[ { "id": 216524, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-001 - Sir Hug Cough-s China Military Correspondences - 1841-1843", "page_number": 8, "title": "CO129-001 - Sir Hug Cough-s China Military Correspondences - 1841-1843", "content_text": "of landing \nlarge force within the influence of & \nsuch extraordinary current- \nChaps has this peculiarity, that about a fourth of the City is separated from the best, by \nnot, \nby a wall. \nwithin which alone the Chinese reside. Mit has ment \nNe \nMe affecerrace and arrangetati cantonments tech Mind the Houses an \nin Jatility \nLir \n= /pavior. Enry male odcctt writst offener When \nCa \nis dr \nor three matchlock Soldier, as in Eny house two with a quantity of Swords, , were found. Mir womeld afferre to to a mandarin privilege an The Chinese Trooper have thurs in . \nThe Strength of the Chiside fron \ndifficult \nto estimate. \nFrom the bot summer of information would say they had about 3000 men in there libit on the bright, 1900 of whom were Mantchoo Portairs. \nthe I calculate their loss to be about from 12 to 1570 \nMin. \nhod. \nd to rimate my \nIingut to feel obliged \"ops is greater than I anticipated, though small, When the strength of the position, and, for a home ta obstinate defence of the Chuxine, is batute into consideration . I by to subjoin a list of the killed and wounded, and here I may \nIn \nsteep \nto express my such regret at the loss, to the servic and to his country, of Lieutenant (alone. \nof the \nRoyal Irish, who felt at the head of her loop's in the \npill \nby wall. \nof remoron, honored \nby \nthat Corses, Camente \"I have also been deprived of the valuable \nServices of Lt. Colonel Mountain who has received \nst dangerous, Home sur tout. I trust not \nwounds this \nwhose dealous consort\", thus meritorious Staff Officier, I have had frequent opportunity of witnessing, \nand pleation in seroding – I per also Schall foron considerable tione be deprived of the services of Captain Connell of thee 33+ who is dangerously wounded, and I have spoken sporites amount of them I felt collect on for notice \nevery attention has her paid to alleviate the suffering of my other \nwernded Officers & Coldin \nSurgeon whose exertions. \nLy \nby. \nDr Frisch \nunceasing, \ndoing well \nare most-thankful to find all are \n10 \nIny \nLvst \nThe conduct of the white fore calls for \nmartand approbation. In Colonel Schorder \nMontgomerie fing \nLint Colonels 1 ms and \ncommanding, my best thanks on due, they will excente \nEsry orster they raised, was worn as vill Supported by the Serveral Contrending Seire \nof Carter & Selectments. W. Colonel 263 Mat \ndr. Cs. Knordes We body, St. (v. Stischern 49. St. W. Knores Mi", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-001 - Sir Hug Cough-s China Military Correspondences - 1841-1843.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 221002, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-010 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1843", "page_number": 597, "title": "CO129-010 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1843", "content_text": "No Date. To whom . \n\nSubject \n\n43 26 Jaw = Seneral D'aquilar. Forwarding a Copy of a \n\nم کے کرنا \n\nminute in Council in which General D'Aguilar's \n\noffer of assistance towards forming Police is accepted. \n\n2. Minute in Minutes in Councile \n\nCouncil \n\nα \n\nSet 26 Jaw Major General Regarding three Houses, at present \n\nD'Aquilar. belonging to private individuals, \n\nsituated within the limits of the \n\nCantonments. \n\n26 Jan Capt. D'Aguilar. Replying to hit letter regarding the \n\nnecessitif for a Police Station at Check Choo. \n\n46 20 Janz M. Oswald: Replying to his Petition regarding the terms upon which, bround he \n\noccupies had been, confirmed to him 44 7 26 Jan & Capt. J. Edwards Requesting the delivery to the \n\nAfth Adjt General Colonial Surgeon of the medicines \n\nindented for \n\nthem that their \n\n26 Jan 2 Mesir Jardine Mathing Juser suites within the Cantonmout \n\nMost Informing \n\nN. Duns Esqu \n\nthree \n\nR. Edwards Esqpe can only be rented to Military \n\nOfficers. \n\nthe \n\n49.26 Jard Capt. D'Aguilar, Forwarding Copy of ko: 48. 5'0 20% Jan Capt. D'Aquilar. Replying to his letter requesting Establishment of a a Post Office communication between Victoria \n\nand the military stations of \n\n3 9 Jan \"Capt. D'Aquilar. Replying to an \n\n37 fan bir Thes. Corhrance \n\nCheck Chor and Lauvan. \n\napplication for a Boat to be held at the disposal of General D' Aguilar. \n\nRejoinder to the Admiral's reply \n\napplication for \n\nto \n\nan \n\none. \n\nof the Ships of War to be stationed off the Westem part of the Lown for it's protection \n\n53 ft Jebrs A. J. Gordon Er. Forwarding for explanatory \n\nobservations two memorials from Mr. R. Oswald regarding some lots of Land, of which he considered \n\nhimself \n\nNo. Date. \n\nTo whom. \n\nSubject \n\nhimself to be unjustly deprived. \n\n54+ 20 Feby Capt. D'Aquilar. Replying to his letter regarding the \n\nrenroval of the Barracks from \n\nWest Point, \n\n562 Jebry Major Caine. Forwarding a copy of Colonel - \n\nbregory's letter regarding the necefity for Some European Police at Check Chor. \n\n56 2 hd 7620 A. I.Gordon Esqre Sanctioning the sum of $249 for \n\nContingent work during the curent month \n\nbt thing the Editor of the Calling for \n\nar \n\nexplanation of his \n\n\"Friend of China\" assertion that he had been desired \n\nby High Authority to direct the attention of the Commissioners of Roads & to the state of the Town, \n\nAbs Capt Bliquilar. Forwarding a copy of Lord Stanleyg \n\n\"Desp : No: 2 regarding the Military défences of this Colony. \n\n58 ft \n\n59 7th Feby Dr. Legge. \n\nReplying \n\nto \n\narr \n\napplication for the \n\npayment to him of the annual grant of off 12.00 formerly allowed to The Anglo Chinese College at Malaces, 60 8 = tbs The Editor of the A rejoinder to his reply to ho: 67. \n\n\"Friend of China\" 61 8th Febry A. I border. Esqrt Forwarding a Petition fore \n\ncontractor. Amoon setting forth his inability to complete a portion of the Queen's Road for specified. \n\nOh \n\nthe sum \n\n62 8th Feby Capt. leguilar. Replying to a letter from General \n\nFeby \n\n\" Aquilar regarding Quarters for himself and Staff. \n\nal \n\n63 gt Jrbs Capt. D'Aquilar. Regarding a pretition from \n\nChinese at Check Choo setting forth that his rope walk had been destroyed be \n\nbor get Jeby Lieut. Fedder. Forwarding the opinion of Nor \n\nBurgass, confirmed by that of the lovernor with reference to a complains made by the Chief Officer against the master of the ship Emperor = \n\nForwarding.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-010 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1843.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 221005, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-010 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1843", "page_number": 600, "title": "CO129-010 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1843", "content_text": "Alexander Anderson Ey \n\nSiv \n\nColonial Surgeon P. \n\nVicteria, Honghong, January 24, 18414. \n\n2nd \n\n! \n\nI am directed to acknowledge the acceipt of your letter of the 30 Atlime, with an Indent and Bill for Medicivres. The Indent will be referred to the proper Department to ascertain if it can be complied with from the Military Medical Stores; and in the \n\nmust \n\nyou \n\nbuy any \n\nThe \n\nanean line \n\nMedicines that \n\nbe immediately required. \n\nmay \n\narrangement you propose for \n\nthe custody of the Medicine is approved. \n\nand \n\nan \n\nallowance of $20 per mensem \n\nis sanctioned as a temporary arrangement from the 1th of this month. \n\nThe \n\n\"The Bill for Nudicines already. supplied to the Public servants by the \n\nHoughing Mispensary is sanctioned, and herewith returned . It will be paid by the Theasurer to Government on bring duty necptid, and countersigned by you \n\nit's correctness. \n\ntchen of \n\nI have ve \n\nyou in \n\n(Signed) Rechard Hosnami. \n\nTo The Officiating. Assistant Adjutant Ceneral \n\nVictoria, Houghong. January 25 1844. \n\nJam directed by His Excellency the leverer to beg, that you will submit the enclosed Original Indent for Medicines, required by the Civil Department, to \n\nColonel \n\nPage 600Page 601", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-010 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1843.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 224619, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-018 - Others - 1846", "page_number": 525, "title": "CO129-018 - Others - 1846", "content_text": "122\n\nPOINTS FOR CONSIDERATION\n\nfavourable geographical position, and the proximity of Canton and Macao; it can never be a colony, on account of its small size, rocky, rugged, barren structure, its insalubrious and depressing climate, and incapability of even producing food for its inhabitants for one week, it might be stated for one day, for our establishments, and its thieving piratical, worthless population, the refuse of China; and it cannot be made a fortification (even if England desired a fortification to protect nothing at the very extreme end of the Chinese empire), on account of the singular formation of hills and mountains, one commanding another, by reason of the proximity of the main land and of other islands; and further, from the difficulty, if not impossibility of keeping troops alive in Hong Kong, or, if alive, strong enough for active service: \"it would be absurd to create and maintain a fortress for no object whatever. Even if Chusan be not obtained, there can be no justifiable grounds for incurring the present unnecessarily large civil and military expenditure in Hong Kong.\n\n66\n\n1st. This rock is no protection whatever to the trade of Canton; a stout frigate at Whampoa, and a steamer off the factories at Canton, is a far more efficacious protection for our trade there than any garrison or fleet we could maintain at Hong Kong. The present position of the British representative and merchants at Canton, is in several respects worse than before the war: notwithstanding the large fleet and force we have at Hong Kong, our Consular establishment and merchants are subject to insult and even to violence if they move out of their houses, as recently shown; and in fact there is more freedom and respect for British subjects at any other of the Consular ports than at Canton, from whose city we are still debarred even entrance.\n\nDuring the last three years, there have been frequent disturbances, tumults, and conflagrations affecting the life and property of Europeans, without the Cantonese caring about our position at Hong Kong. The Americans have a trade nearly half the amount of the British at Canton; but they require no island like Hong Kong. The occasional presence of one of their ships of war at Whampoa, is their only and best support and protection. Last year an American brig of war, the \"St. Lewis,\" off Canton, was more effectual in preserving British life and property, than Hong Kong, with a plenipotentiary, general, admiral, two regiments, and four ships of war!\n\n2nd. In the event of another war with China, experience has shown that it may most rapidly and economically be terminated by a naval force; if it were resolved to employ soldiers, they must be sent from India, and any force we could keep at Hong Kong, would be utterly inefficient for any military invasion, or garrisoning of different cities in China, should, unfortunately, such a course be ever again adopted; but a few ships of war and steamers in the Yang-tze-kiang, would dictate peace in China, without even suspending our tea trade at Canton.\n\n3rd. With regard to the protection of Hong Kong, should hostilities ensue with China, a local corps of 500 Malays and the “Minden” 74, moored in the harbour with one tier of heavy guns and a complement of 200 marines and marine artillerymen, would be more than adequate to resist any military or naval force which the whole Government of China could send against Hong Kong. And as regards protection against any foreign power with whom England might hereafter possibly be at war, this barren rock by the above-mentioned force would have far more protection than Singapore, and other of our valuable possessions which have ten times the amount of property ashore and afloat to protect, that Hong Kong is ever likely to possess. There can therefore be no national advantage in expending life and treasure by the maintenance of an European garrison at Hong Kong; and the island being as ill adapted for a commercial emporium or political position, as it is a military garrison, there are no justifiable grounds for the present unnecessarily large Governmental establishments; a lieutenant and colonel commandant, a colonial secretary, a recorder, police magistrate, harbour-master, chaplain, and their subordinates, would fulfil every requisite duty. Thus the civil charges would be reduced to a scale commensurate with the revenue, and by vesting a municipal authority in the respectable European residents, they would assess themselves, provide the funds for police, sewers, roads, &c., administer them more efficiently than Government could do, and avoid irritating petty legislation and interference.\n\n123\n\nThe civil expenditure of Hong Kong, therefore, may be advantageously reduced from £50,000 to £12,000 or £15,000 per annum; the military from £150,000 or £200,000 to £20,000 or £25,000 per annum; and the several million dollars now proposed so unnecessarily to be expended on civil and military works may be saved from utter waste. The Consular stations and staff in China, require revision in several ways, but especially in the expenditure; even if we keep open the ports of Ningpo, Foochoo, and Amoy, the Consulate and Superintendent of Trade department charges may, with advantage to the public service, be reduced from about £30,000 or £35,000 a-year, to £15,000 per annum.\n\nIt would be necessary to retain at Shanghai a consul, but at the other three ports a vice-consul at each would be sufficient, and the Superintendency of Trade department ought to be abolished, as its duties would be more efficiently done by a consul-general at Canton, with a supervising control. The consular salaries would be defrayed by bills drawn on the Lords of the Treasury. All correspondence would be direct between the Foreign Office and consul-general. At Ningpo, for instance, where no English vessel has traded for twelve months, and there is not one European merchant we have had during the last year, a consul, a vice-consul, an interpreter (although the consul is a superior Chinese scholar), a surgeon, first and second consular assistant, &c. At Foochoo, where there is no trade, we have a consul, (a vice-consul is named to proceed there,) an interpreter, no surgeon (the Consul being a surgeon), and two consular assistants, &c.\n\nAt Amoy we have a consul, a vice-consul, a surgeon, consular assistants, &c. One efficient vice-consul would fulfil the duties, if there were ten times the amount of the present trade at Amoy. The following scale of consular establishment would be amply sufficient for our present trade and position in China:\n\n518", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-018 - Others - 1846.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 228126, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-027 - Public Offices - 1848", "page_number": 430, "title": "CO129-027 - Public Offices - 1848", "content_text": "SCHEDULE.\n\n \n No.\n Board of Track\n DATE.\n SUBJECT.\n PAGE.\n \n \n 1.\n R. Montgomery Martin, Esq. to James Stephen, Esq.\n 18 July 1844\n That a severe attack of illness has obliged him to leave Hong Kong; requesting to be permitted to return to England; enclosing Certificate of Colonial Surgeon, recommending that a temporary leave of absence be granted to Mr. Martin\n \n \n \n 2.\n Lord Stanley to Governor Sir J. F. Davis, Bart.\n 6 Dec. 1844\n That he has received a communication from Mr. Martin requesting to be relieved from the situation of Treasurer of Hong Kong: directing the Governor to accept his resignation, should he repeat the offer of it\n \n \n \n 3.\n Governor Sir J. F. Davis, Bart. to Lord Stanley.\n 1 May 1845\n Enclosing Letter from Mr. Martin, stating his wish to continue in office\n \n \n \n 4.\n Lord Stanley to Governor Sir J. F. Davis, Bart.\n 25 Mar. 1845\n Enclosing copy of Communication from Mr. Martin against the retention of Hong Kong as a British Colony, and requesting the Governor to report as to the facts, and inferences drawn by Mr. Martin in his statement\n \n \n \n 5.\n Governor Sir J. F. Davis, Bart. to Lord Stanley.\n 25 April 1845\n Reasons for dissent from Mr. Martin's views as to Hong Kong; that his statements were exaggerated and partial\n 5\n \n \n 6.\n Governor Sir J. F. Davis, Bart. to Lord Stanley.\n 24 June 1845\n Further with respect to Mr. Martin's statement, enclosing copy of Correspondence with Mr. Martin, and Estimated Revenue of the Colony from 1 April 1845 to 1 April 1846\n 5\n \n \n 7.\n Governor Sir J. F. Davis, Bart. to Lord Stanley.\n 8 July 1845\n Reporting Mr. Martin's resignation of the office of Colonial Treasurer, and appointment of Mr. Mercer\n 10\n \n \n 8.\n Governor Sir J. F. Davis, Bart. to Lord Stanley.\n 9 July 1845\n Further, respecting the resignation of Mr. Martin\n 11\n \n \n 9.\n R. Montgomery Martin, Esq., to Lord Stanley.\n 8 July 1845\n Enclosing copy of Correspondence with the Governor of Hong Kong, and soliciting Lord Stanley's consideration of Mr. Martin's statement\n 12\n \n \n 10.\n James Stephen, Esq. to R. Montgomery Martin, Esq.\n 7 Jan. 1846\n That Mr. Secretary Gladstone concurs with Lord Stanley in considering Mr. Martin's resignation as final\n 12\n \n \n 11.\n R. Montgomery Martin, Esq. to Mr. Secretary Gladstone.\n 13 Jan. 1846\n That Mr. Martin's tendered resignation was conditional, and dependent on information he had laid before Government; requesting that his statements may be discussed; suggesting that he does not deserve to be deprived of employment in Her Majesty's service\n 14\n \n \n 12.\n James Stephen, Esq. to R. Montgomery Martin, Esq.\n 31 Jan. 1846\n That inquiry has been made of Lord Stanley's private Secretary as to Mr. Martin's statements, and from the reply of Lieut.-colonel Wilbraham, Mr. Secretary Gladstone must regard the resignation of Mr. Martin as finally accepted\n \n \n \n 13.\n R. Montgomery Martin, Esq. to S. H. Northcote, Esq.\n 30 Jan. 1846\n Requesting to be informed whether Mr. Secretary Gladstone will sanction his Reports relative to Hong Kong, Chusan, &c., being laid before Parliament\n 16\n \n \n 14.\n R. Montgomery Martin, Esq. to James Stephen, Esq.\n 3 Feb. 1846\n In reply to Letter of 31 January, explanatory of his communication with Lord Stanley; hoping he will not be denied the means of justifying himself\n 16\n \n \n 15.\n Lord Lyttelton to R. Montgomery Martin, Esq.\n 6 Feb. 1846\n In reply to the two preceding Letters; as Mr. Gladstone cannot ascribe any official character to Mr. Martin's Reports, any motion for their production to Parliament will be resisted\n 17\n \n \n 16.\n R. Montgomery Martin, Esq. to S. H. Northcote, Esq.\n 2 Mar 1846\n With regard to Mr. Martin's resignation; requesting a Committee of three gentlemen to be appointed to examine into his conduct in China; forwarding Abstract and Memorandum of his proceedings there.\n 21\n \n \n 17.\n Lord Lyttelton to R. Montgomery Martin, Esq.\n 7 Mar. 1846\n That Mr. Secretary Gladstone cannot institute the inquiry suggested; no advantage can be anticipated from prolonging the discussion\n \n \n \n 18.\n R. Montgomery Martin, Esq. to Mr. Secretary Gladstone,\n 31 Mar. 1846\n Submitting a statement of his proceedings in China, and requiring a personal interview to substantiate his statements; whether any inquiry into his conduct will be granted, or any opposition offered to a Parliamentary inquiry\n 21\n \n \n 19.\n Lord Lyttelton to R. Montgomery Martin, Esq.\n 6 April 1846\n In reply, that Mr. Secretary Gladstone is not aware of any question depending between Government and Mr. Martin which could be made the subject of a private interview, or of an inquiry either in or out of Parliament\n 20\n \n \n 20.\n R. Montgomery Martin, Esq. to Mr. Secretary Gladstone,\n 7 April 1846\n Quoting remarks from the \"Times\" Newspaper, in confirmation of his Report on Hong Kong, and as justifying his coming to England to bring the affairs of China under the consideration of Government\n 22\n \n \n 21.\n Lord Lyttelton to R. Montgomery Martin, Esq.\n 15 April 1846\n In reply; that whether the statement in the \"Times' Newspaper be accurate or not, it was not the duty of a subordinate Officer at Hong Kong to repair to this country without the consent of the Governor\n 21\n \n \n 22.\n R. Montgomery Martin, Esq. to Mr. Secretary Gladstone.\n 8 April 1846\n Further, in explanation of the causes which led to his conditional resignation of office; stating the nature of his intended application to Parliament\n 22\n \n \n 23.\n Lord Lyttelton to R. Montgomery Martin, Esq.\n 20 April 1845\n In reply; Her Majesty's Government will raise no objection to the production to Parliament of so much of the Correspondence as will not be injurious to individuals, or prejudice Her Majesty's service\n \n \n \n 24.\n R. Montgomery Martin, Esq. to Lord Lyttelton.\n 16 April 1846\n In reply to Letter of 15 April, justifying his conduct in returning to England\n 24\n \n \n 25.\n Lord Lyttelton to R. Montgomery Martin, Esq.\n 22 April 1846\n In reply to preceding Letter; that Mr. Secretary Gladstone must regard the Correspondence on the subject as having reached its close\n 24\n \n \n 26.\n R. Montgomery Martin, Esq. to Lord Lyttelton.\n 21 April 1846\n With reference to Lord Lyttelton's Letter of the 20th instant, requesting that his Reports on Hong Kong and Chusan may be added to the Papers\n 25\n \n \n 27.\n Lord Lyttelton to R. Montgomery Martin, Esq.\n 30 April 1846\n That Lord Lyttelton's Letter of the 20th instant referred exclusively to Correspondence connected with Mr. Martin's resignation; any motion for the production to Parliament of other Papers will be resisted\n \n \n \n 28.\n Petition of R. Montgomery Martin Esq. to Her Majesty.\n 1 May 1846\n Praying for a full inquiry into his conduct\n 26\n \n \n 29.\n Lord Lyttelton to R. Montgomery Martin, Esq.\n 12 May 1846\n That Mr. Gladstone has been unable to advise Her Majesty to accede to the prayer of his Petition\n \n \n \n 30.\n R. Montgomery Martin, Esq. to Mr. Secretary Gladstone.\n 13 May 1846\n Requesting that his Petition may be referred to the Privy Council, and that he may be permitted, at his own expense, to substantiate the truth of his statements\n 27\n \n \n 31.\n Lord Lyttelton to R. Montgomery Martin, Esq.\n 18 May 1846\n In reply that Her Majesty's Executive Government must reserve to itself the responsibility for the decision of questions of this nature; the Queen cannot be advised to refer the investigation of his Petition to the Privy Council, or to any Committee thereof\n 28\n \n \n 32.\n R. Montgomery Martin, Esq. to Earl Grey.\n 8 July 1846\n On the circumstances upon which he undertook the duties of Treasurer of Hong Kong, requesting Earl Grey's perusal of certain documents, and asking for inquiry into the correctness of his statements\n 28\n \n \n 33.\n B. Hawes, Esq. to R. Montgomery Martin, Esq.\n 13 July 1846\n In reply, that Lord Grey concurs in the opinion of his two predecessors in office in regard to the resignation of Mr. Martin\n \n \n \n 34.\n R. Montgomery Martin, Esq. to Earl Grey.\n 14 July 1846\n Requesting to be informed of the ground on which his conditional resignation of the Treasurership of Hong Kong was received\n \n \n \n 35.\n B. Hawes, Esq. to R. Montgomery Martin, Esq.\n 21 July 1846\n In reply; that Lord Stanley and Mr. Gladstone considered Mr. Martin's resignation as final, and Lord Grey concurs in the view taken by his predecessors\n 29\n \n \n 36.\n R. Montgomery Martin, Esq. to B. Hawes, Esq\n 18 July 1846\n Enclosing copy of Letter to the Colonial Secretary of Hong Kong, conveying his conditional resignation of the Treasurership\n 30\n \n \n 37.\n B. Hawes, Esq. to R. Montgomery Martin, Esq.\n 27 July 1846\n In reply; that Lord Grey considers Mr. Martin's coming to this country as a resignation of his office, and must regard that resignation as final\n 30\n \n \n 38.\n R. Montgomery Martin, Esq. to Earl Grey.\n 4 Dec. 1846\n Transmitting the First Part of a Report on China, prepared by Mr. Martin for the Board of Trade; and expressing a hope that Earl Grey will grant the inquiry sought\n 31\n \n\n(continued)", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-027 - Public Offices - 1848.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 228358, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-028 - Bonham - 1849 [1-3]", "page_number": 86, "title": "CO129-028 - Bonham - 1849 [1-3]", "content_text": "to detail my own \n\nmy own opinions as to the force \n\nrequisite to garrison reference to any \n\nwhich \n\n \n\nmay \n\nthis Island, without \n\nmeasures \n\nbeyond those \n\nbe considered merely defensive. \n\nThe first change that I would is in the Artillery Department, which the services of one Lieutenant \n\nsuggest \n\nColonel and one \n\nCaptain may \n\nbe dispensed \n\nwith, and a saving effected of £1495 15.7 \n\nper \n\n \n\nThe second is that of the Engineers, \n\nwhich appears to me to be excessive for this \n\nforce, and \n\nscore \n\nespecially \n\nto \n\n20w \n\nthat all \n\naze \n\nthe requisite principal Military buildings \n\ncompleted. The services of one \n\nLieutenant Colonel, Captain, \n\n0122/ \n\none \n\nLieutenant, One Corporal, Corporal and 12 Privates \n\nirre \n\nLance \n\nare in \n\nmy \n\nopinion unnecessary: by their removal \n\n \n\n7.2. \n\nannual \n\nAN AVI \n\n84 \n\n3 \n\nsaving of £2650-16-8 would \n\nCaptain, \n\nbe obtained, and one \n\n2 Sergeants, 2 Corporals \n\nwould \n\nremain \n\none \n\nLieutenant \n\nand 10 Privates \n\nto perform the duties here. \n\nThe third is the reduction of three Companies of the Ceylon Rifle Regiment; leaving of that Corps One Major, 3 Captains, 6 Lieutenants, 3 Second-Lieutenants, \n\n330 men \n\n0120 \n\nAssistant Surgeon, and \n\nto take the guards of the Naval Stores, the Sail Guard, Magazine Guard, \n\nand other duties which it is most \n\ndesirable the European Troops should be spared from sharing in the inclement season here. I enclose a Weekly State of the Garrison showing the strength and nature of the guards taken by the Troops; of these Your Lordship will perceive that there \n\nbut two for civil \n\nare \n\npurposes, one for the jail, and the other for", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-028 - Bonham - 1849 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 228369, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-028 - Bonham - 1849 [1-3]", "page_number": 97, "title": "CO129-028 - Bonham - 1849 [1-3]", "content_text": "No 10 of 1879.\n\nInclosure to 2 in. Despi\n\n3744\n\n1848.\n\nCasualties\n\nits ence\n\nlast Week\n\nDuplicate\n\nWeekly state of the Troops\n\nSeroney.\n\nHongkong.\n\nthe Island of\n\n45th Regiment. Two Privates left sick at Pylou - 2 died on Passage to England.\n\nCeylon Rifles. Five Privates died - discharged a...\n\nAlterations.\n\nat that home.\n\nRoyal Artillery, One Lieut: to 2nd Captain, One Sergeant to Bombardier, Royal Sappers and Miners, One Lieut. joined from England.\n\n95th Regiment. - One Private to Drum Major\n\nCeylon Rifles, One Lieut. 2 Officers sent to Hongkong: 4 Lieuts: 438 Privates to Stanley.\n\nCa Captain, One Officer, 2 Sergeants, 4 Corporals, 434 Privates, to Stonecutters.\n\nSchedule A\n\nMilitary establishment Hongkong\n\nPresent Force\n\nRoyal Artillery Officers.\n\n1 Lieut Colonel\n\n1 Captain, 2nd Captain.\n\n3 Lieutenants\n\n1 Assistant Surgeon\n\n2 Non-Commissioned Officers\n\n4 Privates\n\n1 Sergeant, 3 Bombardiers, 4 Corporals, 4 Bombardiers, 50 Gunners, 1 Trumpeter = Gun Lasars.\n\n1 Jemedar, 2 Havildars, 80 Privates, 1 Bugler\n\nRoyal Engineers Officers\n\n1 Lieut Colonel Commanding\n\nProposed Force\n\nRoyal Artillery Officers\n\n1 Captain\n\n2 Lieutenants.\n\n1 Assistant Surgeon.\n\n6 Non-Commissioned Officers\n\n50 Gunners, 1 Trumpeter\n\nThe Lasars\n\n1 Jemedar, 3 Havildars, 80 Privates, and 1 Bugler\n\nRoyal Engineers Officers.\n\n1 Captain.\n\n1 Lieutenant.\n\nSick\n\nLast Week.\n\nGun Lasars.\n\nRoyal Artillery.\n\n1 Captain\n\nRoyal Sappers Miners\n\n1 Second Captain\n\n48th Regiment.\n\nCeylon Rifles & Stonecutters\n\nTotal.\n\nDeduct\n\nIncrease\n\n3.\n\n1 attached to Sappers.\n\nCarried forward\n\n...\n\nPage 374\n\n...\n\n...\n\nCarried forward\n\n5,387 4\n\n3,652 52\n\n...\n\nPage 375", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-028 - Bonham - 1849 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 228370, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-028 - Bonham - 1849 [1-3]", "page_number": 98, "title": "CO129-028 - Bonham - 1849 [1-3]", "content_text": "96 Saving\n\n12.\n\nDepartment Royal Engineers.\n\nBrought forward\n\nClerks of Works, 1st Class.\n\n1 Foreman of Works\n\n1 Clerk\n\nB Class-\n\nRoyal Sappers & Miners.\n\n3 Serjeants, 2 Corporals,\n\n1300 Privates, 1 Bugler,\n\nDeduct 1 Serjeant, 1 Corporal, 13 Privates, and\n\n1 Bugler, wanting to Complete\n\nSix Companies Army Rifles.\n\n1 Lieutenant Colonel.\n\n1 Major\n\n6 Captains\n\n12 Lieutenants.\n\n4 Second Lieutenants\n\n1 Acting Paymaster, Captain\n\nAdjutant\n\n1 Surgeon\n\n1 Assistant Surgeon\n\n1 Quarter Master\n\n660 Native officers, Non-Commissioned\n\nofficer and Privates. Regimental Contingencies\n\n587\n\n250\n\n203 5\n\n1981 5 5\n\n395 8 11\n\n885 17\n\n845\n\n6\n\n1\n\n33,407\n\n2,719\n\n10\n\n1,078 15 6\n\n62\n\n7\n\n314 10\n\n1417 5\n\n244 17\n\n6\n\n226 12 6\n\n1980 23 / 3\n\n450\n\n17\n\nL\n\n19,135\n\n1 10\n\nBrought forward S Department of Royal Engineers.\n\n3 Clerks of Works, 4th Class\n\n1 Foreman of Works\n\n1 Clerk Bth Class\n\nRoyal Sappers and Miners.\n\n3 Serjeants\n\n2 Corporals.\n\n10 Privates.\n\n3 Three Companies Ceylon Rifles.\n\n1 Major\n\n3 Captains.\n\n6 Lieutenants.\n\n3 Second Lieutenants\n\n1 Assistant Surgeon\n\n330 Native officers, Non-Commissioned officers Privates Regimental Contingencies\n\n258\n\n203 5\n\n97 12\n\n5,387\n\n3,652\n\n73 17\n\n220 10 5\n\n301\n\n604\n\n1174 3\n\n1350 13\n\n339\n\n244 19\n\n6,417 3\n\n225 8\n\n9\n\n494 7\n\n2\n\n16,544 14 10\n\n8,570 7\n\nI with 32 added.\n\nCarried forward £\n\n3010 13\n\nCarried forward\n\nb\n\n17,393 13 10\n\n12,716 sg", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-028 - Bonham - 1849 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 231191, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-035 - Public Offices - 1850", "page_number": 235, "title": "CO129-035 - Public Offices - 1850", "content_text": "dmira \n\nto allow any reductions; partiality will be displayed, or if not actually displayed people will say so, and there would be a consequent discontent. If any reductions are made, some unreasonable selfish men will think they have claims to abatement, when in point of fact they have not the slightest, and the result will be pretty general dissatisfaction.\n\nIt may be questioned whether it is not politic to reduce all the rents—taking 25 to 50 per cent from the whole of them—and offering the unsold land on the same terms in order to encourage settlers. But we doubt whether this would answer immediately; for some years a shortcoming would result, and if we must pay the civil establishment, taxes would be levied on articles of consumption. The land rates will not deter merchants from building, if the place offers other advantages; many of them do all their business in Canton, and a house at Macao or Hongkong is a mere luxury to them, not an essential. If driven from Canton, they must settle down in Hongkong like a hive of bees; £50 more or less of rent will not have the slightest influence. It is much the same with the Chinese; our suicidal law ordinances, our petty monopolies of articles of traffic, the corruption of the police, and the arbitrary disposition of the government, were the means of driving many decent people away, and deterred others from settling. They had no confidence in the government, nor will they feel secure from oppression until some of our old officials are removed. Sir John Davis is gone; but his evil advisers are still here, their presence has a worse effect, as regards the Chinese, than the land rents.\n\nAs a financial scheme reduction would be a dangerous experiment at present; five years ago the colony was in a better position, and we are inclined to think that with a liberal, just Executive, and sound commercial policy, it would then have succeeded. The people were harassed by local ordinances, and their trade crippled by the introduction of antiquated fiscal laws—monopolies, poll-taxes and a variety of other injudicious measures. The colony has somewhat improved no doubt, and would improve still more were the retail farms knocked on the head, but a reduction in ground rent will certainly take a heavy slice out of the revenue for years.\n\nWe read comparisons between the rate of land in Hongkong and the \"choicest and most exclusive sites in Mayfair.\" That the price is high for a new colony is unquestionable, but it is a mere trifle to what land sells for in large cities at home; it is not a third of the cost of good building allotments in Sydney N. S. Wales—a town of some sixty years' growth.\n\nIf our ground rent, and consequently house-rent is high, we are favoured in other ways. Our wines, our malt, our tea, coffee, sugar, tobacco and a number of articles of daily consumption are all untaxed. We have but one assess tax—a heavy one however—in England people have the pleasure of paying half a dozen. Ships pay neither port charges, light money, nor any of the imposts which are levied elsewhere. For the support of the government, commerce is not burdened in any one way (always excepting the retail monopolies), and take it all in all, if a local revenue must be raised, there is no fairer way than by putting it on the building ground. It thus falls upon everybody,—heaviest upon those who must keep up a genteel appearance on a limited income, and upon others who require expensive premises upon which they conduct a small business—but these are the people who grumble least. Englishmen in China have got into an expensive way of living; if they paid the government two or three shillings for every cork drawn at their sideboard, many of them would be less free with their wine—such will be the inevitable result of a serious reduction in the land rent. If people wish to live altogether free of taxation, they must seek the wilds of some barbarous country and associate with savages. Taxation is the price paid for civilization and no money is invested to greater advantage.\n\nOverland China Mail.\n\nHONGKONG, THURSDAY, 29TH NOVEMBER, 1849.\n\nBIRTH. At Spring Gardens, Victoria, on the 30th ultimo, Mrs T. W. L. MACKEAN of a Son.\n\nBIRTH.—At Victoria, on the 6th inst., Mrs WILLIAM MORRISON, of a Son, still born.\n\nMARRIAGE.—At St John's Church, Victoria, Hongkong, on Wednesday, 14th November, by the Reverend Vincent Stanton, Colonial Chaplain, Major WILLIAM HILL, Madras Fusileers, to SIBELLA, eldest daughter of Lieut. Colonel Phillpotts, Commanding Royal Engineer in China.\n\nDEATH.—At Chusan, on board H. M. Brig Arab, on the 28th ultimo, Assistant Surgeon RICHARD BUTLER.\n\nDEATH.—At Victoria, on the morning of the 1st inst., the Wife of Mr J. A BROOKS—his Infant Son having died two days previously.\n\nDEATH.—At Victoria, of dysentery, on the 20th instant, Mr DALLIN, late Chief Officer of the Schooner Hellas.\n\nPASSENGERS per BRAGANZA, to sail to-morrow the 30th instant. For Southampton, Messrs A. Price, W. Potter, G. E. Bruce. For Madras, Mrs Dent and 2 Native servants.\n\nH. M. SHIPS Cleopatra, 26, and Reynard, 11, the latter fitted with an auxiliary screw propeller, arrived here on the 15th instant from England, via Rio de Janeiro, Singapore, and Labuan. The Reynard will proceed to Amoy to succeed the Pilot, which has sailed for Loo-choo, and thence to Shanghae and Ningpo. The Columbine sailed this morning for Singapore and England, and the Medea is said to be under orders for home.\n\nLAND SALE.\n\nTHE following is the result of the Land Sale which took place on the 27th inst. :-\n\n \n Numbers\n Sold at Advance\n £\n s\n d\n Names\n Upret price\n £\n s\n d\n \n \n 1.\n \n \n \n \n A. Scott\n \n 12\n 4\n 8\n \n \n 2\n Shaik Adam\n 1\n 8\n 7\n \n 1\n 8\n 7\n \n \n 3\n Abdool Currim\n 1\n 7\n 3\n \n 1\n 7\n 3\n \n \n 4\n A. J. Burley\n 13\n 2\n \n 13\n 2\n \n \n \n \n 7\n Mahomed\n 5\n 2\n \n 5\n 2\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 15\n 18\n 10\n \n 15\n 18\n 10\n \n \n NE\n \n 1\n 13\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n A\n \n 9\n 5\n 2\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 16\n 7\n 2\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 2\n 5\n 10\n \n 2\n 7\n 0\n \n \n \n \n 5\n 1\n 4\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 4\n A. J. Burley\n 18\n 5\n \n 8\n 6\n 8\n \n \n \n C. Markwick\n 9\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n* One occupied by Squatters houses, mostly Indian Policemen. With a good house, occupied by the Mahomedan Priest.\n\nAll the Lots sold, except the first, were more or less built upon by Squatters, but only a few of them had erections of any value. The unfortunate occupier of Lot 6, was the Mahomedan priest attached to the Mosque, who bid as high as he could to retain his home, and excited competition by his eagerness, which sufficiently accounts for the great advance on that Lot. We presume the purchaser was not aware of the circumstance, as he has since considerately determined, for the poor man's sake, to forfeit his deposit and allow the Lot to be resold, when it will probably be knocked down at the upset price, unless competed for in a friendly way.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-035 - Public Offices - 1850.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 231687, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-037 - Sir Bonham - 1851 [6-9]", "page_number": 205, "title": "CO129-037 - Sir Bonham - 1851 [6-9]", "content_text": "\"Separate and Confidential\" Inclosure No 2 in Desp: \n\nDuplicate.\n\n201\n\nRemarks.\n\nStrength of Jamisons on the Straits and of Labuan -\n\n \n \n European Artillery\n Native Artillery\n Native Infantry\n \n \n Lieutenant Colonel\n \n \n 1\n \n \n Captains\n \n 1\n 3\n \n \n Subalterns\n \n 1\n 6\n \n \n Asst Surgeon\n \n \n 1\n \n \n Native Officers\n \n 3\n 16\n \n \n Havildars\n \n 3\n 22\n \n \n Naik(s)\n \n 3\n 22\n \n \n Buglers\n \n \n 8\n \n \n Drummer\n \n \n 2\n \n \n Privates\n \n \n 228\n \n \n Bombardiers\n 1\n \n \n \n \n Gunners\n 114\n \n \n \n \n Gim Lascars\n 232\n \n \n \n \n Buglers, etc.\n 8\n \n \n \n \n Corporal\n 3\n \n \n \n \n Captain\n \n 1\n \n \n \n Lieutenants\n \n 2\n \n \n \n Bum Lascars\n 336\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Penang\n Malacca\n Singapore\n Labuan\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 3\n 16\n /\n 22\n \n \n \n ||\n /\n /\n \n \n \n \n 22\n 3\n \n \n \n \n \n 228\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 114\n 232\n \n \n \n \n \n to\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 20-23\n 8\n 336\n \n \n \n \n 12\n 413\n 13\n 4\n 192\n \n \n 5\n 16\n 26\n 20\n 10\n \n \n 342\n \n \n \n \n \n\nSingapore,\n\nJuly, 1857.\n\n19th,\n\n(True Copy)\n\n3 6 8 2 115th On furlough to the Straits till:\n\n18th October, 1851.-\n\nLieut Colonel,\n\nWilliam, E. Messter, Lieut Commanding Troops in the Straits.\n\nComal Secretary-", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-037 - Sir Bonham - 1851 [6-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 232649, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-040 - General Jervois - 1852 [3-12]", "page_number": 241, "title": "CO129-040 - General Jervois - 1852 [3-12]", "content_text": "to entirely disappear, and with his view I recommend \n\nan extension of \n\nhis leave of absence \n\nfor the period of two months \n\nfrom this date.\n\n(Signed) William Morrison, Colonial Surgeon-\n\nTrue Copy)\n\nMaine Monial Secretary\n\nCopy-\n\nIng195/50\n\n233\n\n7th August, 1882.\n\nThe Chief Clerk McD'Almada\n\nThe Captains having applied to you for an extension \n\nof two months' leave \n\nof absence on Medical Certificate, \n\nwith the request that the recent \n\narrangements for \n\nthe performance \n\nof his duties, sanctioned by his Excellency The Acting Governor and yourself, be allowed to remain in force \n\nThe Honorable \n\nLieut. Colonel Caine \n\nColonial Secretary, etc.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-040 - General Jervois - 1852 [3-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 233290, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-042 - Sir Bonham - 1853 [1-6]", "page_number": 197, "title": "CO129-042 - Sir Bonham - 1853 [1-6]", "content_text": "(Copy.) No.11.\n\nIn 1933 193\n\n194\n\nHarbor Master's Office,\n\nVictoria, Hongkong\n\nApril 29th, 1855.\n\nSir,\n\nFrom a communication I received this morning from the master of the British ship Emigrant, from Whampoa to Demerara, with Chinese Coolies, that two of the number had died since leaving the former anchorage a few days ago, and fearing that the disease might be contagious, I addressed the Colonial Surgeon, Dr. Morricon, upon the subject, with a request that he would have the goodness to visit the ship. I have now the honor of transmitting to you for His Excellency's information.\n\nHonble: Colonel Caine\n\nColonial Secretary,\n\n&c.,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-042 - Sir Bonham - 1853 [1-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 233296, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-042 - Sir Bonham - 1853 [1-6]", "page_number": 203, "title": "CO129-042 - Sir Bonham - 1853 [1-6]", "content_text": "Despatch N. 35 of 1863.\n\nEnclosure N3 in \n\nSin \n\nDm7937,63 \n\n200 \n\nHong Kong 5th May 1853.\n\nWe beg to inform you \n\nthat \n\nthe \"British Ship\" Emigrant\" Captain Elder dispatched by our Firm in Canton with a full Complement of Chinese Agricultural Labourers for Demerara Calling at this Port to Complete her Crew, has put in here with several cases of fever on board some of which we are Sorry to say have terminated fatally. – As the \n\nthis Malady is quite \n\nThe Honble \n\nOccurrence \n\nof \n\nunaccountable to us, and as we are \n\nLieut Colonel Caine \n\nColonial Secretary. \n\nthe appointment of a \n\namongst the Chinese, and urging \"Emigrant\" continues to spread that the disease on board the \n\nto the Colonial Secretary, reporting \n\nLetter from the Colonial Surgeon \n\nCommission \n\nto ascertain the causes thereof. 3th May, 1883.\n\nPage 1\n\n(No further text is presented, assuming \"Page 1\" indicates the end of the available text for this page.)\n\nHowever, to follow the exact output format requested and focusing on the corrections and reordering as per the instructions:\n\nDespatch N. 35 of 1863.\n\nEnclosure N3 in \n\nSin Dm7937,63 200\n\nHong Kong 5th May 1853.\n\nWe beg to inform you that the \"British Ship Emigrant\" Captain Elder dispatched by our Firm in Canton with a full Complement of Chinese Agricultural Labourers for Demerara Calling at this Port to Complete her Crew, has put in here with several cases of fever on board some of which we are Sorry to say have terminated fatally. – As the this Malady is quite unaccountable to us, and as we are ...\n\nThe Honble Lieut Colonel Caine Colonial Secretary.\n\n...the appointment of a ... amongst the Chinese, and urging \"Emigrant\" continues to spread that the disease on board the ... to the Colonial Secretary, reporting Letter from the Colonial Surgeon Commission to ascertain the causes thereof.\n\n3th May should be 5th May, 1883 is incorrect and should be 1853.\n\nPage XX (assuming the format is followed as instructed, though the exact page number isn't directly available from the text)\n\nRevised to fit the exact output format and correcting the identified issues:\nDespatch N. 35 of 1863.\n\nEnclosure N3 in\n\nSin Dm7937,63 200\n\nHong Kong 5th May 1853.\n\nWe beg to inform you that the \"British Ship Emigrant\" Captain Elder dispatched by our Firm in Canton with a full Complement of Chinese Agricultural Labourers for Demerara Calling at this Port to Complete her Crew, has put in here with several cases of fever on board some of which we are Sorry to say have terminated fatally. – As this Malady is quite unaccountable to us, and as we are...\n\nThe Honble Lieut Colonel Caine Colonial Secretary.\n\n...the appointment of a Commission amongst the Chinese, and urging that the disease on board the \"Emigrant\" continues to spread, we are reporting to the Colonial Secretary, with a Letter from the Colonial Surgeon to ascertain the causes thereof. 5th May, 1853.\n\nGiven the original request for HTML output using `` for paragraphs:\n\nDespatch N. 35 of 1863.\n\nEnclosure N3 in\n\nSin Dm7937,63 200\n\nHong Kong 5th May 1853.\n\nWe beg to inform you that the \"British Ship Emigrant\" Captain Elder dispatched by our Firm in Canton with a full Complement of Chinese Agricultural Labourers for Demerara Calling at this Port to Complete her Crew, has put in here with several cases of fever on board some of which we are Sorry to say have terminated fatally. – As this Malady is quite unaccountable to us...\n\nThe Honble Lieut Colonel Caine Colonial Secretary.\n\n...the appointment of a Commission amongst the Chinese, and urging that the disease on board the \"Emigrant\" continues to spread, we are reporting to the Colonial Secretary, with a Letter from the Colonial Surgeon to ascertain the causes thereof. 5th May, 1853.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-042 - Sir Bonham - 1853 [1-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 234599, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-046 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Bowring - 1854 [5-19／8]", "page_number": 11, "title": "CO129-046 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Bowring - 1854 [5-19／8]", "content_text": "by Sir George Bonham in Separate of 27 December, 1848, and \n\nStaff Surgeon Janus Carroll Dempster, M.D. with the \n\nLieutenant Colonel Commanding \n\nthe Force has been accordingly appointed Colonial Surgeon with Salary of £200, pending the pleasure of Her Majesty's Government.\n\nI beg to refer your Grace to Sir George Bonham's Separate above quoted and trust that this appointment will meet with \n\nYour Grace's approval.\n\nI have the honor to be,\n\nWith the highest respect, My Lord Duke,\n\nYour Grace's Most Obedient and humble Servant,\n\nJAN ...\n\nPage 9", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-046 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Bowring - 1854 [5-19／8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 235892, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-049 - Sir Bowring and Lieut Governor Caine - 1855 [1-4]", "page_number": 142, "title": "CO129-049 - Sir Bowring and Lieut Governor Caine - 1855 [1-4]", "content_text": "Day hesitate to my judy better be brave to that it would, not have been. the intention. mentioned, to before Mr. Masson I should to beis me Med have objected appointment then to Mr. odells_ as, lun however, you hower in refered to precedents, allow me to Eemind you. that in all the important changes if functionaries Efluce my assumption. which took & lace of the government, I certainly was consulted and Mr. Under secretary Fuel's Despatch shows that in reference to these at least ; it was intended I should be consultée. specially And I beg to call; \" call your attention to the forms adoptie in former- official notices in the Geocomment Gazette. In that of 6 May last 140 you will find. 46. 6. the Gwomer and Enmunder Gevemer 11 \" in chief in Con curronel with \" the Sient : Colonel Commanding the forces is pleased to appoint. I . C . Dempster, by : to the office of \"Colurial Surgeon. 勤 again. \"H. C. the Governor and Commander-in- Chief has been pleased to appoint C. B. Hillier any to be Cemigration officer, and \"John Rickett. by: to be Marine \"Surveyor. No observation was made, nor a objection laised by you, I aware that Her Majesty's Gwernment has deemed these appointments, made by me but made I believe with approval, as any the your full intrusion upon\n\nAfter re-examining the text and following the instructions:\n\nDay hesitate to my judy better be brave to that it would, not have been the intention mentioned to before Mr. Masson I should have been. Med have objected to the appointment then to Mr. Odell’s as, lun however, you have referred to precedents, allow me to remind you that in all the important changes of functionaries which took place of the government, I certainly was consulted and Mr. Under secretary F.’s Despatch shows that in reference to these at least; it was intended I should be consulted specially. And I beg to call your attention to the forms adopted in former official notices in the Government Gazette. In that of 6 May last you will find the Governor and Commander-in-Chief in concurrence with the Lieutenant Colonel Commanding the forces is pleased to appoint I. C. Dempster, by name to the office of Colonial Surgeon. Again, \"H. C. the Governor and Commander-in-Chief has been pleased to appoint C. B. Hillier to be Emigration officer, and John Rickett to be Marine Surveyor. No observation was made, nor objection raised by you. I am aware that Her Majesty's Government has deemed these appointments, made by me but made I believe with your full approval, as any...\n\nHowever, to follow the exact output format requested (HTML using for paragraphs), the corrected version is:\n\nDay hesitate to my judy better be brave to that it would, not have been the intention mentioned to before Mr. Masson I should have been. Med have objected to the appointment then to Mr. Odell’s as, lun however, you have referred to precedents, allow me to remind you that in all the important changes of functionaries which took place of the government, I certainly was consulted and Mr. Under secretary F.’s Despatch shows that in reference to these at least; it was intended I should be consulted specially. And I beg to call your attention to the forms adopted in former official notices in the Government Gazette. In that of 6 May last you will find the Governor and Commander-in-Chief in concurrence with the Lieutenant Colonel Commanding the forces is pleased to appoint I. C. Dempster, by name to the office of Colonial Surgeon. Again, \"H. C. the Governor and Commander-in-Chief has been pleased to appoint C. B. Hillier to be Emigration officer, and John Rickett to be Marine Surveyor. No observation was made, nor objection raised by you. I am aware that Her Majesty's Government has deemed these appointments, made by me but made I believe with your full approval, as any...\n\nLet's directly output the corrected text in HTML format as requested:\n\nDay hesitate to my judy better be brave to that it would, not have been the intention mentioned to before Mr. Masson I should have been. Med have objected to the appointment then to Mr. Odell’s as, lun however, you have referred to precedents, allow me to remind you that in all the important changes of functionaries which took place of the government, I certainly was consulted and Mr. Under secretary’s Despatch shows that in reference to these at least; it was intended I should be consulted specially. And I beg to call your attention to the forms adopted in former official notices in the Government Gazette. In that of 6 May last you will find the Governor and Commander-in-Chief in concurrence with the Lieutenant Colonel Commanding the forces is pleased to appoint I. C. Dempster, by name to the office of Colonial Surgeon. Again, \"H. C. the Governor and Commander-in-Chief has been pleased to appoint C. B. Hillier to be Emigration officer, and John Rickett to be Marine Surveyor. No observation was made, nor objection raised by you. I am aware that Her Majesty's Government has deemed these appointments, made by me but made I believe with your full approval, as any", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-049 - Sir Bowring and Lieut Governor Caine - 1855 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 236309, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-050 - Sir Bowring and Lieut Governor Caine - 1855 [5-6]", "page_number": 173, "title": "CO129-050 - Sir Bowring and Lieut Governor Caine - 1855 [5-6]", "content_text": "168\n\nyour\n\nCareful\n\nConsideration, and\n\nwill take the best steps in\n\nCarrying\n\nmy power to assist you\n\ninto execution\n\nin\n\nwhatever decision\n\nI arrive at. I hope also\n\nand that it might be advisable to send out from this country\n\na clerk of\n\nthe works\n\nor overseer familiar with\n\nthe works of the same\n\ndescription\n\nI therefore desire\n\nthat the practical suggestions\n\nof the Colonial Surgeon\n\nwill in the meantime have\n\nreceived the attention of the\n\nlocal Government.\n\n#\n\n302\n\nSir,\n\nColonial Secretary's Office,\n\nVictoria Hongkong,\n\n5th June, 1855:\n\nI have the honor to\n\nforward the Blue Book Hongkong for the past year 1854, and take the opportunity to note the great advance recently made by this Colony.\n\n2.\n\nThe Revenue for the year\n\nhas amounted to £27,045, 3.5%,\n\nThe Honorable\n\nLieut. Colonel Caine\n\nLieutenant Governor", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-050 - Sir Bowring and Lieut Governor Caine - 1855 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 236358, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-050 - Sir Bowring and Lieut Governor Caine - 1855 [5-6]", "page_number": 222, "title": "CO129-050 - Sir Bowring and Lieut Governor Caine - 1855 [5-6]", "content_text": "228\n\nCrowded together in close dirty and unventilated rooms, disease spreads with virulence and malignity.\n\nI shall conclude these few remarks by a Statement of Alertness - \"Aerial movements are to man what the constant gliding part of a clear river stream is to fishes which inhabit it, and as certainly we should destroy the trout of a Stream by confining them in a small portion of watery element until it became a dirty puddle, so should we injure human beings when we too closely confine around them a portion of the aerial element.\"\n\n(Signed) J. Carroll Dempster, M.D., Colonial Surgeon.\n\n(True Copy)\n\nColonial Secretary.\n\n8199 Long trong\n\nSchedule of Despatches sent by the Governor to the Secretary of State for the Colonies by the Mail Steamer \"Ganges\",\n\nNo. | Date of Desp. | Subject of Despatch | Remarks\n\n \n 69\n May, 1855\n Relative to Prostitution in the Colony and its attendant evils.\n \n \n \n 70\n \n Reporting that Mr Franz Knoop has been Gazetted Consul for Hongkong for the King of Hanover.\n \n \n \n 71\n \n Reporting Sir John Bowring's return to the Colony.\n \n \n \n 72\n 20th May\n Reporting appointment of Lieutenant Colonel Graham as Member of the Executive Council.\n \n \n \n 74\n \n \n \n \n \n 45\n \n Reporting liberation of 16 Prisoners on the Queen's Birthday\n \n \n \n \n \n Acknowledging receipt of Despatches from No.1 of 17 March, to No. 3 of 20th April; and Circulars of 6th, 7th and 8th March, 1855.\n \n \n \n 31\n \n Relative to expected vacancy in the Office of Registrar of the Supreme Court, and recommending Mr. Bay's Successor\n \n \n \n 76\n \n Forwarding an address to Her Majesty on the subject of the War with Russia.\n \n \n\nPage 45\n\n \nAUG. 30th via Southampton, on the 10th Sept. 1855\n\nDuplicates 1835.\n\n(By the Lieutenant Governor)\n\n(By the Governor)\n\nNone\n\nNone\n\nNone", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-050 - Sir Bowring and Lieut Governor Caine - 1855 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 237217, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-052 - Sir Bowring - 1855 [9-12]", "page_number": 339, "title": "CO129-052 - Sir Bowring - 1855 [9-12]", "content_text": "a brief confirmation and approval, but beg permission to offer explanation of the circumstances under which the pardon to each prisoner was granted.\n\nThe three first in the Descriptive List transmitted in Lieutenant Governor Fanshawe's Dispatch were Military Prisoners, who were regularly recommended by Sheriff, while their liberation received the sanction of Colonel Graham, Commanding the Forces.\n\nThe first, Neil, had been nearly 5 years in prison, and was released in a dying state. The Bishop of Victoria had made repeated applications on his behalf, and the Sheriff, in recommending him, reported as follows: \"The health of this prisoner has suffered deplorably. I consider that nothing but his release from confinement can save his life.\"\n\nI enclose also a Certificate from the Colonial Surgeon respecting this man, confirmatory of Sheriff's opinions. As to Cluson, it was officially stated by the Sheriff that his health had suffered grievously from his confinement...\n\nPage 335", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-052 - Sir Bowring - 1855 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 243401, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-066 - Public Offices - 1857", "page_number": 326, "title": "CO129-066 - Public Offices - 1857", "content_text": "## \n\nDr. Orr and I went in the House, and I found that the place or courtyard he was in did not communicate with the House, as the Sentry had stated to me. I saw some soap stone seals in the possession of Dr. Orr when at breakfast, but nothing else. I understood Dr. Orr to say that he came by permission of Colonel Dunlop, Commanding at Hong Kong. The party under my command had to march a mile and a half to the Boats, and therefore nothing of bulk could have been taken without my observing it. Where we left the Fort, the Mandarin's House was at the rear of the Fort, which was collected there. The Short Service Soldiers having escaped as we entered.\n\nAssistant-Surgeon Orr, hearing that he was likely to be reported for having looted, opened his jacket, and threw out the stones before mentioned on the Breakfast Table, saying, \"now, I have nothing.\"\n\nThe Court having maturely weighed the evidence adduced on the subject, submitted for their consideration, in the Captain & General's Instructions dated 25 September 1857, of Hong Kong, are of opinion that the expedition to `fontoon` was conducted with great regularity and propriety, that no Looting took place on the part of the Officers or men employed; that a few insignificant articles of little value were brought over as mementos of the occasion by some of the Officers. The Court cannot but remark on the conduct of Assistant-Surgeon Orr, 59th Regiment, who appears to have acted (not being in any way connected with the Expedition) in an improper or indiscreet manner.\n\nWith regard to the second point: The Court are unable to ascertain what circumstances His Excellency, the Governor, in a private note to Colonel Dunlop, Commanding at Hong Kong, but was published in a local newspaper, attribute it to the very indiscreet mode in which a copy of that note was sent round by aid-de-camp of Colonel Dunlop, viz: with a memorandum for signature of numerous Officers (hereinbefore signed) in an open envelope.\n\nC. T. Van Straubenzee, President \n(Signed) P. H. de Butts, Major \n(Signed) F. W. Burston, Major \n(Signed) Angal Killing\n\nPage 3239", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-066 - Public Offices - 1857.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 243402, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-066 - Public Offices - 1857", "page_number": 327, "title": "CO129-066 - Public Offices - 1857", "content_text": "# Memorandum for the Court of Enquiry of which Major General Van Straubenzee C.B. is President\n\nThe following observations are suggested for the consideration of the Court, with the view to the amendment of their Report:\n\nThe Court appear to exonerate the Military Detachment which was employed on duty at the Action on the 2nd April, from any responsibility for excesses committed; whilst those who were not on duty are held responsible for a destruction which cannot be admitted. It is clearly the duty of the Commanding Officer to repress on all occasions any excess that may be brought to his notice.\n\nThe Report does not satisfactorily explain the following points:\n- When the Troops were understood to be placed officially under the direction of Mr. Bridges?\n- Did other Officers, not on duty, besides Assistant Surgeon Ourry, 59th Regiment, accompany the expedition? By whose permission did they go? In what Boats? Did they plunder?\n\nDid Lt. Colonel Dunlop authorize the circulation of a private note, addressed to himself by H.E. The Governor, or a copy of it?\n\n## Head Quarters, Hong Kong, 29th September 1857\n\n### General After Order\n\n1. The Court of Enquiry of which Major General Van Straubenzee C.B. is President will reassemble at Head Quarters at 12 o'clock to-morrow, the 30th instant.\n\nBy order,\n**(Signed) W.L. Pakenham, D.A.G.**\n\n326", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-066 - Public Offices - 1857.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 243405, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-066 - Public Offices - 1857", "page_number": 330, "title": "CO129-066 - Public Offices - 1857", "content_text": "## 18.\n\nbrought corn from Canton.\n\nCaptain Clarke states, in addition to the Officers attached to the Props, I saw Dr Orr, 57th Regiment, who told me he had Colonel Dunlop's permission. Sent Lieutenant Engnaw, Madras, and Lieutenant ff. but no others.\n\nI did not observe Dr Orr disembarking from the boats, it was dusk when we embarked. Seminal Captain 1857, are of opinion that Mandaim faks mire brought by myself and others from a public building. Spoke to D. Bridges, Acting Colonial Secretary, who accompanied the Expedition \"whether he thought there would be any harm in taking them\" - he replied \"They are of no value, and I think there can be no harm in it\". Repeated, \"if you think there is, they shall be replaced,\" and on conversation followed them to be brought over.\n\nD. Lloyd, Madras Artillery, heard this conversation take place. The Canton having received additional evidence with a view to elucidating the points referred to in a Despatch from the Deputy Adjutant General dated 3rd instant, 1857.\n\nthat no irregularities appear to have been committed at Canton, except on the part of Assist Surgeon Orr, 57th Regiment...\n\n## 19.\n\n...whose conduct does not cast a reflection on the Military Detachment, inasmuch as his presence was unknown to the Officer Commanding, and his irregularities were checked the moment reported.\n\nThe Troops were not understood to be officially under D. Bridges, the Acting Colonial Secretary. No other Officer than Dr Orr, not connected with the expedition, accompanied it, and he appears to have received no permission to do so from Colonel Dunlop.\n\nColonel Dunlop did authorize the circulation of a copy of a private note addressed to himself by H.E. The Governor.\n\nSigned,\nFred...\n(Signed) Wm. McLeod, Resident Magistrate\n4th August Del. AAS. 3rd Sept. 57\n(Signed) George Barker, Assistant Major\n\nPage 330\nPage 331", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-066 - Public Offices - 1857.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 244348, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-068 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12]", "page_number": 89, "title": "CO129-068 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12]", "content_text": "## NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. NOTICE, \n\n**Mr. GEORGE STRACHAN, ARCHITECT and SURVEYOR,** \n\n地出屋式 \n\nGage Street, Victoria, 1st May, 1858. \n\n月戊問士治額如地士未十午便荡街請貴八年可即到燉三行結光\n\n**JUST LANDED AND FOR SALE.** \n\n| Item | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| 12 | Patent WATER CLOSETS |\n| - | Also, Patent Electro-Plated Nickel Silver FORKS, and SPOONS. |\n\nThe Hongkong Register. (No. 18-May 4, 1858)\n\ndon't hamper selves with many goods for we fear he wanting. A small county town acquitted by the committee appointed to investigate...\n\nThe Hongkong Register. (No. 18.-MAY 4, 1858)\n\nthey give is.\" Be prepared for an outbreak in the successful carrying out the scheme will seem to be on the point of being frustrated. Mr. Bott has been using thin verdict will be flat Mr. Butt Tips, in the of Sitara and Coora Ameer of Scinde, and a King of load contemporary was taken to task by one of large stockholders on Hon... and comfortably quartered, the present. Few people believe the rumors of home has its hospital and its charities of ever great conduct, and we hope Dr. Bridges will... with the privileges of the foe of us, were that if he were to do a Court of Appeal from Hwang's aerial cognizance. He is supposed to heart; each party vies with its neighbor to advance also be acquitted were a committee appointed to investigate his connection as standing...\n\nvery near, and it seems even against Chinese common sense, that a person specially deputed is an event of the greatest importance; there are fairs to raise the small fund required, in which every one, gentle and simple, for miles around are interested. Here, where many cur...\n\na few days, we are sorry to say there is not a hospital.\n\ncurrent for the Opium monopolist. There, unfortunately for Dr. Bridges, there is no committee appointed, and so the clamor goes on unrefuted and slander of this kind never dies. We fortunate...\n\nto settle the affairs of foreigners, the news of the fall of Canton being now by those who accredited him, should not on learning the absence of the plenipotentiaries at the math, which news of money for a good purpose could be raised immediately are not the guardians of Dr. Bridges's good name must have reached him from Shanghae-in such a case, he would stride into Canton in all pomp and openness who would feel the least interest in the subject black as his gown for anything we or the public may be, and as simple barrister his name may be, and say Here I am, ready to arrange matters, after he had paid his subscription. We trust...\n\nwhere are your plenipotentiaries? A diplomatic may not continue, but that some of our principle the British Government representing British catch like that would not be...\n\nmissed by a Chinese man will try and do something, by giving both justice to the Chinese, we could less to a more diplomatist. A ranguotic telegraph is being laid their time and money to help forward to perfection tender care of it. He stands in the position down from the Magazine Hill to the Allied Wharf, so good a work as the establishment of a general of Caser's wife, he should not only be-not guilty. If he should not even be suspected. We publish the following minutes of a meeting are happy to believe, but that he is suspected we that Dr. Bridges bite Mr. Butt is not guilty we held on Thursday 29th ultimo for the purpose of establishing a General Hospital.\" We are impressed on the Chinese mind, and we more urgent business. Having inspected the opium monopolist were invited to attend, but were prevented by understand openly stated by Chun-tai-kwong, the buildings which it is intended to appropriate to clever men, all powerful with the governor or the government; that he can take, unmake, or \"That Dr. Bridges is a very adapted for the purpose. Of the skill of the superintending Physicist, Dr. Kenny, we need not and propitiated. All this may be true. say nothing as it would be presumption in us no and the Acting Colonial Secretary may still be a medical men to comment on the abilities of worthy, honest, hard-working government servant, gentleman so well and known esteemed. If the establishment of a general civil hospital alluded to in a previous article does not come to pass, the press...\n\nHongkong, 1st May, 1858.\n\nTHOS. HUNT & Co.\n\nFOR SALE\n\nRHOD...\n\nULES FOR STANSBURY'S MEASURING\n\nPRICE-25 Cents each, on Pasteboard,\n\nApply to\n\nMr. M. Hoza,\n\nat the \"Hongkong Register\" Office.\n\nthe late mailings out intelligence of the appointment of Dr. Harland as Colonial Surgeon, and as the salary is stated to be £800 per annum,\n\nwe for Dr. Harlan! will be prohibited from undertaking private practice. If we are right in this supposition the government have got a good man cheaply, and the community lost a very able professional attendant.\n\nThe duties of the office have latterly become very heavy, and are likely to become still more so, and it is much to be doubted that one person can discharge them satisfactorily, even devoting his whole time to the work. We learn further, the instructions have been sent out that a new civil hospital is to be built and that nothing more is to be done in the affair of the Bowring Praya.\n\nHongkong, 4th May, 1858.\n\nSTOLEN.\n\nGOLD LEVER WATCH, with enamelled dial,\n\nand GOLD CHAIN-Maker's Name, Bund and Laut, 41 Cornhill. Number of Watch. The Watch, with a lanyard and set of Studs were, at is supposed, attracted from the case between this and Canton about January. A handsome Reward will be paid for the recovery of the same.\n\nHongkong, 3d May, 1858.\n\nApply at this Office,\n\nThe Hongkong Register,\n\nHONGKONG, TUESDAY, 4TH MAY, 1858.\n\nParties sending Advertisements to the \"Hongkong Register\" or \"Register's Advertise,\" phrase address to the \"Printer and Publisher of the respective Papers, which will secure early attention to their Communications.\n\nsent Galertising has our best wishes:—Fr. Angelo Fr. Reina, and Fr. Long Mesore Kup Present—Revds. Fr. Jerome Mangier, Fr. MacMahon Block, Kenes, Hassoon, Isam. Werden, F. Sustaining...\n\nthat some means will be adopted for the purpose If a new civil hospital is to be erected we hope of incorporating the seamen's hospital with it. The resident surgeon of the seamen's hospital at the following showing the details of the loss that a barrister should get what he asks; he is The meeting was opened by the Revd. Fr. Jerome certainly cannot look upon it as an improper thing might become the resident surgeon of the civil hospital, and this would relieve the Colonial Surgeon from a heavy duty, while it enabled him to...\n\nGENTLEMEN—I am extremely happy to see you all at this meeting for discussing the expediency, and the means between the seller and buyer, the attorney and client. I am convinced that cure, ponder of the hospitals, or two private hospitals have been called upon to remark on this subject, the effect will be derived from the amalgamation of all the civil...\n\nview and to which, I am couleur you will general and client. The only ground on which we feel that owing to the departure of the medical bent, and plentifully alone, have actuated you in business may who opened them, but it was well known they wish I was able to express any gratitude in language equivalent to my sincere interest for this our of your kind coming this night my welcome guest and I sincerely it has on the Chinese. We pointed out the dianess which will not be un great, I hope, by the weight fl Colonial Secretary, and were we have the evil and civil hospitals. We fear the want of efficiency, to give a no harsher name, still continues. It is so did of your valuable advice and suggestions I should not call for any primary assistance...\n\nrealized. Dr. Bridges is in the Chinese eyes a man 41 years, Master of the receiving ship Mahamoudie and for many years in the employ of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co.\n\nOne complaint is, and in the first place I beg leave to submit a few of my that when the monopolist engages his services as that the site is an unhealthy one that point own propositions to your consideration.\n\nF. DE SENSA Jr.\n\nDEATHS.\n\nAt Macao, on the 7th April, the Wife of Mr. Joaquin...\n\nAt Macau, on the 1st May, Mr. Isnacracto D. VIRKIRA KIBKRO.\n\nAt Victoria, Hongkong, on the 1st May, Mr. I. P. COLL...\n\nTO THE BRITISH COMMUNITY AT HONGKONG\n\nThe undersigned begs to inform the community that the Office of the British Consulate, this day has been transferred from WANPAO to HOKAN.\n\nCHAе. A. WINCHESTER, H.B.M.'s Acting Consul\n\nBritish Consulate for Canton,\n\nAnnexe of Houa, 29th April, 1858.\n\na ground floor in any situation is not well adapted for the purpose of a hospital--still less when high a land is...\n\nIt is intention to establish a General Hospital, in unsel that there is, there can be, no back-stairs of corruption to resort to how; perhaps he may expect this: Gardens and S. Francis Hospital and which show however, the monopolist finds himself compelled my father intention to have it well furnished with all it in surrounded by growing trees, and is alut in necessary materials for a proper Hospital, and to be on all sides by hills except where it faces the provided with experienced Doctors: will us in art, but is informed that...\n\ncounsel to attend for him before the Magistrate's harbor. Be this true or false, there is another change which is a tangible one, and the one on which we base our most complaints. The charge is. changed by a sufficient staff of Hospital servants to attend to the patients.\n\nThe gentlemen I intend to appoint are Dr. Vande... and Dr. Kenny the former Gentlemen lately arrived in this Colony, is a bachelor of questionable own count. creasing their diseases or acquiring new ones. fool the set of several languages which Mandarin Bridges; and with great dignity oỀ references oedh as to professional accomplishments, and enough to English people, but to the Chinese the All this is staple and straightforward We have personal experience of this being true at a fluently, and which will be exceedingly useful in least in our instance and a respectable merchant and ship owner made the same complaints to us sometime ago with a request that we would The latter Gentleman, whose abilities she too well three characters—first, as one of the law-makers, commission where he may meet with patients of all place great power is associated. chant and ship owner made the same complaints to Dolor expose it. Thinking it improbable that either known and ustalised, to any better certium, then, as one of the granters, and finally, as tue That is the so in the present case when we have one man in the trustees or the resident surgeon would sane- apply to them as the hurt and most effective...\n\nFellow of the naval College of Surgeons of England-41 tion such a thing we recommended the party to\" and is proposed to be consulting Doctor to the legal adviser and supporter of the monopolist in course to adopt to put a termination to a rival propositions, I think it well to apprise you of a few...\n\nhis monopoly we see however by report of a meeting held will fin exercises there without distinction of creed on view of their extent. te great sunl, certain- Mr. Isang Batt is, we understand, a very...\n\nA manual number of Inquests have been during the past few days held before the Coroner—one of them however of particular interest: A Chinese was killed by the falling in during the heavy rain of the 20 of an out-building in the course of erection on a Marine lot. 4 Swede was drowned in the harbor while bathing on Sunday the 25th alto. A man, discharged from...\n\nIt is evident that whether this proceeds from patients noting in a way so prejudicial to their carelessness or health, it should be stopped, whether...\n\nRunt of means to prevent the trustees of the seamen's hospital close to carry out or amalgamate it with the civil hospital.\n\nthe appropriate in relieving Papers, who will be received into the Hospital at once; and in the case of time to try point is, that he appears as the paid advocate, at truly desite will also be admitted. stion. In the Civil Hospital a Chinese died from he hoped a properly constructed hospital will be of the airs as the lipizi; to supply this defect, ara perhaps a little stronger in his case.\n\nThe list is no doubt their best course, for it is to that being missionary, I cannot by any means devote ages in the cause. This is the case as nearly as Lufe teal it incurent upon me to remark herehe the same time he holds the position of one of the effects of a gun shot wound received when escaperected on an eligible site in a central spot, of Grand Prus sery kindly tendered his duable aerof Coranous not doubting the honor of its ing from the Western Coal sheds, he having been which there are many that it will be well! vises and M. Braga, roster of the Medal members is yet so jealous of its privileges that it myself entirely the management and perintended. we can understand it of Dr. Bridges, if it be not there committing robbery. A verdier of wilful secured and watched, so that no such abuses can murder has been taught against some parties win!\n\nThe House made a particular attack on a conveying fel...\n\nHail,) deo will take an interest in it. to this market. Iu dar obituary there is the two hospitals would also enable the directors to means as way enable me to cry on these desigua...\n\nThe combination of the means of the to your very own hands to save and suggest such a imputation, and in this the curatituencies In couches, Gentlemen, I consign das proposals will not enfer a member to underlie the shade of...\n\nmamme of Cayman Cole of the Courser, lately wrecked on the Pratas.\n\nWe may have point out two of face—Ã mom- carry out one or two very necessary improvements. fortable set of sick rooms available for the young men of the colony, whether belonging to govern...\n\nwhich it has \n\nHuid Prẻ be the derrotary, \n\nTas news from Canton both public and private are of the most conflicting nature. One be treated for serious diseases with more care and attention than they can obtain in their wet houses set up at Fur Shan, and that it is assembling in the houses of their employers, where their press might be dangerous in cases of infectious another equally positive says No such a thing diseases to the atlier intrares-A portion of the near Fat Shan and The spital to be act mort for the treatment Foldiers place is perfectly quiet. There me the Sade Famous sad counter rumors on the subject of aner only of a temporary character. The fantalony he unlie? pan to atroci the patients.\n\nof the insane, whether the disease be permanent urine of laces of the amal strength (40,000 to 50,000). On this point we see mu besimation...\n\nthere are \n\n3. Kenny proposed Mr Grand the store, Hore we have the close corporation--the are at the details of the object for the formation of as to it or its members underlying grave charge. That a Committee be selected from this meeting to Legislative Council, showing to great impatience ment or the mercantile class, in which they might, that Mosses in Black, it is population. Eat beand this is a popular Reed. Macinon ha aproated a Comunitar, Pr...\n\nalz. Grand Pré proposed and it was unanimously carried that they are perhaps joined by the respectable almost probably they do not believe the large and fucome to be President and Fr. de la Croix added this Mition British and Foreign, and native above all, \n\nPison of the Hospit Mr. Gal P proposed, and it was carried that the Rev. Fr. Jerome, lesit e Founder new is a \n\nwas unanimously wine exactly to think, and as every thing un- secuted, that the Sisters of Charity in the the very worst.\n\nRev. Fr. McMahon proposed Mr. Grand Pré perhaps prepared to tanke up their and to think supposed to be worse than it really is, \n\nposition was also monin shy carried, \n\nW sak, in conclusion, er general readers Proposed by Fr. Jerome and Seeded by air. Sade peruse with care the accompanying article Privalaute or thanks he given to the Gentlemen from the Daily News on Mr. Butt's care. We nek win sa kindly accepted to set at.\n\nProposed by Mr. Kup and seled by Mfr. A. rent whether or not it would not more.\n\nvote is thanks be given to the Secretary its list it end save ten sold ar opes and fair market, dew, to his able conduet in the Ensin Sifeira, that are of tanks to given to Revd. the Gets of the case as to granting a mest udinis liberati in su recuti apcepting the ties id Secretary as to the withdrawal of the first groot, and difconsort with their honor, and open: c'eating, if all Proped by Mr. Block unt seeded by Mr. Issand oppressive monopoly un scaled tenders, when Nothing farther being left for discussion, thermitely as to the regranting it on the same ternis Esalse to theer on Thursday gezi, the 7th May, ka the...\n\nto the same pers, were mady known. And we \n\nin speaking confidently; there is no such army.\n\ns to need fustare polating cut.\n\nthe \n\nWe hear there is much acquisition in villages around, no doubt a great deal of big talk,\n\nalso be isolated buildings for a small pox There hospital and a lock hospital.\n\nIf in ndition a sanatoriure copii, na way long ago proposed in this paper, he erected on the top of Victa Penk, we might consider ourselves well way from Canton to Macau and Hongkong. As we predicted, the Cantooreze pre rising from their fortified to withstand any amount of tiny defent with mere insolence than ere; stones; discne. laze been thrown at offices and soldiers not to mener-getting-the heads of society are so e...\n\nWe fear, however, public spirit is lost an speak of the murderous assault on the policeman paged to making money as fast as they can that Stewart, and it is considered very unsafe to enter they may get back to their own country, that they the western part of the city. In the face of this have us time to care for the rany poor aferra the Europeans are living in Honais in the park nates tied to the island for a very long day, if not houses without even a corporal's guard to pro- for ever. sect them. Goods still go up, and although there is some nceusinese felt by the principal Chinese traders who have returned, yet the only advice...\n\n| \n\nto the meeting and Committee. \n\nThis \n\nhomes of Mr. Buck, to draw Rules and Regiations for the the Hospital.\n\nA. GRAND PRE\n\nNerred \n\nActing Colonist Secretary to give the public. which pays him, sogte expérnation of the very doubtiul position in which he at present stands :—— (beily Never.)\n\nsource of the success of such a scheint, would be. 1. for Youghal and W. T. Bridgee. Eaqrektious peaard by the Committee of the Charnam Mr. \n\nWe do not think outy, one great cases of leave Butt, Esq., Barrister and wanting, but something more than money is. C. L., Harrister and Member of the close car-r's me, it may be informed that the dir. mester has wanting-personal superintendence und an interes portion—the Legislative Council of flugkong, tren aited of the charge of breach of pra ilege, \n\nFrom: what has been allow vú to trucepire respecting the \n\nTo \n\nna weit is a portion of the Naval Brigade. The troops the officers of that regiment: -- \n\nwere left on board the transports Lancashire Witch und Tax Benged Hathara, of the 20th March, says with Mooresfort. at Whampoa and the French Contingent remained on board their own ships, except a ousall party in conjeful occupation \n\nreference to two aditional Native Regiments for th \n\nice in China- \n\nPoutres hundred sepoy belonging to the 65th and #2th Regiments N. 1. are now wigh at island, 30 they have not already arrived ut ur in the visity of Barrack port. As we all know they are destined for service in Cuma, provided they can be clarked on the rearts all which possage us ofen signed these, but not being ralunteers for the screire, they canne! in the whole e Looked upon as very willing soldiers vayer for forel ware,\" nnd we sind be able to state the exact numifer that my he proceeding to China, only on the authority \n\n3. the 181, (reclved a communication from Ule Bariul Bizin und Baron Gros, stating that the reply the Contaistioner had been received that is was most antislactory, and inviting the aavel and milhors and-chief to a saference board the Aulaccuse, to consider what further steps aliulit be taken, in consequence of Keb's determination to resist the very nurse decade of the two Governments, \n\n4. Tur conference was held un the 21st it, when it was determined that the pienipotentiaries should \n\nDe knocking at the dors tie Iluase of Coumene\n\nthese prvi of the \n\nthe inverse of Tabs, it would be overwhelmed with adelage India. basic enough co ungrosa tile whole the ovidence selitted to the committee crabile us, \n\ntime of tho bare. And the tuulia eniture, who A Morril, vus of the four Ameere of Upper Selnic, we setertido a boradigazy faith in the nipotence frihe med of turving acquired the interstance of the of Las in judicial proceedings would besiege these members with; dengnes by the presuction of a legal document. The pretura, which if u come the intimation of die James dim Government appelated a commision of the their argir, it would be perfectly air for them to lost heas 4 Prestige de large judicially. The secept. It was nice aged at a Nahub of Arcot bu Cammons in tris pay of an artisan cum te tor conclusion that the charge was eight members of the Host \n\nTim Court of Directors therungen proposed that 1 Sudan bill be any degree resembling that of Lourd Faimers blogne should be deprived of the laude which he held us, is allowed to be low every bilan in-and der the surged decourt. The Presideur of the Bont of their now is leglus--an every wealthy Balno will have attel, for the Cana being, was of opinion that this contence has paid ur uz merabers in the loss of \n\nto lenient, and at bis sggesden Ali Moore was de This is anger gainer which the people of Bogland rised of the ends thus fraudulently bined, and also of have to murd, now that it to props to vrat illa governs \n\nof the pilots reports from the Sashes. Meanwhile, dan letter to the Eugerial High Couimper, started his crban\" laude, beaving him in pranes munt of falla exclusively on the Minsters of the tr \n\nwe dure suy, preparations are being mude for the restoring his Excelteney that, in consequence of his mom.compliance with the debody submitted for fas on of all his remaining and very valuable eruditary! \n\nWe publish the following despatch from the ception of those men to be taken to fight the battles of \n\nconsideration, the lurther settlement of the question the Goverment in a country distant and different from To win a reversal of this judgment, the Amger Putna to \n\nbeen transferred to the anal and military suites, that where as hrave and faithful soldiers their services Sugated. We pas Uver the minor personages in the dis- Government Gazette of last Saturday from the \n\nof State for Foreign affairs, which we ece fur toere required at would be most valuable, that me should sly address better to his silency stating the above faci, and that it, at the end of a further uded the Coffeys, and the alle lady who travelled \n\ntern of forty-eight hours, the eny saguld be perefully from London to Paris, and from Paris to Vienna, for the \n\nquived preparations are compite, nid the sea sust atenie purpose of sizing the deposed prace by paying \n\ncoussy be subject to temporary dependion before surdered into our hands, life and property would be es with it. Gar Lusiness is with the servant of the \n\nthey are sent away. Whether they are all to vents respected; but that, if the teras were out roepted, the English public, the bon, member for Youghal. \n\ntheir rus ad munition or not, we are not aware; city would be attacked. \n\nAll our efforts to avert the evils of war from the hot after the last false alarm, we think it would be \n\nกษ \n\nterested nu eympathising agency by which he was - Secretat, s:t the attention of persons who have Some days may be expected to elapse before the re- \n\ncommend \n\nbeen married in Macau or who propose being married rkare:- \n\nNo. 20. \n\nGOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION. \n\nAch is established by Mr. Burt's corn statements. Hiviers were engagal for the Amar acu after that raine's rival in England Mr. Brat sits that he could \n\nWith reference to the Validity of Marriages sofem nie heered the passagement of the application furtius in the der's beauf le staves that he al-nize an Chana, otherwise that ja acendance with nys urged upon the Amer, Aut his lends art advisers, the provisions of the Act 12 and 13 Victores, Cap the bringing of his ca bure Parliament, as the m0268, His Excellency SR JOHN BOWRING, Kaight, relies are to pure. Ha actually used for propers, like \n\nproductive of which he theme obviated to promote the L., Her Majesty's Poipotentiary and Chief er's van. He coniterie the Pirator: the Superintendent of Frade in China &c., &c. has Kulit Company, and agon Mr. Turen faith, the Presisereived a Despatch front The Bight Hande bat the Bora of Control, la licit their nou wees on Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a Copy child of hie ciet. The result of these applicnída was a of which is hereby published for „euerai inforna- jetine on the Board of Directors in answer to the Amcera \n\nBy Order, \n\nG. W. CAINE. Superintendency of Trade, Victoria, Hongkong, 26th April, 1858. Xo. 7 \n\n| \n\njudicious to let it be generally own where and how Chmese having walled, tough the obstinate deteriou the large reinforcement of Pay at the presidency hastian winch as chuterised the proceeding of the een lucnted. Three times the same nombe: of sepoya, Imperial Commissioner from October 21, 1956, oching with all the respectude cam-uds of Barnkport, could remained for the Commanders of the Allied Furces but 15 address the Imperia. Commissiouer, wai to muery into but little, even if they did their worst, but talve \n\ni nens and anuseless panes are any tring fat dignied execution the painful alternative of attacking Centon, Jerorols, would be more effectsly avoided by wich was conquced at daylight this ring. The da:ture of the pucket will prevent my giving say funk revelation of actual wrangements than j \n\ninither reports. I am now on the point of joining the studied reticence which only lends to mystification and forces asembarking at Kuyer's Talked for the zasault on surpicion, -nnd very often reduces the very offre it is \n\nthe city walls, intended a prevent \n\nTur Fagfxman of 23rd Mauch on the same subject, remarks \n\nThe 47th Regt. N. I have nerived, and are vuramped on the glacis of Fort William; they are about 379 strong \n\nof all grace, native officers mari sepoys, and is the Government have ordered Colonel Port, Command FOREIGN OFPics, Alarch 9, 1950. \n\ning, to rerait the Regiment with Malen. Brigadier SIR, eve under my consideration, and have | Corfich with this topiment and the 65th N. I. new en referred to the proper Law Advisers of the Crow, the way down, will leave by the 16th proximo. your Despatches Nos. 452 and 7 of the 26th of \n\nFLOWERS FROM THE INDIAN PAPERS. December and 9d of January last, on the subject of \n\nThe Athene reples mure we to our elrage of the doubts when hel arisen as to the Validity of the \n\nAs we cannot consent to sally our Marriages of British Sabjre's at Chinese Ports; and literary larceny. \n\nges with language ru is seldom beard erido I have to acquaint yaa, in reply, that the Statute i2 \n\nappliers, which on being bitted. se i noceary, for tim. de approvation of the Board of Controt, was materially al. by B1. Fordon sit The reply, as orglundly homed by the Court of Directors, was in vlect, that the Amy's care and on Judicially decided, and that they ans rezson to reverse the decision. The reply, as indi Sed by Me. Vernon Site, was in effent, that if the Amer would zezer his native country, and exert himself in half of the English Government, his real right he Argarable mitezinimesi. These series, fr. But declares, firmad gratully, and simply from his covention of the juice of the Ameer's cline. But in ariston to these parcier Mr. Gutt rent to posed to Failid to argo the Anect's Shell her. For the filter service Mr. Hah desit het theas to receive in all 19,1001, and thut off this She has actually received southing more than 2000. Mr. Butt deolares ther be still holds himself sound to proceed to hulin if the Ameer insists upon it; her in the event of Mr. Bart's aching latelet te lo be will and 13 Victoria, Cap. 68, inponeering Consul topolhouse, our readers must be sausted with our report of fund the money recusat it he is dy preserred solomuze Mariages, does not affect the valulity of, the substance of it. Elis rejoinder is, that our charge of fum pracoding to tudi by the Ameer and his advisers or in any way interfere with, any Marriages which flebing terms the Sproutor is an unmitigated file- arriving at the conclusia thuc his services are not quired would have been valid independently of that Statute, ho,\" and he taunts with being no gentleman. it Here, he will retain the money received. This is, tho \n\nin which category are Mariages celebrated in Chiantik big too on the subject of horsewhips\" and best if our abilty, a tuir and eerut katement of the sub \n\nby Ministers of the Church of England, according horsepouts.\" Bur the strong point agniuss us, ju tja \n\nopis, is our want of gentility. Patial Lects prevad lutorg tår i omories of the House f \n\nto the forms of that Church. \n\nthur contemporary reminds one of the Bath fontman in Pickwick; he can endure anything low.\" When Now, to what do these facts a nuné? Mr. Batt is s Babe of the House of Commons, of a tribunal which and to the Validity of Marriages veiebrated by a \n\nthe public are at a loss for a referee on alkat concerus might intre lawn called aga to procence a verdict as to Clergymen of the Church of England, and not under a gentleman\" they will know wher, to had one. dre justice or injustice due treatment of All Marra by the At 12 and 13 Victoria, Cap. 66, at Macau \n\nLouisana \n\nadi nggala urged 16 Mourial to agipeal lo \n\nM. Mut, Leo, \n\nWith regard to the case fepecially referred to \n\nif \n\nThe deferee, we have already calist characteristic. \n\n6. I beg 10 es, close copies of two General Orders of the 26th instant, and of lemoranda issued by Major- General Van Straubensee, containing the monesancy arzangements for the struck, which I hage will put their lordships in full possession of our intended proceedings. 3. Í have pleasure in reporting that the most perfect umadinty exvts between the Commanders-in-thigï of The allied forces. \n\nI have, .. (Signed) \n\n31. SKY, Bea-Amira and Commanter-in-Chie?. \n\nTo the \n\nSecretary of the Admiralty, \n\nLoudon \n\nGENERAL ORDER. \n\nBefore Canton, December, 1857. The uvala nilitory commander-in-chief of the aisted forces before Cantun love agreed to the following ander of operativas against the city. First bombardme to conxuráce at daylight on Monday morning the 28th of December. \n\nThe sirps and vessels numed in the acte juoder, letter \n\nA) on the signed hereafter indient being made, wilt open fire on the south-west angica of the city wells, with a view to breach them, and impede the communication \n\nThe ships and vessels poused in the net (under letter \n\nThe Gina Cartumqui of India; a transsi which Nie. Baltsgain i Marsa is Chinese Territory, and not a Portuguest | The pickpochyt when arraignai before the Magistrate, of the Chinese troops along thei: parapets to the ent it would appear, actually took some initiatory reps, which precision, such Mauriages 11 be valid as being har generdly hur one answer to wake,-\"it's all a Fed wight have seen servince to the Ameer half as been galebrated in China, Pazar Country. If, however, your wushup.\" We are therefore no more surpriced at hunght be the tribusi of which he was ember. Macao is a possession of Portugal, then it has a the exam's coarse denial than at his blastering), wear the Dutch Folly, with a staritar osject, wit A me wither of the funer of Compune stonde in the core Christian Law of Marriage, as its lex moci,\" and threats, at that the pubic way judge on which ends breach the city walls opposite the Viceroy's residence; Inion to the pimenting even of any individui applying \n\nto met \n\n(Signed) MALMESBURY. \n\nSia Joy Bowring, \n\nBec., N., & \n\nTrue Cops. \n\n11. F. HANCE. \n\nthe mortare in the Dutch Fully, and the Niger and Avalauele, 1.kewise sbetting the city heights auf Gough three insicuess ont of many at our dispoed, in which the Aina has appropiated without actueledgment heights. \n\nThe ships and vessels named in the note (under letter whunt he found in journal. The racier of the ex wination of the Military Female phan Asylum C), beruse the Dutch Folly and the French Folly, will pubished by the Aham was made up entirely from apen fire on the Rooth-east ungles of the new and ell what had appeared the previous day in the Spector, elty walls, mud the walls ferning the east side of the city. These time several nacks will couuence simul without the slightest arkludgment the fuder's) Charge at the opsing the last Sessions repertet for taseously, wira a white csiga shall be hoisted at the fore the Ann, mail a yelaw dug us a corresponding this carnal, was similaris fched the reports of the trinis for funpiracy, the two of most interest, appeared sigral at the spule he listed at the fure of the in the Athena aise the day after they were publised Phugction. \n\nThe Horet end the Avalanche wild repeat these signals A still are at theit fore so long as the Angs shall remain Byug on \n\nthe before mentioned shipa \n\nsit j'fusion, that a judya iter in the run or Manages of British Sabjects anort, in order to be the guilt of \"falschod\" iles, with mension two or \n\nWet wein de said of judge widertunk valid, he adenized there esther in accordance with conse or saticier for a site who had brough, or such lex leci,\" or with the Provisions of the Act \n\nin bring, actions in de curt? The iniquity are mentioned.-1 am, &c., ach step in any incrad a little tem prave by the consider the lye har, or had not received re- mueratina f his seres ful bun pliced biawety in the wharf whition of being with by price that he be mil preciera remuneration for undertaking to as me $5. iend's sent before a tribuent of vehich he to \"use of the anashers. He has aceste promise of 10,0004, for his services, sart of thị sùm he estually trevived more anne ut The urging of the Amcer à aut span the ludia \n\nW take the following short notice of the Khang in the Spectator, almost verbatim, whion & single torrent is one este act, whether the erfarin \n\nflagrant case of Newspaper dishonesty, nceurred in on- ting, the insete the line of it, or has Spring Meeting from the North-Ching Herald whisper whence the apolis were stolen. the juce the tivard Camiral in Cannon-run. it of the 24th olim. The commis mun who so osion with the articultural Exhibition, when the serar di Tu say that make do improper for ft. But to aventry for urging a se before the Howe of ham sold people here at our anal meeting has been the revive the report of the Prizes from the cautioned day and night, net in exceed per each gun carrying off all the good things of Secretary, w the express coulition that he should, is employed 60 rounds during the Best 3 uurs, except f which it is in, but then it would be a right and fortanste \n\n\"We wander who rode our cormity with the usage of the Press on icse oc- the ships under letter C. which will fire 100 rounds. \n\nThey were proper for him to wipe the end beture the Ligure of Chanan, the Northern turt. \n\nCasics, end slips so the Speci \n\nfudiately the bunchardment open the landing of the attic forces will take place at the creek in' Küper an, of the man tinte, kifor a sane her trimmal, provided be ezig recessed reaeration, for the tertives let here the old friend raid. Yellow Jack and Tartar are with e, at the east of Leuils as well as of honesty. The \n\nThe dist heul mom is welcome to the use of vagulang words Pussage, when there the British and French dags will batur. His obvious that by such decision the door to abwe be found in the Hwek Stakes. art by rite oper. Nothing more would be tryniced never have been elsewhere --- \n\nwhich like utty her about he worbi did an enlty be planted in the following order, commencing a day- in eaing, if Palled upon to do so; we will conline onr \n\nlight- to end a remier if Parliament to pochert with perfect; \n\nThe mail, that apology for au many lanes, is urged by \n\nsives har fiets. It is of some consentence that safety a renumeration as Parliamentary agent, u \n\njon which he was onlied in devide as lielige by cerforming war sareporter as a plea for 101 furnishing 18, ki this the public should know that the journal which has won adition acres in his client cost of deces, et clurging issay, with the fall, time and parimer pronunt of the \n\nFor itself the reputation of being acivali in squerility Taxes that came off on Wednesday and Friday in this sproper timotely large for for them. We will not, in \n\ntatau kitowledge, afirm that the committee of \n\nThe stud was graced by the presence of many of car fair residents, and the intervals between the races were enlivened by the music of the of 11. M. S. Higher Adly tout for the occultat: \n\nFIRST DAY. \n\nThe Wung Plate-Spota, 1; Muischite, 2; Dred. 33 \n\nBlack Cockatoo, i. \n\nTHE CHINESE DESPATCHES. THE BOMBARDMENT OF CAYTON. \n\nWAR OFFICE. Fra Mazt, February 15 \n\nThe Secretary of State for War but this day received & despute, of which the following is a copy, addressed is lord chip by Major Geveral C. T, Vas Strubeuzes, C. B., commanding are Majesty's Land Forces in Chan \n\nCenton, December 29, 1857. \n\nMy Lord-I have great satisfactios in reporting that Canton city was ermaisded muud eaptured this day at nine o'clock, with a more trifling losa das enuld have been expected. liceat emulatios was displaye 1 by the whole Allied Force, ten-st whom the greatest cordiality and god feeling into \n\nWe have to deplore the low Royal Suvy, els of Liestemt fiske, of the 59 Regie In stenaut Bowen, ct the me regiment, has tree seriously wounded, \n\nAll \n\nand misrepresentata, is as dishonest in soull thing as The Flea of Comes applied to inquire in Mr. Bersoek; we can therefore only give the places of the brass \n\nSpretter case has come to such a monstrous decisiour; but if it hits and ponies as they came in, which we do on the best. With fius exposure we leave him-Medran \n\nThe intimation arributed to Sir. Jaries Gesinam shut authority, sed promise a graphic report in or next. \n\nThe weather and ground was favorable on the whole, ties of the resolutions was an acquittal of Isan Sasho charge of inproperly enjoying bis prillon bach days, thongh there was a greas outrast; then e is a member of Le 1s of Con alyst day be hot, with a southerly with, and the ther- escuptible of ach an interpretation-it ili ose electors memeter in the shule at 80°, and on Friday, a cold nor- tur be an incir qurd visst the sing why we for strictherly wind was hiewing, and the hormoneter at 63. \n\nPiwili place himself sack $19- It had rained a god deal the night before, hat the wind jście position \n\nAnd dried the course pretty well.\" this tunction The part which Ms. Butt han played cannot be appruched less his negetation with the x-reshient of the art of Corral are taken into account. Mr Vermilch admits that he had repeated emmunications with Mr. Butt-vethal aud epilary-on the subject of the class of Ali Mvered. Of in excep Timock was kept me the lacters are said to have bren private autoosidential. It is possible, Therefore, bu learn with certainty what was the lure of the comuneulea- tions. But this is certain, il subsequently to these inter- Venom Sto altered a dras lurzer 1935 [ektors, Mr. nd the Court of Directors refusing to entertain the Ameer's application, iuro a letter couraging him to return to Sciarie by long at the lope Sut i li mi nital Ala to the Buglial Governinect something arigat he does to him. The only reasna, sseigned for too parišal revered fa inficial teuer, on the strengt of private, sureverteil enamiestis, is that the siteure appenced inrse; but M. Vernon Sanita gave the contest la stand Und Je very reluctant to have sue Ameer's new debaresi à l'aclinent while the Bengal insurrection was it progress, Mr. But having gives it frommilostared theit die hunt informed the ex-Pretent of the Beart of Country of his having tuged the user and his friends to bring the wise 'fore Parlia ne. We r TL entitled to say that Mr. Batt obtained the centerscica in favour of 32 Moured by hinting to the Prescrican of the Buned of Contro, but he had it is power Parliment to fore in a cebam As slin Amour' case; tot in the cherastonces succions will intrude themelsea which at in mot easy to disynd \n\nThe righe Flute-Cock Tail, 1; Peg Tupe, 2; Tiny, 3: \n\nTelegram. 4 \n\nThe ingken Cuga-Sydney, 1; Cheertal, 2 Vaugueril, 8. The dis-Touiz 1 Spot, ; Cock Tail 3, \n\nChelato, 4 72 Pailon, 1; Deuil. 2. \n\nThe finch Marks Rocket, Bay Midleton, 2. \n\nThe Shanghae Pork Cup —Syota, 1; Maiciite, 2; Tapas, \n\n3. \n\nSECOND DAY. \n\nThe fisher Flame-Tiege, walked oven, \n\nThe Swing Cry-Cacetent, 1; Cheerful, 2; Vanguard, \n\n3. \n\nThe China-sup-Blank Coelaten, 1: Topaz. 2; Lakin i \n\nThe T'antica Cap---Coverfil. 1: Shali, 2; Drutd, 8, The Hunt Strikellow Zack, Rocket, 2: Tartar, 3. After the figh vene, in the second day, a match was Parween, Mr. Recens guy Are pobytynen, and Mr. Benadier's black Cafe piny Tube, which was won \n\nGarne. \n\nWe pronoun an epilar in the count of 7%. Batsby mini iko es dreient of the board of Contd. We are will \n\nthat fact of both lisa hart ht \n\nThis will the deutet \n\narists cl \n\navember of the Homme Camus in a \n\nThe following extracts in the Hurkura wnd Englishmas. Calcutta papers, will be read with \n\nun riser as preferring a sai to the lease if interest anal satisfaction by the Colonists of be is lined to \"eir veneration from the air for a Hongkong, if the Pandies are landed here, and po \n\ning the sun elsewhere, if the mean He that doubt with equal satisfaction by General Van \n\nare il gratuitously in the Hour by the name tur \n\nStrasbenzre if such galbut and ready soldiers are placed under his charge. We do not like \n\nengaged is allen wat align and are public civic of the Chatte, whenleigh them drada a dealer fee site's claims in the flow of Corsake y comments, for it by n chase the regiments reach bare without racing their barge conectanapur his eliumiven conrægur dance of com region may be enfly tired by mandors th heers (insult them Pardy met vertaily will House of Come and in the Eccrtine Government, Such a state of stairs is const unsatisfactory even b we shall have some gallant ofboer of ours dawn maky now, star), But supposing that the entire itone Adastraling of India were vested in a single mon ne with the assertion that never was there Minister of the Corn she is to the House of a more loyal or better behaved regiment in Culosis, with wild traptations would the integrity of Our representatives in the legislature le tona feet Atler Majesty's service. We had a sample of it it is, wo have had at one time a Narab Susa, Rajans the other day in the case of the 70th, when a \n\nCaptain Hates, of the \n\nThe hophardment is to be in very low time, aud \n\n1. Suppers and Miners, 59th Regiment, Royal Artillery, stores and mention, \n\nThe French Nawai Brigale, stoves, &c. \n\n3. The Naval Brigade, under the ader of Commodore the 1o. 4. 6. 1, B Esot. \n\n4. The Naval Brigade from Cantun. \n\n5. Lieulcunt.Cola.et lemon's battalica of Royal Marines, & \n\nd. Cutearl Holowry's Brigade of Royal Marines, &c, (Waru last heet of No. £ has passed, No. 2 will com meece, and on with: the remainder \n\nThe duration of the French forces will be eritraded by Capta Reinan:], fg captein; the British troops and Royal Marines by Major the Bon. H. Cidord \n\nThe British Naval Brigade, by Captain W. K. Hall.\n\n... acutalo.\n\nThe following will be the disposition of the united forces after landing:\n\nBritish Naval Brigade on the right.\n\nCentre bridge, composed of Lieutenant-Colonel Lemon's provano instalion, 19th Regiment, Royal Artillery, and Sapiers.\n\nPreucia bridge on the inft\n\nColonel Holloway's brigade in reserve, with Royal Marine Artillery,\n\nAfter getting into position the allied forces will remain still to cancuston, and the mail leaving; I must therefore defer instheer det üle to the next rpportunity. † in line of contianova elutus of brigade audil further...\n\nI bwe, &c.\n\nC. T. VAN STinerszre, M jur General,\n\nCommanding Traps in China,\n\nPort Gongh is now heng oerapied.\n\nThe Right Hon.\n\nthe Secretary of Stue for \n\nWar, C., * \n\nADMIRAL SEYMOUR'S DESPATIUU.\n\nAdmiralty, Fuurorg 15. Despoteker, of which the following me cans, bure en verived by the Lords Commissioners of the! Astrahy Trout Kee-Sentral Sir Michael Seyavour,\n\nOrumates at CANYON \n\nNo. 357.\n\nHer Majesty's ship Coromandri,\n\nnt fan. De ch SirMy letter (No.343) of the 13th ist. courzved \n\nPuins to the fures of the Allied Power, and that u \n\nthe indigence of the raceable regation of ionsh letter had seen vent in t. You, the Lagerial High Cour mission, by the ass-furs of the Allied Powers, stating the deamus of the two Gavernitects, d rating ten days for a consideration of the same, lailing earnered against the city of Citati.\n\nplane with which, conise mesures would be 2. The Brigade of Royal Mears et igal Maries Actriery mere inediately wasis dought up to the i \n\nunders for an advaner, watch will be made to a position \n\nfor vise night, y reparatury to active service us the follow-\n\nnig andag. \n\nM. Skrmore, Rent.Adesiral. \n\nComander-in-Chief of Her Britannic \n\nMajesty's Noynt Purees. \n\nRear-Adesira \n\nC. HowerDA GENOT13.1.T \n\nComewi'kiet af 1Fix Emperial \n\nAlajesty's Naval Forces. \n\nCT VAN STRAL BENZ, Major Lien, Commanding the Alinary Force, \n\nGENERAL MEMORANDUM. Carouane), Canton, Deectner 26, 1857.\n\nThe Nuva! Brigade of seanien will be in three divisions. The divisions will be tald off into companies, each stvising gomorracing No. 1. md the last timber cop. rames is 1st tumi 2e devisions will be composed of boats' \n\ncrewy. \n\n(A) Actre, blgethon, and guulmate, \n\n() Me. Puade, Crnizer, Tornet, and a gunhast. \n\nNumrud, Surprise, 1 agone, Mares, a gunboals. After se p, the three fut-anted ships will after sheir genka 18 will, after one qui, aiter their fire to the north- east with gate. fire to the ty and Gough's Lighrere Alarmcast and \n\nSea Supplemen \n\n} \n\n} \n\n## GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.\n\nWith reference to the Validity of Marriages...\n\nHis Excellency SR JOHN BOWRING, Kaight, L., Her Majesty's Poipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of Trade in China &c., &c. has received a Despatch from The Right Honorable Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs...\n\nBy Order,\n\nG. W. CAINE. Superintendency of Trade, Victoria, Hongkong, 26th April, 1858. No. 7\n\n| \n| --- \n| --- \n\njudicious to let it be generally own where and how Chinese having walled, tough the obstinate deteriou the large reinforcement of Pay at the presidency hastian winch as chuterised the proceeding of the een lucnted. Three times the same nombe: of sepoya, Imperial Commissioner from October 21, 1956, oching with all the respectude cam-uds of Barnkport, could remained for the Commanders of the Allied Furces but 15 address the Imperia. Commissiouer, wai to muery into but little, even if they did their worst, but talve \n\ni nens and anuseless panes are any tring fat dignied execution the painful alternative of attacking Centon, Jerorols, would be more effectsly avoided by wich was conquced at daylight this ring. The da:ture of the pucket will prevent my giving say funk revelation of actual wrangements than j \n\ninither reports. I am now on the point of joining the studied reticence which only lends to mystification and forces asembarking at Kuyer's Talked for the zasault on surpicion, -nnd very often reduces the very offre it is \n\nthe city walls, intended a prevent \n\nTur Fagfxman of 23rd Mauch on the same subject, remarks \n\nThe 47th Regt. N. I have nerived, and are vuramped on the glacis of Fort William; they are about 379 strong \n\nof all grace, native officers mari sepoys, and is the Government have ordered Colonel Port, Command FOREIGN OFPics, Alarch 9, 1950. \n\ning, to rerait the Regiment with Malen. Brigadier SIR, eve under my consideration, and have | Corfich with this topiment and the 65th N. I. new en referred to the proper Law Advisers of the Crow, the way down, will leave by the 16th proximo. your Despatches Nos. 452 and 7 of the 26th of \n\nFLOWERS FROM THE INDIAN PAPERS. December and 9d of January last, on the subject of \n\nThe Athene reples mure we to our elrage of the doubts when hel arisen as to the Validity of the \n\nAs we cannot consent to sally our Marriages of British Sabjre's at Chinese Ports; and literary larceny. \n\nges with language ru is seldom beard erido I have to acquaint yaa, in reply, that the Statute i2 \n\nappliers, which on being bitted. se i noceary, for tim. de approvation of the Board of Controt, was materially al. by B1. Fordon sit The reply, as orglundly homed by the Court of Directors, was in vlect, that the Amy's care and on Judicially decided, and that they ans rezson to reverse the decision. The reply, as indi Sed by Me. Vernon Site, was in effent, that if the Amer would zezer his native country, and exert himself in half of the English Government, his real right he Argarable mitezinimesi. These series, fr. But declares, firmad gratully, and simply from his covention of the juice of the Ameer's cline. But in ariston to these parcier Mr. Gutt rent to posed to Failid to argo the Anect's Shell her. For the filter service Mr. Hah desit het theas to receive in all 19,1001, and thut off this She has actually received southing more than 2000. Mr. Butt deolares ther be still holds himself sound to proceed to hulin if the Ameer insists upon it; her in the event of Mr. Bart's aching latelet te lo be will and 13 Victoria, Cap. 68, inponeering Consul topolhouse, our readers must be sausted with our report of fund the money recusat it he is dy preserred solomuze Mariages, does not affect the valulity of, the substance of it. Elis rejoinder is, that our charge of fum pracoding to tudi by the Ameer and his advisers or in any way interfere with, any Marriages which flebing terms the Sproutor is an unmitigated file- arriving at the conclusia thuc his services are not quired would have been valid independently of that Statute, ho,\" and he taunts with being no gentleman. it Here, he will retain the money received. This is, tho \n\nin which category are Mariages celebrated in Chiantik big too on the subject of horsewhips\" and best if our abilty, a tuir and eerut katement of the sub \n\nby Ministers of the Church of England, according horsepouts.\" Bur the strong point agniuss us, ju tja \n\nopis, is our want of gentility. Patial Lects prevad lutorg tår i omories of the House f \n\nto the forms of that Church. \n\nthur contemporary reminds one of the Bath fontman in Pickwick; he can endure anything low.\" When Now, to what do these facts a nuné? Mr. Batt is s Babe of the House of Commons, of a tribunal which and to the Validity of Marriages veiebrated by a \n\nthe public are at a loss for a referee on alkat concerus might intre lawn called aga to procence a verdict as to Clergymen of the Church of England, and not under a gentleman\" they will know wher, to had one. dre justice or injustice due treatment of All Marra by the At 12 and 13 Victoria, Cap. 66, at Macau \n\nLouisana \n\nadi nggala urged 16 Mourial to agipeal lo \n\nM. Mut, Leo, \n\nWith regard to the case fepecially referred to \n\nif \n\nThe deferee, we have already calist characteristic. \n\n6. I beg 10 es, close copies of two General Orders of the 26th instant, and of lemoranda issued by Major- General Van Straubensee, containing the monesancy arzangements for the struck, which I hage will put their lordships in full possession of our intended proceedings. 3. Í have pleasure in reporting that the most perfect umadinty exvts between the Commanders-in-thigï of The allied forces. \n\nI have, .. (Signed) \n\n31. SKY, Bea-Amira and Commanter-in-Chie?. \n\nTo the \n\nSecretary of the Admiralty, \n\nLoudon \n\nGENERAL ORDER. \n\nBefore Canton, December, 1857. The uvala nilitory commander-in-chief of the aisted forces before Cantun love agreed to the following ander of operativas against the city. First bombardme to conxuráce at daylight on Monday morning the 28th of December. \n\nThe sirps and vessels numed in the acte juoder, letter \n\nA) on the signed hereafter indient being made, wilt open fire on the south-west angica of the city wells, with a view to breach them, and impede the communication \n\nThe ships and vessels poused in the net (under letter \n\nThe Gina Cartumqui of India; a transsi which Nie. Baltsgain i Marsa is Chinese Territory, and not a Portuguest | The pickpochyt when arraignai before the Magistrate, of the Chinese troops along thei: parapets to the ent it would appear, actually took some initiatory reps, which precision, such Mauriages 11 be valid as being har generdly hur one answer to wake,-\"it's all a Fed wight have seen servince to the Ameer half as been galebrated in China, Pazar Country. If, however, your wushup.\" We are therefore no more surpriced at hunght be the tribusi of which he was ember. Macao is a possession of Portugal, then it has a the exam's coarse denial than at his blastering), wear the Dutch Folly, with a staritar osject, wit A me wither of the funer of Compune stonde in the core Christian Law of Marriage, as its lex moci,\" and threats, at that the pubic way judge on which ends breach the city walls opposite the Viceroy's residence; Inion to the pimenting even of any individui applying \n\nto met \n\n(Signed) MALMESBURY. \n\nSia Joy Bowring, \n\nBec., N., & \n\nTrue Cops. \n\n11. F. HANCE. \n\nthe mortare in the Dutch Fully, and the Niger and Avalauele, 1.kewise sbetting the city heights auf Gough three insicuess ont of many at our dispoed, in which the Aina has appropiated without actueledgment heights. \n\nThe ships and vessels named in the note (under letter whunt he found in journal. The racier of the ex wination of the Military Female phan Asylum C), beruse the Dutch Folly and the French Folly, will pubished by the Aham was made up entirely from apen fire on the Rooth-east ungles of the new and ell what had appeared the previous day in the Spector, elty walls, mud the walls ferning the east side of the city. These time several nacks will couuence simul without the slightest arkludgment the fuder's) Charge at the opsing the last Sessions repertet for taseously, wira a white csiga shall be hoisted at the fore the Ann, mail a yelaw dug us a corresponding this carnal, was similaris fched the reports of the trinis for funpiracy, the two of most interest, appeared sigral at the spule he listed at the fure of the in the Athena aise the day after they were publised Phugction. \n\nThe Horet end the Avalanche wild repeat these signals A still are at theit fore so long as the Angs shall remain Byug on \n\nthe before mentioned shipa \n\nsit j'fusion, that a judya iter in the run or Manages of British Sabjects anort, in order to be the guilt of \"falschod\" iles, with mension two or \n\nWet wein de said of judge widertunk valid, he adenized there esther in accordance with conse or saticier for a site who had brough, or such lex leci,\" or with the Provisions of the Act \n\nin bring, actions in de curt? The iniquity are mentioned.-1 am, &c., ach step in any incrad a little tem prave by the consider the lye har, or had not received re- mueratina f his seres ful bun pliced biawety in the wharf whition of being with by price that he be mil preciera remuneration for undertaking to as me $5. iend's sent before a tribuent of vehich he to \"use of the anashers. He has aceste promise of 10,0004, for his services, sart of thị sùm he estually trevived more anne ut The urging of the Amcer à aut span the ludia \n\nW take the following short notice of the Khang in the Spectator, almost verbatim, whion & single torrent is one este act, whether the erfarin \n\nflagrant case of Newspaper dishonesty, nceurred in on- ting, the insete the line of it, or has Spring Meeting from the North-Ching Herald whisper whence the apolis were stolen. the juce the tivard Camiral in Cannon-run. it of the 24th olim. The commis mun who so osion with the articultural Exhibition, when the serar di Tu say that make do improper for ft. But to aventry for urging a se before the Howe of ham sold people here at our anal meeting has been the revive the report of the Prizes from the cautioned day and night, net in exceed per each gun carrying off all the good things of Secretary, w the express coulition that he should, is employed 60 rounds during the Best 3 uurs, except f which it is in, but then it would be a right and fortanste \n\n\"We wander who rode our cormity with the usage of the Press on icse oc- the ships under letter C. which will fire 100 rounds. \n\nThey were proper for him to wipe the end beture the Ligure of Chanan, the Northern turt. \n\nCasics, end slips so the Speci \n\nfudiately the bunchardment open the landing of the attic forces will take place at the creek in' Küper an, of the man tinte, kifor a sane her trimmal, provided be ezig recessed reaeration, for the tertives let here the old friend raid. Yellow Jack and Tartar are with e, at the east of Leuils as well as of honesty. The \n\nThe dist heul mom is welcome to the use of vagulang words Pussage, when there the British and French dags will batur. His obvious that by such decision the door to abwe be found in the Hwek Stakes. art by rite oper. Nothing more would be tryniced never have been elsewhere --- \n\nwhich like utty her about he worbi did an enlty be planted in the following order, commencing a day- in eaing, if Palled upon to do so; we will conline onr \n\nlight- to end a remier if Parliament to pochert with perfect; \n\nThe mail, that apology for au many lanes, is urged by \n\nsives har fiets. It is of some consentence that safety a renumeration as Parliamentary agent, u \n\njon which he was onlied in devide as lielige by cerforming war sareporter as a plea for 101 furnishing 18, ki this the public should know that the journal which has won adition acres in his client cost of deces, et clurging issay, with the fall, time and parimer pronunt of the \n\nFor itself the reputation of being acivali in squerility Taxes that came off on Wednesday and Friday in this sproper timotely large for for them. We will not, in \n\ntatau kitowledge, afirm that the committee of \n\nThe stud was graced by the presence of many of car fair residents, and the intervals between the races were enlivened by the music of the of 11. M. S. Higher Adly tout for the occultat: \n\nFIRST DAY. \n\nThe Wung Plate-Spota, 1; Muischite, 2; Dred. 33 \n\nBlack Cockatoo, i. \n\nTHE CHINESE DESPATCHES. THE BOMBARDMENT OF CAYTON. \n\nWAR OFFICE. Fra Mazt, February 15 \n\nThe Secretary of State for War but this day received & despute, of which the following is a copy, addressed is lord chip by Major Geveral C. T, Vas Strubeuzes, C. B., commanding are Majesty's Land Forces in Chan \n\nCenton, December 29, 1857. \n\nMy Lord-I have great satisfactios in reporting that Canton city was ermaisded muud eaptured this day at nine o'clock, with a more trifling losa das enuld have been expected. liceat emulatios was displaye 1 by the whole Allied Force, ten-st whom the greatest cordiality and god feeling into \n\nWe have to deplore the low Royal Suvy, els of Liestemt fiske, of the 59 Regie In stenaut Bowen, ct the me regiment, has tree seriously wounded, \n\nAll \n\nand misrepresentata, is as dishonest in soull thing as The Flea of Comes applied to inquire in Mr. Bersoek; we can therefore only give the places of the brass \n\nSpretter case has come to such a monstrous decisiour; but if it hits and ponies as they came in, which we do on the best. With fius exposure we leave him-Medran \n\nThe intimation arributed to Sir. Jaries Gesinam shut authority, sed promise a graphic report in or next. \n\nThe weather and ground was favorable on the whole, ties of the resolutions was an acquittal of Isan Sasho charge of inproperly enjoying bis prillon bach days, thongh there was a greas outrast; then e is a member of Le 1s of Con alyst day be hot, with a southerly with, and the ther- escuptible of ach an interpretation-it ili ose electors memeter in the shule at 80°, and on Friday, a cold nor- tur be an incir qurd visst the sing why we for strictherly wind was hiewing, and the hormoneter at 63. \n\nPiwili place himself sack $19- It had rained a god deal the night before, hat the wind jście position \n\nAnd dried the course pretty well.\" this tunction The part which Ms. Butt han played cannot be appruched less his negetation with the x-reshient of the art of Corral are taken into account. Mr Vermilch admits that he had repeated emmunications with Mr. Butt-vethal aud epilary-on the subject of the class of Ali Mvered. Of in excep Timock was kept me the lacters are said to have bren private autoosidential. It is possible, Therefore, bu learn with certainty what was the lure of the comuneulea- tions. But this is certain, il subsequently to these inter- Venom Sto altered a dras lurzer 1935 [ektors, Mr. nd the Court of Directors refusing to entertain the Ameer's application, iuro a letter couraging him to return to Sciarie by long at the lope Sut i li mi nital Ala to the Buglial Governinect something arigat he does to him. The only reasna, sseigned for too parišal revered fa inficial teuer, on the strengt of private, sureverteil enamiestis, is that the siteure appenced inrse; but M. Vernon Sanita gave the contest la stand Und Je very reluctant to have sue Ameer's new debaresi à l'aclinent while the Bengal insurrection was it progress, Mr. But having gives it frommilostared theit die hunt informed the ex-Pretent of the Beart of Country of his having tuged the user and his friends to bring the wise 'fore Parlia ne. We r TL entitled to say that Mr. Batt obtained the centerscica in favour of 32 Moured by hinting to the Prescrican of the Buned of Contro, but he had it is power Parliment to fore in a cebam As slin Amour' case; tot in the cherastonces succions will intrude themelsea which at in mot easy to disynd \n\nThe righe Flute-Cock Tail, 1; Peg Tupe, 2; Tiny, 3: \n\nTelegram. 4 \n\nThe ingken Cuga-Sydney, 1; Cheertal, 2 Vaugueril, 8. The dis-Touiz 1 Spot, ; Cock Tail 3, \n\nChelato, 4 72 Pailon, 1; Deuil. 2. \n\nThe finch Marks Rocket, Bay Midleton, 2. \n\nThe Shanghae Pork Cup —Syota, 1; Maiciite, 2; Tapas, \n\n3. \n\nSECOND DAY. \n\nThe fisher Flame-Tiege, walked oven, \n\nThe Swing Cry-Cacetent, 1; Cheerful, 2; Vanguard, \n\n3. \n\nThe China-sup-Blank Coelaten, 1: Topaz. 2; Lakin i \n\nThe T'antica Cap---Coverfil. 1: Shali, 2; Drutd, 8, The Hunt Strikellow Zack, Rocket, 2: Tartar, 3. After the figh vene, in the second day, a match was Parween, Mr. Recens guy Are pobytynen, and Mr. Benadier's black Cafe piny Tube, which was won \n\nGarne. \n\nWe pronoun an epilar in the count of 7%. Batsby mini iko es dreient of the board of Contd. We are will \n\nthat fact of both lisa hart ht \n\nThis will the deutet \n\narists cl \n\navember of the Homme Camus in a \n\nThe following extracts in the Hurkura wnd Englishmas. Calcutta papers, will be read with \n\nun riser as preferring a sai to the lease if interest anal satisfaction by the Colonists of be is lined to \"eir veneration from the air for a Hongkong, if the Pandies are landed here, and po \n\ning the sun elsewhere, if the mean He that doubt with equal satisfaction by General Van \n\nare il gratuitously in the Hour by the name tur \n\nStrasbenzre if such galbut and ready soldiers are placed under his charge. We do not like \n\nengaged is allen wat align and are public civic of the Chatte, whenleigh them drada a dealer fee site's claims in the flow of Corsake y comments, for it by n chase the regiments reach bare without racing their barge conectanapur his eliumiven conrægur dance of com region may be enfly tired by mandors th heers (insult them Pardy met vertaily will House of Come and in the Eccrtine Government, Such a state of stairs is const unsatisfactory even b we shall have some gallant ofboer of ours dawn maky now, star), But supposing that the entire itone Adastraling of India were vested in a single mon ne with the assertion that never was there Minister of the Corn she is to the House of a more loyal or better behaved regiment in Culosis, with wild traptations would the integrity of Our representatives in the legislature le tona feet Atler Majesty's service. We had a sample of it it is, wo have had at one time a Narab Susa, Rajans the other day in the case of the 70th, when a \n\nCaptain Hates, of the \n\nThe hophardment is to be in very low time, aud \n\n1. Suppers and Miners, 59th Regiment, Royal Artillery, stores and mention, \n\nThe French Nawai Brigale, stoves, &c. \n\n3. The Naval Brigade, under the ader of Commodore the 1o. 4. 6. 1, B Esot. \n\n4. The Naval Brigade from Cantun. \n\n5. Lieulcunt.Cola.et lemon's battalica of Royal Marines, & \n\nd. Cutearl Holowry's Brigade of Royal Marines, &c, (Waru last heet of No. £ has passed, No. 2 will com meece, and on with: the remainder \n\nThe duration of the French forces will be eritraded by Capta Reinan:], fg captein; the British troops and Royal Marines by Major the Bon. H. Clidord \n\nThe British Naval Brigade, by Captain W. K. Hall.\n\n... acutalo.\n\nThe following will be the disposition of the united forces after landing:\n\n| Unit | Position |\n| --- | --- |\n| British Naval Brigade | Right |\n| Centre bridge | Composed of Lieutenant-Colonel Lemon's battalion, 19th Regiment, Royal Artillery, and Sapiers |\n| Preucia bridge | Left |\n| Colonel Holloway's brigade | Reserve, with Royal Marine Artillery |\n\nAfter getting into position the allied forces will remain...\n\nC. T. VAN STRAUBENZEE, Major General,\n\nCommanding Traps in China,\n\nPort Gongh is now being occupied.\n\nThe Right Hon.\n\nthe Secretary of State for \n\nWar, C., * \n\nADMIRAL SEYMOUR'S DESPATIUU.\n\nAdmiralty, Fuurorg 15. Despoteker, of which the following me cans, bure en verived by the Lords Commissioners of the! Astrahy Trout Kee-Sentral Sir Michael Seyavour,\n\nOrumates at CANYON \n\nNo. 357.\n\nHer Majesty's ship Coromandri,\n\nnt fan. De ch SirMy letter (No.343) of the 13th ist. courzved \n\nPuins to the fures of the Allied Power, and that u \n\nthe indigence of the raceable regation of ionsh letter had seen vent in t. You, the Lagerial High Cour mission, by the ass-furs of the Allied Powers, stating the deamus of the two Gavernitects, d rating ten days for a consideration of the same, lailing earnered against the city of Citati.\n\nplane with which, conise mesures would be 2. The Brigade of Royal Mears et igal Maries Actriery mere inediately wasis dought up to the i \n\nunders for an advaner, watch will be made to a position \n\nfor vise night, y reparatury to active service us the follow-\n\nnig andag. \n\nM. Skrmore, Rent.Adesiral. \n\nComander-in-Chief of Her Britannic \n\nMajesty's Noynt Purees. \n\nRear-Adesira \n\nC. HowerDA GENOT13.1.T \n\nComewi'kiet af 1Fix Emperial \n\nAlajesty's Naval Forces. \n\nCT VAN STRAL BENZ, Major Lien, Commanding the Alinary Force, \n\nGENERAL MEMORANDUM. Carouane), Canton, Deectner 26, 1857.\n\nThe Nuva! Brigade of seanien will be in three divisions. The divisions will be tald off into companies, each stvising gomorracing No. 1. md the last timber cop. rames is 1st tumi 2e devisions will be composed of boats' \n\ncrewy. \n\n(A) Actre, blgethon, and guulmate, \n\n() Me. Puade, Crnizer, Tornet, and a gunhast. \n\nNumrud, Surprise, 1 agone, Mares, a gunboals. After se p, the three fut-anted ships will after sheir genka 18 will, after one qui, aiter their fire to the north- east with gate. fire to the ty and Gough's Lighrere Alarmcast and \n\nSea Supplemen \n\n} \n\n}", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-068 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 245564, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-069 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12]", "page_number": 643, "title": "CO129-069 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12]", "content_text": "## RECEIVED\n### No of Despatch: 858 \n### Date of Despatch: 11 FEB 1859 \n\n**Subject of Despatch**\n- Original.\n\n| No | Subject |\n| --- | --- |\n| 170 | December 28 Reporting appointment of Colonel Haythorne as a Provisional member of the Executive Council. |\n| 171 | Applying for 6 copies of the Latest Edition of the \"Colonial Regulations\". |\n| 172 | The porting clearance of the Chinese Emigrant Ship \"Georges\" and 2 others with a Chinese Surgeon on board. |\n| 173 | Acknowledging receipt of Despatches to No 58 of 30th October 1858. |\n| 174 | Forwarding Plan for the extension of Victoria Gaol with letters of the Surveyor General Explanation. |\n| 175 | Reporting that Plans and Estimates of the proposed additional Works and Buildings referred to in Despatch No 167 of 14th Instant, will be in due course, submitted for approval. |\n\n**No of Inclosures**: None.\n\nColonial Secretary", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-069 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 249718, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-078 - Sir Robinson - 1860 [7-12]", "page_number": 360, "title": "CO129-078 - Sir Robinson - 1860 [7-12]", "content_text": "me tivo\n\nnames, which barely gives months in England, sufficiently points\n\nto the fact that only the direct necessity\n\nhas compelled\n\nme\n\nto do so.\n\nI have ta\n\n(Signed)\n\n(True Copy)\n\nI. I. Murray. M. 0.\n\nColonial Surgeon.\n\nColonial Secretary.\n\nEntered\n\nr29.\n\nHermler Absen\n\nMINUTE\n\n11361\n\n1. AS-FEB.\n\n\"Flliab im dagers \"Fortescue\n\nNewcastle 5:\n\n889. Rong Kong 35\n\nDonning that oh he wbr.\n\nI have in your Dod\n\ndufalt ofthe 10th\n\n21:142\n\nw Shan\n\nDad? recovery & you my cenfionis. -Ton the leave of\n\ndenc praudest\n\nJo packed & Di Kamay Colonel Saepon f\n\nPage 360\n\nPage 361", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-078 - Sir Robinson - 1860 [7-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 249931, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-079 - Public Offices - 1860", "page_number": 81, "title": "CO129-079 - Public Offices - 1860", "content_text": "Admiralty\n\n852\n\nTHE LONDON GAZETTE, FEBRUARY 28, 1860.\n\nAdmiralty, February 27, 1860.\n\nRear-Admiral of the Blue James Hope, C.B., to be Vice-Admiral of the Blue until further orders, and while employed as Commander-in-Chief of Her Majesty's ships and vessels within the limits of the East India Station,\n\nCommissions signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Cumberland.\n\n2nd Cumberland Artillery Volunteers.\n\nThomas Salkeld, Esq., to be Captain Commandant.\n\nCommission signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Aberdeen.\n\nColonel Charles Fraser to be Vice Lieutenant\n\nDated 23rd February, 1860.\n\nCommissions signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Somerset.\n\nRobert James Elton, Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant.\n\nDated 22nd February, 1860.\n\n1st Somerset Regiment of Militia.\n\nHenry Gully Foy, Esq., to be Surgeon, vice Hugo, deceased.\n\nDated 23rd February, 1860.\n\nBridgewater or 5th Somerset Company of Volunteer Rifle Corps.\n\nDated 15th February, 1860.\n\n1st Cumberland Rifle Volunteers.\n\nRobert Ferguson, Esq., to be Captain Commandant.\n\nDated 15th February, 1860.\n\n3rd Cumberland Rifle Volunteers.\n\nMajor Charles Hamilton Wake to be Captain Commandant.\n\nDated 15th February, 1860.\n\nCommissions signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Berks.\n\nBerks Rifle Volunteers.\n\n1st Corps, 1st Company.\n\nHenry Bilson Blandy, Gent., to be Lieutenant, vice Charles Stephens, promoted.\n\nDated 21st February, 1860.\n\n1st Corps, 2nd Company.\n\nLieutenant Charles Stephens to be Captain.\n\nDated 21st February, 1860.\n\nJohn Masters, Doctor of Medicine, to be Honorary Assistant-Surgeon.\n\nDated 25th February, 1860.\n\nKeynsham or 7th Somerset Company of Volunteer Rifle Corps.\n\nJames Ireland Clayfield Ireland, Esq., to be Captain.\n\nDated 25th February, 1860.\n\nCharles John Simmons, Gent., to be Lieutenant.\n\nDated 25th February, 1860.\n\nHarford Lyne, Gent., to be Ensign.\n\nDated 25th February, 1860.\n\nIlminster or 9th Somerset Volunteer Rifle Corps.\n\nJohn Halliday, Esq., to be Lieutenant.\n\nDated 22nd February, 1860.\n\nJohn Blommart, Esq., to be Ensign.\n\nDated 22nd February, 1860.\n\nWells or 10th Somerset Company of Volunteer Rifle Corps.\n\nJohn Nicholls, Gent., to be Honorary Assistant-Surgeon.\n\nDated 27th February, 1860.\n\nStogursey or 11th Somerset Volunteer Rifle Corps.\n\nGeorge Fownes Luttrell, Esq., to be Lieutenant.\n\nDated 21st February, 1860.\n\nRobert Guy Evered, Esq., to be Ensign.\n\nDated 21st February, 1860.\n\nCommission signed by Her Majesty's Commissioners of Lieutenancy of the City of London.\n\nLondon Rifle Volunteer Brigade.\n\nHis Royal Highness General the Duke of Cambridge, K.G., to be Honorary Colonel.\n\nDated 24th February, 1860.\n\nLeury Adolphus Simonds, Gent., to be Lieutenant.\n\nDated 23rd February, 1860.\n\nBlackall Simonds, Gent., to be Ensign.\n\nDated 23rd February, 1860.\n\nCommissions signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Oxford.\n\n3rd Oxfordshire Rifle Volunteers.\n\nTimothy Edward Cobb, Banker, to be Lieutenant.\n\nDated 24th February, 1860.\n\nJohn Potts, Gent., to be Ensign.\n\nDated 24th February, 1860.\n\nCommissions signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Sussex.\n\n6th Sussex Rifle Volunteers.\n\nThe Honourable Percy Scawen Wyndham to be Lieutenant.\n\nDated 15th February, 1860.\n\nThe Honourable Edward Turnour, commonly called Viscount Turnour, to be Ensign.\n\nDated 15th February, 1860.\n\n4th Sussex Rifle Volunteers.\n\nInigo Gell to be Lieutenant.\n\nDated 16th February, 1860.\n\nWilliam Beard to be Ensign.\n\nDated 16th February, 1860.\n\n8th Sussex Rifle Volunteers.\n\nSir Charles Goring, Bart., to be Captain.\n\nDated 16th February, 1860.\n\nCommissions signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Carmarthen.\n\n1st Carmarthenshire Rifle Volunteers.\n\nThe Viscount Emlyn to be Captain.\n\nJohn Lewes Thomas, Gent., to be Lieutenant.\n\nCommission signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Rutland.\n\nRutland Militia.\n\nFrederick Lloyd Philipps, Gent., to be Ensign.\n\n2nd Carmarthenshire Rifle Volunteers.\n\nDavid John Browne Edwardes, Esq., to be Captain.\n\nDated 20th February, 1860.\n\nJohn Thomas Keal, Esq., to be Surgeon.\n\nDated 24th February, 1860.\n\nM. Monvale\n\nWir Blackwood.\n\n\"The Letters Patent for investing the Supreme Court of Hong Kong with an appellate jurisdiction over suits decided by British Consuls in Japan... is now completed, and ready for transmission to the Colony.\n\nThe cost of the Patent is £32.18s. Should it be paid for out of Colonial Funds, or is the Treasury to be asked to disburse the amount?\n\nObserve that the Order in Council of the 30th March last, to which the Patent refers, was published in the London Gazette. It will perhaps be thought proper to notify the passing of this Patent in the Gazette.\n\nM. Walksworth\n\nThe Colony is able to pay for Expenses justly chargeable upon it; but this ...\n\nWH\n\n27660", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-079 - Public Offices - 1860.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 251446, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-081 - Sir Robinson - 1861 [4-7]", "page_number": 456, "title": "CO129-081 - Sir Robinson - 1861 [4-7]", "content_text": "## Confidential letter\nto His Excellency Sir Hercules Robinson, \nthe Governor of Hong Kong &c. &c.\n\nThe Duplicate of this despatch & its inclosure(s) are forwarded to the Right Honorable the Secretary of State for the Colonies by the Mail steamer \"Coast of China\" to sail on the 7th instant.\n\nThe inclosure(s) convey information respecting Colonel Sareli's expedition.\n\nHong Kong, 20 Jany 1861.\n\n[In French]\nJe viens de recevoir de M. le Baron d'Almaviva... reconfirmant la nouvelle de la mort de Taïping Wang. Le 15 Avril, elle se trouvait encore à Nankin. Le Major Dare, médecin américain, qui l'avait vue, est monté à bord du navire \"l'Angre\" pour nous donner des nouvelles de sa santé.\n\n## Inclosure\nPeceived from the Resident & Consulting Surgeon, Hong Kong, 22nd Jan 1861.\n\n... \nDetached Nouvelles de l'Insurrection à travers la Chine...\n\n... les nouvelles qui sont parvenues à Hong Kong par l'entremise de M. le Vicaire Apostolique...\n\n... le Général anglais à Ningpo... \n\n... à la Canton... \n\n... les traitans de la Rébellion... \n\n... Love...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-081 - Sir Robinson - 1861 [4-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 253327, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-085 - Sir Robinson - 1862 [1-4]", "page_number": 410, "title": "CO129-085 - Sir Robinson - 1862 [1-4]", "content_text": "# \n\nIt is not my desire to inflict upon Your Grace my views, or opinions upon this subject, at this stage of my correspondence--but having touched upon two points in my previous respects to Your Grace which will tend to illustrate what I have advanced, I deem it my duty to seize upon the opportunity afforded in having called Your Grace's attention to these points, to demonstrate my meaning for Your Grace's information. The points I allude to refer, first, to the partiality exhibited by the existing local administration towards Mr. Alexander, the present acting Colonial Secretary; and second, to the suppression of the Colonial Surgeon's reports for three years.\n\nThe root of all the evil which has occurred here is the secret underhand system, invented I may say, by Colonel Caine the late Lieut. Governor, and Mr. Mercer, the present Colonial Secretary elect, now absent in England.\n\nThe system amounted simply to this. Every act and intention of the local government was kept secret--most flagrant abuses prevailed, and the grossest mismanagement existed. Dispatches to Downing Street, the contents of which were kept a profound secret, were relied upon for exculpation. In fact the local government held themselves alone responsible to the Secretary of State for the Colonies, who could only judge by these secret despatches. I cannot illustrate how little reliance can be placed on these despatches better than by appending the charges which I made before the Executive Council against the late administration of this colony for deceiving by the means I have pointed out, H. M. Government. These charges although published on the minutes were refused to be entertained. I may further mention that the published report of the Council contains a large quantity of the despatches which the late administration had suppressed.\n\nThe municipal affairs of the Colony are entirely out of the control of the community, and are mismanaged by the local Government under the secret underhand system I have alluded to, to an extent so incredible that it would be in vain my attempting to ask Your Grace's credence to the facts which are patent to all out here. Your Grace is aware that the municipal affairs of this colony, comprise almost the entire functions of the local government. Nearly all the heads of departments are upon the Legislative Council, and it is hardly likely that they will meet to find fault with each other, especially when the smallest display of public spirit is, as I think I shall make it appear, deemed by the Governor a symptom of insubordination.\n\n10\n\nWhen H. M. Government directed that non-official members should sit upon the Legislative Council of this Colony, the intention must have been to introduce a little of the popular element therein, and the same motive must clearly have dictated the advisability of admitting the Press to the Legislative sittings.\n\nNever was a liberal idea more utterly defeated. The non-official members of the Council are selected by His Excellency. The heads of the two eminent firms are selected as a prescriptive right, the third non-official member being entirely under their control. The two leading firms I allude to have such enormous wealth and influence not in accordance with the general community that they have no sympathy whatever, but the reverse with the general community.\n\nThese non-official Councillors do not deem it becoming to appear in opposition to the wishes of the Governor. They desire to uphold above all things, the integrity and the supremacy of Her Majesty's authority: and although they could if they wished offer a serious obstacle to the will of the Governor, they feel such a course discourteous and therefore by all means to be eschewed. They carry their subservience so far that upon a late occasion when one of them (for the second time within my knowledge) proposed an amendment to a clause in an Ordinance, His Excellency the Governor would not allow the amendment to be put, and the Honorable Member submitted. As no Ordinance can be put except with the Governor's consent, Your Grace cannot fail to see that His Excellency's power is supreme.\n\nAs for the admission of the press, precisely the same remarks apply. It is true that since the privilege was granted the press have never been refused admittance, but if it be desired to exclude the reporters, the time of meeting has simply to be kept secret and the object is attained. Thus when His Excellency the Governor applied to the Council for a vote for furniture, (a grant the Council had no right to make) the press was excluded in the manner described. So also when the application was made for a general increase of the salaries of the officers of the Civil service, (the Colonial Surgeon's being decreased owing as is supposed to the tenor of his suppressed reports) was the press in like manner excluded. As the non-official members were of course privy to the secret, their subservience to the will of the Governor cannot be more forcibly illustrated than by the relation of this circumstance.\n\nTo proceed with my subject. It was upon Mr. Mercer's strong recommendation that Dr. Bridges was given acting employment in the service of the local Government. In the conduct of the abuses, which give rise to so much scandal, there really was little difference before and after Dr. Bridges' taking office. Mr. Mercer must have been as well aware of them, as I, or any other old resident was. Dr. Bridges being a lawyer in full practice, and a money lender besides, combined his public functions with his private business, and hence it came to pass that hidden matters came to the surface.\n\nThe finding of the Executive Council on the Civil Service abuses, I respectfully submit, is as condemnatory of Dr. Bridges as it is of Mr. Caldwell. As thus, it condemns Mr. Caldwell, first, for associating with a notorious pirate, and second, for having stated falsely on oath that some inmates of a brothel escaped into the private residence of Mr. May the superintendent of Police,--for having repeated the accusation (being well aware of its untruth,) before the Caldwell commission some five months afterwards, and again repeated it in a pamphlet which he published, called his Vindication.\n\nRegarding the first portion of the finding. When the papers of the pirate chief, whose intimate associate Mr. Caldwell had been, were seized, Mr. May, the superintendent of Police, officially informed Dr. Bridges, then acting Colonial Secretary, that the papers implicated Mr. Caldwell. Dr. Bridges garbled and threw discredit on this dispatch, and subsequently did his utmost to have Mr. May suspended as well as Mr. Anstey--in fact he had all but succeeded, and his failing was simply the result of chance. Dr. Bridges and Mr. Caldwell had many business connexions together, and after the pirate chief was sentenced, Dr. Bridges, who as acting Colonial Secretary, had a seat on the Executive Council, did his utmost to further Mr. Caldwell's endeavors, and but for another fortuitous circumstance, would have obtained a remission of the pirate's sentence. Dr. Bridges subsequently ordered the papers to be burnt, and then on his oath in the witness box in the libel case of the Queen v. Tarrant, stated that when he ordered those papers to be burnt he had no knowledge of any connexion between the pirate Chief and Mr. Caldwell.\n\nAs for the second portion--It was Dr. Bridges that forced Mr. Caldwell to utter the falsehood in the first instance about the women escaping into Mr. May's house. It turned out, that Sir John Bowring the Governor, had called upon Mr. Caldwell a day or two after the charge was made, to prove or retract it. Mr. Caldwell retracted it, and Dr. Bridges then acting Colonial Secretary, suppressed the retractation. Before the Caldwell Commission Dr. Bridges himself repeated the falsehood.\n\nThus far My Lord Duke every circumstance I have named as to both portions of the finding in relation to Dr. Bridges, was proved before the Executive Council at their sittings on the Civil Service abuses. One circumstance more remained to be proved--namely Dr. Bridges' connection with the pamphlet called the Vindication. The finding was not published until some months after it had been arrived at. Subsequently to its publication, I was prepared with evidence to show that Dr. Bridges had corrected the proofs of that pamphlet--but I was not allowed to bring forward the evidence.\n\nYour Grace must not suppose that either Mr. Caldwell's or Dr. Bridges' culpability is confined to these two delinquencies. The finding restricted the guilt of the former to these two points, and therefore I simply wish to show Your Grace that as far as the finding goes, Dr. Bridges is fully as culpable as Mr. Caldwell.\n\nHaving connected Dr. Bridges and Mr. Caldwell, I now proceed to show their connexion with Mr. Mercer. I should explain that the sittings of the Executive Council upon the Civil Service abuse Enquiry lasted over a period of ten months, and embraced about thirty sittings, many of which lasted the entire day. Not only had I to bring the charges and prove them, but as Mr. Caldwell was allowed to be on his defence from first to last, I had almost perpetually to be combating the falsehoods and tutored evidence which he relied upon. It is impossible therefore, under such circumstances, that any man of ordinary intelligence placed in my position should not form impressions, amounting to convictions, as to what was the respective state of mind of each member of the Council. The Governor was repeatedly and forcibly struck with the weight of evidence against the accused, as it was elicited, and more than once gave vent to his feelings in terms of indignant remonstrance. The Chief Justice at the commencement appeared difficult to convince, but as conviction stole over him his consistency to the last could hardly be mistaken. As for Mr. Mercer, his strong friendship and continual partisanship with Dr. Bridges were so notorious, that at the opening of the enquiry I strongly objected to his sitting on the Council. His ascendancy over the Governor was clearly supreme and it always appeared to me that His Excellency had been talked over, for at each meeting I had as it were to begin over again. Whenever Dr. Bridges' name appeared, Mr. Mercer came to the front--on one occasion a most damning fact against Dr. Bridges had come out which was omitted on the minutes, and Mr. Mercer opposed its insertion in the most determined manner, until I begged that my protest against the omission might be substituted. On this occasion Mr. Mercer pleaded in Dr. Bridges' extenuation a conversation he had had with a special juryman who had sat in the case of the Queen v. Tarrant. But for my own perseverance and the integrity of the Chief Justice I have a strong conviction that no finding ever would have been come to. As it was, after my patience had been severely taxed, the enquiry was stopped at the most important, and most easily proved charge, just at the point where the guilt of the accused had become so apparent as to make it evident, even to himself, that he could not longer remain in the public service, for he resigned.\n\nAfter Dr. Bridges' guilt had been proved, until the day he left the Colony, He remained on friendly terms with the Governor. On the eve of his departure for England (which occurred ere the close of the enquiry) he boasted that His Excellency had requested him to look after the interests of this colony in Downing Street, relative to the Kowloon cession. I offered to prove this unseemly boast before the Council but I was pooh-poohed.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-085 - Sir Robinson - 1862 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 253328, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-085 - Sir Robinson - 1862 [1-4]", "page_number": 411, "title": "CO129-085 - Sir Robinson - 1862 [1-4]", "content_text": "# \n\n22 And in this regard I may be excused for mentioning to Your Grace that the finding was arrived at some months before it was published, and that I was in perfect accordance as to its tenor, until its publication. Surely as my motives were purely public-spirited, officers of H.M. Government should not have used me as it suited their purposes and no more. If it were necessary, I could urge a claim to be heard, but I am confident Your Grace will listen to me, and not force me to silence under the conviction that I have simply had in this matter my labor for my pains.\n\n23 I should further mention that a few days subsequent to the publication of the finding, Mr. Mercer met Mr. Caldwell at a banquet at the Freemason's lodge, the former being the provincial Grand Master of the fraternity.\n\n24 And now may it please Your Grace to look at the existing evils which denote a perpetuation of the system which has caused this colony to earn the unenviable notoriety it has attained. In the case of the Queen v Tarrant, Nov. 1858, when the verdict was against the plaintiff, the defendant's costs amounted to $750. These the government having to pay, Sir John Bowring caused a letter to be addressed to the acting Attorney General remonstrating against the exorbitant amount allowed. At foot, I append a copy of the despatch.\n\n25 In the case of the Queen (at the suit of Colonel Caine) v Tarrant, March 1860, Dr. Bridges was retained as Attorney for the prosecution, (during the administration of His Excellency Sir Hercules Robinson). The verdict was for the plaintiff, the sentence being one year's imprisonment in the Criminal Gaol. Mr. Mercer, Dr. Bridges, and Mr. Alexander, then Registrar and taxing officer of the Supreme Court, and now acting Colonial Secretary, united to make this sentence as severe as possible and to effect the victim's ruin, in which they effectually succeeded. To an application which Mr. Tarrant made for some relaxation of Criminal Gaol discipline, Mr. Mercer and a strong partisan of Dr. Bridges, named Lyall (for whom Dr. Bridges had obtained a seat on the Legislative Council) visited the Gaol as Justices of the Peace, and not only reported unfavorably as to the application, but thrust as much indignity as they could upon the sufferer. The Governor of the Gaol, also a nominee of Dr. Bridges and a strong partisan of the clique I have named, did his utmost to aggravate the sentence. Mr. Alexander taxed Dr. Bridges' costs at $2,500 about. If there was any difference between the two cases I have cited, it surely ran in favor of the former as far as costs are concerned. Half of Mr. Tarrant's term of sentence was remitted by the Governor, because His Excellency was aware from a note which Sir John Bowring wrote to his son, then resident here, that instructions would be received to that effect by the mail next expected.\n\n26 Upon Mr. Tarrant leaving the Gaol, he was arrested on a writ of `ca. sa.` at the suit of Dr. Bridges, for these costs. He was cast into the Debtor's prison, and there remained three months longer, subjected to all the annoyances which the ingenuity of the before-mentioned Gaol governor, formerly a Drill sergeant, could devise. He had the costs retaxed, but with no better result. The whole bar was retained against him and he could obtain no redress. Taken from the Court after his sentence direct to the Gaol, without being allowed to call at his office for one minute, even to arrange his private papers, his business was abandoned. In a short time, his goods, chattels, and effects were seized by his other creditors to prevent their falling into Dr. Bridges' hands, and were sold by the Sheriff for a trifle. Finally, the full amount of the bill of costs, with interest at one per cent month, had to be paid. Were Your Grace cognizant of the whole merits of the case, sympathy with the sufferer would not be withheld.\n\n27 I do not mean to infer for one moment that Mr. Alexander partook of any portion of the proceeds of this spoliation, but I do assert that some short time afterwards, Dr. Bridges got up a petition on his behalf, in which he induced all the legal profession to join, praying the Governor and Legislative Council to increase Mr. Alexander's salary. Or it may be that the application came from Mr. A. himself, and was backed by the whole of the legal profession. Dr. Bridges certainly made himself busy in the matter, and as certainly the circumstance of Mr. A. being the recipient of fees of office was carefully and artfully concealed. I should further mention that upon Dr. Bridges leaving the Colony, he appointed Mr. Alexander as his agent—a connexion which doubtless still exists.\n\n28 Thereafter Mr. Alexander became a marked man for Governmental favors. The situation of Chief Magistrate falling vacant, he was selected to fill it and placed above another in a very unseemly manner. He continued in this acting appointment, performing the functions of Registrar of the Court in addition, until the absence of Mr. Mercer, when he was selected over the heads of several, in an equally unseemly manner, or perhaps more so, to fill the acting appointment of Colonial Secretary.\n\n29 I now proceed to the subject of the suppression of the Colonial Surgeon's reports. If it be the wish of H.M. Government that the opinions and the interests of this community, as regards their own municipal affairs, should be ignored, and the voice of the press actually repudiated, still I cannot believe that Your Grace will ever sanction the suppression of official medical reports, exposing as they certainly must, the sanitary effects of municipal mismanagement. I pray Your Grace to take especial notice that the Colonial Surgeon is one of the very few heads of departments who is not upon the Legislative Council.\n\n30 The sequel will, however, prove that although the Colonial Surgeon is not on the Legislative Council, and although he is an efficient and public-spirited officer, yet that the unique system which prevails renders his efficiency and public spirit nugatory to a great extent. Soon after I first did myself the honor to address Your Grace, a month ago, the Colonial Surgeon was subjected to a persecution at the hands of His Excellency the Governor, under the threat of suspension, for being suspected of having furnished me with a portion of the information which I communicated to Your Grace. I know not how the matter was arranged, but I learn on good authority that His Excellency on one occasion so far forgot himself as to throw the bundle of reports at the Surgeon's head. Since the departure of the last mail, medical reports for the past year have been published in the local Gazette. They are reduced to the shape of a mere abstract, abundantly proving that the steps adopted to intimidate the Colonial Surgeon have produced the effect intended. I would respectfully submit that if the Reports as they originally stood were called for, a perusal of them must inevitably tend to corroborate the views I have ventured to express to Your Grace.\n\n31 Four or five other officers of Government have also recently been intimidated in like manner, and for the same reason, but I am not aware whether suspension was or was not threatened. A threatening letter was written to the Colonial Surgeon, as I have been told, by the acting Colonial Secretary himself, and bore no number. I do most respectfully submit to Your Grace, that if such a system be in accordance with the wishes of Her Majesty's Government, a new phase becomes eliminated regarding British institutions. Here is a self-supporting Colony without the smallest voice in its own municipal affairs, with a local government that not only deems itself exclusively responsible direct to Your Grace, but which insists upon its own representations of its own conduct being the only materials which shall be supplied to Your Grace whereby to judge of its acts—intimidating, under threat of suspension, such of its own subordinates as it may suspect of communicating its secrets to the Press, and suppressing official reports lest their tenor may be displeasing to Your Grace.\n\n32 I can arrive at no other conclusions than those I have expressed. I respectfully take the ground that the system I have indicated bred the abuses which by the finding of the Executive Council, I have proved existed, and as the result of my labor was merely the removal of an effect leaving the cause untouched, I feel it a duty to intrude myself upon Your Grace in the manner I now do.\n\n33 In conclusion, I beg to say that I firmly believe I can prove every statement contained in this letter, and I beg of Your Grace, in case my veracity should be in any way impugned, to grant me an opportunity of explanation, ere concluding to discredit me.\n\nI remain,\n\nMy Lord Duke,\n\nYour most obedient Servant,\n\nUp Murrow\n\nP. T. O.\n\n409", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-085 - Sir Robinson - 1862 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 253575, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-086 - Sir Robinson - 1862 [5-6]", "page_number": 203, "title": "CO129-086 - Sir Robinson - 1862 [5-6]", "content_text": "# Daily Press\n## To the Editor of the \"Daily Press\"\n### HONGKONG, 15th October, 1861.\n\nYou will never rest until Dr. Bridges shall be brought to justice. The finding of the Council on the Civil Service abuses will stir up Chisholm Anstey, and I should not be surprised to see your threat carried out. Mr. Forth ably proved the existence of, shall be exterminated root and branch. You are clearly correct in your views. Your influence as a journalist is sufficiently strong to confound the evil doers and I therefore urge you to go on as you have been doing. You cannot be too abusive so long as you adhere to the strict truth. The names of Caine, Caldwell, Bridges, and Mercer stand out in bold relief as plumes in your helm. You have utterly unfurled them, but pray do not stop until you have destroyed them. As things improve these men will be deemed the more odious, and if they can but be kept down a little, affairs will improve rapidly you may depend.\n\nYou have run all the papers off the field but one, and really for all the influence it has that one may be said \"caving in.\" But I have said that you show signs of caring in as Jonathan Bays. You seem to think that because a demonstration is not made in your favor that therefore the community are indifferent to your services in running to the earth the abominable abuses which existed here. Believe me that you are very much mistaken. The support that your paper has received should surely be a convincing and tangible proof of the opinion of the community regarding your public services.\n\nAs for Mr. Alexander's qualification, why he was of old a protege of Colonel Caine and subsequently a mere creature of Dr. Bridges. He is Dr. Bridges' agent at this moment, holding his power of attorney. But what disgusts me with Mr. Alexander is this, He sat as acting Colonial Secretary at the very time Mr. Bay was taxing master on that Bill which Dr. Bridges got up as his revenge, Dr. B. was getting up a petition to Government to increase Mr A's salary. By all rules of fairness and etiquette, Mr. Forth should have been nominated--simply because he had a right to expect it, and therefore to disappoint him was to wound his feelings. His right to expect it consists in this-that upon the desk being vacant previously, Mr. Forth occupied it, and therefore to pass him over now is tantamount to telling the public that he did not acquit himself on the previous occasion to the satisfaction of the Government, which we all know is the reverse of the fact.\n\nI never read your article about it, neither do I think ten people in the Colony take that trouble. The fact is that the people here are sufficiently occupied with their own business with interfering with that of others. This Civil abuse affair is considered to be your business, and very properly so too. In the first instance, I in common with every one else thought that you had undertaken a vain task. As there is no use speaking to you when you have once taken a thing in your head, we all most supposed that when a surfeit of labor had driven off the novelty of the thing that you would back out and be laughed at.\n\nBut no--you have succeeded and certainly you deserve great credit. The nerve, tact, and perseverance which you have exhibited are beyond all praise. Certainly you could hardly expect that any one would have come forward to help you, when it was clear you were a safe winner.\n\nMr. Forth always was inimical to Dr. Bridges and his clique. It never would have done to have had him so near the Colonial Surgeon. Spur him not. He is a dirty dog. See how he behaved to the Governor at the present juncture of affairs.\n\nI do trust that you will not flinch a hair until the abuses you have denounced and so ably proved the existence of, shall be exterminated root and branch.\n\nYou have threatened over and over again that Dr. Bridges shall be brought to justice. I therefore consider Mr. Alexander's appointment as an insult to the Colony and as resulting entirely from Mr Mercer's underhand influence.\n\nThe finding of the Council is as you say most damning to Mr Mercer as much as to Mr Caldwell in my opinion. If Mr. M. did as you say meet Mr Caldwell at a banquet in the Masonic lodge, then he should be cut by all gentlemen.\n\nKeep that arrow in your quiver and spare not. So long as Mr. Mercer enjoys the influence he clearly possesses your labor is not lost.\n\nYour old friend\n\n### 16th October, 1861.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-086 - Sir Robinson - 1862 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 254072, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-087 - Sir Robinson - 1862 [7] & Acting Governor Mercer - 1862 [7-9]", "page_number": 178, "title": "CO129-087 - Sir Robinson - 1862 [7] & Acting Governor Mercer - 1862 [7-9]", "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.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-087 - Sir Robinson - 1862 [7] & Acting Governor Mercer - 1862 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 255516, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-090 - Public Offices & Others - 1862", "page_number": 228, "title": "CO129-090 - Public Offices & Others - 1862", "content_text": "It is not my desire to inflict upon Your Grace my views, or opinions upon this subject, at this stage of my correspondence--but having touched upon two points in my previous respects to Your Grace which will tend to illustrate what I have advanced, I deem it my duty to seize upon the opportunity afforded in having called Your Grace's attention to these points, to demonstrate my meaning for Your Grace's information. The points I allude to refer, first, to the partiality exhibited by the existing local administration towards Mr. Alexander, the present acting Colonial Secretary; and second, to the suppression of the Colonial Surgeon's reports for three years.\n\nThe root of all the evil which has occurred here is the secret underhand system, invented I may say, by Colonel Caine the late Lieut. Governor, and Mr. Mercer, the present Colonial Secretary elect, now absent in England.\n\nThe system amounted simply to this. Every act and intention of the local government was kept secret--most flagrant abuses prevailed, and the grossest mismanagement existed. Dispatches to Downing Street, the contents of which were kept a profound secret, were relied upon for exculpation. In fact the local government held themselves alone responsible to the Secretary of State for the Colonies, who could only judge by these secret despatches. I cannot illustrate how little reliance can be placed on these despatches better than by appending the charges which I made before the Executive Council against the late administration of this colony for deceiving by the means I have pointed out, H. M. Government. These charges although published on the minutes were refused to be entertained. I may further mention that the published report of the Council contains a large quantity of the despatches which the late administration had suppressed.\n\nThe municipal affairs of the Colony are entirely out of the control of the community, and are mismanaged by the local Government under the secret underhand system I have alluded to, to an extent so incredible that it would be in vain my attempting to ask Your Grace's credence to the facts which are patent to all out here. Your Grace is aware that the municipal affairs of this colony, comprise almost the entire functions of the local government. Nearly all the heads of departments are upon the Legislative Council, and it is hardly likely that they will meet to find fault with each other, especially when the smallest display of public spirit is, as I think I shall make it appear, deemed by the Governor a symptom of insubordination.\n\nWhen H. M. Government directed that non-official members should sit upon the Legislative Council of this Colony, the intention must have been to introduce a little of the popular element therein, and the same motive must clearly have dictated the advisability of admitting the Press to the Legislative sittings.\n\nNever was a liberal idea more utterly defeated. The non-official members of the Council are selected by His Excellency. The heads of the two eminent firms are selected as a prescriptive right, the third non-official member being entirely under their control. The two leading firms I allude to have such enormous wealth and influence that they have no sympathy whatever, but the reverse with the general community.\n\nThese non-official Councillors do not deem it becoming to appear in opposition to the wishes of the Governor. They desire to uphold above all things, the integrity and the supremacy of Her Majesty's authority: and although they could if they wished offer a serious obstacle to the will of the Governor, they feel such a course discourteous and therefore by all means to be eschewed. They carry their subservience so far that upon a late occasion when one of them (for the second time within my knowledge) proposed an amendment to a clause in an Ordinance, His Excellency the Governor would not allow the amendment to be put, and the Honorable Member submitted. As no Ordinance can be put except with the Governor's consent, Your Grace cannot fail to see that His Excellency's power is supreme.\n\nAs for the admission of the press, precisely the same remarks apply. It is true that since the privilege was granted the press have never been refused admittance, but if it be desired to exclude the reporters, the time of meeting has simply to be kept secret and the object is attained. Thus when His Excellency the Governor applied to the Council for a vote for furniture, (a grant the Council had no right to make) the press was excluded in the manner described. So also when the application was made for a general increase of the salaries of the officers of the Civil service, (the Colonial Surgeon's being decreased owing as is supposed to the tenor of his suppressed reports) was the press in like manner excluded. As the non-official members were of course privy to the secret, their subservience to the will of the Governor cannot be more forcibly illustrated than by the relation of this circumstance.\n\nTo proceed with my subject. It was upon Mr. Mercer's strong recommendation that Dr. Bridges was given acting employment in the service of the local Government. In the conduct of the abuses, which give rise to so much scandal, there really was little difference before and after Dr. Bridges' taking office. Mr. Mercer must have been as well aware of them, as I, or any other old resident was. Dr. Bridges being a lawyer in full practice, and a money lender besides, combined his public functions with his private business, and hence it came to pass that hidden matters came to the surface.\n\nThe finding of the Executive Council on the Civil Service abuses, I respectfully submit, is as condemnatory of Dr. Bridges as it is of Mr. Caldwell. As thus, it condemns Mr. Caldwell, first, for associating with a notorious pirate, and second, for having stated falsely on oath that some inmates of a brothel escaped into the private residence of Mr. May the superintendent of Police,-for having repeated the accusation (being well aware of its untruth,) before the Caldwell commission some five months afterwards, and again repeated it in a pamphlet which he published, called his Vindication.\n\nRegarding the first portion of the finding. When the papers of the pirate chief, whose intimate associate Mr. Caldwell had been, were seized, Mr. May, the superintendent of Police, officially informed Dr. Bridges, then acting Colonial Secretary, that the papers implicated Mr. Caldwell. Dr. Bridges garbled and threw discredit on this dispatch, and subsequently did his utmost to have Mr. May suspended as well as Mr. Anstey in fact he had all but succeeded, and his failing was simply the result of chance. Dr. Bridges and Mr. Caldwell had many business connexions together, and after the pirate chief was sentenced, Dr. B., who as acting Colonial Secretary, had a seat on the Executive Council, did his utmost to further Mr. Caldwell's endeavors, and but for another fortuitous circumstance, would have obtained a remission of the pirate's sentence. Dr. Bridges subsequently ordered the papers to be burnt, and then on his oath in the witness box in the libel case of the Queen v. Tarrant, stated that when he ordered those papers to be burnt he had no knowledge of any connexion between the pirate Chief and Mr. Caldwell. So much for the first portion of the finding.\n\nAs for the second portion-It was Dr. Bridges that forced Mr. Caldwell to utter the falsehood in the first instance about the women escaping into Mr. May's house. It turned out, that Sir John Bowring the Governor, had called upon Mr. Caldwell a day or two after the charge was made, to prove or retract it. Mr. Caldwell retracted it, and Dr. Bridges then acting Colonial Secretary, suppressed the retractation. Before the Caldwell Commission Dr. Bridges himself repeated the falsehood.\n\nThus far My Lord Duke every circumstance I have named as to both portions of the finding in relation to Dr. Bridges, was proved before the Executive Council at their sittings on the Civil Service abuses. One circumstance more remained to be proved--namely Dr. Bridges' connection with the pamphlet called the Vindication. The finding was not published until some months after it had been arrived at. Subsequently to its publication, I was prepared with evidence to show that Dr. Bridges had corrected the proofs of that pamphlet--but I was not allowed to bring forward the evidence.\n\nYour Grace must not suppose that either Mr. Caldwell's or Dr. Bridges' culpability is confined to these two delinquencies. The finding restricted the guilt of the former to these two points, and therefore I simply wish to show Your Grace that as far as the finding goes, Dr. Bridges is fully as culpable as Mr. Caldwell.\n\nHaving connected Dr. Bridges and Mr. Caldwell, I now proceed to show their connexion with Mr. Mercer. I should explain that the sittings of the Executive Council upon the Civil Service abuse Enquiry lasted over a period of ten months, and embraced about thirty sittings, many of which lasted the entire day. Not only had I to bring the charges and prove them, but as Mr Caldwell was allowed to be on his defence from first to last, I had almost perpetually to be combating the falsehoods and tutored evidence which he relied upon. It is impossible therefore, under such circumstances, that any man of ordinary intelligence placed in my position should not form impressions, amounting to convictions, as to what was the respective state of mind of each member of the Council. The Governor was repeatedly forcibly struck with the weight of evidence against the accused, as it was elicited, and more than once gave vent to his feelings in terms of indignant remonstrance. The Chief Justice at the commencement appeared difficult to convince, but as conviction stole over him his consistency to the last could hardly be mistaken. As for Mr. Mercer, his strong friendship and continual partisanship with Dr. Bridges were so notorious, that at the opening of the enquiry I strongly objected to his sitting on the Council. His ascendancy over the Governor was clearly supreme and it always appeared to me that His Excellency had been talked over, for at each meeting I had as it were to begin over again. From the first to the last I was never informed that I had proved one single point. Whenever Dr. Bridges' name appeared, Mr. Mercer came to the front-on one occasion a most damning fact against Dr. Bridges had come out which was omitted on the minutes, and Mr. Mercer opposed its insertion in the most determined manner, until I begged that my protest against the omission might be substituted. On this occasion Mr. Mercer pleaded in Dr. Bridges extenuation a conversation he had had with a special juryman who had sat in the case of the Queen v Tarrant. But for my own perseverance and the integrity of the Chief Justice I have a strong conviction that no finding ever would have been come to. As it was, after my patience had been severely taxed, the enquiry was stopped at the most important, and most easily proved charge, just at the point where the guilt of the accused had become so apparent as to make it evident, even to himself, that he could not longer remain in the public service, for he resigned.\n\nAfter Dr. Bridges' guilt had been proved, until the day he left the Colony. He boasted on the eve of his departure for England, (which occurred ere the close of the enquiry) that His Excellency had requested him to look after the interests of this colony in Downing Street, relative to the Kowloon cession. I offered to prove this unseemly boast before the Council but I was \"pooh-poohed.”\n\n226", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-090 - Public Offices & Others - 1862.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 255517, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-090 - Public Offices & Others - 1862", "page_number": 229, "title": "CO129-090 - Public Offices & Others - 1862", "content_text": "# \n\nAnd in this regard I may be excused for mentioning to Your Grace that the finding was arrived at some months before it was published, and that I was in perfect ignorance as to its tenor, until its publication. Surely as my motives were purely public spirited, officers of H.M. Government should not have used me as it suited their purposes and no more. If it were necessary, I could urge a claim to be heard, but I am confident Your Grace will listen to me, and not force me to silence under the conviction that I have simply had in this matter my labor for my pains.\n\nI should further mention that a few days subsequent to the publication of the finding, Mr. Mercer met Mr. Caldwell at a banquet at the Freemason's lodge, the former being the provincial Grand Master of the fraternity.\n\nAnd now may it please Your Grace to consider the existing evils which denote a perpetuation of the system which has caused this colony to earn the unenviable notoriety it has attained. In the case of the Queen v Tarrant, Nov. 1858, when the verdict was against the plaintiff, the defendant's costs amounted to $750. These the government having to pay, Sir John Bowring caused a letter to be addressed to the acting Attorney General remonstrating against the exorbitant amount allowed. At foot I append a copy of the despatch.\n\nIn the case of the Queen (at the suit of Colonel Caine) v Tarrant, March 1860, Dr. Bridges was retained as Attorney for the prosecution, (during the administration of His Excellency Sir Hercules Robinson). The verdict was for the plaintiff, the sentence being one year's imprisonment in the Criminal Gaol. Mr. Mercer, Dr. Bridges, and Mr. Alexander, then Registrar and taxing officer of the Supreme Court, and now acting Colonial Secretary, united to make this sentence as severe as possible and to effect the victim's ruin, in which they effectually succeeded. To an application which Mr. Tarrant made for some relaxation of the Criminal Gaol discipline, Mr. Mercer and a strong partisan of Dr. Bridges, named Lyall (for whom Dr. Bridges had obtained a seat on the Legislative Council) visited the Gaol as Justices of the Peace, and not only reported unfavorably as to the application, but thrust as much indignity as they could upon the sufferer. The Governor of the Gaol, also a nominee of Dr. Bridges and a strong partisan of the clique I have named, did his utmost to aggravate the sentence. Mr. Alexander taxed Dr. Bridges' costs at $2,500 about. If there was any difference between the two cases I have cited, it surely ran in favor of the former as far as costs are concerned. Half of Mr. Tarrant's term of sentence was remitted by the Governor, because His Excellency was aware from a note which Sir John Bowring wrote to his son, then resident here, that instructions would be received to that effect by the mail next expected.\n\nUpon Mr. Tarrant leaving the Gaol, he was arrested on a writ of ca. sa. at the suit of Dr. Bridges, for these costs. He was cast into the Debtor's prison, and there remained three months longer, subjected to all the annoyances which the ingenuity of the before-mentioned Gaol governor, formerly a Drill sergeant, could devise. He had the costs retaxed, but with no better result. The whole bar was retained against him and he could obtain no redress. Taken from the Court after his sentence direct to the Gaol, without being allowed to call at his office for one minute, even to arrange his private papers, his business was abandoned. In a short time his goods, chattels, and effects were seized by his other creditors to prevent their falling into Dr. Bridges' hands, and were sold by the Sheriff for a trifle. Finally, the full amount of the bill of costs, with interest at one per cent month, had to be paid. Were Your Grace cognisant of the whole merits of the case, sympathy with the sufferer would not be withheld.\n\nI do not mean to infer for one moment that Mr. Alexander partook of any portion of the proceeds of this spoliation, but I do assert that some short time afterwards, Dr. Bridges got up a petition on his behalf, in which he induced all the legal profession to join, praying the Governor and Legislative Council to increase Mr. Alexander's salary. Or it may be that the application came from Mr. A. himself, and was backed by the whole of the legal profession. Dr. Bridges certainly made himself busy in the matter, and as certainly the circumstance of Mr. A. being the recipient of fees of office was carefully and artfully concealed. I should further mention that upon Dr. Bridges leaving the Colony, he appointed Mr. Alexander as his agent—a connexion which doubtless still exists.\n\nThereafter Mr. Alexander became a marked man for Governmental favors. The situation of Chief Magistrate falling vacant, he was selected to fill it and placed above another in a very unseemly manner. He continued in this acting appointment, performing the functions of Registrar of the Court in addition, until the absence of Mr. Mercer, when he was selected over the heads of several, in an equally unseemly manner, or perhaps more so, to fill the acting appointment of Colonial Secretary.\n\nI now proceed to the subject of the suppression of the Colonial Surgeon's reports. If it be the wish of H.M. Government that the opinions and the interests of this community, as regards their own municipal affairs, should be ignored, and the voice of the press actually repudiated, still I cannot believe that Your Grace will ever sanction the suppression of official medical reports, exposing as they certainly must the sanitary effects of municipal mismanagement. I pray Your Grace to take especial notice that the Colonial Surgeon is one of the very few heads of departments who is not upon the Legislative Council, and I cannot fancy a more forcible illustration of the illusion which H.M. Government labors under, regarding the efficiency of that body, than a relation of the circumstances connected with these suppressed medical reports. The Council, as I have already averred, is simply in effect composed of the heads of departments meeting to discuss their own acts, and to regulate their own salaries and allowances. It is the most unlikely of all conceivable contingencies, that honorable members under such circumstances will meet to find fault with each other's acts. Recrimination would in such case be inevitable, and a very different state of affairs arise, on the point of decorum, to that dignified propriety which at present characterises the sittings.\n\n227\n\nThe sequel will however prove, that although the Colonial Surgeon is not on the Legislative Council, and although he is an efficient and public-spirited officer, yet that the unique system which prevails renders his efficiency and public spirit nugatory to a great extent. Soon after I first did myself the honor to address Your Grace, a month ago, the Colonial Surgeon was subjected to a persecution at the hands of His Excellency the Governor, under the threat of suspension, for being suspected of having furnished me with a portion of the information which I communicated to Your Grace. I know not how the matter was arranged, but I learn on good authority that His Excellency on one occasion so far forgot himself, as to throw the bundle of reports at the Surgeon's head. Since the departure of the last mail, medical reports for the past year have been published in the local Gazette. They are reduced to the shape of a mere abstract, abundantly proving that the steps adopted to intimidate the Colonial Surgeon have produced the effect intended. I would respectfully submit that if the Reports as they originally stood were called for, a perusal of them must inevitably tend to corroborate the views I have ventured to express to Your Grace.\n\nFour or five other officers of Government have also recently been intimidated in like manner, and for the same reason, but I am not aware whether suspension was or was not threatened. A threatening letter was written to the Colonial Surgeon, as I have been told, by the acting Colonial Secretary himself, and bore no number. I do most respectfully submit to Your Grace, that if such a system be in accordance with the wishes of Her Majesty's Government, a new phase becomes eliminated regarding British institutions. Here is a self-supporting Colony without the smallest voice in its own municipal affairs, with a local government that not only deems itself exclusively responsible direct to Your Grace, but which insists upon its own representations of its own conduct being the only materials which shall be supplied to Your Grace whereby to judge of its acts—intimidating, under threat of suspension, such of its own subordinates as it may suspect of communicating its secrets to the Press, and suppressing official reports lest their tenor may be displeasing to Your Grace.\n\nI can arrive at no other conclusions than those I have expressed. I respectfully take the ground that the system I have indicated bred the abuses which by the finding of the Executive Council, I have proved existed, and as the result of my labor was merely the removal of an effect leaving the cause untouched, I feel it a duty to intrude myself upon Your Grace in the manner I now do.\n\nIn conclusion, I beg to say that I firmly believe I can prove every statement contained in this letter, and I beg of Your Grace, in case my veracity should be in any way impugned, to grant me an opportunity of explanation, ere concluding to discredit me.\n\nI remain,\n\nMy Lord Duke,\n\nYour most obedient Servant.\n\nP. T. O.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-090 - Public Offices & Others - 1862.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 255542, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-090 - Public Offices & Others - 1862", "page_number": 254, "title": "CO129-090 - Public Offices & Others - 1862", "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.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-090 - Public Offices & Others - 1862.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 255683, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-091 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1863 [1-3]", "page_number": 11, "title": "CO129-091 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1863 [1-3]", "content_text": "## 77\n\nA serious epidemic has been marked by sickness throughout Japan and the entire seaboard of China, and the only place that has escaped it is, I am happy to say, Hongkong.\n\n5. High deaths (Chinese) in the bark by cholera, and one or two among the outside Chinese community from the same cause are all the casualties in this respect during the past season which have come to my knowledge.\n\n4. Having however consulted the Colonial Surgeon and Lieutenant Colonel Moody, R.E., Commanding the Garrison, I resolved to take every precaution, for it would be unwise to expect a constant immunity from visitation of epidemic disease, when we have seen it so rife in our very neighborhood.\n\n5. Accordingly I have appointed a Sanitary Committee under the presidency of Mr. Henry John Ball, the following are the Members:\n\n| Member |\n|--------|\n| Lient. Colonel Moody, R.E. |\n| The Surveyor General |\n| The Colonial Surgeon |\n| F. Home, Dy. Insp. Gen. of Hospitals |\n| Fr. Mackay, R.N. |\n| W. J. J. Mackenzie (of the House of Dent & Co.) |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-091 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1863 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 256714, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-093 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1863 [7-10]", "page_number": 72, "title": "CO129-093 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1863 [7-10]", "content_text": "COLONIAL ESTIMATES-HONGKONG.\n\nCOLONIAL ESTIMATES HONGKONG.\n\n9\n\nB.\n\nCIVIL LIST.\n\n(As per Ordinances No. 13 of 1860, and No. 5 of 1862.)\n\n$ C.\n\nGovernor and Commander-in-Chief,..\n\n24,000.00\n\nBrought forward,\n\n111,021.00\n\n111,024.00\n\nChief Justice,.\n\n12,000.00\n\nAbstract of Sums required to defray the Expenses of the Colonial Government of Hongkong for the Year from 1st January to 31st December, 1864, shewing also the Amount expended for the Year previous to that in which the Estimates are prepared, viz: 1862.\n\nColonial Secretary,\n\n7,200.00 SURVEYOR GENERAL'S ESTABLISHMENT:—\n\nJudge of the Court of Summary Jurisdiction,\n\n2,400.00\n\n7,200.00\n\n2nd do.,\n\n1,440.00\n\nAttorney General,\n\n4,800.00\n\nColonial Treasurer,\n\n4,800.00 POLICE MAGISTRATES' ESTABLISHMENT :——\n\nAuditor General,.\n\n2,400.00\n\n1st Clerk,\n\n1,920.00\n\nSurveyor General,\n\n4,800.00\n\n2nd do.,\n\n1,440.00\n\nPAGE OF DE-\n\nCAIL\n\nITEM OF ESTI-\n\nMATE.\n\nSALARIES.\n\nFIXED ESTABLISH-\n\nMENTS.\n\nPROVISIONAL AND\n\nTEMPORARY.\n\nALLOW-\n\nANCES.\n\nOFFICES CON-\n\nTINGENCIES.\n\nESTIMATE FOR 1864.\n\nEXPENDITURE OF 1862\n\nINCLUDING CIVIL LIST.\n\nTwo Police Magistrates ($3,840 each),.\n\n7,680.00\n\n3rd do.,\n\n960.00\n\nPostmaster General,\n\n3,840.00\n\n1\n\nRegistrar of Supreme Court,.\n\n3,840.00\n\nPOST OFFICE ESTABLISHMENT:-\n\nC.\n\nc. #c. ESTABLISHMENTS, 160,060 00 11,464.00 6,012.40,11,554.60\n\n$ 189,091.00\n\nC.\n\nColonial Chaplain,\n\n3,840.00 Assistant Postmaster General,\n\nColonial Surgeon,\n\n8,840.00\n\nClerk,\n\n2,400.00 1,440.00\n\nHarbour Master,.\n\n3,360.00\n\nSUPREME COURT:-\n\n24 2\n\nRegistrar General,.\n\n3,360.00\n\nClerk of Councils,\n\n900.00\n\nCrown Solicitor,.\n\nDeputy Registrar,\n\n1,200.00 1,920.00\n\n25 3\n\nPENSIONS, RETIRED ALLOWANCES, AND GRATUITIES,\n\nREVENUE SERVICES, EXCLUSIVE OF ESTABLISHMENTS, ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE,\n\nDitto,.\n\nC.\n\n$ 260,827.28\n\nf.\n\nine 10.000. Frue?\n\n8,098.52\n\n2,480.00\n\n2,602.75\n\n600.00\n\n1,184.32\n\nGOVERNOR'S ESTABLISHMENT:-\n\nClerk of Court,.\n\n1,440.00\n\n4\n\nPrivate Secretary,\n\n1,200.00\n\nJudge's Clerk,\n\n1,440.00\n\n}} \n\nECCLESIASTICAL,\n\nDitto,.\n\nCOLONIAL SECRETARY'S ESTABLISHMENT:-\n\nHARBOUR MASTER'S ESTABLISHMENT:-\n\n5\n\n31\n\nCHARITABLE ALLOWANCES,.\n\n480.00\n\nChief Clerk,\n\n2,400.00\n\n1st Clerk,\n\n1st do.,\n\n1,920.00\n\n2nd do.,\n\n1,920.00 1,440.00\n\nв\n\nEDUCATION, EXCLUSIVE OF ESTABLISHMENTS,\n\n\"\n\n2nd do.,\n\n1,440.00\n\nREGISTRAR GENERAL'S ESTABLISHMENT:-\n\n7\n\n3rd do.,\n\n1+\n\nHOSPITALS,\n\nDitto,.\n\n1,344.00\n\n1st Clerk,\n\nCOLONIAL TREASURER'S ESTABLISHMENT:-\n\n2nd do.,\n\n1,440.00 1,200.00\n\n25\n\nPOLICE,\n\nDitto,.\n\n1st Clerk and Cashier,\n\n& 8\n\n1,920.00\n\n\"\"\n\n2nd do. Accountant,\n\n1,440.00\n\nTOTAL,...\n\n$135,024.00\n\n26\n\nGAOLS,\n\nDitto,\n\nAUDITOR GENERAL'S ESTABLISHMENT\n\nClerk,\n\nor £28,130 00\n\n21\n\nRENT,\n\n1,440.00\n\nCarried over,\n\n$111,024.00\n\n2)\n\nIl\n\n12\n\n+\n\nPENSIONS, RETIRED ALLOWANCES, AND GRATUITIES.\n\n(Under authority of Ordinance No. 10 of 1862.)\n\nALREADY GRANTED:-\n\nColonel Caine,\n\nE. Michell,\n\nA. Inglis,..\n\nWm. Chapman,\n\nW. H. Mitchell,\n\nESTIMATED AMOUNT TO COVER PENSIONS WHICH MAY BE GRANTED IN 1884, 12624\n\n5,040.00\n\n451.20\n\n783.96\n\n704.00\n\n753.32\n\n7,732.48\n\n14\n\n15\n\n21\n\n16\n\n17\n\nLAND AND HOUSES PURCHASED,.\n\nSPECIAL EXPENSES,.\n\nTOTAL TO BE VOTED,\n\nNOTE.\n\nوو\n\n10 TRANSPORT,\n\n2713\n\nCONVEYANCE OF MAILS,\n\nWORKS AND BUILDINGS,\n\nROADS, STREETS AND BRIDGES,.\n\nMISCELLANEOUS SERVICES,\n\nINTEREST,\n\nune\n\n7,344.00\n\n9,383.06\n\n21,792.00\n\n46,022.97\n\n000\n\n25,000.00\n\n22,126.72\n\n3,360.00\n\n2,606.85\n\n1,500.00\n\n4,254.74\n\ndec\n\n2,880.00\n\n28,000\n\n1,683.68\n\n107,140.00\n\n134,773.74\n\n36000\n\n102,050.00\n\n250.00\n\n83,061.96\n\n3,886.14\n\n10,000.00\n\n1,500.00\n\n600.00\n\n6,521.21\n\n476,367.00\n\n587,633.94\n\n$9,000.00 £1,875\n\nFrost\n\nAmount of Civil List already provided for by Ordinances No. 13 of 1860, and\n\nNo. 5 of 1862, . Probable Expenditure on Pensions, Gratuities, &c., under authority of Ordinance\n\nNo. 10 of 1862,\n\nAmount to be voted as per present Estimates,\n\nThe foregoing Expenditure may be classified as follows:-\n\nOrdinary Expenditure,\n\nPublic Works,\n\n$135,024.00 £28,130 0 0\n\n9,000.00= 1,875 0 0 470,367.00= 99,243 2 6\n\n$620,391.00-£129,248 2 6\n\nTOTAL PROBABLE EXPENDITURE FOR 1864,.\n\nTOTAL,..\n\n$410,301.00- £85,479 7 6 210,090.00= 43,768 15 0\n\n$620,391.00= £129,248 2 6\n\n(2.000 in\n\nin h\n\n5/109.140\n\n5/1021.429\n\nZ\n\n71", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-093 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1863 [7-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 257286, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-094 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1863 [11-10]", "page_number": 222, "title": "CO129-094 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1863 [11-10]", "content_text": "218\n\nare.\n\nThe Surveyor General Colonel Mordy Commanding R.E.\n\nThe Colonial Surgeon\n\n$3 Home Deputy Superintendent, barracks\n\n& Mackay R.M.\n\nI. H. Mackenzie Esq.\n\nupon\n\nHis Excellency has also decided\n\nnaming\n\nMr. Holmes clerk.\n\nIn your Court to act as Secretary to the Committee, the question of remuneration to be made to that Gentleman for his services being reserved till the amount of work he has to perform has been ascertained.\n\nHis Excellency is desirous that you should call a meeting as early as may be convenient to yourself and the members of the Committee, it is all important that any report the Committee think it necessary to make should be sent in as soon as possible with a view to carrying out its recommendation before the return of the hot weather. And I enclose for your perusal a letter from Colonel Morry.\n\nI am to add that the Council Chamber is placed by His Excellency at the service of the Committee as a place", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-094 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1863 [11-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 259847, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-100 - Sir Robinson - 1864 [9]", "page_number": 55, "title": "CO129-100 - Sir Robinson - 1864 [9]", "content_text": "COLONIAL ESTIMATES-HONGKONG.\n\nCIVIL LIST.\n\nPage 4.\n\nCOLONIAL ESTIMATES-HONGKONG.\n\nB.\n\n52\n\n(As per Ordinances No. 13 of 1860, No. 5 of 1862, and No. 2 of 1861.)\n\n$ c.\n\nGovernor and Commander-in-Chief,\n\n24,000.00\n\nBrought forward,\n\n117,744.00\n\nAbstract of Sums required to defray the Expenses of the Colonial Government of Hongkong for the Year from 1st January to 31st December, 1865, shewing also the Amount expended for the Year previous to that in which the Estimates are prepared, viz: 1863.\n\nChief Justice,\n\n12,000.00\n\nColonial Secretary,\n\n7,200.00\n\nSURVEYOR GENERAL'S ESTABLISHMENT:-\n\nJudge of the Court of Summary Jurisdiction,\n\n4,800.00\n\nAttorney General,\n\n4,800.00\n\nColonial Treasurer,\n\n4,800.00\n\nAuditor General,\n\n2,400.00\n\nMINT ESTABLISHMENT:-\n\nSuperintendent of the Bullion Office,\n\n3,840.00\n\nSurveyor General,\n\n4,800.00\n\nAssayer,\n\n3,840.00\n\nMaster of the Mint,\n\n6,720.00\n\nSuperintendent of the Coining Department,\n\n3,840.00\n\nSALARIES.\n\nFIXED ESTABLISHMENTS.\n\nPROVISIONAL AND TEMPORARY ALLOWANCES.\n\nOFFICE CONTINGENCIES.\n\nESTIMATE FOR 1865.\n\nEXPENDITURE OF 1863 INCLUDING CIVIL LIST.\n\nC.\n\n$\n\nTwo Police Magistrates ($3,840 each),\n\n7,680.00\n\nof the Melting do.,\n\n3,840.00\n\nPostmaster General,\n\n3,840.00\n\nPOLICE MAGISTRATES' ESTABLISHMENT:-\n\nRegistrar of Supreme Court,\n\n3,840.00\n\nColonial Chaplain,\n\n3,840.00\n\n1st Clerk,\n\n1,920.00\n\n2nd do.,\n\n1,440.00\n\nColonial Surgeon,\n\n3,840.00\n\nHarbour Master,\n\n3,360.00\n\nRegistrar General,\n\n3rd do.,\n\n960.00\n\nESTABLISHMENTS, 176,797.60 9,062.80 9,040.40 13,202.00\n\nPENSIONS, RETIRED ALLOWANCES, AND GRATUITIES,\n\n242 REVENUE SERVICES, EXCLUSIVE OF ESTABLISHMENTS,\n\nADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE, Ditto,\n\nC.\n\nC.\n\nP.\n\n208,156.80\n\n304,182.22\n\n9,966.70\n\n2,280.00\n\n850.00\n\n815.23\n\n1,617.95\n\n3,360.00\n\nPOST OFFICE ESTABLISHMENT:-\n\nClerk of Councils,\n\n980.00\n\nAssistant Postmaster General, Clerk,\n\n2,400.00\n\nECCLESIASTICAL,\n\nDitto,\n\n1,440.00\n\nGOVERNOR'S ESTABLISHMENT:-\n\nPrivate Secretary,\n\n1,200.00\n\nSUPREME COURT:-\n\nCrown Solicitor,\n\n1,200.00\n\nCOLONIAL SECRETARY'S ESTABLISHMENT:-\n\nChief Clerk,\n\n2,400.00\n\nDeputy Registrar,\n\n1,920.00\n\nClerk of Court,\n\n1,440.00\n\nHOSPITALS,\n\nDitto,\n\n7,864.00\n\n7,125.08\n\n1st do.,\n\n1,920.00\n\n2nd do.,\n\n1,440.00\n\nJudge's Clerk,\n\n1,440.00\n\nPOLICE,\n\nDitto,\n\n36,950.00\n\n38,938.27\n\n3rd do.,\n\n1,344.00\n\nHARBOUR MASTER'S ESTABLISHMENT:-\n\n1st Clerk,\n\n1,920.00\n\nCOLONIAL TREASURER'S ESTABLISHMENT-\n\n2nd do.,\n\n1,440.00\n\nGAOLS,\n\nDitto,\n\n29,636.00\n\n50,976.93\n\n1st Clerk and Cashier,\n\n1,920.00\n\nRENT,\n\n3,390.00\n\n2,840.61\n\n2nd do.,\n\nAccountant,\n\n1,440.00\n\nREGISTRAR GENERAL'S ESTABLISHMENT :-\n\n1st Clerk,\n\n1,440.00\n\nTRANSPORT,\n\n1,500.00\n\n3,008.40\n\nAUDITOR GENERAL'S ESTABLISHMENT:-\n\nClerk,\n\n1,440.00\n\n2nd do.,\n\n1,200.00\n\nCONVEYANCE OF MAILS,\n\n3,840.00\n\n2,820.77\n\nTOTAL,\n\n$157,104.00\n\nCarried over,\n\n$117,744.00\n\nWORKS AND BUILDINGS,\n\n168,590.00\n\n82,802.46\n\nROADS, STREETS AND BRIDGES,\n\n52,500.00\n\n65,376.44\n\nMISCELLANEOUS SERVICES,\n\n4,286.00\n\n1,228.42\n\nINTEREST,\n\nLAND AND HOUSES PURCHASED,\n\n3,211.00\n\nPENSIONS, RETIRED ALLOWANCES, AND GRATUITIES.\n\n(Under authority of Ordinance No. 10 of 1862.)\n\nSPECIAL EXPENSES,\n\n11,189.49\n\nMILITARY CONTRIBUTION,\n\n92,000.00\n\nMINT, EXCLUSIVE OF ESTABLISHMENTS,\n\n621.08\n\nALREADY GRANTED:-\n\nColonel Caine,\n\nE. Mitchell,\n\nA. Inglis,\n\nWm. Chapman,\n\nW. H. Mitchell,\n\nA. Grand Pré,\n\nN'g Foong Shan,\n\n704.00\n\n753.32\n\n644.00\n\n140.00\n\nAmount of Civil List already provided for by Ordinances No. 13 of 1860, No. 5 of 1862, and No. 2 of 1861,\n\nProbable Expenditure on Pensions, Gratuities, &c., under authority of Ordinance No. 10 of 1862,\n\nAmount to be voted as per present Estimates,\n\nNOTE.\n\n$157,104.00\n\n10,000.00\n\n612,322.80\n\n8,516.48\n\nTOTAL PROBABLE EXPENDITURE FOR 1865,\n\n$779,426.80\n\nESTIMATED AMOUNT TO COVER PENSIONS WHICH MAY BE GRANTED IN 1865,\n\n1,488.52\n\n$10,000.00\n\nThe foregoing Expenditure may be classified as follows :-\n\nOrdinary Expenditure,\n\n$466,336.80\n\nPublic Works,\n\n221,090.00\n\nMilitary Contribution,\n\n92,000.00\n\nTOTAL,\n\n$779,426.80\n\nPage 11\n\n...\n\nPage ...\n\n...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-100 - Sir Robinson - 1864 [9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 266558, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-114 - MacDonnell - 1866 [7-8]", "page_number": 451, "title": "CO129-114 - MacDonnell - 1866 [7-8]", "content_text": "COLONIAL ESTIMATES-HONGKONG.\n\nCIVIL LIST.\n\n(As per Ordinances No. 13 of 1860, No. 5 of 1862, and No. 2 of 1864.)\n\nCOLONIAL ESTIMATES-HONGKONG.\n\nB.\n\nAbstract of Sums required to defray the Expenses of the Colonial Government of Hongkong for the Year from 1st January to 31st December, 1867, shewing also the Amount expended for the Year previous to that in which the Estimates are prepared, viz.: 1865.\n\n446\n\nC.\n\nGovernor and Commander-in-Chief, $24,000.00\n\nBrought forward, $117,744.00\n\nChief Justice, $12,000.00\n\nColonial Secretary, $7,200.00\n\nJudge of the Court of Summary Jurisdiction, $7,200.00\n\nSUVERYOR GENERAL'S ESTABLISHMENT:—\n\n1st Clerk, $2,400.00\n\n2nd do., $1,440.00\n\nAttorney General, $4,800.00\n\nColonial Treasurer, $4,800.00\n\nMINT ESTABLISHMENT:-\n\nAuditor General, $2,400.00\n\nSurveyor General, $4,800.00\n\nSuperintendent of the Bullion Office, $3,840.00\n\nAssayer, $3,840.00\n\nMaster of the Mint, $6,720.00\n\nTwo Police Magistrates ($3,840 each), $7,680.00\n\nSuperintendent of the Coining Department, $3,840.00\n\nDo. of the Melting do., $9,840.00\n\nPostmaster General, $9,840.00\n\nRegistrar of Supreme Court, $3,840.00\n\nPOLICE MAGISTRATES' ESTABLISHMENT:\n\nColonial Chaplain, $8,840.00\n\n1st Clerk, $1,920.00\n\n25\n\nColonial Surgeon, $3,840.00\n\n2nd do., $1,440.00\n\nHarbor Master, $3,360.00\n\nRegistrar General, $3rd do., $960.00\n\n \n ITEM OF ESTIMATE\n SALARIES\n ALLOWANCE\n FIXED ESTABLISHMENT\n PROVISIONAL\n OFFICE CONTINGENCIES\n ESTIMATED POWER\n EXPENDITURE OF 1865 INCLUDING CIVIL LIST\n \n \n ESTABLISHMENTS\n $197,034.60\n $56,881.60\n $10,584.40\n $15,642.00\n \n \n \n \n \n PENSIONS, RETIRED ALLOWANCES AND GRATUITIES\n \n \n \n \n $9,439.13\n $2,140.00\n $1,810.63\n \n \n REVENUE SERVICES, EXCLUSIVE OF ESTABLISHMENTS\n \n $850.00\n $817.48\n $3,360.00\n \n \n \n \n \n Clerk of Councils\n $960.00\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n POST OFFICE ESTABLISHMENT:—\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ECCLESIASTICAL\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n GOVERNOR'S ESTABLISHMENT:----\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Assistant Postmaster General\n $2,400.00\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Clerk\n $1,440.00\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n CHARITABLE ALLOWANCES\n $400.00\n $300.00\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Private Secretary\n $1,200.00\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n EDUCATION, EXCLUSIVE OF ESTABLISHMENTS\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n SUPREME COURT:-\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Crown Solicitor\n $1,200.00\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n HOSPITALS\n $9,134.00\n $8,624.86\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Chief Clerk\n $2,400.00\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Deputy Registrar\n $1,920.00\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 1st do.\n $1,920.00\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Clerk of Court\n $1,440.00\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n POLICE\n $48,210.00\n $30,429.34\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 2nd do.\n $1,440.00\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Judge's Clerk\n $1,440.00\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 3rd do.\n $1,344.00\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n GAOLS\n $38,265.00\n $34,942.88\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n HARBOR MASTER'S ESTABLISHMENT:-\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n COLONIAL TREASURER'S ESTABLISHMENT:-\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 1st Clerk\n $1,920.00\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n MINT\n $19,150.00\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 1st Clerk and Cashier\n $1,920.00\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 2nd do.\n $1,440.00\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Accountant\n $1,440.00\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n RENT\n $10,410.00\n $3,408.66\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n REGISTRAR GENERAL'S ESTABLISHMENT :----\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n AUDITOR GENERAL'S ESTABLISHMENT --\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Clerk\n $1,440.00\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 1st Clerk\n $1,440.00\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n TRANSPORT\n $3,000.00\n $3,039.46\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n CONVEYANCE OF MAILS\n $124,800.00\n $97,125.32\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Carried over\n $117,744.00\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n TOTAL\n $157,104.00\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n WORKS AND BUILDINGS\n $90,100.00\n $300,859.06\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ROADS, STREETS AND BRIDGES\n $73,500.00\n $48,492.50\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n MISCELLANEOUS SERVICES\n $3,100.00\n $4,011.87\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n INTEREST\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n LAND AND HOUSES PURCHASED\n $2,132.84\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PENSIONS, RETIRED ALLOWANCES, AND GRATUITIES\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n SPECIAL EXPENSES\n $26,000.00\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n MILITARY CONTRIBUTION\n $94,000.00\n $72,000.00\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n TOTAL TO BE VOTED\n $828,201.60\n $937,805.24\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ALREADY GRANTED:-\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Colonel Caine\n $5,040.00\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n E. Michell\n $451.20\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Wm. Chapman\n $704.00\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n W. H. Mitchell\n $753.82\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n N'g Foong Shan\n $140.00\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Bishop Smith\n $1,440.00\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n C. St. George Cleverly\n $2,000.00\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Amount of Civil List already provided for by Ordinances No. 13 of 1860, No. 5 of 1862, and No. 2 of 1864\n $157,104.00\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Probable Expenditure on Pensions, Gratuities, &c., under authority of Ordinance No. 10 of 1862\n $12,000.00\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Amount to be voted as per present Estimates\n $828,201.60\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n TOTAL PROBABLE EXPENDITURE FOR 1867\n $997,305.60\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ESTIMATED AMOUNT TO COVER PENSIONS WHICH MAY BE GRANTED IN 1867\n $1,471.48\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\nNOTE.\n\nPublic Works,\n\nThe foregoing Expenditure may be classified as follows:-\n\nOrdinary Expenditure, $712,205.60\n\nMilitary Contribution, and Gun-boat, $120,000.00\n\nTOTAL, $997,305.60", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-114 - MacDonnell - 1866 [7-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 274143, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-130 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [4-5]", "page_number": 404, "title": "CO129-130 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [4-5]", "content_text": "399 \n\nwith any important work without serious misgivings, and a conviction great misfortune and the analyses of the professional analyzer at the Mint and also of the Colonial Surgeon give from 11 to that the Public will not get their money economically laid out.\n\nCL cent CH 57. to a colony like this in financial difficulties.\n\n156. The circumstance to which I allude was the quality of the mortar used in construction of the large Goal at Stone Cutter's Island, which I found nearly completed when visiting the place on my arrival. I was struck by the inferior appearance of the Mortar in use and I took a sample of it and analyzed and reported \"Mud not mortar\". I got better results from another part of the Building with varying percentages of lime in the different samples. I then referred to the contract and found that 50 per cent lime was the quantity stipulated for and was to be paid for by the Public. I called on the Surveyor General for explanation as he must either have been guilty of great carelessness in supervising the Contractor's work or of connivance at fraud. Mr Wilson all through showed the utmost callousness, though the case was one in which most persons naturally would have been extremely sensitive. He actually dissuaded Colonel Lovell, who would...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-130 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [4-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 274282, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-130 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [4-5]", "page_number": 543, "title": "CO129-130 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [4-5]", "content_text": "# July \n\n537 \n\ninto that subject. This theater \n\nHis Excellency have \n\nnot thought proper to constitute \n\nany \n\nother Board. \n\nFrom \n\nyour \n\nown recent verbal \n\nexplanations and statements to \n\nthe Governor, it was evident \n\nyou impressed on Colonel Lovell the possibility of such inquiry leading to \n\nyourself. His Excellency \n\nclearly perceived that \n\nyou \n\ndissuaded Colonel Lovell from \n\nentering \n\non the inquiry, which qualified you to \n\nso well \n\nconduct. He therefore feels \n\nyou have thereby \n\nbeen instrumental in \n\nfixing \n\non yourself whatever prejudice attaches \n\nto the only previous analysis \n\nby \n\ncompetent parties of the Mortars \n\nused \n\nin the Brick Building. Ali's Sovereign 2 Bromatanda \n\n## July 6th\n\nso fully disposed of your objections to the \n\nconstitution of the proposed \n\nCourt \n\nhere. It is almost equally unnecessary, \n\nas will \n\npresently appear, to state to you the analysis already \n\nmade \n\nof the Mortar except to state that the Colonial Surgeon \n\n400-2 \n\naltogether ignorant of the source \n\nwhence the Mortar which he was", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-130 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [4-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 277995, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-137 - Sir MacDonnell - 1869 [4-5]", "page_number": 9, "title": "CO129-137 - Sir MacDonnell - 1869 [4-5]", "content_text": "For 584040/boy \n\n7 \n\n# FUNERAL OF THE LATE MAJOR-GENERAL BRUNKER. \n\nOn 27th March, the remains of the late Major-General Brunker, Commander of H.M. Forces in China and Japan, and Lieutenant-Governor of Hongkong, were interred in the Cemetery at the Happy Valley, with full military honours. The procession was marshalled on the Parade Ground, and started punctually at half-past three. A field battery, in charge of Capt. Carey, commanding R.A., led the way, and then, to the solemn strains of the \"Dead March in Saul,\" the 75th Regiment moved slowly into the Queen's-road and towards the Cemetery. They were followed by the band of their regiment, and that of the 29th Native Infantry. Then came the coffin, placed upon a gun-carriage, and covered with the national ensign, the Pall bearers consisting of Colonel Gore, Commandant, Doctor Heffernan, Deputy Inspector-General of Hospitals, Colonel De Butts, Commanding R.E., Commodore Jones, R.N., the Hon. J. Gardiner Austin, and Captain Raby, R.N. Following next to them, according to a touching custom in military funerals, the General's old charger was led by two soldiers of the 75th, and immediately behind were His Excellency the Governor, Captain Maxwell, D.A.A.G., Captain Shaw D.A.Q.M.G., and Captain Thompson, A.D.C., the Chief Mourners. The members of the Executive Council came next, and after them, the 29th Regiment Native Infantry, followed by a large number of English, American and other Naval Officers, and, finally by the Civil Servants of the Colony, who were all in attendance, and a large number of private gentlemen.\n\nThe crowd at the Parade Ground was very large, and the road to the Cemetery was nearly the whole length lined with spectators. The procession slowly wended its way in time to the music, broken by the booming of the minute guns; and passing the Guard House turned to the Praya, and marched by that route to the Cemetery. The hills surrounding the Wong-nei-chong valley were covered with spectators. On reaching the Cemetery, the soldiers of both regiments were told off on either side of the road, leaning upon their reversed muskets. The remainder of the procession followed the coffin to the Chapel, while the soldiers took up their position outside the grave destined to receive the mortal remains of their late commander. The service was impressively read by the Rev. Canon Beach, assisted by the Revds. J. Piper and Kyle; and the coffin was then brought out and borne to its last resting place. As it was lowered into the grave, the men of the 75th fired three volleys, which were answered by the minute guns hard by; and the impressive ceremony being closed, the troops were marshalled, and the procession returned homewards.\n\nIn addition to those mentioned as taking part in the ceremony, a large number of persons of distinction were present, among whom were Rear Ad. Rowan U.S.N. and Capts. Roe and English U.S.N.; the Hon J. Smale, Chief-Justice of Hongkong; Sir Edmund Hornby, Chief Judge of the Supreme Court for China and Japan; Mons. Du Chesne, Consul for France, Mr. Helland, Danish Consul, and Mr. Overbeck, Austrian Consul, in their official uniforms; Mr. Pollard Q.C., Mr. Hayllar, Dr. Murray, Colonial Surgeon, and others. The 29th Regiment were under the command of Major Ritherdon, Capt. Grant, and Adjutant Prendergast. Captain-Superintendent Deane, who took command of the Police, did good service, and was ably seconded by Mr. Assistant Superintendent Creagh, who took charge of the Sikh, and by Deputy Superintendent Jarman, who was also very busy.\n\nOn Sunday the Rev. Canon Beach, in the course of his sermon at the Cathedral, made a touching allusion to the death of the late Major-General. The Revd. Gentleman observed that, although the Cathedral was not the place to eulogise the dead, he thought he would be expected to allude for one moment to the fine old man whom God had so suddenly taken from our midst. Had he lived, it was his intention to have been with the congregation that day, and to have knelt with them before the altar of God. The Rev. Gentleman had had the happiness of knowing him well, and often admiring the true Christian spirit which animated him both in his public life and also in his own family. He had been taken away in mercy, and the change to him, it could not be doubted, was most blest, as he had gone to rejoin her, whose loss bore heavily upon him, although he was too brave and too meek to murmur or complain. But we should miss his erect and venerable form in the place which he was wont to occupy in the Cathedral so regularly, and from the Eucharistic feast, which he never (when able) failed to attend and partake of. He was a good man; and, by his high and courteous bearing won the love and respect of all, and the Revd Gentleman could not allow this day to pass without paying this tribute to his memory. Thank God! although he was gone from us, we believed that he still lived; for Jesus, the Resurrection, and the Life, in whom he trusted, lives; and the remembrance of his calm and Christian life would long survive in our hearts.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-137 - Sir MacDonnell - 1869 [4-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 279166, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-139 - Sir MacDonnell - 1869 [8-12]", "page_number": 200, "title": "CO129-139 - Sir MacDonnell - 1869 [8-12]", "content_text": "COLONIAL ESTIMATES—HONGKONG.\n\nCIVIL LIST.\n\nCOLONIAL ESTIMATES—HONGKONG.\n\nB.\n\n196\n\n9\n\n(48 per Ordinances No. 13 of 1860, and No. 2 of 1864.)\n\n$\n\n$ 2.\n\nAbstract of Sums, exclusive of Civil List and Pension, required to defray the Expenses of the Colonial Government of Hongkong for the Year from 1st January to 31st December, 1870, shewing also the Amount expended for the Year previous to that in which the Estimates are prepared, viz.: 1868.\n\nGovernor and Commander-in-Chief, $24,000.00\n\nBrought forward, $109,584.00\n\nChief Justice, $12,000.00\n\nColonial Secretary, $7,200.00\n\nJudge of the Court of Summary Jurisdiction, $7,200.00\n\nAUDITOR GENERAL'S ESTABLISHMENT\n\nClerk, $1,440.00\n\nPAGE OF DETAIL.\n\nESTIMATED FOR 1870 EXCLUSIVE OF CIVIL LIST AND PENSIONS, EXPENDITURE OF 1869 INCLUDING Civil List AND PENSIONS.\n\nAttorney General, $4,800.00\n\nSURVEYOR GENERAL'S ESTABLISHMENT\n\nColonial Treasurer, $4,800.00\n\n1st Clerk, $2,400.00\n\n$ C.\n\nC.\n\nAuditor General, $2,400.00\n\n2nd do., $1,440.00\n\nSurveyor General, $4,800.00\n\nTwo Police Magistrates ($3,810 each), $7,680.00\n\nPOLICE MAGISTRATES ESTABLISHMENT\n\nPostmaster General, $8,840.00\n\n1st Clerk, $1,020.00\n\nRegistrar of Supreme Court, $3,840.00\n\n2nd do., $1,440.00\n\nColonial Chaplain, $3,840.00\n\n3rd do., $960.00\n\nColonial Surgeon, $3,840.00\n\nHarbor Master, $3,860.00\n\nPOST OFFICE ESTABLISHMENT:\n\nAssistant Postmaster General, $3,360.00\n\nRegistrar General, $2,400.00\n\nClerk of Councils, $960.00\n\nClerk, $1,440.00\n\nSUPREME COURT:\n\nGOVERNOR'S ESTABLISHMENT:\n\nCrown Solicitor, $1,200.00\n\nPrivate Secretary, $1,200.00\n\nClerk of Court, $1,440.00\n\nJudge's Clerk, $1,440.00\n\nCOLONIAL SECRETARY'S ESTABLISHMENT:\n\nChief Clerk, $2,400.00\n\nHARBOR MASTER'S ESTABLISHMENT:\n\n1st Clerk, $1,920.00\n\n2nd do., $1,440.00\n\n2nd do., $1,020.00\n\n3rd do., $1,440.00\n\nREGISTRAR GENERAL'S ESTABLISHMENT:\n\n1st Clerk, $1,811.00\n\nCOLONIAL TREASURER'S ESTABLISHMENT:\n\n1st Clerk and Cashier, $1,920.00\n\nAccountant, $1,440.00\n\n2nd do., $1,200.00\n\nTOTAL, $138,104.00\n\nCarried over, $109,584.00\n\nCIVIL DEPARTMENTS:\n\nGovernor, $480.00\n\nColonial Secretary, $14,516.00\n\nColonial Treasurer, $25,559.55\n\nAuditor General, $28,878.85\n\nClerk of Councils, $4,620.00\n\nSurveyor General, $14,431.66\n\nMaster of the Mint, $12,447.00\n\nPostmaster General, $15,870.52\n\nRegistrar General, $1,086.21\n\nHarbor Master, $19,912.00\n\nCollector of Stamp Revenue, $4,460.00\n\nJUDICIAL DEPARTMENTS, $6,226.00\n\nREGISTRAR OF COMPANIES DEPARTMENT, $192.00\n\nECCLESIASTICAL, $1,134.00\n\nEDUCATIONAL, $9,200.00\n\nMEDICAL, $21,498.00\n\nPOLICE MAGISTRATES, $6,404.00\n\nPOLICE, $120,000.00\n\nGAOL, $45,523.00\n\nFIRE BRIGADE, $8,000.00\n\nPENSIONS, RETIRED ALLOWANCES AND GRATUITIES, CHARITABLE ALLOWANCES, $16,303.63\n\nTRANSPORT, $1,256.00\n\nWORKS AND BUILDINGS, $187,000.00\n\nROADS, STREETS AND BRIDGES, $41,000.00\n\nMISCELLANEOUS SERVICES, $27,800.00\n\nLAND AND HOUSES PURCHASED, SPECIAL EXPENSES, $1,500.00\n\nMILITARY CONTRIBUTION, $94,117.65\n\nTOTAL TO BE VOTED, $639,610.45\n\nPENSIONS, RETIRED ALLOWANCES, AND GRATUITIES.\n\n(Under authority of Ordinance No. 10 of 1862.)\n\nALREADY GRANTED:\n\nColonel Caine, $5,040.00\n\nE. Michell, $451.20\n\nWm. Chapman, $704.00\n\nW. H. Mitchell, $140.00\n\n'Ng Foong Shan, $1,440.00\n\nBishop Smith, $2,000.00\n\nC. St. George Cleverly, $1,280.00\n\nJ. C. Power, $960.00\n\nJ. J. Irwin, $3,240.00\n\nW. T. Mercer, $302.06\n\nJ. Thornton, $1,028.82\n\nAmount of Civil List already provided for by Ordinances No. 13 of 1860, and No. 2 of 1864, $133,104.00\n\nProbable Expenditure on Pensions, Gratuities, &c., under authority of Ordinance No. 10 of 1862, $18,000.00\n\nAmount to be voted as per present Estimates, $753.82\n\nTOTAL PROBABLE EXPENDITURE FOR 1870, $790,720.45\n\nThe foregoing Expenditure may be classified as follows:\n\nOrdinary Expenditure, $518,602.80\n\nPublic Works, $178,000.00\n\nMilitary Contribution, $94,117.65\n\nTOTAL, $790,720.45", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-139 - Sir MacDonnell - 1869 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 279198, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-139 - Sir MacDonnell - 1869 [8-12]", "page_number": 232, "title": "CO129-139 - Sir MacDonnell - 1869 [8-12]", "content_text": "COLONIAL ESTIMATES-HONGKONG.\n\nCOLONIAL ESTIMATES--HONGKONG.\n\nB.\n\n228\n\n9\n\nCIVIL LIST.\n\n(As per Ordinances No. 13 of 1860, and No. 2 of 1864.)\n\nGovernor and Commander-in-Chief,\n\n$ C. 24,000.00\n\nAbstract of Sums, exclusive of Civil List and Pension, required to defray the Expenses of the Colonial Government of Hongkong for the Year from 1st January to 31st December, 1870, shewing also the Amount expended for the Year previous to that in which the Estimates are prepared, viz.: 1868.\n\nBrought forward,.. 109,584.00\n\nChief Justice,.. 12,000.00\n\nColonial Secretary, 7,200.00\n\nJudge of the Court of Summary Jurisdiction, 7,200.00\n\nAttorney General, 4,800.00\n\nAUDITOR GENERAL'S ESTABLISHMENT:\n\nClerk, 1,440.00\n\nSURVEYOR GENERAL'S ESTABLISHMENT:\n\nColonial Treasurer, 4,800.00\n\n1st Clerk, 2,400.00\n\nAuditor General, 2,400.00\n\n2nd do., 1,440.00\n\nCIVIL DEPARTMENTS:\n\nSurveyor General, 4,800.00\n\nPOLICE MAGISTRATES' ESTABLISHMENT\n\nTwo Police Magistrates ($3,840 each), 7,680.00\n\nPostmaster General, 3,840.00\n\n1st Clerk, 1,920.00\n\nRegistrar of Supreme Court, 3,840.00\n\n2nd do., 1,440.00\n\nColonial Chaplain, 3,840.00\n\n3rd do., 960.00\n\nColonial Surgeon, 3,840.00\n\nPOST OFFICE ESTABLISHMENT:\n\nHarbor Master, 3,360.00\n\nAssistant Postmaster General, 2,400.00\n\nRegistrar General, 3,360.00\n\nGovernor, 480.00\n\nColonial Secretary, 25,559.55\n\nColonial Treasurer, 14,516.00\n\nAuditor General, 4,620.00\n\nClerk of Councils, 28,878.85\n\nSurveyor General, 14,431.66\n\nMaster of the Mint, 12,447.00\n\nPostmaster General, 15,870.52\n\nClerk of Councils, 100.00\n\nClerk, 1,086.21\n\nGOVERNOR'S ESTABLISHMENT:\n\nCrown Solicitor, 1,200.00\n\nPrivate Secretary, 1,200.00\n\nCOLONIAL SECRETARY'S ESTABLISHMENT:\n\nChief Clerk, 2,400.00\n\n1st Clerk, 1,920.00\n\n2nd do., 1,440.00\n\n3rd do., 1,344.00\n\nHARBOR MASTER'S ESTABLISHMENT:\n\n1st Clerk, 1,920.00\n\n2nd do., 1,440.00\n\nREGISTRAR GENERAL'S ESTABLISHMENT:\n\n1st Clerk, 1,440.00\n\nCOLONIAL TREASURER'S ESTABLISHMENT:\n\n1st Clerk and Cashier, 1,920.00\n\n2nd do., 1,440.00\n\nAccountant, 1,200.00\n\nTOTAL,. $133,104.00\n\nCarried over,.. $109,584.00\n\nRegistrar General, 8,412.00\n\n13,586.85\n\nHarbor Master, 15,990.80\n\n34,276.04\n\nCollector of Stamp Revenue, 4,450.00\n\n6,189.95\n\nJUDICIAL DEPARTMENTS, 9,226.00\n\n39,148.45\n\nREGISTRAR OF COMPANIES DEPARTMENT, 192.00\n\n102.00\n\nECCLESIASTICAL, 1,134.00\n\n4,768.58\n\nEDUCATIONAL, 9,200.00\n\n10,810.82\n\nMEDICAL, 21,498.00\n\n99,835.11\n\nPOLICE MAGISTRATES, 6,404.00\n\n17,591.88\n\nPOLICE, 120,000.00\n\n178,282.20\n\nGAOL, 45,523.00\n\n40,807.42\n\nFIRE BRIGADE, 8,000.00\n\n3,899.04\n\nPENSIONS, RETIRED ALLOWANCES AND GRATUITIES, 16,803.63\n\nCHARITABLE ALLOWANCES, 1,256.00\n\n350.68\n\nTRANSPORT, 3,500.00\n\n8,222.55\n\nWORKS AND BUILDINGS, 137,000.00\n\n100,614.08\n\nROADS, STREETS AND BRIDGES, MISCELLANEOUS SERVICES, 41,000.00\n\n27,800.00\n\n28,106.89\n\nLAND AND HOUSES PURCHASED, SPECIAL EXPENSES, 1,500.00\n\n6,195.68\n\nMILITARY CONTRIBUTION, 94,117.65\n\n208,144.80\n\nTOTAL TO BE VOTED, $639,610.45\n\n991,311.49\n\nPENSIONS, RETIRED ALLOWANCES, AND GRATUITIES.\n\n(Under authority of Ordinance No. 10 of 1862.)\n\nNOTE.\n\nALREADY GRANTED:\n\nColonel Caine, $5,040.00\n\nE. Michell, 451.20\n\nWm. Chapman, 704.00\n\nW. H. Mitchell, 758.82\n\n'Ng Foong Shan, 140.00\n\nBishop Smith, 1,440.00\n\nC. St. George Cleverly, 2,000.00\n\nJ. C. Power, 960.00\n\nJ. J. Irwin, 1,280.00\n\nW. T. Mercer, 3,240.00\n\nJ. Thornton, 362.60\n\n16,371.18\n\nESTIMATED AMOUNT TO COVER PENSIONS WHICH MAY BE GRANTED IN 1869, 1,628.82\n\n$18,000.00\n\nAmount of Civil List already provided for by Ordinances No. 13 of 1860, and No. 2 of 1864, 133,104.00\n\nProbable Expenditure on Pensions, Gratuities, &c., under authority of Ordinance No. 10 of 1862, 18,000.00\n\nAmount to be voted as per present Estimates, 639,610.45\n\nTOTAL PROBABLE EXPENDITURE FOR 1870, $790,720.45\n\nThe foregoing Expenditure may be classified as follows:\n\nOrdinary Expenditure, $518,602.80\n\nPublic Works, 178,000.00\n\nMilitary Contribution, 94,117.65\n\nTOTAL, $790,720.45", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-139 - Sir MacDonnell - 1869 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 279323, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-139 - Sir MacDonnell - 1869 [8-12]", "page_number": 359, "title": "CO129-139 - Sir MacDonnell - 1869 [8-12]", "content_text": "COLONIAL ESTIMATES-HONGKONG.\n\nCIVIL LIST.\n\n(As per Ordinances No. 13 of 1860, and No. 2 of 1864.)\n\nCOLONIAL ESTIMATES-HONGKONG.\n\nB.\n\nAbstract of Sums, exclusive of Civil List and Pension, required to defray the Expenses of the Colonial Government of Hongkong for the Year from 1st January to 31st December, 1870, shewing also the Amount expended for the Year previous to that in which the Estimates are prepared, viz.: 1868.\n\n354\n\nGovernor and Commander-in-Chief, Chief Justice,.. $ C. .24,000.00\n\nC\n\nBrought forward,. 109,584.00 12,000.00\n\nColonial Secretary,\n\nJudge of the Court of Summary Jurisdic-tion,\n\n} 7,200.00\n\n7,200.00 AUDITOR GENERAL'S ESTABLISHMENT:\n\nClerk,. 1,440.00\n\nPAGE OF DETAIL.\n\nESTIMATED FOR 1870 EXCLUSIVE OF CIVIL LIST AND PENSIONS.\n\nEXPENDITURE of 1868 INCLUDING CIVIL LIST AND PENSIONS.\n\nAttorney General, 4,800.00\n\nSURVEYOR GENERAL'S ESTABLISHMENT:-\n\nColonial Treasurer, 4,800.00\n\n1st Clerk, 2,400.00\n\nC.\n\ne.\n\nAuditor General, 2,400.00\n\n2nd do., 1,440.00\n\nSurveyor General, 4,800.00\n\n11\n\nTwo Police Magistrates ($3,840 each,) 7,680.00\n\nPOLICE MAGISTRATES' ESTABLISHMENT:-\n\nPostmaster General, 3,840.00\n\n1st Clerk, 1,920.00\n\nRegistrar of Supreme Court,. 3,840.00\n\n2nd do., 1,440.00\n\nColonial Chaplain,. 3,840.00\n\n3rd do., 960.00\n\nColonial Surgeon, 3,840.00\n\nPOST OFFICE ESTABLISHMENT:-\n\nHarbor Master, Registrar General, 3,360.00\n\nAssistant Postmaster General, 2,400.00\n\n14\n\n3,800.00\n\nCIVIL DEPARTMENTS:-\n\nGovernor,\n480.00\n20,550.55\n\nColonial Secretary, Colonial Treasurer, Auditor General, Clerk of Councils, Surveyor General, Master of the Mint, Postmaster General,\n14,516.00\n28,878.85\n\n4,620.00\n14,431.66\n\n12,447.00\n15,870.52\n\n100.00\n1,086.21\n\n19,012.00\n28,789.98\n\n44,449.63\n\n38,482.00\n82,088.47\n\nClerk of Councils, 960.00\n\nClerk, 1,440.00\n\n15\n\nRegistrar General,. 8,112.00 13,580.85\n\n16\n\nHarbor Master, 15,896.80 34,276.04\n\nSUPREME COURT:-\n\n17\n\nGOVERNOR'S ESTABLISHMENT:-\n\nCollector of Stamp Revenue, 4,450.00 6,189.95\n\nCrown Solicitor,.. 1,200.00\n\nJUDICIAL DEPARTMENTS, 9,226.00 39,148.45\n\nPrivate Secretary, 1,200.00\n\nClerk of Court, 1,440.00\n\nREGISTRAR OF COMPANIES DEPARTMENT, 192.00\n\nJudge's Clerk, 1,440.00\n\nECCLESIASTICAL\n\ndo., 1,134.00 4,768.58\n\n102.00\n\nCOLONIAL SECRETARY'S ESTABLISHMENT —\n\nEDUCATIONAL\n\ndo., 9,200.00 10,810.82\n\nChief Clerk, 2,400.00\n\nHARBOR MASTER'S ESTABLISHMENT-\n\nMEDICAL\n\ndo., 21,498.00 22,835.11\n\n1st do., 1,920.00\n\n1st Clerk, 1,920.00\n\nPOLICE MAGISTRATES\n\ndo., 6,401.00 17,691.88\n\n2nd do, 1,440.00\n\n2nd do., 1,440.00\n\nPOLICE\n\ndoy 120,000.00 173,282.22\n\n3rd do., 1,344.00\n\nGAOL\n\ndo.. 45,523.00 40,307.42\n\nREGISTRAR GENERAL'S ESTABLISHMENT:-\n\nFIRE BRIGADE\n\ndo., 8,000.00 3,899.04\n\nCOLONIAL TREASURER'S ESTABLISHMENT:-\n\n1st Clerk and Cashier, 2nd do.\n\n27\n\nAccountant, 1,920.00 1,440.00\n\n1st Clerk, 2nd do,, 1,440.00\n\nPENSIONS, RETIRED ALLOWANCES AND GRATUITIES, 16,503.03\n\n1,200.00\n\nCHARITABLE ALLOWANCES, 1,256.00 350.68\n\nTRANSPORT, 3,500.00 8,222.55\n\nTOTAL, $133,104.00\n\nWORKS AND BUILDINGS, 137,000.00 100,614.63\n\nCarried over, .$109,534.00\n\nROADS, STREETS AND BRIDGES, 41,000.00 57,829.40\n\nMISCELLANEOUS SERVICES, 27,800.00 28,106.89\n\nLAND AND HOUSES PURCHASED, 1,500.00\n\nSPECIAL EXPENSES, 6,195.68\n\n28\n\nMILITARY CONTRIBUTION, 94,117.65 208,144.80\n\nTOTAL TO BE VOTEd,, 639,616.45 991,311.49\n\nPENSIONS, RETIRED ALLOWANCES, AND GRATUITIES.\n\n(Under authority of Ordinance No. 10 of 1862.)\n\nNOTE.\n\nALREADY GRANTED:-\n\nE. Michell, $ 5,040.00\n\nW. II. Mitchell, 451.20\n\nBishop Smith, \n\nColonel Caine, \n\nWm. Chapman, 704.00\n\nAmount of Civil List already provided for by Ordinances No. 13 of 1860, and No. 2 of 1864,. Probable Expenditure on Pensions, Gratuities, &c., under authority of Ordinânce No. 10 of 1862,.... 18,000.00 Amount to be voted as per present Estimates, 133,104.00\n\n753.52\n\nTOTAL PROBABLE EXPENDITURE FOR 1870,.. 639,610.45 -$700,720.45\n\n'Ng Foong Shan, 140.00\n\n1,440.00\n\nC. St. George Cleverly, 2,000.00\n\nJ. C. Power, 960.00\n\nJ. J. Irwin, 1,280.00\n\nThe foregoing Expenditure may be classified as follows:---\n\nW. T. Mercer, 3,240.00\n\nJ. Thornton, 382.66\n\nOrdinary Expenditure, Public Works, 16,371.18\n\nESTIMATED AMOUNT TO COVER PENSIONS WHICH MAY BE GRANTED IN 1869, 1,628.82\n\nMilitary Contribution, $18,000.00 $518,602.80\n\n178,000.00\n\n94,117.65\n\nTOTAL,. $700,720.45", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-139 - Sir MacDonnell - 1869 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 282065, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-145 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1870 [6-9]", "page_number": 192, "title": "CO129-145 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1870 [6-9]", "content_text": "# COLONIAL ESTIMATES--HONGKONG.\n\n## CIVIL LIST.\n\n(As per Ordinance No. 13 of 1880.)\n\n### C.\n\n| Position | Salary |\n| --- | --- |\n| Governor and Commander-in-Chief, | $24,000.00 |\n| Chief Justice, | $12,000.00 |\n| Colonial Secretary, | $7,200.00 |\n| Attorney General, | $4,800.00 |\n| Colonial Treasurer, | $4,800.00 |\n| Auditor General, | $2,400.00 |\n| Judge of the Court of Summary Jurisdiction, | $7,200.00 |\n| **Total Brought forward,** | **$109,584.00** |\n\n## AUDITOR GENERAL'S ESTABLISHMENT:\n\n| Position | Salary |\n| --- | --- |\n| Clerk, | $1,440.00 |\n\n## SURVEYOR GENERAL'S ESTABLISHMENT:\n\n| Position | Salary |\n| --- | --- |\n| 1st Clerk, | $2,400.00 |\n| 2nd do., | $1,440.00 |\n\n# COLONIAL ESTIMATES-HONGKONG.\n\n## B.\n\nAbstract of Sums exclusive of Civil List and Pension, required to defray the Expenses of the Colonial Government of Hongkong for the Year from 1st January to 31st December, 1870, shewing also the Amount expended for the Year previous to that in which the Estimates are prepared, viz: 1869.\n\n### ESTIMATED FOR 1870 EXCLUSIVE OF CIVIL LIST AND PENSIONS.\n\n| Department | Estimated |\n| --- | --- |\n| Surveyor General, | $4,800.00 |\n| Two Police Magistrates ($3,840 each), | $7,680.00 |\n| Postmaster General, | $8,840.00 |\n| Registrar of Supreme Court, | $8,840.00 |\n| Colonial Chaplain, | $3,840.00 |\n| Colonial Surgeon, | $3,840.00 |\n| Harbor Master, | $3,300.00 |\n| Registrar General, | $8,860.00 |\n| Assistant Postmaster General, | $2,400.00 |\n| **CIVIL DEPARTMENTS:** | |\n| Governor, | $740.00 |\n| Colonial Secretary, | $13,070.00 |\n| Colonial Treasurer, | $4,880.00 |\n| Auditor General, | $7,162.81 |\n| Clerk of Councils, | $353.77 |\n| Surveyor General, | $14,687.00 |\n| Master of the Mint, | $100.00 |\n| Clerk of Councils, | $900.00 |\n| **GOVERNOR'S ESTABLISHMENT:** | |\n| Private Secretary, | $1,200.00 |\n| **SUPREME COURT** | |\n| Clerk of Court, | $1,440.00 |\n| Collector of Stamp Revenue, | $4,450.00 |\n| **JUDICIAL DEPARTMENTS,** | $9,948.00 |\n| Judge's Clerk, | $1,440.00 |\n| **COLONIAL SECRETARY'S ESTABLISHMENT:** | |\n| Chief Clerk, | $2,400.00 |\n| 1st Clerk, | $1,920.00 |\n| 2nd do., | $1,440.00 |\n| 3rd do., | $1,844.00 |\n| **REGISTRAR OF COMPANIES DEPARTMENT,** | $192.00 |\n| **HARBOR MASTER'S ESTABLISHMENT:** | |\n| 1st Clerk, | $1,920.00 |\n| 2nd do., | $1,440.00 |\n| **POST OFFICE ESTABLISHMENT:** | $34,134.00 |\n| Postmaster General, | $32,630.04 |\n| **REGISTRAR GENERAL'S ESTABLISHMENT:** | |\n| Registrar General, | $10,278.00 |\n| | $8,088.58 |\n| Harbor Master, | $28,447.60 |\n| | $30,815.86 |\n| Crown Solicitor, | $1,200.00 |\n\n### EXPENDITURE OF 1869 EXCLUSIVE OF CIVIL LIST AND PENSIONS.\n\n| Department | Expenditure |\n| --- | --- |\n| **CIVIL DEPARTMENTS:** | |\n| | $13,253.47 |\n| | $27,840.00 |\n| | $8,251.66 |\n| | $71.00 |\n| | $20,853.08 |\n| | $300.15 |\n| **POLICE MAGISTRATES' ESTABLISHMENT:** | $6,748.00 |\n| | $6,782.60 |\n| **POLICE** | $163,075.20 |\n| | $175,101.60 |\n| **GAOL** | $42,041.00 |\n| | $39,558.73 |\n| **FIRE BRIGADE** | $7,276.00 |\n| | $16,491.05 |\n| **CHARITABLE ALLOWANCES,** | $1,256.00 |\n| | $871.84 |\n| **TRANSPORT,** | $3,500.00 |\n| | $2,516.90 |\n| **WORKS AND BUILDINGS,** | $163,500.00 |\n| | $165,145.02 |\n| **ROADS, STREETS AND BRIDGES,** | $25,000.00 |\n| | $25,941.11 |\n| **MISCELLANEOUS SERVICES,** | $28,200.00 |\n| | $62,240.51 |\n| **LAND AND HOUSES PURCHASED, SPECIAL EXPENSES,** | $40,000.00 |\n| | $5,000.00 |\n| **MILITARY CONTRIBUTION,** | $94,117.05 |\n| | $90,819.14 |\n| **TOTAL TO BE VOTED,** | $764,464.45 |\n| | $756,800.84 |\n\n## PENSIONS, RETIRED ALLOWANCES, AND GRATUITIES.\n\n(Under authority of Ordinances No. 10 of 1862, and No. 11 of 1868.)\n\n### ALREADY GRANTED:\n\n| Name | Pension |\n| --- | --- |\n| E. Michell, | $451.20 |\n| Colonel Caine, | $5,040.00 |\n| Wm. Chapman, | $704.00 |\n| W. H. Mitchell, | $753.32 |\n| 'Ng Foong Shan, | |\n| Bishop Smith, | |\n| C. St. George Cleverly, | |\n| J. J. Irwin, | |\n| J. C. Power, | |\n| W. T. Mercer, | $1,440.00 |\n| W. Quin, | $2,000.00 |\n| J. Jarman, | $1,280.00 |\n| J. Thornton, | $960.00 |\n| | $3,240.00 |\n| | $900.00 |\n| | $665.90 |\n| | $862.66 |\n\n### ESTIMATED AMOUNT TO COVER PENSIONS WHICH MAY BE GRANTED IN 1870, $19,000.00\n\n## NOTE.\n\nAmount of Civil List already provided for by Ordinance No. 13 of 1860, $133,104.00\n\nProbable Expenditure on Pensions, Gratuities, &c., under authority of Ordinances Nos. 10 of 1862, and 11 of 1868, $19,000.00\n\nAmount to be voted as per present Estimates, $764,464.45\n\n**TOTAL PROBABLE EXPENDITURE FOR 1870,** $916,568.45\n\nThe foregoing Expenditure may be classified as follows:-\n\n| Category | Amount |\n| --- | --- |\n| Ordinary Expenditure, | $633,950.80 |\n| Public Works, | $188,500.00 |\n| Military Contribution, | $94,117.05 |\n| **TOTAL,** | **$916,568.45**", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-145 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1870 [6-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 282147, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-145 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1870 [6-9]", "page_number": 274, "title": "CO129-145 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1870 [6-9]", "content_text": "# COLONIAL ESTIMATES-HONGKONG.\n\n## CIVIL LIST.\n\n(As per Ordinance No. 13 of 1860.)\n\n| Position | $ |\n| --- | --- |\n| Governor and Commander-in-Chief | 24,000.00 |\n| Chief Justice | 12,000.00 |\n| Colonial Secretary | 7,200.00 |\n| Judge of the Court of Summary Jurisdiction | 7,200.00 |\n| Attorney General | 4,800.00 |\n| Colonial Treasurer | 4,800.00 |\n| Auditor General | 2,400.00 |\n| Surveyor General | 4,800.00 |\n| Two Police Magistrates ($3,840 each) | 7,680.00 |\n| Postmaster General | 3,840.00 |\n| Registrar of Supreme Court | 3,840.00 |\n| Colonial Chaplain | 3,810.00 |\n| Colonial Surgeon | 3,840.00 |\n| Harbor Master | 3,360.00 |\n| Registrar General | 3,360.00 |\n\n## Abstract of Sums exclusive of Civil List and Pension, required to defray the Expenses of the Colonial Government of Hongkong for the Year from 1st January to 31st December, 1870, shewing also the Amount expended for the Year previous to that in which the Estimates are prepared, viz: 1869.\n\n| Department | ESTIMATED for 1870 | EXPENDITURE OF 1869 |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| **AUDITOR GENERAL'S ESTABLISHMENT** | | |\n| Clerk | 1,440.00 | 1,320.95 |\n| **SURVEYOR GENERAL'S ESTABLISHMENT** | | |\n| 1st Clerk | 2,400.00 | 2,358.77 |\n| 2nd do. | 1,440.00 | 1,263.47 |\n| **POST OFFICE ESTABLISHMENT** | | |\n| Assistant Postmaster General | 2,400.00 | 2,251.00 |\n| Clerk | 1,440.00 | 1,071.00 |\n| **GOVERNOR'S ESTABLISHMENT** | | |\n| Private Secretary | 1,200.00 | 1,182.81 |\n| **SUPREME COURT** | | |\n| Crown Solicitor | 1,200.00 | 1,088.58 |\n| Clerk of Court | 1,440.00 | 1,315.80 |\n| **COLONIAL SECRETARY'S ESTABLISHMENT** | | |\n| Chief Clerk | 2,400.00 | 2,088.58 |\n| 1st do. | 1,920.00 | 1,759.85 |\n| 2nd do. | 1,440.00 | ... |\n| 3rd do. | 1,044.00 | 921.53 |\n| **REGISTRAR GENERAL'S ESTABLISHMENT** | | |\n| 1st Clerk | 1,920.00 | 1,782.00 |\n| 2nd do. | 1,440.00 | 1,380.04 |\n| **HARBOR MASTER'S ESTABLISHMENT** | | |\n| 1st Clerk | 1,020.00 | 958.73 |\n| **JUDICIAL DEPARTMENTS** | 9,948.00 | 7,588.40 |\n| **REGISTRAR OF COMPANIES DEPARTMENT** | 192.00 | 192.00 |\n| **ECCLESIASTICAL** | 14,292.00 | 11,759.85 |\n| **EDUCATIONAL** | | |\n| **MEDICAL** | 25,552.00 | 21,421.53 |\n| **POLICE MAGISTRATES** | | |\n| **POLICE** | 166,075.20 | 175,101.60 |\n| **COLONIAL TREASURER'S ESTABLISHMENT** | | |\n| 1st Clerk and Cashier | 1,920.00 | 1,782.00 |\n| 2nd do. | 1,200.00 | 1,080.04 |\n| **GAOL** | 42,671.00 | 39,558.73 |\n| **FIRE BRIGADE** | 7,976.00 | ... |\n| Accountant | 1,440.00 | ... |\n| **TOTAL** | $133,104.00 | $109,584.00 |\n\n## ESTIMATED EXPENDITURE FOR 1870 EXCLUSIVE OF CIVIL LIST AND PENSIONS.\n\nCarried over, $109,584.00\n\n## LAND AND Houses Purchased, SPECIAL EXPENSES, CHARITABLE ALLOWANCES, TRANSPORT, WORKS AND BUILDINGS, ROADS, STREETS AND BRIDGES, MISCELLANEOUS SERVICES, MILITARY CONTRIBUTION.\n\n| Category | ESTIMATED for 1870 | EXPENDITURE OF 1869 |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| LAND AND Houses Purchased | 29,256.00 | 1,256.00 |\n| SPECIAL EXPENSES | 3,500.00 | 3,500.00 |\n| CHARITABLE ALLOWANCES | 16,491.05 | 871.84 |\n| TRANSPORT | 2,516.90 | 2,516.90 |\n| WORKS AND BUILDINGS | 171,600.00 | 165,145.02 |\n| ROADS, STREETS AND BRIDGES | 25,000.00 | 25,041.11 |\n| MISCELLANEOUS SERVICES | 96,700.00 | 62,240.51 |\n| MILITARY CONTRIBUTION | 40,000.00 | 5,000.00 |\n| **TOTAL TO BE VOTED** | 785,714.45 | 756,000.84 |\n\n## PENSIONS, RETIRED ALLOWANCES, AND GRATUITIES.\n\n(Under authority of Ordinances No. 30 of 1862, and No. 11 of 1868.)\n\n| Name | Amount |\n| --- | --- |\n| E. Michell | 451.20 |\n| Colonel Caine | 5,040.00 |\n| W. Chapman | 704.00 |\n| W. H. Mitchell | 758.82 |\n| 'Ng Foong Shan | ... |\n| Bishop Smith | ... |\n| C. St. George Cleverly | ... |\n| J. J. Irwin | 1,440.00 |\n| J. C. Power | 2,000.00 |\n| W. T. Mercer | 1,280.00 |\n| W. Quin | 960.00 |\n| J. Jarman | 3,240.00 |\n| J. Thornton | 660.00 |\n| **ESTIMATED AMOUNT TO COVER PENSIONS WHICH MAY BE GRANTED IN 1870** | 10,000.00 |\n\n## NOTE.\n\nAmount of Civil List already provided for by Ordinance No. 13 of 1860, $133,104.00\n\nProbable Expenditure on Pensions, Gratuities, &c., under authority of Ordinances Nos. 10 of 1862, and 11 of 1868, $10,000.00\n\nAmount to be voted as per present Estimates, $780,714.45\n\n**TOTAL PROBABLE EXPENDITURE FOR 1870** $837,818.45\n\n## The foregoing Expenditure may be classified as follows:\n\n| Category | Amount |\n| --- | --- |\n| Ordinary Expenditure | $617,040.80 |\n| Public Works | 190,000.00 |\n| Military Contribution | $19,000.00 |\n| Other | 94,117.65 |\n| **TOTAL** | $837,818.45 |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-145 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1870 [6-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 282525, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-146 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1870 [10-12]", "page_number": 163, "title": "CO129-146 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1870 [10-12]", "content_text": "# COLONIAL ESTIMATES-HONGKONG.\n\n## B.\n\nAbstract of Sums exclusive of Civil List and Pension, required to defray the Expenses of the Colonial Government of Hongkong for the Year from 1st January to 31st December, 1871, shewing also the Amount expended for the Year previous to that in which the Estimates are prepared, viz: 1869.\n\n## CIVIL LIST.\n\n(As per Ordinance No. 13 of 1860.)\n\n| Position | Salary |\n| --- | --- |\n| Governor and Commander-in-Chief | $24,000.00 |\n| Chief Justice | $12,000.00 |\n| Colonial Secretary | $7,200.00 |\n| Judge of the Court of Summary Jurisdiction | $4,800.00 |\n| Attorney General | $4,800.00 |\n| Colonial Treasurer | $4,800.00 |\n| Auditor General | $2,400.00 |\n| Surveyor General | $4,800.00 |\n| Two Police Magistrates ($3,840 each) | $7,680.00 |\n| Postmaster General | $3,840.00 |\n| Registrar of Supreme Court | $3,840.00 |\n| Colonial Chaplain | $8,840.00 |\n| Colonial Surgeon | $3,840.00 |\n| Harbor Master | $3,300.00 |\n| Registrar General | $3,360.00 |\n\n## ESTABLISHMENTS.\n\n### AUDITOR GENERAL'S ESTABLISHMENT:\n| Position | Salary |\n| --- | --- |\n| Clerk | $1,440.00 |\n\n### SURVEYOR GENERAL'S ESTABLISHMENT:\nNo details provided.\n\n### POLICE MAGISTRATES' ESTABLISHMENT:\n| Position | Salary |\n| --- | --- |\n| 1st Clerk | $1,920.00 |\n| 2nd do. | $1,440.00 |\n| 3rd do. | $960.00 |\n\n### POST OFFICE ESTABLISHMENT:\n| Position | Salary |\n| --- | --- |\n| Assistant Postmaster General | $2,400.00 |\n| Clerk | $1,440.00 |\n\n### GOVERNOR'S ESTABLISHMENT:\n| Position | Salary |\n| --- | --- |\n| Private Secretary | $1,200.00 |\n\n### SUPREME COURT:\n| Position | Salary |\n| --- | --- |\n| Crown Solicitor | $1,200.00 |\n| Clerk of Court | $1,440.00 |\n| Judge's Clerk | $1,440.00 |\n\n### COLONIAL SECRETARY'S ESTABLISHMENT:\n| Position | Salary |\n| --- | --- |\n| Chief Clerk | $2,400.00 |\n| 1st do. | $1,920.00 |\n| 2nd do. | $1,440.00 |\n| 3rd do. | $1,344.00 |\n\n### HARBOR MASTER'S ESTABLISHMENT:\n| Position | Salary |\n| --- | --- |\n| 1st Clerk | $1,920.00 |\n| 2nd do. | $1,440.00 |\n\n### REGISTRAR GENERAL'S ESTABLISHMENT:\n| Position | Salary |\n| --- | --- |\n| 1st Clerk | $1,440.00 |\n\n### COLONIAL TREASURER'S ESTABLISHMENT:\n| Position | Salary |\n| --- | --- |\n| 1st Clerk and Cashier | $1,920.00 |\n| 2nd do. | $1,440.00 |\n| Accountant | $1,200.00 |\n\n## TOTAL CIVIL LIST\n$133,104.00\n\n## PENSIONS, RETIRED ALLOWANCES, AND GRATUITIES.\n\n(Under authority of Ordinances No. 10 of 1862, and No. 11 of 1868.)\n\n### ALREADY GRANTED:\n| Name | Amount |\n| --- | --- |\n| Colonel Caine | ... |\n| Wm. Chapman | ... |\n| W. H. Mitchell | ... |\n| Ng Foong Shan | ... |\n| Bishop Smith | ... |\n| C. St. George Cleverly | ... |\n| J. J. Irwin | ... |\n| J. C. Power | ... |\n| W. T. Mercer | ... |\n| W. Quin | ... |\n| J. Jarman | ... |\n| J. Thornton | ... |\n\n### ESTIMATED AMOUNT TO COVER PENSIONS WHICH MAY BE GRANTED IN 1871\n$19,000.00\n\n## ESTIMATED FOR 1871 EXCLUSIVE OF CIVIL LIST AND PENSIONS.\n\n| Department | Estimated for 1871 | Expenditure of 1869 |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| CIVIL DEPARTMENTS: Governor | $740.00 | $353.77 |\n| Colonial Secretary | $11,150.00 | $18,258.47 |\n| Colonial Treasurer | $4,940.00 | $7,162.81 |\n| Auditor General | ... | ... |\n| Clerk of Councils | ... | ... |\n| Surveyor General | ... | ... |\n| Master of the Mint | $33,004.00 | $32,530.04 |\n| Postmaster General | ... | ... |\n| Registrar General | $11,298.00 | $8,088.58 |\n| Harbor Master | $20,047.00 | $30,815.86 |\n| Collector of Stamp Revenue | $4,450.00 | $3,880.55 |\n| JUDICIAL DEPARTMENTS | $9,918.00 | $7,588.49 |\n| REGISTRAR OF COMPANIES DEPARTMENT | $102.00 | $102.00 |\n| ECCLESIASTICAL | $1,134.00 | $1,110.00 |\n| EDUCATIONAL | $14,292.00 | $11,750.35 |\n| MEDICAL | $24,816.00 | $21,421.53 |\n| POLICE MAGISTRATES' POLICE | $6,748.00 | $5,782.00 |\n| POLICE | $172,305.20 | $175,101.00 |\n| GAOL | $42,011.00 | $89,558.73 |\n| FIRE BRIGADE | $7,270.00 | $16,401.05 |\n| CHARITABLE ALLOWANCES, TRANSPORT | ... | ... |\n| WORKS AND BUILDINGS | $119,000.00 | $185,145.02 |\n| ROADS, STREETS AND BRIDGES | $31,000.00 | $25,041.11 |\n| MISCELLANEOUS SERVICES | $29,000.00 | $62,210.51 |\n| LAND AND HOUSES PURCHASED | $5,000.00 | ... |\n| SPECIAL EXPENSES | $94,000.00 | $90,819.14 |\n| MILITARY CONTRIBUTION | $1,250.00 | $871.84 |\n| | $4,500.00 | $6,516.90 |\n\n## TOTAL TO BE VOTED\n$680,870.80\n\n## NOTE.\n\nAmount of Civil List already provided for by Ordinance No. 13 of 1860, and No. 11 of 1868 | $133,104.00 |\n| --- | --- |\n| Amount to be voted as per present Estimates | $680,870.80 |\n| Probable Expenditure on Pensions, Gratuities, &c., under authority of Ordinances Nos. 10 of 1862, and 11 of 1868 | $19,000.00 (estimated) $5,040.00, $704.00, $753.32, $140.00 (already granted) |\n| TOTAL PROBABLE EXPENDITURE FOR 1871 | $838,974.80 |\n\nThe foregoing Expenditure may be classified as follows:\n| Category | Amount |\n| --- | --- |\n| Ordinary Expenditure | $594,074.80 |\n| Public Works | $150,000.00 |\n| Military Contribution | $94,000.00 |\n| **TOTAL** | **$838,974.80** |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-146 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1870 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 285545, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-152 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1871 [9-10]", "page_number": 159, "title": "CO129-152 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1871 [9-10]", "content_text": "# COLONIAL ESTIMATES-HONGKONG\n\n## CIVIL LIST\n\n(As per Ordinance No. 13 of 1860.)\n\n| Position | £ | $ |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Governor and C'der-in-Chief | 5,000 | |\n| Chief Justice | 3,500 | |\n| Colonial Secretary | 1,500 | 7,200.00 |\n| Judge of the Court of Summary Jurisdiction | 1,000 | 4,800.00 |\n| Attorney General | 1,000 | 4,800.00 |\n| Colonial Treasurer | 1,000 | 4,800.00 |\n| Auditor General | 500 | 2,400.00 |\n| Surveyor General | 1,000 | 4,800.00 |\n| Two Police Magistrates | 1,600 | 7,680.00 |\n| Postmaster General | 800 | 3,840.00 |\n| Registrar General | 700 | 3,360.00 |\n| Colonial Chaplain | 800 | 3,840.00 |\n| Colonial Surgeon | 800 | 3,840.00 |\n| Harbor Master | 700 | 3,360.00 |\n| Private Secretary | 200 | 1,200.00 |\n| Crown Solicitor | 950 | 4,560.00 |\n| Clerk of Court | 300 | 1,440.00 |\n| Judge's Clerk | 300 | 1,440.00 |\n\nBrought forward | 22,830 | 109,584.00\n\n## ABSTRACT OF SUMS REQUIRED TO DEFRAY THE EXPENSES OF THE COLONIAL GOVERNMENT OF HONGKONG FOR THE YEAR FROM 1ST JANUARY TO 31ST DECEMBER, 1872\n\n### ESTIMATED FOR 1872 EXCLUSIVE OF CIVIL LIST AND PENSIONS\n\n| Department | £ | $ |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Supreme Court | | |\n| ‣ Registrar of Supreme Court | 800 | 3,840.00 |\n| ‣ Clerk | 400 | 1,920.00 |\n| ‣ 1st Clerk | 300 | 1,440.00 |\n| ‣ 2nd Clerk | 250 | 1,200.00 |\n| ‣ 3rd Clerk | 200 | 960.00 |\n| Governor's Establishment | | |\n| ‣ Private Secretary | 200 | 1,200.00 |\n| Colonial Secretary's Establishment | | |\n| ‣ Chief Clerk | 500 | 2,400.00 |\n| ‣ 1st Clerk | 400 | 1,920.00 |\n| ‣ 2nd Clerk | 300 | 1,440.00 |\n| ‣ 3rd Clerk | 280 | 1,344.00 |\n| Colonial Treasurer's Establishment | | |\n| ‣ 1st Clerk and Cashier | 400 | 1,920.00 |\n| ‣ 2nd Clerk | 300 | 1,440.00 |\n| ‣ Accountant | 800 | 3,840.00 |\n| Registrar General's Establishment | | |\n| ‣ 1st Clerk | 300 | 1,440.00 |\n| ‣ 2nd Clerk | 250 | 1,200.00 |\n\nCarried over | 22,830 | 109,584.00\n\n## TOTAL ESTIMATED EXPENDITURE FOR 1872\n\n| Category | £ | $ |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Civil Departments | | |\n| ‣ Governor | 5,000 | 24,000.00 |\n| ‣ Colonial Secretary | 1,500 | 7,200.00 |\n| ‣ Colonial Treasurer | 1,000 | 4,800.00 |\n| ‣ Auditor General | 500 | 2,400.00 |\n| ‣ Clerk of Councils | 200 | 960.00 |\n| ‣ Surveyor General | 1,000 | 4,800.00 |\n| ‣ Postmaster General | 800 | 3,840.00 |\n| ‣ Registrar General | 700 | 3,360.00 |\n| ‣ Harbor Master | 700 | 3,360.00 |\n| Judicial Departments | 3,500 | 16,800.00 |\n| Registrar of Companies Department | | 612.93 |\n| Ecclesiastical | | 100.00 |\n| Educational | | 21,670.00 |\n| Medical | | 85,210.00 |\n| Police Magistrates' | 1,537 | 7,378.00 |\n| Police | 39,283 | 188,561.10 |\n| Gaol | | 4,540.40 |\n| Fire Brigade | 1,530 | 7,348.00 |\n| Charitable Allowances, Transport | | 1,756.00 |\n| Works and Buildings | 18,126 | 87,000.00 |\n| Roads, Streets and Bridges | | 4,500.00 |\n| Miscellaneous Services | 28,057 | 134,673.60 |\n| Land and Houses Purchased | | 6,250.00 |\n| Military Contribution | 38,000 | 182,400.00 |\n| Total to be Voted | 143,186 | 687,296.70 |\n\n## PENSIONS, RETIRED ALLOWANCES, AND GRATUITIES\n\n(Under authority of Ordinances No. 10 of 1862, and No. 11 of 1868.)\n\n| Name | £ | $ |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Colonel Caine | | 5,040.00 |\n| Wm. Chapman | 146 | 701.28 |\n| W. H. Mitchell | | 1,614.06 |\n| 'Ng Foong Shan | | |\n| Bishop Smith | | |\n| C. St. George Cleverly | 416 | 2,000.00 |\n| J. J. Irwin | 266 | 1,280.00 |\n| J. C. Power | 200 | 960.00 |\n| W. T. Mercer | 675 | 3,240.00 |\n| W. Quin | 200 | 960.00 |\n| J. Jarman | 138 | 605.96 |\n| J. Thornton | | |\n| F. Forth | | |\n\nEstimated Amount to Cover Pensions which may be granted in 1872 | 336 | 1,614.06\n\n## NOTE\n\nAmount of Civil List already provided for by Ordinance No. 13 of 1860 | 27,730 | 133,104.00\nProbable Expenditure on Pensions, Gratuities, &c., under authority of Ordinances Nos. 10 of 1862, and 11 of 1868 | 4,875 | 21,000.00\nAmount to be voted as per present Estimates | 143,188 | 687,296.70\n\n## TOTAL PROBABLE EXPENDITURE FOR 1872\n\n£175,291 | $841,400.70\n\nThe foregoing Expenditure may be classified as follows:\n\n| Category | £ | $ |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Ordinary Expenditure | 97,561 | 468,206.70 |\n| Public Works | 26,041 | 125,000.00 |\n| Military Contribution | 19,583 | 94,000.00\n| Total | 143,186 | 687,296.70", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-152 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1871 [9-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 288836, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-159 - Sir Kennedy - 1872 [9-12]", "page_number": 209, "title": "CO129-159 - Sir Kennedy - 1872 [9-12]", "content_text": "THE LONDON AND CHINA TELEGRAPH.\n\nIs not a great deal of the work in Siam caused by the doctrine of extra-territorial jurisdiction applying to the inhabitants of British Burmah? Yes, and to British India; I would not separate British Burmah exclusively.\n\nThere is a difficulty in following criminals from British Burmah, is there not, to Siam; do not cases occasionally occur of the escape of criminals into Siam?--I have not heard of any particular case of that kind.\n\nDo you think that work of that kind could be decreased; it has been stated here that there has been a somewhat extravagant interpretation of this doctrine in the case of the inhabitants of British Burmah?--Well, it would be a very great comfort if the work of looking after these men could be taken away from the consul altogether, because it is a terrible responsibility having to give an opinion about cases which happen hundreds of miles away from you, and of which you cannot get any very satisfactory evidence. I do not see how we are to avoid doing it with our Treaty.\n\nThe officers of the consulate are occasionally sent great distances up country, are they not, in these cases?--No, they were not in my time; I have never known of an officer being sent beyond 60 miles about a case.\n\nBut the labour involved in these cases to the consulate is very considerable?--Very considerable, and the anxiety still greater.\n\nDo you know whether it was the custom of other Powers for their consuls to act as agents there?--In some cases the consuls were merchant consuls, trading consuls, and in that case they might of course be agents for anything; the Lloyd's agent in Siam was a merchant.\n\nViscount ENFIELD: Is the cost of living in Siam very great?--It is great as compared with England, because there are certain luxuries which a man must have in a climate of that sort; I mean to say that whereas a young man in England can live very well for £150, out in Siam it is impossible for a student interpreter to live decently on the pay that is given to him.\n\nMR. HARPER in his evidence before the Committee said that H.M. Consuls often acted as agent for Lloyd's, and that the commissions paid on wrecks were at times valuable, he might instance the case £3,000 paid on one ship at Batavia.\n\nCHINA SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH COMPANY (LIMITED).\n\nThe second ordinary general meeting of the shareholders was held on the 13th inst.; Mr. JOHN PENDER, M.P., in the chair. The Secretary (Mr. T. Fuller) read the notice convening the meeting, and the minutes of the last meeting, which were then confirmed; the report of the directors, given in our last issue, was taken as read.\n\n[Nov. 18, 1872.]\n\nThe CHAIRMAN stated that since the opening of the line it had worked in every way satisfactorily; there had been one or two interruptions, but of a slight character. In regard to one which occurred at Saigon in shallow water, they had the satisfaction, in repairing the cable, that it was as perfect as on the day it had been laid down.\n\nIt was also a matter for congratulation to perceive that, even taking into account the low rate of charges that had rated for a considerable period of the company's operations, the result had been about as good as that attained by any submarine line during the first year of its working. It was proposed to pay the shareholders a dividend of 8 per cent. for the whole year.\n\nThe directors entered into arrangements with the Great Northern, by which that company was to receive interest at 5 per cent. on the capital, and the cable to be repaired by them; that all above that sum was to be equally divided; and, although the traffic had been interrupted, the amount received last year from that source was £4,752.\n\nHe thought that at some future time it would be necessary to call upon the shareholders to find the money to lay another cable in conjunction with the Great Northern, as the present cable seemed to be not quite so good as that company had expected it to be. He also believed that an alternate line was necessary to give the public the accommodation they required, and at the same time to secure themselves a fair return.\n\nThis company had put up its tariff to £6, whilst the Great Northern Company were working at £4 10s., but he thought that they were getting as full a share of the traffic as those who went to the expense of telegraphing their messages by both routes.\n\nMr. Forde, a shareholder, said he regretted that the Board had any idea of laying a cable between Hong Kong and Shanghai in conjunction with the Great Northern Company. Such a step would be much in the interests of that company, but against theirs. He must very earnestly urge on the directors the policy of amalgamating with the other companies; a low tariff was only to be obtained by amalgamation. The working expenses of this company—£16,000 on earnings of £85,000—were enormous, and the salaries paid were too high.\n\nMr. HOLMES agreed with Mr. Forde as to the Shanghai line, and he considered the £1,838 for the Agnes repairing ship was excessive, and a contract should be made for the repairs.\n\nThe CHAIRMAN, in reply to these remarks, said that the laying of the cable to Shanghai was merely foreshadowed, but if done, it must be in conjunction with the Great Northern in good faith, according to the bargain made. The policy of amalgamation was quite approved by the Board; but those things required time, and could not be carried out so speedily as Mr. Forde seemed to think.\n\nWith regard to the expenses, he read a statement of salaries, &c., at each port, and explained that the expenses of living were so high at the stations that the salaries of proper officers must be in proportion. The expense for repairs and maintaining cable would be reduced.\n\nThe directors had no objection to half-yearly meetings. The report was then put and carried, as also the re-election of the Baron d'Erlangen as a director, and two auditors. The proceedings terminated with a vote of thanks to the chairman and directors.\n\nTHE JAPANESE AT MESSRS. ALLAN, RANSOME AND CO.'S.\n\nYesterday the Minister for Agriculture, with members of his suite, together with American and English employers of labour, visited the works of Messrs. Allan, Ransome, and Co., in King's-road, Chelsea, to view some newly-invented labour-saving machinery of remarkable construction and power.\n\nThe strikes of workmen in the building trades, the increased cost of production in the carpentry and joinery branches of those trades, and the difficulties caused to employers by the restrictions of Trades Unions, have each had their share in directing the attention of engineers to find the means of meeting the pressure caused by the contracted amount of available skilled labour; and the machines exhibited yesterday were in every way so perfect that it is not easy to see how hand labour will hold its own.\n\nThe first machine inspected was a portable saw frame. Any one who has seen the old saw-pits, where the \"top sawyer\" and the \"bottom sawyer\" laboured from morning to night and day after day in cutting a log into planks, would be greatly astonished to see this comparatively small machine, attended only by one man, cut up the body of a large oak into fourteen planks at once, it having twelve saws, which cut through the whole bulk of wood in something less than half an hour.\n\nA mortising machine, the invention of Mr. Richards, of Philadelphia, was set to work, and accurately and cleanly cut in a few moments mortises which would have taken a workman hours.\n\nA moulding machine, for cutting mouldings, did in a minute thirty-five feet of work, which would have taken a skilled workman many hours, and this work could apparently be done by a boy.\n\nIn what was called a \"general joining machine\" there was apparently no limit to the work to be done, the one machine cutting mortises, shaping blocks, planking, carving out banisters, and turning in a few minutes a plain block of wood into a perfectly carved piece of work.\n\nAnother machine, exceedingly small and unpretentious, was shown to be capable of planing any sort of work, oval or flat, and at the same time a revolving chisel cut mortises with celerity and accuracy.\n\nA very fine piece of machinery is one which cuts raised or recessed panels, in other words, which can cut the sunk or raised ornamental work in wood now so highly prized and so dearly paid for, as the best and most skilled.\n\nBy another machine, an American invention, but improved by the Messrs. Ransome, a door can be finished—that is, cleanly sand-papered on both sides—in three minutes.\n\nThe planing and trying-up of work, or what would be properly called the trueing \"up, by which is meant the nice work of making blocks of wood exactly like one another, in order to hand labour, is, by one of Ransome's machines, done at once and perfectly in a few minutes, all the blocks, of whatever size, being placed together and turned out as like as peas, and mathematically correct in every respect.\n\nA band saw machine, by which both fine and rough work was cut in all sorts of shapes, and a saw cutting machine, with F. Ransome's patent stone, were among the other works shown.\n\nWith one or two of these machines an employer with a man and a boy as staff, could turn out as much work as twenty or thirty men, and never be troubled about the nine hours, eight hours, or any other movement.\n\nThe remarkable fact about these machines is that they are not limited to the pattern, shape, or character of wood, for the knives are changed in a few minutes, and whatever the class of work required, it can be done at once.\n\nThe inspection lasted for several hours, and all the visitors expressed themselves delighted with these new machines, some of which are to go to the Vienna Exhibition.\n\nNAVAL AND MILITARY.\n\nThe screw steamer Scotland, Captain James, sailed from Queenstown on the 12th inst. for Singapore and Hong Kong, via the Suez Canal.\n\nThe following are the details of the officers and men who proceed in the Scotland to strengthen the garrisons in the Straits Settlements and Hong Kong:-To Singapore, Captain Battye, Lieutenant Armstrong, and 79 men of the 10th regiment and 10 men of the Royal Artillery.\n\nTo Hong Kong, Captain Stone, with 294 men and 19 women and children of the 80th Regiment; an armourer sergeant, a sergeant, and 10 men of the Royal Artillery: and 3 men of the Royal Engineers.\n\nMajor Watson, of the Ceylon Rifle Regiment, Captain Hewson, 73rd Foot, and Lieutenant Chevera, of the 73rd Foot, proceed to Hong Kong on duty with the draft of the 80th Regiment, and will afterwards return to Ceylon.\n\nThe medical officer in charge of the troops is Staff Surgeon O'Halloran, who will, after their arrival at their respective stations, proceed to Penang.\n\nThe Mosquito, composite gunboat, 400 tons, and 360-horse power, which was commissioned at Devonport on the 30th ult., for service on the China station, by Lieutenant-Commander William Henry Bond, was moved into Plymouth Sound on the 9th inst., has made the customary trial of her engines, and has embarked her supply of ammunition preparatory to sailing.\n\nLieutenant-Colonel Joseph H. F. H. Hudson, Grenadier Guards, is to be confirmed in his appointment of military secretary to General Henry Renny, in command of the forces in Ceylon.\n\nMONETARY AND COMMERCIAL.\n\nThe suspension of Messrs. Bowles Bros. and Co., noticed in our last issue, has caused the stoppage of the \"Joint National Agency,\" a company formed for general financial and agency purposes in connection with the Japanese now in Europe, amongst whom we are sorry to say are the agents of the Japanese Government, who have lodged Government funds in the hands of the Company.\n\nJudging from the following circular, it seems that the company is utterly crushed, and will be dissolved.\n\n446, Strand, London, 9th November, 1872.\n\nSIR.—With the greatest regret, and by order of the Board of Directors, I have to inform you that in consequence of the sudden and unexpected suspension of payment of one of the bankers of this company, the firm of Messrs. Bowles Brothers and Co., this company has also found it necessary to suspend payment.\n\nIn order at once to secure the assets of the company its immediate winding up has been determined upon, and with this view an extraordinary general meeting of the shareholders will be held here at two o'clock in the afternoon, on Tuesday week, the 19th inst., when a resolution will be submitted to the effect that it has been proved to the satisfaction of the company that it cannot, by reason of its liabilities, continue its business, and that it is advisable to wind up the same.\n\nI am, Sir, your obedient servant,\n\nWALTER H. FARRA, Secretary.\n\nFollowing closely on the failure of Joshua, of Singapore, we have telegrams announcing the stoppage of Chang \"Tee, Watseng and Co., and Absoon and Co., both Chinese firms of importance in the Straits and Saigon trade, with heavy liabilities to European firms.\n\nThe mail also brings advices of the failure and arrest for fraud of A. Velge, a commission merchant at Singapore, by which the banks will also lose.\n\nMessrs. Joshua Brothers and Co., of Great Winchester-street, desire it to be stated that their firms, together with the firms of Joshua Brothers, Melbourne, and Joshua Brothers, Mauritius, are in no way related to or connected with the firm of Joshua Brothers, of Singapore, whose suspension has been announced.\n\nCorrespondence from Shanghai by the last two mails has been very gloomy, and failures are expected before the end of the year, notwithstanding the assistance given here to the Silk market by a combination.\n\nBar Silver has again declined, and the nearest quotation we can give is 59d. per oz., at which rate some small parcels have been sold; the market is weak, and a further slight reduction may be looked for.\n\nThe Bank of Holland has decided to buy no more silver at any price. It has hitherto bought silver at 1.104.65 per Dutch pound, and has not varied the price for years.\n\nBANK AND MISCELLANEOUS SHARES.\n\nTELEGRAPH COMPANIES.\n\n£10\n\nChartered Bank Ind., Aust., and China\n\nAll\n\n59 to 54\n\n13 to 15\n\nAll\n\n23 to 25\n\n10\n\n1 to 15\n\n58 to 60\n\nAll\n\nJOINT STOCK BANKS.\n\n£10\n\nAgra Bank\n\n25\n\nBank of Egypt\n\n20\n\n45\n\nChartered Merc. of India and China\n\n20\n\nCity Bank\n\n+14\n\n1.\n\n100\n\nColonial Bank\n\n500fr.\n\nComptoir D'Escompte of Paris...\n\n2291\n\n100\n\nHong Kong and Shanghai Bank\n\n[Imperial Bank\n\n20\n\n28 to 29\n\n50\n\nLondon and County\n\n20\n\n69 to 58\n\n50\n\nLondon Joint Stock\n\n15\n\n48 to 47\n\n100\n\nLondon and Westminster\n\n20\n\n67 to 62\n\nOriental Bank Corporation\n\nAll\n\n$1 to 42\n\n50\n\nUnion of London...\n\n43 to 44\n\n10\n\nBritish Indian Extension\n\nAll\n\n34 to 144\n\n13\n\nBritish Australian...\n\nAn\n\nA to 99\n\n30\n\nChina Submarine.\n\n10 to 10\n\n10\n\nEastern Telegraph Company\n\n10 to 10\n\n10\n\nGreat Northern\n\nAll\n\n10 to 114\n\n25\n\nIndo-European\n\nAll\n\n14 to 30\n\n30\n\nMediterranean Extension\n\nAll\n\n£ to 7\n\n12\n\nTelegraph Construction Company\n\n£24 to 23\n\n60\n\nIndiarubr.,Gutta Percha &Tel. WorksCo.\n\n45\n\n391 to 301\n\nMISCELLANEOUS\n\n20\n\nBritish India Tea Company\n\nAll\n\n4 to 5\n\nBrit. and Foreign Marine Insurance Co.,\n\n1\n\n6 to\n\n6\n\n20\n\nCeylon Company\n\n***\n\n**\n\nAll\n\n15 to 17\n\n20\n\nDo.\n\n10\n\nLo\n\ndis.\n\n20\n\nDo.\n\nར\n\n4 to\n\n3 dis\n\n50\n\n2 to\n\nI dis.\n\n5\n\nAll\n\nto\n\n53\n\n10\n\nGeneral Credit and Discount Companyj\n\n73\n\nTo\n\n15 pm.\n\n10\n\nHong Kong Gas Company\n\n414\n\n10\n\nInternational Finance Society...\n\n5\n\n1 to dis.\n\n98\n\nJapan Loan, 9 per cent...\n\nAll\n\n110 to 112\n\n$4\n\nLondon and Prov. Marine Insurance Co.\n\n2\n\n24 to 21 pa1.\n\n26\n\nNational Discount Company...\n\n5\n\n121\n\n122\n\n25\n\n50nfr.\n\nOcean Marine Insurance Company\n\nMessageries Maritime of France\n\n5\n\n13 to 14 pm.\n\nAli\n\n50\n\n50\n\n100\n\n21)\n\nP. and O. Steaming Company\n\n170.\n\n1867...\n\n20.\n\nRoyal Mail Steam Company\n\nRealia Marine Insorance Company\n\nAll\n\n51 10\n\n68\n\n10\n\ndis. to par\n\n60\n\n93 to B5\n\nJ\n\n1 to I dis.\n\n4021.\n\nSuez Canal Company\n\n*\n\n20\n\n20\n\nThames and Mersey Marine Lasur. Co.\n\nUniversal Marine Insurance Company!\n\n5 to\n\nFLE\n\nColonial Company\n\nCredit Foncier of England\n\nARTICLES OF IMPORT.\n\nTEA.\n\n1,530\n\n1.360\n\n5pm.\n\n4 to jum\n\nMessrs. Shepard, Harrison, and Rehden's Circular says--\n\nDuring the past few days buying, except at auction without reserve (sales of China or Indian growth taking place daily), has been all but suspended, owing to the disturbance in the money market and the advance in the Bank rate, which is now 7 per cent.; arrivals have also been on an exceedingly large scale; buyers therefore act with extreme caution.\n\nAdvices from China, as to ultimate total shipments, state, \"all will depend on prices paid for common Congou;\" as regards this market, there is no encouragement to ship such here; demand has been \"off\" this class for some time, and late imports of what may be fairly classed as \"good common\" are not saleable over 9d.\n\nThe export trade to all quarters has been inactive.\n\nThe public sales of China have comprised 16,117 packages, of which week amount to 8,211,346 lbs., against 3,161,038 lbs. last year.\n\n14,449 packages have been sold without reserve.\n\nThe deliveries for the sales have been...\n\nBlack-Red leaf: No change as to prices for siftings and leafy; good flavoury kinds at 1s. to 1s 1d. have been scarce, but a better selection is offering from ships now discharging; Souchong and Kaisow kinds at 1s. 3d. to 1s. 5d. offer good value; medium to fine at 1s. 6d. to 2s. are hard of sale; finest sells in small lots at 2s. 1d. to 2s. 6d. per lb.\n\nPakling kinds: No demand.\n\nTayshau leaf: Fall supplies are in course of landing; a few sales at 10d. to 1s, for good common and fair.\n\nBlack leaf: In low and ordinary common there have been occasional small sales at 6d. to 7½d.; fair to good common we quote at 8d. to 10d. per lb., and difficult of sale; preferable kinds 1s. 7d, we make rather lower; fine and finest 1s. 8d. to 2s. 2d., limited at 1s. to 1s. 2d. are scarce; medium to good medium at 1s. 3d. to 1s. 6d. are...\n\nSouchong: Few transactions at no alteration in value.\n\nScented Tea, Canton kinds--Caper: There has been fair trade doing, as late good common to fair 10d. to 1s., good to medium 1s. 1d. to 1s. 4d, fine imports are of desirable quality, many parcels being strong scented; 1s. 5d. to 1s. 8d., finest 1s. 9d. to 2s. per lb.\n\nScented Orange Pekoe: Limited supplies, but sufficient for present wants, Foochow growth being in full supply, and selling at a moderate scale of prices.\n\nGreen Large sales by auction without reserve; the imports, ex Glenroy and Ajax, over 800,000 lbs., offering a varied selection, chiefly of Peling Suey leaf, which has sold at an average 1d. per lb. decline, No. 1 Gunpowder selling down to 2s. 11d., other grades in proportion.\n\nSlogane and Fychow leaf, with the comparatively small supply, has been selling at extreme rates.\n\nCanton and Japan kinds: No change.\n\nSILK.\n\nMessrs. Kilburn, Kershaw, and Co. report as follows:--\n\nThe slight improvement in demand which had shown itself recently has been checked by the movements of the money market, and buyers generally seen disposed to wait; there is no change in quotations.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-159 - Sir Kennedy - 1872 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 290026, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-161 - Public Offices - 1872", "page_number": 190, "title": "CO129-161 - Public Offices - 1872", "content_text": "Land\n\nE\n\nR\n\n19266\n\nIt Kay Fall Mall Club. S. W.\n\n11th December 1872\n\nfor\n\nRECEIVED\n\n0.0.\n\n12 DEC.\n\n1272,\n\nFor conformance\n\n2 copies\n\n185\n\nwith the instructions\n\nContained in your letter of 23rd ultimo. I have the honor to inform you\n\nthat I have obtained, from the Metropolitan Police, twenty men for service in Hongkong.\n\nThrough the courtesy of Colonel Henderson I have been permitted to examine the defaulters' Sheets\n\nof seventy-five volunteers and I have selected none but men who have borne good characters for at least three years.\n\nThe recruits have this evening been examined, and approved\n\nof by the Metropolitan Police. Tomorrow Surgeon and at noon they will sign the agreement, on\n\nthe understanding that they be permitted to remain in England until after Xmas.\n\nFinding\n\nThe Under Secretary of State for the\n\nColonial Office\n\nColonies\n\nDowning Street\n\nL", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-161 - Public Offices - 1872.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 290895, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-163 - Sir Kennedy - 1873 [4-6]", "page_number": 62, "title": "CO129-163 - Sir Kennedy - 1873 [4-6]", "content_text": "A list of my qualifications was communicated to the Secretary State at the time of my being appointed Superintendent of Government Civil Hospital; since that time I have performed the duties of Superintendent Civil Hospital, and I am acting as Colonial Surgeon and Inspector of Hospitals.\n\nI have,\n\n(Signed) P. J. Wherry, In B.M. Aberd M.R.C.S.E. L.S.A. Lond: Supt. Govt Civil Hosp! & Actg. Colonial Surgeon and Inspector of Hospitals.\n\n(1 True Copy)\n\nDist.\n\nActing Colonial Secretary\n\nC\n\nHar Sin & Kennedy\n\nMINUTE. 2/\n\n81\n\n4994 Hoy Ro\n\n2061\n\nAsbach 29\n\nMor. de Mr. Meade. 22\n\nMr. Holland.\n\nMer. Herbert\n\n22 frąj\n\nMr. Hugessen. Lord Himberley.\n\nSi\n\n11\n\nDS 22 Mag 73\n\nlindescect\n\nAndesc\n\nI have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your dispatch No 81 of April.\n\nI regret to inform Dr Wherry that I have received his application and that looking to the claims of other candidates I cannot hold out to him hope of being appointed Colonel Surgeon of Hong Kong.\n\n& Thavey", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-163 - Sir Kennedy - 1873 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 298422, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-174 - Sir Kennedy - 1876 [4-8]", "page_number": 346, "title": "CO129-174 - Sir Kennedy - 1876 [4-8]", "content_text": "345\n\nfor purposes of a Sanitary Commission, rather than in favour of that form\n\n111\n\nthough\n\nmy\n\ninterest in\n\nwas met injudiciously ended\n\nthe health and welfare to the Colonial Government\n\nHer Majesty's Government in 1867 in very arguably not less than the margin recommended by the Military Authorities, the Colonel Gavin Department\n\nwas would be\n\narmy\n\nvery glad approval.\n\nlow of this Kind-\n\nvery\n\nfavourably, but this matter\n\nin no\n\nway\n\nconnected\n\nwith the transfer which\n\nforms the subject of the paper General Surgeon\n\nand the two should not\n\ntherefore be thus linked together.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-174 - Sir Kennedy - 1876 [4-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 301338, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-179 - Governor Hennessy - 1877 [9-12]", "page_number": 466, "title": "CO129-179 - Governor Hennessy - 1877 [9-12]", "content_text": "## RELEASE OF PRISONERS FOR NURSING THE SUFFERERS\n\nHis Excellency the Governor visited the gaol on Friday, November 30th, and considered the report made by the medical officers and the Superintendent of the Gaol respecting the services rendered by certain prisoners who had acted as dressers in the temporary hospital fitted up in the prison where the sixty sufferers from the explosion on board the Yesso were brought to the gaol on the 22nd November. Having consulted with Dr. Ayres, the Colonial Surgeon, and with Captain Ducat, the Superintendent, and minutely examined the lists submitted to him, His Excellency about half-past twelve o'clock came out of the Superintendent's office and conveyed his decision to the prisoners in question, who were paraded for that purpose in the lower yard.\n\nThe first list contained the names of twenty-four Europeans including that of A. F. Chambers. His Excellency, addressing them, said that when the recent calamity occurred it became necessary to bring sixty of the sufferers into a temporary hospital fitted up in the gaol, owing to the fact that the building now used as a Civil Hospital was not large enough. The cases were all of the most serious and distressing kind, of a kind requiring unremitting attention day and night. It was therefore absolutely necessary to secure the immediate services of a body of dressers who would act under the superintendence of the medical officers, and this was accomplished by the Colonial Surgeon, who most properly availed himself of the ready help at hand. A considerable number of prisoners volunteered for this duty. Dr. Ayres and Captain Ducat had chosen those whose good conduct they could best rely on. The task imposed upon those prisoners was one of the most harrowing that could be conceived. The injuries of the patients were shocking to contemplate, and the great zeal and tenderness shown by the volunteer dressers in endeavouring to alleviate pain and save life attracted the attention of every one whose duty it was to visit the scene of suffering. Dr. Mowll, whose invaluable assistance had been afforded to the local Government by His Excellency Admiral Hillyar, spoke in the highest terms of them, and so had Dr. Ayres and Captain Ducat. He himself had also paid some surprise visits to the Gaol at night, and found the dressers at work and everything being done for the poor wounded people that human beings could accomplish. Under such circumstances he felt it his duty to give them the highest reward he could, and that was their freedom. Some of the Europeans in the list had been convicted by the Naval and Military Authorities, and with reference to these he could only promise to represent their cases to His Excellency the Admiral and to the Colonel in Command of the Troops.\n\nThe Chinese prisoners who were also recommended for clemency were then paraded and addressed through the Interpreter, in similar terms. Of these, twenty-four were liberated, the case of Li Lum Kwai (under a life sentence) was reserved for further consideration, and the cases of about six other Chinese are to be dealt with by partial remissions of sentence only.\n\nOn visiting the other parts of the Gaol, some prisoners who had served more than two-thirds of their time begged for clemency, but His Excellency told them that their petitions had been received by him some weeks ago and rejected, as their conduct in prison had not been good.\n\nWith the exception of those now liberated and a few liberated on medical certificate, or on the recommendation of the judges, His Excellency had strictly adhered to the rule he had re-established that no prisoner could be relieved who had not served two-thirds of his sentence, and then only when his conduct in prison had been so good as to earn the recommendation of the Superintendent.\n\n464 \n\nWe have been favoured with a copy of an official notification announcing that His Excellency the Governor has received a telegram from the Right Hon. the Earl of Carnarvon, Her Majesty's Secretary of State for the Colonies, to the following effect: --\"I have heard with deep regret of the calamity on board the steamer Yesso announced in your telegrams.\" \n\n...in the Public Gardens on the following evening was also stopped.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-179 - Governor Hennessy - 1877 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 303744, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-184 - Governor Hennessy - 1879 [1-5]", "page_number": 336, "title": "CO129-184 - Governor Hennessy - 1879 [1-5]", "content_text": "## \n33f- and flags. In the centre was placed a large American shield, flanked on each side by British shields and surmounted by the American, French, and English ensigns. A guard of honour of the 27th (Inniskillings), with the Colours and the Band, were drawn up on the Pier, and the Police, under the charge of Captain-Superintendent Deane, lined the road from the Pier to Government House. His Excellency the Governor, who arrived at a quarter to five o'clock, accompanied by Major Palmer, R.E., A.D.C., stood at the head of the steps to receive the General, and the heads of the naval, military, and civil services and the members of the Legislative Council were also assembled at the head of the pier. His Excellency the Governor was dressed in plain clothes and wore his C.M.G. star. The naval and military officers were in undress uniform. Most of the British and foreign residents, with one or two ladies, and a large number of Chinese were likewise present on the pier, which was lined on one side three or four deep. Along the route up to Queen's road a large concourse of people had collected, all eager to catch a glimpse of the distinguished visitors.\n\nAt ten minutes to five the Victoria came alongside the Murray Pier, and the General with Mr. Holcombe landed. His Excellency the Governor, descending a few steps, said - \"General Grant, welcome to Hongkong.\" On entering the mat-shed, His Excellency presented General Grant to Major-General Donovan, Sir John Smale, Chief Justice; Hon. J. Russell, Acting Attorney-General; Hon. M. S. Tonnochy, Acting Colonial Treasurer; the Right Rev. Bishop Burdon, Hon. P. Ryrie, Hon. J. M. Price, Surveyor-General; and Mr. Tam King Sing, the Opium Farmer.\n\nThe Governor was then introduced by Mr. Holcombe to Mrs. Grant, Lieut. Colonel F. D. Grant, Hon. A. E. Borie, Dr. Keating, and Mr. J. R. Young. His Excellency next presented to the General the Hon. W. Keswick, Mr. Taro Ando, Japanese Consul; Dr. Eitel, Inspector of Schools; Dr. Ayres, Colonial Surgeon; Mr. Ng Choy, Lieutenant-Colonel Hall, R.A., Colonel J. Moore, Commissary-General of Ordnance; Colonel Geddes, 27th Regiment; Mr. E. R. Belilios, Commander B. E. Corcoran, H.M.S. Lily; Lieutenant-Colonel C. R. Shervinton, Assistant Commissary-General; Dr. S. S. D. Wells, Deputy Inspector-General, R.N., Mr. D. Robb, R.N., Colonel Stuart, R.E., Staff Commander G. P. Heather, R.N., Captain J. Muskett, and Mr. J. Bremner, R.N. The above gentlemen were introduced in the order named. His Excellency then gave his arm to Mrs. Grant, and the party proceeded along the pier, the guard of honour saluting as they did so, while the Band played. By some unexplainable oversight the usual British cheer was inadvertently omitted.\n\nThe front of the Victoria Recreation Club was decorated with bunting, and the premises of Messrs. McEwen, Frickel & Co. on the Praya were draped with flags. The private residence in Wyndham-street of Mr. W. H. Moors was illuminated with Chinese lanterns, and a transparency displaying a well-executed likeness of General Grant on one side and the American and British flags on the other. Photographs of the scene at Murray Pier were taken by Mr. Afong, as the landing was being effected.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-184 - Governor Hennessy - 1879 [1-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 303747, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-184 - Governor Hennessy - 1879 [1-5]", "page_number": 339, "title": "CO129-184 - Governor Hennessy - 1879 [1-5]", "content_text": "# THE CHINA MAIL.\n\n## HONGKONG, MONDAY, MAY 5, 1879.\n\n### GENERAL GRANT IN HONGKONG,\n\n#### GRAND STATE DINNER AND RECEPTION AT GOVERNMENT HOUSE.\n\nOn Saturday evening a grand State dinner was given at Government House by the Governor and Mrs. Hennessy, in honour of General Grant; and afterwards a reception was held, which was one of the most brilliant and numerously attended that ever took place within these walls.\n\nThe following were the guests at the State Dinner:\n\n| Guest | Title/Position |\n| --- | --- |\n| General and Mrs. Grant | |\n| The Duke of Magliano | |\n| Don Giulio Grasioli | |\n| Hon. A. E. Borie | |\n| H. E. the Major General and Mrs. Donovani | |\n| The Chief Justice Sir John Smale, and Lady Smale | |\n| Commodore Smith, R.N. | |\n| Hon. J. Russell, Acting Attorney-General | |\n| Hon. P. Ryrie, MLC | |\n| Hon. J. M. Price, Surveyor-General | |\n| Hon. M. S. Tonnochy, Acting Colonial Treasurer | |\n| Mr. Chester Holcombe, U.S. Chargé d'Affaires in China | |\n| Lieut.-Col. F. D. Grant, U.S.A. | |\n| Lieut.-Col. and Mrs. Geddes, 27th Inniskillings | |\n| Captain Kasama, Japanese Navy | |\n| Commander Perkins, United States Navy | |\n| Commander Paul (H.B.M.'s Consul, Manila) and Mrs. Pauli | |\n| Mr. Tara Ando, Japanese Consul, and Mrs. Tara Ando | |\n| Commander Von Schuckmann, German Navy | |\n| Captain Kerr, 27th Inniskillings | |\n| Lieut. Drummond, Scots Fusilier Guards, A.D.C. | |\n| Dr. J. M. Keating | |\n| Mr. C. V. Creagh | |\n| Mr. J. Russell Young | |\n| Mr. J. Pitman | |\n| Mr. G. De Champeaux | |\n| Mr. Han Hap | |\n| Mr. Ng Choy | |\n| Major Palmer, R.E., A.D.C. | |\n\nThe following ladies and gentlemen who had received invitations were, from various causes, unable to attend:\n\n- Bishop Burdon and Mrs. Burdon\n- Bishop Raimondi\n- Hon. H. W. Marsh, Colonial Secretary, and Mrs. Marsh\n- The Hon. I. B. Gibb\n- Colonel Moaby, U.S. Consul, Hongkong\n- Mr. Lincoln, U.S. Consul at Canton, and Mrs. Lincoln\n- Surgeon-Major Hungerford\n- Rev. R. Bayward Kidd, Colonial Chaplain, and Mrs. Kidd\n- Dr. Frederick Stewart\n- Captain Muskett, Army Pay Department\n\nThe following programme was played during dinner:\n\n1. Grand March, **David** \n2. Overture, **Absalom**, Longhurst\n3. Selection, **Das Nachtlager Kreutzer**\n4. Valse, **Kübezahll**, Flotow\n5. Selection, **in Granada**, ... Coote\n6. Polka, **Telephone**, Werner\n\nAfter the toast of **\"Her Majesty the Queen,\"** which was duly honoured in the usual way, the band playing **\"God Save the Queen,\"** His Excellency said:\n\nThe Governor of this Colony has from time to time had the privilege of welcoming, in the name of the whole community, distinguished visitors. One of the children of our Queen has been residing in this house, and my immediate predecessor entertained here a son of the Emperor of Russia. But I believe the young princes would be themselves among the first to say that the man whose health I am now about to propose, is the most illustrious guest that ever sat at this table. I do not refer so much to the military achievements which will for ever rank the name of Ulysses Grant with those of Washington, Wellington, and Napoleon, but to those other achievements, indicated by Lord Beaconsfield, when he truly said that the future of civilization is indissolubly bound up in the future of the United States - those other achievements, accomplished by the toleration, resolute strength, and love of justice of the statesman, when the sword of the soldier was laid aside.\n\nTwo years have gone since he first saw, at Yok harbour, the shores of the British Empire. During that time he has visited the Old World, breathed the Scotch air of his ancestors, and passed on from point to point of Queen Victoria's dominions; and now, on leaving this Island and crossing the Pacific to his own home, he is about to part with that Empire throughout the whole of which he has been received with one long ovation of respect and affection. As the Queen's representative, and in the name of every one in this Colony, I thank him for giving us this opportunity of showing him that we all appreciate his character and career.\n\nWill you forgive me, ladies and gentlemen, if I presume to add that there are one or two personal reasons also why it affords me peculiar pleasure to see General Grant at my table. During the whole of those ever-memorable years, from the day when he drilled his company of volunteers at Galena, to the capture of Richmond and the surrender of the rebel army, I was in a small way mixed up in public affairs in England, as a member of that assembly the power of which, for good or evil, is not confined within the bounds of England's Sovereignty. It is now a matter of history that in both Houses of the British Parliament there were friends and foes of Freedom, but we may recall with pride the fact that two men so diverse in person and disposition and party relations as John Bright and Benjamin Disraeli, were sagacious enough to know that the honour of their own Country and the welfare of the World were associated with the cause for which Ulysses Grant was contending.\n\nWhilst Bright was repairing the blunders of one or two eminent men of the Liberal party, the great Conservative Chief was, to my own personal knowledge, labouring night and day to counteract unreasoning prejudice amongst his own followers, and it is ever to me a source of intense satisfaction that, though in a very humble way no doubt, I was one of those members of the House of Commons who loyally supported his prudent and patriotic policy.\n\nBut this is not the only personal reason that is present to my mind to-night. I am a citizen of Cork. I come from that corner of the Old World, nearest, and not less dear, to the United States; and on behalf of my fellow citizens I now assure General Grant that in no part of the civilized globe would he have received a heartier welcome, if he had honoured us with a visit, than in my native city.\n\nI now invite you to drink his health, and will ask you not to forget the charming lady at my right, and her family; for, within the last few minutes, a telegram has reached them from London, announcing the birth of a grand-child, so that General Grant, though still comparatively a young man, younger indeed to-day than Washington when he first became President, has, as a grandfather, added another little link to unite the two countries together. I give you, with all my heart, the health of General Grant.\n\nGeneral Grant, in reply, said:\n\nI am very grateful to you for your kind address, to which I would be happy to respond, but there is so much personal and flattering to myself that I find it impossible. It is only a continuance of the kindness that I have... \n\nPage 334", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-184 - Governor Hennessy - 1879 [1-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 303748, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-184 - Governor Hennessy - 1879 [1-5]", "page_number": 340, "title": "CO129-184 - Governor Hennessy - 1879 [1-5]", "content_text": "received not only in England, but in India, and in the British colonies; wherever, in fact, I have met Englishmen, I have met nothing but courtesy, hospitality, and good will to myself and my country. As you have said, I am about to leave the British and pass into the Chinese Empire. I have met no gentlemen so kind as the gentlemen of England. For this reception, more especially for the reception in Hongkong, I am grateful, as I know my friends and countrymen at home are grateful for the kindness that I have been honoured with during the last two years. I do not know that I can say anything better, nor anything which is nearer to my heart, now that I am leaving the British Empire, than to ask you all to unite in this sentiment: The perpetual friendship and alliance of the two great English-speaking nations of the world-England and America.\"\n\nThe General's toast was drunk by all the guests upstanding. Soon after, the ladies retired to the large drawing room, and at ten o'clock General Grant, the Governor, and the Aide-de-Camp, with Mrs Grant and Mrs Hennessy, proceeded to the vestibule, where every person on arrival was received and presented to the General by the Governor. These presentations lasted for more than an hour.\n\nThe guests on arriving were met in the hall by the Governor, and were presented to His Excellency by Major Palmer, A.D.C.; the Governor presented his guests to General Grant; Mr C. V. Creagh presented them to Mrs Hennessy, by whom they were introduced to Mrs Grant.\n\n## The Reception\n\nThe Government House grounds were brilliantly illuminated. On both sides of the numerous walks, slight bamboo frames had been erected, and cords, invisible to the eye unless carefully looked for, ran from one to the other all the way round, one cord three feet, another six, from the ground. Every four feet or so a Chinese lantern was suspended from the cords, these being fixed alternatingly on the high and low line. The effect was brilliant and beautiful and striking in the extreme, and the large company seemed greatly to prefer roaming about amid those thousand lights to staying in the Reception rooms. The Governor and Mrs Hennessy walked round frequently amid their numerous guests, His Excellency with Mrs Grant, and General Grant with Mrs Hennessy. The American Star, a large design in gas, on the north side of Government House, was greatly admired. The fairy-like beauty of the scene could scarcely have been enhanced. The lovely dresses of the ladies, the bright and varied uniforms of the officers of different nationalities present, the delightful music of the band, the merry laughter coming from various groups in different portions of the grounds, altogether made up a pleasing, lively and beautiful scene. It was not till nearly midnight that the company began to thin, and by a few minutes after that hour the guests had departed, the visitors were indoors, the lamps \"burnt low, and silence and darkness again assumed their sway. The gathering was in every way most successful, and every one seemed heartily to enter into the spirit of the occasion, and honour the General they had been invited to meet.\n\nThe following programme was performed by the band of Her Majesty's 37th Regt. (Inniskillings) under the direction of Herr Werner, during the course of the evening:\n| No. | Piece | Composer |\n|----|-------|----------|\n| 1 | Overture, Emma di Rosborgo | Meyerbeer |\n| 2 | Quadrille, American | Julien |\n| 3 | Selection, Beatrice di Tenda | Bellini |\n| 4 | Valse, London Society | Coote |\n| 5 | Selection, Irish Airs | Godfrey |\n| 6 | Polka, Lieb und Treu | Welcker |\n\nThe following officials and others were invited to the Reception:\n\nBishop Burdon, Bishop Raimondi, the Hon. the Colonial Secretary, Hon. W. Keswick, Hon. O. B. Plunket, the Acting Puisne Judge, the Captain Superintendent of Police, the Postmaster-General, the Acting Harbour-Master, the Colonial Chaplain, the Colonial Surgeon, the Inspector of Schools, the Acting Registrar General, the Hon. K. O. Fuller, United States Secretary,\n\nMessrs Barretto, Corrales, Denny, J. M. Forbes, Levysohn, Mencarini, Colonel Moaby, Plichos, Reiners, Scherzer, and Baron von Soden, of the Consular Services.\n\nStaff Com. Heather, R.N., and officers R. N. Yard.\n\nThe officers H.M.S. Victor Emanuel Comr. Cochrane and officers H.M.S. Lily. Comr. McNeile and officers H.M.S. Fly. Lieut.-Com. Grey and officers H.M.S. Mosquito.\n\nLieut.-Comr. Carey and officers H.M.S. Moorhen.\n\nPerkins and officers U.S.S. ... \nComr. Ashuelot.\n\nCapt. von Nostitz and officers H.I.G.M.S. Freya.\n\nCapt. Schering and officers H.I.G.M.S. Luise.\n\nCapt. Kasamos and officers H.I.J.M.S. Nisain.\n\nComr. von Schuckmann and officers H.I.G.M.S. Cyclop.\n\nCapt. Cocker and officers H.I.O.M.S. Feinco.\n\nDeputy-Inspector-Gen. Wells and officers R. N. Hospital.\n\nCapt. C. H. Palmer, H.I.C.M.S. Peng-chou-hai.\n\nCapt. St. Clair, Brigade Major. Capt. Barton, A.A.M.S.\n\nLieut.-Col. Hall and officers R.A.\n\nCol Stuart and officers R.E.\n\nLieut. Col. Geddes and officers 27th Inniskillings.\n\nLieut. Col. Shervinton and officers Commissariat Dept.\n\nComy.-Gen. Moore and officers Ordnance Store Dept.\n\nCapt. Muskett and officers Army Pay Dept.\n\nSurgeon Major Hungerford and officers Army Medical Dept.\n\nRev. J. Houderson, Acting Military Chaplain.\n\nMr J. Fleming, R. E. Dept.\n\n## Ladies Invited\n\nMrs. Adams, \n\" Arnhold, \n\" Anton, \n\" Armstrong, \n\" Burnie, \n\" Bird, \n\" Ayres, \n\" Ball, \n\" Bain, \n(G. Murray) Mrs Burdon, \n\" Barff, \n\" Belilios, \n\" Beyer, \n\" Bowdler, \n\" Caldwell, \nMiss Caldwell, \nMrs. Clouth, \n\" Coughtrie, \n\" Dunn, \n\" Deane, \n\" Edge, \n\" Eitel, \n\" Falconer, A. \n\" Fleming \nMrs Grobien, \n\" Brereton, \n\" Bright S. (Rochdale) \n\" Coxon, \n\" Crawford, \n\" Crombie, \nd'Almada e Castro \n\" Dickie, \n\" Eastlake, \n\" Ede \n\" Forbes, W. B \n\" Froncio, \nMrs Geddes, \n\" Hall, \n\" Hauschild, \nMiss Hall, \n\" Hazeland, \nMrs. Hancock, \n\" Heaton, \n\" Hanlon, \n\" Holmes, G. \n\" Harton, \n\" Inglis, \n\" Jackson, \nMiss Johnston, \n\" Johnson, \nMrs. Judah, \n\" Kier, \n\" Kerr, \n\" Keswick, \n\" Kidd, \n\" Lai-Kam, \n\" Lister, \n\" McEuen, J. P. \n\" Metcalfe, \n\" Macfarlane, \n\" Marsh, \n\" May, A. J, \n\" Moore, J. \n\" McEwen, A. P. \n\" Murray, \n\" Noate, \n\" Newton,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-184 - Governor Hennessy - 1879 [1-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 304407, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-185 - Acting Governor Marsh Governor Hennessy - 1879 [6-12]", "page_number": 352, "title": "CO129-185 - Acting Governor Marsh Governor Hennessy - 1879 [6-12]", "content_text": "# 351 \nD (Copy)\n\nThe Colonial Secretary's Office \nHongkong, 7th October 1879.\n\nSir,\n\nWith reference to some complaints that were made four or six months ago by His Excellency the General in Command of the Troops, as regards the working of the Contagious Diseases Ordinance in Hongkong, I am directed by His Excellency the Governor to transmit to you for the information of the Colonel commanding the Troops a copy of a report from the Colonial Surgeon in ...\n\nCapt. Carr \nActing Assistant Military Secretary \nColonial Secretary to Military Secretary. \nhe 1232.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-185 - Acting Governor Marsh Governor Hennessy - 1879 [6-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 304488, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-185 - Acting Governor Marsh Governor Hennessy - 1879 [6-12]", "page_number": 431, "title": "CO129-185 - Acting Governor Marsh Governor Hennessy - 1879 [6-12]", "content_text": "## 430 \n19998 \n79 \n\nCopy - Acting Assistant Military Secretary to Colonial Secretary.\n\n224604.\n\nSvi \n\n**Military Secretary's Office** \nHongkong 20th October 1879.\n\nWith reference to your communication of instant date and the inclosed Report of the Colonial Surgeon, I have the honor by direction of the Colonel Commanding to forward herewith a report furnished by the Principal Military Medical Officer at this station, from \nwhich it would appear that the \nworking of the \"Contagious Diseases Ordinance\" \nat Stonecutters is quite as unsatisfactory \n\nThe Honorable Mr. H. Marsh \nColonial Secretary \nHongkong", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-185 - Acting Governor Marsh Governor Hennessy - 1879 [6-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 304489, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-185 - Acting Governor Marsh Governor Hennessy - 1879 [6-12]", "page_number": 432, "title": "CO129-185 - Acting Governor Marsh Governor Hennessy - 1879 [6-12]", "content_text": "has been presented \n\nented by \n\nIt is Excellency \n\nthe \n\nMajor General Commanding. \n\nI have jo...\n\n(Rigned). M. P. Carr \n\nCarlam \na. a.m. S. \n\n\n## 431 \nCopy-\n\nthe 1793. \n\nArmy \n\n**Report by Principal Medical Officer**\n\n\nPrincipal Medical Officer's office \nHongkong October 1879.\n\nI have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your \"Memo\", and a letter from the Colonial Secretary, dated October 4th 1879 also inclosures from the Colonial Surgeon and calling for a report upon the same.\n\n1. In reply I beg to state for information of the Colonel Commanding the Troops that I cannot concur in the opinion therein stated \"that the character of \n\nThe Acting Assistant Military Secretary \nthe \n\nVenereal", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-185 - Acting Governor Marsh Governor Hennessy - 1879 [6-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 304588, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-185 - Acting Governor Marsh Governor Hennessy - 1879 [6-12]", "page_number": 531, "title": "CO129-185 - Acting Governor Marsh Governor Hennessy - 1879 [6-12]", "content_text": "# BANQUET AND RECEPTION AT GOVERNMENT HOUSE\n\nHis Excellency the Governor and Mrs. Hennessy entertained the following guests at dinner in the evening at Government House:- Professor Nordenskiold, Captain Palander, R.S.N. Vega, His Excellency Major-General Donovan and Mrs. Donovan, Chief Justice Sir John Smale and Lady Smale, Commodore Smith, R.N., Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Marsh, Mrs. Pollock, Hon. J. Russell, Hon. P. Ryrie, Hon. M. S. Tonnochy, Colonel and Mrs. Geddes (27th Inniskillings), Surgeon-Major Max Grant, Mr. and Mrs. Taro Ando, Mr. F. D. Sassoon, Lieut. Bove (Vega), Dr. Almquist (Vega), Lieut. Nordquist (Vega), Lieut. Hovgaard (Vega), Dr. Stuxberg (Vega), Lieut. Drummond, A.D.C. to the General, and Mr. C. V. Creagh, Acting A.D.C. to the Governor.\n\nThe following, to whom invitations had been sent, were unable to attend -- Right Rev. Bishop and Mrs. Burdon, Right Rev. Bishop Raimondi, Hon. W. Keswick, and Col., Mrs., and Miss Hall. The band of the 27th Regiment was in attendance and played the following selection, under the direction of Herr Werner, bandmaster: Overture... \"Fra Diavolo\" Auber, Polka \"O Katchke\" Stasey, \"Swedish Air\" Anon., Selection \"Beatrice di Tenda\" Bellini, Valse \"First Roses\" Werner, Jun., Reminiscences of Ireland... Godfrey.\n\nAt the close of the dinner His Excellency the Governor proposed the toast of \"The Queen,\" which was most loyally received, the band playing the National Anthem.\n\nImmediately afterwards His Excellency rose and said- Professor Nordenskiöld: In the name of my Sovereign, Queen Victoria, I have the honour to welcome you and your companions to Her Majesty's dominions.\n\nSix centuries ago Marco Polo came from Europe to China. Two centuries later, the Portuguese crossed the Indian Ocean, entered these seas, and landed within a few miles of this Island, and subsequently the direct voyage across the Pacific was undertaken. The nineteenth century can now add to the roll of its triumphs the fourth and final route from Europe to Asia. It is our privilege to-night to behold the illustrious man who has done this-who left Europe fifteen months ago and is received by us after sailing through the Arctic Seas and accomplishing the North East passage. No generation to come can witness the completion of a voyage rivalling this. We be bold as it were in this remote outpost of Europe the writing of the last words in the last chapter of heroic maritime discovery.\n\nI congratulate the Sovereign of Sweden on the gallantry and success of His Majesty's sailors, led by Captain Palander and the officers of the Vega; I congratulate that great republic - the World of Science - on the achievement of one of her choicest citizens, Professor Nordenskiöld. Ladies and gentlemen, let us drink his health and that of his companions.\n\nHis Excellency's toast was received with enthusiasm, and the band played the Swedish National Air.\n\nProfessor Nordenskiold then rose and replied in Swedish. He has favoured us with the following translation: I have to thank your Excellency, on behalf of my comrades and myself, for the kind words you have used in proposing our healths, and the ladies and gentlemen present for the kind manner in which they have received the toast. Already to-day, in another place, I have had to thank the Inhabitants of Hongkong for the handsome way in which the Swedish expedition has been received in this Colony, and I then stated our visit here would be one of the pleasantest remembrances of the Vega's voyage. To your Excellency's guests on the present occasion I beg to repeat the same thing, but especially I have to thank your Excellency for the munificent hospitality you have extended to myself and Captain Palander at Government House, where we have been guests during our stay here. I now beg to propose the health of His Excellency the Governor and Mrs. Hennessy.\n\nThis toast was duly honoured.\n\n## Reception\n\nHis Excellency the Governor and Mrs. Hennessy held an \"at home\" and a brilliant and numerously attended reception after dinner, in honour of their distinguished guests. The following received invitations:\n\n### Officials and Military Officers\n\n| Name | Title/Position |\n| --- | --- |\n| Hon. C. B. Plunket | Acting Puisne Judge |\n| Captain Superintendent of Police | |\n| Postmaster-General | |\n| Harbour Master | |\n| Colonial Surgeon | |\n| Inspector of Schools | |\n| Acting Registrar-General | |\n| Staff Commander Heather, R.N. | and officers R.N. Yard |\n| Lieut.-Commander Annesley | and officers of H.M.S. Vigilant |\n| Lieut.-Commander M. L. Bridger | and officers H.M.S. Sheldrake |\n| Commander A. L. Douglas | and officers H.M.S. Egeria |\n| Lieut.-Commander W. Nowell | and officers H.M.S. Foxhound |\n| Don. F. Alarcon | and officers of H.C.M.S. Vencedora |\n| Deputy-Inspector-General Breen | and officers Royal Naval Hospital |\n| Captain Palmer | H.I.C.M.S. Peng Chan Hai |\n| Captain St. Clair | Brigade Major |\n| Captain Barton | A.M.S. |\n| Colonel Stuart | and officers R.A. |\n| Officers | 27th Inniskillings |\n| Lieut.-Colonel Shervinton | and officers Commissariat Department |\n| Commissary-General Moore | and officers Ordnance Store Department |\n| Captain Muskett | and officers Army Pay Department |\n| Deputy-Surgeon General Mackinnon | and officers Army Medical Department |\n| Rev. J. Henderson | Acting Military Chaplain |\n| Mr. J. Fleming | P.W.D. |\n\n### Ladies and Gentlemen\n\nMesdames Armstrong, Anton, Ayres, Arnhold, Murray Bain, Ball, Barff, Belilios, Beyer, Bowdler, Burnie, Bird, Brereton, Breen, Caldwell, Clouth, Coughtrie, Coxon, Crawford, Dunn, Deave, D'Almada & Castro, Edge, Eitel, Eastlacke, Ede, Fleming, Ford, Grobien, A. Hancock, Hanlon, Hauschild, Hazeland, Heaton, G. Holmes, Hurton, Jackson, Johnson, Kier, Kerr, Lister, A. P. McEwan, J. P. McEuen, A. J. May, Murray, Musso, Neate, Newton, Plunket, Piercy, J. H. dos Remedios, Robinson, Ridgway, Rogers, Romano, J. A. dos Remedios, St. Clair, E. Sharp, G. Sharp, Squier, Stephens, Sangster, Seth, G. L. Toudin, Thevenin, Thomsett, Vaucher, Vägel, Vernon, Wilcox, Wilson, Wharry, Windram, M. Young.\n\nMisses Caldwell, Johnston, Rogers, Robinson, Rowe, Shervinton, Thomsett, Wells, Walker.\n\nMessrs. E. Barghignoli, Dr. Chalmers, E. Davys, J. C. Edge, Dr. Eitel, F. B. Heroo, R. Lechler, B. Lemonnier, E. Klitske, B. Vigano, Doctors Eastlacke, Von der Horck, Lochhead, O'Brien, Clouth, Rogers, Wharry, Gomes, Young.\n\nMessrs. E. Alford, A. F. Alves, P. M. Alves, J. M. S. Alves, E. J. H. d'Aquino, F. H. Arjanee, J. M. Armstrong, J. R. Anton, W. M. B. Arthur, S. Ashton, H. Arnold, J. Arnhold, J. L. do S. Aivoa, J. Abraham, G. M. Bain, J. D. Ball, Barff, F. W. Barff, Battles, Beart, Belilios, Boris, Beyer, Blackwell, Blogg, Bottomley, Bowdler, Burnie, J. A. Barretto, Blanchard, von Bobers, Botelho, Boyd, Braddon, Bird, Brereton, Brooke, Ban Hap, W. A. Caldwell, Chastel, C. P. Chater, Cheyne, Cohen, Cope, Coughtrie, J. H. Cox, Coxon, Crawford, Cottell, A. L. Carvalho, J. A. de Carvalho, Chapuis, G. C. Cox, Corrales, Chamberlain, G. de Champeaux, Cuff, Chan Afook, Ching Ayu, Chan Soy Sang.\n\nPage 529", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-185 - Acting Governor Marsh Governor Hennessy - 1879 [6-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 305787, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-188 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [5-6]", "page_number": 9, "title": "CO129-188 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [5-6]", "content_text": "## PRINCE HEINRICH OF PRUSSIA AT GOVERNMENT HOUSE.\n\n## UNVEILING THE PORTRAIT OF THE PRINCE CONSORT.\n\nOn the 7th of May, His Excellency Governor Sir **JOHN POPE HENNESSY**, K.C.M.G., and Lady HENNESSY gave a State luncheon and an \"At Home\" in honour of His Royal Highness Prince **HEINRICH** of Prussia, who, with Baron Von SECKENDORFF, had been for some days on a visit at Government House. Later in the afternoon a large number of the community attended the \"At Home\" and were presented to the Prince.\n\nThe guests who had the honour of meeting the Prince at luncheon were:- Chief Justice Sir Jos and Lady SMALE, Colonel HALL, R.A., (Commanding H. M. Troops), and Mrs. HALL, Commodore SMITH, R.N., Commodore MCLEAN, I.G.N., Hon. Captain DENNISON, R.N., Captain KOESTER, I.G.N., Captain SCHERING, I.G.N., Deputy Surgeon-General MACKINNON, C.B., Lieutenant-Colonel GEDDES and Mrs. GEDDES, Deputy Inspector-General and Mrs. BREEN, Hon. the Attorney General, Mr. E. L. O'MALLEY, Hon. M. S. TONNOCHY, Hon. NG CHOY, Major PAPILLON, R.E., Major HUSKISSON, Major HALES (27th Inniskillings), Mr. KEMPERMANN (Vice-Consul for Germany), Dr. and Mrs. CLOUTH, Dr. and Mrs. EITEL, Mr. and Mrs. ANDRÉ, Mr. and Mrs. POESNECKER, and Messrs. H. HOPPIUS, C. V. CREAGH, WONG KWAN TONG, and Lieutenant R. C. C. Cox, A.D.C.\n\nThe guests being assembled in the drawing-room, His Royal Highness entered at 1.15 P.M., wearing the Grand Cross, Ribbon, and Star of the Black Eagle of Prussia. He was accompanied by Baron von Seckendorff and Captain McLean. At the same moment the Royal Standard of Prussia was hoisted over Government House and a Royal Salute was fired from the shore battery by the Royal Artillery and from the ships in harbour, the German men-of-war `Prince Adalbert` and `Luise`, and Her Majesty's ships `Victor Emanuel`, `Comus`, and `Encounter`. The guests having been presented to the Prince, His Royal Highness gave his arm to Lady HENNESSY, the Governor following with Lady SMALE and the whole of the guests filed into the dining-room. During the banquet the Band of the 27th Inniskillings played a selection of music; first German, with a prominent and pleasing intermixture of the popular Suabian melodies of the ancestral home of the Hohenzollerns, followed by some Scotch and Irish National airs. At the close of the entertainment, His Royal Highness rose and proposed in a clear and ringing voice, \"**Her Majesty the Queen of Great Britain and Ireland**,\" the Band playing \"**God save the Queen**.\" Immediately after the Governor proposed \"**His Majesty the Emperor of Germany**,\" whereupon the Band played the national anthem of Germany. The Prince then rose, and all present proceeded to the drawing-room, where those assembled for the \"At Home\" were presented to His Royal Highness. The presentation lasted till nearly three P.M., when the Governor conducted the Prince to that part of the room where the picture of the Prince Consort was to be unveiled.\n\nHis Excellency then, addressing the Prince, spoke as follows:- May it please Your Royal Highness, Ladies, and Gentlemen,- In this eastern limit of Queen **VICTORIA**'s dominions, I am about to unveil the portrait of the greatest Statesman-Prince of our age. There is something not inappropriate in doing so in the presence of his grandson and within sight of the shores of China. The laws and literature of the venerable Empire, whose mountains we behold from this house, inculcate filial reverence and domestic affection. I well remember that in the House of Commons Mr. **DISRAELI**, in supporting a vote of condolence on the death of the Prince Consort, said that the Prince had discharged the highest public duties under the most difficult circumstances, and that he had elevated even the Throne of England by his domestic life. Next to the Queen herself, who was it that shared most in the happiness and in the cares of that domestic life? The Princess Royal of Great Britain and Ireland and Crown Princess of Prussia.- (Applause.) And hence it is, Sir, that your illustrious Mother is enshrined in the hearts of the people of England.- (Renewed applause.) Another British statesman of great experience, Lord **GRANVILLE**, has recorded the fact, that, in all his life, whether official or private...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-188 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 305790, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-188 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [5-6]", "page_number": 12, "title": "CO129-188 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [5-6]", "content_text": "# THE HONGKONG Government Gazette EXTRAORDINARY.\n\n**報特門轅港香**\n\nPublished by Authority.\n\n## VICTORIA, MONDAY, 10TE MAY, 1880.\n\n**日二初月四年辰庚日十初月五年十八百八千一簿六十二第**\n\n### No. 19.\n\n**號九十第**\n\n## PRINCE HEINRICH OF PRUSSIA AT GOVERNMENT HOUSE.\n\n**子世理開國布大署督總港香在**\n\n### UNVEILING THE PORTRAIT OF THE PRINCE CONSORT.\n\nOn the 7th of May, His Excellency Governor Sir John Pope Hennessy, K.C.M.G., and Lady Hennessy gave a State luncheon in honour of His Royal Highness Prince Heinrich of Prussia, who, with Baron von Seckendorff, had been for some days on a visit at Government House. Later in the afternoon a large number of the community attended an \"At Home\" and were presented to the Prince.\n\nThe guests who had the honour of meeting the Prince at luncheon were: His Honor the Chief Justice Sir John Smale, and Lady Smale, Commodore Smith, R.N., H.M.S. Victor Emanuel, Hon. Colonel Hall, R.A., (Commanding H.M. Troops), and Mrs. Hall, Captain McLean, H.I.M.S. Prinz Adalbert, Captain East, R.N., H.M.S. Comus, Hon. Captain Denison, R.N., H.M.S. Encounter, Commander Koester, H.I.M.S. Prinz Adalbert, Commander Schering, H.I.M.S. Luise, Deputy Surgeon-General Mackinnon, C.B., Deputy Inspector-General Breen, R.N., and Mrs. Breen, Lieutenant-Colonel Geddes, 27th Inniskillings, and Mrs. Geddes, Hon. E.L. O'Malley, Attorney General, Hon. M.S. Ton-Nocar, Colonial Treasurer, Hon. Ng Choy, Member of the Legislative Council, Major Papillon, Commanding Royal Engineers, Major Huskisson, Military Secretary, Major Hales, 27th Inniskillings, Mr. Kempermann, Vice-Consul for Germany.\n\n**擊許第二十七髒步兵遊擊希大德副領事鉗歐參贊展次首照小王親夫先主君英大者港數師世讌頗員天建子港貝弁紳商敬謁世子世子蓋世子偕同男爵數天是日嚥罷下午香師建訥停驂督經已布署星水代燕男開國制提方家軍督兼總英英五月初七日理水陸軍務水師提督總督香港等處地方兼夫人大英以馬內利兵船總統史總管香港營參府兼議政局員何與其奶奶大德亞伯兵舶總統大英諸客赴席陪世子同享福宴者有若廉訪師大人與其客頌揚大布國開理兵參將紀與其奶奶律政司兼議政局員柯庫務司兼麥大人督理營醫副醫官卑與其奶奶第二十七營步與其夫人在署代國家歌武士兵舶參將伊大英演觀打兵舶參將田大德亞定例局員湯定例局員伍叙軍工遊巴罃務處遊他伯兵舶參將蓋大德魯衣士兵參將佘總管醫官**\n\nThe translation of the Chinese text is not provided as per the instructions. The text is preserved as-is.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-188 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 306004, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-188 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [5-6]", "page_number": 227, "title": "CO129-188 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [5-6]", "content_text": "# HONGKONG, MAY 26TH, 1880.\n\n## QUEEN'S BIRTHDAY AT GOVERNMENT HOUSE.\n\nHis Royal Highness Prince Heinrich of Germany, as Her Majesty's Grandson, and His Excellency Sir John Pope Hennessy, K.C.M.G., as the Queen's Representative in the Colony, received on the 24th instant, as joint hosts, at Government House, on Her Majesty's Birthday, His Royal Highness Prince Thomas of Savoy, Duke of Genoa, at a State dinner, and subsequently their Royal Highnesses, with His Excellency the Governor and Lady Hennessy, received the Naval, Military, and Civil officers, the Foreign Consuls and a number of the British, foreign, and native residents in celebration of the day.\n\nA Royal Guard of Honour of the 27th Inniskillings, under the command of Captain Carr (with the Band and the Queen's Colours), was drawn up at the principal entrance to Government House, the front of which, as well as the garden surrounding, was brilliantly illuminated with Chinese lanterns and gas jets. H.R.H. Prince Heinrich and H.E. the Governor received His Royal Highness the Duke of Genoa, on his arrival and after the invited guests, who had previously assembled in the drawing-room, had been introduced to His Royal Highness, the party filed into the dining-hall. H.R.H. Prince Heinrich was attended by Baron von Seckendorff, and Captain MacLean, of H.M. frigate `Prinz Adalbert`. H.R.H. Prince Thomas of Savoy was attended by Count Candiani, A.D.C., and Captain Millelire of H.M.S. `Piemonte`.\n\nThe following is a list of the other guests who sat down to the banquet with their Royal Highnesses.\n\n| Guest | Designation |\n| --- | --- |\n| H.E. Dr. Elmore | |\n| His Honour Sir John Smale | Chief Justice |\n| Lady Smale | |\n| Captain East | H.M.S. `Conus`, Senior Naval Officer |\n| Hon. B. L. O'Malley | Attorney-General |\n| Hon. J. M. Price | Surveyor-General |\n| Hon. M. S. Tonnochy | Acting Colonial Treasurer |\n| Hon. Ng Choy | Member of Legislative Council |\n| His Honour Mr. Justice Snowden | |\n| Deputy Inspector-General Breen | R.N. |\n| Mrs. Breen | |\n| Dr. Ayres | Colonial Surgeon |\n| Mrs. Ayres | |\n| Rev. W. Jennings | Colonial Chaplain |\n| Mrs. Jennings | |\n| Dr. Eitel | Inspector of Schools |\n| Mrs. Eitel | |\n| Mr. Creagh | Acting Head of the Police Force |\n| Mr. J. P. McEuen | R.N., Acting Harbour-master |\n| Mr. Gerrard | Acting Registrar-General |\n| Mr. Gibbons | Registrar of Supreme Court |\n| Captain Carr | 27th Regiment (the Officers of the Guard of Honour) |\n| Lieutenant Cox | 27th Regiment (the Officers of the Guard of Honour) |\n| Captain Francis | Hongkong Volunteers, extra Aids-de-Camp |\n\nThe Band of Her Majesty's 27th Inniskillings played at intervals during the banquet. The only toast of the evening was given by Prince Thomas of Savoy, who proposed \"The health of Her Majesty the Queen of Great Britain and Ireland,\" and, addressing Prince Heinrich, added: \"Sir, Your Royal Grandmother.\" The Band played the National Anthem, and soon after the party adjourned to the Reception Room, which was presently filled with ladies and gentlemen attending the general reception.\n\nThe officers of the 27th Inniskillings came in body, with Lieutenant-Colonel Geddes, and were amongst the earliest presented. There was also a number of officers of Her Majesty's Navy and of the foreign ships of war in harbour, amongst whom were distinguished the officers of H.P.M.S. `Tejo`, who specially attended by order of H.E. the Governor of Macao. The Consular Body was also well represented. The whole assembly presented a most striking *tout ensemble* of Anglo-Oriental society, the uniforms of Her Majesty's Army and Navy and of the Consular Officers, glittering in scarlet and gold, being well set off by the soft yellow and embroidered court dresses of Chinese gentlemen, the richly coloured turbans and flowing robes of Mahomedans and Parsees, amid the fashionable costumes of European ladies.\n\nThe presentation lasted for more than an hour. In the course of the reception H.R.H. Prince Heinrich expressed to Mr. Sassoon and Mr. Belilios his regret that he would not be able to travel through India. He spoke also a few kindly words to the leading Chinese merchants Mr. Tan King-sing, Mr. Li Tak-cheung, Mr. Tung Ming-shan, and others.\n\nTheir Royal Highnesses left about half-past ten o'clock, whereupon dancing commenced soon after and was kept up till midnight, when the assembly broke up, after having enjoyed one of the most brilliant receptions ever held in the Government House of Hongkong.\n\nPage 223", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-188 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 306198, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-188 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [5-6]", "page_number": 422, "title": "CO129-188 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [5-6]", "content_text": "## \nrelieves the servitude of the inmates, as to which, in reply to your Despatch of 13th November 1880*, I have called for further explanations, this would form a ground for carefully reviewing and improving the manner in which that supervision is exercised, not for withdrawing it altogether from the houses for Chinese only, which form the great majority of the brothels, and leaving the unhappy inmates to their fate without an attempt at ameliorating their condition; and I have not failed to observe that Mr. Cecil Smith, in the 17th paragraph of his letter to Sir F. Rogers, printed at page 253 of the appendix, reports \"that these instances of virtual slavery exist entirely in the brothels for Chinese, where the women are seen by their own countrymen, and not in the other houses which are frequented by foreigners.\"\n\nThe report, at page 47, states the intention of the Government to have been that the Ordinance of 1857 should be worked with the aid of the whole body of police, but indicates that the then superintendent having set his face against the Ordinance, and not having (to use his own words) \"permitted the police to have anything to do with the control and supervision of brothels under the Ordinance, being apart from the general objects of police duties, and from the great probability of its leading to corruption,\" it came about that the office of Inspector of Brothels was created, and fell into the hands of inferior men (Rep., pp. 47, 48).\n\nThe power of visiting and inspecting registered brothels was, by section 7 of the Ordinance of 1857, vested in the Registrar-General (who had some months previously, by Ordinance 6 of 1857, been created Protector of the Chinese) and the chief officers of police; and it is evident, from the wording of the section, that these powers were distinct, and proceeded upon other grounds than the sanitary inspection of the women by the medical officers.\n\nA similar distinction is to be found in the 10th section of the same Ordinance; and these powers of supervising registered houses were again distinct from the provisions relating to the prosecution of unregistered brothels, matters which it was obviously meant should be dealt with by the police in the same manner as other breaches of the statute law.\n\nThe attitude, however, which the police were allowed to adopt towards the Ordinance appears to me to be one of the causes which frustrated Mr. Labouchere's humane intentions; and as soon as the object was thus lost sight of which induced the Secretary of State to desire that these establishments should be \"under the eye, and in some measure under the control, of the Government,\" it not unnaturally followed that the special provisions of the Ordinance came to be regarded as little more than machinery for the detection and suppression of unregistered or unlicensed brothels. And as the police, who, I presume, are acquainted with the character of the houses in their several beats, seem to have given little assistance towards the enforcement of the law in these particulars, it is not surprising that the inspectors, whose means of obtaining proofs was likely to be less complete, should have been driven to extraordinary devices for procuring evidence in the cases which in the discharge of their duties they found themselves required to bring forward. It seems, indeed, from document No. 32, printed at page 225, that there need have been no difficulty in identifying unlicensed houses, for on that occasion, in 1866, ninety-four were detected in two nights without the aid of the inspector.\n\nThe system of informers paid to obtain evidence by personal intercourse with women, which was introduced in 1860 simultaneously with the appointment of inspectors (p. 10 of Report), was a revolting abuse, which you most properly put a stop to as far back as the month of October 1877.+\n\nThe Commission is dated 12th November 1877, and the report December 1878. It was, therefore, scarcely necessary for the report to have contained so full an analysis of the cases in which this discontinued system had been employed, or the many pages of proceedings in such cases which are printed in the Appendix.\n\nTurning to the medical side of the subject, I may observe that the report seems to me to pass over somewhat too lightly the horrible circumstances which gave rise to the discussion which led up to the Ordinance of 1857, and to attach, at least, as much weight to Mr. May's recollection of matters which occurred 20 years before as it does to the official reports written at the time, and not all printed.\n\nAt page 33 the report states that, in the absence of returns prior to 1857, the framers were not in a position to compare the state of things which existed before and subsequent to 1858. That \"the letters from the Naval Medical Authorities and the Colonial Surgeon contain deplorable accounts of the health of the men under their charge. On the other hand, Mr. May, who was then in charge of the Police Force, has told us that, before the Ordinance of 1857, we had no great cause to complain; and that his attention was not drawn to any very special virulence in the nature of the disease either by fact or by any person;\" and the same paragraph quotes other passages from his evidence to the same purport.\n\nThe Appendix, p. 204-207, contains naval reports, all showing the frequency and aggravated nature of the disease. I notice especially Captain Hoste's letter of 18th October 1854, and its enclosure, from which it appears that in 1853 and 1854 the crew of H.M.S. \"Spartan\" contracted syphilis in Hong Kong in the proportion of 5 and 6 per cent. of the ship's company; while in Macao, where supervision was exercised over prostitution, the per-centage of cases was only 2 per cent.; and Admiral Stirling's letter of 7th March 1855, and its enclosure, reporting that one third of the crew of H.M.S. \"Winchester\" was affected during the year 1854. These numbers do not cover the whole of the evil, for the tertiary affections and the aggravation of other diseases by syphilitic taint are not mentioned.\n\nThese reports do not mention the police; but the Colonial Surgeon, reporting on the 7th April 1856, states: \"The police, both European and native, labour under the disease in a most frightful form;\" and in a later report, dated 28th March 1857, he states: \"I beg to assure you that among the police and sailors of Hong Kong, some of the worst forms of the venereal disease are to be seen.\" Neither of these reports is printed in the Appendix; the first is enclosed in Sir John Bowring's despatch of 2nd May 1856; the other in that officer's despatch of 20th March 1857.\n\nAmong the enclosures to the despatch No. 69, is a short minute by Colonel Caine, the Lieutenant-Governor, in which he speaks of the disease \"which has hitherto caused ravages too fearful to detail, not only in our naval and military forces, but also in the population generally.\" Also a memorandum by the Chief Justice, Mr. Hulme, in which I find him saying, \"when I consider the frightful extent to which the venereal disease is prevalent in this Colony, its virulence, and the frightful ravages it commits.” The Colonial Surgeon, Mr. Dempster, of the Army Medical Department, in his report in the same dispatch, says, \"I have now the honour to state, for the information of his Excellency the Governor, that during my experience I have never before witnessed, in any station where I have served, such ravages inflicted by the disease on persons affected with it as in this Colony. I beg to state that almost every sailor admitted into the Seamen's Hospital with fever, bowel affections, &c. is also affected with the venereal. In the jail many of the Chinese prisoners are affected with the disease in a most virulent form; and, as to the European prisoners (mostly sailors), nearly all are affected.\"\n\nThen follows the sentence above quoted about the police, and the report proceeds: \"I have had under my care female prostitutes (picked up by the police in the streets, and evidently turned out by the brothel keepers for the purpose) suffering from the disease in the most shocking form I ever beheld. Death at last put an end to their sufferings.\" Speaking of merchant ships, he says: \"In one instance a captain had shipped eight seamen; he put to sea, and in a few days returned with the said crew, totally unable to work the ship, being fearfully affected with the venereal.\"\n\nThe Colonial Surgeon then proceeds to contrast this state of things with Gibraltar, where he had ascertained \"the benefit derived from sanitary rules.\"\n\nThese official records, none of which are printed in the appendix, show plainly the state of things which existed before 1858, and fully deserved to have received equal prominence with the opposite view which rests upon Mr. May's recollection, especially as these records are further supported by a letter from Dr. Pottinger, R.N., dated 28th December 1870 (printed appendix, page 282), giving his vivid remembrance of the state of Hong Kong in this respect when he served on the station in the ship \"Reynard\" in the years 1849-50-51, and by another letter (also appendix, page 282) from Dr. Ramsay, of the 75th Regiment, speaking of that officer's recollection of the Colony in 1857. Both of these letters contrast the very different state of affairs existing in 1870.\n\nThe correspondence connected with the passing of the Ordinance of 1867 and the latest records on the subject are free from such painful statements.\n\nThe only two European medical men examined testify to the same effect. The first, Dr. Ayres, says (answer 1,439) that the disease (syphilis) which he has seen is of a very innocent type,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-188 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 308033, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-192 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [1-4]", "page_number": 23, "title": "CO129-192 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [1-4]", "content_text": "Recommended by the Colonel Surgeon.\n\nBM. B. C. Ruger.\n\nColonial Surgeon.\n\nRAO Brien. M.D.\n\n \n\nConf.\n\n012\n\nC. O.\n\n21\n\n2978\n\n \n\nMinute by Solicitor Auditor\n\nThe apparent discrepancy remarked in para. * is thus explained:\n\nIn June, 1879, Mr. McLeod was drawing salary at the rate of $960 per annum. In the Estimates for that year it was proposed to pay him at the rate of $1,200 per annum. He did not receive this increase until the approval of the Estimates reached the Colony in September. He then received the arrears and began to count his increase from 12th January, 1879.\n\nThe calculation made is therefore correct, namely, from 1", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-192 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 308559, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-192 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [1-4]", "page_number": 549, "title": "CO129-192 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [1-4]", "content_text": "538\n\nhe said\n\nhis security\n\nWŁA\n\nI was not aware\n\nrad\n\nMr Ozario.\n\nany reply to the letter\n\nafter communicating\n\nrequired\n\nthe order to m. Senna\n\nas\n\nI only have\n\nhis\n\n(Copy)\n\nMinute by Acting Colonel Secretary.\n\nSubmitted.\n\n(Signed) J.T. Stewart,\n\nActg: Colonial Secretary.\n\n28 December 1880.\n\nassurance that he had given\n\nthe security, nothing in writing being\n\ngiven\n\nto show that he had signed\n\nthe bond. The orders have always\n\nbeen\n\ngiven to the\n\n40\n\nMinute by His Excellency the Governor.\n\nWho is responsible for\n\nNon-execution.\n\nof\n\nbefore and hearing nothing\n\ncontrary\n\nI concluded they\n\nhad been carried out.\n\nI leave\n\nre\n\n(Signed) Ph:B. C. Ayres, Colonial Surgeon.\n\n28th December\n\nthe bond?\n\nthe\n\n(Signed) J. Pope Hennessy.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-192 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 309580, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-194 - Governor Hennessy Administrator Tonnochy - 1881 [8-9]", "page_number": 241, "title": "CO129-194 - Governor Hennessy Administrator Tonnochy - 1881 [8-9]", "content_text": "239\n\nto Colonel Ayres to Colonel Sis\n\ndate, to lay before Your Lordship the enclosed letters from Lt. Ayres long\n\nthe Colonial Surgeon asking for the appointment of the Department in addition to his other duties and inviting Your Lordship to direct an inquiry into some way of devolving the sanitary duties hitherto done by him as Medical Officer of the Gaol, etc.\n\n2. He has hitherto done the sanitary duties on him as Medical Officer of the Gaol, etc. regards his wish to hold the appointment in addition to that of Colonial Surgeon, I can only repeat that in my opinion the Ordinances of the Colony contemplate that the functions of Colonial Surgeon and of Medical Inspector should be performed by separate persons. At all events, as the Attorney General points out, in his minute of the 27th of July 1880, the Ordinances of the Colony actually make separate provisions for these Offices.\n\n3. Furthermore, I found Dr. Ayres ill-informed in sanitary matters, and deficient in judgment and discretion especially", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-194 - Governor Hennessy Administrator Tonnochy - 1881 [8-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 311551, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-197 - Governor Hennessy - 1882 [1-2]", "page_number": 572, "title": "CO129-197 - Governor Hennessy - 1882 [1-2]", "content_text": "I enclose medical certificates from Dr. Young and from the Colonel Surgeon, and as these certificates clearly show that Mr. Tung Ah Sau is practically unfit for the duties of his post, I beg to recommend that this resignation be accepted.\n\nAs regards the retiring allowance for which Mr. Tung Ah Sau supposes himself entitled to claim on the ground of his having served nineteen years the Central School, I beg to recommend the application to His Excellency the Governor's favourable consideration and confine myself to stating that in my opinion the case does not come under the provisions of the Pension Regulation of 1882 but under Rules No.99 and 100 of the Colonial Rules and Regulations, that Mr. Fung Siu has faithfully and diligently served the Government since 1858 - September 1873, and that his salary ($480 a year) was less than £120 per annum.\n\nShawe Aquila E. J. Eitel,\nInspector of Schools.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-197 - Governor Hennessy - 1882 [1-2].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 329584, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-223 - Governor Sir Bowen Acting Governor Marsh & Others - 1885 [11-12]", "page_number": 393, "title": "CO129-223 - Governor Sir Bowen Acting Governor Marsh & Others - 1885 [11-12]", "content_text": "Chemise tother \nhabitations is a \"public purpose within the \nmeaning of that \nterm as used in the reservation \nother right \nresumption they frown leases \nHint Keny \nthe sight to sear \n\nThe \nbased property in question; \n# of the W.O. will \nundertake & indemnify \nthe Crown for against \nany \ncost of \nlitigation \nwith \nthe lessee, Colonel Hanley \nwill instruct the law \nto take such proceeding \nas he \nmay \nbe advised are \nnecessary for enforcing the right of the Crown to \nresume possession of \nLots 20 and 21 on payment \n\n392 \nthe compensation \nor tender of \nassessed by Colonial Surgeon. \nE.W.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-223 - Governor Sir Bowen Acting Governor Marsh & Others - 1885 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 331097, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-227 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1886 [6]", "page_number": 180, "title": "CO129-227 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1886 [6]", "content_text": "178 \n\nहै \n\nHo Kai, whose generous Christian spirit has led him to provide the building for such a useful work, and to the medical gentlemen who are prepared to devote their energies and care to it gratuitously, much praise is certainly due, but the community must not forget and let us hope the Government also will not forget—that it has a part to fulfil, for the future maintenance of the hospital will chiefly depend on rich subscriptions that may be raised. One donation has been already received from the Hon. E. R. Belilios, who has endowed the hospital with $5000 as a fund for the supply of medicine, while the sum of $8000 was collected by Dr Chalmers and others from various benevolent friends, European and Chinese, toward the cost of the site, which was bought for $22,000.\n\nThe new undertaking will not be in any way a rival to the Civil Hospital or the Tung Wa Hospital. It has a different role altogether to fulfil. The Civil Hospital is only open free to the Civil servants and to police cases, the charge for the public being $3 for Europeans and $1 for Chinese per week for medical attendance, board and lodging. The Tung Wa hospital, which was munificently endowed with the sum of $130,000 by the Government, does no work in the way of training students, and in it the old quackery modes of treatment are still observed, which must greatly militate against its doing much good. The field therefore lies open for an extensive work in the Alice Memorial Hospital. There, it is to be hoped in course of time, students will be reared who will carry the benefits of the medical skill and knowledge into the heart of China, and Hongkong thus become a centre of much wider influence than at present. When the scheme of teaching has been started, the English Doctors in Hongkong, it is expected, will give lectures on the different branches of medical science. Hong-kong has particular facilities in carrying on this work, as no other port in the Far East has such a number of skilled English Doctors ready and willing for such labour. At all times five Doctors may be counted on to give lectures to the students, and as occasion requires help may be offered by the naval and army Doctors at this station. It besides is the natural complement of the higher education granted by the Government Central School. Of what good is it to educate Chinese boys to a high standard when there is no means of completing that education so as to open up a useful profession to them? At present the better educated boys are mostly absorbed as clerks in the Chinese Government employ where, if there reports are to be believed, they are far from well trusted, and are remunerated in a miserable manner altogether incompatible with the care and trouble spent in their education. It is to be hoped that the institution of which the foundation stone was laid to-day will be the means of giving an outlet to their knowledge and abilities which will bring more profit to them and far more lasting good to the empire of China.\n\nTHE BUILDING.\n\n+\n\nThe Alice Memorial Hospital will occupy the corner of Hollywood Road and Aberdeen Street. To the former it will have a frontage 45 feet long and 30 high, with two storeys; to the latter, a frontage 100 feet 3 inches long and 45 feet high, with three storeys. This difference is caused by the descent of Aberdeen Street, which gives the building a basement floor entering from that street. On this basement floor are the male and female waiting rooms for out-door patients—who enter by separate doors—and the dispensary, while there are also a room for the coolies, store closets, and a small mortuary 19 feet by 6 ft. The out-door patients are thus completely separated from the in-door patients; for whom the entrance is by Hollywood Road.\n\nOn the first floor and the floor above are the wards for the in-door patients. On the first floor are two large wards, one 33 feet by 23 feet, the other 36 ft. 10 in. by 22 ft. 8 in. There is also on this floor an operating room 24 feet by 28 ft. 6 inches, a bath room, and a surgeon’s room. On the floor above, there are three wards of the same size as the two wards below, a large kitchen for the use of the patients on one side, and lavatories and attendants' room on the other. The passage to the rooms on the first floor is by a covered way which passes along a verandah, the second floor being gained by a covered staircase. There is at the back a yard 18 feet by 38 ft. 10 in., which has been retained for light and ventilation to the building. Judging from the design, the building, though of a plain exterior, will be very substantial. The only bit of ornamentation is an architrave round the window. Its appearance, however, will suit the character of the work to be done inside, and the structure will form an imposing and enhancing addition to the architecture of the neighbourhood.\n\nThe hospital will be built of brick and stone. The basement will be entirely of stone, and the upper part mainly of brick with stone facings. The floors will be of teak wood, and the walls will be brick, pointed and colour washed. The wards should be roomy and airy. On the ground floor they will be 16 feet high, and on the upper floor they are open to the roof, having a height 14 foot to the tie-beam, and 22 feet to the apex of the roof. The building is situated on Inland lot No. 62A and occupies an area of 4500 square feet and it will have in front of it on Hollywood Road a new Chinese church which is being built under the auspices of the London Mission Society for the Christian Chinese in the Colony. It will be the wish of all who have the welfare of the natives at heart that the much needed Hospital and medical school may be soon in operation, and that true success may be the outcome of the labours of the gentlemen who have strive to provide this boon. The architects are Messrs Bird and Palmer.\n\nTHE CEREMONY.\n\nThe ceremony of laying the foundation stone took place at five o'clock this evening, in the presence of a fairly large and influential gathering of the European and Chinese friends and supporters of the institution. The stone was laid in the North West corner of the building, at the junction of Hollywood Road and Aberdeen Street, and the adjoining space covered in by a mat-shed, the supports of which were prettily wreathed with flowers, and baskets of flowers were also suspended from the roof. Seats were provided for the ladies, of whom there were between twenty and thirty present. Among those who were present, besides His Excellency the Acting Governor (Hon. W. H. Marsh) and Mrs Marsh, were—Hon. F. Stewart, Acting Colonial Secretary; Hon. J. Russell, Acting Chief Justice; Hon. A. Lister, Colonial Treasurer; Hon. E. J. Ackroyd, Acting Attorney General; Hon. Wong Shing; Commodore Morant; Colonel G. C. Murray, Assistant Commissary General of Ordnance; Captain Porter, H. E.'s Aide-de-camp; Dr P. C. Ayres, Colonial Surgeon; Dr C. J. Wharry, Superintendent of the Government Civil Hospital; Dr P. Man-Bon, Dr Young, Dr Hartigan, Dr Ho Kai, Dr G. P. Jordan; Dr Poate; Mr J. H. Stewart Lockhart; Mr H. MacCallum, Mr J. Thurburn; Mr D. R. Crawford, Mr G. H. Bateson Wright; Mr N. J. Ede; Rev. J. C. Edge; Rev. Mr Reusch, Rev. Mr Bender, Rev. Mr Hartmann; Messrs Wei Ayuk, Ching Se Kai, Kwan Hoi Chun, Leung Yat Nan, Lee Sz Hin, Woo Lin Yuen, Ko Hong Tik, Wong Ng Ching, Wei Lin.\n\nPage 180\n\nPage 181", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-227 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1886 [6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 333369, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-231 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1887 [1-3]", "page_number": 191, "title": "CO129-231 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1887 [1-3]", "content_text": "Enclosure 2 Medical department\n\n18.)\n\nPARTICULARS of the Office, now vacant at the\n\nin the Colony of Hongkong.\n\nAssistant Apothecary Hong Kong February 14 1887\n\nGood Civil Hospital\n\n54931\n\nDuties of office, and qualifications required for their performance.\n\nSee particulars at back of this\n\nRED 21 MAR 87\n\n$960 per annum rising by annual increments of $48, to $1200\n\nSalary and emoluments, and whether secured by a permanent law,\n\nOther circumstances affecting the value of the office.\n\nNature, number, and amount of securities required, and mode of giving them.\n\n3. Must be a single man. Will be provided with bachelor quarters, light, &c. at the Govt Civil Hospital. Term of service, three years with return passage; but if the Govt. find it necessary and the Candidate is desirous of continuing service, he will be permitted to continue therein. Subject to the usual regulations applicable to the Hong Kong Civil Service.\n\nH. Rove\n\nWhether any, and if any, what provision is made from public funds for the passage from this country, or elsewhere, of the persons sent out to fill the office.\n\n5. Annual estimates for 1887.\n\nActs or Ordinances making provision respecting any of the above matters, and especially respecting the permanency of the emoluments, and the particulars of the security required, with references to the sections in which such provision is made.\n\n6.\n\nHour M.B.C.her\n\nColonel Surgeon\n\nb. 34.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-231 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1887 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 334374, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-233 - Acting Governor Cameron - 1887 [6-8]", "page_number": 196, "title": "CO129-233 - Acting Governor Cameron - 1887 [6-8]", "content_text": "Mr. Francis objected entirely to any adjournment. There is a certain amount of evidence to show that the second defendant might be charged with committing perjury, but as for the first defendant, there is absolutely not a tittle of evidence against him. The charge is that he induced the other prisoner to come here and deliberately make a number of false statements, but there is no evidence to support such a charge. In fact, there is the strongest presumption against it. Colonel Li Loi came here simply as a person in the employ of the Viceroy of Canton to claim the rendition of certain prisoners, and it was his business to bring forward some evidence, but he is no more responsible for the truthfulness of his witnesses than is Mr. Caldwell, and he can no more be charged with subornation of perjury than Caldwell. There must be some evidence to prove that he paid or compelled the witness in some way to come here and make the statements that he did. You are entitled to remand the second prisoner, but as there is no evidence against the first, he ought to be discharged. As to the charge of attempting to murder, there has not been a particle of evidence produced to prove it. Not a single fact has been alleged to show any act which, if carried out, would have resulted in murder. I must ask your Worship to proceed with the case at once and insist on Mr. Dennys producing some evidence to support the very grave charges he has made.\n\nIn making these charges, Mr. Dennys has not only brought a charge against the two defendants, but it is equivalent to saying that if the prisoners were handed over by the Court, they would, whether innocent or guilty, be sent straight to death. This means that not only would the magistrate have failed in his duty, but likewise the Government here, and the Chinese officials. Mr. Dennys, as solicitor for the prisoners in the other case, has largely allowed his zeal to outrun his discretion, and has, in the interests of his clients, placed himself in a very serious position. He has taken upon himself, in the public interest, I presume he would say, to bring a charge against this man. If he was an official in the position of Captain Deane, and after making a preliminary investigation assured your Worship that he had evidence to prove this charge, a certain amount of weight might be attached to such assurance, if the prisoners were unknown. The complainant, however, is a solicitor in the colony, who, without a shred of interest in the case, comes forward and makes these reckless charges.\n\nLi Loi stands in exactly the same position as Captain Deane or Inspector Matheson would do, if after bringing a charge, they found that one of their witnesses had given false evidence. No one would think of holding them responsible for that or of charging them with subornation of perjury. As there is no evidence against Li Loi, I ask that he may be discharged, or that Mr. Dennys be required to give further evidence.\n\nHis Worship—The case will be remanded till Monday afternoon at half-past two, and Li Loi will be released without bail.\n\nMr. Dennys—On the ground that he is a Chinese official?\n\nHis Worship—No, on the ground that the evidence against him is very slight. The Court then adjourned.\n\nPage 101\n\nThe Daily Press.\n\nHONGKONG, MARCH 29TH, 1887.\n\nTHE PERJURY CASE.\n\nOn this case being called, his Worship observed that he had decided to commit the defendant for trial, bail being allowed as before.\n\nTHE CHINESE RENDITION CASE. The further hearing of this case, in which the three men are claimed by the Chinese Government on a charge of burglary and murder committed within its jurisdiction, was resumed.\n\nMr. J. J. Francis, Q.C., instructed by Mr. Caldwell, prosecuted; Mr. Holmes appeared for the first defendant, and Mr. Dennys for the second and third defendants.\n\nInspector Quincey, who was first called, informed his Worship that the defendant in the perjury case had been committed for trial.\n\nHis Worship—This case will be remanded till next Monday.\n\nMr. Holmes—On behalf of the first defendant, I must beg to remind your Worship of the remarks made by you at the last sitting of the Court. I believe that you intimated that in the event of the case of perjury being proved against Chun Ayut, you would not allow the prosecution to bring further evidence. Chun Ayut being the principal witness, if your Worship was satisfied by the proceedings in the other court, that he had committed perjury, the evidence of other witnesses would be immaterial, that is to say, the principal part of the charge rested on his evidence. This being so, and the case this morning as against Chun Ayut having been proved to the satisfaction of the Magistrate of the other court, and the defendant committed for trial at the Criminal Sessions, I submit that the duty of the Magistrate ended in his finding Chan Ayut guilty, as far as he was concerned, and it now remains for a higher tribunal to confirm or reject those proceedings. But so far as the Magistrate is concerned, Chun Ayut is found guilty. Even supposing he should be discharged, the prosecution are not at liberty to bring any further evidence, and therefore their case is closed. The prisoner being committed, his case is disposed of, and I therefore respectfully submit to your Worship that these men, at least, I speak on behalf of the first defendant, should no longer be detained in gaol.\n\nMr. Dennys—On behalf of the second and third defendants, following the lead of Mr. Holmes, I would remind your Worship of the remarks you made with regard to the witness Chun Ayut, who calls himself Leung Ayow. After Leung Ayow had been cross-examined at great length, your Worship said that the case depended so entirely on whether or not any credence was to be given to this man's evidence, that if the evidence called to prove the charges made against him was satisfactory, the defendants ought to be discharged. Your Worship will remember that application was made to examine Chun Ayut privately, in the presence of the Colonial Surgeon, respecting the marks on his body. Your Worship refused that application and said we must proceed with the case in the ordinary way of cross-examination. I then called Dr. Hartigan, who examined the witness in Court and who positively swore that he had on his arm tattoo marks and above that a mark which had been burned out. Your Worship then made the remark that, in consequence of the information that had come out in cross-examination, we had only to prove that to quash the case. We have had the evidence of Ho Ki, who said that these marks were on Chua Ayut's arm when he had seen him before. Your Worship said you have only to prove that the characters on the man's arm are the word \"To\" and the prisoners will be discharged. I put Mr. Chun Kaiing, the interpreter of this court, in the box, and he swore positively that these marks were \"To,\" meaning \"thief.\" This took place on the Friday, and your Worship then adjourned the case till the following Monday, in order to give Mr. Caldwell time to bring rebutting evidence. And you further stated that such evidence must prove that that mark did not exist on the man's arm. On the following Monday, no such evidence was produced. In the meantime, action had been taken in the case by a private individual, and a charge of perjury brought against Li Loi and Chun Ayut. I need not say that that private individual was myself.\n\n...for the Reports contained in the issues of the Daily Press of the 6th, 22nd, and 28th March, and 30 April requested to file in the Colonial Office Library, as they cannot be obtained here.\n\nGR1178/1922/32(III)", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-233 - Acting Governor Cameron - 1887 [6-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 350286, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-256 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [8-12]", "page_number": 594, "title": "CO129-256 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [8-12]", "content_text": "## $50\n\n(4) Lord Knutsford's despatch.\n\n(4) Chinese Studies. I have not had the advantage of Dr. Eitel and other missionaries of several years' residence amongst the Chinese, nor even like cadets of two years at Canton; and have therefore had no opportunity of obtaining as easy proficiency in the Chinese Colloquial. I have, however, translated over a dozen different Chinese Books for the benefit of the Translation classes in the College, and as my teacher does not speak a word of English, it is manifest that I am able to communicate with and understand natives. Twice a year, unaided, I correct all the Translations from Chinese into English, throughout the 21 classes, and assisted by my Chief Chinese Assistant correct the translations into Chinese of the upper classes.\n\nBefore I had been twelve months in the Colony, Dr. Eitel recommended me as his locum tenens, laying stress on my rapid acquisition of Chinese, with a Chinese teacher to discharge my ability to discharge the duties of Inspector in examining Chinese Schools during his absence. I obtained three certificates from the Board of Examiners for three Examinations in Colloquial and Written Chinese within two years of my arrival. The Board then recommended that further examination should be discontinued, C.A.O. `642/84` in view of Mr. Wright's position in the service and his abilities as a scholar, which was cordially approved by Sir George Bowen.\n\n## My Family in 14. M. Service for six generations.\n\n(25) My uncle died at Varna in the Commissariat.\n\nMy grandfather was `BAGCO` at Priddy's Hard, Gosport 1853-1860, Tower of London, Priddy's Hard.\n\nHis father, Engineer at Virginia Water, was offered knighthood but preferred appointments for his sons.\n\n\"I am, therefore, the fifth generation of a family that has faithfully served Her Majesty and Her Royal Predecessors.\n\nNot to trouble your Lordship with a complete family tree, I will, amongst others, select my grandfather's brother, Banks Wright, who was `DAEGo` at Dublin, whose two sons are still alive. Dr. J. C. Hornsby Wright, Surgeon General, brother Colonel W. J. Wright, `CB, DAEGo` Zulu War.\n\n(26) If Your Lordship considers it necessary for the cause of Education, that a Board should be appointed, or that Dr. Eitel be authorised to control Victoria College; in either case, I humbly pray that Your Lordship will be pleased to transfer me to some Educational employment of equal emolument in another Colony, or retire me on pension.\n\n## Conclusion\n\n(27) I have to apologise for addressing Your Lordship at such length, but the gravity of the circumstances precludes brevity. The dual Governments of Victoria College is a physical impossibility under the circumstances, but it is rendered the more hopeless by the complete divergence of views on Educational questions held by the Inspector and the Head Master. I am of opinion that...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-256 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 350717, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-257 - Public Offices & Others - 1892", "page_number": 384, "title": "CO129-257 - Public Offices & Others - 1892", "content_text": "Vor Mear This\n\nseems to have\n\nEscaped you-\n\nI am dispos\n\nNot he had better\n\nValin et ince\n\ntheant incepainton) K\n\nThe dayinl\n\nсл\n\nPustifiate\n\nin I think sufficient.\n\nRun 1975 atou\n\nA ALANIK\n\nader\n\nAt 083\n\n4600\n\n3335\n\nSer\n\nRECP\n\nC.O.\n\n9248\n\n·\n\n9 AY 32\n\n381\n\nPall Mall SW. 15th May, 1892.\n\nAdverting to your letter of 22nd ultimo. I am directed by the Secretary of State for the Colonies to transmit herewith, for the information of Lord Knutsford, a medical Report furnished by Surgeon-Colonel A. J. Preston, the Principal Medical Officer at Hong Kong, regarding Mr George Rogers, Hospital Steward at -\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour obedient Servant,\n\n[Signature]\n\nColonial Office.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-257 - Public Offices & Others - 1892.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 353651, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-262 - Governor Sir Robinson Acting Governor O-Brien - 1894 [1-4]", "page_number": 41, "title": "CO129-262 - Governor Sir Robinson Acting Governor O-Brien - 1894 [1-4]", "content_text": "39\n\nOfficials.\n\n29. The Chief Justice\n\n30. The Puisne Judge.\n\n31. The Colonial Secretary.\n\n32. The Colonial Treasurer.\n\n33. The Superintendent of Imports and Exports.\n\n34. The Registrar General.\n\n35. The Police Magistrate (J. E. Wodehouse, C.M.G.).\n\n36. Dr. Ayres, Colonial Surgeon.\n\n37. Dr. Atkinson, Superintendent Government Civil Hospital\n\n38. Dr. Jordan, Health Officer of the Port.\n\n39. Dr. Eitel, Inspector of Schools.\n\n40. The Captain Superintendent of Police.\n\n40\n\nA Government Analyst.\n\n41.\n\nMedical men (non-officials).\n\nSurgeon Colonel Preston.\n\n42. Inspector General of Naval Hospitals.\n\n43. J. Cantlie, (in private practice).\n\n44. Ho Kai, Member of the Legislative Council.\n\n45. Dr. Thomson, Secretary Superintendent, Alice Memorial Hospital.\n\n46. Dr. Gerlach (in private practice).\n\nMerchants & others.\n\n47. Hon. J. J. Keswick, Agent, Opium Steamers.\n\n48. Mr. J. H. Whitehead, (Manager Chartered Bank of India, Australia, and China).\n\n49. R. M. Moses (D. Sassoon Sons & Co.), Merchant.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-262 - Governor Sir Robinson Acting Governor O-Brien - 1894 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 355006, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-263 - Acting Governor Barker Governor Sir Robinson - 1894 [5-8]", "page_number": 740, "title": "CO129-263 - Acting Governor Barker Governor Sir Robinson - 1894 [5-8]", "content_text": "735\n\n2. The burning of the houses would probably destroy the germs for a little depth, say a foot, and the soil deeper down, though possibly contaminated, would not be so dry as to become dust readily and cause the germs to blow about. The best way of treating the earth from Tai-ping-shan would be to cart it to some distance, say Kennedytown, and dump it there some way from dwellings. I don't know of any efficient mode of disinfecting soil in quantity but the process of burning would disinfect the walls and the superficial soil, and the subsequent exposure of the new surface before it is built upon would be the means of killing any germs should they have penetrated to the depth of four feet which is improbable.\n\nCertainly the present soil should be taken away and to a distance from dwellings. No doubt some risk would be run by the people moving it, but very slight in my opinion.\n\nI certainly cannot imagine that any course but the complete destruction of the infected area would be of any advantage, and to reconstruct it without destroying it would involve first its being pulled about so much as to double the labour and to allow a most dangerous spot to exist. The houses are structurally bad, the materials are old, the lanes are too narrow and the whole area is over-peopled, the drains are imperfect and, finally, most of the soil and the materials are full of plague germs. There are no doubt other places nearly as bad, but none quite so bad and none so much poisoned.\n\nI am sure that half measures are to be condemned and that the only way to make things safe is -1st burn the combustible parts, 2nd pull down the walls, 3rd dig up the soil. You then have a clean area that can be properly laid out and drained and, with well contrived houses, will hold a good number of people.\n\nYours sincerely,\n\n(Signed) H. E. R. JAMES.\n\nEVIDENCE GIVEN TO THE COMMITTEE ON HOUSING THE CHINESE\n\nat their meeting of 13th July, 1894.\n\nThe Colonial Surgeon (Dr. AYRES, C.M.G.) examined.\n\nThe CHAIRMAN.-With regard to the treatment of the walled-in portion of Tai-ping-shan, Dr. AYRES, now under consideration, what is your opinion?\n\nA.-Those places are now being disinfected with chloride of lime and acid.\n\nI quite approve of the course recommended by the Permanent Committee.\n\nThe CHAIRMAN. Then I understand we may take it that your opinion on this is the opinion expressed in the report of the Permanent Committee, that the houses be demolished?\n\nA. Yes, destroyed, as far as possible, by fire. I say that the sub-soil is strongly infected, and cannot be thoroughly dealt with as long as the buildings stand over it. If it were not so, you would not see rats coming up out of the sewers and holes in the ground, full of bacteria, not communicated to them from human patients but from the sewage which is soaking through the soil, and from the gases down below, a sure proof that the sub-soil is in a dangerous state. Rats do not catch the disease from any infection above, but from below.\n\nThe CHAIRMAN.-Would you advise the destruction of the wood-work, and leave the brick-work?\n\nA.-Destroy the wood-work, certainly; the bricks would after fire be just as valuable as when new, or would even be improved perhaps, and could be used over again; but they would have to be removed for the sake of getting at the ground properly. Drop all the beams and other wood-work from the upper floors to the ground floor and burn them, and take the tiles off the roof and throw down the beams and rafters too.\n\nThe CHAIRMAN.-Do you advise the entire demolition of the houses, or would you leave the walls standing?\n\nA.-Entire demolition. The whole of the surface soil will have to be dug up and disinfected. That may be troublesome; probably in course of digging we shall have to go on disinfecting the soil carefully before disturbing it, and very possibly even then some of the diggers may have trouble.\n\nThe CHAIRMAN.-That is the point the Governor was anxious to get at. In Mauritius an epidemic was once started from the digging-up of an infected area.\n\nA.-Yes, but it must be done, and we must do the best we can.\n\nDr. HARTIGAN.-What was the disease?\n\nA.-Bilious Remittent.\n\nThe CHAIRMAN.-And should the soil be dug up and taken away, or disinfected and left?\n\nA.-If it is mixed with lime enough or anything of that kind it could be turned over and disinfected and left there. Of course, all the filthy parts will have to be taken away but the cleaner parts of the soil should be disinfected on the spot.\n\nPrincipal Medical Officer (Surgeon-Colonel PRESTON) examined.\n\nI am in favour of the complete demolition of every house in that portion of the City. I have been through it several times and seen a great deal inside it, and I think the whole place should be destroyed by fire.\n\nThe CHAIRMAN.-Why?\n\nA.-Because every house is polluted.\n\nThe CHAIRMAN.-Are there not some that could be left?\n\nThe COLONIAL SURGEON.-There are very few buildings worthy of consideration, and they are on the very outside of the District. The lanes and alleys are too terrible for anything. (Described in detail buildings on a steep slope where the basement in many parts consisted of excavations in the hillside). In many of the darker back parts there were two inches' depth of fecal matter although the front might appear very fair. Some of the places are as dark as pitch, and you cannot see anything except with the aid of a lamp.\n\nThe CHAIRMAN.-Then it is faulty construction of houses as much as anything else that influences you?\n\nSurgeon-Colonel PRESTON.-Every house has become a focus of disease apart from faults of construction. Every house I have been into is unfit for human habitation. I think there is nothing for it but the entire destruction of the whole lot by fire.\n\nThe CHAIRMAN.-And as to the digging up of the soil?\n\nA.-Well, I hardly know; if there is a large conflagration that would disinfect the soil a great deal, but to cart it away bodily or to disinfect it completely would be a very big job, and I doubt if it could be done.\n\nThe CHAIRMAN.-Then, do you mean that the question lies between cementing it over on the surface of the soil?\n\nA.-I think it must be disinfected thoroughly, if possible.\n\nThe COLONIAL SURGEON.-The streets already are covered with lime-as far as that goes they are being disinfected.\n\nThe CHAIRMAN.-But you are not prepared to decide about taking up the soil and carting it away?\n\nA.-No. It is probably impregnated with germs throughout, or bacteria or bacilli, and I think it should be thoroughly disinfected with powerful disinfectants. Otherwise, it would be unsafe to disturb the soil at all.\n\nThe COLONIAL SURGEON.-Of course, it would be absolutely necessary to disturb the earth in re-building the streets.\n\nSurgeon Colonel PRESTON.-Yes, but that must be allowed as little as possible.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-263 - Acting Governor Barker Governor Sir Robinson - 1894 [5-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 355007, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-263 - Acting Governor Barker Governor Sir Robinson - 1894 [5-8]", "page_number": 741, "title": "CO129-263 - Acting Governor Barker Governor Sir Robinson - 1894 [5-8]", "content_text": "Dr. Ho KAI.—Don't you think the burning would be enough to disinfect the soil?\n\nA.—I think it would do so to a large extent, not only the burning but the products of the fire would be soaked into the soil, charcoal, ash, &c., and that would have a good effect.\n\nDr. Ho KAI—And the heat?\n\nA.—The heat would not disinfect much.\n\nThe COLONIAL SURGEON.—The Fire Brigade say that after fires it has been found over and over again that there is no heat in the sub-soil, not to any great extent, because there is so much water running into the ground to keep it cool. But in this case, where it is proposed to drop all the timbers on to the ground floor and not to use water at all, there should be a very great heat in the ground, especially if the fire lasts three or four days.\n\nSurgeon Colonel PRESTON.—And afterwards the rain would come and soak all the products of the combustion into the ground.\n\nDr. HARTIGAN examined.\n\nI don't think you can take one plan of treatment for the whole place. It is not all alike.\n\nThe CHAIRMAN.—Only the walled-in portion is under consideration.\n\nDr. HARTIGAN. I have not been there within the last few days, but I have seen it often before, and I should say the houses might be divided into four classes. First, those which are unfit for human habitation and which cannot be made fit under any circumstances owing to the nature of the ground—vide CHADWICK'S report. With these I should say you must level all the buildings—pull them down or burn them down as you like; that is, in my opinion, a mere matter of detail. On their rebuilding that part of the Colony the ground must be terraced so that each house is on a level, with no excavations shutting in the basements. Second, those unfit for human habitation, but which can be made fit; that is unfit on account of some defect in the house itself. Third, houses condemned as unfit owing to the pollution of the ground by sewage and bad drainage. I should have said in regard to the second class I would allow rebuilding but only in accordance with the Public Health Act. I do not see what it matters to the Government how an owner manages to comply with the requirements—whether he pulls down or burns or simply alters or what he does so long as he does comply with the requirements of the Act. As to the third class which I have mentioned—the pollution of the ground which must be distinguished from infection by plague; I mean simple pollution with drainage. The houses will probably have to be pulled down, not on account of the defects in the houses but on account of the sub-soil and the ground itself which is infected at present. The fourth class, dwellings unfit at present solely on account of the occurrence of three or more cases of plague. Out of 384 houses condemned, 118 are of the latter class. These, if otherwise in a satisfactory condition, I do not see any reason whatever for destroying. Professor KITASATO the other day, in the course of his lecture, told us all about the bacillus, and from his description, as far as I can see, it appeared to be the easiest bacillus in the world to deal with. I have known houses in Ireland where there are many cases of typhus—not that I look upon the plague as typhus, but only as something of the same nature—and although it might have been thought the houses could not be disinfected I have seen that they were made quite healthy and no cases recurred in them. I agree with Surgeon-Colonel PRESTON and the Colonial Surgeon with regard to the destruction of the woodwork. I do not mean the window frames, but the middle partitions, &c.; all these should be pulled away, not that I think they could not be disinfected but because it would be very difficult and most probably would not be done properly. I would absolutely forbid cock-lofts in the future. With regard to the saturation of the soil by bacilli, I do not think really there is anything in it. Bacilli cannot go down very deep, probably not too far to be dealt with easily, and digging up unnecessarily would do more harm than good.\n\nThe COLONIAL SURGEON.—In none of the houses is there a proper concrete floor, impervious in any way, as it should be. The best are only porous tiles, with nothing under them but the bare earth, and everything soaks in.\n\n736\n\nMr. TURNER. I have heard that said several times, but it is hardly correct. All the Chinese houses built in the last six years have had to have concrete under the tiles, four to six inches thick. You only see the tiles, and you conclude there is nothing below, but if you looked under the tiles you would find the concrete. Of course this only refers to the later ones; in the older ones there is nothing but the tiling.\n\nThe COLONIAL SURGEON.—I have seen the tiles broken—they are very thin—and I have poked them up with any stick, and what I found underneath was soft stuff thoroughly impregnated with filth. It may be supposed to be concrete, but that is what it really is.\n\nThe CHAIRMAN. Then you mean, Dr. HARTIGAN, that the structure of the house itself in these cases is not infected?\n\nA.—No, I do not say there is no infection, but it may be disinfected without destroying it.\n\nThe COLONIAL SURGEON.—Dr. HARTIGAN agrees that the woodwork of the floors and cubicles is dangerous to health; that is all that would be destroyed by fire; the brick walls would not be destroyed, and could be used again. The cubicles must be destroyed, of course.\n\nThe CHAIRMAN.—You mean, Dr. HARTIGAN, not to destroy any house that can be made to comply with the Public Health Act without pulling down?\n\nA.—Yes; I would lay aside the question of plague for the time. I would say any house that cannot be rendered sanitary must be pulled down, but not otherwise. The same thing comes in with regard to the removal of polluted soil. If it can be completely disinfected, there is no need to do anything more with it. I do not see why surface disinfection should not be enough, without going deeper and turning up the ground, for I do not see any proof whatever that the bacillus of the plague or of anything else is in the sub-soil.\n\nSurgeon-Colonel PRESTON.—But the whole of the Tai-ping-shan district requires reconstruction, so that every house shall stand on its own level, and you cannot destroy half and leave half, one here and one there, you must do the whole thing at once.\n\nThe COLONIAL SURGEON.—You cannot reconstruct a district if you have houses left standing in the way. The whole question is one of light and air, and you cannot get that in these houses.\n\nMr. TURNER. Do you mean that in a block between two streets, say a hundred feet through, it is impossible to cut a lane in the middle?\n\nThe COLONIAL SURGEON.—That would not do what is wanted to be done. Some discussion ensued over a sketch plan explaining the point.\n\nThe COLONIAL SURGEON.—That district was just where we had the most typhoid, when I first came here; it was carrying people off wholesale in that district, and continued for years afterwards, off and on.\n\nDr. HARTIGAN.—Yes, we all know it is in an abominable state, and has been for a long time, but what I say is that it is possible to put it in a sanitary condition without entire destruction. While it is being taken in hand, I would advocate open surface drainage.\n\nSurgeon-Colonel PRESTON.—Yes, open drains seem far more suitable for the Chinese.\n\nThe COLONIAL SURGEON.—But the question asked us by the Government now is—what should be done to render these places healthy for the future? And I defy you to render them healthy without destroying them.\n\nMr. JACKSON. The question put before us is—what is best to be done?\n\nThe COLONIAL SURGEON.—Destroy the whole lot.\n\nSurgeon-Colonel PRESTON—Yes, destroy the whole lot, by fire.\n\nDr. HARTIGAN. But the question is, to my mind—what is necessary to be done? Not what is best.\n\nThe CHAIRMAN.—The question is—what is proper to be done?\n\n༄\" -། -༠༢༣། - -a-T,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-263 - Acting Governor Barker Governor Sir Robinson - 1894 [5-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 355008, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-263 - Acting Governor Barker Governor Sir Robinson - 1894 [5-8]", "page_number": 742, "title": "CO129-263 - Acting Governor Barker Governor Sir Robinson - 1894 [5-8]", "content_text": "737\n\nDr. Ho KAL.-Dr. HARTIGAN is referring to the question of sanitary engineering; if you can save a building from destruction and make it fit for habitation, save it.\n\nThe CHAIRMAN.-I understand Dr. AYRES and Surgeon-Colonel PRESTON to say decidedly that the houses are infected so thoroughly that they cannot be disinfected.\n\nThe COLONIAL SURGEON.-There is this evidence in support of what I say: that in the empty houses, totally empty, where these soldiers now on the Hygeia went, they caught the plague in clearing out the filth.\n\nDr. HARTIGAN.-They were disturbing the filth. That does not prove that the bacilli were in the soil, but somewhere about the house. If you get a case of plague anywhere, say here in the Bank among the coolies below, therefore according to what you say the ground here must be infected.\n\nSurgeon-Colonel PRESTON-You cannot compare a building like the Hong-kong and Shanghai Bank with insanitary buildings like those in Tai-ping-shan.\n\nThe COLONIAL SURGEON.-No, for nothing can get through the Bank floors to impregnate the soil; you can clean them all thoroughly. What we are talking about is nothing like this; you cannot clean the porous tile floors.\n\nDr. HARTIGAN. Then they are not in accordance with the requirements of the Public Health Act, and what I say is, make them so, and use disinfectants to counteract the pollution that has already taken place.\n\nThe COLONIAL SURGEON.-The sub-soil is a mass of pollution from the old drains.\n\nThe CHAIRMAN.-What about the bricks?\n\nThe COLONIAL SURGEON.-They are blue bricks perfectly porous and simply soft and rotten; you can pick holes in them with your bare fingers.\n\nMr. TURNER. Can you not say whether disinfectants would render the soil harmless?\n\nThe COLONIAL SURGEON.-Professor KITASATO is at work now on the question whether the bacillus can be exterminated from the soil in that way.\n\nMr. TURNER. You have yet to prove whether it is in the soil or not.\n\nThe COLONIAL SURGEON.-How did the sewer rats get it?\n\nMr. TURNER. Then it must be all over, all along Queen's Road, the Hongkong Hotel, and so on.\n\nThe COLONIAL SURGEON.-Yes, I say the sub-soil is poisonous all over.\n\nDr. HARTIGAN.-Well, but is it with the plague bacillus?\n\nThe COLONIAL SURGEON.-More than ten per cent. of the Tai-ping-shan houses are simply draining into the sub-soil, and you may clean the houses or do what you like, but whatever you do the soil under them is still bad.\n\nThe CHAIRMAN.-Then even without the occurrence of the plague, you would still advise total destruction?\n\nThe COLONIAL SURGEON.-Yes.\n\nSurgeon-Colonel PRESTON agreed.\n\nThe Acting Director of Public Works put a series of questions, in reply to which Surgeon-Colonel PRESTON said:-Before Tai-ping-shan, the walled-in part, can be again inhabited the houses should be burnt, the roofs and floors thrown into the ground floor and burnt, and the brickwork afterwards pulled down and removed. The bricks thus purified by fire, could be used again with perfect safety. As to removing the soil which has been infected, I cannot say how far that is advisable;\n\nto some extent it is unavoidable in rebuilding, but I think it would be better not to do more than necessary for that purpose. I would certainly disinfect such soil, probably quicklime put on the surface would do. Afterwards it would be quite safe in my opinion to build on the ground again, but first it would be better to let it remain fallow a considerable time-twelve months would be certainly on the safe side.\n\nThe COLONIAL SURGEON.-It would be two years before the houses were rebuilt.\n\nSurgeon-Colonel PRESTON.-If the soil is removed, I can hardly say whether it could be used to make building sites elsewhere; I should say clear it away altogether. Throwing it into the sea would not kill the bacilli, as they were found in excreta of plague patients in the sea water bacilli were not killed. If the infected soil is used, after being disinfected, on the Praya Reclamation, ten feet below the surface, that would be quite safe. I can hardly say how many inhabitants per acre of land should be allowed in Tai-ping-shan; in England any number over a thousand per acre is regarded as overcrowding, and here I should certainly say there should not be more. One cannot be too careful, and it is best to be on the safe side, and make 1,000 the limit. I think three hundred cubic feet of air space is very little indeed. As to superficial area, the soldiers in Barracks are allowed 75 to 80 square feet, but the Chinese are accustomed to much less; they all live huddled together. I think, however, it would be well to lay down an enactment providing a minimum floor area of 40 feet. If they had less than that it would certainly be unhealthy. I should certainly recommend that the Tai-ping-shan type of building be abolished altogether.\n\nThe COLONIAL SURGEON said the recommendation of the Permanent Committee was 21 square feet of floor area giving about 300 cubic feet of air space per inhabitant. He did not think so much of the nominal air space as of the superficial area, because there were draughts enough to ventilate these houses properly, and they got so much fresh air. Another point of absolute necessity was the abolition of basement dwellings.\n\nIn reply to a series of questions put by the Acting Director of Public Works, Dr. HARTIGAN said:-I heartily concur with Surgeon-Colonel PRESTON in the opinion that prevention of surface-crowding should form an element in the system of reconstruction. In London, the 'overcrowded' parts have been found to contain 1,800 inhabitants to the acre, and I certainly would not allow that here. I am certainly of opinion that the number per acre should be less here than the minimum allowed in England. I think 300 feet of air space all that it is practicably possible to give here, or that it will be about sufficient here. As to floor area, it is hard to say, but supposing everything else is perfectly in accordance with sanitary requirements, drains good, sub-soil pure and clean, &c., and the Public Health Act carried out in every other way, I think 300 cubic feet of air space and 21 square feet of floor area would be perfectly healthy for the Chinese, according to the way they are accustomed to live. I think the Public Health Act is of itself sufficient to insure health; if it had been carried out all along, we should never have had this trouble. I know no way to disinfect the sub-soil, except as far as may be done by putting lime on the surface. To disinfect the soil itself, the only thing I know is perchloride of mercury and I do not know whether such disinfection is practicable. I do not think it necessary to dig up the infected ground, as you have drained the sub-soil you have got it in proper order; it is sufficient if it is thoroughly re-drained. I think it would be safe to allow the land to be re-occupied after four months. The woodwork of the partitions and cubicles should certainly be removed, but not the roof, which could be disinfected with the walls, I do not see any difficulty in having that done efficiently; I say it can be done. The roof is plain open timber, accessible to the fumes of disinfectants. I certainly am of the opinion that back-to-back houses, such as are usual in the Colony, should be prohibited. I do not approve of the style of house where there is a long narrow passage from front to back with a row of cubicles occupying all the space, and only one window at the end; the centre and back parts must be deprived of light and air, and must be unhealthy. If you have an open area at the back it is better, but the middle part is still not good; the whole system is bad. With such long, narrow passages, usually blocked to a great extent, the portion in the middle cannot be anything else but dark and unventilated. Even with an alley twelve feet wide at the back and a street say twenty feet wide in front, this style would still be unhealthy. As to the ground on which the houses are built, I say--leave it alone. I would not stir it at all except when necessary for building purposes. The bottom floor of each house should have a space between it and the ground, and the ground itself should be covered with chunam or concrete. Of course, with the ordinary floor the houses have at present, the soil is saturated with filth, but I doubt if it would do any good to turn it up; fire and disinfectants are all that I should recommend for the soil. I certainly do not mean to leave the ground in its present condition,\n\n...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-263 - Acting Governor Barker Governor Sir Robinson - 1894 [5-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 355009, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-263 - Acting Governor Barker Governor Sir Robinson - 1894 [5-8]", "page_number": 743, "title": "CO129-263 - Acting Governor Barker Governor Sir Robinson - 1894 [5-8]", "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", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-263 - Acting Governor Barker Governor Sir Robinson - 1894 [5-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 355013, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-263 - Acting Governor Barker Governor Sir Robinson - 1894 [5-8]", "page_number": 747, "title": "CO129-263 - Acting Governor Barker Governor Sir Robinson - 1894 [5-8]", "content_text": "(iii) That a street or lane at least 12 feet wide be left at the back of contiguous buildings: such lane to be constructed by Government at the expense of the owners of adjoining lots, but to be maintained by Government at its own expense. For the purpose of constructing and maintaining such lanes it will probably be necessary to provide-\n\n(a) That houses to be erected upon lots having a back boundary in common shall not be constructed nearer than 6 feet to such common boundary.\n\n(b) That the Governor shall have power to prescribe a building-line in every street or lane, and to compel owners of adjoining property to conform thereto.\n\n(c) That such streets or lanes shall not be enclosed, covered over, nor obstructed in any way.\n\nN. B.-Where houses have already been erected on any lot to within less than 6 feet of the proposed building-line, some arrangement will have to be come to with the owner. The Committee will advise on this point when they have concluded the enquiries referred to in paragraph 3.\n\n9. The Committee is desirous of preventing surface overcrowding (vide evidence of Surgeon-Colonel PRESTON and Dr. HARTIGAN, forwarded on 19th ultimo), and, with that object in view, of regulating the height to which houses may be hereafter built by the width of the streets on which they front.\n\nThe members, however, are not unanimous as to the details.\n\n(a) In the case of houses erected to replace those previously existing,\n\nMessrs. TURNER, JACKSON, and HO KAI are of opinion that--\n\n(1) Where the street is 15-20 ft. wide, the height of houses should not exceed 35 ft.\n\nStreet Width (ft.)Height (ft.)\n20-2545\n25-3055\n30-3565\n35-4075\n\n(b) In the case of houses to be erected on land already sold but not yet built upon, Messrs. TURNER, JACKSON, and HO KAI are of opinion that the height of houses in streets of less than 40 feet in width should not exceed the width of such streets, following the regulation in force in other large towns and recommended for adoption in London.\n\n(c) As regards houses to be erected on land not already sold, Messrs. TURNER, JACKSON, and HO KAI are of opinion that the height of the houses should not exceed 1.5 times the width of the street, where such street is under 40 feet in width: while Mr. TOOKER and the Chairman desire to limit the height to the width of such street.\n\n10. The Committee is still engaged on the work of compiling, from the voluminous statistics prepared in 1888-90 for the Sanitary Board in connection with their Report on Overcrowding, a return showing the number of the poorer class of Chinese who can be accommodated in the existing houses (of the cheaper sort), allowing 24 superficial and 300 cubic feet per adult. They hope in the course of a fortnight or three weeks to be able to lay before His Excellency the results of their investigations, and at the same time to tender their advice on the general question of house accommodation for the class in question.\n\n11. The wooden houses, the erection of which was recently authorised by His Excellency, are now approaching completion. It is confidently anticipated that they will be regarded as a boon by the class for which they are intended, the rent per house ($1.00 per month) being so low as to bring them within the reach of the poorest.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour obedient Servant,\n\nN. G. MITCHELL-INNES,\n\nChairman,\n\nHousing Committee.\n\nStreet Width (ft.)Height not to exceed (ft.)Other Data\n15-2025\n20-253545\n25-304555\n30-355565\n35-406075\n\nThe Committee is unanimous in considering-\n\n(1) That all streets under 15 feet in width should be brought under the existing regulations re private lanes, contained in section 52 of the Building Ordinance (No. 15 of 1889).\n\n(2) That, where the width of a street exceeds 40 feet, no restriction on the height of houses fronting on it is necessary.\n\n(b) In the case of houses to be erected on land already sold but not hitherto occupied, Messrs. TURNER, JACKSON, and HO KAI are of opinion that, where the public street in that locality has already been laid out and almost entirely built upon, the height of future buildings on such land should bear the same relation to the width of the street as determined upon with regard to houses rebuilt to replace previously existing houses. On the other hand, Mr. TOOKER and the Chairman prefer to guide themselves by the regulation in force in Liverpool, Berlin, and other large towns.\n\nPage 742", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-263 - Acting Governor Barker Governor Sir Robinson - 1894 [5-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 369524, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-288 - Public Offices & Others - 1898", "page_number": 112, "title": "CO129-288 - Public Offices & Others - 1898", "content_text": "# Hypodermic Method for Treating Syphilis\n\n## Case Studies\n\nThe first case I treated was an officer, aged 32, who contracted the disease in India. He had been under treatment for a long time, but the disease, which used to disappear, but broke out afresh over and over again, ulceration and thickening of the tongue being his chief trouble.\n\nWhen I saw him, besides extensive ulceration of the tongue, he had two large ulcers on the calf of his right leg, the result of gummatous disintegration. On December 20th, 1891, I began the weekly subcutaneous injection of mercury, and I continued them for eight months. Long before I stopped, all signs of the disease had disappeared. The treatment was carried out with no interruption for these eight months. The patient, who led a very active life, suffered no inconvenience; and when last seen by me (October, 1892) he had had no return of the disease, and was in better health than he had been since he first contracted the disease.\n\n### Case II\n\nI. I., aged 27, also an officer, contracted the disease in India, May 1891. Up to the time I saw him, he had been under treatment, and had taken mercury steadily for months and months. When he came to me, in January, 1892, he was very weak and debilitated, and suffered much from diarrhoea. He stated that on account of the latter, he had been obliged to give up taking mercury. His throat was very severely ulcerated.\n\nThis case had a peculiar interest for me, as at the time he came under me, he was a patient of a brother officer of mine, who stated that he could get no good of him, and handed him over to me to try my method on him. I will only say here, that from the first injection, he made wonderful progress towards recovery. The disease seemed to melt away, and he rapidly regained his former good health. I continued giving him a weekly injection from January 10th, 1892, until the time I went abroad (October, 1892). He suffered no inconvenience. When I first saw him, he was on the sick list, and had been for some time. After the first injection, he was taken off, and there was no occasion to put him on it again.\n\nI heard from this officer in January, 1893, stating he had had no return of the disease, and that he was in the best health. He wrote expressing his gratitude for the treatment.\n\n## Results of Treatment\n\nSince the time I began the \"hypodermic method\" (in September, 1891, until October, 1892), I treated in all ten officers at Shorncliffe by it. The remaining seven were very similar in character to the three I quote, and with them I had the same success. All of them were most enthusiastic in singing the praises of the treatment.\n\nNone of them suffered the slightest inconvenience from it, and were quite willing, and in some cases anxious, to continue it longer than I considered necessary.\n\nAmong the men, I treated in all, during the above period, fifty cases, which were of all descriptions.\n\nPte. P. C. had been under treatment in hospital for seven months. He had taken mercury in every form, as also iodide of potassium. His palate was badly ulcerated, and he was covered with a papular eruption. A brother officer of mine, whose patient he was, stated that the man made no progress, and he handed him over to me to try my method on him. This officer could testify to the marvellous effect the first two injections had on the symptoms. I continued weekly injections for eight weeks, and then the patient, being quite free from the disease and in good health, he was discharged to his duty. I may mention that during the last two months he was in hospital, he gained 16 lbs. in weight. The treatment in this case was closely watched by the Medical Officer in charge of the hospital, Brigade Surgeon Lieut.-Col. Tomlinson, and he was very much impressed at the manner the disease yielded under it.\n\nPte. J. M. contracted a hard sore 7.7.91; was treated for it in hospital for three weeks. He was re-admitted 11.11.91. On admission, he was very anæmic and cachectic, and altogether in a very bad state of health. The trunk and legs were covered with rupeal ulcers, and the nasal bones were exfoliating. On the day of his admission, I gave him a first injection, which I continued to do once a week for five months, two of which he was in hospital, and the remaining three at his duty, but attended weekly for an injection. From the first injection, this man made rapid progress towards recovery, and at the end of two months was quite free of all symptoms and apparently in good health.\n\nCorpl. H. H., West Kent Regiment, had been under treatment in hospital for six months...\n\n## Administration of Treatment\n\nIn performing the little operation, one thing is absolutely necessary, viz., that the needle be pushed straight as far as it will go into the tissues, so as to avoid abscesses; if the fluid be injected into the subcutaneous tissue, abscess will follow.\n\nAs a rule, I have found that one injection per week is enough; but in one or two very severe cases, with cerebral symptoms, I have given two.\n\nWhilst in hospital, I give my patients a liberal diet, and often a bottle of stout or beer; allow them up, and insist on their being as much as possible in open air.\n\nOfficers, who were my patients, I advised to avoid spirits, but they might drink a liberal allowance of claret, port wine, or beer, at the same time eating nourishing food, and spending as much of their time as possible out of doors. Flannel to be worn next the skin, and cold and chills avoided. Exercise was strongly advised.\n\nWith these precautions, I am sure there is not the least danger of any untoward effects following the injections. Out of all my cases, I had not one of salivation, nor was I obliged to stop treatment on account of the gums becoming sore.\n\n## Advantages of the Hypodermic Method\n\nBesides the undoubted advantages as to the results of cases treated by this method, there is one which, in the case of the soldier, renders it still more valuable. Formerly, and indeed at the present time, when a soldier contracts syphilis, he is admitted into hospital, and there treated until all the primary signs or any active symptoms of the disease have disappeared. He is then discharged to his duty, when all treatment, of course, is suspended. The disease breaks out afresh. He remains at his duty as long as he can, but eventually comes to hospital; is readmitted, and under treatment, the symptoms again disappear, and he is again discharged to duty, and treatment stopped. Again the disease breaks out, and again he is admitted to hospital, and this series of events goes on. As he never gets a lengthened treatment, he never gets rid of the disease. He goes abroad to the tropics, and is there an easy prey to the diseases common in those regions, or to the further ravages of syphilis. Eventually, he either is invalided or dies.\n\nIn the case of the Hypodermic method, what would be easier than when a man got syphilis to admit him to hospital and there treat him until all pressing signs of the disease have disappeared, then discharge him to duty, but order him to attend one day a week for an injection. Then he could be submitted to a lengthened treatment, and the disease eradicated before the man is called upon for foreign service.\n\nI feel confident, if this is properly carried out, the invaliding and death rates throughout the Service will be much diminished.\n\n## Conclusion\n\nIn conclusion, I will say that in this paper, I claim nothing original in the treatment above described, as I know that for many years the hypodermic injection of mercury in syphilis has found much favour in Germany, notably at Breslau; also that the identical treatment described by me was, before I thought of it, practised by Drs. Althus and Whitmore in London.\n\nMy object in writing it is two-fold:\n\nFirst, in fulfilment of a promise made by me to Brigade Surgeon Lieut.-Colonel Tomlinson, A.M.S. (who was medical officer in charge of the Station Hospital, Shorncliffe, during the period in which I carried out the treatment), that I would record the results of my cases.\n\nSecondly, in the hope that it may possibly be the means of drawing the attention of the profession, especially that of the Medical Staff of the Army, to this treatment, and stimulate them to give it an extended trial. If they do it, I feel certain that before long they will find that, whilst rendering the life of the syphilitic soldier less of a burden to himself, they will also be doing a very great service to their country by enabling him to give his services as a soldier more freely, and lessening the invaliding and death rate of the Army.\n\nNEWCASTLE, JAMAICA, \nApril, 1893.\n\nF. J. LAMBKIN, \nSurgeon-Captain A.M.S.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-288 - Public Offices & Others - 1898.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 372453, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-292 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [6-8]", "page_number": 448, "title": "CO129-292 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [6-8]", "content_text": "446\n\nMemorandum from the Principal Civil Medical Officer.\n\nCOPY\n\nA. The constitution of the Colonial Medical Staff was fully considered by the Committee appointed by His Excellency Sir W. Robinson to enquire into the Medical Department and in their report dated April 1895 and signed by\n\nThos. A. Knott, Deputy Inspector General R.N.\n\nA. F. Preston, Surgeon Colonel, A.M.S.\n\nA. McConachie.\n\nThurburn.\n\nCantlie, M.A., M.B., F.R.C.S., &c.\n\nthe appointment of a Medical Officer of Health was recommended. They stated that if this was done the existing staff would be sufficient to meet the ordinary requirements of the Colony.\n\nThe Medical Officer of Health for the Colony was appointed on my recommendations in 1895, see C.O. No.1246/95.\n\nOne Medical Officer of Health is in my opinion and in that of the Committee quite sufficient for the ordinary requirements of the Colony.\n\nIn", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-292 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [6-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 372563, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-292 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [6-8]", "page_number": 558, "title": "CO129-292 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [6-8]", "content_text": "HONGKONG VOLUNTEER CORPS, TRAINING, 1898-1899.\n\nFrom Colonel R. B. Mainwaring, Acting Commandant, Hongkong Volunteer Corps —\n\nTo the Deputy Assistant Adjutant-General (A) and Chief Staff Officer, China.\n\nVOLUNTEER HEAD QUARTERS\n\nVictoria, 17th April, 1899.\n\nSir,\n\nI have the honour to forward herewith the documents mentioned in the margin relating to the training of the Hongkong Volunteer Corps for the season of 1898-99 for the information of His Excellency the Major-General Commanding and for favour of transmission to His Excellency the Governor.\n\n1. Nominal Roll of Efficient.\n\n2. Nominal Roll of Efficient, Field Battery.\n\n3. Report on Gun Practice, Field Battery.\n\n4. Report on Gun Practice, \"A\" Machine Gun Company.\n\n5. Return of Revolver Practice of Officers and Staff Sergeants.\n\n6. Copy of Inspection State.\n\n7. State of Corps 36th April, 1899.\n\nESTABLISHMENT.\n\n2. It will be seen by Enclosure 7, with the corresponding document for the training 1897-98, that the total strength of the Corps is now 181 of all ranks, as against 176 of all ranks at the former date. This is the greatest strength to which the Corps has yet attained since its re-organization in 1893.\n\nDuring the past season, 3 members have died, 12 have been struck off the strength for non-efficiency, and 26 have resigned. Of the resigning members, 12 have left the Colony and 1 has been discharged on Medical Certificate. 16 new members have been enrolled.\n\nThe Field Battery now numbers 117 and the \"A\" Machine Gun Company numbers 58 as compared with an Establishment of 80 and 51 respectively.\n\nThe new draft Regulations submitted to you under this Office No. 3 of 4th instant make provision for 3 Machine Gun Companies (the requisite guns for them are all in stock) and also a small Engineer Company. Immediately on the approval of the Governor-in-Council to these Regulations, I shall proceed to raise the Engineer Company and every endeavour will be made to raise the other 2 Machine Gun Companies during the ensuing drill season.\n\n3. The Fife and Drum Band of the Corps is making great effort to obtain proficiency and the draft Regulations submitted allow of its existence, and give substantive rank to the Non-Commissioned Officers employed with it.\n\nThe thanks of all Ranks of the Corps are especially due to the Officers Commanding the King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment and the 2nd Battalion Royal Welch Fusiliers for so kindly lending their Bands to the Corps on the many occasions found necessary and also the services of their Sergeant Drummers as Instructors, who have brought the Fife and Drum Band of the Corps up to the standard of efficiency it has reached.\n\n4. The changes among the Officers of the Corps during the season have been :--\n\nHis Excellency Sir W. ROBINSON, G.C.M.G., Honorary Colonel of the Corps, vacated his appointment on the 31st January, 1899, and not as stated in the last Training Report of the Corps.\n\nHis Excellency Sir H. A. BLAKE, G.C.M.G., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of this Colony and its dependencies, has very kindly accepted the appointment of Honorary Colonel to the Corps.\n\nCaptain L. A. C. GORDON, Royal Artillery, Adjutant of the Corps, resigned his appointment on the 10th April, 1899, on proceeding to England on leave. This Officer during his services as Adjutant to the Corps extending over a period of 4 years, has done much good work for the Corps, and his departure is much regretted by all Ranks.\n\nCaptain W. ST. C. BLAND, Royal Artillery, took over the duties of Adjutant of the Corps from 11th instant.\n\nSurgeon-Lieutenant F. O. STEDMAN, M.D., (Lond.), was promoted to Surgeon-Captain on the 15th February, 1899.\n\nMr. A. H. LEE-NORMAN was appointed Supernumerary Lieutenant in the Field Battery on the 25th November, 1898, and was appointed Aide-de-Camp to His Excellency the Governor; this Officer resigned his Commission on the 4th February, 1899, on leaving the Colony.\n\nCaptain E. D. SANDERS, \"A\" Machine Gun Company, was appointed an Honorary Aide-de-Camp to His Excellency the Governor on the 9th instant.\n\nDISCIPLINE, TRAINING, &c.\n\n5. The discipline of the Corps has been exceptionally good throughout the season.\n\n6. The usual Squad, Carbine, Company, Gun drills and practices have been well attended. Musketry drills have been performed but no Musketry practices, as by Home Volunteer Regulations these are not now required to enable Artillery Volunteers to become efficient although every effort has been made, and with good success, with the several carbine competitions held by each unit during the season.\n\nUnder the head of Drills the figures for the two existing units are as follows: ---\n\nField Battery —\n\n68 have become Efficient with more than 40 drills.\n\n25 have become Efficient with less than 40 drills.\n\n24 are Non-Efficients.\n\n117\n\n\"A\" Machine Gun Company —\n\n26 have become Efficient with more than 40 drills.\n\n17 have become Efficient with less than 40 drills.\n\n15 are Non-Efficients.\n\n58\n\nOf the 24 non-efficients of the Field Battery 14 are absent from the Colony without leave, 2 are on Medical Certificate, and the remaining 8 although in the Colony have not completed the requisite number of drills and will be called upon to show cause of non-efficiency.\n\nIn the case of the 15 non-efficients of the \"A\" Machine Gun Company, 5 are absent from the Colony on leave, 5 are absent from the Colony without leave, 1 is a recruit who has not had sufficient time since joining to complete his drills, 1 is on medical certificate, and the remaining 3 although in the Colony have not completed the requisite number of drills, and will be called upon to show cause of non-efficiency.\n\n7. From the 22nd to the 31st October, 1898, a Camp of Instruction was held under canvas on Stonecutters' Island. The use of the Naval Range was kindly lent by the Naval Authorities. The Camp was well attended and much appreciated by all, and to it much of the efficiency of the Corps is attributed.\n\nThe Camp year by year seems more popular.\n\n8. Gun practices have taken place as shown in Enclosures Nos. 3 and 4.\n\nNo practice was held this past season with the 64-pounder R.M.L. Guns, as orders were given that they were to be dismantled.\n\nThe 7-pounder R.M.L. and Machine Gun Competitions were held at Repulse Bay on the 10th February last, and the shooting was good and a great improvement on past years. A report of the competition was forwarded to His Excellency the General Officer Commanding under this Office No. 3 of 24th February, 1899.\n\n9. The annual Carbine Competition in connection with the Corps was held on the 15th instant, and will be continued on the 22nd instant. A large number of valuable prizes have again been presented for which all Ranks are grateful.\n\n10. Revolver practice by the Officers and Staff Sergeants has been held, report as Enclosure No. 5.\n\n11. Coolie draught was tried once during the past season in conveying guns, targets, etc., to Repulse Bay on 10th February last, but much time was lost and it cost more than conveyance by water.\n\nSERVICES.\n\n12. Captain W. ST. C. BLAND, Royal Artillery, who took over the Adjutancy of the Corps on 11th instant, has entered into his duties with zeal and enthusiasm, and promises to be as popular with all Ranks as Captain GORDON, Royal Artillery, the late Adjutant.\n\n13. Captain A. CHAPMAN, Field Battery, was one of the Committee appointed to enquire into the interior economy, etc., of the Corps, which report was approved by Government, and which dealt fully with, I think, every question appertaining to the Corps.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-292 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [6-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 372564, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-292 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [6-8]", "page_number": 559, "title": "CO129-292 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [6-8]", "content_text": "Enclosure No. 1.\n\n556\n\nThe Officers of the Corps also continue to render good service; they set an admirable example to the Non-Commissioned Officers and Men under their command, and do as much as possible to promote the efficiency of the Corps.\n\n14. Corps Quartermaster Sergeant G. WATLING has discharged his duties in a most satisfactory manner, and has rendered very efficient service in connection with the various gun practices, competitions, etc., during the year, and particularly at the Camp of Instruction.\n\n15. The Instructors for the Field Battery, \"A\" Machine Gun Co., Band, Signalling, and Ambulance Classes, have proved themselves very efficient and painstaking, and have discharged their duties to my entire satisfaction.\n\n16. The Non-Commissioned Officers and Men of the Corps have, with few exceptions, attended regularly and shown a praiseworthy desire to make themselves smart and efficient; their conduct and good feeling in Camp and on all occasions has been exceedingly good.\n\nREGULATIONS.\n\n17. The proposed new Regulations for the Corps were, after many various alterations and after much care and thought on the part of Major Sir J. W. CARRINGTON, Knt., C.M.G., submitted through you for His Excellency the General Officer Commanding, and His Excellency the Governor-in-Council's approval on the 4th instant.\n\nThe recommendations of the Committee held last year on the interior economy, etc., of the Corps, and sanctioned by C.S.O. No. 2581, dated 17th January, 1899, have been embodied in them.\n\nMISCELLANEOUS MATTERS.\n\n18. The Annual Inspection of the Corps by His Excellency the Major-General Commanding was held on the 29th ultimo.\n\nThe parade state on that occasion is shown in Enclosure No. 6.\n\nHONGKONG VOLUNTEER CORPS.\n\nFIELD BATTERY.\n\nNominal Roll of Efficients for the Year ending 16th April, 1899.\n\n \n Rank and Name\n Corps Number\n Rank and Name\n Corps Number\n \n \n Captain Chapman, A.\n \n Gunner Dean, J. T.\n 238\n \n \n Slade, M. W.\n \n Donaldson, T.\n 50\n \n \n Colonel Mainwaring, K. B.\n 243\n Ellis, O. J.\n 267\n \n \n Captain Bland, W. St. C.\n \n Ellis, D. E.\n 282\n \n \n Royal Artillery, Adjutant\n \n Surgeon-Captain Lowson, J. A.\n 231\n \n \n Lieutenant Stedman, F. O.\n 269\n \n \n \n \n Medical Officers\n \n Lieutenant Macdonald, D.\n 186\n \n \n Quarter-Master Sergeant Watling, G. W.\n 272\n \n \n \n \n Corps Quarter-Master Sergeant (Staff)\n \n Acting Battery Sergeant-Major Duncan, G. L.\n 304\n \n \n \n 275\n Farr, A. J. M.\n \n \n \n \n 71\n Higgins, F.\n \n \n \n \n 149\n Humphreys, A.\n \n \n \n \n 150\n Halden, G. M. P.\n \n \n \n \n 302\n Herbst, E.\n \n \n \n \n 13\n Hatherly, E. W. F.\n \n \n \n \n 11\n Howarth, H. C.\n \n \n \n \n \n Hauen, C. E. A.\n \n \n \n \n 153\n Hance, J. H. R.\n \n \n \n Battery Quarter-Master Sergeant Coyle, J.\n \n Henderson, R.\n \n \n \n Sergeant-Drummer Brown, A.\n 251\n Hubbard, A.\n \n \n \n \n \n Kennett, H. S.\n 9\n \n \n Sergeant Hayward, G. C.\n 3\n \n 153\n \n \n \n 159\n Kennedy, D. F.\n 252\n \n \n \n 118\n Lammert, L. E.\n 18\n \n \n McPhail, H.\n 223\n \n \n \n \n \n 3\n Lee, J. R.\n 24\n \n \n Armstrong, J. H. W.\n 259\n Kennett, H. W.\n 278\n \n \n \n \n \n 34\n \n \n Parvell, W. H.\n 283\n \n 107\n \n \n Acting Sergeant Rutter, R. V.\n 293\n \n 127\n \n \n Corporal Meek, T.\n 313\n \n 49\n \n \n \n \n Humphreys, W. M.\n 240\n \n \n \n 4\n Ramsey, W. F.\n 210\n \n \n \n \n \n 40\n \n \n Stopani, W. A.\n 141\n \n \n \n \n \n \n White, G.\n 124\n \n \n \n 105\n \n 101\n \n \n Acting Corporal Gow, D.\n \n Millar, J.\n 249\n \n \n \n BIS\n \n \n \n \n Baker, J.\n \n \n 306\n \n \n \n 25\n Olson, J.\n 204\n \n \n Bombardier Nobbe, A. P.\n 301\n \n \n \n \n \n 191\n Smart, C. McD.\n 102\n \n \n \n 100\n Deas, W. M.\n \n \n \n Acting Bombardier Wilson, G. T.\n 106\n \n 241\n \n \n \n \n Hari, W.\n 163\n \n \n \n 200\n \n 263\n \n \n Trumpeter Plouston, C.\n 203\n Moore, S. R.\n 192\n \n \n \n 2+\n \n 305\n \n \n Gunner Abraham, E.\n 256\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Seth, H. A.\n 25\n \n \n \n 197\n Bentley, R. J. H.\n 317\n \n \n \n 71\n Lammert, H. A.\n \n \n \n Lysaught, J.\n \n \n \n \n \n Lapsley, R.\n \n Beuning, T.\n 151\n \n \n Logan, J. C.\n \n \n 15\n \n \n MacDonald, W. J.\n \n Sayer, E. A. R.\n 190\n \n \n Mody, J. H.\n \n Brett, L. E.\n 71\n \n \n Melver, M.\n \n \n 247\n \n \n Mackie, A. J.\n \n \n 116\n \n \n Moller, J. A.\n \n Begley, A. J.\n \n \n \n McLeish, P.\n \n \n > \n \n \n Pidgeon, J. H.\n \n Toller, W.\n 311\n \n \n Patton, G.\n \n \n 315\n \n \n Reid, A.\n \n Baker, F. H.\n \n \n \n Stewart, W.\n \n \n **\n \n \n Sutton, A. I.\n \n Tuohy, G.\n 276\n \n \n Sanderson, J. S.\n \n \n 267\n \n \n \n 277\n \n 1\n \n \n Soth, S. A.\n \n Burgess, J. R.\n \n \n \n Spittles, B. J.\n \n Taylor, W. C.\n 201\n \n \n \n \n Thomson, W. M.\n 27\n \n \n \n \n Bevan, H. S.\n 166\n \n \n \n \n \n 41\n \n \n \n \n \n 15\n \n \n Toppiu, W. J.\n \n Baker, W. A.\n 187\n \n \n \n 268\n \n 229\n \n \n \n \n Cumpston, W. H.\n 17\n \n \n \n \n Uphill, A.\n 155\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Warren, C. E.\n 286\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Craig, R. H.\n 206\n \n \n \n \n Wilkinson, S.\n 279\n \n \n Chamant, A. E.\n 280\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Wynne, H. S.\n 300\n \n \n Chummut, F. G.\n 287\n \n \n \n \n \n \"1\n Wheeler, H. S.\n 213\n \n \n \n \n \n 73\n \n \n Cotton, J. T.\n 143\n \n \n \n \n \n >\n Crispin, C. R.\n 10\n \n \n \n \n \n 33;\n \n\n(3 Officers.)\n\n(90 Non-Commissioned Officers and Men.)\n\n19. Surgeon-Captain F. O. STEDMAN, M.D. (Lond.), again conducted a course of lectures on Ambulance Work, accompanied with Stretcher Drills. 9 members presented themselves for examination, which was conducted by Major WATSON, R.A. Medical Corps: of the examinates 8 were successful.\n\n20. I have to request that the Chief Ordnance Officer, China, may be asked to keep up the usual quantities of 7-pounder R.M.L. Gun Ammunition for use of the Corps, to be indented for as required on repayment. Very little more Martini-Henry Carbine Ammunition, ball or blank, will, it is thought, be required by the Corps as the re-arming with the new Carbine of 303 calibre has been sanctioned, and it is hoped they will be received during the ensuing summer.\n\n21. The Local Government having sanctioned the proposals of the Committee held on the 29th September, 1898, it is felt that the result of their proposals cannot fail to add to the general efficiency of the Corps.\n\n22. During the past season attention has been drawn to the necessity for the re-arming of the Field Battery with a more modern gun than the 7-pounder R.M.L. in their possession. The question has been gone into fully (Vide this Office No. 8 dated 15th March, 1899), and it is hoped that the newest pattern gun may be supplied to the Corps.\n\n23. Attention has also been drawn (Vide this Office No. 5, dated 14th February, 1899) to the unserviceable state of the 120 Machine Gun belts on Corps charge, and the question of replacing the 45 with 303\" barrels to the 12 machine guns on Corps charge has also been gone into (Vide this Office No. 4, dated 17th April, 1899).\n\n24. The report of the Committee of Officers of the Corps on the question of uniform of the several ranks of the Corps was embodied in the new draft Regulations submitted recently for approval.\n\n25. Requisitions for the Capitation Grant for Efficients and Proficients have been sent direct to the Honourable the Colonial Treasurer.\n\n26. It will be seen from this report that the progress of the Corps remains good and the interest shown by the Government and the Legislature during the past season cannot but have a good effect on the Corps in general.\n\nMajor Sir J. W. CARRINGTON, Knt., C.M.G., and Commandant, proceeded on leave on the 5th instant, from which date I assumed command.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour obedient Servant,\n\nR. B. MAINWARING, Colonel, Acting Commandant, Hongkong Volunteer Corps.\n\nR. B. MAINWARING, Colonel, Acting Commandant, Hongkong Volunteer Corps.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-292 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [6-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 373079, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-293 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [8-9]", "page_number": 436, "title": "CO129-293 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [8-9]", "content_text": "At 11.30 p.m. the whole force under Colonel Mainwaring, C.M.G. embarked on board 3 launches and proceeded to Tsim-sha-Tsui which was reached about midnight.\n\nOn arrival the guns and escort were immediately disembarked and marched to the North end of Yaumati where the following dispositions were made by Colonel Mainwaring.\n\n1 gun under Lieut. F. Maitland and Lieut M.W. Slade HongKong Volunteer Corps and provided with an escort from Royal Welch Fusiliers and Field Battery, HongKong Volunteer Corps was placed off the new Road (Station Street) between Ma Tau Wai and Mong-Kok-Tsui Commanding all approaches from the North and West.\n\n1 gun under Captain A. Chapman HongKong Volunteer Corps and accompanied by Lieut. G.C. Fullerton HongKong Volunteer Corps with an escort from the Field Battery HongKong Volunteer Corps was placed on the road to the North of the Camping Station commanding approaches from Kowloon City.\n\nA 1 gun under Company Sergeant Major F. Smyth, and escort Royal Welch Fusiliers were placed in the vicinity of the Yau-Ma-Tei Police Station to Command approaches from the direction of the Rifle Ranges. These approaches were further held by detachments of the Royal Welch Fusiliers; the Yaumati Police Station was told off as the temporary Head Quarters of the Force, and Hospital arrangements were here made by Surgeon Captain J. A. Lowson, HongKong Volunteer Corps.\n\nPicquets were placed to hold important points, not under fire of the Machine Guns and Patrols from both the Royal Welch Fusiliers and Field Battery, HongKong Volunteer Corps were sent out to patrol the approaches some mile to the front.\n\nNothing occurred during the night and at 6 a.m. next morning the force re-embarked at Yaumati Police Pier for Hong-Kong.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-293 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [8-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 381191, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7]", "page_number": 719, "title": "CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7]", "content_text": "713\n\nIt was in 1889 that Mr. Chadwick's second visit was made and we have failed to find any record of the expression of surprise attributed to him.\n\n15. With regard to the remarks of Dr. Lowson quoted in paragraph 27 the isolation of contacts was in a measure carried out in 1894 by the Permanent Committee who removed over 4,000 persons from Tai-ping-shan and isolated them in unoccupied houses in the Western part of the City. They found it is impossible to carry the system further.\n\nIn 1895 isolation of contacts in large boats was adopted. This was feasible owing to the small number of cases occurring, the total for the year being only 44. In 1896 it was adopted in similar boats during the first two months of the Plague (January and February) when it had to be abandoned owing to the large increase in the number of cases from 49 in January to 168 in March.\n\nIt has not been adopted since as it has not been found possible to carry it out when the number of cases became at all large.\n\nThe latrines in 1894 were constantly disinfected and that precaution has been adopted in every epidemic since.\n\nThe measures taken to abate overcrowding and improve cleanliness have already been described.\n\n16. In paragraph 28 the Petitioners quote an opinion of Dr. Lowson that \"an epidemic in Hongkong could be tackled and got under rapidly if men in sufficient number could be got to do the work.\"\n\nWe regret to say that the experience of 1894 does not justify Dr. Lowson's opinion.\n\nThe Permanent Committee had an unlimited supply of men in that year, comprising Police, Soldiers and Civilian Volunteers, for business, as has been mentioned, was brought to a standstill by the exodus of Chinese.\n\nIn spite of the many workers and of the most drastic measures the epidemic though undoubtedly confined within narrower limits was not \"got under\" one day sooner than it ceased of its own accord in the neighbouring City of Canton where no steps whatever were taken to combat the Plague.\n\nThe measures that have been adopted since 1894 are those which were recommended by the principal workers in the epidemic of 1894, by the Sanitary Board, by the Medical Advisers of the Government, and which commended themselves to the Community as represented on the Legislative Council.\n\nAs to the Medical Staff available to help in carrying out those measures, we would point out that in 1895 a Committee consisting of Deputy Inspector General Knott, R. N., Surgeon Colonel Preston, A.M.S., Mr. McConachie, Mr. Thurburn & Dr. Cantlie was appointed to enquire into the Medical Department, and that the Medical Staff is constituted in accordance with their recommendations with the exception that the Health Officer of the Port retains his private practice.\n\nIt must however be borne in mind that the latter officer employs an Assistant to do the work in the Harbour.\n\nThe statements that \"at the height of the epidemic there was one Medical Officer on duty at the Infectious Hospitals for Europeans and Asiatics at Kennedy Town who was compelled through want of accommodation to reside a mile from the Hospitals and whose duties also included attendance on the Prisons and the Police\" and that a Civil practitioner was not appointed to relieve the official doctor of a portion of his duties until the matter had been ventilated in the Public Press are misleading.\n\nIn the first place one (and the largest) of the Plague Hospitals at Kennedy Town is a branch of the Tung Wa Hospital and is open to Chinese only who are attended by their own native doctors. The European Medical Officer only visits daily to exercise a general supervision.\n\nThe greatest number of cases under treatment at one and the same time in the Kennedy Town Hospital during the recent epidemic was 22. To assist him in attending on these cases the Medical Officer had 2 European Wardmasters, 2 trained European Nurses and 1 trained Chinese Wardmaster—a medical student in his fifth year of study.\n\nThe Medical Officer has never resided in the Kennedy Town Hospital—not even in 1894. He is in telephonic communication with it.\n\nThe Medical Officer's duties at the Gaol occupy about one hour a day. The Police (except women—and these go to Hospital for confinement) and children of whom there are not many go into Hospital when sick. Practically the only Police work is in connection with Post Mortem cases at the Mortuary.\n\nThe Medical Officer was relieved of that work on the 13th of May. At the height of the epidemic (215 cases in one week) he was relieved of the Gaol work on the recommendation of the Acting Principal Civil Medical Officer.\n\nIn answer to an inquiry whether the Medical Officer should be in constant attendance at Kennedy Town Hospital the Acting Principal Medical Officer advised that it was not necessary as ample trained assistance was on the spot for any European.\n\nRegarding the alleged insufficiency of the Sanitary Staff, we would draw attention to the fact that it was in consequence of a recommendation made in 1899 by a Select Committee of the Sanitary Board consisting of the Principal Civil Medical Officer, the Medical Officer of Health (Dr. Clark) and Mr. Osborne (one of the Petitioners) based on a report by Dr. Clark himself, that the number of Sanitary Inspectors was fixed at twenty.\n\nWe append a copy of the report marked Enclosure F. as it shows on what calculations the number was arrived at, and would point out that when Dr. Clark made that report he was himself satisfied, and Mr. Osborne, a Member of the Sanitary Board then and now, must have been also satisfied, that an Inspector's visit at least once in two months to each floor of his district was reasonably sufficient.\n\nThe Petitioners omit to mention the fact that the 20 Inspectors were exclusive of a highly trained Chief Inspector of Nuisances obtained from England in the early part of 1899 and who has left recently owing to ill health, or that he is being replaced by an Assistant Medical Officer of Health.\n\nAs for the want of training of the Inspectors the Chief Inspector was engaged principally to train them. Application was however made early in this year for three trained Inspectors from home and two more have recently been asked for.\n\nThe Memorialists compare the Sanitary Staff here with that of Liverpool.\n\nThe Medical Officer of Health we are given to understand based his calculations in some measure on the Sanitary Staff of Newcastle, where he received his training as a Health Officer, which had a population of 228,000 persons in 1899, and a staff of from 14 to 18 Sanitary Inspectors and 1 Chief Inspector in 1891.\n\nThe population of Victoria, Kowloon and the Hill District (which are the districts in which the Sanitary Inspectors work in this Colony) is:—\n\nVictoria, 181,918; Kowloon, 43,871; Hill District, 2,224; Total, 228,018.\n\n17. With regard to the statements contained in the letter of the Chamber of Commerce of the 7th of June, (Para. 30 of the Petition), we have only to point to the enclosures B, and C. hereto to show upon what slender foundations those statements rest.\n\n18. In conclusion we cannot refrain from expressing our regret that the Petition as drafted is calculated to mislead. Any one who reads it, without local knowledge and unacquainted with the real facts of the case, could not but receive the erroneous impression that in Hongkong sanitation has been at a standstill for the last twenty years and that nothing has been done or attempted to improve the sanitary condition of the Colony.\n\nThat such an impression would be entirely erroneous is shown by the facts we have adduced.\n\nIt is unfortunate that the Petition as worded is not more worthy of the good cause—the improved sanitation of Hongkong—it purports to serve.\n\nEvery resident who has the true welfare of the Colony at heart must be in favour of that cause, and it would indeed be a benighted Government that refused to do all in its power to advance it.\n\nBut the sanitary improvement of the Colony in the future is not likely to be secured by misrepresenting its sanitary history in the past.\n\nJ. H. STEWART LOCKHART,\n\nColonial Secretary.\n\nW. CHATHAM, M.I.C.E.,\n\nActing Director of Public Works and President of the Sanitary Board.\n\nF. H. MAY, Captain Superintendent of Police and Vice-President of the Sanitary Board.\n\nHongkong, 18th July, 1901.\n\nEnclosure F.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 390534, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-320 - Governor Sir Blake Acting Governor May - 1903 [11-12]", "page_number": 87, "title": "CO129-320 - Governor Sir Blake Acting Governor May - 1903 [11-12]", "content_text": "# HONGKONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL\n\nA meeting of the Legislative Council was held yesterday afternoon. Present: -\n\n**HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR**, Sir HENRY A. BLAKE, G.C.M.G.\nColonel L. F. BROWN, Commanding the Troops.\nHon. F. H. MAY, C.M.G. (Colonial Secretary),\nHon. Sir H. S. BERKELEY (Attorney-General),\nHon. I. A. M. JOHNSTON (Acting Colonial Treasurer).\nHon. W. CHATHAM (Director of Public Works).\nHon. A. W. BREWIN (Registrar-General).\nHon. BASIL BR. H. TAYLOR (Acting Harbour Master).\nHon. Sir C. P. CHATER, C.M.G.\nHon. Dr. HO KAI, C.M.G.\nHon. WEI YUK.\nHon. C. W. DICKSON.\nHon. GERSHOM STEWART.\nMr. R. F. JOHNSTON (Acting Clerk of Councils).\n\n## SWEARING IN A MEMBER\n\nHon. A. W. Brewin, Registrar-General, was sworn in as a member of the Council on his return to the Colony.\n\n## STANDING COMMITTEES\n\nThe following standing Committees were appointed: -\n\n* Finance Committee: All members except the President (Chairman, the Colonial Secretary).\n* Public Works Committee: The Director of Public Works (Chairman), the Colonial Treasurer, Sir C. P. Chater, Mr. C. W. Dickson, Mr. Gershom Stewart (temporarily and in place of Mr. Shewan).\n* Standing Law Committee: The Attorney-General (Chairman), the Harbour Master, Dr. Ho Kai, Mr. Wei Yuk, Mr. Pollock, K.C. (temporarily and in place of Mr. Sharp).\n\n## FINANCIAL\n\nThe **COLONIAL SECRETARY** laid on the table Financial minutes (Nos. 54 to 57) and moved that they be referred to the Finance Committee.\nThe **ACTING COLONIAL TREASURER** seconded and the motion was agreed to.\n\n## PAPERS\n\nThe **COLONIAL SECRETARY** laid on the table a report on Queen's College and correspondence arising out of the report of the Education Committee (1902).\n\n## THE CONVICT PRISON ON STONECUTTERS' ISLAND\n\nThe **DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS** laid the following report of the Public Works Committee on the table: -\n\nThe Chairman laid before the Committee an estimate which had been prepared by the Superintendent of the Gaol showing that the cost of the staff for supervising the proposed prison and the cost of transport would amount in all to $23,153 per annum, the sum included for transport being $2,500. The only saving to be effected in the present annual expenditure would be $5,836, which is now expended in connection with using the Belilios Reformatory as a gaol. The net extra expense of the proposed prison would therefore amount to $17,317 per annum. The only saving which would be effected by constructing a prison on the outskirts of the city instead of on Stonecutters' would be the sum of $2,600 per annum for transport. The annual working expenses of the existing gaol amounted to $110,178.80.\n\nThe Chairman also read the Colonial Secretary's minute of the 24th September, 1903, in which he stated that, in the event of the Colonial Government abandoning the Stonecutters' site for a gaol, the War Department might contribute as much as half the cost of the new Gunpowder Depot on Green Island, which is estimated to cost $107,000.\n\nThe Committee desire that definite information should be obtained as to the amount which the Military Authorities would be prepared to contribute in the event of the Gunpowder Depot being removed from Stonecutters Island as proposed, and \n(a) the proposal to erect a convict prison there being carried out;\n(b) the proposal to erect a convict prison there being abandoned.\n\n## PUMPING APPARATUS AT TYTAMTUK\n\nThe **DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS** - Before resuming my seat, sir, I would like to mention for the information of hon. members that a temporary pumping plant has been established at Tytamtuk which is capable of raising about half a million gallons daily to the tunnel which conveys the water to the city. The pump commenced work on the 1st of this month, and has been at work since with slight intermission. (Applause.)\n\n## SLAUGHTER OF ANIMALS\n\nThe **COLONIAL SECRETARY** laid on the table the following additional bye-law made under Sub-section 25 of Section 16 of the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance, 1903, for regulating the slaughter of animals, and moved its approval.\n\nAll animals killed for food in a Government slaughter-house shall be killed in the following manner: - (1) All cattle (except buffaloes) shall be killed with a pole-axe of a pattern to be approved of by the Colonial Veterinary Surgeon. (2) All buffaloes shall be killed with a rifle of a size and pattern to be approved by the Colonial Veterinary Surgeon. All rifles used for this purpose shall be kept by the inspector in charge of each slaughter-house and used by him alone. (3) All sheep, goats and swine shall be killed with a knife in the usual manner, except in the case of pigs which, in the opinion of the inspector in charge of the slaughter-house, are too large to be killed in this way. Such pigs shall be killed in the same manner as cattle. Provided always that nothing in this bye-law shall affect Jews, Mahomedans, or other peoples holding religious beliefs which compel them to kill animals for food in a particular manner.\n\nThe **ATTORNEY-GENERAL** seconded, and the motion was agreed to.\n\n## NEW TERRITORIES TITLES ORDINANCE\n\nThe **ATTORNEY-GENERAL** moved the first reading of a Bill entitled an Ordinance to repeal the New Territories Titles Ordinance 1902.\nThe **COLONIAL SECRETARY** seconded, and the motion was agreed to.\n\nThe objects and reasons attached to the Bill are as follows: - The object is to repeal the New Territories Titles Ordinance because it has become apparent that the system of title by registration thereby established is unworkable and because it is found that the system, if it could be brought into operation, would clash with the Land Court Ordinance, 1900, in a manner contemplated neither by its framer nor by the Legislature when it passed the Ordinance. The conflict with the Land Court Ordinance arises from the interpretation given in the New Territories Titles Ordinance to the expressions \"customary land\" and \"customary landholder.\" The effect of that interpretation may be to override section 14 of the Land Court Ordinance and to confer \"title\" in a manner never intended and impossible to permit. It was never intended and cannot be permitted that title to land in the New Territories should be acquired otherwise than by grant from the Crown as in the case of land in the other parts of the Colony, but it is open to question whether the effect of the interpretation clause of the New Territories Titles Ordinance is not to vest in the Land Court the power to confer title independently of grant from the Crown. It was never intended that the Land Court should have power to do more than investigate claims to land and report thereon to the Governor. It was always intended, and that intention still prevails, that the ultimate right to grant or to refuse a title should rest with the Governor - an intention which clearly appears in section 14 of the Land Court Ordinance, 1900. No inconvenience will thereby be caused to anyone, because no land has yet been brought under the operation of the Ordinance.\n\n## NEW TERRITORIES LAND COURT ORDINANCE\n\nThe **ATTORNEY-GENERAL** moved the first reading of a Bill entitled an Ordinance to further amend the New Territories Land Court Ordinance, No. 18 of 1900.\nThe **COLONIAL SECRETARY** seconded, and the motion was agreed to.\n\nThe objects and reasons of the Bill are to empower the Governor to facilitate and accelerate the work of the New Territories Land Court by adding members thereto when necessary.\n\n## PUBLIC HEALTH AND BUILDINGS ORDINANCE", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-320 - Governor Sir Blake Acting Governor May - 1903 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 413676, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-347 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [4-6]", "page_number": 178, "title": "CO129-347 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [4-6]", "content_text": "## \n\nSir, \n\nHongkong, 1st Apr, 1908.\n\nWe have the honour to direct the attention of His Excellency the Governor to the name \"Assistant Surgeon\" by which we are officially designated, and to respectfully ask that it may be altered.\n\n2. We are contemporaries professionally with officers of the Military and Naval Medical Services now holding the ranks of Lieutenant-Colonel, R.A.M.C., and Fleet-Surgeon, R.N.; yet our official designation is the same as that used in India for subordinate locally-trained native officers. Such native subordinate officers are now regularly employed in this Colony, attached to Indian Regiments, and their designation is the same as our own.\n\n3. We submit a schedule showing the grades in the Medical Departments of certain Colonies which may fairly be compared with Hongkong, taken from the \"Colonial Office List, 1907\". It will be seen that, while there is some dissimilarity of nomenclature, there is unanimity in the recognition of seniority where it exists, and in the absence of such an invidious title for European Officers as that of \"Assistant Surgeon\".\n\n4. We would suggest that your own official title should be taken as the type; that the ordinary designation should be Civil Medical Officer; that all Officers having been in the service for ten years or more should be described as Senior Civil Medical Officer; and that the term \"Assistant\" should be applied to the Chinese or other locally trained Civil Medical Officers. There would thus be a natural and suitable gradation", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-347 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 421223, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-360 - Public Offices - 1909", "page_number": 12, "title": "CO129-360 - Public Offices - 1909", "content_text": "## Medical Note on the Deaths of the Emperor Kuang Hsü and the Empress Dowager\n\n### The Emperor\n\nSince birth, he had never been of robust constitution. There seems little doubt that he suffered from hypospadias, a congenital condition in which it is a surgical fact that there is absence of some part of the floor of the urethra. In almost all these cases, there is some degree of arrested development of the testicles and scrotum, with loss of ability to procreate. The local irritation caused by this hypospadias is capable of setting up spermatorrhoea, or rather a false spermatorrhoea, in which there is a discharge of a seminal-like fluid, destitute of spermatozoa. The presence of this complaint would serve to keep him in a more or less debilitated condition—a lack of virility—all his life.\n\nThe heavy duties of Court life, from which there was never any respite, with Grand Council meetings beginning at 4 A.M., and all the worries of his peculiar position, would appear to have brought him into a condition of neurasthenia. From time to time, he suffered from attacks of insomnia. The never-ending press of work in an individual in whom the capacity for work was limited and the general history of the case were causes such as give rise to neurasthenia. The doctors who attended him know well enough the symptoms of phthisis, as it is so common a disease among Chinese, but they have never said he suffered from this. Nor had his face the puffy appearance of one suffering from kidney disease, and he did not show any of the other manifestations of tuberculosis, such as intestinal or bone disease, as far as can be gathered from the clinical symptoms he was said to have shown.\n\nThe progressive weakness of neurasthenia was accompanied, as is the case in its latter stages, by cardiac weakness and general loss of tone of the circulatory, intestinal, and sexual systems from which he respectively suffered in the last stages of his illness: (1) swelling of the lower limbs, (2) pronounced constipation, (3) pronounced spermatorrhoea. The \"vicious circle\" thus established, by which the weaker his constitution became, the more these symptoms were aggravated and vice versa, gives a quite reasonable explanation of how he came by his death.\n\n### The Empress Dowager\n\nAt the recent audience when Sir John Jordan introduced Admiral Lambton, it was remarked by those of us who were present that, while Her Majesty was looking well, she had aged in appearance, and for some time previous to that, there were reports that she had not been in good health. At the beginning of October, she suffered from an attack of weakness, and the Chinese said she had caught cold (\"chao liang\"). There was a good deal of influenza in Peking about that time, from which a great many Chinese suffered, and it is quite possible she had that, as there were no definite symptoms that they could put a name to beyond general body weakness.\n\nOn her birthday, by all accounts, she ate more than usual and took some fruit which was over-ripe. By the next day, she was suffering from dysenteric symptoms, and the acute diarrhoea with loss of blood very soon brought her into a debilitated state. Dysentery in elderly people is always much more dangerous than in earlier life. A Chinese doctor (Surgeon-Lieutenant-Colonel in the Lu Chün and in touch with other official doctors) told me that for four days she passed motions of \"strips of black blood\"—evidently pieces of her intestinal mucous coat mixed with blood. This blackness points to the irritation being high up in the bowels—probably an acute gastritis.\n\nIn any case, it seems certain she never really rallied from this attack and felt herself getting steadily weaker. While in this state, she sent Prince Ching to see about her tomb, and during his absence, on hearing of the Emperor's grave condition, her anxiety became acute and no doubt made her worse. A few hours after Prince Ching's return, the Emperor died—about 8 p.m. To the unsettled state of the succession, coupled with the absence of any proper treatment, sedative or otherwise, must have strained her to the utmost. She held a Grand Council meeting at 2 A.M., after a long and anxious day, and later on in the early morning when they returned to again consult with her, she could only wave them aside, saying she was too weak to speak. She died the next afternoon, her dysenteric symptoms persisting to the end.\n\n### Review of the Circumstances of these Deaths\n\nOn reviewing the circumstances of these deaths with a view to rumours which have been bruited abroad as to foul play (poisoning), while, in the Emperor's case, there is no evidence of it, the sudden appearance of acute intestinal disease in the Empress Dowager might be said to be suspicious. But I do not think so for the following reasons:\n\nPoisons all fall into the three main classes of:\n1. Corrosives;\n2. Neurotics; and\n3. Irritants.\n\nUnless there was a widespread collusion to hide the truth, she had none of the symptoms of the two former classes. Those of corrosives are marked and unmistakable, and neurotics are equally excluded—there was no sudden death as by prussic acid, nor coma as by a narcotic, nor sudden rapid suffocating sensations as by strychnine, &c. She might have been given an irritant poison; in the absence of all opportunity for analysis, it would be difficult to say definitely, but from her symptoms, it is improbable that such was the case. There is no mention of her having had nausea, violent vomiting, or great pain, and her illness did not steadily increase in severity till collapse and death occurred.\n\nAs far as can be gathered, though the treatment may have left much to wish for, and if properly carried out might have tided her over this attack, her death was a natural one, my diagnosis being dysentery accentuated by over-fatigue in a senile constitution.\n\n**G. Douglas Gray, M.D.**\n\nPeking, November 19, 1908.\n\n(Signed)", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-360 - Public Offices - 1909.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 426834, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-368 - Acting Governor May - 1910 [8-9]", "page_number": 614, "title": "CO129-368 - Acting Governor May - 1910 [8-9]", "content_text": "0.A.G./32928/10 Hong Kong\n\n610 DOVNING STREET,\n\nNovember,\n\n18 Nove\n\n17\n\n1910.\n\nDRAFT.\n\nHONG KONG, Ho 336\n\nGovernor,\n\nColonel Sir F.D. Lugard, K.C.M.G.,C.B.,D.S.O.\n\n80..\n\nMINUTE.\n\n80.\n\n&c.\n\nSir,\n\nMr. H.T.Allen 15.11.\n\nMr. A.Harding\n\nMr. Fiddes.\n\nMr. Just.\n\nMr. Cox.\n\nSir C. Lucas.\n\nSir F. Hopwood.\n\nCol. Seely.\n\nLord Crewe.\n\nAusa 5319/11\n\nI have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of Sir F.H.Kay's despatch No.313 of the 22nd of September, and to convey to you my approval of the appointment of Dr.To Ying-kuan to be Resident Surgeon at Tung Wa Hospital.\n\nI consider that the proposal\n\n2.\n\nthe\n\nA\n\nto allow private practice but to restrict the exercise of this privilege to the members of the Hospital Committee and their families as proposed by the Officer", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-368 - Acting Governor May - 1910 [8-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 441143, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-396 - Public Offices - 1912", "page_number": 479, "title": "CO129-396 - Public Offices - 1912", "content_text": "# APPENDIX VII.\n\n## Note by the Hon'ble Surgeon General C. P. Lubis, C.S.I., M.D., LM.S. Director-General, Indian Medical Service, dated 27th June 1911, on the result of the recent medical enquiry about the drug habit. (Paragraph 14 of Despatch,)\n\nAs suggested by Mr. Brunyate, I have consulted various medical officers of experience and Superintendents of Jails and Lunatic Asylums, and I put up below a selected series of their replies; also a statement of the causes of toxic insanity in lunatic asylums in India.\n\n2. These reports clearly bring out the following points:\n\n(a) That Opium-eating can scarcely be considered a vice so far as Indians are concerned. Its evil effects are most noticeable in Burma, and there the majority of the victims are Chinese, and after them the Burmese, but amongst the latter it is chiefly used by the men from the hills-Kachines, Chinese, and Shans. Opium-smoking is regarded by Indians as a vice, and is, therefore, very rarely indulged in and then only in secret. The hypodermic injection of morphia is also very rare and is confined chiefly to Europeans and Eurasians.\n\nOpium, as taken in moderation by the average Indian, is eaten as a stimulant, much in the same way that the British workman consumes his pint of beer or his richer neighbour his glass of port. Or else it is taken as a prophylactic against malaria; for the relief of pain; or to check the excretion of sugar in diabetes. As regards its use in malaria, it must be remembered that Indian opium contains a relatively large proportion of Narcotine, which is a valuable remedy in the treatment of that disease.\n\nAll the evidence goes to show that when consumed in moderate quantities (2 annas or less) it has no ill effects and this coincides with my own experience. Like Colonel Calvert, I have rarely seen it produce evil results except in a few decadents and members of the criminal classes. Like alcohol, it only becomes an evil when taken in excess, but it differs from alcohol, as pointed out by Colonel Calvert, in one important respect: the moderate opium eater can attend to his business and behave as a gentleman, whereas the alcoholic is a dangerous beast.\n\nAnother important point is that the average opium eater, having once fixed his dose, will often keep to it for years without increasing it, whereas the victim of alcohol and cocaine goes on constantly increasing it.\n\nMajor Jagoe Shaw's letter deserves especial attention as showing that opium, whether eaten or smoked, is never a cause or even an exciting cause of insanity, but that its continued or excessive use leads to a condition of malnutrition which predisposes to insanity from any other exciting causes, just as it does to certain microbic infections, especially tuberculosis. In this connection, please see Dr. Fink's report and that of Major Barry. There can be no doubt that, when large quantities of opium are taken for the relief of pain or checking of cough, although it lessens the suffering, it lowers the patient's power of resistance and tends to hasten death; but I do not agree with Major Barry that it is ever the cause of tuberculosis or dysentery-he has, I think, confused cause with effect.\n\n(b) Cocaine is a far greater national danger than opium. One important point as regards its use is that there is no fixed dose. Once a man has contracted the cocaine habit, he spends every farthing he can get on the drug and he rapidly becomes a mental and physical wreck. The habit is greatly on the increase, especially amongst young men of the student class under 20 years of age. Fink also reports that it is used by prostitutes suffering from venereal disease to prevent pain during sexual intercourse. Dr. Childe states that, whereas very little opium or morphia is consumed in Bombay, cocaine is largely used, chiefly as an aphrodisiac, and that it is doing far more harm than opium, whilst some opium traders affirm that they sell twice as much cocaine as opium, and Major Shaw considers that, either alone or combined with morphia, it is largely responsible for the increase of mental cases in his asylum. Colonel Calvert, too, expresses his opinion that the effects of cocaine are infinitely worse than anything he has ever seen with opium. I entirely agree with this opinion. During my five years in Calcutta, I saw many very sad cases amongst growing lads, and I regard this drug as being a grave menace to the future race. I believe it to be a potent factor in the spread of sedition, and to be responsible for many a criminal action or murderous outrage.\n\n3. It is a very true saying \"better the devil you know than the devil you don't know,\" and I fear that, if great restrictions are put upon the sale of opium, the only result will be to drive the people to the more extensive use of alcohol, cocaine, and Indian hemp-all of which are infinitely more deleterious in their effects than opium as consumed by the average Indian.\n\n4. In this connection, the table of the causes of insanity, which I put up below, is very instructive. It shows that 10 per cent of the cases are due to hemp in its various forms, 3.35 per cent to alcohol, and only 0.46 per cent to opium.\n\n## Page 475", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-396 - Public Offices - 1912.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 442715, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-400 - Governor Sir May - 1913 [3-4]", "page_number": 283, "title": "CO129-400 - Governor Sir May - 1913 [3-4]", "content_text": "## B 277\n\n2\n\n**PHOTOGRAPHY IN NATURAL COLOURS**\n\nThe Polychromide System\n\nEffort to produce photographs in the actual colour of nature have attracted earnest attention during recent years, and the works of the Lumières and others were valuable stepping-stones on the road to progress. It has been proved that, by the use of the colour-screen, negatives can be produced giving the sensations of the three primary colours, and these can be combined to leave a fairly harmonious picture; but it has been well stated that the results obtained by superposed pigmented bichromated gelatine (successively yellow, red, and blue), printed from colour-selection negatives at very uncertain and often far from satisfactory.\n\nOne of the chief features which distinguish the new polychromide process, patented by Mr. Acon Hamburger, of the Dover Street Studios, from many others is the use of a mechanism which enables the three plates to be taken simultaneously at a single exposure. In order to overcome certain difficulties inherent in this principle, Hamburger employs both reflection and refraction, and he has succeeded in so balancing the intensities of each that the perfect colour-stone rendering is obtained. A scale of shades of the standard colours has been prepared, in which the yellow inclines slightly to orange, the red to crimson, and the blue to green; that is to say, in lieu of being true primaries, the tints are in each case somewhere merged the one into the other. These shades are standardized, so that by means of the special developer used in the camera and the sensitized printing paper, with the above standard tints, any photographer should be able to attain accurate results. Two plates not on three are employed, each is sensitized to photograph one colour only.\n\nThe plate and the film are put together into one slide, with the emulsions in contact, the film thus serving the purpose of screening the plate. A print is made from the blue negative upon a rapid gelatine paper, which is turned into the yellow image. Prints in gelatine containing double salts are prepared from the other two negatives and transferred to a temporary support of glass. They are then superposed on the original yellow print by stripping. Though so far Mr. Hamburger has worked only by the aid of artificial flashlight, using a special compound to impart the requisite active properties, he does not anticipate obstacles in adapting the process to ordinary daylight. The camera takes the three pictures through a single lens and a single shutter, and it is found possible to have the register of the pictures perfectly accurate. The success of this process appears to depend upon the skill with which the spectrum has been split up, so that there is either no gap nor overlap, and therefore no colour is either lost or doubled. Specimens of the results yielded by the new process include not only serious portraits, in which the delicate flesh tints, the hair, and the minute details on the costume of the sitters are reproduced in complete harmony and in true colours, but also copies of paintings by the Old Masters in which the values due to low tone and false tints are successfully overcome.\n\n## NEWS OF THE WORLD\n\n[Telegrams from London]\n\n**The King of Greece**\n\nReuter's correspondent at Athens wires that an eye-witness of the scene said that the King was standing at the corner of Aghistas Street, which is near the Police Headquarters, when an assassin rushed out of a hiding place and drew a big revolver from close quarters at His Majesty.\n\nThe Aide-de-Camp, Colonel Frangoulis, drew his revolver, whereupon the assassin turned round and fired twice upon the Colonel.\n\nTwo Cretan gendarmes then dashed up and arrested the assassin, who offered no resistance.\n\nColonel Frangoulis ran to the King, thinking His Majesty had not been hit, but found that he had fastened to the ground and was only half conscious.\n\nColonel Frangoulis raised the King in his arms, but His Majesty did not utter a word.\n\nSome notes and cartridges were found on the assassin.\n\nReuter's correspondent at Athens says the man refuses to speak except to say, \"I will speak in the presence of the King.\"\n\n**King George V**\n\nThe King, accompanied by Queen Alexandra, visited Queen Mary at Marlborough House.\n\nThe outrage has aroused worldwide condolences and universal expressions of horror.\n\nA dispatch from Salonika to \"The Times\" regarding the assassination of the King of Greece says the King was in the habit of walking out every afternoon with a single servant, refusing requests made by his advisers to permit the presence of guards.\n\nYesterday, he was talking happily of the war and the successes of the Greek army as a long delayed triumph to his reign and said: \"Tomorrow I pay a final visit to the Dreadnought Goeben. It is with happiness and contentment that a German battleship should honour the Greek King at Salonika.\" These proved to be His Majesty's last words, for at that moment the assassin...\n\nThe Aide-de-Camp, Colonel Frangoulis, seized the hands of the assassin, which was poised for a second shot. Covering his Royal master with his body, Colonel Frangoulis grabbed the assailant by the throat and held him fast till soldiers came to his aid.\n\nThe English public are profoundly affected by the tragedy, which is an additional bereavement in Queen Alexandra's family. There were many references to the tragedy by public men at meetings held yesterday, and last night, wide pages of the papers were devoted to tributes.\n\nReuter's correspondent at Athens says that all Greece is grief-stricken. The Prince George and others gently broke the news to the Queen, who fainted several times.\n\nReuter's correspondent at Athens also reports that it appears that the assassin is weak-minded, and a victim of alcohol. He is a native of Greece. He was twice dismissed from a school where he was employed as an attendant and he petitioned the King, who referred the matter to the proper quarter, which rejected the petition.\n\n## British Affairs\n\nIn introducing the Army Estimates in the House of Commons, Col. Seely, Minister of War, dwelt on the extraordinary apprehension regarding aviation. He pointed out that the officers' never allowed performances to be published, and consequently remarkable achievements went unnoticed.\n\nHe affirmed that they did not possess any Zeppelins because they were not required.\n\nIt was decided to have some transportable dirigibles, and they would also possess 14 aeroplanes by May. Publicity were obviously marked for an expeditionary remount, and they could not reinforce the Egyptian garrison or the Indian troops. They had obtained a type of aeroplane superior to that of any nation. The difficulty was in regard to the engine, as he was offering a prize in this connection with the promise of a large purchase.\n\nThe Minister, Mr. H. Samuel (Postmaster General) and Sir Rufus Isaacs (Attorney General) obtained judgment with costs against the French newspaper \"La Muflin\" for libel in connection with statements published relating to the Marconi affair. The newspaper admitted the statements to be false and apologized.\n\nCounsel for the defence unreservedly accepted the denials of the Ministers that they were in any way concerned with dealings in Marconi shares.\n\nDelous Wattoit, Unionist Free Trader, has been returned to Parliament for the Kendal Division. The polling was:\n\n| Candidate | Votes |\n| --- | --- |\n| Col. Weston (U.) | 3,241 |\n| Mr. Somervell (C) | 1,680 |\n| | 581 |\n\nUnionist Majority\n\nMr. Bone, in addressing the members of the Manchester Unionist Association, said that Kendal, in electing Colonel Weston, who refused to support the policy announced by the Party leaders, really voted no confidence in the late Government. If the party refused to act unitedly and would act following the leader, it was his duty to give place to another; and he would perform that duty if circumstances arose.\n\nThe result of the Houghton-le-Spring by-election was:\n\n| Candidate | Votes |\n| --- | --- |\n| Mr. Wing (L) | 930 |\n| Mr. Richardson (C) | 4,807 |\n| Mr. Modles (L) | 4,185 |\n\nThe motion by Mr. Harold Smith for a reduction of the Home Office vote was defeated by 224 votes to 100.\n\nThe two Irish prisoners who had been sentenced for five days in Cold Bath Fields prison and to whom shamrocks were sent down on St. Patrick's Day have been rescued.\n\nFrom Port Said, it is reported that the steamer \"Melen\" has shipped £50,000 in gold for Singapore.\n\n## Affairs in China\n\nThere is much published in the Russian press regarding impending war between Russia and China. This is partly based on reported Chinese preparations for an advance on Urga, in defiance of Russia.\n\nIt is announced from St. Petersburg that M. Mueller, the Consul General at Tabriz, is proceeding to Urga as Consul-General, the consulate there being upgraded to a Consulate-General.\n\n## ENDER ENTIRELY NEW SIGN ON KHEN\n\n**EXCELLENT COLON**\n\nModerate Rates\n\nM. HAYNES, Manager\n\n**GRAND HOTEL**\n\n- No. 2, Queen's Road Central\n\nA FIRST-CLASS AND UP-TO-DATE HOTEL.\n\nEvery order European Massage attended.\n\nSituated in a central position. Large Airy Rooms. Luxuriously furnished. Electric Light and hot water throughout.\n\nSanitary arrangements of the latest pattern.\n\nCUISINE UNDER EUROPEAN SUPERVISION\n\nLadies' Afternoon Tea Rooms. Special terms for families made on application to the Manager.\n\nCharges Moderate\n\nF. RICHMANN, Proprietor\n\nTelephone No. 197, Telegraphic Address: \"Cowworm,\" Hongkong\n\n## CANNAVOLT\n\n**CENTRAL**\n\nTOKYO-HOTEL\n\nChen Hwang & Co. Limited.\n\nGENERAL IMPORT & EXPORT.\n\nANTON'S LARGE WHOLESALE & RETAIL STORE.\n\n| Furniture, Draperies, Groceries, Hats, and Shoes. Makers of Jewellery, Linquers, Crockery, Watches, and Trimmings. Wines and Spirits. Foreign Clothes for gentlemen made to measure by our own tailors. |\n| --- |\n\nENORMOUS SUCCESS\n\nTHE CHINA DAILY OUTLOOK, MONDAY, MARCH 24th, 1913\n\nThe news published in Bangkok that a party of military police have occupied the place where the salt will be examined has been paid for. Salt bought from the Government...\n\n## VICTORIA THEATRE\n\n**LOCAL AND GENERAL**\n\nEXCHANGE 111-1/2c Calcutta.\n\nThe Burma-China Frontier\n\nITTAJ\n\nThe manufacturer of salt shall sell it full to the Government at an appointed time.\n\nThe Thunderbolt Man, Wonderful Imitator and International Jester, was delivered in London on the 20th March.\n\nALEXANDER GALINSKY\n\nSATURDAY, 22nd,\n\nDebate at the Pantomime Arsie\n\nMISS ARKAS\n\nLarge assortment of Chinese Silks, Brocades, Shawls, and Foreign Goods of every description.\n\nAll goods sold at reasonable prices. The Cheapest and best place in Canton to buy Chinese and Foreign Goods.\n\nSUP PAT POO STREET, CANTON, Tel. No. 140.\n\nCanton, January 1, 1912.\n\nMAN and Italian\n\nThe Charming Serio Dancer,\n\nFREDA ARDEA LOON,\n\nTHE MAGNIFICENT NEW FILM\n\nFIRST-CLASS PRESERVES\n\nGINGER AND GOOSE MANUFACTURERS,\n\nFACTORY AT YAUMATI\n\nStation: No. 38, DES VIEUX ROAD WEST.\n\nTelephone No. 177.\n\nWhy are the leading Manufacturers of this class of Goods? Our Fruit and Gingers are all tough and of the first quality. Our Syrup is prepared from the best quality of Sugar. We give particular attention to sanitary arrangements.\n\n\"The Bohemian Girl\"\n\nSINGER\n\nSEWING MACHINES\n\nPianosare kept in stock. Our Symps is prepared from the best quality of Sugar. We give particular CORSTE particular attention to sanitary arrangements.\n\n978 TELEPHONE: HONGRONG\n\n**GRAND CARLTON HOTEL**\n\nUNSURPASSED FOR\n\nLocation\n\nService\n\nCuisine\n\nand Home Comforts\n\nTHE JOYAT FAMILY HOTEL OF THE COLONY\n\n-10, Lee Theatre Road\n\nHOTEL BAI TIMORE.\n\n1. No. 2, WYNDHAM STREET.\n\nREASONABLE RATES.\n\nNo. 658, Telegraphic Address \"BALTMAX\" Hongkong.\n\nReuter's correspondent at St. Petersburg states that the \"Novoe Vremya\" says that as a result of a circular from the Chinese Government regarding the possibility of conflict with Russia arising out of the projected...\n\n## VISITORS AT HOTELS\n\nKisa Rewind live Mongolian pagan, business My A. D. Ander\n\nMr & Mrs N Fulsdan, the Chinatown of Harbin, has almost ceased.\n\nThe majority Chinese workmen have quitted their affairs and from other centres there are similar reports. Frontier trade is at a standstill, and China has prohibited the exportation of all alimentary products.\n\nOther events are expected in a very brief period of time.\n\nIn the House of Commons, Sir Edward Grey informed Mr. Harwood Bunder that the negotiations for the Chinese Loan were still in private.\n\n| Mr F. Arou | Mr T. Aoki | De Botilos |\n| Mr Birsand | child Lisa Crosse | |\n| Mrs Orexier | Straw. Donaldson | Ewing |\n| Mr Finchote | Miss Graham | |\n| Mr Geo. Oribia | | |\n| Mr and Mrs F. E. | Melfough | |\n| Hi, i | | |\n| Mad | | |\n| Major. J. Masti | Dr Muller | |\n| Mr M. F. Murray | Nakashima | |\n| Mr Overy | Miss M. Panti | |\n| Cast M Pos | Mustu | |\n| Mrs E. Karay | | |\n| Mr G. R. Rabb | | |\n| Miss F. Sunders | Capt. & Mrs Schenk | |\n| Dr Silene | | |\n| and Mrs Kemp | Me H. S. Burze | M&Ms Lauritsen |\n| Stranet fokildren | i Captiasalinity | Choses A. H. |\n| Mis A. Loigh | | |\n| wherton | | |\n\n**PECTO SEPPUSE**\n\n4. 17, Currie's\n\nLONG HING & CO.\n\nDEVELOPING MACHINES\n\nQueen's Road Central.\n\nLEE ON & CO.\n\nMANUFACTURERS of the Best Hand-made Silk and Green Cloth Embroidery of the Latest French Pattern. Canton Down-work, Wholesale and Retail.\n\nPRINTING\n\n7, Queen's Road Central, HONGKONG UNDERTAKEN\n\n**OPEN AIR SKATING RINK**\n\n**BELLE VIEW HOTEL.** (Telephone No. 907)\n\nSESSIONS 10 am, 1 12 noon, 2 to 5 pm, 7 to 10 pm.\n\nADMISSION 25 cents.\n\nADMISSION 50 cents.\n\nON LOCK\n\nYUEN\n\nCafe and Restaurant\n\nA la Carte at all hours\n\n7 pm to 1 p.m.\n\n27, Des Vœux ROAD CENTRAL\n\n(Next Door to WROXWALL)\n\nW. GALLAGHER\n\nManager.\n\nDr. M. H. CHAUN\n\nYEN YEE & CO.\n\nHAIR DRESSING SALOON.\n\nHair Clipper, Razors, Scissor Sharpening and Repairing, Singeing Shaving, Massage, etc., a specialty.\n\nToilet Requisites Cigare and Cigarettes.\n\n**DENTAL SURGEON**\n\n32. Queen's Road Central (1st Floor)\n\nBoone 2 and 5.\n\nFrom the University of Pennsylvania, U.S.A.\n\nTelephone 125,\n\nNo. 28, Corner of D'Aguilar Street\n\nElectrical Engineers and Fitters\n\nand that the terms now under consideration by the Chinese Government have the unanimous approval of the Six Power Bankers, that Britain would continue exclusively to support the group negotiating the Loan.\n\nThe Balkans\n\nReuter's correspondent at Constantinople says that an official dispatch claims the success of the Turks at Chatalja after a desperate infantry battle.\n\nIt concludes: \"Our forces are engaging the enemy along the whole front.\"\n\nThe I. K. & S. Bank\n\nThe chairman of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, presiding at the all-Party meeting in London, referring to opium, said he believed some equitable arrangement would be reached whereby an outlet would be found for the present stocks. It hardly seems just that purchasers of opium from the Government of India should...\n\n| Mr K. Mintumi | |\n| Mr H. H. Taylor | My Water |\n| M. F. W. White | |\n\n**GRAND HOTEL**\n\nMr and Mrs Allen\n\nMr May\n\nMr Agnew\n\nMr Reuskansen\n\nDe Brigga family\n\nMr and Mrs Mudie\n\nMr Nai Prusit\n\nand Mr J Oeso\n\nand Mrs Creer\n\nM: W. Men\n\nM: Gais\n\nMr A. Hersi\n\nMy Higginbotham\n\nMr J. Houlka\n\nDr Berage\n\nMy Selenide\n\nMr H. J. Sharp\n\nMr Shastin\n\nMr and Mrs Tobias| Tobias\n\nM. G. R. Tyre\n\nMr and Mrs Ho. Meg Watkins\n\nward\n\nDr Kurt\n\nMr Lorria\n\nMr Woodenek\n\nMr and Mrs Wikle\n\n**GRAND CARLTON HOTEL**\n\nMr and Mrs Frank\n\nMr W. Pringle, Jun\n\nAilen\n\nMr A.F. Remedios\n\nMr A.G. Reaumut\n\nMr A. Ringe\n\n**PHOTO SUPPLIES**\n\nYour Road Contra\n\nA.\n\nTACK & Co.\n\n26. Des Vieux Road\n\nELECTRIC FITTINGS COMPANY.\n\nNo. 188, Des Vœux ROAD CENTRAL\n\nHONGKONG.\n\nDeveloping Workmanship Guaranteed.\n\nand Printing\n\nUndertaken\n\nWO HING & CO..\n\nNo. 174. Queen's Road Central\n\nFR or\n\nas Riaze ng Ayrou\n\n**HOLLE HOTEL**\n\nMANUFACTURERS OF\n\nHigh Class Shawls, Handkerchiefs, Shawls, and fine Embroideries, Silk and Crepe Shawls and: \n\nMr G. Bolden\n\nMeWL Bobbik\n\nInces of Avery\n\nDancriptiste.\n\nCuphant\n\nMe Braga\n\nMi and Ms Arthur:\n\nMr F. Braga\n\nMiss F. Braza\n\nThe terms of the final agreement of the Mix Power Loan were now being satisfactorily arranged with China, and the conclusion of the Loan only awaited a decision between China and the Governments concerned regarding the appointment of foreigners to advisory posts.\n\nMiss M. Benga\n\nMva J. Conwford\n\nHarper\n\nMY J. Fayin\n\nRogerar\n\nMin Adwig\n\nMr A Selenit\n\nMr G. 1. Sew!!\n\nMiss Ethi Seith\n\nMy R. Stephenson\n\nMiss 6. Hour\n\nMre demeys\n\nMrs Tall\n\nMr F. J. Traadpild\n\nMr Mrs Rt.\n\nMr J, Veracr\n\nArt W\n\nHereel confidence in China's future and said in interious popularise. Jesper\n\ntion w great patural resources were & \n\nuthent guarantee of its prosperity\n\n**SING KEE & CO.**\n\nNSOP CHANDLERS, COMPRADORES AND STAYCLONES\n\nNo. 34. Connaught Road, Hongkong.\n\nKeep on hand every Description of Ship's Provisions, at lowest prices.\n\n**'MOHI' PEARL**\n\nTel), 632\n\nExcellent amongst all Pearls. Colour and shape up-to-date. Necklet, Earing, Brooches, Drops, etc.\n\nTRIAL SOLICITED\n\nMOHIDEEN & CO.,\n\n38, funny's Loan Central, foxokono.\n\n**Dr. YOUNG BROTHERS**\n\nAMERICAN DENTISTS\n\nPrice: the Best Quality Gaur\n\nNO, SEA, QOHEN'S ROAD CENTRAL\n\nEnteed AB Saris of Cout of the \n\nBEST QUALITY FOR SALE\n\nHONGKONG\n\nThe Carpau mail of the 19th Feb. says the frontier of Burma in British territory is, of course...\n\nThe date for the above transaction will be fixed by Ministerial order.\n\n7. The manufacturer shall first #1...\n\nAn interesting lecture will take place to-night at the Y.M.C.A. on \"Croatian Life and Scenery\" illustrated with a number of lantern slides.\n\nThe Sanitary Board meets...\n\nCorrespondence relative to affairs in various villages should be submitted at once.\n\nOn Good Friday and Easter Sunday, special services were held in the churches of the Colony, and sermons emphasizing the occasion to the Christian world were dwelt upon by the clergy in charge with much devotion and feeling.\n\n**A Transparent Lie**\n\nAsiatic Daily says \"It has been previously reported that the Kaomingtang demanded the formation of a party Cabinet as a reward for their supporting Yuan Shi-kai as President. According to reliable sources in addition to this claim, this Club Tang has further exacted the non-payment of one million dollars for expenses.\" Such palpable lies are self-condemning. It is but a cheap way of preying on the public sympathy. Fabrication of myths as a political weapon is not likely to endure long.\n\n9. According to circumstances, the Government may organize a patrol force for the purpose of regulating the manufacturers, protecting the salt furnaces and storage, and watching the dealing and manufacturing of salt.\n\n10. The Government may, according to the local conditions, grant rules by retail.\n\nDetailed regulations regarding the above Companies and retail rules shall be separately fixed.\n\n11. As salt affects the sanitary condition of the people, the Government may deal severely with the dealers of it, and any mixture shall be found in the salt.\n\n12. The writ officials may investigate the reservoirs of well water, the places of manufacturing, storing, and the buildings, banks, etc. If necessary, for the sake of supervision, extra men may be put upon the said items.\n\n13. The sale of salt whilst in transportation...\n\nThe Victoria Theatre is nightly drawing good houses, with Miss Freda Ardea and her dancing and Alexander Galinsky, for quick change artist being very popular. Miss Ark, the new Pantomime artiste, has a style peculiarly her own, which should prove a draw. The pictures are good, \"The Sphinx\" being especially so.\n\nIt is notified in the \"Government Gazette\" that the registration of the following trade marks has been renewed under the provisions of the Trade Marks Ordinance, 1909.\n\nThe new public improvements, for which it was proposed to make a loan, have been temporarily abandoned. No money is available for new equipment for the fire department, and consequently, the firemen in one district have to run with engines so dilapidated that the men fear the apparatus will fall to pieces.\n\nThe police department is pressed for funds, and impounded on leave of Mr. Justice Gow-Thomas; the health department has been pared down; the street department is cut to the marrow.\n\nHis Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve the following appointments:\n\nMr. Joseph Hansford Kemp, Crown Prosecutor, to be Puisne Judge.\n\nMr. Pauling and approved by the Government.\n\nThe Government shall deal directly with the Company, without regard to the person or persons to whom the rights and privileges belong.\n\n8. With regard to the railways constructed by the Company, should it be necessary for military purposes...\n\n## DO THINGS BLUR?\n\nDo they sometimes appear distorted?\n\nIs your sight blurred?\n\nIt is probably caused by astigmatism. Call at your earliest opportunity and have your eyes examined on we with thoroughly scientific lines.\n\nA rough test for astigmatism is as follows:-- Place the paper about three feet away and look with one eye at the above fan. The lines should appear of equal blackness, if they do not CONSULT\n\n**MANILA OFFICES,**\n\n78 ESCOLTA.\n\nTO-DAY.\n\n**LARK & CO.** SCIENTIFIC OPTICIANS\n\nYORK BLOCKS, CHATER ROAD\n\nHONGKONG\n\n**THE SINCERE CO., LTD.,**\n\n215-221, Des Voeux Road Central, 109-111, Connaught Road Central,\n\nUNIVERSAL PROVIDERS\n\n& \n\nHONGKONG and SOUTH CHINA,\n\nDEPARTMENTS FOR\n\nHousehold Goods, Furniture, Wearling Apparel\n\nGroceries, Wines and Spirits, Requisites, Jewellery,\n\nand Spirits, etc., etc.\n\nThe Pioneer One Price Store.\n\nGeorge Albert Would-ck.\n\nFirst Clerk\n\nThe License will be for 10 years to singolien or to reserve the right...\n\nReferred to Committee.\n\nIX.\n\nDespite all retrenchment, books shall be kept in the way prescribed by the Government, and shall be subject to...\n\nChicago is in the lightest touch since the days of the big Fire, 1871. The Metropolis of the World is bankrupt...\n\n## ALICE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL\n\nThe Hon. Treasurer of the Alice Memorial and Affiliated Hospitals begs to acknowledge with thanks the following donations to the funds of the Hospital:\n\n£1\n\nHo Kam Toog\n\nJ. M. Wung\n\n**National Council**\n\n(Continued from Page 1)\n\nThe revised regulation of the Railway Company of China (First reading).\n\n1. The Railway Company of China shall be organised in accordance with the Presidential Order of the 9th day of the 9th month of the First year of the Chinese Republic. With the exception of the railways, which have been or are to be built, or the construction of which has been signed, by the Government under the direct management of the Ministry of Communications and the railways concessions of which have been given to other Companies to be built.\n\n2. In addition to the common legal rights and privileges of other companies, the Company shall have the following privileges:\n\n(a) To propose and settle the lines referred to in the said article.\n\n(b) To take the concession of the lines referred to in the first article and to agree with Chinese or Foreign lot holders or Boat shares.\n\n(c) To utilize and manage the railway referred to in the first article, (1) manage the affairs connected with the alanya referred to in the first article.\n\n(e) To secure special funds and to buy in belonging to individuals, benefited by the construction of the line referred to in the first article.\n\n2. May any other company or the Government be willing to transfer the right of concession, which does not belong to the lines referred to in the first article, the Company has authority to accept it.\n\nThe Lines, other than those referred to in the first article, must be constructed by other companies under the regulations of the Government. They should not interfere with the privileges of the Company.\n\n4. The dates for commencing and completing the construction of the various lines by the Company shall be registered by the Government, unless the...\n\nShould it be unable to construct the railway according to the date, the Government may devise means for its construction.\n\n5. In all the lines which are to be built by the Company, the Government shall afford every protection and facility in the work.\n\nII. All railways constructed shall eventually become the property of the Government. With regard to the period of construction and management, and the selling of the control by the Government, the Company shall also be subject to the customary conditions applied to other companies. As to the laws and orders in connection with the affairs of the Company, unless otherwise provided by the Bill.\n\n7. All the Chinese or Foreign shares or loans, contracted by the Company, shall be subject to the laws of the Government; hence they shall enjoy the due protection of the Government. With loans which need to be guaranteed by the Government, the contract should be submitted for approval, and the regulations regarding foreign shares shall also be submitted...\n\nThe Regulations of the Company for the Transportation of Salt (first reading).\n\nThose who desire to form a Salt Company...\n\n**GOVERNMENT RAILWAYS,**\n\n**TIENTSIN-PUKOW LINE**\n\nThe Public are respectfully informed that the Through Train Service between Tientsin and Pukow will be commenced from the 4th December 1912.\n\n| TIENTSIN TO PUKOW | | |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Tientsin (Settlement)... | dep. 12.50 p.m.... | Wednesday and Saturday |\n| Pukow | arr. 2.55 | Thursday and Sunday |\n\n| PUKOW TO TIENTSIN | | |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Pukow... | 8.20 a.m. ... | Monday and Friday |\n| Tientsin (Settlement)... | arr. 10.33 | Tuesday and Saturday |\n\nFrom 1st December, all Trains from Tientsin will start from the Settlement Station.\n\nThe daily Trains between TSEN (Settlement) and Taku, between Tsinanfu and Msinanfu, and between Hwangyow and Pukow, and on the Branch Lines between Yaonow and Tsinanfow, and between Linsin and THAOCHUANG, will run as usual.\n\nThrough Trains are provided with Comfortable Sleeping Berths for the 1st Class Passengers, at a Charge of $5.00 per Berth.\n\nFurther particulars may be had on application to this Office.\n\nHEAD OFFICE,\n\nTientsin, 25th November, 1912.\n\nBY ORDER,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-400 - Governor Sir May - 1913 [3-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 451582, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-417 - Public Offices - 1914", "page_number": 509, "title": "CO129-417 - Public Offices - 1914", "content_text": "# RECP\n## C. O.\n1 Mothway Place, Laurbuch\n501\n\n**REGE APR**\nApril 10, 1914.\n\n\"The home hautary offlate to the Colonies.\n\nSir,\n\nReferring to your letter of April 6, I have the honour to report that today I examined Mr. C. & Fades who, in my opinion, is not in good health, and his Assistant is not fit to survive as an officer in Hong Kong.\n\nI have the honour to be,\nYour obedient servant,\n\nBrigadier Surgeon to Colonel I.M.S. (Retd.)", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-417 - Public Offices - 1914.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 451590, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-417 - Public Offices - 1914", "page_number": 517, "title": "CO129-417 - Public Offices - 1914", "content_text": "## DRAFT\n\n3. I have the honour to suggest that Berdie shared with me a confidential statement of his case by his medical attendant, and he wishes that the same should be subjected to further examination unless it prejudices his appointment. As heretofore Berdie thought that some of his ailments were due to the results of an operation for appendicitis; he felt it an advantage to submit to see a specialist with the command.\n\nI have the honour to be,\nYour most obedient servant,\nJames Arnott and Brian Sugh,\nLt Colonel, I.M.S. (Here.)\n\nBrigade Surgeon\n\n## MINUTE\n\n19/11/14\n\nTo by R. & O. (Colonial Office)\n\nReceived a letter from Lt Col Lawes Arnott, dated 21 Nov.\n\nReferring to the receipt of Your letter of 9th Nov: reporting as to the state of health of Mr Berdie, Sanitary Inspector, Ithany; and enclosing a copy of a letter to Lt Col Arnott from which we will see that he has been instructed to carry out... \n\nMr. Cavell \nHERD 19.11.14 \nMr. ... \nSir G. Fiddes. \nSir H. Just. \nSir J. Anderson. \nLord Islington. \nMr. Harcourt. \n\n34/5 \n... letter for the ... \n... the ... \n... ach. \n21 \n509 \n4424 \nIt have ... \n... Mevl \nWand: SunsRetd)", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-417 - Public Offices - 1914.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 451599, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-417 - Public Offices - 1914", "page_number": 526, "title": "CO129-417 - Public Offices - 1914", "content_text": "## \n\n8 Rothway Place, Edinburgh.\n25th July 1914\n\nTo the Secretary of State for the Colonies.\n\nSir,\n\nReferring to correspondence about Mr John Reidie, Sanitary Inspector, Hong Kong, we have the honour to report that today we have most carefully examined Mr Reidie, and are of opinion that Mr Reidie is unfit for further efficient service in Hong Kong.\n\nWe have the honour to be,\nSir,\nYour most obedient servants,\nJames H. B. Brooks, Lt Colonel, I.M.S. (Bengal)\nJohn W. Dowden, FRCS Edin,\nSurgeon, Royal Infirmary.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-417 - Public Offices - 1914.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 452003, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-418 - Public Offices & Others - 1914", "page_number": 361, "title": "CO129-418 - Public Offices & Others - 1914", "content_text": "## Referees \n\nGive the names and addresses of two referees. They should be responsible persons who know you well, either in private life or professionally; and one at least should be well acquainted with you in private life. \n\n1. Name \n Address \n Occupation \n\nThe names of distinguished persons should not be given unless they really know you well. \n\n2. Name \n Address \n Occupation \n\n## Testimonials. \n\nGive the name, address, and occupation of the writer of each of your testimonials. Copies certified by the Colonial Nursing Association must be sent for record in the Colonial Office. The copies may be either in M.S. or in print; and it is desirable, though not absolutely necessary, that they should be on foolscap paper not larger than this form. \n\n(614) \n\n## COPY. \n\n14 Russell Street, \nCalcutta, \n355 Medical College. \n\nMiss Craddock has been Senior Nursing Sister-in-Charge of the \"Eden Hospital\", one of the group of Hospitals under the administrative control of the Principal of the Medical College. \n\nIn my capacity as Principal I have had personal experience of Miss Craddock's work, and from reports made to me by Lieut.-Colonel Green, I.M.S., Major Holdich Leicester, I.M.S., and Captain Green-Armytage, I.M.S., the officers more directly concerned with the Eden Hospital, I have been able to form a very high opinion indeed of Miss Craddock's work. She is a most excellent Sister, has marked administrative ability, is much liked by her staff and patients, whilst at the same time she maintains strict discipline in her Hospital and can be confidently recommended for any such post of responsibility. \n\nIt is a great regret to us that her time here has come to a close. \n\nBen. H. Deare, Lt.-Colonel, I.M.S., Officiating Principal Medical College. \n\nCalcutta. 14th December, 1917. \n\n6, Harington Street, \nNovember 17th. \n\nSister Craddock performed the duties of Sister-in-Charge of the Eden Hospital during the seven months I was officiating as Surgeon to that Institution. \n\nI have much pleasure in stating that she carried out her duties in an exceedingly able and efficient manner. She is cheerful, hard-working and highly trained, and I always found her a most loyal and pleasant colleague to work with. \n\nI feel much indebted to her for the care and trouble she took with all the patients in so ably and efficiently supervising all the nursing arrangements. \n\nShe is leaving the Hospital shortly at the conclusion of her term of office there, and I take this opportunity of wishing her every success for the future. \n\nI can confidently recommend Miss Craddock for any post as a ... \n\n## Example Referees\n\n1. Mrs Summous \n Bathwick Hill, \n Bath. \n\n2. Mrs Plowman \n 69, Pulteney Street, \n Bath.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-418 - Public Offices & Others - 1914.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 452083, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-418 - Public Offices & Others - 1914", "page_number": 441, "title": "CO129-418 - Public Offices & Others - 1914", "content_text": "# EXTRACT FROM \"THE LANCET\"\nDated 25th April, 1908.\n\n## SANITARY REFORM IN INDIA.\n### The Plague Problem: BURMAH.\n\nRegarding the measures pursued, steam disinfection was substituted for the wet methods of disinfection hitherto employed, this method being more popular probably with the owners of clothing. The success of the Clayton Apparatus in killing rats induced Colonel King to ask for sanction for the purchase of the necessary machines, by means of which it was found that if the holes are sought for and the exits are discovered and closed, rats can be killed freely. Even when these holes cannot be found and closed, the machine is most useful in ejecting rats in a feeble condition so that they can be killed by sticks, and also by tracing the fumes, the rat runs can be followed, which, of course, when the rats are infected by plague, is important. Colonel King rightly considers the method of dealing with rats by sulphurous fumes, irrespectively of the length of the burrows, very important. The fumes only require to be forced in quickly to displace the air and to overpower the rats. Liston has shown that 0.4% of the gas suffices to kill the fleas. The Civil Surgeon of Kaymyo advises the \"Flaming\" method of disinfection for plague suggested by Colonel King in 1899. The latter officer, however, hesitated to advise its general adoption in a country where...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-418 - Public Offices & Others - 1914.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 461997, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-433 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [5-6]", "page_number": 630, "title": "CO129-433 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [5-6]", "content_text": "so earnest in its effort to purge the land of these men, when we remember the last report of the Social and Moral Reform League. In this report we are told that vice in British Columbia is protected by the Government, and reform measures opposed bitterly. Yet those who know the Hindus best testify to the fact that there is surprisingly little criminality among them.\n\n\"It is said that they will not assimilate. I have watched with wonder and delight the process of assimilation. Given fair conditions and they do adapt themselves rapidly. Their eagerness to learn, to fit into the new order, was to me surprising, as I watched them in California. After knowing such types in India, it was a surprise to watch especially the psychological process of assimilation. Few positive results mean much more than scores of negative results. If they are not assimilating, the un-Christian atmosphere in which they live must explain it.\n\n\"Never have I seen such opportunities of helping India as amongst her lonely sons on the Pacific coast. They were eager to learn, respectful and earnest. But times are changing, and the un-Christian attitude of our land is fixing a wide—may it not prove an impassable gulf—between Canada and India.\"\n\nThat racial prejudice and passion let loose on the coast in the summer of 1914 was altogether overdone is the opinion of competent people. They say there is already a reaction. A well-known Canadian in the course of a recent letter to the writer says, \"I am quite free to inform you that in my opinion the treatment of the East Indians in the province of British Columbia has not been of the best, and the Federal authorities without question in my mind have never understood the situation nor have they tried to understand the people themselves. This is to be accounted for from the fact that the officials who were in the various departments of the Government are in my opinion (and I say without any hesitation) incompetent, and also have made no effort to understand the people but have assumed a good many things to be true that are not true.\" How far the incompetency enters into the case the writer is not prepared to state, but he leaves it for the readers to decide the matter. He lays before the public this opinion for what it is worth.\n\nAnother friend from Vancouver writes especially regarding the Komagata Maru: \"I feel that the effect of the inhuman treatment that was accorded to the Hindus by the Canadian authorities is going to have a far-reaching effect. The Singapore incidents and the other troubles in India are, I believe, the direct outcome of the unfortunate episode. I am of the opinion that the Sikhs came to Vancouver really believing that the doors of Canada were wide open for their entry, after the decision of the Chief Justice in the Narain Singh case....\n\nI blame Mr. H. H. Stevens for all this unfortunate episode. Nothing could exceed the tenacity with which he fought the affair.\" (Mr. Stevens, our readers will remember, is the M.P. for Vancouver in the Dominion House of Commons.)\n\nI may here state the great ability of the Sikhs in adapting themselves to the conditions in Canada which were new to them. How, not knowing the language, they started night schools for learning English. Many have gone back to India and have been zealous in providing education for the boys and girls in the villages by starting schools. In one notable case, they have sent more than $15,000.00 and started an excellent high school in the Punjab. The writer knows the case of a young Hindu, eighteen years of age, who by his pluck and industry is supporting himself and acquiring English in a high school and thus fitting himself for better service.\n\nNot only have the Sikhs in Canada helped in starting schools for their children, knowing full well the difficulties they had to contend with on account of their not having the opportunity, but they have also helped in giving to the villagers and stay-at-homes in India some idea of the great Western world. As a matter of fact, the returned emigrants have, except in rare instances, shown genuine desire for reform and thus served as vehicles for carrying Western civilization to these out-of-the-way and remote villages. Some have taken with them to India agricultural machinery and implements and are thus fitting themselves to be better farmers.\n\nIn 1908, when there was financial stringency, they started a colonization company on a co-operative plan. With that end in view, two hundred acres were bought near Vancouver where the Sikhs out of employment could get work, but of late years things have improved and they have had all the work they wanted.\n\nMany of them have bought land and put up houses here. Their holdings in land, houses, livestock (as many of them have quite a few dairy cattle), horses, and wagons, etc., amount to at least two million dollars. I have heard white grocers and others say that they would trust a Sikh and continue doing business with him, as over and over again it has happened that after being in debt for one or two years, he will come and pay his debts to the grocer and storekeeper.\n\nThere are no paupers amongst the Sikhs, as their system of practical self-help insures that those who have been unfortunate in being out of work, or on account of some accident, are duly cared for by the well-to-do members of the community. They have put up considerable sums to help the weaker brethren in divers ways. And this reminds me of the case of nearly ninety Hindus who were held up by the authorities at the port of Seattle, Wash., and ordered to be deported until each of them put up a security of $500 cash. To show the Hindus' self-help, their friends in British Columbia, with great generosity characteristic of them, supplied the forthcoming money to the tune of nearly $50,000 and had these men released on bail in the fall of 1913.\n\nIn addition to this, the Sikhs have built temples in Vancouver, Victoria, New Westminster, and Abbotsford, all in B.C. The one at Victoria cost over $10,000.00. These are open to the public.\n\nHere are the opinions of various employers of labor. The Michigan Puget Sound Lumber Co., Ltd., of Victoria say: \"This is to certify that we have employed a large number of Hindus in our mill for the last few years. We find them hardworking, reliable, and steadfast at their work. They have made good in Canada. They are strong workmen and we can strongly recommend them to others requiring steady laborers.\"\n\nA farmer who has experience of all kinds of labor in Canada says: \"These two men are Sikhs, and there are no better, more conscientious men on the place. They get along well with other men and are continually racing between themselves to see which can do the more work. Any man good enough to fight for the Empire is good enough to work for me.\"\n\nMessrs. Moore & Pethick, Engineers and Contractors, of Victoria, write: \"We beg to state that we are large employers of Hindu labor in connection with our railroad construction, and at present have about one hundred and fifty of them working for us at Union Bay, and some forty to fifty at Osborne Bay. We wish to express our high appreciation of them in our work. They are infinitely superior to ordinary pick and shovel 'white' labor.\"\n\nThe Columbia River Lumber Company, Ltd., of Golden, B.C., state: \"This is to certify that for the past two and a half years we have had in our employ in our sawmills and lumber yards about one hundred Sikhs and Hindus. We are pleased to say that with a very few exceptions, those men gave us very good satisfaction. We have found them to be good, steady workers, attentive to their work, quite intelligent, and quick to learn, and we are pleased to say that the great majority are men of sober habits and good character.\"\n\nColonel Davidson of Davidson & Macrae, one of the biggest employers of Hindu labor on the Pacific Coast, says that the Sikhs are the most efficient men he has. He has had in his firm sometimes as many as 500 or 600 Sikhs working. Surely he ought to know. When they came, they were unskilled; now they are getting responsible positions. Every time the Colonel goes and inspects them, he finds their sheds clean and tidy, and the Sikhs themselves look far better physically since coming to Canada. Surely, if their friends can stand the climate in the trenches of France and Flanders, they can stand the climate here. Moreover, the people here forget that the Punjab, whence the Sikhs come, is quite cold in winter. I have seen Sikhs working at Rogers' Pass, B.C., where there is sometimes as much as 26 feet of snow, and feeling none the worse for it.\n\nAnother friend from the United States writes: \"For a number of months, I have been visiting most of the Hindu camps in Southern California, and I must confess that as a class of laborers, they have no peer in the labor market. There is only one opinion expressed by the Americans who have employed them, and that is: 'The Hindus are good workmen—superior to any class of laborers that I have ever employed.' I have seen them at their heavy tasks of clearing orange land from rocks and rubbish of every sort, and I can testify that they are most faithful to their employers.\"\n\nDr. E. H. Lawson, M.D., says:\n\n\"There is one phase of the Hindu question concerning which the majority of the public seem to hold most erroneous opinions. I refer to his personal habits regarding cleanliness, use of alcoholic liquors, etc. As ship surgeon on the C.P.R. steamer Monteagle, and later the Tartar, at the time of the greatest influx of Hindus, the majority of these people passed under my close observation. It was my duty to make a thorough physical examination of each emigrant at Hong Kong, and although at first I was strongly prejudiced against them, I lost this prejudice after thousands of them had passed through my hands, and I had compared them with the white steerage passengers I had seen on the Atlantic.\n\n\"I refer in particular to the Sikhs, and I am not exaggerating in the least when I say that they were 100 per cent. cleaner in their habits and freer from disease than the European steerage passengers I had come in contact with. The Sikhs impressed me as...\n\nPage 630\nPage 631", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-433 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 463527, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-435 - Governor Sir May & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1916 [9-11]", "page_number": 619, "title": "CO129-435 - Governor Sir May & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1916 [9-11]", "content_text": "# HONGKONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL\n\n25th October, 1913. **P.C.M.O.**\n\n\"I have been through the indent for drugs with Mr. Taylor and I think it has been drawn up carefully to meet our requirements. As far as I can see there does not seem to be any chance of our over-stocking nor of being short in any of the more important items.\"\n\nOn the 11th August, 1914, shortly before his retirement on pension, Dr. Bell wrote:-\n\nDear Dr. JOHNSON,\n\n...\n\n## Correspondence and Reports\n\nOn the 77th page, it is mentioned that due to the war, there were delays by the Crown Agents in forwarding goods ordered. Many of the shortages were not brought to the notice of Dr. Johnson; and in only one instance did Dr. Johnson decline to allow local purchase, namely, in the case of Sodium Sulphate, which he did not consider necessary, a similar and equally efficacious medicine, namely, Magnesium Sulphate, being in stock in good quantity. And it must be remembered that shortages have not made their appearance since Dr. Johnson's coming, but that they have always been of annual occurrence; and properly so, as to indent so fully that every unforeseen need may be met in advance must lead to extravagance. I may mention that since Dr. Johnson's arrival, the amount of local purchases compares favourably with those of previous years, an indication that shortages are not as numerous as in former days.\n\n## Investigation and Findings\n\nDr. Koch, however, makes the point that when an article is not in stock, he, or any other medical officer in charge of a case at the hospital, ought to have power to send out to purchase such article on the spot, referring the matter subsequently to the Principal Civil Medical Officer.\n\nWith reference to our conversation this morning, I beg to state that I have not discussed your administration outside the hospital nor have I stated that you have hampered the hospital work by cutting down the issue of the equipment. I also do not consider that you have so hampered the work.\"-Yours truly,\n\n(Sd.) J. BELL.\n\n## Statements from Medical Staff\n\nDr. Aubrey states that he can recall no instance of the shortage of a drug of any importance. He remembers that on one occasion a Sister stated that she was short of boracic powder. Dr. Aubrey did not require it. Efficient substitutes were available, and boracic powder could be bought in the Colony.\n\nMr. Digby writes:-\"I have always been completely satisfied with the supply of drugs and stores. The extra instruments and apparatus I asked for have always been supplied.\"\n\n## Comparison with Previous Practices\n\nI have asked the opinion of Deputy Surgeon General Dreaper, and of Lieut.-Colonel Crisp on this point, as they, by virtue of their position at the head of the local Naval and Military Medical Services, are best able to advise me on the working of a Government Medical Department. Surgeon-General Dreaper informs me that he has not the power, which is vested in the Principal Civil Medical Officer, of purchasing anything that he may consider necessary, but that his requisitions are scrutinised and passed by the authorities in England.\n\n| Name | Opinion |\n| --- | --- |\n| Dr. Aubrey | No instance of shortage of important drugs |\n| Mr. Digby | Satisfied with supply of drugs and stores |\n| Dr. Koch | Shortages occurred, power to purchase locally needed |\n| Surgeon-General Dreaper | Requisitions scrutinised by authorities in England |\n| Lieut.-Colonel Crisp | Requisitions conform to fixed schedule |\n\n## Further Investigation\n\nThe Apothecary in the first instance stated that there had been a shortage of various articles. Pressed for details, he admitted that the shortage was in respect of articles which Dr. Johnson declined to order, as being in his opinion unnecessary. The articles could have been purchased in the Colony, had Dr. Johnson thought it desirable to do so.\n\n## Incident Reports\n\nThe Apothecary reported on the 27th July last:-\" The requisitions for Izal from the Maternity Hospital had been steadily increasing, and I had reason to think that the medical preparation was being used for ordinary sanitary purposes instead of the cheaper solution supplied for that purpose. I spoke to Dr. Koch about it, and he told me to limit the supply, as there was only one patient at the time who required it. I therefore stopped the supply of 4 oz. bottles pure Izal, and supplied half-gallon bottles of diluted solution. Seven four oz. bottles were supplied between the 1st and 15th April, which is sufficient to produce 50 gallons solution. This evidently did not meet with Sister A's approval, as she wrote back to me asking by what authority I had done this. The matter was reported to Dr. Koch. It was not brought to your notice as I considered it too trivial. I acted on Dr. Koch's instructions.\"\n\n## Statements from Dr. Koch and Dr. Johnson\n\nDr. Koch states: The facts are as stated by the Apothecary. I ordered that the diluted solutions should be prepared in the dispensary and supplied in whatever quantity was requisitioned for. The only point was the dilution, which I considered should be made under the supervision of the Apothecary and not left to be done haphazard.\n\nFinally, I have asked Dr. Johnson for a personal statement, and he informs me that throughout the period of his residence in the Colony, he has on no occasion received any written or verbal protest in the matter of the cutting down of stores. In this connection, Dr. Koch... \n\n## Page Numbering\nPage 57\nPage 77\nPage 605", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-435 - Governor Sir May & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1916 [9-11].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 463569, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-435 - Governor Sir May & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1916 [9-11]", "page_number": 661, "title": "CO129-435 - Governor Sir May & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1916 [9-11]", "content_text": "# HONGKONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL\n## 25th October, 1913.\n\n**P.C.M.O.**\n\n\"I have been through the indent for drugs with Mr. Taylor and I think it has been drawn up carefully to meet our requirements. As far as I can see there does not seem to be any chance of our over-stocking nor of being short in any of the more important items.\" On the 11th August, 1914, shortly before his retirement on pension, Dr. Bell wrote: --\n\nDear Dr. JOHNSON,\n\nWith reference to our conversation this morning I beg to state that I have not discussed your administration outside the hospital nor have I stated that you have hampered the hospital work by cutting down the issue of the equipment. I also do not consider that you have so hampered the work.\"-Yours truly,\n\n(8d.) J. BELL.\n\nDr. Aubrey states that he can recall no instance of the shortage of a drug of any importance. He remembers that on one occasion a Sister stated that she was short of boracic powder. Dr. Aubrey did not require it. Efficient substitutes were available, and boracic powder could be bought in the Colony.\n\nThe shortages were attributed to reductions in the indent of the autumn of 1913, and to delay by the Crown Agents in forwarding goods ordered, due to the war. Many of the shortages were not brought to the notice of Dr. Johnson; and in only one instance did Dr. Johnson decline to allow local purchase, namely, in the case of Sodium Sulphate, which he did not consider necessary, a similar and equally efficacious medicine, namely, Magnesium Sulphate, being in stock in good quantity. And it must be remembered that shortages have not made their appearance since Dr. Johnson's coming, but that they have always been of annual occurrence; and properly so, as to indent so fully that every unforeseen need may be met in advance must lead to extravagance. It may be mentioned that under Dr. Johnson's administration the amount of local purchases compares favourably with those of previous years, an indication that shortages are not so numerous as in former days.\n\nDr. Koch, however, makes the point that when an article is not in stock he, or any other medical officer in charge of a case at the hospital, ought to have power to send out to purchase such article on the spot, referring the matter subsequently to the Principal Civil Medical Officer.\n\nIn order to sift the matter to the very bottom I have questioned all those whom I considered competent to form an opinion on the matter, namely, Dr. Aubrey, Honorary Consulting Physician, Mr. Digby, Honorary Consulting Surgeon of the Hospital, Dr. Koch, Superintendent of the Hospital, Mr. Pullen, the Apothecary, and the staff of Sisters. I have asked the opinion of Deputy Surgeon General Dreaper, and of Lieut. Colonel Crisp on this point, as they, by virtue of their position at the head of the local Naval and Military Medical Services, are best able to advise me on the working of a Government Medical Department.\n\n| Name | Position | Opinion |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Dr. Aubrey | Honorary Consulting Physician | No instance of shortage of a drug of importance |\n| Mr. Digby | Honorary Consulting Surgeon | Satisfied with the supply of drugs and stores |\n| Dr. Koch | Superintendent of the Hospital | Shortages occurred, power to purchase locally needed |\n| Mr. Pullen | Apothecary | Shortages of various articles, but could be purchased locally |\n| Deputy Surgeon General Dreaper | Head of Naval Medical Services | Requisitions scrutinised and passed by authorities in England |\n| Lieut. Colonel Crisp | Head of Military Medical Services | Conform to a fixed schedule, local purchases with approval |\n\nSurgeon-General Dreaper informs me that he has not the power, which is vested in the Principal Civil Medical Officer, of purchasing anything that he may consider necessary, but that his requisitions are scrutinised and passed by the authorities in England. No subordinate has any authority to order drugs without reference to him. Colonel Crisp reports that he must conform his requisitions to a fixed schedule, which schedule contains far fewer items than those stocked at the Civil Hospital. As Hongkong is a foreign station, Colonel Crisp may make such local purchases outside this schedule as he may consider necessary, but he must submit the bills to the Home Authorities for covering approval. No subordinate has any authority to order drugs without asking his prior permission.\n\nMr. Digby writes: \"I have always been completely satisfied with the supply of drugs and stores. The extra instruments and apparatus I asked for have always been supplied.\"\n\nThe Apothecary in the first instance stated that there had been a shortage of various articles. Pressed for details he admitted that the shortage was in respect of articles which Dr. Johnson declined to order, as being in his opinion unnecessary. The articles could have been purchased in the Colony, had Dr. Johnson thought it desirable to do so. The Apothecary was asked to quote all available instances of articles which were short at the Civil Hospital and could not be obtained locally. He named six articles in 1913, the only one of importance being diphtheria serum; but in any event Dr. Bell was responsible in respect of that year. He was unable to name any article in 1914. He named three articles in 1915 for each of which there were completely efficient substitutes.\n\nThe requisitions for Izal from the Maternity Hospital had been steadily increasing, and I had reason to think that the medical preparation was being used for ordinary sanitary purposes instead of the cheaper solution supplied for that purpose. I spoke to Dr. Koch about it, and he told me to limit the supply, as there was only one patient at the time who required it. I therefore stopped the supply of 4 oz. bottles pure Izal, and supplied half-gallon bottles of diluted solution. Seven four-oz. bottles were supplied between the 1st and 15th April, which is sufficient to produce 30 gallons solution. This evidently did not meet with Sister A's approval, as she wrote back to me asking by what authority I had done this. The matter was reported to Dr. Koch. It was not brought to your notice as I considered it too trivial. I acted on Dr. Koch's instructions.\n\nThe Sisters were personally interviewed by me on the 20th July last. One of them stated that Dr. Johnson cut down the issues from store to such an extent as to endanger the safety of patients. As an example, she quoted a case of some time previously in which a strong disinfectant was required, and she asked for Izal. After the Superintendent signed the order the dispenser sent her a note to the effect that she could be supplied, not with pure Izal, but only with diluted solution. In another case a patient was dying, champagne was required, and, as none was in stock, his friends had to go out and purchase some. Another Sister stated that she had only one forceps for removing dressings and she required more. This request was generally supported. No other instances of the cutting down of issues was quoted, but it was complained that there were many new rules in connection with stores which had been made by Dr. Johnson.\n\nDr. Koch states: The facts are as stated by the Apothecary. I ordered that the diluted solutions should be prepared in the dispensary and supplied in whatever quantity was requisitioned for. No limit, of course, was placed on this. The only point was the dilution, which I considered should be made under the supervision of the Apothecary and not left to be done haphazard. On the question of concentrated mixtures generally, which arose out of this incident, the Apothecary reports: Similar cases have occurred in other parts of the hospital with other stock mixtures, lotions, etc., each floor having its own particular concentrations. In my opinion this was asking for trouble, as unless the same Sisters were always on duty on the same floor, mistakes were sure to arise, and have arisen. As far as possible all mixtures, lotions, etc., are now of a uniform strength, and I consider that the dispensary is the only place in which dilutions should be made, and to issue mixtures in poisonous concentrations is much too dangerous a practice.\n\nFinally, I have asked Dr. Johnson for a personal statement, and he informs me that throughout the period of his residence in the Colony he has on no occasion received any written or verbal protest in the matter of the cutting down of stores. \n\nPage 644\nPage 58", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-435 - Governor Sir May & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1916 [9-11].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 463593, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-435 - Governor Sir May & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1916 [9-11]", "page_number": 685, "title": "CO129-435 - Governor Sir May & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1916 [9-11]", "content_text": "# HONGKONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL \n\n20th October, 1913.\n\n**P.C.M.O.**\n\n\"I have been through the indent for drugs with Mr. Taylor and I think it has been drawn up carefully to meet our requirements. As far as I can see there does not seem to be any chance of our over-stocking nor of being short in any of the more important items.\"\n\nOn the 11th August, 1914, shortly before his retirement on pension, Dr. Bell wrote:-\n\nDear Dr. JOHNSON,\n\nWith reference to our conversation this morning I beg to state that I have not discussed your administration outside the hospital nor have I stated that you have hampered the hospital work by cutting down the issue of the equipment. I also do not consider that you have so hampered the work.\"-Yours truly,\n\n(Sd.) J. BELL.\n\nber, 1915, and to delay by the Crown Agents in forwarding goods ordered, due to the war. Many of the shortages were not brought to the notice of Dr. Johnson; and in only one instance did Dr. Johnson decline to allow local purchase, namely, in the case of Sodium Sulphate, which he did not consider necessary, a similar and equally efficacious medicine, namely, Magnesium Sulphate, being in stock in good quantity. And it must be remembered that shortages have not made their appearance since Dr. Johnson's coming, but that they have always been of annual occurrence; and properly so, as to indent so fully that every unforeseen need may be met in advance must lead to extravagance. I may mention that since Dr. Johnson's arrival the amount of local purchases compares favourably with those of previous years, an indication that shortages are not so numerous as in former days.\n\nDr. Koch, however, makes the point that when an article is not in stock he, or any other medical officer in charge of a case at the hospital, ought to have power to send out to purchase such article on the spot, referring the matter subsequently.\n\nIn order to sift the matter to the very bottom I have questioned all those whom I considered competent to form an opinion on the matter, namely, Dr. Aubrey, Honorary Consulting Physician, Mr. Digby, Honorary Consulting Surgeon of the Hospital, Dr. Koch, Superintending to the Principal Civil Medical Officer; of the Hospital, Mr. Pullen, the Apothecary, and the staff of Sisters.\n\nDr. Aubrey states that he can recall no instance of the shortage of a drug of any importance. He remembers that on one occasion a Sister stated that she was short of boracic powder. Dr. Aubrey did not require it. Efficient substitutes were available, and boracic powder could be bought in the Colony.\n\nMr. Digby writes:-\"I have always been completely satisfied with the supply of drugs and stores. The extra instruments and apparatus I asked for have always been supplied.\"\n\nin accordance with the practice prevailing prior to Dr. Johnson's arrival. I have asked the opinion of Deputy Surgeon General Dreaper, and of Lieut.-Colonel Crisp on this point, as they, by virtue of their position at the head of the local Naval and Military Medical Services, are best able to advise me on the working of a Government Medical Department.\n\nSurgeon General Dreaper informs me that he has not the power, which is vested in the Principal Civil Medical Officer, of purchasing anything that he may consider necessary, but that his requisitions are scrutinised and passed. No subordinate has any authority to order drugs without reference to him. Colonel Crisp reports that he must conform his requisitions to a fixed schedule, which schedule, I may state, contains far fewer items than those stocked at the Civil Hospital.\n\nDr. Koch referred to shortages of various drugs and disinfectants occurring mainly in 1915 and during the present year, attributing such shortages to reductions in the indent of the autumn of 1913. He is of the opinion that most, if not all, of the shortages could have been obtained locally. Each item in the list supplied by Dr. Koch has been examined in detail and his report, and that of Dr. Johnson, thereon, are open to the perusal of the hon. member. These reports show that the shortages were insignificant in character, that they were due in part to losses by the S.S. Fasaka Maru, sunk in December, 1914.\n\nAs Hongkong is a foreign station, Colonel Crisp may make such local purchases outside this schedule as he may consider necessary, but he must submit the bills to the Home Authorities for covering approval. No subordinate has authority to order drugs without asking his prior permission.\n\n## HONGKONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL \n\nThe Apothecary in the first instance stated that there had been a shortage of various articles. Pressed for details he admitted that the shortage was in respect of articles which Dr. Johnson declined to order, as being in his opinion unnecessary. The articles could have been purchased in the Colony, had Dr. Johnson thought it desirable to do so. The Apothecary was asked to quote all available instances of articles which were short at the Civil Hospital and could not be obtained locally. He named six articles in 1913, the only one of importance being diphtheria serum; but in any event Dr. Bell was responsible in respect of that year. He was unable to name any article in 1914. He named three articles in 1915 for each of which there were completely efficient substitutes.\n\n| Page 668 | \n| --- | \n\nThe zith July last:-\"The requisitions for Izal from the Maternity Hospital had been steadily increasing, and I had reason to think that the medical preparation was being used for ordinary sanitary medical preparation instead of the cheaper solution supplied for that purpose. I spoke to Dr. Koch about it, and he told me to limit the supply, as there was only one patient at the time who required it. I therefore stopped the supply of 4 oz. bottles pure Izal, and supplied half-gallon bottles of diluted solution. Seven four oz. bottles were applied between the 1st and 15th April, which is sufficient to produce 50 gallons solution. This evidently did not meet with Sister A's approval, as she wrote back to me asking by what authority I had done this. The matter was reported to Dr. Koch. It was not brought to your notice as I considered it too trivial. I acted on Dr. Koch's instructions.\"\n\nDr. Koch states: The facts are as stated by the Apothecary. I ordered that the diluted solutions should be prepared in the dispensary and supplied in whatever quantity was requisitioned for. The limit, of course, was placed on this. The only point was the dilution, which I considered should be made under the supervision of the Apothecary and not left to be done haphazard. On the question of concentrated mixtures generally, which arose out of this incident, the Apothecary reports: Similar cases have occurred in other parts of the hospital with other stock mixtures, lotions, etc., each floor having its own particular concentrations. In my opinion this was 'asking for trouble,' as unless the same Sisters were always on duty on the same floor, mistakes were sure to arise, and have arisen. As far as possible all mixtures, lotions, etc., are now of a uniform strength, and I consider that the dispensary is the only place in which dilutions should be made, and to issue mixtures in poisonous concentrations is much too dangerous a practice. The alteration was not carried out without some trouble.\n\nThe Sisters were personally interviewed by me on the 20th July last. One of them stated that Dr. Johnson cut down the issues from store to such an extent as to endanger the safety of patients. As an example, she quoted a case of some time previously in which a strong disinfectant was required, and she asked for Izal. After the Superintendent signed the order the dispenser sent her a note to the effect that she could be supplied, not with pure Izal, but only with a diluted solution. In another case a patient was dying, champagne was required, and, as none was in stock, his friends had to go out and purchase some. Another Sister stated that she had only one forceps for removing dressings and she required more. This request was generally supported. No other instances of the cutting down of issues was quoted, but it was complained that there were many new rules in connection with stores which had been made by Dr. Johnson.\n\nIn the matter of the forceps Dr. Johnson is of the opinion that the number supplied was adequate. He has, however, at my request issued further pairs. With regard to the champagne incident, it is admitted by the Apothecary that he had instructions from Dr. Johnson that champagne in small quantity was to be kept in stock. This order was disregarded. The question of the issue of Izal was heard of for the first time by Dr. Johnson when he was asked to report upon the complaint made by the Sister. The Apothecary reported in writing to the Principal Civil Medical Officer on the matter.\n\nFinally, I have asked Dr. Johnson for a personal statement, and he informs me that throughout the period of his residence in the Colony he has on no occasion received any written or verbal protest in the matter of the cutting down of stores. In this connection Dr. Koch...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-435 - Governor Sir May & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1916 [9-11].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 463717, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-435 - Governor Sir May & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1916 [9-11]", "page_number": 809, "title": "CO129-435 - Governor Sir May & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1916 [9-11]", "content_text": "## 5.\n\n791\n\nThe Engineer company has been continuously engaged on the Defence Electric Lights since the war began and provides nightly three officers and 26 rank and file for this very arduous duty which is carried out in addition to the ordinary civil employment of the members. The valuable work done by this company released a number of regular Engineers for service in Europe.\n\n4.\n\nThe following is an extract from a letter dated 1st May, 1916 by my predecessor to His Excellency the Governor speaking of this Corps and the Volunteer Reserve:-\n\n\"Had it not been for their patriotism in coming forward it would have been impossible for me to release the British Infantry Regiment and so many Artillery and Engineers.\"\n\n5.\n\nI desire to bring the following names to notice:-\n\n**LIEUT-COLONEL ARTHUR CHAPMAN V.D.** Commandant. Commanded the Corps with zeal and efficiency during the war. Much extra work has fallen upon him.\n\n**SURGEON MAJOR GEORGE DUNGAN RALPH BLACK**. In addition to his Volunteer duties has done daily duty at the Military Hospital since 22nd January, 1915, and given up half his time from a very busy private practice, thereby enabling a Royal Army Medical Corps officer to be sent on service. Paid two hundred dollars a month from Army funds.\n\n**CAPTAIN WILLIAM RUSSELL**, **LIEUTENANT ROBERT HALL**. Have been conspicuous and untiring at duty with the electric lights and have been on night duty alternate weeks ever since the war and as they are fully employed at their profession by day have had to rest when they can.\n\n**CAPTAIN GEORGE PHILLIP LAERT V.D.**. Has been attached to the Army Service Corps since the outbreak of the war. His services have contributed to the release of two senior Army Service Corps officers for active service as well as a subaltern of the 2nd Battn. Duke of Cornwall's L.I. formerly attached to the A.S.C., also a quartermaster Army Service Corps for service in North China.\n\nFor the last eighteen months Captain Lammert has been in sole charge of the A.S.C. water and coolie transport and has in addition rendered considerable assistance in the Supply Office. Paid five shillings per diem from Army funds.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-435 - Governor Sir May & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1916 [9-11].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 466527, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "page_number": 109, "title": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "content_text": "[This letter is to be left with the \n\nMedico A7074 \n\n108 \n\nDowning Street, N.W. 16 \n\nJune 1916. \n\nSir, \n\nI am directed by the Secretary of State for the Colonies to \n\nrequest that you will be good enough to examine the bearer of this letter, \n\nMiss C. St. Barrow, Nursing Sister, Hongkong \n\nand report whether, in your opinion, she is likely to be fit for re-employment in the Malay Peninsula \n\nor in Ceylon. \n\nYour professional fee of one guinea will be paid by the Government. \n\nC. W. Daniels, Esq., M.B., F.R.C.P., \n\n29, Harley Street, London, W.; \n\nW. T. Lawrie, Boy, C.M.G., M.D., \n\n14, Rodney Street, Liverpool; Brigade Surgeon \n\nLieut.-Colonel James Arnott, M.D., \n\n8, Rothesay Place, Edinburgh; or \n\nSir J. Hawtrey Benson, M.D., \n\n57, Fitzwilliam Square, Dublin. \n\nI am, \n\nSir, \n\nYour obedient servant, \n\n(Hours: 10 a.m. to 12 noon.) \n\n(Hours: 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., except Tuesday. Afternoons by appointment.) \n\n(Raid), \n\n(Hour: 2 \n\np.m., except Saturdays,) \n\n(Hour: 2.30 p.m.) \n\nR.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 468133, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-442 - Governor Sir May - 1917 [4-6]", "page_number": 437, "title": "CO129-442 - Governor Sir May - 1917 [4-6]", "content_text": "Page ...\n\nThe Discipline of all ranks during the year has been satisfactory with the exception of a few minor offences.\n\n4 Appointments, promotions &c. of Officers.\n\nStaff.\n\nCaptain A.F. Churchill was appointed Adjutant on the 26th April 1916 on the departure on 12 months' leave of Captain G.E. Stewart on that date.\n\nLieutenant-Colonel A.V. Alexander 74th Punjabis was appointed Inspecting Officer on 1st November 1916 on the departure of Captain A. Riddell 74th Punjabis.\n\nMajor H.A. Morgan 18th Infantry was appointed Inspecting Officer on 24th March 1917 on the departure of Lieut-Colonel A.V. Alexander 74th Punjabis.\n\nCorps Sergt. Major W. Higby was appointed Hon. Lieut. and Quartermaster on 28th August 1916.\n\nCorps Armourer G.W. Avenell returned from leave on 31st January 1917.\n\nMedical Staff\n\nDoctors F.H. and I.W. Kew were appointed Temporary Surgeon-Lieutenants on the 19th August 1916.\n\nEngineer Company\n\nMr. V. Brown was appointed Temporary 2nd Lieut. on 4th May 1916.\n\nMr. D. Templeton was appointed Temporary 2nd Lieut. on 11th May 1916.\n\nMr. W.J. ... was appointed Temporary 2nd Lieut. on 2nd March 1917.\n\nMr. T.H. Matthewman ...\n\nMr. G.E. Marley ...\n\nScouts Company\n\nC.S.M. H.G. Hegarty was promoted to 2nd Lieutenant on 11th May 1916.\n\nLieut. T.G. Weall was granted leave for the duration of the war from 20th February 1917.\n\nLieut. L.N. Murphy was granted leave for the duration of the war from 19th March 1917.\n\n2nd Lieut. H.G. Hegarty was granted leave for the duration of the war from 5th March 1917.\n\nPage ...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-442 - Governor Sir May - 1917 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 477832, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-451 - Public Offices - 1918", "page_number": 69, "title": "CO129-451 - Public Offices - 1918", "content_text": "# COPY\n\n**SIR JAMES ARNOTT TO CROWN AGENTS**\n\nMed.560.\n\n67\n\nGentlemen,\n\nREG 4 FEB 18\nREC 6176\n\n8 Rothesay Place,\nEdinburgh.\n28th January 1918.\n\nReferring to your letter of 7th January 1918, I have the honour to report that I have again examined Mr. Kenneth Mclennan, Land Bailiff, Hong Kong, whom I saw on the 25th September 1917. There is not much improvement in his condition. He is not under medical treatment, but has lost weight a little, and looks thinner. His digestive tract is still out of order with tendency to looseness, irritable tongue, and evidence of intestinal indigestion, also some rheumatic pains.\n\nHe has ...\n\nI am unable to certify him in good bodily health and in all respects physically fit to work. He was invalided on account of Sprue, a troublesome complaint liable to recur.\n\nI do not think it probable that he will be fit for service in less than six months, possibly longer, and he will be liable to recurrence of the disease on return to the tropics.\n\nOn the whole my opinion is that a person who has had Sprue is unfit to return to duty till after long leave in this country, and that it is prudent to permit Mr. McLennan to retire.\n\nI am,\n(Signed) James Arnott M.D.\nBrigade Surgeon, Lt.Colonel\nI.M.S. (Retired)", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-451 - Public Offices - 1918.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 477833, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-451 - Public Offices - 1918", "page_number": 70, "title": "CO129-451 - Public Offices - 1918", "content_text": "## MEDICAL CERTIFICATE\n\n28th January 1918.\n\nI certify that I have this day medically examined Mr. K. McLennan and, having regard to his previous tropical service, am of opinion that he is physically unfit for resuming the duties of a Land Bailiff, District Office in Hong Kong for the reasons stated below.\n\n| Category | Information |\n| --- | --- |\n| Vaccinated prior to appointment | have not |\n| Treated him for colour vision | have not |\n| Illness the result of Service | ... |\n\nHe should be unfit for the reasons stated.\n\nJames Arnott, M.D. \nBrigade Surgeon Lt. Colonel \nI.M.S. (Retired)", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-451 - Public Offices - 1918.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 480726, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-455 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1919 [7-9]", "page_number": 456, "title": "CO129-455 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1919 [7-9]", "content_text": "**Colonel Amery.**\n\nFor Eastern Dept\n\n`A.5.17/1/20`\n\n450\n\n**Dr. Emmens**\n\nOfficer\n\nThere is a vacancy at Hong Kong for a Medical Officer with salary £480 per annum for the first three years, triennial then £540 rising by annual increments of £40 to £720, with a temporary allowance of 20% of salary, and a conveyance allowance of $270 a year.\n\nFor this appointment I submit Mr Norman Hubert Smith, M.D., Ch.B.; aged 27, married; educated at Victoria College, Jersey, and at Edinburgh University, where he took his qualifications in 1916. He served in the R.A.M.C., from May 1916 to October 1919, during which period he saw service in India, Palestine and Egypt as well as on the Western Front. During this time he gained experience in tropical diseases, venereal disease and radiology. He is now demobilised.\n\n## TESTIMONIALS\n\nMr George Cowen, F.R.C.S., states:-\n\"Doctor Smith held the post of Junior House Surgeon at the Royal South Hants and Southampton Hospital from August to November 1915. He did his work excellently. He is well up in professional knowledge and a good Anaesthetist. He is energetic, conscientious and most pleasant to work with.\"\n\nMr David Wallace, C.M.G., F.R.C.S., of the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary says that he was entirely satisfied with Dr. Smith's work, and other members of the Edinburgh University staff have written him similar testimonials. Doctor Smith's referees are the Reverend John Gray of Edinburgh and Mr. Alfred Hind, F.R.C.S., of Jersey, who testify to his good character.\n\nThe Medical Appointments Committee reported on him as...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-455 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1919 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 484532, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-462 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1920 [7-10]", "page_number": 394, "title": "CO129-462 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1920 [7-10]", "content_text": "6. Employment or experience from completion of education to present time\n\nMention each position held by you, the dates between which you held it, and the cause of leaving; what salary, if any, you are now receiving.\n\n7. Professional qualifications (if any), and the date at which each was obtained. Any military experience you had should be stated.\n\n5 years' service as House Surgeon.\n\n1908 to 1910.\n\n2 years as Assistant to Dr. P. B. B. Ayres.\n\nAssistant (Chemist) Ophthalmic Department, Government Civil Hospital.\n\nAssistant to Dr. J. Bell Fry.\n\nTime at Alice Memorial and Nethersole Hospitals.\n\nHong Kong Medical College.\n\nJanuary 1912 to present time.\n\nAssistant Harbour Master and Medical Inspector of Emigrants, Port of Singapore.\n\nJuly 1912 to present time.\n\n$800 per month.\n\nIntending to leave.\n\nMB, BS, Cantab.\n\nD.P.H.\n\nHere, with a note of any certificates, etc., obtained.\n\n8. Referees\n\nGive the names and addresses of two referees. They should be responsible persons who know you well, either in private life or in business; and one at least should be well acquainted with you in private life. The names of distinguished persons should not be given unless they really know you well; and the names of relatives or of those from whom you send testimonials should not be given.\n\n9. Testimonials.\n\nBachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery, Cantab. January 1905.\n\nDiploma of Public Health. October 1911.\n\nAssistant Surgeon, Superintendent, St. George's Hospital, Hong Kong.\n\n1. Name: Colonel W. W. Ogilvy\n\nAddress: Late Inspector General of Hospitals.\n\nOccupation: \n\n2. Name: Arthur J. H. Teesdale\n\nAddress: Colonial Secretary's Office.\n\nOccupation: Colonial Marine Engineer.\n\nGive on the opposite page the name, address, and occupation of the writer of each of your testimonials. Not more than six should be submitted, and they should as far as possible cover each stage of your career from the commencement onwards. The original testimonials and copies thereof should be sent. The former will be inspected. Copies may be in MS., in print, or typewritten; and it is desirable that they should be on paper not larger than this form. Should the writer of a testimonial prefer to send it direct to the Secretary, there is no objection to his doing so.\n\nFeb 29th 1920.\n\nPrevious Paper.\n\nSubsequent Paper.\n\n53752\n\n382\n\nHONG KONG\n\nRECO\n\nREA 2 NL.201\n\n53752.\n\nPension to Men 7. Fisher\n\nSanitary Inspector\n\nLabour grant of £221 p.a. payable legally in dollars at current rate of exchange, from 15th Oct to 30th incl.\n\nOn certificate.\n\n84.5.\n\nSh & 4) W.I. 14185/2* Gp. 163 28,000 8.20 W & 5 (W B & L)\n\n4-11-20.\n\nAt once MP\n\n4.11", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-462 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1920 [7-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 485248, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-464 - Public Offices - 1920", "page_number": 190, "title": "CO129-464 - Public Offices - 1920", "content_text": "Caledonian United Service Club,\n\nEdinburgh,\n\n25th August, 1920.\n\nThe Crown Agents for the Colonies.\n\n2081130 BELLUST Moob 35\n\nGentlemen,\n\nReferring to your requisition H/Pasa,3466/20 I have the honour to report that to-day I examined Mr. P. Grant, Sergeant of Police, Hong Kong, who is in poor health and not likely to be fit to return to duty for at least four months.\n\nI enclose certificate from Dr. Black of Tomintoul, and the certificates you sent and a medical history sheet.\n\nI have etc.\n\n(Sd) James Arnott, M.D.\n\nBrigade Surgeon, Lt. Colonel.\n\nI.M.S. (Retired).", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-464 - Public Offices - 1920.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 491071, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-473 - Individuals - 1921", "page_number": 64, "title": "CO129-473 - Individuals - 1921", "content_text": "BEPT. 24, 1921]\n\nBALTIC INTERNATIONAL CHOLERA CONFERENCE.\n\nHis address is so full of biological meat that it is difficult to make a selection from the mass of original thoughts he presents there, but to comment on all would mean an article longer than the lecture itself. I will therefore be content with one more reference, and this to a point of nomenclature. The word \"vitamine\" has for long stunk in the nostrils of the chemist. The loss of the final \"e\" has deprived it of much of its sting, but Professor Armstrong prefers to get rid of it altogether, and proposes in its place the word \"adjuvant\". If only its coiner had been the first in the field Vitamin is now, one fears, firmly rooted; one can only regret the difficulty there always is in uprooting these ill-advised expressions; still, if such be possible, adjuvant as a substitute appears free from all objection.\n\nW. D. HALLIBURTON.\n\nTHE BALTIC INTERNATIONAL CHOLERA CONFERENCE.\n\nIt appears that conditions in Russia are reaching a point that may have serious effects upon the health of Europe. One of the most productive districts of Russia, formerly the granary both for that country and for Europe, has been stricken by drought, which has destroyed the crops and reduced the Russian people to a state of famine. An emigration that is almost a panic has started, we are told, from the famine districts, and the horrors of the flight of those starving people have been increased owing to the fact that such diseases as cholera, typhoid fever, and scurvy continue to follow them. The districts from which the emigration started are stated to be already so affected by cholera that combative measures are impossible in present circumstances. The cholera epidemic is gradually spreading over the country, and the rest of Europe is faced with the danger of cholera. The three Baltic states, Latvia, Estonia, and Lithuania, have decided, therefore, to assume the responsibility of making a sanitary cordon against the spread of the disease. A Baltic conference was suggested by Lieut.-Colonel Edward W. Ryan, M.D., the American Red Cross Commissioner to Western Russia and the Baltic states, and this conference was held in Riga from July 25th to 27th under his honorary presidency, with the Assistant Director of the Latvian Health Department, Dr. Kivitzki, in the chair. Dr. R. Adelheim of the University of Riga has prepared a report of the deliberations of this conference, which has been forwarded to us at his request by Colonel Ryan.\n\nThe conference agreed to adhere to the Paris Convention of 1903-1911, and it was decided to consider the decrees of the Convention of Paris as binding for the three Baltic states, and to induce the representative Foreign Offices to take the necessary steps for their formal adherence to the Convention. As regards relations with Russia, the conference found that no official records on the cholera epidemic had reached the Governments of the three Baltic states, but that nevertheless official papers in Russia did not deny the existence of cholera. Owing to diplomatic difficulties the conference refrained from declaring immediately that Russia was affected by cholera, but agreed to the request of the respective Governments to apply to the Soviet Government for immediate information on the question. The Estonian representative said that his Government had some time ago applied to Russia for this information, but no reply had yet been received. Should, however, the reply of the Soviet Government to the inquiries of the conference not be received in the near future, the Baltic states would of necessity proclaim Russia as an infected country, and this decision would be followed by a strengthened frontier protection. It was agreed by the conference that whatever the reply of the Soviet Government should be, provided it contained confirmation of the existence of the epidemic, the whole of Russia was to be declared as infected by cholera and action taken according to Article 8 of the Convention.\n\nWith BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL\n\n493\n\nThe further work of the conference consisted in dealing with the internal measures to be taken against cholera, and unanimous agreement was reached on this subject. A restriction of railway traffic was found to be necessary in order that the health departments might confine the right of railway travel to such persons only as could show a certificate of health issued by the local authorities. Compulsory vaccination against cholera was not provided for as an invariable rule, but the medical officer in charge was authorized to apply compulsion should circumstances call for such action. The question of preventive measures on the adjacent frontiers was further dealt with, and it was agreed that there should be no interruption of trade and traffic, and therefore no frontier closing. The medical staff in a border zone twenty kilometres wide were to report mutually, through the frontier authorities, all cholera cases which occurred.\n\nIn order to co-ordinate the work of the three Baltic states it was decided that their bacteriological institutes should exchange as frequently as possible their epidemiological and bacteriological observations. The Governments of the Baltic states were requested to convoke periodical sanitary conferences and to form a permanent central bureau of representatives of the three states with the duty of examining health conditions. During the discussion the hope was expressed that this bureau might gradually grow into an Eastern Europe international sanitary board. As regards the measures to be taken in harbours, these were in conformity with those provided for in the Convention of Paris, Latvia establishing two observation points on the river Dwina in order to lock up the timber rafting, and similar measures were to be undertaken by the other states.\n\nAs soon as Russia should be definitely declared to be infected by cholera it was agreed to apply a strengthened military frontier protection, the three States closing their frontier with Russia; the exchange stations for flax and salt were also to be closed, as well as the other transit stations, with the exception of certain notified border stations. Should a cholera case occur in a train all passengers were to be considered as contagious, and kept under supervision for a definite period. Infected refugee transports were expected to arrive within a short time at the border stations, and it would be necessary to submit these refugees to observation in quarantine stations before they set off for other places. The position of Latvia was especially hard in this respect, as Lithuanian refugees would also pass through Latvian territory on their way home. Latvia possessed only one quarantine station, with accommodation at present for 2,500 to 3,000 people, and not only would it be necessary to enlarge this quarantine station, but another still larger had to be established. A shortage was reported in essential equipment such as beds, bedding, bacteriological apparatus and instruments. It was decided by the conference to request the aid of the American Red Cross in organizing European relief work, so that the first wall against cholera should not be in danger of collapse, and the infection spread from the harbours and the borders of the Baltic states throughout the world.\n\nTHE WEST INDIAN MEDICAL CONFERENCE.\n\nThe West Indian Medical Conference, which was held at Georgetown, British Guiana, from June 28th to July 13th, was the second medical conference ever held in the West Indies, the first being the Quarantine Conference of 1904. The delegates to the Conference were: From Barbados, Dr. John Hutson, O.B.E., Public Health Inspector; from British Guiana, Dr. E. P. Minett, Government M.O.H.; from Trinidad, Dr. John Dickson, Deputy Surgeon-General; from Grenada, Dr. G. W. Paterson, Colonial Surgeon; from St. Lucia, Major H. E. Sutherland Richards, M.C., Chief Medical Officer; from Jamaica, Dr. E. D. Gideon, District Medical Officer. The London School of Tropical Medicine was represented by Professor R. T. Leiper, and Dr. John Anderson, of the Filariasis Commission. A representative from Dutch Guiana was also present in the person of Dr. J. Wolff, Government Bacteriologist of Surinam. The Conference was one of Government medical officers, called at the request of the Secretary of State for the Colonies, and was of an official character. Unfortunately, the colonies of British Honduras, the Bahamas, the Leeward Islands, St. Vincent, and Bermuda, were not represented. His Excellency the Hon. Cecil Clementi, C.M.G., the Acting Governor, presided, and the two vice-presidents were Professor R. T. Leiper and Dr. W. G. Boase, Acting Surgeon-General of British Guiana. Dr. E. P. Minett, Medical Officer of Health for British Guiana, acted as secretary of the Conference.\n\nIn his opening address the Acting Governor said that the most fundamental questions in every community were, could the inhabitants of the country be kept in good health? and did the population show year by year a natural increment? If these questions could be answered in the affirmative, the community was sound at the core; if the\n\n62", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-473 - Individuals - 1921.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 491801, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-474 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1922 [1-4]", "page_number": 342, "title": "CO129-474 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1922 [1-4]", "content_text": "Report of Committee of the Legislative Council \n\n1 3 4 1 \n\nof Hongkong appointed on 3rd February, 1921.\n\nIn accordance with Your Excellency's instructions \n\nwe have considered the provisional report presented by the \n\nCommission to the Far Eastern Ports to the National Council: \n\nfor Combating Venereal Diseases and the recommendations made \n\ntherein.\n\n2.\n\nWe held four meetings on the 30th March, 6th \n\nApril, 18th April, and 22nd April.\n\nOn the 6th April the following witnesses were \n\npresent:- Colonel L. Humphry, C.M.G., R.A.M.C., (nominated by the General Officer Commanding the Forces in China), Surgeon-Commander A. A. Sanders, R.N., (nominated by the Commodore), G. Montague Harston, Esq., M.D. and Dr. Ma Luk.\n\nOn the 18th April the following witnesses were present: The Principal Civil Medical Officer (J. T. C. Johnson, Esq., F.R.C.S., Edin., D.T.M. & H. Cantab.), Lieutenant-Commander Conway Hako, R.N.R., Acting Harbour -- Master, and Mr. T. H. King, Deputy Superintendent of Police\n\nOn the 22nd April the following witnesses were present: H. H. Scott, Esq., M.D. Lond., D.P.H., R.C.P.S. Irel., Government Bacteriologist and G. H. Thomas, Esq., M.D., B.Sc., (Hongkong), Medical Officer in charge of the Tung Wah Hospital.\n\n3. Having heard the evidence referred to above we \n\nconsidered it desirable to obtain reports as to the incidence of venereal disease among the following national- -ities and classes of persons in the Colony:-\n\n(a) The British resident community.\n\n(b) The British seafaring community.\n\n(c) The Portuguese community.\n\n(d) The Chinese community of the merchant and shop \n\nkeeping class.\n\n(e) The Indian community including the Indian Police \n\nand Gaol Warders.\n\n(f) The inmates of Victoria Gaol and Laichikok Prison.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-474 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1922 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 494095, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-478 - Public Offices & Others - 1922", "page_number": 487, "title": "CO129-478 - Public Offices & Others - 1922", "content_text": "ave.\n\n: \n\nConfidential Report\n\n1920.\n\nGREAT Britain. Dr. Born March 1872; married 2 children; M.D., D.P.H., D.T.M. & H., Cantab., W.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., F.C.S.\n\nHeld appointments at Guy's Hospital as Assistant Bacteriologist and Assistant Demonstrator in Anatomy; Assistant (in turn) to Medical Officers of Health, Hertfordshire, Bermondsey and Essex. Appointed Assistant Government Bacteriologist, British Guiana, 1910. Medical Officer of Health, and Health Officer, Port of Georgetown, 1910.\n\n(about 21,093 in all).\n\nServed during the war with H.M. Forces in France, Salonika, Palestine and Egypt. Lieutenant Colonel Stanton, Military Governor, Haifa, wrote: \"Showed exceptional zeal and energy in starting Civil Hospital Dispensaries, in arranging scavenging lorries and Refuse Destructors both in the Town of Haifa and the Villages; in Anti-Mosquito work, the disinfection of houses and in the establishment of quarantine and disinfection station.\"\n\nCivil Surgeon General (Conyers): highly trained bacteriologist and has had great experience of sanitary work during the war. Fair administrator. Hard worker; pleasant manner. \"doubtful of his tactfulness.\"\n\n#\n\nGovernor Collat: \"I concur. I understand why the Surgeon General is doubtful of his tactfulness. At the same time I am not at all sure that he is failing:", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-478 - Public Offices & Others - 1922.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 494111, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-478 - Public Offices & Others - 1922", "page_number": 503, "title": "CO129-478 - Public Offices & Others - 1922", "content_text": "GCA.\n\nFascimile of two winning connexions (an entente cordiale) MOTI A\n\ninibuste sidersblanoo to reduce a Ta d\n\nzae[0-jarit a motaiqo qe nt al moɛzubná mlol .Ta\n\nsiv to infoq ?\n\n496\n\nTestimonial from Colonel Henry Wade, C.M.G., D.S.O., M.D., F.R.C.S.Ed., Consulting Surgeon, Egyptian Expeditionary Force; Lecturer in Surgery, Surgeons Hall, Edinburgh; Asst. Surgeon, Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh; Surgeon, Leith Hospital.\n\nJune 6th, 1919.\n\nCaptain Anderson's record as a Surgeon with the Army in the Field is one of which he has reason to be proud.\n\nIn the summer of 1915, he landed on the Gallipoli Peninsula as one of the Surgeons of the 53rd (Welsh) Casualty Clearing Stations.\n\nAs a medical comrade attached to a Scottish Unit, I can personally testify to the important part played by his Hospital in providing the benefits of modern surgical treatment for the wounded, when Nature and the Turk combined rendered this task almost impossible. A large share of the credit due to the success that attended their efforts is rightly assigned to Captain Anderson's skill as a surgeon and cheerful courage as a man.\n\nFrom the original crossing of the Canal to the final defeat of the Turkish Army, he served with the Egyptian Expeditionary Force. As Consulting Surgeon to that Force, I have frequently seen Captain Anderson operate, and examined many cases treated by him. From what I know of him and his work I can with every confidence say that the needs of the civil community he serves will be attended to with the same masterful skill, kindly care, and deep human sympathy that he gave ungrudgingly to the soldiers of the Empire.\n\n(Signed)\n\n6, Manor Place,\n\nEdinburgh.\n\nHENRY WADE.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-478 - Public Offices & Others - 1922.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 494744, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-479 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [1-3]", "page_number": 289, "title": "CO129-479 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [1-3]", "content_text": "Mr Beckett,\n\nThe vacancy for Principal Civil Medical Officer, Hong Kong, (£1000-50-£1200) was brought before the Promotions Committee at their Meeting of the 19th of April, when they considered the following candidates:\n\nDr. G.B. Addison, Acting Chief Medical Officer, Seychelles\n\nDr. Corsellio, Chief Medical Officer, Cyprus\n\nDr. A.G. Deane, Government Medical Officer, Trinidad\n\nDr. P.B.T.P.Y. Harper, Medical Officer, Fiji\n\nDr. M.P. Jewell, Senior Medical Officer, Kenya\n\nDr. O.W. McKinney, Medical Officer, Hong Kong\n\nDr. A.B. Owen, Senior Medical Officer, Uganda\n\nMr. J.H. Reford, Deputy Principal Civil Medical Officer, Malaya\n\nDr. A. Lindsay, Deputy Principal Civil Medical Officer, Ceylon\n\nDr. C.A. Wiggins, Principal Medical Officer, Uganda\n\nThey decided to recommend Dr. Addison.\n\nParticulars of Dr. Addison's service are annexed.\n\nConf. Report 1917.\n\nConf. Report 1918.\n\nConf. Report 1919.\n\nConf. Report 1921.\n\nADDISON, DR. G.B. M.B.E. Born August, 1874; married; 4 children; M.R.C.S.(Eng); L.R.C.P.(London). After seven years in private practice was appointed Assistant Medical Officer, Seychelles, 1907; Medical Officer, 1908. Chief Medical Officer (Rs.6,000 : fees and private practice).\n\nReports:\n\nAdministrator Logan :- \"A capable man, and one who can be thoroughly relied upon\".\n\nGovernor O'Brien :- \"An excellent administrative officer and deserving of promotion\".\n\nGovernor Fiennes :- \"The work of this officer is consistently good. He is thoroughly conscientious, loyal and active in his duties. Has justly earned promotion by sound work over a long period of service in this Colony and would do well anywhere\".\n\nGovernor Fiennes :- \"The work of this officer is consistently good. He is a clever surgeon and conducts the administration of the Hospital as well as possible with the means at his disposal which are totally inadequate at £700-£800. He obtained promotion in Tanganyika Territory, but changed his mind when the pay for attendance at the Royal Naval Wireless Station was granted. If this is stopped he should certainly be recognised for promotion. He is loyal and conscientious\".\n\nSir E. Fiennes (in a private letter to Major Purse) :- \"A very clever surgeon and good general practitioner; his administrative work is first rate\".\n\nConf. Report 1922.\n\nAdministrator Petrides :- \"Dr. Addison is a thoroughly dependable officer whose work has been consistently good. He has earned the thorough approbation of Colonel O'Brien and Sir Eustace Fiennes. He refused a transfer to Tanganyika in 1920. Since then the closing of the Royal Wireless Station has caused him a loss of £100 a year and the depreciation of the rupee has substantially affected the value of his post here. I trust it may be possible to offer him promotion in the near future. He is a very good Surgeon and excellent Administrator\".\n\nPage 363\n\nPage 363\n\nPage 363\n\n...\n\nPage 364\n\nPage 364\n\nPage 364", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-479 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 499093, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-487 - Others & Individuals - 1924", "page_number": 202, "title": "CO129-487 - Others & Individuals - 1924", "content_text": "-11-\n\nIn Baltimore, out of 289 brothel women examined, 62.3% had syphilis, 92.1% gonorrhoea, 45% had both, whilst only 3.39% were free from infection.(17)\n\nIn 1919 in Pottsville, Pa., there were three brothels with 20 girls, each of whom was certified medically free from disease. An enquiry established the fact that 18 were infected. In one of the houses with 3 girls in it, a hole was punched in a card for each customer: the number of punches in one day on the three cards were 49, 37, and 28 punches, respectively. All three girls were syphilitic.(18)\n\nIn Panama in June 1918, a survey showed there were 231 registered women in the segregated district, 175 outside it, and 320 unregistered clandestines: 91% of the 231, 95% of the 175, and 98.5% of the 320 had venereal disease.(19)\n\nPanama, with a transient population, offers some instructive data. Until 1918, there was no systematic supervision of prostitution in the Republic. Colonel Gorgas, as Chief Health Officer of the Canal Zone, as a result of his experience abroad and in Havana, stated he was opposed to regulation, as it did not prevent the spread of venereal disease and only caused police corruption. During the first six months of 1918, 451 men of the U.S. Army out of 11,000 were infected with venereal disease. In May 1918, the system of segregated districts was adopted under the supervision of the Health Department. By August 1918, of the 495 registered prostitutes in the District in Panama Town, 311 were in hospital for venereal disease.\n\nIn Colon, in June 1918, there were 299 registered prostitutes in the district - 285 had venereal disease: of the registered prostitutes outside the segregated district, out of 157, 151 were infected. It was considered that the regulation of prostitution had failed in Panama, as elsewhere. It was known that only a percentage of the women ever appeared for their weekly inspection.\n\nThe U.S. Army Commander then transferred his troops to the area of the Canal Zone, where prostitution was prohibited. The rate of incidence of venereal disease dropped from 75 per 1,000 to 6.4 per 1,000 in six months. In 1919, U.S. soldiers, owing to various causes, were able to enter the Panama Republic, although it was contrary to orders; the incidence of venereal disease increased to 36 per 1,000 in the first six months of 1919.(20)\n\nThe above examples have been taken from figures collected by the semi-official American organisation, The American Social Hygiene Association.\n\nAnother example can be given based on the Government Reports of the figures approved for publication by the Surgeon General of the U.S. Army, March 1920. The following experience was gained by Dr. Goodman, Officer in charge of the Venereal Disease Control Work, Panama Department, U.S. Army, 1913-18.\n\n(17) American Social Hygiene Association.\n\n(18) \"V.D. among Prostitutes\" by Dr. Gordon Bates\n\n(19) Journal of Social Hygiene, Vol. III, No. 4, 1917; \"Urologic and Cutaneous Review\"\n\n(20) Journal of Social Hygiene, Vol. IX, No. 3, March 1923.\n\nMay 1920.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-487 - Others & Individuals - 1924.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 502480, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-492 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1925 [12] - 1926 [1-5]", "page_number": 171, "title": "CO129-492 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1925 [12] - 1926 [1-5]", "content_text": "CONFIDENTIALITY for the report is \n\n(2) Hongkong, Surgeon H.M. Dockyard \n\nwith the usual forwarding - Reference \n\n18/4 \n\nRussell \n\nA.G.4.28 \n\nLieut. Beckett, \n\nThe Report has been published \n\nas No. 1288 of the Colonial Annual \n\nReports series. \n\n26. \n\nLt. Col. on \n\ndiseased above, \n\n20 \n\nNo. 66. \n\nNUMBER AND DATE QUOTED \n\nBE QUOTED IN REFERENCE \n\nTO THE LETTER \n\nPrinted as KOH-Parliamentary Publication. \n\n6.42753/2 \n\nOne Report, Annual No. 1288. \n\nSix, \n\nLIF \n\nC. 6189 \n\n17 \n\nMAR 1926 \n\n166 \n\nGOVERNMENT HOUSE, \n\nHONGKONG, \n\n12th February, 1926 \n\nWith reference to my predecessor's despatch \n\nof 21st August, 1925, I have the honour to transmit six \n\ncopies of the Annual General Report for 1924 in octavo \n\nform, and the usual six copies printed in foolscap size. \n\nI regret that this report has been so long \n\ndelayed, but, as explained in the despatch under reference, \n\nthe Government Printers have been unable to proceed with \n\ntheir work in a normal manner. The difficulty of \n\nobtaining skilled compositors and printers still exists, \n\nSix hundred and twenty-five copies are being \n\nforwarded to the Stationery Office by this mail, the \n\ncost of which is $62.50. \n\nI have the honour to be, \n\nSir, \n\nYour most obedient humble servant, \n\nGovernor, &c. \n\nTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE \n\nLIEUTENANT COLONEL L.C.M.S. AMERY, M.P., \n\n&c. \n\n&c. \n\n&c.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-492 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1925 [12] - 1926 [1-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 518364, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-515-13 Provision of combined naval- military and air hospital at Hong Kong- minutes of the Joint... 26-3-1929 - 17-5-1929", "page_number": 6, "title": "CO129-515-13 Provision of combined naval- military and air hospital at Hong Kong- minutes of the Joint... 26-3-1929 - 17-5-1929", "content_text": "# Minutes of the Thirty-fifth Meeting of the Joint Medical Services Committee held at the War Office on Wednesday, the 22nd May, 1929.\n\n## Chairman:\n## Members:\n## Co-opted Member:\n\nPresent.\n\nLieutenant-General Sir Matthew H. G. Fell, Director-General, Army Medical Services, \nSurgeon Vice-Admiral, A. Gaskell, Director-General, Naval Medical Services. \nAir Vice-Marshal D. Munro, Director of Medical Services, Air Ministry. \nColonel Sir A. Lisle Webb, Director-General of Medical Services, Ministry of Pensions, \nDr. A. T. Stanton, Colonial Office.\n\n6\n\nIn attendance: Sir Vincent W. Baddeley, K.C.B., Admiralty. \nR.J.G.C.Paterson, Esq., C.E., The War Office. \nSecretary: Major S.W.Kyle.\n\n1. Provision of a Combined Naval, Military and Air Force Hospital at Hong Kong, Minute 5 of the 19th Meeting)\n\nThe Chairman having read a letter from the Admiralty (`M.4763/27` dated 26th March, 1929) suggesting that this question be further considered by the Committee, Sir Vincent Baddeley informed the Meeting that the Board of Admiralty were in favour of and would support amalgamation if it were found to be possible. From recent information it was clear that some change in the Naval Hospital arrangements at Hong Kong were inevitable because, owing to the unsuitability of the present site, the hospital is uneconomical, difficult to administer and surrounded by undesirable native tenement blocks. In addition the present hospital is sited on very valuable ground which the Colonial Government desires to acquire and has even offered ground for a new hospital at Stubbs...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-515-13 Provision of combined naval- military and air hospital at Hong Kong- minutes of the Joint... 26-3-1929 - 17-5-1929.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 518443, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-515-2 Exportation of meat to Canada- various certificates 20-12-1928 - 20-12-1928", "page_number": 7, "title": "CO129-515-2 Exportation of meat to Canada- various certificates 20-12-1928 - 20-12-1928", "content_text": "# 565. 323 7 \n\nSir,\n\n**GOVERNMENT HOUSE, HONGKONG, 20th December, 1928.**\n\nI have the honour to forward for your information and such action as you may consider appropriate the accompanying copies of correspondence, as noted in the margin, with Canadian Authorities and the Government of Canada, on the subject of the refusal of the Canadian Veterinary Director-General to recognise certificates signed by Captain W.J.A. Mackenzie, M.R.C.V.S., the Colonial Veterinary Surgeon in this Colony, for meats, etc., exported to Canada.\n\n| Encl. | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| 1 | Letter from Veterinary Director General, Canada, dated 19th February, 1925. |\n| 2 | Letter to Governor-General, Canada, dated 29th April, 1925. |\n| 3 | Letter to Governor-General, Canada, dated 4th May, 1925. |\n| 4 | Letter to Governor-General, Canada, dated 24th July, 1925. |\n| 5 | Letter from Governor-General, Canada, dated 17th September, 1925. |\n| 6 | Letter from Deputy Governor-General, Canada, dated 14th October, 1925. |\n| 7 | Letter to Governor-General, Canada, dated 6th November, 1925. |\n| 8 | Letter to Governor-General, Canada, dated 8th December, 1925. |\n| 9 | Letter to Veterinary Director-General, Canada, dated 29th June, 1928. |\n| 10 | Letter from Veterinary Director-General, Canada, dated 26th July, 1928. |\n| 11 | Letter to Secretary of State for External Affairs, Canada, dated 5th September, 1928. |\n| 12 | Letter from Secretary of State for External Affairs, Canada, dated 16th October, 1928. |\n\nI shall be glad if any measures that are possible can be taken to prevail on the Canadian Government to alter its attitude in this matter. In any case, I am of opinion that you should be advised of the facts, lest any misapprehension might gain currency in regard to the Colonial Veterinary Surgeon.\n\n**THE RIGHT HONOURABLE LIEUTENANT COLONEL L.C.H.S. AMY, M.P., &c., &c., &c.**", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-515-2 Exportation of meat to Canada- various certificates 20-12-1928 - 20-12-1928.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 519599, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-517-5 The visit of the Duke of Gloucester to Hong Kong 2-5-1929 - 23-5-1929", "page_number": 12, "title": "CO129-517-5 The visit of the Duke of Gloucester to Hong Kong 2-5-1929 - 23-5-1929", "content_text": "# PRINCE HENRY IN HONG KONG\n\n## ROYAL WEATHER AND A ROYAL WELCOME\n## BUSY ROUND OF FORMAL AND SOCIAL ENGAGEMENTS\n\nBy a strange chance the arrival in Hong Kong on April 25 of H.R.H. the Duke of Gloucester coincided with two events of very great interest throughout the British Empire. Thursday happened to be the birthday of the Duke's sister, H.R.H. Princess Mary, and also an anniversary which is very solemnly observed throughout Australasia—Anzac Day. The heavy grey and black clouds hovering over Hong Kong early in the morning had passed away by the time the great P. & O. liner **Morea** entered harbour at ten o'clock, and sunshine and blue skies greeted the Duke of Gloucester as he landed at Queen's Pier an hour later.\n\n### THE PRINCE STEPS ASHORE\n### SCENE ON QUEEN'S PIER\n\nThe official landing of Prince Henry was timed for 11 a.m., but an hour earlier crowds were lining the streets and balconies giving on to Statue Square, and the Star Ferry Wharf was thick with spectators, some of whom had even climbed to the roof. Queen's Pier was decorated with flags, palms, and a red carpet which was upon the steps. On the pier were gathered members of the Executive and Legislative Councils, the Consular Body, representatives of the Churches and of His Majesty's Services.\n\nDrawn up in front of the pier was the Guard of Honour provided by the Somerset Light Infantry, under command of Capt. Strachey. The H.K. Volunteer Defence Force were in Connaught Road between Queen's Pier and the Star Ferry Wharf under the command of Major R. A. Wolfe Murray, and alongside them were some fifty members of the British Legion led by Mr. J. W. James and members of the Ex-Active Service Men's Association under Mr. T. T. Laurensen.\n\nHis Excellency the Governor (Sir Cecil Clementi, K.C.M.G.), accompanied by members of his staff, went out on the launch **Britannia** to the **Morea**, which was anchored in mid-harbour, to greet His Royal Highness, returning at 10.50 to Queen's Pier.\n\nThe approach of the launch **Lila** carrying the Prince with his staff was heralded by the playing of the National Anthem from the quarter deck of H.M.S. **Suffolk**, and as His Royal Highness stepped out of the launch to be greeted by H.E. the Governor, a Royal salute was fired by the same warship and given by the Guard of Honour.\n\nHaving shaken hands with His Excellency, the Royal Visitor was then presented to the following gentlemen who formed the reception party on the Pier—Vice-Admiral A. K. Waistell, C.-in-C., China Station, Major-General J. W. Sandilands, C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., the Colonial Secretary (the Hon. Mr. W. T. Southorn, C.M.G.), the Attorney-General (the Hon. Sir Joseph Kemp, K.C., C.B.E.), the Secretary for Chinese Affairs (the Hon. Mr. R. A. C. North), the Colonial Treasurer (the Hon. Mr. McI. Messer, O.B.E.), the Director of Public Works (the Hon. Mr. H. T. Creasy, C.B.E.), the Harbour Master (Commander G. F. Hole, R.N.), the Director of Medical and Sanitary Services (the Hon. Dr. A. R. Wellington), the Acting C.S.P. (the Hon. Mr. T. H. King), the Hon. Sir Henry Pollock, K.C., the Hon. Sir Shou Son Chow, the Hon. Mr. B. D. F. Beith, the Hon. Mr. W. E. L. Shenton, the Hon. Mr. J. P. Braga, the Hon. Dr. S. W. Tso, O.B.E., Mr. D. W. Tratman, the Hon. Dr. R. H. Kotewall, C.M.G., the Hon. Mr. A. C. Hynes, the Right Rev. the Bishop of Victoria (Bishop C. C. Duppuy), his Lordship Bishop Valtorta, Pay-Captain Ayre, R.N., C.B.E., His Honour the Chief Justice (Sir Henry Gollan, K.C., C.M.G.), His Honour the Puisne Judge (Mr. Justice J. R. Wood), Flag Lieut. D. P. Evans, R.N., Flag Captain J. Wolfe-Murray, D.S.O., R.N., Major C. B. Mullins, R.M., Surg. Comdr. H. R. Briggs, R.N., Pay-Comdr. C. S. Johnson, R.N., D.S.O., Comdr. G. G. Muirhead Gould, R.N., D.S.C., Comdr. H. G. D. Acland, R.N., D.S.O., Engineer Captain T. E. Aitkenhead, R.N., Captain the Hon. W. S. Leveson S. Arbuthnot, D.S.O., Captain E. Gower, R.N., D.S.O., Captain G. G. Robinson, R.N., V.C., O.B.E., Captain J. D. Campbell, R.N., M.V.O., O.B.E., Wing Commander A. H. S. Steele Perkins, O.B.E., Commander A. B. Lockhart, R.N., D.S.C., Captain A. Maitland Dougal, R.N., Commodore R. A. S. Hill, R.N., and his A.D.C., Pay. Lt.-Comdr. D. N. Passmore, Engineer Commander F. H. Hall, R.N., Surgeon Captain W. W. Keir, R.N., C.M.O., C.M.G., M.B., Ch.B., Lt.-Commander D. N. Bridge, R.N., Engineer Captain W. H. Michell, R.N., Colonel J. McD. Haskard, C.M.G., D.S.O., Lt. Col. T. A. F. Robinson, Colonel R. B. Skinner, O.B.E., Col. T. E. Fielding, D.S.O., M.B., Colonel F. S. Exham, D.S.O., Colonel R. A. B. Young, O.B.E., Major F. R. Roche-Kelly, Lt. Col. C. H. Little, D.S.O., Lt. Col. J. L. Comyn, C.M.G., D.S.O., Lt. Col. H. B. Vernon, M.C. (A.D.C. to Lieut.-General Cameron), Colonel Christian, Major Hanna, Sir Robert Ho Tung, Mr. Li Yau Tsuen, C.B.E., Mr. Ho Kom Tong, O.B.E., Mr. Wong Kwong Tin, J.P., Mr. T. N. Chau, J.P., Mr. Fung Ping Shan, J.P., Messrs. Kwok Siu Lau, Tang Chi Ngong, Mok Kon Sang, Yu Fung Sun, O.B.E., Li Yik Mui, M. K. Lo, Ho Sing Chau, Chan Tin Son, Wong Kam Fuk, Tong Yat Chuen, Lo Cheung Shiu, Wong Iu Tung, To Sz Tsun, Li Po Kwai.\n\nThe Duke of Gloucester then inspected the Guard of Honour, the National Anthem being played by the band of the Somerset Light Infantry, as he stepped off the Pier, and entered a motor-car for his drive round the streets.\n\nThe Royal Visitor is a slender young man with a small moustache, and the charming manner which distinguishes all the Royal Princes. He was wearing on this occasion a white uniform with the blue ribbon of the Garter.\n\n### A GLIMPSE OF VICTORIA\n### WEST POINT EN FETE\n\nThe short drive taken by the Prince and his party round the city, between the official landing and his reception in the City Hall, was by way of Connaught Road and Queen's Road to the City Hall, so via Hill Road and the Praya to West Point. The whole route was decorated with flags both British and Chinese, and numbers of people watched from the pavements and balconies overlooking the road. At the junction of Hill Road and Queen's Road West, where the big Chinese Restaurants are situated, a huge triumphal arch which over-topped the buildings was erected. It stretched right across the road in three arches and was built up in three tiers, the second showing one of those scenes of the Chinese Heavens which are often seen on ceremonial occasions in the Chinese quarter. The whole arch was made of coloured and pictured matting and was decorated with a message of welcome in large letters, flowers, and flags. Two smaller arches had been erected in Queen's Road West, and several more of these miniature temples were hung overhead from one side of the street to the other.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-517-5 The visit of the Duke of Gloucester to Hong Kong 2-5-1929 - 23-5-1929.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 519956, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-518-7 Entitlement of licensed dental surgeons in private practice in the colony to free medical treatment... 30-7-1929 - 18-9-1929", "page_number": 1, "title": "CO129-518-7 Entitlement of licensed dental surgeons in private practice in the colony to free medical treatment... 30-7-1929 - 18-9-1929", "content_text": "**CLOSED UNTIL Zy**\n\n62895\n\n1 \n\n## MEDICAL TREATMENT FOR PRIVATE PRACTITIONERS\n\nPrevious | See `52812/28`\nSubsequent | `101`\n| --- | --- |\n| `C0129/578/7` | CR |\n| `Co129/518/7` | 4/9 |\n\n9 Da Scamion 9.9.29 (@ In Cent M Feddion 10/9 M llib Laf forthe CR 19/9 hma. M. Boyd. 19/9 Wt. 11474-13 10m. 9/28 H. St. G. `101/33A`.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-518-7 Entitlement of licensed dental surgeons in private practice in the colony to free medical treatment... 30-7-1929 - 18-9-1929.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 519957, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-518-7 Entitlement of licensed dental surgeons in private practice in the colony to free medical treatment... 30-7-1929 - 18-9-1929", "page_number": 2, "title": "CO129-518-7 Entitlement of licensed dental surgeons in private practice in the colony to free medical treatment... 30-7-1929 - 18-9-1929", "content_text": "## 1.400.350\n\nRequests ruling on to whether a dental surgeon in private practice is entitled to free medical treatment in a Government Hospital.\n\n2\n\n30.7.29\n\nI do not know what is the etiquette in this country as between doctors and dentists, but I feel it would be going rather far to extend free treatment by Government Medical Officers to a dentist who is not a Government Officer, merely because he does a lot of Government work and alleges that he would treat a Government Medical Officer free of charge.\n\n?\n\nSubject to Dr. Stanton's observations, reply that the application should not be granted.\n\n**S.D. Cose**\nS. Caine\n9.9.29\n\nDoctors do not always give free treatment or advice to other members of their own profession.\n\nThere is little or no etiquette between dentists and doctors by custom in this matter.\n\n**Tagren**\nA. Fiddian\n10.9.29\n\nYou do not always treat in your capacity as proposed.\n\n**As Stanton**\n9.9.29\n\nYes, the dentist can of course charge the latter for professional attention.\n\nMr. 1/4 G.G.\n9.9.29", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-518-7 Entitlement of licensed dental surgeons in private practice in the colony to free medical treatment... 30-7-1929 - 18-9-1929.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 519958, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-518-7 Entitlement of licensed dental surgeons in private practice in the colony to free medical treatment... 30-7-1929 - 18-9-1929", "page_number": 3, "title": "CO129-518-7 Entitlement of licensed dental surgeons in private practice in the colony to free medical treatment... 30-7-1929 - 18-9-1929", "content_text": "M noted in Precedent Book (c) 2/1 `gor244(land)18/9/29`", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-518-7 Entitlement of licensed dental surgeons in private practice in the colony to free medical treatment... 30-7-1929 - 18-9-1929.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 519959, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-518-7 Entitlement of licensed dental surgeons in private practice in the colony to free medical treatment... 30-7-1929 - 18-9-1929", "page_number": 4, "title": "CO129-518-7 Entitlement of licensed dental surgeons in private practice in the colony to free medical treatment... 30-7-1929 - 18-9-1929", "content_text": "## H. Kong No 244\n\n7 July \n\nDRAFT.\n\nMr. Amery.\n\nDear Mr. Amery,\n\nI have to acknowledge receipt of your despatch no. 300 of the 18 June 1920, and in reply thereto I do not...\n\nConsular district throughout. It is thought that free medical treatment should be granted at the Hospital.\n\n(Signed) **PASSFIELD**\n\n628907 29 H. Kong 24 \n\n| Name | \n| --- | \n| Mr. Bari | \n| Mr. Bottomley | \n| Sir E. Harding | \n| Sir J. Shuckburgh | \n| Sir G. Grindle | \n| Sir C. Davis | \n| Sir S. Wilson | \n| Mr. Ormsby-Gore | \n| Lord Lovat | \n| Mr. Amery | \n1319 fr. | \nDi | \nboo | \nrecupio | \nno | \nthe | \nthe 30 | \n& | \nreply | \nrform | \nthes. I do not- | \nCons dis thou | \n... | \n\nPage numbers and unrelated text fragments appear to be mixed in with the main correspondence. The main content starts with \"H. Kong No 244\" and is a draft letter.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-518-7 Entitlement of licensed dental surgeons in private practice in the colony to free medical treatment... 30-7-1929 - 18-9-1929.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 519960, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-518-7 Entitlement of licensed dental surgeons in private practice in the colony to free medical treatment... 30-7-1929 - 18-9-1929", "page_number": 5, "title": "CO129-518-7 Entitlement of licensed dental surgeons in private practice in the colony to free medical treatment... 30-7-1929 - 18-9-1929", "content_text": "# GOVERNMENT HOUSE, HONGKONG, 30th July, 1929.\n\n52812/28. (2)\n\nMy Lord,\n\nWith reference to Mr. Amery's despatch No.119 of the 12th of April, 1928, regarding the grant of free medical treatment to the families of Government Medical Officers, I have the honour to inform Your Lordship that a kindred question has arisen as to whether a licensed dental surgeon in private practice in the Colony is entitled to free medical treatment, as distinct from free maintenance, in a Government Hospital.\n\n2. The existing rule is that Government medical officers are entitled to such free treatment; but in the present instance the only basis for the claim to be treated as a Government medical officer is the fact that in addition to his private practice, the gentleman concerned has a monopoly of Government dental work at contract rates. It is also argued that one member of the medical profession will always concede free treatment and advice to another; and that, as the dentist concerned would treat a Government medical officer free of charge, therefore he should himself obtain free treatment from a Government medical officer. This of course overlooks the fact that the Government medical officer may be using Government facilities and Government time to treat a private doctor, whilst the private doctor treating a Government doctor uses only his own time and resources.\n\n3. For these reasons I am doubtful whether the application for free treatment in the present instance should be granted and I shall be glad to have your ruling in the matter.\n\nI have the honour to be,\nMy Lord,\nYour Lordship's most obedient humble servant,\nGovernor, &c.\n\nTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE LORD PASSFIELD,\n&C.,\n&c.,\n&c.\n\nPage 6\nPage 7", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-518-7 Entitlement of licensed dental surgeons in private practice in the colony to free medical treatment... 30-7-1929 - 18-9-1929.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 578573, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-592-1 Reports on current situation- medical work 3-11-1945 - 7-3-1946", "page_number": 29, "title": "CO129-592-1 Reports on current situation- medical work 3-11-1945 - 7-3-1946", "content_text": "-10-\n\nJapanese that the Gendarmerie were going to arrest me on a charge of espionage, communication with the \"enemy\", etc. The 26th of January, 1943, was actually fixed for the date.\n\nConsequently, when my arrest took place a few months later,\n\nI had had time to arrange with Dr. P.C. Lai and Miss Helen Ho and others for certain vital services to be continued, including the weekly parcels of food and medical supplies to Shamshuipo Camp and Bowen Road (afterwards Central British School) Military Hospital, the maintenance of the tuberculosis wards at St. Paul's Hospital, etc. The bulk of the stores accumulated by the Informal Welfare Committee were eventually sent to Stanley Camp. My instructions were faithfully followed at considerable risk, since both Dr. Lai and Miss Ho were examined by the Gendarmerie and the latter was placed under police surveillance in a Chinese hotel and, subsequently, in St. Paul's Hospital for two months.\n\nBoth ladies continued to render valuable assistance during the nineteen months or so of my imprisonment.\n\nAfter my release from prison in December, 1944, followed by my internment in Ma Tau Chung Civilian Internment Camp, Miss Ho enabled me to care for the camp sick until I closed the camp (on the instructions of the Hon. Mr. F.C. Gimson) on the 1st of September, 1945. This help was all the more acceptable because I had to act as physician, surgeon, obstetrician, and dental surgeon and was discharged from prison with but the few tattered rags that I stood up in and without drugs or instruments.\n\nConclusion.\n\nIn writing this somewhat inadequate report, I should be failing in my duty if I omitted to make special mention of persons of whom I have special knowledge who rendered conspicuous service to the British cause in Hong Kong between the surrender to the Japanese in December, 1941, and the arrival of the British Forces on the 30th of August, 1945.\n\nThe names are listed in Appendix 11.\n\nIt would be an injustice if I did not place on record my gratitude to certain Japanese nationals who accompanied the invading forces, namely:\n\n(1) Colonel T. Eguchi, head of the Japanese Medical Department, who was responsible for obtaining the sanction of the Military Commander and, later, of Governor Lt.-General Rensuke Isogai for me to remain at liberty after the 4th of January, 1942, so that I might carry supplies to the prisoners of war and civilian internees, look after non-interned wives, children, and dependants of Volunteers and internees, the sick and wounded in hospital, and supervise the burial of the dead, clearing up the town, obtain food and fuel for hospital, organise water supply, drainage, sewerage, etc.\n\n(2) Colonel T. Oda, head of the Foreign Department, who was my original sponsor to the Gendarmerie for remaining out of internment for sixteen months.\n\n(3) Mr. A. Maejima, Foreign Department, who permitted me to send considerable quantities of stores of all kinds and funds (for canteen purchases) to Stanley Camp, and who tried, unsuccessfully, to have me released from prison.\n\n(4) Colonel Nakagawa, Chief A.D.C. to Governor Isogai, who, with Mr. Maejima, was responsible for the reprieve from execution and for my eventual release after a little over nineteen months.\n\n(5) Reverend K. Watanabe, Military Interpreter to Colonel Tokunaga, who risked his life on many occasions by taking for me diphtheria anti-toxin/", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-592-1 Reports on current situation- medical work 3-11-1945 - 7-3-1946.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 581881, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-594-8 A G H Sment- report on medical activities and problems 16-12-1945 - 18-2-1946", "page_number": 21, "title": "CO129-594-8 A G H Sment- report on medical activities and problems 16-12-1945 - 18-2-1946", "content_text": "## 21\n\nColonel Fehily will summarize his specific needs in respect of these various officers and forward a note of this through the C.C.A.O. All I do at the moment is to stress generally the urgent needs for trained health staff; which should receive first priority.\n\nLonger term needs are a School Medical Officer who is capable of organizing proper School Medical service; conditions in regard to school hygiene are dealt with later in the report. In addition, Colonel Fehily requires a trained Health Sister, whose duty it would be to train local staff and initiate a proper service for schools and a community service. I understand one qualified Health Sister has already been asked for.\n\nThe position with regard to specialist staff is more satisfactory. A dental surgeon has been asked for to organize a dental service for schools; two locally recruited dentists are at present employed. Provision is also made in the Civil establishment budget for posts of ophthalmologist, pathologist, radiologist, biochemist, and malariologist. With regard to the latter post, I am told that Dr. R. B. Jackson, the former malariologist, is returning to the Colony temporarily to relieve Dr. J. B. Mackie, who should proceed on leave as soon as possible; he was in the Colony throughout the occupation. The posts of consultant surgical, gynaecological, and medical specialists are also fixed; they are supplied by the University teaching staff. Having in view the high incidence of child disability and disease that exists in the Colony, the question of a specialist in paediatrics should be considered.\n\nPulmonary tuberculosis is, without any doubt, one of the major public health problems in this Colony at present and probably the best approach to the solution of the problem, so far as this can be envisaged for a place like Hong Kong, would be to send a properly qualified specialist out to investigate and make recommendations.\n\nThere is a high incidence of orthopedic disability among children in the Colony. There has also to be kept in mind the large amount of disability existing amongst adults often leading to unemployment and destitution, much of which could be relieved, or even put right, under skilled advice and guidance. Begging is a paying profession in Hong Kong; perhaps a proportion of this could be reduced provided there was no ground for adopting such a profession on account of physical disability for work. Here again it would be desirable to send out a specialist to investigate and report.\n\n## 2. DRUGS, MEDICAL SUPPLIES, AND EQUIPMENT\n\nNone of the supplies under the Young Working Party Units have yet come to hand and they are not expected to arrive before February next year. Colonel Fehily had rather anticipated this and had approached the appropriate authority at the War Office to secure military supplies not required for operational needs to fill the possible gap, but nothing has come of this. Further, maintenance blocks for beach-landing parties were earmarked from India, again with a negative result. In the meantime, Civil Affairs medical services have been carrying on with considerable stocks recovered on re-entry, and for the more special types of drugs, which are not available, through assistance from the Services. These chiefly include limited supplies of the sulpha-drugs, N.A.B., penicillin, and small quantities of diphtheria anti-toxin. Nevertheless, the position is a serious one; while going around, I heard of many shortages of essential drugs. For instance, at the Child Welfare Centres, they had no santonin. As it seemed pretty clear that the arrival of the Young Working Party Units could not be much accelerated, Colonel Fehily requested through Brigadier Gibbons, who called here recently, supplies of drugs from SACSEA, and he is taking whatever further steps are possible. The need is obviously urgent, and no doubt Colonel Fehily will keep the Colonial Office advised on the situation. Anything that can be done to accelerate the arrival of the Young Working Party Units should be done, and any urgent requests from Colonel Fehily for supplies that he cannot obtain from the sources already indicated should have first priority.\n\nThe remarks regarding shortages apply equally to hospital equipment generally. In addition to material stocks of the commoner drugs found on re-entry, which included quinine, a certain amount of bedding, and most of the beds have been recovered. Such items as sheets and blankets do not exist, while bedding is scanty.\n\n42878-1", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-594-8 A G H Sment- report on medical activities and problems 16-12-1945 - 18-2-1946.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 586475, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-603-5 Asiatic Emigration Amendment Ordinance 1947 18-9-1947 - 8-10-1947", "page_number": 7, "title": "CO129-603-5 Asiatic Emigration Amendment Ordinance 1947 18-9-1947 - 8-10-1947", "content_text": "891\n\nNo. 708.\n\nHis Excellency the Governor has given his assent, in the name and on behalf of His Majesty the King, to the following Ordinance passed by the Legislative Council :-\n\nOrdinance No. 41 of 1947-An Ordinance to amend the Asiatic Emigration Ordinance, 1915.\n\nHONG KONG.\n\nNo. 41 OF 1947.\n\nL.S.\n\nI assent.\n\nA. G. GRANTHAM, Governor.\n\n19th September, 1947.\n\nAn Ordinance to amend the Asiatic Emigration Ordinance, 1915.\n\n[19th September, 1947.]\n\nBE it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:\n\n1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Asiatic Emigration Amendment Ordinance, 1947, and shall be read as one with the Asiatic Emigration Ordinance, 1915, hereinafter referred to as the principal Ordinance.\n\n2. Section 33 of the principal Ordinance is hereby amended by the substitution of the word \"four\" for the word \"two\" appearing in the second line thereof.\n\nPassed the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, this 18th day of September, 1947.\n\nOrdinance No. 30 of 1915.\n\nAmendment of section 33 of the principal Ordinance.\n\nG. T. ROWE,\n\nDeputy Clerk of Councils.\n\nPage 891\n\nPage 892\n\nAPPOINTMENTS.\n\nNo. 709.\n\nHis Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint Mr. John Crichton McDouall to be Social Welfare Officer and concurrently an Assistant to the Secretary for Chinese Affairs with effect from 27th August, 1947.\n\n12th September, 1947.\n\nNo. 710.\n\nHis Excellency the Governor has been pleased, under instructions from the Secretary of State for the Colonies, to appoint Mr. Walter Charles Allwright, H.D.D. R.C.S. (Edin.), L.D.S. R.C.S. (Eng.), to be a Dental Surgeon, Medical Department, with effect from 28th August, 1947.\n\n12th September, 1947.\n\nNo. 711.\n\nHis Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint, under Section 47 (5) of the Dutiable Commodities Ordinance, 1931, Mr. Kwok Chan, J.P., to act as a member of the Board of Licensing Justices during the absence of Mr. Ngan Shing-kwan, J.P., with effect from 11th September, 1947.\n\n13th September, 1947.\n\nNo. 712.\n\nHis Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint Lieutenant Colonel Linzee Otho Warwick Wooldridge, R.E., to be a Member of the Authorized Architects Consulting Committee, vice Colonel Henry Maurice Whitcombe, R.E., with effect from 10th September, 1947.\n\n13th September, 1947.\n\nNo. 713.\n\nIn exercise of the powers conferred on him by Section 2(1) of the Stamp Ordinance 1921, His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint Mr. FRANCIS JOSEPH ANSLOW to be an Assistant Collector of Stamp Duty with effect from 5th September, 1947.\n\n16th September, 1947.\n\nNo. 714.\n\nHis Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint Dr. the Honourable Isaac Newton, F.R.C.S. (Edin.), M.R.C.S. (Eng.), L.R.C.P. (Lond.), provisionally, and subject to His Majesty's pleasure, to be an Official Member of the Legislative Council with effect from 17th September, 1947.\n\n17th September, 1947.\n\nNo. 715.\n\nHis Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint Mr. Christopher George Frederick Frampton Melmoth to act as an Assistant Colonial Secretary, with effect from 18th September, 1947.\n\n18th September, 1947.\n\nPage 892", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-603-5 Asiatic Emigration Amendment Ordinance 1947 18-9-1947 - 8-10-1947.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 } ]