salary; but I do not know what she has of her sister's. I still pay $70 a-month regularly to Siemssen & Co. on account of Mr Riensecker, which leaves me $260 a-month.\n\n### WONG APING,--Called and examined.\n\nor 6th moon of 6th year of Hien-fung, [about June or July 1856]. During the time I have been Tepo she has not lived in Hillier Street. I do not know of her having kept a brothel. While she was living in Lee Kip-taï's house, I know that she did not keep a brothel.\n\n### YIP AWONG,--Called and examined.\n\nI am collector of rents of the row of houses opposite the Taicheong Hong in Hillier Street; and collect them for Lee Kip-tai. I know a female called Shaplok. I have collected the rents since 1852. Shaplok occupied one of these houses from 1852 to 1854. She has not occupied it since 1854. She occupied it as a family residence, and I am quite certain not as a brothel. I do not know where she removed to in 1854.\n\n### SOONG AHING,--Called and examined.\n\nI am a Rope-maker, and reside opposite the Circular Buildings, Queen's Road West. I know a Chinese female called Shaplok, and have known her a long time. She lives in my house, and has done so since the beginning of the 7th moon of the 6th year of Hien-fung [about July, 1856]. She is married; her husband has gone to Shanghae. She has no occupation, and is supported by her husband. She has never since she lived in my house kept a brothel, or used the rooms she occupies as such. I do not know whether she has ever kept a brothel. Before she came to my house she lived in Wellington Street, in Lee Kip-tai's house; but I do not know how long she lived there. She removed to my house because Lee Kip-tai's house was pulled down.\n\nCross-examined,--Lee Kip-tai was engaged in the Tientsin trade. The house Shaplok lived in was nearly opposite the Old Central Police Station. Shaplok went to Canton about the middle of April last, not the middle of May. I do not know if she is in any way connected with Mr Caldwell.\n\n### MARY AYOW CALDWELL,--Called and examined.\n\nMy maiden name was Chun Ayow. I am the wife of Mr Caldwell. I came to this colony in the 22d year of Taoukwang-1842. I was then a child, and came with my mother to visit some relations. My mother was called by others Tuk-fook-p'o. I have one elder sister named Chun Atsoo, whose residence is in Macao. She has been here three times on a visit. Atsoo is my sister by blood. I know Shaplok, and saw her mother when a child. Shaplok's mother and mine were sworn sisters. This does not, according to Chinese usage, make me and Shaplok sisters. There is no other connection between myself and Shaplok. According to Chinese usage, even good friends call themselves brothers and sisters.\n\nWhen I came with my mother, I lived a few months in a house in Sheong Wan, and I afterwards lived in Choong Wan, where I lived until I was married to Mr Caldwell. My mother and Shaplok lived in that house, and another person called Ayee. Mangtai did not live with them. He is the god-son of my mother; as my mother had no son, a relation gave her his son, whom my mother adopted. The lower part of the house was occupied by a tailor, and the upper part by a singing master and partly by myself and Shaplok as a family residence. From the time I lived in the house, till I left it as Mr Caldwell's wife, it was never a brothel. I was first married after the Chinese fashion to Mr Caldwell, in the end of the 23d year of Taoukwang-1843; all the ceremonies necessary according to Chinese usage to constitute a valid marriage, were adopted on that occasion. The ceremony was performed in a house belonging to Achow, in which I afterwards resided, and took place before I went to live with Mr Caldwell. I considered myself in all respects the wife of Mr Caldwell.\n\n### FOONG AFU, Tepo of Sheong Wan [Victoria west],—Called and examined.\n\nI know Mr Inglis, the Governor of the Gaol, and first saw him in the beginning of the 24th year of Taoukwang-1844, three or four months after my marriage with Mr Caldwell. I remember upon that occasion we went on a picnic party to Chek-chu. I am quite certain that I never saw Mr Inglis before. Mr Inglis never came to the house in which I resided before my marriage; no foreigner was allowed to enter it. Hillier Street is in my district. Before I was Tepo, I was Sergeant of Police. I have been Tepo since the 8th month of the 6th year Hien-fung, [September 1856]. I have known Shaplok four years. In 1852 she lived in Peel Street, and I saw her in Lee Kip-tai's house, about the 5th month of the 6th year of Hien-fung [about June 1856].", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-068 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 244728, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-068 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12]", "page_number": 470, "title": "CO129-068 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12]", "content_text": "# 467\n\n(30)\n\n## ELEVENTH DAY\n\nThe house in which I resided when I came on a visit the first time to Hongkong, was in Cleverly Street; from thence I removed to Choong Wan. I did not know Mr Caldwell at that time. The house belonged to Ashe, who was a ship's comprador. I remained in Achow's house in Choong Wan about eight months. From thence I removed to Jervois Street, and remained there three months, and then again to Taipingshan East Street, to a house built in lieu of Achow's house which had been pulled down. There my first child was born on the 24th day, 10th month, 24th year of Taoukwang. Mr Inglis never came to the house in Taipingshan in which I was living, but when I removed from there to the upper part of a druggist's shop, near Western Market, he did visit me there.\n\nChun Atsoo owns eleven houses in this colony, besides one lately purchased. The houses were bought with money of her own.\n\nSzekai has received the rents and paid them to me. I have kept them till asked by my sister for them, when I paid them over to her. None of the eleven houses have been bought with money belonging to my husband. I do not know the numbers of the lots, but can tell the position: six of them are near the Chinese Joss-house, and five are about the last houses beyond Circular Buildings.\n\n### Thursday, 17th June, 1858, at 12 o'clock Noon\n\nPresent,-All the Members.\n\nThe Chairman stated that the Commission would now proceed to investigate the 2d branch of the Enquiry, consisting of Charges 2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, and 13.\n\n## THE ATTORNEY GENERAL\n\nCalled and examined. I wish again, to disclaim giving evidence according to the charges as made out on the Charge List. Some of those alleged charges I have never made at all, others are incorrectly stated, and others were certainly not intended to be the subject of a public and scandalous inquiry, because they affect the family at least as much as the head of it. My statement therefore has reference not to the List of Charges at all, but to my own letter of 13th May.\n\n\"Chinese outlaws and pirates\" I certainly consider Ma-chow Wong and his gang to be, \"That the antecedents of Mr Caldwell's life were passed amongst them,” \n\nSzekai came to me and asked me if I would like to purchase a house, and also produced some documents. I be already in evidence, and I believe that further evidence said, if it was cheap I would buy it for my sister. It was agreed is accessible to the Commission, but the intimate know- to be bought at $500. I asked my husband to examine the ledge which is displayed by Mr Caldwell's suggestions. document, and see whether it was a whole lease or a portion for the cross-examination of Mr Lyons, of the move- of a lease. He told me that it was in the name of Leong ments of myself, of Mr May, and of every person who Ayook, and as the person offering it for sale was not Leong has had a single communication to make to either of us Ayook, I refused to buy. It was about the middle of April upon the subject-matter of inquiry-compels me to be that I spoke to my husband about this. I did not at that time cautious, and I therefore respectfully decline now to mention mention that I was going to purchase the house. I only asked any names not already mentioned. I presume the Com- him to look at the lease, and see in whose name it was. Of this mission are in possession, however, of my report of the Cri- $500, I have paid $400 to Szekai, the purchase-money minal Sessions of October 1856, which contained the brief being at length fixed at $470. This money was the accu- results of a very long cross-examination of the famous Eli mulation of rents belonging to my sister in my hands, Boggs, when a witness for the defence in a piracy case. To and was to be paid by Szekai to the seller of the house. that letter His Excellency's Government have to this hour The purchase-money was reduced from $500 to $470, to not vouchsafed me a reply, nor I believe paid the slightest allow $30 to pay for the transfer of the lot, owing to a attention. I would suggest that if Eli Boggs be examined, defect which had been found in the lease. I can confi- as I hope he will be upon other matters, that report may be dently affirm, that my husband has no direct or indirect also used in his examination. I think it bears date the 1st interest in this property, and that no part of the pur- of November, 1856. I have no copy of it. Eli Boggs, chase-money belonged to him. I remember my husband though not a Chinese outlaw, was certainly a pirate. I did coming home from Council last month, and saying he had not then know the fact of his connection with the Eaglet or been charged with having bought land lately in this colony. Mr Caldwell. The Commission have also a right to know He told me also that he had denied having done so. I then what was the public repute respecting Mr Caldwell at the said, \"we have not purchased any, but my sister has purchas- beginning of his early career in these waters, and the oldest ed a house.\" I had never told him before that I had pur-surviving members of the Canton and Hongkong Community chased this for my sister. Mr Caldwell was not present might speak to that. As to the Chinese girl from a brothel, when I agreed with Szekai about the purchase. I do not think that Szekai ever mentioned the matter to Mr Caldwell, and I do not know the seller.\n\n[The Chairman here stated, that no further evidence being procurable with reference to this branch of the Enquiry, the Commission adjourned.]\n\n(31)\n\n... it will follow as of course to have been an alliance with some of the worst of the Chinese; but there is direct evidence of notoriety and reputation. When I penned those words in my letter, I had read a list of names prepared by Mr May from the mouths of neighbours or acquaintance of the parties, and I recommend that list to be asked for, as it shews what the occupations of the relations or reputed relations of this female were and are.\n\nI again refer to the evidence already taken as to Ma-chow Wong. Witnesses already examined on other points, particularly Mr May and Mr Inglis, will be able to say whether there was not a long and intimate connection between that convict and Mr Caldwell.\n\nAs to its still existing, I am personally aware that Mr Caldwell has evinced great resentment to every one who has taken a different view as to the propriety of a pardon of the man from himself, and I have, as Attorney General, had reason to believe that since his conviction the functions of police spy and informer continue to be discharged by the man under the immediate auspices of Mr Caldwell. Chinese of good repute have been arrested, thrown into Gaol, and refused bail, upon charges got up in the Gaol, Mr Caldwell and his chair being personally present, founded upon the unsupported evidence of Gaol inmates believed to belong to the same gang-proved to be false-then replaced by more aggravated charges, founded on the same unsupported evidence which broke down in like manner.\n\nThe instance to which I particularly allude, is that of a man who had incurred the enmity of the confederates, by declining, in the hour of need, subsequent to his prosecution, to help Ma-chow Wong, with money, evidence, or otherwise.\n\nThe Stipendiary Magistrate and Mr May may be questioned on these points, and also the Governor and Warden of the Gaol.\n\nTake this recent fact:\n\nA levy of money by way of reward for services rendered by Mr Caldwell and others in the case of Ma-chow Wong, upon the clan or secret society to which he belongs, has taken place since the final rejection, if it be final, of the last attempt to procure his pardon. Purposely concealing the place where these Chinamen live, I have to state that not less than three of them have placed in the hands of the writer of this letter, which I hold in my hand, the account, I believe receipted, in Chinese, of this quota; they being supposed to belong to the body on which the levy was made. These men complain loudly of the exaction, and my correspondent spoke to me on the subject, I think two months, certainly more than a month, before I dreamed of being ever able, to direct the attention of Government to Mr Caldwell's case. Unfortunately he had given them back these papers, and I told him that without them I could do nothing, for he wished me to take it up as crown prosecutor, at least so I understood him. For weeks he endeavoured to get these papers back, but after a good deal of hesitation on their part, they finally told him they would not produce them. These are the reasons given by him in the note which I now read:\n\n\"I have your note regarding the papers, but am sorry to say I cannot get them, the holders being afraid that they may be troubled by Samkwei, or some of Ma-chow Wong's friends at least so they told me when I saw them the other day,\" dated 5th May, 1858, five days...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-068 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 247658, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-074 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Robinson - 1859 [6-12]", "page_number": 332, "title": "CO129-074 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Robinson - 1859 [6-12]", "content_text": "328\n\nChairman,-Did he state anything further?\n\n(4)\n\nMr Lyons,-Nothing. Chairman, Do you remember the date of the last fire? Mr Lyons,―The fire took place about the end of March this year.\n\nChairman, When was this conversation?\n\nMr Lyons,—Between the 15th April and the 1st May\n\nChairman, Do you recollect any further conversation with Mr Caldwell near Augustine Heard & Co.'s?\n\nMr Lyons,-No.\n\nChairman,-Do you recollect Mr Caldwell telling you that he had mentioned the matter to the Surveyor General? Mr Lyons,-I do remember some conversation at that time, the purport of which was, that Mr Caldwell had spoken to the Surveyor General concerning the building of the front wall,\n\nChairman, Did Mr Caldwell say that he or some one else was going to build the wall?\n\nMr Lyons, I do not remember Mr Caldwell saying that any one else was connected with the property.\n\nChairman, Are you certain that Mr Caldwell spoke of himself with reference to the matter?\n\nMr Lyons,—I am quite certain that he did. He did not refer to any other property; he said he would speak to the Surveyor General on the matter.\n\nChairman,-Have you, within the last few days, been actively employed in making any inquiries regarding Mr Caldwell?\n\nMr Lyons,-No, I have not been actively employed, and have not been instigated to make any inquiry concerning Mr Caldwell.\n\nChairman, Do you know Choeng Assow?\n\nMr Lyons, I know Assow the Road Surveyor. Chairman,--Have you been to him lately to inquire for a man named Lum Ateen.\n\nMr Lyons,-Yes.\n\nChairman, Why?\n\nMr Lyons,—I went round yesterday to lot 206, and found that the space where the houses abut was filled with filth, also 241 C and B. I inquired who rented the houses of 241 C and B and 206. I could not find out who was the proprietor. I went to Lum Ateen, and asked him if he was the owner. He told me, Yes, that he was owner of all the lots.\n\nCross-examined,——\n\nChairman, Will you tell the Commission if you ever saw Lum Ateen before?\n\nMr Lyons, I do not know him. Chairman,-How did you find where he lived? Mr Lyons,-The tenants told me. Chairman, Where was it?\n\nMr Lyons,-In a lane at the back of Circular Buildings. Chairman, Have you any means of knowing what occupation Lum Ateen follows?\n\nMr Lyons, I do not know—he was dressed well when I saw him first.\n\nChairman,--Why did you not go to Mr Caldwell, as you supposed him to be the landlord?\n\nMr Lyons, I went to Lum Ateen, because he was the nearest, and I thought it possible the houses might have changed hands.\n\nChairman,Did you go to any one else?\n\nMr Lyons,---I went to Yee Wo Fook the Coffin-maker, and asked him if he was the owner of lots 211 B and C. He told me that he was not-that he rented them from Lum Ateen. Lum Ateen told me that he owned all the lots, and that he sublet lots 241 B and C to Yee Wo Fook.\n\nChairman, Have you within the last few days had any conversation with any Chinese females concerning Mr Caldwell?\n\nMr Lyons,-Yes.\n\nChairman,-What is the female's name? Mr Lyons, I think her name is Lin-hee. Chairman, -Who is Lin-hee?\n\nMr Lyons, She is the owner of some property in Tai-ping-shan. She was building some houses there, which she asked me to look after because she was anxious to get the roofs on before the wet weather set in.\n\nChairman,―Have you any recollection how many houses there were?\n\nMr Lyons, There were five or more.\n\nChairman, Had you any conversation with any Chinese female?\n\nMr Lyons, I do not recollect any conversation.\n\n(5)\n\nChairman,-Have you had any conversation with any Chinamen on the subject?\n\nMr Lyons,-Yes. Chairman,--With whom?\n\nMr Lyons,-Awai, formerly an Interpreter at the Police Station.\n\nChairman, When did this conversation occur? Mr Lyons, This morning. Chairman,-Where?\n\nMr Lyons,-In Queen's Road West. Re-examined,\n\nChairman for Mr Caldwell,-Had you any particular reason for inquiring about Lin-hee's relationship?\n\nMr Lyons, She said she was a poor woman; to which I said, you are Mr Caldwell's cousin.\n\nChairman,-Were the names Lin-hee and Shap-lok given you by Mr May?\n\nMr Lyons,-He asked me some days ago if I knew the parties, and I said that I knew them by repute.\n\nChairman,—Did Mr May ask you to make the inquiry? Mr Lyons,-No. He asked me if I knew them. Chairman, What was your conversation with Awai? Mr Lyons, I asked him if he knew Shap-lok. He said yes; I asked who she was, and he said she was Mrs Caldwell's sister.\n\nChairman. Did you make any further inquiry? Mr Lyons,-No. That was the only conversation about Mrs Caldwell.\n\nChairman,--Was that an idle question?\n\nMr Lyons-I asked him because he is a man who knows almost everything about Hongkong.\n\nChairman,-Have you been lately at the Gaol making inquiries about Mr Caldwell?\n\nMr Lyons, I have-two days ago. Chairman, What inquiry did you make?\n\nMr Lyons, I inquired concerning the man Beaver, having some reference to Mr Caldwell.\n\nChairman, of whom did you make this inquiry? Mr Lyons,-1 made it of the convict Boggs, because I felt convinced that he was with Beaver in the employ of Akwai [the pirate], for whose apprehension a reward is offered; and to learn as to the truth of a statement made to me by Beaver after he had been released, and whether he knew who was in possession of the paper which was laid on the table of the Supreme Court at the time of his (Eli Boggs') trial.\n\nChairman,--Did you get your information? Mr Lyons, I did.\n\nChairman, Had that paper any reference to Mr Caldwell?\n\nMr Lyons, It was stated by Boggs to have been written by Mr Caldwell.\n\nChairman,--What were the contents of that paper? Mr Lyons,—I do not know personally what the paper was about.\n\nChairman,-Was it with a view to give evidence before the Commission concerning Mr Caldwell?\n\nMr Lyons.--No. It was only with a view to protect myself.\n\nChairman,--Did you get the paper? Mr Lyons,--No, I did not.\n\nChairman,--To whom did the lorcha in which you were belong?\n\nMr Lyons --To Achong, the P. & Q. Co's Comprador. Beaver was with Akwái, not with me.\n\nChairman,--Have you any cause for the belief concerning Mr Caldwell?\n\nMr Lyons,--Yes.\n\nChairman,--Do you know in whose employ Beaver was before he was in Akwai's?\n\nMr Lyons,-In Mr Caldwell's, in the lorcha Kee-loong-poon.\n\nChairman, Do you know who her part-owner was? Mr Lyons,-Her register gave Mr Caldwell as the sole owner,\n\nChairman,-Do you remember a piracy committed by Beaver on Achong?\n\nMr Lyons, I only know it from hearsay.\n\nChairman,-In what way would Boggs's paper have enabled you to make your defence if an accusation had been made against you?\n\nMr Lyons,-In case of my being brought up, I wished to be able to shew by it that Mr Caldwell was connected with those sort of people himself.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-074 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Robinson - 1859 [6-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 247659, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-074 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Robinson - 1859 [6-12]", "page_number": 333, "title": "CO129-074 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Robinson - 1859 [6-12]", "content_text": "329\n\nChairman, Where is Beaver now?\n\n(6)\n\nIt was accordingly proposed by Mr Lyall, seconded by Mr Fletcher, and unanimously agreed to.\n\nMr Lyons,—I believe he has gone to Sydney as an ordinary seaman.\n\nChairman, Do you know who Samkwei is?\n\nMr Lyons,—Yes.\n\nChairman,—Have you ever seen Mr Caldwell in any of his cruizes?\n\nMr Lyons, No.\n\nChairman, Do you know anything of the Convoy business?\n\nMr Lyons, Only by repute—by conversation with Beaver and others.\n\nThe Public were then informed of the above resolution, and of the postponement of the meeting until 11 o'clock on Tuesday.\n\nChairman,—Can you specify any one besides Beaver with whom you have conversed?\n\nMr Lyons, Yes; but I cannot give the names of persons who have witnessed anything.\n\nChairman, Do you know the Eaglet?\n\nMr Lyons,—Yes.\n\nChairman, Do you know what was done with any of her prizes?\n\nMr Lyons,—Only from hearsay I have had no conversations with any who witnessed anything done with them. I do not know whether Ma-chow Wong had any share in the Eaglet.\n\nChairman, Do you know where Shap-lok lives?\n\nMr Lyons, Opposite Circular Buildings.\n\nChairman,—Have you ever visited Mr Caldwell's house?\n\nMr Lyons,—Never, except on business as Inspector of Nuisances with Mr Caldwell.\n\nChairman, Do you know the inmates of Mr Caldwell's house?\n\nMr Lyons, No.\n\nMr Dixson's evidence.\n\nChairman,—Can you inform the Commission, Mr Dixson, of anything concerning Ma-chow Wong?\n\nMr Dixson,—I am ready to answer any question that may be put to me.\n\nMr Anstey, said that perhaps the best mode would be, for him to recite all he had learnt from Mr Dixson, who could point out any part of the narrative which he did not approve.\n\nChairman,—Yes, I think that is the best course to pursue.\n\nMr Anstey, I arrived in this colony on the 30th January, 1856. Within 3, certainly 4, months after, I was strongly exhorted, again and again, by Mr Dixson, to do, what he said would be an act of the greatest benefit to the entire community, but particularly to the Chinese portion of it.\n\nChairman,—Are you aware that Mr Caldwell is intimate with Ma-chow Wong?\n\nMr Lyons, I do not know except from hear-say; I do not know Ma-chow Wong.\n\nChairman, Were you present at Eli Boggs' trial?\n\nMr Lyons,—Yes.\n\n[Extract of a letter from Attorney General of 13th May, regarding statement made by Boggs in his defence, read. Extract acknowledged by witness to agree with his impression of what took place at the trial concerning Mr Caldwell, although he did not vouch for its correctness.]\n\nFriday, 28th May, 1858, at 12 Noon.\n\nPresent,—All the Members of Commission.\n\nThe Public being requested to withdraw, a discussion took place as to the mode of proceeding with the inquiry, in consequence of the reception of various documents from the Colonial Secretary's Office, which rendered it absolutely necessary to obtain legal assistance in arranging the evidence therein.\n\nSECOND DAY,\n\nshort time ago, all he could to get Ma-chow Wong pardoned. I would suggest that Mr Dixson be asked whether these circumstances have or have not materially altered his former opinion that Mr Caldwell was only a dupe, not an accomplice, of the criminal.\n\nThe only difficulty which I had in comprehending Mr Dixson's views, consisted in his belief that Mr Caldwell was the dupe and not the accomplice of Ma-chow Wong in the incidents which he mentioned to me. However, I, being a stranger in the colony, for some time continued to hope that this might be so, and that my contrary judgment might be wrong. That hope has been completely dissipated, as far as I am concerned, during the year and-a-half in which Mr Caldwell has held the offices of Registrar General and Justice of the Peace.\n\nANDREW S. DIXSON,—Called and examined.\n\nChairman,—Will you tell the Commission what you know about Ma-chow Wong?\n\nMr Dixson, The man had been a notoriously bad character, and I have known him as such almost from my first arrival in this colony. What Mr Anstey has stated of my conversations with him regarding Ma-chow Wong, is perfectly correct.\n\nMr Dixson, I intend to quote one instance of extortion, in a case in which Ma-chow Wong professed to act as agent for a Procuress, who had compelled a Chinese woman to acknowledge a debt of $71, out of which Ma-chow Wong levied $30, to raise which sum the woman had sold herself to a brothel-keeper for two years.\n\nChairman, Can you hand in to the Commission the names of any of your informants?", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-074 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Robinson - 1859 [6-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 247670, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-074 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Robinson - 1859 [6-12]", "page_number": 344, "title": "CO129-074 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Robinson - 1859 [6-12]", "content_text": "CEL\n\n340\n\nTENTH DAY.\n\nWednesday, 16th June, 1858, at 12 o'clock Noon.\n\nPresent,--All the Members.\n\nA. L. INGLIS,-Recalled.\n\n(28)\n\nThe brothel of which I spoke to the Commission as the one in which I saw Mrs Caldwell, was situate in Taiping-shan. I am not sure whether the whole of the houses had been removed from the Choong Wan at this time, but I am quite clear as to the situation of this house. I went to this brothel purposely to see the intended Mrs Caldwell, and this was the first occasion on which I did see her. I do not know anything about a formal marriage according to Chinese usage between this girl and Mr Caldwell. The first time I knew of Mrs Caldwell living with Mr Caldwell, Mr Caldwell resided at the Gaol. This may have been two or three weeks, or two or three months from the time I saw her at the brothel. I do not recollect now in what other place Mr and Mrs Caldwell resided after they left the Gaol, and before they went to the bungalow called \"Retreat.\" I do not recollect Mrs Caldwell's mother.\n\nallowed him to interpret for me in important cases, when I could avoid it, unless when he was watched by another interpreter; and further, that I would not now believe him on his oath.\n\nCross-examined,—On the 10th June instant, he was charged before me with receiving goods which had been stolen about the 30th May, and was discharged because the prosecutor was a convicted felon, a notoriously bad character, and bore the marks of former floggings. The principal witness also failed to appear. I allowed the prosecutor's fellow-convict to go out with a Policeman, to find the man who the prosecutor said had gone with him to Assow's house--but he could not find him.\n\nD. R. CALDWELL.\n\nCross-examined, I continued to pay the $50 a-month to Lum Ateen, up to the last day of the tenth Chinese month [14th December, 1857.] He himself has since then received the rent. I do not know what has become of the mesne assignments of the lots sold to Lum Ateen. I may have them still, but do not know. They were in Chinese. There was no deed or conveyance by which I surrendered my property in 1857 for the benefit of my creditors; it was done in a private manner, and I refer the commission to Siemssen & Co.'s letter. The title deeds of the property sold to pay my debts were not given up to Siemssen & Co., because they were mortgaged to Chinese creditors. The deeds relating to the lots sold to Woods, except lot 263, were also mortgaged, but were given up to the purchaser upon Siemssen & Co.'s guarantee that the mortgagee would receive his share of the proceeds. I sold all my landed property under Siemssen & Co.'s direction for account of the estate, and the purchase-money was paid over to Siemssen & Co. I could never have mort-gaged any of these lots twice over, because I had not possession of the leases. I cannot remember the numbers of the lots mortgaged, but the names of the mortgages are Wong Cheeyun, Lum Ateen, and Low Ashû.\n\nI know in what way Mrs Caldwell may be speculating beyond what she tells me. Supposing she wished to deceive me, it is possible she might speculate in brothel property. She has invested money of her sister's in houses. I can state on my honour, that she has, to my knowledge, no connection nor interest of any kind, in any brothel property, or any houses to which prostitutes resort.\n\nI never heard or was aware of any rumours of Mrs Caldwell's coming from a brothel, and no one would have dared to tell me so. I was never in the house in which my wife lived up to the time of my marriage. I am quite certain that this house was not a brothel, because at that time I knew most of the brothels here, and that was not one.\n\nI lived in the Gaol. When I speak of my wife living with me, I mean that she lived in a private house which I kept for her; she did not live in the Gaol with me. I recollect Boyle, who was Deputy Inspector of Police, and formerly master of the lorcha Centaur.\n\nI cannot recollect having ever had a contest in the street with Inspector Boyle concerning Mrs Caldwell. I once brought up a Chinaman before the Police Court, for insulting Mrs Caldwell in the street.\n\n(29)\n\nCross-examined, The time of my seeing Mrs Caldwell must certainly have been in 1844. I joined the Police Department in March 1844, and it was shortly after this that I saw her. I do not recollect Mrs Caldwell's being confined. Mrs Caldwell only lived in the Gaol a fortnight or three weeks. She then left because Awoon, (a Chinese woman who had previously lived with Mr Caldwell,) returned. It was not my impression that Mrs Caldwell was married to Mr Caldwell according to Chinese usage, because it is not customary in such cases; there was nothing whatever in her manner to denote that she was married; she was dressed as a Chinese. I recollect accompanying Mr and Mrs Caldwell to a pic-nic, which was about, but certainly after, the time of that visit. Mrs Caldwell, so far as I can recollect, was never in my house for at least a-year-and-a-half after this time. I recollect her having been in my house in the Old Bailey, after my return from Check-chu.\n\nI generally know to within $10 what money Mrs Caldwell has of mine, as I have nothing but my monthly salary, but do not know what she has of her sister's. I still pay $70 a-month regularly to Siemssen & Co. on account of Mr Rienaecker, which leaves me $260 a-month.\n\nWONG APING,-Called and examined.\n\nI am a Rope-maker, and reside opposite the Circular Buildings, Queen's Road West. I know a Chinese female called Shaplok, and have known her a long time. She lives in my house, and has done so since the beginning of the 7th moon of the 6th year of Hien-fung [about July, 1856.] She is married; her husband has gone to Shang-hae. She has no occupation, and is supported by her husband. She has never since she lived in my house kept a brothel, or used the rooms she occupies as such. I do not know whether she has ever kept a brothel. Before she came to my house she lived in Wellington Street, in Lee Kip-tai's house; but I do not know how long she lived there. She removed to my house because Lee Kip-tai's house was pulled down.\n\nCross-examined, - Lee Kip-tai was engaged in the Tientsin trade. The house Shaplok lived in was nearly opposite the Old Central Police Station. Shaplok went to Canton about the middle of April last, not the middle of May. I do not know if she is in any way connected with Mr Caldwell.\n\nSOONG AHING, Tepo of Choong Wan, [the central part of Victoria,]-Called and examined.\n\nI know a female called Shaplok. In 1856 she was living in Lee Kip-tai's house opposite the Old Central Police Station, in Wellington Street. She lived there a few months, I saw her there in the 2nd moon of the sixth year of Hien-fung, [about March 1856,] and about the 7th or 8th month of that year, [about August or September 1856.] She left in consequence of the house being about to be pulled down. She removed out of my district to Sheong Wan, but I do not know to what house. During the time that she resided in that house she did not keep a brothel; several years before the house had been a brothel, but in consequence of a disturbance, the landlord would not permit it to be a brothel any longer.\n\nCross-examined,-I do not know what Shaplok was before the 6th year of Hien-fung. I know that she is a friend of Mrs Caldwell, but not that she is in any way related to her.\n\nYIP AWONG,-Called and examined.\n\nI am collector of rents of the row of houses opposite the Taicheong Hong in Hillier Street; and collect them for Akwai. I know a female called Shaplok. I have collected the rents since 1852. Shaplok occupied one of these houses from 1852 to 1854. She has not occupied it since 1854. She occupied it as a family residence, and I am quite certain not as a brothel. I do not know where she removed to in 1854.\n\nMARY AYOW CALDWELL,-Called and examined.\n\nMy maiden name was Chun Ayow. I am the wife of Mr Caldwell. I came to this colony in 22d year of Taou-kwang-1842. I was then a child, and came with my mother to visit some relations. My mother was called by others Tuk-fook-p'o. I have one elder sister name Chun Atsoo, whose residence is in Macao. She has been here three times on a visit. I have no other sisters, and no brothers. Atsoo is my sister by blood. I know Shaplok, and saw her mother when a child. Shaplok's mother and mine were sworn sisters. This does not, according to Chinese usage, make me and Shaplok sisters. There is no other connection between myself and Shaplok. According to Chinese usage, even good friends call themselves brothers and sisters. When I came with my mother, I lived a few months in a house in Sheong Wan, and I afterwards lived in Choong Wan, where I lived until I was married to Mr Caldwell. My mother and Shaplok lived in that house, and another person called Ayee. Mangtai did not live with them. He is the god-son of my mother; as my mother had no son, a relation gave her his son, whom my mother adopted. The lower part of the house was occupied by a singing master and a tailor, and the upper part by myself and Shaplok as a family residence. From the time I lived in the house, till I left it as Mr Caldwell's wife, it was never a brothel. I was first married after the Chinese fashion to Mr Caldwell, in the end of the 23d year of Taoukwang-1843; all the ceremonies necessary according to Chinese usage to constitute a valid marriage, were adopted on that occasion. The ceremony was performed in a house belonging to Achow, in which I afterwards resided, and took place before I went to live with Mr Caldwell. I considered myself in all respect the wife of Mr Caldwell.\n\nI know Mr Inglis, the Governor of the Gaol, and first saw him in the beginning of the 24th year of Taoukwang—1844, three or four months after my marriage with Mr Caldwell. I remember upon that occasion we went on a pic-nic party to Chekchu. I am quite certain that I never saw Mr Inglis before. Mr Inglis never came to the house in which I resided before my marriage; no foreigner was allowed to enter it.\n\nFOONG AFEI, Tepo of Sheong Wan [Victoria west], -Called and examined.\n\nHillier Street is in my district. Before I was Tepo, I was a Sergeant of Police. I have been Tepo since the 8th month of the 6th year Hien-fung, [September 1856.] I have known Shaplok four years. In 1852 she lived in Peel Street, and I saw her in Lee Kip-tai's house, about the 5th or 6th moon of the 6th year of Hien-fung [about June or July 1856.] During the time I have been Tepo she has not lived in Hillier Street. I do not know of her having kept a brothel. While she was living in Lee Kip-tai's house, I know that he did not keep a brothel.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-074 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Robinson - 1859 [6-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 247671, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-074 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Robinson - 1859 [6-12]", "page_number": 345, "title": "CO129-074 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Robinson - 1859 [6-12]", "content_text": "018\n\n341\n\n(30)\n\nvisit the first time to Hongkong, was in Cleverly Street; from thence I removed to Choong Wan. I did not know Mr Caldwell at that time. The house belonged to Ashè, who was a ship's comprador. I remained in Achow's house in Choong Wan about eight months. From thence I removed to Jervois Street, and remained there three months, and then again to Taipingshan East Street, to a house built in lieu of Achow's house which had been pulled down. There my first child was born on the 24th day, 10th month, 24th year of Taoukwang. Mr Inglis never came to the house in Taipingshan in which I was living, but when I removed from there to the upper part of a druggist's shop, near Western Market, he did visit me there,\n\nChun Atsoo owns eleven houses in this colony, besides one lately purchased. The houses were bought with money of her own. Szekai has received the rents and paid them to me. I have kept them till asked by my sister for them, when I paid them over to her. None of the eleven houses have been bought with money belonging to my husband. I do not know the numbers of the lots, but can tell the position; six of them are near the Chinese Joss-house, and five are about the last houses beyond Circular Buildings.\n\nquiry, the Commission would, on the morrow, proceed to investigate the charges contained in the second branch.\n\nAdjourned till to-morrow at 12 Noon.\n\nELEVENTH Day.\n\nThursday, 17th June, 1858, at 12 o'clock Noon.\n\nPresent—All the Members.\n\nThe Chairman stated that the Commission would now proceed to investigate the 2d branch of the Enquiry consisting of Charges 2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, and 13.\n\nTHE ATTORNEY GENERAL,—Called and examined I wish again to disclaim giving evidence according to the charges as made out on the Charges List. Some of those alleged charges I have never made at all, others are incorrectly stated, and others were certainly not intended to be the subject of a public and scandalous inquiry, because they affect the family at least as much as the head of it. My statement therefore has reference not to the List of Charges at all, but to my own letter of 13th May.\n\n\"Chinese outlaws and pirates\" I certainly consider Ma-chow Wong and his gang to be. \"That the antecedents of Szekai came to me and asked me if I would like to purchase a house, and also produced some documents. I said, if it was cheap I would buy it for my sister. It was agreed to be bought at $500. I asked my husband to examine the document, and see whether it was a whole lease or a portion of a lease. He told me that it was in the name of Leong Ayook, and as the person offering it for sale was not Leong Ayook, I refused to buy. It was about the middle of April that I spoke to my husband about this. I did not at that time mention that I was going to purchase the house. I only asked him to look at the lease, and see in whose name it was.\n\nOf this $500, I have paid $400 to Szekai, the purchase-money being at length fixed at $470, to allow $30 to pay for the transfer of the lot, owing to a defect which had been found in the lease. I can confidently affirm, that my husband has no direct or indirect interest in this property, and that no part of the purchase-money belonged to him. I remember my husband coming home from Council last month, and saying he had been charged with having bought land lately in this Colony with the Eaglet or Mr Caldwell. The Commission have a right to know what was the public repute respecting Mr Caldwell at the beginning of his early career in these waters, and the oldest surviving members of the present Canton and Hongkong Community might speak to that.\n\nAs to the Chinese girl from a brothel, if the alliance itself proved it will follow as of course to have been an alliance with some of the worst of the Chinese; but there is direct evidence of notoriety and reputation. When I penned those words in my letter, I had read a list of names prepared by Mr May from the mouths of neighbours or acquaintance of the parties, and I recommend that list to be asked for, as it shews what the occupations of the relations or reputed relations of this female were and are.\n\nI again refer to the evidence already taken as to Ma-chow Wong. Witnesses already examined on other points, particularly Mr May and Mr Inglis, will be able to say whether there was not a long and intimate connection between that convict and Mr Caldwell. As to its still existing, I am personally aware that Mr Caldwell has evinced great resentment to every one who has taken a different view as to the propriety of a pardon of the man from himself, and I have, as Attorney General, had reason to believe that since his conviction the functions of police spy and informer continue to be discharged by the man under the immediate auspices of Mr Caldwell.\n\nChinese of good repute have been arrested, thrown into Gaol, and refused bail, upon charges got up in the Gaol, Mr Caldwell and his clerk being personally present, founded upon the unsupported evidence of Gaol inmates believed to belong to the same gang—proved to be false—then replaced by more aggravated charges, founded on the same unsupported evidence which broke down in like manner.\n\nThe people of this Colony no more dare to complain now of these connivances and procurances of Mr Caldwell, than down to his conviction they dared to complain of the immediate tyrannies and exactions of Ma-chow Wong. I venture to say, that the fact is notorious to every member of the Commission, and that their own compradors, if they ask them, would confirm the statement, but would not dare to appear to support it. Take this recent fact: A levy of money by way of reward for services rendered by Mr Caldwell and others in the case of Ma-chow Wong, upon the clan or secret society to which he belongs, has taken place since the final rejection, if it be final, of the last attempt to procure his pardon. Purposely concealing the place where these Chinamen live, I have to state that not less than three of them have placed in the hands of the writer of this letter, which I hold in my hand, the account, I believe receipted, in Chinese, of this quota; they being supposed to belong to the body on which the levy was made. These men complain loudly of the exaction, and my correspondent spoke to me on the subject, I think two months, certainly more than a month, before I dreamed of being ever able to direct the attention of Government to Mr Caldwell's case.\n\nI remark here an incidental observation, not a charge, but introduced by way of explanation and corroboration of the last foregoing paragraph. I have stated that when I first represented the scandal of this connection to His Excellency more than eleven months ago, I was not aware that the principal link in it was a bond of affinity by adoption according to Chinese law. The fact is immaterial, but I have no objection to state who my informant was, and if the Commission think it material he may be called and examined.\n\n[The name of the informant handed into the Chairman.]\n\nFor what follows in the letter I am personally responsible, but I respectfully decline to give up the name of any of the Chinese informants, whose representations so completely satisfied my mind as to justify the strong language I used in my letter, that I knew that it was Mr Caldwell's habit to act in the way they had described, on the unsupported information of that pirate.\n\nThere are Europeans, the Commission has some evidence already on this point, and I think if the authorities Naval and Police are pressed, the Commission can get still more. There was one notorious case in which the Nankin, I think, was imposed upon by false information, and induced to destroy torches belonging to Rebels—upon false representation of a so-called Chinese merchant, that they were his own, and had been piratically captured from him. That merchant is said to have been Ma-chow Wong in person.\n\nI re-assert in the language of my letter, and upon my own personal knowledge of the fact, that the Chinese girl was captured by one of our cruisers in the attempt to break the blockade of the Canton River, and on board of her was found Mr Caldwell's certificate to her character, which was handed over with her papers to the Queen's proctor, and which I now hold in my hand. It bears a seal which he had no power to put on it—the seal of his Registrar Office, and bears date anterior by some months to the Registration Ordinance of last year. I hand in that document (Q).\n\nAs to the fact, that a suspicious vessel obtained the patronage and protection of Mr Caldwell, I presume on the same information. Inspectors of Police had been frequently told me by Inspectors of Police, how they had been embarrassed in their actions on pirates or alleged pirates by means of this deplorable influence, and I have no doubt if they are called they can give information upon this head to the Commission.\n\nUnfortunately he had given them back these papers, and I told him that without them I could do nothing, for he wished me to take it up as crown prosecutor, at least so I understood him. For weeks he endeavoured to get these papers back, but after a good deal of hesitation on their part, they finally told him they would not produce them. These are the reasons given by him in the note which I now read:\n\n\"I have your note regarding the papers, but am sorry to say I cannot get them, the holders being afraid that they may be troubled by Samkwei, or some of Ma-chow Wong's friends—at least so they told me when I saw them the other day,\"—dated 5th May, 1858, five days before the subject of this inquiry was bruited in Council.\n\n(31)", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-074 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Robinson - 1859 [6-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 247764, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-074 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Robinson - 1859 [6-12]", "page_number": 438, "title": "CO129-074 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Robinson - 1859 [6-12]", "content_text": "No 15 of 1857.\n\nInclosure No 3 in Hlap:\n\nNo 16\n\nMiscellaneous\n\naddressed\n\nto\n\nSir Hercules\n\nRobinson.\n\nHis Grace\n\n12026 trong tương\n\nRECEIVED\n\n6 DEC\n\n434\n\n1859. Government Offices, Victoria,\n\nHongkong 10th October, 1859\n\nMony Pora Duke,\n\nI have the honor to acknowledge\n\nthe receipt, on the 4th Instant, of your Grace's\n\nDespatches as follows:\n\nOriginal\n\nNo. 8 to 15, the last of 17th August, 1859\n\nCircular of 23rd July, 1859\n\nLetter of 10 August\n\nCircular of 11th\n\nLetter of 19th\n\nThe Duke of Newcastle,\n\nYea\n\nYea\n\n8 October, 1859.\n\nIf the Surveyor General, Buildings, etc., proposed List of Works and\n\nSecretary in forwarding Minute by the Colonial", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-074 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Robinson - 1859 [6-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 248611, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-076 - Individuals - 1859", "page_number": 214, "title": "CO129-076 - Individuals - 1859", "content_text": "(6)\n\nBay, and have their domestic offices properly at their rear, or so far at the side as not to be a nuisance and an obstruction.\n\nSo much for access to the Praya through the back door, instead of the front. And now for a fair consideration of the Praya itself, as conducing to the convenience or embellishment of Central Victoria.\n\nOne.\n\nThe undersigned affirms of this work, and calls upon His Excellency, with all respect, to cause the Surveyor General to report upon the following asseverations regarding it, for the guidance of the Secretary of State, that within the short distance of one-half mile, forming the entire frontage of Central Victoria, say from Pedder's Wharf to Circular Buildings, the proposed Praya must pass over every Culvert and main Sewer, both of the upper and the lower town, at their very outfall, and raised nowhere at a higher level than ten feet above that outfall, and its reeking odours at low tide, in a tropical latitude.\n\nThat during the whole working day, the said Praya must be the platform of a busy traffic in the frequent transit of foreign merchandise across it, to or from the European Godowns and numerous Ship-chandleries, and in the unceasing transit of native merchandise to and from the numerous Chinese Bazaars and the China town proper, known as Bonham Strand, and further, in the constant unlading of Provision Boats at the Central and Western Markets, abutting upon the Praya.\n\nThat several of these Chinese Bazaars, and lines of Chinese Hongs, abut, either gablewards or rearwards, upon the future Praya, and are already built out to the last available foot within the Praya line.\n\nThat immediately upon this inner line, are situated the Cesspools, the Public Privies and Urinals, of a densely populated Chinese Quarter, and that the same are thus placed, and are being completed at this moment under Government inspection, from the sheer impossibility of placing them anywhere else, with due regard to sanitary considerations.\n\nSuch constructions however on the Marine Parade, embellishing the City of Victoria, as viewed by Lord Stanley, are, to say the least, a novel supplement either abroad or at home.\n\nIf the foregoing averments be true, the undersigned can come to no other conclusion, than that the Bowring Praya along Central Victoria can never prove other than a crowded and bustling 50 feet gangway, fit for wharf purposes, and for no other purposes whatsoever.\n\nThe undersigned is quite willing to concede to this portion of the proposed work, viz., the centre, a high degree of usefulness under certain limitations, which he will explain by and by. What he challenges is, the opinion that it will conduce to the embellishment of the City of Victoria, or to the healthful recreation of its European inhabitants.\n\nThe undersigned has already protested against its extension Eastward or Westward, and now proceeds to exhibit the grounds of his objection.\n\nUnder the peculiar aspect which the sea-shore buildings took at the first projection of the City of Victoria, some sixteen years ago, fronting south instead of north, a line of Road, known as the Queen's Road, was formed on their south frontages.\n\nThis Road, constituting the highway and main thoroughfare of the Island, runs due east and west, the entire length of the City.\n\nNow it does so happen, unfortunately for the claims of the Bowring Praya, that if ever constructed at all, it must run parallel or nearly so with this complete and perfect road under the following extraordinary circumstances.\n\nThe undersigned affirms, that the new road cannot be, at any one point throughout its line, (reserving Bonham Strand,) more than 100 yards distant from the old one—throughout a great portion of the line not one-half that distance, while at several points of it, the two roads must come into actual contact!\n\nThe only difference between the two would thus be, that the new one would be on the sea-beach,—the old one 100 yards inshore from it.\n\nThe undersigned conceives that he has only to state the position of two highways running nearly parallel to, and within 100 yards of each other—both upon the same level or nearly so throughout—both starting from the same point and leading to the same terminus,—to establish an anomaly in road-engineering, which requires some special apology.\n\nThe undersigned expresses himself content with the old road for all useful purposes, and refuses to buy a new one 100 yards nearer the sea, at a cost of £33,452 per mile, especially when the Colonial chest has not funds to construct the first half mile of it, after the appropriations of 8th December last, and even under the exclusion of all other Public Works.\n\nThe undersigned requests that His Excellency will be pleased to cause the Surveyor General to report upon the foregoing averments, for the guidance of the Secretary of State; the Report (with a ground plan shewing the two Roads), to include the difference of level per mile throughout the line, and with a scale to measure the distance between the two lines at such points as may strike the reader.\n\nOn the foregoing grounds the undersigned protests against the extension of the Praya line, eastward or westward, beyond the points he now proceeds to submit.\n\nThe undersigned is of opinion, that a Causeway at the water-line, which shall connect Webster's Bazaar with Gilman's Bazaar, embracing the Central Market, and the numerous Chinese alleys which have so unfortunately grown up in the very heart of the Foreign Quarter, constituting a standing danger to it, is a work preeminently necessary, both for sanitary and Police purposes, and to secure access for the engines in cases of fire.\n\nFurther, that a Causeway extending from Gibb's Pier to Robert's Shipyard, and thus embracing the entire China town, is necessary on the same grounds, as well as for facilitating the traffic of that quarter.\n\nBoth these sections are at this moment in course of construction, and the undersigned, on the 8th day of December last, voted funds towards completing them.\n\nBut beyond these sections, on either side, the undersigned protests against any disturbance of the existing Water-ways, every separate Establishment having a Pier of its own, of solid masonry, on the proposed Praya level and scale of construction, thus leaving nothing to be desired on the score of sanitary consideration.\n\nHe protests upon the grounds that, to throw all these private Piers into one by a connecting Causeway, is not only unnecessary and a waste of the Public funds, but involves a breach of that privacy of each separate House, which was bought and bargained for in the original contract.\n\nShould it be supposed that such a Causeway would public convenience,\" the undersigned would ask, In what respect?\n\nThe only conceivable respect would be, that of providing more numerous Landing-places.\n\nTo this the undersigned rejoins, that within the space of 500 yards, forming the entire European Frontage of Central Victoria, there are already no less than three Government Wharves, three open Bazaar Wharves (thoroughfares for all classes) and four Private Wharves, open to all Europeans,—thus giving one Landing-place to every 50 yards.\n\nWith new Piers thrown out from the Government and Bazaar Wharves, nothing would remain to be desired.\n\nThat such a Causeway would not contribute to the convenience of the Marine Lot Holders, whose Lease-hold rights are at stake, is abundantly proved by the fact, that instead of asking for it as a boon, they, one and all, resist it as a trespass.\n\nC\n\nLastly. The undersigned would commend to the serious consideration of His Excellency and this Honourable Council, the critical state of the Colonial Finances.\n\nIt is happily true they are free and unembarrassed at this moment, but to keep them so, and to bear out the cautious advice of Lord Stanley, is the difficulty.\n\nThe Colonial Revenue is balanced by the expenditure to such a nicety, that the failure of any one principal source of Revenue must almost necessarily beget a deficit on the year's transactions, the very last year's expenditure having actually exceeded the income.\n\nThere are no less than 28 separate sources of Revenue on the Treasurer's Books, all of which are unsecured and fluctuating, save one, the Land-rental; so that\n\n(7)\n\n210", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-076 - Individuals - 1859.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 251376, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-081 - Sir Robinson - 1861 [4-7]", "page_number": 386, "title": "CO129-081 - Sir Robinson - 1861 [4-7]", "content_text": "# [70]\n\nwhich, whether true or false, have induced you to make use of the language employed by you in your letter of yesterday dated the 9th. Upon that letter I have nothing more to remark at present--I shall lay it, with the notes of the Chief Magistrate, and a minute of my own, before His Excellency the Governor.\n\nYou will therefore understand that my object in thus addressing you is to explain to you that what has been done in this matter by the Registrar General has not originated with him, but from my acting under the impression that it is my duty to attempt to alter what I conceive to be a scandal upon Police direction in this Colony.\n\n\"I have the honor to be, Sir, your most obedient servant,\n**\"C. MAY, Esq.\"**, \nSuperintendent of Police.\n\n\"No. 12.\"\n\n66\n\nMr. May's rejoinder.\n\n66\n\n**\"W. T. BRIDGES,\"** Acting Colonial Secretary.\n\n## OFFICE OF SUPERINTENDENT OF POLICE, VICTORIA, HONGKONG, 12th March, 1858.\n\nSIR,-I have to acknowledge receipt of your letter No. 125, dated 11th March, written during the absence of His Excellency the Governor at Canton. The Circular referred to therein, as it shows upon the face of it, was written by me as a Justice of the Peace to three brother Justices, who were sitting on the Bench when an insinuation based on falsehood was uttered by a witness in a case under hearing, and which insinuation, if unnoticed by me, was calculated to injure my character, and be a lasting reproach to my honor. The Circular contained within itself and its accompanying report from Inspector Jarman ample refutation of all inferences injurious to me, and also expressed deep indignation, that I should have been thus wantonly assailed by an Officer of Government, who is well known to have a spirit of hostility towards me, caused, because in the necessary performance of my duty, I exposed to Her Majesty's Government that, for a series of years, he was either the dupe or the partisan of a man convicted of confederating with pirates--the notorious Wong Akce, alias Mah-chow Wong.\n\nI had hoped that the refutation would have obtained the desired end, but your letter painfully undeceived me, and I am therefore, after a service of twenty-three years in Her Majesty's Government, compelled still further to reply to so degrading an insinuation.\n\nI offer no reply to one part of your letter because I am assured His Excellency will not tolerate any invasion upon private reputation unconnected in any way with the public Service or Duty.\n\nYour letter states that you intend laying before His Excellency the Governor my Circular, together with the notes of the Chief Magistrate, and a minute of your own. I should like that the report of Inspector Jarman be also laid before His Excellency, and that, if the notes of the Chief Magistrate were written before he perused my refutation, that that Gentleman may have opportunity to state what were his opinions after such perusal, and I have no doubt but that His Excellency will think it proper to obtain the opinions or notes of the third Justice present at the utterance of the scandal.\n\nI have now only to reply to the last charge, viz., that it is deduced from inference that I knew of the existence of the brothel prosecuted by the Registrar General. I beg therefore to draw your recollection to a conversation I held with you ten days back on the subject of the said brothel. You then informed me that a Military Gentleman had told you certain particulars about the house, situated in a range of buildings, one of which was occupied by Mr. Almeida; and you described the position of the suspected house, stating that you believed it to be kept by a woman named Ahtai. You requested me to direct Inspector Jarman to look after the matter. I told you then, that I did not know of the existence of such a house, but would do as you desired. Showing that I complied with your request, I enclose a report from Inspector Jarman. Up to the time of your mentioning the subject, I was under the impression that the three houses, of which the suspected one is the centre, were all occupied by Parsee Merchants, and as regards my frequently passing the house and thereby gaining knowledge by observation, I beg to declare upon my honor, that I have not passed the house ten times in one month during the four months I resumed my Office of Superintendent of Police.\n\nI must further state that I cannot draw the inference you do from the relative position of the respective houses occupied by Mrs. Rozario and the prostitute Ahtai, that the occupant of one should be supposed to know the character of the other, inasmuch as both houses in regard to each other are four houses (round the angle of the range) distant from each other, in different Streets.\n\nTouching inference and deduction, however, on so grave a matter, I believe I need not have made reply. The reputation of a man is not to be placed at the hazard of inference.\n\nHaving thus respectfully, although feeling deeply injured, as much by your official letter as by the misstatement and insinuation of the Registrar General, I respectfully appeal to His Excellency the Governor to give me that justice which I can only seek at his hands. The only consolation I have is the full knowledge of the rectitude of my public conduct being understood and appreciated by the public, and I am assured, that even without defence, there is not one man in the Colony (not even the Registrar General) who can say that he ever knew me swerve from what I considered my duty.\n\n\"I have the honor to be, Sir, your most obedient servant,\n**\"C. MAY,\"** \nSuperintendent of Police.\n\n## NOTE.\n\nI perceive from Mr. Jarman's report that he does not recollect my instructing him to look after the house; but my firm belief is that I did, because it is obvious that I could only have that intention. The matter was so curiously (and jocularly) mentioned by the Acting Colonial Secretary, that I never gave the subject a thought until I was astounded by the proceedings at the Police Court. **\"C.M.\"**\n\nThe Honorable The ACTING COLONIAL SECRETARY.\n\n**\"CHAS. MAY, Esq.\"**\n\n### Enclosure No. 1 in Mr. May's letter.\n\n## VICTORIA, HONGKONG, 10th March, 1858.\n\nSIR, In accordance with your request of this date I examined the residence of Mrs. de Rozario's, and am of opinion that it is quite impossible for any female to escape from Mrs. Attai's residence to that of Mrs. Rozario's.\n\nBut without much difficulty a female could escape from Mrs. Attai's to that of Mrs. Ah Yow's, the latter being the intermediate house between that of Mrs. Rozario's and Mrs. Attai's. I notice there is a side window to the house occupied by Mrs. Rozario, but as there are permanent window's bars to that window it would effectually prevent any person gaining entrance there.\n\n\"I have the honor to be, Sir, your most obedient servant,\n**\"JAS. JARMAN,\"** \nInspector of Police.\n\n### Enclosure No. 2 in Mr. May's letter.\n\n## 12th March, 1858.\n\nSIR,-With reference to a conversation that took place about a fortnight ago, it runs as follows to the best of my recollection. I complained to you that one of the horse coolies had been neglecting a Police horse. You directed me to send for the Coolie, which I did.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-081 - Sir Robinson - 1861 [4-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 251481, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-081 - Sir Robinson - 1861 [4-7]", "page_number": 491, "title": "CO129-081 - Sir Robinson - 1861 [4-7]", "content_text": "## BRITISH CONSULAR NOTIFICATION\n\nThe greatly increased duties incumbent on and proper to H.M.'s Consulate, and the very greatly increased and increasing amount of the Post-office labors performed at it,—consequent not merely on the increase of the Shanghai community but also on the opening of the Japanese, the Northern Chinese and the Western Chinese ports and on the recent Post-office regulation requiring prepayment of letters—these, with other circumstances, have compelled the undersigned to choose between leaving undone, to the serious inconvenience of H.M.'s subjects, a large portion of the work proper to the Consulate and which can only be done by it, or of severing the connection between this Consulate and all postal labors: which can be performed, unofficially and probably with not less efficiency, by mercantile and shipping establishments.\n\nThe undersigned therefore notifies hereby that the permission which has hitherto been given to the Senior Consular Assistant to perform postal duties is withdrawn. He will from this date altogether cease forwarding letters from this place; and, after the distribution of the next incoming English mail, will cease receiving and distributing letters for this place.\n\nThe undersigned having communicated to the Hongkong Authorities the necessity for his taking this step, has received a reply from the Colonial Secretary, the closing portion of which, as contained in the subjoined extract, he recommends to the careful attention of the British and foreign community.\n\n### EXTRACT from a despatch from Colonial Secretary Mercer to Consul Meadows dated 30th March, 1861\n\n\"Should you unfortunately be unable to alter your decision in this matter, I ask leave to suggest that you notify the community of your port that it will be necessary that one and all at once send to the Acting Post Master General here the names of Agents in Hongkong to whom their letters are to be delivered.\"\n\n(Signed) W. T. MERCER\n\n## BRITISH CONSULAR NOTIFICATION\n\nThe following Consular arrangements are notified for the information and convenience of H.M.'s subjects.\n\nThe nomination of C. Treasure Jones, Esq., as Acting Vice-Consul, having been confirmed by H.M.'s Envoy and Chief Superintendent of Trade, he is now charged with all the usual duties of the Vice-Consul.\n\nIn consequence of the removal of H.M.'s Legation to Peking, the Consular buildings have reverted to their original uses, and the Consul's Office, the Court room, and the Judicial Office are now again in the chief building, in front of which stands the Consulate flag staff.\n\nThe Circular of the undersigned of the 8th February last is, in so far as it placed certain functions of this Consulate in abeyance, hereby cancelled.\n\n**British Consulate, Shanghae, 12th April, 1861.**\n\nDir,\n\nShanghon, 19th April, 1881.\n\nBritish leons ulată,\n\nI have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch No:196 of the 30th ultimo respecting the Post Office arrangements at this port.\n\nFrom the enclosed leonsular Notification No:85\n\nTHOS. TAYLOR MEADOWS, H.B.M's Consul.\n\nShanghae, \nPage \n... \nColonial Secretary \nShanghere.\n\nDir, \n... \n\nmatter,\n\nI port you notify one and all at that it will be necessary the community of your outu ask leave tä suggest that chert Rend to the Ading Tostierster Jeneral here the Agents in Hongkong A o whom their letters are to be delivered. I have (Rignes) W. 9. Mercer \n\nII. Meadour logro \nN. B. M. lanoul \n\nColonial Secretary \nShanghere. \n\nbecomes \n\n## Letter \n| Date | From | To | Ref |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 19th April, 1881 | THOS. TAYLOR MEADOWS, H.B.M's Consul | Colonial Secretary, Shanghere | No:196 |\n| 30th March, 1861 | Colonial Secretary Mercer | Consul Meadows | - |\n| 12th April, 1861 | THOS. TAYLOR MEADOWS, H.B.M's Consul | - | No:85 | \nbecomes unnecessary as content is already presented in the required format.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-081 - Sir Robinson - 1861 [4-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 260374, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-101 - Sir Robinson - 1864 [10-12]", "page_number": 249, "title": "CO129-101 - Sir Robinson - 1864 [10-12]", "content_text": "repairs to Buildings. In Cardwell would recommend the Expenditure forthin Lordshiper sanction Salut provision being made for it to the Estimates.\n\n1932. Trong trong\n\nARGEIVES\n\n1668\n\nNo 201. Miscellaneous\n\nSir,\n\nHonghong, 30th December, 1864.\n\n247\n\nI have the honor to acknowledge the receipt, on the 24th Instant of your Despatch as follows:\n\nOriginals No. 157 to 162, the last of 10th November, 1864. Circular of Seller of birenlar Do Setter.\n\nThe Right Honorable Edward Cardwell, M.P.,\n\n24th October. 28th \" 284 \" 3rd November. 44 \"", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-101 - Sir Robinson - 1864 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 260384, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-101 - Sir Robinson - 1864 [10-12]", "page_number": 259, "title": "CO129-101 - Sir Robinson - 1864 [10-12]", "content_text": "NO. OF DESPATCH.\n\nDATE OF DESPATCH.\n\n1864.\n\nSUBJECT OF DESPATCH.\n\nOriginals (continued)\n\n156. 13th December on the Succession to the Government of Song Long.\n\nAcknowledgment of despatches to N 156 of 26th October, 1864.\n\n \n NO. OF INCLOSURES.\n SUBJECT OF DESPATCH.\n \n \n 187\n Extraordinary Survey of the Treasury Chest\n \n \n 188\n Acknowledgment of an Extra Chinese Clerk in the Registrar General's office.\n \n \n 189\n Colonial Secretary - Nov...\n \n \n 190\n Dec 27 Additional Boatmen - Harbour Master Department\n \n \n 161\n Receipt of Circular, 20th May 1861\n \n \n 192\n Police Reports and Naval proceedings relative to\n \n \n 193\n Hong Kong Volunteers subscription to National Rifle Association\n \n \n 194\n Application for $25,000 worth of ten cent pieces\n \n \n 195\n Government House Furniture – Survey of\n \n \n 196\n Heffey, Edward, Military Convict went to England\n \n \n 197\n Smith, Male, Registrar General - Confirmation of appointment\n \n \n 198\n Douglas and Tombin, Messrs - Increase of salary recommended\n \n \n 199\n Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation - Relative to incorporation of\n \n \n 200\n Supplementary Report and Estimate for repairs to buildings\n \n \n 201\n Despatches not...\n \n \n 202\n Public Hospitals - Report on", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-101 - Sir Robinson - 1864 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 262396, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-105 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1865 [5-7]", "page_number": 567, "title": "CO129-105 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1865 [5-7]", "content_text": "## SCHEDULE of ORIGINAL DESPATCHES transmitted by The Governor of Hong-kong to The Secretary of State for the Colonies by the Mail Steamer \"Carnatic\" via Southampton, on the 2nd September 1866\n\n| No. OF DESPATCH | DATE OF DESPATCH | SUBJECT OF DESPATCH | NO. OF INCLOSURES |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 98 | 16th July 1866 | Concurrence in the new rule reducing the dimensions of Books, Pamphlets, and Newspapers sent by Post | None |\n| 99 | 18th July 1866 | Reply to Circular of 18th May respecting the new arrangement for the transmission of Ballast buy Post | None |\n| 100 | 19th July 1866 | Changes in appointments in the staff of Victoria Gaol | |\n| 101 | 20th July 1866 | Forwarding Requisition for Police Clothing and Accoutrements for 1866 | |\n| 102 | 24th July 1866 | Respecting Mr Barradas' application for a Medal in recognition of his services at Canton in 1856 | |\n| 103 | 24th July 1866 | Submitting supplementary Report and Estimate No 27 of 1865 for building sea Wall and reclaiming Marine Lots land at Howloon | |\n\n## \nNo. OF DESPATCH | DATE OF DESPATCH | SUBJECT OF DESPATCH | INCLOSURES \n| --- | --- | --- | --- \n180$ | \"July | Forwarding Supplementary Reports and Estimates HP25 and 26 of 1866, for maintenance of Public Gardens, and repairs to Buildings. | 3 \n**WHAlexande** | | | \n Acting Colonial Secretary. | | | \n563 | | |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-105 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1865 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 263724, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-108 - Public Offices - 1865", "page_number": 427, "title": "CO129-108 - Public Offices - 1865", "content_text": "# Treasury 205\n## 14. Sears of Absence. Morepentia of Sensin Minunte\n\n1. It ...\n\n## Cont\n\n4. ...\n\n\n116 The Ment. Estimate for erection go \nHelv. Drmaids's Relay - Juncacl \nIch 11 Estimalis for 1865- \n\" \n18 Jeansy Subsence. Curcular \n\nash \n24 Foremen for Meit - Engagement & W hinder yo \nMarty Ripains & Builds- Rifint tistimal's \n\nMay 6 Adjutant of Volunten Cups £100. year- \n17 Testimonial & Dr. Legge. £100. in purchase \n30. Marking for thickey Dis. Punches \n\nlues Lalang beting firesun and Cot. Lentury \nBebecommodation for to blender and his Staff \nSue Hill. Wilband. Die Eupraven other. Meat- \n1:30. Luwryn hand to leverty - Pemin to \nDale WW. Kinder, Bond for performanceyly dutiny- \n\n27 the Praya. Estimate for extension of \nLeft 15 Chance for to cumlate the New Dollar \n423 \n\nunsung, du 5 ver Wall and retaining event Koolove. Estimati zu \n\n## Now Jillean Quarting for Volunter. Expex genction of \n4Mr. Merce's claim to full balany as Gweners_ \nWar Mary 13 Road at Kowloon between Nawal Estate and the Lea \n\n' \n\" \n\" \n群 \n\nAll!! Constant of the 99. Reff: in the late riots_ \nOf Military Persones in the birt fail. Expering \n\nMay khunlin Ammunitie. Actum into thre \n\" \nbompen, ation Application for losses in late not- \nDuty Lawley Wadling of Howloro, \nhekdicht dyster RE. Residus Exquien at Kowloow- \nSangly Boundary Shores & mark Millary useway at Rowloon- \n\n13. Meleting Conterbution of £5000. for Current Suarter_ \n\nOct 4 Wv. Banada's applicaten for a Medite \n. 27. Complexative for property injured. & Military Restez - \n31 Liti fr Naval Anspital at Kowloon \n\nDe 6 Reduction of Militan Fir \nllen Fick Lewd 4 Super tandand of founing in Frew Mint- \n\n## Reconstructed text with proper formatting and minor corrections\n\nHere is the reformatted text in Markdown:\n\n# Treasury 205\n## 14. Years of Absence. Memorandum of Sensin Minunte\n\n1. It ...\n\n### Cont\n\n4. ...\n\n116 The Monthly Estimate for erection of \nHelv. Drmaids's Relay - Junction \nIch 11 Estimates for 1865- \n18 January Subsidence. Circular \n\n24 Foremen for Militia - Engagement & Winding up \nMarty Repairs & Buildings- Refint Estimates \n\nMay 6 Adjutant of Volunteers Cups £100. per year- \n17 Testimonial to Dr. Legge. £100. for purchase \n30 Marking for Thickey Dis. Punches \n\nLalang being firesun and Cot. Lennury \nBeaccommodation for the blender and his Staff \nSue Hill. Wilband. Die Eupraven other. Meat- \n1:30. Luwryn hand to leverty - Pemin to \nDale WW. Kinder, Bond for performance of duty- \n\n27 The Praya. Estimate for extension of \nLeft 15 Chance for the new Dollar \n423 \n\nUnsung, due 5 ver Wall and retaining wall Koolove. Estimate zu \n\n### New Jillean Quartering for Volunteer. Expenses of \n4 Mr. Merce's claim to full balance as Gweners \nWar Mary 13 Road at Kowloon between Naval Estate and the Lea \n\nAll!! Constant of the 99. Ref: in the late riots \nOf Military Persons in the birt fail. Expering \n\nMay khunlin Ammunition. Account into three \nbompen, ation Application for losses in late riot- \nDuty Lawley Wadling of Howloro, \nRE. Residus Exquien at Kowloow- \nSangly Boundary Shores & mark Military roadway at Rowloon- \n\n13 Meeting Contribution of £5000. for Current Quarter \n\nOct 4 Wv. Banada's application for a Medite \n27 Compensation for property injured. & Military Restitution - \n31 Liti for Naval Hospital at Kowloon \n\nDec 6 Reduction of Militia Fire \nllen Fick Lewd 4 Superintend of founding in Frew Mint-", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-108 - Public Offices - 1865.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 269441, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-121 - Sir MacDonnell - 1867 [3-4]", "page_number": 63, "title": "CO129-121 - Sir MacDonnell - 1867 [3-4]", "content_text": "En4186/17\n\n60\n\nDecember last on this subject, he considered were to be stuck with the pries dies used Paels; and for the first experimental he MON not aware of the entrix change I subsequently made in my original design, more effectually, to meet the requirements of the case, and to assimilate the details of de the reverse wink the vines of the Chinese in Morih. I should also add that during the period refered to Mr Sheard has produced, levenly eight dies for striking dollar and five cent pieces.\n\nDo The blanks Al ready for sturing fira pared. Thavet? as the dies at 200w wa (signed) J. W. Kinder, Master of the Mint.\n\n(Free Copy)\n\nMimions Catanal Sentary. Per \"BENARES.\"\n\nSHARP & CO.'S CIRCULAR. For Mail of 15th March 1867, from Hongkong.\n\nThe receipts of the GOLD. The scarcity of Gold both here and at Shanghai has caused an advance of one per cent in the value. fortnight amount to $120,000 worth; and the exports to $330,000 inclusive of the shipments per Behar on the 1st instant and excluding the present Mail's remittance of Leaf, which is smaller than for many months past,\n\nSILVER-The arrivals have been large, amounting to $1,400,000; and the totals shipped are in aggregate $910,000. In addition to this a considerable quantity has been purchased in preparation for the direct Calcutta opportunities.\n\nA DOLLAR CURRENCY.-Inwards $300,000, Outwards $520,000, the greater portion of which has again gone forward to India, few unimportant transactions have taken place in clean coin.\n\nEXCHANGE.-There has been but a limited demand, and of the bills sold the larger part has gone into the hands of private buyers, who are thus, under the new regime, reaping the profits of a little private banking business on their own account.\n\nDISCOUNT and MORTGAGES.-Discounts have been done upon undoubted paper at 7 per cent., and Mortgages at 10. Twelve per cent. is still obtainable on Chinese securities.\n\nSHARES. These have improved a shade by a few purchases for investment; but the trade may be said to be very slow.\n\nCLOSING QUOTATIONS.\n\n \n On London, Bank,\n 4 m/s.\n 6 m/s.\n \n \n Do., Credits,\n 4/3\n 2.\n 4/4\n 5.\n \n \n U. S. Navy Bills, 60 days' sight,\n \n \n 4/4\n a 4/5.\n \n \n ,, Calcutta, 3 days' sight,\n \n \n 4/4.\n \n \n \n Bombay, 3 days' sight\n R218.\n \n R218.\n \n \n \n Shanghae, 30 days' sight,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Bar Silver, Sycec,\n $34 per 100.\n \n \n \n \n \n Clean Mexicans,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Gold Leaf, Sovereigns,\n $23.50 per tael.\n $4.60 each.\n \n \n \n \n H.kong & S. hae Banking Corpn. Shares, old, 10 per cent. dis.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Da. do. do., new\n 4 per cent, dis\n \n \n \n \n \n Hongkong and Whampoa Doek Co., old,\n 30 per cent. prem.\n \n \n \n \n \n do. do., new,\n 21 per cent. prem.\n \n \n \n \n \n 'Tis. 749.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Union Dock-Company,\n 35 per cent. dis.\n 10 per cent. dis.\n \n \n \n \n \n 11 per cent. prem.\n 9 per cent. prem.\n \n \n \n \n Hongkong, Canton, and Macao Steam,\n 1 per cent. prem.\n \n \n \n \n \n Hongkong Gas Company,\n 40 per cent, dis.\n \n \n \n \n \n China Traders' Insurance,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Hongkong Hotel Company,\n \n \n \n \n \n\nHONGKONG, Thursday, 6 e.m., 14th March, 1867.\n\nSHARP & Co., Bill, Bullion, and Share Brokers, BANK BUILDINGS.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-121 - Sir MacDonnell - 1867 [3-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 269857, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-122 - Sir MacDonnell - 1867 [5-6]", "page_number": 72, "title": "CO129-122 - Sir MacDonnell - 1867 [5-6]", "content_text": "Government house, Hong Kong, 29th May, 1867-\n\nMy Lord Duke,\n\nI have the honour to acknowledge the receipt, on the 19th instant, of your Grace's despatches as follows:- Originals.\n\nNo 11 = 21, the last of 8th April, 1867..\n\nSeparate of 28th March\n\nConfidential of 27th March\n\nCircular of 30th March\n\nCircular of 4 April-\n\nSeparate of 5 April-\n\nHis Grace The Duke of Buckingham and Chandos,\n\nHer Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies\n\nPage 69\n\nJULY 26 1867\n\nRECEN\n\n...\n\nder to the mess \n\nof the Artillery \n\nand Engineers who were employed from 30 October to 5th November last in blowing down the dangerous walls of the buildings destroyed by explosion in the tower of Victoria,\n\nI am directed...\n\nLeparati. 19...\n\nPage ...\n\n \n\nHowever, to follow the exact format requested in the prompt which is HTML using for paragraphs, the corrected and formatted version is provided directly as is.\n\nThe original response has been adjusted to fit the requested format.\n\nGovernment house, Hong Kong, 29th May, 1867-\n\nMy Lord Duke,\n\nI have the honour to acknowledge the receipt, on the 19th instant, of your Grace's despatches as follows:- Originals.\n\nNo 11 = 21, the last of 8th April, 1867..\n\nSeparate of 28th March\n\nConfidential of 27th March\n\nCircular of 30th March\n\nCircular of 4 April-\n\nSeparate of 5 April-\n\nHis Grace The Duke of Buckingham and Chandos,\n\nHer Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies\n\nRECEN\n\nJULY 26 1867\n\n69\n\nder to the mess \n\nof the Artillery \n\nand Engineers who were employed from 30 October to 5th November last in blowing down the dangerous walls of the buildings destroyed by explosion in the tower of Victoria,\n\nI am directed...\n\nLeparati. 19...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-122 - Sir MacDonnell - 1867 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 273131, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-128 - Public Offices & Others - 1867", "page_number": 689, "title": "CO129-128 - Public Offices & Others - 1867", "content_text": "# 579 Hong Kong Circular\n\nBlackheath\n\nHaddo Willas,\n\nJan 4 1867...\n\n**REC** \n**C:0:** \n**ED** \n**JAN 19 1867** \n\nIn compliance with your request as expressed in your letter of 15th inst., I have to inform you that Sir R. G. MacDonnell's letter of Nov 8th last, respecting the Bishopric of Victoria (Hong-Kong) supplies correct information on the points adverted to.\n\nI beg to enclose herewith a list of Clergy at Hongkong and in the Chinese cities, corrected to the present time. The Consular Chaplaincy churches vested in local Trustees approved by the Foreign Office.\n\nThe Missionaries have their respective churches or chapels, in which services are held for the benefit of the Chinese. These buildings are vested either in the Church Missionary Society or in their local representatives.\n\nYour obedient humble servant, \n**George Fruith- \nBishop**\n\nRight Honourable \nEarl of Derby \nColonial Office \nDowning Street", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-128 - Public Offices & Others - 1867.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 273498, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-129 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [1-3]", "page_number": 307, "title": "CO129-129 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [1-3]", "content_text": "# That a Committee consisting of Messrs. Chomley, Helland, Brand, Lapraik, Maclean, and Linstead be formed for the purpose of drawing up a Letter, and presenting the foregoing resolution to His Excellency the Governor, and also watching the interest of the Marine Lot Holders in all matters connected with the Circular received from the Surveyor General; or that may arise from the same and further that if Legal advice is desirable the Lot Holders bind themselves to pay proportionately the expense.\n\nThe Meeting then adjourned.\n\n(Signed,) **FRANCIS CHOMLEY**, Chairman.\n\n## Mr. Linstead to the Honorable W. H. Rennie, Esq., Acting for the Colonial Secretary.\n\n**HONGKONG, 21st September, 1864.**\n\nSIR, I have the honor to enclose a Letter from the Committee appointed by the Marine Lot Holders to represent their interest in the matter of the proposed reconstruction of the Praya, with the request that you will kindly lay it before His Excellency the Governor.\n\nShould a personal interview with the Committee be desired they will have much pleasure in waiting upon His Excellency,—I have, &c.\n\n**T. G. LINSTEAD**, for the Committee.\n\n(Signed,)\n\n## The Committee of Marine Lot Holders to His Excellency Sir Hercules G. R. Robinson, Governor, &c., Hongkong.\n\n**HONGKONG, 20th September, 1864.**\n\nSIR, We have the honor to address Your Excellency on the subject of the Acting Surveyor General's Circular Letter of 15th August last, addressed to the Tenants of Marine Lots between the Harbour Master's Office and the Water Police Wharf.\n\nThis Circular commences by stating that the Tenants of the Lots in question have constructed the opposite Sea wall so badly that it is necessary for them to rebuild the whole; and further proposes to extend the Praya 100 feet beyond its present limit: Government granting a lease of the reclaimed Land to the said Tenants, free of premium, in consideration of their undertaking the expense of the Sea wall and filling in; or failing compliance, the work is to be undertaken by Government and the reclaimed ground sold by Auction, a portion of the premium realized to be awarded the owner of the late Marine Lot—thus made an inland one—as compensation for loss of Sea frontage.\n\nAs the line of action thus sketched out is one which seriously affects the interests of the Lot Holders concerned, a Meeting of the recipients of the Circular was called and held on the 13th instant for the purpose of giving due and joint consideration to the subject.\n\nIn an appendix to this Letter are given the names of those present, and by a resolution unanimously carried, we, the undersigned, were authorized to act generally on their behalf.\n\nWe have therefore to request Your Excellency to consider the views we now put forward as an embodiment of those which were expressed and appeared to be fully concurred in by the Meeting.\n\nIn the first place, we do not admit the entire justice and accuracy of the remarks contained in the opening paragraph of the Acting Surveyor General's Circular; viz:-that \"The Praya wall has been so badly constructed by the Tenants of the adjoining Marine Lots.\"\n\nA portion of the wall to the extreme East has endured, not indeed the full force of a Typhoon, the centres of which rarely enter this Harbour: but fair average gales, for the last seven years, and an adjoining portion extending some distance westward has done the same for the last three or four years; without any sign of injury or weakness being apparent, or raising a doubt of its ability to withstand more severe trials: this we are aware, is not the case with the wall farther westward and in the vicinity of the China Houses and the Water Police Station, a more exposed portion: which has given indubitable evidence of the faulty nature of its construction.\n\nBut we respectfully draw Your Excellency's attention to the fact that the whole of this Sea wall, whether good, bad, or indifferent, was entirely constructed under Government superintendence and under Government plans; it was approved of tacitly or directly and passed by the Surveyor General, and when completed some years ago was, with the roadway, taken over by the Local Government from the hands of the Constructors, the Marine Lot Holders aforesaid—without comment, question, or protest; thus relieving the latter from all further responsibility; and by the Government has it been since maintained.\n\nIt may be mentioned too that while the whole of the Sea wall was subject to the supervision and approval of Government during the period occupied in its construction, a part was actually built under the special professional superintendence of Mr. C. St. G. Cleverly, who would, of course, take care that no work was passed in his private capacity that he would disapprove of as Surveyor General.\n\nWe are therefore unanimously of opinion that no laches attach to the Tenants (as a body) of these Lots: and if after the inspection by competent Authorities the whole or any part of the Sea wall is found to require re-construction, the entire expense of this re-construction should form a charge upon the General Revenues of the Colony.\n\nWith reference to the proposed extension of 100 feet, it is found that while the ground gained would be costly in itself, it would be of little comparative value; far too limited an area, even if the whole could be availed of, to be of much practical use; but as the roadway of 50 feet, now too wide even now, forming the present Praya, would still be required as a line of thoroughfare and access to the buildings already occupying its length—it would follow, that deducting the width of the New Praya to be formed, but 50 feet of available area would remain; almost valueless to the adjoining Lot Holders from the inevitable necessity of its separation from their Lots. Moreover, whatever might be the extent of the reclamation, the mere fact of the present Marine Lots being... \n\nPage 305", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-129 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 273499, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-129 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [1-3]", "page_number": 308, "title": "CO129-129 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [1-3]", "content_text": "5 \n\nconverted into inland ones, and the erection of buildings to the seaward thereof would injure our present property to a very material extent, an extent in some cases far greater pecuniarily, we believe, than is likely to be met by the whole of the premiums to be realized under the second condition of the Acting Surveyor General's Letter already alluded to; and we would observe that the proposition to award a portion of such premiums (which might occasionally be exceedingly small) as compensation to present Marine Lot Holders, is not in accordance with the tenor of our Government Leases which stipulate for full compensation under such circumstances.\n\nBut irrespective of any advantages or disadvantages thus appearing:--as the Northern boundary lines of the properties were, on the construction of the present Praya, clearly and as all believed unchangeably defined, some structures being erected, and some purchases of Land made, in this faith; an exceedingly strong feeling prevails with us that the said existing boundary lines should not in any case be interfered with or extended, nor should any obstacles be permitted between them and the Sea: even if the whole of the Praya has to be re-built and in so doing it was simultaneously widened, a measure decidedly beneficial and perhaps ornamental, but one which viewing the financial position of the Colony we hesitate strongly to recommend, we consider that the whole outlay for doing so should fall upon the Colonial Revenue, and that any ground reclaimed---which should be merely that required for the widening of the Praya--should form Public and not Private property.\n\nRepresenting Marine Lot Holders.\n\nLots 103, 102, 101,\n\nIn conclusion we have to request Your Excellency's perusal of the accompanying Extract from the Minutes of the Meeting alluded to in the second page of this Letter, and with the expression of our hope that any alteration of the Praya ultimately decided upon may, before being carried out, be made known to the Public seeing that the work is one in which they are so much interested.-We have, &c.,\n\nFRANCIS CHOMLEY. ROBERT BRAND.\n\n(Signed)\n\nCommittee appointed on behalf of the Marine Lot-Holders,\n\n17\n\nJOHN S. LAPRAIK.\n\n13\n\nGEORGE J. HELLAND.\n\nG. W. MACLEAN.\n\nJ. T. G. LINSTEAD.\n\n1\n\n## Extract from the Minutes of a Meeting of Holders (or their representatives) of Marine Lots between the Harbour Master's Office and the Water Police Station held pursuant to notice at the Rooms of the Chamber of Commerce on the 18th day of September, 1864.\n\nPresent:\n\nMessrs. SUTHERLAND, HALTON, HELLAND, JOHN LAPRAIK, E. C. SMITH, HAYES, SCHUTZE, NISSEN, LEMANN, BRAND, CHOMLEY, LINSTEAD, LAMOND, MACLEAN, PARRY.\n\nLots: 20, 27, 8, 5, 10, 99, 62, 107, 106, 10, 12, 14, 15, 18, 55, 63n, 1, 127, 165, 147, 153, 103, 164, 636.\n\nIt was then\n\nMr. CHOMLEY in the Chair.\n\n*Proposed by Mr. Lamond, Seconded by Mr. BRAND, and carried unanimously---*\n\nThat in the opinion of this Meeting the proposed extension of the Praya to a distance of 100 feet would be opposed to the general interest of the Marine Lot Holders.\n\nIt was then\n\n*Proposed by Mr. HELLAND, Seconded by Mr. LAPRAIK, and carried unanimously---*\n\nThat as the construction of the present Praya was carried out entirely under supervision of the Government Authorities: the Marine Lot Holders do not consider themselves answerable for its alleged defective condition nor bound to incur the cost of re-building the Sea wall; more especially as the distinct understanding with Government on the subject was, that the Praya once built by the Marine Lot Holders its maintenance in proper condition was to be a burden on the Colony at large.\n\n## The Acting Surveyor General (W. Wilson, Esq.) to the Acting Colonial Secretary.\n\n**SURVEYOR GENERAL'S OFFICE, VICTORIA, HONGKONG, 28th September, 1864.**\n\nSIR-I beg to acknowledge receipt of Letter from a Committee appointed on behalf of certain Marine Lot Holders to the address of His Excellency on the subject of my Circular Letter of 15th August last.\n\nThe Committee take exception in the first place to the clause in my Circular \"The Praya wall has been so badly constructed by the Tenants of the adjoining Marine Lots\" it is true as stated that some portion of the wall has endured the force of ordinary gales for some years past, at the same time the holes that are constantly to be seen in the Praya are caused by the waves washing through the wall which alone shows how weak it must be and unable to stand a heavy gale, moreover during spring tides the water washes over the wall more than half way across the Praya shewing that it is not built sufficiently high, till this is remedied the adjoining Buildings will always be endangered in the event of a heavy gale and the expense in repairs to the Praya Road must be considerable.\n\nI have remarked only this morning the water washing over the Sea wall west of Pedder's Wharf but in front of the European Godowns.\n\nThe wall still further west in the vicinity of the China Houses is between 2 and 3 feet higher and is built quite as well as the rest of the wall west of Pedder's Wharf.\n\nWith regard to the next Paragraph drawing His Excellency's attention to the fact that the Sea wall was constructed under Government superintendence, I may remark that the same thing is being done now opposite the P. & O. Coal Stores and opposite and on either side of the Gas Works, the wall is being there constructed under Government plans but certainly not to my satisfaction. I am constantly protesting against the wretched manner in which the work is being executed and warning the Tenants that I shall not take over the wall when completed but I can do nothing more, and I feel sure Mr. Cleverly did the same thing while the wall between the Harbour Master's Office and Water Police Wharf was... \n\n306", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-129 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 273500, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-129 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [1-3]", "page_number": 309, "title": "CO129-129 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [1-3]", "content_text": "# \n6 \n\nbeing constructed, but was unable to insist upon the Tenants doing better work, which doubtless might have been ensured by their paying a somewhat higher price. The great evil no doubt has been that several Contractors have been employed by the different Tenants and they have failed either to connect their work properly or to keep any proper line for the face of the wall. \n\nThe wall too has not been built up regularly course by course, as might have been the case had one man received a contract for the whole work. I may remark that that portion of the wall constructed by Government is little better than elsewhere. Mr. Cleverly has told me that he found it impossible to get the work properly done while the adjoining Tenants were not carrying up their portion of the wall at the same time. The rents were increased on the completion of the extension of the Praya, but this was on account of the increased area occupied by the Tenants and cannot, I think, be construed into an admission on the part of Government that the Sea wall was satisfactorily completed. \n\nThe next Paragraph refers to the proposed extension of 100 feet. \n\nI think a road 30 feet wide would be required in place of the present Praya Road between the Harbour Master's Office and Pedder's Wharf, thus leaving a depth of only 70 feet for building, which would be sufficient West of Pedder's Wharf for any dwelling houses likely to be erected, however, where Godowns are most likely to be built, a passage of 10 or 12 feet wide would probably be all that would be required, thus leaving a depth of 90 feet for building. \n\nWith regard to the last Paragraph in which the Committee state \"That an exceedingly strong feeling prevails that the existing boundary lines should not in any case be interfered with or extended nor should any obstacle be permitted between them and the Sea\", I may remark that all the Marine Lots now interested have been enlarged by reclaiming from the Sea since they were originally bought, and there is no doubt, from the accumulation of silt forming a Foreshore in many places, that a further extension must shortly take place. In a year or two hence, the present Praya wall will be probably useless as Boats will be unable to approach at all events except at high water. \n\nThe Committee state that the proposition to award a portion of premium received as compensation to Marine Lot Holders is not in accordance with the terms of their Government Leases which stipulate for full compensation under such circumstances. If such stipulation exists, it is evident that a further extension of the Lots at some future time must have been anticipated or the stipulation would not have been made. \n\nThe Marine Tenants do not allude to the fact that whereas they are now responsible in case of the Praya wall being washed away, when the wall has once been constructed by Government as proposed, they cannot of course be called upon to execute any further repairs or be responsible in any way for accidents that may occur. \n\nWhen sending out my Circular of 15th August, it was anticipated that the Marine Lot Holders would be only too glad to get an extension of their Marine Lots without purchase, with a Sea wall strongly built in sufficiently deep water to ensure the collection of silt being impossible. Such, however, not being the case, it remains for His Excellency to decide under whether the extension shall be allowed to stand over for a time. Under no circumstances should I recommend the present wall being either repaired or raised. \n\n7 \n\nI forward an answer to my Circular from the Chinese Lot Holders, from which it will be seen that they all concur with the arrangements proposed by Government. They request that the extension may be 130 feet instead of 100 feet. I think, however, it will not be advisable to erect the wall in deeper water than we have at 100 feet and should propose leaving a 10 feet passage only, north of the present buildings.\n\n(Signed,) W. WILSON, \nActing Surveyor General. \n\n## The Acting Colonial Secretary to the Committee of Marine Lot Holders.\n\nNo. 842. \n\n**GENTLEMEN,**\n\nCOLONIAL SECRETARY'S OFFICE, \nHONGKONG, 3rd October, 1864. \n\nI am directed by His Excellency the Governor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 20th ultimo, written on behalf of the 27 Marine Lot Holders who were represented at a Meeting held at the Chamber of Commerce on the 13th. This letter was referred to the Acting Surveyor General, and his observations upon it are forwarded for your perusal. \n\nHis Excellency, however, finds it necessary to ask for explanation in reference to certain statements contained in your letter, before he can come to a final decision upon the subject to which it refers. \n\nIn paragraph 7, you state that \"the whole of the Sea wall\" was \"passed by the Surveyor General\" and with the roadway \"taken over by the Local Government from the hands of the Contractors without comment, question or protest.\" His Excellency would be glad if you would refer him to the facts or correspondence upon which you rely in support of this statement. \n\nIn paragraph 10, you observe \"that the proposition to award a portion of such premiums (which might occasionally be exceedingly small) as compensation to present Marine Lot Holders, is not in accordance with the tenor of our Government Leases which stipulate for full compensation under such circumstances.\" His Excellency would feel obliged by your quoting the stipulation in the Crown Leases which you had in view when making this observation, as he is advised that no provision whatever is made in the Leases for \"such circumstances\" as the conversion of a Marine into an Inland Lot.\n\n(Signed,) \nW. H. RENNIE, \nfor the Colonial Secretary. \n\n## Page 307", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-129 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 273501, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-129 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [1-3]", "page_number": 310, "title": "CO129-129 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [1-3]", "content_text": "# The Committee of Marine Lot Holders to the Honorable W. H. Rennie, Esq., Acting for the Colonial Secretary.\n\nHONGKONG, 1st November, 1864.\n\nSIR—We have the honor to acknowledge receipt of your letter of the 3rd ultimo, and to express our apologies for not replying to it earlier, the cause—the absence from Hongkong of our Chairman—has been already intimated to you.\n\nYou enclose a despatch No. 82 of 28th September prepared by the Acting Surveyor General in reference to our letter of the 20th September and ask on behalf of His Excellency the Governor,\n\n1st. For the facts or correspondence on which we rely in support of the statement that the Sea wall and Roadway were passed by the Surveyor General and taken over by the Local Government without protest, &c.\n\n2nd. For the stipulation in the Crown Leases which we had in view when making the observation that full compensation should be made Marine Lot Holders whose property might be damaged by an alteration of the Praya.\n\nTo the first question we would reply that we are not at present in possession of any \"correspondence\" showing that Government commented upon, questioned, or protested against, taking over the line of Praya and roadway under discussion, nor are we aware that such correspondence exists—it is however a well-known \"fact\" that the Marine Lot Holders had no control over the construction of the Praya, and we submit the inference is legitimate that the Government is responsible for the work.\n\nTo the second question we beg to answer that the stipulation we had in view was that part of the Crown Lease which states that if any portion of the ground demised is resumed or taken possession of, being required for the improvement of the Colony or for other public purpose \"a full and fair compensation for the said land and the buildings thereon\" shall be paid to the Tenant. You are quite right in stating that no provision is made in a Crown Lease for converting a Marine Lot into an Inland one, but the recently contemplated act—possible injury by Government to private property for a public purpose, was so analogous in principle to that provided for above, that we had no hesitation in concluding that a similar rate of compensation would, in simple justice, be adopted.\n\nWe return the Acting Surveyor General's despatch, after careful perusal, it does not in any way alter or modify the views we expressed on the 20th September last.—We have, &c.\n\nCommittee appointed on behalf of Marine Lot Holders.\n\n(Signed,) FRANCIS CHOMLEY. JOHN S. LAPRAIK. GEORGE J. HELLAND. GEORGE F. MACLEAN. T. G. LINSTEAD. ROBERT BRAND.\n\n# The Acting Colonial Secretary to the Committee of Marine Lot Holders.\n\nNo. 923.\n\nCOLONIAL SECRETARY'S OFFICE, HONGKONG, 10th November, 1864.\n\nGENTLEMEN,—His Excellency the Governor having given careful consideration to the answers furnished by you, as Representatives of a certain number of the Marine Lot Holders, to whom the Circular of the 15th August was addressed, is unable to concur in the arguments advanced by you against the extension of the Praya.\n\nHis Excellency believes it to be the opinion of competent Judges that sooner or later this extension must take place, and wishes me to point out that the terms offered in the Circular, and to which you take exception, are precisely those under which the last extension was effected. These terms are in accordance with the decisions of the Secretary of State to which I would refer you, and which you will find in the Government Gazettes of 3rd January, and 7th March, 1857.\n\nIt is however unnecessary to discuss this part of the proposal further, because the Government Circular was written under the impression that the Marine Lot Holders as a body were anxious to be permitted to extend their lots seaward;—this now appears to have been an error,—and there is no desire on the part of the Government at present to force the improvement upon the Tenants in opposition to their wishes.\n\nHis Excellency also feels it necessary to record his dissent from the opinion expressed by you that \"if the whole or any part of the present Sea wall is found to require re-construction, the entire expense of the re-construction should form a charge upon the General Revenues of the Colony.\" The grounds urged in support of this opinion (even assuming their entire correctness which His Excellency is by no means prepared to admit) merely tend to show that the Government might, after this lapse of time, find some technical difficulty in compelling the Tenants to rebuild the wall under the terms of the original agreement, but the arguments in no way affect the real merits of the question as between the Marine Lot Holders and the General Public.\n\nThe material points which you appear to have overlooked are these.\n| Point | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| 1st | That in consideration of the Marine Lot Holders constructing the Praya and Sea wall at their own expense, advantages were given to them by the Public in the shape of either remission of premiums or reduction of old rates, or in some cases both, far exceeding in value the cost of good work. |\n| 2nd | That in the majority of cases bad work was supplied. |\n| 3rd | That the Marine Lot Holders have profited by their bad work, the price paid by them for the Sea wall being far below the rate at which a wall of sufficient strength could have been constructed—and |\n| 4th | That in the event of the Praya wall being seriously damaged, it is the Marine Lot Holders themselves who would be principally concerned, inasmuch as the safety of their property would be involved and interruption to the traffic on the Praya would affect them far more than the General Public. |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-129 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 273503, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-129 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [1-3]", "page_number": 312, "title": "CO129-129 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [1-3]", "content_text": "# CIRCULAR\n\n## COLONIAL SECRETARY'S OFFICE, HONGKONG, 26th October, 1867\n\nSIR,\n\nAs you are Lessee of Marine Lot No.......... \n\nI am directed by His Excellency the **GOVERNOR** to draw your attention to the state of the Sea-wall which, in the vicinity of your Lot, has been injured by recent storms.\n\nHis Excellency is personally most anxious to see the main work of the City, viz., the Sea-wall, which protects the Praya, repaired, or rather rebuilt throughout in such a manner as to resist the violence of future Storms, and effectively protect the Public thoroughfare and adjoining Buildings. There is however no legal obligation on the Government, as His Excellency is advised, to undertake such repairs, and in the present state of the Colonial Funds the **GOVERNOR** cannot hope to meet any but imperative obligations.\n\nHis Excellency, nevertheless, would gladly promote a joint effort of the Government and the Marine Lot holders to reconstruct the Sea-wall in a thoroughly durable manner, and advises that some arrangement of that kind should be agreed to at an early date. He suggests that the Government and the Marine Lot holders should together contribute to rebuilding the Sea-wall of the Praya, and that the work be carried out under Government supervision.\n\nIn such case, however, it might be necessary to ensure by Ordinance the means of recovering his share of the outlay from each of the Tenants of property on the Praya, at certain stages of the work, in the proportion due from each Lot. Those details would doubtless require much personal deliberation and, as it is probable that you will be at liberty after the departure of the next Mail, His Excellency proposes that you should meet myself and the Surveyor General at the Registrar General's Office, being a central position, on the 2nd November at Three o'clock, with a view to making some suggestions on the subject of this communication.\n\nI have the honor to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour most obedient Servant,\n\n(signed) Cecil Clementi\n\n**Acting Colonial Secretary**\n\nLessee of Marine Lot No..", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-129 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 273504, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-129 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [1-3]", "page_number": 313, "title": "CO129-129 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [1-3]", "content_text": "# Enclosure: I in Governor Richard Graves MacDonnell's Despatch No. 486 of 9th March 1868\n\nHONGKONG, 29th October, 1867.\n\n**SIR** - We, the undersigned Lessees of Marine Lots, have carefully perused the Circular addressed to some of our number by order of your Excellency, with reference to the condition of the Praya.\n\n2. It is but too evident that unless this sea wall is extensively repaired or entirely rebuilt, the Praya will soon become unfit for public traffic, and the buildings in its vicinity will be placed in the utmost jeopardy; and while thus agreeing with your Excellency that the matter is one which demands immediate action, we deeply regret that the state of the Colonial funds should be such as to cause the Government to hesitate about commencing the work.\n\n3. We cannot however agree to your Excellency's suggestion that the expense of this large public undertaking should be jointly shared by the Government and the Marine Lot Holders. Our opinion on this point cannot be more distinctly expressed, than by repeating the words of a resolution unanimously carried at a meeting of Marine Lot Holders, on the 13th September, 1864, and afterwards communicated to Government, viz:-\n\n| Resolution |\n| --- |\n| \"That as the construction of the present Praya was carried out entirely under the supervision of the Government authorities, the Marine lot-holders do not consider themselves answerable for its alleged defective condition, nor bound to incur the cost of rebuilding the sea wall, more especially, as the distinct understanding with the Government on the subject was that the Praya once built by the Marine lot-holders, its maintenance in proper condition was to be a burden on the colony at large.\" |\n\n4. The grounds on which the foregoing resolution was adopted, have acquired additional strength through the lapse of time, and the changes which have necessarily taken place in the ownership of property, as well as from the general circumstances of the Colony.\n\n5. We therefore submit that there is in common justice an obligation on the part of Government to assume this work on behalf of the Colony at large, and we trust that on further consideration your Excellency will also adopt this conclusion.\n\nThis letter is signed ...(nearly all excepting the Chinese Marine lot holders.)\n\nTo His Excellency \n**SIR RICHARD GRAVES MCDONNELL, C.B.** \nGovernor and Commander-in-Chief, \nHongkong.\n\nPage 419 \n70- \n311", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-129 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 273650, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-129 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [1-3]", "page_number": 459, "title": "CO129-129 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [1-3]", "content_text": "The Post Office for \n\nStamp official correspondence was sanctioned by the Governor. \n\nA letter to the French authorities dated the 25 Jan. \n\naccommodation \n\nJournal \n\nHis Grace would recommend \n\nCeylon Indigo (bundles vs 743) \n\n8224 \n\nIS \n\n89/ \n\nR \n\n457 \n\n1 sao dong long \n\nRECEIVED \n\nMAY 11 1868 \n\nCircular \n\nreporting Lordship's approval of the following special payments which appear under the head of Miscellaneous dues.\n\nGratiel & 1½ Horden #200 \n\" \n& Cochran #157 \nAmmunition to Military QQ54. G #416.93 \nWorthing pay of soldiers engaged in destruction of buildings during the fire naby \n\nGratutter & Soldier Saibon #130 \n\" \nto Clerks in Col Led Offin #14.0 \nCompensation to Wtherington $40. \n\nI am also to state that The Duke of Buckingham recommends for the sanction of the Treasury the Special Expenses incurred in the Returns amounting to $2,573.59. \n\nJami \n8:465. \n\nGovernment House, \nHong Kong 24 March, 1868. \n\nMy Lord Duke, \n\nIn obedience to your Grace's instructions I have the honour to transmit herewith a Report from the Harbor Master as to the nature of the examination conducted by the Inspector General and also the qualifications \n\nThe Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-129 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 277669, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-136 - Sir MacDonnell - 1869 [1-3]", "page_number": 142, "title": "CO129-136 - Sir MacDonnell - 1869 [1-3]", "content_text": "Page 644\n\nCIRCULAR.\n\n2887\n\nHongkong\n\n9125 Colonies Gen\n\nDowning Street,\n\n29th November, 1869.\n\n139\n\nSir,\n\nA suggestion has been made to me, in which I entirely concur, to the effect that many useful purposes might be answered by supplying the Colonial Department with Photographs of the Principal Buildings and most interesting Localities in the various Colonies.\n\nThese Photographs could be so arranged in a volume, duplicate of which should be retained in the Colony, as to admit of easy mutual reference thereto by the Secretary of State and Governors in cases where it became necessary to refer to Streets, Buildings, Public Works, in various stages of their progress. They would also, besides being a valuable addition to the Library of this Department, be particularly interesting to persons connected with or proceeding to the Colonies, who are interested in obtaining information as to their character.\n\nIf, therefore, the means should exist in the Colony under your Government, it would, I think, be useful if you would have a series of such Photographic Views as I have referred to executed and forwarded to the Colonial Office. They should be carefully numbered and a catalogue of the collection should be made.\n\nPage 645", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-136 - Sir MacDonnell - 1869 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 279955, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-140 - Public Offices - 1869", "page_number": 352, "title": "CO129-140 - Public Offices - 1869", "content_text": "2\n\nby Colonial Ordinances. It has been decided therefore to construct the Barracks with a finite lintel at either end instead of the arch, and the design, thus revised, has received the sanction of His Excellency the Governor.\n\nThe new railing will be executed as ordered. The Circular D.W.W. 145 had not been received at Hong Kong when the plan details were framed. I think this a favourable opportunity for submitting the question whether the buildings of the War Department are in any manner to be subject to the control of the Colonial authorities as regards their construction, &c. A new Building Ordinance is under consideration by a Committee of the Legislative Council, of so very restrictive a character, that the interests of the War Department will be considerably affected by it, unless a clause of exemption, in favour of buildings for Her Majesty's Service, be inserted, as is done in the metropolitan Building Act.\n\nI enclose a draft of the proposed Local Ordinance, and I request that the opinion of the War Department Solicitor may be...\n\n350", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-140 - Public Offices - 1869.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 280993, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-143 - Sir MacDonnell - 1870 [1-2]", "page_number": 32, "title": "CO129-143 - Sir MacDonnell - 1870 [1-2]", "content_text": "CHINESE STREET (PREPARED FOR ILLUMINATION).\n\n(7)\n\ndifferent patterns. The gods of the Joss House can boast of their illuminations, and indeed this spot may be considered second to none. Passing further on, the whole of that Street which leads down to Queen's Road, is covered with a long piece of cloth stretched on poles, forming a regular roofed-in avenue. Suspended to this cloth roof are boxes of figures representing human beings, &c., and these seem to give much delight to Chinese sight-seers, who stand in front of them with eager eyes for a considerable time, studying the nature of their representations. At the furthest end of the Street, or rather the junction of it from Queen's Road, the concourse of people is generally greater, owing to the additional sights Lum-Tak-Kee displays, in the shape of a handsome chandelier of several burners hung up in front of his shop, and of a small platform raised directly opposite, for a few choristers to fill the ears of the spectators with their peculiarly melodious strains of Chinese music. The most attractive spot in this block of buildings is Kwok Acheong's house, who signifies his loyalty by having the usual arcade erected in front of his house, with the addition of a platform for singers also.\"\n\n\"Loyalty seems determined to show itself everywhere, and despises not even nooks and corners; for in a snug little lane in this vicinity, known as the Circular Building's Lane, is to be seen a small matshed erected in front of a house nicely lit up with a number of lamps and lanterns, the latter bearing the motto of , which means 'the whole heaven is covered with glory.'\n\nHis Excellency the Governor and Lady MacDonnell and suite, having in the course of their visits to this part of the City, paused to listen to the recitations of the musical performers mentioned in the above extract, were soon recognized by them; and it was most amusing\n\n31", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-143 - Sir MacDonnell - 1870 [1-2].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 282006, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-145 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1870 [6-9]", "page_number": 133, "title": "CO129-145 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1870 [6-9]", "content_text": "# The Daily Press\n## HONGKONG, JULY 6TH, 1870.\n\n### MASSACRE OF THE FRENCH CONSUL AND OTHER EUROPEANS AT TIENTSIN.\n\nThe following was issued in the form of an \"Extra,\" yesterday morning :\n\nThe steamer Nile from Shanghai arrived last night, and was to start this morning, having left that port on the morning of the 28th ultimo. Captain Wright, who at considerable trouble consented to bring the despatches down, has courteously handed us the Shanghai Courier of the 27th ultimo, which contains the following startling intelligence :~ \n\nVery serious news has reached us to-day by the Dragon. The Chinese have risen against the French. An official dispatch, the very brevity of which is a significant commentary on its contents, says that the French Consulate, the residence of the Sisters of Mercy, and the French Cathedral were burning at the time the dispatch was being written. The French Consul, (Mons. Fontanier), all the Sisters of Mercy and several other Frenchmen (Missionaries), had been murdered. The steamers Appin and Manchu were detained (well armed) to afford some protection to foreigners. Mr. Lay, H.B.M.'s Vice-Consul, was collecting all the foreigners together. \n\nIn addition to the above official information, there is a rumor that Count Rochechonart, the French Minister, and some Russians had been killed at Pekin.\n\nImmediately on the receipt of this news H.M.S. Dwarf got up steam, and Mr. Medhurst, H.B.M.'s Consul, considerately issued a circular giving those who have connections in the North an opportunity of writing by her. She left at 4 p.m. Meanwhile some degree of protection would have been afforded to the foreigners of Tientsin by H.M.S. gunboat Opossum, which started for Tientsin immediately after the Dragon arrived at Chefoo on the night of the 23rd inst. The French Gunboat Flamme leaves to-morrow morning and Messrs. Russell & Co. have placed the S.S.N.S. Shantung at the disposal of the French authorities as a transport. In view of the departure of the Dwarf, leaving the Foreign Community here without British protection, Sir Ed. Hornby, as the last commandant of the Shanghai Volunteers, has issued a circular calling on all resident members of the corps to hold themselves in readiness should their services be required. Meanwhile we have the protection of the French Gunboats Aspic and Scorpion, and the Zebra has been sent for from Nagasaki. No explanation is given of the cause or origin of these dreadful occurrences.\n\nThe steamship Nile leaves at daylight with a full cargo, including 119 bales of Silk. She goes direct to Suez, calling only at Hongkong to deliver Government despatches relating to the news of the massacre at Tientsin.\n\nCapt. Wright also reports that the greatest excitement prevails at Shanghai, in consequence of this news. There was a further rumor that the whole of the foreign Legation buildings at Pekin were in flames. The news arrived at Shanghai at 2 p.m. on the 27th instant, when the Nile was clearing for sea, and Captain Wright immediately proffered his services to the English and French Consuls to bring down the intelligence to the Senior Officer on this station. He had previously no intention of calling at Hongkong, as he was bound home with a full cargo, a large portion of which was engaged at the high freight of £6, on condition of his making the voyage in 60 days, and for the remainder he was under guarantee not to call anywhere until he reached the Red Sea. This guarantee was waived, however, in consideration of the urgency of the case, but the Nile is still to arrive in 60 days from Shanghai or to lose £1 of her freight. Under these circumstances Capt. Wright's offer to bring down the news must be thoroughly appreciated, utterly disinterested as it is, and proceeding from motives of pure courtesy and humanity. The offer was duly appreciated by the French Consul, who was politeness itself, and full of acknowledgments of Captain Wright's courtesy. The English Consul, on the other hand, was pleased to communicate with the captain through a subordinate, who was good enough to take off three from the list of four distressed seamen going home by the Nile, in consideration of the proffered service. It was impossible to do more, as the last \"distressed seaman\" remains on board to testify in mathematical language to the three-quarters-hearted kindness of British consular officers at Shanghai, in a case in which an hour's delay in delivering the despatches, which none but the Nile could take at the moment, was fraught with danger to the whole foreign community of Tientsin.\n\nOrders have gone to England for the immediate despatch of men of war.\n\n## Enclosure No. 2 in Major-General Stoneral Whitfeild's Despatch No. 447 of 6th July, 1870.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-145 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1870 [6-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 285493, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-152 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1871 [9-10]", "page_number": 107, "title": "CO129-152 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1871 [9-10]", "content_text": "## Brought forward of 1980\n\nSundries.\n\nRepairs to Roads where injured by the sea, rebuilding retaining Walls \n| Location | Cost |\n| --- | --- |\n| 45 Aberdeen Road | 400 |\n| Sow keewan Road | 450 |\n| Telegraph | 850 |\n\nNew posts, recreating those blown down, making good Connections of Land Line & to Public Gardens - \n| Item | Cost |\n| --- | --- |\n| New roof to Tank | 235 |\n| propping, staying trees | 325 |\n| New Bamboo Fences and trellis work, repair to Matshed and Cook house at Bowrington | |\n\nWaterworks... \n| Item | Cost |\n| --- | --- |\n| New roof to the Albanyer Fawk | 120 |\n| Total | $7,610|\n\nPraya Wall Vo \n| Cost |\n| --- |\n| 32,75 |\n\nSummary \n| Category | Total |\n| --- | --- |\n| Public Buildings | $40,360|\n\n**(Signed) L. H. Moorsom** \nSurveyor General \n\n**(True Copy)** \nIlancing Partin \nColonial Secretary: \n\n27.9.71.\n\nPutter. \nEC. \n106 \n\n11852. Hong Kong Contas \nDEC 4 \n1871 \n\nMessrs. \nPret ley \nr.o. 56244 \nneral \n\nMy Lord, \n\nGovernment House, \nHong Kong, 4 October, 1871.\n\nI have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of Your Lordship's Circular despatch of the 8th of August, acquainting me that it was the intention of Her Majesty's Government to give \n\nThe Right Honorable \nThe Earl of Kimberley, \nHer Majesty's Principal Secretary of State,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-152 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1871 [9-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 298591, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-174 - Sir Kennedy - 1876 [4-8]", "page_number": 514, "title": "CO129-174 - Sir Kennedy - 1876 [4-8]", "content_text": "Peking 29th May, 1876. Received 15th June, 1876.\n\nHer Majesty's Minister\n\nSir Thomas Francis Wade KCB\n\nto\n\nGovernor\n\nSir Arthur Edward Kennedy, KCMG, CB,\n\nElementary School Books\n\nChinese.\n\nReply to enquiries on the subject of--\n\nEnclosure no.2 in Governor Sir Arthur Kennedy's Despatch no 149 of 9th August, 1876.\n\nPage 2\n\nNo. 45.\n\n512\n\n11013\n\n76\n\nSURVEYOR General's Office,\n\nHONGKONG, 25th April, 1876.\n\nSIR,\n\nHaving been honoured by His Excellency's commands to prepare a memorandum of the sites which I have examined for the proposed Central School, with a view to the selection of the best, I have now the honour to report as follows:--\n\n2. As the search for a sufficiently large and level piece of ground in a good neighbourhood (the two essential requirements which it is sought to fulfil) has for so long a time occupied the attention of Government, almost every available site west of the City Hall has in turn come under discussion, so that in reviewing the advantages and drawbacks which attach to each property respectively, I have to touch upon matters with which His Excellency is already conversant.\n\n3. The sites referred to in the following paragraphs will, I think, be the only ones which can be considered in the present enquiry. Better ones of course abound, but as they are thickly covered over with valuable house property, the great cost of their acquisition places them beyond the reach of the Government.\n\n4. Site I. Inland Lot No. 591, the property of the Trustees of Messrs. Augustine Heard & Co., situate on Bonham Road overlooking the Berlin Mission House. (See Drawing 4.) The slope of the ground is very gentle and extremely favourable to the construction, at a moderate cost, of a level plateau. Area 61,500 square feet. Sufficiently large for school buildings and play-ground. Probable cost of resumption by the Crown from two to three thousand dollars. The objection to this site is, in Mr. STEWART's opinion, its distance from the Chinese quarters of the City and from the homes of the scholars whose attendance at the new school might be seriously reduced thereby.\n\n5. Site II. Possession Point. This is the open circular space known as the Recreation Ground. It is level and contains an area of 56,500 square feet. If the benevolent object of its reservation by Government as a place of public resort for natives has not been fulfilled owing to the want of appreciation for open spaces and fresh air so characteristic of the Chinese race, it is worth while considering whether it might not be utilised as a school site, in which case, it would be advisable to include the adjoining block of buildings, coloured blue in Drawing B attached. By this addition, the total area would be increased to 72,400 square feet, and a site formed for the new school and play-ground. The advantages of this site would be: (i) that the larger portion of it already belongs to the Crown; (ii) that it is level, a merit so extremely rare as to greatly enhance values in Hongkong; and (iii) that the locality is central. Its drawbacks, according to Mr. STEWART, would be the vicinity of the theatres, to which may perhaps be added the disadvantage of the outlay of $29,000 for the purchase of the land and buildings coloured blue in Drawing B. All these considerations, however, are subordinate to the main question of the inadvisability or otherwise on sanitary or philanthropic grounds of putting an end to the place as an open air public resort for the working classes after their day's labour. On this point, there appears to be an equally balanced diversity of opinion among those whom I have consulted.\n\n6. Site III. This site, as seen in Drawing (coloured purple), includes that on which the present school stands as well as the Bamboo Garden adjoining, coloured yellow, the whole comprising an area of 61,000 square feet, amply sufficing for all purposes. The new buildings would stand on the purple plot, while the yellow would be converted into a level plateau to form the play-ground. Both places belong to the Crown and their position is central, but these two advantages are...\n\nPage 3", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-174 - Sir Kennedy - 1876 [4-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 302742, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-182 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [9-12]", "page_number": 264, "title": "CO129-182 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [9-12]", "content_text": "# [No. 40.]\n## His Excellency Governor Sir Arthur Kennedy, K.C.M.G., C.B., to the Right Honourable the Earl of Carnarvon\n\nGOVERNMENT HOUSE, HONGKONG, 28th February, 1877.\n\nMY LORD,-With reference to your Lordship's Despatch No. 100 of the 29th July, 1876, I have the satisfaction of being able, on the eve of my departure, to inform your Lordship that the questions connected with the discipline and dietary of Victoria Gaol, Hongkong, have at length been satisfactorily settled, and put, I trust, upon a basis which will eventually result in a material decrease in its inmates. The long delay which has taken place not only in the preparation of the report, but in the final adoption of the regulations and dietary scale, has been owing to the thorough and exhaustive manner in which the Commission prosecuted its enquiries in the first instance, and to the desire by which the Executive was animated to allow every variety of opinion in matters of detail to be thoroughly ventilated and weighed before finally reducing to a system the suggestions recommended by individual members of the Commission.\n\n7. With regard to the proposed Regulations, I have to observe that the power given by the 7th Regulation to the Superintendent to put his subordinates in irons appears to me wholly illegal, and the infliction of fines can only be enforced under pain of dismissal.\n\n8. Rule 83, respecting the cutting of women's hair is at variance with the instructions conveyed in my Circular Despatch of the 22nd of April, 1876.\n\n9. I disapprove the power given by Rule 90 to the Superintendent to refuse to allow a prisoner under remand or committed for trial to see his legal adviser, and the power given by Rule 93 to a Committing Magistrate or Visiting Justice to forbid a prisoner in similar circumstances from seeing his friends; and I have to refer you on this subject to my Circular Despatch of the 27th of April last year.\n\n10. You should consult the Attorney General as to the validity of the power to administer oaths conferred by the 124th Section, and if the power is not effectually conferred by the Rule it should be created by law.\n\n11. The Rules relating to the Turnkey's mess, I consider are out of place and should be removed. There are no rules in the proposed Code as to labour. This important omission should be supplied.\n\nI have, &c.,\n\nWith these remarks I will leave the report of the Commission, together with the evidence taken by it, and the code of regulations and scale of dietary finally adopted by the Executive in your Lordship's hands.\n\nThe Right Honourable The EARL OF CARNARVON, Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies.\n\nA. E. KENNEDY, Governor.\n\n## [No. 57a.]\n### The Right Honourable the Earl of Carnarvon to His Excellency Governor Pope Hennessy, C.M.G.\n\nCARNARVON.\n\nDOWNING STREET, 28th May, 1877.\n\nSIR,-I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of Mr. AUSTIN'S Despatch No. 62 of the 28th of March, respecting the Report of the Prison Commission. *The Report of the Commission, together with the Regulations and Dietary Scale as approved by the Executive, appeared in the Government Gazette of 10th March, 1877, Vol. XXIII, p. 116.\n\n## [No. 45.]\n### The Right Honourable The Earl of Carnarvon to His Excellency Governor Pope Hennessy, C.M.G.\n\nDOWNING STREET, 7th May, 1877.\n\n2. You will gather from my Despatch No. 45 of the 7th of May, that as regards the discipline and dietary of the Victoria Gaol, it is my desire that more should be done than merely \"remedying\" such defects in detail as were incidentally brought to light, and as were capable of immediate \"amendment.\"\n\n3. My desire is that you should take into your early consideration the whole question of Prison Discipline on the basis of the recommendations of the Commission, with the modifications indicated in my Despatch No. 45 of the 7th ultimo.\n\n4. With reference to Mr. AUSTIN's request that I would procure for the Government of Hongkong information relative to the use of Cranks, I have directed the Crown Agents to obtain such information, which will be forwarded to you by an early opportunity.\n\nI have, &c.,\n\nGovernor HENNESSY, C.M.G.\n\n2. I do not gather from Sir ARTHUR KENNEDY'S Despatch what action the Hongkong Government has taken in regard to the Code of Regulations which has been drawn up by the Commission. I shall assume that those Regulations have not yet been promulgated and that it is therefore open to me to comment on them fully with a view to their amendment before promulgation.\n\n&c., &c., &c.\n\nCARNARVON.\n\n## [No. 72.]\n### The Right Honourable the Earl of Carnarvon to His Excellency Governor Pope Hennessy, C.M.G.\n\nDOWNING STREET, 20th June, 1877.\n\nSIR,-I have to acknowledge the receipt of Mr. AUSTIN's Despatch, No. 75, of the 11th of April, respecting certain matters of Prison Discipline.\n\n2. I rely on you to review the whole question of Prison Discipline in Hongkong; and to make such proposals as will place the system upon a sound basis for the future.\n\n3. In the letter from the Acting Colonial Secretary, which forms the enclosure to Mr. AUSTIN'S Despatch, I observe a direction that the practice is to be discontinued of Turnkeys employing prisoners to cook their meals for them and act as their body servants, \"when their quarters are so situated as to necessitate the prisoners passing outside of the office gates whereby they are enabled to communicate with the outside world.\"\n\n4. I am not disposed to disagree with the criticisms of the Committee on the subject of Prison Labour, and, as at present advised, I concur in their recommendation that the eight cranks now in store should be put up and made use of.\n\n5. If it is thought desirable to introduce a tread-wheel, one can be procured through the Crown Agents, and sent out to the Colony, with instructions how to put it together and use it.\n\n4. I do not know whether any Turnkeys have their quarters within the office gates. If there are any such, then under this letter they may continue to employ prisoners as their cooks and body servants. I consider that they should not be in any better position than those residing beyond the office gates, and should provide for their wants at their own expense. If your experience of climate suggests that it would be expedient to provide them with this assistance from public sources, the boon should be applied equally to Turnkeys residing beyond the office gates, and in some form less objectionable on grounds of discipline than prison labour.\n\nI have, &c.,\n\n6. The Committee seem to have considered the question of the reconstruction of the Gaol upon the separate system beyond the scope of their enquiries, though expressing an opinion in favour of the plan.\n\nI consider the separate system to be the only true basis of Prison Discipline, and among Chinese prisoners there are very special reasons for its adoption. It is mentioned in the Report that few of the Warders know Chinese, and the terrible outbreak in the Singapore Prison is a warning of the danger of affording Chinese prisoners an opportunity to combine. I have to request that you at once call on the Surveyor General to draw out plans for consideration showing the alterations that would be requisite and the surrounding ground and buildings,\n\n&c., &c., &c.\n\nCARNARVON.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-182 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 305196, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-186 - Public Offices & Others - 1879", "page_number": 455, "title": "CO129-186 - Public Offices & Others - 1879", "content_text": "## \n14. this, I read in the China Mail of the 24th September last that the parents of the present scholars had been asked by circular to state their wishes in this respect. Of 361 Chinese votes, 235 were in favour of learning with English and Chinese, and 126 in favour of Chinese only. Of parents other than Chinese, 11 votes were for both languages, and 1 for English only.\n\n(Sgd) J.E. Walker \n21 Sep 1878 \nJ.B.\n\n## \n13. In the department of building, I have had to erect new schools at a cost of $10,000, five in number. It is very difficult to find suitable buildings to let, and the work of building new schools has been greatly slowed by financial considerations. I hoped, at one time, to get a new village school house every year, until all the schools were properly accommodated; but the expense connected with the proposed Central School deterred the Government from proceeding with other school buildings, and myself from recommending them.\n\n## \n14. Of the five new schools referred to, the cost of four only can fairly be charged against the Education Department. The sum of $1,600 was given, about two years ago, to the Medical Department, on the occasion of a very serious outbreak of smallpox. It was represented at the time that nothing but this existing sum could have induced the Government to give my consent to the transfer.\n\n`124/1/29`", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-186 - Public Offices & Others - 1879.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 323357, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-212 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [10-11]", "page_number": 165, "title": "CO129-212 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [10-11]", "content_text": "(3.)\n\nIt may be here mentioned that when General Grant, the ex-President of the United States, visited China in 1879 he said that, in his tour round the world, he had seen only four really great men, viz., Disraeli, Gambetta, Bismarck and Li-Hung Chang and that he was inclined to consider the latter, the Chinese Statesman and General, the greatest of the four, especially taking into account his inferior opportunities of education in his early days.\n\nThe stay at Tientsin lasted three or four days, and then His Excellency, in company with Sir Harry Parkes, the two Misses Parkes, and Mr Grosvenor, the Secretary of Legation, left for Tung-chow in house-boats towed by the Viceroy's steamers. The country was compared by His Excellency with the delta of Egypt, the mud-built dwellings, and the general aspect of the country, subject to periodical inundations, giving an Egyptian appearance to the scenery. From Tung-chow the party rode to Peking, a distance of fifteen miles.\n\nAt Peking Sir G. Bowen was received in state at the Tsung-li Yamen, or Foreign Office, by the Ministers, and high officials who govern China in the name of the Emperor, a boy of 14 who has never yet been seen by Europeans. Prince King, the President and uncle of the Emperor sent a message to Sir George stating that in consequence of the death of one of his wives, the night before, he regretted he was unable to return His Excellency's visit immediately. The Prince sent Sir George, however, a magnificent dinner, which is the highest mark of Chinese respect. Twelve huge coolies staggered into the hall of the Legation, each bearing a covered tray. When the lid was taken off each of the trays there was a separate course inside of soups, fish, game, pastry, fruits &c. With this dinner were also sent two large jars of wine from the Prince's cellars.\n\nHis Excellency visited the many places of interest in Peking, and got admission to the Temple of Heaven, the \"Holy of Holies\" of China. His Excellency was particularly impressed by his visit to this celebrated temple. It is situated in an enclosure which occupies one corner of the Chinese city, and is about the size of Hyde Park. This park is planted with fine trees. In this temple, His Excellency remarked that there are no idols; only the Supreme Being is worshipped there; for once a year the Emperor offers up burnt offerings in it to the same God of Heaven who was similarly worshipped by Abraham in the wilderness. The following description of this noteworthy temple and the ceremonies performed in it, is taken from the Guide for tourists to Peking and its environs, Issued from the China Mail office in 1876. This grand establishment originated in ancient times; although the present buildings owe their construction to the emperors of the Ming dynasty, yet it cannot be doubted that an altar of heaven existed on this place in much earlier times. A high brick wall surrounds a well-kept park, with old trees; within this enclosure, covering more than one square mile, is a second one, which again is divided by walls into several compartments. Close to the entrance of the inner enclosure is the Chai-kung, or palace of abstinence--where the Emperor has to pass the night preceding the sacrifices in watching and meditation, a fine modern building. South-east to it is the altar, a beautiful white marble structure, ascended by twenty-seven steps and ornamented by circular balustrades on each of its three terraces; it has a diameter of about 100 feet. On the south-east of it stands, at a short distance, the large furnace for the whole burnt-offering; it is faced with green glazed tiles and is nine feet high. It contains an iron grating on which a bullock is placed at the time of the sacrifice; the remaining charred bones are generally to be seen within it. Outside there is a pit for the blood and hair. On the south-west of the altar there are three high poles for hanging lanterns, which give illumination to the sacrifice, as it is performed before dawn. North\n\n(4.)\n\nof the altar is another of somewhat smaller dimensions, called the Ch'i-ku-t'an, or altar for prayers on behalf of the harvest, On it is raised a magnificent triple-roofed circular temple, ninety-feet in height, which constitutes the most conspicuous object in the whole enclosure. It is seen from many points of the city and its environs, and that which is generally called by foreigners the Temple of Heaven. Before the last century the three roofs were covered with blue, yellow and green tiles, but by Kienlung these colours were all changed to blue. In the interior large shrines of carved wood. The windows are shaded by Venetians made of thin blue glass beads strung together; they are produced at the glass factories in Shan-tung, also, as at the great south altar, are seen on the south-east the green furnace for the bullock, and besides eight iron urns, in which the other offerings, consisting of silk, cloth, grain, &c., are burnt. On the east is a winding passage or cloister of 72 compartments of 10 feet each = 720 feet in length, leading to the slaughter-house. At the latter there is a very deep well, famous for its good water, an object worth mentioning in Peking. Besides those buildings there are two halls at the back of each altar, also covered with blue glazed tiles.\n\nThe worship of the Tien, Heaven, or Shang-ti, Supreme Ruler, is the most important of all the state observances in China, and constitutes a most interesting remnant of the ancient monotheistic cultus which prevailed in China before the rationalism of the Confucianists and the polytheistic superstition of Buddhism predominated. There are no images of any kind in the temple, and the offering of whole burnt bullocks strikingly reminds us of the ancient custom of Western religious, as that of the Hebrews and the Greeks. The ceremonies of the sacrifices are kept with the utmost severity and are of a very complicated nature. The chief sacrifice is at the winter solstice. On the 20th day of December the offerings and an elephant carriage are sent with great array to the temple, and on the 21st the Emperor follows in a sedan chair, covered with yellow silk and carried by thirty-two men; he is preceded by a band of musicians and followed by an immense number of followers, including the princes, high officials, &c., all on horseback. Having arrived at the Temple, the Emperor offers incense to Heaven and to his ancestors and inspects the offerings; then he is conveyed on the elephant carriage to the Palace of Abstinence, where he is not allowed to take any animal food or wine, nor to sleep. Next morning, seven quarters before sunrise, he puts on his sacrificial robes and goes to the southern gate of the outer enclosure, dismounts from the carriage and walks to the great altar, where an Imperial yellow tent has been erected on the second terrace.\n\nAt the moment he arrives at the spot where he kneels, the fire of the sacrifice is kindled and music is heard. The Emperor then proceeds to the upper terrace of the altar, kneels and burns incense before Heaven and also presents incense to his ancestors. Then he makes three genuflections and one prostration and offers bundles of silk, jade cups and other gifts, music being heard all the time. Afterwards he kneels at another point of the altar, where an officer reads a prayer aloud. At last he receives, kneeling, the \"cup of happiness\" and the \"flesh of happiness.\" With the first dawn the whole party returns to the palace. Foreigners, who watched the party when passing the Chien-men from the city wall, speak highly of the splendid appearance of the whole procession; hundreds of officials in brilliant robes of state and numberless followers on horseback, among them a company of the Imperial Life Guards.\n\nA similar sacrifice takes place at spring solstice, with the same ceremonies, at the northern altar, but the motive is the special prayer for a prosperous harvest, Whilst the winter sacrifice is offered for a blessing upon the whole empire.\n\nOn his first arrival in Peking, Sir G. Bowen was entertained most hospitably by Sir\n\n(5.)\n\nRobert Hart, for four days, after which Sir George made his journey to the Great Wall. On returning from this trip His Excellency stayed with Sir Harry Parkes at the British Legation. His Excellency did the trip to the Great Wall in four days, but he would strongly recommend those not pressed for time to spend six over it. One can either ride on horse-back, or go in a mule litter, on this journey. His Excellency rode most of the way,\n\nOr\n\nLeaving Peking, His Excellency proceeded to Nan-kou, a distance of 30 miles where he slept. During the night a thief stole his shooting jacket, with one or two articles in the pockets. Fortunately the Governor was provided with a change of raiment, so that the theft caused little inconvenience. His note-book was, however, unfortunately in one of the pockets, and its loss was deplored because it contained the notes of his journey. Sir George may console himself with the reflection that this theft was one that might occur in many inns in England. Nan-kou is a fortified, busy little town situated at the entrance of a long, picturesque valley, stretching to the N.N.W., and is the farthest outpost of a series of fortifications which defend the very important Nan-kou pass leading to the Great Wall. From Nan-kou, Sir George proceeded on the following day to the Pa-ta-ling gate in the Great Wall, a distance from Nan-kou of about fifteen miles,\n\nThe Governor returned to Nan-kou the same day. Nothing could be worse than the present state of the roads, but they and their surroundings afforded ample proof that in ages past this part of China could boast of magnificent highways, bridges and other structures. Nothing can be more impressive than the sight of the Great Wall stretching along the crest of a high mountain-ridge for 2000 miles. The same general decay is visible in modern China as in modern Turkey.\n\nThe next day His Excellency visited the Tombs of the Emperors of the Ming dynasty, proceeding to the village of Sha-ho to sleep. This was a heavy day's riding for a man of the Governor's age, but he said he stood it almost as well as when he rode across European Turkey from Constantinople to Corfu, in 1849, when he was only 28 years old. Sir George was deeply interested in the spectacle of the Ming Tombs, with their solid white marble gateways, the famous gigantic stone tortoises, the long avenue of colossal elephants, camels, horses, sages, and warriors, cut in sandstone, the marble terraces and staircases, the noble hall, and the grand amphitheatre of mountains around.\n\nAfter sleeping at Sha-ho, His Excellency, on the following day, visited the ruins of the Summer Palace and other places of interest in the neighbourhood, especially the Bell Temple, containing the third largest bell in the world. He returned to Peking the same evening,\n\nOn his return to Peking His Excellency stayed at the British Legation, where he fully discussed with Sir Harry Parkes the questions affecting the Government of Hongkong in its relations with China. The so-called blockade of Hongkong was found to be rather a difficult subject to deal with, and any definite action in regard to it was postponed until Sir Harry Parkes' visit to Hongkong, which will take place in March next. Then it will be further discussed, and the matter in due course of time will be laid before the Legislative Council His Excellency remained with Sir Harry Parkes at the British Legation about a week,\n\nThe voyage down the Peiho was much more rapid than that up, thanks to the strong current. Only a brief stay was made at Tientsin and Shanghai on the return journey, and Hongkong was reached, after an absence from the Colony of about seven weeks, on the 24th inst. During the whole time, the weather was very fine, and the temperature delicious, like that of the autumn in Italy.\n\nEnclosure\n\n163\n\nTen Chinese Met hus 1o-day a well-written Wa Tsz-yue\n\narticle extolling Li Hung-chang for the reception he gave to Sir George Bowen with the French and British Ministers. It begins by quoting the words of Mencius: \"It requires a benevolent prince to be able with a great country to serve a small one. And it requires a wise prince to be able with a small country to serve a large one.\" Of Sir George it says: \"We have in His Excellency a Colonial Governor, lenient and loyal. Already within the first year of his administration in Hongkong, in the social circle, easy and self-possessed, he has spoken monumental words of wisdom; in the line of enterprise, undaunted by hardship, he has explored the Great Wall, and in his official capacity, zealous and painstaking, he has worthily borne his part in international counsels. Truly our Governor possesses qualities which command the imitation of all his people and the respect of all his neighbours.\"\n\n4", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-212 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [10-11].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 333419, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-231 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1887 [1-3]", "page_number": 241, "title": "CO129-231 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1887 [1-3]", "content_text": "Our staff at present consists of:\n\n1 Superintendent.\n\n1 Assistant Superintendent.\n\n1 Do.\n\n1 Clerk.\n\n1 Engineer.\n\n1 Assistant Engineer.\n\n2 Engine Drivers, Chinese.\n\n3 Do., Europeans.\n\n2 Assistant Engine Drivers, Europeans.\n\n6 Stokers.\n\n1 Overseer of Water Works.\n\n1 Inspector of Dangerous Goods.\n\n1 Chinese Assistant Do.\n\n2 Foremen.\n\n4 Assistant Foremen.\n\n17 Firemen, Europeans.\n\n46 Do., Chinese.\n\n30 Do., Market Coolies.\n\n10 Chinese Contingent.\n\n15 Watchmen.\n\nFloating Engine.\n\n1 Assistant Foreman and Engine Driver.\n\n1 Chinese Engine Driver.\n\n1 Stoker.\n\n2 Seamen.\n\nSince the post of second Assistant Superintendent has been abolished and the joint appointment of Assistant Superintendent and Engineer has been made, a greater responsibility has fallen on the Acting Assistant Engineer, as the Engineer in his dual capacity is frequently called away to the scene of the fire, and must leave the Engines in charge of the next in command.\n\nLooking to the increased duties that devolve upon the Engineer and his Assistant, who now have to keep in an efficient state six steam engines and nine manuals, I consider the remuneration, which was voted at a time when there were only two steam engines, is somewhat inadequate to the increased duties and responsibilities.\n\nAt the Annual General Inspection in November last, a new feature was introduced in the form of competition at Fire drills for prizes, which acted as a stimulus to the members of the Brigades and gave them greater interest in their work; and amongst the Chinese particularly, this has resulted in bringing to the front some really valuable firemen. As an instance of the efficiency of the Brigades, I may mention that at the recent fire which occurred in Bonham Strand on a Sunday afternoon, within the space of a few minutes of the alarm being sounded, thirteen powerful jets of water were playing upon the burning houses.\n\nAt first sight our Brigade appears to be not only adequate as regards machinery, but also numerically, but when it is borne in mind that not more than half of the Europeans are available at any one fire, and that the hilly configuration of the Colony often requires two engines to do the work of one in order to reach the elevation required, it will be seen that the Brigade is under, rather than over, the necessary strength for a growing Colony like Hongkong.\n\nThe supply of water from the new Water-works (in course of construction) will materially assist in extinguishing fires in the upper levels of the Colony, and also in the early stages of all fires, if my suggestion with regard to telephonic communication is adopted. But the value of water mains must not be over-estimated, as in a case similar to that in Bonham Strand (referred to before) it would be impossible to concentrate such a body of water at any one given point from hydrants as could be obtained by steam Engines, and the superiority of salt water over fresh, for extinguishing fires is universally acknowledged.\n\nI cannot close this report without mentioning the able assistance I have had during the past year from the Officers of the Brigade. I may specially mention Mr. WAGNER, who has been acting as Engineer and Assistant Superintendent, Mr. RAE, the chief foreman, and Mr. CAMPBELL, Acting Assistant Engineer. These officers have devoted a great deal of time and attention to their respective duties and the present efficiency of the Brigade is in a great measure due to their untiring exertions.\n\nWe are greatly indebted to the Captain Superintendent of Police for the excellent order kept by his force at the various fires. The systematic working of the Brigade, and absence of malicious injury to hose and larceny of Government property, is greatly owing to the vigilance of the Police.\n\nSubjoined is a tabulated form showing the number of alarms of Fires, and estimated damage for the past year.\n\nThe Honourable F. STEWART, LL.D.,\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nActing Colonial Secretary,\n\n&c.,\n\n&c.\n\nYour obedient Servant,\n\nJOHN S. BREWER,\n\nActing Superintendent Fire Brigade.\n\nDate.\n\nYEAR 1886.\n\nRETURN OF FIRES AND ALARMS OCCURRED DURING THE\n\n \n Date\n Time\n Situation of Fire\n Cause\n No. of Buildings destroyed\n Wholly\n Partly\n REMARKS\n \n \n 1 January\n ...\n A stack of grass at the back of Joss house at Shaukiwán\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n Some thousands of young fir trees were destroyed.\n \n \n ...\n ...\n A bed curtain in No. 42, Circular Pathway\n Carelessness with a lighted cigar\n ...\n ...\n ...\n A number of Chinese\n \n \n ...\n ...\n Grass on hillside West of Mount Davis\n Unknown\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n \n \n ...\n ...\n Chimney of No. 27, Gage Street\n Sparks from the Engine House\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n \n \n ...\n ...\n Praya Central, Blackhead & Co.'s Store\n Carelessness with matches\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n \n \n ...\n ...\n Saw dust in No. 21, Pound Lane\n Unknown\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n \n \n ...\n ...\n Near Shaukiwán Market\n Accidental when cooking\n ...\n ...\n ...\n Burning Incense\n \n \n ...\n ...\n Grass above Tai-tam-tuk Water-Works\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n \n \n 13\n ...\n Grass on the hillside at Mount Davis\n ...\n ...\n 66\n ...\n ...\n \n \n ...\n ...\n A stack of grass at Shaukiwán\n ...\n ...\n 35\n ...\n ...\n \n \n ...\n ...\n A matshed at Coffee Plantation\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n \n \n 19\n ...\n Trap door No. 297, Queen's Road Central\n ...\n 1\n ...\n ...\n ...\n \n \n ...\n ...\n A bed curtain and beddings in No. 41, East Street\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n \n \n ...\n ...\n Matshed at Hungbòm Docks\n ...\n 1\n ...\n ...\n ...\n \n \n 26\n ...\n Cook-house No. 61, Praya West\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n \n \n 30\n ...\n A stack of grass at Taikoktsui\n Unknown\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n \n \n ...\n ...\n Grass on the hill near Parsee Point\n Do.\n ...\n ...\n 17\n ...\n \n \n 31\n ...\n Chimney of No. 4, Blue Buildings\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n \n \n 19 February 2\n ...\n No. 186, Hollywood Road, (Po Lok Theatre)\n ...\n Whole Block\n 02\n ...\n ...\n \n \n ...\n ...\n Matshed at No. 2, Gap Street\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n \n \n 5\n ...\n Stack of grass at Quarry Bay\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n \n \n ...\n ...\n Wooden partition at No. 49, Wear Street\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n \n \n ...\n ...\n Chimney at No. 1, Seymour Terrace\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n \n \n ...\n ...\n Stack of grass at Shankiwán\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n \n \n ...\n ...\n Matsheds at Naval Yard, Kaulung\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n \n \n ...\n ...\n Chimney at No. 11, Cochrane Street\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n \n \n ...\n ...\n Grass on the hill at Mount Davis\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n \n \n ...\n ...\n Chimney at No. 3, Taipingsbán Streer\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n \n \n ...\n ...\n Matsheds at Belchers Battery\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n \n \n 10\n ...\n No. 3, Wing Fung Street\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n \n \n ...\n ...\n No. 8, Wai Tak Lanė\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n \n \n ...\n ...\n Chimney at No. 5 Station\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n \n \n ...\n ...\n Staircase of No. 149, Queen's Road West\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n \n \n ...\n ...\n No. 84, Queen's Road East\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n \n \n ...\n ...\n No. 116, Praya West\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n \n \n ...\n ...\n Mosquito curtain in No. 266, Queen's Road West\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n \n \n ...\n ...\n Wooden partition at Gilman Bazaar\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n \n \n ...\n ...\n Chimney of No. 235, Queen's Road Central\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n \n \n ...\n ...\n No. 56, Market Street\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n \n \n ...\n ...\n Chimney at Iongkong Club\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n \n \n 6\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n 13\n ...\n ...\n \n \n 11\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n \n \n 21\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n \n \n April\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n \n \n 6\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n 35\n 'ZZ\n ...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-231 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1887 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 333506, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-231 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1887 [1-3]", "page_number": 328, "title": "CO129-231 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1887 [1-3]", "content_text": "10. Every cook-house of a dwelling or tenement-house, shall be provided on every floor with a suitably dished and perforated slop-stone, and with a down-pipe, securely fixed, trapped, disconnected, and ventilated to the satisfaction of the Board.\n\n11. All works connected with the construction, disconnection, trapping, and ventilating of house-drains, shall be carried out at the cost and charges of the owner of the house, by the Board or by persons approved of by the Board under the supervision of the latter.\n\n12. The Board may, by means of a written Notice, require the owners of existing buildings, the drains of which may be in a defective and insanitary condition, to construct within a reasonable time to be determined by the said Board, new house-drains, and to make such other improvements in the existing defective drainage of such building, as in the opinion of the Board may be necessary in order to bring such existing buildings within the provisions of this Ordinance.\n\n13. If it appears to the Board that a group of contiguous tenements may be drained more advantageously in combination than separately, the Board may order that such group be drained upon some combined plan to be approved by it, and the expenses shall be apportioned by the Board between the different owners of such group of contiguous tenements.\n\n14. If any building be without a sufficient drain, and if a public sewer of sufficient size be within one hundred feet of the premises or outermost boundaries of the lot on which such building is situated, and if such public sewer be on a lower level, it shall be lawful for the Board to require the owner of such building to connect with such public sewer by means of a proper drain of sound hard pipes of glazed stoneware properly jointed in cement mortar and adequately trapped and ventilated, to the satisfaction of the Board.\n\n15. Whenever the Board shall have reason to believe that the drains of any building are defective and in a condition prejudicial to the health of the occupiers of such building, or to the neighbours thereof, it shall be lawful for the Board to order an Inspecting Officer to enter the premises and to inspect such drains, and if requisite for the purposes of such inspection, such Officer shall cause the ground to be opened in any place or places he may deem fit, doing as little damage as may be, and should such drains be found in a satisfactory condition, they shall be reinstated and made good by the Board at the public expense, but should such drains prove in the opinion of the Board defective, it shall cause them to be properly reconstructed in accordance with the provisions of Section 12 of these Bye-laws.\n\nIn the Villages and Rural Districts of Hongkong and Kowloon.\n\n16. Every owner of a new building in the villages and Rural Districts of Hongkong and Kowloon shall construct the lowest story of such building at such sufficiently high level as will allow of the construction of a drain, and of the provision of the requisite communication with any public sewer into which such drain may lawfully empty or with any other means of drainage with which such drain may lawfully communicate.\n\n17. Wherever feasible, every house-drain in the villages and Rural Districts of Hongkong and Kowloon shall hereafter be an open drain consisting of a semi-circular channel of glazed stoneware set in lime concrete and jointed in cement mortar, or of good lime concrete rendered smoothly in good Portland cement.\n\n18. In isolated places not connected with any public drainage system, every such open drain shall lead and empty into a covered sump or cesspit built of brick or lime concrete rendered smoothly in good Portland cement mortar in such manner as to be water-tight.\n\n19. No premises within the City of Victoria or the villages of Hongkong and Kowloon, shall be so excavated as shall admit of the formation on the surface thereof, of pools of stagnant or other foul waters, and it shall be lawful for the Board to call upon the owner of any premises whereon such pools may exist, to fill up the same with earth to the level of the surrounding ground, or to drain off such pools by means of surface-drains into any channel with which such surface-drains may lawfully communicate.\n\nPage 323\n\n \n\nPage 323 \n\nPage 323", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-231 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1887 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 334859, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-234 - Acting Governor Cameron Governor Des Voeus - 1887 [9-12]", "page_number": 141, "title": "CO129-234 - Acting Governor Cameron Governor Des Voeus - 1887 [9-12]", "content_text": "42. No drain shall be so constructed as to pass under any building, except in any case where any other mode of construction may be impracticable. Any drain passing under a building shall be laid in one straight line for the whole distance beneath such building, and shall be completely embedded and encased all round in good and solid lime concrete at least four inches thick all round.\n\n43. Adequate disconnexion and ventilation shall be provided at the end of every house-drain by means of gully-traps, with slop-stone covers, or suitable iron perforated covers or gratings, and ventilating pipes, placed at such points and levels, and in such manner, as shall, in each case, be required by the Board; and every inlet to every house-drain shall be properly trapped, and shall be grated, or covered with a perforated stone or iron cover that shall effectually prevent the introduction of any solid substance into such inlet, and the perforations or apertures of every such grating or cover shall be of not less than the sectional area of the pipe or drain to which it is fitted.\n\n44. Every drain from a building communicating directly with any public sewer, shall be provided with a suitable trap, ventilating-grating, disconnecting manhole, or other appliance, to the satisfaction of the Board, at such point between such building and such public sewer as shall be pointed out, in each case, by the Board.\n\n45. No house-drains shall be joined in such a manner as to form any right-angled junction, either vertical or horizontal. Every drain shall join another drain obliquely in the direction of the flow of such drain.\n\n46. No ventilating-pipe of any drain shall be of a less internal diameter than four inches, and such ventilating pipe shall, in every case, be securely fixed and carried up clear of the eaves or to such height, as shall effectually prevent any escape of foul air into any thoroughfare or building.\n\n47. No overflow from any cistern or bath, or ablution, sullage, or refuse waters of any kind, nor the surface-drainage of any yard or back-yard shall be led from any building or premises through any down-pipe or open gutter into, or over any surface-channel of any public street, alley, thoroughfare, or other ground, nor shall such refuse waters be led into, or emptied over the surface of any back-yard, alley, or other ground belonging to such building, or premises, or other adjoining building or premises, but shall be conveyed in a watertight waste-pipe or down-pipe taken through an external wall, and discharged in the open air over a gully-trap covered with a grating, or granite slop-stone cover, and no such waste-pipe or down-pipe, shall be brought down any external wall or retaining wall, when such wall looks upon any public thoroughfare.\n\n49. Every kitchen of a dwelling or tenement-house shall be provided on every floor with a suitably dished and perforated slop-stone, and with a down-pipe securely fixed, trapped, disconnected, and ventilated, to the satisfaction of the Board.\n\n49. All works connected with the construction, disconnexion, trapping, and ventilating of house-drains, shall be carried out at the cost and charges of the owner of the house, either by the Board or by persons approved of by the Board under the supervision of the Board or to its satisfaction.\n\n50. The Board may, by a written Notice, require the owners of existing buildings, the drains of which are in the opinion of the Board in a defective and insanitary condition, to construct within a reasonable time to be determined by the Board, new house-drains in accordance with the provisions of this Ordinance, or to make such other improvements in the existing defective drainage of such buildings as in the opinion of the Board may be necessary to meet the requirements of this Ordinance.\n\n51. If it appears to the Board that a group of contiguous tenements may be drained more advantageously in combination than separately, the Board may order that such group be drained upon some combined plan to be approved by it, and the expenses shall be apportioned by the Board between the different owners of such group contiguous tenements.\n\n52. If any building be without a sufficient drain, and if a public sewer of sufficient size be within one hundred feet of the premises or outermost boundaries of the lot on which such building is situated, and if such public sewer be on a lower level, it shall be lawful for the Board to require the owner of such building to connect with such public sewer by means of a proper drain adequately trapped and ventilated, to the satisfaction of the Board: Provided always that, if, after the passing of this Ordinance, any owner, by order of the Board, connects his building with a public sewer, he shall not be required to connect such building, at his own expense, with any other public sewer.\n\n53. Whenever the Board shall have reason to believe that the drains of any building are defective and in a condition injurious to Health, it shall be lawful for the Board to order an Inspecting Officer to enter the premises and to inspect such drains, and, if requisite for the purposes of such inspection, such Officer shall cause the ground to be opened in any place or places he may deem fit, doing as little damage as may be, and should such drains be found in a satisfactory condition, they shall be reinstated and made good by the Board at the public expense, but should such drains prove in the opinion of the Board defective, it shall cause them to be properly reconstructed in accordance with the provisions of this Ordinance.\n\n54. Every owner of a new building in the villages and rural districts of Hongkong and Kowloon shall construct the ground floor of such building at such sufficiently high level as will allow of the construction of a drain, and of the provision of the requisite communication with any public sewer into which such drain may lawfully empty or with any other means of drainage with which such drain may lawfully communicate.\n\n55. Wherever feasible, every house-drain in the villages and rural districts of Hongkong and Kowloon shall hereafter be an open drain consisting of a semi-circular channel, of glazed stoneware jointed in cement mortar and laid to adequate falls on a bed of good lime or cement concrete, to the satisfaction of the Board.\n\n56. In isolated places not connected with any public drainage system, every such open drain shall lead and empty into a covered sump or cesspit built of brick or lime concrete rendered smoothly in good Portland cement mortar in such manner as to be water tight.\n\n57. No premises within the City of Victoria or the villages of Hongkong and Kowloon, shall be so excavated as shall admit of the formation, on the surface thereof, of pools of stagnant or other foul waters, and it shall be lawful for the Board to call upon the owner of any premises whereon such pools may exist, to fill up the same with good clean earth to the level of the surrounding ground, or to drain off such pools by means of surface-drains into any channel with which such surface-drains may lawfully communicate.\n\nPART IV.\n\n58. Every person, who shall erect a new building on land obtained from the Crown, after the passing of this Ordinance, and on a site, excavated out of a slope or declivity, shall not permit such new building to abut against the hill-side, but shall leave a clear intervening space or area of at least four feet between such new building, along its whole extent, and the toe of the slope of the hill-side, always provided that-\n\n(1) Any kitchen, or out-house, appertaining to such new building, may abut against the hill-side, if not designed, or intended for human habitation; and,\n\n(2.) Any basement story, designed for cellarage or purposes other than human habitation, may abut against the hill-side, to the extent of the height of such basement story.\n\n59. In the case of land obtained from the Crown before the passing of this Ordinance, every person, who shall erect any new building on a site which has been excavated out of a slope or declivity, shall leave a clear intervening space or area of at least four feet, between such new building, along its whole extent, and the toe of the slope of the hill-side, unless,\n\nPage 138", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-234 - Acting Governor Cameron Governor Des Voeus - 1887 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 343331, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-247 - Acting Governor Fleming Governor Des Voeus - 1890 [10-12]", "page_number": 78, "title": "CO129-247 - Acting Governor Fleming Governor Des Voeus - 1890 [10-12]", "content_text": "DRAFT.\n\n77\n\nJafferwand, Spurred on by the Military at a later date.\n\n6. It will be observed that Mr. Fleming also contends that the arrangement is unfair if the Colony is to contribute the whole value of the old site toward the cost of creating surrendered lands for buildings or a new site, and is so to provide the new site for which in its turn the Colony might be required to pay. Lord Knutsford considers that there is much force in this objection, and that it would only be just that in estimating the cost of new buildings the Colony, if it were required to contribute the whole value of the old site, should be credited with the value of the new site.\n\nBut if, as suggested above, only the value of the military interest in the land is calculated under the Circular of June 1890, this further question is of less importance.\n\n7. I am to take this opportunity of drawing attention to the correspondence between the War Office and the Admiralty printed at pages 36-38 of the papers which accompanied your letter of the 31st of May.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-247 - Acting Governor Fleming Governor Des Voeus - 1890 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 347779, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-253 - Public Offices & Others - 1891", "page_number": 221, "title": "CO129-253 - Public Offices & Others - 1891", "content_text": "W.o. contend that it should not, on the ground that a Colony should contribute, come if its means will allow.\n\nIf this principle is admitted then the whole work of land defence will follow.\n\nThe W.O. find that the Circular does not give them the Colonial defence que su har, 22 of which the surrendered land, Thing brush aside the circular lay down as an established principle that it is the duty of the Colony to the extent that its means will admit to provide lands and buildings for its garrison (par. 8). This principle was stated in theory in par. 15 of the dispatch of 20 Jan. 1890 (p.26. Enclosure to `10629/91`) but it was not insisted on in subsequent letters. The dispatch & declarations on this subject admitted by the Colony except the fortifications most & not buildings have hitherto been provided at Imperial cost.\n\nAs in Singapore all buildings have hitherto been provided at Imperial cost.\n\nI think we should ack. Not that Lord Knutivas considers that the question of assessing the value of surrendered properties should be kept separate from that of the ability of the Colony to provide Military Land & buildings.\n\nSo this is a bold assertion, especially deliberate.\n\nThe circular of 9 June 1890 embodies the decision of H.M. Govt and has been transmitted to the Colonies in that sense: and His Lt is not prepared to set aside that decision on the ground that its operation does application to Baghory is left to be communicated to the War Department that that Department sometimes sends. Lord Knutsford is of course quite willing that the full value of what the War Office should be assessed Surrenders as accurately as circumstances permit, but as the arrangement made by the Military authorities is to surrender only a right of occupation, the value of the fee simple which belongs to the Crown cannot be included in the assessment as it appears to F.O. for doing violence to the plain meaning of the Circular.\n\nShould other land or buildings be required at some time cost in excess of the value of what the W.O. surrenders then the excess cost is to be adjusted in the manner stated in par. 7 of the circular: viz. in each case upon its merits, or by agreement between the Colonial or special authorities and the Military authorities.\n\nNo agreement on the subject, general or special, exists between the Colonial authorities at Hongkong and the Imperial forts.\n\nJust as it should be performed, to inform the Governor that H.M. Govt have decided that it is the duty of the Colony to provide all such land and buildings so far as its means will permit, in the same way that it is the duty of a Colony to provide land and buildings for its garrison.\n\nThe Colony has not been asked to do this. The only allusion to the subject is in the suggestion contained in par. 15 of the dispatch of 20 Jan. 1890 cited in the 2nd par. of the letter under acknowledgement.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-253 - Public Offices & Others - 1891.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 347780, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-253 - Public Offices & Others - 1891", "page_number": 222, "title": "CO129-253 - Public Offices & Others - 1891", "content_text": "## The Memo\n\nand it is noted that not only is there no indication in that dispatch that the principal argument they then were pursuing was informing the justices of demanding a fair contribution is to be applied & tonifying, but in paras. 20+ of that dispatch other reasons are given for asking the Colony to make a £40,000 a year fair contribution towards the new Barracks.\n\nIt is argued that in denying this drop (the brush of 15th Com A Terr) H.M.G. Jan Xth Coling An KhányanLE that the caan sommes be adjusted & upon its merits, it is out...\n\nNow open 27. M. J. To avants that it is the duty of the Colony to provide the whole cost of the new Barracks so far as its means will allow. \"Sund I claim sufficiently of rainy unfes, then a Colony in which the majority of the Military buildings have been built at Imperial cost\";\n\nChance of being considered Doing disfacsimally, a sign tabl wmw have little hopper in the sender haud's ma defeat itself. It is more local are as son likely to succeed, for D. M. Gort. 2. protein, the terms laid down in the circular ing tasup the value of property Surrendues to the Colony & arrangs by agree to with the Colony for the adjustment of any Exups cost to the cast th garrisons.\n\nSotonly This differans time no insuperabt difficulty in assefing the disputer whares of the Colony & oth Military authentis in a property on thish they are jointly instinctio. The for simple valu is donatigo caturative upon do many years Runcime of an Yental, the the quainance button by apament as an Estimating In try it stench to jefuith for the Departout to the relativ & aper as & the 1 year Pentur. Io hi assigns the War offer as Jh.\n\nThe series date of the merpation rights or failing agreement to hubmit the gurkin ÞH drivin from independent authirty (8.4. For Love (hamollar). But since the principe of the apessant is determined Lond Inmirford d a Settlement of in prospect of the questions of Military lands not mly in Arushing, but in other colonies fach fands may be surrendend. When they had be done Shows The Guest will not becomes...\n\n# The Memo continues\n\nThe Me\" for of the latte allukes to 220 o of hat shot of paraties importan in in Shomes the proposal to umore the troops from Victini tak Effect The gmistion of assessment wise not arisen; and dam to refer the bundle it helps two litten 429 Jng 18902 his very bulky...\n\n...to ask whether W. Stanhope is in a position to give any answer to the proposal - If the Scheme falls things. It. assessments will recess mich broom Jeannet bursim has been farsion - and take the opportunity of asking whether aus come to as F# Barracks Enquired for the miseases_ both sefer & the 12th for. ofthe litter Love Kentiger thinthe, 2.0.don Int guests apprehende M. Fering argument, which is that as it sens to his [h. That braider the £40,000 money contribution & the Jamison the Colony Lover £50,000 a year of name which it Imex Percive in Zend on gates if the military lands were held by private lipus.\n\na that one for verginition of this fadds heavy bushin burthen Upon the Tolong. da is teen made nyards the last far. of the letter L?K. has not camera a Hanh 9h Mak- for the transfers reference to between the Adminally & 25.0: a has no Jusent recollection of such cases, bout de foresuron- that such Kansactions do not take plans without the Knowhity ofs.gs. a ofthe domine forts Lord K. is not clion Shathen it was intended that the with those Indent KM Joling - & the Joling - but de thinks it will be aufficiants to inform the...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-253 - Public Offices & Others - 1891.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 347781, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-253 - Public Offices & Others - 1891", "page_number": 223, "title": "CO129-253 - Public Offices & Others - 1891", "content_text": "**WAR OFFICE, PALL MALL, S.W.**\n5 September \n\n17312 \n\nGovernor that him oft has been in correspond with I.O. Deputy Lt. Hemings drops & that the drop. Affeous to Mis-apprehend the Meaning of the Circulars, as in the Graph which is below \n\nConcuren \n\nthis Draft is dusomitti deurist \n\nJ.M. 18/11 \n\nRyott hang \n\nict to Manston minute te fat wils draft for fette considerchen \n\nK \n20/11 \n\nIt is requested that in any further communication on this subject, the above Number may be quoted; and the Letter addressed to \n| | |\n| -------------- | ----------------------- |\n| The Under Secretary of State, | War Office, |\n| | Pall Mall |\n| | London, (S.W.) |\n\n21850 \n20 \n\nSix \nWith \nMarch \nF & T 1000 3- 91 \n221 \n\n**WAR OFFICE, PALL MALL, S.W.** \n5 September \n\n17312 \nWith reference to your \non the subject of \n| | |\n| -------------- | ----------------------- |\n| RECE | Red 7 SEP 31 |\n| | 189/. |\n\nletter of the 6th \nthe disposal of Colonial \nMilitary lands and buildings at Hong Kong : \nI am directed by the Secretary of State for War to observe, for the information of Lord Knutsford, that the despatch of the Officer Administering \nGovernment of Hong Kong, an extract from which accompanied your letter, seems to have been written under a Misapprehension of the intention and of the effect of the Colonial Office Circular of the 9th June 1890. \n2. In \ndealing \nwith this subject it is necessary \nto bear in mind the general principle which \n| | |\n| -------------- | ----------------------- |\n| The Under Secretary of State | Colonial Office: |\ngoverns", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-253 - Public Offices & Others - 1891.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 347782, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-253 - Public Offices & Others - 1891", "page_number": 224, "title": "CO129-253 - Public Offices & Others - 1891", "content_text": "## governs the incidence of \nThe principle that governs the incidence of the cost of Colonial Garrisons was clearly laid down in the despatch which Lord Knutsford addressed to the Governor of Hong Kong on the 20th January 1890 (`Eastern/mesq.`). It was stated that: \"it is difficult to lay down any broad principle for dividing the cost of Colonial defence, except that of the \"Mother Country undertaking the sea defence of the Colonies by means of her Navy, and of the Colonies, so far as their means allow, respectively providing for their own land defence.\" Under that principle, it is for the colony to provide, as far as its means will allow, the land and buildings required for the purposes of its garrison.\n\n3. In the circular of the 9th June 1890, it was proposed that the value of all existing Colonial Military Crown lands and all buildings should be regarded as a capital sum appropriated to defence purposes, and that in future", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-253 - Public Offices & Others - 1891.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 347787, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-253 - Public Offices & Others - 1891", "page_number": 229, "title": "CO129-253 - Public Offices & Others - 1891", "content_text": "227\n\nLara: 4\n\nwhere he speaks of any surplus value of surrendered lands being \"credited to the Imperial Government\", and the proposal of in Your Circular of June 1890 being a leaseable Casa: 6. legitimate way of improving the Imperial \"finances\" indicate a complete misunderstanding of the Circular.\n\nIn no case would any portion of the value of the lands be credited to the Imperial Government\". Nor would Imperial finances be in any way directly improved or affected. The credit would be to Colonial funds, which are liable to provide lands and buildings necessary for the defence of the Colony, and any surplus would be a gain to Colonial revenues.\n\n10. If this system does not recommend itself to the Colony, the Secretary of State is quite willing that the alternative system referred to in paragraph 7 of the Circular (7).", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-253 - Public Offices & Others - 1891.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 347794, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-253 - Public Offices & Others - 1891", "page_number": 236, "title": "CO129-253 - Public Offices & Others - 1891", "content_text": "# DRAFT.\n\n234\n\nLord Runtsford considers that the question of assessing the value of surrendered properties should be kept separate from that of the liability of the Colony to provide lands and all military buildings.\n\nThe Circular of 4 June 1890 embodied the deliberate decision of HM Government and has been transmitted to the Colonies in that sense; and \"It would be bitter if it were assumed that it is not proposed to depart from that Circular\" His Lordship is not prepared to depart from that Circular.\n\n## 3.\n\nHe is informed by Lord Monteford that he is quite willing that the full value of what the War Office surrenders should be assessed as accurately as circumstances permit and the amount provided by the Colony, but where Military authorities surrender only a right of occupation, the value of the fee simple which belongs properly to the Colony cannot, without ... be included in the assessment.\n\nPage 368", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-253 - Public Offices & Others - 1891.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 347795, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-253 - Public Offices & Others - 1891", "page_number": 237, "title": "CO129-253 - Public Offices & Others - 1891", "content_text": "235: ! as 1 appear to Lord it Kuntsford doing violence to the plain meaning of the Circular. Should other land or buildings be at any time required at a cost in excess of the value of what the War Office surrendered, the tort is to be adjusted in the manner stated in Para. 7 of the Circular; viz. in each case upon its merits, or by agreement, general or special, between the Colonial and the Imperial authorities. No agreement on the subject, general or special, exists between the Colonial authorities at Hong Kong and the Imperial Government; unless it be possible to inform the Governor that it would have been devised that the Colony must provide all such excess cost so far as it is probable, or permanent.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-253 - Public Offices & Others - 1891.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 347802, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-253 - Public Offices & Others - 1891", "page_number": 244, "title": "CO129-253 - Public Offices & Others - 1891", "content_text": "242 \n\n入 \n\nand any surplus over the cost of lands and buildings necessary for the defence of the Colony, and any surplus would be a direct gain to Colonial revenues. \n\n2. The Circular really proposed that the value of all existing Colonial Military Crown Lands and **buildings** should be regarded as a capital sum appropriated to defence purposes, and that in future, whenever any such properties were surrendered, as no longer suited to their purpose, the value should be recorded, and, if necessary, devoted, at the time, or subsequently, to the provision of such other lands or buildings as might be required for the garrison. This course would entail no additional charge on the revenues of the Colony, as it would actually receive the value it was required to hold available for future use, and it was pointed out in paragraph 6 that if some such rule were not adopted, the Colony on any change of properties would gain the full value of those", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-253 - Public Offices & Others - 1891.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 347803, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-253 - Public Offices & Others - 1891", "page_number": 245, "title": "CO129-253 - Public Offices & Others - 1891", "content_text": "## 243\n\nThe excess expenditure might be adjusted as proposed in Para. 7 of the circular and surrendered, while the Imperial Government might have imposed upon it the cost of providing other sites or buildings.\n\n3. In some Colonies, if the value of the surrendered properties should not suffice to provide such new properties as might be subsequently required, the Colony would, to the extent that its means permitted, be called upon to make up the deficiency; but whatever might be the means of the Colony, it would obviously be only just that it should contribute towards the cost of the provision of new lands and buildings the full value of those surrendered to it.\n\nWhile this, to a certain extent, would guard the Imperial Exchequer against extra expenditure, it would entail no additional expenditure on Colonial revenues.\n\n4. No object would apparently be served by endeavouring to ascertain the value of all lands provided by the Colony since its original acquisition by the Imperial Government, as suggested...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-253 - Public Offices & Others - 1891.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 347804, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-253 - Public Offices & Others - 1891", "page_number": 246, "title": "CO129-253 - Public Offices & Others - 1891", "content_text": "under the circumstances)\n\nThe time 244 M. Flemin od by the Officer Administering the Government of Hongkong. It was the duty of the Colony to provide all lands, and in future it will be credited in the records of the station with the value of all those it may provide, which value will as a matter of account be a set off against the debit value of all those surrendered. The balance, if any, against the Colony being dealt with under paragraph 7 of the Circular of 6th June 1890.\n\nIf this system does not recommend itself to the Colony, the Secretary of State for War is quite willing that the alternative system referred to in paragraph 7 of the Circular of June 1890 should be adopted in Hong Kong as it has been in Singapore. Under that alternative there will arise no question as to the value of lands, acquired or surrendered by the War Department for the defence of the Colony, which would provide all lands and buildings required for its garrison, and receive them back again when no longer suitable to their purpose.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-253 - Public Offices & Others - 1891.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 348655, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-254 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [1-4]", "page_number": 388, "title": "CO129-254 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [1-4]", "content_text": "# MATERIALS FOR A HISTORY OF EDUCATION IN HONGKONG.\n\nThe Board of Education, having undergone changes in its membership due to resignations and absences, now consisted of the Colonial Secretary, the Hon. W. T. Mercer (president), the Hon. A. Fletcher, M.L.C., Rev. W. R. Beach, the Rev. Dr. Legge, and Mr. W. Robinson (Secretary). The latter was soon succeeded by Mr. J. C. Power. At the request of the Board, Dr. Legge drafted a circular letter, which was forwarded (10th April, 1861) to the Registrar of London University and to the Principals of the Universities of Edinburgh and Aberdeen, requesting each of them to recommend to Bishop Smith (then in England) two gentlemen likely to occupy efficiently the position of Headmaster Principal in the proposed Central School. Bishop Smith was authorized to select from the candidates thus recommended the individual most likely to give satisfaction. The circular described the Government Schools, noting that \"they are not religious Schools, but the sacred Scriptures in Chinese are used as a class book.\" Dr. Legge's characteristic sentences in the circular included: \"The Headmaster will be expected to acquire the Chinese language, without a knowledge of which he cannot fill the situation efficiently. Under the right man, the Institution will not only benefit the Chinese population of this Colony but tell powerfully on the enlightenment and progress of the adjoining Continent.\"\n\nOn 25th March, 1861, Dr. Legge's Plan was submitted to the Legislative Council, which approved it and authorized the purchase of premises for the proposed Government Central School in Gough Street for $20,000 and the erection of an additional building on the same site.\n\nThe Board of Education had abandoned its former, decidedly religious, principles of education and adopted secular principles. This is evident not only from the circular letter but also from the fact that the Board resolved (2nd April, 1861) that the Bishop's Diocesan Girls School, a Christian School and constituted differently from the Government Schools, could not remain under the Board's superintendence. The Rev. W. R. Beach resigned his seat on the Board (3rd September, 1861), and a merchant, Mr. J. J. Mackenzie, took his place. As the Colonial Secretary ceased to attend the Board's meetings around the same time, Dr. Legge was appointed Chairman. Before the close of the year, the Board received (3rd December, 1861) information from the Bishop that he had selected Mr. F. Stewart, M.A., for the Headmastership of the Government Schools.\n\nIn their report for the year 1861, the Committee stated that Dr. Legge had inspected the Schools in the absence of a regular Inspector and reported favorably on attendance and teachers, but the report gave no statistics.\n\n## 1862\n\nSt. Paul's College School, under Mr. J. Fryer, assisted by 4 Chinese teachers, received English boys during 1862, teaching them together with Chinese boys. There were 44 boys in average attendance, and the School cost $4000. The Diocesan Female Training School, under Miss Eaton, continued in the Albany, rent-free, with an average attendance of 17 girls, at a cost of $2043. Miss Baxter continued her Chinese Day School in Ashton Buildings with 20 children and a Chinese-Eurasian Boarding School in Mosque Terrace with 13 children, costing $125 and $625, respectively. Miss Mugrath's European Day School in Mosque Gardens had 16 children, and Miss Legge's Anglo-Chinese School had 12 children. The Berlin Foundling House had 13 children attending school. St. Andrew's School, having closed at the end of the previous year, disappeared from the records.\n\nThe Roman Catholic Schools included: Mr. Rowland's B.C. English Boys School in Wellington Street with 30 boys at a cost of $960; Mr. Pereira's R.C. Portuguese School with 35 boys at the same cost; and Mr. Maurus Leong's R.C. Chinese School with 30 Chinese boys at a cost of $144. The Propaganda Society also ran a Chinese School in Spring Gardens with 35 boys under Mr. Vincent Uen at a cost of $192, and another in Aberdeen with 18 boys under Mr. Stephanus Chu at a cost of $144. The Ecclesiastical School of the French Mission had 10 students under Père Jaqueminet at a cost of $489. The Italian Convent had 20 girls in their English School, 28 girls in their Portuguese School, and 35 girls in their Chinese School, costing $2400. Their Chinese Girls School at Spring Gardens had 30 children at a cost of $144. The Asile de la Sainte Enfance had 34 girls and 15 Chinese boys under Sister Benjamin and Mr. Joseph Lee, respectively, costing $360.\n\nThe great event of the year for Government Schools was the arrival (18th February, 1862) of the new Headmaster, Mr. (later Dr.) Stewart, who established the reign of secularism in local education. He exercised a beneficial influence on hundreds of Chinese youths through his strict discipline and noble character. The Central School became highly popular and the ideal of the community under his leadership.\n\nBefore Dr. Stewart's arrival, Dr. Legge and Mr. J. J. Mackenzie had amalgamated four Government Schools into one Central School at Gough Street. The question of its permanent organization and admission principles was solved by Mr. Mackenzie's Memorandum (3rd June, 1862), which was accepted by the Board (8th October, 1862) with slight modifications. The Regulations for the Government Schools in Hongkong excluded rudimentary Chinese teaching from the Central School, admitting Chinese scholars only after a test examination.\n\nPage 188\nPage 26\nPage 27\nPage 382", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-254 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 348732, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-254 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [1-4]", "page_number": 465, "title": "CO129-254 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [1-4]", "content_text": "## Improvements Sites?\n\nAt the Straits we have agreed to adopt the policy of par. 7 of the Memo. Circular of June 9, 1890 (in lieu of that arr.405).\n\n### The Agreement\n\n1.8. The **W.O.** gives up all lands & buildings no longer required, receives in return all lands & buildings from time to time required. But at Hongkong we acknowledge that the Colony is bound to provide all lands & buildings required for the garrison (see par. 4 of letter to W.O. no 1701/91).\n\nIs it not however equitable to read par. 7 of the Memo. in Circ. 19 June 1890 along with the Duke of Newcastle's despatch of 1864 (which despatch formed a general agreement between the Colonial & Imperial authorities that might not lightly be set aside); and to interpret the two documents together?\n\nThat sites should be balanced against sites + buildings.\n\nThe idea is that **W.O.** should give up all sites not required, and receive in return fresh sites required, with the respective values of such sites being recorded or argued about; and then that **W.O.** should give up the buildings on abandoned sites, receiving in return sufficient compensation for the said buildings to enable them to build exactly equivalent buildings on the new sites, and the cost of doing so.\n\n### Proposed Terms\n\n1. **W.O.** gives up sites not required.\n2. **W.O.** receives fresh sites required.\n3. The values of such sites are recorded or argued about.\n4. **W.O.** gives up buildings on abandoned sites.\n5. **W.O.** receives compensation to build equivalent buildings on new sites.\n\nThe proposal is that the Colony should be called upon to make a fair contribution towards the excess of required new buildings over the value of the surrendered buildings.\n\nBut what contribution can hardly be settled till we know what the contribution is \"in accordance with parr. 20-22 of despatch of Jan. 1890\".\n\nOnly in some such way as this... \n\npp. 25-6 Print in `10629/91`.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-254 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 348756, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-254 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [1-4]", "page_number": 489, "title": "CO129-254 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [1-4]", "content_text": "## \n\nAnd to the with Ties W Rotminen the Fullayer framework \n\nBarka form \n\n480 DRAFT.\n\nUA Felestion of an Glitralór \n\nin the cases which have now arisen in Hong Kong the difficulty might with advantage be disposed of \n\n45 reverting the interpretation of the above mentioned Circular, his Lordship thinks it might with advantage be reverted to the arrangement made in 1864, as proposed by Sir W Robinson – an arrangement which seems fair to both sides, and is substantially in accord with the Treasury proposal in the case of the buildings at Cape Coast Castle which his Lordship admitted to be not unreasonable. (see Colonial Office letter of 2nd December last).\n\n5. With reference to your letter of the 2nd ultimo I am to request you to inform Mr Stanhope that his Lordship had not hitherto heard of the scheme which it is stated he has formulated regarding the agreement which appears to have been come to between the Governor, the War Department, the Admiral and the General Officer Commanding at Hong Kong, regarding the exchange of certain sites & buildings referred to in your letter to the Treasury of 31st March last, but he will refer the proposals to the Governor for his consequent report.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-254 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 350010, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-256 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [8-12]", "page_number": 318, "title": "CO129-256 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [8-12]", "content_text": "315 \n\nBarracks at 83 a foot for public buildings; the Government however had subsequently reported that they would prefer to acquire Murray Battery instead; and the local Military Authorities had favoured that alternative. The purchase of it was also consistent with the principle laid down for the exchange of lands in the Circular of June 1890, as that principle has been objected to, and nothing has yet been settled, it would be better not to include this transfer in the scheme; which indeed the condition of the Colonial Government renders necessary.\n\n10 \n\nWhat is now wanted is that the scheme originally approved, without the modification inserted by the War Office, shall with the assent of the Colonial Government, be submitted to the Treasury.\n\nThe Honourable the Colonial Treasurer inquired if the Admiralty had any idea what they would be likely to pay for Lots 20 and 21, should these lots be resumed by the Colony. He also pointed out that Mr. Sharp had several claims against the War Office for damage, against erection of a boat slip on foreshore claimed by him, for delaying in building on his property etc., and that these claims would not be settled by the resumption of the land, supposing it to be resumed by the Colony under the Resumption Ordinance. He also suggested that in the scheme, the Admiralty should be informed of Sharp's Buildings.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-256 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 350484, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-257 - Public Offices & Others - 1892", "page_number": 151, "title": "CO129-257 - Public Offices & Others - 1892", "content_text": "## 149\n\n2. The Government, laid down the broad principle that the Colonies ought, so far as their means allow, to respectively provide for their own land defence.\n\n5. In connexion with this subject, the Committee were required to report upon the general question of the disposal of Colonial military lands and buildings no longer required for military purposes, as well as upon a particular transaction, the sale of the military hospital at Mauritius by the military Colonial authorities. The Committee agreed to the attached report, which was approved by the War Office, the Treasury, and the Colonial Office; and paragraphs 53 to 61 inclusive of Report No. 5 were subsequently sent in circular to the Colonies for the information and guidance of the Governors, unless they had any serious objection of principle to urge against the proposal. A copy of this circular despatch, 9 June 1890, is attached.*\n\n6. The Governors of Hong Kong and Ceylon raised objections to the principle of the proposal, and a long correspondence has ensued, resulting in a difference of opinion between the Colonial Office on the one hand and the War Office and Treasury on the other, as to the meaning and effect of the circular despatch. The two last-mentioned Departments contend that under the agreement between the three Departments, embodied in the circular despatch of 9 June 1890, the value of the surrendered land means in all cases the full market value. The Colonial Office admits that the full value of what the War Office surrenders should be assessed as accurately as circumstances permit, and the amounts provided or recorded by the Colony; but it maintains that when the military authorities have only a right of occupation or user, it is only this right that they surrender, and that the value of the fee simple which belongs to the Colony cannot properly be included in the assessment. The three last letters of the correspondence are attached.*\n\n`C.O. to W.O. 21st July 1892, 13560. W.O. to C.O., 12th Aug. 1892, 16189. Treasury to C.O., 18th Aug. 1892, 16492.`\n\n*See Appendix I., II, III.\n\n7. The question has become a pressing one in connexion with a certain piece of land at Hong Kong called the Murray Battery, and with what are known as the Military Reserves at Colombo, and a settlement of the dispute is on every ground desirable. The first step is to consult the Law Officers of the Crown as to the legal interpretation of the language of the enclosure to the circular despatch.\n\n8. It should be stated that the question is confined to the site, for it is admitted that if a Colony enters into possession of buildings which have been built from Imperial funds their value at the time of transfer should be paid by the Colony, the amount being expended in other military buildings in the Colony, if these are required, or paid into the Imperial Exchequer if no further building is contemplated. If the buildings had been originally built by the Colony it could not in justice be asked to buy them back, though if other buildings are immediately required, then as the War Office loses the use of the old buildings, the Colony, if its means permit, might fairly be expected to contribute towards the construction of the new buildings a sum equivalent to the value of the old ones, as part of the arrangement between the Imperial and Colonial Governments for jointly providing the cost of such construction.\n\n## HONG KONG\n\n9. The Island became a British possession about fifty years ago, when it was inhabited by only a few fishermen, and the lands which then passed into military occupation were of small intrinsic value. But the city of Victoria is now a wealthy commercial emporium, the population amounts to nearly 200,000 persons, and the land in military occupation, which is in the centre of the city, is estimated to be worth from one dollar to three dollars a square foot, and in the aggregate to be worth between three and four millions of dollars.\n\n10. The land is mainly occupied by barracks and other military buildings, and is held by the War Office without any written title and without payment of any kind to the Colonial Government. In the hands of the Colonial Government, it would produce a very large annual revenue in rents and rates, and the Colony complains that so long as the land is in military occupation it loses this revenue, of which no account is taken in fixing its annual military contribution. The contribution, however, is far below the total cost of the garrison, so that the complaint, which in itself is fair enough, cannot be entertained.\n\n11. The Colony has appealed to an old despatch from the Duke of Newcastle as furnishing a simpler and better mode of dealing with these lands. That despatch, No. 15 of the 27th of January 1864, stated: \"that land not required for military purposes will revert to the Colony, the Colony, however, being bound to make reasonable compensation for the improvements which have been effected upon the abandoned site, and also that if the abandonment imposes on the Imperial Government the necessity of procuring a fresh site elsewhere, that site must be acquired at the expense of the Colony.\"\n\n12. The War Office, however, declines to recognize the principle laid down by the Duke of Newcastle, and maintains that \"the arrangement was very limited in its scope, and is inapplicable to present circumstances, and there appears to be no sufficient reason for setting aside in its favour the principles so recently laid down in the memorandum accompanying the Colonial Office Circular of the 9th June 1890.\" This reference to the inapplicability of the despatch to present circumstances is doubtless explained by the fact that the sites proposed to be abandoned as not required for military purposes are worth from one to three dollars per square foot, irrespective of the buildings, and that the War Office, although it possesses only a partial interest in the land, desires that this value shall be paid by, or recorded against, the Colony in full, thus obtaining for itself in aid of War Office Votes, the entire benefit of the rise in value of the sites since they were first occupied.\n\n13. The position is illustrated by the question of the Murray Battery. The Colonial Government desires to obtain possession of the site of this disused battery comprising about 43,832 square feet, for the purpose of erecting Government buildings. The Treasury, in their letter of 17th August 1892, \"hold that the... \n## Page 149 \n... \n`Appendix III` \nA 2 \n...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-257 - Public Offices & Others - 1892.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 350485, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-257 - Public Offices & Others - 1892", "page_number": 152, "title": "CO129-257 - Public Offices & Others - 1892", "content_text": "## 150\n\n\"The Colonial Government should pay to the War Department the full market value of the battery (estimated at £6,940) at once, if it is surrendered to the Colony, because the War Department have to spend that value (and much more) in building barracks for the Colony. But if the Colonial Government have a reversionary interest in Murray Battery, they should, in return, be given a like reversionary interest to an equal value in the new barracks, which interest that Government will be entitled to realise should neither the barracks, nor their equivalent, be required hereafter for purposes of defence.\"\n\n## 14. \nThe new barracks will probably be built upon land which belongs to the Colony in full ownership; which would thus first pay the full market value of the site of Murray Battery, and in return would get less than nothing, seeing that it would have to provide a new site of which it would become partial instead of remaining full owner. And further, should the barracks on the new site hereafter be abandoned, and others be built elsewhere in their stead, the Colonial Government would, under this arrangement, be again called upon to pay the full market value of the site, notwithstanding they are partial owners of it, and so on, *toties quoties*.\n\n## 41\n\n## 15. \nThe Governor, writing on the 29th July 1892, says, \"That this so-called battery has never within the last 25 years been of the slightest value from a military point of view. When the population of Hong Kong consisted of a few fishermen living in the historic matsheds, and Stonecutters Island and Kowloon were inhabited by pirates, Murray Battery no doubt occupied a dominant position, but certainly within the last 25 or 30 years a gun fired from Murray Battery would have done infinite damage to the finest and wealthiest portion of the Colony, and the battery itself would have been a source of danger rather than of protection. This ruin, however, has been tenaciously held by the War Department for a period of a quarter of a century during which it has been perfectly useless, and has become an eyesore to the neighbourhood. In such circumstances, the site should be restored to the Colonial Government without delay. The question of reasonable compensation for improvements cannot possibly arise in this case; it would be more to the point to ascertain what loss has been sustained by the Colonial Government for the purposeless occupation for upwards of 20 years of a site of land which might have been utilized by the Colony.\"\n\n## 16. \nIt may be right that the Colony should contribute towards the cost of military buildings, but it is contended by the Colonial Office that in that case the amount should be fixed by arrangement, and not by attributing to the memorandum enclosed in the circular of the 9th June 1890 a meaning which it was not intended by that Department to bear, and to which the Colonial Government strenuously objects. It is obvious that any excess of cost beyond the full market value of the land would, even according to the War Office view, have to be provided by arrangement.\n\n## 5\n\n## CEYLON-COLOMBO\n\n## 17. \nThe Military Reserves at Colombo stand on a somewhat different footing to the lands in military occupation at Hong Kong, though, like the latter, no written title has ever been issued for them. These Reserves, as they are called, are lands situated within and around the site of the old Dutch fort which defended Colombo when captured by the British at the end of the last century. The fort was defended by walls and drawbridges, and a space outside was left clear presumably in case of an attack from the land side. In course of time, the probability of any land attack passed away, the military observances for defence would appear to have been gradually relaxed, and as the town grew, persons were admitted to carry on their business inside the fort, and others permitted to settle outside. Eventually, the walls were pulled down and the ditches filled in at the cost of the Colonial Government, and the site of the fort is now part of the open town of Colombo. The town and harbour are now defended on a different system and are protected by forts recently erected, the fire of which is directed seawards to repel a naval attack. Two of these forts are outside the reserves; one of them is situated within a portion of the reserves.\n\n## 18. \nPart of the site of the old fort is laid out in streets and has passed entirely into civil occupation; part is occupied by the barracks and other military buildings; but there remains a considerable portion from which the Colonial Government desire that the reservations should be removed, and which it is stated are not really necessary for the working of the forts or the convenience of the troops; and it may be added that the Colonial Railway runs through the whole length of one side of this portion.\n\n## 19. \nThis portion may again be divided into two parts; one consisting of two pieces known as the Lotus Pond (which the Colonial Government would probably fill up), and as the Racket Court Garden, which adjoins the Lotus Pond. Between these two portions and the harbour, the Colonial Government have reclaimed from the harbour a piece of land, now occupied by coal sheds, and the War Office insists that this reclamation forms part of the Military Reserves, although it has only come into existence in recent years. The Racket Court Garden is not a garden in the ordinary sense, nor is there a racket court on it. It is an open space where horses are frequently sold, where volunteer drills are held, and other gatherings take place. There was formerly a theatre on it which was burnt down, and there is now a building upon it which is used for exhibitions, public performances, and similar purposes.\n\n## 20. \nThe other part is also open, and is traversed by roads, which are kept up either by the Colonial Government or the Municipality, to whose rates the military do not contribute beyond a sum of some Rs. 1,700 for the gas used in lighting the barracks. The reserves are lighted and kept in order by the Municipality and watched by the Colonial Police. \n\nE 73438-}, \n\nA 3", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-257 - Public Offices & Others - 1892.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 350487, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-257 - Public Offices & Others - 1892", "page_number": 154, "title": "CO129-257 - Public Offices & Others - 1892", "content_text": "# APPENDIX II.\n\n## WAR OFFICE to COLONIAL OFFICE.\n\nWar Office, Pall Mall, August 11, 1892.\n\n**SIR,**\n\nI AM directed by the Secretary of State for War to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 21st July, and to acquaint you, for the information of Lord Knutsford, that it scarcely appears to Mr. Stanhope that any practical object will be served by further discussion between the two Departments; and that he has caused a letter to be addressed to the Treasury—copy enclosed—with a view to eliciting the opinion of their Lordships as to the right mode of calculating the value of military lands surrendered to a Colony, and the desirability of referring the question to legal authority.\n\nThe Under Secretary of State, Colonial Office.\n\nI have, &c. \n(Signed) **RALPH THOMPSON**.\n\n## WAR OFFICE to TREASURY.\n\nWar Office, August 9, 1892.\n\n**SIR,**\n\nWith reference to the letter addressed to you from this Office on the 22nd July, enclosing copies of correspondence between the Colonial Office and this Office on the subject of the general principles which should govern the assessment of the value of military lands surrendered to a Colony, I am directed by the Secretary of State for War to transmit herewith, for the information of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, the enclosed copy of a further letter from the Colonial Office, and to request that you will be good enough to move their Lordships to express their opinion upon the questions at issue between the two Departments.\n\n1. Briefly stated these questions are:-\n\n| Question | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| I. | Whether the value of the lands should be taken (a) as the full saleable value; or (b) as the saleable value less any interest which the Colony may be considered to possess in the lands, notwithstanding their having been set aside for defensive purposes. |\n| II. | Whether the above question is one that should be decided (c) as a matter of law by reference to legal authority; or (d) on final resort, if the three Departments concerned are unable to agree, by reference to the Government. |\n\n2. The opinion of Mr. Stanhope on Questions I. and II. is fully stated in the letters addressed to the Colonial Office from this Office on the 23rd March, `Hong Kong, 8/1289`, and 4th July, `Hong Kong, 8/1298`, nor does it seem necessary that he should do more than make the following observations on the enclosed letter from the Colonial Office.\n\n3. The Colonial Office in paragraph 2 states that the proper interpretation of the language of the memorandum enclosed in the Colonial Office Circular of the 9th June 1890 addressed to the various Colonies \"is strictly a legal question, and it was for this reason that Lord Knutsford proposed to submit the case to the Lord Chancellor;\" but this is scarcely borne out by the Colonial Office letters of the 4th December 1891, 10th February 1892, and 19th May 1892, in which the question proposed for legal arbitration is the general question of the mode of valuing the lands, and not the interpretation of the memorandum.\n\nMoreover, the memorandum itself does not possess the character of an Act of the Legislature or of a legal instrument. It was the outcome of the deliberations of an Inter-departmental Committee, endorsed by The Treasury, Colonial Office, and War Office, and its right interpretation and application are not matters of pure law but of policy, and belong in last resort, as this Office contends, to the Government.\n\n4. Again, with regard to the 4th paragraph of the Colonial Office letter, I am to observe that Mr. Stanhope is not unprepared to accept the contention of the Colonial Office, with the proviso that the Colony having set aside the value of the land in question as a capital contribution towards its defence holds itself liable to reproduce such value, when required for similar purposes.\n\n5. A copy of this letter has been sent to the Colonial Office.\n\nThe Secretary to the Treasury.\n\nI have, &c. \n(Signed) **R. H. KNOX**.\n\n# APPENDIX III.\n\n## TREASURY to COLONIAL OFFICE.\n\nTreasury Chambers, August 17, 1892.\n\n**SIR,**\n\nTHE Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury have had before them your letter of the 25th ultimo, and the preceding correspondence sent to them by the War Office respecting the valuation to be set upon military land in Hong Kong when surrendered by the War Department to the Colonial Government, a point on which a difference of opinion has arisen between Lord Knutsford and the Secretary of State for War, and which Mr. Stanhope wishes to submit for the decision of the Treasury, whilst Lord Knutsford would prefer either the arbitration of the Lord Chancellor, or a reference to the Law Officers of the Crown, because the question is one between the Imperial and Colonial Exchequers on which my Lords are interested parties.\n\nUnder the agreement arrived at by Her Majesty's Government, on the recommendation of the Colonial Military Contributions Committee, and communicated by the Colonial Office to the Colonies in a Circular Despatch of the 9th June 1890, \"when Colonial military land, occupied by the military authorities without any title deed, or conveyed to the Board of Ordnance or Secretary of State for War by grant from the Crown signed by the Governor, for purposes of defence, is no longer required for those purposes, it is to be surrendered to the Colonial Government, on payment of its estimated value in kind or money, if that value be immediately required for the military defence of the Colony, or if not, on condition that the Government agrees to hold its recorded value at the time of transfer, or its actual proceeds if subsequently sold, at the disposal of the War Department, in case they are obliged at any future time to obtain land for purposes of defence in the Colony.\n\nThe War Department contend that the value to be either immediately paid for the land, or held to their credit at call, is the full estimated market value, or the full actual proceeds of sale, of the land, in accordance with the probable intention of the Colonial Military Contributions Committee. The War Department are trustees of this land for defence purposes, and it would be a breach of trust if they surrendered it without retaining the right to resume possession of it, or of its equivalent in land or money, when required for the purposes of the trust. If the future need can be met by something less than this equivalent, the War Department will be content with less, for the time being; but their duty as trustees compels them to reserve the right of regaining possession of the full equivalent of whatever they surrender, and the only practical measure of that equivalent is the sum which the surrender will enable the Colonial Government to obtain for the land.\n\nOn the other hand, the Colonial Office maintain that the value to be recorded or paid ought to be substantially less than the full market value of the land, because the War Department are but limited owners of it, possessing only a right to its perpetual use for a particular purpose. The War Department have, it is assumed, no power of alienating the land from the purpose for which they hold it in trust, except by surrendering it to its reversionary owner, the Colonial Government. The full market value of the land could not be realised without a surrender of the rights of both parties, of the War Department as potentially permanent occupier, and of the Colonial Government as reversioner. It would be unfair, therefore, to make the Colonial Government pay to the Department the value of its own rights as well as the value of those of that Department. The rights of either party alone would probably be quite unsaleable. If the union of those rights be necessary to produce a price, that price must belong to both parties jointly.\n\nMy Lords acknowledge the force of the arguments on both sides. For the integrity of the trust and in the interest of the defence of the Colony, the War Department must be enabled by the Colonial Government to replace what they surrender, whenever necessary. The limited purpose for which the War Department hold the land would require the new land to be obtained probably not for less than its full market value; therefore the Colonial Government must hold at the disposal of the War Department the full market value of the land surrendered. But, in return, the Colonial Government may fairly ask to be given the same reversionary rights over the land acquired by the War Department in substitution for that surrendered as they enjoyed over the surrendered land.\n\nWhat has been said of land applies equally to buildings.\n\nTo take an example, my Lords hold that the Colonial Government should pay to the War Department the full market value of Murray Battery at once, if it be surrendered to the Colony, because the War Department have to spend that value (and much more)...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-257 - Public Offices & Others - 1892.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 350491, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-257 - Public Offices & Others - 1892", "page_number": 158, "title": "CO129-257 - Public Offices & Others - 1892", "content_text": "be available for Civil buildings of the Civil Govt. or \nOther Crown Lands be alienable by \nThe Colonial Governor, the proceeds \nbeing paid into \nthe Colonial Treasury and applied \nFor the purposes of the Civil Government. \n\nThe \nMilitary occupation is unlimited \nin point of time \nso long as the land continues to be \nrequired for Military purposes: and so \nlong \nas that state of affairs exists no dispute delates to \nquestion arises; the dispute \nrelates to \nlands which are \nadmittedly not required \nfor military purposes, which the Colonial \nGovernment desires to utilize for \nother \npurposes, but which the Military \nAuthorities decline to give up unless the \nColonial Govt. admits a liability for the full market value to be paid whether \nawarded as compensation for injury done to lands in the future or in the future according to other Military works or buildings \nnow or \nthat \nmay hereafter be required for \ndefence of the Colony. \n\n3. In consequence owing to \nthe \nfortification in recent years of \nVarious important Coaling Stations Situated in various Colonies, H. M. Govt. have had to consider the \nAmount which each of these Colonies should contribute annually Towards the \nCost of the Garrison and \nthe \nFortifications. And in Connection with \nthis question \nan \nagreement has been come \nto by the War Office and the Colonial Office as to the terms \nupon which Military Properties shall be surrendered to the Colonies, if no longer required for defence purposes. This agreement was transmitted to the Colonies concerned in a circular despatch from \nthe Sec. of State for the \nColonies dated 9th of June \n1890. \n\nand \nThe dispute arises upon this Memorandum. \n\n4. I now invite \nyour \nattention \nto the accompanying papers", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-257 - Public Offices & Others - 1892.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 350661, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-257 - Public Offices & Others - 1892", "page_number": 328, "title": "CO129-257 - Public Offices & Others - 1892", "content_text": "## WAR OFFICE, LONDON, S.W., 12 January 1892\n\nColomine views on this matter and with other matters are with Kuhn & Dr. Kristoph. Thought better get to face the retort that Theory is indebted on the millions expended for the sake of the Colonists, but now that British Merchants in the H.K. & in India may have safely & carry on a lucrative trade with the Empires China & Japan.\n\nAs regards par. 2, L. Knut, for instance, that he has been misinstructing his agent mean & program that he quaition any arbitration whoever goes into negotiation, but that be the value large or small he chance or asks to lay down, apportion the sum wh. The H.O. may claim in respect of their occupation or `estrichto` the `dory` in respect of its torsion.\n\nLush Unatilaire thinks that W. Stanhope's attention has not been called to the circular and the time when their letter was written, for under sec. 5 the Colony have to contribute, may have to send in the cost of things regarding many manual sites, unlike as is done likely in H.K. become many company Cadastral the new site and Sinnaple on the old site an exactly equal figure in value. Whenever they are exactly special the cases suggested in fram. 3 & 4 might apply, but in other cases it is to ascertain the Money value of the War Office interests in order to fix the money contribution of the Colony under the Circular. And as there is a difference of opinion between the Departments, he thinks an arbitration is unavoidable. & he believes that the point at issue may be referred to arbitration in a joint statement of facts which would place `8544/20`.\n\nDraft along for consideration `Rm 572` No... 185\n\nIt is requested that in any further communication on this subject, the above Number may be quoted; and the Letter addressed to— \nThe Adjutant-General to the Forces, War Office, `Wo 17872` London, (S.W.)\n\n## WAR OFFICE, LONDON, S.W., 12 January 1892\n\nWith reference to your letter dated 4th December 1891 on the subject of the despatch of Colonial lands and Buildings in occupation of the Military at Hong Kong, in which you forward draft of a despatch addressed to the Governor of that Colony on the letter, I am directed to observe that while concurring in the draft despatch Mr. Stanhope regrets the slight reference to paragraph 10 of your letter under reply. The Secretary of State for the Colonies has not communicated to the Colony more fully the arguments which showed the advantages which the Colony derives from Imperial protection and expenditure. In view, however, of the understanding recently arrived at that inter-departmental correspondence of a controversial nature should not be communicated to Colonies, Mr. Stanhope does not...\n\nTo be Under Secretary of State, Colonial Office. \nLyngsh", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-257 - Public Offices & Others - 1892.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 350667, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-257 - Public Offices & Others - 1892", "page_number": 334, "title": "CO129-257 - Public Offices & Others - 1892", "content_text": "## DRAFT\n\nsecond par. of your letter, his Lordship regrets to find that he has been misunderstood, as he did not mean to propose that an arbitrator should go into questions of value, but that, be the value large or small, he should be asked to lay down a principle, which to apportion cases arise the Shards, which War Dept. has stated.\n\n5. may claim in respect of their occupation of the Colminian respect of that the occupation refunds. If its revision: as for instrument.\n\n1. Is the salary ruler, The worsion.\n2. or what other proportion May Sermo tion fair and with cines. Mathematical.\n\n5. M. Stanhope's attention to Accuracy is obviously not attainable in such a case. Colidiffie drawn to the Memorandum.\n\nA Third pass from lith Love Kruction admits that it is only in occupation value or 2\", which has to be dealt with as if the old Litigation & the new site were exactly equal in saleable value, the occupation in one case pro tanto. Delann the occupation in the other. Bank it seems & Lower.\n\n## MINUTE!\n\nMr. Kutions notes that under par. 5 the Memorandum enclosed with circular, this question of 9 at the line. th June 1890, when your letter was written, for under sec 5 of that Memo the Colony may have to contribute in cash money toward the cost of the buildings required.\n\nMr. Paisfoto thinks the Colony might be called upon to make payment in money for the reconstruction of works in cases where the new site is of greater value than the old, unless as is seldom likely to be the case the new site & the old site are exactly equal in value.\n\nMr. Wingfield, Mr. Bramstof, and Mr. Meude concur that in the balance in the two cases the S.C. claim to \"\". And only the Money value is ascertained of 26. his Lt does not perceive that the Balance is struck.\n\nLord Knutsford Concurs that in the value. Whenever they are exactly equal the cases suggested in par 344 of your letter might apply but in other cases it would become necessary to ascertain the value.\n\nPar 4. Ly substituting New par 5. in Draft for Examples £100000. for simple value.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-257 - Public Offices & Others - 1892.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 350668, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-257 - Public Offices & Others - 1892", "page_number": 335, "title": "CO129-257 - Public Offices & Others - 1892", "content_text": "to ascertain the money value of the W.O. interest in order to fix the money contribution of the Colony under the terms of the Memorandum.\n\n16. As there is a difference of opinion between Deputy ... Lord Knutsford thinks that an arbitration is unavoidable. His Lordship believes that the point at issue could be raised in a Joint Statement of facts, which would place before the arbitrator the views of the two ...\n\nThe war department interest therein being that of Occupation = 2, the Colony would only be required at a future date to hand over = It to the War depart.\" \"But it seems to me that it may in certain cases mean something different to the occupation of a ... simple value of £100.00 fee.\n\nFor under the 5th Section of the Memorandum Enclosed in the circular dep. of 9. Jan 90, it might happen that some or all of it - in the form of a sum - the Colony might be called upon to contribute a money payment for the construction of new buildings on the lands. And unless the money value of His ... is ascertained, his Lordship cannot perceive how the Amount is to be determined for which the Colony would be liable under the Memorandum.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-257 - Public Offices & Others - 1892.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 350692, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-257 - Public Offices & Others - 1892", "page_number": 359, "title": "CO129-257 - Public Offices & Others - 1892", "content_text": "356\n\n(12)。\n\n(13).\n\nmith End\n\npar\n\nvalue, to be determined by valuation.\n\nThe War Department shall sell to the Admiralty\n\nthe rest of \"F\" Block, Queen's Road Barracks and the\n\nCommissariat Buildings\n\nThese properties are coloured\n\n\"F\" Block was acquired by\n\nred and hatched in blue.\n\nthe War Department, as shown in paragraph 11 hereof, and\n\nthe lease of the Commissariat Buildings was purchased by\n\nthe War Department in 1852, the present (75 years) lease\n\nexpiring in 1919, but carrying with it the right of\n\nrenewal to complete a term of 999 years.\n\nThe Admiralty shall pay for this property a\n\nfair market value\n\nto be determined by valuation.\n\nThe War Department shall also, with the assistance if necessary of the Colony, transfer to the Admiralty\n\nthe user and practically unlimited and unfettered\n\npossession for all Naval purposes of the portion of\n\nWellington Barracks, which is coloured pink and hatched\n\nin blue\n\nThe property is held by the War Department\n\nas Colonial Military property and if not required for\n\ndefence purposes would revert to the Colony, under the\n\nconditions of the Colonial Office Circular Despatch of\n\nthe 9th June 1890, i.e., the value of the property\n\nshould be available either, at once, or in the future\n\nfor other defensive purposes in the Colony.\n\nThere is nothing in the terms of this Despatch\n\nto prevent the transfer of the property to the Admiralty:\n\nwhich", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-257 - Public Offices & Others - 1892.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 350733, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-257 - Public Offices & Others - 1892", "page_number": 400, "title": "CO129-257 - Public Offices & Others - 1892", "content_text": "J * 397 buildings; which paragraph was after full consideration of the Report, adopted by the War Office, Treasury, and Colonial Office, and embodied in identical terms in the Memorandum which accompanied the Circular despatch addressed to the various colonies by the Colonial Office on the 9th June 1890.\n\n3. The paragraph in question (para: 56 of Report and 4 of Memo) runs as follows:\n\nIt is therefore considered that all such \"military properties and their values should be treated as part of a capital sum devoted to defensive purposes, and that, when they are disposed of by sale or by transfer to the Civil Government, their realised or estimated values should as hereinafter detailed, be retained by the Colonial Governments, and be held by them available towards the provision of such other lands and buildings as it may subsequently be necessary to acquire for defensive purposes.\"\n\n4. These", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-257 - Public Offices & Others - 1892.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 350763, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-257 - Public Offices & Others - 1892", "page_number": 430, "title": "CO129-257 - Public Offices & Others - 1892", "content_text": "21. In 1889 the Colonial Office agreed to the proposals of the Colonial Contributions Committee, one of which was that Colonial military Crown lands should be treated as part of a capital sum devoted to defence purposes, and that, when no longer required, their realized value when sold, or their estimated value when not sold, should be recorded with a view to possible future defence expenditure in the Colony. Not only was this principle accepted by the Colonial Office, but it enforced its practical application in the Mauritius by ordering the realized fee-simple value of certain land and buildings which had been sold to be expended on other similar property in another part of the Colony. (Appendix A and Appendix B, Nos. 1, 3 and 13, and enclosures).\n\n22. At that time no question was raised by the Colonial Office as to the value of the right of user only being recorded, and the difference between that and the fee-simple value being made unavailable for future military Colonial expenditure.\n\n23. In 1890 the Colonial Office wished to draw a distinction between Colonial military Crown lands occupied without formal title, and similar lands held under title from Colonial Governors, and to calculate their values on a different basis, the former being assessed at the value of the user only, the latter at a different and higher value. (Appendix B, No. 6.)\n\n24. Later, in 1890, the Colonial Office issued a circular on the subject in complete accord with the Committee's report. (Appendix B, Nos. 8 and 9.)\n\n25. In 1891 the Colonial Office apparently dropped the above distinctions as to tenure, and proposed that the right of user should be assessed, at about ¼ or ⅓ the fee-simple value, of all surrendered Colonial military Crown lands, but on the value of the properties when originally acquired, and not on their current value, the difference being freed from any lien for future defence expenditure. (Appendix B, Nos. 10 to 19,)\n\n26. This, in the case of Hong Kong, would represent about ¼ of the prairie value, clearly a minus quantity, for when we took possession of Hong Kong its rocky lands were practically valueless.\n\n27. The reason for this complete change of view on the part of the Colonial Office is apparently traceable in paragraph 2 of Colonial Office letter, Appendix B, No. 12. It is there stated, \"Lord Knutsford considers that it would be better if the question of assessing the value of surrendered properties were kept separate from the liability of the Colony to provide all military lands and buildings.\"\n\n28. The two questions cannot be separated unless the Colonial Office will undertake that all Colonies shall provide all lands and buildings required for their defence. In that event the whole question would drop, and there would be no object in assessing the value of surrendered properties. (Paragraph 60, Appendix A, and paragraph 7 enclosure to No. 9, Appendix B.)\n\n29. One Colony has accepted this alternative. The records of Imperial expenditure prove, however, even if it were not otherwise well-known, that many Colonies cannot, or at any rate do not, provide all the lands and buildings required for their garrisons, in spite of the principle laid down by the Colonial Office that \"it is the duty of Colonies to provide for their land defence to the extent that their means will admit.\" When such expenditure falls on revenue or involves taxation the Imperial Government has great difficulty in obtaining any aid from Colonies; and the whole object of the enquiry conducted by the Colonial Contributions Committee, on the subject of Colonial military lands and buildings, was to show how the service could be carried on with justice to the Colonies and to the Imperial Exchequer.\n\n30. If the principle that Colonies shall bear the cost of their land defence, to the extent that they can afford, is to be maintained, and if it can be shown that by the sale of one military property others essential to the defence of the Colony can be provided without increasing the taxation of the Colony or touching its current expenditure, it is obviously equitable to require that the change of properties shall be effected on a basis that will secure this result.\n\n31. The position the Government would find itself in if the Colonial Office views were adopted is clearly foreshadowed in paragraph 4 of Appendix B, No. 19. Colonies will there find an argument which they will not be slow to turn to advantage. They will contend that as the Secretary of State for War only possesses the right of user of Colonial military Crown lands, so long as they are required for defence purposes, the right of user ceases to be of any value the moment it ceases to be necessary, and that the Colony is then entitled to enter upon \"the fee-simple freed from any obligation to the military authorities or to anybody else.\"\n\n32. On the other hand, when supplying the military with other properties, Colonies will argue that such properties being subject to a, possibly, perpetual user, their provision must be taken as costing the Colony their full fee-simple value. Under such conditions the account of the \"capital sum devoted to defensive purposes,\" referred to in paragraph 3 of this letter, would only contain entries to the debit of the Imperial Government; and the principle there quoted would receive an application certainly not contemplated by the Committee that recommended it, nor by the Government that approved it.\n\n33. There are several statements in the Colonial Office case, and the documents accompanying it, which, if they were dealt with in full detail, it would be necessary to call in question. Only the following, however, call for remark at present. Paragraph 12 of the \"Memorandum for Lord Ripon\" speaks of the Secretary of State for War \"thus obtaining, in aid of War Office Votes, the entire benefit of the rise in value of the sites since they were first occupied.\" Again, paragraph 22 quotes a despatch of the Duke of Newcastle of 1862 in which he states, amongst other things, that he \"understands that the Ceylon reserves are not held by the military authorities with a view to profit;\" and in paragraph 23 it is said that \"the War Office does not admit this principle,\" contending they are entitled to receive the full market value of any part of the Reserves which the Colony wish to have, although it is admittedly unnecessary for military purposes.\"\n\n34. These passages show a complete misapprehension of the effect of the approved recommendations of the Colonial Contributions Committee and of the views of this department on the subject. Mr. Campbell-Bannerman fully concurs in the Duke of Newcastle's statement that Colonial military Crown lands are not held by this department \"with a view to profit.\" Under no circumstances will this department \"obtain, in aid of War Office Votes, the entire benefit of the rise in value of the sites since they were first occupied,\" nor indeed any part of the value of such properties. This aspect of the question was explained in paragraphs 5 and 6 of Appendix B, No. 7, paragraph 8 of No. 11, paragraph 2 of No. 16, and paragraph 6 of No. 18. The object of recording the value of surrendered properties is not to secure a credit to the Imperial Exchequer, but to ensure that \"the capital sum devoted to defensive purposes\" by Colonies shall be made use of before the Imperial Exchequer is taxed for the provision of Colonial properties required for Colonial defence.\n\n35. This may be illustrated as follows: In a given Colony, owing to an increase in its garrison, or to a necessity on sanitary grounds of removing barracks from densely inhabited quarters of a town, or to other similar causes, new barracks have to be provided at a cost of £50,000. At the same time old sites, no longer suitable to their purpose, to the value of £70,000, can be surrendered by the War Department. Then, under the principle that \"Colonies shall provide for their land defence to the extent that their means permit,\" the expenditure of £50,000 would be provided out of the £70,000 realized by old sites, and the balance (£20,000) would remain in the possession of the Colony, ear-marked for\n\nPage 617", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-257 - Public Offices & Others - 1892.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 350764, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-257 - Public Offices & Others - 1892", "page_number": 431, "title": "CO129-257 - Public Offices & Others - 1892", "content_text": "Enclosure to 2.0. letter Hay Kong &\n\n1313\n\nto Treasury 18.18.92 I to Colonial Office 19.11.\n\n$428\n\nfuture expenditure should the defence of the Colony subsequently necessitate the provision of other lands or buildings. (Paragraphs 5 and 6, Appendix B, No. 7; and paragraph 2 of No. 16.)\n\n36. If the Colonial Office proposals were accepted, all expenditure on Colonial military lands and buildings would have to be provided by Votes of the Colonial Governments, without reference to valuable assets placed at their disposal, a process the difficulty of which the Government have had many recent opportunities of gauging. To adopt those proposals, therefore, would but add another to the many obstacles that already exist to obtaining from Colonies reasonable and equitable contributions towards the cost of their defence.\n\n37. Paragraphs 1 to 46 of Appendix A show what the policy of the Government has been on this question for more than 60 years. In Mr. Campbell-Bannerman's opinion that policy has been reasonable and equitable, and no sufficient reasons are advanced for changing it in a way that would inevitably entail increased expenditure on Imperial funds.\n\nA copy of this letter and its enclosures has been forwarded to the Secretary of State for the Colonies.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour obedient Servant,\n\n(Signed)\n\nWM. WOODALL.\n\n225\n\nTOP PIN\n\nCase to be submitted to the Law Officers of the Crown on the subject of Colonial Military Lands and Buildings.\n\nIn many colonies, lands and buildings, the property of the Crown, are held by the Secretary of State for War for defence purposes. Some of these properties passed into military possession immediately on the conquest of the colonies, others have been assigned, with or without deeds, by Colonial Governments, to the Military authorities.\n\nIn course of time as such properties became obsolete or useless for defence purposes, they have been dealt with in a variety of ways. In some cases they have been handed over by the military to the colony free from any conditions, in others they have been sold to the colony, in some cases they have been sold to private individuals, in other cases they have been exchanged with the colony for other properties, and in many instances they have been surrendered to colonies temporarily on special conditions as to user, or permanently, on condition that, if troops were again quartered in the places concerned, the colony would provide accommodation for them.\n\nIn the Mauritius, where a colonial military Crown property, no longer required for military purposes, had been sold by the Military authorities to a private individual, with a view to the proceeds being applied to the provision of other military accommodation in the colony, the question was raised as to the power of the Secretary of State for War to give a valid title to colonial military Crown lands which he only held in trust for defence purposes. (Appendix A.)\n\nIt was decided by the Law Officers that he could not give a title, and therefore, practically, that he could not, without the consent of the Governor, sell such properties in the open market. (Appendix A.)\n\nA committee, representing the War and Colonial Offices and the Treasury, was then requested to consider how such properties should be dealt with. After disposing of the particular case which gave rise to its appointment, by recommending that the colony should complete the sale by giving a title, and that the full proceeds of the sale should be devoted to the provision of barracks on another site—recommendations which were approved and carried out—the Committee on 27th March, 1889, made the further report. (Appendix A.)\n\nThe Committee's recommendations were approved by the Secretaries of State for War and the Colonies and by the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury, and their substance was embodied in the Colonial Office circular of 9th June, 1890, and submitted to Colonial Governments for their \"information and guidance unless\" they had any serious objections of principle to urge against the proposal.\" (Appendix B, Nos. 1 to 9, and enclosures.)\n\nThe Committee laid down the principle, which was approved by the Government, that all such military properties and their values should be treated as part of a capital sum devoted to defensive purposes, and that when they are disposed of by sale, or by transfer to the Civil Government, their realized, or estimated, values should, as hereinafter detailed, be retained by the Colonial Governments, and be held by them available towards the provision of such other lands or buildings as it may subsequently be necessary to acquire for defensive purposes.\" (Paragraph 56 of Report, Appendix A.)\n\n(436)-579w0", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-257 - Public Offices & Others - 1892.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 350765, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-257 - Public Offices & Others - 1892", "page_number": 432, "title": "CO129-257 - Public Offices & Others - 1892", "content_text": "Guided by the foregoing rule, and by the recognized principle that \"colonies ought, as far as their means allow, to respectively provide for their own land defence,\" the Committee recommended two courses, which might be adopted in dealing with colonial military Crown lands-\n\n(1.) That colonial military lands should, on surrender, be either sold by the colony or retained by the colony, the realized value, or the estimated value, as the case might be, being received by and recorded in the Colonial Treasury, to be available when necessary for the provision of other properties required for the defence of the colony. (Paragraph 58, Appendix A.)\n\n(2.) That all such properties should be freely surrendered to colonies when no longer suited to defence purposes, the colony undertaking to provide any other properties required for defence purposes. (Paragraph 60, Appendix A.)*\n\nThe Committee stated that \"if some such course be not adopted it is evident that whenever, owing to local conditions, a change of barracks or sites in a colony becomes necessary, the colony would gratuitously acquire valuable properties, whilst the Imperial Government would have imposed upon it the entire cost of replacing them.\" (Paragraph 59, Appendix A.)\n\nA difference has arisen between the Colonial and War Offices as to the manner in which surrendered lands should be valued for the purposes of record, and with a view to the provision, within the colony, of other properties required for its defence.\n\nBefore the issue of the Colonial Office circular of 9th June, 1890, the correspondence (in Appendix B, Nos. 1 to 8) took place.\n\nThe Colonial Office wished, for purposes of valuation, to draw a distinction between (a) “Crown lands held by the military authorities without any title-deed and (b) lands conveyed to the Board of Ordnance or to the Secretary of State for War by grant from the Crown signed by the Government.\" The War Office contended that there was no practical distinction between the two classes of holdings, and that, as both were subject to a perpetual user by the military, the colony, on the surrender of that user, practically came into an available fee-simple value in both cases, and that that value should be the recorded value.\n\nThe question then dropped, and the circular of the 9th of June, which embodied the Committee's original recommendation that \"the realized or estimated value\" should be recorded, was issued by Lord Knutsford. (Appendix B, No. 9.)\n\nThe Colonial Office again raised the question in March, 1891, and still maintains that as the War Office only holds the right of user, the value of the right of user should alone be assessed for purposes of record and possible future expenditure. The War Office maintains that the value that the colony comes into, on the surrender of properties, and is able to realize by their sale, is the value that should be recorded. If a limited, and lesser, value is to be recorded it is clear that on each transaction the Colony will come into funds, only a portion of which will be made available for defence purposes, a condition which would violate the principle laid down in paragraph 59 of the Committee's report (paragraph 6 of the Colonial Office circular). (See Appendix B, Nos. 10 to 22.)\n\nIt is understood that the value of all colonial military properties sold or transferred can only be expended within the colony and for defence purposes, and is not to be in any way a credit to the Imperial Exchequer. (Paragraphs 54, 56, and 58, Appendix A.)\n\nThe Colonial Office wishes the question referred to the Law Officers of the Crown. The War Office objects that there is no legal question upon which the Law Officers can advise. The question involved is one of policy, not of law, viz., what is an equitable policy to adopt in surrendering and acquiring colonial military Crown lands for purposes of colonial defence?\n\n* This alternative was accepted by Singapore, which colony had always supplied military lands and buildings.\n\nIt is open to colonies objecting to the proposed mode of valuation to adopt the alternative course suggested by the Committee, viz., to take over such properties without valuation, on condition that they provide all such other properties as it may become necessary to acquire for their defence. (Paragraph 60, Appendix A, and paragraph 7, Appendix B, enclosure to No.9.)\n\nKeeping in view the following accepted principles-\n\n(1.) That colonial military properties and their values should be treated as part of a capital sum devoted to defence purposes, and when they are disposed of by sale, or by transfer to the Civil Government, their realized or estimated value should be retained by the Colonial Government, and be held by them available towards the provision of such other lands and buildings as it may subsequently be necessary to acquire for defensive purposes. (Paragraph 4, enclosure to No. 9, Appendix B.)\n\n(2.) \"That colonies ought, so far as their means allow, to respectively provide for their own land defence\" (paragraph 4, Colonial Office Memorandum, from Lord Ripon)-\n\nthe Law Officers are requested to advise whether in assessing the value of properties surrendered to, and of others provided by, colonies for their defence, the fee simple value should be taken, or whether a lesser value should be adopted, and if so, how it should be assessed.\n\nWAR OFFICE,\n\nNovember, 1892.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-257 - Public Offices & Others - 1892.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 350770, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-257 - Public Offices & Others - 1892", "page_number": 437, "title": "CO129-257 - Public Offices & Others - 1892", "content_text": "Gen. No. 8\n\n1102\n\n40 & 41 Vic.. cap. 93.\n\n8\n\nNo. 9.\n\nColonial Office to War Office.\n\nDowning Street,\n\n29th September, 1890.\n\nI am directed by Lord Knutsford to transmit herewith a copy of the circular despatch, dated 9th June, addressed by his Lordship to certain Colonies.\n\nSir,\n\nEnclosure in No. 9.\n\nCircular.\n\nEDWARD WINGFIELD.\n\nDowning Street,\n\n9th June, 1890.\n\nI have the honour to transmit to you, for your information and guidance, unless you have any serious objection of principle to urge against the proposal, a memorandum agreed upon by the War Office, the Treasury, and the Colonial Office, with regard to the disposal whenever occasion may arise of Colonial military Crown lands and buildings no longer required for defence purposes.\n\nTo Officers Administering.\n\nSub-Enclosure in No. 9.\n\nDisposal of Colonial Military Lands and Buildings.\n\nKNUTSFORD.\n\n1. With regard to the general question of Colonial military lands and buildings, it is assumed that all such lands and buildings are held by the Secretary of State for War for purposes connected with Colonial defence, and that the Secretary of State represents the Crown in all matters pertaining to their military administration.\n\n2. The military authorities, acting on behalf of the Secretary of State, should, therefore, in communication with Colonial Governments, deal with Colonial military lands and buildings in such manner as may best secure-\n\n(1.) The efficient execution of the special service to which the lands and buildings are devoted.\n\n(2.) The general interests of the Colony.\n\n3. On account of the changing conditions of warfare, it not unfrequently occurs that Colonial lands and buildings set apart for military purposes cease to be necessary, or suitable, to their purpose, while, at the same time, or subsequently, other lands and buildings have to be acquired to meet the necessities of the garrison.\n\n4. It is therefore considered that all such military properties and their values should be treated as part of a capital sum devoted to defensive purposes, and that, when they are disposed of by sale, or by transfer to the Civil Government, their realized or estimated values should, as hereinafter detailed, be retained by the Colonial Governments, and be held by them available towards the provision of such other lands and buildings as it may subsequently be necessary to acquire for defensive purposes.\n\n5. In Colonies garrisoned by Imperial troops, when military lands or buildings, other than such as may have been purchased and paid for by the Imperial Government, are no longer required for military service, either immediately or prospectively, it is recommended that they should be surrendered to the Colonial Government, subject to the following conditions:\n\n(1.) If the Colony wishes to retain them for civil purposes, their value should be settled by agreement between the local civil and military authorities, or by competent surveyors, as may be considered most desirable. When other lands or buildings for the garrison have to be provided, the agreed value of the surrendered lands or buildings should be contributed by the Colony towards the cost of providing the new lands or buildings.\n\nIf no such new lands or buildings are required at the time, the value of the surrendered lands or buildings should be retained by the Colonial Government until other lands or buildings are required for the garrison, when the value of the surrendered lands and buildings should be contributed by the Colony towards their cost.\n\n(2.) If the Colony does not wish to retain the lands or buildings, they should be surrendered by the military authorities to the Colonial Government for sale, the proceeds of the sale being dealt with in the same manner as provided for in the case of the value of lands retained by the Colony, i.e., if other lands or buildings are being provided for military purposes, the sums realized should be taken in aid of their cost; and if no such lands or buildings are required at the time, the sums realized should be retained by the Colonial Government, and be available at any subsequent period, when other lands or buildings may be required for military purposes.\n\n6. If some such course as this be not adopted, it is evident that whenever, owing to local conditions, a change of barracks or sites in a Colony became necessary, the Colony would gratuitously acquire valuable properties, while the Imperial Government would have imposed upon it the entire cost of replacing them.\n\n7. An alternative policy might be adopted by the free surrender to Colonies of all lands and buildings no longer required for military service, on the understanding that they should provide all necessary lands and buildings for their garrisons. This course, however, might occasionally entail upon a Colony an expenditure disproportionate to its means. It would seem preferable, therefore, while ensuring that the value of surrendered lands and buildings shall be made available towards the cost of replacing them, to leave the question of the division, between Imperial and Colonial revenues, of the excess cost, of new over surrendered properties, to be adjusted in each case either upon its merits, or under any general or special agreement which may exist at the time between the Colonial and Imperial authorities.\n\n8. When lands or buildings in a Colony have been purchased and paid for by the Imperial Government, their value, when sold or transferred, should be credited to Imperial revenues.\n\nSir,\n\nNo. 10.\n\nColonial Office to War Office.\n\nDowning Street,\n\n6th March, 1891.\n\n8\n\n434\n\nI am directed by Lord Knutsford to transmit to you, to be laid before Mr. Secretary Stanhope, the accompanying extract from a despatch from the Officer Administering the Government of Hong Kong, on the subject of the memorandum (copy of which is enclosed for facility of reference) respecting the disposal of Colonial military lands and buildings.\n\n2. It will be seen that the question is one of great importance to Hong Kong, for the lands which belong to the Colony, but are in military occupation, appear to be worth 4,442,000 dollars. It is stated that the annual rate upon these lands, if free from military occupation, would be not less than 30,000 dollars a-year; while the rental (on which the rates are assessed under the local law) would in consequence be at least ten times the amount of the rates; and as the military authorities pay neither rent nor rates, it is asserted on behalf of the Colony, that the military occupation of these particular lands entails a positive loss to the revenue of 330,000 dollars, or over 50,000l. a-year. These latter figures are not given by Mr. Fleming, but Mr. Stanhope will see that they result from his despatch and the enclosures.\n\n3. These large sums are mainly the result of the development of the Colony, so that lands which originally, and when first occupied by the military, were of small value, have now become, owing to the growth of commerce and population, of great worth and importance; and Mr. Fleming contends that the Colony is entitled to the benefit of this increase of value, and not the Imperial Exchequer, since the increase is not in any great degree, if at all, due to Imperial expenditure upon the lands.\n\n(585)", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-257 - Public Offices & Others - 1892.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 350771, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-257 - Public Offices & Others - 1892", "page_number": 438, "title": "CO129-257 - Public Offices & Others - 1892", "content_text": "in No. 9,\n\n10\n\n4. This contention appears to Lord Knutsford to be well founded, and it seems to his Lordship that no arrangement will be possible under the circular Enclosure of 9th June, 1890, until a decision has been arrived at as to the relative shares of the Home and Colonial Governments in the value of the land. All these sites are Colonial assets, and are valuable to the Colony though not immediately available for its use; on the other hand, the military authorities occupy them gratuitously, and will continue to do so as long as they are required for military purposes.\n\n5. The same question is raised, or will be raised in other Colonies, and it seems to his Lordship most desirable that these relative shares be ascertained without delay; and he will be ready to join Mr. Stanhope in taking such steps as may be agreed on for the purpose. It may be admitted that the value of the military interests cannot be defined with complete accuracy, but his Lordship is disposed to think that the right to occupy the land, subject as it is to be terminated at any time by the direction of Her Majesty's Government, could not be assessed at a higher money value than one-fourth of the fee simple value of the land. But even this may be found to be too high or too low a rate if tested by the principles on which are based the actuarial tables used by land agents in England, in respect of properties in which two parties have each an interest, and it may be advisable to consult on the subject some leading firm of land surveyors and valuers. His Lordship would be glad to be favoured with Mr. Stanhope's views upon this question.\n\n6. It will be observed that Mr. Fleming also contends that the arrangement is unfair if the Colony is to contribute the whole value of surrendered lands towards the cost of erecting buildings on a new site, and is also to provide the new site, for which in its turn the Colony might be required to pay, if afterwards surrendered by the military. Lord Knutsford considers that there is much force in this objection, and that it would only be just that in estimating the cost of new buildings, the Colony, if it were required to contribute the whole value of the old site, should be credited with the value of the new site. But if, as suggested above, only the value of the military interest in the land is to be calculated under the circular of June, 1890, this further question is of less importance.\n\nJOHN BRAMSTON.\n\nIt would be incorrect to say that such land had been \"gratuitously acquired\" by the Colonial Government. It would be the fact that land, by the military occupation of which the Colonial Government had suffered an increasing annual loss, had been restored to it, being no longer suitable for the purpose for which it was originally granted.\n\nI am at a loss to understand how the Imperial Government could justly claim the unearned increment acquired by the useless ground being incorporated in the city. And the sale (for that is what it practically amounts to) to the Colony of land which was originally freely bestowed by the Colony on the War Department, irrespective of any immediate requirements by that department, would appear to be a scarcely legitimate way of improving the Imperial finances.\n\n7. For the better consideration of this question I have obtained from the Surveyor-General a return (copy of which is enclosed) showing the area and value of all lands in Victoria and Kowloon in military occupation. It does not include lands outside Victoria and Kowloon occupied for forts and defensive purposes.\n\nMr. Brown estimates the value of such lands as have been obtained by free grant from the Colonial Government at 4,442,205 dollars.\n\nThe value of the lands rented and purchased by the War Department he estimates at 541,611 dollars.\n\nTaking the total of 4,983,816 dollars as the value of the lands in military occupation, and which are treated, although not so under the actual terms of law, as being exempt from rates and taxes, it will be seen from the enclosed report* of the Assessor of Rates, that 37,000 dollars represents the annual loss in revenue which the Colony suffers on account of the immunity of the Imperial Department from the incidence of taxes.\n\nBut this is a very small item compared with the amount which this Government loses in Crown rents and premiums on the sale of all this land, which is some of the most valuable in the Colony.\n\nSir William des Voeux, in his despatch, No. 334, of the 31st of October, 1889, mentioned that he estimated the total amount which this Colony paid annually for its military defence at 300,000 dollars, and the detailed returns, which I enclose, will, I think, show that your Lordship that his estimate was not an exaggerated one.\n\n8. Taking these facts into consideration, I think your Lordship will agree with me that the Military Establishments in this Colony are an excessively heavy burden, and that in place of making ever-increasing, and what I cannot but regard as exorbitant demands upon this Colony, the Imperial Government should endeavour to lighten that burden as much as possible.\n\nThe War Department has, by fortuitous circumstances, been allotted a vast area of land in the very heart of the best quarter of the city, thereby causing immense loss of revenue and much inconvenience to the Colony, and their endeavour should be to remedy, where and whenever possible, this abnormal state of things, instead of endeavouring to gain still greater advantages.\n\nE. FLEMING.\n\n435\n\nEnclosure in No. 10.\n\nAdministrator Fleming to Lord Knutsford,\n\nGovernment House, Hong Kong,\n\n8th October, 1890.\n\n5. The contingency mentioned in Section 6, cannot happen under existing arrangements, as a reference to the Duke of Newcastle's despatch, No. 15 of the 27th of January, 1864, will show. It is there laid down that land not required for military purposes will revert to the Colony, the Colony, however, being bound to make reasonable compensation for the improvements which have been effected on the abandoned site, and also that if the abandonment imposes on the Imperial Government the necessity of procuring a fresh site elsewhere, that site must be acquired at the expense of the Colony.\n\n6. The above arrangement appears to me an equitable one, and this Government would, I venture to say, be at all times favourably disposed to defraying the cost of military buildings on a new site, provided that such cost was within the value of an old site surrendered to them, but where the Imperial Government has acquired for a specific purpose a piece of land, which was at the time of comparatively small value, but has, through becoming incorporated in the city, perhaps become of greatly enhanced value, and has no further use for such land, nor desires to replace it by land elsewhere, I certainly think that the land should revert unconditionally to the Colonial Government.\n\nNo. 11.\n\nWar Office to Colonial Office\n\nWar Office,\n\n5th September, 1891.\n\n7. It seems unnecessary to discuss the causes which have led to the increased value of properties held by the military for the defence of the Colony. The primary cause of the increase in the value of Hong Kong lands, and in the general wealth of the Colony, is clearly the confidence and safety which the Colony has enjoyed under the protection of the Imperial Government, a protection which has only been secured by an expenditure of many millions of Imperial revenues, while the Contributions of the Colony, to the same end has been comparatively infinitesimal.\n\nHong Kong\n\n8\n\n1271", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-257 - Public Offices & Others - 1892.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 350772, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-257 - Public Offices & Others - 1892", "page_number": 439, "title": "CO129-257 - Public Offices & Others - 1892", "content_text": "8. In view of the fact that it is the duty of the Colony, to the extent that its means will admit, to provide lands and buildings for its garrison; it would be useless, even if it were practicable, to determine the extent of the interest which the Colony, and the Imperial Government respectively, possess in those properties. Practically these properties are of no tangible value to the Colony until it obtains full possession of them, and when it obtains possession of them, the amount they would fetch in the market is the true measure of the value they possess for the Colony. They are of no value in a money point of view to the Imperial Government, except in so far as their valuation on surrender may prevent extra charges falling on the Exchequer, when they have to be exchanged for more appropriate sites.\n\n13. The Officer Administering the Government states that by fortuitous circumstance the War Department has been \"allotted a vast area of land in the very heart of the best quarter of this city, thereby causing immense loss of revenue and much inconvenience to the Colony, and their endeavour should be to remedy, where and whenever possible, this abnormal state of things, instead of endeavouring to gain still greater advantages.\" When the barracks held by the War Department in Victoria were built, their site was not in the heart of the best quarter of that city, but they have gradually been enveloped by the city, the great growth of which is due to the security and prosperity enjoyed by the Colony under Colonial protection.\n\n14. The proposal to vacate the barracks, &c., in Victoria, and to remove the troops to other barracks to be provided by the Colony, was one conceived entirely in the interests of the Colony, and from which it would have derived enormous advantage. The scheme offers no corresponding advantages to the Imperial Government, but it was willing to agree to it, provided it could be carried out without prejudice to naval and military interests, and without additional charge to Imperial revenues.\n\n3\n\n137\n\n6. There appears to be no inseparable difficulty in assessing the respective shares of the Colony and of the military authorities in a property in which they are jointly interested. The fee simple value is doubtless calculated upon so many years' purchase of an estimated rental, and it should be possible for the departments to agree as to the number of years' rental to be assigned as the equivalent of the occupation rights of the War Office; or, failing agreement, to submit the question to the decision of some independent authority (e.g., the Lord Chancellor). But, unless the principle of the assessment is determined, Lord Knutsford sees no prospect of a settlement of these questions of military lands, not only in Hong Kong, but in other Colonies where such lands may be surrendered.\n\nJOHN BRAMSTON.\n\nEnclosure in No. 12.\n\n(Draft.)\n\nColonial Office to Sir W. Robinson, K.C.M.G., Hong Kong.\n\nDowning Street,\n\nDecember, 1891.\n\nSir,\n\nI am now in correspondence with the War Office as to the basis on which surrendered lands should be assessed, and whether the amount should be calculated on the fee simple value of the land, or only on the value of the occupation right possessed by the military authorities.\n\n436\n\nRALPH THOMPSON.\n\nNo. 13.\n\nHong Kong\n\n8\n\n1285\n\nNo. 11.\n\nEnclosure in No. 9.\n\nSir,\n\nNo. 12.\n\nColonial Office to War Office.\n\nDowning Street,\n\n4th December, 1891.\n\nI am directed by Lord Knutsford to acknowledge the receipt of your letter* of the 5th of September last, Hong Kong 8 on the subject of the disposal of Colonial lands and buildings in occupation of the military at Hong Kong.\n\n2. Lord Knutsford considers that it would be better if the question of assessing the value of surrendered properties were kept separate from that of the liability of the Colony to provide all military lands and buildings.\n\n3. The circular of 9th June, 1890, embodied the deliberate decision of Her Majesty's Government, and has been transmitted to the Colonies in that sense; and his Lordship assumes that it is not proposed to depart from the terms of that circular. He is, of course, quite willing that the full value of what the War Office surrenders should be assessed as accurately as circumstances permit, and the amount provided by the Colony; but where the military authorities surrender only a right of occupation, the value of the fee simple which belongs to the Colony cannot properly be included in the assessment.\n\n* No. 11,\n\n† Enclosure in No. 9.\n\nSir,\n\nColonial Office to War Office.\n\nDowning Street,\n\n11th January, 1892. I am directed by the Secretary of State for the Colonies, to transmit to you, for the information of Mr. Secretary Stanhope, with reference to the letter from this department of the 12th of October, 1889, a copy of the despatch on the subject of the disposal of buildings belonging to the War Department in Mauritius.\n\nROBERT G. W. HERBERT,\n\nMy Lord,\n\nEnclosure in No. 13.\n\nSir C. Lees to Lord Knutsford.\n\nGovernment House, Mauritius,\n\n8th December, 1891. With reference to your Lordship's despatch, No. 273, of the 6th of October last, I have the honour to transmit herewith a copy of the Report by the Finance Committee, which was read and adopted at a meeting of the Council of Government, held on the 1st instant, from which it will be seen that the Council have concurred in the sale of the old Military Hospital, Port Louis, to Mr. Pougnet, and in the appropriation of the proceeds of the sale to the construction of barracks at Curepipe, as suggested in your Lordship's despatch,* No. 196, of the 18th of June, 1889.\n\n2. A copy of my minute, laying all the correspondence that has taken place on this subject before the Council of Government, is enclosed.\n\nC. C. LEES, Governor.\n\n*For draft, see Enclosure in No. 1.\n\n(585)", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-257 - Public Offices & Others - 1892.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 350773, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-257 - Public Offices & Others - 1892", "page_number": 440, "title": "CO129-257 - Public Offices & Others - 1892", "content_text": "437\n\nHong Kong\n\n8 1285\n\nNo. 11\n\nNo.7\n\nSir,\n\nNo. 14.\n\nWar Office to Colonial Office.\n\nWar Office,\n\n12th January, 1892.\n\n2. With regard to the last part of paragraphs 3 to 6, and of paragraph 10, of your letter under reply, Mr. Stanhope considers that it is desirable that the Government should decide on what basis Colonial Military Crown lands surrendered to Colonies should be valued for purposes of record. He cannot concur that arbitration should be resorted to, as in every petty transfer the Lord Chancellor, or other arbitrator, would have to take evidence in this country on the vexed question of local values in remote Colonies.\n\n3. On the question of the proper basis of valuation, Mr. Stanhope's views will be found in the War Office letter* of 5th September, 1891, and in paragraph 4 of War Office letter† of 28th January, 1890. He can conceive no more simple plan than assessing the saleable value of the land at the time of its surrender; that is the asset which the Colony comes into possession of, and, if it sells the land, that is the value it receives. If afterwards it provides other lands, that is the value which would regulate its liability. If a lower value, viz., the value of a user, without definite limit, and which it would therefore be impracticable to assess, were adopted, a similar lower value would have to be assigned to the user of any lands subsequently provided by a Colony; the result would therefore be practically the same.\n\nHong Kong.\n\n8 1289\n\n4. Even in the interest of a Colony, the contention seems to be unnecessary, seeing that, in the event of the War Department surrendering property say, for example, 100,000l. fee simple value, the War Department interest therein being that of occupation, the Colony would only be required at a future date to hand over to the War Department, i.e., the occupation of a property of the fee simple value of 100,000l.\n\nThe reversion in both cases would be to the Colony; and this aspect of the case appears to have been overlooked.\n\nSir,\n\nNo. 15.\n\nRALPH THOMPSON.\n\nColonial Office to War Office.\n\nDowning Street,\n\n10th February, 1892.\n\n4. As regards the second paragraph of your letter, his Lordship regrets to find that he has not made his intention clear, as he did not mean to propose that an arbitrator should go into questions of local value, but that, be the value large or small, he should be asked to lay down a principle on which to apportion, as cases arise, the share which the War Department may claim in respect of its occupation, and the Colonial Government in respect of its reversion; as, for instance that the occupation represents one-third of the saleable value, and the reversion two-thirds, or whatever other proportion may seem fair under the circumstances. Mathematical accuracy is obviously not attainable in such a case.\n\n* No 11.\n\n† No. 7.\n\n5. Lord Knutsford concurs \"that in the event of the War Department surrendering property say, for example, 100,000l. fee-simple value, the War Department interest therein being that of occupation a, the Colony would only be required at a future date to hand over a to the War Department.\" But it seems to him that z may in certain cases mean something different to the occupation of a property of the fee-simple value of 100,000l. For under the 5th Section of the memorandum* enclosed in the circular despatch of 9th June, 1890, it might happen that the Colony would be called upon to contribute part or the whole of a in the form of a money payment for the construction of new buildings on other lands. And unless the money value of z is ascertained, his Lordship does not perceive how the amount is to be determined for which the Colony would be liable under the memorandum.\n\n6. His Lordship believes that the point at issue could be raised on a joint-statement of facts, which would place before the arbitrator the views of the two departments.\n\nJOHN BRAMSTON.\n\nSir,\n\nEnclosure in No. 15.\n\nLord Knutsford to Sir W. Robinson.\n\nDowning Street,\n\n5th February, 1892.\n\n5. I am now in correspondence with the War Office as to the basis on which surrendered lands should be assessed.\n\nSir,\n\nNo. 16.\n\nWar Office to Colonial Office.\n\nWar Office,\n\n23rd March, 1892.\n\nWith reference to your letter dated 10th February, 1892, forwarding copy of a despatch which Lord Knutsford has now sent to the Governor of Hong Kong, relative to the disposal of lands and buildings occupied by the War Department in that Colony, &c., I am directed by the Secretary of State for War to observe that it would scarcely be advisable to call in an arbitrator to settle a difference of opinion between the Colonial and War Offices. The Treasury would appear to be the proper arbitrator.\n\nHong Kong\n\n8 1289\n\n2. The case seems to Mr. Stanhope to be very simple. The Colony assigns to the War Department land for its absolute user as long as required for defence. As long as the War Department use it, it is valueless to the Colony. A thing is only worth what it will realize on sale; and the Colony could realize nothing unless the War Department user were to cease. When the War Department frees this asset from its user, the Colony comes into possession of its full value, because it is then free to sell it at its fee-simple value. That is its value in the Colony; and that is the value to record. Should the Colony ever be called upon to expend it, it will be in no worse position than it was before the user of the property was surrendered. It will be in exactly the same position, which is the position recommended by the Contributions Committee, and accepted by the Colonial Office and the Treasury.\n\n3. I am to point out that if the Colonial money be spent on buildings on sites not Colonial property, special terms would have to be made to meet such an exceptional case.\n\nRALPH THOMPSON.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-257 - Public Offices & Others - 1892.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 350774, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-257 - Public Offices & Others - 1892", "page_number": 441, "title": "CO129-257 - Public Offices & Others - 1892", "content_text": "Sir,\n\nHong Kong\n\n8\n\n1298\n\n16\n\nNo. 17.\n\nColonial Office to War Office.\n\nHong Kong 8\n\n1289\n\nDowning Street,\n\n19th May, 1892.\n\nIn reply to your letter,*\n\nof 23rd March last, I am directed by Lord Knutsford to request you to inform Mr. Secretary Stanhope that his Lordship regrets that he cannot concur in the opinion that the Treasury would be a proper arbitrator in the matter referred to, which is in fact, a question between the Imperial Exchequer and the Exchequer of the Colony of Hong Kong, and his Lordship still considers that, if no agreement can be arrived at, it would be fairer to submit the point to some independent authority, such as the Lord Chancellor.\n\n2. Nor is his Lordship able to agree with the view expressed in paragraph 2 of your letter, which is at variance with that expressed in the 3rd paragraph of the letter† from this department of 4th November (sic, should be December) last.\n\n3. The general principle to be settled, once for all, could conveniently be raised and decided upon the simple case of Murray Battery, which it is proposed in paragraph 15 of War Office letter to Treasury of 31st March last\n\nHong Kong 8 (copy of which was enclosed in your letter,\n\nof the 2nd ultimo) > 1286\n\nto surrender to the Colony, \"the value being applied to the erection of barracks elsewhere.\" As this is to be paid in money, it is necessary to settle what the value is, as pointed out in the last paragraph of the letter from this department of 10th February last.\n\nEDWARD FAIRFIELD.\n\n17\n\nbe retained by the Colonial Government, and be held by them available towards the provision of such other lands and buildings as it may subsequently be necessary to acquire for defensive purposes.\"\n\n4. There is no room here for any such distinction as that which it is proposed to establish between the fee-simple value and the value of the right of user enjoyed by the Secretary of State for War. The paragraph seems to Mr. Stanhope to clearly establish the principle that the saleable value of the land is to be the value recorded by the Colony. Any other interpretation seems inconsistent with the terms used, for, obviously, no sale to a private person of the peculiar rights enjoyed by the War Office would be possible.\n\n5. Mr. Stanhope fails indeed to see that there are equitable grounds for arriving at any other conclusion. It is argued in paragraph 2 of your letter* under reply, and paragraph 3 of your letter of 4th December (not November), that what the military authorities surrender is a right of occupation only; but the right of occupation for an unlimited time is for all practical purposes as valuable as the freehold. This would be recognized in the case of any very long lease.\n\n6. Moreover, in all this discussion it must be clearly borne in mind that the recorded value of military lands remains in the possession of the Colony until its expenditure on the defences of the Colony becomes necessary.\n\nWhen that necessity arises, the value of the ceded property can only be expended within the Colony, and on lands or buildings essential to its defence. In the meantime the Colony has the use of the property, or of the unexpended funds resulting from the sale, but it has no claim to make what would really be an addition to its general funds, by permanently diverting to ordinary uses any portion of what the memorandum above referred to properly describes as \"a capital sum devoted to defensive purposes.\"\n\n7. The proposal to make some arbitrary fixed deduction from the freehold value of ceded lands, in order to get at the value of the user, could only result in the establishment of a rule always open to dispute, both as to military lands surrendered to the Colony and lands to be assigned to the War Office, and would offer no such firm practical basis for a settlement as is afforded by adopting the saleable value as the recorded value,\n\nNo. 18.\n\nWar Office to Colonial Office,\n\nWar Office,\n\n4th July, 1892.\n\nSir,\n\nI am directed by the Secretary of State for War to acknowledge the receipt of your letters of the 19th May, enclosing a despatch from the Governor of Hong Kong, and discussing generally the principles on which the value of military lands surrendered to a Colony should be assessed.\n\n2. To Mr. Secretary Stanhope it seems that those principles were laid down with sufficient precision in paragraph 56 of Report No. 5 of the Committee on Colonial Contributions, dealing with the subject of Colonial military lands and buildings, which paragraph was, after full consideration of the report adopted by the War Office, Treasury, and Colonial Office, and embodied, in identical terms, in the memorandum which accompanied the circular despatch addressed to the various Colonies by the Colonial Office on the 9th June, 1890,\n\n3. The paragraph in question (paragraph 56 of Report and 4 of Memorandum), runs as follows:---\n\n\"It is therefore considered that all such military properties and their values should be treated as part of a capital sum devoted to defensive purposes and that, when they are disposed of by sale, or by transfer to the civil Government, their realized or estimated values should, as hereinafter detailed,\n\n† No. 12\n\nt No. 15.\n\n§ No. 17.\n\nSub-Enclosure in No. 9.\n\n* No. 16.\n\n9. Mr. Secretary Stanhope regrets, further, that he is unable to assent to the proposal that the question of the mode of valuing the abandoned sites should be submitted to some independent arbitrator, as, for instance, to the Lord Chancellor. No doubt the question is in one sense, between the Imperial Exchequer and the Exchequer of the Colony at Hong Kong. But as much might be said of all questions relating to the Colonial Contributions, and yet such questions have not been referred to any arbitrator, but have been settled by the Home Government.\n\nThis special question is not one of law, and it seems to Mr. Stanhope that it should, in the first place, be referred to the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury; and if Lord Knutsford finds himself unable to accept their decision, that the matter should be finally settled by the Cabinet.\n\n• No. 12.\n\n(585)\n\nRALPH THOMPSON.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-257 - Public Offices & Others - 1892.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 350776, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-257 - Public Offices & Others - 1892", "page_number": 443, "title": "CO129-257 - Public Offices & Others - 1892", "content_text": "Hong Kong\n\n8\n\n1309\n\n1. No. 12090 12232\n\n92\n\n20\n\nof Lord Knutsford, that it scarcely appears to Mr. Stanhope that any practical object will be served by further discussion between the two departments, and that he has caused a letter to be addressed to the Treasury (copy enclosed) with a view to eliciting the opinion of their Lordships as to the right mode of calculating the value of military land surrendered to a Colony, and the desirability of referring the question of legal authority.\n\nSir,\n\nNo. 22.\n\nTreasury to War Office.\n\nRALPH THOMPSON.\n\nTreasury Chambers,\n\n17th August, 1892.\n\nI am directed by the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury to transmit to you herewith, for the information of the Secretary of State for War, in reply to Mr. De la Bère's letter of the 22nd ultimo, Hong Kong 8 1298 copy of a letter of to-day's date, which my Lords have caused to be addressed to the Colonial Office on the subject of the valuation to be set upon military land in Hong Kong when surrendered by the War Department to the Colonial Government.\n\n4\n\nR. E. WELBY.\n\n21\n\nOn the other hand, the Colonial Office maintain that the value to be recorded or paid or to be substantially less than the full market value of the land, because the War Department are but limited owners of it, possessing only a right to its perpetual use for a particular purpose. The War Department have, it is assumed, no power of alienating the land from the purposes for which they hold it in trust, except by surrendering it to its reversionary owner, the Colonial Government. The full market value of the land could not be realised without a surrender of the rights of both parties of the War Department as potentially permanent occupier, and of the Colonial Government as reversioner. It would be unfair, therefore, to make the Colonial Government pay to the War Department the value of its own rights as well as the value of those of that department. The rights of either party alone would probably be quite unsaleable. If the union of those rights be necessary to produce a price, that price must belong to both parties jointly.\n\nMy Lords acknowledge the force of the arguments on both sides. For the integrity of the trust and in the interest of the defence of the Colony, the War Department must be enabled by the Colonial Government to replace what they surrender whenever necessary. The limited purpose for which the War Department would require the new land would probably not enable them to obtain it for less than its full market value, therefore the Colonial Government must hold at the disposal of the War Department the full market value of the land surrendered. But, in return, the Colonial Government may fairly ask to be given the same reversionary rights over the land acquired by the War Department in substitution for that surrendered as they enjoyed over the surrendered land.\n\nWhat has been said of land applies also to buildings.\n\nTo take an example, my Lords hold that the Colonial Government should pay to the War Department the full market value of Murray Battery at once if it be surrendered to the Colony, because the War Department have to spend that value (and much more) in building barracks for the defence of the Colony. But if the Colonial Government have a reversionary interest in Murray Battery they should, in return, be given a like reversionary interest, to an equal value, in the new barracks, which interest that Government will be entitled to realise should neither the barracks, nor their equivalent, be required hereafter for purposes of defence.\n\nSuch is the decision at which my Lords would arrive; but if the Secretary of State still desires a legal opinion, my Lords cannot oppose his obtaining it, so long as it is understood that no legal opinion can affect the obligation of every Colony to contribute according to its means to the cost of its own defence.\n\nMy Lords are sending a copy of this letter to the War Office.\n\nT. No.\n\n12090 12232\n\n92\n\nSir,\n\nEnclosure in No. 22.\n\nTreasury to Colonial Office.\n\nTreasury Chambers,\n\n17th August, 1892.\n\nThe Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury have had before them your letter of the 25th ultimo, and the preceding correspondence sent to them by the War Office, respecting the valuation to be set upon military land in Hong Kong when surrendered by the War Department to the Colonial Government, a point on which a difference of opinion has arisen between Lord Knutsford and the Secretary of State for War, and which Mr. Stanhope wishes to submit for the decision of the Treasury, whilst Lord Knutsford would prefer either the arbitration of the Lord Chancellor, or a reference to the Law Officers of the Crown, because the question is one between the Imperial and Colonial Exchequers on which my Lords are interested parties.\n\nUnder the agreement arrived at by Her Majesty's Government, on the recommendation of the Colonial Military Contributions Committee, and communicated by the Colonial Office to the Colonies in a circular despatch of the 9th June, 1890, when Colonial military land, occupied by the military authorities without any title deed, or conveyed to the Board of Ordnance or Secretary of State for War by grant from the Crown signed by the Governor, for purposes of defence, is no longer required for those purposes, it is to be surrendered to the Colonial Government, on payment of its estimated value in kind or money, if that value be immediately required for the military defence of the Colony, or, if not, on condition that the Government agrees to hold its recorded value at the time of transfer, or its actual proceeds if subsequently sold, at the disposal of the War Department, in case they are obliged at any future time to obtain land for purposes of defence in the Colony.\n\nThe War Department contend that the value to be either immediately paid for the land, or held to their credit at call, is the full estimated market value, or the full actual proceeds of sale of the land, in accordance with the probable intention of the Colonial Military Contributions Committee. The War Department are trustees of this land for defence purposes, and it would be a breach of trust if they surrendered it without retaining the right to resume possession of it, or of its equivalent in land or money, when required for the purposes of the trust. If the future need can be met by something less than this equivalent, the War Department will be content with less, for the time being; but their duty as trustees compels them to reserve the right of regaining possession of the full equivalent of whatever they surrender, and the only practical measure of that equivalent is the sum which the surrender will enable the Colonial Government to obtain for the land.\n\nR. E. WELBY.\n\n440", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-257 - Public Offices & Others - 1892.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 350783, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-257 - Public Offices & Others - 1892", "page_number": 450, "title": "CO129-257 - Public Offices & Others - 1892", "content_text": "#1\n\n\"the War Department have to spend that value (and much more) in building barracks for the Colony.\"\n\nIt may be right that the Colony should contribute towards the cost of military buildings, but it is contended by the Colonial Office that in that case the amount should be fixed by arrangement, and not by attributing to the memorandum enclosed in the circular of the 9th June 1890 a meaning which it was not intended by that Department to bear and to which the Colonial Government strenuously objects.\n\nIt is obvious that any excess of cost beyond the full market value of the land would, even according to the War Office view, have to be provided by arrangement.\n\n9. It is the first step to determine what is the real meaning of the agreement.\n\nRef: C.O letter 13 Jan. 1890 p. 40. (print)\n\n\"Military properties & their values\" and Opinion as to the interpretation of the word \"value of the surrendering lands\"\n\n2nd Whether under the terms of the Cover top. the Colony is bound to pay the full value of Murray Battery.\n\n3rd Whether the Colony is bound to pay any sum as the value.\n\n24th If so whether the site...\n\n...you could suggest the principle which should be adopted in assessing...\n\nPage 450\n\nPage 451", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-257 - Public Offices & Others - 1892.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 353195, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-261 - Public Offices & Others - 1893", "page_number": 183, "title": "CO129-261 - Public Offices & Others - 1893", "content_text": "and when they are no longer needed for that purpose the Secretary of State surrenders them to the Governor of the Colony, as representing the Crown. The question is not whether the Secretary of State shall sell them but how they shall be dealt with by the Colony when surrendered to it, so as to secure \"the efficient execution of the special services to which the lands and buildings are devoted,\" and \"the general interests of the Colony.\"\n\nThis is the question, and the only question that requires immediate solution. In solving it, it is necessary to keep constantly in view the broad general principle laid down by the Colonial Office in paragraphs 18 and 19 of its despatch to the Governor of the Straits Settlements, of 13th December, 1889. Amongst other things Lord Knutsford there stated:-\n\n\"In dealing with the great question of the defence of the Empire, it is difficult to lay down any other broad principle for dividing the cost of Colonial defence except that of the Mother Country undertaking the sea defence of the Colonies by means of her Navy and the Colonies, as far as their means allow, respectively providing for their own land defence.\"\n\nAt the present moment no single Colony possessing an Imperial garrison completely performs this duty.\n\nThe War Office maintains that, as long as it is the duty of Colonies to bear the cost of their land defence, the Government is justified in requiring them so to administer their military Crown lands and buildings, that, when any are surrendered to the Colony, their full value shall be ear-marked and held available towards the expense of providing such other properties as may, at the time, or subsequently, be required for their defence. This course will enable a Colony partially to fulfil the duty which it has been told devolves upon it.\n\nIt is not claimed that there is any legal right to compel Colonies to adopt this course, but it is claimed that the Government is fully justified in demanding that they should adopt a policy that will enable them to some extent to fulfil their Imperial obligations.\n\nThis claim stands upon exactly the same footing as the claim for an annual contribution towards the cost of Colonial garrisons. The Government does not demand that contribution as a legal right, but urges it as a proper and legitimate performance of an obvious duty. The mere fact of recording the value of a Colonial asset, set free by the military authorities, does not involve a corresponding expenditure, but should other properties become essential for the defence of the Colony, it enables the Colony to meet the necessary expenditure without any increased strain on its finances. If the value of the assets exceeds such expenditure, the Colony retains possession, and gets the full benefit, of the surplus funds. Under no circumstances are such funds ever credited to the Exchequer.\n\nThe sole question for decision, therefore, is this: Shall the Government require Colonies having Imperial garrisons, so to administer their military Crown lands as to enable them, out of their value, to provide, as far as possible, such other properties as may be required for defence without casting extra expenditure upon Imperial funds?\n\nParagraphs 27, 28, 29, 36, 37 and 38 of the Report of the Committee on Colonial Military Crown Lands and its Appendices, Nos. 44 to 60, prove that this practice prevailed up to 1890, though of late years it seems to have fallen by neglect.\n\nA. L. H.\n\nWAR OFFICE,\n\n21st January, 1893.\n\nREVISE.\n\nMiscellaneous. No. 89.\n\nPrinted for the use of the Colonial Office.\n\nPage 181\n\nMilitary Lands in the Colonies.\n\nCrown lands in the Colonies are the property of the Colonial Government, and if sold or leased the proceeds are paid to the Colonial Treasury for the uses of the civil Government. Some portions of such Crown lands are occupied by the military for purposes of defence, and while so occupied are not available for sale or lease by the Colonial Government. A question has arisen as to the mode in which these lands should be dealt with when no longer required for defence. The natural answer is that they should be restored to the Colonial Government for civil purposes, and in former years this was the course usually followed.\n\n2. But since the coaling stations have been fortified the Colonies of Hong Kong, Straits Settlements, Ceylon, and Mauritius have been called upon to bear a larger share of the cost of their garrisons. The demand was resisted by them all on the ground that the coaling stations are not fortified for the sake of the Colonists, but for the protection of the trade of the United Kingdom with India and the far East, a contention that has a considerable element of truth.\n\n3. The Straits, however, has been induced to pay for five years the sum of 100,000l. a year, or about three-fourths of the cost of the garrison, and Hong Kong 40,000l., or one-seventh of the like cost. The Colonial revenue could not in either case bear a larger payment.\n\nCeylon undertakes the cost of the garrison at Colombo, the cost of the garrison at the naval station of Trincomalee being, for the present, at any rate, borne by the Imperial Exchequer.\n\nMauritius has been recently devastated by a hurricane, and the demand for this year has been reduced to 15,000l., but the question remains unsettled as to the claims for future years.\n\n4. The Committee which considered the military contributions also went into the question of military lands, and agreed to a report, which was accepted by the three Departments, and embodied in a Memorandum which was sent in circular to the Colonies concerned. When it was sought to give effect to this Memorandum, a difference as to its interpretation arose between the Treasury and War Office on one side and the Colonial Office on the other, and as no agreement seemed possible, the Secretary of State for the Colonies determined, as the first step to a settlement, to obtain an authoritative opinion from the Law Officers as to its real meaning. But the Chancellor of the Exchequer considers that a reference to the Law Officers is unnecessary, and the War Office now formulates a question of principle independent of the terms of the Memorandum. The agreement may therefore be regarded as definitely abandoned by the three Departments.\n\n5. The ground being thus cleared, it is proposed that the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Secretaries of State for War and the Colonies should discuss and come to a decision upon the question, which, in a Memorandum of 21 January 1893, is stated by the War Office as follows:-\n\nShall Her Majesty's Government require Colonies having Imperial garrisons so to administer their military Crown lands as to enable them, out of their value, to provide as far as possible such other properties as may be required for defence without casting extra expenditure upon Imperial funds?\n\n6. The meaning is that Crown Lands occupied by the military without power of sale, when given up as being useless for defence purposes, (1) shall be sold by the Colonial Government, who shall either hand over the proceeds to the military for immediate\n\nPage 182\n\nI 75718. 12.-3/93. G. 75. E. & S.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-261 - Public Offices & Others - 1893.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 353214, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-261 - Public Offices & Others - 1893", "page_number": 202, "title": "CO129-261 - Public Offices & Others - 1893", "content_text": "Gen. No. 8\n\n1102\n\nNo. 9.\n\nColonial Office to War Office.\n\nDowning Street,\n\n29th September, 1890.\n\nI am directed by Lord Knutsford to transmit herewith a copy of the circular despatch, dated 9th June, addressed by his Lordship to certain Colonies.\n\n40 & 41 Vic., cap. 23.\n\nSir,\n\nEDWARD WINGFIELD.\n\nEnclosure in No. 9.\n\nCircular.\n\nDowning Street,\n\n9th June, 1890.\n\nI have the honour to transmit to you, for your information and guidance, unless you have any serious objection of principle to urge against the proposal, a memorandum agreed upon by the War Office, the Treasury, and the Colonial Office, with regard to the disposal whenever occasion may arise of Colonial military Crown lands and buildings no longer required for defence purposes.\n\nTo Officers Administering.\n\nSub-Enclosure in No. 9.\n\nDisposal of Colonial Military Lands and Buildings.\n\nKNUTSFORD.\n\n1. With regard to the general question of Colonial military lands and buildings, it is assumed that all such lands and buildings are held by the Secretary of State for War for purposes connected with Colonial defence, and that the Secretary of State represents the Crown in all matters pertaining to their military administration.\n\n2. The military authorities, acting on behalf of the Secretary of State, should, therefore, in communication with Colonial Governments, deal with Colonial military lands and buildings in such manner as may best secure-\n\n(1.) The efficient execution of the special service to which the lands and buildings are devoted.\n\n(2.) The general interests of the Colony.\n\n3. On account of the changing conditions of warfare, it not unfrequently occurs that Colonial lands and buildings set apart for military purposes cease to be necessary, or suitable, to their purpose, while, at the same time, or subsequently, other lands and buildings have to be acquired to meet the necessities of the garrison.\n\n4. It is therefore considered that all such military properties and their values should be treated as part of a capital sum devoted to defensive purposes, and that, when they are disposed of by sale, or by transfer to the Civil Government, their realized or estimated values should, as hereinafter detailed, be retained by the Colonial Governments, and be held by them available towards the provision of such other lands and buildings as it may subsequently be necessary to acquire for defensive purposes.\n\n5. In Colonies garrisoned by Imperial troops, when military lands or buildings, other than such as may have been purchased and paid for by the Imperial Government, are no longer required for military service, either immediately or prospectively, it is recommended that they should be surrendered to the Colonial Government, subject to the following conditions:-\n\n(1.) If the Colony wishes to retain them for civil purposes their value should be settled by agreement between the local civil and military authorities, or by competent surveyors, as may be considered most desirable.\n\nWhen other lands or buildings for the garrison have to be provided, the agreed value of the surrendered lands or buildings should be contributed by the Colony towards the cost of providing the new lands or buildings.\n\nIf no such new lands or buildings are required at the time, the value of the surrendered lands or buildings should be retained by the Colonial Government until other lands or buildings are required for the garrison, when the value of the surrendered lands and buildings should be contributed by the Colony towards their cost.\n\n(2.) If the Colony does not wish to retain the lands or buildings, they should be surrendered by the military authorities to the Colonial Government for sale, the proceeds of the sale being dealt with in the same manner as provided for in the case of the value of lands retained by the Colony, i.e., if other lands or buildings are being provided for military purposes, the sums realized should be taken in aid of their cost; and if no such lands or buildings are required at the time, the sums realized should be retained by the Colonial Government, and be available at any subsequent period, when other lands or buildings may be required for military purposes.\n\n6. If some such course as this be not adopted, it is evident that whenever, owing to local conditions, a change of barracks or sites, in a Colony became necessary, the Colony would gratuitously acquire valuable properties, while the Imperial Government would have imposed upon it the entire cost of replacing them.\n\n7. An alternative policy might be adopted by the free surrender to Colonies of all lands and buildings no longer required for military service, on the understanding that they should provide all necessary lands and buildings for their garrisons. This course, however, might occasionally entail upon a Colony an expenditure disproportionate to its means. It would seem preferable, therefore, while ensuring that the value of surrendered lands and buildings shall be made available towards the cost of replacing them, to leave the question of the division, between Imperial and Colonial revenues, of the excess cost, of new over surrendered properties, to be adjusted in each case either upon its merits, or under any general or special agreement which may exist at the time between the Colonial and Imperial authorities.\n\n8. When lands or buildings in a Colony have been purchased and paid for by the Imperial Government, their value, when sold or transferred, should be credited to Imperial revenues.\n\nSir,\n\nNo. 10.\n\nColonial Office to War Office.\n\nDowning Street,\n\n6th March, 1891.\n\n8 1271\n\nI am directed by Lord Knutsford to transmit to you, to be laid before Mr. Secretary Stanhope, the accompanying extract from a despatch from the Officer Administering the Government of Hong Kong, on the subject of the memorandum (copy of which is enclosed for facility of reference) respecting the disposal of Colonial military lands and buildings.\n\n2. It will be seen that the question is one of great importance to Hong Kong, for the lands which belong to the Colony, but are in military occupation, appear to be worth 4,442,000 dollars. It is stated that the annual rate upon these lands, if free from military occupation, would be not less than 30,000 dollars a-year; while the rental (on which the rates are assessed under the local law) would in consequence be at least ten times the amount of the rates; and as the military authorities pay neither rent nor rates, it is asserted on behalf of the Colony, that the military occupation of these particular lands entails a positive loss to the revenue of 330,000 dollars, or over 50,000l. a-year. These latter figures are not given by Mr. Fleming, but Mr. Stanhope will see that they result from his despatch and the enclosures.\n\n3. These large sums are mainly the result of the development of the Colony, so that lands which originally, and when first occupied by the military, were of small value, have now become, owing to the growth of commerce and population, of great worth and importance; and Mr. Fleming contends that the Colony is entitled to the benefit of this increase of value, and not the Imperial Exchequer, since the increase is not in any great degree, if at all, due to Imperial expenditure upon the lands.\n\n(585)\n\n0\n\nPage 200\n\nPage 200\n\nPage 200\n\nPage 201\n\nPage 201\n\nPage 201", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-261 - Public Offices & Others - 1893.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 353215, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-261 - Public Offices & Others - 1893", "page_number": 203, "title": "CO129-261 - Public Offices & Others - 1893", "content_text": "4. This contention appears to Lord Knutsford to be well founded, and it seems to his Lordship that no arrangement will be possible under the circular enclosure of 9th June, 1890, until a decision has been arrived at as to the relative shares of the Home and Colonial Governments in the value of the land. All these sites are Colonial assets, and are valuable to the Colony though not immediately available for its use; on the other hand, the military authorities occupy them gratuitously, and will continue to do so as long as they are required for military purposes. Under these circumstances it is evident that each has an interest in the land, which should be capable of assessment, and it can hardly be expected that the Colony should account to the military for the money value of its own interest in the land.\n\n5. The same question is raised, or will be raised in other Colonies, and it seems to his Lordship most desirable that these relative shares be ascertained without delay; and he will be ready to join Mr. Stanhope in taking such steps as may be agreed on for the purpose. It may be admitted that the value of the military interests cannot be defined with complete accuracy, but his Lordship is disposed to think that the right to occupy the land, subject as it is to be terminated at any time by the direction of Her Majesty's Government, could not be assessed at a higher money value than one-fourth of the fee simple value of the land. But even this may be found to be too high or too low a rate if tested by the principles on which are based the actuarial tables used by land agents in England, in respect of properties in which two parties have each an interest, and it may be advisable to consult on the subject some leading firm of land surveyors and valuers. His Lordship would be glad to be favoured with Mr. Stanhope's views upon this question.\n\n6. It will be observed that Mr. Fleming also contends that the arrangement is unfair if the Colony is to contribute the whole value of surrendered lands towards the cost of erecting buildings on a new site, and is also to provide the new site, for which in its turn the Colony might be required to pay, if afterwards surrendered by the military. Lord Knutsford considers that there is much force in this objection, and that it would only be just that in estimating the cost of new buildings, the Colony, if it were required to contribute the whole value of the old site, should be credited with the value of the new site. But if, as suggested above, only the value of the military interest in the land is to be calculated under the circular of June, 1890, this further question is of less importance.\n\nJOHN BRAMSTON,\n\nIt would be incorrect to say that such land had been \"gratuitously acquired\" by the Colonial Government. It would be the fact that land, by the military occupation of which the Colonial Government had suffered an increasing annual loss, had been restored to it, being no longer suitable for the purpose for which it was originally granted.\n\nI am at a loss to understand how the Imperial Government could justly claim the unearned increment acquired by the useless ground being incorporated in the city. And the sale (for that is what it practically amounts to) to the Colony of land which was originally freely bestowed by the Colony on the War Department, irrespective of any immediate requirements by that department, would appear to be a scarcely legitimate way of improving the Imperial finances.\n\n7. For the better consideration of this question I have obtained from the Surveyor-General a return (copy of which is enclosed) showing the area and value of all lands in Victoria and Kowloon in military occupation. It does not include lands outside Victoria and Kowloon occupied for forts and defensive purposes.\n\nMr. Brown estimates the value of such lands as have been obtained by free grant from the Colonial Government at 4,442,205 dollars.\n\nThe value of the lands rented and purchased by the War Department he estimates at 541,611 dollars.\n\nTaking the total of 4,983,816 dollars as the value of the lands in military occupation, and which are treated, although not so under the actual terms of law, as being exempt from rates and taxes, it will be seen from the enclosed report* of the Assessor of Rates, that 37,000 dollars represents the annual loss in revenue which the Colony suffers on account of the immunity of the Imperial Department from the incidence of taxes.\n\nBut this is a very small item compared with the amount which this Government loses in Crown rents and premiums on the sale of all this land, which is some of the most valuable in the Colony.\n\nSir William des Voeux, in his despatch, No.334 of the 31st of October, 1889, mentioned that he estimated the total amount which this Colony paid annually for its military defence at 300,000 dollars, and the detailed returns, which I enclose, will, I think, show that your Lordship that his estimate was not an exaggerated one.\n\n8. Taking these facts into consideration, I think your Lordship will agree with me that the Military Establishments in this Colony are an excessively heavy burden, and that in place of making ever-increasing, and what I cannot but regard as exorbitant demands upon this Colony, the Imperial Government should endeavour to lighten that burden as much as possible.\n\nThe War Department has, by fortuitous circumstances, been allotted a vast area of land in the very heart of the best quarter of the city, thereby causing immense loss of revenue and much inconvenience to the Colony, and their endeavour should be to remedy, where and whenever possible, this abnormal state of things, instead of endeavouring to gain still greater advantages.\n\nE. FLEMING.\n\nEnclosure in No.10.\n\nAdministrator Fleming to Lord Knutsford.\n\nGovernment House, Hong Kong,\n\n8th October, 1890.\n\n5. The contingency mentioned in Section 6, cannot happen under existing arrangements, as a reference to the Duke of Newcastle's despatch, No.15 of the 27th of January, 1864, will show. It is there laid down that land not required for military purposes will revert to the Colony, the Colony, however, being bound to make reasonable compensation for the improvements which have been effected on the abandoned site, and also that if the abandonment imposes on the Imperial Government the necessity of procuring a fresh site elsewhere, that site must be acquired at the expense of the Colony.\n\n6. The above arrangement appears to me an equitable one, and this Government would, I venture to say, be at all times favourably disposed to defraying the cost of military buildings on a new site, provided that such cost was within the value of an old site surrendered to them, but where the Imperial Government has acquired for a specific purpose a piece of land, which was at the time of comparatively small value, but has, through becoming incorporated in the city, perhaps become of greatly enhanced value, and has no further use for such land, nor desires to replace it by land elsewhere, I certainly think that the land should revert unconditionally to the Colonial Government.\n\nNo.11.\n\nWar Office to Colonial Office\n\nWar Office,\n\n5th September, 1891.\n\n7. It seems unnecessary to discuss the causes which have led to the increased value of properties held by the military for the defence of the Colony. The primary cause of the increase in the value of Hong Kong lands, and in the general wealth of the Colony, is clearly the confidence and safety which the Colony has enjoyed under the protection of the Imperial Government, a protection which has only been secured by an expenditure of many millions of Imperial revenues, while the Contributions of the Colony, to the same end has been comparatively infinitesimal.\n\nPage 1271\n\nHong Kong\n\n8", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-261 - Public Offices & Others - 1893.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 353216, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-261 - Public Offices & Others - 1893", "page_number": 204, "title": "CO129-261 - Public Offices & Others - 1893", "content_text": "8. In view of the fact that it is the duty of the Colony, to the extent that its means will admit, to provide lands and buildings for its garrison; it would be useless, even if it were practicable, to determine the extent of the interest which the Colony, and the Imperial Government respectively, possess in those properties. Practically these properties are of no tangible value to the Colony until it obtains full possession of them, and when it obtains possession of them, the amount they would fetch in the market is the true measure of the value they possess for the Colony. They are of no value in a money point of view to the Imperial Government, except in so far as their valuation on surrender may prevent extra charges falling on the Exchequer, when they have to be exchanged for more appropriate sites.\n\n13. The Officer Administering the Government states that by fortuitous circumstance the War Department has been \"allotted a vast area of land in the very heart of the best quarter of this city, thereby causing immense loss of revenue and much inconvenience to the Colony, and their endeavour should be to remedy, where and whenever possible, this abnormal state of things, instead of endeavouring to gain still greater advantages.\" When the barracks held by the War Department in Victoria were built, their site was not in the heart of the best quarter of that city, but they have gradually been enveloped by the city, the great growth of which is due to the security and prosperity enjoyed by the Colony under Colonial protection.\n\n14. The proposal to vacate the barracks, &c., in Victoria, and to remove the troops to other barracks to be provided by the Colony, was one conceived entirely in the interests of the Colony, and from which it would have derived enormous advantage. The scheme offers no corresponding advantages to the Imperial Government, but it was willing to agree to it, provided it could be carried out without prejudice to naval and military interests, and without additional charge to Imperial revenues.\n\n6. There appears to be no inseparable difficulty in assessing the respective shares of the Colony and of the military authorities in a property in which they are jointly interested. The fee simple value is doubtless calculated upon so many years' purchase of an estimated rental, and it should be possible for the departments to agree as to the number of years' rental to be assigned as the equivalent of the occupation rights of the War Office; or, failing agreement, to submit the question to the decision of some independent authority (e.g., the Lord Chancellor). But, unless the principle of the assessment is determined, Lord Knutsford sees no prospect of a settlement of these questions of military lands, not only in Hong Kong, but in other Colonies where such lands may be surrendered.\n\nJOHN BRAMSTON.\n\nEnclosure in No. 12.\n\n(Draft.)\n\nColonial Office to Sir W. Robinson, K.C.M.G., Hong Kong.\n\nDowning Street,\n\nDecember, 1891.\n\nSir,\n\nI am now in correspondence with the War Office as to the basis on which surrendered lands should be assessed, and whether the amount should be calculated on the fee simple value of the land, or only on the value of the occupation right possessed by the military authorities.\n\nRALPH THOMPSON.\n\nNo. 13.\n\n202\n\nSir,\n\nHong Kong\n\n1285\n\nNo. 12.\n\nColonial Office to War Office.\n\nDowning Street,\n\n4th December, 1891. I am directed by Lord Knutsford to acknowledge the receipt of your letter on the subject of the letter of the 5th of September last, Hong Kong\n\n1271 disposal of Colonial lands and buildings in occupation of the military at Hong Kong.\n\n2. Lord Knutsford considers that it would be better if the question of assessing the value of surrendered properties were kept separate from that of the liability of the Colony to provide all military lands and buildings.\n\n3. The circular of 9th June, 1890, embodied the deliberate decision of Her Majesty's Government, and has been transmitted to the Colonies in that sense; and his Lordship assumes that it is not proposed to depart from the terms of that circular. He is, of course, quite willing that the full value of what the War Office surrenders should be assessed as accurately as circumstances permit, and the amount provided by the Colony; but where the military authorities surrender only a right of occupation, the value of the fee simple which belongs to the Colony cannot properly be included in the assessment.\n\nSir,\n\nColonial Office to War Office.\n\nDowning Street,\n\n11th January, 1892.\n\n1130\n\nI am directed by the Secretary of State for the Colonies, to transmit to you, for the information of Mr. Secretary Stanhope, with reference to the letter from this department of the 12th of October, 1889, a copy of the despatch on the subject of the disposal of buildings belonging to the War Department in Mauritius.\n\nROBERT G. W. HERBERT.\n\nMy Lord,\n\nEnclosure in No. 13.\n\nSir C. Lees to Lord Knutsford.\n\nGovernment House, Mauritius,\n\n8th December, 1891. With reference to your Lordship's despatch, No. 273, of the 6th of October last, I have the honour to transmit herewith a copy of the Report by the Finance Committee, which was read and adopted at a meeting of the Council of Government, held on the 1st instant, from which it will be seen that the Council have concurred in the sale of the old Military Hospital, Port Louis, to Mr. Pongnet, and in the appropriation of the proceeds of the sale to the construction of barracks at Curepipe, as suggested in your Lordship's despatch, No. 196, of the 13th of June, 1889.\n\n2. A copy of my minute, laying all the correspondence that has taken place on this subject before the Council of Government, is enclosed.\n\nC. C. LEES, Governor.\n\n(585)", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-261 - Public Offices & Others - 1893.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 353217, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-261 - Public Offices & Others - 1893", "page_number": 205, "title": "CO129-261 - Public Offices & Others - 1893", "content_text": "203\n\nHong Kong\n\n$\n\n1285\n\ntong Kong\n\nX\n\n1289\n\nSir,\n\n14\n\nNo. 14.\n\nWar Office to Colonial Office.\n\nWar Office,\n\n12th January, 1892.\n\n2. With regard to the last part of paragraphs 3 to 6, and of paragraph 10, of your letter under reply, Mr. Stanhope considers that it is desirable that the Government should decide on what basis Colonial Military Crown lands surrendered to Colonies should be valued for purposes of record. He cannot concur that arbitration should be resorted to, as in every petty transfer the Lord Chancellor, or other arbitrator, would have to take evidence in this country on the vexed question of local values in remote Colonies.\n\n3. On the question of the proper basis of valuation, Mr. Stanhope's views will be found in the War Office letter* of 6th September, 1891,\n\n1271 40248\n\nHe\n\nand in paragraph 4 of War Office letter of 28th January, 1890. He can conceive no more simple plan than assessing the saleable value of the land at the time of its surrender; that is the asset which the Colony comes into possession of, and, if it sells the land, that is the value it receives. If it afterwards provides other lands, that is the value which would regulate its liability. If a lower value, viz., the value of a user, without definite limit, and which it would therefore be impracticable to assess, were adopted, a similar lower value would have to be assigned to the user of any lands subsequently provided by a Colony; the result would therefore be practically the same.\n\n4. Even in the interest of a Colony, the contention seems to be unnecessary, seeing that, in the event of the War Department surrendering property, say, for example, 100,000l. fee simple value, the War Department interest therein being that of occupation, the Colony would only be required at a future date to hand over to the War Department, i.e., the occupation of a property of the fee simple value of 100,000l. ...The reversion in both cases would be to the Colony; and this aspect of the case appears to have been overlooked.\n\nSir,\n\nNo. 15.\n\nRALPH THOMPSON.\n\nColonial Office to War Office.\n\nDowning Street,\n\n10th February, 1892.\n\n4. As regards the second paragraph of your letter, his Lordship regrets to find that he has not made his intention clear, as he did not mean to propose that an arbitrator should go into questions of local value, but that, be the value large or small, he should be asked to lay down a principle on which to apportion, as cases arise, the share which the War Department may claim in respect of its occupation, and the Colonial Government in respect of its reversion; as, for instance, that the occupation represents one-third of the saleable value, and the reversion two-thirds, or whatever other proportion may seem fair under the circumstances. Mathematical accuracy is obviously not attainable in such a case.\n\n* No. 11.\n\n↑ No. 7.\n\n15\n\n5. Lord Knutsford concurs \"that in the event of the War Department surrendering property, say, for example, 100,000l. fee-simple value, the War Department interest therein being that of occupation only, the Colony would be required at a future date to hand over a property to the War Department.\" But it seems to him that this may in certain cases mean something different to \"the occupation of a property of the fee-simple value of 100,000l.” For under the 5th Section of the memorandum* enclosed in the circular despatch of 9th June, 1890, it might happen that the Colony would be called upon to contribute part or the whole of the cost in the form of a money payment for the construction of new buildings on other lands. And unless the money value of this is ascertained, his Lordship does not perceive how the amount is to be determined for which the Colony would be liable under the memorandum.\n\n6. His Lordship believes that the point at issue could be raised on a joint statement of facts, which would place before the arbitrator the views of the two departments.\n\nJOHN BRAMSTON,\n\nSir,\n\nEnclosure in No. 15.\n\nLord Knutsford to Sir W. Robinson.\n\nDowning Street,\n\n5th February, 1892.\n\n5. I am now in correspondence with the War Office as to the basis on which surrendered lands should be assessed.\n\nSir,\n\nNo. 16.\n\nWar Office to Colonial Office.\n\nWar Office,\n\n23rd March, 1892.\n\nWith reference to your letter dated 10th February, 1892, forwarding copy of a despatch which Lord Knutsford has now sent to the Governor of Hong Kong, relative to the disposal of lands and buildings occupied by the War Department in that Colony, &c., I am directed by the Secretary of State for War to observe that it would scarcely be advisable to call in an arbitrator to settle a difference of opinion between the Colonial and War Offices. The Treasury would appear to be the proper arbitrator.\n\n2. The case seems to Mr. Stanhope to be very simple. The Colony assigns to the War Department land for its absolute user as long as required for defence. As long as the War Department uses it, it is valueless to the Colony. A thing is only worth what it will realize on sale; and the Colony could realize nothing unless the War Department user were to cease. When the War Department frees this asset from its user, the Colony comes into possession of its full value, because it is then free to sell it at its fee-simple value. That is its value in the Colony; and that is the value to record. Should the Colony ever be called upon to expend money, it will be in no worse position than it was before the user of the property was surrendered. It will be in exactly the same position, which is the position recommended by the Contributions Committee, and accepted by the Colonial Office and the Treasury.\n\n3. I am to point out that if the Colonial money be spent on buildings on sites not Colonial property, special terms would have to be made to meet such an exceptional case.\n\nRALPH THOMPSON,\n\n* Sub-enclosure in No. 9.\n\n† No. 15.\n\n?\n1", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-261 - Public Offices & Others - 1893.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 353218, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-261 - Public Offices & Others - 1893", "page_number": 206, "title": "CO129-261 - Public Offices & Others - 1893", "content_text": "Hong Kong\n\n8\n\n1298\n\nSir,\n\n16\n\nNo. 17.\n\nColonial Office to War Office.\n\nDowning Street,\n\n19th May, 1892. Hong Kong 8 In reply to your letter,*\n\nof 23rd March last, I am directed \" 1289 by Lord Knutsford to request you to inform Mr. Secretary Stanhope that his Lordship regrets that he cannot concur in the opinion that the Treasury would be a proper arbitrator in the matter referred to, which is in fact a question between the Imperial Exchequer and the Exchequer of the Colony of Hong Kong, and his Lordship still considers that, if no agreement can be arrived at, it would be fairer to submit the point to some independent authority, such as the Lord Chancellor.\n\n2. Nor is his Lordship able to agree with the view expressed in paragraph 2 of your letter, which is at variance with that expressed in the 3rd paragraph of the letter from this department of 4th November (sic, should be December) last.\n\n1286\n\n3. The general principle to be settled, once for all, could conveniently be raised and decided upon the simple case of Murray Battery, which it is proposed in paragraph 15 of War Office letter to Treasury of 31st March last\n\nHong Kong 8\n\nof the 2nd ultimo) (copy of which was enclosed in your letter, to surrender to the Colony, \"the value being applied to the erection of barracks elsewhere.\" As this is to be paid in money, it is necessary to settle what the value is, as pointed out in the last paragraph of the letter from this department of 10th February last.\n\nEDWARD FAIRFIELD.\n\n4\n\n17\n\nbe retained by the Colonial Government, and be held by them available towards the provision of such other lands, and buildings as it may subsequently be necessary to acquire for defensive purposes.\"\n\n4. There is no room here for any such distinction as that which it is proposed to establish between the fee-simple value and the value of the right of user enjoyed by the Secretary of State for War. Mr. Stanhope to clearly establish the principle that the saleable value of the The paragraph seems to land is to be the value recorded by the Colony. seems inconsistent with the terms used, for, obviously, no sale to a private Any other interpretation persons of the peculiar rights enjoyed by the War Office would be possible.\n\n5. Mr. Stanhope fails indeed to see that there are equitable grounds for arriving at any other conclusion. It is argued in paragraph 2 of your letter under reply, and paragraph 3 of your letter of 4th December (not November), that what the military authorities surrender is a right of occupation only; but the right of occupation for an unlimited time is for all practical purposes as valuable as the freehold. This would be recognized in the case of any very long lease.\n\n6. Moreover, in all this discussion it must be clearly borne in mind that the recorded value of military lands remains in the possession of the Colony until its expenditure on the defences of the Colony becomes necessary. When\n\nthat necessity arises, the value of the ceded property can only be expended within the Colony, and on lands or buildings essential to its defence. In the meantime the Colony has the use of the property, or of the unexpended funds resulting from the sale, but it has no claim to make what would really be an addition to its general funds, by permanently diverting to ordinary uses any portion of what the memorandum above referred to properly describes as\n\na capital sum devoted to defensive purposes.\"\n\n7. The proposal to make some arbitrarily fixed deduction from the freehold value of ceded lands, in order to get at the value of the user, could only result in in the establishment of a rule always open to dispute, both as to military lands surrendered to the Colony and lands to be assigned to the War Office, and would offer no such firm practical basis for a settlement as is afforded by adopting the saleable value as the recorded value,\n\nSir,\n\nNo. 18.\n\nWar Office to Colonial Office.\n\nWar Office,\n\n4th July, 1892. I am directed by the Secretary of State for War to acknowledge the receipt of your letters of the 19th May, enclosing a despatch from the Governor of Hong Kong, and discussing generally the principles on which the value of military lands surrendered to a Colony should be assessed.\n\n2. To Mr. Secretary Stanhope it seems that those principles were laid down with sufficient precision in paragraph 56 of Report No. 5 of the Committee on Colonial Contributions, dealing with the subject of Colonial military lands and buildings, which paragraph was, after full consideration of the report adopted by the War Office, Treasury, and Colonial Office, and embodied, in identical terms, in the memorandum which accompanied the circular despatch addressed to the various Colonies by the Colonial Office on the 9th June, 1890.\n\n3. The paragraph in question (paragraph 56 of Report and 4 of Memo- randum) runs as follows:-\n\n\"It is therefore considered that all such military properties and their values should be treated as part of a capital sum devoted to defensive purposes and that, when they are disposed of by sale, or by transfer to the civil Government, their realized or estimated values should, as hereinafter detailed,\n\n† No. 12\n\nNo. 15. § No. 17.\n\nSub-Enclosure in No. 9.\n\n* No. 16.\n\n9. Mr. Secretary Stanhope regrets, further, that he is unable to assent to the proposal that the question of the mode of valuing the abandoned sites should be submitted to some independent arbitrator, as, for instance, to the Lord Chancellor. No doubt the question is in one sense, between the Imperial Exchequer and the Exchequer of the Colony at Hong Kong. But as much might be said of all questions relating to the Colonial Contributions, and yet such questions have not been referred to any arbitrator, but have been settled by the Home Government.\n\nThis special question is not one of law, and it seems to Mr. Stanhope that it should, in the first place, be referred to the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury; and if Lord Knutsford finds himself unable to accept their decision, that the matter should be finally settled by the Cabinet.\n\n• No. 12.\n\n(385)\n\nRALPH THOMPSON.\n\nE\n\n204", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-261 - Public Offices & Others - 1893.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 353220, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-261 - Public Offices & Others - 1893", "page_number": 208, "title": "CO129-261 - Public Offices & Others - 1893", "content_text": "Hong Kong\n\n1309\nT. No. 12090 12282\n\n92\n\n20\n\nof Lord Knutsford, that it scarcely appears to Mr. Stanhope that any practical object will be served by further discussion between the two departments, and that he has caused a letter to be addressed to the Treasury (copy enclosed) with a view to eliciting the opinion of their Lordships as to the right mode of calculating the value of military land surrendered to a Colony, and the desirability of referring the question of legal authority.\n\nSir,\n\nNo. 22.\n\nTreasury to War Office.\n\nRALPH THOMPSON.\n\nTreasury Chambers,\n\n17th August, 1892.\n\nI am directed by the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury to transmit to you herewith, for the information of the Secretary of State for War, in reply to Mr. De la Bère's letter of the 22nd ultimo, Hong Kong 8 1298 copy of a letter of to-day's date, which my Lords have caused to be addressed to the Colonial Office on the subject of the valuation to be set upon military land in Hong Kong when surrendered by the War Department to the Colonial Government.\n\nR. E. WELBY.\n\n21\n\nOn the other hand, the Colonial Office maintain that the value to be recorded or paid or to be substantially less than the full market value of the land, because the War Department are but limited owners of it, possessing only a right to its perpetual use for a particular purpose. The War Department have, it is assumed, no power of alienating the land from the purposes for which they hold it in trust, except by surrendering it to its reversionary owner, the Colonial Government. The full market value of the land could not be realised without a surrender of the rights of both parties of the War Department as potentially permanent occupier, and of the Colonial Government as reversioner. It would be unfair, therefore, to make the Colonial Government pay to the War Department the value of its own rights as well as the value of those of that department. The rights of either party alone would probably be quite unsaleable. If the union of those rights be necessary to produce a price, that price must belong to both parties jointly.\n\nMy Lords acknowledge the force of the arguments on both sides. For the integrity of the trust and in the interest of the defence of the Colony, the War Department must be enabled by the Colonial Government to replace what they surrender whenever necessary. The new land would probably not enable them to obtain it for less than its full market value, therefore the Colonial Government must hold at the disposal of the War Department the full market value of the land surrendered. But, in return, the Colonial Government may fairly ask to be given the same reversionary rights over the land acquired by the War Department in substitution for that surrendered as they enjoyed over the surrendered land.\n\nWhat has been said of land applies also to buildings.\n\nTo take an example, my Lords hold that the Colonial Government should pay to the War Department the full market value of Murray Battery at once if it be surrendered to the Colony, because the War Department have to spend that value (and much more) in building barracks for the defence of the Colony. But if the Colonial Government have a reversionary interest in Murray Battery they should, in return, be given a like reversionary interest, to an equal value, in the new barracks, which interest that Government will be entitled to realise should neither the barracks, nor their equivalent, be required hereafter for purposes of defence.\n\nSuch is the decision at which my Lords would arrive; but if the Secretary of State still desires a legal opinion, my Lords cannot oppose his obtaining it, so long as it is understood that no legal opinion can affect the obligation of every Colony to contribute according to its means to the cost of its own defence.\n\nMy Lords are sending a copy of this letter to the War Office.\n\nT. No. 12090 12232\n\n92\n\nSir,\n\nEnclosure in No. 22.\n\nTreasury to Colonial Office.\n\nTreasury Chambers,\n\n17th August, 1892.\n\nThe Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury have had before them your letter of the 25th ultimo, and the preceding correspondence sent to them by the War Office, respecting the valuation to be set upon military land in Hong Kong when surrendered by the War Department to the Colonial Government, a point on which a difference of opinion has arisen between Lord Knutsford and the Secretary of State for War, and which Mr. Stanhope wishes to submit for the decision of the Treasury, whilst Lord Knutsford would prefer either the arbitration of the Lord Chancellor, or a reference to the Law Officers of the Crown, because the question is one between the Imperial and Colonial Exchequers on which my Lords are interested parties.\n\nUnder the agreement arrived at by Her Majesty's Government, on the recommendation of the Colonial Military Contributions Committee, and communicated by the Colonial Office to the Colonies in a circular despatch of the 9th June, 1890, when Colonial military land, occupied by the military authorities without any title deed, or conveyed to the Board of Ordnance or Secretary of State for War by grant from the Crown signed by the Governor, for purposes of defence, is no longer required for those purposes, it is to be surrendered to the Colonial Government, on payment of its estimated value in kind or money, if that value be immediately required for the military defence of the Colony, or, if not, on condition that the Government agrees to hold its recorded value at the time of transfer, or its actual proceeds if subsequently sold, at the disposal of the War Department, in case they are obliged at any future time to obtain land for purposes of defence in the Colony.\n\nThe War Department contend that the value to be either immediately paid for the land, or held to their credit at call, is the full estimated market value, or the full actual proceeds of sale of the land, in accordance with the probable intention of the Colonial Military Contributions Committee. The War Department are trustees of this land for defence purposes, and it would be a breach of trust if they surrendered it without retaining the right to resume possession of it, or of its equivalent in land or money, when required for the purposes of the trust. If the future need can be met by something less than this equivalent, the War Department will be content with less, for the time being; but their duty as trustees compels them to reserve the right of regaining possession of the full equivalent of whatever they surrender, and the only practical measure of that equivalent is the sum which the surrender will enable the Colonial Government to obtain for the land.\n\nR. E. WELBY.\n\n206", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-261 - Public Offices & Others - 1893.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 355821, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-265 - Public Offices & Others - 1894", "page_number": 98, "title": "CO129-265 - Public Offices & Others - 1894", "content_text": "## C. O.\n\n### TREASURY CHAMBERS, 19 October 1894\n\nSir,\n\nThe Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury have carefully considered your letter of the 5th instant, respecting the proportion of the cost of new Barracks at Hong Kong to be charged to the Colony.\n\nAs the Marquess of Ripon is aware, the Committee on Colonial Military Contributions, in their Report of 27th July 1888, paragraph 34, recommended:\n- (a) That the value of Colonial Military Lands surrendered by the War Department to the Colonial Government of Hong Kong should be appropriated towards the cost of new Barracks,\n- (b) That any new sites required for the new Barracks should be provided by the Colonial Government, free of charge.\n- (c) That the remainder of the cost of the new Barracks should be divided between the United Kingdom and the Colony in the proportions of 2/3rds to the former and 1/3rd to the latter.\n\nThis recommendation was concurred in by the Secretary of State for the Colonies and the Secretary of State for War, and has been implicitly renewed by the Committee on Colonial Military Contributions in their further Report of 24th May last.\n\nBut, as yet, the Treasury has contended for a Contribution by the Colony of not less than half the net cost of the new Barracks, in addition to the requisite new sites.\n\n### \n2. Reply that ? To reply, omitting [I], and say that in Lord Ripon's opinion, the proper course will be under par. 3 of referring to the new Circular to appropriate the Treasury value of the surrendered lands & (15/17/96) as far as it will extend to providing the new sites required (if such sites have to be paid for as they are not already Crown Land) and to providing for the cost.\n\n| Number |\n|--------|\n| 14964 |\n| 16213 |\n\nIn the reply to this Letter, the following Number should be quoted.\n\nThe cost in the proportions of the new buildings, & to divide the remainder between the two forts. And that they probably work very little difference are...\n\n£847.27/10 £327.10\n\nThe Under Secretary of State \nColonial Office \n\n### \nEricular]. \nMildings \nво \nunlea \no \n2600.0 \n94 \n93 \n18351 \nRECO \nRed 2000 34, \n\nPage 363", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-265 - Public Offices & Others - 1894.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 355824, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-265 - Public Offices & Others - 1894", "page_number": 101, "title": "CO129-265 - Public Offices & Others - 1894", "content_text": "1888 was written, the question of Colonial Military Lands was dealt with and later by that Committee. A Report by dated 27 March 1889, and in the Secretary of State's Circular despatch of 9 June 1890, again which is about the terms for her amplified. In a further Circular, the terms of which have been agreed upon in your letter (`157/7/n`) of the 26 August, and previous correspondence. If Leenys to A and Ripon considers that proposal (b) in letter under acknowledgment hardly different since by A ? amit. I am not sure about this qualification.\n\nYes `1PK/96` accords with the new Circular, & that the proper course under par. 3 of the new Circular to appropriate the value of Surrendered lands or buildings, so far as it will extend, to providing the new site much as was paid for... required, sites have to be and are not vacant. Down land and to providing the new buildings, & to divide this remainder. The cost in the proportions proposed between the two Imperial & Colonial for to... S...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-265 - Public Offices & Others - 1894.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 355839, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-265 - Public Offices & Others - 1894", "page_number": 116, "title": "CO129-265 - Public Offices & Others - 1894", "content_text": "has agreed to the principle embodied in par. 11 of his Circular despatch of the 30th ultimo, that a Colony is bound to provide, according to its means, all lands required for military purposes. His Lordship trusts that in the present case the Lords of the Treasury agree to the proposal made in the letter from this Dept. of the 31st of October last, namely that the value (copy enclosed) of the lands & buildings at Hongkong about to be surrendered by the War Department, should it be applied towards providing new sites & buildings required for the Barracks, & that the balance of the cost of the new Barracks (including in that cost sites & buildings) should be divided in the proposed ratio, one third to be charged to the Colony & two third to the Imperial. Lord Ripon understands that the War Office is prepared to concur in this proposal.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-265 - Public Offices & Others - 1894.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 356139, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-265 - Public Offices & Others - 1894", "page_number": 416, "title": "CO129-265 - Public Offices & Others - 1894", "content_text": "## \nis not to be regarded as a precedent to be followed in future cases. The total charge is to be divided between the Imperial & Colonial Governments instead of being wholly charged to this Colony in accordance with paragraph 11 of my Circular of 3 December last.\n\n4. It is intended to provide £10,600 in the Army Estimates for 1895-6 towards the expenditure incurred in these Works during the year, and I have to request you to bring the question of an extension of the Services to the value to be paid by the Colony before the Legislative Council at an early date. I propose a supplementary vote of £25,000 to cover the Colonial share of this year's expenditure, which was £450,000.\n\n5. I should be glad to know whether it is your intention that the works should be executed by the Royal Engineers, & whether the balance of this refund should be dealt with in paragraphs 15-17 of the enclosed letter from the War Department, or by the Public Works Department, in consultation with the G.O.C. the Troops. I presume that it will be convenient that the War Dept., which has already begun the new Buildings, should go on with the work. However, the Colony...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-265 - Public Offices & Others - 1894.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 357277, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-267 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1895 [4-6]", "page_number": 134, "title": "CO129-267 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1895 [4-6]", "content_text": "## DESPATCH\n**C. O. 9145**\n**REC 27 MAY 95**\n\nGovernor.\n\nDate. \n1895 \n\nNo. \n125.\n\nApril 19 \n\nLast previous Paper. \nWong 20 May \n\n**Circular** \nStony Rong \nNo. 9145 \n\n**(Subject.)**\n\nCol. Mily Lands & Buildings \nProposals & support will be adopted.\n\n**(Minutes.)**\nW. Branstsan \nGen Dep noti \nref. to letter on 4033 \nAve To Dec Ne \nwith \n\n? Copy to W.0. for inf. \nsug. 27/5 C.P.L. 28/5 \n1328/5 \nAl 28/5 \nLatour \nNota \n`W07(78)-545-00-2-05`\n\nNext subsequent Paper. \n2486/96", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-267 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1895 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 357506, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-267 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1895 [4-6]", "page_number": 363, "title": "CO129-267 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1895 [4-6]", "content_text": "360 \n\n7 \n\nCircular despatch respecting Colonial Military lands and buildings dated 30th December, 1894, the circumstances under which the Military Authorities acquire, hold, and dispose of properties have so completely changed that the foregoing principle based on the circumstance that the Military Authorities could not dispose of any land no longer required by them does not now seem applicable.\n\nFollowing the spirit of Your Lordship's Circular despatch above referred to, I am of opinion that no cash payment should be required of the Military Authorities in respect of Crown rent, but that in such cases as the Military or Naval Authorities purchase lands or other property subject to Crown rent, the amount of the Crown rent should be annually entered to", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-267 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1895 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 358632, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-269 - Governor Sir Robinson & Public Offices - 1895 [12]", "page_number": 38, "title": "CO129-269 - Governor Sir Robinson & Public Offices - 1895 [12]", "content_text": "## Appendix E\n\nSchedule setting forth the situation of the basements illegally occupied on the 1st of April and on the owners, etc, of which notices have been served and compliance with the law enforced.\n\n| Name of Street | Nos. of the Houses | Total No. of Basements |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Wanchai Road | 36 | 1 |\n| Ship Street | 9 | |\n| | 77A, 70A, 82, 40, 52 | |\n| Hon Fang Lane | 2, 5, 7 | Q |\n| Queen's Road East | 10 | |\n| | 62, 217 | |\n| Wing Fung Street | 10, 12, 14, 10, 18, 20, 20, 24 | 3 |\n| Pedder's Hill | 1,0 | |\n| Mosque Junction | 43, 45 | 5 |\n| Kai Un Lane | East end of Lane | 4 |\n| Stanley Street | 9, 11, 18, 47 | |\n| Pottinger Street, Cochrane Street | 10, 12, 14, 16 | |\n\n(e) In the case of top floors such mezzanine floor, storey or cockloft does not extend over more than one-half of the floor area of the room, and has a clear space above it of not less than eight feet and below it of not less than nine feet measured vertically. When the roof has no ceiling or tie the measurement shall be made from the level of the floor up to half the vertical height of the rafters over such mezzanine floor, storey or cockloft.\n\n(d) In the case of mezzanine floors, stories or cocklofts on ground floors that do not comply with the conditions specified in the preceding paragraph, no permission will be granted for their continuance except for storage purposes only, and provided that the space so encroached on by such mezzanine floor, storey or cockloft shall not be included in the calculation of the cubic capacity of the room available for habitation.\n\n2. It should be noted that, under the provisions of sub-section b of section 8 and Bye-law 7 under section 13 of this Ordinance, the partition walls of every separate compartment must not be of a greater height than 8 feet, and must leave a space between the top of the partitions and the ceiling or underside of the joists of not less than 4 feet, and that such space must not be closed except with wire netting, iron bars, lattice work, or carved wood work arranged in such a way as to leave at least two-thirds of such space open and as far as practicable evenly distributed.\n\nBy Command,\nColonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 30th August, 1895.\n**J. H. STEWART LOCKHART**, \nColonial Secretary.\n\n## GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 407\n\nNo. of District\n\nThe following is published.\n\nBy Command,\n**J. H. STEWART LOCKHART**, Colonial Secretary.\nColonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 27th September, 1895.\n\n| Name of Street | Nos. of the Houses |\n| --- | --- |\n| Wellington Street, Staunton Street, Hollywood Road | 35, 29, 31 |\n| Gage Street | 15, 156, 15n, 21, 23, 27, 29, 51, 50, 61, 91 |\n| | 03, 09, 101 |\n| Queen's Road Central, Lyndhurst Terrace, Wing Wah Lane | 9, 13, 15, 17 |\n| | 1, 93, 27, 29, 31 |\n| | 9 |\n| | 82, 84 |\n| Hollywood Road | 20, 19 |\n| Ping On Lane, Gough Street | |\n| Bridges Street, Staunton Street, Tauk Lane, Square Street, Circular Pathway | 41, 48, 45, 47, 49, 51, 53, 55, 63, 93, 95, 97 |\n| Shing Wong Street, Wellington Street, Kan U Tong South | 90, 101, 108, 105, 107, 100, 111, 113, 115 |\n| | 117, 119, 121, 126, 127, 100, 131, 133, 135, 137, 140, 142, 146, 148, 100, 162, 164, 166, 168 |\n| | 1, (), 2, 5 |\n| | 23, 25, 91, 35, 36, 37, 39 |\n| | 1, 3, 5, 7, 66A |\n| | 33, 35, 37 |\n| | 28, 38, 40, 41, 43, 44, 46, 48 |\n| | 2, 3, 12, 13, 15, 17, 18, 24, 42, () |\n| | 4, 5 |\n| | 196 |\n| | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |\n| | 160, 162, 164, 303, 305, 307, 309, 311, 313 |\n| Queen's Road Central | 30 |\n| | 134 |\n| | 315, 319, 321, 323, 326, 327, 320, 331, 333 |\n| Chung Wo Lane | 21, 22 |\n| Wa In Fong East | 9 |\n| Lower Ladder Street Terrace | 4 |\n| Upper Lascar Row | 1, 3, 5, 34 |\n| Lower Lascar Row | 2, 4, 6, 17, 19, 21, 28, 25 |\n| Tan Kwai Lane | 1, 2, 3, 5, 7 |\n| Tsui Ou Lane | 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 8 |\n| Queen's Road Central | 6 |\n| | 335, 341, 343, 345, 349, 301, 358, 365, 357 |\n| | 359, 301 |\n| Queen's Road West | 29 |\n| | 65, 68, 91, 97, 101, 125, 131, 133, 167, 209 |\n| | 227 |\n| | 1 |\n| | 127 |\n| Total No. of Basements | 219 |\n\n## SANITARY BOARD NOTIFICATION\n\n**MEZZANINE FLOORS, STORIES, OR COCKLOFTS**\n\nIN\n\nBuildings erected AFTER the passing of Ordinance 16 of 1894, (29th December, 1894).\n\n1. Under the provisions of sub-section 2 of section 7 of Ordinance 15 of 1894, it is unlawful to construct, put up, continue or maintain in any room of any domestic building erected after the 29th of December, 1894, any mezzanine floor, storey or cockloft whatsoever, except where such room is situated on the ground floor and is used as a shop or workshop, in which case the written permission of the Sanitary Board must be first obtained and any conditions imposed in such permission must be complied with.\n\n2. Notice is hereby given that such permission will not be granted unless the following conditions are complied with:-\n\n(a) The building shall be constructed and maintained in a satisfactory sanitary condition.\n(b) The mezzanine floor, storey or cockloft shall not extend over more than one half of the floor area of the room and shall have a clear space below it of not less than eight feet measured vertically, provided that this space is sufficient to prevent the obstruction of any doorway situated in an external wall.\n\n(c) The space both above and below such mezzanine floor, storey or cockloft shall be used for storage purposes only and shall not be enclosed except with wire netting, bamboo lattice or carved wood-work arranged in such a way as to leave at least two-thirds of such space open and as far as practicable evenly distributed, and the space encroached on by such mezzanine floor, storey or cockloft shall not be included in the calculation of the cubic capacity of the room available for habitation.\n\nBy order of the Sanitary Board,\nHongkong, 27th September, 1895.\n**Huon MCCALLUM**, \nSecretary.\n\n21st October, 1895.\n**W. EDWARD CROW**, \nAssistant Secretary and Superintendent.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-269 - Governor Sir Robinson & Public Offices - 1895 [12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 359076, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-269 - Governor Sir Robinson & Public Offices - 1895 [12]", "page_number": 482, "title": "CO129-269 - Governor Sir Robinson & Public Offices - 1895 [12]", "content_text": "## Roughing 4754\n\nIt is requested that in any further communication on this subject, the above number may be quoted; and the Letter addressed to...\n\nThe Under Secretary of State,\nWar Office,\nPall Mall, London,\n(S.W.)\n\n4033 ARCO MAR 95,\nWAR OFFICE, PALL MALL, S.W.\n1895\n\n478 wo 21841 94\n\nWith reference to your letter of the 5th January 1895, inclosing a Circular from the Governor with regard to the surrender of military lands and buildings therein; I am directed by the Secretary of State for War to transmit to you, for the information of the Secretary of State for the Colonies, an Extract from a letter which has been...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-269 - Governor Sir Robinson & Public Offices - 1895 [12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 359089, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-269 - Governor Sir Robinson & Public Offices - 1895 [12]", "page_number": 495, "title": "CO129-269 - Governor Sir Robinson & Public Offices - 1895 [12]", "content_text": "# Hong Kong \n\n5 \n4781 \n\nIt is requested that in any further communication on this subject, the above Number may be quoted; and the Letter addressed to \nThe Under Secretary of State, War Office, \n4033 Pall Mall, London, (S.W.) \n\nSir \n491 C.O. 6281. \n\n## MECR \n**WAR OFFICE, PALL MALL, S.W.** 10 APR 95 \n\nC. April 16th 1895. \n\nWith reference to the letter from this office dated 5th March 1895 Hong Kong 5 asking whether the Circular issued to the Governors of various Colonies with regard to the surrender of Military lands and buildings therein has been issued to the Governor of Hong Kong: I am directed by the Secretary of State for War to request that the Marquess of Ripon will be pleased to favour us, as early as may be convenient, with a communication on that subject.\n\nI have the honour to be \nSir \nYour obedient Servant \nRalph Thompson \n\nThe Under Secretary of State, Colonial Office. \n\n**reply**", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-269 - Governor Sir Robinson & Public Offices - 1895 [12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 361118, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-272 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1896 [5-9]", "page_number": 609, "title": "CO129-272 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1896 [5-9]", "content_text": "Officer Commanding and myself, from which you will observe that the Military Authorities desire to be furnished with a valuation, in accordance with the terms of Colonial Office Circular despatch of 30th December, 1894, of certain lands at Kowloon relinquished by Her Majesty's Government to the Colony.\n\nThere appeared to me to be considerable doubt whether the lands referred to could be properly said to be lands of which the War Department had the right of perpetual user, inasmuch as the only right or privilege which had ever been accorded to the Military authorities was an undertaking part of the Colonial Government not to permit the creation upon the land in question of such buildings as would interrupt the line of\n\nPage 602", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-272 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1896 [5-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 362016, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-274 - Public Offices & Others - 1896", "page_number": 241, "title": "CO129-274 - Public Offices & Others - 1896", "content_text": "iv\n\nSYNOPSIS OF CONTENTS-continued.\n\n \n No.\n Page.\n From and to whom, and date.\n Subject.\n \n \n 9\n 9\n War Office to Colonial Office, 12th February, 1894.\n Replying, seriatim, to preceding questions.\n \n \n 10\n 11\n Colonial Office to War Office, 15th May, 1894.\n Until further particulars are furnished regarding value of sites required, and of sites to be surrendered to Colony, cannot estimate cost of new barracks, and cannot therefore say what proportion Colony can afford to pay. Thinks Governor should be allowed to criticize plans and estimates, and suggests conference between him and General Officer Commanding.\n \n \n 11\n 12\n War Office to Colonial Office, 24th July, 1894.\n Will endeavour to obtain particulars required as to sites. Suggesting that Colonial Office should obtain decision from Treasury as to share which Colony should bear of the estimated expenditure on barracks for next eight years. Thinks it should be one-third. Is willing that plans and estimates should in future be submitted to Governor, but those already in course of execution having been approved, cannot be modified. Submitting draft letter to General Officer Commanding for concurrence.\n \n \n \n 13\n Enclosure in No. 11.\n Instructing General Officer Commanding to afford Governor an opportunity of inspecting and criticizing future plans and estimates.\n \n \n 12\n 13\n Colonial Office to War Office, 28th August, 1894.\n Calling attention to an item in the estimate for barrack works, viz., a bathing pond, estimated to cost £1,700, and asking whether the expenditure need be incurred. Asking whether the contracts for works, of which plans have been approved by War Office, have been accepted. Does not think the fact of the plans having been approved by War Office should debar the Colonial Government from criticizing them, if the works are to be paid for out of Colonial funds.\n \n \n 13\n 13\n War Office to Colonial Office, 12th September, 1894.\n Explaining that the bathing pond will replace an existing one, the site of which is required for barracks. Also that contracts for the work above referred to have been accepted, and the buildings are being erected.\n \n \n 14\n 14\n Colonial Office to War Office, 5th October, 1894.\n Concurring in proposed letter to General Officer Commanding. (Enclosure in No. 11.) Also transmitting—\n \n \n \n 14\n Enclosure in No. 14.\n Asking for decision as to share Colony should pay towards cost of new barracks.\n \n \n 15\n 15\n Treasury to War Office, 19th October, 1894.\n Transmitting—\n \n \n \n 15\n Enclosure in No. 15.\n Agreeing to the proportion of the net cost chargeable to the Colony being one-third only, in addition to new sites.\n \n \n \n 15\n Treasury to Colonial Office, 19th October, 1894.\n \n \n \n 16\n 16\n Treasury to War Office, 6th November, 1894.\n Transmitting—\n \n \n \n 16\n Colonial Office to Treasury, 31st October, 1894.\n \n \n \n \n 16\n Treasury to Colonial Office, 6th November, 1894.\n \n \n \n \n 16\n Enclosure 1 in No. 16.\n Suggesting that the question of incidence of cost of proposed new barracks be dealt with under Colonial Office circular of 30th December, 1894. i.e., the value of any surrendered lands and buildings to be applied towards new sites and buildings, the cost of providing remainder being divided in the proportions agreed to in No. 15.\n \n \n \n 19\n Enclosure 2 in No. 16.\n Demurring to proposal in preceding enclosure. Colony is liable, under Contributions Committee Report of 1889, to supply all sites required, while the Colonial Office circular referred only to new sites required in lieu of surrendered sites.\n \n \n 17\n 20\n War Office to Treasury, 20th December, 1894.\n Representing the urgent necessity of a new hospital in place of the hospital ship \"Meanee.\" Submitting revised list of services in order of relative urgency. Showing amount payable, from Imperial funds and Colonial funds respectively, under the decision that Colony should pay one-third only, and proposing to distribute over 10 years.\n \n \n \n 20\n War Office to Colonial Office, 20th December, 1894.\n Transmitting copy of No. 17 and enclosure, and requesting that the Colony may provide £7,085, as its share of the expenditure for the year.\n \n \n \n 20\n Enclosure in No. 17.\n Revised list of barrack works required to be executed, with estimated cost.\n \n \n 18\n 21\n Treasury to War Office, 28th December, 1894.\n Approving scheme proposed in No. 17.\n \n \n 19\n 21\n Colonial Office to War Office, 4th January, 1895.\n Transmitting copy of correspondence with Treasury, and hoping that department will be informed that War Office concurs in Enclosure 3.\n \n \n \n 21\n Colonial Office to Treasury, 4th January, 1895.\n \n \n \n \n 21\n Enclosure 3 in No. 20.\n Urging concurrence in proposal in Enclosure 1 in No. 16, as being a concession likely to facilitate acceptance by Colony of proposed scheme.\n \n \n 20\n 22\n Treasury to War Office, 17th January, 1895.\n Transmitting copy of reply to preceding letter.\n \n \n \n 22\n Treasury to Colonial Office, 17th January, 1895.\n \n \n \n \n 22\n Enclosure in No. 21.\n Consenting to concession urged in Enclosure 3 in No. 20, on the ground of \"exceptional circumstances,\" provided War Office agree.\n \n \n 21\n 22\n Colonial Office to War Office, 19th January, 1895.\n Asking whether War Office concurs in proposals in No. 20 and Enclosure in No. 21.\n \n \n 22\n 23\n War Office to Treasury, 29th January, 1895.\n Concurring in proposed concession as to sites (Enclosure in No. 21), with certain provisos.\n \n \n 23\n 23\n War Office to Colonial Office, 31st January, 1895.\n Transmitting copy of No. 23.\n \n\n(93)\n\nb\n\n236", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-274 - Public Offices & Others - 1896.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 362025, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-274 - Public Offices & Others - 1896", "page_number": 250, "title": "CO129-274 - Public Offices & Others - 1896", "content_text": "No. 16.\n\nTreasury to War Office.\n\nTreasury Chambers,\n\nT. No. 16137\n\n6th November, 1894.\n\nThe Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury direct me to enclose, for the information of the Secretary of State for War, a copy of a letter from the Colonial Office of 31st ultimo, and of the reply from this department of to-day's date, respecting the obligation of the Colony of Hong Kong to provide sites for new barracks.\n\nSir,\n\nFRANCIS MOWATT,\n\nEnclosure 1 in No. 16.\n\nColonial Office to Treasury.\n\nDowning Street,\n\n31st October, 1894.\n\nIn reply to your letter,* of the 19th instant, regarding the incidence of the cost of the new barracks at Hong Kong, I am directed by the Marquis of Ripon to request you to point out to the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury that, since the report of the Colonial Military Contribution Committee, dated 27th July, 1888, was written, the general question of Colonial military lands was dealt with in a somewhat different sense by a later report of that Committee, dated 27th March, 1889, and in the Secretary of State's circular† despatch of 9th June, 1890, which is about to be again amplified in a further circular, the terms of which have been agreed upon in your letter of the 26th instant, and previous correspondence.\n\nIt seems to Lord Ripon that proposal (6) in your letter under acknowledgment hardly accords with the new circular, and that the proper course under paragraph 3 of the new circular would be to appropriate the value of any surrendered lands or buildings, so far as it will extend, to providing the new sites required, and to providing the new buildings, and to divide the remainder of the cost in the proportions proposed between the Imperial and Colonial Governments,\n\nThe Committee go on to explain in the next paragraph that, in their opinion, when land is required for Colonial military purposes, it should be provided by the Colony; and, save in very exceptional circumstances, this should be done free of charge.\n\nIn the letter from the Colonial Office to the War Office, of 21st September, 1888, it was stated that the Secretary of State is happy to concur in the above recommendation of the Committee, and in their letter of 19th ultimo, my Lords expressed a similar concurrence, the stipulation in question being stated in paragraph (6).\n\nThe Secretary of State now objects to the stipulation that the Colony is to provide the necessary sites for the barracks free of charge. If the sites had to be bought by the Colony at some exorbitant price, my Lords would be open to conviction that the case was one in which very exceptional circumstances might, as the Committee foresaw, relieve the Colony from the obligation of providing sites wholly free of charge. But no such ground is alleged by the Secretary of State for his objection. He bases it on the assumption that the stipulation is inconsistent with the report of the Colonial Military Contributions Committee, dated 27th March, 1889, and the recently agreed circular, respecting the terms on which Colonial military lands are to be surrendered by the War Department to a Colonial Government.\n\nMy Lords would point out, however, that the report of 1889, and the circular referred to by the Secretary of State, only prescribe the return that a Colony is to make for the surrender by the War Department of Colonial military lands, and in no way affect the normal obligation of a Colony to provide new sites required for its own defence. This is clearly explained in paragraph 10(4), which the Secretary of State agreed, by your letter of the 23rd ultimo, to insert in the circular, for the purpose of preventing any misapprehension on the point.\n\nMy Lords hope that, on reconsideration, the Secretary of State will agree that there is no inconsistency between paragraph (6) of the Treasury letter of 19th ultimo, regarding the provision of new sites free of charge and the new circular, and that my Lords could not have omitted that paragraph without departing from recommendations in which both the Colonial Office and the War Office have concurred.\n\nSir,\n\nFRANCIS MOWATT.\n\nNo. 17.\n\nWar Office to Treasury.\n\nWar Office,\n\n20th December, 1894.\n\nWith reference to the War Office letter of the 27th July, 1893, Hong Kong 2, wherein a scheme was put forward showing a list of services which it was proposed to adopt for joint execution by the War Department and the Colony during the following eight years, leaving further services to be dealt with later on, I am directed by the Secretary of State for War to acquaint you, for the information of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, that representations have been received from the station to the effect that the hospital ship \"Meanee\" is in an insanitary state, and that its continued occupation is injurious to the health of the patients.\n\n2. The medical authorities at the station have recently made strong representations in the matter; contending that the time has now come when diseases can no longer be properly treated in such a structure, especially at sea, and in such a climate as that of Hong Kong, where the temperature and other conditions are so variable.\n\n3. It is also necessary that separate wards should be provided for the treatment of infectious diseases, and for the itch, as well as for the reception of lunatics.\n\n4. At present cases of small-pox, scarlet fever and diphtheria have to be treated as best they can, no official accommodation having been provided for the isolation of patients suffering from these diseases.\n\n5. The provision of a hospital on shore, to which special allusion is made in the 10th paragraph of the War Office letter before quoted, has, therefore, now become a service of pressing urgency, and Mr. Secretary Campbell-Bannerman finds it necessary to add this to the list previously put forward.\n\nEnclosure 2 in No. 16.\n\nTreasury to Colonial Office.\n\nTreasury Chambers,\n\n6th November, 1894.\n\nThe Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury have had before them your letter of the 31st ultimo, in which the Marquis of Ripon invites them to waive one of the conditions recommended by the Colonial Military Contributions Committee in 1888, and never heretofore objected to by the Colonial Office, regarding the proportion of the cost of new barracks to be borne by the Colony of Hong Kong.\n\nThe condition in question is contained in the last words of paragraph 34 of the report of the Committee, dated 27th July, 1888, which are underlined in red ink in the following copy of that paragraph:\n\n31. After devoting the realized or estimated value of the surrendered sites to the provision of the required accommodation for the garrison, the Committee consider that the balance required to complete that accommodation should be divided as follows:-One-third against Colonial and two-thirds against Imperial revenues, being about the proportions in which the capital expenditure on defences has been shared, the Colony in addition providing the necessary sites for the barracks.\n\nPage 16\n\nPage 17\n\nPage 18\n\nPage 19\n\nPage 20\n\nPage 21", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-274 - Public Offices & Others - 1896.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 362027, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-274 - Public Offices & Others - 1896", "page_number": 252, "title": "CO129-274 - Public Offices & Others - 1896", "content_text": "20\n\nNo. 18\n\nWar Office to Colonial Office.\n\nWar Office,\n\ni\n\n21\n\nNo. 20.\n\nColonial Office to War Office.\n\n247\n\nSir,\n\nHong Kong 2\n\n4690\n\n20th December, 1894. With reference to the War Office letter* of the 19th October, 1893, Hong Kong 2 4597, respecting the provision of additional barrack accommodation at Hong Kong, I am directed by the Secretary of State for War to transmit, for the information of the Marquis of Ripon, the accompanying copy of a letter† (with enclosure) which has this day been addressed to the Treasury on the subject.\n\nI am to add that Mr. Secretary Campbell-Bannerman proposes to provide in the Army Estimates for 1895-96, 10,600l. for the purposes shown in the letter to the Treasury, and he hopes that the Marquis of Ripon will arrange with a view to the Colony providing the sum of about 44,618 dollars, or 7,065l. alluded to as the Colonial share of the expenditure for the year.\n\nRALPH THOMPSON.\n\nSir,\n\nDowning Street,\n\nHong Kong 2\n\n4709\n\n4th January, 1895, With reference to the letter* from the Treasury to this department, of the 19th of October last, a copy of which was, it is understood, communicated by that department to the War Office, I am directed by the Marquis of Ripon to transmit to you, to be laid before Mr. Secretary Campbell-Bannerman, the enclosed copies of further correspondence with the Treasury, regarding the cost of the proposed new barracks at Hong Kong.\n\nI am to express his Lordship's hope that Mr. Campbell-Bannerman will cause the Treasury to be informed, that (as has already been intimated to this department unofficially) he concurs in the arrangement suggested in the enclosed letter to the Treasury of even date.\n\nEDWARD FAIRFIELD.\n\n(Enclosures 1 and 2 printed as Enclosures 1 and 2 in No. 16.)\n\nNo. 19.\n\nTreasury to War Office.\n\nT. No.\n\nSir,\n\n18883\n\n94\n\nHong Kong 2 4708\n\nTreasury Chambers,\n\n28th December, 1894.\n\nThe Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury have had before them your letter† of the 20th instant, Hong Kong 2 4690, enclosing an amended list of barrack works at Hong Kong, which the Secretary of State for War considers it necessary to complete within the next 10 years.\n\nThis expenditure will be incurred partly in sterling and partly in dollars, but it will be more convenient to express it in sterling only for present purposes, if Lords are right in thinking that the bulk of it has been originally calculated in that denomination; and the apportionment of it between this country and the Colony will then be as follows, in round figures:\n\n \n \n United Kingdom.\n Hong Kong.\n Total.\n \n \n Average yearly expenditure for 10 years.\n £14,128 10s.\n £7,065 0s.\n £21,198 10s. 0d.\n \n \n Total expenditure..\n £141,285 0s. 0d.\n £70,650 0s.\n £211,935 0s. 0d.\n \n\nThe British share will be defrayed to the extent of 35,000l. from the Imperial Defence Loan, and the remainder from Army Votes, and some of it has been paid already.\n\nFor the sake of this country as well as of the Colony, my Lords hope that this programme may not be pressed forward more hastily than the circumstances really render necessary; but with this proviso they have no objection to offer to the scheme.\n\nA copy of this letter is being forwarded to the Colonial Office.\n\nSir,\n\nEnclosure 3 in No. 20.\n\nColonial Office to Treasury.\n\nDowning Street,\n\n4th January, 1895. 16137\n\nIn reply to your letter,‡ of 6th November last, regarding the proportion of the cost of the new barracks at Hong Kong to be borne by the Colony, I am directed by the Marquis of Ripon to state, that while Lord Ripon has agreed to the principle embodied in paragraph 11 of his circular despatch of the 30th ultimo (copy enclosed), that a Colony is bound to provide, according to its means, all lands required for military purposes, his Lordship trusts that, in the present case, the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury will, on reconsideration, agree to the proposal made in the letters from this department of the 31st October last, namely, that the value of the military lands and buildings at Hong Kong, about to be surrendered by the War Department, should be applied, so far as it will extend, towards providing the new sites and buildings required for the barracks, and that the balance of the cost of the new barracks (including in that cost sites and buildings) should be divided in the proposed ratio, one-third being charged to the Colonial, and two-thirds to the Imperial Government.\n\n2. Lord Ripon understands that the War Office is prepared to concur in this arrangement, and his Lordship is of opinion that this slight additional concession will tend to facilitate the acceptance of the proposals by the Colony.\n\n3. On learning that their Lordships consent to this modification of their proposals, Lord Ripon will submit, for their concurrence, the draft of the despatch to be addressed to the Governor on the subject, which will deal also with the details of the new barracks scheme, referred to in your letter of the 28th ultimo.\n\nA copy of this letter has been sent to the War Office.\n\nEDWARD FAIRFIELD.\n\nNo. 5.\n\nG. L. RYDER.\n\nΗ Να 17.\n\n(93)\n\n*Enclosure in No. 15.\n\n† Enclosure 2 in No. 16. Enclosure in No. 30 of Correspondence relating to Lands at Hong Kong.\n\n§ Enclosure 1 in No. 16.\n\nSee No. 19.\n\nF\n\n::", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-274 - Public Offices & Others - 1896.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 362029, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-274 - Public Offices & Others - 1896", "page_number": 254, "title": "CO129-274 - Public Offices & Others - 1896", "content_text": "No. 25.\n\nTreasury to War Office.\n\nTreasury Chambers,\n\n7th February, 1895.\n\nSir,\n\nThe Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury desire me to say, for the information of Mr. Secretary Campbell-Bannerman, in reply to your letter of the 29th ultimo, respecting the apportionment of charge of the new barrack scheme at Hong Kong between this country and the Colony, that the two provisos made in that letter seem to my Lords to be legitimate inferences from their letter to the Colonial Office of 17th ultimo.\n\nFRANCIS MOWATT,\n\nbarrack accommodation for the increased garrison, and the fact that in this case the cost of the provision of new sites is included in the total charge to be divided between the Imperial and Colonial Governments instead of being wholly charged to the Colony, in accordance with paragraph 11 of my circular despatch of 30th December last, must not be regarded as a precedent applicable in all future cases.\n\n4. It is intended to provide £10,600 in the Army Estimates for 1895-96 towards the expenditure incurred in these works during this year, and I have to request you to bring the matter before the Legislative Council at an early date, and to propose a supplementary vote of say 50,000 dollars, to cover the Colonial share of this year's expenditure.\n\n5. I should be glad to know whether in your opinion the works should be executed by the War Department, or by the Colonial Public Works Department, but I presume that it will be more convenient that the War Department which has already begun these new buildings should go on with the work.\n\n6. You will be given an opportunity of criticising the plans and estimates of all the new buildings, as you will have learned from the letter to the General Officer Commanding, a copy of which accompanied my despatch, No. 162, of 5th October last, and if you are unable to come to an agreement with the General upon any point, I have to request you to refer the question to me, as the General Officer Commanding has been instructed to refer such points to the War Office, so that I may be in a position to come to an agreement with the Secretary of State for War upon such points of difference.\n\nNo. 26.\n\nColonial Office to War Office.\n\nDowning Street,\n\n16th February, 1895.\n\nSir,\n\nWith reference to your letters of the 20th December last, and the 31st ultimo, I am directed by the Marquis of Ripon to transmit to you, to be laid before Mr. Secretary Campbell-Bannerman, the draft of a despatch which Lord Ripon proposes, with Mr. Campbell-Bannerman's concurrence, to address to the Governor of Hong Kong, regarding the additional barrack accommodation required in that Colony.\n\nA similar letter has been addressed to the Treasury.\n\nR. P. EBDEN,\n\nfor Under Secretary of State.\n\nEnclosure in No. 26.\n\nColonial Office to Governor of Hong Kong,\n\n(Draft.)\n\nDowning Street,\n\nFebruary, 1895.\n\nWith reference to my despatch, No. 162, of 5th October last, I have the honour to transmit to you the enclosed amended Schedule of Barrack Services required at Hong Kong, together with an extract from a letter from the War Office to the Treasury, explaining the necessity of adding the provision of a new hospital to the list of services previously put forward.\n\n2. It is proposed that the execution of these works should be spread over 10 years beginning with the current year, and that the cost of the works should be provided in the following manner, viz., that the Colony should in accordance with my circular despatch of 30th December last, devote the value of any military lands and buildings, that may now be surrendered by the War Department, so far as it will extend, in reduction of the gross cost of the scheme including the cost of any new sites that may be required, and that the remainder of the cost should be divided in the proportion of two-thirds to the Imperial Government and one-third to the Colonial Government, that being about the proportion in which the cost of the new fortifications of Hong Kong were divided between the two Governments.\n\n3. This proposal, which is, in my opinion, fair and reasonable, is a special arrangement made in view of the large expenditure involved in providing the necessary\n\n* No. 23.\n\nEnclosure in No. 21.\n\nNos. 18 and 24.\n\n§ Enclosure in No. 30 of Correspondence relative to Lands at Hong Kong.\n\nNo. 27.\n\nWar Office to Colonial Office.\n\nWar Office, S.W.,\n\n29th March, 1895.\n\nSir,\n\nWith reference to your letter of the 16th ultimo, forwarding a draft of a despatch proposed to be addressed to the Governor of Hong Kong, respecting the additional barrack accommodation required in that Colony, I am directed to acquaint you, for the information of the Marquis of Ripon, that since the War Office letter of the 20th December, 1894, Mr. Secretary Campbell-Bannerman has considered it better to place only £5,000 in the Army Estimates for 1895-96, as the plans would require consideration, and as it would, probably, not prove practicable to expend so much in the first year, as in subsequent years.\n\n2. A corresponding reduction in the amount for the Colony to provide during 1895-96, might also be made, say 25,000 dollars, to be provided instead of 50,000 dollars.\n\n3. In regard to paragraph 3 of the proposed draft, Mr. Campbell-Bannerman thinks that it would be better to omit the word \"all\" from the penultimate line,\n\n4. In regard to paragraph 5, the scope of this is thought to be too wide. Difficulties might arise, for there should be no question that the War Department should have full power to execute all the works for which they themselves find the money.\n\n5. Mr. Campbell-Bannerman would therefore suggest-first, that the extract from War Office letter to Treasury, of 20th December, 1894, should not be limited to paragraphs 2-6, but should also include paragraphs 1-5; 17;\n\n* Enclosure in No. 30 of Correspondence relative to Lands at Hong Kong.\n\n† No. 24.\n\n‡ No. 18.\n\n§ No. 17.\n\nPage 93", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-274 - Public Offices & Others - 1896.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 362030, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-274 - Public Offices & Others - 1896", "page_number": 255, "title": "CO129-274 - Public Offices & Others - 1896", "content_text": "26\n\nand second, that paragraph 5 of the draft should be revised to read somewhat to the following effect, viz. :-\n\n\"In regard to the execution of services to the value to be paid for by the Colony, i.e., one-third of the whole amount, as referred to in paragraphs 15-17 of the letter to the Treasury, it is thought that this is a detail which it would be best to arrange for in consultation with the General Officer Commanding the troops.\"\n\n6. I am to add that, subject to the foregoing suggestions, Mr. Secretary Campbell-Bannerman concurs in the draft of the despatch, which accompanied your letter under reply.\n\nRALPH THOMPSON.\n\n27\n\nbring the matter before the Legislative Council at an early date, and to propose a supplementary vote of, say, 25,000 dollars to cover the Colonial share of this year's expenditure.\n\n5. The question of the execution of services to the value to be paid for by the Colony, i.e., one-third of the net cost, as referred to in paragraphs 15 to 17 of the enclosed letter, is a detail which I will leave to you to arrange in consultation with the General Officer Commanding the troops.\n\n6. You will be given an opportunity of criticising the plans and estimates of all the new buildings, as you will have learned from the letter to the General Officer Commanding, a copy of which accompanied my despatch, No. 162, of 5th October last, and if you are unable to come to an agreement with the General upon any point, I have to request you to refer the question to me, as the General Officer Commanding has been instructed to refer such points to the War Office, so that I may be in a position to come to an agreement with the Secretary of State for War upon such points of difference,\n\nRIPON.\n\nNo. 28.\n\nNo. 29.\n\nWar Office to Colonial Office.\n\nWar Office,\n\n250\n\nSir,\n\nHong Kong 2 4731\n\nColonial Office to War Office.\n\nDowning Street,\n\n3rd April, 1895.\n\nI am directed by the Secretary of State for the Colonies to transmit to you, for the information of Mr. Secretary Campbell-Bannerman, with reference to the letter from your department of the 29th ultimo,* Hong Kong 2\n\na copy 7 4716 of a despatch, addressed to Sir W. Robinson, on the subject of the Hong Kong Barracks.\n\nR. H. MEADE,\n\nSir,\n\n26th September, 1895.\n\n4753\n\nWith reference to your letter of the 3rd April last,* forwarding a copy of Hong Kong a despatch addressed to the Governor of Hong Kong on the subject of the provision of additional barrack accommodation at that station, I am directed to acquaint you that the Secretary of State for War would be glad to know whether Mr. Secretary Chamberlain has received any reply to the despatch in question.\n\nARTHUR L. HALIBURTON.\n\nSir,\n\nEnclosure in No. 28.\n\nColonial Office to the Governor, Hong Kong.\n\nDowning Street,\n\n3rd April, 1895. With reference to my despatch, No. 162, of 5th October last, I have the honour to transmit to you the enclosed amended schedule of barrack services required at Hong Kong, together with an extract from a letter from the War Office to the Treasury, explaining the necessity of adding the provision of a new hospital to the list of services previously put forward.\n\n2. It is proposed that the execution of these works should be spread over 10 years beginning with the current year, and that the cost of the works should be provided in the following manner, viz., that the Colony should, in accordance with my circular despatch of 30th December last,† devote the value of any military lands and buildings that may now be surrendered by the War Department, so far as it will extend, in reduction of the gross cost of the scheme, including the cost of any new sites that may be required, and that the remainder of the cost should be divided in the proportion of two-thirds to the Imperial Government and one-third to the Colonial Government, that being about the proportion in which the cost of the new fortification of Hong Kong was divided between the two Governments.\n\n3. This proposal which is, in my opinion, fair and reasonable, is a special arrangement made in view of the large expenditure involved in providing the necessary barrack accommodation for the increased garrison, and the fact that in this case the cost of the provision of new sites is included in the total charge to be divided between the Imperial and Colonial Governments, instead of being wholly charged to the Colony, in accordance with paragraph 11 of my circular of 30th December last,† must not be regarded as a precedent applicable in future cases.\n\n4. It is intended to provide £5,000, in the Army Estimates for 1895-96 towards the expenditure incurred on these works during this year, and I have to request you to\n\n* No. 27. ↑ Enclosure in No. 30 of Correspondence relating to Lands at Hong Kong.\n\nSir,\n\nNo. 30.\n\nColonial Office to War Office.\n\nDowning Street,\n\n16th October, 1895. With reference to the letter from this department of 28th June last, relative\n\nHong Kong 2 to the Hong Kong Military Contribution, and to your letter,\n\n4753\n\nof the 26th ultimo,† relative to the construction of barracks, I am directed by Mr. Secretary Chamberlain to transmit to you, to be laid before the Marquis of Lansdowne, the enclosed copy of a despatch from the Governor of Hong Kong on these two subjects, together with the draft of a despatch which Mr. Chamberlain proposes, with Lord Lansdowne's concurrence, to address to the Governor in reply.\n\nSir.\n\nA similar letter has been addressed to the Treasury.\n\nEnclosure 1 in No. 30.\n\nEDWARD FAIRFIELD.\n\nThe Governor, Hong Kong, to Colonial Office.\n\nGovernment House, Hong Kong,\n\n28th August, 1895.\n\nI have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of Lord Ripon's despatch, No. 156, of the 27th June last, on the subject of the Military Contribution to be paid by this Colony.\n\n* No. 28.\n\n↑ No. 29.\n\nEnclosure in No. 91 of Correspondence relating to the Military Contribution. [A 354.]\n\nC.O. No.\n\n17177\n\n95\n\n40248\n\n515a", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-274 - Public Offices & Others - 1896.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 362903, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-275 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [1-5]", "page_number": 419, "title": "CO129-275 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [1-5]", "content_text": "415\n\nDRAFT.\n\nto actually earmark particular receipts for particular expenditure. It is, in my opinion, sufficient to continue the practice, recently adopted, in accordance with paragraphs 5 and 26 of the Instructions enclosed in Viscount Knutsford's Circular despatch of 4th February 1890, of showing \"Land Sales\", on the annual Estimates, under a separate head, distinct from the total Revenue from other sources, and on the other side showing new Public Works, under a separate Head, \"distinct from the total expenditure on other services, which should not as a rule exceed the total estimate of revenue exclusive of land sales\".\n\n6.\n\nPending the receipt of your reply to this despatch, I have referred the Plans and Estimates of the proposed buildings to the Consulting Architects, and", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-275 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [1-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 363044, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-275 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [1-5]", "page_number": 560, "title": "CO129-275 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [1-5]", "content_text": "552\n\nThis minute dated 18th September, 1891 says as follows:-\n\n\"The only question raised by Mr. Browne is as to the right of Government to excavate sites or to quarry stone in this Military Reserve subject to the proviso that the stability of the fort is not endangered.\n\nThere can be no doubt, I think, that subject to the efficiency of the defence being also unaffected thereby in other ways - both of which conditions should be determined by the Military Authorities - the right does exist.\n\nThe above extract from General Barker's minute defines, I think, very clearly the nature and the limit of the rights of the Military Authorities in respect of the Military Reserve, and shows that the possession and control of the land in the Reserve remains vested in the Colonial Government and that the only restriction imposed upon the Government is that it should not permit anything to be done which would impair the efficiency of the defences.\n\nSuch being a rough outline of the main facts connected with the creation of this Reserve, I now proceed to deal with the contention of the Military Authorities that the land near the Forts recently released by them from restrictions ought to be valued under the terms of the Secretary of State's Circular despatch of the 30th September, 1894, and its value credited to the War Department.\n\nNow the whole of that contention turns upon the meaning of the words \"Colonial Lands and Buildings,\" which are defined in the above dispatch to be \"lands the fee simple of which is vested in the Colonial Government\".", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-275 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [1-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 365224, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-280 - Public Offices & Others - 1897", "page_number": 71, "title": "CO129-280 - Public Offices & Others - 1897", "content_text": "Desma\n\n68\n\nto\n\nunder the Colonial Office Circular of the 30th 1894,\n\nrequire the Colony, when the limited military rights cease to be of use\n\nto credit the defence fund with the full value of the land.\n\n3.\n\nIn so far therefore as the lands now in question at Kowloon come within the latter Category, he agrees that the claim put forward on behalf of this Office has been excessive.\n\nWhile making this admission, however, he regrets that he cannot agree that the War Office has no claim in respect of the lands. The principle underlying the Colonial Office Circular of the 30th December, 1894, and agreed by the Colonial Office, War Office, and Treasury after full and protracted discussion, is, that when Colonial land has been devoted to military purposes, the value of what has been so devoted remains available for similar purposes, even though, owing to change in methods of warfare, the land itself may have ceased to subserve any military object.\n\n5.\n\nApplying this principle to the lands at Kowloon, it is quite clear that the restrictive rights now possessed by the War Office have a distinct money value, or, in other words, that the lands would fetch an enhanced price, or be let at a higher rent, if the owner or tenant could erect upon them such buildings as he pleased, and it is clear also that the", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-280 - Public Offices & Others - 1897.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 366905, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-283 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [5-6]", "page_number": 314, "title": "CO129-283 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [5-6]", "content_text": "310 \n\nExcellency. I would invite special attention again to clauses 4 and 11 of the Circular Despatch dated 30th December 1894, in order to show that, if no antithesis between military and defensive lands is intended, the limits within which the arrangement, by which a book account is to be kept, applies, are very narrow and well defined.\n\n21. I will first however point out what the introductory clause of the despatch professes to explain the mode of dealing with Colonial Military lands and buildings when such lands are no longer required for military purposes. If this is read along with clause 11 which states that the foregoing relates solely to the terms on which Colonial Military lands in the hands of the War Department should be surrendered to a Colonial Government\" and with the second paragraph of clause 2 which speaks of \"the free surrender to the Colony of all Colonial Military lands and buildings no longer required, &c.,\" it appears plain beyond dispute that the system of keeping a book account is limited to the price of lands surrendered as being no longer required by the Military Authorities and to the value of lands to the extent of that price thereafter acquired by the Military Authorities.\n\n22. Under clause 4 it is provided that the price of lands surrendered to and sold by the Colonial Government shall go into the Treasury to the debit of the Colonial Government in a special account. If new lands are required by the Military Authorities for defensive purposes which", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-283 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 366907, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-283 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [5-6]", "page_number": 316, "title": "CO129-283 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [5-6]", "content_text": "# \n\n312 \n\nWith so valuable a portion of one of its chief assets, viz., land without receiving full market value for it. I submit therefore that the reply of the Government should be that it cannot consent to the value of the site required by the Military Authorities being entered in the special account; that the premium is $26,250; that the Crown Rent at the rate of $300 an acre will be charged; that this Crown Rent may be paid either in one sum of $30,000 being its capitalised value at 25 years' purchase or by annual instalments, during the term of the lease, of $1,200 a year; that the premium and Crown Rent, whether the latter be paid in a lump sum or annually, may be deducted this year or annually from the Military Contribution and that a lease of the land for 999 years will be granted.\n\n25. Moreover, I beg to suggest that the special account instead of being allowed to run on from year to year should be balanced every year and a yearly payment made to the party in whose favour the accounts lie.\n\n26. Again, in support of both the arguments in this minute, I beg to call attention to the Circular Despatch of 9th June, 1890, which transmits a memorandum XX with regard to the disposal whenever occasion may arise of Colonial Military Crown Lands and buildings no longer required for defence purposes. The word \"defence\" supports my earlier and the words \"no longer required\" support my later argument.\n\n27. This minute has, I am sorry to say, reached large proportions; but the importance of the subject and the interests of the Colony are my pleas for setting forth the matter so fully.\n\n(sa.)", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-283 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 366912, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-283 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [5-6]", "page_number": 321, "title": "CO129-283 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [5-6]", "content_text": "In the case the value of Military Lands hitherto sumu dau ch to the Colony only amounts to $42.1\n\n4 In accordance with part of the above-mentioned Circular **AFT. MINUTE**. The provision of other laude now required for military purposes should be governed by a specific agreement & such special agreement made in the time of \nLucas, Graham, Wingfield, Earl of Selborne, Chamberlain, of a Despatch to the Govr of Hongkong of the same date.\n\n5 In accordance with the arrangement described in the last mentioned Despatch the value assessed for the Land now occupied by the Hospital & other Military Buildings should be included in the total correspondence between the WO & this Dept which ended with the letter from this office of the 3rd April 1895 enclosing copy of such buildings, which is to be divided between the Colony & the Imperial Gov't in the proportion of one third to the Colony.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-283 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 368203, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-286 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black Governor Sir Blake & Public Offices - 1898 [11-12]", "page_number": 24, "title": "CO129-286 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black Governor Sir Blake & Public Offices - 1898 [11-12]", "content_text": "## Government House, Hongkong, 4th November 1898.\n\nI have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Circular despatch of the 30th August last stating that you had agreed...\n\nIf we cannot build a new post office at once, I do not think we can... with existing buildings. We should not limit the proposal; they must make... the 19 postage for a year. C.P.L. had better... to postpone... should not be entertained.\n\nThere will be a difficulty with the Treaty ports which are at present sub-post offices, I think are Hongkong... I had some doubt as to the... It has been rather short notice for... They...\n\n| No | Stamps | Lot for |\n|----|--------|---------|\n| 311| | Falato |\n| | 8. Dee | |\n\nSir, but on the whole... I agree with Mr. Pearson..... Telegraph... write... Been prepared... Key... this... your... Eu sou...\n\nThe Right Honourable Joseph Chamberlain, M.P., \n\nPage 230\nPage 21", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-286 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black Governor Sir Blake & Public Offices - 1898 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 369325, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-287 - Public Offices & Others - 1898", "page_number": 501, "title": "CO129-287 - Public Offices & Others - 1898", "content_text": "# SYNOPSIS OF CONTENTS\n| From and to whom, and date. | Subject. |\n| --- | --- |\n| No. 1. War Office to Treasury, 13th November, 1898. | Requesting authority to purchase a piece of land (and building thereon) within the cantonment of Hong Kong, belonging to a private individual, for a sum not exceeding 30,000 dollars. Building to be utilized to meet requirement indicated by Items 7, 8, and 15 of the Barrack Accommodation Scheme. (See `[A 385]`.) |\n| No. 2. Treasury to War Office, 29th November, 1893. | Cannot concur in proposed expenditure until an agreement has been arrived at with the Colony as to the proportion of cost of the Barrack Scheme to be borne by Colonial funds. |\n| No. 3. War Office to Treasury, 23rd December, 1893. | Pressing for sanction of above proposal in view of the urgent necessity of housing the increased garrison, and the desirability of acquiring all property within the cantonment. |\n| No. 4. Treasury to War Office, 4th January, 1894. | Sanctioning proposal in No. 1. |\n| No. 5. Colonial Office to War Office, 4th July, 1895. | Transmitting despatch from the Governor, and proposing to approve suggestion contained in last paragraph thereof. |\n| The Governor, Hong Kong, to Colonial Office, 10th May, 1895. | Stating that the above-mentioned land, which is subject to a Crown rent, has been purchased by the military authorities, who claim that they should be exempt from paying the rent. The Governor thinks that the old ruling, under which such a course would have been admissible, has been superseded by the Colonial Office despatch of 30th December, 1894; and proposes, following the spirit of that circular, that the amount of the Crown rent should be entered to the credit of the Colony in the special account referred to in paragraph 4 of the despatch. |\n| War Office to Colonial Office, 3rd August, 1895. | Agreeing to proposal in preceding despatch, but suggesting that, instead of recording the rent annually in the special account, it would be better to enter the capitalized value thereof at, say, 23 years' purchase. |\n| Colonial Office to War Office, 8th August, 1895. | Agreeing to above proposal, but stating that the land will, in other respects, remain subject to the Crown lease. |\n\n## Correspondence Relating to the Purchase of Lands, &c., Hong Kong.\n\nPage 491\n\n**War Office to Treasury, 13th November, 1893.**\n\nSir,\n\nI am directed by the Secretary of State for War to acquaint you, for the information of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury that, ever since 1885, the great importance of acquiring all land belonging to private individuals within the cantonment at Hong Kong has been fully recognized.\n\nIn consequence, funds were voted in the Army Estimates for 1885-86 and subsequent years, with a view to carrying out a scheme of purchase, estimated at 64,170, and property was actually purchased from willing sellers to the amount of 36,068.\n\nThe purchases there came to an end, because the owners of the remaining two properties were unwilling to sell at a reasonable price, and there was no power to compel them.\n\nThe owner of one of these properties has now offered his building (Lot 73 B) to the Secretary of State for War, who has had it valued by the Director of Works for the Colony.\n\nThe plot in question is 7,040 square feet in extent, about three-fourths covered with substantial three-storey buildings of granite and brick, and the Director of Works reports that a fair value is from 25,000 dollars to 30,000 dollars.\n\nIn 1885 the then Surveyor-General valued it at 28,025 dollars, with the remark that in times of speculation it might bring in as much as 30,000 dollars, but at that time the owner asked and insisted on 45,000 dollars as the price of the lot.\n\nMr. Secretary Campbell-Bannerman considers it possible that he might be enabled to obtain the property for 25,000 dollars, but I am to solicit their Lordships' sanction for its acquisition for a sum not exceeding 30,000 dollars (which at the present low rate of exchange of the dollar would amount to 3,875), which sum, or so much thereof as may be required to effect the purchase, it is proposed to charge to the Imperial Defence Loan--\"Barracks at Coaling Stations.\"\n\nThe building in question would be utilized in the two upper stories as quarters for Warrant Officers and married soldiers, and on the ground floor as a school, and would be covered therefore by Items 7, 8 and 15 of the Scheme of Barrack Accommodation at Hong Kong which accompanied the War Office letter of the 27th July, 1893, `Hong Kong 2`.\n\nAnd the Colony will therefore eventually be called upon to contribute half the cost, or whatever proportion may be ultimately decided upon, as their share of the cost of providing barrack accommodation for the increased garrison.\n\nItems 7 and 8 came fourth and fifth in order of precedence in Return B, which was forwarded to you with the War Office letter of the 31st October, 1893, `Hong Kong 2`.\n\nItem 15 came much lower down in that Return; but as the ground floor is not well adapted for quarters, yet is very suitable for a school (which is much required), it is considered that it would be best to utilize it in that way.\n\nWM. WOODALL.\n\n*No. 3 of \"Barracks\" Correspondence (`A 335`).\n+No. 4 of \"Barracks\" (`...`). \n`Hong Kong 2`\n`4608` \nPage 491 \nNo. \n1 \n1 \n491 \nCorrespondence Relating to the Purchase of \nLands, &c., Hong Kong. \n\nbecomes \n\n# SYNOPSIS OF CONTENTS\n| From and to whom, and date. | Subject. |\n| --- | --- |\n| No. 1. War Office to Treasury, 13th November, 1898. | Requesting authority to purchase a piece of land (and building thereon) within the cantonment of Hong Kong, belonging to a private individual, for a sum not exceeding 30,000 dollars. Building to be utilized to meet requirement indicated by Items 7, 8, and 15 of the Barrack Accommodation Scheme. (See `[A 385]`.) |\n| No. 2. Treasury to War Office, 29th November, 1893. | Cannot concur in proposed expenditure until an agreement has been arrived at with the Colony as to the proportion of cost of the Barrack Scheme to be borne by Colonial funds. |\n| No. 3. War Office to Treasury, 23rd December, 1893. | Pressing for sanction of above proposal in view of the urgent necessity of housing the increased garrison, and the desirability of acquiring all property within the cantonment. |\n| No. 4. Treasury to War Office, 4th January, 1894. | Sanctioning proposal in No. 1. |\n| No. 5. Colonial Office to War Office, 4th July, 1895. | Transmitting despatch from the Governor, and proposing to approve suggestion contained in last paragraph thereof. |\n| The Governor, Hong Kong, to Colonial Office, 10th May, 1895. | Stating that the above-mentioned land, which is subject to a Crown rent, has been purchased by the military authorities, who claim that they should be exempt from paying the rent. The Governor thinks that the old ruling, under which such a course would have been admissible, has been superseded by the Colonial Office despatch of 30th December, 1894; and proposes, following the spirit of that circular, that the amount of the Crown rent should be entered to the credit of the Colony in the special account referred to in paragraph 4 of the despatch. |\n| War Office to Colonial Office, 3rd August, 1895. | Agreeing to proposal in preceding despatch, but suggesting that, instead of recording the rent annually in the special account, it would be better to enter the capitalized value thereof at, say, 23 years' purchase. |\n| Colonial Office to War Office, 8th August, 1895. | Agreeing to above proposal, but stating that the land will, in other respects, remain subject to the Crown lease. |\n\n## Correspondence Relating to the Purchase of Lands, &c., Hong Kong.\n\nPage 491\n\n**War Office to Treasury, 13th November, 1893.**\n\nSir,\n\nI am directed by the Secretary of State for War to acquaint you, for the information of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury that, ever since 1885, the great importance of acquiring all land belonging to private individuals within the cantonment at Hong Kong has been fully recognized. In consequence, funds were voted in the Army Estimates for 1885-86 and subsequent years, with a view to carrying out a scheme of purchase, estimated at 64,170, and property was actually purchased from willing sellers to the amount of 36,068.\n\nThe purchases there came to an end because the owners of the remaining two properties were unwilling to sell at a reasonable price, and there was no power to compel them. The owner of one of these properties has now offered his building (Lot 73 B) to the Secretary of State for War, who has had it valued by the Director of Works for the Colony.\n\nThe plot in question is 7,040 square feet in extent, about three-fourths covered with substantial three-storey buildings of granite and brick, and the Director of Works reports that a fair value is from 25,000 dollars to 30,000 dollars. In 1885 the then Surveyor-General valued it at 28,025 dollars, with the remark that in times of speculation it might bring in as much as 30,000 dollars, but at that time the owner asked and insisted on 45,000 dollars as the price of the lot.\n\nMr. Secretary Campbell-Bannerman considers it possible that he might be enabled to obtain the property for 25,000 dollars, but I am to solicit their Lordships' sanction for its acquisition for a sum not exceeding 30,000 dollars (which at the present low rate of exchange of the dollar would amount to 3,875), which sum, or so much thereof as may be required to effect the purchase, it is proposed to charge to the Imperial Defence Loan--\"Barracks at Coaling Stations.\"\n\nThe building in question would be utilized in the two upper stories as quarters for Warrant Officers and married soldiers, and on the ground floor as a school, and would be covered therefore by Items 7, 8 and 15 of the Scheme of Barrack Accommodation at Hong Kong which accompanied the War Office letter of the 27th July, 1893, `Hong Kong 2`. And the Colony will therefore eventually be called upon to contribute half the cost, or whatever proportion may be ultimately decided upon, as their share of the cost of providing barrack accommodation for the increased garrison.\n\nItems 7 and 8 came fourth and fifth in order of precedence in Return B, which was forwarded to you with the War Office letter of the 31st October, 1893, `Hong Kong 2`. Item 15 came much lower down in that Return; but as the ground floor is not well adapted for quarters, yet is very suitable for a school (which is much required), it is considered that it would be best to utilize it in that way.\n\nWM. WOODALL.\n\n*No. 3 of \"Barracks\" Correspondence (`A 335`).\n+No. 4 of \"Barracks\" (`...`).\n`Hong Kong 2`\n`4608`", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-287 - Public Offices & Others - 1898.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 369327, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-287 - Public Offices & Others - 1898", "page_number": 503, "title": "CO129-287 - Public Offices & Others - 1898", "content_text": "## No. 5.\n\nthat may on deliberate consideration be deemed necessary, and that should it be subsequently found practicable to dispense with any portion, that portion should not be disposed of by sale, hire, or otherwise, by the military department, but be reported to the Secretary of State, to be appropriated as he may think proper appears to my Lords (Treasury), that this principle equally applies to ground rents belonging to a Colonial Government upon lands required for the defence of the Colony.\n\nB\n\nThe Secretary of State for the Colonies accepted this view, and accordingly gave instructions to the Governor of this Colony to withdraw the claim for Crown rent on Messrs. Gemmell's premises.\n\nIn view, however, of the circular despatch respecting Colonial military lands and buildings, dated 30th December, 1894, the circumstances under which the military authorities acquire, hold, and dispose of properties have so completely changed, that the foregoing principle, based on the circumstance that the military authorities could not dispose of any land no longer required by them, does not now seem applicable.\n\nFollowing the spirit of your Lordship's circular despatch above referred to, I am of opinion that no cash payment should be required of the military authorities in respect of Crown rent, but that in such cases as the military or naval authorities purchase lands or other property subject to Crown rent, the amount of the Crown rent should be annually entered to the credit of the Colony in the special account referred to in paragraph 4 of the circular despatch.\n\nWILLIAM ROBINSON.\n\n## No. 6.\n\n### War Office to Colonial Office.\n\nWar Office, \n22 Feb 1898\n\nDOMESTIC. \nNo. 4123 \nRed 22 FEB 98\n\nSir,\n\nHong Kong 2 4744 \n3rd August, 1895.\n\nI am directed by the Secretary of State for War to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 4th ultimo, and, in reply, to acquaint you, for the information of Mr. Secretary Chamberlain, that in regard to the claim of the Government of Hong Kong to the Crown rent of the land formerly held by Mr. Findlay Smith, but recently taken over by this department for military purposes, he concurs with the view expressed in your letter under reply, and recognizes the right of the Colony, under the terms of the circular despatch, to take credit for the rent, thus foregone (about £27. 10s. a-year); but he considers that, instead of recording the rent as a credit annually as suggested, it would be a simpler course (and, as the land is required by this department permanently, would have practically the same effect) to capitalize the rent at, say, 25 years' purchase, with a view to recording the value in the special account.\n\nI am to request the favour of a further communication on this subject.\n\nC.O. No. 13515 \n95 \nHong Kong 2 \n4749\n\n### Colonial Office to War Office.\n\nDowning Street, \n8th August, 1895.\n\nSir,\n\nIn reply to your letter, No. of the 3rd instant, I am directed by Mr. Secretary Chamberlain to state that as the land formerly held by Mr. Findlay Smith will be required permanently for military purposes, he concurs in the proposal that the rent of it should be capitalized at 25 years' purchase, the Hong Kong Government to be credited with the amount in the special account. The land will, however, remain subject to the Crown lease in other respects.\n\nJOHN BRAMSTON.\n\n*See paper headed \"Circulars issued by Colonial Office,\" &c., (`A 390`).\n\n## No. 6.\n\n### (Minutes.)\n\nSir W. Hamille \nNo direct reply to despatch was voted.\n\nF \nhas been \n6205, but $30,000 this year's Estimates to that despt (see footnote on his wife Estimates 27373). That is less than \"about £4000\" which will be available before... asked to... 3154 St March 1890. but perhaps it will be enough to go on with.\n\n? Infantry W.0. as an oversight they were adding at the time the Ext: when it will be made $30,000 to be 15th were necessary, 6th Mil ranthin Jor that not enigd ? dark This sum", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-287 - Public Offices & Others - 1898.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 374768, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-296 - Public Offices & Others - 1899", "page_number": 97, "title": "CO129-296 - Public Offices & Others - 1899", "content_text": "96\n\n...\n\nThe consideration of these proposals was in some degree interrupted by the long discussion which arose as to the terms on which Colonial Military lands should be surrendered by the War Department to the Colonial Government. Colonial Military Lands are lands either reserved on the first occupation of a Colony or made over since as a free grant by the Colonial Government, the fee simple of which is held to be vested in the Crown represented by the Colonial Government, while the War Department has a right of perpetual user for purposes of defence. The settlement arrived at was embodied in the circular despatched by the Colonial Office to Colonial Governors on the 30th December 1894. In this circular, read in conjunction with the previous circular of the 9th June 1890, it was laid down that these properties should be regarded as a permanent defence fund of the Colony, the integrity of which ought to be preserved in kind or value even though the original lands themselves may be diverted to civil purposes.\n\nAccordingly when such lands ceased to be useful for military purposes and are in consequence surrendered by the military authorities their value should be treated as forming a capital applicable to providing lands or buildings which may be required in the Colony for such purposes. Their value so treated would be their full market value at the time, and the Colonial Government would receive the same reversionary rights over the new lands or buildings provided in return as it held over the old ones. The circular provided for a...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-296 - Public Offices & Others - 1899.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 374771, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-296 - Public Offices & Others - 1899", "page_number": 100, "title": "CO129-296 - Public Offices & Others - 1899", "content_text": "printed correspondence 1.502\n\n97 A\n\namounts in the gross cost for purposes of division.\n\nBut\n\nin more than one instance the capitalized value of the Crown Rents on the land has been credited to the Colonial Government in the special lands account instituted in accordance with the Colonial Office circular of the 30th December 1894. This has been done in spite of the fact that practically no land of any value has been surrendered by the War Department, and there are consequently no debits against the Colony to be extinguished. The credits could only therefore become operative by being set off against the value of surrenders if ever made in the future by the War Department. It is probable that more sites will be required for buildings included in the joint scheme, and the question of the proper mode of treating these Crown rents requires settlement.\n\n6. In addition however to the services included in this scheme there are other new barrack works which will have to be carried out shortly in the Colony, and for which sites may be required. Since the scheme was drawn up in 1894 there has been a further small increase in the strength of the garrison; and the need for small buildings of various kinds connected with the garrison may be expected to arise from time to time. The question of the cost of sites in these cases is one which should be settled, but at present it must be observed that the incidence of the cost of the buildings themselves is wholly unsettled. Their cost is not proposed to be covered by the general contribution of the Colony and no other", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-296 - Public Offices & Others - 1899.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 374779, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-296 - Public Offices & Others - 1899", "page_number": 108, "title": "CO129-296 - Public Offices & Others - 1899", "content_text": "3 \n\n105 \n\nA 414. \n\nPrinted \n\n3. The consideration of these proposals was in some degree interrupted by correspondence, the long discussion which arose as to the terms on which Colonial military lands should be surrendered by the War Department to the Colonial Government. Colonial military lands are lands either reserved on the first occupation of a colony, or made over since as a free grant by the Colonial Government, the fee simple of which is held to be vested in the Crown, represented by the Colonial Government, while the War Department has a right of perpetual user for purposes of defence. The settlement arrived at was embodied in the circular despatched by the Colonial Office to Colonial Governors on the 30th December 1894. In this circular, read in conjunction with the previous circular of the 9th June 1890, it was laid down that these properties should be regarded as a permanent defence fund of the Colony, the integrity of which ought to be preserved in kind or value, even though the original lands themselves may be diverted to civil purposes. Accordingly, when such lands ceased to be useful for military purposes, and are, in consequence, surrendered by the military authorities, their value should be treated as forming a capital applicable to providing other lands or buildings which may be required in the Colony for such purposes.\n\nPage 8\n\nTheir value so treated would be their full market value at the time, and the Colonial Government would receive the same reversionary rights over the new lands or buildings provided in return as it held over the old ones. The circular provided for a special account to be kept between the two Governments, in which the value of any lands surrendered would be entered to the debit of the Colonial Government, and the cost of those provided in return, up to the said value entered to its credit. It expressly did not legislate for the further provision of lands by the Colonial Government beyond the value of those surrendered. Paragraph 11 states-\"The foregoing proposal relates solely to the terms on which Colonial military lands in the hands of the War Department shall be surrendered to a Colonial Government. It does not affect the obligation of a Colony to provide other lands required within its borders for military purposes, whether under some special agreement or under the general obligation resting on every Colony to contribute according to its means to its defence.\" \n\nA 385 and 523. \n\n4. The question of the cost of provision of barracks for the increased garrison was taken up again in 1892. Eventually the Treasury agreed to the original proposal made by the Committee of 1888, with the modification that, in the special circumstances of the Colony, the condition as to free provision of sites should be waived.\n\nPage 22\n\nA 885. \n\nThe agreement arrived at was, therefore, that the full market value of the Colonial military lands and buildings, surrendered by the War Department, would be applied in reduction of the gross cost of the new scheme of works, including new sites, and that the remainder of the cost would be divided between Imperial and Colonial funds, in the proportion of two-thirds to the former and one-third to the latter. The gross cost of the scheme was estimated at 211,000l., or 1,339,536 dollars, in December 1894, and it was proposed to spread the scheme over 10 years; but as it was subsequently considered advisable to press on with the works as soon as possible, and the Colony refused to pay more than a contribution of one-thirtieth of the gross cost in any one year, it was decided that the War Department should execute the whole of the works itself as quickly as possible, and the Colony make an annual contribution, for 10 years, of 45,000 dollars, which was about one-thirtieth of the total cost. The payments by the Colony began with the year 1896, and should therefore continue until 1905.\n\nA 385. \n\n5. It must be observed that up to the present the War Department has not been in a position to surrender any lands to the Colony, so that the portion of the agreement relating to the reduction of the gross cost of the scheme by the value of the surrendered properties is not operative, and practically it is the gross cost that is being divided in the proportion of one-third and two-thirds. The execution of this scheme is now in progress, but is not yet completed. Some land has been already acquired by the War Department for services included in it. In these cases the War Department has paid for the interests of private individuals, where necessary, and included the amounts in the gross cost for purposes of division. But in more than one instance the capitalized value of the Crown rents on the land has been credited to the Colonial Government in the Special Lands Account, instituted in accordance with the Colonial Office circular of the 30th December 1894. This has been done in spite of the fact that practically no land of any value has been surrendered by the War Department, and there are, consequently, no debits against the Colony to be extinguished. The credits could only, therefore, become operative by being set off against the value of surrenders, if ever made, in the future by the War Department. It is probable that more sites will be required for buildings included in the joint scheme, and the question of the proper mode of treating these Crown rents requires settlement.\n\nPage 19\n\n6. In addition, however, to the services included in this scheme there are other new barrack works which will have to be carried out shortly in the Colony, and for which sites may be required. Since the scheme was drawn up in 1894 there has been a further small increase in the strength of the garrison; and the need for small buildings of various kinds connected with the garrison may be expected to arise from time to time. The question of the cost of sites in these cases is one which should be settled, but at present it must be observed that the incidence of the cost of the buildings themselves is wholly unsettled. Their cost is not supposed to be covered by the general contribution of the Colony, and no other arrangement has been made with regard to them.\n\n7. With regard to defence works an arrangement has been arrived at by which the Imperial Government bears the cost of the necessary armament, and the Colonial Government that of the permanent works and sites. This agreement has reference to certain specified works, the Imperial share of which is, under the above arrangement, 28,500l., and the Colonial share, 8,230l.. At the same time (in March 1897) the War Office agreed that certain services, estimated to cost 11,500l., connected with the completion of existing works of defence were to be carried out entirely at War Department expense. No points requiring settlement have arisen with regard to this arrangement about defence works, and there is no proposal to revise it.\n\nRECOMMENDATIONS.\n\n1. It was the opinion of the Conference that it would be impossible to come to any satisfactory permanent arrangement as to the incidence of the cost of sites, apart from the similar question as to the cost of the buildings to be erected. The present situation, with regard to both buildings and lands, was felt to be one that demanded some clear and general settlement. The Conference accordingly decided to recommend that a standing arrangement for the future should be concluded on a principle of division of cost, similar to that adopted in the case of the existing joint scheme, viz., that the gross cost of all buildings, inclusive of new sites, should be divided in the proportion of two-thirds to the War Department, and one-third to the Colonial Government, and that this should be applicable to all works costing 100l. or more in each instance other than what are strictly speaking defence works, with regard to which a satisfactory arrangement exists.\n\nThe Conference recognized that it would be very difficult for the War Office to produce, at present, a scheme of contemplated works which would be likely to be final. But it was agreed that one should be prepared and put to the Colony as early as possible. It would be understood to be not an absolutely comprehensive list, but merely as designed, to give the Colony some idea of its additional liabilities in the immediate future under the new arrangement.\n\n2. In the agreement relating to the joint scheme it was clearly intended that any actual cost of buying land from private persons should be divided between the two Governments, but nothing was said as to the method of treating Colonial land, if required, or the Crown rents on property let by the Colonial Government.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-296 - Public Offices & Others - 1899.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 380626, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7]", "page_number": 155, "title": "CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7]", "content_text": "## Government House, Hong-Kong, 23 May, 1901\n\n149\n\nIn my despatch No.180 of the 8th instant, I had the honour to submit for your decision the following points amongst others, viz:-\n\n(a) Whether the effect of the Circular Despatch of the 30th December, 1894, had been exhausted.\n\n(b) Whether land in future required as Military Reservation should be paid for by the War Department at the full market value.\n\n2. In this present despatch, I desire to inform you of my views regarding (a) the nature of lands already in Military Reservation and (b) the extent of the rights over such lands vesting in the War Department.\n\n3. After consideration and a perusal of the Report upon Military Reserve Lands at Kowloon furnished by Messrs. Bruce Shepherd and Seth in 1898, I have come to the conclusion that Military Reserve Lands are lands which this Government, at the request of the Military Authorities, has agreed to keep free of buildings for purposes of defence.\n\nUpon hitherto, but difference in value has not been insisted on, exchanges of lands and modifications of the military rights attaching to other lands have been agreed to without recording actual values, on the general principle that the exchanges, etc., were equally advantageous to the Colonial government and to the War Department. And observe that the exchanges referred to in paragraph 7 of the present despatch were recommended for adoption by the Governor himself, and that Mr. Chamberlain accordingly supported the arrangement in his letter to the War Office of 2nd November last.\n\nThe W.B. has now agreed to those exchanges (see despatch No. 2899304, which sends copy to Governor), which may accordingly be at once carried out; but that as regards the further points raised in No. 29,50, a further communication will be addressed to the War Office, and the result will be communicated to him in due course.\n\n`C.O. 2170/8/07`, `29/0111`, `C.0. 80.194.`\n\n**The Right Honourable JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN, M.P.**", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 380743, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7]", "page_number": 272, "title": "CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7]", "content_text": "ENCLOSURE 3\n\nC. O\n\n266\n\n23454\n\n\"Bon Accord\".\n\nReport upon the proposed Clock Tower to the Flake Pier\n\nHongkong.\n\nApril, 1901,\n\n1\n\nHongkong\n\nI have the honour to submit the following\n\nDrawings for your consideration:-\n\nDrawing No. 1. General Plans,\n\n2. Elevation to Connaught Road.\n\n3. Side Elevation of Tower and roof over Pier,\n\n4. Section of ditto and ditto.\n\n5. Detail of Base.\n\n6. Detail of upper portion of Tower.\n\n7. Plan shewing drains, and the portion of Pier to be covered with roof.\n\nI propose to construct the Tower externally with granite.\n\nI would point out now that the present height of Queen's Buildings is about 120 feet to top of dome and with the finial added the height equals about 180 feet.\n\nThe new block of buildings at the junction of Des Voeux and ... Roads will be about 150 feet to the top of finial.\n\nThe entrance for Europeans from Connaught Road is through a Vestibule which leads into a Circular General Waiting Hall 25 feet in diameter, faced with granite and covered by means of a dome.\n\nI consider it advisable to provide niches in the wall for the purpose of placing figures in at a later date, should circumstances suggest such additions to an ornamental design.\n\nLadies Rooms,\n\nI propose to form the floor with tiles laid.\n\nOn the East side of General Hall access is gained to the Ladies Waiting Room 23'-0\"x 17'-6\", and from this room to the Ladies Lavatory, the dimensions of which are 19'-0\"x 10'-9\".\n\nThe Lavatory is fitted with basins, dressing table storey for the toilet. Leading from the Lavatory are two Water Closets each 5'-8\" x 3'-6\".\n\nThe walls to Lavatory and W.Cs. I propose to face with white glazed bricks and to form the floor with tiles.\n\nIf desired a Lantern light can be formed in the roof over Lavatory which would thus be given additional light and ventilation.\n\nThe Waiting Room floor I propose to form with hardwood blocks bedded on concrete.\n\nGentlemen's Rooms,\n\nOn the West side of General Hall access is gained to the Gentlemen's Waiting Room 23'-0\" x 17'-6\" (the floor of which", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 381487, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-306 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [8-9]", "page_number": 199, "title": "CO129-306 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [8-9]", "content_text": "ORDINANCE No. 13 of 1901.\n\nPublic Health,\n\n43. If it appears to the Board that a group of contiguous buildings may be drained more advantageously in combination than separately, the Board may order that such group be drained upon some combined plan to be approved by the expert officer, and the cost thereof, together with the expenses of maintenance, shall be apportioned by the Board between the different owners of such group of contiguous buildings.\n\n44. If any building be without a sufficient drain, and if a public sewer of sufficient size be within one hundred feet of the premises or outermost boundaries of the lot on which such building is situated, and if such public sewer be on a lower level, it shall be lawful for the Board to require the owner of such building to connect with such public sewer by means of a proper drain adequately trapped and ventilated, to the satisfaction of the Board: Provided always that, if any owner, by order of the Board, connects his building with a public sewer, he shall not be required to connect such building, at his own expense, with any other public sewer.\n\n45. Whenever the Board shall have reason to believe that the drains of any building are defective and in a condition injurious to health, it shall be lawful for the Board to authorize an inspecting officer to enter the premises and to inspect such drains, and, if requisite for the purpose of such inspection, such officer shall cause the ground to be opened in any place or places he may deem fit, doing as little damage as may be, and should such drains be found in a satisfactory condition, they shall be reinstated and made good by the Board at the public expense, but should such drains prove in the opinion of the Board defective, it shall cause them to be properly reconstructed in accordance with the provisions of this Ordinance.\n\n46. Every owner of a new building in the villages and rural districts of Hongkong and Kowloon shall construct the ground floor of such building at such sufficiently high level as will allow of the construction of a drain, and of the provision of the requisite communication with any public sewer into which such drain may lawfully empty or with any other means of drainage with which such drain may lawfully communicate.\n\n47. Wherever feasible, every house-drain in the villages and rural districts of Hongkong and Kowloon shall hereafter be an open drain, consisting of a semi-circular channel, of glazed stoneware jointed in cement mortar and laid to adequate falls on a bed of good lime or cement concrete, to the satisfaction of the Board.\n\n48. In isolated places not connected with any public drainage system, every such open drain shall lead and empty into a covered sump or cesspit built of brick or lime concrete rendered smooth in good Portland cement mortar in such manner as to be water-tight.\n\nWells and Pools.\n\n49. No premises within the City of Victoria, or the villages of Hongkong and Kowloon, shall be so excavated as shall admit of the formation, on the surface thereof, of pools of stagnant or other foul waters, and it shall be lawful for the Board to call upon the owner of any premises whereon such pools may exist, to fill up the same with good clean earth to the level of the surrounding ground, or to drain off such pools by means of surface-drains into any channel with which such surface-drains may lawfully communicate.\n\n50. Where it is made to appear to the Board that any well is in an insanitary condition, or is likely to prove injurious to health, and that it is expedient that it should be closed and filled up, the Board may call upon the owner, by notice in writing under the hand of the secretary, to close and fill up the same within the time limited in such notice. If such notice is not complied with, the Board may cause the owner to be summoned before a Magistrate, and the Magistrate may make such order in the matter and as to costs as he may deem right. Should the Magistrate order the well to be closed and filled up he may impose a penalty not exceeding five dollars for each day his order is not complied with.\n\nOpen Spaces, Backyards, etc.\n\n51. Every person, who shall erect a new building on land obtained from the Crown subsequent to the thirtieth day of May, 1888, and on a site excavated out of a hill-side or declivity, shall not permit such new building to abut against the hill-side, but shall leave a clear intervening space or area of at least four feet between such new building, along its whole extent, and the toe of the slope of the hill-side: Always provided that—\n\n(1.) Any kitchen, or out-house, appertaining to such new building, may abut against the hill-side, if not designed or intended for human habitation; and,\n\nPage 197", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-306 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [8-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 382094, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-307 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [10-12]", "page_number": 77, "title": "CO129-307 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [10-12]", "content_text": "Copy.\n\nWith which was sent to tops in Bow Deck, No 194 of,\n\nEnclosure No.2 to H.E. the Governor's despatch\n\nNo.396 of the 6th October, 1901.\n\nFrom the Hon. Acting Attorney General.\n\nTo the Honourable the Colonial Secretary.\n\n75 Hon. Col. Secy.\n\nThis whole question appears to be regulated by\n\nthe terms of Lord Ripon's Circular Despatch of the 30th\n\nDecember, 1894, which will be found set out on pages 93-95 of\n\nthe annexed Blue Book on Military Lands.\n\nThe principles laid down in that Circular were\n\naccepted by the Legislative Council of this Colony. (See Sir\n\nW. Robinson's Despatch of the 19th April, 1895, at page 35 of\n\nthe Blue Book).\n\nas follows:-\n\nFrom Lord Ripon's Circular Despatch it appears\n\nPar 2 All Colonial Military Lands and Buildings no\n\nlonger required by Her Majesty's Government are to be freely\n\nsurrendered to the Colony, on the Colony engaging, in its\n\nturn, to provide an equivalent in land and buildings when\n\nrequired, and a record is to be kept of the value of the land\n\nand buildings surrendered.\n\nPar.3. It is stated that the Colonial Military Lands\n\nare to be regarded as a permanent Defence Fund of the Colony,\n\nthe integrity of which ought to be preserved, in kind or\n\nvalue, and that their value is to be treated as forming a\n\ncapital applicable for providing other lands or buildings\n\nwhich may be required in the Colony for such purposes.\n\nPar.4.\n\nprovides that, if the Colonial Government does not", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-307 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 382095, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-307 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [10-12]", "page_number": 78, "title": "CO129-307 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [10-12]", "content_text": "76\n\nnot desire to retain the lands, they are to be sold in the open market and proceeds paid to the Treasury, the amount being entered in a special account to the debit of the Colonial Government - (such special account being credited with any lands and buildings given by the Colonial Government to the Military Authorities in return).\n\nPar.6. is important because it empowers the Colonial Government, if it thinks fit, to retain any lands which the Military Authorities give up on a valuation being made of the Market value of their fee simple at the date of surrender, which market value would be entered to the debit of the Colonial Government as would also be the fair selling value of any buildings on the land except such buildings as were erected at the cost of the Colony.\n\nPar.11 states that the foregoing proposal must not be taken to affect the obligation of a Colony to provide lands for military purposes as required or to contributing according to its means towards its own defence.\n\nFrom the terms of the above Circular Despatch of Lord Ripon's, I deduce the fact that, if the Military Authorities no longer require the lands in question, the Colonial Government has, under the terms of that Despatch, the right either to retain the land and buildings no longer required by the Military, or if they do not desire to retain the land and buildings, to sell them or such part of them as they do not wish to retain.\n\nIt seems to be especially necessary that the rights of this Government should be insisted upon because, if the Military Authorities are giving up a large tract of land with buildings on it in one place, they are sure to make demands for land in other places.\n\nThe", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-307 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 382096, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-307 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [10-12]", "page_number": 79, "title": "CO129-307 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [10-12]", "content_text": "(3)\n\n77\n\nThe rights of the Colonial Government in this matter appear to have been lost sight of.\n\nIt has just occurred to me that a sort of verbal quibble might be raised by somebody on the words \"required by Her Majesty's Government\" in Lord Ripon's Despatch, and some ingenious person might contend that the land in question was now required by His Majesty's Government for the use of the Navy. In my opinion, however, such a contention is absolutely unsound, because the whole tenour of Lord Ripon's Despatch shows that it was intended to apply to all cases where lands and buildings are no longer required for Military purposes.\n\nLord Knutsford's Circular Despatch of the 9th June 1890 (see pages 89 and 90 of the Blue Book) which is referred to in paragraph 1 of Lord Ripon's Despatch is equally clear upon this point.\n\n(sd.) H.B. Pollock.\n\nActing Attorney General.\n\n4/10/'01.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-307 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 382601, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-307 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [10-12]", "page_number": 584, "title": "CO129-307 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [10-12]", "content_text": "580\n\nYou\n\n21764\n\npurely an invention of the Military Authorities; and I admit\n\nthat it is a phrase capable of very elastic definition.\n\nThe phrase used in the Circular is\n\nColonial Military Lands and Buildings (vide clause 1 of that\n\ndocument) and is defined in the same clause as lands the fee\n\nsimple of which is vested in the Crown represented by the\n\nColonial Government but of which the War Department has a\n\nright of perpetual user for purposes of defence, and the\n\nbuildings on such lands*.\n\nIt is quite plain, therefore, that the\n\nonly lands contemplated as being subject to the conditions\n\nof exchange laid down in that Circular are lands commonly\n\nknown as War Department lands in which the War Department has\n\na right of perpetual user for purposes of defence, and that\n\nother lands over which this right of perpetual user does not\n\nextend and which are styled Military Reserve Lands, do not\n\nfall within the scheme of the Marquess of Ripon's Circular.\n\nThe only right, therefore, which appertains to the War Department over any land is a right of perpetual user for purposes of defence; but that right does not attach to lands vaguely styled Military Reserve Lands. In\n\nparagraph 4 of my Despatch No. 194 of the 23rd May last,\n\nthe word \"right\" has obviously two meanings. As first used,\n\nit means a concession or licence granted by this Government,\n\nbut as used at the end of the paragraph, it means a right\n\nvested in the War Department by the Imperial Government.\n\nThis concession or licence is revocable\n\nby the Colonial Government at any moment, and for it the\n\nColonial\n\nPage 6", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-307 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 382604, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-307 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [10-12]", "page_number": 587, "title": "CO129-307 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [10-12]", "content_text": "583\n\ncombating the claims and pretensions of the War Office in respect of compensation for Military Reserve Lands offered to be exchanged. I deny that that Department has any claim under the Circular of 30th December, 1894, to compensation or exchange in respect of lands other than those of which it has a right of perpetual user, which is the only right of the War Office which my Government admits.\n\n10.\n\nIt is my opinion, which has been expressed to you before, that in future no lands should be acquired by the Military Authorities except as War Department Land, that is, that all lands required in future for any Military purpose whatsoever shall be acquired either at full value in cash or in exchange for lands of which the War Department now has a right of perpetual user.\n\nI cannot see the justice to the Colony of alienating lands except at their fair market value.\n\nI contend that the Military Authorities have no legal or moral claim to make a bargain in respect of fresh lands in exchange for Military Reserve Lands which they announce to be no longer required for the purposes of defence.\n\n11.\n\nI have the greater confidence in the position which I take up when I remember that the Military Contribution has been increased to 20% of the Revenue of this Colony, and that, by section 5 of Ordinance No. 1 of 1901, that percentage is deemed to be a contribution including, inter alia, all capital expenditure required for Military lands and buildings.\n\n12.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-307 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 393577, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-324 - Governor Nathan - 1904 [10-12]", "page_number": 138, "title": "CO129-324 - Governor Nathan - 1904 [10-12]", "content_text": "137\n\nToe\n\n217 by\n\nthe case of Military Reserves no longer required for Military purposes and this means that the Colony if it wants again to make full use of these lands must purchase from the War Department the building rights which I hold have only been held in abeyance to meet the exigencies of defence and have not been alienated to that Department.\n\n6.\n\nI have not overlooked the fact that Mr. Chamberlain in his Despatch No. 306 dated the 18th September, 1901, considered that when the War Office agrees to surrender the rights which it possesses of controlling the erection of buildings on any lands... that Department has a reasonable claim under the Circular of 30th December, 1894, to be credited with the difference in value between the lands, when subject to the rights in question and the value when freed from those rights' \".\n\n7.\n\nIf you adhere to this view and consider that the rights to control the erection of buildings on any lands surrendered to the War Department by the Colony for a specific purpose extinguish the rights of the Colony to building values when this purpose has ceased to exist and in any event transfer them to the War Department then no doubt the amount to be credited to the Colony in this and similar cases of the War Department itself making use of the Reserves is the comparatively small value of the land for other than building purposes, while the amount to be debited to the Colony in case of Military Reserves no longer required as such being fully resumed will be the great difference between the building and agricultural values. I am doubtful, however, whether you will hold this view which is not even in the Military interests", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-324 - Governor Nathan - 1904 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 395236, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-326 - Foreign Office - 1904", "page_number": 573, "title": "CO129-326 - Foreign Office - 1904", "content_text": "570\n\n4\n\n\"Little\" and the \"Great\" East Gates. The western limit of this, the first suggested \"Gare de Yunnan-sen\" is a paved road that runs due south at about a third of a mile from the eastern wall, and joins at right angles a second and wider stone road coming from opposite the approach to the South Gate.\n\n33\n\nThis latter road crosses by the \"Bridge of Victory\" a stream that may be destined to play a not unimportant part in the coming commerce of Yunnan-fu. The stream will be seen to meander through the plain from the local Black Dragon fount - there is a Hei-lung-t'an near every place of consequence in Yunnan - on the north-east till it strikes the city precincts near the Little East Gate.\n\nThence it runs, not far from the wall, in a fairly straight course till it is well past the city, after which it resumes its wandering ways until it is finally merged in the Yunnan Lake. Meanwhile, about a mile south of the city, it has put out a channel running westward, a channel that also eventually leads to the lake. The new gare will be found marked as extending along the east of the parent stream, from the Bridge of Victory to the parting of the channels. I may mention here that I have just been told by my colleague of France that this emplacement of the \"gare\" has been accepted by the local authorities.\n\nIt is proposed to canalize the stream by means of locks, and so to obtain a head of water sufficient to enable small steam-tugs to bring boats up from the lake to alongside the railway station. As coal good enough for use in railway engines has been discovered among the hills west of the lake, whence, too, abundance of building stone is to be had, as, moreover, a ferry service could thus be maintained with K'unyang and other places on the lake, the advantages to be gained by this project of canalization are obvious. Whether the project is practicable, however, I have not yet learnt on good authority.\n\nIt is also proposed by the French to induce the officials to set apart all the ground between the \"gare\" and, at any rate, the western channel to the lake as a sort of European, or at least Europeanized, Settlement. The northern strip along the great paved road from the South Gate to the Bridge of Victory, a strip already largely taken up with Chinese houses, would be left to Chinese dirt and disorder, but the bulk of the ground would be laid out in foreign fashion, with straight broad roads that should be kept clear of offal, dogs, pigs, and intermittent paving stones.\n\nFrance, however, by M. Constans, her former Minister at Peking, renounced the right to demand a concession or settlement at any Treaty port where she did not then (1887) possess one; and Yunnan-fu is not yet even a Treaty port. Moreover, as was shown the other day, when negotiations for the \"gare\" were in progress, the Local Government demur to the acquisition of land here by foreign traders. It is certain, nevertheless, that on the completion of the railway Yunnan-fu will become, in reality if not in name, an open mart; and, meanwhile, the necessity of a \"magasin\" for the railway employés will be maintained, and will lead to the introduction of a foreign - that is, of course, a French - store, just as somewhat similar conditions led to the establishment at Peking in the seventies of Kiérulff's and Vrard's hotels. The Chinese will become gradually aware that the arrival of the first locomotive must greatly increase the value of land all about the \"gare,\" and they will buy up the neighbouring sites. What is worse, they will build on them; and, instead of an orderly Settlement, we shall have a filthy human warren alongside the first-class station.\n\nAs far as I am aware, Great Britain has nowhere tied her hands in regard to demands for settlement areas. At Têngyüeh the T'aotai accepted my suggestion that the neighbourhood of the ground purchased for a British Consulate should be laid out as a Europeanized Settlement, with a Municipal Committee of Chinese and foreigners. Mr. Litton now sends me a notification by the Sub-Prefect forbidding Chinese to encroach on the roads - 3 chang or 35 English feet wide - that have been marked out in this area, or to bury their dead within the Settlement. Concerted action by the British and French should be able to secure similar treatment for the square mile adjoining the proposed \"gare.\"\n\nAs a place of residence, this area is not at present at all inviting; but neither was in 1843 the mud flat \"full of all abominations\" (as a Chinese author has it) that has since become the British Settlement at Shanghai.\n\nMeanwhile, the combined establishment of M. de Pauliny, the Chief of Section, and of M. Sorrel, the contractor, is lodged in an extensive annexe to a native temple, a few hundred yards north-east of the future railway station. Even to foreigners, the annexe - which was built by the Chinese authorities for this purpose - is known as the \"t'ieh-lu Kung-so\" or railway offices. On the other side of the paved road that forms its western limit - this is the paved road already described as running parallel to the east wall of the city - is a large open space, some 30 mou (about 5 acres) in extent.\n\n5\n\nThis, M. François, the late Consul-General, told me had been offered to him as a Consular site, at the price of 3,000 taels. The surroundings are, however, unpleasant (as they are everywhere in the immediate neighbourhood of Yunnan-fu, except to the north) and, in any case, no definite decision has yet been reached by the French Government for the erection of a Consulate.\n\nThe railway establishments at Mengtse remain much as they were described by Mr. Litton in his admirable Report of the 1st October last, but along the road leading to them from the East Gate of the town, a number of buildings are going up, half Chinese, half European, for the accommodation of what might be called the camp followers of the undertaking - Annamese hotelkeepers, Japanese \"filles de joie,\" and the rest.\n\nThis apparent prosperity of Mengtse must, I fear, be only transitory, since the railway will not now avail itself of the spacious green between the French post-office and the French hospital that was originally set aside for its \"gare.\" The new \"gare\" for Mengtse, a third-class \"gare,\" will be situated 6 kilometres (4 miles) to the east, and some 500 feet up the mountain side. There is talk of constructing a short branch line thence to the town, and it seems certain that the existing road, even now of fair dimensions, will be enlarged and improved. Moreover, the conservatism of trade is always to be reckoned with. Nevertheless, it seems highly probable that when the railway is in working order, the caravans with tin slabs from Kuochin, to the west, will proceed straight to the \"gare\" and so pass Mengtse by. It is even more certain that the trade with K'aihua and Kuangnan, to the east, will not come down to the Mengtse Plain merely to return over those four miles to the station in the hills.\n\nAt Mengtse, I was received by the French colony with the greatest courtesy and an abounding hospitality. M. Guibert caused copies to be struck off for me of the plans which I have just described, and sent a circular along the line up to I-liang, requesting for me a \"bon accueil.\" M. Richard sketched out my route, indicating the places where I could spend the night, or, as the case might be, make my mid-day halt. M. Sainson, the Consul, accompanied me twice to the workings on the hill, arranging on the second occasion for a picnic at the spring (another Hei-lung-t'an) below the site of the future \"gare.\"\n\nThat site, as Mr. Litton suggests, is very limited in area, nor from the nature of the ground can it well be otherwise. And yet, if the Customs are to continue to be established at Mengtse, it will obviously be necessary to maintain at least an examiner and his staff alongside the railway station, together with the usual apparatus of sheds and godowns. In the event, it would seem exceedingly likely that the Mengtse establishment will be broken up, and its constituents distributed between the two termini of the line, Yünnan-fu and Ho-K'ou.\n\nI followed the \"tracé\" southwards only as far as the Mi-la-ti \"col,\" the watershed between the Mengtse Plain (which belongs to the West River system) and the Nam-hti (an affluent of the Red River). Work on the tunnel here was proceeding at a reasonably rapid rate: several courses of stone facing are in position. Indeed, the two lots (Nos. 10 and 11 in the fourth section) for which M. Péraglié is contractor are considerably further advanced than any others along the line. One reason for this is doubtless because they are the nearest to head-quarters, and are under the immediate supervision of the Directeur des Travaux. Another reason is that they are the first lots on the Yunnan Plateau, and therefore secure many of the Chinese labourers who have found the Nam-hti Valley impossible.\n\nThe progress of the railway, indeed, is now almost entirely a question of labour. All along the road, I heard the same complaint - lack of the \"main d'œuvre.\" The Regulations require that recourse should be had in the first instance to the populace of Yunnan, and that only when this source fails should Chinese from other provinces be engaged. But the Yünnanese is a man of few wants, and with a strong dislike to prolonged exertion. As soon as he has earned a dollar or two as wages, he throws up his work for the month, for he has gained enough to keep him in rice and opium. Furthermore, there is no excess of population in Yunnan, as there is, for example, in congested Kuangtung. When the season comes for breaking up the opium fields and planting out the summer crop of paddy, the Yunnan coolies desert, almost to a man. The same will happen again at rice harvest and poppy sowing. In short, as M. Prud'homme told me, it is impossible to reckon on a steady supply of Yunnan labour during more than five months in the year.\n\n[2172 -1]\n\n24", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-326 - Foreign Office - 1904.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 404294, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-333 - Governor Nathan - 1906 [1-4]", "page_number": 32, "title": "CO129-333 - Governor Nathan - 1906 [1-4]", "content_text": "3\n\n30 that the surrender to the Colonial Government of the land required for the road would not under the conditions (1) and (11) proposed by Colonel Brown, and agreed to in my letter of the 19th December, 1905, in any way impair the efficacy of the battery at North Point and the 2nd paragraph of the Memorandum which, according to the earlier circular I have referred to, was agreed upon by the War Office, the Treasury and Colonial Office, would seem to have special application to such surrender.\n\nThis paragraph is as follows:- \n\"The Military Authorities, acting on behalf of the Secretary of State (for War), should, therefore, in communication with Colonial Governments, deal with Colonial Military lands and buildings in such way as may best secure \n(1) The efficient execution of the special service to which the lands and buildings are devoted, \n(2) The general interests of the Colony\".\n\nIn the present case the efficient execution of the special service to which the land at North Point is devoted would not be affected by the surrender of the land required for the improvement of the road at North Point while this improvement would serve not only the general interests of the Colony but also the special interests of the War Department in having the best possible communications within the line of the defences.\n\n4. In these circumstances I trust Your Excellency will now agree to recommend to the War Office the surrender of the land in question when required for the construction of the road subject to conditions (1) and (ii) proposed by Colonel Brown and to a sum of $16,840 being credited to the War Department in the Military Lands Account.\n\nWaiting this agreement I shall be forced to...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-333 - Governor Nathan - 1906 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 405507, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-335 - Governor Nathan - 1906 [8-10]", "page_number": 49, "title": "CO129-335 - Governor Nathan - 1906 [8-10]", "content_text": "(COPY)\n\n## Opinion of Sir Henry Berkeley of 7th August, 1905\n\n46\n\nUnder paragraph 4 of the Circular of December 1894, lands and buildings surrendered to the Colonial Government by the War Department are to be sold in the \"open market\" and \"the proceeds\" of the sale are to be paid into the Colonial Treasury to a special account to the debit of the Colonial Government, that which is to be paid into the Treasury is the sum paid by the purchaser at the sale in open market, i.e., the proceeds of the sale. In the words of paragraph 4, \"the proceeds\" of the sale are to be paid into the Treasury and debited to the Colonial Government. The proceeds of a sale are the moneys actually realised by the sale; in the present case, the proceeds would be what is locally called the \"premiums\" paid to Government for the Crown Lease of the lands, the leasehold interest in which has been sold. It is therefore only the premium, that is to say, the proceeds of the sale, which is to be paid into the Treasury and debited to the Colonial Government.\n\nUnder paragraph 4, the War Department have no claim to rent in respect of the surrendered lands, for the Department has not, under that paragraph, as it has under paragraph 9 when the Government retains any land surrendered, a right to regard such lands as if they were War Department lands in fee simple. It is the right, conferred by paragraph 6, to be credited with the market value of the fee simple, which entitles the War Department to capitalize rent plus premium in cases coming under that paragraph. No such right exists under paragraph 4; therefore, in cases coming under that paragraph, the War Department is entitled to be credited with the sum of money actually realised by the sale in open market and nothing more.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-335 - Governor Nathan - 1906 [8-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 407000, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-337 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1906", "page_number": 296, "title": "CO129-337 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1906", "content_text": "13485\n\nAPR 21 1906\n\nRECR\n\nC. O.\n\n16107\n\nREGE 7 MAY 06\n\nInclo. on Sir E. Satow's No. 87 of February 28th, 1906.\n\nAccounts No. 4\n\nSir,\n\nH.M. Consul Ningpo to Sir E. Satow,\n\nNingpo, January 20th, 1906\n\n291 January\n\nIn reply to your Accounts Circular of June 10th, I have the honour to report that the work of the British Postal Agency here is carried on in the Constable's Office, a room on the ground floor of the Office Buildings, on the top floor of which is the Constable's residence. The Consul is the actual postal agent, but the work is mostly performed by the Constable assisted by a staff of two Chinese; the Consul only keeping the reserve stock of stamps and postal orders, attending to the correspondence and being responsible for the accounts. The salary of the agent is $35 a month, the whole of which goes to the Constable, although signed for by the Consul as agent.\n\nThe two Chinese receive eight and seven dollars respectively, and are entirely in the postal service.\n\n\"Pekin\" mails are only despatched by the British steamer thrice a week, and local mails are similarly received by the same steamer only. In the case of foreign mails arriving at Shanghai on a day when the British steamer is not available, the bags and parcel post boxes are despatched through the Chinese Post office and are taken delivery of by me from them.\n\nParcels of the value of thirty shillings and over on which duty is charged by the Customs, are handed over to the Chinese Post Office for collection of the duty and delivery; parcels of less value are delivered by the agency.\n\nI have etc.\n\n(Signed) R.H. Kortimore.\n\nConsul.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-337 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1906.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 411204, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-343 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1907", "page_number": 381, "title": "CO129-343 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1907", "content_text": "**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\n## SECTION 5\n\n### No. 1\nSir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received February 9, 1907.)\n\n(No. 533.)\n\nPeking, December 21, 1906.\n\nSir,\n\nI HAVE the honour to transmit to you herewith copy of a despatch which I have received from His Majesty's Consul-General at Mukden, reporting on the general situation in that town.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed) J. N. JORDAN,\n\n#### Inclosure in No. 1\n\n### No. 2\nConsul-General Fulford to Sir J. Jordan.\n\nMukden, December 14, 1906.\n\nSINCE my arrival in Mukden on the 27th ultimo, I have had two interviews with the Tartar General and two with the Taotai superintending the Board of Foreign Affairs, and have had conversations with my colleagues and with all the British missionaries and residents in Mukden.\n\nI am now in a position to give my first impressions of the situation in this town. The attitude of the Chinese officials strikes me as one of expectancy. Until the termination of the Japanese military occupation, they feel that their hands are tied in many respects. Although the Japanese Administration has been withdrawn, and the government of the town has completely reverted to the Chinese, the Japanese military authorities still retain means of fettering their action. The railways on all four sides of the town—to the south, to Port Arthur and Dalny; to the north, to Kuan Ch'engtzu; to the south-east, to Antung; and to the west, to Hsin Min Tun—are in their hands, and military exigencies can be pleaded for any lack of facilities afforded to any but Japanese. A consequence of this is that no large Government contract in Mukden, in way of road-making or building, can be carried out except by Japanese. Four miles of roads in the city are being macadamized. These roads are the main arteries of the town. The walled city is a mile square, and these roads run two from north to south, and two from east to west. The contract for this work has fallen to Japanese for a sum of about 60,000L, say 15,000 a mile. The road from the city to the railway station, about 2 miles in length, is being treated in a similar way, and a similar contract has been made with Japanese for the undertaking. Mukden comprises not only the brick-walled city, but the suburbs around this central enclosure, confined by a circular mud wall 13 miles in circumference. The population of this town is estimated at 250,000.\n\nIn addition to this means of influence the Japanese military authorities retain possession of many buildings in the town, some Government and some private, which they seized during their occupation, as having been in the possession of the Russians. Applications by the Tartar General for their rendition are simply ignored. There is a numerous body of Japanese troops at the railway station, and rumours are sometimes prevalent that some of them are to be stationed again in the town. A few are left in charge of the various buildings.\n\nThe Japanese Consul-General, having some 2,000 Japanese civilians living in the town under his jurisdiction, has a small police force under his control. They permeate the town against the wishes of the Chinese authorities, but any remonstrances are met with the plea of necessity of keeping order amongst the Japanese population.\n\nThe payment of city octroi, which is enforced on the Chinese under the name of \"consumption tax,\" cannot be pressed on the Japanese, as the Japanese authorities can reply to any request for its levy by the statement that the military occupation still continues, and that the imports of the Japanese are military supplies or necessaries.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-343 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1907.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 416114, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-351 - Public Offices - 1908", "page_number": 279, "title": "CO129-351 - Public Offices - 1908", "content_text": "275\n\n4\n\nlead to the more rapid suppression of opium-smoking within the Settlement than is now contemplated. What action will finally prevail will depend upon the opinions expressed at this meeting by the ratepayers.\n\nIn compliance with your request I have the honour to return to you herewith Mr. Broomhall's pamphlet.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed)\n\nPELHAM L. WARREN.\n\nInclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\nExtract from Intelligence Report for December Quarter, 1907, in Chengtu, January 28, 1908.\n\nThe Anti-Opium Movement.-There is, I regret to say, but little progress to be reported in this direction. Such information as I have been able to obtain during the past three months will be included in a separate Report.\n\nMissionary travellers inform me that in most places opium-smoking is indulged in, as heretofore, openly and without restriction. Beyond the taxing of the opium divans by the officials nothing has been done to regulate the traffic in the drug, and whatever reduction of the area under cultivation there may have been this autumn is not noticeable. In Chengtu the vigorous measures taken six months ago appear to have been almost entirely relaxed; the once clean and tidy official opium divans are relapsing into their former state of squalor, registration of opium smokers is not enforced, and the private preparation of the drug continues unchecked.\n\n(No. 4.) Sir,\n\nInclosure 3 in No. 1.\n\nActing Consul Pearson to Sir J. Jordan.\n\nHangchow, February 3, 1908.\n\nI HAVE the honour to inclose a Report on the progress of the anti-opium movement in this province during the past four months.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed)\n\nQ. W. PEARSON.\n\nInclosure 4 in No. 1.\n\nReport on the Progress of the Anti-Opium Movement in Chekiang Province. Hangchow--The provincial authorities show very little energy in support of the anti-opium movement throughout the province. The new Governor, Feng, has so far ignored the whole question, and his apathy in this direction is universally imitated by his subordinates.\n\nThe Anti-Opium Society of Hangchow was gradually dying a natural death through lack of enthusiasm and funds, when in November Taotai Wang, head of the Bureau of Foreign Affairs, called a meeting of the gentry and asked for subscriptions to revive the Society. Little was forthcoming, the officials and their subscriptions being conspicuously absent. It was decided to relinquish the comparatively large buildings then occupied by the Society, and to lease smaller premises and curtail operations. Some dozen men of no standing or reputation have been attached to the Society as agents, but their investigations have been perfunctory and of no practical value.\n\nThe dens are to some extent disguised as shops for various commodities, which are displayed for sale in the front room of the establishment, while divans are provided in the rear. In Hangchow City smoking goes on as much as ever.\n\nThe raw opium dealers are said to have had a very prosperous quarter. An increasing taste for the native drug is shown, but this may be due to the state of the Shanghai opium market.\n\nDuring November two Commissioners, Jao and Wu, were sent to Hangchow from Peking to investigate the import of foreign and the cultivation of native opium in the province. They formally notified the higher authorities that the quantity grown and imported must be decreased by 10 per cent. yearly, and asked for statistics. The Provincial Treasurer issued circular instructions to all district Magistrates to prepare reports on the consumption, import, and cultivation. Pending the compilation of these returns, the Commissioners proceeded to Fukien, whence they will return in a few weeks.\n\nHsiang Shan.-The District Magistrate of Hsiang Shan has reported to the Provincial Treasurer that throughout his district, where hitherto the best opium in the province was grown, the cultivation has been abandoned, and grain crops have been sown in its stead.\n\nMissionary Reports.-The missionary reports, which have been sent in in some numbers, are not informing, being mostly \"nil returns.\" They show that practically nothing has been done towards suppression.\n\nProclamations.-Two new Proclamations only seem to have been issued, one by the Raw Opium Tax Office, and the other by the Sui An District Magistrate, urging in general terms the abandoning of poppy cultivation.\n\nOfficial Action.-In T'ai P'ing and Sui An Hsiens alone has any local official action been taken. In the former district the Military Commander has issued a notice that any of his men found smoking will be instantly dismissed. At Sui An the opium dens are closed, and several of the den-keepers, who continued to permit smoking on their premises, were bambooed.\n\nAltitude of Local Officials and Gentry.-Throughout the whole province the attitude of the officials seems to be total indifference. At Chu Chou, however, the Taotai and Brigade-General have broken themselves of smoking, but the head of the Chamber of Commerce is an opium den-keeper, and his establishments are still open. At Ching Yun the District Magistrate has established a refuge for smokers and has handed it over to the Protestant Mission. At Kiang Shan 50 per cent. of the gentry have given up smoking, and yamên runners are forbidden to smoke.\n\nRestriction of Area under Cultivation.-With the exception of Hsiang Shan, no restriction of the cultivated area whatever has been enforced, nor have any returns or investigations been made by officials. A proclamation discouraging poppy-growing has been issued at Sui An. At Tai Ping it is said that one-third of the land hitherto sown with poppy is being used for other purposes.\n\nRestriction on Smokers.-All missionary reports are unanimous in stating that no restrictions on smokers have been put into force.\n\nUse of Anti-Opium Medicine. At T'ai Ping Hsien the anti-opium medicine shop is well patronized.\n\nAt Sui An the only magistrate who is at all active of all those mentioned in the missionary reports has opened a refuge, and pays for assistants employed therein and all medicines, and has placed the control of this establishment in the hands of the Protestant Mission. At Ching Tün, the local magistrate and gentry have contributed to a fund for the free distribution of medicine, but no cures are on record. At Yen Chou, since the nominal closing of the dens on the 21st October, medicine has been distributed gratis. At Chu Chou, one shop has been opened under official auspices specially for the sale of anti-opium medicine, and some private institutions of the kind exist. At Lung Yu, a hong which originally sold raw opium, has been turned into an anti-opium medicine shop.\n\nNo other official refuges or anti-opium societies would seem to exist in the province.\n\nMonopolies and Increased Taxation.--Messrs. D. Sassoon and Co. complain that the Prefect of Hu-chou is attempting to establish an official opium monopoly within the prefecture. I have called the attention of the Governor to this breach of the agreement with the Wai-wu Pu that the question of official opium monopolies is to be left in abeyance for the present. A scheme for an official monopoly at Ping Hu and Chapoo is also reported, but I have been unable to obtain confirmation of the attempt.\n\nAn increase of taxation at Hangchow is in force. In addition to the usual tax, 8 cents per tael weight, less 10 per cent., is levied on raw opium, and 8 cents net on prepared drug.\n\nInclosure 5 in No. 1.\n\nExtract from Report respecting Consumption of Opium in Manchuria. WHAT has been done in the way of controlling and limiting the consumption of opium in Manchuria is this. The opium edicts have been published everywhere. Opium\n\n5", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-351 - Public Offices - 1908.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 420557, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-358 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [10-11]", "page_number": 447, "title": "CO129-358 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [10-11]", "content_text": "144\n\nMay the War Office endeavour to controvert the contention of this Government that the property does not fall under the operation of the Circular Despatches of the 9th June, 1890, and the 30th December, 1894.\n\nIn support of their argument they quote the 11th paragraph of the letter from the War Office of the 2nd December, 1908. But in that paragraph the War Office admit that the case is only analogous to the cases contemplated by the Circulars, the only distinction being that the interest of the Colony in Colonial Military Land proper is the premium plus the Crown Rent, whereas their interest in the Spring Gardens property is limited to the Crown Rent.\n\nParagraph 5 of the Memorandum enclosed in the Circular of 9th June, 1890, expressly excepts lands and buildings \"purchased and paid for by the Imperial Government\" and the 8th paragraph of the same Circular states that such lands and buildings shall be separately dealt with.\n\nThe later Circular of the 30th December, 1894, defines Colonial Military Lands and Buildings, to which alone the Circulars apply as \"lands the fee simple of which is vested in the Crown represented by the", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-358 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [10-11].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 420559, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-358 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [10-11]", "page_number": 449, "title": "CO129-358 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [10-11]", "content_text": "446\n\nJ. 3\n\nIf Prusikan 4019 December, 1894, no cash payment should be required of the Military Authorities in respect of Crown Rent but that the Crown Rent should be annually entered to the credit of the Colony in the special account referred to in the Circular Despatch. Mr. Bramston in forwarding Sir William Robinson's Despatch to the War Office stated that the Secretary of State for the Colonies (Mr. J. Chamberlain) was of opinion that the rent should not be extinguished as it is evident that the land in question is leasehold property only and that the freehold is vested in the Crown, so that in the event of the Military Authorities selling the property at any time the purchaser would be required to pay such rent to the Colonial Government\". He added that the Secretary of State considered that the Governor had indicated the right course to pursue \"in view of recent correspondence on the subject of Colonial Military Lands and Buildings\".\n\nThe War Office in letter of 3rd August, 1895, accepted the view of the Governor and the Secretary of State but suggested that instead of recording the rent as a credit to the Colonial Government annually it would be a simpler course as the land was permanently required by the War Department to capitalize the Crown Rent at 25 years' purchase.\n\nMr", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-358 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [10-11].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 421201, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-359 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [12]", "page_number": 511, "title": "CO129-359 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [12]", "content_text": "My personal impression is that we should take the line that in this case, and in similar cases, the Colonial Government's consent must be given; that the transfer should be done by memo, in which as suggested by Sir F. Lugard War Office shall join. The memo should specify that E.O. claim the right to resume land from Admiralty if they wish; subject to Government's consent. We should point out to W.O. what was said to Admiralty in the letter of 10 October 1903 on `30986/03` viz. that the Government will not unreasonably withhold consent to retransfer and if they do, there is the appeal to the Secretary of State.\n\n(The difficulty from W.O. point of view is I suppose that if transfer were accomplished, and if the Government afterwards refused consent to a retransfer, W.O. would have lost a bit of land for nothing and Admiralty would have got it for nothing. But I should have thought W.O. might fairly be asked to trust the honesty of the Government and the Secretary of State in such a matter)\n\n? Put this to W.O. and press for consent.\n\nMi Collins JR 23/1\n\nThis is in itself, not of importance but the principle is of much importance that the W.O. are not to deal with land of which they have not a perpetual right of user (see Circular of `30/12/925`) - without the consent of the owners i.e. the Colonial Government and Admiralty.\n\nWhat they are driving at is clear from `15-88/09`. Ceylon also see `28113/09` (according to Judge) it seems the buildings have been trying to induce Admiralty to give up land which the Admiralty don't want merely in order to avoid surrendering it.\n\nI submit that the time has come when it is necessary to make a firm stand against the encroachments of the W.O. and therefore reply that the G.G. is unable to accept the views of the Army Council; that the transfer of the land to the Admiralty - whether temporary or permanent is in his opinion incompatible with the W.O. retaining a perpetual right of user, so long as they have only a right of user and not a right of property in the land.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-359 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 421609, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-360 - Public Offices - 1909", "page_number": 398, "title": "CO129-360 - Public Offices - 1909", "content_text": "# [This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government]\n\nC:O.\n\n2\n\nThe Japanese, at the time they took over the mine, required coal for the use of their army, so the first work they did was such as would give the largest amount of coal in the shortest time, sinking shafts at the edge of the field where the coal is nearest the surface. Now that the immediate press for coal is over, they have settled down to develop the mines, and when ready will take out large quantities per day. The field is, I gathered, one of the thickest in the world, there being nearly 60 yards of coal in seams of varying thickness, divided by layers of black shale a few inches thick. I do not know the exact extent of the field, but the eastern and western pits are about 4 miles apart and the width I should put at half a mile, but it is very likely more.\n\nLast year, I was told, there were only two or three houses in the place; now a new town has sprung up, consisting of offices, engineers' quarters, school, hospital, blocks of dwelling-houses, &c., in addition to the buildings necessary for the running of the mines. These are all good buildings of brick, stone, and cement, and from the arrangement of them, it would appear as if many more buildings were contemplated. Public gardens are also to be made, and everything seems to be done to make the life of the employees as agreeable as possible. The whole place is heated with steam, generated in two centres and carried through pipes on trestles all over the town; the waste of steam due to this system must be very great.\n\nIn the vicinity of the mine is the usual cluster of Japanese shops, &c.; there is also a Chinese village.\n\nTwo new main shafts, to be called Togo and Oyama, are now being sunk; one is down about 300 feet, the other has only just been started; the sinking is through green shale—a rock easy to work—and is proceeding at the rate of 3 or 4 feet a-day. It is expected that the shafts must be about 1,400 feet deep to reach the bottom of the coal. Both shafts are circular, brick-lined, and about 20 feet in diameter.\n\nA large electric-light plant is being installed; Parsons' turbines and dynamos are being used, American switch-boards, Badcock and Willcocks' water-tube boilers. Here, from the size of the building, I should judge that there is an intention to enlarge the plant in the future.\n\nI was down one of the old shafts. The work being done at present is simply preparing for large deliveries in the future; the coal now being mined and sent away is only that taken from the tunnels which will be used in the future to take the coal along. There are several old shafts, and probably the same thing is being done in them, but I did not go over them.\n\nThe main impressions left on my mind were the size of the seam, the large quantity of the work done and proposed, the excellent quality and up-to-dateness of the same, and the methodical way everything is being done. This all points to work under ownership that can afford to wait for years for any return on capital; but it is a method that will eventually take away every available ounce of coal, a method that belongs to Government, not to private enterprise.\n\nThe amount of time and money spent on appearance seemed to me unnecessarily large, the buildings being of the kind one expects to find in or near a large town, not in a colliery far from everywhere.\n\nThe coal is good-quality coal, and a very large percentage will be mined as lump. All the miners and rough workers are at present Chinese, under Japanese supervision. All skilled work was being carried out by Japanese, of whom there are about 1,000 in the district.\n\nI was greatly impressed by Mr. Masuda, the head of the concern; he is, I believe, the first man on coal in Japan, has studied abroad, and is a member of the British Institute of Mines and Metallurgy. Starting on a new field, he has everything in his favour, and in method of mining and plant he is using the accumulated knowledge and experience of the world. He has taken advantage of the fact that he can lay out his town, and not have to improve and enlarge what already exists. He has perhaps erred in having his offices too far apart, but this the telephone rectifies to a great extent.\n\nI hope from the above you will gather something of the value of the mines that Japan has acquired, a value that she seems to appreciate, and is doing her best to turn to her national advantage.\n\nYours sincerely, \n(Signed) \nEVORY C. A. DUNN, \n**AFFAIRS OF CHINA** \n**CONFIDENTIAL** \n`[1016]`\n\n## No. 1\n## Sir Edward Grey to Sir J. Jordan.\n\nJanuary 16 \n5944 \n396 \n`SECTION REG 18 FEE 09`\n\n**(No. 19.) Sir,** \nForeign Office, January 16, 1909. \nI HAVE received your despatch No. 529 of the 25th November, 1908, inclosing a copy of a despatch from the Governor of Hong Kong respecting the riot which occurred in the Colony on the 1st and 2nd November as a demonstration on the part of the Chinese Society at Canton, which is responsible for the boycott of Japanese goods in South China.\n\nI approve the terms of the note which you addressed to Prince Ch'ing on the 24th November, 1908, drawing the attention of the Chinese Government to the occurrence, and requesting that the responsible agents of the Society in question may be severely punished.\n\n`[2116 9-1]`\n\nI am, &c. \n(Signed) \nE. GREY.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-360 - Public Offices - 1909.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 425144, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-366 - Governor Sir Lugard Acting Governor May - 1910 [4-5]", "page_number": 169, "title": "CO129-366 - Governor Sir Lugard Acting Governor May - 1910 [4-5]", "content_text": "## \n\nMr Collies. \n\n2174 \n\nMr Stubbs has represented to us that the filling of this vacancy is so urgent as to not allow of our submitting to the Pati-Com: an exhaustive list of possible candidates from all the Colonies. I therefore copied your circular to the P.W. officers in the Straits, & Ceylon. Its officers just on leave, Wishart of the higenia, of Cyprus, of Tours of the Straits & Churchill, Groveoch, Creaty & Macgregor of Ceylon. Amongst these we find one who is shown to possess or have had much experience of municipal works, with the possible exception of Turner Juft of Works & Surveys Singapore. He is on a salary of £600-£720 a year, & Mr Stubbs has drawn attention to the fact that the Storiete Civil List shows that he obtained \"Advanced Building Construction, S. Kensington...\" \n\nBut, despite the fact that the lithographie with the Govt makes it clear that he is not anxious to promote anyone in the Colony & would like a Director appointed from outside, I feel bound to call your attention to the papers of Mr Hrugkung. His papers (38863) show that he is a \"First Class Honours Medallist; Building Construction & Design S. Kensington May 1896, & became Associate R.I.B.A. Architects 1899. It also certifies a formidable list of buildings of which he had had charge. He was for five & a half years managing Assistant to Seddon & Co, Finsbury Square E.C, before joining the public service, or Sir H. Nathan, in 1906, reported him to be \"a capable & hardworking officer.\" \n\nHis report for 1908 states principally that \"His training & experience have been of an architectural nature, but I consider him capable of undertaking any of the ordinary work of engineering such as a municipality of moderate size. He is thoroughly qualified & a hard worker.” \n\nThe last Confidential Report, just received, describes him as an architect. In it, Jones reports that he is \"an exceedingly clever member of his profession in construction. He is very careful & a good architect, knowing I think in the matter of his work... & would be a loss to their department if removed\" \n\n- I infer from the above that Mr Fisher possesses very much the sort of qualifications which are required; but perhaps it would be awkward to promote him...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-366 - Governor Sir Lugard Acting Governor May - 1910 [4-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 425866, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-367 - Acting Governor May - 1910 [6-7]", "page_number": 236, "title": "CO129-367 - Acting Governor May - 1910 [6-7]", "content_text": "top Y.\n\nC O\n\n22500\n\n234\n\nRece Rece 22 JUL 10!\n\nHon. Colonial Secretary,\n\nThe claim of the Army Council is not merely not within the letter of the Circulars of 1890 and 1894, as is admitted, but is directly contrary to the letter and opposed to the spirit of these documents.\n\nTo ascertain the meaning of a document with reference to circumstances which have arisen, it is necessary to consider the document as a whole and not to confine the attention to isolated words and phrases. The arguments put forward on behalf of the Army Council are based solely on the passages which refer to the Defence fund of the Colony and their acceptance will involve a departure from the scheme laid down in the Circulars in the case of lands purchased before 1890 to the serious detriment of the Colony.\n\nIn the Circulars three categories of lands are referred to (1) lands obtained direct from the Colonial Government without payment before 1890 (2) lands purchased and paid for before 1890 (3) lands acquired since 1890.\n\nThe object of the scheme laid down in the Circulars is clearly stated to be twofold viz.:- to secure (1) Military efficiency (2) the interests of the Colony. V. par. 2, Circular 1890. The general object is further explained in paragraphs 6 and 7 Circular 1890 to be a fair division of expenses of Military Lands between the Imperial and Colonial Government by allowing the Colonial Government to have the use of the value of surrendered lands and buildings until land of an equivalent value is required by the Imperial Government.\n\nIt is obvious that the authors of the Circulars had in mind the fact that the value of land varies from time to time and that Colonial Governments might be at times called upon to give for Military purposes very valuable lands (v. par. 7 Circular 1890) and accordingly gave the lands and buildings not immediately or prospectively wanted for Military purposes to the Colonial Government without any deduction for monies", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-367 - Acting Governor May - 1910 [6-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 428049, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-370 - Governor Sir Lugard & Public Offices - 1910 [12]", "page_number": 597, "title": "CO129-370 - Governor Sir Lugard & Public Offices - 1910 [12]", "content_text": "The Spring Gardens property belonged to the front hat to a private person for 999 years at a certain £150 per annum. In 1857 the property was purchased by the War Department and exempted from the ground rent while it remained the property of the War Department.\n\nIn 1890 the W.O. and C.D., or Navy agreed on a memorandum on the disposal of Col. Military Crown Lands Buildings, in which it was provided that \"when military land other than met... has been purchased and paid for by the Imperial Government for military purposes\" it should be transferred to the Colonial Government under certain conditions: and when lands have been purchased and are no longer required for military purposes, they should be transferred to the Imperial Revenues.\n\nA further circular in 1894 defined \"military land and buildings\" as \"Land held in fee simple by the Crown and which is represented by the Col. Secty. Intly. with which the War Dept. has a right of perpetual user for purposes of defence, and the buildings on such land.\"\n\nIn 1894 the War Department purchased from Mr. Indlay Lunth property subject to Crown Rent and claimed that it should not be liable to pay quit rent. The Governor, Fort Robinson, urged that according to the circulars, he would audit and have taken for it on behalf of the Colony to the Military Land Account. The W.O. consented that \"if it be considered (and is the land required by the Dept. permanently, it would have practically the same effect) to capitalize the rent at 25 years purchase and enter this in the account.\" Mr. Chamberlain agreed.\n\nThe W.D. property, if disposed of by the W.O., the capitalized Crown Rent would then appear to them with the Land Account. Stewart observed that this transaction took place after the circulars had been sent out.\n\nThe Tring Sanders case differs in that the purchase was made and the rent waived many years before the procedure counted by the circulars was established.\n\nThe W.O. urged that by the waiving of the rent, The Col. Secty. (a) secured a right of perpetual user.\n\nPage information is not present in this text, but if it were, it would be kept as is, with the exact six lines as scanned.\n\n \n Some minor formatting was done to improve readability.\n\n was removed as per rule 12. \n\nHere is the revised version in HTML format as requested:\n\nThe Spring Gardens property belonged to the front hat to a private person for 999 years at a certain £150 per annum. In 1857 the property was purchased by the War Department and exempted from the ground rent while it remained the property of the War Department.\n\nIn 1890 the W.O. and C.D., or Navy agreed on a memorandum on the disposal of Col. Military Crown Lands Buildings, in which it was provided that \"when military land other than met... has been purchased and paid for by the Imperial Government for military purposes\" it should be transferred to the Colonial Government under certain conditions: and when lands have been purchased and are no longer required for military purposes, they should be transferred to the Imperial Revenues.\n\nA further circular in 1894 defined \"military land and buildings\" as \"Land held in fee simple by the Crown and which is represented by the Col. Secty. Intly. with which the War Dept. has a right of perpetual user for purposes of defence, and the buildings on such land.\"\n\nIn 1894 the War Department purchased from Mr. Indlay Lunth property subject to Crown Rent and claimed that it should not be liable to pay quit rent. The Governor, Fort Robinson, urged that according to the circulars, he would audit and have taken for it on behalf of the Colony to the Military Land Account. The W.O. consented that \"if it be considered (and is the land required by the Dept. permanently, it would have practically the same effect) to capitalize the rent at 25 years purchase and enter this in the account.\" Mr. Chamberlain agreed.\n\nThe W.D. property, if disposed of by the W.O., the capitalized Crown Rent would then appear to them with the Land Account. Stewart observed that this transaction took place after the circulars had been sent out.\n\nThe Tring Sanders case differs in that the purchase was made and the rent waived many years before the procedure counted by the circulars was established.\n\nThe W.O. urged that by the waiving of the rent, The Col. Secty. (a) secured a right of perpetual user.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-370 - Governor Sir Lugard & Public Offices - 1910 [12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 428054, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-370 - Governor Sir Lugard & Public Offices - 1910 [12]", "page_number": 602, "title": "CO129-370 - Governor Sir Lugard & Public Offices - 1910 [12]", "content_text": "(1300). Wt. 29,024 -25. 6000. 11/03. A.& E. W. (12,528).,, 11,407-17.\n\n7/09.\n\nAny further communication on this subject should be addressed to--\n\nThe Secretary,\n\nWar Office,\n\nand the following number quoted.\n\n594\n\n7255\n\nLoudon, S.W.,\n\nRE2 RESS | MAR 10!\n\nWar Office,\n\nHong Kong 8/63.\n\n(L.B.)\n\nLondon, S.W.\n\nSir,\n\n10th March, 1910.\n\nI am commanded by the Army Council to acquaint\n\nyou that they have had under their consideration the\n\ndespatch of the 19th November last from Sir F.D.Lugard,\n\nwith regard to the Crown Rent on Spring Gardens,\n\nforwarded with Mr. Bertram Cox's letter of the 1st\n\nJanuary last, No. 41369/1909, and to request that you\n\nwill lay before the Earl of Crewe the following remarks\n\nthereon.\n\n2. In paragraph 4 of his despatch, Sir F.D.Lugard\n\nobserves that paragraph 5 of the Memorandum enclosed with\n\nthe Colonial Office circular of 9th June 1890 expressly\n\nexcepts lands and buildings \"purchased and paid for by\n\nthe Imperial Government\". I am to observe that the\n\ncontention of the Army Council in this case is that the\n\nWar Department should receive credit in the Colonial\n\nMilitary Lands Account in respect of the Crown Rent only,\n\nwhich, not having been purchased by the Imperial\n\nGovernment, is not affected by the paragraph quoted.\n\n3. The Governor then proceeds to define Colonial\n\nMilitary\n\nThe Under Secretary of State,\n\nColonial Office,\n\nLondon,\n\nS.W.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-370 - Governor Sir Lugard & Public Offices - 1910 [12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 428217, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-371 - Public Offices - 1910", "page_number": 142, "title": "CO129-371 - Public Offices - 1910", "content_text": "The friendly and impartial proper interests of the merchants of the various Powers, interest, which various Powers have shown towards this question is highly appreciated by China.\n\nHowever, in the 9th moon of this year (October) the Russian Minister, M. Korostovetz, forwarded a copy of a notification which had been published by his Government. An examination of this document showed that it contained not only many misinterpretations of the meaning of the original agreement with the Chinese Eastern Railway Company, but that also it was at variance with the main points of the recent agreement respecting municipalities. Moreover, it contravened the spirit of the treaty concluded in America between Japan and Russia. The Chinese Government therefore cannot but criticise it point by point.\n\nThe Board accordingly have prepared a circular for communication to the representatives of the Powers in Peking and have also replied to the Russian Minister.\n\nI have the honour therefore to transmit a copy of this circular for your Excellency's information, and would request that it may be communicated to His Majesty's Government,\n\nI avail, &c.\n\n(Translation.)\n\nEnclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\nPrince CHING.\n\nCircular addressed to Foreign Representatives by Wai-wu Pu.\n\nTHE Board has received a note from the Russian Minister, M. Korostovetz, as follows:--\n\nRecently several Governments have adversely criticised the preliminary agreement drawn up between China and Russia on the question of the establishment of municipalities in the railway territory as seeming to infringe the extra-territorial rights enjoyed by the subjects of all nations. The Russian Foreign Office has now published a special notification enumerating the privileges enjoyed by the subjects of all nations residing in the railway territory in Manchuria and at the same time stating the meaning of the rights which they possess under international law. Further, I have the honour to forward a copy of the notification in question.”\n\nOn examination, the Board find that the contents of this notification are of such a nature that the Chinese Government cannot possibly recognise them, and therefore they put forward the following detailed explanation and criticism.\n\nThe Russian notification states- The trading marts opened by China are not on the same footing as the territory belonging to the Chinese Eastern Railway. The lands of the Chinese Eastern Railway are governed by article 6 of the agreement and the railway company have absolute powers of administration within the territory it occupies.\" Subsequently the notification again explains--\"That the preliminary agreement on the question of municipalities greatly strengthens and extends the rights conceded by the original agreement, and that after the conclusion of the two agreements the Chinese Government had conceded to the railway company her sovereign rights of control within the railway territory. The proceedings of the company within their territory resemble those of a private tenant, and there is a reason for any administrative powers which they may wield.”\n\nThe notification further states-\"When the Japanese and Russian plenipotentiaries were discussing the peace treaty, a statement was published to the effect that the Chinese Eastern Railway Company, which had territory given to it during construction, could not be put on a footing of comparison with the treaty ports which But that within the had been opened, and would not be treated on the same terms. limits of the occupied territory Japanese subjects and the subjects of the other great Examination therefore Powers would enjoy the same rights as Russian subjects.\n\nplainly shows that the only obligation resting on the Russian Government is to permit foreigners to enjoy their public rights and to take some part in the machinery of the administration.\n\nThe Board has carefully examined the contents of this notification, and its meaning is simply this, that within the territories of the Chinese Eastern Railway Russia Moreover, possesses the powers of carrying on the administration of those districts.\n\nthe two agreements as well as the declaration made by the Japanese and Russian plenipotentiaries are relied on in proof of this. The Russian Government cannot know the additions and misinterpretations made in these agreements, their number being incalculable. The Chinese Government, in reply to the clauses quoted above, have an extremely strong case to present on their side, and they beg to clearly set it down point by point.\n\nIn the first clause of the Chinese Eastern Railway agreement it is stated that the Chinese Government will establish a business in partnership with the Russo-Chinese Bank. The words to establish a business in partnership clearly denote that the business is of a commercial nature, and therefore the rights of administering the Government must not be encroached upon. The first clause states this very clearly, and there is no possible room for doubt. However, the Russian Government quote article 6 of the above agreement, in proof of their statement that the expression \"under the sole management of the company\" means absolute power of administra-tion. They seem not to know that below the words \"sole management\" it is explained clearly that the company may erect any buildings and carry on all kinds of work, and further, that they may establish a telegraph line, to be worked by the company, especially for the use of the railway, &c. Therefore, the places over which they have powers of management are those lands which the agreement points out as being required for railway work. But as regards the limit of the company's powers of management, they must not go beyond matters which the railway can properly undertake. Their powers of absolute management stop here, and they certainly must not transfer them into the field of administration. To our surprise, the Russian Government actually connect the two, and assert that the 6th article of the agreement gives absolute power of administration, and, although the Board has for years argued the question, yet they still hold to their statement, which is a great mistake on their part. The Chinese Government cannot accept this point of view.\n\nAgain, on the 10th May, 1909, China and Russia concluded an arrangement for establishing municipalities in the railway territories in Manchuria, and in the 1st article down to the 5th article it was distinctly stated that there was no idea of infringing China's sovereign rights in the railway territory. It was thus evident that in the railway territory, as regards the actual administration, China still preserved her rights. But the Russian notification, on the other hand, asserts that this arrangement greatly strengthens and extends the rights conceded by the former agreement. One does not know how they arrive at this conclusion! How can it be said that China's sovereign rights have not suffered any infringement when Russia obtains special powers of administration? This is another point to which the Chinese Government cannot consent. Again, in 1905 Russia and Japan concluded a treaty in America, article 3 of which states that the Russian and Japanese Governments would hand back in toto to China her exclusive sovereign rights of government over the whole of Manchuria. Farther, the Russian Government has declared that she has obtained no territorial advantages in Manchuria, nor does she hold any preferential or exclusive concessions which infringe China's sovereign rights or are at variance with the principle of equal opportunity for all (i.e., open door). Russia says, in toto, \"the whole of Manchuria,' complete sovereignty,\" \"no territorial advantages infringing China's sovereign rights.\"\n\nHow, then, can she insist on her interpretation of a commercial agreement. Besides, how can she quote as evidence a published statement which has never been recognised by China, and turn round and ignore the solemn treaty made between the two countries. This is another point to which the Chinese Government cannot consent. A consideration of the above points will show that the evidence quoted by the Russian Government are merely additions which she has insisted on making to support the statement on her side of the case. The Board has explained matters with great clearness, as they considered that the Governments of the Powers would thus be better able to fully understand all the circumstances of the case.\n\nAgain in article 5 of the Chinese Eastern Railway agreement it is stated that the Chinese Government will take measures for the protection of the line and of the men employed thereon. Again, it states that all crimes and lawsuits arising on the railway land will be dealt with by the local officials in accordance with the treaty. Thus the sovereign rights of affording protection and keeping the peace entirely belong to China. There is no room for any doubt which could lead to misunder-standing on this point. The railway lands, then, in Manchuria are entirely Chinese territory, and there is the clearest proof of this which cannot be shaken.\n\nB 2 [2605 c-8]\n\nit is\n\n140", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-371 - Public Offices - 1910.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 428878, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-372 - Public Offices - 1910", "page_number": 219, "title": "CO129-372 - Public Offices - 1910", "content_text": "6\n\nMr. Cooke's house, just behind the consulate, and from there proceeded to the Roman Catholic Mission, an enormous property, which they burnt out completely.\n\nBeing informed by Messrs. Butterfield and Swire's agent that it had been determined to fire on the two steamers from the city wall, from which they were well within range, I considered it advisable to drop about 1 mile downstream. We did this, and during the night the steam-ship \"Kian\" arrived and anchored beside us.\n\nBetween 6:30 P.M. of the 14th and 4 A.M. of the 15th all the property on the river front was destroyed, including the godowns and hulks of Messrs. Butterfield and Swire and of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson, and Co., and also the customs-house. The work, I am told by eye-witnesses, was performed by at most twenty men, all the others being onlookers, and no attempt was made to stop it. The Japanese property, which is largely financed by Hunanese, was left untouched. During the night the Japanese consul and his staff, together with other Japanese, escaped via their hulk, where troops were stationed, to Chinese boats, but waited till next day to join their steamer which was anchored near me.\n\nOn the 15th April at 3:30 A.M. a fire-boat passed the steam-ship \"Siangtan.\" The boat had obviously been filled with oil and was burning brightly; but it passed nowhere near the ship, and no other came.\n\nAt about 10 A.M. the Commissioner of Customs and his staff went up in the launch to see the damage done to the customs buildings and to guard their property on the island. Their arrival was the signal for the burning of the hotel, kept by a Chinaman, in which some of the members of the outdoor staff lived. It was not very long before I got a letter and a personal message from the treasurer that their presence was exciting the people, and that he would protect all property if I would persuade them to leave. I consequently urged Mr. Wakefield to retire, and as he had received a letter from the treasurer to say his property would be kept intact, he finally consented to abandon his position.\n\nAs the Chinese passengers on the \"Siangtan\" declared they would create a disturbance if we did not leave, and about the same time I received positive information from the river guard-boats and Captain Agassiz from the compradore of the firm that an organised attack on the steamers had been prepared, oil-boats and hand-grenades having been seen, and that all property having been destroyed they were the next objective, I felt, in view of all that had happened, that this warning could not be disregarded, and decided to move about 12 miles down out of sight of, though within touch of, the city. The Japanese consul not only endorsed this view, but stated, through his vice-consul, that it was not a riot but a revolution, and that he intended to go straight to Hankow whatever my course might be.\n\nOn the 16th April at 5 A.M. he left, and at 8 A.M. I sent the steam-ship \"Siangtan\" to Hankow, retaining in the steam-ship \"Kian\" a few who wished to return to Changsha.\n\nOn the 15th I had sent the launch to Siangtan, from which place I had received bad news, to give the residents the chance of reaching Changsha. They arrived on the night of the 16th, and I sent them to Yochou on the morning of the 17th under escort of Mr. Wrench and Mr. Morgan, as we were told there were riots at Siangyin and Chinkong, two places en route.\n\nMessrs. Wrench and Morgan met His Majesty's ship \"Thistle\" and returned with her. She arrived at the steam-ship \"Kian\" at 2:30 P.M., and I at once proceeded to Changsha.\n\nI refused to see the Customs taotai, who immediately came to call, giving as my reason that I would only see the highest authority in the province. Besides, as I was anxious to secure his removal as the first step to a settlement, I did not wish him to think that I in any way thought he was friendly. The same evening His Majesty's ship \"Nightingale\" arrived in port.\n\n**\n\nOn the 19th April the treasurer came to call with Mr. Kwok, the Customs taotai, Taotai Lu (Governor Ta'en's French secretary), and a certain Hu taotai. The treasurer assured me most emphatically that he could afford protection, and asked me to give him the names of those who wished to enter the city, in order that the Customs taotai might see to residences for them.\n\nDuring the interview the treasurer asked me if I had heard that \"Ch'uan-fei\" (the regular term for Boxers) were concerned in the trouble. I replied that I had not.\n\nAt about 2 P.M. I informed all that they could return into the city, and His Majesty's ship \"Thistle\" left for Chinkong. She had not been gone for half an hour when I was informed by the river guard-boats that the city was placarded with notices: \"Slay Ts'en and oust the foreigner.\" A copy of this placard was also given me by Mr. Wakefield. I thereupon sent for Mr. Kwok, and finally urged him to tell the truth for once. He stated that the interview in the morning was meaningless, as the treasurer had to speak as he did before the Customs taotai, and that protection could not be afforded. I was also visited by the commandant of the guard-boats and his second in command, who told me just the same. I therefore told Mr. Kwok to return to the treasurer and to obtain from him a definite assurance as to affording protection, telling him that, if this could not be given, he should get the few foreigners in the city out as quietly as possible, and giving him a circular to show them as proof. The treasurer then told Mr. Kwok to get foreigners out, and wrote to me that he could not provide against any untoward event, and that the idea that foreigners should not be in the city should be followed out.\n\nThereupon I wrote a note to the captain of His Majesty's ship \"Thistle\" and sent it by my launch. The launch returned with an armed party at 3:30 A.M. on the morning of the 20th and was soon followed by His Majesty's ship \"Thistle.\" A most earnest appeal was then made to me by the guard-boatmen to send away all foreigners. I sent those who had really nothing to do in the steam-ship \"Kian\" and kept an efficient number of good reliable working members of the community. That evening, the American consul at Hankow having telegraphed to me to order all his citizens out of Hunan, I sent launches to Siangtan and to Changtê to give foreigners the chance of coming to Changsha if they wished.\n\nThroughout the 21st April I was constantly interviewed by Chinese officers, including the president of the polytechnic (referred to in my intelligence report for the December quarter 1909, p. 12).\n\nThe\n\nI sent an armed launch, in charge of a warrant officer of His Majesty's ship \"Thistle,\" to get the people out of Iyang from which we had bad rumours. The journey was a complete success, all the women and children leaving and three men remaining. This evening reports came to me that two parties of rowdies armed with knives had crossed to the island, one to each end. The guard-boatmen and the troops were fully posted as to their movements and begged me to give them the chance of proving that they would fire, and asked some of the foreigners to join them in the defence. I was not, however, at this stage prepared to risk any lives and everyone was brought to His Majesty's ship \"Thistle.\" The preparations made were so effective that nothing occurred, and after about three hours all returned to their boats and the houses on the island. The rumour was verified next day.\n\nOn the 24th April the new governor arrived escorted by three gun-boats, making a most imposing entry. The events subsequent to his arrival and my suggestions regarding the due apportionment of blame for the outbreak will form the subject of separate despatches.\n\n\"\n\nI have, &c.\n\nEnclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\nW. MEYRICK HEWLETT.\n\nExtract from the \"North China Daily News\" of April 25, 1910.\n\nTHE CHANGSHA RIOTS.\n\nTHROUGH Reuter's Agency we have received the following intelligence :-\n\n\"London, via Bombay, April 23, 1910. \"Despatches from Washington state that the United States Minister at Peking, Mr. W. J. Calhoun, has telegraphed that he fears that the trouble in Hunan is spreading. The United States Asiatic fleet has been ordered to leave Amoy, to assist if necessary.\"\n\n\"London, via Bombay, April 24, 1910. \"The British chargé d'affaires in Peking has telegraphed to the Foreign Office to the effect that organised hands have resumed rioting at Changsha, and all foreigners have taken refuge in two British vessels.\"\n\nFrom subsequent news received from Changsha it would appear that the rioting referred to in the above telegram either did not take place or was not of a serious\n\n7", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-372 - Public Offices - 1910.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 431149, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-376 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [3-4]", "page_number": 331, "title": "CO129-376 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [3-4]", "content_text": "## Commissions and Discounts\n\n91.-(1) It shall be lawful for a company to pay a commission to any person in consideration of his subscribing or agreeing to subscribe, whether absolutely or conditionally, for any shares in the company, or procuring or agreeing to procure subscriptions, whether absolute or conditional, for any shares in the company, if the payment of the commission is authorised by the articles, and the commission paid or agreed to be paid does not exceed the amount or rate authorised, and if the amount or rate per cent, of the commission paid or agreed to be paid is-\n\n(a) In the cases of shares offered to the public for subscription, disclosed in the prospectus; or\n\n(b) In the case of shares not offered to the public for subscription, disclosed in the statement in lieu of prospectus, or in a statement in the prescribed form signed in like manner as a statement in lieu of prospectus and filed with the registrar of companies, and, where a circular or notice, not being a prospectus, inviting subscriptions for the shares is issued, also disclosed in that circular or notice.\n\n(2) Save as aforesaid, no company shall apply any of its shares or capital money either directly or indirectly in payment of any commission, discount, or allowance, to any person in consideration of his subscribing or agreeing to subscribe, whether absolutely or conditionally, for any shares of the company, or procuring or agreeing to procure subscriptions, whether absolute or conditional, for any shares in the company, whether the shares or money be so applied by being added to the purchase money of any property acquired by the company or to the contract price of any work to be executed for the company, or the money be paid out of the nominal purchase money or contract price, or otherwise.\n\n(3) Nothing in this section shall affect the power of any company to pay such brokerage as it has heretofore been lawful for a company to pay, and a vendor to, promoter of, or other person who receives payment in money or shares from, a company shall have and shall be deemed always to have had power to apply any part of the money or shares so received in payment of any commission, the payment of which, if made directly by the company, would have been legal under this section.\n\n## Statement in Balance Sheet as to Commissions and Discounts\n\n92. Where a company has paid any sums by way of commission in respect of any shares or debentures, or allowed any sums by way of discount in respect of any debentures, the total amount so paid or allowed, or so much thereof as has not been written off, shall be stated in every balance sheet of the company until the whole amount thereof has been written off.\n\n## Payment of Interest out of Capital\n\n93. Where any shares of a company are issued for the purpose of raising money to defray the expenses of the construction of any works or buildings or the provision of any plant which cannot be made profitable for a lengthened period, the company may pay interest on so much of that share capital as is for the time being paid up for the period and subject to the renditions and restrictions in this section mentioned, and may charge the same to capital as part of the cost of construction of the work or building, or the provision of plant:\n\nProvided that-\n\n(1) No such payment shall be made unless the same is authorised by the articles or by special resolution:\n\n(2) No such payment, whether authorised by the articles or by special resolution, shall be made without the previous sanction of the court:\n\n(3) Before sanctioning any such payment the court may, at the expense of the company, appoint a person to inquire and report to them as to the circumstances of the case, and may, before making the appointment, require the company to give security for payment of the costs of the inquiry:\n\n(4) The payment shall be made only for such period as may be determined by the court; and such period shall in no case extend beyond the close of the half year next after the half year during which the works or buildings have been actually completed or the plant provided:\n\n(5) The rate of interest shall in no case exceed six per cent. per annum or such lower rate as may for the time being be prescribed by the court:\n\n(6) The payment of the interest shall not operate as a reduction of the amount paid up on the shares in respect of which it is paid:\n\n(7) The accounts of the company shall show the share capital on which, and the rate at which, interest has been paid out of capital during the period to which the accounts relate.\n\n## Certificates of Shares, &c.\n\n94.-(1) Every company shall, within two months after the allotment of any of its shares, debentures, or debenture stock, and within two months after the registration of the transfer of any such shares, debentures, or debenture stock, complete and have ready for delivery the certificates of all shares, debentures, and the certificates of all debenture stock allotted or transferred, unless the conditions of issue of the shares, debentures, or debenture stock otherwise provide.\n\n(2) If default is made in complying with the requirements of this section, the company, and every director, manager, secretary, and other officer of the company who is knowingly a party to the default, shall be liable to a fine not exceeding fifty dollars for every day during which the default continues.\n\n## Information as to Mortgages, Charges, &c.\n\n95.-(1) Every mortgage or charge created after the day of 19 by a company registered in the Colony and being either-\n\n(a) a mortgage or charge for the purpose of securing any issue of debentures; or\n\n(b) a mortgage or charge on uncalled share capital of the company; or\n\n(c) a mortgage or charge created or evidenced by an instrument which, if executed by an individual, would require registration as a bill of sale; or\n\n(d) a mortgage or charge on any land, wherever situate, or any interest therein; or\n\n(e) a mortgage or charge on any book debts of the company; or\n\n(f) a floating charge on the undertaking or property of the company,\n\nshall, so far as any security on the company's property or undertaking is thereby conferred, be void against the liquidator and any creditor of the company, unless the prescribed particulars of the mortgage or charge, together with the instrument (if any) by which the mortgage or charge is created or evidenced, are delivered to or received by the registrar of companies for registration in manner required by this Ordinance within five weeks after the date of its creation but without prejudice to any contract or obligation for repayment of the money thereby secured, and when a mortgage or charge becomes void under this section the money secured thereby shall immediately become payable:\n\nProvided that-\n\n(i) In the case of a mortgage or charge created out of the Colony comprising solely property situate outside the Colony, the delivery to and the receipt by the registrar of a copy of the instrument by which the mortgage or charge is...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-376 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [3-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 431192, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-376 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [3-4]", "page_number": 374, "title": "CO129-376 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [3-4]", "content_text": "# Commencement of Business, Allotment, Commissions and Discounts, Payment of Interest out of Capital, Information as to Mortgages, Charges, etc., Auditors\n\n## Commencement of Business\n\nA company shall not commence any business or exercise any borrowing powers unless: \n- (a) Cash shares have been allotted up to the minimum subscription; and\n- (b) Every director has paid on his cash shares the same amount as the public have to pay on their shares on application and allotment; and\n- (c) A statutory declaration by the secretary that the above conditions have been complied with has been filed with the registrar of companies; and\n- (d) In the case of a company which does not issue a prospectus, there has been filed with the registrar of companies a statement in lieu of prospectus.\n\nNo contract is binding until the date on which the company is entitled to commence business. If the company commences business in contravention of these provisions, every person who is responsible for the contravention is liable to a fine of $500 a day. These provisions were first introduced in the United Kingdom by the Act of 1900. They are designed (1) to prevent business being begun on insufficient capital, and (2) to make directors take up their shares. Ordinance, Nil; Act, Section 87; Bill, Clause 88.\n\n## Allotment\n\nAs the law stands at present, the directors may go to allotment and commence business although only a very small portion of the capital has been applied for. The object of the provisions of the Act and Bill, which were first introduced in the United Kingdom by the Companies Act 1900, is to prevent allotments being made on insufficient applications, and business being commenced without a reasonable capital. The provisions are as follows:\n| Provision | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| (1) | No allotment can be made until a certain amount has been subscribed, and the amount payable on application has been actually paid. |\n| (2) | If the minimum subscription is not reached within 40 days from issue of the prospectus, all money received from applicants must be returned, and the directors are personally liable for its return. |\n| (3) | A return must be filed with the registrar of companies, giving the details of the allotment, and in particular as to shares issued as fully or partly paid up otherwise than in cash. If default is made in filing this return, the directors and officers are liable to a fine of $500 a day. |\n| (4) | An irregular allotment is voidable at the instance of the applicant within a certain period, and the directors are liable to compensate both the company and the allottee. |\n| (5) | A company shall not commence any business or exercise any borrowing powers unless the minimum amount has been allotted, and every director has actually paid to the company the proper amount on his own shares. Every person responsible for a contravention of this provision is liable to a fine of $500 a day. |\n\nOrdinance, Nil; Act, Sections 85 to 88; Bill, Clauses 86 to 89.\n\n## Commissions and Discounts\n\nAuthority is given to companies to pay commission on taking, underwriting, or placing shares, provided that the rate of commission paid is authorised by the articles and is disclosed in the prospectus, statement in lieu of prospectus, circular inviting shares, etc. Any other payment out of capital moneys by way of commissions, discount, or allowance for taking or placing of shares is expressly prohibited. This latter provision, which was introduced in the United Kingdom by the Companies Act 1900, was intended to stop the practice, formerly very common, of adding large amounts to the price payable to the vendors, who then arranged the underwriting, giving large blocks of shares to financiers, who guaranteed that sufficient shares should be taken to provide working capital.\n\nWhen a company has paid any sums by way of commission in respect of any shares or debentures, the total amount so paid must be stated in every balance sheet of the company until the whole amount has been written off. (Act of 1907.) Ordinance, Nil; Act, Sections 89, 90; Bill, Clauses 90, 91.\n\n## Payment of Interest out of Capital\n\nWhere shares are issued to raise money to defray the expense of constructing works, buildings, or plant, which cannot be made profitable for a lengthened period, the company may pay interest on the amount paid up, provided the payment is authorised by the articles or by special resolution, is sanctioned by the court, and does not exceed a certain rate. This provision was first introduced in the United Kingdom by the Companies Act 1907. Ordinance, Nil; Act, Section 91; Bill, Clause 92.\n\n## Information as to Mortgages, Charges, etc.\n\nThe Companies Ordinance 1865 requires every limited company under the Ordinance to keep a register of all mortgages and charges specifically affecting property of the company. The Bill continues this provision, and also provides that every mortgage or charge created after a certain date (in the United Kingdom, 9 months before the commencement of the Act), and falling within a certain defined and comprehensive class, shall, so far as any security on the company's property or undertaking is thereby conferred, be void against the liquidator and any creditor of the company, unless the prescribed particulars of the mortgage or charge are given, and the instrument by which the mortgage or charge is created or evidenced is produced, to the registrar of companies within five weeks after the date of its creation. It also provides that if a receiver or manager be appointed under any such instrument, notice of his appointment shall be given to the registrar of companies, and that such receiver or manager shall file with the registrar of companies accounts of his receipts and payments. The penalties for default are heavy. These provisions were introduced in the United Kingdom by the Companies Acts of 1900 and 1907.\n\nA floating charge created within 3 months of a winding up is made invalid unless it can be proved that the company was solvent immediately after the creation of the charge. Ordinance, Section 102; Act, Sections 93 to 102, 212; Bill, Clauses 94 to 103, 202.\n\n## Auditors\n\nAt present, there are no statutory provisions with regard to auditors, nor were there any in the United Kingdom prior to 1900. The Bill requires the company to appoint auditors, and provides that in case of default, the Governor may appoint them. Every auditor has a right of access at all times to the books and accounts and vouchers of the company, and is entitled to require from the directors and officers all necessary information and explanation. The auditors must make a report to the shareholders on the accounts examined by them, and on every balance sheet laid before the company during their tenure of office, and the report must state whether they have obtained all the information and explanations they have required, and also whether, in their opinion, the ... \n\nPage 122\nPage 123\n362 \n272", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-376 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [3-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 433858, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-381 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [11-12]", "page_number": 439, "title": "CO129-381 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [11-12]", "content_text": "# \n\n## Commencement of Business\n\nReturn as to allotments.\n\n8 Edw. 7 c. 69 s. 98.\n\n36\n\nProvided that in the case of a company which does not issue a prospectus inviting the public to subscribe for its shares the registrar shall not give such certificate unless a statement in lieu of a prospectus has been filed with him.\n\n(3) Any contract made by a company before the date at which it is entitled to commence business shall be provisional only, and shall not be binding on the company until that date, and on that date it shall become binding.\n\n(4) Nothing in this section shall prevent the simultaneous offer for subscription or allotment of any shares and debentures or the receipt of any money payable on application for debentures.\n\n(5) If any company commences business or exercises borrowing powers in contravention of this section, every person who is responsible for the contravention shall, without prejudice to any other liability, be liable to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars for every day during which the contravention continues.\n\n(6) Nothing in this section shall apply to a private company, or to a company registered before the date of the coming into operation of this Ordinance which does not issue a prospectus inviting the public to subscribe for its shares.\n\n## Return of Allotments\n\n90.-(1) Whenever a company limited by shares makes any allotment of its shares, the company shall within six weeks thereafter file with the `registrar of companies` \n| Column 1 | Column 2 |\n| --- | --- |\n| (a) | a return of the allotments, stating the number and nominal amount of the shares comprised in the allotment, the names, addresses, and descriptions of the allottees, and the amount (if any) paid or due and payable on each share; |\n| (b) | in the case of shares allotted as fully or partly paid up otherwise than in cash, a contract in writing constituting the title of the allottee to such allotment together with any contract of sale, or for services or other consideration in respect of which such allotment was made, such contracts being duly stamped, and a return stating the number and nominal amount of shares so allotted, the extent to which they are to be treated as paid up, and the consideration for which they have been allotted. |\n\n(2) Where such a contract as above mentioned is not reduced to writing, the company shall within one month after the allotment file with the `registrar of companies` the prescribed particulars of the contract stamped with the same stamp duty as would have been payable if the contract had been reduced to writing, and those particulars shall be deemed to be an instrument within the meaning of the `Stamp Ordinance, 1901`, or any Ordinance amending the same and the registrar may, as a condition of filing the particulars, require that the duty payable thereon be adjudicated under section 9 of that Ordinance.\n\n(3) If default is made in complying with the requirements of this section, every director, manager, secretary, or other officer of the company, who is knowingly a party to the default, shall be liable to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars for every day during which the default continues :\n\nProvided that, in case of default in filing with the `registrar of companies` within six weeks after the allotment any document required to be filed by this section, the company, or any person liable for the default, may apply to the court for relief, and the court, if satisfied that the omission to file the document was accidental or due to inadvertence or that it is just and equitable to grant relief, may make an order extending the time for the filing of the document for such period as the court may think proper.\n\n37\n\n## Commissions and Discounts\n\n91.—(1) It shall be lawful for a company to pay a commission to any person in consideration of his subscribing or agreeing to subscribe, whether absolutely or conditionally, for any shares in the company, or procuring or agreeing to procure subscriptions, whether absolute or conditional, for any shares in the company, if the payment of the commission is authorised by the articles, and the commission paid or agreed to be paid does not exceed the amount or rate so authorised, and if the amount or rate per cent. of the commission paid or agreed to be paid is-\n\n(a) In the case of shares offered to the public for subscription, disclosed in the prospectus; or\n\n(b) In the case of shares not offered to the public for subscription, disclosed in the statement in lieu of prospectus, or in a statement in the prescribed form signed in like manner as a statement in lieu of prospectus and filed with the `registrar of companies`, and, where a circular or notice, not being a prospectus, inviting subscriptions for the shares is issued, also disclosed in that circular or notice,\n\n(2) Save as aforesaid, no company shall apply any of its shares or capital money either directly or indirectly in payment of any commission, discount, or allowance, to any person in consideration of his subscribing or agreeing to subscribe, whether absolutely or conditionally, for any shares of the company, or procuring or agreeing to procure subscriptions, whether absolute or conditional, for any shares in the company, whether the shares or money be so applied by being added to the purchase money of any property acquired by the company or to the contract price of any work to be executed for the company, or the money be paid out of the nominal purchase money or contract price, or otherwise.\n\n(3) Nothing in this section shall affect the power of any company to pay such brokerage as it has heretofore been lawful for a company to pay, and a vendor to, promoter of, or other person who receives payment in money or shares from, a company shall have and shall be deemed always to have had power to apply any part of the money or shares so received in payment of any commission, the payment of which, if made directly by the company, would have been legal under this section.\n\n## Statement as to Commissions and Discounts in Balance Sheet\n\n92. Where a company has paid any sums by way of commission in respect of any shares or debentures, or allowed any sums by way of discount in respect of any debentures, the total amount so paid or allowed, or so much thereof as has not been written off, shall be separately stated in every balance sheet of the company until the whole amount thereof has been written off.\n\n## Payment of Interest out of Capital\n\n93. Where any shares of a company are issued for the purpose of raising money to defray the expenses of the construction of any works or buildings or the provision of any plant which cannot be made profitable for a lengthened period, the company may pay interest on so much of that share capital as is for the time being paid up for the period and subject to the conditions and restrictions in this section mentioned, and may charge the same to capital as part of the cost of construction of the work or building, or the provision of plant:\n\nProvided that-\n\n(1) No such payment shall be made unless the same is authorised by the articles or by special resolution:\n\n(2) No such payment, whether authorised by the articles or by special resolution, shall be made without the previous sanction of the court: \n\n(3) Before sanctioning any such payment the court may, at the expense of the company, appoint a person to inquire and report to them as to the circumstances of the case, and may, before making the appointment, require the company to give security for payment of the costs of the inquiry:", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-381 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 433903, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-381 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [11-12]", "page_number": 484, "title": "CO129-381 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [11-12]", "content_text": "## Commencement of Business\n\nA company shall not commence any business or exercise any borrowing powers unless:--\n \n(a) Cash shares have been allotted up to the minimum subscription; and\n(b) Every director has paid on his cash shares the same amount as the public have to pay on their shares on application and allotment; and\n(c) A statutory declaration by the secretary that the above conditions have been complied with has been filed with the registrar of companies; and\n(d) In the case of a company which does not issue a prospectus, there has been filed with the registrar of companies a statement in lieu of prospectus.\n\nNo contract is binding until the date on which the company is entitled to commence business. If the company commences business in contravention of these provisions, every person who is responsible for the contravention is liable to a fine of $500 a day. These provisions were first introduced in the United Kingdom by the Act of 1900. They are designed (1) to prevent business being begun on insufficient capital, and (2) to make directors take up their shares. Ordinance, Nil; Act, Section 87; Bill, Clause 88.\n\n## Allotment\n\nAs the law stands at present, the directors may go to allotment and commence business although only a very small portion of the capital has been applied for. The object of the provisions of the Act and Bill, which were first introduced in the United Kingdom by the Companies Act 1900, is to prevent allotments being made on insufficient applications, and business being commenced without a reasonable capital. The provisions are as follows:\n\n(1) No allotment can be made until a certain amount has been subscribed, and the amount payable on application has been actually paid.\n(2) If the minimum subscription is not reached within 40 days from issue of the prospectus, all money received from applicants must be returned, and the directors are personally liable for its return.\n(3) A return must be filed with the registrar of companies, giving the details of the allotment, and in particular as to shares issued as fully or partly paid up otherwise than in cash. If default is made in filing this return, the directors and officers are liable to a fine of $500 a day.\n(4) An irregular allotment is voidable at the instance of the applicant within a certain period, and the directors are liable to compensate both the company and the allottee.\n(5) A company shall not commence any business or exercise any borrowing powers unless the minimum amount has been allotted, and every director has actually paid to the company the proper amount on his own shares. Every person responsible for a contravention of this provision is liable to a fine of $500 a day. Ordinance, Nil; Act, Sections 85 to 88; Bill, Clauses 86 to 89.\n\n## Commissions and Discounts\n\nAuthority is given to companies to pay commission on taking, underwriting, or placing shares, provided that the rate of commission paid is authorised by the articles and is disclosed in the prospectus, statement in lieu of prospectus, circular inviting shares, etc. Any other payment out of capital moneys by way of commissions, discount, or allowance for taking or placing of shares is expressly prohibited. This latter provision, which was introduced in the United Kingdom by the Companies Act 1900, was intended to stop the practice, formerly very common, of adding large amounts to the price payable to the vendors, who then arranged the underwriting, giving large blocks of shares to financiers, who guaranteed that sufficient shares should be taken to provide working capital.\n\nWhen a company has paid any sums by way of commission in respect of any shares or debentures, the total amount so paid must be stated in every balance sheet of the company until the whole amount has been written off. (Act of 1907.) Ordinance, Nil; Act, Sections 89, 90; Bill, Clauses 90, 91.\n\n## Payment of Interest out of Capital\n\nWhere shares are issued to raise money to defray the expense of constructing works, buildings, or plant, which cannot be made profitable for a lengthened period, the company may pay interest on the amount paid up, provided the payment is authorised by the articles or by special resolution, is sanctioned by the court, and does not exceed a certain rate. This provision was first introduced in the United Kingdom by the Companies Act 1907. Ordinance, Nil; Act, Section 91; Bill, Clause 92.\n\n## Information as to Mortgages, Charges, etc.\n\nThe Companies Ordinance 1865 requires every listed company under the Ordinance to keep a register of all mortgages and charges specifically affecting property of the company. The Bill continues this provision, and also provides that every mortgage or charge created after a certain date (in the United Kingdom, 9 months before the commencement of the Act), and falling within a certain defined and comprehensive class, shall, so far as any security on the company's property or undertaking is thereby conferred, be void against the liquidator and any creditor of the company, unless the prescribed particulars of the mortgage or charge are given, and the instrument by which the mortgage or charge is created or evidenced is produced, to the registrar of companies within five weeks after the date of its creation. It also provides that if a receiver or manager be appointed under any such instrument, notice of his appointment shall be given to the registrar of companies, and that such receiver or manager shall file with the registrar of companies accounts of his receipts and payments. The penalties for default are heavy. These provisions were introduced in the United Kingdom by the Companies Acts of 1900 and 1907.\n\nA floating charge created within 3 months of a winding up is made invalid unless it can be proved that the company was solvent immediately after the creation of the charge. Ordinance, Section 102; Act, Sections 93 to 102, 212; Bill, Clauses 94 to 103, 202.\n\n## Auditors\n\nAt present, there are no statutory provisions with regard to auditors, nor were there any in the United Kingdom prior to 1900. The Bill requires the company to appoint auditors, and provides that in case of default, the Governor may appoint them. Every auditor has a right of access at all times to the books and accounts and vouchers of the company, and is entitled to require from the directors and officers all necessary information and explanation. The auditors must make a report to the shareholders on the accounts examined by them, and on every balance sheet laid before the company during their tenure of office, and the report must state whether they have obtained all the information and explanations they have required, and also whether, in their opinion, the ...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-381 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 437018, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-388 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1912 [1-2]", "page_number": 71, "title": "CO129-388 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1912 [1-2]", "content_text": "63\n\na manner as possible in order that the fact might become known. This he at once proceeded to do, and warned the foreign banks also. Mr Stabb informed me that it was estimated by some that as much as Taels 150,000,000 (£20,000,000) of specie and treasure was accumulated in the Shameen. He himself thought this a considerable exaggeration, but a great quantity of jewels and valuables had been stored by Chinese in charge of the banks and their value was unknown.\n\n6.\n\nThe General discussed the matter with me; as \"General Officer Commanding, South China\" he had made it his business to study the question of the defence of the Shameen, and he had prepared a carefully thought-out scheme. The defence presents very great difficulties owing to the fact that the island is circular, and no enfilading fire is therefore possible. It is separated from the dense mass of buildings which form the adjacent part of Canton only by a narrow inlet or canal which in part is fordable at low water and in part is choked up with small craft across which an enemy could run; moreover, perhaps the most vulnerable side consists of the French concession, the defence of which rests with the French Consul who acts wholly independently. The British Consul General also appeared much averse to any increase in the garrison alleging that there was no space whatever available for the troops.\n\nI suggested to the General the immediate necessity of a wire fence and entanglement to check a rush, and he told me he had already had this in mind and proposed to send up ten miles of wire at once. He did so, and at the same time sent a telegram to the War Office stating that in his opinion the garrison of 80 men was insufficient for the defence of the place. He also himself went to Canton, and pointed out to the Consul General that there was", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-388 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1912 [1-2].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 442715, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-400 - Governor Sir May - 1913 [3-4]", "page_number": 283, "title": "CO129-400 - Governor Sir May - 1913 [3-4]", "content_text": "## B 277\n\n2\n\n**PHOTOGRAPHY IN NATURAL COLOURS**\n\nThe Polychromide System\n\nEffort to produce photographs in the actual colour of nature have attracted earnest attention during recent years, and the works of the Lumières and others were valuable stepping-stones on the road to progress. It has been proved that, by the use of the colour-screen, negatives can be produced giving the sensations of the three primary colours, and these can be combined to leave a fairly harmonious picture; but it has been well stated that the results obtained by superposed pigmented bichromated gelatine (successively yellow, red, and blue), printed from colour-selection negatives at very uncertain and often far from satisfactory.\n\nOne of the chief features which distinguish the new polychromide process, patented by Mr. Acon Hamburger, of the Dover Street Studios, from many others is the use of a mechanism which enables the three plates to be taken simultaneously at a single exposure. In order to overcome certain difficulties inherent in this principle, Hamburger employs both reflection and refraction, and he has succeeded in so balancing the intensities of each that the perfect colour-stone rendering is obtained. A scale of shades of the standard colours has been prepared, in which the yellow inclines slightly to orange, the red to crimson, and the blue to green; that is to say, in lieu of being true primaries, the tints are in each case somewhere merged the one into the other. These shades are standardized, so that by means of the special developer used in the camera and the sensitized printing paper, with the above standard tints, any photographer should be able to attain accurate results. Two plates not on three are employed, each is sensitized to photograph one colour only.\n\nThe plate and the film are put together into one slide, with the emulsions in contact, the film thus serving the purpose of screening the plate. A print is made from the blue negative upon a rapid gelatine paper, which is turned into the yellow image. Prints in gelatine containing double salts are prepared from the other two negatives and transferred to a temporary support of glass. They are then superposed on the original yellow print by stripping. Though so far Mr. Hamburger has worked only by the aid of artificial flashlight, using a special compound to impart the requisite active properties, he does not anticipate obstacles in adapting the process to ordinary daylight. The camera takes the three pictures through a single lens and a single shutter, and it is found possible to have the register of the pictures perfectly accurate. The success of this process appears to depend upon the skill with which the spectrum has been split up, so that there is either no gap nor overlap, and therefore no colour is either lost or doubled. Specimens of the results yielded by the new process include not only serious portraits, in which the delicate flesh tints, the hair, and the minute details on the costume of the sitters are reproduced in complete harmony and in true colours, but also copies of paintings by the Old Masters in which the values due to low tone and false tints are successfully overcome.\n\n## NEWS OF THE WORLD\n\n[Telegrams from London]\n\n**The King of Greece**\n\nReuter's correspondent at Athens wires that an eye-witness of the scene said that the King was standing at the corner of Aghistas Street, which is near the Police Headquarters, when an assassin rushed out of a hiding place and drew a big revolver from close quarters at His Majesty.\n\nThe Aide-de-Camp, Colonel Frangoulis, drew his revolver, whereupon the assassin turned round and fired twice upon the Colonel.\n\nTwo Cretan gendarmes then dashed up and arrested the assassin, who offered no resistance.\n\nColonel Frangoulis ran to the King, thinking His Majesty had not been hit, but found that he had fastened to the ground and was only half conscious.\n\nColonel Frangoulis raised the King in his arms, but His Majesty did not utter a word.\n\nSome notes and cartridges were found on the assassin.\n\nReuter's correspondent at Athens says the man refuses to speak except to say, \"I will speak in the presence of the King.\"\n\n**King George V**\n\nThe King, accompanied by Queen Alexandra, visited Queen Mary at Marlborough House.\n\nThe outrage has aroused worldwide condolences and universal expressions of horror.\n\nA dispatch from Salonika to \"The Times\" regarding the assassination of the King of Greece says the King was in the habit of walking out every afternoon with a single servant, refusing requests made by his advisers to permit the presence of guards.\n\nYesterday, he was talking happily of the war and the successes of the Greek army as a long delayed triumph to his reign and said: \"Tomorrow I pay a final visit to the Dreadnought Goeben. It is with happiness and contentment that a German battleship should honour the Greek King at Salonika.\" These proved to be His Majesty's last words, for at that moment the assassin...\n\nThe Aide-de-Camp, Colonel Frangoulis, seized the hands of the assassin, which was poised for a second shot. Covering his Royal master with his body, Colonel Frangoulis grabbed the assailant by the throat and held him fast till soldiers came to his aid.\n\nThe English public are profoundly affected by the tragedy, which is an additional bereavement in Queen Alexandra's family. There were many references to the tragedy by public men at meetings held yesterday, and last night, wide pages of the papers were devoted to tributes.\n\nReuter's correspondent at Athens says that all Greece is grief-stricken. The Prince George and others gently broke the news to the Queen, who fainted several times.\n\nReuter's correspondent at Athens also reports that it appears that the assassin is weak-minded, and a victim of alcohol. He is a native of Greece. He was twice dismissed from a school where he was employed as an attendant and he petitioned the King, who referred the matter to the proper quarter, which rejected the petition.\n\n## British Affairs\n\nIn introducing the Army Estimates in the House of Commons, Col. Seely, Minister of War, dwelt on the extraordinary apprehension regarding aviation. He pointed out that the officers' never allowed performances to be published, and consequently remarkable achievements went unnoticed.\n\nHe affirmed that they did not possess any Zeppelins because they were not required.\n\nIt was decided to have some transportable dirigibles, and they would also possess 14 aeroplanes by May. Publicity were obviously marked for an expeditionary remount, and they could not reinforce the Egyptian garrison or the Indian troops. They had obtained a type of aeroplane superior to that of any nation. The difficulty was in regard to the engine, as he was offering a prize in this connection with the promise of a large purchase.\n\nThe Minister, Mr. H. Samuel (Postmaster General) and Sir Rufus Isaacs (Attorney General) obtained judgment with costs against the French newspaper \"La Muflin\" for libel in connection with statements published relating to the Marconi affair. The newspaper admitted the statements to be false and apologized.\n\nCounsel for the defence unreservedly accepted the denials of the Ministers that they were in any way concerned with dealings in Marconi shares.\n\nDelous Wattoit, Unionist Free Trader, has been returned to Parliament for the Kendal Division. The polling was:\n\n| Candidate | Votes |\n| --- | --- |\n| Col. Weston (U.) | 3,241 |\n| Mr. Somervell (C) | 1,680 |\n| | 581 |\n\nUnionist Majority\n\nMr. Bone, in addressing the members of the Manchester Unionist Association, said that Kendal, in electing Colonel Weston, who refused to support the policy announced by the Party leaders, really voted no confidence in the late Government. If the party refused to act unitedly and would act following the leader, it was his duty to give place to another; and he would perform that duty if circumstances arose.\n\nThe result of the Houghton-le-Spring by-election was:\n\n| Candidate | Votes |\n| --- | --- |\n| Mr. Wing (L) | 930 |\n| Mr. Richardson (C) | 4,807 |\n| Mr. Modles (L) | 4,185 |\n\nThe motion by Mr. Harold Smith for a reduction of the Home Office vote was defeated by 224 votes to 100.\n\nThe two Irish prisoners who had been sentenced for five days in Cold Bath Fields prison and to whom shamrocks were sent down on St. Patrick's Day have been rescued.\n\nFrom Port Said, it is reported that the steamer \"Melen\" has shipped £50,000 in gold for Singapore.\n\n## Affairs in China\n\nThere is much published in the Russian press regarding impending war between Russia and China. This is partly based on reported Chinese preparations for an advance on Urga, in defiance of Russia.\n\nIt is announced from St. Petersburg that M. Mueller, the Consul General at Tabriz, is proceeding to Urga as Consul-General, the consulate there being upgraded to a Consulate-General.\n\n## ENDER ENTIRELY NEW SIGN ON KHEN\n\n**EXCELLENT COLON**\n\nModerate Rates\n\nM. HAYNES, Manager\n\n**GRAND HOTEL**\n\n- No. 2, Queen's Road Central\n\nA FIRST-CLASS AND UP-TO-DATE HOTEL.\n\nEvery order European Massage attended.\n\nSituated in a central position. Large Airy Rooms. Luxuriously furnished. Electric Light and hot water throughout.\n\nSanitary arrangements of the latest pattern.\n\nCUISINE UNDER EUROPEAN SUPERVISION\n\nLadies' Afternoon Tea Rooms. Special terms for families made on application to the Manager.\n\nCharges Moderate\n\nF. RICHMANN, Proprietor\n\nTelephone No. 197, Telegraphic Address: \"Cowworm,\" Hongkong\n\n## CANNAVOLT\n\n**CENTRAL**\n\nTOKYO-HOTEL\n\nChen Hwang & Co. Limited.\n\nGENERAL IMPORT & EXPORT.\n\nANTON'S LARGE WHOLESALE & RETAIL STORE.\n\n| Furniture, Draperies, Groceries, Hats, and Shoes. Makers of Jewellery, Linquers, Crockery, Watches, and Trimmings. Wines and Spirits. Foreign Clothes for gentlemen made to measure by our own tailors. |\n| --- |\n\nENORMOUS SUCCESS\n\nTHE CHINA DAILY OUTLOOK, MONDAY, MARCH 24th, 1913\n\nThe news published in Bangkok that a party of military police have occupied the place where the salt will be examined has been paid for. Salt bought from the Government...\n\n## VICTORIA THEATRE\n\n**LOCAL AND GENERAL**\n\nEXCHANGE 111-1/2c Calcutta.\n\nThe Burma-China Frontier\n\nITTAJ\n\nThe manufacturer of salt shall sell it full to the Government at an appointed time.\n\nThe Thunderbolt Man, Wonderful Imitator and International Jester, was delivered in London on the 20th March.\n\nALEXANDER GALINSKY\n\nSATURDAY, 22nd,\n\nDebate at the Pantomime Arsie\n\nMISS ARKAS\n\nLarge assortment of Chinese Silks, Brocades, Shawls, and Foreign Goods of every description.\n\nAll goods sold at reasonable prices. The Cheapest and best place in Canton to buy Chinese and Foreign Goods.\n\nSUP PAT POO STREET, CANTON, Tel. No. 140.\n\nCanton, January 1, 1912.\n\nMAN and Italian\n\nThe Charming Serio Dancer,\n\nFREDA ARDEA LOON,\n\nTHE MAGNIFICENT NEW FILM\n\nFIRST-CLASS PRESERVES\n\nGINGER AND GOOSE MANUFACTURERS,\n\nFACTORY AT YAUMATI\n\nStation: No. 38, DES VIEUX ROAD WEST.\n\nTelephone No. 177.\n\nWhy are the leading Manufacturers of this class of Goods? Our Fruit and Gingers are all tough and of the first quality. Our Syrup is prepared from the best quality of Sugar. We give particular attention to sanitary arrangements.\n\n\"The Bohemian Girl\"\n\nSINGER\n\nSEWING MACHINES\n\nPianosare kept in stock. Our Symps is prepared from the best quality of Sugar. We give particular CORSTE particular attention to sanitary arrangements.\n\n978 TELEPHONE: HONGRONG\n\n**GRAND CARLTON HOTEL**\n\nUNSURPASSED FOR\n\nLocation\n\nService\n\nCuisine\n\nand Home Comforts\n\nTHE JOYAT FAMILY HOTEL OF THE COLONY\n\n-10, Lee Theatre Road\n\nHOTEL BAI TIMORE.\n\n1. No. 2, WYNDHAM STREET.\n\nREASONABLE RATES.\n\nNo. 658, Telegraphic Address \"BALTMAX\" Hongkong.\n\nReuter's correspondent at St. Petersburg states that the \"Novoe Vremya\" says that as a result of a circular from the Chinese Government regarding the possibility of conflict with Russia arising out of the projected...\n\n## VISITORS AT HOTELS\n\nKisa Rewind live Mongolian pagan, business My A. D. Ander\n\nMr & Mrs N Fulsdan, the Chinatown of Harbin, has almost ceased.\n\nThe majority Chinese workmen have quitted their affairs and from other centres there are similar reports. Frontier trade is at a standstill, and China has prohibited the exportation of all alimentary products.\n\nOther events are expected in a very brief period of time.\n\nIn the House of Commons, Sir Edward Grey informed Mr. Harwood Bunder that the negotiations for the Chinese Loan were still in private.\n\n| Mr F. Arou | Mr T. Aoki | De Botilos |\n| Mr Birsand | child Lisa Crosse | |\n| Mrs Orexier | Straw. Donaldson | Ewing |\n| Mr Finchote | Miss Graham | |\n| Mr Geo. Oribia | | |\n| Mr and Mrs F. E. | Melfough | |\n| Hi, i | | |\n| Mad | | |\n| Major. J. Masti | Dr Muller | |\n| Mr M. F. Murray | Nakashima | |\n| Mr Overy | Miss M. Panti | |\n| Cast M Pos | Mustu | |\n| Mrs E. Karay | | |\n| Mr G. R. Rabb | | |\n| Miss F. Sunders | Capt. & Mrs Schenk | |\n| Dr Silene | | |\n| and Mrs Kemp | Me H. S. Burze | M&Ms Lauritsen |\n| Stranet fokildren | i Captiasalinity | Choses A. H. |\n| Mis A. Loigh | | |\n| wherton | | |\n\n**PECTO SEPPUSE**\n\n4. 17, Currie's\n\nLONG HING & CO.\n\nDEVELOPING MACHINES\n\nQueen's Road Central.\n\nLEE ON & CO.\n\nMANUFACTURERS of the Best Hand-made Silk and Green Cloth Embroidery of the Latest French Pattern. Canton Down-work, Wholesale and Retail.\n\nPRINTING\n\n7, Queen's Road Central, HONGKONG UNDERTAKEN\n\n**OPEN AIR SKATING RINK**\n\n**BELLE VIEW HOTEL.** (Telephone No. 907)\n\nSESSIONS 10 am, 1 12 noon, 2 to 5 pm, 7 to 10 pm.\n\nADMISSION 25 cents.\n\nADMISSION 50 cents.\n\nON LOCK\n\nYUEN\n\nCafe and Restaurant\n\nA la Carte at all hours\n\n7 pm to 1 p.m.\n\n27, Des Vœux ROAD CENTRAL\n\n(Next Door to WROXWALL)\n\nW. GALLAGHER\n\nManager.\n\nDr. M. H. CHAUN\n\nYEN YEE & CO.\n\nHAIR DRESSING SALOON.\n\nHair Clipper, Razors, Scissor Sharpening and Repairing, Singeing Shaving, Massage, etc., a specialty.\n\nToilet Requisites Cigare and Cigarettes.\n\n**DENTAL SURGEON**\n\n32. Queen's Road Central (1st Floor)\n\nBoone 2 and 5.\n\nFrom the University of Pennsylvania, U.S.A.\n\nTelephone 125,\n\nNo. 28, Corner of D'Aguilar Street\n\nElectrical Engineers and Fitters\n\nand that the terms now under consideration by the Chinese Government have the unanimous approval of the Six Power Bankers, that Britain would continue exclusively to support the group negotiating the Loan.\n\nThe Balkans\n\nReuter's correspondent at Constantinople says that an official dispatch claims the success of the Turks at Chatalja after a desperate infantry battle.\n\nIt concludes: \"Our forces are engaging the enemy along the whole front.\"\n\nThe I. K. & S. Bank\n\nThe chairman of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, presiding at the all-Party meeting in London, referring to opium, said he believed some equitable arrangement would be reached whereby an outlet would be found for the present stocks. It hardly seems just that purchasers of opium from the Government of India should...\n\n| Mr K. Mintumi | |\n| Mr H. H. Taylor | My Water |\n| M. F. W. White | |\n\n**GRAND HOTEL**\n\nMr and Mrs Allen\n\nMr May\n\nMr Agnew\n\nMr Reuskansen\n\nDe Brigga family\n\nMr and Mrs Mudie\n\nMr Nai Prusit\n\nand Mr J Oeso\n\nand Mrs Creer\n\nM: W. Men\n\nM: Gais\n\nMr A. Hersi\n\nMy Higginbotham\n\nMr J. Houlka\n\nDr Berage\n\nMy Selenide\n\nMr H. J. Sharp\n\nMr Shastin\n\nMr and Mrs Tobias| Tobias\n\nM. G. R. Tyre\n\nMr and Mrs Ho. Meg Watkins\n\nward\n\nDr Kurt\n\nMr Lorria\n\nMr Woodenek\n\nMr and Mrs Wikle\n\n**GRAND CARLTON HOTEL**\n\nMr and Mrs Frank\n\nMr W. Pringle, Jun\n\nAilen\n\nMr A.F. Remedios\n\nMr A.G. Reaumut\n\nMr A. Ringe\n\n**PHOTO SUPPLIES**\n\nYour Road Contra\n\nA.\n\nTACK & Co.\n\n26. Des Vieux Road\n\nELECTRIC FITTINGS COMPANY.\n\nNo. 188, Des Vœux ROAD CENTRAL\n\nHONGKONG.\n\nDeveloping Workmanship Guaranteed.\n\nand Printing\n\nUndertaken\n\nWO HING & CO..\n\nNo. 174. Queen's Road Central\n\nFR or\n\nas Riaze ng Ayrou\n\n**HOLLE HOTEL**\n\nMANUFACTURERS OF\n\nHigh Class Shawls, Handkerchiefs, Shawls, and fine Embroideries, Silk and Crepe Shawls and: \n\nMr G. Bolden\n\nMeWL Bobbik\n\nInces of Avery\n\nDancriptiste.\n\nCuphant\n\nMe Braga\n\nMi and Ms Arthur:\n\nMr F. Braga\n\nMiss F. Braza\n\nThe terms of the final agreement of the Mix Power Loan were now being satisfactorily arranged with China, and the conclusion of the Loan only awaited a decision between China and the Governments concerned regarding the appointment of foreigners to advisory posts.\n\nMiss M. Benga\n\nMva J. Conwford\n\nHarper\n\nMY J. Fayin\n\nRogerar\n\nMin Adwig\n\nMr A Selenit\n\nMr G. 1. Sew!!\n\nMiss Ethi Seith\n\nMy R. Stephenson\n\nMiss 6. Hour\n\nMre demeys\n\nMrs Tall\n\nMr F. J. Traadpild\n\nMr Mrs Rt.\n\nMr J, Veracr\n\nArt W\n\nHereel confidence in China's future and said in interious popularise. Jesper\n\ntion w great patural resources were & \n\nuthent guarantee of its prosperity\n\n**SING KEE & CO.**\n\nNSOP CHANDLERS, COMPRADORES AND STAYCLONES\n\nNo. 34. Connaught Road, Hongkong.\n\nKeep on hand every Description of Ship's Provisions, at lowest prices.\n\n**'MOHI' PEARL**\n\nTel), 632\n\nExcellent amongst all Pearls. Colour and shape up-to-date. Necklet, Earing, Brooches, Drops, etc.\n\nTRIAL SOLICITED\n\nMOHIDEEN & CO.,\n\n38, funny's Loan Central, foxokono.\n\n**Dr. YOUNG BROTHERS**\n\nAMERICAN DENTISTS\n\nPrice: the Best Quality Gaur\n\nNO, SEA, QOHEN'S ROAD CENTRAL\n\nEnteed AB Saris of Cout of the \n\nBEST QUALITY FOR SALE\n\nHONGKONG\n\nThe Carpau mail of the 19th Feb. says the frontier of Burma in British territory is, of course...\n\nThe date for the above transaction will be fixed by Ministerial order.\n\n7. The manufacturer shall first #1...\n\nAn interesting lecture will take place to-night at the Y.M.C.A. on \"Croatian Life and Scenery\" illustrated with a number of lantern slides.\n\nThe Sanitary Board meets...\n\nCorrespondence relative to affairs in various villages should be submitted at once.\n\nOn Good Friday and Easter Sunday, special services were held in the churches of the Colony, and sermons emphasizing the occasion to the Christian world were dwelt upon by the clergy in charge with much devotion and feeling.\n\n**A Transparent Lie**\n\nAsiatic Daily says \"It has been previously reported that the Kaomingtang demanded the formation of a party Cabinet as a reward for their supporting Yuan Shi-kai as President. According to reliable sources in addition to this claim, this Club Tang has further exacted the non-payment of one million dollars for expenses.\" Such palpable lies are self-condemning. It is but a cheap way of preying on the public sympathy. Fabrication of myths as a political weapon is not likely to endure long.\n\n9. According to circumstances, the Government may organize a patrol force for the purpose of regulating the manufacturers, protecting the salt furnaces and storage, and watching the dealing and manufacturing of salt.\n\n10. The Government may, according to the local conditions, grant rules by retail.\n\nDetailed regulations regarding the above Companies and retail rules shall be separately fixed.\n\n11. As salt affects the sanitary condition of the people, the Government may deal severely with the dealers of it, and any mixture shall be found in the salt.\n\n12. The writ officials may investigate the reservoirs of well water, the places of manufacturing, storing, and the buildings, banks, etc. If necessary, for the sake of supervision, extra men may be put upon the said items.\n\n13. The sale of salt whilst in transportation...\n\nThe Victoria Theatre is nightly drawing good houses, with Miss Freda Ardea and her dancing and Alexander Galinsky, for quick change artist being very popular. Miss Ark, the new Pantomime artiste, has a style peculiarly her own, which should prove a draw. The pictures are good, \"The Sphinx\" being especially so.\n\nIt is notified in the \"Government Gazette\" that the registration of the following trade marks has been renewed under the provisions of the Trade Marks Ordinance, 1909.\n\nThe new public improvements, for which it was proposed to make a loan, have been temporarily abandoned. No money is available for new equipment for the fire department, and consequently, the firemen in one district have to run with engines so dilapidated that the men fear the apparatus will fall to pieces.\n\nThe police department is pressed for funds, and impounded on leave of Mr. Justice Gow-Thomas; the health department has been pared down; the street department is cut to the marrow.\n\nHis Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve the following appointments:\n\nMr. Joseph Hansford Kemp, Crown Prosecutor, to be Puisne Judge.\n\nMr. Pauling and approved by the Government.\n\nThe Government shall deal directly with the Company, without regard to the person or persons to whom the rights and privileges belong.\n\n8. With regard to the railways constructed by the Company, should it be necessary for military purposes...\n\n## DO THINGS BLUR?\n\nDo they sometimes appear distorted?\n\nIs your sight blurred?\n\nIt is probably caused by astigmatism. Call at your earliest opportunity and have your eyes examined on we with thoroughly scientific lines.\n\nA rough test for astigmatism is as follows:-- Place the paper about three feet away and look with one eye at the above fan. The lines should appear of equal blackness, if they do not CONSULT\n\n**MANILA OFFICES,**\n\n78 ESCOLTA.\n\nTO-DAY.\n\n**LARK & CO.** SCIENTIFIC OPTICIANS\n\nYORK BLOCKS, CHATER ROAD\n\nHONGKONG\n\n**THE SINCERE CO., LTD.,**\n\n215-221, Des Voeux Road Central, 109-111, Connaught Road Central,\n\nUNIVERSAL PROVIDERS\n\n& \n\nHONGKONG and SOUTH CHINA,\n\nDEPARTMENTS FOR\n\nHousehold Goods, Furniture, Wearling Apparel\n\nGroceries, Wines and Spirits, Requisites, Jewellery,\n\nand Spirits, etc., etc.\n\nThe Pioneer One Price Store.\n\nGeorge Albert Would-ck.\n\nFirst Clerk\n\nThe License will be for 10 years to singolien or to reserve the right...\n\nReferred to Committee.\n\nIX.\n\nDespite all retrenchment, books shall be kept in the way prescribed by the Government, and shall be subject to...\n\nChicago is in the lightest touch since the days of the big Fire, 1871. The Metropolis of the World is bankrupt...\n\n## ALICE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL\n\nThe Hon. Treasurer of the Alice Memorial and Affiliated Hospitals begs to acknowledge with thanks the following donations to the funds of the Hospital:\n\n£1\n\nHo Kam Toog\n\nJ. M. Wung\n\n**National Council**\n\n(Continued from Page 1)\n\nThe revised regulation of the Railway Company of China (First reading).\n\n1. The Railway Company of China shall be organised in accordance with the Presidential Order of the 9th day of the 9th month of the First year of the Chinese Republic. With the exception of the railways, which have been or are to be built, or the construction of which has been signed, by the Government under the direct management of the Ministry of Communications and the railways concessions of which have been given to other Companies to be built.\n\n2. In addition to the common legal rights and privileges of other companies, the Company shall have the following privileges:\n\n(a) To propose and settle the lines referred to in the said article.\n\n(b) To take the concession of the lines referred to in the first article and to agree with Chinese or Foreign lot holders or Boat shares.\n\n(c) To utilize and manage the railway referred to in the first article, (1) manage the affairs connected with the alanya referred to in the first article.\n\n(e) To secure special funds and to buy in belonging to individuals, benefited by the construction of the line referred to in the first article.\n\n2. May any other company or the Government be willing to transfer the right of concession, which does not belong to the lines referred to in the first article, the Company has authority to accept it.\n\nThe Lines, other than those referred to in the first article, must be constructed by other companies under the regulations of the Government. They should not interfere with the privileges of the Company.\n\n4. The dates for commencing and completing the construction of the various lines by the Company shall be registered by the Government, unless the...\n\nShould it be unable to construct the railway according to the date, the Government may devise means for its construction.\n\n5. In all the lines which are to be built by the Company, the Government shall afford every protection and facility in the work.\n\nII. All railways constructed shall eventually become the property of the Government. With regard to the period of construction and management, and the selling of the control by the Government, the Company shall also be subject to the customary conditions applied to other companies. As to the laws and orders in connection with the affairs of the Company, unless otherwise provided by the Bill.\n\n7. All the Chinese or Foreign shares or loans, contracted by the Company, shall be subject to the laws of the Government; hence they shall enjoy the due protection of the Government. With loans which need to be guaranteed by the Government, the contract should be submitted for approval, and the regulations regarding foreign shares shall also be submitted...\n\nThe Regulations of the Company for the Transportation of Salt (first reading).\n\nThose who desire to form a Salt Company...\n\n**GOVERNMENT RAILWAYS,**\n\n**TIENTSIN-PUKOW LINE**\n\nThe Public are respectfully informed that the Through Train Service between Tientsin and Pukow will be commenced from the 4th December 1912.\n\n| TIENTSIN TO PUKOW | | |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Tientsin (Settlement)... | dep. 12.50 p.m.... | Wednesday and Saturday |\n| Pukow | arr. 2.55 | Thursday and Sunday |\n\n| PUKOW TO TIENTSIN | | |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Pukow... | 8.20 a.m. ... | Monday and Friday |\n| Tientsin (Settlement)... | arr. 10.33 | Tuesday and Saturday |\n\nFrom 1st December, all Trains from Tientsin will start from the Settlement Station.\n\nThe daily Trains between TSEN (Settlement) and Taku, between Tsinanfu and Msinanfu, and between Hwangyow and Pukow, and on the Branch Lines between Yaonow and Tsinanfow, and between Linsin and THAOCHUANG, will run as usual.\n\nThrough Trains are provided with Comfortable Sleeping Berths for the 1st Class Passengers, at a Charge of $5.00 per Berth.\n\nFurther particulars may be had on application to this Office.\n\nHEAD OFFICE,\n\nTientsin, 25th November, 1912.\n\nBY ORDER,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-400 - Governor Sir May - 1913 [3-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 443955, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-402 - Governor Sir May - 1913 [7-8]", "page_number": 393, "title": "CO129-402 - Governor Sir May - 1913 [7-8]", "content_text": "384 \n\nopposed to that of Sir F. Lugard. (I may add for your comfort that much of the formidable enclosures to this despatch is irrelevant). \n\n`Gov/11134/05` \n\nOn the 7th of March 1905, the Governor of Hong Kong wrote a confidential despatch in which he enclosed a copy of a memorandum drawn up by Colonel Lewis, an officer who, by arrangement between the Colonial Office and the War Office, had been sent specially to the Colony to endeavour, in consultation with the Governor and the local military authorities, to arrive at some settlement of the questions at issue with regard to military lands in the Colony. The Governor asked that Colonel Lewis's recommendations should be accepted without modification and pointed out that the intricate questions connected with military lands and reserves, which since 1883 had formed the subject of continued discussion, had been comprehensively dealt with on principles which should minimise the chance of similar difficulties arising in the future. The Secretary of State asked the War Office to accept the proposals, which constituted a reasonable settlement of the questions which had been the subject of so much correspondence in the past. The War Office replied (`W.O./26011/05`) that the Army Council agreed to accept Colonel Lewis's recommendations as a settlement of the matters in dispute. From this correspondence and from the terms of the Memorandum itself, it is clear that Colonel Lewis's mission was merely to settle existing disputes. I labour the point because it would appear that the present General Officer Commanding holds that the procedure laid down in the memorandum was necessarily to govern all future cases of giving up land for military purposes.\n\nColonel Lewis laid down that the War Department's requirements as to land were of two kinds: \n(1) They might wish to exclude the public entirely, e.g., in the case of a battery and the land close round it. (x No. 10 in Enclosure 1) \n(2) They might wish to have a limited use of lands, as in the case of training grounds, clearance areas for guns to fire over, rifle ranges, and the like. \nLand in category (1) must belong entirely to the War Department and must be disposed of in accordance with the 1890 and 1894 circulars as to the disposal of Colonial Military Lands. \nLands in category (2) should be held on a nominal rental by the War Office, the Government agreeing to keep it clear of buildings and other obstructions not approved by the War Department, but the War Department would acquire no vested interest in the land. \nIf it were desired to transfer land in category (2) to category (1), e.g., in order to build a barrack, it should be valued in the Open market (and the value recorded in the Lands Account as provided by the Circulars).\n\nIn 1907, the War Department wished to acquire clearance rights over an area round Mount Davis and asked what would be the price of the land to be acquired in perpetual user, the price to be recorded in the Lands Account. On learning the price, the military authorities replied that they would have to get an independent valuation and if the parties could not then agree, the procedure in paragraph 7 of the Circular of 30th December 1894 would have to be adopted. Probably they would simply take the area as a reserve (i.e., as land in category (2) of the Lewis Memorandum) and pay building value for sites actually built on.\n\nTo this Sir F.H. May replied in his letter of 9th December 1907, pointing out that the question of the circular did not arise as it dealt solely with what was round", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-402 - Governor Sir May - 1913 [7-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 443976, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-402 - Governor Sir May - 1913 [7-8]", "page_number": 414, "title": "CO129-402 - Governor Sir May - 1913 [7-8]", "content_text": "# Colonial Secretary's Office, No. 13573\nHongkong, 9th December, 1907.\n\nSir,\n\nI am directed to acknowledge your letter No. C/112/07 of November 20th, 1907. I am directed to point out that the Colonial Office Circular of December 30th, 1894, to which you refer in your 2nd paragraph, is concerned only with the surrender of lands by the Military Authorities to the Colonial Government (vide paragraph 11). In so far as the acquisition of lands from the Colonial Government by the Military Authorities is concerned, the conditions existing prior to the year 1896 were completely changed in that year by the arrangement under which the Colonial Government undertook to pay 17 per cent of its ordinary Revenue towards Military expenditure. This arrangement was further extended in the year 1901, when the Colony undertook to increase its Contribution to 20% of the ordinary Revenue on the understanding that this contribution should cover the cost of all lands and buildings.\n\nThat this view admits of no doubt, you will, I feel sure, be convinced by the following passage which I am directed to quote from a despatch of the Secretary of State dated 24th October, 1900, stating the conditions upon which the 20% contribution was to be made.\n\n\"The new contribution will be payable by the Colony in full return for the annual cost of the Imperial garrison, including all capital expenditure required for military lands and buildings. As part of this arrangement, all lands required by the War Department which are the property of private persons will be purchased at the cost, and will become the property, of that Department. Lands which belong to and are occupied by, or are a source of revenue actual or potential to, the Colonial Government should be similarly treated. When the land is thus purchased by the War Department, the capitalized value of the Crown Rent will be paid by that Department to the Colonial Government at the time of purchase.\"", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-402 - Governor Sir May - 1913 [7-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 446193, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-407 - Public Offices & Others - 1913", "page_number": 173, "title": "CO129-407 - Public Offices & Others - 1913", "content_text": "Any further communication on this subject should be addressed to-\n\nThe Secretary,\n\nWar Office,\n\nLondon, S.W..\n\n172\n\nC.O 14687\n\n| MAY 13\n\nWar Office,\n\nand the following number quoted,\n\nEng Kong 8/161.\n\n(L.B.)\n\nSir,\n\nLondon, S.W.\n\n30 April, 1913.\n\nWith reference to your letter of the 4th October last, No. 28775/1912, relative to the disposal of an area of land at Signal Hill, Kowloon, I am commanded by the Army Council to acquaint you, for the information of Mr. Secretary Harcourt, that the question of finding suitable sites for War Department buildings in Kowloon is already one of considerable difficulty. The particular area referred to (which forms part of a site which is already somewhat cramped and restricted), would after being levelled, form a good site for the erection of quarters, and if it were now given up, there is no other piece of land which could be transferred to the War Department later on, and form an efficient substitute for it.\n\nIn all these circumstances, which do not appear to have been fully considered when the proposal was made to lease this area, the Army Council are of opinion that the site must be regarded as prospectively required for military purposes, and that its retention is therefore in accordance with the terms of the circular despatch referred to in the last paragraph of your letter under reply.\n\nThe Under Secretary of State,\n\nColonial Office.\n\nI am,\n\nSir,\n\nYour obedient Servant", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-407 - Public Offices & Others - 1913.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 447891, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-411 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [5-7]", "page_number": 109, "title": "CO129-411 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [5-7]", "content_text": "Public Works Department.\n\n21543\n\n107\n\nRec'd 12 JUN 14\n\n21. i. We append the report which the Director of Public Works made to us in reply to our Circular asking for a statement of the duties performed by the European Members of the Staff of the Department.\n\nWe decided to ask Colonel Dumbleton, who with the permission of the Military Authorities had kindly consented to join the Committee for the purpose, to make an independent investigation into the working of the Department with a view to ascertaining (1) whether any reduction in the Engineering Staff, on the basis of the Expenditure on Public Works Extraordinary and Public Works Recurrent estimated for 1909 was possible; (2) whether any improvement in the organization and efficiency of the Survey Staff could be suggested; (3) whether the Staff of Overseers is adequate or otherwise; and (4) whether the large annual expenditure on maintenance of Buildings and Roads cannot be reduced.\n\nWe append the report which Colonel Dumbleton has been good enough to furnish to us from which it appears that in his opinion no reduction in the personnel of the Department is possible and that the annual expenditure on maintenance of buildings and roads cannot be reduced.\n\nii. We questioned Mr. Chatham and Mr. Fisher on this report especially with the view of ascertaining whether a reduction in the Engineering Staff might not be rendered possible by the increase of the Staff of draughtsmen and tracers. Mr. Chatham expressed the opinion that no such economy could be made because the major portion of the duties to be performed was of too responsible a nature to be entrusted to assistants of the kind indicated and further because the Engineering Staff was already at the minimum necessary for the supervision of the work devolving upon the Department.\n\nMr. Fisher expressed the same opinion, and added", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-411 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 467349, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-441 - Governor Sir May - 1917 [1-3]", "page_number": 118, "title": "CO129-441 - Governor Sir May - 1917 [1-3]", "content_text": "As to W. The fore: will by now have fort om circular of Dec. 20 twill no doubt be getting Setting on with to take Bank's buildings.\n\nWhen the buildings are sold the first 4 items the late list of amounts to be well\" the see the HK & S. banks report herein) will cease. The fifth Mast tem cases on march 31/19.7. As to the list of \"payments To be made Nol. is bein stopped. I the pana 4. Karp.) No 2. we come to an end Nos 4+6. Wile 31. meh.197. presumably the vanons pris cease when also come bildnings No. 5. will ane disposed of No an end Noan in one course, to that the the Imall remainis Crown Zent. No 3. I suppose this item wife like be arranged somehow. If isverg Imall or dont think we need bother about it.\n\n115 with regard to Me Stalement of anets in Liabilit asante report, there Bank's a end Mr HKH S There are certain number dellls not recoverable, but the credits from the Singapore Halcutta branches (as to which see under (2). below) more than cover the out. Mese Standing Liabilities When the aps with two branches are comple' therefore it will be positle to close the liquidation. As to (2). above The Indian Lie 9426- fort have now apred with one proposal in. 357107, 6 that the ambi of thiored of the Calcutta, HK, L Singapore branches be used, after payment OH of and debts, one directly by each branch to one of the thin branches or No any other now every", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-441 - Governor Sir May - 1917 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 468683, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-443 - Governor Sir May - 1917 [7-9]", "page_number": 446, "title": "CO129-443 - Governor Sir May - 1917 [7-9]", "content_text": "Enclosure 2\n\nCOPY.\n\nThe Honourable\n\nThe Colonial Secretary,\n\nHongkong.\n\nSir,\n\n435 Victoria Buildings, Hongkong\n\n21st June, 1917.\n\nWith reference to the Confidential Circular of the 12th instant on the subject of a proposed scheme of rent allowances, I have the honour to report that at a meeting of the Unofficial Members of the Executive and Legislative Councils held yesterday the subject was gone into very carefully and thoroughly. The scheme would benefit a certain number of married European officers on the senior permanent staff.\n\nWe agree that relief is called for by the enhanced cost of living in Hongkong during recent years; but we consider that the standard of pay ought to be based upon the appointment held and duties performed by the officers, not upon their private domestic obligations. We therefore recommend that, while some such increase as proposed in the scheme should be made, it should extend to all senior European officers not already housed by Government, irrespective of whether they are married or single, and irrespective of the actual rent of the houses they may choose to live in; that is to say, rent allowances might be granted on a scale ranging downwards from a maximum of say $140 a month, and graduated pro rata according to salary.\n\nThis, however, we contemplate as merely a temporary measure; being of opinion that, so soon as times are opportune for placing the matter before the Secretary of State, the general question of pay should be reconsidered, and the complications of privileged exchange and allowances removed as far as practicable.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-443 - Governor Sir May - 1917 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 468686, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-443 - Governor Sir May - 1917 [7-9]", "page_number": 449, "title": "CO129-443 - Governor Sir May - 1917 [7-9]", "content_text": "CONFIDENTIAL COPY.\n\nEnclosure 4\n\nThe Honourable\n\nThe Colonial Secretary,\n\nSir,\n\nVictoria Buildings, Hongkong\n\n29th June, 1917.\n\nI have the honour to acknowledge your letter of the 27th instant, received yesterday, and to say in reply that I am afraid my previous letter of the 21st instant has been somewhat misunderstood.\n\nThe recommendation of the Unofficial Members is that their extended plan, set forth in my previous letter, should if possible be adopted now, instead of the scheme suggested in the Confidential circular which they do not approve, and further that their extended plan should be adopted as merely a temporary measure, pending the general reconsideration of the question of pay after the War.\n\nI am,\n\n(sd.) C. P. Chater.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-443 - Governor Sir May - 1917 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 468688, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-443 - Governor Sir May - 1917 [7-9]", "page_number": 451, "title": "CO129-443 - Governor Sir May - 1917 [7-9]", "content_text": "Victoria Buildings, Hongkong\n\n15th July, 1917.\n\nThe Honourable\n\nThe Colonial Secretary,\n\nHongkong.\n\nSir,\n\nI have the honour to inform you that the Unofficial Members of both Councils met today to consider your letter of the 8th instant on the subject of rent allowances to Civil Servants, together with your message of this morning that probably no extension of the scheme suggested in your confidential circular, which the Unofficial Members themselves do not approve but which they understand has received the assent of the Secretary of State, can be brought into effect during the war.\n\nIn these circumstances the Unofficial Members agree to the temporary adoption of the scheme in the confidential circular. But they request that the extended plan recommended by them and set forth in my letter of the 24th June be submitted forthwith to the Secretary of State, with a view to its consideration by him at the earliest date practicable; and they hope he will not find it necessary to postpone such consideration until after the war.\n\nI am &c.,\n\n(sd.) C. P. Chater.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-443 - Governor Sir May - 1917 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 476598, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-448 - Governor Sir May - 1918 [4-6]", "page_number": 413, "title": "CO129-448 - Governor Sir May - 1918 [4-6]", "content_text": "## Head Office\nElectra House, Finsbury Pavement, E.C.\nTelephone: 11127 LONDON WALL.\nTelegraphic Address: \"EASTERN AVE.\" LONDON.\n\n| House | Telephone |\n| --- | --- |\n| Electra House, Finsbury Pavement, E.C. | 3832 London Wall |\n| 8, Lombard Hall Street, E.C. | 442 S |\n| Market Buildings, 29, Mincing Lane, E.C. | 4408 Avenue |\n| 1014 Holborn | 2616 Gerrard |\n| \"The Baltic,\" Bury St. Entrance, E.C. | |\n| 11, 6 & 42, Parliament Street, S.W. | |\n| 37, Holborn Viaduct, E.C. | |\n| Foreign Auction Mart, Covent Garden, W.C. | |\n\n## Branch Offices in London\n- K, Denman Street, Borough, S.E.\n- \"The Baltic,\" Bury St. Entrance, E.4.\n\n## References\n`XPA 177/5`\n\n## CHILDREN'S ALLOWANCE\nBoys and girls as minimum, in special cases, with the addition of separation allowance payable under Army Regulations.\n\n## SILVER GOD CASES\nAllowances paid outside the colony should be £10 per mouth.\n\n## SECURITIES\nIt is proposed to retain Silvergod cases with numerous probably toughening... \n\nPROGENITA \nPHILOMATH SCART RETEN SILVERGO respectively SECURITIES PHOCIFORMONI I COLA AND 1 \nunder the following Circular Ref: E. T. Co., Ld. `XPA 177/5` \nforward by CAPE ASTE PUT FOOLTRAP'S TRIBUNAL \nunder rectorship for with addition of ABSILIENT in addition to ABSLLI AM \nALLOW ANGES PAID OUTSIDE T HE CO LO NY \nIt is proposed PROGENITA ...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-448 - Governor Sir May - 1918 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 482426, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-458 - Public Offices & Others - 1919", "page_number": 474, "title": "CO129-458 - Public Offices & Others - 1919", "content_text": "LỤC THIO hoan\n\nBUENSSAYRES, TORNQUIST KILDI\n\nSOPHUS SERENT\n\n[CORAGEM\n\nMSTERDAM,\n\nKAMEN TAKLY\n\nNO\n\nAN MARTIN 132.\n\nHLWB TORY 24\n\n13, DE RUYTÁRKARE..\n\nN SONTUN\n\nCHALLI HOUSE, HATTIN PLACE.\n\nHOLO VEOCHIO.\n\nOF AFFILIATED\n\nOFFICES\n\nBOHRANIES & FOREIGN REPREZENTATIVES.\n\nVIA DEL COLLEGIO ROMANO NOUS\n\nROME. MADRID. CHRISTIANIA,\n\nNGHỘ NHỎ, YOKONANA,\n\nSHANGHAI,\n\nSALLE DE ARCALA 13\n\nETGAN, BULE\n\nJARDINE MAY EBON\n\nO\n\n38203\n\nMONTREAL,\n\n469\n\nBS, NOTRE DAME STAKET NEW YORK, LONO COUNT BUILDINGS,#7, WILLIAM STREET PARIS,\n\n35, BOULEVARD DES CAPUCINES GOTHENBURG, ADOLF STRANDBERI,SOONA HAHNGATAN 23\n\nSTOCKHOLM, ULRICH SALCHOW, HANNBATAN BA. *PETEREBURO, LOPUGNINEMAJA (+\n\nTHE MARCONI INTERNATIONAL MARINE COMMUNICATION COL\n\nTELEGRAPHIC ADDRESSES:\n\nNLAND TELEGRAMS: EXPANSE, WIRE, LONDON. CABLEGRAMS EXPANSE, LONDON.\n\nTELEPHONE NO CITY 8712 110 LINES)\n\nCODES MARGON!, WESTERN UNION, BENTLEYS & A.B.6, 47 & S7 E?\n\nJUNISH\n\nHEAD OFFICE,\n\nMARCONI HOUSE.\n\nTD.\n\nSTRAND.\n\nLONDON, W.C. 2 June 27th 1919.\n\nPLEASE ADDRES9 THE COMPANY & REFER TO\n\nB.070/1078.\n\nDoby\n\nThe Under Secretary of State, Colonial Office,\n\nSir,\n\nDowning Street,\n\nLONDON, S.W.1.\n\nWe beg leave to refer to your letter 27014/1919 of the 16th May last and our reply B.1039 of the 21st idem,\" and in this connection have pleasure in enclosing herewith a proof of the Circular submitted with your letter above referred to. You will see that we have taken the liberty of showing all times mentioned therein as GMT, this for the purpose of simplifying matters for the many new operators who have recently enter our service and who naturally have not the long experience of their older colleagues. We shall be glad if you will kindly return this proof to us after perusal as it is the only one we have, together with any suggestions you may wish to make thereon.\n\nWith regard to a date for commencing this service, in view of the fact that we shall have to issue suitable instructions to operators, while it will also be necessary to advise the Shipowners whose veasels trade in that part of the world, we would suggest that the service be commenced on or as soon after the 1st August as possible, and we propose to insert a short paragraph to this effect.\n\nWe also beg to suggest that so far as Shipowners are concerned, the most simple plan would be to issue a \"Notice to Mariners and perhaps you would be prepared to arrange this with the Admiralty. Or you might consider it preferable for the Hongkong Observatory Authorities to issue such notice to the Shipping Companies likely to be concerned in the service. In any case, such notice should contain a request that Owners should issue the necessary instructions to their Captains to furnish the Marconi operators with the data required for transmission to the Aguilar Station.\n\nAs stated above, we will circulate the enclosed notice to our own operators,\n\nM/AR.\n\nCLOSURE\n\n152\n\nTe await your further advices and in the meantime,\n\nWe are, Sir,\n\nYour obedient Servants,\n\nTHE MARCONI INTERNATIONAL MARINE COMMUNICATION COMPANY, LIMITED,\n\n18 Summer\n\n08\n\nASSISTANT GENERAL MANAGER.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-458 - Public Offices & Others - 1919.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 483139, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-459 - Individuals - 1919", "page_number": 562, "title": "CO129-459 - Individuals - 1919", "content_text": "552\n\nH.A. WATSON & CO\n\nLTD ON CAMPBELL H WATSON D80.. WILLOW ME MOVERS LEWI & BEAUMONT GEORGE A WILLIAMS\n\nMETAL & MINERAL BROKERS\n\nTelegraphic Address-\n\n\"BOND\" Liverpool\n\n*ene #2238 Central (Five Wires)\n\nCodes\n\nA B C 4 & 5 Editions\n\nMoreing & Neals.\n\nLieber's\n\nBentley's\n\nNEW YORK AGENTS\n\nH.A WATSON & CO INC.\n\n55 Liberty STREET,\n\nNEW YORK.\n\nK3071120 Exchange Buildings\n\nLiverpool\n\nApril 15th, 1919.\n\nC.O\n\n23182\n\nRE? REW 16 APR 19\n\nThe Under Secretary of State for the Colonies,\n\nSir,\n\nLONDON.\n\nwolfram\n\nA\n\nWith reference to the circular issued by the Controller of Non-Ferrous Materials Supply, we have just received the following letter from Ralph W.Weymouth of Hong Kong :-\n\n\"Acting on the suggestion and advice of the Colonial Secretary, we are today shipping by the \"Agamemnon\" 35 tons Wolfram for use of the British Government.\n\n\"This Ore was produced in the British Territory of Hongkong, and in accordance with the price paid by the Home Government the royalties will be assessed by the Colonial Government. The fixed price according to your circular is 60s. per unit, with an advertised allowance of 1s. per unit for freight.\n\n\"We have delivered all documents in this transaction to the Banque Industrielle de Chine who will make collection when the usual routine of assay and sale is completed.\n\n\"We are attaching a duly attested certificate of origin. This shipment will average above 67%", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-459 - Individuals - 1919.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 483829, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-461 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1920 [5-7]", "page_number": 182, "title": "CO129-461 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1920 [5-7]", "content_text": "Report on items in paragraph 3 of Circular Despatch of 23rd January, 1920, from the Secretary of State.\n\n178\n\n(1). TIMBER SUPPLY.\n\nAlmost the whole of the timber supply of Hongkong and the New Territories is drawn from outside sources, the only exceptions being a scanty supply of the native Pine (Pinus Massoniana), and wild trees of all kinds which are cut from the hills, the former is used for fuel only, the latter for fuel and for making handles for gardening and agricultural implements. This traffic in timber is very local and carried on only between inland and seaside fishing villages.\n\nWith the exception of \"China Fir\" (Cunninghamia sinensis) of which a very large quantity is imported from South China, all the imported timber for the year 1919 is given on the attached Table \"A\". China Fir may be imported into Hongkong without a permit, consequently no record of the quantity so imported can be accurately made, but it is certainly not less than double that of any of the kinds of timber shown in Table \"A\".\n\n(2). TIMBER UTILISATION.\n\nThe greater part of all the heavy and light timber is used in building operations, beams and all other heavy portions of buildings being made up of Teak or Hardwoods of several kinds; in those portions of buildings where no actual strain is carried or great durability required, \"China Fir\" planks or poles are brought into use.\n\nThe ship-building yards, of which there are a large number, use Teak and Hardwoods in the building of ships, junks, launches and sampans.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-461 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1920 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 487111, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-467 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1921 [1-5]", "page_number": 85, "title": "CO129-467 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1921 [1-5]", "content_text": "## V. PUBLIC WORKS\n\nThe extension of the Central Police Station was practically completed and the extension of the Harbour Office building to accommodate the Imports and Exports Department made good progress. Another storey was added to the Public Works Department Annexe, making the building a 3-storied one, and a similar addition to the European Lunatic Asylum to provide quarters for the warders was practically completed, that portion of the building hitherto occupied as quarters being utilized for the accommodation of patients. The erection of quarters for European Officers on Leighton Hill and the formation of sites for Senior Officers' Quarters on Mount Gough were begun.\n\nA second block of quarters (6 houses) in Kowloon for Subordinate Officers was completed as was also a market at Tai O.\n\nThe additional service reservoir and filter beds for the supply of the western section of the City were completed and the laying of a new 18\" main from Bowen Road to the Monument, Happy Valley, to improve the supply of water to the eastern section of the City was begun.\n\nThe laying of the new 18\" supply main from the Kowloon Storage Reservoir to Yaumati was resumed towards the close of the year, a large number of the pipes required having arrived from England. The widening and improvement of the old road, extending from the Aberdeen Paper Mills to near Little Hongkong Village, where it joins the new road, constructed in 1915, was completed and extensive improvements to the old Pokfulam Road, extending from the University to Aberdeen Docks, were undertaken. The new road from Repulse Bay to a point about half a mile east of Stanley and the widening and improvement of the old road from this point onwards to Taitam Tuk Dam (also from Taitam Gap to Shaukiwan) were practically completed. The construction of a new road traversing the hillside in Wong Nei Chong Valley and extending to Bowen Road was well advanced. The widening of the eastern portion of Bowen Road and the construction of a new road from Bowen Road to Wanchai Gap were undertaken. The extension of Lugard Road to High West Gap, where it will join Harlech Road, was also undertaken. A new road from Shanghai Street, Kowloon, to the southern portion of the Taikoktsui Peninsula was completed and another new road from Kowloon City Road to the China Light and Power Company's new Station and the Dock Company's new houses at Tai Wan Bay was begun. In the New Territories, extensive improvements in that portion of the Tai Po Road between the 9th and 18th milestones were still in progress. The new coastal road from Tsün Wan to Castle Peak Bay was completed, thus rendering available for motor traffic a circular route 57 miles in length.\n\nBeaconsfield Arcade was resumed by Government at a cost of $275,000 as was also Rural Building Lot 111 adjoining Victoria Hospital. The last-mentioned building was resumed in connection with contemplated extensions of the Hospital. A commencement was made with the resumptions required in connection with the widening of Queen's Road East and of that portion of Wanchai Road extending from Queen's Road to Praya East.\n\nArrangements were made for the resumption of Kowloon Farm Lot No. 11 to enable Coronation Road to be extended northwards and the resumptions required in connection with the road improvement schemes mentioned in last year's Report were continued.\n\nThe work of providing scavenging lanes continues, compensation being paid where necessary.\n\nThe Shamshuipo Improvement Scheme made good progress, the demolition of old village houses and construction of new houses fronting on good, wide roads being continued.\n\nThe new ferry services from various points along the City front to Yaumati, Mongkoktsui and Shamshuipo were inaugurated on the 1st January.\n\nThe re-grading of the upper portion of the Peak Tramway was completed, the depressors hitherto in use near Barker Road being abolished.\n\nExtensive illuminations of public buildings in connection with the Peace Celebrations were carried out on the nights of the 18th and 19th July.\n\nThe total amount expended on Public Works Extraordinary was $2,235,002.95 and on Annually Recurrent Works $822,509.87.\n\n## Railway\n\nThe roofing of the passenger platforms at Kowloon remained again in abeyance throughout the year owing to the non-arrival of the steelwork but a consignment of this material has recently arrived from England.\n\nBorings were taken over the site for the new wharf for Kowloon Station yard, and plans and specifications prepared. Tenders were invited and a contract has since been entered into for its construction.\n\nThe brickwork shelter at Tai Po Station for the accommodation of passengers and goods from Sha U Chong referred to in my last report has been extended as originally intended, and the additional accommodation will be appreciated by passengers arriving and departing by the Sha U Chong Launch during the hot weather and rainy season.\n\nAt Shatin Station a siding the full length of the Station Yard has been laid which facilitates the crossing of trains at that station.\n\nThe new permanent station building at Shum Chun station for use of the British Section was completed by the Chinese Section and occupied by the British Section during the year.\n\nThe through train service was interrupted on the 14th and 15th of July owing to strikes in Canton affecting the Locomotive Department employees of the Chinese Section, and again by the Typhoon on August the 22nd.\n\nThe Local Traffic has improved under all heads when compared with the previous year. The advance in passenger and goods earnings is due to increased traffic and the sundry receipts are somewhat larger owing to the inclusion of storage charges on rails and fastenings belonging to the Imperial Government.\n\nThrough and Joint Sectional Traffic Receipts amounted to $302,327.74 or $36,632.96 in excess of 1918.\n\nThe gross receipts for the year were $490,092.77 as against $433,274.43 for 1918 an increase of $56,818.34. The balance after paying working expenses stands at $73,060.63.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-467 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1921 [1-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 491366, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-473 - Individuals - 1921", "page_number": 359, "title": "CO129-473 - Individuals - 1921", "content_text": "BOARD ROOM,\n\n11\n\nENTRANCE TO TOWN DEPOT AND SHOP.\n\nto increase our means. We are at present very much hampered. Our total capital is altogether insufficient. The demand for our commodities is practically unlimited, and we are obliged to increase our herd in order to meet this increasing demand. We shall be obliged to erect some additional buildings at Pokfulum. We have now four circular cow-sheds and we propose to erect two or more in addition. We also propose to obtain from England an assistant manager, in which matter our late chairman, Dr. Manson, has kindly promised his assistance. The new cattle we propose to procure we think of locating upon the property we purchased last, at the top of Sassoon's lot, which you all know. This will enable us to divide our herd instead of having it all in one group as at present, and we feel that this is very essential as a matter of insurance and security. Another matter which we intend to accomplish, if possible, is the obtaining of a central distributing depôt in the town, which we feel is very necessary indeed.\n\nWe have had a good deal of experience now, and the result of our experience is that we have come to be sure that milk can be produced and can be sold in Hong Kong at a fair and remunerative profit. It is an article of prime necessity and of general if not universal use. Our milk has commended itself to the approbation of everybody, and very recently the Government Analyst and also the Colonial Surgeon have expressed a very favourable opinion of its high-class qualities, classing it with that produced and distributed by the Aylesbury Dairy Company in England. It is the belief of medical men in the Colony—and I think I shall be supported in this by Dr. Cantlie—that children and young people don't drink so much milk as they should, and it is very important that at any rate the ability to obtain it, not only of first-rate quality but also in large quantity, should be unbounded.\n\nI beg to move \"That the capital of the Company be increased to the sum of $100,000 by the issue of 7,000 new shares of $10 each, and that the Memorandum of Association be altered accordingly.\" Mr. Burnie seconded and the motion was carried unanimously.\n\nOf the 7,000 new shares created, 3,000 were offered to existing shareholders, $5 per share paid, in proportion with their holdings, the remaining 4,000 being put on offer to the public. This did not entirely satisfy one shareholder, Mr. D. McCulloch, whose view was that \"the original shareholders have been holding their shares so long, and have been losing so much interest, and getting no return for their money, that it would be hardly fair to let new shareholders come in at par.\"\n\nPage 76\n\nPage 77\n\n355", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-473 - Individuals - 1921.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 492108, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-475 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1922 [5-7]", "page_number": 38, "title": "CO129-475 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1922 [5-7]", "content_text": "308\n\nKOWLOON QUESTIONS.\n\nYEAR'S ACTIVITIES OF THE RESIDENTS' ASSOCIATION.\n\nMr. C. A. da Roza presided at the annual meeting held on March 22nd, at St. Andrew's Church Hall, of the Kowloon Residents' Association. An exhaustive review of the year's activities was given by the Chairman and afterwards the Rents Ordinance, the Cemetery site and other questions were discussed.\n\nTHE CHAIRMAN'S REVIEW.\n\nThe CHAIRMAN mentioned that the membership had remained constant during the year; the subscription was only $1 a year and the funds available, therefore, did not permit of printing a full report of the Association's activities. The letters sent and received would convince members that the Association had been full of activity.\n\nHOUSING.\n\nTHE HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS noted that there is an encouraging activity as regards house building and the hope of your Committee is that the time is not far distant when the supply of houses will be adequate to our requirements.\n\nMOTOR 'BUSES.\n\n[March 25th, 1922.]\n\nto send two representatives to a meeting of the Public Works Committee at which the plans of the hospital were to be considered. The estimates presented at the Budget meeting of the Council showed that a total sum of $360,000 had been set down for the hospital, that the estimated expenditure up to 1st December, 1921, was $50,000, and that it was expected to spend $220,000 on the undertaking during the present year.\n\nGovernment Gazette published lengthy regulations governing the establishment of a proposed motor 'bus service. Those regulations were very largely based on our recommendations and it seemed that at last Kowloon was to have an adequate and cheap transportation service. Tenders were later asked for and given. But, to the regret of the whole community, that scheme was dropped by the Government and has never been heard of since.\n\nThrough private enterprise, however, Kowloon now possesses a motor 'bus service which is a means of speedy, cheap and efficient transport. Although this small pioneer service has its value, it is, by its very nature, of little or no benefit to the European residents of Kowloon who had been led to expect something very much superior in every way.\n\nAs the development of outlying districts for the purpose of providing European residential areas is one of the obvious needs of Kowloon, it is the hope, not only of this Association but of residents generally, that matters will not be allowed to remain where they are at present, and that before very long we on this side of the harbour will possess modern travelling facilities better suited to our needs.\n\nWHY NOT TRAMWAYS?\n\nContinuing, the Chairman said:- One of the very first subjects which the Association took up after its establishment and has closely watched since was that of housing and increased house rental.\n\nWhen the Government proposed, in April last year, to increase the Assessment Rate from 13 per cent. to 20 per cent., the Committee very vigorously protested on the ground that house rents were already exorbitantly high and that the residents of Kowloon suffered disabilities as compared with residents in Victoria.\n\nWe pointed out that Kowloon has no trams, no hospitals, an uncertain water supply, indifferent street lighting, no cemetery and is insufficiently policed and we also emphasised the fact that house rents in the Peninsula had already reached a limit beyond which it would be iniquitous to go.\n\nFurther, we urged the establishment of a Fair Rents Board as our suggestion being highly necessary to stop the constantly recurring increases landlords were imposing.\n\nIn May last the Committee combined with the Constitutional Reform Association in a public meeting of protest against the Government's rating proposal and it was gratifying to learn, subsequently, that the Government had abandoned its proposal.\n\nThere is no reason why a circular route could not be designed to cater for all these districts.\n\nThis is a matter which might well engage the early attention of the incoming Committee.\n\nTHE KOWLOON HOSPITAL.\n\nThe Committee wrote to the Government enquiring the approximate date of completion, and was informed that tenders would probably be invited in about two months from the date of the letter (December 28th last) and that the first portion of the building would take about two years to construct.\n\nIn the opinion of the Committee this delay is unwarrantable.\n\nSince the receipt of that reply, your Committee has written to the Government, emphasising once again the urgency of the matter, expressing its disappointment at the length of time estimated to be necessary to erect the building, and once more suggesting that the whole scheme be placed in the hands of outside contractors under the supervision of one of the local firms of architects.\n\nThe case for a hospital for Kowloon has gone beyond the point of argument; it is admitted by the Government.\n\nThe Census taken last year showed that there were over 3,000 non-Chinese residing on the Kowloon Peninsula and for these 3,000 residents there is absolutely no hospital accommodation whatsoever on the mainland.\n\nSurely we have some ground for complaint in the fact that, whereas a site was decided upon so long ago as September, 1920, tenders have not yet even been called for and two years are expected to elapse between the time of commencement of work and the completion of the first part of the building.\n\nWe can only express the hope that the Government will now see that the scheme is rapidly pushed forward and that its fulfilment will not be in any way delayed by other works, such as the development of the locality in which the hospital will be situated.\n\nIn any case, this Association has already intimated to the Government in a report on the subject, the necessity of peace and quietude for patients should be kept in view and no buildings, either residential or industrial should be allowed in the vicinity of the site.\n\nTHE RENTS ORDINANCE.\n\nThis announcement was a most immediate followed by the introduction into the Legislative Council of what was perhaps the most important legislation of the year-the Rents Ordinance.\n\nThere have been two subsequent Ordinances passed in order to make the original Ordinance thoroughly watertight and your Committee is confident that members share with them the gratification at the fact that the Government of this Colony has seen fit to act and act strongly in the interests of householders.\n\nWe sincerely hope that the Government will continue its policy of protection and will refrain from imposing any additional burden by way of a rates revision on the rent-paying community.\n\nThe housing shortage in this Colony, and especially in the Kowloon Peninsula, is still acute and we trust that the Government will not suspend the operation of the Ordinances until the housing supply is adequate to the community's needs.\n\nTRAFFIC REGULATIONS.\n\nIt has been brought to notice that ricksha coolies have often been encouraged by passengers to act contrary to the signals.\n\nThere are still very few visible signs of fulfilment of our desires, for, as yet, although the site was decided upon fully eighteen months ago, tenders for the erection of the building have not even been called for.\n\nDefinite routes have been laid down for rickshas and motor cars approaching and leaving the ferry wharf, and using other roads in the Peninsula.\n\nMuch better control is exercised by the police.\n\nCaution signs for motorists, in English and Chinese, are now displayed in Nathan Road and it would be of great assistance to the police if residents would take care always to observe these signs and the signals of police officers.\n\nIt is hoped that all Kowloon residents will co-operate to prevent violations of regulations which have been designed for their special benefit.\n\nMEDICINE AND WATER.\n\nThe Chairman briefly referred to other matters with which the Committee had dealt during the year.\n\nOne was the inconvenience caused to Kowloon residents by the lack of dispensing facilities after...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-475 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1922 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 492348, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-475 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1922 [5-7]", "page_number": 278, "title": "CO129-475 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1922 [5-7]", "content_text": "Copy.\n\nEnclosure 1.\n\n1471/1919.\n\nSir,\n\n233\n\nGovernment House,\n\nHongkong, 28th April, 1922.\n\nWith reference to Lieutenant-General Kirkpatrick's letter \"O.C.R.9650\" of the 12th December, I have the honour to state that the Director of Public Works and the Assistant Colonial Secretary have reported to me the substance of certain informal discussions which, as Your Excellency is aware, have recently been taking place between them and Colonel Davy on the Military Lands question.\n\n2.\n\nIt is desirable to define in the first instance the general procedure to be adopted, and I concur that the transactions which are now in contemplation should be governed by the Colonial Office Circular despatches of the 9th June, 1890, and the 30th December, 1894; the reference most immediately in point being that contained in paragraph 6 of the latter despatch, which reads as follows:-\n\n\"Whenever the Colony desires to retain any lands \"which the Military Authorities give up, such lands, \"instead of being offered for sale, would be valued, \"and the market value of their fee simple at date of \"surrender would be entered in the Special Account to \"debit of the Colonial Government, together with the fair selling value at that date of any buildings which \"might be upon the land. In the event of the surrender \"of any buildings now existing which in the past were \"erected...\n\nThe General Officer Commanding the Troops,\n\nChina Command.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-475 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1922 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 492349, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-475 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1922 [5-7]", "page_number": 279, "title": "CO129-475 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1922 [5-7]", "content_text": "\"It would only be necessary to record the value of the site if erected at Colonial cost. The amounts so entered would be paid out as required for the provision of the lands or buildings for the defensive purposes of the Colony, and the amounts, as in the case of sale, credited to the Colonial Government, the like credit being given in the event of new sites being provided on Crown Lands. Should no new lands or buildings be immediately required, the amounts entered would remain to the debit of the Colonial Government until such time, if ever, as lands or buildings should become necessary for defensive purposes.\"\n\n3. The land most urgently required by this Government is that in the centre of the City of Victoria and the site of Whitfield Barracks at Kowloon; and I understand that the Military Authorities would be prepared to give up the areas shown in the enclosed schedule, on the understanding that the War Office will adhere to the policy agreed upon of stationing the greater part of the garrison on the mainland.\n\n4. The schedule sets out the value per square foot of each area as settled at the informal discussions which have taken place. The figures include the value of the buildings upon the land. These are not required by this Government, and it is obvious that from a commercial point of view the land cleared of the buildings is more valuable than the land subject to the condition that the buildings are to remain. It is provided in the Circular despatches referred to that values may be settled by agreement between the local Civil and Military Authorities. I consider that the rates per square foot are reasonable and fair to both sides; and, if you are prepared to accept them, I propose that their final adoption should be recommended to the War Office and the", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-475 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1922 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 492350, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-475 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1922 [5-7]", "page_number": 280, "title": "CO129-475 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1922 [5-7]", "content_text": "ACS : f 235 Colonial Office. The acceptance of the figures would not bind the War Department to the surrender of the land, but such areas as it given up would be debited against the Colony at the rates shown.\n\n5. I may take this opportunity to state, with reference to paragraph 6 of the Circular despatch of 1897 quoted above, that the Colony desires to retain the surrendered land only in the sense that it wishes to develop it for the general purposes of the community. The price fixed upon would be final and would not be affected by a future sale by this Government of a particular area at a price higher or less than that paid for its surrender.\n\n6. The Defence Contribution Ordinance, 1901, provides that the percentage paid annually by the Colony is a fixed contribution in full return for the annual cost of the garrison, including capital expenditure for Military Lands and buildings; and it has been the practice to use the Military Lands Account merely as a record of land transactions between the Colonial Government and the Military Authorities. The principle that the Colonial Government does not make cash payments in respect of land and buildings required by the War Department was affirmed in the Colonial Secretary's letter to the Chief Engineer of the 1st April, 1909, a copy of which is attached for convenience of reference, and it was accepted by the Military Authorities. The transactions now proposed are however of a different nature from those which are ordinarily entered in the Military Lands Account, and I am prepared to agree that they should be carried out entirely on a cash basis.\n\n7. The Military Lands Account shows a debit balance of something over $600,000 against this Government, and I suggest that it should be for the time being closed and that this debit should stand over until the cash transactions...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-475 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1922 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 492357, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-475 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1922 [5-7]", "page_number": 287, "title": "CO129-475 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1922 [5-7]", "content_text": "OAS\n\nesvoll Fremmte voo\n\nnoanok\n\nj\n\n‚84HUTE .1 .♬ (.52)\n\n• YOOS\n\nCopy.\n\nSECRET.\n\nEnclosure 3.\n\n241\n\nC.R.9680.\n\nHongkong. Proposed surrender of certain Military Lands in Victoria and Kowloon,\n\nFrom the\n\nTo the\n\nGeneral Officer Commanding the Forces in China.\n\nSecretary, War Office, London, 8.W.1.\n\nHead Quarters, Hongkong,\n\n18th May, 1922.\n\nEnclosures:- C.\n\nSir,\n\nWith reference to War Office letter Hongkong 8/311 (M.0.3.) dated 25th January, 1922, I have the honour to report that, after considerable local discussion, the Colonial Government has formulated the following proposals in their letters of the 28th April and 4th May 1922, of which I enclose copies. In the above letters, the following are the main proposals:\n\n(1) The procedure generally to be governed by Colonial Office Circular Despatches of 9th June 1890 and 30th December 1894.\n\n(2) The amount to be credited to the War Department in respect of land handed over to Colonial Government to be calculated in accordance with the schedule forwarded herewith. The price of the land to include any buildings standing on it. The prices shown on the schedule to be final, and not to be affected by any subsequent sale by the Colonial Government.\n\n(3) A special Surrender Account to be opened in which all these transactions would be recorded. The existing Military Lands Account to be held in suspense, so far as this particular scheme is concerned, until the latter is finally wound up, when the balance due", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-475 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1922 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 492358, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-475 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1922 [5-7]", "page_number": 288, "title": "CO129-475 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1922 [5-7]", "content_text": "242\n\nmynd viell\n\n183 70 Tabnetiza basogo19 .nonol\n\nJuno (woli beg sirodoit ni\n\n„grid” ni momój wất xmiksermos resi110 (exened ...8mento.i,901710 mai\"ndero08\n\n*\n\ncarburoit moden 5,5-i170:18h of sonatsler deir\n\nadt mort\n\nart of\n\nwith over 1 sel yanımal dƒës,beteb (,2,0,M) ([\\?\n\nt\n\ninpol sidersbishno redte „deld drogen of vuonori Julvbellen\n\nBİTOJOLY\n\n* bada furcol and drawrievou [eżnoļo wild ‚¤ÐÌ?RWOBìb.\n\nset det er to stedda ( niset ni a (axoqoną taiwo [[o]\n\nto or by the War Department would be entered in the former.\n\n(4) Funds for the provision of lands and buildings in replacement of those surrendered, or for additional buildings, if required, to be provided by the Colonial Government up to the full amount of the credit standing to the War Department in the Surrender Account. The work to be carried out by the Colonial Government to War Department requirements, and the War Department to be debited in the Surrender Account with the actual cost which includes a reasonable percentage for overhead charges.\n\n(5) The sum of £114,317. 18s. 9d. due from the Treasury to the Colonial Government on account of over-payment of Military Contribution to be the first entry in the Surrender Account to the debit of the War Department.\n\n(6) The Pinewood area to be handed over at once to the Colonial Government at the same price as was charged to the War Department; when this property was acquired in 1905, viz. 11.059 cents per square foot.\n\nII.\n\nseriatim.\n\nThe foregoing proposals will now be dealt with\n\nni .7siqes maofɔne i doirke to bra-SSRI VAR AJA he\n\n1\n\n(I) NIZATION at yang stubadong sa\n\n386) suni, A3S To asiloduqasi. Teluoti? sol710 Letno [o\n\n108 I reúmoneli MJ05 bry\n\ngrell ord nd belibato ad od davome ent (S) Leino 'où of Tavo better brel to dosquer nå drømdress\n\norld diw Bourkronor mi bode [us les off of themTISVOD\n\n.ddiested shopuro? » Cubarios\n\nit mo zniknede ezibilul yaz obulant od\n\n[eri ed of slaberler alt no puddla\n\n(en dncupaadum vito vi bntoeite\n\n„dromiavot\n\nLytro Lo anh th\n\nni bensqo off of juvonni Teknetisë Istogqa A (E) edi .hel zonen si i Dor subidocumenð amerið [Le Noirty\n\npemoqar ni hind sa or mood spied agadilik ynijeixs\n\nSideshowborca și gençon sælenktinq miris we nat on\n\neut com fed ads media CI snow y [leni? si reddal ərid\n\n(1) Agreed to.\n\n(2) The values shown the schedule have been arrived at by my Chief Engineer in consultation with the Director of Public Works, and it is recommended that they be accepted as the \"market value\" referred to in Colonial Office Circular of 30th December 1894. It is inevitable that there should be a considerable element of uncertainty in such valuations. The market value of land in this Colony is liable to violent fluctuations due to political, commercial and other causes. Ample evidence of this is forthcoming every day in the records of land sales by the Colonial Government. All that can be said is that the figures are believed to represent fair average values. The alternative to accepting them as they stand would be an independent valuation, which would be\n\nat\n\n...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-475 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1922 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 493811, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-478 - Public Offices & Others - 1922", "page_number": 202, "title": "CO129-478 - Public Offices & Others - 1922", "content_text": "199\n\nMemorandum P.\n\nAfter considerable discussion the meeting came to the unanimous conclusion that certain proposals put up by Major-General Sir J.S. Fowler could not be agreed to,\n\nAt Appendix A. to these minutes is a copy of a letter that it is proposed to send in reply, which embodies the results of such discussion.\n\nThe main points on which the Conference could not agree with General Sir J.S. Fowler are :-\n\n(a)\n\n(b)\n\n(c)\n\n(d)\n\n(e)\n\nThey could not accept the $11,291,446 figure as to the valuation of War Department property which it was proposed to hand over to the Colonial Government at Hong Kong.\n\nLieut.-General Sir G.M. Kirkpatrick considered that this was very much under-estimated, and recommended that an independent valuer should go out to Hong Kong and value the whole of the property.\n\nThe terms of the Colonial Office Circular Despatch drawn up on 30th December 1894, between the Home Government and Colonial Government would not be departed from if such action was taken. This procedure is explicitly allowed for in the terms. The Conference agreed to this proposal.\n\nIt was unanimously agreed that whatever accommodation the Colonial Government wished to take over from the War Department the former was to re-provide in its entirety, at the same time agreeing to re-provide such buildings with all modern conveniences and up to date in every way, also all means of communication, e.g. roads, etc., were to be provided at the same time.\n\nThey cannot agree to the principles contained in para.4 of General Sir J.S. Fowler's letter.\n\nLieut.-General Sir G.M. Kirkpatrick said that the value of the land it was proposed to hand over to the Colonial Government was about ten times as valuable as the land it was proposed to get in return, and therefore the War Department should get the credit. Under no consideration should it be a level exchange.\n\nThis was unanimously agreed to.\n\nThey could not agree to the Pinewood area (reference para.6 of General Sir J.S. Fowler's letter) being sold to the Colonial Government at the same price it was bought at in 1905.\n\nThe independent valuer, when he values all property should also revalue this area up to the present day basis.\n\nThis was unanimously agreed to.\n\nThey could not agree that the apparent debt of $114,317.18.9, due to the Colonial Government, should be taken into consideration when considering this scheme; and it was proposed that the Treasury should be consulted.\n\nThis was unanimously agreed to.\n\n(1)/", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-478 - Public Offices & Others - 1922.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 493816, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-478 - Public Offices & Others - 1922", "page_number": 207, "title": "CO129-478 - Public Offices & Others - 1922", "content_text": "SECRET.\n\n204\n\nMemorandum 3.\n\nHong Kong. Proposed surrender of certain Military Lands in Victoria and Kowloon,\n\nFrom the General Officer Commanding the Forces in China.\n\nTo the Secretary, War Office, London, S.W.1,\n\nSir,\n\nHead Quarters, Hong Kong\n\n18th May, 1922.\n\nEnclosures:\n\nWith reference to War Office letter Hong Kong 8/311 (1.0.1.B.) dated 25th January 1922, I have the honour to report that, after considerable local discussion, the Colonial Government has formulated the following proposals in their letters of the 28th April and 4th May 192 in of 1922 and of which I enclose copies. In the above letters the following are the main proposals:-\n\n(1) The procedure generally to be governed by Colonial Office Circular Despatches of 9th June 1890 and 30th December 1894.\n\n(2) The amount to be credited to the War Department in respect of land handed over to Colonial Government to be calculated in accordance with the schedule forwarded herewith. The price of the land to include any buildings standing on it. The prices shown on the schedule to be final, and not to be affected by any subsequent sale by the Colonial Government.\n\n(3) A special Surrender Account to be opened in which all these transactions would be recorded. The existing Military Lands Account to be held in suspense, so far as this particular scheme is concerned, until the latter is finally wound up, when the balance due to or by the War Department would be entered in the former.\n\n(4) Funds for the provision of lands and buildings in replacement of those surrendered, or for additional buildings, if required, to be provided by the Colonial Government up to the full amount of the credit standing to the War Department in the Surrender Account. The work to be carried out by the Colonial Government to War Department requirements, and the War Department to be debited in the Surrender Account with the actual cost, which includes a reasonable percentage for overhead charges.\n\n(5) The sum of £114,317-18-9 due from the Treasury to the Colonial Government on account of overpayment of Military Contribution to be the first entry in the Surrender Account to the debit of the War Department.\n\n(6) The Pinewood area to be handed over at once to the Colonial Government at the same price as was charged to the War Department when this property was acquired in 1905, viz. 11,059 cents per square foot.\n\nPage 205\n\n \n\n/II.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-478 - Public Offices & Others - 1922.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 493821, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-478 - Public Offices & Others - 1922", "page_number": 212, "title": "CO129-478 - Public Offices & Others - 1922", "content_text": "No.1471/1919.\n\n1\n\n209\n\nMemorandum E.\n\nGovernment House,\n\nHong Kong.\n\n28th April, 1922.\n\nSir,\n\nWith reference to Lieutenant-General Kirkpatrick's letter No.C.R.9650 of the 12th December, I have the honour to state that the Director of Public Works and the Assistant Colonial Secretary have reported to me the substance of certain informal discussions which, as Your Excellency is aware, have recently been taking place between them and Colonel Davy on the Military Lands question.\n\n2. It is desirable to define in the first instance the general procedure to be adopted, and I concur that the transactions which are now in contemplation should be governed by the Colonial Office Circular despatches of the 9th June 1890, and the 30th December 1894; the reference most immediately in point being that contained in paragraph 6 of the latter despatch, which reads as follows:-\n\n\"Whenever the Colony desires to retain any lands which \"the Military Authorities give up, such lands, instead of \"being offered for sale, would be valued, and the market \"value of their fee simple at date of surrender would be \"entered in the Special Account to debit of the Colonial \"Government, together with the fair selling at that date of \"any buildings which might be upon the land. In the event \"of the surrender of any buildings now existing which in the \"past were erected at Colonial cost it would only be necessary to record the value of the site. The amounts so entered \"would be paid out as required for the provision of the lands for buildings for the defensive purposes of the Colony, and \"the amounts, as in the case of sale, credited to the Colonial \"Government, the like credit being given in the event of new \"sites being provided on Crown Lands. Should no new lands or \"buildings be immediately required the amounts entered would \"remain to the debit of the Colonial Government until such \"time, if ever, as lands or buildings should become necessary \"for defensive purposes.\n\n3. The land most urgently required by this Government is that in the centre of the City of Victoria and the site of Whitfield Barracks at Kowloon; and I understand that the Military Authorities would be prepared to give up the areas shown in the enclosed schedule on the understanding that the War Office will adhere to the policy agreed upon of stationing the greater part of the garrison on the mainland.\n\n4. The schedule sets out the value per square foot of each area as settled at the informal discussions which have taken place. The figures include the value of the buildings upon the land. These are not required by this Government and it is obvious that from a commercial point of view the land cleared of the buildings is much more valuable than the land subject to the condition that the buildings are to remain. It is provided in the Circular despatches referred to that values may be settled by agreement between the local Civil and Military Authorities. I consider that the rates per square foot are reasonable and fair to both sides; and, if you are prepared to accept them, I propose that their final adoption should be recommended to the War Office and the Colonial Office. The acceptance of the figures would not bind the War Department to the surrender of the land, but such areas as it gives up would be debited against the Colony at the rates shown.\n\n-----\n\n5.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-478 - Public Offices & Others - 1922.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 493822, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-478 - Public Offices & Others - 1922", "page_number": 213, "title": "CO129-478 - Public Offices & Others - 1922", "content_text": "210\n\n5. I may take this opportunity to state, with reference to paragraph 6 of the Circular despatch of 1894 quoted above, that the Colony desires to retain the surrendered land only in the sense that it wishes to develop it for the general purposes of the community. The price agreed upon would be final and would not be affected by a future sale by this Government of a particular area at a price higher or less than that paid for its surrender.\n\n6. The Defence Contribution Ordinance, 1901, provides that the percentage paid annually by the Colony is a fixed contribution in full return for the annual cost of the garrison, including all capital expenditure for Military Lands and buildings; and it has been the practice to use the Military Lands Account merely as a record of land transactions between the Colonial Government and the Military Authorities. The principle that the Colonial Government does not make cash payments in respect of land and buildings by the War Department was affirmed in the Colonial Secretary's letter to the Chief Engineer of the 1st April 1909, a copy of which is attached for convenience of reference, and it was accepted by the Military Authorities. The transactions now proposed are however of a different nature from those which are ordinarily entered in the Military Lands Account, and I am prepared to agree that they should be carried out entirely on a cash basis.\n\nThe Military Lands Account shows a debit balance of something over $600,000 against this Government, and I suggest that it should be for the time being closed and that this debit should stand over until the cash transactions are entirely completed.\n\n8. Under date the 28th September 1921, the War Office informed the Colonial Office that the sum of £114,317-18s-9d was owing to this Government on account of percentage overpaid under the Defence Contribution Ordinance. I propose that the new cash account shall be opened by the entry of this sum to the credit of this Government, and that, as soon as the Military Authorities are prepared to undertake that certain land will be handed over, the agreed price of that land shall be credited to them. The balance in favour of the Military Authorities will obviously be a large one, and the Colony will be responsible to the extent of the whole of that balance for the reprovisioning of the garrison. For example, taking the value of the land to be handed over at $11,000,000 and deducting £900,000 as the rough equivalent of the refund in respect of defence contribution, the Colony would be under obligation to the extent of $10,100,000 to provide land, the value to be settled by agreement or arbitration, and to construct any new buildings which may be required. When the transactions have been entirely completed and the balance to the credit of the Military Authorities has been exhausted, the cash account will be closed, and the Military Lands Account will be re-opened on its present basis.\n\n9. If the Military Authorities are prepared to proceed on the lines which I have indicated, I would ask that an immediate commencement may be made by the surrender of the Pinewood Battery area. The rate of transfer of this land was 11,059 cents per square foot and the Director of Public Works reports that the present day all over value is less than half this sum. I suggest that this Government should accept a debit in the new cash account of the exact sum which was credited to it in the Military Lands Account; the result being that the occupation of the area by the Military Authorities will have been free of charge to them except in respect of money spent on constructional work. The Director of Public Works will of course be glad to discuss with Colonel Davy his figures regarding the valuation of the land.\n\n10.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-478 - Public Offices & Others - 1922.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 493832, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-478 - Public Offices & Others - 1922", "page_number": 223, "title": "CO129-478 - Public Offices & Others - 1922", "content_text": "SECRET\n\nHong Kong\n\nProposed surrender of certain Military Lands in Victoria and Kowloon,\n\n220\n\nA\n\nFrom the\n\nGeneral Officer Commanding the Forces in China.\n\nTo the\n\nSecretary,\n\nWar Office, London, S.W.1.\n\nSir,\n\nHead Quarters, Hong Kong\n\n18th May, 1922.\n\nWith reference to War Office Letter Hong Kong 8/311 (M.O.1.B.) dated 25th January 1922, I have the honour to report that, after considerable local discussion, the Colonial Government has formulated the following proposals in their letters of the 28th April and 4th May 1922 and of which I enclose copies. In the above letters the following are the main proposals :-\n\n(1) The procedure generally to be governed by Colonial Office Circular Despatches of 9th June 1890 and 30th December 1894.\n\n(2) The amount to be credited to the War Department in respect of land handed over to Colonial Government to be calculated in accordance with the schedule forwarded herewith. The price of the land to include any buildings standing on it. The prices shown on the schedule to be final, and not to be affected by any subsequent sale by the Colonial Government.\n\n(3) A special Surrender Account to be opened in which all these transactions would be recorded. The existing Military Lands Account to be held in suspense, so far as this particular scheme is concerned, until the latter is finally wound up, when the balance due to or by the War Department would be entered in the former.\n\n(4) Funds for the provision of lands and buildings in replacement of those surrendered, or for additional buildings, if required, to be provided by the Colonial Government \"up to the full amount of the credit standing to the War Department in the Surrender Account, but the work to be carried out by the Colonial Government to War Department requirements, and the War Department to be debited in the Surrender Account with the actual cost which includes a reasonable percentage for overhead charges.\n\n(5) The sum of $114,317.18.0 due from the Treasury to the Colonial Government on account of overpayment of Military Contribution to be the first entry in the Surrender Account to the debit of the War Department.\n\n(6) The Pinewood area to be handed over at once to the Colonial Government at the same price as was charged to the War Department when this property was acquired in 1905, viz, 11.059 cents per square foot.\n\nPage 221\n\n \n...\n\n...\n\nPage 221", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-478 - Public Offices & Others - 1922.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 493836, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-478 - Public Offices & Others - 1922", "page_number": 227, "title": "CO129-478 - Public Offices & Others - 1922", "content_text": "No.1471/1919.\n\nGovernment House,\n\n224\n\nHong Kong,\n\n28th April, 1922.\n\nSir,\n\nWith reference to Lieutenant-General Kirkpatrick's letter No.C.R.9350 of the 12th December, I have the honour to state that the Director of Public Works and the Assistant Colonial Secretary have reported to me the substance of certain informal discussions which, as Your Excellency is aware, have recently been taking place between them and Colonel Davy on the Military Lands question.\n\n2. It is desirable to define in the first instance the general procedure to be adopted, and I concur that the transactions which are now in contemplation should be governed by the Colonial Office Circular despatches of the 9th June 1890, and the 30th December 1894; the reference most immediately in point being that contained in paragraph 6 of the latter despatch, which reads as follows:-\n\n\"Whenever the Colony desires to retain any lands which the Military Authorities give up, such lands, instead of being offered for sale, would be valued, and the market value of their fee simple at date of surrender would be entered in the Special Account to debit of the Colonial Government, together with the fair selling at that date of any buildings which might be upon the land. In the event of the surrender of any buildings now existing which in the past were erected at Colonial cost it would only be necessary to record the value of the site. The amounts so entered would be paid out as required for the provision of the lands or buildings for the defensive purposes of the Colony, and the amounts, as in the case of sale, credited to the Colonial Government, the like credit being given in the event of new sites being provided on Crown Lands. Should no new lands or buildings be immediately required the amounts entered would remain to the debit of the Colonial Government until such time, if ever, as lands or buildings should become necessary for defensive purposes.\"\n\n3. The land most urgently required by this Government is that in the centre of the City of Victoria and the site of Whitfield Barracks at Kowloon; and I understand that the Military Authorities would be prepared to give up the areas shown in the enclosed schedule on the understanding that the War Office will adhere to the policy agreed upon of stationing the greater part of the garrison on the mainland.\n\n4. The schedule sets out the value per square foot of each area as settled at the informal discussions which have taken place. The figures include the value of the buildings upon the land. The buildings are not required by this Government, and it is obvious that from a commercial point of view the land cleared of the buildings is much more valuable than the land subject to the condition that the buildings are to remain. It is provided in the Circular despatches referred to that values may be settled by agreement between the local Civil and Military Authorities. I consider that the rates per square foot are reasonable and fair to both sides; and, if you are prepared to accept them, I propose that their final adoption should be recommended to the War Office and the Colonial Office. The acceptance of the figures would not bind the War Department to the surrender of the land, but such areas as it gives up would be debited against the Colony at the rates shown.\n\n5.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-478 - Public Offices & Others - 1922.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 493838, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-478 - Public Offices & Others - 1922", "page_number": 229, "title": "CO129-478 - Public Offices & Others - 1922", "content_text": "I may take this opportunity to state, with reference to paragraph 6 of the Circular despatch of 1894 quoted above, that the Colony desires to retain the surrendered land only in the sense that it wishes to develop it for the general purposes of the community. The price agreed upon would be final and would not be affected by a future sale by this Government of a particular area at a price higher or less than that paid for its surrender,\n\nThe Defence Contribution Ordinance, 1901, provides that the percentage paid annually by the Colony is a fixed contribution in full return for the annual cost of the garrison, including all capital expenditure for Military Lands and buildings; and it has been the practice to use the Military Lands Account merely as a record of land transactions between the Colonial Government and the Military Authorities. The principle that the Colonial Government does not make cash payments in respect of land and buildings by the War Department was affirmed in the Colonial Secretary's letter to the Chief Engineer of the 1st April 1909, a copy of which is attached for convenience of reference, and it was accepted by the Military Authorities. The transactions now proposed are however of a different nature from those which are ordinarily entered in the Military Lands Account, and I am prepared to agree that they should be carried out entirely on a cash basis,\n\nThe Military Lands Account shows a debit balance of something over $600,000 against this Government, and I suggest that it should be for the time being closed and that this debit should stand over until the cash transactions are entirely completed.\n\nUnder date the 28th September 1921, the War Office informed the Colonial Office that the sum of £114,317-18s-9d was owing to this Government on account of percentage overpaid under the Defence Contribution Ordinance. I propose that the new cash account shall be opened by the entry of this sum to the credit of this Government, and that, as soon as the Military Authorities are prepared to undertake that certain land will be handed over, the agreed price of that land shall be credited to them. The balance in favour of the Military Authorities will obviously be a large one, and the Colony will be responsible to the extent of the whole of that balance for the reprovisioning of the garrison. For example, taking the value of the land to be handed over at $11,000,000 and deducting $900,000 as the rough equivalent of the refund in respect of defence contribution, the Colony would be under obligation to the extent of $10,100,000 to provide land, the value to be settled by agreement or arbitration, and to construct any new buildings which may be required. When the transactions have been entirely completed and the balance to the credit of the Military Authorities has been exhausted, the cash account will be closed, and the Military Lands Account will be reopened on its present basis.\n\nIf the Military Authorities are prepared to proceed on the lines which I have indicated, I would ask that an immediate commencement may be made by the surrender of the Pinewood Battery area. The rate of transfer of this land was 11.059 cents per square foot and the Director of Public Works reports that the present day all over value is less than half this sum. I suggest that this Government should accept a debit in the new cash account of the exact sum which was credited to it in the Military Lands Account; the result being that the occupation of the area by the Military Authorities will have been free of charge to them except in respect of money spent on constructional work. The Director of Public Works will of course be glad to discuss with Colonel Davy his figures regarding the valuation of the land.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-478 - Public Offices & Others - 1922.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 493851, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-478 - Public Offices & Others - 1922", "page_number": 242, "title": "CO129-478 - Public Offices & Others - 1922", "content_text": "The main points on which the Conference could not agree with General Sir J.S. Fowler are -\n\n(a)\n\n(b)\n\n(c)\n\n(d)\n\n(e)\n\n(f)\n\n(g)\n\nThey could not accept the £1,291,446 figure as to the valuation of War Department property which it was proposed to hand over to the Colonial Government at Hong Kong.\n\nLieut. General Sir G.M. Kirkpatrick considered that this was very much under-estimated, and recommended that an independent valuer should go out to Hong Kong and value the whole of the property.\n\nThe terms of the Colonial Office Circular Despatch drawn up on 30th December 1894, between the Home Government and Colonial Government would not be departed from if such action was taken. This procedure is explicitly allowed for in the terms. The Conference agreed to this proposal.\n\nIt was unanimously agreed that whatever accommodation the Colonial Government wished to take over from the War Department the former was to re-provide in its entirety, at the same time agreeing to re-provide such buildings with all modern conveniences and up to date in every way, also all means of communication, e.g. roads, etc., were to be provided at the same time.\n\nThey cannot agree to the principles contained in para. 4. of General Sir J.S. Fowler's letter. The land it is proposed to hand over to the Colonial Government is undoubtedly much more valuable than the land it was proposed to get in return. Under no circumstances should it be a level exchange.\n\nThis was agreed to.\n\nThey could not agree to the Pinewood area (refers para. 6, of General Sir J.S. Fowler's letter) being sold to the Colonial Government at the same price it was bought at in 1903.\n\nThe independent valuer, when he values all property should also revalue this area up to the present day basis.\n\nThis was agreed to.\n\nThey could not agree that the apparent debt of £114,317.18.9., due to the Colonial Government, should be taken into consideration when considering this scheme, and it was proposed that the Treasury should be consulted.\n\nThis was agreed to.\n\nAs regards the advisability or otherwise of opening a special Surrender Account, the Conference agreed that there was no objection in principle to this.\n\nAs regards execution of Work, this question the Conference considered should be further investigated e.g. Whether W.D. or Colonial Government should execute or not.\n\nMr. Beckett said he understood that the Colonial Office would be consulted before action was taken on the above decisions.\n\nMemorandum D.\n\nThe Conference could not agree to para. 2. of the Governor's letter.\n\nThe War Department would require more than the break-up value of the buildings.\n\nMemorandum E.\n\nLieut. General Sir G.M. Kirkpatrick raised four points -\n\n(1) Reference para. 9\n\nIt was proposed that the surrender of the Pinewood Battery, if the new proposals in these minutes were accepted by the Colonial Government, should be proceeded with at once and subject to the Colonial Government agreeing to accept for the purpose of the Colonial Military Lands Account an independent valuation based upon current values. This was agreed to.\n\n(2) Lieut. General Sir G.M. Kirkpatrick said that he would advise that the existing Military Hospital should not be surrendered, or any steps taken to find a new site until it had been decided where the whole garrison would ultimately be housed, This question could then be considered independently. This was agreed to.\n\n(3) Lieut. General Sir G.M. Kirkpatrick said that, before any alternative sites were taken over which the Colonial Government proposed to offer to the War Department, a Board of Officers on which the Principal Medical Officer was represented should agree that such sites were healthy in every way.\n\nNo acceptance of alternative sites should be agreed before such assurance was received from the Board above referred to as the conclusions accepted by the G.O.C. This was agreed to.\n\n(4) He advised that the British Battalion should not come to Gun Club Hill until the accommodation for the Indian Battalion surrendered had been replaced.\n\nMemorandum E.\n\nThe question of the provision of a Soldiers' Club on the South Side of Queen's Road, Victoria, opposite the Naval Terrace was then discussed.\n\nColonel McHardy proposed that the War Department or Admiralty should negotiate for the site with the Colonial Office. The cost of the building being met partly by $200,000 (being an estimate of the compensation to be received for the existing Naval Club, the property of the China Fleet) and partly by a grant from the Canteen's Central funds, held by the Army Council.\n\nColonel McHardy\n\n(h)", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-478 - Public Offices & Others - 1922.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 493854, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-478 - Public Offices & Others - 1922", "page_number": 245, "title": "CO129-478 - Public Offices & Others - 1922", "content_text": "242\n\nMemorandum B\n\nSECRET.\n\nHong Kong. Proposed surrender of certain Military Lands in Victoria and Kowloon.\n\nFrom\n\nTo\n\nThe General Officer Commanding the Forces in China,\n\nThe Secretary, War Office, London, S.W.1,\n\nHeadquarter, Hong Kong.\n\n18th May, 1922,\n\nSir,\n\nWith reference to War Office letter Hong Kong 8/311 (M.O.1.3.) dated 25th January, 1922, I have the honour to report that, after considerable local discussion, the Colonial Government has formulated the following proposals in their letters of the 28th April and 4th May 1922, and of which I enclose copies. In the above letters the following are the main proposals,\n\n(1) The procedure generally to be governed by Colonial Office Circular Despatches of 9th June 1890 and 30th December, 1894.\n\n(2) The amount to be credited to the War Department in respect of land handed over to Colonial Government to be calculated in accordance with the schedule forwarded herewith. The price of the land to include any buildings standing on it. The prices shown on the schedule to be final, and not to be affected by any subsequent sale by the Colonial Government.\n\n(3) A special Surrender Account to be opened in which all these transactions would be recorded, existing Military Lands Account to be held in suspense, so far as this particular scheme is concerned, until the latter is finally wound up, when the balance due to or by the War Department would be entered in the former.\n\n(4) Funds for the provision of lands and buildings in replacement of those surrendered, or for additional buildings, if required, to be provided by the Colonial Government up to the full amount of the credit standing to the War Department in the Surrender Account. The work to be carried out by the Colonial Government to War Department requirements, and the War Department to be debited in the Surrender Account with the actual cost which includes a reasonable percentage for overhead charges.\n\n(5) The Pinewood area to be handed over at once to the Colonial Government at the same price as was charged to the War Department; when this property was acquired in 1905, viz. 11,059 cents per square foot,\n\n(6) The sum of $1,143,178.9 due from the Treasury to the Colonial Government on account of overpayment of Military Contribution to be the first entry in the Surrender Account to the debit of the War Department.\n\nII.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-478 - Public Offices & Others - 1922.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 493859, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-478 - Public Offices & Others - 1922", "page_number": 250, "title": "CO129-478 - Public Offices & Others - 1922", "content_text": "No. 1471/1919,\n\nSir,\n\nMeno randum E,\n\nGoverment House,\n\nHong Kong,\n\n28th April, 1922.\n\n247\n\n12,\n\nWith reference to Lieutenant-General Kirkpatrick's letter No. C.R.9650 of the 12th December, I have the honour to state that the Director of Public Works and the Assistant Colonial Secretary have reported to me the substance of certain informal discussions which, as Your Excellency is aware, have recently been taking place between them and Colonel Davy on the Military Lands question.\n\n2. It is desirable to define in the first instance the general procedure to be adopted, and I concur that the transactions which are now in contemplation should be governed by the Colonial Office Circular despatches of the 9th June 1890, and the 30th December, 1894, the reference most immediately in point being that contained in paragraph 6 of the latter despatch, which reads as follows:\n\n\"Whenever the Colony desires to retain any lands which the Military Authorities give up, such lands, instead of being offered for sale, would be valued, and the market value of their fee simple at date of surrender would be entered in the Special Account to debit of the Colonial Government, together with the fair selling value at that date of any buildings which might be upon the land. In the event of the surrender of any buildings now existing which in the past were erected at Colonial cost it would only be necessary to record the value of the site. The amounts so entered would be paid out as required for the provision of the lands or buildings for the defensive purposes of the Colony, and the amounts, as in the case of sale, credited to the Colonial Government, the like credit being given in the event of new sites being provided on Crown Lands. Should no new lands or buildings be immediately required the amounts entered would remain to the debit of the Colonial Government until such time, if ever, as lands, or buildings should become necessary for defensive purposes\".\n\n3.\n\nThe land most urgently required by this Government is that in the centre of the City of Victoria and the site of Whitfield Barracks at Kowloon, and I understand that the Military Authorities would be prepared to give up the areas shown in the enclosed schedule on the understanding that the War Office will adhere to the policy agreed upon of stationing the greater part of the garrison on the mainland.\n\n4. The schedule sets out the value per square foot of each area as settled at the informal discussions which have taken place. The figures include the value of the buildings upon the land. These are not required by this Government, and it is obvious that from a commercial point of view the land cleared of the buildings is much more valuable than the land subject to the condition that the buildings are to remain. It is provided in the Circular despatches referred to that values may be settled by agreement between the local Civil and Military Authorities. I consider that the rates per square foot are reasonable and fair to both sides; and, if you are prepared to accept them, I propose that their final adoption should be recommended to the War Office and the Colonial Office. The acceptance of the figures would not bind the War Department to the surrender of the land, but such areas as it gives up would be debited against the Colony at the rates shown.\n\n5.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-478 - Public Offices & Others - 1922.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 493860, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-478 - Public Offices & Others - 1922", "page_number": 251, "title": "CO129-478 - Public Offices & Others - 1922", "content_text": "248\n\nLU\n\n3. I may take this opportunity to state, with reference to paragraph 6 of the Circular despatch of 1894 quoted above, that the Colony desires to retain the surrendered land only in the sense that it wishes to develop it for the general purposes of the community. The price agreed upon would be final and would not be affected by a future sale by this Government of a particular area at a price higher or less than that paid for its surrender.\n\n6. The Defence Contribution Ordinance, 1901, provides that the percentage paid annually by the Colony is a fixed contribution in full return for the annual cost of the garrison, including all capital expenditure for Military Lands and buildings; and it has been the practice to use the Military Lands Account merely as a record of land transactions between the Colonial Government and the Military Authorities. The principle that the Colonial Government does not make cash payments in respect of land and buildings by the War Department was affirmed in the Colonial Secretary's letter to the Chief Engineer of the 1st April 1909, a copy of which is attached for convenience of reference, and it was accepted by the Military Authorities. The transactions now proposed are however of a different nature from those which are ordinarily entered in the Military Lands Account, and I am prepared to agree that they should be carried out entirely on a cash basis.\n\n7. The Military Lands Account shows a debit balance on something over $600,000 against this Government, and I suggest that it should be for the time being closed and that this debit should stand over until the cash transactions are entirely completed.\n\n8. Under date the 28th September 1921, the War Office informed the Colonial Office that the sum of £114,317.18.9d. was owing to this Government on account of percentage overpaid under the Defence Contribution Ordinance. I propose that the new cash account shall be opened by the entry of this sum to the credit of this Government, and that, as soon as the Military Authorities are prepared to undertake that certain land will be handed over, the agreed price of that land shall be credited to them. The balance in favour of the Military Authorities will obviously be a large one, and the Colony will be responsible to the extent of the whole of that balance for the reprovisioning of the garrison. For example, taking the value of the land to be handed over at $11,000,000 and deducting $900,000 as the rough equivalent of the refund in respect of defence contribution, the Colony would be under obligation to the extent of $10,100,000 to provide land, the value to be settled by agreement or arbitration, and to construct any new buildings which may be required. When the transactions have been entirely completed and the balance to the credit of the Military Authorities has been exhausted, the cash account will be closed, and the Military Lands Account will be re-opened on its present basis.\n\n9. If the Military authorities are prepared to proceed on the lines which I have indicated, I would ask that an immediate commencement may be made by the surrender of the Pinewood Battery area. The rate of transfer of this land was 11.059 cents per square foot and the Director of Public Works reports that the present day all over value is less than half this sum. I suggest that this Government should accept a debit in the new cash account of the exact sum which was credited to in the Military Lands Account; the result being that the occupation of the area by the Military Authorities will have been free of charge to them except in respect of money spent on constructional work. The Director of Public Works will of course be glad to discuss with Colonel Davy his figures regarding the valuation of the land.\n\n10.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-478 - Public Offices & Others - 1922.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 493864, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-478 - Public Offices & Others - 1922", "page_number": 255, "title": "CO129-478 - Public Offices & Others - 1922", "content_text": "Sir,\n\n252\n\nWith reference to your letter No. 0.R. 9860 dated 19th July 1988, I am commanded by the Army Council to inform you that the proposed moves of troops to new locations and surrender of lands and properties now occupied by the troops, as soon as new accommodation has been prepared, is approved in principle according to the Schedules A. and B. annexed, and subject to an agreement being arrived at with the Colonial Government as to the conditions of transfer.\n\n2. The proposal that the procedure be generally governed by Colonial Office Circular Despatches of the 9th June 1890 and 30th December 1894, is agreed to.\n\n3. There is no objection to the proposal to open a special account for this particular scheme, it being understood that this special account will be closed within a reasonable period, say 18 months, of the transfer of troops to their new locations, and that any balance due will be credited to the existing Military Lands Account which will not be closed, but will run concurrently to facilitate transactions in lands, buildings, etc. surrendered and replaced outside the special surrender now under discussion.\n\n4. Having regard to the magnitude of the transaction, the Council are not prepared to accept the valuation arrived at locally. It is considered that it would prove more satisfactory in the long run to both parties that an independent surveyor of standing be appointed as provided in paragraph 7 of the Colonial Office Circular of 30th December, 1894, and a further communication on this subject will be made to you. It is not considered that the delay arising from such a valuation is of material consequence since its completion need not delay the preparation of new schemes, nor the works when approved.\n\n5. In view of the circumstances that the dispossession of the military from their present holdings is due to considerations of commercial needs of the Colony, the Army Council cannot accept the limitation expressed in your paragraph 4 by the words \"up to the full amount of the credit standing to the War Department in the Surrender Account\". It would appear in this case that the cost of reprovision of military needs will be less than this credit, but even were this not the case, the Army Council would feel justified in claiming that the whole costs should be borne by the Colonial Government.\n\nIt is also to be noted that the proposed change to new sites for troops may involve the provision of items additional to those actually surrendered in detail in order to meet military...\n\nThe General Officer Commanding,\n\nThe Forces in China,\n\nHans Kong", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-478 - Public Offices & Others - 1922.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 494729, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-479 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [1-3]", "page_number": 274, "title": "CO129-479 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [1-3]", "content_text": "271\n\n2.\n\nThe reference in your letter of 4 February, enclosed in the War Office letter of 8 February, to the employment of a surveyor in connection with the lands and buildings question is noted.\n\nWe cannot accept the Governor's suggestion that unless the valuation arrived at by the local military authorities is accepted here, we are liable for the expenses of an independent valuation under paragraph 7 of Colonial Office Military Land Circular of 30th December 1894. The natural interpretation of the paragraph seems obvious to us.\n\nAt the same time, we should be glad to know whether you think it would be politic in present circumstances and likely to conduce towards a favourable settlement of the outstanding question of the £114,000 overpayment by the Colony, if we were to waive the question of payment by the Colony for the valuation in this instance, without prejudice to the question of the correct interpretation of the paragraph.\n\nWe have, as you will know, done everything possible to meet the Colony on the Lands question, and to expedite a settlement, but we gather from your official letter of 30th November that they have become tired of the delay in reaching finality, and that there is some danger of their withdrawing their offer with regard to the contribution in consequence.\n\nWe should have to go to the Treasury for authority to make the payment to the surveyor, and should have to explain to them our reasons for being generous on this point. What we should like from you is an opinion whether a gracious concession on this matter would be likely to facilitate a settlement.\n\n(Signed) G. GRINDLE\n\nHong Kong 8/345 (MSOF.B.).\n\n[Page 272]\n\nWar Office,\n\nWhitehall, S.W.I.\n\nFebruary, 1923,\n\nDear Gent,\n\nWe have had under consideration your official letter of 29th January No.3888/23 - enclosing a copy of a telegram from the Governor of Hong Kong regarding the payment of the surveyor whom it is proposed to employ in connection with the lands and buildings question.\n\nO.E.J. Gent Esq.,\n\nColonial Office,\n\nS.W.1.\n\n/concession", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-479 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 494797, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-479 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [1-3]", "page_number": 342, "title": "CO129-479 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [1-3]", "content_text": "MINUTES.\n\nPage 337\n\nGOVERNMENT HOUSE.\n\nHONGKONG. 2nd February, 1923.\n\nConfidential,\n\n56783/22\n\nMy Lord Duke,\n\nI have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of Your Grace's Confidential despatch of the 30th November with regard to the Military Lands question.\n\n2. The Secretary of State's Circular despatches of the 9th June, 1890, and the 30th December, 1894, were written with the object and purpose of defining a Colony's liability in the matter of the provision of land and buildings for Imperial troops, the Colony's obligation being limited to the maintaining intact, in kind or in value, the Colonial Military lands, which were to be regarded as a permanent defence fund the integrity of which must be observed. It was at the same time pointed out that the Colony was under a further general obligation to contribute, according to its means, to its own defence; but in the case of Hongkong that obligation is defined by the Defence Contribution Ordinance, 1901.\n\n3. Under that Ordinance the Colony pays 20% of its revenues to the Imperial Government as \"a fixed contribution in full return for the annual cost of the Imperial Garrison, including all capital expenditure required for Military lands and buildings, and the cost of maintenance of all military works and buildings, and the cost of lodgings in lieu of barracks, and all other military charges whatsoever\".\n\nTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE\n\nTHE DUKE OF DEVONSHIRE, K.G.,\n\n&c.\n\n&c.\n\n&c.\n\nPage 338\n\n \nrem 56783/1927\n\n(2/4\n\nMINUTES NOT TO BE WRITTEN\n\nON THIS SIDE.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-479 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 494798, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-479 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [1-3]", "page_number": 343, "title": "CO129-479 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [1-3]", "content_text": "L \n\n* \n\n338 \n\n❖-: \n\n༈ \n\nmanoj DrogTO \n\nteen wel ber \n\n3. contention of the Army Council in paragraph 5 of its draft letter, that the obligation of the Colony as regards reprovisioning shall, if necessary, exceed the value of the lands and buildings to be surrendered. This proposal is in direct contradiction to the ruling of His Majesty's Government in the Circular despatches, and, if the principle were accepted, the Colony would have to undertake an unlimited liability to provide whatever the Army Council might demand. \n\nIt is impossible therefore to accept the \n\n4. Reprovisioning, as I understand the term, connotes the placing of the troops in a position in no way less advantageous than their present position as regards, primarily, strategic needs, and also housing, communications, water, light, recreation, and general amenities. It is obvious to anyone having even an elementary knowledge of the local situation that the value of the properties to be surrendered is much more than ample for reprovisioning in this sense; but, when the Army Council foreshadows aerial transportation and accommodation for a second British battalion, it is clearly time for the Colony to invoke the assistance of His Majesty's Government in securing the due observance of the rulings which have been laid down for the War Office and the Colony alike in the Circular despatches and in the Defence Contribution Ordinance. \n\n5. The Army Council bases its demand for unlimited reprovisioning upon the circumstance that the dispossession of the Military from their present holdings is due to considerations of commercial needs of the Colony. The Council apparently ignores the fact that, in the opinion of all those who are qualified to speak on the subject, it is very much in the interests of Military efficiency that the troops should be moved to the proposed new positions. It is laid down in the Circular despatch \n\n- \n\n• The", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-479 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 494799, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-479 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [1-3]", "page_number": 344, "title": "CO129-479 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [1-3]", "content_text": "339\n\n: of the 8th June, 1890, that the Military Authorities shall\n\n\"deal with Colonial Military land and buildings in such\n\nmanner as may best secure:-\n\n(1) the efficient execution of the special service to\n\nwhich the lands and buildings are devoted\n\n(2) the general interests of the Colony\".\n\nI venture to observe that the Army Council has consistently\n\nignored the latter consideration.\n\n6.\n\nThe refusal of the Army Council to accept\n\nthe local valuation, on the ground of the magnitude of the\n\ntransaction, appears to be contrary to the intention of\n\nthe Circular despatches which refer to a settlement by\n\nagreement between the local Civil and Military Authorities. The magnitude of the transaction is rather a reason why the local valuation should stand, as it is impossible to find anyone as well qualified as the Director of Public Works\n\nand the Chief Engineer to decide this most intricate\n\nquestion. The Army Council has presumably its own separate data as to the value of its properties in Hongkong, and if\n\nthese show any large discrepancies with the present\n\nvaluation this Government would be prepared to consider\n\nany figures put forward.\n\n7.\n\nI telegraphed on the 22nd January that, if\n\nthe War Office sent a Surveyor, it must pay for him. The\n\nCircular despatches provide that, in the event of\n\ndisagreement, an independent and competent Surveyor is to\n\nbe employed. There is no disagreement, but, if the Army\n\nCouncil persists in its refusal to accept the settlement\n\nalready arrived at, I am prepared to agree to the appointment either of a local Surveyor in private practice, or of Mr.\n\nJ. Bradley, in charge of His Majesty's Office of Works, Shanghai; on the understanding that the cost will be defrayed by the Army Council, I cannot agree to the\n\nappointment of any person from home, as he would necessarily\n\nbe", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-479 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 495053, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-480 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [4-7]", "page_number": 72, "title": "CO129-480 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [4-7]", "content_text": "70\n\nThe situation in general is as described by Sir G. Barstow: the two main issues are those of (1) the valuation of the War Department property to be surrendered, and (2) the cost of reprovisioning with new accommodation.\n\nThe use to which the land is to be put has not been clearly decided, but it is considered that it should be used for purposes equally valuable to the Colony, and that military purposes are less desirable.\n\nValuation.\n\nThe circular of 1894 contains the instructions agreed upon by the Colonial Office, Treasury and War Office to be observed in such cases:\n\n\"The free surrender to the Colony of all Colonial Military Lands and Buildings no longer required by His Majesty's Government on the engagement by the Colony that, in the event of lands and buildings being required then or in the future for the defence of the Colony, the Colony shall provide an equivalent for the lands and buildings so surrendered, towards the satisfaction of the above-mentioned requirements, and to that intent the value of the lands and buildings surrendered shall be ascertained and recorded and any lands and buildings provided out of that value shall be held by His Majesty's Government on the same terms as those surrendered\".\n\nThe present War Department properties in question are in the middle of the most valuable commercial quarter in Victoria. Of course, the commercial value of the sites is at present very high, though the General Officer Commanding states that there is a likelihood, in the opinion of those most competent to judge, of a slump in...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-480 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [4-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 495055, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-480 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [4-7]", "page_number": 74, "title": "CO129-480 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [4-7]", "content_text": "72\n\nindependent valuation would be outside the provisions\n\nof the 1894 circular, (The Department is not inclined to support the Governor in this view)\n\nThe local military authorities have now reported that the Colonial Government would agree in consideration of an immediate and final settlement to a 10% increase in the values previously agreed on locally. The General Officer Commanding advocates acceptance.\n\nREPROVISIONING The War Office hold that, as the surrender of present lands and transfer of garrison to other lands is to suit the commercial needs of the Colony, the total cost of providing alternative accommodation must be a charge on the Colonial Government.\n\nThe Colonial Government say that they will provide the necessary sites, but their total liability for reprovisioning (including buildings etc) must be limited to the surrender value of the existing War Department lands, and beyond that they are liable to no further expense than their Defence Contribution of 20% of assessable Revenue,\n\nview,\n\nThe General Officer Commanding supports this\n\n44/6", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-480 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [4-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 495303, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-480 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [4-7]", "page_number": 322, "title": "CO129-480 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [4-7]", "content_text": "Telegram from the Governor of Hong Kong to the Secretary of State for the Colonies.\n\nReceived 14th July, 1923.\n\n(Received Colonial Office 5:30 p.m. 14th July, 1923.)\n\nYour telegram 11th July. Cannot understand refusal of War Office to accept valuation agreed to by their own local representative in accordance with paragraph 7, 1894 Circular. Local representative understands local conditions which no stranger, however eminent, can appreciate without prolonged study. Present conditions are entirely abnormal owing to influx of Chinese capital on account of disorder in Kwangtung, resulting in land boom which is purely temporary. We could not accept Oakley's valuation if it differed from that of the expert who understands the local position and in any case I cannot understand the use of another valuation so long as the War Office adheres to demand that the cost of reprovisioning should not be limited to the value of surrendered land and buildings. We have every wish to provide ample accommodation in suitable surroundings but the demand that we should assume the net liability is obviously out of the question.\n\nAs it appears clear that the War Office will not accept any reasonable proposal, I suggest that the point(s) in dispute should be referred to arbitration of some eminent administrator; alternatively, I ask for appointment of Royal Commission to investigate the whole subject, including certain questions of composition of garrison which, to the non-military mind, appears to contain excessive number of highly paid officers, e.g., in Medical Department. I ask permission to publish correspondence in order to satisfy local opinion.\n\n(7675) W1, 20112/86 Gp. 140 80,000 11-22 W & S Ltd.\n\nSTUBBS.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-480 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [4-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 495700, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-481 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [8-12]", "page_number": 366, "title": "CO129-481 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [8-12]", "content_text": "Enclosure 2.\n\nNo.\n\n10 1923\n\nHONGKONG.\n\nREPORT OF THE HOUSING COMMISSION.\n\nLaid before the Legislative Council by Command of His Excellency the Governor, 4th October, 1923,\n\nL\n\nBy a Notification in the Gazette of the 6th April, 1923, we were appointed by His Excellency the Governor in Council to enquire as to what measures are possible to increase the quantity and decrease the cost of housing accommodation in the Colony\", and were directed to report to His Excellency the Governor our findings and recommendations at as early a date as possible.\n\n2. Our report does not deal with 'office accommodation, because we were subsequently informed by the Government, by letter, that the above expression, housing accommodation, was not intended to include office accommodation.\n\n3. Although asked to report as early as possible, we have been so impressed by the gravity and difficulty of the task assigned to us, and by the undesirability of arriving hastily at any decisions, that we have deemed it advisable to take ample time to prosecute our investigations.\n\n4. Whilst we have, in the course of our enquiries, collected a considerable mass of valuable documentary and viva voce evidence (referred to in paragraphs 5 and 6 of this Report) which has assisted us greatly in arriving at our conclusions, we have necessarily drawn to a certain extent upon our long experience of the Colony, its circumstances and its needs.\n\n5. We annex hereto the following documents :—\n\nEnclosure 1 containing-\n\n(1) our circular dated the 9th April, 1923, which was sent to all the authorised architects in private practice, and to Chinese contractors and engineers in the Colony on the Government list, and which was also published in the four local English newspapers; and\n\n(2) the answers thereto, numbered 1 to 55, for convenience of reference.\n\nEnclosure 1A containing plans referred to in letters in Enclosure 1.\n\nEnclosure 2 containing our circular letter dated the 27th April, 1923, addressed to European firms on the subject of the housing of employees; with answers thereto, numbered 3 to 32.\n\nEnclosure 3.-Minute (extracted from C.S.O. 3 in 364/1921) by the Hon. Mr. H. T. Jackman, dated 18/4/22, on the subject of the estimated cost of erection by the Government of lodging-houses for Chinese, together with the estimated annual expenditure thereon, and the estimated annual revenue therefrom.\n\nEnclosure 4.-Minute (extracted from C.S.O. 1255/23) of the 6th Meeting of a Committee consisting of the late Director of Public Works Mr. T. L. Perkins, Mr. H. W. Bird and Mr. W. L. Leask on the introduction of labour-saving devices.\n\nEnclosure 5 containing information received by the Chairman from the Buildings Office re the projected demolition and reconstruction of certain buildings.\n\nTerms of Reference.\n\nOffice\n\naccommodation.\n\nNecessity for careful enquiry.\n\nEvidence.\n\nEnclosures: Documents received.\n\nPage 359", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-481 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 495703, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-481 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [8-12]", "page_number": 369, "title": "CO129-481 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [8-12]", "content_text": "Government facilities for housing employees. Employees of European Firms. British employees in Naval Yard, Housing of Government Servants, General cheap sale of Crown land, with restrictions,\n\n* 26. We recommend that the Government should sell land cheap and without auction to large employers of workmen for the sole purpose of housing their employees, with a condition for the forfeiture of the land to the Government if the premises are used for other purposes.\n\n27. In this connection we invite attention to the circular dated the 27th April, 1923, which we have addressed, with the approval of the Government, to certain European firms on the subject of the housing of their employees, and from the latter it will be seen that a large number of firms have signified their readiness to assist, if afforded proper facilities by the Government. The answers received thereto are in (Enclosure 2).\n\n28. Whilst on the subject of housing employees we desire to refer to the serious inadequacy of the accommodation at present provided by the Admiralty for the employees of His Majesty's Naval Yard. We have had the opportunity of taking full statements, which are included in this report (Enclosure 8(1)), from four of such employees. That evidence shows--\n\n(1) That the Admiralty provide quarters for only a comparatively small number of the employees in the Naval Yard.\n\n(2) That under a 3 years agreement, which expired on the 31st July, 1923, the Hongkong Government allowed Dockyard employees to occupy 8 houses in Happy Valley with two floors to each house, but that such quarters were required by the Hongkong Government to be handed back for the housing of Civil Servants on the expiration of such agreement, thereby accentuating the housing difficulty for Dockyard employees referred to in (3), and compelling them to live over in Kowloon.\n\n(3) That it is impracticable, under the present conditions of housing shortage prevailing in Hongkong, for British married Dockyard employees, apart from those referred to in paragraph (1) supra, and those housed in Togo Terrace, Kennedy Road, and in a few other favourable localities, to obtain decent accommodation near their work at a rent which is reasonable, having regard to their income and their house allowance.\n\n(4) That in Gibraltar, where there is a larger Dockyard staff than in Hongkong, the Admiralty, as far back as 1907, built quarters for their Dockyard employees, both single and married.\n\n* 29. We recommend that the Admiralty should emulate the example of the Hongkong Government and the Military Authorities and the Gibraltar precedent by providing ample house accommodation for the employees of the Naval Yard, many of whom are now being driven, from sheer force of circumstances, across the Harbour to Kowloon, to an inconvenient distance from their work, and are incidentally competing with permanent civilian residents for available European accommodation at Kowloon.\n\n* 30. We would also commend to the favourable consideration of the Government the question of building houses for accommodating Government servants of all races and grades, charging them a reasonable rent.\n\n* 31. In addition to selling land cheap for erecting houses thereon for accommodating employees, we recommend that the Government should also sell land cheap, without auction, and subject to certain restrictions hereinafter mentioned, to encourage the erection of more houses for accommodating different classes of the community at reasonable rents. There can be no doubt that the cost of Crown land is the most serious factor in connection with the cost of building in the Colony, because obviously the high cost of land inevitably entails both dear buildings and high rents, which tends to hold back building development, (see Mr. White's evidence at page 15 in Enclosure 8(3)).\n\n* 32. What, then, is the remedy? It is obviously of no advantage to the community for the Government simply to give away land cheap to applicants unless some conditions are imposed in return by the Government for the benefit of the community, because that would simply amount to giving a present to the applicant; and would not even enure for the benefit of the tenant, because the former would naturally charge the tenant as much as he could get out of him according to the conditions of supply and demand prevailing at the time. We therefore recommend that (apart from special cases such as the free grant of land for erecting some deserving institution, or a cheap grant of land for the sole purpose of occupation by employees or cases under paragraphs 45 and 46) the Government do not sell land without auction below its market value, except subject to the following special conditions which are intended to serve the double purpose of preventing speculation in land, and protecting the pocket of the tenant. See also para. 35.\n\n* 33. The conditions which we recommend should be inserted in the conditions of sale of all land sold without auction (apart from the special cases above referred to) are as follows:-\n\n(1) That, to prevent speculation in building sites, the purchaser of the lot must covenant to perform the building covenant himself.\n\n(2) That failure to carry out punctually such covenant shall in every case, except where a good excuse is shown to the satisfaction of the Governor in Council, involve forfeiture of the land, and re-entry thereon by the Government, without payment of compensation.\n\n(3) That such original purchaser shall have no power to resell or alienate in any way until after the expiration of 7 years from the date when the buildings to be erected on the lot have been completed and certified fit for occupation.\n\n(4) That the rental to be charged by the original purchaser of the land to the tenant shall not be greater than will return to such purchaser a net 8% on his capital outlay.\n\nUnder these conditions of sale, an investor in land receives 8% interest for his money with the prospect, if the Colony continues to expand, of making a profit at the end of the above term of years; whilst, at the same time, the tenant is protected for the same period from having to pay more than a certain standard of rent.\n\n34. We consider the above conditions (3) and (4) to be vital, because, if the Government permits new houses to be built on cheap land, without restrictions both as to alienation and as to rental, we shall in reality be catering largely for the refugees who can afford to pay high rents, and shall be working against the interests of those classes who obviously require cheap houses, namely, the British, Portuguese and Chinese residents of limited means, and the Chinese working classes.\n\n* 35. Accordingly, we think that apart from the special cases mentioned in paragraphs 24, 26, 36, 45, 46, 96 and 124) the Government has no right to grant land either free or cheap without receiving a definite compensating advantage in the shape of a covenant against resale within a certain period, and a limitation of the rent to be charged.\n\n* 36. There is another scheme for encouraging the building of more dwelling-houses on new sites, namely, the scheme outlined by the Honourable Acting Colonial Secretary in the Legislative Council. This scheme has attractions for people with speculative instincts. Though it is to be free from the above condition 3 in paragraph 33 supra, and, as soon as the property is sold, from condition 4, it is useful from the point of view of encouraging the erection of more houses on new sites, on the snowball principle. Subject, therefore, to the application to it of the above-mentioned conditions 1 and 2, and to the premia being fixed at market value, we think that the scheme may be tried simultaneously with that recommended by us in paragraphs 31 to 34.\n\nConditions for selling land cheap without Auction. Conditions (3) and (4) vital, Government only to grant land free or cheap against compensating advantage. Mr. Fletcher's scheme for encouraging building.\n\nPage 362", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-481 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 495708, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-481 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [8-12]", "page_number": 374, "title": "CO129-481 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [8-12]", "content_text": "16\n\n-\n\n17\n\n367\n\nLight railways and motor-lorries.\n\nMore lighters and tugs recommended.\n\nJunks discharging materials at night.\n\nEmployment of middlemen.\n\nReletting of whole contract.\n\nStorage of materials landed from junks.\n\nMore wharves for landing materials.\n\nBig supply depôts.\n\nSite for supply depôts.\n\nCement bricks.\n\n*90. In letter (22) the use of light railways for conveying materials is suggested. In letters (22) and (41) the suggestion is made that motor-lorries should be substituted for push-carts as much as possible. We endorse this suggestion, which was supported by Mr. Jackman and Mr. White, and we hope that a company may be formed for the hiring out of motor-lorries.\n\n*91. We agree with the suggestion in letter (24) that more lighters are required, and we recommend the provision of a suitable service of tugs.\n\n*92. There is a suggestion (letter (35) in Enclosure 1) that time would be saved if junks were allowed to discharge their cargoes of building materials at night; and we suggest that the point be referred to the Captain Superintendent of Police and the Harbour Master for consideration as to whether the desired permission might be allowed under supervision.\n\n*93. In our circular letter of the 9th April, 1923, addressed to architects, contractors and others, we asked whether the number of middlemen can be reduced. The general opinion is that it is impracticable to do away with middlemen in the building of houses; and we accept this view after careful enquiries. At the same time we are strongly of opinion that the reletting of a whole contract should be forbidden by-law, as the practice tends to increase the cost of buildings—see letter (24) in Enclosure 1, and the evidence of Mr. Jackman, Mr. White and Mr. Lam Woo in Enclosures 8(5), (3) and (2) respectively.\n\n*94. We are of opinion that land for the storage of building materials from junks should, wherever available, be granted by the Government as near to the scene of operations as possible—see letters (10), (19), (24), (29), (35) and (40) in Enclosure 1, the evidence of Mr. Jackman, Mr. White and Mr. Lam Woo, and also Enclosure 4.\n\n*95. We also consider that there should be more wharves on the Praya for the landing of materials—see letters (14), (35) and (39). Mr. Jackman informed us that the matter was being enquired into by the Government (Enclosure 8(5)).\n\nSub-Head (2)—Cost of House-Building: (b) Materials.\n\n*96. We commend to the favourable consideration of contractors, with a view to saving expense in building, the following suggestion for big supply depôts, which is made in a leading article in the South China Morning Post of the 11th April, 1923:—\n\n\"Instead of innumerable contractors with their own work-yards, plant and storage, we could have one or more contractors' supply firms, stocking timber, cement, steel, bricks and stone, and providing motor truck delivery of finished products as far as possible. The contractor is then left with no overhead cost, except his office and desk, and no function except to supply the labour.\n\nA big supply yard would have frame saws, and granite cutters, and might enter upon mass production of bricks with imported clay. Here is room for a considerable saving of expense.\n\nWe agree with another suggestion in the same article that the Government should be generous in its terms for granting a site for the above purpose, subject to proper guarantees being given by the lessees.\n\n*97. The use of cement-bricks is advocated in letter (24) in Enclosure 1, and we consider that such cement-bricks should be extensively tried, more especially as we understand that they do not cost more than ordinary red-bricks. We are informed that these bricks have passed satisfactory tests, and are to be used for the houses of the Kowloon Tong Company.\n\n*98. Suggestions that the Government should encourage the manufacture of bricks, tiles and lime in the New Territories, and that investigation of suitable clays for brick-making be made by the Government, are made in letters (10), (23), (24), (27), (30), (31), (32), (35), (39), (41) and (49) in Enclosure 1. We support these suggestions.\n\n*99. In letter (30) it is stated that if a lime-kiln is built at Tsun Wan, lime can be produced by piece work at about 30% below market price.\n\n*100. We agree with the writer of letter (23) in Enclosure 1, that the Government should encourage the growing of bamboos and fir-trees in the New Territories, as these two articles are extensively used for scaffolding.\n\nManufacture of bricks, tiles and lime.\n\nLime-kiln suggested at Tsun Wan.\n\nGrowing of bamboo and fir-trees.\n\nReinforced concrete.\n\n*101. Cast reinforced concrete for doors and window-frames is suggested in letter (24) in Enclosure 1, and Mr. Lam Woo supports the suggestion. Steel frames for windows are recommended in letters (10) and (36) in Enclosure 1, and also by the Committee on Labour-Saving Devices (Enclosure 4).\n\nThat Committee also recommended—\n\n(1) Decollite laid on concrete for flooring, as being cheaper than timber, especially in offices, lavatories and verandahs;\n\n(2) Terrazzo as a substitute for tiling; and\n\n(3) Beaver woods for ceilings, as being an excellent substitute for China Fir or Teak.\n\n*102. In letter (24) in Enclosure 1, it is suggested, and the suggestion was confirmed by Mr. Lam Woo, that rain-water pipes in cast-cement are cheaper than cast-iron pipes.\n\nSub-Head (3)—Measures for Decreasing Rental.\n\n*103. In addition to our recommendations in paras. 33 to 35 for the restriction of rents by conditions of sale, where land is sold by the Government cheap and without auction, we are clearly of the opinion that the Rents Ordinance should be continued until such time as the supply of houses meets the demand, and until the state of affairs in the neighbouring Provinces of China is sufficiently settled to put an end to the periodical large influxes of Chinese refugees from China to Hongkong.\n\nContinuation of Rents Ordinance recommended.\n\nLegislation to check demolition.\n\n*104. We also consider that the Government should forbid by legislation the demolition and reconstruction of houses which are stated by the Building Authority to be in either good or fair condition, because we consider it both inequitable and unjust to the tenants for the Government to allow their eviction from premises which are in good or fair condition, and because also of the following reasons:—\n\n(1) Such eviction of tenants throws an extra demand on such premises as may be vacant, with the result that the tenant in many cases is forced to pay a larger rent for his accommodation; and\n\n(2) Such reconstruction must tend, by competition for skilled labour and building materials, to increase the cost of erecting new buildings upon land which has not been previously built upon.\n\n*105. Instances of the threatened eviction of tenants from premises which are reported by the Building Authority to be in either good or fair condition appear from the items marked with a red cross, in Enclosure 5. In this connection we also invite attention to letters (5) and (27) in Enclosure 1.\n\nConcrete cases of ejectment from houses in good or fair condition.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-481 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 497476, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-484 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1924 [1-7]", "page_number": 162, "title": "CO129-484 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1924 [1-7]", "content_text": "# HONGKONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL\n\nresume possession, paying the value of the land. The trustees had power by statute to sell the land, but only to the local authority or to a certain Agricultural Association, the proceeds to be invested and the income applied for the purpose of the Society. It was held that, upon resumption of land by the Government, the trustees were not entitled to be paid the unrestricted freehold value of the land, but, in accordance with the ordinary rules as to compensation, the value of the land to the trustees under the conditions upon which they held it.\n\nThe second point which we wish to make is that, on the actual wording and natural interpretation of the Circular Despatches relating to Military lands, both parties to the 1922 valuation, i.e., the local Colonial and Military authorities, were legally bound by it.\n\nFor the purpose of making this latter point clear it will suffice to refer to the following extract from the Military Land Circular Despatch, which was quoted by Mr. Fletcher in his speech to this Council on the 7th ultimo:\n\n\"Valuation of lands or buildings, when required under the circumstances above mentioned, should be made by the Colonial and Military Authorities conjointly, or, in the event of their disagreeing, by an independent and competent surveyor, to be chosen by agreement between the Home and Colonial Governments, whose report should be final.\"\n\nThe meaning of the above sentence is clear. \"The Colonial Authorities\" means the Colonial Authorities here on the spot, and \"the Military Authorities\" means the Military Authorities here on the spot, just as \"Colonial Government\" means the Colonial Government here in Hong Kong, as distinguished from the Home Government, which is also referred to in the above extract.\n\nAccordingly, it follows that the valuation of the military lands, as arrived at between the Colonial Government and the local Military authorities in 1922, being a valuation made by them \"conjointly,\" was a binding valuation, and any further reference to an \"independent and competent surveyor\" was clearly outside of the language of the Circular Despatch, which contemplated a reference to an independent and competent surveyor solely in the event of a disagreement between the Colonial and Military authorities.\n\nMoreover, we understand that, under similar circumstances in the past, the War Office has, as we contend rightly upon the true construction of the Circular Despatch, left matters of valuation to be settled between the local Colonial and Military Authorities, and we understand that the only reason which the War Office has put forward, in the present instance, for not adhering to the same interpretation of the Circular Despatch is that the present transaction was too important to be governed by a valuation arrived at locally.\n\nWith deference, such a reason seems to us to be an inadequate one for departing from figures which were carefully arrived at, after full inquiry and with special knowledge of local conditions, between the Colonial Government and the local Military authorities; and we, therefore, regard the subsequent action of the War Office in forcing this Colony (in defiance of the above-quoted words of the Circular Despatch, and notwithstanding the absence of any disagreement between the local Colonial and Military Authorities as to the valuation of the lands) to lay its case before an \"independent and competent surveyor,\" as umpire, as being both arbitrary and irregular.\n\nSuch arbitrary action by the War Office threatens to involve this Colony in the payment of over 5 million dollars extra (i.e., $17,000,000 against about $11,300,000) out of our funds, and will make a serious extra inroad on our financial resources, depriving us of almost all the Reserves which we have been accumulating for some years past.\n\nThe Unofficial Members of this Council cannot view such a state of affairs with equanimity, especially having regard to the heavy commitments which lie before us in the near future of some millions of pounds on the Fitzmaurice Harbour Scheme and seventeen to eighteen million dollars on the Shingmun Waterworks scheme, besides other large expenditure for reclamation and building and general...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-484 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1924 [1-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 497478, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-484 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1924 [1-7]", "page_number": 164, "title": "CO129-484 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1924 [1-7]", "content_text": "# HONGKONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL\n\nWe are not going to pay over the difference in cash. It remains in an account which the War Office may draw upon to meet their future needs. But in order that future needs may be met, it is necessary that these needs should come into existence, and it seems to me improbable, if the Garrison is now adequately reprovisioned, that it will be necessary in the near future to provide the additional sum, and I think the greater part of the difference will remain merely as a book entry to our debit for many years to come. The question of that debit may be regarded with equanimity. If it should become necessary to increase the Garrison in the future, the sum standing to our debit would be drawn on to provide additional buildings, and we might then have to pay out the whole sum. But, assuming that no such bargain as this had been made and that there was no account at all, I think that it is obvious that when the necessity for increasing the Garrison arose, we should have to pay for it. We cannot ask the British taxpayer in present circumstances to bear the cost of accommodation for a largely increased Garrison, and the War Office would undoubtedly say to us: \"This is the Garrison which is necessary for your safety; we cannot pay for its accommodation. Are you prepared to do it, or will you retain a Garrison which is insufficient for the Colony's safety.\" I have no doubt the answer of the Council would be that we would pay.\n\nI think, therefore, that in assuming this liability, we are not assuming a liability greater than in any case we should have to undertake. A further point is that it is not as if we were paying out a large sum to the War Office. Very large sums are going to be expended, but they are going to be expended in this Colony. As the Hon. Mr. Lowe said, it is all to the good of the Colony.\n\nA scheme... Probably the existing balances will enable us to provide what money is necessary before money begins to come in from the sale of the land, and, if not, my suggestion is that we should get money on short-term bills maturing somewhere about the time we expect to sell the rest of the land.\n\nThe Hon. Senior Unofficial Member raised other questions, which the General will be able to deal with better than I can. In conclusion, after spending considerable time dealing with this matter, after writing many despatches—which I should like to produce to this Council. I am unable to do so, but I can assure you that I have placed the Colony's point of view very forcibly before His Majesty's Government—having, I say, fully considered these things, I am strongly of opinion that the bargain is one which the Colony should accept, and I think that in the future, it will be very pleased to reflect that it has taken this opportunity of removing an obstacle to progress.\n\n## H.E. MAJOR-GENERAL SIR J. FOWLER\n\nThere are one or two points which have been raised on which I should like to say a few words. First of all, it has been said that the Colony has made a bad bargain, and that these are boom prices. It entirely depends on the point of view. By the time that the Colony is going to dispose of this land, prices will possibly have risen, and they will therefore be getting the land at a lesser valuation than it will then be worth. His Excellency the Governor has dealt with the reprovisioning and the financial question the Hon. Member referred to. A statement has been made, which I have already spoken on, that there was an understood agreement between the War Office and the Colony as to the valuation of the lands which was made in the year 1920. There were certain recommendations made to the War Office in regard to that, but it never amounted to a practical agreement. As to another question that has been raised, it has never been contemplated, so far as I know, that the term \"military authorities\" in the Circular Despatches meant anything other than the military authorities here on the spot. I think, from the context, that it is fairly clear that it is the War Office that is meant. We recommended certain prices for the land for the War Office to adopt.\n\nI think, therefore, that there are redeeming features in the situation. I think we are paying a very large price, but I think it is wise to pay it. The expenditure will not all be incurred at once. It is true we shall be out of our money, or part of the money, for a considerable time, but by the time the full amount of expenditure has been met, we shall, no doubt, have been able to dispose of a considerable amount of the military lands and shall, therefore, have got back a good deal of money before we have to spend the whole of it. I do not think there should be any great difficulty in financing this large scheme.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-484 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1924 [1-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 497480, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-484 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1924 [1-7]", "page_number": 166, "title": "CO129-484 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1924 [1-7]", "content_text": "# HONCHONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL\n\n[All the foregoing Orders, regulations etc., have been published in the Government Gazette since the last meeting of the Council, and the Military Lands 'Award published as a sessional paper.]\n\n## Rewards For Arrest of Pirates\n\n**HON. MR. H. E. POLLOCK, K.C.,** in accordance with notice previously given asked: \"Is the Government offering rewards for information which leads to the arrest and conviction of Pirates?\"\n\n**THE COLONIAL SECRETARY** replied: The Government considers it inadvisable, in the public interests, to make any statement as regards the measures that are being taken for the apprehension of pirates.\n\n## The Military Lands\n\n**THE COLONIAL SECRETARY**: Before moving the resolution which stands in my name, I must state that it is not proposed to ask honourable members to vote upon it to-day. I propose to make a statement explanatory of it, and if any members should care to ask questions arising out of that statement, then the Council can go this afternoon into Committee for the purpose of those questions. I beg, Sir, to move this resolution:\n\n\"Resolved that this Government approves the acceptance of the award of **Sir John Hubert Oakley** dated the second day of November, 1923, in respect of certain lands situated in the Colony of Hongkong now vested in the **the Army Council**, as set out in **Sessional Paper No. 1 of 1924**, and recommends that steps be taken to give effect to it as soon as possible.\"\n\nIt may, perhaps, clear the ground for an understanding of this complicated question if I begin by explaining the principles underlying the tenure of military lands and transactions in those lands. The policy of the **Imperial Government** is laid down in what is known as the **Military Lands Circular despatches** of 1890 and 1894, the rulings most immediately in point being the following:\n\n| Original Text | Reformatted Text |\n| --- | --- |\n| \"On account of the changing conditions of warfare, it not infrequently occurs that Colonial lands and buildings set apart for military purposes cease to be necessary or suitable to their purpose, while at the same time, or subsequently, other lands and buildings have to be acquired to meet the necessities of the garrison. | \"On account of the changing conditions of warfare, it not infrequently occurs that Colonial lands and buildings set apart for military purposes cease to be necessary or suitable to their purpose, while at the same time, or subsequently, other lands and buildings have to be acquired to meet the necessities of the garrison. |\n| \"It is further considered that all such military properties and their values should be treated as part of a capital sum devoted to defensive purposes, and that their realizable or estimated values should, as hereinafter detailed, be retained by the Colonial Government, and be held by them available towards the provision of such other lands and buildings as it may be subsequently necessary to secure for defensive purposes. | \"It is further considered that all such military properties and their values should be treated as part of a capital sum devoted to defensive purposes, and that their realizable or estimated values should, as hereinafter detailed, be retained by the Colonial Government, and be held by them available towards the provision of such other lands and buildings as it may be subsequently necessary to secure for defensive purposes. |\n\nWith a view to removing any misunderstanding, Her Majesty's Government have thought it desirable to formulate their proposals in the following terms:\n\n\"The free surrender to the Colony of all Colonial military lands and buildings no longer required by Her Majesty's Government on the engagement by the Colony that, in the event of the lands and buildings being required then or in the future for the defence of the Colony, the Colony shall provide an equivalent for the lands and buildings so surrendered, towards the satisfaction of the above-mentioned requirements, and to that end the value of the lands and buildings surrendered shall be ascertained and recorded, and any lands and buildings provided out of that value shall be held by H.M. Government on the same tenure as those surrendered.\n\n\"This proposal is based upon the assumption that the Colonial military lands in question constitute a permanent Defensive Fund of the Colony, the integrity of which should be preserved, in kind or value, even though the original lands themselves may be diverted to civil purposes. Accordingly, whenever any of such lands which have been set apart for defensive purposes have, from change of circumstances, or from any other reason, ceased to answer the purpose for which they were set apart, and are in consequence surrendered by the Military Authorities, their value should be treated as forming a capital applicable, either immediately or from time to time, so...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-484 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1924 [1-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 503177, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-493 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [6-8]", "page_number": 252, "title": "CO129-493 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [6-8]", "content_text": "30\n\nCAFE DISPUTE.\n\nOVERLAND CHINA MAIL\n\nMIXED COURT.\n\nShanghai, July 21. As regards the Mixed Court rendition, the \"Sin Wan Pao\" states that the Ministry of Justice considers it improper to allow assessors to continue to sit in criminal cases,\n\n[No. 2998. July 22, 1926.\n\nTHE BOYCOTT,\n\nJuly 21. According to a report to hand, the Canton authorities are forbidding the alleged circulation of rumours by strikers.\n\nEvidence was given at the Central Magistracy yesterday in the case in which Mr. I. G. G. Taylor, who came from Shanghai, and Mr. J. L. Durand, a partner in the Cafe Parisien, were charged in connection with incidents at the Cafe on the 14th-15th instant.\n\nMr. Taylor spoke to Mrs. Taylor, Mr. Taylor not being there at the time. Mr. Durand blamed Mr. Taylor for the absence of the band. Mrs. Taylor said that her husband could not be in two places at once, upstairs and at the door.\n\nSuch rumours are stated to concern the present conference and the provision allowing local authorities to decide all criminal actions and execute all such decisions is regarded as repugnant to recent ordinances promulgated by the Central Government, and prejudicial to the movement for the unification of the law.\n\nThe \"Sin Wan Pao\" adds that the Ministry, in conjunction with the Wai-chiaopu, intends to submit a resolution to the Cabinet for the revision of the agreement.--Reuter.\n\nMr. Durand told Mrs. Taylor to leave the restaurant, saying \"I don't want you here. Get out!\" Mrs. Taylor said she wanted written notice. Mr. Durand insisted that she leave, and pushed her. She refused to go and he called her a fool. She slapped his face, whereupon he kicked her in the legs and ran upstairs.\n\nMrs. Taylor went to fetch her husband, who went upstairs after Mr. Durand. Witness called a Chinese policeman, who said he could not do anything until a whistle was blown.\n\nMr. Taylor is charged with disorderly conduct and Mr. Durand appears to answer five charges including assault, abusive language, and disorderly conduct.\n\nMr. Hugh Jones appeared for Mr. Durand and Mr. Taylor conducted his own case.\n\nWitnesses who had been subpoenaed in support of Mr. Taylor's case were business men and an adjournment would cause considerable loss of valuable time.\n\nMr. Hugh Jones applied for a remand but Mr. Taylor objected.\n\nMrs. Landau, of Madame Flint's Beauty Parlour, said she heard the disturbance in the cafe. Both Mr. Taylor and Mr. Durand were excited.\n\nMr. Taylor slapped Mr. Durand's face and Mr. Durand kicked, but witness did not see exactly what happened.\n\nWitness went up to the office with Mr. Durand, who had not had time to open his typewriter when Mr. Taylor came in and said: \"Did you call my wife a ...?\"\n\nMr. Taylor lifted a chair and threw it at Mr. Durand, who ran, with Mr. Taylor after him.\n\nMr. R. E. Lindsell, the Magistrate, agreed to hear witnesses on subpoena whose evidence concerned chiefly the events of the afternoon.\n\nMr. Taylor will be called later to give evidence of the evening events leading up to an alleged assault on Mr. Durand.\n\nThe dispute between the parties commenced in connection with the lateness of arrival of the band for a musical tiffin at the cafe on the 14th.\n\nThe band did not put in an appearance until 2 p.m. According to the opening of Mr. Taylor, both Mr. Durand and Madame Flint, the other partner in the cafe venture, were very excited and Mr. Durand called him (witness) a fool and used threats about taking witness by the throat and throwing him out of the cafe.\n\nMr. Alexander Schultz, assistant manager of the Russo-Asiatic Bank, who was in the cafe at 1.15, said he overheard Mr. Taylor and Mr. Durand in argument.\n\nMr. Durand told Mr. Taylor that his services were unsatisfactory and blamed him for the absence of the band.\n\nMr. Taylor was trying to explain, but Mr. Durand was very angry and said \"I feel like breaking your neck.\"\n\nMr. C. E. dos Remedios, clerk in the Russo-Asiatic Bank, corroborated Mr. Schultz.\n\nEvening Incidents.\n\nThe incidents on which the charges are based took place in the evening and arose out of the conduct of two sailors in the cafe.\n\nMr. Charles Henry Cotton, assistant manager of the cafe, said that Mr. Durand came into the cafe and...\n\nThe case was adjourned until tomorrow at 2.15 p.m.\n\nPhoto by A. Poorg.\n\nCOLONY'S HEALTH.\n\nJuly 21, Last week the following notifiable diseases were reported to the Medical Officer of Health:\n\nDiphtheria: 2 from Kowloon, total 2 cases, all Chinese.\n\nEnteric fever: 1 from city, 2 from Kowloon, total 3 cases (2 Chinese, 1 Portuguese), 1 death.\n\nParatyphoid fever: 1 Chinese case from city.\n\nCerebro-spinal fever: 1 fatal case (Portuguese) from city district.\n\nRabies: 1 dog from city.\n\nInfluenza (not notifiable): 1 death.\n\nWas ...\n\nAs indicated in the \"China Mail\" on several occasions last week, the Strike Executive has not been permitted to send delegates to the conference, with a watching brief.\n\nIt has now been confirmed that only the official delegations are present at the conference.\n\nAfter publication hours yesterday, a message was received from Reuter. In yesterday's issue, we gave the facts of this communique, now confirmed by the following:-\n\nThe conference at Canton resumed its sittings on July 19 (Monday) in the Canton Foreign Office, when the British delegation replied to the statement made by the Chinese delegation on the origin of the anti-British boycott.\n\nOn Monday, there was a \"clean\" return of health, no case being notified to the authorities.\n\nDamage at the Peak Tramway lower station. In the centre (foreground) is the nullah.\n\nOn the right is the Helena May Institute and a tram car can be seen on the left.\n\nThe next sitting of the conference has been fixed for July 21 (today).\n\nC.S.P. HELD UP.\n\nJuly 21. The danger to traffic and pedestrians by the rolling of barrels along pavements and roads was stressed at the Central Magistracy this morning when representatives of Messrs. Kwong Sang Hong, the perfumers, were charged with obstruction.\n\nIt was stated by Divisional Inspector Blackman that the Captain Superintendent of Police was held up with his car at Praya East yesterday by a number of coolies rolling barrels on the road.\n\nTo a question from the Magistrate (Mr. R. E. Lindsell), the defendant explained that it was easier to roll the barrels than to carry them, as it required two men to each barrel.\n\nRemarking that the coolies should be mindful of pedestrians and moving traffic, His Worship imposed a fine of $5.\n\n(No. 2998.—July 22, 1926.\n\nVALLEY ASSAULT.\n\nJuly 21.\n\nOVERLAND CHINA MAIL\n\nHIGH PRICES.\n\n251\n\n31\n\nGraham's Road, The Albany, Hollywood Road, Lyndhurst Terrace, Wellington Street from Pottinger Street to Queen's Road Central, Pottinger Street.\n\nJuly 21. Suggestions that there had been ill-feeling between the parties were made by Mr. A. J. O'Donoghue and Mr. W. B. Hind who appeared for the defence of Hajee Mohamed Ismail, 13 Sharp Street, and A. H. Harteam, 11 Da Street, at the Central Magistracy yesterday.\n\nThe charge was one of assault against two Chinese ladies.\n\nOriginally, the property consisted of four lots but as the third failed to elicit a bid in its entirety, it was put up in six sections, all of which were disposed of.\n\nLot 1, consisting of the remaining portion of Inland Lot No. 1285, including Staunton Street, was sold to Mr. Ma Chi-long for $20,000, an increase of nearly $6,000 on the upset price.\n\nLot 2, consisting of Section C of Inland Lot No. 1968 together with No. 3 Tai On Terrace, was also purchased by Mr. Ma Chi-long for $13,000, an increase of $8,000.\n\nLot 3 (a) consisting of Section F of Inland Lot No. 370 together with the buildings thereon now known as Nos. 2 and 3 Circular Pathway and Nos. 9 and 10 Tai On Lane was sold to The Hongkong and Kowloon Land and Loan Company for $8,900.\n\nLot 3 (b) consisting of Section G of Inland Lot No. 370 together with buildings thereon now known as No. 5 Circular Pathway was sold for $9,800.\n\nLot 3 (c) consisting of Subsection No. 2 of Section A of Inland Lot No. 9A together with the buildings thereon now known as No. 10 Circular Pathway and No. 2 Tsui On Lane was sold for $13,300, an increase of $8,300.\n\nLot 4 consisting of Subsection No. 1 of Section A of Kowloon Inland Lot No. 1463 together with the buildings thereon now known as No. 174 Kowloon City Road, was bought by the Chuen On Fire Insurance Company Ltd., with one bid of $100 above the opening price of $1,000.\n\nNo. 7 Tsui On Lane was sold to the same company for $7,800, an increase of $2,800.\n\nThe Captain Superintendent of Police has now given permission for motor cars to use certain prohibited areas in order to relieve congestion.\n\nThe following are the areas temporarily opened for motor traffic:\n\nTaiwong Street.\n\nIce House Street south of Queen's Road Central (both ways).\n\nIn regard to Ice House Street, a recent notification stated that this road \"south of Queen's Road Central is open to motor traffic upwards, that is to say from Queen's Road Central, but motor traffic downwards, on such portion of Ice House Street, is prohibited.\"\n\nThe temporary concession now allowed will enable motor cars to use Ice House Street above Queen's Road Central (the hill portion).\n\nIn effect, a motor car can now proceed from the Queen's Road junction of Ice House Street right down to the old Fire Station near the junction of Wellington Street and Queen's Road, and vice versa.\n\nIsmail said he was cycling fairly fast down the path from Wong Nei Chong Road and merely reached out his arm to move one of the girls to a side in order to avoid a collision.\n\nHe was the leading cyclist, but complainants were wrong in saying there were three of them.\n\nWitness said that Gomes, the third cyclist, was some distance behind and did not turn up at the bicycle shop.\n\nWhen witness went to look for him, he met a brother of one of the complainants who told him that another cyclist had been arrested.\n\nGomes also gave evidence, and said he cycled some distance behind the other two.\n\nHe did not see or hear anything unusual on the path.\n\nHe wrote the name \"F. Kelly\" in the cycle hire books, as it was his nickname.\n\nHe also wrote his correct name and address and told the dealer that he would pay for the damage done to the cycle when he was pulled off by the brother of one of the complainants.\n\nHe dissociated himself from Harteam's action so that he should not be held responsible for the damage to witness's cycle.\n\nAfter hearing the evidence of the second defendant, which was similar to that of Ismail, and submissions for the defence, Mr. Lindsell accepted the evidence of the complainants as substantially true and convicted both defendants.\n\nThey were each fined $25, or fourteen days' imprisonment in default, and bound over to be of good behaviour for six months.\n\nAt 4 p.m. on July 22, nominations of candidates for the Legislative Council election close at the Magistracy.\n\nThe election is to be held on Monday, to select a non-official Justice of the Peace to represent the J.P.'s for three months, during the absence of Sir Henry Pollock.\n\nPhoto by A. Fang.\n\nMOTOR ROUTES.\n\nJuly 21. With the closing of Pedder Street between Queen's Road and Des Voeux Road for motor traffic temporarily owing to the heavy damage caused by the flood and obstructions at...\n\nJust like the Japan earthquake disaster,\" remarked a visitor at the scene above, on Monday.\n\nThis is Pedder Street, facing Queen's Road (with the A.P.C. in background) and shows the violent upheaval which moved large slabs of asphalt road material.\n\nTRAFFIC AGAIN.\n\nJuly 21. Yesterday Hongkong Hotel 'buses were out again, making the journey to Repulse Bay and back.\n\nOnly residents were carried on this motor service.\n\nThe Aberdeen Kai Fong 'buses were also in commission.\n\nThe route followed (out of town) is along Queen's Road West, up by No. 7 police station, along Pokfulam Road (past the University and No. 3 pumping station), and so on; and return by the same way.\n\nRepulse Bay residents reach the Hongkong Hotel by way of Queen's Road, from the west of the city.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-493 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [6-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 518698, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-515-8 Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation- amendment ordinances- and reports 26-1-1929 - 8-7-1929", "page_number": 17, "title": "CO129-515-8 Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation- amendment ordinances- and reports 26-1-1929 - 8-7-1929", "content_text": "## SCHEDULE \n### Regulations\n\n1. The following shall be the regulations of the Bank, and they shall be construed by the law in force for the time being in Hong Kong.\n\n2. Every shareholder, his heirs, executors, administrators, or assigns or successors shall perform the several engagements on the part of the shareholders which are expressed in the Ordinance and in the regulations, and shall in all other respects perform and abide by the provisions of the Ordinance and the regulations.\n\n3. The objects of the Bank are:-\n\n(1) The carrying on the business of banking in all its branches and departments and of financial agents including the issue of notes; the borrowing, raising or taking up of money; the lending or advancing, with or without security, of money, securities and property, and also with or without security the granting or contracting for open general credits; and also the receiving of money on deposit or current account at interest or otherwise; the making, drawing, accepting, endorsing, issuing, discounting, buying, selling, exchanging, remitting and otherwise dealing with bills of exchange, promissory notes, coupons, compradore orders, native bank orders, drafts, bills of lading, warrants, bonds, debentures, certificates, scrip and other instruments and securities whether transferable or negotiable or not; the granting and issuing of letters of credit and circular notes; the buying, selling and dealing in bullion, specie and coins; the negotiating of loans and advances; the collecting and transmitting of money and securities; the managing of property; and the transacting of all kinds of agency business commonly transacted by bankers.\n\n(2) To take, accept, enforce, release, realise or deal with any security now held or which may hereafter be held by the Bank for any moneys owing or to become owing to the Bank, or for any liabilities incurred or to be incurred towards or by the Bank by way of mortgage, pledge, hypothecation, deposit or otherwise howsoever of every kind of property or rights.\n\n(3) To carry on the business of a savings bank in all branches of such business.\n\n(4) To acquire by purchase or otherwise, or otherwise to participate in, deal in, and turn to account, the business of any mercantile, trading or banking concern or any other business of whatsoever nature and any part of the real and personal property belonging to any such concern in connection with the business operations carried on by such concern.\n\n(5) To establish, carry on, undertake, finance, or otherwise deal with and turn to account, any business, undertaking, transaction or operation commonly carried on or undertaken by bankers, discounters, bill brokers, bullion brokers, or exchange brokers.\n\n(6) To hold, improve, undertake, realise and deal with as may seem expedient any business or property which the Bank may become entitled to by foreclosure or otherwise, and for the purpose of better realizing or dealing with any security to purchase the equity of redemption of or any share or other interest of whatsoever nature in any property upon or in connection with which the Bank has or may have any charge or lien.\n\n(7) To issue on commission, underwrite or otherwise subscribe conditionally or unconditionally for, take, acquire, hold, sell, exchange, and otherwise deal in shares, stocks, funds, debentures, debenture stock, bonds, mortgages, obligations, options, option certificates, Treasury Bills, or securities of any government, state, principality, authority, or body, whether supreme, provincial, municipal, local or otherwise, or of any corporation, company, association, syndicate, firm, or person; and to give any guarantee for the payment of money or the performance of any obligation or undertaking in relation to mortgages, contracts, and agreements of every nature, loans, investments, and securities or otherwise, or for any other purpose, and whether made or effected or acquired through the Bank's agency or otherwise.\n\n(8) To finance and assist railways, tramways, or other commercial undertakings, of whatsoever nature, whether on sea or on land, and also corporations, companies, associations, syndicates, firms, or persons, of all kinds or descriptions; and to negotiate loans of every description with any government, state, principality, authority, or body, whether supreme, provincial, municipal, local or otherwise and with any corporation, company, association, syndicate, firm or person.\n\n(9) To act as trustee for the holders of or otherwise in relation to any shares, stocks, funds, debentures, debenture stock, bonds, mortgages, obligations, options, option certificates, Treasury Bills, or securities issued or to be issued by any government, state, provincial, municipal or other authority, corporation, company, association, syndicate, firm or person and generally to undertake and execute any trusts, whether public or private, and to undertake and execute either alone or jointly with others, and either in its own name or through or by means of an Officer or a party appointed by the Bank, the office of Receiver or Manager for debenture holders or other mortgagees, Custodian, Trustee, Executor, Administrator, Receiver, Manager, Committee, Liquidator, Treasurer, Comptroller, Registrar, Accountant or Auditor, or any other office of trust or confidence, and to perform and discharge the duties incident to any such office, and to transact all kinds of business arising in connection therewith; and to keep for any corporation, company, association, syndicate, firm or person and for any government, state, principality, authority or body, whether supreme, provincial, municipal, local or otherwise, any register relating to any real or personal property, or to any stocks, funds, shares or securities, and to undertake any duties in relation thereto, or to the registration of transfers, assignments, mortgages, charges, deeds, documents or things, or the issue of certificates, or otherwise.\n\n(10) To make deposits, enter into recognizances and bonds and otherwise give security for the due execution and performance, whether by the Bank or by any Officer of the Bank or by any other party, of the duties of Custodian, Trustee, Executor, Administrator, Receiver, Manager, Committee, Liquidator, Treasurer, Comptroller, Registrar, Accountant, or Auditor, or any other office of trust or confidence, or any other duties, or any contracts, agreements or obligations, and generally to carry on guarantee and fidelity business of all kinds, and to effect counter-guarantees.\n\n(11) To purchase or otherwise acquire and to invest money in or to advance and lend money on the security of land or any interest therein, buildings, crops, godowns, goods, wares, merchandise and produce, shares, securities and any other kind of real and personal property whatsoever and wheresoever.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-515-8 Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation- amendment ordinances- and reports 26-1-1929 - 8-7-1929.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 518750, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-515-8 Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation- amendment ordinances- and reports 26-1-1929 - 8-7-1929", "page_number": 69, "title": "CO129-515-8 Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation- amendment ordinances- and reports 26-1-1929 - 8-7-1929", "content_text": "# SCHEDULE \n## Regulations \n\n1. The following shall be the regulations of the Bank, and they shall be construed by the law in force for the time being in Hong Kong.\n\n## Agreement by shareholders to abide by Ordinance and Regulations.\n\n2. Every shareholder, his heirs, executors, administrators, or assigns or successors shall perform the several engagements on the part of the shareholders which are expressed in the Ordinance and in the regulations, and shall in all other respects perform and abide by the provisions of the Ordinance and the regulations.\n\n## Objects of the Bank.\n\n3. The objects of the Bank are :-\n\n(1) The carrying on the business of banking in all its branches and departments and of financial agents including the issue of notes; the borrowing, raising or taking up of money; the lending or advancing, with or without security, of money, securities and property, and also with or without security the granting or contracting for open general credits; and also the receiving of money on deposit or current account at interest or otherwise; the making, drawing, accepting, endorsing, issuing, discounting, buying, selling, exchanging, remitting and otherwise dealing with bills of exchange, promissory notes, coupons, compradore orders, native bank orders, drafts, bills of lading, warrants, bonds, debentures, certificates, scrip and other instruments and securities whether transferable or negotiable or not; the granting and issuing of letters of credit and circular notes: the buying, selling and dealing in bullion, specie and coins: the negotiating of loans and advances; the collecting and transmitting of money and securities; the managing of property: and the transacting of all kinds of agency business commonly transacted by bankers.\n\n(2) To take, accept, enforce, release, realise or deal with any security now held or which may hereafter be held by the Bank for any moneys owing or to become owing to the Bank, or for any liabilities incurred or to be incurred towards or by the Bank by way of mortgage, pledge, hypothecation, deposit or otherwise howsoever of every kind of property or rights.\n\n(3) To carry on the business of a savings bank in all branches of such business.\n\n(4) To acquire by purchase or otherwise, or otherwise to participate in, deal in, and turn to account, the business of any mercantile, trading or banking concern or any other business of whatsoever nature and any part of the real and personal property belonging to any such concern in connection with the business operations carried on by such concern.\n\n(5) To establish, carry on, undertake, finance, or otherwise deal with and turn to account, any business, undertaking, transaction or operation commonly carried on or undertaken by bankers, discounters, bill brokers, bullion brokers, or exchange brokers.\n\n(6) To hold, improve, undertake, realise and deal with as may seem expedient any business or property which the Bank may become entitled to by foreclosure or otherwise, and for the purpose of better realizing or dealing with any security to purchase the equity of redemption of or any share or other interest of whatsoever nature in any property upon or in connection with which the Bank has or may have any charge or lien.\n\n(7) To issue on commission, underwrite or otherwise subscribe conditionally or unconditionally for, take, acquire, hold, sell, exchange, and otherwise deal in shares, stocks, funds, debentures, debenture stock, bonds, mortgages, obligations, options, option certificates, Treasury Bills, or securities of any government, state, principality, authority, or body, whether supreme, provincial, municipal, local or otherwise, or of any corporation, company, association, syndicate, firm, or person; and to give any guarantee for the payment of money or the performance of any obligation or undertaking in relation to mortgages, contracts, and agreements of every nature, loans, investments, and securities or otherwise, or for any other purpose, and whether made or effected or acquired through the Bank's agency or otherwise.\n\n(8) To finance and assist railways, tramways, or other commercial undertakings, of whatsoever nature, whether on sea or on land, and also corporations, companies, associations, syndicates, firms, or persons, of all kinds or descriptions; and to negotiate loans of every description with any government, state, principality, authority, or body, whether supreme, provincial, municipal, local or otherwise and with any corporation, company, association, syndicate, firm or person.\n\n(9) To act as trustee for the holders of or otherwise in relation to any shares, stocks, funds, debentures, debenture stock, bonds, mortgages, obligations, options, option certificates, Treasury Bills, or securities issued or to be issued by any government, state, provincial, municipal or other authority, corporation, company, association, syndicate, firm or person and generally to undertake and execute any trusts, whether public or private, and to undertake and execute either alone or jointly with others, and either in its own name or through or by means of an Officer or a party appointed by the Bank, the office of Receiver or Manager for debenture holders or other mortgagees. Custodian, Trustee, Executor, Administrator, Receiver, Manager, Committee, Liquidator, Treasurer, Comptroller, Registrar, Accountant or Auditor, or any other office of trust or confidence, and to perform and discharge the duties incident to any such office, and to transact all kinds of business arising in connection therewith; and to keep for any corporation, company, association, syndicate, firm or person and for any government, state, principality, authority or body, whether supreme, provincial, municipal, local or otherwise, any register relating to any real or personal property, or to any stocks, funds, shares or securities, and to undertake any duties in relation thereto, or to the registration of transfers, assignments, mortgages, charges, deeds, documents or things, or the issue of certificates, or otherwise.\n\n(10) To make deposits, enter into recognizances and bonds and otherwise give security for the due execution and performance, whether by the Bank or by any Officer of the Bank or by any other party, of the duties of Custodian, Trustee, Executor, Administrator, Receiver, Manager, Committee, Liquidator, Treasurer, Comptroller, Registrar, Accountant, or Auditor, or other office of trust or confidence, or any other duties, or any contracts, agreements or obligations, and generally to carry on guarantee and fidelity business of all kinds, and to effect counter-guarantees.\n\n(11) To purchase or otherwise acquire and to invest money in or to advance and lend money on the security of land or any interest therein, buildings, crops, godowns, goods, wares, merchandise and produce, shares, securities and any other kind of real and personal property whatsoever and wheresoever.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-515-8 Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation- amendment ordinances- and reports 26-1-1929 - 8-7-1929.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 520317, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-519-1 Estimates for 1930 5-9-1929 - 14-11-1929", "page_number": 161, "title": "CO129-519-1 Estimates for 1930 5-9-1929 - 14-11-1929", "content_text": "## Sub-head 110.\n\n111. \n112. \n113. \n\n} \n10 \n\n**Circular Eastern Road (25 ft. wide)-1st Section, Kowloon City to Sai Kung, $200,000.** - Owing to the rapid development of the Kowloon Peninsula as a business centre, it is considered advisable to provide a road that will give easy and convenient access to areas so as to allow of their being opened as building sites for residential purposes. This road will traverse country that meets these requirements and will eventually be extended to Shatin Railway Station via Three Fathoms Cove. The amount included in these estimates is for the section between Kowloon City (Ngau Chi Wan) and Ma Yau Tong.\n\n**Reconditioning Roads, $30,000.** - Owing to the increasing motor traffic that is carried over the New Territory roads, it is essential that these roads should be strengthened and this vote is required for the purpose.\n\n## MISCELLANEOUS\n\n**Furniture, $1,500.** - Previously, this item was included in the Hong Kong Vote. It has now been found advisable that each district should carry its own vote.\n\n## PUBLIC HEALTH AND BUILDINGS ORDINANCE\n\n**Compensation and Resumption, $5,000.** - This sum is included in the Estimates to provide for general small compensations and resumptions that may be found necessary or desirable during 1930.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-519-1 Estimates for 1930 5-9-1929 - 14-11-1929.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 520383, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-519-1 Estimates for 1930 5-9-1929 - 14-11-1929", "page_number": 227, "title": "CO129-519-1 Estimates for 1930 5-9-1929 - 14-11-1929", "content_text": "# Head 31.-PUBLIC WORKS EXTRAORDINARY Estimate.\n\n## PUBLIC WORKS Expenditure Approved Revised Estimated up to 31st Estimated December, Expenditure, Expenditure, 1928. 1929. 1929. Estimated Expenditure, 1930.\n\n## EXTRAORDINARY,—Continued.\n\nBrought forward \n\n### NEW KOWLOON,—Continued.\n\n### MISCELLANEOUS.\n\n| Item | Description | Expenditure up to 31st December, 1928 | Estimated Expenditure, 1929 | Revised Estimated Expenditure, 1929 | Estimated Expenditure, 1930 |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| (A | Brought forward | 3,200,750 | | | |\n| 93 | Cheung Sha Wan Refuse Dump | | 5,000 | 7,500 | 7,500 |\n| 94 | Tong Mi and Kowloon Tong-Filling in areas | | 110,000 | 33,000 | 35,000 | 35,000 |\n| 95 | Kowloon City filling in large areas | | 366,000 | 70,706 | 30,000 | 3,000 | 5,000 |\n| 96 | Filling in areas north west of Nam Cheong Street and west of Tai Po Road (south of Castle Peak Road) | | 140,000 | 30,000 | 10,000 | 25,000 |\n| 97 | New Furniture for all Departments | | .... | 1,000 | | |\n| 98 | Chinese Cemeteries-Laying out new areas | | : | : | 6,000 | |\n| | **WATER WORKS.** | | | | | |\n| 99 | Distributing Water Mains | | 10,000 | 10,000 | 15,000 | |\n| | **PORT WORKS.** | | | | | |\n| 100 | Further Reclamation at Shamshuipo | 777,626 | 692,261 | 60,000 | 52,000 | |\n| 101 | Cheung Sha Wan-Construction of rubble mound to retain materials dumped | | | 140,000 | 50,000 | 50,000 | 75,000 |\n| 102 | Shamshuipo Ferry Pier | | 110,000 | 75,000 | 55,000 | 55,000 |\n| | **PUBLIC HEALTH & BUILDINGS ORDINANCE.** | | | | | |\n| 103 | Compensation and Resumptions | | | | | |\n| | **NEW TERRITORIES.** | | | | | |\n| | **GENERAL WORKS.** | | | | | |\n| | **Drainage :-** | | | | | |\n| 104 | Roads | 80,000 | 1,170,000 | | | |\n| 105 | Training Nullahs | | 100,000 | 100,000 | 2,500 | 2,500 |\n| 106 | Miscellaneous Drainage Works | | 2,000 | 1,500 | 2,000 | |\n| 107 | Miscellaneous | | 5,000 | 7,500 | 1,000 | 5,000 |\n| 108 | Water Works | | ...! | 7,500 | 1,000 | 1,000 |\n| | **COMMUNICATIONS.** | | | | | |\n| 109 | Patrol Path from Lin Ma Hang to Sha Tau Kok | | 50,000 | 30,000 | 50,000 | |\n| 110 | Circular Eastern Road (25 ft. wide)-1st Section Kowloon City to Sai Kung | | 200,000 | 30,000 | 30,000 | |\n| 111 | Reconditioning Roads | | | 3,000 | 5,000 | 5,000 |\n| | **MISCELLANEOUS.** | | | | | |\n| 112 | New Furniture for all Departments | | | | | |\n| | **PUBLIC HEALTH & BUILDINGS ORDINANCE.** | | | | | |\n| 113 | Compensation and Resumptions | | | | | |\n\n## Total Public Works Extraordinary \n3,840,750", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-519-1 Estimates for 1930 5-9-1929 - 14-11-1929.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 520549, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-519-2 Estimates for 1930 19-9-1929 - 19-9-1929", "page_number": 77, "title": "CO129-519-2 Estimates for 1930 19-9-1929 - 19-9-1929", "content_text": "## COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF THE ESTIMATED AND ACTUAL \n### Heads and Sub-Heads.\n\nBrought forward\n\n## Head 31-PUBLIC WORKS \n### EXTRAORDINARY,—Continued.\n\nBrought forward\n\n### PUBLIC HEALTH & BUILDINGS ORDINANCE.\n\n| Item | Estimated | Actual | Increase | Decrease |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 103 Compensation and Resumptions | | | | $1,174,241.25 |\n| NEW TERRITORIES. | $14,450,905 | $15,947,559.47 | $2,670,895.72 | |\n| GENERAL WORKS. | | | | |\n| 104 Roads | $2,000 | $1,904.42 | | $95.58 |\n| Drainage:- | | | | |\n| 105 Training Nullahs | $2,000 | $1,989.38 | | $10.62 |\n| 106 Miscellaneous Drainage Works | $5,000 | $3,528.29 | | $1,471.71 |\n| 107 Miscellaneous | $7,500 | $6,495.60 | | $1,004.40 |\n| 108 Water Works | $1,000 | $839.72 | | $160.28 |\n| COMMUNICATIONS. | | | | |\n| 109 Patrol Path from Lin Ma Hang to Sha Tau Kok | $50,000 | $42,104.14 | | $7,895.86 |\n| 110 Circular Eastern Road (25 ft. wide)—1st Section Kowloon City to Sai Kung | $200,000 | $32.50 | | $199,967.50 |\n| 111 Reconditioning Roads | $30,000 | $29,748.43 | | $251.57 |\n| MISCELLANEOUS. | | | | |\n| 112 New Furniture for all Departments | $3,000 | $1,246.88 | | $1,753.12 |\n| PUBLIC HEALTH & BUILDINGS ORDINANCE. | | | | |\n| 113 Compensation and Resumptions | $5,000 | $8,209.63 | $3,209.63 | |\n| SUPPLEMENTARILY VOTED. | | | | |\n| Cook House and Servants' quarters, Victoria Gaol | | $2,454.51 | $2,454.51 | |\n| Waglan Lighthouse New Electrical Installation | | $1,051.95 | $1,051.95 | |\n| Widening Garden Road at junction with Queen's Road | | $3,501.55 | $3,501.55 | |\n| Additions and Renovations to Field Cottage Kai Tak | | $13,464.35 | $13,464.35 | |\n| Latrine junction of Water Street and Queen's Road West | | $9,010.35 | $9,010.35 | |\n| Continuation of Reclamation at Shaukiwan | | $14,481.16 | $14,481.16 | |\n| Kowloon Tong Mi-Extension of Storm Water Drains from Old Tai Fo Road to Kowloon Tong Village Area | | $9,338.11 | $9,338.11 | |\n| Market at Kowloon Tong | | $36,684.58 | $36,684.58 | |\n| New Workshop on Praya East Reclamation | | | | |\n| Carried forward | $3,840,750 | $2,518,050.09 | $321,027.46 | $1,643,727.27 |\n| Carried forward | $14,450,905 | $15,947,559.47 | $2,670,895.72 | $1,174,241.25 |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-519-2 Estimates for 1930 19-9-1929 - 19-9-1929.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 525860, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-526-10 Water supply- Shing Mun Valley Scheme with plans of the dam and reservoir sites 8-5-1930 - 10-9-1930", "page_number": 112, "title": "CO129-526-10 Water supply- Shing Mun Valley Scheme with plans of the dam and reservoir sites 8-5-1930 - 10-9-1930", "content_text": "Head 31.-PUBLIC WORKS EXTRAORDINARY\n\nExpenditure Approved\n\nRevised\n\nEstimate.\n\nPUBLIC WORKS\n\nup to 31st Estimated Estimated December, Expenditure, Expenditure,\n\nEstimated Expenditure, 1930.\n\n1928.\n\n1929. 1 1929.\n\nEXTRAORDINARY,-Continued.\n\nBrought forward\n\nNEW KOWLOON,—Continued.\n\nMISCELLANEOUS.\n\n \n \n $\n $\n \n \n 3,200,750\n \n \n \n \n 93 Cheung Sha Wan Refuse Dump\n 5,000\n 7,500\n 7,500\n \n \n 94 Tong Mi and Kowloon Tong-Filling in areas\n 110,000\n 33,000\n 35,000\n 35,000\n 35,000\n \n \n 95 Kowloon City filling in large areas\n 366,000\n 70,706\n 30,000\n 3,000\n 5,000\n \n \n 96 Filling in areas north west of Nam Cheong Street and west of Tai Po Road (south of Castle Peak Road)\n 140,000\n 30,000\n 10,000\n 25,000\n \n \n \n 97 New Furniture for all Departments\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 98 Chinese Cemeteries-Laying out new areas\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n WATER WORKS.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 99 Distributing Water Mains\n 1,000\n 6,000\n 10,000\n 10,000\n 15,000\n \n \n PORT WORKS.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 100 Further Reclamation at Shamshuipo\n 777,626\n 692,261\n 60,000\n 52,000\n 10,000\n \n \n 101 Cheung Sha Wan-Construction of rubble mound to retain materials dumped\n \n \n 140,000\n 50,000\n 50,000\n 75,000\n \n \n 102 Shamshuipo Ferry Pier\n 110,000\n 75,000\n 55,000\n 55,000\n \n \n \n PUBLIC HEALTH & BUILDINGS ORDINANCE.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 103 Compensation and Resumptions\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 104 Roads\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n NEW TERRITORIES.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Drainage:-\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n GENERAL WORKS.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 105 Training Nullahs\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 106 Miscellaneous Drainage Works\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 107 Miscellaneous\n 100,000\n \n 2,500\n 2,500\n 2,000\n \n \n 108 Water Works\n \n 1,500\n 2,000\n 5,000\n 5,000\n 7,500\n 7,500\n \n \n COMMUNICATIONS.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 109 Patrol Path from Lin Ma Hang to Sha Tau Kok\n ...\n 1,000\n 1,000\n 1,000\n \n \n \n 110 Circular Eastern Road (25 ft. wide)-1st Section: Kowloon City to Ma Yau Tong.\n 80,000\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 111 Reconditioning Roads\n 1,170,000\n 50,000\n 30,000\n 50,000\n 200,000\n \n \n MISCELLANEOUS.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 112 New Furniture for all Departments\n \n 30,000\n 30,000\n 3,000\n 5,000\n 5,000\n \n \n Total Public Works Extraordinary\n 3,840,750\n \n \n \n \n \n \n PUBLIC HEALTH & BUILDINGS ORDINANCE.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 113 Compensation and Resumptions", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-526-10 Water supply- Shing Mun Valley Scheme with plans of the dam and reservoir sites 8-5-1930 - 10-9-1930.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 526221, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-527-1 Appointment and report of Playing fields committee 1929 21-5-1930 - 21-7-1930", "page_number": 12, "title": "CO129-527-1 Appointment and report of Playing fields committee 1929 21-5-1930 - 21-7-1930", "content_text": "C.S.O. 2 in `567/29`.\n\n# HONG KONG\n\n## REPORT OF THE PLAYING FIELDS COMMITTEE\n\n### No. 2 1930\n\nYour Excellency,\n\nWe, the Playing Fields Committee, have the honour to submit to Your Excellency our report as follows:-\n\n1. We were appointed a Committee on the 4th of May, 1929, with the following terms of reference :-\n\n\"To review the provision at present existing for playing fields in Hong Kong and on the Mainland, to consider what provision is required for the future and to make recommendations to Government in the matter.\"\n\n## General\n\n2. We held our first meeting on the 14th of May, 1929, and after settling our method of procedure and arranging for visits to playing field areas we adjourned to give time for the collection of information and the preparation of plans. Owing first to the absence of the Chairman and subsequently to his engagement on more urgent public work it was not possible for the Committee to resume its deliberations until the 4th of November last. We have held nine meetings including two visits of inspection to present and suggested areas for playing fields in the Colony.\n\n3. We took steps to ascertain the views of all interested parties by public advertisement in the English and Chinese newspapers, by a circular questionnaire addressed to Clubs, and by hearing evidence from persons who wished to appear before the Committee on behalf of their organisations or who were invited by the Committee to assist in elucidating aspects of the various problems which were being considered.\n\n4. We realize that the subject committed to our consideration is one of much immediate interest to the population of Victoria and Kowloon and of the utmost importance for the future. The necessity for adequate open spaces whether as 'lungs' in areas over-crowded with buildings or as playing fields for the younger generation of town dwellers has been realized only in recent years, and this has been particularly the case in Hong Kong where the games spirit has been a recent and very rapid growth of modern times among the large Chinese population of the Colony. The inevitable result has been that the City of Victoria is to-day entirely inadequately supplied either with 'lungs' or with playing fields and even in modern Kowloon there are areas without sufficient 'lungs'. It is too late now to remedy the mistakes of the past in Victoria and in some parts of Kowloon except at prohibitive cost, but we are fortunately just in time to prevent similar mistakes in the undeveloped areas of Kowloon.\n\n5. With the example of Victoria before us we have not hesitated to make generous recommendations for Kowloon. We realize that much of the land recommended for reservation is or will be valuable building land, but we have made our recommendations advisedly in order to preserve oases in what may one day become a world of bricks and mortar. It was to such foresight and to such thought for the future that we owe the beauty of the London Squares and we should like to see Kowloon no less generously provided with open spaces. We have been impressed with the rapidity of the growth of Kowloon and we feel that a provision which may appear excessive to-day may possibly prove inadequate even within our own generation.\n\nPage 10", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-527-1 Appointment and report of Playing fields committee 1929 21-5-1930 - 21-7-1930.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 529125, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-532-4 Mui Tsai system- resolution and correspondence with private individuals 27-10-1930 - 24-6-1931", "page_number": 128, "title": "CO129-532-4 Mui Tsai system- resolution and correspondence with private individuals 27-10-1930 - 24-6-1931", "content_text": "# In Sound! \n\nBrilliant in its Air Spectacle, Tender in its Romance, Mellow in its comedy, the most Appealing Love Story of the century. \n\n## AT THE \n\n### MAJESTIC \n\nMISSIONARIES CAPTURED. ANOTHER BANDIT COUP. PRIEST ESCAPES OVER WALL. LADY RELEASED. \n\nHankow. Oct. 25. \n\nA Catholic Father who escaped from Loshan, in South Honan, ten minutes before the entry of bandits, reports that the Rev. K. N. Tvedt, and Miss Evenson, of the Lutheran United Mission, failed to escape and, it is presumed, were captured.—Reuter. \n\n### In Bandits' Hands. \n\nPeking. Oct. 25. The U.S. Consul in Hankow received a letter on October 24 from Luahan, signed by Father Tvedt and Miss Evenson, dated October 8, stating that they were in the hands of brigands belonging to the First Red Army, who were holding them \"because of financial difficulties.\" The Reds demanded $100,000 ransom. \n\nThe Rev. Tvedt says that he is a Norwegian subject, though in an American organisation. \n\nIt is understood that two American Catholics are registered as being at Loshan—Thomas M. Megan and Joseph V. Henkels. No definite news of them has been received, but it is known that Megan was here on October 15. \n\nOne Catholic priest climbed over the city wall just as the bandits were entering the town. He is believed to be one of these two.—Reuter. \n\n### Lady Captive Released. \n\nHankow, Oct. 26. The American Consulate has received a telegram stating that Miss Evenson has been released and has arrived at Sinjang. The Rev. Mr. Tvedt is still held captive.—Reuter. \n\n### Missionary Freed. \n\nPeking, Oct. 25. The Italian Legation announces that it has received information that Father Brugnetti, Italian Catholic Mission at Nanyangfu, in south-west Honan, has been liberated. \n\nFather Brugnetti was captured by brigands some time ago. The Legation made representations to the Chinese Government on the matter.—Reuter \n\n## POLICE PENSIONS. \n\n### New Ordinance to Be Introduced. REMOVING ANOMALY. \n\n**SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST. MONDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1930.**\n\n## REBELS NOT YET SUBDUED. \n\n### Attempt to Gather New Armies. TROUBLESOME TRIO. \n\nPeking, Oct. 25. Feng Yu-hsiang left Taiyuanfu on October 21 for south Shansi. It is believed at Taiyuanfu that he intends to collect armies and march to Sianfu. \n\nIt is also believed that Feng Yu-hsiang, Yen Hsi-shan and Wang Ching-wei are still working together and have decided to attempt to hold Shansi, Shensi, and Kansu against all comers. \n\nWang Ching-wei is at present living at a hotel in Taiyuanfu, and contemplates setting up his home there. \n\nThe discipline among the returned Shansi soldiers is bad. Recently 30 tried to force their way into a German's house, and were got rid of with difficulties. They said that they wanted accommodation. The soldiers are protesting against living in barracks outside the city, and desire billets in houses in the city.—Reuter \n\n### Marshals to Meet. \n\nNanking, Oct. 25. The Central News Agency learns that Chiang Kai-shek and Chang Hsueh-liang will meet shortly to discuss outstanding political questions, after which they will issue a joint circular telegram outlining their programme. The venue of the meeting is most likely to be Tsingtao.—Reuter. \n\n## RIOTS IN JAPAN. \n\n### Tokyo Strikers Clash With Police. FORTY CASUALTIES. \n\nTokyo, Oct. 25. Riotous scenes were witnessed late last night in Kameido, a suburb of Tokyo, during a clash between the police and factory workers of the Toyo Muslin Co., who have been on strike for the past five weeks. \n\nWhile the Police were attempting to suppress groups of strikers who were parading the streets, singing Labour songs, other strikers in the upper storeys of neighbouring buildings started throwing stones on the Police below. \n\nThe ensuing fight necessitated the temporary suspension of traffic, as the strikers started stoning passing trams, six of which were damaged. \n\nThe disturbance was finally quelled after the arrest of 150 strikers. About a dozen Police and 30 strikers were injured in the melee.—Reuter. \n\n## \"REDS\" RAID TOWN IN HAINAN. \n\n### Driven Off by Garrison With Heavy Loss. LACK OF TROOPS. \n\nHainan, Oct. 22. \n\n## CHINESE REDS RIOT IN MANILA. \n\n### Prominent Nationalists Mobbed and Stabbed. SIX MEN WOUNDED. \n\nManila, Oct. 25. \n\nThe Chinese Communists last night attacked, mobbed, and stabbed prominent members of the Chinese Nationalist organisation in Manila. \n\nSix were wounded and taken to hospital. Two of them were in critical condition. \n\nThe victims include Mr. Gan Bu-hong, the proprietor of the largest Chinese cigarette factory here as well as a school principal. \n\nBoth Mr. Ong Chuan-seng, leaders of the Kuomintang. \n\nThe first outbreak was believed to be a tong war, but later the victims asserted that the motives for the attack were purely political, having followed repeated threats. \n\nPolice patrols are heavy and the constabulary may assist in quelling the trouble since Chinatown is in an uproar.—Reuter. \n\n## CORRESPONDENCE. \n\n### The Boxer Indemnity. \n\n(To the Editor, S. C. M. Post.) \n\nSir, The suggestion as put forward in your leader dated the 11th inst. referring to the employment of the entire or part of the grant to the Hongkong University from the Boxer Indemnity Fund for health purposes is certainly a rational and timely proposal. \n\nIt will be recalled that the Willingdon Delegation, following the investigation of conditions in China, recommended the allocation of 17% of the Fund for \"education in medicine and public health and grants to hospitals.\" Viewed from various angles, and laying aside, pro tem, the question of the University's merit to secure such a windfall, your suggestion, if carried out, would perhaps \"satisfy all demands.\" \n\nAlthough details are not published pending the Chinese and British approval of the Governments' agreement which Dr. C. T. Wang and Sir Miles Lampson have recently concluded for the satisfactory disposal of the Fund, yet it may safely be conjectured that the plan suggested by the Willingdon Delegation will not be closely followed as it is an open secret that the bulk of the money has already been definitely decided upon railway development enterprise. In other words, the hope of the allocation of the 17% of the Fund for health purposes is extremely remote. \n\nLocated in a part of the world where health conditions are deplorable, surely there is no better way for the University of using the grant than to employ it for scientific researches and the improvement of public health. For instance, at one of the Sanitary Board meetings a few months ago, the Director of Medical and Sanitary Services was in favour of the Government making arrangements with the authorities of Sheklung Leper Settlement to take charge of lepers from Hongkong as a result of the total absence of a leper hospital in the Colony. As pointed out in my previous letter, the carrying out of the scheme would mean the increase of the already teeming leper population of the greater part of the island, and only a few garrison troops are stationed in the west half of Hainan. So in the eastern part of the island no open outbreak of Communism is taking place, although guerilla warfare is carried on, as evidenced by the wounded men being brought to Hoihow hospitals, day by day. West of Hoihow troops are stationed in Kin Kong, Fuk-san and Lami-kow but in numbers they are not nearly as strong as the Communist gang which rules the forest near Fuk-San. On Oct. 18 this band of Reds attacked Kin Kong, which is district city and the largest town in Chen-mai district. By surprise attack they gained the east suburbs of the town but the troops got some machine guns into position and it is reported that the Reds were driven off with heavy loss. The Reds were said to number all the way from 600 to 1,000 but they had only two machine guns to defend by 300 troops. \n\nSomething has, therefore, to be done to solve this and similar problems satisfactorily for the \"mutual benefit\" of both China and the British Colony. In view of the existing needs, the employment of the money for purposes as suggested by you is, and as many will doubtless agree, a legitimate proposal. \n\nJ. A. LEE. \n\n## DELIBERATE LIES IN COURT. \n\n### Witness Fined for Perjury in Assault Case. DEFENDANT DISCHARGED. \n\nThe acquittal of the accused and the fining of one of the witnesses of the prosecution for perjury was the final result of the case in which Herbert Percival, stoker of H.M.S. Herald, was alleged before Mr. Lindsell on Saturday to have assaulted a barber of Wanchai. \n\nThe defendant was alleged to have obtained a packet of cigarettes from the complainant's stall and when asked for payment struck the seller. \n\nFurther evidence was given by Chan Fook, a barber in the complainant's employ. After corroborative evidence was given, the witness was questioned by the Magistrate as to a cut on the defendant's cheek. \n\nHis Worship: Defendant's cheek was cut open; can you explain that? \n\nWitness: I don't know. \n\nYou offer no explanation for that at all? Was there any trouble with anyone of the naval men except the one you saw take the cigarettes?—No. \n\nYou do not explain how his cheek was cut open? I don't know. \n\nAny one strike him?—I did not see any one strike him. \n\nWas he knocked down?—Possibly; he may have been. Did you see him knocked down? No. \n\nYou must have seen it, you were there. He may have fallen on the ground. \n\nHis Worship pointed out to the witness that it had been proved beyond doubt that the defendant had had his cheek cut. The witness replied, \"I saw defendant knock against a glass show case as he struck the complainant.\" \n\nHis Worship reprimanded the witness and pointed out to him that a few minutes before he had told the Court that he had no idea what had happened to the defendant's cheek. \"Why do you lie like that?\" sternly asked his Worship. \"A minute ago you said you didn't know; you did not see it. Now speak the truth! Did you see him cut his cheek or not?\" \n\nWitness: I did not see him.\" \n\nHis Worship: First you said you did not, then you said you did and now you say you did not again. Which is true?—I did not see. \n\nNow that was just an absolute lie that the showcase was broken? \n\nIt was broken. \n\nDetective Sergeant Clark informed his Worship that a show case had been broken, but if the defendant had fallen into it as alleged by the witness he would have had his face severely cut. \n\nHis Worship: How do you say that showcase came to be broken? \n\nWitness: A piece of the stool flew against the glass. \n\nHe (defendant) did not fall against it as you said a minute ago? No. \n\nThen you told a deliberate lie just now when you said he banged against it. You told three different stories. I fine you $10; first one thing and then another. You keep contradicting yourself. Fined $10 or seven days. \n\n### Defendant Discharged. \n\nThe Gazette contains the draft of an Ordinance to amend the Police Ordinance 1900. \n\nThis provides that Section 17 of the Police Ordinance, 1900, be repealed and the following section substituted therefor: \n\n17-(1) It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to make regulations for the granting of pensions to members of the Force, in respect of service in the Force, and to determine in special cases where the regulations may be inapplicable or to require modification, the amount (if any) of the pension, the terms on which it shall be granted and the manner in which it shall be paid. (2) Pensions granted under this Ordinance shall be paid out of the general revenue. \n\nThe Objects and Reasons state:-Under section 17 of the Police Force Ordinance, 1900, the Governor in Council not only regulates the general conditions on which and the manner in which pensions are to be granted to members of the Force, but determines the question of granting a pension and the amount thereof in each particular case. There does not seem to be any sufficient reason why members of the Police Force should be thus singled out from other pensionable public servants, or why the Governor in Council should have to deal with each case of retirement especially where the pension is a mere matter of calculation. \n\n## HIS LAST FLING. \n\n### Suicide's Open Letter to the World. \n\nShanghai, Oct. 25. Chow Hu-wen (27), a dentist, after spending five nights entertaining sing-song girls at the Shang Shien Hotel, addressed a lengthy letter to the world in general, advising young men not to degrade themselves by following his example, and then swallowed poison. He was found dead yesterday afternoon and the inquest revealed that he rented a room on the third floor of the hotel on Friday night and then spent until Sunday night and then spent until Friday morning surrounded by sing-song girls and wine bottles.—Our Own Correspondent. \n\nKobe, Oct. 26. In glorious weather, Emperor Hirohito reviewed the Japanese navy, consisting of 165 war vessels, aggregating 700,000 tons, every one of which was constructed wholly in Japan. Seventy-two navy planes took part in an air parade.—Reuter. \n\nThe North-Eastern authorities propose to erect a bronze statue of Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang in memory of his donation of $2,500,000 to the University.—Our Own Correspondent. \n\n## BIG NAVAL REVIEW. \n\n### Japanese Emperor Views 165 War Vessels. ALL MADE IN JAPAN. \n\nNathan Road. Phone 57222", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-532-4 Mui Tsai system- resolution and correspondence with private individuals 27-10-1930 - 24-6-1931.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 543237, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-545-8 Annual medical report 1932 2-11-1933 - 16-5-1934", "page_number": 9, "title": "CO129-545-8 Annual medical report 1932 2-11-1933 - 16-5-1934", "content_text": "# **CONFIDENTIAL**\n## Medical and Sanitary Reorganisation\n\n### MISCELLANEA No. 435\n#### COLONIAL OFFICE\n#### PRINTED FOR\n\nGOVERNMENT HOUSE, \nHONG KONG. \n9th November, 1933.\n\nSir,\n\n2nd November, 1933.\n\nSeparately.\n\nWith reference to the Duke of Devonshire's Confidential Circular despatch of the 16th February, 1923, I have the honour to transmit fifteen copies of the Medical and Sanitary Report for the year 1932.\n\n2. Draft legislation to replace the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance, 1903, has now been prepared in connection with Dr. Wellington's proposals for the reorganisation of the Medical and Sanitary Services of the Colony. The Bills already drafted include:\n| Bill Name |\n| --- |\n| An Urban Council Bill |\n| A Public Health (Sanitation) Bill |\n| A Public Health (Quarantine and Prevention of Diseases) Bill |\n| A Public Health (Food) Bill |\n| An Adulterated Food and Drugs Bill |\n| A Buildings Bill |\n\nCopies of these drafts are enclosed.\n\n3. The ground is now clear for consideration of the position of the Sanitary Board and of the nature of the body which is to replace it. The proposals put forward involve a considerable widening of the present Board's sphere of activity and the inclusion of such matters as town planning, open spaces, recreation grounds, street names, street lighting, and the control of food hawkers.\n\nTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE, \nSIR P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER, G.B.E., M.C., M.P.\n\n... \n`Gp. 131/2963`. 2 dates that as M.C.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-545-8 Annual medical report 1932 2-11-1933 - 16-5-1934.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 543488, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-545-8 Annual medical report 1932 2-11-1933 - 16-5-1934", "page_number": 260, "title": "CO129-545-8 Annual medical report 1932 2-11-1933 - 16-5-1934", "content_text": "## Building Regulations\n\n17 \n\nrendered in cement-mortar, or other non-absorbent material approved by the said Authority, to the height of at least four feet from the floor level, and the thickness of such material shall not be less than half an inch.\n\n60. No kitchen of any domestic building shall, without the permission of the Building Authority as signified by the approval of the plan required under the provisions of this Ordinance, hereafter be constructed so as to extend across more than one-half of the width of such building if such building has other buildings abutting against it on both sides or is separated from any adjacent building or from land on which any building may be erected by a less space than twenty feet throughout one side. The width of a building shall be measured parallel to the principal front and shall be the average distance between the centres of the party walls or the outer faces of the lateral external walls of such building.\n\n61. Every fireplace shall be constructed with a proper chimney or smoke-flue and in such a manner as not to allow the smoke to escape through any window or hole in the walls or roof or through any vent other than such chimney or smoke-flue. The interior surfaces of every brick or masonry chimney or smoke flue shall be smoothly rendered with mortar, or lined with earthenware pipes and no such chimney or smoke-flue shall have less than twenty-eight square inches of internal sectional area, equivalent to a diameter of six inches in the case of circular pipes, unless with the approval of the Building Authority. Except when required for heating purposes, smoke-flues shall be encased with brickwork properly bonded into the wall in connexion with which they are constructed, and when added to existing buildings, such brickwork shall be built in cement-mortar:\n\nProvided that in the case of chimneys or smoke-flues requiring to be extended to a greater height than five feet above the roof, any extension in excess of that height may consist of iron pipes.\n\n62. Whenever any fireplace is adapted for the use of charcoal or wood as fuel, such fireplace shall be provided with a hood of sheet-metal or other approved material of sufficient size connecting with a chimney or smoke-flue carried up above the level of the roof.\n\n63. The upper surface of any floor under any oven, stove or fireplace shall be of incombustible materials, extending over the whole area covered by such oven, stove or fireplace and beyond to a distance of nine inches at least on every side of such oven, stove or fireplace; and such floor shall have hearths of stone, tile or other incombustible material laid before every chimney-opening.\n\n64. No chimney or smoke-flue shall be constructed or fixed nearer than nine inches to any wood-work or combustible material unless encased in non-conducting and incombustible material to the satisfaction of the Building Authority.\n\n65. Every brick or masonry chimney or smoke-flue shall be continued up above the roof in brick or cut stone-work, of a thickness all round of not less than four inches, to a height of not less than three feet above the highest point in the line of junction with such roof and every such chimney or smoke flue hereafter erected above such point shall be built in cement mortar.\n\nPage 260\nPage 261\n402", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-545-8 Annual medical report 1932 2-11-1933 - 16-5-1934.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 543548, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-545-9 Proposed reorganisation of medical and sanitary services 2-11-1933 - 10-1-1934", "page_number": 7, "title": "CO129-545-9 Proposed reorganisation of medical and sanitary services 2-11-1933 - 10-1-1934", "content_text": "**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\nN/T:JLW\n\nSir,\n\n**Original**\n\non\n`13842/33`\n**Annual Medical Report**\n\nGovernment House,\nHong Kong,\n2nd November, 1933.\n\n1. Separately. With reference to the Duke of Devonshire's Confidential Circular (2) despatch of the 16th February, 1323, I have the honour to transmit fifteen copies of the Medical and Sanitary Report for the year 1932.\n\n2. Draft legislation to replace the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance, 1903, has now been prepared in connection with Dr. Wellington's proposals for the reorganisation of the Medical and Sanitary Services of the Colony. The Bills already drafted include:\n| Bill |\n| --- |\n| An Urban Council Bill |\n| A Public Health (Sanitation) Bill |\n| A Public Health (Quarantine and Prevention of Diseases) Bill |\n| A Public Health (Food) Bill |\n| An Adulterated Food and Drugs Bill |\n| A Buildings Bill |\n\nCopies of these drafts are enclosed.\n\n3. The ground is now clear for consideration of the position of the Sanitary Board and of the nature of the body which is to replace it. The proposals put forward involve a considerable widening of the present Board's sphere of activity and the inclusion of such matters as town planning, open spaces, recreation grounds, street names, street lighting, and the control of food hawkers, has been considered.\n\nTHE RIGHT HON'BLE \nSIR P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER, G.B.E., M.C., M... \n60..", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-545-9 Proposed reorganisation of medical and sanitary services 2-11-1933 - 10-1-1934.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 543692, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-545-9 Proposed reorganisation of medical and sanitary services 2-11-1933 - 10-1-1934", "page_number": 151, "title": "CO129-545-9 Proposed reorganisation of medical and sanitary services 2-11-1933 - 10-1-1934", "content_text": "## \n\n17 \n\nrendered in cement-mortar, or other non-absorbent material approved by the said Authority, to the height of at least four feet from the floor level, and the thickness of such material shall not be less than half an inch.\n\n60. No kitchen of any domestic building shall, without the permission of the Building Authority as signified by the approval of the plan required under the provisions of this Ordinance, hereafter be constructed so as to extend across more than one-half of the width of such building if such building has other buildings abutting against it on both sides or is separated from any adjacent building or from land on which any building may be erected by a less space than twenty feet throughout one side. The width of a building shall be measured parallel to the principal front and shall be the average distance between the centres of the party walls or the outer faces of the lateral external walls of such building.\n\n61. Every fireplace shall be constructed with a proper chimney or smoke-flue and in such a manner as not to allow the smoke to escape through any window or hole in the walls or roof or through any vent other than such chimney or smoke-flue. The interior surfaces of every brick or masonry chimney or smoke-flue shall be smoothly rendered with mortar, or lined with earthenware pipes and no such chimney or smoke-flue shall have less than twenty-eight square inches of internal sectional area, equivalent to a diameter of six inches in the case of circular pipes, unless with the approval of the Building Authority. Except when required for heating purposes, smoke-flues shall be encased with brickwork properly bonded into the wall in connexion with which they are constructed, and when added to existing buildings, such brickwork shall be built in cement-mortar:\n\nProvided that in the case of chimneys or smoke-flues requiring to be extended to a greater height than five feet above the roof, any extension in excess of that height may consist of iron pipes.\n\n62. Whenever any fireplace is adapted for the use of charcoal or wood as fuel, such fireplace shall be provided with a hood of sheet-metal or other approved material of sufficient size connecting with a chimney or smoke-flue carried up above the level of the roof.\n\n63. The upper surface of any floor under any oven, stove or fireplace shall be of incombustible materials, extending over the whole area covered by such oven, stove or fireplace and beyond to a distance of nine inches at least on every side of such oven, stove or fireplace; and such floor shall have hearths of stone, tile or other incombustible material laid before every chimney-opening.\n\n64. No chimney or smoke-flue shall be constructed or fixed nearer than nine inches to any wood-work or combustible material unless encased in non-conducting and incombustible material to the satisfaction of the Building Authority.\n\n65. Every brick or masonry chimney or smoke-flue shall be continued up above the roof in brick or cut stone-work, of a thickness all round of not less than four inches, to a height of not less than three feet above the highest point in the line of junction with such roof and every such chimney or smoke flue hereafter erected above such point shall be built in cement mortar.\n\n196", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-545-9 Proposed reorganisation of medical and sanitary services 2-11-1933 - 10-1-1934.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 549316, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-554-9 Buildings Ordinance 1935 15-4-1935 - 15-4-1935", "page_number": 44, "title": "CO129-554-9 Buildings Ordinance 1935 15-4-1935 - 15-4-1935", "content_text": "50\n\nLimitation\n\nkitchens in\n\ntenement\n\nbouses.\n\n24\n\nto the height of at least four feet from the floor level, and the thickness of such material shall not be less than half an inch.\n\n65. No kitchen of any tenement house shall, without the extent of permission of the Building Authority as signified by the approval of the plan required under the provisions of this Ordinance, hereafter be constructed so as to extend across more than one-half of the width of such building if such building has other buildings abutting against it on both sides or is separated from any adjacent building or from land on which any building may be erected by a less space than twenty feet throughout one side. The width of a building shall be measured parallel to the principal front and shall be the average distance between the centres of the party walls or the outer faces of the lateral external walls of such building.\n\nConstruction\n\nof fire-\n\nplaces.\n\n66. Every fireplace shall be constructed with a proper chimney or smoke-flue and in such a manner as not to allow the smoke to escape through any window or hole in the walls or roof or through any vent other than such chimney or smoke-flue. The interior surfaces of every chimney or smoke-flue shall be smoothly rendered with mortar, or lined with earthenware pipes and no such chimney or smoke-flue shall have less than twenty-eight square inches of internal sectional area, equivalent to a diameter of six inches in the case of circular pipes, unless with the approval of the Building Authority. Except when required for heating purposes, smoke-flues shall be encased with brickwork properly bonded into the wall in connexion with which they are constructed, and, when added to existing buildings, such brickwork shall be built in cement-mortar:\n\nFireplaces adapted for\n\nuse of\n\ncharcoal or wood to have hoods.\n\nFloors\n\nunder oven, stove, or fireplace\n\nto be incombustible.\n\nChimneys\n\nnot to be fixed near\n\nwood-work.\n\nThickness\n\nof chimney above roof.\n\nProvided that in the case of chimneys or smoke-flues requiring to be extended to a greater height than five feet above the roof, any extension in excess of that height may, at the discretion of the Building Authority, consist of iron pipes.\n\n67. Whenever any fireplace is adapted for the use of charcoal or wood as fuel, such fireplace shall be provided with a hood of sheet-metal or other approved material of sufficient size connecting with a chimney or smoke-flue carried up above the level of the main roof.\n\n68. The upper surface of any floor under any oven, stove or fireplace shall be of incombustible materials, extending over the whole area covered by such oven, stove or fireplace and beyond to a distance of nine inches at least on every side of such oven, stove or fireplace; and such floor shall have hearths of stone, tile or other incombustible material laid before every chimney-opening.\n\n69. No chimney or smoke-flue shall be constructed or fixed nearer than nine inches to any wood-work or combustible material unless encased in non-conducting and incombustible material to the satisfaction of the Building Authority.\n\n70. Every brick or masonry chimney or smoke-flue shall be continued up above the roof in brick or cut stone-work, of a thickness all round of not less than four inches, to a height of not less than three feet above the highest point in the line of junction with such roof; and every such chimney or smoke flue hereafter erected above such point shall be built in cement mortar.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-554-9 Buildings Ordinance 1935 15-4-1935 - 15-4-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 557085, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-566-4 Provision of land for Air Ministry 18-10-1938 - 31-3-1939", "page_number": 6, "title": "CO129-566-4 Provision of land for Air Ministry 18-10-1938 - 31-3-1939", "content_text": "present despatch, and I should have thought that the provision for arbitration formed an adequate safeguard for Air Ministry interests.\n\nA copy of 10 to Air Ministry ref. 22 on the '37 file, inviting observations on the point raised in paragraph 4, and asking whether they have any comments to make on the arrangement referred to in paragraph 5; and enclose a copy of the 1894 circular despatch attached.\n\nPoint 2.\n\nA.N. Galsworthy\n\n25.4.39.\n\nThe conception of the payment of '25 year's Crown Rent' as simply a payment of rent, containing no implications of purchase, seems consistent with the provision, reported in hava. 801-(19) 53514/38 for proportionate repayment if the land were surrendered to The Col. Govt. before the expiry of 25 years.\n\nPoint 3.\n\nThe Govt. does not explain his \"The value to the Col. Govt.\" rather than say, \"The assessed value\" in the Clause relating to relinquishment. It will be seen from $907 (19) on 53514/38 that the clause was to read:\n\nOn relinquishment of the area by the A.M. at any time the Col. Govt. shall refund to the A.M. the whole of the costs of resumption and such part of the costs of formation buildings as shall represent the value of these works rebuilding to the Col. Govt.\n\nThe 'works' might be worth nothing to the Col. Govt. either for their own use of the land or...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-566-4 Provision of land for Air Ministry 18-10-1938 - 31-3-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 557091, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-566-4 Provision of land for Air Ministry 18-10-1938 - 31-3-1939", "page_number": 12, "title": "CO129-566-4 Provision of land for Air Ministry 18-10-1938 - 31-3-1939", "content_text": "12\n\nA fair condition and that it should not be altered. The provision for arbitration in case of disagreement provides an adequate safeguard for the Air Ministry's interests. Reference has however been made above to the method of conducting similar transactions with the military authorities and I would invite your attention to the provisions regarding relinquishment contained in the fourth and sixth paragraphs of Lord Ripon's circular despatch dated 30th December, 1894, where it is laid down that buildings not retained by the Colonial Government are to be sold in the open market and that buildings retained by the Colonial Government are to be paid for at the fair selling value at the date of surrender.\n\nIt is further provided in the seventh paragraph of that despatch that valuations are to be made by the Colonial Government and military authorities conjointly and that in the event of disagreement the matter is to be referred to an independent surveyor to be chosen by agreement between the Home and Colonial Governments. It is possible that you may consider that an arrangement on these lines would be more satisfactory.\n\n6. The delay in providing this information is regretted.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour most obedient, humble servant,\n\n[...]bat. karthest\nGovernor.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-566-4 Provision of land for Air Ministry 18-10-1938 - 31-3-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 565234, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-577-3 Proposed transfer of military barracks to alternative site 30-1-1939 - 14-12-1939", "page_number": 31, "title": "CO129-577-3 Proposed transfer of military barracks to alternative site 30-1-1939 - 14-12-1939", "content_text": "## MAX CONFIDENTIAL\n\nSir,\n\n53655\n32\n\n- 5 MAY 1939\n\nGOVERNMENT HOUSE, \nHONG KONG, \n25th April, 1939.\n\nDef file, 2.\n\nI have the honour to acknowledge receipt of your confidential despatch of 3rd March, 1939, on the subject of the possibility of the removal of the barracks and other buildings occupied by the infantry battalion stationed in the central district of Victoria and on Victoria Peak from their present site to another less valuable site in Hong Kong away from the centre of the city. I regret that the matter was not fully explained in my confidential (2) despatch of 30th January, 1939, and submit the following further details with special reference to the points raised in your despatch.\n\n2.\n\nThe ordinary system of dealing with military lands is laid down in circular despatches from your predecessors of 1890 and 1894, from which the following is an extract:\n\n\"With a view to removing any misunderstanding, Her Majesty's Government have thought it desirable to formulate their proposals in the following terms:\n\n\"The free surrender to the Colony of all Colonial military lands and buildings no longer required by Her Majesty's Government on the engagement by the Colony that, in the event of the lands and buildings being required then or in the future for the \n\n**THE RIGHT HONOURABLE** \n**MALCOLM MACDONALD, M.P.,** \n&C., &C., &C.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-577-3 Proposed transfer of military barracks to alternative site 30-1-1939 - 14-12-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 583094, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-596-7 Canton-Kowloon Railway 6-2-1948 - 25-8-1948", "page_number": 14, "title": "CO129-596-7 Canton-Kowloon Railway 6-2-1948 - 25-8-1948", "content_text": "## 45. The following permanent way renewals were carried out during the year.\n\n| Particulars | Quantity |\n| --- | --- |\n| Ordinary timber sleepers | 3,893 pcs. |\n| Bridge & crossing timbers | 167 |\n| Concrete sleepers (2nd hand) | 74 |\n| 85-lbs. B.S. (new) | 1,502 cu. yds. |\n| 85-lbs. B.S. (2nd hand) | 37 lengths |\n| 2′′ Granite Ballast | 1 set |\n| Crossings (new) | Nil. |\n| Crossings (2nd hand) | 15 |\n| Switches (new) | 1 |\n| Switches (2nd hand) | 1 |\n\n## 46. \nThe sidings at Hung Hom Praya were moved 20 feet centre to centre in order to give sufficient clearance for the jib of the Railway 65-ton crane to turn round. Hitherto, the maximum distance between centres of sidings had been 15 feet, and this had proved insufficient for the jib to traverse when unloading and loading heavy lifts in this area.\n\nThe surface of the fish-siding platform at Kowloon Station Yard was completely relaid. It had been badly damaged by heavy army equipment, and the loading of heavy materials both during and after the war.\n\n## 47. Bridges\nWith the exception of the 100 feet span bridges at Taipo and Shum Chun, all steel bridges on the British Section were scraped and painted with tar.\n\nThe following bridge equipment, forwarded to this Railway from India, were fabricated in the Hung Hom Locomotive Yard:\n- 1 set Callendar Hamilton U.C.R.B.\n- 3 sets 53 \n- 1 set 100 ft. Thro' span\n- 60 ft. Thro' span\n- 40 ft. Thro' span\n- 60 ft. Launching Nose.\n\nThe Railway Piers at Kowloon and Taipo were overhauled and repaired, as many of the timber deckings and fenders had been looted during the occupation and several of the others had rotted owing to lack of maintenance.\n\n[ 11 ] \n\n## 48. Buildings\nThe camouflage on Kowloon Station building, the Clock Tower and Goods Shed was removed by sand blast from the cement gun. All the missing and damaged columns and parapets on the roof were replaced at the same time, and the clock faces in the tower were re-laid with white opal glass.\n\n## 49. \nA new booking office, circular in shape and considerably larger than the old one, was built in the centre of the Kowloon Station concourse. A cash-shaft connecting the booking office with the accounts office was constructed in order to eliminate the necessity of transporting cash bags through the crowded compound. A public address system was installed at Kowloon Station in June, 1947, five loud speakers being erected at key points for broadcasting instructions and notices to passengers.\n\n## 50. \nTwo 25,000-gallon pressed steel tanks with towers were erected in the Hung Hom Yard, one for oil and the other for water. A pump-house was erected near the former and two ashpits, 60 feet long, were constructed near the latter.\n\n## 51. \nTwo new 4-room bungalows were erected at Taipo Market and Fanling for housing Station Masters at those stations.\n\nA new hut was built at Kowloon Tong to accommodate 24 platelayers and 3 headmen, and four new small quarters were built at Shatin, Taipo, Taipo Market, and Fanling for housing keymen. This was the first part of a two-year programme to provide all keymen with family quarters. They had previously been provided with a bunk's space each.\n\nAn old building near the Mechanical Engineer's Office, Hung Hom Loco Yard, was completely overhauled and used as quarters for the Locomotive Department foremen.\n\nAll other native quarters in the Traffic, Locomotive, and Way & Works Departments were repaired.\n\n## 52. \nThree pit-type latrines were erected at Shatin, Taipo, and Taipo Market Stations in place of the old bucket-type latrines which were demolished. This was the second part of a 3-year programme to improve the sanitary conditions at all out-stations.\n\n## 53. General\nConsiderable trouble was experienced owing to petty thefts at out-stations. The worst were the thefts of several hundred yards of signal wires which occurred on five occasions within two months, and caused delay and inconvenience to traffic operations.\n\n## 54. \nA large rock which had obstructed the view of motorists at Lok Lo Ha level crossing for many years was removed by the P.W.D. in August, the Railway paying 50% of the cost.\n\nTriangular road signs at all level crossings in the New Territories which had been looted during the occupation were re-installed.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-596-7 Canton-Kowloon Railway 6-2-1948 - 25-8-1948.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 598363, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-625-7 Hong Kong University- Provisional Powers Committee 1-3-1950 - 31-12-1951", "page_number": 5, "title": "CO129-625-7 Hong Kong University- Provisional Powers Committee 1-3-1950 - 31-12-1951", "content_text": "}\n\nD\n\n261/71/17)\n\nYour ref: 1/4/5641/47\n\nPRIORITY\n\nSAVING\n\nCOLONIAL\n\nOFFICE\n\nCopen\n\nFrom the Secretary of State for the Colonies.\n\nTo the Officer Administering the Government of HONG KONG.\n\nDate 1st December, 1951.\n\nNo.1235 Saving.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL\n\nYour savingram No. 1214 of 1st November.\n\nJapanese assets.\n\nUnder Article 14(a) 2(1) of the Peace Treaty with Japan each of the Allied Powers has the right to seize etc. Or dispose of Japanese assets \"which on the coming into force of the present Treaty, were subject to its jurisdiction...\" In the circumstances Japanese assets cannot be disposed of until the Peace Treaty comes into force and the consequent United Kingdom Enabling legislation is enacted. Japan is understood to be about to ratify the Treaty and His Majesty's Government is likely to be in a position to do so next month.\n\nUnder Article 23(b) the Treaty should therefore come into force at the latest by August 1952, though it might come into force under Article 23(a) in, say, February 1952 if a majority of States, including the United States of America, ratify it by then. I will inform you in due course of the United Kingdom legislation (and its extension to Colonial territories) giving effect to the Peace Treaty. It will be appreciated that the Custodian of Japanese Enemy Property cannot release to Government any former enemy property under his control before the enactment of suitable legislation.\n\nI am,\n\nhowever, in general agreement with the methods of disposal of Japanese land and buildings proposed in your paragraph 5 (b) and (c). As regards your paragraph 5(a), it will be necessary to consult the Service Departments, and this I propose to do immediately. The presumption in paragraph 6 of your savingram that shares held by the Custodian should be sold is correct although it might be as well to wait for guidance as to what action will be taken by the United Kingdom Custodian in similar circumstances. The balance of $1,152,504 in the Reparations Share Account referred to in your paragraph 7 should, in my opinion, be included amongst Japanese assets and should not, I suggest, go to revenue. Although the arrangements in Circular despatch of the 22nd December, 1947, have been superseded (by those outlined in my predecessor's telegram No. 891 of the 26th July), the new arrangements like the old are intended to apply to all Japanese assets whether received, like those in the Reparations Share Account, as advance reparations or not. The balance of these latter should therefore remain, I suggest, in the Reparations Share Account. You may wish, indeed, to consider whether in due course it would not be appropriate to utilise this account as a depository in which to place, pending disposal, the proceeds of all liquid Japanese assets,\n\n/3.\n\n5", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-625-7 Hong Kong University- Provisional Powers Committee 1-3-1950 - 31-12-1951.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 598978, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-626-7 Hong Kong War Memorial Fund 1-8-1951 - 31-1-1952", "page_number": 25, "title": "CO129-626-7 Hong Kong War Memorial Fund 1-8-1951 - 31-1-1952", "content_text": "(2/48) [16] Wt. 19126/754 50m. 7/48 C.N.Ld. 748\n\n54384/5/51\n\n3-\n\n10.5\n\n25\n\nCO.\n\nMr.\n\nMr. S\n\nStolding 2/11/51 Petherick 2/11\n\nMr. Hall Jufls.\n\nMr..\n\nMr.\n\nDRAFT. etter\n\nThe Permanent Secretary\n\nMinistry of Pensions\n\nSanctuary Buildings\n\nGreat Smith Street\n\nSWI\n\nYour Reference.\n\nSer\n\nFermt. U.S. of S.\n\nParly. U.S. S.\n\nMinister of State\n\nSecretary of State\n\n1 November 1951\n\nI am directed to inform you that he has received a request (3) from the Secretary of the Hong Kong War Memorial Fund that certain beneficiaries under the Fund, resident in the United Kingdom, may be visited periodically and a report sent on their general economic position.\n\nFURTHER ACTION.\n\nCopy of circular ( )\n\n2. As the beneficiaries concerned are also in receipt of pensions/allowances from United Kingdom funds, it is possible that your Department has required them to furnish such a statement, possibly at intervals, since the grant's award was made.\n\n3. I am to enclose a list of the beneficiaries concerned and to enquire whether such action has been taken by your Department.\n\nThey are kindly requested to take particular care and, if their cases are periodically reviewed,...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-626-7 Hong Kong War Memorial Fund 1-8-1951 - 31-1-1952.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 } ]