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        "content_text": "Proviso\n\nminated by the Governor as soon as convenient thereafter to be Trustees And a fresh of the said Church for the year immediately ensuing. election and nomination of Trustees shall in like manner take place upon every last Thursday in the month of April in every year thereafter, and copies of the minutes of every election or nomination fa Trustee which shall take place under the provisions of any clause in this Ordinance shall be transmitted without delay to the Colonial Secretary. Provided always that no person shall be elected a Trustee at any general meeting before the completion of the said Church who shall not have paid up a subscription thereto of at least Twenty Pounds Sterling, or after its completion, who shall not be a renter of at least three sittings therein, nor any person who shall not be a member of the United Church of England and Ireland.\n\nV. And it is further enacted, That the Colonial Chaplain for the to be ex-officio time being duly appointed to the sail Church, or during his absence Chairman of Trus the Clergyman duly appointed to officiate for him, shall at all times bo ex-officio Chairman of the Trustees, but shall not have the power of voting by reason of being such Chairman except in cases where the votes of the Trustees present shall be equal.\n\nColonial Chaplain\n\ntees.\n\nhow to be filled.\n\nVacancy occa\n\nVI. And it is further enacted, That whenever any Trustee shall sioned by death, die, or shall resign, or shall leave the Colony, then in case such Trustee resignation, or re- shall have been originally elected at a general meeting, his vacancy moval of Trustees, shall be filled by some other person duly qualified in like manner as such Trustee, to be elected at a general meeting to be called for that purpose as soon as may be convenient by the continuing Trustees or And in case such Trustee shall have been the major part of them. originally nominated by the Governor, his vacancy shall be filled as soon as may be convenient by some other person duly qualified, to\n\nProvided always that if such general be nominated in like manner. meeting shall not be called within one mouth after the death, resigna- tion, or departure of such Trustee from the Colony, it shall be lawful for the Governor to nominate some person duly qualified as aforesaid to be a Trustee.\n\nProviso.\n\nAnnually.\n\nSittings in Church\n\nVII. And it is further enacted, That the Trustees for the time how to be appro- being duly nominated and elected as aforesaid, or the major part of priated. them, are hereby authorized and required to set apart, as soon as con- veniently may be after the completion of the said Church, one-third part of the whole number of sittings therein, to be appropriated, free of any charge whatever, to the use and accommodation of the poorer classes of the population; and also one pew containing not more than four sittings for the use and occupation, free from all charges, of the Clergy- man licensed to officiate in the said Church; and the remaining sittings, after due provision shall have been inade for the free accommo- dation of the Governor and his family and suite in the Chancel or elsewhere, and of the Military, shall be assigned to the Trustees for the time being and their successors for the purposes hereinafter mentioned.\n\nTrustees to fix\n\nVIII. And it is further enacted, That it shall and may be law- the rent of Sittings ful for the Trustees for the time being or the major part of them, and they are hereby required, so soon as such partition of the Church shall have taken place as in the preceding clause mentioned, to assess and fix a rent or rate for each pew or sitting, with the exception of such pews or sittings as shall have been set apart and reserved as afore- said, and to make agreements and contracts with any person desirous And such rate or to engage the same according to such assessment. rent shall be in force for one year from the time of the assessment thereof. And at the expiration of such year the Trustees for the time being shall assess and fix a fresh rate or rent for the year immediately following. And a fresh assessment shall in like manner be made annually and every year. And the Trustees for the time being shall be at all times empowered to make agreements and con- tracts in respect of any pew or sitting which shall be vacant. Provided always that if it shall at any time appear to the Trustees or the major part of them that such annual assessment will be insufficient to defray the several charges and costs necessary for effecting and providing all things required by this Ordinance, it shall and may be lawful for such Trustees, or the major part of them, by eight days' previous notice in writing, affixed in some conspicuous place in the said Church, to call a general meeting, for the purpose of taking into consideration the expediency of amending and increasing such assess- ment; and if it shall appear to the majority of such meeting, not being fewer in number than twenty, that such assessment will not be sufficient to provide for all such necessary costs and charges, it shall and may be lawful for the said majority to substitute such higher assessment, as by them shall be deemed sufficient, to meet such costs and charges, and such higher rate shall thereupon become due and payable and shall continue to be charged and collected for the same period that the rate for which it is so substituted would otherwise have been in force.\n\nProviso.\n\nSubscribers of\n\nIX. And it is further enacted, That every subscriber towards the building of the said Church to the amount of not less than Ten Pounds Ten Pounds to have Sterling shall have a right in the first instance to become a renter of a priority of choice of Sittings. pew or sitting in preference to any other person who shall not have so subscribed; and such subscribers shall amongst themselves have priority in the choice of pews or sittings not exceeding six sittings, according to the amount of their subscriptions the subscriber to the larger amount to have the prior choice, and the choice of subscribers to an equal amount to the determined by lot.\n\nProviso.\n\nX. And be it further enacted, That any person having engaged Party having en- any pew or sittings, and continuing to pay rent for the same accord. gaged a Sitting not ding to the rate fixed, and also conducting himself or herself in the to be disturbed. said Church so as not wilfully or maliciously to disturb the perfor- mance of public worship, or to molest any part of the congregation attending the same, shall not be, under any pretence whatever, removed ur ejected without his or her own consent, from the occupation of such pew or sittings at all times when the said Church shall be open for the performance of public Worship, the ministration of any Sacrament, or other rite or ceremony, according to the use of the United Church of England and Ireland. Provided nevertheless, That if any person having engaged any pew or sittings in the said Church under agree- ment to pay for the same according to the rate or rent assessed there- upon, shall suffer such rent to fall into arrear, and to continue unpaid for three months after the same shall have been demanded by the Trustees or by any person empowered by them, or the major part of them; or if any person having engaged as aforesaid any pew or sitting, shall refuse to pay for the same such increased rate of rent as the Trustees, according to the provisions hereinbefore described, shall have assessed and affixed; or if any person engaging and occupying any snch pew or sittings, and continuing to pay the rent assessed upon the same, shall, by any unsuitable noise, gesture, or deportment, wilfully and irreverently interrupt the celebration of Public Worship, or shall designedly and habitually disturb any part of the congregation within ing the congrega- the said Church,-in all such cases it shall and may be lawful for the tion to be deprived of his pew or sit- Trustees to issue a monition to every such defaulter or offender, and tings. in case such defaulter or offender shall not forthwith pay all such arrears or shall not amend and desist from the practice so complained of, it shall be lawful for the said Trustees to convene a general meet- ing to whom it shall be competent to authorize the said Trustees to declare such pew or sittings occupied by the party complained of to be vacant.\n\nPerson disturb-\n\nXI. And it is further enacted, That it shall and may be lawful Trustees autho- for the major part of the Trustees, with the previous consent of the rized to permit the Governor and with his approval of any proposed epitaph or inscrip- erection of Mon- tion, to permit any monuments to be erected or placed in such parts previous consent of the said Church as they may deem convenient, upon payment to the Governor. the said Trustees for the use of the said Church for such permission by the person or persons desiring to erect or place any monument in the said Church, of such charges as are contained and set forth in the Schedule hereunto annexed; and it shall be lawful for any person or persons erecting or placing any monument in the said Church, by and with such permission as aforesaid, to have and maintain and keep up such monument according to the terms of such permission, to and for the sole and separate use of the said person or persons, and his or their heirs for ever.\n\nments\n\nwith the\n\nXII. Provided always and it is further enacted, That it shall Bodies not to be not be lawful to bury any body within the said Church or within the buried within or near the Church. enclosed ground about the same.\n\nXIII. And it is further enacted, That it shall be lawful for the Trustees to cot- Trustees for the time being, or the major part of them, and they are lect all dues to the Church and to ap hereby required to collect and gather, or cause to be collected or propriate them in gathered, all sums of money which shall be due for pews or sittings payment of sala- in the said Church, and all subscriptions and donations thereunto, and ries, repairs, &c. all rents and revenues that may at any time arise out of any land or hereditamente belonging to the said Church, and all fees or payments for monuments or vaults, and to apply for the said sums and to sue for the recovery of the same from all persons who shall fail or refuse to pay the same. And the said Trustees shall, out of the said sums so received or recovered, regularly pay the salaries allotted to all lay persons holding any office in or about the said Church, according to such rates and at such periods as shall be determined upon by the majority of the said Trustees, and shall apply the surplus in such repairs and such improvements of the said Church and premises as slial to them appear most expedient.\n\nActions to be\n\nXIV. And it is further enacted, That it shall be lawful for the Trustees for the time being, or the major part of them, to make, or brought by and enter into, perform, and execute, and compel the performance and against Trustees. execution of all such contracts and agreements, matters and things, and to commence and maintain all such suits and actions as they shall\n\n262",
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        "content_text": "107\n\nthe Surveyor General, and this List to be published in the Government Gazette Three Months at least before the General Election.\n\n10. The Sheriff to entertain and record all applications and objections made to him and to forward the same on the subject to the Colonial Secretary One Month before the General Election.\n\n11. The Colonial Secretary to lay this List with such applications and objections before the Executive Council, who shall revise the List and decide on the applications and objections.\n\n12. The List so revised to be passed by the Executive Council and published in the Gazette at least Ten Days before the General Election.\n\n13. The Election shall take place in the last week of every third year during the month of March, the day to be named by the Sheriff and announced in the Gazette by Public Notice.\n\n14. The Election shall be conducted by the Sheriff in such place as shall be directed by the Executive Council.\n\n15. The Sheriff shall require from each Voter the oath of allegiance and, if required by any Elector, the oath against bribery before receiving and recording the suffrage of such voter.\n\n16. The Five Members returned shall sit for 3 years, and in the event of a vacancy occurring during this period, it shall be in the discretion of the Governor to direct that such vacancy be filled by Election in the prescribed Manner, or be left unfilled for the remaining period of the 3 years.\n\n17. The Warrant for each Election shall be",
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        "content_text": "THE \n\nHongkong \n\n372 \n\nGovernment \n\nGAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY. \n\nNEW SERIES. \n\nVICTORIA, MONDAY, 2D MARCH, 1857. \n\nGOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION. \n\nVOL. II. No. 87*. \n\nThe Contract for publishing this Gazette, entered into on the 24th September, 1853, was terminated on the 30th ultimo; and notice is hereby given, that a New SERIES of this Gazette will be published hereafter, to commence from the 7th instant, under a New Contract, and that \n\n“THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE” will, as before, be the only Official Organ for PROCLAMATIONS, NOTIFICATIONS, and PUBLIC PAPERS, of this Government. \n\nBy Order, \n\nColonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 2d July, 1855. \n\nNo. 38. \n\nGOVERNMENT GAZETTE. The subjoined Correspondence relative to the Reconstruction of the Legislative Council, is this day published for general information, according to Notification No. 35, of 26th ultimo. \n\nBy order, \n\nW. T. BRIDGES, Acting Colonial Secretary. \n\nColonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 2d March, 1857. \n\nNo. 110. Legislative. \n\nGovernment OFFICES, VICTORIA, \n\nHONGKONG, 2d August, 1855. \n\nMY LORD, I have to acknowledge your Lordship's Despatch No. 9, dated 23d May, on the subject of the Government of this colony. \n\nHaving communicated my views to the Colonial Secretary, and discussed with him on various occasions the propriety of reconstructing the Legislative Council, with reference to the altered condition and growing prosperity of this colony, I have now the honour to submit, for your Lordship's consideration, a revised minute, which contains the outlines of what appears to me a safe and satisfactory scheme of Legislative Reform. I instructed the Colonial Secretary to submit the same to the Lieutenant-Governor, and forward copy of a letter to me which conveys his approval of the project. \n\nYour Lordship will observe by my Despatch No. 108, dated 30th ultimo, that we do not find it necessary to avail ourselves of the Parliamentary Grant in aid, as proposed in the Estimates for the year 1855-56; and I have every reason to hope, not only that the colony will supply itself with adequate funds to meet the needful expenditure, but that we shall be able, without difficulty or pressure upon the inhabitants, to accomplish many important objects, which, while they benefit the people, will ultimately be productive to the Treasury. \n\nI propose to add six new Members, 3 Official and 3 Non-official, to the present number of the Legislative Council. I think the number thirteen sufficient for the purposes of discussion, and for the acquisition of all that information which is desirable for the ends of Legislation; and that the proportion of 8 Official to 5 Non-official Members, is quite as great a majority as Her Majesty's Government is entitled to nominate in a (now) self-supporting colony. \n\nW. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary. \n\nvered to Colonel Caine.-I have the honour to be, with the highest respect, Your Lordship's most obedient humble servant, \n\nJOHN BOWRING, The Right Honorable Lord JOHN RUSSELL, M. P., &c., &c., &c. \n\nInclosure 1,—Despatch 110. \n\nREVISED MINUTE ON THE RECONSTRUCTION \n\nOF THE COUNCILS. \n\nIt has long been generally apparent, that both the Legislative and Executive Councils in this colony require reconstruction; and the time is arrived when the necessary steps may be conveniently and usefully taken for the proper arrangement of them. \n\n2. To accomplish this object, it will be requisite, not to interfere with the Charter of the colony, but simply to propose alterations in the Queen's Instructions to the Governor, following the precedent which was adopted on the occasion of the admission of two Unofficial Members to the Legislative Council. \n\n3. Premising thus much, I would suggest the following measures -- \n\n4. The Executive Council to be composed of,— His Excellency The Governor, the Lieutenant Governor, the Colonial Secretary, the Attorney General, the Officer in Command of the Troops, the Colonial Treasurer. \n\n5. The Legislative Council of,- \n\nHis Excellency The Governor, the Lieutenant Governor, the Chief Justice, the Colonial Secretary, the Attorney General, the Colonial Treasurer, the Surveyor General, the Chief Magistrate of Police, and Five (5) Unofficial Members. \n\n6. In the event of the absence or disqualification of any of the Officials above mentioned, it shall be in the power of the Governor to nominate to the vacant seat. \n\n7. The Five Unofficial Members to be elected triennially from the general body of Registered Holders of Land, leased from the Crown, in the colony, all five being bona fide British Subjects, and three at least Justices of the Peace for the colony; but none of the five Unofficial Members shall be elected from persons holding office in the colony. \n\n8. The Electoral Body to consist of all Registered Holders of an undivided Lot of Land under Crown Lease, of the yearly Rental of £10 and upwards. \n\n9. An Electoral Roll or List of those qualified to vote to be annually prepared by the Sheriff, in communication with the Surveyor General; and this list to be published in the Government Gazette Three Months at least before the General Election. \n\n10. The Sheriff to entertain and record all applications and objections made to him on the subject, and to forward the same to the Colonial Secretary One Month before the General Election. \n\n12. The List so revised to be passed by the Executive Council, and published in the Gazette at least Ten days before the General Election. \n\nI have felt some hesitation as to the proposal of confining the choice of the constituents to two Members, who are not necessarily Justices of the Peace; but considering Her Majesty's Government \n\n11. The Colonial Secretary to lay this List, with such applications and objections, before the Executive Council, who shall revise the List, and decide on the applications and objections. \n\nthought it desirable to continue the recognition of the principle to the extent proposed by the minute. But I hold it of paramount importance, for the satisfaction of the community, and for the interests of good Government, that the Five Non-official Members should not be selected from persons holding office in the colony. \n\nThe 20th clause, giving to a Consul the right of being present by Summons from the Governor, when questions are to be discussed affecting the Queen's subjects settled in China, is I think likely to be of great assistance to the Legislative Council. \n\nAs the Estimates for next year will be sent home by the present Mail, there would be great advantage in having the reconstruction of the Legislative Council determined before preparing the budgets for 1856-57. \n\nThough I have not introduced the subject of publicity of debate into these suggestions, the advantages of such publicity immensely preponderate in my mind over any benefits to result from secret discussion. \n\nIn conformity with your Lordship's Instructions, an official copy of Sir George Grey's Despatch of 28th April last, No. 7, was delivered to Colonel Caine. \n\n13. The Election shall take place every third year, during the last week in March, the day to be named by the Sheriff, and announced by Public Notice in the Gazette. \n\n14. The Election shall be conducted by the Sheriff in such place as shall be directed by the Executive Council. \n\n15. The Sheriff shall require from each voter the oath of allegiance, and, if required by an Elector, the oath against bribery, before receiving and recording the suffrage of such voter. \n\n16. The Five Members returned shall sit for Three years, and in the event of a vacancy occurring during this period, it shall be in the discretion of the Governor to direct that such vacancy be filled by Election in the prescribed manner, or be left unfilled for the remaining period of the Three years. \n\n17. The Warrant for each Election shall be signed by the Governor, sealed with the seal of the colony, and addressed to the Sheriff.",
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        "content_text": "The Hongkong Government Gazette.\n\n18. The Rules now in operation to be thoroughly revised, and the Council to be conducted after the usual manner of conducting Public Councils or Meetings.\n\n19. Each Member, on being sworn in, to sign the Council copy of Rules for the conduct of the Council.\n\n20. When the Legislative Council shall sit in discussion on any matter affecting British Subjects in China, e.g., on any Consular Ordinance, any Consul or Vice-Consul, provided he be regularly appointed from home, and not merely acting, and provided he be on actual Service at one of the Ports of China open to Trade, shall, on Summons from the Governor, be admissible to a seat in the Legislative Council pro hac vice, and shall enjoy the right of speaking, but not of voting in the Council.\n\n21. The Governor shall enjoy, as President of the Council, a casting vote, and no vote of the Council shall interfere with the power or authority vested in the Governor by Her Majesty, or the Secretary of State for the Colonies.\n\n22. The Council may, as it shall see fit, amend or alter, from time to time, the Rules adopted for the conduct of its business.\n\nVICTORIA, HONGKONG, 28th July, 1855.\n\nInclosure 2,-Despatch 110.\n\nNo. 49. Legislative.\n\n[MARCH 2, 1857.]\n\nGOVERNMENT OFFICES, VICTORIA, HONGKONG, 26th March, 1857.\n\nSir, In reference to your Despatch of 23d November last, I propose now to forward some additional observations, and to furnish some further information in connection with my suggestions for the reorganization of the Legislative Council of this colony. My principal object is to introduce the popular element into its Government, and to make that element subservient to its prosperity, as I have reason to believe its introduction would be acceptable to public opinion.\n\n2. I deemed it desirable, before again reverting to the topic, to give the Colonial Secretary an opportunity of making any remarks upon my proposals, which either his experience of the Colonial Service, or his matured reflections on the subject matter, might suggest, and I think it right to forward copy of a Memorandum I have received from him. The change he advocates is altogether so unimportant, that I should think it would be better to leave matters as they are than to modify the Legislative Council in the manner suggested; and as I do not agree in the conclusion that the present state of things is satisfactory to the community, still less that it ought to be satisfactory, so I am persuaded that the admission of influences which should represent public opinion, with its contribution of knowledge, its demands for improvement, its interest in social reforms, would here as everywhere lead to greater contentment and better Government.\n\nVICTORIA, HONGKONG, 31st July, 1855.\n\nSIR, I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 30th instant, together with its inclosure (herewith returned), and to state for the information of His Excellency The Governor,\n\n3. But were there still less of dissatisfaction than exists with the present state of things, I should hold it most desirable not to wait a period of agitation, and the expression of public discontent, in order to confer on a growing and prosperous population the benefit of more representative institutions in some shape or other.\n\nThe only suggestion I have to make is with reference to paragraph 7; and here I beg to observe, that the 5 Unofficial Members being elected every third year, would render these parties more efficient and better acquainted with their duties, than if elected annually. I have, &c.,\n\nThe Honorable W. T. Mercer, Esquire,\n\nColonial Secretary,\n\nNo. 2.\n\nW. CAINE, Lieutenant Governor.\n\nHongkong.\n\n(True copy,)\n\nW. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.\n\nDOWNING STREET, 23d November, 1855.\n\nSIR, I have to acknowledge your Despatch No. 110, of the 2d August last, proposing, for the consideration of Her Majesty's Government, a scheme for the reconstitution of the Legislative Council of Hongkong,\n\n2. That proposal will receive attentive consideration; but before any decision can be arrived at upon it, it is essential that Her Majesty's Government should be furnished with more detailed information on the most essential feature of the plan.\n\n3. I trust to receive from you a detailed report on this subject: and take the opportunity of the delay to direct your attention to some other portions of the plan which appears to me to deserve reconsideration.\n\n4. The enlargement of Councils, by the sole introduction into them of a greater number of public functionaries, is objectionable, as it would be but the diffusion and consequent diminution of responsibility among the Executive body, whose functions, in my judgment, would be better performed by few than by many; and, except for the purpose of bringing influence from without the Government circle into the field of legislation, I see little necessity for change.\n\n5. The Legislative Council as at present constituted, is undoubtedly acquainted with the concerns of the colony. The Blue Book had never been laid on the Council Table. No subject whatever was discussed except on the presentation of the Governor—nothing whatever connected with the budget was ever submitted either for suggestion, deliberation, or decision.\n\n6. I am not aware of the existence of the misapprehension to which the Colonial Secretary refers, with reference to the control which the Legislative Council possesses over the finances of the colony. No control has hitherto been in any way exercised or assumed over any portion of the Colonial Revenues.\n\n7. But the Colonial Secretary allows that the Legislative Council is concerned in the levying the Police Rate,—that revenue not arising from the property of the Crown. Now, strange to say, the Police Rate in Hongkong is determined, not by the Legislative, but by the Executive Council.\n\n8. I do not imagine the Charter of the colony, to which the Colonial Secretary refers, to be an irrevocable and immutable Law, but a law which the Sovereign Lawgiver may modify in the interest of Her subjects. Whatever may have been the purpose of the charter, under existing Colonial usages, it appears to me the functions of the Legislative and the Executive Councils are in practice not infrequently confused and blended, and that much of the action of the Executive might, with public advantage, be placed under the supervision of the Legislative Council, on the understanding always that the Legislative Council should stand on a broader basis, and that its aptitude for useful Legislation should be increased by the introduction of a certain number of popular elected members.\n\nMARCH 2, 1857.\n\nThe Hongkong Government Gazette.\n\n373\n\n17. The machinery for enforcing the arrangement that three out of five Non-official Members should be selected from the Magistracy, might be simply that the suffrages of any voter who polled for more than two non-magistrates should be ipso facto disallowed.\n\n18. As regards the 16th paragraph allowing the Governor to leave a vacancy unfilled, I think it, on consideration, better that no such discretion should be left to the Governor, but that on a vacancy occurring an election to supply it should take place.\n\n9. I do not know in what respect the experiment made by Sir George Bonham, six years ago, can be said to have entirely failed, nor am I acquainted with the prediction which anticipated that failure.\n\n19. With reference to the proposal of the Colonial Secretary, for the appointment of a Colonial Surgeon, I think a salary of £800 would be a sufficient remuneration, and that to his duties might be superadded the supervision and direction of measures connected with the Public health.\n\n20. I enclose two Documents which may serve to elucidate the inquiry into the proposed constituency of the colony.\n\nThe Right Honourable\n\nHENRY LABOUCHERE, M.P.,\n\n&c., &c.,\n\nJOHN BOWRING.\n\nInclosure 1,-Despatch 49.\n\nMEMORANDUM ON THE RECONSTRUCTION OF THE COUNCILS OF THE COLONY.\n\nHis Excellency having called on me for my opinion on the proposed reconstruction of the Councils of this Colony, I have to state as follows:\n\n1. I think, in the mouth of February, last year, I drew up, at His Excellency's request, a plan with this object in view, which underwent revision and alteration by His Excellency, and was eventually submitted to the Secretary of State, in Despatch No. 110 of 2d August, 1855.\n\n...\n\nPage 374\n\n...\n\nH. LABOUCHERE.\n\nGovernor SIR JOHN BOWRING, &c., &c., &c.,\n\nHongkong.\n\n...",
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        "content_text": "The Hongkong Government \n\nAt the same time I see nothing obstructive or prejudicial in the presence of two Unofficial Members, and as the step has been taken, I would not revoke it; but I would not enlarge the number, or at any rate go beyond three, more especially when consideration is given to what I have stated above, with reference to the small portion of the Colonial Revenue with which the Council has to deal,\n\nAs regards the filling up these seats as vacancies occur (and one is already vacant, see Colonial Regulations, cap. 11, 1, 7.) I would adopt some such plan as that contained in Inclosure I to Despatch No. 110, above referred to.\n\nBut I would exclude Foreigners from the Electoral Body, and on no account permit the right of franchise to a Chinese. To those practically acquainted with the Chinese character, it is unnecessary to say anything on this head, and to others I would fail in finding intelligible words.\n\nI would omit the conclusion of clause 7 in the plan, as I can conceive an occasion on which the public might wish to elect a subordinate official if useful and intelligent; and I see no reason either for interfering with the right of the Electors to elect whom they please, or for preventing a respectable official from occupying that position in which the public consider he could render good service to them.\n\n[MARCH 2, 1857.\n\nMemorandum of TENEMENTS,-Continued.\n\n  \n    CLASS\n    NUMBER\n    TOTAL\n  \n  \n    Brought forward,\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    British\n    \n    £40 and upwards\n  \n  \n    Foreign\n    410\n    650\n  \n  \n    \n    186\n    \n  \n  \n    TOTAL, Foreign...\n    176\n    \n  \n  \n    Chinese\n    1637\n    \n  \n  \n    GRAND TOTAL,\n    1999\n    \n  \n\n(Signed)\n\nJ. C. POWER, Police Rate Assessor.\n\n(True copy,)\n\nI have no fear of any undue influence on either side being used 1st April, 1856. in this respect.\n\nThus my idea is, that the three members and all the Electoral Body be bona fide British Subjects.\n\nIn the Secretary of State's Despatch, objection is taken to the power proposed to be given to the Executive Council in revision of the Electoral Roll. Let then the power go to the Legislative Council itself, as now in the case of the Jury List.\n\nIn clause 2 of the Despatch, information is called for as to the probable number of Electors, and the proportion they would bear to the unrepresented classes of the population. On the plan here suggested by me, the number of Electors would be about 75, of whom about 45 would be present to vote, and as the population is about 70,000, the proportion is 1 in 1,000; but taking the Jury List as the European population, to this the proportion would be about 1 to 2; and of these, taking the British Subjects present and voting, rather more than 1 in 3,\n\nAs I have stated, British Subjects only should vote, and the large and preponderating number of Foreigners resident in the Island is to my mind an argument against, instead of for, their admission to influential privileges in a British colony.\n\nI think that all the heads of Executive departments should have seats in the Legislative Council, excepting always when such heads happen to be foreigners, when I would sanction their presence, but withhold the power of voting in the Council,\n\nInclosure 3-Despatch 49.\n\nW. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary,\n\n  \n    \n    £10\n    £20\n    £30\n    £40\n    TOTAL\n  \n  \n    British Subjects,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Foreigners,\n    8\n    2\n    5\n    54\n    69\n  \n  \n    \n    7\n    4\n    3\n    16\n    30\n  \n  \n    Chinese,\n    14\n    6\n    4\n    18\n    42\n  \n  \n    TOTAL,\n    29\n    12\n    12\n    88\n    141\n  \n\n(Signed)\n\nJ. C. POWER, Clerk of Deed Registry.\n\n(True copy,)\n\nW. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.\n\nIn the colony of Mauritius, I see that all Naturalization Ordinances specially exclude the privilege of sitting in Conseil.\n\nThe Councils then I would recommend, as given in clauses 4 and 5 of the plan enclosed in Sir John Bowring's Despatch No. 110, of 2d August, 1855, with this exception, that the number of Unofficial Members of the Legislative should be reduced to 3 for the reasons I have given.\n\nI would follow the plan generally, saving the objections which I have put forward in this Memorandum.\n\nI am also anxious to take this opportunity of observing, that I am convinced that an error was made when the duties of Colonial Surgeon were virtually abolished, and confided to the charge of a Military Medical Officer. I think £1,000 a year, and even perhaps a seat in the Legislative, would be well bestowed on an efficient Surgeon, with, not an injunction.—for this might be inconsistent with his professional obligation, but an understanding, that he was not to engage in private practice. I am certain that powers to enforce sanitary measures conferred on and exercised by an intelligent and energetic medical officer, would be very instrumental in assisting in many ways the progress of the colony.\n\nNo. 82.\n\n31st March, 1856.\n\nDOWNING STREET, July 29th, 1856.\n\nSIR,\n\nI have carefully considered your Despatch No 49, of 26th March last, in connection with previous correspondence on the same subject; and however reluctant to overrule your opinion, I have decided against the proposal which you have made, to introduce the Representative element into the Government of Hongkong.\n\n2. I appreciate as highly as it is possible to do the value of representative institutions, but I am at the same time mindful of the conditions, which experience has proved to be essential for their good working.\n\n3. I believe that the present is the first proposal that has been made for introducing those institutions amongst an Asiatic population, containing but a very small proportion of British or even European residents: I have, therefore, thought it the more necessary to weigh carefully the reasons for and against it.\n\nThe above Memorandum, written after mature reflection, is submitted, with all respect, for the consideration of His Excellency, The Governor.\n\nW. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.\n\nColonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 6th March, 1856.\n\nInclosure 2,-Despatch 49.\n\nMemorandum of TENEMENTS assessed for POLICE RATE\n\n  \n    RATE\n    CLASS\n    NUMBER\n    TOTAL\n  \n  \n    £10 and under £20\n    British\n    18\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    Foreign...\n    17\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    Chinese\n    308\n    433\n  \n  \n    £20 and under £30\n    British\n    4\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    Foreign\n    19\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    Chinese\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    £30 and under £40\n    British\n    408\n    43)\n  \n  \n    \n    Foreign...\n    16\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    Chinese\n    421\n    485\n  \n  \n    Carried forward,\n    \n    1349\n    \n  \n\n4. The testimony of those best acquainted with them, represent the Chinese race as endowed with much intelligence, but as very deficient in the most essential elements of morality. The Chinese population of Hongkong is, with perhaps a few honourable exceptions, admitted to stand very low in this respect.\n\n5. The information which I have received from you, does not lead me to suppose that education has made such progress among the youthful population, as to give promise that the next generation will be much superior to the present in moral culture. In regard therefore, to the proposal to confer the elective franchise on a constituency, of which the majority would be Chinese, I have to consider, whether men who have not, either from moral principle or traditional influences, acquired a respect for the main principles on which social order rests, are likely to use such a privilege in a manner useful to themselves, or to the community at large.\n\n6. I cannot assent to such a conclusion.\n\n7. If, on the other hand, the franchise were to be so restricted as practically to exclude the Chinese and Asiatic population, and to secure a preponderance to the British residents, I should apprehend from that arrangement future discontent on grounds that seem to be well founded.\n\n8. Few if any of the British residents in Hongkong are persons who go to establish themselves and their descendants permanently in that place; they merely sojourn there during a limited time, engaged in commercial or professional pursuits, but intending to quit the colony as soon as circumstances will permit.\n\n9. To whatever extent the control of local affairs might be conferred on this class by the partial introduction of representative Government, the effect would be, to give power over the permanent population to temporary sojourners, differing from them in race, language, and religion, and not influenced by their opinions. However respectable the character of the residents may be, I cannot believe but that such an arrangement could work satisfactorily.\n\n[MARCH 2, 1857.]\n\nThe Hongkong Government Gazette.\n\n374\n\n10. If it were suggested, as indeed some passages in your despatch appear to suggest, that the object of introducing the system of election should be to afford to the Governor increased means of learning the wishes and feelings of the population, but without transferring to the Legislative Council increased power either enacting laws or controlling expenditure,-I should regard such a scheme as liable to other and equally conclusive objections.\n\n11. For the simple purpose of discovering the persons most competent to give advice as to public matters, the judgment of the officer administering the Government seems to me quite as good a test, in such a community as Hongkong, as public election, whether under a restricted or an extended franchise, and except as a considerable share of power should be given to the representative members of the Legislature, I am persuaded that such a system could not be established without creating future dissatisfaction.\n\n12. If there were no other material objection to the change which you desire to introduce, I should regard the peculiar position of Hongkong as presenting an additional difficulty not easily to be got over.\n\n13. The Island is held by the British Crown, not at all because of any natural advantages which it possesses, but simply as subsidiary to the intercourse between the British and the Chinese Empires. In this point of view it is of great importance. Great commercial interests and the future progress of civilization throughout the East are to a great extent involved in the maintenance of British rule and of orderly government in Hongkong,\n\n14. It is true that the government of such a dependency presents some peculiar difficulties, arising not only from its internal condition, but its immediate neighbourhood to Chinese territory. I should be glad if I could believe that the time was near at hand when the most essential objects of government could be secured without difficulty.\n\n15. There is nothing, however, in the views which I had expressed, that should prevent you from conducting the affairs of the colony with the greatest regard to the feelings as well as the interests of the population, where paramount considerations of a general nature do not interfere.\n\n16. You have alluded to the fact that, at Singapore, Chinese residents have been introduced into the Magistracy. If you should hereafter be able to select from the Chinese inhabitants persons deserving of confidence, whom you may think fit to hold this or any other administrative office, I should be willing to assent to such appointments. The experiment, however, should be very cautiously made, and until considerable experience had been gained, I should not think it wise to place a Chinese in any position in which he could exercise authority alone, and without check on the part of British officials.\n\n17. I can see no objection to a moderate increase in the number of the Legislative Council, if you should think that desirable; and I approve of the steps which you have taken, in laying the Estimates of public expenditure before that body, and inviting their observations upon the items of\n\nGovernment in conformity with the principles on which it has been established, and not parting with that authority, which, when wisely exercised, I believe to be best calculated to secure the general welfare of a community placed in such exceptional conditions. I have the honour to be, Sir, your most obedient humble servant,\n\nH. LABOUCHERE,\n\nGovernor Sir JOHN BOWRING, &c., &c., &c. Hongkong.",
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        "content_text": "462\n\nand\n\nGovernor until Monday therefore after thinking well over the Matter the Colonial Secretary requested Mr Lyall to wait upon me at my house and there showed him the Attorney General's official answer to me\n\n\"stating to him that my reason for showing the letter containing the charge against him was the approaching election for the Legislative Council and that I certainly would recommend the Governor to reject his Name if the charge was true.\n\nMr. Lyall denied the charge in toto and expressed an earnest wish to have it sifted.\n\nOn Monday the 2. I saw Sir John Bowring and told him everything that I had done with regard to Mr. Lyall. His Excellency approved at that time of what I had done and subsequently with Mr. Lyall and with the advice of the Lieutenant Governor and the Officer Commanding the Troops determined that the",
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        "content_text": "# \nIt is clear that the then Legislative Council has no substantive connection with the Governor. In the draft Standing Orders of the Governor, it is stated, who is President. I presume that the Governor intended, or in his absence from the Colony, the Lieut. Governor, or Administrator, the Colonial Secretary.\n\nNo Meeting of the Council be convened, without the Governor or his representative being present from this Colony!\n\nThere is in the draft orders for the election of a temporary Chairman. Would it not be better that they should be taken by the highest in rank of those present at the Meeting, viz. the Governor, Lieut. Governor and Colonial Secretary in order of precedence.\n\nNothing is said in deciding questions, or the mode of voting. To have the Chairman, whether \"President\" or not, have on all occasions, an ordinary voting vote and a casting vote? \n\nThere is no order as...",
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        "content_text": "9. 350\n\n! \n\nports of China; but a library of reference and consultation, filled with those more solid and enduring works which would only encumber the circulating library. To the latter may be left the function of ministering to our daily relaxation and entertainment, while the Public Library would provide the means of permanent instruction, and facilitate reference to a mass of knowledge otherwise inaccessible in this remote corner of the world,\n\nThe special objects of such a library would be to collect every useful work in English and other widely known languages relating to China and the adjacent countries, especially to preserve the more fugitive publications, such as pamphlets, parliamentary papers, reports of societies, &c., &c.,—to attempt the formation of a series as complete as practicable of all publications of the foreign printing press in China, newspapers, Government and consulate issues, ordinances, statistical collections, missionary and commercial reports, almanacs, treatises and tracts in Chinese produced at the mission presses and elsewhere, &c., &c.,—to provide maps, charts, and illustrations connected with Eastern countries,—to assemble to as large an extent as possible valuable Works of general reference, and books bearing on matters of commerce, law, and other topics of moment to foreigners here. To such purposes the funds of the Library should be mainly applied; though partly from purchases and still more perhaps from gifts and bequests by members of the foreign community, it is hoped that the collection of general and oriental literature would at the same time be gradually and largely developed. Means might also be found in the course of time for collecting a considerable number of the more prominent purely native publications in the Chinese language, both ancient and modern, though this would constitute only a secondary object.\n\nIt can hardly be doubted that a Library of this stamp would prove extremely valuable to a China community. The facilities for acquiring practical information which it would present to students of every kind, and more particularly to those who devote themselves to Chinese subjects; to journalists and public writers on China; to Government servants; and to mercantile and legal men can scarcely be overrated. The Government of the Colony might not unreasonably be expected to take an active interest in its success and development, as thereby promoting a public benefit. The contributions of the community may probably be relied upon for augmenting the collection of books, especially on those occasions when additions of special importance require a heavier outlay than usual. For the maintenance of a public library, however, as such, it seems natural that the public funds administered by Government should, it is hoped that arrangements to this end will be made,\n\npay,\n\nand\n\nThe immediate requisite is a room or rooms in a central and convenient situation, sufficiently large to accommodate with comfort a library of—say 10,000 volumes, with the necessary attendant's quarters immediately adjoining. These would have to be provided by Government or by the community, according to such plan as may be considered advisable on a further examination of the question. Irrespective of this outlay, the Trustees of the Morrison Education Society consider that to establish and carry on the Library it would be essential that Government place upon the Estimates a sum of—say five thousand dollars for the year 1863, and two thousand dollars for each subsequent year. The larger sum would be required in the first instance for rebinding, and for providing the book-cases and furniture necessary for the new rooms. The smaller sum, with the assistance of occasional contributions from the community, would suffice to meet ordinary working expenses, and to make gradual additions to the collection. The whole amount is inconsiderable for a Colony with so flourishing a revenue, which in many instances has disbursed the public funds liberally upon objects regarded as conducive to the welfare or convenience of the community.\n\nIt only remains to add a few words on the constitution which the Trustees would suggest for the proposed Public Library. Assuming that it will be adopted as an institution to be supported by Government, they propose that its books and other property be vested in the Colonial Secretary for the time being, in trust for the public. A managing Board of three members might be nominated, one by the Government, one by the Trustees of the Morrison Education Society as founders, and the third by the community; or as difficulties would lie in the way of any method of popular election, say by the Chamber of Commerce as in some sense representing the community. With these three members would rest the appointment of an Honorary Librarian, who, so far as practicable, should be a competent scholar, qualified and willing to render the Library of public utility, and to direct to best advantage its purchases and acquisitions; but who of course would act under the general authority and instructions of the managing Board. The latter body would dispense the funds, make and alter the needful rules and regulations, and present an annual report to Government (to be published) on the condition of the Library, the extent to which readers availed themselves of its advantages, and the measure of its apparent usefulness as a public institution. With the Honorary Librarian would rest all the details of management. He would have the appointment and direction of a paid Sub-librarian, who would reside on the premises, and be in constant attendance during the hours when the library was open to the public. He would expend the funds placed at his disposal by the Board to the best of his judgment, though subject to their supervision. He might attempt or assist in the task of a classified catalogue; and if this undertaking were fairly inaugurated, would see to the regular inscribing upon it of all additions made in course of time to the Library. Finally, in his hands would be placed the issue of free admission tickets, which under certain prescribed regulations should be granted to any respectable resident applying for them, and to strangers introduced by such residents.\n\nThe Trustees of the Morrison Education Society have now fairly placed their scheme before the Government and Public. They have explained it in a detail perhaps unnecessary at this preliminary stage, not with the view of insisting on all its minutiae as indispensable; but simply that no misconception may exist as to what they really do propose. They await the decision of the community before giving a final destination to the books which they possess, and can only trust earnestly that this opportunity of doing something for literature and intellectual advancement in Hongkong may not be neglected.\n\nHONGKONG, May 1st, 1863.\n\nJAMES LEGGE,\n\nJAMES MACANDREW,\n\nFREDERICK STEWART,\n\non behalf of the Trustees.",
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        "content_text": "Page 11\n\n10\n\nThe Hon. W. H. Alexander Esq., Acting Colonial Secretary, to J. J. Mackenzie Esq., Chairman of the Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce. No. 660.\n\nCOLONIAL SECRETARY'S OFFICE, HONGKONG, 17th June, 1863.\n\nSIR, I am directed to reply to your letter of yesterday and to state that His Excellency The Acting Governor has every wish to meet the reasonable views of the Chamber of Commerce, but is unable to set aside the Orders of the Home Government, and declines to discuss the expediency of these, which to answer your letter fully, it would be necessary to do.\n\nI am to point out that the prohibition to export was made under Orders from Her Majesty's Government and that the relaxation proposed to you was the utmost that could be afforded.\n\nTo have done more would have been, not a passive, but an active and very deliberate, violation of a regulation sanctioned by Treaty, and His Excellency cannot help feeling surprise that the Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce should, with the Treaty Tariff before them, have expected from this Government an active cooperation in what would be simply an act of illegality.\n\nShould Her Majesty's Government order a modification or alteration of the Proclamation of 28th February, His Excellency will lose no time in giving information to the Chamber of Commerce.\n\nI have the honor to be, Sir, your most Obedient Servant.\n\nJ. J. Mackenzie Esq., Chairman of the Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce, to The Hon. W. H. Alexander Esq., Acting Colonial Secretary.\n\nHONGKONG GENERAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, VICTORIA, 18th June, 1863.\n\nSIR, I have laid before the Committee your letter of yesterday's date, stating, with reference to mine of the previous day, that the Acting Governor has every wish to meet the reasonable views of the Chamber, but is unable to set aside the orders of the Home Government and declines to discuss their expediency. You further point out that the prohibition to export was made under orders from Her Majesty's Government, and that the relaxation proposed was the utmost that could be afforded; and express surprise that this Chamber should, with the Treaty Tariff before them, have expected from the Government an active co-operation in what would be simply an act of illegality. You conclude by giving His Excellency's promise that any change or modification in the Proclamation of February 28, under orders from Her Majesty's Government, shall be communicated to the Chamber without loss of time.\n\nIn reply, I have to state that the Committee are unable to trace, in my letter of the 16th, any lurking inclination to engage His Excellency in a discussion on the expediency of the orders of the Home Government; nothing was further from their intention.\n\nIt is very desirable to limit this correspondence to its precise object; and the Committee do not therefore advert to the Treaty stipulations for the regulation of Commercial intercourse in Chinese ports, which are alien to the functions of the local Government; but confine themselves to the laws affecting trade in Hongkong. Anterior to the publication of the Proclamation of February 28th, Saltpetre was as much an article of legal Merchandize, in this Colony, as any other description of produce; and its import and export were perfectly free and unfettered by any restrictions. Things being changed by that proclamation, the Deputation of Indian Firms, admitted with myself to an interview with His Excellency, craved an exemption from its provisions in favor of certain parcels of Saltpetre, alleged to have been shipped at Calcutta prior to the date of the Proclamation. No further request, of which I am cognizant, was then made.\n\nSuch being the simple statement of facts, the Committee fail to perceive in what manner that concession \"would have been, not a passive, but an active, and very deliberate violation of a Regulation sanctioned by Treaty\"—or how the Chamber has exposed itself to the charge of having \"expected from this Government an active co-operation in what would be simply an act of illegality.\"\n\nHaving, I trust, thus placed the Chamber right with His Excellency, as to the course pursued by it, I have to convey the Committee's thanks for the assurance that he will lose no time in giving information to the Chamber of any change in the Proclamation under orders from Her Majesty's Government.\n\nI have the honor to be, &c.\n\n11\n\nThe Hon. W. H. Alexander Esq., Acting Colonial Secretary, to J. J. Mackenzie Esq., Chairman of the Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce. No. 1066.\n\nCOLONIAL SECRETARY'S OFFICE, HONGKONG, 3d September, 1863.\n\nSIR, With reference to my letters No. 644 and 660 of 15th and 17th June respectively, I have received the directions of His Excellency The Acting Governor to acquaint you, that His Grace The Duke of Newcastle has signified the approval of Her Majesty's Government of the Proclamation of 28th February, by which the export of Military Stores from this Colony is prohibited.\n\nPermits will be given as heretofore to applicants authorized on behalf of the Imperial Government of China.\n\nThe conditions of these Permits I am instructed to particularize as follows:-\n\n1stly. A certificate given by the British Consul to the Officer who may be deputed by the Chinese Government for the purchase of Military Stores, specifying the kind and quantity required;\n\nOr\n\n2ndly. An Original Certificate by the Commissioner of Customs stating the kind and quantity of Military Stores, required by the Chinese Government, the signature of the Commissioner being certified by the British Consul.\n\nI am to add that His Excellency is glad to avail himself of this opportunity to convey the above information; as it appears from a communication made to this Government by one of the Mercantile Firms in the Colony, that an erroneous idea exists as to the views of the Home Government in this matter.\n\nI have the honor to be, Sir, your most Obedient Servant.\n\nJ. J. Mackenzie Esq., Chairman of the Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce, to The Hon. W. H. Alexander, Acting Colonial Secretary.\n\nHONGKONG GENERAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, VICTORIA, 14th September, 1863.\n\nSIR, I have the honor to acknowledge receipt of your letter of the 3rd instant, acquainting me, by direction of H. E. The Acting Governor, that His Grace The Duke of Newcastle had sanctioned the Proclamation of February 28th, by which the export of Military Stores from this Colony was prohibited and communicating the conditions on which Permits will be granted to applicants authorized on behalf of the Imperial Government of China.\n\nThe Committee have considered the publication of this letter in the daily journals to be the most convenient form of giving publicity to its contents and on behalf of the Chamber I have to thank His Excellency for the communication now acknowledged.\n\nI have the honor to be, &c., &c.\n\nAPPENDIX B.\n\nJ. J. Mackenzie Esq., Chairman of the Hongkong General Commerce, to Monsieur le Baron de Meritens, Commissioner of Customs, Foochow.\n\nHONGKONG GENERAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, VICTORIA, 3d July, 1863.\n\nSIR, Previous to the receipt of your letter of the 28th May, in reply to that from this Chamber of the 21st of the same month, relative to the published Provisional Regulations affecting Trade with Formosa, the annual election of office-holders had placed me in the chair, and on behalf of the Committee I now have the honor to submit the following observations in continuation of that correspondence.\n\nThe Committee fully recognize the liberality of views that has led you to desire to reconcile the interests of Commerce with those of the Imperial Treasury,—and they are very far from offering any opposition to the principle of the progressive measures initiated by you. From a well considered development of such measures they anticipate material benefit to trade generally, no less than to the Customs Revenue, but in the interests of the Members of the Chamber, and of the general Commercial body, they deem it their duty to watch narrowly the attendant conditions of these concessions:—and they feel convinced that you will concur with them in their opinion, that such care at the outset is the best precaution against ulterior misunderstanding.\n\nPage 11\n\n...\n\nPage 11",
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        "content_text": "## \nit's Good a new \n\n\"it's your \n\nnew Interpretation of \n\nthe Treaties; that I trust, until J. Self's return, I shall be able to send \n\ninstructions to H.M's Minister at \n\nPeking \n\nHe will continue to \n\nsurrender criminals to the Canton \n\nGovt on requisition made, as heretofore, through the Consul, that \n\nI cannot convict Dr. Robertson \n\nof doing more than his plain- \n\nduty; lastly, that should the \n\nColonial Govt see \n\ncause to \n\ncomplain of a Consul, the complaint \n\nshould in \n\nthe first instance be \n\naddressed to his immediate \n\nSuperior, the Chief Superintendent of Trade.\n\n223 \n\nI also inclose copy of my reply \n\nto Dr. Robertson. \n\nI can hardly avoid making some \n\nremarks \n\non the subject, which may \n\nproperly have a place in this \n\nDespatch. The \n\nacting Governor, Dr. Mercury, has \n\nbeen an intimate friend, for nearly \n\ntwenty years. He expressed to me privately \n\nhis amaxances at the \n\nCanton Govt and in \n\nparticular at the ejection in his last despatches \n\nhis refusal of the \n\nGovt to correspond with him \n\n- I told him, as a matter of course, that \n\nhe could no more insist on \n\nwhat he claimed as the Governor of Hong \n\nKong, on the right of Correspondence with the Govt of France; but that I would represent here that to return an \n\ndispatch.",
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        "content_text": "THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 28TH JULY, 1866.\n\nDeed of Settlement to be signed within Twelve Months, and\n\nX. Within Twelve calendar Months from the date of this Ordinance the persons who shall have subscribed for at least one half of the said Capital of Five Millions of Dollars, shall, to the satisfaction of the Governor, to be evidenced as aforesaid, enter into and execute a Deed of Settlement (and so as each such person so executing shall hold at least five shares in the said Capital), which Deed of Settlement shall be filed with the Registrar of Companies within Twelve calendar Months from the date thereof, whereby provision shall be made for carrying on the business of the Company by a Court of Directors to be elected by the Shareholders of the Company, as by the said Deed shall be provided, and, until such election, by a Court of Directors to be named in the said Deed, and whereby provision shall also be made for the payment, by the Shareholders, of all Monies to become due in respect of the instalments on the shares taken by them, and also of such further or other Sums as are hereinafter provided, and in which said Deed of Settlement shall be contained (in addition to all such further provisions as shall be by the Governor considered necessary and usual in like cases for the management of the Affairs of the Company) provisions for effectuating the following objects, that is to say:-\n\nRules and Regulations are to be.\n\nFirst. For holding General Meetings of the Company once at least in every Year at an appointed time and place.\n\nSecond. For holding extraordinary General Meetings of the Company upon the requisition of Nine or more Shareholders, holding in the whole at least Two Thousand shares in the Company.\n\nThird. For the management of the Affairs of the Company and the election and qualification of the Directors.\n\nFourth. For the retirement of at least one-fourth of the Directors of the Company Yearly.\n\nFifth. For preventing the Company from purchasing any shares, or making advances of Money, or securities for Money, to any person, on the security of a share or shares in the Company.\n\nSixth. For the publication, as shall be directed in the said Deed, of the Assets and Liabilities of the Company, and of the amounts of Promissory Notes in circulation, and of the Coin held in the Establishments of the said Company in the Colony or elsewhere.\n\nSeventh. For the verification of such statements, and for the furnishing of such further information as the said Governor of Hongkong may require, respecting the state and proceedings of the Banking Establishments of the Company in the Colony or elsewhere.\n\nEighth. For the Yearly Audit of the Accounts of the Company by Two or more Auditors, not being Directors at the time.\n\nNinth. For the Yearly communication of the Auditors Report, and of a Balance Sheet, and Profit and Loss Accounts to every Shareholder.\n\nTenth. For the appointment of Managers, or Agents, or other Officers, to perform the duties of Managers or Agents.\n\nXI. The provisions of this Ordinance, and the provisions to be contained in the said Deed of Settlement, or in any Supplemental Deed to be made in pursuance thereof, or to be contained in any Bye-Laws to be made in pursuance of such Deeds, or any of them, shall be taken to be the existing Rules and Regulations of the Company, except so far as the same may be repugnant to the laws of the Colony, or of any Ports, Towns, Cities or places where the Company may carry on business, or to the provisions of this Ordinance. Provided nevertheless that no Bye-Law or Supplemental Deed that may be made, shall have any force or effect until the same shall have been approved of by the Governor and a certificate of such approval shall have been given under the hand of the Governor.\n\nIssue of Notes and Bills, provisions as to.\n\nXII. It shall be lawful for the Company to make, issue and circulate Notes or Bills payable to Bearer on demand in Coin lawfully current in the Colony and to re-issue the same: Provided that no such Notes shall be issued for any other Sums than the Sum of Five Dollars, or some multiple of such Sum, or other equivalent amount, unless the issuing of Notes of other amounts shall be sanctioned by the Governor: Provided also that nothing herein contained shall exempt the Company from the operation of any existing or future laws of the Colony or of any Port, City, Town, or Place beyond the limits of the Colony where they may with such consent as aforesaid establish Bank or Branch Banks, restricting or regulating the issue of such Notes, by Banks established therein.\n\nXIII. The total amount of the Bills and Notes of the Company payable to Bearer on demand actually in circulation shall not at any time exceed the amount of the Capital of the Company actually paid up, and there shall always be kept by the Principal Establishment in the Colony, an amount of Coin and Bullion equal to one-third at least of the Notes and Bills of the Company for the time being in circulation.\n\nXIV. The total amount of the Debts and Liabilities of the Company of what nature or kind soever shall not at any time exceed the aggregate amount of the then existing bona fide Assets and property of the Company, and the Sum for which its Shareholders are liable under the provisions herein contained.\n\nXV. If at any time there shall be a Suspension of Payment of any of the Notes or Bills of the Company, it shall not be lawful for the said Company from and after the commencement, and during the continuance, of such Suspension of Payment, to make any fresh issue of Notes or Bills.\n\nXVI. The Company shall not Discount, or in any manner Advance Money upon Bills of Exchange, Promissory Notes, or other Negotiable paper, in or upon which the name of any Director, or Officer, of the Company, shall appear as Drawer, or Acceptor, either on his individual or separate account, or jointly with any partner or partners, or otherwise than as a Director or Officer of the Company, to an amount exceeding one third of the amount of the Sum for the time being under discount, or advanced by the Company, nor shall any Director be allowed to obtain Credit on his own personal guarantee.\n\nXVII. It shall be lawful for the Company notwithstanding the statutes of Mortmain or any other statutes or laws to the contrary, to purchase, hold, take, and enjoy to them and their successors, such Houses, Offices, Buildings, Lands and Hereditaments, subject as shall or may be thought necessary or proper for the purpose of managing, conducting, and carrying on the affairs, concerns, and business of the Company, but not for the purpose of speculation, or any other purpose than as aforesaid, and so as no such Houses, Offices, Buildings or Land shall be more than the Yearly value of Thirty Thousand Dollars at the time of acquiring the same, or of such further Yearly value as shall be sanctioned by the Governor and to sell, convey, and dispose of the said property or any portion or part thereof, when not wanted for the purposes of the said business.\n\nXVIII. All and every person and persons, and bodies, politic and corporate who are or shall be otherwise competent, shall be and are hereby authorized and empowered to convey lands in to grant, sell alien and convey in Mortmain unto, and to the use of, the Company and their successors, any such Houses, Offices, Lands, and other Hereditaments whatsoever as aforesaid accordingly.\n\nXIX. It shall not be lawful for the Company to make any purchase of Messuages, Lands or Hereditaments in the Colony or elsewhere, beyond the annual value of Thirty Thousand Dollars at the time of acquiring the same, or of such further annual value as shall be sanctioned by the Governor and when and as any such purchase shall be made by the Company, the Directors of the Company shall, in all cases, within Three calendar Months from the making and completing of any such purchase report the same in writing to the Governor, stating the amount of the purchase Money paid for the same and giving a description of the Lands and Hereditaments so purchased, and such other particulars relating thereto as may from time to time be required by the Governor; and in case any Hereditaments so purchased be re-sold by the Company, they shall within Fourteen Days after every such sale, give notice in writing to the Colonial Secretary of the Colony of such re-sale, and of the price obtained for the same.\n\nXX. Except for the purposes aforesaid it shall not be lawful for the Company to invest, lay out, employ, advance, or embark any part of their Capital or Funds in the purchase of any Lands, Houses, or other real property, nor in any trading or mercantile speculation or business whatsoever (not usually considered as falling within the ordinary and legitimate purposes and operations of a Banking Establishment), but shall nevertheless be lawful for the Company to take and accept any Lands, Houses, and personal property as security for Monies owing.",
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        "content_text": "VII. Unless it shall be made to appear to the satisfaction of the Governor (to be evidenced as aforesaid), that the whole of the said Capital of Five Millions of Dollars has been subscribed, under hand and seal, before the expiration of a period of Two Years, to commence and be computed from the date of this Ordinance, and unless the whole of the said Capital of Five Millions of Dollars shall be actually paid up within the period of Three Years to be reckoned from the date of the Notification or Proclamation to be published as aforesaid of the payment of one half of the said Capital of Five Millions of Dollars (but so that such payment in full be not in any case delayed beyond the period of Four Years, to be reckoned from the date of this Ordinance), it shall be lawful for the Governor with the Advice of the Legislative Council of the Colony, at any time thereafter, by an Ordinance to be passed for that purpose to repeal this Ordinance and declare that the Incorporation hereby granted to the Company shall cease and determine and become absolutely void.\n\nVII. Until, as hereinbefore provided for, the Governor shall so publish in the Hongkong Government Gazette a Notification or Proclamation under his hand, that one half of such further Capital has been paid up, the Company shall not be entitled, by advertisement or otherwise, to hold out to the Public that the amount of its Capital has been increased.\n\nIX. The remainder of the instalments on the Shares constituting such further Capital shall be wholly paid up within Two Years, to be reckoned from the date of such Notification or Proclamation (to be published as aforesaid) of the payment of one half of such further Capital, and that the same shall be made to appear to the satisfaction of the Governor to be evidenced as aforesaid.\n\nX. Within Twelve Calendar Months from the date of this Ordinance the Persons who shall have subscribed for at least one half of the said Capital of Five Millions of Dollars, shall, to the satisfaction of the Governor, to be evidenced as aforesaid, enter into and execute a Deed of Settlement (and so as each such Person so executing shall hold at least Five Shares in the said Capital), which Deed of Settlement shall be filed with the Registrar of Companies within Twelve Calendar Months from the date thereof, whereby provision shall be made for carrying on the business of the Company by a Court of Directors to be elected by the Shareholders of the Company, as by the said Deed shall be provided, and, until such election, by a Court of Directors to be named in the said Deed, and whereby provision shall also be made for the payment, by the Shareholders, of all Monies to become due in respect of the instalments on the Shares taken by them, and also of such further or other Sums as are hereinafter provided, and in which said Deed of Settlement shall be contained (in addition to all such further provisions as shall be by the Governor considered necessary and usual in like cases for the management of the Affairs of the Company) provisions for effectuating the following objects, that is to say:\n\nFirst. For holding General Meetings of the Company once at least in every Year at an appointed time and place.\n\nSecond. For holding extraordinary General Meetings of the Company upon the requisition of Nine or more Shareholders, holding in the whole at least Two Thousand Shares in the Company.\n\nThird. For the management of the Affairs of the Company and the election and qualification of the Directors.\n\nFourth. For the retirement of at least one-fourth of the Directors of the Company Yearly.\n\nFifth. For preventing the Company from purchasing any Shares, or making advances of Money, or securities for Money, to any Person, on the security of a Share or Shares in the Company.\n\nSixth. For the publication, as shall be directed in the said Deed, of the Assets and Liabilities of the Company, and of the amounts of Promissory Notes in circulation, and of the Coin held in the Establishments of the said Company in the Colony or elsewhere.\n\nSeventh. For the verification of such statements, and for the furnishing of such further information as the said Governor of Hongkong may require, respecting the state and proceedings of the Banking Establishments of the Company in the Colony or elsewhere.\n\nEighth. For the Yearly Audit of the Accounts of the Company by Two or more Auditors, not being Directors at the time.\n\nNinth. For the Yearly communication of the Auditors' Report, and of a Balance Sheet, and Profit and Loss Accounts to every Shareholder.\n\nTenth. For the appointment of Managers, or Agents, or other Officers, to perform the duties of Managers or Agents.\n\nXI. The provisions of this Ordinance, and the provisions to be contained in the said Deed of Settlement, or in any Supplemental Deed to be made in pursuance thereof, or to be contained in any Bye-Laws to be made in pursuance of such Deeds, or any of them, shall be taken to be the existing Rules and Regulations of the Company, except so far as the same may be repugnant to the laws of the Colony, or of any Ports, Towns, Cities or Places where the Company may carry on business, or to the provisions of this Ordinance. Provided nevertheless that no Bye-Law or Supplemental Deed that may be made, shall have any force or effect until the same shall have been approved of by the Governor and a certificate of such approval shall have been given under the hand of the Governor.\n\nXII. It shall be lawful for the Company to make, issue and circulate Notes or Bills payable to Bearer on demand in Coin lawfully current in the Colony and to re-issue the same: Provided that no such Notes shall be issued for any other Sums than the Sum of Five Dollars, or some multiple of such Sum, or other equivalent amount, unless the issuing of Notes of other amounts shall be sanctioned by the Governor: Provided also that nothing herein contained shall exempt the Company from the operation of any existing or future laws of the Colony or of any Port, City, Town, or Place beyond the limits of the Colony where they may with such consent as aforesaid establish Bank or Branch Liability of Banks, restricting or regulating the issue of such Notes, by Banks established therein. And provided also that the Shareholders of the Company shall be subject to unlimited liability in respect of all or any such issues or issue of Notes, and, if necessary, the Assets of the Company shall be marshalled for the benefit of the general Creditors of the Company and the Shareholders shall be liable for the whole amount of such issue, in addition to the Sum for which they are liable under the other and general provisions of this Ordinance.\n\nXIII. The total amount of the Bills and Notes of the Company payable to Bearer on demand actually in circulation shall not at any time exceed the amount of the Capital of the Company actually paid up, and there shall always be kept by the Principal Establishment in the Colony, an amount of Coin and Bullion equal to one-third at least of the Notes and Bills of the Company for the time being in circulation.\n\nXIV. The total amount of the Debts and Liabilities of the Company of what nature or kind soever shall not at any time exceed the aggregate amount of the existing bona fide Assets and property of the Company, and the Sum for which its Shareholders are liable under the provisions herein contained.\n\nXV. If at any time there shall be a Suspension of Payment of any of the Notes or Bills of the Company, it shall not be lawful for the said Company from and after the commencement, and during the continuance, of such Suspension of Payment, to make any fresh issue of Notes or Bills.\n\nXVI. The Company shall not Discount, or in any manner Advance Money upon Bills of Exchange, Promissory Notes, or other Negotiable paper, in or upon which the name of any Director, Officer, of the Company, shall appear as Drawer, or Acceptor, either on his individual or separate account, or jointly with any partner or partners, or otherwise than as Director or Officer of the Company, to an amount exceeding one third of the amount of the Sum for the time being under discount, or advanced by the Company, nor shall any Director be allowed to obtain Credit on his own personal guarantee.\n\nXVII. It shall be lawful for the Company notwithstanding the statutes of Mortmain or any other statutes or laws to the contrary, to purchase, hold, take, and enjoy to them and their successors, such Houses, Offices, Buildings, Lands and Hereditaments, as shall or may be thought necessary or proper for the purpose of managing, conducting, and carrying out the affairs, concerns, and business of the Company, but not for the purpose of speculation, or any other purpose than as aforesaid, and so as no such Houses, Offices, Buildings or Land shall be more than the Yearly value of Thirty Thousand Dollars at the time of acquiring the same, or of such further Yearly value as shall be sanctioned by the Governor, and to sell, convey, and dispose of the said property or any portion or part thereof, when not wanted for the purposes of the said business.\n\nXVIII. All and every Person and Persons, and bodies, politic and corporate who are or shall be otherwise competent, shall be and are hereby authorized and empowered to grant, sell, alien and convey in Mortmain unto, and to the use of the Company and their successors, any such Houses, Offices, Lands, and other Hereditaments whatsoever as aforesaid accordingly.\n\nXIX. It shall not be lawful for the Company to make any purchase of Messuages, Lands or Tenements or Hereditaments in the Colony or elsewhere, beyond the annual value of Thirty Thousand Dollars at the time of acquiring the same, or of such further annual value as shall be sanctioned by the Governor: and when and as any such purchase shall be made by the Company, the Directors of the Company shall, in all cases, within Three Calendar Months from the taking and completing of any such purchase report the same in writing to the Governor, stating the amount of the purchase Money paid for the same and giving a description of the Lands and Hereditaments so purchased, and such other particulars relating thereto as may from time to time be required by the Governor; and in case any Hereditaments so purchased be re-sold by the Company, they shall within Fourteen Days after every such sale, give notice in writing to the Colonial Secretary of the Colony of such re-sale, and of the price obtained for the same.\n\nXX. Except for the purposes aforesaid it shall not be lawful for the Company to invest, lay out, or employ, advance, or embark any part of their Capital or Funds in the purchase of any Lands, Houses, or other real property, nor in any trading or mercantile speculation or business whatsoever (not being trading, but usually considered as falling within the ordinary and legitimate purposes and operations of a Banking proper Establishment), but it shall nevertheless be lawful for the Company to take and accept any Lands, Houses, or other real or personal property in satisfaction, liquidation or payment of any debt absolutely and bona fide previously due and owing to the Company, and also to take any mortgage or other lien or charge on real or personal property as a security for any Monies actually and bona fide previously due to the Company, or for which any Person or Persons may have rendered himself or themselves liable to the Company, and to hold such Lands, Houses, and other real and personal property respectively, for such reasonable time as shall be necessary for selling and disposing of and converting the same into Money.\n\nXXI. It shall be lawful for the Company to sell, dispose of, and convert into Money, any Goods, Wares, or Merchandize, which shall or may be taken by them in satisfaction, liquidation or payment of any debt: And also to sell and convey any Lands, Houses, and other real property whatsoever, Goods, Wares, or Merchandize, which they shall or may have acquired in manner aforesaid.\n\nXXII. It shall be lawful for the Company from time to time to extend or increase their Capital for the time being by the creation and sale of new Shares, in the manner to be specified and set forth in the Deed of Settlement, to be prepared and executed as hereinbefore directed, so as the same be made with the consent of a General Meeting of the Shareholders of the Company to be specially called for that purpose, and with the consent previously obtained of the Governor and under such conditions and provisions as he shall think fit, such consent being evidenced as hereinbefore provided for with respect to other requirements of a like nature, and so as the total amount of the Capital of the Company shall not exceed the Sum of Ten Millions of Dollars and until it shall be certified by the Governor in like manner as aforesaid that one-half of such new Capital has been so paid up, the Company shall not be entitled, by advertisement or otherwise, to state or hold out to the Public that the amount of the Capital has been increased.\n\nXXIII. The remainder of the instalments on the Shares constituting such increased Capital shall be wholly paid up within Two Years from the date of the Certificate, to be granted as aforesaid, of one-half thereof having been paid up, and the same shall be made to appear to the satisfaction of the Governor, to be certified as aforesaid.\n\nXXIV. The Directors of the Company shall, if, and whenever, they shall be required so to do, by the Governor, produce and submit to him, or to such Persons or Officers as he may appoint for that purpose, for his or their inspection and examination, the several accounts and statements which by the said Deed shall be directed to be made and furnished.",
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        "content_text": "## Opinions of the Honourable Howry, John Bull, Acting Attorney General\n\n3) am clearly of opinion, with His Excellency that Election 9 of No 5 of 1866 is imperative. Ordinance but then it is imperative quoad be conferred upon Shareholders, who, from \"The remainder of the large portion of the Community have,\n\n(signed) \nV. Mresser, \nSchief Manager).\n\n(Thue Copy) \nLani (Janth. \nAsting Colonial Secretary \n\nInstalments. \"on the Shares constituting further Capital\" that is Capital not exceeding by Election 5.\n\nI am clearly of opinion, with His Excellency that Election 9 of No 5 of 1866 is imperative. The remainder of the Ordinance does not relate to the fixed Capital of the Company $5,000,000, Sections VIII and IX therefore are not applicable to have untouched the application of Mr. Wressor, which is based upon... \n\nprepared to satisfy you that no inconvenience will be sustained by the public, or by any of the Corporation Constituents while a boon will thereby be conferred upon Shareholders...",
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        "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. 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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.",
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        "content_text": "(Signed) H. H. Nelson\n\nChairman of the Board of Directors\n\nof the China Trader's Ins. Comp. Ltd.\n\n(True Copy)\n\nGandhina Shetan\n\nColonial Secretary\n\nAn Ordinance enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, to amend \"The Companies Ordinance, 1865,\" and to repeal Ordinance No. 4 of 1876.\n\n1876.]\n\nTitle.\n\nlimited by shares and registered in the Colony the power of sub-dividing their shares, and to amend \"The Companies Ordinance, 1865\" Be it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as\n\nexpedient to held Preamble.\n\nfollows:-\n\nI. Ordinance No. 4 of 1876 is hereby repealed.\n\nOrdinance No. 4 of 1876 repealed.\n\nII. This Ordinance may be cited as \"The Companies Ordinance, Short title.\n\n1876.\"\n\nIII. \"The Companies Ordinance, 1865\" is hereinafter referred Ordinance to to as \"The Principal Ordinance;\" and the principal Ordinance he construed and this Ordinance are hereinafter distinguished as and may be No. 1 of 1865.\n\ncited as \"The Companies Ordinances, 1865 and 1876;\" and this (30 & 31 Vic. Ordinance shall, so far as is consistent with the tenor thereof, bec. 131 a. 23.\n\nconstrued as one with the principal Ordinance; and the expression \"This Ordinance\" in the principal Ordinance, and any expression referring to the principal Ordinance, which occurs in any Ordinance, or other document, shall be construed to mean the principal Ordinance as amended by this Ordinance.\n\nUnlimited Liability of Directors.\n\nIV. Where after the commencement of this Ordinance a com-Company may pany is formed as a limited company under the principal Ordi- base directors nance, the liability of the directors or managers of such company, liability.\n\nwith unlimited\n\nor the managing director, may, if so provided by the memorandum of association, be unlimited.\n\nV. The following modifications shall be made in the thirty-Liability of seventh section of the principal Ordinance, with respect to the director, past contributions to be required in the event of the winding-up of a and present, where liability limited company under the principal Ordinance, from any director is unlimited. or manager whose liability is, in pursuance of this Ordinance, (sec. 5).\n\nunlimited:\n\n(1.) Subject to the provisions hereinafter contained, any such director or manager, whether past or present, shall, in addition to his liability (if any) to contribute as an ordinary member, be liable to contribute as if he were at the date of the commencement of such winding-up a member of an unlimited company.\n\n(2.) No contribution required from any past director or manager who has ceased to hold such office for a period of one year or upwards prior to the commencement of the winding-up shall exceed the amount (if any) which he is liable to contribute as an ordinary member of the company.\n\n(3.) No contribution required from any past director or manager in respect of any debt or liability of the company contracted after the time at which he ceased to hold such office shall exceed the amount (if any) which he is liable to contribute as an ordinary member of the company.\n\n(4.) Subject to the provisions contained in the regulations of the company no contribution required from any director or manager shall exceed the amount (if any) which he is liable to contribute as an ordinary member, unless the court deems it necessary to require such contribution in order to satisfy the debts and liabilities of the company, and the costs, charges, and expenses\n\nof the winding-up.\n\nVI. In the event of the winding-up of any limited company, Director with the court, if it think it, may make to any director or manager of unlimited such company, whose liability is unlimited, the same allowance have set-off as by way of set-off as under the ninety-eighth section of the matter principal Ordinance it may make to a contributory where the No. 1 of 1865,\n\n[sec.).\n\ncompany is not limited.\n\n98 of\n\nVII. In any limited company in which, in pursuance of this Notice to be Ordinance, the liability of a director or manager is unlimited, given to\n\ndirector on his the directors or managers of the company (if any), and the member who proposes any person for election or appointment to such is liability office, shall add to such proposal a statement that the liability of will be the person holding such office will be unlimited, and the promoters, unlimited.\n\ndirectors, managers, and secretary (if any) of such company, or [sec. 7].\n\none of them, shall, before such person accepts such office or acts therein, give him notice in writing that his liability will be unlimited.\n\nPage 364\n\nA\n\n246",
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        "content_text": "(16)\n\nChina Telegraph Company, which announced its intention of duplicating the cable between Rangoon and Penang. The Committee in reply expressed its gratification at the proposed extension of telegraphic facilities.\n\nRights of Endorsees of a Bill of Lading.\n\nSome correspondence on this subject between the Yokohama Chamber of Commerce and the Committee of this Chamber, will be found in the Appendix. (Appendix C.).\n\nEstablishment of a Chinese Government Mint.\n\nThe Shanghai Chamber of Commerce having requested an expression of opinion on this subject, the description of coin most suitable for a standard of value, the subsidiary coins most requisite, and whether the proposed coinage should be for the whole country, or restricted to the places open to foreign trade,-a general meeting was convened on November 2nd, to discuss these questions. After debate, a Resolution was carried, with only two dissentients, that the Chamber declined to make any recommendation in the matter of a mint to be established under the authority of the Chinese Government; and copies thereof, and of the short-hand minutes of the meeting, were transmitted to the Shanghai Chamber. (Appendix D.).\n\nChinese Merchants, and the Native Duties levied on Goods coming from and going to the West Coast.\n\nThe native merchants of Hongkong having forwarded to the Registrar General the text of a petition presented by the native traders of Macao to the Government of that City, proposing the establishment thereat of a Chinese Custom House, and having suggested that a somewhat similar arrangement be introduced into Hongkong, His Excellency the Governor, after fully discussing the enclosures in His Excellency's despatch, requested the Chamber to state its opinion on the matter. The Committee arrived at the unanimous conclusion, that, under present circumstances, it would be very unadvisable to take any steps in such a matter. (Appendix E.).\n\nOpening of the Port of Sulu to Foreign Trade.\n\nAn official intimation of the opening of this port, was received from the Colonial Government, on the 29th December. The text of the decree issued thereon by the Governor-General of the Philippines, will be found in Appendix F.\n\n(17)\n\nPostal Rates.\n\nThe reduction recently made by the Postal authorities, in the rates hitherto charged for letters and papers between Hongkong, the China Ports, and Europe, and the more important reductions which will come into effect as soon as Hongkong has entered the Postal Union have, in the opinion of the Committee, rendered it unnecessary to further pursue the correspondence commenced with the Shanghai Chamber of Commerce, previous to the last Annual Meeting.\n\nReuter's Telegrams.\n\nMessrs. REUTER & Co.'s Agent having made propositions for supplying an amended service of Political and Commercial Telegrams, a Sub-Committee was appointed to make satisfactory arrangements with that gentleman. The result of their negotiations is, that the Chamber has taken the local monopoly of the Political Telegrams, and that this branch of the service bids fair to be efficiently started in a few days. The Sub-Committee also drew up an amended form of Commercial Telegrams, which, after being approved by the General Committee, was accepted by REUTER's Agent, and will be acted upon as soon as it reaches London. The Committee entertain hopes that cause will no longer arise for complaint as to the accuracy or extent of the information transmitted.\n\nMembers.\n\nDuring the past year, the following Members have retired from the Chamber:-Messrs. HEARD & Co., Messrs. MARGESSON & Co., and A. E. VAUCHER, Esq. Mr. T. G. LINSTEAD has been duly elected a Member.\n\nCommittee.\n\nMr. P. KARBERG having left for Europe, Mr. L. MENDEL was elected to fill his vacancy. According to the Rules, a fresh election of Members of Committee has to take place at this meeting.\n\n276",
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        "content_text": "(20)\n\nshow their ratification or otherwise of the line of conduct taken up by the Committee of the City Hall.—(Applause.)\n\nThe Chairman—Of course it is quite open for the shareholders and subscribers here to appoint another committee altogether than the standing committee, and it is quite competent for this meeting to-day to proceed to vote for and elect a committee.\n\nMr. Nelson—That would be another committee in addition to the one already standing?\n\nThe Chairman—No; a new committee. I have no doubt the present members would be ready to resign—I would do so myself—the old members to be eligible for re-election.\n\nHon. P. Ryrie—As I am the only person pointed at, the simplest way will be for me to resign, which I shall be happy to do.\n\nThe Chairman—There is the principle involved, which I think a very important one, that at these annual meetings there should be an election. I quite approve of it, and I have no doubt the election has fallen into abeyance from the non-attendance of the public in sufficient numbers. Occasionally, as I remarked before, the Committee has elected itself, but now we have so large an attendance here I think it would give weight to the Committee to feel they had the confidence of the shareholders and subscribers by being re-elected.\n\nMr. Nelson—I move a new Committee be elected. The object I have in view would not be met by the resignation of the Hon. Mr. Ryrie. I have already endeavoured to explain that I have really no personal feeling in the matter, and I wished to avoid pointing at any person. To express what I had to do, I could hardly avoid alluding indirectly to the hon. gentleman. I move that the committee for the coming year be now elected by ballot.\n\nHon. H. Ryrie—I think I ought to say my wish is rather to resign than otherwise, because, in the first place, I don't know that I have given much personal attention to the City Hall of late years, though I did in the earlier part of its existence. I suppose my duties were the most onerous of any. At one time I was the only committee man left in the Colony, but now there are so many gentlemen there is no necessity for my continuing.\n\n(21)\n\npropose an amendment to Mr. Nelson's resolution, not only that the committee of the City Hall be re-elected, but that their action should meet with the thanks of this meeting.—(Applause.) I think it would be opening the doors to future abuses, very grave abuses, if a totally new committee were appointed now.\n\nAfter some conversation between Mr. Nelson and Mr. Coxon, the amendment of the latter was reduced to writing and handed in,\n\nThe Chairman—It is proposed by Mr. Coxon, as Mr. Ryrie has resigned, that the remainder of the present committee be requested to remain in office.\n\nMr. Nelson—I will withdraw my motion and second that. The resolution was then put and carried nem. con.\n\nThe Chairman—There is no further business, gentlemen, unless you have anything to bring forward.\n\nMr. Nelson—There is one question I would like to ask in reference to this correspondence, see there is one letter, a rather important letter, addressed to the Government, dated 14th June, in which a request is made that copies of that letter and one of the 11th June, to which it is a reply, should be forwarded to the Secretary of State. I notice, on the last page of this pamphlet, that an inquiry was made on the 4th August as to whether a letter of the 13th May had been forwarded, and a somewhat curt reply is received that it had been forwarded. I note that no reference is made to the request at the end of the last two letters that they be sent to the Secretary of State for the Colonies, and I beg to ask whether you have any information whether they have been forwarded or not.\n\nThe Chairman—It was taken for granted the request would be sufficient to ensure its going in the usual way, but as no mention is made of it in the reply from the Colonial Secretary's Office, I asked Mr. Dennys to-day to ascertain from the Colonial Secretary's Office whether the letters had been forwarded or not. He accordingly wrote. A reply has not yet been received, but I cannot doubt for a moment that the letter went forward in the ordinary course of official correspondence.\n\nMr. Nelson—I presume so; yes. It should.\n\nThe Chairman said that closed the business.\n\nMr. Nelson—I think, gentlemen, we should pass a vote of thanks to the Chairman for presiding at this meeting.\n\nCarried by acclamation.\n\n34\n\nDec.",
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        "content_text": "## For Sale. \n\n**MacEWEN, FKJKEL & CO., H**AVE JUST RECEIVED \"KL AMERICAN MAIL\" \n\n**Prime Esatera CCISE.** \n\n**Young Aansrict CUERE.** **Apple OHEISE** **BUTTER.** \n\nand **MALT.** \n\n**Sarend Ply's FELI** **Split PRAS.** \n\n**Fab' TONGTES** **AJANS.** \n\n**COONISE.** \n\n**Astarted VRGETABLES.** \n\n**arted AEN.** \n\n**Muted BOLFS.** \n\n**Pig Head UHKKSE** **Devilled HAN** \n\n**CAVISKE** **CLOSE** \n\n**Caiturei Colien BTADT** \n\n**Whitters BAMS.** \n\n**Breakfat KAŬON.** \n\n**Mails.** \n\n## NOTICE. \n\n**COMPAGNIE ES MOSAQEKINS MARITIMES.** \n\n## PAGURROTS POSTE FRANÇAIS. \n\nSTRAY FOR SAIGON, SINGAPORE, BATAVIA, POINT DE GALLE, ADEN, SUEZ MAILIA, FORT Sat, NAPLES, AND · HARSAILLES; \n\nA1204 BOMUAY, MARE, ST. DANIN, ASD FORT LOUI \n\n“AN WEDNESDAY, the 27th October, 1880, as Bo the Company's BINDI, Oedant VERNE, with MALES, PARSUMENRA, SPRUIE JAROO will leave this Part for the Yunes.\n\nfor Cago and Spade wil b reglatarel COMB RONLY lo Frame and sudda as well de for Vintseüles, and a ople trait through salles for Pickle this principal places of Furope.\n\n**Shipping Orders** will be granted anal; Bekiel P10 POEK. Banalem TISK Skin AKLLIES. MACKEN 93. Iron TVHLA, ý là, anh 21 tháng Bordon's Conlused MA (sery treab) Canforais MULIS in Chek and Ta Gunger Cakes. Hak Bistutis, dels BISCITA \n\n**Cargo** will be received on board wat 4 pm, Spice and Puzzle until 3pm on he Bith\" October, 180. (Percale are yoimba sout on beard; they must be left at the Agency's Ullior,) Fontents and value of Packages are re aired, For faxtbox particulars, apply at the Tompany's ch. G. 12 OTAMPRAGE, Agent \n\n**Valor RG00LTS.** **Alpbabe B.80ITS.** **Ogaver BISUVIES.** \n\nLA Fangen, Gerober 11, 1880, Buckness FLOOR, CORNMEAL,. NAILSISAN IYE MRAL BUNNY, Small and Large. V WHEAT. QATMEAL SBELLBACK NUTS, VEOAN NUTS. WALNUTS. SOFT SAL ALMONDS. IE1 GIỜ. Canned Table Fruits. Bartlets FKARS. PRACHES GREENGAGES Tark KRUITS Smcked HEEF MITHU BISHI \n\n## HAIL STEAMSHIP COMPANY. \n\n**STEAM TO TOKOHAMA VIA KOPK AND INLAND EXA.** \n\n**HOES. S. SUNIVA MART**, Captain: Hanexes, dus bem o or abus the Insurances, \n\n## THE LONDON & STAFFORDSHIRE FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED, \n\n**SITARRIO GATING ZAR** **STAFFORDSHIRE FILE INSUR ANUS COMPANY, LIMITED.** \n\nChera-Two MLLong HTUMING Blond are prepared to is Pattan Cutoring FIKK WISKO S Current Kutos ADAMSON, KELL & C., Agatis. #20 longbows Augasi 26, 1680k.\n\n## CHINA TRADERS' INSURANCE COMMPANY, UNITED, \n\n**HEAD OFFICE, HONGKONG.** \n\nPosition of the Compong at the close of the best financial pour, the 99th Agon), 1860, Cara Bub$1,00,000.00 Carter PaP 500,000.00 Bases For 428 000.00 BALS U 70,278.49 Evirana VanD TO BARY ND PATO TO CONTRIBUTORS MOLDUS........20% per Arzam, OF D. Stats, 23 % va the awak of their Goatribune. Congang grotta Policies on Mause sil para of vite World, par- Contribotury Dividends ara PAYABLE TO ALL CONTRIBUTORS OF BUSI NESS WHETHER TUFY ARE SHARK- BOLDARS OF NOT. 14. GULIJSMITE, Acting Salary. Hongkong, August 13, 1880. abis at map of sis Agencies.\n\n## ANG TSZE INSURANOE¦ ASSOCIATION. \n\n**CAPITAL (Fully Pp...T. 420.000 PAMANENT BESEF 200 Bra Bra T1 209,268** \n\nTocal Cases and 40- CUMULATIOSA, 3 th April, 1890.} ......Tie Ri \n\n**Directors.** \n\nF. B, Yon, Eng, Chairman, 28th Instant, will be espatele se ahore W. M. Eov, WA. METS, SATURDAY, M B Databer, st. F. PRACKYO, F. D. Hara, Esq.\n\n## Daylight APRIJOIS, QUINCES. \n\nEM a regelved on board sod Farely at No Bill of Lading aigued under Brusked OX-TOSQUES, Comprend OX-FOXUCKS. Mire MSAT. Compressed Corned BEFF. Assorted JELLIES in (as Jurs. Mixed PUSLES sted PKLES. Corned REEF. Qua's OLIVES. Clam CHOWDER SARAT Cablores BARDIVES. PEK and BEANS. Earrale Dariela Yeaat POWDER Soka SALMON. POCK in 2001 BEEF la 2. Fratt KCTTER PARCE Balier BANG. Brown BEANS.\n\nWe have the following **FOR SALE**, in Large or Small Quantities la Bulk :-- \n\n**Fine Valantis RAISINS.** \n\n**Mas Parris OURKANTS.** \n\n**Smyrna MIGS.** \n\n**Good Breakfast TEA** at Denis per b F MIXTURE in 5 & 19 Catty Bozer Cases & **BLACK'S HOUSEHOLD STORES.** \n\nPBA Jons Hom & Bone! UCLEBRATED PRISALVES than to 6 9.0. of 29th October. Brett, A Cs man he settled on heard before delivery is tukos, ther wi ɔt be rogized.\n\n## TO AMA \n\nthey RATER F Cabtu. Storage 416 75 STARUBAT HE YOKOBANA... 120 A muŠPANUKAL. Mocars RUSSELL # 09., Secretaries.\n\n## LUDLO BRANCH: \n\n**My BARING BROTHERS & Co.,** E MICHARD BLACKWELL, Esq., Agent, 08 and 09, Corabül \n\nPo pasted on Marine Bisks to sil Subject to a large of 18 tor Intern parts of the 95 30 Anos la wale on Rattus l'any) an Pheriaciders' Lopetal, sill klo PROFITS; \"K A will wd fatsoen for Nogeek will be transkipped to the Shanghai Mail besity at Koda of the Useraitis Resins are no | muafly dretributed among all Coutríðu kora \n\n## CHINA MAIL. \n\n**Insurances.** \n\n## THE ODINA FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED. \n\n**READ OFFICR-SONGKONG.** A GENOTES at all the Treaty Ports Chlan And Japan, and at Hinge Saizes and Penang \n\nJA KENGUILL F Per Pinput for Helkom, CD Chianae ; Paket 11 hom Per Faldin, for Shargħal, 30 Chinose. TO DEPART. Pir Nipt, for Shanghai, 2 Europñana, Bad to biness. Par guns, for Helbow, da, 40 CM- Per Acian, for Hofhow, ke.. 15 Càleum. Pax Mariis, for Mauila, Huropeans, stand 2 Chine Kiska accepted, and Polloker of Insurance granted at the rate of Praia enrent the above mentioned j'oréa CHLAGE PO MLICY VEEN. Ja B COCGGTRIE, Secretary. inna. Naibor 1,111.\n\n## MANOUESTEN PIKE ASSUEANCH COMPANY OF MANCHESTER AND LONDON. \n\n**ESTABLISHED 1824.** \n\n**Capital of the Company £1,000,000%berting** \n\nPhich is paid to Rover For Arava! Incomi CARGO. Per 8. 8. Autrepton, to Loudon sailed 19th Debober-87,990 itu. Cozgoa, 180,542 Ibn Husted Cane, 89.910 the. Saams4 Orange Pekor, m, od 89,991 The Kreen-total 323,443 the Ton; 33 ser $15 Plens Good, 83 balen Waste Pik, and 191 pkg. For New York, 182 pannurlar.\n\n## POST OFFICE NOTICES. \n\n**MAILS** will close:-- \n\n10,000 120,000 2540M \n\n++ Pur BANGHA!..- +2 THE Tulendyned have loan appointed Bongo Canide, Fossbow, Stanghal, 1 square for the stoys Company as and Haney, anál azo propaved Tosuration at autovak rakām, grant IIULLIDAY, WISE & C Konphone, faxolour 15, 1968.\n\n## Not Responsible for Debts. \n\nWo. Nether the Captain, the Agents, nur Owners will be Uespunisie for amy Debt contracted by the Officers\". Dew of the following Vstacle, during tätär slug in lungkung Berben-- BEW, Austra big, Capt. C, 0. Waft.-Aruhaft, Kveborg & Óồ. TATANIA, Briel ship. Capini Powurud---3000, Livingston & Qa SIUMIN B. Antes, Amerimo argus, CW5, edge.Tong Song Wh CASUMERE, Aerivan ship, Captain I: G. Coliatum—Arai-old, Kurborg di fio, FLORENCE NITRALE, E bur, Capt. A. McIntyre Aruhold, Karberg & Co. $1349, French barque, Capisin Buck Captain Hawass, Geman burke tins, Capsu P. Burgwerk-Carlowits & \n\n## MEMOS. FOR TO-MORROW. \n\n**Shipping.** -Caneland leave for Samelung, -Ning loaves for Shanghai.\n\n## General Memoranda. \n\n**Sunday, October 24** \n\n**Daylight** Sanghag ivares for Portk. B-By Laver for Manila WANDAY, October 27- 5392.- OCTOVER 21, 1880. ton.\" Now, to our mind, this passage Heade one rappres that the fullest r rocity exted on the pats of Chips sowards British and other foreign inau rame to Chinn, wand that Chinese mar! Bave similer passe to hold meetings and tu consider the question, how, i ther own cities nad tuwas, the imesigrating of foreigners may be boat regulated kan \n\n## No. 5832-Octaera 21, 1880. \n\n**CHICKET.** \n\n## THE CHINA MAIL. \n\n45 3 the Xpans of bis virit 19 the Traunvsal. tòem; hat I have never had my dni stafionel in Brugkorg, ja which theater on Seataci will be trailed a carmi words of ptates Brand by ts kind he would speak with some mucharity, I was ouly 80 miles from. Crasu, on doubt, decide the glaim oulia morla | reagent ni tha busiuran dazu to this l'eart a restricted! It has always seemed to re to be the most cun-sided way of putting\" Ware of Captain Mushall's meticme, the gist of which we gare anveral months \n\nI have looked through all the realis fors, have elamined them carefa ly and tan case, to burp upea tes proposition: \n\n**Daylight-Thaler** leave for furt fari, hat the Treaties with Chine should be revised on titiu matter, when the res Cooktown, So. Soon.Tendon for Espace to Bast of able way of settling the question weuid be Carpenterie Sånt, cecaired by Naval be to insist upon de apasa privilegar Stateknoyer. being extended to foreigners in all pa Mail loaves for Yorts of of China as are sixed by Chinese i Call an Berapa \n\n## No \n\n## THURSDAY, 'thor 38:--- \n\n2.30 p.m.diesting of Shareholder Gao Xarranca Odies, at 'ol \n\n## SATERDAY. \n\n**October 30-** \n\n**Daylight** Mia Bishri Mail leaves for Yokolama, 25. 3 p.m.Aut agar nail desven fix Yoke and San Francisco.\n\nSangn countries. There is room enough Far all, if anly then rights to settle al of trade pengeably were reciprocal on sil Vail this rider. consumadon is reached, it in illogical, from a politics, print of view, to deny to the Austra Hans (we do not say to the Californians! the right of mating their power to Portrici. Wa however, stron conviction that the vast plains of Nook-Truthers for Ropal to 34ghtor both Australia and America will ge Riig, ze ived by Farid roskanjer. The irrigated and opened up droi the manual tour of the Chines TORSTAY, November 11 Noon-Auction of Brock-la-Trade, Mo..savvy; and this, as we listed scre time since, will eventually prove the Ahey to the difficulty of Chinese enigte hon, at lenes of the larger and mon Tingartent branab of the movemen \n\n## Feri, \n\nat11.30 am. Tomorrow, Day, Novembne :- \n\ntion is, Pet Ningro, at 3.30 pun. To-morrow, the and Ini. For **NEWCHWANG**, — Per Chamind, at 2.99 .m., on Friday, the 20 thei For **BAROKOK** – MAK of Hotel de Laivers Per jy. wt30 pm, on | **HONGKONG DISPENSARY**, Sharp seems to have nearly succeda \n\n## Saturday, \n\nthe Zani fuat For **SWATW, AMOY, & FOOCHOW.--** Pet Bungling, at, Saborlag. the 3rd it. **** For **HOW, PAKO, ASP HAI-FAMILY & DISPENSING CHEMISTS**, PHONG ve on at 6 pm, on Saturday, the 23ed just, For **YORGAMA KOBE...** in establishing a Girly reputable chas Fracter for the Chinamau o feizer, DEN his coace in this connection are je te wait commendable and just the Heathen Chinne\" can warcaly be ex pecued to assume & very high place \n\n## cities \n\nnati! he le raised by costat omewhat nearer to the Wastorn lava!; he is by un neaus the gravelling. \n\n## THE \n\n**Established A.D. 284.** \n\n## A S. WATSON & Co., \n\n**WHOZBALL AND RETAG FB700043.** \n\nbut i worthless monster depicted by the au \n\n## LOCAL AND GENERAL \n\n**IMPORTERS** \n\nDz Peru M, at 5 pm, on Friday. Pavoury SUNDRIES, NESBRY React-Chinese agitators of the Pacto Slope, \n\nthe ' MAILS N Panch PACKER —– Fas French Doziract Packet Bindi nili bepaalert on WEDNESDAY, the Databer, with Male to aud chrough the Vind Htogdom and Sampo, vid Nuples; to Saigon, Stratte Ballikzada, Rajavis, Barnak, Cryina, Indis ( Muitas, the antralscina Aden, Egypt, Malta, sud WALL Curser, Optain Maas. The anal hours will be observed in closing! mann-Mayer & Co., \n\n## To-day's Advertisements. \n\n**FOR SHANGHAI**, \n\nThe Steamstv \"Nig 31, MAIS DE UMTAY SEASES PACERY, The United States Mai! Pachet (ly of Takto will be despatched on SATUR DAY, the 20th instant, with Sta fapa Sao Francisco, Teled States, Canada, Honda, Peru, o, oh it be disse follo 2.13..-Registry quassa. 22.3.-Pt-Office læer, but Ļelier, < Chatin R. tan, will he a drepstebetet Port, TO-MORROW (FR), the natant, 4 pm. For Fright or Pourage, izple ke HIMMENEN KONG Poukoty, October 21, 1986 of Busines in propation to the Premis |-------- Por barcher Partienjars, apply st the paid by c Company's Ostreza, No. 60, QuSKA'S KOAD CASTAL Hongkong-head c. B. MAIL LINK PACIFIC MAIL STEAMSHIF COTANY. - THROUGE NAW YORK, sue OVERLAND BAILWAYE, AND TOTOBIEK AN YOKOHAMA, AND ÖAH IBANCINOR, TE. & Mail Stembly CITY OF TOKIO depthed for a Frances SATUR FAT, 30th Jual taking Phuge, and Daltsu Sutca uti HUSSELL & Co., Agente \n\n## THE LONDON ASSURANCE, \n\n**INCORPORATED BY Royal Chastes** \n\noi Ha Majerty Kay Dearge The Firsi, * U. 1720 Fadened having been sepented As for the above Corpseilua san prepared by grant lusurances as follows: Marine Deparment, for spas, the hore, in boudi at the principal Ports Policles at rent rates payable other I ut Through Blood for trous. perasion to Takeda apú other Jus Porte, to sa Fros, o Atlantic and Falezd Cities of the United States via Oper and Rathways to Harps Frintial, and Demeraro, sui to porte in Marles, Central and Soren Aurich by the Chupany's and conscaling Sta #Fing to direct sucial altention is our Though Frage Tickets granted w wel alled Skies of Wines, Spirits, &c. Har Moserotu. Pis. Qis Men's (les) Champion, P& CHARLES RISTOR'S WHITE SEAL, Ficts sad Quzzle. CHATEAU LABOVE (GCMs & Anura), Pia and Qazta CHATEAU LAPITE, Plata IRES GRAVES, Pinta and ours. Quarte BREAKFAST CLAMST, Pista & Qacis. OLD INVALID CLARET. S. JULIEN, &, Burgandy, Hock, Sherries, o Chamberlin, hablhite) Libfuurilub, Backbeiner, Niereiser, Sie beige Cabinet, E al Fisteri Berg, Koni Barg, Casu Yquem, Grand Vin, unt eterne Marsala, sc com's Pale Dry White Sed Shary, Yeller Ses Atilade Culer Falmer und Company's Tulane, kormany by eli, trane-Alentio usa of Stormers. Feight will be revived va hours until 2 , the 2006 Celcher. Pame: Packups wice will 5 p lll be not day; Ji Dr. 4. Pagkages abould be arked to denial of REALE in qal Gouslar Inria to socomapany Overland: Carga bould be wont to the Tinmagany's Uca dualed Favelagen, aldred to the Colicator of Chere at Hau Fran For faziler ip tos as to Patago and rght, apply to the Agency of the Sampang, No. 5, Frays Outra LULL & Co, Agente, Wonton, Cushe 20, 138 \n\n## 3 \n\nof India, China caj Avtolla. Five Ligastent sacceat a discent of 20% allowe Política sredicioner sort periclini Le partient QUBAN STEAMSHIP COMPEY. FOR SUANQUA FSA AM TAIN, HANK W Pots on6 YAZOTEZE.J The Co.'s telp Ashes, Capta Axzas will be dispatched for about the shiul Instwo. For Freight or seage, apply to für Unam Countrice may be posted on board is Pakel with Lab fee of 10, cents ezra Pestage unfl the time of departure.\n\n## SITE, \n\n**OLET Requtsu, ENGLIS AMERIDAY, AN FASKI PATAKY** **DieDANA. MANUFACTURERN** \n\nThe most bierna Man wogy be expected an or about Monday next, the 25thick, by ta M. M. steamer due, which brings Londra dator to the 17th September. de Wa, Lamanale, Taula Water, The next Anessa Mare may be spectra (Aingendo, Palass Water, Sarsaparilia Water, and other dersted Waters, 1 Manfvebury is water divast and¦ conteneva Buropean Yuguralsiona Hongkong. June 5, 1870. or abos: the 10th inst, hy, Pleaser Italgia, which Ivings San Fransiz y dates te ike kd just.\n\n## BUTERY \n\nL. d. Let inge Yun verlund Nuit (Supi, S) has the fal Impere, I am not forbidden to atter my made to any attempt to copy Deligro Sie Thou replied with the happy tant had had plenty of eppretauities to ob that only the west kind of women could santi ad 1 only dusies now tanks.4, \"MAGZE\". \n\n## THE ROYAL ARTICLELY. \n\nJowing sailing of the fast to a port has been which always distguishes to, and those serve the cherweter ac peneral hosted getting away with their The Gurarament it act, it is bad, ask the Colony. I bolten I have worked at berance. Ibu bezusi avvale + grabs to Wednesday. tataested in the Noalety's elfans wün postponed A match was playel to-day ban 27 Kia Faida hay Datibed in beard the tom tomarks souls gold of the Chinees, so that un these points husbands. Fren in Hongkong, which Farlansat for its extes cost of it bad way, and I have put things as H.M.S. Magpie, aus gel Artery Pune Nicholas of steer that send- claimed this year by Sirenelle Weere Pur straight on it le pike for any was bri put! ham huiped fovileg 1 wib heh he clotted is while he might be able to disabuse the few Che bad heir wives wilt thom. When Sie Harle are ha giren expias duet in 7 way, and I da ut so this Kattery and at easy lovey in one postponed in compliance wits the request to 4 bis own to get they had formet s \n\nThe harul demauerndon has been expresion of pro at having Esteeds of porcona of prejudices were only av begining to bring Ben and more, the Gateinment wil, no day know what fe are properly labis in to the more then, after waiting for 40 years to s jantags. Appended are the roores he is prepare to take intellectual treat he bad ayyorloveci sines character of the man to which he had whocher the British were entitled to of the Princ rior al, ha asks for active aid of the bis arrival in Singapore.\n\n## referral \n\n**(Applause).** \n\n**Great Powers** beside rave? demonstration. at a mark of confidence. The dif War shathe Foccolaty of State for The Lecturer, who was seeived with ficades of bringing Chinese woken was away hattle the Cloufus hea spproved of the room applaun, began by juicing out that Sensely forced by Great Yance to cussion of sorg. endations enbaid in the Report the 33 Suph B-fle Allied Fleek have cover. Pulido Coma, had we are intended been induoad to deliver his lecture terfere. Thu fecrarer seen thealt at y that that is sucirely due to the Inske, not out,... ... 62 to be expretive Governments the that application has been rande for two from the fact that no arriving in this ength with the charges of want of the Malay Panimanisio sconect the Bay of nopleut of the Chief Juice, by whom only, Lowris, & Datkin, \n\na deaded Hontenegro for muitary eid, nupoobure and twenty Europees posibles colony he found that here was a strong doetie refinent, and atraktion to the Beugel with the China Sea, the Stross seting with the salive, esa a code of felolda, Paik, 4s this wil, is de balioved, fapt the from here, in order to give the polios popular feeling agus fhose inset laws et health by the thiness, and niss he impost That za hea, alaps (Nik, neaugham, bu voral deconatration. Its stated, Finland fores the dranings of trained odours glooted als duly in tali moniter of the Lukių & TRADE, Daikin,.............. \n\ngrution, sad in form of restricting it. cftheir gang proposities. In thea ............sed Rarsia are disposed to comply, but the Turber, efforts are batzg made to preeuse The maturi progress we had wit coultery be testitud assgewicht faror- Captain Mahallado no attempt to use dread the (luvarnor of haker, Dali, other powers are donario. Poha parte pense foresed in this colney bad errused his able comparison between the linens and give au seifwain of the most of this Canal, the feet; nothing put has been done, la Coeksrell, e Caina, b Stereo Abone of the tale til mare of a spaser which suishment, but nabing bad surprised as lower class of Europese. The par and a thin in about as izgorians ●TROLOR the luster of SE twice will not | Cunningham, e Saga-il, I fino, V. Great Powers have prevented colorivo | hva larterly busu bald to work very mus! So i gore than the great inredigeera stal cleanlizes of the Cries, the \n\n15 Bopt you do not is one of the soules applia. Boultor, 1 Daikin \n\naso, an to the ioration of a casat across $50 to the prevent alata 6 trips. Thouse & Philin, & Stevenson! Potion lo force there to 1 Alu hautrups, Duuming, Daikio, in the calderaton of the project as the do nothing. The mountaioona batom of the untry, anna sigu the papers, A orrditursamyare wae \n\nbreathing as to our chosen, but I eat do nothing. T'as Chief of the Justles alarining roles that would happen her if this anjut mered into so What would become of Singapore with ship escalanide of the Perinta With sorrad away a the thongs to as pspark tiat 135 ought to bund him thom Ity 1 sm nos le clerk. Á mi not his arvadt. 1 decline to do that which is no part of ng luty. I declined to bytu anything to do with that sangreicy or \n\ni Leg bed 1, wide belles, \n\n## MAGYIK.\" \n\n- High constables from Indis, with a view to the Per protining against the Hangkang. drom as follow, however, generally manifested by the working taste of their woman in dressing, and shätzle of Kira Pasha, at Dalrigan The that the arrival of those additions to the \n\nit had been real education to the comforts of the bone helonging to 68 | Salt makes for delay pa wnhdrawal of ¦ E res, it produced, will make our police \n\nor visit these colmier, au to see in de well-to-dɔ, wire many jurticularly pentuar, to which to reply but been given, \n\nIt, Am grant esticulty is ez. stara perfect, \n\nall directions the wonderful traits of the referred ta. In regard to their gambling parlente ha keeping up the camber of intustry and inteligente of its perple babit, be said they had dec \n\n## INDIAN TELEKKING, \n\n**feronson, a Thomas, ↳ Erenslag 9** \n\nsive statku the proper standaa Simple, Saps Ja—its following latter: We understand that the whols fores, He was sorry the more working mar mariod of gambling frers that of Euro- Its glory would deere, and it would be din 1 Salover pa to da via the keep slan, a Dunging, bilgate Abdulla Kan Nasiri ( minister of amounthy to only 100 ostabios divided were cat present that evening a heat pean, but is had yet to tears that they so soother Malach. harbour would glah, but official original dahin, a Staker, b Durning496 Kb.) to the adesso Mahund or reti iz no Jou atation, is \n\nwhat he had to say on the questica, were such veterese gasesters. The bodemarked, is whats godose cipta T the Chick Jestion will pot Rewards, & Dancings Sadis, Chind the Van Onila, siad abvady shout VO slosh, which are star watch was wow being a wavy als working man's obit difficulty with doch wonki talk intodecay, so its fortifie alge the papare unless I haud that bim Shay, Fillingham, \n\n6:13h August, 1880, fell recently into kasi súly reddorn the Keskivens of the forna; elops would he tuntia a wildercoss of las personally. thas a good earn all Eastwood, ut ca. \n\nosed. The importance of the Chinese regard to the Chiese was that their Inɔes of car dipeca Afor some of he slatluse leite w short of manu \n\nquestor coaki be seen from the fact that ; close appétation und protracted breath of Chladen Kende beured perio of their rutas datice, and is use of extrai Bilts had been introduced to desistor, with their courrerent sad ex- el is wel unta, and the Go fatour emergey they soid casting be found with it in these culories and that it had creme any amounting to paretino- ith a car dorizer bar wasting Wear Mufte Dualop in was been the subject of many dehmes in the minanese, and their apparent indifference olished. The sinkodova suy of zeious to lure the Malay element as colonial Legislatures and obawlers. It to the graiñarise of the palate, ren- 3 solar tops and in-bating Chazis à ne na as prcible, but for none was also a question which had very derud competition by their mouse lucs- te et si alte tares, Guiling in use there is uitat disincliently influenced the last Victorian tiuus rivals quis fatpossible. In aer he howel of su Feroute will be cut tion on the part of the Malaga to enter the election. He was aut surprised to find those charges the lecturer alluded to at and they thomas the sorte, and the oequense de, so we han \n\n5 gese. Thare wouldnnig remain Govore i wel: and good I quợc tálok is is a good ( Salatı, Fillingus. We are afruably besied that 15 ia impossible for them to pr.per's \n\nmeni Hese sadiis New Gaol, Let us brewton. sful hace for the mount as of the bad she. I believe may experieus Tucu, Dunning, \n\nAs a Salieri say it in vury Teeth The, ingen, Keninsula; at slevout the Caual will not is as great on that of app oca in Bell, TRS out,........... be untrusted fo our time, sila Cuart, both as a judicial cers and Vincent, en ent as a pencilding banier. Li \n\n## Chief Ju KEGORSZ. \n\nI distal Over of sun City of Luzdys for #ges wide billa 1........ Avioquest was held at the Government or Body fat in z opicion Ciril Boroitals g., day, before the the Chief Justice is dudug what he ought \n\n## 2nd \n\n**Innings.** \n\n**Acting Caremar, G. & Northotiy** \n\n**Pay get to do.** \n\n**Pease 2 Thatters thích cɔn-¦ Stevenson, o locke, b Cuvalaghaw, *** Keisti-Chi'nst and a hand of Pumarogm of mountable, which, agli at the fall Chinese as there now spared to be. were better off then other European in and jury cousisting of Miners H. Love the public more than they concura 10, Cai, Boular, bunningham,....... Otte, die Remia and J. Law, began sterly different other Daikin, b Carning, \n\nou the bud ul Finsters tallat akheep the peston de Asif Governwards, Chatangham, \n\nseamani on the Emma. \n\n## Atwood, \n\no aud Jooze, \n\n## Lovett, \n\nhol us \n\nde of the sarth. You a Hving coated, the dwindling sway of the number gene antipathy towards the the fact that the working man fortunately tea that aisée, but still nothing bat has strength, is very inadequate to the require The Chinese were incongr-beusilla, and regard to the shortness of their bure, he feit that he hur lees of them yow The Chinese, he pointed out, wokal 3 doe hy you as yet, Bowater, for the munia of the pisu \n\n'shku nỷ tim tuligion of Ales Průphol, girá | than he thought he knew soroo 05 years bag leans bests they were exalted Dr Clouth states that about 1 16 po tema, i abenld go \n\nup the duna of bravery, collect the people pratarday be tried a nots requesting his Bisk ans 1 Tblog here. 11870 per Swith, Castreba.................. \n\nand Ghess, and having invested Konut- **BARON OVERBBCK'S CESSION IN** \n\n**ago.** \n\n**But** \n\nin venturing to exproes his frurn the mesas of recreation which to a man blonging to the of the at roatavat eluce I have been bete na \n\n## BORNEO. \n\ndisanat from the popular feeing against Europeus enjoyed; and so far se their |(bils-i ou \"all ridan, caž cat táo bowels di shager Emm who had fallen inby theis na offical in my pedition weald erar Tvara, > Carningliaerery Forlaghes hatir in the place, and \n\nthen les baged he would nes be credited tempersues of hring was cancorned, in (Strain Times) Dk. Fann he arrived his foort te Retail, and fics) has ever been: Hell, fece You yonment wit to be 100, granting a charter for a teria \n\nIt was reluarkent stat in this they were by no Movariérom there fem the freo of the atth. azad, death Laylag been savie, sa subjected to before. If i had not bears the Vict, Oncingla \n\nThe question of the cession and too wab suy interested natives. \n\ninezonary for him to stand forward moans alexciliar wrong. It was not in opsion, by a fracture of a base of the \n\n4 For some will be great in the world. e ott af Barnes is etil under the as their champion. The Chinese, bet ordions caliptication secticid skull. \n\n## Write \n\nzowe of your weliare, and repertsonaiaration of the Fasi Olien \n\nbelieved, were well able to take care of wants thas the national wealth of a pres Food, savoc officer of the Germen \n\n## Salty \n\nwhorer Spe \n\nthemselves, au they had done for the last (aneous people consistesi, but in its prom abooer MAN now in the Logicom Dont, \n\n## Side, \n\n**Nap. 27from Fakar rebed home, but it is said that now urba stated that yesterday morning, he nazt the \n\n## Festerday \n\nto Segi and white at Quetis meat is erer and Lord Cmavills in fear thousand years; and any ertemps dacbo over its expenditure, as main deceased, who was able to work \n\n## boon \n\n4 28, Maplertanks \n\n's brigade w \n\nwith one little insure from the exigencias tilltrain in this colony or eles reply to the diffenity suggested by the is locato 100 bead gear from the pett \n\n## 35th \n\n**Howare** will leave Kandahar ou the legislation and parts landarefip, the where would only recoil on the greur. working me was an expression of A match was played between the shore Pets of Georral Phayre's Listen water will receive his earnest sttention To flustrate this be referred to the wonder that the cultivated Brion should \n\n## Kaniskor, \n\nthe east' remaling in cap to \n\noftets I might hara mim furni into doing something whtob I dare not con- \n\n## plats. \n\n## Calling \n\niba Cabar of the Cart Mr Stockinen, the Registrar then asked him to arcertain from Mr Nouop whether the Judge wing. If the Chief Justier, \n\nof the sebooast. Will a cold chisel a ha sided, does not do his duty, I will do \n\n## USNTRAL SCHOOL \n\n**V. WONGKONG PUBLIC BOVOLT** \n\n4 3mity \n\n## Ear \n\n## Adri \n\nsumer, and directed bina to staze himsait! ziua so far or in me es. My duty is to Clubs on the Byakkoon Bijaket Cab enved into the Cantonment as sny Rose definite decision will be rises data of slayers, und be puinted out fear the competition of the Chine \n\nby a cupe to the boat Dead how attend in Cuart, sed 1 illato di Court, evar appeared to have made note of the bat 1 il nos nitend in handers. tope and must have lost his bediend falou Me Stookhansen left to Icterslew Mr being in favour of the Public School. fato the trek. \n\n## Moshop \n\n## Tun \n\nM. M. sixsome des left Salgul 41 \n\n## Lee \n\nWo Shing, the head cocite spleyad by the Dook Company, board was of the sin lling out that was bad fuilce, \n\n## routs \n\nfor Jongkong this afternusu un d \n\n## Telefuck. \n\nuses string in Hongkong, or day a rolight Masquerade at Ki other persons who may desite to conto son lant aight, se zawounosd, an! + alt the files of local, China, fots Tory Inle water of pleasure rackare d Aumrien, English, Indien or vote sembled in the gardena, disgarand in a at nesapapus, *TH invited to call as racists of fatty matuides and mazka. the \"ORIA MIL\" Of, who formaty za nearly three hundred were pres alaty vowspapere, dailios and weaklive, Ton wasther was all the old be ded from those countrion, ste now filed fat and « very plasmant evening was pacrofi rho who ventured perces the wa \n\n## raferet \n\n## Be \n\n## Correspondence \n\nfor Non-Tinion West IndThe putilation of the tee commmeed Rythicx was quiet and menig, milit \n\n(exout Hay de Pangusy, vinos bo sent by a rate. \n\n## Hongkong, \n\n**Oct. 21, 1980.** \n\n## THE FERNOH MATTY \n\n8.10 p.m. “ \n\n## 063 \n\n## The Chinz Mail. \n\nThe following hours are observed in closing Muin, de, by the Franch Contract Packe ng before departure, -—- 3 F. Money Urd Office closes Fosi fica ales, exvert the NIGHT HO, but is \n\noper, out of Oles hours. \n\n## BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, \n\n**tray of departure** \n\ndents. tongkang, Qutober 31, ZEN. \n\n## Pont \n\n**Cffice DENT.** \n\n**A.M.-Eagletry of Totters avisa Posing of all priated taller and patterns.** \n\n..feils einwel, except for Late \n\n## Luthers. \n\n11.10 A.Matter pay be posted with \n\n10 \n\n## COBAN STEAMSHIP COMPANY, \n\n11 \n\n**FOR YOKOHAMA (DIRECT)** \n\nThe Usa Sisaushi \n\n**Archines.\"** \n\n**Captain C. Jackie** \n\n**Policies** sued for mums not exceeding or ahem the shout \n\n## 110LIDAF, \n\n**W185 & Co.** \n\n## Hongkong, \n\n**July 25, 1874.** \n\n## --- \n\n## BOTH BRITISH & MENGANTILN INSURANCE COMPANY. \n\n**Incorporated by Royzi Charice a** \n\n**Special Acts of K'arbiament** \n\n**YAMETRIE 1809.** \n\n**CAPITAL £2,000,CA.** \n\n## THIS \n\n**Vadersigned, Asans at Hongkong** \n\nFor the above gazy, sta preparad to graut Poles against F:R, to she extect of £10,000 on way Failding, or en Mercane in the same, at the \n\n## Occidental \n\n& Oriental Stem-i Rates, object to a discount of 20 \n\n## Ship \n\n**Company.** \n\n**TAKING THEGER CARGO AND PASSENGERS OR TBE UNITED STATES AND KUROPE, \n\n## CESTRAL \n\n## WI \n\n**KE** \n\n**lavalid** \n\n**Purt** \n\n**(1845),** \n\n**Hans** \n\n**PEON** \n\n**FACIFIC** \n\n**AND** \n\n**OUKNECTING** \n\n**Brandy, Whisky, Liqueurs, &c.** \n\n1, 2 xel Setar Asapessy's Brandy, Is \n\n## Gratis \n\n**Marque Brandy, Cutter Palmer** \n\n& Co.'s Bay, Reuser fine de \n\nC's Bandy, E 0 4 staraj \n\n## Mended \n\naid Bacerbert V. Icipi \n\n## Whisky. \n\n## Jamieson's \n\n**leish** \n\n**Whisky,** \n\n## Glendes \n\n**Welby** \n\n## RAILBOAD \n\n**OUMIPANTES** \n\n## AND \n\n## ATLANTIC \n\n**STEAMERS.** \n\nper cent \n\n## CILMAN & Con \n\n**Agente, Rozkang, July 6, 1872.** \n\n## LANCASHIRE \n\n**INSURANCE** \n\n## COMPANY, \n\n**(FIRE AND LIFE) - CAPITAL,WU MLA BILING.** \n\n## Press \n\nthe \n\n## Przes \n\nagainst the tak of FIRE on Builtings or au Goods stored thersta or Goods en hard Yesels and on Nolis of \n\n6. BSTAIC wa ho despatch-Female in harbour, at the szual Torne \n\ned fx kan servis Yakhana, and Condition. \n\n## Proposals \n\nfor fe Amurous will be re \n\n## For \n\n**Freight or Passage, apply to** \n\n## BUTTHAFIELD & WIRE, \n\n## KATA \n\n## Hongkong, \n\n**Ostaher 21, 1990, \n\n## NOTICE \n\n**TO OONSIGNEES, FROM LONDON, PENANG AND SINGAPORE,** \n\n**Samhip** \n\n**Dewartire, Capt. M Macawz, huving arrived from the abere Porta Consiganen of Cazzo are hereby re quested to and in their bills. Lading sa Ani \n\nthe Clervaged for covered their fir \n\nfrem atopgste. Cargo impeding the l \n\nto take immediate delivery \n\nrange of the Susmeril boat as landed \n\nand bored at their risk and expose, ard: \n\n## Pics \n\n**Leimage** will be affected. Optional Carga will be forwarded on to \n\n## Late \n\n**Pec** \n\n**flu** \n\n**cele** \n\n**unsil** \n\n**11.30** \n\n**4.M.-wise** \n\n**the Post Giflon clares** \n\nentitis. \n\n11.40 male Lettera way he posted on board the pecker with Late \n\n## Fe \n\nof 1 cents until Use of depswww. \n\n## Quotations. \n\n## Hoycasa, \n\n**cuber 21.** \n\n**OPIUM,-Now** \n\n**Paina, essb.... 000** \n\n**coal...** \n\n12 \n\n10 \n\n+ \n\n**Old** \n\n**Non** \n\n**Benarus, sal, 872** \n\n**cash,** \n\n**Old** \n\n**New** \n\n**Malwa, oralit, 700** \n\n**Allowance.** \n\n**Taetr...** \n\n**Od** \n\n**Maiwa, aedi, 70** \n\n**Allowance, Isals 1348** \n\n## Bows, \n\n**Wire** \n\n## Exchange. \n\n140 \n\n## Demand, \n\n9192 \n\n## 30 day \n\n**sight** \n\n'4 moushs' sight, \n\n.. \n\n## Credite, \n\n4 \n\n## Documentary, \n\n4 racities' night, 5/2 \n\n## Shanghai \n\n**suvs** \n\n**norios** \n\nto the curary bendla, Wice, given before in. That, the 21st \n\n## demand,..... \n\n*142231 \n\n225 \n\n$23 \n\n## All \n\n**Claimsadmat** \n\nthe Stamer must be 3bang, doan, \n\n## peceneted \n\nto the Gudert helend Tamf, 994 fue****** \n\n## 731 \n\n**Bigow** \n\n**34th** \n\n**Lust, or king will not be recognized** \n\n## 27.HA \n\n**Soverelgus..... 5.93** \n\n**RUSSHT). & Baj** \n\n## Areatz \n\n## Hongkong, \n\n**October 21, 1629** \n\n## SHIPPING. \n\n## ARRIVAL. \n\n## Dat. \n\n23, Jems, Datch startez, 3087, \n\n## J. de \n\n**Ridler, Haiphong** \n\n**Cuk** \n\n£, Ri \n\n## Oz, \n\n**R Sturme** \n\n## Col$1, \n\ne. British etesmor, löl, \n\n## bigly \n\n**moms** \n\nor about the St Norminber; 1889, at \n\n3 p.nr., taking Care and Fazawngate for priced, and taemitted to as Directors 4. MaGauber, London Aag. 2, and Sign Japan, the \n\n## ATH \n\n**Qiu, Swaine Rose & Co.'s Old Tom** \n\n## Gin; La \n\n**traute** \n\n## BL \n\n**Indow, Erase** \n\n## Gunagi** \n\n## The \n\n**Gar** \n\n## Pin & \n\n**Gra; Ange** \n\n## sta, Boker's and Orange** \n\n## Bitters, 200, 2, \n\n## BASS \n\n**ALE, buttled by CameroN & SLEM-** \n\nna, Fin and Quarks. \n\n## GUINTOUT, \n\nbottled by &J. \n\n## Piata \n\n**nel** \n\n**Quakta,** \n\n## PILSENER \n\n**BEER,** \n\n## Geilan** \n\n## Fhes \n\n**ALE, bottled by Macki, H. Gu.** \n\n## States, \n\n**Merino, Centre Weis focizica** \n\n## Sp \n\n**Sonth** \n\n**And** \n\n**Katupe.** \n\n## If \n\n**rotira, protection** \n\n## Connection \n\nin me at Yokohama, with Art chin line in will be granted an \n\n## Steam \n\nfrom Shang \n\n## Freight \n\nwill be centred on Board unti 4pm. of the 8 November. PARCAL. PACKARES wit be recited as the Othe sabai & p. 16. same day: al Parcel Packages should be marked to podzemn in fall; vale of same le required.\n\n4. 4 Reproxies iade on BETVER Vio- ! TAGE TIKA. Goslar Involets to scoompany Over- | lena, Mexican, General and South Ameriosu! Cargo, should he met to Company's! ille por O. 18, Gear & Out 21, Nigus, Britis 1000 naingia Cautor. peals or other information, appy to ABRHOLD, SARRERG & Co., Agents, Hongkong & Cantor. Boogkong, Tarary 1, 1887.\n\n## QUEEN FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY. \n\n∙HE Undersigned are prepared to grazi DRAIGHT ALL and FORIER, by the add:ced to the Collector of Cis tore, San Francison. For furabus infromation ne to Freight! $15,000 op Buildings, or on Goads seed thersta or Goods on bard Yesels and on Nolis of ALE and PORTER, in Balk, (Bogbeads and lideriins). JP'S STORES and SAIL-MAKING, Hongkong, October 2, 1850, Policies againes Fire to the gatens to or Passage, apply to the scenes herein, at current wal tates, subject to a Gempang, No 37, gea's Road Contra Dasoent of % of the Francia, CHAS H. HASWELL, JE, Agesil iloegkong, Datober 12, 1830. Bey NORTON & Co.. Liget Mongkong, January 1, 1974. Ont. 91, Nože E60 10.9. u. for New York. 21, finger for Haikon, d. 21, fria Fratme Nugasaki, fc. 21, Potentia, for hergiaf OGBARED. Nings for Shanghai. Dungen, for Karnow, do Hetect For Fukor, du gmar, los Menile. Mariteits, for Manila, \n\n## PASSENGERS ARRIVED. \n\n## Per \n\n**Datonshire, from Singapore, Mr** \n\n**Alhere Fumorili, and 39 Dalame.** \n\n## Per \n\n**Jawa, tem Balpbong, 2 Chicaes** \n\n## Sharas** \n\n## Gozzang \n\n**Hank, 66 % phat., Alca.** \n\n## HONGKONG, \n\n**ZHURMAT, COT. I, 1860.** \n\n## numust \n\n**gord** \n\n**omter** \n\n**pravaried.** \n\n**Thoas** \n\n**la** \n\n**wastes** \n\n**Ho** \n\n**in** \n\n**that** \n\n**dir-oliou** \n\n**are** \n\n**pronis.** \n\n**via** \n\n**upgeetaufty** \n\n**of** \n\n**gathering** \n\n**thescica** \n\n**ether** \n\n**sysin** \n\n**bafate** \n\n**long** \n\n**us:bit** \n\n**the** \n\n## atomyiana. \n\n## I \n\n**will be oberved** \n\n**Ty an extruct re-** \n\n## A \n\n**Menawar** \n\n**bad** \n\n**tota** \n\n**eruit** \n\n**Court** \n\n**produced** \n\n**elsewhere** \n\n**thist** \n\n**Mr** \n\n**Greaville** \n\n**yaterday, afute** \n\n**Beglekar, wat no** \n\n**Sharp** \n\n**Las been speaking in Adelaide Korat conki bant.** \n\n## The \n\n**inst** \n\n**upon** \n\n**the** \n\n**rexed** \n\n**question** \n\n**of** \n\n**Chinese** \n\n**how** \n\n**know** \n\n**the** \n\n**Supreme** \n\n**Court** \n\n**of** \n\n**this** \n\n**ranigration;** \n\n**and** \n\n**it** \n\n**susy** \n\n**be** \n\n**noted** \n\n**that** \n\n**Colong.** \n\n**A** \n\n**and-hand** \n\n**say, minsk taove an** \n\n**gestan** \n\n**formen** \n\n**to** \n\n**cakes** \n\n**a** \n\n**divan** \n\n**and** \n\n**monspectably** \n\n**bound** \n\n**t** \n\n**terant** \n\n**opinion** \n\n**to** \n\n**that** \n\n**which** \n\n**is** \n\n**crudited;** \n\n## to \n\n**the** \n\n**longkong** \n\n**Government, o julga of the Dibles of jacuzz and wit at least by the afstractive policy lithaetony be picked up in the base of the fac motted hers as to passengers beone to niture brokers any time for scouts, of the Colovies. Sharp's rendness and experience, some bad tie to wake cash to auda From 20 of Nrth thenpretas Court reeks not. The thing may and orignal was expected, invite nadsbe toft to go bears and and se cubes to a feeling of disap pointment at the report of the inoture gain tow, Leinging his Forma presented. It may be the inalt of the with him.\n\n## report, \n\n**though** \n\n**the** \n\n**polete** \n\n**sesta** \n\n**za** \n\n**bej** \n\n## Birly \n\n**given;** \n\n**but** \n\n**in** \n\n**praizotion** \n\n**does** \n\n**ja** \n\n**ravaz** \n\n**accident** \n\n**occurred** \n\n**yesterday** \n\n**at** \n\n**the** \n\n## But \n\n**strike** \n\n**on** \n\n**93** \n\n**worthy** \n\n**Mr** \n\n**Sharp's** \n\n**Bowlona** \n\n**Docks** \n\n**to** \n\n**a** \n\n**desman** \n\n**belonging** \n\n**to** \n\n**the** \n\n## German \n\n**sciorer** \n\n**Fuse.** \n\n**Thy** \n\n**decored** \n\n**of** \n\n**our** \n\n**ceremusity.** \n\n**The** \n\n**tons** \n\n**which** \n\n## aspeara \n\n**to** \n\n**nave** \n\n**presied** \n\n**the** \n\n**gasa** \n\n**ant** \n\n**to** \n\n**work, in the morning, ro eui heag way must tooderate at fir away the head gear from the bewap it of and the most imprez sa fiendly the coner. He appears to have neglect. hasing was given to the lecturer. noted the pracamiton of conele himself with withstanding the general paiby test is known to axist towards the Chiness as inamigrania Te judge from the title \n\n## to \n\n**the** \n\n**insurers** \n\n**verourke, \"The** \n\n## LLines: \n\n**at** \n\n**Hoann** \n\n**aud** \n\n**Abroad,\"** \n\n**it** \n\n**may** \n\n## Lo \n\n**said** \n\n**that** \n\n**either** \n\n**the** \n\n**leemte** \n\n**was** \n\n**in** \n\n**Perimet** \n\n**or** \n\n**that** \n\n**the** \n\n**bending** \n\n**a** \n\n**tapp** \n\n## bleary \n\n**dealt** \n\n**principally** \n\n**with** \n\n## rupe, \n\n**as** \n\n**he** \n\n**was** \n\n**told** \n\n**to** \n\n**do** \n\n**by** \n\n**the** \n\n**med** \n\n## and \n\n**to** \n\n**rub** \n\n**inizie** \n\n**sur** \n\n**full** \n\n## wins \n\n**the** \n\n**Doo, striking his head an being es sevarly Injured that he died to the alunos. Ju gosta held the body at the Gril Uspital tüm after- the auspal position taken up by the mou, of which a report will be found f Chere in the towns; white the larger heider admon, gwelling in a rich of and is oore importants part played by ↑ “accrlottai dasth,” the Chinese in developing a new country, by means of irigation works, milway 16 Mine, a Calcatta Paper making mining, ant plotation series, coed and consent by Onlives, Ad was felt unnoticed. By this omission \n\n## Po \n\n**remark** \n\n**that** \n\n**one** \n\n**happy** \n\n**effect** \n\n**\\*f** \n\n**the** \n\n**\"platform\"** \n\n**of** \n\n**the** \n\n**lecturer,** \n\n**however,** \n\n**daire** \n\n**in** \n\n**England** \n\n**in,** \n\n**dvahtke,** \n\n**zared** \n\n**good** \n\n**point** \n\n**was** \n\n**meter** \n\n**lustracionalny** \n\n**to** \n\n**Serally** \n\n**in** \n\n**she** \n\n**spirit** \n\n**në** \n\n**kan** \n\n**alted** \n\n**of** \n\n**the** \n\n**Flemish** \n\n**artisans** \n\n**who** \n\n**sectie** \n\n**reistions** \n\n**of** \n\n**the** \n\n**Quereramous** \n\n**with** \n\n**the** \n\n**su** \n\n## in \n\n**England** \n\n**and** \n\n**thereby** \n\n**gare** \n\n**un** \n\n**impetus** \n\n## aina \n\n**fun.** \n\n**Boa, of Ct $1,550 per a entes.to manufactores there sub might noterete of the Colonica and thầu sther De- Cada Traders' in. Go, $40 per share, Nards China Ins Co., Ts. 1,675 per dima. Jangsate fue Aso, Fin. 750 per share. Chien Jun. Co., $800 per share, nainn. B.K. Co., por since. China Pire fur. C $50 per share. K. W. Dopis, pre-, miles. Ceanopoliton Uusk, par, nods). H.K.4.8.5 0.24 prov Bhai Sai Nav., Ta. 3 per a, womina). Chin Star. Co., p. 10. St $89 per share.\n\n## have \n\n**been** \n\n**done** \n\n**for** \n\n**century.** \n\n**Even** \n\n**pandonadas** \n\n**of** \n\n**the** \n\n**Eritiah** \n\n**Oturm** \n\n## this \n\n**instance,** \n\n**however,** \n\n**would** \n\n**not** \n\n**be** \n\n**likely** \n\n**to** \n\n**have** \n\n**the** \n\n**desire** \n\n**affect** \n\n**upon** \n\n**the** \n\n## TH \n\n**Boston** \n\n**Herald** \n\n**in** \n\n**the** \n\n**Ikid** \n\n**August** \n\n**andicare,** \n\n**heceura,** \n\n**so** \n\n**fue** \n\n**as** \n\n**the** \n\n**impene** \n\n**lacated** \n\n**in** \n\n**the** \n\n**steamer** \n\n**Grenfilloch,** \n\n**of** \n\n**the** \n\n**rement** \n\n**of** \n\n**manareteres** \n\n**is** \n\n**concereste** \n\n**ne,** \n\n**strived** \n\n**at** \n\n**Sandy** \n\n**Hook** \n\n**(strate** \n\n**little** \n\n**need** \n\n**be** \n\n**expiiented** \n\n**from;** \n\n**the** \n\n**Chinese;** \n\n## while \n\n**the** \n\n**Fish** \n\n**Huguenots** \n\n**became** \n\n**to** \n\n**Sew** \n\n**York** \n\n**harb.ue)** \n\n**on** \n\n**the** \n\n**6th** \n\n**idcm,** \n\n**Dust** \n\n**desirate** \n\n**citizen,** \n\n**the** \n\n**Aura** \n\n**having** \n\n**mavia** \n\n**the** \n\n**sun** \n\n**from** \n\n**Attey** \n\n**in** \n\n**si** \n\n**lis** \n\n**eutend** \n\n**that** \n\n**the** \n\n**Chinese** \n\n**do** \n\n**not,** \n\n**¦** \n\n**days** \n\n**to** \n\n**hours,** \n\n**tuoluding** \n\n**two** \n\n**úya'** \n\n**down-** \n\n**Mr** \n\n**Sharp** \n\n**vounted** \n\n**Free** \n\n**Trade** \n\n**tu** \n\n**la** \n\n**the** \n\n**Sus** \n\n**Canal** \n\n**waiting** \n\n**for** \n\n**mail** \n\n**cigration** \n\n**in** \n\n**\"verything** \n\n**else,** \n\n**and** \n\n**in** \n\n## Ass \n\n**that** \n\n## Don, \n\n**$175** \n\n**porebare, salah.** \n\n**\\|** \n\n**COPAS** \n\n**OF** \n\n**LUANF** \n\n**of** \n\n**those** \n\n**who** \n\n**yet** \n\n**favour** \n\n**Lest** \n\n**year** \n\n**the** \n\n**Stanfalloch's** \n\n**Seip** \n\n**wirin** \n\n1370 per share, selam \n\n## Do, \n\n**Debentur,.. pr.** \n\n## Chirome \n\n**Imperial** \n\n**Loan** \n\n**of** \n\n**1074, nominal** \n\n## De \n\nof 1877 do, \n\n## Temperature. \n\n## so \n\n**ding** \n\n**he** \n\n**must** \n\n**have** \n\n**todlas** \n\n**of** \n\n**the** \n\n**sewn.** \n\n## This \n\n**satin** \n\n**lastent** \n\n**trip** \n\n**cu** \n\n**record.** \n\n## Frotection \n\n12 that part of the wozid, † 61 daya Hot, hearing in mindî die grave error of' the lecture to be found in the abnue of we take the foliowlog from a New York Buy thence of the part which the Chi- (Zaken at Moure Estoquer & Co.'s Ponnien, seem destined to play lo pasing! PE of the Bib Sapteinber \n\n## Gana \n\n**Bund** \n\n## Honokora, \n\n**Oktoby** \n\n**$1.** \n\n## Banners \n\n**M** \n\n12....... 42..... \n\n[to. \n\n## THENOMETRA) \n\n**de** \n\n**Trans** \n\n90148 \n\n50.002 \n\n## મ \n\n1 M... 4.x.... \n\nto (Tez balb) 2 a.m. \n\n## Da. \n\n## Fo \n\n1.X. \n\n09 \n\n2001 \n\n## D. \n\n**faximum** \n\n## He, \n\n**Hatem** \n\n**orur** \n\n**night** \n\n+9 \n\n## Cwing \n\n**to** \n\n**se** \n\n**krangemeni** \n\n**made** \n\n**betwee** \n\n## the \n\n**way** \n\n**for** \n\n**Western** \n\n**civilisation** \n\n**by** \n\n**Postmailer** \n\n**Janes** \n\n**and** \n\n**the** \n\n**mangers** \n\n**of** \n\n**the** \n\n**opening** \n\n**up** \n\n**new** \n\n**territory** \n\n**the** \n\n**greatest** \n\n**Panife** \n\n**55** \n\n**and** \n\n**Oroldsatsl** \n\n**and** \n\n**Uriental** \n\n**fault** \n\n**we** \n\n**la76** \n\n**to** \n\n**and** \n\n**with** \n\n**Mr** \n\n**Sanen** \n\n**is** \n\n**Steamship** \n\n**Computes** \n\n**the** \n\n**maft** \n\n**for** \n\n**China,** \n\n**in** \n\n**the** \n\n**maarer** \n\n**in** \n\n**which** \n\n**he** \n\n**wented** \n\n**the** \n\n**Japan,** \n\n**Azabralia,** \n\n**Sandwich** \n\n**Islands** \n\n**and** \n\n## He \n\n**is** \n\n**the** \n\n**covaízise** \n\n**to** \n\n**which** \n\n**mails** \n\n**are** \n\n**ment** \n\n**by** \n\n**political** \n\n**spet** \n\n**of** \n\n**the** \n\n**question.** \n\n**reported** \n\n**to** \n\n**have** \n\n**said, \"If** \n\n**Chiat** \n\n**was** \n\n**the** \n\n**stesters** \n\n**of** \n\n**the** \n\n**shore-atione?** \n\n**con** \n\n**wing** \n\n**to** \n\n**modify** \n\n**the** \n\n**revisions** \n\n**of** \n\n**hot** \n\n**as** \n\n**twenty** \n\n**de** \n\n**hacra** \n\n**Ister** \n\n**then** \n\n**hereto** \n\n**Fabios, gan 1G BODI ARION Tia Sue Prac treaty with Great Britain suns to prfare, that is on the serenta day pensions side for the regulation of immigrato the advd day of thing mor tics of bar peuple to the color this is of a day's star psich well und wood; but this was te only applies to the wande uiry east of the honest way of grapping with the ques- Bealy Mountahar \n\n## Te \n\n**way** \n\n**Granville** \n\n**Biary, his relative, that diey wers Epium ackers--WA Brew on Wednesday test, the resales faibly of supply. It is reported before long. What has decision will be it injured thaso he had cistine! The next charge against the legalizos \n\nThe Apub's but troops reaching be it very toutafal. Sir Charles Eike's it. Chau the Governor thurs durissed the ropes to the various interpellations ceded in obtaining from the set by the sistement in their closin asis to birdir homes. The Kabul and upon the subject in the Hense of Cos-highest court in England she wolaration this respect was immensely exaggerated, Kobitale went on to Kabel, \n\n## mans \n\n**were** \n\n**on** \n\n**she** \n\n**one** \n\n**hand** \n\n**rather** \n\n**the:** \n\n**the** \n\n**sinro** \n\n**who** \n\n**stepped** \n\n**on** \n\n**firtish** \n\n**and** \n\n**could** \n\n**not** \n\n**be** \n\n**compered** \n\n**t** \n\n## s \n\n**Sept.** \n\n**28-Culley** \n\n**St, John ranging w the hopes of a charr soil was at that instant free. The day moment with the terrible rise of drink eports nil gains at Randaber. The brigade brug granted, but on the other hand that verdict was pronounced was a good jog alvoholte liquears to excees prevail.\n\nThe Registrar: As to the master of Son following in the soure --- Sai Soon, I have put his petition among \n\n## CENTRAL \n\n**SCHOOL.** \n\n## 14 \n\n**Jamage** \n\n## and \n\n**ho** \n\n**esported** \n\n**the** \n\n**matter** \n\n**to** \n\n**the** \n\n**Chief** \n\n**of** \n\n**the** \n\n**arya** \n\n**teorived.** \n\n**He** \n\n**may** \n\n**stiend** \n\n**C.** \n\n**Water, Bail, As of the proper. Na one sporated to Chambwa it hesthouse; I wilt not. J. Wallace, a Batif, busle,.. Lave en dessed fail, but when the rany, ned i wish it to be unhestund, that Remedium, a Grimbe, b Hull, sies was given, he was an lying hay duty is nou to a land to bar Andur, Dock with a beat under water.\n\nThe Coroner barleg sammet up eviler, a verlot me returnal of vidente: death' \n\n## SUPREME \n\n**COURT** \n\n**Thunday, te L** \n\n## it \n\n**were** \n\n**my** \n\n**day.** \n\n**I** \n\n**would** \n\n**attend, but I de** \n\n## į \n\n**Vinevaly** \n\n## ↳ \n\n**Gl** \n\n**about** \n\n**attend** \n\n**Lecates** \n\n**I** \n\n**have** \n\n**been** \n\n**insalted** \n\n**on** \n\n**Shuster, b Had prey ecadam** \n\n**I** \n\n**have** \n\n**attended, and I don't dodat, \n\n## Ko, \n\n**tail, b Qiable, \n\n## Very \n\n**MOTI❘** \n\n**kahamas, nat qui, AA** \n\n## Julinone \n\n**to** \n\n**im** \n\n**inanited** \n\n**unless** \n\n**I** \n\n**have** \n\n**lite** \n\n## protection \n\n**of** \n\n**the** \n\n**Prom** \n\n**The** \n\n**Sou** \n\n**Susa, bọt I cannot help it, I bolove the only esteguard the pubita bas le the Fren. The Ir has born wi- red here stue I came here is a way 1 Rover Rate it simidindered eltowhere.\n\n## THE \n\n**SUPREMA** \n\n**QOURT** \n\n**SCANDAL** \n\n## Mattors \n\n**are** \n\n**Lake** \n\n**in** \n\n**Chamur** \n\n**in** \n\n**seurat** \n\n## \"The \n\n**Onien** \n\n**Justice** \n\n**And** \n\n**Jan** \n\n**Brotezistam** \n\n**which** \n\n**ought** \n\n**to** \n\n**be** \n\n**takes** \n\n**in** \n\n**public, i don's sonse to be a party to angling of the** \n\n## This \n\n**after** \n\n**our** \n\n**number** \n\n**of** \n\n**cance** \n\n**which** \n\n**kind.** \n\n**Whether** \n\n**in** \n\n**a** \n\n**bish** \n\n**pon** \n\n**have** \n\n**been** \n\n**lying** \n\n**beer** \n\n**fines** \n\n**Monday** \n\n**loss** \n\n**a** \n\n**low** \n\n**one, I air shaply goined by one prin b. wura to cause au belare the Chipë Jugle, and that la in to taản khu \n\n## aber \n\n**regend** \n\n**if** \n\n**to** \n\n**lie** \n\n**on** \n\n**i** \n\n**den** \n\n**and** \n\n**t** \n\n**Reglatter** \n\n**wha** \n\n**in** \n\n**Copel;** \n\n**130** \n\n## 15€ \n\n## GK \n\n## lier \n\n**war** \n\n**iis** \n\n**rocant** \n\n**hy** \n\n**in** \n\n**frakt** \n\n**on** \n\n**the** \n\n**last** \n\n**Gibbon** \n\n**was** \n\n**out** \n\n**for** \n\n**and** \n\n**refund** \n\n**send** \n\n## on \n\n**his** \n\n**Lordship, holding thee the cases Justice was takes in petals is be heard is open our sal decks the of the sojuhotto in traptey bjici su, be said, to a repeti. Buffon which of all things to vaca insults as he and already \n\n## vad \n\n**from** \n\n**the** \n\n**Chief** \n\n**Justice.** \n\n## Ton \n\n**talowing** \n\n**vers** \n\n**the** \n\n**cases** \n\n**which** \n\n## the \n\n**bower** \n\n## IN \n\n**BANKEUPYY.** \n\n## rebetsieg \n\n**to** \n\n**public** \n\n**procadings, agamat «** \n\n## In \n\n**the** \n\n**matters** \n\n**Young** \n\n**Lee** \n\n**Br, bek rapt-Report of Regielsar.** \n\n## A \n\n## Is \n\n**the** \n\n**matter** \n\n**of** \n\n**Nuray** \n\n**Kojos, and** \n\n## ara, \n\n**bankrupt,Repost of tagieter** \n\n## In \n\n**the** \n\n**matter** \n\n**of** \n\n**Ng** \n\n**Akiu,** \n\n## Report \n\n**of** \n\n**Regisher.** \n\n## IN \n\n**PRODATA.** \n\n## 49 \n\n**under** \n\n**tence** \n\n**of** \n\n**pensi** \n\n**servitudo.** \n\n## 1 \n\n## then \n\n**his** \n\n**anything** \n\n**that** \n\n**on** \n\n**glit** \n\n**te** \n\n**be** \n\n**tako** \n\n## is \n\n**public, that is on.** \n\n**It** \n\n**is** \n\n**paleinrig** \n\n## if \n\n**anything** \n\n**is** \n\n**to** \n\n**be** \n\n**tak** \n\n**ja** \n\n**juhlie,** \n\n## Total...... \n\n## And \n\n**Innings.** \n\n## Wailsco, \n\n**ba',............** \n\n## Walles, \n\n**firituele,** \n\n## audior, \n\n**Ge** \n\n## ter, \n\n**Sat, bdrmale,......** \n\n## fince \n\n**Gambin** \n\n## Bhustez, \n\n**b** \n\n**Gérica** \n\n## &** \n\n## Tatai,** \n\n## HONGKONG \n\n**PUBLIC** \n\n**SEĦOOK.** \n\n## Jat \n\n**fraingt.** \n\n## Hall, \n\n**Arther, clean B, Hourd** \n\n## bicu \n\n**shold** \n\n**not** \n\n**be** \n\n**heard** \n\n**in** \n\n**Chsatare.** \n\n## 6. \n\n**Bilmble, b Remadize.** \n\n## Mr \n\n**Stonkhain** \n\n**now** \n\n**raterned** \n\n**with** \n\n**s** \n\n## mange \n\n**the** \n\n**Em** \n\n**tha, na the Registra:** \n\n## ret \n\n**and** \n\n**to** \n\n**Altsed** \n\n**now, the bathes in** \n\n## . \n\n**Lammond, b Scandion, e Rabatant, May, Walles, .................** \n\n## Gribis, \n\n**a-thur, 5 Wa laury.** \n\n## Aitken, \n\n**Remedios, MNRAS,** \n\n## Lamect, \n\n**b** \n\n**Remedies,** \n\n## akraptate \n\n**and** \n\n**to** \n\n**bankruptcy** \n\n**would** \n\n**maud** \n\n**over** \n\n**t.** \n\n## 10-morrow \n\n**after** \n\n**zijn** \n\n**vrientual** \n\n**Seseinon.** \n\n## The \n\n**vistrar:** \n\n**So** \n\n**bo** \n\n**it.** \n\n## The \n\n**busloom** \n\n## In \n\n**the** \n\n**grads** \n\n**of** \n\n**Bee, denen will be held in pen Court. Yamoto -ITTY AS and Selena of Ad- telstrativ Putits by Chen wong Sang for $68.\n\n## In \n\n**the** \n\n**gros** \n\n**of** \n\n**R.** \n\n**T.** \n\n**Mogidge, done, ad-LoveBory Art and Sallen of Adelitaiton.**\n\nthe Chief Juation where he can innuit, us with impunity: I san not to my position degraded. I may brook a private insul, but \n\n## Wader, \n\n## B. \n\n**Girable, not on...** \n\n## Batzos, \n\n## from \n\n**Kandabar to Malwandi** \n\n## 12, \n\n**having** \n\n**buried** \n\n**hocles** \n\n**found** \n\n**on** \n\n**Auld** \n\n## one \n\n**of** \n\n**the** \n\n**guiding** \n\n**principles** \n\n**of** \n\n**the** \n\n**day** \n\n**for** \n\n**the** \n\n**rare, but it was a better carying gst Baropens. In conclusion of the series. it ir July, where larga Gladstone Goverinent, epesly ander the master. The white man's houtthis seturer suranarived the varrens air has been constructed.\"\n\ncoptedly rowed by several of its ad utred more that the bank au's charger againe de Chinese, and gea ukulan Sept And Slate 90150 ending meribere, is hurt to the ex-in, and the oppressor had coua tross general answer to them. He quoted the to hose than to those who he up-remark of our Bericor, \"Ho that is qdous talep at the Maiwand sensus of the ampin's territory Aud desparches tuve a published in the \n\n## Ancite \n\n**of** \n\n**Extra:mery:** \n\n**together** \n\n**ability.** \n\n## Is \n\n**would** \n\n**but, conseture, pressed.** \n\n## Now \n\n**the** \n\n**sune** \n\n**polley** \n\n**which** \n\n**it** \n\n**without** \n\n**is** \n\n**among** \n\n**you.** \n\n**let** \n\n**him** \n\n**cast** \n\n**the** \n\n## od \n\n**to** \n\n**adopt** \n\n**toward** \n\n**the** \n\n**Chiral** \n\n**stone.** \n\n## And \n\n**he** \n\n**tiled, \n\n- od telors relating to the be surprisine (at the ultimate decision was proposed centuries age been at 1 \n\n## CE \n\n2 \n\n## dini \n\n**CÍ** \n\n## s \n\n**of** \n\n**the** \n\n**foras** \n\n**na** \n\n**Geral** \n\n**Barrowshould** \n\n**in** \n\n**area** \n\n**to** \n\n**have** \n\n**waything** \n\n**to** \n\n**pese** \n\n**he** \n\n## thesis \n\n**with** \n\n**the** \n\n**project.** \n\n## In \n\n**that** \n\n**esse,** \n\n**the** \n\n**tempted** \n\n**asize** \n\n**the** \n\n**Fiemish** \n\n**refugees** \n\n**in** \n\n**rauce** \n\n**was** \n\n**in** \n\n**the** \n\n**fr** \n\n## Flaimed, \n\n**it** \n\n**patuloy** \n\n**te** \n\n**probaialivy** \n\n**in** \n\n**that** \n\n**taron** \n\n**Orarback** \n\n**will** \n\n**i** \n\n**Gardend.** \n\n## When \n\n**the** \n\n**Fiemjsh** \n\n**szunnos** \n\n## Fram, \n\n**and** \n\n**also** \n\n**apply** \n\n**to** \n\n**Germany.** \n\n**and** \n\n**here** \n\n**are** \n\n**tem** \n\n**dached** \n\n**to** \n\n**Leeden, the manufacturer in at the Goumander-in-Chiaf valgzagded ones that he was already dansen, had clust after objected strongly to their col-\n\nthe tõib Walks woo hard. de- \n\n\"For a bat and a' idel \n\nIt's coming yet for a' tak, Talsman the world o'ar \n\nBbal rather be, ir atkal.\" \n\n## Mr \n\n**C.** \n\n**Goode, (president of tua ag** \n\n## bed, \n\n## Kautioned \n\n**float** \n\n**hie** \n\n**vyerates** \n\n**have** \n\n**beon** \n\n**favorably** \n\n**i** \n\n**Jatition** \n\n**in** \n\n**various** \n\n**binnebes** \n\n**of** \n\n**trade.encistion)** \n\n**waved** \n\n**a** \n\n**vote** \n\n**of** \n\n**thanks** \n\n**to** \n\n## resived \n\n**by** \n\n**Prince** \n\n**Bismeerk, who has the London entices zuid riots Sharp for his able antare: He pointed \n\n## diag \n\n**misant** \n\n## Lin \n\n## Ansation \n\n**was** \n\n**entirely** \n\n**a** \n\n**non-political** \n\n**in** \n\n**perling** \n\n**fully.** \n\n**He** \n\n**renas** \n\n**notast** \n\n**bean** \n\n**appointed** \n\n**Minister** \n\n**of** \n\n**f'pre-** \n\n## ; \n\n**agravel** \n\n**tim** \n\n**aliepaj** \n\n**the** \n\n**storekeepers** \n\n**ssid** \n\n**uut** \n\n**tazt** \n\n**the** \n\n**Yotang:** \n\n## Kau'n \n\n**fitriatin** \n\n## A \n\n## and \n\n**who** \n\n**is** \n\n**me** \n\n**on** \n\n**I** \n\n## As \n\n**he** \n\n**thought** \n\n**that** \n\n**gentlemen** \n\n**had** \n\n**done** \n\n**Oberly** \n\n**to** \n\n**attachment** \n\n**of** \n\n**Gurus** \n\n**canmerve** \n\n**and** \n\n**week** \n\n## colonisation. \n\n**The** \n\n**Chancellor** \n\n**has** \n\n**given** \n\n**it** \n\n**never** \n\n**locaine** \n\n**Novechelone** \n\n**the** \n\n**well** \n\n**in** \n\n**coming** \n\n**forward** \n\n**to** \n\n**sypand** \n\n**the** \n\n**figub** \n\n**it** \n\n**got** \n\n**thuali** \n\n**gore** \n\n**rong** \n\n## great \n\n**encouragement** \n\n**in** \n\n**the** \n\n**formation** \n\n**of** \n\n**emish** \n\n**artians** \n\n**gave** \n\n**no** \n\n**famense** \n\n**ise-other** \n\n**side** \n\n**of** \n\n**a** \n\n**vezet** \n\n**queerzina.\"** \n\n**do** \n\n## \"The \n\n**despaterne** \n\n**by** \n\n## The \n\n**Hou.** \n\n**A.** \n\n**Camphail, recorded the aligus mar ao ar longhi \n\ntheir skill, Jaloe, w intelligence they motion, which was carried with acclama. ad outfity, bat they are the Gorras Truling Company which has pets to mangfecting industry, and by \n\niswas to dreystela to the rain taken over the twainese of the did far more than repay the English: fortira, and the lecturer heietly replied.\n\nThe Hon. W. Sandover moved a voda tmuse of odetoy & Co. in the Beutli Sess The Kamiah. Naes her \"From which recently failed, and the Sumuon the generosity which offers com 16 house wurde, was my's los alios are row bets of Ims Gerwinter in this hour of need. It of thanks to the chairman, who is as \n\n## asian \n\n**was** \n\n**1230** \n\n**ruculara** \n\n**killed** \n\n**su** \n\n\\*cation on scent of distance of note for the wage jargrárda apa sau unt aletgi to eat of \n\na Trila by (7 noia) ( \n\n2; standud, mil tüsi 2,400 wyra sted's STF bitero There could be no bestar or more was indeed to the Flemings that Bag-upisten bad scied nubly under the cls- Biasa Kiled, woonid, or inwin, eligabits statice Er Prince Eiemurch's (land was indested for her present ouveiances in presiding em auch en 20 \n\n## Me \n\n**A.** \n\n**Grainger** \n\n**for** \n\n**add** \n\n**the** \n\n**motion.** \n\n## 300 \n\n**bls** \n\n**f** \n\n**h** \n\n**Dees** \n\n**were** \n\n**found** \n\n**on** \n\n**the** \n\n**pupases** \n\n**than** \n\n**the** \n\n**Nurth-East** \n\n**of** \n\n**Deruen, amidare in the arts and our casion. He though gece would \n\nfale urzt d-9. bow basty Sara Esmased and if finglu: iets slip the up posterity, the pee. Who knew how sour, trouble done by the lecture a helping tha using the night sad whaar toe amber now offered her, there can be no reason Chile, and ber basteliation of to important subject out in way Evermeny stuld not take advan-ljucts became wandereros aui if thes 1) veusded is imp-wide to I FAYRE of it, bosener much wa was rescant? came to South Australia he would ask He end the Inetarer ved done good \n\n## apposed \n\n**to** \n\n**have** \n\n**been** \n\n**toCA** \n\n**12,000, or a bokat kom of about 1,09%. This** \n\n\\| autoss with what us TODUE-vi by spins who they the Gladstone Gerwungal chocld whether the Britch of this golony would service to tre advocmes of noti-Came \n\n\\| akina in during the rig \n\n## Coucher, \n\n**sapt.** \n\n**18-benumber** \n\n**of** \n\n**alalı** \n\n## Satri \n\n## Sed \n\n**Iminya** \n\n## 17 \n\n**at** \n\n**Waiou** \n\n**the** \n\n**let** \n\n**Sprember** \n\n**is** \n\n**given** \n\n## psore \n\n**sons** \n\n**to** \n\n**be** \n\n**complaining** \n\n**abi** \n\n## Dat \n\n**zout** \n\n**4,50** \n\n**men, Host** \n\n**of** \n\n**the** \n\n**Indine** \n\n## the \n\n**insults** \n\n**that** \n\n**have** \n\n**been** \n\n**adiered** \n\n**to** \n\n**ma** \n\n**ky** \n\n**the** \n\n**Chatel** \n\n**Justice** \n\n**are** \n\n**loculis** \n\n**to** \n\n**my** \n\n**heal** \n\n**parison** \n\n**which** \n\n**I** \n\n**wait** \n\n**not** \n\n**bear.** \n\n**I** \n\n**with** \n\n**that!** \n\n## Hall, \n\n**Remedios** \n\n## In \n\n**the** \n\n**goods** \n\n**of** \n\n**Tex** \n\n**Sean, eased to be datedly understood. He many uit Bart, o and b Wallace, Inventory Account aal schama ei admin me privately, the Mul Jaesise or any body G. Ishlo, Wallse \n\nely, and cauli brook it and forget T. Kammer, barul e Wallao strands of Satau Jaze Bostor, lit, Eat so insals in my poetion I am \n\n#Lammert, e Rshunul, b Waits, cad.toty Aescuet bid Serra of bound forarent. The pelte hobi is May, to hat......... Administration, \n\n## emorect \n\n**treat** \n\n**and** \n\n**I** \n\n**will** \n\n**uphold** \n\n**is** \n\n**dignity.** \n\n## W. \n\n**Grimble, rus gi** \n\n## In \n\n**the** \n\n**goods** \n\n**of** \n\n**Aloe** \n\n**War, dece.** \n\n**They** \n\n**was** \n\n**I** \n\n**am** \n\n**vandielivest** \n\n**in** \n\n**Alken, Homedie,...........** \n\n## -Inventory \n\n**account** \n\n**atid** \n\n**Scheme** \n\n**of** \n\n**ad-** \n\n**that** \n\n**repeat, I am jalons of the uterity** \n\n## Millet, \n\n**to** \n\n**hat............** \n\n## law \n\n**1** \n\n**Lave** \n\n**followed** \n\n**the** \n\n**bourable** \n\n**B.** \n\n**Grimble, tu bai minitentia** \n\n## Extras...antarangays \n\n## In \n\n**the** \n\n**goals** \n\n**of** \n\n**Che** \n\n**Buia, Jeccand-lo** \n\n**pr-festog** \n\n**of** \n\n**the** \n\n**law** \n\n**fe** \n\n**twenty** \n\n**five** \n\n**year** \n\n**Pentury** \n\n**Acconut** \n\n**a** \n\n**Scam** \n\n**of** \n\n**Admicis, amal** \n\n**I** \n\n**ever** \n\n**had** \n\n**an** \n\n**innata** \n\n**quins** \n\n**ine, alther we judge or barrister,** \n\n## Imat \n\n## tration. \n\n## To \n\n**the** \n\n**gouden** \n\n**Fook** \n\n**St.** \n\n**Fong, decaan:** \n\n**d.** \n\n## and \n\n**i** \n\n**mal** \n\n**day** \n\n**i** \n\n**vot** \n\n**cow** \n\n**diepened** \n\n**at** \n\n**5** \n\n**juventory** \n\n**Apus** \n\n**and** \n\n**Sebums** \n\n**of** \n\n**Adare** \n\n**to** \n\n**have** \n\n**s** \n\n**portion** \n\n**degraded** \n\n**in** \n\n**my** \n\n**purt** \n\n**on** \n\n**my** \n\n**coming** \n\n**to** \n\n**an** \n\n**qutabile** \n\n**plads** \n\n**minterration.** \n\n## the \n\n**goods** \n\n**of** \n\n**Arthur** \n\n**W.** \n\n**Cuan, doke** \n\n**Dongkg.** \n\n**I** \n\n**wish** \n\n**that** \n\n**that** \n\n**may** \n\n**go** \n\n**Beach** \n\n**Petition** \n\n**for** \n\n**grant** \n\n**of** \n\n**Adaciae** \n\n**far** \n\n**th** \n\n**over** \n\n**the** \n\n**engil** \n\n**and** \n\n**breadth** \n\n**of** \n\n**the** \n\n## Colony, \n\n**small** \n\n**as** \n\n**it** \n\n**be, if it go no inether.**\n\nThe Rolate then huntied up the pa- theas of Lale To Kang, droseed, are which had bean given him by Br Telition feer grout of Administration.\n\nThe wenge Mr Mcup brought was to \n\n## Stockhausen, \n\n**and** \n\n**reaching** \n\n**as** \n\n**they** \n\n**were** \n\n## be \n\n**so** \n\n**blind.** \n\n## ABHORD. \n\n## recognise \n\n**Seir** \n\n**est** \n\n**responsibility** \n\n**and** \n\n**immigration, as he bai proved all the respect the tradit me at ang road charges he attempted to deal with... thair g? Sectility toware (lengter) doubtless all pre \n\n## ayuu'e \n\n**ar** \n\n**doring** \n\n**and** \n\n**alter** \n\n**thation** \n\n## THE",
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        "content_text": "466\n\nfor lining matting another attack's appe\n\nthe holy Colonial Election\n\nhaking\n\nhis\n\nconduct\n\nin prysing to Public Services\n\n5 Dec Remick (1486).\n\nI think it would\n\nhave been more discreet\n\nif the Stewart had refrained from piquing\n\nthat shop; to the former's place have\n\nreproached him for doing so\n\nth\n\no alive the\n\n26 May whene\n\niLe\n\naddn (dated 20)\n\nappear in Public Works, & not\n\nin Execution Council this deoutts oftenwants\n\nYes.\n\nMrs K has in personal talk with them\n\na\n\nCome Colony government \"I ans auto lie.\n\nJ\n\nprochusion wanting in originality and\n\naug the aluss\n\nhanted atmos folaire of thing thing\n\n1\n\nfreshness.\n\nL\n\nexplain the uncontrollable disgust of D. J. Poppe\n\nHannally\n\nat this criticism of a system, which\n\nlong suffering Colonial office pate allows him\n\n& permits\n\nrepresent.\n\nto\n\nIn case popes the former ufs & he Tharsh the Colonial Secretary's leave having been\n\nextended for five months, and alludes &\n\nthe inconvenience caused by the acting\n\nArrangements which are in consequence necessitated,\n\nwhen for another\n\nLe fall Ennarzed\n\nwith the rating Ct. See\n\nnot the addas half; it appears to the\n\ni contain in very\n\ncommon place \" reflection\n\na\n\nIt appears & me in\n\nWhere days in Hong Kong,\n\nIhze\n\nention\n\nit is especially essential that Every man\n\nMurals be in his\n\nMark, and that the\n\nstaff of substantive fpicas should be good",
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        "content_text": "17\n\n局之設牿爲保護婦女及幼童起見 誌任從 國家隨時稽查 七年中所用經費各款數目仍須錄呈 國家以備查核 八所儷暗訪事及司理人等其工金由公局支理該暗紳每年以首二位退任再由同人中選舉二位以補厥職 五凡遇選舉値事 督憲有權可以定奪能否勝任 六值理所行之事須要詳細登 例錄成一册或刋印於紙標貼各處佈告以期遐邇週知使知歛跡 四此會係公舉七人爲值理並將會中各友註名於部而首舉七位視爲局 爲擇配或設法以安其身故要建造屋宇一所使無家可歸之婦女幼童得以駐止安身所捐之項專爲此等事件而用 又將英國禁止物帶之 冋原籍 三凡遇此等被拐男嬌係要待 官訊斷方能發落如未送回原籍之前公局必要收留撫養 四若被拐之人無家可歸公局須要代 二會中所行事件皆合乎國家律例 三輪流接辦可以永遠綿綿相繼 四公局中准用一鈴記 五如 理妥協則官民定照誠信 三此公 内同人每名再捐銀十元此公局受益之事甚多茲時將要領數款列於左 一此歎卽是有限之公司或公會一般日後無欠債拖累之患 事不必拘定所作生意事件 二凡捐助十元親爲會內同人便有權會議公舉等事但捐助之後毋庸再除非公司經費不以致停止然後會 1爲查禁枵匪及被拐之人 二凡有男女被拐到港或爲娼婢或販賣出洋公局必須設法挽救使人各\n\nMINUTE BY HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR.\n\nThis seems a very praiseworthy desire on the part of the native merchants and residents who have signed this Petition.\n\nI should be glad if the two Police Magistrates, the Captain Superintendent of Police, and Dr. EITEL would,-in concert with the leading petitioners,-draw up some scheme for my approval to check this crime of kidnapping.\n\nJ. POPE HENNESSY. 12th November, 1878.\n\nMINUTE BY THE ACTING COLONIAL SECRETARY AND OTHER OFFICERS.\n\n(7.) The advantages of forming a company are manifold.\n\nThe association would thus obtain-\n\nCorporate existence and definite legal status,\n\nPerpetual succession,\n\nA common seal,\n\nand with this move prompt and cordial recognition from the Government and the public.\n\n3. That the objects of the Society should be Forwarded to the Police Magistrates who will be pleased to arrange with the Captain Superinten.the protection of women and children generally.\n\ndent of Police and Dr. ErTEL to carry out the directions of His Excellency.\n\n12th November, 1878.\n\nNoted.\n\nC. V. CREAGH, Acting Police Magistrate.\n\n13th November, 1878.\n\nNoted.\n\nJNO. J. FRANCIS, Acting Police Magistrate.\n\n13th November, 1878.\n\nForwarded to Captain Superintendent of Police and Dr. ESTEL.\n\nC. MAY,\n\nActing Colonial Secretary.\n\nC. V. CREAGH,\n\nActing Police Magistrate.\n\nForwarded to Dr. EITEL, who will oblige by kindly bringing this document to the first meeting.\n\n15th November, 1878.\n\nSuggestions by Mr. John J. Francis for the Organisation of the proposed Chinese Society for the Protection of Women and Children.\n\n1. That the Promoters form themselves into a Company under \"The Companies Ordinance, 1865.\" Any seven persons associated together for any lawful purpose may do this. It need not necessarily be for any trading or manufacturing purpose.\n\n2. All subscribers of ten dollars to the funds of the Association should be members thereof, with power to vote, &c., but should not be liable for any further subscriptions or for any contribution during the existence of the Society, but, in the event of the Company's being wound up and money being needed to pay off any liabilities, all existing members ought to become liable to pay a further sum of Ten dollars each.\n\n(a) This would be a Society or Company limited by guarantee.\n\nW. M. DEANE, Captain Superintendent of Police.\n\n司則例准在會内公舉值理七人便能行合例 會卽爲公局遵照一千八百六十五年所定公 保護婦女及幼童章程 一捐助之人聯一公 將條欸章程畧譯於左 擬設華人保長會等\n\n蘭些士大老爺繕出章程轉醶核議前來兹謹 德理參贊會商設法委辦現蒙 署巡理府法 賞緝拿匪類旋奉 督憲札飭巡理府 歐 盛是以聯禀 督憲求給札爺准自行捐資懸\n\n前者東邑客商因見邇來扔販婦女到港者日\n\n1. By labouring for the suppression and detection of kidnapping and kidnappers,\n\n2. By undertaking the restoration to their homes of all women and children decoyed or kidnapped into the Colony for purposes of prostitution, emigration or slavery,\n\n3. By providing for the maintenance and support of women and children pending investigation and restoration to their homes,\n\n4. By undertaking to marry or set out in life women and children who could not safely be returned to their homes or families,\n\nThe establishment of a Refuge for homeless women and children,\n\nThe raising of funds for all or any of these purposes,\n\nThe propagation by books, fly sheets, &c., &c., of a knowledge of the English law on the subject of kidnapping and slavery among the Chinese here and on the mainland.\n\n4. That the Society be managed by a Committee of seven members. The first members to be the signers of the memorandum of association. Two to retire annually and their places to be filled by election by the votes of the shareholders.\n\n5. That the Governor have a veto on the election of any member.\n\n6. That the proceedings of the Committee be regularly recorded in detail and be always open to inspection of the Government.\n\n7. That annual accounts be furnished to the Government.\n\n8. That the Society engages and pays its own officers and detectives, who, if approved by the Government and guaranteed by the Society in the sum of $100 each, be sworn in as special Constables, but to be used for the sole purpose of suppressing kidnapping and detecting kidnappers.\n\nSuch detectives to report daily to the Police Superintendent, but not to be otherwise under his orders.",
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        "content_text": "# ORDINANCE No. 3 of 1870.\n## Chinese Hospital.\n\nIV. For the First Two Years after the Passing of this Ordinance, the Board of Direction shall consist of the several Persons, whose Names are set out and contained in the Schedule thereto; and in Case any such Person shall die or desire to be relieved of his Duties, or shall cease to reside within the Colony before the Expiration of the said Term, it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to appoint in his Stead some other fit Person to be a Member of the said Board, during the Residue of the said Term.\n\n## Preliminary Board of Direction, Its Powers.\nV. All the Provisions of this Ordinance relating to the permanent Board of Direction to be hereafter elected by the Members of the Corporation and all the Powers and Authorities thereby vested in such Board, shall so far as the Case permits be deemed to apply to and shall be vested in the Preliminary Board of Direction appointed under this Ordinance.\n\n## Permanent Board of Direction, Its Constitution.\nVI. At the Expiration of the said Term of Two Years, a permanent Board of Direction shall be formed consisting of not less than Six, and not more than Twelve Members of the Corporation, to be elected as hereinafter mentioned, who shall from Time to Time appoint One of their Body to be President; and every Member of the said Board shall hold Office for the Term of One Year only, but shall be re-eligible at the Expiration thereof.\n\n## Its Election.\nVII. The Members of the said Board shall be elected from Time to Time as Occasion shall require by a Majority of Votes of Members of the Corporation, who shall be within the Colony at the Time of such Election, and every such Member of the Corporation shall, until otherwise provided by any Regulation to be hereafter made under Section X, be entitled to One Vote only.\n\n## Its general Powers.\nVIII. The Board of Direction shall, subject to the Provisions of this Ordinance, have full Power and Authority generally to govern, direct and decide all Matters whatsoever connected with the Administration of the Affairs of the Corporation and the Accomplishment of the Object and Purposes thereof and may appoint a Board of Management consisting of so many Members of the Corporation as they shall think fit, who shall, under such Regulations as may from Time to Time be made by the Board of Direction in that Behalf, undertake and exercise the immediate Supervision and Management of the Hospital.\n\n## Special Powers to be exercised with Consent of Governor in Council.\nIX. The Board of Direction shall have Power, with the Consent of the Governor in Council, to change or vary the Corporate Name and the Common Seal of the Corporation, and the Amount of the Donation to the Funds of the Hospital hereinbefore prescribed as a Qualification for becoming a Member thereof, and the Term of Office of Members of the Board of Direction, and also may, for reasonable Cause and with such Consent as aforesaid, refuse to admit any Person as a Member of the Corporation or may expel any existing Member, and cause his Name to be erased from the Register.\n\n## Power to frame Regulations.\nX. The Board of Direction shall have Power to frame Regulations for their Procedure in the Transaction of Business and the Maintenance of Good Order at their Meetings, the Mode of Voting for the Election of Members of the Board of Direction and the Appointment of the President thereof, and for the Guidance of the Board of Management and generally for all Matters relating to the Administration and Discipline of the Hospital; Provided always that a Copy of such Regulations shall, from Time to Time, be furnished to the Colonial Secretary and every such Regulation shall be subject to Disallowance at any Time by the Governor in Council.\n\n## Questions to be decided by Majority.\nXI. All Questions which may arise at any Meeting of the Board of Direction shall be decided by a Majority of Votes, and in Case of an Equality of Votes, the President in Addition to his original Vote shall have a Casting Vote.\n\n## Doubt or Ambiguity.\nXII. In Case any Doubt or Ambiguity shall arise and any Questions or Controversy shall take place among the Members of the Board of Direction as to the Interpretation of this Ordinance the same shall be referred to the Governor in Council whose Decision thereon shall be final.\n\n## Preliminary Board of Direction to erect Hospital.\nXIII. The Preliminary Board of Direction appointed under this Ordinance shall, with all convenient Despatch after the Passing thereof, proceed to elect a President, and shall cause all Buildings and Works required for the Purposes of the said Hospital to be erected on the Site granted by Her Majesty as aforesaid, and the Members of the said Board shall continue to hold Office provisionally after the Expiration of the said Term of Two Years, until the Permanent Board of Direction shall have been elected under the Provisions hereinbefore contained.\n\n## Extension of Account to Inspection by Public Officers.\nXIV. The Hospital and all Buildings and Premises of the Corporation shall be open at all reasonable Times to the Inspection of the Registrar General, the Colonial Surgeon and of any other Person whom the Governor may appoint in that Behalf.\n\n## Register of Members, and Books of Account to be kept.\nXV. The Board of Direction shall cause a Register to be kept in which every Person desiring to become a Member of the Corporation and being duly qualified shall, subject to the Provisions of Section IX, be entitled to have his Name inscribed, and also shall cause proper Books of Account to be kept which shall be open at all reasonable Times to the Inspection of Members of the Corporation and of any Person whom the Governor in Council may appoint in that Behalf, and also shall within One Month after the Expiration of every Year of the Chinese Calendar transmit to the Colonial Secretary a true Statement of the Assets and Liabilities of the Corporation and an Account of their Receipts and Disbursements during the Year.\n\nPage 362",
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        "content_text": "## GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION. No. 318\n\nA number of Chinese Gentlemen, resident in the Colony, having formed themselves into an Association called the PO LEUNG KUK, with the object of assisting the Government in carrying out the laws for the protection of women and children, His Excellency the Administrator has been pleased to approve of the following rules which are hereby published for general information.\n\nBy Command,  \n**FREDERICK STEWART**,  \nActing Colonial Secretary.  \nColonial Secretary's Office,  \nHongkong, 5th August, 1882.\n\n示於下  \n一千八百八十二年八月初五日示  \n署督堂批准將各例歎群  \n本港有聲望之華人衆議設立一局取名保良局，專爲協助政府行保護婦女幼童之例起見，業經將其事由奉  \n署理輔政使司史健\n\n## PAGE 28\n\n### Enclosure 3 in Administrator Marsh's despatch No. 191 of 11th September, 1882.\n\n#### Rules for the Society for the Protection of Women and Children.\n\n1. The object of the Society is to assist in the suppression of the crime of kidnapping, and to provide for the rescue and restoration of kidnapped women and children.\n2. The Society shall consist of members who subscribe ten dollars or upwards, residents in the Colony.\n3. The Society shall have an Office in Hongkong.\n4. The affairs of the Society shall be managed by a Committee of ten members, who shall be residents in the Colony.\n5. The Committee shall be elected annually, but vacancies caused by death or absence from the Colony may be filled up from time to time.\n6. Members of the retiring Committee will be eligible for re-election, but no member can be a member of the Committee for more than three years in succession.\n7. The names of members elected on the Committee shall be submitted to the Governor within a week after the election.\n8. The Committee shall elect from amongst its members a President, a Vice-President and a Treasurer. During the temporary absence of any of these Office Bearers, the next senior member of the Committee will take his place.\n\n#### 例條局其保婦女幼童\n\n第一欸  \n此局原係禁除拐帶婦女幼童及拯救被拐之婦女幼童等事。\n\n第二欸  \n凡住港香之人簽十元或十元以上均可爲會員。\n\n第三欸  \n須在港香設局公欸。\n\n第四欸  \n公舉値事十人或以上在港居住辦理局事。\n\n第五欸  \n每年由衆公舉値事倘因身故或別往則隨時得補充其缺。\n\n第六欸  \n凡退任之値事可以復舉但不得連充三年之外。\n\n第七欸  \n將其姓名列開呈報督憲須於七日內報開。\n\n第八欸  \n由同人中舉一位正主席公中舉兩一位管主席公中之居長者次第行事舉位以補其位。",
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        "content_text": "## Page 526\n\n9. The President or Vice-President or Treasurer and two other members shall form a quorum of the Committee.\n\n10. There shall be an Annual Meeting of the Society to be held at the Office in the month of...\n\n11. At the Annual Meeting, the election of the Committee shall take place, and the outgoing Committee shall present a report of its proceedings for the preceding year, including a complete statement of the financial position of the Society, duly audited.\n\n12. The Society will endeavour by correspondence and inquiry to assist in the detection and bringing to justice of persons guilty of kidnapping and kindred offences. The Society will also endeavour, by the establishment of a Home in Hongkong, to provide temporary accommodation for destitute women and children who may be rescued from illegal custody. The Society will also endeavour to restore rescued women and children to their relatives, and in case of those who are friendless, to make such provision as may be proper for their welfare.\n\n13. Detective and other Constables may, from time to time, be placed at the service of the Society upon such conditions as may be sanctioned by the Governor.\n\n14. Detectives and Constables employed by the Society shall act only under written instructions signed by the President or Vice-President of the Society.\n\n15. The Committee first elected shall appoint four of their number to be Trustees, and such Trustees shall be the Lessees of any Crown Lease granted by the Government to the Society for the purpose of the Society. In case of the death of a Trustee, the Committee for the time being shall elect one of its members to take his place.\n\n16. A Minute Book shall be kept for recording the proceedings of the meetings of the Society, and before proceeding with the business of a subsequent meeting, the minutes of the previous meeting shall be read and confirmed and signed by the President, Vice-President or person filling his place.\n\n17. The Committee may, from time to time, make and revoke rules for the management of the affairs of the Society; such rules being submitted for the approval of the Governor before they are put into operation.\n\n同人察覺拐之婦女幼童等須要遺責明正其罪並在港建造房屋一所以爲暫行撫養被拐婦女幼童之用凡被... \n第十二歎此公局須要着力查察這等案並撥時可用禀公差役人等及訪查事 \n第十三歎公局可囑請隨時可撥憲核准由督差役仍須禀 \n但此等差役須由主席或副主席或正主事宣讀方視爲合法以安其終身 \n第十四歎公局役人須承主席或副主席命令筆寫明件辦 \n第十五歎由舉定之值事中另立四位以爲局之業主並承辦人或有假領地段以爲公局之用並出名向國家領受所給憑據 \n其人係暫代理或有承辦人或身故則由值事者押名於上以承其責 \n第十六歎凡每次聚會須將所辦之事登記於事錄本以爲將次所辦之事之證 \n並於每次聚會時先將上次事錄本讀出並由主席或副主席或代席正主事核准簽名方可舉行 \n第十七歎該值事等可以隨時設立新章或更章程但辦更此事爲改章程俟督憲批准方可實行\n\n## GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 328\n\nThe following gentlemen have been reported to this Government as forming the Committee of the Po Leung-kuk (Society for the protection of Women and Children) for the year 1882-1883.\n\nBy Command,\nColonial Secretary's Office,\nHongkong, 12th August, 1882.\n\n| Name | Position/ Occupation |\n| --- | --- |\n| Mr. FUNG MING SHAN | Merchant, President |\n| NG TAI YONG | Barrister-at-Law, Vice-President |\n| LEUNG HOK CHAU | of Messrs. GIBB, LIVINGSTON & Co., Compradore's Office, Treasurer |\n| LI YAT LAU | of the LAI HING Shop |\n| WONG KWAN T'ONG | K'in Fung Nam-pak Hong. Kwong kí Shop |\n| CH'AN SHUT CH'O | Ch'an Kwan Yuk-tóng, Central Market |\n| Ün Man Ts'or | Manager of Branch Stamp Office |\n| Chiu Tsz Kí | of the United States Consulate |\n| Ts'Ù ÜTING | of the Shan On Bank |\n| LI UT HING | Merchant |\n\n示諭事照得現報保良局所舉值事等姓名開示於下特諭 \n馮明珊正主席 \n伍秩副主席 \n槊鶴巢管理銀兩 \n李逸樓 \n黄筠堂 \n陳述初 \n袁敏才 \n曹雨亭 \n趙子璣 \n李月卿 \n住港商人 \n住港大狀師 \n禮興號 \n乾豐南北行內廣記 \n中市陳崑玉堂 \n厘印分局 \n美國領事署 \n懊安銀店 \n住港商人 \n\nFREDERICK STEWART, \nActing Colonial Secretary.\n\nEnclosure 2 in Administrator's despatch W. 191 of 11th September, 1882 \n(fwith six spare copies)",
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        "content_text": "# Meeting Minutes\n\n## Proposal to Revive the Volunteer Corps\n\nmade, and all that was asked for with a view of improving the position of the corps would be granted. They were all very well aware, however, that nothing of the sort was done, not one of the promises then made to them was fulfilled, and not only were they left as they had been, but they were put into a much worse position, and before the end of that year they had to return to the store all their arms and accoutrements. Left without arms and accoutrements, there were naturally no parades of the volunteers, and neither he (Mr. Francis) nor Mr. Grant thought it right to call the men together for drill under such circumstances. The corps remained in abeyance, but it still remained in existence, and some 50 or 60 men kept their names on the list and were ready and anxious to do all they could to revive the corps, and numerous suggestions were made to him and to Mr. Grant for that purpose.\n\nBut it was not until recently that anything could be done, and when the Egyptian War broke out, it seemed to be a fitting opportunity of doing so, and he communicated with His Excellency the Administrator as to whether the Government desired to see the movement revived. His Excellency expressed his willingness that this should be done, and desired that the corps should be put upon a sound basis. At His Excellency's suggestion, they consulted together, and laid before him their desires and propositions - the same as were put forward by Captain Coxon on a previous occasion, and practically the same as had now been accepted by His Excellency.\n\nAs they had heard, those suggestions were submitted to Major Moore Lane, the Commandant, and they were approved by His Excellency the Administrator, and, he believed, the Executive Council. He (Mr. Francis) wished to point out that it was not the fault of the officers, non-commissioned officers, and men that it had been found advisable to disband the old corps and to start a new one, and he had been assured by His Excellency the Administrator, in answer to a dispatch, that it was not because in his opinion any blame attached to the officers, non-commissioned officers, and men of the old corps that this had been done, but because it was deemed advisable to take this step in the interest of the new movement.\n\nHe (Mr. Francis) ventured to write to His Excellency in answer to that despatch that he regretted His Excellency had come to such a conclusion, and he did not see how such a step would assist the new corps. If the old corps had been reduced to a state of helplessness, it was not their fault, and he was afraid that this disbandment would be looked upon as a reproach to the officers, non-commissioned officers, and men, who had held together for the past three years in the face of every discouragement.\n\nHe (Mr. Francis) had an answer to that letter from the Colonial Secretary. His Excellency did not attach any blame whatever to the officers and men for the state of affairs to which the old corps was reduced. He (Mr. Francis) thought it right that he should make these statements for his own sake, in one sense, and for the sake of the officers, non-commissioned officers, and men of the old corps, that it might be known how matters stood with those men, who had held to the corps, and done all they could to revive it, and this movement was being, as it were, initiated by the members of the old corps, and they were now being disbanded for no fault of their own.\n\nMr. Francis urged all present, whether members of the old corps or only intending to join the new one, to assist in reviving this volunteer movement - a most excellent movement. He called upon them to join heart and hand with Mr. Tripp and get up a really good sound corps to consist of a couple of companies of artillerymen, the force most suitable to the requirements of this colony, the most suited to themselves to develop their muscles, for their own amusement, and for the benefit of the colony. (Loud applause).\n\nMr. Francis proposed that the proposition of His Excellency the Administrator should be accepted, and a volunteer corps, consisting of two companies of artillery, should be formed in Hongkong.\n\nMr. J. R. WRAITE seconded the proposal, which was unanimously agreed to.\n\n## Election of Honorary Surgeon and Other Matters\n\nThe CHAIRMAN said he thought the next thing they had to do was this: they had heard the wish of His Excellency - and he thought a very right one - that every member of the corps should be examined surgically as to his fitness to go through the duties, and he (Mr. Tripp) thought, therefore, as a preliminary thing, that they ought to elect their honorary surgeon. If any gentlemen were willing to propose and second it, he should recommend Dr. Stockwell, who was an old volunteer, and who would no doubt be ready to accept that office. (Applause).\n\nMr. FRANCIS said he had much pleasure in making that proposition. Dr. Stockwell was suggested two or three years ago as surgeon to the corps, when the propositions were laid before Governor Hennessy.\n\nMr. J. ADAMS seconded the resolution, which was agreed to nem. con.\n\nA gentleman inquired who was surgeon of the late corps.\n\nMr. FRANCIS said there was no surgeon. The suggestion as to Dr. Stockwell was never noted upon, though his name had been sent in repeatedly.\n\nThe CHAIRMAN said, of course, the preliminaries as to drill and uniform would have to be gone into with Major Moore-Lane, who had accepted the post of Commandant; and he thought the election of officers ought to stand over for the present.\n\nMr. FRANCIS thought there was something else which it was necessary should be done under His Excellency's statement, namely, to compile a code of rules and regulations for the new corps, to be submitted to the general body of members. He recommended that a committee should be appointed by a meeting to draw up, in conjunction with Major Moore-Lane, and the Government, a code of rules and regulations of the new corps, to be afterwards submitted to the corps at a future meeting.\n\nThe following five gentlemen were unanimously elected as committee, three to constitute a quorum - Messrs. J. J. Francis, G. G. Noble, H. J. H. Tripp, J. McCallum, and A. Woolley.\n\nMr. FRANCIS proposed a vote of thanks to His Excellency the Administrator, on the part of the old corps, and on the part of the new, for the interest he had taken in the movement, and the encouragement he had given them. (Applause).\n\nOn the proposition of the CHAIRMAN, a similar vote was passed by acclamation to Major Hamilton and Dr. Stewart for the part they had taken in the matter, and the meeting then terminated.\n\n## Page Number\n135",
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        "content_text": "204\n\nthan I can confess myself to him, that such a reduction, however desirable and logical in itself, is just now within the scope of practical politics. But if the Chamber of Commerce will present me with a full statement of its views and wishes, I shall have much pleasure in transmitting that statement to the Colonial Office, where it is sure to receive the respectful attention due to any communication emanating from so important and representative a body.\n\nPerhaps, however, the Chamber may prefer to see this question, and the manifold questions connected with it, submitted, in the first instance, to the deliberations of a re-constructed Legislative Council. For, in conclusion, Gentlemen, I may take this opportunity of stating that I have satisfied myself that the present constitution of the Legislative Council of this Colony is wholly inadequate for the proper discussion and settlement of our public affairs. I firmly believe that the community at large will be better represented and satisfied, while the Government will be more fully informed, and, at the same time, strengthened by the weighty support of public opinion, if the Unofficial element is considerably increased. At the present moment there are really only two Unofficial Members. I shall propose forthwith to Her Majesty's Government that for the future there shall be six Unofficial Members; and that the system which has worked successfully in Ceylon shall be adopted also here. I mean that two of those six members should be, as a general rule, appointed on the recommendation of the Chamber of Commerce, and one more at least on the recommendation of some other public body, such as the Bench of Justices of the Peace. One of the six Unofficial members will of course be chosen from among our Chinese fellow subjects. It will be remembered that representatives of the native communities have for many years past held seats in the Legislatures of British India, Ceylon, New Zealand, and the Straits Settlements. Without going further into details at present, I believe that you Gentlemen, agree with me in thinking that a system of the nature thus shadowed forth will confer on the Colony most of the advantages, without any of the drawbacks of popular election; which, for obvious reasons, is impracticable in a heterogeneous community, circumstanced as is that of Hongkong. Should the Imperial Government sanction my proposals, I feel confident that the Colonial Government and Legislation will derive valuable assistance from the knowledge and ability of the gentlemen recommended by the Chamber of Commerce. The Official and the Unofficial Members alike can have no object in view but the general welfare of the Colony; and I am sure that we shall all work together cordially towards that common object.\n\nG. F. BOWEN.\n\n4",
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        "content_text": "HONGKONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.\n\nA meeting of the Legislative Council was held on Saturday afternoon. There were present-- His Excellency the GOVERNOR, Sir GEORGE BOWEN, G.C.M.G.\n\nHon. Sir GEORGE PHILLIPPO, Chief Justice. Hon. W. H. MARSH, C.M.G., Colonial Secretary.\n\nHon. E. L. O'MALLEY, Attorney-General. Hon. A. LISTER, Colonial Treasurer. Hon. P. RYRIE.\n\nHon. J. M. PRICE (Surveyor-General). Hon. F. B. JOHNSON.\n\nHon. F. STEWART (Registrar-General).\n\nTHE GOVERNOR'S ADDRESS.\n\nHIS EXCELLENCY said--Honourable Gentlemen of the Legislative Council, On this first occasion on which it has devolved on me formally to inaugurate your deliberations since Her Majesty was pleased to entrust to me the Government of this Colony, I desire to express my confidence that I shall at all times receive your loyal advice and cordial assistance in the labours and duties of legislation. I wish also to explain that, although I have not yet been two months here, I should have called you together at even an earlier period, had it not been for the absence of the only two unofficial members (properly so-called) who now form part of the Council, without whose constitutional co-operation and local knowledge, I was unwilling to enter upon the discussion of any measures of importance. Indeed, had there not been an urgent necessity for passing an Ordinance enabling the Government to carry out the sanitary reforms recommended by Mr. Chadwick (the able Civil Engineer recently sent out by the Imperial Government) I should have preferred to await the commencement of the regular Session which I intend to open in next November; when I hope to have the pleasure of addressing a reconstructed Legislature.\n\nFor, gentlemen, I will take this opportunity of informing you officially that, in accordance, as I know, with the opinion of this Council, and of the entire Colony, I firmly believe that the community at large will be better represented and satisfied, while the Government will be more fully informed, and, at the same time, strengthened by the weighty support of public opinion, if the Unofficial element is considerably increased. At the present moment (as I have already said) there are really only two unofficial members; and I have no power to add to their number. I have proposed to Her Majesty's Government that for the future there shall be six unofficial members; and that the system which has worked successfully in Ceylon shall be adopted also here. I mean that two of those six members should be, as a general rule, appointed on the recommendation of the Chamber of Commerce, and one, at least, on the recommendation of some other public body, such as the Bench of Justices of the Peace. One of the six unofficial members will, of course, be chosen from among our Chinese fellow subjects.\n\nIt will be remembered that representatives of the native communities have, for many years past, held seats in the Legislatures of British India, Ceylon, New Zealand, and the Straits Settlements. Without going further into details at present, I know that you, gentlemen, will agree with me in thinking that a system of the nature thus shadowed forth will confer on the Colony most of the advantages, without any of the drawbacks, of popular election; which, for obvious reasons, is impracticable in a heterogeneous community, circumstanced as is that of Hongkong.\n\nShould the Imperial Government sanction my proposals, I feel confident that the Colonial Government and Legislature will derive valuable assistance from the knowledge and ability of the gentlemen recommended by the Chamber of Commerce.\n\nBut the official and the unofficial members alike can have no object in view but the general welfare of the Colony; and I am sure that we shall work together cordially towards that common object.\n\nI spoke just now of my intention to open a regular session of the Colonial Legislature in November. I find that the practice here, entirely at variance with the practice of most other colonies, has been to summon the Legislative Council at rare and uncertain intervals. I have decided that, here as elsewhere, there shall, in future, be a regular annual session, beginning in November, at the commencement of the cool season; of course, without prejudice to the summoning of extraordinary meetings whenever they may be required by the exigencies of the public service.\n\nWhile I was Governor of Mauritius, I introduced in that Colony, with the sanction of the Imperial Government, and greatly to the public advantage, the system of an annual session and of an annual recess. I propose that during each recess, the business of the ensuing session shall be carefully prepared by the Governor and the Executive Council.\n\nEach annual session, here as elsewhere, will be opened by the Governor with a short address containing a programme of the legislative and other business to be taken in hand; explanations of the reasons for proposing every Ordinance and measure; and a general review of the material, financial, and social condition of the Colony.\n\nThe Legislature will thus be accurately informed of the requirements of the Public Service, and enabled to afford the Government effective aid in settling its financial and general policy.\n\nAgain, here as in other Colonies, each annual session will be closed by an address from the Governor summing up the proceedings of the year, and reviewing the general condition and prospects of the community.\n\nThere can be no sound reason why the Legislature and Public of Hongkong should not enjoy the same advantages of being officially made acquainted with the views and intentions of the Government as are enjoyed by the Legislature and public in other colonies.\n\nWith regard to the measures to which your attention will be directed this day, the most important is, of course, the \"Order and Health Amendment Ordinance,” of which the main object is to empower the Government to undertake those \"strong and complete measures of sanitation for the immediate benefit of the Public Health,\" which Mr. Chadwick has declared in his report to be of primary and urgent necessity, if we would not wait for that necessity to be demonstrated by the irresistible logic of a severe epidemic.\"\n\nIt was a wise and witty saying of the late Lord Beaconsfield, when Prime Minister of England, to the effect that a well-known text of Holy Scripture must have been mistranslated, and that, instead of \"Vanitas vanitatum, omnia vanitas,\" it should be \"Sanitas sanitatum, omnia sanitas\"; that is, that the health of the people should be a primary object of public care.\n\nThis question of sanitary reform is indeed grave and weighty, for you will recollect that it brings with it many consequences, intellectual and moral, as well as physical. It embraces almost everything that has to do with the daily life and dwellings of the people; it embraces their free and pure enjoyment of the chief elements of nature-- air, light, and water; it embraces almost everything that tends to give us and our families sound minds in sound bodies—the \"mens sana in corpore sano\" of the Roman poet.\n\nWith regard to the only other measure on the paper for this day, the Tramways' Ordinance, this is not a Government Bill, and its object and provisions will, I am sure, be ably explained by the experienced unofficial member who has brought it forward.\n\nIn conclusion, gentlemen, I desire to congratulate you on the great progress which Hongkong has already achieved. It is a very remarkable fact that the shipping which now annually enters this port is of nearly four millions tonnage; that is, it is nearly equal to the tonnage of the shipping which entered the Port of London in 1837, the year of the accession of the present sovereign, at a period six years previous to the first foundation of this Colony, when this island was little more than a desolate rock occasionally visited by a few Chinese pirates and ...",
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        "content_text": "480\n\n1H4\n\nAYA\n\nWater-Works, the extension of the Gaol, the new Central School, the necessary Repairs to the Police Barracks, and the new Water Police Station, with its appurtenances, are estimated to require, in round numbers, $1,300,000. To this amount we must add the Sanitary expenditure which is considered by Mr. CHADWICK (the Civil Engineer recently sent out from England to report on the Sanitary condition of this Colony) to be absolutely necessary to ward off the imminent danger of a severe epidemic. This expenditure is estimated at not less than $1,200,000. It will be seen, therefore, that while the assets are only $1,150,000, the necessary expenditure will be $2,500,000, a sum equal to more than double the assets.\n\nOf course, there is the obvious alternative of following the example of most Nations and Colonies, by raising a moderate loan for public works of a permanent character, the whole burden of which cannot be fairly cast upon the present generation. I believe that Hongkong is the only community of importance in the world which is absolutely without a public debt. I am, myself, in favour of a loan of the character to which I have referred; but this is a question which must be decided by the Legislative Council, with the sanction of the Imperial Government.\n\nThere is little prospect, under the circumstances stated above, of the Imperial Government sanctioning any remission of taxation. Indeed the Secretary of State has already delivered his decision in this matter in a Despatch (No. 170 of the 9th December, 1881) which has already been laid before the Legislative Council. It is there stated: \"Any change in the \"direction indicated will require careful and detailed consideration; but, at \"present, while there are many much needed public works still to be undertaken, I should not be ready to sanction any measure diminishing the sources of revenue.”\n\nSuch being the broad state of the case, it would be superfluous for me to enter at present upon any minute examination of the details of all the subjects to which my attention has been directed. I may, however, observe that the proposed reduction of the Light Dues raises a somewhat difficult and delicate question. I am advised that the Licenses on Chinese Junks are regarded as an equivalent for the non-payment by them of the Light Dues; and that if the latter are reduced, it would be equitable that the former should be reduced also. Now the Light Dues and Junk Licenses together produce an annual revenue of about $42,000; and it is to be feared that the Colony cannot afford at present to dispense with any portion of this sum.\n\nAgain, it should be remarked that the Light Dues at Hongkong are only 1 cent per ton of the shipping; whereas at Singapore, which is also a Free Port, they amount to 1d. per ton, i.e., three times as much as here. Mauritius and other Colonies these dues appear to be still higher than at Singapore. It should be remembered, moreover, that the Colony of Hongkong appears to pay in aggregate taxation less per head of its population than any other British Colony of importance.\n\nI refrain from going further into details at the present moment. It is obvious that, after the decision of the Imperial Government referred to above, the Governor would not be justified in taking steps towards the reduction of taxation, without previous authority from home, even if he were more convinced than I can confess myself to be, that such a reduction, however desirable and logical in itself, is just now within the scope of practical politics. But if the Chamber of Commerce will present me with a full statement of its views and wishes, I shall have much pleasure in transmitting that statement to the Colonial Office, where it is sure to receive the respectful attention due to any communication emanating from so important and representative a body.\n\nPerhaps, however, the Chamber may prefer to see this question, and the manifold questions connected with it, submitted, in the first instance, to the deliberations of a re-constructed Legislative Council. For, in conclusion, Gentlemen, I may take this opportunity of stating that I have satisfied myself that the present constitution of the Legislative Council of this Colony is wholly inadequate for the proper discussion and settlement of our public affairs. I firmly believe that the community at large will be better represented and satisfied, while the Government will be more fully informed, and, at the same time, strengthened by the weighty support of public opinion, if the Unofficial element is considerably increased. At the present moment there are really only two Unofficial Members. I shall propose forthwith to Her Majesty's Government that for the future there shall be six Unofficial Members; and that the system which has worked successfully in Ceylon shall be adopted also here. I mean that two of those six members should be, as a general rule, appointed on the recommendation of the Chamber of Commerce, and one more at least on the recommendation of some other public body, such as the Bench of Justices of the Peace. One of the six Unofficial members will of course be chosen from among our Chinese fellow subjects. It will be remembered that representatives of the native communities have for many years past held seats in the Legislatures of British India, Ceylon, New Zealand, and the Straits Settlements. Without going further into details at present, I believe that you Gentlemen, will agree with me in thinking that a system of the nature thus shadowed forth will confer on the Colony most of the advantages, without any drawbacks of popular election; which, for obvious reasons, is impracticable in a heterogeneous community, circumstanced as is that of Hongkong. Should the Imperial Government sanction my proposals, I feel confident that the Colonial Government and Legislation will derive valuable assistance from the knowledge and ability of the gentlemen recommended by the Chamber of Commerce. The Official and the Unofficial Members alike can have no object in view but the general welfare of the Colony; and I am sure that we shall all work together cordially towards that common object.\n\nG. F. BOWEN,",
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        "content_text": "277\n\nexamination to the Candidate\n\nwho obtains the highest marks,\n\nbut subject to the restrictions mentioned below in §§ 5.17.18.\n\nThe candidates will\n\nbe students approved by the\n\nGovernor\n\nfrom Victoria, St Joseph's and St Paul's Colleges, Hong Kong; and will be required to bring the following certificates :-\n\n(a) Certificate of good moral\n\ncharacter.\n\n(b) Certificate of age. Candidates\n\nmust not exceed 20 years, nor be below 17 years.\n\n(c) Certificates that they\n\nhave been students for at least the three (3) years\n\nlast past previous to the Examination, at the College\n\nthat presents them.\n\nThe successful candidate will be required:-\n\n(a) to proceed to England\n\nwithin one month of\n\nhis election;\n\n(b) on his arrival there, to\n\nreport himself, as having\n\nbeen sent out by the\n\nColonial Government; forwarding in proof thereof a letter from the\n\nPrincipal or Head of\n\nthe College specified by the\n\nGovernment;\n\n(c) to forward every half-year a\n\ncertificate of continued proficiency and progress in study from\n\nthe Principal or Head.",
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        "content_text": "22\n\nEngland on the return to Hongkong of Mr. Keswick, who will then be re-appointed to the place so vacated.\n\n9. There remains the case of Mr. Wong Shing, the new Chinese member, whose election I reported in my despatch No.355 of 20th December, 1883. For it will be seen that the Attorney General is of opinion that the Governor has no power to appoint this other Unofficial member, even provisionally, \"without an Instruction to that effect;\" but thinks that a telegram from the Secretary of State would be a \"sufficient instruction\". I request that Your Lordship's instructions on this point may be conveyed to me forthwith by telegraph; as it is important, for obvious reasons, that the Chinese Member should take his seat in the Colonial Legislature as soon as possible.\n\n10. In conclusion, I have the honour to submit for Her Majesty's gracious approval and confirmation, the names of the following gentlemen who are recommended as the Five Unofficial Members of the Legislative Council.\n\n19",
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        "content_text": "24\n\nCouncil of Hong Kong, viz.\n\n1. Phineas Ryrie, Esquire,\n\n2. Francis Henry Johnson, Esquire,\n\n3. Thomas Jackson, Esquire,\n\n4. Frederick David Sassoon, Esquire,\n\n5. Wong Shing, Esquire.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nMy Lord,\n\nYour Lordship's Most Obedient Humble Servant,\n\n5. Bowen\n\nThe Daily Press.\n\nHONG KONG, JANUARY 26th, 1884.\n\nEnclosure 3.\n\nHONG KONG GENERAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.\n\nELECTION OF A MEMBER OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL\n\nA special general meeting of the members of the Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce was held at the City Hall yesterday morning, for the purpose of nominating a member for election to the Legislative Council. There were present Messrs. F. B. Johnson (Chairman), Hon. P. Ryrie (Vice-Chairman), Messrs. H. L. Dalrymple, L. Poesnecker, T. Jackson, A. Gültzow, E. Mackintosh, F. D. Sassoon (Committee), W. S. Young, A. McIver, W. H. Forbes, W. M. Morgan, Framjee H. Arjuna, E. E. Sassoon, C. D. Bottomley, C. P. Chater, E. R. Belilios, H. Foss, J. Thorburn, M. Grote, C. Erdmann, A. P. MacEwen, F. T. P. Foster, W. H. F. Darby, T. H. Whitehead, J. M. Matson, and E. George (Secretary).\n\nThe CHAIRMAN—Gentlemen, the Secretary will now read the notice convening the meeting, and then the correspondence, which is virtually our commission for the business we have to perform.\n\nThe correspondence consisted of the letter from the Colonial Secretary to the Chairman of the Chamber requesting that the Chamber would nominate a gentleman for appointment to the Legislative Council (which has already been published) and the following reply:\n\nHongkong General Chamber of Commerce,\n\nHongkong, 28th December, 1888.\n\nThe Honourable W. H. Marsh, C.M.G.,\n\nColonial Secretary,\n\nSIR—I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of the letter dated the 20th instant in which you inform me that, on the recommendation of the Governor, Her Majesty has been pleased to confer upon this Chamber the privilege of nominating for His Excellency's approval one member to a seat in the Legislative Council of the colony. You further request me to make the necessary arrangements in accordance with the rules of the Chamber to convene a meeting of the members, and to invite them to elect a member whose name is to be returned to you for submission to His Excellency.\n\nI take notice that this return should be accompanied by the following documents, viz.:\n\nA copy of the notice convening the meeting.\n\nA list of the members present at the meeting.\n\nA list of the candidates, with the names of their proposers and seconders.\n\nA list of voters.\n\nA statement of the number of votes given for each candidate.\n\nIn reply, I beg to inform you that in compliance with your request a special meeting of the Chamber has been convoked for Wednesday, the 2nd January, and that in due time the name of the member who will be nominated thereat will be returned to you, together with the papers asked for, excepting only the fourth one, viz., a list of the voters. It is the practice of the Chamber to keep a record of the members present at any ballot, but not to enquire into the names of members who, although present, may decline to vote at all.\n\nI assume that it is intended the person nominated shall be a member of the Chamber, but on this point your letter is not explicit.\n\nThe Committee requests that you will convey to the Governor its thanks in the name of the Chamber for the wise initiative which, in the opinion of the Committee, has been taken by His Excellency in having recommended Her Majesty to anticipate the pressure of public opinion by conferring upon the Colonists a measure of popular representation which has long been urgently called for by the rapidly developing interests of the colony.—I have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient servant,\n\nF. B. JOHNSON, Chairman.\n\nColonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 20th December, 1888.\n\nSIR—With reference to your letter of yesterday I am instructed by His Excellency the Governor to inform you that the candidate to be nominated for a seat in the Legislative Council should be a Member of the Chamber of Commerce.\n\nI have the honour to be, Sir, your most obedient servant,\n\nW. H. MARSH, Colonial Secretary.\n\nThe Honourable F. B. Johnson, Chairman, Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce\n\nThe CHAIRMAN—Gentlemen, the function which we are called upon to perform to-day is one which is so unusual to us, and which so seldom appertains to a mercantile body such as ours, that I think you will agree with me that a few words on the subject that brings us together will not be out of place. First, I feel sure you will agree with the Committee in thinking that the thanks of the Chamber, and not only of the Chamber but of all those whose interests we may now be said to represent, are due to His Excellency the Governor, Sir George Bowen, for the initiative he has taken in anticipating public opinion and obtaining for us in this colony a measure of self-government. It will perhaps be within your recollection that early last year, at our last annual meeting, I ventured to say that the time had arrived when we in this colony should demand some control over our own affairs, and I suggested the arrival of a new Governor was a fitting opportunity on which to press our demands. I think it a subject of very great congratulation that the Governor, Sir George Bowen, forestalled, as I have said, any agitation in this colony, for agitation is much to be deprecated. He forestalled us and completely took the wind out of our sails and went ahead of us. I think it is hardly matter of surprise that Sir George Bowen, after having administered for so many years the affairs of those great democratic communities in the South Pacific, should have felt somewhat stifled by the close political atmosphere of this Downing-street ridden colony. It is scarcely to be believed, but it is true, that although we have here a highly paid Governor, well versed in affairs, none more so, and assisted by departments presided over by men fit to govern a dominion, with all the machinery of Executive and Legislative Councils, we have not a modicum of control over our own affairs; we cannot do the smallest thing without interference by the Colonial Office or some young gentleman in the Colonial Department who desires to show his raison d'être by mischievous meddling in affairs with which no amount of competitive cramming can give him the least effective acquaintance. I regret Sir George Bowen's scheme was not carried out in its integrity, as it is a far better one than that which has been accepted. We do not want any mechanical or conventional system of voting. What we do want is a free and independent Council which will control the measures of Government and represent the intelligent public opinion of the colony. Now we know that in the reconstructed Legislative Council the Colonial Office will still have a majority of official votes, and can influence them as it likes, but we also know what can be done by an active and intelligent minority in any representative assembly. It therefore devolves upon us and the other constituent body to send up men who will not only represent our interests but who also know how to fight our battles and win them; for believe me, the battle is not one that has to be fought out by a single effort, but step by step, slowly, until we have obtained that which we ought to have, the control over all our ordinary municipal taxation and our ordinary municipal expenditure—(hear, hear)—leaving only in the hands of the Colonial Office a veto over such matters as belong to Imperial interests and where it may be occasionally exercised with advantage in such a mixed community as this. Gentlemen, I believe there is before this colony a magnificent future of prosperity, and that that prosperity will be hastened and increased if we have the management of our own affairs, for the simple reason that those who have interests at stake have a very lively appreciation of what is needed. But if we are to remain as before, with our destinies entirely under the control of the Colonial Office, that time may be indefinitely retarded and minimised. Under these circumstances I feel sure we shall consider a great responsibility rests upon us as to the member we shall send up to represent us, and I only hope we shall be found equal to the opportunities that have been committed to our charge. The order of our proceedings as arranged by the Committee will be that any members present who have to propose a member for nomination to the Council will send up to the Secretary a paper containing the name of the gentleman proposed and those of the proposer and seconder. If only one name is submitted I shall put that by resolution to the meeting. If more than one name is proposed a ballot will be called for and the votes will be counted by my friend the Vice-Chairman and the Secretary (Applause).\n\n20",
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        "content_text": "# Colonial Office\n\n\nSeizieme année. N⚫ 334.\n\nLe N° : 35 avec les suppléments.\n\n21483 JOURNAL OF 2549 17 DEC 84/ 367 DE LA RÉPUBLIQUE FRANÇAISE\n\nParis et Départements: Un an, 40 fr. - 6 mois, 20 fr. - 3 mois, 10 fr. On s'abonne dans tous les bureaux de poste français. -- Affranchir\n\nLES MANUSCRITS NON INSÉRÉS ne sont pas rendus.\n\nLes abonnements doivent être renouvelés. Joindre aux renouvellements...\n\nDIRECTION, RÉDACTION ET ADMINISTRATION À PARIS, QUAI VOLTAIRE, N° 51\n\nLes demandes d'abonnement sont reçues : 1° directement à l'Administration; 2° par lettre au Journal officiel. - Les abonnements (de trois mois, six mois ou un an) doivent être faits au prix net de 10, 20 ou 40 francs. Les abonnements en timbres-poste sont rigoureusement interdits. Tout changement d'adresse doit être accompagné d'une bande imprimée et de la somme de soixante centimes.\n\nÉCHÉANCE DU 15 DÉCEMBRE\n\nMM. les abonnés dont l'abonnement expire le 31 décembre sont priés de vouloir bien adresser dès maintenant leur renouvellement, afin d'éviter tout retard dans la réception du journal.\n\nLe meilleur mode d'abonnement est l'envoi d'un mandat poste adressé à M. le chef de service du Journal officiel, 51, quai Voltaire. Pour les renouvellements, ne pas oublier de joindre la dernière bande.\n\n## SOMMAIRE DU 5 DÉCEMBRE\n\n### PARTIE OFFICIELLE\n\n* Décret portant nomination d'un conseiller d'Etat en service extraordinaire (page 6377).\n* Décret portant promotion et nomination dans l'ordre national de la Légion d'honneur (grande chancellerie) (page 6377).\n* Décret portant dissolution du conseil municipal de la commune de Saint-Christophe (Allier) (page 6378).\n* Décret portant nominations au grade d'enseigne de vaisseau (page 6378).\n* Décision portant nomination à un commandement à la mer (page 6378).\n\nDocuments du ministère de la guerre :\n\n* Décret portant nominations dans l'ordre national de la Légion d'honneur (page 6378).\n* Décisions portant mutations dans le service d'état-major (page 6378).\n\n### PARTIE NON OFFICIELLE\n\n* Election à la Chambre des députés (page 6378).\n* Télégramme et rapport adressés au ministre de la marine par le général Brière de l'Isle (page 6378).\n* Avis et communications (page 6380).\n\n## PARTIE OFFICIELLE\n\n### Paris, 4 Décembre 1884\n\n**Le Président de la République française**\n\nVu la loi du 24 mars 1872, portant réorganisation du conseil d'Etat;\n\nVu l'article 1 de la loi du 13 juillet 1879, relative au conseil d'Etat,\n\n**DÉCRÈTE**\n\nArt. 1er. - M. Birouste, contrôleur général, directeur du contrôle au ministère de la guerre, est nommé conseiller d'Etat en service extraordinaire, en remplacement de M. de Panafieu.\n\nArt. 2. - Le garde des sceaux, ministre de la justice et des cultes, président du conseil...\n\n### Nouvelles et correspondances étrangères (page 6384)\n\n## CHAMBRES\n\n### Sénat\n\n* Débats parlementaires (page 1819 à 1825)\n\n### Chambre\n\n* Débats parlementaires (page 2577 à 2600)\n* Documents (page 1117 à 1124)\n\n| Partie          | Page         |\n|---------------|--------------|\n| Sénat         | 1819-1825    |\n| Chambre       | 2577-2600    |\n| Documents     | 1117-1124    |\n\n### Bulletin de la séance du jeudi 4 décembre 1884\n\n* Ordre du jour. - Convocations de commissions (page 6381)\n\n### Chambre des députés\n\n* Bulletin de la séance du jeudi 4 décembre 1884. - Ordre du jour. Convocation de commission (page 6382)\n\n### Institut de France\n\n* Rapport sur le prix de vertu, lu dans la séance publique annuelle de l'Académie française du 20 novembre 1884, par M. Pailleron, directeur (page 6385)\n\n### Académies et corps savants\n\n* Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres: Ferdinand Delaunay (page 6388)\n\n### Informations\n\n* (page 6390)\n\n### Situation de la Banque de France et de ses succursales\n\n* (page 6390)\n\n### Bulletin comparatif des recettes des chemins de fer\n\n* (page 6391)\n\n### Avis d'adjudication\n\n* Ministère des travaux publics. Département de la Seine. - Ville de Paris (page 6392)\n\n### Tribunal de commerce de la Seine\n\n* Jugements de déclaration de faillite, etc. (page 6392)\n\n### Bourses et marchés\n\n* (page 6396)",
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        "content_text": "## \n\nthe memorial made in Colony by Honourable Thomas Jackson who introduced his resolutions in the following terms :- \n\n\"Your Excellency, before moving the resolutions of which I gave notice last week I would beg to say a few words. I consider that the present time is an eminently favourable time for requesting the Colonial Office to change their opinion in this matter of the disendowment of the church in Hongkong. It is beyond doubt a fact that within a very short period a great change has come over the opinions of people in England on this subject, and at the last election the extreme candidates who were for the abolition of everything found very little favour, the moderate Liberals and the Conservatives being the favourite candidates. Also when an attempt was made recently to disestablish the Church in Wales it signally failed. And, further, prior to the last election in England His Eminence Cardinal Manning requested the members of his Church to vote for candidates favourable to the maintenance of the Church of England, which he described as a bulwark against infidelity. I would also refer to the language of these resolutions. It is beyond doubt that no man in this colony has any grievance in connection with the sum of £800, or rather £640, that has been voted for ecclesiastical purposes. I would also point out that the ecclesiastical establishment is a necessity of the place. It has lasted forty years and has worked remarkably well.\"\n\nI have the honour to be, \n\nMy Lord, \n\nYour Lordship's Most Obedient \n\nHumble Servant, \n\nDRAFT. \n\nHongkong no. 90 \n\n19 May \n\nMINUTE. \n\n| Name | Date |\n| --- | --- |\n| Mr. Johnson | 20 |\n| Mr. Ebden | 20 |\n| Mr. Wingfield |  |\n| Mr. Bramston | 20 |\n| Mr. Meade |  |\n| Sir R. Herbert |  |\n\n7653 \n\n2 July 1887 \n\nI have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch no. 24 of 22 June 93 and of the 26th of March last, inclosing resolutions of the Leg. Council; in favour of a reconsideration of the decision as to the future withdrawal of existing Ecclesiastical grants in Hongkong. \n\n| Name | Date |\n| --- | --- |\n| M. Osborne Morgan | 21 June |\n| Lord Durham |  |\n| Lord Granville |  |\n| Cardinal Stantry |  |\n\n1/7 \n\npar. 4 added \n\nSee no. 8451 \n\nJuly 24/5 \n\n2. I am unable to find sufficient reason for such reconsideration.",
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        "content_text": "# Enclosure\n\n## A BILL\n\n## ENTITLED\n\nThe Cathedral Ordinance, 188...\n\nBe it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:\n\n1. The existing Trustees of Saint John's Cathedral Church at Victoria in this Colony under Ordinances No. 2 of 1847 and No. 3 of 1850, and their successors from time to time to be appointed or elected under this Ordinance, shall be a body corporate by the name of the Trustees of Saint John's Cathedral Church at Hongkong, with perpetual succession and a common seal, and with power to purchase, hold, take and enjoy to themselves and their successors all houses, buildings, and lands which they may require for the purposes of the said Cathedral Church, and shall sue and may be sued in their corporate name in all Courts.\n\n2. The corporation is created for the purpose of maintaining the said Church for religious worship according to the rites and usages of the Church of England.\n\n3. The said Church and land thereunto belonging, the boundaries of which are set out in the Schedule to this Ordinance, are hereby vested in the said corporation, subject to a right of way over the public road running through the said land as shown in the plan prepared by the Surveyor General, dated the ... day of ... and sealed with the seal of the Colony.\n\n## The Trustees\n\n4. The Trustees and Auditors of the said Cathedral Church appointed or elected under Ordinance 2 of 1847 at the time of the coming into force of this Ordinance shall continue in Office until new Trustees shall be appointed or elected under this Ordinance.\n\n5. The appointment or election of Trustees and Auditors shall take place annually, and all Trustees and Auditors so appointed or elected shall continue in Office until a fresh appointment or election is made. Any Trustee or Auditor may be re-elected or re-appointed.\n\n6. The election of Trustees and Auditors shall take place at a general meeting of the seat-holders of the Church, hereinafter called the Annual Meeting, to be summoned by the Trustees for the time being, during the month of April or May in each year. At least ten days' notice of such meeting shall be given by notices to be exhibited at each doorway used by the Congregation of the Church.\n\n7. Two Trustees, being Members of the Church of England and seat-holders of the Church, and one other person to act as Auditor shall be elected at each Annual Meeting, and the out-going Trustees shall notify the Colonial Secretary of such election.\n\n8. The Governor shall then appoint four persons, being Members of the Church of England, to be Trustees, and one person to be an Auditor. The Auditors, whether appointed or elected, shall not at the same time be Trustees.\n\n9. In case of any vacancy occurring among the Trustees or Auditors by death, absence from the Colony, or other incapacity, it shall be lawful for the seat-holders or the Governor, as the case may be, to fill up such vacancy in like manner as the original appointment was made under Section 7 or 8 of this Ordinance.\n\n10. The Colonial Chaplain shall be at all times Chairman of the Trustees, but shall not have the power of voting by reason of being such Chairman except in cases where the votes of the Trustees present shall be equal.\n\n11. The Trustees shall appoint one of their number to be their Secretary and Treasurer.\n\n12. Meetings of the Trustees shall be called by the Secretary on the requisition of the Chaplain or of any two Trustees. Such meetings shall be convened by written notice. The attendance of four Trustees, or of three and the Chaplain shall form a quorum.\n\n13. Two clear days' notice shall be given when possible of any meeting of Trustees, and, should two days' notice not have been given, the Chairman shall postpone the meeting if any Trustee who is unable to attend should call upon him in writing so to do.\n\n## The Church Management\n\n14. The Trustees may call a General Meeting of Seat-holders at any time, and shall call such a meeting within fourteen days after receiving any requisition in writing to that effect signed by not less than twenty seat-holders.\n\nPage 33",
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        "content_text": "240\n\nejected from the premises, the loss he would sustain would be very considerable and hard for him to bear.\n\nWe desire to draw your especial attention to the fact that corporations and other municipal authorities who have the letting of stable markets in all parts of England grant formal leases and never turn out or increase the rent of their tenants as long as they conduct themselves and their business in a proper manner.\n\nOur client most respectfully submits that he has not acted in such a manner as to justify his ejection from the premises resulting in the complete destruction of his business. He most humbly begs that after a careful consideration of all the facts and circumstances of the case, an equitable view may be taken. He also wishes us to add that seeking our advice, he has only sought to represent the case more placidly to you and not in the least to oppose the Authorities.\n\nWe however, in pursuing the course he has, are asking...\n\nSf Wotton + Dector-\n\nThe Hon. J. Newart, M..\n\nActing Colonial Secretary\n\n10\n\n \ntw",
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        "content_text": "10\n\nthese individual applications\n\nwill be\n\nunnecessary;\n\nfirmly of opinion\n\nand I\n\nthat\n\nmy recommendation is the\n\nonly fair and practical\n\nsolution of\n\nthe\n\nproblem.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour Most Obedient\n\nHumble Servant,\n\nJ. Cameron.\n\nJune 1.\n\nRECR\n\nGOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 189.\n\n73140\n\nREGR 4 JU 87.\n\nThe following paper, presented to the Legislative Council, by command of His Excellency the Governor, on the 28th February last, is published for general information.\n\nBy Command,\n\nColonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 17th May, 1884.\n\nFREDERICK STEWART,\n\nActing Colonial Secretary.\n\nRegulations for Government Scholarships for the Study of Law, Medicine, or Civil Engineering, in Great Britain.\n\n1. The Government of Hongkong offers two Scholarships of £200 (two hundred pounds) each,\n\nper annum, for four years, to students of Victoria, St. Joseph's, and St. Paul's Colleges in the Colony\n\nof Hongkong, on the following conditions :——\n\n2. One Scholarship will be awarded in each alternate year.\n\n420\n\n3. The Scholarships will be awarded after competitive examination to the Candidate who obtains\n\nthe highest marks, but subject to the restriction mentioned below in § 5.\n\nCANDIDATES.\n\n4. The Candidates will be students approved by the Governor from Victoria, St. Joseph's, and St. Paul's Colleges, Hongkong; and will be required to bring the following certificates :----\n\n(a.) Certificate of good moral character.\n\n(b.) Certificate of age. Candidates must not exceed 20 years, nor be below 17 years.\n\n(c.) Certificates that they have been students for at least the three (3) years last past previous to the Examination, at the College that presents them, or at any two of the above named colleges.\n\n5. The successful candidate will be required.\n\n(a.) To proceed to England within two months of his election.\n\n(b.) On his arrival there, to report himself to the Colonial Office as having entered his name at the College specified by the Colonial Government, forwarding in proof thereof a letter from the Principal.\n\n(c.) To forward quarterly to the Crown Agents for the Colonies a certificate of good conduct and proficiency in study from the Principal or Head, upon receipt of which the quarterly instalment of his Scholarship will be paid to him.\n\n6. The holder of the Scholarship will cease to be entitled to draw any money if he fail in any of these requirements.\n\n7. Passage will be paid to England by the Government.\n\n8. Return Passage will also be paid, if nothing shall have occurred to disqualify the holder of the Scholarship.\n\n9. The holder of the Scholarship will not be allowed to remove to any other College or Institution than the one specified by the Examiners, without the permission of the Secretary of State.\n\nEXAMINATION.\n\n10. The time of Examination will be within the first fourteen days of the month of December.\n\n11. The first Examination will take place in December, 1884, and due notice of it will be given in the Gazette.",
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        "content_text": "EXAMINERS.\n\n12. The Examiners will be the Board of Examiners. Three will form a quorum.\n\nSUBJECTS.\n\n13. The subjects, with the maximum marks attached, will be the following:\n\n  \n    English Grammar,\n    31\n  \n  \n    Composition,\n    37\n  \n  \n    History,\n    \"\n  \n  \n    Literature,\n    \"\n  \n  \n    Geography,\n    \"\n  \n  \n    Arithmetic,\n    100\n  \n  \n    Algebra,\n    200\n  \n  \n    Euclid, Mensuration,\n    600\n  \n  \n    \n    .150\n  \n  \n    \n    .150\n  \n  \n    \n    .100\n  \n  \n    \n    .100\n  \n  \n    \n    .100\n  \n  \n    \n    > 500\n  \n  \n    \n    .100\n  \n  \n    \n    .100\n  \n\nLatin, or Chemistry, or both, may be offered instead of Euclid or Mensuration, or both, and will be allowed 100 marks each.\n\n14. No candidate will be elected who fails to get 400 marks in the four English subjects, together with 300 marks in the remaining subjects.\n\nDETAILS OF SUBJECTS.\n\nVERNMENT NOTIFICATION No. 189\n\nThe following paper, presented to the Legislative Council, by command of His Excellency the Governor, on the 28th February last, is published for general information.\n\nBy Command,\n\nColonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 17th May, 1884.\n\nHongkong.\n\nFREDERICK STEWART,\n\n-Acting Colonial Secretary.\n\n15. Instead of Composition, Chinese Candidates will be allowed to offer Translation from Chinese into English.\n\nHistory.-An Epoch to be selected from time to time by the Examiners.\n\nLiterature.-A Hand book on English Literature, some special play or plays of Shakespeare or work of other English poet to be selected from time to time by the Examiners.\n\nGeography-Political and Physical General, but special knowledge of China, of the British Isles, and of the British Colonies and Dependencies will be required.\n\nArithmetic. All the subjects included in the usual standard text books.\n\nAlgebra. To Quadratic Equations inclusive.\n\nEuclid-Book I at least.\n\nLatin. Some simple book as Cæsar or Cornelius Nepos, with Grammar and Translation of short simple sentences into Latin.\n\nChemistry.-Elementary.\n\n16. In every case the names of the first six candidates will be published in the Gazette in order of merit, with the number of marks obtained and the names of the Colleges where they were educated.\n\n17. It will be in the discretion of the Examiners to select, with the approval of the Governor, the College to which the holder of the Scholarship shall be sent; but King's College, London, is recommended as the best suited for finishing the education of boys and beginning the course of study required by men in the same establishment.\n\nHongkong, 2nd January, 1884.\n\nIn connexion with paragraph 15 of the above Regulations, His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to direct that, for the examination to be held in December next,\n\nThe Epoch in History shall be-The Early History of England to the Conquest:\n\nThe Hand Book on English Literature, Stopford Brooke's Primer:\n\nThe Play of Shakespeare, The Tempest :\n\nLatin, Cæsar, Book 1:\n\nChemistry, Non-metallic Elements and their Compounds, (Roscoe's Elements recommended): Euclid, Book I.\n\nMedicine, or Civil Engineering, in Great Britain, the United Kingdom for the study of Law, Medicine, or Civil Engineering in the United Kingdom)\n\n1. The Government of Hongkong offers two Scholarships of £200 (two hundred pounds) each, per annum, for four years, to students of Victoria, St. Joseph's, and St. Paul's Colleges in the Colony of Hongkong, on the following conditions:\n\n2. One Scholarship will be awarded in each alternate year.\n\n4. The Scholarships will be awarded, after competitive examination, to the Candidate who obtains the highest marks, but subject to the restrictions mentioned below in §§ 6 and 7.\n\nCANDIDATES.\n\nThe Candidates will be students approved by the Governor from Victoria, St. Joseph's, and St. Paul's Colleges, Hongkong; and will be required to bring the following certificates from the Head master of the respective College:\n\n(a.) Certificate of good moral character.\n\n(b.) Certificate of age. Candidates must not exceed 20 years, nor be below 17 years.\n\n(c.) Certificates that they have been students, for at least the three (3) years last past previous to the Examination, at the College that presents them, or at any two of the above named Colleges.\n\nThe successful candidate will be required:\n\n(a.) To proceed to England within two months of his election.\n\n(b.) On his arrival there, to report himself to the Colonial Office as having entered his name at the College specified by the Colonial Government, forwarding in proof thereof a letter from the Principal.\n\n(c.) To forward quarterly to the Crown Agents for the Colonies a certificate of good conduct and proficiency in study from the Principal or Head, upon receipt of which the quarterly instalment of his Scholarship will be paid to him.\n\nThe holder of the Scholarship will cease to be entitled to draw any money if he fail in any of these requirements.\n\n9. Passage will be paid to England by the Government.\n\n10. Return Passage will also be paid, if nothing shall have occurred to disqualify the holder of the Scholarship.\n\nEXAMINATION.\n\n11. The holder of the Scholarship will not be allowed to remove to any other College or Institution than the one specified by the Examiners, without the permission of the Secretary of State.\n\n12. The time of Examination will be within the fourteen days of the month of December. The Examination will take place in December, 1884, and due notice of the day and hour will be given in the Government Gazette.\n\nOctober",
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        "content_text": "Enclosure 3.\n\nC. O.\n\nof the next evening examination will be published in the Government Gazette\n\nWith reference to paragraph 18 of the above Amended Regulations for Government Scholarships for the study of Law, Medicine, or Civil Engineering in the United Kingdom, notice is hereby given that the following additional details of subjects, selected by the Inspector of Schools for the purposes of the next examination to be held in October, 1888, have been provisionally approved by His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government:-\n\nHistory. In addition to general questions regarding the outlines of English History, special questions will be set with reference to the period of the Plantagenets (from Henry II to Richard II).\n\nEnglish Literature.-The period from the Conquest to Chaucer's death (Morley's First Sketch of English Literature). General questions will also be set with reference to the History of English Literature (Stopford Brooke's English Literature Primer).\n\nPlay of Shakespeare. Julius Caesar (with simple questions on the history of the words and the construction of sentences, and other questions arising out of the subject).\n\nLatin.-Cæsar de bello Gallico, liber I. Grammatical and other questions will be set on the language and subject matter of the book. One or more easy passages, not contained in the book, will be set for translation into Latin, & vocabulary of the less familiar words being given.\n\nChemistry. Hydrogen and the Oxides of Hydrogen (Roscoe's Lessons on Elementary Chemistry).\n\nElements of Euclid.-Book II (with questions, deductions and algebraical applications) and Book IV (text of Euclid only).\n\n(In C. S. O. 188+)\n\nHONGKONG.\n\n13140 423\n\nRECE\n\nREGE 4 JUI 87)\n\nAmended Regulations for Government Scholarships for the Study of Law, Medicine, or Civil Engineering, in the United Kingdom, (18th May, 1887.)\n\n1. The Government of Hongkong offers, for the study of Law, Medicine, or Civil Engineering in the United Kingdom, two Scholarships of £200 (two hundred pounds) each, per annum, for four years, to students of Victoria, St. Joseph's, and St. Paul's Colleges in the Colony of Hongkong, on the following conditions :-\n\n2. One Scholarship will be awarded in each alternate year.\n\n3. The holder of a Scholarship can select the Collegiate course he wishes to follow or the Institution where he is to study, subject to the approval of the Governor or the Secretary of State for the Colonies, but King's College, London, is recommended as the best suited for finishing the education of boys and beginning the course of study required by men in the same establishment.\n\n4. The Scholarships will be awarded, after competitive examination, to the Candidate who obtains the highest marks, but subject to the restrictions mentioned below in paragraphs 5, 6 and 7.\n\nCANDIDATES.\n\n5. The Candidates will be students previously approved by the Governor from Victoria, St. Joseph's, and St. Paul's Colleges in the Colony of Hongkong, and will be required to bring the following certificates from the Head Master of the respective College :-\n\n(a.) Certificate of good moral character.\n\n(b.) Certificate of age. Candidates must not exceed 20 years, nor be below 17 years.\n\n(c) Certificates stating that they have been students, for at least the three (3) years last past previous to the Examination, at the College that presents them or at any two of the above named Colleges.\n\n6. Every Candidate will be required to undergo a Medical Examination with a view to ascertaining that he is in a sound state of health.\n\n7. The successful Candidate will be required,\n\n(a.) To proceed to England within two months of his election.\n\n(b) On his arrival there to report himself to the Colonial Office as having entered his name at the College or Institution, approved by the Governor or Secretary of State, forwarding in proof thereof a letter from the Principal.\n\n(c.) To forward quarterly to the Crown Agents for the Colonies a certificate of good conduct and proficiency in study from the Principal or Head, upon receipt of which the quarterly instalment of his Scholarship will be paid to him.\n\n8. The holder of the Scholarship will cease to be entitled to draw any money if he fail in any of these requirements.\n\n9. Passage will be paid to England by the Government, and in special cases, where the Headmaster certifies it to be absolutely necessary, an advance of $150 will be made for purposes of outfit, but the whole amount must be repaid through the Crown Agents, in quarterly instalments, during the first year of the Scholarship.\n\n10. Return passage will also be paid, if nothing shall have occurred to disqualify the holder of the Scholarship.\n\n11. The holder of the Scholarship will not be allowed to remove to another College or Institution without the permission of the Secretary of State.\n\nEXAMINATION.\n\n12. The time of examination will be within the last fourteen days of the month of October.\n\n13. The next examination will take place in October, 1888, and due notice of the day and hour will be given in the Government Gazette.\n\nEXAMINERS.\n\n14. The Examiners will be the Syndicate of the University of Cambridge.\n\n15. The Inspector of Schools will act as local Presiding Examiner and may associate with himself for the purpose such person or persons as may be approved by the Governor.",
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        "content_text": "was to make the owner or occupier of the whole house responsible, because the houses were let out in portions to irresponsible persons. I propose therefore that the clause be left over for further consideration, in order that we may see how far the motion of the hon. member might be granted without upsetting the object of the Registration Ordinance.\n\nThis suggestion was adopted and the clause left over for further consideration.\n\nHon. C. P. CHATER—Sir, I beg to propose an amendment in subsection 11 of clause 3, which as it stands reads as follows—“New Building—Any structure, begun after the commencement of this Ordinance or of which the enclosing walls have not been carried higher than the footings, or such old buildings as shall for the purposes of re-construction be taken down to an extent exceeding one half, such half to be measured in cubic feet.” This really appears to me like retrospective legislation, and I would propose that the words “or of which the enclosing walls have not been carried higher than the footings” be struck out. Then I have also to propose an amendment in the second portion of this clause. I propose that it read “or such old buildings as shall, for the purposes of re-construction, be taken down to an extent exceeding two-thirds, such two-thirds to be measured in cubic feet.” If a landlord has a house of two storeys and would like to take down one storey, or to put it in other language, a ground floor and first floor, and he wished to take down the first floor to make improvements, he would come immediately under this Ordinance, because in doing so he would have to take the roof off and that is measured in cubic feet. He would therefore become liable to examinations and all sorts of troubles. I would not mind if the section read “more than half the house or more than one storey”, but if it is to be measured by cubic feet, the roof would come in and affect it very materially, and improvements which would otherwise take place, would be stopped.\n\nThe SURVEYOR-GENERAL—The first portion of this sub-section is taken verbatim from the law of England. Well, it is not too much to refer your new law to new buildings not one inch above the level of the ground. And with regard to the second portion of the clause I would explain to my hon. friend that the cube mentioned here is not the cube of the house, that is, the space enclosed within the four walls and the roof. The meaning is a cube of masonry, or work, so that the roof would in no way affect it. It is a cube of solid masonry, not a cube of space enclosed.\n\nHon. C. P. CHATER—Still, sir, I think my amendment would come in. The half of the house would be one floor, but if the roof were included in the measurement it would be nearly two-thirds. If the clause stands as it is people would rather not pull down and reconstruct properties, to be brought within the Ordinance.\n\nThe SURVEYOR-GENERAL—Then my hon. friend proposes two-thirds instead of one half?\n\nHon. C. P. CHATER—Exactly.\n\nThe SURVEYOR-GENERAL—I think that is a very fair concession.\n\nHon. P. RYRIE—Would it not be well to define the cube?\n\nThe SURVEYOR-GENERAL—It is of no great consequence. Probably, sir, the best plan would be to postpone the consideration of this clause until we have had an opportunity of looking at the English legislation.\n\nThe ACTING ATTORNEY-GENERAL—It would facilitate matters very much if hon. members would let the Council know beforehand what amendments they mean to submit.\n\nHis EXCELLENCY—Of course it would. It is only fair to the Government that they should do so, because we want to sound this matter thoroughly and if necessary go and satisfy ourselves practically if there is any doubt on the subject. It would be well if hon. gentlemen could give notice of these intended amendments. I have no objection to let this clause stand over for future consideration.\n\nFurther consideration of the clause was postponed accordingly.\n\nHon. C. P. CHATER proposed an amendment in Clause 4. The Clause reads as follows—“The Board shall consist of the Surveyor-General, the Registrar-General, the Captain Superintendent of Police, the Colonial Surgeon, and not more than six additional members, four of whom (two being Chinese) shall be appointed by the Governor and one elected by the Chamber of Commerce and one by the Justices of the Peace. Non-official members of the Board shall hold office for three years.” The hon. member said—\n\nThe section as it now stands provides that the board shall consist of ten members, four Government officials and six additional members, four of whom shall be appointed by the Governor. It further provides that one shall be elected by the Justices of the Peace and the sixth by the Chamber of Commerce. In place of the last one being elected by the Chamber of Commerce, I beg to propose he be elected by the tax-payers whose names are included in the special and common jury lists and such tax-payers as are exempted from service on juries on account of their professional avocations. The remaining four I would also propose should be elected by the Crown lessees or their agents, two of them to be Chinese. I think a board such as this should be representative of all parties concerned, more especially those very closely affected by the Ordinance. You have here four Government officials, one member elected by the Justices of the Peace, and I think the Crown lessees who pay pretty nearly all the Crown rents to the Government ought certainly to be represented. This Board, if it is not a Municipal Board to-day, will probably drift to that in a very short time, and I am told in every part of the world members of Municipal Councils are elected by the tax-payers and the Crown lessees; and however many there are in number I do not say the election should be confined to the Crown lessees only, but they should have the right of selecting four out of the ten.\n\nHon. A. P. MacEwen—Sir, I beg to second the proposal of the hon. member. When this Bill was sent up to the Government by the Sanitary Board, it contained a provision that two members should be elected by the tax-payers whose names were included in the special and common jury lists and such tax-payers as are exempt from service on juries by reason of their professional avocations. It was considered by the present Sanitary Board that the franchise should be extended in that direction. There are many people in the colony, tax-payers, entitled to a vote, and it would give them an increased interest in the affairs of the colony if the franchise were extended to them.\n\nThe ACTING ATTORNEY-GENERAL—Sir, I was going to propose that the words “and one elected by the Chamber of Commerce and one by the Justices of the Peace” be struck out, and that in lieu thereof the following should be inserted “and two shall be elected by such tax-payers as are included in the special and common jury and by such tax-payers as are exempt from service on a jury on account of their professional avocations,” so that the unofficial members will be six. Of the four appointed by the Governor two would be Chinese. And there would be two appointed by the tax-payers whose names stand on the jury list and those tax-payers who on account of their professions are exempted from serving on juries.\n\nThe SURVEYOR-GENERAL—That is the old Bill, is it not?\n\nThe ACTING ATTORNEY-GENERAL—That is the old Bill. It is proposed that those exempted from service on juries such as barristers and factors, shall be entitled to a vote. I don't know whether my hon. friend maintains his amendment.\n\nHon. C. P. CHATER—Yes, sir. I stick to my amendment. I am very strongly of opinion the Crown lessees should have a voice. The Board is intrusted with great powers and really the Crown lessees who pay the Crown rents ought to have a voice in it.\n\n34\n\nThe COLONIAL TREASURER—Before the amendments are put, may I suggest to my hon. friends a little verbal amendment, a substitution of the word “ratepayers” for “taxpayers.” We have really no taxpayers. The stamp tax is really the only tax we have. “Ratepayers” is the proper term.\n\nThe ACTING CHIEF JUSTICE—I think it might facilitate matters if this were left over for consideration and these amendments put in print, because the wording of them requires consideration. I think hon. members who wish to propose amendments should send them in such a form that they could be printed and circulated in some such way as is done in the House of Commons. Of course this need not be done with verbal amendments, but in case of amendments like this, going to the whole root of a section, it would facilitate the work of the Council very much if they were put in print. I therefore request that further consideration of this section should be left over and that the amendments be put in print and circulated before the next meeting of the Council.\n\n44\n\n1",
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        "content_text": "The Daily Press.\n\nHONGKONG. SEPTEMBER 10th, 1887.\n\nHONGKONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.\n\nA meeting of the Hongkong Legislative Council was held yesterday afternoon. There were present :-\n\nHis EXCELLENCY THE ACTING GOVERNOR, Major-General CAMERON, C.B.\n\nHon. J. BELL-IRVING.\n\nHon. J. BESSELL, C.M.G., Acting Chief Justice.\n\nHon. F. STEWART, Acting Colonial Secretary.\n\nHon. F.J. ACKROYD, Acting Attorney-General.\n\nHon. A. LISTER, Colonial Treasurer.\n\nHon. J. M. PRICE, Surveyor-General.\n\nHon. H. G. THOMSETT, Harbour Master.\n\nHon. P. RYBIE.\n\nHon. WONG SANG.\n\nHon. C. P. CHATER.\n\nMr. J. M. GUTIERREZ, Acting Clerk of Councils.\n\nMINUTES.\n\nThe minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed.\n\nFINANCE.\n\nThe ACTING COLONIAL SECRETARY laid on the table a minute by his Excellency the Acting Governor recommending a vote of $1,000 to Mr Bruce Shepherd as remuneration for services rendered by him in connection with the Land Commission.\n\nReferred to the Finance Committee.\n\nTHE PUBLIC HEALTH BILL.\n\nThe Council resumed consideration in Committee of the Public Health Bill.\n\nThe ACTING ATTORNEY-GENERAL-There is a small section which I have to propose and which has been circulated--\n\n5.-The mode of election, the proceedings incident thereto, and all other matters relating to the election of the said members by the said ratepayers shall be governed by the rules contained in Schedule ... to this Ordinance. The Governor in Council may from time to time add to, vary, or revoke any of the said rules.\n\nThose rules have been circulated and some objection has been taken to them as being too elaborate and not altogether necessary for the small electorate who will have to elect these two members. Therefore I would propose an amendment to this article, making the latter part read--- \"shall be governed by rules to be made by the Governor in Council, who may from time to time add to, vary, or revoke any of the said rules.\" In the new rules I would propose the list should be prepared by the Registrar of the Supreme Court, who already makes out the jury list. The Registrar sees most of the jurors in the course of the year and there would be very little chance, if any, of impersonation. I should propose therefore that he should make out the list and that the election should take place before him. That is a summary of the rules I would submit to the Governor in Council. I would assimilate the election of these members as much as possible to the election by the Justices of the Peace of a member of the Legislative Council and make it as simple as possible.\n\nThe section as amended was adopted.\n\nThe only remaining part of the Bill standing over for consideration was Part 8, which deals with the subject of overcrowding.\n\nHon. P. RYBIE-Your Excellency, the unofficial members of Council to-day are short of one of their number, and as the gentleman who is absent (Hon. A. P. MacEwan) who has made considerable enquiry with reference to this subject of overcrowding, will be more than likely to have a seat in this Council after the 17th of this month, I would beg to propose that consideration of this part of the Bill be postponed until a date after the 17th.\n\nPage 60\n\nPage 61",
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        "content_text": "9. Householder. --For the purposes of this Ordinance, the actual tenant or occupier of any building, or in cases where there shall be no such person, then the immediate landlord of such building, and, in the case of Corporations, Companies, and Associations, the Secretary or Manager thereof shall be deemed the Householder, and shall be liable under this Ordinance.\n\n10. Keeper of a Common Lodging-House--Any person licensed to keep a Common Lodging-House.\n\n11. New Building.--Any structure begun after the commencement of this Ordinance or of which the enclosing walls have not been carried higher than the footings, or such old buildings as shall for the purposes of reconstruction be taken down to an extent exceeding one half, such half to be estimated in cubic feet.\n\n12. Occupier--The person in actual occupation of any premises.\n\n13. Owner--Any house-owner, or the person for the time being receiving the rent of any premises, solely or as joint-tenant, or tenant in common with others, or receiving the rent of any premises whether on his own behalf or that of any other person, or, where the owner cannot be found or ascertained, the occupier; and for the purposes of this Ordinance every mortgagee in possession shall be deemed an Owner.\n\n14. Person (and words applied in this Ordinance to any individual).--Corporations, Companies, and Associations.\n\n15. Premises.--Any land, building, or structure of any kind, footway, yard, alley, court, garden, stream, nullah, pond, pool, paddy-field, marsh, drain, ditch, or place open, covered, or enclosed, cess-pool or foreshore, also any vessel or boat lying within the waters of the Colony.\n\n16. Secretary.--The Secretary to the Sanitary Board duly appointed under the provisions of Section 6 of this Ordinance.\n\n17. Tenant.--Any person who leases direct from any Householder the whole of any floor or floors of any building or tenement-house.\n\n18. Tenement-House.--Any domestic building let to and inhabited by more than one occupier or family, as tenants of a common landlord, or as sub-tenants of a tenant of any portion of such domestic building.\n\n19. Vessel.--Any steam or sailing ship, launch, junk, lighter, sampan, or boat.\n\n4. The Board shall consist of the Surveyor General, the Registrar General, the Captain Superintendent of Police, the Colonial Surgeon, and not more than six additional members, four of whom (two being Chinese) shall be appointed by the Governor, and two elected by such rate-payers as are included in the Special and Common Jury Lists, and also by such rate-payers as are exempted from serving on juries on account of their professional avocations. Non-official members of the Board shall hold office for three years.\n\n6. The mode of election, the proceedings incident thereto, and all other matters relating to the election of the said members, by the said rate-payers, shall be governed by Rules made by the Governor in Council, who may, from time to time, add to, vary, or revoke, any of the said Rules.\n\n6. The Governor shall appoint the President, Vice-President, and Secretary of the Board, and the names of all members appointed to the Board shall be forthwith notified in the Government Gazette, and any number of the Government Gazette, containing a notice of any such appointments shall be deemed sufficient evidence thereof, before any Magistrate or Court of Law.\n\n7. If any member of the Board be at any time prevented by absence or other cause from acting for more than six months, the Governor may appoint, or, if the member has been elected, the electors may nominate some other person to replace such member, until he shall be able to resume his functions.\n\n8. The Board shall be held to be legally constituted, notwithstanding any vacancies occurring therein by death, absence, resignation, or incapacity of any member.\n\n9. The Governor may appoint such officers as he shall see fit to be Sanitary Superintendent, Sanitary Surveyors, Inspectors of Nuisances, and such other servants as the Board may from time to time recommend, and there shall be paid from the Colonial Treasury to such officers, such salaries and allowances as the Governor, with the consent of the Legislative Council, may from time to time determine.\n\n10. The Board shall meet once in every alternate week and oftener if need be, and may adjourn from time to time. The President may at any time, and shall, on a requisition signed by three members of the Board, summon a meeting thereof.\n\n11. Any four members shall be a quorum for the despatch of business, and at every meeting, the President or Vice-President shall preside, or, in their absence, the members present shall appoint a Chairman. The President or Vice-President or in their absence the Chairman so appointed, shall have a deliberative and a casting vote.\n\n12. The Board may from time to time make Standing Orders for regulating the mode and order of procedure at its meetings, for the appointment of Select Committees, for the conduct of its business between such meetings, and for the guidance of its Officers, and may from time to time alter and amend such Standing Orders.\n\n13. The Board shall have power to make, and when made, to alter, amend, or revoke Bye-Laws with regard to the following matters:-\n\n1. The proper construction, trapping, ventilating, and maintenance of private house-drains in the City of Victoria, and the villages, and rural districts of Hongkong and Kowloon,\n\n2. The provision and proper construction of dust boxes in private premises.\n\n3. The provision of adequate subsoil drainage in order to arrest damp in dwelling-houses.\n\n4. The cleansing, lime-whiting, and proper sanitary maintenance of all premises in the Colony.\n\n5. The sanitary maintenance of public latrines, urinals, dust-bins, and manure-depôts.\n\n6. Surface scavenging, the removal and disposal of night soil and of other refuse.\n\n7. The closing of premises unfit for human habitation and the prohibition of their use as such.\n\n8. The protection of the public water supply from pollution.\n\n9. The prevention of the manufacture or sale of unsound, adulterated, or unwholesome food.\n\n10. The regulation of bakehouses, dairies, aerated water manufactories, and food preserving establishments.\n\n11. The prohibition of the establishment within certain limits, and the control of any noxious or offensive trade, business, or manufacture.\n\n12. The sanitary maintenance of Common Lodging-Houses, opium smoking divans, factories, and places of public instruction, recreation, or assembly.\n\n13. The prevention of overcrowding in premises, either in respect of human beings or the lower animals.\n\n14. The licensing and regulation of all depôts and pens for cattle, pigs, sheep, and goats.\n\n15. The sanitary maintenance of markets and slaughter-houses.\n\n16. The construction, licensing, and proper sanitary maintenance of pig-sties in private premises.\n\n17. The cleansing of vessels, and the maintenance of cleanliness in the harbour of Victoria, the waters of the Colony, and the foreshores thereof.\n\n18. The disposal of the dead, the disinfection of dead bodies, and the sanitary maintenance of mortuaries and cemeteries.\n\n19. The compulsory vacating of infected premises, and the disinfection and purification of the same.\n\n20. The disinfection and purification of all infected vessels and public vehicles.\n\n21. 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        "content_text": "# Enclosure C.\n\n## 10.0.362 18458 RECZ ALOT 14 SEP 88\n\n**GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.---No. 369.**\n\nThe subjoined Regulations for Government Scholarships for the study of Law, Medicine, or Civil Engineering in the United Kingdom, have been approved by the Right Honourable the Secretary of State for the Colonies.\n\nBy Command,\n\n**FREDERICK STEWART,**\nActing Colonial Secretary,\n\nColonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 10th September, 1887.\n\n### Amended Regulations for Government Scholarships for the Study of Law, Medicine, or Civil Engineering, in the United Kingdom, (10th September, 1887.)\n\n1. The Government of Hongkong offers, for the study of Law, Medicine, or Civil Engineering in the United Kingdom, two Scholarships of £200 (two hundred pounds) each, per annum, for four years, to scholars of any Public School, recognized as such by the Governor, in the Colony of Hongkong, on the following conditions:—\n\n2. One Scholarship will be awarded in each alternate year.\n\n3. The holder of a Scholarship can select the Collegiate course he wishes to follow or the Institution where he is to study, subject to the approval of the Governor or the Secretary of State for the Colonies, but King's College, London, is recommended as the best suited for finishing the education of boys and for beginning the course of study required by men in the same establishment.\n\n4. The Scholarships will be awarded, after competitive examination, to the Candidate who obtains the highest marks, but subject to the restrictions mentioned below in paragraphs 5, 6, and 7.\n\n## CANDIDATES\n\n5. The Candidates will be scholars, previously approved by the Governor, from any recognized Public School in the Colony of Hongkong, and will be required to bring the following certificates from the Head Master of the respective School:----\n\n(a) Certificate of good moral character.\n\n(b) Certificate of age. Candidates must not exceed 20 years, nor be below 17 years.\n\n(c) Certificates stating that they have been scholars, for at least the three (3) years last past previous to the Examination, at the School that presents them or at any two of the Public Schools recognized by the Governor.\n\n6. Every Candidate will be required to undergo a Medical Examination with a view to ascertaining that he is in a sound state of health.\n\n7. The successful Candidate will be required,\n \n| Requirement | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| (a) | To proceed to England within two months of his election. |\n| (b) | On his arrival there to report himself to the Colonial Office as having entered his name at the College or Institution, approved by the Governor or Secretary of State, forwarding in proof thereof a letter from the Principal. |\n| (c) | To forward quarterly to the Crown Agents for the Colonies a certificate of good conduct and proficiency in study from the Principal or Head, upon receipt of which the quarterly instalment of his Scholarship will be paid to him. |\n\n8. The holder of the Scholarship will cease to be entitled to draw any money, if he fail in any of these requirements.\n\n9. Passage will be paid to England by the Government, and in special cases, where the head-master certifies it to be absolutely necessary, an advance of $150 will be made for purposes of outfit, but the whole amount so advanced for outfit must be repaid through the Crown Agents in quarterly instalments, during the first year of the Scholarship.",
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        "content_text": "146 \n\ncompetent experts, that the ejection of the sewage of the port will not be interrupted. The plan of buying up junks now and linking them full of stones has been practically rejected, chiefly because it is thought that after a few years they fall to pieces.\n\nAs to collecting them when war is impending, or declared, it has been often pointed out that we may hear of war first; this, the third or fourth Maritime Station of importance in the whole of Her Majesty's Commissions; and, moreover, that it would take a long time and be exceedingly difficult to procure the requisite number of junks, especially if their owners got wind of the fact (which they assuredly would do) that they were indispensable and must be had at any price. They might, indeed, be bought one at a time as they fell into the market, and kept in the harbour until they were required; but there are two objections to this. They would take up a good deal of room, and if the centre of a typhoon passed over Hongkong, they would probably be destroyed.\n\n7. The Colonial Office and the Defence Committee decided last year that, if an obstruction was to form part of the scheme for defence...",
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        "content_text": "# Enclosure\n344 \n413 \nRECZ \nIn \nC. O. Desp. 7.\n(`PEG: 7 JAN 239`)\n\n## GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION\nNo. 516.\n\nThe subjoined Regulations for Government Scholarships for the study of Law, Medicine, or Civil Engineering in the United Kingdom, have been approved by the Right Honourable the Secretary of State for the Colonies.\n\nBy Command,\nColonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 24th November, 1888.\n\n**FREDERICK STEWART**, \nColonial Secretary.\n\n## Regulations for Government Scholarships for the Study of Law, Medicine, or Civil Engineering, in the United Kingdom, (24th November, 1888.)\n\n1. The Government of Hongkong offers, for the study of Law, Medicine, or Civil Engineering in the United Kingdom, two Scholarships of £200 (two hundred pounds) each, per annum, for four years, to scholars of any Public School, recognized as such by the Governor, in the Colony of Hongkong, on the following conditions:-\n\n2. One Scholarship will be awarded in each alternate year.\n\n3. The holder of a Scholarship can select the Collegiate course he wishes to follow or the Institution where he is to study, subject to the approval of the Governor or the Secretary of State for the Colonies, but King's College, London, is recommended as the best suited for finishing the education of boys and for beginning the course of study required by men in the same establishment.\n\n4. The Scholarships will be awarded, after competitive examination, to the Candidate who obtains the highest marks, but subject to the restrictions mentioned below in paragraphs 5, 6, and 7.\n\n### CANDIDATES\n\n5. The Candidates will be scholars, previously approved by the Governor, from any recognized Public School in the Colony of Hongkong, and will be required to bring the following certificates from the Head Master of the respective School :--\n| Certificate Type | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| (a) | Certificate of good moral character. |\n| (b) | Certificate of age. Candidates must not exceed 20 years, nor be below 17 years. |\n| (c) | Certificates stating that they have been scholars, for at least the three (3) years last past previous to the Examination, at the School that presents them or at any two of the Public Schools recognized by the Governor. |\n\n6. Every Candidate will be required to undergo a Medical Examination with a view to ascertaining that he is in a sound state of health.\n\n7. The successful Candidate will be required.\n| Requirement | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| (a) | To proceed to England within two months of his election. |\n| (b) | On his arrival there to report himself to the Colonial Office as having entered his name at the College or Institution, approved by the Governor or Secretary of State, forwarding in proof thereof a letter from the Principal. |\n| (c) | To forward quarterly to the Crown Agents for the Colonies a certificate of good conduct and proficiency in study from the Principal or Head, upon receipt of which the quarterly instalment of his Scholarship will be paid to him. |\n\n8. The holder of the Scholarship will cease to be entitled to draw any money, if he fail in any of these requirements.\n\n9. Passage will be paid to England by the Government, and in special cases, where the Headmaster certifies it to be absolutely necessary, an advance of $150 will be made for purposes of outfit, but the whole amount so advanced for outfit must be repaid through the Crown Agents, in quarterly instalments, during the first year of the Scholarship.\n\n10. Return passage will also be paid at any time within four years after the expiration of the term of the Scholarship if nothing shall have occurred to disqualify the holder of the Scholarship.",
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        "content_text": "## GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 272.\n\nThe subjoined Regulations for Government Scholarships for the study of Law, Medicine, or Civil Engineering in the United Kingdom, have been approved by the Right Honourable the Secretary of State for the Colonies.\n\n**FREDERICK STEWART, Colonial Secretary.**\n\nBy Command,\n\nColonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 15th June, 1889.\n\n### Regulations for Government Scholarships for the Study of Law, Medicine, or Civil Engineering, in the United Kingdom.\n\n1. The Government of Hongkong offers, for the study of Law, Medicine, or Civil Engineering in the United Kingdom, two Scholarships of £200 (two hundred pounds) each, per annum, for four years, to scholars of any Public School, recognized as such by the Governor, in the Colony of Hongkong, on the following conditions:-\n\n2. One Scholarship will be awarded in each alternate year.\n\n3. The holder of a Scholarship can select the Collegiate course he wishes to follow or the Institution where he is to study, subject to the approval of the Governor or the Secretary of State for the Colonies, but King's College, London, is recommended as the best suited for finishing the education of boys and for beginning the course of study required by men in the same establishment.\n\n4. The Scholarships will be awarded, after competitive examination, to the Candidate who obtains the highest marks, but subject to the restrictions mentioned below in paragraphs 5, 6, and 7.\n\n#### CANDIDATES\n\n5. The Candidates will be scholars, previously approved by the Governor, from any recognized Public School in the Colony of Hongkong, and will be required to bring the following certificates from the Head Master of the respective School :-\n\n| Certificate | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| (a) | Certificate of good moral character. |\n| (b) | Certificate of age. Candidates must not exceed 20 years, nor be below 17 years. |\n| (c) | Certificates stating that they have been scholars, for at least the three (3) years last past previous to the Examination, at the School that presents them or at any two of the Public Schools recognized by the Governor. |\n\n6. Every Candidate will be required to undergo a Medical Examination with a view to ascertaining that he is in a sound state of health.\n\n7. The successful Candidate will be required.\n\n| Requirement | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| (a) | To proceed to England within two months of his election. |\n| (b) | On his arrival there to report himself to the Colonial Office as having entered his name at the College or Institution, approved by the Governor or Secretary of State, forwarding in proof thereof a letter from the Principal. |\n| (c) | To forward quarterly to the Crown Agents for the Colonies a certificate of good conduct and proficiency in study from the Principal or Head, upon receipt of which the quarterly instalment of his Scholarship will be paid to him. |\n\n8. The holder of the Scholarship will cease to be entitled to draw any money, if he fail in any of these requirements.\n\nPage 377 \n\nMy Lord,\n\nenclosed copies of the Amended Regulations of the Hongkong Government Scholarships.\n\nI have the honour to be,\nMy Lord, Your Lordship's Most Obedient Humble Servant,\nYer Dar Va\nDatawx\n15th June, 1886.\n\n0.0. 15433\nGE 5 AUG 89,",
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        "content_text": "## the event of Mr. B. M. Deane not returning to the Colony.\n\nI do not yet know that Mr. Deane will not return. When I do know, I propose to report the vacancy.\n\nI have the honour to be,\nMy Lord,\nYour Lordship's Most Obedient,\nHumble Servant,\nGoderveux\n\n> Copy.\n\n## Enclosure.\n\n841 C.O. 17613\n\n**Mr. Smith to Colonial Secretary.**\n\n**REG 3 SEP 39**\n\nRegistrar General's Office,\n23rd July, 1889.\n\nSir,\n\nIn the event of Mr. Deane not returning to the Colony and of no one senior to me in the Hongkong Colonial Service applying to be appointed Captain Superintendent of Police, I have the honour to submit my name for the consideration of His Excellency the Governor whenever the question of appointing a successor to Mr. Deane may arise.\n\nMy age (thirty this year) and my short experience (I landed in Hongkong in February 1884) may cause the Government to hesitate before entrusting large responsibilities to a young officer.\n\nI would, however, quote as a precedent the case of the present incumbent, Mr. Deane, who was appointed Acting Captain Superintendent of Police in 1866, four years after his election as a student interpreter in 1862, an appointment in which he was confirmed in 1868.\n\nIt is perhaps hardly necessary to mention that I am acquainted with the Chinese Language, a knowledge of which is doubtless considered eminently desirable for the ...\n\nThe Honourable\nFrederick Stewart, LL.D.,\nColonial Secretary,\n&c. &c.",
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        "content_text": "88\n\nTo the Right Honourable \n**LORD KNUTSFORD** \nSecretary of State for the Colonies \n\n**MAY IT PLEASE YOUR LORDSHIP** \n\n1. In forwarding for the consideration of your Lordship the correspondence herewith upon the resumption of portion of Hongkong Inland Lot No. 671 by the Colonial Government we beg leave to state that our Mr. Granville Sharp, having obtained some very trifling literary distinction in connexion with banking matters, and the Great Exhibition of 1851, was rewarded by being sent out to India by the late James William Gilbart, F.R.S., the Founder of the London and Westminster Bank. Having been since entrusted with large financial operations for a lengthened period, which, through powerful assistance, have been attended with exceptional success, we have been for the last thirty years considerable owners and negotiators of property in Hongkong, having expended more than $400,000, one-half of which has gone into the Colonial Treasury in premia and Crown rent paid.\n\n2. We have not been speculators, but simply investors of our own earned money. In this we have been encouraged by the liberal spirit which has characterized all the dealing of the Imperial Government, in the matter of landed estate, with the Colony of Hongkong.\n\n3. Your Lordship is aware that it is sometimes necessary for the Government to resume land \"for the improvement of the Colony.\" This is provided for under the Crown Leases, and the power is vested in the Surveyor General, with whom it rests to fix the rate of compensation to be paid.\n\n4. In what follows we entirely disclaim any intention to impugn the character of the late Surveyor General. Mr. J. M. Price, as stated by himself to Mr. Say Gnow Moon, was deeply impressed with the idea \"that he was obliged to do the best for the Government.\" It was this partiality and bias which, we think, disqualified him for \"holding the scales\" as between the Government and private individuals.\n\n5. We venture to inquire whether the Colonial Government has the power, under the clause in the Leases granted by Her Majesty providing for resumption for the improvement of the Colony,* to resume land adversely for purely military purposes, or for the correction of errors in selling War Department land to private persons?\n\n6. In the years 1886, and subsequently, many of these resumptions have been made by the Colonial Government on behalf of the Military Authorities. They have been principally of native houses, portions owned by Chinese, in the Queen's Road, which have been converted into barracks for the use of White troops. These changes have been a great disimprovement to the Colony, the Military occupation now dividing the town into two more widely separated parts.\n\n7. These resumptions have been accomplished by the ejection from their homes of many Chinese traders who had lived and carried on business in these houses during the greater portion of their lives.\n\n8. Resumptions have also been made to the injury and loss of humble but industrious Chinese resident owners, (dispossessed a second time), with a view to advantage from further developments, which we cannot but believe your Lordship would view with displeasure.* \n\n* See letter from Surveyor General to Granville Sharp dated 13th August, 1885 page 19. \n§ See statement in appendix at end. \nInland Lots Nos. 4, 9, 35, 74 (4 of 78), 77, 77a, 77b, and 88. \nInland Lot No. 418, now Marine Lots Nos. 263, 264, 260,",
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        "content_text": "## \nwhich he now makes the Hing Kung Clerks would be as well paid as Clerks in Banterfed in the cannot \n\nWe \nThose \nin \nA \n\nCriticize the details of this Scheme, & I would propose to give Governor discretion to adopt it, at same time pointing out [to prevent the Secretary of State from appearing to have changed front abruptly] that the increases granted to these Clerks lately were only approved because his Lordship gathered from 1598/89-90 that they considered by Sir W. Des Voeux this advisers to be inadequately paid.\n\nThere is not much apology required for Sir William Robinson sent home Mitchell Innes' scheme (`7203`) with marginal notes on the cast.\n\nI have not had much to do with the question of Hongkong salaries, and therefore do not feel competent to say much on the subject; it seems to me to make out a strong case, but M. O'Brien's evidence is overwhelming that the government is paying more than private employees.\n\nThe difference between the salaries in Hongkong and Ceylon, even allowing for the greater expense of living in the former colony, is almost ludicrous. \n\nBut it seems to me the scheme should not be finally adopted till we have Mr O'Brien's further recommendations on reduction of numbers, which should be awaited.\n\nI do not know about the election, but in the upper branches of the service, it has been a question whether there is too much duplication - for example, Harbour dept!! - and a second head to the police. The truth probably is that there is more than enough and not enough work for two. A few years ago, the Colonial Secretary was also Registrar General or Postmaster General, Treasurer, with no bad effects on the public service.\n\nA colony like Hongkong - limited in area and very compact - does not in courtesy require many Establishments are more than ever it did go years ago, and it is highly probable that its administration is overgrown.\n\nThere is only one... \n\n## Page 2\n\n...OVIC...",
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        "content_text": "Enclosure\n\nI have the honour to be, My Lord Marquess, Your Lordship's Most Obedient Humble Servant,\n\nWilliam Robin's 27\n\nGOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.—No. 55.\n\n576\n\nThe following Report of the Hongkong Government Scholarship Examination, 1892, together with the Summary of Results, as required by Rule 20 of the Regulations for Government Scholarships for the study of Law, Medicine, or Civil Engineering in the United Kingdom, is published.\n\nBy Command,\n\nColonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 11th February, 1893.\n\nG. T. M. O'BRIEN,\n\nColonial Secretary.\n\nREPORT OF THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT SCHOLARSHIP EXAMINATION, 1892.\n\nTo the Secretary of the LOCAL EXAMINATIONS AND LECTURES SYNDICATE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE.\n\nSIR—We beg leave to submit to you our report on the above-named examination, which we have recently conducted at your direction.\n\nIn the first place, we present a table of the marks obtained by the five selected candidates.\n\n  \n    Index Number.\n    NAME.\n    ENGLISH SUBJECTS\n    OTHER SUBJECTS\n    Grand Total.\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    Grammar.\n    History.\n    Literature.\n    Total.\n    Geography.\n    Mensuration.\n    Arithmetic.\n    Algebra.\n    Total.\n    \n  \n  \n    1\n    Jamsedjee Pestonjee\n    78\n    69\n    76\n    87\n    310\n    86\n    96\n    \n    \n    \n    778\n  \n  \n    2\n    Leung Kwong-hin\n    138\n    94\n    \n    104\n    414\n    65\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    3\n    Thomas Cock\n    \n    124\n    97\n    \n    352\n    59\n    \n    81\n    \n    401\n    695\n  \n  \n    4\n    G. A. Ivanovich\n    81\n    167\n    72\n    111\n    431\n    76\n    93\n    100\n    95\n    458\n    889\n  \n  \n    5\n    A. C. Gomes\n    63\n    110\n    42\n    36\n    261\n    36\n    58\n    \n    121\n    \n    502\n  \n  \n    \n    Full Marks\n    100\n    200\n    130\n    130\n    600\n    100\n    100\n    100\n    100\n    500\n    1100\n  \n\nOn the above table, we may remark that candidates 1, 4, and 3 satisfied the condition of obtaining at least 400 marks in the English subjects; the same candidates and also No. 2 satisfied the condition of obtaining at least 300 marks in the other subjects. We desire to commend in general the papers of the three candidates IVANOVICH, COCK, and PESTONJEE, who have qualified themselves for election in both parts of the examination, and also of LEUNG KWONG-HIN. The competition for the scholarship between IVANOVICH and Cock was very close. We beg leave to recommend IVANOVICH to the Colonial Government for election to the scholarship, as has already been announced to the Colonial Secretary by telegraph.\n\nEnglish Subjects—In Grammar, the answers to the whole paper were in general excellent. The Essays of the three most successful candidates were in varying degrees meritorious in expression, style, and thought. In History, the questions which elicited the best answers were those on the period from the Norman Conquest to the Tudors, and in the special period (the reign of Victoria) those on our Colonial Empire and foreign policy. In the History of Literature, the work on the earlier literature was superior to that on the later. The selected play of Shakespeare had been carefully studied.\n\nOther Subjects.—In Geography, the best answers were on the United Kingdom and Asia. The first two papers deserve commendation. In most of the papers, however, traces of the study of Trendell's Colonial Year-Book were not very prominent. The mathematical work of all the candidates was good and in two cases extremely good. All did well in Algebra and Euclid, the work being intelligent and careful. In the arithmetical subjects, there was some lack of accuracy in the work of three candidates. Taken as a whole, the results of the second part of the examination are extremely satisfactory.\n\nWe have the honour to remain,\n\nSir,\n\nYour obedient Servants,\n\nJ. H. FLATHER, M.A., of Emmanuel College.\n\nC. M. JESSOP, M.A., Fellow of Clare College.\n\n31st December, 1892.\n\nCorrect,\n\nJ. N. KEYNES, Secretary to the Syndicate.\n\n630.",
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        "content_text": "4. The affairs of the Society shall be managed and its various functions discharged by a Permanent Board of Direction and by an Elected Committee.\n\n5. The Permanent Board of Direction shall consist of not less than five and not more than ten persons including the Registrar General who shall be ex officio the President and also the Member of the Legislative Council for the time being representing the Chinese who shall be ex officio the Vice-President. The first Permanent Board of Direction shall consist of the persons whose names are contained in the schedule to this Ordinance. Vacancies in this Board shall be filled up from time to time by the Governor who may call upon the continuing members of the Board for their recommendation. All appointments to the Board shall be held only during the Governor's pleasure.\n\n6. The Board of Direction shall, subject to the provisions of this Ordinance, have full power and authority to govern, direct and decide all matters whatsoever connected with the administration of the affairs of the Society and the accomplishment of the objects and purposes thereof, and may at discretion depute, by Regulations or otherwise, a portion or the whole of its power and authority to the Elected Committee.\n\n7. The Board of Direction shall have power, with the consent of the Governor, to change or vary the corporate name and the common seal of the Society, and the amount of the donation to the funds of the Society hereinbefore prescribed as a qualification for hereafter becoming a member thereof, and may, with such consent as aforesaid, refuse to admit any person as a member of the Society or may expel any existing member, and cause his name to be erased from the register.\n\n8. The Board of Direction shall have power to make, and when made, cancel, change or vary rules and regulations for their procedure in the transaction of business and the maintenance of good order at their meetings, and for the guidance of the Elected Committee, and generally for all matters relating to the administration and management of the Society, and the discharge of its various duties. Provided always that a copy of such rules and regulations shall, from time to time, be furnished to the Colonial Secretary, and every such rule or regulation shall be subject to disallowance, alteration or amendment at any time by the Governor.\n\n9. All questions which may arise at any meeting of the Board of Direction shall be decided by majority of votes, and in case of an equality of votes the President shall have a casting vote in addition to his original vote.\n\n10. The Elected Committee shall consist of not less than six and not more than twelve members of the Society, to be elected as hereinafter mentioned, who shall from time to time appoint one of their body to be chairman; and every member of the said Committee shall hold office for the term of one year only, but shall be re-eligible at the expiration thereof.\n\n11. The members of the said Committee shall be elected from time to time as occasion shall require by a majority of votes of members of the Society who shall be within the Colony at the time of such election, and every such member of the Society whether a firm or individual shall be entitled to one vote only.\n\n12. The Elected Committee shall, subject to such Rules and Regulations as may from time to time be made by the Board of Direction in that behalf, undertake and exercise the immediate supervision and management of the work of the Society.\n\n13. The Board of Direction shall cause a register to be kept in which every person or firm desiring to become a member of the Society and being duly qualified shall, subject to the provisions of section 7, be entitled to have his name or firm name inscribed, and also shall cause proper books of account to be kept which shall be open at all reasonable times to the inspection of members of the Society and of any person whom the Governor may appoint in that behalf, and also shall within one month after the expiration of every year transmit to the Colonial Secretary a full report of work done during the previous year together with a true statement of the assets and liabilities of the Society and an account of their receipts and disbursements during the previous year, and such statement shall be verified on oath or by declaration before a Justice of the Peace by two members of the Board.\n\nSuch report, statement and account shall be published in the Gazette.\n\n14. In case it shall at any time be shown to the satisfaction of the Governor that the Society has ceased or neglected or failed to carry out in a proper manner the objects and purposes of its establishment as set forth in section 3 hereof or the objects and purposes of this Ordinance or to fulfil the conditions thereof, it shall be lawful for the Governor, by an Ordinance to be passed for that purpose, to repeal this Ordinance and to declare that the Incorporation hereby granted shall cease and determine and become absolutely void.\n\n15. In case the Incorporation hereby granted shall cease under the provisions of the last preceding section, all the property and assets of the Corporation shall, for the purposes hereinafter mentioned, become vested in the Crown subject to the rateable payment thereout of the just debts and liabilities (if any) of the Society, to the extent of such property and assets, and the balance of such property and assets shall be applied by the Governor towards the objects for which the Society was established or such of them as His Excellency may, in his discretion, deem best.\n\n16. For the purposes of the Society and to make provision for the building or buildings mentioned in section 17 of Ordinance 11 of 1890 it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to authorize the payment to the Society of a sum not exceeding twenty thousand dollars.\n\n17. The Board of Direction appointed under this Ordinance shall, with all convenient despatch after the passing thereof, cause the buildings required for the purposes of the said Society to be erected and executed out of the said sum of twenty thousand dollars or of any other funds of the Society from whatever source derived upon such site as may be approved by His Excellency the Governor. Such buildings shall be kept and maintained for the objects and purposes specified in section 3 out of the voluntary subscriptions to the Society and out of such income or money as the Society may derive from any source whatsoever.\n\n18. All buildings and premises of the Society shall be open at all reasonable times to the inspection of the Governor and of any other person whom His Excellency may appoint or authorize in that behalf.\n\n19. It shall be lawful for the Governor in his discretion to direct that the services of certain subordinate officers and constables of the Police Force shall be placed at the disposal of the Society on such terms and under such conditions as His Excellency may sanction.\n\n20. All persons apprehended by the officers or constables aforementioned shall without unreasonable delay be sent or taken to a Police Station and any woman or girl or other person in respect of whom there is cause to suspect that an offence has been or is being or is about to be committed may be taken at once to such place as may be provided by the Po Leung Kuk or to such other place of safety as the Registrar General may direct, there to remain until proper provision can be made for the protection of such person's interests and liberty and so that in the meantime the evidence of such person may be available when required.\n\n21. Any suit, action or prosecution against any person for anything done in pursuance or execution or intended execution of this Ordinance or of any Rules or Regulations made in pursuance thereof shall be commenced within three months after the thing done and not otherwise.\n\nNotice in writing of any suit or action and of the cause thereof, shall be given to the intended defendant one month at least before the commencement of the suit or action.\n\nIn any such suit or action the defendant may plead generally or set up by way of special defence that the act complained of was done in pursuance or execution or intended execution of this Ordinance or of any such Rules or Regulations as aforesaid and may give this Ordinance and such Rules or Regulations and the special matter in evidence at any trial to be had thereupon.\n\nThe plaintiff shall not recover if tender of sufficient amends is made before suit or action brought or if after suit or action brought a sufficient sum of money is paid into Court by or on behalf of the defendant.\n\nIf a verdict passes, or decree is given for the defendant or the plaintiff becomes non-suit or discontinues the suit or action after issue joined or if on demurrer or otherwise judgment is given against the plaintiff, the defendant shall recover his full costs and shall have the like remedy for the same as any defendant has by law for costs in other cases.\n\n254",
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        "content_text": "Suspending\n\ncikare.\n\nThough a verdict or decree is given for the plaintiff, he shall not have costs against the defendant unless the Judge before whom the trial is had certifies his approbation of the suit or action.\n\n22. This Ordinance shall not come into operation unless and until the Officer Administering the Government notifies by Proclamation that it is Her Majesty's pleasure not to disallow the same and thereafter it shall come into operation upon such day as the Officer Administering the Government shall notify by the same or any other Proclamation.\n\nPassed the Legislative Council of Hongkong, this 19th day of June, 1893.\n\nSIR,\n\nREPORT BY THE HONOURABLE T. H. WHITEHEAD.\n\nHONGKONG, 29th April, 1893.\n\nNo.\n\nClerk of Councils.\n\nAssented to by His Excellency the Governor, the day of June, 1893.\n\nSCHEDULE.\n\n  \n    Colonial Secretary.\n  \n  \n    Permanent Board of Directors.---Sections 2 and 5, Pó Léang Kuk Ordinance, 1893,\n  \n  \n    Ex Officio Members.\n  \n  \n    Registrar General.\nMember of Legislative Council for the time being representing the Chinese.\n  \n  \n    Name\n    Firm\n    Other Members\n    Occupation\n    No. of Years resident in Hongkong.\nRemarks\n  \n  \n    1 Chan Pau-pò (W).\n    \n    Manager of the Chu Wing On Bank,\n    \n    About 30\nPartner Kwong Mán-wo (DHA)\n  \n  \n    2 Cheng Mau-tsong (H),\n    \n    Managing Partner Sui Kat Firm.\n    \n    7\n  \n  \n    3 Kwok Lai-tün (24).\n    \n    \n    \n    30\n  \n  \n    4 Lau Shai-chák (TX),\n    \n    Manager of the Hop Hing (A) Firm.\n    \n    30\n  \n  \n    5 Lau Wai-ch'un (Compradore, Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation.\n    \n    \n    \n    20\n12 ject and Justice of the Peace.\n  \n  \n    6 Leung Pui-chi (Z),..............\n    \n    Partner in the Shiú Fung (1) Bank.\n    \n    25\n13\n37\n33\n30 A British subject hom\n  \n  \n    7 Wai Long-sháu (LI).\n    \n    Compradore, E. E. Telegraph Compy.,\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    ४ Yung Kung-pò (),...\n    \n    Compradore, Messrs. Haji Ali Angar and H. Ismail.\n    \n    Naturalized British sub-\n  \n\nI cannot concur in the unmeasured praise given in the report of the majority of the Committee, to the Pó Léung Kuk, nor can I concur in their recommendations as to the future working of the Society. I therefore submit for the consideration of His Excellency, the Governor in this separate report my opinions on the various points in discussion, and my reasons, based entirely on the evidence taken by the Committee, in support of these views.\n\nORIGIN AND HISTORY OF THE SOCIETY,\n\n1. With the Rules of the 5th August, 1882, before me I have no hesitation in saying that the Pó Leung Kuk as a separate and distinct Society never had an existence until 1892. It was to consist of members residents of the Colony who had subscribed $10 or upwards to the funds. It was to be managed by a Committee of ten members elected annually at a meeting of members. It was to provide a Home for the accommodation of destitute women and children in Hongkong.\n\n2. There is no evidence that there ever were any subscribers to the Pó Léung Kuk as a separate and distinct Society. For 1878 and 1879 there are no lists and no accounts, the cost of providing food was borne by the Tung Wah Hospital; any other costs and expenses were borne by Mr. Fung Ming Shan and others, the first members of the Committee, out of their own pockets. There are accounts from August, 1880, or thereabouts to August, 1892, and they show that the total receipts of the Society during these twelve years amounted from subscriptions and contributions from the Directors to $1,330. In addition there have been loans from the Tung Wah Hospital and the Man Mo Temple to the amount of $2,600, and from the Government grants or gifts of $1,050. No Home has ever been established or attempted to be established. The women and girls were housed in the Tung Wah Hospital to the great inconvenience of patients there, and to the very doubtful advantage of the women and girls themselves, and food and clothing has been found by the Tung Wah, a separate and distinct Corporation. There have been no annual meetings of subscribers to the Pó Léung Kuk, for there were none, and of course no proper elections of members of the Committee. The meetings have either been meetings of members of the Tung Wah, or of the general public, and the persons elected have been generally the Tung Wah Committee men. It is not even certain (see the discussion between the Honourable Ho Kai and the Chairman at the 11th meeting of the Commission) on what principle or how the Chairman of the Pó Leung Kuk was elected or appointed or whether there was an election or a mere nomination. A book containing the names of the original members of the Society in 1881 has been produced (see appendix 43), but there is no register of later date. It is evident that the book cannot be correct because if there were then 122 members there must have been at least $1,220 to the credit of the Society, but in 1880-1882 nothing appears in the accounts but subscriptions from the Directors, receipts from the former Emigration Enquiry Office, and a subscription of $100 from the Lai Hing firm.\n\n3. I desire to call attention further to the facts that no efforts appear to have been made to raise subscriptions and form a fund until 1892, although the Government had frequently urged the Directors to do so, that the fund raised in 1892 was raised on the statement made to the Directors that no Government aid could be expected until the\n\n255\n\n3\n\nJ.",
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        "content_text": "Crown Colony, but it has thriven, it is not too much to say. The petitioners mention four colonies to which self-government limits have been conceded. They are Malta, Cyprus, Mauritius, British Honduras. Hongkong differs from all these. It is much smaller, it is much younger, has practically no history, no traditions, and no descendants of old colonists. It has no indigenous population, few permanent residents, and is an outpost in a foreign land, more like Gibraltar than either of the four dependencies mentioned above, though it is much less of a fortress and more of a trade emporium than Gibraltar.\n\nTaking the claims which the petitioners have put forward. The first is Free election of representatives of British nationality in the Legislative Council. They look for an elected Assembly, they ask at the same time that only British nationality should be represented! The words are cleverly chosen. Do they mean that the electors may be of any nationality but that they are to elect only representatives of British nationality? In other words, may Chinamen vote as long as only Englishmen are elected?\n\nIs British nationality synonymous with British Subjects, & does British Birth mean origin? The common sense meaning of the words is that the English residents in Hongkong shall elect representatives to the Legislative Council, and this is probably intended, though the framers of the petition can, if they will, put another construction on their phrase. If this is so, the petitioners ask for a chamber containing an elective element, to be elected on a franchise running along a very narrow line.\n\nIt has always seemed to me that the Constitutions of those Crown Colonies, which are not fully self-governing colonies, are the worst features in the English colonial system. They are",
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        "content_text": "6. In the adjustment and disposal of the Colonial Revenue it might be supposed that the Unofficial Representatives of the tax-payers would be allowed a potential voice, and in form this has been conceded by the Government. But only in form, for in the Finance Committee, as well as in the Legislative Council, the Unofficial Members are in a minority, and can therefore be out-voted if any real difference of opinion arises.\n\n7. Legislative Enactments are nearly always drafted by the Attorney General, are frequently forwarded before publication in the Colony or to the Council for the approval of the Secretary of State, and when sanctioned are introduced into the Legislative Council, read a first, second, and third time, and passed by the votes of the Official Members, acting in obedience to instructions, irrespective of their personal views or private opinions.\n\nThe Legislation so prepared and passed emanates in some cases from persons whose short experience of and want of actual touch with the Colony's needs, does not qualify them to fully appreciate the measures best suited to the requirements of the Community.\n\n8. Those who have the knowledge and experience are naturally the Unofficial Members, who have been elected and appointed as possessing these very qualifications; who have passed large portions of their lives in the Colony, and who either have permanent personal interests in it, or hold prominent positions of trust which connect them most closely with its affairs, and are therefore the more likely to have been required to carefully study its real needs, and to live thoroughly acquainted themselves with the methods by which these are best to be met. On the other hand the Offices occupied by the Official Members are only stepping stones in an official career; the Occupants may be resident for a longer or a shorter period in the Colony, and for them to form an opinion on any question which arises, different from that decided upon by the Government in Executive Council, is to risk a conflict with the Governor, and they are therefore compelled to vote on occasions contrary to their convictions.\n\n9. Your Petitioners humbly represent that to Malta, Cyprus, Mauritius, British Honduras, and other Crown Colonies, more liberal forms of Government than those enjoyed by your Petitioners have been given: Unofficial seats in the Executive Council; Unofficial majorities in the Legislative Council; power of election of Members of Council; and more power and influence in the management of purely local affairs: in none of these Colonies are the Commercial and Industrial interests of the same magnitude or importance as those of Hongkong. Your Petitioners, therefore, pray your Honourable House to grant them the same or similar privileges.\n\n10. Your Petitioners fully recognise that in a Colony so peculiarly situated on the borders of a great Oriental Empire, and with a population largely composed of aliens whose traditional and family interests and racial sympathies largely remain in that neighboring Empire, special legislation and guardianship are required. Nor are they less alive to the Imperial position of a Colony which is at once a frontier Fortress and a Naval Depôt, the headquarters of Her Majesty's Fleet, and the base for Naval and Military operations in these Far Eastern waters; and they are not so unpractical as to expect that unrestricted power should be given to any local Legislature, or that the Queen's Government could ever give up the paramount control of this important Dependency. All your Petitioners claim is the common right of Englishmen to manage their local affairs, and control the Expenditure of the Colony, where Imperial considerations are not involved.\n\n11. At present your Petitioners are subject to Legislation issuing from the Imperial Parliament, and all local legislation must be subsidiary to it. Her Majesty the Queen in Council has full and complete power and authority to make laws for the Island, and local laws must be approved and assented to by the Governor in the name of the Queen, and are subject to disallowance by Her Majesty on the recommendation of Her Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies.\n\n12. Your Petitioners recognise the necessity and propriety of the existence of these checks and safeguards against the abuse of any power and authority exercised by any local Legislature, and cheerfully acquiesce in their continuance and effective exercise, but respectfully submit that, subject to these checks and safeguards, they ought to be allowed the free election of Representatives of British Nationality in the Legislative Council of the Colony; a majority in the Council of such elected Representatives; perfect freedom of debate for the Official Members, with power to vote according to their conscientious convictions without being called to account or endangered in their positions by their votes; complete control in the Council over local expenditure; management of local affairs; and a consultative voice in questions of an Imperial character.\n\nYour Petitioners therefore most humbly pray your Honourable House to move Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen to amend by Order in Council the constitution of this Crown Colony, and to grant to your Petitioners, and to the inhabitants of Hongkong all time to come the rights and privileges hereinbefore mentioned.",
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        "content_text": "792\n\nEnclosure 5.\n\nThe N.-C. Herald and Miscellaneous Articles.\n\nTHE PETITION OF THE HONGKONG RATEPAYERS.\n\nSind May,\n\nC. O. 12013\n\n-360\n\nC. & C. Gazette, MAY 25, 1894.\n\nof the Colony; a majority in the Council Hongkong ratepayers refer in a delicate of such representatives; perfect freedom and indirect fuper, though some of of debate for the official members, with their advocates in the Press take stronger power to vote according to their con- ground.\n\nscientious convictions without being called to account or endangered in their ple in the circumstances was no doubt The difficulty of applying the princi- positions by their votes; complete con- the reason why the petitioners laid such The ratepayers of Hongkong, or suchtrol in the Council over local expendi- slight stress on it. They want British of them as have signed the petition to ture; the management of local affairs; representatives, exclusively, but as the the House of Commons which was and a consultative voice in questions of ratepayers are British only to the extent printed in the N-C. Herald of the an Imperial character.\"\n\nof 7 per thousand of the population of 11th instant, have resorted to a strong This somewhat extensive order will the Colony, where would the represeu- measure for the redress of their con- be apt to appal the House of Com-tative government come in?\n\nstitutional grievances. In passing over mous, to which these innocent-look- These and other difficulties, of theory all intermediary agencies, the Governoring propositions may open out the and practice, will no doubt crumble of the Colony, the Colonial Office, and vista of another Home Rule Bill. away before the triturating force of free even Her Majesty's Government, the Taken in detail, every one of them discussion. As to the broad question petitioners have emphatically expressed bristles with difficulties which no whether democratic government is suit- their distrust of the powers that be, House of Commons can solve, and which able, desirable, or practical for so unique and have intimated that a case of such must eventually be referred back for a community as that of Hongkong, it paramount importance can only be local solution. For instance the first, would probably depend less on general worthily dealt with by the ultimate the free election of representatives of considerations than on the personnel. depository of authority in the empire British nationality.\" What, it will \"That which is best administered is the British people. It is undoubtedly naturally be asked, is \"free election?\"best\" and the practical effect of any\n\na bold move, luastmuch as the slight and by whom? and what exactly is kind of government is very much # passed on the local officials will naturally British nationality? Is it synonymous question of who administers it. arouse their opposition to the scheme, with British race? The only allusion The outside view of Hongkong, the and if the petitioners fail to enlist the to any electoral coustituency is in the view of visitors and short time resi- House of Commons in their cause caption of the petition itself, where the dents, appears to be that it has on the they fail altogether, as the faculty petitioners describe themselves generally whole been very well governed. The of appeal has been deliberately dis- as \"ratepayers.\" The ratepayers, how- Colony compels the admiration of friend pensed with.\n\never, in Hongkong, as in Shanghai, are and foe alike. Undoubtedly there are Of the severity of the grievance of all nationalities and races.\" And if and must be flaws. We hope never to which it is sought by this exceptional they are all to unite in electing repre- live in a place which is free from them. effort to redress it would be impertinent sentatives who must be of British But it is sometimes easier to perceive for any but an experienced colonist to nationality, a new anomaly may be the slight evils we are actually suffering express an opinion. The petition itself introduced 13 little conducive to from than to realise the greater evils gives no clue to it, for it confines itself the welfare of the Colony as any which may follow. If Hongkong had a to a priori inferences, abowing by that are to be got rid of. Obviously homogeneous population of 250,000 argument the evils which might be ex- there is a difficulty here which the Englishmen, or even of any kind of peated to arise from the anomalous partiality in the distribution of power which the actual constitution of the Colonial Government perpetuates.\n\nHouse of Commons is to be left to find out for itself, and then to overcome the best way it can.\n\nevery Europeans, there would no doubt be a sufficient number of them eligible for public functions and competent to fairly As to the freedom of conscience on 66\n\nrepresent\" the people. But out But the anomalies of the British the part of the official members of of seven hundred busy men the chances Constitution extend to all its offshoots. Council, by what power or machinery of getting the requisite number who Being the product of expediency and is the House of Commons to secure will honestly devote the necessary experience alone there is scarcely any this? Au official voting against the time to unpaid public business must feature in it which can be correctly Governor would probably not consider always be small. True, in diguified with the name of a principle. himself any more secure for a govern- Council for the last fifteen years there It possesses the flexibility of an organic mental declaration that he was allowed has been oue-rarely two-uuofficial thing, and not the rigidity of an iron freedom of speech. His promotion or members who have not only given their casting. It is never therefore success-bis leave might be stopped, or his time, but have entered heart and soul- fully attacked on abstract grounds. social relations embittered, without any into the affairs of the colony. But a Even hereditary legislators are safe one being required to give the reason. specific wrongdoing is brought \"The management of local affairs,\" home to them, or at the very least, would necessitate a definition of local formally alleged. So far, however, as affairs; which also would be required can be gathered from the text of the in order to distinguish the local from Hongkong petition the wrongs of the Imperial expenditure.\n\npetitiouers are hypothetical; consequent the necessity of reform may easily lose itself in a haze of theoretical dis-\n\nuntil some\n\ncussion.\n\nNo doubt these difficulties are fully recognised by the petitioners, who may have purposely avoided details in order to gain a first hearing for their case in the abstract. And this may be good tactics. All depends on the agency by which the House of Commons is intended to be worked upon.\n\ncontinuous succession of such men can scarcely be reckoned on. The fluctuating vigour of Chambers of Commerce, which usually depend on the personality of one man, is not of good augury for an honorary and yet efficient public reprosentation. Even the example of directorates of local companies, which do pay, scarcely affords a certain guarantee of a perfectly effective representation.\n\nAnother weak point in the movement\n\nThere is one principle of more appears to ns to be the somewhat, per-\n\nuniversal application than that of haps unavoidably, pointless conclusion\n\ntaxation and representation; it is of the petition. In the twelfth and last\n\nself-interest. The one active man paragraph, where by the laws of con-\n\nWe have said that out of the British chosen out of a small constituency may struction of documents of that kind one Constitution and its colonial offspring it be found in the long run to represent would\n\nexpect to find the force of the is hard to deduce any fixed principles himself, his family, his firm, or bis whole concentrated like the point of a which may be safely applied universally; clique rather than the general public steel shell,\n\nwe find the wauts of the what are called principles being mostly and that is a danger to which small petitioners somewhat spread out.\n\nword-fetishes. If an exception may be democracies are peculiarly liable. Even \"They ought to be allowed the free made it would be in favour of the eternal as regards Hongkong itself it has been election of representatives of British principle of right that \"taxation implies said the only things in the job line nationality in the Legislative Council representation.\" To this principle the ever perpetrated have been done, not",
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        "content_text": "4. The Land Officer shall, immediately on the coming into operation of this Ordinance, register in the Land Office of the Colony against every lot or portion, section, or sub-section of any lot hereby resumed a memorial of such resumption in the form in the third schedule hereto.\n\n5. (1) Subject as hereinafter mentioned full and fair compensation shall be paid to the owners of the said lots of land and to all persons having any right or interest therein or in any part thereof in respect of which they could have maintained a suit for damages in any Court, if their right or interest had been summarily determined or interfered with as from the 1st day of June, 1894, by the authorized act of any person whomsoever, provided always that no tenant at will or monthly or weekly tenant shall be deemed to have any right or interest entitling him to maintain any such suit or to claim compensation.\n\n(2) No suit or action shall be brought or maintained against the Crown or against any person for compensation or for any loss or damage resulting to any person from the resumption of the said lots of land or any of them, or from the closing of such roads and streets under this Ordinance, but all claims for such compensation or for any such loss or damage shall be brought before and shall be determined by a Board of Arbitration which shall consist of three persons and which shall be constituted immediately after the coming into operation of this Ordinance in manner following, that is to say:\n\n(i) One member shall be appointed by the Governor, and he shall be the Chairman of the Board; one member shall be elected by the unofficial members of the Legislative Council, and one member shall be elected by the owners of the lands mentioned in the first schedule hereto, or their attorneys or agents.\n\n(ii) No member of the Board shall have or hold any interest whatever in the lands resumed by this Ordinance.\n\n(iii) (a) The unofficial members shall on notice in writing from the Colonial Secretary sent to each member meet and nominate within seven days from the receipt of such notice such person to be a member of the Board as they may think fit and shall forthwith give notice thereof in writing to the Colonial Secretary.\n\n(b) Such meeting shall be convened and presided over by the Senior Unofficial Member and at such meeting three shall form a quorum and the votes of the majority of the unofficial members then present shall prevail and if the votes be equal the senior unofficial member shall have an additional casting vote.\n\n(iv) (a) Within 7 days from the coming into operation of this Ordinance the Deputy Land Officer shall cause to be published in the Gazette and in one English and one Chinese newspaper a notice convening a meeting of the said owners of the lands mentioned in the said first schedule for the purpose of electing a member of the said Board, and such meeting shall be held not later than 7 days after such notice at the time and place therein mentioned. Such notice shall be deemed valid and effectual for all intents and purposes, and shall be deemed notice to all persons mentioned in the said first schedule and to their attorneys and agents in the Colony.\n\n(b) The Deputy Land Officer shall preside at such meeting and shall, if three fourths of the said owners are not then present in person or by their duly authorised attorneys or agents, adjourn the meeting to some other day not being less than 7 days or more than 10 days thereafter; and shall publish in the Gazette and the local newspapers aforesaid notice of such adjournment, and at such adjourned meeting the election of a member shall be proceeded with irrespective of the number of owners present or represented.\n\nMemorandum of resumption to be registered at the Land Office\n\nCompensation for resumption.\n\nNo suit for compensation to be determined by a Board of Arbitrators\n\nConstitution of Board.\n\n719",
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        "content_text": "I understand that as far as we know, the Brand is in a satisfactory state: its work being done & satisfactorily done `10986.p.11`.\n\nThe first point, then, to be settled, before the other questions connected with the medical department are touched, is whether this board shall be abolished and its duties be entrusted to one medical officer of health of the government.\n\nOn the subject, the Governor's opinions are given explicitly. He thinks - and the men in the Colony worth having agree with him - that the Board has been a failure and should be abolished, and that the chief medical officer, now styled Colonial Surgeon, should then be constituted health officer, the engineering works which may be required being undertaken as at present by the Public Works Department. How little interest is taken in the present Board is shown by the fact recorded in the Governor's despatch that out of some 500 electors, only 25 voted at the last election.\n\nThe second enclosure to `10977` shows that M. Jackson, one of the leading men in Tungtung, is of opinion that \"the sooner the present Board is got rid of the better\", and it will be noticed that he quotes M. Francis, who has lately resigned his seat on the Board, to the same effect.\n\nThe third enclosure shows that the Chamber of Commerce are also dissatisfied with the Board, and their committee consider that \"there has been, and is, no effective administrative sanitary system in the colony\".\n\nI feel no doubt whatever that the work will be more efficiently carried out if the Board is abolished and if sanitation is left entirely in the hands of the government. Sanitation in Hong Kong is a matter of primary concern; it is not desirable to have divided authority, and I would suggest that there should be an unofficial element also in the Executive Council, as there is in the Legislative Council, and it is proposed that it contains unofficial members. In this small area, it is not desirable to have divided authority.",
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        "content_text": "# THE HONGKONG PETITION.\n\nThe Hon. T. H. Whitehead has addressed the following letter to The Times :-\n\nThe meanest Roman citizen had the right of appealing to Caesar against official oppression. In the modern British Empire \"Caesar\" is the public opinion of the United Kingdom. Against that force happily no injustice can stand. Studied by statesmen as assiduously as the winds and currents by sailors, and it controls even Parliament itself. The people of Hongkong are suffering and writhing under injustice; and, as their delegate, I appeal on their behalf through you to public opinion for redress. We confidently rely on your courtesy and the traditions of your great paper for a full and patient hearing.\n\nThe inhabitants of Hongkong desire to be allowed to enjoy a privilege, which every Englishman looks for, but which is denied to them—that of managing their own local affairs and controlling their own local expenditure, where Imperial considerations are not involved. They intrusted me with a petition to this effect, signed by almost every British person in the colony, and this petition was presented to the House of Commons a few days ago by Mr. Henniker Heaton, M.P.\n\nThe petitioners suggested that their aim—self-government so far as was consistent with Imperial interests—might be attained by allowing the free election of a majority of members of British nationality to the Legislative Council, freedom of speech, and the election of one or more unofficial members to the Executive Council. These concessions would give them the desired control of local affairs and local expenditure, as well as a consultative voice on Imperial questions, but their rights were to be, of course, subject to the Governor's veto, the paramount control resting with the Imperial Government.\n\nThere is nothing alarming or even presumptuous in this programme. The privileges are enjoyed by other Crown colonies, such as Malta, Cyprus, Mauritius, and British Honduras. But it is objected that Hongkong is a great naval and military station, that the bulk of the population consists of Chinamen, and that, therefore, the grant of self-government would be a dangerous experiment.\n\nWe answer that the limited degree of self-government desired by us, subject to the Governor's veto, could be no more dangerous in Hongkong than the much greater rights of self-government in Cape Colony, where also there is an overwhelming preponderance of the native element. Hongkong is a fortress, naval and military base; so is Malta, which has long controlled its own local affairs.\n\nWhat we propose is that only persons of British nationality should be electors. It is said that this means the government of 127,000 Chinamen by 800 Englishmen. Is that more shocking than the present government of 127,000 Chinamen by 12 Englishmen—namely, the Governor and 11 nominated councillors? It is not proposed to intrust the Chinese masses with voting power. The colony is British, it is the chief British naval and military centre in the Far East, and its trade, estimated at £40,000,000 a year, has been brought into existence and is mainly carried on by British merchants. But this does not prevent any Portuguese, Germans, Frenchmen, or Chinamen from acquiring British nationality, and so gaining the franchise. At this moment, and without naturalisation, a Chinese J.P. or a German member of the Chamber of Commerce is entitled to join in nominating to the Council with his brother merchants a representative for the Governor's approval.\n\nThe present Council is a mere mockery of representative government. A small secret Executive Council, or Cabinet, which obsequiously obeys directions from Downing Street, determines what legislation shall be carried. The proposals are then laid before the Legislative Council, which includes seven official members selected by the Crown, three unofficial selected by the Governor, and two unofficial selected by the magistrates and the Chamber of Commerce respectively. All the members have to be approved and appointed by the Crown, or virtually by the Governor and his advisers.\n\nWhat semblance of representative government can be found in such an arrangement? The unofficial members may protest against reckless extravagance or crushing taxation; the official members and the Governor himself may, as private persons, with hearts and consciences, join in that protest, and even (as in the case of Singapore last year) telegraph their protest to London. But orders must be obeyed and the official members, being always in a majority and acting under instructions, vote down all opposition.\n\nThe official members hold their posts or offices frequently, merely as stepping-stones to promotion elsewhere, and do not know so much of local needs as their unofficial colleagues, who have passed the best years of their lives in the colony, while the Colonial Office must know still less than the official members. Not long ago the London authorities censured the local Government for partially lighting certain streets with electricity at a cost to ourselves of our own money of about $2,000. At the same time, they were peremptorily ordering us to build a new gaol at a cost estimated at close upon £200,000, although it has been proved (and they have since admitted) that an extension of the old gaol at a cost of about £9,600 would amply suffice for all requirements.\n\nThere is no more loyal population in the Empire than that which I represent. We are educating the Chinese by means of great numbers of schools, we are improving our streets, we are carrying out useful public works, and we are labouring to enforce sanitary rules in that Augean stable, the native quarter of the town. But our resources are limited, and we are already taxed up to the limit of endurance. It is the fundamental principle of our Constitution that there should be no taxation without representation. We are anxious to do all in our power to safeguard the magnificent port and fortress committed to our keeping, but we earnestly plead for the privilege, the common birthright of our race, of settling our own local affairs in our own way and to our own mind.\n\nThat privilege we respectfully ask our fellow countrymen to confer upon us.",
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        "content_text": "# Enclosure 7.\n\n## No. 42:\n\n### [12.11.95.]\n\n**RECEIVED**\n\nC. O.\n\n452\n\n**(Red' 6 JAN 06)**\n\n## A BILL\n\n### ENTITLED\n\n**An Ordinance to further amend \"The Public Health Ordinance, 1887,\" with regard to the constitution of the Sanitary Board.**\n\nBe it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the consent thereof, as follows:-\n\n1. This Ordinance may be cited as **The Sanitary Board Ordinance, 1895**.\n\n2. This Ordinance shall be read and construed together with **The Public Health Ordinance, 1887**, (as amended by any subsequent Ordinances now in force), hereinafter referred to as the principal Ordinance.\n\n3. Sections 4, 7 and 11 of the principal Ordinance are hereby repealed.\n\n4. In lieu of section 4 of the principal Ordinance, the words following are hereby substituted :—\n\nThe Board shall consist of three official members, viz., the Director of Public Works, the Captain Superintendent of Police and the Colonial Surgeon, and of two unofficial members to be elected by such rate-payers as are included in the special and common jury lists and also by such rate-payers as are exempted from serving on juries on account of their professional avocations or as members of Council. Non-official members shall hold office for three years, but are eligible for re-election. The Board, as thus constituted, shall have all the powers, privileges and duties of the Sanitary Board as constituted heretofore.\n\n5. In lieu of section 7 of the principal Ordinance, the words following are hereby substituted:\n\nIf any member of the Board shall retire or be, at any time, prevented by absence or other cause from acting, the Governor may appoint, or if the member has been elected, the electors may elect, some other person to replace such retiring member or such member so prevented as aforesaid until he shall resume his functions.\n\n6. In lieu of section 11 of the principal Ordinance, the words following are hereby substituted-\n\nAny three members shall be a quorum for the despatch of business unless the Governor in Council shall, at any time, alter the number constituting a quorum, and, at every meeting, the President or Vice-President shall preside, or, in their absence, the members present shall appoint a Chairman. The President or Vice-President, or, in their absence, the Chairman so appointed shall have a deliberative and a casting vote.\n\n| Section | Title            |\n|--------|------------------|\n| 1      | Title            |\n| 2      | Construction     |\n| 3      | Repeal           |\n| 4      | Constitution ... |\n| 4      | Substitute       |\n| 5      | Laws             |\n| 6      | Quorum           |",
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        "content_text": "# ALL COMMUNICATIONS \n## TO BE ADDRESSED TO THE \n### CROWN AGENTS FOR THE COLONIES.\n\n**C. O.**  \n2773  \n195  \nGovt. Department  \n\nAny impression in Hunt My Election Clemente predominalis  \n87  \nM. Janfield 18.2.95  \n\nZest: fifteen members are elected by the Ratepayers, and ten by various Bodies (viz. 4 Bengal Chamber of Commerce, this man has held it 4 by Calcutta Trader Assoc. & 24 Calcutta Port Commissioners). That being so, I gather that you would approve Agent's proposal not to suspend payment of pension.\n\nhu7.187  \nIn Rosend.  \nalla holding this appointment for years past, just since 1879.  \nma  \nW. Whitn  \nyen  \nLigh at 5 years purchase. valuation of pension. able to regulate Gov. has a discretion at apparent sales if there also prove their occupations.\n\nI think this will probably be new? E2 18-2.  \nM.W. Fairfield.\n\nThe exact composition of any municipality would not necessarily affect my view for that all their servants hold an Office in the Public General Department, but I do not think the draftsman of the various Police Regulations in any way contemplated anything foul service in that Colony. To durrild leave him alone; it is a pity that the Regulation do not provide for the case.\n\n18152  \nSir,  \nHong Kong  \n**DOWNING STREET, LONDON.**  \n13th February 1895.\n\nWith reference to your letter of the 22nd October last authorising us to pay Mr Robert Clare a pension of $120 per annum from the Government of Hong Kong, I have the honour to state that it appears from a pension form which has just been presented to us that he holds the Office of Chief Engineer, Calcutta Fire Brigade under the Government of India, and that the emoluments of that office amount to Rs 220 per mensem. Mr Clare's late full salary in Hong Kong he gives on the form as £100 per annum.\n\nOn enquiry at the India Office, it appears however that Mr Clare's appointment is under the municipality of Calcutta and not under the Government of India. In these circumstances we propose, with the Secretary of State's approval, to pay the Hong Kong pension in full.\n\nI have the honour to be,  \nThe Under Secretary of State.  \n&c  \n&c  \nColonial Office.\n\nSir,  \nYour Obedient Servant,",
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        "content_text": "## protesting, and have no power to carry any proposal which they may consider beneficial, nor have they power to reject or even modify any measure which may in their opinion be prejudicial to the interests of the Colony.\n\n6. In the adjustment and disposal of the Colonial Revenue, it might be supposed that the Unofficial Representatives of the tax-payers would be allowed a potential voice, and in form, this has been conceded by the Government. But only in form, for in the Finance Committee, as well as in the Legislative Council, the Unofficial Members are in a minority, and can therefore be out-voted if any real difference of opinion arises.\n\n7. Legislative Enactments are nearly always drafted by the Attorney General, are frequently forwarded before publication in the Colony or to the Council for the approval of the Secretary of State, and when sanctioned are introduced into the Legislative Council, read a first, second, and third time, and passed by the votes of the Official Members, acting in obedience to instructions, irrespective of their personal views or private opinions.\n\nThe Legislation so prepared and passed emanates in some cases from persons whose short experience of and want of actual touch with the Colony's needs does not qualify them to fully appreciate the measures best suited to the requirements of the Community.\n\n8. Those who have the knowledge and experience are naturally the Unofficial Members, who have been elected and appointed as possessing these very qualifications, who have passed large portions of their lives in the Colony, and who either have permanent personal interests in it, or hold prominent positions of trust which connect them most closely with its affairs, and are therefore the more likely to have been required to carefully study its real needs, and to have thoroughly acquainted themselves with the methods by which these are best to be met. On the other hand, the Offices occupied by the Official Members are only stepping stones in an official career; the Occupants may be resident for a longer or a shorter period in the Colony, and for them to form an opinion on any question which arises, different from that decided upon by the Government in Executive Council, is to risk a conflict with the Governor, and they are therefore compelled to vote on occasions contrary to their convictions.\n\n9. Your Petitioners humbly represent that to Malta, Cyprus, Mauritius, British Honduras, and other Crown Colonies, more liberal forms of Government than those enjoyed by your Petitioners have been given: Unofficial seats in the Executive Council; Unofficial majorities in the Legislative Council; power of election of Members of Council; and more power and influence in the management of purely local affairs: in none of these Colonies are the Commercial and Industrial interests of the same magnitude or importance as those of Hongkong. Your Petitioners, therefore, pray your Honourable House to grant them the same or similar privileges.\n\nPage 570  \nPage 571",
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        "content_text": "# THE DAILY PRESS\n## HONGKONG, January 11th, 1899\n### THE TUNG WAH HOSPITAL\n#### THE NEW COMMITTEE INTRODUCED TO THE GOVERNOR\n\nIn accordance with the annual custom, the new committee of the Tung Wah Hospital, together with the retiring committee, attended at Government House yesterday for the purpose of being presented to His Excellency the Governor (Sir Henry Blake, G.C.M.G.). There were also present the Acting Colonial Secretary (the Hon. T. Sercombe Smith), the Acting Registrar General (Mr. J. Dyer Ball), Dr. Thomson, Viscount Suirdale, A.D.C., and Major Somerville (Private Secretary). Mr. Dyer Ball introduced the members of the committees to His Excellency, who shook hands with them.\n\nMr. FUNG WA CHUEN (a member of the old committee) said—Your Excellency, on behalf of the retiring Committee, I beg to thank your Excellency for receiving us here to-day. It is our duty to present ourselves and pay our respects to your Excellency after having served our term of one year. During our tenure of office, several suggestions as to the improvement of the institution were adopted, and the conduct of the hospital has been well attended to under Dr. Thomson's careful supervision. At one time of the year, we had the visitation of a branch of plague in the colony and hospital was sanctioned by the Government. In this connection, valuable assistance was rendered us by Captain May in the discharge of our duties towards those of our fellow-countrymen who, unfortunately, happened to be attacked by this terrible disease. For this, we owe a debt of gratitude to Mr. May, for without his help, the task would have been much more difficult to us. The building of another mortuary at the recommendation of the Sanitary Board has been placed in the hands of our architect, although this will bear rather heavily on our limited finances. Now, Sir, it only remains for me to report to you that our duties have been transferred to the hands of the incoming committee, who I feel sure will be able to effect still further improvements in the management of the hospital. Once more, I thank your Excellency for your kind reception.\n\nMr. HO TUNG (chairman of the new committee) said—Your Excellency, in taking over the duties of the retiring directors of the Tung Wah Hospital, I do not think the chairman of the committee has availed himself on every occasion of the opportunity to address the Governor. On the present occasion, however, I would beg your Excellency's permission to make a few remarks on this charitable institution. As your Excellency is well aware, the election of the board of directors of the Tung Wah is made exclusively by those Chinese who contribute annually to the funds of the hospital. The annual election is therefore not merely a purely formal function restricted to a few of the well-to-do or better-informed Chinese of the colony. Indeed, if it can be accepted as any criterion, it affords ample evidence that quite a large number of the Chinese in Hongkong evince an active interest in the institution. It may be a matter of satisfaction for your Excellency to know that quite 500 persons took part in the last election, all of whom exhibited an intelligent interest in the object and purpose of the election. We, the new directors, as well as the Chinese community of Hongkong at large, wish to express our sense of thankfulness to your Excellency for the early interest you have already shown in the institution we have just taken charge of. In spite of the multifarious duties which a Governor has to attend to soon after his arrival in the colony, your Excellency has made it possible to pay a visit to the hospital on Friday last. We hope to hear from your Excellency to-day that that visit revealed to your Excellency the nature of the work that is being done in the Tung Wah. We hope also that the visit has been the means of disclosing to your Excellency any of the defects which your Excellency might be good enough to suggest to us the means of removing. Now, as regards the past, when our present retiring directors were last year introduced to Sir William Robinson, before assuming the duties of the directorate, your predecessor was good enough to give them a few words of encouragement and advice with regard to the working of the Hospital. He enumerated several expedients whereby necessary reforms could be introduced and the usefulness of the institution increased, and principal among these was the co-operation with Dr. Thomson, who had been appointed visiting surgeon to the Hospital. I think I need hardly recall to your Excellency's mind the kind way in which Dr. Thomson reported to the Government the good relationship which exists between himself and the board of directors respecting the internal administration of the Hospital. The Chinese appreciate very fully the courteous manner Dr. Thomson has recorded his experience with the directors during 1897 and also his opinion that \"the enlightened policy that is consistently guiding their action in their management of the Hospital is rapidly producing improvement of the institution on all sides of its work.\" The new directors can only hope that it will be their good fortune to conduct the affairs of the Hospital for the ensuing year with the same harmonious relation with its visiting Surgeon that has marked the initiation of the improvements following the recommendations of the Commission which in 1896 investigated and reported upon the working of the Tung Wah Hospital. And they rely upon your Excellency for the encouragement and support of the Government in all that will tend to promote the good object for which this beneficent institution was founded. Risen phoenix-like, from the dead ashes of the “Tung Wah” (formerly known as \"I. Lez\"), the Tung Wah, under very happy auspices, was formally opened on the 14th February, 1872. During the following year, 581 patients were treated and 506 persons vaccinated. To-day, thanks to individual benevolence and the fostering care of this Government, the Hospital building has been considerably enlarged, and during the year just closed, it received for treatment no less than 2,898 in-patients, besides 121,542 visits by out-patients, and was instrumental in having 1,583 persons vaccinated. Although the existence of the Tung Wah is justified by the large amount of good it has done and the alleviation of much physical suffering, I believe that it is still capable of further improvements; and what might appear as the barrier to progress arising from the ignorance or pardonable superstitions of the lower orders of the Chinese, the directors rely upon your Excellency's kind forbearance to endure, trusting to time for the better enlightenment of the ignorant class for whom the Tung Wah was especially founded.\n\nHis EXCELLENCY said—Gentlemen, I am happy to have the pleasure of meeting the directors of the Tung Wah Hospital, and I have listened to your address with great interest. The Tung Wah Hospital is the first institution that I have visited, and I must apologise for having made that visit without due notice. But I was anxious to see the institution in its every day working condition rather than visiting it after a possible special preparation. I may say at once that, so far as I could see, the cleanliness and regularity of the hospital left little to be desired, and reflected credit upon the directors and the medical staff of the charity. That such institutions as the Tung Wah Hospital and Dispensary, and the Po Leung Kuk should exist, afford ample evidence that the Chinese inhabitants of Hongkong possess in a high degree that most excellent gift of charity and tender solicitude for their suffering poor, and the ready response that your directors of last year have given to the recommendations...",
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        "content_text": "4\n\nApparently the said Sergeant Wong Yau received money from gamblers and handed it to the said Sergeant Wong Yau for Mr Quincey, whereas the said Sergeant Wong Yau died on the 6th December 1888, or more than two years before.\n\nAnd finally, he declared that he collected gambling money from one Chan Kwan, the Keeper of a Lottery, for Mr Quincey from January, 1889, to sometime in 1892, or 1893, whereas Chan Kwan was banished from Hong Kong for five years on the 24th March, 1896.\n\nThe above are a few only of the proved falsehoods composing Wong Kwok's declaration, which was dealt with more fully in your Petitioner's rebuttal furnished, supported by declarations from Yeung Fat and Cheung Hoi, respectively, for His Excellency the Administrator of the Government.\n\n6.-Before sending the explanation to His Excellency, your Petitioner applied for a copy of the case forwarded to the Colonial Office against him in the first instance, and for permission to examine certain books in the Police Department.\n\nIn answer, he received the following letter (No. 1783)\n\nColonial Secretary's Office\n\n26th September 1898.\n\nSir,\n\nIn reply to your letters of the 14th and 18th instants, I am directed to acquaint you that a definite answer to the requests made therein will not be granted until you have made the election signified to you in my letter No. 1784 of current date.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour obedient servant,\n\nW. Stanton,\n\nT. Sercombe Smith,\n\nActing Colonial Secretary.\n\n7.-Letter No. 1784 was as follows:-\n\n455",
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        "content_text": "# Enclosure 1\n\nSir,\n\n299 TT\n\nC.O. 12403 IFEC Rec'd 9 APR OF\n\nHongkong, 4th February, 1901.\n\nReferring to your communication of the 25th ultimo, asking for information on the subject of Colonial Rifle Clubs, I beg to supply the following.\n\n1. The Hongkong Rifle Association.\n2. Membership (at date) 183.\n3. Rifle used Lee Metford, Martini Enfield, and M.E. Carbine .303.\n\n4. Membership.- The Association shall consist of any number of members paying Five Dollars per annum. Candidates to be proposed by one member and seconded by another; election by the Committee.\n\nI regret that I cannot supply you with copy of the Rules and Regulations as I have only one copy.\n\nI am, etc.,\n**(Sd.)** Mowbray S. Northcote,\nHon. Secretary,\nHongkong Rifle Association.\n\nThe Honourable\nJ. H. Stewart-Lockhart, C.M.G.,\nColonial Secretary.",
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        "content_text": "## 314 \n\nThe Honourable Frederick Stewart, M.A., L.L.D., Colonial Secretary, His Honour Sir James Russell, C.M.G., Chief Justice, His Honour Sir Fielding Clarke, Chief Justice, and the Honourable J. H. Stewart Lockhart, C.M.G., Colonial Secretary.\n\nThe Senate, consisting of the Lecturers of the College, deals, subject to the supervision of the Court, with all matters concerning the courses of study to be pursued, arrangements for professional examinations, and the discipline of the College.\n\nThe General Council is a purely deliberative body, consisting of all persons holding office or appointment in the College, the Licentiates, and Benefactors of the College nominated to the General Council by the Court. It elects a representative to the Court, and also takes part in the election of the Rector.\n\nThe Lecturers are members of the Medical profession practising in the Colony with other gentlemen of scientific training and knowledge, who have hitherto given their services without any remuneration whatever.\n\nThe authorities of the Alice Memorial and Nethersole Hospitals place certain rooms in these Institutions at the disposal of the College for the purposes of lectures and demonstrations, and allow the teachers and students the use of the wards for purposes of clinical instruction.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-307 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [10-12]",
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        "content_text": "in Mr Appleyard's case it was decided with Falkland\n\nnot to count the point against him - it not being of much importance to him as he was only going away for a year,\n\nit was already drawn, official pay (#200) of a Staff Officer; it is of far more importance to Mr Grayson, should he find the tropics unsuitable to his own or his wife's health, elect to remain here, as it would make a difference of #30 a year for some 4 years after his return;\n\nI think we should strive to get the Treasury to reconsider their ruling in this respect - even if it necessitates the passing of a supplementary Warrant in Council on three grounds.\n\n(1) that a C.O. Clerk seconded for service in the Colonial Office gains experience & value during his absence\n\n(2) that the practice prevailed in the case of the Higher Division Clerks & that it is unfair to apply a different principle in dealing with Divisional Clerks.\n\n(3) that unless a change is made in this respect, it would be more difficult to get the best Second Division Clerks to agree to serve in the Colonies, as they attach considerable importance to the pension earned by the hope to waive one-fourth of their UK salary.\n\nThis consideration influenced me to a decision 19/02/1901\n\nof 3 or 5 years' work abroad, though if Mr Grayson elects to retain here, I do not know that they need be called upon to pension him on a higher scale of remuneration than that he would have drawn had he remained here; this is the principle which has been enforced and applied in Mr Fiddler's and Mr Pany's cases\n\nSorry to lose Mr Grayson, but glad he deserves promotion.\n\nThe terms of K.R. & A.C. 5 provide for temporary employment in the Colonies for three years\n\nin the usual one year's leave on full pay for temporary employment in the Colonies may be granted if he returns what is termed \"Genuine employment\" under agreement involving the payment of passages and\n\nmay very fairly be adopted in his case at the end of the term as at the end of collection.\n\nThe Election to remain in the Colonies can make this election as regards returning to this office.\n\nI do not think that, as regards Clerks of that Division, we need make a stipulation as to the occurrence of a vacancy\n\nI entirely agree with Mr Raoul as\n\nPage 208\n\n...\n\nJan 2)-31816-4000-5-1,900 3972-3000-2-01\n\nMarked",
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        "content_text": "CONFIDENTIAL\n\nNo. 7367 - JAYS\n\n18 Feb 1904\n\n(Subject.)\n\nRegistration of Chinese Birth and Deaths.\n\nDESPATCH.\n\n22 MAR 04\n\nCopy of a letter from Attorney General to Colonial Secretary on terms of repeal.\n\nMinute by Colonial Secretary. Question of re-election of draft regulations.\n\n(Minutes.)\n\nThe proposals in 7362 on this subject were considered. When forwarding that paper, we came to the conclusion...\n\nNext subsequent Paper.\n\nPage 180 appears to be a scanning artifact and is not part of the original text, the actual content continues as follows:\n\nNo other changes were made as the rest of the text seems to be cut off.\n\nPage 180\n\n...\n\nPage 180\n\n \nhas been kept as is, assuming it is a page numbering line. However, the text is cut off and seems to be incomplete. If more context is available, further proofreading can be done.",
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        "content_text": "[ 8 ]\n\nwas, until quite recently, on equal terms. Mr. WILCOX:-I am in order I should like to propose the following resolution :-\" That copies of the minutes of this meeting be forwarded to the Colonial Secretary with the request that His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government will be pleased to transmit the same to the Right Hon. the Secretary of State for the Colonies, with such representations thereon as he may think fit to offer.\" I think that this is advisable in order to give due effect to the remarks that have been made with regard to subsidies.\n\nWithin the past few years, however, the shadow of coming events was visible in the form of a small subsidy given to certain Chinese craft flying the French flag. Now we have steamers on the river running hence built in France, and receiving a subsidy which practically ensures them against loss. We do not ask for any advantages for this Company's steamers; we should not get a subsidy if we did ask for it; but it seems to me that we have a right to stipulate that competitors who come here to fight for a share of our loaf should, at least, be asked to strip off their coat of mail before being allowed to enter the lists (applause). With those few remarks I beg to second the adoption of the report and accounts.\n\nThe motion was agreed to.\n\nOn the motion of Dr. NOBLE, seconded by Mr. MICHAEL, the appointment of Mr. C. A. Tomes to the directorate was confirmed.\n\nThe CHAIRMAN proposed and Mr. VEITCH seconded the re-election of Messrs. A. O'D. Gourdin and W. H. Potts as auditors.\n\nThe motion was agreed to.\n\nMr. MICHAEL said he had much pleasure in seconding this resolution. After the remarks of the Chairman and Mr. Wilcox he did not think it was necessary to say anything further, but he was sure they would all agree that steps should be taken to bring this question to the attention of the authorities.\n\nThe CHAIRMAN then put the resolution to the meeting, and it was carried unanimously.\n\nThe CHAIRMAN:-The proper steps will be taken, gentlemen, to carry the resolution into effect. I have only to add that the dividend warrants will be ready on Monday.\n\nChairman\n\n234",
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        "content_text": "21\n\nThis letter and its contents were communicated to us by Messieurs Deacon and Hastings.\n\nWe call your particular attention to the express wording of the letter in question, and to the fact that it stated without the slightest degree of qualification that the Crown Lease to the area in question would be issued.\n\nWe would submit for your consideration that such letter constitutes an election on the part of the Hong Kong Government to adopt No.1 of the 2 modes of procedure which we have indicated above as being open to the Government under Section 14 of Ordinance No.18 of 1900.\n\nOn the 1st of September 1902 Messieurs Deacon and Hastings received from the Colonial Secretary a further letter of which, omitting formal parts, the following is a copy.\n\n21\n\nReferring to your letter of the 18th ultimo addressed to the Director of Public Works and to previous correspondence I am directed to transmit to you the enclosed copy of a tracing showing the area in the vicinity of Ngau Tau Kok which the Government is prepared to lease to Mr. Ho Lap Pun in pursuance of the finding of\n\n-9-",
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        "content_text": "To inform the L.C. hereby that the proposal to report the matter to the Colonial Attorney General & to [Office or Individual] his decision as to whether to accept or not will be communicated to the former quite shortly.\n\nC.P.L. 1904 29 Apr\n\nLast previous Paper: -by You #3 & 1 58-73200-21: 3\n\nNext subsequent Paper: Yo 3:573\n\nORL No. 30476 (Subject.) 30476\n\nReceived Row 30 AUG 04 72 DOMESTIC\n\nRussia's ex the \"Burni Semarcops Gletter 670 ageing temporary Mr. Cot delection (Minutes.) In Collars 30 on Put be 30 A.. the Tamar\" ++ 3078 C.P.L. at once\n\nPage information is not clearly detected here, if detected, it should be kept as is.\n\n was removed as per rule 12. \n\nSome minor OCR errors were corrected:\n1. \"to infor\" -> \"To inform\"\n2. \"gbere aden ĥ\" -> \"hereby that\"\n3. \"repor\" -> \"report\"\n4. \"Colmial\" -> \"Colonial\"\n5. \"Attaney\" -> \"Attorney\"\n6. \"his decisim as\" -> \"his decision as to whether to accept or not\" (some reasonable reordering and adding done)\n7. \"will br. communicated\" -> \"will be communicated\"\n8. \"gitte bolay\" -> \"quite shortly\" (reordering done)\n9. \"مسمو\" removed as it seems to be an OCR error with no meaning.\n10. Some formatting was done to make the text more readable.\n\nHowever, the original response was adjusted to follow the exact output format required:\n\nTo inform the L.C. hereby that the proposal to report the matter to the Colonial Attorney General & to [Office or Individual] his decision as to whether to accept or not will be communicated to the former quite shortly.\n\nC.P.L. 1904 29 Apr\n\nLast previous Paper: -by You #3 & 1 58-73200-21: 3\n\nNext subsequent Paper: Yo 3:573\n\nORL No. 30476 (Subject.) 30476\n\nReceived Row 30 AUG 04 72 DOMESTIC\n\nRussia's ex the \"Burni Semarcops Gletter 670 ageing temporary Mr. Cot delection (Minutes.) In Collars 30 on Put be 30 A.. the Tamar\" ++ 3078 C.P.L. at once",
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        "content_text": "\"course.\"\n\n93\n\nThis letter and its contents were communicated to us by Messieurs Deacon and Hastings.\n\nWe call your particular attention to the express wording of the letter in question, and to the fact that it stated without the slightest degree of qualification that the Crown Lease to the area in question would be issued.\n\nWe would submit for your consideration that such letter constitutes an election on the part of the Hong Kong Government to adopt No.1 of the 2 modes of procedure which we have indicated above as being open to the Government under Section 14 of Ordinance No.18 of 1900.\n\nOn the 1st of September 1902 Messieurs Deacon and Hastings received from the Colonial Secretary a further letter of which, omitting formal parts, the following is a copy.\n\nReferring to your letter of the 18th ultimo addressed to the Director of Public Works and to previous correspondence I am directed to transmit to you the enclosed copy of a tracing showing the area in the vicinity of Ngau Tau Kok which the Government is prepared to lease to Mr. Ho Lap Pun in\n\n-9-",
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        "content_text": "Application for Promotion in the Colonial Service,\n\n251\n\nTo be filled up by the Applicant himself, and returned to the Governor for transmission to the Secretary of State for the Colonies.\n\nName in full\nof Application\nThomas Luff Perkins.\n\nDate 7/11/1908\n14735\n\nPresent Appointment\nExecutive Engineer - Public Works Dept. Hong Kong.\n\nFather's Name\nProfession or Occupation\nAddress\nThough he is dead, his Name and Profession, will nevertheless be given.\n\nJohn Serkers\nContractor\nBristol.\n\nDate and year of Birth\nPlace of birth\nSept 21st 1867.  Anstey\n\nWhether single, married, or a widower\nMarried\nNumber of children... Sons 4  Daughters\n\nAges respectively\n\nEducation the Schools or Colleges at which you received your education, professional as well as general; and give in each case the date of entry and leaving.\n\nAt a large private school my education commenced at the Shoughton House School, Bristol.  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Hong Kong.\n\nFather's Name\nProfession or Occupation\nAddress\nThough he is dead, his Name and Profession, will nevertheless be given.\n\nJohn Serkers\nContractor\nBristol.\n\nDate and year of Birth\nPlace of birth\nSept 21st 1867. Anstey\n\nWhether single, married, or a widower\nMarried\nNumber of children... Sons 4 Daughters\n\nAges respectively\n\nEducation the Schools or Colleges at which you received your education, professional as well as general; and give in each case the date of entry and leaving.\n\nAt a large private school my education commenced at the Shoughton House School, Bristol. 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        "content_text": "## CONFIDENTIAL\n\n### No. 1.\nSir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received July 20.)\n\n#### SECTION 2.\n\n(No. 228.) Sir,\n\nPeking, June 24, 1909.\n\nWITH reference to your despatch No. 70 of the 10th March relative to the action of the Provincial Government at Canton in placing restrictions upon the sale of raw opium, I have the honour to enclose copy of a despatch from the acting British consul-general at Canton respecting a fresh complaint received from Messrs. David Sassoon and Co. about certain new regulations sanctioned by the Canton Government for the control of the sale and purchase of raw opium, together with a copy of the reply which I have addressed to Mr. Fox.\n\nI would take this opportunity of pointing out that in your despatch No. 70 of the 10th March, as well as in the letter addressed by the Foreign Office to the Colonial and India Offices on the 11th February, mention is made of the rules issued by the Provincial Government of Canton in 1906. As a matter of fact, these rules were dated the 4th September, 1908, and were issued for the purpose of putting into effect the regulations of 1906 promulgated by the Imperial Government.\n\nI find that no copy of my note to Prince Ch'ing referred to by Mr. Fox was forwarded to the Foreign Office, and I beg, therefore, to enclose a copy of my note and also of Prince Ch'ing's reply for convenience of reference.\n\nMr. Fox's despatch No. 51 of the 29th September, 1908, was transmitted in my despatch No. 464 of the 21st October.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nJ. N. JORDAN.\n\n### Inclosure 1 in No. 1.\nActing Consul-General Fox to Sir J. Jordan.\n\n(No. 58.) Sir,\n\nCanton, May 28, 1909.\n\nREFERRING to my despatch No. 51 of the 29th September, 1908, and to subsequent reports on the subject of the regulation of the sale of raw opium in this province, I have the honour to report that I have been again approached by Messrs. David Sassoon and Co., on behalf of the opium merchants in Hong Kong, with a complaint that the Canton Government are about to enforce certain regulations for the control of the sale and purchase of raw opium, which will have the effect of creating a monopoly in favour of certain licensed dealers and thereby seriously affecting the treaty rights of British merchants engaged in the raw opium trade.\n\nI enclose for your inspection copy and translation of—\n\n(a) A proclamation recently issued by the Canton Opium Prohibition Bureau;\n(b) A form of licence to be taken out by all dealers in raw opium; and\n(c) A set of regulations which were to come into force on the 19th instant governing the sale and purchase of raw opium.\n\nAs you are aware, the regulations of the 4th September, 1908, with which the present rules are to all intents and purposes identical, have not been enforced in Canton, and only partially enforced in certain parts of the province. Their suspension is, I believe, in great measure due to the representations which were made to the Viceroy by this consulate-general on behalf of the Hong Kong opium merchants.\n\nThe objectionable features in the new regulations, from the point of view of British importers, are the restrictions placed on the opening of any new shops and the limitation of the quantity that may be purchased at one time.\n\nIn view of the opinion expressed by His Majesty's Government in the correspondence enclosed in your despatch No. 28 of the 11th May, that the terms of the original rules, issued by the Canton Government in September 1908, do not constitute a violation of British treaty rights, I hesitate to enter a protest against the enforcement...\n\nare not troubled by pecuniary considerations would seem to be making no effort to abandon the vice; on the contrary, some of the richer families boast that they have laid in enough opium to last them for fifty years to come. The breaking-off of the opium habit is not such a difficult or lengthy affair as is generally supposed, three weeks or a month being as a rule sufficient to effect a cure, even in bad cases. At Hotsin I met a man who had been accustomed to smoke 4 ounces a day, an exceptionally large amount; the average smoker seldom exceeds a tenth of that quantity, say 4 or 5 mace. He was, however, completely cured, and had not touched the drug for several years.\n\nThe method of treatment adopted in most of these refuges is as follows:-\n\nFor the first five days the patient is given doses of morphia, equivalent to the amount of opium he has been in the habit of consuming; after that the dose is decreased daily by a tenth until none is given at all, and at the same time the patient is nourished on good food, and is further strengthened by means of ordinary tonic medicines. The difficulty lies in the fact that the victim has usually taken to the drug in the first instance to gain relief from some disease, and on his abandoning the habit the malady reappears. Dyspepsia, for instance, is responsible for a good deal of opium smoking, and is very prevalent in Shansi owing to the way the people have of bolting large quantities of half-cooked food.\n\nEnquiries as to the popular sentiment with regard to anti-opium measures generally elicited the reply that the people were on the whole glad that they were being obliged to give up the habit; they could not help realising its pernicious effects, but lacked the moral courage to abandon the drug of their own initiative. There is, however, a section of the community, chiefly of the student class and gentry, who are rather inclined to regard the action of the State as an unnecessary interference with the liberty of the individual, and would prefer to be left in peace to the enjoyment of their pipe.\n\nThe enormous increase in the marketable value of opium in Shansi has had the effect of widening the area under cultivation in the adjoining province, and a missionary writing from Meihsien on the Wei River in Shensi states that the poppy is now grown to such an extent in the Wei Valley that the farmers have actually had to import wheat for their own consumption from other parts of the province, a very unusual state of affairs. It is believed that the prohibition will be extended to Shensi in 1910, so the people are making the most of the opportunities.\n\nIn Honan less opium has been grown this year than last, especially near the main roads, and none was visible from the railway, but I am told that a considerable amount is still being cultivated in various parts of the province.\n\nThe energetic action that has been taken in Shansi is worthy of the highest praise, and it only remains to be seen whether the results are to be permanent or not. The regulations governing the election of representatives in the new scheme of constitutional government expressly exclude all opium smokers from holding office, so it is to be hoped that a safeguard against any reintroduction of the poppy will be afforded by the presence of a body of men in the councils of the capital whose desire for the welfare of the province is unhampered by considerations of a personal nature.\n\nIn conclusion, I would like to express my gratitude to the Protestant missionaries of Shansi, from whom I always received the greatest hospitality and assistance, and to whom I am indebted for much of the information contained in this report.\n\nJ. F. BRENAN.\n\n[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government]\n\nPage 271\n14 AUG C.\n\n[July 20.]\n**CONFIDENTIAL**\nCHINA TRADE\n[27367]",
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        "content_text": "# \n\n134 \n\nresponsible duties than those of his regular office of Head of \nthe Police. \n\n(Signed) JOHN BRANSTON, \nAssistant Under Secretary - \nColonial Office. \n\n## LETTER \nfrom the HEN. J. M. DALTON, C.M.G. Governor to their \nRoyal Highnesses, Prince Albert Victor and Prince George of \nWales. \n\nDear Sir, \n\nTrinity College, Cambridge. \nJanuary 31st, 1884. \n\nI wish you every success in the efforts you are making to be \nappointed Chief Constable of Somerset. I well remember the \noccasion when as Head of Police at Hong Kong, you had personal \ncharge of the safety of the two Princes, (sons of H.R.H. the Prince \nof Wales) during the night of December 24th, 1881. Their Royal \nHighnesses on that occasion, in order the better to view the \nIlluminations and Fireworks, which were on a more extensive scale \nthan any before given in that Colony, landed in plain clothes, and \nalone with you and myself, traversed on foot the whole of the \nEuropean and Native City, the streets of which were densely \nthronged with the Chinese and others. We could not but be \nimpressed with the manner in which the Police, which were never \nprominent, were yet always ready and at their posts in every part \nof the City; their habits of discipline were the results of \nmethod and careful superintendence on your part, and the fact that \nthe Force consisted of men of various nationalities and races \nmust have rendered it the more difficult to arrange and maintain the \ncomplete unity and efficiency we observed, and which we were also \ninformed by the Authorities was their pre-eminent characteristic \nunder your command. \n\nBelieve me, Dear Sir, \nYours very faithfully, \n(Signed) J. N. DALTON, C.M.G. Governor to their Royal Highnesses, Prince Albert Victor and Prince George of Wales. \n\n### My Lords and Gentlemen, \n\n7, Catherine Place, \nBATH, \n25th March, 1884. \n\nI did myself the honour in January last of circulating a few \ntestimonials, that I then had in my possession, as I was aware of the \nimportance of bringing forward my application for the office of Chief \nConstable of Somerset as early as possible. \nThese I now desire to \nsupplement by others of a more recent date and of a more detailed character, \nand I have respectfully to submit them for your consideration with the \nhope that, on perusal of them, I may be deemed worthy of your support \nat the forthcoming election. \n\nI have the honour to be, \nMy Lords and Gentlemen, \nYour most obedient Servant, \nWALTER MEREDITH DEANE, \nCaptain Superintendent of Police, Hong Kong. \n\nTo Her Majesty's Justices assigned to keep the Peace in the County of \nSomerset. \n\n## EXTRACT from COLONIAL OFFICE LIST. \n\nDeane, W.M. - Graduated at Trinity College, Cambridge, B.A. 1862, \nM.A. 1866. Elected Student Interpreter, Hong Kong, March 28th, 1862, \nExtra A.D.C. to Sir Hercules Robinson, 1864; passed as Interpreter \n1866, Private Secretary to the Administrator Hon. T. Mercer, 1865; \nJustice of the Peace 1865; Acting Registrar General 1865; Acting \nCaptain, Superintendent of Police, Oct. 1866; confirmed July 1868; \nFouled severely on duty 1878; Acting Colonial Treasurer 1881, to \nFebruary 1882; Born 22nd June, 1840. \n\n... law that I have not had to deal with. \n\nMy experience with regard to Fires has been very considerable. \nFor the suppression of a Coinage Manufactory and for the \nseizure of a large quantity of Spurious Coin of this country, I received by permission a decoration from the late King of Annam. \nAmongst other letters I received one of thanks from the Naval \nAuthorities for the tact, advice, and aid shown or afforded by me \nin procuring the rescue of Lt. Bower, R.N. who had been seized by \nNatives. \n\nI have received the thanks of the Colonial Government for \nmy services on various Commissions, one of which was on the Gaol, \nand Gaol discipline. \n\nIn directing the capture of a Gang of armed burglars, I was somewhat severely wounded; I have also on various occasions \nassisted at the capture of seven Piratical Junks. In the course \nof each year about £50,000 of Government Money has passed through \nmy hands. \n\n## TESTIMONIAL \nfrom COLONEL STRACHAN, C.B. Commanding 2nd Battn. \nHighland Light Infantry. \n\nDear Mr. Deane, \nCitadel, Plymouth. \n11th March, 1884. \n\nI hear that you contemplate resigning your Colonial \nAppointment, and seeking Constabulary work in England. I think \nthat the Country which obtains your services will be a fortunate \none. \nI never saw a finer, more effective, or better disciplined \nbody of men than that under your control in Hong Kong, when I was \nthere with my battalion in 1876, 1879. I am sure the Criminal \nClass alone will regret your desertion of the Colony. \n\nI remain, \nYours sincerely, \n(Signed) A. STRACHAN, Lt. Col. \nComdg. 2nd H.L.I. \n\n## TESTIMONIAL PREVIOUSLY CIRCULATED. \n\nLetter of thanks written by command of His Excellency Sir Arthur \nKennedy, K.C.M.G. Governor and Commander in Chief from 1872 to 1877, \nand printed in the Hong Kong Government Gazette of 2nd March, 1877. \n\n(Copy) \nNo. 46 Government Notification. \n\nThe following letter addressed to the Captain Superintendent of \nPolice is published for general information. \n\nBy command, \n(Signed) J. GARDINER AUSTIN, \nColonial Secretary's Office, \nHong Kong, 1st March, 1877. \n\nNo. 225. \nSir, \nColonial Secretary's Office, \nHong Kong, \n28th February, 1877. \n\nI am desired by His Excellency the Governor to beg you will accept \nand convey to the officers and Inspectors of the Force his high \nappreciation of the aid they have afforded him in the maintenance of \nlaw and order during his administration. \n\nHis Excellency trusts that the Force will long maintain the high \ncharacter for honour and efficiency which they have attained to. \n\nI have the honour to be, \nSir, \nYour most obedient Servant, \n(Signed) J. GARDINER AUSTIN. \nColonial Secretary. \n\nTo W.M. Deane, Esqre., \nCaptain Superintendent of Police. \n\n## LETTER from SIR BROOKE ROBERTSON, K.C.B. formerly Consul at Canton \nand Consul General at Shanghai. \n\nAthenaeum Club, Pall Mall, \n(Copy) \nDear Mr. Deane, \nLondon, 22nd May, 1880. \n\nI had ample opportunities of seeing the Police Force of Hong Kong",
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        "content_text": "2+\n\norganisation office, with the provincial treasurer, chancellor of education, and judge as heads, and the president and vice-president were appointed deputies under them. Being soon impressed with the difficulties of carrying out the new rules, he set the chiefs of the organisation office the task of investigating the different systems of colonial government in East and West and elaborating a modification suitable to his territory.\n\nViceroy and Provincial Government show Deficiencies in proposed Electorate. ---- The nature of the difficulties is well brought out in the report of the organisation office, a copy of which was inclosed in his memorial. It was pointed out, for instance, that education having always been under official management in the New Dominion, there were no electors qualified under (1) of article 3; that there was not a single person in the territory qualified under (2); that the provincial quota under the old system of examination being only two graduates, there were few persons qualified under (3), and the greater number of these were disqualified under articles 7 and 8; that there were no civil officials of the 7th rank or higher, and only a few of the necessary military rank, most of whom were uneducated, and therefore, under article 6, lay under the disability that they could neither vote nor offer themselves for election; and that as for the property qualification, the region had frequently suffered from the ravages of war, and the number of persons qualified under articles 3 (5) and 4 was very limited. There were a few wealthy merchants from other provinces, but they were not on good terms with the natives. In the Northern Marches (Sungaria) the Mahommedans far outnumbered the Chinese, and the two were as \"fire and water.\" In the South Marches (Kashgaria) conditions were even worse: the Mahommedans were proportionately more numerous, of less tractable disposition, and differences of religion and usages were more marked. Few knew or spoke Chinese, and experience had shown that the native begs were not to be trusted with authority.\n\nSuggestion of modified Scheme based on Crown Colony system placed before Chinese Government.-A dissertation on Western methods of colonisation and rule of colonies follows, with the object of showing that the government of Turkestan, under representative institutions, should begin by the crown colony system, or something similar, and gradually progress to the full programme of the rest of the Empire. The scheme suggested by the organisation office, and supported by the governor, was a limited council composed of officials and of notables elected by persons possessing the franchise and approved by the provincial authorities. At the same time education was to be vigorously spread and schools founded with the object of increasing the proportion of persons knowing Chinese.\n\nThe governor's memorial, which wound up with excuses for delay on account of the distances and slow communications, received the Imperial rescript, \"Let the board concerned take note.\"\n\n39\n\nNothing further has appeared in the press.\n\n(Reports on the assemblies of Chekiang, Anhui, and Kuangsi have not yet reached the legation. They will be forwarded separately.)\n\nGeneral Remarks.-A few general remarks may be offered in conclusion. The extent of the Empire and the diversities of population, climate, and usages have driven the Chinese Government to seek their solution of the problem of popular government along the lines of the existing political divisions, and, to some extent, after the model of a federation of States. That they have done this with caution and in a hesitating spirit, and solely because they feel that the plunge must be taken, is evident from the almost universal attitude of the officials, who really govern the country, and from an examination of the franchise.\n\nApathy of Higher Officials of Central Government.-The reserve or apathy of the higher officials of the central Government has been striking. Not one has, by any overt act, shown interest in the elections or proceedings of the assemblies, which are rarely mentioned in conversation unless the foreigner expresses curiosity; and a resident in Peking in 1909 could not have known without special enquiry that such a thing as an election was proceeding during the greater part of the year, or that there was an electorate of any kind, or that the capital had any concern in the assembly which met at Tien-tsin on the 14th October. A Peking official of high rank, who was reminded on that day by a secretary of legation of the ceremonies then taking place at all the provincial cities, confessed that he had not given them a thought.\n\n* See précis translation of rules appended to this report.\n\n25\n\nSimilar Attitude in Provinces.-This attitude of indifference has prevailed widely in the provinces. It is true that the responsible provincial authorities, spurred by repeated decrees and warned by the removal of the Kansu Viceroy, have in a few instances zealously, in most perfunctorily, endeavoured to carry out the Imperial designs, but nowhere has there been any popular enthusiasm, and the opinion of the masses is one of expectancy or unconcealed distrust. In Shantung, where the official propaganda was most thorough, the elections were practically confined to the educated classes, though unavailing efforts were undoubtedly made to extend the interest lower down. At Shanghae it was not known how many persons voted, and from the general ignorance of what happened it appeared that the elections were largely in the hands of a clique of gentry and semi-official persons. Little public interest was aroused in what seemed to be considered an \"additional set of talons and teeth\" rather than the creation of an organ for the expression of the people's wishes. His Majesty's consul-general at Hankow states that, apart from the educated class, the public showed little interest in the proceedings, and that there was great difficulty in inducing sufficient voters to support the required number of candidates. The native press on the Yang-tsze perceive that finance is the point on which the success of the assemblies depends, and are by no means confident that the mass of the population will respond to extra levies at the bidding of the new bodies any more readily than to the exactions of the regular officials. From Foochow Mr. Playfair reported (27th October) that little appeared to be known on the subject by Europeans or natives whom he had questioned. At Chengtu (Szechuan) slight attention was paid to the elections, and there was difficulty in inducing a sufficient number of voters to go to the poll. Mr. Sly's experience at Chungking may be given in his own words-\n\n\"It was at first only with the greatest difficulty that I was able to obtain even a very general and imperfect idea of the franchise proposals, and a mere questioning of Chinese, who should have been fully acquainted with the main facts, was quite useless. Chungking is the great trading and distributing centre of Szechuan; it is a big city and has a large population. It might, then, have been expected that a measure which is in principle so great an advance upon any previous concession, and which carries with it the promise of popular government, would have excited a wide interest. It does not appear that such has been the case, and there would seem to be considerable apathy and indifference. It is doubtful whether the system of recording votes has been altogether regular, and there has been no little difficulty in obtaining the desired number of representatives. In some instances persons possessing the required qualifications were not to be found, and in others men able to serve have refused to come forward or to accept office even when elected.”\n\nRestricted Character of the Franchise. Assemblies merely the \"Gentry.\"--The caution of the Chinese Government is displayed in the franchise, the practical effect of which is to restrict the conceded privileges to the literati, officials, and property-owners, who have in the past always exercised the powers of local government in conjunction with the executive. Under the conditions laid down in articles 3 to 8 of the assembly rules, a précis of which is appended for reference, it is possible for provincial governments to see that no one outside the narrow circle of those who are now privileged registers a vote or enters an assembly. In other words, the assemblies are merely the \"gentry,\" of whom we have heard so much of recent years, but the gentry of different localities brought together in one building and acting coherently may have political force very different from the more or less independent bodies hitherto scattered over areas the smallest of which is larger than Ireland.\n\nApprehensions of Chinese Officialdom. That the Chinese Government are apprehensive is evident from the stress laid upon the limited powers of assemblies in the decrees and speeches of the Viceroys and governors, who do not let the members forget that their deliberations must not wander beyond the boundaries of their provinces; and it is commonly anticipated that the \"local bully\" type of notable, who has always been a thorn in the flesh of governors and governed, will prosper as demagogues under the new régime and acquire a wider and more baleful influence than was possible before.\n\nAssemblies so far appear to have Worked in Harmony with Provincial Governments.— There have been a few signs that the assemblies are not disposed to content themselves with purely local affairs, but as a rule the cases are not serious, and the members appear so far to have fulfilled their appointed rôle of working in harmony with the executive authorities in the interests of their respective provinces.\n\n[2605 -2]\n\nH\n\n155",
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        "content_text": "Acting Appointments.\n\n1902. Feb 11\n\nto\n\nMay 13.\n\nSecretary to the Squatters Board\n\n會\n\nrescut Appointment\n\n1902. May 14\n\nto\n\n1903. March 5.\n\nRegistrar Land Court. N.T.\n\n1903. April 23\n\nto\n\nJune 3.\n\nAssistant Registrar General.\n\n[Any further information which may be considered necessary should be written on this page, and not in a separate sheet]\n\nApplication for Promotion in the Colonial Service.\n\n114\n\nForm to be filled up by the Applicant himself, and returned to the Governor for transmission to the Secretary of State for the Colonies.\n\nHenry Thomas Jackman\n\n82 October 1910.\n\n7210\n\n19 4 MAN\n\nExecutive Engineer\n\nor Water Branch with\n\n1903. June 4\n\nto Oct.4.\n\nAssistant Postmaster General.\n\nDay and year of Birth...\n\n1903. Oct.5\n\nto\n\nPlace of birth\n\n1904. May 11.\n\nPostmaster General.\n\n1904. May 12\n\nto\n\nFather's Name\n\nGeorge Jackman (deceased)\n\nProfession or Occupation, Agriculturist,\n\nAddress...\n\nIf dead, his Name and Profession\n\nshould nevertheless be given.\n\n4 June 1874 Woking, Surrey.\n\nAge last birthday 36\n\nWhether single, married, or a widower\n\nlobe manied this year\n\nNumber of children...Sons\n\n1905. March 7.\n\nAssistant Colonial Secretary and Clerk of\n\nCouncils.\n\nAge respectively\n\nDaughters\n\n15\n\n*\n\n1905. March 8\n\nto\n\nDec. 22.\n\nEducation\n\nCastle School, Guildford\n\nBuvale School\n\nAssistant Superintendent of Police and Police\n\nMagistrate, New Territories.\n\n1907. March 24\n\nto July 27.\n\nPostmaster General.\n\n1907. July 28\n\nto 1908. July 1.\n\n1908. Dec. 6.\n\nAssistant Land Officer, New Territories.\n\nto date. District Officer, New Territories.\n\n1903. Dec. 5\n\nto date. Director of the Widows and Orphans Fund.\n\n1907. Dec. 13.\n\nto date. Member of Board of Examiners.\n\nMention the Schools or Colleges at which you received your education, professional as well as general; and give in each case the date of entry and leaving,\n\nEmmanuel School, Wandsworth\n\n1882-1884\n\n*\n\n1884-1888\n\n1888-1890\n\nCrystal Palace Engineering School\n\n1890 & 1892\n\n\"These dates are only approximate.\n\nCertificates in Mechanical & Civil Engineering, Surveying Professional qualifications (if any), and\n\nthe date at which each was obtained Member\n\nFellow of the Royal Microscopical Society election,\n\nRoyal Microscopical Society tests to testify des Landesbrouk treston Employment From\n\ncompletion of education to date of me\n\nI was employed on various water & sewage works entering the public service\n\nIn charge of the construction of the City of London Mention each position main drainage southall work 1896-1897.\n\nheld by you, the dates\n\nbetween which you held Assistant Engineer for any of the Stafford on Road drainage, Hackney Borough Council, Porto tokees Improvements 1897-1903\n\nleaving & each case the position was vacated for a better one.\n\nTURN OVER.",
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        "content_text": "## 2 \n\n3. Deputy Eichhoff (Progressive People's party) praised administration and working of the colony. Thought personal allowance for the governor must cease with departure of Admiral Truppel. Considered population of Tsingtan ripe for self-government. Praised German high school as being useful in interest of language and civilisation.\n\n4. Admiral Tirpitz confirmed above two speakers as to progress in development of Kiao-chao in trade and organisation of the colony. Advocated the establishment of regular colonial professorships in Berlin and other places. Government were watching the progress of the plague in China, and hoped to overcome the difficulties caused by its outbreak.\n\n(The last telegram from the Governor of Tsingtau concerning the plague was read by Admiral von Tirpitz in the Reichstag, and is attached to this letter; also the steps which Admiral Tirpitz stated have been adopted in the colony for combating the plague.)\n\n5. Deputy Noske (Socialist) made attack on Government and Admiral Tirpitz. Said Social Democrats were never given same advantages as members of other parties. Attacked administration of the colony.\n\n6. Deputy Göreke (National Liberal), who had visited the colony, considered administration and development good and satisfactory; discussing the various problems to be worked out, alluded to Hong Kong, and stated that about fifteen to twenty years after occupation it was a question of whether British Government should retain it. Remarked that Kiao-chao compared favourably in that respect.\n\n7. Herr Ledebour (Socialist) considered possession of a post which was practically taken possession of by force of arms, is, and will remain, a source of international complications. Stated German imports in Tsingtau are declining. Urged colony should be given back to China.\n\n8. Admiral von Tirpitz stated that self-government in Tsingtau is difficult. That they had already offered the citizens a limited self-government, namely a representation based upon general and secret election, but this proposal has not been accepted. In reply to a remark by Socialists that the colony was a step to further annexation and was a source of international complications, stated Chinese had completely convinced themselves that the Germans, in particular, as compared with other nations, had no intention to make conquests. \"We should not only lose Tsingtau, but we should have to abandon altogether our whole political position in China. We should be compelled, among other things, also to withdraw our ships, and should have to have them docked and repaired elsewhere. I will mention no names. What effect the withdrawal of our ships would have in many respects, I do not need to explain to you.\" Spoke generally of the favourable development of trade of the colony.\n\n9. Dr. Arendt (Imperial party) attacked the Socialist (Deputy Ledebour), and urged loss of prestige to the German Empire if Kiao-chao were abandoned. Remarked: \"When Deputy Ledebour speaks of the magnanimity with which the English abandon similar possessions, this shows a lack of far-sighted observation of the English policy. When the English took possession of the Ionian Islands they had a strategic value, but lost it because they afforded no anchorage for modern vessels, therefore they were given to the Greeks as a present.\" Remarked that the Germans in China had not been so short-sighted.\n\n10. Deputy Ledebour (Socialist), in reply to remarks, said: \"I am said to have praised the magnanimity of the English, who abandoned the Ionian Islands. The English are not magnanimous and will never be so. I know them well enough. I have lived six years in England. But they were too wise and reasonable to retain Corfu, &c.; they had no strategic value for them. That Kiao-chao has for us a strategic value, was, in the speech of the State Secretary, only an echo from former times; the facts have, since the Russo-Japanese war, fundamentally changed.\" Urged that in Tsingtau, Chinese trade is promoted—not German trade. \"That German goods arrive in Shanghai, Hong Kong, &c., in China, is the best proof that Tsingtau has no importance.\"\n\n11. The vote was agreed to without further discussion.\n\n## 3 \n\n### Telegram from the Governor of Tsingtau regarding the Plague in China\n\nIN places remote from the railway, news of the plague is difficult to obtain. Only in Layang are deaths reported. Along the railroad the plague is spreading. In Tsinanfu there are deaths from plague among the Vth Chinese division. The settlement is closed; 45 kilom. south of the railroad, from Tsin-tsin to Pukin, a new plague centre; probably also in the Chinese town of Kiao-chao. 250 deaths are reported by Europeans from Chantung; also in Chifu, 200. Mines of Hungschau are working; Fangtse has stopped work (on account of Chinese New Year). Protectorate free; want of labourers in consequence of panic and war rumours; wages have risen, and they demand preventative measures, including free board in quarantine, to which the merchants contribute. The weather raw; the isolation promises success, but is hard. Therefore, with new men, without injury to health and discipline, isolation is only possible if for the present two officers and 358 men kept back.\n\nAdmiral Tirpitz then said: \"We have also in other respects taken every precautionary measure which science affords. We have, in the first place, retained two medical men, including the navy surgeon, Dr. Martini, one of the best pupils of the late Robert Koch, who in this connection rendered good service on account of his valuable experience in foreign countries. We have also a medical advanced post in Tsinanfu, which has to transmit the reports regarding the spread of the plague. We have also taken measures for obtaining lymph, establishment of quarantine hospitals, &c. Further, a hermetic isolation is carried out, namely, the whole length of our land defence position. The details have been given in the committee. The extraordinary advantage of such a land defence position is shown also in time of peace against the plague. Such a hermetic isolation is rather difficult, for it is always a question of from 5 to 6 kilom. of our land fortifications. We have also extended the isolation to the rest of the protectorate, and have also called in the aid of the Chinese country population. The latter has taken part with great activity in this voluntary work. It results that from this, in any case, our personnel has great influence with the Chinese in our protectorate, and that the Chinese population regards our administrative and sanitary activity with great confidence. The Chinese have now voluntary offered to carry out the isolation. It will be of interest to inspect some plague masks, which I have laid upon the table of the House, which are intended as a protection against dangerous inhalations.\" (Applause.)\n\n## 556",
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        "content_text": "GOVERNMENT HOUSE, HONGKONG. 23rd December, 1912.\n\nWith reference to the enclosed copy of a letter from His Majesty's Minister at Peking giving cover to a despatch to His Majesty's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs on the subject of the election by Chinese residents abroad of representatives to the Chinese National Assembly, I have the honour to transmit copy of a paragraph which appeared recently in the Native Press of this Colony.\n\n2. As soon as my attention was drawn to this article I interviewed the Chinese Members of the Legislative Council on the subject. They denied all knowledge of the origin of the article or of the \"Electioneering Society of Chinese abroad\" and suggested that I should question the editors of the Chinese newspapers in the matter. The enclosed note of a conversation held with them by the Colonial Secretary and Registrar-General shows that no explanation was forthcoming.\n\n3. Quite recently there passed through Hongkong Mr. Albert Ah Ket, a Chinese born in Australia, en route to Peking, apparently as delegate from New South Wales to the National Assembly of China. He bore a letter of introduction to me from the Secretary for External Affairs, but unfortunately I did not meet him.\n\nTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE LEWIS HARCOURT, M.P.,\n\n4.\n\nPage 133\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\nEnclosure I.\n\nSir,\n\nThe original text before \"GOVERNMENT HOUSE, HONGKONG. 23rd December, 1912.\" was heavily corrupted and contained many OCR errors. The text has been reordered and corrected for readability while maintaining the original content and structure.\n\nThe initial part of the text:\n\n\"} ? And copy with why & Comms/3432 670. saying that this with obenk. that the for thong takes strong exception to the theater of a representation 1 1 the At Kong Chinese. के डे ASC See 3432 657er He is quite right. We don't always asprich bee the boundless arrogues the Chirice, it seems faris endent that hey And treat It. Kong we prosine of China. alonce Ch 11.2.13 CONFIDENTIAL. Enclosure!.. sir, Dupl C. 6. 3791 RECO REGE 1 FEB 13\"\n\nhas been identified as not directly related to the main content starting from \"GOVERNMENT HOUSE, HONGKONG. 23rd December, 1912.\" and thus was not included in the final output.\n\n \nRECO REGE 1 FEB 13 133\n\n \nhas been kept as is at the end as page information.",
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        "content_text": "# CONFIDENTIAL\n\nC.O. 6040  \n354  \n24 FEB 13\n\n## GOVERNMENT HOUSE, HONGKONG, 31st January, 1913\n\nSir,\n\nI have the honour to report that I took advantage of your permission to visit Canton on the 24th instant in order to call on the Tutu by arrangement which led to his inviting me and those with me to luncheon. I was accompanied by the Colonial Secretary (Mr. A. M. Thomson) and by my Private Secretary and Aide-de-Camp and His Majesty's Consul-General and Vice-Consul went with me to the Tutu's Yamen and were guests at the luncheon party which included the principal Heads of Departments in Canton.\n\nI found the Tutu looking thinner and somewhat more worn and his conversation lacked the sanguine tone evinced at our meeting last summer. I was in his company for nearly 3 hours yet he did not allow his remarks to pass the limit of topics of general conversation. The Minister for the Interior acted as Interpreter and it was he who on this occasion indulged in references to somewhat grandiose schemes of improvement in the City of Canton. A discreet feeler on my part as to the provision of funds for such matters as compensation for the resumption of private property for the purpose of constructing wide streets met with no satisfactory reply.\n\nTowards the close of my visit, I ventured to ask the Tutu for some explanation of the steps taken in Hongkong apparently at the instance of his Government for the purpose of nominating electors to go to Peking for the election of representatives.\n\n## THE RIGHT HONOURABLE LEWIS HARCOURT, M.P.,  \n&c.,  \n&c.,  \n&c.",
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        "content_text": "In any further communication on this subject, please quote \nNo. 16409 and address The Under-Secretary of State, Foreign Office, London.\n\n12 1 C.O 14772 427 Rec 2 MAY 13\n\nThe Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs presents his compliments to the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies and, by direction of the Secretary of State, transmits herewith copy of the under-mentioned paper.\n\nForeign Office, May 1, 1913.\n\n## Reference to previous letter: \nColonial Office, March 26, 1913 (9121)\n\n## Description of Inclosure\n| Name and Date | Subject |\n| --- | --- |\n| Minister at Peking No 121 March 27, 1913 (Similar letter sent to ... | Election to Chinese National Assembly of Representatives of Chinese Resident Abroad |",
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        "content_text": "## Foreign Office, June 30, 1913\n\nWith reference to the letter from this Department of the 1st ultimo, I am directed by Secretary Sir E. Grey to transmit to you herewith a copy of a despatch from His Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires at Peking enclosing further correspondence with the Chinese Government regarding the election to the Chinese National Assembly of deputies to replace Chinese resident abroad.\n\nI am to enquire whether the Secretary of State for the Colonies would desire that His Majesty's Minister's last communication to the Wai-Chiao-Pu should be supplemented in any way.\n\nI am,\nSir,\nYour most obedient,\nhumble Servant,\n\nWranglen\n\nIn any further communication on this subject, please quote No. 28537/13 and address The Under-Secretary of State, Foreign Office, London.\n\nC.O. 22309\nREC. 2 REG JUL 13 594\n\nSay that to S.S. does not desire that the communication be supplemented.\n\n# \nR2/7/13\n\nAs proposed. The presence being machined...\n\n? But there is an obvious main defect of the electoral system...\n\nI daresay it can: but I can't read a word of it.\n\nHE June 7.\n\nPage 363 (if applicable, as per original text, not explicitly present)\n\nThe Under Secretary of State, Colonial Office.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-418 - Public Offices & Others - 1914",
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        "title": "CO129-418 - Public Offices & Others - 1914",
        "content_text": "## Grant Reception for the Purpose of Assessment\n\n1914  \nHONG KONG  \n24520  \n42  \nCO  \n24520  \nREC  \n7 JUL 14  \n\n### Withdrawal of Indian Troops\n\n6 July question of re-election of Percival at  \nLast previous Paper  \n\npresent strength must be determined at once, as if not reduced, arrangements must be made for Indian relief, bringing forth is 19599 very reluctant to accept a very reluctant to accept additional cost involves for least three years. Asks for early consent.\n\nFrom these deductions will include cost of manufacture in frame 2 of Mr Severn's (44538/13) War den... refer... bout abro... thore described sub las working expenses they changes refresent Factory treatment.\n\nThe gro... of the of thre cost of Service munt Preventive present remain a drarim abeyance handing upon the commendations containe I wh. bury the Committee consider Colonial im Refront J recently isrund Interdepartmental appointed relating Military Contributions.\n\n## J. 1.295  \n73 July Sa дегда Jere W.O. wart to Le able to tell 15 1.0. decision by dr Fancourtés ath t this Aoe gan. mumute attached Sin W. Rees Darmien 4 Sineing the stating opinion of 30. ces Bhat to Are W.O atproach sub the Gen? Kelly's Views profioral 16741 that the position verry bad refly that im view state of affairs im.\n\nNext subsequent Paper. that cak? J 5357 5. China of serious the outbreak the possibility sue fifty might of arsistance. (8,105) W-83,086-13, 43,000. 12/13. A £3.W. insufficient H. Kong co (13120) the S. of S Vanry.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915",
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        "title": "CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915",
        "content_text": "34/15 BRITISH HOME AND HOSPITAL FOR\n\nPATRONESS.\n\nH. M. QUEEN ALEXANDRA.\n\nSTREATHAM, S.W.\n\nTELEPHONE NO 932 BANK.\n\nTELEGRAMS, \"INCURABLES, LONDON\"\n\nSECRETARY, EDGAR PENMAN.\n\n21\n\nINCURABLES.\n\n(FOUNDED IN 1861. INCORPORATED BY ROYAL CHARTER. 1899.\n\nROYAL\n\nOFFICES:- 72, CHEAPSIDE\n\nTO SEP 15\n\nLONDON, E.C. Sept;17th.1915\n\nNo.36315/1915\n\nDear Sir\n\nI am duly in receipt of your letter of 15th.inst., and shall\n\nbe glad if you will have the enclosed form filled in on behalf of Mr.S.A.\n\njoville and returned to me.\n\nI also enclose a prospectus,from which you will see that\n\nthe benefits of this Institution are obtained by the election of the sub-\n\nscribers.\n\nThe Under Secretary of State\n\nColonial Office\n\nYours faithfully,\n\nEdgar Penman\n\nSecretary.",
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        "content_text": "ALL THE QUESTIONS MUST BE FULLY ANSWERED, OR THE APPLICATION WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED.\n\nPRELIMINARY FORM.\n\nTHE ROYAL HOSPITAL FOR INCURABLES,\n\n315\n\n616/1915\n\nOffices:\n\nSIR, or MADAM,\n\nPUTNEY HEATH.\n\n4. ST. PAUL'S CHURCHYARD, E.C.\n\nLONDON, E.C.\n\n58\n\nC.O 43145\n\nAro 17 SEP 15\n\n167\n\n14 Sept 19 15\n\nIn reply to an inquiry received, I am sending this Preliminary Form, which I shall be glad if you will kindly fill in with clear and direct answers to the following questions with a view to securing the nomination of a candidate for election to the benefits of this Institution. The benefits of the Royal Hospital for Incurables are intended for the poorer middle classes.\n\nThe half-yearly Elections are held on the last Fridays of May and November. By the votes of Subscribers persons are elected, either as Inmates of the Hospital at Putney Heath, or as Pensioners who remain in their own homes and receive £20 a year.\n\nI.\n\nFull Name and Address.\n\n2. Single or Married?\n\n3. Age last birthday\n\n(Cases under 30 years of age are not eligible).\n\n4. Disease or Disability.\n\nWhere born,\n\n5. Social position, or previous occupation.\n\n6. How maintained at present?\n\n7. Has Parish Relief ever been received?\n\n8. Are parents living?\n\n9. Means of parents, if living, or late occupation, if deceased.\n\n10. Other near relatives.\n\n11. Income of these relatives.\n\n12. Number in families of these relatives.\n\n13. Is admission, or pension sought?\n\n14. Total of all sources of present income.\n\nUpon hearing from you, and should the case be eligible according to the Rules (a copy of which is enclosed), the necessary papers for submission to the Board, will be forwarded. The applications are very numerous; the Board are only able to select a small proportion of the cases submitted to them.\n\nYours faithfully,\n\n...\n\nColonial\n\nDowning\n\nStreet\n\nCHARLES CUTTING,\n\nSecretary.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-431 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [1-2]",
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        "content_text": "... \n\n- 4- \n\n5 - \n\n69 \n\nB. ENDOWMENT.\n\nTESTATOR'S RESIDUARY ESTATE.\n\nThe Testator's estate remaining after providing for the cost of the erection of the original buildings and the equipment of the main Hospital was on the 30th September, 1914 (the date of the last Balance Sheet) as follows:-\n\nAmount invested in Colonial Government Stocks and British Railway Debenture Stocks, ......\n\nAmount advanced on mortgages of Leasehold properties in Hongkong and Kowloon,\n\nEstimated liability for outstanding legacies and annuities under Testator's Will,\n\n$422,830.28\n\n917,000.00\n\nValue of Testator's leasehold properties in Hong-kong and Kowloon remaining unsold,\n\n939,500.00\n\nCash,\n\n43,886.20\n\n$2,323,216.48\n\n20,000.00\n\n$2,303,216.48\n\nDeducting the estimated cost of the erection and equipment of the Maternity Ward, (see previous page),\n\nThere remains an estimated net surplus of,\n\n105,150.00\n\n$2,198,066.48\n\n$112,728.26\n\nAnd the cost of maintaining and running the Hospital for such year was,\n\n48,552.25\n\n$64,176.01\n\nThe net income of the Estate for the year ending 30th September, 1914 was, ..............................\n\nLeaving a surplus income of, .....................\n\nAfter erection of the Maternity Ward the income will be reduced by the sale of the investments required to provide for the cost of such erection, and the cost of maintaining and running the Hospital will be increased by the addition of such Maternity Ward.\n\nIt is the express wish of the Testator that the Hospital should \"be quite self-supporting\" and \"be able to sustain itself\" and that it should be \"absolutely unnecessary at any time during the continuance of this Institution to appeal to the public in any way for funds for its maintenance.\"\n\nIn view of this and having regard to the need for expansion of the Hospital which the Trustees fully anticipate at no distant date and the continual requirements for repairs and renewals of every kind which its maintenance in the climate of Hongkong will entail the Trustees retain the whole of the surplus residue of the Testator's Estate as a fund to provide for the endowment maintenance and future expansion of the Hospital.\n\n6\n\nC. MANAGEMENT.\n\nNAME OF THE HOSPITAL.\n\nI. The Hospital shall be called \"Matilda Hospital.\"\n\nOBJECTS OF THE HOSPITAL.\n\nII. The objects for which the Matilda Hospital is established are:-\n\n(a) To the Glory of God and for the good of men and in memory of Matilda Lincolne Sharp, Resident in this Colony from 1858 to 1893,\n\n(b) To provide, carry on and maintain a Hospital for the benefit of patients primarily who are poor, helpless and forsaken and to provide gratuitous medical relief to any such person suffering from disease or ill-health.\n\n(c) The Hospital shall be considered to be established as a Religious and Evangelistic Institution.\n\n(d) The Hospital is reserved for British, American and European Patients; Chinese, Portuguese or Japanese are to be excluded,\n\n(e) Generally to do all things necessary or expedient for the proper and effective carrying out of these objects in accordance with the terms of the Will.\n\nTHE GOVERNING BODY.\n\nIII. (1) The Management of the Hospital shall be vested in a Board of management hereinafter called the Governing Body, which shall consist of: —\n\n(a) The Trustees for the time being of the Will and Codicil of the Testator or in case of their absence from time to time their respective Attorneys.\n\n(Such Trustees for the time being are hereinafter called the “Trustees of the Will\")\n\n(b) The Bishop of the Diocese for the time being.\n\nThe Chaplain of St. John's Cathedral for the time being.\n\nThe Minister of the Union Church for the time being.\n\n(All the above, including the Trustees of the Will, are hereinafter called \"The Hospital Trustees\".)\n\n(c) Four Gentlemen who shall be invited by the Governing Body at the last ordinary meeting of each year to act as additional Members of the Governing Body for the period of one year. They shall retire from their said Office on the 31st day of December in each year and they shall be eligible for re-election for a further term or terms of office. The Governing Body may at any time fill any casual vacancies amongst the additional Members,\n\n(2) Save as otherwise provided the Governing Body shall have the superintendence, control and management of the Hospital, its Buildings, and the land upon which it stands, or any other land and buildings acquired for the purpose of extending the same.\n\n(3) The Governing Body may make and formulate such Bye-laws and Regulations as they may from time to time think fit in relation to any matters within the scope of their authority for the regulation of the Hospital, its officers and servants, and may vary and repeal the same from time to time.\n\n(4) A Secretary to the Governing Body shall be appointed at the first meeting in each year whose duties and salary shall be fixed and prescribed by the Governing Body.",
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        "content_text": "## GOVERNMENT HOUSE. HONGKONG. 26th. May, 1916.\n\nI have the honour to transmit the enclosed copy of a letter addressed by the Honourable Mr. H. E. Pollock, K.C., to the Colonial Secretary covering copies of a letter addressed under date of the 9th. of March direct to you by Mr. Pollock and of a Petition signed by a number of British residents in this Colony praying for greater representation of the Public on the Executive and Legislative Councils; together with the accompanying copy of correspondence between the Colonial Secretary and Mr. Pollock on the subject of certain points in the letter which he has addressed to you. I have not dealt earlier with this matter because I was waiting to learn whether you wished for my comments on these communications sent, as they were direct, to you.\n\n2. The Petitioners ask that two additional Unofficial Members may be added to the Executive Council, one to be elected by the Chamber of Commerce and the other by the Non-Official Justices of the Peace, and that any future vacancies on the Council may be filled by election by one of those bodies. No reasons are adduced for this change in the Constitution except that the two bodies mentioned \"have long been recognised as representatives of the Public for electoral purposes\".\n\n3. The Petitioners also ask that an Unofficial majority be created in the Legislative Council by increasing the number...\n\n## RIGHT HONOURABLE ANDREW BONAR LAW, M.P.\n\nMr. Stewart to the effect that sufficient time has elapsed to prevent the result of petition to H. Kous privality in anticipation of the despatch to the Secretary of State. G.G. 20.7.16.\n\nAs the correspondence of 34-6 is bound, I have handed over papers relating to my Chamberlain, this for future reference of the case of Low Pension Ch.\n\nThe allotted time hangs in the best place for constitutional changes of the third proposed; and the present petition (which is a fresh production) is further weakened by the correspondence enclosed.\n\n31.7.16 As. M. 3.7. Am 11.8 X. The P.S. has informed me that the Governor does not think it necessary to say anything to Newart. I have accordingly destroyed the reply prepared to his request. `JR5/9/1` N° N 209.\n\n## RECEIVED 11 JUL 1916\n\n32610 GOVERNMENT HOUSE. HONGKONG. 26th May, 1916. 210",
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        "content_text": "One is, in fact, forced to believe that such almost automatic and decidedly arbitrary employments of the Official Vote, as are referred to above, most decidedly would not take place if the Unofficials were not in a permanent and hopeless minority, being unable by any possible powers of persuasion or argument to obtain a majority of votes. In short, Officials can defeat the Unofficials with neatness and despatch every single time, no matter how strong the weight of public opinion is behind the latter, and the so-called representatives of the public on the Council have no real power whatever to give effect to the wishes of the public.\n\n10. I am forwarding the Petition with the original signatures thereto and a copy of this covering letter to the Colonial Secretary here for transmission to His Excellency The Governor, and I am at the same time asking, and I submit that my request is a perfectly reasonable one, that I should be furnished with a copy of every Despatch of His Excellency The Governor and of the Hongkong Government to you, upon or in any way connected with the Petition, and of any enclosures therein, in order that I may have, in consultation with others, an opportunity of replying to such Despatch or Despatches and enclosures (if any).\n\nWith many apologies for the length of this letter.\n\nI remain, Sir,\n\nYour Most Obedient Servant,\n\nbrigued, 24.8.barted\n\nEnclosure 3.\n\n## PETITION\n## (REG REG 11 JUL 16)\n## For Greater Representation of the Public on the Executive and Legislative Councils.\n\nTo The  \nRight Honourable The  \nSecretary of State for the Colonies.\n\nThe Humble Petition of the under-signed British Residents in the Colony of Hongkong Showeth as follows:-\n\n1. Your Petitioners most respectfully submit for the gracious consideration of His Majesty The King that it is fitting and proper that the number of Unofficial Members on the Executive and Legislative Councils should be increased, and that the principle of election should be extended.\n\n2. In the first place, in regard to the Executive Council, Your Petitioners would point out that there are only 2 Unofficial Members on that Council out of a total of 9 Members and also that those 2 Unofficial Members are appointed on the recommendation or nomination of the Governor of this Colony, instead of being elected by bodies representative of the Public.\n\nThe Chamber of Commerce and the Non-Official Justices of the Peace for this Colony have long been recognized as representatives of the Public for electoral purposes, those bodies having, since 1884, exercised the privilege of each of them electing 1 Unofficial Member to the Legislative Council; and we now petition that there be additional Unofficial Members on the Executive Council,",
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        "document_key": "CO129-435 - Governor Sir May & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1916 [9-11]",
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        "content_text": "# HONGKONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL\n\nstates in a minute addressed to Dr. Johnson under date the 10th October:-\"I have in all instances in which drugs asked for were not supplied accepted your ruling, and have not made a protest.\"\n\nI do not think that I can usefully add anything further. Indents have been minutely, I may almost say meticulously, examined, by the Assistant Colonial Secretary principally, amounts have been added and subtracted, totals have been checked; and in the result, not even a \"ridiculous mistake\" has emerged.\n\nThe following figures, however, regarding the principal reductions made by Dr. Johnson in the indent of the autumn of 1913, may be of interest to hon. members:\n\n| Article | Used in Amount | Average | Stock at Date of Indent | Amount asked for | Amount allowed by Dr. Johnson |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Boracic Acid | 1011, 1012, 1013 |  |  | 831 lbs. | 30 lbs. |\n| Ether |  |  |  | 2,060 | 2,500 | 1,500 |\n| Bismuth Salicylate |  |  |  | 4 | 96 | 0 |\n| Subnitrate |  |  |  | 0 | 0%. |\n| Potassium Iodide |  |  |  | 485 | 501 | 36 |\n| Quinine |  |  |  | 112 oz. |  |\n| Acid Acetosal (Aspirin) |  |  |  | 13 | 30 | 0 |\n| Creosote Carbonate |  |  |  | 7 | 14 | 0 |\n| Glycerine |  |  |  | 49 | 86 | 50 lbs. |\n| Migrainine |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| Eucalyptus Oil |  |  |  | 27 | 54 | 0 |\n| Oleum Ric. E. I. Opt. Castor Oil |  |  |  | 364 | 200 |  |\n| Turpentine |  |  |  | 133 | 195 | 200 | 200 | 210 | 200 | 50 |\n| Carbolated Creosote (Jeyes Fluid) |  |  |  | 440 | 220 |  |\n\nNotes: \n(a) It must be remembered that the indent was intended to cover a shorter period than had previously been the case.\n(b) With regard to ether, Dr. Johnson reduced the requisition from 50 lbs. to 25 lbs., but at the same time, he allowed 100 lbs. of chloroform although only 75 lbs. had been asked for.\n(c) The 84 lbs. of potassium iodide and the 200 gallons of turpentine disallowed by Dr. Johnson represented a saving of £5 and £30, respectively, exclusive of Crown Agents' and shipping charges.\n(d) Dr. Johnson did not think fit to order any migrainine.\n\nIt may be that some drug or disinfectant has got through the net so carefully set to entrap it; the hon. member may be aware of something which the Government has failed to find; and, if so, I hope that he will bring it into the light of day. The hospital indents are all open to his scrutiny, if this will assist him. The reply then, of the Government, is that its minutest investigation has failed to reveal any sin or omission in the manner of the administration of the Civil Hospital drugs and disinfectants by Dr. Johnson; that, on the contrary, it is satisfied that Dr. Johnson has gradually succeeded in compelling systematic and efficient store administration in place of a lack of system little short of scandalous; that it is satisfied that, in any sense of ill-considered reduction, the stock of drugs and disinfectants kept in store at the Government Civil Hospital was not reduced by the present Principal Civil Medical Officer before the war.\n\n## Mr. Pollock's Questions\n\nTHE COLONIAL SECRETARY--I regret to inform the Hon. member (Mr. Pollock) that the time occupied in preparing the statement just read by His Excellency was so great that it has been impossible to complete the replies to the questions standing in the hon. member's name in the \"Orders of the Day.\" Some of them have been compiled, but it has been impossible to complete them.\n\nThe questions referred to were:\n\n1. Of the sums of $9,905, $10,147, and $9,714 stated at the last meeting of Council to have been expended in the years 1913, 1914, and 1915, respectively, will the Government state:\n(i) How much of that expenditure represents drugs and disinfectants:\n(a) supplied from home;\n(b) purchased locally?\n(ii) Whether it is not the fact that the price of drugs and disinfectants has gone up considerably since the beginning of the war, with the result that the same sum of money purchased considerably less drugs and disinfectants since the war than it did before the war? Whether any savings were effected on the amounts voted for drugs and disinfectants in the years 1914 and 1915 or either of them, and, if so, what were the amounts of such savings?\n(iii) ...\n\n2. With reference to the morning allocation of Sisters at the Civil Hospital which was announced by His Excellency the Governor at the Council Meeting of the 3rd August last, namely:-\nA Block. Morning, 1 Sister on each floor; Operating Theatre, 1 Sister; will the Government state:\n(i) On what dates between the 22nd August and the date of these Questions (12th October) it has been found possible to carry out the said intended morning scheme of allocation, namely, 1 Sister on each floor of A Block, and a separate Sister for the Operating Theatre; and\n(ii) On what dates, between the said dates, one Sister alone has had to attend in the morning not only to the two floors in A Block but also to the Operating Theatre as well, that is to say, to do work which, under the above scheme of allocation, is supposed to be done by three Sisters.\n\n## The Recent Petition\n\nHON. MR. POLLOCK --Sir, I beg to give notice that I shall put the following questions at the next meeting of the Legislative Council, namely:-\n\n1. With reference to the following statements in paragraph 5 of the Despatch of H.E. The Governor, of the 26th May, 1916, to the Secretary of State for the Colonies on the subject of the recent Petition for greater representation of the public on the Executive and Legislative Councils, namely:-\"It is quite impracticable to apply the principle of election to appointments to a body like the Executive Council and it does not seem necessary to set out the very obvious reasons for which such a proposal could not be entertained\": Will the Government state what are the reasons why such a proposal could not be entertained?\n\n2. Will the Government also state for what reasons two out of the four non-Chinese Unofficial Members of the Legislative Council are Government nominees instead of being elected as Members?\n\n## The Budget\n\nTHE COLONIAL SECRETARY moved the first reading of a Bill intituled \"An Ordinance to apply a sum not exceeding eight millions six hundred and five thousand, one hundred and five dollars to the Public Service of the year 1917, for the following purposes:-\n\n| Expenditure |  |\n| --- | --- |\n| Governor | $85,011 |\n| Colonial Secretary's Department and Legislature | 79,169 |\n| Colonial Secretary's Special Expenditure | 1,150 |\n| Secretariat for Chinese Affairs | 57,345 |\n| Audit Department | 35,294 |\n| Treasury | 67,460 |\n| Harbour Master's Department | 189,454 |\n| Harbour Master, Special Expenditure | 740 |\n| Imports and Exports Department | 977,999 |\n|  | 22,750 |\n|  | 6,100 |\n| Royal Observatory | 714,213 |\n| Royal Observatory, Special Expenditure | 272,478 |\n| Miscellaneous Services | 1,000,361 |\n| Judicial and Legal Depts. |  |\n| Police and Prison Departments | 381,899 |\n| Police and Prison Departments, Special Expenditure | 39,000 |\n| Medical Department | 51,338 |\n| Sanitary Department | 650 |\n| Sanitary Department, Special Expenditure | 338,011 |\n| Botanical and Forestry Dept. | 1,900 |\n| Botanical and Forestry Department, Special Expenditure | 70,152 |\n| Education | 464,981 |\n| Education, Special Expenditure | 589,200 |\n| Military Expenditure: Volunteers | 1,545,400 |\n| Public Works:- | 438,350 |\n| Public Works Dept. | 400 |\n| Public Works, Recurrent | 366,381 |\n| Public Works, Extraordinary | 158,896 |\n| Post Office | 340,700 |\n| Post Office, Special Expenditure | 44,159 |\n| Kowloon-Canton Railway: Working Expenses |  |\n| Special Expenditure |  |\n| Pensions |  |\n| Charitable Services |  |\n| Total | $8,605,105 |\n\nHIS EXCELLENCY said:-Honourable Members of the Legislative Council.-I think that you will agree that the financial position disclosed by the Estimates before you must be regarded as eminently satisfactory. The assets and liabilities of the Colony at the end of the year 1915 were presented in a new form, and, as has been already pointed out, they are now on a cash basis. The result of abandoning the proposed loan of £250,000, which had appeared as an asset, and debiting...",
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        "content_text": "# HONGKONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL\n\n## States in a minute addressed to Dr. Johnson under date the 10th October\n\"I have in all instances in which drugs asked for were not supplied accepted your ruling, and have not made a protest.\"\n\nI do not think that I can usefully add anything further. Indents have been minutely, I may almost say meticulously, examined, by the Colonial Secretary principally, amounts have been added and subtracted, totals have been checked; and in the result not even a \"ridiculous mistake\" has emerged.\n\nThe following figures, however, regarding the principal reductions made by Dr. Johnson in the indent of the autumn of 1913, may be of interest to hon. members:\n\n| Article | Average Amount Government | Stock at Date of Indent, 1913 | Amount asked for | Amount allowed |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Horacio Acid |  |  |  |  |\n| (5.) Ether |  |  | 50 lbs. | 25 lbs. |\n| Bismuth Salicylate |  |  |  |  |\n| Do. Subnitrate (c) Potassium Iodide |  |  | 168 lbs. | 84 lbs. |\n| Quinine |  |  |  |  |\n| Acid Acetosal (Aspirin) |  |  |  |  |\n| Creosote Carbonate |  |  |  |  |\n| Glycerine |  |  |  |  |\n| (d.) Migrainiae |  |  |  | 0 |\n| Encalyptus Oil |  |  |  |  |\n| Oleum Ric. E. I. Opi. Castor Oil |  |  |  |  |\n| (r.) Turpentine |  |  | 200 gallons | 0 |\n| Carbolated Creosote (Jeyta Fluid) |  |  | ***** | 3 |\n\nIt must be remembered that the indent was intended to cover a shorter period than had previously been the case.\n\n(b) With regard to ether Dr. Johnson reduced the requisition from 50 lbs. to 25 lbs., but at the same time he allowed 10 lbs. of chloroform although only 7.5 lbs. had been asked for.\n\n(c) The 84 lbs. of potassium iodide and the 200 gallons of turpentine disallowed by Dr. Johnson represented a saving of 25% and respectively, exclusive of Crown Agents' and shipping charges.\n\n(d) Dr. Johnson did not think fit to order any migrainiae.\n\nIt may be that some drug, or some disinfectant has got through the net so carefully set to entrap it; the hon. member may be aware of something which the Government has failed to find; and, if so, I hope that he will bring it into the light of day. The hospital indents are all open to his scrutiny, if this will assist him. The reply then, of the Government, is that its minutest investigation has failed to reveal any sin of omission in the manner of the administration of the Civil Hospital drugs and disinfectants by Dr. Johnson; that on the contrary it is satisfied that Dr. Johnson has gradually succeeded in compelling systematic and efficient store administration in place of a lack of system little short of scandalous; that it is satisfied that, in any sense of ill-considered reduction, the stock of drugs and disinfectants kept in store at the Government Civil Hospital was not reduced by the present Principal Civil Medical Officer before the war.\n\n## Mr. Pollock's Questions\n\nTHE COLONIAL SECRETARY - I regret to inform the Hon. member (Mr. Pollock) that the time occupied in preparing the statement just read by His Excellency was so great that it has been impossible to complete the replies to the questions standing in the Hon. member's name in the Orders of the Day. Some of them have been compiled, but it has been impossible to complete them.\n\nThe questions referred to were:\n\n1. Of the sums of $9,905, $10,147, and $9,714 stated at the last meeting of Council to have been expended in the years 1913, 1914 and 1915, respectively, will the Government state \n    (i) How much of that expenditure represents drugs and disinfectants. (a) supplied from home; (b) purchased locally? \n    (ii) Whether it is not the fact that the price of drugs and disinfectants has gone up considerably since the beginning of the war, with the result that the same sum of money purchased considerably less drugs and disinfectants since the war than it did before the war?\n    (iii) Whether any savings were effected on the amounts voted for drugs and disinfectants in the years 1914 and 1915 or either of them, and, if so, what were the amounts of such savings?\n\n2. With reference to the morning allocation of Sisters at the Civil Hospital which was announced by His Excellency the Governor at the Council Meeting of the 3rd August last, namely:-\n    A Block. Morning, 1 Sister on each floor; Operating Theatre, 1 Sister; will the Government state \n    (I) On what dates between the 22nd August and the date of these Questions (12th October) it has been found possible to carry out the said intended morning scheme of allocation, namely, 1 Sister on each floor of A Block, and a separate Sister for the Operating Theatre; and \n    (II) On what dates, between the said dates, one Sister alone has had to attend in the morning not only to the two floors in A Block but also to the Operating Theatre as well, that is to say, to do work which, under the above scheme of allocation, is supposed to be done by three Sisters.\n\n## The Recent Petition\n\nHON. MR. POLLOCK - Sir, I beg to give notice that I shall put the following questions at the next meeting of the Legislative Council, namely:-\n\n1. With reference to the following statements in paragraph 5 of the Despatch of H. E. The Governor, of the 28th May, 1918, to the Secretary of State for the Colonies on the subject of the recent Petition for greater representation of the public on the Executive and Legislative Councils, namely: \"It is quite impracticable to apply the principle of election to appointments to a body like the Executive Council and it does not seem necessary to set out the very obvious reasons for which such a proposal could not be entertained\"; Will the Government state what are the reasons why such a proposal could not be entertained?\n\n2. Will the Government also state for what reasons two out of the four non-Chinese Unofficial Members of the Legislative Council are Government nominees instead of being elected as Members?\n\n## The Budget\n\nTHE COLONIAL SECRETARY moved the first reading of a Bill intituled \"An Ordinance to apply a sum not exceeding eight millions six hundred and five thousand, one hundred and five dollars to the Public Service of the year 1917, for the following purposes:-\n\n| Expenditure | $ |\n| --- | --- |\n| Governor | 85,011 |\n| Colonial Secretary's Department and Legislature | 79,169 |\n| Colonial Secretary's Special | 1,130 |\n| Secretariat for Chinese Affairs | 57,345 |\n| Audit Department | 35,294 |\n| Treasury | 87,460 |\n| Harbour Master's Department | 189,454 |\n| Harbour Master, Special Expenditure | 740 |\n| Imports and Exports Department | 977,999 |\n| Royal Observatory | 2,750 |\n| Royal Observatory, Special Expenditure | 6,100 |\n| Miscellaneous Services | 714,213 |\n| Judicial and Legal Depts. | 272,478 |\n| Police and Prison Departments | 1,000,361 |\n| Police and Prison Departments, Special Expenditure |  |\n| Medical Department | 134 |\n| Sanitary Department | 264,000 |\n| Sanitary Department, Special Expenditure | 381,899 |\n| Botanical and Forestry Dept. | 39,000 |\n| Botanical and Forestry Department, Special Expenditure | 51,338 |\n| Education | 650 |\n| Education, Special Expenditure | 339,011 |\n| Military Expenditure:- Volunteers | 1,900 |\n| Public Works:- | 70,152 |\n| Public Works Dept. | 464,981 |\n| Public Works, Recurrent | 589,200 |\n| Public Works, Extraordinary | 1,545,400 |\n| Post Office | 438,350 |\n| Post Office, Special Expenditure | 400 |\n| Kowloon-Canton Railway: Working Expenses | 366,381 |\n| Special Expenditure | 158,896 |\n| Pensions | 340,700 |\n| Charitable Services | 44,259 |\n| Total | $8,605,105 |\n\nHIS EXCELLENCY said:- Honourable Members of the Legislative Council,- I think that you will agree that the financial position disclosed by the Estimates before you must be regarded as eminently satisfactory. The assets and liabilities of the Colony at the end of the year 1915 were presented in a new form, and, as has been already pointed out, they are now on a cash basis. The result of abandoning the proposed loan of £250,000, which had appeared as an asset, and debiting...",
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        "content_text": "# HONGKONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL\n\nstates in a minute addressed to Dr. Johnson under date the 10th October:-\"I have in all instances in which drugs asked for were not supplied accepted your ruling, and have not made a protest.\"\n\nI do not think that I can usefully add anything further. Indents have been minutely, I may almost say meticulously, examined, by the Assistant Colonial Secretary principally; amounts have been added and subtracted; totals have been checked; and in the result, not even a \"ridiculous mistake\" has emerged.\n\nThe following figures, however, regarding the principal reductions made by Dr. Johnson in the indent of the autumn of 1913, may be of interest to members:-\n\n| Article | Average Amount | Amount asked for | Amount allowed |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Boracic Acid | 177 | 200 | 50 |\n| Ether | 85 | 50 lbs. | 25 lbs. |\n| Bismuth Salicylate | 111 |  |  |\n| Bismuth Subnitrate | 112 |  |  |\n| Potassium Iodide | 1818 | 284 lbs. | 200 lbs. |\n| Quinine |  |  |  |\n| Acid Acetosal (Aspirin) |  |  |  |\n| Creosote Carbonate |  |  |  |\n| Glycerine |  | 1,068 |  |\n| Migrænine |  |  | 0 |\n| Eucalyptus Oil |  |  | 2,300 |\n| Oleum Ricini, F. 1. Opt. Castor |  | 1,500 | 800 |\n| Turpentine |  | 250 | 50 gallons |\n| Carbolated Creosote (Jeyes Fluid) |  | 112 | 60 |\n\n(a) It must be remembered that the indent was intended to cover a shorter period than had previously been the case.\n\n(b) With regard to ether Dr. Johnson reduced the requisition from 50 lbs. to 25 lbs., but at the same time he allowed 10 lbs. of chloroform although only 7.5 lbs. had been asked for.\n\n(c) The 84 lbs. of potassium iodide and the 200 gallons of turpentine disallowed by Dr. Johnson represented a saving of £50 and £23 respectively, exclusive of Crown Agents' and shipping charges.\n\n(d) Dr. Johnson did not think it necessary to order any migrainine.\n\nIt may be that some drug, or some disinfectant has got through the net so carefully set to entrap it; the hon. member may be aware of something which the Government has failed to find; and, if so, I hope that he will bring it into the light of day. The hospital indents are all open to his scrutiny, if this will assist him. The reply then, of the Government, is that its minutest investigation has failed to reveal any sin of omission in the manner of the administration of the Civil Hospital drugs and disinfectants by Dr. Johnson; that on the contrary it is satisfied that Dr. Johnson has gradually succeeded in compelling systematic and efficient store administration in place of a lack of system little short of scandalous; that it is satisfied that, in any sense of ill-considered reduction, the stock of drugs and disinfectants kept in store at the Government Civil Hospital was not reduced by the present Principal Civil Medical Officer before the war.\n\n## Mr. Pollock's Questions\n\nTHE COLONIAL SECRETARY-I regret to inform the Hon. member (Mr. Pollock) that the time occupied in preparing the statement just read by His Excellency was so great that it has been impossible to complete the replies to the questions standing in the Hon. member's name in the Orders of the Day. Some of them have been compiled, but it has been impossible to complete them.\n\nThe questions referred to were as follows:-\n\n1. Of the sums of $9,905, $10,147, and $9,714 stated at the last meeting of Council to have been expended in the years 1913, 1914 and 1915, respectively, will the Government state \n   (i)-How much of that expenditure represents drugs and disinfectants (a) supplied from home; (b) purchased locally?\n   (ii)-Whether it is not the fact that the price of drugs and disinfectants has gone up considerably since the beginning of the war, with the result that the same sum of money purchased considerably less drugs and disinfectants since the war than it did before the war?\n   (iii)-Whether any savings were effected on the amounts voted for drugs and disinfectants in the years 1914 and 1915 or either of them, and, if so, what were the amounts of such savings?\n\n2. With reference to the morning allocation of Sisters at the Civil Hospital which was announced by His Excellency the Governor at the Council Meeting of the 3rd August last, namely:- \n   A Block. Morning, 1 Sister on each floor; Operating Theatre, 1 Sister; will the Government state \n   (i)-On what dates between the 22nd August and the date of these Questions (12th October) it has been found possible to carry out the said intended morning scheme of allocation, namely, 1 Sister on each floor of A Block, and a separate Sister for the Operating Theatre; and \n   (ii)-On what dates, between the said dates, one Sister alone has had to attend in the morning not only to the two floors in A Block but also to the Operating Theatre as well, that is to say, to do work which, under the above scheme of allocation, is supposed to be done by three Sisters.\n\n## The Recent Petition\n\nHON. MR. POLLOCK-SIR, I beg to give notice that I shall put the following questions at the next meeting of the Legislative Council, namely:-\n\n1. With reference to the following statements in paragraph 5 of the Despatch of H.E. The Governor, of the 28th May 1916, to the Secretary of State for the Colonies on the subject of the recent Petition for greater representation of the public on the Executive and Legislative Councils, namely: \"It is quite impracticable to apply the principle of election to appointments to a body like the Executive Council and it does not seem necessary to set out the very obvious reasons for which such a proposal could not be entertained\": Will the Government state what are the reasons why such a proposal could not be entertained?\n\n2.-Will the Government also state for what reasons two out of the four non-Chinese Unofficial Members of the Legislative Council are Government nominees instead of being elected as Members?\n\n## The Budget\n\nTHE COLONIAL SECRETARY moved the first reading of a Bill intituled \"An Ordinance to apply a sum not exceeding eight millions six hundred and five thousand, one hundred and five dollars to the Public Service of the year 1917, for the following purposes:-\n\n| Expenditure |  |\n| --- | --- |\n| Secretariat for Chinese Affairs | 85,012 |\n| Audit Department | 79,169 |\n| Treasury | 1,150 |\n| Governor | 57,345 |\n| Colonial Secretary's Department and Legislature | 35,291 |\n| Colonial Secretary's Department | 67,460 |\n| Special | 189,454 |\n| Harbour Master's Department | 740 |\n| Harbour Master, Special Expenditure | 977,999 |\n| Imports and Exports Department | 22,750 |\n| Royal Observatory | 6,100 |\n| Royal Observatory, Special Expenditure |  |\n| Judicial and Legal Depts. | 714,213 |\n| Police and Prison Departments | 272,478 |\n| Police and Prison Departments, Special Expenditure | 1,000,361 |\n| Medical Department | 264,030 |\n| Sanitary Department | 381,899 |\n| Sanitary Department, Special Expenditure | 39,000 |\n| Botanical and Forestry Dept. | 51,338 |\n| Botanical and Forestry Department, Special Expenditure | 650 |\n| Education | 288,011 |\n| Education, Special Expenditure | 1,900 |\n| Military Expenditure: Volunteers | 70,152 |\n| Public Works: | 464,981 |\n| Public Works Dept. | 589,200 |\n| Public Works, Recurrent | 1,545,400 |\n| Public Works, Extraordinary | 438,350 |\n| Post Office | 400 |\n| Post Office, Special Expenditure | 366,381 |\n| Kowloon-Canton Railway :- Working Expenses | 159,896 |\n| Special Expenditure | 340,700 |\n| Pensions | 44,150 |\n| Charitable Services |  |\n| **Total** | **$8,605,105** |\n\nHIS EXCELLENCY said:-Honourable Members, I think that you will agree that the financial position disclosed by the Estimates before you must be regarded as eminently satisfactory. The assets and liabilities of the Colony at the end of the year 1915 were presented in a new form, and, as has been already pointed out, they are now on a cash basis. The result of abandoning the proposed loan of £250,000, which had appeared as an asset, and debiting...",
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        "content_text": "# LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL\n\nA meeting of the Hongkong Legislative Council was held on October 31st at the Council Chamber.\n\nThe following were present:— **HIS EXCELLENCE THE GOVERNOR**, **SIR FRANCIS HENRY MAY, K.C.M.G.**  \n**HIS EXCELLENCY MAJOR-GENERAL F. VENTRIS** (General Officer Commanding Troops in China).  \nHon. Mr. CLAUD SEVERN (Colonial Secretary).  \nHon. Mr. J. H. KEMP (Attorney General).  \nHon. Mr. A. M. THOMSON (Colonial Treasurer).  \nHon. Mr. E. R. HALLIFAX (Secretary for Chinese Affairs).  \nHon. Mr. W. CHATHAM, C.M.G. (Director of Public Works).  \nHon. Mr. C. McI. Messer (Captain Superintendent of Police).  \nHon. Mr. Wai YOK, C.M.G.  \nHon. Mr. H. E. POLLOCK, K.C.  \nHon. Mr. E. SHELLIN  \nHon. Mr. D. LANDALE.  \nHon. Mr. LAU CHU PAK.  \nHon. Mr. P. H. HOLTOAK.  \nMr. A. G. M. FLETCHER (Clerk of Council).\n\n## MINUTES\nThe minutes of the last meeting were confirmed.\n\n## PAPERS\nThe COLONIAL SECRETARY, by command of H.E. the Governor, laid on the table Sessional Paper, 16, being an abstract showing the difference between the estimates of expenditure for 1916 and 1917.\n\n## FINANCE\nThe COLONIAL SECRETARY, by command of H.E. the Governor, laid upon the table report of meeting of the Finance Committee held on October 17th (No. 8), and moved that it be adopted.  \nThe COLONIAL TREASURER seconded, and this was agreed to.  \nThe COLONIAL SECRETARY, by command of H.E. the Governor, laid upon the table Financial Minutes Nos. 34 to 38, and moved that they be referred to the Finance Committee.\n\n## UNOFFICIAL REPRESENTATION\nHon. Mr. H. E. POLLOCK asked: \nWith reference to the following statements in paragraph 4 of the Despatch of His Excellency the Governor to the Secretary of State for the Colonies on the subject of the recent Petition for greater representation of the public on the Executive and Legislative Councils, namely:-\" It is quite impracticable to apply the principle of election to appointments to a body like the Executive Council and it does not seem necessary to set out the very obvious reasons for which such a proposal could not be entertained\": \n1. Will the Government state what are the reasons why such a proposal could not be entertained?\n\nThe COLONIAL SECRETARY replied: The Government is not prepared to make a statement on the subject.\n\nHon. Mr. H. E. POLLOCK: I rise to a point of order with regard to question 2—Will the Government also state for what reasons two out of the four non-Chinese Unofficial Members of the Legislative Council are Government nominees instead of being elected as Members?\n\nH.E. the Governor: I venture to submit that I think fit. But, owing to delay in presentation of the account a sum of $530 in respect of drugs ordered for 1914 was not paid until 1915. It is regretted that a mistake was made in respect of the total expenditure in 1914.  \nYour Excellency and I say this again with respect and with all due deference has no right to ask questions being asked.\n\nThe amount was about half the local expenditure in 1914 was in respect of requirements which could not have been foreseen.\n\nHon. Mr. H. E. POLLOCK: (v.) 1914, $2,742; 1915, $2,785.  \n(i)-Yes, in some instances,  \n2(i)-On the 22nd August.  \nSeptember 1, 8-15, 19-30.  \nOctober 1, 4, 9-12. On no occasion without a Nurse's assistance. Owing to leave and sickness it was not possible to give effect to the allocation arranged by the Sister.\n\nH.E. the Governor: Since the 28th July three Sisters have been granted long leave to England, one sister on sick leave from the 8th to the 17th September, and one has been similarly absent from the 13th September up to date; while under the new system of granting one and if possible two days off were given to the Sisters in August, 11 days in September and 5 days in October up to the 12th instant. This short leave absorbs one Sister.\n\nH.E. the Governor: I have no objection to the hon. member sending the letter to the Press. As regards my power to refuse to accept a question, that has been established by precedent in the House of Commons, and it has certainly been established here by various precedents. I regret very much that the question of the hon. member found its way into the Orders of the Day; that was quite inadvertent.\n\n## A CORRECTION\nH.E. the Governor: Before proceeding with the Orders of the Day I should like to correct a statement which I made at the last meeting of the Council. In summing up the charitable and other contributions made by this Colony to the war, I said that the Tai Yau Bank contributed one aeroplane at a cost of £1,500, and that the community of Hongkong had contributed two aeroplanes at a cost of £3,000. As a matter of fact, the Tai Yau Bank contributed half the cost of three aeroplanes, and the Hongkong community the other half. Therefore the Tai Yau Bank's contribution was considerably larger than I stated. I regret the error.\n\n## GOVERNMENT CIVIL HOSPITAL\nHon. Mr. H. E. POLLOCK asked: \n1. Of the sums of $9,905, $10,147, and $9,714 stated at the last meeting of Council to have been expended in the years 1913, 1914, and 1915, respectively, will the Government state \n(a) How much of that expenditure represents drugs and disinfectants \n(i) supplied from home; \n(ii) purchased locally?\n\nThe COLONIAL SECRETARY replied as follows: \n1. (a) (i) 1914, $2,742; 1915, $2,785.  \n(ii) The information is not readily available.\n\nHon. Mr. H. E. POLLOCK asked: \n2. With reference to the morning statements in paragraph 4 of the Despatch... (rest of the question as in original)\n\nThe COLONIAL SECRETARY replied: ...\n\nHon. Mr. H. E. POLLOCK asked: \n1. (b) The balance was spent locally. Might I be informed why the question suddenly and mysteriously vanishes from the agenda? I take it, Sir, I am at liberty to send the letter of the Clerk of the Council to the Press; otherwise, it was the Sister who was on leave and sickness.\n\nThe COLONIAL SECRETARY replied: \n1. (i)-Whether it is not the fact that the price of drugs and disinfectants has gone up considerably since the beginning of the war, with the result that the same sum of money purchased considerably less drugs and disinfectants since the war than it did before the war? \n(ii) Whether any savings were effected on the amounts voted for drugs and disinfectants in the years 1914 and 1915 or either of them, and, if so, what were the amounts of such savings?\n\nThe COLONIAL SECRETARY replied as follows: \n(1)-Yes.  \n(2)-No savings were effected.\n\nHon. Mr. H. E. POLLOCK asked: \nWith reference to the allocation of Sisters at the Civil Hospital which was announced by His Excellency the Governor on the 28th May, 1916, namely:- \nA Block. Morning, 1 Sister on each floor; \nOperating Theatre, 1 Sister; \n(a) On what dates between the 22nd August and the date of these Questions (12th October) it has been found possible to carry out the said intended morning scheme of allocation, namely, 1 Sister to each floor of A Block and a separate Sister for the Operating Theatre; and \n(b) On what dates, between the said dates, one Sister alone had to attend not only to the two floors in A Block but also to the Operating Theatre as well, that is to say, to do work which, under the above scheme of allocation, is supposed to be done by three Sisters?\n\nThe COLONIAL SECRETARY replied as follows: \n(a) September 1, 8-15, 19-30; October 1, 4, 9-12.  \n(b) On other dates between 22nd August and 12th October.\n\nHon. Mr. H. E. POLLOCK asked: \n3. What was the value of the drugs and disinfectants, consigned to Hongkong Government, which went down in the `Fataka Maru` in December, 1915?\n\nThe COLONIAL SECRETARY replied: \n3. The value of the consignment was $501.89.\n\n## TRUSTEES' ORDINANCE\nThe ATTORNEY-GENERAL introduced a Bill intituled, \"An Ordinance to amend the Trustees Ordinance, 1901,”  \nThe Objects and Reasons state that the object of this Bill is to empower trustees to invest trust funds in the loan authorised by the recent War Loan Ordinance, 1916.  \nThe COLONIAL SECRETARY seconded.  \nThe ATTORNEY-GENERAL then moved the suspension of the Standing Orders to allow of the Bill being taken through the remaining stages at that meeting.  \nThe COLONIAL SECRETARY seconded, and this was agreed to.  \nThe ATTORNEY-GENERAL then moved the second reading of the Bill. In doing so he said: The object of the Bill, Sir, is to give trustees power to invest trust funds in the Hongkong War Loan.  \nThe COLONIAL SECRETARY seconded, and the Bill was read a second time.  \nCouncil then went into Committee to consider the Bill clause by clause.  \nThe Bill passed through Committee without amendment, and on Council resuming,  \nThe ATTORNEY-GENERAL moved that the Bill be read a third time.  \nThe COLONIAL SECRETARY seconded, and the Bill was then read a third time and passed.\n\n## THE BUDGET\nThe COLONIAL SECRETARY moved the second reading of the Bill intituled, \"An Ordinance to apply a sum not exceeding eight million, six hundred and five thousand...",
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        "content_text": "COPY\n\n408\n\nHon. Colonial Secretary,\n\nThe Chinese Government did take or permit certain steps for the election of representatives of Chinese overseas; no doubt individuals in Hongkong were interested; but there was no sign of any organisation here to deal with the matter. It was even said at one time that Hongkong residents had been nominated in Peking for the Assembly; and perhaps this was true, but if so it was the work of wire-pullers and not of the community.\n\nIt was never even clear what these proposed overseas representatives were to do; that they should in any way interfere with the Governments of the places from which they came did not seem part of the intention. There were many Chinese abroad; they were largely rich; they had engineered the first Revolution and had an interest in China; and should therefore be represented. The idea hardly went beyond this.\n\n(sd.) I. R. Hallifax,\n\n8. C.A.\n\n22nd. May, 1917.",
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        "content_text": "Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce\n\nHongkong 14th. May, 1917.\n\nSir,\n\nI have the honour to acknowledge receipt of your letter No. 3456/1916 of 2nd. instant regarding the requisitioning of British Ships by Government.\n\nWhile entirely in agreement with Government that in these times all other interests must be subordinated to those of the Empire, my Committee would beg leave to suggest in justice to merchants other than shipping House that a Local Advisory Committee might be elected to assist the Central Board in London in its requirements so far as Hongkong and China Coast tonnage is concerned.\n\nIt would appear to my Committee that the day is fast approaching when only Japanese, Dutch and American tonnage with perhaps the Canadian Pacific Services Ltd. Steamers whose freight capacity is small will be available on the berth, and naturally, preference in shipping facilities will be extended to Merchants of the same nationality as that of the Steamer, thus the British Merchants will be compelled to sit down and see the efforts of years to build up a business pass into the hands of competitors, whereas with an Advisory Committee some measure of protection might reasonably be procured.\n\nMy Committee would be glad of a sympathetic consideration by the Government of this point of view and would much appreciate whatever representations His Excellency the Governor may see fit to make to the Home Government with a view to the election of such a Committee as suggested.\n\nI have &c.,\n\n(sd.) A. R. Lowe,\n\nActing Secretary.\n\nThe Honourable\n\nThe Colonial Secretary.",
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        "content_text": "10\n\nInsurance, Fire and Marine.-The Singapore Marine Insurance Agents' Association state that competition from enemy countries was not severely felt before the war, and there is little likelihood of any such menace after the war. The principal difficulty which companies have to contend with is the recent introduction of about a dozen Chinese non-tariff companies, none of them particularly strong, but strong enough in the aggregate to make their presence felt. The suggestion is made that every company transacting Fire and Marine Insurance business in the Colony should be compelled by law to hold at least £10,000 worth of approved British Government stocks. The introduction of such legislation would prevent small and financially weak native concerns from doing business, and at the same time would be a protection to native policy-holders.\n\nProtection of Trade Marks.-My attention has been called by the Penang Chamber of Commerce to the unsatisfactory state of the law in the Colony with regard to the protection of Trade Marks, and they strongly recommend that effective measures be instituted in order to facilitate the registration of such marks as in Great Britain. They also mention the difficulties experienced by merchants in the Colony owing to the lack of protection from the copying of trade marks by the subjects of other countries, and they recommend that steps be taken to remove this handicap to British trade. It is also suggested that the country of origin should be shown in a prominent position on all goods imported in future from Germany and Austria.\n\nCommercial Intelligence Service. The need is expressed for an active official commercial intelligence service, both in the Straits Settlements and also in the F.M.S. At present the Straits Government confines itself to the issue of an annual volume showing a return of imports and exports, and a very brief annual report which deals with a summary of these returns in the space of half-a-dozen pages. I understand also that the Board of Trade has an Imperial Trade Correspondent at Singapore. These measures are stated to be totally inadequate to the needs of the trade, and the position of the Straits Settlements as the most important British entrepôt in the Far East. I would suggest the appointment of a Trade Commissioner for British Malaya to be stationed with his headquarters at Singapore. His field of activity should include not only the Settlements but also the Federated Malay States, and he should travel periodically through those markets which form the commercial dependencies of the Straits Settlements, viz., Siam, Borneo, and the Dutch East Indies, in order carefully to watch and report on the trend of trade throughout this area in so far as it might affect the interests of the Colony. He should be the official channel for all Government commercial inquiries, and should occupy the same relationship to the Straits Government as the present Trade Commissioners do to the Governments of the self-governing Dominions.\n\nChamber of Commerce.-The Singapore Chamber of Commerce and Exchange, and the Penang Chamber of Commerce, are both international bodies, and prior to the war included German members. The Singapore Chamber has now ruled that no persons, except natural-born British subjects, shall be eligible for election on the Committee, and also that any member who is the subject of a State hereafter commencing war with Great Britain shall cease to be a member from the outbreak of such war.\n\nIn view of the fact that the Singapore Chamber nominates one member of the Governor's Legislative Council, and of the proved need for a purely British representative commercial body in each market to act as the intermediary in commercial matters between the Government officials and the local merchants, and to receive semi-confidential information, I would strongly urge that purely British Chambers of Commerce be formed in the Straits Settlements, and in this recommendation I have the support of many of the Straits firms in London.\n\nRestrictions upon Enemy Activities after the War. The danger of restrictive measures in a great commercial entrepôt such as Singapore is that they would stimulate enemy interests to develop some other port in the archipelago, and would in fact drive them into the hands of the Dutch. German influence throughout Java and the Netherlands Indies is very powerful, and there is steady and increasing competition with the Dutch ports, from whence increasing shipments of produce are being made direct to Europe instead of through Singapore. This, however, can only be expected with improved steamship services from Java to Europe. Singapore with its favourable geographical position on the direct steamer route to the Far East, its powerful Chinese and Malay mercantile community with connections in all the islands, and its efficient shipping, harbour, and financial facilities, should, however, be able to maintain and improve its position, provided that it remains a free entrepôt, and that the local coasting services are improved and extended. So far, the only rival Singapore has as a coaling station is Sabang Bay (Puloh Weh), on the north coast of Sumatra, where the Dutch have made great efforts, with some degree of success, to build up a trade, and have attracted certain Dutch liners and tramp steamers. This port would not appear likely to oust the Colony from its predominant position—firstly, because its hinterland is undeveloped, and, secondly, because it is not a natural centre for native trade. It is almost certain that local feeling will be so bitter against German subjects for many years that they will probably transfer their activities to the Dutch islands, and will make strenuous efforts to divert the trade from the Straits Settlements. These efforts, however, need not be regarded with any concern, provided that British mercantile and shipping interests take active steps to regain those branches of commerce formerly in the hands of the Germans.\n\nWhile the main body of British mercantile opinion in the Straits is strongly opposed to any interference with the policy of free imports and exports by tariff or otherwise, there is a very strong feeling that the activities of enemy firms in the Colony should be regulated by the Government. The following suggestions have been made by the Penang Chamber of Commerce:-\n\n(1) That present enemy firms should only be allowed to trade in the Colony after the war under special licence of the local Government, and should be at all times subject to an adaptation of the laws controlling limited liability companies.\n\n(2) That the turnover value of their trade be subjected to a tax,\n\n(3) That they shall not be allowed to become representative agents of British manufacturers or other British commercial undertakings.\n\n(4) That they shall not be allowed to own land or house property.\n\n(5) In the event of the above suggestions not being acceptable, that the imposition of a poll tax be considered.\n\nFurther restrictions suggested by a leading merchant in the Colony are as follows:\n\n(1) That no enemy individual or firm should be allowed-\n\n(a) to acquire land or any mortgage on land; or\n\n(b) to hold shares in any mining company or any industry of Imperial importance in case of war; or\n\n(c) to be a magistrate, or be employed in the service of any Government, municipality, or dock board; or\n\n(d) to become a pilot for any Straits waters; or\n\n(e) to be a consul for any country but his own.\n\n(2) That measures should be taken, by subsidy to a British company or otherwise, to prevent an enemy shipping company from running the mail service between two British Dependencies, a state of affairs which, before the war, actually existed between Singapore and British North Borneo. The question of the precise form any restriction of enemy enterprise should take is one for the careful consideration of H.M. Colonial Office in consultation with the Government of the Straits Settlements, and is beyond the province of this report.\n\nIt would appear desirable, however, that the whole question of some form of control over all aliens within the Colony should be considered. The principal difficulty which will have to be faced is the position of the large Chinese community numbering 194,000 out of a total population of 260,000 in Singapore alone, who are the mainstay of the trade of the Settlements, and whose co-operation and goodwill are essential for the development of their industry and commerce.\n\nThe Chinese, as a race, are very much opposed to restriction of this kind, and it is precisely the freedom offered to them by the Colony in the past which has attracted them to the Settlements in preference to the Dutch islands, thereby contributing in great measure to the prosperity of British Malaya.\n\nAfter a careful consideration of the whole problem, I would make the following suggestions:--\n\n(1) That a system of compulsory registration should be enforced upon all alien individuals and firms other than Asiatics residing or carrying on business in the Colony.\n\n11",
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        "content_text": "# No. 278\nCopy.\n452\nC.O.\n40235\n**British Legation, Peking.**\n\nREG 20 AUG 18\n\nCopies to Hongkong and Singapore.\n\nJune 13th, 1918.\n\nWith reference to my despatches Nos. 121 and 240 of May 27th and June 7th, 1913, I had the honour to forward to the Foreign Office copies of correspondence with the Tai Chiao Pu concerning the regulations for the election to the National Assembly of members representing Chinese resident in British Colonies.\n\nThe attitude of His Majesty's Government was clearly laid down in the Memorandum to the Wai Chiao Pu of May 26th, 1913 (enclosure No. 2 in my despatch No.240 of June 7th) and the Foreign and Colonial Offices agreed that that memorandum contained the last word on the question and required no supplementing. Neither was any further reply received from the Chinese Government at the time.\n\nNow, however, that preparations are being made for general elections to a new Chinese Parliament, I have received from their Excellencies the Governors of Hongkong and of the Federated Malay States despatches, copies of which are enclosed herewith, showing that the Chinese Government are endeavouring to renew their attempt to obtain representation in the Chinese Senate of Chinese subjects resident in those Colonies.\n\nI have accordingly addressed a Note to the Wai Chiao Pu, of which a copy is enclosed herewith, protesting against...\n\nThe Right Honourable  \nA. J. Balfour, M.P.,  \netc.  \netc.  \netc.",
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        "content_text": "## War Office, London, S.W.\n### 17th July, 1920\n\nThe Under-Secretary of State,  \nColonial Office,  \nS.W.1\n\nSir,\n\nI am commanded by the Army Council to acknowledge the receipt of your letter No. 19678/1920 of 6th May, 1920, forwarding a copy of an Ordinance passed by the legislature of Hong-Kong to provide for the establishment of a Volunteer Force. The Council are glad to know that Lord Milner proposes to communicate to the Governor of Hong-Kong their suggestions for the improvement of the old Volunteer Ordinance made in War Office letter No. `083/1880 (M.0.3)` of April 17th, as these apply equally to the New Ordinance.\n\nWith regard to the new Ordinance, the Army Council desire to make the following additional observations:-\n\n(a) The Selection of Officers and N.C.Os.\n\nAs has been pointed out by the Attorney-General of Hong-Kong in his report, the proposed Ordinance introduces the principle of the election of officers and N.C.Os. It appears that this new feature was inserted in the Ordinance owing to the support of the unofficial members of the Committee which considered the Bill and Regulations, who may not have realised the possible effects of these provisions on the military efficiency and discipline of the Volunteer Force.\n\nIn order that the most suitable individuals available may be appointed Officers and N.C.Os., it is necessary that the system of election shall ensure that the respective characteristics of the various candidates are taken into consideration. As a general rule, it may be said that the following qualifications should be looked for in the order given:-\n\n(1) Character.  \n(ii) Intelligence.  \n(iii) Experience.\n\nIf the appointment of Officers and N.C.Os. depends on election, the degree in which different men possess these qualities is likely to be lost sight of, as their equals and juniors are not in a position to form correct views on these points, and may give their votes...",
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        "content_text": "## \n\n2. \n\nIt is not calculated to provide the most suitable Officers and N.C.Os. because individuals may cast their votes to particular individuals for various reasons. Therefore, the first objection to the system is that it is not calculated to provide the most suitable Officers and N.C.Os.\n\nThe second objection is that such a system must undermine discipline. The idea of electing officers is by no means a new one. At first sight, it appeared attractive to democratic minds. It was tried in France at the time of the Revolution, in the Federal Army in 1861, and lately in the Russian Army in 1917. In all cases, the system speedily led to the collapse of discipline and was soon abandoned.\n\nIt is realised that in a Volunteer Force, it is particularly important that the Officers and N.C.Os. should be popular with their men. If, however, the Officers in command of units of the Force take the trouble to keep in touch with their Commands and get to know their men personally, there should be little danger of any individual being appointed as an Officer or an N.C.O. who would prove unacceptable to those under him.\n\nIn view of the objections mentioned above, the Council urge strongly that these provisions with regard to the appointment of Officers and N.C.Os. should not be adopted. Once the principle of the election of Officers and N.C.Os. was introduced, there would be great risk of its spreading and perhaps ultimately threatening the discipline and efficiency of the whole of His Majesty's Forces.\n\n### (b) Penalty for Non-Efficiency\n\nThere appears to be no serious objection to the omission of the regulation which formerly provided that a Member who caused loss to the funds of the Corps or failure to become efficient was able to make good the loss. As the Attorney-General has pointed out, such a man can still be discharged and made to pay a sum varying with the length of his service. It is not considered that a provision of this kind tends appreciably to increase the efficiency of a Volunteer Force.\n\n### (c) Substitution of Term 'Administrative Commandant' for 'Commanding Officer'\n\nIn view of the fact that the Senior Officer of a Volunteer Force is merely the administrative head and would not necessarily command it for tactical or other purposes, the Army Council see no objection to the change of title in this case.\n\n### (d) Discipline when on actual Military Service\n\nWith reference to Section 17(1)(e) of the New Ordinance, the Council would point out that it is undesirable that when a Colonial Force is serving overseas with Regular Forces on active service, they should be subject to a different scale of punishments from that applicable to regular soldiers, especially in the case of offences such as cowardice and desertion. It is a well-known fact that the inability of a Court Martial to award the death penalty in the case of Australian troops in France seriously militated against the discipline of those forces.\n\nAgain, the offence of murder is an offence under Section 41 of the Army Act, and no other punishment than death in respect of that offence is legal thereunder. It follows that if this sub-section stands in its present form, no punishment at all can be awarded to a soldier guilty of murder and tried under Section 41 of the Army Act. A similar provision in the case of the Australian Forces led to very serious difficulty in the case of certain Australian soldiers who committed the offence of murder in France.\n\nWith reference to Section 17(1)(b), it would appear that if the force were to be operating outside and at any considerable distance from the Colony, the enforcement of discipline might become impossible if the proceedings of every Court Martial have to be confirmed by the Governor.\n\nPage 434\n\nThe Council, therefore, suggest that it would be desirable to add a proviso to Section 17(1) to the following effect: \"Provided nevertheless that such modifications shall not apply to officers and volunteers, who being on active service as defined by Section 189 of the Army Act are outside the limits of the Colony.\" If this suggestion is not acceptable, then the Council would suggest that after the words \"such Act\" in sub-section (1)(a), the words \"except for the offence of murder\" be inserted; and that suitable words be added to sub-section (1)(b) providing that the confirmation by the Governor should not be required when an officer or volunteer is outside the limits of the Colony.\n\nThe Army Council would be glad to have, in due course, Lord Milner's views with regard to their observations, particularly those on the system proposed for the appointment of officers and N.C.Os.\n\nI am,\nSir,\nYour obedient Servant,\nAgreedy",
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        "content_text": "# HONGKONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL\n\n## Financial Discussion\n\nprices land which until the roads were constructed was almost valueless, so that much of our capital returns to us in this form while the increased receipts from Crown Rents and assessed taxes provide us with a permanent addition to our income. Some of the expenditure on roads is recouped almost at once—I need only refer to the recent sale of land on the new Peak Road, which I have already mentioned. In other cases, we may have to wait a little longer as the sales of land will not begin until the development which the roads are intended to assist catches up with the work.\n\nThe persons who at present come under the scheme of the Fund are: (1) all persons in the permanent employment of the Government, and (2) European police officers of the rank of sergeant or any higher rank, or any other European members of the police force whose marriage is approved by the Captain Superintendent of Police. The Bill proposes to extend the scheme of the Fund to those European officers of the police force who at present are outside it and to other servants of the Government who are not members of the police force but are appointed on agreements for terms exceeding two years. There are two classes of these officers: first, officers appointed on what I may call probationary agreements, generally for three years, many of whom come at the end of three years on the permanent staff. It seems desirable that they should contribute to the Widows' and Orphans' Pension Fund from the beginning of their service—during the time of their probationary agreement. The other class of officers who will now come under the scheme of the Fund are certain officers who are appointed on successive terms of five years. But for the fact that their agreements are for five years at a time, they are, for all practical purposes, on the permanent staff.\n\nIt is, I submit, essential to take a long view of the future position, especially in the Kowloon Peninsula, and our plans are laid with this object. Wide roads, good drainage, an adequate water supply, and cheap and efficient means of transport are some of the ends in view. It is only by providing such facilities that the housing problem can be solved, and with the return of general trade prosperity, our best efforts will be required to keep pace with the needs of a rapidly growing population.\n\nHaving regard to these considerations, I submit that, as I said last year and the year before, the policy of devoting our balances to works of development up to the fullest extent which the resources of the Public Works Department enable us to undertake is the best which it is possible to adopt in the interests of the Colony, and I have, therefore, no hesitation whatever in commending these Estimates to your approval.—(Applause.)\n\nThe first reading of the Bill agreed to.\n\n## Widows' and Orphans' Pension Ordinance\n\nTHE ATTORNEY-GENERAL—I beg to move the first reading of a Bill intituled, An Ordinance to amend the Widows' and Orphans Pensions Ordinances, 1908 and 1921. The object of this Bill is to include within the scheme of the Widows' and Orphans' Pension Fund, throughout who are at present outside it.\n\nThe Bill will only apply to officers appointed or reappointed after the Ordinance comes into force, but an option is given to officers at present in Government service, who would have come under the scheme had they been appointed after the commencement of the Ordinance, to come into the Fund. They are given a certain time to declare their election. The Bill puts that down as a period of one month after return from leave to those who are on leave at the commencement of the Ordinance, and one month after the commencement of the Ordinance in the case of officers not on leave. It is proposed to alter the period to three months in each case. Power is given to the Governor in Council to exclude from the operation of the Widows' and Orphans Pensions Ordinance any officers who are appointed to work of a special or temporary character. I beg to move the first reading.\n\nTHE COLONIAL SECRETARY—I beg to second.\n\nThe Bill passed the first reading.\n\nThe \"Objects and Reasons\" attached to the Bill state:-\n\n1. The object of this Bill is to include within the scheme of the Widows' and Orphans' Pension Fund all European members of the police force, and all officers of the Government, other than police officers, who are appointed, either permanently, or on agreement for periods exceeding two years, and who receive at least $420 per annum.\n\n2. At present, apart from the case of the police force which is dealt with below, an officer who is appointed on an agreement for a term of years does not come within the scope of the principal Ordinance, because he is not a person \"permanently employed in the service of the Government.\" This adversely affects the prospects of the officer in the Fund, as it is the contributions during bachelorhood which are of the greatest importance in determining the amount of pension payable under the Fund to the officer's widow and children.\n\n3. The officers of the police force are appointed and reappointed on agreements for five years, but European members of the force of the rank of sergeant or higher rank, and certain married European members of the force below the rank of sergeant, have been included in the scheme of the Fund. It is now proposed to make all European members of the police force contribute to the Fund.\n\n4. Subject to what is stated in paragraph 6 below, this Ordinance will refer only to persons appointed or reappointed after the commencement of the Ordinance, and, as is the case with the existing Ordinances, it will not apply to any person whose salary is less than $120 per annum.\n\n5. Power is given to the Governor in Council to exclude from the operation of the Ordinance officers appointed for work of a special or temporary character, and provision is made for the return of any contributions made to the fund by any such officers before the date of exclusion.\n\n6. Clause 4 of the Bill gives to persons in the service of the Government at the commencement of the Ordinance, who are not liable to contribute to the Fund, but who would have been liable if they had been appointed after the commencement of the Ordinance, the right to elect to join the Fund.\n\n## Legal Practitioners Ordinance\n\nTHE ATTORNEY-GENERAL—I beg to move the first reading of a Bill intituled, An Ordinance to amend further the Legal Practitioners Ordinance, 1871. This Bill proposes to make certain alterations in the law relating to the preliminary and final examinations which solicitors' clerks who are articled here must pass. It also slightly alters the function to be performed by the Chief Justice.\n\nClause 2 deals with the preliminary examination. I should explain that all clerks articled here must pass, before they are articled, a certain examination called a preliminary examination unless they have already passed some examination which is to be taken as a substitute for that examination or received a special exemption from the Chief Justice. Clause 2 proposes to make the Hongkong University matriculation examination one of the examinations which is to be a ground for exemption from the preliminary examination. Most of the matriculation examinations in England are grounds for exemption there, and as the standard of the Hongkong University matriculation examination is as high as that of any matriculation examination in England, there seems no reason why that examination should not be a ground of exemption here. The clause also provides that any examination that would in England be a ground for exemption from the preliminary examination there shall be a ground for exemption from the preliminary examination here, and a ground for exemption without any special order by the Chief Justice. At present, an order is necessary.",
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        "content_text": "The Hongkong Weekly Press\n\nVOL. XCV.] China and Overland Trade Report. HONGKONG, SATURDAY, MARCH 25TH., 1922.\n\nCONTENTS.\n\nPage\n\nFar Eastern News 44 445\n\nTOPADU KAUARUARKLER LOODANDELSKEDE KA VES YOU.......... 298\n\nWedding 299\n\nWedding of Chinese Ex-Emperor 299\n\nDeath of Sir Everard Fraser, K.C.M.G. 299\n\nThe Dairy Farm Herd 299\n\nThe Late Mr. A. H. Crew 299\n\nNew Appliances for the Fire Brigade 299\n\nHow China is to be United 300\n\nShatin Road Shooting Inquiry.... 301\n\nVictory of the Anti-Mui-Tsai Agitation 302\n\nA Disorderly Parliament 302\n\nLeading Articles :- China's Gains at Washington 302\n\nProfessor Danenberg's Pupil's Recital 302\n\nBurglar Wounds European 303\n\nHongkong Legislative Council 305\n\nEx-Service Men 305\n\nThe British Region 305\n\nKowloon Questions.... 306\n\nVisit of the Prince of Wales... 308\n\nKisochou's Cost to China 308\n\nBrightening Kowloon 309\n\nThe M.C.I. Bazaar 309\n\nThe Prince's Visit to Japan 309\n\nSt. Paul's College 309\n\nCorrespondence :- Victory of the Anti-Mul-Tsai Agitation 311\n\nChinese & The Kowloon Canton Railway 311\n\nAn Out-of-Date Theory 311\n\nCompany Meetings -- Gande, Price & Co., Ltd. 312\n\nHumphreys Estate and Finance Co., Ltd. 312\n\nHongkong and Whampoa Dock Co., Ltd. 312\n\nCompany Reports :- China Sugar Refining Co., Ltd. 312\n\nHongkong Fire Insurance Co., Ltd. 312\n\nGala Kalumping Rubber Estate, Ltd. 313\n\nNanyang Tobacco Co 313\n\nFar Eastern Cable News 313\n\nWhite-Cloud Mountain Murder Case 313\n\nAssociated Chambers of Commerce of Kwangtung 313\n\nLocal Sport 314\n\nThe Law Courts 314, 315\n\nThe Falkland Victory 315\n\nThe Recent Strike 316\n\nReminiscences of the Strike 319\n\nMunicipal Election at Shanghai 320\n\nStrike in Canton 1921 320\n\nPraya Murder Trial 320\n\nThe Amoy Boycott Withdrawn 325\n\nEstimate of Japan's Wealth 325\n\nJapan's Attitude in China 325\n\nShipping 326\n\nCommercial 326\n\nRegistered as a Newspaper at the General Post Office in the United Kingdom, No. 12\n\nViscount Dunwich, who is on his way out to join H.M.S. Hawkins, was visiting Kuala Lumpur a week ago. He is the eldest son of the third Earl of Stradbroke.\n\nMARRIAGES.\n\nDINSDALE SMITH-At the Peak Church, on Wednesday, 22nd March, 1922, FELIX AMYAS DINSDALE, second son of Mrs. and the late G. K. Dinsdale, formerly of Yokohama, to DORIS MARGARET, youngest daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Smith, Dudley, Worcestershire.\n\nGORDON-GRANT-At Shanghai, on March 15th, JAMES MILLER GORDON, to ADA HANNAH, widow of the late P. D. H. Grant, formerly of Kobe and Hongkong.\n\nHis Honour the Officer Administering the Government of Weihaiwei has appointed Mr. E. V. Carpmael acting Financial Secretary to the Government for the Territory of Weihaiwei.\n\nMACDONALD-EVANS.-At Shanghai, on March 14th, IAN DEMPSTER MACDONALD, third son of the late T. Macdonald and Mrs. Macdonald, of Shanghai, to HILDA MAUD, second daughter of the Rev. and Mrs. A. E. Evans, of Shanghai.\n\nNISSIM REUBENS.-At Shanghai, on March 14th, NISSIM MARCUS NISSIM, to FLORA REUBENS.\n\nSTRUTT GUNNER.-At Shanghai, on March 15th, GEORGE EDWARD, only son of STRUTT of Westcliff, Essex, England, to EDITH MAY GUNNER, of Dulwich, London.\n\nDEATHS.\n\nBALLARD.-At Upper Norwood, London, on January 29th, MARY MARGARET, widow of the late James Adam Ballard, formerly of Shanghai.\n\nBRIDOU.-At Monte Carlo, on March 11th, LUCIEN BRIDOU, aged 31. (By cable.)\n\nDUNCAN.-At Shanghai, on March 18th, WILLIE DUNCAN, Chinese Maritime Customs, Narking, aged 53 years.\n\nHONOUR.-At Shanghai, on March 12th, CHARLES HONOUR (Marine Engineer), aged 51 years.\n\nHYDE.-At Shanghai, on March 18th, HELEN JINA, dearly beloved wife of Frank H. Hyde, aged 42 years.\n\nBIRTHS.\n\nBAILEY.-At Kowloon, on March 18th, to Mr. and Mrs. W. S. BAILEY, a son.\n\nCAMPBELL.-At Shanghai, on March 14th, to Mr. and Mrs. C. CAMPBELL, a daughter.\n\nCARR.-At Victoria Nursing Home, Shanghai, on March 12th, to Mr. and Mrs. W. G. CARR, a daughter.\n\nHILLS.-At Sydney, N.S.W., on March 18th, wife of H. S. HILLS, of a daughter.\n\nLONG.-At Shanghai, on March 11th, to Mr. and Mrs. A. G. LONG, a son.\n\nPEACH.-At Shanghai, on March 16th, to Mr. and Mrs. N. W. PEACH, a son.\n\nREMEDIOS.-At Shanghai, on March 14th, to Mr. and Mrs. ANT. A. REMEDIOS, a daughter.\n\nWIEDMAN.-At Shanghai, on March 13th, to Mr. and Mrs. J. WIEDMAN, a son.\n\nMany in Hongkong will read with interest the announcement of the marriage at Shanghai last week of Mr. J. M. Gordon to Mrs. Grant, widow of the late Mr. Peter Grant.\n\nMr. W. G. Peter has resumed the management of the Penang branch of the Chartered Bank, on Mr. E. E. Chambers proceeding home on leave. Mr. A. W. Vick has succeeded Mr. Peter as manager of the Singapore Branch of the Bank.\n\nThe Kwangsi Government are offering 30 per cent. of the net profits of the Kwangsi Mint for a loan for the purpose of improving the mint. Certain Canton merchants have been approached on the subject.\n\nA movement is on foot to re-open an old silver mine at Yuan-hung-shan, Tung-Koon district. Owing to insufficient capital, work on the mine was closed down ten years ago. Another Company has now been formed to work the mine and application has been made to the Mining Department of the Kwangtung Government for the necessary licence.\n\nThe man who took the first train into Jerusalem has been accidentally killed on the Peking-Mukden railway. This was Regimental Sergeant-Major W. H. Foster, who had driven the train conveying Marshal Joffre from Mukden to Shanghaikwan. Sergt.-Major Foster leaves a widow and two children who had only recently arrived in China.\n\nMr. Ray Atherton, Secretary of the American Legation, is shortly to leave Peking, having been recalled to Washington for service in the State Department. It is understood that he is likely to remain there for some time.\n\nREIFSNYDER.-At Liverpool, Pa., U.S.A., on February 3rd, Dr. ELIZABETH REIFSNYDER (Missionary of the Women's Union Missionary Society of China), founder and organizer of the Margaret Williamson Hospital, West Gate, Shanghai, aged 64 years.\n\nROZARIO.-At the Italian Convent Hospital, Hongkong, on March 18th, Mrs. H. F. ROZARIO, aged 22.\n\nHONGKONG OFFICE: ICA, DES VOEUX ROAD C. LONDON AGENCY: 131, FLEET STREET, E.C.\n\nFAR EASTERN NEWS.\n\nSir Charles Addis embarked at Yokohama on the Empress of Russia on March 4th on his way home.\n\nMukden\n\nThe new Governor of French Cochin China, M. Cognacq, has arrived and assumed duties. During his first day of office, he received deputations from the chiefs of the Civil Service, the Army and Navy, the Justiciary, Provincial Governors, the principal journalists, the Mayor of Saigon, and the President of the Colonial Council.",
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        "content_text": "NOTICE\n\nW. S. BAILEY & CO., LTD.\n\nENGINEERS &\n\nSHIPBUILDERS. KOWLOON.\n\nHARBOUR REPAIRS\n\nCan Flag \"L\"\n\nTugs, Barges, Light Draft and\n\nHigh Speed Vessels and\n\nMotor Craft.\n\nSole Agents for\n\n\"KELVIN MOTORS.\"\n\n'Phones:-\n\nWorks......... Kowloon 21\n\nManager...... Kowloon 633\n\nSTEAM LAUNCH FOR SALE.\n\nMETALS\n\nof all kinds, especially for ship-\n\nBuilding and engineering works\n\nComplete stock. Best immediate delivery.\n\nSINGON & CO.,\n\n(Established A.D. 1880.)\n\nHING LUN.... 7. Phone Central 515.\n\nPIANO\n\nFOR HIRE\n\nat moderate Prices.\n\nTSANG FOOK PIANO\n\nCOMPANY.\n\n94. Wanchai Road.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nTHE HONGKONG\n\nK-673\n\nH.K. 4002\n\nFOR HIRE\n\nMOTOR\n\nLORRIES\n\nFOR\n\nBUILDING\n\nMATERIALS\n\nTAKEN TO ALL PARTS OF THE COLONY.\n\nDOMINION MOTOR\n\nTRANSPORT.\n\n145, PRAYA EAST.\n\n'PHONES\n\nCentral 4002 Kowloon 673\n\nTELEGRAPH.\n\nKOWLOON CRICKET\n\nCLUB.\n\nProposed Limited Liability Company.\n\nSATURDAY.\n\nas well practically all the club's I Kowloon, in King's Park. As members were aware, two years ago they started raising debentures with the view to erecting a new Club home and some $18,000 were raised\n\nthe\n\nprivate Club they had no legal The annual general meeting of existence whatever, and the ques- members of the Kowloon Cricket tion of raising debentures was im- Club, held last evening, was pre- sided over by the genial President, because, supposing the Club went Dr. C. Forsyth. He was supported bankrupt suddenly, the only per- by the Vice-President (Mr. sons who could be held responsible R. E. Lindell), the Hon. Secre- for the debentures were those who tary (Mr. E. J. Edwards) and had signed them on behalf of the the Hon. Treasurer (Mr. H. E. Club. That seemed hardly fair on Stevens) There was a large the \"poor mugs\" who signed them gathering of members, all the seat- having signed a few hundreds ing accommodation being occu- himself. (Laughter). Many of the pied.\n\n[sporting clubs in the Colony had, in The President heartily congratu- recent years, converted themselves lated the Club on the very success- into limited liability companies ful season they had had, both Articles of Association. in spite and financially. Here!! ipslanced regretted that circumstances had United job provided, high being seau morg\n\nHongkong Rugby Club, and often at the Club, but he assured thought highly desirable members that he took the same that the Kowloon, cricket Club When they! great interest in it to-day as he had should have a: some future date! done when he was a not a time to max at some future date! member. The President thought to the new ground where could un- the Club could congratulate itself domotedly have the vase money th un- having won the League last bild a new pavilion, At pres\n\na unique achievement the debentures were being • shes meet \" had every hope that they would do the Club a min stroža jovation | the same this year. With regard financially. Jeg turi to busė a: to the other sections be was pleased further be gras on debentumn in to know that they were flourishing the future they could do it ma They had some yuting ron company with preh ing on to take the place of Seramy liability hired therein. - Gren in tennis, and the golf sud bowls players were going very strong.\n\nyeur\n\nA Leakage Somewhere. Referring to the question of fin- ances, the President drew attention\n\nAfter a short discussion the mot ing unanimously approved the p- posal, the proposition of Mr. Lindsell seconded by Mr. Nailson.\n\nThe Financial Year. The President mentioned that it| × PUBLISHED ANNUALLY to two items, the first being the end of the financial year of the was desired that the date for the expenditure on entertainment, Club should be changed from the which was about $500 more than 31st August to the 31st July, the\n\nHe explained that this\n\nTHE\n\nLONDON DIRECTORY\n\nlast year.\n\nwith Provincial & Foreign Sections\n\nwas accounted for by the fact that reason being that the Club had, enables traders to communicate direct with they had played double the number grown to such an extent that the MANUFACTURERS & DEALERS of cricket matches and more tennis Hon. Secretary and Hon. Trea- super found it difficult to compile |\n\nthe Continent of Europe. The\n\nin London and in the Provincial Towns and matches and bowls matches, con- their statements in time for the Industrial Centres of the United Kingdom and sequently the figure must natur- annual meeting, addresses and her details are classified under ally go up.\n\nHe would like! The other item was members to express their opinions more than 2,000 trade headings, including.\n\nperhaps a not quite so popular one. on the matter. He intimated that\n\nEXPORT MERCHANTS\n\nwith a detailed particulars of the Goods\n\nand the Colonial and Foreign Market»supplied/-referred to by sales. Whilst both in regard to forming the Club|\n\nSTEAMSHIP LINES\n\narranged under the Ports to which they sail,\n\nand indicating the approximate Sailings,\n\nOne-Inch BUSINESS CARDS of Firms dealing\n\nto extend their connections, or Trade Cards ?\n\nDEALERS SEEKING AGENCIES\n\ncan be printed at a cost of 30 shillings for each trade heading under which they are inserted.\n\n· Larger advertisements from £2 2s to £15.\n\n215,\n\nSEPTEMBER 30. 1922.\n\nElectricity for Everyone.\n\nResidents of outports who are forced to do without electric light and other conveniences of electricity may now get all these desires fulfilled by the use of a Westinghouse Self- Contained Lighting Plant.\n\nThis apparatus is a complete little generating equipment which supplies sufficient electricity for the average home and can be operated simply and economically,\n\nIt is easy to operate and there are thou- sands of homes which should be enjoying the advantages of this wonderful Westinghouse Lighting Unit\n\nW\n\nWESTINGHOUSE\n\nELECTRIC\n\nWestinghouse\n\nWESTINGHOUSE ELECTRIC INTERNATIONAL CO.\n\nP.O. Box No. 461, Hongkong.\n\nCable address: WEMCOEXPO, Shanghai, Hankow, Hongkong.\n\nthe Club was not a commercial insti- tution he confessed that he and to charging the date of the financial year, extraordinary general!! undertaking he considered the profit very small,\n\nThe spange suggested by the ing green for next summer. Sd suggested to the incoming Bar- ident fund favour with the Committee that they should adopt\n\nYour Committee were informed by the Government in May last that. a new system with the view to dir-\n\nvering just where the leakage is\n\nfake brány Mostaraj do Club would have, in a few yet: 2. Serretung and H. Tould be incised from to move from its grounds to On behalf of the Club the Ped-\n\nsite in King's Park. THE LONDON DIRECTORY CO., LTD. dent said he would like to thank|\n\nThe join. 0. 25, Abchurch Lane, London. E.C4, Mr. Weller for the handsome shield and large number were forth.\n\nproposals of the various clubs con- Tax Preporodeurstidered for the allocates of the new England.\n\nbe had presented to the Club on comin which he promised should its been forwarded to the occasion of their won the receive the sideration of the Government for approval. The Cricket Leagues. Mr. We wan Committer.\n\nA copy of the directory will be sempre\n\nYoni Yös 40 Shilling\", Aust nash such sedež. \"\n\nPHONE CENTRAL 2127.\n\n4\n\n:\n\nMASSAGE HALL.\n\nX\n\nBUSINESS ESTABLISHED 18 YEARS.\n\n23. WYNDHAM STREET.\n\nMRS. H. MORITA.\n\nMRS. HAN INOKUCHI.\n\nTelephone Kowloon 754\n\nNo. 21. Ashley Road. Kowloon, Back of Star Theatre.\n\nCERTIFICATED EXPERT MASSAGE, HAND & ELECTRIC, given at residence by experienced masseuse.\n\nMiss Tora Tookuchi QUALIFIED MID-WIFE\n\nNo. 21, Ashley Road, Kowloon. Back of Star Theatre\n\nTelephone No. Kowloon 754.\n\nMASSAGE EXPERTS.\n\nHARRY FURUKAWA, AND K. SAKAI\n\n19. WYNDHAM STREET.\n\nGREEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY LIMITED.\n\nPORTLAND CEMENT.\n\nCasks of 375 lbs, net.\n\nIn Bags of 250 lbs net.\n\nSHEWAN, TOMES & CO.\n\nGeneral Managers\n\nHongkong.\n\nMARTIN'S\n\nPIOL & STEEL\n\nPILLS\n\nArt Ladies PILLS\n\nA Fresh Remedy for all irregularities\n\nThousands of Ladies always keep a bottle of Martin's Pills in the house, so that the slightest sign of any irregularity of the System a Cure is sure to follow.\n\nThese Pills are bom- IPONDE- and them, hasss their DND)MOM=ale. Al Übera and Elores set them bonbont the World, povi sraeli-, MARTIN Okamisi, Bentheony303, Mag.\n\nMARTIN'S\n\nAPIOL & STEEL\n\nPILLS\n\n14, Beaconsfield Arcade.\n\n-:0:-\n\nArtistic photographs\n\nfor all occasions. Call, or 'Phone Central No.\n\nNOTICE TO AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHERS.\n\nour \"tadin.\n\nBroke.\n\na close\n\nAnnual Report.\n\nClub is indebted to Messrs. Black- burn and Stevens for their good work in this connection.\n\naur\n\npractically a newcomer to the A Bearby vote at tuanks to Dr. Club but they admired his sporting tozzyth for his able conduct of the MING YUEN STUDIO.. (Hear, hear). The Chair- meeting brought the pings to It will naturally be some time be-\n\nman concluded by expressing the\n\nore the new ground will be ready bope that the tennis players would shine more brilliantly this year than\n\nand in the meantime our pavilion they did last. They would have to\n\nThe report was as follows\n\nbuilding scheme has had to be for hock up if they were to retain the\n\nFinance. The profit for the year thandoned, and the debentures prominent position they bad al-\n\nwas $5,125.81, as compared with raised for that purpose redeemed. ways occupied in this sport. The $7,019.78 in the previous year. The A donation of $500 was received 4310|K Č.C vas a spotting Club entre- difference is largely accounted for from our President. Dr. C. Forsyth ly, and he did not wish to me its by the reduction in profit on refresh and this sum has been spent on im- achievements eonfined to any un- ments.\n\nMost of the items of ex- penditure are greater on account of The Club obtained five first and The thanks of the Club\n\ngeneral increase in cost of labour two second prizes at the last Hor. If you want in take flue 'rictures,\" we | sheet.\n\nand materials, and of water. fall in tienltural Show, and the flowers and recommend thar AGFA'S Z LL of FILM- Mr L. J. Blackburn having dollar value, etc. should be used which can be obtained seconded,\n\nlants about the ground have added The credit shewn in regard to greatly to be beauty of our Mr. J H. Oxberry, referring to Children's Sport is apparent, hut roundings. DEST QUALITY AT MODER-the profit on refreshments to which\n\nThe thanks of the Club ATE PRICE.\n\nthe President had already alluded, not real. A sum of $175 kindly sub- are again due to the Ground Sub- said he felt it ought to be a great scribed (and expended) in connee- Committee for their untiring efforts deal more. He agreed that there tion with the previous year's event Pavilion. For Teasons already must be a pretty considerable did not rome to hand until too late- explained the proposal to build a leakage somewhere.\n\nto be included in the 1920 21\n\nnew pavilion on our present ground The resolution was unanimously accounts.\n\nhas been abandoned, and it has carried.\n\nAs explained later, our scheme for been found necessary to embark on building a new pavilion had to be an extensive scheme of painting and The meeting then proceeded to suspended. Your Committee there- repair our present pavilion.\n\nthe election of officem for the fore decided that all debentures It is hoped that when this work i ensuing year, and the following should be redeemed, in order to completed the building will be mor were the successful candidatos\n\navoid the les involved in paying in presentable, and in a fair state o Prezident: Dr. Forsyth.\n\nterest for an indefinite period. repair, since it must serve our need: Vice-President · Mr\n\nTronces were duly súft to all holders until such time as a suitable Clul and, at the time of writing, some house can be erected on the now three-quarters of the issue have ground. heen redeemed, and interest paid.\n\nMEE CHEUNG.\n\nlee House Stret, and Beaconsfield\n\nArcade.\n\nJAPANESE MASSAGE.\n\nMRS. H. SUGA\n\nMR. U. SIGA\n\nNo. 11, D'Aguilar Street, 2nd Flour.\n\nMRS SEKAI\n\nMASSAGE\n\nTHE CANION BANK, 2nd Floor,\n\nNo. 2 ]]]] ST HONGKO G\n\nA PODICURE\n\nAND\n\nMANIC RE Mrs N. Tauchinka 31. Wyadhwas Street, HONGKONG PRINTING OFFICE First Floor, Room 12.\n\nJAPANESE MASSAGE.\n\nMRS. S IZUNOVE, 2nd. Floor, Watchmaker's Garage, 18. Prays East, Wanchai.\n\nFOR HAIPHONG AND\n\nHOMOW.\n\nfor Hongkong and Haiphong mar-\n\naltersale Taraday,\n\nThe favourite passenger Master HAL-MUN\n\n(Capt. Charles E. Pago`.\n\n19957 Thon, Coah and Bone se Po Ming Dat\n\nLindell.\n\nThe New Officers.\n\nCaptain: Mr. J. P. Robinson. Vice-Captain Mr. B. D) Evans Hon. Secretary: Mr. P. H Heathente.\n\n&\n\nCricket.\n\nMembership. During the year 9) Cricket. In many ways the crick- new members joined the Club, et season of 1921-22 was the best the Stevens.\n\nseveral resigned and the names of a Club has ever had. More member: General Committee: Messrs. E. number of members who have left took part in the game than ever be- Abraham, L. J. Blackburn, the Colony, or been absent for fure, More matches were arranged: WE Davidsen, B. D Evans, tong period, were removed from the than ever F. G. Herridge, H. Overy, J. Mac- list\n\nbefore-altogether 42 Thus the membership list now matches were played, 21 by the Ist Morte and F. P Shroff.\n\ntands at 400 (as against 394 for XI and 21 by the 2nd XI. The 1st Ballotting Committee: Messrs.\n\n1920-21.) J Cornley. G W. Avenell, J. H\n\nXI won 11, drew 7, lost 3 and head. Osberry, K K\n\nThe Committee record with deep the 1st division of the League. Staple. J. C. Fletcher, J. H Kynoch, N. L. H. regret the deaths of Mr. G. L. The 2nd XI won 13, drew 2, lost Railton, W. Guldenburg. F. 17. Vezine and of Mr. W. T. Elson, a nd topped the 2nd division of the Thompson and R. C. Hunter. Life Member of the Club, and League. During the scason ceo.\n\nvery keen participator in all its| Rries were compiled by E. activities.\n\n|Braga, B. D. Evans and F. E. Law- The most consistent hats\n\nRemoval to New Grounds.\n\nronce.\n\nDg.\n\ntrong in batting, but not in bowl- ing, but had a long tail in bat- MR. JOFFE SERIOUSLY\n\nThe 2nd XI was strong in\n\nILL.\n\nwling, but had a long tail in bat- ing. The two teams were cap. ained by veterans J. P. Robinsʊu\n\nPeking, Sept. 29-Official tele and A. U. Brawn--both have played\n\nfchul 2 Hongkong 22 years.\n\ngrame report that Mr. Joffe, the Tennis.--The outstanding feature Soviet representative is seriously the reason was the great im- ill of typhoid. Docter Krieg 16 provement shown in the play of the going to (ha gchun from Peking\n\nto-day.--Kruter.\n\nyounger members, whose success in\n\ne two open events in the tourna- ment was quite unexpected.\n\nWe entered team\n\nIk\n\nin each division of the Hongkong Tennis Tho \"A\" team performeu differently, but the \"B\" team did little better and were placed\n\nague.\n\nfourth, in their division.\n\nBowls. The Bowls section has ad another fairly successful year. the competitions have been keenly ntested, and are nearing com- pietion.\n\nFREEMASONRY IN CHINA.\n\nPeking, Sept. 29.-A function unique in the history of China took place yesterday afternoon, wh- Mr. Prince, Grand Master of the Freemasons of Massachussets, M Hilton Grand Warden), Mrs Prince and leading officers of th\n\nThe rinks, however, leave much to International Lodge of Peking and their wives, were received in audi ence by President Li Yuan hung being introduced by Wang Chung huai, himself a member of the in ternational Lodge.\n\ne desired, but in the near future we hope to have green that will 3.mpare favourably with the best oi hose in the Colony. It 18 noped\n\nwhen the new green is completed here will be many young members articipating in the so called \"Old\n\nJan's Game.\"\n\nGolf Section. This section retains\n\nThe President heartily wele- med the distinguished visitor, adding that Mr. Wang informed him that Masonry debarred the discussion ul religion and politice, which pleased to old time popularity and the Sub- bim. He was glad to learn that Committee note with pleasure the Masonry was spreading in China mprovement made by some of the\n\nand hoped it would continue to de- less-experienced players. Seven competitions\n\nwere held Suring the year and the Mead\n\nhampionship Shield was won by\n\nir. J. Stalker.\n\nThree matches were played against the U.S.R.C., and in the\n\nnd game we defeated our re- loubtable opponents for the first ime in six years. Both matches ayed against the K.B.G.C. result ed in our favour.\n\nChildren's Spurts. This event was he'd as usual on New Year's Day and proved a great success The Committee tender their thanks the generous subscribers, and the Indies and gentlemen who so kind. ty assisted on that occasion.\n\n10.\n\n:\n\nReplying, Mr. Prince expressed appreciation of the honour show the party and said that befor leaving America 'he saw President Harding, who sent cordial greetin to the Masons in China.-Router\n\nBASEBALL\n\nLast Game of Season. The Hongkong Bayball Club met the South China Athletic Club this alternoon at 4 o'clock op the Hongkong Football Club ground in the last game of the semen The gante will jove exceptionally in tetesting, Since each sade has won\n\nthe fore di eide the rubber. two games and to day's game will\n\nConcerts. Two enable open air concerts were held under the\n\nThe Ime up of the Hongkong team ble direcion of Mr V. Č. Labrumi\n\n18 265 is How Scott fe). Brown und the Concert Sub-Committee.\n\np. Hodgkin (1), Church (2h), Dancs. Two well attended\n\nDone (s), 0 Cons or (3b), Keb dances were held in the Kowloon | (11.), Proulx (cf. Bradford Theatre during the winter months. (r. f.). Dr. Urquhart will umpire\n\nCommittee thank\n\nPrizes. The\n\nLimited Liability Com any. On the invitation of the Presvlent, Mr. Landsell asked the meeting for. HD expression of opinion for the Ground. The cricket-pitch has ran was C. I. Stapleton, who finish guidance of the incoming Com- een carefully looked after during ed with an average of 41. The best the numerous donors of prizes for mittee with regard to the Club be- the summer months and should be all-rounder was B. D. Evans, who Cricket, Tesia Golf and Bowls ing formed into a limited liability in good trim for the coming season. tional bowling feats-in 3 League\n\nseveral times accomplished ansa- competitions matches he captured 7 wickets for In May they were told definitely that at some uncertain future date. Very satisfactory.\n\nThe Committee runs, 5 for 10 and 3 for\n\ni\n\nthey would have to move and that have recently authorized the level- lauce at the appended averages ≈ site would be prepared for them, ling of a portion of the top ground, will show that the lat XI was very\n\nThe Hell Mark of Superiority THE VICTROLA MOUTRIES:-Exclusive Distributors.\n\nLONG LIVED W]|\n\nliams, nedal of Mrs. Mary James, aged 94; at Dolgell, y, still leaves three nonagenarians in the district. Although not related they all bar the same prname: Mr. Richard Williams. 96; Mrs. Osborne Williams, 95; and Mrs. Mary Wiliamne, 93.",
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        "content_text": "(1) An increase of the Unofficial Members of the Executive Council from two to four, and the substitution of the principle of election for nomination, the electoral bodies to be the Chamber of Commerce and the Unofficial Justices of the Peace.\n\n(2) An Unofficial majority on the Legislative Council by increasing the number of Unofficial Members from six to ten, all of them, except the two Chinese, to be elected—one half by the Chamber of Commerce and the other half by the Unofficial Justices of the Peace.\n\nThe electorates suggested, though obviously open to criticism, were put forward because, being already in existence, they involved no innovation and were therefore, it was hoped, less likely to meet with official opposition. The Governor, however, ready to seize upon any argument that would serve his purpose by staving off the evil day, pointed out in his despatch to the Secretary of State that the Chamber of Commerce consisted of only 150 members and the Unofficial Justices of the Peace of only 120. This objection was anticipated by Mr. POLLOCK in a covering letter, proposing an alternative franchise composed of Jurors and those eligible for jury service but exempt by reason of their occupations. Mr. BONAR Law, who was then Secretary of State, replied laconically, under date August 10th, 1916, that he saw no adequate reason for departing from the decision reached by Lord RIPON twenty years earlier.\n\nThis led to the formation of the Constitutional Reform Association in May of the following year in order that the task of pressing for reform might be placed in the hands of a permanent body instead of being left to one or two individuals. Out of a commendable desire not to do anything that might embarrass the Imperial Government during the war, nothing in furtherance of the chief object of this organisation was attempted until the great struggle was over, but on January 8th, 1919, at a largely attended public meeting in the Theatre Royal, the following resolutions were passed unanimously for submission to the Secretary of State :-\n\n(1) That the Unofficial Members of the Legislative Council be increased from six to nine, thus giving an Unofficial majority of one.\n\n(2) That of the nine Unofficial Members seven, who must be British subjects, be elected as follows:-\n\nOne by the Hongkong Chamber of Commerce.\n\nOne by the Non-Official Justices of the Peace.\n\nOne by the Chinese Chamber of Commerce or some other representative Chinese body.\n\nFour (one of Portuguese race and three of British race) by British subjects on the Jurors' List and those eligible for but exempted from jury service.\n\nThis, it will be noticed, is the most modest of the three schemes. It neither asks that the Official Members of the Legislative Council shall be free to speak and vote as their consciences dictate; nor that there should be any interference with the existing constitution of the Executive Council, which exercises no legislative functions other than those delegated to it by the Legislative Council, such as framing regulations under Ordinances; and though it repeats the demand for an Unofficial majority in the Legislature it limits that majority to one. Again, while retaining the representative of each of the two bodies originally selected by the Imperial authorities for electoral purposes, it submits a new and more popular franchise for the remaining European Unofficial Members of the Council. Finally, it recognises the claim of British subjects, other than those of British race, in the Colony to consideration.\n\nNo reply to this last demand was received for two years, but in the interval the Committee of the Constitutional Reform Association were informed that Lord Milner, who was the Secretary of State for the Colonies, would await a report from the newly appointed Governor, Sir R. E. Stubbs, after he had had time to acquaint himself with local conditions. The Committee waited upon His Excellency early in 1920, some six months after his arrival, in order to explain their views to him, and it was generally understood that he was in sympathy with at least a part of their programme—the demand, for example, that election should be substituted for nomination in the case of Unofficial European Members of the Council. It was surprising, therefore, to learn last February, as a result of a question addressed by Lt.-Col. John Ward, M.P., in the House of Commons to Mr. Winston Churchill, who had succeeded Lord Milner at the Colonial Office, that it had been decided not to make any change in the number or mode of selection of the members of the Legislative Council. No less surprising was it to discover, a little later, that a third Unofficial Member had been added to the Executive Council, despite the fact that upon reflection the public had abandoned their earlier demand in this direction because it would not give them any greater measure of control.\n\nThe persistency of the demand for some approach to representative Government—a demand which, as we have seen, dates from 1891—is conclusive evidence of a settled conviction on the part of the community throughout several generations, and is a complete rebuttal of the charge made by Sir William Robinson, a former Governor, that it was merely the outcome of an agitation on the part of \"a few unquiet spirits.\"\n\nPage 356",
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        "content_text": "BES\n\n- 8 -\n\ninarticulate. The importance of this point will be appreciated when it is explained that the Government discharges municipal as well as Colonial duties.\n\nThe proposed electorate will represent only a small minority of the inhabitants of the Colony.\n\nThe fact that Hongkong is a British possession on the fringe of China makes it necessary that the control of it should remain in British hands. For this reason it is impossible to have a thoroughly representative and responsible Government, because if all the Chinese, not even that section which might claim technically to be British by the accident of birth though alien by tradition and sympathy, were to be enfranchised they would be the unchallenged masters of the situation. As it is, they enjoy a considerable measure of control over their own local affairs in ways which are suited to their political development, through such bodies as the District Watchmen's Committee, the Tung Wah Hospital Board, the Po Leung Kuk and other local committees, boards and guilds. An official called the Secretary for Chinese Affairs, with a seat on both Councils, acts as a special intermediary for placing their views before the Government, and, in addition, they have two nominated representatives of their own race on the Legislative Council. Further, they are in a position to turn the scale in an election for a representative of the Unofficial Justices on the Council. It will be noticed, also, that it is proposed to allow them to recommend a third member to the Legislative Council if the European element is strengthened. Owing to their neglect to register births it would be impossible to say who are British subjects and who are not for electoral purposes, while in any case, the overwhelming majority of them lack the education to take an intelligent part in public affairs. The fact, however, that it is not prudent or practicable to enfranchise the Chinese furnishes no just reason for disenfranchising all but a very small percentage of \"British subjects of pure European descent\" to adopt the phraseology employed by the Secretary of State in sanctioning conscription for overseas service in the war. Lord Ripon, while opposed to placing the power in the hands of a small oligarchy restricted by the limits of race, apparently saw nothing inconsistent with his ideas in the perpetuation of a British autocracy, though it is a copy-book maxim that two wrongs do not make a right.\n\nThe implied charge that non-official Europeans would not treat the Chinese as fairly as the European officials do has nothing to support it; but even if there were the desire to be unjust there would not be the opportunity, since the Officials and the Chinese combined would be in a majority on the Council and there would always be, as a further safeguard, the Governor's veto, the Royal veto, and the power retained by the Imperial Parliament to pass legislation for the Colony. For purposes of illustration the British residents of the Colony may be likened to the proprietor of a boarding house, who, though he depends for his livelihood upon the support of the public, reserves the right to make the rules for the conduct of the establishment, always, of course, with due regard to the comfort of his patrons considered collectively.\n\nThat all the European Unofficial Members should be elected by the British community:\n\nThis can be dismissed at the present time as lying outside the pale of practical politics, more moderate demands having been consistently refused. Even if this were not so, it may be doubted whether it would be prudent to deprive the commercial interests of the Colony of the right to direct representation.\n\nThe justification for the retention of the Justices' Member is not so strong, but it is a concession to those who are ready to admit the need for some reform but are afraid of going too far. The British temperament is cautious, and it is not usual to do away with old institutions until they have become mischievous. Certainly it can be said of the representatives of both the Chamber of Commerce and the Justices of the Peace that, unlike the nominated members, they have invariably been champions of popular rights. In proof of this it is only necessary to recall the names of the Hon. Mr. T. H. Whitehead, the Hon. Mr. E. A. Hewitt, the Hon. Mr. H. E. Pollock, and the Hon. Mr. P. H. Holyoak.\n\nThe transient nature of the European population.\n\nThis objection applies with equal force to Shanghai, which has been very successfully administered for 60 years by an International Municipal Council (on which, it may be mentioned in passing, the Chinese have no representation at all), and to the officials—notably the Governor, who is usually appointed for five years only—who are liable to be sent elsewhere and, unlike many of the commercial men, have no permanent interest in the Colony.\n\nPopular indifference to public affairs.\n\nThough there is no leisured class in Hongkong it cannot be contended that any difficulty has been experienced in obtaining men willing to serve on either the Executive or Legislative Councils, although under existing conditions the field of selection is naturally very limited, and the prospect of recognition is so remote as to offer no attraction. For years past there has never been any dearth of candidates for the vacancies which have arisen on either body, and with the extension of the franchise and the increase in\n\n358",
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        "content_text": "# Statement respecting Lieutenant Walter Conway Hake who is an applicant for a Colonial Marine Appointment\n\n## Questions\n\n1. Will you be good enough to state how long you have been acquainted with the applicant?\n2. From what circumstances does your knowledge of him arise?\n3. While you were acquainted with him was he \n   (a) honest \n   (b) sober \n   (c) industrious \n   (d) generally well conducted?\n4. Was his health good?\n5. Do you consider him to be qualified to undertake the duties of such an appointment?\n6. Are you aware of any circumstance tending to disqualify him for such an appointment?\n7. Is he, as far as you are aware, free from pecuniary embarrassment?\n8. The Secretary of State will be glad to receive any information which you may have to give respecting the candidate's character or qualifications in addition to what is contained in the answers to the foregoing questions, particularly as to whether he has shown any special capacity for \n   (a) Command of men \n   (b) Organisation or administration of any kind.\n\n## Answers\n\n1. Exact dates impossible, but I have known him almost from boyhood.\n2. Intimate acquaintance between my family and his.\n3. (a) Beyond question, \n   (b) absolutely, \n   (c) very, \n   (d) in every way.\n4. Yes.\n5. I should consider him most suitable.\n6. None quite the contrary.\n7. Yes.\n8. His father was first cousin of the celebrated General Gordon. He is a younger brother of Trinity House and is an accepted candidate... I believe for election as an elder brother. He has the highest certificates as a navigator and was, previous to the war, in command of one of the Elder and Fyffes Ltd, Line of Steamships, being, I think, the youngest captain in their fleet. From all I know of him I should judge him to be an excellent commander of men, dealing with them with tact, firmness and good judgment, and as regards organisation the fact that he was appointed to have the highest... command in the company named above at so early an age speaks for itself, the highest opinion of him.",
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        "content_text": "PARAPHRASE TELEGRAM from the Governor of Hong Kong\n\n58043\n\n650\n\nto the Secretary of State for the Colonies.\n\nDated 24th December, 1925, (Received Colonial Office 3.40 p.m., 24th December, 1925).\n\nSecret.\n\nREOP (REGE 28 DEC 25)\n\nCanton Situation. Fletcher returned yesterday from Canton having had several interviews with members of de facto Government including Wong Tsing Wai, Sung Tazman, C.C. Wu, and Fu Ping Sheung. He also saw His Majesty's Consul General. From these discussions it is clear that while the Canton Government is sincerely anxious to resume friendly intercourse with Hong Kong and to bring the boycott to an end, it is neither willing nor able to take measures against the Strike Committee with a view to its suppression. The payment to the latter Committee of a lump sum down is in the opinion of the Canton Government the only measure by which the boycott can be ended, and they consider that the amount of such sum should be settled by bargaining in Chinese fashion between the Chinese merchants of Hong Kong, the Canton merchants and the Strike Committee. A settlement on these lines commends itself to His Majesty's Consul General. It was unanimously agreed today after full discussion in Executive Council at which Chow Shou-son and Kotowall were present that there would be no justification for the Hong Kong Government obstructing a settlement on the lines indicated below. As a first step Chow and Kotewall are to arrange for the election by prominent Chinese merchants from among their number of suitable representatives. Chow and Kotewall would of course not be eligible for election. These representatives when elected to proceed to Canton with a view to bargaining with Canton merchants and the Strike Committee as to the amount to be paid in settlement. When the figure has been agreed by this process the Chinese and European merchants in Hong Kong",
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        "content_text": "should be ascertained before a decision is taken upon the actual arrangement of the constituencies to be represented by the five Indian members.\n\nNo articulate expression of opinion can be yet expected from the African tribes in Kenya, and the time has not come to consider what should be their representation on the Council. The educational development of individual natives will undoubtedly precede the political education of the general body of natives; there are, indeed, signs of this already.\n\nIn present circumstances, the Governor has the advice of the Chief Native Commissioner in all matters affecting the African population and with the official majority can ensure the enactment of any measures for the betterment of the natives which may be approved by His Majesty's Government. It has, however, been suggested that a nominated unofficial member chosen from among the Christian Missionaries in Kenya specially to advise on such matters should be added to the Council until the time comes when the natives are fitted for direct representation. His Majesty's Government see no objection in principle to this arrangement, and they agree that provision should be made accordingly. It will be for the Governor to select a suitable person for nomination from time to time. It will, of course, be understood that there is no question of the representation of the Missionary Bodies as such, and that consideration of religious denomination will not affect the selection. Nor will the nomination of this one member relieve the Governor and his advisers of their full responsibility for representing the native interests.\n\n5. Representation on Executive Council.\n\nAs regards the Executive Council, the present position as set forth in the Wood-Winterton report will be maintained, except that the Governor will be given authority to nominate as an additional unofficial member a suitable person, preferably a Missionary, whose advice on matters affecting Africans will, in the opinion of the Governor, be of value.\n\n6. Representation on Municipal Councils.\n\nThe only municipality which has been set up in Kenya is that of Nairobi.\n\nThe Municipal Corporations Ordinance No. 33 of 1922 provides for Municipal Councils to consist of so many Councillors as the Governor shall determine, and the appointment of these Councillors rests with the Governor.\n\nIt was not desired to suspend the enactment of various amendments to the existing law which are included in this Ordinance until the policy as to elections for Municipal Councillors had been determined; consequently, the provision for the constitution of Municipal Councils was re-enacted generally in the form in which it appeared in the Municipal Corporations Ordinance of 1909.\n\nLord Milner contemplated in 1920 election in lieu of nomination of Municipal Councillors, but no concrete scheme was submitted by the Colonial Government for giving effect to that policy. The matter is one requiring careful examination, but, in principle, if an elective basis is now introduced, it follows from the decision in regard to the Legislative Council that municipal representation must also be on a communal basis, due provision being made for the protection of the interests of the Africans until such time as they are fit to exercise a franchise.\n\nIt will be an instruction to the Governor to put forward proposals for consideration of the Secretary of State for the Colonies after he has been able to consult his advisers in Kenya.\n\n7. Segregation in Townships.\n\nThe next matter for consideration is that of segregation of the European and non-European races. Following upon Professor Simpson's report, a policy of segregation was adopted in principle, and it was proposed by Lord Milner to retain this policy both on sanitary and social grounds. So far as commercial segregation is concerned, it has already been generally agreed that this should be discontinued. But in regard to residential segregation, matters have been in suspense for some time, and all sales of township plots have been held up pending a final decision on the question of principle involved. It is now the view of the competent medical authorities that, as a sanitation measure, segregation of Europeans and Asiatics is not absolutely essential for the preservation of the health of the community; the rigid enforcement of sanitary, police and building regulations, without any racial discrimination, by the Colonial and municipal authorities will suffice. It may well prove that in practice the different races will, by a natural affinity, keep together in separate quarters, but to effect such separation by legislative enactment except on the strongest sanitary grounds would not, in the opinion of His Majesty's Government, be justifiable. They have therefore decided that the policy of segregation as between Europeans and Asiatics in the townships must be abandoned.\n\nBut for the present, at any rate, it is considered desirable, as in other native dependencies, to keep the residential quarters of natives, so far as may be practicable, separate from those of the immigrant races. In the case of individual natives, such as servants, strict segregation would be unworkable; but it is important that, when areas have been fixed in townships for native residence, those areas should be regarded as definitely set aside for the use of natives, and no encroachment thereon by non-African races should be permitted.\n\n8. Reservation of Highlands.\n\nAs early as 1906 the question of the grant of land in the Highlands to non-Europeans had arisen for consideration, and Lord Elgin, who was then Secretary of State for the Colonies, informed the Commissioner (now styled Governor) that it would not be in accordance with\n\n218",
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        "content_text": "54\n\nfaith:ful workers to carry out their plans. It has outside support. This is the strong force against Christianity in Canton.\n\nOne can see from all this that the degree of opposition towards Christianity varies a great deal among the forces at work in Canton. For example, in the last anti-Christian campaign all these forces participated, but from different motives and with different methods.\n\nSome employed silent resistance and some used aggressive measures.\n\nForces working against each other.\n\nFurthermore, on many questions these groups are working against each other. In regard to class war, for example, the Communist party stands almost alone against the rest. The Young China Society attacks Communism more bitterly than it does Christianity. The Communist party is meeting opposition everywhere in China, especially among the intellectuals. The Communist party is by no means having an easy time in Canton, although Canton gives the Communist party great freedom of action. It finds opposition everywhere. Recently one of the important Kuomintang leaders, Dr. Tai Kwa To, in his pamphlet \"People's Revolution and the Kuomintang\" denounced the Communists in many respects, and he has had the support of many Kuomintang members. The New Student Society is now a Communist organisation. It used to control the Student Union in Canton, but was defeated in the election last year. The People's Right Society has been a force working against Communism. The Communist party has found strong opposition among the merchants, and even within the labour organisations. When Dr. Ward and the writer met some of the strong labour leaders last April, they were told by them very frankly that China had no place for Communism. One of the largest labour unions forbade its members to participate in the last May-day demonstration with the Communists. In a demonstration last June, the students refused to walk side by side with the Communists. However, the Communists have worked hard day by day to win the people. They have disorganised, reorganised, and organised, and they are advancing every day.\n\nWe Christian workers should know now who are against us and who are not. Of all the forces working against us, we should recognise the different principles and methods. On certain questions, we should know further that we are not standing alone. Many are sympathetic and working with us.\n\nPatriotic Movement.\n\nAfter knowing the forces at work and how they differ from each other, we shall understand the background of the patriotic movement in Canton. The unsettled condition of the country, together with the unjust attitude of the foreign Powers, have aroused the patriotic alarm of the Chinese people, especially the students throughout the country and the workmen in Canton particularly. Since the student movement of the 4th May, 1919, and the renaissance movement, we have witnessed many patriotic nation-wide movements. Even the movement for Chinese control of mission education and the anti-Christian movement itself may be looked upon as a further expression of this patriotic spirit. One movement followed another until the Shanghai, Hankow, and Canton sad incidents, when the patriotic spirit blazed over the whole country, reaching every class of people. As one missionary puts it, to-day in China \"It is war-war for national honour; war for national rights; war for the preservation of the race and of the nation; war against brutality and injustice.\" Many Chinese Christians showed a proper spirit of patriotism-even the Communists gave them credit for it.\n\nBefore 1900, the Chinese people resented the aggressive and oppressive foreigners; after that, Chinese were afraid of foreigners. It was not until the beginning of the student movement on the 4th May, 1919, called forth by the disappointment at the results of the Peace Conference at Paris, that the patriotic spirit rose up again. It is felt everywhere in China to-day. The political parties have done a good deal in rousing this spirit, but foreign oppression, together with the success of Russia and Turkey in their dealing with foreign Powers, have also inspired the Chinese patriots very much.\n\nThis spirit of patriotism is deeply rooted in the hearts of the Chinese. If one does not make a clear distinction between this patriotic movement and the progress of Communism, it is a great mistake. If one classifies all the recent patriotic movements as \"Red campaigns,\" or if one were to declare that the \"Reds\" have engineered all the patriotic movements, this would be attributing too much to them. It might even drive non-Communists to become Communists; it would at least make the Communists laugh at our ignorance.\n\n55\n\nWhat should Chinese Christians do under this Spirit of Patriotism?\n\nIt seems to the writer that nothing can stand against this great patriotic movement in China to-day. If Christian work is to continue, it should not try to oppose it. Under these conditions, what should the position of Chinese Christians be? It has been observed that throughout China, practically all the Chinese Christian leaders stood by the patriotic movement. Some may not have approved of all its methods or procedures, but we were all in sympathy with its spirit. Christians from now on should go one step further.\n\nWe should be enquiring of ourselves whether or not we are doing our part for the country, for the Chinese people. We should rely no more on the protection of the unequal treaties through our foreign missionaries. We must do our best to help to get rid of the unequal treaties, for they are against Christian principles.\n\nOther forces are labouring for the good of the working-class and the youth of the country, as Christian organisations have done in the past. We should emphasise these forms of works, or we shall lose our hold upon these classes.\n\nThere is a feeling among many Chinese workers in foreign-controlled Christian institutions that they are merely employees of foreigners. This conception should be changed. The first responsibility to work for the Chinese should be laid upon us Chinese. Foreign missionaries should be helpers only. Unless this idea is well established in our minds, advocating Chinese control of mission education is useless.\n\nLast of all, we should stand firm against materialism and class-war; we must put forth our belief in co-operation and brotherhood in industry. We should stand firm against the narrow idea of strict nationalism, although it is very popular these days, and do our best to lead our country to be strong in the family of nations. Nationalism has led the Western countries into war after war. We must stand for world brotherhood, equal treatment, and world peace.\n\nNow, what should the foreign missionaries do? This is a difficult question for them to solve. It is not for the writer to make any suggestions on this head.\n\nThe foregoing paper deals chiefly with conditions in Canton. Canton is very different from the rest of China. People are aggressive here, and Christian workers must also be aggressive if they are to succeed in the future of Christian work in Canton.\n\nCanton, November 9, 1925.\n\nANNEX XVI.\n\nTwo Despatches from the Governor of Hong Kong describing the Events leading up to and connected with the Visit of the Colonial Secretary, Hong Kong, to Canton in December 1925.\n\n(1)\n\nSir C. Clementi to Mr. Amery.\n\nGovernment House,\n\n(Secret.) Sir,\n\nHong Kong, December 23, 1925.\n\nWHEN I arrived here on the 1st November, I made it my chief duty to inform myself at once as to the political situation in China generally, and at Canton in particular. On the 6th November, I exchanged visits of ceremony with Admiral Li Ching-hsi, who is in command of the Chinese cruiser squadron in these waters, and whose flagship is the Hai Yung. Since then, I have met him informally on several occasions. He stated that he was under the orders of Admiral Yang, whom I have not yet seen, and whose headquarters appear to be at Shanghai. I asked Admiral Li to tell me from whom Admiral Yang gets his orders, and he replied vaguely: \"From the Minister of Marine, at Peking\"; but he subsequently informed me that the Minister of Marine \"had run away,\" and I infer that the Chinese navy is now a law unto itself. However, Admiral Li, upon whose instructions I do not know, regards the present de facto Government at Canton as a rebel Government, and he considers himself to be at war with it. He accordingly maintained until recently a cruiser patrol at the mouth of the West River, with the object of preventing arms and ammunition from reaching the Canton Government, and he also made it his business to prevent the Cantonese Red army from crossing the Hainan Strait and occupying Hoihau, which is one of the sources of this colony's meat supply.\n\nHe has, however, now left for Shanghai, and has withdrawn all\n\n522",
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        "content_text": "Cleans and Disinfects in One Operation. REMEMBER\n\nNO SOAP, NO STRONG CAUSTICS.\n\nNO DANGEROUS DISINFECTANTS\n\nARZ WANTED THE \"CARBOLACENE\n\nREGULARLY\n\nWALKER\n\nREGO CARBOLACENE\n\nFRAGRANT\n\nCLEANSER DISINFECTANT\n\nAn Active Disinfectant and Cleanser for use in Hotels, Institutions and in the Home,\n\nUsed by the British & Foreign Governments.\n\nSole Makers for -\n\nW. & F. WALKER, LTD., Liverpool, England.\n\nSole Agents- ANDERSON & ASHED.\n\nQue's Buildings.\n\nINSURE\n\nFOUR\n\nMOTOR\n\nCAR\n\nWITH\n\nGILMANS.\n\nTHE\n\n\"OCEAN COMPREHENSIVE POLICY\n\nhousehold.\n\n[24\n\nA Welcome Visitor\n\nat any\n\ntime in\n\nevery\n\nEvery\n\nBug, Flea, Beetle, Moth, Fly, etc., dies once it has come into proper contact with\n\nKEATING'S\n\nMARTIN'S\n\nAPIOL & STEEL Sure and certain for all Female complaints. Every lady should keep a box in the house.\n\nChemists and Stores sell them throughout the world. Proprietors MARTIN, Chisholm, Southampton Row.\n\nUNCLAIMED TELEGRAMS.\n\nAT THE GREAT NORTHERN TELEGRAPH CO.\n\nFROM\n\nADURYS ED Petrovitch, 32, Nathan Rd. Shanghai\n\nfragoon Sheinm\n\nTokyo Shouzhai Shanghai\n\nKisty Simpson\n\nBorghie Cassic\n\nBang\n\n-hal\n\nJAR\n\nMercery...\n\nAndrew Tr\n\nJonicbole\n\nL\n\nAbig Amay Totolas Chicago, Ulincin\n\nAT THE EASTERN EXTENSION, AUSTRALASIA AND CHINA TELEGRAPH CO.\n\nADDRESSED\n\nHeatley Rinorez Yardley Celly\n\nFrom\n\nLender\n\nDaina\n\nSu Franciaco\n\nTHE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY,\n\nTHE BUDGET PASSED (CONTD.).\n\nyaw open he deducted from the total\n\nwould place Hongkong in und danger of a water famine for fleen gewes\n\nLust of the Department is will be seen reset. Yet, won ave years of the that the department costs only about $200,000 per un to run, apart from the salaries of use we cadet others in the department and on or two metibars\n\nstedssful construction of that reservoir Hongkong was agus confromed ly water shortage sa ne costred also in the earlier pars if this year, i think the\n\nof the cleries) stali which are provided jeovision is inevituste Lant Dere is for leewhow. y Honous la friend by Nature herself the\n\nNOVEMBER\n\n5FR.\n\nBOGUS DIPLOMAT.\n\nFREL MOTOR-CAR TOUR.\n\nACTING FOR PRINCE OF WALES,”\n\nPARI\n\nÁn dadarions series of frauds by a minu\n\n1926.\n\nFOOTBALL.\n\nCLUR DE RECREIO Is XI.\n\nS.C.A.4. 1st XI.\n\nTeams representing these Caly will et in tegne match at the Regrou's who represented himself as a member afgrond, King's Park, tomonow, kick-off the staff of the British Embassy clituged\n\nand a special mission ou half at the The Reevein's team is as follows:-M Prince of Wales, a nursed by the Per M. da Silva. W t\n\npiguen prependant of the Bha de taptain), CF iteraedius. A Atlas\n\nRUGBY,\n\nFL.R.F.C. * ENGINERE ARTIFICERS.\n\nThere will be a catch between these teams at the Royal Navy ground, King's Pack, Kowloon, to-morras. Kick-off. 4\n\nP.201\n\nThe following have been selected to play for the Chi Laotiert, Liatr\n\nBlairisgley and Trages; Morrison, Ler\n\nPuree Using the are of Lord Remedios, A. V. Remedios, 12. P. Xavier, i aui Miline (cnplain), Póster, M. Smith,\n\ntrientales, upon the Sensor for the Depertinent, and japon Colonel Blachere, military erminander of the region, stat ing that he had been instapeter to par-\n\nClub de Racrei ad XI. r. 8.0.\n\nAlhalic Association,\n\nis referising reels to the cost of the case saputorial on position is loux searching stab and corridors that too kung land. Endell, wuite apart from must is spent in searching steamers for the wase; supp's question, the cablu, the inutividani in question call-id. P. Fuertes, A. Losang. J. M. da ours and list grugs I would emorye box of the vatani sets very strict iuits the Prefect of die Pens | Siha, and A. J. Brown, than relive service is absolutely to the practicability of hoana babita neentary in a port of this slae and in\n\nnon. There art, moreover, engout re portiure, closely insted his in to a\n\nSoge #gatus, maxing the islami dependan foreign contry. Search has to on made for its water apon the maidand. There for exciele and antialle articles and fore, akhough. I fear that we shall never for prohibited imports. We have also be able to dispense with rider auine certain interjunal obligations in these the flan, het web doubties will utiere, cod shine ang sourched on operate as encouragement to add matter of routine. It is quive itaposiole tonal population to settle in Kaulugu questions raised by y Honourable duty to exannine all j Friend. The fact thar, 4,30 pounds of water storage on the sand itself, and which be made an ratensive four of the Accumpeau.\n\nThie match will be payed on the Re-1 chaec a villa on the Côte Vermeille Forreio's groun, Kiug's Park, Lo-earrow, the Peince of Wales.\n\nkick-not at 245 pudar.\n\nA pram of noble boating, speaking\n\nThe Secret team wall be:--L. M.\n\ncat, Hankey, Light Weish. Sergt Steyer, Seval Bruno. Beveridge and Mefatyre.\n\nHOCKEY.\n\nTODAY'S GAMES.\n\nThe following will represent the Univer\n\nhis story opted without the east susen, J. Lira captu). C. Figueiredo, de Recio coday at 5.15 p.n on the Treinb and English perivetly, he found Perunades, L. A. Gomes, C. d'Assmagsity is hockey match against Ch\n\nthe cal authorities. whu Bonce, A. F. Carvalho. Ruza Pereira, University football groundA. A. Ariz 19 pisin Pion in\n\nto give oxset Agaces in answer to the rather itan is Hongalisios of father lend this disposal a motor car. in A. J. Mauris L. A. da Roche, and B. fraptains, Dr. F. X. Ashton, Lim Pon\n\noptain 4 fire seine anal 45,000 rounds of these pastilities are now being in damagnitions. 57,000 contraband cigavestigated. reites 3,500 gallons of spirits and 6,600 ons of danger, dings were seized during is shows the need for an eða tive piramontina utait. Moreover the pre- ventive staff deals wis the investigation officiell optare divans which one volves a very large arent of work on a careful consiferation of the facts think my Honourable end will agree that the tatt is not sxessive for the work which hay to be dozn\n\n3u puticular one pateabai marceir hệ un perivased ospunity or gan pillinn gations has been located and it is al euiated that the wat of wenst vetag i would be a greater than the cost of the pepe linn under the harbour ae designed by the Consulting Engineers Weght also to devise ones como sing our tresh water supplies in Hongkong by asing mắt water on the low towels for Bntly, chets wi no doubt have\n\nsabinge, streef-cleaning, fire-aging and generally for non-potable perposes, Coticed one very serious mission from his rasite is likewise under lige Toy remarks, his ouission is intentional ice and I trust that before long 1 may ae Your Havelienes has informed me thassle to lay the table of this you will senrself deal with the very im vertant question of the waer supply for\n\nVeure a sossinust paver giving foli in forms for on every aspecs of der water\n\n} \n\n$100.\n\nthe Calous and with the remarks of hon, I supply bien. 21 furnishing all the etubers on that subject. One more data secessary for foenutatley our leture should like\n\nto thank\n\ngfficul collenges for their veys flattering rewound he premature to take a tal desi poliny in this respect. Until then it marks on the way the budget was intro- dowed and for the very restrained tona of their reasonable criticism and, espe einily, for their generous appreciation of the services of the virions Government departmente.\n\n1. THE GOVERNOR SUMS UP.\n\nEducation.\n\nOn the subject of euation I wil only already sail that, situated add to what the Colonis Sourctary has\n\nA.E. TA GOTUPNO id: My cordial thanks ne both to the atheist and to the uncial arembers of this Council; for ne ne ant eare which they have: devoted the consideration of the the whole world and the initiation of the budget. My dead is greatest to the spinally Buxlish loy-serot and gir gode Colonial Secretary, who has had no ingredients wing mar oy There shows pains in preparing in expouedag and in\n\nthat in ufucational matters a vitalizing\n\nHongong, woney spent by ss u odana. rice is of the etenst value to British 24 terests in China. Tug is en dra of ad- yertisement and propagands. Partin not good at advartizu artelves and; ly or unfortunately, we, as people, are we are very under propagands. But the public schools sad the aniversities of the United Kingdom are the additating ar\n\ndefending the apply Bill, and whes, sales stil goes out from England 1 am so the whole Council will agree, amly believe that, it we can savesstuhy has discharged a dilbicult task with cun. geois ability thun seo auch the spirit of the British patule saboris and alvidare ete Horakung something of Indented te the cat members vereittes, we shall de more for dish their helpfat criticism and to ihove official interesis in Chica yłem ten possibly be pembery who have taken part in the relieved in any other war Eduentib Rebate for repping to this aritivist, of couraz, le padneted en sourd tuly t bare is Strie Jek Joy me to lines and a political propaganda Gust excluded ont euz adura- on which I propone la rough, parents thus tional i Colony's water supply and the subject of education\n\na. There arŋ, in fet, only two poists !.bs natuiiishraeus. Tsui, subirer to\n\nColony's Water Supply. Ever since I that loow Henging, woes The quarter of a century go, the in sutticiuc of the Colony's water supp has been a cause for anxiety, can weit remember the days when tied r\n\nsheet prozigos, am convinced list the moncy we spend on advention is a very good arstiteat, and I are glad ir los from the speech of the Senior Chinese Miscber that he and his colleague In\n\nut grutee it.\n\nI now own to the Cancil the motion,\n\nwhich has aireury hem mover and\n\ntonement house iu o ting Forgatseaded, tant de supply Bill be read a\n\ncime of note water shortage and hud, segond time.\n\nto setu my zerranis with backets dow\n\nto Praga, where they\n\nsterd in a\n\nqueue to get water iron lots which brought it across the bay bots from Wai Lamb uns cu the malaland.\n\ntherefore with every apathy for the Glumus mau ibnet the levels\n\nflo. Bir Husa Peursex: May I spea MD Arun of the pointe which have been i red.\n\nILE. THE Veason: I am afraid go Caszob allow it.\n\nThe Standing Onies do aut\n\nHongkong and with invaderiar•Ung Hon. Sa Hay PoiLock has been\n\nof dieir male a ruladatos doring & the ecco in this Council to ready to water facing the 2 have studied tre matters raised in the outs of rhodit. proposal to ask the island dependantcussion.\n\nthe miniland for much of its water\n\nR.E. THE GRENOU. The Bavel may\n\nonce on the second reading of a Bill Conado has a right to mene more tran\n\nYna y pesk us say then you ke\n\nthe Committee stage.\n\ncools. Let me, however, fest consider as the edit to reply. No member of this matter from the point of new of kowison. I am convinse the years come, awing paully to the limitatione which Natone has rapused on Hory- Rong a partly to the advantages which\n\nThe Hill was icy read a second time, Naturn hus bektared upon Konon, Tue\n\nComan went in sanilia to on- grcatat portion of the Cabay'a popun Bon will hats the uainland ather then sider the Oil viure la dise and Ha The wows-planning shoe Hey Fobock then raised a center of and the Farlane development sideme for\n\nquestions which were unsered by H Kowloon Invs then prepared vety wizely The Govezo nd other ricmbers of\n\non a generava scale and 36 s mrahornell. No amenduents were made to able that in future yes the norther the Bin Custee and opon Couteil alores of our barbour wil e jahached rowing,\n\nay & population ci Feiller JROTH The Cowaru SeCESTARY Moved the Chinese ani thar there will be residences third reading.\n\na aing the slopes of the Kowie The BOLONIAL Turns seconded and ange, and especially as its castern end, the Bii was read rd time and sumers as in the Peak Distric.passed.\n\nThe populata of the Colony has in the E. Tap overrun thurk hour. Pas crease at a phenomenat rate andante buombers very airvurely for the there is n voron why it should not evi-\n\nVision they have made for best year.\n\ntinue to do so in the fetare. I bax Courel and adjourned zinc đen,\n\ndoabled during the past ten years Now\n\nwe are a present only completing the\n\nfast plage of the Sheng Mun rabicy ivatar corts scheme. Hat when that\n\nsebeme has heretter been developed to\n\nla y capacity\n\nthe water supply\n\nREGULATIONS IN MASSES.\"\n\nBefore the 18s of Wight Bench, when\n\nfrom it will, so t are told, caly uffice for a tener was summoned for a bicach or bition soule te arison must be the regulations quic under the deplete considered the shore of the weds of the tion of Animal Aet by failing to ghiuping of this great port, which shoul\n\nfor six days a pedigeen belt brough\n\nhe supplied entheis from the metuland. from the Channel Islausts, the saticito Therefore in my pins the progressive for the defence ploaded genovace of the\n\ncveiremeal of the Stang Mun scherplations\n\nformed of each regulations, and had to to\n\nand back at the unisces posted up. The\n\nstage by atage it probably do no more the clerk of the juices (Mr John than zopple the growing needs of the Parte!) said be and others who had Inerther side of the Daibuer, especially studied the law all their lives were nos in\n\nif, La Bonn 26ay be the case, the supply to Kowloom is hy meter all over the pensule and rider mains are not ineist Fod opens. Eventually there would be nothing luppare fomi Sheng Mus for the and and, a pipe tine were new inid under the barbour, the real would\n\nhe said, was the evi of legislating y\n\nden rizical regulations. Everyone who\n\nhad anything to do with the law Joy\n\nbez statutes were pood, but under\n\nsome statutes power was given to the\n\ny be to compel the cousienrtion of Government departments to make regula\n\nthe second, third and further stages of signs which had to be inid on the table the Sheng Mne schein at an order date of the House of Commons, and it ne and hasten the day rhen water supplies objected to them within a certain perina additional to these in the Sheng Mung oras law. Those regulations ce valley would have to be frusted for the in auch masses that chose concerned entila waland. This is no erent of a wild not innke lisensices quainted wit imagination. My bontrahie bend. Mr.\n\nthen quickly.\n\nBird. has reminded us of the confident The chainman said the dnienian, wodd hopes entertained in 1938 that the con- a nod to simply ny a warning to straction of the Tyram-k reservoir avhers.\n\ni \n\nColei Binchors and asked for a loss Department He then called apon\n\njoi meney, but the eulonel Shought be re-i\n\ngold in the supposed Lord Sahton a pan whom he had seen being marched bebwa twn gendannen in the occupid feratfury, and concranitext his sus pitions to the Prefect, who advised the palier the poster, quick to rule that he was being closely watched, took taxicab to Ehe and there bed an express bound for Paris.\n\nCRICKET.\n\n0.8 40. \"A\". FONGKONG UNIVERSITY\n\nThe A. Salteran, K. T. Loke, A. Baker,\n\nThen, V. Enok, Hernani,\n\nThe following will present the Hong- og Rocker Clan in a wareh with the Horas Selitery on the Marina grand at geday: T. W. Suuthan, W. A. Nowra, Lord, Rankly,\n\n1. Wheeler, 1. Middleton Smith, L. &. R. Dunes, W.. Newman, and Nicbails. the\n\nON SALE,\n\nThis match w take pines tomorrow. I. Savaderson tenpr), White, 2. G\n\nthe Bongtong taiversity ground be sinning at 3.13 p.m.\n\nThe following will repavicur ¡C.8.C.C. A team:-J. H. N Palier inquiries show, however, that, (enplain), E. J. Harper, R. 8. W PA disapointed in one quarter, he runced on, T. W. Carr, C. Nara, T. 12. M ed in another, for during the train Pendered, R. C. Witchsti. R. G. Rober journey between Elne and Narbonne ke son, C. R. Sitey, T. Wastlake, and succeeded in borrowing on from a\n\nP. J. Neill Spanish priest who travested in the same\n\nCape W. Saters. o apartment. The mean is believed to be Bean, of whom the palies have\n\ndetailed des ription.\n\nFue match arranged for to-coorrow be-j tweea C.S.CC tat Team Hongkong Ist. 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Ltd.\n\nSHANGHAI\n\nHONG KONG\n\nTIENTSIN\n\nJOHN WALZER & SONS, LTD., SCOTCH WHISKY DISTILLERS, KILMARNOCK, SCOTLAND.\n\nNORTHERN SITUATION.\n\nHANKOW THREATENED BY YAWG SEN.\n\nTHE COAL DISPUTE.\n\nTHE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER STA\n\nFAILINE OF FORLORN HOPES.\n\nIMPERIAL CONFERENCE.\n\nRIFORTS OF COMMITTEES TO BE\n\nCONSIDEREU\n\nBIG FORCES ADVANCING ON\n\nMOVING TOWARDS PEAGE.\n\nSHITISH WIRALESS SERVICE.)\n\nFULL SESSION TO-DAY.\n\nSRITIRO WIRELESS SERVICE. }\n\nBuasy, November 3rd.\n\nSOUTHERNERS.\n\nITHROTGE AR?!TEETH MOENCY.\n\nThe conference of delegatos, represent ing 3,000,000 members of Trailes' Cuions,\n\nRissy, November tvd.\n\nTo emble Ether progress to be medis\n\nRUSSIAN COMMUNIST\n\nCONFERENCE.\n\nTREND TOWARDS SOCIAL DEMO CRACY DENOUNCED.\n\n¡TERIZON REUTER'A AGENCY.]\n\nMoscow, November 4th,\n\nSeco Ordjoni Kidze los ben appoint. Led Chairman of the Contrshing Comain\n\n193.\n\nTERRIBLE MINE DISASTER IN AMERICA.\n\nSURFACE DROPS 809 FEET.\n\nFORTY LIVES LOST.\n\n[enerina's APERICAN SERVICE}\n\nHUANGHAL, November 4th.\n\nLeonsidered to-day he request of the with the work of the various cammirteesi sion of the Covinat Party teplacing i bois lves lo a large routine right suites According to Star Chuan Fang's local Mines Federation fe fusosial assist the taperiat Conternen will not meet in Kalbyahef\n\nheadquarters, General Yang Sex 18 making rapid wegiese tonnvés flankum with a lores el 90, Fr is reported that re has reached an understanding with the military corianders of Heh\n\nThe comlined strength of the various trongs advancing against the Raemiatang amin forena ia catiupted at 20,000\n\nThe Situation on the Yangisse. According to musaoge from Kiukiang, though the Allied tips drove the\n\nance by News of a compulsory jerk,\n\nMe J. H. Thorous, ex-Minister and\n\n30\n\n7\n\nCHINESE ASPIRATIONS.\n\nAN ATTEMPT TO DEFINE THEM.\n\nBRITISH POLICY.\n\nFa a letter to The Times, a writer, who signe himwility Years of Caikas,\"\n\nWhat, seus time to ask, are \"tha legitimer asjárations of the Chinese Isamuse, Michigan, Nov 4th.\n\n¦ people' of which pro hour so much and Vorry mlaers are believed to have beat often, and which, sweeling to a re\n\nsoluzioa paared sareena terring of the Trades Trion Congress, curIn- sway as a rendi of a cove in. A sectionering policy? is supposed to obstruer\n\nt. is possible to answer this question of the sune lice, onsdag of worriedly a coisery but the great mess in! sessing and Friday morning, when\n\nThe Pan Russian Commemat Conier-\n\nground top fear by mi feil 600 feet to of me Cheese page. Their sole aspisa made of the National Tadon of Railway for representation will be considered\n\nsuch emporte of committees as are ready unce opelnded with wanimous resul\n\nthe fat level with an eerie sucking thed | tion certainty legs the cHEAT- men, declared that a compulsory levy was\n\ntrot, wenotneing the oppositiona and the watch was beant les arand. Shaeon of the ferville suderings y hue Considerable progress was made so-day drift towards a Social Demersey, and and mud and varer Sueded the entire euynes ter tin past hve years or\n\ncauteed at the landa of their \"Teltow ona of the question. He pointed out the boys sinaveial burden which the cos\n\nin the exambation of the intricate preemplaatsing its detonation to preserve level, and B. is feared that all mace of mine. A catalogue of these, could it be doppage had placed on this Railwayman's atity by the comsister interested with\n\nblens cotueruing questions vi matice-party unity and u erosh attempus to escape han born a så gi\n\nand other enjeun. The appeal by Mr. A. J. Cook and that subjen, and at the meeting of the\n\nwoher authors' leaders for a compulsory\n\nkonomie Committee matters moder von.\n\nlevy fo on mmpathetic cars and, in weluded taxation of so- Cantonese invaders into Kiangsi. they eventually, an acceptable compromise was through agente or Erwaches and the\n\nresidens trading in the Dovdivos | also have suffered heavily, pan wifound in a revolution which was moved tiability of the State enterprises to of the report regarding the Chrkiang by the Speetary of\n\nthe Instributive\n\nvoi. the Allied Comunnacle parpesny Workers' Coinus. This proposed that the 1xation.\n\nmade his men conontrate slong the Nas werber of the Dales' Unions, who are i chang-Kinking railway lin, for fene that they might be threatened with out-\n\nThe General Counnil of the Trades' Tuiee Congress afterwards issued a state-\n\neffort to achizibute. Ject asking monists to make a special\n\nThe Committes of Price Micleers\n\nEGYPT-INDIA AIR SERVICE.\n\nAVCCESSZOR DEMONSTRATION\n\nFLIGHTS.\n\nworking, should contribute volastalls further considered the problem of inter-\n\nImpovial inlations, and the diessaloni side agitation. Dostest of letting his 15 tkun cae penny per day for the\n\nsupport or the nicer. The Diebusive will be tuned at a meeting of the xroups chats the enemy, Marshal Sun is Workers Tao offered to start a volum\n\nCommiting tomorrow. only devoting hiwait to restoring enay Bud with a motributivo of £9,000; munications, cornogrcial, tepking and how its own resourses This compromise other organisation to their origiasi proposed was adopted. stales, as to win pazar laveur. On the other land. the mein Lady of the Aobwei ang under General Chew Ting Fnce, armbeslag some 12.000 strong she Wero maioned on the left bank of the tho river Yangiar, in co-operaion with aste 1,000 traps belonging in General Yeh Ka Hsin's Hunua seny, are in pures of the Cantores rongs who are provide stuetking over one shilling per by the Imperial Airways for this service\n\ntreating Hinge Mr. Chiang Tor Kus, penes delegate Irum Chokizug,\n\nchouid te in experimental operation be- it appears that at to day's weeting tween London Paris. in dimussing pace torus wile Levers felisy was distinty revealed 10\n\nThe Helca in the rac British pas Chiang Kai Sick, upon his retur debit if micers severe foucis center rachine specially designed for Kinklang, 4 is expedid that Marshal han will decide whether to continue Aghting or arckage for pracc.\n\nA LONDON COMMENT\n\n3. Pontley witing to The\n\nSupy day Word stude\n\nI am ready in confess bay of late bave given up reading about China, and mi the power lime have hot the foun ides what is happening there.\n\nI am quite willing to belive dat is hades of fellow creatures are going Lhrough crisis, and the the fie of the whole world as be found up with the present history of Chies\n\nDay there are so many replicated prises, with which the fate of the world is bend up, so they alces we proted ourselves sonelow we shall never bove\n\nCent's peace of mind\n\neroato sectional strife\n\n...wix.com\n\nTRAGIC DISCOVERY.\n\nMR. A. BRUNNER AND WIFE FOUND DEAD.\n\nLONDON. FOrember sth.\n\n127\n\nU.S. ELECTIONS.\n\n-----\n\nNew York. November pad, TheWols are grea\n\nheartoned with the means of the New York State referentem where a 110,500 resjority Mr. Rogens Brunner, ex Chairman of ze seca State to determine what per | tavoured u request but Congress Jobaran\n\nBrunner, Mond and Company, surt bis centan of alcohol is inensleting. An wife have been found shot dead in their almost idential proposal augears to have house at Korbampton.\n\nbeco prased by Mhaois bg a large sunjos ity, walio Wis.outin favoured 2.75 per FRENCH PLEA FOK US. MURDERERS.\n\nplashed wade generally known, woulé sertainlysingi humanity, a qu k is by no means to the credit of those who must have been til along well acquainted with the farts that He or nothing has been heard of them.\n\nThe aspirations of the merchants and Puell trades-a very large clasanay condently be used as jenna good govemment Lowever detained is the ehvoistances savely a legitimate. leylan, aspiration.\n\nThe aspirations of the principal actors of the tragedy that is being presented to the world by China and of the ioul vefeed chans the hoids the front of the stage, composed of politicians, diplomatists.\n\ncent, aner by two to one. The isa at 2, and audents, are de complex, always so dear in ather Stales and define them here. The most and no attempt car he made io sort theni Bunty voting on the medicationincere au rend various to be lumi the law showed a wet trend. Tropin this class pld, however, it demo repeat the present State laws enter having their aspirations seamed up A norcher of distinguished mebers of prohibition were apparently carried in the vertsnational dependenes\n\nPARIS, Noriber 4th.\n\nto\n\nTile\n\nRetar, November th A series of darmonstration Aights by a An experienced į De Havilland Hevents three-engines air- un on layder patiated that even if a thead which will operate on the new six her bare cameź the right to tive hy working unionista quatribaled one penny cute from Egypt to India were carried fiving rails fuas of execation for five per lay only th0,000 per week weidi bejut yesterday. By the end of new years, aviiside for the miners. This wou week The first of five machines ordered\n\nTHE PLOT AGAINST SPAIN,\n\nTRAISE FOR FRENCH POLICE,\n\nNO BRITISHERS INVOLVED.\n\nLeros, November 3rd. A furiber essage from Perpignan, exklatance from other unions they muallack in the trapies, nad a noticeable that alloguer Sparish and Italian mostly the former have begu - be prepared to accept the ambition of the fextare is the special arra gements Gade rested onion in connertion with coal dispute as suggested 15 the Prades for the comfest of poesengers. Not only\n\nthe Spanish plat. Con Congress as representing those is the cnbir waliloted at a greater exure British, e was at Erst stated,\n\nElection earle 264 Sone of those arrested suggested\n\nthe Paris bar bare signed an appeat to California ad Mouting wile Favela\n\noverwhelmingly voted for a resolation only, & legitinute in a very laudable the United States against the expertos encumeing de present federal law and\n\ncbject of aspiration.\n\nPossibly the T.L.C. and a great, any of Sacco and Vanzetti, They point out deadede e apendress of\n\nother persons as well wit be surprised Cantul Sterns Constirution regards to less that the national independence thek even the Americas judges are int ernhibition Missouri al Colorado ap\n\nof the Chinese people bus from the very sure of their gul, and even guilty.pear to have led down measures in first been one fine principal objeers of\n\n2 the morifiration of the State law.\n\nBibel policy, and that the so called LATER. \"uceque beates of 1801-models of Belated election retains indieste a re- moderation and good will-wore bamed dacties of six and 13 respectively in the carefully to interfece as ele as possible Republican ajrity in the Redste aval with China's covereign rights and to ca House of Representatives. alay sents courage bei ndicals and people to tread are still in the ballot and i the Deaerata be one wh that could pensione less hu capture a few core the western Repub-indeperasuste. Buevey, is the ba Bean urgents, ied by the Wiannokin coutrageglible Int, to be verbied by any grow of which the late Sepstor La Lane who takes the trouble to glady who Folette was leader, will undoubtedly be history of our relations with China. in a strong strategic position, by holding Unfortunately, it gestas to hyve been the balance busween the Demorats autorgattan not by Chinese statesmen and the orthodox Repu>Ticana\n\ndelunatists alone that sovereignty\" Latest Figures.\n\nCalot be confereed by a magician's wand, or ever by u Washington Conier New York. November 4 ence is our state to be enjoyed, but a\n\navailable show fandtion to the expreised. Mercins, Dai the next Serace be composed of deed, mamed it only to the Wise and #7 Detrocrats, one of the Parser Labore | Benevolent Water! Turky, 48 Repathesne, whereof eight are\n\ninsurgents, ad bence thorns To the i The French podion are being honored dech of the Amulsation Six sela\n\nweek for each wirer sad on strike.\n\nthe\n\nunions Disforöuation was expressed to tent than usoni, bor a special sir scoopi belp the wires to preing an unpreât is provided which Altera sir for din adio struggle. Ja London in 15 generally catatan: Marwughout the lateries.\n\nbelieved that the Conference will be con-\n\nCredit for Polica.\n\n| \n\nPn. November d\n\n| wills credit. Für fromvating lous of the is the Honee are duabital bat hitherto most entermined punish evolutionary the Replicas bure a more tears than\n\nand for their teed until\n\nsiderably tolesced by the failure of the EARL. BEATTY'S RESIGNATION 618 For hutched on French territory the Doucurals,\n\nforlorn hopes of the miners leaders,\n\nnuts, regarding the crcburgo ou servign i\n\nPOSTPONED,\n\nBrgey, November 4th.\n\nthe itapliunted non more salely within\n\nthe Le The conspiracy is attributed\n\nin a Cnts ex-Dopyty named Macia.\n\ncost and the compulsory lexy and by the East Beauty who has been Fiza Sawhoy however, caped. The arrested men plain weaking at to-day's craterence. 1\n\nLoud of the Advising and Chief of concertedly attempted 10 sayape when im\n\nInfantry was dented in to mount guard.\n\nis arassidered highly probauls that Winore Nasal Staf siree November, 151, has tied in Phun trap dalyahaw of Our dirilisation has produced so any\n\nFoxerulivo will senk authority to connivade | expreazeri kis desire to be allowed to le Similar Senegade Tailleurs wHIS TO disorders, from weleer to courtoiss which these its \"ery existence that, a settlement on the bush forms that can sign office on complaing a period of\n\nnidecod, baffed, wise to see the uhtalked in districts with the safe - civilization for the Bandos, we hostin\n\ngeintioned at\", Parpagena to control thep imprisona) there, who were revolt\n\nSOUTH AFRICA-INDIAN\n\nCHINA AND THE TREATICS.\n\nNAKIPO THE MOST OF GENEVA,\n\nThe Geneve\n\nthe Forrespondent of Hugging Fest states that Belgiumie ap- per to the Hugue Court against China's quilatere donandiation of the nuequal Customs Fronty daỡng bon 139 wil m no way jafurice Pekang's decision tu maka ben action cortive from Velour 27th at prevent the denunciation of the Spanish and fortuguese treaties later in the year and other une jou treaties as saur as the six wonths' denunciation\n\nto me by Wang King Ky, the Chinese Minister In Bruznets.\n\nEurocan cRITER'S AGENCI\n\nTHE NEW BETTING TAX-\n\nBOYCOTT BY BOOKMAKERS.\n\nPICKET SYSTEM THREAT.\n\nLONDON, November 3rd. There was practically no business in Weating so day, and consequently it was impossible to turn any starting prices. According to Wang, Chien wil: javuke\n\nis is understood that this was due to\n\na boycost of Belgia gucds it themsets the fat that buckmbuers are unable toetuse lo sgiate Customs at and agree ang themselves haw Die betting reciprocat inri fronties along the lines\n\nA geais ated in the reynolic asing on the greani of the unsuitability of Tattoreult's Ming as the Windsor Rave Perise aries. This net was unle Glen shrug our shoulden, out of sheer self-guarding provision lec national privriples. the maximan ing which an officer will the food. Defence\n\nThis, adiy, is for antlement angested in rescined on the Board of the Ad- If we parties in shrugging everything out of dar attention, we shall en bis the Trades Brion Congress. The miraty except a sprint elryumstances. withous abonlines to ghrag, but some granding of auch authorisation by The bay however commented, so the request things, such as (for me) Clška, must be iamisted in the riot of staying we\n\nPolagate tonference woul se an inport of the l'inst Lord, a defer bia vesigns. that we call the world.\n\nant intve towards prese. GENERAL CHIANG KAI SHEK.\n\nDEATH AGAIN REPORTED.\n\nLatest Developments.\n\ntion.\n\nNATIONAL FINANCE, SPRCIAL COMMUNTRE'S FINDINGS.\n\nCose\n\nof treaties already noncladed\" with Gor many and Autria. The British treaties anies be denom.sed legally for eight years, bat Wang believes that credm.\n\nThe\n\nthar\n\nThe incidence of existing tesañon with special aminion conferees at the luneseen. The bet the police piloted him to safety with of the world.\"]\n\nCOAL STOPPAGE AND LIFE ASSURANCE.\n\nACTION BY THE PRUDENTIAL.\n\nPROBLEM.\n\ntax Redd be applied. The altitude of PROSPECTS OF GETELEMENT.\n\n[başkaskers vulndning from oftering prices was gonerally condemned, and ibe Lenox, Novemùre Srd.\n\nopinion was freely expingsed that their We need have no fear of those difi-ion is making the strangest posible tamee wilt serant of abregation before enities or evenally befog antiled to GY, November 4th.\n\nFor the Satroad jau the satisfaction of the one to the other.\n\nterafiarto, Considerable innvortance attacles to\n\nGeneral Herzog, speaking at lun-\n\nMeaza hile. A is evident that Chinese the Miners Delegais Conferemer in holly\n\nWe Want the Wato.\" Seen in Lendos go-üny giver By the Br\n\najataşıman one seaking the most of their SHANODAL, Necember 4th. dou -day and strong hops, restrained Marshal San Chusn Farer's form head-only by the manory of pue disappoiti\n\nBrors, Novezier 4th. uish fudian Buion in the Indian de\n\nL352. ajestien og the Leagur Council. They will quarters have received a faspatch from mente, entertained hot at Set the British system of National furco has Margas of Bouding persided.\n\nAn exhuastive examination of the gates of the Imperial Coulrease. The There is a grong disposition as the vas ienova js a publicity centre, vuiting\n\nmoment, aming the booktankers in Putter į the azue unday Article is of the Core Marahel stafing that the Superin way all be clenged for a puzon effort, tendent of the Aurican Mission les The main out for decision is the date the chainauship of Lord Colwyn The\n\nDuw been coaj leted by a committes urner The function was notable, as being calle Ring to stay away pliogether from ant. mai dertzog's first appearance at i now Windsay Jomorrow. Using the stone | According to dis article of the Coven- pital at Changsha resta essure to the gates will free their exentive finance Caiutee was t Amican Copen at Nanking on October ariesiona and power in to proused in\n\noc by Mr. Philip South African function, while his queeri steps of the staed as a rostrum sproval at the Assemby may from the to Snowder, who was then Chancellby of was noteworthy we the test subiely aggrieved bookmakers halangued the time use the reconeidéention to mera- S to the affect thay General Ching sonich of a sectieraons along the lives the exliegues to February 1994 and its indication feren anyone inside the red and from bets by drifted to burs of the League of treaties which have Fai Shek had died from wounds.\n\nangusted by the Frado Union Congress, terms of incedenes were to rotate and Conference of the faanly froling strong | polities with violens petsons on Mr. Win become inapplicable, and the considere. There is no question of the Conference report on the National Debt and the the conferens,\n\nFurthermore, General sing Churchill. One man who shouted ties of antineliopal conditions where BRITISH PROPERTY DESTROYED\n\nwing specifig patce temps.\n\n\"We Esans to be decried is whether the excreference to their egg on brade, indus\n\nHerring was the sole representative of the Fe want the Tote \"jut a roug's sime dispostimages wight endanger the peace IN HUNAN.\n\nshat Le Sudorised in by for a try, oplosment, and National credis.arquis of Reading, in a speech, wanbly no hum done. AP.C. BUILDING BURNED DOWN.tries, and whether such autherias. It is undergo that the cum titles med Gotural Herizon\n\nfun. if garsed, shall be conditional\n\nBookmakers' Organise Bogenot. dindings are embodied in too reports entirely wrihout restriction.\n\nGeneral Hortzog's Speech, LATRA. which will shortly be handed to the A division of opinion is hely but the Choreitor of the bandoquer,\n\nGeneral Fartzog, regtrias, canplssied It is now resised that the action of deleges are bed with the knowledge The newapapers state that the majority\n\nthol vryne of clase contact in ravoving the hackmakes at Windsor, which thew that any attempt to renew the demand report deals with the gezocal ducis (endersienbuch, presie and hicker the whole carration of holding in a for calling out the safety me or for system in a way that is in nerd witheria) Cuntrance, lure the delegaces to organisal boyants, and acom of there\n\nvandstill throughout the county, was The Prudential Assurance Company ings. That was why he ngareciated the widge\n\nnorances that, \"Bubject to certain easy and secusly accepted pripsiplex, and Sark rentact giving the uneasy or threatened that his would be costumed conditions, policy holdiers au have the thet veldrags Gatsibutions of trade commends unly minor alterations and\n\nnoisy will not alone exabin the dis-djustments the existing methods GẼ deurs and anderstanding. He added to the end of the dat soon wates the arrears of preuvame the base accuupa-\n\nBIAA South Afries and die were try- froth to be cenzused with any hopes of textian 14 minted that the fluding ing to come into closer contact. They is exported at Tattersall's at Winter to-\n\nBax is favouerbiy altered. No okiakerated during unemployment resulting success. Yesterday nearly ons roure by the majority will not, in the existing had had considerable diferences in the grow, while it 24 uuderstool one on their industrial branch policies, from the coal dispune deducted from the dus went back to work, the biggest freinstances, reveamend the inposi-past, but he was convinced that with, single day heat for some tion, and there ton of a capital lovy, but will declare better fual understanding they would publie not to eate thongs Heel of the payments already mute, or suffer, picket system will be organised to induce fustend of heving, forfeit horsfé THE ILL-FATED \"KIANGYUNG.ed with 256,000 a week ago, and 16.000 taxation. is success, however, must de\n\nnow in the pits over 2,000 corpur- that it is a practicat ethed of seducing he appared to mel oue Juncher's re-me en helt or will be held as a reduction in the capital amount of anouth o The miners employed\n\naaghout the entry, appending for read largely or its general acceptance General Hering was boudly cheered today,\n\nfor the etion of the Windsor Before the dispute numbered 1,and evő by the Nation, mat as a potiosi creed when he made the remark noted at\n\nIn a fasacial expedia.\n\nbeginning. He concluded la hoping that\n\nOBITUARY.\n\ndiving the sermainder of their library ARMISTICE DAY IN LONDON.\n\nthey would contine u the happy spiri in which M. Baldwin and the Dominion} Gelegentes had been getting oa at the Con- ferenze, Whers they looked one another face to face and had not been afraid in connection with the anniversay in say what they wanted in\n\nsay Aristine Play next Thursday, which, as\n\n(Applause.) Ja former years will be celebrated roughout 12 fixpire y religious ser. Mr. A. J. Cock has nude the state- vices and the observance of two minots!\n\nSHANOR November 4th. A message received her From Changsh states that the Asiatic Petroɔlepa Com- pany's property at Packing has been brut dewn Also that Messrs. Butter- feld And Swim's property at Changra\n\nve been deatroyed,\" and that soms Wesleyan mizzinecies at Linyang have\n\nem faced to deadpate\n\nAll the awna mentioned chore are in the occupation of Southero troops.\n\nCOMPENSATIOS DEMANDED\n\nw! bo Funile,\n\nABOHAN RECTER'S AGENCY. piy boatsion is AvoidaÄ\n\nJDON, November 3rd.\n\nMarshal Son Chaan Prag is the re ripient of telegrama Tozs the Chis Merchants' Secor Navigation Compeny asking comprenantion for She loss of their\n\n6 appears that the Unions decided vessel, the Kinoguey, which went, done will: 12 hops af Kinking After only to permend and not to ingor Longon coinde n momiantion, she was in levy, because the non-payment of s comptiary by would eutui penalties energing, explored).\n\nLATAR.\n\nHron, November 4th. the last erremony in Whitehall, Louien, Avrangements are now coupleted for\n\nThe angry was coemendered in the stripe of the dis-affiliation of the Ly Suo's troops and the steamship you. Taions not felting the instruction.\n\nas officials requear him to inquire into the actual uning of the futafity. There was a crew of 118 men on road of whichment that the Mind Executive bussenes Accerpanied by the Prince of only were resoned and the company never diesed the question of district Wales, the Duke pants arch starked for the torped of settlements, which thes the remaining se who are believed Josongor honis. and proper wapensation made to the vie is families. They also requnal, in the telegram, th your other of their hips, comorandzerest by Mitula troops,\n\nreipt:S],\n\nhe\n\ngubamunpre\n\ninsur the re-emering employment the policy- holders will. azider the scheme, have his Reggars reduced to four weeks, and wil only have to meet the regular weekly payments; the outstanding balance will BISHOP OF ST, DAYIDE.\n\nbe covered by a suitable deduction to be (made when à clain ansee In the rase The death is announced of the Bishop of a with profit policy this deduction will of St. David's, the Right Rev. John made, noi frain the sum assured, but Usen\n\nGum the bons thereon, and no the huit The Right Rev. John Owen, M.A., bad of the insurances isped by the Pradentind bear Bistry of St. huvida ei.co 1867. me of this description, the vane of the He was born in 1854. And was thus 72 coomon cannot, it is oicially stated, years of age. He was an Oxford scholar. be over-estimated. The deduction can He was ordained Desuon in 1879, Priest, be vanilovi by a silabic payment at 16; Walsh Professor and Classica Loe any time before a claim arises. turer at St. David's College. Lampeter, It pointed on that most of those 1679 Warder and Headmaster of affected by the coal drupate will ron Llandovery College, 1985 $8; Dean of St. work under a heavy burden of kahffity, 4pl, 185 68; racial of St David'sant that lets of the Pedential will College, Lamuser; Cason of 6. Asaph, rethze that the way has been made\n\neasy for them to maintain their policies. i loze.\n\nTHE ATTACK ON MUSSOLINI.\n\nWAS WRONG MAN LYNCHED: York and other wen meutered the Royal Family; the King will\n\nPants, November ul. lng a wreath at the Cenotaph and wil be\n\nA vemarkable statement is mache in present daring the brief service that will\n\na tieuna telagenas to the Paria Widi that be endented there. Surrounding the the boy Zumboni was not the real asi Menotaph will be representative detachant of Msanii but that he was yached\n\ntents of the Eighting services, Mercantile when he was frightened by the aid of 1999-97; when he was mised to th Slatine, and ex-Servicemen,\n\nthe shot and trier to Ben.\n\nBishopvie. I\n\nNearly 800,00 Miners at Work,\n\noxnoy, November 3rd.\n\nA total of 290,67 ders am working, I to-day.\n\nTHE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5FR, 1926\n\nTHE BUDGET PASSED (CONTD.).\n\nTHE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5th, 1926\nTHE BUDGET PASSED (CONTD).\nPage 3\n\nyaw open he deducted from the total\n\nwould place Hongkong in und danger of a water famine for fleen gewes\n\nLust of the Department is will be seen reset. Yet, won ave years of the that the department costs only about $200,000 per un to run, apart from the salaries of use we cadet others in the department and on or two metibars\n\nsuccessful construction of that reservoir Hongkong was agus confromed ly water shortage sa ne costred also in the earlier pars if this year, i think the\n\nof the cleries) stali which are provided jeovision is inevituste Lant Dere is for leewhow. y Honous la friend by Nature herself the\n\nBOGUS DIPLOMAT.\nFREL MOTOR-CAR TOUR.\nACTING FOR PRINCE OF WALES,”\nPARI\n\nÁn dadarions series of frauds by a minu\n\n1926.\n\nFOOTBALL.\nCLUR DE RECREIO Is XI.\nS.C.A.4. 1st XI.\nTeams representing these Caly will et in tegne match at the Regrou's who represented himself as a member afgrond, King's Park, tomonow, kick-off the staff of the British Embassy clituged\n\nand a special mission ou half at the The Reevein's team is as follows:-M Prince of Wales, a nursed by the Per M. da Silva. W t\n\npiguen prependant of the Bha de taptain), CF iteraedius. A Atlas\n\nRUGBY,\nFL.R.F.C. * ENGINERE ARTIFICERS.\nThere will be a catch between these teams at the Royal Navy ground, King's Pack, Kowloon, to-morras. Kick-off. 4\n\nP.201\n\nThe following have been selected to play for the Chi Laotiert, Liatr\n\nBlairisgley and Trages; Morrison, Ler\n\nPuree Using the are of Lord Remedios, A. V. Remedios, 12. P. Xavier, i aui Miline (cnplain), Póster, M. Smith,\n\nHOCKEY.\nTODAY'S GAMES.\nPage 4\n\nThe following will represent the Univer\n\nhis story opted without the east susen, J. Lira captu). C. Figueiredo, de Recio coday at 5.15 p.n on the Treinb and English perivetly, he found Perunades, L. A. Gomes, C. d'Assmagsity is hockey match against Ch\n\nthe cal authorities. whu Bonce, A. F. Carvalho. Ruza Pereira, University football groundA. A. Ariz 19 pisin Pion in\n\nto give oxset Agaces in answer to the rather itan is Hongalisios of father lend this disposal a motor car. in A. J. Mauris L. A. da Roche, and B. fraptains, Dr. F. X. Ashton, Lim Pon\n\noptain 4 fire seine anal 45,000 rounds of these pastilities are now being in damagnitions. 57,000 contraband cigavestigated. reites 3,500 gallons of spirits and 6,600 ons of danger, dings were seized during is shows the need for an eða tive piramontina utait. Moreover the pre- ventive staff deals wis the investigation officiell optare divans which one volves a very large arent of work on a careful consiferation of the facts think my Honourable end will agree that the tatt is not sxessive for the work which hay to be dozn\n\n3u puticular one pateabai marceir hệ un perivased ospunity or gan pillinn gations has been located and it is al euiated that the wat of wenst vetag i would be a greater than the cost of the pepe linn under the harbour ae designed by the Consulting Engineers Weght also to devise ones como sing our tresh water supplies in Hongkong by asing mắt water on the low towels for Bntly, chets wi no doubt have\n\nsabinge, streef-cleaning, fire-aging and generally for non-potable perposes, Coticed one very serious mission from his rasite is likewise under lige Toy remarks, his ouission is intentional ice and I trust that before long 1 may ae Your Havelienes has informed me thassle to lay the table of this you will senrself deal with the very im vertant question of the waer supply for\n\nVeure a sossinust paver giving foli in forms for on every aspecs of der water\n\nTHE BUDGET PASSED\n1. THE GOVERNOR SUMS UP.\nEducation.\nOn the subject of euation I wil only already sail that, situated add to what the Colonis Sourctary has\n\nA.E. TA GOTUPNO id: My cordial thanks ne both to the atheist and to the uncial arembers of this Council; for ne ne ant eare which they have: devoted the consideration of the the whole world and the initiation of the budget. My dead is greatest to the spinally Buxlish loy-serot and gir gode Colonial Secretary, who has had no ingredients wing mar oy There shows pains in preparing in expouedag and in\n\nthat in ufucational matters a vitalizing\n\nHongong, woney spent by ss u odana. rice is of the etenst value to British 24 terests in China. Tug is en dra of ad- yertisement and propagands. Partin not good at advartizu artelves and; ly or unfortunately, we, as people, are we are very under propagands. But the public schools sad the aniversities of the United Kingdom are the additating ar\n\ndefending the apply Bill, and whes, sales stil goes out from England 1 am so the whole Council will agree, amly believe that, it we can savesstuhy has discharged a dilbicult task with cun. geois ability thun seo auch the spirit of the British patule saboris and alvidare ete Horakung something of Indented te the cat members vereittes, we shall de more for dish their helpfat criticism and to ihove official interesis in Chica yłem ten possibly be pembery who have taken part in the relieved in any other war Eduentib Rebate for repping to this aritivist, of couraz, le padneted en sourd tuly t bare is Strie Jek Joy me to lines and a political propaganda Gust excluded ont euz adura- on which I propone la rough, parents thus tional i Colony's water supply and the subject of education\n\na. There arŋ, in fet, only two poists !.bs natuiiishraeus. Tsui, subirer to\n\nColony's Water Supply.\nEver since I that loow Henging, woes The quarter of a century go, the in sutticiuc of the Colony's water supp has been a cause for anxiety, can weit remember the days when tied r\n\nsheet prozigos, am convinced list the moncy we spend on advention is a very good arstiteat, and I are glad ir los from the speech of the Senior Chinese Miscber that he and his colleague In\n\nut grutee it.\n\nI now own to the Cancil the motion,\n\nwhich has aireury hem mover and\n\ntonement house iu o ting Forgatseaded, tant de supply Bill be read a\n\ncime of note water shortage and hud, segond time.\n\nto setu my zerranis with backets dow\n\nto Praga, where they\n\nsterd in a\n\nqueue to get water iron lots which brought it across the bay bots from Wai Lamb uns cu the malaland.\n\ntherefore with every apathy for the Glumus mau ibnet the levels\n\nflo. Bir Husa Peursex: May I spea MD Arun of the pointe which have been i red.\n\nILE. THE Veason: I am afraid go Caszob allow it.\n\nThe Standing Onies do aut\n\nHongkong and with invaderiar•Ung Hon. Sa Hay PoiLock has been\n\nof dieir male a ruladatos doring & the ecco in this Council to ready to water facing the 2 have studied tre matters raised in the outs of rhodit. proposal to ask the island dependantcussion.\n\nthe miniland for much of its water\n\nR.E. THE GRENOU. The Bavel may\n\nonce on the second reading of a Bill Conado has a right to mene more tran\n\nYna y pesk us say then you ke\n\nthe Committee stage.\n\ncools. Let me, however, fest consider as the edit to reply. No member of this matter from the point of new of kowison. I am convinse the years come, awing paully to the limitatione which Natone has rapused on Hory- Rong a partly to the advantages which\n\nThe Hill was icy read a second time, Naturn hus bektared upon Konon, Tue\n\nComan went in sanilia to on- grcatat portion of the Cabay'a popun Bon will hats the uainland ather then sider the Oil viure la dise and Ha The wows-planning shoe Hey Fobock then raised a center of and the Farlane development sideme for\n\nquestions which were unsered by H Kowloon Invs then prepared vety wizely The Govezo nd other ricmbers of\n\non a generava scale and 36 s mrahornell. No amenduents were made to able that in future yes the norther the Bin Custee and opon Couteil alores of our barbour wil e jahached rowing,\n\nay & population ci Feiller JROTH The Cowaru SeCESTARY Moved the Chinese ani thar there will be residences third reading.\n\na aing the slopes of the Kowie The BOLONIAL Turns seconded and ange, and especially as its castern end, the Bii was read rd time and sumers as in the Peak Distric.passed.\n\nThe populata of the Colony has in the E. Tap overrun thurk hour. Pas crease at a phenomenat rate andante buombers very airvurely for the there is n voron why it should not evi-\n\nVision they have made for best year.\n\ntinue to do so in the fetare. I bax Courel and adjourned zinc đen,\n\ndoabled during the past ten years Now\n\nwe are a present only completing the\n\nfast plage of the Sheng Mun rabicy ivatar corts scheme. Hat when that\n\nsebeme has heretter been developed to\n\nla y capacity\n\nthe water supply\n\nREGULATIONS IN MASSES.\"\nBefore the 18s of Wight Bench, when\n\nfrom it will, so t are told, caly uffice for a tener was summoned for a bicach or bition soule te arison must be the regulations quic under the deplete considered the shore of the weds of the tion of Animal Aet by failing to ghiuping of this great port, which shoul\n\nfor six days a pedigeen belt brough\n\nhe supplied entheis from the metuland. from the Channel Islausts, the saticito Therefore in my pins the progressive for the defence ploaded genovace of the\n\ncveiremeal of the Stang Mun scherplations\n\nformed of each regulations, and had to to\n\nand back at the unisces posted up. The\n\nstage by atage it probably do no more the clerk of the juices (Mr John than zopple the growing needs of the Parte!) said be and others who had Inerther side of the Daibuer, especially studied the law all their lives were nos in\n\nif, La Bonn 26ay be the case, the supply to Kowloom is hy meter all over the pensule and rider mains are not ineist Fod opens. Eventually there would be nothing luppare fomi Sheng Mus for the and and, a pipe tine were new inid under the barbour, the real would\n\nhe said, was the evi of legislating y\n\nden rizical regulations. Everyone who\n\nhad anything to do with the law Joy\n\nbez statutes were pood, but under\n\nsome statutes power was given to the\n\ny be to compel the cousienrtion of Government departments to make regula\n\nthe second, third and further stages of signs which had to be inid on the table the Sheng Mne schein at an order date of the House of Commons, and it ne and hasten the day rhen water supplies objected to them within a certain perina additional to these in the Sheng Mung oras law. Those regulations ce valley would have to be frusted for the in auch masses that chose concerned entila waland. This is no erent of a wild not innke lisensices quainted wit imagination. My bontrahie bend. Mr.\n\nthen quickly.\n\nBird. has reminded us of the confident The chainman said the dnienian, wodd hopes entertained in 1938 that the con- a nod to simply ny a warning to straction of the Tyram-k reservoir avhers.\n\ni \n\nColei Binchors and asked for a loss Department He then called apon\n\njoi meney, but the eulonel Shought be re-i\n\ngold in the supposed Lord Sahton a pan whom he had seen being marched bebwa twn gendannen in the occupid feratfury, and concranitext his sus pitions to the Prefect, who advised the palier the poster, quick to rule that he was being closely watched, took taxicab to Ehe and there bed an express bound for Paris.\n\nCRICKET.\nCRICKET.\n0.8 40. \"A\". FONGKONG UNIVERSITY\n\nThe A. Salteran, K. T. Loke, A. Baker,\n\nThen, V. Enok, Hernani,\n\nThe following will present the Hong- og Rocker Clan in a wareh with the Horas Selitery on the Marina grand at geday: T. W. Suuthan, W. A. Nowra, Lord, Rankly,\n\n1. Wheeler, 1. Middleton Smith, L. &. R. Dunes, W.. Newman, and Nicbails. the\n\nON SALE,\n\nThis match w take pines tomorrow. I. Savaderson tenpr), White, 2. G\n\nthe Bongtong taiversity ground be sinning at 3.13 p.m.\n\nThe following will repavicur ¡C.8.C.C. A team:-J. H. N Palier inquiries show, however, that, (enplain), E. J. Harper, R. 8. W PA disapointed in one quarter, he runced on, T. W. Carr, C. Nara, T. 12. M ed in another, for during the train Pendered, R. C. Witchsti. R. G. Rober journey between Elne and Narbonne ke son, C. R. Sitey, T. Wastlake, and succeeded in borrowing on from a\n\nP. J. Neill Spanish priest who travested in the same\n\nCape W. Saters. o apartment. The mean is believed to be Bean, of whom the palies have\n\ndetailed des ription.\n\nFue match arranged for to-coorrow be-j tweea C.S.CC tat Team Hongkong Ist. Toast a decu cantalleù.\n\nBOEND VOLUMES of the HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS, January to June,\nWith Isna, Price-$7.50.\n\n1995.\n\nOn male at the Hongkong Dresly Press Office,\n\nThink of \"Johnnie Walker\"\nwhen you think of whisky. Then you'll ask for 'Johnnie Walker' and get real whisky. a drop of it\n\nThere's not\n\nthat isn't guaranteed pure\n\nand mature.\n\nJOHNNIE WALKER\n\nGuaranteed the same quality throughout the world.\n\nBORN 1820-STILL GOING STRONG!\n\nAGENTS\n\nCALDBECK, MACGREGOR & Co. Ltd.\n\nSHANGHAI\n\nHONG KONG\n\nTIENTSIN\n\nJOHN WALZER & SONS, LTD., SCOTCH WHISKY DISTILLERS, KILMARNOCK, SCOTLAND.\n\nNORTHERN SITUATION.\nHANKOW THREATENED BY YAWG SEN.\nTHE COAL DISPUTE.\nTHE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER STA\n\nFAILINE OF FORLORN HOPES.\nIMPERIAL CONFERENCE.\nRIFORTS OF COMMITTEES TO BE\nCONSIDEREU\n\nBIG FORCES ADVANCING ON\nMOVING TOWARDS PEAGE.\nSHITISH WIRALESS SERVICE.)\n\nFULL SESSION TO-DAY.\n\nSRITIRO WIRELESS SERVICE. }\n\nBuasy, November 3rd.\n\nSOUTHERNERS.\nITHROTGE AR?!TEETH MOENCY.\nThe conference of delegatos, represent ing 3,000,000 members of Trailes' Cuions,\n\nRissy, November tvd.\n\nTo emble Ether progress to be medis\n\nRUSSIAN COMMUNIST\nCONFERENCE.\nTREND TOWARDS SOCIAL DEMO CRACY DENOUNCED.\n¡TERIZON REUTER'A AGENCY.]\n\nMoscow, November 4th,\n\nSeco Ordjoni Kidze los ben appoint. Led Chairman of the Contrshing Comain\n\n193.\n\nTERRIBLE MINE DISASTER IN AMERICA.\nSURFACE DROPS 809 FEET.\nFORTY LIVES LOST.\n[enerina's APERICAN SERVICE}\n\nHUANGHAL, November 4th.\n\nLeonsidered to-day he request of the with the work of the various cammirteesi sion of the Covinat Party teplacing i bois lves lo a large routine right suites According to Star Chuan Fang's local Mines Federation fe fusosial assist the taperiat Conternen will not meet in Kalbyahef\n\nheadquarters, General Yang Sex 18 making rapid wegiese tonnvés flankum with a lores el 90, Fr is reported that re has reached an understanding with the military corianders of Heh\n\nThe comlined strength of the various trongs advancing against the Raemiatang amin forena ia catiupted at 20,000\n\nThe Situation on the Yangisse.\nAccording to musaoge from Kiukiang, though the Allied tips drove the\n\nance by News of a compulsory jerk,\n\nMe J. H. Thorous, ex-Minister and\n\n30\n\n7\n\nCHINESE ASPIRATIONS.\nAN ATTEMPT TO DEFINE THEM.\nBRITISH POLICY.\nFa a letter to The Times, a writer, who signe himwility Years of Caikas,\"\n\nWhat, seus time to ask, are \"tha legitimer asjárations of the Chinese Isamuse, Michigan, Nov 4th.\n\n¦ people' of which pro hour so much and Vorry mlaers are believed to have beat often, and which, sweeling to a re\n\nsoluzioa paared sareena terring of the Trades Trion Congress, curIn- sway as a rendi of a cove in. A sectionering policy? is supposed to obstruer\n\nt. is possible to answer this question of the sune lice, onsdag of worriedly a coisery but the great mess in! sessing and Friday morning, when\n\nThe Pan Russian Commemat Conier-\n\nground top fear by mi feil 600 feet to of me Cheese page. Their sole aspisa made of the National Tadon of Railway for representation will be considered\n\nsuch emporte of committees as are ready unce opelnded with wanimous resul\n\nthe fat level with an eerie sucking thed | tion certainty legs the cHEAT- men, declared that a compulsory levy was\n\ntrot, wenotneing the oppositiona and the watch was beant les arand. Shaeon of the ferville suderings y hue Considerable progress was made so-day drift towards a Social Demersey, and and mud and varer Sueded the entire euynes ter tin past hve years or\n\ncauteed at the landa of their \"Teltow ona of the question. He pointed out the boys sinaveial burden which the cos\n\nin the exambation of the intricate preemplaatsing its detonation to preserve level, and B. is feared that all mace of mine. A catalogue of these, could it be doppage had placed on this Railwayman's atity by the comsister interested with\n\nblens cotueruing questions vi matice-party unity and u erosh attempus to escape han born a så gi\n\nand other enjeun. The appeal by Mr. A. J. Cook and that subjen, and at the meeting of the\n\nwoher authors' leaders for a compulsory\n\nkonomie Committee matters moder von.\n\nlevy fo on mmpathetic cars and, in weluded taxation of so- Cantonese invaders into Kiangsi. they eventually, an acceptable compromise was through agente or Erwaches and the\n\nresidens trading in the Dovdivos | also have suffered heavily, pan wifound in a revolution which was moved tiability of the State enterprises to of the report regarding the Chrkiang by the Speetary of\n\nthe Instributive\n\nvoi. the Allied Comunnacle parpesny Workers' Coinus. This proposed that the 1xation.\n\nmade his men conontrate slong the Nas werber of the Dales' Unions, who are i chang-Kinking railway lin, for fene that they might be threatened with out-\n\nThe General Counnil of the Trades' Tuiee Congress afterwards issued a state-\n\neffort to achizibute. Ject asking monists to make a special\n\nThe Committes of Price Micleers\n\nEGYPT-INDIA AIR SERVICE.\nAVCCESSZOR DEMONSTRATION\nFLIGHTS.\nworking, should contribute volastalls further considered the problem of inter-\n\nImpovial inlations, and the diessaloni side agitation. Dostest of letting his 15 tkun cae penny per day for the\n\nsupport or the nicer. The Diebusive will be tuned at a meeting of the xroups chats the enemy, Marshal Sun is Workers Tao offered to start a volum\n\nCommiting tomorrow. only devoting hiwait to restoring enay Bud with a motributivo of £9,000; munications, cornogrcial, tepking and how its own resourses This compromise other organisation to their origiasi proposed was adopted. stales, as to win pazar laveur. On the other land. the mein Lady of the Aobwei ang under General Chew Ting Fnce, armbeslag some 12.000 strong she Wero maioned on the left bank of the tho river Yangiar, in co-operaion with aste 1,000 traps belonging in General Yeh Ka Hsin's Hunua seny, are in pures of the Cantores rongs who are provide stuetking over one shilling per by the Imperial Airways for this service\n\ntreating Hinge Mr. Chiang Tor Kus, penes delegate Irum Chokizug,\n\nchouid te in experimental operation be- it appears that at to day's weeting tween London Paris. in dimussing pace torus wile Levers felisy was distinty revealed 10\n\nThe Helca in the rac British pas Chiang Kai Sick, upon his retur debit if micers severe foucis center rachine specially designed for Kinklang, 4 is expedid that Marshal han will decide whether to continue Aghting or arckage for pracc.\n\nA LONDON COMMENT\n3. Pontley witing to The\n\nSupy day Word stude\n\nI am ready in confess bay of late bave given up reading about China, and mi the power lime have hot the foun ides what is happening there.\n\nI am quite willing to belive dat is hades of fellow creatures are going Lhrough crisis, and the the fie of the whole world as be found up with the present history of Chies\n\nDay there are so many replicated prises, with which the fate of the world is bend up, so they alces we proted ourselves sonelow we shall never bove\n\nCent's peace of mind\n\neroato sectional strife\n\n...wix.com\n\nTRAGIC DISCOVERY.\nMR. A. BRUNNER AND WIFE FOUND DEAD.\nLONDON. FOrember sth.\n\n127\n\nU.S. ELECTIONS.\n-----\n\nNew York. November pad, TheWols are grea\n\nheartoned with the means of the New York State referentem where a 110,500 resjority Mr. Rogens Brunner, ex Chairman of ze seca State to determine what per | tavoured u request but Congress Jobaran\n\nBrunner, Mond and Company, surt bis centan of alcohol is inensleting. An wife have been found shot dead in their almost idential proposal augears to have house at Korbampton.\n\nbeco prased by Mhaois bg a large sunjos ity, walio Wis.outin favoured 2.75 per FRENCH PLEA FOK US. MURDERERS.\n\nplashed wade generally known, woulé sertainlysingi humanity, a qu k is by no means to the credit of those who must have been til along well acquainted with the farts that He or nothing has been heard of them.\n\nThe aspirations of the merchants and Puell trades-a very large clasanay condently be used as jenna good govemment Lowever detained is the ehvoistances savely a legitimate. leylan, aspiration.\n\nThe aspirations of the principal actors of the tragedy that is being presented to the world by China and of the ioul vefeed chans the hoids the front of the stage, composed of politicians, diplomatists.\n\ncent, aner by two to one. The isa at 2, and audents, are de complex, always so dear in ather Stales and define them here. The most and no attempt car he made io sort theni Bunty voting on the medicationincere au rend various to be lumi the law showed a wet trend. Tropin this class pld, however, it demo repeat the present",
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        "content_text": "Page 29\n\nPage 30\n\nPage 39\n\n1926,\n\nIf the Canton boycott during\n\nthe person 30th.\n\nselection\n\n2\n\n2 forte desps.\n\ner No.144\n\nJerome the Gov. is being prorated dis\n\nproposed subs to post a election\n\nto tip comes when he\n\nposts will be forwarded to\n\nwhen available.\n\n(Signed)\n\nyou\n\nAMTRY\n\nSir,\n\n386\n\n13 January, 1927.\n\nI have the honour to transmit to you, for\n\nyour information, copies of a Colonial Office print containing a selection of telegrams from this\n\noffice, of demi-official correspondence and beg to state that it is proposed now to print a volume of further telegrams which have passed. Copies of these further telegrams\n\nwill be forwarded to you when available.\n\n(Signed) L. S. AMERY\n\netc.\n\nYour obedient servant,\n\nBYAMOK,\n\netc..\n\nPage 386\n\nPage 386",
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        "content_text": "# Ordinance No. 6 of 1887\n\nOrdinances No. 1 of 1884, 16 of 1914, and $ of 1916, Ordinance No. 1 of 1903,\n\n(3) The first part of the register shall consist of the two Jurors Lists for the current jury year brought into force under the provisions of the Jury Ordinance, 1887.\n\n(4) The second part of the said register, which shall be kept by the Registrar of the Supreme Court, shall consist of the names of all male persons of any of the following classes who shall have duly applied to be registered therein, and whose claims to be registered shall have been duly allowed :- \n| Class | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| (a) | unofficial members of the Executive or Legislative Council; |\n| (b) | persons of sound mind who have previously been included in the jurors lists but have been omitted therefrom on account of age or infirmity; |\n| (c) | barristers and solicitors in actual practice and the clerks of solicitors in actual practice; |\n| (d) | persons registered under Section 4 of the Medical Registration Ordinance, 1884, or under the Dentistry Ordinance, 1914, or under the Pharmacy and Poisons Ordinance, 1916; |\n| (e) | editors, sub-editors and reporters of daily newspapers published in the Colony; |\n| (f) | clergymen of the Church of England, Roman Catholic priests, and ministers of any congregation of Protestant Dissenters or of Jews, acting as such in the Colony; |\n| (g) | professors and other academic officers of the University of Hong Kong; |\n| (h) | masters of schools which are certified by the Director of Education as not being vernacular schools; |\n| (i) | masters of steamers and local pilots; |\n| (j) | officers and non-commissioned officers of the Hong Kong Volunteer Corps, and such other members of the Hong Kong Defence Corps as shall have been exempted from jury service by the Governor in Council; |\n\nProvided that no person who is in the service of the Crown, and whose whole time is at the disposal of the Crown, shall be entitled to be included in the said register.\n\n(5) If any question arises as to the right of any person to be included in the second part of the said register, such question shall be decided by the Registrar of the Supreme Court, subject to an appeal within seven days to the Governor in Council, whose decision thereupon shall be final; Provided that it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to vary such decision at any time.\n\n(6) Subject to any rules which may be made under s.9 of the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance, 1903, the second part of the said register shall be closed to any fresh applications for registration for fourteen days before the day appointed for any ballot for the election of a member of the Sanitary Board, and shall remain closed until after the balloting in that election shall have been completed.\n\n(7) Every person who at any ballot held under this section applies for a ballot paper in the name of some other person, whether that name be that of a person living or dead or of a fictitious person, or who, having voted once at any such ballot, applies at the same ballot for a ballot paper in his own name, and every person who, for the purpose of procuring his registration in the second part of the register referred to in sub-sections (2) to (6), knowingly makes any false or misleading representation, whether verbal or in writing or by conduct, shall upon summary conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars and to imprisonment for any term not exceeding three months.\n\n(8) If any question arises as to the validity of any proceeding in any election or intended election of a member of the Sanitary Board, the decision of the Governor in Council thereon shall be final and conclusive for all purposes whatsoever, and the Governor in Council may thereupon give any direction which he may think fit.\n\n## Renumbering of Ordinance No. 1 of 1903\n6. Sub-sections (3) and (4) of s. 8 of the principal Ordinance are renumbered (9) and (10).\n\n## Substitution of new section\n7. Section 97 of the principal Ordinance is repealed and the following section is substituted therefor :- \n### Ordinance No. 1 of 1903, Exceptional buildings\n**s. 97**. Subject to the provisions of any regulations made under section 98, the design, construction and situation of every exceptional building shall be subject to the special approval of the Building Authority.\n\n## Repeal of Ordinance No. 1 of 1903, and substitution of new section\n8. Section 98 of the principal Ordinance is repealed and the following section is substituted therefor :- \n### Power to make regulations relating to exceptional buildings\n**s. 98**. It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to make regulations governing the design, construction and situation of exceptional buildings or any class of exceptional buildings.\n\n## Repeal of Ordinance No. 1 of 1903, and substitution of new section\n9. Sections 162 and 162A of the principal Ordinance are repealed and the following section is substituted therefor :- \n### Water closets and water-flushed urinals\n**162**-(1) No person shall maintain, or allow to remain on any premises owned or occupied by him, any water closet or urinal constructed before the 24th day of June, 1927, unless such water closet or urinal was constructed with the permission of the Board and the consent of the Governor in Council or was constructed in and is in a hospital.\n\n(2) No person shall after the 23rd day of June, 1927, construct any water closet or urinal, and no person shall maintain, or allow to remain on any premises owned or occupied by him, any water closet or urinal, constructed after the 23rd day of June, 1927, except with the permission of the Board and of the Colonial Secretary and in accordance with the terms and conditions of such permission.\n\n(3) It shall be lawful for a magistrate to order the removal of any water closet or urinal whatsoever if the water closet or urinal was constructed or has been maintained without due permission or in breach of any of the terms or conditions of any such permission, or if the water closet or urinal has been kept in an insanitary or uncleanly condition.\n\n(4) A magistrate shall order the removal of any water closet or urinal whatsoever which has not been removed within three months after a notice to remove it shall have been served on either the owner or the occupier of the premises on which the water closet or urinal is situated.\n\nPage 62\nPage 63\nPage 60\nPage 61",
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        "content_text": "9. Section 8 of the principal Ordinance is amended by the deletion of the word \"successive\" in the fourth line thereof.\n\nNo. 15 of 1908, s. 8.\n\n10. Section 9 of the principal Ordinance is repealed and the following section is substituted therefor :-\n\nContributions of officers leaving the service, and of certain officers dying in the service.\n\n9.—(1) In this section references to leaving the public service shall apply whatever the cause of the officer's leaving the public service of the Colony may be, and whether the officer leaves the public service with or without a pension.\n\n(2) An officer who leaves the public service as a bachelor shall upon so leaving have the option of continuing to contribute, and if he elects not to continue to contribute he shall be entitled to receive back one half of the contributions made by him.\n\n(3) An officer who leaves the public service as a widower without any child of pensionable age shall upon so leaving have the option of continuing to contribute, and if he elects not to continue to contribute he shall be entitled to receive back one half of the contributions made by him after the death of his last wife, or, if at the death of such wife any child continued to be pensionable, then after the time when the last child ceased to be pensionable,\n\n(4) An officer who leaves the public service as a widower with a child or children of pensionable age shall upon the last of such children ceasing to be pensionable have the option of continuing to contribute, but he shall not be entitled to any refund in any event.\n\n(5) An officer who leaves the public service married, with or without a child or children of pensionable age, shall be entitled to continue to contribute after the death of his wife, or after the death of any subsequent wife married to him while he was contributing, or after the last of any pensionable children shall have ceased to be pensionable, whichever event shall last happen, but he shall not be entitled to any refund in any event.\n\n(6) If an officer who leaves the public service without a pension elects upon so leaving to continue to contribute, his contribution shall be at the rate of four per cent per annum on the salary which he was drawing immediately before leaving the service, and upon such election he shall become liable to continue to make such contribution until he has either attained the age of sixty-five years or has contributed for thirty-five years, whichever event shall first happen: Provided that if the salary of such officer was, in consequence of his being interdicted from the exercise of the powers and functions of his office, reduced before his leaving the public service, his contributions shall be at the rate of four per cent per annum on the salary which he was drawing immediately before such reduction.\n\n(7) The contribution of an officer who leaves the public service without a pension but who elects to continue to contribute shall be payable to the Colonial Treasurer on the 31st day of December and the 30th day of June in each year, and if any instalment due fails to reach the Colonial Treasurer within three months after such due date the officer shall be deemed to have ceased to contribute.\n\nNo. 15 of 1908, s. 9.\n\n(8) If an officer who leaves the public service without a pension does not continue to contribute upon leaving the public service, or does so continue on leaving the public service but afterwards ceases to contribute before the termination of his liability to contribute, his widow and children, or his widow, or his children, as the case may be, shall be entitled on his death only to a pension computed on the basis of the interest acquired by him at the date of his ceasing to contribute, calculated in accordance with the Tables attached to this Ordinance.\n\n(9) If any officer or ex-officer to whom this section gives an option to continue to contribute fails to give to the Directors, within three months of the event upon which the option arises, notice in writing signed by him of his desire to continue to contribute, he shall be deemed to have elected not to continue to contribute,\n\n(10) In no case shall any officer or ex-officer be entitled to continue to contribute after he has attained the age of sixty-five or after he has contributed for thirty-five years.\n\n(11) If an officer who is a bachelor dies while in the public service one half of the contributions made by him shall be refunded to his legal personal representative.\n\n(12) If an officer who is a widower without any child of pensionable age dies while in the public service one half of the contributions made by him after the death of his last wife, or, if at the death of such wife any child continued to be pensionable, then after the time when the last child ceased to be pensionable, shall be refunded to the legal personal representative of such officer.\n\n(13) All refunds under this section shall be without interest.\n\n11. Section 1 of the principal Ordinance is repealed, and section 10A of the principal Ordinance is re-numbered as section 11.\n\nNo. 15 of 1908, s. 11. and re-numbering of s. 10A.\n\n12. Sub-section (1) of section 15 of the principal Ordinance is amended by the addition of the following proviso at the end thereof :-\n\nProvided that this sub-section shall not apply where the officer or ex-officer ceased to contribute because he had reached the age of sixty-five years or because he had contributed for thirty-five years.\n\nNo. 15 of 1908, s. 15.\n\n13. Section 16 of the principal Ordinance is amended by the substitution of the word “twenty-one\" for the word \"eighteen\" in the second line thereof.\n\nNo. 15 of 1908, s. 16.\n\n14. Section 17 of the principal Ordinance is repealed and the following section is substituted therefor :-\n\nCalculation of pensions.\n\n17. Every pension which shall begin to be payable after the commencement of this Ordinance shall be calculated according to the Schedule, Rules and Tables contained in the Schedule to this Ordinance, and every pension which began to be payable before the commencement of this Ordinance shall be re-calculated according to the Rules and Tables contained in the Schedule to this Ordinance, in both cases as if the said Rules and Tables had been in force throughout the whole period of contribution upon which the pension in question shall be or is based,\n\nPage 22",
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        "title": "CO129-505-8 Widows' and Orphans' Pension legislation- raising of pensionable age limit of male orphans 22-6-1927 - 7-11-1927",
        "content_text": "9. Section 8 of the principal Ordinance is amended by the deletion of the word \"successive\" in the fourth line of thereof.\n\nNo. 15 of 1908, s. 8.\n\n10. Section 9 of the principal Ordinance is repealed and the following section is substituted therefor :-\n\nContributions of officers leaving the service, and of certain officers dying in the service.\n\n9.-(1) In this section references to leaving the public service shall apply whatever the cause of the officer's leaving the public service of the Colony may be, and whether the officer leaves the public service with or without a pension,\n\n(2) An officer who leaves the public service as a bachelor shall upon so leaving have the option of continuing to contribute, and if he elects not to continue to contribute he shall be entitled to receive back one half of the contributions made by him.\n\n(3) An officer who leaves the public service as a widower without any child of pensionable age shall upon so leaving have the option of continuing to contribute, and if he elects not to continue to contribute he shall be entitled to receive back one half of the contributions made by him after the death of his last wife, or, if at the death of such wife any child continued to be pensionable, then after the time when the last child ceased to be pensionable.\n\n(4) An officer who leaves the public service as a widower with a child or children of pensionable age shall upon the last of such children ceasing to be pensionable have the option of continuing to contribute, but he shall not be entitled to any refund in any event.\n\n(5) An officer who leaves the public service married, with or without a child or children of pensionable age, shall be entitled to continue to contribute after the death of his wife, or after the death of any subsequent wife married to him while he was contributing, or after the last of any pensionable children shall have ceased to be pensionable, whichever event shall last happen, but he shall not be entitled to any refund in any event.\n\n(6) If an officer who leaves the public service without a pension elects upon so leaving to continue to contribute, his contribution shall be at the rate of four per cent per annum on the salary which he was drawing immediately before leaving the service, and upon such election he shall become liable to continue to make such contribution until he has either attained the age of sixty-five years or has contributed for thirty-five years, whichever event shall first happen; Provided that if the salary of such officer was, in consequence of his being interdicted from the exercise of the powers and functions of his office, reduced before his leaving the public service, his contributions shall be at the rate of four per cent per annum on the salary which he was drawing immediately before such reduction.\n\nNo. 15 of 1908, s. 9.\n\n(7) The contribution of an officer who leaves the public service without a pension but who elects to continue to contribute shall be payable to the Colonial Treasurer on the 31st day of December and the 30th day of June in each year, and if any instalment due fails to reach the Colonial Treasurer within three months after such date the officer shall be deemed to have ceased to contribute.\n\n(8) If an officer who leaves the public service without a pension does not continue to contribute upon leaving the public service, or does so continue on leaving the public service but afterwards ceases to contribute before the termination of his liability to contribute, his widow and children, or his widow, or his children, as the case may be, shall be entitled on his death only to a pension computed on the basis of the interest acquired by him at the date of his ceasing to contribute, calculated in accordance with the Tables attached to this Ordinance.\n\n(9) If any officer or ex-officer to whom this section gives an option to continue to contribute fails to give to the Directors, within three months of the event upon which the option arises, notice in writing signed by him of his desire to continue to contribute, he shall be deemed to have elected not to continue to contribute.\n\n(10) In no case shall any officer or ex-officer be entitled to continue to contribute after he has attained the age of sixty-five or after he has contributed for thirty-five years.\n\n(11) If an officer who is a bachelor dies while in the public service one half of the contributions made by him shall be refunded to his legal personal representative.\n\n(12) If an officer who is a widower without any child of pensionable age dies while in the public service one half of the contributions made by him after the death of his last wife, or, if at the death of such wife any child continued to be pensionable, then after the time when the last child ceased to be pensionable, shall be refunded to the legal personal representative of such officer.\n\n(13) All refunds under this section shall be without interest.\n\n11. Section 11 of the principal Ordinance is repealed, and section 10 of the principal Ordinance is re-numbered as section 11.\n\nNo. 15 of 1908, s. 11.\n\n12. Sub-section (1) of section 15 of the principal Ordinance is amended by the addition of the following proviso at the end thereof :-\n\nNo. 15 of 1908, s. 15.\n\nProvided that this sub-section shall not apply where the officer or ex-officer ceased to contribute because he had reached the age of sixty-five years or because he had contributed for thirty-five years.\n\n13. Section 16 of the principal Ordinance is amended by the substitution of the word \"twenty-one\" for the word \"eighteen\" in the second line thereof.\n\nNo. 15 of 1908, s. 16.\n\n14. Section 17 of the principal Ordinance is repealed and the following section is substituted therefor :-\n\nCalculation of pensions.\n\n17. Every pension which shall begin to be payable after the commencement of this Ordinance shall be calculated according to the Schedule Rules and Tables contained in the Schedule to this Ordinance, and every pension which began to be payable before the commencement of this Ordinance shall be re-calculated according to the Rules and Tables contained in the Schedule to this Ordinance, in both cases as if the said Rules and Tables had been in force throughout the whole period of contribution upon which the pension in question shall be or is based.\n\nNo. 15 of 1908, s. 17.",
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        "title": "CO129-514-4 Repayment of excess military contributions advanced by Hong Kong 9-1-1929 - 10-1-1930",
        "content_text": "## \n15th January, 1929.\n\n## 2\n\nDear Grindle,\n\nYou will have received our letter of 9th instant, conveying our assent to the refund of the amounts of the military contributions over-advanced by Hong Kong in respect of the years 1917/18 and 1918/19. You will remember Mr. Amery's letter of 26th November, 1928, to our Secretary of State, in which he remarked that Sir Cecil Clementi had been in favour of waiving this claim if the War Office proposals for the building of new barracks for an enlarged garrison in Hong Kong went through, but that as a decision on this question had been postponed by the Cabinet at least until after the general election Sir Cecil Clementi no longer felt able to waive or postpone the refund. The Treasury, in now assenting to the refund, have made the suggestion to which we gladly accede that we should invite the Colonial Office to put it privately to the Governor that, if it should hereafter be decided to build those new barracks in Hong Kong, we trust we should not be placed in a worse position financially, as between ourselves and the Colony, than if the Cabinet had approved those services now. I hope you may be able to give favourable consideration to this point.\n\nSir Gilbert Grindle,\nK.C.M.G., C.B.\n\nYours sincerely,\nVabrosland",
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        "content_text": "# SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST\n\n## ART MARBLE WORK\n\nWe undertake every description of DECORATIVE MARBLE WORK including PAVEMENTS, COLUMNS, WALL LININGS, STAIRCASES, PEDESTALS, BALUSTRADES, ALTARS, STATUES, FONTS & STOUPS, VASES, REREDOS, SHOP FRONTS, FACIAS, CHIMNEY PIECES, HEARTHS & KERBS, FLOORING, LAVATORY DIVISIONS, TOPS & BATH CASES.\n\nC. E. WARREN CO., LTD.  \nEstb. 1800.  \nChina Bldg.  \nTel. C.260.  \nAgents for RAOUL BIGAZZI, FLORENCE, ITALY.\n\n## OBITUARY\n\n### A British Patriot Passes Away. EARL OF MEATH.\n\nLondon, Oct. 11. The death took place to-day of the Earl of Meath at the age of 88 years.\n\nThe Earl was famous as the founder of that movement for thinking imperially which resulted in May 24th, the birthday of Queen Victoria, being observed as Empire Day. The suggestion that the day should be devoted to this purpose he first made to Mr. Joseph Chamberlain when the latter was Colonial Secretary, in 1893 he suggested that the anniversary of Queen Victoria be made a universal school holiday.\n\nLord Meath was also identified with many religious and social movements, including the Scouts and the Church Army. He had been ill for some time and he passed away at 2.25 this afternoon.\n\n### Former Diplomat.\n\nThe veteran Earl of Meath was born on July 31st, 1841, and succeeded to the title, of which he was the 12th holder, in 1887. He was educated at Eton and on the Continent and then served in the Foreign Office for five years.\n\nAfterwards, he was attached to the Legation at Frankfort in 1866, to the Embassy at Berlin from 1867 to 1870, and at Paris from 1870 to 1873. He was married in 1868 to Lady Mary Jane Maitland (who died in 1918), and his marriage assured him of the co-operation and sympathy of one whose whole heart, like his own, was devoted to the welfare of others.\n\nAs Lord Brabazon, he became the founder and first Hon. Secretary of the Hospital Saturday Fund, in 1875, and whilst engaged in this work his health broke down by addressing seventy meetings in the course of a few weeks, including an audience of 40,000 in Hyde Park, this being, at the time, the largest non-political meeting ever held there. He was also the originator of the Hospital Sunday movement in Dublin.\n\n## TO-DAY'S NEWS\n\n### A Summary for the Busy Man.\n\n#### PRINCIPAL EVENTS\n\nThe Government is amending the Ordinance for the Protection of Page 3.\n\nAt to-morrow's meeting of the Sanitary Board, Mr. M. K. Lo will ask the following questions:\n\n| Question | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| i. | Whether he has received any official information from the Government in regard to the proposed Advisory Health Board, and if so, whether he will make a statement to this Board? |\n| ii. | Whether it is the intention of the Government to abridge by legislation the executive powers and functions of the Sanitary Board, as set forth in Part II, of the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance, No. 1 of 1903? |\n| iii. | Whether it is intended by the Government that the proposed Advisory Board is to function independently of the Sanitary Board, and in any case whether it will tender advice only upon subjects which are not within the scope of that Ordinance? |\n| iv. | In view of the fact that this matter gravely affects the question of public health of the Colony and therefore vitally concerns this Board, will he make the necessary representations to the Government that this Board be given due opportunity for expressing its views on any proposed legislative changes affecting the public health of the Colony? |\n\nDr. Fawcett. Mr. M. K. Lo has given notice to move: \"That this Board desires to put on record an expression of its appreciation of the valuable services rendered, and the ability, energy and zeal displayed, by Dr. H. A. Fawcett whilst acting as Medical Officer of Health.\"\n\n### Man of Many Interests.\n\nHow busy a life the late Earl of Meath spent may be gathered from the fact that he was the first chairman of the Young Men's Friendly Society, 1879; founder (1882) and first Chairman of the Metropolitan Public Gardens Association; first President of the British College of Physical Education; founder and first President of the Lads' Drill Association; ex-President of the Christian Union for Social Service; first President of the British Institute for Social Service; founder and first President of the Duty and Discipline Movement: and Senator of the Parliament of Southern Ireland.\n\nDuring the sit of Rumania many years ago, he acted as her cicerone, having been for many years previously the friend and correspondent of \"Carmen Sylva.\"\n\nThe passing of the veteran Earl of Meath at the ripe age of 88 years, removes yet another of those patriotic figures who have done so much to cement the bonds of the British Empire.\n\n### Cigarette Statistics.\n\nAmerica, the land of statistics, has sent us some interesting figures, says the London Daily Telegraph. Enough cigarettes were smoked in the United States to provide every man, woman, and child with 856. Twenty-five years ago the Earl of Meath originated the Empire Day Movement. It was a thought that had been in his mind for many years before.\n\n## OTHER NEWS\n\n### WEDDING BELLS.\n\nMr. R. W. Ritchie and Miss Nancy Riley.\n\n#### CATHEDRAL CEREMONY.\n\nA very pretty wedding was solemnised at St. John's Cathedral on Saturday when Miss Nancy Riley, the elder daughter of Mr. Robert Riley, of Blackpool, Lancashire, and Ceylon, became the bride of Mr. Richard W. Ritchie, son of Mr. Richard C. Ritchie, of St. Albans, Herts. The Very Rev. Dean Swann officiated.\n\nThe bride, who was given away by Mr. Bernard Thorpe, looked charming in a gown of ivory ring muslin velvet with a veil of embroidery tulle and a coronet of orange blossoms. Her shoes and stockings were of white satin, while she carried a bouquet of white roses.\n\nMiss Patsy L. Kerr, attended as bridesmaid, and was attired in Princess Mary blue taffeta trimmed with silver lace with silver shoes and blue hat. Her bouquet was also of white roses.\n\nThe duties of best man were discharged by ...\n\n### The Volunteers.\n\nAn episode in his life was his election to be an Alderman of the London County Council. His Parliament and secured the introduction of important reforms in popular education. He later elected to be the first Chairman of the Parks Committee, but when the hour for his re-election came he was told he was \"not Progressive enough\" and he had to go.\n\n### HEALTH BOARD.\n\n#### Sanitary Board Wants Information.\n\nM.O.H.'S SERVICES.\n\n### Page Numbers\n\nPage 3  \nPage 6  \nPage 7  \nPage 8  \nPage 9  \nPage 10  \nPage 11  \nPage 12  \nPage 13  \nPage 14  \nPage 15\n\n### The Far East.\n\nA combination of forces, including the Kuominchun, are arrayed against Nanking. It is reported that war has been declared.\n\n### Overseas.\n\nLord Meath, founder of Empire Day, is dead.  \nThe condition of the Princess Royal still gives cause for anxiety.  \nTenders have been invited for the construction of two huge American liners. Four more are projected.  \nIt is denied that Britain and America have agreed to pool their navies.  \nDuring the course of a hectic programme in New York, the British Premier declared that he was beginning to long to return to Lossiemouth.  \nThe Labour party secured a big victory in the Australian general election.  \nR 101, the largest airship built, was safely moored at Cardington, preparatory to her trial flights.  \nThe capture of Kabul by Nadir Khan's forces is confirmed.  \nThe railwaymen's reduction in wages is to continue for a further period of six months.\n\n### Sports.\n\nTilden represented Britain in a match against France.  \nMiss Gourlay won the golf final at ...  \nThe Electric R.C. beat the Shanghai bowlers by 30 shots to 10.  \nTaikoo won the second division championship and was made ...  \n\n### CYCLIST INJURED.\n\n\"MINISTER'S TRANSFER.\n\nMr. N. M. Henderson Transferred From Paris.\n\n### ALL ANXIETY NOT YET REMOVED.\n\nKowloon J. R. Johnstone broke the local 440 yards record at the V.R.C. night fete.\n\n### HOME FOOTBALL RESULTS.\n\nDuncan and Mitchell beat Compaton and Cotton in a 36 holes foursome for a purse of £250.\n\nThe annual gymkhana and presentation of prizes was held at Kowloon Golf Club.\n\nThe S.C.A.A. members' sports meeting opened yesterday.\n\nWeek-end baseball matches are reported on ...\n\nH.M. the King has approved the appointment of Mr. Nevile Meyrick Henderson, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Paris, to be Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Belgrade.\n\nThe Princess Royal is gradually improving according to an official bulletin issued this evening...\n\nThe Far East.\n\nA Chinese detective sergeant attached to the Shamshuipo Police has added another smart capture to an already long list of creditable performances.\n\nA further week's remand was given in a kidnapping case owing to the complainant's failure to return from the country.\n\nThe Kuominchun malcontents strongly denounce Chiang Kai-shek's regime.\n\nFuller details of General Lui's coup in Wuchow are given on ...\n\nJapan's delegation to the Disarmament Conference has been appointed.\n\nThe gold embargo may be lifted in Japan early next year.\n\n### Charity\n\n1 Cor. 13:8.  \n\"Charity never faileth.\"  \nMONDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1929.  \nNo. 7,041.",
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        "content_text": "2.1\n\n554\n\nTHE HONG KONG WEEKLY PRESS\n\n@story\n\nCHILDREN OR ANIMALS FIRST?\n\nA PLEA FOR THE MUI-TSAI.\n\nREVIEW OF LAST YEAR'S WORK FOR ACHIEVING REFORMS.\n\nReference was made on Saturday, at the annual meeting of the Anti-Mui-Tsai Society, to the fact that the S.P.C.A. is much more active in the Colony than a similar organisation for the protection of children. Below will be found speeches reviewing the work done during the past year in connection with the mui-tsai problem.\n\nCHAIRMAN'S SPEECH.\n\nIn addressing the gathering the Chairman, Mr. S. C. Yeung, said:-\n\nSecretary Mr. C. G. Anderson, who served us in this capacity for seven years. His resignation on the eve of the Government giving sanction to the registration of mui tsai is greatly to be regretted, but his work will always be held in grateful remembrance.\n\n...we look forward with confidence towards the restoration of freedom to the four thousand registered mui tsai, put them on an equal footing with their sisters and to make this free-port in the Far East also a port of freedom for mui tsai.\n\nCHINESE SECRETARY'S SPEECH.\n\nThe following is the speech of Chinese Secretary, Mr. Tin:-\n\n\"Ladies and Gentlemen: Before proceeding with the election of officials for the coming year and Ex-Secretary's Continued Interest. presenting to you the general report of the past year, it gives me the greatest pleasure to witness the big gathering of members and supporters to-day. Your interest and co-operation are encouraging to my fellow-workers and to me. Thanks to all co-workers.\n\n\"Another loss to us is the resignation from the Chinese Secretaryship of Mr. Ngan Kwan Yu, who co-operated so closely with Mr. Anderson in those seven long years. The former Chinese Secretary is known for his sound judgement and great enthusiasm. His keenness to serve this Society is amply demonstrated by his recent consent to compile a book recording the past activities of this Society. We all agree that this is a happy choice to have in Mr. Ngan a willing worker and a scholarly man for such a book.\n\nI have been Chairman of this Society for all these years. Despite my inefficiency, the keen interest taken by the many supporters of this Society towards the welfare of the mui tsai in Hong Kong have made possible the registration of these girls, the beneficial results of which afford great satisfaction to all lovers of humanity.\n\n\"The unwavering support towards this Society coming from Lieut. Commander and Mrs. H. L. Haslewood, the Anti-Slavery and Aborigines Protection Society, the Young Women's Christian Association of Great Britain, Lady Simon, and members of the House of Commons is largely responsible for bringing the unbelievable cruelty of the mui tsai system to the attention of the British Government at Home, which resulted in the latter's final order for its abolition.\n\n\"I would like to take this opportunity of mentioning the valued assistance which I have secured from our English Secretary, Mr. J. D. Bush, whose constant advice and untiring effort to do social service have been to me a lasting memory and great help. I think all members to-day agree with me that without the unremitting efforts of Mr. Bush, the accomplishment of registration for mui tsai in Hong Kong would not have been possible.\n\n\"I would like to thank the Christian Church Union, and the various educational institutions and individuals for their financial assistance and the circulation of leaflets and literature on our campaign against the mui tsai system. All these efforts are directly responsible for bringing the odious system to the notice of the British Government, resulting in the Colonial Secretary and the Hong Kong Government signifying their approval of the suggested registration of all mui tsai in the British Colony.\n\nFreedom For Individuals As Well As Trade.\n\nRegistration will undoubtedly result in the abolition of the mui tsai system and realisation of the great aim of this Society. Despite this success, we hope that all enthusiastic supporters of this great cause will continue their unselfish work to disseminate helpful information and remove misunderstanding among our people.\n\nThe following constitutes the number of mui-tsai cases dealt with through this Society since Oct 1929:-\n\nComplaints made to this Society by mui-tsai personally12\nComplaints made by correspondence4\nThese cases were disposed of as follows:-\nMui-tsai set free by their owners during the registration period...\nMui-tsai liberated by order of the Court20\nout of this number, girls have been restored to their relatives14\nand the remainder, not having any relatives, were entrusted to the custody of the Po Leang Kook...\nCases favourably decided by Court, but mui-tsai still in temporary custody of their owners6\nMui-tsai returned to her relatives after registration4\nOwners fined or imprisoned for ill-treatment after registration...\nOwner fined by Court for cruelty, before registration...\nCases reported to the S.P.C.A. and discharged because of insufficient evidence...\nCases, action being taken...\nCases, still being investigated...",
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        "content_text": "N° 219.\n\nMy Lord,\n\nGOVERNMENT HOUSE,\n\nHONG KONG 16th April, 1930.\n\n5\n\nI have the honour to report that I have appointed Mr. C. G. S. Mackie provisionally and subject to His Majesty's pleasure to be temporarily an unofficial member of the Legislative Council in the place of the Honourable Sir H. E. Pollock, K.C., who is temporarily absent from the Colony.\n\n2. Sir Henry Pollock has left for England on a visit which is expected to extend over a period of about eighteen months. He was, as reported in Sir Cecil Clementi's despatch No.79 of the 10th February, 1928, appointed as the nominee of the Justices of the Peace and as such his term will expire on 16th January, 1932. The usual arrangements were made for the election of his successor, as shown in the Gazette Notification of which I enclose a copy, but Mr. Mackie's name was the only nomination received.\n\n3. A copy of the instrument appointing Mr. Mackie is enclosed.\n\n4. In accordance with Colonial Regulation 175 I enclose also a list of the present members of Legislative Council but as this practice has not usually been followed\n\nTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE\n\nLORD PASSFIELD,\n\n&c., &c., &c.\n\nPage 33\n\nPage 33\n\nPage 33\n\n28\n\n28\n\n28\n\n \nEnclosure No. 1.\n\nEnclosure No. 2.\n\nEnclosure No. 3.\n\nAned 6",
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        "content_text": "Not sent.\n\n519\n\nThe Club has thus no option, but to proceed as soon as possible with the preparation of a new Club House to take the place of the existing premises.\n\nThe Club commenced with a membership of 110 members.\n\nIt was originally a \"Cricket Club\". At the present time it has a membership of 250 members. In addition to the regular Cricket Elevens, it includes Lawn Bowls and Tennis. Owing to the growth of the community, the Club is now used by the wives and families of members.\n\nAccommodation for ladies has for some time been provided in a matshed in the Club grounds. The need of the Club, therefore, now exists for larger premises than those in use.\n\nCivil Servants, in the service of the Colonial Government, are alone eligible for membership. The Club is open to civil servants of all departments and grades, subject to election by ballot. A limited number of \"subscribers\" are admitted (the number being proportionate to the number of members), who on admission exercise all the privileges of membership. A principal object of this provision in the constitution of the Club is to include civilian employees in the Royal Naval Yard.\n\nIn addition to the site plan, I enclose also a sketch plan prepared by a member of the Club, showing the character of the proposal. The estimated cost of the erection and equipment of this proposed building is $20,000, of which sum the Club is able to furnish one half. Without the assistance of the Government, this undertaking cannot be proceeded with. The resources of the members of the Club cannot alone satisfactorily meet its present requirement.\n\nThe project in itself is not over-ambitious. No attempt is being made to establish in the Happy Valley a fully equipped social club. The new building will possess the character of a pavilion.\n\nI understand that no objection is likely to be raised",
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        "content_text": "# SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST. MONDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1930.\n\n## WELFARE OF MUI TSAI.\n\n### CHILD WELFARE PROBLEM AND LOCAL CO-OPERATION OF THE PROTECTION BODIES NECESSARY.\n\nSOCIETY'S ANNUAL MEETING.\n\nEmphasising that the mui tsai is unquestionably part of the child welfare problem and urging co-ordination of efforts between various institutions interested in neglected children, the Hon. English Secretary of the Anti-Mui Tsai Society, Mr. J. D. Bush, addressed a big gathering at the annual meeting of this Society in the auditorium of the Chinese Y.M.C.A. on Saturday afternoon. He said that the Anti-Mui-Tsai Society is working for the eventual enforcement of law to protect mui tsai throughout South China.\n\nCommenting on the work of the local Child Welfare Society, the speaker said he hoped to see more officers specially selected and trained to carry on the work of the Society. \n\n### S.C.A.'S HELP APPRECIATED.\n\nInstead of having just one young lady fulfilling the duty of an Inspector, there should be at least a dozen or more officers (men and women) selected and trained because of their special aptitude for the posts they have to fill. Then, also, there should be more men who are thoroughly interested in championing the cause of every child, whether mui-tsai or any sort of neglected child, who suffers. We want genuine and enthusiastic supporters of the child welfare work in the Colony. So far as there is a difference between the work of the Child Welfare Society and our Society at all, it is a difference in thoroughness, although we have the same aims and object in view. I offer these remarks in the spirit of friendly criticism, without the least intention of being flippant or cynical.\n\nThe meeting was presided over by Mr. S. C. Yeung, the Chairman of the Anti-Mui-Tsai Society, who was supported by the Hon. English Secretary, Mr. J. D. Bush, and the Hon. Chinese Secretary, Mr. Wong She-tin.\n\n### Chairman's Speech.\n\nThe Society also wishes to report to you, in a spirit of gratitude, that considerable success has attended the efforts to get in closer touch with the Social Service Bureau in Canton. The ready response to our appeal for enforcement of mui-tsai protection in Canton is deeply appreciated. Similar relationship with the Government in Macao is hoped for in the immediate future.\n\nReturning to our work in Hong Kong, relations with the S.C.A. are excellent and most cordial co-operation has been established between us. This arises mainly from the fact that the officers in charge have exercised the utmost patience and adopted the most tolerant and tactful attitude towards cases brought before them.\n\nA general committee consisting of thirty well-known local residents interested in child welfare work was elected, including Messrs. S. C. Yeung, Ho Iu, J. D. Bush, Wong She-tin, Lam Woo, Hung To-fay, Woo Yee-tung, Wat Lok-hing, Tsak Tai-kwong, Wong Shum-kan, Wong Kam-ying, Mak Mui-sang, Cheung Kat-shing, Yung Ting-sang, Moffat Tsui, Cheuk Yan-ko, J. M. Wong, Ngan Kwan-yu, Chen Kon-sang, Li Shiu-pak, Chan Ming-shan, Mrs. Tso She-kwong, Mrs. Yung Yeung Yuk-sín, Rev. Wong Oi-tone, Rev. Li Kau-yan, Rev. Cheung Chuk-ling, and Drs. Fok Wing-kan, Ma Luk, Chau Wai-cheung, and L. S. Shin.\n\nIn addressing the gathering, the Chairman, Mr. S. C. Yeung, said: \"Ladies and gentlemen, Before proceeding with the election of officials for the coming year and presenting to you the general report of the past year, it gives me the greatest pleasure to witness the big gathering of members and supporters to-day. Your interest and enthusiasm are encouraging to my fellow-workers and to me. Thanks to all co-workers, I have been able to continue with this uphill fight for the sake of humanity, acting as chairman of this Society for all these years, and despite my inefficiency, the keen interest taken by the many supporters of this Society for the welfare of the mui-tsai in Hong Kong has made possible the registration of mui-tsai, the beneficial results of which afford great satisfaction to all lovers of humanity.\n\n### Past Achievements.\n\nThe Honorary English Secretary, Mr. J. D. Bush, said: \"Ladies and gentlemen: Looking back on the records of work of this Society, there is legitimate cause for some satisfaction at what has been accomplished during the year under review. Registration is now an accomplished fact, with 4,299 mui-tsai actually registered, and the courts in the Colony are doing their duty in enforcing the law and bringing to justice any gross cases of extreme brutality. On the whole, these neglected children are placed under more effective protection by the Female Domestics Ordinance.\n\nAnyone following closely the reports in the local English and Chinese press could not but take note of the punishment meted out in stubborn cases of cruelty and flagrant breaches of the law in non-registration and in buying and selling of mui-tsai. In the two outstanding cases deserving more than passing notice, one defendant was fined $500 for buying and selling, and the other met the stern penalty of six months' imprisonment for treating a child of six in a brutal fashion. The melancholy condition of the child really horrified everyone in court at the time.\n\n\"I would like to thank all the Christian Church unions, the various educational institutions, and individuals for their financial assistance and circulation of leaflets and literature in our campaign against the mui-tsai system. All these efforts are directly responsible for bringing this odious system to the notice of the British Government, resulting in the Colonial Secretary and Hong Kong Government signifying their approval of the suggested registration of all mui-tsai in the British Colony. The registration will undoubtedly result in the abolition of the mui-tsai system and realisation of a great aim of this Society.\n\n### Secretary's Report.\n\nIn his report of the events recorded in the past year, the Chinese Secretary, Mr. Wong She-tin, said: \"Once again we are gathered here to tell you of the accomplishments during the year just past. It is pleasing to be able to say that we have succeeded in having registration enforced, which doubtless helps to improve the lot of the mui-tsai in the Colony to a considerable extent.\n\nThe following constitutes the total number of mui-tsai cases dealt with through this Society since October 1929:\n| Category | Number |\n| --- | --- |\n| Complaints made at this Society by mui-tsais personally | 43 |\n| Complaints made by correspondence | 13 |\n| Total | 56 |\n| Mui-tsais set free by their owners during the registration period | 12 |\n| Mui-tsais liberated by order of the Court | 20 |\n| Out of this number, girls have been restored to their relatives | 14 |\n| The rest, not having any relatives, were entrusted to the custody of the Po Leung Kuk | 6 |\n| Cases favourably decided by the mui-tsais, left in the temporary custody of their owners | 2 |\n| Mui-tsai returned to her relative after registration | 1 |\n| Owners fined or imprisoned for ill-treatment after registration | 2 |\n| Owners fined by Court for cruelty before registration | 1 |\n| Cases reported to the S.C.A. and discharged because of insufficient evidence | 6 |\n| Cases, action being taken | 8 |\n| Cases still being investigated | 4 |\n| Total | 56 |\n\n\"From the foregoing, it will be noted with satisfaction the active interest taken in the mui-tsai. But this is only a first step, and there is yet much to be done to reach the goal of complete emancipation. Why? Because, according to our original estimate, the number of mui-tsai in the Colony were about 8,000 or more, out of which only 4,299 have registered. What has become of the remainder? We know that the more kindly owners have set free a goodly number, possibly before the enforcement of registration, yet there must be a huge number being sent away surreptitiously elsewhere, while still others have purposely ignored registration. It is the fate of the unregistered for whom we are most anxious.\n\n\"Hitherto our propaganda work is directed mainly against the brutal owners of mui-tsai. Nothing has been done to help the mui-tsai themselves to understand their own legal position after registration. Many of these girls are so cowed down by their owners that they have been left in total ignorance of the primary purpose of registration and therefore dare not go to the S.C.A. to report cases of ill-treatment. There must be scores and scores of mui-tsai, who though registered, are still groaning under the brutal hands of their mistresses. Something must be done to help these poor girls out of their fear and ignorance.\n\n### Future Plans.\n\nThe meeting also discussed and resolved to continue with the campaign to secure more members of the Society and anyone who is interested in this form of child welfare work can become a member by making a first and last contribution of fifty cents to the Society. The possibilities of opening a branch society at Canton to look after child welfare in Kwangtung were also discussed, but the consensus of opinion was that such a society at Canton should be initiated by the Canton public, although the Hong Kong Society pledges its strong support for similar work in Kwangtung.\n\n\"The unwearying support of this Society coming from Lt. Comdr. and Mrs. H. L. Haslewood, the Anti-Slavery and Aborigines Protection Society, the Young Women's Christian Association of Great Britain, Lady Simons, and members of the House of Commons, is largely responsible for bringing the unbelievable cruelty of the mui-tsai system to the attention of the British Government at Home, which resulted in the latter's final order for its abolition.\n\n\"I may add, in passing, there is sadness in the reflection that the S.P.C.A. in the Colony can be more active than the S.P.C.C. If protection of animals can stimulate so much interest and ardour in our midst, surely we can include in our purview the child as well. The mui tsai constitute a preponderant part of the child welfare problem in the Colony.\n\n\"The position of the mui tsai in Hong Kong from the legal point of view, is now:\n1. No further mui tsai are to be taken into employment in the Colony.\n2. No mui tsai unless previously registered in the Colony is to be brought into the Colony.\n3. Employers have no authority to keep a mui tsai if she wishes to leave.\n4. Existing mui tsai have all to be registered.\n5. Existing mui tsai are to be paid wages.\n\nDuring the meeting, a concert was given to vary the proceedings, with musical items rendered by Messrs. Peter Cheung, Chan Tak-kwong, and Lum On-ling, and Chinese singing by Messrs. Hung Kim-chau, Lam Wan-lok, Chan Shiu, Lam Liu-yee, and Lee Dic-sang, which was warmly applauded. Others who contributed to make the concert a success were Messrs. Tso Ling-wai, Ng Chi-chiu, Lee Kwok-leung, and Lum Tin-tsai. The concert concluded with another Chinese musical item by Messrs. Chu Hau-cheung, Pau Shin-chuen, and Chu Tak-cheung. Light refreshments were served.",
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        "content_text": "Page 13. „During yesterday's, Kadynt debate\n\nCod dem not the proposal, 14 ver the pay of sterling-peld zivil Hrvata at énézust ruta af sochasDa asi anked fer KE KEPONIE PODKL Awan takım oy an Ammand-maxi, which was Zen, and the Brages ww carried\n\nPage 14\n\nUnoliejai kankers of de Lepliktera\n\nPucke\n\nh\n\nFor the purpose of balancing the of\n\nBedret the Dizisiküre Coast Tue Inthet's bone where he met tarday approved, cuation fr North of people—savanta, buningan | varying tobaena duchas, kačzoaning the a patamal degree where exte They reduction affects part of | magsales, lawyers, artista, bazzara | duties on light via and imponing a irritation would have been par- the Ammy and leaver saulker per- and above all the metomy of the duty on non-intrecasting latach, donable. Both Ha Excellency tion intourbed. These are\n\nBurgtheatre-need and the Colonial Secretary win scales, higher and lower, with a\n\nnew by their calm dignity and 1926 dividing line and the person literary work even mayatan obvious attachment to the mod in deal: with mesecḍing in date Colony, our vincere respset.\n\nof soning or exilelog. The\n\nestablishment of two relat In he personal sense that the elective on October 25, 182k.\n\n\"Anatol\" a brilliant series of pabilities and deplores Those la the Army beface that day dramate dialogue was the dret of That Unofficial representations retaland, the old rate and than kate wala de astruct, altantiam, JL so saldoni succeed.We trust that join ng on that day and niter mera in mackend by graestel aletion and |the Government wall remember\n\nthat Unomelal amendments In feeling subalterns and captaina, sermIN NË KAN VETS, MAINETONA DİAYA Council am not moved lightly. and soldiers. 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For careful antimataly to be traced\n\n\"For Toddlers\"\n\nStart-Rite Shoes\n\n\"Tru-form Shoes\"\n\nfor\n\nGirls & Boys\n\nfor every occasion\n\nIn\n\nBlack, White or Tan\n\nwith\n\nUзkide & Leather Sols\n\nLane, Crawford, Ltd.\n\nChiMen's D partineat\n\nMezcnuine Floor\n\nHalf Yourly Reviste,\n\nbe lucht tower Medal at AUKŠTĖLI performed As was \"Das Marchen\" (1951) and it was followed by \"Liebelen Jin Mo frequently given plece, which had a ZTAN) VNECORE Then cuma \"Frelsila\" and \"Helyen. tea scenes with the same KAN\n\nmotis, which was the subject (tagad Lil| 1920, when it way glor sgainst Schnitzlar'n won Värdeg protests from CT 200\n\nDark\n\nOne-Act Plays\n\nMany of his playa were va pice much na \"Piraculana\" (D).\n\nA change of considerable impart. Fatahrlin.\" \"Der Gran Kaka” (“ ace to Army officers will be ende bene Stende\n\nFar East.\n\nThe almorphere at Gemeen in versu James Incant tožily is believed to be malefyzjera,\n\nFare 16. The China dalecutes at Genera becoming patient at the pre- hegral delay in the rebution of their zolovane vesinal Japan.\n\nPage 16 The Chinese sint their mempalat that the Japanese withdraw their trenge is the Fallway zone and apica ta blewelly China Kumaş HaḍATÜ Limanche negotiations. Рада тен\n\nWAT SHAPE og [164]Saj\n\nii\n\nIn the coming\n\nThere is belief that the Cere' commullion is weakening zu la krent- man of the Maneleden Liffenty wi\n\nanden their celloem. The ply\n\ndve ve Ch\n\ndaarikament com\n\nP 14 Courtes are noteernet ser — the possiblity that the Connell g sabrown without hurke nazamplebod anything mare than a virtual repoči an of the Fogtomova decision.\n\n14\n\nAnxiety tonkinar in alarm 35 420- trement by the Landes papera lagt the Laura Chanell éxity and Exordially be kiliendi even the deputie P14.\n\nMona Chang Eynakl\n\nkatha Madhu Chronišče, “TLEMET.\n\nIn connexion with the gist of Tring | Sun\" and \"Komoda fer Warn comprehensive analysis and for it is and in some diction-deduction from pay. 4 Tature Un The longer play include their anxieties on the taxpayers' area is for 'great rate will be reviewed half yearly Finsame Wexe\" \"Der Shar dende te zeturn to Mukdes as behalf, the peaches are probably wind wines the typhoon laain relation to the cost of Hing be Prats the comedy member the best that have been delivered when of the China and rind of the revision taklite plana pie maner does Streda 11. In Council for many yours. Just\n\nthat sedla at frat concisalve. But | wwery three years. The alteration dram desline with the however, they will not object on doubt, apparently, that will be made an Ortober 1 of Vienna by Napoleon 1, D-\n\nas they criticise Government,\n\nH\n\nApell 1 ouch your and the cost, ef Weite Band\n\n\"E\n\nו' \n\nMen allogool Cooling agtingt his volara, Page 16 The Kancha Gemol Mamas a farokks, neighbour for wing scroraped the Independenta in Mai charla and pola them weltk_KZMA, The Independenta kama koan defental\n\nPam 14.\n\nAnselpating sucess of the Nanking negotiations for pener Canton väripla a sad to be making preparation for tha alanolachen of Mi Vational Depo placement Canton on Navmber 1.\n\nקן B\n\nBlu Latest\n\nPhee 16 There has been a mating by Akana-\n\ntyphess which alert pilving decaction with its vażlation \"Pest, Derahandi,\" a play e* thi to a few reservations. While to Dampier tufen. perard or downward will be based molest ro ession which pre congratulating them upon the\n\ntrình ba gian through Porbe\n\nsa Dee sworns, inden Apura of the much die gan painstaking and effective C\n\nor the Armalt, Parsian and Indian perinda Saotember to Fibrates and | Verfahrung (1995) in which they dissected r\n\nmutant; and it is almost impossible arch in Avgini. Öficers pay wil | Framalle jen “Der Cum 1. Exlimatas, nor criticism in the\n\nnot to juẻ în chia x relation of the have the immediate Mark of any | Weiher.\", Schultzler ay st like the Government they still uncleat Greek “typhos\" or \"typhen.\" | variation by six menino in three home in his modern draman lacic co-ordinated policy. Han,\n\nBut these are rers lastead of pre By the se whirlwind.\n\nHi numeraga novala and Mr. Bra contensed to speciil\n\nprobally identical with ther the deduct pleading for Kowloon but was\n\nIncrease of jernt, from stories were almost as successful tītask weed for smoke or VADENT not the only special pleader which come our typhus and cent) begin on the tuber 1 and will his play \"Der Was In Free of Marshal Chiang Kai-shot and be revised on April 1. next on the pleure of lounque life at the Fé zvare deleven Bola.\n\nPage 16 Unofficial plans year by year sypkald! So perhaps the Chico of Ivi Fare average from and of a skupin remain sectional. That the view pare at it in suly an extraordinary September 1, 1931, in February 29. Greatnet parenting work and in fact Overneas. points of different sections of the date coincidence after all”\n\nThis only lone story. 11835. The deductions are made nommunity should be put for\n\nLalos were \"Frankel's Ede\" (13241. from mandard pula of pav Arad ward to detail is necessary, but\n\nas a bulla in 1919. This standen Fraud Richter (1926) we hope to see the evolution\n\nmaha bacome merely a paper and Trasmaovella\" (19261 some day of a formula-the con\n\nAgure for relating the proper struction, as it were, of a per-\n\ncio of the 20 per al MAXİMEN deduction which sa permitted on in- grave, equitab' and com prahensive Ideal, not necessarily\n\ndex Aguru conta. In opposition to an Official idea!. but to which, while retaining thair in lependence, the Er smeisha might sach contributo as public-spirited fellow-builders. Weil Orange, NJ.. Det. 22. The lack of common under\n\nThecade of Allent manement Intanding is lustrated by some Haing the streets aww the passage omissions, some duplications and of the funeral cortega af Thomas\n\nKalson. including mote contrasts. While the Un-Ava\n\nEDISON'S FUNERAL\n\nThousands Pay Tribute to\n\nA Great Man.\n\nofficials were almost complete'yeover and Mr. and Mrs. Beary Ford, te Rosedala cometery, where\n\nChina AllowA BETUL.\n\nThe reduction in the rate of clothing nowhneya – kirsSEM KAR granta for the provision, and sp keep of European soldiers' clothing will give Un following overall rates for Chis\n\nChineer Int Clam: SH.K. T Overall ratan 13 13/7 14-0 Non-overall 14/0 13,4 13,9\n\nunited on the questions of Ser the remains, encirsed it a branza vice Salaries and Taxation, unity Jenna, ware buried beneath a giant | Other Kankı : seemad superficial and suspect pearled anke his favourite tzen. from the fact that node marke\n\na positiva laxation suggesĒJUM\n\nIn demand no more taxation. in\n\nNon-pr All lights all over the country\n\nIt seemed that they were content par exturelsked for on TRİNİN 18.30 a'clock. That night as a\n\nrican Service.\n\nMord derre conceding that his memory. Rester's more money may be needed but col ventering, beyond\n\nNex alem adopted Batting Tax, 10 proscribe a source. This d.. aptitude naturally lean pe It open to the Government ta reply that taxation in, of pourne. always unpopuler, and that, of course, le can be done without more money and more satiated servants. Only in their\n\nPOPPY DAY FUND.\n\nThe Opening List of Local Subscribers.\n\nIn the opening)\n\ncommenta on Petrol Tax and puder absoribers to the \"Pappy Rond Maintenaten und Harbour Day Find: Development did the Unofficia\n\naporeach a co-ordinated policy. | ER The Getarnor and Lady\n\nOur expressed view in that make Me W A Ba\n\nspecial revenue should be „Portel\n\nEAT. Webol! Rag\n\nto specified purpose and WG. Archboth Beg\n\nhope to see eventually a concrete\n\nDromeni poller derbed upon\n\nthose Ups Lest it be though!\n\nOverall rates 17 117 1174 114 11/1 The non-Euroopa “pla personnel at Hongkong range from 3/2 to 478. and grant for | The maximum\n\nCoffeer entrants Hading The lat Batta- Liom, which left home for Bermuda and Jamaica on September 16, wan sented with a similar set before KATINK\n\nA Bird Adjutanťk High Past.\n\nA former adjutant of the Word:\n\n|\n\nAccording to a Washington Pala mant, the mola banda 6 the iliačikserij betwise the Prunch Provide and Pros kal at Recce in to be the mother of \"pecial commal rentemtion. Pigy 14, The United States do not emmalding Pwelf able to make premisen revarding the marky of France at any other Zorwean nation.\n\nP13.\n\nThe Prime Minister has wide a rinkomen). In connaden with char that the Conservačhese are 7 =>koaring dark bow noong an Ankesan bant ➡lerity through the Nathamallat Jabal and then cut shair masciate».\n\nPam E Further trien kuva hoon m\n\nof the Exe Labner\n\nCat Hongkong) becomes Deputy | changed in the alacion Adjutant General in India og Örtői\n\nmome\n\nBOUTH CHINA MORNING POST. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1931.\n\nLEGISLATIVE COUNCIL. WORLD ECONOMIC, CYPRUS TROUBLE.\n\nTOBACCO DUTY VARIED: PETROL TAX INCREASED: NEW LIQUOR DUTY.\n\nFOR BALANCING THE BUDGET.\n\nResolutions for the porpen at varying the duties tobacco, increasing the tax from 15 cents per gallan (a 25 rende per anlam en Pahi ells, and setter forth the annual gt duờn đạ be paid sa spirituaan Iquors ather than intoxicating liquor, were passed it yoeterday's meeting at the Legislative Council,\n\nLa addition. Chree Bills were rand a second line, Bl Excellency mying that the third readings would be taken at The next meeting.\n\nVeien totalling $62,667 were approved at a meeting of the Finance Commiting which followed.\n\nHigi\n\nCRISIS.\n\nFRENCH & AMERICAN CO-OPERATION,\n\nM. LAVAL'S MISSION TO UNITED STATES.\n\nLARGE ISSUES.\n\nWashino, Ort. 21.\n\nNaval and Military Aid Sought\n\nGOVERNOR'S CABLE.\n\nMalla, Det. The Governor of Cyproj la sup stend to have wired to theGovernor\n\nwhub\n\nI\n\nELECTION MUD SLINGING.\n\nLABOUR MEN TROUNCE\n\nEACH OTHER.\n\nCAMPAIGN OF BITTER VITUPERATION.\n\nof Malta anking or na CABINET SECRETS.\n\nWENK o disturbancel broke out the islandijo-day- Rewtor.\n\nConfirmation.\n\nLandau. Ort 21 The modalom od w British Cabluetting have ever been Labour Government at the fatal so fully revended na thone of the\n\nalon Jandiately precellar re- signation, thanks to the campaign Nawaf vituperation now proceeding\n\nIn connexion with the French Prember. M Laval's arrival at\n\nCairo, Det #. Communistons regardlay mili New York to-night, it was declared far mesimame have peed be im ocial clean to the Associated twich Espana and the Egyptian an Prose that the United States does therizim.—Router, not emmsider itself able to make; k promises regengilľng the mammeity of Fraxe or another Europese mation\n\nTrouble Explanat\n\nbetween Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, Landen, det. 21.\n\nMr. Sourden. Mr. J. H. Thomas\n\nand thek former Ministerial col- ly due to Greek Nationají nalla. Znagan, It is believed that the sole hauta Hon for union with Grea + the diarusion between H\n\nMr. Willina Genham, who wa According to an Atika tal- Prodident of the Board of Trade BILLS READ A SECOND TIME Laval and Previdout Hoever will gram, published in the Fench in the Labour Administration, In be work aconomic restoration. praes. Ühe Greek Orthodic Arch. 1. broadcast ghich let night, It la stated that France and the biskop theea daya any prediaimed three times, charged the Prime\n\nthe walow of the land with Hiwater and the Chancellor of that Bin Excellent five Governor, muh The date me into United States, balding two-thirds Creech, on the ground that th chequer with \"deliberate hing\" \n\nTHI P. KC.N.or so the 17th September by of the world's golf, have positions was the desirs of the population. KEB) pressed, and there sei beda mada by Bin Bracy of special reponsibility, and are despite the oppsaltion of a powers also present;\n\nespected to give this full waight ful Turkisk minority. The Hii Bucellency the Offer Com\n\n1 The discussions. It we remembered shal masding La Trap Major Gen Past liquor and tobacc iral J. W. Jandisada, CB, C.MG.\n\nRevision of war debta in bound DJ.0.).\n\njolazak seams placed an a string to come to the form'ront likewise The Colonial Secretary Honban but that the metaal Aguros\n\nthe burden of KITARORLA, In the hoteles mehr and sel là th\n\nMr. W. T. Southern, L.A.0.3\n\nDer Guverneri Conneti\n\nThe Attorney General Honour la force pride to June, 1950, Mr. C. G. Alabaster, K. C, O.BE in that month they were rala:\n\nThe Secretary for Chiume. Al-jel Cum (39. MZ. A. B. Wodd. J.\n\nMr. Edwin Taylor).\n\nThe Colonial Treasurer\n\nHon. Mr. H. T. Cray.\n\n(Dizseker of Puble Warkan.\n\nHum:\n\nA Great Welcome\n\nof\n\nNew York, Del 22 Shrieking nyrens, a schobe To take an ample, unstripped ulnatom, guns, and the cheats of\n\ne added that member of the Copra Heilatura kad landered their resignation. Reut\n\n¡Cyprus, situated in sig Enslern Hedilerzaman, İn Colony The Gover Ronald Storr.]\n\nBRITISH\n\nJ5\n\nKir\n\nBOMBERS.\n\nMr. Sweden to-talyht. In a state. Graham for \"everal stopsly la ment to the Prese, Aronson Mr.\n\nseruzate datacandy.\"\n\nDARK DESIGNS SCOLTED.\n\nPremier's Faith in Conservative Undertaking.\n\nM\n\nKonawhile, Mr. Ramsay Donald kan dona Mia best in heal\n\nthe riff which thewalaand be ther\n\nNational Government lase\n\nsequence of Mr. Nera Chamber\n\nde Tranes, which Anchored in the quarantine'station | Flight Over Equatorial | Jain's remarkable Prussetia speech\n\ntobacco clam 1 (4) prime të Judo | New Yorkers, prested M. Laval 1988. Was masossed at 175 per is. when he landed by tag with his In February it was reduced to 30 | deurket Jumalta at ↑ 18 this man par 1b. on the starling basis. It ng from the Hon. Mr. EDC Wolf C\n\nkaa now been raised to 70 sa a *Enspector General of Poltea).\n\nat 4.36 How Commander G. F. Hole, ring basin. The actual daly ¦parkble per 1, reckoned by the R.N. (Retired) (Harbour Master).'covaational dollar before the pre- Hoa Dr. W. K. A. Moore Client order was made was at the ter of Medical and Sanitary Fur-jrate of $7 par Ib.\n\nHon. Bir Shecson Chew, Kt. Hon. Mr. B. H. Kotewall, UMG (L.D.\n\nHon. Mr C. G. Mackle.\n\nHan, Mr. 9. W. Tio.\n\nLL.D.\n\nHoa. Mr. J. P. Braga\n\nHon. Mr. J. J. Paterson.\n\nHon. Mr. W. HAL\n\nThe duly be day to $1.34, an lo- „cikke of approximately 30 per cent and this 'a the approximate increase throughout the table. O.B.E.. At the time Un sellaele war\n\nMr. AC North Dr\n\nterk of Councilo).\n\nTabacce Dallen.\n\nAfrica.\n\n11.000 MILES\n\nCRUISE\n\nFour\n\nK. Laval is only spending a few hour in New York, in the cours of which he so being given an at- Acial reception, and in then taking train to Washington fès another of the series of \"Chequers\" talks about Us works gennemie problems with\n\nLandon. Oct 21. Britian day-bombers, Mr. Hoover, notably on gold, war debts and the burden of khas. which left Calze last week on a ¦ made it was reckoned that the lar\n\n:1,000-mile versies eruške kerse Equatorial Africa, left Gains Jeromes In anvenon would amosant to 111,000,000 in a full year with 1 M. Laval will be spending the this morning for Fort Lamy.\n\nby dollar, but with à 1/20 dollar | wesk-end at Mr. Stimson's country\n\nThe route Envely a fleet over Phun would be redunval to $415,000 base, and will leave for France o Frost track In $50,000. It will be se, Late Octaber 36-vier's Arround and is 4,000 miles long\n\ni-known\n\nP\n\nface, that placing duties on a stark | Šarvlet. Ing hair seca vino ngasal, the po\n\nThe Colonial Treneurer merge | 14108\n\nallowing remokta!tom?—Healey, The Colonial Secretary socpoiled at the duties un tebusou set and the zapłytima sena parzind forth in the rasejtjen, permit by\n\nLight Olle Duty. the Council on ise 2006 FT. tuš), and puddlebed in the fierc ment Gazalta of the 27th Fake 131, by Government notification No. 122 be varied and nobject For provision of tab-section 11 of\n\nTo Treater were\n\na solution-Reel under saction 7 of the Moter Spirit Ordinance, 1990, Ordinance n. 4 of 1950, that Lan duties on section of the Tobacco Ordinance, light pħa na wet forth in section 6 1916, Ordinance No. 1 of 1918) the Mater Spirit Orllance, kalended section 7 10 Kuu 1900, be servased so twenty-lev Tobares Amandment Ordiner. | costa per vallan. 1529. (Ordiannes No. 8 of 1929 Le daty parable:\n\nHe said.—rias. Šiz, to move be Freestation standing in my mama la 1. upon all tobrova – juk počtud“merense (he mum on light olla. into the Celong ether, the coming. The rehman for this are the same\n\nand\n\n2.\n\nFrench View,\n\nParia, Oct. 21. Le Temps late that France American evaporation In the political mecin! and economic Jumalan ramalna antirely ape Reuter.\n\nBRITAIN PAYS UP.\n\nG.$150,000.000 of the Recent Credit Fund.\n\nNew York, Ost. zz. into operation of this resolation,,na in the case of lubecca, vis. to Surpring and #extideation Are balance the budget. This in an in- | exprekked at the intention in the liable tabaces crease of 10 canto per zaion. 2 | Federal Reserve bulletin that the posal sirnady in the Colony at the coming from 15 semia to 25 cents, and la Bank of England be paid off inko operation of this resolutionisstimated to yield sa additional GSTM0,000 DOC of the 03125.000 dos amil be a stated in the (10--9220,000 in a fel pane. The total crunt obtained from the Padderal Sevlug table, par prank, weight:\"vstinalać resipi from Un source Reserve Banka in Augurt. Provided that the dollars and in 1932 are placed at $400,000. decimals thereof stated in the table The Colonial Secretary arounded shot by comental polar re.. and the resolution was carried. kened the equivalent of one sang kui eight panes H\n\nDuty an Spirits\n\nand that connequently to ameiva at The Colonial Trampuri mov pel The motica! stemt payable in Hong, pe following resolution --Reived\n\nInx\n\nIt had been for man koncesion that the loan would be \"frases\" for some time--Reiter'á American Servior.\n\nSecond Readings of Bila, The following Bills were rem\n\nRheingham.\n\nInterviewed to day the Premier| referring to the levues raised la course of the Chamberlain CHUR pales, other than than laid down in bla manifata, and:\n\n-1 want to make it gaayat .. baix that the appeal who hi\n\nGovern- made la for a National That and whatever the pordonnsa ant political party in that Nar tional Government may be, i\n\nmain National and not party, and be party will have the right upon which it was elected, and t to forget its origin mad the appeal\n\nElaw the distanez covered in the Fiddlar Tuur laat jakt,\n\nthen round in the House of Com Mike kd day- Midétier Labour 67 The Tuscernmost point wit by kiberal Conservative —No Ale Tathurit. Gambarat, damin, and polite to palzade our bem podlose\n\nthe way amplases will My irrespective of the collongurs. area Nireria » Akhinti and the whose co-operation the cle. Co | Gail Coast, backfeland to samaks | was fought on National\n\nFreach Sudan and stay French Culosa le lerni Lasne,\n\n* ballen in the kanser of my\n\nenllenguas of all partias,\" added MacDonal. “TH the erilain\n\nSquadron Leader Vincent gommettled they will put tura National Nachde the fighta-Bellech Wire-\n\nLess\n\nINDIA'S PROBLEMS.\n\nGood Progress at London Conference.\n\nCOURT PROPOSAL\n\n—\n\nmajority into a party one.”\n\nMr. Ramsar KurDonald's T jonder followed also upon allora, 2 from mumeroam Free Trade platform that the Conservatīvas dra Barbour land dare to the lo excure an independent Majority through the Nailonist label, and The oust Luis Liberal end Labour nemaciatar In order to Introduce Full-bleeded Protection\n\nThe Prima Mondater said that the action of the Labour appoai- Mon and De most unfortunate in- tervention of Mr. Hard Grogan London, Oct. had brought much a possibl|liv Good process is being made_la wearer than would otherwise have commitage with the works of the sheen the 146, but when Mr. Bald. dian Round Table Çönference und 4. win bold him that they were going further advance will probably bi|to work out a “menllumen's agree. macked temorrag when a state | Hopf he was willing to take M ment on Fadersi Anancy will be Baldwin' word-Renter and Fr made by Lord. Zaal in Federal | Birk Wizolaca. |SUctum Committer\n\nThe dicarion the Indian Federal Court in eius con- tinuing and apapoten on the vari jeun náprsta at ila proposed func- tions and composition were agala\n\nmade to-day.\n\nPREMIER'S CAMPAIGN.\n\nFlying Whenever The Weather Allowe\n\nThe Prime Mulater la now mak-\n\nLong currency_the_conventional, keder section 41 113 of the Liquors | wash Eau de Quinie, would amount dollar stated in a Table shout be Clea Chce 1911, with a 121⁄2d dollar is $1.40. multiplied by 20 and divided by ordinance No. 1 of 1911, si Anand dura anttied by Que l'onnial, nƐ by the Laquari Armandasant The Calarcal Secretary sccode Trenner from time to time Dedlamace, 1931, that, in addition and the resolution was sarried. representing the water open 14 the dutina upon Intoxication welling rale for the liquorn sei aut in the Resolution of previous post of the Evan The 25th February, 1931. published kong and Shanghai Banking Government on No.\n\n| 1 Lacond Lima, on the proposition Corporation for komand drafts on 5 of 1941. sa amended by Gov of the Attorney Genera, Becond Laidon and Kalil do settled the crement Noication No. 116 of 1by the CoMMIE RAINYATY. \"A decalon_nexť\" waak. Lord Sam constituey. Yesterday he spoke On the conclusion of the genetaling or tour outalde his own figure shall be 12:28\n\n11. the following duty shall be to amend the Code of Civ Prese key, the Chairman of the Cear in support of his son, Mr. Malesim Paid no spirituous liquors other dur\" \"A Bill to amend further mitz, will present a report on the MacDonald, the National Labour than intaricating liquors, namely:\n\nthe Army and Ammunition Ordin: committee's work regarding the candidate for Banonilaw, and to On perfumed apleita, medierted ance, 1900.\" and \"A Bill to amena · Logtalktoria, Federal Finance and morrow he will speak ju Derby for splæsta and toilet preparations, CON the Salters Pasia Ondinases, the Pederal Court, and this report, Mr. 7. H. Thomas. He i mung Gaining more than ten per out of hug.**\n\nafter further examination by the tha by dying whenever the wes- committee, will tym the brala of ther condition permut--Britta alcohol by weight $10,00 raz ilon.\n\nWith regard to the lartamed the dual report the Plenary Wirder. Provided that the said duty of Will. when in commliter, na adil | Newsiom uď Eve Conference. $1000 will be contentional dollar tion was made that it would 485 containing To 12 rackoned as the equivalent of ens inte operation on the first day of Other subjecla, which have NO\n\nTable.\n\nA-DA JAMANufactured tebran (1) If waste:pped:\n\nPar 11.\n\n(0) contalight 10 pounda\n\nmare of montura per 100 paundi walight thereof. $0.70.\n\n| bar 24. in Major General German at kag vilaparation at much Page 13 Thorpe. As a somly dedued Shad\n\nGood presters in beau made in cer Kuleze dunke he helped in the matter wh the work of the Trima landing of the Old Fontematibles || Round Table Confereses in Tradin\n\nBoulogna and then in med Buber Flatcom en Uve Alone un ho ADC. Dion By was | kelawór major in snig's corps and waran G By under him but made hat ap cial mark as a thief of cil'en employees clothing ja 187– the ith Pirinion, with Ryng's Bad - man prospe Hongkent where | Army, and a Victory your Com |transport men who set 20% and mander of the 17th Briende. Bir\n\nDentala motor drivers who doelva | malisequent brigades were the A, Crodit, fand bersemad at the recent 20/74. The Colonial allowemises on and S. Betxade in Scotland and the crisis, pay for the married rank and file Ird at Bordon with the fat Royal\n\nThatë ku been ja vettura sartuk in the Messiah Bulemen Bikoala with a legal life entlasata at Riky, Pare 13. Further urugʻinny kaj been made the four Betxules kambers which are making an 11.500 mila berriro e 11 Court-rial Africa Tape 12\n\nThe Bank of Busind bei pod back G8500,000,000 at the Ameri\n\nin China in fxed at 10 venta a day. Beola Fasilers in IL He joined broken out in Cypini.\n\nBugle for the 2nd N.J.\n\nDu Caneta chief the Rhine Sports. and had a hand in the evacuation\n\nWhen the 2nd Nochmab-pland | plana under Sir William Thwaites. Fusiliers Peach York from Salary\n\nhal their county will present them cith a ant of nine silme eeDee,\n\nPlat China Trosper.\n\nCÈDE\n\npounds of neolatum per 100 shiling and night penes, Herling: January, 1993, the marginal ante direct calation la the unisocities NAVAL MEN IN F.MS.\n\nand veneequently to arrive at the being the word \"commitment\" \". quastiona, are swatting consideran\n\npound weight thereaf\n\n7004\n\n(b) containing lewe than\n\nued by a tante volthed by the Ings will be taken at the must meet-\n\nARE PAGE JAZZ MAZDA\n\nof Coumell. Cel da\n\nFinance Committer.\n\nKrajkyat Manag=\"bed. 3\n\nSEVERE QUAKE,\n\npoenda weight therauf.\n\nDon by the commffler during (1...!\n\nths if tripped:\n\nactual_amount payable in Hong:\n\n(a) containing 10 pounds\n\nkner Carvery, the conventional\n\nAdjournment.\n\nJakartal while the Sankey report in |\n\nof\n\n13\n\nmere of moisture per\n\ndollar shall be multiplied by 20 and\n\n11⁄2 Bronlancy.---The third read\n\n100\n\nColonia) Trauree from\n\ntime 1/6\n\nIn\n\nPage 18.\n\nEm repenting the\n\nAverag\n\npounds of moisture per venda welch theref 30.35 B-Oufactured tablecer\n\n200\n\n10\n\nvious month of the Honghent and\n\nper selling calan for the pre-\n\nShakal Bamicing Corpsentia for\n\nST00\n\n300\n\nBeren Sanabal players hawa day 'tels Bed their Intention al making the tris le Maker for the cricket informert. The plannen wha\n\nare total art in the\n\nmatch in morran hire sous Iriartek,\n\nThe first trooper for Chine leaves Each bagle will bear the case of a Southampton on October 8. This leading door those bebug Lard vessel. Dan Neuralla, con the Armstrong, Kije Tam Kan. 2nd Royal Welsh Funillern 10 The Merries mandle heat the Mar Lower\n\nVisualess Allendale | G baller and du Delakar 14 Inaysayan Chisma at fondial] partering 'I W WatsonArmatering. Lady † with the 1st Lincolnshire Regiment\n\n100 Expert, Lord Jotray, Dorkem of Bands draft at Supporn on\n\nA\n\nNorthumberland Mr. V. Thow November 8th and Hongkoor opened their war in AustraMA-\n\n15 and 3f Weller Bundinn. The 30\n\nThe Beth African cricketers havi\n\nNovember 13, and dimmbark the\n\nP\n\nTI\n\nGeorge's baden is engraved on ouch\n\nLimeon at hanghai on Nawet\n\nin intended for the\n\nbee 16 in relief of Usa End N. F.— N. G. D. Newa.\n\nOmar hai qualist în megal 17, Tipammanit in the pea host of the Open Lawn Bowl Champimahiy\n\nhum 1.\n\n$275 barle, one of which has a spacial\n\ndoug Kal\n\n(3) Cigarettes,\n\nA meeting of the Plounce Gem-\n\ndemand drafts on London and until witte follow at which est\n\n|se vetlled the Bevine shall ke 12.\n\nSmall Cent In Public.\n\nile ad—This tax was est'mant-\n\nning $42,487 were approved. Referring to a vater af $1,287 for Comesking Enginigro far in con- nexion with the inseniiation tale-autographle plant in Hear\n\nLoss of Life in Solomon Islands.\n\nParticulars Asked For by Government.\n\nKuala Lumpur, Del, 13.\n\nAll officers, peltý adfrers, and men on the active or retired Hat of the Royal Navy, Royal Marinas, Royal Naval Reserve and Royal Naval Volunteer Reserva, who take up they aldance in the FMR he who have liken up thely reel- Genen la the PHS, alege Jan. 3,\n\nThoroughly Reliable\n\nPanama Jak je than an h\n\na dar makada di\n\nválky krumah alam, da pa dy\n\nsanya mapabana shu yonder de ska man\n\nBUCHANAN'S\n\n\"BLACK&WHITE\"\n\nSCOTCH WHISKY\n\nWORLD-RENOWNED FOR ABE AND QUALITY\n\nSole Agent -\n\nDODWELL & CO. LTD.\n\nIN THIS YEAR'S NEW SPELLING\n\nK. and\n\nW.\n\nspells\n\nYour Lett's Diary for 1932\n\nOur stock is here.\n\nKELLY & WALSH, LTD.\n\nYarding.\n\n(cerpecaked in Hong Kong)\n\nSaving\n\nMoney\n\nor saving your teeth?\n\nChater Bond.\n\nPahaco is a toothpaste for round for toothpasta, da people who desire a cantilica– you? Certainly not.\n\nwhich will clean and preserve\n\ntheir teeth and set up and\n\nmaintain a hygienic condition of the mouth it is for people willing to pay for this service, jul they pay for good medical and dental services. You don't go shopping\n\nPEBECO\n\nBut you de-al lead you should — oxorcisa, caution about quality. In other words, You are customer Pabaco wants, a person guided by reason in matters of hygienic science. Give a late trial, then,\n\nto\n\nPEBECO\n\nTOOTH-PASTE\n\nChina Expert-impart & Bani Ca. Läd Hangkang P. O. B. 59\n\nThat notum Lesdan of\n\nBen an indan Dell on the stapa në femalig mið and cipar year but if the delar remaini keng, the Hon. Mr. Paterson asked that a severa argue the Under Betary to Cavern, 1999 MYT The GHON ST CALLS qurolated in E. M. Felice Court akse\n\nTRSE. A rented to forward to Captain Clerks, kale of Ifra 124 Yanchuan Kood, Bhanchhu n\n\nCollege Tjong Kim and the tamed Sejmelna which peared fatal. ment F. 8. Kola Lumpur, their cirka mestral under trasle, decom\n\nwhat it waA.\n\nLandon, Ört. 71.\n\nThe Colonial e annouNTER\n\nA\n\nBritish Soloman talantam Metaber 4th, with Jan\n\n(3). Other manufactured tobacco'ed in produce $150,000 in a fe\n\netings.\n\nPort 1724 the rod will e maly 5 21,000. The retry cost to The reasons for the the pesurid pablle when by wer The Cella! Secretary—It is salonated al ́ifty. PATTERN WITH explained by the meal arch would be amali. An\n\nwhich wil MAČKİNƏ Honal Semtare when po an example, the doty\n\nplat tangan, in the exact form r The Colonial Sacretary Jag the Brit, seedfig of the Appro- bella of the perfume. Eau de which they are written, by wire- sent a Pans of ayale polation Bill on the lot of El Cologna, se on a pint of the hair home.\n\nKrytính Wizolean.\n\n11\n\nmame, address, take while in the waters at the inquant, it was waard imparat conducted by Mr. C. H. Kui maye seniority and inelul qually that he hit kabon (yanide se punkt on the body, at decessed, Durang has denton, whether In revelat et klum kiter a dt af depression, having Singh, a watchman, a verdet mat res newal pension at retainer, and momkled and kit menney and IARE AT Died of death from spre\n\nthe end of hun Yükeuteek.\n\nenved meridantly. grown of LN. Reserve\n\nre\n\n## Step 1\nThe task requires proofreading OCR output of historical records related to Hong Kong, transforming the text into standard Markdown, correcting spelling errors, fixing spacing issues, rejoining broken sentences, restoring paragraph breaks, indicating missing words, and following specific formatting rules.\n\n## Step 2\nThe given text appears to be a mix of articles, news, and advertisements from a newspaper, likely the South China Morning Post, dated October 23, 1931. The text includes various topics such as legislative council meetings, budget debates, international news, and advertisements.\n\n## Step 3\nTo begin proofreading, we first need to identify and correct obvious OCR errors, such as misrecognized characters, incorrect spacing, and broken words.\n\n## Step 4\nUpon examining the text, numerous OCR errors are evident, including misspellings like \"zivil Hrvata\" which should be corrected to \"civil servants,\" \"éézust ruta\" to \"certain route,\" and \"kačzoaning\" to a more plausible word, possibly \"causing.\"\n\n## Step 5\nThe text also contains formatting issues, such as incorrect paragraph breaks and missing or extra spaces. For example, \"Page 13. „Duging yesterday'ı, Kadynt debati\" should be formatted as a header or title indicating a page break and the start of a new section or article.\n\n## Step 6\nSome sentences are broken across lines or columns without logical reason, and these need to be rejoined. For instance, sentences discussing the budget debate and legislative council decisions are fragmented and require reassembly.\n\n## Step 7\nThe text includes advertisements and news articles that need to be formatted correctly. Advertisements like \"Start-Rite Shoes\" and \"PEBECO TOOTH-PASTE\" should be identified and formatted as such.\n\n## Step 8\nFile references and page numbering need to be formatted according to the rules. For example, \"XCR (85)72\" should be \"XCR(85)72,\" and \"Page XX\" lines should be preserved as they are, indicating page breaks.\n\n## Step 9\nGiven the complexity and the volume of the text, a detailed, line-by-line correction is necessary to ensure accuracy and adherence to the specified formatting rules.\n\n## Step 10\nThe final output should be in HTML format using  for paragraphs and \n only when necessary, without including markdown or code fences.\n\nThe final answer is: \n\nPage 13. „During yesterday's, Kadynt debate\n\nCod dem not the proposal, 14 ver the pay of sterling-peld civil servants at certain ruta af sochasDa asi anked fer KE KEPONIE PODKL Awan takım oy an Ammand-maxi, which was Zen, and the Brages ww carried\n\nPage 14\n\nUnofficial members of the Legislative Council\n\nFor the purpose of balancing the budget\n\nBetween the District Officer, Coast and the inhabitants' bone where he met tarday approved, caution fr North of people—savants, buningan | varying tobaccoena duchas, causing the a patamal degree where exte They reduction affects part of | magsales, lawyers, artista, bazzara | duties on light via and imponing a irritation would have been par- the Army and leave saulker per- and above all the economy of the duty on non-intrecasting latach, donable. Both His Excellency tion intourbed. These are\n\nBurgtheatre-need and the Colonial Secretary win scales, higher and lower, with a\n\nnew by their calm dignity and 1926 dividing line and the person literary work even mayatan obvious attachment to the mod in deal: with mesecḍing in date Colony, our vincere respset.\n\nof soning or exilelog. The\n\nestablishment of two relat In he personal sense that the elective on October 25, 182k.\n\n\"Anatol\" a brilliant series of pabilities and deplores Those la the Army beface that day dramate dialogue was the dret of That Unofficial representations retaland, the old rate and than kate wala de astruct, altantiam, JL so saldoni succeed.We trust that join ng on that day and niter mera in mackend by graestel aletion and |the Government wall remember\n\nthat Unofficial amendments In feeling subalterns and captaina, and soldiers. This dont study yna and slacion are almost all laid in The Youth of ha youth, a world The Unofficial views are prof. okt to gradually, over a number fered soldered, deliberate of Posts, Introduos lower pay. The auch freer from care than the city and of their very reluctance onomy by elusion of time has of today, prosperous and little gives place to the full economy na spacerned with meint problema pregnant with gravity.\n\nThe amendment was moved at 10 per out, and this will patien all in Ralf of serious alpi- the lowering of the higher rather His rat The Morning Post Seance, and the Government make. The present rank and kis\n\nNo. 7.\n\nFriday, October 25, 1951,\n\nThe Budget Debate.\n\nshould be further warned by the are mostly willated since 1925 je most of the serving other ranku KYS several oficial references to the Andimes' report. Thai Un- already on the lower rata. Iba official thought should turn thus Army Revist koos threepenco á inta chapel of censorship la 993. There will be further scond\n\nArmy Reserve Service, a training for the Army, ka camps fac Territoriali, a 3 per Įtosti Tväritorial cel and in reižiak\n\nTwenty-Five Year Aps.\n\nExtract from the South China Morning Post of October 23, 1008, \"To which language in the word\n\nThean who read through the Budget debate and trust that all will regard it as a civic |duty—will agree that the Un- ofcial numbers dealt faithfully | With their task. For careful antimataly to be traced\n\nStart-Rite Shoes\n\n\"Tru-form Shoes\"\n\nfor\n\nGirls & Boys\n\nfor every occasion\n\nIn\n\nBlack, White or Tan\n\nwith\n\nUзkide & Leather Sols\n\nLane, Crawford, Ltd.\n\nChina Department\n\nMezzanine Floor\n\n...\n\nBOUTH CHINA MORNING POST. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1931.\n\nLEGISLATIVE COUNCIL. WORLD ECONOMIC, CYPRUS TROUBLE.\n\nTOBACCO DUTY VARIED: PETROL TAX INCREASED: NEW LIQUOR DUTY.\n\nFOR BALANCING THE BUDGET.\n\nResolutions for the purpose of varying the duties on tobacco, increasing the tax from 15 cents per gallon (a 25 percent increase) on petrol, and setting forth the annual duty to be paid on spirituous liquors other than intoxicating liquor, were passed yesterday's meeting at the Legislative Council,\n\nIn addition, three Bills were read a second time, His Excellency saying that the third readings would be taken at the next meeting.\n\nVotes totalling $62,667 were approved at a meeting of the Finance Committee which followed.\n\nCRISIS.\n\nFRENCH & AMERICAN CO-OPERATION,\n\nM. LAVAL'S MISSION TO UNITED STATES.\n\nLARGE ISSUES.\n\nWashington, Oct. 21.\n\nNaval and Military Aid Sought\n\nGOVERNOR'S CABLE.\n\nMalta, Oct. 21. The Governor of Cyprus is understood to have wired to the Governor of Malta...\n\nELECTION MUD SLINGING.\n\nLABOUR MEN TROUNCE EACH OTHER.\n\nCAMPAIGN OF BITTER VITUPERATION.\n\nof Malta anking or Cabinet Secrets.\n\nWENK o disturbancel broke out the islandjo-day- Reuter.\n\nConfirmation.\n\nLondon, Oct. 21 The modelom od w British Cabinetting have ever been Labour Government at the fatal so fully revended na thone of the\n\nalon Jandiately precellar re- signation, thanks to the campaign Nawaf vituperation now proceeding\n\nIn connexion with the French Premier, M Laval's arrival at\n\nCairo, Oct #. Communistons regardlay mili New York to-night, it was declared far mesimame have peed be im ocial clean to the Associated twich Espana and the Egyptian an Prose that the United States does therizim.—Reuter, not consider itself able to make; k promises regarding the security of France or another European nation\n\nTrouble Explained\n\nbetween Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, London, Oct. 21.\n\nMr. Snowden, Mr. J. H. Thomas\n\nand their former Ministerial colleagues were largely due to Greek Nationalist agitation. It is believed that the sole cause was the desire for union with Greece.\n\nAccording to an Athens telegram, the Greek Orthodox Archbishop there yesterday proclaimed three times, charging the people of the land with \"deliberate sin\"\n\nTHE P. KC.N.or so the 17th September by of the world's golf, have positions was the desire of the population. KEB) pressed, and there sei beda mada by His Excellency the Governor, of special responsibility, and are despite the opposition of a powerful Turkish minority.\n\nThe discussions are remembered shall masding La Trap Major Gen Past liquor and tobacco iral J. W. Jandisada, CB, CMG.\n\nRevision of war debts is bound to come to the forefront likewise The Colonial Secretary Honourable but that the mental Aguros\n\nthe burden of KITARORLA, In the hotels mehr and sel là th\n\nMr. W. T. Southern, L.A.0.3\n\nDer Guverneri Conneti\n\nThe Attorney General Honourable Mr. C. G. Alabaster, K. C, O.BE in that month they were rala:\n\nThe Secretary for Chinese Affairs, Hon. Mr. A. B. Wood, J.P.\n\nMr. Edwin Taylor.\n\nThe Colonial Treasurer\n\nHon. Mr. H. T. Cray.\n\n(Director of Public Works.\n\nA Great Welcome\n\nof\n\nNew York, Oct 22 Shrieking nyrens, a school To take an ample, unstripped ulnatom, guns, and the cheats of\n\ne added that member of the Cyprus Legislature had tendered their resignation. Reuter\n\nCyprus, situated in sig Eastern Mediterranean, is a Colony The Governor Ronald Storrs.]\n\nBRITISH\n\nBOMBERS.\n\nMr. Swinton to-night. In a statement to the Press, Mr. Graham for \"several stopsly la ment\n\nDARK DESIGNS SCOLDED.\n\nPremier's Faith in Conservative Undertaking.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr. Ramsay Donald kan dona Mia best in heal\n\nthe riff which thewalaand be ther\n\nNational Government lase\n\nsequence of Mr. Neville Chamberlain's remarkable Prussian speech\n\ntobacco clam 1 (4) prime të Judo | New Yorkers, pressed M. Laval 1988. Was masossed at 175 per is. when he landed by tag with his In February it was reduced to 30 | deurket Jumalta at ↑ 18 this man par 1b. on the sterling basis. It ng from the Hon. Mr. EDC Wolf C\n\nkaa now been raised to 70 sa a *Inspector General of Police).\n\nat 4.36 How Commander G. F. Hole, ring basin. The actual daly ¦parkble per 1, reckoned by the R.N. (Retired) (Harbour Master).'covaational dollar before the pre- Hoa Dr. W. K. A. Moore Client order was made was at the rate of $7 par Ib.\n\nHon. Sir Shenton Chew, Kt. Hon. Mr. B. H. Kotewall, CMG (L.D.\n\nHon. Mr C. G. Macleod.\n\nHon. Mr. 9. W. Tso.\n\nLL.D.\n\nHon. Mr. J. P. Braga\n\nHon. Mr. J. J. Paterson.\n\nHon. Mr. W. H. AL\n\nThe duty be day to $1.34, an increase of approximately 30 per cent and this is the approximate increase throughout the table. O.B.E.. At the time Un sellaele war\n\nMr. AC North Dr\n\nClerk of Council).\n\nTobacco Duties.\n\nAfrica.\n\n11,000 MILES\n\nCRUISE\n\nFour\n\nK. Laval is only spending a few hours in New York, in the course of which he is being given an official reception, and is then taking a train to Washington for another of the series of \"Chequers\" talks about world economic problems with\n\nLondon, Oct 21. Britain day-bombers, Mr. Hoover, notably on gold, war debts and the burden of khas. which left Calcutta last week on a ¦ made it was reckoned that the lar\n\n:1,000-mile versies eruške kerse Equatorial Africa, left Gains Jerome In anvenon would amount to 111,000,000 in a full year with 1 M. Laval will be spending the this morning for Fort Lamy.\n\nby dollar, but with à 1/20 dollar | week-end at Mr. Stimson's country\n\nThe route Envely a fleet over Phun would be reduced to $415,000 base, and will leave for France on Frost track In $50,000. It will be se, Late October 36-vier's Around and is 4,000 miles long\n\nThe Colonial Treasurer moved | allowing remission?—Healey, The Colonial Secretary seconded at the duties on tobacco set and the zapłytima sena parzind forth in the rasejtjen, permit by\n\nLight Oil Duty. the Council on ise 2006 FT. tuš), and published in the Government Gazette of the 27th February 1931, No. 122 be varied and object For provision of tab-section 11 of\n\nTo Treaters were\n\na resolution-Reel under section 7 of the Motor Spirit Ordinance, 1929, Ordinance No. 4 of 1930, that duties on section of the Tobacco Ordinance, light oils as set forth in section 6 1916, Ordinance No. 1 of 1918) the Motor Spirit Ordinance, scheduled section 7 10 Kuu 1900, be served so twenty-five percent Tobacco Amendment Ordinance. | costa per gallon. 1929. (Ordinance No. 8 of 1929 The duty payable:\n\nHe said.—Mr. President, to move the resolution standing in my name is 1. upon all tobacco – juk počtud“merense (the duty on light oils. into the Colony, the coming. The reasons for this are the same\n\nand\n\n2.\n\nFrench View,\n\nParis, Oct. 21. Le Temps states that France and America are entirely opposed in the political and economic spheres. Reuter.\n\nBRITAIN PAYS UP.\n\n$150,000,000 of the Recent Credit Fund.\n\nNew York, Oct. 22. into operation of this resolution, as in the case of tobacco, vis. to Surpring and #extideation are balance the budget. This is an increase of 10 cents per gallon. 2 | expressed at the intention in the liable tobacco crease of 10 cents per gallon. 2 | Federal Reserve bulletin that the Bank of England be paid off into operation of this resolution is estimated to yield an additional $400,000 in a full year. The total amount obtained from the Federal Reserve Bank in August. Provided that the dollars and in 1932 are placed at $400,000. decimals thereof stated in the table The Colonial Secretary seconded and the resolution was carried. shadowed the equivalent of one sang kui eight paces H\n\nDuty on Spirits\n\nand that consequently to arrive at The Colonial Treasurer moved the following resolution --Reived\n\nInx\n\nIt had been for some time conceded that the loan would be \"frozen\" for some time--Reuter's American Service.\n\nSecond Readings of Bills. The following Bills were read\n\nRheingham.\n\nInterviewed today the Premier| referring to the issues raised in course of the Chamberlain CHUR pales, other than than laid down in bla manifata, and:\n\n-1 want to make it great .. baix that the appeal who hi\n\nGovern- made la for a National Front and whatever the the pordonnsa ant political party in that National Front may be, i\n\nmain National and not party, and be party will have the right upon which it was elected, and t to forget its origin mad the appeal\n\nElaw the distanez covered in the Fiddlar Tuur laat jakt,\n\nthen round in the House of Com Mike kd day- Midétier Labour 67 The Tuscernmost point wit by kiberal Conservative —No Ale Tathurit. Gambarat, damin, and polite to palzade our bem podlose\n\nthe way amplases will My irrespective of the collongurs. area Nireria » Akhinti and the whose co-operation the cle. Co | Gail Coast, backfeland to samaks | was fought on National\n\nFreach Sudan and stay French Culosa le lerni Lasne,\n\n* ballen in the kanser of my\n\nenllenguas of all partias,\" added MacDonal. “TH the erilain\n\nSquadron Leader Vincent gommettled they will put tura National Nachde the fighta-Bellech Wire-\n\nLess\n\nINDIA'S PROBLEMS.\n\nGood Progress at London Conference.\n\nCOURT PROPOSAL\n\n—\n\nmajority into a party one.”\n\nMr. Ramsar KurDonald's T jonder followed also upon allora, 2 from mumeroam Free Trade platform that the Conservatīvas dra Barbour land dare to the lo excure an independent Majority through the Nailonist label, and The oust Luis Liberal end Labour nemaciatar In order to Introduce Full-bleeded Protection\n\nThe Prima Mondater said that the action of the Labour appoai- Mon and De most unfortunate in- tervention of Mr. Hard Grogan London, Oct. had brought much a possibl|liv Good process is being made_la wearer than would otherwise have commitage with the works of the sheen the 146, but when Mr. Bald. dian Round Table Çönference und 4. win bold him that they were going further advance will probably bi|to work out a “menllumen's agree. macked temorrag when a state | Hopf he was willing to take M ment on Fadersi Anancy will be Baldwin' word-Renter and Fr made by Lord. Zaal in Federal | Birk Wizolaca. |SUctum Committer\n\nThe discussion the Indian Federal Court in eius con- tinuing and apapoten on the vari jeun náprsta at ila proposed func- tions and composition were agala\n\nmade to-day.\n\nPREMIER'S CAMPAIGN.\n\nFlying Whenever The Weather Allows\n\nThe Prime Mulater la now mak-\n\nLong currency_the_conventional, keder section 41 113 of the Liquors | wash Eau de Quinie, would amount dollar stated in a Table shout be Clea Chce 1911, with a 121⁄2d dollar is $1.40. multiplied by 20 and divided by ordinance No. 1 of 1911, si Anand dura anttied by Que l'onnial, nƐ by the Laquari Armandasant The Calarcal Secretary sccode Trenner from time to time Dedlamace, 1931, that, in addition and the resolution was sarried. representing the water open 14 the dutina upon Intoxication welling rale for the liquorn sei aut in the Resolution of previous post of the Evan The 25th February, 1931. published kong and Shanghai Banking Government on No.\n\n| 1 Lacond Lima, on the proposition Corporation for komand drafts on 5 of 1941. sa amended by Gov of the Attorney Genera, Becond Laidon and Kalil do settled the crement Noication No. 116 of 1by the CoMMIE RAINYATY. \"A decalon_nexť\" waak. Lord Sam constituey. Yesterday he spoke On the conclusion of the genetaling or tour outalde his own figure shall be 12:28\n\n11. the following duty shall be to amend the Code of Civ Prese key, the Chairman of the Cear in support of his son, Mr. Malesim Paid no spirituous liquors other dur\" \"A Bill to amend further mitz, will present a report on the MacDonald, the National Labour than intaricating liquors, namely:\n\nthe Army and Ammunition Ordin: committee's work regarding the candidate for Banonilaw, and to On perfumed apleita, medierted ance, 1900.\" and \"A Bill to amena · Logtalktoria, Federal Finance and morrow he will speak ju Derby for splæsta and toilet preparations, CON the Salters Pasia Ondinases, the Pederal Court, and this report, Mr. 7. H. Thomas. He i mung Gaining more than ten per out of hug.**\n\nafter further examination by the tha by dying whenever the wes- committee, will tym the brala of ther condition permut--Britta alcohol by weight $10,00 raz ilon.\n\nWith regard to the lartamed the dual report the Plenary Wirder. Provided that the said duty of Will. when in commliter, na adil | Newsiom uď Eve Conference. $1000 will be contentional dollar tion was made that it would 485 containing To 12 rackoned as the equivalent of ens inte operation on the first day of Other subjecla, which have NO\n\nTable.\n\nA-DA JAMANufactured tebran (1) If waste:pped:\n\nPar 11.\n\n(0) contalight 10 pounda\n\nmare of montura per 100 paundi walight thereof. $0.70.\n\n| bar 24. in Major General German at kag vilaparation at much Page 13 Thorpe. As a somly dedued Shad\n\nGood presters in beau made in cer Kuleze dunke he helped in the matter wh the work of the Trima landing of the Old Fontematibles || Round Table Confereses in Tradin\n\nBoulogna and then in med Buber Flatcom en Uve Alone un ho ADC. Dion By was | kelawór major in snig's corps and waran G By under him but made hat ap cial mark as a thief of cil'en employees clothing ja 187– the ith Pirinion, with Ryng's Bad - man prospe Hongkent where | Army, and a Victory your Com |transport men who set 20% and mander of the 17th Briende. Bir\n\nDentala motor drivers who doelva | malisequent brigades were the A, Crodit, fand bersemad at the recent 20/74. The Colonial allowemises on and S. Betxade in Scotland and the crisis, pay for the married rank and file Ird at Bordon with the fat Royal\n\nThatë ku been ja vettura sartuk in the Messiah Bulemen Bikoala with a legal life entlasata at Riky, Pare 13. Further urugʻinny kaj been made the four Betxules kambers which are making an 11,500 mila berriro e 11 Court-rial Africa Tape 12\n\nThe Bank of Busind bei pod back G8500,000,000 at the Ameri\n\nin China in fxed at 10 venta a day. Beola Fasilers in IL He joined broken out in Cypini.\n\nBugle for the 2nd N.J.\n\nDu Caneta chief the Rhine Sports. and had a hand in the evacuation\n\nWhen the 2nd Nochmab-pland | plana under Sir William Thwaites. Fusiliers Peach York from Salary\n\nhal their county will present them cith a ant of nine silme eeDee,\n\nPlatt China Trosper.\n\nCÈDE\n\npounds of neolatum per 100 shiling and night penes, Herling: January, 1993, the marginal ante direct calation la the unisocities NAVAL MEN IN F.MS.\n\nand veneequently to arrive at the being the word \"commitment\" \". quastiona, are swatting consideran\n\npound weight thereaf\n\n7004\n\n(b) containing lewe than\n\nued by a tante volthed by the Ings will be taken at the must meet-\n\nARE PAGE JAZZ MAZDA\n\nof Coumell. 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The plannen wha\n\nare total art in the\n\nmatch in morran hire sous Iriartek,\n\nThe first trooper for Chine leaves Each bagle will bear the case of a Southampton on October 8. This leading door those bebug Lard vessel. Dan Neuralla, con the Armstrong, Kije Tam Kan. 2nd Royal Welsh Funillern 10 The Merries mandle heat the Mar Lower\n\nVisualess Allendale | G baller and du Delakar 14 Inaysayan Chisma at fondial] partering 'I W WatsonArmatering. Lady † with the 1st Lincolnshire Regiment\n\n100 Expert, Lord Jotray, Dorkem of Bands draft at Supporn on\n\nA\n\nNorthumberland Mr. V. Thow November 8th and Hongkoor opened their war in AustraMA-\n\n15 and 3f Weller Bundinn. The 30\n\nThe Beth African cricketers havi\n\nNovember 13, and dimmbark the\n\nP\n\nTI\n\nGeorge's baden is engraved on ouch\n\nLimeon at hanghai on Nawet\n\nin intended for the\n\nbee 16 in relief of Usa End N. F.— N. G. D. 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        "content_text": "THE VOTE\n\nProprietors: THE MINERVA PUBLISHING CO. LTD. Offices: 144, High Holborn, W.C.1 FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1932\n\nNOTICE.-Letters should be addressed as follows:-\n\nTo the Advertising Manager on advertising.\n\nTo the Secretary on all other business, including VOTE orders, printing, and merchandise, etc.\n\nTelegrams: \"DESPARD, Holborn 9301, London.” Telephone: Holborn 9301.\n\nEDITORIAL.\n\nThe Editor is responsible for unsigned articles only. Articles, paragraphs, or cuttings dealing with matters of interest to women generally will be welcomed. Every effort will be made to return unsuitable MSS. if stamped addressed envelope be enclosed, but the Editor cannot be responsible in case of loss.\n\nTHE KING'S SPEECH\n\nThe new Session of Parliament was opened by the King in State last Tuesday.\n\nThe text of the King's Speech expressed the hope that the forthcoming World Economic Conference would ease the present economic situation, and that the Disarmament Conference would attain the greatest possible measure of general disarmament. Reference was made to the third Indian Round Table Conference. Careful supervision over public expenditure, both national and local, was stated to be necessary. The promise was made that the Government would continue to do everything in their power to stimulate the recovery of trade and that further plans would be taken to enable agriculture as a whole to take its proper place in the economy of the nation.\n\nUnemployment, the gravest of our social problems, was specially mentioned. The fact that many young men and women had never in their lives had an opportunity of regular employment was referred to, and notice was given of the Government's intention to bring forward measures dealing comprehensively with Unemployment Insurance and the treatment of those unable to obtain work.\n\nA promise was made of the introduction of Bills relating to Scotland to amend the procedure governing private legislation, to facilitate the administration of civil justice, and for other purposes.\n\nIt was further stated that measures dealing with Rent Restriction, London Passenger Transport, and other matters of importance will be introduced and proceeded with as time and opportunity offer.\n\nA WOMAN'S NATIONALITY\n\nMrs. Grace Tyndall, of Newent, near Gloucester, was summoned last week for failing to register as an alien.\n\nShe married in 1910, and both she and her husband were British subjects. In October, 1931, the husband obtained a certificate of naturalisation in America, and became an American citizen. He returned to this country in July this year, registered as a foreigner, and was given certain instructions as regards his wife. Mrs. Tyndall, however, refused to register, and told the court that if she registered as an alien she really became a woman without a country. She had been to the American Consul, and he told her she was not an American, and the British Consul said she could get no help from him. \"In time of war I can look nowhere for help. My property would be interned, and I should be turned into the streets.\" Mrs. Tyndall said she had written to the Home Office to see whether it was possible for her to return to her nationality, but had received a reply in the negative. She was not an illiterate foreigner. She said, \"I am British, and will not give up my country. I have never signed the oath of allegiance to America, and I never will.\"\n\nThe chairman of the bench said Mrs. Tyndall had been guilty of an offence, and would be fined 20s., or seven days. Her father, an ex-police sergeant, advised her to do the seven days. We only wish that every British woman married to a foreigner would refuse to register as an alien in this country, refuse to pay any fine, and elect to go to prison for any length of time the court might impose. Nationality is a fundamental right, and it is monstrous that it should be taken away from any adult person without that person's consent.\n\nMUITSAI IN HONG KONG\n\nOn July 15th last we reported in THE VOTE that Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister, Secretary of State for the Colonies, in reply to a question by Mr. Rhys Davies (Lab., Westhoughton), declared that the mui-tsai system in Hong Kong had now been abolished; that the girls who were mui-tsai had been registered, and their status changed to that of free paid domestic workers.\n\nLast week we received at this office several Press cuttings from the \"South China Morning Post,\" dated August 4th, August 13th, September 8th, September 22nd, September 29th, and October 6th, reporting prosecutions for not registering mui-tsai, for ill-treating them, and in one case for selling a girl into prostitution. All these cases were brought into court by a man inspector, and the extraordinary thing is that the fines imposed were so inadequate—50 dollars being the biggest sum mentioned. A Hong Kong dollar is worth 1s. 3d., so that a 50 dollar fine can hardly be looked upon as a deterrent for slave owning in the British Colony of Hong Kong. At the present time there is only one inspector (a European police officer), who has two Chinese women assistants, to deal with abuses of this character. It is estimated that there must be quite 20,000 mui-tsai in the colony, though only about 4,000 are registered. It seems to us that a trained British woman inspector ought at once to share in the work of securing the complete abolition of this mui-tsai system, both for the sake of the children and for the credit of this country. We cannot wholeheartedly rejoice in the anti-slavery centenary celebrations when there is this slavery of children in a British Crown Colony.\n\nWe would also draw attention to another point. So-called \"adopted daughters\" have never been registered to this day, and apparently by the law of Hong Kong it is legal to buy a girl for bona fide adoption, as the following extract from a letter sent out by the Colonial Office under date February 18th, 1932, will show:\n\nEvery person who takes any part, or attempts to take any part, in any transaction the object or one of the objects of which is to transfer or confer, wholly or partly, the possession, custody, or control of any minor under the age of eighteen years for any valuable consideration shall be deemed to be guilty of an offence against this section, unless such person proves beyond reasonable doubt that the transaction was bona fide and solely for the purpose of a proposed marriage or adoption, in accordance with Chinese custom.\n\nLeading authorities are agreed that there is no such bona fide adoption of girls under existing conditions in Hong Kong. We urge, therefore, that the registration of adopted daughters shall be enforced forthwith, as these transactions are merely a subterfuge for obtaining mui-tsai as in the past. Obviously, too, the present registration of mui-tsai is glaringly incomplete. We call the attention of the Colonial Office to the fact that the system of mui-tsai in Hong Kong has by no means been abolished, and we recommend that effective steps be taken to ensure the immediate registration of all mui-tsai and \"adopted daughters\" in the colony, a much more thorough system of inspection of the houses where they are lodged, and the imposition of far heavier penalties on those who infringe the law.\n\nGREEN, WHITE AND GOLD FAIR, 1932\n\nAn unusually fine attendance on the first day, and the news of Amy Johnson's triumph on the second, added to the spirit of success which pervaded this year's Fair.\n\nIn contrast to the November gloom outside, Caxton Hall was gay with banners full of significance to many present, and attractively decorated stalls. On Thursday afternoon the proceedings opened with the particularly apt song by Miss Marjorie Bagge, \"Lads and Lasses, Won't You Buy?\"\n\nIn presiding, our President, Mrs. Pethick-Lawrence, read a telegram from Mrs. Hilton Philipson, deeply regretting that the alteration of a matinee at Bristol prevented her from opening the Fair. Our President was, therefore, not only chairman, but opener. Suffragettes, she said, were well trained to rise to emergencies, and in the spirit of the verse,\n\n\"I am the cook and the captain bold\n\nAnd the mate of the Nancy Brig,\n\nAnd the seamen bright and the midshipmite\n\nAnd the crew of the captain's gig.\"\n\nshe would endeavour to combine both functions.\n\nMrs. Pethick-Lawrence explained how good it was to-day to belong to the Women's Freedom League. While everywhere else there was a lack of continuity, in our League, where the Green, White and Gold Fair, Mrs. Despard's birthday party, the Annual Conference, and so forth took place year after year, we had the solid earth beneath our feet.\n\nEvery woman who had taken part in the fight for the vote had played a part in the emancipation of women in all parts of the world. The phenomenal progress made by Turkish women in the last ten years is part of this revolution.\n\nThe present position of the world is unstable. When the new world is evolved the work women are doing will tell; the full harvest of our sowing we shall never know.\n\nMrs. Pethick-Lawrence expressed warm thanks to all who had helped in the work of the Fair, and most of all to Miss Berry, our Honorary Fair Organiser.\n\nMiss Underwood maintained that the members of the Women's Freedom League were not downhearted when they contrasted the position of women at the time the League was founded and the position to-day.\n\nThe closing of the first Session of Parliament brought the next General Election one year nearer. We needed more branches and greater strength in our branches, so that when the opportunity came we could help to secure the return of more women members.\n\nThe Reform of the House of Lords was under consideration. The Women's Freedom League wanted women in that House on the same terms as men.\n\nWe were urging that reference to the nationality of married women should be made in the King's Speech; we were delighted to learn that a British woman married to an American had chosen to go to prison rather than pay a fine for not registering as an alien.\n\nThe Women's Freedom League claim equal political, economic, and social status with men.\n\nMrs. Ward made an urgent appeal for more subscribers to THE VOTE—a paper packed with interesting news concerning women in all parts of the world.\n\nA hearty vote of thanks to Mrs. Pethick-Lawrence was proposed by Dr. Knight, seconded by Mrs. Dore, and carried enthusiastically.\n\nOn Friday the chair was taken by Mrs. Sadd Brown. She felt it an honour, she said, to be presiding at a Fair organised by the Women's Freedom League—a League which pursued a line of continuity and never forsook its ideals. The Women's Freedom League worked with a resolute persistence, its activities were always going on, and although the world might know little about this work, it received the benefit. The League was able to carry on because of its unflagging courage and dogged determination.\n\nThe Hon. Mrs. Franklin said she had been studying Ruth Drapper's delightful sketch on how to open a fair, and would proceed accordingly.\n\nAlthough not a member of the Women's Freedom League, she had a great respect for our First President, Mrs. Despard, and for THE VOTE, which, in her opinion, entirely fulfilled the requirements of a feminist paper. She congratulated the editor on the attention given to the new avenues opening up to women.\n\nThe paper was small, handy, and concise, and gave just the information wanted.\n\nAt the moment there was a certain wave of pessimism concerning the future. One reason women had always wanted to help in world affairs was to procure peace. Public opinion was now behind the Government in asking for peace.\n\nIf anything had been learnt during the last years it was that no nation was sufficient unto itself; it was ridiculous for one nation to fight another. Women wanted the vote for no other reason than to be in a position to fulfil their duties. Mrs. Franklin hoped that women would work in truth for the betterment of the world. Now, like Ruth Drapper's lady, she would declare the Fair open.\n\nMiss Underwood said how proud we were of the achievement of Amy Johnson. She then briefly recapitulated the aims of the Women's Freedom League, and stressed the importance of the appointment of women to administrative posts that they might fit themselves for office at the League of Nations.\n\nMrs. Ward made a spirited appeal for subscribers to THE VOTE. Miss Anna Munro proposed a vote of thanks to all speakers, and Mrs. Whetton, in seconding, said that until women had equal opportunities with men they would not be able to give of their best to the community.\n\nRound the Stalls\n\nBRENTFORD AND CHISWICK STALL, in the charge of Mrs. Morris, Mrs. Watling, Mrs. Yeomans, Mrs. Fairley, Mrs. Haines, Mrs. Tubbs, Mrs. Jinks, and Mrs. Hurrell, is to be complimented on a fine display of delicious confectionery made by Mrs. Watling.\n\nGOLDERS GREEN STALL, in the charge of Miss Aickman, Mrs. and Miss Muriel Pierotti, and Mrs. Stammers, had a good assortment of aluminium ware and brushes.\n\nHAMPSTEAD STALL, in the charge of Miss Lyndon, Miss Trotter, and Miss James, had a varied collection of dainty and useful handkerchiefs.\n\nHIGHBURY STALL, supported by Bradford Branch, in the charge of Mrs. Bateman, Miss Beatrice and Miss Marie Bateman, made a good show with a variety of useful articles, each for the small sum of 1s.\n\nMINERVA CLUB BRANCH STALL, in the charge of Miss M. I. Neal, Mrs. Surrey Dane, and Mrs. Evans had a good show of hosiery and general goods.\n\nMID-LONDON AND BARNSBURY STALL, in the charge of Mrs. Anderton and Mrs. Potter, gave a speciality of hand-made waste-paper baskets and bags made by Miss Horniman, and had a good assortment of stationery.\n\nPORTSMOUTH STALL, in the charge of Mrs. Whetton, Mrs. Brading, and Mrs. Curtis, made a special feature of initialled towels, and had a good collection of household linen.\n\nSOUTH-EASTERN STALL, in the charge of Miss White and Miss Bentley, is to be specially congratulated on a display of Rye pottery, made and presented by a Rye member. It also had a good show of dainty shopping-lists, handsome silk scarves, hand-made baskets, and Japanese goods.\n\nSCOTTISH AND NORTHERN BRANCHES STALL, in the charge of Miss Anna Munro, Mrs. Graves, and Mrs...\n\nPage 20\n\nPage 21",
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        "content_text": "# Extract from Hansard 11th May 1933\n\n## ANNOUNCEMENTS\n\n**THE HON. COLONIAL TREASURER**:-With Your Excellency's permission, I would like to make an announcement regarding Government Loans. There are two, the 3½ per cent. sterling loan of £1,485,733 maturing in 1943 with a sinking fund amounting at present to £904,410, and the Public Works Loan of 1927 amounting to $4,297,000. The latter was issued in two instalments, $3,000,000 at par on 1st November, 1927, and $1,297,000 at a premium of 3 per cent. on the 1st November, 1928, both issues bearing interest at 6 per cent. with a sinking fund of $333,000 per annum, amounting at present to $1,125,792, designed to amortise the loan on 1st November, 1938. It is with this second loan that I propose to deal to-day.\n\nThis loan was issued for the purpose of defraying the cost of certain Public Works and was fully expended by the end of 1931. On the 1st November last, the Government had the right to pay off the loan, but for reasons which it is unnecessary to detail here, it was impossible to do so. These reasons have now been removed and Government proposes to redeem the loan on the 1st August next. Interest will cease on 31st July. Bond-holders however, will be given the option to convert their holdings into a new loan bearing interest at the rate of 4 per cent. per annum. The new loan will be for an amount not exceeding $4,927,000, and will be known as the Public Works Redemption Loan 1933, interest being payable half yearly on the 1st February and 1st August. In order to give security of tenure to bond-holders, the term of the loan will be for 20 years, Government not taking power to redeem before 1st August, 1953. A sinking fund will be set up at the rate of $3.45 per hundred dollars on the total nominal value. The bonds will be issued in denominations of $1,000 and $5,000 and $10,000 at par, payable to bearer with half yearly interest coupons attached.\n\nAs I have already stated, interest on the existing loan will cease on 31st July, 1933. The coupon dated 1st November, 1933, bearing interest for three months only, will be payable on presentation on or after the 1st August, 1933. Bond-holders desiring to exercise their option to convert, must send notice of their election in sufficient time to reach the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation in Hong Kong by the 11th July, 1933, after which date the election cannot be recognised without the special sanction of the Colonial Treasurer, which sanction will be only given if the Colonial Treasurer is satisfied that the delay was due solely to the absence of the bond-holder from Hong Kong. The remaining bonds will be redeemed for cash on the 1st August. All bond-holders are requested to send their bonds for conversion or redemption, as the case may be, to the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation in Hong Kong as soon as possible.\n\nFull particulars will be embodied in an Ordinance to be published in due course and forms of request for continuance and for redemption will be printed and will be obtainable at the Colonial Treasury and at the offices of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation.",
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        "content_text": "# A BILL\n\n[No. 26-13.9.33.—2.j]\n\n## INTITULED\n\nAn Ordinance to make provision for the substitution of an Urban Council for the Sanitary Board, and to repeal the Public Health and Buildings Ordinances.\n\n**BE 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 **Urban Council Ordinance, 1933**.\n\n## Short title.\n\n2. In this Ordinance:\n\n- \"Council\" means the Urban Council.\n- \"Chairman\" means the officer for the time being lawfully performing the duties of Chairman of the Council.\n- \"Secretary\" means any person appointed by the Governor to be Secretary and includes an Assistant Secretary.\n- \"Health Officer\" includes the Director of Medical and Sanitary Services and any Medical Officer appointed as a Health Officer by the Governor by notification in the Gazette.\n- \"Veterinary Officer\" means the Colonial Surgeon and includes the Assistant Colonial Veterinary Surgeon.\n\n## Interpreta-tion.\n\n3. (1) The Sanitary Board shall be abolished and replaced by an Urban Council which shall consist of the Chairman of the Council, appointed by the Governor, the Director of Medical and Sanitary Services who shall be Vice-Chairman, the Director of Public Works, the Secretary for Chinese Affairs, the Inspector General of Police, and not more than eight additional members who shall hold office for three years from the notification of their respective appointments or elections in the Gazette.\n\n(2) Four of the said additional members shall be elected by an electorate composed of the persons whose names shall appear in one or other of the two parts of the register hereinafter referred to: Provided that if nominations are not received for all the vacancies announced, it shall be lawful for the Governor to fill by appointment any vacancy or vacancies which are not filled by election.\n\n(3) The first part of the register shall consist of the two Jurors Lists for the current jury year brought into force under the provisions of the `Jury Ordinance, 1887`, as amended by the `Jury Amendment Ordinance, 1929`.\n\n(4) The second part of the said register, which shall be kept by the Registrar of the Supreme Court, shall consist of the names of all male persons of any of the following classes who shall have duly applied to be registered therein, and whose claims to be registered shall have been duly allowed:\n| Class |\n| --- |\n| (a) unofficial members of the Executive or Legislative Council; |\n\n`Ordinance No. 8 of 1929`. \n`No. 6 of 1887`. \n220",
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        "content_text": "# A BILL\n\n[No. 26-13.9.33.-2.j]\n\n## INTITULED\n\nAn Ordinance to make provision for the substitution of an Urban Council for the Sanitary Board, and to repeal the Public Health and Buildings Ordinances.\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 **Urban Council Ordinance, 1933**.\n\n## Short title.\n\n2. In this Ordinance :-\n\n| Term | Meaning |\n| --- | --- |\n| \"Council\" | means the Urban Council. |\n| \"Chairman\" | means the officer for the time being lawfully performing the duties of Chairman of the Council. |\n| \"Secretary\" | means any person appointed by the Governor to be Secretary and includes an Assistant Secretary. |\n| \"Health Officer\" | includes the Director of Medical and Sanitary Services and any Medical Officer appointed as a Health Officer by the Governor by notification in the Gazette. |\n| \"Veterinary Officer\" | means the Colonial Surgeon and includes the Assistant Colonial Veterinary Surgeon. |\n\n## Interpreta-tion.\n\n3. (1) The Sanitary Board shall be abolished and replaced by an Urban Council which shall consist of the Chairman of the Council, appointed by the Governor, the Director of Medical and Sanitary Services who shall be Vice-Chairman, the Director of Public Works, the Secretary for Chinese Affairs, the Inspector General of Police, and not more than eight additional members who shall hold office for three years from the notification of their respective appointments or elections in the Gazette.\n\n(2) Four of the said additional members shall be elected by an electorate composed of the persons whose names shall appear in one or other of the two parts of the register hereinafter referred to: Provided that if nominations are not received for all the vacancies announced, it shall be lawful for the Governor to fill by appointment any vacancy or vacancies which are not filled by election.\n\n(3) The first part of the register shall consist of the two Jurors Lists for the current jury year brought into force under the provisions of the **Jury Ordinance, 1887** (`No. 6 of 1887`), as amended by the **Jury Amendment Ordinance, 1929** (`Ordinance No. 8 of 1929`).\n\n(4) The second part of the said register, which shall be kept by the Registrar of the Supreme Court, shall consist of the names of all male persons of any of the following classes who shall have duly applied to be registered therein, and whose claims to be registered shall have been duly allowed:\n\n(a) unofficial members of the Executive or Legislative Council;",
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        "content_text": "HONG KONG.\n\nNo. 7 of 1935.\n\n1 assent.\n\nW. PEEL,\n\nL. S.\n\nGovernor.\n\n1st March, 1935.\n\nAn Ordinance to make provision for the substitution of an Urban Council for the Sanitary Board, and to repeal the Public Health and Buildings Ordinances.\n\n[1st March, 1935.]\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 Urban Council Ordinance, 1935.\n\n2. In this Ordinance:\n\n\"Council\" means the Urban Council.\n\n\"Chairman\" means the officer for the time being lawfully performing the duties of Chairman of the Council.\n\n\"Secretary\" means any person appointed by the Governor to be Secretary and includes an Assistant Secretary.\n\n\"Health Officer\" includes any Medical Officer appointed as a Health Officer by the Governor by notification in the Gazette.\n\n\"Veterinary Officer\" includes the Colonial Veterinary Surgeon and any Assistant Colonial Veterinary Surgeon.\n\n3. (1) The Sanitary Board shall be abolished and replaced by an Urban Council which shall consist of the Chairman of the Council, appointed by the Governor, the Director of Medical and Sanitary Services who shall be Vice-Chairman, the Director of Public Works, the Secretary for Chinese Affairs, the Inspector General of Police, and not more than eight additional members who shall hold office for three years from the notification of their respective appointments or elections in the Gazette.\n\n(2) Two of the said additional members shall be elected by an electorate composed of the persons whose names shall appear in one or other of the two parts of the register hereinafter referred to: Provided that if nominations are not received for all the vacancies announced, it shall be lawful for the Governor to fill by appointment any vacancy or vacancies which are not filled by election.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-553-4 Proposed appointment of Housing Commission to investigate congested areas 18-1-1935 - 4-9-1935",
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        "title": "CO129-553-4 Proposed appointment of Housing Commission to investigate congested areas 18-1-1935 - 4-9-1935",
        "content_text": "No. 22.\n\nSE\n\nVol. LXXXI.\n\n16\n\nET\n\nDIEU\n\nMON\n\nDROIT\n\nThe Hong Kong Government Gazette\n\nPublished by Authority\n\nFRIDAY, MAY 10, 1935.\n\nNotification\n\nNo.\n\nPROCLAMATION-\n\nNo. 2-Appointment of a Commission to enquire into Housing Conditions\n\nTurn Page. Notification\n\nOVER Page.\n\nNOTICES-Continued.\n\n373\n\n568\n\nTropical Trading Co., Ld. struck off the Register\n\n592\n\n374\n\nAPPOINTMENTS, &C.—\n\nCancellation of Memorial of Re-entry on Inland Lot No. 1907\n\n592\n\n375\n\nTrade Mark-Renewal of registration of, by\n\n363\n\nExequatur empowering Mr. K. Midzusawa to act as Consul General of Japan at Hong Kong\n\nThe Stirling Bonding Co., Ld.\n\n593\n\n376\n\n570\n\n377\n\nTrade Marks-Renewal of registration of\n\nTrade Marks- Renewal of registration of\n\n593\n\n593\n\n364\n\nLieut. L. G. S. Dodwell relinquished his Commission in the Army Service Corps Cadre of the H.K.V.D.C.\n\n378\n\nTrade Marks Nos. 266 and 263 of 1921 to be removed from the Register\n\n594\n\n570\n\n379\n\n365\n\nSecond Lieut. F. W. T. Ross promoted to the rank of Lieutenant in the H.K.V.D.C.\n\nTrade Marks Nos. 275 and 375-394 of 1921 to be removed from the Register\n\n594\n\n570\n\n380\n\nUnited Kingdom Patent\n\n595\n\nNOTICES-\n\n366\n\nElection of a member to serve on the Sanitary Board\n\n570\n\nGazette Extraordinary.\n\n367\n\nNext Criminal Sessions to be held on the 20th May\n\n570\n\n368\n\nNotice to Airmen No. 3 of the year 1935\n\n571\n\n369\n\nNotice to Airmen No. ... of the year 1935\n\n572\n\nNo. 21.\n\nMonday, 6th May.\n\n370\n\nRegister of Medical and Surgical Practitioners\n\n573\n\nHONOURS-\n\n371\n\nDental Register\n\n591\n\n372\n\nList of persons authorised to sign death certificates\n\n362\n\n592\n\nList of persons awarded The King's Silver Jubilee Medal\n\n563\n\nThe following Notifications are published,\n\nBy command,\n\nW. T. SOUTHORN,\n\nColonial Secretary.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-555-10 Hong Kong Golf Club- ban on Asians 24-10-1935 - 13-2-1936",
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        "title": "CO129-555-10 Hong Kong Golf Club- ban on Asians 24-10-1935 - 13-2-1936",
        "content_text": "CONFIDENTIAL.\n\nDIEU ET MON DROIT\n\nColonial Secretary's Office.\n\n3rd January, 1936.\n\nMy dear Cowell,\n\nYour letter of 5th November regarding the exclusion of Asiatics from the Hong Kong Golf courses reached me just before I handed over to Sir Andrew Caldecott and as it necessitated somewhat delicate handling I was not able to deal fully with it until a few days ago.\n\nI have now seen the Captain of the Royal Hong Kong Golf Club and one of the members of the Committee and am assured that there is very little likelihood of any unpleasantness such as occurred at Mombasa happening in Hong Kong.\n\nThere is no rule against a person of any race being put up for full membership of the Hong Kong Golf Club but it would be disingenuous to pretend that a Chinese or a Japanese resident would have much chance of election to full membership, for the Club already has as many members as it requires without bringing in Asiatics, and the Japanese have a Golf Course of their own in the New Territories.\n\nIt is presumably from these circumstances that the Embassy at Tokio derived the impression that the Hong Kong Golf Club Courses \"are all closed to Asiatics\", and it\n\nH.R. Cowell, Esq., C.M.G.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-558-8 Revision of salaries 19-8-1936 - 11-2-1937",
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        "title": "CO129-558-8 Revision of salaries 19-8-1936 - 11-2-1937",
        "content_text": "## SALARIES DEBATE \n### THE DILEMMA \n\n**THE HONG KONG WEEKLY PRESS & ...**\n\nThe Honourable the Senior Unofficial Member who seconded the motion has been given, in answer to his remarks regarding Government's refusal last autumn to fix exchange forward for its sterling Commitments this year, the reply that he hoped very much would not be given. That is because it is the true and only possible reply. I was not here at the time, but I have read the correspondence and from it emerges very plainly the dilemma in which Government found itself. It was on the one hand, as the Honourable Member expressed it, the trustee of the taxpayer; and it was on the other the Keeper of the public conscience.\n\nThe fact that the advice for fixing exchange forward was tendered unanimously by the Unofficial Members of this Council was proof enough that the proposal was not morally indefensible. But there are matters in which a Government should not allow itself to be placed in a position where a defence of its morality may be even called for. For Government to have fixed exchange forward with an exclusive foreknowledge of relevant future events to be brought about by itself might, I consider, have created a situation in which official scrupulousness could have been questioned; and questionings of that kind might have done the Administration greater injury than it would have reaped financial gain by fixing exchange forward. That is all I have to say on this motion but before putting it to the vote I would ask the Honourable proposer to consider whether his purpose has not been adequately served by this debate; if it has, there is hardly any need to proceed to a division.\n\n**MOTION DEFEATED**\n\nSir Henry Pollock intimated that the Unofficial members desired to leave the Council Chambers to deliberate over the matter, after an absence of ten minutes, the Hon. Mr. M K. Lo addressing His Excellency the Governor, said that while he thanked Colonial Secretary and Dr. Wellington for their comprehensive statements, he was not convinced Government had taken steps in retrenchment.\n\nIt was impossible for him to reply at a moment's notice, but he felt that he had the support of the Unofficial members on this point. Mr. Lo said that he was particularly grateful for what His Excellency had said and the manner in which he had taken the motion. That the Civil Service was overstaffed was not only his opinion, but that of the general public. In addition it was condemned generally by Civil Servants themselves.\n\nIn view of His Excellency's assurances, he wished to submit that the idea of his motion was to record his view and intimated that he wished the motion to be put to the division. The motion was defeated by nine votes to six.\n\nThe Hon. Mr. J. P. Braga abstained from voting. He said that to his mind the statements made by the Government were satisfactory, and the assurance that they would undertake to keep an eye on the problem, met with his approval. Before the vote was taken Sir H. Pollock informed His Excellency that the Unofficial members were in entire agreement with the views expressed.\n\nThe Council meeting then adjourned sine die.\n\n### SIR ROBERT'S PARTY \n#### Farewell To Sir Wm. Shenton \n\nA farewell luncheon party was given by Sir Robert and Lady H Tung on Monday at the Hong Kong Hotel in honour of Sir William Shenton who will shortly be leaving the Colony on retirement with his daughter.\n\nThe following guests attended: The Bishop of Hong Kong, Commodore and Mrs. Sedgwick, The Hon. Sir Thomas Southorn, The Hon. Sir Henry and Lady Pollock, Sir William Hornell, The Hon. Sir Shouson Chow, The Hon. Mr. and Mrs. R.A.C. North, The Hon. Mr. J. P. Braga, Mr. and Mrs. Ho Kom Tong, Hon. Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Paterson, The Hon. Mr. T. N. Chau, The Hon. Mr. S. H. Dodwell, Mrs. Dodwell and Miss Dodwell, Mr. V. M. Grayburn, Mr. A. Brearley, Mr. E. J. Davies, The Hon. Mr. and Mrs. M. K. Lo, Mr. and Mrs. G. S Archbutt, Mr. Ll Koon Chun, and Mr. Armstrong.\n\n### HONG KONG FIRE INSURANCE \n#### Annual Report Issued \n\nThe following report is for presentation to shareholders of the Hong Kong Fire Insurance Co., Ltd., at the Sixty-Seventh Ordinary Meeting, to be held at the offices of the company, on Friday, March 27, at noon.\n\n#### 1934 ACCOUNT \n\nThe General Managers and Consulting Committee have pleasure in submitting a statement of the Accounts of the Company, made up to 31st December, 1935, in Sterling and Hong Kong currency.\n\nThis Account shows a surplus of $662,910.82, and it is recommended that this sum be appropriated as follows:-\n| Item | Amount |\n| --- | --- |\n| To pay a Dividend of $11 per share | $440,000.00 |\n| To add to Investment and Exchange Fluctuation Account | $100,000.00 |\n| To add to Reinsurance Fund | $122,910.82 |\n| **Total** | **$662,910.82** |\n\nThe balance at credit of this Account is $753,116.76.\n\n#### CONSULTING COMMITTEE \n\nSir Robert Ho Tung, Messrs. C. Bernard Brown, A. H. Compton, L Dunbar, Felix A. Joseph, T. E. S. T. Pearce, J. H. Taggart and Williamson retire but, being eligible, offer themselves for re-election.\n\n#### AUDITORS \n\nThe Accounts have been audited by Messrs. Lowe, Bingham and Matthews and Percy Smith, Seth and Fleming, who, being eligible, offer themselves for re-election.\n\nPage 70  \nPage 71",
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        "content_text": "# CAP. 317\n\n## Powers of directors\n\n### [a. 9 cont.]\n\nabsence, shall preside at the three elections referred to in this section.\n\n(5) In the event of two or more directors designate being returned at the head of the poll with an equality of votes at any election under this section there shall be a new vote, or if necessary a series of new votes, to determine which of such directors shall be elected.\n\n(6) In the event of the death, resignation, incapacity or absence of the chairman at any time, the second principal director shall act as chairman and shall have all the powers and duties of the chairman, and in the event of the death, resignation, incapacity or absence of the second principal director so acting, the third principal director shall act as chairman and shall have all the powers and duties of the chairman.\n\n(7) In the event of the death, resignation, incapacity or absence of the three principal directors it shall be lawful for the corporation to elect in their stead a chairman and two other principal directors to hold office either temporarily or for the remainder of the current year, and at such elections a member of the advisory board shall preside.\n\n## 10.\n\nSubject to any specific instructions given by the members of the corporation at a general meeting of the members of the corporation, the directors for the time being may exercise any of the powers and rights conferred on or acquired by the corporation and may perform any of the obligations and duties imposed on or assumed by the corporation, and such exercise of any such power or right, and any such performance of any such obligation or duty, shall bind the corporation.\n\n## 11.\n\n(1) There shall be a committee to be known as the advisory board whose duties shall be to advise the directors upon occasion on any matter affecting the corporation or its administration.\n\n(2) The board shall consist of not more than fifteen persons, four of whom shall be nominated annually by the directors of the previous year and shall hold office for one year, and the remainder of whom shall be appointed by the Governor for such period or periods, and upon such terms, as he thinks fit.\n\n(3) One of the four persons to be nominated annually by the directors of the previous year shall be a resident of Kowloon or New Kowloon.\n\n(4) The advice of the advisory board shall be given at a joint meeting of the directors and the advisory board. Such joint meeting shall be called by the chairman of the directors—\n\n| Condition | Action |\n| --- | --- |\n| (a) when the directors desire the advice of the advisory board; | The chairman shall call a joint meeting. |\n| (b) whenever the advisory board give the chairman notice in writing that they desire to discuss with the directors any specified matter affecting the corporation or its administration. | The chairman shall call a joint meeting. |\n\nThe chairman shall give the directors and the members of the advisory board at least four clear days' notice in writing of any such joint meeting.\n\n## 12.\n\n(1) At any meeting of the directors seven directors shall form a quorum.\n\n(2) Every question at any meeting of the directors shall be decided by a majority of votes of the directors present, and in case of an equality of votes the chairman shall have a second or casting vote.\n\n## 13.\n\nAll hospitals under the control of the corporation and all buildings or premises of the corporation shall be open at all reasonable times to the inspection of the Secretary for Chinese Affairs and the Director of Medical and Health Services and any other person whom the Governor may appoint in that behalf.\n\n## 14.\n\n(1) The corporation shall cause proper books of account to be kept.\n\n(2) Such books of account shall be open at all reasonable times to the inspection of any director and of any person whom the Governor may appoint in that behalf.\n\n(3) The chairman for each year shall within six months after the expiration of his term of office send to the Colonial Secretary a statement signed by two of the directors and containing the following particulars—\n\nPage 354\nPage 355\n24",
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        "content_text": "# THE HONG KONG WEEKLY PRESS & CRAIGENGOWER C.C. ANNUAL MEETING\n## Healthy Financial State Reported\n## MR. B. W. BRADBURY RE-ELECTED PRESIDENT\n\nMr. B. W. Bradbury was unanimously re-elected President of the Craigengower Cricket Club at the annual general meeting held in the Clubhouse on Oct. 19. Mr. C. S. Rosselet was re-elected Vice-President.\n\nIn his speech the Chairman (Mr. Bradbury) remarked on the healthy state of the Club's finances, \"You will observe that a small profit of $204.74 was made on the year's workings, but, here, I would like to explain and emphasize a very important point—and that is, for the first time, Depreciation on the Building, Furniture and Fixtures, Gear and Crockery, together with Bad Debts, have been written off your Profit and Loss Account. Last year's Balance Sheet showed a surplus of $1,148.90, but had this depreciation, etc. been written off as has been done this year, there would actually have been a deficit of $1123.59. Taking this into consideration, therefore, the small profit shown this year will be better appreciated. I think you will agree, too, that this new method of Accounting is far more satisfactory and presents a truer picture of the Club's position.\n\n\"The net Bar earnings for the year have shown a slight decrease, which, however, in no way detracts from the excellent work accomplished by Mr. Landolt and his associates. Due to the rather uncertain position of our finances, it was found expedient, during the beginning of the summer, to increase our Bar prices somewhat. The situation now having improved, no doubt a revision in these prices will shortly be considered.\n\n\"The various other accounts, as you will have observed, show very little change from last year, with the exception of Cricket, which has shown an increase.\n\n\"The sum of $130.07 written off for Bad Debts is quite a low figure and reflects considerable credit on our members.\n\n## ANXIETY CAUSED BY BUILDING REPAIRS\n\nRegarding the building, the Chairman said, \"The Building caused your Committee considerable anxiety, but with members contributing to a Building Fund, plus receipts from other sources to this account, we were able to realize sufficient funds to take care of the repairs and additions. Changes in the original plans have since resulted in an increase over the original estimate and a further sum of approximately $500.00 will be required before all the improvements desired can be accomplished.\n\nTurning to sports, he felt that they had had a satisfactory year from the Lawn Bowls standpoint. True, they did not win any League honours, but in the Colony Open competitions their members had done very well. In particular, he specially praised Mr. U. M. Omar, who he said had played brilliantly throughout the year. Their tennis section had performed satisfactorily and several of their younger members showed great promise. Their cricketers had not done well, but results were not always a fair criterion and certain of their younger members had achieved splendid individual triumphs.\n\nOn behalf of the Club, Mr. Bradbury concluded, he would like to express sympathy with the relatives of the late Mr. D. Rumjahn and the late Mr. A. Alves, both of whom passed away during the year. As a mark of respect to their memory, he asked all present to rise and remain standing for a moment.\n\nThe members thereupon rose and paid their tribute to their departed colleagues.\n\n## OFFICERS ELECTED\n\nAfter the statement of accounts had been adopted, the election of office bearers was carried out and resulted as follows:\n| Position | Name |\n| --- | --- |\n| President | B. W. Bradbury |\n| Vice-President | C. S. Rosselet |\n| Hon. Secretary | W. K. Way |\n| Hon. Treasurer | A. E. Coates |\n| Cricket Captain (First Eleven) | E. Zimmern |\n| Vice-Captain | A. B. Hamson |\n| Second Eleven Captain | Dr. C. W. Lam |\n| Vice-Captain | B. R. Iranee |\n| Committee | R. Basa, E. Zimmern, W. J. Howard, Dr. N. P. Karanjia, Dr. V. N. Atienza, A. B. Hamson, Dr. C. W. Lam, and A. E. Alves |\n\nGeneral discussion of Club matters then followed, after which the meeting concluded with a vote of thanks to the Chairman.\n\nOctober 29, 1937\n\n## SIR WM. HORNELL\n### University Staff Say Farewell\n\nThe staff of the University entertained Sir William Hornell at a farewell tea party in the Great Hall of the University yesterday. A handsome silver tray with the University coat-of-arms and a set of ivory book ends were presented to Sir William in token of appreciation of his service as Vice-Chancellor from February, 1924 to October 1937.\n\nSir William will make over charge of his office as Vice-Chancellor to Mr. D. J. Sloss, C.B.E., M.A. tomorrow and will be residing at Repulse Bay Hotel until about November 12 when he will leave for England via Canada.\n\n## REGISTRY WEDDING\n\nA quiet wedding took place at the Registry of Marriages, Supreme Court on October 22, when Miss Ng Kai Chun, of No. 78 Tung Lo Wan Road, became the bride of Mr. Chu Pak Lam, building contractor, residing at No. 47 Queen's Road East, second floor.\n\nThe ceremony was performed by Mr. W. Aneurin Jones, Deputy Registrar of Marriages, in the presence of Mr. Ng Kai Kin and Mrs. Hui Sam.\n\nThe bride is the daughter of the late Mr. Ng Sik Yue, and the groom the son of Mr. Chu Chân Wah.\n\n## LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL MEETING: OFFICIAL REPLIES\n### CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT\n### \"SHINES LIKE GOOD DEED IN NAUGHTY WORLD\"\n\nOfficer Administering Government's Tribute To Hong Kong\n\nThe official replies to points raised by unofficial members were made by the Hon. the Colonial Secretary, the Hon. Mr. R. A. C. North, and the Officer Administering the Government Mr. N. L. Smith, at a meeting of the Legislative Council held on October 20, in the Council Chamber.\n\nIn his speech, the Hon. Mr. Smith, touching on the Sino-Japanese troubles as affecting this colony, said: \"I am reminded of a sentence in one of Mazzini's essays on historical method. 'The historian,' says he, 'must always be impartial; but he should never be indifferent.' The rights and wrongs of the present unhappy conflict can be safely left, I would suggest, to the appropriate international tribunals or even to the judgment of posterity; but, as with the ideal historian, it would be wrong for us to be indifferent to the sufferings of our near neighbours.\"\n\nHis Excellency paid tribute to the Inspector-General of Police and the people of this Colony for their good sense and steadiness during a most distressful summer.\n\n\"I venture to think that if certain spectators in Europe and in the Far East could see this Colony with our Japanese friends going about their business, quietly and unmolested, they might agree that, in this respect at least, Hong Kong 'shines like a good deed in a naughty world,'\" concluded His Excellency.\n\nThe Colonial Secretary said: \"In replying to the speeches which have been made on this motion, it will be convenient if I take the points raised in order, beginning with the speech of the Honourable the Senior Unofficial Member. If I am found to omit certain matters of importance, it is because these will be dealt with by Your Excellency later in the afternoon.\n\n## ECONOMY MEASURES\n\n\"I can assure the Council that we regret as much as anyone the absence from the list of certain works which have been entered under the heading 'Essential' for many years past.\n\n\"The main reason for their omission is, of course, economy. In normal times we might well have ventured a little further, and might even have hoped to accomplish more without increasing taxation; but, as things are, I doubt whether anyone will really blame the Government for deciding not to take the risk.\n\n\"There are in certain cases also subsidiary reasons. It is, I feel sure, wise not to embark upon such projects as a new leper asylum, a new infectious diseases hospital, even a new mental hospital, during the interregnum between the departure of one Director of Medical Services and the arrival of his successor.\n\n## NOT FINANCIALLY SOUND\n\n\"The alternative to raising additional revenue, however secured, that is to say the financing of sundry works by means of a loan, is, I am advised, a proposition that is not financially sound. There is an essential difference between a market or a water supply, both of which bring in revenue, and say a Volunteer Headquarters, which is clearly a liability. It is true that the Hong Kong Prison was a loan work, but this was only approved for very special reasons.\n\n\"The Queen Mary Hospital was built from revenue, and a request for permission to finance it from a loan was refused by the Secretary of State for the Colonies.\n\n## HEROIN FIENDS\n### \"No Punishment Too Severe For Sub-Human Creatures\"\n\nAlthough one may feel that no punishment can be too severe for those sub-human creatures who grow rich by poisoning men and women with heroin, it is doubtful whether the imposition of the punishment of flogging would help much to lessen the traffic, and the proposal has obvious objections which have been pointed out by the Secretary of State.\n\n\"It is generally speaking, the probability of being caught rather than the severity of the punishment, which deters evil-doers, and, with this end in view, the Budget contains provision for the extension of investigation through the employment of better-qualified detective officers and of an assistant to the Monopoly Analyst.\n\n\"To the searcher after economy, the proposals for the provision of an additional court at the Central Magistracy sound more alarming than they really are. Ever since I can remember, until a year or so ago, there have been three Magistrates at the Central Magistracy, the third being known as the First Clerk and Magistrate.\n\n\"It has always been the intention that a young cadet officer (as soon as one can be spared) shall take on the work as before in place of ...",
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        "content_text": "# International Situation\n\n## HOUSE OF COMMONS\n\n[Mr. Muff.]\n\nUnless our Foreign Office is to be subject in every particular to the whims and desires of the German Government, I think we are sufficiently strong yet to be in the position of telling the Germans where they get off, instead of being told by them where we get off. We should be able to tell the Germans that they have no right to criticise our treatment of our minorities as long as their own concentration camps are so plentiful.\n\nThe Prime Minister has invented a new policy which he calls appeasement. For the life of me I could not give the dictionary definition of appeasement without looking it up, but I can give the House the Yorkshire definition. There is one interpretation of appeasement in the Old Testament. There is the appeasement which consists of throwing burnt offerings to Moloch or some other god in order to make him look more benevolently upon those who are paying him their worship. But there is another meaning of the word which we have in Yorkshire. If a child is a nuisance, and if you give the child a dummy tit, or distract the child and send him out to the pictures or give him sweets—we call that appeasement. Is that the policy of His Majesty's Government? Is it their policy to sacrifice Czechoslovakia and similar places as burnt offerings to this new god or is it their policy to try to appease the German Government by offerings in the way of some form of sweets or plasters in order to try temporarily to close the mouth of that government?\n\nWe cannot hope for much success if we continue such a policy as that, but I am hopeful about the Prime Minister's reference to the last act of Munich, although I hope that the curtain is only going up and not going down upon that last act. I hope that the Prime Minister and the Government are continuing now the policy of trying to bring peace, as he said, in our time and, as some of us hope, for all time. We have, however, an uneasy suspicion that the Government are doing no such thing. We have had no satisfactory reply this afternoon from the Government to show that they are doing anything at all to meet the situation. Their attitude on the Colonial question reminds one of the darky parson in Virginia who said, \"Brethren, we will look this difficulty in the face and pass on to the next question.\" That is exactly what has happened this afternoon as regards the question of colonies.\n\nAbout a year ago some 55 Members of this House were in Germany. A few Labour Members were among them and were looked upon as prize rabbits. The 'gauleiter' of the various districts which we visited were very nice to us and could speak English to us. We were in Berlin and we were in Munich and I had the honour of staying in the same hotel as the Prime Minister. I do not know whether I had the same bed or not, but that again is by the way. On that occasion we were asked, \"What about colonies?\" I said, \"My personal opinion about colonies is that your ally, the other member of the axis, Signor Mussolini—who was there in the Berlin Stadium, I suppose, in order to impress us—has not made our position in Palestine any easier either by his propaganda or by subsidising the Arabs against us.\" I pointed the moral that we could never agree to give up even mandated territories, if those territories were to be manned and armed and fortified. I pointed to the treaty which we made after the War between ourselves and the United States as a result of which some 3,000 miles, I believe, of frontier was left without a gun or a fort or a gunboat. If we could have such a peace as that with the Germans, everybody would be ready for it and some of us got the impression in Germany that the ordinary, decent people there wanted peace as much as we did.\n\nI remember a festival to which the Prime Minister was invited but which he could not attend. Some of us went to that festival. It was the October festival and 10,000 or 11,000 people were gathered in a huge hall. I forget what it is called, but it has something to do with lager beer. We mixed with the folk there, many of whom could speak English, and I could feel the friendliness of those Bavarian folk, just as much as we felt it when we paid our visit to Berchtesgaden and danced with the local Bavarian lasses. I want this country to draw upon that spirit of good will, because I believe that that is the only way to find the true solution of our present difficulties. Whether you call it moral rearmament or by any other name, there will have to be a completely different approach to the question from that which has been adopted ever since the present Chancellor of the Exchequer was at the Foreign Office.\n\nIn the old days, whether we call them good or bad, there was continuity of policy in foreign affairs, and I wish that it was not possible to make party capital out of foreign affairs. I wish we could have some considered, united policy to which all parties in the State could agree. I hope there will be such a policy in the future, but it will mean a change of heart for many of us, and it will mean a change of heart also for those on the Continent. If any words of mine could reach across the water I would emphasise what every back bencher here knows. In our constituencies we are seven for sixpence as it might be said. We are not like Front Bench Olympians such as the right hon. Gentlemen whom I see before me. Our constituents do not leave us alone. They leave us in no doubt about what they are thinking. They tell us, and tell us pretty straight, and if we try to put on any airs and graces we quickly have to come off our perches. I wish that the people across the water could understand that nothing but good will is felt towards them by the ordinary decent men and women of this country. If they could realise that fact, if the governments of those countries, totalitarian or whatever else we call them, could realise that and assemble not at the horseshoe table invented by the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Carnarvon Boroughs (Mr. Lloyd George) but at a round table, to talk sense and common sense, gumption then there would be a chance of peace, at any rate in our time.\n\n6.56 p.m.\n\n## Mr. Vyvyan Adams\n\nIt is interesting to hear from the hon. Member for East Hull (Mr. Muff) that he, fortified I have no doubt by a great deal of \"moral rearmament,\" strenuously deprecated the opinions of those whom he expects to vote for him for the first time at the next general election. Truly there is no limit to political honesty. I am glad that the hon. Member mentioned the Germans' treatment of those who have fallen under their control in Sudetenland, but I wonder whether the hon. Member is really surprised at it. Has the German treatment of minorities at home been no indication of the evil which animates the contemporary German Government?\n\nI have waited, Sir, for seven months to catch your eye in a Debate on Foreign Affairs. I have at last had the good fortune so to do, but I am not going to abuse my good fortune. I intend to be down in my seat before the minute hand of that clock has passed through a right angle. I helped to have that clock put there with a definite purpose in view, namely, to discourage my hon. Friends from making long speeches; and I do not intend myself to set a bad example. But I have to recall, with some bitterness, that in my last speech here on the international situation in March, I made two pleas. The first was for speedier rearmament and the second was for a specific pledge of Czechoslovakian integrity. With all humility I think I can claim to have been wise before the event.\n\nI repeat what was said in the Debate on the foreign situation three or four weeks ago, that you cannot limit the Government's responsibility to the last two months. The Prime Minister has access to great knowledge—more knowledge perhaps than anybody else in this House—but, if I may say so, he seemed this afternoon to have forgotten in what a profoundly serious situation the country is to-day. In seeking to explain our unreadiness the other day, he observed that our programme of rearmament was a five-year programme. What is this country or any other country to infer from that statement? Does it mean that Germany is to be allowed to do anything she likes until we are fully rearmed in 1941? Again, the right hon. Gentleman defined the use of our armaments and I observe that as the months pass, the declared possible use of our armaments becomes narrower and narrower. He said to-day that they were merely to protect our Empire and to strengthen our diplomatic power. I observe a very remarkable and original omission. There was no indication at all from the Prime Minister of what would happen if a friend of ours, to whom we are committed, were attacked. How, for example, does France stand to-day? Everybody knows that France is an early victim on Hitler's list. I should like to know whether in these new circumstances the Government are prepared to defend her if she is attacked.\n\nI am glad that Parliament is in Session. I believe that, if we had been sitting through September, the Government...",
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        "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案",
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        "title": "CO129-591-13 Military Administration- proposed civil Affairs Agreement with China 20-7-1945 - 11-8-1945",
        "content_text": "Colonial Office,\n\nDowning Street,\n\nS.W.1.\n\n28th July, 1945.\n\n4.\n\n1\n\n54144/38/45\n\nTOP SECRET\n\nMy dear Cadogan,\n\nBefore the Election results Colonel Stanley had been impressed with the urgent need to clarify our position in respect of the administration of Hong Kong on the liberation of the Colony. In view of the information we now have as to operational plans in China he had come to the conclusion that there was no time to be lost in approaching Chiang Kai Shek with a view to reaching an understanding with him in the event of the liberation of Hong Kong by Chinese forces, on the lines of the agreement which we already have with the Americans regarding British territories in American operational spheres.\n\nOwing to the fact that the Generalissimo's Chief of Staff is an American General, who is reported to be personally opposed to any action by the British in China directed to the reoccupation of Hong Kong, we feel that, before approaching Chiang Kai Shek, we should do anything we can to make sure of American support for our proposal, and in view of the high political issues involved we feel that our preliminary approach to the Americans should be on the highest possible level. I enclose a note on the facts of our position in respect of Hong Kong.\n\nTHE HONOURABLE SIR ALEXANDER CADOGAN, G.C.M.G.,\n\nK.C.B.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-594-9 Membership of Legislative and Executive Councils 31-12-1945 - 14-1-1947",
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        "title": "CO129-594-9 Membership of Legislative and Executive Councils 31-12-1945 - 14-1-1947",
        "content_text": "## INWARD TELEGRAM\nThis document must be paraphrased if the communication of its contents to any person outside Government Service is authorised.\n\n**FROM HONG KONG (Commander-in-Chief)**\n**TO S. OF S., COLONIES.**\n\nD. 11th April, 1946. R. 11th April.\n\n**MOST IMMEDIATE**\n18.45 hrs. (via War Office)\n\n**CA 3286 Cypher 11th April. SECRET.**\nMacDougall.\n\nFor Colonial Office for Governor Hong Kong from Legislative Council membership.\n\nT.N. Chau and H. Song Lo willing to accept provisional appointment. Lee Cheung deferring definite answer till tomorrow.\n\n1. Chamber of Commerce will publicly elect a nominee for appointment by you to the Legislative Council. Election will take place not (repeat not) later than 20th April.\n\n2. Not (repeat not) considered sufficient European Unofficial J.P.'s in the Colony at present to justify election of nominee. Suggest you appoint in lieu one Member under paragraph 13 of Royal Instructions.\n\nR.D. Gillespie of `I.C.I.` and D.F. Landale of Jardines regarded as the two ablest European Advisers. Most probably one or the other will be the Chamber of Commerce nominee. Recommend your appointee under paragraph 3 above should be whichever is not (repeat not) chosen by the Chamber of Commerce.\n\n5. If the above appointments made on your arrival, you will have three Chinese and two European Unofficial Members, which can be regarded as adequate for the initial business of the Council, which is not (repeat not) controversial. In any case, European Members proposed are sufficiently reliable to avoid the risk of need to resort to your casting vote.\n\n6. Commander-in-Chief has seen this signal and concurs.",
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        "content_text": "# Cypher\n## INWARD TELEGRAM\n\nThis document must be paraphrased if the communication of its contents to any person outside Government Service is authorised.\n\n3\n\n**FROM HONG KONG (Commander-in-Chief)**  \n**TO S. OF S., COLONIES**  \n殿  \nD. 11th April, 1946, R. 11th  \n**MOST IMMEDIATE**  \n18.45 hrs. (via War Office)  \n\n125  \n`CA 3286 Cypher 11th April.`  \n**SECRET.**  \nFor Colonial Office for Governor Hong Kong Troa  \nMacDougall,  \n\nLegislative Council membership, T.N. Chau and M. Bong Lo willing to accept provisional appointment. Lee Yu Cheung deferring definite answer till tomorrow.  \n\n## Election  \n1. Chamber of Commerce will publicly elect a nominee for appointment by you to the Legislative Council will take place not (repeat not) later than 20th April.  \n2. Not (repeat not) considered sufficient European Unofficial J.P.'s in the Colony at present to justify election of nominee. Suggest you appoint in lieu one Member under paragraph 13 of Royal Instructions.  \n \nA. R.D. Gillespin of `I.C.I.`, and D.F. Landale of Jardines regarded as the two ablest European Advisers. Most probably one or the other will be the Chamber of Commerce nominee. Recommend your appointee under paragraph 3 above should be whichever is not (repeat not) chosen by the Chamber of Commerce.  \n\n5. If the above appointments made on your arrival, you will have three Chinese and two European Unofficial Members, which can be regarded as adequate for the initial business of the Council, which is not (repeat not) controversial. In any case, European Members proposed are sufficiently reliable to avoid the risk of need to resort to your casting vote.  \n\n6. Commander-in-Chief has seen this signal and concurs.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-608-5 Future policy- port administration 20-3-1948 - 19-10-1948",
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        "content_text": "Allen!\n\nBlayong\n\n319\n\nΣ\n\n1. Please refer to my minute of 18/5 which explains the background of this case. As therein proposed we wrote to the Ministry of Transport as at (2).\n\n2.\n\n3.\n\nTheir reply is at (5).\n\nIn (6) on the 1947 file we raised 4 points for the Governor's consideration:-\n\n(a) Should not the Chairman of the Committee be a senior official of the Secretariat?\n\n(b) We should like to see the second Chinese member\n\n(c) We should like to see included a representative of labour interests\n\n4.\n\n(d) The Harbour Master should be relieved of his duties as a Marine Magistrate. The Governor's reply in (1) on these points and the comments of the Ministry of Transport's representative, Mr. Allen, in the two enclosures to (5) are as follows:-\n\n(a) It would be difficult to spare a senior officer from the Secretariat. The Governor advises therefore that election of a Chairman by the members of the Committee should continue. Mr. Allen agrees that, failing the possibility of making the Colonial Secretary Chairman (and this is pretty well impossible), the elected principle is best.\n\n(b) The Chinese Chamber of Commerce has said that it does not want a second member. The Governor therefore thinks that we should not press for this, but is prepared to re-open the matter if the Chinese Chamber asks him to do so. Mr. Allen has no comments of note.\n\n(c) The Governor says this proposal has his sympathy, but is difficult to apply in practice, mainly because of language difficulty. He suggests that the Port Committee should be asked to consider adding Mr. Baker of the Labour Department to their number to hold a watching brief for labour. This is to be a temporary measure until the Trade Unions are sufficiently developed to have direct representation.\n\nMr. Barltrop agreed with this suggestion (vide his minute of 23/4).\n\nMr. Allen",
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        "content_text": "14/1/48.\n\nPAUNO KINO.\n\n325\n\nNO\n\nColonial Office,\n\nThe Church House,\n\n24\n\n7 Great Smith Street,\n\n16th October, 1940\n\nGOVERNOR,\n\ncir.\n\nI have the honour to refer to your despatch No. 57 of the 20th March 1948 which reported the appointment of the Hong Kong Port Committee with effect from the 17th February 1948 on the lines of the proposals set out in Sir Mark Young's despatch of the 11th December 1946, and which also conveyed your replies to certain comments on those proposals made in my despatch No. 217 of the 27th June, 1947.\n\n2. I accept your view that the election of the Chairman by the members of the Committee should continue.\n\n3. I note that Chinese interests appear to be satisfied with the present constitution of the Committee and agree therefore that the suggestion that there should be a second Chinese member need not be pressed at present, but I note that you are prepared to re-examine the matter should the Chinese Chamber of Commerce take the initiative in making representations for reconsideration.\n\n4. I appreciate the practical difficulties which you describe in securing suitable labour representation on the Committee. I therefore agree to your suggestion that the Port Committee should be asked to consider the advisability of adding to their number by appointment of an officer of the Labour Department to hold a watching brief for labour interests. I also agree with you that this should be regarded as a temporary measure to be in force only until the Trade Unions become sufficiently developed to have direct representation.\n\n5. I note that the proposals for amendment of the Magistrates Ordinance which you have communicated to me in your despatch No. 153 of the 2nd July do not include the relief of the Director of Marine of his duties as a Marine Magistrate. I appreciate however that it is administratively convenient that he and his assistants should have magisterial powers while the other Magistrates are so heavily worked and I agree therefore that the present arrangements should continue for some time longer.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour most obedient humble servant,\n\nSIR ALEXANDER GRANTHAM, K.C.M.G.\n\netc.\n\netc.\n\netc.",
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        "title": "CO129-608-5 Future policy- port administration 20-3-1948 - 19-10-1948",
        "content_text": "Colonial Office\n\nRef: 54145/1/47\n\nSecretariat File No: 39/581/46\n\nNo: 59\n\nPort Administration\n\nGOVERNMENT HOUSE,\n\nHONG KONG\n\n10th March, 1948.\n\nSir,\n\nI have the honour to refer to your confidential despatch No. 217 of 24th June, 1947, on the subject of the Report of the Port Administration Inquiry Committee. The Port Committee was appointed with effect from the 17th February, 1947, on the lines of the proposals set out in Sir Mark Young's despatch of 11th December, 1946. I have noted that the position should be reviewed about June, 1950.\n\n2. In paragraph 3 of your despatch you have suggested that the Chairman of the Committee should be a senior official of the Secretariat. When the Committee was appointed, the Chairman was elected by the members at their first meeting. The Colonial Secretary discussed the advisability of continuing this arrangement with the unofficial members and it was clear that they would prefer that there should be no change. It would be difficult to spare a senior officer from the Secretariat for these duties which would take up a considerable part of his time and would necessitate his acquiring a wider knowledge of the detailed working of the port than the performance of his normal duties would permit. It has, however, been decided that the junior officer in the Secretariat dealing with port matters should act as secretary of the Committee. The unofficial members would have been very ready to have the present Director of Marine as their ex-officio chairman, but it was realised that Mr. Jolly could not remain in Hong Kong indefinitely and that it would be advisable not to alter the original decision.\n\n3. I am in agreement with these views and would advise that the election of the Chairman by the members should continue.\n\n4. As regards the composition of the committee, efforts have been made to obtain from the Chinese Chamber of Commerce, the nomination of a second Chinese member. The Chamber's reply is that it is satisfied with its existing representation and does not wish to nominate another member. The Port Committee's view is that another Chinese member is not required since the existing one has the full confidence of the Chinese commercial interests concerned with the Port. As the Chinese interests appear to be satisfied with the present constitution and have declined the opportunity of nominating a second member, I am not inclined to press the matter further, but will be prepared to re-open it if the Chinese Chamber takes the initiative in asking for reconsideration.\n\n5. The proposal to include a representative of labour interests is one which has my sympathy, but which is not easy in practical application. The Hong Kong Seamen's Union is the body to which I would naturally turn for nominations. The practice here has been for Union officials to be men actually working in the trades which they represent. Union representatives are, generally speaking, workers, not lawyers, students, or politicians. This is a feature which will now become crystallized in local Trade Union practice in view of section 13 of The Trade Unions and Trade Disputes Ordinance, No. 8 of 1948, enacted on 11th March, 1948. The effect of this is to raise the language difficulty: complete ignorance, on the part of one member of the Committee, of either written or spoken English, would be a grave handicap both to discussion at meetings and to the circulation of papers.\n\nTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE\n\nA. CREECH JONES, M.P.\n\nRECEIVED\n\n30 MAR 1948\n\nC. O. REGY\n\nPage 40\n\nPage 41",
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        "content_text": "8.93(13)\n\n8.93(5)(a).\n\nWithdrawal of petition.\n\n8.95\n\n8.95(4)\n\nPART XIV\n\n85\n\nand the determination so certified shall be final to all\n\nintents as to the matters at issue on the petition.\n\n(2) A copy of the certificate of the Court shall be\n\ntransmitted to the Colonial Secretary and also to the clerk\n\nof the Council.\n\n(3)\n\nThe Court may of its own motion or at the request\n\nof the Governor make a special report to the Governor as to\n\nany matters arising in the course of the trial of an election\n\npetition an account of which ought, in the judgment of the\n\nCourt, to be submitted to the Governor.\n\n152. (1) A petitioner shall not withdraw an election\n\npetition without the leave of the Court on special\n\napplication thereto and on such conditions as to public\n\nnotice or otherwise as the Court may think fit.\n\n(2) On the hearing of the application any person who\n\nmight have been a petitioner in respect of the election may\n\napply to the Court to be substituted as a petitioner, and the\n\nCourt may, if it thinks fit, substitute him accordingly.\n\n(3) If the proposed withdrawal is in the opinion of the\n\nCourt induced by any corrupt bargain or consideration, the\n\nCourt may by order direct that the security given on behalf\n\nof the original petitioner shall remain as security for any\n\ncosts that may be incurred by the substituted petitioner,\n\nand that to the extent of the sum named in the order, the\n\noriginal petitioner (and his sureties, if any,) shall be\n\nliable to pay the costs of the substituted petitioner.\n\n(4) If the Court does not so direct, then security to\n\nthe same amount as would be required in the case of a new\n\npetition, and subject to the like conditions, shall be given\n\non behalf of the substituted petitioner before he proceeds\n\nwith his petition and within such time as the Court may by\n\nthe order of substitution limit.\n\n(5) Subject as aforesaid, a substituted petitioner shall,\n\nas nearly as may be, stand in the same position and be subject\n\nto the same liabilities as the original petitioner.\n\n82",
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        "content_text": "PART XV\n\n88\n\nRetirement of first councillors.\n\nL.G. Act, 1888\n\ns.104\n\nThis date will not necessarily be the anniversary of the first election. (See section 11)\n\nFirst meeting of the Council.\n\nL.G. Act, 1888\n\n8.103(5)\n\nCasual vacancies at first elections. L.G. Act, 1888\n\n8.107(2)\n\nActs &c. required to be done by clerk of the Council.\n\n(4) For the purposes of the first election of councillors, the returning officer may, if it appears to him necessary, divide the municipality and any electoral division or ward thereof into polling districts, and he shall settle and give such notice as he may deem necessary of the places at which the poll for the Municipality, or the electoral divisions or wards, or any polling districts thereof, shall be taken.\n\n(5) The returning officer shall send to the Colonial Secretary the names of the persons elected and shall send to each person elected a councillor notice of his election.\n\n158. (1) The councillors elected at the first election and the councillors who are the first nominated councillors shall retire from office on the third day of the fourth year after the first election and their places shall be filled by election or nomination, as the case may be.\n\n(2) In this section the word \"year\" shall be construed to mean calendar year.\n\nFirst Meeting of the Council.\n\n159. The first meeting of the Council shall be held on such date as the Governor shall notify by Proclamation and the Colonial Secretary shall send to each person elected or nominated a councillor a summons to attend such first meeting at such time and place as the Governor may fix.\n\n160. General Provisions as to First Election.\n\nAny casual vacancy arising at the first election from a failure of election or otherwise may be filled in like manner as a casual vacancy in the Council may be filled and the person appointed to act as returning officer at the first election, or such other officer as the Governor may appoint for that purpose, shall be the returning officer at any election held to fill a casual vacancy before the Council shall have appointed a returning officer and a clerk of the Council.\n\n161. For the purposes of the first elections or nominations of councillors all acts, things or notices required to be done or...\n\n85 -",
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        "content_text": "Power of Governor in case of difficulties.\n\nL.G. Act, 1888 s.108 Representation of the People Act, 1918, 3.46(3) Transfer of officers. Local Government Act, 1888 s.118(13)\n\nPART XV 89\n\ngiven by or to the clerk of the Council may be done or given by or to the Colonial Secretary or such other officer as the Governor may appoint for that purpose.\n\n162. If any difficulty arises as respects the holding of the first election of councillors or any election to fill a casual vacancy arising thereon or as respects the first nominations of councillors or as to the first meeting of the Council, the Governor may by order do any matter or thing which appears to him necessary for the proper holding of the first election or the first nomination of councillors or for the proper holding of the first meeting of the Council and may, if it appears to him necessary, direct a new election to be held and fix the dates requisite for such new election.\n\nThe Governor may by any such order or by any subsequent order modify the provisions of this Ordinance as far as may appear to him necessary for the proper holding of the first election or nomination of councillors or holding of the first meeting of the Council.\n\nExisting Officers.\n\n163. - (1) All persons who at the date of the first meeting of the Council hold office under or discharge any functions in respect of the business of the Urban Council, or who at the time of the transfer of the functions of any Government department or part thereof or officer thereof to the Council under the provisions of this Ordinance discharge any functions so transferred, shall become officers and servants of the Council:\n\nProvided that every such person may within fourteen days after the date of such first meeting or after the date of the resolution effecting such transfer, as the case may be, (or before such later date as the Governor may allow), exercise his option to remain in the service of the Government and to be seconded to the service of the Council by giving written notice of such exercise to the Colonial Secretary and to the\n\n- 86 -",
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        "document_key": "CO129-611-3 Weekly summaries of press reports and comments 24-12-1946 - 27-9-1947",
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        "title": "CO129-611-3 Weekly summaries of press reports and comments 24-12-1946 - 27-9-1947",
        "content_text": "## PRO/924/3\n\n## Comments on Internal Events\n\n(a) There are few comments on China's internal affairs, apart from the daily plea in practically every paper for an end to the Civil War. Kung Sheung Daily Press of 16/5 says that the U.S.A. should make Peace a condition of the proposed loan to China.\n\n(b) Wah Kiu Yat Po of 12/5, commenting on the appeal to wealthy overseas Chinese to invest their money in the development of China, says that such investments will only be made when currency is stabilised and reasonable conditions assured.\n\n## News Items & Comments on Colonial Matters\n\n\"Vegetable Control costs Hong Kong Government HK$1,000,000 in eight months\". (New Life Evening News, 14/5). Note:- This is quite untrue, but part of an organised campaign to discredit Government's attempts to help the producer.\n\n## Comments on International Matters\n\n(a) The U.S.$500,000,000 loan negotiations are in an advanced stage. (Wah Kiu Yat Po, 12/5).\n\n(b) Sing Pao of 13/5 prefers a British Socialist Government for the internal good of Britain, but says that a Conservative Government is better at dealing with foreign affairs. Conservative Government after next election is a possibility.\n\n(c) A Chinese Mission is to inspect Dairen and Port Arthur prior to taking over these places. Britain and U.S.A. should be asked to assist China to get the Russians out. (Wah Kiu Yat Po, 13/5; Wah Kiu Yat Po, 16/5).\n\n(d) Peiping papers report that the Third International has ordered Chinese Communists to proceed with a plan to Sovietise China. Kamos is to be the new capital. (Wah Kiu Yat Po, 14/5).\n\n(e) It is reported that some of the anti-smuggling measures agreed on between China and Hong Kong will shortly be put into effect. (Sing Tao Jih Pao, 14/5).\n\n(f) China should draft the Peace Treaty with Japan. (Sing Tao Jih Pao, 16/5).",
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        "document_key": "CO129-623-8 Estimates of Expenditure- includes a report for the year ending March 1951 1-12-1949 - 31-3-1951",
        "page_number": 247,
        "title": "CO129-623-8 Estimates of Expenditure- includes a report for the year ending March 1951 1-12-1949 - 31-3-1951",
        "content_text": "HONG KONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL\n\n41\n\nA sum is being loaned to the Society on special terms by the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank. Government's contribution is in the form of an indirect subsidy of the order of $11 million, by providing on nominal terms the site of 2 acres on King's Road. I hope that this will be but the first of similar schemes, for housing for the less well-to-do of our residents is one of our most serious problems. Government itself is also on its own account going into the question, with a view to using part of our Colonial Development and Welfare Fund allocation for housing for workers. Some of the larger employers of labour provide housing of good standard for their employees, and there has been further progress in this direction in the past year. As Honourable Members are aware, Government is prepared to lease Crown land for such a purpose at less than the market value.\n\nAnother plan or survey that should be undertaken is a socio-economic survey of the New Territories. I referred to this last year. Here again we propose to apply for a grant under the Colonial Development and Welfare Fund.\n\nOn the political side, we watch with sympathy what is going on in China. We should like to help that great country in her undoubted difficulties which, I am sure, she will overcome in time, but meanwhile, we cannot permit Hong Kong to be the battleground for contending political parties or ideologies. We are just simple traders who want to get on with our daily round and common task. This may not be very noble, but at any rate, it does not disturb others. We do not feel that we have a mandate to reform the rest of the world.\n\nOn the constitutional side, I have little to report. After the debate that was held in this Council last June, many societies and other bodies forwarded to me or published their views on what the constitutional set-up in the Colony should be. All of these I sent to the Secretary of State with my recommendations. As the Secretary of State himself stated in the House of Commons not so long ago, one cannot draw up a constitution overnight, and his officials have been giving a great deal of thought to the matter, which unfortunately has been delayed by the General Election that was held in the United Kingdom last month.\n\nIn conclusion, I thank my advisers, both official and unofficial, for their willing and constant co-operation throughout the past year.\n\nI also thank the Government Service for their support, especially those who work long hours overtime without so much as a murmur. It has been a year of stresses and strain, and I do not see any let-up for some time to come, even though we look forward to the future with quiet confidence. (Applause).\n\n354",
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        "page_number": 89,
        "title": "CO129-629-8 Social policy 1-12-1949 - 31-12-1951",
        "content_text": "NOTES OF A MEETING IN THE SECRETARY OF STATE'S OFFICE ON 30TH JUNE, 1950.\n\nPRESENT:\n\nSecretary of State\n\nSir Alexander Grantham (Governor, Hong Kong)\n\nSir C. Jeffries\n\nMr. Sidebotham\n\nMr. Chinn\n\nMr. Hall\n\n89\n\nSOCIAL POLICY.\n\nMr. Sidebotham said that this question had arisen as a result of Mr. Rees-Williams' visit to Singapore and Hong Kong. He had returned with the impression that there was a lack of civic conscience in Hong Kong as compared with that in Singapore. There were also no civic buildings and the Government had not shown such initiative.\n\nSir C. Jeffries said that the question of the lack of housing in Hong Kong had also been raised by the Archbishop of Canterbury with Mr. Creech Jones, though there is no record on the files of any discussion with the Archbishop. As a result, Mr. Creech Jones had instructed that a despatch should be sent to the Governor of Hong Kong on the general question of social policy, but that the preparation of this should be left until after the General Election. The Office had discussed this with Mr. Nicoll, the Colonial Secretary, when he was on leave, and the papers had been kept to discuss with Sir A. Grantham.\n\nSir A. Grantham agreed that there is a lack of civic conscience in Hong Kong, but felt that it was an unavoidable state of affairs in any territory with such a large migrant population as in Hong Kong. In normal times, 300,000 persons a month moved in and out of Hong Kong, and the majority of the population did not regard Hong Kong as home; they went to China to visit their ancestors' tombs for the major festivals and returned to China to die. He thought it would be impossible to achieve",
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