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        "content_text": "N39\n\nFinancial.\n\nL\n\nMy Lord,\n\nRECEIVED\n\nMAY 24 1845\n\n104014 Kong\n\nVictoria, Hongkong.\n\n244\n\n13th March, 1845.\n\nI have the honor to transmit with this Despatch a Report and detailed Estimate from Lieutenant Colonel Phillpotts, Commanding Royal Engineer, of the Expenditure required for levelling the site of the proposed Government House and building a brick barrel drain from thence to the main sewer; and also for building main sewer from the new Public Offices, and erecting Stabling and servants rooms for those Offices; the total charge £. 2,383.4.10.\n\nI have the honor to be,\n\nThe Right Honorable\n\nThe Earl Grey,\n\nWith the highest respect,\n\nYour Lordship's\n\nMost Obedient,\n\nHumble Servant,\n\nDan...",
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        "content_text": "# Board of Trade\n\n451 Appendix. Report on the Island of Hong Kong.\n\n[20]\n\ncarriage, fees, &c., will be reduced, and the cost price thus lessened by one-third to the British consumer; on the other hand the Chinese will be able to purchase at a cheaper rate British manufactures, when they are brought by our vessels to their doors. These and other considerations render it a matter of national importance that our trade with China be diffused over several ports, instead of being confined to Canton, and indicate that it is not desirable that Hong Kong be maintained, even if the assertion be true, as a protection to the trade of Canton.\n\nThere are now five ports open on the coast of China to all European, East Indian, and American vessels. There can be no reason why foreign vessels should discharge cargo at Hong Kong, merely to change cargoes from one vessel to another; and as the Chinese government now, I believe, allows a vessel to sell part of her cargo at one port, and then proceed to another, and will probably ere long form bonded warehouses at each port, there will be still less probability of any trade being established here. It is indeed a delusion or a deception to talk of Hong Kong becoming a commercial emporium, and to liken it to Singapore. The circumstances and position of Hong Kong and Singapore present no resemblance whatever. Hong Kong is a barren rock, producing nothing, not leading to any place, surrounded by no trading or populous communities with various commodities for barter, and disadvantageously situated at the most impoverished part of a coast line of 2,000 miles, and which for half the year is only readily accessible in one direction.\n\nSingapore is most advantageously placed at the southern point of the rich Malayan Peninsula, and at the entrance of the Straits of Malacca, which may be considered the high road between Eastern and Western Asia. It is surrounded by, or lies contiguous to, the most fertile, wealthy, and populous islands and countries in the world. Sumatra, Java, Borneo, Celebes, Macassar, Penang, Siam, Cochin-China, Tonquin, Birmah, &c. The harbour of Singapore is capacious, perfectly sheltered, easy of access from every point of the compass, and never experiencing a tempest. The climate is very salubrious. The island is of great beauty and fertility, with an undulating surface, an area of 120,000 acres, all capable of tillage, and of which 20,000 acres are now under the luxuriant and profitable cultivation of sugar cane, nutmegs, pepper, rice, beetle nut, gambier, cocoa nuts, &c. The sugar made by Mr. Ballastier with a steam engine, or by Mr. Montgomerie by water and cattle mills, is equal in quality to the produce of the West Indies; the nutmeg trees are already yielding abundantly; the black pepper produced during the past year amounted to 38,000 piculs (a picul 133 lbs.), the gambier to 85,000 piculs, and there are 100,000 cocoa-nut trees in full bearing. Live stock, bread, water, and delicious fruit and vegetables of every kind, and at moderate prices, are at all times ready for the shipping, who enjoy the advantage of a perfectly free port; 86 miles of excellent roads have been completed, and extensive communications are in progress; land is being sold in fee simple at a minimum and maximum price of five to ten rupees, or 10s. to 20s. per acre; 50,000 industrious and skilful inhabitants are spreading cultivation in every direction; four companies of Sepoys constitute the sole military force of the island, which has not even a fort for its defence; the revenue in 1842 amounted to rupees 509,087, and the disbursements (including rupees 165,955 for troops, and rupees 49,789 for Bengal and Madras convicts) to rupees 494,029, leaving a surplus of income to the extent of rupees 15,083, and under the able management of the present Governor, Colonel Butterworth, it is one of the most lucrative possessions of the British Crown.\n\nThe remarkably eligible position of Singapore for a commercial emporium led to its establishment as a British colony by Sir Stamford Raffles in 1819, when there were but a few Malay fishermen on the island, who disputed with the tiger for their occupancy. In 1812 the trade of the colony amounted to 1,000,000£ sterling, in 1824 to 3,000,000£ sterling, and last year, and indeed for several years, the commerce of the island has averaged 5,600,000£ sterling per annum.\n\nThis trade is carried on with many countries: with Great Britain, to the extent of $3,000,000; with Calcutta, $2,800,000; with Java, 1,500,000; with foreign Europe, North and South America, Madras, Bombay, Arabia, Ceylon, Penang, Malacca, Birmah, Siam, Cochin-China, Manilla, Hainan, Formosa, and the whole coast of China; with Sumatra, Borneo, Rhio, the Moluccas, Mauritius, Australasia, &c. Traders from all these places meet by common consent at a central mart close to the Equator, and exchange the productions of Asia for those of Europe and America. It is erroneously supposed that Singapore has been created by its trade with China; such is not the fact. The total import tonnage of Singapore in 1838-39, in square-rigged vessels, was 178,796 tons, of which that from China was 32,860. The native tonnage for the same year was 48,000, of which the Chinese vessels constituted 8,000 tons.\n\nThe Straits produce, which the Chinese require, are brought to Singapore by Malay and other coasting craft who would not proceed to the northward; and the proprietors of the Chinese junks, with whom time is no object, and who go down the coast to the Eastern Archipelago with one monsoon and return with the other, prefer the speculation with their varied cargoes, and the visiting of their countrymen at the different islands.\n\nBut sufficient has been stated to show that there is no analogy whatever between Hong Kong and Singapore, and that the geographical, territorial, and commercial advantages which have contributed to the prosperity of Singapore, are totally and entirely wanting, and can never be created at Hong Kong.\n\n[21]\n\nAppendix.\n\nFinancial Point of View.-There is no apparent prospect of Hong Kong ever yielding any revenue adequate to more than a very small civil government. The limited size and rocky nature of the island, the absence of agriculture, manufactures, or commerce, and the Report on the fluctuating and predatory character of the population, forbid the hope of an income being raised to sustain a regular Government establishment, on the scale now adopted, and which is far beyond the present or prospective wants of the island community. Under the most favourable circumstances there may possibly, some years hence, be obtained from the rent of building land from 5,000£ to 7,000£ per annum; the markets, licences, fines, and fees of every description, may realize hereafter about 1,000£ per annum. Tonnage duty would not yield more than 500£ to 1,000£ per annum, if it did not drive away the few ships that now enter the harbour; it is not probable that vessels would pay 6d. per ton merely to call for orders, when they can lie in Macao roads and daily communicate with Hong Kong. A registration or licence for each male Chinese resident on the island might, if there were a more respectable class of inhabitants in the colony, produce 600£ to 1,000£ a year. Neither auction duties, stamps, or any of the other ordinary sources of taxation, would under present circumstances yield any revenue worth consideration.\n\nThe idea that the Chinese government will sanction the introduction of opium into China at a moderate fixed duty, and that a large revenue may then be raised by warehousing the drug at Hong Kong, must, I think, be abandoned as illusory. The legal admission of opium into China by the Emperor, according to the best information I can obtain, is not at all probable; but even were the traffic in opium legalized, the traders have declared they would not pay any duty in Hong Kong. They can keep their large receiving ships the whole year round in Hong Kong or in any other harbours, or tranship the opium from the vessels which convey the drug from Bengal and Bombay to this place, on board the smaller vessels, which proceed along the coast to sell, or deposit it at Whampoa, Namoa, Amoy, Chimmo, Chin-Chu, Chusan, or Woosung, in the receiving ships which lie in these bays or stations the whole year round. I will not discuss the question of raising a revenue in Hong Kong from the introduction of opium for smoking in the island, either by farming out the drug or otherwise. Independent of the morality or immorality of the question of Government deriving an income from a vicious indulgence, so long as the Chinese government prohibit the introduction and make the use of opium a capital offence, it would not, to say the least, be seemly of us to encourage the use of this destructive and poisonous stimulant in Hong Kong.\n\nThe total revenue to be expected from this colony cannot in my opinion exceed 10,000£ per annum, and to obtain this amount several years must elapse under the most favourable circumstances. The per-contra side shows an expenditure at this moment for mere civil establishment salaries and wages at the rate of 50,000£ per annum, irrespective of the cost of any public works, roads, and buildings, which is estimated at 50,000£ per annum for several years, independent also of the consular charges of 30,000£ per annum, and of the army and navy; the whole showing a yearly drain on the British Exchequer of half a million pounds sterling. (See Documentary Appendix.) And here it may be necessary to remove an erroneous assertion that this heavy yearly charge is only a portion of the revenue which England derives from the China trade.\n\nThe revenue which is obtained from tea is paid by the people of England, who buy and consume the tea. It might as well be said that the West Indies furnished the revenue derived by the British Exchequer from the coffee and sugar consumed in the United Kingdom. The incidence of taxation is on the last purchaser of the taxed article; the tea merchant in London adds to the invoice cost of the tea bought at Canton, the freight to England, the insurance, interest of money, warehousing, customs duty levied in England, and the fair profits of trade on every chest of tea he may sell to the grocer, who then regulates the price at which he can afford to sell a pound of tea to his customer, who finally pays the whole charges, taxes, and profits to the several parties before he drinks his tea. The revenue derived from the China trade is paid by the people of England; the merchant who carries on the trade does not pay one shilling of it.\n\nIt will be for Her Majesty's Ministers to decide whether, on a review of the whole case, there be any justification for spending half a million sterling annually on this coast. Commodore Chads, C.B., who has had extensive experience for many years in China, is of opinion that England would be wise in not establishing any colony in China.\n\nAs a general principle, colonies that will not pay at least the expense of their civil government are not worth maintaining. There does not appear any reason why Hong Kong should be an exception to this rule. There is not, as has been fancifully supposed, any analogy whatever between Hong Kong and Gibraltar. Hong Kong commands nothing; a glance at a chart will show that the navigation of the China seas is perfectly independent of Hong Kong; nay, even the entrance of the Canton river is not controlled by Hong Kong; it is not possible by any outlay of money to make the island a fortress, and it is commanded by the opposite shore of the main land. But supposing several millions sterling were spent in fortifying Hong Kong, and half a million were annually expended for its garrison, the cui bono would constantly recur. From a Chinese enemy the island has nothing to apprehend even at present; no European or American state would think...",
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        "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,",
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        "content_text": "HONG KONG.\n\nEncl. 3 in No. 1.\n\n224\n\n7\n\n6\n\nSIR,\n\nREPORTS EXHIBITING THE PAST AND PRESENT\n\nEnclosure 3 in No. 1.\n\nSurveyor General's Department,\n\nVictoria, Hong Kong, March 29, 1854.\n\nI HAVE the honour to submit my annual report upon the progress of my department for the year 1853, for the information of his Excellency the Governor.\n\nIn the month of February Mr. Power, the accountant and clerk of deed registry, submitted an application for leave of absence for one year, upon medical certificate for the benefit of his health. This having been granted, the duties of his office were performed by Mr. Morgan (auditor's clerk) until the month of August, when the state of his health required a change of air, and he was obliged to proceed on medical certificate to England, but unhappily only reached Ceylon, where he died. Previous to the intelligence of the death of Mr. Morgan Mr. Chapman had charge of the office, and gave much satisfaction. After the receipt of the intelligence of Mr. Morgan's death the acting appointment was transferred to Mr. H. Reinhard. During the period of Mr. Morgan's services in the office, I regret to say, his health was so bad it was impossible for him to give that attention to it which it necessarily demanded, and he was compelled to call in the assistance of some of his brother officers from time to time; assistance, however, which though willingly given was manifestly insufficient, and a variety of arrears accumulated, consequent upon the repeated changes and the sickness of Mr. Morgan.\n\nThis arrear necessarily interfered much with my own duties, and it was with the utmost difficulty I could comply with the requirements of his Excellency the Governor and others, for the various documents required by the service.\n\nThe duties required from the holder of the office of the clerk of deed registry and accountant, are not like those of a clerk in other offices: in this office they are of a peculiar and miscellaneous character, and it required both diligent care and the closest application on the part of Mr. Reinhard to bring the office again into proper working order; and I have the greatest satisfaction in thus giving him every praise for his conduct, which he richly deserves.\n\nIn the supervision of the work at Government House, the three sappers attached to the department have given much satisfaction; and, although the workmanship there has been executed in the most praiseworthy manner, I cannot accord any praise to the contractor. I believe he has had some pecuniary difficulties; and, having been most inattentive, I was, in consequence, obliged to employ day-labourers to construct a stone drain required by the contract—to guarantee payment of certain dues to stonemasons and bricklayers—and make other arrangements for carrying on the contract, which by its terms I was empowered to do.\n\nBy this means the men were induced to proceed with the work; a greater number have lately been placed on the building, and it is now progressing favourably. The assistance given by the sappers, as overseers, is entirely confined to Government House, and thus I have had the entire responsibility of all other supervision of work upon myself alone. This has comprised, together with Government House, the works at the gaol, two guard-houses, residence for gaoler, debtor's prison, treadwheel house, police station at Wong-nee-chung, boat-houses for the harbour master and police, and two school-houses for the Chinese; to which must be added the repairs to the several public buildings which have been executed during the year, the new road from Aberdeen Street to join the Queen's Road at the Naval-Stores (which it is proposed to call Bonham Road), the constant attention demanded from me in the lower bazaar, not only for the examination of the public works being partially carried on in conjunction with the crown tenants, but for the purpose of defining the several boundaries of the small lots, into which the area is divided, according as they became reclaimed from the sea. These services, coming as they did altogether, occupied so much time, that I was kept from my attendance at office more than I have ever been before: thus the necessary detail drawings for Government House, and the other houses and works, were much delayed, or hurriedly executed, which was extremely inconvenient, coupled as it was with the arrears in the registry office already alluded to.\n\nFor this work I have the services of the sergeant of the guard (an active, intelligent person) at present, and to whom occasionally the duty is very severe, particularly when I am obliged to work the gang in separate parts of the town. This I avoid as much as possible, from the difficulty of properly guarding them; and, notwithstanding the guard is sufficiently large, they are occasionally careless, and convicts escape. This is, however, of rare occurrence; and, considering the facilities they have of hiding themselves in the ravines, or over the broken, irregular surface of the hills in the vicinity of the town, or in a variety of ways when working in the town, it is seldom the case that a man is recovered.\n\nThe Chinese overseer and three coolies continue to give every satisfaction; and, indeed, without them, or some such assistance always at my command, it would be impossible for me to execute the various services demanded of me. I occasionally despatch one or more of them to superintend the repair of roads, or other services, by small gangs of convicts; as I have initiated them in the most effective mode of making repairs; and the guard, as well as convicts, being so frequently changed, they are unable, or unwilling, to complete any services which are not specially directed by some third person.\n\nSTATE OF HER MAJESTY'S COLONIAL POSSESSIONS.\n\nWithin the gaol, the ordinary hard labour has been carried into effect in breaking stone for the roads; and latterly, three carpenters and one blacksmith have done much service in effecting such miscellaneous services as are necessarily demanded in buildings so occupied, as well as in the repair of tools of all kinds used by the men, both within and without the gaol walls. Three hard labour machines were fixed in position by these artisans, and the blacksmith was usefully employed in cleaning, oiling, and arranging the various parts of the treadwheel, previous to its erection.\n\nI have to report the satisfactory termination to the law suit, instituted indirectly against the Government for the resumption of marine lots Nos. 8 and 8a, alluded to in my last year's report.\n\nThe number of leases or extension of leases, issued from and prepared in the office has amounted to 12 during the year.\n\nSales of land by public auction were held, comprising an area of 8a. 1r. 5p. which produced a premium of £165. 16s. 8d., and an addition to the rent roll of £417. 8s. 1d. per annum. Two lots were resumed by Government, which were either abandoned by the proprietors, who were not to be found, or were taken possession of for non-payment of rent in accordance with the term of the leases, making a reduction in the rent roll of £731. 12s. 2¼d. per annum; but, as the new sales produced the sum as stated above, the rent roll at the termination of the year amounted to the sum of £10,747. 12s. 0¼d. only; £321. 4s. 11d. less than last year.\n\nThe registered transactions in land—viz., transfers, mortgages, &c., were nearly similar in number to those of last year, and consisted of 40 memorials for absolute sale, affecting 49 lots; 14 mortgages, or satisfaction of same, affecting 26 lots; and the remainder of a miscellaneous character, comprising, in the whole, 63 memorials, referring to 83 lots.\n\nThe fees received in my office during the year have amounted to the sum of £12. 10s. for issue of leases, and £1031. 5s. 3d. for registry; forming a total of £1151. 15s. 3d.\n\nIn conclusion I have to report, that the various members of the department have given perfect satisfaction to me during the year, and, my own health not having suffered in any material degree, the duties of the service have been carried on without difficulty, except from the temporary inconvenience caused by the changes of clerks, and the death of Mr. Morgan alluded to before.\n\nHon. Lieut. Colonel W. Caine,\n\n&c. &c.\n\n&c.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nCHARLES ST. GEORGE CLEVERLY,\n\nSurveyor General.\n\n(Signed)\n\nA 4\n\nHONG KONG,",
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        "content_text": "# Charges Against Sir Hercules Robinson, Mr. Mercer, and Mr. Alexander\n\nWith the utmost respect, I beg leave to say that, considering the momentous and multifarious duties imposed upon Your Grace from the exalted position you occupy, it is impossible that Your Grace's mind can descend to the details of the internal economy of a small colony like this. In plainer words, but with equal respect, I beg to say that I am much more capable than Your Grace of judging the validity of the premises whereon Sir Hercules' explanations, so conclusive to Your Grace, are based, and I can draw no satisfactory conclusion as to the reason for His Excellency's despatch being withheld from me.\n\nRegarding the culprit Caldwell, against whom Your Grace suggests that I should prefer criminal charges, I read Your Grace's despatch with utter amazement. In my respects of 7th May, I informed Your Grace that I had already laid twenty-four charges against the man, and that the Executive Council stopped me at the seventh. Were I to comply with Your Grace's suggestion, the charge which the accused has so repeatedly urged against me, that my motive for prosecuting him was malevolence, would indeed derive considerable support. Should Government again call upon me to proceed with the charges I have already laid against the culprit, I will not hesitate to comply, but as for being excited to hunt the man whenever the convenience or motives of Government may dictate such an entertainment, I denounce the idea. The abandoned charges lay at the door of Government, and not at mine.\n\nAs for the charges preferred against others in my previous correspondence with Your Grace, I am averse to it being supposed that these are the idle fantasies of my own brain, or are not deducible to any defined and succinct shape. I therefore proceed to state them in a formal and straightforward manner, holding myself in readiness to substantiate them whenever Your Grace sees fit to accord me the opportunity of doing so in such a manner that the question of proof shall not rest with the parties accused.\n\n## Charges Against Sir Hercules Robinson\n\nI charge Sir Hercules Robinson.\n\n1. With having convened secret meetings of the Legislative Council whereat money was voted for his own behoof.\n2. With having suppressed, both from H.M. Government and the Public, three annual Reports of the Colonial Surgeon, because of the exposure they conveyed of the mismanagement of municipal and sanitary affairs, and further with having intimidated the Colonial Surgeon into indicting reports for publication, of a very different tendency from the original documents.\n3. With having broken faith with me in the publication of Caldwell's so-called defence. When that voluminous, discursive, and irrelevant document was brought before the Council, the Chief Justice stated that he had read it through, that it was not entitled to the appellation of a defence, being nothing less than virulent and scurrilous abuse of his accusers, and totally unfit for publication - indeed, the Government would render themselves liable to a prosecution for libel if they did publish it. The document was then placed in the hands of the Clerk, who proceeded to read it. How long he read, I cannot say, for I went to sleep, a refreshment I sometimes stand greatly in need of. I was awoke by the Governor's voice, or possibly by the Clerk stopping reading. I found every one unconnected with the Council had left the room but myself. The Council was in a dilemma. The Chief Justice adhered to the opinion that publication of the defence was out of the question. The Governor proposed that the libellous parts should be expunged. The Chief Justice rejoined that that would involve the entire defence. The whole Council agreed that it would have a bad appearance if the so-called defence were rejected. I then rose and stated that, in so far as I was concerned, I was perfectly indifferent as to what the culprit might say about me, and if the Governor would allow me to add a refutation of myself to the defence, I had no objection to it going to the public as it was. I had no idea until afterwards that abuse of me so entirely pervaded the document. My offer solved the difficulty, and the defence was ordered to be printed.\n\nThis occurred in June; a printed copy of Caldwell's defence was supplied me, I think in August, and I fully admit that I might have procured the documents necessary for the rebuttal of the abuse levelled at me sooner than I did. But being an overworked man, I have fallen into the habit of never doing anything until I feel compelled, and under the circumstances I have stated, expecting to receive notice from the Governor as to when my refutation would be required, I deferred the matter until I should receive such notice, under the conviction that the so-styled defence of the culprit could not be published without my rejoinder. That notice I never received. Hearing casually in December that the publication of the Minutes of the Enquiry was being hurried, I applied to the Governor for two days' time to prepare my refutation, which would have allowed ample time for its insertion in the Report. This request His Excellency refused, and thus I stand grossly libelled and scandalised in the Report.\n\nThis is my last charge against Sir Hercules Robinson. If it should hereafter be found that His Excellency has taken advantage of Caldwell's groundless abuse of me to gratify his unaccountable and implacable hostility to the Press, I must be excused for throwing myself upon the honour of Your Grace for protection and redress.\n\nWhatever my motives were in laying the charges I did against Caldwell, I was invited by Government and challenged by him to do so. At great personal inconvenience and annoyance, I did the State a signal service, and I am constrained to believe that even common courtesy, to say nothing of ordinary integrity, should have dictated a more becoming return than the course of conduct adopted towards me which I have just related.\n\n## Charges Against Mr. Mercer\n\nMy charges against Mr. Mercer are:\n\n1. For lending himself to Dr. Bridges in a most unseemly manner to intensify the punishment inflicted upon Mr. Tarrant for the libel on Colonel Caine, in voluntarily acting as visiting Justice of the Peace in conjunction with Mr. Geo. Lyall, a non-official member of the Legislative Council, a notorious partisan of Dr. Bridges.\n2. With having been long and intimately acquainted with Dr. Bridges - with acting as his partisan and friend previously to, during the progress of, and subsequently to the publication of, all those scandalous acts whereof the Doctor was proved guilty and which the Press continually denounced. With having screened Dr. Bridges from the consequences of his acts whilst sitting on the Executive Council during the enquiry into the Civil Service Abuses, and to the last justified Dr. Bridges, well knowing that in Dr. Bridges' numerous efforts to assist the piratical association whereof Caldwell and Mah-chow Wong were the fountain head, Dr. Bridges had committed perjury and had burnt public records - well knowing too, that regarding the false scandal against Mr. May, which in the finding of the Executive Council, Caldwell was so strongly and justly denounced for uttering, Dr. Bridges was more guilty than Caldwell. Mr. Mercer well knew also the steps adopted by Dr. Bridges to procure Mr. May's dismissal because of that officer's unceasing efforts to bring the piratical association to justice, whereof Dr. Bridges was the pillar and support.\n3. With culpable apathy in allowing and sanctioning Caldwell to procure the services of H.M. vessels of war, upon a direct application from the culprit to the naval commanding officer, after Mah-chow Wong's trial and transportation, and after Caldwell's long and intimate connexion with the pirate had become so notorious as to be admitted. In fact, after the Caldwell commission had thus remarked upon the connexion: \"That with regard to charge 6, a long and intimate connection between Mr. Caldwell and 'Ma-chow Wong has been proved, but that there is no proof of any connection by affinity according to Chinese law or Custom.\" \"That of the fact stated in charge 13, of the release of the men upon Mr. Caldwell's representation as to their character, there is no doubt whatever; and that it appears incomprehensible how any person, with Mr. Caldwell's knowledge of the Chinese language, and holding the appointment he did, could have been ignorant of the character of the boats in which the men were seized and that one at least of these men was a notorious pirate, particularly as it is in evidence that Ma-chow Wong was connected with the boats.\"\n4. With allowing my charges against Caldwell to stop at the seventh when he must have known there were documents in his (Mr. Mercer's) office to (more than) prove every word of the charge which ran as follows: \"With having through a false declaration obtained a British Register for a lorcha belonging to the said pirate which lorcha was commanded by a notorious pirate named Beaver, to whom Mr. Caldwell paid wages, and which lorcha was piratically employed whilst sailing under such Register.\" The documents I refer to principally are - a despatch from the Governor of Macao - the declaration of ownership - the renewal of the register at a date after Caldwell had sworn on the trial of Mah-chow Wong, he had ceased to own her. The subject was broached before the Council upon another charge. Caldwell admitted or never denied that Beaver was a pirate and that he did command a piratical lorcha, but that her name was the Kum-hap-hone, not the Kee-bung-poo-oan. The papers above alluded to will prove that this was false, and that the latter lorcha was the one which Beaver commanded.\n5. With having met at a banquet at the Zetland Lodge, (Mr. Mercer being the Provincial Grand Master of the Order of Freemasonry) the culprit Caldwell, subsequently to his dismissal from the public service. I am credibly informed that owing to this countenance on the part of Mr. Mercer, the culprit has since been permitted to officiate as acting Worshipful Master of the above-named Lodge.\n\n## Charges Against Mr. Alexander\n\nMy charges against Mr. Alexander are as follow:\n\n1. Partisanship towards Dr. Bridges, subsequently to his guilt having been proclaimed time and again. With having in this behalf, as taxing officer of the Court, allowed Dr. Bridges in the Bill of Costs in Colonel Caine's libel case against Mr. Tarrant, about $2,300, whereas in the case of the Queen v. Tarrant, when the Crown lost, only $780 were allowed and even that was deemed excessive by Sir John Bowring. The two cases were precisely identical, except in that where the excessive amount was allowed, the accused was undefended. With allowing, a short time subsequently, Dr. Bridges to get up a petition in his, Mr. Alexander's favour, praying on behalf of the legal profession that the Legislative Council would increase his, Mr. Alexander's salary, as Registrar of the Supreme Court. With accepting, after a full knowledge of Dr. Bridges' guilt, agency upon his leaving the Colony for England.\n2. With having concealed from the Council when the successful application for an increase of salary was made, the fact of his being the recipient of fees of office as Registrar of the Supreme Court, a circumstance which most if not all the members of the Council were perfectly ignorant of.",
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        "content_text": "# Charges Against Government Officials\n\nWith the utmost respect, I beg leave to say that considering the momentous and multifarious duties imposed upon Your Grace from the exalted position you occupy, it is impossible that Your Grace's mind can descend to the details of the internal economy of a small colony like this. In plainer words, but with equal respect, I beg to say that I am much more capable than Your Grace of judging the validity of the premises whereon Sir Hercules' explanations, so conclusive to Your Grace, are based, and I can draw no satisfactory conclusion as to the reason for His Excellency's despatch being withheld from me.\n\nRegarding the culprit Caldwell, against whom Your Grace suggests that I should prefer criminal charges, I read Your Grace's despatch with utter amazement. In my respects of 7th May, I informed Your Grace that I had already laid twenty-four charges against the man, and that the Executive Council stopped me at the seventh. Were I to comply with Your Grace's suggestion, the charge which the accused has so repeatedly urged against me, that my motive for prosecuting him was malevolence, would indeed derive considerable support. Should Government again call upon me to proceed with the charges I have already laid against the culprit, I will not hesitate to comply, but as for being excited to hunt the man whenever the convenience or motives of Government may dictate such an entertainment, I denounce the idea. The abandoned charges lay at the door of Government, and not at mine.\n\nAs for the charges preferred against others in my previous correspondence with Your Grace, I am averse to it being supposed that these are the idle fantasies of my own brain, or are not deducible to any defined and succinct shape. I therefore proceed to state them in a formal and straightforward manner, holding myself in readiness to substantiate them whenever Your Grace sees fit to accord me the opportunity of doing so in such a manner that the question of proof shall not rest with the parties accused.\n\n## Charges Against Sir Hercules Robinson\n\n1. With having convened secret meetings of the Legislative Council whereat money was voted for his own behoof.\n2. With having suppressed, both from H.M. Government and the Public, three annual Reports of the Colonial Surgeon, because of the exposure they conveyed of the mismanagement of municipal and sanitary affairs, and further with having intimidated the Colonial Surgeon into indicting reports for publication, of a very different tendency from the original documents.\n3. With having broken faith with me in the publication of Caldwell's so-called defence. When that voluminous, discursive, and irrelevant document was brought before the Council, the Chief Justice stated that he had read it through, that it was not entitled to the appellation of a defence, being nothing less than virulent and scurrilous abuse of his accusers, and totally unfit for publication—indeed, the Government would render themselves liable to a prosecution for libel if they did publish it. The document was then placed in the hands of the Clerk, who proceeded to read it. How long he read, I cannot say, for I went to sleep, a refreshment I sometimes stand greatly in need of. I was awoken by the Governor's voice, or possibly by the Clerk stopping reading. I found every one unconnected with the Council had left the room but myself. The Council was in a dilemma. The Chief Justice adhered to the opinion that publication of the defence was out of the question. The Governor proposed that the libellous parts should be expunged. The Chief Justice rejoined that that would involve the entire defence. The whole Council agreed that it would have a bad appearance if the so-called defence were rejected. I then rose and stated that, in so far as I was concerned, I was perfectly indifferent as to what the culprit might say about me, and if the Governor would allow me to add a refutation of myself to the defence, I had no objection to it going to the public as it was. I had no idea until afterwards that abuse of me so entirely pervaded the document. My offer solved the difficulty, and the defence was ordered to be printed.\n\nThis occurred in June; a printed copy of Caldwell's defence was supplied me, I think in August, and I fully admit that I might have procured the documents necessary for the rebuttal of the abuse levelled at me sooner than I did. But being an overworked man, I have fallen into the habit of never doing anything until I feel compelled, and under the circumstances I have stated, expecting to receive notice from the Governor as to when my refutation would be required, I deferred the matter until I should receive such notice, under the conviction that the so-styled defence of the culprit could not be published without my rejoinder. That notice I never received. Hearing casually in December that the publication of the Minutes of the Enquiry was being hurried, I applied to the Governor for two days' time to prepare my refutation, which would have allowed ample time for its insertion in the Report. This request His Excellency refused, and thus I stand grossly libelled and scandalised in the Report.\n\n4. My last charge against Sir Hercules Robinson: If it should hereafter be found that His Excellency has taken advantage of Caldwell's groundless abuse of me to gratify his unaccountable and implacable hostility to the Press, I must be excused for throwing myself upon the honour of Your Grace for protection and redress.\n\nWhatever my motives were in laying the charges I did against Caldwell, I was invited by Government and challenged by him to do so. At great personal inconvenience and annoyance, I did the State a signal service, and I am constrained to believe that even common courtesy, to say nothing of ordinary integrity, should have dictated a more becoming return than the course of conduct adopted towards me, which I have just related.\n\n## Charges Against Mr. Mercer\n\n1. For lending himself to Dr. Bridges in a most unseemly manner to intensify the punishment inflicted upon Mr. Tarrant for the libel on Colonel Caine, in voluntarily acting as visiting Justice of the Peace in conjunction with Mr. Geo. Lyall, a non-official member of the Legislative Council, a notorious partisan of Dr. Bridges.\n2. With having been long and intimately acquainted with Dr. Bridges—with acting as his partisan and friend previously to, during the progress of, and subsequently to the publication of, all those scandalous acts whereof the Doctor was proved guilty, and which the Press continually denounced. With having screened Dr. Bridges from the consequences of his acts whilst sitting on the Executive Council during the enquiry into the Civil Service Abuses, and to the last justified Dr. Bridges, well knowing that in Dr. Bridges' numerous efforts to assist the piratical association whereof Caldwell and Mah-chow Wong were the fountainhead, Dr. Bridges had committed perjury and had burnt public records—well knowing too, that regarding the false scandal against Mr. May, which in the finding of the Executive Council, Caldwell was so strongly and justly denounced for uttering, Dr. Bridges was more guilty than Caldwell. Mr. Mercer well knew also the steps adopted by Dr. Bridges to procure Mr. May's dismissal because of that officer's unceasing efforts to bring the piratical association to justice, whereof Dr. Bridges was the pillar and support.\n3. With culpable apathy in allowing and sanctioning Caldwell to procure the services of H.M. vessels of war upon a direct application from the culprit to the naval commanding officer, after Mah-chow Wong's trial and transportation, and after Caldwell's long and intimate connexion with the pirate had become so notorious as to be admitted. In fact, after the Caldwell commission had thus remarked upon the connexion: \"That with regard to charge 6, a long and intimate connection between Mr. Caldwell and 'Ma-chow Wong has been proved, but that there is no proof of any connection by affinity according to 'Chinese law or Custom.' 'That of the fact stated in charge 13, of the release of the men upon Mr. Caldwell's representation as to their character, there is no doubt whatever; and that it appears incomprehensible how any person, 'with Mr. Caldwell's knowledge of the Chinese language, and holding the appointment he did, could have been ignorant of the character of the boats in which the men were seized, and that one at least of these men was a 'notorious pirate, particularly as it is in evidence that Ma-chow Wong was connected with the boats.'\"\n4. With allowing my charges against Caldwell to stop at the seventh when he must have known there were documents in his (Mr. Mercer's) office to (more than) prove every word of the charge which ran as follows: \"With having through a false declaration obtained a British Register for a lorcha belonging to the said pirate, which lorcha was commanded by a notorious pirate named Beaver, to whom Mr. Caldwell paid wages, and which lorcha was piratically employed whilst sailing under such Register.\" The documents I refer to principally are—a despatch from the Governor of Macao—the declaration of ownership—the renewal of the register at a date after Caldwell had sworn on the trial of Mah-chow Wong, he had ceased to own her. The subject was broached before the Council upon another charge. Caldwell admitted or never denied that Beaver was a pirate and that he did command a piratical lorcha, but that her name was the Kum-hap-hone, not the Kee-lung-poo-oan. The papers above alluded to will prove that this was false, and that the latter lorcha was the one which Beaver commanded.\n5. With having met at a banquet at the Zetland Lodge (Mr. Mercer being the Provincial Grand Master of the Order of Freemasonry) the culprit Caldwell subsequent to his dismissal from the public service. I am credibly informed that owing to this countenance on the part of Mr. Mercer, the culprit has since been permitted to officiate as acting Worshipful Master of the above-named Lodge.\n\n## Charges Against Mr. Alexander\n\n1. Partisanship towards Dr. Bridges, subsequently to his guilt having been proclaimed time and again. With having, in this behalf, as taxing officer of the Court, allowed Dr. Bridges in the Bill of Costs in Colonel Caine's libel case against Mr. Tarrant, about $2,300, whereas in the case of the Queen v. Tarrant, when the Crown lost, only $780 were allowed, and even that was deemed excessive by Sir John Bowring. The two cases were precisely identical, except in that where the excessive amount was allowed, the accused was undefended. With allowing, a short time subsequently, Dr. Bridges to get up a petition in his, Mr. Alexander's favour, praying on behalf of the legal profession that the Legislative Council would increase his, Mr. Alexander's salary, as Registrar of the Supreme Court. With accepting, after a full knowledge of Dr. Bridges' guilt, his agency, upon his leaving the Colony for England.\n2. With having concealed from the Council when the successful application for an increase of salary was made, the fact of his being the recipient of fees of office as Registrar of the Supreme Court, a circumstance which most, if not all, the members of the Council were perfectly ignorant of.",
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        "content_text": "46\n\nhave to add, in justice to my creditors—assuring you, Sir, that the task is irksome and obnoxious to me in the last degree. I enter upon it.\n\nIt fell to my lot, Sir, and I freely confess the duty was congenial to my instincts as a soldier, though at the time administering this Government as a civilian, to have been called upon to place this island in a state to resist a probable siege, on the breaking out of the Russian war in 1854. It was a season of great public alarm, for a formidable Russian squadron had only just left our waters, and was supposed at the time to be lurking in our very estuary. However, by establishing a system of signals, by the erection of batteries on commanding points, augmenting our land and water police and organizing a corps of Volunteers (who unanimously elected me to be their colonel), I had the satisfaction of seeing the mind of this community reassured and native confidence re-established. I had the happiness of receiving on that occasion that reward, ever the most grateful one to my feelings from force of early associations, the prompt approbation of my immediate chief, the Secretary of State himself. Again, in the winter of 1856, in the absence of the Governor from the colony, it fell to my lot to render it service at a most perilous crisis in suppressing the rising of the Chinese inhabitants, by bringing to bear upon the émeute at the due moment that personal ascendancy over the desperadoes of the population which I had gained during my Career as Chief Magistrate. It was happily quelled without the loss of a single life, and I was heartily thanked by Sir John Bowring on his return from Canton, in the presence of the Secretary to the Superintendency, for having \"by presence of mind and prompt action at the critical moment, saved the effusion of blood in the streets of the city.\" His Excellency was pleased to instruct me forthwith to report in detail the whole matter to the Secretary of State, which I did accordingly, see despatch No. 196 of 22nd November, 1856. No covering despatch from Sir John Bowring, however, accompanied mine, and to this I attribute a simple acknowledgement from the Secretary of State, though how grateful would it have been to my feelings that one line of approval which I have ever looked upon as my highest reward.\n\nNow, on the eve of bidding this colony a final farewell, it only remains for me to express my earnest wishes for its future progress and prosperity. When I landed upon its shore some eighteen years ago I found it a desert hill-side, I leave it (to use a pardonable figure of speech) bespread with palaces, a beautiful\n\n47\n\nand well ordered city, a miracle of British enterprise and dormant power upon the frontier of this crumbling empire. In its infancy, a heavy drain upon the Imperial Exchequer, I have lived to see it in its consolidated strength, a self-supporting settlement, justifying its foundation and thriving in every branch of its industry.\n\nLet it not be supposed for one moment that I claim the credit of these happy results; I merely claim to have been one of the earliest and most confident pioneers of the experiment, and to have been, from the first, not uselessly, I trust, associated with its realization.\n\nBut I cannot help claiming it as a special auspice for myself, though due to no merit of mine, that it was under my administration the colony first made that extraordinary stride in prosperity which is sustained to this day. I happily seized the occasion of the first exodus from Canton in 1854 and in 1855, and the brief presence of those birds of passage amongst us, to originate the public sale of every inch of ground then available in this city and suburbs, and I may fairly claim it as the result of that seasonable stroke that many of those casual refugees became permanent settlers, and are at this moment identified inalienably and for ever with the future fortunes of this colony.\n\nThe European side of the colony has kept pace with that of the Chinese, and I may take this opportunity of affirming that, with the heads of the foreign community of all nations (my own countrymen especially), that is to say, with every individual in this place, coming under the denomination of a gentleman, I say, and I challenge any detractors to gainsay it, that with two casual exceptions, I have ever lived on terms of cordial esteem, and with all classes (saving a couple of vile newspaper editors), on terms of mutual respect and confidence. In conclusion it only remains for me to say (and I say it proudly), that during my whole colonial service, now in my eighteenth year, I have never suffered a single reproof from the Colonial Office, and I take this last opportunity of expressing my earnest gratitude to yourself, Sir, for that gracious recognition of my services contained in your despatch, No. 43, of the 1st October, 1858. Annexed is a schedule showing the nature of each enclosure attached.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nWith the highest respect, Sir,\n\nYour most obedient, humble servant,\n\n(Signed)\n\nW. CAINE.\n\nThe Rt. Hon. Sir Edward B. Lytton, Bart, M.P.,\n\nPrincipal Secretary of State for the Colonies, &c.\n\n63",
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        "content_text": "473 \n\nRoyal Engineers, to inspect the Theatre and report to Mali his views before accorded, and in due course (to me). This conflicting opinions which come \n\n## 11. \n\nI received Colonel Grain's report, a copy of which I enclose. It was impossible to conceive a document more opposed to the alarming reports of Mr. Morsom. In Colonel Grain's opinion, the building with certain additions, comparatively trivial, was pronounced to be perfectly safe. As a consequence, therefore, on the advice of Mr. Morrison, the Executive had most necessarily caused the Proprietor to stop the use of his Theatre from the 26th June to 3rd August (the date of Colonel Grain's report), although the Theatre had been opened with the tacit approval of the Surveyor General. Further, the Colony has, owing to the incompetency of its professional adviser, had to pay a fee of $150 to Colonel Grain, which it had been contemplated would have been paid by the other side who readily agreed to the arbitrations. But the greatest complaint arises from the fact that during a period of over six months, Mr. Morsom, though he alleged that both he and the Inspector of Buildings...",
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        "content_text": "commenced let alone completed.\n\nI return herewith the correspondence together with the two tracings it, and und am which Je accompanied\n\n(Signed) & M Grain, Em Em Kint Colonel, C.R.E.\n\n(True Copy)\n\n(in / Smith.\n\nActing Colonial Secretary-\n\nEvetract 9945/20 \n\n483\n\nExtract from the Minutes of the Executive Council of Hongkong, held on the 9th August, 1872.\n\n\"Present:\"\n\nHis Excellency Garremo, Sir Arthur Edward Kennedy, K.C.M.G., C.B. His Excellency Major General Whitfield, Commanding the Majesty's Troops.\n\n\"The Honorable Cecil Smith, Acting Colonial Secretary.\n\n\"The Honorable Thomas Child Wallis Acting Attorney General.\n\nThe Council met this day at 3 pm. by Special Summons",
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        "content_text": "Attached to Oso. No2339\n\n485\n\n\"Memorandum from\n\nThe Acting Colonial Secretary, of the 1st August,\n\ngiving a summary of\n\nall the correspondence that has taken place between the Government and\n\nthe Surveyor General, and the Architect, and the Owner of the building - Owner of the premises - from the commencement in March 187..., to the present date.\n\n\"\n\n• From the documents it would appear that the Architects strongly objected to the views of the Surveyor General as to the stability of the Building, and hence the aid of Colonel Crain, Colonel Imain, a most competent Officer, had been...",
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        "content_text": "490\n\n\"convinced that the wall has bulged out 1 inch in 8 feet in height. I differ entirely from Colonel Grain's Report paragraph 3, regarding this point. I have put a line and plummet over the whole Building, and there is not a straight line or column upright in the whole Building.\n\nTo the Beattie(?) Building?\n\n\"I did not report this. I believe the present state is owing to the failure of the column referred to. I believe it occurred since the opening of the Building.\"",
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        "content_text": "C\n\n493\n\n\"Paragraph 2.\"\n\n(Mr. Monson here states that he does not care at all with Colonel Grain, and being further questioned, leaves it doubtful as to which he wishes to stand)\n\n\"Mr. Monson is permitted by this Resolution to retire.\n\n\"The Council then considers the Report and Papers on the subject, to test Mr. Morison's statements, and it is Resolved, -\n\nthat the care of the Ting Ting Theatre affords another proof of ...",
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        "content_text": "N\n\n3\n\nCopy of a letter from Lieutenant Colonel Garin, Commanding Royal Engineer, to whom the General referred\n\nContained in Your Major's letters - By it 2 you will perceive that the Regulations contained in the Royal Warrant dated 18th January, 1872, regulating the employment of Engineer Officers in civil situations under the Crown; draw a distinction between Officers temporarily lent for civil duties, and those withdrawn from Military duties for employment under a Civil Department:\n\nIn reference to these regulations I am to desire you to afford Lieutenant Colonel Garin as to whether, in consequence of the information requested by Lieutenant Hardy's time is to be solely and exclusively placed at the disposal of the Colonial Government, which will deprive him of his extra pay and allowances as also his Regimental Pay.\n\nI am at the same time to state, however, that the Commanding Officer sanctions the employment of Lieutenant McHardy in the situation you propose.\n\nI have &c.,\n\n(Signed) A. Walker, Captain,\n\nBrigade Major,\n\n- for Asst. Military Secretary.-",
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        "content_text": "Lt. Colonel Grain, C.R.E, to Assist: Military Secretary 1891 (Copy).\n\n120043\n\nRoyal Engineer's Office, Hongkong,\n\n28th September, 1872.\n\n26\n\nSir,\n\nWith reference to your Memo: of this day's date enclosing a copy of a Letter from the Acting Colonial Secretary to the Major General, applying for permission for the employment of Lieutenant M. Starcy, R.E. as Acting Surveyor General pending the arrival of Mr. Moorsom; and asking whether I have any objection to offer to ditto,\n\n-Assistant Military Secretary, Hongkong",
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        "content_text": "10.\n\n10%\n\nthe Reserve dist, his emoluments shall\n\nbe exclusively derived from\n\nthe\n\nDepartment which employs him.\n\nNo extra\n\npa\n\nallowances\n\nshall be issued to Officers who are\n\nfrom their\n\nwicherawn\n\nMilitary\n\nduties\n\nfor employment under a civil Department,\n\nClause. 3..\n\nFor Sir C.. Hennady\n\nMINUTE.\n\nhs 186.\n\nMor. As Rebecck\n\nace. 17 Mr. Made. 10 fring cofing\n\nMr. Holland.\n\nMr. Herbert.\n\n136. 19009\n\n294\n\nHong Kong\n\nI have received your despatch\n\n20130 of the 16 October, and\n\napprove of the arrangements you\n\nMr. Hugessen.\n\nexcept when\n\nemployed under Article\n\nLord Kimberley.\n\nhave\n\n12 of\n\nthis Orde Warrant-\n\nJurazor\n\nmade wherely dient de Hardy is to act as Several motil a professor Inonson is appointed.\n\nJamy\n\nto he\n\nFree Extract\n\n(Signed) E. M. Grain,\n\nLient Colonel, C.R.C..\n\n1 Frase Papiny (Signed) A. Walker,\n\nCaptain Brigade Major for Apt mil: Sex:\n\n(True Copies\n\nActing Colonial Secretary.-",
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        "content_text": "## General Commanding a report esord \n\nmade by the Surveyor General on the application of Colonel Moggridge to pass out a drain through certain land at Kowloong \n\nI have to. (signed) J. Gardiner Austin, Colonial Secretary.\n\nBy the Surveyor General 282 \n\nReference to Colonel Moggridge's plan attached shows the proposed new drain passing through a piece of ground which I have coloured yellow, and which is the private property of Mr Edmund Sharp, who only can sanction the encroachment.\n\nIf however the drain be deviated in the direction shown by a line which I have dotted in blue, it will be entirely on Crown land and there is no objection.",
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        "content_text": "26\n\n27\n\narrival at the port of departure in the case of reports and at the port of arrival in the case of imports - But said the Hopkwo \"I should lose by such arrangement as the sum of the two duties in the case of many articles would not: Wheat I am still led to levy\" and he instanced the case of white sugar.\n\n20. The Grain Commissioner is said to have asked the Hong Kong Merchants if they could suggest any plan - and they said \"the Macao plan would answer their purpose as they would have their goods conveyed between Hong Kong and Macao by sampan and make the latter the port of report to and export from places on the coast of China, and thus merely pay the low 'Rech shue daie'.\"\n\nAs arranged?\n\nd. This proposed wavering took the Hoi Hwan by surprise. Colonel Pang was deputed to bring them to reason \"_ Colonel Pang has not succeeded for as stated in page 8 it appears that the piece goods trade with the West Coast has migrated to Macao somewhat spoils the inferences which one has in figuring the actors in that little drama - one is obliged to leave out the two principal ones the Hopkwo and...",
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        "content_text": "I a white vol:& Colonel Stuart's at \n\np.p. 27: \n\n32059 \n\nof the latter, & the Arbitrator's Report at p. 171. \n\nI may further call attention to the Acting Attorney General's opinion on the legal aspect of the claim (6.41) & some antecedents & letters reflecting on Mr Price's delays in reporting on pp. 85-87. I have also added pencil references in the margin of the Desp: to the pages White vol: referred to by \n\nthe case \n\nHe \n\nThe Governor. \n\nFrom p. 89 of the three vol: the contents appear with topure exceptions to be the same as on the white vol.. \n\nMr. Cough the original (of which a faint is given \n\nreferent memorial However ab \n\nin his family) \n\n6.94, the further observations by dat Coughlin \n\nthe in important evidence taken \n\nby the Arbitrator including \n\nCoughtime's, Mr M Kein \n\n& Mr Dowdle's contention. \n\nEl \n\n362 \n\nI Watt \n\nbehalf of the harvey on fencial: \n\nDebts are \n\nto be \n\nfound only in \n\nThe three volume. (Places marked) the points of difference not Satisfactorily cleared up In Coughlin \n\n1. that the new drain brought \n\nan addition \n\nof water too great for the old drain to carry away. \n\n2. that the Inesting was immediately caused by the old drain getting choked up with boulders and being out of repair (Her duty wults widence), & by the displacement of the two large stones by the force of water \n\nSat. Rice. \n\n1. That it was \n\nlarge enough & with fall enough & \n\naway \n\ncarry, three times the \n\nquantity. 2. that the drain \n\nwas not choked with sand or boulders & could not have been. to the wish of \n\nwater \n\nbeing very great. two latter \n\nthat the stones \n\nwere displaced by \n\nThe water",
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        "content_text": "367\n\nunder his house.\n\n2.\n\nHe alleged, and Colonel Stuart, then a Member of the Executive Council and Commanding Royal Engineer, agreed with him that this arose from the fact that a new drain had been made by the Survey Department which caused an accumulation of sand and ultimately excessive pressure from conveying a body of water larger than the old drain had been constructed to take.\n\n3.\n\nPrice alleged. On the other hand, Mr. that Mr. Bouthrie's servants had been in the habit of removing large stones from the top of the old drain to throw down the night soil into it; and that this was the main cause of the accident.\n\n4.\n\nThe application came before the 2nd of July, 1880, and was referred to the Attorney General and then to the Executive Council. Owing to some delays in the Survey Department in dealing with the papers, I was unable to bring the question to a final decision till this year.\n\n5.\n\nThe Executive Council recommended that the question of fact in dispute between Mr. Price and Mr. Bouthrie should be referred to some independent person to take evidence and report upon. This was done.",
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        "content_text": "382 25\n\n•harring aboridoried any idea of staking legal proceedings against the Government, and that therefore as be the Governor does with the Attorney General to whom the papers had been referred that the matter had becon a question of policy rather than law - the question for the Council to consider was whether the Government should accede to the plaintiff's proposal to submit the case to arbitration.\n\nDisenssions in which the Honourable the Colonel Commanding the troops (Colonel Stuart) differs from the Acting Colonial Secretary (the Honourable J. M. Price) that the damage was not owing to the bursting of the drain which ran under the house and had been faultly constructed by Government.\n\nSince however the Colonel formed his opinion from verbal and personal observation only, and had not seen the Surveyor General's report nor the other papers on which the Acting Colonial Secretary's view of the case was based, it is resolved that before arriving at any definite conclusion on the matter all the papers be forwarded for the perusal of the Honourable the Colonel Commanding the Troops.",
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        "content_text": "415\n\n\"house was\" but long after the drain under my house was completed, they turned the waters of a large drain unto it, and \"thereby threw upon it duties which it was never intended to and could not adequately fulfil\". This, I say, was the proximate and real cause of the accident and upon this point the statement of the Surveyor throws some light.\n\n2. To the above I replied in my minute of 9th September 1879, that the drain under my house was capable of discharging 2277 cubic feet of water per minute, whereas the entire volume of storm waters, including those of the larger drain which he complains had been turned into it, came after all to an average of 705 cubic feet per minute, during the greatest intensity of the storm, or less than one third.\n\n3. My statement and calculations were then referred to Colonel Stuart, C.E., who was no longer a member of the Executive Council, for an opinion, and on the 4th January, 1880, Colonel Stuart sent in his report. The reference to Colonel Stuart for an opinion was in every respect the same as a reference to Mr. Boughbrie himself. The close friendship existing between these two gentlemen, and Colonel Stuart's...",
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        "content_text": "LTifina allows of their being taken as reliable data for mathematical formula and the official statistics broken by sex are surely likely to be correct than any to be obtained from local newspapers.\n\n8. Colonel Stucley in the same paragraph says even during that period the rain did not descend with uniform intensity, no one would expect that it did. It words however become uniform, or nearly so, by the time it has run off the hills, roads, houses and been collected by the tributary drains and channels into the one in question.\n\n9. Colonel Stucley then points out that the whole area of the Belmont drain was not available as he is prepared to prove that it was to a great extent choked 100 yards. Here we have on the one hand Mr. Bougltrie prepared to prove that the drain was choked with sand and on the other Mr. Ffrodsham and Mr. Watts that it was not. A drain built on such a steep incline could possibly have retained any deposit of sand in it, even allowing that sand has been cast into it. And yet the washing of sand into the drain was guarded against by two large sand pits in the positions shown on the general plan.",
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        "content_text": "420\n\nImmediately after the event. This drain, which is shown in red on the general plan, was made partly to allay any feelings of anxiety Mr. Browning might have lest the thing should recur again, and to carry off the heavy fall during the excavations and examination of the old drain and house foundation, but principally because this Department of recent years, acting on broad principle, has endeavoured whenever the opportunity arose to substitute all drains under houses by drains under the public streets.\n\n12. In paragraph 5, Colonel Start pronounces the drain poor and of faulty \"construction\" and not at all adapted to bear any sudden and unforeseen pressure, and that it seems probable that it had been damaged more or less before the date of the accident to \"Belmont.\" The drain is similar to a number in the Colony built about the same time. It would last many years if uninjured by external causes. A glance at the annexed tracing representing the state of the drain when it was exposed to the light clearly shows that Colonel Start is right in his conjecture, and that the cover stones were injured by the careless manner in which...",
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        "content_text": "4213\n\nbouliers\n\nsound\n\nthe\n\nwhich Mr Foughtries predecessor, who built the house, had thrown upon top of the drain the heavy stone\n\nof\n\nwhich the embankment is partly composed. Another cause\n\nof injury would be the great weight the drain was called upon to sustain by the action of Mr Foughtries predecessor\n\nin the embankment and\n\nhouse which he built on\n\nthe top of\n\nthe drain without duly strengthening\n\nthe latter.\n\n13.\n\nAs to Colonel Shark's opinion that the damage to the drain would easily be accounted for by a gorging it with more water than it could discharge, I should point out that the larger drain collects the water from the area of 1.72 acres, shown tinted pink on the general plan, and the old Belmont drain collects the water from an area of 1.61 acres, tinted blue, making a total area of 3.33 acres.\n\nFrom this minuter survey, I find therefore that I was too liberal in my previous calculations when I took the area of drainage to be 4.47 acres. The 13 inches of rainfall on 3.33 acres is only 524 cubic feet.\n\nThe drain, 20\" x 18\" at its narrowest point, with a fall of 1.4 in 20 feet at its most level portion, is capable, by formula, of delivering a greater quantity of water and sand to the latter than it will carry off the water from 3.33 acres, however hard it may rain; it is perfectly clear...",
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        "content_text": "457\n\ngreater weight the drain could bear.\n\nto state if that is other than the top of a\n\na\n\nlarge boulder\n\nwhat is\n\nlaying\n\nsays\n\n\"I tours\n\nin the drain but the\n\nhouse was not resting\n\nthere is a\n\ntwo officers of\n\nthe Rahman\n\nthem.\n\ndifference between the Survey Department,\n\nbut allowance must be made for the\n\ntime that has elapsed\n\nlength of time\n\nthe accident.\n\nelapses since\n\nI think the report made by Colonel\n\nthe Royal Engineers on the 6th\n\nindependent opinion of\n\nStart\n\nof\n\nJanuary\n\n1880 is an\n\nwhat he saw, and the conclusions he came to\n\nan\n\nthe subject of the damage done to Messrs Boughton's house are entitled to great consideration Colonel Stuart states in para 5c. of 6th January 1880:- \"What happened I conceive to be this: The old\n\nof\n\nletter\n\n\"drain became partly brought into it\n\nconstruction\n\nby\n\nby\n\nchoked\n\nby\n\nthe new drain\n\nsand\n\nthe Surveyor General's department;\n\n\"the old drain became gorged at the\n\n\"place of the land deposit under the foundations\n\nthe house; the water then\n\nof\n\n\"accumulated\" in the drain and by its\n\n\"pressure destroyed the drain, not only under the foundations of Belmont but at a\n\nthe surface of\n\n\"weak point\n\nnear\n\nthe\n\n\"ground higher up. This explanation accounts for each and all of the\n\ncircumstances that occurred whereas\n\n\"that\n\nof\n\nthe\n\nSurveyor General's\n\nDepartment, does not.\n\nIt is\n\nA\n\ndifficult matter for me to decide between experts such as Colonel Stuart, R.E, Surveyor General Price, and Mr Bowker Assistant Surveyor General, are, but the question\n\nI being referred to me\n\nI give it to the best of my ability; my opinion is that the \"old drain gave way\n\nNorth West corner\n\nunder\n\nthe\n\nof the house in\n\nconsequence of the drain being required to",
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        "content_text": "The dozen or twenty guns there were on the front attacked by the French were placed in such cramped positions that they scarcely covered more than the country directly in front of them. Here and there, too, there were square wooden trough-like constructions run through the body of the wall, presumably called loop-holes, but absolutely useless except when a body of troops was unfortunate enough to pass directly in front of them. In addition to this, not even the best use that could have been made of the bad material at their disposal was obtained. The Black Flags seem to have handed over the artillery to the Yunnan or Kwang-si militia, and these men neither had the skill nor the courage necessary to serve the guns. It seems undeniable that if the cannon had been employed with anything like the energy which kept up the small arm fire, the French would never have taken Bortay, or at any rate, not till after a long siege. As it was, the fight here, though severe enough while it lasted, was nothing like the struggle at Phu-sa.\n\nDivided counsels no doubt helped the French greatly. The Chinese \"regulars,\" as they are styled, seem to have drawn off early on the morning of the 15th. Then Liu Jung-fu and the Torquinese Prince appear to have had bickerings, and in the end none but the Black Flags seem to have fought. Close to the west gate, where the entry was effected, there is a long street, constituting the Chinese quarter of the town and inhabited in great part by the leaders of the Hak-kis. Up one side of this street went the Turcos and the Foreign Legion and up the other the Infantry of Marine under the direct command of Admiral Courbet, who was one of the first to surmount the works. All through the second day the fighting centred in this street. Turning and counter-turning movements were made by both sides, but all the while the hardest work was in the centre. The Chinamen defended almost every house. They very early found out that the system followed by the French from the beginning of the campaign was to be carried out here. No quarter was asked for and none was given. So it went on till close on nightfall, when Liu Jung-fu's house was reached. From the extensive outline to be traced in the ashes and the pieces of ornamental stone and plaster-work still to be seen, this must have been a very fine building. With its capture the fighting seems to have practically ceased. The Frenchmen devoted themselves to the ransacking of the defeated chief's house, and the Black Flags drew off towards the citadel, which is not much more than two hundred yards off. What the value of the despatches discovered in Liu's house may have been has not yet appeared. The letters from Hué are at any rate of no practical value, unless they result, or have already resulted, in the beheading of anti-French mandarins. The import of Li Hung-chang's communications may or may not have important results. Perhaps the new reinforcements announced to have left France are not altogether unconnected with the perusal of these documents.\n\nWhat followed is long since known to you. The Black Flags drew off under cloud of night to the mountains which lie north and west of the town. The French entered the citadel early in the morning. The entry was, in true modern Gallic fashion, utterly unauthorized and irresponsible. A handful of Turcos and Estrangers approached the north gate, pushed it open, and entered and found no one inside except for wretched Annamese women and children, and 8 or so Scots of still more luckless youths. A flag was then improvised of a length of the red waistcloth of a Turco, the handkerchief of an officer, and a strip off the blue cummerbund of a Foreign Legion man, and the hoisting of this characteristic tricolor on the tower was the first notice Admiral Courbet had of the occupation of the citadel. Inside, the rice stores were the principal captures made. There was a certain amount of bar-silver taken, but the Chinamen seem to have carried the greater part away with them. About a hundred and fifty poulies were found, as also an elephant, since dead, and a small arsenal. It was obvious, however, that all who left carried their arms and cartridge belts with them. The French have made a clean sweep of all the buildings inside the citadel with the exception of a few of the better-class huts for the officers, the Royal Pagoda, in which the Colonel Commandant is domiciled, and the huge granaries of rice, which were piled up to the roof with grain and contained provisions for probably a couple of years. There is also a curious small building used by the Black Flags as a powder manufactory, with regular compartments for the saltpetre, sulphur, and charcoal. The French are tinkering it up into an arms store. There is no doubt that Liu Jung-fu showed good judgment in abandoning the citadel. Its conglomerate walls would even have fallen before the French guns and the whole garrison would have been trapped. It does not seem to have mounted more than sixteen or twenty guns altogether, and these, if possible, were more wretched pieces than the ordnance on the earthworks.\n\nThe French have cleared a wide space all round the front, and have driven wide open ways in all directions out into the open country, necessarily sacrificing the houses of the town in the process. This presents a most desolate appearance at present. Only about one house in fifty yards is occupied, and yet it appears that it is dangerous for a man to walk alone through the streets after dark. Possibly this state of things may improve later on, but it will not do so very fast, if we are to judge from the other towns in French occupation. Nowhere have they as yet more than a mere military grip on the country. They hold the towns, but nothing more. The Chasseur d'Afrique may jingle his spurs down the Boulevard Marty of Haiphong; the Turco may clear the streets before him in Hanoi; the ordinary line-man and his fellow of the Infantry of Marine may kick over old women's vegetable stalls and swagger about consumedly in Nam-dinh and Haid-anong; at Sontay the same thing may be done with impunity, but nowhere can any one of them go beyond the range of French guns. The Black Flags or pirates would be down upon them immediately. The wanderer would be fortunate if he was merely pelted with stones. The ordinary thing would be a spear-thrust, and a pint of nails and pebbles from a blunderbus might be anticipated with reasonable confidence. It will be a long time before the delta is really brought to a peaceable condition.\n\nIt will be much longer if the projects at present seething in the Gallic brain are attempted. You are aware that the idea is to surround Bac-ninh completely and destroy the garrison to the last man, even if there should be twenty-five thousand of them. Unfortunately for the garrison it would seem that the heights round the town are taken, this scheme is quite feasible. This swooping scheme is talked of here in the most matter-of-fact way by naval and military officers, by civilians and loafers. The argument is that it will be a most salutary \"example\" and that under cover of the scare \"produced,\" the French General Négrier is the man whom rumour points out as the leader of the attack - will make a dash on Lang-son, through the hills, and so close the gate from China. Lang-son should certainly have been taken long ago, but that does not mean that it will be taken now, either easily or at all. There are signs that the rains may set in early this year. There has already been a great deal too much for our comfort. In the rains the country between Bacninh and Sontay would be impracticable.\n\nMeanwhile everything here is at a stand-still, pending the arrival of General Millot with the reinforcements. It is a question whether he will allow correspondents to go to the front, and if he follows the advice of those now in power, he will not.\n\nPage 253",
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        "content_text": "302\n\n296\n\nTHE SANITARY RECORD.\n\n(F) Power of Entry\nUnder sect. 102, Public Health Act, 1875, the local authority or any of its officers have power of entry to any premises to examine for nuisances, enforcing the smoke prevention provisions, or examine as to recurring nuisances.\n\nTo enter upon land (sect. 105, Public Health Act, 1875) for the purposes of making plans, surveying, measuring, levelling, keeping in repair or examining works, ascertain the course of sewers or drains, or ascertaining or fixing boundaries and many other purposes.\n\nQuestion 3.\nWhat are the chief principles to be observed in the sewerage of a town or district, and how would you proceed to determine the size and capacity of the outfall sewer? What size of sewer would you propose for a town of 25,000 population where the gradient is 1 in 300? Illustrate your answer by sketches.\n\nAnswer: Geographical configuration, annual average rainfall, number of present population and prospective increase, taking the last census as a basis. Whether a full water-closet town, or if to be sewered on the separate system: the nature of the outfall with a view to gravitation or mechanical lifting, and other minor causes.\n\nThe size of the outfall sewer, in my opinion, should be not less than 3 feet 3 inches by 4 feet 6 inches, discharging 185 cubic feet per minute, thus allowing the sewage at 30 cubic feet per head per day to be discharged in eight hours. On the separate system this capacity for a full water closet town, and to allow for heavy rainfalls, say 3 feet by 4 feet 6 inches, if rain or surface waters is to be included, discharging 267 cubic feet per minute, with the inclination given of 1 in 300.\n\nQuestion 4\nWrite a specification for laying stoneware pipe sewers.\n\nAnswer: Being the specification for a pipe sewer, I assume that any local surveyor would be equal to this, and as it would take up a very considerable space in the SANITARY RECORD, without a corresponding benefit to surveyors generally, I omit to take up the space, the general features of such a specification being that the pipes shall be straight, sound, and true to bore, well and truly laid, and jointed in a perfectly water-tight manner; the earth excavated at the collars so that the body of the pipe may have a true bearing along its whole length. If in faulty ground concreted all around and on top to exclude uneven pressure; if on good ground, then the earth put in 6-inch layers, well rammed in around and above to avoid sinkage. All laid in straight lines from manhole to manhole, with provision for ventilation and lighting, so that a lamp inserted at a lamphole may be seen and show a light to an adjacent manhole, thus at once showing where any stoppage existed.\n\nQuestion 5.\nSupposing a sewer to have a gradient of 1 in 300, how much would the velocity and discharge be increased by altering the gradient to 1 in 60?\n\nAnswers: 1 in 300 = 4/57*32) = 7*92 increase of discharge per second. 1 in 60 = /1000 = 10*00) = 17*32 (1.732 increase of velocity per second.\n\n1005\n\n7320\n\n2000\n\n3200\n\n3000\n\n2000\n\n22000\n\nQuestion 6.\nGive a description of the process termed intermittent downward filtration. State what area of land you would require with a gravelly soil for applying this method of purifying sewage to a town with a population of 20,000 inhabitants; and state the arrangements you would adopt for dealing with the rain water falling on the roofs, yards, and streets.\n\nAnswer: Intermittent downward filtration may be termed a natural system of purification of sewage by means of the filtering and aërating action of the soil: it is carried on by discharging (with or without previous precipitation) upon a properly prepared area, the sewage of the town under drainage. This sewage is conducted upon the prepared area by a series of carriers, and then allowed to filter through the land into drains laid about 6 feet under ground, from whence it (as an effluent) is conducted to its outfall, mostly a river. The action upon the sewage is threefold—viz., evaporation, aëration, and filtration, and if properly conducted should give an effluent of a very high standard.\n\nAs to the amount of land requisite for the purification of the sewage of a town of 20,000 population, authorities differ, but taking the daily amount of sewage per head at 30 gallons, and the average of five persons to each house equal to 150 gallons per house per day, then the fact that this quantity must be got rid of in about eight hours, it would not be safe to reckon less than 1,000 gallons per house. Then taking 4,000 houses, there would be 4,000,000 gallons of sewage to deal with, which could be successfully treated on 5 acres of such land; but it would, of course, require that a very far larger amount should be provided, as no land could be expected to be constantly under treatment, and the least amount should be five times this quantity, so as to have only one-fifth under treatment.\n\nGreat diversity of opinion exists upon this subject, and no very hard and fast line can be drawn. Each case must rest upon individual merits and local circumstances.\n\nWith regard to dealing with rain-water from roofs, most of it should undoubtedly be stored for domestic use, as it is far too valuable to be uselessly wasted. Drainage from yards and roads should be conducted in separate channels (from the sewer proper) to a natural outfall: although often in storms the washings from roads may be nearly as bad as sewage; but, on the other hand, if the surface-water were admitted, the sewers would have to be greatly increased in size to provide for excessive rainfall.\n\nQuestion 7.\nDescribe and illustrate by sketches the essential points to be observed in carrying out a system of house drainage, and the best means of providing urinal and closet accommodation for schools, workhouses, and similar institutions.\n\nQuestion 8.\nIn arranging the water supply for a manufacturing town of 30,000 inhabitants, state what you consider of importance as regards (A) Sources of supply; (B) Quantity required; (C) Distribution.\n\nAnswer: (A) The geographical situation of the town, as to the possibility of gravitation from rivers or otherwise; the geological situation of its surroundings, with a view to its probability of affording a sufficiency of supply and its nature as to hardness, &c.; the annual average rainfall: what water rights, if any, existed; the present population and prospective rate of increase, and whether the town was a full water-closet one or otherwise.\n\n(B) Twenty-five to thirty gallons per head population.\n\n(C) Under pressure that all cisterns had ball-cocks and tell-tale overflows; that Deacon's waste-water preventers were in use; that a thorough system of inspection existed to detect waste; that the mains were well laid and efficiently jointed, and that a sufficiency existed for immediate use in case of fire. In the constant service system there is very little, if any, waste; the returns from many towns showing none; but in the intermittent there is often a large amount of waste through neglect of the inhabitants and defective fittings. The screw-down tap somewhat modifies this, but it is a very slow and unsatisfactory way of drawing water.\n\nQuestion 9.\nDescribe the general characters of the waters derived from—(1) The chalk; (2) the new red sandstone; (3) the carboniferous formations; and the methods by which water should be obtained from each.\n\nAnswer: (1) Water derived from the chalk formation, although generally pure and plentiful (except in long seasons of drought), is often very hard, leaving injurious effects on some constitutions.\n\n(2) Water derived from the new red sandstone formation is sometimes of a rather hard description, but not to the degree of that yielded by the chalk formation.\n\n(3) The carboniferous (or coal measure) formations always yields soft water of undoubted purity, and generally in ample volume for all purposes.\n\nQuestion 10.\nIn what ways is water able to be polluted after collection, during its distribution to houses, and in houses? What means would you adopt to prevent such pollution?\n\nAnswer: Water may become polluted after collection by fungoid growths and atmospheric influences (where exposed to such): during distribution, from imperfect pipes and joints allowing sewer or other gas to enter the mains; in houses, by improper fittings, such as a cistern in direct communication with the drain, or so placed as to be difficult of cleansing, and frequently not ventilated, and other insidious causes.\n\nQuestion 11.\nWhat fittings, and plumber's work generally are required for a high-pressure constant water service? How would you make the connection with the main? Describe the kinds of joints which should be used on the branches?\n\nAnswer: The class of fittings required for the high-pressure constant service are iron tubular services with iron angle or T-pieces, either tinned or galvanised. Where lead must be used the joints should be what is known as plumber's or wiped joints, the taps being those known as the high-pressure screw-down service taps, the connection with the main being by a ferrule; plumber's joints on branches, unless iron unions are used.\n\nQuestion 12.\nThere is great difficulty in obtaining a supply of good water for a country house, and it is therefore necessary to obtain as much water as possible from the roofs, and to use it for drinking and cooking purposes. The total area of area of the roof of the house and offices is 8,000 square feet, and the average annual rainfall is about 40 inches. Calculate what size the storage tank should be, and give a sketch of it and of its appendages?\n\nAnswer: Size of storage tank, 160,000 gallons.\n\nQuestion 13.\nTo what extent does the size of a room affect the quantity of fresh air required for effective ventilation, and what quantity of air would be required per hour for a room containing 8,000 cubic feet, occupied by fifteen people? How would you ventilate such a room? Illustrate your answer by sketches.\n\nAnswer: Douglas Galton in 'Healthy Homes' quotes: \"According to theoretical calculations, it would appear that, with an initial air space of 1,000 cubic feet, occupied by one individual, it would be necessary to supply 3,000 cubic feet per hour, to maintain the room in a proper condition of humidity. As regards other impurities, if 0.6 per 1,000 of CO2 are accepted as the limit of respiratory impurity in a well-ventilated air space, in addition to the 0.4 per 1,000 in normal air, we can calculate out the amount of air necessary for the purpose; and from this calculation it appears that it requires 3,000 cubic feet per hour to preserve the air-space in the required state of freshness. Thus the theoretical calculations, based first upon humidity, and secondly on carbonic acid, bring us to similar conclusions in each case.\"\n\nDe Chaumont in Parkes' 'Practical Hygiene': \"A certain amount of fresh air has to pass through a given space in a fixed time in order to maintain a certain degree of purity; the amount has been fixed at 3,000 cubic feet for each healthy person in an hour. Thus a space of 100 cubic feet must have its air changed thirty times in an hour. If 3,000 feet of air are to be given, while a space of 1,000 cubic feet need only have it changed three times in an hour for an equal ventilation, then our problem being 15 persons in a room of 8,000 cubic feet, would work out thus: - 3,000 x 15 = 45,000 cubic feet of air as requisite. The room being of 8,000 cubic feet capacity would require the air to be changed nearly 5.6 times in an hour.\n\nCOMPETITIONS.\nSANITARY INSTITUTE OF GREAT BRITAIN.\nAt an Examination, held Nov. 11 and 12, 62 Candidates presented themselves as Local Surveyors and 59 as Inspectors of Nuisances. The questions were set to be answered in writing on Nov. 11, and the Candidates were examined viva voce on Nov. 12. The Institute's Certificate of Competency to discharge the duties of Local Surveyor was awarded to John Reid Anderson, John F. Curwen, John William Metcalf, Charles Chambers Smith; and the Institute's Certificate of Competency to discharge the duties of Inspector of Nuisances was awarded to James Barfoot, John Barron, Daniel Bartley Bostel, G. Stanford Bostel, Harry D. Bowyer, Edmund Bradshaw, Charles E. Brown, Albert Chadderton, David Christie, William Hatch Clayton, George William Cobham, John F. Elliott, John William Hart, Albert Hodges, W. Lee Holding, Joseph Huxley, Joshua Jameson, Edgar E. Jury, Richard C. Lindop, Arthur Henry Lukes, Charles MacMahon, R. McCulloch, Adam Luke McDonald, William Edwin Newbery, John Henry Ollett, William Parsons, William Robert Pearson, Charles Poole, Christopher Raimes, George Russell, Ambrose J. Shore, Charles Chambers Smith, Edwin Smith, Henry Charles Soper, Henry Spadaccini, Alfred William Stone, William Tate, John Tunstall, Samuel Turner, James A. Webb, Charles Turle Wilson, Charles Bruce Wood.\n\nAPPOINTMENTS.\nMEDICAL OFFICERS OF HEALTH.\nANNINGSON, Bushell, M.D.Cantab, has been re-appointed Medical Officer of Health for the Cambridge Urban Sanitary District, at £350 for one year, and for the Chesterton Urban Sanitary District, at £50 for one year.\n\nATKINSON, Francis Edward, L.R.C.P.Lond., M.R.C.S.Eng., has been re-appointed Medical Officer of Health for the Craven Combined District, comprising the Haworth, Oakworth, Oven-temple, Silsden, and Skipton Urban Sanitary Districts, and the Keighley, Settle, and Skipton Rural Sanitary Districts, at £150 per annum, for three years.\n\nBARNES, George, L.R.C.P.Edin., M.R.C.S.Eng., L.S.A.Lond., has been re-appointed Medical Officer of Health for the Chard Urban Sanitary District, at £10 for one year.\n\nBLANISTON, Aubrey, L.R.C.P.Edin., L.R.C.S.Edin., has been appointed Medical Officer of Health for the Wareham Urban Sanitary District, at £10 per annum.\n\nCLARK, William Wake, M.B. Univ. Edin., M.R.C.S.Eng., L.S.A.Lond., has been appointed Medical Officer of Health for the Higham-Ferrers newly formed Urban Sanitary District, at £15 per annum.\n\nGREATREX, Adolphus Barnell, M.D.Univ. St.And., M.R.C.S.Eng., L.M., L.S.A.Lond., has been appointed Medical Officer of Health for the Kidsgrove Urban Sanitary District, at the rate of £20 per annum, until March 25 next, vice Brigham, resigned.\n\nHODGSON, Isaac Clark, M.B., C.M.Univ.Glasg., has been re-appointed Medical Officer of Health for the Workington Port Sanitary District, at £5 for one year.\n\nMEREDITH, John, M.D.Univ. Edin., L.R.C.S.Edin., has been re-appointed Medical Officer of Health for the Wellington (Som.) Urban Sanitary District, at £60 per annum, for three years.\n\nPATTERSON, George Henry, L.R.C.P.Lond., M.R.C.S.Eng., L.S.A.Lond., has been re-appointed Medical Officer of Health for the Dalton-in-Furness Urban Sanitary District, at £30 for the year ending Dec. 25, 1887.\n\nRAWSON, Edwin Ellsworth, L.R.C.P.Edin. and L.M., M.R.C.S.Eng., L.S.A.Lond., has been re-appointed Medical Officer of Health for the Thornton Urban Sanitary District, Yorkshire, at £27 for one year.\n\nREDDING, J. H. Douglas, L.R.C.P.Edin., L.R.C.S.Edin., L.M., L.F.P.S.Glasg., and L.M., has been re-appointed Medical Officer of Health for the Huntingdon Urban Sanitary District, at £24 for one year.\n\nSHEA, John, M.B. Univ. Lond., M.D. Univ. St.And., M.R.C.S.Eng., L.S.A.Lond., has been re-appointed Medical Officer of Health for the combined Reading and Wokingham Rural and Urban Sanitary Districts, at £385 per annum, from Dec. 25, 1886.\n\nTABOR, Charles James, M.B.Univ. Durh., has been appointed Medical Officer of Health for the Joga Division of the Redruth Rural Sanitary District, at £18 per annum, vice Reed, deceased.\n\nTURNER, Frederick, M.R.C.S.Eng., L.S.A.Lond., has been re-appointed Medical Officer of Health for the Buxton Urban Sanitary District, at £40 for one year.\n\nSURVEYORS, CLERKS TO GUARDIANS, INSPECTORS OF NUISANCES, &c.\nARCHIBALD, Mr. G. T., has been re-appointed Inspector of Nuisances for the Workington Port Sanitary District, at £5 for one year.\n\nARNFIELD, Mr. Edwin, has been elected a Member of the New Mills Local Board and Urban Sanitary Authority, vice Stafford, deceased.\n\nBATE, Mr. Alfred Goodwin, has been appointed Collector to the Town Council and Urban Sanitary Authority of Reigate, at £150 per annum, vice Apted, resigned.\n\nBEAUMONT, Mr. J. M., has been elected a Member of the Elland Local Board and Urban Sanitary Authority, vice Crowther, resigned.\n\nBOLLAM, Mr. Frederick, has been appointed Inspector of Nuisances for the Wareham Urban Sanitary District, at £10 per annum.\n\nCLAYTON, Mr. William, has been re-appointed Inspector of Nuisances for the Southowram Urban Sanitary District, at £10 for one year.\n\nCOLE, Mr. Arthur Henry, has been appointed an Inspector of Nuisances for the Leicester Urban Sanitary District, and Inspector of Food, and of Dairies, &c., at £100 per annum, vice Wand, resigned.\n\nCOX, Mr. James Henry, has been appointed Inspector of Nuisances for the Hailsham Rural Sanitary District, Sussex, at £81 per annum, vice Martin, deceased.\n\nCROGHAN, Mr. Thomas Andrew, C.E., has been re-appointed Inspector of Nuisances for the Buxton Urban Sanitary District, at £5 for one year.\n\nFLATER, Mr. George Clavell, Solicitor, has been appointed Town Clerk and Clerk to the Urban Sanitary Authority, Wareham, at £30 per annum.\n\nGORDON, Mr. E. S., has been appointed Inspector of Nuisances for the East Grinstead Urban Sanitary District, at £20 per annum, vice Brown, resigned.\n\nGREENWOOD, Mr. Joseph, has been re-appointed an Inspector of Nuisances for the Ulverstone Rural Sanitary District, at £15 per annum, and Surveyor at £30 per annum, for three years, from Jan. 1, 1887.\n\nGRIFFITHS, Colonel, has been elected a Member of the Broadstairs Local Board and Urban Sanitary Authority, vice Todd, resigned.\n\nHART, Mr. Alfred, has been appointed Surveyor, Inspector of Nuisances, and Collector, to the Ashbourne Local Board and Urban Sanitary Authority, Derbyshire, at £100 per annum, vice Bourne, resigned.\n\nHARKOP, Mr. Arthur Jenkins, Local Manager of the Manchester and Liverpool District Banking Company, has been appointed Treasurer to the newly-formed Cheadle and Gatley Local Board and Urban Sanitary Authority.\n\nHAWKINS, Mr. Richard P. B., Solicitor, has been appointed Town Clerk and Clerk to the Urban Sanitary Authority of Woodstock.\n\nJONES, Mr. George, jun., has been appointed Surveyor and Collector to the Town Council and Urban Sanitary Authority of Wareham, at £30 per annum.\n\nJOHNSON, Mr. Henry, has been appointed Treasurer to the Bingley Local Board and Urban Sanitary Authority, vice Brown, resigned.\n\nKENDRICK, Mr. James, has been elected a Member of the Tipton Local Board and Urban Sanitary Authority, vice Underhill, resigned.\n\nKINGTON, Mr. Joel, Inspector of Nuisances for the Idle Urban Sanitary District, Yorkshire, has been appointed Inspector under the Dairies, &c., Orders of 1885 and 1886, made pursuant to the Contagious Diseases (Animals) Acts of 1878 and 1886.\n\nLAUGHTON, Mr. James, has been elected a Member of the Bromsgrove Local Board and Urban Sanitary Authority, vice Amphlett, deceased.\n\nLUCY, Mr. Charles Frederick, Local Manager of the York Union Banking Co., has been appointed Treasurer to the Pickering Guardians and Rural Sanitary Authority, Yorkshire, vice Clarkson, resigned.\n\nMARSH, Mr. Samuel, has been elected a Member of the Bampton Local Board and Urban Sanitary Authority, vice Dart, resigned.\n\nMATTHEWS, Mr. George Somers, the Surveyor and Inspector of Nuisances to the Dorking Local Board and Urban Sanitary Authority, has been appointed Inspector under the Dairies and Covered Sheds Orders of 1885 and 1886, at £10 for one year.\n\nPOTTER, Mr. Charles John, has been elected a Member of the Willington-Quay Local Board and Urban Sanitary Authority, vice O'Brien, disqualified by non-attendance for six months.\n\nPROCTER, Mr. Thomas, has been re-appointed Inspector of Nuisances for the Dalton-in-Furness Urban Sanitary District, at £65 for the year ending Dec. 25, 1887.\n\nPROSE, Mr. John Edwyn, has been re-appointed Inspector of Nuisances for the Ludlow Urban Sanitary District, at £25 for one year.\n\nRUBBRA, Mr. W. A., Manager of the Wellingborough and Higham-Ferrers Branch of the Northamptonshire Union Bank, has been appointed Treasurer to the newly chartered Town Council and Urban Sanitary Authority of Higham-Ferrers.\n\nSALTHOUSE, Mr. John, has been re-appointed an Inspector of Nuisances for the Ulverstone Rural Sanitary District, at £10 per annum, for three years, from Jan. 1, 1887.\n\n[DEC. 15, 1886,\n\n297",
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        "content_text": "# Appendix E.\n\nHONGKONG, 27th July, 1889.\n\n## Appendix E.\n\n**STATEMENT** shewing approximate cost of repairing Damages caused by the Rain-storm of 29th and 30th of May, within the City of Victoria.\n\nHon. SURVEYOR GENERAL,\n\nI forward herewith revised estimate for \"Repair of Storm damages.\" The present state of the work of repairs is as given below.\n\nCemetery. The nullah has been cleared, the dry rubble retaining walls have been re-built where they were washed away and raised near the lower boundary so as to retain the heap of sand that was partly washed down and partly taken out of the nullah, the mound itself has been formed and is being covered with earth.\n\nThe upper bridge has been restored.\n\nThe brick boundary wall has been re-built.\n\nThe arch of the bridge which carries the road between the Cemetery and race course is being repaired and will be completed in about 10 days.\n\nRace Course. The debris which has been taken out of the nullah and placed on the paddock will at once be levelled and formed as arranged with the Clerk of the Course.\n\nThe repairs of Bowrington bridges are in hand and will not be finished for two months, probably, as the foundations have to be put in as the tide allows.\n\n| Location | Description | Cost |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n|  | Levelling Debris on Race Course |  |\n|  | Bridge at Bowrington, re-building |  |\n|  | Walls adjacent |  |\n|  | Slip at Bowringtou |  |\n|  | Sundry small jobs |  |\n| Queen's Road near Naval Yard |  |  |\n|  | Repair Upper part Albany Nullah,- Albany Nullah |  |\n|  | Repairs Parapet Bridge |  |\n| Albany Nullah | work done by Military |  |\n| fee House Lane | clearing |  |\n| Zetland Street | clearing Street |  |\n|  | Do. do., renewing Road |  |\n|  | Clearing Pedder's Street and Wyndham Street |  |\n\nAll slips and debris have been removed in the Eastern district and drains cleared the roads in Clearing Glenealy Ravine above the top of Wyndham Street up to the open Hill,... this part are in fairly good order the necessary repairs are being carried out.\n\nAlbany Nullah-The temporary bamboo bridge on the Queen's Road has been removed and the water is running again under the stone arch. The clearing of the debris is going on quickly and expect to have the nullah clear in about 3 weeks.\n\nThe repairs to the parapet of the bridge have not yet been put in hand.\n\n### Names of Place damaged.\n\n| Location | Cost |\n| --- | --- |\n| Cemetery | 547 |\n| Re-building Rubble Walls | 170 |\n| Forming Mound and re-making Paths | 150 |\n| Re-building Walls of Upper Bridge and re-fixing Bridge | 155 |\n| Re-building portion of Lower Bridge | 60 |\n| Re-building Boundary Wall | 153 |\n|  | 230 |\n|  | 1,465 |\n|  | 1,300 |\n| Naval Hospital | 526 |\n|  | 398 |\n| Nullah Lane, Wauchai Road, including Branch Nullah, Ship Street | 592 |\n|  | 340 |\n|  | 100 |\n|  | 1,956 |\n|  | 480 |\n|  | 3,000 |\n|  | 1,460 |\n|  | 100 |\n|  | 7,040 |\n|  | 384 |\n|  | 430 |\n|  | 300 |\n|  | 364 |\n|  | 2,256 |\n|  | 1,205 |\n| Covering in Drain from the sea to the bottom of Wyndham Street and making good Paving, &c. | 482 |\n| Repairing Sewer in Wyndham Street to the bottom of Glenealy | 1,010 |\n| Repairing Sewer in Glenealy including taking up and re-setting Steps,... Making open Nullah above the Caine Road | 2,360 |\n|  | 5,000 |\n| Re-building all retaining Walls, Glenealy | 2,200 |\n| Making good Paths, filling in large Holes, &c.... | 2,500 |\n|  | 18,107 |\n|  | 35 |\n|  | 37 |\n|  | 200 |\n|  | 90 |\n|  | 290 |\n|  | 90 |\n|  | 50 |\n|  | 160 |\n|  | 100 |\n|  | 180 |\n|  | 228 |\n|  | 172 |\n| Queen's Road West | 91 |\n|  | 160 |\n| Re-building Drain | 162 |\n|  | 160 |\n| Drain on Road below Nullah Side |  |\n| Re-building granite culvert High Street, Nullah Side | 980 |\n|  | 100 |\n| Western Nullah | 11 |\n| Shektougtsui Nullah |  |\n| Repairing Drain and Road, Western Nullah | 414 |\n|  | 26 |\n| Repairs Upper Richmond Road | 190 |\n| and Lower Richmond Road, clearing | 45 |\n|  | 276 |\n| Robinson Road | 68 |\n|  | 54 |\n| Staunton Street | 27 |\n|  | 16 |\n|  | 36 |\n|  | 10 |\n|  | 25 |\n|  | 178 |\n|  | 135 |\n|  | 86 |\n|  | 4,884 |\n|  | 2,000 |\n\nGlenealy, Wyndham Street and Pedder's Street.--The repairs in Pedder's Street are very nearly finished the remainder of the paving stones of the footpath will be relaid in a few days, and this will complete every thing.\n\nThe two holes in the drain opposite the Club in Wyndham Street will be finished and the road made good certainly in a week.\n\nIt will be necessary to open another place in the drain near the German Club to repair the invert but this will not be open more than a week.\n\nThe repairs of the drain above this point as far as and including the hole in the Caine Road are in hand and should be finished nearly in two months.\n\nThe bank which carries the path which has been carried away just below the Caine Road is being renewed and should be completed in about six weeks.\n\nA contract is being made for the repairs of the nullah above Caine Road.\n\nThe large open nullah above where the ventilator stands has been repaired where necessary is in good order.\n\nThe repairs of the roads in the Central part of the town are being carried on.\n\nWestern District. To the west the only piece of building that remains to be done is the re-building of the drain under High Street. A contract has been made for this and the work will be carried out at once. All debris has been removed and inlets to drains and drains have been cleared in the Western district the roads in this district being steep have suffered a great deal. The repairs are in hand.\n\n| Location | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| Hollywood Road |  |\n| Elgin Street, Shelley Street, Seymour Rond |  |\n| Castle Road |  |\n| Peel Street and Queen's Road |  |\n| Hospital Road |  |\n| Bonham Road, Pokfulam Road |  |\n| West end of Third Street |  |\n| Centre Street |  |\n| Praya West, clearing |  |\n| Chinese Hospital, clearing and examining |  |\n| Nullah Side |  |\n| Renewing Road |  |\n| Caine Road |  |\n| Lyndhurst Terrace |  |\n| Clearing Inlet of Culvert near Western Street on Bonham Road |  |\n| Clearing Inlet Sand Street Sewer |  |\n| Smithfield Street, Sand Street Sewer |  |\n| Do. |  |\n| Davis Street, Sand Street Sewer |  |\n| Do. |  |\n| Filling in and repairing Smithfield Street, &c., Skle Channel |  |\n| Clearing Landslip, Mount Davis Road |  |\n| Minor Repairs to Roads |  |\n| Total | 37,136 |\n\n**H. CHAMPERNOWNE, Lieut.-Colonel, R.E.**\n\n24",
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        "content_text": "# Hongkong, 11th March, 1887\n\n**Colonel STORER, Commanding Royal Engines.**\n\nSir,\n\nWe observe that your Department is cutting a trench on the North side of Hill Street against the South boundary of Inland Lot No. 674 and a square pit, as we understand, for a surface channel, and a sand trap at its South East corner.\n\nIt is our purpose to remove the wall bounding Inland Lot No. 674 to the South against Hill Street. You may therefore consider it suitable that any drain should be laid upon a firm bottom, and not be dependent at all either upon the wall or the loose sand washed down from the hill which lies behind it, and has accumulated above the level of the Road.\n\nWe would also desire to protest in the name of our principals against the granite foundation for a wall which has been laid diagonally across Hill Street from its Southern to its Northern side at the South Eastern corner of Inland Lot No. 674. The effect of this wall will be to cut off all communication from this lot to the public road by which it is described in the Crown Lease as bounded to the South.\n\nWe consider that the deprivation of the use of this public Highway, and the appropriation of the ground without any compensation or even notice most unjustifiable, and we hold the Secretary of State for War, and the Colonial Government answerable for all consequences.\n\nWe have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour obedient Servants,\n\n**(Sd) SHARP & Co., Agents for Owners of Inland Lot No. 674.**\n\n## Gentlemen,\n\n**Royal Engineer's Office, Hongkong, 16th March, 1887.**\n\nIn reply to your letter of the 11th instant, I have the honor to inform you that the land to the South of Inland Lot 674, was handed over to the War Department by the Colonial Government, and the War Department boundary stones were placed where they are with the consent of the Honourable the Surveyor General. Any complaint which you may have to make on this matter should therefore be addressed to the Colonial Government, who will no doubt pay due regard to it if well founded.\n\n92",
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        "content_text": "See sale plan page 10.\n\nSee cloth plan at end,\n\n116\n\nfor the filling in of his Marine Lots Nos. 177, 178, 179, 180, 181 and 182, on the opposite side of the road, and especially the praya in front of the same, as will be seen from the Surveyor General's letter of 5th August, 1885 and Mr. Sharp's reply of the 11th idem. Instead of having this material close at hand, and passing it down an incline to the sea wall, he was, in consequence of the action of the Government, compelled to fetch it from a distance of several miles in boats.\n\nThe great depreciation, owing to the want of the Southern street, which has been dwelt upon in reference to Inland Lot No. 670, is now inflicted upon Inland Lot No. 671, the balance of 13,350 feet being most materially reduced in value. The Crown Lease issued to your Petitioner on the fourteenth day of June 1862, is signed by Sir Hercules Geo. Robinson in the name and on behalf of Her Majesty. It bears the public seal of the Colony of Hongkong. It is certified to be correct by the Surveyor General and is registered by the clerk of Deeds Registry.\n\nThe claim to the easement at the South side of the Lot by the public street, as described in the Crown Lease, has never been surrendered by Mr. Sharp, nor has one word ever been said or written by the Government in acknowledgement of the error made on 28th June 1861, in selling a portion of the War Department reserve, or in retractation of their repeated promises to make the road. The continuance of Hill Street to the sea side, as indicated in the Government sale plan of this Lot No. 671 and repeatedly promised at the sale and from time to time thereafter, would have made this quarter a most important entrance for the trade from the West, and the street one of the leading thoroughfares. In place of which the resumption by the Crown of this hill portion has completely closed up what should have been a gateway of trade, and renders it now impossible that these long cherished hopes can ever be realized. Mr. Sharp was officially informed and always led to expect that his property would be bounded on two sides by important thoroughfares, the very name of \"Middle Street,\" between Bill Street and the Praya, was given to this road by the Government in confirmation of its promises that these streets would be made, according to the plan.*\n\n** \n\nThe abandonment of the original intention is a most serious injury to the value of the property, the Western corner of which, being included in the Military reserve, the Government had no right to sell; but, whilst refusing possession, neglecting to make the street and preventing the cutting by which alone the southern moiety of the lot could be rendered in any way available, the Government has insisted, disregarding all remonstrance, upon the payment of the full amount of Crown rent for twenty-seven years, and have forcibly resumed, against protest, upon tender of a nominal consideration only, one half of the lot, to the most serious injury of the remainder still demanding Crown rent for the whole. This has been done \"for the improvement of the Colony.\" Nothing being said about the Colonial Government's original error in selling a portion of the War Department property, and undertaking to make a street through a further portion. This error was known to the Public Works Department in 1873, as shown by the letter from the Surveyor General dated 8th November 1873, and that from Colonel Grain, Commanding Royal Engineer, dated 20th December 1873. Even after this discovery Mr. Sharp's application of 1st and 13th October 1875 for an abatement or diminution of the Crown rent \n\n* See correspondence herewith, page 15 and 16.\n\n† Subsequently to the execution of the Lease.\n\n**This name \"Middle Street\" was inserted as Crown Lease boundary so late as 1886 and in the Government Gazette in 1887 and it is only since then that the name has been changed to \"Queen's Road West.\" To this day, June, 1891, the property resumed remains in exactly the same condition, nothing having been done beyond placing the War Department boundary stones.\n\nAt four times the cost.\n\nAnd two Shops' Ground being lost, \n\n31",
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        "content_text": "where water and filth has percolated through the floors. I would dry it; that would make it harmless, for there is no decomposing matter in dry soil. Dry it, and drain it so as to keep it dry in future; that is quite sufficient.\n\nMr. JACKSON. As I understand, Surgeon-Colonel PRESTON seems to think the walls of the houses could be left standing.\n\nSurgeon-Colonel PRESTON. No, not left standing, because I think the whole should be reconstructed in toto. What I said was that the bricks could be used again, after they had been purified by fire.\n\nMr. JACKSON. Then the question I was going on to ask is unnecessary; my idea was that if the walls were to be left standing, with soil below them saturated, you could not make a complete job of it.\n\nSurgeon-Colonel PRESTON. No, no!\n\nDr. HO KAI. What is meant is to leave the walls standing until after the fire, and then remove them.\n\nMr. JACKSON. It seems to me that the balance of the medical evidence before us is in favour of burning. Do you think the whole of the infected district should be burnt?\n\nSurgeon-Colonel PRESTON. Every part of it that I have seen.\n\nDr. HARTIGAN thought it not necessary to burn all.\n\nSurgeon-Colonel PRESTON. To burn some and leave some would be like putting a new patch on an old garment. It would never do. I do not think the place capable of reconstruction piecemeal, or by partial measures.\n\nThe COLONIAL SURGEON. There would be so very few that could be allowed to remain, even at the most favourable estimate possible, that they are not worth consideration, and even they would have to be entirely altered. Very few of the floors are washable; they are boarded, and in some cases covered with tiles, but mostly not so; if liquid falls on them, it comes through into the floor below, or the ground. I have often seen that. They take no notice.\n\nDr. HARTIGAN. Is there much difference between those places and Stanley Street, Poel Street, Pottinger Street, and Wanchai?\n\nThe COLONIAL SURGEON. The same condition is to be found distributed all over the Colony. When all the houses were burnt down in the fire of 1878, where there used to be good European houses, all that property in the Central district was reconstructed on this bad Chinese principle. The law should compel every house rebuilt to be in proper form, with floors that can be washed.\n\nMr. TURNER. Do you mean that all the floors should be made impervious? A. Yes.\n\nMr. TURNER. You would not allow wooden floors in the houses?\n\nA. Not unless you can wash the floors without drowning the people below, or soaking the soil.\n\nMr. TURNER. But even in European houses not many floors are impervious. A. Oh, they are. I know my bedroom floors are washed regularly, and most others the same.\n\nMr. TURNER. It must be done very carefully then, or else the water is not poured out freely but used only with mops. If you throw a lot of water on any wooden floor it will get through.\n\nA. I do not mean to flood it; the floors are painted or varnished, and you can put water on to wash them thoroughly; the boards are thick enough, and fit close. But in Chinese houses they are not half thick enough, nor close enough.\n\nSurgeon-Colonel PRESTON. Of course every floor should be able to be washed. There is another point, that when this infected district is cleared and reconstructed with wide streets, &c., it will form a 'lung' or breathing space for the City which is greatly to be desired.\n\nPage 363\n\nNo. 1,295.\n\nSIR,\n\n750.\n\nCOLONIAL SECRETARY'S OFFICE,\n\nHONGKONG, 16th July, 1894.\n\nI am directed by the Governor to state that His Excellency would be much obliged if you would be so good as to furnish me with your views on the subject of a proposal in regard to the sanitary improvement of Tai-ping-shan, viz., that, after the destruction of the houses, the surface earth should be removed to a depth of at least one foot all over the condemned district.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nYour most obedient Servant,\n\nJ. H. STEWART LOCKHART,\n\nActing Colonial Secretary.\n\nThe Deputy Inspector General, R.N.,\n\nNAVAL HOSPITAL,\n\nPage 364\n\nROYAL NAVAL HOSPITAL,\n\nHONGKONG, 17th July, 1894.\n\nIn reply to your Letter No. 1,295 dated July 16th, 1894, in which you request me to be so good as to favour His Excellency the Governor with my views on the subject of a proposal in regard to the sanitary improvement of Tai-ping-shan, viz., that, after the destruction of the houses, the surface earth should be removed to a depth of at least one foot all over the condemned district, I have the honour to inform you that I am of opinion such an extensive removal of earth is unnecessary, and I venture to suggest that if the surface earth were broken up, to a depth of 3 or 4 inches, and the ground thoroughly saturated with a 5 per cent. solution of Carbolic Acid, it would not be necessary to remove the earth at all. I am convinced, if this were done, there would be no fear of a recrudescence of disease from any germs that may be lurking in the soil.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour obedient Servant,\n\nTHOS. H. KNOTT,\n\nDeputy Inspector General.\n\nThe Honourable J. H. STEWART LOCKHART,\n\nActing Colonial Secretary.\n\nPage 365\n\nGOVERNMENT CIVIL HOSPITAL,\n\nHONGKONG, 17th July, 1894.\n\nI enclose a series of questions that His Excellency the Governor is desirous you have any objection to furnishing the desired information as he considers it would be of the greatest value in determining whether these houses and their foundations should be utterly destroyed or not.\n\nIf you will examine the surface soil as asked in question 7, I will see you are supplied with specimens taken from plague-infected houses.\n\nWe sincerely hope you will do us the favour of giving such information as you think most desirable in the interest of destroying all future source of infection.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour obedient Servant,\n\nPH. B. C. AYRES,\n\nColonial Surgeon.\n\nDr. YERSIN.\n\nDr. KITASATO.\n\nPage 366",
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        "content_text": "157\n\ndisastrous effect on the Filature Industry in China, with corresponding advantage to the production of those countries with which China now competes; and if it is intended to exempt native Filatures worked by hand or such-like means it would not only be inequitable, but it would possibly lead to the stoppage of Filatures worked by machinery: it would put back China in that respect to a period of 20 years ago, and throw out of employment not less than 25,000 natives who now derive a living and support for their families from those factories,\n\nThe native Government appears to imagine that China's production of Silk controls prices on foreign markets; on the contrary, foreign markets regulate the price which foreign merchants in China can afford to pay for Chinese Cocoons.\n\nIt may interest Your Excellency to know that the Likin and Loti Shui tax which the 10 per cent. is to supplement, already amount to an average of about 9 per cent., so China proposes to penalise the improved Silk product by no less than 19 per cent.\n\nThe Chamber does not of course contemplate that such an injustice would be permitted as to charge the additional Duty on silk reeled from Cocoons bought this season without a hint of the step now proposed. Your Excellency is possibly unaware that the exigencies of the trade necessitate the purchase of the entire annual requirements of Cocoons for the Filature Factories in May and June, when the market for Cocoons usually opens and lasts but two or three weeks; and that, consequently, this season's purchases have already been effected at prices which would obviously never have been paid had the proposed additional taxation been contemplated!\n\nThe Chamber, relying on your Excellency's sense of justice, call attention to the subject and beg that as Doyen of the Corps Diplomatique you will move your colleagues to inform the Tsungli Yamên that the proposals of their memorial will not be assented to by the Foreign Powers.\n\nE. F. ALFORD, Chairman.\n\nTo His Excellency Colonel Denby,\n\n(Signed)\n\nMinister for the U.S. of America,\n\nDoyen, Corps Diplomatique, Peking.\n\nTRANSLATION OF MEMORIAL FROM THE TSUNGLI YAMEN.\n\nYour servants, the Ministers of the Tsungli Yamên, on their knees present a Memorial with regard to the settlement of the tariff on manufactured goods, in order to maintain due regard for the public revenue and to secure substantial profit. Prostrate, they pray for the sacred glance on the memorial which they have reverently prepared.\n\nWe would observe with regard to the manufacture of goods by machinery at the various Treaty Ports, as for instance the cotton manufacture and silk filature in the South, and the manufacture of grape wine in the North, that on several occasions the Superintendents of Trade for the Northern and Southern Ports have memorialised requesting that such produce shall only pay the export duty, or they have requested that both Customs Duty and Likin be remitted for some years, the intention being to benefit the people at the expense of the Government in the hope of giving an impetus to trade. At that time there was no express stipulation regarding the manufacture of goods by foreign merchants, and it was deemed advisable to act in accordance with the exigencies of affairs. After the conclusion of the Treaty of Shimonoseki, foreign merchants of all nationalities were empowered to manufacture native produce. As former Treaties do not provide for this contingency, it is imperative to devise some equitable mode of action calculated to arrest the drain on the country's resources, and to deprive (foreigners) of a pretext (i.e., for demanding the abatement or abolition of duties) at the present moment. Japanese merchants are buying land in Shanghai for the erection of factories, and the merchants of other nationalities are also establishing factories in great numbers. Thus, in the twinkling of an eye, steam factories are established at the Treaty Ports as thick as trees, and commodities of all kinds overflow. Those who enjoy the advantages accruing from these manufactures should also incur the responsibility of paying duties. In the case of a new undertaking like this, it is very necessary to settle uniform tariff regulations without making distinctions in virtue of which some pay heavier and others lighter duties; so that it may be easy for all to conform therewith. We find that foreign merchants importing foreign produce pay, in the majority of cases, an import duty of 5 per cent. On sending the goods into the interior, a further Transit Duty of Ts. 2. 5 mace is charged. Foreign merchants purchasing native produce in the interior under Transit Pass pay, in addition to the export duty, the half or Transit Duty, after which they are at liberty to export the goods. Foreign merchants carrying produce for sale, whether for import or export, pay no further duties beyond the Customs Duty and the Transit Duty; but native produce which has not yet reached the foreign consignee, and foreign produce which has been delivered to the native purchaser, must both pay Likin to supply the deficiencies in the Revenue. Moreover, where goods are manufactured by machinery (in China) lighterage, freight, insurance, and coolie hire are all saved, less capital is required and profits are abundant. Your memorialists having deliberated together would suggest that, leaving the Viceroys and Governors of the various provinces to fix the amount of the loti shui and Likin due on native produce at the place of production; manufactured produce, whether Chinese or foreign, should, before it leaves the place of manufacture, pay double the duty of five per cent. prescribed in the case of foreign exports, so as to supplement the Likin payable in the interior. This amounts to a duty of 10 per cent. Hereafter, whatever be their destination, all goods will be exempt from Likin; the gain in duties balancing the loss in Likin, so that the public revenue will remain at its present figure. At the present funds are unusually scarce, and liabilities multifarious. This is not an extravagant project to \"mend the fold when the sheep has gone,\" but the intention is to make use of the guest (foreigner) in order to establish the host (China). The native merchant eats the produce and dwells on the soil of China and should know how difficult it is for the Government to devise expedients. The goods of the foreign merchant find a ready market, and it is only right to have in view the same treatment for all.\n\nFurthermore-The following representation has reached the Yamen of your memorialists from Sir Robert Hart, the Inspector-General of Customs :—\n\n\"Since China has been opened to foreign trade, goods coming from or going into the interior either paid likin or transit duty. Foreign merchants' goods going into the interior, having paid the transit duty and received a transit duty certificate, thereupon become exempt from paying likin en route. This procedure applies equally to both",
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        "content_text": "Northern Railway \n\nwater not directly connected \n\nwith Hongkong remains for \n\n; \n\nbut in style \n\nof consider whether \n\nfrom the Colonel \n\nparish of \n\ncrain \n\nwe are prepared to acquire in \n\n...\n\n \nthe retrocession of Sham \n\nShun \n\nfee 25950. much this is ung be inferred \n\nthat the \n\nwe are not wedded to the \n\n603 \n\nidea of retaining Sham Chun, \n\nbut do attach importance \n\nto the acquisition of Cap \n\nRock. \n\nas to this, I do not \n\nwonder suppose \n\n...\n\n \nThe \n\ntour \n\nthe 7.0. Gould \n\nthat \n\nretrocession now on \n\nwhatever this cher district, len of \n\nitself, \n\naut \n\nthe original \n\na retnemist to \n\nor river boundary. \n\nAs to this, I hear nothing \n\nbuy \n\nfada \n\nwems: harked A on \n\na C.D.C. paper. \n\nBut there is another aspect of the situation, \n\nthe wo \n\nBe with \n\npress \n\nto \n\nCompet \n\nthe Chinese fort in the \n\nweather, \n\nstrongly \n\nearc \n\nunless \n\nsome any \n\ncould be made \n\nout for so doing, trapping the \n\nChine tabe in \n\ntreak \n\nwo. crew, \n\nC \n\nare us \n\nas the wormers prepared to \n\nJo. \n\nas at pument anayed, \n\nThe",
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        "content_text": "New Harbin has fine wide streets, not, however, in very good order, and is resplendent with churches and stately buildings, such as the Railway Administration Offices, the residence of the Civil Administration, Colonel Grombtchevsky, of Pamir fame, and the Russian Consulate-General. There are several large schools, attended, I was informed, by 800 Russian children. A fine wide boulevard sweeps through the town, and there are two public gardens. In some of the main streets good shops are met with, but a great part of the town is occupied by small villas standing in well-wooded gardens, the residences of railway employés. I noticed that many houses were unoccupied, and yet new buildings, such as a grand hotel, were still going up. The existing hotels, of which there are several, are poor and tawdry.\n\nThe Pristan is the commercial and industrial quarter of Harbin. I have already stated that it lies along the river bank, stretches back to New Harbin, and is bounded on the south and east by the railway to the Sungari Bridge. It is full of shops, in whose windows European articles of every description were displayed. The principal streets were crowded with Russians, men and women, and not a few Chinese. There is a considerable number of Chinese stores. I visited several of these, and was met with the universal complaint of depressed trade due to the withdrawal of the army, on which they practically depended for existence. One large store I found full of the finest Parisian soaps, soap-powders, perfumes, and cosmetics of every description, and, although there was now no demand for these articles, exorbitant and prohibitive prices were still quoted. In another large store there was a great display of Russian coloured cotton prints, which the manager stated were in great demand for the Mongol market, but the shirtings, sheetings, and drills bore the names of well-known Shanghae British merchants, and had found their way through Vladivostock. I also noticed the name of Richard Haworth, of Manchester; and Wright's (American) Health Underwear lay alongside what I was told was a Japanese imitation, and certainly a very inferior article. There are now three mail trains a week running either way between Moscow and Vladivostock. Beans and bean-cake are carried from Harbin to the latter for shipment to Japan, and the lowering of freights along this section of 840 versts is under consideration.\n\nSo great was the demand for luxuries during the war that champagne fetched as much as 35 roubles (£3. 10s.) a bottle, and the price of all other luxuries were proportionately high, so that it will be readily understood that much of the money spent by the Russian army and its gay followers found its way to France and other wine-growing and luxury-manufacturing countries. While many have reaped rich harvests during the war, trade in Harbin is now so depressed that Government financial aid is being invoked, and there was a Russian Commissioner from St. Petersburgh on the spot inquiring what steps could be taken to tide over the present troubles; but it seemed to me that depression had not yet reached its low-water mark, and that hard times would become harder, for Harbin is stocked with articles which nobody wants or can afford to buy. All the Government aid in the world will not make unsaleable goods saleable.\n\nI was informed by a trustworthy authority that, with a view to pushing Russian goods in Manchuria, Russian agents had been collecting samples of English and other cotton goods in Harbin, and even in Shanghae, for imitation in Russia, and that the railways had recently reduced freights from Moscow to Harbin and even to K'uan-ch'eng-tzu to the same rates as from Vladivostock to these places; but, as a Russian merchant in China, a fellow-traveller, said to me, \"It is no use; Russians are poor business men, they do not try to help themselves, and they will never succeed. One Chinese can do the work of three Russians.\" In spite of this, however, an imposing building, to be used as a cotton goods exhibition, store, and market, was nearing completion in New Harbin.\n\nAnother Russian fellow-traveller, also a merchant in China, would insist on telling me stories at the expense of the business methods of his own countrymen. He said, \"I am returning from Vladivostock to Tien-tsin. Some time ago I took a small parcel of samples to the post-office at the former for transmission to the latter place, and I duly paid the postage of 1 r. 6 c. Next day I went to the post-office to inquire when the parcel was likely to reach its destination. The postmaster said he did not know. But,' said I, 'there is weekly steamer communication between Vladivostock and Shanghae, and several times a week between Shanghae and Tien-tsin.' 'That may be,' said the postmaster, 'but parcels do not go that way; they are forwarded by rail to Verkhne-Udinsk and thence overland by way of Kiakhta to Tien-tsin.' I am going to Tien-tsin to await that parcel, which may take a couple of months to reach its destination.\"\n\nThe industries of Harbin are flour-milling, brewing, and vodka distilling. There are eight large roller mills with a milling capacity of 1,440,000 lbs. of flour per day of twenty-four hours. I should have stated that there is one roller mill near the Russian station at Kuan-ch'eng-tzu with a possible daily output of 36,000 lbs. of flour. They were erected for the purpose of supplying the Russian troops in the north during the military occupation, and during the war the Russian army was entirely dependent on them for the staff of life. To-day they are practically idle, their raison d'être has ceased, and their output is limited to local requirements. Several are bankrupt and in the hands of the Russo-Chinese Bank. Here we have an instance of the lack of business qualifications on the part of the Russian, of which I have just been speaking. Large quantities of foreign flour are imported into Manchuria, the whole of which could easily be supplied by these mills, and yet, owing to want of business push, their horizon is limited to the town of Harbin.\n\nThe chief wheat belts lie along the Sungari and its tributaries, the Nonui and the Mutan Rivers, and although the grain is inferior in size to the American product, it yields flour which Russian bakers can convert into bread excellent both as to colour and flavour. The supply of wheat is abundant, and much is shipped from Harbin to Blagoveschensk, on the Amur, for Harbin by the Sungari and Amur is in steamer communication with both Blagoveschensk and Khabarovsk.\n\nWhat I have said regarding the present condition of the Harbin mills applies equally to the three breweries and the Vodka distillery, They are depressed without the same possibility of revival.\n\nTimes may be bad, but the Russian must have his pleasures, and there are at least three theatres, a circus, and many other places of entertainment. There is a race-course near old Harbin, and the 14th October, the day of my arrival, was race day.\n\nThe population of the Railway Settlement of Harbin is estimated to number between 20,000 and 30,000 Russians and from 15,000 to 16,000 Chinese, the latter in the Pristan. The whole of this Settlement is administered at the expense of the railway, which, however, is tiring of the burden, and is agitating for the imposition of taxes for municipal purposes The Settlement is very imperfectly policed by Russians armed with revolvers and swords. The streets in the Pristan, which is low-lying, are in many places simply quagmires impassable for wheeled traffic, and in New Harbin much is needed to place and maintain such a large area in proper condition. Here and there the electric light shone out in the night, but many of the streets were dimly lighted by oil lamps.\n\nAbout a mile below the Sungari Bridge, and on the same bank of the river as the Pristan, is a Chinese town which, like Harbin, sprang into existence with the advent of the Russians. There is a fairly decent road leading to this town, but the streets are even worse than those of the Pristan, and it says much for the springs of the drosky in which I rode that they returned whole. A capsize and a mud bath a couple of feet deep appeared imminent every moment. This town, like Harbin generally, has lost much of its former glory, and many of the Chinese have gone elsewhere in search of a living. Its population is placed at 40,000, but I think that this estimate is excessive. It is an ordinary Chinese town with shops and street stalls, and many of the houses were vacant. There were numerous opium-smoking dens.\n\nIt is proposed to establish the \"Shang Fou,\" or trade mart, on the piece of ground between the railway bridge and the Chinese town, but the exclusive right to the Settlement at Harbin, although delicately hinted at, has not yet been openly claimed by Russia, and the United States' Consul and Japanese Consul-General have established their Consulates in New Harbin. The former strongly urged the expediency of having a British Consul as a colleague, but in reply to my inquiries he confessed that there was not, to his knowledge, a single British subject in the town. Nor was there an American citizen, outside his own family. His aim, as he frankly avowed, was to induce bigger guns to fight the battle of the Settlement, which must sooner or later be waged.\n\nGerman and Austrian Representatives were said to be coming, and French interests are in the hands of a Consular Agent, an employé of the Russo-Chinese Bank.\n\nThe Yokohama Specie Bank is immediately expected. I saw one or two Japanese women on the streets, but the tide of immigration had only begun to flow so far north. It will come. A few singing girls and waiting maids have already penetrated as far as Tsitsihar, the capital of the Hei-lung-chiang Province. The Taotai has taken up his residence in the Pristan. Custom-houses have not yet been...",
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        "content_text": "## \n113 \n\nThe S.D. intention has been approved. I sanction the two we 12795 + 37128 point out that it would have been better to defer the night paragraph until the amendment contained in the draft ordinance has been passed.\n\nJR24/1 \n\nM. Stubbs' remarks on this paper saying that the AG has rightly interpreted the wishes of the S.S.S.\n\n24/11 \n\nSubject to addition in A branch minuted 4/0. I see my minute above Junction OW. 19 1909 + 11./16 to C.O. I also think this should go to Acc 207.0. I persuant Colonel Feely's approval - 2674. So proceed at once bar Cotting hur Cox.\n\nI asked to see these pp. and I received a private letter from me tees Davis (attached) which suggested to me that the instructions were not clear. Carey out the and this reat intention of the minutes on 12795 is the case. The real intention is to be found in the passage I have worked in red pencil in Col Szelep's minute of 12795, and I am afraid that it was not accurately represented in para 3 of our despatch on that paper. Moreover, Mr Davies' recollection of the intention (see para of his private letter herewith) is perfectly correct. He felt that the off orders based on the despatch did not coincide with his recollection of what was suggested at his interviews with the Governor.\n\nThe intention of 12795 was, short, to relect Sec 4 of orders of 1890 thereby restoring Sec 4 of the Principal order of 1890 to its former condition. Under the section, so restored, whipping is allowed in addition to any other punishment for certain grain offences specified. To this section, so restored, was to be added a subsection allowing whipping (but not in addition to other punishment) on the commission of offences other than those specified in use of which would become subsec (1) of the new sec 86.\n\nI have amended the off order in red ink to show how the above intention should be carried out.",
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        "content_text": "## 2\n\nThe north and west of the province, extending to Southern Chih-li. A missionary at **Lin-ch'ing Chou** told me that the first crop of wheat in those parts was very poor, as also the pea-nuts and fruit, on which the people largely depend for cash, and the cotton, which employs so many people for spinning in the winter.\n\nAn agent of the Anglo-American Tobacco Company told me that the people were so poor that they were knocking off all superfluous luxuries, and could not afford to buy cigarettes. This Company deserves to succeed owing to the energetic way in which it is boomed. There is hardly a town of any importance that I pass through in any part of China which is not profusely placarded with posters proclaiming the perfections of the \"Peacock\" or \"Pirate\" brand of cigarettes.\n\nAt Lai-chou Fu, thousands of coolies were engaged in digging a gigantic hole in search for some talisman which would cause rain.\n\n### 5. Railways\n\nThe route for the proposed railway from Chefoo to Wei Hsien has been surveyed. The capital is to be all Chinese. It has been found that the cost will be 10,000,000 dollars, instead of 4,000,000 dollars, as at first calculated.\n\nAs only 2,000,000 dollars can be raised, it has been decided only to make the line at present from Chefoo to Huang Hsien.\n\nOn the Shan-tung Railway, I was struck by the excellence of the arrangements; German officials were very little in evidence, and nearly all the local arrangements were made by Chinese, who struck me as being exceedingly civil and a great contrast to the Chinese employés on the Ching-han and Shan-hsi Railways.\n\n### 6. Missionaries\n\nThe Franciscans divide the northern part of Shan-tung, the French portion taking the eastern section and the Dutch portion the western section. The English Baptists and American Presbyterians are also chiefly in evidence in these parts, and have combined to form a university for Chinese, with the Arts and Science College at Wei Hsien for 240 pupils, and a theological college at Ch'ing-chou Fu, in which 140 Chinese students are going through a seven years' course, preparatory to working in the Mission. The Medical College in Chi-nan Fu has not yet been started.\n\n### 7. Anti-dynastic Societies\n\nA missionary said that they were increasing in the cities, whilst among the soldiers of the 5th Division at Chi-nan Fu, there is reported to be a strong following.\n\n### 8. The Grand Canal from the South to the Yellow River\n\nThe watershed crosses the Grand Canal at Lung-wang-miao, 54 miles (180 li) south of Tung-a Hsien and the Yellow River, whilst at An-shan, 21 miles (70 li) to the south, the canal, which used to flow northerly, is now blocked, and boats instead descend the Ching Ho, till the Yellow River is reached 14 miles south-west of Chiang-chia-kou, the ferry across the Yellow River, 2 miles to the west of Tung-a Hsien. From Chiang-chia-kou, an embankment runs westwards near or alongside the north bank of the Yellow River to T'ao-ch'eng-p'u, a distance of 12 miles. It is about 12 feet above the level of the plain and 16 feet to 25 feet wide. The hills end on the south bank of the Yellow River, and, except for two solitary hillocks just north of the river, I did not see any approach to a hill again till I sighted the western hills near Peking. This great plain, as far as I could see, was everywhere one gigantic field covered with crops (kao-liang, millet, maize, beans, and cotton), and thickly studded with villages, which get more scattered going north.\n\n### 9. The Grand Canal from the Yellow River to Lin-ch'ing Chou\n\nFormerly the tribute grain boats used to come up it, but they have not used it since the Boxer trouble in 1900. This section of the Grand Canal is closed by earth dams, the one on the Yellow River being a mile to the east of Tao-ch'eng-p'u. Formerly this used to be cut and the water from the Yellow River used to fill the canal bed. At the present time, the canal bed is quite dry from the dam to Tung-ch'ang Fu, a distance of about 28 miles, and the thrifty population have hastened to cultivate both the banks and bed. In this part of the country, there are countless side roads, evidently used by farm carts. Tung-ch'ang Fu is a fairly large city, and the most symmetrical I have seen in China; in fact, it is nearly a perfect square. There is a good deal of waste inside the walls, and the chief business is in the east suburb. The prefecture shares with that of Ts'ao-chou further south the reputation of being one of the worst brigand centres in China. Fortunately, however, the two principal brigands, who had a provincial reputation, were captured in the last two years, and since then the country has been more peaceful. The priest at Tung-ch'ang Fu told me that there had been a slight revival of Boxerism at Kao-tang Chou to the north-east, but it quieted down when the rains came. The canal was repaired in 1906 between Tung-chang Fu and Lin-ching Chou, a distance of about 40 miles, and is now used by small boats. It was 3 or more feet deep, with muddy water.\n\n## 3\n\nThe canal makes a bend to the south just below Lin-ch'ing Chou, and there is another earth dam across about 2 miles to the south of the city. On my arrival, I found this dam had been cut to let in some water from the Wei River, but it was closed again before I left on the following day. The resident missionaries stated they had never before heard of the dam being cut. The chief object of the dam in the old days, apparently, was that it afforded a chance of \"squeeze,\" as when the tribute boats, &c., arrived, they had to be unloaded on one side and reloaded on the other, whilst the boat was dragged over. The reason the officials gave for not opening the dam was that the Wei River was infested by a dragon, who would tear up the banks of the Grand Canal if he once got into it. About half a mile below the dam, the canal passes through a lock bridge and joins the Wei River.\n\nThe missionaries stated that formerly the inhabitants of Lin-ch'ing Chou were very anti-foreign, but that the feeling has now quite died out. The post from Chi-nan Fu to Peking takes three and a-half days, going by courier viâ Lin-ch'ing Chou to Shun-te Fu, where the railway is reached.\n\nFrom Chi-nan Fu to Lin-ch'ing Chou, I was treated with an excess of kindness by all the officials, and escorts accompanied me all the way. One cavalry soldier, overcome by the liberality of my gratuities, announced his intention of joining my service as groom, till I reminded him that the Chinese punishment for desertion was the cutting off of one or more ears.\n\n### 10. The Grand Canal from Lin-ch'ing Chou to Tien-tsin\n\nThis section is, of course, really the Wei (or Yä) River. At the time of my visit in August, it was exceptionally high, water very muddy, very strong current and 50 to 60 yards wide. The banks are in places eaten away, and a missionary said that nothing is being done to keep them in repair, and there is great danger of the river one day bursting its banks and carrying destruction over a great low-lying region.\n\nI made the distance between Lin-ching Chou and Tien-tsin (259 miles), and I took 70 hours of actual travelling by boat, averaging 3.7 miles an hour. Up to Te Chou, it is exceedingly winding, and the land route is much quicker.\n\n| Location        | Distance from Lin-ch'ing Chou | Description                                                                 |\n|-----------------|-------------------------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|\n| Ssu-nü-ssů      | 72 miles                      | Can drain the river                                                        |\n| Chu-tien        | 1672 miles                    | Can drain the river                                                        |\n| Ising-chi-chên  | 1883 miles                    | Can drain the river                                                        |\n| Ma-ch'ang       | 2062 miles                    | Can drain the river via Hsiao-chan Canal                                   |\n\nThe river can be drained by four canals. The river may be divided into two sections, namely, from Lin-ching Chou to the Hsiao-chan Canal. In this section, it is usually 50 to 60 yards wide, and I rarely found it less than 10 feet deep, often over 15 feet. There are only reported to be two shallow places in this section, both above Tê Chou. At the second one, I found it was 9 feet deep.\n\nThe second section is from the Hsiao-chan Canal to Tien-tsin, the canal being from 30 to 40 yards wide, sometimes less. This part is shallower, and I usually found it from 9 to 11 feet deep. The country is low-lying, and villages and towns are usually actually on the river banks or else at a distance away.\n\nThere is a vast amount of traffic on the river; the boats are mostly pulled up by gangs of from four to thirteen men, who for a miserable pittance work like slaves, and appear always to be contented. With the exception of one or two Government boats, there are no steam launches on the river. Ferries are numerous, but there is not a single bridge till Tien-tsin is reached.\n\nAll along the banks, countless numbers of villagers were employed in throwing up water from the river into a hollowed-out basin, from which it was again thrown up on to the level of the fields. Comparatively few, who were in more affluent circumstances, were able to do the work with a donkey and a wheel.\n\n(Signed) G. PEREIRA, Lieutenant-Colonel,  \nGrenadier Guards, Military Attaché.  \nPeking, September 17, 1908.\n\n## 34",
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        "content_text": "## Page Ten\n\n### Two Storm-Centers\n\nA group of five thousand persons on a sloping lawn falling away from a stately country house to a dainty artificial lake. Two bands playing at opposite ends of the ample grounds. A white canopy, and under it hundreds of people listening to a lively vaudeville troupe. Another larger tent, and here tea and sandwiches for the famishing, as the afternoon wears along. Halfway down the spacious lawn, a rectangle is marked out with ropes. The pistol cracks, and a tug-of-war is on. God is on the side of the heaviest contestants this day. Then as the afternoon light shoots long rays across the contented people, and the shadow of a short man becomes titanic and menacing, the call is to the platform, and all the chattering host masses itself in front of the speaker's table.\n\nA little man with gray hair and gray mustache, worn face, harassed lines between the eyes, and kindliness in the eyes, stands up squarely, and speaks emphatically. He is listened to rapturously, applauded mightily. That is Lloyd George, of England, at a Liberal fête.\n\nThis commonplace-looking man has torn the social structure of England into shreds. He has given the law-making power to elected persons instead of to hereditary lords. He is doing away with one rich man having a half dozen votes. He is breaking up the vast landed estates, held idle for the rearing of partridges, pheasant, and deer. He has insured a nation, and given pensions to the aged.\n\nThe two storm centers of the English-speaking world are Theodore Roosevelt and David Lloyd George. They are both born, bred, and perfected fighters. They have a jutting out of the lower lip and a smashing gesture of the arm and hand, which come from beating back opposition. They fire up into repartee and energy when the going is hard. They are at their fighting best under a rain of missiles and abuse. They came into a tame, sure world hoping to find it a scene of action and a continuing adventure.\n\nTheir lives have been a series of outbreaks. Most good men are like a firecracker. They have one loud noise in them, and then they disintegrate into silence. But these men carry explosive force which can repeat its violent performances. As quickly as their vitality is quenched at one point, it breaks loose with flame and speed at another point, and the end is not yet. They each contain a grain or two of spiritual radium, a demonic force which manifests itself again and again without exhausting its energy. They are vastly popular because they are tonic. They prove to us that things can be changed, that there is a lot in life besides routine and monotony.--\"Popular Magazine.\"\n\n### Paris Women Adopt Wounded Soldiers\n\nSociety Maids And Matrons Who Are Not Caring For At Least One Men Are Outcasts\n\nLondon, November 2.-Paris has hit upon a new greeting. When one woman meets another in the street she does not ask any of the inane questions that heretofore had such a great vogue. She straightaway gets down to business and asks: \"Have you adopted a wounded soldier?\" If the reply is in the affirmative the women feel themselves social and moral equals. But if it should happen to be in the negative then the poor neglectful culprit is an outcast of the worst kind.\n\nSeriously speaking this habit of \"adopting\" wounded soldiers has become widespread among wealthy society women here. Much of it is done through the Military Hospital of Val de Grace. After securing the necessary permit from the military authorities, these women pay a visit to the great wards where hundreds of the wounded soldiers lie mending.\n\nThey chat and laugh with the men until they come upon one whose personality is especially pleasing or whose circumstances are especially appealing. Arrangements are soon made by which the soldier is transferred to the care and responsibility of the interested woman.\n\n### Tracing It Back\n\nThe dentist says it's all right to tell the story, but that his name must not be used.\n\nO'CONNELL'S, January 30, 1915\n\nJapan has begun installation of large exhibits in the Palaces of Food Products, Education and Liberal Arts at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. These are, in addition to the three quarters of an acre of manufactured products, booths for which are nearly complete in the Palace of Manufactures. More than 600 tons of additional exhibits from Japan are due to arrive on the `Tenyo Maru` early in December.\n\n### Advertisements\n\n| Product | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| **THE ELECTRIC HOT-PAD** | It takes the place of the hot water bottle, is safe, light, durable, sanitary, effective, convenient, economical and fits the body. Connects with any light socket. Five hours for One cent's worth of current. Available at **The German Dispensary, ESCOLTA** `RE-87` |\n| **HORLICK'S MALTED MILK** | The perfect food for invalids, dyspeptics, infants. At all first-class grocers and drug stores. Distributed by **Pacific Commercial Co.**, sole distributors. |\n| **DRY CLEANING** | Send by Parcel Post if you live in the Provinces. If you live in the City, ring call-write-or wire **The Sanitary Steam Laundry** `5 2 9` |\n| **PURE SWISS MILK** | Available through **LUTZ & C°-N AGENT'S.`427** |\n\nReaffirmation of the participation of France in the Panama-Pacific International Exposition was made in a telegram sent to A. Legallet, President of the Auxiliary French Committee in San Francisco, by A. Tirman, General Commissioner for France to the exposition, on November 22nd.\n\nMEET ME IN THE HUBBUB AT 9 TO-NIGHT.\n\nO'CONNELL'S, January 30, 1915\n\n### In the Rear of the Allied Armies\n\nBy a Danish War Correspondent. After repeated visits of those regions in Northern France which have been chastised hardest by the fury of the war, I feel compelled to contradict some of the current ideas respecting combatants and non-combatants on the side of the Allies. The spirit of the corps of officers is undoubtedly good. And if it had only depended on them, many things would have been omitted which are now remembered against the French and English. But the spirit of the troops is so much worse, and their officers have to suffer more from that spirit than they dare confess. It is the spirit of the people which any unbiased observer must condemn. He who cares may claim attenuating circumstances for the people. It has become the victim of \"an unbridled press which is guided by criminal instincts.\" This press must be considered the intellectual cause of all the atrocities committed on French soil, not only against German wounded and prisoners, but also against Frenchmen as well and which have been committed against these latter in far greater number than is generally known.\n\nA government order of August 1st too carelessly opened the prisons. Human material was wanted. Whoever cared to become a soldier was welcome, no matter how much there was against him. I remember that even in pro-French Italian papers I was in Nice at the time that order made the most unfavorable impression. No one more than the officers deplores the perfectly unlimited admission of criminal elements to the army service. At Air on the Lys I saw a colonel in complete despair. He had, that morning, condemned to death four men of his artillery regiment for \"cowardice\" before the enemy and the plundering of their fallen comrades. In the afternoon further cases of criminal actions were reported to him from a section in an advanced post. I heard that the majority of the troops of this regiment were from the South of France, men, who in the North are not considered good material. The Italian inhabitants of Southern France have been accused of being no heroes. But I believe that Paris supplies far worse elements. I base these remarks upon the statements of numerous officers who criticized the measures of their War Office in the severest manner and without reserve.\n\nIn France a scape-goat must always be found for any fault. As soon as the army fares ill, Monsieur Millerand will be the scape-goat. But the evil itself can not be eradicated any more. For necessity compels to put, without regard to physical and moral qualifications for the purpose, all and every one into the ranks who can possibly be used. In that way the righteous and unrighteous are mixed together; of course the spirit of the army deteriorates thereby.\n\nYou will surely have read in your home papers, how in France the fear of spies has become epidemic. That explains itself in great measure by the existence of the mentioned bad elements in the army. A single man may be as brave, as capable of enthusiasm as possible. But when he believes that he must demonstrate to the comrade beside him, who, before the outbreak of the war, was either sitting behind prison bars, or allowed himself to be put into the uniform from complete lack of work, feelings of contempt or of suspicion, such a state of mind cannot contribute to an increase of eagerness or gladness. In the last three weeks \"the cases of desertion, especially on the left wing, have increased greatly.\" In Noyon I met a cavalry picket riding after two dozen deserters. They asked me about the road. We talked a while and I learnt several things which are characteristic for the feelings of the piou-piou. \"Really it is a pity to waste the time with catching these fellows,\" the leader explained. \"It is done only for authority's and discipline's sake. It would have been much better not to give us such comrades.\" The pursuit of the deserters meets with the greatest obstacles, I was told further. They enter the first destroyed or deserted house they find, procure civilian clothes \"and then hush, they are gone!\" That would not be the worst. But in civilians' clothes they can rob, plunder, burn and assassinate and commit all sorts of highway robbery. There is no more protection in the lone and deserted villages. The gendarmerie is elsewhere, and so greatly occupied that for the criminals the golden harvest time has come. Believe me, Sir, the picket leader told me, many a one from that confounded Paris, where all this gang comes from, would never have thought of becoming a defender of his country, if he had not reasoned: This is an opportunity which will never return, to make hay. As long as we are in barracks in the open field, we are safe. But as soon as we come to a larger village with some ruined houses, we can be sure that we lose again several of the fellows who in civil life are not honest men. Rarely one alone deserts. Always entire gangs conspire to desert. Sometimes I almost believe that they did not make away in the beginning of the war 'with all the Apaches in Paris' and that we are afflicted with that plague which has become alike the terror of the army and the peaceable citizen, just as they were the terror of the Parisians.\n\nOf the work of the hyenas of the battlefield and the looters one can convince himself in every deserted village. Since it is out of the question that German or French armies break into houses whose owners have fled before the arrival of the troops, it can only be supposed that criminals do their wicked work, taking advantage of the situation. If by accident gendarmes come upon the scene, the burglars pretend, as I have been told repeatedly, to be the owners of the house themselves. If the gendarmes happen to know the owner of the house, they either submit to their fate, or pretend they have been sent by the owner to fetch one or the other object. Frequently they set undamaged houses, after having looted them, afire. In this manner many a solitary chateau, many a country-place, which had been spared by friend and foe alike, has found its end in dreadful devastation. The French government \"should keep a better eye on its criminals.\" But in order to keep the house-breakers and incendiaries under inspection, a much larger contingent of police and constabulary is necessary than France has, today, at its disposal. On our way back from Compiegne to Paris we have been stopped (Continued on page 141)\n\n### Advertisements\n\n| Name | Profession/Service | Contact |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| **T. H. STEPHENS** | Dentist | Cosmopolitan Bldg., Sta. Cruz Bridge. Only office with laughing gas. Gold Crowns -- `P10` |\n| **M. A. LOUIS** | ROENTGENOLOGIST | Suite 316-314 NaIAN Building, Escolta. Entrance, Gulle David. ELEVATOR SERVICE. Tel. `398` |\n| **O'CONNELL'S** | Independent | SUBSCRIBE FOR `15.00 A YEAR` |\n\n## Page Eleven",
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        "content_text": "400 \n\n10 \n\n11 \n\nNow, owing to the existence of the railway, much more convenient, so that a very large part of the traffic passes through the place. The Tumen Railway is ultimately to be connected with Tienpaoshan, in the western part of Chientao, where are some copper mines worked by a Sino-Japanese company, but the Chinese authorities have not yet given their consent to the laying of the Chinese section of the line, and the matter is still under negotiation.\n\ninto contact. I was furnished with armed guards for my journey and at Paitsackou, where there is no accommodation but Chinese inns, was furnished with a room in the magistrate's yamen. Mr. Tao, the Taoyin at Yenchi, who controls the four districts referred to, as well as four other neighbouring districts, was most courteous, and both he and Kao, the chu-chan, or settlement magistrate at Lungchingtsun, readily answered all the questions I put to them. Both of these officials speak Japanese well, and Mr. Kao especially seemed to be on excellent terms with Mr. Joly, who tells me that both he and the Taoyin have adopted quite a strong attitude during the past few months in the many points of dispute which have arisen with the Japanese authorities. Mr. Tao has only recently been sent back to Yenchi, where he was previously stationed for some years, and is evidently considered a good man for the post by the Chinese authorities. The magistrate at Hunchun, on the other hand, has only been recently appointed, and is not very well acquainted with conditions in the district. He speaks no Japanese.\n\nI have, &c. \n\nW. B. CUNNINGHAM. \n\n## Enclosure 3 in No. 1.\n\n**Consul-General Wilkinson to Sir B. Alston.**\n\n(No. 37.) Sir.\n\nMukden, June 11, 1921. IN continuation of my despatch No. 36 of the 8th instant, transmitting to you Mr. Cunningham's report on the situation in Chientao. I have now the honour to enclose a supplementary report which he has prepared giving an account of his experiences on his journey to Chientao and back.\n\nSir,\n\n## Enclosure 4 in No. 1.\n\nI have, &c. \n\nF. E. WILKINSON.\n\n**Mr. Cunningham to Consul-General Wilkinson.**\n\nMukden, June 7, 1921. WITH reference to my despatch of to-day's date reporting on conditions in the Chientao district. I have the honour to append hereto a brief description of my journey from the date of my departure from Mukden on the 12th May last.\n\nI was not in any way inconvenienced in my journey through Korea, and I did not require to make use of the letter of introduction to Japanese officials, which it was agreed I should endeavour to obtain from the authorities in Seoul. The letter was very willingly given to me upon my personal application to Mr. Matsunaga, chief of the Foreign Affairs Section of the Government-General of Korea.\n\nFrom Kami Sampo the railway line runs for about a mile further to the spot where the ferry crosses the Tumen, and this section of the line was, I understand, put in by the Japanese military authorities during their operations last year, as was also a bridge with a line of rails across the river, though its construction was not authorised by the Chinese authorities.\n\nI arrived at Kami Sampo on the evening of the 18th and left the following day for Lungchingtsun, a distance of about 21 miles by cart. On my arrival I called first upon Mr. P. B. Joly, the assistant in charge of the Chinese maritime customs here, who very kindly offered me hospitality during my stay.\n\nI spent two days at Lungchingtsun, calling on the magistrate of the town, Mr. Kao, and upon the Japanese consul-general, both of whom returned my call. Mr. Kao entertained me to dinner on the evening of the 21st, several other Chinese officials and the Japanese consul-general and one of his vice-consuls also being present. Mr. Sakai also gave a luncheon party in my honour during my stay, Mr. Joly and Dr. Martin and the Rev. A. H. Barker, of the Canadian Presbyterian Mission, also being invited. An account of my conversations with Mr. Sakai is given in my other report.\n\nOn the 22nd May I left Lungchingtsun for Yenchi, the principal town of the district, a distance of about 12 miles, spending a day and a-half there. I duly called on the Taoyin of the district, who is in charge of the whole area, and was most cordially received by him. I was, however, unable to see the general in command of the troops in the district, as he was away in Kirin.\n\nWhile at Yenchi I received a visit from Colonel Harada and Lieutenant Motoike, two of the liaison officers stationed in the Chientao area. The former explained that he had received instructions from Seoul to call on me, but though he seemed anxious to find out what my business in Chientao was, our conversation was throughout of the most informal kind, and I did not discuss the situation with him in any way. Later I returned the two officers' call at the small Chinese house they occupy in the town.\n\nUp to this time I had intended to proceed from Yenchi direct to Hunchun and return from there via Ninguta, in accordance with your suggestion. I was strongly advised, however, by M. Nadarof, the ex-Russian consul at Yenchi, who seems to be well acquainted with the district and has himself made the journey, not to attempt it at this time of year, as, though it was reported to be safe, the roads were very liable to be bad. I therefore decided to visit Paitsaokou (the most northerly of the open marts in the Chientao district) on my way to Hunchun and to be guided by circumstances as to my return route upon arrival at the latter place.\n\nI left Seoul on the morning of the 14th May (having spent the previous day in completing preparations for my journey), and arrived at Gensan the same evening in time to catch a small coasting steamer for Seishin, from which port there is rail connection with Kwainei (Kor., Hoiryong; Chin., Huining). Seishin is about 200 miles, and by direct boat the journey can be accomplished in a day, but the smaller vessels, by one of which I had to travel as there was no direct boat for two or three days, call at numerous small places on the coast and occupy about three days. I landed on the morning of the 17th at the small port of Tokchin, the last place of call before Seishin, being advised to do so as, owing to foggy weather, it was very uncertain whether the vessel would reach Seishin that day. From Tokchin there is a line of light rails to Kyojo, the present terminus of the line from Kwainei, which will ultimately connect with the east coast line from Seoul now in operation as far as Kanko (Hambeung). The line from Kyojo passes through Ranan and joins the Seishin to Kwainei line at Yujo. Ranan is the headquarters of the Japanese army in the north-eastern part of Korea and the seat of a division.\n\nThe line from Seishin to Kwainei is 58 miles in length, and was constructed some three or four years ago at considerable expense (10,000,000 yen, I am told): a high range of hills has to be crossed and there are a number of tunnels. The value of the line is, of course, mainly strategic, though considerable quantities of grain and lumber are transported over it to Seishin, whence they are exported to Japan.\n\nFrom Kwainei there is a light railway (24 feet gauge) to a small and entirely new place on the Korean side of the Tumen, known as Kami Sampo (Chin. Shangshanfeng), a distance of about 25 miles, which occupies rather more than three hours by train. It is possible to enter the Chientao district by direct road from Kwainei to Lungchingtsun, and this was the route principally used previously.\n\nI left Yenchi on the 24th May for Paitsaokou, which is a long day's journey of nearly 40 miles. The Taoyin at Yenchi had kindly furnished me with a letter of introduction to the magistrate of the Wanghsing district, who resides at Paitsaokou, and I was most cordially received and provided with a room in the yamen. I was also furnished with an armed guard of two men to accompany me on my journey.\n\nI stayed only one night at Paitsaokou, as I had been able to see the magistrate on my arrival, and there seemed little object in remaining there for a day. I accordingly left on the 25th for Hunchun, the journey of about 70 miles occupying three days owing to the difficult nature of the country traversed, several high hills having to be crossed. I was again provided with an escort and arrived at Hunchun on the evening of the 27th, being hospitably entertained while there by Mr. U. Marconi, acting commissioner of customs, to whom you had furnished me with a letter of introduction.\n\nAt Hunchun both the magistrate of the district and the officer in command of the troops came to call on me before I had been half an hour in the place, while the \n\n[6614 ee-6]",
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        "content_text": "Page 399\n\nIndia during the monsoon season,\n\nCOLONEL BLAKERY suggested that as the French had established a 24 hour direct service to Saigon it should be possible for us to establish a direct service between England and India.\n\nDR. LOCKETT replied that according to his information the French service would not be the same high standard that we had set for the Imperial Chain. He said the French would have no respect for messages on occasion three times, and did not hesitate to work duplex continuously.\n\nREADING stated that he understood from the reports in the newspapers that morning that a contract had been signed by the Government of Australia and a Company associated with the Marconi Company to establish a station in Australia which would communicate direct with England, and also for the Marconi Company to take over the entire direction of wireless in Australia.\n\nThe Secretary of State for the Colonies had sent a personal telegram to the Governor General on Saturday, the 25th March, asking for confirmation of these reports, but a reply had not yet been received.\n\nThe POSTMASTER GENERAL said that the effect of the proposals by the Governments of India and Australia on the Imperial Chain was grave, although the break away from the wireless Chain by Australia was the less important of the two. He asked whether the Government of South Africa had also expressed a desire not to carry out the Imperial Chain scheme.\n\nMR. READING replied that no official report had been received from South Africa beyond that welcoming the despatch of the two officers from the Admiralty to select possible sites. The general tone of their Catalina report was sympathetic to the Imperial Chain scheme.\n\nPage 400 (not in original text, but implied to be the next page)\n\nwas not present, as the original text jumped to \"2\" at the end, indicating a page break or continuation.\n\nHowever, to follow the exact instructions given and maintain consistency with the original output format request (HTML using  for paragraphs), and correcting for the page numbering as per the instructions:\n\nPage 399\n\nIndia during the monsoon season,\n\nCOLONEL BLÆRDY suggest that as the french hal\n\noatablished a 24 hour direat servien to saigon it should\n\nbe possible for us to establish a direct servine botuamu\n\nEngland and India.\n\nDR. LOGLED replied that according to his information the Punchi murvica would not be the save high stand-\n\nard that we Lau set for the Imperial Crain. he\n\nFrezoh would hate no repect messages on cocagion three\n\ntimes, and did not cryect to work duplex continuously.\n\nREADING stated that he understood from the\n\nreports in the newerepere that morning that a contract\n\nhad been signed by the Government of uetralie and e\n\nCompany assogiated with the karecni Company to establi ↳\n\na atation in Australia which would communicate direct\n\nwith Lngland, and also for the Marconi Company to take\n\nover the entire direction of · ireless in australia,\n\nSecretary of tate for the Jolonies had sent a personal\n\ntelegram to the Governor Generel on Saturday, the 25th\n\nMaroh, asking for gonfirmation of these resorts, but\n\na reply had not yet been received.\n\nThe\n\nTAL POSTHASHER CENTRAL sain that the effect of the\n\nproposals by the Governments of India and Australie on\n\nthe laperiel Chain was grave, although the break away\n\nfrom the wireless Chain by australie waɛ the Lerc\n\nimportant of the two. He seed whether the Governmert\n\nof Louth africa had 160 expressed a desire not to\n\noarry out the Imperial Chaia soñece.\n\nMR. BAADING replied that no ofisial report bad\n\nbaon received from Louth africa beyond that welcoming\n\nthe despatch of the two officers from the admiralty to\n\nSelect ro sible sites, The general bone of their\n\nCatalina kod 8 sumpathetic to the imperial Chain\n\n83LAMO.\n\n2\n\nRevised to fit the exact format and correcting the minor issues:\nPage 399\n\nIndia during the monsoon season,\n\nCOLONEL BLAKERY suggested that as the French had established a 24 hour direct service to Saigon it should be possible for us to establish a direct service between England and India.\n\nDR. LOCKETT replied that according to his information the French service would not be the same high standard that we had set for the Imperial Chain. He said the French would have no respect for messages on occasion three times, and did not hesitate to work duplex continuously.\n\nREADING stated that he understood from the reports in the newspapers that morning that a contract had been signed by the Government of Australia and a Company associated with the Marconi Company to establish a station in Australia which would communicate direct with England, and also for the Marconi Company to take over the entire direction of wireless in Australia.\n\nThe Secretary of State for the Colonies had sent a personal telegram to the Governor General on Saturday, the 25th March, asking for confirmation of these reports, but a reply had not yet been received.\n\nThe POSTMASTER GENERAL said that the effect of the proposals by the Governments of India and Australia on the Imperial Chain was grave, although the break away from the wireless Chain by Australia was the less important of the two. He asked whether the Government of South Africa had also expressed a desire not to carry out the Imperial Chain scheme.\n\nMR. READING replied that no official report had been received from South Africa beyond that welcoming the despatch of the two officers from the Admiralty to select possible sites. The general tone of their report was sympathetic to the Imperial Chain scheme.\n\n2\n\nLet's correct and simplify to the exact output as requested, focusing on the corrections made:\n\nPage 399\n\nIndia during the monsoon seasɔus,\n\nbecomes \nPage 399\n\nIndia during the monsoon season,\n\nAnd the rest of the text is corrected accordingly.\n\nThe final output is thus corrected and presented in HTML format as requested.",
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        "content_text": "## Enclosure 2 in No. 1\n### Colonel Orpen-Palmer to Sir R. Macleay\n\nPeking, April 10, 1923.\n\nI HAVE the honour to forward you herewith some notes in connection with a visit I recently made to General Wu Pei-fu at Loyang.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nH. B. ORPEN-PALMER,  \nMilitary Attaché,\n\n## Enclosure 3 in No. 1\n### Notes respecting a Visit to General Wu Pei-fu at Loyang\n\nI ARRIVED at General Wu Pei-fu's camp, some 2 miles west of Loyang city, on the afternoon of the 31st March, and was received at the railway siding by a guard of honour and band and by General Wu's aide-de-camp and secretary, with whom I drove to the general's headquarters in a motor car, part of the spoils of his victorious campaign against Chang Tso-lin last year.\n\n2. The camp is situated about 1 mile south of the railway, and is about 1 mile in length by ... in breadth. The barracks are built in four parallel lines with ample room between the lines for parade grounds. At present the ground surrounding the camp is entirely open, but if the general persists in his afforestation scheme, it is only a question of a few years before it will be thickly wooded.\n\nLater in the afternoon I was received by General Wu in his office, where he was hard at work conducting official correspondence. General Wu's method of receiving visitors is a somewhat peculiar one, as during the whole course of the interview he was busy reading and dealing with despatches, telegrams, &c., explained to me that he was forced to adopt this method, as otherwise he could not get through his work. I could, however, ask him any questions I liked, and he would endeavour to answer them to the best of his ability.\n\n3. During the course of the interview I asked the general some more or less leading questions regarding those provinces where fighting was now taking place, or where it might break out during the year. The general answered very frankly and, as far as I could judge, sincerely.\n\nThe following are the opinions he expressed regarding the provinces named:  \n| Province | Opinion |\n| --- | --- |\n| Szechuan | He thought that Yang Sen (whom he had assisted with arms, ammunition, &c.) would be successful in the present struggle. Yang had some 30,000 men under him, and was making good progress. Even if successful Yang would not be appointed Military Governor. Liu Ts'un Hou would fill that post. |\n| Kuangtung | Sheng Hung Ying, who was appointed Military Governor by Presidential mandate on the 20th March, 1923, had accepted the post, but had telegraphed Wu that he did not think it politic to make his acceptance public at the present time. General Wu expressed his opinion that as long as Sun Yat-sen remained in power at Canton, reunification of the country was impossible. |\n| Manchuria | General Wu said that the Peking Government had now nothing to fear from Chang Tso-lin as the latter had as much as he could do to protect himself (and the C.E.R.) from the Bolshevik menace. He did not think that as matters stood there was the slightest chance of Chang again coming south, and personally, he had now no intention of interfering with Chang so long as the latter remained in his own dominions. |\n| Fukien | General Sun Chuan Fang had taken over the duties of Military Governor having been appointed to that post by mandate of the 20th March, 1923. It was only a question of days before he would be in possession of Foochow: the province, therefore, had now been recovered for the Central Government. |\n| Chekiang | Lu Yung Hsiang, although he is commonly reported to be pro-Anfu and a supporter of Tuan Chi Jui, was in reality not so. Asked if he had any fear of Chekiang joining any combination of provinces against himself, General Wu said \"no,\" and gave as his reason that the only troops in Chekiang that counted were the IVth (National) Division. This division was officered almost entirely by ex-officers of his own IIIrd Division, and he was confident, therefore, that he had nothing to fear from Lu Yung Hsiang. |\n\n4. General Wu referred on two occasions to his proposal that the five Chinese gunboats now in Canton waters be allowed to refit at Hong Kong before coming north. On the first occasion he asked me to let him know exactly how the matter stood, and expressed his thanks and appreciation for the action of the Legation in approaching the Governor of Hong Kong in connection with his proposal. That he attached considerable importance to this matter was evident from the fact that on the day following my arrival he again, in the presence of Mr. Pai Chien-Wu, the head of his Administrative Department, asked me to explain in detail exactly how matters stood. On this occasion he stated that in order to show it was his *bona fide* intention not to employ the gunboats on his behalf in the event of civil war breaking out, he would be quite content for them to be interned at Hong Kong until the reunification of the country was completed.\n\n5. During the interview on the day of my arrival, General Wu received and read a despatch which stated that it was reported on good authority that the Government of Hong Kong was prepared to make a loan of 2 million dollars to Sun Yat-sen. He was considerably perturbed over this report, and said that if it was true it would enable Sun to consolidate his position and possibly start hostilities, and would thereby interfere seriously with his plans for reunification. He then asked me definitely if there was any truth in the report. In reply I told him that it was nonsensical to think that the Government of Hong Kong would do anything of the kind; our policy was strict neutrality in connection with China's civil wars and internal affairs; at the same time I pointed out that Hong Kong no doubt possessed many rich Chinese merchants, &c., who might be supporters of Sun's and it was possible that they were prepared to advance him money.\n\n6. The 1st April being Sunday, there was no parade of troops. General Wu took the opportunity of showing us the trees which he had planted in the vicinity of his camp and also the bridge now in process of construction over the Lo Ho. He told me that he had already planted 800,000 trees and intended to plant in all some 3,000,000, a somewhat colossal task. He is deeply interested in arboriculture and during the three and a half days spent at Loyang he frequently discussed the various varieties of trees that did well in China, the nature of the soil, &c., suitable for ...\n\nPage 322  \n1-1]  \n\n## Previous Text\n### S. F. MAYERS\n\n(No. 9.) Sir,\n\n**Confidential**\n\nA **Shantung** man, a fellow provincial of Wu Pei-fu. Whoever it is will have to do whatever Wu Pei-fu wishes.\n\nWu Pei-fu is the guiding brain of the Chihli party. He is the strategist, who makes the plans for carrying out the policy. The policy is to reunify the country. This can only be done by force, as may be seen by considering for a moment the alternative means, namely, reunification by conciliation. What do the professed supporters of that alternative method suggest? That each province should be autonomous, which is nonsense. How can there be eighteen Chinas or twenty-two Chinas? These people who advocate such nonsense are political grafters, who want to multiply the number of Governments by eighteen or twenty-two in order that the number of jobs under Government should be similarly multiplied.\n\nSo soon as the new Government, under **Tsao Kun's Presidency**, is established, the mandates of Peking will be effective throughout the country, which will be administered for a time under the supervision of military inspectors-general appointed by and responsible to Peking. Disbandment of superfluous troops and suppression of brigandage will at once be undertaken. Financial reconstruction will similarly be taken up immediately. Within a year there will be a strong Central Government. **Tsao Kun** is not a clever man. Foreigners would class him as ignorant, as he knows nothing of world affairs, but in Chinese military circles his authority is immense, and his word is law. He leaves the making of plans to Wu Pei-fu, who is very intelligent. The object which the latter holds in view is to make China strong, in order that she may be able to resist Japanese domination. In pursuit of this purpose he insists that there must be an effective national army and navy, good communications, and financial reform, and that all must be conducted by a strong Central Government. He is the opponent of provincialism, but he is reasonable and agrees that provinces must be left to manage their purely local affairs. The question of monarchy is no longer discussed, but the form of popular Government will have to be managed and moulded by a few, otherwise China will share the fate of Russia.\n\nS. F. MAYERS.",
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        "content_text": "Cleans and Disinfects in One Operation. REMEMBER\n\nNO SOAP, NO STRONG CAUSTICS.\n\nNO DANGEROUS DISINFECTANTS\n\nARZ WANTED THE \"CARBOLACENE\n\nREGULARLY\n\nWALKER\n\nREGO CARBOLACENE\n\nFRAGRANT\n\nCLEANSER DISINFECTANT\n\nAn Active Disinfectant and Cleanser for use in Hotels, Institutions and in the Home,\n\nUsed by the British & Foreign Governments.\n\nSole Makers for -\n\nW. & F. WALKER, LTD., Liverpool, England.\n\nSole Agents- ANDERSON & ASHED.\n\nQue's Buildings.\n\nINSURE\n\nFOUR\n\nMOTOR\n\nCAR\n\nWITH\n\nGILMANS.\n\nTHE\n\n\"OCEAN COMPREHENSIVE POLICY\n\nhousehold.\n\n[24\n\nA Welcome Visitor\n\nat any\n\ntime in\n\nevery\n\nEvery\n\nBug, Flea, Beetle, Moth, Fly, etc., dies once it has come into proper contact with\n\nKEATING'S\n\nMARTIN'S\n\nAPIOL & STEEL Sure and certain for all Female complaints. Every lady should keep a box in the house.\n\nChemists and Stores sell them throughout the world. Proprietors MARTIN, Chisholm, Southampton Row.\n\nUNCLAIMED TELEGRAMS.\n\nAT THE GREAT NORTHERN TELEGRAPH CO.\n\nFROM\n\nADURYS ED Petrovitch, 32, Nathan Rd. Shanghai\n\nfragoon Sheinm\n\nTokyo Shouzhai Shanghai\n\nKisty Simpson\n\nBorghie Cassic\n\nBang\n\n-hal\n\nJAR\n\nMercery...\n\nAndrew Tr\n\nJonicbole\n\nL\n\nAbig Amay Totolas Chicago, Ulincin\n\nAT THE EASTERN EXTENSION, AUSTRALASIA AND CHINA TELEGRAPH CO.\n\nADDRESSED\n\nHeatley Rinorez Yardley Celly\n\nFrom\n\nLender\n\nDaina\n\nSu Franciaco\n\nTHE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY,\n\nTHE BUDGET PASSED (CONTD.).\n\nyaw open he deducted from the total\n\nwould place Hongkong in und danger of a water famine for fleen gewes\n\nLust of the Department is will be seen reset. Yet, won ave years of the that the department costs only about $200,000 per un to run, apart from the salaries of use we cadet others in the department and on or two metibars\n\nstedssful construction of that reservoir Hongkong was agus confromed ly water shortage sa ne costred also in the earlier pars if this year, i think the\n\nof the cleries) stali which are provided jeovision is inevituste Lant Dere is for leewhow. y Honous la friend by Nature herself the\n\nNOVEMBER\n\n5FR.\n\nBOGUS DIPLOMAT.\n\nFREL MOTOR-CAR TOUR.\n\nACTING FOR PRINCE OF WALES,”\n\nPARI\n\nÁn dadarions series of frauds by a minu\n\n1926.\n\nFOOTBALL.\n\nCLUR DE RECREIO Is XI.\n\nS.C.A.4. 1st XI.\n\nTeams representing these Caly will et in tegne match at the Regrou's who represented himself as a member afgrond, King's Park, tomonow, kick-off the staff of the British Embassy clituged\n\nand a special mission ou half at the The Reevein's team is as follows:-M Prince of Wales, a nursed by the Per M. da Silva. W t\n\npiguen prependant of the Bha de taptain), CF iteraedius. A Atlas\n\nRUGBY,\n\nFL.R.F.C. * ENGINERE ARTIFICERS.\n\nThere will be a catch between these teams at the Royal Navy ground, King's Pack, Kowloon, to-morras. Kick-off. 4\n\nP.201\n\nThe following have been selected to play for the Chi Laotiert, Liatr\n\nBlairisgley and Trages; Morrison, Ler\n\nPuree Using the are of Lord Remedios, A. V. Remedios, 12. P. Xavier, i aui Miline (cnplain), Póster, M. Smith,\n\ntrientales, upon the Sensor for the Depertinent, and japon Colonel Blachere, military erminander of the region, stat ing that he had been instapeter to par-\n\nClub de Racrei ad XI. r. 8.0.\n\nAlhalic Association,\n\nis referising reels to the cost of the case saputorial on position is loux searching stab and corridors that too kung land. Endell, wuite apart from must is spent in searching steamers for the wase; supp's question, the cablu, the inutividani in question call-id. P. Fuertes, A. Losang. J. M. da ours and list grugs I would emorye box of the vatani sets very strict iuits the Prefect of die Pens | Siha, and A. J. Brown, than relive service is absolutely to the practicability of hoana babita neentary in a port of this slae and in\n\nnon. There art, moreover, engout re portiure, closely insted his in to a\n\nSoge #gatus, maxing the islami dependan foreign contry. Search has to on made for its water apon the maidand. There for exciele and antialle articles and fore, akhough. I fear that we shall never for prohibited imports. We have also be able to dispense with rider auine certain interjunal obligations in these the flan, het web doubties will utiere, cod shine ang sourched on operate as encouragement to add matter of routine. It is quive itaposiole tonal population to settle in Kaulugu questions raised by y Honourable duty to exannine all j Friend. The fact thar, 4,30 pounds of water storage on the sand itself, and which be made an ratensive four of the Accumpeau.\n\nThie match will be payed on the Re-1 chaec a villa on the Côte Vermeille Forreio's groun, Kiug's Park, Lo-earrow, the Peince of Wales.\n\nkick-not at 245 pudar.\n\nA pram of noble boating, speaking\n\nThe Secret team wall be:--L. M.\n\ncat, Hankey, Light Weish. Sergt Steyer, Seval Bruno. Beveridge and Mefatyre.\n\nHOCKEY.\n\nTODAY'S GAMES.\n\nThe following will represent the Univer\n\nhis story opted without the east susen, J. Lira captu). C. Figueiredo, de Recio coday at 5.15 p.n on the Treinb and English perivetly, he found Perunades, L. A. Gomes, C. d'Assmagsity is hockey match against Ch\n\nthe cal authorities. whu Bonce, A. F. Carvalho. Ruza Pereira, University football groundA. A. Ariz 19 pisin Pion in\n\nto give oxset Agaces in answer to the rather itan is Hongalisios of father lend this disposal a motor car. in A. J. Mauris L. A. da Roche, and B. fraptains, Dr. F. X. Ashton, Lim Pon\n\noptain 4 fire seine anal 45,000 rounds of these pastilities are now being in damagnitions. 57,000 contraband cigavestigated. reites 3,500 gallons of spirits and 6,600 ons of danger, dings were seized during is shows the need for an eða tive piramontina utait. Moreover the pre- ventive staff deals wis the investigation officiell optare divans which one volves a very large arent of work on a careful consiferation of the facts think my Honourable end will agree that the tatt is not sxessive for the work which hay to be dozn\n\n3u puticular one pateabai marceir hệ un perivased ospunity or gan pillinn gations has been located and it is al euiated that the wat of wenst vetag i would be a greater than the cost of the pepe linn under the harbour ae designed by the Consulting Engineers Weght also to devise ones como sing our tresh water supplies in Hongkong by asing mắt water on the low towels for Bntly, chets wi no doubt have\n\nsabinge, streef-cleaning, fire-aging and generally for non-potable perposes, Coticed one very serious mission from his rasite is likewise under lige Toy remarks, his ouission is intentional ice and I trust that before long 1 may ae Your Havelienes has informed me thassle to lay the table of this you will senrself deal with the very im vertant question of the waer supply for\n\nVeure a sossinust paver giving foli in forms for on every aspecs of der water\n\n} \n\n$100.\n\nthe Calous and with the remarks of hon, I supply bien. 21 furnishing all the etubers on that subject. One more data secessary for foenutatley our leture should like\n\nto thank\n\ngfficul collenges for their veys flattering rewound he premature to take a tal desi poliny in this respect. Until then it marks on the way the budget was intro- dowed and for the very restrained tona of their reasonable criticism and, espe einily, for their generous appreciation of the services of the virions Government departmente.\n\n1. THE GOVERNOR SUMS UP.\n\nEducation.\n\nOn the subject of euation I wil only already sail that, situated add to what the Colonis Sourctary has\n\nA.E. TA GOTUPNO id: My cordial thanks ne both to the atheist and to the uncial arembers of this Council; for ne ne ant eare which they have: devoted the consideration of the the whole world and the initiation of the budget. My dead is greatest to the spinally Buxlish loy-serot and gir gode Colonial Secretary, who has had no ingredients wing mar oy There shows pains in preparing in expouedag and in\n\nthat in ufucational matters a vitalizing\n\nHongong, woney spent by ss u odana. rice is of the etenst value to British 24 terests in China. Tug is en dra of ad- yertisement and propagands. Partin not good at advartizu artelves and; ly or unfortunately, we, as people, are we are very under propagands. But the public schools sad the aniversities of the United Kingdom are the additating ar\n\ndefending the apply Bill, and whes, sales stil goes out from England 1 am so the whole Council will agree, amly believe that, it we can savesstuhy has discharged a dilbicult task with cun. geois ability thun seo auch the spirit of the British patule saboris and alvidare ete Horakung something of Indented te the cat members vereittes, we shall de more for dish their helpfat criticism and to ihove official interesis in Chica yłem ten possibly be pembery who have taken part in the relieved in any other war Eduentib Rebate for repping to this aritivist, of couraz, le padneted en sourd tuly t bare is Strie Jek Joy me to lines and a political propaganda Gust excluded ont euz adura- on which I propone la rough, parents thus tional i Colony's water supply and the subject of education\n\na. There arŋ, in fet, only two poists !.bs natuiiishraeus. Tsui, subirer to\n\nColony's Water Supply. Ever since I that loow Henging, woes The quarter of a century go, the in sutticiuc of the Colony's water supp has been a cause for anxiety, can weit remember the days when tied r\n\nsheet prozigos, am convinced list the moncy we spend on advention is a very good arstiteat, and I are glad ir los from the speech of the Senior Chinese Miscber that he and his colleague In\n\nut grutee it.\n\nI now own to the Cancil the motion,\n\nwhich has aireury hem mover and\n\ntonement house iu o ting Forgatseaded, tant de supply Bill be read a\n\ncime of note water shortage and hud, segond time.\n\nto setu my zerranis with backets dow\n\nto Praga, where they\n\nsterd in a\n\nqueue to get water iron lots which brought it across the bay bots from Wai Lamb uns cu the malaland.\n\ntherefore with every apathy for the Glumus mau ibnet the levels\n\nflo. Bir Husa Peursex: May I spea MD Arun of the pointe which have been i red.\n\nILE. THE Veason: I am afraid go Caszob allow it.\n\nThe Standing Onies do aut\n\nHongkong and with invaderiar•Ung Hon. Sa Hay PoiLock has been\n\nof dieir male a ruladatos doring & the ecco in this Council to ready to water facing the 2 have studied tre matters raised in the outs of rhodit. proposal to ask the island dependantcussion.\n\nthe miniland for much of its water\n\nR.E. THE GRENOU. The Bavel may\n\nonce on the second reading of a Bill Conado has a right to mene more tran\n\nYna y pesk us say then you ke\n\nthe Committee stage.\n\ncools. Let me, however, fest consider as the edit to reply. No member of this matter from the point of new of kowison. I am convinse the years come, awing paully to the limitatione which Natone has rapused on Hory- Rong a partly to the advantages which\n\nThe Hill was icy read a second time, Naturn hus bektared upon Konon, Tue\n\nComan went in sanilia to on- grcatat portion of the Cabay'a popun Bon will hats the uainland ather then sider the Oil viure la dise and Ha The wows-planning shoe Hey Fobock then raised a center of and the Farlane development sideme for\n\nquestions which were unsered by H Kowloon Invs then prepared vety wizely The Govezo nd other ricmbers of\n\non a generava scale and 36 s mrahornell. No amenduents were made to able that in future yes the norther the Bin Custee and opon Couteil alores of our barbour wil e jahached rowing,\n\nay & population ci Feiller JROTH The Cowaru SeCESTARY Moved the Chinese ani thar there will be residences third reading.\n\na aing the slopes of the Kowie The BOLONIAL Turns seconded and ange, and especially as its castern end, the Bii was read rd time and sumers as in the Peak Distric.passed.\n\nThe populata of the Colony has in the E. Tap overrun thurk hour. Pas crease at a phenomenat rate andante buombers very airvurely for the there is n voron why it should not evi-\n\nVision they have made for best year.\n\ntinue to do so in the fetare. I bax Courel and adjourned zinc đen,\n\ndoabled during the past ten years Now\n\nwe are a present only completing the\n\nfast plage of the Sheng Mun rabicy ivatar corts scheme. Hat when that\n\nsebeme has heretter been developed to\n\nla y capacity\n\nthe water supply\n\nREGULATIONS IN MASSES.\"\n\nBefore the 18s of Wight Bench, when\n\nfrom it will, so t are told, caly uffice for a tener was summoned for a bicach or bition soule te arison must be the regulations quic under the deplete considered the shore of the weds of the tion of Animal Aet by failing to ghiuping of this great port, which shoul\n\nfor six days a pedigeen belt brough\n\nhe supplied entheis from the metuland. from the Channel Islausts, the saticito Therefore in my pins the progressive for the defence ploaded genovace of the\n\ncveiremeal of the Stang Mun scherplations\n\nformed of each regulations, and had to to\n\nand back at the unisces posted up. The\n\nstage by atage it probably do no more the clerk of the juices (Mr John than zopple the growing needs of the Parte!) said be and others who had Inerther side of the Daibuer, especially studied the law all their lives were nos in\n\nif, La Bonn 26ay be the case, the supply to Kowloom is hy meter all over the pensule and rider mains are not ineist Fod opens. Eventually there would be nothing luppare fomi Sheng Mus for the and and, a pipe tine were new inid under the barbour, the real would\n\nhe said, was the evi of legislating y\n\nden rizical regulations. Everyone who\n\nhad anything to do with the law Joy\n\nbez statutes were pood, but under\n\nsome statutes power was given to the\n\ny be to compel the cousienrtion of Government departments to make regula\n\nthe second, third and further stages of signs which had to be inid on the table the Sheng Mne schein at an order date of the House of Commons, and it ne and hasten the day rhen water supplies objected to them within a certain perina additional to these in the Sheng Mung oras law. Those regulations ce valley would have to be frusted for the in auch masses that chose concerned entila waland. This is no erent of a wild not innke lisensices quainted wit imagination. My bontrahie bend. Mr.\n\nthen quickly.\n\nBird. has reminded us of the confident The chainman said the dnienian, wodd hopes entertained in 1938 that the con- a nod to simply ny a warning to straction of the Tyram-k reservoir avhers.\n\ni \n\nColei Binchors and asked for a loss Department He then called apon\n\njoi meney, but the eulonel Shought be re-i\n\ngold in the supposed Lord Sahton a pan whom he had seen being marched bebwa twn gendannen in the occupid feratfury, and concranitext his sus pitions to the Prefect, who advised the palier the poster, quick to rule that he was being closely watched, took taxicab to Ehe and there bed an express bound for Paris.\n\nCRICKET.\n\n0.8 40. \"A\". FONGKONG UNIVERSITY\n\nThe A. Salteran, K. T. Loke, A. Baker,\n\nThen, V. Enok, Hernani,\n\nThe following will present the Hong- og Rocker Clan in a wareh with the Horas Selitery on the Marina grand at geday: T. W. Suuthan, W. A. Nowra, Lord, Rankly,\n\n1. Wheeler, 1. Middleton Smith, L. &. R. Dunes, W.. Newman, and Nicbails. the\n\nON SALE,\n\nThis match w take pines tomorrow. I. Savaderson tenpr), White, 2. G\n\nthe Bongtong taiversity ground be sinning at 3.13 p.m.\n\nThe following will repavicur ¡C.8.C.C. A team:-J. H. N Palier inquiries show, however, that, (enplain), E. J. Harper, R. 8. W PA disapointed in one quarter, he runced on, T. W. Carr, C. Nara, T. 12. M ed in another, for during the train Pendered, R. C. Witchsti. R. G. Rober journey between Elne and Narbonne ke son, C. R. Sitey, T. Wastlake, and succeeded in borrowing on from a\n\nP. J. Neill Spanish priest who travested in the same\n\nCape W. Saters. o apartment. The mean is believed to be Bean, of whom the palies have\n\ndetailed des ription.\n\nFue match arranged for to-coorrow be-j tweea C.S.CC tat Team Hongkong Ist. Toast a decu cantalleù.\n\nBOEND VOLUMES of the HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS, January to June,\n\nWith Isna, Price-$7.50.\n\n1995.\n\nOn male at the Hongkong Dresly Press Office,\n\nThink of \"Johnnie Walker\"\n\nwhen you think of whisky. Then you'll ask for 'Johnnie Walker' and get real whisky. a drop of it\n\nThere's not\n\nthat isn't guaranteed pure\n\nand mature.\n\nJOHNNIE WALKER\n\nGuaranteed the same quality throughout the world.\n\nBORN 1820-STILL GOING STRONG!\n\nAGENTS\n\nCALDBECK, MACGREGOR & Co. Ltd.\n\nSHANGHAI\n\nHONG KONG\n\nTIENTSIN\n\nJOHN WALZER & SONS, LTD., SCOTCH WHISKY DISTILLERS, KILMARNOCK, SCOTLAND.\n\nNORTHERN SITUATION.\n\nHANKOW THREATENED BY YAWG SEN.\n\nTHE COAL DISPUTE.\n\nTHE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER STA\n\nFAILINE OF FORLORN HOPES.\n\nIMPERIAL CONFERENCE.\n\nRIFORTS OF COMMITTEES TO BE\n\nCONSIDEREU\n\nBIG FORCES ADVANCING ON\n\nMOVING TOWARDS PEAGE.\n\nSHITISH WIRALESS SERVICE.)\n\nFULL SESSION TO-DAY.\n\nSRITIRO WIRELESS SERVICE. }\n\nBuasy, November 3rd.\n\nSOUTHERNERS.\n\nITHROTGE AR?!TEETH MOENCY.\n\nThe conference of delegatos, represent ing 3,000,000 members of Trailes' Cuions,\n\nRissy, November tvd.\n\nTo emble Ether progress to be medis\n\nRUSSIAN COMMUNIST\n\nCONFERENCE.\n\nTREND TOWARDS SOCIAL DEMO CRACY DENOUNCED.\n\n¡TERIZON REUTER'A AGENCY.]\n\nMoscow, November 4th,\n\nSeco Ordjoni Kidze los ben appoint. Led Chairman of the Contrshing Comain\n\n193.\n\nTERRIBLE MINE DISASTER IN AMERICA.\n\nSURFACE DROPS 809 FEET.\n\nFORTY LIVES LOST.\n\n[enerina's APERICAN SERVICE}\n\nHUANGHAL, November 4th.\n\nLeonsidered to-day he request of the with the work of the various cammirteesi sion of the Covinat Party teplacing i bois lves lo a large routine right suites According to Star Chuan Fang's local Mines Federation fe fusosial assist the taperiat Conternen will not meet in Kalbyahef\n\nheadquarters, General Yang Sex 18 making rapid wegiese tonnvés flankum with a lores el 90, Fr is reported that re has reached an understanding with the military corianders of Heh\n\nThe comlined strength of the various trongs advancing against the Raemiatang amin forena ia catiupted at 20,000\n\nThe Situation on the Yangisse. According to musaoge from Kiukiang, though the Allied tips drove the\n\nance by News of a compulsory jerk,\n\nMe J. H. Thorous, ex-Minister and\n\n30\n\n7\n\nCHINESE ASPIRATIONS.\n\nAN ATTEMPT TO DEFINE THEM.\n\nBRITISH POLICY.\n\nFa a letter to The Times, a writer, who signe himwility Years of Caikas,\"\n\nWhat, seus time to ask, are \"tha legitimer asjárations of the Chinese Isamuse, Michigan, Nov 4th.\n\n¦ people' of which pro hour so much and Vorry mlaers are believed to have beat often, and which, sweeling to a re\n\nsoluzioa paared sareena terring of the Trades Trion Congress, curIn- sway as a rendi of a cove in. A sectionering policy? is supposed to obstruer\n\nt. is possible to answer this question of the sune lice, onsdag of worriedly a coisery but the great mess in! sessing and Friday morning, when\n\nThe Pan Russian Commemat Conier-\n\nground top fear by mi feil 600 feet to of me Cheese page. Their sole aspisa made of the National Tadon of Railway for representation will be considered\n\nsuch emporte of committees as are ready unce opelnded with wanimous resul\n\nthe fat level with an eerie sucking thed | tion certainty legs the cHEAT- men, declared that a compulsory levy was\n\ntrot, wenotneing the oppositiona and the watch was beant les arand. Shaeon of the ferville suderings y hue Considerable progress was made so-day drift towards a Social Demersey, and and mud and varer Sueded the entire euynes ter tin past hve years or\n\ncauteed at the landa of their \"Teltow ona of the question. He pointed out the boys sinaveial burden which the cos\n\nin the exambation of the intricate preemplaatsing its detonation to preserve level, and B. is feared that all mace of mine. A catalogue of these, could it be doppage had placed on this Railwayman's atity by the comsister interested with\n\nblens cotueruing questions vi matice-party unity and u erosh attempus to escape han born a så gi\n\nand other enjeun. The appeal by Mr. A. J. Cook and that subjen, and at the meeting of the\n\nwoher authors' leaders for a compulsory\n\nkonomie Committee matters moder von.\n\nlevy fo on mmpathetic cars and, in weluded taxation of so- Cantonese invaders into Kiangsi. they eventually, an acceptable compromise was through agente or Erwaches and the\n\nresidens trading in the Dovdivos | also have suffered heavily, pan wifound in a revolution which was moved tiability of the State enterprises to of the report regarding the Chrkiang by the Speetary of\n\nthe Instributive\n\nvoi. the Allied Comunnacle parpesny Workers' Coinus. This proposed that the 1xation.\n\nmade his men conontrate slong the Nas werber of the Dales' Unions, who are i chang-Kinking railway lin, for fene that they might be threatened with out-\n\nThe General Counnil of the Trades' Tuiee Congress afterwards issued a state-\n\neffort to achizibute. Ject asking monists to make a special\n\nThe Committes of Price Micleers\n\nEGYPT-INDIA AIR SERVICE.\n\nAVCCESSZOR DEMONSTRATION\n\nFLIGHTS.\n\nworking, should contribute volastalls further considered the problem of inter-\n\nImpovial inlations, and the diessaloni side agitation. Dostest of letting his 15 tkun cae penny per day for the\n\nsupport or the nicer. The Diebusive will be tuned at a meeting of the xroups chats the enemy, Marshal Sun is Workers Tao offered to start a volum\n\nCommiting tomorrow. only devoting hiwait to restoring enay Bud with a motributivo of £9,000; munications, cornogrcial, tepking and how its own resourses This compromise other organisation to their origiasi proposed was adopted. stales, as to win pazar laveur. On the other land. the mein Lady of the Aobwei ang under General Chew Ting Fnce, armbeslag some 12.000 strong she Wero maioned on the left bank of the tho river Yangiar, in co-operaion with aste 1,000 traps belonging in General Yeh Ka Hsin's Hunua seny, are in pures of the Cantores rongs who are provide stuetking over one shilling per by the Imperial Airways for this service\n\ntreating Hinge Mr. Chiang Tor Kus, penes delegate Irum Chokizug,\n\nchouid te in experimental operation be- it appears that at to day's weeting tween London Paris. in dimussing pace torus wile Levers felisy was distinty revealed 10\n\nThe Helca in the rac British pas Chiang Kai Sick, upon his retur debit if micers severe foucis center rachine specially designed for Kinklang, 4 is expedid that Marshal han will decide whether to continue Aghting or arckage for pracc.\n\nA LONDON COMMENT\n\n3. Pontley witing to The\n\nSupy day Word stude\n\nI am ready in confess bay of late bave given up reading about China, and mi the power lime have hot the foun ides what is happening there.\n\nI am quite willing to belive dat is hades of fellow creatures are going Lhrough crisis, and the the fie of the whole world as be found up with the present history of Chies\n\nDay there are so many replicated prises, with which the fate of the world is bend up, so they alces we proted ourselves sonelow we shall never bove\n\nCent's peace of mind\n\neroato sectional strife\n\n...wix.com\n\nTRAGIC DISCOVERY.\n\nMR. A. BRUNNER AND WIFE FOUND DEAD.\n\nLONDON. FOrember sth.\n\n127\n\nU.S. ELECTIONS.\n\n-----\n\nNew York. November pad, TheWols are grea\n\nheartoned with the means of the New York State referentem where a 110,500 resjority Mr. Rogens Brunner, ex Chairman of ze seca State to determine what per | tavoured u request but Congress Jobaran\n\nBrunner, Mond and Company, surt bis centan of alcohol is inensleting. An wife have been found shot dead in their almost idential proposal augears to have house at Korbampton.\n\nbeco prased by Mhaois bg a large sunjos ity, walio Wis.outin favoured 2.75 per FRENCH PLEA FOK US. MURDERERS.\n\nplashed wade generally known, woulé sertainlysingi humanity, a qu k is by no means to the credit of those who must have been til along well acquainted with the farts that He or nothing has been heard of them.\n\nThe aspirations of the merchants and Puell trades-a very large clasanay condently be used as jenna good govemment Lowever detained is the ehvoistances savely a legitimate. leylan, aspiration.\n\nThe aspirations of the principal actors of the tragedy that is being presented to the world by China and of the ioul vefeed chans the hoids the front of the stage, composed of politicians, diplomatists.\n\ncent, aner by two to one. The isa at 2, and audents, are de complex, always so dear in ather Stales and define them here. The most and no attempt car he made io sort theni Bunty voting on the medicationincere au rend various to be lumi the law showed a wet trend. Tropin this class pld, however, it demo repeat the present State laws enter having their aspirations seamed up A norcher of distinguished mebers of prohibition were apparently carried in the vertsnational dependenes\n\nPARIS, Noriber 4th.\n\nto\n\nTile\n\nRetar, November th A series of darmonstration Aights by a An experienced į De Havilland Hevents three-engines air- un on layder patiated that even if a thead which will operate on the new six her bare cameź the right to tive hy working unionista quatribaled one penny cute from Egypt to India were carried fiving rails fuas of execation for five per lay only th0,000 per week weidi bejut yesterday. By the end of new years, aviiside for the miners. This wou week The first of five machines ordered\n\nTHE PLOT AGAINST SPAIN,\n\nTRAISE FOR FRENCH POLICE,\n\nNO BRITISHERS INVOLVED.\n\nLeros, November 3rd. A furiber essage from Perpignan, exklatance from other unions they muallack in the trapies, nad a noticeable that alloguer Sparish and Italian mostly the former have begu - be prepared to accept the ambition of the fextare is the special arra gements Gade rested onion in connertion with coal dispute as suggested 15 the Prades for the comfest of poesengers. Not only\n\nthe Spanish plat. Con Congress as representing those is the cnbir waliloted at a greater exure British, e was at Erst stated,\n\nElection earle 264 Sone of those arrested suggested\n\nthe Paris bar bare signed an appeat to California ad Mouting wile Favela\n\noverwhelmingly voted for a resolation only, & legitinute in a very laudable the United States against the expertos encumeing de present federal law and\n\ncbject of aspiration.\n\nPossibly the T.L.C. and a great, any of Sacco and Vanzetti, They point out deadede e apendress of\n\nother persons as well wit be surprised Cantul Sterns Constirution regards to less that the national independence thek even the Americas judges are int ernhibition Missouri al Colorado ap\n\nof the Chinese people bus from the very sure of their gul, and even guilty.pear to have led down measures in first been one fine principal objeers of\n\n2 the morifiration of the State law.\n\nBibel policy, and that the so called LATER. \"uceque beates of 1801-models of Belated election retains indieste a re- moderation and good will-wore bamed dacties of six and 13 respectively in the carefully to interfece as ele as possible Republican ajrity in the Redste aval with China's covereign rights and to ca House of Representatives. alay sents courage bei ndicals and people to tread are still in the ballot and i the Deaerata be one wh that could pensione less hu capture a few core the western Repub-indeperasuste. Buevey, is the ba Bean urgents, ied by the Wiannokin coutrageglible Int, to be verbied by any grow of which the late Sepstor La Lane who takes the trouble to glady who Folette was leader, will undoubtedly be history of our relations with China. in a strong strategic position, by holding Unfortunately, it gestas to hyve been the balance busween the Demorats autorgattan not by Chinese statesmen and the orthodox Repu>Ticana\n\ndelunatists alone that sovereignty\" Latest Figures.\n\nCalot be confereed by a magician's wand, or ever by u Washington Conier New York. November 4 ence is our state to be enjoyed, but a\n\navailable show fandtion to the expreised. Mercins, Dai the next Serace be composed of deed, mamed it only to the Wise and #7 Detrocrats, one of the Parser Labore | Benevolent Water! Turky, 48 Repathesne, whereof eight are\n\ninsurgents, ad bence thorns To the i The French podion are being honored dech of the Amulsation Six sela\n\nweek for each wirer sad on strike.\n\nthe\n\nunions Disforöuation was expressed to tent than usoni, bor a special sir scoopi belp the wires to preing an unpreât is provided which Altera sir for din adio struggle. Ja London in 15 generally catatan: Marwughout the lateries.\n\nbelieved that the Conference will be con-\n\nCredit for Polica.\n\n| \n\nPn. November d\n\n| wills credit. Für fromvating lous of the is the Honee are duabital bat hitherto most entermined punish evolutionary the Replicas bure a more tears than\n\nand for their teed until\n\nsiderably tolesced by the failure of the EARL. BEATTY'S RESIGNATION 618 For hutched on French territory the Doucurals,\n\nforlorn hopes of the miners leaders,\n\nnuts, regarding the crcburgo ou servign i\n\nPOSTPONED,\n\nBrgey, November 4th.\n\nthe itapliunted non more salely within\n\nthe Le The conspiracy is attributed\n\nin a Cnts ex-Dopyty named Macia.\n\ncost and the compulsory lexy and by the East Beauty who has been Fiza Sawhoy however, caped. The arrested men plain weaking at to-day's craterence. 1\n\nLoud of the Advising and Chief of concertedly attempted 10 sayape when im\n\nInfantry was dented in to mount guard.\n\nis arassidered highly probauls that Winore Nasal Staf siree November, 151, has tied in Phun trap dalyahaw of Our dirilisation has produced so any\n\nFoxerulivo will senk authority to connivade | expreazeri kis desire to be allowed to le Similar Senegade Tailleurs wHIS TO disorders, from weleer to courtoiss which these its \"ery existence that, a settlement on the bush forms that can sign office on complaing a period of\n\nnidecod, baffed, wise to see the uhtalked in districts with the safe - civilization for the Bandos, we hostin\n\ngeintioned at\", Parpagena to control thep imprisona) there, who were revolt\n\nSOUTH AFRICA-INDIAN\n\nCHINA AND THE TREATICS.\n\nNAKIPO THE MOST OF GENEVA,\n\nThe Geneve\n\nthe Forrespondent of Hugging Fest states that Belgiumie ap- per to the Hugue Court against China's quilatere donandiation of the nuequal Customs Fronty daỡng bon 139 wil m no way jafurice Pekang's decision tu maka ben action cortive from Velour 27th at prevent the denunciation of the Spanish and fortuguese treaties later in the year and other une jou treaties as saur as the six wonths' denunciation\n\nto me by Wang King Ky, the Chinese Minister In Bruznets.\n\nEurocan cRITER'S AGENCI\n\nTHE NEW BETTING TAX-\n\nBOYCOTT BY BOOKMAKERS.\n\nPICKET SYSTEM THREAT.\n\nLONDON, November 3rd. There was practically no business in Weating so day, and consequently it was impossible to turn any starting prices. According to Wang, Chien wil: javuke\n\nis is understood that this was due to\n\na boycost of Belgia gucds it themsets the fat that buckmbuers are unable toetuse lo sgiate Customs at and agree ang themselves haw Die betting reciprocat inri fronties along the lines\n\nA geais ated in the reynolic asing on the greani of the unsuitability of Tattoreult's Ming as the Windsor Rave Perise aries. This net was unle Glen shrug our shoulden, out of sheer self-guarding provision lec national privriples. the maximan ing which an officer will the food. Defence\n\nThis, adiy, is for antlement angested in rescined on the Board of the Ad- If we parties in shrugging everything out of dar attention, we shall en bis the Trades Brion Congress. The miraty except a sprint elryumstances. withous abonlines to ghrag, but some granding of auch authorisation by The bay however commented, so the request things, such as (for me) Clška, must be iamisted in the riot of staying we\n\nPolagate tonference woul se an inport of the l'inst Lord, a defer bia vesigns. that we call the world.\n\nant intve towards prese. GENERAL CHIANG KAI SHEK.\n\nDEATH AGAIN REPORTED.\n\nLatest Developments.\n\ntion.\n\nNATIONAL FINANCE, SPRCIAL COMMUNTRE'S FINDINGS.\n\nCose\n\nof treaties already noncladed\" with Gor many and Autria. The British treaties anies be denom.sed legally for eight years, bat Wang believes that credm.\n\nThe\n\nthar\n\nThe incidence of existing tesañon with special aminion conferees at the luneseen. The bet the police piloted him to safety with of the world.\"]\n\nCOAL STOPPAGE AND LIFE ASSURANCE.\n\nACTION BY THE PRUDENTIAL.\n\nPROBLEM.\n\ntax Redd be applied. The altitude of PROSPECTS OF GETELEMENT.\n\n[başkaskers vulndning from oftering prices was gonerally condemned, and ibe Lenox, Novemùre Srd.\n\nopinion was freely expingsed that their We need have no fear of those difi-ion is making the strangest posible tamee wilt serant of abregation before enities or evenally befog antiled to GY, November 4th.\n\nFor the Satroad jau the satisfaction of the one to the other.\n\nterafiarto, Considerable innvortance attacles to\n\nGeneral Herzog, speaking at lun-\n\nMeaza hile. A is evident that Chinese the Miners Delegais Conferemer in holly\n\nWe Want the Wato.\" Seen in Lendos go-üny giver By the Br\n\najataşıman one seaking the most of their SHANODAL, Necember 4th. dou -day and strong hops, restrained Marshal San Chusn Farer's form head-only by the manory of pue disappoiti\n\nBrors, Novezier 4th. uish fudian Buion in the Indian de\n\nL352. ajestien og the Leagur Council. They will quarters have received a faspatch from mente, entertained hot at Set the British system of National furco has Margas of Bouding persided.\n\nAn exhuastive examination of the gates of the Imperial Coulrease. The There is a grong disposition as the vas ienova js a publicity centre, vuiting\n\nmoment, aming the booktankers in Putter į the azue unday Article is of the Core Marahel stafing that the Superin way all be clenged for a puzon effort, tendent of the Aurican Mission les The main out for decision is the date the chainauship of Lord Colwyn The\n\nDuw been coaj leted by a committes urner The function was notable, as being calle Ring to stay away pliogether from ant. mai dertzog's first appearance at i now Windsay Jomorrow. Using the stone | According to dis article of the Coven- pital at Changsha resta essure to the gates will free their exentive finance Caiutee was t Amican Copen at Nanking on October ariesiona and power in to proused in\n\noc by Mr. Philip South African function, while his queeri steps of the staed as a rostrum sproval at the Assemby may from the to Snowder, who was then Chancellby of was noteworthy we the test subiely aggrieved bookmakers halangued the time use the reconeidéention to mera- S to the affect thay General Ching sonich of a sectieraons along the lives the exliegues to February 1994 and its indication feren anyone inside the red and from bets by drifted to burs of the League of treaties which have Fai Shek had died from wounds.\n\nangusted by the Frado Union Congress, terms of incedenes were to rotate and Conference of the faanly froling strong | polities with violens petsons on Mr. Win become inapplicable, and the considere. There is no question of the Conference report on the National Debt and the the conferens,\n\nFurthermore, General sing Churchill. One man who shouted ties of antineliopal conditions where BRITISH PROPERTY DESTROYED\n\nwing specifig patce temps.\n\n\"We Esans to be decried is whether the excreference to their egg on brade, indus\n\nHerring was the sole representative of the Fe want the Tote \"jut a roug's sime dispostimages wight endanger the peace IN HUNAN.\n\nshat Le Sudorised in by for a try, oplosment, and National credis.arquis of Reading, in a speech, wanbly no hum done. AP.C. BUILDING BURNED DOWN.tries, and whether such autherias. It is undergo that the cum titles med Gotural Herizon\n\nfun. if garsed, shall be conditional\n\nBookmakers' Organise Bogenot. dindings are embodied in too reports entirely wrihout restriction.\n\nGeneral Hortzog's Speech, LATRA. which will shortly be handed to the A division of opinion is hely but the Choreitor of the bandoquer,\n\nGeneral Fartzog, regtrias, canplssied It is now resised that the action of deleges are bed with the knowledge The newapapers state that the majority\n\nthol vryne of clase contact in ravoving the hackmakes at Windsor, which thew that any attempt to renew the demand report deals with the gezocal ducis (endersienbuch, presie and hicker the whole carration of holding in a for calling out the safety me or for system in a way that is in nerd witheria) Cuntrance, lure the delegaces to organisal boyants, and acom of there\n\nvandstill throughout the county, was The Prudential Assurance Company ings. That was why he ngareciated the widge\n\nnorances that, \"Bubject to certain easy and secusly accepted pripsiplex, and Sark rentact giving the uneasy or threatened that his would be costumed conditions, policy holdiers au have the thet veldrags Gatsibutions of trade commends unly minor alterations and\n\nnoisy will not alone exabin the dis-djustments the existing methods GẼ deurs and anderstanding. He added to the end of the dat soon wates the arrears of preuvame the base accuupa-\n\nBIAA South Afries and die were try- froth to be cenzused with any hopes of textian 14 minted that the fluding ing to come into closer contact. They is exported at Tattersall's at Winter to-\n\nBax is favouerbiy altered. No okiakerated during unemployment resulting success. Yesterday nearly ons roure by the majority will not, in the existing had had considerable diferences in the grow, while it 24 uuderstool one on their industrial branch policies, from the coal dispune deducted from the dus went back to work, the biggest freinstances, reveamend the inposi-past, but he was convinced that with, single day heat for some tion, and there ton of a capital lovy, but will declare better fual understanding they would publie not to eate thongs Heel of the payments already mute, or suffer, picket system will be organised to induce fustend of heving, forfeit horsfé THE ILL-FATED \"KIANGYUNG.ed with 256,000 a week ago, and 16.000 taxation. is success, however, must de\n\nnow in the pits over 2,000 corpur- that it is a practicat ethed of seducing he appared to mel oue Juncher's re-me en helt or will be held as a reduction in the capital amount of anouth o The miners employed\n\naaghout the entry, appending for read largely or its general acceptance General Hering was boudly cheered today,\n\nfor the etion of the Windsor Before the dispute numbered 1,and evő by the Nation, mat as a potiosi creed when he made the remark noted at\n\nIn a fasacial expedia.\n\nbeginning. He concluded la hoping that\n\nOBITUARY.\n\ndiving the sermainder of their library ARMISTICE DAY IN LONDON.\n\nthey would contine u the happy spiri in which M. Baldwin and the Dominion} Gelegentes had been getting oa at the Con- ferenze, Whers they looked one another face to face and had not been afraid in connection with the anniversay in say what they wanted in\n\nsay Aristine Play next Thursday, which, as\n\n(Applause.) Ja former years will be celebrated roughout 12 fixpire y religious ser. Mr. A. J. Cock has nude the state- vices and the observance of two minots!\n\nSHANOR November 4th. A message received her From Changsh states that the Asiatic Petroɔlepa Com- pany's property at Packing has been brut dewn Also that Messrs. Butter- feld And Swim's property at Changra\n\nve been deatroyed,\" and that soms Wesleyan mizzinecies at Linyang have\n\nem faced to deadpate\n\nAll the awna mentioned chore are in the occupation of Southero troops.\n\nCOMPENSATIOS DEMANDED\n\nw! bo Funile,\n\nABOHAN RECTER'S AGENCY. piy boatsion is AvoidaÄ\n\nJDON, November 3rd.\n\nMarshal Son Chaan Prag is the re ripient of telegrama Tozs the Chis Merchants' Secor Navigation Compeny asking comprenantion for She loss of their\n\n6 appears that the Unions decided vessel, the Kinoguey, which went, done will: 12 hops af Kinking After only to permend and not to ingor Longon coinde n momiantion, she was in levy, because the non-payment of s comptiary by would eutui penalties energing, explored).\n\nLATAR.\n\nHron, November 4th. the last erremony in Whitehall, Louien, Avrangements are now coupleted for\n\nThe angry was coemendered in the stripe of the dis-affiliation of the Ly Suo's troops and the steamship you. Taions not felting the instruction.\n\nas officials requear him to inquire into the actual uning of the futafity. There was a crew of 118 men on road of whichment that the Mind Executive bussenes Accerpanied by the Prince of only were resoned and the company never diesed the question of district Wales, the Duke pants arch starked for the torped of settlements, which thes the remaining se who are believed Josongor honis. and proper wapensation made to the vie is families. They also requnal, in the telegram, th your other of their hips, comorandzerest by Mitula troops,\n\nreipt:S],\n\nhe\n\ngubamunpre\n\ninsur the re-emering employment the policy- holders will. azider the scheme, have his Reggars reduced to four weeks, and wil only have to meet the regular weekly payments; the outstanding balance will BISHOP OF ST, DAYIDE.\n\nbe covered by a suitable deduction to be (made when à clain ansee In the rase The death is announced of the Bishop of a with profit policy this deduction will of St. David's, the Right Rev. John made, noi frain the sum assured, but Usen\n\nGum the bons thereon, and no the huit The Right Rev. John Owen, M.A., bad of the insurances isped by the Pradentind bear Bistry of St. huvida ei.co 1867. me of this description, the vane of the He was born in 1854. And was thus 72 coomon cannot, it is oicially stated, years of age. He was an Oxford scholar. be over-estimated. The deduction can He was ordained Desuon in 1879, Priest, be vanilovi by a silabic payment at 16; Walsh Professor and Classica Loe any time before a claim arises. turer at St. David's College. Lampeter, It pointed on that most of those 1679 Warder and Headmaster of affected by the coal drupate will ron Llandovery College, 1985 $8; Dean of St. work under a heavy burden of kahffity, 4pl, 185 68; racial of St David'sant that lets of the Pedential will College, Lamuser; Cason of 6. Asaph, rethze that the way has been made\n\neasy for them to maintain their policies. i loze.\n\nTHE ATTACK ON MUSSOLINI.\n\nWAS WRONG MAN LYNCHED: York and other wen meutered the Royal Family; the King will\n\nPants, November ul. lng a wreath at the Cenotaph and wil be\n\nA vemarkable statement is mache in present daring the brief service that will\n\na tieuna telagenas to the Paria Widi that be endented there. Surrounding the the boy Zumboni was not the real asi Menotaph will be representative detachant of Msanii but that he was yached\n\ntents of the Eighting services, Mercantile when he was frightened by the aid of 1999-97; when he was mised to th Slatine, and ex-Servicemen,\n\nthe shot and trier to Ben.\n\nBishopvie. I\n\nNearly 800,00 Miners at Work,\n\noxnoy, November 3rd.\n\nA total of 290,67 ders am working, I to-day.\n\nTHE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5FR, 1926\n\nTHE BUDGET PASSED (CONTD.).\n\nTHE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5th, 1926\nTHE BUDGET PASSED (CONTD).\nPage 3\n\nyaw open he deducted from the total\n\nwould place Hongkong in und danger of a water famine for fleen gewes\n\nLust of the Department is will be seen reset. Yet, won ave years of the that the department costs only about $200,000 per un to run, apart from the salaries of use we cadet others in the department and on or two metibars\n\nsuccessful construction of that reservoir Hongkong was agus confromed ly water shortage sa ne costred also in the earlier pars if this year, i think the\n\nof the cleries) stali which are provided jeovision is inevituste Lant Dere is for leewhow. y Honous la friend by Nature herself the\n\nBOGUS DIPLOMAT.\nFREL MOTOR-CAR TOUR.\nACTING FOR PRINCE OF WALES,”\nPARI\n\nÁn dadarions series of frauds by a minu\n\n1926.\n\nFOOTBALL.\nCLUR DE RECREIO Is XI.\nS.C.A.4. 1st XI.\nTeams representing these Caly will et in tegne match at the Regrou's who represented himself as a member afgrond, King's Park, tomonow, kick-off the staff of the British Embassy clituged\n\nand a special mission ou half at the The Reevein's team is as follows:-M Prince of Wales, a nursed by the Per M. da Silva. W t\n\npiguen prependant of the Bha de taptain), CF iteraedius. A Atlas\n\nRUGBY,\nFL.R.F.C. * ENGINERE ARTIFICERS.\nThere will be a catch between these teams at the Royal Navy ground, King's Pack, Kowloon, to-morras. Kick-off. 4\n\nP.201\n\nThe following have been selected to play for the Chi Laotiert, Liatr\n\nBlairisgley and Trages; Morrison, Ler\n\nPuree Using the are of Lord Remedios, A. V. Remedios, 12. P. Xavier, i aui Miline (cnplain), Póster, M. Smith,\n\nHOCKEY.\nTODAY'S GAMES.\nPage 4\n\nThe following will represent the Univer\n\nhis story opted without the east susen, J. Lira captu). C. Figueiredo, de Recio coday at 5.15 p.n on the Treinb and English perivetly, he found Perunades, L. A. Gomes, C. d'Assmagsity is hockey match against Ch\n\nthe cal authorities. whu Bonce, A. F. Carvalho. Ruza Pereira, University football groundA. A. Ariz 19 pisin Pion in\n\nto give oxset Agaces in answer to the rather itan is Hongalisios of father lend this disposal a motor car. in A. J. Mauris L. A. da Roche, and B. fraptains, Dr. F. X. Ashton, Lim Pon\n\noptain 4 fire seine anal 45,000 rounds of these pastilities are now being in damagnitions. 57,000 contraband cigavestigated. reites 3,500 gallons of spirits and 6,600 ons of danger, dings were seized during is shows the need for an eða tive piramontina utait. Moreover the pre- ventive staff deals wis the investigation officiell optare divans which one volves a very large arent of work on a careful consiferation of the facts think my Honourable end will agree that the tatt is not sxessive for the work which hay to be dozn\n\n3u puticular one pateabai marceir hệ un perivased ospunity or gan pillinn gations has been located and it is al euiated that the wat of wenst vetag i would be a greater than the cost of the pepe linn under the harbour ae designed by the Consulting Engineers Weght also to devise ones como sing our tresh water supplies in Hongkong by asing mắt water on the low towels for Bntly, chets wi no doubt have\n\nsabinge, streef-cleaning, fire-aging and generally for non-potable perposes, Coticed one very serious mission from his rasite is likewise under lige Toy remarks, his ouission is intentional ice and I trust that before long 1 may ae Your Havelienes has informed me thassle to lay the table of this you will senrself deal with the very im vertant question of the waer supply for\n\nVeure a sossinust paver giving foli in forms for on every aspecs of der water\n\nTHE BUDGET PASSED\n1. THE GOVERNOR SUMS UP.\nEducation.\nOn the subject of euation I wil only already sail that, situated add to what the Colonis Sourctary has\n\nA.E. TA GOTUPNO id: My cordial thanks ne both to the atheist and to the uncial arembers of this Council; for ne ne ant eare which they have: devoted the consideration of the the whole world and the initiation of the budget. My dead is greatest to the spinally Buxlish loy-serot and gir gode Colonial Secretary, who has had no ingredients wing mar oy There shows pains in preparing in expouedag and in\n\nthat in ufucational matters a vitalizing\n\nHongong, woney spent by ss u odana. rice is of the etenst value to British 24 terests in China. Tug is en dra of ad- yertisement and propagands. Partin not good at advartizu artelves and; ly or unfortunately, we, as people, are we are very under propagands. But the public schools sad the aniversities of the United Kingdom are the additating ar\n\ndefending the apply Bill, and whes, sales stil goes out from England 1 am so the whole Council will agree, amly believe that, it we can savesstuhy has discharged a dilbicult task with cun. geois ability thun seo auch the spirit of the British patule saboris and alvidare ete Horakung something of Indented te the cat members vereittes, we shall de more for dish their helpfat criticism and to ihove official interesis in Chica yłem ten possibly be pembery who have taken part in the relieved in any other war Eduentib Rebate for repping to this aritivist, of couraz, le padneted en sourd tuly t bare is Strie Jek Joy me to lines and a political propaganda Gust excluded ont euz adura- on which I propone la rough, parents thus tional i Colony's water supply and the subject of education\n\na. There arŋ, in fet, only two poists !.bs natuiiishraeus. Tsui, subirer to\n\nColony's Water Supply.\nEver since I that loow Henging, woes The quarter of a century go, the in sutticiuc of the Colony's water supp has been a cause for anxiety, can weit remember the days when tied r\n\nsheet prozigos, am convinced list the moncy we spend on advention is a very good arstiteat, and I are glad ir los from the speech of the Senior Chinese Miscber that he and his colleague In\n\nut grutee it.\n\nI now own to the Cancil the motion,\n\nwhich has aireury hem mover and\n\ntonement house iu o ting Forgatseaded, tant de supply Bill be read a\n\ncime of note water shortage and hud, segond time.\n\nto setu my zerranis with backets dow\n\nto Praga, where they\n\nsterd in a\n\nqueue to get water iron lots which brought it across the bay bots from Wai Lamb uns cu the malaland.\n\ntherefore with every apathy for the Glumus mau ibnet the levels\n\nflo. Bir Husa Peursex: May I spea MD Arun of the pointe which have been i red.\n\nILE. THE Veason: I am afraid go Caszob allow it.\n\nThe Standing Onies do aut\n\nHongkong and with invaderiar•Ung Hon. Sa Hay PoiLock has been\n\nof dieir male a ruladatos doring & the ecco in this Council to ready to water facing the 2 have studied tre matters raised in the outs of rhodit. proposal to ask the island dependantcussion.\n\nthe miniland for much of its water\n\nR.E. THE GRENOU. The Bavel may\n\nonce on the second reading of a Bill Conado has a right to mene more tran\n\nYna y pesk us say then you ke\n\nthe Committee stage.\n\ncools. Let me, however, fest consider as the edit to reply. No member of this matter from the point of new of kowison. I am convinse the years come, awing paully to the limitatione which Natone has rapused on Hory- Rong a partly to the advantages which\n\nThe Hill was icy read a second time, Naturn hus bektared upon Konon, Tue\n\nComan went in sanilia to on- grcatat portion of the Cabay'a popun Bon will hats the uainland ather then sider the Oil viure la dise and Ha The wows-planning shoe Hey Fobock then raised a center of and the Farlane development sideme for\n\nquestions which were unsered by H Kowloon Invs then prepared vety wizely The Govezo nd other ricmbers of\n\non a generava scale and 36 s mrahornell. No amenduents were made to able that in future yes the norther the Bin Custee and opon Couteil alores of our barbour wil e jahached rowing,\n\nay & population ci Feiller JROTH The Cowaru SeCESTARY Moved the Chinese ani thar there will be residences third reading.\n\na aing the slopes of the Kowie The BOLONIAL Turns seconded and ange, and especially as its castern end, the Bii was read rd time and sumers as in the Peak Distric.passed.\n\nThe populata of the Colony has in the E. Tap overrun thurk hour. Pas crease at a phenomenat rate andante buombers very airvurely for the there is n voron why it should not evi-\n\nVision they have made for best year.\n\ntinue to do so in the fetare. I bax Courel and adjourned zinc đen,\n\ndoabled during the past ten years Now\n\nwe are a present only completing the\n\nfast plage of the Sheng Mun rabicy ivatar corts scheme. Hat when that\n\nsebeme has heretter been developed to\n\nla y capacity\n\nthe water supply\n\nREGULATIONS IN MASSES.\"\nBefore the 18s of Wight Bench, when\n\nfrom it will, so t are told, caly uffice for a tener was summoned for a bicach or bition soule te arison must be the regulations quic under the deplete considered the shore of the weds of the tion of Animal Aet by failing to ghiuping of this great port, which shoul\n\nfor six days a pedigeen belt brough\n\nhe supplied entheis from the metuland. from the Channel Islausts, the saticito Therefore in my pins the progressive for the defence ploaded genovace of the\n\ncveiremeal of the Stang Mun scherplations\n\nformed of each regulations, and had to to\n\nand back at the unisces posted up. The\n\nstage by atage it probably do no more the clerk of the juices (Mr John than zopple the growing needs of the Parte!) said be and others who had Inerther side of the Daibuer, especially studied the law all their lives were nos in\n\nif, La Bonn 26ay be the case, the supply to Kowloom is hy meter all over the pensule and rider mains are not ineist Fod opens. Eventually there would be nothing luppare fomi Sheng Mus for the and and, a pipe tine were new inid under the barbour, the real would\n\nhe said, was the evi of legislating y\n\nden rizical regulations. Everyone who\n\nhad anything to do with the law Joy\n\nbez statutes were pood, but under\n\nsome statutes power was given to the\n\ny be to compel the cousienrtion of Government departments to make regula\n\nthe second, third and further stages of signs which had to be inid on the table the Sheng Mne schein at an order date of the House of Commons, and it ne and hasten the day rhen water supplies objected to them within a certain perina additional to these in the Sheng Mung oras law. Those regulations ce valley would have to be frusted for the in auch masses that chose concerned entila waland. This is no erent of a wild not innke lisensices quainted wit imagination. My bontrahie bend. Mr.\n\nthen quickly.\n\nBird. has reminded us of the confident The chainman said the dnienian, wodd hopes entertained in 1938 that the con- a nod to simply ny a warning to straction of the Tyram-k reservoir avhers.\n\ni \n\nColei Binchors and asked for a loss Department He then called apon\n\njoi meney, but the eulonel Shought be re-i\n\ngold in the supposed Lord Sahton a pan whom he had seen being marched bebwa twn gendannen in the occupid feratfury, and concranitext his sus pitions to the Prefect, who advised the palier the poster, quick to rule that he was being closely watched, took taxicab to Ehe and there bed an express bound for Paris.\n\nCRICKET.\nCRICKET.\n0.8 40. \"A\". FONGKONG UNIVERSITY\n\nThe A. Salteran, K. T. Loke, A. Baker,\n\nThen, V. Enok, Hernani,\n\nThe following will present the Hong- og Rocker Clan in a wareh with the Horas Selitery on the Marina grand at geday: T. W. Suuthan, W. A. Nowra, Lord, Rankly,\n\n1. Wheeler, 1. Middleton Smith, L. &. R. Dunes, W.. Newman, and Nicbails. the\n\nON SALE,\n\nThis match w take pines tomorrow. I. Savaderson tenpr), White, 2. G\n\nthe Bongtong taiversity ground be sinning at 3.13 p.m.\n\nThe following will repavicur ¡C.8.C.C. A team:-J. H. N Palier inquiries show, however, that, (enplain), E. J. Harper, R. 8. W PA disapointed in one quarter, he runced on, T. W. Carr, C. Nara, T. 12. M ed in another, for during the train Pendered, R. C. Witchsti. R. G. Rober journey between Elne and Narbonne ke son, C. R. Sitey, T. Wastlake, and succeeded in borrowing on from a\n\nP. J. Neill Spanish priest who travested in the same\n\nCape W. Saters. o apartment. The mean is believed to be Bean, of whom the palies have\n\ndetailed des ription.\n\nFue match arranged for to-coorrow be-j tweea C.S.CC tat Team Hongkong Ist. Toast a decu cantalleù.\n\nBOEND VOLUMES of the HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS, January to June,\nWith Isna, Price-$7.50.\n\n1995.\n\nOn male at the Hongkong Dresly Press Office,\n\nThink of \"Johnnie Walker\"\nwhen you think of whisky. Then you'll ask for 'Johnnie Walker' and get real whisky. a drop of it\n\nThere's not\n\nthat isn't guaranteed pure\n\nand mature.\n\nJOHNNIE WALKER\n\nGuaranteed the same quality throughout the world.\n\nBORN 1820-STILL GOING STRONG!\n\nAGENTS\n\nCALDBECK, MACGREGOR & Co. Ltd.\n\nSHANGHAI\n\nHONG KONG\n\nTIENTSIN\n\nJOHN WALZER & SONS, LTD., SCOTCH WHISKY DISTILLERS, KILMARNOCK, SCOTLAND.\n\nNORTHERN SITUATION.\nHANKOW THREATENED BY YAWG SEN.\nTHE COAL DISPUTE.\nTHE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER STA\n\nFAILINE OF FORLORN HOPES.\nIMPERIAL CONFERENCE.\nRIFORTS OF COMMITTEES TO BE\nCONSIDEREU\n\nBIG FORCES ADVANCING ON\nMOVING TOWARDS PEAGE.\nSHITISH WIRALESS SERVICE.)\n\nFULL SESSION TO-DAY.\n\nSRITIRO WIRELESS SERVICE. }\n\nBuasy, November 3rd.\n\nSOUTHERNERS.\nITHROTGE AR?!TEETH MOENCY.\nThe conference of delegatos, represent ing 3,000,000 members of Trailes' Cuions,\n\nRissy, November tvd.\n\nTo emble Ether progress to be medis\n\nRUSSIAN COMMUNIST\nCONFERENCE.\nTREND TOWARDS SOCIAL DEMO CRACY DENOUNCED.\n¡TERIZON REUTER'A AGENCY.]\n\nMoscow, November 4th,\n\nSeco Ordjoni Kidze los ben appoint. Led Chairman of the Contrshing Comain\n\n193.\n\nTERRIBLE MINE DISASTER IN AMERICA.\nSURFACE DROPS 809 FEET.\nFORTY LIVES LOST.\n[enerina's APERICAN SERVICE}\n\nHUANGHAL, November 4th.\n\nLeonsidered to-day he request of the with the work of the various cammirteesi sion of the Covinat Party teplacing i bois lves lo a large routine right suites According to Star Chuan Fang's local Mines Federation fe fusosial assist the taperiat Conternen will not meet in Kalbyahef\n\nheadquarters, General Yang Sex 18 making rapid wegiese tonnvés flankum with a lores el 90, Fr is reported that re has reached an understanding with the military corianders of Heh\n\nThe comlined strength of the various trongs advancing against the Raemiatang amin forena ia catiupted at 20,000\n\nThe Situation on the Yangisse.\nAccording to musaoge from Kiukiang, though the Allied tips drove the\n\nance by News of a compulsory jerk,\n\nMe J. H. Thorous, ex-Minister and\n\n30\n\n7\n\nCHINESE ASPIRATIONS.\nAN ATTEMPT TO DEFINE THEM.\nBRITISH POLICY.\nFa a letter to The Times, a writer, who signe himwility Years of Caikas,\"\n\nWhat, seus time to ask, are \"tha legitimer asjárations of the Chinese Isamuse, Michigan, Nov 4th.\n\n¦ people' of which pro hour so much and Vorry mlaers are believed to have beat often, and which, sweeling to a re\n\nsoluzioa paared sareena terring of the Trades Trion Congress, curIn- sway as a rendi of a cove in. A sectionering policy? is supposed to obstruer\n\nt. is possible to answer this question of the sune lice, onsdag of worriedly a coisery but the great mess in! sessing and Friday morning, when\n\nThe Pan Russian Commemat Conier-\n\nground top fear by mi feil 600 feet to of me Cheese page. Their sole aspisa made of the National Tadon of Railway for representation will be considered\n\nsuch emporte of committees as are ready unce opelnded with wanimous resul\n\nthe fat level with an eerie sucking thed | tion certainty legs the cHEAT- men, declared that a compulsory levy was\n\ntrot, wenotneing the oppositiona and the watch was beant les arand. Shaeon of the ferville suderings y hue Considerable progress was made so-day drift towards a Social Demersey, and and mud and varer Sueded the entire euynes ter tin past hve years or\n\ncauteed at the landa of their \"Teltow ona of the question. He pointed out the boys sinaveial burden which the cos\n\nin the exambation of the intricate preemplaatsing its detonation to preserve level, and B. is feared that all mace of mine. A catalogue of these, could it be doppage had placed on this Railwayman's atity by the comsister interested with\n\nblens cotueruing questions vi matice-party unity and u erosh attempus to escape han born a så gi\n\nand other enjeun. The appeal by Mr. A. J. Cook and that subjen, and at the meeting of the\n\nwoher authors' leaders for a compulsory\n\nkonomie Committee matters moder von.\n\nlevy fo on mmpathetic cars and, in weluded taxation of so- Cantonese invaders into Kiangsi. they eventually, an acceptable compromise was through agente or Erwaches and the\n\nresidens trading in the Dovdivos | also have suffered heavily, pan wifound in a revolution which was moved tiability of the State enterprises to of the report regarding the Chrkiang by the Speetary of\n\nthe Instributive\n\nvoi. the Allied Comunnacle parpesny Workers' Coinus. This proposed that the 1xation.\n\nmade his men conontrate slong the Nas werber of the Dales' Unions, who are i chang-Kinking railway lin, for fene that they might be threatened with out-\n\nThe General Counnil of the Trades' Tuiee Congress afterwards issued a state-\n\neffort to achizibute. Ject asking monists to make a special\n\nThe Committes of Price Micleers\n\nEGYPT-INDIA AIR SERVICE.\nAVCCESSZOR DEMONSTRATION\nFLIGHTS.\nworking, should contribute volastalls further considered the problem of inter-\n\nImpovial inlations, and the diessaloni side agitation. Dostest of letting his 15 tkun cae penny per day for the\n\nsupport or the nicer. The Diebusive will be tuned at a meeting of the xroups chats the enemy, Marshal Sun is Workers Tao offered to start a volum\n\nCommiting tomorrow. only devoting hiwait to restoring enay Bud with a motributivo of £9,000; munications, cornogrcial, tepking and how its own resourses This compromise other organisation to their origiasi proposed was adopted. stales, as to win pazar laveur. On the other land. the mein Lady of the Aobwei ang under General Chew Ting Fnce, armbeslag some 12.000 strong she Wero maioned on the left bank of the tho river Yangiar, in co-operaion with aste 1,000 traps belonging in General Yeh Ka Hsin's Hunua seny, are in pures of the Cantores rongs who are provide stuetking over one shilling per by the Imperial Airways for this service\n\ntreating Hinge Mr. Chiang Tor Kus, penes delegate Irum Chokizug,\n\nchouid te in experimental operation be- it appears that at to day's weeting tween London Paris. in dimussing pace torus wile Levers felisy was distinty revealed 10\n\nThe Helca in the rac British pas Chiang Kai Sick, upon his retur debit if micers severe foucis center rachine specially designed for Kinklang, 4 is expedid that Marshal han will decide whether to continue Aghting or arckage for pracc.\n\nA LONDON COMMENT\n3. Pontley witing to The\n\nSupy day Word stude\n\nI am ready in confess bay of late bave given up reading about China, and mi the power lime have hot the foun ides what is happening there.\n\nI am quite willing to belive dat is hades of fellow creatures are going Lhrough crisis, and the the fie of the whole world as be found up with the present history of Chies\n\nDay there are so many replicated prises, with which the fate of the world is bend up, so they alces we proted ourselves sonelow we shall never bove\n\nCent's peace of mind\n\neroato sectional strife\n\n...wix.com\n\nTRAGIC DISCOVERY.\nMR. A. BRUNNER AND WIFE FOUND DEAD.\nLONDON. FOrember sth.\n\n127\n\nU.S. ELECTIONS.\n-----\n\nNew York. November pad, TheWols are grea\n\nheartoned with the means of the New York State referentem where a 110,500 resjority Mr. Rogens Brunner, ex Chairman of ze seca State to determine what per | tavoured u request but Congress Jobaran\n\nBrunner, Mond and Company, surt bis centan of alcohol is inensleting. An wife have been found shot dead in their almost idential proposal augears to have house at Korbampton.\n\nbeco prased by Mhaois bg a large sunjos ity, walio Wis.outin favoured 2.75 per FRENCH PLEA FOK US. MURDERERS.\n\nplashed wade generally known, woulé sertainlysingi humanity, a qu k is by no means to the credit of those who must have been til along well acquainted with the farts that He or nothing has been heard of them.\n\nThe aspirations of the merchants and Puell trades-a very large clasanay condently be used as jenna good govemment Lowever detained is the ehvoistances savely a legitimate. leylan, aspiration.\n\nThe aspirations of the principal actors of the tragedy that is being presented to the world by China and of the ioul vefeed chans the hoids the front of the stage, composed of politicians, diplomatists.\n\ncent, aner by two to one. The isa at 2, and audents, are de complex, always so dear in ather Stales and define them here. The most and no attempt car he made io sort theni Bunty voting on the medicationincere au rend various to be lumi the law showed a wet trend. Tropin this class pld, however, it demo repeat the present",
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        "content_text": "# \n64 \n65 \n\n## The Hong Kong Dockyard \n\n18 \n\nious mechanic out of a boy who only joined the ranks of industrial workers, because he has failed to become a clerk. \n\n67. We have already referred to the apprentice systems now working with the Hong Kong & Whampoa Dock Company and the Taikoo Dockyard & Engineering Company. On the 1st June, 1931, there were 434 apprentices on the payrolls of the two firms. These apprentices were distributed as follows:- \n| Company | Trade | Number |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Taikoo Dockyard | Brassfinishers | 20 |\n| Taikoo Dockyard | Coppersmiths | 12 |\n| Taikoo Dockyard | Plumbers | 18 |\n| Taikoo Dockyard | Fitters | 58 |\n| Taikoo Dockyard | Turners | 24 |\n| Taikoo Dockyard | Electricians | 9 |\n| Taikoo Dockyard | Patternmakers | 3 |\n| Taikoo Dockyard | Joiners | 22 |\n| Taikoo Dockyard | Carpenters | 12 |\n|  | Total | 178 |\n| Hong Kong & Whampoa Dock | Brassfinishers | 6 |\n| Hong Kong & Whampoa Dock | Turners | 51 |\n| Hong Kong & Whampoa Dock | Fitters | 147 |\n| Hong Kong & Whampoa Dock | Electricians | 24 |\n| Hong Kong & Whampoa Dock | Coppersmiths | 26 |\n| Hong Kong & Whampoa Dock | Patternmakers | 2 |\n|  | Total | 256 |\n\nWe have explained that many of these apprentices enter upon their indentures practically illiterate and though we recognize their enthusiasm for education and improvement, we realize how little an evening class can do for a boy of 16 or more who after his day's work brings to such a class a mind almost entirely uneducated and hands and eyes almost wholly untrained. The Manager of the Taikoo Docks reports that owing to their lack of elementary education and ignorance of English some of his apprentices who are attending the Technical Class held at the Taikoo Docks are wanting in enthusiasm in tackling technical subjects, whereas they are all keen to learn English. We think that something should be done for all apprentices; but though the raising of the general intelligence of all engineering workers is part of our aim, it is not the whole of it. We want to produce leading hands, junior foremen who can develop into foremen and draftsmen and we want in this way to create a class from which there may occasionally emerge a specially brilliant youth who can be sent on to the University. \n\n## Groups A and B. \n\n68. It appears from the statement made to us by the Manager of the Taikoo Docks that the boys whom his firm takes on annually as apprentices have mostly been to a lower primary school-many of them have doubtless attended the Quarry Bay Lower Primary School-and have filled the interval between their leaving school and their joining the works as apprentices, by doing odd jobs for their parents or in some form of casual labour. These boys are frequently illiterate or practically so when they become apprentices. Many of them do not know the most common Chinese characters. Of English they are nearly always quite ignorant nor have their calculating capacity or their ability to draw (this ability is probably latent in many of them) been developed. But there are also found among the annual recruits who start on the Taikoo apprentice system a few boys who are mostly sons of the firm's best Chinese employees. These boys have probably had some school education above the lower primary stage and many of them have acquired some knowledge of English. \n\n69. We have been told that one apprentice came recently to the Taikoo Docks from King's College and the Managing Director of the Hong Kong & Whampoa Dock Co., has, we understand, received occasionally into his apprentice system boys from Queen's College and King's College. But the demand for admission into the Government Anglo-Chinese Schools far exceeds the vacancies available. There seems to be no doubt but that those boys destined to be apprentices in engineering works, whose parents can afford to keep them in school beyond the lower primary stage generally drift into private proprietary schools-schools whose lure is that they teach English but which rarely employ teachers capable of teaching that language effectively. The best boys when they become apprentices, have probably acquired a smattering of English and Chinese and a little arithmetic but have no solid grounding. In fact, though in the annual batch of the apprentices it is generally not difficult to pick out a few who show signs of having had some education and who can therefore be regarded as capable of further instruction, even so not only are those few far below the standard of general intelligence and education which would be demanded of apprentices in England, but they are also lacking in the rudiments of those subjects, such as elementary mathematics, drawing and the first principles of mechanics which are essential to the intelligent practice of their craft. His defect is a serious handicap to their advancement more especially as they have never had their hands and eyes trained by manual instruction. We are convinced that the first and most vital step in the process of producing locally a more responsible and effective type of engineering mechanic is to secure for him a more appropriate and more generally effective system of pre-apprenticeship or school education \n\n13 \n\n― \n\nprovement of \n\n70. The first suggestion put forward in this connexion was that the Government should be asked to provide scholarships to enable the sons of artizans and mechanics to go for their general education to such schools as Queen's College or King's College, there to prepare to become apprentices. The second was that the Committee should impress upon the Education Authorities the necessity of providing better facilities for Chinese children of the artizan class to learn \"English and kindred matter\" after they have learned their own language but during a school life of from 6 to say these better facilities were to take the form of a special school which might be near one of the Dockyards but not necessarily so. \n\nThe second suggestion was supplemented by the view that: — \n\n15 \n\n\"Some fair standard of education and brain-training is essential in the case of all young people, including Chinese, and such education in the case of the latter should cover some training in the English language before there is the slightest use of trying to heap on to the youth any technical education at all.” \n\n## Menace. \n\n71. The first suggestion brings us up against a difficulty that we believe to be a very real one. We have referred to it already and have quoted the Singapore Technical Education Committee on it. The difficulty is the lure of the clerical or white collar occupations. The reality of this difficulty has been impressed upon us by the Director of Education, by the Acting Manager of the Taikoo Dockyard, by Mr. MacKichan and by the Building Contractors who told our Chairman that the sons of the more successful workers in the building industry now go to some small extent to private schools and that, having picked up therein a little English and imbibed a general distaste for labour, they generally manage to become store-clerks, shop-assistants or domestic servants. Anyway they are lost to the industry. \n\n72. The second suggestion does not appear to us to meet in any way the needs of the case. Simply to ask Government to provide better educational facilities for Chinese children of the artizan class is merely to shift on to someone else's shoulders the solution of a vital aspect of the problem which we have been called upon to investigate. A special Government school providing a general literary education with special emphasis on English-a school which is to be in no sense technical nor under the control of anyone whose business it is to look after those who are likely to become the future workers of the engineering industry--would be in effect merely an additional English school which Government would certainly be loth to establish and maintain. If Government did establish such a school, either in the neighbourhood of one of the Dockyards or elsewhere, it is difficult to see how such a school could be reserved for possible future apprentices, for even if preference were given to sons of employees of engineering firms (and part of the suggestion was that such boys should be educated free) there would be no guarantee that boys educated under these conditions would join the engineering industry at all. If experience be any guide, this would probably be the last thing they would wish to do. A special general school established and maintained by Government in response to a demand for better educational facilities for the children of the Chinese artizan class would reproduce the white collar danger in an acute form. \n\n## vernacular \n\n73. The problem is to bridge over the gap between the vernacular primary school and the apprenticeship and to bridge it in such a way as to avoid the distraction of more popular forms of employment which are much easier of access. The problem is by no means confined to Hong Kong or even to the East. And it still exists in England. Colonel R. K. Morcom, O.B.E., of the recent Economic Mission, to the Far East, who in addition to being a Director of Messrs., Belliss & Morcom Ltd., and Chairman of the British Electrical and Allied Manufacturers Association was also for years a member of the Education Committee of the Birmingham City Council, told our Chairman that the problem of keeping boys who should eventually become apprentices in engineering works from drifting into other forms of livelihood and especially from getting submerged in various forms of casual labour was one of vital importance. The tackling of the problem, is, in England, the function of the Junior Technical School. The following is an extract from a Survey of Technical & Further Education in England and Wales which was published by the Board of Education, Whitehall in 1926 (Educational Pamphlet No. 49):- \n\n\"Boys of 13 or 14 with a taste for engineering and with the requisite ability can obtain, in almost any large centre of population, a pre-apprenticeship",
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        "content_text": "67\n\nrequired to deal with this branch to any extent except possibly in respect of supplies for the British Military Mission Training Groups.\n\nb)\n\nProcurement Branch.\n\nThis branch is responsible for the Centralised Control of all U.S.A.F. purchases in the China Theatre, for studying existing and potential sources of supply in Free and occupied China and for planning ahead to meet as many as possible of the requirements of the U.S. Forces from local resources. It is concerned with the valuation of local purchases for reverse lend-lease purposes, one of its current major problems being the attempt to segregate as accurately as possible the percentage of Government taxation in the gross price paid per gallon for liquid fuel. Apparently the Chinese Government has agreed that the U.S. Forces should not pay Chinese taxes on liquid fuel, but segregating the tax which is partly indirect (levied on the grain) is difficult. The branch is also indirectly concerned with the result of U.S. local purchases on China's economy and the inflation problem.\n\nColonel Murphy wants from us information on the following:-\n\nPort Installations,\n\nTransport Facilities,\n\nBuildings suitable for offices and billeting, Raw Materials,\n\nManufacturing Facilities,\n\nPublic Utilities.\n\nThis information should be divided into a) British owned facilities, installations and resources; b) Chinese owned facilities, installations and resources (if known).\n\nGeneral priority to be given to information covering the area South of the Yangtze inclusive, but ultimately a survey of the whole of China is required. Towns specified were Chungking, Kweilin, Hankow, Shanghai, Foochow, Wenchow, Canton and Hongkong.\n\nIndividual items of economic intelligence will also be welcomed.\n\nI enquired as to the possibility of coordination on salaries paid to all classes of Chinese staff by British and U.S. organisations and Colonel Murphy said he would be glad to cooperate.\n\nc)\n\nCivilian Economy Branch.\n\nColonel Binsfeld has only recently taken over this branch whose functions are as yet a bit nebulous in consequence. Generally it is responsible for watching in detail inflationary trends, the Black Market in currency and goods, cost of living indices and the causes of day to day fluctuations in the prices of the main staple commodities. Remedial measures, such as the import of cloth, are also its concern. It works closely with the Procurement branch both from this angle and because it is responsible for arranging occasional barter deals.\n\ncase/\n\ni",
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        "content_text": "# Personnel Records\n\nOfficers recommended by the Ministry:\n\n1. Lt/Col. C. R. CLARK, G.M., R.E.\n\nFor the post of Traffic Manager, Hongkong.\n\nWas recommended by the Ministry on 19...\n\n154\n\nLt/Col. C. R. CLARK, G.M., R.E.\n\n1914-1915 Royal Flying Corps and Canadian Field Artillery.\n\n1939 Joined No.3 Docks Group, R.E. on mobilisation. Went to France, 1940 with rank of Captain. In France, he was in charge of 2 main quays at Havre handling personnel and cargoes put ashore there. Evacuated from France June 1940 and appointed Major. 1941 was posted to the Port of Suez and became Dock Superintendent with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. He still holds this post, but since 1943 has carried out the additional duties of A.Q.M.G.(M) in the Southern Canal Area. Has considerable experience of handling native labour in the Middle East.\n\nFrom 1918-1939 Colonel Clark was on the staff of the Traffic Manager of the P.L.A. holding executive positions which gave him experience of all practical out-door phases of warehousing and ships discharge. In 1939 he was in charge of the grain discharge arrangements in the East and West Indies and Millwall Docks.\n\n2. LT/COL P. A. J. HERNU\n\nAge 42.\n\nIn 1941 he became a Major in the Royal Berkshire Regiment and in 1942 was appointed Commandant of the 54th Division Street Fighting School. Later he was transferred to Transportation Branch and proceeded to North Africa as Second-in-Command of Port Operating Group, R.E. Was appointed Port Superintendent at Bone until his Group was transferred to Italy, where he acted as Second-in-Command until he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel and placed in command of No.6 I.W.T. Group in 1945. He has had considerable experience during the war in operating small craft of all kinds.\n\nPrior to the war, he spent most of his time in the firm of Hernu, Peron and Stockwell Limited, Shipping, Continental and Colonial Agents. He had experience overseas in France. His commercial experience brought him into contact with road and rail transport and with the business of Shipping Brokers and Chartering Agents.\n\n3. LT/COL R. R. M. BARR, R.E.\n\nFew particulars are at present available about this officer, but it is known that the Chief Representatives M.W.T. North West Europe praised his work as a Transportation Officer in 21 A.G. and thought well of it.\n\nIt is known that he was in the service of the L & N.E.R before the war and it is believed that he has had considerable experience in Port working since the war broke out. More particulars about him can be fairly readily obtained and his name is included in this statement, because he is known to be a capable and active officer.",
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