[ { "id": 261444, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-104 - Sir Robinson - 1865 [1-3] & Acting Governor Mercer - 1865 [3-4]", "page_number": 143, "title": "CO129-104 - Sir Robinson - 1865 [1-3] & Acting Governor Mercer - 1865 [3-4]", "content_text": "## \n\n**140**\n\n\"Captain and Brevet Major John Guillum Scott, 22nd Bombay Native Infantry, to be Lieutenant Colonel Commandant.\n\n\"H.E. Brigadier Viscount Gough, ordered home, and in consideration of his services permitted to retain his rank in the Corps and the uniform.\n\n\"Henry John Howard Tripp, Esquire, Gunner Hong Kong Volunteers and Extra Aide-de-Camp to His Excellency The Governor, to be 2nd Captain and Adjutant, vice Dodd who resigns the Adjutancy only and is placed on the Supernumerary List of his rank.\n\n\"Cranford Davidson Kerr, Esquire, Private Hong Kong Volunteers, to be Extra Aide-de-Camp to His Excellency The Governor, vice Tripp who resigns the Extra A.D.C. only appointment and is appointed 2nd Captain and Adjutant.\n\n\"Memo\"\n\n\"His Excellency The Governor has been pleased to accept the resignation of the Commission only held in the Hong Kong Volunteers by 2nd Lieutenant Duncan Davidson, Artillery Company\"\n\n\"First Lieutenant H.C. Coken to be Captain, vice Myburgh, resigned.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-104 - Sir Robinson - 1865 [1-3] & Acting Governor Mercer - 1865 [3-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 261495, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-104 - Sir Robinson - 1865 [1-3] & Acting Governor Mercer - 1865 [3-4]", "page_number": 194, "title": "CO129-104 - Sir Robinson - 1865 [1-3] & Acting Governor Mercer - 1865 [3-4]", "content_text": "191\n\nand Adjutant of the Hongkong Volunteers are ...\n\nFor the past 3 years I have been out of pocket for my expenses here and put £300 a year at £150.\n\nAs I am ordered home through ill health and my 3 years' service in China having expired - I leave my case to the generosity of the Colonial Government, but it is absolutely necessary for the future efficiency of the Corps to subsidize the Adjutant. To-day I recommend Gunner H. Tripp of the P.&O. Co., son of the late Colonel Tripp who commanded a Corps at Stanley, for the Adjutancy in vice Captain Dodd of the 2nd Battalion Royal Scots, who has proceeded to the Island of Formosa and for several months previously had been located at Canton. 2nd Lieutenant D. Davidson has acted for him in the interval but he now wishes to resign. Under these circumstances I have the honor to recommend that application be made to the Imperial Government for a Colonial Grant of £100 a year as the Adjutant's Contingent, this will cover Horse, Coolie and Drill charges which Mr Tripp honestly admits he cannot afford out of his salary.\n\n(True Copy)\n\nCal A Frinton\n\n(Dyned)\n\nFred: Brine,\n\nCapt. R. E., B.M. and Lieut. Col. Commanding R.A.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-104 - Sir Robinson - 1865 [1-3] & Acting Governor Mercer - 1865 [3-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 326402, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-217 - Governor Sir Bowen Administrator Marsh - 1884 [7-10]", "page_number": 437, "title": "CO129-217 - Governor Sir Bowen Administrator Marsh - 1884 [7-10]", "content_text": "433\n\nday on verbal summons. Colonel Barton is invited to appear before Council and give any information he may possess respecting the progress of the riot. Colonel Barton having returned, the Council deliberate on the measures demanded by the present state of affairs, and advise:\n\n1. That an order be given to the Police to bring up the rioters taken by them, this afternoon, if possible, and that the Police Magistrates be requested to deal with the cases at once.\n2. That the sentences passed on the rioters be placarded in Tai Ping Shun and the Chinese portion of the town.\n3. That His Excellency the Major General Commanding be requested to cause a picket of one hundred men to be available for the assistance of the Police, and to remain until the Police report that they are no longer required.\n4. That the Police Magistrates be warned that one of them must remain on the spot with the picket who cannot act without his orders.\n5. That Messrs Thomsett, Coxon, M`leven and Tripp be warned that they may be required to act as Magistrates with the picket.\n6. That the Police be directed to report the number and disposition of their force and whether they have an adequate force, and to report immediately if any addition is necessary.\n7. That special constables be enrolled and sworn in; if, in the opinion", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-217 - Governor Sir Bowen Administrator Marsh - 1884 [7-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 327942, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-220 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1885 [1-3]", "page_number": 320, "title": "CO129-220 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1885 [1-3]", "content_text": "# Hong-uri- \n## Chong Valley\n\nI have now the honour to transmit a report of the proceedings at the commencement of this work, so important on sanitary as well as on other grounds of public convenience, and which has been long desired by the Colonial legislature and by this community at large.\n\nI have the honour to be, \nMy Lord, \nYour Lordship's Most Obedient, \nHumble Servant, \nS. Bowen \n8.5. March and annex a leading article from the principal journal of this Colony on the subject treated of in this despatch.\n\n## Enclosure 1\n### TURNING OF THE FIRST SOD OF THE BOWEN PARK\n\nYesterday was the day fixed for the inauguration of a work which the community have long wished to see commenced, namely, the transformation of the swamp enclosed by the Racecourse into a public park. The plan it is intended to adopt in the laying out of the grounds is indicated in the speech of the Hon. J. M. Price, Surveyor-General, reported below. Suffice it here to say that few prettier spots for a public park could be found in any part of the world than the Wong-nei-chong Valley, and we doubt not that when the work is completed the park will be largely availed of by the public generally for purposes of recreation and pleasure.\n\nIt was at the instance of Governor Sir George Bowen that the necessary funds were voted by the Legislative Council and the sanction of the Secretary of State was given, and a general desire was expressed that the name of His Excellency should be permanently associated with the work. To this desire His Excellency has acceded, and the ground will henceforth be known as the Bowen Park.\n\nUnfortunately, many who wished to be present at the ceremony were disappointed, owing to the event taking place a little earlier than was generally anticipated. The time was announced as soon after twelve o'clock or just before the first race. As the first race did not take place until one o'clock, the intimation was somewhat indefinite, and there seems to have been an impression that people would be in time if they arrived about half-past twelve. By that time, however, the proceedings were just being brought to a conclusion.\n\nHis Excellency, accompanied by Captain Lewis, A.D.C., arrived on the ground soon after noon, and shortly afterwards proceeded to the spot selected for the cutting of the sod, which was in front of the Grand Stand. There were present the Hon. J. M. Price, Hon. W. Keswick, Hon. T. Jackson, Colonel Graves, Mr. C. P. Chater, Mr. A. Coxon, Mr. H. J. H. Tripp, Captain Dempster, etc., etc.\n\nThe Hon. the SURVEYOR-GENERAL opened the proceedings by addressing His Excellency the Governor as follows:-\n\n\"Your Excellency, it is my agreeable duty to invite you to take to-day the initial step in the important sanitary work which is to be carried out on this spot. The conversion of the meadow lands within the Racecourse, which have hitherto lain unused, into a recreation ground for the people is a project which I am certain has met with the approbation of the entire community, and I am equally certain it is a project which will materially contribute to the health and enjoyment of all classes.\n\nIn commemoration of your Excellency's connexion with this undertaking, I am given to understand it is the wish that this public pleasure ground when completed may receive the name of the Bowen Park.\" (Applause).\n\n\"As a park, it is perhaps to be regretted the area is limited to about thirty acres, but I may mention that it is the intention to make the most of this limited area by laying it out in walks and carriage drives, in a polo ground, a cricket ground, and tennis lawns for the public. Our friends the Trustees of the Jockey Club have expressed a wish that no trees such as would develop into large timber and obstruct a continuous view of the racecourse may be planted in the interior of the grounds. There is every intention to defer to this very natural wish of the Trustees and members of the Jockey Club, although it must be confessed the absence of large timber will be somewhat of a drawback in any design for a public park, still by the judicious laying out of the ground, I trust it may be possible to attain some degree of picturesque landscape effect, and to make this place sufficiently attractive to allure the future residents of Victoria to come here and spend their summer evenings in healthful recreation.\" (Applause).\n\n\"I will not detain your Excellency longer, but with these brief remarks will ask you now to turn the first sod.\"\n\nHis EXCELLENCY - \"Mr. Price, and gentlemen, I am sure we have all listened with much pleasure and interest to the statement Mr. Price has just made of the manner in which it is proposed to lay out this park, and in fact to convert the swampy and malarious centre of the Wong-nei-chong Valley, on which we are now assembled, into a healthy resort for all classes of the population.\n\nSoon after my arrival here, I was struck by the omission hitherto to provide for the city of Victoria any public park or recreation ground such as is reserved in the plan of every new township and almost every village in Australia and New Zealand. Such a park or recreation ground one would say is much more necessary in the tropical climate of Hongkong than it is there.\n\nNature has provided in this valley a most suitable and picturesque site for a park; just such a site as every traveller in Greece and Italy knows would have been selected by the ancient Greeks and Romans as a stadium for the display of their national games.\n\nIn view of the circumstances at which I have glanced, I caused a plan for the drainage of this ground to be prepared and submitted to the Colonial Legislature, which unanimously adopted it and voted the necessary funds. The cost is estimated at only $25,000, which will be spread over two or three years. The project has also received the emphatic sanction of the Imperial Government, and (as I am informed) of this entire community, which regards it as an important work, required for sanitary and other purposes of public convenience.\n\nIt is believed, moreover, that it will prove reproductive both directly and indirectly -- directly as increasing the selling value of the Government lands in the neighbourhood, and indirectly as improving the public health. The plan which has been approved includes the existing Racecourse, together with new grounds for polo and cricket, and for military exercises and reviews.\n\nI have great pleasure in being present to take part in the commencement of this work, and I am gratified to learn it is the general wish of the Colonial Legislature and of this community that my name should be connected with it-(applause) as it has already been connected with many parks, towns, districts, and public institutions of all kinds in the colonies of Queensland, New Zealand, Victoria, and Mauritius, over which I have already presided during the last quarter of a century as the representative of the Queen.\" (Applause).\n\n\"The ceremony is very simple and I will now proceed with it.\"\n\nHis Excellency then cut the sod and wheeled it away a few paces in a barrow.\n\nThree cheers were given for the Governor, and His Excellency called for three for the Queen.\n\nHon. W. KESWICK then said - \"Your Excellency, on behalf of the Trustees of the Racecourse, I beg to convey to you their thanks for what you have done towards the improvement of the Racecourse. The place will certainly be greatly enhanced in public value by the change which is to be made, and I am sure...\n\nPage 318", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-220 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1885 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 329371, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 150, "title": "CO129-223 - Governor Sir Bowen Acting Governor Marsh & Others - 1885 [11-12]", "content_text": "# COMPLIMENTARY FAREWELL BANQUET TO SIR GEORGE BOWEN, GOVERNOR OF HONGKONG\n\nLast night a complimentary farewell banquet was given to His Excellency Sir George Ferguson Bowen, G.C.M.G., Governor of Hongkong, in St. Andrew's Hall, City Hall. There was a numerous attendance, the banquet being the largest that has ever taken place in this colony, no less than 160 gentlemen sitting down to dinner. The chair was occupied by His Honour Chief Justice Sir George Phillippo, and the Vice-Chairmen were the Hon. T. Jackson, Hon. F. D. Sassoon, Messrs. A. P. McEwen, C. P. Chater, and J. Melville Matson. The Governor sat on the right of the Chairman, and Vice-Admiral Vesey Hamilton, C.B., on his left.\n\nThe following gentlemen formed the General Committee:-\n\n| Name | Title/Honour |\n| --- | --- |\n| His Honour Sir George Phillippo | Chairman |\n| the Hon. W. H. Marsh | C.M.G. |\n| the Hon. Frederick Stewart | |\n| the Hon. E. L. O'Malley | |\n| the Hon. A. Lister | |\n| the Hon. J.M. Price | |\n| His Honour Mr. Justice Russell | |\n| His Honour Mr. Justice Ackroyd | |\n| the Hon. W. Keswick | |\n| the Hon. T. Jackson | |\n| the Hon. F. D. Sassoon | |\n| the Hon. Wong Shing | |\n| the Right Rev. Bishop Raimondi | |\n| Monsieur Leon Dejardin | Consul for France |\n| Dr. O: F. von Mollendorff | Consul for Germany |\n| Colonel Withers | Consul for the United States |\n| Dr. P. B. C. Ayres | |\n| Messrs. C. D. Bottomley | |\n| E. R. Belilios | |\n| A. Coxon | |\n| C. P. Chater | |\n| G. de Champeaux | |\n| W. H. F. Darby | |\n| W. M. Deane | |\n| W. Durran | |\n| Major-General Gordon | |\n| Messrs. M. Grote | |\n| David Gillies | |\n| H. Hoppins | |\n| E. H. Huntingdon | |\n| Rev. W. Jennings | |\n| Messrs. John Macgregor | |\n| A. McConachie | |\n| A. P. McEwen | |\n| J. Melville Matson | |\n| Mortimer E. Murray | |\n| H. N. Mody | |\n| G. E. Noble | |\n| L. Poesnecker | |\n| A. G. Romano | Consul for Portugal |\n| C. Stiebel | |\n| J. Thurburn | |\n| A. G. Wise | |\n| H. E. Wodehouse | |\n\nThe Working Committee consisted of the following gentlemen:-\n\n| Name | Title/Honour |\n| --- | --- |\n| the Hon. J. M. Price | |\n| the Hon. T. Jackson | |\n| the Hon. F. D. Sassoon | |\n| Messrs. C. D. Bottomley | |\n| A. Coxon | |\n| C. P. Chater | |\n| W. M. Deane | |\n| H. Hoppins | |\n| A. P. McEwen | |\n| J. Melville Matson | Hon. Secretary |\n\nSubjoined are the names of the other subscribers to the banquet in the order of signature:-\n\nVice-Admiral Hamilton, Major-General Cameron, Major Brooke, R.E.; Messrs. A. Findlay Smith, H. M. Bevis, D. H. Mackintosh, W. Gaskell, S. Barff, D. Noronha, J. Dyer Ball, H.C. Setna, E. E. Pallanjee Setna, S. D. Sotne, J. Jamasjee, H. St. Clair Greeley, H. F. Hayllar, D. Musso (Consul for Italy), A. Seth, L. P. Marques, J. A. Carvalho; Colonel Crawford, R.A.; Messrs. A. G. Stokes, A. K. Travers; Captain Long, R.N.; Major Riddell, R.A.; Commodore Morant, R.N.; Captain Pearson, R.N.; Messrs. H. H. Jukes, N. A. Sieba; Captain Rumsey, R.N.; Major Dempster, A.P.D.; Lieut-Colonel Murray, C.B.D.; Dr. Manson; Messrs. S. E. Shellim, J. T. Chater, E. C. Ray, G. T. Jordan, C. C. Cohen, V. H. Deacon, C. E. Bowles, D. E. Sassoon, Sidney Hancock, E. Jones Hughes, W. Hartigan, B. Byramjee, W. G. Humphreys; Major Tripp, Captain Francis, Lieuts. McCallum, Mossley, Woolley, and Holmes, Hongkong Volunteer Artillery; Mr. H. Poate; Dr. Hungerford, Army Medical Department; Messrs. A. Falconer, R. C. Wilcox, T. I. Rose (Consul for Siam), Granville Sharp, Teiske Minami (Consul for Japan), H. Z. Just, J. H. Stewart-Lockhart; Lieut-Colonel Le Masurier, C. and T.D.; Lieut. Farquhar, R.N.; Messrs. E. Bebre, G. T. Hopkine; Lieut. A. K. Knapton, R.N., Flag Lieut.; Messrs. N. G. Mitchell-Innes, C. Heyman, D. B. Tata, J. M. E. Machado, F. Machado, A. F. Alves, A. J. Rozario, A. P. Guterrez, J. G. T. Hassell, A. P. Stokes; the Very Rev. G. Burghignoli, Mr. C. A. Tomes; Captain Maturio, R.A.; Messrs. Samuel Hughes, Dinshaw Nowrojee, J. K. Dealy, and John D. Humphreys.\n\nThe following were invited guests, in addition to the guest of the evening:- Rear-Admiral Rieunier, Captain Dupuis, Captain Blanc, French Navy; Colonel Walker, R.E.; Dr. Fisher, R.N.; Major Davies, Assistant Military Secretary; Colonel Foster, Captains Power and Bolton, Lieuts. Parkin, Little, Metcalfe, Bramwell, Drew, Lowther, Podler, and Quartermaster Wallace, Northamptonshire Regiment; Captain Hoffmeier, H.I.G.M. Navy; Commanders Alleyne, Davis, Hill, Moore, and Hotham, R.N.; Lieuts. Breeks, Bowen, and Somerville, A.D.C.s; Messrs. Dent and Keey, R.N.; Messrs. Clement Allen and E. E. Porter.\n\nSt. Andrew's Hall was decorated with festoons of green leaves, flags, and pot plants, and made to look bright and pretty, and three long tables were set out, taking almost the entire length of the room, with a cross table at the head, in the centre of which sat the Chairman, with a Vice-Chairman at the head of each side table, on either hand, and another at the foot of each of the three tables.\n\nSt. George's Hall was also neatly decorated, the doors being curtained with flags, and ferns, moss, and pot plants being used with good effect. A capital dancing floor was prepared. The ante-room was decorated in the same way, and a portion of the Chamber of Commerce room was partitioned off and a refreshment buffet established there.\n\nThe entrance hall and staircase were also very effectively decorated with pot plants and wreaths of green leaves, presenting a very pleasing appearance.\n\nThe banquet commenced at 7.15 o'clock p.m., the Band playing \"The Roast Beef of Old England.\" The following were the after-dinner speeches:-\n\n## Speech of the Chief Justice\n\nThe CHAIRMAN- The first toast on the list for this evening is the usual loyal toast, the health of Her Majesty the Queen. I ask you to join me in drinking that toast.\n\nThe toast was drunk upstanding, with three cheers.\n\nThe Band- \"God Save the Queen.\"\n\nThe CHAIRMAN- The next toast on the list is the health of the Prince and Princess of Wales, and the rest of the Royal Family.\n\nThe toast was drunk with similar honours. The Band- \"God Bless the Prince of Wales.\"\n\nThe CHAIRMAN- Gentlemen, the next toast I have to propose is the health of His Excellency the Governor. (Applause). We are met together on this occasion, as you all know, in compliment to his Excellency the Governor, and for the purpose of bidding him farewell publicly, as he is shortly about to depart from us, in all probability never to return. It is now nearly three years since he first assumed the government of this Colony. He came to us at a somewhat critical period of our history, no novice in the management of affairs, but as an old and tried Governor, with great experience in the conduct of business, having successfully governed some of the most important colonies in the British empire-colonies which have already made a place in history and which are undoubtedly destined to take a foremost place among the nations of the world. (Cheers). For his services before he came amongst us, he had already received from the hands of Her Majesty one of the highest rewards that it is usual to bestow for distinguished public service, viz., the Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George. (Applause).\n\nHis services to this community have been recognized on more than one occasion, and only recently in their farewell address by the Legislative Council-(applause)-body which, comprising as it does nearly all the members of the Executive Council in addition to some of the leading members of the general community, has naturally been brought into more intimate relationships with the Governor than any other portion of the public and is best able to judge of their value. (Hear, hear).\n\nIt would ill become me on the present occasion and in the present assembly, which is not met together for political purposes, and especially in my position, to enter into any question having any bearing upon politics. (Hear, hear). This I can say for myself that I know that His Excellency has always taken a very great interest in everything that he considered was for the best interest of the community-(applause)-and I think I can take it upon myself in the name of all who are present to assure the Governor in similar language to that used by the Legislative Council in its farewell address, that his administration will always be associated in our minds with much personal kindness, consideration, and hospitality (cheers)-a hospitality which I may observe owed a great portion of its charm to the deserved popularity of Lady Bowen and her daughters in the first portion of His Excellency's administration, a hospitality which was not slackened during their necessary but regretted absence, and which has again during the last few months been brightened by the presence of one of His Excellency's daughters and of his only son. (Renewed and prolonged applause).\n\nI am sure also that we all sympathize with the Governor in the prospect of his approaching retirement from public life. It will undoubtedly be a trial to him to give up the active pursuits in which he has been hitherto engaged, the pleasures as well as the anxieties of public life, and the degree of state to which he has been accustomed, for the comparative simplicity and retirement of private life. We have all of us, however, to look forward to relinquishing the active pursuits of life, but there is some consolation for us all if we are able to carry with us in our retirement the assurance that in the days of our activity we faithfully endeavoured to perform our various duties to the best of our ability. (Applause).\n\nBut the Governor, with his experience, need not, unless he pleases, live merely a life of lettered ease, and there are more useful services in which he can be engaged than even in administering the affairs of an important Colony such as this. There has been of late a growing tendency both in the mother country and in the Colonies to tighten and strengthen the bonds of union now existing between them-(applause)-and there has also been a growing and strong desire to enter into closer relationship between ourselves and our great kindred nation. (Hear, hear).\n\nNext year will be an eventful year in this respect. The new buildings of The Royal Colonial Institute will be opened-a Society of which Sir George Bowen has long been a member-(applause)-and which, together with its off-shoot, the Empire Club, has done so much to bring Colonial questions prominently forward before the public at home. Leading colonists from all parts of the Empire will take part in the Colonial Exhibition, to which we are about sending our modest contribution, including many from Colonies over which Sir George Bowen has had the honour during his long career of having been appointed Governor.\n\nThere will also be the American Exhibition of Inventions, which will attract to London many of the leading citizens of the United States, and to welcome whom a Council consisting of most of the leading men in the British possessions, and amongst whom I have no doubt Sir George Bowen's name is already to be found, has been formed by American residents in London and promoters of the Exhibition, avowedly for the purpose of strengthening the friendly relationships between the great English-speaking nations who have one language and one literature in common, whose great men and our great men, and whose noble women and our noble women are the same-(applause)-and who all inherit the glorious deeds and love of liberty of our ancestors. (Renewed applause).\n\nAnd to crown all, it will be the jubilee year of our Most Gracious Sovereign Her Majesty the Queen. (Loud cheers). The movements which have commenced cannot fail to be accelerated by these events, and His Excellency will no doubt be called upon to take an active part in them, and if, as the result of the consultations and deliberations which are even now taking place, any satisfactory measures can be discovered which will have the effect of bringing Great Britain and Ireland, their colonies and dependencies into closer union, especially if in addition we and our kindred nation, the Great Republic of the United States of America (loud applause)-the citizens of whom I believe venerate and respect our Queen in almost if not in quite the same degree as we do ourselves (applause)-could be brought closer and more unitedly together, it would be of so great a service to the world at large as to reflect the highest amount of credit and honour on all concerned in bringing it about. (Hear, hear).\n\nSuch a union would hold out no menace to foreign powers but would, I should hope, have a tendency to hasten the period when reason and not force, right and not might, shall prevail among all the nations of the earth. (Cheers).\n\nIn conclusion, I may say I know that I can safely assure the Governor of the best wishes of you all (hear, hear and cheers)-that he may have a safe and pleasant voyage home-that he may thoroughly enjoy himself during his stay in that old and interesting country which he purposes visiting on his way-(hear, hear)-that he may have a happy meeting with the remainder of his family in England (applause)-and, if so be that he never returns to us again, we trust that he will continue to take the same kindly interest in the welfare of the Colony that he has taken since the first day he came among us-(hear, hear)-and that, again using similar language to that contained in the address before referred to, we hope that he may long enjoy the rest earned by more than a quarter of a century's service and that his unequalled experience may be found of service in the Councils of the Empire. (Cheers).\n\nI have now the great pleasure of proposing the health of His Excellency the Governor, Sir George Ferguson Bowen, and to ask you to unite with me in wishing him all happiness, prosperity, and success in his future career. (Loud cheers).\n\nThe Band- \"God Save the Queen.\"\n\nThe toast was drunk with musical honours and three times three.\n\nHis EXCELLENCY, who was received with prolonged and most enthusiastic applause, said- Mr. Chairman and gentlemen, I thank His Honour the Chief Justice for the flattering and eloquent speech in which he has just proposed my health-a speech, I may add, which derives additional weight and significance from his own high office and character, which are most fully appreciated throughout this Colony. (Applause).\n\nPage 150\nPage 151", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-223 - Governor Sir Bowen Acting Governor Marsh & Others - 1885 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 330706, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-226 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1886 [4-5]", "page_number": 169, "title": "CO129-226 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1886 [4-5]", "content_text": "166\n\n19. The names of the principal contributors to the Gardens are as follow:\n\nAnderson, Lieut.-Colonel D. G.; seeds.\n\nArmstrong, J. M.; plants.\n\nBlackhead Smith, Mrs.; seeds.\n\nBoehmer, Louis, Yokohama; plants.\n\nBotanic Gardens, Brisbane, J. Pink, Director; plants.\n\nJamaica, D. Morris, M.A., Director; seeds.\n\nCalcutta, Dr. G. King, LL.D., Director; plants.\n\nDurban Natal, J. M. Wood, Curator; seeds, plants, &c.\n\nTownsville, A. M. Anderson, Superintendent; plants.\n\nRoyal Kew, Sir J. D. Hooker, K.C.S.I., &c., Director; plants and seeds.\n\nBunting, Isaac, Yokohama; plants.\n\nCooper, W. M. Ningpo; seeds and plants.\n\nCoxon, Mrs. A.; plants and seeds.\n\nCurtis, C. Penang, Forest Department; plants and seeds.\n\n20. The following are the chief recipients:\n\nAcclimatization Society Queensland; seeds.\n\nAdams & Son, Messrs. New Zealand; seeds.\n\nBell Irving, Mrs.; plants.\n\nBlackhead Smith, Mrs.; plants.\n\nBotanic Gardens, Adelaide; seeds.\n\nBrisbane; seeds and plants.\n\nCalcutta; seeds and plants.\n\nCeylon; seeds.\n\nJamaica; seeds.\n\nMelbourne; seeds.\n\nNatal; seeds and plants.\n\nSingapore; seeds and plants.\n\nTownsville; seeds.\n\nSydney; seeds.\n\nTrinidad; seeds.\n\nRoyal Kew; seeds, plants and herbarium specimens.\n\nCameron, Mrs.; plants.\n\nCrawford, Mrs.; plants.\n\nCrow, W. E.; plants.\n\nCundall, C. H. Manila; plants.\n\nCurtis, C.; plants and seeds.\n\n21. During the year we received:--\n\n789 Plants.\n\n291 Packets of seeds.\n\n1 Wardian Cases.\n\n4 Animals.\n\n60 Herbarium specimens.\n\nCundall, C. H., Manila; plants and seeds.\n\nDehra Dun, Forest School, India; seeds.\n\nFranco, P. M.; seeds.\n\nHance, Dr. H. F., Canton; seeds.\n\nHughes, J. I.; one deer.\n\nIndian Forest Department; seeds.\n\nMacgowan, Dr. F. Wenchow; plants.\n\nNicholl, Mrs. Amoy; seeds.\n\nPickford, C. R. B., Cebu; plants.\n\nPiercy, Mrs.; plants.\n\nPolice Department; one Pheasant.\n\nQueensland Acclimatization Society; seeds.\n\nRomano, A. G.; plants.\n\nSwalemen, Van Der, Ghent Belgium; seeds.\n\nWhitehead, F. H.; one Deer.\n\nWing Kee; one Owl and two Storks.\n\nWoodin, E. L.; plants and seeds.\n\nFaber, Rev. E.; plants.\n\nFranco, P. M.; plants.\n\nGordon, Major-General, A.H.A.; plants.\n\nGrossman, C. F.; plants.\n\nHance, Dr. H. F. Canton; plants and herb. specimens.\n\nHargreaves, Rev. G. Canton; plants.\n\nLadies Recreation Club, plants.\n\nMaries, C. C. India; seeds.\n\nMoin, E. M. A. India; seeds.\n\nPiercy, Mrs.; plants.\n\nPolice Department; plants.\n\nRomano, A. G.; plants.\n\nSilva, J. M. A.; plants.\n\nThe Governor of Macao, seeds.\n\nThe Maharaja of Durbungah; seeds.\n\nThe Spanish Consul; seeds.\n\nThomson, Dr. J. C. Canton, plants.\n\nTripp, H. J. H.; plants.\n\nVyvyan, C. B.; seeds.\n\nWing Kee; plants.\n\nWoodin, E. L.; seeds and plants.\n\n22. Irrespective of the plants that were sold during the year we sent out:-\n\n2,202 Plants.\n\n221 Packets of seeds.\n\n14 Wardian Cases.\n\n22 Herbarium specimens.\n\n23. The Library has been increased by the following additions:--\n\nA journey of Exploration through Western Ssu Ch'u.\n\nBotanical Magazine for part of 1885.\n\nDecandolle's Monographiae Phanerogamarum, 4 vols.\n\nFranchet's Plantae Davidianæ, first part.\n\nGardeners Chronicle for 1885.\n\nJournal of Botany for part of 1885.\n\nLoureiro's Flora Cochinchinensis.\n\nNew Commercial Plants and Drugs by Thomas Christy, F.L.S., F.S.C.L. presented by the Author.\n\nReport of the Acclimatization Society Queensland for 1884.\n\nReport on the Arboriculture of the assigned districts, India for 1884.\n\nReport on the Botanic Gardens Adelaide for 1884.\n\nFirst Annual Report on the Forest Department, Straits Settlements, 1885.\n\nProgress Report of Forest Administration in Ajmere-Merwara for 1883-84-85.\n\nProgress Report of Forest Administration in Assam for 1883-84.\n\nProgress Report of Forest Administration in British Burma for 1883-84.\n\nProgress Report of Forest Administration in British India for 1883-84.\n\nProgress Report of Forest Administration in the Central Provinces for 1884-85.\n\nProgress Report of Forest Administration in Coorg for 1883-84.\n\nProgress Report of Forest Administration in Hyderabad Assigned Districts for 1884-85.\n\nProgress Report of Forest Administration in the Punjab for 1884-85.\n\nProgress Report of Forest Administration in the North-Western Provinces and Oudh for 1883-84.\n\nReport on the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew for 1883.\n\nHorticultural Gardens Lucknow for 1884-85.\n\nPublic Gardens and Plantations, Jamaica, for 1884.\n\nEstablishment of a Botanic Garden and Arboretum at Montreal.\n\nby Mr. Hosie on a journey through Central Ssu Ch'uan.\n\nof the Royal Society of Tasmania.\n\non the Experimental Garden, Milam, North Borneo for 1884.\n\nAnnual Administration Reports of the Forest Department, Madras Presidency for 1883-84.\n\nProgress Report of the Forest Survey Branch for 1883-84.\n\nSiebold's Flora Japonica, 2 vols.\n\nSuccinct Notes on some plants from New Guinea and a description of hitherto unrecorded Papuan Orchids, by Baron von Muller, K.C.M.G. &c.\n\n24. The Garden staff has worked fairly well throughout the year, but a high standard of efficiency is not to be expected. The ordinary Chinese Gardener has no knowledge of the physical laws that govern vegetable life, although they cultivate many of the plants of their native country with wonderful success; but in dealing with foreign plants that require to be carefully studied till the conditions necessary for their acclimatization are understood, they show little interest. They in fact frequently neglect such plants, unless a rule of thumb practice can be laid down for their guidance. It is a hard matter to interest a Chinese Gardener in an experimental attempt to propagate or cultivate a plant which must be subjected to a process different to that which he has been accustomed to practise. This class of men could hardly be expected to understand an explanation of the physical laws that bear upon horticulture as a science; but Mr. Ford has endeavoured for some years back to procure a better class of workmen by training up boys as apprentices, and educating them upon a broader principle than that usually followed in China; but although this system has been fairly satisfactory in one or two cases, it has not been wholly successful. The training which the boys receive sharpens their intelligence and gives them educational advantages that make them aspire to a position more lucrative and, from their point of view, more dignified than that of a \"fa-wong.\" Several promising lads have left in this way just as they were beginning to be useful. This of course is very disappointing, and I am afraid that no other result can be anticipated in future, unless the intelligence of the trained apprentices is remunerated at its market value.\n\n25. Government House.-A number of plants, chiefly Palms and Arvids, were planted out on the bank below the northern side of Government House. The fence which supports the creepers on the top of the bank has been extended for seventy yards farther on the walk, and the plants on the older portion have all been cut back and replaced with a view to more uniformity.\n\nWere the necessary funds available, great improvements could be effected on the ground just within the wall at the eastern bend of Upper Albert Road. The appearance of this part is a constant eye-sore, owing to the rough nature of the ground and the constant litter of bamboo leaves. The bamboo is very effective in isolated clumps, but its predominance in a garden or pleasure-ground is objectionable from an artistic point of view and injurious to the development of the other trees and shrubs that were planted with the intention of contributing to and improving the general effect.\n\nAFFORESTATION\n\n26. The planting of China Pines was commenced on December 3rd, 1884, and completed on the 16th of May, 1885. They were planted in the following localities:-Kowloon, North of Butts; Observatory; Black Mountain; Aberdeen Hills; Mount Kellet; and below Mount Gough Road. The total number planted is 342,302.\n\n27. A number of seedling Pines were raised in sites in the following localities:--Mount Davis, Mount Kellet, the New Military Sanitarium, and Saiwan, 204,837 plants being successfully raised. A large number of sites, probably one fifth of those made on the southern side of Mount Kellet, were unproductive. The soil in this locality is rather variable, and the failures chiefly occur on the steep slopes where the grass is scanty. Where the ground is covered with a fibrous carpet of grass roots, the rain, as it rushes down the slopes, is absorbed in sufficient quantities to saturate the soil and render it suitable for the reception and subsequent development of the young tree; but where the ground has been denuded of its herbage by the irrepressible grass cutter with his blunt sickle, which does not cut but uproots the grass, the young tree is sorely handicapped in the struggle for existence.\n\n28. 150 Catties of Pine seeds were sown broadcast on the hill south of the Little Hongkong estuary. A large number of seedlings have sprung up, but in rather irregular patches. It would be premature however, to pronounce upon the issue of this experiment at present. The result will be more apparent next year.\n\n29. Some Bischoffias and Camphors were planted on Mount Davis. Camphors and Cork Oaks were also planted on the hills above the Powder Magazine. These have all done well.\n\n30. Fourteen species of Eucalyptus were raised in various quantities and planted out in the following localities:-New Military Sanitarium; above Powder Magazine; and at Sokonpo. The total number planted being 16,398. Each species was planted in a clump, and marked with a ticket to enable us to identify the different kinds, and note their relative adaptability to the soil and climate of Hongkong. This comparison has been very interesting, and will be valuable in enabling us to select the most suitable kinds in future. The three species that are conspicuously superior to the others, and which may be considered an unqualified success, are L. robusta, citriodora, and tereticornus. The next in order are:-marginata, platyphylla, corymbosa, resinifera, and haemastoma. These five kinds have not done so well on the exposed hills near the Military Sanitarium as the three first mentioned kinds, but they have succeeded very well at Sokonpò where the position is more sheltered; and I have no doubt that they will succeed in many of the unexposed parts of the island. Other four species, namely: Stuartiana; siderophloia; Microcorys; and maculata have grown moderately well. The percentage of deaths is small, but the growth is slow and weakly. They evidently required a richer soil than the above mentioned sorts. The two species that have been least successful are pilularis, and hemophloia. A large proportion of both kinds have died, and those that have survived have not a promising appearance.\n\n31. The plantations of Cassia Lignen' that were made on the hills north of Aberdeen would probably have been in a thriving condition by this time but for the persistence of the Chinese in breaking...\n\nPage 166 appears three times at top, three times at bottom\n\n \nMay", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-226 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1886 [4-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 336142, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-236 - Others - 1887", "page_number": 227, "title": "CO129-236 - Others - 1887", "content_text": "# FAREWELL ADDRESS TO AND DEPARTURE OF GENERAL SARGENT\n\nFrom the Daily Press, 1st April, 1885.\n\nHarrison (The Buffs), Major Gelston, A.P.D., Major Cochrane (Brigade Major), Captain Davis, R.N., Captain Lewis, A.D.C., Major H. J. H. Tripp and Captain Francis, H.K.V.C., Messrs. W. H. Forbes, E. R. Belilios, C. D. Bottomley, A. P. MacEwen, L. Hoppius, J. Bell-Irving, J. Macgregor, C. P. Chater, L. Poesnecker, L. Déjardin (French Consul), A. G. Romano (Portuguese Consul-General), A. Coxon, J. G. T. Hassell, Ho Kai, W. Danby, A. G. Wise, B. Layton, D. Ruttunjee, W. H. Ray, J. H. Cox, H. Stolterfoht, R. Lyall, J. S. Brewer, F. Dodwell, E. Mackean, &c., &c., &c.\n\nThe address was presented shortly after the General's arrival on board the steamer.\n\n(Then follows the Address, with list of names, and the General's reply.)\n\n## DEPARTURE\n\nFrom the Leading Article of the 1st April, 1885.\n\nYesterday afternoon His Excellency Lieut.-General Sargent left here in the P. and O. steamer `Chusan`, having completed his three years' term of command of the Troops. Great numbers of his friends and well-wishers assembled, both at Murray Wharf, where he embarked for the steamer, and on board the `Chusan`, to bid His Excellency and Mrs. and the Misses Sargent farewell. A guard of honour from the Buffs, under command of Major Howarth, with the Band and Colours of the Regiment, was drawn up on the Praya; there was a strong muster of the troops in garrison, and many other spectators were assembled near the wharf. Shortly after three o'clock General Sargent and party arrived at the wharf, where they were met by His Excellency the Governor, Major-General Cameron and Miss Cameron, Bishop Raimondi, and most of the officers of the garrison. The guard of honour saluted, and the band played as General Sargent stepped out of his chair. The gallant General and Mrs. Sargent took leave of those assembled on the wharf, and embarked on the launch, a salute being fired from the shore battery, while the Band played \"Auld Lang Syne,\" and the assembled troops gave vent to their feelings by continuous and enthusiastic cheers. As the launch steamed past, salutes were also fired from the Victor Emanuel and the U.S. flagship `Trenton`. Meanwhile a large gathering had assembled on the `Chusan`, which was literally surrounded by steam launches. Among those present on board were His Honour Sir George Phillippo, the Hon. W. H. March, C.M.G., Hon. E. L. O'Malley, Hon. J. M. Price, Mr. Justice Ackroyd and Mrs. Ackroyd, Hon. P. Ryrie, Hon. W. Keswick, Hon. T. Jackson and Mrs. Jackson, Hon. F. D. Sassoon, Commodore and Mrs. Morant, the Right Rev. Bishop Berdon, Colonel Walker, R.E., Lieut.-Colonel Crawford, R.A., Lieut.-Colonel and Mrs. Graves, Major Lloyd, R.E., Major ...\n\n## FOR ENGLAND OF LIEUT.-GENERAL SARGENT\n\nFrom the Hongkong Telegraph.\n\nThat brave old warrior, Lieut.-General Sargent, who has commanded Her Majesty's troops in China and the Straits Settlements for the past three years, took his departure, together with Mrs. Sargent and the Misses Sargent, for England on the 31st ulto., by the P. & O. mail steamer `Chusan`. About three o'clock a guard of honour of the \"Grand Old Buffs,\" the General's old corps, in which he fought in the China war of 1860, with the Band and Colours, was marched down to the Praya and drawn up at the Cricket Ground close to Murray Wharf, where most of the officers of the garrison, as well as a considerable number of residents, were assembled, amongst whom we noticed Bishop Raimondi. There was also a pretty strong muster of the men of the East Kents to see their favourite General. General Cameron and Mrs. Cameron drove down to see ...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-236 - Others - 1887.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 } ]