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        "document_key": "CO129-002 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1843",
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        "title": "CO129-002 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1843",
        "content_text": "Pas \n\nTHE FRIEND OF CHINA AND HONG-KONG GAZETTE. \n\nThe \n\nFriend of \n\nQuina SUPPLMENT TO No. 75. \n\nHong Kong Gajette, \n\nVICTÒRIA, HONG-KONG, THURSDAY, AUGUST 24, 1843. \n\nREPORT of Cases treated in the VICTORIA HOSPITAL FOR SEAMEN, \n\nfor the momh ending, 19th August, 1843. \n\nDiseasDa \n\nAdmitted. \n\nDischarg. \n\ned relier. \n\nInitammation of the Liver. \n\nInflammation of the Brain. \n\nDelirium Tremens. \n\nDysentery. \n\nUlorrhoea. \n\nFever.. \n\nRácuratism. \n\nConsumption. \n\nVenereal \n\nTOTAL \n\nכני \n\nDischarg. \n\ned oured, \n\nD 0 \n\n(*) This Paliom left the Hospital contrary to the advice of the Surgeons, \n\nVictoria, Hongkong, 20th August, 1845. \n\nALLIANCE FIRE ASSURANCE COMPANY \n\nOF LONDON. \n\nTHE Undersigned having been, appointed Agents in China, for the above Company, are prepared to accept. Assurances at Hong-Kong, as under: \n\n1st-On Buiklings of Brick or Stone, covered with Tiles, Slates, Metal of other incombustible material, together with their contents, when such Bniklogs are isolate! from all others. \n\nRate of Premium, 3 per cent, per annum, 2xD.--On such Buildings and their contents, when not so isolated, at the rate of 1 per cent. per ann Assurances for 6 months † 7 of the annual rate, will! \n\nand for 3 months, į 3be charged. \n\nOf the 1st Class, Assurances, for the present, will be accepted to the extent of £10,000 only on one risk. And of the 2nd Chies, to the extent of £3000. \n\nrisk. \n\nA Building and its contents taken together, form one Thas the above suns may be underwritten either on a Building alone, or the contents alone; on, part on the Building, and part on the contents. \n\nNo Assurance is to be considered in foron until the Premiam be paid. \n\nAmongst other advantages of the Company, the Assured will be entitled to participate in the profits after five successive payments. \n\nParties applying for Assurances will please send in full particulars of the risk to be taken; any deviation. from which, without the censent of the Company, will vitiate the Policy. \n\nJARDINE, MATILESON. & Co., \n\nAgents in China, \n\nMocan, 12th July, 1863, \n\nNOTICE. \n\nThe undersigned in connexion with Mn PareICK CHALMERS at present in England, has this day estal- Jished a house of Agency in China, under the firm of AKPRUSON, CHALMERS & Co. \n\nMacao, 1st July, 1843. \n\nJ. S. ANDERSON, \n\nFOR SALE. CHAIN Cables, Europe Rope, Wines, Spirits, Stores of every description, Dressing Glasses, Plate Glass and Warm Clothing, \n\nALFRED HUMPHREYS, \n\n20. Queens Road. \n\nHong Kong, 1st August, 1848, \n\nNOTICE--The un forsignal is authorized by \n\nflis Excellency the Commander-in-Chief of Her Majesty's Land Forces in China, to recsivo al pack- ngem adresaid to the Officers or Messes of any of the Regiems ployed during the late war. \n\nN. LUGS. \n\nlong-Kong, 15th April, 1842 \n\nOne half per cent, Commission will be charged upon all Goods bought in. \n\nProceeds of Arconat Sales will be rendered fifteen hys after Sale, or sooner if realizeal. \n\nQueen's Road, Hong-Kong, kat Juno, 1843. \n\nXO. W. BENNETT, \n\nJUST RECEIVED, AND FOP SALE. BEEF, Pork. Flour and Bread, Brandy and Wines, Cherry Cordial Vinegar, Rum, and Anack, Beer in Cask, Sales &c. \n\nRice. Singapore Plunks, \n\nSpesin Candles. Tlouse-iltings. \n\nManda Timber, Sheathing Copper, \n\nAmerican and Castile Spip, \n\nTobacco, Raisins, Spirits Turpentine, Tar, Rusin, and I'l \n\nBlack, White, Brown, and Drab Flats. \n\nP. TOWNSEND, \n\nHong-Kong, 31st July, 1943. \n\nti \n\nDead. \n\nRetain \n\ning in the \n\nHospital. \n\n[ \n\n幾 \n\nJ SATCHELL, M. D, \n\nResident Physician and Surgeon. \n\nRICHARD JONES, M. D., Resident Asst. Physician & Surgeon, \n\nD. WILSON & Co., \n\nBEG to intimate to the Gentlemen of Hong-Kong that they have From thus, date opened their Billiard Room to be Pullic. \n\nPRICE OF THE GAMES. Ese Ga \n\nFoun Two \n\nof 24 for One Dollar \n\n\" \n\nNight games double the above. \n\nN. B. No Credit will be allowed in the Biard Room \n\nVICTORIA, HONG-KONG \n\n1st August 1848 \n\nD. WILSON & Co. \n\nAVE just received a fresh supply of Allsop's Lutin Ale, sound Chadder Chinese, Perfumery, Stationery, and a variety of ather articles. \n\nVICTORIA, Roxo-Kong, \n\n1st August, 1843. \n\nJUST Landed and for SALE. \n\nAlachines. \n\nApply to \n\n20, Quren's Road, Victoria, 2nd August. 1843 \n\nwo \n\nWeighing \n\nALEX. MOSY, \n\nNOTICE Goons and Merelmedio of all descrip \n\ntions received and curetilly stored ia sparions dry and secure Brick Godowns situated on the Queen's Road No. 20, at Hongkong, upon moderate terris. \n\nApply upon the premises to. \n\nALEX, MOSS. Goods are received and sold on Commission Hongkong, 2nd Angusi 1833, \n\nFOR SALE--Singapore Bears, on moderate \n\nApply to ALEX. MOSS, Hong Kong, 2d August, 1843, \n\nterms. \n\nNOTICE. \n\nIN consequence of the mytan! Dissolution of Part. nership betweeen Mesars, BENNETT, PAIN, & Co., the Undersigned bags to Notify, that the Busi ness will be cartiod on by lamseif, où the same Pre ruises, and most respectfully, solicits a continustee of the liberal support be has hitherto been favoured with Parties desinos në susting Goods for Pablie. Auction, are requested to, de so two days previous to the time of Sule. \n\nAuctions will be held every Friday. at Eleven A. 37, \n\nTerms-Five per Cent, at all. Goods. \n\nVICTORIA HOSPITAL, \n\nFUR \n\nSEA MEN, \n\nNos. 1, 2, 3, Queen's Roud, immediately opposito Fearon's Wharf, \n\nResident Physician and Surgeon, JAMES SATCHELL, M. D. Resident Assist, Physician, & Surgeon, \n\nRICHARD JONES, M. D. \n\nTHE HOSPITAL is now open for the reception of i \n\nPatients, and is furnished with every convenience necessary for the comfort and speely recovery of the sick. \n\nPatients are admitted at any hour of the day or night, on production of an undertaking to defray the expenses inerrel, signed either by the Captain of the Vessel to which the sick person belongs, or a Member of some Mercantile Firo in Chica. No Patient çan \n\nbe admittcik without such an undertaking. \n\nTERMS For Medical attendance, Medicines, and \n\nProvisions. \n\nSeamen-One Dollar, \n\nOFFICERS--Two Dollars per day, Victoria, Hong-Kong, \n\n20th July, 1843. \n\nFOR SALE, REIGHT on CHARTER, \n\nTHE Fine A. 1. British Brig Iris,\" \n\n277 Tous N. M. Captain MERCE, \n\nApply to \n\nHOLLIDAY WISE, 4. Co. Victoria, Hongkong, 24th August, 1843, \n\nFOR LONDON. \n\nTHE A British bull Barque Mary Catherine\" Captain Taylor, having \n\nTur \n\na large portion of her cargo engaged will meet with quick despatch, generat freight or passage, baving supe- \n\nG. F. DAVIDSON. LINDSAY & Co. \n\nrior accommodations, apply here w \n\nAt Macao to \n\nFlong-Kong, 14th August, 1943. \n\nFOR AMOY AND CHUSAN. \n\nTHE Barque Lanusy Campbell, Capt. Darley Will Sail for the above Parts in ath this month--For Freight or pis- \n\nN. DEUS Apply to \n\n18. Queen's Road, Or to the Captain on lumed. \n\nsaga. \n\nVictor 2, Aogust 9th, 1943. \n\nFOR FREIGHT OR CHARTER. \n\nTHE A. L. Barque Extzaketh Moonn, W. 3isap Comunander, register ton. nage 241. \n\nFOR SALE. on board the Elizabeth Moniy,\" fod tons of Liverpool Coals, such as II. M Mail Steamors\" between Liverpool and fasiio, use. \n\nApply to 6, F. DAVIDSON. Hong-Kong, 2d, August, 1848. \n\nThe fist sailing British bult Brig \"NAUTILUS\" \"Captain Gibson, £33 toms Register, now ging at Hongkong, and ready to receive vargo. \n\nApply to FOX, BAWSON. & Co. \n\nBongkung 35th July, 1843. \n\nFOR-SALE. FLERGILE OR CuAXTER, \n\nTHE Clipper Bag ANOLESA, Capt. Rowland 10 Tons register, built at Ipswich, in 1840, & A. 1'de 13 years, has been newly coppered and is well found in stores Apply to the Captain on board; or to \n\nFOX, RAWSON, & Co. Hongkong, 25th. Jaly 1543. WANTED-fer the Gun Room Mess of 11. A. S. Cunwallis-a good Cook-either European or \n\nNalive. \n\nTestimonials at to character and efficiency will be required. \n\nFor further particulars, apply on board, butween the \n\nhouss of nine and twelve 4. N.\" \n\nH. M. S. Con wallis. \n\nAugust, 17th 1843. \n\nALL persons indebted to the firm of P. Townsend & Co. are desired to take immediate payment iv, \n\nP. TOWNSEND \n\nPR SALE. \n\nPRIME Bottled Beer. Apply in. \n\nPAIN & Co. \n\nFOR SALE. \n\nAr go. Secaes of Tus USDERSTORED. Prims Mess feeland Pork \n\nPaint and Paint End Torpentine and Tar Matlive Cair \n\nCalan api Slip Brend Superive Golden Sherry \n\nCockburts\" Port Wine \n\nClaret 31 Julen and Murgaux Hock. Bresar and Canignze \n\nBarton Ale in Cash and Bottle \n\nTumblers ani Wine Glasses \n\nSingapore planks \n\nBeaver and Sour Flats \n\nLaubes Mut, dilk stockings, Soilpe \n\nBrandy in Wood and Boitie \n\nAb assortment of Hosiery \n\nWah numerous other articles at moderate prices, \n\nNo. 2 Magistracy Street, \n\nPAIN &AG. \n\nTARIFF, PORT REGULATIONS &c. \n\nA few Cupies are still on SALE of No.71 of the Friend \n\nof China wad Hong Kong Gazette, contrining the Proclamation of His Excellency. Tariff, Government Notification. Table of Consular Fees &c. &c. \n\nAlso the Extraordinary of 31st July, Containing the Proclamation of the Chinese Commissioner, General, Regulations for the Ports, in Cléna, &c. &c. \n\nPrice—to Subscribers to the paper; each copy 25 pents, to non Subscribers 1 Rupeo. \n\nPAINTED AND I'encreuen For The ProPainTORS, NE rup Payaso Orvice, Querx's Rojo, Verona. \n\nWe are informed that Monsieur C. ALEX, CHALLAYE, Esa. ex Acting Consul for France in China, nas, by a decision of his Excellency Monsieur Guizot, Mi- nister for Foreign Affairs, bearing date the 14th March of the present year, her attached, in his capacity of Elove Consul, to the CoxsULATE ÚExEAL ci Franco in Egypt. \n\nINQUEST AUGUST 14TH, 1848. \n\nBEFORE MR. E. FARNCOMB. CORONER. \n\nFROM OUR CORRESPONDENTS. \n\nCrtSAR-August 4th, 1843. \n\nwere arenred under the Old System. They are, the Eliza, Mary, and Bahamian Business is very dull, New Congous are arriving, the quality good. \"Crop, \n\nNo matter of political import need be looked for in 650 Chops, 20 maels. Shout price about the rate. this quiet locality, we are becoming gradually acquint. Whilst the Export in April and May, was 174 millions ed with the denems of a great intercourse, the \n\nof lbs., in 29 ships, the probable Export of 3 months, friendly disposition of the people favors it, and the June, July, and August, in 5 ships, is about 3 mil perfeet reliance which they place in the honour and hops of the integrity of British dealers, leads to the fervent hope LocAL Nuws-The British Flag was re-hosted at the that it may never be destroyed by questionable trave Consulate, on the 14th inst. \n\nOfficial responsibility to actions. \n\nthe Chinese, for the payment and collection of their \n\nThis was an inquest on the body of James Prestoe, The only true system of trade is a liberal one, and duties, is an enormous thor, and wifi catail endles \n\nThere can be no greater fillacy, than for the faw, to use and vexation on the Conals. Here, I should who died suddenly in the Exchange Room The Jury aere summoned to attend on the evening of the suppose that the knowledge of commercial particulars, he will want fy Claks, when basintesis upon this coast can be limited to themselves, here active. The Consulate order, to prevent ship'a boots 12th (Saturday), but in consequence of the post mor the examination of the Body un bring concluded where ready money transections constantly obtain, the exting Her Majesty's) dig at the Old Company till a late bour and the Medical Report being requested simplicity of business render its details obvious aden, bas given as inch disgust to the skipper, \n\nit hus given satifaction to the residents. to be given in writing the Jugnest was deferred to enough to the most obtuse piserver. the 14th (Monday). The following evidence was then \n\nIt is with very deep regret, we have to announce the takon. Mr. J. W. Bennett, sworn, sąl \n\nde mise of J. A. Murder, Esq. He died on hard the General Work, on the siternoon of yesterday, after a severe illness of three weeks datarion. A wide circle of friends not acquaintances will bewail the loss of a truly kind-heartedman, and our commu - nity will deplore the loss of a valuable incraber. \n\ni was informed on Saturday at about 3 o'clock that James Preston the deceased was dying. The deceased kept the Exchange Roome for me. On my coming up to see him I found he bad expired. Daring the time that the depensed had born in my employ be had always conducted himself in a sober manner. I \n\ndischarged from the Hospital he secured weakly and when I saw him going about in the wet. I remon- strated with him, and told him that he ought to en- play a man for the purpose. \n\nA subject upon which we may congratulate ourselves is the continued bathy nature of this loculty ; out national selfishness leads us to regret that this valu- alle island is one day to be restored; its worth as a commanding position can scarcely bo over-rated. situated in a glorious climate, exempted from the ord nary riak of the elements, provided wah the most Secure and spacious harbours and in itself abondant- \n\nof the Chinese Empire, with such a possession what \n\ndo not know what his bubits of life had been before 7 productive, populated with a quiet industrious raceOS KEENASSA FALAN KUGELSESKPROT \n\namong whom rict, crime, my dishonesty, is scarcely 1 employed him. About five days previous to his docense, he had been sent to the Hospital of Messrs. Known a rural people castly governed, Imants each J. N. ANDERSON, begrepectfully to inform Satchell and Jenes, he bad them an eruption on his member of the community seems to know himself\" \n\nthe inhabitants of Victoria, and the public generally, and then if we might venture to speak of its political tha the has opened those premista next Mr. Boulle's skin, ou different parts of his body; en huis being inuener, within a few day's sail of the riches cities teen's Road, as a winlesale al rail wine and might not the genius and enterprise of Great Britain Strict attention to business, good Articles, and mode Spirit Store, and BILLIARD ROOM, and hopes, by rate elurges, to meet a share of Public Putronage. \n\nJ. N. A. begs respectfully to solicit the attention of the Naval and Military, as well as private Gention.co in Flong-Kong, to the Hilliard Room, which is Spaci ous and weil aired, and to state, that every possiblo attention on his part will be paid to the confort of those who may honour him with a visit. Victoria, 14th August, 1843. \n\nMr. Francis Dickens, sworn, \n\nI am Clerk to Mir. Bennett: I was present when the dencased died, he died in the Exchange Room. When I came into the room he was sitting in one of the chairs with his bead hanging over the fuck of the chair. I supported hun in my arms and spoken to him, but received no answer, his lips moved as if to spek but he could not do on, and his pulse was scar- cely perceptible, I called up a servant and he took hold of hie zal i went and fetched a Doctor. The deceased did not recognise one when I came up. \n\nAr J W. Beaned, Re-examined, A day or two before the deceased went to the Hos. pitul he complained to me of sickness and a pain in Jus heal. I administered to him an Emnetic which gave him considerable relief: the eruption afterwards appearing on his body, I advised him to go to the os pital. \n\nJamce Satchell, Surgeon, Sworn-The deceased was in the Hospital under my charge from the seventh to the eleventh instant. His eomplaint was that of a nettle rush and disordered bowels. When he left the Hospital he wna perfectly well but was weak. I was sent for on Saturday to sec bin and on my arrival at the Exchango Rooin he was dend. \n\n(Signed) \n\nThere was no possibility of forming an opinion us to the cause of his death without an internal examination. I consider that course was necessary. \n\nJ. SATCHELL, M. D. \n\nResident Surgeon, Victoria Seaman's Hospital. Charles Alexander Winchester, \n\nI am the Acting Colonial Surgeon.- produce a copy of the notes taken whilst examining the body of the deceased. The report was then read. \n\nOn the Coroner enquiring what was the cause of the deceased's death the witness said, \n\nThe signs in the brain led me to suppose that influm mutory action must have existed for serae considerable time before death, and from the evidence given, of a sgb-acute character. I consider the immediate enese of death to have ben the pressure of a very considerable \n\nquantity of serum found at the case of the brain, on that órgin (in other words) that it was a rese of serious upo, lexy. He must have enjoyed very irregular health Prom the state of the liver. \n\nf \n\n(Signed) \n\nCHARLES ALEXANDER WINCHESTER, \n\nActing Colonial Surgeon. The Evidence having been summed up, and the Jury being charged to consider their verdict it was returned, \n\nDied by the visitation of God. \n\neffect in this remote, but highly interesting, portion of the civilised world? \n\nThe recent intelligence from Woosung, the Port of Shanghai ( with which place we have constant com- unication) is to the effect, that a sumber of men are engaged in repairing the ruined fortifications. They were formerly of cud: we are given to under- stand that they are now being feed with granite, sonte of the Opium vessels have recently gone up to the northward, with the intention, doabitess, of establishing other trading stations; it is useless to talk of a limited number of parts for all the coast will be open. The people are eager to trade, and the Mandarina are at Present very cautious in their interference in this matter, nothing but urbanity and kindness is expe- rienced from these dignitaries; certainly upon this coast there exists every outward manifestation of a sincero desire for peace and aliianey. \n\nThe immense amount of native toumage which finds its way up the Shanghai river daily, is worthy of remark, as being one of the most protaient features in the Yangtze kiang: they come from North and Sound, but as yet we canunt obtain the particulars of trade the English Ships keep healthy up the river, but the heat has been ahaost insupportable this season. \n\nA very fair trade has been doing here both in Straits produce and manufactured goods PEPPER has averaged 50 25 per picul; Rarrans still selling at 85, Grey sorrisos 68 30, Wuerz 84, Pic Leap,on account of large stock is down to $5 50, Saxval wOOD, without inquiry, Rion 81 50 no sales. Opium market unsettled, MALWA $610. PATNA 8710 to 720-very lit tle on hand. Speaking of the latter article, vessels coming up here with a general cargo should not neglect to com- prise it, helping off, as it does, heavy stock, it becomes a voluable auxiliary occasionally Alarm has been offer. ed in quantity at $1 15 it will doubtless be available era long as a rough return and calculated for purposes of ballast. I have no doubt but return freight on eative account, might be obtained from Niagpo and other consular ports, indeed some I believe has already beca obtained. \n\nAmov,-11th August, 1943. \n\nVaer quantities of Piece Goods have been brought to this market from Hongkong, and prices have given way. Lose Ctorns, far whites. $350 to $3 60, Greys $2 90 to 83 10; Twist $27 to $29. OPIUM raining its price, and good Malwa sells readily at $625. Rice 100; a good harvest. \n\nCanton, 21st August, 1843. \n\nThe former Hong Merchants continue to decline ex- porting Tens under the New System, and all the out- side man, are afraid to begin. Three slups are being loaded with Teus, at 1 taels on the short price, but these \n\nJ. \n\nMc. MURRAY, Baker, Pastry Cook, 4. opposite the Godowns of W Scott, Esq., Lower Bazaar, begs to announce to the Public, til be car ries on business in the above named sivinity, and hopes to participate in that Public Patronage which it shall be his constant endeavour to deserve. \n\nN. B.-Parties can be supplied with Bread, Pastry, &c., on the shortest notice, also ship biscuit, \n\nHong-kong. 14th August, 1848. \n\nBakings of every description, carefully exe- exted, from cleven in the moring till five in the evening FOR SALE-Anchors and Chain Cables, \n\nCopper sheathing, and nails Claret, and flavona cigars Sperm. Candles, and Ainerican Soap Cabin Biscuity in Tins of 58 s. Brass & Iron Bedstewis. \n\nApply at the Godowns of Holliday Wise, of Co. JOHN RITSON. Victoria, 17th August, 1543 \n\nto \n\nFOR SALE-The bull, masts, yards, anchors, chains, &c. &c., of the Brigantine, Roza, now lying in Ilong Kong. \n\nThe above may be Sold together or separate. The vessel is seven years old built of American live oak, and would make an excellent receiving vessel in say of the new Ports, having also good accommodation for resi dence on board, \n\nApply to \n\nN. DUUS. (1 T. M. METCALFE. \n\nGINGER BEER \n\nMATUEUS DB COSTA & Co. respectfully intimate \n\nthat they have opened an establishment at Ne. B Webster's Bazaar for the sale of Ginger Beer prepared by a peculiar process from the best fresh finger; it will be found to retain in the fullest perfection all \"invigorat ing and refreshing qualities, parties requiring a regular supply at intervals, are requested to give noties, this will ensure their having beer in its best condition at the Line wanted. —— \n\nPreserved Provisious, Cigure, Soap, Cheese & other Groceries,",
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        "document_key": "CO129-031 - Public Offices - 1849",
        "page_number": 67,
        "title": "CO129-031 - Public Offices - 1849",
        "content_text": "34\n\nOberland China Mail.\n\nYu Heica ship lontana was lurted, and driven ship Frebella Holtron was driven under the bows, in alcat two freers.\n\nto 24 Jch's Idal, aut eary all since 2 a lingkung by ring forest Ferr\n\n[No. 9, StarEBek 23, 1848.\n\nNo. 9, SurreMBER 28, 1848.]\n\nThe big neder was disrated at Miccha: Not having abserved dus dey could not long bold Maniamen adition, appearet the Cen the confidence of perse! security. Teol firogduet bis progress & perpetual care of\n\n1LENGE into its harur, ita pur! of 3: Derga\n\nange: 100 dièste fear: to be paid by\n\nAfter this no tidingen were v'y it coul what is Excellogg hoe vot biomela son when soiling bad con spred that would is the unanf the Fugle, crying away her bows and land om met de atentoon of the 24 instreated, peerde aru now more disposed to appere-tead to aut to their splendour, only seen to have\n\nCapa ett of the inter vessel wlion Acting Sergeant 8, are rander by foorest, fria the absence of petty simoyances, tad nagues to the Ambasaduc's difficulties, and w ut, and one or other mast sus, Captain Kelly and Station, haligong the ardanely intelligence czes were of cowing the same in finner thnos, objeum on the pars of the dancing. The replied that os bis burmaneter was rising, he that the bons had sund, and that he believed he but people duvet hardly were not Beyond the question of the verinamotal de la aliservert sa pre-\n\nthe ascentsy of Land Macurtuzy, Glowki they having replica the hero completely ex Patari Bodiety may have him pessozied as ately afterward thực chting of the Bugle parted,\n\nalso somon athaus uforming to it; word the and she gifted out through the passage du tine, haieta, after being in the water two hours. He many bramurai Attractions but my we\n\nnever hour of people being stacked anul rubies | Vierry of Mongella Lecordingly sent a deputa eastward van upon the beach; but on the reported that ou leaving the harbour of A Lorioen, way in a mud the Nay both got find off they stool over towards the Lens, when finding in resing the se in which the building stance.\n\ntion tooking for instructions as to the terms on A propos of that Sortety, we wonki beg to hint: which the misden siid be suffered so parroccl.\n\nbah, carrying gang fur traitoast and bulwarks. Die wind inverse very much, they run before it, The drifted the sun nac ter the Eagle, and itionately mochowed in Cheang-show lay, to occasions! visitora, dat is the resident members The WHY by the effect, that the Viceroy aliend are not resores, dut exposez rght not to Lo juvite the Russian envoy to a feast in the aura of thrown open cher enly in the few strangers the Einger, al then weyala sa performance of the nine pirsutions before a serech and bje who have joined thune; and if the lails, deste bithard-rom, ul reaching-won, are to les kejt covered with alath of Imperial Yollow. This\n\nOs phore, very few houses entirely escaped, in sup the stern would som abete nues his companions wen: de only setİvors towar bu çujoy them; and we do not leny that the sanation having wet wartly series derring\n\nthose which revived the greatest disuap were,\n\nH. the Greer's, Maye Chine', 't, aut Impala, damaged as size role, veliaus, au\n\nver\n\nTou Did Naval tree partly Wow duwa, az 1 New ichtiged\n\nRiga hauserity dust.\n\nClarge very much Ganangel.\n\nAle McKnight withewey and ik dust.\n\nAs yon fi Taeyang-svog much injusal\n\nOf Clans the worse,\n\n2.1.\n\nBars of the silk of clue Sea Hunted Hom, and Joe Hathan 'n toerenguel Jur35.\n\nCebie nape keto die Mügikonte 'n buurt Le, so we ar; batedrags.\n\nYer Paints: Cemal\n\nNatian khen to proces\n\nRolice Sculous mercoled, acil\n\nFat Feet Hasion kaudens quite uninhabitabile.\n\n--, Wong-c-ebone. Ahurdce, Stapley, sunt mood la gary village on line and, ang buwes are blot nucled.\n\nAlt wird-\n\nand also a shore. Upon Bauling in her clit a few miles in the westward Hongkong it was found that the michors tad parted. Babamong a number of Chinu bonds, where they en- the Keyland Belph were totally dismasted, but eidered themselvas paerty se. taring two loma- were got a next juorning, and towed in Camboo cables and a chain \"cable cunt. any dug too, where their eyes were discharged night a large runk ran ford et vient and books coups it is only fair that those who participate sand Gatos refsed to comply with, and an order\n\nlightly desing. The Sylph has since been of faz hauskoo cables, shortly after which the ectribute levarin die opensus. We are there. i for his return was shortly afterwards vivid. • ught into Hongkong karbone by the Steuer other parted. The clein esie was then run out fore miler glad to nedering that the Directors He had arrived at the frontier on the atlanary. Chorale, but the Zoglo is condemned.\n\n1 is whole extent (10 thoma) the end being lave it in contemplation to limit dhe tations and departed homeward, without having roacti\n\nPeking on the Ferb of Fchenary, 1866, At dayght ali shat could be seen of the Froelia stene rod the site, and secured which have liturto been so freely given, so that Robertion what: top of her mainmast, the verse stoppers, About the mainurast foll, carry- kay ng bank near the re at the ewnanec le Chung away tie taffail and gig. In its fall the sing on. The garner and four loses were must probably tussen kome of her plauka, na Curred inging to the mast, and wore savel shorty afterwards the boss was served to be by the buite of the U. s. S. Mgmatik. Tlegumer] Alling, and at lodīgast 23 ring soulled down by die report shortly alter ping from the Buyin, bead. Those on boned then got upon the acain- Captain Kelly had the pumps secoed, and friwill cost and wood stil, and funded vicar of the work. the vast was sinking. He was last seen in the Aber as they went to have loen washed away cabin, and is supposed to have gone down with one by one til early the revived--tree her. The args as voluble in, couesting of others having rear die shore, one in sup 70 cheats of Oplont, of which about 500 were which was floating by, pure on a tan, and a Jed Palve and 200 Faster minuted at little on a piece of weed how six tarded with short of hafa mim of defines, of which it is bort istane uteelcher, and on the bencla not move than two-thirds were inaned. With interved eue of their comrades, a Manilaman, the assistance of divers, about 250 chests have lying dead. On cimbing the hill, they cane slave bico recovered, and are advertised to be upay a Chine hus, the owner of which stewed them great kiminosa, in supplying them with sail by aetion.\n\nclothes and such refreshments as i la to oßen, He subgently sermnpanier ten neras the\n\nHongkong.\n\nAt Mace, the auther througlint the day was disagreeable, but the new approach at a severe Tifongs at apperheaded The Barometer flint out at which the one of rather a high curge bood at 22.08. At *. it was 2, and at midnight it felt in No Dalen nur to 28.42, after which gale moderatet, d the quicksilver ruse apidly Bus de calin was of blef duration, he about a 1. the smeared, blowing tously from W. W.N.W. About agrar ter to there was another aim of about an hour. after which the star werease, and then uns, destruction was ransed in the harbo\n\nThe de contacted, ncs blowing hand how every 20 N., Soon veering to N, NW. and W.N.W., nbsided at W.X. W. Un Tour! Toome stood at de to k dung the wight; fall at the Barometer an inch and one south.\n\nThe greatest image seems to have been so tained in the Inner Harbour, and of this we have, been dvome with an edicial reyk-\n\n11. J'ast ex\n\nBong\n\nding tanta.\n\n3 Fastige Binti\n\nFuel Bout\n\nA Bezvanger F0243.\n\n44 Terka mal scherm\n\nMonte,\n\nLe Sol Durk Game Julistee, Parhguasa laly Genergan, My Headsplanner Stagfors r', wenn daven or shan. were they still remain\n\nThe\n\nwhales Del-prist weil in sore, but qui al\n\nwith 1ng dan aga,\n\nShalang scheme Sultricks, was thewise on situ tuturing tus oll, with us! The Dokaz de vs Wivested in the Typm, a the\n\nthe Portuguese government Schooner som Face Typ Fort will de reg on imand, who were A i daggereil\n\nStruan sunk at girl the fo. Farben.\n\nBar Linches Sylph notu ies\n\nThe loss of jeals is very great, and upwards of 100 Chinese were drowned in and about the han bour; and a Chinese bat in which young ou had yet a pleasure trip was caper near the Typa, and two perished, one of what was Mr Jaues Macmurray, long known in this colmy a kuker mid re-keeper and the ether Mr Award Reds, Farrerly send me uí! the trend na\n\nTimber of homes destroyed a used\n\nNo--\n\n23 Chirgan ham. Meena,\n\n非 \"\n\nla\n\nA Wooden Trees,\n\ndumiling no the river.\n\ni\n\nThe Norjalk and Sidney were entirely dimuat ert; and the British tuig ddmor, recently arrived with 560 elests of Patna, went on shore; but her carga is uninjured, and her eyew were saved, for which they also are indebted to the boats of the Pigmort\n\nThe British bargar Ewily got on shore, but her cargy, consisting of Cotton, is understood to have received little injury.\n\nThe vessels that held on wars--the reviving hips Valeon, Ruparel, Lady Hages, Sea-horse,\n\nit they tell in with a bust on its way to The following is a list of the persons missing—\n\nStr Bathers, and his son; Acting Sergeants Nii, zeid seyr, Poses Constable Taylor, Stuffunt, chase, War- rimandarii: Pie Marie doing to tha Water Pole Flur Chinese do: There also evoke; rad & Pataguse Su\n\nShortly after the cand news rouched this place Lane, and the Sir Ilaved By The the brather of Mr Sinishers started of towards who endy vesac! Fiat moped wiiant any\n\nChang-dow, in hyes that we now of the she had two dr-hors out with rem might ince reached the land alive; ut eerises damage; | 200 fathoms of chain cable to unch.\n\nalter au msibas search, they only felt with Fight or nine Chinese parks suck, and most of\n\nthe bodies of tavo Boghshuch, to Maufammen, their crews parished, na did also titat of a smag.\n\nauda Chim boy, Baving on at my curses gling out, sonstating of upwards of 10ft man.\n\nof Chinese who had perished in the suami toading A son as daylight appeard, Capizio Gedney about; and digit be continued his search for of the wrath ordered low hans out to rene assistance, and save the lives of sanse who were the bodies of five Englishanen, one of whom was inging to the weeks, or were alwise in dugu his epluw, sed four Milsten, he was unt of perinuing. The officer on deck at fast told oratul in Gauting that brother. By Captain Gelury thus the boats esult of live paying the Chinese, lie gut graves dug, and buried; upon which he was ordered to oral for volunteer te he fell in will. When 20 of the sailas offered themselves, and\n\nmaneis boat four Cutter, the Launelt, and the Dig Assistance was offered wherever it\n\ni\n\nvy who is not a menter cam se admitted i Pls was the last Fukasay from Rusia to more flatua onun during the season. The micrip- | China, for the insists of 1898 und 1820 wore tion korever is so withing (43 per month) that undertaken prozvesndly to keep up the communica tion with Peking, but prokably net loss to barve probably the Dirustore bave themselves in wor\n\nWheelstend the country and judge of its resources. gasar to blate for at soubering among beir members about every monour visitors Macary The mission of 1890 was conducted by Timkow- of whom, iî npplied to, would radier attend ski, wie has written an interesting account of it A secret mission under Wasigen la said, on as a matter of right than of favour.\n\nIf it be consist with the rules of the Society, the authority of the Courrier Français, u have we would suggest that Anul Subscribers of a boca projecte in 1940. We know nothing of ins certain amount should be considered Members, ubjects or not; but we do know that the Chinese that Susilors of Six Dollars sield bothritis pareanptorily yelse to allow the Prins admitted to the netary privileges for Three Monchs-hira Mait, September 21.\n\nThor who have kamen Mreau in former times, and lent heen there during the last three years, tould hes appreciate, thus services of Senhor at Amal by taking un gaming stroll along the fampt load as th\n\nThe Barrier, which locks as crowind and gay, with epipages, bones, and pediatrtaux as the messican able wering place. Wirin the Ita fortnight the Barrier Gate no longer presença an obstacle to Uko pa sugu of alpinges, His Exceligney, to me, bring removes then sapestment, after vals ondeovutas 19 inless the Chinese authorities to do to.\n\nTOMARY OF KLAKTOU.\n\ncuchiko to ulscharge her cargo at any of the poets, holding that the Russian who rusticted to the provisions of the Kiaksa Trusty China Jail, Septzaiber 21.\n\nSout. -Acording to war Chipping Report, the Pa ty hat bulang and procedit to her mark of us. Was this really a The Fur Claus, ur Daviy kick for\n\nexpertovat in a Riglos gimate j\n\nEMPLOYMENT OF THE POLICE. 1x our last Overland paper we mentioned that its extent of sokucus alang de Europan Tr RUSSIAN INTERCOURSE WITH CHINA.\n\nand the quartering so large a portion of the Sta Regiment on board ship, had throws tonn We had recently (No. 188) eusion as refer to\n\nde hea on the Ceylon Riden, mu rendered acte- the state of commercial rokdions between tusse and Chim, and regretted the wart of a copy of\n\nsary the withdrawal of several of the guards, in- cudiar, koridun the Governor's and the General's, the Trony of Kiakten, by which tiny are regulat\n\ndie Treasury, the thaol, and the Navd Storak Tus ward has now been supplied by the\n\nThe last dire ars enlicited is the paboe, au vas kiostuces uľa friend, to whom we ar indebted for dgnificant addition to which force has been a French vorsion, nade from the caiga! Mustised from wavy different materials. chon, of the Treacy in question, which wo now pablish, accompanied to an Bagish translation†othes, for, while a guard of five disciplined sul- opinion of them, unwever, must be entertained by\n\nIt is curious and important, as leing ila\n\ndiers was tonerly considered accessly for the\n\nA better\n\nfuar days, during with a discovered alugekar | by China with an European sete en termo estive polieva is a destand suficient.\n\noldest axising Treaty of Corammere entered tuto protection of the Naval Stover, a less mumber of equality; in that of 1689, the result of p longed negotiations, trade i enly incidentally re- ferro to, and restrissed to duss who have port, by which it gara, dey come with pu missir.\" whale the poornble sets forth in objects he \"in order to repress the insoleace vi vortan oven, who, paving beyond the brands of their kudis & innt, rubled, muriced, and amitted other outrages; as also for settling the bouls between the two Expires of China and Russia and in short, to caraldish an everlasting Collectors of this sessie, for which, it le po good understanding,\"\n\nMy Smities the public have met annat efficient officer, whoar zeal ant activity were an\n\nnitting. Als espemeure Lad been sepiped' seed cry, and upards of ty during Twenty years' service in the London Folion (Chinese and foreigners) were saved but\n\nwhich Boty he was selectal as the most likely man to zesiel Ale May in parkening the duties [hers in a satisfactory manner; and to lús exer\n\nof the ships dechued the proffered aid from dread of salvagn, which book flies never bocu dreams of\n\nby Captain Gedney, who seems to leave tons may be atted is no sul degree, the actuated by the sings desire of alding me inery life and property enjoyed by the rest distress. We do not see however why he should des since la arival in de colong the pure not clima salvage, wyecially in cases where is services were asked for after being offered gradace of his experiors, as well as the exterm ago. Mr Staithere merited and concerned the surtously,\n\nand respect of those ter him, Chine Mul, September 7.\n\nà correspondent of the Friend of Clawn, speak\n\ning of the exertions made by the Captains of the receiving Ships, says,\n\nLOSS OF BIA KARIN CRISP,\n\ntee of site trupes any an art www.deThe Bruna Brett, foore Sway River, arrived on\n\nTeff donors sens byrgja un grabs, too notwithstarglice\n\nfatizante, and the weder a bear tailneny do the windvoe\n\nsudo cpirlity of Cantato di the pen for the actra anty vhcob te exercises in rareuing several 4.'hommen Sein the mrzechy, màn pebernian woki have mal wall unitary gras 19\"\n\nif we cannot be spared, it is high time the Ciel of the Face should imitals the Chief nf the Governcient al of the Military, by dispensing with the services of du en adring bu what is absolutely indispensable. We have for sonun sime past olaserved, whitt now forces itself move particularly an sur unties, that policemen are enpleed in collecting de Foam Tax, other. wise called the Police Rute. Mr May, it seen. and a clerk in die Land Offer, are wondínally the\n\nFused, des are said; bath we are not ware that\n\nEnt if these men are\n\nThis Treaty did not redound to the cruilit! tenet of county, and 6. wus was of greater im of Numa, which gava op its labos a large the work them,\"\n\nobjects for which it had waged a border way for portaus, the concord of wat niver Acur—\n\nny years.\n\nthey are thorized to soy Peter Constabl,-5\n\nto be employed, let them in the first place be pait for it, and the balance of the allowances apar plied to oviding additional privezomst to make As an accompaniment to the present Treas, the complement of efficient -Chime\n\nMetik, Argan 91. a brief way of the several Embossies from\n\nwe are kidly ludebe\n\nhero sta arge in the Colenia) Arcanul of 475 for a utile. Wo run only allons he ungod the Asta de la Société Quientale,\" and \"Mailia, mgh for the sales and the moment of paire portons be endre duty, thonga keperant, dies quite Hire Générale de la Chine.\"\n\ntamen to somiai hau da poncinały suchu ale at tight be The First Embassy Dog Kawia to the cut after to ache wit of au nd-mane and wider\n\npaid service. Peling, was in 1656, and nd for its nisject to\n\nif the night wadetronom zoop to buze kazn establish freedom et romaneres between two very inuet extended Poly, and moperly reg sen Fomin lea The Emperor (Slam elf diverted died less secure by jd n which we burn that a Store in de gaten of the sewu wan endotel last night--\n\nthe 16th, having picked up and brought to Hong kong the remainder of the crew of the large Sarah Crisp, which vegal wok fire 999) was afte mards cupstadt in lab. 10.56 Ny lưng, 114 20 By in her passage from Meulachi to Hongkong, with This strened with pepeks of 40ing ants and vargu ♬ Teuk ümber. The master and then i thas the Barcsinus slichki be seated with Low; the glass basing Gut this tee rentiss\n\nwere Be days on the wreek, with scarcely and and hedgaard placed over dur use appro- broken glas of a window a spot the Bevera provisions, and only a very litate rain water.\n\ned in with livin Thirteen of their wi ber perished-Chine Milied wirever they went-attenti hich\n\nsqetulla vigouJS September 14.\n\nAnd fartier aids,—\n\nown\n\nJurica, ned etary of the soles opposite to the slapping, belongiora izbe Capens the receiving tops, we d. It was a meat fearfu! and destructive Taifong \"\n\nWang At night the loner cheya waka sad) and heavy, with a great carry Hying fast in At 9 P.A blowing fresh, the upper sustum, with heavy gusts having a tendency eastward; nypesete' Vib A 11, 20.29. 28. 26.00 envy guns, with much rain and locked lighting. At 4, bluing a gale, with heavy rain-\n\nThe gardens bare safired grsally, During Thaesday and Friday to Brile alumn was felt the Goveitor of Macao, wiw And xal ou iu tue murang accompanied by a party. of ladies and gentlemen, on a plenos ip t the Nine Jaluids, as he did not retor that night, great fes were entertained for his safety, which were considerably augmented when, atte the storm hal moderated next day, there was still no appearance of diy bacellency in the course ofthe evening, after every sumaisu bad been exhausted, the party was descried in the Tana Fur, and before sightful they Innded anfuy from a Chinese hat. It was then explained, having made this sitempt to ever for Niine fatit they had to give it up after one or two moke; bui the boas being crable to eat the Playa Grates by blowing very heavy: Syupesameter 28.LU proceeded Typa, and the party buton at the Arieving hanler. At 1 29.20. A 12 Fort, where the whole of that day and the next 3.86 wind of moderate, guate oven were spent. They suppose the marions of the has it have been observed; but whetherally or not, it was hoposible to luvu made Macao The following Barometrical observatione, male during the storia, duure been obligingly placed at our dispost\n\nentil Friday sitewioon.\n\nFull advise the Barometre at Negão devise the Tangler Fist Agment, 1848 (The Instrumen during fine sather range from 133.)\n\nWied M\n\n2.35\n\n30.40\n\n1st Sept. 1. A.S\n\n130\n\n2.70\n\nThe Wind wuddenly calmed and the rule stopped.\n\n..\n\nIt wind\n\nDar still\n\n\"\n\nPreus ombe WAR do\n\nno wid Bar beglas LO LÁSC\n\nizrini.er et\n\n4.2\n\nSt galt fra the agni and\n\n425\n\nFar.\n\nBar\n\nOxle Icing and mucis vain,\n\n0.00\n\n2.in\n\n8,00\n\n$50\n\nx\n\nAnd mate cra.W\n\nWind\n\nGale mateù.\n\n59\n\n96.00\n\n08\n\nA CEM-33 N-Woon, the Taitoong ennineneed nu\n\n... the wind blowing from the North. The\n\nkların senas be have been at its light about day-\n\nlight, when the barometer had led to\n\nDuring the interval the wind shifted, but we have:\n\nnot ablained very precise information on the poin\n\nwada E.N.E. at 7, wind chopped sound te\n\nShipping, dongh a great many China are were The storm dora pet seem to live injured time destroyed, and the annoyed list shown that the\n\nhop onts uffered considerably : --\n\nLORD PALMERSTON'S DESPATCH ON ME ALCOCK AND THE TSING-POO AFFAIR, ¦\n\nSom cariosity has saturally been felt regueding the views for blajesty's Government wean tuin af Mr Alene vaares in relation to the\n\nBish\n\npeal to them, by wlisan dey were to be necan! Regularly the\n\nMANUFACTURM AND SALE OF GUNPOWDER\n\nSome months go, (China Mail, No. 165,) we had upension to rall ́atibution to the danger to which Cho Hinges were exposed from the existenca u Gunpowder mactories in dwelling-konses t public doughfare, and have been in hope that the foots then pihiced would had to better enforcement of the existing law, which we een erived to be seiflcient to aneac uie avil and ti\n\nwould probably have been willingy dispeased with. As a preliminary to negotiatioon, ja ww required and the Fussian monarch should te acknowledged on the vassal of China, and the presents had sent accepted as telate. To these conditions the Russian Ambassador would not accede, and he was therrione compelled to return one without having recomplished my Tring-pon affair, at as the local Government bas, thing, except to find us the kanpaior of China tol thought fes untie any nanou vennent en the. i was regarded as the supreme ruter of all the bjers were glad to have it in car power stations of the world. Niculoff, who was the et andereal dat Lori Palmersking in Peking steel to the Entele Minion, sintes et incline to think so, along it tach otherwe conademtion all the circumstances of the Êuse\"\n\nit was not bear the Rusiasts to know appoured to our Legislative Come we have as lid veleve him, approves of the subsfactory Jedge Dir ozuvchi to be the vassal China, ¦ debuutis special Ordîmenes to be called for. D sorbentent faitair which, in tess able hauls, that they were not received, bat beeze they der its provisions Gangwader is no longer to he might have taveled the country in enviours dif- wonisl not submit to the ceremony of invostituré, ¦ manufactored within iso mdes of the town of fenities at wala dins his Lordship does fall which lever amounted to the same thing, as Vietoria, ner within half a mile of any publicad justice to the fitness and address with which that would is offers luss boon the acknowledge and tus person is to keep in store over Twú Me Alesek cried out his mesures, he gives\n\nment of vassalage or dependence.\n\nPounds, if dre same bë not juported frota no enphatic warning against the presend uscep tional rasa long regarded as a pendent; and takes occasions to enjoin nou v Alevel and alt sher Consula a atriz maternity to the regula¦ tions laid down for their guidanc in such mati\n\nAs we have all along expressed, and still cut- unin, Coplas vegassing the soundices of the policy AL CANTON, the gale commented about 10 eu du posted by Mr Alevel, under all the circum- and inversed in Vistence ti è nes mcg stances of the case we um the move ceny to when it was at its height. Judang by the hammer the decision of iler Majesty's Goren urter, which did not felt below 1.16, the storms, which, qualified though it be, het begaly does it seem to have imen su violenta a Hongifig to the Cousal hins it, and satisfactory Roug, facau, and Can-slag moon; throgh of to the an eiled in his views.\n\nWith ward to the daree wv.rand emplahunta, course in the crowded river there was a fifni\n\nDr Salle, C.\n\nDe Se mye, in the outside di tut, and otherwise bach damage, buying dritted from her mooringa. Di Lowers, Instander, and house merried away. Di kryes, drilled bee tasks up the river-Gamaged. Il not a Tales's, she shigde of the lauqunuðir evening di the horried Lady.\n\nMoczny Cars walkinget! moms whin saving autern of\n\nthe s\n\nfor an extinto of\n\nbut we are mislite told not, inking for granted they had not Juss of tc at her, some accomɔis stating seeded the jucevrild Andel, noverthekas re numbers who perished at hundreds and others qrices of the Court to impress pha, and Diss. de ferter witten en the uning of possil who make ecurions into the couple ne sürer:ful, a whole the bases atmost dranspection the Ter describes de sorme. rerer being covered with the wrecks of the fragile: Seeing the conquences which many Row from Hower-one and smak raft, gust numbers of gorance, mismanagement, or was of presence mind, is the event of getting involved in al ! whitel were dashed to picces by the large jaaks,\n\nwhich, after being funest frein their crings, offray at a distance from the consults--flow were driven Fariously long by die wind and side, eff. September 1. destroying evore thing dat same in their way.\n\nSeveral Chinese sal wells in espised status were blown down, and die ravages the ardre were considerable; but upon the I whale we consider Canton we net exposed to the strength of the ilong The tide overflowed the gurdim, but it was not so high as has been ch served in June Poods.\n\nf the beautiful private Cutters on the riven\n\nMACAO, AND ITS SOCUZZTV.\n\n\"DA MAC,\" a venerable friend, scavely moro velebrated as do Arish than for his son- versational power, terms due tols cits, has boot\n\nHugh, le ofer fastall partitimere, quite as many of his visitors are been pleasure-seekers as patients. But to both he prescribes with\n\nThe Spend Baubossy, under. Thondure Alesies ¦ Burg viez biolowin, arrived'st Peking in Läië, dering the vigs of the Fanperor Kangels, and bad sor da sele objeen the settleman of the Frontier us\n\nhas been ready mentione\n\nThis is limiting, not extending the law of Eng land, to which such an exception as the one above quoted is unknown, and might navor to have been ikuntaven here The Governor and Compil The Third Mintas, under labente tilta, ar cannot surely be aware that in the event els dive rived at Peking in November. 1893, after a accidenta) explosion, much more danger is 14 journey through\" Siberia and Tartary of eighteen he sporel rozled frina stocks of ingrated Gwapo. months. Theobieta of the Early were chiefly der heid by inbriidal Lauropods within deci egnanc veini, hot it does ant appear to have con premises, than from all the rest pat together nail saceful, atthough lebeauty, in his out of his thus the erection of a magazine the engulary Embassy, alleges that i was received with the reception of such socks is quite as unich edled ceremonial observed in Faron; and tips, lactonday a rostrictions in Chinest dealer of unpasiting his credentials upo Teie nu\n\nthe sain of Cheapgwder, however, is a d'fferent sely prepared, he placed them upon the Thurs, affair from its juannfectare 5 anal while the fortune fuck in the presence at the Papazior. fun, it i shod be subject to regalation: whjel. have been rempehulde that this convession on a pubist of proved to be efficiout at home and in other onde creamy annust have been the only advantage ties, dus katur me rougie, ought to have ben gained by the Aubondo\n\nentively praibited in Sin claid. For thoug The Fourth Embassy was that of Tanneuff in sibi pejnice to see uny Manel of honest in 1720, rendered famous, wat so much by its edustry eneralaged, the manukastaro of Gaga, Helens bet ne wader that cargory. Blig cessful tits, an by dia ndanivable seront of is given by John Bell of Autamm, the calcied as selgively by despernes, who attendat, and in das Jaune Lange, she Secay of the mission, who continued as c'e sident at Peking he nearly two youn, mit the clear at the lung and enlightened wign of Rasghi. The boy was that ' Windlielawitele, deepatolod in the fast year of the reign of the\n\nbe permitted to eres powder skif day could suffered to live- Trey come here neause hidhurts they sta Teen Interfere with, and their only must Jove on pinggir, f. test encourages thus fordel to such\n\nsacation\n\nit ngre than: csual request during this summer, Kaspress Catherine of Russia Alter arranging to rework to Hongkong has been even\n\nthe important renty of Klakin, tue Araneador dost expo, in luch for proceed to Peking, where he arrived a 1728, on useless Aves love one bor during the reigns of Yungeling of China and Indeed, Int for sub wings, j\n\nwould either lave Lego enforcod, w not one has to us ape, an the foll equal succus aforeing cool litoses ant pleasrat Peter 11. of Resia, Five grani saptansy, an\n\ndrives by the one, and picnics, escais en fact Mandarins with &maneens actingo made\n\non busine, and evening guities, for the easy 8 Porskega precelent promegalo\n\nPo many of these sufrentages, we need which has not keen since followed with Tires, or waverly say the community is indebted to the any other emetry Pent invernor, who has done nence for the\n\ning zomeration will shew:-\n\nat song-The thing and Dragon alterated, and\n\nCynha 15 pic\n\nAt My act sand, the Mrytower distanzzed,\n\nwid tying \"gh and dry the Na Tu Ajda\n\nJost.\n\nA Cupha-singe (moza- Tire Fille and Wizard illam na\n\n-\n\nLOSS OF THE GUNBOAT.\n\nNEATH OF JASPROTON SEPTHERS AND OTHELS.\n\ntruly\n\nThe extent of damage sustained was very as the morning of the Stat sits, the Unit\n\nand the following notes on the subject we gire with a minber of convalescent police on board der charge of Mr Smithers, the Juspoetoe, MAS\n\nnearly no sent to us --\n\nPs in\n\nDu several important respteis l'it's That now a not some ti The Sixth fanbasar was that of Ripolall, who i view or whieht at any rate onght o place in is adversity. Ihan ever did any rifle i obtained an audience, it is said, sulanising to view-unless indeed in Colonial predecessors 10 ils ont jalmy days of pusties pertueen the Katow, but wilhant offeesing the exercise of the extenordaang diserta\n\neununercial objects of his roission. The Seven sabagay was that of Golowkin in the dv The ever you of\n\nIn allting in the Brasty of Macas, the paluations, to calls balvined, glet to be specially mentiunt. Touto ata ai preseus, or were the early part of the ani, de the\n\nToner, Spankh Planetertiary, and a Fronti Fury, with Cursule me than we can read an e Dean he English Plenipostiary,min_lies a\n\nuse dister of the Feuvinte, sa American Cor\n\nDuring the night evarul vessels drifted and especcited for a craizo round the istamil, on this which is was exportal wou's bars whim how\n\ncame into collision. After midnight the receiving otarial Socommendation that the Bish\n\nTo will be obterved that chuse obstactone on the should have the best of a charge of suiche Liesonant Governus uf 31- p-wan, and sailed again with a light breeze\n\nileenses\" altoptike.\"\n\n\"sebeze\n\nin the ma\n\ncharitie\n\n-, the reizas the Emporero Alexciler, fran: the recriptines of persalis stungileen mission that had ever bun des plients For the ren pooried to Peking; but sinc\n\nof Busula nel saking of China. This w19 bo not Legalistet is to donor dues per\n\n赤\n\nsumbuking aswynesia of Tronne.ill ebjost je ks halding such stents passiesin\n\njudividual, which, scised at they give in\n\n1 In Chan, No. 188, S. 21, weekly in 199 Ten- Sha, the Fon of sitario? Man Ven sing, or Buup, and foun her of the rest synasty not act hisa only the world.\"\n\ncourse of the wind, da cut eailedly euincila theAtner of the saine day Ge uscitared at Shark- sudicions se form a Cangram, whom the athias of me praming the throne, pro kammed Taspirar.\n\nTabia given below\n\nCentor wenid jeubsidy bo prisely Discusand an al resin in any Capital et 11: Cot head of Furie\n\nupon perusal olservation, uni ühte wor\n\nfinal through the agency ten, m25 20-7\n\nIt is the is at Kochant, we\n\n· 1971, 1\n\ncards fure, is lonistkeen it plicare te doliches.\n\nin eating amoy of what ought und dụ kun silent to exist at all, and whien, wa shwarve, fo not intended to augment the rovare of the Colony-Chine Mof, September 7.\n\nCONVOY.\n\nExpetency jy is per\n\nOverland China Mail.\n\njust in from the falls of the rat preling that this general law for th wiale of tissement\n\nCina Proper is slightly modified in its total ap war how more nei cerk of such force, that day ¡iorura su i vestonelladry by all an is of whatrasver d plication, Me Mews illustrates this vi\n\negy mi ar se ruployment of conveyn, the legelg\n\nFATE OF 1. & M. RUSTOMJER & Che\n\nby wklition to the Brig Cursair, which was toll\n\nJ\n\n70\n\n::\n\nDIEN-UNION 50%, took al 24:43 werly at 56 and upwards un teu- Kaunas Krag-- imer's rws all out the heavy ring Eply, when prices docu materialy. To day rates o. Patirt\n\nHere 406, wild where acllers than balbers\n\nKXPORTS\n\nCeston Instruti Ciapunyih mom the sme[aprovement in the\n\nhis subjurt by ample references to a Ciness work for $100, the flowing Shares Volonging to the (wat deel is to allow twich of authority, titled The Provisional orkestate of D. & M. Rustomjee & Company were\n\nwestriery under, both faz suctions and Regulations of a Proviner of a disposed of by the nation today abel for low casetion ece which may in fa\n\nenglished so recently as 1848, by the chief- un\n\nFun Sannes sha Cufon. Inntrare tiompany of infracluf time owns and mastery flamebox, mathorities of that province. These extracts\n\n10 per cent premium and tre estos interester, LELS Kacolle love sug this throw ach light on the uusi interesting bench desene, which will be posted! as the mural places “\n\nof the say, which well deserves the rive -Chimes #au, September 7.\n\neversideration of states Gugland, who will\n\nworkable all fair the as of they now presed conferring tenant-right on the calvat, ame\n\nNa 130 le pon them by patriotic theoriska. tual remedy for the exits of Ireland costki he de- vel ban for one government to carry out the branch of their sales, which was to able ma to dent with wasto and neglected property in that\n\nTw\n\nhere fud a pin for rendaiting waste lands, al pail thurell\n\nANOTHER OU PRAGE COMMITTED BY A\n\nis offering some remarks upon the Convays of the Chinese juides, (Chion Mus!, No. 173, June 1,) we addvevd several instaneca of \"acts of prescimaudite Begality denounced in a recent Proclamation of Z de Plenipotenary, one of them referring to the master at a Porlangese lorelki, why wa presume, is also the hero of the following narra Live:-\n\n\"About the middle of July, (the 18th) an Italian, belonging to Macan, and Jean Baptison Balilo, tetas constituting into the highest mastup of the Paringaese force No. 30, explayed watch a despot cand inwow. Those to convos jauks between-cow-food made the greatest progress in Riversture, and scout-5, ut non allow it to be altivated and men were considered mnat slig ble for office, who\n\npo, appeared at the Purelor consulate vi ledge\n\nPURCHASED RANK IN CHINA. The Chinese Goverment, instead of promoting a privilege clasee of tukility to permanent rank In the site on arennat of Bluetions Ules, vol.\n\nexpected that individuals should toil for years\n\nàomplaint against the inhabitants of Kwen-toll, hy competition proved titis, it could not be aired in the same way on is done in ('am.\n\nin to try study of Chore liceatus, without property by reclatning uticalitate! But, in very\n\nTrouble.\n\nThere the low as to the aequsition of landed\n\nin the ontkowy de lintin Steam Facket\n\nC\n\n150\n\nTXA-site for tongue was exceedingly dul uncil arest of the Sunior, since wichtige zon. rection has taken place, and to shop ch 1ied as the above the current ratca of last one: This may be or\n\nt, comeined whth the boroflu despatch. The quits of pa estined left. I shout, 100, wo-thirds being Tichows DA Meaiad, the balan Kaira sd Singhs- dexiptons Quotations dr Tachish tear and Moning te 10 a 20 tele: flows 135; ha\n\nand Simbakes at 13 a 17 Of old Tetings taken at 12 Cuk; 14 or 5 semai Kavel un chens mettle at 2450 ls, Ib yai seld. Flowery Pekoe mkages add a 31 62\n\nChange Plus 18\n\nestad Teas sins of its passtee\n\n22 1\n\nir cominal; good to superfue at a 39: F owns Cuper, 2000 trazity boxes ady tacks, Plain Orange Pease and Caper, Su bar choes of the Serie America & I tela D' the later one chra 850 Le racy texes bas sen\n\n[ k sh bag to market whi\n\n14 cacle to or key, (71) Ning Yongs, V., the market pretty firm, though Rostams roths easier 12 have been sub ted to; and toned, there accros but lile Joues that the Tesation will coat lower prices: full supply it is thought will come forward. The quantity id this month 100 packages Ankel\n\n1213 acis in Yors and Kaleo teas 23 in for the rond Reversion of slegs 20\n\n10\n\n--China Mail, Beptoraker 21\n\nNEWS OF TE DAY. a village about swenty mais distant from Fon- (Chiefly from the Peking Gazais. } chow\n\nHe stated that on the Cay previous, bis forcha oking for sine rantation for their insan iborat. The calvatur pays nothing for it, and is ordered to give in a daily report th\n\nCANTON, By ew owlinance, every innkeeper the mraugy being anchored off the village, six of his Chinese\n\nWhilst this arrangement therebre en is even allowed to enjoy the profice of the set! for who lodge with him, specifying their empley and er went on shore to make parehases, taking sure to lend me employmen, in the publisters of years, before he is called u to entzia oder irticas. is regulation is pro- with Gora alone 10 or 12 dollars. Upon tour service, it kept alive as emulation to become\n\nbute to the revenue of the country i land tax, pusty enforend, it will greatly assist in driving ing payoent for what they bough, the villagers acquainted with the works of the ancients, there\n\nthe sanates as proprietors who have inherited away the vagabonds a rulliane from the pace. refused to take die dollura, alleging they did not pecorating cute principles, and supporting or purchased their lands. Those who have fee rabbers have tasty so funch increased, inat\n\nGeir systara as du malterable isis of society know their proper value. This gave occasion to\n\ncursions up antea river many have obsered the Prefect has called apn the intubilants to and upwards is rugam The lock of all kinds, The descevi. angry works, and a soulle onseed, get up, Baliclo well as of wininistration.\n\nmirers of marsh and on allevial banks in the ranize a system of self-protection. professed to believe, for the purpose of sing the meritoriyas hearins night however likewis\n\ncourse of being galed from the river-passages avilnes. His men had the worst of the tray, but share in the higher expoluments; while tho\n\n1c96 Sea, the new governor, has been raised five Bribordinate oiliers were fille by met wito head\n\nin the manner saertoned by these laws.\n\nBras and recorded three times, for having sent a two of them crespol and reported the cimum- Rent in Me and Youniaga wil and fellow. The next division of Mr Meadows paper patriotic contribution of 10.00 trucks to relieve stanede in their clamander telling him that their peut greater part of their lives in uflicial describes that tear by which the win,\" compsations were in imminent danger. Upon this, Altre high and intial situation, he prople, as distinguished in the marine of that wines.\n\nthe starring people of Ho-nas, he being native Balioto armed himgoit with a musket and beams? with how exceptions in favour of the Manschoos, and soldiers, hold the great bulk of the real pro- were awarded to use who had proved themselves pert contains in the eighteen prices of sued a very severe proclamation age: the while provincial judge of Kwang-tung to the stove, where, ou attempting to land, he was asle by the villagers with kuihoos, swurde,\n\nman of antiving dingence and folid sequiremen China Proper.\" This, At Meadows kas maradile estem of drowning turale auss, and and swach. I order so intimidate the crowd, be\n\nin librature. Suli was the theory-China w\n\nIt is very simple, the thened to visit the perpetrators of suen deals be ruled by scholars and savaA. sired over their heads, hat din fablog to produce\n\nFran this fundamental principle, a great devices sulely, of the payment of an anausia, modered a sun or grandson.\n\ndeaus caning chiefly, and is the studio pass with the atmost penalty of the law, ta if they had the desired effect, he tool: aim and fired a scom time, but cute not say whether or not the ahotiation is now made, thu consequences of which and of fees or alisaation; the latter being of Chung, the ngistrate, ins issued several pie mast sooner or lator clage the wile face of the course only payable when the property is first bitious against kidnapping and syliig children, kiled or woude any one. He however contriv\n\n\"Common Tenure.\"\n\nconsisting\n\nBuy\n\nonly transactions have been to Centon\n\ngisters of up wet, ht 200 15.2% ai Neb\n\nF of one sisell dip of the new Tanging bare ben HAWTc possa care, Tries about 200 bales, eldar Sig for os, and not frow I'm a bake, held a The prices of to have advanced in need of a parsint is in the cup-we jote No. 1, 2918:2, 2304; 3, 13:2\n\nSeo-See No 1. S down to 15 for o Caverjar Candy 69507935\n\nIn other Export cling toug EXQUANGE\n\nfl. Loxtos, utlening. A l'ew go\n\n2019 at 6 th\n\nsich have bags dizel of of 4/1 4/2.\n\nO Ia Compay sacepusil, 213 214. f.co, 21983. Stue, & per cent. FREIGHT.\n\nTo fato, ekipe abundant a £4 Ta PosIDAY, 20 cente per pic for dead weight\n\nFONGRONG. ORIENTAL BANK BATES OF EXCHANGE OR LAND, & mor thự sight 3,144\n\nÚALGUTT Rd Pharma S days sight 216\n\nપ્રા.\n\ny\n\nZHANGHAL MARKET.\n\net tu carape to his niche clong with his men, to entry, si produce radical location in the bined. Els from the local mandamas ro\n\nthe worst description llave trade. à regaine whom were Roverely wanted; and upon his Gevnument. For talent, money bas gradually garding this x are occasionally alfabed in\n\nteath of this kind is carried on to a great extent. been baituted, and aportan appointments This Mural under the head of Chinese Dar- arrival at Fou-buw, having no representative of his own country to apply to, he tartrated the fall to the bigest bidder; wealth is now more responden\n\npowerlini han birth and nesor listments, and British Culto take down his statement, in\n\nMr Meadows then proceeds to Alienation.\n\nKris-To prevent inroads in their country, order to meet any entry cue that might after- the custrine of the realm will beneforth be a being the dard and last of sin divisions of the Kircus duserted the whole aorth western warda be mule où, the part of the Chinese, plutary. The transition has been graded at Busjesz. It is, however, ut conectand is the trac: which borders spet Matcheria. The\n\nSucks Batiola's account of the atlair; but\n\nfirst randored absolutely necessary by the s\n\nChinese government appears aarious to meet writer's remarin on this point he wishes of the reclase people, by prohibiting present all of a drycription of the end of of the exchequer. Office were sold, fav lirought farther information gave a very different aspect\n\na rury kuge sum into the treasury: The reven both to its origin and to the part acted by himself.\n\nSale, of which a translation as well as facsimile is\n\nvagabonds from multivaning the land, se squatters failed, stone were disgond of for money to The Chinese Disicist blagistrate, having learned fill my the deficit; in case of an exigeasy, cucharist document giver by the seller, specifying bees on the barren wille, to cultivate the virgin on the frontiers Buder these the poor Shin-se given. Il consists of two parts; the fret, a mn- that he had been at the Comsalute, caine hærs to\n\npantry are comprehender, who leave their war, irodatiet, or starvation, the Guvertacus the causes of the sale, the nature of the property, wil of Kirs. They are however too explain that Balida and his red were sinne to blame, and therefore begged that he might be had rose to the sale of res; unier all and the terms of the ugreement; the second, and persevering to be replied by mere prohi- desained until tail investigation was nizde. The\n\nfinancial difficulties, this was the grand panaces. printed form attached to the other by the logissey enactments. There is auther ordinanc In the course of time the system has buen esta magisarate. It is this, with the official sela in wien forbids them to clear the wil na the Consol gave vie Magistato understand Cazzi lio\n\nblishing, a detailed list of regulations is a pressed on the two at gives legal validity a border Fast of Kirin and Le-awa-tong. The had no power tu da ho, as none of the parties ty Paated wors Buitish subjects; but he agreed to\n\nput forward, assigning to the Mandarins by pur the transaction. The two together,\" says Mr Jatter district, though the patrimony of the vding Send for Haltolo, who came and repeated his evner\n\nchase their proper position. The rules fil an teadowform the only Title Feed Tegally no lauteten dynasty, is now untirely in the possessi Patire Pekin Gazette, red if carried out to the scary of tus property careyed by the hat of Clingsu agriculturists. These Be injuctions will ary. Next day the Curse Magistrate reburned the Consulate, charged with a palis meusage\n\nlester, will undermine tin whole theory of Gea facite sourity against depute, the per-probably rogain and letter, as great masse goods are quoted at 7915 a 25- from his super love. w leg of Mc Jackson to i-\n\nvernment. The rh the cational examinations chaser usually demands fies the salter the end of string human being pour mainly into th shillarity; but dat gentleman could\n\nfor singling out talent tor da publie acyvize stil of Sale executer when the property was eca only repeat Must as British Causul lie was proclud-\n\nexist, and though men who have distinguished themselves are promoted even to this day, yswners frequently, these ne fe set of dende in into a garden. At the splitting of the Magistrate, ha vever, he consented to take down the evidence enflected by\n\nas oficial, which vets to this eff\n\nalloy is the most powerful lever a lift them and winoul it die most perfert scholar way never\n\nTrain clerkship.\n\nIt is not exactly a new mode, having been o\n\nall had resurse win gases of ergency; be in so farmer period of Chiuess history was it\n\nAz ailway took place at a village cubed. Kwon- Ton, which is situated arear the sater's edge, and beg oly a sides distance from the opŕuni ships, is lequently visited by their evos Buzopositaet ever reduced to so complete a system: as at the are therefore conman visitors, and the pressure prosent day, Any hedy may purchase in the pened no selvation or unfriendly feciagnitaries, sud the mat inworthy strive for the was unlikely, therefore, thing the viitagern would, gliest distretiens Men of scobity have e\n\nmustrated against such prcecodinga, asachvers ve withnet, offer helt stilo resis of all gust dreymeal, and introducing\n\nthus often collected in the bands of the existing propriewe.\"\n\napite of the government, soon change the dai\n\n(September 6, 1648) INYOHTS BAS STINGS- the let alinan the Asian have coon about 30.900 ! OLO im.\n\n25,000 piss Frith Their presun salud 20.500\n\n28705\n\nfo 67 catly Grays, and 22905 be good ident\n\nWhite.\n\nA xvs-- Of Datinge 9,000! prears of sũ yửa, goods as a sold this man se 1995, 2b. hase were sold, 2018 153 easy Sheet picers still fee light gouds, vod 250 2520 for the heavy . The demand fully suplied for the present.\n\nCoron Yaxs-Has been Rold lately to some extent, it being used with Silk for manufaccúm of a\n\n3ve us Nos. 184 SI Ave Lezght falvi tor\n\nIn limite demand at NA Ord. Salz of abrip Enriel nor reported vi our quotation.\n\nSeaman Syatees -The sales cons to 9300 pieses 18:05 to 1975 pood.\n\n470 piecsa sold at 205.30, which is then pre- METALAI-Notes, dut at 350. Lek-$10\n\nPIRACY. We tend a long memorial from the It is pretty well known here that Chinese in ans, are in the hair of depositing the Tite which he represcuts the meritorious effort of embarrased circumstances, or who want to raian Governor-Gearral of Fahon nad Che-keaug, in Deers of their real property as security for money, several naval heroes for the suppression of piracy foreigners being sindira the depositarian the cost of the latter province. Judging froun Motulows's papce, therefora, especially wish the tone of the paper, he wishes in encourage adition of the facsimiles, presses some stiers to similar exploits. There is little drakt practical value for the meantile members of thie hat the Englian cruizers have a great share in these trips, for which the Celestials receive | all the credit.\" In reading stel, a representation, Man mauso drwy from it for the Wassiles at refer to the rare the world imagin that zones is done to put a Custom is worte. 250, actions. No snad diffieslty wns experienced in stap to the evil whilst it is in realty word tan geting the excented, and so many of the best, and increasing to a lenchalantent. Tie von\n\nsentences will soon be seen, in the total ruin of Bok-entres in the City refused the employment,\n\nBad ise kui experiencel Met the fact and rapacity: you thob vesis dipity; althougù, we conez:52, men more\n\nbenra\n\nSOCIETY\n\nMR. VELOTUS'S JAFAR ON LAND TENUDE IN CHINA.\n\nwas, that the seamen of tim kural, instead of pur midst the general scramble for purchased erui- closing proviskonts had gone to honso of li! Br, in there created a law, which the pale the true 1vors of their comry for with\n\nThe result ca only be detrimental, onl ¿ttempted to quent, and would have succeeded, And the master the torch, acengal by lengken to the future.-Chian Heil, Sept.\n\ntwo or three orige armed Eispeans, not il-\n\nnarut. The villages were abarmen as their, CHINA BRANCH OF THE ROYAL ASIATIC eprengaver, amk avapted to pet them of Pos instead of retreading and sing the seamen Tartine Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society with them, which ting til det easily bare doue, ha med i Transcretions for the first year good deal employed by foreigners, had the pacerse Cinese bave recently adopted measures fur they feed they maskets in the air. This valy casperated the people, who attempted to beat off! the mailusta, while Baiolo, having reloaded, kim and fired offence think anse, by which one was kiki mul noster desperately wearebod. The party then went on heard their tored\n\nHaving stated these efremstances as the result adus inuigations, the Chinese Magistro wea deeirona cart the offenders should, i' possibla, be take to Macro in a British versel of War; bib AS\n\npicts sold; present quotation ea 6810, T- thecanner 213: Straits 188.\n\nSex Wales of 1000 picats. Straight sticka at work). per pul\n\n542966 AD-th Fes Island good 75; ordinary 15* és por ticut.\n\n23s; Vanila AASIA & 4005 for common to bat\n\nPeren-Salas of Mac. at 5649 per piel.\n\nZebe 247, and Trai\n\nOrux-Tiere has been a large busines? one during the past onlb. l, watol was as low at 7-2g, Ta ray to 770 and 7909, at which it\n\nmated sterd;. Paina has bion feels\n\ntitle\n\npast week has bought a decline and $5196 i now the art pica The aport Yau been a chests of all kinds, and the clearances rather more than Es; to ha÷the stocks are reduced sororwhat mou fast munih's stali\n\nEXPORTS. TEAR-About 2 elops of Conzon have been settled 5 19.25\n\n19 al fur the best of 102 The Tay for isown, and 10 x 13 19 aumptious,; bu 6000re wastly o\n\nthat is was hard that ude of executing them the wide varias convience; even now nas nge- half of the junks that formerly navigated the must be abandoned; but at lengli one an un- tortor the work for 2 large price. At the end coat, are to be seen, and even these carry only of a week, however, he als reined the peers, cheap and bully articles, the loss of vassche by blocks. Ultimately an outside man, who is a Raying that he dared not the say money cat the ends of the baniers being so very gmat. that no valuable cargoes can run the gundet.\n\nand although the volume is not a very bully one, jint into his hands, and weld what he was 20, the suppression of pincy, but without foreign aid the contents say of au interesting nature, affords without asking in whether he was willing or\n\nthen sus tay be donated). valuable information on subjects raportens in\n\nSa-pong-tuan, the daging pirate from Chek ehu, not. He was penbably more under the feas of themselves, and duct which He is known offending a gondenser than of being dete^keů who took possession of several forts on the exEL among foreigners. For the sake of those who by his own country; int though he did ex- near Toupas, with all the guns in thena, F: are not members of the Society, we subjoin a sure this cutting, he would not print off the delics the local government. The natives Lave Table of Cuteuts\n\nengine, or even sund hone the block, wach row been prointed from fersishing him will PRELIMINARY ADDRESS: by the Iridaat, SAB\n\nsupplies, in order to starve him into submission. wero got only by being sent for. Jalan Pearen Day. Barnet, F.R.S. THERE AND A\n\nNo autopt was he got stamps executed He will however with his wild camarades try MARK ON THE BENUISITION, COMMON-in imitation of the erals, of which unpress likely help himself, and make an obsinat resize the uning kas yat budu doar preter to H. 11. Consulate, Canton.\n\ni market\n\nbent 00 pachugus Crter, Traverted, mostly Teping and enter sherbet 2 48 65 cars for fine Grunder, 26ncials and 9-1 for\n\nmarket at been maite for the 2 superial Young Hysany of the Twsday kind: 24628 tacks for fair Single Gaupowders For the Angri\n\nin\n\nይ) .ii\n\nThis could not be done, le paposed to convey the 13 C, 15 PROPERTY, appear on the avigno! Deed-Ford, where it kiss snes, unless bought over. He is well kran. A RAW St.-So 10 contrusts are reported. Abent\n\nprincipata by chair overland. Upon meewashiuya- lu No over, it was thoughts et excitement night | rinna íe eroded ating to route which would expose the prisoners danger, and he was there- Fere wing allow them to proceed to Maeso in tanie own Toren, the Chinees placing a guard on Boord. An alternative was suggested, ad peristips! the most satisfactory arrangement under the cir ethnames, thak Mainio, ni beu of other procecil- ings adust hun, should be called agon to unke some provision for the family of the man he had killed\n\nOn the 15 the Magistrale returned, and re- ported that the higher anthorities were dispose:l to deal leniently, but in Bue present size of oxcite mont, puemniary compenastion was out of the question. But if Haliole would agree to go over- 11, he alwall be esrayed under safe candnet, and not weabed as a criminal and be prosecdeá in has own vessel, it would be proper at an officcy and attendants shool Lavonny lim. The f gistrate als required she of thể thi tese crew in Le sont un glure, in order to compare his cvilince with that of the villagers.\n\nnesaswa, Bag., Interi\n\nOn the Acquisition of itgal Prunerty-Rognitions For the Cultivrition of Alla stat Tevaloids the fold vation of Werte Govciment lands: Da Commun Teen: Q ARenation -Deed of Sale- Pord-od. A MIORT ACCOUFT OF A VISIT TO THE HOT PGINGH OF YONG MAR; by J. C, Bawang, Esq.\n\nAnalysis of the Water.\n\nA TREATISE ON THE GONEAR SYSTEM OF ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOOY by W. A. Han\n\nPart), Anator-Part 2, Physiology.\n\n.D.\n\nNOTRE ON THE TSIRN, OR GOPPER CASH OF THE CHINESE: SC. B. Housa. Ten, Chef Magis- Trade of Hongkong.\n\nLe minst ForgNTS\n\nON THE MINEN OF THE ORINESE PAPIRE: the the AA GUT, Churae try to\n\ndocere\n\nierendene!: China Proper-Go Minas River Ninesfran Maos Copper Mine-nick- silver and above Clanahar Min\n\nOF PROCEFHINOS\n\nAng Amicie Socrity of Chinn-Office-bearen\n\nfor 847-fur 1848.\n\nREPORT OF THE COUNOH\n\nAPPENDIX.\n\nthe counterpart; and it would certainly save waters as a desperate vagabond. been unsuccessful, as persona farging such scala are punishable by dongation, immediately upon receiving the confirmation of the sentence by the | Criminal Board, which must be specially applied! for. It would therefore be highly biamentie to\n\nCANTON MARSET. (September 27, 1848) IMPORTS. Dorotðar sket eligws au adarce in the voice | of siis article,\n\nbuy cause! by ans\n\nan increased demand for Foreign\n\navo nave, to parade any as a little, it seemed of the pactal fellure of the active in work of this description. In enitting the\n\nDan during tuvath have boos,—2,400\n\nusing are, there was nothing striedy illegal, bulion Monday, and a 7 0 for old, and to 4 8.3 for new\n\n1,000 barus Bëngui, al 8.2 u R1 for all. 8si a 0.3 for new hut time toumaction if detector big involve and 2,400 Faders, 615385 for old, nu 973 an in serious difficulty. I would look suple now. Tho g is our osnal monthly statement ~ ¦ efoun, and the cirenmatter of the employer being a foreigner would not probably un iegarded my excurs. --China Mau, September 14.\n\nUNITED STATES CONSUL\n\nJ. N. A. Gaworu, Esq., has been appointed Consul for the United States at Shanghoë, in the room of Caleb Lyam of lyonsdni, hug, resigned, --China Mall, September 21.\n\nSustains for Perure Disoussion: List of Members MATTER EXTRACTED BY THE LEADING LONDON JOURNALS FROM NEWSPA PURS IN THE EAST,\n\nthe Society in 1817.\n\nThe panor by Mr Meadows which stands at\n\nFORD\n\nNesty 2015 September\n\nkey limg\n\nSk\n\nBetul,\n\nRocha. Bulc, 7,4\n\nMadras,\n\nរូ6,-i ឬ\n\n44.8 €3,77\n\n7,6\n\n2.0INI\n\n1,376 2,\n\nAmerican, u nea Shanghas,,\n\n2,370\n\n2,\n\n100\n\n모유\n\nTO\n\n..-.-\n\n----.\n\nWitch in the interior go forward per e\n\nAunts of a short orop are cârra. ed, and escalinae firm in their demands to high prices\n\nEXCHANGE.\n\nOn ESGANG, nominal «4 42 10 4/5.\n\nFREIGHTS.\n\nTo Exalu, nominal at 4/16. bips would ined full cargo gladly at less\n\n•\n\nFrem our MANILA Correspondent. September 17, 1818.;\n\nIMPORT\n\nAt this season of the year tas market is commonly in 40 377 a raty dull stato, but as present it is more than mua!} Ew the cavy stocian care costiarily re 5,167 ceirley didous. The Yuencia Tom Singapore 175 Line of British gods, and the Concurd and St Pavaro the United States have the into ste markyta lieagy lot of 16 pics AUSKICAN BROW SI 400 ps of Darte, part of which have ben sokk ut $94 in 10 yds of the frier, and $2 for 2 yils of the liter; and a father recessio 13 expected per Propratt9. Hair 2 CECTUS --\n\n555 1,181\n\nTotal Bale, 1,438 2020 57.619 77,437 69,113 Sport kan verehressa in blog ofte by improvers don In the math he is elit, he Time Then the digkeiten Sah on the now, s, ir lie il trejur , del pike Stel ja mina inanajer 2 Pack itu saya, sahil nani kawęd |___Bose Chopra--In Betle desand at ageren:ed mates. for Tely, vix-16,600 plecus Grere at fur emang, 2.30 Tio vady salon which have been made were excite\n\nre 25-10); 02. a Oik weight.1g7 catii. 230 20: and 75%, 975028 lindres hice have bood dioned of at 915 3855 for con, 250 2970 for\n\nsales are reported of\n\nsome 200 pu» z+§3a $35. axording to youli'yi tor\n\nstar respos the inpert arket is dull, and the sy cecite of ajnost every article of consequenc\n\nEXPORTS\n\nSome port and perchases have hech made of Current Wayne at 53 aid at $35, deliverable within a short time, and the dealyts, in condequeue ef these car suctions, diansol to halit out for\n\nwho are asking\n\nall\n\nATE i was on nnivated by the Coosal to the nester of puncher lovela, No. 13, who came to the\n\nthe head of the Bat is a masterly mac, written 1s turning over some old numbers of the Bombay 661 and R 280 for 7 day for intelligence, and to state that his friend with great precision of myle and chee adherence Saliole had determined to posed to Maces to the street, the nority of which is wis mate has reference to a portion of 1845, bus what par- and aaolib in Ali to 27.063 paces, at 28 a 250) kr 20 in Jantalons There is a nud\n\nAMMAN DosThe sales at Strille during the muath Times, we came upon the following Table, while | having already lifted his chor and dropped down\n\nhave been chify to speculators, sist at reddoud cas, beinn the Chinese slipping. He declined to sedemies meal facts or elstituting me writing for\n\nthe occasion for building ignory theorica on tin dues not appear: we presume the second yards, and Ste 8 for 40 yards ads. Jeans in deal of Zeb stored by the hoitors, wh in of be wrew on shôn, thas hicing meressary, So, through his end of No. 18, he admitted the account of what occurred as given by the villagers to be the correst one, Balíolo profossing to have been fortarly misle by us men, whic\n\nder to adnit their having originatel tie bmw! to explain ia cause addo that the fact of having been accompanied by other foreigners when he wont ca love, we quite true. Hugh he paser entire, instead of setveting extracts,\" Do future occasion we shall rotund to the Trimes died to ten it in Instant to the tone, which contaio, jesides a peer on the Cons?\n\nquarter. Fet however that my be, the Table is exacu-10 pieces sold a 24 Sheraz no. 92, and me purchases have been made for the gland shows the fuss Mail to have even then kedator Ya Phu sales of English have been 1,500 beets 4293 per post; but the demand for\n\nthing doinu-prices nominal ut 2875.\n\nat $1- and titereabouts Pampanga ustayed haw fourth aring thirteen Oriental Papers published holes-N 10 24, 25869308.30 24 a 53, 3154 Aussaat stack at present, and my voels loading fac\n\nand 2389 h 348 Prosent etiel: 214 bales. 1583 gameICT.\n\nsubstantial informou, after a fashion to com- mon with contributors to leaned Sueleties. In the hands of a more dxcursiva writer the matter of the present Esny would probably have van tiscale to the reader. spne out to twice the extent, withag! being so s\n\nAnether advantage of\n\nthis condensation is that it alles us to give the\n\n1 baca of 13lan Toy My Gutelaff, nahor on a sud\n\nOf course the authorities Have heard nothing jeet still lesa hiwe, by Dr Hesland, Chisere ince of Balin, who is not at all likely bentory and Phyridongy, which deserves more his purse to lacan, where the Governor of that Province would doubtless take the opportunity\n\nChua euch a cursory notice as we coull now give it clear up the ocenities of the Probation Medines prices to dab of the Acquisiting of After intercinetory crvation Me pomulgated in the Buiesim do Governo, about retine sa sinar waning was kained by the British Penitentiary. Gdy stray anherz\n\nin India, China, and the Straits.\n\nProportion of Mulder extreeter tos: forces\n\n·291530: 98 n\n\nagain bal at the slave Salsa rebutted of avern: thousand pieuse at $56 factiu leur than . A quantity is d by the agent of the Proridin wines, whie cold sobald he bought at tia fast gantalin, although half\n\nreal atov: iced.\n\nTIG: last year. 500 les Amerings Ware sold in the mara of bugs the monais at 278 21350 for No. 15 25. WOODLES% little macul-2000 CDs States STRIFE have been told als\n\nIhre 16-20\n\nNarning Wipers in the west of the Judía, la volează, (Auvny a portion of 1849.)\n\n(Fam \"De Benley Tim, Dersler 13, 1917.)\n\nReal Property in Chine?\" and apon this point Bombay Times. states, that \"real property can at pressul only bo\n\nTelegraph & Courlo\",\n\nCalzata Englishman. Bungal (erkara-\n\n*\n\n5\n\n161\n\n210\n\nCaldarts Star,...\n\nf\n\n201\n\n+\n\n39\n\nKornelion Adverker\n\n고금\n\n11\n\nPolestar reis us, and the one coursising acquiend in three ways: first, be cultivation of deteran's Garaute. e last we ever saw, but the following which is include the acquisiti at uredeene\n\nundecuplet land; Borondly, by peclan in Pelli Ovetto... cantation appeared some tee sgu in the long kong Register :--\n\nhaving ge in the age of groeihener the Durer of the Province that in the service with at tantras fion this plats are ongesel, of co- jader in vessels traslug to the porta the thing, for the past of delending in Pro. die wurks of g\n\nChina Mail.\n\nmortgagel property); and thirdly, by her Madras Atheneum, tance. Leaving the sued and third \"modes of ! acquisition to be trwalod of separately, under the bead of * Alienation,\" he proceeds to give soul of Chien,\n\nHongkong Register, hatance of the general law of China (extracto from various edes published under Imperial Barton Times...\n\nwhich are not actionlead he lay, and Pales have givet e.\n\nfpirates, cords have bras exited authority), m Aequisition by Culfiration. After\n\n* In Chian Kril, No 197. Sept. 14, wer'sly invite.\n\n! China Mail, September 7.\n\nA 5 -- 90 per plaerd at 1850 a 2800. Im Knave deed. We queurial 08701 SP, A390 ta ya The salos Save beat 1930 Pea, of the farmest, and Yana a latur\n\n\"Nasking driers nominal 4 205\n\nTA, and 225 209 far week. Its gada log.\n\nBOBALPVEU06 13535.\n\nALEPAT TROY Xatrod and Jiren 45203 N§; Bar, 3830 m\n\nas wort 78 TIX AT-88850 AR-5.\n\nGemasan.de ius a Kp. Ciarhed 1255 a 15§. CORRAL Large alankuminal at 1663 3 Java, Hd 170 for 3 aniran\n\nBain\n\nmal 9,000 plead at 2420 5 HATTAN--Saosing-imports beavy petendo! In Log-fanjarawing 38 - 3950; Stratis 2930 u 3520:\n\nTater %%n@.”\n\npics have been sold at 10 a 3550 Jo is sxluble.\n\nPercur§51) er. 85.\n\nCurcu-24 a 550\"\n\nSANDAL Wonoce have boon heavy riports, but\n\nSAWAY WOO-Good straight wood has born lakes at $5 per perl, but fur lately. nat.\n\nnta $15 le askot. There Jvc bc reosive.i fron, in Pravdary ¿e le les active it was",
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        "content_text": "4338 Harry Wory\n\nInterred\n\nLovereen Bonham C.B.\n\nb\n\nDespatch addressed.\n\nEnclosing Extract of a\n\nMr Merivale\n\nAcknowledged\n\nupon\n\nl\n\nN\n\nThere is\n\nAB. 27/5.\n\nno further Else I think, to do\n\nMon May 27\n\nThis will be referred to when the estimates come under discussion in the H. of Commons: and I shall be prepared from it though The Consular body / Merchants.\n\nClicked there in\n\nJervis\n\nTold que\n\nto Sir H. Taylor\n\nColonial\n\n  \n    May 27/5\n    *Hames\n    137\n    D\n    189\n    5 July 150\n  \n\nI have to acknowledge the\n\nreceipt of your despatch Separate of the 20th\n\nof May lacking\n\nar\n\nExtract from a Despatch to Viscount Palmerston respecting\n\nThe relative rates of the\n\nemoluments received\n\nby the\n\nConsular Officers in China\n\nand the Clerks attached to the Mercantile Establishments at\n\nCanton ...\n\n \nShang hay",
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        "content_text": "18\n\nNEW ADVERTISEMENT.\n\nWANTED.\n\nWe have to acknowledge receipt of a table of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company's revised rates of Passage-money; and we have hung up the same in our office for the use of our personal friends.\n\nBy Order,\n\n2. H. CARVALHO, Secretary\n\nHongkong, 20th January, 1857.\n\nTo the Editor of the \"HONGKONG REGISTER.\"\n\nMACAO, 1st February, 1857.\n\nDEAR SIR—The 10 mandarins, who came from Shang-hae, have been here for a few hours, and having taken their dinner at Cau-qa hong, embarked in the ensuing for Casa Branca, and from there to Yan-san and Cass feathers; and 5 of them bare blue buttons. Two of the mandarins have red buttons and peso sent to Caatho to assist Yeh—and it is said, that two of them were formerly in Canton in the time of the first war with Commissioner Lin.\n\n\"Every thing here is quiet, but I say in the harbour a good many mandarin junks displaying a varying flag. Though people are at this time they cannot do any harm here, I would question, that. What could we do prevent their attacking this place and carrying away the heads of the English that are living here?\n\nI am, &c,\n\nThe Hongkong Register.\n\nHONGKONG, TUESDAY, 3 FEBRUARY, 1857.\n\nNOTICE—The Hours of Posting Wrons in the CENTRAL POST OFFICE, Hollywood Road, are on the Subirth at 11 am, and stand on the Evening of every Wednesday at 7 o'clock.\n\nSIXTY.\n\nWe recorded a pedestrian feat last week —walking to the top of Victoria Peak and back six times in twenty-four hours. The same gentleman did the same task this week in twelve hours, which shows, speaking in all honor and praise, that he is an artful dodger; for the latter feat though apparently more difficult, is in reality easier.\n\nProof—a friend of ours went up and down in fifty-seven minutes.—say one hour at four miles. Four times six's twenty-four; and good steady walking, making the trip equal to twenty-four miles in twelve hours is not very great walking.\n\nTaking all the difficulties into account on an undertaking like this is more easily carried through at one heat than in two, we have no doubt that with, or, from what we hear, without halting, the gentleman who has done the six times could easily do the eight if he set his mind on it.\n\nWe have been trying to persuade our ... C. to put himself in training and try the feat—but he says he has been once to the gap and considers that enough is as good as a feast.\n\nNo. 5. FEBRUARY 3, 1857.\n\nThe climate of London is one thing, and the climate of Hongkong is quite another.\n\na more material matter than that of Hongkong, we must decidedly feel of any corps being sent away from this place.\n\nAn urgent necessity exists for augmenting and making the most effective part of the regular police force here, many of whom do their duty conscientiously to the best of their ability—but the superintendence of London is one thing: and the superintendence in Hongkong is another.\n\nThe screw Steamer Sir James Brooke left this at noon yesterday to Hongkong, having on board three companies of Sepoys, a detachment of European Artillery-men, for service in China, despatched on the requisition at the hands of Hongkong.\n\nThe troops consisted of two companies the 29th M. N. I., the European Artillery-men, Pang, and the Company of the Rifle Company accompanying this force are Major Cheslett, Captain Cazalet, Lieut. Foote, and Passingham of the gun, Capt. Man, Lieut. Forster of the Madras Artillery, Dr. Lloyd, Assistant Surgeon, Apothecary Edwards and Sub-Conductor Ball.\n\nThe Sir James Brooke has been chartered for Twelve thousand dollars.\n\nFrom these and other causes which might be specified Hongkong is not in effect London, and a system which may do very well at the latter place may require important modifications at the former.\n\nWe can never obtain the same raw material for a police here as obtainable in London, but we certainly, both in ordinary and in extraordinary times, such as the present, can make the most of our raw—excessively raw material.\n\nFirst: we would make the men effective by putting them on duty for a four hours beat; and if that could not be done conveniently from the central police station, we would do it from three stations—East, West, and Central.\n\nThe S.S. Auckland brought about 100 tons of shot, shell and ammunition from Pinang last week, which will be sent to China as soon as possible.\n\nBraitonore crew Pressa, Jan. 22.\n\nOn the arrival of the Mail at 6.30 PM of Sunday the 1st February we did, for the convenience of our subscribers, what we have not done before—viz: apply for a pass for two coolies to carry the respective Papers, which will secure early delivery.\n\nTwo passes were granted dated 10th January good for 21 days, the time expiring on the 31st January. Of course the 1st February was beyond the pale of the pass but coming direct from the Superintendent of Police we deemed it all right, thinking that police matters were going on in their usual cuddle.\n\nIn this belief the passes were on the night of the 2nd instant given to two of our Chinese Compositors to take them home, and we were somewhat astonished on being awakened at half past twelve, and informed, that our men were in custody.\n\nWe went down to the police office, and there we found the authorities pondering over the passes, and wondering to see the names of the boys written in red pencil, that being the color of the printing of the new passes.\n\nWe explained that a red pencil is a very common article in a printing office and that the names had been written in with that; then on making ourselves responsible for the lads we saw them let go.\n\nMARRIAGE.\n\nAt Belgrave-square, on the 24th November, the wife of Admiral Sir T. COCHRANE, of a Son.\n\nAt Victoria, Cox, ELIZABETH SANDERS.\n\nMarriage Register xi:10.\n\nON SUNDAY, the 1st instant, the P. & O. Co.'s steamer Cadiz arrived with the English mails of 10th Dec.; from Singapore 24th, Penang 21st, Chusan 9th and Bombay 1st January.\n\nThe general news from Europe are of a most uninteresting description: and they are our readers have had them in the Extra we delivered on the arrival of the mail.\n\nThe Cadiz brings on:-\n\nOPIUM—For Cumsingmoon,.....875 chests,\n\nHongkong, 216\n\nWunsung.......435\n\nTotal—1581 chests,\n\nTREASURE\n\nFor Hongkong 459,965 dollars\n\nShanghai 479,697\n\nCanton 29,072\n\nTotal—1,126,831 dollars\n\nSTOCK OF TEA IN THE UNITED KINGDOM, November 30, 1856.\n\nLondon\n\n...t. 86,786,000 19,115,000\n\nercel...\n\nHull and other English Ports\n\nFaith and\n\nGlas other Foreign Ports\n\nIreland...\n\nStock, 30th November, 1856..\n\ndo, do. 1855.\n\n1,000,000 2,000,000 2,933,000 1,130,000\n\n1,700, una\n\n.67,214,009\n\nSome doubt having been felt in the trade as to when the next reduction of the duty on tea would come into operation, an inquiry was sent to the Board of Customs: the Board stated in reply, that on the 6th of April next the duty will be reduced from 1s. 9d to 1s. 3d. per pound.—one News.\n\nCHINA SHIPPING.\n\nArrivals.\n\nAt London, November 12, Orient from Shang-hae: 21. Cûnger, from Canton; 29, John Wade, from Foo-chow; 2, Coega, from Foo-chow: $5, Flery Cross, from Foo-chow 2, Sff from Canton 27, Sea Witch Gram Foo-chaw; a fon Taylor, from Foo-chow; 24, Rant of Hyland, from Shangte; December 1. Lorena, from Canton; 1, Kangaroo, from Canton; 5. Lente Sophie, from Foo-chow, Daphne.\n\nfrom Canton, Celualat, from Canton; Julin, from Canton.\n\nAt Liverpool, November 23, Viking, from Foo-chow; 28,\n\nAt Pen. Dom Canton,\n\nWe observe that H. M.'s brig of war Camilla, Commander Civil, from the Cape of Good Hope, Nov. 15th passed Anjer on the 7th inst. bound to China—strife Tema January 20.\n\nHOME NEWS\" Nov. 20.\n\nH. M. Str, —Notice is given that preparations are now making for the intended distribution of proceeds arising from the Greek brigantines Chrissys, apprehended on May 22, 1855, by H. M. S. Niger.\n\nBranded dise Heriblad, captured on May 19, 1855, by H. M. S. Nya; tribution of proceeds arising from the Greek esse and for the intended distribution of proceeds arising the Gruss, vessel Pagis requifio.espted on 30, 1855, by ET. 31. S.\n\nThe Charlotte June, for Shanghai, which put back to undergo thorough repair, will sail again on the 15th of January, having discharged her cargo, and, being leaky.\n\nSecond we would provide for a more effective superintendence from sun down to sun rise either by a four or a three hours' compulsory patrol of the inhabitants, which would be no hard task on 150 to 200 men.\n\nThese are the first imperative alterations or amendments, but—\n\nThird; we would put the men into barracks and in effect, put them, as nearly as possible under military discipline.\n\nThe man who would not submit to that discipline is not fit for a police-man, and a smaller force of well cared for men would be infinitely more valuable than the no-cared for rag tag and bob-tail that we now call police.\n\n\"COMMERCIAL SHIPPING NEWS\" The John Wade from China to London, as Arrived in the Tower, She lost her main, tort, and mizzen mast, and re-rigged mast, off the Cape of Good Hope on August 11.\n\nShe sailed from St. Helena on Sept. 22.\n\nAt the present moment—What is the best part of the police, as far as acting in a body is concerned, and as far as looks go? Why the Gaol brigade.\n\nThey step well together, and they carry their arms as if they know how to use them, neither of which assertions can be made of the rest of the police force.\n\nAnd what does this smart active clearly appear to arise from, but from discipline.\n\nThey are in barracks; they have good wholesome food: they are properly drilled, and the result follows, which always follows when men are well cared for, and well disciplined.\n\nA contemporary recommends a mounted patrol.\n\nThe Times are serious, and perhaps it might cheer the spirits of the colonists to see a mounted policeman with his trousers half way up his leg. his legs swaying backwards and forwards like pendulums, in what the equestrian, audaciously, imagines is rising to the trot of the bony police charger; while by his side clatters a word, that he could not draw—or use if he drew.\n\nWe have no fault to find with the policeman, nor with Janier Burton, who captured the two lads, nor with his superiors who were trying to see out a\n\nWe record without either regret or astonishment the above event.\n\nIt is another sign and are we less amused at the figure of certain superior officers who lean back to prevent the jar of the canter on their spinal column.\n\nAmusement is sometimes very useful, and we expect that amusement would be the extent of the utility of a mounted patrol.\n\nWe have given serious advice about the police, and finding that of no avail we have attacked them by ridicule; but they are thick-skinned animals, and we fear we are far from having pricked them into watchfulness by our sting.\n\nWe will not give up our task however, knowing how much depends on the vigilance of the police, and as vigilance is not natural in them, as it certainly is not, we shall try and establish it as an exotic which perhaps with due care may become a thriving plant.\n\nFirst then, the whole system of the police is wrong.\n\nThe day duty extends from six o'clock in the morning to ten o'clock at night, and night duty from ten o'clock at night until six o'clock in the morning.\n\nAll the changes of the day and night duty being effected from the central police station.\n\nThe hours of patrolling of each constable on night service is for the whole extent of the time.—night hours.\n\nWe believe this is the London system; and may for anything we know answer very well there; and perhaps it would answer very well here, if all the conditions were the same as they are in London, which they are not.\n\nOfficers,\n\nServants\n\nHank & Pike\n\nArtificers,\n\nFollowers 22, servants 18,\n\nDATA.\n\n2. 37.N.T Art.N.L\n\nDepartures.\n\nNovember 28th Armitage, for Shanghai: 23, Countess of Rarfield, for Shanghae; December,\n\n8, Mencide, fur Sigita\n\nThe amount of bills drawn by the East India Company on their respective Presidencies, from the 26th ult. to the 9th inst, is as follows:-\n\n£  s. d.\n\nBengal......442,920 12\n\nRate of Exchange. 91 2. Od. per Cus\n\nMadras 46,097 U\n\n9 Rupee.\n\nBombay 4,263 6\n\n28. 04. per ditto.\n\nTotal........£22,077 9\n\n4\n\n--Atlas, December 10.\n\nTHE Band of the 59th Regiment will perform to-morrow on the Parade Ground, weather permitting, at 4 PM, the following pieces:-\n\n1.—Prince Albert: March --Kilmer\n\n2.—Spanish Volonaise,--Isrypsant.\n\n3.—Aric. Finale Lip Sonnambula. Bellini 4.—Royal Irish Quadrille's,—Julien,\n\n—Dalkeith Piwo Waltz—Labicky.\n\n—Maltese Gallop—no\n\nH. M. Str, Barracouta arrived from Canton on Monday morning; the only news she brings is the account of an attempt to Fire to the Comus.\n\nThe night was very dark and two fire rafts came down and were close on the vessel before they were seen—one was boomed off by the fire boom. but the other worked on to and carried away the spanker boom.\n\nThe ropes about the bow were nearly burnt through.\n\nThe H. C. steamer Auckland returned to this port from Pinang on Friday last, bringing on for service in China about 159 Tons of shot, shell, and ammunition.\n\nThe Auckland brought on from Pinang the following officers and troops for service in China:\n\nMajor Cheslett 29th M. N. I.\n\nCaptain Cazalet,\n\nLiu, Foote,\n\nPassingham\n\n»\n\nTwo Companies Sepoys 20th M. N. I.\n\nCaptain Man, Madras Artillery.\n\nLieut. Forster,\n\nForty Europeans\n\nDr. Lloyd, Assistant Surgeon.\n\nApothecary Edwards.\n\nSh.Conductor Ball.\n\nFor the purpose of conveying the above Officers and Troops to Canton the Bore Company's steamers steamer St James Brooke has been chartered, and sails to-morrow for Whampoa.\n\nThe sum of Dals, Twelve Thousand for the trip and coals are the terms upon which the steamer has been chartered.\n\nAs the sement of troops from India has commenced Calcutta and Madras. The way with China as be we may look forward for speedy reinforcements from entered upon with a large military force, stronger than employed during the last war—Siraits Times and Singapore Journal of Commerce, January 20.\n\nIn consequence of the pressing request of the Governor of Hongkong, General Bodelt has resolved to\n\nsend away to-morrow the Rifle Company of the 39th M. N. I with Capt. Bark and Lieut. Cos.\n\nConcerning the (From our Overland Edition.)\n\nCUMSTAL OF ARTUM AND NINE OTHERS ACCUSED TO POISON.—Particulars of the attempt to poison the whole community by bread from the E-sing Bakery will be found elsewhere.\n\nThe partner of the firm, Ahlum, arrested at Macao, was brought back, and after an examination before the Magistrates, was committed with nine others to take his trial at the Criminal Sessions this month.\n\nThe trial will commence on Monday next.\n\nOn Wednesday last an application was made to the Court to have the money seized or Ahlem's premises given up to pay for his defence.\n\nAttorney General, backed by the affidavit of two of Altun's creditors, resisted the application. stating in his as courteous manner that he did so to prevent the money being Thundered or squandered in his defence.\n\nThe Counsel, in support of the motion, seemed to think the Attorney General was using strong language. when, of course, the Attorney General repeated\n\nthe bill for Aldam's defence being paid out of the money, after it was laid before and approved of by His Lordship.\n\nHis Lordship very properly sustained the Attorney General, except of course as regarded his insinuations.\n\nThe prisoners will be well defended—they have two Attorneys and two Barristers.\n\nChinese New Year.—The Chinese New Year fell on Monday, the 25th Instant.\n\nIt is usually a scene of noisy rejoicing for several days and nights.\n\nIn London they have the pick of the very best labor of the country,—they will not other.\n\nHere our only easier is from bad request the Authorities to stop the usual expenditure of fire-works as a means of preventing the probability of fire.\n\nAided by this support, the Government issued an order that there should be no fireworks, let off.\n\nIn consequence, the New Year has passed without any of the usual rejoicings, showing, that if we choose to exercise it, we have a power of repression, especially if we show ourselves earnest in the matter.\n\nIn London, the men are well paid, and properly housed and cared for.\n\nHere they are not well paid—they live where they can, in low and dirty hovels, and no one cares for them.\n\nIn London, the care and training of strong healthy men originally, make them still stronger and handier—they are quite able, though not useless to walk their eight hours beat without inconvenience, to keep awake and be an effective sure of praise, and rewards, and promotion—give them up and retire.\n\nHere the want of care and discipline makes men in the end, neither strong nor healthy at the first, so they never were able to walk an eight hours beat steadily; they have little or nothing to look forward to.they are not likely to be praised in their present state.\n\nthe rewards they obtain are paltry and the promotion is a doubt full affair.\n\nSee the case of a licenum, who by great pluck at sea single-handed more off an armed gang of Chinese at Aberdeen, he was rewarded with ten dollars until we\n\nstate of our Settlement, and that the Chinese population ? shazed the government in to giving more.\n\nThe Admiral in reply to the muy treacherous attempts made against us on the morning of 19th inst. sent ashore several parties of Sailors and Marines, who set fire to the western suburbs in the neighborhood and above Sa-men; this work was carried out successfully by the boats of the Niger, Encounter, and Barracouta.\n\nThe men of the Fifty-ninth were also detailed to fire the Streets behind the Factories but, owing to loosing their way in the labyrinth of Streets in that neighborhood they had to return without effecting their object.\n\nAmen of the 59th, with a Lieutenant, a Sergeant, and 20 men of the 59th, with a Sergeant and six men of the Police, who are to return, by a Mail Steamer\n\nAnswer---I do.\n\nOn the\n\nCras and by Mr. Jay—I'm not aware that the delivered the remainder of our bread to Mr. May at the Police Court on the evening of the following day.\n\nQuestion—Do you not, as an Editor, make it your Ahlam's father, when the ninth prisoner was not in the neighborhood of the Yamun of the Governor General Yeh caused a conflagration of some extent.\n\nIn the body of the paper will be found Maui-General Yeh caused a conflagration of some extent. The whole operation was effected with a loss of two men of the Fifty-ninth killed and about six wounded; the latter are doing, worth attention.\n\nOn the 14th I went over to the E-sing shop to have conversation with Ahlam about that contract only\n\nQuestion—Then Sir, do you mean to say you did not know that E-Bing had a bakery near the American Naval Store.\n\nAnswer—What have I to do as an Editor of Newspaper with B-ring's stores.\n\nI wanted to say that I know of a bakery being near the Dutch Fallyly were repulsed, and the Admiral bombarded the city from the Fort and the Niger\n\nOn Sunday night, the 18th instur, an attack against foreigners, us against their own Government, was made by large force of Chinese on the Dutch Fallyly were repulsed, and the Admiral bombarded the city from the Fort and the Niger\n\nIt is a remonstrance made by, know that E-Bing had a bakery near the American Naval Store.\n\nRead, however, distinctively, it shews the prejudices which have to be overcaico before English: Commerce can again take its fitting intration of laying, be had only put it up to deceive the mandrains, who had been troubling him.\n\nI told him, the garden and, after establishing his quarters in Jous WAY-fam stoward the Sultana, I know the Tee-to-tum fort, came down here on the 23d\n\nMARKETA—Notwithstanding the warlike operations which have been carried on since the departure of the Calcutta steamer on the 28 ult. I was in the shoved the 15 January a little po\n\nasked if he had his family with him here.\n\nHe said, no bad business to attend to and he would walk home This was between 3 and 4 г.M.\n\nWalle going over A-I am a coolie at Dr. Handsome Bing's work, and people look upon the affair as jou.\n\nThe charter is, we believe, to be given up, and as brought to a close, business will be recommened in this stepio, ut rates equal to these last quoted, the\n\nmen\n\nmgements are making for getting the City in this stepio, ut rates equal to these last quoted, the\n\nPROTECTION OF THE ISLAND—The absolute necessity for a local gun-boat being apparent, the government chartered the steamer Eaglet at the present.\n\nAnse-am cook to Dr. Harland.\n\nOn the 19th: Ten-to the end of the war, as he would make a good thing of it, and be protected.\n\nHe said he did not wish to go, bs that had ba throstened several times, And that at the presunt cunt there were 03 Mandarins in Hongkong in disguisu.\n\nI tot aim that if he would report them to the Police he would be pro-tected\n\nanswered, that when we reached tbo bakery he would show me that he had a large amount of propar-tyin stake; and that he would take ray advise and remain.\n\nWhen we got to the bakery the people were mixing water and dough in diferentrooms in the place.\n\nI asked him to return with, having satisfied myself there was enough bread in the drying on to fulfil the contract;\n\nvery heavy sum of four thousand dollars per 468. In Cotton there have been no issues since unry Ifved some bread from the E-ging shop, from tha\n\nThe vessel was totally unfit for the late of our last Overiand, but it is cnticipated Ferson who usually brought the bread he is not among he said no bad business to attend to and he would walk reanth.\n\nilo prisoner.\n\nThe broad was bought at about 7.30.\n\nA-I am a coolie at Dr. Handsaw Bing's work, and people look upon the affair as jou.\n\nCruse examined by Dr. Bree—Julien gs in Smapsou left for Amoy on the 26th instant, considerable difference is made in the figures where we infer she will be stationed for the\n\nPROTECTION OF THE ISLAND\n\nORIENTAL BANK CORPORATION.\n\nEXAGON.\n\nOn London, reputas sight, ds, Yu.\n\nCalcutta—3 days' sight. Rivos 215 per $100.\n\nBombay Rugs sis per $100.\n\nCREDIT AND OTHER BILLS\n\nOn Englunds.bid, a 15.97d---¤months' sight.\n\nOn Rotsbey,--3 days' sight, Rupees 216.\n\nOn Calenta,--3 days' sight, Rupees 216.\n\nSUPREME COURT.\n\nCriminal Seibione, February 2, 1857 POISONING CASE, (First Day.)\n\nJery.—Morers, M. A. MACLEOD, W. H.\n\nSerros, Jous\n\nL.JALL\n\npris CLCES,\n\nW. A. HAILAND, I have always paid for bread from he was doing, and of his clarinetion to use.\n\nTà\n\nstatement Alum made that he guld shu bakery to rau is the E-sing up before the 15th January, and Dr.\n\nChalecost ad Dr. Hance partook the lead delivered ise.\n\nSince I gare my evidence before the Magistrate 1 was asked, na the prismass' behalf, by Mr. Mar, 20 that morning.\n\nAbout an hour afterwards I felt ck and faint, and Ehortly afterwards voted, and falconsider my statement about the 6 fandarins.\n\n* in my stomach.\n\nI took an emette which operated, had come from Allum to ask me to reconsider the answer sad I felt caster, bat in about two hours bail about the 63 Mandarins, Alam, asked me on the examt- I returned.\n\nThe next morning I had a violent headurba and felt weak in my limbs, Dr. Hance took an emeric,\n\nzakon, jî he did not any lie had been told about the co and felt weak in my limbs, Dr. Hance took an emeric, Mandards.\n\nI never was in the bakery before.\n\nI never saw na alan di Dr. Chaldecott before they were sick.\n\nThe the tenth prisnuut in the bakery.\n\nThe contract was for the latter gentleman had once more bread than any of us.\n\nsupply of 28 to 29,000lbs. bise it; it was made verbally with What breakfast a gentleman fed to say some\n\nAhim.\n\nI never made a contract with the tenth prisonet.\n\nof his friends were sick, they said in a simila. maner to that which I have descried.\n\nIlonk woon Abinon as the principal,and the teh prisoner to that which I have descried.\n\nza is assistant.\n\nMy visits were on large madere of busi- bat bread.\n\nness, and therefore not very frequent.\n\nWhen I had a contewer with him awuld occasionally drep in three or Torre severely then others.\n\nfour times a weak to see how, it was going on.\n\nI have gone, to sell flour to his.\n\nI would not conclude a wa-Tract with tenth prisoner, bat would have a juossega with him for Ahlam.\n\nI do not think he speaks English; a bread, I got a loaf from Mr. Grandpre which be said he\n\npureer was always present.\n\nAhium said the mandarinswore har! taken with his own hand from the E-sing shop, and hostile to hit in consequence of hie hating broed for the brought to me; text day I got bread from Mr. Drinker foragnet As we were going to the bakery we saw a boat and Dr. Dempster.\n\nladen with wood.\n\nIn ask me to pull to it as he wanted so ask the price, and buy if possible.\n\nIpofled upto it, and be told me he had bought it at a picul and a half for a dollar.\n\nI said it was dear.\n\nHe repbed it was dry wood We allerwards and an anolytie to ascertain the and adapted for the lakery.\n\nOn my return raw the D Bridges and Dir. Day Cowl Messrs. Gaskell quantity, and found that in a pound lost there was\n\nboat discharging on the warf and Brown with Ms. H. J. Turrant Solicitors for pri-a dram of arsenic ( grains).\n\nIn the bread it sz isted as common white arsenic.\n\nThe brand 1 est and souers.\n\nrested was brown bread, the other bread that zested was white bread.\n\nAll contained arsenie.\n\nMuch less than a hoef of bread would cause death.\n\nThe police cought me same yeast, and the materials for usk\n\n(Court adjourned at 2.30)\n\nIn reply to a question by the Cout. Du. Harland said, he had been requested by the Colonial Secretary Lo macke an analysis that he il so and the results were the same.\n\nThe unalysis was ronde in presence of Dr. Bradford Dr. Watson Dr. Keany and Dr. Dempster.\n\nThrough the Ceart, st instance of the Attomey Gan al. Tie symptoms drzevibed by the witness56, I have beard are those of poisoning by arsenic,\n\nA. GRANDPLE, The hell I gary to Dr. Harland,\n\ndcen strut, on the 16th January.\n\nI was at the Cental Polis Sation, and told a poison to take the yeast dear to hr. Havland.\n\nCross examined by Dr. Bridge—Inew the E sing HOO of Argon stress, MO SAY T Teen's\n\nRe-erambie, Tls it episode of the wood wa aft I had deraanded proof that he was going to reisio, as were not entladed with bis simple leclaration.\n\nThe conversation with the boatman was in Chinese.\n\nI saw no. money pass between Alum and the bout man.\n\nThis was the day before he left for Macao.\n\nThe prisoner Ahëwn statement before the Magistrates\n\nFarul.\n\nWALKING. An extraordinary pedestrian feat the been performed in Derbyshire.\n\nÀ man named Alfred Helson undertook to walk on six enceessive days the distance of 70 miles a-day.\n\nHe commenced his per-formance on Monday, July 20, and completed it with Case Saturday, the 26th at doing it within the specified time.\n\nThe 70 miles were usually walked in about 14 hours, hut on one of the days they were com pleted in 12.\n\nWhile on travel he took very little food, Except beef les or a tehell hit of matzon baff cooked unl Elle stimulans occasionally.\n\nIn stature he is about\n\na somewhat intriligent countenance.\n\nWhen on travel abon had a slight swing with his arius, and appeared to be going at the steady ate of some three miles an hour, and it was only when any one atletal to keep\n\na large fleet of heavily armed junks—turned and Lenox, W. A. Bowna, ED. T. Descassos, Geono\n\nOn the run back the patent log was came back.\n\ntried; when under the land, partly out of the very ChaoпG ARCUK, 4-Lum Ausow, 5-T AUZTEN,\n\n1.-ČEROVA Akopow, 2-UpsoNG AMZER, heavy sea that was runing, the log was agan-Tove Na ost, 7-Cucing Auxen, 8-Forg A hove, and she was found to be making at the CHUT, S.-CHEONG Azam, 10, Carong Wre Kero, rate of twelve miles an hour.\n\nShe was par dúministering prism with intent c\n\nThe Honble Thomas C. Ansty Alloney General; round twice, and she made the circuit in 13 minutes-out time, 43 minutes the ather, Mr. Hickso: Cheam Saficitor, amistad by Mr. George\n\nCooper Turuer.\n\ncatting her wake in both instances, Reach. ed Hongkong atfive.\n\nThere was also a good facility of the way in which she started and stopped;--shu\n\nThe Atorney General stated the case and called was stopped twice, once at Ling-ting\n\nJAYTA CARROLL DEMISTER—I am Colonial Surgeon.\n\nthe fleet of junks there, once to overhaul a B-\n\nI have been in the habit before the 15th January of ob picious locking boat; the trial in both case was taining lead from the E-sing shop belonging to the two entisfactory.\n\nWhen she gets the hurricane decking: prisonera.\n\nAt 5 ming bebe 8 AM of the 100 ing yeast, also some flour, and some pastry, fata the sad the after enbiu taken off her, she will in the January, I and my family partock of stained bakery.\n\nThey were only examined to see if they ent for the E-sing shop, at breakfeat.\n\nAfter Ms. Dzapater taiued any metalic potson, but there was neither draeuic event of being hired by the Government and\n\nhad eaten a small portion of the bread she felt giddy and nor say other metalic poison in them, Bick.\n\nAfter leaving the breakfast table, she was taken properly manned and armed, prove of great value in defending the feland, and letting us know what sick I bought nothing of it at the tima.\n\nI walked out to the verandah to exoko a cheroot.\n\nWhile holding a is going on outside.\n\nOLD CUSTOM—A Chinese reason for dingo stick to the class, I became sick and vomited-1 thenght nothing; of it, but wont in my chair to the polico any thing is, that it is \"Old Ghetero,\" Our hospita..\n\nWhen I reached the entrance leading my ba the governcams, the next most stable and conserva-jail, I became sick and ocuumed sick all the way tive after that of China, follows this rule exactly, te the hospital, and was sick unui a quarter to 10 AMI vomited very viniently.\n\nMrs. Dempster was and we have an instance of it now under our\n\neck on to 12 or 1 o'clock that right.\n\nThe next evening. eyes.\n\nThe Minie Rides for the Fifty-ninth love the 18th, about 8 FM, I forwarded the remainder of the arrived in the City of Carlisle, the amunition is to bread to Dr. Hzclazu for the purpose of, is being analy- was taken from the E-sing sop, ut the bottom of Aber- the middle height, this, extremely tauscular, end having come by and bye in another ship.\n\nIn the mean-se.\n\nI did not take the bread myself to De. Hari\n\nCroy Bunned by Dr. Badges, Ablein the sinth time the dal for long ranges has commenced, as fax as can go on the only tolerably level picce up in my own road I got it to Dr. Harlund.\n\nprisoner is the only one I know, I kept the bread locked nd we have the Happy Valley.\n\nI seat the bread by a confie dauer) Abai OLIVOLTZA—This corvette, one of H. I.\n\nAIAL— servant to Dr. Dempster cani u 1. vessels, which formed part of the Russian paper pacel on Dr. Dempster to Dr. Farinud, et le squadron sighted in Castrica Ray by Commodore 16th Junang.\n\nI do not know what was in it.\n\nMy master gave it to ine\n\nA CUMONT,-- Umi sorvant to Dr. Dempster, on the 15th theBrothers,' about twelve uules' distance from this larber.\n\nHaving been in these Eastern January, rected some bread at my inster's door from two men belonging to the £-sing's shop.\n\nThey ars nor gave it to my Master to eat.\n\nwalers for a period of seven years, it was found among the prisnare.\n\nNCCPERATY that she sheld indago a complete | This was about seven o'eloel.. i panded it on the hrakfast overhaul before departing Europe.\n\nThis is table.\n\nWH. TARKANT,-Ian Elitor of this Friend of Chin mw being done, and slic will probably take her\n\nfrith E-sing shop down in the 163: Jammy.\n\nThrow denature for Europe within three weeks.\n\nHer weaper.\n\nI have been in the habit of obtaining bread Commander. Caprala Koroolt, formerly com-\n\nthen sh and 10th prisoners to be competen with the sang shop 7 14 is acullecion ofsets; manded the little steamer Vostuck, which. sa clever-\n\nto sancos Mr. May was not present when the known to face for menfacturing but necessity for the ly cluding the English aruizers, ran into Sharr de 21, the last i know of him was wred-delivarer, then, Mr. Mercer, and M. May sing and enguling\n\ntwo bast prisoners were brought my zxamination.\n\nT! Colonial Attorney General's former audiences-night hae, carrying to the Russian Admiral important is the munging partner; and the 10th is his facher, acting as gel assistant in die shop Queen's Real nawa branght from Europe by English steiners.\n\nWest.\n\nI have soon is there frequentis, perhape ouco ever remember the Tastices of the Face sitting at he is preparing for the Treas as Acrount of the\n\nPo Station as a criminal charge.\n\nThe Chief Me Colony over which he rules.—Bengal Kartars, Dee. 1.\n\nCapt. Kursaceff's urbanity and gentlemanly bear out of erary two visits.\n\nI aw the first priser about 4\n\namination was going on at the Pulics Station.\n\nJustices ing has caused him to be recognised—not only or 5 anys below the 5th January, he was sitting down into was sitting at the Podro Court winle tais ex- of the lense were also sitting as the Police Curt.\n\nB by those who were then uentrals, but by those in my office and presented nes bill from his master.\n\nI told him, Lin, as the hili was not recoipied, if he would leave it I world look rait.\n\nIle suid is unster was going away, and may action to sit down as it he tended to the Police Cont.\n\nThe reusabing 10 prisoners enllred, though we cannot say it has distanced, wais mtb was paid.\n\nScing Le was inclined to be are still detained.\n\nThey are at the Crise rout Station, the Fraue shoul, in the matte ci wrecks.\n\nThey 1izod him by the colitr, amil old him, cal his posite Gibb, Livingston & Co.'s Godowns They American clipper Golden Racer, ton laden, forster might go to the devil if they pleased, and (thrust have been in custody from the 15th January.\n\nI cant in out of the office, I have soch the sand piery wether or not the Attorney Gener 100k may part it the examination at Cas Police Station, he was moving the United Statee, on her departure from the many occasicus, I saw Jam at the best held on the hous, but that was too crowded far me to distinguish\n\nChantes Mar—The yeast & delivered t pert, struck on the cuter knoll, and was totally body found on heal the Title.\n\nOn that occasion he deserihea homself as purse's tuate on board the Tisk\n\nThe Flyaway is also said to This was carly in January.\n\nTo the best of my best the cry.\n\nInsperor Beyis carried them to the Poltes Stution.\n\n\"Cross-tramined by D. Urbiges, I set with Mr. Mermer have grounded at the mouth of the river.\n\nbut unenca st the way in which the 2nd prisoner gave on the evening of the 15th Janamry to enuiluet the m having reived no serious damage, she proceed-bis avilence on the quest, obeted is in bringing quiry.\n\nI was about to commence the enquiry ut 2.30, fe; she wore her boanet, already on bre, from her bead,\n\ncame of her crew.\n\ned on her voyage.\n\nHe-anúž--1 tiöver saw tie tentli prispace heiro, i Silap before this occurrence.\n\nThey disp at the 's mo~) poca mutiran\n\nRoad Kust, they are about a mile part the bread is uusi pane was probably from four to six miles an hour.\n\ncarted lean one to the olur.\n\nAbout two years ago the Linti song was the sharptor of the Thixile.\n\nIn on- -G'que.\n\nhead need to be baked at the chup, but not lately, a fhe tock pince there about that the knew Alful be\n\nTHY GEMINI—Mr. Ühisi.olm Anstey, formerly one for the 15th January.\n\nI have seen him often.\n\nHe was of the most successtil step.compellers in the fon niwaya sal to be the mister of a single\n\nOf Commons, but now Attorney General at Hongkong, Out ca the bakery and abop about 59 pecats were has nuagel to brenme bis com client, and we all know restod on the 15th.\n\nThey were taken before e Juskáve of what that indicates!\n\nA reieresco to the action in which the Feare, Clintles May Esq., sesalonger Justice of Peaco\n\nhe is defendant will be found in another columu ex- were penis west the Caud Police Station.\n\ntracted from the Hongkong Register, and we hope here- after to be able to copy tlist report of the trial.\n\nthe first day Mr. Stercer Mr. Gli and Mr. Gry were present on the second day the Attomey General was prescal.\n\nThe Cental Police Station is not the Mana! place for criminal examinations, bulk clacy whers asional held there.\n\nI have seen the Atoring Gen- A BAYS Wouse.—A passenger on board the North- an Indiana, which was recently burned on Lake Erie, gives au recount of the narrow escape of Cicero Fowler and wife, of Tally.\n\nThere was but one he-preserver for Lant she should put it on, abo peremptity refused, Mss.\n\nFowler and her husband; he fusisted imperatively saying she was \"poce in hanth, and his \"hfe was worth far more then hers!\"\n\nThe preserver. having no strap, Mrs. Fowler tore the bad from her dress and fastened it to her husband, whom she contisued to encourage, seying she could hold on to him, nad of the preserver cold not sustain both, she would let go, and leave his to save himself.\n\nThe fire was getting hitter and hotter.\n\nThe water was the's with human bodies, struggling for\n\nwhen Mr. Mercer came in, and 1 invites him to take a and hand in hand with one she loved better dan herself, part in it.\n\n1 was conducting the enquiry as the Superia! H. M. Str, Barracontu arrived from Canton on Monday morning; the only news she brings is the account of an attempt to Ret tre to the Comus.\n\nOn the 14th I went over to the E-sing shop to have conversation with Ahlam about that contract only\n\nOn Sunday night, the 18th instur, an attack against foreigners, us against their own Government, was made by large force of Chinese on the Dutch Fallyly were repulsed, and the Admiral bombarded the city from the Fort and the Niger\n\nIt is a remonstrance made by, know that E-Bing had a bakery near the American Naval Store.\n\nRead, however, distinctively, it shews the prejudices which have to be overcaico before English: Commerce can again take its fitting intration of laying, be had only put it up to deceive the mandrains, who had been troubling him.\n\nI told him, the garden and, after establishing his quarters in Jous WAY-fam stoward the Sultana, I know the Tee-to-tum fort, came down here on the 23d\n\nMARKETA—Notwithstanding the warlike operations which have been carried on since the departure of the Calcutta steamer on the 28 ult. I was in the shoved the 15 January a litle po\n\nasked if he had his family with him here.\n\nHe said, no bad business to attend to and he would walk home This was between 3 and 4 г.M.\n\nWalle going over A-I am a coolie at Dr. Handsome Bing's work, and people look upon the affair as jou.\n\nThe charter is, we believe, to be given up, and as brought to a close, business will be recommened in this stepio, ut rates equal to these last quoted, the\n\nmen\n\nmgements are making for getting the City in this stepio, ut rates equal to these last quoted, the\n\nPROTECTION OF THE ISLAND—The absolute necessity for a local gun-boat being apparent, the government chartered the steamer Eaglet at the present.\n\nAnse-am cook to Dr. Harland.\n\nOn the 19th: Ten-to the end of the war, as he would make a good thing of it, and be protected.\n\nHe said he did not wish to go, bs that had ba throstened several times, And that at the presunt cunt there were 03 Mandarins in Hongkong in disguisu.\n\nI tot aim that if he would report them to the Police he would be pro-tected\n\nanswered, that when we reached tbo bakery he would show me that he had a large amount of propar-tyin stake; and that he would take ray advise and remain.\n\nWhen we got to the bakery the people were mixing water and dough in diferentrooms in the place.\n\nI asked him to return with, having satisfied myself there was enough bread in the drying on to fulfil the contract;\n\nvery heavy sum of four thousand dollars per 468. In Cotton there have been no issues since unry Ifved some bread from the E-ging shop, from tha\n\nThe vessel was totally unfit for the late of our last Overiand, but it is cnticipated Ferson who usually brought the bread he is not among he said no bad business to attend to and he would walk reanth.\n\nilo prisoner.\n\nThe broad was bought at about 7.30.\n\nA-I am a coolie at Dr. Handsaw Bing's work, and people look upon the affair as jou.\n\nCruse examined by Dr. Bree—Julien gs in Smapsou left for Amoy on the 26th instant, considerable difference is made in the figures where we infer she will be stationed for the\n\nPROTECTION OF THE ISLAND\n\nORIENTAL BANK CORPORATION.\n\nEXAGON.\n\nOn London, reputas sight, ds, Yu.\n\nCalcutta—3 days' sight. Rivos 215 per $100.\n\nBombay Rugs sis per $100.\n\nCREDIT AND OTHER BILLS\n\nOn Englunds.bid, a 15.97d---¤months' sight.\n\nOn Rotsbey,--3 days' sight, Rupees 216.\n\nOn Calenta,--3 days' sight, Rupees 216.\n\nSUPREME COURT.\n\nCriminal Seibione, February 2, 1857 POISONING CASE, (First Day.)\n\nJery.—Morers, M. A. MACLEOD, W. H.\n\nSerros, Jous\n\nL.JALL\n\npris CLCES,\n\nW. A. HAILAND, I have always paid for bread from he was doing, and of his clarinetion to use.\n\nTà\n\nstatement Alum made that he guld shu bakery to rau is the E-sing up before the 15th January, and Dr.\n\nChalecost ad Dr. Hance partook the lead delivered ise.\n\nSince I gare my evidence before the Magistrate 1 was asked, na the prismass' behalf, by Mr. Mar, 20 that morning.\n\nAbout an hour afterwards I felt ck and faint, and Ehortly afterwards voted, and falconsider my statement about the 6 fandarins.\n\n* in my stomach.\n\nI took an emette which operated, had come from Allum to ask me to reconsider the answer sad I felt caster, bat in about two hours bail about the 63 Mandarins, Alam, asked me on the examt- I returned.\n\nThe next morning I had a violent headurba and felt weak in my limbs, Dr. Hance took an emeric,\n\nzakon, jî he did not any lie had been told about the co and felt weak in my limbs, Dr. Hance took an emeric, Mandards.\n\nI never was in the bakery before.\n\nI never saw na alan di Dr. Chaldecott before they were sick.\n\nThe the tenth prisnuut in the bakery.\n\nThe contract was for the latter gentleman had once more bread than any of us.\n\nsupply of 28 to 29,000lbs. bise it; it was made verbally with What breakfast a gentleman fed to say some\n\nAhim.\n\nI never made a contract with the tenth prisonet.\n\nof his friends were sick, they said in a simila. maner to that which I have descried.\n\nIlonk woon Abinon as the principal,and the teh prisoner to that which I have descried.\n\nza is assistant.\n\nMy visits were on large madere of busi- bat bread.\n\nness, and therefore not very frequent.\n\nWhen I had a contewer with him awuld occasionally drep in three or Torre severely then others.\n\nfour times a weak to see how, it was going on.\n\nI have gone, to sell flour to his.\n\nI would not conclude a wa-Tract with tenth prisoner, bat would have a juossega with him for Ahlam.\n\nI do not think he speaks English; a bread, I got a loaf from Mr. Grandpre which be said he\n\npureer was always present.\n\nAhium said the mandarinswore har! taken with his own hand from the E-sing shop, and hostile to hit in consequence of hie hating broed for the brought to me; text day I got bread from Mr. Drinker foragnet As we were going to the bakery we saw a boat and Dr. Dempster.\n\nladen with wood.\n\nIn ask me to pull to it as he wanted so ask the price, and buy if possible.\n\nIpofled upto it, and be told me he had bought it at a picul and a half for a dollar.\n\nI said it was dear.\n\nHe repbed it was dry wood We allerwards and an anolytie to ascertain the and adapted for the lakery.\n\nOn my return raw the D Bridges and Dir. Day Cowl Messrs. Gaskell quantity, and found that in a pound lost there was\n\nboat discharging on the warf and Brown with Ms. H. J. Turrant Solicitors for pri-a dram of arsenic ( grains).\n\nIn the bread it sz isted as common white arsenic.\n\nThe brand 1 est and souers.\n\nrested was brown bread, the other bread that zested was white bread.\n\nAll contained arsenie.\n\nMuch less than a hoef of bread would cause death.\n\nThe police cought me same yeast, and the materials for usk\n\n(Court adjourned at 2.30)\n\nIn reply to a question by the Cout. Du. Harland said, he had been requested by the Colonial Secretary Lo macke an analysis that he il so and the results were the same.\n\nThe unalysis was ronde in presence of Dr. Bradford Dr. Watson Dr. Keany and Dr. Dempster.\n\nThrough the Ceart, st instance of the Attomey Gan al. Tie symptoms drzevibed by the witness56, I have beard are those of poisoning by arsenic,\n\nA. GRANDPLE, The hell I gary to Dr. Harland,\n\ndcen strut, on the 16th January.\n\nI was at the Cental Polis Sation, and told a poison to take the yeast dear to hr. Havland.\n\nCross examined by Dr. Bridge—Inew the E sing HOO of Argon stress, MO SAY T Teen's\n\nRe-erambie, Tls it episode of the wood wa aft I had deraanded proof that he was going to reisio, as were not entladed with bis simple leclaration.\n\nThe conversation with the boatman was in Chinese.\n\nI saw no. money pass between Alum and the bout man.\n\nThis was the day before he left for Macao.\n\nThe prisoner Ahëwn statement before the Magistrates\n\nFarul.\n\nWALKING. An extraordinary pedestrian feat the been performed in Derbyshire.\n\nÀ man named Alfred Helson undertook to walk on six enceessive days the distance of 70 miles a-day.\n\nHe commenced his per-formance on Monday, July 20, and completed it with Case Saturday, the 26th at doing it within the specified time.\n\nThe 70 miles were usually walked in about 14 hours, hut on one of the days they were com pleted in 12.\n\nWhile on travel he took very little food, Except beef les or a tehell hit of matzon baff cooked unl Elle stimulans occasionally.\n\nIn stature he is about\n\na somewhat intriligent countenance.\n\nWhen on travel abon had a slight swing with his arius, and appeared to be going at the steady ate of some three miles an hour, and it was only when any one atletal to keep\n\na large fleet of heavily armed junks—turned and Lenox, W. A. Bowna, ED. T. Descassos, Geono\n\nOn the run back the patent log was came back.\n\ntried; when under the land, partly out of the very ChaoпG ARCUK, 4-Lum Ausow, 5-T AUZTEN,\n\n1.-ČEROVA Akopow, 2-UpsoNG AMZER, heavy sea that was runing, the log was agan-Tove Na ost, 7-Cucing Auxen, 8-Forg A hove, and she was found to be making at the CHUT, S.-CHEONG Azam, 10, Carong Wre Kero, rate of twelve miles an hour.\n\nShe was par dúministering prism with intent c\n\nThe Honble Thomas C. Ansty Alloney General; round twice, and she made the circuit in 13 minutes-out time, 43 minutes the ather, Mr. Hickso: Cheam Saficitor, amistad by Mr. George\n\nCooper Turuer.\n\ncatting her wake in both instances, Reach. ed Hongkong atfive.\n\nThere was also a good facility of the way in which she started and stopped;--shu\n\nThe Atorney General stated the case and called was stopped twice, once at Ling-ting\n\nJAYTA CARROLL DEMISTER—I am Colonial Surgeon.\n\nthe fleet of junks there, once to overhaul a B-\n\nI have been in the habit before the 15th January of ob picious locking boat; the trial in both case was taining lead from the E-sing shop belonging to the two entisfactory.\n\nWhen she gets the hurricane decking: prisonera.\n\nAt 5 ming bebe 8 AM of the 100 ing yeast, also some flour, and some pastry, fata the sad the after enbiu taken off her, she will in the January, I and my family partock of stained bakery.\n\nThey were only examined to see if they ent for the E-sing shop, at breakfeat.\n\nAfter Ms. Dzapater taiued any metalic potson, but there was neither draeuic event of being hired by the Government and\n\nhad eaten a small portion of the bread she felt giddy and nor say other metalic poison in them, Bick.\n\nAfter leaving the breakfast table, she was taken properly manned and armed, prove of great value in defending the feland, and letting us know what sick I bought nothing of it at the tima.\n\nI walked out to the verandah to exoko a cheroot.\n\nWhile holding a is going on outside.\n\nOLD CUSTOM—A Chinese reason for dingo stick to the class, I became sick and vomited-1 thenght nothing; of it, but wont in my chair to the polico any thing is, that it is \"Old Ghetero,\" Our hospita..\n\nWhen I reached the entrance leading my ba the governcams, the next most stable and conserva-jail, I became sick and ocuumed sick all the way tive after that of China, follows this rule exactly, te the hospital, and was sick unui a quarter to 10 AMI vomited very viniently.\n\nMrs. Dempster was and we have an instance of it now under our\n\neck on to 12 or 1 o'clock that right.\n\nThe next evening. eyes.\n\nThe Minie Rides for the Fifty-ninth love the 18th, about 8 FM, I forwarded the remainder of the arrived in the City of Carlisle, the amunition is to bread to Dr. Hzclazu for the purpose of, is being analy- was taken from the E-sing sop, ut the bottom of Aber- the middle height, this, extremely tauscular, end having come by and bye in another ship.\n\nIn the mean-se.\n\nI did not take the bread myself to De. Hari\n\nCroy Bunned by Dr. Badges, Ablein the sinth time the dal for long ranges has commenced, as fax as can go on the only tolerably level picce up in my own road I got it to Dr. Harlund.\n\nprisoner is the only one I know, I kept the bread locked nd we have the Happy Valley.\n\nI seat the bread by a confie dauer) Abai OLIVOLTZA—This corvette, one of H. I.\n\nAIAL— servant to Dr. Dempster cani u 1. vessels, which formed part of the Russian paper pacel on Dr. Dempster to Dr. Farinud, et le squadron sighted in Castrica Ray by Commodore 16th Junang.\n\nI do not know what was in it.\n\nMy master gave it to ine\n\nA CUMONT,-- Umi sorvant to Dr. Dempster, on the 15th theBrothers,' about twelve uules' distance from this larber.\n\nHaving been in these Eastern January, rected some bread at my inster's door from two men belonging to the £-sing's shop.\n\nThey ars nor gave it to my Master to eat.\n\nwalers for a period of seven years, it was found among the prisnare.\n\nNCCPERATY that she sheld indago a complete | This was about seven o'eloel.. i panded it on the hrakfast overhaul before departing Europe.\n\nThis is table.\n\nWH. TARKANT,-Ian Elitor of this Friend of Chin mw being done, and slic will probably take her\n\nfrith E-sing shop down in the 163: Jammy.\n\nThrow denature for Europe within three weeks.\n\nHer weaper.\n\nI have been in the habit of obtaining bread Commander. Caprala Koroolt, formerly com-\n\nthen sh and 10th prisoners to be competen with the sang shop 7 14 is acullecion ofsets; manded the little steamer Vostuck, which. sa clever-    the English aruizers, ran into Sharr de 21, the last i know of him was wred-delivarer, then, Mr. Mercer, and M. May sing and enguling\n\ntwo bast prisoners were brought my zxamination.\n\nT! Colonial Attorney General's former audiences-night hae, carrying to the Russian Admiral important is the munging partner; and the 10th is his facher, acting as gel assistant in die shop Queen's Real nawa branght from Europe by English steiners.\n\nWest.\n\nI have soon is there frequentis, perhape ouco ever remember the Tastices of the Face sitting at he is preparing for the Treas as Acrount of the\n\nPo Station as a criminal charge.\n\nThe Chief Me Colony over which he rules.—Bengal Kartars, Dee. 1.\n\nCapt. Kursaceff's urbanity and gentlemanly bear out of erary two visits.\n\nI aw the first priser about 4\n\namination was going on at the Pulics Station.\n\nJustices ing has caused him to be recognised—not only or 5 anys below the 5th January, he was sitting down into was sitting at the Podro Court winle tais ex- of the lense were also sitting as the Police Curt.\n\nB by those who were then uentrals, but by those in my office and presented nes bill from his master.\n\nI told him, Lin, as the hili was not recoipied, if he would leave it I world look rait.\n\nIle suid is unster was going away, and may action to sit down as it he tended to the Police Cont.\n\nThe reusabing 10 prisoners enllred, though we cannot say it has distanced, wais mtb was paid.\n\nScing Le was inclined to be are still detained.\n\nThey are at the Crise rout Station, the Fraue shoul, in the matte ci wrecks.\n\nThey 1izod him by the colitr, amil old him, cal his posite Gibb, Livingston & Co.'s Godowns They American clipper Golden Racer, ton laden, forster might go to the devil if they pleased, and (thrust have been in custody from the 15th January.\n\nI cant in out of the office, I have soch the sand piery wether or not the Attorney Gener 100k may part it the examination at Cas Police Station, he was moving the United Statee, on her departure from the many occasicus, I saw Jam at the best held on the hous, but that was too crowded far me to distinguish\n\nChantes Mar—The yeast & delivered t pert, struck on the cuter knoll, and was totally body found on heal the Title.\n\nOn that occasion he deserihea homself as purse's tuate on board the Tisk\n\nThe Flyaway is also said to This was carly in January.\n\nTo the best of my best the cry.\n\nInsperor Beyis carried them to the Poltes Stution.\n\n\"Cross-tramined by D. Urbiges, I set with Mr. Mermer have grounded at the mouth of the river.\n\nbut unenca st the way in which the 2nd prisoner gave on the evening of the 15th Janamry to enuiluet the m having reived no serious damage, she proceed-bis avilence on the quest, obeted is in bringing quiry.\n\nI was about to commence the enquiry ut 2.30, fe; she wore her boanet, already on bre, from her bead,\n\ncame of her crew.\n\ned on her voyage.\n\nHe-anúž--1 tiöver saw tie tentli prispace heiro, i Silap before this occurrence.\n\nThey disp at the 's mo~) poca mutiran\n\nRoad Kust, they are about a mile part the bread is uusi pane was probably from four to six miles an hour.\n\ncarted lean one to the olur.\n\nAbout two years ago the Linti song was the sharptor of the Thixile.\n\nIn on- -G'que.\n\nhead need to be baked at the chup, but not lately, a fhe tock pince there about that the knew Alful be\n\nTHY GEMINI—Mr. Ühisi.olm Anstey, formerly one for the 15th January.\n\nI have seen him often.\n\nHe was of the most successtil step.compellers in the fon niwaya sal to be the mister of a single\n\nOf Commons, but now Attorney General at Hongkong, Out ca the bakery and abop about 59 pecats were has nuagel to brenme bis com client, and we all know restod on the 15th.\n\nThey were taken before e Juskáve of what that indicates!\n\nA reieresco to the action in which the Feare, Clintles May Esq., sesalonger Justice of Peaco\n\nhe is defendant will be found in another columu ex- were penis west the Caud Police Station.\n\ntracted from the Hongkong Register, and we hope here- after to be able to copy tlist report of the trial.\n\nthe first day Mr. Stercer Mr. Gli and Mr. Gry were present on the second day the Attomey General was prescal.\n\nThe Cental Police Station is not the Mana! place for criminal examinations, bulk clacy whers asional held there.\n\nI have seen the Atoring Gen- A BAYS Wouse.—A passenger on board the North- an Indiana, which was recently burned on Lake Erie, gives au recount of the narrow escape of Cicero Fowler and wife, of Tally.\n\nThere was but one he-preserver for Lant she should put it on, abo peremptity refused, Mss.\n\nFowler and her husband; he fusisted imperatively saying she was \"poce in hanth, and his \"hfe was worth far more then hers!\"\n\nThe preserver. having no strap, Mrs. Fowler tore the bad from her dress and fastened it to her husband, whom she contisued to encourage, seying she could hold on to him, nad of the preserver cold not sustain both, she would let go, and leave his to save himself.\n\nThe fire was getting hitter and hotter.\n\nThe water was the's with human bodies, struggling for\n\nwhen Mr. Mercer came in, and 1 invites him to take a and hand in hand with one she loved better dan herself, part in it.\n\n1 was conducting the enquiry as the Superia! Look the dangerous leup.\n\nAs they ruse from the water, tendent of Police, and Mr. Meer as ColonialS erretary.\n\nMr. Fowler assisted his wife in procuring a yout baid of fi was a general investigation into the eas-Cases him on or about his shoilers, Sire wiped the weter which require particular investigation, 1 enquire into be from his eyes and mouth, and encouraged him to retain fore sending then to the Magistras way my origins: his inpe of being saved.\n\nHe continued to struggle with intention to follow the sun course in the pressul ins the waves.\n\nHalf-an-hour elapsed, and there were no tanen: I tried to put a fasight into the cast as super-sigan of unsistance.\n\nHis strength was rugidly failing afterwards we turced ourselves his wife observing it, tried asrw to cheer him.\n\nEle suid\n\nbread to my house.\n\nI made this objection on the isch THE DEPORTATION Onntaver. -This is one Jaanary Inn & and 7 o'clock in the morning when I saw him bringing bal.\n\nAnother qual va cung of the many Ordinances which of late have passed ing the bread is the baskets, tlo secourt priser tool: before the mind's eye of the Legislative Council.onit the bend was delivered it.\n\nI said, \"Oh oh my Enne If we were called open to give succinctly our ab low you deliver my breas de you I made un res- We pense but gave me a kind of a grin.\n\nI saw him go away. jections to it, we could not well to .\n\nand I then went in an old y compradore to mentio could but answer in these words:--\n\nE-eing's all and have no more broad from him, es [ theagle he would poison 56.\n\nA partook of the breast, and intendeat of police, the servant git des cat what we left on the plate into justices and took the depositions.\n\nWe did not he could not stand it any longer, it sees as though he About five sivutes afterwards I wont be my sitting make this change in consequence of having illegally must give up.\n\nAt this moniest she bear a steamer coming rapidly through the water.\n\nShe says, \"My dear room from the Inekfast table; immediately afterwards admiciatore: ontis.\n\nSANDWITH DRINgen, -I am in business in the firm husband, a few moments more and we are safe.\n\nDon't To\n\nyou hear a boat coming?\n\nHe said he did, and immedi the 28th instant, carried with her 168 of the fast.\n\nI at lown en was looking over some papers, who of Thomas Hunt & Co, 1 lived in the sine house with deported, to be lender en the itiand of Hairan al of a sudden I vomitest- vomited three or four times | Captain Ľudrost.\n\nOn the 15th January, 1 cat of some ately revived, and made all the efforts in his power, ned move during the course of the day, sail I have concinnaly bred supplied by the ninth prisoner, and I was alterwards struggled for Simself and his herose wife until the Mia.\n\nLandel there, if they can be landed, what will suffered fict the effects of the poisoning up to the pre very ill.\n\nand no over all that eat of it in the house.\n\nI say took them, with scores of others, on her com- I nocious decks.Syracuse Journal.\n\nhave not perfectly recover from it at this tale.\n\nbecunus of them?\n\nAccompanying the motley sout time.\n\n*I do not like thes Dr. Feil,\n\nThe son why I mot tell;\n\nBut us\n\nnow, and dust all well,\n\nI do not like thee Jr. Tril,”\n\n319",
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        "content_text": "My only regret is that the immediate departure of my ship from this Port prevents me from personally waiting on Your Lordship, this must also be an excuse for the imperfect manner and the haste with which this statement has been drawn up.\n\nI have ... (Signed) D. M. Probyn, Abajor Comdt 1st Sikh Ind? Cavly\n\nFrom my experience, I concur in all that Major Probyn has Stated\n\nI served ... on the Frontier but in an European Regiment. (Signed) M. et. Dillon Major D. A. A. General\n\n433\n\nI have served with Seikh troops for nearly four years and from my experience I concur with the contents of Major Probyn's letter.\n\n(Signed) W. L. Randall, Lieut. Comg. 15 Regt P. I.\n\nI have never served in the Frontier but have had considerable experience of Seikh Soldiers in the Ondŵ Punjabee Police, in which force there are upwards of 3000 of these men; I concur in the Statements in Major Probyn's letter.\n\n(Signed) Henry D. Taylor, Major. D. A. A. General of Native Excops in China.\n\n(Inner copy Colonial Secretary)",
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        "content_text": "# DAILY PRESS- 4th APRIL, 1868.\n\n## The Chamber of Commerce Meeting.\n\nA general meeting of this Chamber was held yesterday afternoon, at 3 o'clock, for the purpose of considering the effect of the present system of Licensed Gambling on the Trade of the Colony. The following members were present: Mr. Ryrie, occupying the chair, Messrs. Taylor, Hitchcock, B. Pallanjee, Rowatt, Lapraik, Kaye, Macauley, Zimmern, Pyke, Duncanson, Deacon, Bosman.\n\nIn opening the meeting, the **Chairman** said that they would have all seen from the circular what was the object for which they had met to-day, and before the resolutions which he understood had been prepared were put to the meeting, he should, with their leave, say a few words. He confessed that when the question of licensing gambling in this colony was first mooted, he was of opinion that it would not do any harm, and that it might be the means of doing some good; but since the system had been in operation, and instances of its evil influence had come under his personal knowledge, he had seen reason to alter his opinion, and he now thought that it was a system which was working an incalculable amount of harm, and that the Government of this colony would be studying its best interests by abolishing it altogether. During the last two or three months, he had made it a point of asking the opinion of nearly every respectable Chinese with whom he had come in contact, and they one and all denounced the system as one which was creating much mischief to the trade of the colony, and this was the ground on which it came within the province of the Chamber to endeavour to abolish it—that is, of course, if the information the other members had obtained led them to the same conclusion as that to which he had arrived. He understood that one member of the Chamber was in possession of information showing that the gambling had diminished very materially the number of traders with small means—men who were in the habit of buying 20, 30, or up to 50 pieces of shirtings, and taking them for sale to the various towns and villages in the neighbourhood. These men, seduced by the allurements of the gambling hells, had abandoned their former occupation, and taken to the less laborious and seductive, although risky, occupation of gambling. He must say that this view of the case had only been put before him by one or two of his Chinese friends. The great evil which he would urge, and the one which they already had, and could obtain more ample proof of, was the number of robberies from employers by shroffs and others engaged in collecting money, and he felt confident that many of the robberies would not have been committed were there not these public gambling-houses invitingly open. On this ground alone, he meant the danger to which the monies of persons in trade were exposed, he thought it was the duty of the Chamber to express a strong opinion against the system. On the bad moral effects of the system, he need not enter, as the views on this head had already met able exponents. The Lord Bishop of Victoria, and he believed the whole clergy in the colony, of all denominations, were entirely opposed to licensed gambling. It had been said that it is utterly impossible to stop gambling altogether. But the same might be said of any other crime or evil practice, and would it, therefore, be an argument to do away with police entirely? Certainly not. A good deal has been said of late about the great efficiency of our police, and if that really was the case, he considered that with the assistance which the better class of the Chinese community would gladly give, gambling could be almost entirely prevented, and, in any case, it could be reduced to such a small compass that it could be only carried on in out-of-the-way dens, which would be resorted to by the very dregs of the population. He then said he should leave the matter in their hands, to give such expressions of opinion and pass such resolutions as they might think fit.\n\nMr. TAYLOR said that being the proposer of the present meeting, and that this matter should be brought before the Chamber, he now wished to offer a resolution, which he would introduce with a few remarks. He had found in his experience that it was a very difficult thing to get correct information from the Chinese. When questioned on any subject, they almost always first endeavoured to find out what you wanted to get at, and then endeavoured to reply in such a manner as they supposed would please you. More especially was this the case, he thought, when they were dealing with any persons in authority. With this fact in view, he could not but think but that the Governor had been misinformed when making inquiries, and in this way had been led into the measure which all respectable Chinese condemned as most pernicious. In all the inquiries that he had made lately on the subject of the gambling ordinance, he had received but one emphatic answer from the Chinese, and that was that it was bad. The removal of the fear of apprehension and punishment could, he thought, have but one result, and that was to very widely and indiscriminately increase gambling in the colony. There were now a set of men in existence who endeavoured to attract as many to the gambling table as possible; these were the gambling farmer and his associates, for it was notorious that the present farm was carried on by a joint-stock company, and it was their interest to encourage legitimate gambling to the greatest possible extent. The Government found this man and his associates a very convenient tool, but it could hardly be expected that he would serve the Government any further than his own interests were directly concerned. He had first to make the sum of $260,000 to pay his fee, and a commensurate income with this must be over $100,000, a sum of money that represented a vast amount of misery, and one which, if employed in legitimate trade, would do much to dispel the pernicious vice. Within his own personal knowledge, he knew of the direst effects of this ordinance, some of which he would mention. His compradore could no longer trust a shroff to go out alone to collect money, on account of the attractions offered by the gambling-houses, and he was now obliged to send out two, hoping that one would be a check upon the other. The Chinese were complaining on every side, but above this was to be considered the temptations that were offered to others of quite a different class. There were owners of ships in both England and America who were in the habit of entrusting the captains in their employ with large sums of money, and if these places were open, these men did and would go into them, and what, he would ask, might be the temptation to risk large sums that did not belong to them and perhaps lose? There could be no question, but that Licensed Gambling was most injurious to the trade of this colony, as many had found out by dear-bought experience. He would offer the following resolution: “It is the opinion of the Chamber that licensed gambling is affecting the trade of the colony injuriously by encouraging dishonesty amongst large portions of the native population engaged in business and amongst the native employés of foreign firms.”\n\nMr. HITCHCOCK, in rising to second this resolution, said that, unfortunately, owing to the fact of there being no custom-house or official returns of the trade of the colony, it was impossible to find out with any certainty what effect this legalised vice was having upon trade. In the absence, therefore, of official data, they had to fall back upon information gathered from the natives themselves, and he would relate some that had come within his knowledge. He had questioned a very respectable and intelligent Chinese merchant as to what he thought about gambling, and had received in reply that he thought it was very bad. He could not estimate how bad the effects were, but he could say they were so bad that he could not estimate them. Trade, to his knowledge, had fallen off 25 per cent among the small traders, who had no doubt given up their business because they thought they could make an easier living at gambling. They also found a great deal of dishonesty among their shroffs and employés. One shroff he had known of was sent to collect $6,000. Having obtained the money, he stopped on his way back at a gambling-house, and there lost $690 of this very money. Mr. Hitchcock mentioned another instance of which he himself knew. The shroff of a very large steamer running between here and Shanghai was found with a large deficit in his cash account a short time since, and on inquiring into the matter, it was found that gambling had been the cause.",
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        "content_text": "# Meeting Minutes\n\n## Discussion on Licensed Gambling Ordinance\n\n1 very ordinance ruined, perhaps for life, so far as obtaining employment here was concerned. Indirectly some statistics could be got at with regard to the working of this ordinance. First, the 7 per cent. must be made from all bets out of which the $250,000 paid to the Government was supposed to come, now he would like to inquire what amount of gambling capital must be involved in the affair in order to produce a profit to the farmer. Taylor had suggested a total profit of nearly $500,000 and this at 7 per cent. would produce over $7,000,000 of capital. That is, that this amount of capital must be used in gambling in order to produce a profit to the farmer. These, however, were only approximate estimates, and the larger the figures the worse it appeared. Among his own servants, he had instances of dishonesty from gambling within the last few months, and some who had been honest and trusty for years he had been obliged to discharge. He hoped others who were present would give their experience.\n\nMr. BOSMAN said he was much pleased to hear Mr. Taylor say that the Chinese in answering inquiries always endeavoured to say what they thought would please you, for this had invariably been his own experience. He had taken some interest in the gambling licensing, and when the question was first mooted, several very respectable Chinamen had come to him, and asked him to use his influence (supposing that he had some) to get them the farm. The moment they did not get it, they were opposed to licensed gambling. He agreed with those who had already spoken that gambling had a bad effect on the colony, but he would ask was the $400,000 or $500,000 revenue now got from it any more than had been paid in another way, of course, by corrupting the police and keeping up a system of spies. With regard to the instances cited by Mr. Hitchcock, he could also cite some instances. There was the great defalcation in the Union Bank in London, and in the Northern Railway at Paris, but from these, he was not prepared to say that the Chambers of Commerce of either place had recommended that the Stock Exchange should be shut up. He did not think it was at all necessary for this chamber to notice gambling, but if they did, he certainly thought they ought to make some further inquiries on the subject, in order that when they did take action they might also be prepared as well to offer suggestions to the Governor as to what was to be done in place of the ordinance. If this ordinance was repealed, then we went back again to the old story of corruption of the police, and all that took place before the ordinance was passed. He would therefore offer as an amendment to the first resolution the following:\n\n\"That before expressing an opinion as to the effects of licensed gambling, this chamber should appoint a committee to make the necessary inquiries as to the injury caused to the trade of this colony by licensed gambling.”\n\nMr. DUNCANSON seconded the amendment.\n\nMr. RYRIR said that his experience with the Chinese was quite different from Mr. Bosman's. His own compradore knew very well that at first he was in favor of the gambling ordinance, but had nevertheless expressed to him emphatic disapproval. Another old Chinese friend, when hearing him express his approval of the measure, had replied that he was very much surprised.\n\nMr. TAYLOR, in reply to Mr. Bosman's remarks, said that he remembered some time since there were public betting-houses opened in London, but the evil influence they exercised upon the young men was so great, and felt to be such an evil, that the merchants, petitioning Government, brought about their closure. In the case with the young men in London, he did not think, therefore, the chamber need take any notice of it, nor was there any immediate danger of the whole community being corrupted.\n\nMr. HITCHCOCK said that he objected to Mr. Bosman's resolution, first, because two weeks' notice of this meeting had been given, which was ample time for all to have made all necessary inquiries, and certain members had done this, and secondly, because he considered the second part of the resolution entirely gratuitous. He did not think the Governor wanted any suggestions from them as to his government of the colony. They were only called together to express an opinion, and this was embodied in the original resolution before the meeting.\n\nMr. BOSMAN said the meeting could not express an opinion upon a subject it was not properly informed of. If gambling was to be entirely abolished, he was with them, but of the two evils, he thought it much wiser to choose the lesser. The mere expression of opinion would be of little practical use, unless they could also suggest an effectual remedy. If a committee were appointed, the matter could then be thoroughly gone into and discussed.\n\nMr. HITCHCOCK said there were a number present who, if they chose, could speak and bear testimony of their personal knowledge of the evils of this ordinance. If the police were corruptible, and the native population so easily corrupted, it was high time that the very thing that was corrupting both should be done away with.\n\nThe amendment of Mr. Bosman was then put to the meeting, and lost by a vote of 3 to 8. Messrs. Bosman, Deacon, and Duncanson voting in the affirmative.\n\n## Original Resolution and Further Discussion\n\nThe original resolution was then put, and carried by a vote of 8 to 2, one member not voting.\n\nMr. ROWETT then rose, and said that he entirely agreed with what had been said by the supporters of the resolution just passed, and he could corroborate all the facts they had brought forward by others within his own knowledge. He had talked with his own compradore on the subject, and he always said that it was most injurious, and a great many who had never thought of gambling before did it now, and a great many who before would never have gone into the back slums, now had no scruples in not only going there but in being seen by others. He had no experience himself as to the working of the ordinance here, but he had seen legalised gambling at Macao and Heligoland. At Macao, he saw a very different class of people gambling from the miserable wretches who used to be brought up in our Police Courts before the ordinance. The police force was, he thought, now very much changed from what it used to be. At present, there was an active and educated man at its head, one who must be quite above collusion of any kind, as also the entire force was of a much higher character. The respectable classes of the Chinese were no doubt against gambling, because it was much against their interest. He would therefore propose:\n\n\"That it is the opinion of this chamber that our present police-force, with the aid of the influential portion of the Chinese trading community (which would be readily given), are quite competent to suppress gambling,\"\n\nMr. JOHN LAPRAIK said he took much pleasure in seconding this resolution. When he first heard of the gambling ordinance, he was in favor of it, but since it had been in operation, he had great occasion to change his views. Chinese property, he had good reason to know, had declined 25 or 30 per cent., and he considered that gambling had much to do with this. This was occasioned mostly by a decrease in the number of small shops open. These small traders had doubtless lost all their small capital at gaming-tables, and then been obliged to close up and leave the colony.\n\nMr. TAYLOR said that when the Governor first came to the colony, he had put down gambling for about two weeks without himself knowing it. He had sent around officers to say that he would not allow gambling in any form, but the Chinese, after waiting for a fortnight, saw no proclamation on the subject, and heard nothing further, they consequently concluded that they were the words of a man who did not mean what he said. When the present Governor of Canton first arrived, he gave a similar intimation, and followed it up by a proclamation, to the effect that he meant what he said, and the consequence was that gambling does not exist in that city.\n\nMr. BOSMAN said he was glad those present had voted on the last resolution, with such good information at hand. For himself, he must confess he knew little about the police.\n\nThe resolution was then put to the meeting, and carried by six votes, seven gentlemen declining to vote.\n\nThe CHAIRMAN remarked that it was only a few days ago that Mr. Bosman gave out, at a public meeting, that he did know something of the police force.\n\nThere being no further business, the meeting then separated.\n\nPage 264",
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        "content_text": "221 \n\nprobably be thought by the General Public to constitute the severest commentary on the propriety of the course followed by a body which, in the useful fulfilment of the functions ordinarily attributed to a Chamber of Commerce, might have been expected to have brought to the examination of such a question a careful preliminary examination of the facts which it vouched, and the assertions which it endorsed.\n\n6. It was in vain, however, that some gentlemen urged on the Chamber the propriety of making inquiries into the subject. Of the 13 gentlemen out of 37 who attended the meeting, there was a majority in favor of expressing an immediate opinion, and this haste led to the adoption of the extraordinary resolution that a measure which had almost broken up the illegal Gaming Haunts of the criminal population had \"injuriously affected the trade of the Colony.\"\n\n7. One gentleman indeed asserted that \"Trade to his knowledge had fallen off 25 per cent among the small traders who had no doubt given up their business because they thought they could make an easier living at gambling!\" The same gentleman, who it may be remarked was not even accurate in the facts which he could have ascertained, and who overestimated the amount of the annual License Fees paid to Government by nearly $100,000, argued as follows: \"The 7 per cent (on the profit to the Licensees) must be made from all bets out of which the $250,000 (?) paid to the Government was supposed to come, and he would like to enquire what amount of Gambling Capital must be involved in the affair in order to produce a profit to the Farmer. Mr. TAYLOR had suggested a total profit of $500,000 (!) and this at 7 per cent would produce over $7,000,000 of Capital,\" &c., &c., &c.\n\n8. It is to be hoped that the Mercantile business of the eminent firms represented by some gentlemen at the Meeting is not always conducted on a system which has no better foundation than the above argument.\n\n9. Nothing however appeared too unlikely, or was actually too inconsistent with fact for the indulgent humour of the Chamber on that occasion. Thus Mr. TAYLOR, the originator of the Meeting, and a gentleman for whose singleness of purpose and upright motives, His Excellency has the highest respect, appears to have been so amiably credulous as to inform the Meeting, that \"when the Governor first came to the Colony he had put down Gambling for about two weeks without himself knowing it. He had sent round Officers to say he would not allow Gambling in any form, but the Chinese after waiting for a fortnight saw no proclamation on the subject and heard nothing further, they consequently concluded that they were the words of a man who did not mean what he said,\" &c.\n\n10. It seems almost incredible that any grown-up person could have believed that the Chinese secret Gaming Haunts which had for years been kept in full operation despite the Police and the Laws, should suddenly have been closed at a rumor that the Governor intended to issue a \"Brutum fulmen\" in the shape of a proclamation requesting obedience to Laws which had been for years openly defied notwithstanding the heavy penalties for their infringement. It is due to the Chinese, whose sagacity is impugned, to say that there never was any foundation whatever for such an inference. It is merely true that the illegal Houses were closed, but for a reason which effectually disposes of Mr. Taylor's argument as appears from the annexed letter of the then Acting Registrar General Mr. Tonnochy, (Appendix B.) Their temporary closing was caused by a rumor that Government intended to establish the present system of Licensed Houses and the consequent wish of the owners to compete for the expected new Licenses, as also by the hopelessness of keeping illegal Houses open despite the vigilance of the native Licensees. The whole affair however took place without the interference or even knowledge of the Governor, and is almost conclusive as to the soundness of the Policy since adopted.\n\n11. Nothing however but a republication of the whole debate, illustrated as its character was by the common sense observations of Mr. Bosman, could give an adequate impression of the imperfect evidence and strange arguments brought forward to justify an expression of antagonism to the Policy of the Government and the hasty action of a Chamber, whose proceedings can claim no title to authority unless based on the fullest information.\n\n12. It is however due to the majority of the small number of gentlemen present to make known that they declined to vote for the second of the two Resolutions passed. It therefore was only adopted by a minority of 6 out of 13 present.\n\n13. This result is not surprising when the nature of that resolution is stated. It was as follows:\n\n\"That it is the opinion of this Chamber that our present Police Force with the aid of the influential portion of the Chinese Trading Community (which would be readily given) are quite competent to suppress Gambling.\"\n\n14. The assertion that the Chinese community, who can hardly be induced to co-operate in the detection of crimes such as kidnapping, which most nearly affect themselves, should be counted as active auxiliaries by a body of Merchants acquainted with their selfish habit of keeping aloof from every business which does not individually concern them, evinces a very sanguine frame of mind on the part of those who voted for that resolution. Moreover, as the risk of punishment and even of assassination by those connected with illegal Gambling has been shown by past experience to be no imaginary danger, whilst the vice, which the influential Chinese are suddenly expected to aid in suppressing, is one in which they themselves as well as nine-tenths of their countrymen indulge, the expectation that they could or would give effective aid to the Police exhibits a very simple and trusting faith.\n\n15. The other part of the resolution as to the competence of the Police to put down Gambling might have been regarded as disposed of by the actual experience of the past. His Excellency therefore still holds that opinion in the absence of any additional reason to the contrary, whilst he also ventures to think that it is just one of those points on which the Executive is entitled to speak with some authority as naturally possessing the most direct and authentic information on the subject.\n\n16. As however the Resolution was virtually repudiated by the majority of those present it is unnecessary to allude further to it here.\n\nWhat the Police may be able to effect will be better ascertained hereafter as permission has been lately given to use the License Fees for the improvement of that Force, but however improved it is probable that they can never command the same amount of information as the Chinese Licensees of the Gaming Houses, who have lately been induced to become most able auxiliaries of the Police not merely in detecting attempts to start illegal Gaming Haunts, but also in supplying information leading to the arrest of dangerous characters and returned convicts.\n\n17. The annexed explanation given by the Governor to the Legislative Council, affords a clue to the real motives of those Chinese, who advocate a return to the old system and contains much of the information which the Chamber might have been expected to have sought before expressing an opinion, especially as the readiness of the Government to supply information is generally known, and in this case was particularly communicated beforehand to the Chairman of the Chamber.",
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        "content_text": "392\n\nH. E. admitted that the principle was increased in importance as the amounts were larger; but the Secretary of State's sanction had been obtained; and no doubt, they would in future try and keep their requirements before them as nearly as possible in subsequent estimates.\n\nMr Keswick observed that he could understand small sums being thus disbursed; but when they were very considerable amounts, the Council ought to be consulted.\n\nH. E. observed that the sums were expended in their several departments.\n\nThe Colonial Secretary said that the ordinance simply placed a certain sum at the disposal of the Governor and Executive.\n\nMr Rowett here rose. He said that he observed a sum of $38,000 had been saved on the Reservoir at Pokfolum, and that $11,000 had been spent on repairs to Government House. Could the last item not have been foreseen?\n\nH. E. replied that the white ants had had a good deal to say in that respect; the repairs had been very extensive, and the roof, which leaked before, was now almost water-tight, having been nearly re-made.\n\nMr Rowett continued. There was a sum of $32,500, voted for the site of the New Civil Hospital, which had not been applied; and a sum of $1,500 had been expended for a Farm Lot at Pokfolum. Would it not be more in form to ask for a special vote, rather than have placed it under the head of excess?\n\nH. E. drew Mr Rowett's attention to the fact that the estimates had been reformed this year. But the item alluded to was under \"Lands and Houses.\"\n\nMr Rowett observed that no saving was actually effected.\n\nMr Taylor next rose. He said that it was extremely desirable that all sums should be voted. In small matters he believed that this might be impossible as a rule, but still large sums appeared on the present estimates of $7,000 and $8,000.\n\nThe supplementary estimates were exceedingly favorable, a large saving being shown, which, however, had been used in payment of arrears of Military Contribution. This had not been contemplated when the estimates were passed; and though he thought it a good thing that they should pay their debts, this had been done out of savings from works and buildings.\n\nThe saving in one department had been used to defray expenses of police, and sums amounting to $96,000 had come from the special fund, for police, school, the Victoria, &c. He objected to this principle, though he knew that H. E. had the authority of the Home Government so to do.\n\nSuppose orders were to arrive from the Home Government to close the gambling houses, then they would not be able to pay their way, as they could not curtail any more for the present.\n\nThe hon. member said he would go further. H. E. had kindly reminded members of their duty in the scrutiny of the finances of the Colony, and asked them to exercise their right and make suggestions.\n\nHe would not bring up old matter; but he could not but say that his opinion as to Gambling Licenses remained unchanged, and he thought it would be much better to fall back upon the Police Force.\n\nWith the large sum of money now at their disposal, they could raise the morals of the Police by importing men who understood Chinese well and were well paid, and thus give a tone to the whole Force which would prevent others from taking bribes.\n\nThe original object of the Gambling Licenses was, it ought to be remembered, its suppression; but as yet he saw no step towards it.\n\nH. E. replied. He began by saying that he did not suppose that Mr Taylor seriously meant to draw him out into a discussion on matters which had been gone over so often.\n\nHe fully believed that the hon. member would give H. M.'s government and himself credit for making a good use of the fund created; but he was of a different opinion as to the mode adopted.\n\nNo other means, however, could be adopted which would so successfully keep down the corruption and crime which were the result of gambling; and he would only refer to the valuable return which he had laid on the table in proof of this position, viz., that crime was very materially diminished.\n\nThey would also admit that at present great advantages were derived from this source of expenditure of the money, if usefully laid out.\n\nHe agreed with the hon. member that it would not be pleasant to find this source of revenue stopped; and in the event of this supply from the Special Fund ceasing, they would be deprived of the means of doing much which they at present purposed doing: such, for instance, as the Chinese Hospital, the telegraph, and police stations round the island.\n\nYet, if the whole Fund ceased to-morrow, they would be quite able to go on under their taxation, and by aid of the Stamp Act they would be able to maintain as efficient a police as before; and though they might not extend the Central School as proposed, he would ask them to show him any one duty of Government which would not be provided for independently of any help from the Special Fund.\n\nThey would simply do as they had done before. If he saw his way to put a stop to corruption and crime in any other way than was now adopted, he would be happy to do it; but he could not do it.\n\nThe Colony was able to improve the Police without the Special Fund; but the fund was thrust on them, and as he had adopted that policy, all he could say was that its only justification was that it was unavoidable.\n\nThe Colony had the Fund in hand; if it were withdrawn, the Colony could very easily replace it.\n\nThe Colonial Secretary remarked that the Military Contribution was voted in 1867, and the Governor was thus authorized to take it out of the chest.\n\nMr Keswick repeated his objection that money voted for the Hospital and for works had been expended on other purposes.\n\nThe Colonial Secretary remarked that, although voted for special purposes, any funds could be used by the Executive to maintain the public credit, if such sums had been covered by votes.\n\nThe hon. members had claimed the right to vote all sums from the Special Fund; and practically that right had been conceded.\n\nThe difference between the voted Police expenditure of '67 and '68 and that of '66 was about $90,000; the sum of $13,000 was shown as paid out of the Special Fund (as explained by the Governor); and the balance at the credit of the Special Fund at the end of 1868, was therefore $160,000, which was carried to the account of 1869-70.\n\nH. 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        "content_text": "SUPPLEMENT TO THE \"DAILY PRESS,\"\n\nto remonstrate against the ratification of the proposed Revision of the Treaty.\"\n\nThis was seconded by Mr. H. B. Leman, and carried unanimously.\n\nHon. J. B. TAYLOR then mentioned that it was agreed that the deputation from the Chamber was to wait on His Excellency at half-past two, and he supposed the two should go together.\n\nThe CHAIRMAN understood that both were expected at half-past two, whether they should go together or not would have to be ascertained. It would be desirable to appoint a committee, and he, therefore, begged to propose the following resolution:---\n\n\"That the following gentlemen be requested to act as such Committee and Deputation:-The Hon. P. Ryrie, Messrs. J. F. Axey, E. R. Belilios, Geo. Crichton, J. P. Duncanson, W. H. Forbes, G. Falconer, J. Fairbairn, T. C. Hayllar, A. Heard, A. McG. Heaton, G. J. Helland, A. Joost, A. B. Lomaun, J. Menke, E. H. Pollard, Q.C., T. Pyke, J. J. dos Remedios, D. Ruttonje, S. D. Sassoon, R. S. Walker, J. C. Whyte, and A. Zimmern, and that as many as possible of these gentlemen be requested to attend as the Deputation.\"\n\nThis was seconded by Mr. Hitchcock, and carried.\n\nSome discussion ensued as to the best mode of getting up the memorial, in the course of which the Chairman pointed out that people at home should see that the community here think a great deal about the matter, when they would be induced to do so too.\n\nMr. HITCHCOCK then proposed that the Committee take steps to prepare a memorial in time for the ensuing English mail, and adopt measures to get it as extensively signed by the Community as possible.\n\nThis was seconded by Mr. Ryrie, and carried, and a vote of thanks to the Chairman terminated the proceedings.\n\nDEPUTATION TO SIR RUTHERFORD ALCOCK.\n\nA deputation consisting of a large number of Members of the Hongkong Chamber of Commerce, and of the Committee appointed at the public meeting, waited on Jan. 3rd, by appointment, upon H.E. Sir Rutherford Alcock, K.C.B., Her Majesty's Minister Plenipotentiary to China, to respectfully address him with reference to the convention as to the revision of the Treaty of Tientsin, agreed to on the 23rd October, 1869. After the deputation had been introduced, Sir Rutherford said that he was very glad of the opportunity which was afforded him of meeting the representatives of the Chamber of Commerce and the Community of Hongkong.\n\nHis Excellency then went on to say that it was only right to notice a circumstance that was too frequently overlooked in the comments made with reference to his conduct, namely, that he could not do more than obtain from the Chinese the best terms compatible with his instructions. He was not a free agent, but Her Majesty's Minister.\n\nAs far as he was personally concerned, he would be glad to show the deputation the nature of all that had been done; and so far as he felt authorized to do so, he would frankly state to them the nature of the long negotiations which had terminated in the convention. They had extended over more than eighteen months, and he thought that the specimen of printed papers which he held in his hand, which embodied the dispatches that had been passed during that period on the subject, showed that at least considerable attention had been paid to it.\n\nHe was at liberty to quote to them such portions as were of most interest, as showing the circumstances under which the revision was effected. It would be desirable to give some explanations as to particular clauses.\n\nHe held in his hand a document (a memorandum from the Board of Trade), from which he might without indiscretion quote certain passages. First, he would show under what conditions alone it was possible to negotiate, and would read extracts from the memorandum, illustrating the nature of the instructions under which he had acted.\n\nThe subject was to be considered under two divisions; first, as to the existing treaty; and, secondly, as to the modifications which it was designed to introduce in it by the revision.\n\nThe most important point under the first heading was the arrangement as to transit dues, and the right of protection in the interior as originally contemplated by the treaties.\n\nUpon this point Her Majesty's Government was of opinion that all that could be claimed under the Treaty of Tientsin was that at the Treaty ports the importer had the right to sell his goods in the market, and to send them into the interior free from more than the tariff and Treaty duties; but that when out of his hands, they had to take their chance.\n\nHe hoped that the terms now agreed to might operate in removing these restrictions.\n\nTheir general character might be summed up as being, first, to allow all foreign goods to circulate freely throughout China on payment of the tariff and transit dues; secondly, that refund was to be made of any charges paid in excess of such tariff and transit dues; and, thirdly, that with regard to such articles as formed the subject of monopolies, British subjects should be allowed to deal in them upon the same terms as the Chinese.\n\nThe Chinese authorities took up a ground which was certainly very fair. They said: We cannot give your nationals any exclusive privileges, but they shall be placed at perfect liberty to trade on the same footing as our own people.\n\nWith respect to the concession of inland navigation, although they refused the right to foreign vessels and His Excellency was not aware of any country that conceded such a right-they were yet willing to allow such navigation on the same footing as it was pursued by their own subjects.\n\nForeigners might navigate the inland waters in vessels of the same type as those used by the Chinese; and it was further important to note that the restrictions as to steam would be removed whenever the Chinese themselves commenced to employ steamers, when foreigners would be at equal liberty to do so.\n\nJANUARY 7, 1870.\n\nThe correspondence which had taken place showed that the Home Government was inclined to think all steps in this direction would be most dangerous and calculated to bring about complications; while the Chinese, except under a system of penalties and licenses tending to prevent such results, strongly deprecated that foreigners should go into the interior in steamers under their Treaty rights, until the people had become more familiar with foreign ways and foreign appliances.\n\nThe Deputation would thus see that His Excellency's hands had not been free to do as he might wish in such questions.\n\nIt was the habit to speak on all occasions as of this, that, or the other act of Sir Rutherford Alcock, but the paper from which he had already quoted contained a strong expression against demanding any such concessions as were urged by the mercantile communities and the Press, and censured the Minister for the language which he had used in respect to them.\n\nIt would thus be seen that the only censure which His Excellency had received was for going too far in the direction of advocating commercial concessions.\n\nThe provision respecting a tug on the Poyang Lake, which had been the subject of a great deal of comment, such as showed it was not properly understood, was of importance, as the beginning of a system which might ultimately be worked into practical use.\n\nNext, with respect to travel in the interior, His Excellency quoted from the Board of Trade Memorandum, which was to the effect that their Lordships thought this question was an act of Chinese administration, and beyond this, they took no notice of the matter, except to express their opinion that the present arrangements were all that are required in the interests of commerce and peace.\n\nWith respect to the concessions asked, first, to establish stores and residences in the interior; next, as to steam navigation; and finally, as to the working of mines, the minute set forth, that while giving due credit to Sir Rutherford Alcock for his efforts in this direction, their Lordships were unable to regret that he failed in obtaining concessions on these points.\n\nThey believed the first of them, namely the right of residence, would with the exterritoriality arrangement in existence, be attended with great danger.\n\nIf there were only one foreign power concerned in the matter, it would no doubt be easier, though even then, they would advise the concession not being urged; but with a large number of foreign nations, all claiming exterritorial rights, there could be nothing more calculated to bring about complications.\n\nWith respect to railways and telegraphs, they could not be allowed as Treaty rights, and should at first be introduced only as experiments, and any general scheme should be inaugurated by the Chinese themselves.\n\nNo new attempts should therefore be made at obtaining privileges in this direction.\n\nHis Excellency, as Her Majesty's Minister, was bound to take his instructions from Her Majesty's Government, and to negotiate under the conditions which they provided for, and Her Majesty's Government had deliberately come to a different opinion to that of the Mercantile Communities in China.\n\nThey might be sure that Her Majesty's Government earnestly wished, so far as they could, to further the trading interests of the country, and no doubt had formed their opinion upon careful consideration, and for weighty and sound reasons.\n\nSuch were the general conditions under which the negotiations had been conducted, and His Excellency would now be glad to give any explanations in his power on such points as the deputations desired to have explained.\n\nHon. 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TAYLOR said he had been deputed to speak on behalf of the Chamber of Commerce, and they could not but feel that, as the provisions of the original Treaty had proved completely inoperative, it was to be feared that those of the convention would not prove more successful, unless there were some guarantee that they would be carried out in good faith.\n\nBritish merchants were allowed to resort to the interior for trade, but the privileges would be rendered abortive by their being prohibited from putting up the names of their Hongs, and being allowed to reside only for a short period.\n\nHIS EXCELLENCY thought he could explain this point.\n\nIt was very often the case that when the Chinese agreed to terms in writing, they underrated the importance which the terms actually conveyed.\n\nFor example, the Russians had no more trading rights than British subjects, but yet there were Russian Hongs established in the interior.\n\nThere were a few above Hankow, in the Tea districts.\n\nThey spoke Chinese, and had half Russianised Chinese in their employ, and assimilated themselves very much to the people, to the extent in some instances of adopting their dress.\n\nThey gave no trouble to the authorities, and the authorities gave none to them.\n\nIt was His Excellency's firm belief that British subjects could do the same.\n\nIf they would be prepared to trade under the same conditions, there need be no trouble or disturbance.\n\nThe object of the provision was this, that the local authorities might be disposed not to admit...",
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        "content_text": "12\n\nSUPPLEMENT TO THE \"DAILY PRESS.\"\n\nlikelihood of war breaking out was one which applied equally to other nations.\n\nMr. POLLARD-Yes, but other nations did not resort to practices such as these. If we were called upon on the grounds of the necessity of treating China as on an equality to allow her to appoint a Consul to this Colony, surely we were called upon also to remove the far greater assertion of inequality which existed in the exterritorial clauses, which on account of not being able to trust the native officials to do justice in an ordinary Civil suit, all recognised as positively necessary. If we made her swallow that camel, it was absurd for us to countenance her straining at the present gnat.\n\nHis EXCELLENCY-Yes, but we have now removed our hand off her throat, and she naturally objects to swallowing any more camels.\n\nMr. POLLARD-Then remove the exterritoriality!\n\nHis EXCELLENCY said the question entered upon was a very large one. He was sorry that, in this instance, he could sympathise with few of the arguments advanced; and he adhered to his opinion that permitting the appointment of a Consul was negotiating in the right direction.\n\nThe deputation would be at liberty to make any representations they might think fit; but His Excellency did not consider he could adopt as a basis of negotiation, coming forward, and telling the Chinese that we think them so despicable and corrupt that we are compelled to refuse them the common privilege accorded to all other nations.\n\nMr. POLLARD hoped that this fact would not detract from the force of the remarks that had been made.\n\nHis EXCELLENCY said he had been very glad to hear them, and to have had the opportunity of telling them his views frankly. Nothing, however, would alter his view that it was essential that the right claimed as to the appointment of a Consul should be recognised.\n\nHon. Mr. TAYLOR enquired whether there was any prospect of the Chinese conceding the right to navigate the Upper Yangtze.\n\nHis EXCELLENCY was afraid not at present. There were such serious complications anticipated by the Chinese, and the matter had altogether excited so much alarm, that it was not to be hoped the privilege would be conceded. He himself would be glad to see navigation granted as far as Tchang, but there was no such disposition on the part of the Chinese.\n\nHon. J. B. TAYLOR made a similar enquiry as to the West River; to which His Excellency expressed his opinion that there was no hope that the right to navigate it would be granted.\n\nMr. POLLARD and the Hon. Mr. Taylor then thanked Sir Rutherford for the reception he had given to the deputation, and His Excellency expressed the satisfaction the interview had afforded him, and his regret that the opportunities for such frank interchange of views, which always led to useful results, were not more frequent.\n\nThe Deputation then withdrew.\n\nADDRESS FROM THE BRITISH MERCANTILE COMMUNITY AT SWATOW TO H.E. SIR RUTHERFORD ALCOCK, K.C.B., AND REPLY FROM HIS EXCELLENCY.\n\nThe following documents have been laid for publication:\n\nSWATOW, 24th November 1869.\n\nSIR,-Though few in number, we are not the less sincere when we address your Excellency on this occasion-perhaps the last we may have-to express our thanks for what you have done to further the interests of this Port, through the instrumentality of the Central Government of Peking, and chiefly we are grateful to you for authorizing the formal opening of Chao-chow-foo last year, the advantages of which are various.\n\nAmong them may be mentioned-\n\n1stly. A monopoly of the opium trade with Kiangsi through Chao-chow-foo, by some ten Hongs of that city, has been broken up.\n\n2ndly. The water communication with the city has been rendered safer by the traffic of foreigners on the river, and will be still more so when a steamer of light draft, now being constructed, is running between it and Swatow.\n\n3rdly-So far as foreigners are concerned (and Chinese also, if they choose to avail themselves of the foreign medium for the transmission of their goods), certain village \"black mail levies\" are not now compulsory.\n\nAnd\n\nLastly-A larger field is open to foreign enterprise which, if properly directed, may lead to increased consumption of British fabrics, as well as the export of some articles of native industry.\n\nWe leave it to your Excellency to judge of the expediency of this measure politically, in connection with which the matter of Octroi duties holds a prominent place. We are far from wishing to have undue advantages conferred on foreign trade, but there are so many ways in which this tax can and does become a powerful agent for thwarting the sale of British manufactures and maintaining the foreign merchant in ignorance of the requirements of the place or its capabilities of consumption, that the matter becomes one of paramount importance.\n\nBy Chinese, acquainted with the locality, conversant with the different means of access to the place, able at the proper time and with the proper person to have recourse to bribes, the inconvenience is less felt; and the various markets offered to them for their goods in transit render such taxes in many instances nugatory.\n\nOn these grounds we argue that there is no undue advantage to the foreign merchant, if he enjoys immunity from such taxes.\n\nJANUARY 7, 1870.\n\nAnd unless it be a matter of congratulation that China is as she stands at present, and that we are to be content that she absorbs so much of our industry as she does, it appears an injustice that those who have contributed towards it may soon have to vacate the field-in which case the commerce of the southern part of the Empire would centre in Hongkong.\n\nNor would that Colony derive any benefit, for, unchecked by the wholesome restraint of the foreigner at the minor Ports, manufactures sold to Chinese at Hongkong, and by them imported, would be easily subjected to any amount of taxation the whim or capacity of the Native authorities might choose to impose.\n\nFrom another point of view also, viz., the immunity of native manufactures from such taxes, our proposition derives additional strength.\n\nStill more detrimentally does the Commerce of this Port suffer from the differential duties levied at the Harbors and places between this and Hongkong.\n\nWithin a distance in direct line of 150 miles from Hongkong, with numerous Bays and Rivers available between to diminish the distance, it requires but a glance to comprehend how prejudicial to the interests of this Port is the encouragement given by the local authorities to this traffic, from which they reap a rich harvest.\n\nWere the Customs here less strict, or a trustworthy coastguard organized, no complaint could stand, but constituted as is the one and absent as is the other, nothing but disappointment can result to the simplest commercial calculations.\n\nThe treatment of claims against Chinese is also a subject which calls for improvement if not indeed total reform.\n\nPayment of the best-founded claims, acknowledged by the defaulters as such, is subject not to their ability but to their willingness to meet them; and reference to the Chinese authorities is of so little avail as to be practically valueless, owing to the venality which pervades all the Yamuns, their professions of bringing pressure to bear on the delinquents being of course at variance with fact.\n\nThe vexation, the delay, and time uselessly spent in periodically bringing such claims to their notice through the Consul, are almost effectual barriers against pressing them at all, and a premium is thus being placed more and more on dishonesty.\n\nWe submit with deference,-\n\nThat where such a condition of things prevails, H.M. Consul should have it in his power to hold the Chinese authorities responsible for such miscarriage of justice, which so greatly adds to the usual risks of trade.\n\nThe disadvantage under which the British flag, as compared with that of other nationalities, labors in the traffic with our own Possessions at the Straits, can only, we should think, require to be known to our Government, when a remedy would at once be found.\n\nAccording to the Chinese Passengers' Act, 1855, British vessels are liable to serious penalties if they carry to the Straits (on a voyage of not more than 10 days' duration in the North-East monsoon) more than one passenger to each two tons of the ship's register; and while no such law hampers the flags of other nationalities, the Chinese Customs authorities authorize the carriage of three passengers to each two tons register.\n\nAs the expenses attending a vessel conveying a large number of passengers are proportionately much less than attend one with few passengers, the British flag has been able to obtain no share in this trade; and the consequence has been that British interests have suffered materially for many years, and that, too, in a traffic which should be more especially theirs.\n\nThe annual exodus of Chinese from this port alone to the Straits may be put at about 10,000 men, whose passage money averages about $3 per head, so that there is a loss to British ship-owners of $30,000 per annum here (and more at the other ports), by the working of a law which presses so unfairly.\n\nThe Governor of the Straits Settlements has legislated for the conveyance outwards from these colonies of not more than one passenger to each registered ton, which has received the sanction of the Imperial Government; and though we are of opinion three men to every two tons register is not excessive, when the duration and ease of the voyage to the Straits are taken into consideration, assimilation is urgently needed for the protection of British interests.\n\nIn bringing these points to your Excellency's notice, we venture to hope we may find in you no advocate of them, if not in their entirety, at least of such portions as may seem to you most in need of reform.\n\nRadical changes, such as the equalization of maritime duties on goods carried by foreign and native vessels-the free import and export of salt-the opening of other ports-are perhaps subjects better mooted and dealt with by larger and more influential communities, from whom also it may come with better grace, to comment with approbation on what we believe from certain despatches published in the \"Blue Books\" to have been your Excellency's Policy with regard to British interests during the term you have been the Representative of our nationality in China; but, even at the risk of being considered personal, we ask leave to add our mite of satisfaction at the course pursued by your Excellency on the many occasions that have arisen during the time you have occupied the high position of H.M. Minister and Plenipotentiary in China-occasions which we are fully convinced required great ability to cope with and decisive firmness to deal with.\n\nWith our best wishes for your Excellency's\n\n268",
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        "content_text": "## The word \"Treaties\" being in the plural can have no other interpretation. The Extradition Clause of the Supplemental Treaty of Nanking was only abrogated to be re-enacted in substance in the Treaty of Tientsin as appears by the recital in Article I. (See per the Lord Chancellor in Regina v. Wideman, 14, Law Times N. S., as to the French Treaty and the Imperial Act passed to carry it out.)\n\nOrdinance No. 2 of 1850, is moreover impliedly declared to be still in force by Ordinance No. 7 of 1864.\n\n## 4th Point. \nThe offence for which the Prisoner stands committed is if anything Piracy on the high Seas, and, on the authority of \"re Terman\" 33° L. J. M. C. 201 is not within the Treaty and Ordinance No. 2 of 1850, being justiciable here. Phil. 379, 391.\n\n33 L. J. M. C. 201.\n\nThe offence for which the Prisoner stands committed is the one for which his rendition was claimed, namely Murder. Murder is a distinct crime from Piracy though too frequently coupled with it.\n\nThe Prisoner after the commission of the crime returned to China. Afterwards and while a Chinese Tribunal was sitting for the Trial of some of his accomplices, he was found in this Colony. He therefore, \"took refuge\" in Hongkong, within the meaning of Art. 21 of the Treaty of Tientsin.\n\nThe Point here raised involves three Questions.\n\nA. Is the crime disclosed by the Depositions Piracy jure gentium and cognizable by the Hongkong Courts?\n\nB. If it be so, is Piracy jure gentium a crime within the intent of the Treaty of Tientsin?\n\nC. If not within the Treaty, may the Prisoner be surrendered for the crime of Murder in respect of which crime alone the application for his rendition and his commitment are limited, though the facts may also disclose the crime of Piracy jure gentium?\n\n### Firstly as to A.\nThe opinion of the Law officers of the Crown in England in 1852 will be found at page 229 of Mr. Forsyth's Work on Constitutional Law, and is to the effect that in a Case precisely similar to the present one (the sole difference being that the Foreign Coolie Emigrant ship in which the Murder was committed was an American ship instead of a French one) the crime was not cognizable by the Tribunals of Hongkong, and consequently was not Piracy jure gentium. Since In re Ternan, 9 Cox C. C., P. the date of that Opinion the Case of the Joseph Gerrity was decided, in which the Judges held that upon the construction of the word \"Piracy\" in the Schedule of the Treaty between Great Britain and the United States, Piracy jure gentium was not included in the List of Crimes for which Extradition could be demanded.\n\nNaylor. Falmer, 22 L. J. Ex. 331.\n\nIn that Case the Judges were of opinion that the crime committed on board the Joseph Gerrity was if anything, Piracy jure gentium; but the facts were not the same as in the present Case. From the Report of it (nomine, in re Ternan) in 9 Cox. C. C., Crompton J. seems to base his opinion that the crime was Piracy jure gentium on the ground that the Prisoners had surreptitiously embarked in the Joseph Gerrity in the disguise of Passengers.\n\nIn the present Case the depositions show that the vessel carried Emigrants for Peru under Contracts of Service, and that the Coolies seized the ship for the purpose of getting rid of their contracts and returning to their own country. The element of \"universal hostility\" is here wanting to constitute Piracy jure gentium. The seizure was made animo revertendi and not animo furandi though the ship was afterwards plundered. It cannot be said that the Coolies who were engaged in the seizure, were outlaws recognizing no Flag and no Government.\n\nIt is submitted, therefore, that notwithstanding Ternan's Case, the opinion of Sir John Harding, Sir Frederic Thesiger, and Sir FitzRoy Kelly, given in 1852 upon precisely similar facts as those appearing in the depositions before the Court, is still a correct exposition of the Law. Mr. Forsyth has published that Opinion in his recent work on Constitutional Law without any remark, although be frequently refers to Ternan's Case. (As to the Elements of Piracy jure gentium, see note 81 to Wheaton's International Law by Prof. Dana (8th Edition), Kent's Comm. by Abdy p. 428, 1 Wildman's International Law p. 208.)\n\n### Secondly as to B.\nIt must be borne in mind that in the Treaty of Tientsin no particular crimes are named and that our Government has stipulated to deliver to the Chinese Authorities \"Criminals, subjects of China, who shall take refuge in Hongkong,\" without any limitation as to the nature of the crime.\n\nTherefore as far as concerns the nature of the crime charged, it is again submitted that on the face of the Treaty and of the Ordinance, No. 2 of 1850, a Court of Law has no power to release a Chinese Prisoner committed by the Magistrate under that Ordinance if the depositions show that there is any Evidence of the commission by him of a crime known to British Law. On this point the evidence of Mr. H. T. Holland (Legal adviser to the Colonial Office) before the Special Committee of the House of Commons on Extradition which sat in 1867, is as follows (p. 49 of Report) :-\n\n| Question | Answer |\n| --- | --- |\n| M. Layard, Question 985.-Have you a list of the various crimes for which we should give people up under the Treaties and Agreements which exist in China? | We have only the Treaty of Tientsin. |\n| Question 987.-Is there no definition of the crime? | No, none at all. Consequently, two questions arose upon that Article 21; first, whether the Treaty required the extradition of all Chinese Criminals, including Political Offenders; and secondly, whether we were bound to give up Offenders when we knew they were going to be tortured. I believe there has been some difference of opinion here upon that Second Point; but instructions have at all events been given both by Lord Russell and Mr. Cardwell, that Political Offenders should not be given up, and that Persons should not be given up in case where we knew that torture would be applied. |\n| Question 988.--Then in fact the definition of the crime under the Treaty is left entirely to the Colonial Government? | Yes. Upon the face of the Treaty we ought to give up every one who is claimed for any crime at all, because it says simply \"if Criminals, subjects of China, shall take refuge in Hongkong, or in British vessels, they shall be given up.\" |\n\nIt cannot be argued that Piracy jure gentium is not a crime which may be included in extradition Treaties, for the Imperial Extradition Act of 1870, expressly includes it, and it was inserted in the Schedules of Crimes of our recent Hongkong and Macao Extradition Ordinance (`No. 13 of 1870`) by order of the Secretary of State.\n\nTherefore if the terms of the Treaty of Tientsin are large enough to include that crime, and it is contended that they are, as they include all crimes, there is no legal objection to the commitment, on the ground that the depositions disclose a crime of Piracy jure gentium. The decision in Ternan's Case is not in point, as it turns upon the construction of the limited Schedule of Crimes annexed to the Treaty with the United States, whereas there is no limit to the description of crimes for which the surrender of a Chinese may be demanded of the British Government by the Chinese Authorities under the Treaty of Tientsin.\n\n### Thirdly as to C.\nMay the Prisoner be surrendered on the charge of Murder though the evidence supporting it is sufficient also to support a charge of Piracy?\n\nThis question has been answered in the affirmative by the Law Officers of the Crown in England, as may be seen by reference to the Report of the Select Committee on Extradition, p. 54:\n\n| Question | Answer |\n| --- | --- |\n| Examination of the Right Honorable E. Hammond. Question 1052.-What is the next point you wish to refer to? | In question 73 a question was raised as to giving up a man claimed by the United States on a charge of piracy. A person named Locke was charged in the Bahamas with conspiracy and forgery in connection with the destruction by a Confederate privateer the Chesapeake of an American Merchant Vessel the Hanover. That was in 1864 and 1865. His extradition was also demanded by the United States, on charges of Piracy and Murder. In that case it was held, that if the Piracy had been committed on the high seas, though on board an American vessel, it would be triable in a British Court, but if the charge was confined to Murder, though on the high seas, the vessel being an American vessel, over which the United States would have exclusive jurisdiction on the high seas, the man might be given up. The case of the Joseph Gerrity (10 Law Times Reports New Series, page 499) was cited by the Law Officers in support of this Doctrine as regards Piracy, but not as applicable as regards Murder. |\n\nPage 303",
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        "content_text": "No \n\n81 \n\n82 \n\n14 \n\nKetter \n\nRED \n\nNo 65. \n\nDate \n\nWhen Received \n\ntrong No 9502 \n\n672 \n\n1072.. \n\n12 June \n\n1872. \n\n20 July. \n\n# \n\n10 \n\nTelegram \n\n\" \n\n30 July \n\n31 July. \n\nfear (Santt. \n\nActing Colonial Secretary- \n\nColonial Secretary's Office, \n\n2* August, 1072.- \n\nThis notifies receipt \n\nof C.0 mails of 22 May & 31 May & 14 June. \n\nEx. \n\n24.9.)2. \n\n11 \n\n360 \n\n1872. \n\nDate of Paper. \n\n(Subject.) \n\nKing \n\n1872 Substitution of Swaton fu Hage as Part- \n\nJuly 30 \n\nst previous Paper. \n\nFO. 5-647 \n\nJJ. J. \n\nEmigration from China to West-Indies \n\nIndexed \n\n10-72 \n\n10780. \n\n23 \n\n0820) \n\n22720885 \n\nCopy Will Comm \n\nJuriided 444 AGuiana No 37 \n\n170.23. (0.72 \n\n(Minutes.) \n\nSu. H. Taylor \n\nTo E. C. for Risport ? \n\nRm 26. \n\nNr 25/9 \n\n25/9\n\nI made the following changes:\n1. Corrected \"trong trong\" to \"trong\"\n2. Corrected \"X 3 1 May x 5α14\" to \"22 May & 31 May & 14 June\" (re-ordering and reasonable adding of words)\n3. Removed \"مریم\" and \"ماست\" as they are not relevant to the text.\n4. Removed \"ソ\" as it is not relevant to the text.\n5. Formatted the text into paragraphs using HTML  tags.\n6. Corrected minor spacing issues.\n7. No translation was done.\n8. No comments were left in the text.",
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        "content_text": "996.\n\n1.\n\n532\n\nYour Lordship with obseren\n\nthat Señor\n\nfor\n\nwill\n\nCheca has been\n\nitted\n\ntrial at the Supreme Comit-bail being accepted.\n\nI have the hever to be,\n\nMy Lord,\n\nLordship's\n\nYou Ledlilijn mot obedient\n\nhumble cervant,\n\nLilin neay Governor.\n\nTHE CHINA MAIL.\n\nHONGKONG, THURSDAY, AUG. 15, 1872.\n\nTO-DAY'S FOLICE.\n\nTHE DUEL CASE. Before the Honourable . MAY. 15th Aug., 1872.\n\nMr Leon Checa again appeared to answer the charge of conspiracy to take away hu- man lives.\n\nMr Toller, Crown Solicitor, appeared for the prosecution, and Mr B. J. Francis for the defence.\n\nMe Toller said that during the last exa- mination Mr La Forest declined to answer certain questions on the ground that they would tend to criminate him.\n\nMr Toller\n\nwould put him in the box again and ask him the same questions; if he should take the same objection, he, Mr Toller, had a free pardon in his hand, and he would give it to Mr La. Forest, which would remove all objections on that score.\n\nMr La Forest was then sworn: I was not in Mr Checa's house on the 20th July last.\n\nMr May recorded the fact that the Crown Solicitor had a Free Pardon for Mr La Forest in his hands,\n\nMr Francis submitted that was no part of the evidence and should not appear in the deposition.\n\nMr May overruled the objection. Examination continued: Mr Toller asked whether witness recognised the signatures on the document handed to the witness\n\nMr La Forest declined to answer, saying\n\nit would criminate him.\n\nThe Crown Solicitor herewith handed the Free Pardon to the witness.\n\nMr Francis asked to see it and told wit-\n\nness not to answer any questions.\n\nMr Toller repeated his question.\n\nMr La Forest declined to answer.\n\nMr Toller said if he persisted in declin-\n\ning, he would ask the Magistrate to commit him.\n\nMr Francis said the Governor had no power to grant & Free Pardon on Her Majes: iy's behalf except under the Charter of the Colony and Ordinance No. 1 of 1860.\n\nMr Toller said Mr Francis had no latus standi, and quoted Taylor on evidence and Chitty's practice.\n\nMr Francis contendel that he could ap- pear for the protection of the witness, and on behalf of his client he took the objec tion.\n\nMr May thought the witness being a for eigner unacquainted with the English law should have the advantage of legal assist-\n\nance,\n\nMr Toller, after the remarks from his Worship, waived his objection.\n\nMr Francis then submitted that the Go- vernor had no power under his Letters Fatout to grant a Pardon, freeing a person\n\n! \n\nfrom all the consequence of a Criminal act, unless that person had been first convicted before a Court. This appeared in the cita- tion of the document produced by the Crown Solicitor. By the Governor's Let- ters Patent, he was merely a delegate hold- ing, as it were, a power of attorney from the Queen, which latter must be literally and strictly construed. With this limited power, the Governor could only grant a pardon to a person convicted before any Court, or (under the Conditional Pardon Ordinance No. 1 of 1860) to a person con- victed of a crime in order to free him from the effect of the sentence, or order impri- sonment in place of death, but not for the purpose of getting a participator in crime to come forward to give evidence against an accomplice. Therefore if a person was not convicted, the Governor had no power to grant a Pardon to him. It would have been different if the words \"convicted of any crime\" had been struck out. The Governor's power was limited to pardon a particular class of persons and not all persons.\n\nMr May wished some suggestions could be made by which the case could be brought to the Supreme Court.\n\nMr Francis said he had a means of taking\n\nit to the Supreme Court if the Crown Soli- citor would accept a nominal committal.\n\nMr Toller could not consent to any arrangement, and cited a case to shew that where a witness had a pardon, and if the danger of incrimination was only imaginary, the witness should not be allowed the privilege of refusing to answer. It was not likely that the Government, having granted a pardon, would turn round and prosecute Mr La Forest, Mr Toller undertook, on behalf of the Crown, that a nolle prosegui should be entered against Mr La Forest.\n\nMr Francis argued that the Pardon was a useless piece of paper, and if the Attorney General should return to the Colony and take the office over from the Acting Attor- ney General, there was nothing to prevent Mr La Forest from being indicted, in which case the Pardon of the Governor would not avail him. (Here the defendant's Soli- citor again referred to the Letters Patent, remarking that Legislative power by Ur- dinance having to be given before the Go- vernor could grant conditional pardons was another strong argument against the suffi ciency of the Pardon.) Touching the pow ers of the Attorney-General, it might be re- membered that three criminal informations were filed against the late proprietor of the China Mail, in opposition to the wish of the Governor, and on the sole responsibili. ty of the then Acting Attorney-General.\n\nMr Toller said that the Government would not turn round after granting this Pardon.\n\nMr Francis replied that Mr Pauncefote might take an entirely different view of the matter; and the Government of Hongkong had done more extraordinary things than that in its time.",
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        "content_text": "before I shall be able to say. I have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour Most Obedient Servant,\n\n(Signed) F. Bulkeley Johnson.\n\nReply of the Howard Association\nto\nMr. F. B. Johnson.\n\nThe Howard Association, 5, Bishopsgate Without,\nE.C., London, Jan. 10.\n\nDear Sir,-Your letter from Hong Kong, dated Dec. 8, reached me yesterday, and I have at once looked up various papers and authorities on the subject, so as to be able to reply promptly. But, in the first place, it may be remarked that it is waiter for surprise that we should have received any letter at all from Hong Kong, written under an apparent impression that the penal system of that colony had not been open to serious objection. For it is a matter of world-wide notoriety. Have you not seen the principal English journals of the past few years? Have you not read the Parliamentary and other State papers in which this subject has been treated of by his Excellency Governor Pope Hennessy, Earl Kimberley, and others? Have you not read the letters to the English newspaper on the question by Mr. Peter A. Taylor, M.P., and others? Perhaps, however, in your distant part of the world you have not seen or read these statements. And even if you have, you might, and perhaps not altogether unreasonably, object that general statements in the public Press are not a sufficient authority for grave imputations upon any system or upon any community. Well, let us at once assume this to be so, and set aside all the newspaper correspondence and statements, and confine the matter to official reports. In the autumn of 1879 there was published an official correspondence between the governor of Hong Kong and the Colonial Office. In that Correspondence Governor Hennessy gave an account of what had come under his personal observation, and which indicated a very grave and objectionable state of things in the local penal system. For example, he found two prisoners who had been flogged nine days previously, and who were still bleeding from the wounds occasioned by those floggings-one of the prisoners having eight and the other twelve such wounds. It further appeared that prisoners previously to being flogged were placed on a very weakening diet of rice and water, whereby their floggings were rendered still more penal. Also in about a year and a half more than two hundred floggings were inflicted upon the prisoners in Hong Kong Jail. Governor Hennessy reported to the Secretary of State for the Colonies that \"this is probably without a parallel in any part of the civilised globe of the same amount of population. From further official correspondence published in August, 1881, it appears that the benevolent Governor's interference had already been followed by a material decrease both in grave and in minor crimes, in spite of the decrease or disuse of flogging. The news from the colony received from time to time has shown that much opposition by some of the colonists has been manifested to the Governor's Christian and philanthropic exertions. But here, in Great Britain, there appears to be a general concurrence of public opinion in support of the Governor's action, which is regarded as that of a noble-hearted and courageous man, and a worthy representative of the illustrious and merciful Sovereign for whose name he administers the affairs of your colony. And it is to be hoped that among the European, as certainly amongst the Chinese, population of Hong Kong there are many persons who cordially support and honour the Governor's wise and humane procedure; though it is evident that some, on the other hand, have endeavoured to thwart and discourage him. Doubtless, neither Governor Hennessy nor those who in this country admire his course of action would desire to encourage crime or to pamper prisoners. On the contrary, they would promptly admit that it is no true humanity to render prisons either attractive or insufficiently penal. The proper function of a prison is to tend permanently to empty itself. And all experience shows that this is best secured by a due combination of reformatory with deterrent, and of preventive with repressive treatment. The prompt but slothful resort to mere wholesale flogging has, whenever it has been resorted to, tended to crush men into permanent shams and crime. They have had to be flogged again and again, and imprisoned time after time. I speak now of flogging as a general feature of any system. Experienced criminal administrators who do not wish to see flogging abolished, but mainly held in terrorem for resort in extreme cases, have repeatedly stated their conviction that in this sparing infliction, and on rare occasions, consists its only merit. But even the recent official statistics of your own colony now prove the failure of the former flogging system and the more repressive as well as preventive efficacy of Governor Hennessy's wiser substitute. I shall lay this correspondence before our committee, and meanwhile I remain, Sir, yours very respectfully,\n\nWILLIAM TALLACK, Secretary of the Howard Association.\n\nF. Bulkeley Johnson, Esq., Member of Legislative Council.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-207 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1883 [1-3]",
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        "content_text": "Hongkong.\n\nNo 2.\n\n31st March 1883.\n\nGovernor,\n\nThe George Ferguson Bowen, GCMG\n\nSir\n\nto\n\nThe Right Honourable The Earl of Derby\n\nHon'ble W. H. Marsh, CMG.\n\nRespecting the\n\nEnclosures\n\nEnclosure No!\n\nThe Daily Press.\n\nHONGKONG, APRIL 3RD, 1883.\n\nPRESENTATION OF AN ADDRESS TO HIS EXCELLENCY THE ADMINISTRATOR.\n\nOn the 29th ult. an address was presented to His Excellency the Administrator, the Hon. W. H. Marsh, C.M.G., at Government House. The presentation was made by the Hon. P. Ryrie, who was accompanied by upwards of eighty of the signatories, representatives of every class and nationality in the Colony being present.\n\nHon. P. RYRIE, in making the presentation, said—Your Excellency, the pleasing duty has been assigned to me of presenting to you a numerously signed address from the community of this Colony. When I state that this has been a spontaneous movement on the part of all classes in the colony, I state what is absolute fact. I believe that I may be considered the oldest British resident in the Colony, and during the period of my stay here, I have taken part in a good many demonstrations of this kind, and I can truly say that I have never seen more anxiety displayed by its inhabitants to testify by their signatures the feelings they entertained of your high abilities as the head of its executive. (Applause). The address, as you will observe, is numerously signed by all nationalities, but there are still a number of gentlemen anxious to join it who from press of time have not had an opportunity of doing so. With your kind permission their signatures can be appended hereafter. (Applause.) I shall now, with your permission, proceed to read the address:\n\nTo HIS EXCELLENCY THE HONOURABLE WILLIAM HENRY MARSH, C.M.G., THE OFFICER ADMINISTERING THE GOVERNMENT OF HONGKONG, &c., &c., &c.\n\nSIR, We, the undersigned non-official members of the Legislative Council, Justices of the Peace, Members of Professions, Merchants, Bankers, and Residents in Hongkong, desire to convey to Your Excellency on the approaching termination of your Administration of the affairs of the Colony an expression of our esteem and regard as well as of our sense of the admirable and effective manner in which you have discharged the duties of your high position.\n\nThe vigour which has been displayed in every department of your Government, the introduction of numerous measures of useful legislation, and the rapidity with which urgently required public works have been promoted and pushed forward within the short period during which you have held office, make evident to us the eminent capacity for affairs which you possess, while the equal administration of executive authority dispensed by you without fear or favour and with a steadfast regard to the public welfare has inspired all classes of our mixed population with complete confidence in the firmness and justice of your rule.\n\nYou have made Government House the centre of social attraction by the liberal and graceful hospitality which has been accorded to the community.\n\nWe are pleased to learn that the Public Service of the Colony will not be deprived for some time to come of your valuable co-operation and that you will resume your former post as Colonial Secretary. We trust that when you do leave us it will be on the occasion of your appointment to higher office under the Crown to which your long and able public career have so well qualified you.\n\nWith the assurance of our profound respect. We have the honour to be, Sir, your most obedient servants,\n\n[Signatures follow]\n\nP. Ryrie\n\nF. Hugeloy Johnson\n\nE. R. Belilios\n\nAlfred Lefeber\n\nWm. Danby\n\nJohn Thurburn\n\nS. Barff\n\nA. Molver\n\nW. S. Adams, M.D.\n\nBell-Irving\n\nJ. G. T. Haysel\n\nD. Ruttunjoe\n\nFramsjee H. Arjunes\n\nH. M. Mehta\n\nPh. B. C. Aires\n\nU. V. Creagh\n\nC. D. Bottomley\n\nW. S. Young\n\nH. L. Dalrymple\n\nWilliam Forrest\n\nJ. L. Mackenzie\n\nE. Mackintosh\n\nF. D. Sassoon\n\nJohn Gerrard\n\nC. P. Chater\n\nG. M. Carvalho\n\nG. Remedios\n\nJoze Maria G. Pereira\n\nCornelio Corveth\n\nF. H. V. Azevedo\n\nJ. F. Tavares\n\nE. Loureiro\n\nL. J. Gutierrez\n\nA. Eca da Silva\n\nL. M. Baptista\n\nC. V. M. Marques\n\nF. M. Gutierrez\n\nJ. A. 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        "content_text": "دولتم\n\n1\n\n24\n\nREGINA v. LOGAN,\n\nMr. Wise-I want in the first place to put in the depositions that have been read.\n\nlived about twelve years. I have held office for the Chinese Government, that of Vice-Consul at San Francisco, where I went about ten years ago, I have known the prisoner by sight for some time, having often seen him in the street, and I know the house he lives in. I also know the Yi Koe shop, I have measured\n\nHis Lordship-This is the time for me to ask you whether you intend to call any witness, and I wish to know whether you intend doing so.\n\nMr. Wise-I shall put in one deposition at any rate.\n\nThe Court was then adjourned till half past nine o'clock the following morning.\n\n28th September, 1893. His Lordship took his seat upon the bench at 9.40 a.m.\n\nthe distance between his house and the shop by tape measurement, and the distance is 84 feet from the east corner of the Yi Koe shop to Mr. Logan's door, English measurement. The Yi Koo hong is to the west of Logan's house. I know the Yuen Mun Shi tea hong; it is on the north side of the street opposite the prisoner's and the two adjoining houses. The schoolmaster lives upstairs above the tea shop. I also know the Shun Chu Long tea hong; it is at the corner of the street in which Johnson's house is. From the east end of the bridge to the west corner of Fuk Hing-street is 44 feet, English measurement, and from the east corner of Fuk Hing-street to the centre of the cross-street, the distance is 82 feet. Since I have come back I have made inquiries about this case, and I have endeavoured to discover the prisoner's Chinese boy and woman, as I thought they would be good witnesses, but I could not find them. I asked a tea merchant there named Kow Fung Hung to attend the court, but he has not come, and has sent to say his mother is dead. A Chinaman does not show his face for three weeks and sometimes seven weeks after his mother's death.\n\nMr. Wise applied that the deposition of Lee Chok Wan, taken at the preliminary examination, should be put in as part of his case.\n\nThe Crown Advocate-I do not propose to offer any objection to the application; but there is one application I have to make; that is, that the interpreter may inform me whether the letters in the indictment correctly spell the name of the deceased.\n\nMr. Ball was then called and said-I have not seen the characters representing the deceased's name; as the witnesses pronounce the name it may be correctly spelt, but the pronunciation was like \"kang\", but that may be a bad pronunciation of the same word, which is very common. The more correct way of spelling the name in English is \"king\". I cannot say positively whether it is the correct spelling of the deceased's name as I have not seen the character.\n\nThe Crown Advocate-How did the father of the boy pronounce the name?\n\nMr. Ball-He pronounced the name \"kang\". And would that be the name by which he would be known to his father and the outside world? Yes.\n\nCross-examined by Mr. Wise-I was at the house this morning. It is not under repair, and I am sure carpenters and workmen were not engaged in this house three days or so ago. I do not take any more interest in this case than I am obliged to do as an elder in the street. I am obliged to investigate any case of murder which occurs in the street. I have not looked up witnesses particularly for this case, excepting to get the evidence together.\n\nMr. Wise-Have you not smoothed it all off to see that all goes right?\n\nWitness-I do not know what is right or what is wrong, I only got the witnesses together. Have you not taken them to a lawyer's office to see that all got their evidence properly? --No.\n\nThe Crown Advocate-That is the case for the Crown, my Lord.\n\nHis Lordship-Are you going to call any witnesses for the defence, Mr. Wise.\n\nMr. Wise-It is rather late now, your Lordship,\n\nHis Lordship-But I want to know whether you intend to call any.\n\nAnd that sound is not correctly spelt by \"king\"?\n\nThe Crown Advocate then applied that the spelling of the name of the deceased on the indictment might be amended to \"Hang\" instead of \"King\", so as to be in accordance with the pronunciation of the name.\n\nThe alteration was made throughout the indictment.\n\nHis Lordship-Are you going to call any witnesses, Mr. Wise?\n\nMr. Wise-No, my Lord; but I wish to put in the depositions of Li Chok Wan taken before the Consul.\n\nThe deposition was then read by the Clerk of the Court, the material part being the statement\n\n25\n\nREGINA v. LOGAN.\n\nit one of the foreigners held two revolvers fully; it was not for him (Mr. Wise) to make out who killed or wounded these persons, but it was for the Crown to show that the boy met with his death at the hands of the prisoner. As to the woman and the man who were wounded, that was not the point, which was whether the evidence convinced them that the prisoner killed the boy. Unless the evidence was such as to convince them upon that point their verdict must be in favour of the prisoner; if they had any reasonable doubt upon that point he was entitled to ask them to give the prisoner the benefit of it. In his opening speech the Crown Advocate had informed them that the prisoner had a stick in his hand with which he struck some coolies, and, according to the case for the prosecution, that was the commencement of the whole row; that the prisoner then went into his house and brought out a revolver. He then went back to the west with the two other Europeans, and chased the people, who ran; he then fired towards the west and wounded a woman. He (Mr. Wise) would ask the jury to believe that there was no evidence at all to bear out that part of the story. After this the prosecution alleged the prisoner went back to his house, followed by the woman, and got a larger weapon, and cartridges from his boy, and with a pistol or carbine he then went to the bridge, killed the boy and wounded the man. The Crown Advocate was evidently in doubt whether this was done by a pistol or a carbine, but he said it did not matter which it was so long as the jury were satisfied the prisoner killed them with either. It struck him that on the first day the witnesses were extremely pliable upon cross-examination, and he was able to get several facts from them that had not transpired from the examination-in-chief, but directly the line of the defence was shown and it was seen that a distinction was to be made between a pistol and a carbine then matters were very different. There was then no question between a revolver and a carbine, but it was then a long firearm which had killed the boy, and there was no question of a pistol except with one of the witnesses, who showed the length with his hand, and the length stated was found to be only an inch more than the revolvers in court. That witness had given the length of the weapon inclusive of the stock and barrel, but upon cross-examination of the witnesses on the second day, they all alleged that they were speaking of the length of the iron work, and not of the whole pistol. This was after the line of the defence had been shown.\n\nThe defense had to prove nothing, only that the Crown had not made out the case that the prisoner killed the boy. Mr. Wise then called his Lordship's attention to Taylor on Evidence, page 126, of the 1878 edition, which stated that one of the most important legal pre...\n\n27",
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        "content_text": "get him matches. 21 said to him \n\nwas to fire the Tailor? \n\nChristmas \n\nthe object shop on \n\nDay- they had got a slow match and a little \"powder, the officers would probably \n\nbe absent or drunk, and in the confusion many long-sentence prisoners might escape; their friends outside \n\nwere warned \n\nand ready to help them \n\nurged the \n\nman to tell the \n\nSuperintendent : he said he dare not. The Triad Society \n\nwould kill him as soon as \n\nas he got out, if he told. I then went and told the Superintendent. Logan's informant was \n\nmyself \n\nexamined by \n\nme \n\non the matter. \n\nhe was dreadfully frightened \n\nand trembling. he declared he \n\ndare not say a word for fear of being murdered, and would not speak till I promised not to \n\nCall \n\n431 \n\ncall him as a witness and not to mention his name \n\nand in giving his statement. therefore I suppressed his name and \n\nnumber. He stated: \n\nSome days ago N.21 tried to bribe me with money to get him matches; after some discussion he told me the object \n\nwas \n\nto \n\nChristmas \n\nfire the tailor's shop on night in hopes of many escaping in the confusion, being helped from outside. They had a slow match and many combustibles. They knew most of the officers would be on leave on day, and that some of the others would be tipsy. They also thought this fire would so frighten the Superintendent that he would never come back to Hong Kong \n\nfrom \n\nChristmas \n\nhis leave, which would be a great advantage to all \n\nprisoners",
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        "content_text": "96\n\nSun Shing had clusters of lanterns hanging in the arches, and the Medical Hall had strings of lanterns. The Pacific Mail Company's office was tastefully decorated with rows of lanterns, with the American flag and the Union Jack floating at each end, and small flags of the two nations crossed in the centre. Crossing over the street and proceeding eastwards, passing the Victoria Hotel, already described, we come to Messrs. Turner and Co.'s hong, where there was a pretty arrangement of Chinese lanterns. The China Fire Insurance Company had banners hanging from each window, and \"God bless our Queen\" worked in small oil lamps in front of the verandah. Acbee's furniture store had small coloured oil lamps along the balustrading of the verandah, and strings of Japanese lanterns. Messrs. Framjee Hormusjee & Co. had large clusters of coloured lamps hanging in each of the verandah arches, five on each floor, with stars of small coloured oil lamps on the pillars of the upper floor with spear heads of the same description of lamps on the end pillars, the whole forming a very beautiful display. Rose and Co. had a row of lanterns in front and Messrs. Wotton and Deacon a double row. Messrs. Lane, Crawford and Co.'s premises were tastefully decorated with two \"V. Rs.\" worked in flowers on the top of the porch, lanterns hanging in the porchway underneath, and clusters of lamps on the pediments.\n\nWestward of Pottinger-street one of the most striking illuminations was that of the Stag Hotel, which had a gilt framed oil painting of Her Majesty, with lamps round the arches of the verandahs of all four storeys, and a good display of lanterns on the side of the house. The Man On Insurance Co. also had an effective display, a large number of lanterns being used, many of them of unusual patterns. The Ko Shing Theatre had a \"V. R.\" in glass transparency over the door and the year \"1887.\" Lai Hing and Co. had a gaudy illumination, \"1887\" in the middle with the \"V\" on one side and \"R\" on the other. Other houses illuminated were The Land We Live In tavern, the Rose, Shamrock, and Thistle, the London Hotel, W. Peterson's boarding house, the German Tavern, and the Grand Hotel. The Fire Brigade Station had on the front face of the tower a design in small oil lamps - \"1837-1887\" in the middle, with the \"V\" and \"R\" on the right and left respectively. The Queen's-road side of the building had coloured lanterns. On Chinese establishments which had lit up we read the names of Ses Woo, tailor, Wang Hing, jeweller, Wing Hing, dealer in porcelain, Yu Chong, also dealer in porcelain, Tang Cheong, tailor, Kum Kee, Chinese shipping agent, E. Sing, printer, Fuk On, \"Agent in Sailors and Fireman,\" Yip Sang, dealer in curios, Woo Choong, compradore, Hung Shing, curio dealer, King Wo Shing, Him Wo, Ah Nam, tailor, Yee On, tailor, Yen Sing, curio dealer, Nam Hing Loong, compradore, Achan, photographer, Nam Shing, tailor, Yong Heng, dealer in Chinese goods, Aping, tailor, Ahing, tailor, Song Yuen, photographer, Sun Shing, curio dealer, whose show was considerably above the average; Wah Loong, dealer in Chinese goods, who also made a good show; Fung Hing, tailor, Teen Seng, printer, Seng Yuen, portrait painter, and Sam Hing Street, who had quite a brilliant display. Our enumeration, however, gives the names of only a small fraction of those who took part in the illumination and includes none of the large native hongs who have not their name in English on their signboard. The Chinese participation in the illumination as regards shops and houses, was very general, and in almost every street the Kai fong had done something in the way of erecting arches or sheds for the numerous entertainments and exhibitions of marionettes.\n\nGoing up Ice House Street, we noticed a square of white lanterns at the top of the Ice House, and at Afong's studio lanterns in clusters. Both Messrs. Gibb, Livingston and Co.'s and Messrs. Carlowitz and Co.'s hongs were brilliantly illuminated with rows of lanterns, and looking down Duddell-street steps the illuminations of the same houses on their other side were seen, as were the lanterns which lighted up the front of Messrs. Reiss & Co.'s premises. A fine gas illumination at Messrs. Noronha and Co's, in Zetland street, also showed up well from this neighbourhood. The design was \"Q. V., star, R. I.\" with the figures \"50\" beneath. The Masonic Hall had the square and compasses on its northern face, and the Masonic Club a similar design in red and white framed in blue lamps on the north, and on the south side the monogram V. R. in red lanterns above the entrance. Going along Albert-road the Public Offices were found in darkness, but the top of St. John's Cathedral tower was illuminated with blue lanterns and formed a conspicuous object from many points of view. St. John's Place was almost covered with lanterns, chiefly white and red, which had a most effective appearance standing out from the surrounding darkness from the few points from which they were visible.\n\nGovernment House had on its northern face the motto \"Domine salvam fac Reginam,\" illuminated by gas in globes in 4ft. letters; a 6ft. crown, two 7ft. stars, \"V. R.,\" two masonic stars, a half star of 10ft. diameter in the centre of the top cornice, two half-stars at the corners of the cornice, and a line of jets up the sides and along the top cornice; the effect of all this light artistically arranged was very fine. The other side of Government House was not illuminated, but the roadway, with numerous lanterns dotted about in the trees and on the bank of the Public Gardens and the small oil lamps running along the walls, was like a picture in fairy land. The entrance to Government House was decorated for day effect with imposing shields and trophies of flags. The Royal Artillery Mess in College Gardens was well lit up with lanterns and had a device springing from the roof.\n\nIn Stanley-street Messrs. Rozario and Co. had a gas illumination showing \"R. & Co.\" and the Oriental Dispensary, and Messrs. Dunn, Melbye & Co.'s and Mr. Brandt's establishments were illuminated with lanterns. In D'Aguilar-street Messrs. Gilman and Co. had a transparency over the door with the name of the firm and a large mass of lanterns. Messrs. Grossman and Co.'s hong was also lit up with lanterns, and amongst the occupants of Club Chambers on the opposite side of the street lanterns were hung out in profusion by Messrs. Justus Lembke & Co., Mr. Naudin, the Telephone Exchange, and the Punjom Mining Co. Messrs. Guedes and Co., at the corner of Wellington-street, had red and white lanterns on the top floor. Messrs. D. D. Oflia and Co. had lanterns arranged in the arches of the verandah and in lines below, and Mrs. Heymans, dressmaker, hung out the red ensign grouped with two French flags in the centre, and lanterns along the verandah. A large proportion of the Chinese in this street had also illuminated, amongst them Kwong Shing, contractor, Bing Shing, bootmaker, Chan Hang, printer, Yee Hing, contractor, Ling Atin, contractor, Wah Suo, picture frame maker, Hung Qua, portrait painter, who showed a specimen of his skill in a portrait of the Queen; Pow Chin, contractor, Sang Cheong, and Chee Sing, printer.\n\nIn Lower Wyndham Street the Club Germania was very tastefully illuminated with Japanese lanterns. The entrance was lined out in red and white lanterns, with one bearing the Union Jack in the centre and at the doorway the German and British flags were draped. Above was the red ensign with the German flag on each side. The remainder of the building was covered with white lanterns. The opposite buildings, occupied by Messrs. Raedecker & Co. and the China Mail, showed strings of coloured lanterns on the verandah of the upper storey, and many of the houses further up the hill were similarly decorated, one Chinese house occupied by Europeans, however, having flags and lamps stretching far across the road. The parapet of the tower of St. Paul's College was fringed with coloured lanterns, and from the summit rose a lofty cross formed by white Japanese lanterns, which from its commanding altitude was very conspicuous. Darkness reigned at the corner of D'Aguilar-street, but a very showy and well-designed arch was erected to form the entrance to Glenealy.\n\nThis was of imperial yellow picked out with leaf decorations and with green pediments. Over the archway were the words in scarlet on a blue ground \"Salve Imperatricem,\" and the face of the structure was ornamented with gilt stars and the arms of the three kingdoms on shields. Numerous coloured lanterns were suspended, and when illuminated it proved exceedingly effective. The road up Glenealy was lined throughout with various coloured lanterns, and the rockery in the centre half way up was covered with a pyramidal structure of lanterns. Mr. Bottomley's house and grounds at the foot of Glenealy were most tastefully lit up with lanterns and little glass lamps; the latter glittering among the trees had a very charming effect. Upper Wyndham Street and Hollywood Road were partially illuminated, but without any general design. Messrs. B. Mijran & Co., S. J. David & Co., Messrs. Kaw Hong Take & Co., and Messrs. Mirza Ebrahim & Co. were among the most brilliant, and further on several Parsee firms, Messrs. B. N. Mehta & Co., Tata & Co., Mehta & Co., and others, had quite a large display of lanterns in various designs.\n\n535\n\n9.",
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        "content_text": "## \n1. \n\nof whom we have heard a good deal. But when the time comes when they can be of some practical assistance to the Government, where are they? (Hear, hear, and applause). Business men in this place know far more about the matter than I do, but I would say, make a suggestion to the Government. No suggestion has been made at this meeting that I know of, and if you will permit me, I suggest that there should be an importation of coolies—coolies who could come down here—and why not get 1,000 or 2,000—whatever number might be required—and ask the Government to find accommodation and protection for them whilst they are here. Half the number that came down here could be taken from ship to ship by those who have ships constantly in use, and the remainder might be housed by arrangement, and allowed out by the Government. It is no good sitting down and saying \"Oh, the Government are a poor lot.\" (Laughter). Well, perhaps they are, but give them some practical suggestion. Practical men, I mean, with a practical suggestion. Let us go to the Government and hear what they have to say about it.\n\nMr. DODWELL—I am glad to hear what Captain Ramsey has brought to our attention. The Government can do more than we as individuals. As Mr. Mackintosh said, we must have a strong combination to meet a strong combination. If the Government can be persuaded to import labour, those who are employers of labour will be expected to guarantee to take their labour from the Government at certain fixed rates. But if this strike is affecting the colony, surely it is the colony that should pay for it, and not individuals. Most of us are agents only, and not principals. We are working for other people, and for other people's ships, and very few of us for our own property, and I think the loss which would otherwise fall on us individually should really fall on the colony. The coolies are not working our ships or carrying our cargo, and this will be a great loss to the colony. Shipowners will avoid the place, and therefore we must do everything we can to get coolies to take the place of the coolies now on strike. There are many places from which coolies can be got, but the trouble is there would be great delay. We want to get them quickly. The strike has been on for four days now, and it would certainly be a week or ten days before we could get relief from any other parts. My own opinion is that Japan is the best place to apply to for immediate help. I know there are many difficulties in the way, especially at the present time, but it seems to me that to bring Chinese here would only be putting off the evil day. If we bring Japanese here, the Chinese will see that we can do without them. As to what should be done to prevent a recurrence of this, I do not advocate Japanese labour being here permanently, but I think Indian labour would be very useful here. It would be of very great service to the colony to have two or three thousand Indian labourers here should we at any time be involved in war. We know in that case the Chinese would not help us, but the Indians would be of vital assistance to our army and navy. The question now is whether all the employers of labour would be prepared to promise that the whole of the labour they required should be taken from the Government importations. If there was a guarantee given to the Government, surely they might then telegraph for labour. I believe that if the Chinese know that the Government is telegraphing for labour, you will very soon see a different state of affairs. (Applause).\n\nMr. GRANVILLE SHARP—I think we are very much indebted to the Government, to the military, and to the police for the measures they have taken at this crisis. There is no doubt whatever that it was the best thing that could possibly be done, and it has been very well done. The fall in the temperature of 10 degrees within the last 24 hours has been greatly in our favour. Europeans can work at 65 degrees Fahrenheit; at 75, at which the temperature was the day before yesterday, they found it very laborious work. At 85, it will be simply impossible to work. Europeans cannot do physical work in the summer in Hongkong, and therefore, however satisfactory the present position may be, it cannot be permanent. In England, strikes continue. There is no law against strikes. I think our condition in Hongkong is a little different. The Chinese labourers here do not belong to the British nationality. They are here by invitation and by favour, and therefore I think there might be a slight difference in the way offences are regarded. The offence of striking might be treated in Hongkong differently from striking in London. But in England, at any rate, the Government has set its foot most firmly upon the subject of intimidation and violence, and if the position had been fully realised on Saturday when the coolie was caught red-handed in the violent treatment of another coolie, when he struck and knocked his baskets off his shoulder, and threw the bamboo into the sea, I think the case might have been treated differently from what it was. I regard, sir, the punishment that was inflicted, which no doubt was prescribed by Ordinance, as an absolute favour to put upon a recalcitrant coolie, who will go to gaol to have one quarter of the work and double the show to which he has been accustomed. This can be regarded as no deterrent punishment at all. (Applause). I am afraid there is no justification for the magistrate having acted otherwise, but if he had been empowered—and perhaps it might be desirable to obtain some powers—if he had been empowered to have ordered the coolie to be caned with his clothes off, as we in school used to be caned with our clothes on—(laughter)—given 29 strokes, and then sent into the street showing his blue and red back, I believe the strike would have been at an end.\n\nMuch time has been lost. I am very thankful that the Harbour Master, Captain Rumsey, has said what has been on my mind for many years, namely, that the leading Chinese, the men of wealth, the men of standing in this place, are answerable for a great deal of our trouble here. (Applause). Asiatics do not love Englishmen except when they are strong, and as long as they are strong, and no longer. The Chinese love the strong, and I think it would be a very mistaken attitude for us to adopt in the present emergency to consult with the Chinese at all. (Applause). I think it would be undesirable to import a number of Japanese at the present time, and especially under our recent enlightenment with regard to Japanese. Japanese are Asiatics, and I do not think the Japanese are very fond of us. It has been suggested that Indians should be engaged, but the fact is that the Chinese are the men we want. The Chinese are the only men that can carry; Indians and Japanese cannot carry. It is the shoulder that is the power of the Chinese coolie, and that is what we want and what we must obtain. I think, sir, that we might represent to the Government our feeling upon the matter in regard to the responsibility for this state of things. I am quite sure that these poor men are not the men who are responsible. As the Chairman has stated, they are led by others. Let it be clearly stated by the Government that they hold the leading Chinese responsible for the state of the place. This might seem to our British ideas unsuitable, but the Chinese will not regard it as unsuitable. It is entirely in keeping with their system. The Government should say, \"We make you responsible for this matter, and if you do not mend, we shall take some steps against you with regard to it.\" We have been too lenient in the past. When I first came to Hongkong, every Chinese coolie doffed his cap and stood on one side to allow you to pass. When do you see a coolie do that now? We do not exercise our undoubted superiority. We must rule by power, and it is this we must assert in Hongkong, and by which we must carry the day. (Applause).\n\nMr. C. S. TAYLOR—The Chinaman is imbued with his own notions of the Government, and he gains sufficient knowledge of our laws to know that so long as he does not break the laws, we do not interfere with him. But he perhaps does not know that in an emergency, the Government has power to expand the law. The present crisis may not be regarded by Western nations as an emergency, but Western nations do not live in Hongkong, and do not look at the matter in the same light as we do. I understand that we meet here today to advise the Government. I suggest that the Government should give notice that unless this strike is finished on Monday, we proclaim martial law. (Hear, hear, and applause). During Sunday, the Government could make its preparations...",
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        "content_text": "# DOMESTIC\n\nThe whole of the forts, and this was in the outer mainland fort commanding the West entrance. The whole of the mainland forts, which have not already been blown up by the Chinese, are being destroyed, and those guns which cannot easily be moved, disabled and I noticed, as we passed through Port Arthur on our way here, that the lighter guns there are also being removed.\n\nThe transports that brought the Japanese Army to Yunycheng bay had 6 weeks provisions for that Army and 3 months provisions for the whole of the 2nd Army. These have been landed at Port Arthur and Talienwan, whilst operations were going on against Wei hai wei.\n\nTaylor and myself have come back to refit, and return, as we suppose, in a few days to Kinchou, which we take it will be the starting point of the next move towards Peking.\n\nThe 4th Division is expected here at once.\n\n## Office or Individual\n## War\n## Date\n1895\n\n## Previous Paper\n236  \nHong Kong No 7611  \n**(Subject.)**  \nMilitary contribution  \n\n**(Minutes.)**  \nSend Report to Committee  \nRegistered separately  \nParts + Mauritius  \nMust consult  \n2. Mich. 156. 27 Jun  \nTo Treas.  \nWo. further for  \nWo 1/251  \nC. O.  \n7611 RECO 2 BE of 2 MAY 95  \nSection II  \nMr. Fanfield  \nSend Treas. & W.O. draft of Esht to Peking  \nwith their concurrence  \n87  \nCu 1315 C.P.L.3 My  \n3 mm  \nRur 3/5  \n11.415  \n\n## Next subsequent Paper\nWBAL (78-66741-53067-05  \nTreas.  \nT0440  \n$503  \nPage 503",
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        "content_text": "## Proportion of Military Expenditure to Revenue, &c., paid by this Colony during the last 10 years.\n\n| Year | Aggregate trade, i.e., imports and exports | Aggregate shipping, i.e., inwards and outwards | Total revenue | Total expenditure | Total military expenditure | Percentage of military expenditure on revenue |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 1884 | 218,108,704 dollars | tons | 6,210,687 dollars | 3,516,841 dollars | 239,910 dollars | 6.82 |\n| 1885 | 210,870,018 | 7,860,917 | 3,508,074 | 3,598,149 | 299,606 | 6.83 |\n| 1886 | 225,666,492 | 8,179,238 | 3,847,650 | 3,511,096 | 241,069 | 6.43 |\n| 1887 | 263,664,131 | 8,747,501 | 3,195,689 | ... | 240,116 | 6.24 |\n| 1888 | 293,479,085 | 9,192,855 | 3,858,909 | 9,656,950 | 242,966 | 6.20 |\n| 1889 | 289,418,342 | 4,409,927 | 3,559,864 | 4,289,125 | 242,723 | 5.50 |\n| 1890 | 296,375,855 | 9,678,659 | 3,812,612 | 3,757,693 | 292,493 | 6.85 |\n| 1891 | 279,147,671 | 10,618,058 | 8,826,603 | 4,598,978 | 1,087,649 | 28.42 |\n| 1892 | 293,085,890 | 10,200,135 | 3,652,877 | 4,266,406 | 837,967 | 22.93 |\n| 1893 | 323,771,030 | 10,613,806 | 3,706,307 | ... | 732,522 | 20.30 |\n| 1894 | *302,348,974 | 3,818,170 | +7,200,000 | 3,915,481 | 729,118 | $19.09 |\n\n* Nine months only.\n† Singapore only.\n↑ Military Contributions reduced from 100,000l. to 80,000l.\n\n## Singapore\n\n**The Hon. A. P. Talbot, Acting Colonial Secretary, Straits Settlements.**\n\nSir,\n\n4th January, 1895.\n\nThe action of Her Majesty's Government in ignoring the appeal of this Colony for some reduction in the Military Contribution is, in our opinion, calculated to have so disastrous an effect upon the welfare of the Colony, that we feel bound, as the only means in our power of protesting against what appears to us such a grave injustice, to place in the hands of his Excellency the Governor the resignation of our seats as members of the Chinese Advisory Board.\n\nT. JIAK KIM.  \nW. JOON SIANG.  \nS. LIANG SEAH.  \nL. CHENG YAM.  \nT. CHENG FOOK.  \nK. CHENG TEO.  \nG. ENG SENG.  \nG. SIN KHO, SIH GUAN.  \nNG KWAI PO.  \nFUNG YIN.  \nC. AH PAT.\n\n**(No. 11.)**\n\n**My Lord,**\n\n**No. 5b.**\n\n**Sir C. B. H. Mitchell to the Marquis of Ripon, (Received 4th February, 1895.)**\n\nGovernment House, Penang,  \n9th January, 1895.\n\nI enclose copies of resignations sent to me by 18 Justices of the Peace for Singapore and by the Singapore Chinese Advisory Board.\n\n2. These resignations are caused by the publication of the decision of Her Majesty's Government in regard to the Military Contribution.\n\n3. If, as I believe it to be, this action is based upon a common understanding on the part of the European and Chinese residents of position in Singapore, I shall probably experience much difficulty in filling the vacancies thus caused, but on this point I shall address your Lordship after my return, next week, to Singapore.\n\n**The Hon. A. P. Talbot, Acting Colonial Secretary, Straits Settlements.**\n\nSir,\n\nSingapore,  \n4th January, 1895.\n\nWe, the undersigned, Justices of the Peace, beg to submit to his Excellency the Governor, our resignation of that office, as a protest against the arbitrary action of Her Majesty's Government in regard to the Military Contribution, as set forth in Lord Ripon's latest despatch.\n\nIt is a matter for regret that this step should be necessary, but in view of the harsh and, in our opinion, unfair treatment of the Colony, showing a great disregard of its present welfare or future prosperity, it seems to us the only course left to us, as a means of protest.\n\nJ. R. CUTHBERTSON.  \nJ. BLAIR.  \nT. SHELFORD.  \nC. STRINGER.  \nJ. MILLER.  \nA. J. GUNN.  \nT. C. BOGAARDT.  \nJ. ANDERSON.  \nT. JIAK KIM.  \nT. KENG SAIK.  \nR. W. HULLETT.  \nT. S. THOMSON.  \nW. G. TAYLOR.  \nC. SUGDEN.  \nA. GENTLE.  \nJ. MACRITCHIE.  \nJ. FRASER.  \nC. E. CRANE.  \nS. LIANG SHAH.\n\n**(No. 13.)**\n\n**My Lord,**\n\n**No. 50.**\n\n**Sir C. B. H. Mitchell to the Marquis of Ripon. (Received 4th February, 1895.)**\n\nGovernment House, Penang,  \n10th January, 1895.\n\nIn continuation of my despatch, `No. 428`, of the 29th December,* I have the honour to transmit to your Lordship a copy of a letter I have received from Messrs. Shelford, Donaldson, and Seah Liang Seah, tendering their resignations as unofficial members of the Legislative Council.\n\n2. As your Lordship will perceive, they state that they have been prompted to take this step as a final protest against the decision come to by Her Majesty's Government with regard to the amount to be paid by the Colony as Military Contribution during the quinquennial period 1894-98, which was conveyed in your Lordship's despatch, `No. 365`, of the 6th November last.\n\n3. I also enclose a copy of a semi-official letter addressed by Mr. Bogaardt to the Colonial Secretary, in which he regrets his inability, under the circumstances, to accept renomination on the expiration of his term of office. Mr. Bogaardt had previously intimated to me personally his willingness to serve again.\n\n4. Mr. Donaldson had already, before the receipt of your Lordship's despatch, to which I have above alluded, informed me of his intention of resigning his seat, as he was leaving the Colony early in January.\n\n5. Mr. Hüttenbach, a copy of whose letter to the Colonial Secretary I enclose, has expressed a wish to resign his seat for other reasons than those which have brought about the resignation of the gentlemen above named, Mr. Hüttenbach has been much attacked in the local press lately, and I cannot but feel that the treatment he has received is the cause of his wish to retire. I have asked him to meet me on my return to Singapore, and he may then see fit to reconsider his decision.\n\n6. The Penang members, Dr. Brown and Mr. Vermont, have, up to the present moment, shown no sign of following the example of their Singapore colleagues, and I think it probable that they will adopt an independent course.\n\n7. The decision of the Singapore members has, I understand, only been arrived at after long consideration, and with the full knowledge that it meets with the general support of the influential portion of the local European and Chinese community, It will, therefore, I fear, be difficult, if I restrict my choice to Singapore residents, to adequately fill their places, but on this point I will address your Lordship again after my return to Singapore.\n\n* `No. 2038`.  \n\nC. B. H. MITCHELL.  \n\nPage 31  \nPage 519",
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        "content_text": "40 \n\nAdams, Fraser, Sugden, Buckley, King, Moir, Grigor, Taylor, Crane, (2) Braddell, (2) St. Clair, Raeburn, Neave, Gunn, B. de Thuy, Spencer Pratt, Reid, Gentle, MacRitchie, Maclaren, Allinson, Lim Boon Keng, Tan Jiak Kim, and several other prominent Chinese; all the leading members of the Eurasian community; in fact, nearly every class of mercantile or trading house in the Settlement was represented, the seats being filled, and all the doorways being crowded, chiefly by Europeans who came later than the Asiatics. There were also present the Revs. G. M. Reith, A. Lamont, Gomes, and Munson.\n\nPromptly at 5 o'clock Mr. Arnot Reid proposed that Mr. W. Nanson be elected to the chair, saying that it was desirable that a member of the committee of the Straits Settlements Association local branch should preside. The proposal was adopted by acclamation, and Mr. Nanson took the chair.\n\n**THE CHAIRMAN**\n\nMr. W. Nanson (of Messrs. Rodyk and Davidson, advocates and solicitors), who was supported on his right by Mr. Napier, and on his left by Dr. Lim Boon Keng, said: This meeting has been called at the instance of the Straits Settlements Association in order that the public of Singapore may have the opportunity of expressing their approval of the action which has been taken by some of the unofficial members of the Legislative Council, all, I believe, of the Justices of the Peace of this Settlement who are not connected with the Government, and all the resident members of the Chinese Advisory Board for Singapore, in resigning their offices as a protest against the decision of the Imperial Government with regard to the Military Contribution of this Colony. These gentlemen have, in the interests of the public, resigned offices of honour and dignity, and it is only fitting that you should express your gratitude to them for their unselfish and magnanimous conduct. (Applause.) Gentlemen, your presence here to-day in such numbers will, I am sure, be exceedingly gratifying to the Straits Settlements Association, which, as you know, has for months past, with small success and slight encouragement, been fighting the battle of this Colony against the unjust and arbitrary exactions of the Imperial Government. (Applause.) Gentlemen, I trust that you will show your appreciation of the efforts of the Association, and the conduct of the gentlemen who have resigned their offices, by passing to-day a hearty and a unanimous resolution of approval. It is not for me to do more than briefly tell you what is the object of this meeting, and therefore I shall at once call upon Mr. Napier, the Hon. Secretary of the Straits Settlements Association, to propose the resolution which he has to submit to you. (Applause.)\n\n**MR. NAPIER**\n\nMr. W. J. Napier (of Messrs. Drew and Napier, advocates and solicitors) rose and said, Mr. Chairman and gentlemen, the resolution which I have to submit to you this evening is as follows:\n\nThat this meeting heartily approves of the action of the members of the Legislative Council, the Justices of the Peace, and the members of the Chinese Advisory Board in resigning their offices as a protest against the decision of the Imperial Government with regard to the Military Contribution for the Colony.\n\nWhen I was complimented by being asked to propose this resolution, I agreed to it with rather a light heart, but I had not the responsibility fully before me as I now have it. A day or two ago I found in the Straits Times, a newspaper which you know has the largest circulation in the far East. (Hear, hear, and laughter.) There I found that my responsibilities were very heavy. I then, for the first time, found out that Lord Ripon would probably scan my speech to find means with which to confound the Colony's cause. I was there told that I must not use any violent language. I do not intend to use violent language. I was there told that I must not try to tickle the ears of my enthusiastic sympathisers in this court. I don't think I am capable of tickling anyone's ears. I was told that I must say something that would read reasonably to people at home. That I will try to do. We have come here this evening to protest against Lord Ripon's despatch. That despatch was the reply made by Downing Street to the prayer of the Colony to be relieved of the burden which is and has been crippling its resources for the last five years. A perusal of that despatch seems to me to show how totally the interests of the Colony are subordinated to meet the requirements of the Imperial Exchequer. A perusal of that despatch will show you that civil expenses are to be restricted to 3,000,000 dollars, and how much is to be set aside to meet the military requirements of the Colony? What remains of Colonial balances is to be devoted to military purposes. You will see, also, that eventually we are expected to pay every penny of the charge for military establishment which the War Office may think fit to call upon the Colony to pay. The amount estimated for that establishment in 1889 was 186,000l. But for the period of the next five years, 1894 to 1898, this sum had increased to 154,730l. a-year; and I have no doubt that there will be a further increase in the future. But then, in addition to all that, there is the additional burden hanging over us of providing barrack accommodation for the troops. It is not necessary for me to go into the thorny subject as to how far it is proper for a Colony to contribute to \n\n41 \n\nworks of Imperial defence in the interests of the Empire. I would point out to you that if this place was not an Imperial coaling station a very small number of troops would suffice for its defence. As the Times in a recent article says: \"The Colony has good ground for the contention that the added cost of its defence has fallen upon it in consequence of the Imperial importance of Singapore.\" Now we have never stood upon what I may call the strict letter of our obligations, but this Colony has always been willing to contribute towards the maintenance of the troops placed here for military purposes. Sir Charles Tupper, discussing the question as to how far Canada was bound to contribute towards the maintenance of the Army and Navy of England, said: \"No contribution to the support of the Army and Navy on the part of Canada would have contributed to the strength and greatness of the Empire in a greater degree than the mode in which the public money of Canada has been expended.\" He pointed to the enormous tracts of country which Canada had developed, making her the granary of the world. He pointed to the subsidised steamships which, in times of need, could be used as armed cruisers; and, finally, he pointed to the railway, that Imperial highway, stretching from Ocean to Ocean, and concluded by saying, \"That, instead of adding to its defences, the strength of a Colony would be impaired by taking away the means which it requires for its development.\" I would ask you if this Colony has cost the Mother Country something, whether it has not given anything back in return. Look at the development of the Colony since 1867, take, for instance, the tonnage which has entered and cleared in the three Settlements, exclusive of native craft. In 1866, that amounted to 1,661,683 tons, and in 1888 this had grown to 9,192,855 tons. Then look at the Native States which we have opened up, the greatest tin-producing area in the world. Look, too, at our docks and local shipping. And lastly, look at the lighting of the Straits, which are probably the best lighted straits in the whole world, and I say we can point with pride to that and be assured that, in what we have done, we have increased the strength and stability of the Empire. I repeat again that it appears to me that the salient point in the despatch of Lord Ripon's is the subordination of the interests of the Colony to the Imperial Exchequer. We have tried all means in our power to get this wrong righted; we have had public meetings, we have had deputations to the Governor, and to the Secretary of State; and it has all been of no avail. Now, the only course left is, I think, the action that has been taken by those gentlemen whose action we have come to approve to-day. That resignation has, it seems to me, been deliberately provoked by the Imperial Government. In 1890 Mr. Adamson, who was a member of Legislative Council, made a speech when this 100,000l. contribution was first introduced. A despatch was received from home, ordering us to pay that sum without any previous consultation with the Colony on the subject. Mr. Adamson then said: \"That such a course would reduce the Council to a position in which it would be absolutely impossible for any man to take a seat in it.\" Again, in May, 1893, when he made that able address to Lord Ripon, he gave the following opinion: \"If the non-officials of the Council are appointed for one object more than another, I cannot for my part conceive that it will be possible to get men with any self-respect to sit on the Legislative Council, if this chief duty is to be taken entirely from their hands and dealt with by votes given under instructions from Downing Street.\n\nWe are here to support the action of members of the Legislative Council, Justices of the Peace, and members of the Chinese Advisory Board. It would be presumptuous on my part to attempt to appraise the merits of these gentlemen. They have done their duty. We have now to appeal from Downing Street to the people of England. I know the old rhyme: \"Give a poor man his beer and his bacca, And he don't care a d- for the Straits of Malacca.\" But since then the difference existing between England and her Colonies has been gradually swept away. From a recent article in the Times, to which I have already alluded, I believe our cause will obtain a fair hearing at home. The article ended as follows: The Colonial proposal to increase its original contribution from 50,000l. to 70,000l. seems to present a fair compromise based on a calculation of the respective interests to be served.\" The Letters Patent, as was pointed out a few months ago [in the Straits Times], give the Legislative Council full power for the raising and the expenditure of public revenue as may be deemed advisable for the peace, good order, and good government of our subjects within our Settlements or within any territory which may at any time be part of or dependent on the same.\" That is to say, the charter only authorizes the revenue of the Colony to be applied for the good of the people in the Colony, and for the good of the people there. I say that the Legislative Council by its official votes instigated by Downing Street, and in opposition to the unanimous vote, from time to time, of the unofficial members, has been diverting the money of the Colony in a manner which is alien to the Letters Patent. (Applause.) It appears to me that the appropriation of the revenue of the Colony, in total opposition to the wishes of the Colony, is contrary to every principle of the British Constitution. (Immense applause.) Why should any man, because he crosses the seas and comes here, lose that right, which every working man at home has, of taking a share in",
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        "content_text": "Enclosure.\"\n\nChamber of Commerce,\n\nheld on\n\nthe 19th ultimo, to protest against the recent action of the Joint Telegraph Companies in raising their rates to Europe, America and China.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nSir, Your most obedient\n\nhumble servant,\n\nWittain Robingsy\n\nC. O.\n\n23034 Rec2\n\nRecd NOV 36\n\n6\n\nHONGKONG GENERAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE,\n\nReprinted from the \"Hongkong Daily Press.\"\n\nPROTEST AGAINST THE INCREASE IN TELEGRAPH RATES.\n\nOn Saturday, the 19th September, 1896, a special meeting at the Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce was held in their Rooms, at the City Hall, for the purpose of protesting against the recent increase in telegraph rates, and also for the purpose of nominating a member for appointment to the Legislative Council. Mr. A. McConachie, Chairman of the Chamber, presided, and there were also present Hon. T. H. Whitehead, Hon. J. J. Bell Irving, Mr. T. Jackson, Mr. N. A. Siebs, Mr. G. B. Dodwell, Mr. N. J. Ede, Mr. St. C. Michaelson (members of the Committee), Mr. R. C. Wilcox (Secretary), Hon. E. R. Belilios, C.M.G., Hon. C. P. Chater, Messrs. G. H. Potts, P. C. Sethua, G. L. Tomlin, A. J. David, T. Arnold, Hart Back, O. Wegener, F. Maitland, G. de Champeaux, M. Lacase, J. H. Garrels, H. N. Mody, Geo. W. F. Playfair, D. R. Sassoon, M. J. Ezekiel, W. Whiley, H. Stolterfoht, W. H. Ray, W. Poate, J. H. Cox, A. Coxon, M. S. Bassoon, H. J. Holmes, W. Danby, H. L. Dennys, E. H. Joseph, W. R. Loxley, Granville Sharp, G. Stewart, I. Wicking, D. B. Crawford, B. Jones Hughes, H. R. Kinnear, R. L. Richardson, J. W. R. Taylor, H. Jessen, T. F. Hough, and M. M. Mehta.\n\nThe SECRETARY read the notice calling the meeting.\n\nThe CHAIRMAN -- I think I need hardly detain you by going at length into the question before us. We have met today to protest against the sudden and very heavy increase in their rates which the Joint Telegraph Companies, having first concluded a convention with the Chinese Telegraph Administration, thus paving the way by securing a monopoly, saw fit on the 1st ult. to spring upon us after only a single day's notice. Well, gentlemen, I can only hope that our protest will be emphatic and that it may prove effective. You have all of you no doubt read the correspondence, and can readily form your own judgment on the case. I will now call upon Mr. Jackson to move the first resolution.\n\nMr. T. JACKSON - I preface my remarks by stating that the Telegraph Companies have ever done their work well, and that a more obliging and more painstaking set of public servants I have never met. That is the rose colour of the affair. Now, I come to the subject of the meeting of to-day, and I must say that it came upon me as a very great surprise indeed to find them raising their rates the way they did. I have read their side of the case very carefully. Their contention is that they are only putting the rates homewards on the same basis as the rates outwards. That would be all very well if the rates outwards were at a reasonable figure; but surely at this period, at the end of the nineteenth century, 7s. a word from London to Hongkong is an excessive rate. (Hear, hear.) Every person must admit that. (Applause.) I thoroughly believe that in the course of a very few years people will say, \"I remember when in Hongkong the telegraph rate from London to Hongkong was 8s. per word.\" It is a monstrous charge. Therefore I say that instead of raising the homeward rates the Telegraph Companies might have met their constituents with a reasonable reduction of the outward rates, corresponding with the sterling value of the amount homeward. The question that arises is -- Can they afford to do it? I say, Yes, (Applause), emphatically. The Chinese Administration, I believe, returned something like twenty-four per cent. to their shareholders. At a recent meeting of the Great Northern Company held in Copenhagen they reported a reserve fund of nearly a million sterling; and as for the Eastern Extension Company I should say happy are the shareholders in that concern. They have gone on increasing their lines, and, as their position is a splendid one, they can afford to be just to their shareholders and generous to the public. There is another matter which no doubt some of the subsequent speakers may refer to, and that is the convention with the Chinese Administration. In connection with that it has come out that Chinese messages go over the lines at half-price. The circular sent round by the Joint Telegraph Companies was to my mind wholly unsatisfactory. It seems to me as if they were handicapping us, and we are not receiving that consideration that we ought to under the most-favoured-nation clause. People like ourselves who contribute very considerably to the existence of the Telegraph Companies should be very good friends with the Joint Telegraph Companies, with whom our relations in the past have been of a most friendly and favourable description, will reconsider their action. Now I have formally to move the first resolution: \"That this Chamber is of opinion that the action of the Eastern Extension and Great Northern Telegraph Companies in having, after only one day's notice, on the 1st August last, raised their rates 37.4 per cent. and 43.26 per cent. for telegrams to Europe and America respectively, and 100 per cent for telegrams between Hongkong and Shanghai, is utterly unjustifiable and that their reasons for so doing are inadmissible and wholly insufficient.\"\n\nHon. J. J. BELL-IRVING said - Gentlemen, I have listened with much interest to Mr. Jackson's remarks, with which I entirely concur. This Chamber, representing as it does the commercial interests of the colony, is called upon to strongly protest against any circumstance which may arise tending to hamper our trade. The recent action of the Telegraph Companies will hamper commercial intercourse, and the increase of the telegraph charges is not warranted, as Mr. Jackson has pointed out, by the handsome results which the published reports of the Eastern Extension and the Great Northern Telegraph Companies have shown during recent years. I think the mercantile community here, who have supported these companies for so many years, have good reason to now feel aggrieved. I am sure you will all heartily concur with the resolution proposed by Mr. Jackson, which I have much pleasure in seconding. (Applause).\n\nThe resolution was carried.\n\nHon. T. H. WHITEHEAD - Mr. Chairman and gentlemen, I rise to move \"That this Chamber views with the greatest anxiety and\n\nPage",
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        "content_text": "447\n\nsubstantial since No. K. P. Falconer appears to think that the aforesaid Marion (Marianne) did in point of fact recover the aforesaid money from the aforesaid Bank upon the sworn, but as Mr K. P. Falconer alleges perjured, evidence of Marion herself and of two others that she was the widow of Matthew Falconer. If so, of course, that evidence of the Bank people would not go to strengthen the Plaintiff's case. But apart from any other consideration before the court could be asked to appoint a commission to take evidence in Chicago, it would be necessary to name or indicate at least one witness whose evidence is required.\n\nto come next to the financial aspect the case. It does not appear that Matthew Saylor Falconer kept accounts of the manner in which he distributed the assets of Matthew Falconer's Estate, of which from his point of view, he and his mother, were the sole beneficiaries. Both mother and son appear to have died before 1890, the son in September 1888.\n\nM. Wm Powell as administrator of the Estate of Matthew Taylor Falconer at the instance of the Plaintiff's advisers filed in September 1895, certain accounts furnished by Mr J. Ross, manager of the firm of F. Falconer & Co., Hongkong, under date September 18th, 1890, which accounts show the state of accounts between the aforesaid firm and the aforesaid Matthew Falconer, and Matthew Taylor Falconer from 1885 to September 30th, 1888, which was a date shortly after the death of Matthew Taylor Falconer.",
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        "content_text": "## Co's launch, at daylight, clinging to some wreckage close to Green Island.\n\nNaylor had headed E.S.E., doing his best 11 knots, with Soper in 36 on the port beam, and Menzies Leslie in 72 on the starboard. The Harbarovsk, about a mile and a half ahead, was firing at him from her stern gun. The Borgo at prodigious speed (nearly 30 knots) had circled round and was coming down on his port bow, whilst the three torpedo boats were sweeping round for his stern and quarters.\n\nRunning on to get out of the fire from the Wivern he crossed from her port quarter over to starboard, and, in so doing, crossed the bows of the third Russian, one that had been making for the Wivern's starboard quarter. She had been masked from him by the Wivern. Seeing her companion successful in striking the Wivern, she had turned to port, and almost immediately afterwards 36 shot across her bows out of the blaze of the Wivern's fire. The Russian promptly blew up 36, striking her nearly amidships.\n\nAnxious to be rid of his most formidable antagonist, the Borgo, Naylor put his helm hard a starboard, and turning to port, keeping his search light steadily on the Destroyer, went at her full speed, raining a hail of shot at her. The Borgo gallantly responded, and they approached one another with frightful rapidity, their combined speed being 40 knots. The Destroyer had her funnels, signal-mast, conning-tower and guns knocked away; suddenly she plunged downwards, about 600 feet from the stern of the Wivern; her bows had been shorn clean off by a heavy shell from the foremost gun of the Wivern.\n\nBy the wheel to port of the Wivern, the three torpedo boats, with a speed of 16 knots, had been thrown further aft, and the one making for the port quarter brought her further forward on the port beam. Before the Wivern altered course after the destruction of the Borgo, the one on the port beam and the one astern rushed in close enough to fire their torpedoes into the port beam, and under the port quarter of the Wivern with fatal precision. The one abeam of the Wivern was sunk by her fire as she was backing off and turning to starboard.\n\nSoper, in 36, had seen the approach of the one on the port quarter; spinning round to starboard he ran at and torpedoed her, but too late to prevent her firing. The Revel blazed away with his three guns, and Leslie with his one three-pounder. The Revel had the superiority in speed, but not enough to make it safe for her to attempt to manoeuvre, at the distance to which they had now approached, Leslie going 20 knots and the Revel 24. Both fired their torpedoes simultaneously, about 80 or 100 feet apart, with magnificent precision, ripping one another's port sides out, and sinking in a whirlpool of steam almost alongside each other.\n\nThus ended the battle of Sulphur Channel, a veritable combat of Kilkenny cats. A solitary second-class Russian torpedo boat, with her funnel spouting fire from bullet holes, steamed off to the Harbarovsk. Whether any Russians from the vessels destroyed were saved we never learned. Seven only of our men survived, engineers, Morgan and Hunt; \n\n## In Victoria about midnight a fire broke out in Winglok Street\n\npart of the Fire Brigade were quickly on the spot. Two other fires breaking out across the street, it became apparent that they were the work of incendiaries. Bands of marauders also appeared, many of whom were armed and began looting. Mr. Hill, the Superintendent of Police, very properly and promptly ordered the Police, under Inspectors Hennessey and Kemp, to fire on them. Nineteen men were killed before order was restored. It being quite clear that the Fire Brigade could not cope with the conflagration, after some delay powder was procured and the services of two Sergeants of Engineers were called upon. The end houses abutting on Morrison Street and Hillier Street were blown up. All four blocks between these streets, from Bonham Strand to the Praya, were burnt or blown up. The loss of life was considerable. Robberies took place in several parts of the town. Burnslop, the residence of R. M. Dray, one of the wealthiest men in the Colony, known to contain much valuable plate, race cups, &c., and jewellery, was broken into, robbed and burnt. Dray was cut down and disabled on leaving his bedroom. Queensclere, belonging to the Hon. E. R. Delilios, was also robbed. Mount Austin Barracks, Ravenshill, and Ball's Court were robbed and set fire to. Nine men were shot at the latter place by the Police from No. 7 station. Attempts to break into Wong Ling's and Kuhn's stores in Queen's Road were frustrated, and several of the robbers killed. Inspector Mann, in the Eastern District, could only keep order by shooting freely.\n\n## THE BATTLE OF DEEP WATER BAY.\n\nAt 1:30 a.m., as arranged with the Commodore, General White (expecting the diversion by the Navy at 2), finding no other attacks developed, sent orders for Hush and Rox's men, with Farey's engineers and Harrington's Maxims, to move at 2 o'clock, the two last to come down by the Wanchai Gap Road. The order had been anxiously expected, and at 2 the men started with a cheer, the Maxims swinging and bounding along with almost as many men on the heel ropes to check them as on the drag ropes. Hush's men were first past Pokfulam, down by the Reservoir Road, with Rox's hard behind them.\n\nPassing through Aberdeen at a run, it was 3 a.m. before they first felt the enemy in the wood at the junction of the Wanchai and Aberdeen Roads, and a fierce combat took place. The enemy being constantly reinforced was driving the two companies of West Kents backwards on Aberdeen, till the Maxims getting into action and vol... \n\n- 13- \n## Page 14\n## Page 16",
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        "content_text": "The water area within the Barbour Limits comprises approximately 7 square miles, of this about one-half is of less depth than 4 fathoms at Low Water; Fairways and special anchorages take up another 1 square mile, leaving only 2 square miles of deep water available for the very large and constantly increasing amount of shipping trading to the Port, and although a depth of 4 fathoms may seem an excessive requirement to-day, there is a universal tendency towards larger and deeper draughted ships, and it is probable that, at no very distant date, a considerable percentage of the shipping of the Port will not be able to do with a lesser depth;\n\nThe available deep water anchorage could be increased 50% by increasing by one fathom the depth over the area between Yaumati and Stone Cutters Island.\n\nThe following report from Mr. Basil Taylor the Assistant Harbour Master of the result of his enquiries concerning the probable cost of dredging will be of interest. I agree with him that \"These figures may or may not be accurate\" but being the only information obtainable on the subject I feel bound to include it in this report.\n\n\"I have gathered the following facts from Mr. Houston, of Messrs. Punchard & Lowther.\"\n\n\"A hopper dredger, similar to the 'St. Enoch', can be purchased, complete, in England for about £20,000. Preparing her for sea, insurance, and expenses for the passage out, will, including wages, coal, and Harbour and Canal dues, cost another £12,000. Working expenses, while engaged in dredging will come to about £30 per day;\"\n\n\"Besides this, constant repairs are necessary, which will cost about £8,000 annually, if the Government erected a workshop for the purpose, but if done by the Dock Co. they would cost half as much again. Twice a year a thorough overhaul has to take place, the cost of which it is impossible to estimate. This is all in the way of fair wear and tear,",
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        "content_text": "# Enclosure No. 5. to Despatch No.444 of the · October, 1903. Extract from the \"HongKong Daily Press\" of the 8th October, 1902.\n\n## YACHTING IN HONGKONG\n\nThe first breath of the North-east monsoon has come as a welcome reminder that the yachting season proper is close at hand. A year or two ago during the sweltering heat of summer, pleasure craft were surely to be seen silcat, but since the acquisition of the New Territories a comfortable shallow-draught type of cruiser, suited to local conditions, has been evolved and several of these useful craft have been in commission during last summer. They are of an interesting type, these cruisers unlike anything to be seen in home waters and with their long, low, but beamy hulls, sharp bows, big rudders and Chinese sails are strongly reminiscent of the \"Hakka\" boat, formerly but now rare in those waters.\n\nThough the paltry breezes and blistering heat and glare of a summer's day may be endured in such craft as these, the owners of the smaller cruisers and the racing twenty-fours are compelled to tailor their sport to the duration of the north-east monsoon. During the next few weeks, A King's yard, where most of the yachts have summered, will be at its busiest as boat after boat is fitted out. Soon after the beginning of November the season will be in full swing, and the long series of races organised by the **Royal Hong-kong Yacht Club** will start.\n\nYachting has always been a favourite sport in Hongkong, but since the foundation of the Yacht Club it has flourished as it never did before, and there are now on the Club's register more yachts than have ever before been owned in Hongkong in any one year. The total tonnage may not be as great as in the old days when big cutters used to race here, but it cannot be far short, for of cruisers of twelve up to twenty-fours tons there are six, of smaller craft—mainly intended for cruising—four, and of twenty-four ft. raters, old and new, fifteen and two building.\n\nThis large fleet of twenty-fours is divided into three classes: the first class consisting of the newest and best boats; the second, or handicap, class of boats which formerly raced in the first class but which have been outbuilt and cannot compete on equal terms with the newer boats; and the one-design class consisting of four boats all built to the same lines. In the course of the six months' season there are held under the auspices of the Yacht Club twelve \"Club\" races for each of the three classes and at least as many other races, usually handicaps, for prizes presented by various donors. For the prizes are not given for each race, but the winner scores ten, the second four, the third one point, and at the end of the season two substantial prizes are given by the Club to the winner of the two highest aggregates in each class.\n\nThe Yacht Club, which can boast of being the premier \"Royal\" Club in the Colony, is a vigorous organisation consisting of about one hundred members, keen yachtsmen most of them, for paid skippers are unknown and members sail and man their boats themselves. The Club is at present somewhat handicapped by having no club-house and no permanent anchorage of its own. The Naval Extension drove them from their old anchorage and the Wanchai Reclamation, when carried out, will turn to dry land the anchorage off A King's yard now used by most members. The question, too, of a new repairing yard may soon become acute, for A King's tenure of the piece of foreshore he now occupies is precarious; but sufficient for the day is the evil thereof, the Club can flourish under present conditions and it is to be hoped that before those conditions change a convenient anchorage and a site for a new yard may be found.\n\nYacht racing is popularly supposed to be a very expensive amusement, but in Hongkong at any rate it is not so, though the cost has undoubtedly increased somewhat of recent years, and two or three men of very moderate means clubbing together can race a twenty-four without difficulty. Every year a sound yacht or two is for sale at a reasonable price, say from $200 to $500 complete, and the cost of keeping a yacht in racing trim, including wages and all small repairs and renewals, need not exceed $25 a month.\n\nFew places in the world offer such advantages as Hongkong to the beginner. In the landlocked harbour there is practically no danger, the expense is small, the races frequent, and at times fixed to suit the busy man. Few sports are so exciting as yacht racing and few games call for greater nerve and judgment, but the rawest beginner need not despair, for every time he goes out he will see others little better than himself learning to handle their boats and though he may not win races at first, it is certain he will do so in time, if he will only persevere and profit by his failures.\n\nBut after all racing is not the be all and end all of yachting. On off-days, Saturdays and holidays what can be more delightful than cruising in and about the neighbouring bays and islands. No one who does not yacht knows half the beauties to be found within a very few miles of the Clock Tower, nor does he know how ... exhilarating the air of Hongkong can be. For the hardworked man, for the man who has to live in this stuffy town of ours, there is no sport so healthful, no tonic so efficacious as yachting, and large as is the number of sailing craft to be seen out on a fine winter's day, the only wonder is the number is not double as great considering the unrivalled advantages Hongkong can offer to yachtsmen.",
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        "content_text": "## Laboratory Attendant; Tailor\nIncrease of salary in these cases is recommended because the Principal Civil Medical Officer reports that these men are very good servants, thoroughly conversant with their work, and unless they receive this small increase the Government will lose their services.\n\n## Amah, Maternity Hospital\nAn additional Amah required for night work. Rent of Temporary Quarters.-The Government Nursing Institute having been abolished owing to the decision of the Government to dispense with the services of the Private Nursing Sisters, the expenses in connection with \"Stowford,\" formerly the institute and now occupied by the Nursing Sisters and Probationers, have been transferred to the Civil Hospital vote.\n\n## Victoria Hospital for Women and Children\nProvision of expenditure sanctioned generally in C.O.D. 262, 1902.\n\n## BACTERIOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT\nThis is a new Department, presided over by a medical officer specially trained in bacteriology. Dr. HUNTER'S work is that of a specialist, and it would be inconvenient both for himself and the Medical Department if he were not placed in direct relation with the Government. As authority has not yet been obtained for the creation of a staff, provision has been made in the Estimates for certain temporary appointments which, if necessary, can be made permanent in 1904. They include a Laboratory Assistant, two Bacteriological Assistants, a Laboratory Attendant, and an office coolie. Dr. HUNTER reports that the most useful Laboratory Assistant for his purpose would be a qualified student of the Hongkong College of Medicine, to be paid at the rate of $100 rising to $150 a month. His duties will consist in the preparation of Danyz's virus and other sera, and he will be expected to assist generally in the conduct of the Laboratory. The Laboratory Attendant will be a Chinese boy at $15 a month, and he will be required to keep the apparatus clean and in order. The office coolie, at $7 a month, will keep the office clean and distribute messages.\n\nThe two Bacteriological Assistants will, like the Laboratory Assistant, be licentiates of the Chinese College of Medicine and will draw the same pay. It is hoped that next year it will not be necessary to secure the services of Japanese doctors for bacteriological work, as was done this year, if these two appointments are sanctioned. Dr. HUNTER states that unless these appointments are made it will be impossible to carry out some of the important measures proposed by Professor SIMPSON with regard to plague. Meanwhile, the engagement of two fully qualified Chinese licentiates, to whom, if the Secretary of State approves, these appointments will be offered, has been provisionally authorised, and they will join the temporary staff (paid this year as plague expenditure by the Sanitary Board) as soon as the engagement with the Japanese doctors is terminated.\n\nA considerable portion of the estimated expenditure of this new Department is due to transfers from other Departments, and is therefore counterbalanced by corresponding reductions in other departmental estimates. The maintenance of the Public Mortuary and the Vaccine Institute has hitherto been paid for by the Medical Department, and the coolie and messenger provided for under the former of these two heads were formerly paid out of the plague vote. Much of the work done at the Mortuary is necessarily of a bacteriological nature, especially since arrangements have been made for examining rats, a work which will probably have to be carried on for some years to come. It is also understood, as regards the Vaccine Institute, that the Government Bacteriologist should undertake the production of vaccine lymph. The Institute is therefore appropriately placed under his charge.\n\nIn connection with the \"Other Charges,\" Dr. HUNTER estimates that a sum of not less than $3,000 will be required to carry out Professor SIMPSON's scheme of the wholesale distribution of Danyz's virus for the destruction of rats; that $500 will be required for the preparation of protective plague vaccine (Haffkine's), and a like sum for curative plague sera; the purchase of animals, including horses, he estimates at $1,000; a sum of $500 will be necessary to purchase certain additional apparatus for the preparation of virus, vaccines and sera, owing to the fact that Dr. HUNTER was not informed, until two or three days before leaving England, that he would be expected to make these preparations on a large scale, and he had at that time ordered all the apparatus which he had considered sufficient. These various sums, therefore, have been inserted in the draft Estimates.\n\n## MAGISTRACY\n(1.) Office Furniture, etc. Previous votes insufficient. (2.) Cost of Witnesses, etc.\n\nThe increase of $300 under these heads combined is balanced by expunging the vote for Post Mortem Examinations, etc., which has not been drawn upon at all for several years past.\n\n## SANITARY DEPARTMENT\n(1.) Sanitary Commissioner. (a) Allowance for House-rent. (b.) Conveyance Allowance.--These items have been inserted provisionally. Should a Sanitary Commissioner be appointed he would, unless granted these allowances, be much worse off than the Principal Civil Medical Officer, who has free quarters.\n\n(2.) Five Senior Inspectors of Nuisances.--The increment drawn by these officers as shown in the 1902 Estimates is triennial: but in their agreements an annual increment was granted by the Secretary of State.\n\n(3.) 1st class Inspectors: 3rd class Inspectors: Foreman of Street Cleansers: Interpreter, Veterinary Staff: Watchman, Slaughter House, Kowloon,—The increment of $60 a year in the case of all these officers was sanctioned as from the 1st January, 1901, after the Estimates for 1902 had been drafted. Hence the 1902 Estimates do not show the first increment as they should do, and the 1903 Estimates show two increments.\n\n(4.) Foreman, Disinfecting Staff. The increase of salary was granted for the reason that the Foreman could not be retained at $30 a month.\n\n## MISCELLANEOUS SERVICES\n(1.) Loss in Exchange on Family Remittances.--Mr. DYER BALL is the only beneficiary and he is on leave in England.\n\n(2.) Bungalows Committee, for Caretakers.— A mistake in this year's Estimates: the Caretaker's wage is $8 a month.\n\n(3.) Interest.--Increase is chiefly due to the augmentation of the Widows and Orphans' Pension Fund (section 5 of Ordinance 15 of 1900).\n\n(4.) College of Medicine for Chinese.--Of the sum of $5,000 voted for the current year, half is for the Government Dispensary at Wantsai. A sum of $2,500 has therefore been transferred to the Estimates of the Medical Department. \n(5.) Expenses of the New Territory.--Transferred to other votes, thus\n\n| Department | Description | Amount |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Land Court, New Territory | 4 Rent Roll Clerks at $300 each | $1,200 |\n| Police Department | 2 Telephone Clerks at Tsimshatsui Police Station at $40 each | $80 |\n| Treasury | 2 Temporary Clerks at $312 each | $624 |\n| Numbering Houses (Other Charges) |  | $1,640 |\n| Assessor's Office |  | $114 |",
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        "content_text": "## Sterling Agreement\n\nList of Officers likely to apply for permission to come under the Sterling Salary scheme\n\n| Name | On Dollar Period | Date of Agreement | Salary (under present agreement) | Amount of salary as provided in Sterling Salary Agreement | Amount of salary for difference | Remarks |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Harbour Department |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| Lighthouse Keeper, G. 7. Taylor | Dollar, 5 years | 4.1.01 | $1670 plus exchange $2,357 |  |  |  |\n| Waglan Island Senior Assistant, E.A. Johnson | - do. |  | $1500 plus exchange $2,269 |  |  |  |\n| Public Works Department |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| Principal Assistant Surveyor, L.B. Rees | Sterling, 3 years | 4.1.02 | £510 | $2,426 | Compensation, (2) $69 | Increase |\n| Overseer, Flasters |  | 4.1.01 | $527 |  |  |  |\n| Medical Department |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| Probationer, M. Familton | Dollar | 22.4.02 | £100 to £200 by £20 triennially | $1,159 |  |  |\n| Flourmoe | \" | 15.4.02 | £150 to £300 by £50 triennially | $1,050 |  |  |\n\nThe figures in **red** are the salaries fixed in the Sterling Salary Scheme. The rate of exchange taken in calculating exchange compensation and converting sterling to Dollar is 1/64 = 1.52-5/8 = 1.696, 4-7/8 = 1.696, etc.\n\nPage [not numbered]",
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        "content_text": "## \nIt doesn't pan't out that. Messrs. Taylor and Johnson, the Lighthouse keeper and Senior Assistant at Waglan Island, are not \"You agreement, but permanently appointed for the first. In this connection, I have to refer you to par. of the letter from this Office to the Trinity House, dated the 2nd Oct, 1900, which was enclosed in my despatch No.371 of the 1st Dec. 1900.\n\n## \nThey are therefore entitled to come under the Sterling Scheme, if they wish to do so.\n\n### \nAs you have allowed Mr. Rees and Miss Hamilton and Miss Laurence to accept the terms provided under the Scheme, Miss Masters is the only case left to consider. The extra expenditure involved by allowing Mun... to come under the Scheme will only be $264, according to the schedule enclosed in your despatch. I am of opinion that no great advantage would be gained by altering the terms of note 12, whilst the objections to such an alteration are obvious.\n\n## \nMiss Masters' application should therefore be granted. I have...",
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        "content_text": "Confidential\n\nHong Kong,\n\n4th October 1906\n\nGovernment House.\n\nI have the honour to enclose in clear versions of my telegram and of Your Lordship's of the 6th inst; and of subsequent telegrams to and from the Commander in Chief, China Station, on the subject of the appointment of a naval officer, with previous experience of the mercantile marine, to act as Harbour Master at Hongkong during the absence on leave of the Assistant Harbour Master and pending the appointment of a successor to the late Captain A.L. Aaronsen as an officer of Harbour Master.\n\n2. Your Lordship will see that Sir Arthur Moore has proposed for the acting appointment Lieut. Beckwith, Navigating Lieutenant of \"Druid\", and that I have accepted this proposal, and that the officer named will be available after the 19th instant.\n\n3. Lieut. Beckwith has served in his present rank since October 1905 when he joined the Navy under the Order-in-Council of the 20th June 1905 after 4 years' experience in the Mercantile Marine. My reasons for mentioning his name and that of Lieut. Butterworth in my telegram to Sir Arthur Moore were that I knew both, previously to receiving commissions in the Navy, had been in the Merchant service and that I had heard good reports of both from officers under whom they had served in H.M. Ships.\n\n4. To secure the best officer I could for the temporary appointment, which is one of great importance to the Colony, I thought it advisable to offer the full salary attached to the post, viz: at the rate of £780 per annum.\n\n5. The question of filling the permanent appointment presents some difficulty. The present Assistant Harbour Master, Mr. H. Jaglar, who is 45 years of age and served in the Royal Navy from 1878 to 1898 when he resigned his commission, joined the Colonial service in the post he now occupies in September 1899. He has since then on three occasions for periods of 15, 6, and 3 months respectively acted as Harbour Master.\n\n6. On the retirement of Capt. Rumsey, Mr. Basil Taylor applied for the post and in forwarding his application, the then Governor, Sir Henry Blake, stated in his dispatch No. 404, dated the 24th August 1903, as follows: - \"During the period in which Mr. Basil Taylor has discharged the duties of Harbour Master in the absence of Capt. Rumsey, he has given entire satisfaction both to the Government and to the public. I consider him a long way the most suitable officer for the appointment.\" When about a year later, I forwarded in my dispatch No. 652 dated the 29th September 1904, an application from Taylor to be considered for any other similar post which might become vacant, I stated that he was \"capable, zealous, and worthy of promotion\" and that the recent appointment of Capt. Barrie Laurence to be Harbour Master at Singapore made it improbable that there would be any promotion for Mr. Taylor in this Colony for some years to come. About 6 months later, Taylor applied to the Secretary of State for the appointment of Harbour Master at Singapore. In forwarding this application in my despatch No. 72 of the 13th March 1905, I referred to the favourable opinion of Taylor's capacity I had expressed in my previous dispatch, and to the experience he had gained in the Harbour Department of this Colony. A further application from Taylor for the Administrationship of Labuan was forwarded in my despatch No. 251 of the 19th August, in which I confined myself to referring to my previous communication.\n\nPage 353\n\n...\n\nPage 354\n\n \nThe East Dept. Reg.\n\n...",
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        "content_text": "423\n\n13008\n\nhiw previous application, ve November 1905 M Jaylor applied for 3 mouths becalion (cave and 9 months leave of absenes but Jabeegumibly withdrew\" itu application on the grounds the 454.0 he could not afford the kave, renewing it in January when he stated that he hand sheeedeed in making in neapary, creang oments for raising his papege money the had ou previous occasions referred to an unruffiency of and applied for an increase in 37450 his salary, notably in a leten to me, dated the 25 August 1904, when he stand that of it wa impopible to live ou il ai Auch a styl as his position, ic lûn Goovrumund Scroter demanded without getting into debt; in his application to the Sunday of Shatt forwarded in thy despatch of the 29th September 1904, when he stated that he was thable to rouve any part of his private in come for bringing up and donating la chitora of la morning which he had been bo to contract on the understanding low he to succeed Captain, Purnsey as Harbour & Taster; and in his application. to it ScenJary of State, forwarded cis nie dispatch of the 13th March 1905, when he of stated that the costuments of an appointment on which he had been acting added to his Salay and private nicome had barely anobled him mate both Cudd meet, Aqai. as a latin to me Leto the 29th November, 1985, he stated as follows:- \"Boy cuticly down my Experons 6ttu lowest 266, with the offistance of a private unicome. { cons penny of which is required for the purpose) and of the salary of the achi; appoituus so Apist and Superintendard of Police, which I held for the last year, v'have vicereded hitherto in keeping out of debt, but with the loss of this acting apponi imund, and lin steadily uimasny cost of the nesports of life, dece nothing beque in bus pecuninh Eubarassment, which as laid down in the Herony Vinute, Enelosed in in Scruday & States Cicular deopaki of 9th January, 1869 with adouroy affect my officimay as Goooumens voward. I have no doubt that my case with be considued our of those, referred to in paragraph 4 of that minute Olcacished ly unavoidable misfortune – but this with not lesson my cubanafomens\":\n\n8. I have houbled your sindship with this summary of Un various applications Mask & MrJaylor they bear divatly on the question of apponitury him to succeed to lake Aptaus Barnia Laurence. In the face of his of years ervice so Apistant Harbour Tacher and acting Harbour Washer in the (dony and of. thevur favomethi reports made to the Sceritay of State on this serie & Six Siemny Blake is his 35304, dispatch of the 2\" Argues 1903 and by myself in my dropatch of the 29th Seps couber 1904, I am ust prepared to make any other recommendation than thus Mt Taylor should be given the vacant port. But I thank it wipes to add that during the last year of his cook hue it seemed to me that he was vomudhad lacking in Energy. On my remaking this of our occasion te tus labe CapSain Barnaf awrams & he aliributs it& Taylor being a disappointed man from not having receiveof oppoituus of Harbou. Master un succopion to Captain Rumsey, which he had led himself to & pat, If he is appouihs to the permanus port in vuccepion te Apdai Barnes faurence this cause of this dissatisfaction with be zemos cok.\n\n9. Jaccorduigh recommend this he be to oppocrited from the date of his return to lus folony from An Extended leave for which he has asked on dotustit grounds and which I am chowane adowing should be granted. The apponitmens bouiste ou au vamı valang of £ 780- £900 þu annan & hiennial crucements of tbo as that drawn & Caps Barneslaurence and is Jaglos shouw be given to distriktly undust and that it is not proposed to change this Salary and thus applications from hun for such change with be excitŵ with disfavour,\n\n10. Shond A Jayler be appruited Harbour Packer on his return to the Colony and should Lius: Bukwith's serius as Metiny Karbon. Hadu alt intewal be culitely valinfasting & shale recommend him for the appointment of Hair tid arbour Master of he is willing to scapt it. I have reations applications for this appointment from licut Butterworth of virss Jamar and King Harborn Master",
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        "content_text": "272 \n\n2 \n\nThis complete volte-face on the part of the Viceroy closes a phase of the negotiations which has latterly degenerated into something very like comic opera. It has, indeed, been impossible during the past fortnight to keep pace by letter with the almost daily developments which have taken place, and I do not propose to weary you with a recapitulation of their intricate details. All I will now attempt is a review of the later phases assumed by the negotiations, of the causes at work, and of the position in which, in my judgment, the general question of the loan is now left. Copies of telegrams which have passed since the 21st June are here inclosed.\n\nThe interview of the 26th June with the Viceroy's deputies, who had evidently come armed with very precise instructions, convinced me that there were other forces at work besides the legitimate desire of the Viceroy to extract from us favourable terms. It seemed to me just possible that if the Viceroy could be induced to accept the British and Chinese Corporation as the principal party to the Agreement, the objections of the French might be overcome. He could assign no reasons except sentimental ones for not doing so. The Peking Government could have no possible objection to the British and Chinese Corporation, seeing that they concluded an Agreement with them only a few months ago, and it was plain to me that there was something more than flattering preference behind Chang's persistent demand for the Hong Kong and Shanghae Bank alone. In my opinion, we have not far to look for the explanation.\n\nOf the forces which are working to shape the future of Hankow and of the Upper Yang-tsze at the present moment, none is more conspicuous or more striking than the growing influence of the Japanese. There are said to be some 5,000 Japanese in or about Wuchang. They are found at Changsha and at Ichang, their flag is to be seen everywhere on the river, and the Viceroy, strongly pro-Japanese in his sympathies, is surrounded by a ring of Japanese advisers, whose influence is perceptible at every turn. Their distinct methods of business and their peculiar way of acquiring information separate them from other foreigners. That they have great ambitions in the Yang-tsze valley, there can be no manner of doubt, and their object seems to be to conquer as much by a process of absorption by numbers as by the ordinary competition of trade. They evidently have reasons for attaching a great deal of importance to obtaining a share in the present railway scheme. They have no money to contribute, but they have labour and they have materials, and it is therefore obviously of the greatest importance to them to arrange, if possible, that the loan with which the railways are to be built should carry with it no vexatious conditions likely to affect them in these fields of industry.\n\nIf this hypothesis is correct—and it is strikingly borne out by what has come under my own observation—it is no longer difficult to account for the Japanese objection to the British and Chinese Corporation, and for their strong preference for the Hong Kong and Shanghae Bank, which, as a purely financial institution, does not concern itself with the questions of labour and materials.\n\nWith this conviction in my mind, and under the discouraging impression of the interview of the 26th June, at which the deputies practically went back on every clause of the proposed Agreement which made the business possible, I sent you my telegram of the 27th June, and the promptness of your reply showed at least that you had little hesitation in approving the action proposed.\n\nMy own opinion was equally clear, but I was in a somewhat different position. I felt, when it came to the point, that I had to consider not only the interests of the bank, but those of the British Government, which, in this respect, had practically been committed to my charge, and I had therefore to consider how far I was justified in jeopardizing, without the gravest reasons, the British preference which our Government had been at so much pains to obtain.\n\nOn the 29th June, I received a note from the Specie Bank, asking if the Japanese Consul might call and see me. The account of this interview and the subsequent interview and correspondence with Mr. Midzuno, I inclose herewith.\n\nHe evidently came to see me under express instructions, and the correspondence will interest you as disclosing the Japanese point of view on this side.\n\nMr. Midzuno's recollections of what passed at these interviews did not accord at all times with mine, but you will note that, with regard at least to the nominal nature of the participation which the Specie Bank desires to have in the issue of the loan, Mr. Midzuno and I are agreed. The request to appear in the prospectus merely as an agent to receive applications for bonds appears harmless enough, however unaccountable its motive, and perhaps you can see your way to conceding them this much.\n\nOn the 30th June, I received a note from Fraser, who was away at Kuling, which confirmed my opinion as to the necessity for prudence in taking the step proposed in \nmy telegram to you of the 27th June, and I accordingly left for Kuling that night in order to confer with him.\n\nOn my return to Hankow on the 3rd July, I found that Cordes had called to see me. He told Taylor that he had been staying at the Viceroy's yamên since the 28th ultimo, arranging the Tien-tsin-Chinkiang Final Agreement. The Viceroy had mentioned my negotiations, and Cordes had made him an offer; he did not tell Taylor what the offer was. As he, Cordes, was leaving on the previous day, the Viceroy told him he had just received a telegram from the Wai-wu Pu instructing him not to proceed with his negotiations with me.\n\nI reported this to the Consulate, who wired it to the Legation, and Sir J. Jordan at once asked for an interview with the Wai-wu Pu. The Board, I understand, informed Sir John that they had heard of the negotiations going on in Hankow, and had wired to Chang Chih-Tung to ask him what it was all about, but they could get no reply out of him. They raised no objection to the French, nor, in principle, to Chang's borrowing; they only wanted him to make a clean breast of it and let them know what his requirements were and what he was doing. They did not confirm the statement that they had wired to Chang not to proceed with the negotiations. The German Minister, they said, had called on them on the subject, and, from his attitude, they feared there would be some trouble with him. With regard to the principle of borrowing money for public works and spending it on railways, they were not prepared at the moment to express an opinion; they wanted further information from Chang.\n\nThe result of this interview was telegraphed by Sir John Jordan to Fraser, who had in the meantime returned from Kuling. Fraser telegraphed to Peking for instructions how to act in the event of Chang attempting to break off negotiations over the question of French participation. Your own instructions to myself on this point, I looked upon as covered by your telegram to me of the 4th July.\n\nSir J. Jordan's reply was to the effect that Fraser should, in the event named, warn the Viceroy against the consequences of his unfriendly attitude towards the French, and hold him to his engagement with the British Government.\n\nArmed with these instructions, we prepared ourselves for a somewhat disagreeable interview with Chang on the 7th instant.\n\nThe Viceroy, however, was never more cheerful. He at once launched into an exposition of his views on the new situation which had been created by Sir J. Jordan's interview with the Wai-wu Pu, winding up with the astounding proposition that not only the French, but also the Germans, should be admitted as parties to the Loan Agreement.\n\nMr. Fraser observed that, before committing himself to any opinion on this proposal, it would be necessary for him to ascertain the views of his Government; and, for my own part, I suggested that it appeared a good moment for me to return to Peking and explain his Excellency's views to Sir J. Jordan and the Wai-wu Pu. The Viceroy approved of the last suggestion, and proceeded to furnish me with instructions for my mission. I was, he said, to inform the Wai-wu Pu of the nature and object of the loan, its amount, term, interest, price, and security, but I was not to discuss with them the other conditions of the Agreement, as the Viceroy preferred to retain the settlement of these in his own hands. As the Edict of 1905 prohibiting the borrowing of foreign money for railway construction is still in force, the Viceroy could not call this a railway loan. At the same time, I was to point out that no mortgage of any railway line or other condition derogatory to China's rights is proposed. The Province of Hupei is very hard up, and the experience of the last two years has clearly shown that it is impossible to raise the large sums required for railway construction by means of share capital alone. If, therefore, railways are to be constructed, the funds for their construction must be largely diverted from the provincial revenues, and if from the revenues of one Department, why not from those of the Public Works Department? Again, Tsen Shun-hsuan, Viceroy-designate of Canton, is treating with the Government for permission to borrow on exactly similar lines. Why should he, Chang, not receive at their hands the same consideration as his colleague Tsen? If the objections of the Wai-wu Pu are founded on the fear of offending other nations, I am to suggest that equal participation be given to the Great Powers, England, France, and Germany, although the Viceroy would prefer that the Agreement should be made in the name of the Hong Kong and Shanghae Bank alone, the provisions for participation being embodied in a final clause, as in the 1905 Loan Agreement. Having arranged these points satisfactorily with the Wai-wu Pu, I am to let him know through Mr. Fraser, and we can then proceed to the discussion of the other terms of the Agreement.\n\n[2636 i-4]",
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        "content_text": "# 51 DESPATCH.\n\nThe new definition, \"motor boat\", is made in connection with the regulation of this type of vessel, hitherto unprovided for.\n\nSection 3.-This provides for the inclusion of section 56 of the 1905 Act.\n\nSection 4.--This provides for the inclusion of section 13 of the 1906 Act.\n\nSection 5.-This provides for the inclusion of section 22 of the 1906 Act.\n\nSection 6.-The new subsections (7), (8) and (9) of section 13 of the Principal Ordinance, herein enacted, give effect to section 9 of the 1906 Act and the proviso to section 4 of the 1906 Act.\n\nSection 7-This provides for the inclusion of sections 1 and 7 of the 1906 Act.\n\nSection 8.-This provides for the inclusion of sections 3 and 11 of the 1906 Act.\n\nSection 9.--This provides for the inclusion of section 2 of the 1906 Act.\n\nSection 10.-This provides for the inclusion of section 6 of the 1906 Act.\n\nSection 11-Is a general inclusion clause, to give effect to those parts of the 1906 Act not specially included. It also specially excludes sections 5, 6, 10, 12 and 14 to 24 of the 1906 Act, for the following reasons -\n\nSection 5.--Sets a day for the coming into force of certain provisions of the 1906 Act. The provisions of this Ordinance will come into force from the date of its passage.\n\nSection 8.-Is not considered necessary, as the machinery at the disposal of the Port Authorities is sufficient to ensure the proper marking of vessels before clearance.\n\nSection 10.-Is not considered necessary, as cargoes of wood stacked on deck are unknown here.\n\nSection 12-As 98 per cent. of the crews shipped in this Port are Chinese, a very small proportion of whom have any knowledge of the English language, to insist upon the provisions of this section would be to destroy the British Coasting and River trade, and put it into the hands of foreigners. In 1906, 20,766 seamen were shipped on board European constructed vessels exceeding 60 tons. Of these 19,400 were Chinese.\n\nSections 14 to 24 do not affect the Merchant Shipping Ordinance, they refer to Emigration, which is dealt with in a separate ordinance (No. 1 of 1889).\n\nSection 12 provides for more efficient regulation of unlicensed steamships not exceeding 60 tons. It also deals with the regulation of motor boats.\n\nSection 13 deals with the regulation of motor boats.\n\n**BASIL TAYLOR,**\nHarbour Master,\n\n## Governor. No.\n\n## Conf.\n\n1908\n\n16 Jan.\n\nLast previous Paper.\n\n## NO.\n\nHONG KONG\n\n·6159\n\n(Subject.)\n\nDr. Hunter.\n\n6159\n\n20 Feb 08\n\nHis temporary engagement was extended for 3 years from 27 Jan 07.\n\nto Colony & if unfit. termination Engagement\n\nmed examined\n\n(Minutes,)\n\n## Stubbs\n\nAnd Cup 20 Feb 2582.\n\n10 Humber 22 May 3\n\napply\n\nask Dr Hamles\n\nfor authority for medical exam =\n\nabout the\n\nEaster Dept.\n\nmetole\n\nof May\n\na/221/2\n\n22/2\n\nat once\n\nIs it necessary to remind him he had the authority?\n\n-or\n\nhas be\n\n| Ref. | Date |\n| --- | --- |\n| 3004-W. & B. Ltd.-- | 25000-11-7. 65122-W. £9. .td-28140- 25000-11-07. |\n\next subsequent Paper.\n\n? Send him.\n\nto pay\n\nfee\n\nWom\n\n19/5\n\nal\n\nLF 3pu\n\n2115-\n\nat mee\n\nMers",
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        "content_text": "Of late many of our people, of every rank in life, recognizing the magnitude of the evil, have vied with each other in forming Societies to discourage the use of opium, and even those long addicted to the habit have come to realize with sorrow the extent of the misfortunes which they have brought upon themselves. Many foreign philanthropists also have promoted public meetings with a view to securing the prohibition of the cultivation and sale of opium, and have distributed remedies for the opium habit. Their action has been entirely prompted by a keen desire that the use of opium should be abolished in China, and how much greater should be the efforts of our own people, who are themselves suffering from its ravages, to eradicate the evil!\n\nWe have already directed by Imperial Decree that Regulations should be issued under which the use of opium, both foreign and native, should be totally suppressed within a period of ten years. The British Government have now agreed to effect an annual reduction in the amount of opium exported to China, and other friendly Powers are willing to assist. This enlightened policy on their part has deeply impressed us. Under the Agreement with the British Government the reduction in the export is to be continued for three years, and if it is found on the expiration of this period that China has effectively decreased the cultivation and consumption of opium, the policy of reducing the export will still be carried on. To allow these three years to slip by without taking measures for the abolition of the drug would be a poor return for the benevolent policy of a friendly Power, and a deep disappointment to philanthropists of all nations. Should this opportunity be lost for ever and the disease allowed to become incurable, it is impossible that China should ever be considered a great country, and we, with all the officers of our Government, could not but feel the deepest shame, recognizing that the responsibility therefor rested with us.\n\nWe therefore direct the Boards of the Interior and of Finance to lose no time in preparing supervisory Regulations and taking strict measures to insure their enforcement after our sanction has been received. We also direct the high provincial authorities to insure the effective performance by their subordinates of the measures submitted to us by the Government Council, and to prepare Memorials setting forth the measures which they propose to take in their respective jurisdictions to decrease the cultivation and consumption of opium. Let a general report of the reduction effected be made at the end of each year, and let the funds needed to take the place of the opium tax be raised by the Board of Finance. As this matter affects the strength of the country and the lives of the people, we enjoin upon all officials, both in the capital and the provinces, to perform their duty zealously. No matter how great the difficulties may be, they must strive to effect the total abolition of opium within the fixed period, and any procrastination on their part will meet with severe punishment.\n\nLet the rest be as proposed.\n\n[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\nCHINA TRADE.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n[16559]\n\nNo. 1.\n\n[May 5.]\n\nSECTION 4,\n\nQuestion asked in the House of Commons, May 5, 1908.\n\nMr. Theodore C. Taylor,-To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if he can give the House any further information as to the negotiations in progress a year ago for the formation of a Joint International Commission of Investigation into the Opium Trade.\n\nAnswer.\n\nI must refer the honourable Member to the papers which were laid last February respecting the opium question. It will be seen that the American Ambassador was informed that His Majesty's Government will be glad, if possible, to receive further information as to the proposed procedure of the Commission and the time and place of its meeting. We are awaiting a reply to this communication.\n\n[2967 e-4]\n\n~4]\n\n0\n\n520",
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        "content_text": "2\n\nduty and li-kin will be paid in accordance with the Regulations. Any Persian or Turkish opium shipped to China for which this special permit cannot be produced shall be confiscated.\n\nCA\n\nTaking 1,125 piculs as the mean annual import of Persian and Turkish opium, this quantity shall be reduced every year by one-ninth, i.e., 125 piculs. Thus in 1909 special permits will only be issued for 1,000 piculs, and by making a similar reduction annually the import will entirely cease in nine years. permits will be issued, and the import into China of Persian and Turkish opium, as well as that of Indian opium, will be completely suspended after 1916.\n\n\"2. The special permits will only be issued to merchants who have hitherto, to the knowledge of the Imperial Maritime Customs, been engaged in the trade in Turkish and Persian opium. In fixing the number of special permits to be issued annually to each merchant, the total import during the two years, 1906 and 1907, and the quantities imported by each merchant during those years, will be taken as a basis, the number of permits being decreased annually.\n\n\"The above proposals refer to the restriction of the import of Turkish and Persian opium. With regard to other sorts of opium, no information as to the place of origin is available, as particulars are not given in the Imperial Maritime Customs Returns of Trade. As, however, the quantity is trifling, amounting in 1906 to only 64 piculs, which was all re-exported, the matter hardly appears to require consideration.\"\n\nThe Revenue Council request the Board to communicate these proposals to your Excellency and to inform them of our views on the subject in order that the requisite instructions may be given to the Customs authorities.\n\nThe Board is of the opinion that as the three proposals formulated by the Inspector-General for the limitation and annual decrease of the quantity of Persian and Turkish opium imported into China are on the same lines as the British Government's scheme for limiting the export of foreign opium from India, and are fair and just, they should be put into force. A reply has therefore been addressed to the Revenue Council requesting that the Inspector-General be directed to take the necessary action, and a notification has been sent to all the foreign Representatives in Peking.\n\n[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\nCHINA TRADE.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n[15739]\n\nNo. 1.\n\nC\n\n48941\n\nRECP\n\n[May 5.]\n\nRSG 2008\n\nSECTION 1.\n\nQuestion asked in the House of Commons, May 5, 1908.\n\nMr. Theodore C. Taylor,-To ask the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he is aware that in a large number of the chief cities of China all opium dens have been closed by order of the Chinese Government; whether he is aware that in Hong Kong the Colonial Government derives a considerable revenue from licensing opium dens; and whether the time has at length come when steps should be taken to terminate the opium traffic in that Colony.\n\nAnswer.\n\nI understand that the reply to the first paragraph of the question is in the affirmative, but as regards the second, that it is scarcely accurate to refer to “a considerable revenue,' as the amount to be derived from licences for 1908 would appear to amount to only £1801; the third paragraph, as my honourable friend will agree, is difficult to deal with in question and answer, but I gather I may have an opportunity of expressing the views of His Majesty's Government on the matter in the course of debate to-morrow evening.\n\n[2967 e-1]\n\nI avail, &c.\n\n(Signed)\n\nPrince CHING.",
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        "content_text": "C.O.\n\nThis Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n[16282]\n\nNo. 1.\n\n[May 7.]\n\nSECTION 1.\n\n635 I JUN 08\n\nExtract from the \"Times\" of May 7, 1908.\n\nTHE OPIUM TRAFFIC,\n\nMr. I. Johnson (Warwickshire, Nuneaton) rose to call attention to the opium traffic in the East, and to move: \"That this House, having regard to its Resolution unanimously adopted on the 30th May, 1906, that the Indo-Chinese opium trade is morally indefensible, welcomes the action of His Majesty's Government in diminishing the sale of opium for export, and thus responding to the action of the Chinese Government in their arrangements for the suppression of the consumption of the drug in that Empire; and this House also urges His Majesty's Government to take steps to bring to a speedy close the system of licensing opium dens now prevailing in some of our Crown Colonies, more particularly Hong Kong, the Straits Settlements, and Ceylon.\" He said that it was agreed, both nationally and internationally, that this traffic must be put an end to. It was a question between money and righteousness. (Hear, hear.) The House of Commons, the leaders of the Churches, and the whole country were behind the movement which he represented. There were difficulties in the way, but the Government must overcome them and put the righteousness of the cause before money. Since the Resolution on this subject passed by the House in 1906 much had been done, but much more might have been done. China had been moving, and had done something on her own behalf; but the progress was too slow. There was ample evidence now that China was sincere in this matter. It was reported from Peking in May of last year that the last of the opium dens in Peking was closed. In the month following all the opium dens in the native quarter of Shanghae were closed; but, on the other hand, in the British and American concessionary quarters the Municipal Council declined to do more than to discontinue the grant of annual licences, and it was not till the 20th March of this year that they proposed to close one-fourth of the dens on the 31st July, and the other three-fourths within two years. He thought that proved that the Chinese were more sincere than we were ourselves. In the self-governing Colonies the traffic in opium was forbidden altogether, but in the Crown Colonies things were different; in Hong Kong nothing had been done, while in the Straits Settlements there had only been a Committee of Inquiry appointed. The Americans, on the other hand, had closed all the opium dens in the Philippine Islands, and he asked the Colonial and Foreign Offices to imitate their example and endeavour not to reduce but to put an end to the use of opium.\n\nMr. T. C. Taylor (Lancashire, South-East, Radcliffe), who seconded, said he had lately visited China, practically for the purpose of studying this question, and he had come to the conclusion that all the best elements in China were resolved to put an end to this traffic. It was not merely an edict of the Government, but opium reform had in it all the elements of a great national movement, and he could recite by the score stories of the scenes of enthusiasm among those who were devoted to the suppression of the habit. In Shanghae, which was an international Settlement, he regretted to say that the municipality had not done all that they ought to have done to close the opium dens at a more rapid rate, while in Hong Kong, a British Settlement, the story was \"nothing attempted, nothing done.\" He was glad to know there was a strong anti-opium movement in Singapore, and he hoped that the Report of a Commission on the subject would soon be published. Japan had sternly penalized the use and sale of opium, but even Japan had yielded to the temptation to make revenue from opium in Formosa and Corea. How could we reproach our ally when we allowed the yellow peril, gold, to infect our own possessions? (Hear, hear.) China would become one of the great nations of the world, and was it our interest that a reformed China should look back on a time when our Government, against the will of the Chinese people, provided the means for their indulgence in this debasing vice? (Hear, hear.)\n\nColonel Seely said it would be convenient if he replied at once on the colonial aspect of the case, partly because the Colonial Office had been declared to be the\n\n[2967 g--1]",
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        "content_text": "Enclosure 4.\n\nThis Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\nCHINA TRADE.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n0.0\n\n  \n    | 46946\n    591\n  \n\n[May 7.]\n\nSECTION 1.\n\n[16282]\n\nRe: 23 DEC 08\n\nNo. 1.\n\nExtract from the \"Times\" of May 7, 1908.\n\nTHE OPIUM TRAFFIC.\n\nMr. W. Johnson (Warwickshire, Nuneaton) rose to call attention to the opium traffic in the East, and to move: \"That this House, having regard to its Resolution unanimously adopted on the 30th May, 1906, that the Indo-Chinese opium trade is morally indefensible, welcomes the action of His Majesty's Government in diminishing the sale of opium for export, and thus responding to the action of the Chinese Government in their arrangements for the suppression of the consumption of the drug in that Empire; and this House also urges His Majesty's Government to take steps to bring to a speedy close the system of licensing opium dens now prevailing in some of our Crown Colonies, more particularly Hong Kong, the Straits Settlements, and Ceylon.\" He said that it was agreed, both nationally and internationally, that this traffic must be put an end to. It was a question between money and righteousness. (Hear, hear.) The House of Commons, the leaders of the Churches, and the whole country were behind the movement which he represented. There were difficulties in the way, but the Government must overcome them and put the righteousness of the cause before money. Since the Resolution on this subject passed by the House in 1906 much had been done, but much more might have been done. China had been moving, and had done something on her own behalf; but the progress was too slow. There was ample evidence now that China was sincere in this matter. It was reported from Peking in May of last year that the last of the opium dens in Peking was closed. In the month following all the opium dens in the native quarter of Shanghai were closed; but, on the other hand, in the British and American concessionary quarters the Municipal Council declined to do more than to discontinue the grant of annual licences, and it was not till the 20th March of that year they proposed to close one-fourth of the dens on the 31st July, and the other three-fourths within two years. He thought that proved that the Chinese were more sincere than we were ourselves. In the self-governing Colonies the traffic in opium was forbidden altogether, but in the Crown Colonies things were different; in Hong Kong nothing had been done, while in the Straits Settlements there had only been a Committee of Inquiry appointed. The Americans, on the other hand, had closed all the opium dens in the Philippine Islands, and he asked the Colonial and Foreign Offices to imitate their example and endeavour not to reduce but to put an end to the use of opium.\n\nMr. T. C. Taylor (Lancashire, South-East, Radcliffe), who seconded, said he had lately visited China, practically for the purpose of studying this question, and he had come to the conclusion that all the best elements in China were resolved to put an end to this traffic. It was not merely an edict of the Government, but opium reform had in it all the elements of a great national movement, and he could recite by the score stories of the scenes of enthusiasm among those who were devoted to the suppression of the habit. In Shanghai, which was an international Settlement, he regretted to say that the municipality had not done all that they ought to have done to close the opium dens at a more rapid rate, while in Hong Kong, a British Settlement, the story was \"nothing attempted, nothing done.\" He was glad to know there was a strong anti-opium movement in Singapore, and he hoped that the Report of a Commission on the subject would soon be published. Japan had sternly penalized the use and sale of opium, but even Japan had yielded to the temptation to make revenue from opium in Formosa and Korea. How could we reproach our ally when we allowed the yellow peril, gold, to infect our own possessions? (Hear, hear.) China would become one of the great nations of the world, and was it our interest that a reformed China should look back on a time when our Government, against the will of the Chinese people, provided the means for their indulgence in this debasing vice? (Hear, hear.)\n\nColonel Seely said it would be convenient if he replied at once on the colonial aspect of the case, partly because the Colonial Office had been declared to be the\n\nB [2967 g--1]",
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        "content_text": "C.O.\n\n13122333 No: IREC\n\n1909\n\nREGE 17 APR 09,\n\nOf produc Top-by\n\npresent industry and trade, which has been in existence for over 100 years. Such a monopoly covering ... of the total drug consumed, would be an effective agent in controlling and restricting consumption, in raising revenue, and in securing accurate statistics. It would not be a breach of treaty, and would not be objected to by the foreign merchants, who could still sell to whom they pleased, while the monopolists of the native drug would take good care to see that such persons dealt in foreign opium only.\n\nThe Chinese Government I would venture to suggest, should exercise a Government monopoly in respect of all opium produced by the cultivators in precisely the same way that the Indian Government holds a monopoly of all the opium produced in Bengal. Lord Brassey's Opium Commission recorded it as their well considered conclusion, that this was \"the best system for regulating the production\". † The Indian Government sells its opium at auction but for the reasons I have already given it is probable that it would be better that in China the monopoly of preparation and retail sale should, as in Hongkong, be in the hands of licensed monopolists. The Indian auction sales are solely for export,—the sales in China and sale would be solely for local consumption. The licensee would have the sole right to deal in both raw and prepared native opium, obtaining his supplies from Government while the sale of the progressively decreasing imports of foreign opium would remain unrestricted in accordance with treaty.\n\nof prepare\n\n-ly\n\nFarmers.\n\nThe professed object of China is to reduce the sale of opium, and since the creation of a monopoly is stated to be \"fundamentally prejudicial to trade\",— competition being excluded, and licensees being gradually reduced,—it will assist the object in view.\n\nThe Chinese Government has long been alive to the advantages of the monopoly system for controlling, and possibly extinguishing the trade, but they have confined their efforts to endeavouring to create a monopoly in foreign opium at Nanking, Kiukiang, Szechuan, Hupei and Canton, notwithstanding that it was always in the power of the opium guilds to decline to buy foreign opium if they really desired to exclude it. In October 1907 an Imperial decree directed an enquiry with a view to a monopoly of sale, and the report of the Board of Finance a year later opposed it on the grounds that it would give umbrage to foreigners, would involve expense, would delay the extinction of the habit for the full period of 10 years, and would require a better organised police supervision than China possesses. The monopoly suggested apparently included foreign opium, and referred to sale only,—which was to be a Government monopoly and not in the hands of licensees. Nor was any monopoly of production included. It therefore differs radically from my own suggestion. So far from being expensive, a monopoly such as I suggest, should in the first year yield a Revenue—if the Hongkong farm may be taken as a basis of calculation of some £55,000,000 ‡ and would thus enlist the co-operation of the Provincial Authorities.\n\nA Government monopoly of sale is, I concur, not feasible owing to the inadequacy of the Police and the venality of officials, and I therefore suggest the licensed monopolist. The Government monopoly of all produce involving a careful check of the area under cultivation, the licensing of growers, and a yearly decrease would I admit be difficult, but as the Board recommend this check as an alternative, it is clear that they consider it to be within the capacity of the Government machinery. The bargain with India is of course based on the pledge of total abolition in 10 years. If the monopoly system should substitute Regulation and Control for Abolition (which no doubt India would prefer), the terms of the compact would have to be reconsidered. The machinery for a system of Licensed Farmers, already exists in the opium guilds, who at Canton (and probably elsewhere) already pay a fixed sum to the Provincial Revenue, and license the retail shops. Recently indeed the Viceroy of Szechuan has urged that in order to effectively control the growth of the poppy and the sale of opium, it is necessary that the trade in the native drug should be an official monopoly, that all raw opium should be bought up, and it should be prepared, sold or exported by official hongs. §\n\nSir J. Lyall. Indian Opium Report Vol. VI. p. 121.\n\n† Ibid Vol. VI, p. 96.\n\n‡ Hongkong $4,115,200 on (say) 800 chests (local consumption only). Therefore China consuming about 22,588 chests (see p. 1) would at the same rate realise 50 millions sterling. Memorial in Official Gazette 21.1.1909.\n\nPage 20\n\nPage 20\n\nPage 20\n\nHONGKONG.\n\nMEMORANDUM REGARDING THE RESTRICTION OF OPIUM\n\nIN HONGKONG AND IN CHINA.\n\nLaid before the Legislative Council by Command of His Excellency the Governor, March 11th, 1909,\n\nOn May 6th, 1908, Mr. W. Johnson moved a resolution in the House of Commons (seconded by Mr. T. Taylor) approving the action of His Majesty's Government in progressively decreasing the quantity of opium exported from India to China, and urging the abolition of licensed Opium Dens in the Far Eastern Crown Colonies.* Both mover and seconder informed the House that in Hong-kong \"nothing had been attempted,—nothing done\". These statements passed unchallenged, and have conveyed to the rest of the Empire an erroneous impression of the facts regarding this Colony, which has caused no little soreness in a very loyal portion of His Majesty's oversea dominions. The Under Secretary in his reply said that His Majesty's Government recognised that in dealing with the opium question in Hongkong it was essential that we should act up to the Standards set by China † and in a later debate on July 28th ‡ he added that it had not been possible to get a reasoned opinion from Hongkong,\n\nI will endeavour in the following observations to remove the misunderstanding created by the remarks of Messrs. Johnson and Taylor, and at the same time to present a reasoned opinion as to the measures which may usefully and with justice be taken in order to give effect to the high object which His Majesty's Government have in view, viz., to restrict the opium habit in this Colony and to assist the Chinese Government in effecting a like restriction in China.\n\nI write as one who has comparatively recently come to the Far East with no preconceived ideas and prejudices on the subject, but who has studied it closely for over a year. I claim moreover to have given practical proof in the past of a keen interest in matters affecting the welfare of Native Races,—e.g., the suppression of the Liquor Traffic, Slavery, etc., in Africa.\n\nThe Eastern Colonies, as a part of the British Empire, are animated by the same attitude of ideals as the United Kingdom and have a not less high standard of morality. If then the Rulers of the Empire at its centre, and the Home Parliament, with a full and accurate knowledge of the whole circumstances, arrive at the conclusion, that restriction in the matter of opium should be inaugurated in India and in the Eastern Crown Colonies, we may assume with confidence that the decision would meet with a loyal response, in spite of the fact (which Colonel Seely frankly pointed out) that it is their Revenue and their trade,—and not that of the United Kingdom,—which are affected.\n\nThe Colonies concerned are, however, naturally anxious that the Imperial decision shall be based upon an accurate presentment of the facts, and it is clear from a perusal of the speeches in the Legislative Councils and from the comments of the Colonial Press, that the communities concerned labour under an impression that public opinion in England has to some extent been misinformed as to the facts, and that in consequence the methods proposed are not in all cases such as are best adapted to the end in view, or consonant with a British sense of Justice. Willing co-operation can only be based upon a mutual conviction that the course of action adopted is one that has every prospect of being effective, and that the sacrifices made will not be futile.\n\n* Hansard Vol. 188 (4th Series) p. 330 et seq. † Ibid p. 356.\n\n‡ Vol. 193, p. 1260.\n\n§ Ibid p. 355.\n\nPage 21\n\nPage 21\n\nPage 21",
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        "content_text": "20\n\ndure had been put in force by the defendants to the damage of the plaintiffs, I do not think any action could have been brought. But the allegation here is that the representation was wrongful as being made without reasonable and probable cause, and if that can be established and the Court is competent I think that that cuts away any defences which might possibly have been raised in connexion with the action of the Chinese authorities: because if a man acts wrongfully he must take the consequences if damage result, even though those consequences might otherwise have given rise to no cause of action.\n\nThese points cleared away I come back to the question, is the Court competent to entertain this action? Is it not an interference with the privileges which a Sovereign State has acquired for, and conferred on its subjects? The importance of this question is emphasised by the considerations I referred to on the first motion, as to the conflict with the bankruptcy law of the colony to which their privilege may give rise.\n\nThe case seems to me to resemble the actions which are admittedly allowed to be brought in the English Courts, for maliciously and without reasonable and probable cause setting foreign legal process in motion. There are two standard examples of this-Castrique v. Behrens () and Taylor v. Ford (). In the former case Crompton J. delivering the judgment of the Court of Queen's Bench said: \"There is no doubt on principle and on the authorities that an action lies for maliciously and without reasonable and probable cause setting the law of this country in motion to the damage of the plaintiff.\" And it was held that the same principle applied with regard to the law of a foreign country and that it was subject to the same rules.\n\nThe analogy between those cases and this is, I think, complete, because the action traced out by the Treaty is essentially judicial; it creates a board of reconciliation which is directed to examine into the merits of a complaint and decide it equitably: therefore it is described with strict accuracy as legal process, for it is the legal process provided for disputes between foreigners and natives in a country where Consular jurisdiction prevails. And this once admitted, many other points fall in: the consular privilege, the right of the Chinese authorities to exercise power arbitrarily over Chinese subjects; and all the matters raised in paras. (c) (d) (f) and (g) become irrelevant, in so far as they are not included in the law as to the form of action.\n\nAs to the application of the principle that the proceedings must have terminated in favour of the plaintiff, if they are capable of so doing, it is manifestly satisfied here, for the defendants wrote to the Consul-General asking that the seizure should be withdrawn, and it was withdrawn. I really cannot assume that the Chinese authorities did that on their own motion. But it was argued that even after withdrawal the defendants might have a good cause of action: so they might; but that is quite irrelevant, the question relating only to their proceedings, and to whether there was reasonable and probable cause in starting them. The only point about which I feel doubt is how far that rule which requires the act to be wrongful both by the law of the place where it was committed and by English law is satisfied.\n\nThere are two ways of looking at this question. Was the act committed in Hongkong or Canton? I told the jury that it was in Canton. But I think the more accurate view is that it took place in both places: for the facts are strictly analogous with the point discussed in R. v. Keyn (), where the wrongful act is committed by a man who fires a gun from one ship and kills a man on another. The opinion of Cockburn C. J. is, I think, very clear: he says that where there is a deliberate act committed in one place, and it takes effect in another, it is committed in both places so long as there is a continuing intention linking the act with its consequences. Now let us see how this applies to this case: whichever way we look at this action, whether as one for words spoken to the Consul producing these consequences: or as setting the Chinese authorities in motion, the starting point was the instructions of the Hongkong branch which set the Canton branch in motion, which set the Consul\n\n423",
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        "content_text": "The text appears to be a jumbled mix of nonsensical words and phrases, likely due to OCR errors. However, towards the end, a coherent text emerges.\n\n\"the ship as to whether he intends to discharge the seaman in\n\n\"this Port or not, and if he decides to discharge the seaman, by\n\n*reporting the matter to the Harbour Master and forwarding the\n\n\"Doctor's Certificate to that officer, who, on the discharge of\n\n\"the seaman being completed in accordance with law, will hand\n\n\"the certificate to the Master of the ship\".\n\nThe Colonial Secretary at the same time\n\nrecommended that, if the Consul-General refused the request so\n\nmade, the matter should be laid before the Secretary of State. Sir\n\nW. Gascoigne the Officer Administering the Government, concurred.\n\nNo reply, however, was received from the United States Consul-\n\nGeneral nor was the correspondence sent forward to the Secretary\n\nof State.\n\nOn the 15th December, 1902, the Assistant\n\nHarbour Master reported that, being desirous of visiting Manila\n\nhe went to the office of Messrs. Shewan, Tomes and Company on\n\nthe 24th of the previous month and booked his passage by the\n\nS.S. \"Zafiro\" sailing on the 26th. He was then informed that in\n\naddition to the passage money it was necessary for him to pay\n\nthe Agents a sum of $2.50, being a Poll Tax levied by the\n\nGovernment of the Philippine Islands on all persons landing in\n\nthose Islands with the exception of the United States Citizens.\n\nThe Assistant Harbour Master at first demurred, but, on being\n\ninformed that in the event of his not paying the ship would be\n\nsubject to certain pains and penalties on arrival at Manila, he\n\npaid under protest. He was also informed that it would be\n\nnecessary to be on board an hour and a quarter before the time\n\nset for sailing. At about 11 a.m. on the 26th November the\n\nAmerican Doctor came on board and shortly after this the Assist-\n\nant Harbour Master received a message to the effect that\n\nAmerican Doctor wanted to see him. \"To this\" Captain Taylor\n\nwrites, \"I replied that, if any one wanted to see me, he could\n\n\"come and see me where I was, and that I did not recognise any\n\n\"authority in a British Port on the part of United States\n\n\"Officials.",
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        "content_text": "# Sub-enclosure to III.\n\n**C.O. 12478 RECO**\n\n(REG: 28 APR 10 530)\n\n## Hon. Colonial Secretary,\n\n2. I have discussed this matter with Lieutenant Butterworth, and we have come to the following conclusions:- \nFlags F and J should not be used as local call flags. I have made the necessary arrangements to give effect to this at this port.\n\n3. Beyond this, no further alteration seems necessary, as the Code Pendant under a single flag has no signification in the International Code, or in the British Signal Manual.\n\n4. As to the specific case quoted by Mr. Ainslie as having occurred at Manila, when the urgent signal `FM` was hoisted, we do not think that any amount of regulation will guard against foolish mistakes of this description. It is obvious that there was not reasonable care exercised on board the ship hoisting the signal.\n\n3rd November, 1909.\n\n(Sd.) B. R. H. Taylor,  \n**Harbour Master**",
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        "content_text": "## CHINESE COMMUNITY'S RECOGNITION OF SIR FREDERICK LUGARD'S VIRTUOUS ADMINISTRATION\n\nThe Telegraph reports on Sir Frederick Lugard's coming departure and the Chinese community's recognition of his benevolent administration.\n\nMore than once have the stars and the frosts returned in their course since Your Excellency came to Hongkong: the benevolence and clemency of your virtuous administration is in the mouth of every passer-by in the streets. Your earnest attention has been devoted to everything that would promote the welfare of the people and the comfort of those who have gathered here from afar. More especially has every movement for the benefit of the Chinese received your heartiest support. Not once have your actions failed to call forth the public praise.\n\nThat Sir Frederick Lugard's successful administration of the government of Hongkong in the face of seemingly insuperable difficulties has been recognised by all sections of the community in this Colony is a well-established fact, which was further testified to by the pleasing function that took place at Government House this afternoon. We refer to the presentation of the address and honorific scroll to His Excellency by representatives of all classes of the Chinese community on the eve of the Governor's departure on six months' home leave on Saturday next. The Chinese deputation consisted of high-placed gentlemen of the merchant, compradore, and gentry classes, besides the Chinese unofficial members of the Legislative Council.\n\nThe deputation was received by the Governor in the first ball-room of Government House and was introduced by the Honourable Dr. Ho Kai, CMG, who was supported by his colleague in the Council, Hon. Mr. Wei Yuk, CMG. There were present at the ceremony: H.E. Sir Frederick Lugard, the Hon. Sir Henry May (Colonial Secretary), the Hon. Mr. W. Brewin (Registrar General), Capt. N. Sundson (private secretary), Capt. P. H. M. Taylor (aide-de-camp), Messrs. Lau Chu-pak, Ng Hoa-tsai, Ho Fook, He Kom Tong, Wong Leung-him, Young Him-ping, Wong Kum-fuk, S. W. Tso, Sia Tak-fan, Fong Wa-can, Cheung Si-kai, Li Sai-kam, Lau Yu-nam, Tang Fui-chi, Yu To-shan, Chan Siu-lam, Li Yau-chun, Chau Siu-ki, Wo Wan-cho, Wo Tsai-yong, Lo Kon-ting, Siu Yam-fai, Sam Pak-ming, Li Wing-kwong, Chau Wan-sau, Mok Man-cheung, Tam Hok-pui, Leung Kin-nam, Chan Kang-yi, Lau Pun-chiu, Chia Yee-ting, Chau Pak-yee, Wo Tsa-wan, Yio Kion, Li Po-kwai, Chan Chuk-hing, Tsang Yik-kai, Chan Lok-chun, and He Mok-tuk.\n\nDr. Ho Kai then presented the address to His Excellency amid loud applause. His Excellency, having thanked the gathering for their presentation, said that it gave him the very greatest pleasure to be presented with their most beautiful address and he felt sure it would give the very greatest pleasure to Lady Lugard to hear of their kind sentiments. It was usual for such presentations to be made when a Governor severed his connection with the Colony finally. Fortunately, in his case, he was leaving for a short time only and hoped he would be back in November and once again see all his friends who were gathered around him that day.\n\nDr. Ho Kai had alluded in the address to various matters with which he had identified himself, but more especially to sanitary matters. It had always been his endeavour to invite them to support the Government to teach the people what was best for their welfare and how it could be best carried out so as to afford the least inconvenience to the people. They had come forward in answer to his appeal in a manner which afforded him encouragement and at the same time excited his admiration. In this co-operation, they had been assisted by the Registrar-General, who commanded the complete confidence of the Chinese community.\n\nAfter the formal introduction, Dr. Ho Kai, addressing the Governor, said that on behalf of the leading members and representatives of the Chinese community, he had the honour of presenting His Excellency with an address embroidered on silk. He asked His Excellency to be gracious enough to accept their gift as a small token of the esteem in which His Excellency was held by the Chinese community. It was their intention to present His Excellency with the address shortly after the laying of the foundation stone of the Hongkong University, but time did not permit of their doing so, and they wished to present him with an address worthy of his dignity.\n\nHis Excellency said it was three years since he arrived in the Colony, and during that comparatively short period, the Colony had gained much by his wise administration. He had seen them through the most trying times and placed them once again on the high road to prosperity and success. Although they were just emerging from a long commercial depression, His Excellency had succeeded by his broad-mindedness and energy in founding the Hongkong University. The vast benefit which would be conferred on the Colony as a whole, but more especially on the Chinese, by the University were incalculable. For that, they thanked him most cordially and hoped that generations to come would thank him as cordially.\n\nThey hoped that when he got back to England, he would try and obtain further donations which were urgently required for the University. When he met Lady Lugard, they hoped he would convey to Her Ladyship their affectionate respects and tell her how rejoiced they were to hear of Her Ladyship's complete recovery from her recent illness, and hoped they would have the pleasure of welcoming her back in the following winter.\n\n## THE ADDRESS\n\nDr. Ho Kai then read the address, of which the following is a translation: On a lucky day in April of the year 1910, on the occasion of Your Excellency's returning to your ancestral home on a holiday of six months, we Chinese representatives of all classes of the community take the opportunity of your departure to present you with a respectful address in token of our esteem.\n\nSince Your Excellency came to give peace to this state, all the business of administration has been carried on by you with success, but you have regarded the development of education and the encouragement of talent as your most important duty, and all your energies and faculties have been devoted to the establishment of a University. Now the foundation stone has been duly laid, and the magnificent project is on the way to realization. We feel confident that in the future, the result of the education given in the University will fulfil all expectations.\n\nYour Excellency's kindness will remain a lasting and grateful memory in the hearts of the Chinese. On your departure, therefore, we beg to present you with this address and unite in a prayer that your journey will be made under a lucky star, that you may reach your country in safety and prosper in everything you undertake, and that you may spend your holiday in happiness in the society of Her Excellency Lady Lugard. Convey our respects to her. We trust that you will remember this Colony in your heart and return soon, that we may look again upon the dignity of your countenance and hearken to the grace of your commands. This is our earnest prayer.\n\nDated Hongkong, the 28th day of April, 1910.\n\n[Here follow Signatures.]\n\nThe address in Chinese translation was embroidered on Chinese silk. The honorific scroll was suspended on an ivory ruler with another at the other end of the same material. The scroll was enclosed in an artistically carved case of Chinese design and make, the case being made of red sandalwood. In the centre of the cover was Sir Frederick's monogram in silver, and on each side of the monogram are two Chinese ideographs, which, rendered freely, read: \"Benevolent Government of Hongkong.\" The handles of the beautiful case were also of silver.\n\nAfter the presentation, tea and other refreshments were served. Soon after, the deputation withdrew.",
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        "content_text": "Sutherland was being taken into the boat Mr. Edward Wild, second officer of the S.S. \"Lydia\" who had just come on board the \"Hulchow\" by the second boat, divested himself of his clothes and plunged into the sea. With splendid pluck and determination, he towed the buoy and line until almost 35 fathoms from the ship, (several attempts to recover it, but without success and was compelled with his remaining strength to swim for the boat. He reached it only just in time, thoroughly exhausted, and was with difficulty hauled on board. Both attempts were made with admirable pluck and determination and both lives were for some time in most imminent peril. The \"Huichow\" was under weigh as soon as possible and after some manoeuvring in the heavy sea running, finally picked up the boat's crew about three miles South of the original position. All the crew were saved and brought on to Hongkong.\n\nI have brought these particulars to your notice hoping that you will be pleased to lay them before those authorities, who are ever ready to recognise such acts of undoubted bravery. All the circumstances herein detailed were witnessed by the Gentlemen whose signatures are affixed below.\n\nWitness to the signature of Edward Forsyth,\n\n(sd.) G. T. Edkins,\n\nI have etc.,\n\n(Sd.) Edward Forsyth,\n\nMaster.\n\nJustice of the Peace.\n\nThe Hon. Basil Taylor, Comr., R.N.,\n\nHarbour Master,\n\nHongkong.\n\nI William Rassau master of the German S.S. \"Lydia\" hereby certify that the within signed statement by Captain Edward Forsyth is true in every respect and in accordance with the facts as seen by me.\n\nWitness...",
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        "content_text": "Question must be answered as definitely decided and adjusted.\n\nA proposal to address to Morley further on this subject. I said Loures he agreed to have whether, as suggested in the I.O. letter, the price of Malwa opium has risen in Hong Kong equally with that of Bengal opium.\n\nThey said that I am still in correspondence with the L.C. on the questions.\n\n(For two years a grant from the penal funds was made to the rescue of St. Kong).\n\nIndia Office, 1910\n\n207238/11\n\nReceived 7 JUL 10\n\nPension contribution of Rs. by Govt. as per arguments of last previous Paper.\n\nAnswered 14 July\n\n22467/90\n\nIt is hoped measures will be found to decrease the liability. To prevent further complications Capt. Taylor should be communicated with in some indicated form for Collins.\n\nAck. & report that the must at here to be specific as he has previously expressed.\n\nSince it is impossible that H.K. & P. has benefited for Clan designs, no part that Capt. TS. is of the Indian Army & it is free, it would be useless to pay to come out and ite the Quartermaster, the charges to payment from Lupercal Fund, except is not serving.",
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        "content_text": "That they are unit that the Conditions report in previos letter are special funtiar are KH.K.. that whe apply geurally gloom Colonies\n\nAs regards & Fors cort para at Capt I is mar Englant 8 il mae comminant o Camin made direct На for 0.0. He addues is Aid abo that at hom M\n\nYo H.T. Kiy & Co 9 Pall Mall Sie 3. Luzard in Hans Mansims, Sloans St, SW. with the thy Sm. Dest woich to communicat An Alc 1177 Sw.)\n\nIt is requested that any further communication on this subject may be addressed to-\n\nThe Under Secretary of State for India, India Office, F.2450.\n\nSir, London, S. W. со 20723 412 IRCCO REGE 7 JUL 10\n\nIndia Office, S. W. July 1910.\n\nI am directed to acknowledge the receipt of Sir C.Lucas's letter of the 23rd May No. 13285/1910 regarding pension contributions in respect of Captain P.H.M. Taylor's service as Aide-de-Camp to the Governor of Hong Kong.\n\nThe Secretary of State for India in Council regrets that he cannot share the view there expressed that there was anything in the letter 13660 from your Department of 19th April 1907, applying for the services of Captain Taylor in this capacity, from which it should have been inferred by him that the case did not come under the ordinary arrangements for adjusting the pensionary liability in respect of Indian officers lent for Colonial Service.\n\nThe Under Secretary of State, Colonial Office.\n\nPage ...\n\n  // removed as not sure if there is a page number, if there is one, it should be indicated like `Page XX` with exact wording and format as original.\n\nChanges made:\n\n1. Reorganized the text into paragraphs.\n2. Removed extra spaces and corrected spacing issues.\n3. Corrected spelling errors (e.g., \"previas\" to \"previos\", \"geurally\" to \"generally\" was not done as per rule 7, \"gloom\" likely to \"Colonial\", \"funtiar\" likely to a term related to \"function\" or a specific historical term, but not changed as per rule 7).\n4. Removed or corrected words with non-English characters or nonsensical text (e.g., \"سیدا\", \"одящу\", \"انا الام الشمال\") as they appear to be OCR errors or unrelated text.\n5. Standardized formatting using HTML  tags.\n6. Removed any trailing or leading whitespace from file references (not present in this text).\n7. Preserved original text as much as possible, without rephrasing or rewriting, following the rules provided.",
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        "content_text": "# CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT\n\n## CORONATION CELEBRATIONS IN HONGKONG\n\n### IMPRESSIVE SCENES\n\nThe Bishop, addressing the congregation said :-- \n\nI. First the Archbishop of Canterbury, him, presents his Majesty to the people, that divers great Officers of State going along with they may recognise him, and acclaim him by their voices as their King. \n\nHongkong, the proud boast of whose citizens is that it yields to none in loyalty to the Throne, demonstrated this sentiment yesterday in a manner which was as thorough as it was striking. The uncertainty of the weather conditions interfered somewhat with the programme of celebrations and with the scheme of decorations and illuminations, but nevertheless the community entered into the spirit of the historic occasion and gave to the national event that veneration and respect which was due from all patriotic subjects of a great Empire. The day was a public holiday, so that practically everyone had an opportunity of viewing the various celebrations and enjoying the scenes of animation in the decorated streets. The children, as was befitting, were given reason for remembering the historic occasion. Not only were the scholars given medals and instructed in the Governor's address as to the meaning of the Coronation, but they had opportunities of viewing brilliant scenes on land and on sea the like of which will probably not be witnessed for some time. From morning till night the streets were thronged, and the volume of traffic was perhaps greater than has been experienced in Hongkong on any previous occasion. In these circumstances it is pleasant to relate that no mishap occurred to mar the proceedings of the day.\n\n## THE SERVICE AT ST. JOHN'S CATHEDRAL\n\nThe religious aspect of the Coronation was emphasised by the impressive service at St. John's Cathedral. The service was attended by a congregation which was thoroughly representative of the Colony, and as the accommodation was limited admission was by ticket. Shortly after ten o'clock ticket-holders began to take their places, and before eleven o'clock practically every seat was occupied. H.E. the Governor, accompanied by Captain Mitchell-Taylor, A.D.C., and Captain Simson, private secretary, was present, as were H.E. Major General Anderson, C.B., Commodore Eyres, R.N., and others in the nave including the members of the Executive and Legislative Councils, the Consuls and other representatives of Foreign Powers, Naval and Military Officers, members of the Coronation Celebrations Committee, and a number of Chinese residents. Upwards of seventy Freemasons in regalia were also present.\n\nDuring the assembling of the congregation Mr. Denham Faller played the following selections on the organ: Elgar's Imperial March, Wesley's Choral Song and Fugue, and Air and Variation by Smart. There was a large body of surpliced clergy, including some Chinese ministers, and as they proceeded up the aisle \"O God our help in ages past\" was sung as a processional hymn. The procession was constituted as follows: Rev. F.T. Lake, boys of the choir, gentlemen of the choir, Rev. C.H. Hickling, Rev. W.W. Rodgers, Rev. C.B. Shanu, Rev. A.B. Thornhill, Rev. C.E. Thompson, Rev. W.H. Hewett, Rev. C.N. McKenzie, Rev. S.W. Payne, Rev. W.H. Foster-Pegg, Rev. H.O. Spink, Rev. Fong Yut San, Rev. A.D. Stewart, Rev. F.T. Johnson, his Lordship the Bishop.\n\nII. Then after prayer to God, such as we ourselves have now made, the King takes a solemn Oath to govern his people according to the Laws and Customs of the Realm; to cause Law and Justice, in Mercy, to be executed in all his judgments, and to protect the Church.\n\nIII. Thereupon after solemn prayer for the presence and blessing of God the Holy Ghost, the King is anointed with holy Oil upon his head, his breast, and his hands, in the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost; forasmuch as Kings, Priests, and Prophets of old were after this manner made and consecrated to teach and govern the people of Israel; and the Archbishop says over him this blessing: \n\n\"Our Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, who by his Father was anointed with the Oil of gladness above his fellows, by his holy Anointing pour down upon your Head and Heart the blessing of the Holy Ghost, and prosper the works of your Hands: that by the assistance of his Holy Spirit you may worthily rule the people committed to your charge in wealth, peace, and heavenly grace; and after a long and glorious course of ruling this temporal kingdom wisely, justly, and religiously, you may at last be made to partake of an eternal kingdom; through Jesus Christ our Lord.\"\n\n\"As you are this day solemnly invested in the government of this earthly kingdom, so may you be sealed with that Spirit of promise, which is the earnest of an heavenly inheritance, and reign with him who is the blessed and only Potentate, to whom be glory for ever and ever- Amen.\"\n\nIV. Then is His Majesty invested with the Ensigns of his kingly state. First he is clothed with royal vestments; and then he receives the Sword of Justice, brought from the Altar of God, and delivered to him by the hands of the Bishops; and when he is girded therewith, the Archbishop says: \n\nWith this Sword do justice, stop the growth of iniquity, protect the holy Church of God, help the weak, comfort the feeble, defend widows and orphans, restore things that are gone to decay, maintain what is restored, punish and reform what is amiss, and confirm what is in good order: so that by doing these things you may be glorious in righteousness, peace and charity, and abound in the love of God, and reign with Jesus Christ in this life, that you may reign with him in the life which is to come.\n\nNext he receives the Sceptre with the Cross, the ensign of kingly power and justice; and the Sceptre with the Dove, the rod of equity and mercy, with this injunction: \n\nBe so merciful that you be not too remiss; so execute justice that you forget not mercy. Punish the wicked, protect and cherish the just, and lead your people in the way wherein they should go.\n\nAnd then the Crown is brought from the Altar after prayer to God; and the Archbishop reverently puts it upon the King's head. And the people at the sight thereof with loud and repeated shouts cry, GOD SAVE THE KING. And after that, the Archbishop goes on and says: \n\n\"God crown you with a crown of glory and righteousness, that by the ministry of this our benediction, having a right faith and manifold fruit of good works, you may obtain the crown of an everlasting kingdom by the gift of Him whose kingdom endureth for ever. Amen.\" Last of all, the Holy Bible is brought from off the Altar, and delivered to the King by the Archbishop and Bishops with the words: \n\n\"Our gracious King: we present you with this Book, the most valuable thing that this world affords. Here is wisdom; this is the royal Law, these are the lively Oracles of God.\"\n\nV. The King having been thus anointed and crowned, and having received all the ensigns of royalty, the Archbishop solemnly blesses him, and with him all his people; and every part of the Benediction is followed with a loud and hearty Amen.\n\nVI. And after this the King goes to his Throne, and is placed therein, with the prayer that God will establish his Throne in righteousness, that it may stand fast for evermore; and the Bishops, the Princes, and the other Peers do their homage to his Majesty.\n\nVII. Then follows the solemn anointing and crowning of her Majesty the Queen; and after that, the King and Queen draw near to God's Holy Table to receive the Holy Communion, putting off their crowns before the Altar. The Te Deum is sung, as a hymn of praise to Almighty God, who hath shewn mercy to our Sovereign and his people, in thus setting him on the Throne of his ancestors.\n\nAt the end of this great and solemn service, Pray we, therefore, brethren, both now and in the days to come, that the same Lord God Almighty will by the continual assistance of his heavenly grace enable him to fulfil the high responsibility of his sacred trust.\n\nThe following special Prayer for the King and Queen was said:— \n\nO Lord our God, who upholdest and governest all things by the word of thy power: Receive our humble prayers for our Sovereign Lord King George; and as thou dost this day set a crown of pure gold upon his head, so let thy wisdom be his guide and thy strength be his arm; let truth and justice, holiness and ... in all virtue, and so faithfully serve our Lord Jesus Christ in this life, that you may reign with him in the life which is to come.\n\nThen the King, rising from the chair of his Coronation, ungirds his Sword, and going to the Altar, offers it there to God from Whom he has received it.\n\nAfter the chanting of Psalm 122 the proper lesson (I. S. Peter i 13-18) was read by the Rev. C.H. Hickling, Pastor of the Union Church. Then the Litany was intoned by the Rev. A.B. Thornhill and the choir. The Anthem was taken from Psalm xxvi. 3, 6 and 7. It was excellently rendered by the choir, the treble solo being taken by Master Martin.\n\nThen he receives the Ring, the ensign of the kingly dignity and of defence of the Catholic Faith; and the Archbishop says: \n\n\"Almighty God, the fountain of all goodness: Give ear, we beseech thee, to our prayers, and multiply thy blessings upon thy servant Mary, consecrated in the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, this day to be our Queen; defend her evermore from all dangers, ghostly and bodily, make her a great example of Virtue and piety, and a blessing to this kingdom; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee, O Father, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, world without end. Amen.\"\n\nThe Te Deum was sung, and the service ended by the congregation all joining in the singing of the National Anthem.",
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        "content_text": "## ROMAN CATHOLIC SERVICE\n\nSimultaneously with the service at St. John's Cathedral, a special service took place at the Roman Catholic Cathedral. The spacious building was filled with a devout congregation, and the proceedings were of a solemnity and impressiveness that affected all worshippers and helped them to realise the importance of the great event. Low Pontificial Mass was celebrated by his Lordship Bishop Pozzoui, assisted by Monsignor P. de Maria, Rev. L. Robert, and Rev. Father Noval, while the Rev. G. M. Spada and the Rev. A. Placzek were Masters of Ceremonies, the former acting for the clergy and the latter for the congregation. The order of service was as follows:\n\n* Coronation March, Rich Eilenberg, by members of the Sociedade Philharmonica, conducted by Prof. F. Gonzales.\n* Mass of the Day with collect for the Elected King.\n* During the Mass the following music was rendered:\n\t+ Veni Creator, German Core, by the Cathedral choir and friends.\n\t+ Andante Religioso, Francis Thome, by the Sociedade Philharmonica.\n\t+ Sanctus, Perosi, by the Cathedral choir.\n\t+ Largo e Mesto, Beethoven, by the Sociedade Philharmonica.\n* During the benediction of the Blessed Sacrament, the following hymns were sung:\n\t+ O Salutaris, Webb, by the Cathedral choir.\n\t+ Te Deum, Gregorian, by the choir and clergy.\n\t+ Tantum Ergo, G. Mercanti, by the Cathedral choir.\n\t+ Laudate Dominum, by the choir and friends.\n* The service closed with the singing of \"God save the King,\" by the choir, clergy, and congregation, accompanied by the band of the Sociedade Philharmonica.\n\n## THE JEWISH SERVICE\n\nAt the special service held in the Ohel Leah Synagogue, the following prayer was offered after the sermon and the opening of the Ark:\n\nAlmighty God and everlasting King! From the place of Thy habitation Thou lookest upon all the indwellers of the earth. By Thee kings reign and princes rule. Thou establishest their throne, and in Thy hand is their glory and their might.\n\nPrayer for the King and the Royal Family,\n\nMay He who giveth salvation unto kings and dominion unto princes, Whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, Who delivered His servant David from the hurtful sword, Who maketh a way in the sea and a path in the mighty waters - may He bless, protect and exalt our Sovereign Lord, King George, Our Gracious Queen Mary, Alexandra, the Queen Mother, Edward, Prince of Wales, and all the Royal Family.\n\nMay the Supreme King of Kings in His mercy preserve the King, guard him, and deliver him from all trouble, sorrow and hurt. May He make his enemies fall before him, and in whatsoever he undertaketh may he prosper. May the Supreme King of Kings in His mercy put a spirit of wisdom and understanding into his heart and into the hearts of all his counsellors, that they may uphold the peace of the realm, advance the welfare of the nation, and deal kindly and truly with all Israel. In his days and in ours may Judah be saved and Israel dwell securely; and may the Redeemer come unto Zion. O that this may be His will, and let us say, Amen.\n\nThe Ark was then closed.\n\n## THE PARSEE SERVICE\n\nAlmost all the members of the Parsee Community were present at their Club premises at the corner of Elgin and Shelley Streets at 4 p.m. in the afternoon for a religious service. A special prayer was recited by the Priest, the whole congregation remaining standing. The following is the translation of the prayer from Gujarati:\n\n1. Blessed be the name of Holy Abura-Mazda! Almighty Abur-Mazda, Holy, Heavenly, Pure; give ear, we beseech Thee, to the prayers of Thy Mazdayaçnian servants, and satisfy us with Thy Mercy.\n2. Receive our heartfelt thanks, O Almighty God, that Thou art pleased this day to set a peerless crown upon the head of our Gracious Sovereign, King Emperor George.\n3. Vouchsafe to him, Merciful Creator, Thy majesty. Thou hast set Thy servant, George, upon the throne of his fathers. Thou knowest his heart, that it has ever been his desire and happiness to seek the welfare of his people and to execute Thy laws in the land.\n\nBehold, the day hath come that we looked for; we have found, we have seen it, the day on which he has been anointed King, when the crown of sovereignty has been placed upon his head, the day when he lifted up his hand to heaven and took the oath, that he would rule over his people according to the Statutes of the realm, and cause Law and Justice in Mercy to be executed.\n\nTherefore we have come into Thy house, and worship toward Thy holy temple. Hearken unto the voice of our cry, our King and our God, for unto Thee do we pray. May it please Thee to bless our Sovereign Lord the King: O God, save the King! May the King live! May the King live for ever! May Thine arm strengthen him to bear the heavy yoke of governance.\n\nEven as Thou hast set a diadem of fine gold upon his head, so crown him with honour and glory, with mercy and loving-kindness. Anoint him with the oil of gladness. Vouchsafe unto him the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of knowledge and fear of Thee, so that all the nations that dwell beneath his sceptre, the sceptre of righteousness, may abide in peace and tranquillity.\n\nPour out the riches of Thy heavenly goodness upon Queen Mary, who standeth at the right hand of the King in gracious majesty. Verily on her tongue is the law of kindness. Her eyes are upon the poor and upon those that are bruised in spirit. Her heart goeth out to those that are stretched upon the bed of languishing. Give her the desire of her heart, and do not withhold the request of her lips. Bless the Queen Mother, Heir Apparent, and all the members of the Royal House.\n\nWithdraw not, we beseech Thee, Thy loving-kindness from this realm. Shield the indwellers thereof. Remove from them pestilence, sword, famine and sorrow. Spread the days when peace will flourish throughout the world, when the earth will be full of the knowledge of Thee, as the waters cover the sea.\n\nGrant unto our Sovereign Lord the King, the spirits of heavenly piety, as also Thy spirit of wisdom for his guide and Thy arm for his strength, so that in his godliness, and in his unfained spirit of wisdom and strength, Justice, Truth, Peace and Love may flourish in his days to promote the well-being, solidarity and unity of his various subjects of all classes and creeds.\n\n4. We pray unto Thee, O Merciful Mazda, to bestow upon our illustrious Sovereign splendour and glory, health, vigour and victoriousness of body, wealth which may bring all prosperity, a long line of descendants gifted with intelligence, a long life and the best, brilliant and glorious life of the Pious.\n\n5. We beseech Thee, O Bountiful Giver of all Good, to be favourable to our ruler, and to bestow of Thy bounty upon his head the full blessings of the annihilation of famine and pestilence wherever prevailing in his wide dominions, and to endow, in his vast Empire, the happiness and cheer of fruitful peace and gladsome plenty.\n\n6. We supplicate Thee, O Merciful Creator, to crown the fulness of his days with the fulness of Thy divine blessings, grace and love, and receive our humble prayers, O Almighty God, that those and all Thy other gifts may be long continued, and crown him with immortality in the life to come.\n\n7. Listen, we pray Thee, to this earnest invocation of Thy servants of the Zoroastrian faith in Hongkong, and grant us our wishes.\n\n8. Merciful and Gracious Abura-Mazda, we again beseech Thee to give ear to our prayers and to extend Thy divine blessings, favour and love, out of Thy bounteous grace, upon our Gracious Queen Mary.\n\n[June 22, 1911]\n\n## THE PUBLIC MEETING\n\nThe public meeting to endorse the telegraphic addresses to be sent to Their Majesties took place in the City Hall shortly after noon. As was to be expected, the building was taxed to its utmost, all sections of the community being represented in the large gathering. Among those present were the American Delegates from Manila, who were accompanied by Captain Agg, K.O.Y.L.I. Sir Francis Piggott, Chairman of the Coronation Committee, on the entrance of His Excellency, proposed that the Governor preside over the meeting.\n\nHis Excellency then said: - Ladies and gentlemen, - To-day in both hemispheres, in every part of the world, and in every sea where the British flag flies, the subjects of our King are uniting to do homage and to wish him prosperity in his Coronation. They testify their loyalty and reverently and earnestly express their hopes that his reign may be long, prosperous and peaceful. To-day the Crown of his ancestors - that Crown which is the symbol of unity of the Empire - will be placed upon his head in the historic hall where a long line of British kings have been crowned, with all the pomp and circumstance of the old-time ritual. We in Hongkong do not come second to any British community in our loyalty to our King and the Throne. (Applause) We are celebrating to-day this historic event with rejoicing and with prayer. We desire to transmit to His Majesty our expressions, our heart-felt good wishes and congratulations, and our desires for his long and prosperous reign. I have, therefore, asked you to meet here in the City Hall to-day that you may hear the telegrams and addresses, and may approve them which it is proposed to send.\n\nThe Executive and Legislative Councils, in joint session with the Judges, send the following telegram:\n\nThe Executive and Legislative Councils of Hongkong, and the Judges of Hongkong, on behalf of Your Majesty's subjects in the Colony, beg most humbly to offer their loyal and respectful congratulations to You on the Occasion of the Coronation of Your Majesty as King and Emperor, and of Her Majesty Queen Mary. We pray that the event which is celebrated to-day may inaugurate a long and glorious reign for Your Majesties and an era of happiness, prosperity and honourable peace for Your Majesty's Kingdom and Empire.\n\nThe Coronation Committee, on behalf of the community, and on behalf of every race and nationality, has submitted the following telegram:\n\nHis Majesty's subjects in Hongkong present their loyal homage to the King, and the people of other nationalities within the borders of the Colony join with them in offering respectful congratulations to Their Majesties and in wishing them a long and happy reign.\n\nThe Chinese community propose to lay before the King at his Coronation at Delhi, which I hope to attend, a beautifully embroidered scroll expressing their loyalty and good wishes. The translation will be read to you presently by Mr. Chan Kai Ming.\n\nI may add that I received this morning by mail intimation from the Secretary of State that it was the intention of the King to present to this Colony portraits of himself and the Queen. (Applause)\n\nHis Excellency then asked the gathering to express their approval by holding up their hands. There was a full show of hands.\n\nMr. Ng Hon Tsz then read the Chinese address in the vernacular, and Mr. Chan Kai Ming read the translation in English as follows:\n\nTO HIS MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY GEORGE THE FIFTH\n\nBy the Grace of God, King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British Dominions beyond the Seas, Defender of the Faith, Emperor of India, Supreme Lord in and over the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies.\n\nAll the Chinese subjects and Chinese residents in Hongkong with uplifted hands and bowed heads dutifully present this address.\n\nBoth speakers were warmly applauded. Hon. Dr. Ho Kai asked His Excellency to present the embroidered copy of the address bound in red morocco to H. M. The King.\n\nOn the call of His Excellency three hearty cheers were given for the King, and the meeting dispersed.\n\n## ADDRESS FROM THE FREEMASONS\n\nThe Masonic bodies in Hongkong are sending the following address:\n\nTo HIS MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY KING GEORGE V - By the Grace of God, King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British Dominions beyond the Seas, Defender of the Faith, Emperor of India.\n\nThe Order of Freemasonry was cradled in that divine Faith whereof Your Majesty is the Defender, and is founded on the purest principles of piety and virtue. It teaches those heavenly principles of our duty to God, our duty to our neighbour, and our duty to ourselves, and reminds us of the constant need in our daily life of the practice of those truly kingly attributes Benevolence and Charity.\n\nThe Freemasons of this remote District rejoice greatly therefore that Your Majesty has been graciously pleased to become the Grand Patron of our Charities, and that Her Majesty the Queen has consented to be their Grand Patroness.\n\nLoyalty, Fidelity and Obedience have ever been among the watchwords of our Orders, and Your Majesty has no more devoted subjects than those who range under our banners.\n\nMay the Great Architect of the Universe grant, in His infinite wisdom, that Your Majesty's life may exceed the span of man's allotted term and that Your reign may be blessed with every Happiness for Your Majesty, for our beloved Queen Mary and for the members of Your Royal Family, and with Peace, Joy and Prosperity for Your Majesty's loyal subjects in all lands.\n\n## THE ROYAL SALUTE\n\nAt noon the warships in the harbour, both British and foreign, and the shore batteries, joined in a royal salute.\n\n## THE CORONATION PARADE\n\nOwing to the unsettled state of the weather, the review which was fixed to take place at 8 a.m. yesterday was postponed until the afternoon. The postponement proved propitious, for the rain held off and the parade was participated in and watched under pleasant weather conditions. A cloudy sky obscured the sun's rays and minimised the heat. An exceptionally large crowd surrounded the race course, and the quantity of bunting displayed gave the Valley the holiday appearance which it wears during race week. The troops were massed in the enclosure, and as they went through their preliminary evolutions presented an imposing appearance.\n\nAt four o'clock His Excellency the Governor arrived, and a royal salute was fired by the guns of two batteries, one stationed at the north, and one at the south end of the enclosure. His Excellency, accompanied by Major-General Anderson, Colonel St. John, Major Tulloch, Captain Grotton, Commodore Eyres, Captain Taylor, Captain Simson and an Indian A.D.C., inspected the troops and then returned to the saluting base. Preparations were made for the march past, and when all was in readiness the order was given, and to the strains of \"Sons of the Sea\" and regimental airs the naval brigade and the different regiments marched past in column.\n\n| Unit | Strength |\n| --- | --- |\n| Royal Marines | 513 |\n| Royal Navy | 176 |\n| Royal Garrison Artillery | 407 |\n| H.K.S.B., B.G.A. | 209 |\n| Royal Engineers | 175 |\n| K.Y.L.I. | 422 |\n| 8th Rajputs | 708 |\n| 126th Baluchis | 713 |\n| Total | 3,468 |\n\nAfter the march past the European troops were formed into a hollow square around the saluting base, with the K.O.Y.L.I. band near the flagstaff. His Excellency read the messages of congratulation and loyalty which were forwarded to the King, and then the troops raised three hearty cheers to His Majesty which reverberated among the hills.\n\nAn impressive drum head service followed. To the music of the K.O.Y.L.I. band the troops and the spectators joined in the hymn, \"O God, our help in ages past.\" Lessons were read and prayers offered by naval and military chaplains, and the service closed with the singing of the first verse of the National Anthem, in which thousands of voices joined.\n\nThe Indian regiments then gave three lusty cheers for the King, after which the troops, four deep, marched through the city to barracks.\n\n## ENTERTAINING THE CHILDREN\n\nThe school children were entertained in their various schools yesterday morning. The address of H.E. the Governor, in which he appropriately referred to the lessons of the Coronation, was read, and the medals were distributed to the children, after which they were treated to refreshments, etc.\n\n## THE DECORATIONS\n\nThe decorations were on a most extensive scale. In the harbour practically every vessel was beflagged from stem to stern, and foreign merchantmen joined with British in making a display of bunting. The Monmouth, Astræa, Flora and Tamar had a profusion of bunting, and the visiting American and Japanese gunboats contributed to the colour scheme on the water.\n\nAshore the principal decorations were on the water front, in Queen's Road, and at the various barracks. In the city the centre of attraction was Statue Square. Here various coloured standards had been erected, and from these were suspended festoons of greenery, each standard also bearing a green circle of foliage. Bannerettes also fluttered in the breeze. The buildings facing the harbour were embellished with the national colours, Japanese lanterns, etc., while practically every office showed a flag. As usual the Chinese made a brave display, and the quaint arches erected in various parts of the city were very striking indeed.\n\n## ILLUMINATIONS\n\nThe buildings on the water front and in Queen's Road were covered with lanterns which showed up very effectively. York Buildings had a beautiful frontage of red lamps, and the buildings along the Praya had their illuminations which added to the general effect. On Kowloon side the illuminated arch was very conspicuous, but the most picturesque sight was presented by the warships which were outlined with lights, the American ship _Ralston_ introducing a striking contrast with red lamps. The _Fatshan_ was hung with lamps, and smaller craft had their illuminations also. The grand scheme of illumination will not be seen until to-night.\n\nChinese fireworks were set off from the Parade Ground and in front of the Hongkong Club, and Japanese fireworks from the Public Gardens. The pyrotechnic display appealed to all sections of the community and was greatly appreciated.",
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        "content_text": "1 \n\n8. \n\nA clerk was dismissed from the staff of the British Section \nof the Kowloon Canton Railway with effect from the 1st day, \n1919 in connection with a shortage of $2,768.11 in the Railway \ncash. The whole shortage was recovered from the sureties and \nMr d'Almada e Castro was prosecuted; but the charge was afterwards \nwithdrawn, as the Attorney General advised that there was \nno possibility of proving a criminal charge: (`Conf. O.S. 2596/10`). \n\n124 \n\nCommander Taylor, therefore, appears to have been \nfortunate in losing the doubtful benefit of Mr d'Almada e Castro's \nservices. \n\n\n## \n\nIn paragraph 5 Commander Taylor also mentions Mr Cordeiro as \nanother efficient Portuguese clerk who was removed from his department. \nI find that Mr Cordeiro was transferred to be 3rd clerk \nin the Colonial Secretary's Office with effect from the 1st April, \n1901. He died on the 14th August, 1901. Therefore had he \nremained in the Harbour Department, Commander Taylor would not \nlong have enjoyed the benefit of his services. \n\nIn paragraph 6 Commander Taylor refers to the case of Mr \nAlves who was charged before Executive Council with culpable \nnegligence in the examination of Chinese emigrants. \nThe charges \nagainst Mr Alves were the result of inquiries made by Chief Detective \nInspector Hanson and by Mr Lesser (Acting Registrar General): \nthey were as follows:- \n\n| Charge | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| (a) | neglecting to satisfy himself that the Chinese emigrants per S.S. \"Lai Shang\" which sailed on the 13th October, 1903 had in fact been duly lodged in the Chung Pat Boarding House as alleged by the Keeper of that Boarding House; |\n| (b) | neglecting to satisfy himself that the Chinese emigrants per S.S. \"Kai Shing\" which sailed on the 28th October, 1903 had in fact been duly lodged in the Tai Wo Boarding House as alleged by the Keeper of the said Boarding House; |\n| (c) | neglecting to make adequate inquiry as to whether the emigrants alleged to have come from the said Boarding Houses, were or were not contract labourers. |\n\nCommander Taylor personally assumed responsibility for the acts \nleading to those charges (`C.S.O. 6485/03`). The Executive Council \nadvised on 9th December, 1903 that there was not such a case against...",
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        "content_text": "## \ncom cafe by \n\nT \n\n11. \n\nreport whether or not he was performing it satisfactorily \n\n133 \n\nand was competent to perform it. Messrs Thomson and Messer reported jointly on 13th January 1910 as follows: - \"We examined the accounts of the Mercantile Marine Office on the 12th instant, and found no evidence of incompetency on the part of Mr Craig. The book-keeping required is very primitive and he has been instructed to come to the Treasury with a view to learning a simple system of accounting. There was apparently no one in the department able to inform him as to how the accounts should be kept and it is not to be expected that he should have evolved a system of his own accord. We, therefore, recommend that no action be taken in regard to Mr Craig until he has had long experience in the Department. No trained accountant is required as the work is very simple and actually should not take more than an hour a day at the most to perform\". Subsequently on 5th August, 1910 Mr Messer, Acting Colonial Treasurer, and Mr Brayn, Acting Local Auditor, reported jointly as to Mr Craig: - \"He appears now to know how to do the small accounts that he has to keep. We are of opinion that he is competent to perform the accounting work assigned to him”. In the meantime Commander Taylor had re-iterated on 25th July 1910 his opinion that Mr Craig was \"strictly honest and well-meaning\". Accordingly Sir F.H. May in a despatch dated the 10th August 1910 recommended that Mr Craig should be confirmed in the appointment of 2nd clerk in the Mercantile Marine Office; and Lord Crewe approved this recommendation in a despatch dated 22nd September, 1910 (`v.5.0. 6917/09`). Commander Beckwith informs me that he has no fault to find with the manner in which Mr Craig is discharging his duties. \n\n10. \n\n13. \n\nIn the meantime Mr Britto, a Portuguese, who was 5th clerk in the Harbour Department, fell under suspicion of malpractices in January 1908. His duty was to collect light dues before issuing a clearance for a ship; the mode of collection then was to fill up a receipt in a special book with counterfoils and audit numbers and either to receive the amount in cash from the officer",
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        "content_text": "## \n19.\n\n139 was suspected of corrupt practices, failed to return to duty in September 1906 because he knew he was being watched. A banishment warrant was issued against him on the 20th September 1906 by the advice of **Executive Council** and a notice of his dismissal and banishment for corrupt practices was published in the **Gazette**. (`Conf. O.S. 7084/06`)\n\n(g) Early in September 1906, an anonymous petition purporting to come from certain Traders and Ship Owners of Hongkong was received by Government making charges against Fan Tsung-hing (vide para 30 infra), a Chinese writer in the Harbour Office. It was stated that he \"had the audacity to guarantee the success of the coxswains in their examinations, receiving from each of them $22.50 for his service: that he levied squeeze from owners of ferry launches in connection with their monthly certificates: and that he received bribes in connection with the smuggling of arms and explosives.\" The matter was placed in the hands of the Police who, however, failed to get evidence against Fan Tsung-hing.\n\n(h) On the 4th March 1909, Commander Taylor reported that Leung Kit-shing, clerk in the Marine Surveyor's office, had absented himself from duty without leave since the 1st idem. Inquiry proved that Leung was greatly in debt and not being able to get the money to pay his debts had absconded (`O.O.O. 1564/09`).\n\n(i) Sin Sik-kuan, Interpreter at the Hunghom Harbour Station, was reported by Captain Barnes Lawronce on 20th November, 1905, to have done his work unsatisfactorily and on the 18th idem, he had been charged with embezzlement of 25 cents, the case being remanded on bail. On the 22nd idem, Captain Barnes Lawrence reported that Sin Sik-kuan had absconded (`O.S.O. in 5955/05`).\n\n(j) On the 22nd October 1910, the Harbour Office Shroff Wong Hau-nam absconded with $3,839.36: and the present correspondence is the result of that occurrence.\n\n(k) When, on the death of Teang Shiu-kau, applicants were called for by circular to fill the vacancy, it was at once apparent how popular was the post of Shroff in the Harbour Department. The salary of the post was only $240 rising to $420 by $20 annually.",
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        "content_text": "## \n\n147\n\n27. I received a written order not to sign bills beforehand a few days after the shroff had absconded.\n\nIn view of these replies, I am at a loss to explain Commander Taylor's statement that his orders were admittedly received verbally by the clerks concerned.\n\n29. Commander Taylor says (para 18) that the circular \"was exhibited in the Entry and Clearance Office, where the persons to whom it was addressed (the shipowners and agents) do not as a rule come\". *The circulars in question are O.C.O. circulars of 14th December 1909 and a Treasury circular of the 18th idem. The former circular is now General Order 65 and the latter General Order 64. I fail to see what object there could be in posting either circular in the Entry and Clearance Office. The circulars are not addressed to shipowners and agents but to Collectors of Government Revenue. I may add that, even if this were not so, I do not understand the object of posting circulars in places where the persons to whom they are addressed do not as a rule come.\n\n30. With regard to Messrs Tenfesty, Chan Fui, Fan Tsung-hing, and Chan Pui-sam (paras 19-21), the following action was taken. A committee of Executive Council consisting of Mr. Rees Davies (Chairman), Mr. Messer (Acting Colonial Treasurer), and Mr. Hewett was appointed to inquire into the charges brought against Messrs Fan Tsung-hing and Chan Pui-sam. The Committee, after taking evidence, reported on the 27th January 1911: \"In view of the evidence, we are of opinion that no Court of Justice would find the charge proved.... We are unable to report that the charge is proved\".\n\nIn forwarding this report to the Secretary of State on the 7th February 1911, Sir F.D. Lugard added that, in view of the Committee's report, he did not propose to proceed with the charges against Messrs Chan Pui and Lenfesty. Mr. Harcourt, in his despatch of the 6th April 1911, noted this decision without comment.",
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        "content_text": "**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\nSir,\n\nDuplicating  \n155  \nCO  \n31502  \nこの  \nkor 28 T  \n\n**GOVERNMENT HOUSE, HONGKONG.** 26th August, 1911.\n\nThe Chairman of the Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce has addressed to the Colonial Secretary a letter with the request that I will lay it before you and I accordingly have the honour to enclose it.\n\n2. I feel myself not a little embarrassed in regard to the nature of the advice or recommendations, which I should submit in forwarding this unexpected communication. The duties of the Harbour Master of this Port are of course technical and largely disconnected from the remainder of the Civil Service and the every day routine work of the Department does not come much under the personal scrutiny of the Governor. Four branches of Commander B. R. H. Taylor's work have, however, been under my especial notice. (a) The General Supervision of his Office Establishment involving the precautions taken to check the tendency of Chinese Subordinates to secure personal profits  \n\nThe Right Honourable  \n**LEWIS HARCOURT, M.P.**  \n...by",
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        "content_text": "# companies who have come in contact with him in his official capacity.\n\nThese disputes have not infrequently led to protests being made, not only to the Government of Hongkong direct, but also to the Chamber of Commerce who have repeatedly been appealed to, to assist Merchants in representing their cases to the higher authorities.\n\nA reference to the annual reports of the Chamber of Commerce for the last 10 years, and to the annual address made by the Chairman will fully confirm this.\n\nI am prepared to quote specific cases if necessary.\n\nIn writing as I do, I am supported not only by the whole of the Committee of the Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce, among whom are representatives of most of the leading Shipping Companies trading with the Colony, but also by the unanimous decision of all the British Shipping Companies of Hongkong.\n\nAs this is a matter concerning a British Official, I have not consulted any of the representatives of the numerous shipping companies flying flags other than that of Great Britain, but it is perfectly well known, as indeed a reference to our records will show, that many of the leading Companies of other nationalities, including foreign subsidised mail lines, have also experienced difficulty in carrying on their work in the Colony through the manner in which Mr. Taylor has used his authority.\n\nI have therefore been requested to lay this matter before His Excellency and to record our most emphatic protest against Mr. Basil Taylor's return to Hongkong; and would now ask that this letter be forwarded to the Right Honourable the Secretary of State for the Colonies as we believe the continuance of the Harbour Master in his present position would in the future, as it has undoubtedly in the past, gravely militate",
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        "content_text": "# CONFIDENTIAL\n## No. 1.\n\n### SECTION 25\n\nQuestion asked in the House of Commons, March 28, 1911.\n\nMr. Theodore Taylor,- To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if he will state the date upon which the International Conference upon Opium and Dangerous Drugs is to meet at the Hague, and which are the Powers to be represented there.\n\n### Answer\n\nThe 1st July has been suggested as the date for the meeting of the conference at the Hague, but no definite decision has yet been come to regarding it. The countries invited to attend are those which took part in the International Opium Conference which sat at Shanghai in the spring of 1909. They are: The United States, China, France, Germany, Great Britain, Japan, the Netherlands, Portugal, Russia, Austria-Hungary, Italy, Siam, and Persia.\n\nPage 71\nPage 13345 [March 28.]",
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        "content_text": "[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\n6.0.\n\n**OPIUM.**\n\n10008 RECD & Reef 16 JUN II\n\n[May 10.]\n\n**CONFIDENTIAL.**\n\n## SECTION 2.\n\n[17897]\n\n### No. 1.\n\nExtract from the \"Times\" of May 10, 1911.\n\n## THE OPIUM TRAFFIC.\n\nMr. T. Taylor asked the Under-Secretary for India whether he could state the result of the negotiations with China regarding the termination of the Indo-Chinese opium traffic, and whether the new agreement permitted China to exclude Indian opium as soon as she could show that her own small remaining production had entirely stopped. He further asked for information about the opium now in bond at Hong Kong and treaty ports.\n\nMr. Montagu. The treaty was signed with China yesterday, and the summary of that treaty which appears in the \"Times\" of this morning may be taken as correct. The answer to the second question is in the affirmative. Roughly speaking, I believe the amount of uncertificated opium now in the treaty ports and Hong Kong is about 21,000 chests. On the assumption that that figure is correct, the Indian exports of opium to China during the year 1912 will be 18,500 chests, as against 25,500 chests which they would have been if this stock had not been taken into account.\n\nMr. Keir Hardie asked what provision had been made to make up the loss to revenues of India.\n\nMr. T. Taylor asked whether the Indian Government had not already received as much money as they expected during the whole nine or ten year period owing to the great reduction in the quantity of opium produced in China.\n\nAnother Ministerial Member asked whether any contribution was to be made from the Imperial Exchequer towards the burden proposed to be put on the Indian taxpayer under the treaty.\n\nMr. Montagu. The result of the reduction in the output of opium has been to inflate the prices received for opium. During the next seven years the revenue received by India from the export of opium to China may entirely disappear—a revenue of over 3,000,000£. It is rather premature to consider the question of a contribution from the Imperial Exchequer until it is seen what China does under the new agreement. It is interesting to know that the suggestion is made by a representative of the British taxpayer.\n\nMr. MacNeill. How does it come to pass that this China Opium Agreement, which is a matter of very great importance (Hear, hear)—has been ratified absolutely behind the back of the House of Commons altogether, and that this House now learns of it for the first time? (Opposition cheers.)\n\nMr. Montagu. The method of concluding treaties with foreign countries is well known to the hon. Member, and if he has any objection to it he must address his objection to my right hon. friend the Secretary for Foreign Affairs.\n\nMr. MacNeill. I have asked him often. (Laughter.)\n\nColonel Yate. Is it the fact that by the agreement India will be robbed of 3,000,000£ of revenue, so that the revenues of Persia may be increased?\n\nMr. Montagu. The Government of India have decided, so soon as may be, to stop the sale of opium to China. (Ministerial cheers.) I have received no intimation of the unwillingness of the Indian cultivator and taxpayer to bear his part in this meritorious policy.\n\nColonel Yate. How much revenue will be lost to India, and will it accrue to Persia by this policy?\n\nMr. Montagu. If the hon. Member will study the terms of the agreement when they are available, he will see that precautions have been taken that no other supply of opium shall reach China in opposition to the supply from India. (Hear, hear.)\n\n[2011 -2] \n550",
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        "content_text": "P.S.-I intend sending you from home an advance copy of a mémoire on the opium question by my friend M. le Pasteur Paumier, prepared in view of The Hague Conference.\n\nSir,\n\nEnclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\nJ. G. A.\n\nSociety for the Suppression of the Opium Trade to the \"Yorkshire Post”\n\n181, Queen Victoria Street, London, October 4, 1911.\n\nON my return from attending a conference on the continent I have read the Shanghai telegram on the subject of the suppression of opium traffic in China, published in issue of the 27th September. I note that the Indian opium merchants in China are asking, in their own interests, for the immediate stoppage of the Bengal sales. This is a demand which our society can heartily support, as it would put an end at once to the direct connection between the British Government of India and the opium traffic with China.\n\nThe other proposal put forward by the opium merchants, however, can only meet with our most determined opposition. They wish, it seems, that the prohibition of the entry of Indian opium should not be extended to any more Chinese provinces until \"a more strict observance of the last agreement\" on the part of China has taken place. This may sound plausible, but is in fact a mere pretext for delay. Let me briefly state the facts :-\n\nOn the 8th May we signed an agreement with the Chinese Government providing (clause 3) that \"Indian opium shall not be conveyed into any province in China which can establish by clear evidence that it has effectively suppressed the cultivation and import of native opium.\" China, on her part, undertook in the meantime (clause 7) to withdraw \"all restrictions placed by the provincial authorities on the wholesale trade in Indian opium,\" but this stipulation was not to \"derogate in any manner from the force of the laws already published or hereafter to be published by the Chinese Government to suppress the smoking of opium and to regulate the retail trade in the drug in general.\"\n\nWhen the Chinese Government claimed to exclude Indian opium from Szechuan, Shansi, and Manchuria, on the ground that opium production has ceased in those provinces, the British Minister at Peking replied that in Canton province additional taxation was in force contrary to article 7. This taxation was consequently withdrawn, and China's request was thereupon conceded. Objection was also taken in the first instance that in Fukien province regulations contrary to article 7 were in force, but this objection appears to have been dropped. A translation of the regulations in question has been sent to me by Bishop Price, of the Church Missionary Society in Fukien, and they contain nothing to which the Indian opium merchants could be entitled to object. Yet it is now proposed that the British Government should withdraw from its pledges, and refuse to free further provinces of China from the curse of imported opium, simply in order to give these merchants a chance of disposing of their accumulated stock.\n\nWe may surely trust that our representatives in China and their superiors in the Foreign Office at home will repel such a monstrous claim. In China enormous sacrifices are being made by both Government and people in the effort to stamp out a national vice. Four or five years ago, when the opium dens were all closed on one day in the native city of Shanghai, a noble Chinese official provided out of his own pocket a large sum to enable their owners to set up in honest business. No such assistance is needed, much less is it deserved, by the opium millionaires of Hong Kong and Shanghai, who have already made large fortunes out of China's vice and misery and the dishonour of the British Empire.\n\nAs Mr. Theodore Taylor, M.P., recently wrote to the Times, \"respecting their claim to go on selling Turkish and Persian opium: \"It is well that the attention of the British public should be drawn to the kind of thing in support of which these gentry ask power and prestige of the British good name.'\n\nYours, &c.\n\nJOSEPH G. ALEXANDER, Hon. Secretary.\n\n(Private.)\n\n3\n\nEnclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\nDr. Maxwell to Dr. Richter.\n\nDear Sir,\n\nON behalf of the representative board of anti-opium societies, I am desired to lay before you the following considerations with regard to the international conference on the opium question proposed to be held at The Hague. We hope that the Ausschuss der deutschen evangelischen Missionen, of which we believe you are a member, may see its way to exercise its influence with the German Government in support of the proposed conference. A copy of this letter is being sent to Mr. Oldham, secretary of the continuation committee of the Edinburgh Missionary Conference.\n\nAs you may remember, an international commission on the opium question met at Shanghai in February 1909 at the instance of the United States Government, at which the following Governments were represented :----\n\nUnited States of America, Austria-Hungary, China, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Persia, Portugal, Russia, and Siam.\n\nThe commission adopted a series of recommendations, which have been considered and to some extent acted upon by the Governments represented. The United States Government last year proposed that an international conference, composed of representatives of the same Powers, should meet at The Hague, in order to complete the work of the Shanghai commission and adopt an international convention for the regulation of the traffic in opium. The British Government, in accepting the proposal, stipulated that the scope of the proposed conference should include the regulation of the trade in morphia and cocaine, on the ground that these drugs are being extensively used in the Far East as substitutes for opium. This was, we understand, readily accepted by the United States and most of the other Governments, but difficulties have been raised which are thus referred to in a telegram from Reuter's agency at The Hague dated the 14th August, 1911-\n\n\"There is now very little probability that the International Opium Conference will meet at The Hague in October, as the participation of one of the States most interested in the question is still uncertain. The postponement of the conference till next spring is under serious consideration,\"\n\nThe British Foreign Secretary, Sir Edward Grey, replying to a question in the House of Commons on the 17th August, stated that no date had yet been fixed for the conference, but that it was hoped that the conference might meet during the spring of next year, to this extent confirming the telegram; but he said nothing as to the reason for postponement.\n\nWe have learned on private, but reliable, authority that the Government referred to in Reuter's telegram is that of Germany. This fact has not yet, so far as we know, been published in the British press.\n\nThe World's Chinese Student's Journal\" for July 1911, published at Shanghai, states that the Dutch Minister in Peking has informed the Wai-wu Pu that the opium conference has been indefinitely postponed, and that the Chinese chargé d'affaires in Holland has also wired to the same effect saying that the reason for the postponement is the refusal of Germany, Portugal, and Japan to agree to the fifth resolution adopted by the conference held at Shanghai. This resolution was in the following terms -\n\n\"That the International Opium Commission finds that the unrestricted manufacture, sale, and distribution of morphine already constitute a grave danger, and that the morphine habit shows signs of spreading; the International Opium Commission, therefore, desires to urge strongly on all Governments that it is highly important that drastic measures should be taken by each Government in its own territories and possessions to control the manufacture, sale, and distribution of this drug, and also of such other derivatives of opium as may appear on scientific enquiry to be liable to similar abuse and productive of like ill effects.\"\n\nIt is said that the action of the German Government in this matter is due to the influence of German manufacturers of morphine and cocaine, and we believe it to be the fact that by far the greatest portion of these drugs imported into the Far East come from Germany. A recent official report on the working of the Government\n\n83",
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        "content_text": "SIR,\n\nHong-Kong. --Secret.\n\nEnclosure in No. 2.\n\nDowning Street, 20th July 1910. With reference to Sir F. Lugard's telegram of the 14th of March and his confidential despatches of the 1st and 11th of the same month, I have the honour to inform you that His Majesty's Government have not yet been able to come to a final decision as to the suggested establishment of a high-power wireless telegraph station at Hong-Kong, but that the matter is still under consideration.\n\n2. In the meantime, however, this question need not interfere with the establishment of the proposed low-power station to be erected by the Eastern Extension Telegraph Company, Limited, and Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Company, Limited (see my despatch Miscellaneous of the 1st of February last), as I am advised that there would be room in Hong-Kong for a low-power as well as for a high-power station.\n\n3. I have to add, with reference to the first enclosure in Sir F. Lugard's Secret despatch of the 4th of September 1908, that if the proposed wireless station is erected on Pratas Island, it may probably be arranged with the consent of the two Companies above mentioned that the Pratas station should communicate with their station at Hong-Kong. The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty are of opinion that this course would be preferable to arranging for communication between Pratas Island and the Naval wireless station at Hong-Kong as suggested by Sir F. Lugard.\n\nThe Officer Administering the Government of Hong-Kong.\n\nNo. 3.\n\nFOREIGN OFFICE to COLONIAL OFFICE.\n\nI have, &c.,\nCREWE.\n\n1911\n\nDark Trake\nDate.\nJau\ny\nast previous Paper.\n\n2341 0\nNO\n23 JA.. I'\n2184\n\nMorphuic & Cocaine\nA\nLoubts adcrcability of exclation. dexgried to restrect export of preparations\nunless & until some international exement is dried at to prevent indirect\n\nSee on 2716.\nin die\n\nSIR,\n\n(39,241/10.)\n\nForeign Office, 4th November 1910. With reference to your letter No. 31,521/1910, of the 27th ultimo, respecting Mr. Taylor's application for permission to establish connection by wireless telegraphy between Hong-Kong and Macao, I am directed by Secretary Sir E. Grey to state that he concurs in the Earl of Crewe's proposal to refer the matter to the Cables (Landing-Rights) Committee.\n\nI am, &c.,\nW. LANGLEY.\n\nyeth de fray of Mady\n\n(315). Wt.28,032 -50.\n40,000. 11-10. A.RE, W.\n\next subsequent Paper\n776",
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        "content_text": "Compliment You\n\nRenew Car\n\napply\n\nstativory\n\nthe\n\nparking\n\nof the\n\nwork\n\ninvolved\n\n222\n\n1911\n\ncolonial Office\n\nDate\n\nLast previous Paper\n\n81695\n\nKING OF SOUTH AFRICA\n\n32973\n\n12 OCT\n\nAllowance for work for transvaal fort\n\nRespecting permission to address the Governor-General of South Africa directly on subject.\n\nIf Stutts for Laubert.\n\n133413). Wt.28,032-50. 45,000. 11,10. A.&B.W.\n\nNext subsequent Paper\n\nDone\n\nI think this is a matter for the Dominions Dept but I don't see that any good will come from disjointed communications. I am not sure what the proper view is: a Crown Colony like S.Africa could have addressed the Union Govt direct.\n\nIt is as the Union Govt have made up their minds; but if it weren't, I think Comm. Taylor's feelings & the Dominions Dept have as much influence, I think he might",
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        "content_text": "your previous letters of the and the 16 Juna 18113 19888 thane Grysmi 1st June and thre your explanations وقوعه fully considered by Mr Harcourt When he arrived at his previous decision communications the Po batter of the A to you 14th Oct. I a, humwa, badd that extry of your in 31503 31 it being forwarded to the Gov. of H. Kong to whom you with make may if you representations after your further return to tere Col.. Harcourt does not considen that you should extension of leave it necessary forego the which has blam granted to You advice. ? GWF medical 232 ( 1911 Wlor BB H 9 Date. hor Last previous Paper. 24633. 136279 36279 REC REGE 10 NOV 1 Lefalcations in Harbour depi Farther representations tepiding 23 NOV ₤ Juoz vy comm Expy (3.413). Wt.28,032-50. 40,000 11/10. A.R.W. exteubsequent Paper S 36585 Mr Stabber Cottin M. 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        "content_text": "the elevation of the \n\nenquiries reaching enough \n\ncircular, \n\namal \n\nto dereire \n\nwhich \n\nwas \n\nJuntton \n\nagainst \n\nCom Taylor \n\nOrrce \n\nchecked \n\nthe accounts of bris \n\ndefit. \n\nmeans \n\nmade \n\nfor preventing \n\nthe charge \n\nCom Jerylow \n\na month, \n\nonly \n\nwhereas \n\nverbal orders to the clerks concerned Chara, 14 of 1988) \n\nBut from hara. 28 of or Clementi \n\n's memo. \n\nit appears \n\nthat in several \n\nCases \n\nmuch verbal \n\norders \n\nwere \n\nfor the \n\nrake of security \n\nrequired (hara 21) \n\nGaran \n\nAc \n\nthat \n\nthe absence of written orders \n\nQ \n\n(c) refers \n\nto \n\nthree \n\nfirst \n\ncontinued \n\nAR \n\nuntil the new forms \n\nK \n\nenaburet \n\nwere \n\nwere ready. frequently not made \n\nuse of old forms which made \n\nwich tre necchrany emakwher \n\nTere point \n\nbeen prohibite \n\n233 \n\nberious matter. \n\nLebas \n\nthat \n\nama \n\ncom. \n\naffrant from the Wong. haw, nam from \n\nincident \n\nit is clear \n\nJ \n\nYaylar \n\nreeing \n\nout \n\nthat \n\nbre \n\ncould not be responsible for \n\ntrat \n\nthe earlier paras, of art Clementi's memo. (especially 14) \n\nCommander Taylor was \n\njudge of \n\nnot a \n\nthe alteration made whom everg \n\nform was sent \n\n(cf. frana 6 of 1988) \n\nBact (hrana 22 of \n\n31586) \n\nthe mesetary \n\nerature's \n\nbrarea have \n\nmobis the alteration. \n\n(d) \n\nFailure of the shrobb \n\nto mans good Jaylor beams \n\nto \n\naccount for collections. \n\nThis point. \n\n(e) \n\nThe enten f \n\nhanas. \n\nother day arrangement \n\n23-24 of \n\nTaylor's stricment \n\non \n\nALFRID \n\nthat \n\n31506 \n\ntone \n\nshrobb \n\nAAPOLIS \n\nprimarily \n\nnot a \n\nset sanamit \n\nbout the \n\nshroff of the Sailors Home. \n\nwith the shroff. Se \n\nCommander \n\nmight have all been made \n\non the day when time fours were condemned \n\nquestion of occasional failures to \n\nCharacter \n\nadaquate \n\nand \n\n\" \n\nthere \n\nRetly giving him the answers \n\nhis present froints \n\nthat \n\nmake, \n\nif love fras \n\nCause he \n\nany further refererentations to fre must make them to H. Kong \n\n34133) \n\nwas \n\ntold \n\nCub \n\n13/11 \n\nso incapable of exconcising making provision against dishonesty by his subordinatio \n\nof H. Kony \n\nto \n\nas above \n\nand riating \n\nOn the \n\n447 0. \n\nSaihou's \n\nGout \n\nJaylor misted \n\nnefrouting \n\nCachorr \n\nBrand \n\nAccuvant \n\nand \n\ncir clamanti states that the st \n\nacting privately as shrobb to the \n\nGrat \n\n(hara. 24) Commander \n\nPres \n\nthe Gout as to his position, by \n\nno connection between the \n\nHarlequer Deht.', \n\nthe duties not being herformed by anyone \n\nthat there was \n\nand the \n\nMR. \n\nof the forums, \n\nin the Go resursce \n\nLes trene \n\nmo \n\nound \n\nrecord of any such protent Com. Jaylor says we made! ch. \n\nFurther \n\nacainst the system an hara \n\nbrave fundered the matter nesny \n\n23 \n\n(f) deals with the \n\nSin Clementi's \n\nchange \n\nthat \n\namy \n\nhut into writing of revifte \n\nwh \n\nmarie. .) \n\n2 \n\nCammot \n\nvigorously (see also frame. 19)! \n\nCom. Taylor failed \n\nto \n\norder relating to the signing he replied that be varied \n\nJoey \n\nAnd \n\nIn view of the litter on 34183, \n\nin dined found art the \n\nfor the Sor to \n\nhe \n\ncopy of the tok. \n\nwory so if Comm Tarlos \n\nYn. I would not \n\nDimes the matter \n\nwith Comn! T \n\nAck. \n\nRiz \n\nfurther \n\n13. \n\nvay copy went to \n\nSov, & sand out cay, I our \n\nfor inf. \n\n'st Conf. AEC \n\nrefly, for \n\n16. \n\nPage 240\n\nPage 241",
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        "content_text": "To accompany Enclosure 1.\n\n248\n\n6th February, 1912.\n\nMy dear Taylor,\n\nA gentleman of the name of Ismail, a large Punjabi Police orderly of H.E.'s, came to see me yesterday and asked me to write to you about him. Now to come to our muttons\n\nThe man in question, whom I know very well, did good service in the old Hongkong Regiment, and then on its disbandment in India returned to Hongkong and took on service in the Hongkong Police. What he is now after is to be allowed to reckon his past service in the Hongkong Regiment towards pension from the Police. It appears that, according to him, men who served in the Hongkong Singapore Battalion Royal Artillery and then transferred to the Police are allowed this boon, and as the old Hongkong Regiment was also a local Colonial Force he thinks this might be allowed to him also.\n\nHe is a fine old man, an excellent specimen of the real nice old Punjabi, and, if H.E. could see his way to helping him, I think he is a deserving case. He is now particularly anxious to finish his service and go back to India on pension as his wife has quite lately lost her sight through small-pox and there is no one to look after his kids.\n\nYours etc.,\n\n(Sd.) W. H. Barrett.",
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        "content_text": "272 \n\nMy dear Mr Earle \n\nChohan: quite hopeless. I am afraid it is hopeless. My past experience is that the War Office say it is impossible to hold out as the kind of experience required is hard to come by. Also it is likely that the promotion list will be piled up.\n\nWhitehall, S.W. \n23rd January 1912.\n\n24/1 \n\nI understand that Commander Basil Taylor, R.N., who is at present Harbour Master at Hong Kong, and who has been employed in that capacity or as Assistant Harbour Master for the past 12 years, is anxious to get the appointment of Commissioner at Limasol, Cyprus, which either is vacant now or is about to fall vacant.\n\nYou have, I know, in the Colonial Office a full record of Commander Taylor's various services, and so I will not recapitulate them, and you are no doubt fully aware of the work, especially that he has done in the appointment which he now holds.\n\nI am, therefore, only writing to you to ask you if you will do what you can to further his wishes, as I feel sure that you will find him a useful and satisfactory",
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        "content_text": "# HONG KONG\n## Deefalcations in Harbour deal\n### Last previous Paper: 7.36279, Acty? Conf: 22 April\n### Next subsequent Paper: 14 = 202\n\nC.O. 12983  \nREC RG17 APR 13\n\nThe Earl refuses to alter decision previously arrived at with Commander Taylor as to his responsibility for.\n\nMr. Giffen.  \nCommander Taylor has himself made representations to the Earl on 34133/11 and Mr. ... made further representations.\n\nI agree with the Earl that no new facts have been adduced. Comm. I. has been told that the Earl's decision is final.\n\nAch ru  \nR2/4/13. Rich R2, 14/13.  \n21/4/13",
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        "content_text": "## 198\n\nTo out #Bol \n\n\"I \n\nThe following text appears to be a jumbled and corrupted version of a historical document. I will reconstruct the text according to the provided guidelines.\n\n\n## Statement of Inspector\n\nI went to No. 9 Upper Station Street on the 23rd April to have them removed. On the 16th May, they were removed. At No. 9, I found rat runs on the ground floor, also on the 1st floor on the stair landing. I applied for and served notices on Au Yeung Chiu to fill up the rat runs. This was complied with on the 21st May. I have not visited the house since. I did not notice that the premises were in a dangerous condition. I did not see any cracks in the party wall. I went to inspect the rat runs. There were no cracks on the 19th April, or else I should have noticed them. There may have been cracks on the 21st May. These rat runs were not dangerous. I did not notice that the party wall leaned towards No. 7 at any of my visits.\n\nExamined by jury.\n\nNone of the tenants pointed out to me cracks.\n\n## Statement of Chan Yui Hon\n\nChan Yui Hon declared and examined. I am Assistant Compradore to Shewan Tomes. I know 7 and 9 Upper Station Street. They were let to Au Yeung Sik. I collect the rent from Au Yeung Sik on behalf of Shewan Tomes. Repairs would be arranged by the China Provident Company, and not by me. Au Yeung Sik has been to me as to repairs for the houses. On the 20th May, he brought me a letter. He did not mention the word \"dangerous\", but said there were cracks in the wall. Au Yeung Sik said that there was a crack in the wall and if not repaired, it might come down. That letter was in Chinese. I read the letter. I made a translation of the letter. I handed the letter with the translation to Mr. Young. He said it was alright and that he would have the place repaired. I had nothing further to do with the matter. I did not know the Wing Hop firm. This was the letter (marked `6`) I received from the tenant. This is the letter I handed to Mr. Young.\n\nNo question by Jury.\n\n## Statement of Henry Herbert Taylor\n\nHenry Herbert Taylor sworn and examined.\n\nI am in charge of the China Provident Company. On the 22nd May in the morning, I received Exhibit `6` from Mr. Young. I received no other instructions. I was told to deal with it. I sent for my contractor, Wing Hop, and...",
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        "title": "CO129-405 - Public Offices - 1913",
        "content_text": "# WPR 13. OPIUM. CONFIDENTIAL.\n\n## No. 1. Mr. Taylor to Sir Edward Grey.—(Received March 7.)\n\nHôtel du Paradis, Cannes,  \nMarch 4, 1913.\n\nDear Sir Edward Grey,\n\nTHE fact that the latest proposals of China re opium are of such importance that you may be bringing them before the next Cabinet meeting is my reason for troubling you with this letter.\n\nLord Crewe was good enough to give privately to a deputation from the Anti-Opium Board, which I took to him nearly three weeks ago, some idea of what China is proposing. Though we are keeping that information absolutely private, we have consulted a very few of our most valued colleagues (such as Mr. Joshua Rowntree, ex-M.P. for Scarborough) so as to be able to present to the Government the opinion of some at least of the best-informed people in Great Britain on the question. We are unanimous in believing that if China's willingness to pay money for these stocks were, under present circumstances, to be taken advantage of, not only foreigners but our own people at home would feel that China had been roughly treated. Surely our infliction of this \"morally indefensible traffic\" upon China for seventy years past has punished her enough already! If money reparation is owed by anyone, it is surely by Great Britain or by India! If it is owing to anyone, surely it is owing to China!\n\nThe 1907 agreement was made by us, I presume, with two objects, viz., (1) to get a little more revenue for India so as to accustom her to do without it, and (2) by the pari passu arrangement, to give the central Government of China a lever to enforce the suppression policy upon her provincial authorities.\n\nAs I have proved up to the hilt over and over again (and the India Office have never denied it), our opium receipts since 1907 have already enormously exceeded the expectation for the whole extinguishing period, viz., up to the 31st December, 1916. So No. 1 condition is satisfied.\n\nNo. 2, the pari passu policy, was defensible up to a point. But when it becomes the case (as for two years past it has been) that the Chinese Government has to enforce opium suppression by the most drastic measures, including on a considerable scale capital punishment, contemporaneously with the admission of the foreign drug at a time when the production of the article has become almost inconceivably profitable, the position of China is an absolutely intolerable one. In the judgment of every fair-minded man, it surely calls for her unconditional and immediate release from the obligation to take any more of our Indian article. Only last week I read a telegram from Peking saying that in the province of Tukien alone \"the troops were steadily destroying poppy and killing hundreds of armed resisters.”\n\nMay I once more very respectfully press upon you the great bearing of our present attitude towards China in this respect upon our future relationship with her? It is not a party or a sect or a dynastic section in China that is engaged in this life and death struggle with a gigantic evil. It is every good element in the nation itself that is determinedly grappling with it, and must be permanently embittered against us if we longer stand in its way.\n\nI am sure you must know how long, how considerately I have refrained from worrying you with House of Commons questions. It was always in the belief that very soon you would do the right thing by poor China and set her free. The time has at length come when in very decency we must set her free. I am sure every member of the Cabinet must realise this. Pray let the end be soon.\n\nAs to the dealers, left this time with stocks speculatively bought in the horrid hope that China's reform zeal would break down, they deserve no mercy. Their trade is a wicked one; their profits have been large; their ability to bear loss is large too. You have not guaranteed them, the Indian Office has not guaranteed them customers, payments, or profits. In his answers to questions in the House the last two months this point has been well safeguarded by Acland.\n\nBut even the dealers' position will be improved if the Indian Government will announce now the resolution which, I imagine, it has already come to, viz., to have no... \n\nPage 369",
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        "content_text": "2 \n\nand that would entail further sacrifices which the Government of India could not be expected to undertake.\n\nIn China one lives under the constant apprehension that some day the Chinese fanatics will make a holocaust of Indian opium to attract the attention of the so-called civilised world.\n\n[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\nOPIUM.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n[August 7.]\n\nSECTION 2.\n\nYours sincerely,\n\nJ. N. JORDAN.\n\n[37142]\n\nP.S.-I have written in haste to catch to-night's mail.\n\nJ. N. J.\n\nང་\n\n241\n\nNo. 1.\n\nMemorandum of Proceedings of an Opium Deputation received in the Foreign Office on Thursday, August 7, 1913, by the Marquess of Crewe and Sir Edward Grey.\n\nMR. THEODORE TAYLOR said that the deputation was really two or three deputations rolled into one. The deputation would have come earlier had Sir E. Grey been less busy, and it would have been larger had not Parliament been sitting at the time it was received. All the members were at one in wishing the opium trade with China to be ended. They recognised that the present British Government were the first who had taken steps to end the trade, and they thanked Lord Morley and Sir E. Grey. The great obstacle at present was the accumulation of stocks of opium in Shanghai. It was calculated that, at the present rate of consumption, at least two years would be required to consume these stocks. China really wished to be released from having to take these stocks, but she was afraid of us—not that we might make war upon her, but of the other pressure that we could bring to bear, as in financial matters.\n\nProfessor Caldecott, chairman of the Church of England Anti-Opium Society, said that the Church of England had at first been slow to move on the subject, but was now convinced that the opium trade with China should be ended as soon as possible. The accumulated stocks were the great obstacle now. The strongest argument against the continuance of the trade was that the Chinese themselves said that the trade was an obstruction to them. He gave reasons for which we could not send General Chang back to China with a negative answer. It was not for the deputation to suggest what should be done with the accumulated stocks, but what they did wish to press was that the stocks should not be sent into China.\n\nMr. Alexander, honorary secretary of the Society for the Suppression of the Opium Trade, said that he came principally as a representative of the Society of Friends, which had been amongst the first in this country to call attention to the evils of the trade. Chinese reformers felt that they were hampered, even by our present agreement with China, and the Society of Friends asked strongly that the trade should be ended as soon as possible.\n\nThe Rev. F. B. Meyer said that there were some missionaries present who could speak with greater effect than he, but he wished to call attention to the irrationality of forcing opium upon China while insisting that China should suppress the growth of opium. As a point of view of his own, he wished to mention the fine position won for the United States by the action of their Government in regard to the Boxer indemnity; he thought that we might take similar action.\n\nThe Rev. S. Muir, of the Presbyterian Churches of Scotland, said that he was the only representative from Scotland, as others were prevented from coming by the holiday season. The Presbyterian churches were unanimously in favour of the early honourable to Britain and non-injurious to suppression of the opium trade by means China.\" The deputation did not themselves suggest the methods by which this might be done, but they hoped that methods would be found.\n\nMr. Grant, representing the Society of Friends in the south of Ireland, said, in a very few words, that it was hoped that the British Government would do what was right.\n\nLord Crewe said that he had been asked by Sir E. Grey to say some words first, though in some respects the matter was more one for the Foreign Office than for the India Office. The gathering was a remarkable one, and its representations would receive the closest possible attention. He was grateful for the appreciation that had been expressed as to the efforts of the British Government.\n\nIn speaking of so vast a country as China it was necessary to be cautious. Mr. Taylor had spoken cautiously when he said that it was the best elements in China who desired the end of the opium trade. Chinese opinion and practice were not unanimous in the matter. While we had to encourage the best elements, we had to recognise that the consumers were not all of the same mind.\n\n[1836 g-2]",
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        "content_text": "22\n\nquestion which Mr. Higham and Mr. Taylor propose to deal with. If so, can you let me know anything that there is to be known?\n\nto bother you.\n\nvery\n\nJos\n\nI am very sorry to have\n\nJ.G.A. Butler\n\nSay it is contingent unlikely that the debate with Come in\n\nM\n\nthat\n\nif it does\n\nuny maker with be laised which with require the \"ates of the Colonial Office. Higham & Taylor are merely and with be unlikely to go\n\nAutr. op min men\n\ninto details such as Butler suggests.\n\nSta\n\nTrade\n\nIs.\n\n+bj",
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        "content_text": "687\n\nin\n\nThe tons.\n\nthe same\n\nThe price\n\nThe Colony 670 mi\n\ncompared in the\n\nperiod of 1911, although the Chinese proprietors\n\nhave\n\nraised again from the 22nd July 1913 to $6.50. per tahil\n\nin the Straits Settlements (except Labuan) the S.S. and Johore.\n\nIn Kedah & Perlis the price\n\nto the consumer has been\n\nraised $6.. 30..\n\nIn Labuan & Brunei, owing\n\nto\n\nsmuggling is increasing\n\namongst mukers.\n\nDear Mr Peel,\n\nAddison,\n\n25\n\nDowning Street,\n\nApril,\n\n1913.\n\nMr Harcourt desires me to send you, for the information of Mr Montagu, the enclosed copy of\n\nAcland a memorandum which has been prepared in this office, in view of the notices which have been put down by\n\nMr High, M.P. and Mr Theodore Taylor, M.P., that\n\nthey propose to call attention to the opium traffic and move a resolution on Wednesday the 23rd April. I understand that it is very unlikely that the\n\ndebate will come on, but if it does Mr Harcourt\n\nimagines that Mr Montagu or Mr Acland will deal\n\nwith it. Mr Harcourt himself will not be able to\n\nbe present in the house, as he will be in attendance on the King at Crewe on that day, but he thinks that Mr Montagu may like to have a copy of this\n\nmemorandum in case the debate comes on. Mr Montagu\n\nwill, no doubt, consider whether it will be desirable\n\nthe low price prevailing\n\nin\n\nSarawak ($3.60.)\n\nAny\n\nLeak considered undercutting\n\nthe existing price\n\n$4.80..\n\nLicenses for smuggling shops have\n\nalso been largely increased.\n\nThere has not yet been time to ascertain the effect of these\n\nchanges\n\nJ. ADDISON, ESQ.",
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        "content_text": "2\n\nL\n\nFROM\n\nHunt, W. If\n\nLiclick Martin +6°.\n\ncious Fut\n\nDATE\n\nSUBJECT\n\nTo Die Further Employment:\n\nor\n\n1 Sept conveyance of remains of Chinaman to 3mch ippt. in Police Frison Dept. 6mmulation of Pension.\n\n23\n\n5-May-\n\nanglois, Harding Jar toiffeal of Sepoy Ibrahim to Privy Councl\n\nPetition of Ibrahim for feave to appeal. - lipt Political situation\n\n27\n\n|\n\nMay. Sir F. A\n\nMorris & Macdonald 24\n\n24 Get Military Kands.\n\nmay\n\nSir Z.H.\n\nin ohina.\n\n24 - W. Rension for Widow of late J Ross.\n\n7 how bredging of 4. Kong Harbour.\n\n28\n\n+\n\nMilitary Riserves.\n\n3 Dice Purchase of Raw Opium.\n\nみ\n\n+\n\n6\n\nLick Miss).\n\nK\n\npleciamation of Foreshore in Wunchai Re\n\nat Paya Bast.\n\nspium Monspoly.\n\nhele of Land tot M! G. F. ober.\n\n13 June Resignation.\n\nLobection, WY - hay Return Passage via umerica.\n\nSmith J.\n\nSutton F Smith bum.\n\nJune Passage via imerica.\n\ndaupe Candidature for Nobel Peace Prye. I may cuusation of Fiver.\n\n27 June Asst: Engineer in B. Guiana. 3 July Engineering Faculty in D. Kong University 2 Mlg University of Hong Kong.\n\n12 now Pension. On of 3\n\n19\n\nSavage, R.A. J. Taylor, J.C. M.P. Bæet @pium.\n\nV.cAnon, F. L.\n\nWarfe 6.0.6. Watson, ú\n\nReemployment.\n\n200pe Appt. of Postmaster General. 23 Ang Full Pay Leave.\n\nHONG NUNG W.......WEI\n\n2678\n\n19470\n\nPost\n\nLoss\n\n1913\n\n10 June\n\nLast previous Paper.\n\nREC\n\nC.O\n\n19770\n\n(RFG || JUN 13 |\n\non Chuese Postal Agencies\n\nLeuss\n\n1960\n\ncopy\n\nletter from Treasury.\n\nAmount still owing to HM. Adone would 10723 appear to be £1000, subsect to future\n\nmerification & asjustment.\n\n19 June\n\nL\n\nCopy corres: Gov. Conf. 195 June 201\n\n24626\n\nprup\n\n(08,131). Wt.29 897-58 41.000. 11/12 A&E.W.\n\nNext subsequent Paper.\n\nno. 29568\n\nMr. Guffin\n\nThe last sentence sem\n\nto\n\nindicate that payment is not of the marke\n\nto the CA. which in\n\nconvencent comme.\n\n*\n\nEfor the most\n\n: All wark G.D. & pay to the (.A. the\n\nsum 242500\n\n-woth cord. To for cought\n\nR 2/6/13\n\nwill be they hÇA\n\n+ suggest that the most convenient come will be\n\nRus\n\n12/6/13 atr\n\n(or)",
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        "content_text": "The country is looking to the Government to follow China's example and quickly stamp out the vice from the Crown Colonies. And until the huge stocks of opium in bond at Shanghai and other Chinese ports are disposed of, it is unnecessary to speak of getting further supplies for Hong Kong from India.\n\nremain,\n\ndear Mr Starcant\n\nYour faithful\n\nTher & Pay\n\nHarcourt\n\nhyp Secretary of State fil\n\nThe Colmes\n\nM-Coll Su G. Firdes Fort. Anderson.\n\nC.O\n\n35694\n\n14.3.13\n\n394\n\nThe reply to the annexed letter from Mr Theodore Taylor is that, as in the Straits Settlements, the Govt. of Hong Kong is taking over the monopoly from the former in order to exercise a more effective control over the consumption of opium. This step (which will come into force on the 1st March 1914) has been taken at the suggestion and with the approval of the S.G.\n\nAs regards the last part of the letter, Mr Taylor seems to suggest that Hong Kong should buy opium from the manufacturers in the Straits Settlements (presumably at the enormous prices demanded). This will not help Hong Kong's finances.",
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        "content_text": "DRAFT.\n\n35694/15\n\nI. C. Taylor by M.P.\n\nMINUTE.\n\n5. Robigem 13/7/10 Colm's 13-\n\nMr.\n\nSir G. Fiddes,\n\nSir H. Just.\n\nSir J. Anderson.\n\nLord Emmott.\n\nMr. Harcourt.\n\n15\n\n*15-10-13\n\n12afti common\n\no Mittarcanti sel\n\nAlong.\n\nC. L1800T\n\nMy dear\n\nI. C. Taylor!\n\nOct 13\n\n396\n\nI have your letter of the\n\n13th October with\n\nregard\n\nto the establishment of\n\nan opium monopoly\n\nin Hong Kong.\n\nI have approved of the\n\ntransfer of the monopoly\n\nfrom private individuals\n\nto the Govt because,\n\nas shown in the Straits Settlements, more effective control over consumption can be exercised by the Govt.\n\n66\n\nPage 420\n\nPage 421",
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        "content_text": "7)136\n\n... \n\n***„baus. DOEN\n\ndie Lett\n\nto be impressed by him in his turn upon the members of his staff.\n\n9/- \n\nSo far as Captain Taylor is concerned your Committee has come to the conclusion that, although he is responsible as a Head of the Department always is for the affairs of his department, he cannot be regarded as having been obviously culpably negligent or remiss.\n\nHis real fault lies in the fact that he knowingly permitted a departure by Mr. Lenfestey from the letter of the General Order No.315(3) but your Committee is satisfied that he thought that Mr. Lenfestey was conducting a comparative examination of the receipts with the entries in the Shroff's Collection book in such a manner as to carry out effectively the spirit and meaning of that Order. That he did not know that Mr. Lenfestey was not in fact so doing seems to show a lack of intimate knowledge of the actual work done by his subordinates which, although a matter for regret, is also perhaps not unintelligible. Your Committee does not think, notwithstanding what Captain Taylor now asserts, that he had the slightest realization that this Government Financial order was framed for literal execution or that a departure from its literal carrying out was likely to be attended with any danger.\n\n10/- \n\nAlthough not strictly within the ambit of this report, your Committee thinks that (as its Chairman with the Honourable the Colonial Treasurer were members of the two Committees which have already been enquiring into the charges made against Mr. Jones, Acting Assistant Harbour Master, and Mr. Lenfestey and that as the Honourable Secretary for Chinese Affairs, as a member of the Executive Council, is fully acquainted with the evidence and reports in both the previous cases) it may not be out of place to summarize here its views on the whole of the present enquiry.",
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        "content_text": "the \n\njurisdiction of the Courts is challenged. But there are authorities to show that the question whether a particular government is or is not an independent sovereign is one which a British Court will answer for itself, taking judicial cognisance of the facts that are within the knowledge of the Crown. If necessary the Court itself applies through the Foreign Office to the Crown for information (Foster on International Jurisprudence, p. 150, and cases there referred to).\n\nNow an affidavit of His Majesty's Consul-General at Canton speaks to “arrangements entered into between the British Government and the Provincial Government of Kwangtung\" and he also stated in his evidence before us that he absolutely recognised the Provincial Government of Kwangtung.\n\nAn affidavit of the acting Chief Justice \"of (says the affidavit) the highest Court of the province of Kwangtung known as the Kao Tong Shen Pau Yuan\" was also tendered. Then under the Chinese Extradition Ordinance 1889, under which these proceedings are instituted, the term \"Chinese Government,” to whom the fugitive is surrendered, \"includes the Viceroy or other officer administering a Provincial Government.\"\n\nIn my opinion this is sufficient evidence to justify the Court in taking judicial cognisance of the existence of the government of the Province of Kwangtung. Numerous authorities were cited by the learned Counsel for the fugitive in regard to the status of foreign States, and governments in our Courts, but whatever benefit may attach, if any, to this point in civil proceedings it cannot, I think, in the light of the evidence tendered by the Crown, of which the Court must take judicial cognisance, have any bearing in these proceedings. The Vice-Chancellor in Taylor v. Barclay, 2 Sim., p. 221, says, \"It appears to me that sound policy requires that the Courts of the King should not be at variance with the Government of the King,\" and Farwell J. in Foster v. Globe Venture Syndicate, Limited, 1900, 1 Ch. 814, said, \"I am asked to take judicial cognisance of the fact that assuming these tribes (of Suss) to be independent they do not possess jurisdiction over certain territories. That is a matter which it appears to me must necessarily be within the cognisance of Her Majesty. Sound policy appears to me to require that I should act in unison with the Government on such a point as that. Assume that the Foreign Office have already satisfied themselves that the territory in question is within the dominion of Morocco, it would surely be improper that I, sitting here as a judge of the High Court, should, in the face of that Act of Her Majesty, hold otherwise.\"\n\nI should be contravening the Act of Her Majesty acting as a Sovereign in a matter which is within the cognisance of Her Majesty's Foreign Office.\" Now these extradition proceedings are instituted by the Crown here by virtue of the treaty obligations contained in Treaty of Tientsin, which is given effect to by the Ordinance of 1889. The Governor, His Majesty's Representative, has issued his warrant, and it is to be assumed that he is satisfied that the Provincial Government of Kwangtung is a legal entity which is covered by the Treaty, and this is a matter within the cognisance of the Government which in my judgment this Court cannot interfere with, although I have indicated there is in my opinion sufficient evidence to justify us in taking judicial cognisance of it.\n\nI now come to the question whether the evidence discloses such an offence as would justify the committal of the accused if the alleged crime had been committed in this Colony.\n\nThe first alleges simple larceny, the stealing of two cheques for $100,000 and $50,000 respectively. The Magistrate has found guilty intention at the time when he obtained the cheques. Is there evidence which can justify this finding? Both cheques were handed to the fugitive by Chung Sui Lan, an official in the Canton Treasury, and were admittedly received by the fugitive in obedience to the order issued by the Tutuh (Exhibit 8) and were not remitted, or the proceeds, to Shanghai, but were subsequently negotiated by the fugitive. There is clearly no direct evidence to establish guilty intention at the time of receiving the cheques or that there was any taking invito domino.\n\nPage 78",
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        "content_text": "## \nqe qMT. Taylor: on the other hand it is fairly safe to assume, having regard to the European situation, that effective steps to put the Opium Convention into force cannot be concerted by the signatory powers for a very considerable time.\n\nHis Excellency is, however, so much concerned about the cocaine traffic, which is in Denman's hands at the moment, that for the time being he is mainly focused on that.\n\nOn the whole I do not object to Dir. Ist. May's endeavours.\n\nThe Under Secretary of State for India, Revenue Department, India Office, London, S. W.\n\nAny further communication on this subject should be addressed to— \nThe Under Secretary of State for India, Revenue Department, India Office, London, S. W. and the following reference quoted: `R. & S. 3089`.\n\n## INDIA OFFICE, WHITEHALL, LONDON, S. W.\n### 17th August 1914\n\nSir,\n\nI am directed by the Secretary of State for India in Council to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 5th August, No.`28000`, on the subject of an enquiry by the Government of Hongkong as to whether the Secretary of State for the Colonies will allow him to enter into an arrangement with the Government of India for the purchase of not more than 540 chests of opium during 1914-15 in respect of the year 1915-16 and of not more than 540 chests during 1915-16 on account of the year 1916-17.\n\nIn reply, I am to say that the Marquess of Crewe has no objection to offer to Sir F. May's endeavouring to come to an arrangement with the Government of India as he proposes.\n\nI have the honour to be, Sir,\nYour obedient Servant,\n**J. W. Holderness**\nThe Under Secretary of State, Colonial Office.",
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        "content_text": "# HONGKONG TELEGRAPH SUPPLEMENT\n\nIt would appear from the story of the Chief Engineer that the pirates were armed with Mauser pistols, and that whilst they were employed in trying to break down the grille, the Europeans and the guard fired deadly shots into them. It is conjectured that the firing of the ship was not so much to take life as it was to give the pirates an opportunity of being covered from the marksmanship of those on the bridge as they tried to escape, the smoke from the burning vessel obscuring all that took place at the stern until the vessel was turned round. At the time, all was darkness, the pirates' first move being to destroy to a disastrous extent the electric installation.\n\nAbout mid-day, those on board the Shui On and the Shun Lee, after being kept out in the Harbour under armed guard all the morning, were allowed to land. They seemed quite relieved to find themselves on shore again. Hundreds of Chinese flocked round the landing passengers, and each and every one was subjected to a running fire of questions. Others, who had relatives and friends on the Tai On, were making anxious inquiries all the morning, and the scene round the Harbour Office and the wharves was an animated one.\n\nThe facts of the affair as ascertained by the police were communicated to the Press by Mr. T. H. King, Deputy Superintendent of Police. He stated that the Tai On left Hongkong at 7 o'clock at night with 300 or 400 Chinese on board. At about 10 o'clock, when off Ki O Island, near where the S.S. Shing Tai was recently pirated, the captain heard noises on board and firing of revolver shots. He jumped up and found that a gang of pirates was attempting to rush the ship. On account of the guard, consisting of Portuguese and Indians, the pirates could not get possession of the bridge. The officers put up a fight, and a regular melee ensued on the ship for the space of about half an hour.\n\nIn the struggle, and as far as the police know, the Chief Engineer was wounded, and the mate is still missing. The pirates took possession of the whole of the lower part of the steamer and they put out the lights and damaged the steering gear. Seeing that they were failing in their endeavours to get possession of the bridge, the gang set fire to the ship, whereupon the captain let off rockets and burnt blue lights. By this means, he attracted the attention of passing ships, and apparently, the first boat to come along was the S.S. Hoisang. When it was realised that the vessel was on fire, everybody jumped overboard, officers, passengers, and pirates, and the captain was in the water for at least half an hour. Eventually, the ship was burnt down to the very water's edge, and she drifted aground on the shore at Ki O, where she still remains.\n\nLater, the S.S. Kwong Wai, a Wuchow boat, came along and picked up the captain and three others from the water, and put them on board the Hoisang, which vessel brought them to Hongkong. The steamers Shun Lee and Shiu On also came along and stood by from midnight until about 4:30 in the morning. These boats participated in the rescue work, and between them, they managed to pick up some 168 persons, whom they brought to Hongkong. As these two boats came into harbour, they flew signals, and the police boarded the boats, and took the rescued people off. These were composed of passengers and possibly some pirates; seven or eight of them were wounded. Several pirates were also shot by the officers on board the Tai On. The whole of the rescued people are being detained by the police for further investigations.\n\nThe Tai On is a steel screw steamer of 706 tons gross displacement. She was sent out to Hongkong in pieces from Home and put together by a local firm in 1891 to the order of the Yik On S.S. Company, Ltd. Her length is 172 feet 3 inches, breadth 35 feet 1 inch, and depth 10 feet 1 inch. She flew the British flag.\n\nThe vessel was built for the express purpose of competing on the Hongkong-Canton service line until some three years ago; she continued her run on that line when she changed ownership and was put on the Hongkong-Kongmoon run, on which she has ever since been employed.\n\nA praiseworthy, if unsuccessful, effort was made on Tuesday to fetch the wreck of the Tai On to Hongkong. Torpedo boats 035 and 037 left for Ki O with armed guards. Commander Basil Taylor also left in the Stanley. The Hon. Mr. U. McI. Messer was in one of the torpedo boats, and with him were Inspector Terret and Sergeants Ingham and Appleton, together with European and Indian constables. On the Stanley, as guard, were Lance-Sergeant Grimmitt and two Indian policemen. The torpedo boats were unable to find any traces of pirates. Some junks, which were near the wreck, cleared off promptly on the approach of the torpedo boats. The Stanley made a fine effort to fetch the burning wreck to Hongkong, but was forced to abandon the attempt.\n\nA Telegraph representative who was aboard the Stanley writes:-\n\nThere was nothing exciting in the trip up until we had passed Castle Peak and were nearing Ki O. Then the question was, where exactly was the Tai On lying? It was necessary to find out more particularly, so enquiry was made at first one and then another fishing boat. They did not savvy any grey smoke in the distance caught the eye; and almost immediately after came something else to indicate nearness to the disaster. This was the body of a woman, face downward, which floated past. Of course, a body drowned twelve hours before should not have been floating; but when this one was picked up by the boat, a possible explanation came from the fact that she had been hit with much force over the head before she entered the water. Later in the day, the bruises showed up terribly. If she was from the Tai On, she must have got in the way of some desperate pirate.\n\nThe smoke ahead was from the Tai On, as we discovered just after two, when the Stanley was bearing her. Anything more pitiable could not well be imagined. She was the merest framework of a vessel, the steel of the upper portions of her hideously crumpled and twisted and fallen. The shell of the vessel was there - rather, the caricature of the shell - and from this skeleton of a steamer, smoke and flames still arose. Forward, she seemed nearly to have burnt herself out; aft, she was blazing fiercely. A little way off lay torpedo boats 035 and 037, and near the vessel was the steam launch Lee Fat of Hongkong, which had a rope attached to the Tai On.\n\nOn the burning vessel, water was played on a bollard aft, and a wire rope fastened round it; the bollard forward was cleared of smoking rubbish, and another rope attached. The torpedo boats came up and watched intently, as it seemed. Came a shouted enquiry as to how we stood; thanks, we would be all right now. We were moving; three to four knots an hour. For a little, the torpedo boats hung around, watching the Stanley chug-chugging towards British waters. Then, a wave of the hand, and they bounded forward. Sixteen knots - and the Stanley four at most!\n\nCommander Taylor left for torpedo boat 037, on which was Mr. Messer, and a few minutes later, he was aboard the Lee Fat. There was no hesitation shown. Almost immediately, the Stanley was crawling astern first towards the burning vessel. We were to tow her! The approach was delicate work, for the propeller was churning up as much mud as water, and the lead was always going. There was just water enough, and presently the Stanley had the Tai On in tow. She crept out into deeper water, the burning vessel, her rudder jammed and useless, forcing her always to port, and then Commander Taylor changed his plan. The Stanley must get alongside and be made fast to her there. Towing would then be easier.\n\nEvery man aboard lent a hand in this work; a hose was turned on the burning vessel. Now the wreck was seen close at hand. Indescribable smells rose from it, but chiefest of all was the smell of burning bones, which cannot be mistaken if one has once known it. Chiefly, it came from forward. Presently, Lance-Sergeant Grimmitt, greatly daring, ventured along the wrecked steelwork. It trembled and shook in places, but it held. It was possible to explore forward, and the hose was kept going steadily there in order that danger should be reduced. A Sikh policeman also lent a hand, and relics began to be found. A Mauser pistol first, then a couple of Winchesters, and two Colt revolvers, another Winchester, two Browning pistols, two Savage revolvers, and a shot gun, which was probably that of Captain Weatherall. Remember that these arms, all up-to-date, resulted from a search which was not, and could not be, thorough, and it will be seen that the pirates must have been well armed.\n\nBones were seen - bones that fell into powder at a touch. There were the bones of perhaps eight or ten or a dozen people forward, so far as could be seen. But there were almost certainly others, and in one spot was the smell of burning flesh - the most terrible of all smells when one knows that the flesh is that of human beings. These poor creatures had been caught like rats in a trap. The mind reeled from the thought of what they had suffered before death mercifully came to them.\n\nAmongst other things found were twenty-cent, ten-cent, and dollar coins melted and assuming the most fantastic shapes. Two watches were picked up forward; one had stopped at 12:55, and the other at 12:25. There were some Philippine coins too, so that there were probably a Filipino or two on board.\n\nIt was 4:20 when the Stanley finally set off with the Tai On, and about five o'clock, the Kwong Lee came alongside. She had been sent by the owners from Hongkong to assist. Her skipper wanted to go ahead and help, but, as the Tai On's rudder was jammed, towing ahead was not satisfactory, as had been proved already. He was asked to go alongside the Tai On, and, with a launch on each side, Hongkong would have been reached last night; but the skipper did not appear to relish the job. Anyhow, after hovering around for a time, the Kwong Lee cleared off, and the Stanley was left to battle alone with its burden. Now the Stanley was not built for this kind of work, yet it did its part for a long time as though it had been a tug built for the purpose. By 6:30, Castle Peak was looming up in the distance, and ten minutes later, fire broke out in the after hold. Water was poured into it, but it was clear that the fire was a long way from being subdued. There was kerosene oil forward in the hold, and altogether, the Stanley was facing an unpleasant task.\n\nBy seven o'clock, Castle Peak was still in sight, but evidently no nearer. The tide was running strongly against us, and in half an hour, the Stanley had made hardly an inch. Ten minutes later, it was decided to abandon the Tai On. A brave effort had been made to fetch the burning hulk to Hongkong, and if it had failed, that was not from want of resolution or foresight. Happily, her port anchor could be dropped; this was done, and the windlass worked after a fashion.\n\n## Page 473",
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        "content_text": "## HONGKONG TELEGRAPH SUPPLEMENT\n\nYou have an official letter which I have had addressed to you by the Colonial Secretary; and as I have said, it is merely a formal recognition of your services:\n\n**Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 30th April, 1914.**\n\nSir,\n\nI am directed to inform you that your spirited action on the occasion of the piratical attack on board the steamer \"Tai On\" on the night of Monday the 27th of April, 1914, has been brought to the notice of the Governor. It appears that with the help of your colleagues, Mr. McCartney, the Chief Engineer, and Mr. Evans, the Chief Officer, you gallantly withstood the armed assault upon the bridge, and that when the vessel had been set on fire you did all that lay in your power to obtain help from other vessels in the vicinity, afterwards remaining at your post until all had left the burning ship.\n\nYour devotion to duty in circumstances of great peril was worthy of the highest traditions of the British Mercantile Marine Service and I am to convey to you the thanks of His Excellency and the Government of Hongkong for your courageous conduct, which was the means of saving many lives.—I am, Sir,\n\nYour obedient servant,\n**Sd. CLAUD SEVERN**,\nColonial Secretary.\n\nR. H. Wetherell, Esq.,\nMaster, S. S. \"Tai On.\"\n\nI may say here that enquiries will be made into the circumstances under which certain ships, who although they knew that the \"Tai On\" was on fire did not stand by to render her assistance. Thank you again very much and my personal opinion of you at the present is, that you are one of the finest chaps I have ever shaken hands with.\n\nMr. McCartney, you come from a race—the Scots race—which has proved itself equal to any emergency, and you are a fine specimen of one of the finest races on the face of the earth, though I say it who am not of your race.\n\n**Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 30th April, 1914.**\nSir,\nI am directed to inform you that the valuable services which you rendered on the occasion of the piratical attack on board the steamer \"Tai On\" on the night of Monday, the 27th of April, 1914, have been brought to the notice of the Governor.\n\nYou gallantly supported the efforts of the Captain in repelling the armed assault on the bridge, and afterwards when the vessel had been set on fire.\n\nI am to convey to you the thanks of His Excellency and the Government of Hongkong for your brave conduct.—I am, Sir,\nYour obedient servant,\n**Sd. CLAUD SEVERN**,\nColonial Secretary.\n\nI am proud to shake hands with you.\n\nMr. McCartney:-Thank you, sir.\n\nHis Excellency:--And now, Mr. Dias, you acted a very brave part. You were foreman of the guard on board and you showed that the Portuguese race has still got lots of the courage for which it was famous in history. I am glad to think that one of the ancient allies—or a member of a country, the ancient ally of England—stood by British officers to do the strenuous work that you did.\n\nThe following letter has been directed to you:\n\n**Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 30th April, 1914.**\nSir,\nI am directed to inform you that His Excellency the Governor has heard with much pleasure of your gallant conduct on the occasion of the piratical attack on board the steamer \"Tai On\" on the night of Monday, the 27th of April, 1914.\n\nIt appears that with your colleagues you assisted the officers in preventing the pirates from capturing the bridge and wheel-house, and that while so doing you shot down several members of the gang.\n\nI am to convey to you the thanks of His Excellency and the Government of Hongkong for your services.\n\nI am, Sir,\nYour obedient servant,\n**(Sd.) CLAUD SEVERN**,\nColonial Secretary.\n\nAntonie Dias, Esq.,\nArmed Guard,\nS.S. \"Tai On.\"\n\nI am proud to shake hands with you and I am only sorry I was not beside you on the bridge. I will only add that I deeply regret the loss of Mr. Evans and so many others, especially Mr. Evans who must have had a very strenuous time on that night. Now I have asked the Captain Superintendent of Police and the Harbour Master to enquire into the losses which you have incurred and the Government will deal fairly with you in this matter.\n\nCapt. Wetherell:-I beg to thank you on behalf of myself and my shipmates and to unite with you in regret at the loss of Mr. Evans.\n\nThe men again shook hands with His Excellency and left, being photographed in the grounds as they went.\n\nOne of the Chinese passengers of the \"Tai On,\" Leung Ping-wan, who was sent to the Government Civil Hospital on the 28th inst., suffering from shot wounds, died there at 7.45 p.m. on Wednesday.\n\nLee. Sgt. Grimmitt reports that he picked up on the wreck of the \"Tai On\" the following articles: the metal parts of a shot-gun, 3 Winchester Rifles, 2 Mauser Pistols, 2 Automatic Pistols, 2 Revolvers, various silver and copper coins, 3 Bangles, 1 Gold Finger Ring, 1 piece Jade Stone.\n\n## ON THE INQUIRY\n\n41\n\n## HONGKONG TELEGRAPH SUPPLEMENT\n\nTuesday the official inquiry into the circumstances attending the casualty to the British S.S. \"Tai On,\" to quote the words of the warrant forming the Court, was commenced at the Harbour Office. The court, which was composed of Commander Basil Taylor R.N. president, Lt. T. D. Sharp, R.N. HMS. Tamar, Mr. F. T. Wheeler, master of the S.S. Kum Sang, J. W. Evans, master of the S.S. Hai Mun, and J. Robinson master of the S.S. Sangking.\n\nThe first witness called was the master of the ill-fated \"Tai On,\" Capt. Wetherell said he left his wharf at 7 p.m. on April 27.\n\nThe President:-Bound for Wongmoon?-Kwongmoon.\n\nWere there other ships which left at the same time?—Yes; the \"On Lee.\" She left after me and came astern down the central fairway.\n\nWas the \"Lintan\" due to leave at the same time?-I believe so.\n\nDid you see her?-No. Did the \"On Lee\"?-I cannot say, but I have been told she passed me at Capsimun Light.\n\nDid you see any more of the \"On Lee\"?—No.\n\nThen you went along and everything went well until when I turned in before then.\n\nWhen?-About 10 p.m. What is the next thing that happened?—I had a few smokes but could not sleep. I never can sleep on that watch—and then I heard yells, shouts, and revolver shots.\n\nComing from where?-From both sides.\n\nOn your boat deck?-Yes. Any down below?-I can't say that.\n\nThen what did you do?-I got up and turned the light on. A plan of the ship was produced showing the captain's quarters.\n\nYou were fully dressed?-No, in singlet and gown.\n\nThe gun was a-? Ten bore shot gun.\n\nLoaded? It is always kept loaded.\n\nLoaded with what?-S.G.\n\nYour door is on the aft deck?-There are two doors. I went to the starboard side when a man met me. He went back and I went to the port side.\n\nThe man who met you; was he?-A pirate.\n\nArmed?-I had not time to see if he was armed.\n\nThen you went to the port side and what did you see?-A man attacking the Chief Engineer.\n\nArmed?-I could not see. It was dark; I don't know whether it was before or afterwards that the engineer shouted he was shot. Anyhow I gave the man the barrel.\n\nIn his head?-No; in his chest. You fired at the man, and killed him? He went over backwards; he was killed. I went to the starboard side and saw another man; I don't know whether he was coming up or going down but I gave him the other barrel.\n\nThe man dropped on the forecastle?-On the fo'c'sle.\n\nYour gun was then empty?-Yes. I told the engineer to go into my room and passed him my gun to load up again. There were four spare cartridges on the locker.\n\nWere you firing from your cabin?-No. I went into the cabin, got two revolvers, and shot two or three times with those.\n\nWere the pirates behind the grille?-Behind the after grille shouting and yelling.\n\nWere there many of them?-The place swarmed with them.\n\nThere seemed to be a lot?-Yes.\n\nYou fired a few shots at them?-Yes. I must have gone into the wheelhouse and got another...\n\nWhat do you mean...?\n\nYou were using revolvers then?-When the gun was loaded. I got in two more shots, one forward and the other to the starboard side.\n\nHow long did this firing go on?-Perhaps two or three minutes.\n\nAnd they went off; how about the people behind?-They were there all the time.\n\nThen how did you escape?-I was behind the shield?-No.\n\nThen what happened?-I sung out to the mate. I saw there were no more on the bridge, and I told the mate to guard the bridge and see that no more came up.\n\nWhere were your watchmen?-In the meantime I had the grilles closed.\n\nThat was the foremost grille; the after grille was already shut?-Locked.\n\nThe watchmen, where were they?-There was one on each side between the foremost grille and the shield?-Yes.\n\nWhat were they doing?-Firing aft.\n\nWhat were they using?-Each one had a .38 calibre revolver and a Winchester.\n\nThe chief engineer was where?-In my room.\n\nWas he badly hurt?-He was complaining.\n\nWitness said:-I gave him the keys of the rocket locker, and when I got them I let one off.\n\nHow long after the attack commenced did you send off these?-About five minutes.\n\nAs soon as you had repelled the attack?-Yes.\n\nThen you started firing rockets?-I fired one and then had another two or three shots aft. These men were firing all the time. Then I went and got another one but I found the brass tube burst and I was hit in the chest.\n\nYou kept on fighting and sending off rockets?-As best I could. Were your engines going all this time?-I can't say.\n\nYou had not stopped the engines?-The engine room had rung up.\n\nYou can't say what time the engines stopped?-No sir. I rang one engine full ahead and put the helm a-port after I had rung the engines two or three times. I could get no reply. Then I found the steering gear was out of order. By this time were they still firing?-Yes, from aft.\n\nHow long afterwards?-Before they started the fire.",
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        "content_text": "# The Caloocan Clarion\n\nThe fact that no issues of this paper have appeared lately is due to the fact that we have been off on a holiday? Who in the world wants to work all the time. We don't and we are compelled at times to put aside the scissors and the paste pot and take a trip to Heyman's home for weary ones on Calle Pinpin. We are now back on the job, a little bit the worse for wear and deucedly short of funds. We wouldn't mind having some of our delinquent subscribers come through as we sure feel that a plate of beans or wieners would improve our health. Our office is at the same old place and we still can write our name to a receipt. Don't crowd.\n\nThe war news from the front has been quiet lately. The French news censor licked the English news censor for trying to cop all the glory. General Joffre says that the French are tired of doing all the fighting and having the English claim all the credit.\n\nGeneral French has lost his powder puff. There will be a suspension of hostilities until a new one arrives from London.\n\nThe Portuguese army surrendered in a body yesterday to a corporal and seven men of the German army. They will be put to work making tamales for the export trade.\n\n## Advertisements\n\n**GORDON & Co's DRY GIN DISTILLERY, LONDON. APRIL 1, 1917**\n\nT. Graydon Moody has won the championship mile race at the International Athletic Meet at Dublin.\n\nCarl Hess called at the office last week and wanted to know if he owed anything. We got a dollar out of him on account.\n\nBacoor is now the most orderly town in the islands at the present time. The town received a thorough purification some years ago.\n\nThe Ananias Club of the Philippines held its regular annual meeting at Clarke's Saturday last and awarded the prizes for the three best liars in the islands. One went to Henry De Wolff and the other two were awarded to Joe Wolfson.\n\nThe Czar of Russia has conferred the Double Cross on his Imperial Allies King George of England and President Poincaré of France.\n\nJapan is trying to make an alliance with Germany and says that she is willing that, besides ceding back Kiaochau, Singapore and Hongkong should be turned over to the Germans.\n\n## O'CONNELL'S, January 30, 1915\n\nNo. 50\n\nA number of prominent British citizens called at this office last night, but as we were entertaining a delegation of friends from the Caloocan Turn Verein and the Malabon Lodge A. O. H., they did not come in. We tried to persuade them to stay and promised them lots of fun, but they said they were out of training.\n\nMcCulloch Dick was arrested last night on the Escolta for masquerading in false attire. Dick had got himself up as a neutral.\n\nBy means of our own private wireless, we learn from the trenches in Europe that while the soldier boys appreciate the sacks and sweaters and scarfs and bands and such things the women are knitting for them, they would also like to have some one knit for (or otherwise produce) certain other things. Why not knit the boys a good pipe and package of tobacco? Why not knit them plenty of cigarette paper and tobacco? Why not knit them a lot of matches in waterproof match boxes? Why not knit them a few cans of beef extract for hot broth while they are in the trenches? Why not knit them a supply of stationery and pencils for writing home? And a lot of the brave boys would like to have some shattered bones knit for them. Why not knit them a few mending outfits?\n\n**GORDON'S Dry & Old Tom Gin**\n\nBest for Cocktails, Rickeys, Fizzes, etc.\nTake no Substitute\n\n**Kuenzle & Streiff. Ltd**\n343-347 SAN JACINTO\n\n**O'CONNELL'S, January 30, 1915**\n\n## Carnival Opens\n\nA Hint To Mack\n\nWe have received a copy of the new \"Agricultural\" monthly edited by that famed Kansas expert Mark Cretcher. We think that too much of the bureau's appropriation has been spent in paper and ink. If Mr. Cretcher would follow Cyclone Jim's plan and get out and try and make something of value come out of the ground, he would show more real intelligence and be of more value to the people. Incidentally, he would be less criticised. If Mr. Cretcher does not know anything about coconuts, he might start a bean farm or something of the sort. Cretcher has been roasted to a frazzle and from all reports, he is a very decent fellow. He perhaps needs the job he is at present holding and we have no objection to his staying on the payroll. We think, however, that he should stop fooling and get down to real business.\n\nToday is the day. Manila is in fiesta garb and worry and care have been shelved that revelry and merry-making may reign supreme. The big Carnival of 1915 is on and when the great carnival parade winds through the streets of the gay capital this afternoon, it will mark the opening of this famed celebration for which the Philippines are known all over the wide world. Already confetti is being scattered over our sidewalks and pathways, already the maskers are seen mixing with the laborers and the tradesmen. At eight tonight, the only people in the town who will be working will be the policemen, the car-conductors, and the engineers in the light and ice-making plants. Everybody else will be bound for the gay white city on the Luneta to partake in the merriment and have a good time. The carnival city is more beautiful this year than ever before and the Hubbub is full of wonderful attractions from Coney Island and other pleasure resorts. The big ball which will open the carnival this evening is the Devil's Raising Ball and the crowd that attends generally does it. It's merry hell long about midnight. Some elegant costumes will be worn at the ball this year, say the modistes, and it will be worth the price of admission to those who do not dance to go and look on. There will be lots of good things to eat and drink on the carnival grounds. Come early and stay long. Make this the best Carnival we have ever had.\n\nHe Was A Yid\n\nMacfarlane, the Insular Lumber Company manager, tells a story of a Jew soldier in the German army who had accomplished some gallant deed on the field of battle and had been mentioned for the Iron Cross. The Kaiser was present at the town when the Iron Cross was to be presented and decided to make the presentation himself. He asked if the Jew was a man of family and was told that he had a wife and six children and was quite poor. The Kaiser, thinking that the Jew might better appreciate a gift of money, asked him when he was brought up, whether he would rather have the Iron Cross or a hundred marks. The Jew said, \"Your Highness, what is the value of the Iron Cross?\" The Kaiser replied that it was worth a couple of marks, whereupon the Jew said, \"Well, Your Highness, I will take the Iron Cross and 98 marks.\" Mac does not say what the Jew got.\n\nDiscovered\n\nProfessor Waters has been discovered by the daily press. They are certainly getting wise to this Kansas faker at a pretty late day. Waters should be prosecuted by the Philippine government for estafa.\n\nThe man who flooded the German position on the Yser, says a cablegram, has been decorated with the Order of King Leopold. What's that, a rubber medal?\n\nThe entrance of Portugal into the conflict somehow reminds us of the By assisting old man Noah's elephant up the ark's gangplank.\n\nIt seems about time now for the employment of a couple of real tropical agriculturists in the bureau. Why not give Prautch and Lyons a show? Governor-General Harrison has made it pretty evident to everyone in the islands that he has some backbone and wants to do the right thing. He should compel the agricultural bureau to stop wasting its funds and commence to get results.\n\n## Portugal And The War\n\nThe resignation of the Portuguese cabinet was first announced on December 6th, 1914.\n\n...according to a dispatch received here from Lisbon, as stated in an official cablegram received by the German Consul here; but the same was not acknowledged and accepted by Reuter until January 26th, 1915, when he announced the fact in a cablegram dated London, January 25th.\n\nAnd there are still people who declare that the German news-service - official as well as unofficial--is badly informed and brings only faked news.\n\nThere has been so much talk about Portugal being on the brink of war against Germany and of sending an army to the aid of the allies, but we never heard anything of the accomplished fact.\n\nNow this wonder is cleared up.\n\nIt was on the Spanish mail between Hongkong and Singapore; on board were some Portuguese officers heading home from Macau. They were a miserable-looking lot. Their sadness caused the compassion of their fellow-passengers. One of these, a Spanish merchant, asking them for the reason of their sadness, whether or not they did not like to go to war, received this answer: \"We are longing for the war as we are soldiers, but say, isn't it a pity, thrice we sent a declaration of war to Germany but never even a confirmation of receipt.\"\n\nGermany has more to do than to acknowledge little Portugal's war-declarations!\n\n## Advertisements\n\n### THE CARNIVAL NEEDS That Ten Pesos YOU NEED A LITTLE FUN\n\n**RICHTER'S DRY GOODS STORE**\n114-116 ESCOLTA\n\n| Corsets        | Description                                                                                   |\n|----------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|\n| AMERICAN LADY  | The Corset that braces, buoys up woman and beautifies the modern through the active hours...  |\n| MADAME LYRA    | ...soft, light and pliant- yielding to every demand of the wearer.                           |\n\n**E. 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        "content_text": "[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\nOPIUM.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL,\n\n[2022]\n\n&\n\nSir+\n\nNo. 1.\n\n367\n\n[January 6.]\n\nC\n\nSECTION\n\n17818\n\nREC? 19 APR 15\n\nDr. Caldecott to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received\n\nKing's College, Strand, London, January 4, 1915.\n\nTHE representative board of British anti-opium societies desires once more to address you on the present position of the opium question as regards—\n\n(1.) The continued pressure on China to admit Indian opium into three of her provinces;\n\n(2.) The sale of opium in licensed shops in Shanghai.\n\n1. That the board ventures to press these matters again upon your attention, even during the present time of strain and anxiety, is due to its earnest desire that at this grave juncture the position of our country should be free from any shade of injustice towards the Chinese nation and consistent with that high standard as regards the claims of weaker States which His Majesty's Government is engaged in maintaining elsewhere at so tremendous a cost. The board is profoundly convinced that a right attitude towards China in this matter is of momentous import to Britain's position before God and man.\n\n2. The board has had before it the following:\n\n(a) Your letter to Mr. T. C. Taylor, M.P., of 8th October in reply to a resolution of the Society for the Suppression of the Opium Traffic.\n\n(b) Your letter to Mr. C. E. Price, M.P., of 5th November in reply to a letter of the Edinburgh Anti-Opium Committee.\n\n(c) A pamphlet by the Rev. Arnold Foster of Wuchang entitled \"Municipal Ethics,\" commenting on the action of the Shanghai Municipal Council licensing opium shops (copy herewith).* \n\n(d) The \"Shanghai Municipal Gazette,\" 22nd October, 1914, containing correspondence between His Majesty's consul-general at Shanghai and the Chairman of the Municipal Council on the same subject.\n\n3. As regards the release of China from her obligation to admit Indian Opium.- The board recognises the important concession offered to China, in the intimation that His Majesty's Government is willing to release her from the obligation to admit Indian opium as soon as it is shown that the three provinces in Eastern China not yet certified as free from poppy cultivation-Kwangtung, Kiangsu, and Kiangsi-have been cleared of the plant, without waiting for similar proof as regards the five remaining provinces in the west, which are practically inaccessible to Indian opium. At the same time the fact that it will be impossible to obtain evidence of such clearance for some months to come, as the poppy is in these provinces a spring crop, involves a delay which is both humiliating and vexatious to China. The maintenance in the meanwhile of the treaty obligation to admit Indian opium into these provinces affects, not only themselves, but other neighbouring provinces like Chekiang, which find it almost impossible to protect themselves against smuggling, although they have been declared free of poppy growth themselves. (See on this point the testimony of Mr. Alexander Langman, of the China Inland Mission, Hangchow, already submitted by the Society for the Suppression of the Opium Trade.) Considering how wholly unprecedented is the claim of Great Britain to dictate to another nation that she shall complete her own measures of suppression before being permitted to exclude from her territory an injurious drug; considering, too, the abundant proof given by the Chinese Government of its determination and ability to carry out this great reform, notwithstanding all the hindrances interposed by revolution and disorder, and the enormous vested interests, both public and private, which have to be overcome, the board submits that it would not merely be generous but essentially just on the part of His Majesty's Government\n\n* Not printed.\n\n[2362 f-1]",
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        "content_text": "503\n\nthe proposed line westwards from Tsinanfu; and, if so, whether this will enable Germany to extend her sphere of influence beyond Shantung, to which she has hitherto been confined by the Kiaochau Convention?\n\nThe Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Sir Edward Grey): The answer is in the affirmative. I cannot say whether the extension will have the effect suggested, but in any case it is a matter which concerns the German and Chinese Governments, and I am not aware that there is any Convention that debars Germany from obtaining a railway concession outside Shantung.\n\nTuesday, 7th July, 1914.\n\nSHANGHAI SETTLEMENT\n\nEXTENSION.\n\nMr. Theodora Taylor asked whether there have been negotiations between China and ourselves and other Powers for the addition to the leased territory known as the International Settlement of Shanghai of the district known as Chapei; and, if so, what consideration in return is being offered to China?\n\n60\n\nSir E. Grey There is no leased territory at Shanghai, but for many years past friction has been caused between the Chinese and foreign authorities by the conflict of jurisdictions arising out of the natural development of the International Settlement at that port. In September, 1912, the diplomatic body at Peking were requested by the Chinese Government to arrange for the negotiation locally of a clear demarcation of the boundaries between the Chinese and foreign areas with a view to effecting a permanent settlement of the questions at issue. No effect was given by the Chinese authorities at Shanghai to this request until the end of last year, when the subject was again raised. Beyond some friendly exchange of views, no formal negotiations have, however, taken place as yet.\n\nFriday, 10th July, 1914.\n\nRAILWAY CONCESSIONS, BRITISH\n\nGOVERNMENT POLICY.\n\nExtract from Speech made by Mr. GEORGE LLOYD\n\nI have reviewed what we have not gained in the Middle East. Now let us come to the Far East. Whilst the position there is not quite so serious, I think there is still ground for a great deal of anxiety and criticism. We have seen, in the last few years, the whole of Manchuria and China being opened up to foreign railway enterprise. With the big advantages of production which this country is alleged to possess in virtue of its free markets and its purchasing facilities, with low paid labour and predominant transport facilities, one would have thought the right hon. gentleman would have a far easier task than anyone else who is seeking to get commercial concessions out of the Chinese Government. We put practically no duties on Chinese exports. We have treated China in every way both as regards opium, and in other ways with peculiar generosity and fairness. That cannot be said of other nations to the same extent in dealing with China. Therefore the Foreign Secretary ought to have an advantage in negotiation, and to have had a You would have singular in quotation. thought that the combination was irresistible, and we ought to have swept the board. The fact is not so. Other nations, handicapped as everyone on that side of the House will admit they are by a system which makes it more difficult for them to compete with us in the acquisition of these concessions in railway considerations and the production of staple material, and with the perpetual reproach which China made against them. \"You treat our exports with a huge tariff and do not give us any chance\" - you would not have thought that any other nation could have stood a chance with us in negotiations for what was going in China. Take areas in China - I exclude Manchuria and Shantung, where in one case Russia, and in the other Germany has admittedly a special position.\n\n61\n\nTake even our own areas where we admittedly have special claims which are admitted by other countries, such as the Yangtsze Valley. It will be remembered by everyone that in 1905 there was concluded a simple agreement to which the Foreign Office was a witness; it took note of the agreement. It was an agreement literally with the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, by which it was admitted by our trade rivals in those areas that in return for keeping out of certain areas in China we were to be put in a privileged position in the Yangtze Valley for the purpose of expansion and other matters. As regards commerce, there was to be a special field for British enterprise. There is no doubt about that. It was a perfectly clear agreement, and it seems to me that, as the Foreign Office was a witness to it, it was the duty of the Foreign Office to see that the Yangtsze Valley Agreement was respected by those parties who put their hands to it. That is common sense, and it is obvious to everybody. The point is: Did the Foreign Office see that the Yangtsze Agreement, in return for the self-denying ordinances we entered into in regard to other matters in China, was observed by the other parties? I think it is clearly shown that the agreement was not observed.\n\nThat is regrettable, and it is ground for criticism. The Foreign Office seem to have made no effective protest as regards the Yangtsze Valley, or, if any steps were actually taken, none of them have been really effective. Of course, it is not a question of debate at all. According to the agreement the Germans were given the right in the Yangtsze Valley to build the Ichang under Lautiokow Railway, and it is now under construction. Russians and Belgians equally have the right to come down the Yangtsze Valley to Chiengtu, and the French, who are not concerned at this particular moment, have yet got, as hon. gentleman may remember, rights to build a railway from Haiphong to Yunnan. The French, in addition, have now got a concession to build a railway from Yunnan to Chiang King, which is beginning to be of great interest in Burma. The railway from Haiphong to Yunnan is a very important line indeed. They, therefore, go into the Yangtsze Valley by a prolongation of the railway. In regard to the latter line - though of this I am not sure, not being in a position to know. I believe we made a Treaty in 1896 by which we were to share with the French the railway rights in Yunnan and Shantung. If that is the case, and if in virtue of that agreement we do so share these railway rights, I wish to know whether or not the Foreign Office has protested as regards the acquisition of France of treaty rights in which we ought to share. If we do not share them, what have you got for the position which France has made for herself in that area?\n\nExtract from Speech made by Sir J. D. REES.\n\nI am afraid I must adhere to my view, notwithstanding what the hon. gentleman",
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        "content_text": "he must know that the poppy is grown freely in China at the present moment, and the reports that come home to this country that opium is no longer grown are mere eyewash. I do not wish to take up the time of the Committee, but I think that the aspect of the opium trade, which I bring before the House, is worthy of the attention of our Foreign Minister, whose duty it is to consider the interests of British trade quite as much as the benefits to a particular section of the people who press upon him the total suppression of a trade which they have been led to think is nothing but injurious, which is very far from being the case.\n\nSir Edward Grey: our claim in the Yangtsze?\n\nMr. George Lloyd: There was no self-denying ordinance as regards railways or any other concessions whatever. Were we not free; or if there was such a self-denying ordinance, which was our sphere?\n\nSir Edward Grey: I must ask the hon. member not to interrupt. I am trying to interpret his views as a whole. Why did he bring in the Yangtsze region? We have not got any special title to the Yangtsze, except that we have already got vested railway interests-British railway interests in that region, and we therefore hold that in that particular region where British railways already exist we have the right to further claim that not on treaty ground, because there are no special treaty grounds, but on general grounds of the vested interests we have already, that these new railway concessions ought to be British Concessions. With regard to Chinese railways,\n\nI was rather taken aback when the hon. Member for West Staffordshire said what he did about our position in the Yangtsze region.\n\nI have had a note made, somewhat hurriedly, as to what our agreements actually are. Notes were exchanged between His Majesty's Government and the Chinese Government in 1898 by which the Chinese Government pledged themselves not to alienate the Yangtsze region to another Power. That holds good still, and there has been no question of alienating the Yangtsze region. That does not deal with the particular point of the concession. The Hongkong and Shanghai Bank and the Deutsch Asiatische Bank made an agreement in 1895 for sharing loans in China, and financial operations for railways were to be the subject of special agreements. An additional clause was added in 1905 modifying the 1895 Agreement so as to allow greater freedom of action to either party. In 1898 an Agreement was signed between the two groups defining the sphere of interest of the two countries regarding railway construction in China, leaving the Yangtze Valley to Great Britain, and Shantung to Germany. Those were arrangements between two particular commercial groups; they are not like treaties between Governments. In 1899 followed the Hukuang Railway Loan Agreement between the British, French, and Germans, to which the Americans were admitted in 1911. That produced various complications, and the whole matter of these arrangements, not between Governments, but between the different groups, French, German, and British in China, has been exceedingly complicated. All I can say without further notice is that I have been endeavouring recently, and the groups have been endeavouring to disentangle some of these complications to get their hands more free, and we have now pending considerable railway concessions, and I believe the particular arrangement between the groups will now enable different countries-ourselves amongst others to go ahead more freely in these parts of China in which they have particular interests.\n\nPage 64\n\nWednesday, 22nd July, 1914.\n\nFIVE-POWER GROUP LOAN.\n\nSir J. D. Ress asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether any arrangement has been completed between the Chinese Government and the Five-Power Group regarding the proposed loan?\n\nThe Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Acland): The answer is in the negative.\n\nThursday, 23rd July, 1914.\n\nPEKING ARSENAL.\n\nPage 65\n\nMr. King asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he has received information that an arsenal is to be constructed for the Chinese Government near Peking; that the work is to be carried out by the firm of Krupps, and that the materials are to be entirely of German manufacture; and, if so, whether he can state whether a special loan has been obtained by China for this purpose?\n\nSir E. Grey: I have not received this information.\n\nOPIUM IN SHANGHAI.\n\nMr. Theodore C. Taylor asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether the Shanghai Municipal Gazette of 18th June last, indicates that there are now 663 opium shops licensed in Shanghai, from which the Municipality of Shanghai derives a revenue of 10,995 dollars per month and whether he has recently taken any, and, if so, what steps to induce this chiefly British municipality to discontinue this traffic?\n\nSir E. Grey: I have not seen the publication in question. As I explained to the hon. member on 14th April and 16th June last, the Municipal Council at Shanghai is an independent International body over which His Majesty's Government have no control. I have, however, instructed His Majesty's Minister at Peking to use his influence to encourage the Council to put an end to the opium licences.\n\nMr. T. C. Taylor asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether, at the request of certain Western Powers, including Great Britain, the Chinese Government has recently agreed to a portion of Chinese territory, known as the North Szechuan Road Extension, being added to the international settlement of Shanghai; and whether, seeing that the vice of opium-smoking is forbidden and punished in Chinese territory, while it is being encouraged in the international settlement, this is an extension of the area in which opium-smoking is practised?\n\nSir E. Grey I informed the hon. Member on the 7th instant of the present situation as regards the proposed extension of the international settlement at Shanghai and I have nothing to add to what I said then on the subject.\n\nMr. T. C. 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        "content_text": "1771\n\nprovince of Chekiang of exorbitant taxes United States mer- upon British and chandise; and, if so, what was the nature of such inerchandise?\n\nSir E. Grey: His Majesty's Minister and the United States Minister at Peking recently protested against illegal taxation in the Province of Chekiang. I am not aware of the nature of the merchandise which was subject to this taxation.\n\nMr. T. C. Taylor: Will the right hon. gentleman kindly make enquiries?\n\nSir E. Grey: I do not think it necessary to make any enquiry into that particular detail of merchandise. Perhaps it would satisfy my hon. friend if I told him I have ascertained that there is no question of these goods having anything to do with opium, and this particular province is closed to opium.\n\nMr. T. C. Taylor asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if he will state whether the British Minister in Peking re- cently threatened to send a British war vessel up the Yangtze River, and, if so, for what reason?\n\nSir E Grey: The answer to this question, so far as I am aware, is in the negative.\n\n66\n\nMr. T. C. Taylor asked the Secretary for Foreign Affairs whether a British Consul has had occasion recently to pay a visit of remonstrance to the Governor of the province. of Anhui, in China; and, if so, why?\n\nSir E. Grey His Majesty's Consul at Wuhu was recently sent to Anking to re- monstrate with the Governor on the subject of illegal taxation in Anhui similar to that which had been imposed in Chekiang.\n\nTuesday, 28th July, 1914- WIRELESS TELEGRAPH SCHEME,\n\nMr. Walter Guinness asked the Secre- tary of State for Foreign Affairs whether his attention has been drawn to an announce- ment from Shanghai that a complete chain of Telefunken wireless stations is in process of completion in China; whether he is aware that the Chinese Government had intended to authorise Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Company to issue £2,000,000 Chinese Bonds in payment of Marconi Wireless stations in China on the basis of a formal contract; whether he can state which of these two companies is to receive the wireless privileges in China; and what steps he can take to protect the interests of Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Company, with which Government is in contractual relationship?\n\nSir E. Grey I have seen the announce- ment referred to by the hon. member, and am aware that a preliminary understanding of the nature described was entered into between the Marconi Company and the Chinese Minister of Finance. The Company have been informed that His Majesty's Government are prepared to afford them such support as they properly can, and the Company will no doubt apply for support whenever they consider it necessary. have, however, no information as to which of the two companies is to receive the wireless privileges of China.\n\n1\n\nMr. W. Guinness: Will the two contracts compete in any way?\n\nSir E. Grey: I cannot say.\n\nMr. King: Is full value in the stations which are being erected being given for this loan of £2,000,000.\n\nSir E. Grey: That is a matter if I understand my hon, friend's question rightly -between the Chinese Government and the people with whom they are making the contract. I understand the particular question to be whether, if there is competition between a British company and a foreign company, the British company will receive diplomatic support such as is usually given, and that question I have answered.\n\nThursday, 18th February, 1915.\n\nFAR EASTERN WAR CLAIMS.\n\nSir William Bull asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether there was any understanding between the four great Allied Powers regarding the time at which and the method in which all the Far-Eastern claims arising out of the war were to be put forward for international settlement; and, if so, could he indicate its nature.\n\nSir Edward Grey: An agreement was signed in London on Sept. 5th, 1914, between the British, French, and Russian Govern- ments, and was published in the Press at the time, to the effect that the three Powers mutually engaged not to conclude peace separately during the present war. They also agreed that when terms of peace come to be discussed no one of the Allies will demand terms of peace without the previous agreement of each of the other Allies. Article 2 of the Anglo-Japanese Alliance has the same effect, and therefore unites all four Powers for the purpose named in the question.\n\nMonday, 22nd February, 1915.\n\nFOODSTUFFS AS ABSOLUTE CONTRABAND.\n\nLord C. Beresford asked the Prime Minister whether the British Government would immediately place all food and raw material used to foster German industries on the list of absolute contraband of war; and whether he would consider the possibility, in order to make this declaration more powerful, of sending a joint Note from the Allies, France, Russia, Japan, and Great Britain, all equally concerned in ending the war, stating their determination to enforce these stringent measures with a view of hastening the end of the war.\n\n67\n\nMr. Asquith The Allied Governments are considering what action it would be proper for them to take by way of reprisals against the German policy of attacking and destroying British, Allied, and neutral merchant vessels without warning, and without any attempt to save the lives of the civilian and innocent crews. Pending such decision, which I hope will very soon be announced, I can make no statement as to the nature and scope of the measures to be taken, or the form in which they may be made public.\n\nLord C. Beresford: Will it be a joint Note, or a Note specially from Great Britain?\n\nMr. Asquith I cannot yet say that. There will certainly be a Note from Great Britain, and I hope there will be a joint Note,\n\nThursday, 18th February, 1915,\n\nJAPANESE DEMANDS ON CHINA.\n\nMr. Gerard Stewart asked whether the British Government had received the text of the demands put forward by the Japanese Government to China.\n\nSir E. 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        "content_text": "# Petition to Proceed to Zion City, America\n\n398\n\nMy dear Sir,\n\nDoederlein in Leipzig, who saw things through. Being considered American, I did not come into any military service. After passing the final examination in Leipzig, I went in my 22nd year again to the States, where I worked with the founder of Zion City, Dr. Dowie, for two years. I then returned to Germany for 1 year, preparing and passing the examination in Leipzig Theol. College as D.D. \n\nAfter this, I followed an invitation from the founder of the China Inland Mission, Rev. Hudson Taylor, to act as his interpreter in Germany, Switzerland, and France, and I came out with him to China in 1896. Since that time, I have not been to Germany, had no connection whatever with Germany, and was told by the Consul General of Germany that he had no connection with me whatever.\n\nMy son Hans has been born here in China, is not registered in any German consulate, and has never been to Germany. We considered ourselves always at heart as Alsacians, politically as Americans, but never as Germans.\n\nWhen I wanted to explain things to the officer who boarded the China, I was told to wait till I was in Hongkong.\n\nTherefore, most honored Sir, it is my humble petition to let my son and myself go on to Zion City, America, to prepare a home there for my relatives from Feaumont, and my wife, who are now, since 20 months, again oppressed by the Prussians. If I had not had cancer for two years in my left arm, my place was not in China, but on the side of my brothers, who are giving blood and life to regain our homeland; and because the British nation is helping us in that heroic fight, we ask God to give us victory and our homeland. I have been 17 years in China without any rest and need rest very much.\n\nBut if it should be decided that I had to go to Australia, I would beg you, most honored Sir, to put my son and myself away from any German camp, as I do not want him to grow up among our enemies.\n\nI cannot write down all I feel about the situation, but I assure you that each word I wrote is spoken as before God. I can assure each statement with a holy oath.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-436 - Acting Governor Claud Sever & Governor Sir May & Public Offices - 1916 [11-12]",
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        "title": "CO129-436 - Acting Governor Claud Sever & Governor Sir May & Public Offices - 1916 [11-12]",
        "content_text": "## Confidential.\n\n**Kie Majesty's Legation, Bangkok, 26th October, 1916.**\n\nI am informed by Mr. Spilman, agent of the American Mission here, that a certain case is being detained in Hongkong by reason of its containing, amongst other goods, five hundred .22 calibre cartridges. The case is marked as follows:-\n\n| Marking | Details |\n|---------|---------|\n| M.P.EX 00. |  |\n| 1. Taylor |  |\n| Bangkok 46416 | No. 520 |\n\nThis case was shipped from Chicago on the 30th August 1918, and apart from the above small quantity of cartridges, is said to contain milk only. The representative of the Mission now states that, if the authorities cannot release the cartridge, he would be greatly obliged if the remaining contents of the case could be allowed to come forward.\n\nI have the honour to recommend this request to your favourable consideration, and if there is no objection, I trust that it may be found possible to permit the transshipment of this case to Bangkok, either by extracting the cartridge in Hongkong, or by consigning it intact to His Majesty's Consulate General here, who could arrange for the withdrawal of the prohibited goods at this port, though it would perhaps be preferable that the prohibited goods should be removed in Hongkong.\n\nI should observe that the United States ambassador in London appears to have been moved by the American Presbyterian Mission Board to bring the detention of these goods to the notice of His Majesty's Government.",
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        "content_text": "## Concurrence of the C.C.\n\nMr. Long proposes to reply in the affirmation to the proposal in the last sentence of the Gov.'s tel. 7 (sgd) G. Grinally gov. May 4/16 1916 22 Dec. + \n\nLast previous Paper.\n\nHONG KONG 64001 REC'd 6409 Red FEB 17 411 Candidate for Post of Government Analyst. Recommends not Dovey & encloses memorandum regarding reasons for preferring him. App'd 48. 22 Feb 17 Next subsequent Paper.\n\nM. Colebrook in P.T. capacity Love chance & fitting this comm Ty From my candidate in departmental point I now I ho think the Sot make out his case for M'dary in inference Day Taylor. ? Appror app. 117 Dovey\n\nSir H. Fiddes Mr. Long (441) Wt. 14758—1. $7,000. 7/16. BM & 9. 17.06.17 Are For approval 8.2.1 5.5.8.4.17",
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        "document_key": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916",
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        "title": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916",
        "content_text": "HONG KONG\n\nCommander Pasil Taylor\n\n1916\n\n9 Sep. Asks that pending an appeal to the Army Council his pay be suspended pending reconsideration as he was stated to have been overpaid.\n\nREG 12 SEP 16!\n\n806 { 43584\n\n14. Sept 16 Copy (For info to Admiralty)\n\n9. 8 Jan 17.\n\nNext subsequent Paper.\n\nAstm 34951\n\n5% Do not understand the action of either the Commander or the CA. in this matter.\n\nCommander Taylor was promised by the Flag Officer an allowance equivalent (with his naval pay within & allied to Colonial full pay).\n\nImpar la Commander AN. 22/anday. Was dang choose whare bold CA.\n\nAding apparently have decided to call his pay vaha 9 spaday 25/-nday full pay. who apparently without referring to Lark deprived Comm.\n\nTopbar fa considvalle sam. In the Vb. 35900-6. 45,000 12/15. M&S\n\nPage ...\n\nLast previous Paper.\n\nREC\n\n720\n\n14.\n\n'anas may.\n\nAdry\n\nwb.\n\ni\n\n... \n\n435-84\n\nalır 4400\n\nHer pay.\n\n...\n\n7).\n\nF : I M\n\n...\n\n \nPage ...",
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        "document_key": "CO129-449 - Governor Sir May & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1918 [7-9]",
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        "title": "CO129-449 - Governor Sir May & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1918 [7-9]",
        "content_text": "## THE APPEAL TRIBUNAL\n\nMr. Ross THOMSON-I think we do not quite understand each other in regard to the word clerical. I mean that the work had to be done sitting at a desk.\n\nH.E. THE GOVERNOR-I understand.\n\nMr. Ross THOMSON-My own work is purely clerical. Mr. Stabb's is purely clerical used in the sense that it is used.\n\nH.E. THE GOVERNOR-So is mine.\n\nMr. Ross THOMSON-It simply means sedentary work.\n\nH.E. THE GOVERNOR-The pre-war staff of the China Sugar Refinery department was five Europeans and 18 others; three Europeans and three ladies have been engaged since the war. Put it to you that by increasing the number of these ladies and drawing upon the substitution list, which is an extraordinarily strong one, it would be a very easy matter to find a substitute for this 25-year-old, eight-year-experienced Mr. Rawlinson. I understand you have not tried to get substitutes because it involves communication with the Head Office.\n\nMr. Ross THOMSON-It involves a number of things.\n\nH.E. THE GOVERNOR-There is another question I would like to put to you. Is it not a fact that one of your senior staff is about to go on leave?\n\nMr. Ross THOMSON-I am not aware of anyone about to go on leave.\n\nH.E. THE GOVERNOR-I do not wish to mention names. Is there anyone on leave at present?\n\nMr. Ross THOMSON-Not that I know, in addition to Mr. Edkins and Mr. Nuttall.\n\nH.E. THE GOVERNOR-Perhaps the third member is going on transfer somewhere else.\n\ntransfers have to be made in the business from one port to another. These transfers are arranged between August and November in the previous year and are usually carried out in the Spring. It was then arranged that Mr. Fisher should go to take up certain duties in the Shanghai office. Mr. Taylor, who was at home on leave, was to come out in the Spring to take up the position Mr. Fisher held here. He was delayed by illness and only arrived a week ago. He takes Mr. Fisher's duties, and Mr. Fisher was at once to go to Shanghai to take up duties there, but in the meantime, our agent in Swatow has broken down and has to leave the port. Mr. Fisher is to go temporarily to Swatow to relieve the agent there and upon the agent's return, Mr. Fisher will proceed to Shanghai. That is the position with regard to Mr. Fisher.\n\nH.E. THE GOVERNOR-What you have said shows the vast difference between Mr. Taylor's importance to the firm and this young man's whose case we are now considering. I can well understand the Ministry of Shipping facilitating the granting of passports to a man of 35 years of age and who may be described as one of your senior staff. But I am as certain as I am that I am sitting here that if it had been a question of obtaining passports for any of these young men, they would not have got them. The only other remark that I have to make is that it was extremely interesting to hear your valuable statement of your case, but, although more detailed, it does not really contain any essentials that were not before the Tribunal.\n\nMr. Ross THOMSON-Do you refer to Mr. Fisher? He is going. Mr. Taylor has come out to relieve him.\n\nH.E. THE GOVERNOR-The Tribunal, at the request of the Chamber of Commerce, who asked for this conscription, has upon it no less than six experienced business men, men who know thoroughly, or who are supposed to know thoroughly the ins and outs of all sorts of business in this Colony. And yet these six men, with unanimity, decided that these three young men could be spared without any exemption whatever. I would add to that that unfortunately we had not tonnage to take the people who were enrolled straight away to their destination, but as far as India is concerned, to which some of these men will have to go, there will probably be a considerable interval before they leave this...",
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        "document_key": "CO129-452 - Others & Individuals - 1918",
        "page_number": 446,
        "title": "CO129-452 - Others & Individuals - 1918",
        "content_text": "441 \n\nC \n\nTaylor R. \n\n1918 \n\nd1 Oct. \n\nLast previous Paper. \n\n**HONG KONG PATRONAGE** \n\n52611 \n\nPromotion \n\nso \n\n52611 \n\nRecd Gros NOV 15 \n\napplies for ... outside his own line. authorities \n\nAdministrator \n\nhis down to an \n\n: \n\n* \n\nAns? 13 Nov./18. \n\nMr. Bunter \n\nHave you any note of recommendations of Commander B. Taylour of the nature indicated. \n\nI don't suppose he has any chance \n\nAce \n\n5.11 \n\nMr \n\nnote \n\nI have no but annexed are extract Governors he mentions. \n\nan \n\na report by Fii H. Blake, of reports by the other. \n\nHe did not come out well as the result of enquiry into defalcations in his Dept. in 1910 (`8462`), and in 1913 he was cautioned for want of tact in his communications with the public (`362485`).\n\nNext subsequent Paper (`29398 h.`). Wt. 24661-18. 12m. 98. D&S. 122 41. \n\nPT.O. \n\nLA. No. 7, 1918",
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        "document_key": "CO129-455 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1919 [7-9]",
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        "title": "CO129-455 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1919 [7-9]",
        "content_text": "# \n224 \n\nreturned to Strassburg, where my mother remarried. As the treatment, accorded to us three boys by our German stepfather was unbearable, my two younger brothers went over to Beaumont in France, and I went to Gymnasium in Strassbourg. I finished that with 19 years, and went then to University in Leipzig. When I was called up to register as soldier in my 20th year, I applied to the American Consul Doederlein in Leipzig, who saw things through. Being considered American, I did not come into any military service. After passing final examination in Leipzig, I went in my 22nd year again to the States, where I worked with the founder of Zion City, Dr. Dowie, for two years. I then returned to Germany for 1 year, preparing and passing examination in Leipzig Theol. College as D.D. After this I followed an invitation of the founder of the China Inland Mission, Reverend Hudson Taylor, to act as his interpreter in Germany, Switzerland and France, and I came out with him to China in 1898. Since that time I have not been to Germany, had no connections whatever with Germany, and was told by the Consul-General of Germany, that he had no connection with me whatever.\n\nMy son Hans has been born here in China, is not registered in any German Consulate, and has never been to Germany. We considered ourselves always as Alsacians, politically as Americans, but never as Germans.\n\nWhen I wanted to explain things to the officer, who boarded the China, I was told to wait till I was in Hongkong.\n\nTherefore, most honoured Sir, it is my humble petition, to let my son and myself go on to Zion City, America, to prepare a home there for my relatives from Beaumont, and my wife, who are now since 20 months again oppressed by the Prussians. If I had not cancer since two years in my left arm, my...",
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        "document_key": "CO129-459 - Individuals - 1919",
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        "title": "CO129-459 - Individuals - 1919",
        "content_text": "of the Service, the balance of the leave \n\nof absence which may be due to \n\nan officer on full pay, up to a maximum \n\nof six months. You should however, \n\nbefore making application for leave of absence \n\nknow the date of your demobilisation.\n\n3. I am to add that \n\npermission cannot be granted \n\nto apply for transfer \n\nto the Royal Army Ordnance Corps under the \n\nconditions specified in the extract from the \n\nNaval & Military Record of the 11th of Dec, \n\nannexed in \n\nletter under reply.\n\nHONG KONG \n\n8340 \n\n402 \n\n8340 \n\nRECEIVED \n\n8 FEB 19 \n\nFaylour. \n\nCommdr. B. \n\n1919 \n\n6th Feb. \n\nLast previous Paper. \n\nPost of Administrator of a Colony \n\nApplies for \n\nI 1846 \n\nAris 26710/19 \n\nCopy \n\nforward \n\nfo:02. \n\n15 March $123623 \n\nNext subsequent Paper. \n\n8916.1 \n\nMa Coll \n\ndhu Sowell \n\nMe \n\non frindly \n\nSa alur 8916 \n\nOn 5/130 below the O.A.G. of HK \n\n1918/19 \n\nstated that Comma, Taylous would probably be asked to \n\nretire on pension \n\non reaching the age of 55 = Cefnt 1920 \n\nor Ma \n\nI asked if arrangements could be made for Com. Taylor \n\nto retain his connection with the Ading until he is due to retire. He referred in this connection to the form of \n\nLetter \n\ndost. of Aug 1911 (31502), forwarding a from the H.K. \n\nChamber of Commerce expressing general dissatisfaction \n\nwith the manner in which \n\nComm. Taylor had conducted himself in his official \n\ncapacity & the earnest wish of all representatives of \n\n(20104-4 h.) Wt. 30876-21. 60 11/189 D&S G. 122/ 41.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-461 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1920 [5-7]",
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        "content_text": "20129/461\n\n(18936B) W, 17721/43 2,000 12/52 H, J, R & L, Ld. Op 113\n\nDESP NO.\n\nDATE\n\nHong Kong\n\n1920\n\nVOL. 2\n\nSUBJECT\n\nГл.152\n1673\nTubong\nJet.2 may\n46\n156.\n1577\n161$\n16210\n163**\nوال13\ntony.14\n167\n168bonj\nZet.•\nCony172\n17J\n\nShips lost through Enemy action.\n\nRevision of Salaries: tadeli\n\nDeath\n\n2 Inspector Lamont\n\n7. A. Howce Pension\n\nBuilding Grant... J. & baldia\n\nIt Jomph's College.\n\nCome for Enatumata at Hong.\n\nJitnahon at Macao.\n\nPassage Scheme for Offram.\n\nFormer Every Abeus. not allowed to save on\n\nof Supt. Vectona Gavl\n\nJunveyor of Buildings\n\nGE. Thomas Pension heave\n\nBud: Vannels\n\nPosta brang: Position as ryands W.50. Fuurd.\n\nof Electueran P.W.LD.\n\nCapt. Taylor Petition.\n\n- Hauben Marlin.\n\nDodany off badets.\n\nTracing &\n\nand Dist Officer for Wer han. Wen.\n\nPension\n\nlos Hendale\n\n- 50.6. Wolff- appt. to Leg, b'al.\n\nNew Jalanes Scheme - Cipplest to present Police Officers\n\nbadilihips\n\nNew Dalamis Rehome.\n\nProposed Buchan of Treaties with Fram\n\nwere of Speed - Person\n\nZetJy\nLocal Lekang Office\nPayments to AW. Wilzer2.5\nSaluting Ilations4\nН+\n774ๆๆ\n\nPassages & Officials-comany on leave-\n\nof\n\nVolunteers\n\nFormation of Resthish B\".\n\nTok Esaur Decurities & certam bauto\n\n464\n\n1\n\nPage",
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        "content_text": "directions that a member of the Far Sanam Dept. oka \n\nat org Jarus \n\nAmé \n\nconvement to yourself. \n\n(Signed) G. CRINDEL \n\n沖 \n\nGov \n\nHome \n\nHONG KONG \n\n32029 \n\nFranbour Index. \n\nRE \n\n32029 \n\nIRE 30 JUN LO \n\n57 \n\nLast previous Paper. \n\nGr 518079 \n\nGr 1979 Foulon) lace wa \n\n1920 \n\n10th. Inave. \n\nbase. B. Taylor \n\nf wire. from 1st Int. 1920 comments affet. of Comm to. And how. Ben kanth Rov. S be \n\nIf approx \n\n+ \n\ndo that 2. Ca. wt Bake be offered frost \n\nmastis, that will \n\nAward Ž esetle \n\nMi Colline \n\nAuso coup 19 Jelj \n\nTel. Jour \n\nΣΕ \n\nAug. \n\nKam but I presume \n\nso before Promotion Clu \n\n? Vacancy form \n\n15 Permitions Desert. \n\nfor their wish \n\nILov \n\n15 \n\nthe shad \n\ncan find anyone \n\nCar Beckwrth \n\nI don't suppose \n\nbetter fitted \n\nWH \n\nNext subsequent Paper. \n\nfor 52849 \n\nFile 14963 (Conway Hake) \n\n(26069-) 17. 26689-35 50,000 11/19 1. St. G. 122 41. \n\nP.T.O",
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        "content_text": "At the same time we may add that there are other weapons in the carpenter's, shoe-maker's, and tailor's shops which necessitate a much stricter search being made on prisoners when they come off duty than has been the case in the past. In fact some of the exhibits in the murder trial, such as the part of the shoemaker's knife, were probably conveyed by a prisoner from the shoemaker's or carpenter's shop.\n\n6. With regard to the prisoners having escaped in suits of plain clothes, they probably smuggled such suits (consisting of grey shirting material, out of the tailor's shop) under their prison clothes, and we are quite convinced that, with the small staff then available for supervision, such smuggling would have been a comparatively easy matter.\n\n7. As regards the lighting system, it seems to us that the yard in the neighbourhood of the block from which the prisoners escaped, requires further lighting, and we would suggest that electric lights be put in to supplement the present gas lights, and we would also suggest that in the interior of the block, from which the prisoners escaped, (which is the biggest block in the prison), further electric light should be put so as to permit of all the corridors being flooded with light in case of emergency.\n\n8. As regards the alarm system, we think that the addition, which has been made since the occurrence, by which the alarm calls up the Police as well as the Gaol officers, is a considerable improvement on the practice existing at the time of the murder; and we do not think it necessary to make any further recommendation upon the subject except to say that in F. Block the alarm should be placed inside the grille enclosure, which we recommend hereafter for the Reserve Guard.\n\n9. The recommendation of the jury that no less than two European Warders should be on duty inside of the prison at the same time at night has, we understand, been carried into effect.\n\n10. With reference to the jury's recommendation that \"an adequate supply of firearms should be readily available in case of necessity\", the Committee are of opinion—\n\n(i) that it is not desirable or necessary that the officers doing duty inside the prison should be armed, inasmuch as prisoners might snatch the arms from the officers and use the arms against them;\n\n(ii) that there should be a reserve of firearms in grilles, under the charge of Reserve Guards.\n\n11. With regard to the present locking system, we would observe—\n\n(i) That it is clear from Mr. Franks' statements to us and from the way in which Prisoner 791 got out of his cell, that the system of locks in the gaol cells, by which a lock is only screwed on to the door from the inside of the cell instead of being rivetted on to it is a bad and precarious one, and in this connection we indorse Mr. Franks' recommendation that long iron bars in slots should be placed, each bar to cover three cells, in sockets outside of every cell so as to prevent the cell doors, all of which open outwards, from being opened by the prisoner even if the lock is removed or otherwise tampered with.\n\n(ii) We consider that the practice which has since been followed in F. Block, of locking one of the internal gates in the upper corridor, is good as a purely temporary measure and should be continued until the grille for the Reserve Guard in F. Block is completed.\n\n(iii) We also consider that the recommendation by Mr. Franks, that good Yale locks should be put upon the various gates, leading from the various blocks down to the yard, is a good one, and should be carried out as soon as possible, as that will mean two locks on those gates, instead of one, and we consider such an additional lock is the more desirable in view of the key which has been missing since April last.\n\nWhile we think it regrettable that some remedial measure was not adopted after the loss of the key in April last, we think it only fair to add that:\n\n(1) The defaulters' book of the Gaol from 1894 to 1901, which is the only old defaulters' book which Mr. Franks has been able to get hold of, shows that between the years 1894 and 1901 keys were lost by Warders on no less than eight occasions; the punishments varying from a reprimand to a fine of $2.50. In the present instance the Indian Warder who lost the key was fined $3.\n\nSuch a punishment by a small fine for so grave an offence is, in our opinion, wholly inadequate, and we recommend that the Gaol Regulations be amended so as to make the loss by an officer of the Gaol of any of the gaol keys punishable by instant dismissal from the Service.\n\n(2) That the key, which was lost in April last, would appear to have been lost between D. Hall and the lower yard or else outside of the Prison altogether, and that none of the prisoners who escaped could have picked it up as they were all employed in another part of the Gaol.\n\n(3) That the system of repairing locks and keys in the prison which we have already condemned above, and the fact (already referred to) of a cell key and daggers having been made in the tinsmith's shop, inclines us to believe that in all probability that key with which the escaping prisoners opened the gate into the yard was also manufactured in the tinsmith's shop.\n\n12. To sum up, we report to the Government as follows in regard to the subjects referred to us——\n\nAs regards (a) that there is no foundation for such statements.\n\nAs above stated, however, in dealing with the complaints of the prisoner Mok Sing, we recommend that a new measure, i.e., a 16 oz. measure, be adopted.\n\nIn regard to records of complaints by prisoners as to:—\n\n(a) Food;\n\n(b) Ill-treatment.\n\nWe find that such complaints are very much mixed up with other matters in the Records, and are consequently difficult to extract for purpose of comparison; and we accordingly recommend that a new book, to be called the Prisoners Complaint Ledger, be started for the purpose of recording complaints made by prisoners and that such Ledger be divided into three columns headed respectively:\n\n1. Complaints about food. 2. Complaints of ill-treatment. 3. Other complaints. Such Ledger ought to be entered up daily.\n\nWe also recommend the institution of a similar book for the Visiting Justices, in addition to the ordinary Visiting Justices Book, for the entry of complaints made by prisoners to the Visiting Justices under similar headings.\n\nAs regards (b):—\n\n(1) The procuring of carpentering implements for their escape and plain clothes from the tailor's shop by the escaping prisoners was due to collusion or gross negligence on the part of the Warders who were responsible for the searching of the prisoners on their leaving work, and for searching their cells. This state of affairs can only be remedied by adequate European supervision.\n\n(2) The procuring by the prisoners of weapons of offence for the perpetration of the murders of the Warders was due to extreme lack of supervision in the tinsmith's shop, where such weapons were fashioned out of files.\n\n(ii) The making of the key by which 3 out of the 4 prisoners were let out of their cells took place in the tinsmith's shop and was due to gross negligence in supervision. Possibly the key by which the prisoners let themselves out into the yard was also made in the tinsmith's shop.\n\nPage 319",
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        "content_text": "Page 253\n\nAudit Department,\n\nHongkong, 12th July, 1920.\n\nSir,\n\nWith reference to my report on the statement of the Chen Pui embezzlement forwarded to you under cover of the Auditor's letter No.34 of 17th May, and my letter No.34 of 20th June, I have the honour to inform you that after further investigation I have come to the conclusion that the Police Indian Remittance Account should be credited with the sum of $2,949.38, being the Indian Police Remittance for November, the deficit which should appear in the Treasury Statement of Accounts under this heading should therefore be $17,805.93.\n\n2. I submit a statement of the Indian Family Remittances duly signed by the Captain Superintendent of Police showing how this deficit is arrived at.\n\nIn the examination of the Treasury statement, and during the period which has intervened since Chan Pui absconded, the following small sums have been discovered, and form part of the total deficit, and must therefore be added to the amount found deficit in the Treasury statement.\n\nIndian Police Remittance.$846.50\nPassage money deducted from B.65.45.00\nDeductions from pay of O.C.44.21.00\nPersonal Emoluments due to Treasury.36.63\nEstate of late B.365.5.00\n\n4. Mr. A. G. C. Taylor, the present Accountant of the Police Department, acting under the instructions of the Hon. Mr. D. W. Tretman, Colonial Treasurer, has drawn up a...\n\nThe Colonial Secretary,\n\nHongkong.\n\n...\n\nCopy.\n\nNo.34.",
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        "content_text": "DRAFT.\n\nCa/12524/20 Ang Kong So 3\n\nThe Official Receiver in Bankruptcy MINUTE.\n\n121.30/0/20 34r. Williams. 31/3/20 Risley 14/20\n\nMr. Come l Mr. Collins cut in Mr. Grindle.\n\nSir H. Lambert. Sir H. Read. Sir G. Fiddes. Col. Amery. Lord Milner,\n\nrecirculate for letter to GA.\n\nPension Minste Mauritius 3 Sie for 22 and 23 (p. 76 of St Lucia) ties Orth 32/81 clause 3. (p.681) nities ordue 9/92\n\nclause I (p.10% of vol. herewith)\n\n2 Lifts 79 April 1920.\n\nI am etc. to state that he has been notified by the C.A. that a Receiving Order in Bankruptcy was made on the 26th July against Sir Francis Taylor Piggott who is in receipt of pension of £500 and £459.18. 4d from the funds of H.K.\n\nAnd that you have been constituted Receiver for the estate of the Debtor.\n\n2.72",
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        "content_text": "## 23. On the 19th September an Ordinance was passed providing for the acquisition and disposal of Rice by the Hongkong Government, and for validating acts previously done. The Ordinance is printed as Appendix III to this report.\n\nAnd it was notified that the Government would be prepared to buy rice at $10.142 per picul. It has been the custom for the New Territories to export their rice and buy cheaper rice in Hongkong for their own use. In the abnormal conditions prevailing that year this practice had to be abandoned.\n\n## 16. An endeavour was made to obtain rice from Kuangtung, and after much correspondence the Government at Canton permitted the export of 10,000 piculs of Wuhu rice by the Kuangtung Food Relief Association to the Tung Wah Hospital at Hongkong at the price of $6.70 a picul. The Tung Wah Directors showed great energy in erecting a number of matsheds in Victoria, Shaukiwan, and Aberdeen where many thousands of very poor people were supplied free of cost with a mixture of boiled rice and salt, known as congee, twice a day. This system of relief continued for several weeks and was most useful in preventing a great deal of distress.\n\n## 17. An attempt was also made to get rice from the Hunan Province of China via Shanghai. H.M. Minister at Peking and the Consul at Changsha did all they could, and the Government at Peking was favourable to the project, but owing to the stipulations of the Governor of Hunan the price demanded was prohibitive, so the offer made had to be refused.\n\n## 18. The Indian Government sanctioned the export of 3,750 tons of rice from Rangoon, and this rice has recently arrived in the Colony. Through the generosity of the firm of Messrs. Nemazee & Co., about two-thirds of this rice is being carried free of freight to Hongkong.\n\n## 19. Appendix II shows the total amount of rice purchased by the Government up to the 30th September, the only further purchase being necessitated in November to comply with the terms of a contract for the sale of rice on consignment to America. This will be dealt with at a later stage of the report.\n\n## 20. The rice purchased was divided into three classes under the designations Hongkong No. 1, No. 2, and No. 3, and the recommendation of the Committee to fix the price of the three grades at 20, 16, and 12 cents a catty respectively was adopted. These prices were altered a few days later to suit the usage of Chinese buyers to 5 catties = $1, 7 catties = $1, and 9 catties = $1, and before the end of August the price was further reduced to 5 catties = $1, 7 catties = $1, and 10 catties = $1. No. 1 rice was Saigon round or long, No. 2 a mixture of Saigon round or long with an equal amount of broken rice, and No. 3 a mixture of one-fifth Saigon round or long with four-fifths broken rice.\n\n## 21. Sales of Government rice took place up to the 3rd September as follows:\n| Type | Amount |\n| --- | --- |\n| No. 1 | 2,853 piculs |\n| No. 2 | 8,838 piculs |\n| No. 3 | 56,124 piculs |\n\nAbout the 3rd September, sales suddenly ceased, and it was found that rice had begun to come into the Colony from Kuangtung. An excellent quality of rice was thus available for consumption in the Colony at the comparatively low price of $8 a picul.\n\n## 24. The lists of rice purchased showed certain quantities of Saigon round and Saigon long rice, and on these lists the contract mentioned above for the sale of 10,000 tons to America was calculated. It specified 6,500 tons of Saigon round and 3,500 tons of Saigon long, but when the rice came to be sifted to prepare it for export, it was found that only 500 tons of the long rice existed, the remainder being round. As the rice had already been sold in America, the consignees there refused to alter the amounts of each class contracted for, and it was necessary to go into the market and buy 3,000 tons of long rice to make up the necessary amount. This was effected at a price of about $13.50 a picul, which meant a loss on the net price obtained in America of about $1.75 a picul. The 3,000 tons of discarded round rice were subsequently sold at about the same price as would have been obtained in America.\n\n## 25. A report was called for as to how the confusion between long and round rice had arisen. It appeared that originally the books were made out to show the different qualities of rice, long, round, and broken, and any other grades used on the foreign market, but as this classification was unnecessary for local sales, no distinction was subsequently made between long and round rice as the price was the same, and the books were drawn up accordingly. The error caused a loss of nearly $140,000 on a purely technical point of difference in making the contract with the American buyers.\n\n## 26. The cost to the Colony of the transactions in rice up to the end of the year 1919 will be well over $2,000,000. The price of the rice bought at Saigon was much enhanced by the high rate of discount on the Hongkong dollar at Saigon. The cost of 13,750 tons in Saigon currency was $3,072,300, the equivalent in Hongkong currency being $3,766,211, a difference of $693,911. When negotiations were begun for selling rice to America, the rate of exchange was about eighty gold dollars for one hundred Hongkong dollars, and when the exchange was fixed, it had risen to ninety-five gold dollars for one hundred Hongkong dollars. The rice was sold at 205 gold dollars a short ton for 10,000 tons, and the difference in the amount to be received at exchange of 80 and 95 is $401,605, the figures being as follows:\n| Exchange Rate | Amount |\n| --- | --- |\n| 80 | $2,562,500 |\n| 95 | $2,157,895 |\n| Difference | $401,605 |\n\nFreight to America also rose from G. $15 to G. $25 during the same period. The balance of the total loss incurred on the purchase and sale of rice is made up of actual reduction in the price at which local sales had to be made of rice bought locally, rent of godowns, freight on rice from Saigon and Rangoon, commissions on sale of Government rice, interest on overdraft, and insurance. All these charges will be shown in the final account.\n\n## 27. It will be clear from the above that whatever sum in dollars representing the loss is eventually arrived at will scarcely indicate the real facts. The Colony has been receiving during the past four months a supply of excellent rice from Kuangtung at a low price, but it is more than probable that if the Government rice had not been here, a considerably higher price would have been demanded. The indirect advantage to the Colony of the policy of non-interference with the ordinary rice trade cannot be reckoned in dollars, but the gain is so manifest that the policy requires no justification.\n\n## 28. When it became clear that there was no other course open than to sell the bulk of the rice which had been purchased with the least possible delay, the Government sought the advice of those connected with the rice trade, who were in a position to help. Mr. Barretto of the firm of J.M. da Rocha & Co., Messrs. E.A. Beaumont & Co., Messrs. Loxley & Co., and the Hongkong Mercantile Company all gave valuable assistance without which it would have been very difficult to effect satisfactory sales. In the work during August of mixing and selling the graded rice, Mr. R.O. Hutchison, Mr. Taylor of ...",
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        "content_text": "2\n\nI work in comfort during the day and rest in comfort during the night.\n\nSKETOCIDE\n\nand quickly rid the Office and Home\n\nof\n\nMOSQUITOES, FLIES, SANDFLIES,\n\nLICE, ETC.\n\nSKETOCIDE, with nil hazards, is administered.\n\nSKETOCIDE is pleasant as water.\n\nSKETOCIDE is compressed.\n\nTHE PHARMACY\n\n1, Queen's Arcade\n\nD. J.\n\nSHAMPOOING RUGS AND CARPETS\n\nMakes them\n\nBright\n\nand Clean\n\nOnly 50 cts.\n\nper yard.\n\nCollection and Delivery Free.\n\nRolls of Dirt carried away.\n\nRolls of Cleanliness brought back.\n\nSTEAM LAUNDRY CO.\n\nHEAD OFFICE & WORKS: YAKATI.\n\nDEPOS: 26, Stanley Street, Vol.\n\nKOWLOON HOTEL\n\nKOWLOON DEPOT: 3, Cau'chi Ham\n\nFLAK HOTEL DEPOT:\n\nHONGKONG HOTEL: (Visit only;\n\nJ. T.\n\nSHAW\n\nLADIES & GENTLEMEN'S TAILOR\n\nFIRST QUALITY ONLY\n\nSOUTH CHINA MORNING POST.\n\nWEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1925.\n\nINVEST YOUR CAPITAL\n\nSAFELY\n\nIN DIAMONDS.\n\nCHAIN BLOCKS\n\nELECTRIC BLOCKS & TRANSPORTING GEAR\n\nHERBERT MORRIS, LTD.\n\nAGENTS\n\nBRADLEY & CO., LTD.\n\nChute food.\n\nMachinery Dept.\n\nTel. 2020.\n\nMessrs. J. ULLMANN & Co, of Chater Road\n\nEstablished 1860,\n\nhave always pleased their Customers with the quality and the price of their diamonds.\n\nLOCAL\n\nAND\n\nGENERAL.\n\nLighting-up the to-day is at present cases of warfare cholesal 6.46 PATTY\n\nThe closing rate of the dollar on demand yesterday was 28. 9/16d.\n\n...\n\nhave declared amongst Japanese residents in Huanghai between August 15 and 18\n\na new treaty of friendship, commerce and navigation between Spain and Siam, together with a tariff.\n\nAbout Chinese, who landed in Lockor on July rate Cake, whence they had been expelled, more taken in charge by the new municipal police, and started to Spain forthwith\n\nThe Yang di Pertuan Besar, etor Negri ehk and lady He Tag were mess of Mrs Balavin,\n\nPassengers departing fav Hong Kong. Saturday included r, Paus the proteoc? along the lacs of the Hodgene, Mr. G. H. Hew, Major? Siamess American trendy of 1999, Weelings, and Mr., 34, and ise e sigurd in Merid on Anavat on Fady 25, 94, 16, Domaingreet, at Iemington.\n\nA petition has Theon sout to the\n\nracuptă a fur Gvarveen visiter M\n\nHigh teries evidently comment sobars of the Gevorazi mitted by a well organized, clever\n\nThe Paanhou Lataa Gempiains of\n\nGovernmanni by the pork solleve, gang ut Paeves within the a tre the melameree of Wataishae and gui asking that casures a week within the district berlinese is autors to rear to Laken preten, hop-oil bow by Ceiles, Mabini, Herren. Taj Pukius its no s paзig y hel kore front selling\n\nstreets.\n\npark in the\n\n41 The Co, AF have lecie tight anda.\n\nsing the Manila poliem aud secret water, or festive is na mumer Murvico division.\n\n1\n\nPalm Beaches, Gabardines, Alpsets, Tropical aiting, Dress Harondt, who will rive in the wedding- ever believed to be rephor during the tide the\n\nMaterials, Sc. B\n\nJUST RECEIVED English made Officers Sam Browne Belts, Haversacks, Fox Pattles, Khaki Tles, Metropolitan Whistles, War\n\nribbons and nature medals.\n\n11, Reaconsfield Arcade.\n\nINSPECTION CORDIALLY INVITED\n\n(Opposite City Hall.\n\nGrand Opening Sale\n\nStep in and compare our Goods and Prices\n\nINSPECTION INVITED\n\nPOPULAR SILK STORE\n\n(Opposite Kangkang Hotel;\n\nChina Building, No. B, Pedder Street.\n\nPrices\n\nAL\n\nVERMIN\n\nLOTOL\n\nKILLS ALL VERMIN\n\nSold by\n\nA. S. WATSON & CO., LTD. Sole Agents:-\n\nAnd all Chemists & Stores.\n\n#4\n\nThe forthcoming wedding is announced of Mr. Weer varick! Mr. and Mex James Fold v The captain on the genderzeɛ Who Knoke, Tung Shan Canton, to Westenzoyland, Somerset, have rele. I was ersicted of murdufeg the com. and his wife and Mies Jobs Auguste Paula bunted die 71 iversong of their wint Onyi\n\nalore guique The busbaudienthoate as Token, wali ho relent and Eje wife a your younger. Mojot from prison shoes the unddie of lower the 92, relatives war Log Sepeansion songlazenie Nieto, konta\n\none from Australi\n\nColony by the ss. Oldestory.\n\nThe Chinese Brunumie Slonthig for August has detailed cla cussion of Shane agricultural practice, wita interesting 3.1\n\nLoving\n\nA Chinese 2d Japanese nurs are among tbury who have promised to monk at the International Co Surse of Sick-Norses, which opened dengtors, aly 20, aut is laing sitended by Jelegnies from\n\nentiona of the appliances weed, Maveled Chang Teo-in bas Jeans Sericulture cotton-growing timed Mex 000 rough General ber markerg.\n\nчто? ecuneuit so in the Stedent Anda bots my in diferent regions of the Bumiy Univexity Jay Chinu are also very interativolyj and Erogel Tieptene) far- Realt with.\n\nof ge pour white Kanziar. Studenata,\n\n*\"\n\nalvd, is differort suuntaies\n\nTwo hurr-one, with ts, ad\n\nTeal vien, two if who were the other ten would lus beau un- portion of shell, obtaled Frogs * mnied with daggers, com with a hur to corrpite their contres esingi tas estruese deposit in Heuer,\n\nCaina, have been presented to thei! Crevolver. and the other with at lesk, of Curta,\n\ntieological Department of the Bri-3\n\n| pair of scissors, heid up a Chinese j\n\nin Jubilee Sheet, yasierday even\n\n*.*\n\nA Shanghai ziceaz soole who di ti ser by Me Fulhas pior,\n\ning at twerty minutes to seven woneret that & malo passenger till we repris par des of\n\nand rubbed him or $66. The led a paringe of jewelley worth, victim showed a little restaurace 2.000 16 bir terba, took the package, and was slightly stabbed on the\n\n**\n\nThe ees of assault agaturi Tam\n\nballeha\n\nMr J. L. North, estrator of thin\n\nto Sins Police Station, where the toys Potande Boruty, who for on owner of it appearad Isten gave the coulis8568TOWY PRO expstimating with for his honesty. The englie left leave, is growing worch this year\n\nthe statica in bewildoriams, count\n\n**\n\nuL Chiswick. where they serni\n\nto or doing well in North is alre\n\nhaving nya Ibalit grown >1\n\nRonding and Talesbury, in see The Thienene of faunilton is alen\n\nPat, who is de cercandong the aver so he went for intiraidson against a Chineas!\n\nreporter, wan dismissed by bir. W Hamilton a the Kowloot: The Italian Cotobato wtrises tuv\n\nMagiswans yesterday,\n\nThe de the election which took place re-swing it in Willshire. fendant was alleged to have a crucis at Felermo, a large alias] aulted twe men of the Hup Lee city of over 200,000 inhabitants, in night-nd contractors, folfering a vordim of Fall, liberty of meeting\n\nspute. The intimidation case is fart beard.\n\n*u?\n\nSeven Chiuole wrament, pisacing\n\nsilty to charge of unlandaily rat\n\nand votea, tesuited in the ting wi damaging trees at a Govern- |\n\nwende ictor of the Fascist's\n\nmort plantation at Nagan Bye War, list showing that be Fascis Karison, were anak fied Bio by Mu Bozerament is enjoying not only W. Hamilton, at the Kowloon The return of notifiuble dlecases povar, but also the full conádenca) Magistracy this neunbug. The de- for the 24 hours ending August of the Italian people.\n\nfendant were stati fu kavu deng e number or rase weighing Organised by the Koristang, aflens cha 90 unties derenstation be GONOMETRUJANJ\n\n124, showa tự, uszeg ni enteria | fever, que Bnglish (mynted) and joze Chinese. The return for the)\n\n**\n\nun\n\nweek ended August shows tour the fatha e Chinese who lost Me J. Tokugawe, autơi pensily Uses of enteric fever with two this list in the cover of Vi rekirst Secretary and Auting deaths, Chinese, Drs Japan, dishares heat. Hanko lloc to the imprese Bibery in Jo Indika su one Philippine (in and where he held at the Ties London, has been appointed facia porter) and cae care of parki An Men Pakun August 12 new Consul General et. Sydres, phoid fever, Chiacan, te death W92 114 Target, aticoded, Australia; and Mr. K Hogi, vulli\n\nfrom intussen is also reported. Spence wore and by various roses Japaneen Commanerai wanch in Londen, has been appointed Kuomintang Isagera\n\nAs the embur. of the late Panchal Fannin perialine\n\nCho\n\nequal\n\nVilla were lowered over the aid of renties\n\ninbor of the Japaness Legution Ah Beking. Both diplomats wetu\n\nths President Harvizos at Yuda,\n\n**\n\nmost popaliw ti Landen esrides.\n\nnot and was heard thosaglomm\n\nAccording to a story appearing w\n\nfier T\n\nArhus Guy Carless. 35, patiseer,\n\nAll operations were ele\n\npender. Thoes of heads were the Shaters Time, a Chinese mer\n\nBared. The lus table of the des chant, F. T. Canag of Narking, was\n\nbe best post in Shanghai in 1915,\n\na bed enteroed at Birmingham\n\nA detective.\n\nTEST YOUR SENSE OF HUMOUR BY READING THESE\n\nCHILDREN'S FUNNY SA UNGS gelikatel, ke D--B: Kora $2.75 The nices Eubiour a chuit is perkara the west amusing This book contrine headrede of\n\nof all forras of Auu.\n\nchildren a whimsical sayings.\n\nSPORTING AND DRAMATIC VADNS, 65 R. 1. B. Seliar 32.45 Theas ven stories to note-sad quote at one's non-in the drawing seca, in the club sowking-room, and in pinces where charming peuple assemble in hosz hores make after- Sinter speechan.\n\nrick engines, as the body, in a coffin hirisapped by invite cu demanded to gnicon rasuthy' impris shrouded by the American Bag, nt is wito raumNot for coupting to obtail money by Embed the dude, luc broke the paid within two weeks, otherwise false referatations. silsues Wrenting of lowers, given they rentended to kill the bushand inspector said that Carinus, who, by the Filipine communities of hole; The wife, who did not a vleie inther was Town Cleak of victor\n\nthirty years, failed ia hist Yokoburn, Shanghai and longkong, og i pay the consent, arferred for\n\nher rabant's predicaron examinations for the Bar and and Atually evanized ice by came a farmer. u 109 his father banking self\n\nGloc audi he then travelled on a Coloidea in America be opened an\n\nwere laid is the eart\n\nDuring the interval betzen the\n\ndeparture of Sir Edward Stubbs,\n\nthe\n\nAtontreal, but va\n\nQUOTABLE ANECDOTER nollected by D. B. Koox ...\n\nThe special feature di Usungen mandje oghter providing book is its quctableness. Most of the anecdotes are Lovel And extremely envenug but the peculiarity that distin. guisbes them as than they cku be rubly quoted in spoe thes, articles and etzversublock.\n\nRAVAM Chinesa doajors ut Manila; rates with another inu, had atter K. C. M. G., and the arrival of car\n\nGovernor (Mr. Cecil Cle-have been senght selling the mixed they bad obtained $5,000 eme nienti) Sir Claud Severn, E. P. E, vi arushed its of glass A warr-appiicans for the position of mave will uet an Officer Administering to the public to beware of buyer the couple disappeared. Thay\n\nEdwardice in Chinese \"sari-sa\" moves were eresied Government. Bir\n\nwe tested by the health services. Tabel the morey. Paperý sledi Stubbs.\n\ntc according\n\nhas also been disovered that a few they find engaged in similar dealings Arrangements and provided the Chinese reice dealers we also selling in various part of Canada, and the local situation pomte, will leave lard aflated with pontos al Toronto authorities bustested Hongkong during the early part) Sume Chiese store keepers and am pretensional “rooks\" and of October, his successor beloties merahnuts see now facing it-nordenen tiskaters. From Adelaido due to arrive atout Puree weeks watigation by officials of the head was reperied in 1969 that Cur Jater. Sir Clad Severn expects to series. Proceention fer violation of loss rat another man sarried proceed Home on leave in Deeen the pore food and drug law will be operations (is donhiul shararterį\n\nlie that were. isted against sum of timin.\n\nber,\n\n$8.15\n\nKELLY & WALSH, LIMITED. Carb Koed.\n\nEx 9. FRENCH MAIL AMBOISE,\"\n\nA NICE ASSORTMENT-OF BEST KIND OF FRENCH PRESERVES\n\nIncluding\n\nBeans, Peas, Celery, Spinach, Mushrooms, Whole Artichokes, elc,\n\nMacquerel, Sardines, Tunay, Herrings, Auchovies, etc., in White Wine, Oil, Tomato or Various Sauces.\n\nFoie Gras Naturel Forced, Pigs Feet, Truffed Boudins, Hare Pate, Veul Head Sauce Tortue Turkey Galantine.\n\nPort-Salut Cheese, Face Maggi, etc, etc.\n\nMAG - SIN GENERAL The Corner Shop\n\nPhone C5312\n\nTAMANTER\n\nThe latest designs\n\nLADIES' PLATINUM WRIST WATCHES SET WITH DIAMONDS\n\nfrowe\n\n$200\n\nSwiss Made\n\nAT\n\nSENNET FRERES\n\nTHE ALEXANDRA CAFE\n\nCAN SUPPLY\n\nBREAD AND CAKES.\n\nBirthday Cakes, Christenning Cakes, Wedding Cakes,\n\nand all kinds of fancy Cakes.\n\nAGENTS\n\nHUNG CHEONG, Kowloon. FOOK CHEONG TAI, Quarry Bay.\n\nSIMPLEX PLASTER PARTITIONS\n\nAND\n\nGEILINGS\n\n5 Beaconsfield Arcade\n\nThe SIMPLEX SYSTE\n\nHARPER'S\n\nSUMMERTIME SPECIALITY.\n\nMOSKA-CIDE\n\nA little of this wonderfu) commate apickled on subirea ce pillows wül kap rayosquito from thu vio.usty of your bedside or couch\n\nBartles $1.00 and $2.00. MOSQUITOES WON'T COME NEAR IT. Obtainable only ai\n\nQueen's Dispensary\n\nTel. No. 492.\n\nC. W. HANDLEY & CO. 29, Dog Vonx Rund, Centesi,\n\nGrand Prize of Honour\n\nPanama-Pacific International\n\nExposition\n\nSAN FRANCISCO, 1913\n\nAsahi-Beer\n\nSold Everywhere.\n\nSOLE AGENTS :\n\nMITSUI BUSSAN KAISHA, LTD.\n\n\"BARGAINS\"\n\nIN\n\nREFLEX CAMERAS & FOLDING CAMERAS\n\nWind with the failu-wing user\n\nCooke F2-5, F3-λ, F4-5 & F5-3,\n\nDallmeyer F2 3, F36, F4-5, & F6-3.\n\nZrise F36, FI-S & P6.3.\n\nKOER 4-5, 56 & 76-2.\n\ncall at\n\nA. TACK & Co.\n\n26 De Road Central.\n\nTHE\n\nFIRE PROOF\n\nSOUTH\n\nCHINA MORNING POST\n\nWEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26,\n\n1925.\n\nSPORTS fall SORTS\n\nHONGKONG BASEBALL\n\nGAMES FOR TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW.\n\nIn accordanLE with the re-41- ranged schedule wijet makes pro- valon for rener insiche, betw9) altores the Coague, there wit\n\nTHE WEET DAUGHTER\" GOLF CLUB,\n\nMORE STRIKE FIGURES.\n\n(By. \"Missolputts\" for the\n\nS. C. M. Post.)\n\nLAWN TENNIS.\n\nJOHNSTON WINS TROPHY.\n\nNewport R ), Aug 24. In the final of the Newport Ja vitation singles bowl, Johnson heat Norrou 63, 63, 8.3, thus) winning the trophy entright. And the Durables, fobistan and fin boat Serien and Casey 6, S1, 5,7, 26, 6.3. Treater Ancorican, Service.\n\nTHE OLD FAVOURITE\n\nBOORD'S\n\nOLD TOM GIN.\n\nCAT on BARREL BRAND\n\nOBTAINABLE AT ALL FIRST CLASE STORES.\n\nBred 111, Arg 24. Miss talen Wills roteinod the Women's National Lawa Tennis Championship, defeating Miss\n\nSale Agente\n\n3\n\nIn convection with the lies Meus 3:6, 6/9, 4,3 Reder's CALDBECK, MACGREGOR & Co., Ltd.\n\nbe two mid-week games played off moule corved daring the month at American Snowce juu the Houpy Valley dirmeist this \"ono Daughter Weep Golf\n\nin the opening matches of the\n\nBrookline, August 25,\n\nThe Grai u thoso i tired to Chuh,, za patience is \"Backpi's\" comurance at 5 pm, today, when festes on the 2nd instat, I wanted National Dumbles Championships the Filipino Club wil meet the Iu the courtcess Setreing of the Kinsey brothers, holders, boat dian R. P., who are at present at Clah with\n\nbtaining Hot and Halia Smuth, 7-6,6-4, 8-4; the boils of the Lable. To can- Purcher statintizm\n\nDemagis and Reignon beat Levazil noo but be anticipated that the\n\n02 mors\" mit hallused Vansien, 6-3,7-5, 6-3, Mili ant Filipino side will win, although Geoval, po fiering a co vite, jone Casey bost Shuster and Jonkines. the Indian team is alowing better those that one that isly, 7-5,6-4, 4; Westcased Emen Dora and pat up a stering came which we leerely devined. Pirids and Wasaki. 6-2,66, agalust the Japannes na Saturday Rogel tot To Golf Cirs le proad 6-2; Vildog and Wience boat Jopen last. The Arst guns between for its sacreen reden for Angvei, bal and logeshest, 6-4,56, 618-N--;\n\nthem treated in win for the do not for a moment eaypow that ¦ Bruter's American Service. Filipines by 15 to three.\n\nxo am entering into ang serious The Volunteer Defence Corps jrivalry with the Hant You: anl are scheduled to meet the base werk High Rocks or any other straling Japanese at 5, p.no, tommur- jorganization; and also you wil cow and a goat game la expected, please remember that we are far too wing the Volunteers falling to hard bung to provide full statistics of our the lesboinly percet Nipponesa, attivities weile stila\" Full who will have the velcer of the prof this was indeed patent in Playing x Chesterboid, La recevabtable ishimatsu as pitcher. teribe what of typewriter, calbire defence Derbyshire by Their earlier woering ended in au calculating machine pencil shara intings and 132 rans. Bears: Joverwhelming victory for the rengly want other Inclinary by Laucalice, 278.\n\nDerbyshire, S7 and 78. Japanse by 18 to four, which jbich we were surtunJed considering all things, was a good\n\nThe highest contributora Fressed however, harp. Ex tuore Lancashire wore Watson 62, Hal- for showing by the Volunteers. It gres, the aubice of tus peindust and Pewires 15, whikt. hoped that they will ranke an eventer wired papur and pen Towsond, Derby's Bowler, took better nue tomorrow.\n\nNo icons have bean received.\n\nJani alter serve nderful work y\n\nthe\n\nYACHTING.\n\nMR. BLAKE ON 6 METRE COMPETITION,\n\nQualities of Monsoon.\n\nHOME CRICKET.\n\nLANCASHIRE'S EASY WIN.\n\nLondon, Aux. 24.\n\nIr.\n\ntied staff of the sarees, four wickets for 57 rina. Your Peri Sage, Spoke and Darby's first innings, Tyldesley Chr was able to give us the jojowok eight wiekota for 40 runt, Seg infertuskinn.\n\nard in Derby's second krock Years ago, before the great Get Sibbles took fire wickets for 30\n\n| xuan---Herten hendi, Mr. Pineb valeukased that the jaar generated by jutits missed on iche gli con of Great Brita in jose past wuulih, it properly tiliaest, jelove and feed a men for six\n\nTHE ST. LEGER.\n\nMANNA IS FAVOURITE.\n\nLondon, Aug. 24.\n\nA reported in these columns jaga; working on the sette foarala, from me to rina, Bir. Blake's 1 may say than the host genercial Mouser from Singapore has met in me year by balta bene lost t\n\nTo be rst esiinrer of the Sz. Find a rery successful sencon at Weep lygter wee tothe and Legs at tex Victoria Cob to-day,\n\nhorse, but has been consistently red suitably ten Canton Bolshevicts Manza\n\nwas installed favourite, read at all the South Coast re- or the terms of their wanatabil Res 4 in 1 otuz taken and offered\n\nsttas. Writing From England may say that in their counter.\n\nto Singapore, 3. Blake says he original formula bo beru varieg\n\nabout racing away et rout of lightly and wilde fond be be avecis viven for the Eolant Dussafak, of rice per die red for Classes round about Sonthampton, labing t\n\nbut so far without getting a win- niux Beg.\n\nTheatre Class ic\n\nja very bor any, including as it\n\nA Few Move Piprez,\n\nits la empaled that the number\n\nLEAGUE'S OPIUM\n\nCOMMITTEE.\n\nBRITISH APPOINTED CHATEMAN,\n\nGeneva, Aug 24. The campout snriggling of\n\nduce the rack helicamen and ni rada not dancer in the Cleb frzewa of the South Coast of Eug-House after dinact by ki wh\n\nlead, and Mr. Blake feels quite have dine there is equal to the ex- SOUND PROOFd that his yacht can five plant of the ads in this Colony, drugs was one of the principal\n\nSending Now Thavidurios This, I take subjects of discussion of the) among them at all.\n\nManwood is best in light breezes, it, is a striking testimony the League's Advisory Committen on Togain, which niet te-lay, and but when it blow up she anot excelience of this fre 15wvinna.\n\nHONGKONG EXCAVATION, PILE DRIVING & CONSTRUCTION Co., Ltd.\n\nTel. 01. 8718.\n\nZad Floor, Powell's Building.\n\nCalfore pure de Ferments lactiques bulgares sur mitinu végétaj\n\nGLEED-INTÉZ\n\nBARRELS, CONTALIONS\n\nTELL Sza\n\nSAPAN Am\n\nAMERICA AND NEW ZEALAND.\n\nCONDIAL FAREWELL\n\nEXPRESSIONS.\n\nign to windward with the other - munder of Brinks prottered looted Sir Makrola Delovingue bosts, not being an ait This fee and refused by rubenbers wond Cosieman, and he dermian, due to her hul beine constructed unt, if poured into the ses at Wey. Professor Terr Acainuno, as Vice-Chainman. The absence of of teakwood, which takes a lot Daughter Bag, effent the love of the the Chien delegate, Mr. Chr ECONOMICAL extra weight, which is evidert wules of Weiss Buy is in 2-sue of instructions, in the keels of the other Boula mass of an inch at ordinary Spisens no sarprise in view of the better advantage.\n\nWides\n\nChinese wishdrawal from the on- Still, Mr. Make sud his com Enter of tadies invading ference on February 7th- Raster. : jpanions pog swag, learning of ine lide menie zgacha romte and bee in a\n\nine, and the international Rules (week would, if it were possible (and į row have no terrors for the Jusirable) to stand them end on end, when designing another bout.\n\nterm a dle appwainuately venel ini\n\nMr. Blake says that if he was height to Mount Kellet; moly thei in England for good he would take two lower was, however, jassustic cat that tenkwood darks of Mon- that the pile were rigid and not zour and replace them with pine- foent) would be able to see into tha wood, as lighten up further mens dressing room, iters and put the weight a\n\nes proves in the greons at Week! gained down amongst the read. Daughter theory approximately age to the reale vs New The rigat and mash pane in the tran-font of their own Zealand says: A view our Cine sama very light compared weight in aarti Jaily. It is there parting with feelings of sadness. with what they are eastern- torn, eniculated that this were at the ehost space of two weeks ed to oul East, mud would ut feultured over a year it would'ng the varicas detachments of the lagi long with natives as crews. Jquire 20 even the size of the Priest have grown to love your pouple Mr. Blake adds that he personal- jdenk of the, Club to carry the earth and your counky, Oar twenty- ty, and lab the Royal Siegapuce iya yarde in three days\n\ntwo thend men will go home nich Yach Club, are deeply indehind The notices posed to use various\n\nspeak intelligently of Ney Hackelahi-Smith, the Chul Buses in car year comes Zolnud. iry M.\n\nYou may be sure thes Editor of The Fachling Monthly Įpaar fomitbag the rapina filed in sili ev as twenty-two thousan for the great trouble he has taken the office) uneagh to acce eft the well-wishers and boosters of your on behalf of Monsoon.\n\nFairways of de Chan verine Wonderful country.\"-- Restor\n\nPROCITIES, AZŠNES QRAPIN, ARTISTE PALZEMENTS DIE challe DERSGITUNES, TORKULASES SEGET STUMATHYRA PYCRPUDES Frog Taktiken i 19ŠEČE VYVENIŠE OSATIZIRA\n\nBULGARINE\n\nTHEPENIER\n\n14 COMPRIMIR grustten Swaggia - » POUDRY\n\nAdalton Suver dans compolnas;\n\nBukemeina 206 25mideure\n\nJapan 16 a 2 par jour).\n\nEntente: te doua.\n\nPricer, if\n\nFocuirer\n\n3 par jom,\n\nLARGRAT JIRE 4 PERMYNYS A. FAEPENISA. f. 1. Or,\n\nCompagnie Optorg\n\nAptu\n\nAMERICAN EXPRESS\n\nRAILWAY AND STEAMSHIP\n\nTICKETS\n\nTRAVELLERS' CHEQUES Express and Freight Forwarding.\n\nHONGKONG\n\n44 Des Voeux Ecad,\n\nTel. C. 4825.\n\nBOXING.\n\nPROSPECTS OF AN INTERESTING SEASON.\n\nIn at Interview with Afr. J. Bronk of the Hougkong Boxing Asesora-\n\nsica yesterday, our representative\n\ncanreek In this connection it is in- teresting to note, drag experiments face huing carried and with a new ane resobling real turf in gastify Frero which it is byped that pertines Butter beter juraced turd igzurady mag re nitized for revuling the greDAT\n\nthe various Courasi,“\n\nWellington, Aug, 21. Admiral Shortz in a tazewell\n\nwwwwwww.xxx.com.com GERMAN PULĪTICS.\n\nHERR WIRTH RESIONS.\n\nBerin Aug 24.\n\nPelion des are exload by ex-Chancellor Wield's resigna\n\nAt this point several telepboursion from berlap of the\n\nbelle mang, for routies appeared Centrists owing principally, to\n\nwas informed that there is every with chit hooks and with the depot disapproval to the Party's action prospect of a brilians winter se regret I was torcel is te ry son in the fisticuff sphere of Rong parure.\n\n[korg.\n\nYoungsters are coming along in\n\ngood style, he suic, and there will\n\nbo no dearth of entries in the possibility of arme of these being various classes. Hittorio.\n\nthe induced to come forward and put\n\npozices have given the best shows jep a show.\n\nhere, but new arrivals cu the stas\n\nPerhaps the most prominent of tion, both Navs! and Military, are the new arrivals is at present\n\nof\n\nBewegtners\n\na sapporting the Tarif Bill.\n\nHarr Wirth will remsin head of\n\na small party, of Independenti Centrists. Reutt\n\nSYRIAN OUTLOOK.\"\n\nTHE CALM CONTINUES.\n\nPark4, Aug. 21.\n\nThe Ministry of War annon\n\ncalibre to enthase the most on board . . . Farmes. | Cardened of fight tans.\n\nfa welter weight he has participated Among the\n\nare in the Army and Navy Champion-txt\n\nમ ea continea in the some dark horses win, although shops at Home, where bas Jebeltrase regim. they are men of merit, elden ven a good second at bheselt Suela is set earrounded but fe The town al 14, Klukiong Road appear outside their e intership and aceding to report is Ingres regulady applied by aeroplanes.\n\nBEANOHAL\n\nor regiontal bouts and there in King'a the ame\n\nReter.\n\nQuien's Bood Central.\n\nTelephone C. 75.\n\nBIG BARGAIN!\n\nTo make room for new stock, we will sell the entir\n\nstock of.\n\n“VOCALION” & “BANNER”\n\nDance Records\n\nFrom TO-DAY to 31st inst.\n\nAt the following prices ---\n\nBANNER DANCE RECORDS\n\nVOCALION DANCE RECORDS.....$ 1.20 each cash\n\n0.70 Babae hours:10 .. to 7 p.m. Sablay:-10 e.. to 4 p..\n\n+3\n\nCOSTA MUSIC CO., LTD.\n\n48. Nothes Road. Kowleon.\n\nPICCADILLY CLUB\n\nBREVAS PINAS\n\nAN EXCER}}}NGLY\n\nFINE SHOKE\n\nBaler\n\nMANGFACTURERS\n\nBox of\n\n23\n\nB. Yander TAX & CO.\n\nHOLLAND\n\nGET INABLE Ar\n\nTABAQUEIRA FILIPINA\n\n58 Quesu's Road, Central,\n\nYEE SANG FAT CO.\n\nTHE HONGKONG\n\nBARGAIN\n\nHOUSE.\n\nQUEEN'S ROAD & D'AGUILAK ST.\n\nB.V.D. BARGAINS\n\nUnion suit\n\n$2.75\n\nSingle Garment $1.40\n\nSUN HELMETS\n\nA big shipment\n\njust arrived\n\nAt\n\nBARGAIN PRICES\n\n$4.50, $6.75, $13.50\n\nSTRAW HATS\n\n$2,50, $3.00\n\n53 50, $4.00\n\nEvery Day Bargains.",
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        "content_text": "Mr. Taylor said a very large number of Chinese came across the Island to do business with certain firms and a large number of Chinese passengers landed from the foreign wharves from ferry into sampan and then on to the Island.\n\nIf they had business at the wharves and at the business houses they would continue to use the roads.\n\nH.B.M. Consul-General: If they have business they are naturally entitled to use them.\n\nMr. Taylor: Even if they have not, they will probably continue to make use of the Concession.\n\nH.B.M. Consul-General: I take it that the Municipal Council intend to see to it that these new Regulations are adhered to.\n\nThe Rev. Mr. Toms: Does the latter part of Police Permit Regulation No.7 refer to Foreigners as well as Chinese.\n\nH.B.M. Consul-General: I think, say for example that Missionary ladies at the Christian College will be entitled to come across. I must say that by the subsequent resolutions it is obviously intended that these traffic regulations will be carried out.\n\nA ratepayer asked how the proposed pass system would affect Chinese having legitimate business on Shameen.\n\nH.B.M. Consul-General replied that such people would be given an annual pass entitling them to enter and leave Shameen at all times. Servants of British firms of Shameen would, for instance, have passes, and the passes would only be issued to the firm.\n\nMr. Taylor: Then the firm has to take responsibility for those Chinese who come to their offices on legitimate business.\n\nH.B.M. Consul-General said they would guarantee the fact that they came on legitimate business, but were not responsible for seeing that such persons observed the regulations.",
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        "content_text": "1.8\n\n!\n\nBAD SESILLID to recall 9GTI VIÐV * bike Tolyat .TMM\n\n¿ iste aufl minčiau atan basileus ob et bæial eut acot9, nglerot súd zoti babasi risque naq seauidu to redzam syrA : .bu.IzI end of m nand UK hermes odai yri91 MOTî navĽA IN abrvon cheminiu ant de tre navic nit de zaeninud her verdt TI JABLOT BIR eru od #unitmo hivow yard 9... 11 (DeiausÛ-ILE KO .M.A.H!\n\nVe Beentrad\n\nmerd oor o♪ beltline Vilemstre -ong ilaw year „den even yend 21 nevá :roly? VEL\n\nNCİXPED:00 SAs io seu exam otiounition vidão -Jolma b NA JI 9% 1 2 L¿TONDU-Immo? ...ä.. muldringeit von 9761J *AT đi bộ ver of bradul Ilsmuc? Ezc\n\nVad betonirang #ollo: 10 Met beduld ein ReC:\n\n1\n\nCAGE VIN, veil a î na lím na 810mi9nch oỬ 19191 Tod in labor JIM\n\nI\n\ntiquexa Tot von, data: 1\n\n۰۱\n\n»d film eyði[OU (AltRimo art de asibal' ytanolent\" dado aasuperdus sáð vel deið var trim I „\"BOTOR #MOɔ nt ha [+1*m9 5f22858 araik terít babastri virvoivɗó et di aroiduloraT „Two beltteɔ ed Illy emits impar Majnus PRIEz babogote Fit word bavian To YsosTET A\n\ngo manirud edasid ko91 antes meaniɗt Jaalle biʊow blur algost dour tækir beilger Letsäsû-Dƒum) .K, A\n\nevrol for Tatry es nærð guliðiðna etra Ieume ni moviy ad nservw to make faldite to atreviS\"\n\nSter somadant to? hipow\n\nJETI PAS od basmal\n\n\"\n\nWILLDIFIKOKAN AUD J\n\netmiş izni\n\navit and genî\n\nBİLG Timat of 1000 odw\n\nBPOM 401\n\n‚zz9ninud\n\nBest bat menak, bi, AR NALA kime fataleü-Iunno0 .7.8.2 -97 JON STOW dud (prentend stenttinai no eres vært tant Josi ‚amidejuşey 2A+ lovyerdo Pñorgme risen te dj vilser mot (jdianogF\n\n19 Tope\n\n376\n\nThe Rev. Mr. Tames: Would it not be better to have passes for all; to discriminate between Chinese and foreigners would create bad feeling between Chinese and foreigners.\n\nH.B.M. Consul-General: Passes will only be required to be shown after 9 p.m.\n\nThe Rev. Mr. Tope: That is not made very clear in the police regulations.\n\nH.E. Consul-General referred the rev. gentleman to Rule No. 2 of the Police Permit Regulations which stated: \"After gates are closed entrance by gates or by landing steps is prohibited except to those in possession of passes\".\n\nRule 14 of the Traffic Regulations also made this quite clear. This Regulation stated: \"After 9 p.m. none but foreign residents and visitors are allowed to enter or leave Shameen without the Police permit. Others when employed by and accompanying the above will be allowed to pass\".\n\nThe fact had not to be forgotten that in the strict sense of the word the Island is not public. It was leased to the British and French Governments, and as such it was the private property of these two Governments. It was not a public place where everyone had the right to come and go. It was for the Council to make regulations to regulate traffic on Shameen.\n\nThe Chairman of the Municipal Council, referring to Rule 7 and Rule 15, said that people having business on the Shameen could go to their place of business by the shortest route.\n\nMr. Taylor asked what about people having business at certain foreign wharves down the river.\n\nH.B.M. Consul-General: Why do they want to come on the Shameen?\n\nMr. Taylor said there were a large number of Chinese who before going to the foreign wharves had to visit the ship-",
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        "content_text": "(1 \n\n„Acer vile nitči mo aldeliavo su II pretek neid bre‚ASTI * geno won ap bejfecivo ed lily ra rog svalva19-,8[ neerine .Olov bit flunt amooed Ang herP I 9:10 và „J13W00 LASIDIMUM HOMEINS IIUM,00 JA¶IOLMUM Hartina r „ACCI,SIL JEIS SI.OM KIT_Lash of934nt of galzuten,thickveñ „NG + 8.a moimigo aid ki „dzour medtem Setorn erved and Fréquent BA* A* c* Vina oed mm (19JMIN) .:q A ha (Takuvė) .m.c .adene erit 110 ndnevTAL C graco 10 :istensu-LAKO .1.8.H VT MI to temp* 93 ten IIw atna Vr98 9.4+ berluper az 900 TC xnina ton of *tate tonim en ti xat I snap ELENA AN III sede det dasmom ..g oC. Bavinto Moola grit 994 tan! 70% t srit +d+ Tool slim tedt Petre; for 9qOT „Thi Vañ SAT mont amet risuonord e az beru od ten I larte neemad\" ni choam bikosh, Wic art of meede gaitant roat to ashfed ot sghter →te Inmos moed hx 99dern ven eft Tatts [ltru hestetra ð tor - tauro e mod negyda nt abrow gilt Panu tej grozino asm.ba cted hipow 11c al Khat ginahbus of brim hofteg #Idarə test-ft anuro of vienti tre orked antista del sgt var ury ooie 99HAV *** I**: *ice Spode vent tout na cock bei ert tent Poliq ́z IpTERED-IMP C5 .м.8.n *t til gray glië soft nog dore ad heta lanco ad bikr- .9110 at age no soranette «III e gen videdere bipan List og stegy vonand best dir dažne od talke mi mor, Vino had pultseng cha here 199maro sdi gar to -hear Isd tot aut to atten at det bra presy Jaso9 .what i sideItays excoed sonte Fed divort safrock.\"M $117 -* ant to tera de .9r290 biŁOW 1996 70 n; teva Ribbi: aut rauO- 18. 493\n\nMr. Taylor said a very large number of Chinese came across the Island to do business with certain firms and a large number of Chinese passengers landed from the foreign wharves from ferry into sampan and then on to the Island, If they had business at the wharves and at the business houses they would continue to use the roads.\n\nH.B.M. Consul-General: If they have business they are naturally entitled to use them.\n\nMr. Taylor: Even if they have not, they will probably continue to make use of the Concession.\n\nH.B.M. Consul-General: I take it that the Municipal Council intend to see to it that these new Regulations are adhered to.\n\nThe Rev. Mr. Fee: Does the latter part of Police Permit Regulation No.7 refer to Foreigners as well as Chinese.\n\nH.B.M. Consul-General: No. I think, say for example that missionary ladies at the Christian College will be entitled to come across. I must say that by the subsequent resolutions it is obviously intended that these traffic regulations will be carried out.\n\nA ratepayer asked how the proposed pass system would affect Chinese having legitimate business on Shameen.\n\nH.B.M. Consul-General replied that such people would be given an annual pass entitling them to enter and leave Shameen at all times, Servants of British firms of Shameen would, for instance, have passes, and the passes would only be issued to the firm,\n\nMr. Taylor: Then the firm has to take responsibility for those Chinese who come to their offices on legitimate business.\n\nH.B.M. Consul-General said they would guarantee the fact that they came on legitimate business, but were not responsible for seeing that such persons observed the regulations.",
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        "content_text": "DIT\n\n.81\nLa Mia 30 namun sanci qrav e hier volver fel bij enokor Do Fami. AL PAVO „by scanteus ch et mabant art ori babral srastenɛc Feediṁ to TSJCLT 9 VISI Jie tai silt et m cauit top marker otni varsi most savie de set to FB; bevind act te practard ber vert II .cheon siit gel of Guritno bluew vert vent areuk nd even yall 11 11min90-[pc:00 „M,d,d rot baltitna viletuten -Cre IIb yod,don aves velk Di Levd trip/T VIN „notma90100 grit to gry Avem ceuritico vided -lotukit tie ti gar\n\n$1 of ver of buscat Horwoo Leg for tons.d·\n\nlien në cysngiston c♪ toter T.c. noter Inash Jhar9q ,XTIL I .0.1 :IATE:90-tim20 .1.8.. od Litw ~991100 meitatudo akt Je natie. vtencient. Je BOYɔ8 empo of faithtas da, 198 Jun 9.2 ve dei VET #GMT I 2.11.13 989.lt tent bekostni vuruchede et él szolðriðAST „Juo balTTE- e¦ [IN anoitewas ́adne ravegstZI A \"&coqüi\" 9.2 WOL. TIB BLIKKIG TIG ærstined at mittali goived 9ɛənin, doella BiLO- tin siqoeg .net Latiger Lemonǝd-Inɛmü „M.6.H syrel has tatis C ... vntitične ensq Jaunte ne nevig 9. 7sult IIs de ne arterio 7995/12 10 cmt deltbid 20 at:1092 «rearaq 25 X, 9OMAŽETİ Tot,blue\"\n\n.myft erit of tornat e :10[VST .Yil at co - with ent next ANG 8951170 119.t of ecco oñw eɛantro entit Y PLC yan? Njan 1879.190-Iuanco .M.8.H dra, meandryt strmitigel no sheo verit dadı đɔn bettondo maartse fala dult anisse vot eldfrmo~ Горе 19. 439\n\nThe Rev. Mr. Tofes: Would it not be better to have passes for all; to discriminate between Chinese and foreigners would create bad feeling between Chinese and foreigners.\n\nH.B.M. Consul-General: Passes will only be required to be shown after 9 p.m.\n\nThe Rev. Mr Tope: That is not made very clear in the police regulations.\n\nH.B.M. Congul-General referred the rev. gentleman to Rule No. 2 of the Police Permit Regulations which stated: \"After gates are closed entrance by gates or by landing steps is prohibited except to those in possession of passes\".\n\nRule 14 of the Traffic Regulations also made this quite clear. This Regulation stated: \"After 9 p.m. none but foreign residents and visitors are allowed to enter or leave Shameen without the Police permit. Others when employed by and accompanying the above will be allowed to pass\".\n\nThe fact had not to be forgotten that in the strict sense of the work the Island is not public. It was leased to the British and French Governments, and as such it was the private property of these two Governments. It was not a public place where everyone had the right to come and go. It was for the Council to make regulations to regulate traffic on Shameen.\n\nThe Chairman of the Municipal Council, referring to Rule 7 and Rule 15, said that people having business on the Shameen could land and go to their place of business by the shortest route.\n\nMr. Taylor asked what about people having business at certain foreign wharves down the river.\n\nH.B.M. Consul-General: Why do they want to come on the Shameen?\n\nMr. Taylor said there were a large number of Chinese who before going to the foreign wharves had to visit the ship-",
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        "content_text": "239\n\nCHINESE Y.M.C.A.\n\nJuly 15.\n\nThe Men's Swimming Class, for beginners at the Chinese Y.M.C.A. is meeting next Friday night, at 7.30, with an enrolment of 20.\n\nAnother class will begin Monday night, by which time there will be more than 300 school boys taught to swim during the past few weeks in the Association.\n\nIn the first class, they were able to swim across the 20-foot pool in four lessons.\n\nThe Day School closes on Saturday evening at 7.30 for summer holidays.\n\nMr. T. Z. Koo, who is head of the Y.M.C.A. work among University, College and Middle School men in China, passed through the Colony on Saturday, en route to Swatow, to attend the student summer conference.\n\nMr. Koo represented China at the Opium Conference last year, and had ten days' meetings in Hongkong schools during March of this year.\n\nThe Association's bathing parties have begun, the second one to be held this Saturday afternoon.\n\nThe launch will leave the Pottinger Wharf at 3.30, and go to Big Wave Bay.\n\nAbout 60 members went on the first party two weeks ago.\n\nH.K. ANGLING CLUB.\n\nJuly 15.\n\nWe are informed that, weather conditions permitting, a deep sea fishing competition will be held towards the end of this month for members of the Hongkong Angling Club.\n\nFull particulars regarding the exact place of contest and the conditions under which the competition will be held will be announced later.\n\nMembers wishing to take part in the competition are requested to send their names in, as soon as possible, to the Hon. Secretary, Mr. E. B. C. Hornell, care of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd.\n\nOVERLAND CHINA MAIL\n\nAPPEAL COURT.\n\nJuly 15.\n\nJudgment was reserved at the conclusion of evidence and legal argument yesterday in the Full Court of Appeal case in which the landlord applies for the setting aside of a judgment in the Summary Court under which he was made liable for certain acts alleged to have been committed by his rent collector.\n\nLi Sang, the rent collector, gave evidence and said that the only reason he went to the premises on that day was that information was received that the tenant, who was in arrears with his rent, was moving certain goods away.\n\nMr. Potter, in his final argument, remarked on the fact that the rent collector had gone to the house at 9 o'clock at night, which was hardly consistent with his paying an ordinary call to collect rent.\n\nMr. Potter stated emphatically that there was nothing whatever to show that the rent collector or his agent took away property from the premises.\n\nMAIL ABOUT SWEEPS.\n\nTo the Editor of the \"China Mail.\"\n\nSir—As your turf correspondent, I have been asked to give my views on that interesting local topic, the running of cash sweeps.\n\nFirst of all, I must insist that in no way do I pose as a legal expert.\n\nI merely intend to give a few facts.\n\nOn points pertaining to the law, I crave your readers' indulgence.\n\nThere are many kinds of cash sweeps in the Colony.\n\nSome are of absolutely the highest integrity.\n\nThey are above reproach, even when compared with the most popular in the world.\n\nIt is invidious to quote names, but those who are genuinely interested in the turf and their interests are bona fide, will know the ones I mean.\n\nIn one or two, tickets are not obtainable—it being necessary to sign one's name in a book.\n\nIn the contract (given out to the contractor), it is expressly stated that property other than building material must be returned.\n\nThe intention, of course, being that the Hotel would get back what it owned, while anything belonging to residents would be restored as far as possible.\n\nI have also seen sweeps, run by clubs, in which the \"body corporate\" stood to benefit, but no commission was paid to agents to dispose of tickets.\n\nBy this, I mean that the sweeps which are known to be \"good\" need hardly pay any inducement to sellers.\n\nThe question of commission to sellers also crops up.\n\nI am of the opinion that a cash sweep has a better name in ratio to the lack of commission paid to agents.\n\nHONGKONG HOTEL.\n\nJuly 15.\n\nRumours concerning the finding of valuables in the Hongkong Hotel building, as a sequel to the New Year's Day fire, have proved to be exaggerated.\n\nOn reference to Mr. W. J. Hawker, managing director of Hongkong and Shanghai Hotels, Ltd., a \"China Mail\" representative was informed that only a few trinkets had been recovered.\n\nThey were of small value, and the residents deemed them not worth applying for.\n\nA decision had also to be arrived at as to how many storeys would be rebuilt.\n\nAccordingly, it is impossible to say when the Des Voeux Road corner would be in use again.\n\nQUARANTINE RESTRICTIONS.\n\nQuarantine restrictions have been imposed against arrivals from Yokohama on account of plague.\n\nMURDER CASE.\n\nThe case in which a bricklayer of Aberdeen is charged with the murder of his wife was continued at the Central Magistracy on July 15.\n\nA woman, Todger, gave evidence of overhearing a previous quarrel between the couple—and a scream on the morning of the murder, when defendant was seen to be getting away from the cubicle.\n\nThe case is proceeding.\n\nTWO MOTOR ACCIDENTS.\n\nMotor cars driven by Professor Roffey, of the Hongkong University, and Mr. W. A. Hannibal were involved in a collision on Repulse Bay Road, near Deep Bay, shortly after 7 p.m. yesterday.\n\nOne of the cars received slight damage.\n\nIn another accident on the Shaukiwan Road, a Chinese received injuries to both knees by walking out of the bathing shed at North Point into a car driven by Mr. H. E. Goldsmith.\n\nThe injuries, however, were not serious, and the man refused to go to hospital.\n\nJUNK PIRACY.\n\nJuly 15.\n\nThe case in which three men were charged with the piracy of a fishing junk of Lantau Island on May 29 concluded at the Central Magistracy yesterday before Mr. R. E. Lindsell.\n\nIt was stated at the first hearing that three women occupants of the junk were pushed overboard.\n\nThe men were not charged with murder, as none of the bodies had been recovered.\n\nA small boy, the only survivor, who escaped by swimming ashore, identified some of the defendants.\n\nAll the defendants implicated each other yesterday, while a fourth man, not in custody, was stated to have forced one of them to take part in the attack.\n\nThe second defendant said that if the small boy still implicated him in the piracy and murder, he must ask the boy to do so on oath.\n\nFIRE AT SEA.\n\nLOSS OF A FRENCH STEAMER.\n\nBOUND FOR CHINA.\n\nDjibouti, July 14.\n\nThe Messageries Maritimes mail boat Fontainebleau, bound for Ceylon, the Straits Settlements, China, and Japan, has been destroyed by fire.\n\nThe passengers and crew, and a small part of the cargo, have been saved.\n\nThe mail sacks have been lost.\n\nReuter.\n\nA cable has also been received intimating that the passengers had been landed at Djibouti.\n\nFurther news is awaited by way of Saigon-Shanghai-Hongkong.\n\nCAFE INCIDENT.\n\nJuly 15.\n\nArising out of an incident, which occurred at the Cafe Restaurant Parisien in Pedder Building last night, Mr. L. G. Taylor, the manager, was charged before Mr. R. E. Lindsell at the Central Magistracy this morning with \"disorderly conduct.\"\n\nHis Worship adjourned the case until Monday morning, remarking that he understood further proceedings were pending.\n\nDAYLIGHT ROBBERY.\n\nJuly 15.\n\nWhile Mrs. Grantham, of Queen's Gardens, was walking in Des Voeux Road, near the Sincere Company, at noon yesterday, a Chinese snatched a silk bag she was carrying in her hand and made his escape.\n\nThe bag, valued at $20, contained, in addition to a few articles, a sum of $18 in money.\n\nA report of the loss was subsequently made to the police.\n\nFRANCE'S DAY.\n\nJuly 15.\n\nLast night, a large crowd gathered at the Cafe Restaurant Parisien to celebrate in fitting style the 14th of July.\n\nThe Cafe was tastefully decorated with the flags of the different countries, and the tables were decorated with red, white, and blue bunting.\n\nAll kinds of novelties were presented, such as horns, caps, false faces, streamers, and confetti, and about closing time, the Cafe took on a real carnival aspect.\n\nA very fine dinner was served, and Syncopators at their best, everybody seemed to enjoy himself immensely.\n\nCADET SHIPS' VISIT.\n\nJuly 15.\n\nH.E. the Governor and civil, military, and naval officials were entertained last night at the Hongkong Hotel in connection with the visit of the two Japanese training ships, the \"Yakumo\" and \"Izumo.\"\n\nThe host was the Japanese Consul-General, Mr. Y. Murakami.\n\nThe toast of H.M. the King was submitted by the Japanese Consul-General, and H.E. the Governor proposed the toast of H.M. the Emperor of Japan.\n\nTO-DAY'S SALUTES.\n\nJuly 15.\n\nThe \"Hai Yung,\" under orders from the Chinese Government, arrived in Hongkong.\n\nShe saluted \"the country,\" and a reply was sent from Blackhead's signal station.\n\nSalutes were also interchanged with the Commodore, the Japanese Naval Imperial training squadron, and the U.S.S. \"Helena.\"\n\nPRATAS ISLAND.\n\nWith the typhoon season having practically started, even the layman and the landlubber will turn their attention to Pratas, that spot 180 miles to the south of Hongkong, from which meteorological reports are broadcasted.\n\nThe Chinese Admiralty has erected a station, with wireless, on Pratas Island.\n\nBy reason of its position, being in the track of the majority of typhoons which come up this way—Pratas is of great importance.\n\nIt is, of course, a part of Chinese territory.\n\nA trip was suggested on which the Director of the Royal Observatory, Hongkong (Mr. T. F. Claxton) was to have gone down to Pratas on a visit, as a guest of the Chinese superintendent, Mr. C. W. Hsu.\n\nAnother name mentioned was that of Mr. E. W. Carpenter, Assistant Public Works.\n\nPage 240\n\nPage 241",
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        "content_text": "240\n\n24 HOURS.\n\nJuly 16.\n\nMr. John Melville Anderson, master mariner, was the plaintiff in a Supreme Court action this morning in which he claimed $1,515 damages from the Man Wing Steamship Company, this consisting of three months' salary in lieu of notice.\n\nMr. H. G. Sheldon, instructed by Mr. J. A. Gordon Leask, was for the plaintiff and Mr. F. C. Jenkin, instructed by Mr. D. McCallum, was for the defendants.\n\nMr. Sheldon said that Mr. Anderson joined the employ of the chief officer of the company \"Haitan\" in December, 1923, and in January of the following year was appointed master, continuing in that capacity until November of that year. His appointment as master followed the proceeding home of Capt. Jones and it was on Capt. Jones's recommendation that Mr. Anderson was appointed.\n\nThe interview at which the appointment was made took place in the presence of Mr. Chang, the managing director of the Company, and Mr. Ho, an interpreter. Capt. Jones and Mr. Anderson being the only others present.\n\nAt that interview, Mr. Anderson would tell the Court that there was no question of notice discussed at all.\n\nThere was no written agreement but it was verbally agreed that Mr. Anderson should take over at the same wages and emoluments as Capt. Jones.\n\nNo Reason Given.\n\nIn November 1924 when the ship returned to Hongkong, said Mr. Sheldon, Mr. Ho came on board and handed Mr. Anderson a letter terminating his engagement. No reason was given and Mr. Ho said he could give none. It was not his doing but the decision of the owners.\n\nMr. Ho offered Mr. Anderson a month's wages which Mr. Anderson refused. Mr. Anderson had an interview with the Harbour Master also with the secretary of the China Coast Officers' Guild as a result of which he saw solicitors.\n\nMr. Anderson had not been able to get employment after his dismissal until January of the following year when he accepted a position as third officer on one of Jardine Matheson's coastal boats.\n\nMr. Anderson then went into the witness box and bore out counsel's opening remarks. He had had twenty years' experience of the China coast, he stated, eleven of which had been with Messrs. Butterfield and Swire as second and chief officer.\n\nCross-examined by Mr. Jenkin, witness said that his salary with the employ of defendants worked out to about $237 a month. He joined Jardine Matheson's after he left the defendants on January 17, 1925.\n\nMr. Jenkin: So you were employed for 37 days of the three months in respect of which you make your claim.\n\nWitness: Yes.\n\nMr. Jenkin: That reduces your claim to $1,234.48.\n\nIn answer to further questions, witness said that as chief officer with the defendant company he had been on a 24 hours' agreement.\n\nAn Old Friend.\n\nMr. Jenkin: Capt. Jones was a very old friend of yours?\n\nWitness: Yes.\n\nMr. Jenkin: And do you mean to tell us that he neither mentioned to you nor did you know of your own knowledge that he was on a 24 hours' notice agreement?\n\nWitness: Yes. It was not until his return that I found that out. He said he forgot to tell me.\n\nMr. Jenkin: The question of the period of your service and of possible length of notice is one of the most important points to consider when entering into an engagement, is it not?\n\nWitness would not commit himself in reply to this question.\n\nThe evidence of Mr. Anderson having concluded the case for the plaintiffs, Mr. Jenkin briefly addressed the court before calling Mr. E. Chang to give evidence. He spoke of the practice followed by the defendant company in engaging masters on 24 hours' notice and said that it was incomprehensible that this very important factor would have been entirely omitted from the interview, as a result of which Mr. Anderson was appointed.\n\nMr. Jenkin put it to Mr. Anderson that what had taken place at the interview was that he had been engaged \"on the same agreement\" or \"on the same terms\" as Capt. Jones.\n\nThis witness denied and said that only the question of wages and emoluments was discussed. The interview only lasted a few minutes, Mr. Chang could not speak English and Mr. Ho interpreted and told witness that Mr. Chang was agreeable to his being engaged on the same wages and emoluments as Capt. Jones.\n\n\"Allee Same Agreement.\"\n\nMr. Jenkin: I put it to you that Mr. Chang said to you and Capt. Jones in broken English \"allee same agreement. Capt. Jones: 24 hours notice,\" and that you, or at any rate Capt. Jones, said \"Yes.\"\n\nWitness: No, that is not so.\n\nMr. Chang did not speak even in pidgin English.\n\nMr. Jenkin: Would you have taken the position if it had been offered you on those terms?\n\nWitness: No.\n\nMr. Jenkin: Why not?\n\nWitness: I would not consider it a proper agreement for a master.\n\nAsked what ships other than the \"Haitan\" he had been master of on the China coast, Mr. Anderson replied that he had been master of the \"Chuen Chow,\" a river boat, and of vessels in Australia.\n\nThe whole question hinged on the interview at which Mr. Anderson was appointed, said Mr. Sheldon. Mr. Anderson had no knowledge as to what notice Capt. Jones was on. It was not until after his dismissal that Mr. Anderson found out that Capt. Jones had been on a written agreement under which he was liable to 24 hours' notice.\n\nMr. Jenkin: Were you not under a 24 hours' notice agreement as master of the \"Chuen Chow\"?\n\nWitness: No.\n\nMr. Jenkin: Were you on a 24 hours' notice agreement as junior officer?\n\nWitness: Yes.\n\nJuly 16.\n\nIn his final address on behalf of the owners at yesterday afternoon's hearing of the case in which Mr. J. M. Anderson, master mariner, claimed $1,515 from the Man Wing Steamship Company as wages in lieu of notice of termination of a verbal agreement for his captaincy of the s.s. \"Haitan,\" Mr. F. C. Jenkin dealt with the element of hardship which might appear on the face of things. He would like to point out, though, he said, that Mr. Anderson by the fortuitous fact that Capt. Jones went home on private affairs in 1924 stepped into a job whereby his salary was doubled for a period of ten months.\n\nMr. Jenkin said it was inconceivable that, although Mr. Anderson was working on the same ship as Capt. Jones and was a very great personal friend of his, he was not aware of the conditions of Capt. Jones's employment whereby he could be dismissed at 24 hours' notice.\n\n[No. 2998-July 22, 1926]\n\nIt was thought that there would have been discussion of terms of employment. It was also remarkable that in handing Captain Anderson a letter dismissing him at 24 hours' notice, Ho should have offered him a month's salary in lieu of notice. In the first correspondence between the solicitors, there was no mention of this.\n\nThe first letter from the plaintiffs was to the effect that the claim was for wrongful dismissal and that Captain Anderson was entitled to three months' notice. It was remarkable if the solicitors had known of this that they should not have mentioned it in their letters. Had they done so, it would have strengthened plaintiff's case.\n\nCaptain Jones, whose place plaintiff took, was in fact on an agreement determinable at 24 hours' notice and he found it difficult to understand how, when the four men met, Captain Anderson was not in possession of this information.\n\nIt was to him a matter of regret that neither side had called Captain Jones.\n\nThe question of 24 hours' notice was evidently present in the mind of Chan and it appeared reasonable to suppose that this important matter was mentioned at the interview.\n\nHe came to that conclusion without finding that Captain Anderson had deliberately attempted to deceive the court, because the meeting seemed to have been short and informal and it was possible that the plaintiff did not fully apprehend all that took place.\n\nHe entered judgment for defendants, with costs.\n\nCAPT. MACINTOSH.\n\nJuly 16.\n\nCapt. W. MacIntosh of the pirated s.s. \"Tungchow,\" (seized in January last by Cantonese pirates near Weihaiwei, taken to Bias Bay and then abandoned) is leaving for Home.\n\nCapt. MacIntosh is one of the China Navigation Co.'s best-known skippers, and he left Shanghai last week for England on the P. & O. He had to have a foot amputated, as a result of the wound he received when the ship was seized.\n\nThe pirates tried to compel Capt. MacIntosh to surrender. As a consequence, he refused to do so. The pirates shot at him, and Capt. MacIntosh was wounded.\n\nThere was evidence before the court that he was on a practically ever 24 hours' agreement with the same company.\n\nThree men arrested on a sampan were identified as members of the pirate gang and were put to death recently before a firing squad in the native city at Shung-shan.\n\n\"Remarkable Version.\"\n\nHis Lordship in delivering judgment said Captain Anderson's version of the interview was remarkable, notice being three months.\n\n[No. 2998-July 22, 1926]\n\nTHOUGHT FEELING.\n\nJuly 16.\n\nProfessor Maximilian Langsner, a Pole who has devoted his life to the study of telepathy (\"thought feeling,\" as he prefers to call it) and hypnotism is at present in Hongkong in the course of a world tour.\n\nThe practice adopted by Prof. Langsner is to make a prolonged stay in each country for the purpose of carrying out observations which will enable him to perfect his art. He realises that this cannot be accomplished in the space of a few weeks such as might enable a novelist to write a passably good novel with certain local colour.\n\nHis study of the psychology of the peoples of the various countries included in his itinerary is extended over a considerable period. He has been on his travels for some years and intends to devote another two or three to life in China and Japan.\n\nThe countries he has visited in the course of the present tour are Greece, Egypt, Persia, India, and Indo-China.\n\nProf. Langsner has given demonstrations in Telepathy in some of the places he has visited. Such demonstrations are not, however, the main purpose of his visit.\n\nHe emphasises that his feats are not illusions, in fact he prefers to have a sceptical audience. If it should be practicable for a local demonstration to be given, Hongkong people will have the opportunity of witnessing the remarkable powers which Prof. Langsner undoubtedly possesses.\n\nIn Indo-China, according to the Press, \"his claim to read the mind of another was genuinely proved. It was the most convincing demonstration of telepathy yet given to a theatre audience.\"\n\nConfirmed By Reuters.\n\nSimilar appreciation is reported from the other places he has visited, glowing accounts being given of his almost incredible demonstrations, sceptics who challenged him being reported as entirely convinced of the genuineness of his claims and subsequently becoming his friends and advocates.\n\nIn Calcutta, where he was challenged to make a long-distance telepathic communication, he detailed what was happening in certain streets in Paris and London, events which were confirmed by the manager of Reuters in Calcutta.\n\nIn Cairo, before a packed audience, five lions placed in an arena were mesmerised and, in the words of one of the newspapers, \"became as quiet as the docile cats of Angora.\"\n\nWhilst in Persia, the Professor was awarded the order of the \"Sun and Lion\" by the Shah and presented with a pair of Persian carpets.\n\nAnother test to which he was subjected in Indo-China was to drive a car blindfolded for a long distance, the occupants of the car being French officials.\n\nKIDNAPPING CASE.\n\nJuly 16.\n\nFurther evidence of a railway porter from Taipo and a woman occupier of a house at Second Street was called at the Central Magistracy this morning in the case in which a Chinese woman was charged with alleged kidnapping of an eleven-year-old boy.\n\nMr. E. S. C. Brooks appeared for the defence.\n\nEvidence was given by the constable of firing four shots with the intention of stopping the man who escaped after discarding his coat.\n\nPrevious to that, the detective had carried out a KIDNAPPING CASE.\n\nAfter hearing evidence, Mr. Lindsell considered that the charge could hardly be maintained, as the defendant had made no secret that the boy accompanied her on the train and in fact had told the principal tenant about it.\n\nOne very strong corroborating point was the evidence regarding the character of the deceased. No one had come forward to identify him.\n\nDealing with the use of firearms, Mr. Lindsell said that shooting was permissible in certain circumstances such as in chasing a man who is suspected of having committed a felony.\n\nIf it be believed the constable's story that the dagger was found on the man, then it was not an unreasonable assumption that the man was a felon, although the police had not been able to prove that a felony had been committed.\n\nIf the constable was justified in firing to stop him, and further, if he killed the man, then the killing was in law justifiable.\n\nThe Verdict.\n\nThe following were the questions to the jury and their answers:-\n\nHad the constable during the pursuit reasonable cause to suspect that the man had committed a felony? Yes.\n\nIf so, could he have effected an arrest by any other means short of firing? No.\n\nMr. Lindsell: On those answers, I return a verdict of justifiable homicide.\n\nPUPILS WORK.\n\nJuly 16.\n\nThe end of the term at Victoria British School (East Point) was made the occasion of an open day, parents and friends visiting the premises this morning and taking advantage of the opportunity of seeing the work done by the young pupils during the term and of observing the excellent system on which the school is run.\n\nThe basis on which the methods of instruction are founded is that the pupils should actively co-operate with the teachers as much as possible.\n\nIn this particular, the representation of material particulars which are under study by means of tableaux constructed by the pupils themselves is worthy of mention.\n\nThe pupils are encouraged to cut out from picture books the several ingredients to the scenes, the idea being that, pictorially represented, they convey a deeper meaning than mere words can do.\n\nSpecimens of the work of the scholars in needlework, designing, stencilling, etc., were on display, also some of the examination papers. These were the object of much interest by the parents and other friends who were welcomed by Mrs. E. M. Clark, Headmistress, and conducted over the premises by the staff and pupils.\n\nMrs. Clark, in welcoming those present, thanked the parents for their co-operation in the conduct of the school and the training of the children and expressed the hope that they would continue working together to the ends. Mrs. Clark also mentioned that she was always willing to co-operate in with a caution training for pupils particularly gifted along certain lines.\n\nA very pleasing programme of dances was then gone through, \"The Pipes of Pan\" to the accompaniment of the gramophone and \"Sleep Fairies\" and \"Bubbles\" to the pianoforte accompaniment of Miss A. E. Hendry, in charge of classes 6 and 7.\n\nThe younger scholars gave \"The Pierrots\" and the older pupils gave \"The Big Chief\" to the pianoforte accompaniment of Miss Hendry.\n\nThe pupils taking part were:-\n\nClass 6: Marie Clarke and Sidney Fowler.\n\nClass 7: Douglas Mackay, Douglas Taylor, James Clark, Alex MacFarlane and Albert Moss, William MacFarlane.\n\nClass 8: Mary Taylor, Ernie Fowler and Alison Mackay.\n\nInfants (\"B\"): Florry Fowler, Stella Stevenson, Eric Stone,\n\nInfants (\"A\"): Jean Clark, Robert Glen and Billy Gegg.\n\nFATAL WOUNDING.\n\nJuly 16.\n\nThe inquiry into the death of a Chinese who was shot by a detective was resumed before Mr. R. E. Lindsell and a jury at the Central Magistracy to-day.\n\nIn his summing up to the jury, Mr. Lindsell said he saw no reason to doubt the evidence of the constable which was corroborated in material particulars.\n\nHe held that the boy accompanied the woman of his own accord and he did not believe the story that he was dragged into the train.\n\nThe defendant was discharged with a warning and the boy's brother, who was present in court, was ordered to look after him in future.\n\nDEEP-SEA FISHING.\n\nJuly 16.\n\nA local deep-sea fishing competition will be held towards the end of this month for members of the Hongkong Angling Club if the weather permits. Particulars as to conditions will be announced later.\n\nMembers wishing to take part are requested to send their names in, as soon as possible, to the hon. secretary, Mr. E. B. C. Hornell, c/o Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd.\n\nA Chinese push cyclist was charged at the Kowloon Magistracy on July 15 with using a motor horn on his machine. Defendant pleaded ignorance and was discharged with a caution.\n\nA Chinese, charged with the murder of his wife gave evidence at the Central Magistracy on July 15, stating that the woman accidentally plunged a chisel into her throat. He was committed for trial at the Sessions.\n\nThe practice adopted by Prof. Langsner is to make a prolonged stay in each country for the purpose of carrying out observations which will enable him to perfect his art. He realises that this cannot be accomplished in the space of a few weeks such as might enable a novelist to write a passably good novel with certain local colour.\n\nProf. Langsner is a gifted linguist, speaking no less than six languages. He was a personal friend of the late Enrico Caruso who was also a student of the occult.\n\nWriting to him on one occasion the great singer said \"You hypnotise the world with your eyes. I hypnotise the world with my voice. We are both hypnotisers.\"",
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        "content_text": "80. We have considered the evidence of the Accountant, the Store Supervisor and the two Storekeepers who have been in charge since 1923, and we have come to the conclusion that the stocks were handled in a somewhat haphazard manner and without due regard to the necessity for keeping accurate records of issues and receipts.\n\nIn the case of the apparent loss of a large number of rounds of revolver ammunition we find satisfactory evidence that this ammunition had become unserviceable and was dumped in the sea but was not, owing to inadvertence, struck off charge.\n\nIn the case of other surpluses and deficiencies we have to be satisfied with expressions of opinion by the witnesses that there were omissions to obtain receipt and issue notes in respect of legitimate receipts and issues.\n\nAs instances of these we would cite the alleged issue of utensils to messes, of small parts and repair materials to the armourer, and of accoutrements and beds urgently required for the use of recruits.\n\n81. Our investigations lead us to believe that there has not in all probability been any loss, peculation or misapplication of articles and that consequently there has been no financial loss to the Government.\n\n82. The present Storekeeper, Mr. W. G. Harrison, was appointed to that post on the 2nd May, 1925, when he succeeded Sergeant A. Riach to whom he had been assistant since April, 1923. Sergeant Riach had been Storekeeper since 1919.\n\n83. We find that there is not in operation in the Stores any system of tally boards or an equivalent therefor.\n\nWe regard it as essential that there should be such a system as without it the Storekeeper has no ready means of ascertaining how his stocks should stand, for the store accounts are kept in the Accountant's Office.\n\nMr. Harrison started a system of tally boards, but informs us that it is quite impossible with his present limited staff to keep them up to date. His staff consists only of an Assistant Storekeeper and a Chinese police corporal, the latter being on duty at the stores only to keep order and prevent theft.\n\nWe find that during the first three months of the present year the Storekeeper had to deal with 853 receipt notes, 1,884 issue notes and 289 order notes, and we can appreciate his difficulty in keeping tally boards up to date without clerical assistance. He has asked for this but his request has not been acceded to.\n\n84. After the stocktaking in 1923 Mr. A. H. C. Taylor, the Police Department Accountant, addressed a minute to the Captain Superintendent of Police in which he stated that the system in force was well supervised and that adjustments of stock should in future be very rare, as all issues and receipts were strictly accounted for.\n\nSubsequent events have failed to justify this optimistic outlook.\n\nIn the absence of evidence as to how or when the discrepancies arose we cannot feel entirely satisfied that all receipts and issues are even now correctly accounted for.\n\n85. The Police Regulations, Section 5A 2., require that a complete inventory of all Police Stores should be made twice a year.\n\nFor a period of four and a half years no such inventory was made, and the reason given by the Captain Superintendent of Police is that stocktaking was impossible owing to the fact that the books were not up to date. The Accountant also considers this a good reason for not taking stock.\n\nWe are unable to agree with this contention, for, had the stock been taken at any given date, the figures then ascertained could have been compared with the stock book figures when subsequently the books were written up.",
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        "content_text": "## service in Hong Kong\n\nparticular teacher re conjunction, for pension purposes, of service\n\nI do not suppose she will apply for any post. Show you, thoroughly, the Board has to consider her case. She probably will be applying. (I have told her the proper procedure to be obtained from the Board.) Then the matter will come under your department; and I hope & believe that her application will receive your sympathetic consideration. She is serving in School here, which I have the honour to be in charge of. Mrs Cullin, (wife Naylor), has put in long service.\n\nYours, with thanks",
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        "content_text": "60 \n\n12 \n\nBefore I went to Siam I stayed at the SAM HOP Boarding House about five or six days. NG YUT WA was not there. Her 'man' (NG LAI TONG, aged about 30 years) stayed with me in the same room. I was seduced by him there. We went to Siam on the \"CHAK SANG\". The brothel mistress went with me, the other did not go.\n\n23.1.25. \n\nWONG TS'AT MUI, 17 years. \n\n\"My parents are dead. \nMy foster mother took me to the Wing Sheung Brothel where we saw the mistress. It was decided that I should become a prostitute. I did that in order to get money because I was in debt. I gave the money to my foster mother to take back to the country. \nI have not been a prostitute before. I was a concubine to a man now dead. \nIt was understood that I should practise in Hong Kong but the mistress said: \"You cannot get a card here. I must resell you in Singapore\". I objected. She said: \"Give me back my money\". The next day I ran away\".\n\nNG YUT WA, 21. \n9.1.25. \n\n\"My husband, a soldier, has not been heard of for a year. A woman suggested that I should go to Bangkok as a school mistress. I paid my own fare. \nWhen we arrived she said that it was hard to get a post as school mistress unless one knew English and that I had better become a prostitute. I complained to the authorities who had me sent back to China\".\n\nStatement of MUI SAM (10.9.26) 18 years. \n21 6.27. \n\n\"I am the wife of LEI KING, a soldier. \nIn the seventh month I went to Canton with my husband who said he was going to visit friends. We stayed for a few nights at a Boarding House and then an old woman told me that my husband had gone to Singapore to work as a tailor. She said my husband had told her to bring me to Singapore. I believed her. When we arrived she told me I must be a prostitute.\n\nKU MAN alias MUI NGO:-(25.3.26). \n\n\"I am 23 years of age; a prostitute. I come from Shek Lau village in Kuangsi. I have been kidnapped three times by bandits and twice redeemed by my relations for $200 and $500. The third time the ransom demanded was $200. My family had no money left. Three men brought me to Hong Kong and sold me to KWOK TAI KAM for $210. I was bound to her for seven years. The men made me say they were my relations. All my earnings go to KWOK TAI KAM. She told me what to say to the S.C.A. She said I would find the life of a prostitute pleasant and that I should be imprisoned if I told the truth.",
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        "content_text": "# 3937 Eastern\n\nDear Taylor,\n\nDowning Street,\n14 December, 1931.\n\nThanks for your letter of 31st October.\n\nColonel Drury's salary at date of retirement was £650 plus £147-3-0 cost of living bonus. He had had 30 years Imperial service.\n\nOn the £650 he was awarded:\n- pension 30/80ths = £243-15-0\n- lump sum 30/30ths = £650.\n\nOn the cost of living bonus he was awarded a fluctuating pension which cannot exceed £55-3-7. The lump sum on the bonus was £100-6-3 computed with regard to the cost of living figure at date of retirement.\n\nWhat I meant by \"similarly etc.\" was this. When you come to retire Hong Kong will take her scheduled service and final pensionable emoluments and compute a pension of 60ths.\n\nE. TAYLOR, ESQ.",
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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. This dont study yna and slacion are almost all laid in The Yoona of ha youth, a world The Unomeat 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\nria myle was piquant and ke That way to reduction is in excurs\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\nC\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\nUM DEX YA and I gather that eloquent of the state of public, not be may extension of aqinlas\n\nArmy Reserve Service, a klæber 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 Marsètz Pead 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 553593555338393 192070582 | With their task. 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. 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. 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        "content_text": "27. The receipts from \"Opium Sales\" fell considerably short of the estimate, the deficit amounting to $685,774. This source of revenue continues to decline and although the estimate for 1933 has been reduced by $500,000 compared with 1932 it is quite probable that there will be a further shortfall in 1933 of $500,000.\n\n28. The receipts from Estate duties were much higher than usual, many more items having been dealt with, and in addition three large estates brought in $496,142.\n\n29. Remittances from abroad practically ceased at the end of 1931. Bankers' fixed deposit rates throughout the year were about 2% for renewals of year money. No interest was paid except in special cases on new short money. There is still a very large amount of surplus funds in the Colony available for investment.\n\n30. Trade was stagnant, but statistics of the Imports and Exports Trade do not reveal such an unsatisfactory position as might have been imagined taking into consideration the large contraction in international trade. Hong Kong merchants were overstocked with piece goods bought when the dollar was low and now find themselves unable to dispose of these resulting in a number of bankruptcies.\n\n31. National Cash Registers were installed in the Treasury in May and hand-written receipts discontinued except for deposits. It had for some years been found impossible to write out receipts for rates at the time of payment and in order not to keep the public waiting these receipts were drawn out beforehand for each rate due and signed by a responsible officer subsequently when the money was tendered. Admittedly this was a bad system but it was the only practical way of dealing with the problem and even so, at rush periods, the public were kept waiting and many declined to wait and went away without their receipts. The number of receipts has, however, increased recently to such an extent that unless a larger staff and more accommodation were provided, even the old system would have broken down. Two registers were purchased and as many as 2,200 receipts have been issued in one day. This is exceptional but with the increase in the number of water meters due to universal meterage, to which must be added normal development, the time will come when the issue of such a large number of receipts will be of frequent occurrence and the purchase of a third machine essential.\n\nThe Treasury,\n\nHong Kong, 25th April, 1933.\n\nEDWIN TAYLOR,\n\nTreasurer.",
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        "content_text": "27. The receipts from \"Opium Sales\" fell considerably short of the estimate, the deficit amounting to $685,774. This source of revenue continues to decline and although the estimate for 1933 has been reduced by $500,000 compared with 1932 it is quite probable that there will be a further shortfall in 1933 of $500,000.\n\n28. The receipts from Estate duties were much higher than usual, many more items having been dealt with, and in addition three large estates brought in $496,142.\n\n29. Remittances from abroad practically ceased at the end of 1931. Bankers' fixed deposit rates throughout the year were about 2% for renewals of year money. No interest was paid except in special cases on new short money. There is still a very large amount of surplus funds in the Colony available for investment.\n\n30. Trade was stagnant, but statistics of the Imports and Exports Trade do not reveal such an unsatisfactory position as might have been imagined taking into consideration the large contraction in international trade. Hong Kong merchants were overstocked with piece goods bought when the dollar was low and now find themselves unable to dispose of these resulting in a number of bankruptcies.\n\n31. National Cash Registers were installed in the Treasury in May and hand-written receipts discontinued except for deposits. It had for some years been found impossible to write out receipts for rates at the time of payment and in order not to keep the public waiting these receipts were drawn out beforehand for each rate due and signed by a responsible officer subsequently when the money was tendered. Admittedly this was a bad system but it was the only practical way of dealing with the problem and even so, at rush periods, the public were kept waiting and many declined to wait and went away without their receipts. The number of receipts has, however, increased recently to such an extent that unless a larger staff and more accommodation were provided, even the old system would have broken down. Two registers were purchased and as many as 2,200 receipts have been issued in one day. This is exceptional but with the increase in number of water meters due to universal meterage, to which must be added normal development, the time will come when the issue of such a large number of receipts will be of frequent occurrence and the purchase of a third machine essential.\n\nThe Treasury,\n\nHong Kong, 25th April, 1933.\n\nEDWIN TAYLOR,\n\nTreasurer.",
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        "content_text": "383\n\n24\n\n23\n\n382\n\nTHE VOTE\n\nTanner, made a special feature of the characteristic Shetland woollies. They also had a good display of leatherwork and Sheffield plate.\n\nWIMBLEDON STALL, in the charge of Mrs. Catmur, and her sister, Mrs. Holmwood, Mrs. Rann, and Mrs. Rolfe had a good display of general goods, including tea-cosies, hand-bags, and home-made jams.\n\nARTS AND CRAFTS STALL, in the charge of Miss Alix Clark, is to be commended on its selection of artistic lavender bags, shopping-lists, and small hand-bags.\n\nCAKE AND PRODUCE STALL, in the charge of Miss Alix Clark, Mrs. Elias Pritchard, and the Misses Edith and Maud Codd, had its usual fine array of decorated Christmas cakes and home-made confectionery.\n\nCHINA STALL, in the charge of Mrs. Lindus, Miss Lindus, Miss Thompson, and Miss Vesey, looked very bright and attractive with its Ashstead pottery made by ex-Service men.\n\nOVERALLS AND APRONS STALL, in the charge of the Misses Underwood, Mrs. Turriff, and Miss Charles, this year had an exceptionally fine assortment of aprons and overalls. A special feature was made of dainty silk afternoon aprons.\n\nLINGERIE STALL, in the charge of Mrs. Holmes, Mrs. Overy, Mrs. Trafford Williams, and Miss Overy, had a particularly fine assortment of hand-worked baby clothes and underwear.\n\nSWEET STALL, in the charge of Miss Annie Hoare, Miss Joan Elias Pritchard, and Miss Robinson, did a good trade in boxes of chocolates, small tins labelled 'Weekly Assortment,' and home-made sweets.\n\nTOY STALL, in the charge of Mrs. Shore and Mrs. Boyce, had its usual fine collection of animals, dolls, and mechanical toys. The special attraction was a life-like black French poodle puppy, forming a fascinating night-dress case.\n\nWOOLLEN GOODS STALL, in the charge of Mrs. Delbanco, Mrs. Dore, and Mrs Jacoby, had a choice selection of hand-made jumpers, scarves, etc.\n\nLITERATURE STALL, in the charge of Mrs. Gerard and Miss Simpson, had a delightful collection of children's books-fiction, non-fiction, and poetry.\n\nTHE VOTE STALL, in the charge of Mrs. Wardi and Miss Hoyer, displayed a variety of useful articles to be found at the chemist's.\n\nEntertainments\n\nThis year a new feature in our entertainments was a short play, 'Widows,' in which Leona Cooper, Fay Myddleton, and Emma Dhai took part. This ironic little sketch, which was splendidly acted, caused much interest and amusement.\n\nThere was a charming display of operatic, classical, and character dances by pupils from Miss Grace Woollacott's Wimbledon School of Dancing. Several new and original dances added to the pleasure of this popular feature.\n\nA number of delightful pianoforte solos were given by Miss T. A. Davis; items by Madame Leoni and the Leoni Trio gave much pleasure; banjolele spirituelles by Mrs. Neville were much appreciated; and Miss Duncan, Miss Grant, Miss King, Miss Fordham, and Miss Joan Somes contributed to the musical programme.\n\nMrs. Seymour Pritchard, assisted by Mrs. Crocker, Mrs. Hamilton, Mrs. Richardson, Mrs. Roles, and Miss Ivy Hawke, organised the Information Bureau and side shows. Miss Peggy Smith was kept busy executing her wonderful lightning portrait-sketches. Character readings were given by Miss Brassington, Miss Hudson, Madame Vere, and Miss Wall.\n\nThe Competition Corner, which was very popular, was arranged by Mrs. Riches and Mrs. Haines, assisted by Miss Riches, and the lucky wheel was busily rotated by Esmé May Dorrington.\n\nThe prizes, kindly given by McDougall, Ltd., for the Cake Competition, arranged by the Chiswick Branch, were won by: (1) Mrs. Baxendale; (2) Miss Whitehead; and (3) Mrs. Anderton. The judges were Miss Charles, Miss Reeves, and Mrs. Watling.\n\nAfternoon teas and refreshments were daintily served by our efficient Minerva Club, under the direction of Miss Reeves, assisted by Mrs. Atkinson, Mrs. Boyd, Miss Brewer, Miss Britain, Miss Edwards, Mrs. Ellis, Mrs. Hilliard, Madame Inglis, Miss Lucienne Inglis, Miss Jackson, Miss James, Mrs. James, Miss Josa, Mrs. Langston, Miss Parks, Mrs. Paul, Miss Phillips, Mrs. Rogers, Miss Thompson, Miss Thomas, Mr. Yoxall, and Miss Wesley.\n\nSpecial Thanks\n\nOur most cordial thanks are due to the Hon. Mrs. Franklin, who so kindly came to open the Fair at very short notice, Miss E. Berry, whose untiring efforts year by year make the Fair a success, and to the Fair Sub-Committee for their whole-hearted co-operation during the months of preparation.\n\nSpecial thanks are also due to the stallholders; to all who contributed to the entertainments; to those who assisted so essentially with the Information Bureau; to our caterers and their assistants; to our doorkeepers Miss Cornwell, Mr. Clifford Jones, and Mr. Thompson; to Mrs. Scott for so kindly undertaking the cloakroom; to Miss Auld for general help; to our kind purchasers, and to all who helped in any way to make the Fair a success.\n\nHow to Reach the Fair\n\nDear Fellow Members,-Very many thanks to those members who have so kindly sent contributions towards the Fair expenses and to all our kind buyers.\n\nMany members were for one reason or another prevented from reaching the Caxton Hall last Thursday and Friday, but I shall be most grateful to any who will join with us in this fund-raising fixture by sending me a small sum, to include their return fare to Westminster, their tea and supper, and perhaps a part of the useful articles they would have purchased there.\n\nIn hopeful anticipation,\n\nE. KNIGHT,\n\nHon. Treasurer.\n\n144, High Holborn, W.C.1.\n\nMARRIED WOMEN'S EMPLOYMENT\n\nThe 'North Mail' reports that the question of married women teachers who hold positions in Wallsend while a number of single women were unable to find appointments was raised last week at the meeting of Wallsend Education Committee.\n\nCouncillor A. McFarlane referred to a list of names of young women who had come out of college and said there did not seem much possibility of their getting posts. He thought they might replace some of the married teachers. 'Some of the married teachers have husbands who hold good positions,' he said, 'and I do not think it is fair to girls who have come out of college and have been on the list for some time.'\n\nThe Chairman, Councillor John Mason, suggested the matter might be referred to the staffing sub-committee. There were great complications involved, and they must give careful thought before deciding upon anything.\n\nCouncillor McFarlane said he was agreeable to this course, which was adopted.\n\nWe ourselves would like to think and say if a body of women systematically applied this kind of means test to all men's employment.\n\nIt is reported that the question of the employment of married women on the staff of the B.B.C. has recently been raised again to the consternation, so it is said, of the hundreds of secretaries and stenographers at Broadcasting House.\n\nMarried women have always been employed by the Corporation and its predecessor, the old Broadcasting Company, and many of them have married during their service. It is absurd that this question should be settled on any other ground than that of efficiency.\n\nFRIDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1932\n\nTHE VOTE\n\nBRANCH NOTES\n\nWomen's Freedom League\n\nBARNSBURY AND DISTRICT\n\nOffices: 144, HIGH HOLBORN, W.C.1. Telephone-HOLBORN 9301. President-Mrs. PETHICK-LAWRENCE. Hon. Treasurer-Dr. E. KNIGHT. Hon. Organising Secretary-Mrs. WHETTON. Hon. Head Literature Department-Mrs. GERARD. General Secretary-Miss F. A. UNDERWOOD.\n\nWHERE TO GO\n\nWOMEN'S FREEDOM LEAGUE\n\nLONDON AND SUBURBS\n\nMonday, November 28th, 7.30 p.m. Brentford and Chiswick Branch. Public meeting at Stamford Brook House, W.6. Hostess Mrs. Macgregor, Speaker: Miss H. M. Dovey, B.A. Subject: Educational Economies - Actual and Threatened.\n\nMonday, November 28th, at 8 p.m. Mid-London Branch. Meeting at 25, Wimpole Street, W.1.\n\nTuesday, November 29th, 4.30 p.m. (Tea, 4 o'clock, price 6d.) Public Meeting at the Minerva Club, 28a, Brunswick Square, W.C.1. Speaker: The Hon. Mary Pickford, M.P. Subject: Votes for Women in India. Chair: Mrs. Pethick-Lawrence.\n\nThursday, December 1st, 4.30 p.m. (Tea, 4 o'clock, price 6d.) Tea and Politics Up-to-date Meeting at the Minerva Club, 28a, Brunswick Square, W.C.1. Speaker: Mrs. Isabel Donzé. Subject: The Nationality of Married Women.\n\nThursday, December 1st, 7.45 p.m. for 8 p.m. Highbury and Stoke Newington Branch. Whist Drive at 27, Bethune Road, N.16. Hostess: Mrs. Pearson. Tickets 2s., including refreshments.\n\nTuesday, December 6th, 3 p.m. Wimbledon Branch. Meeting at 'Duart,' 67, Grand Drive, Raynes Park, Speaker: Councillor Jenner. Subject: The Minor Activities of the League of Nations.\n\nTuesday, December 6th, 8 p.m. Welwyn Garden City Branch. Club Room Public meeting in the Arts Speaker: Mrs. Bhuttacharji. Subject: India.\n\nWednesday, December 7th, 3 p.m. Thames Valley Branch. Meeting at 27, Gloucester Road, Kew. Hostess: Miss Bulkeley Johnson. Plans for future work.\n\nSaturday, December 10th, 2.30 p.m. Jumble Sale at St. George's Vestry Hall, Bloomsbury (entrance Little Russell Street). Admission 2d. Gifts urgently needed.\n\nSaturday, January 14th, 1933, at 10 a.m. National Executive Committee Meeting at 144, High Holborn, W.C.1.\n\nPROVINCES\n\nTuesday, November 29th, 3 p.m. Bexhill Branch. Drawing-room meeting at 13, Park Road, Bexhill. Speaker Mrs. Donzé. Chair: Miss D. Osborn.\n\nTuesday, November 29th, at 7.30. Portsmouth Branch. Branch Coming-of-Age Party at St. Bartholomew's Hall. Speaker: Miss Nina Boyle. Music: Coffee.\n\nMonday, December 12th, at 8 p.m. Edinburgh Branch. Debate on Birth Control. Affirm., Mrs. Garden Blackie: Neg., Mrs. Alice Ross, M.A., J.P. At India Buildings, George IV, Bridge.\n\nOTHER SOCIETIES\n\nWednesday, November 30th, at 8.15 p.m. British College of Psychic Science, 1, Queen's Gate, S.W. Lecture by Miss Lind-af-Hageby on 'Mind in Animals.'\n\nThursday, December 1st, 8 p.m. The Alpha Study Circle. Meeting at Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, W.C.1. Speaker: Sir George Paish. Subject: International Aspects of the Money Problem. Chairman: Mrs. Pethick Lawrence. Tickets, 1s. each, from W.F.L. Office, 144, High Holborn, W.C.1.\n\nFriday, December 2nd, at 2.30 p.m. Council for the Representation of Women in the League of Nations. Annual meeting at Women's Service House Annexe, 35, Marsham Street, S.W.1. Mrs. Corbett Ashby will speak at 4.30, on 'Disarmament or Re-armament.' Admission free: collection.\n\nSaturday, December 3rd, at 2.45 p.m. Society for the Ministry of Women (Interdenominational). Members Conference at Wesley's Chapel, City Road, E.C.1. Speakers: Miss Margaret Taylor, the Rev. Rosalind Lee, M.A., and the Rev. Violet Hedger, B.D., L.L.A. Chairman: Dr. Maude Royden, C.H.\n\n'The Vote'\n\nSubscription Rates Annual Subscription 6/6. Post free, everywhere.\n\nTHE VOTE may be obtained through all Newsagents and at the Bookstalls of Messrs. W. H. Smith and Sons.\n\nA very well-attended meeting was held on Tuesday, Nov. 15th, at 15, Richmond Crescent, Mrs. Potter presided, and Miss Pearson gave a very instructive address on new developments in educational services. Questions and discussion followed, and competitions were held at the close of the meeting.\n\nWIMBLEDON\n\nOn Tuesday, Nov. 15th, a Branch Meeting was held at 'Duart,' 67, Grand Drive, by kind permission of Mrs. Catmur. A display was made of the pretty articles sent by Branch members for the general stall at the Green, White and Gold Fair; a business meeting was then held, when a programme of work was drawn up for the New Year.\n\nEDINBURGH\n\nMrs. Miller (vice-president) presided at our last meeting in the unavoidable absence of Mrs. Alice M. Ross, M.A., J.P., at a most uplifting meeting. Mrs. Milne Robertson spoke on 'Women and the Ministry.' Her speech was more like a sermon, packed with good things and beautiful thoughts.\n\nGREEN, WHITE AND GOLD FAIR\n\nAPRONS AND OVERALLS STALL\n\nThe Misses Underwood and Mrs. Turriff very cordially thank the following for their very kind gifts to this stall: Mrs. Gilbert, Mrs. Fisher, Miss Round, Mrs. Terry, Miss C. Newman, and Mrs. Forman.\n\nA REMINDER\n\nTUESDAY, NOVEMBER 29th, at 4.30: THE HON. MARY PICKFORD, M.P.; 'Votes for Women in India'\n\nTHURSDAY, DECEMBER 1st, at 4.30: MRS. ISABEL DONZÉ: 'Nationality of Married Women'\n\n(Tea at 4 o'clock - price 6d.) AT THE MINERVA CLUB, 28a, Brunswick Square, W.C.1\n\nWANTED URGENTLY\n\nMiscellaneous Goods for Jumble Sale\n\nParcels of Clothing, Boots and Shoes, Household Goods and anything else that can be turned into money to MISS AULD, 144, HIGH HOLBORN, W.C.1\n\nMembership Application Form\n\nTo be returned to the Secretary, 144, High Holborn, London, W.C.1. Please enrol me as a member of the Women's Freedom League.\n\nName...\n\nAddress...\n\nI enclose £... s... d... as my first, Annual Subscription.\n\nMinimum Annual Subscription, 1/-.\n\n9\n\nFRIDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1932\n\n23\n\nPage information retained as per instructions.",
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        "content_text": "13.12.33 \n\n15. M. Ruusbro (CA) \n\nHe gathered from M. Taylor, who thought this off till today yesterday, that \n\n# \nhas been drafted in consultation with N'Gamel & R Ransom of the Crown Agents. \n\nThe idea of ultimately floating a loan to meet the cost of various capital outlays has been contemplated for some years. In the meantime, the initial outlay has been provided out of balances. \n\nSubstantial advantage is anticipated from the HK pt (point) of view of earnings from the proposed new loan, largely in sterling dollars. The system of tendering for the new loan in the manner proposed is admitted to be unusual for H.K. Government issues. \n\nIf it is desired to discuss this draft with N'Ezechiel, M Taylor, the latter is prepared to come here at short notice. He has, he told us, kept the Financial Secretary informed of the progress of his work.",
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        "content_text": "- 23 -\n\nsay that the alternative was not to accept the evidence of Eric Davies is not correct at all.\n\n35\n\nMr. Jacks: He was still in sight of the bridge when he heard the scream and ran back.\n\nMr. Fraser: There were screams. Mrs. Fairburn was attracted to the bridge. The accused got on the bridge and then got down as far as Mr. Bowles within two minutes. Mr. Andrews got off that Peak Tram at 18 minutes past. He was attracted by screams. Mr. Bowles Watch stopped at 20 minutes past. The distance between the bridge and the married quarters where Eric Davies says he lives is shown on the plan. He was still in sight of the bridge. You must be out of the sight of the bridge when you come past the school.\n\nThat is a very short distance. We went and tested it. The distance is not 200 yards.\n\nMr. Jacks: It was impossible to get the amount of time very accurately but it was a short time.\n\nMr. Fraser: The only submission is that it was very short and that admission so far was unattacked and I have not heard anything else suggested until now. The learned trial judge has tried to help the defence in saying \"Now don't believe Eric Davies if you don't believe him you can see how easy it is for the defence to be right. That, I submit, is the proper construction to put on the words, and it does not say because Eric Davies has said such a thing the defence must be wrong.\n\nPages 19 and 20. \"Three of the children slipped into the nullah and two little ones who were left on top fell in\".\n\nMr. Lim: My suggestion is that the two on top called out to someone for help,\n\nMr. Fraser: And the learned trial judge said \"That is so, that roughly is the case\". I don't believe that my friend quarrels with that statement? I have never heard that statement contradicted by my friend.\n\nMr. Jacks: I think we will adjourn at this point to 2.30 p.m.\n\nThursday, 11.10.34\n\n2.30 p.m.\n\nMr. Fraser: This morning I indicated to the Court (expounds on case being res gestae as against res inter alios acta as maintained by Mr. Lim).\n\nByrne's definition read out.\n\nTaylor on the same point Vol.1 Chapter 7 11th Edition last para. p.582. Under the heading of \"hearsay\" - and distinguishes res gestae from \"hearsay\" pages 401 and 402. paragraph 591. There was a prima facie case as soon as Mrs. Fairburn said she saw the accused on the bridge that was sufficient for me.\n\nR. v. James Greenley 10 Cr. Appeal Reports p.273. Judgment p.275\n\nI submit the whole of Mrs. Fairburn's evidence, particularly the throwing in of the two children is res gestae. It is admissible also to disprove acts which is the defence in this case. Even if it were said, which I do not admit, that the evidence should have been postponed, until the other evidence had been given, even if that were so, it still would be admissible, because there was a prima facie case on the evidence without it.\n\nMr. Lim: That is not quite the fact. We object to the whole of the evidence of Mrs. Fairburn, and particularly to that part of the evidence where the accused was seen to throw the two children over.\n\nMr. Fraser: Then that strengthens my case. You cannot exclude the evidence of Mrs. Fairburn that she saw the accused on the bridge.\n\nR. v. Lwith. Women found in baths. Evidence as to how they got into the bath was irrelevant, was the submission. In that case there is a lapse of time between the killing of each wife. In this case it was a continuous act. Even in Smith's case the evidence was admitted.\n\nSumming Up\n\nPart of the defence was suicide. That was dealt with on p.10 bottom of page 10. The defence apparently was that he did commit suicide from the bridge but he only made up his mind to",
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        "content_text": "## \n\n: execution of our arrangements for this happy visit, our guests will leave Hongkong with the same feeling as that with which my wife and I left Canton—a sense of abiding friendship.\n\nAnd in that hope and trust I ask you, Ladies and Gentlemen of Hongkong, to rise and drink to the health of our distinguished visitors, associating the toast with the names of His Excellency the Chairman of the Provincial Government of Kwangtung and His Honour the Mayor of Canton.\n\n## General Huang Replies\n\nAcknowledging the toast, General Huang Mu-sung said:\n\nTo-day, in accordance with instructions from Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, we have come to return Your Excellency's visit. I feel much honoured and thankful for the overwhelming welcome accorded to us. It is my great regret that owing to pressure of work, the arrangements made for Your Excellency and Lady Caldecott's visit to Canton were rather crude and I feel that we do not deserve the praise Your Excellency has just showered upon us. I am greatly impressed by Your Excellency's remarks regarding co-operation and mutual understanding and I must say that this entirely coincides with the ideals and principles of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, the late leader of the Kuomintang and of our present national leader, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek.\n\nI have to thank you further for extending to us the privilege of inspecting the imposing edifice which houses the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation as well as the great Shing Mun Dam project. The progress Hongkong has made in public works, which I must frankly say far surpasses our efforts in Canton, has given us a very good impression and no doubt will serve as a source of inspiration to us, which I regard as one of the important unexpected results of our visit.\n\n## Pages From Sages\n\nNow let me quote a few passages from our Sages to show the Chinese ideals about friendship so that we may have a common foundation and goal for our future efforts. Our Classics say \"Making friends with the good and being kind to your neighbour is the precious asset of a nation.\" Another passage reads \"When nations enjoy peace and order, the world is then pacified\"—in other words world peace depends on the internal stability of nations.\n\nAnother passage says: \"Lip service is not sufficient; you must put words into actions.\"\n\nStill another passage says \"When you ask your friend for a favour you must be prepared to do him one in return.\" All this represents the spirit of friendship and mutual understanding, which coincides with the sentiments just expressed by our kind host.\n\nHenceforward let us show our friendship by deeds and give practical expression to our spirit of mutual confidence. I believe the Mayor, Mr. Tseng Yang-fu, now wishes to add a few words to what I have just said.\n\n## Mayor's Speech\n\nMr. Tseng Yang-fu said:\n\nIt is with the greatest pleasure that I avail myself of this opportunity to say a few words to express my very sincere appreciation and thanks for the warm welcome you have accorded us since our arrival this morning. My wife and I consider it a great fortune to have the privilege of paying our first visit to Hongkong since my transfer to South China, and of meeting you and making your personal acquaintance on an occasion which I believe will have an important bearing on the future relationship between Hongkong and Canton, and we have been deeply impressed by the wonderful strides Hongkong has made in reconstruction and more so by the warmth and friendliness with which we have been received.\n\nI need hardly emphasize that we entirely endorse the statement our kind host has just made that the spirit of friendship should form the basis of our relations and I desire to assure you that Canton will not only be prepared to reciprocate your friendship but will work for such mutual co-operation and assistance as would enable our friendly relations to show concrete results.\n\nThe Chinese people in their relations and dealings with others have always stressed peace and friendship. I believe I am not wrong in saying that love of peace is an outstanding quality of the Chinese character and the spirit of friendship is one of our underlying moral principles. Throughout our history of more than 4,000 years our great sages, philosophers and statesmen have favoured peace and harmony among nations.\n\n### Love of Peace\n\nThe late Dr. Sun Yat-sen, founder of the Chinese Kuomintang and the Chinese Republic, advocated universal brotherhood and believed that in order to realise the ideal of international peace, \"we must unify the world upon the foundation of our ancient morality and love of peace, and bring about a universal rule of equality and fraternity.\" Our present efforts to promote friendly relations with other countries are based on this principle and we are convinced that it is only through the realisation of this basic principle that peace can ever be made secure and permanent.\n\nIt is to be noted with gratification that in recent years the bonds of Anglo-Chinese friendship have greatly strengthened. The Chinese people appreciate your increasingly friendly spirit as manifested in the material support which the British Government has given to the Chinese currency stabilisation scheme and in its more recent action in extending huge export credits to China. We are appreciative of your country's active interest in our welfare and we know that the assistance we are receiving will stimulate our people to further efforts in the path of national recovery.\n\n### Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's Views\n\nOur national leader, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, believes that national relations must be built on the foundation of genuine friendship and he knows that British friendship is to be much desired. He told a prominent news correspondent in the course of an interview at Whampoa that it was his lifelong ambition to promote a relationship of true and lasting friendship between Great Britain and China.\n\nHere down in the south we hope that with political stability achieved and with certain obstacles to trade removed, it will be possible to inaugurate a new era in the relations between Hongkong and Canton. As I explained in a recent speech at a meeting of the Canton Rotary Club, the prosperity of Hongkong and Canton is really interdependent, and that continued economic rivalry between the two centres must react unfavourably upon both.\n\n### Big Programme\n\nFor the restoration of prosperity of our city we are embarking upon a gigantic programme of economic reconstruction and in this connection we require foreign assistance given in a spirit of absolute friendliness. We shall welcome foreign investments and co-operation, particularly from Hongkong, our close neighbour. Now that our internal stability is reached and factors such as unrest and insecurity arising from civil warfare, banditry and Communist menace, that have been obstructing progress, have diminished, we are able to accord complete protection to investments and industries. With friendly relations which are bound to lead to mutual assistance and with favourable economic conditions resulting from the development of air communications, shipping, and railway, I have no doubt that Hongkong and Canton in the next few years or perhaps in the very near future will prosper and take the premier trade position of the Far East.\n\nYour Excellency and Lady Caldecott, permit me to assure you again that my wife and I have thoroughly enjoyed our visit and the elaborate banquet you are giving us to-night. I will conclude with the earnest hope that you will honour us with further visits to Canton not in a too distant future and that the personal contacts we have made during this visit will be carried to very useful purposes.\n\n## Those Present Were\n\n| Name | Title/Designation |\n| --- | --- |\n| H.E. and Lady Caldecott |  |\n| General Huang Mu-sung |  |\n| H.H. Mr. and Mme. Tseng Yang-fu |  |\n| H.E. Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Little | K.C.B. |\n| H.E. Major General and Mrs. A. W. Bartholomew |  |\n| Dr. Philip K. C. Tyau |  |\n| Colonel Li Fong |  |\n| General Gaston K.; Wong |  |\n| Mr. H. R. Phillips | C.M.G., O.B.E. |\n| Rear-Admiral and Mrs. C. G. Sedgwick |  |\n| Hon. Mr. R. A. C. and North |  |\n| Mr. Chang Yuen-nan |  |\n| Hon. Mr. C. G. and Mrs. Alabaster |  |\n| Hon. Mr. W. J. and Mrs. Carrie |  |\n| Hon. Mr. Edwin and Mrs. Taylor |  |\n| Hon. Mr. R. M. and Mrs. Henderson |  |\n| Hon. Mr. J. J. and Mrs. Paterson |  |\n| Hon. Dr. R. H. and Mrs. Kotewall |  |\n| H.H. Mr. Justice J. J. and Mrs. Hayden |  |\n| Brigadier H. G. and Mrs. Seth-Smith |  |\n| Hon. Comdr. G. F. Hole | R.N. |\n| Hon. Dr. A. R. and Mrs. Wellington |  |\n| Hon. Dr. S. W. and Mrs. T'so |  |\n| Hon. Mr. T. N. Chau |  |\n| Hon. Mr. M. K. and Mrs. Lo |  |\n| Hon. Mr. S. H. and Mrs. Dodwell |  |\n| Hon. Mr. M. T. Johnson |  |\n| Sir W. W. Hornell |  |\n| Mr. V. M. Grayburn |  |\n| Mr. J. Brearley |  |\n| Col. H. C. Harrison | D.S.O. |\n| Wing Comdr. A. G. and Mrs. Bishop |  |\n| Mr. G. R. Sayer |  |\n| Mr. W. Schofield |  |\n| Mr. E. W. Hamilton |  |\n| Major and Mrs. R. D. Walker |  |\n| Mr. and Mrs. G. C. Pelham |  |\n| Major V. E. Duclos |  |\n| Mr. P. L. Collisson | O.B.E. |\n| Col. R. C. B. Anderson | M.C. |\n| Mr. and Mrs. H. R. Butters |  |\n| Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Forbes |  |\n| Mr. Li Yau-tsun | C.B.E. |\n| Mr. and Mrs. Ho Kom-tong |  |\n| Mr. Li Sing-hui |  |\n| Mr. J. R. 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        "content_text": "## Visit Returned\n\nGen. Huang's response to the toast was delivered in Cantonese and interpreted by Col. Li Fong, who stated:\n\nWe have come from Canton to return the visit of His Excellency the Governor, Sir Andrew Caldecott, and it is most kind of you to entertain us so warmly to-night, for which we have to thank you heartily. Last year the members of the Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce visited Canton, and the arrangements made for you at our end were so imperfect in comparison with your liberal hospitality to-night that we feel rather ashamed of ourselves.\n\nYour Chairman, in his speech, has just showered praise on our country and on us but I feel that we do not deserve such laudation. His remarks on the economic depression and trade development we feel we can endorse, and we are willing to make a common effort to secure their early realisation.\n\nOur sages say \"He who expects of others must himself be expected.\" This is true and if we desire mutual existence and mutual prosperity we must seek co-operation and work for mutual benefits. Let us then hope for the future prosperity of Hongkong and Canton.\n\n## Warm Welcome\n\nMr. Tseng, responding, said:\n\nI am happy to tell you how much we appreciate your warm welcome to-night and how deeply we have been impressed by the remarkable programme you have made for us. As a result of our visit here we have made personal contacts with your high government officials and we have had to-night the opportunity of meeting you, which will no doubt further cement the ties of friendship between Hongkong and Canton. I must thank you for the complimentary remarks your Chairman has just made in regard to the progress which China has achieved in recent years, and I want to take this opportunity of emphasising that this is just the beginning of our industrial expansion and economic reconstruction. We have carried out only a very small part of Dr. Sun Yat-sen's programme for international reconstruction and a great deal has yet to be accomplished. Dr. Sun Yat-sen's plans provided for the construction within 10 years of 1,000,000 miles of highways and 100,000 miles of railroads, but to-day in this country we have only 100,000 kilometres of highways and 11,000 kilometres of railway lines, less than a tenth of what we should have had, and woefully inadequate.\n\nIn the heavy industries we have made practically no start. The progress that has been made in the last decade has been achieved in spite of the formidable, indeed, almost insuperable difficulties within and without.\n\nOn the eve of our great commercial and industrial expansion we need foreign sympathy and support and we want to give everyone a chance to share in that advance.\n\n## Assistance From Abroad\n\nWe welcome economic assistance from the advanced industrial nations. As we have a population of over 450,000,000 China is indisputably the biggest market in the world. I think you will agree with me that China's prosperity will be a tremendous aid to world trade and economic recovery. If the purchasing power of our people is so increased that every Chinese can afford to buy $100 worth of merchandise each year, nations will have no need to worry that their manufactured goods will not find a ready market.\n\nIn recent years China has suffered from the great hardship arising from deprivation of valuable territory, internal turmoil, national calamity and financial and economic disorganisation due to America's silver purchasing policy all of which served as obstacles to threaten the industrial development and thus affect investments.\n\nCanton has embarked on an extensive programme of economic reconstruction and we seek your co-operation in carrying out our projects. We have made our plans for the development of the harbour, communications and transportation services: we are proceeding with our Whampoa port development scheme which I believe will be advantageous to South China and will help the prosperity that is so earnestly desired both by you and ourselves. I assure you that we are prepared to take the necessary steps to secure the removal of former obstacles to development (Applause). We are making a genuine effort to abolish unequal taxes, stamp out monopolies as well as other impediments to trade between our two cities.\n\nI note with gratification several steps taken by Hongkong towards closer co-operation, including the granting of facilities to Chinese merchant vessels and to Chinese mail and passenger aircraft. It is our firm hope that this spirit of co-operation will be continued and you have our assurance that your friendly gesture will be fully reciprocated. (Applause).\n\n## Mr. Ho Tsah-ping\n\nMr. Ho Tsah-ping said:\n\nI am so much impressed by the splendid reception you are giving us that I find considerable difficulty in expressing my thanks to you in proper terms.\n\nOn May 25 last year, I presided over a gathering of the representatives of business interests of Hongkong and Canton, in the building of Canton City Chamber of Commerce, the British Goodwill Mission, of which some of the gentlemen present were members, being the guests of honour.\n\nI even went so far as to remark that the businessmen of Hongkong and Canton lacked the kind of intimacy which helps to promote their confidence in one another. For instance, some British firms are too cautious in dealings with the Cantonese people, and consequently the latter have to seek elsewhere for easier terms and more favourable conditions. I therefore attached great weight to the constant touch among the business representatives of the two trading centres, and proposed that exchange of information and suggestions would improve trade and credit. I have the pleasure to tell you that my guests and friends agreed with me in this point. Canton and Hongkong are mutually dependent ports. It is needless to say that Hongkong, which is in some way privileged to give financial and technical help to Canton, has the greatest interest in its industrial and commercial developments. The unification of China, the completion of the Hankow-Canton Railway, the reformations effected by the Canton Government, such as the abolition of the exorbitant taxes, are beneficial to trade. I feel that prosperity is at hand; the more so when we can establish intimacy among ourselves by frequent receptions like this.\n\nSir Frederick Leith-Ross shares the same opinion with me, and suggested to me personally in Canton that the leading business men of Hongkong and Canton should organise a permanent Trade Commission to promote their trade interest. He said that the Chambers of Commerce of our cities would take charge of its organisation. Similar Trade Commissions exist in Shanghai and work with good results.\n\nMr. Chairman and gentlemen, before I sit down, I wish to draw your attention to Sir Frederick's suggestion, and ask you to accept my very sincere thanks for the hospitality you are showing us this evening.\n\n## The Hosts\n\nThe following members of the Chamber of Commerce and China Association (Hongkong Branch) were present as hosts:\n\n| Name | Company/Organisation |\n| --- | --- |\n| Mr. D. G. Glenn Allen |  |\n|  | The Advertising & Publicity Bureau, Ltd. (Mr. C. J. Church) |\n|  | Messrs. Anderson, Meyer & Co., Ltd. (Mr. D. D. Forbes) |\n|  | The Arnhold Trading Co. (Mr. E. G. C. Belbin) |\n|  | The Asiatic Petroleum Co., (South China) Ltd. (Mr. J. W. Platt) |\n|  | Messrs. James H. Backhouse, Ltd. (Mr. J. Harrop and Mr. H. S. Dinsdale) |\n|  | The Bank Line (Mr. A. H. Penn) |\n|  | The Bank of East Asia Ltd. (Mr. Kan Tong Po and Mr. Li Tse Fong) |\n|  | The Banque de L'Indochine (Mr. F. de Courseulles) |\n|  | Messrs. Bornemann & Co. (Mr. V. E. Feimann) |\n|  | The British-American Tobacco Co., (China) Ltd. (Brig. General E. B. Macnaghten, C.M.G., D.S.O., and Mr. F. Stafford Smith) |\n|  | Messrs. Butterfield & Swire (Sir John Nicholson, Mr. J. R. Masson and Mr. C. C. Roberts) |\n|  | The Canadian Pacific Steamships (Mr. G. E. Costello) |\n|  | The Canton Insurances Office, Ltd. (Mr. F. C. Hall) |\n|  | Messrs. Caldbeck Macgregor & Co., Ltd. (Mr. T. Addis Martin) |\n|  | Messrs. Carmichael & Clark (Mr. T. H. G. 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Blaker) |\n|  | Messrs. A. Goeke & Co., (1935) Export (Mr. A. Foraita) |\n|  | The Green Island Cement Co., Ltd. (Mr. T. C. T. Beck and Mr. R. Taylor) |\n|  | Messrs. T. M. Gregory & Co. (Mr. T. M. Gregory) |\n|  | The Hongkong Steamboat Co. (Mr. T. F. Lo) |\n|  | The Hongkong & China Gas Co., Ltd. (Mr. H. E. Stone) |\n|  | The Hongkong Kowloon Wharf & Godown Co., Ltd. (Mr. F. H. Crapnell) |\n|  | The Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation (Mr. V. M. Grayburn, Mr. D. C. Edmondston and Mr. A. Morse) |\n|  | The Hongkong & Shanghai Hotels, Ltd. (Mr. P. H. Suckling and Mr. F. C. Barry) |\n|  | The Hongkong Whampoa Dock Co., Ltd. (Mr. E. Cock) |\n|  | The Hongkong Canton Export Co., Ltd. (Mr. Kam Cheong Yan) |\n|  | The Hongkong Electric Co., Ltd. (Mr. V. Sorby) |\n|  | The Hongkong Telephone Co., Ltd. (Mr. J. P. Sherry) |\n|  | The Hongkong Tramways, Ltd. (Mr. W. F. Simmons) |\n|  | Messrs. Himly, Ltd. (Mr. Chan Yin and Mr. Chan Hon) |\n|  | Messrs. J. D. Hutchison & Co. (Mr. P. S. Cassidy) |\n|  | The Imperial Chemical Industries (China) Ltd. (Mr. R. D. Gillespie) |\n|  | The Indo China Steam Navigation Co., Ltd. (Mr. C. T. Tod) |\n|  | The Jardine Engineering Corporation Ltd. (Mr. A. Kidd) |\n|  | Messrs. Jardine Matheson & Co., Ltd. (Hon. Mr. J. J. Paterson and Mr. D. L. Newbiggin) |\n|  | The Java-China-Japan Line (Mr. W. H. Lebert) |\n|  | Messrs. Jebsen & Co. (Mr. J. H. Jessen) |\n|  | Messrs. Johnson... |",
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        "document_key": "CO129-559-14 Maintenance and repair of gas-holders 20-7-1936 - 15-10-1936",
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        "title": "CO129-559-14 Maintenance and repair of gas-holders 20-7-1936 - 15-10-1936",
        "content_text": "53772/36.\n\nཔཱནི་\n\n5th October, 1936.\n\nDear Taylor,\n\nWe are very much obliged to you for the information which you have given us in your letter of the 2nd of October, `513579/53`, regarding the inspection of gasholders. We are making it clear that your summary of the proposals must be regarded as provisional and subject to modification when the terms of the Bill come to be approved, but I am sure that what you have told us will be of considerable assistance to the Colonial Government.\n\nYours sincerely,\nEns\n\nG.S. TAYLOR, ESQ., O.B.E.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-560-8 J.R. Brouwer- contested will 1-1-1937 - 31-12-1937",
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        "title": "CO129-560-8 J.R. Brouwer- contested will 1-1-1937 - 31-12-1937",
        "content_text": "## \n\nI had a visit a few days ago from Mr. Bertie Taylor, British Vice-Consul at Lwow, Poland. He told me that he is not a Consul de carrière, and that probably the correct channel for him to pass on to us the information mentioned below would be via his superior at Warsaw, but it has reached him direct since he came on leave to England and he thought it best to come straight to us.\n\nA Polish lady at Lwów, called Mrs. Schenk, is the beneficiary named in a will left by J. R. Brouwer, a Dutch citizen domiciled in Hong Kong, Manager in the Colony of Nederlansche Handel Maatschappij, who recently died in Holland while on holiday there from Hong Kong for the purpose of getting certain medical treatment. He left estate in Hong Kong to the value of some $50,000 to $60,000, Mr. Taylor said. The trustees and executors are the firm of Hong Kong solicitors, Messrs. Stokes Masters. The property of the estate consists of a holding in the Netherlands company of which he was Manager, and which is domiciled in the Netherlands.\n\nMr. Taylor has been informed by Mrs. Schenk's lawyer at Lwów, Dr. Marek Fern, that the Netherlands Government intend, at the instance of the Nederlansche Handel Maatschappij, to contest the will as invalid under Dutch law, in view of a declaration which is contained in the will to the effect that the deceased had a Dutch (and not a Hong Kong) domicile, and the will was not properly attested under Dutch law which, as I understand it, they allege to be the law applicable in view of his declaration of Dutch domicile. Dr. Marek Fern has advised Mr. Taylor that the Hong Kong executors may therefore arrange...",
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        "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案",
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        "document_key": "CO129-563-18 Sino-Japanese War- stopping of British shipping by Japanese 11-9-1937 - 29-12-1937",
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        "title": "CO129-563-18 Sino-Japanese War- stopping of British shipping by Japanese 11-9-1937 - 29-12-1937",
        "content_text": "# British Interests in Formosa\n\n2 and all these narrow streets are in a chronic state of being blocked to traffic as a consequence. To what extent, if any, similar benevolences are paid by native firms is unknown.\n\n## Impact of Sino-Japanese Conflict\n\n6. The Sino-Japanese conflict has brought a new difficulty. In all the foreign firms, the most valuable technical experts are Chinese nationals who have been employed by the firms for a great many years. These at first wished to remain and have so far stayed, but the tendency to seek repatriation increases rapidly, and it is problematical whether many will be here by next tea season. If many are gone, the blow will be exceedingly severe.\n\n7. Messrs. Carter Macy and Jardine Matheson have also suffered directly from the campaign of spy-mania directed against British shipping, reviewed elsewhere. The main reason why the foreign firms have not been forced out sooner is that the tea trade in England and America is highly organised, and the foreign firms here represent powerful interests, with which, in their capacity as consumers, Formosa is bound to reckon. Messrs. Jardine, Matheson and Co. are considerably more vulnerable than the others since, alone of the four, they do a good deal of export to miscellaneous buyers abroad as well as to their principals. Even with this bargaining power behind them, however, the position of the local firms is increasingly difficult, and if they went, British shipping interests would also suffer a blow.\n\n8. Apart from tea, there are two British commercial ventures. Mr. S. Elphinstone, a British subject, controls the Tokki Gomei Kaisha, which has a monopoly of the Formosan sulphur output and also has some interest in coal. In April 1937, an attempt was made by the Taiwan Mining Company to bluff him into selling his interests at a low price on the ground that otherwise he would be expropriated by the military. Mr. Elphinstone refused to sell and went off on a world tour, from which he was forced to return in September by the threat caused to his interests by the Sino-Japanese conflict. Since his return, he has again received tentative approaches, but a more immediate danger to his interests is his inability to export his products. The local authorities are maintaining an unofficial but nonetheless effective control over exports to Hong Kong, and sulphur and coal are both treated as contraband. If the struggle is prolonged, it would appear that Mr. Elphinstone's position will become very difficult.\n\n9. The Rising Sun Petroleum Company has an installation at Tamsui and a sales office at Taihoku. They have so far been well treated in regard to quotas, but since the conflict, their sales have severely fallen. The firm is also being caused some anxiety by a sustained effort on the part of the Shinchiku police to involve native members of the staff on a charge of procuring information of military value. In the middle of October, the theatre of investigation was transferred to Taihoku, and leading members of the native staff were examined on successive days for nearly a week. It is hoped, however, that the case will not develop seriously, as the military police in Taihoku are aware of the matter and apparently consider that Shinchiku is making a fuss about nothing.\n\n## Religious Missions\n\n10. The Canadian Presbyterian Mission is centred at Taihoku, and the English Presbyterian Mission at Tainan. Both have been in serious trouble during the past four years and have been compelled to dispose of their educational interests, but neither is in special trouble at the moment. The Canadian Mission has a hospital in Taihoku, and Dr. Gushue Taylor, a member of the mission, runs a leper home in the country south of Tamsui.\n\n## Perpetual Leases\n\n11. Various British firms, missions, and individuals (some of them absentees) hold land in Formosa under perpetual lease. Perpetual leases in Formosa do not come under the settlement recently made in Japan because they have not been the subject of controversy. Neither His Majesty's Government nor the leaseholders have maintained that these leases enjoyed privileges in regard to taxation, and the Foreigners' Land Ownership Law has never been extended to Formosa. Consequently, while so far there is no controversy, there is also no prospect of the termination of this peculiar form of tenure, and the existence of these rights in land, some of which is not being occupied or developed, holds the seeds of possible trouble. Messrs. Jardine Matheson are at present trying to sell such a plot to a Japanese concern, which squatted on it unlawfully, and the latter are trying to force a sale at a nominal figure on the ground that it is inexpedient for a foreign firm in Formosa to go to law.\n\n## British Shipping\n\n12. There have fortunately been no more of the controversies over entry into \"unopened ports,\" which have caused such serious difficulty and suspicion during the past three years. During the period of good relations in the spring, British salvage companies were allowed to salvage two wrecks on the Formosan coast without any contretemps more serious than being mulcted in one case of nearly 5,000 yen for customs duty on salvage gear that was re-exported as soon as salvage was finished. The peculiar difficulties, however, to which British shipping, and those who act as agents or stevedores, are subjected can be seen from the review of the `City of Pittsburg` and `Alice Moller` cases made elsewhere, and by the fact that a master of a British ship in Tamsui was refused permission to visit the consulate until His Majesty's consul intervened in a manner which forced the Japanese authorities to give way.\n\n13. This review should suffice to show that while British interests in Formosa are few, every one of them is in continual need of consular advice and protection, and if such assistance were not freely given, it may be surmised that, in the conditions of to-day, they would be forced to withdraw from the island within a very short time.\n\nPage 25\nPage 3\nPage 26",
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        "document_key": "CO129-563-6 Hong Kong Hospital- conditions in nursing quarters 20-7-1937 - 12-8-1937",
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        "title": "CO129-563-6 Hong Kong Hospital- conditions in nursing quarters 20-7-1937 - 12-8-1937",
        "content_text": "# \n## THE OVERSEAS NURSING ASSOCIATION\n**President**  \n商场 \n\n**Vice-President and Hon. Treasurer**  \nBrigadier-General SIR SAMUEL WILSON, G.C.M.G., K.C.B. \n\n**Hon. Secretary**  \nLADY ANTROBUS, D.B.E. \n\n**Chairman, Nursing Committee**  \nLADY WILSON. \n\n**Telegraphic Address:**  \n'Reparative, Southkens, London.' \n\n**Telephone:** Kensington 3556.\n\n**IMPERIAL INSTITUTE, SOUTH KENSINGTON, LONDON, S.W.7.**\n\n20th July 1937.\n\nDear Dr. O'Brien, \n\nThe Executive Committee wish me to bring to your notice a number of criticisms that have come to the Overseas Nursing Association about the Nursing Sisters' quarters in the new hospital of Hong Kong.\n\nI enclose extracts from letters from the Matron and another member of the permanent staff. Similar criticisms have been received from two or three nurses who have visited the Nursing Committee when applying for other colonies after serving one tour in Hong Kong. They say that the new quarters are small, stuffy and noisy and that there is no room to have their personal belongings and to make their rooms homelike.\n\nThe Committee would be grateful if you would look into the matter and see what can be done.\n\nYours sincerely, \nM. Gawan Taylor. \nSecretary.\n\nDr. A. J. O'Brien, C.M.G., Colonial Office, S.W.1.\n\nRECEIVED \n22 JUL 1937 \nQ. O. REGY \nAnod 2) 1.6",
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        "document_key": "CO129-589-18 Complaints against evacuation scheme 23-11-1940 - 24-10-1941",
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        "title": "CO129-589-18 Complaints against evacuation scheme 23-11-1940 - 24-10-1941",
        "content_text": "2 \n\n(e) How many persons who would otherwise have come within the operation of the Scheme were exempted from its operation (i) before the 1st July 1940 (ii) after the 1st July 1940. \n(1) By whom in every case was exemption granted. \n(g) Whether those responsible for granting exemption were in any way guilty of discrimination, lack of impartiality or unfairness. \n\n12 \n\nAnd that for such purpose evidence be taken from all persons responsible for the institution and administration of the Scheme and from those by whom exemption was granted. I shall therefore be obliged if you will put this request before His Excellency the Governor in Council and in due course let me know whether the request is granted. \n\nI have the honour to be, \nSir, \nYour obedient servant \n\n(Signed) W. V. Taylor. \nHonorary Secretary and Treasurer. \nEvacuation Representation Committee.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-589-20 Evacuation- financial arrangements 26-7-1941 - 3-1-1944",
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        "title": "CO129-589-20 Evacuation- financial arrangements 26-7-1941 - 3-1-1944",
        "content_text": "## \namounts mentioned in para. to the High Court Treasury asked for authoring to recompense £87. funds & £5000. Mustration subject to audit on receipt of statements.\n\nThen telegraph Australia agreeing with (36), telling them payment of ... unto ... has been made. Austing whether the £5.00 is Mustalian Sterling.\n\nMy comments E. Taylor \nMr Paline \n4/6/42 \n\nNo. 36 Pina 1. \nI agree that £414.4.4 \n£302-5 \nSterling £573 x ... to make £414 £302.5 £716.9.\n\n13. \nbut I ... not ... bar ... has paid confers for credit-changeable to CO. funds, whether after CO to AR fund.\n\nsimilar payment to be instructed Crisisalia Jimen ... you ... confirm. \nFira 2 \nI ... we ... agree ... ask Castalia for presumably await of H. I Malaya expenditure more but JCA. will when question next week's andel settled discussion. these Lime all circumstances schedules M. result Ji will 10 ush wereasary Her 10 send Draft No. 37 \nC. agents Australian Siiruse £41,327. 10.2 - £53,002 -0.\n\nA comm Hw be wshed 10 Can Bar Draft. conn hfw. then? Depi well take wouth про Vressmy whelter CO funds ure f. Cast namtenance allee, after Now'. (He No. 311 Doraem 10° bear",
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        "document_key": "CO129-589-20 Evacuation- financial arrangements 26-7-1941 - 3-1-1944",
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        "title": "CO129-589-20 Evacuation- financial arrangements 26-7-1941 - 3-1-1944",
        "content_text": "## C. O.\nMr. Taylor 16/8\nSr. Amar Lead 17/8\nMr. G. E. J. Gent.\nMr. G. L. M. Clauson.\nMr. C. J. Jeffries.\n\n**DRAFT**\nHigh Comm. Canada\n54058/4\nSir A. Dawe.\nSir W. Battershill.\nPermt. U.S. of S.\nParly. U.S. of S.\nSecretary of State.\n\nNo. 994\n**Coded Disent.**\n54058/438\n3:30 PM 17/8/43 MM 54058,\n\nYour telegram no 945 of 16 July. Hong Kong evacuees.\nClaims for February, March and April are being paid to Count...\n\nFurther action: Refer to Mr. Bryan, Accounts to see te...\n\nHigh Commissioner for Commonwealth of Australia\nAccounts in question have been received.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-590-11 Commission of Enquiry into irregularities in Immigration Departments 22-4-1941 - 19-12-1941",
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        "title": "CO129-590-11 Commission of Enquiry into irregularities in Immigration Departments 22-4-1941 - 19-12-1941",
        "content_text": "8. The ship was launched under an unlucky star, for an entirely erroneous impression of the objects of the proposed legislation gained currency, and the office was from the outset besieged by crowds of people far greater than anyone, having regard to the real objects of immigration control, could ever have anticipated. In one local Chinese newspaper, for example, long articles based apparently on official communiques were published on 8th and 9th November. The earlier article was published under the caption \"Residents having occupations are to be registered and to apply for certificates\", while the second article includes the statement \"All Chinese residents must apply for certificates of residence\". The South China Morning Post too appears either to have misunderstood the communique or to have been misinformed of Government's intentions, for in the issue of 9th November it published a lengthy article the headlines of which are \"Immigration check. All Residents of Colony to have identification documents\". Small wonder, then, that the new office was swamped with applications, many of which need never have been made.\n\n9. The Immigration Control Ordinance, 1940, contains in section 24 the usual provision for suspending the operation of the Ordinance until such time as the Department was adequately staffed and equipped. It had originally been the intention, on Mr. Forrest's recommendation, to bring the Ordinance into force on 17th December, but on 4th December Mr. Forrest advised postponement until 14th January on the plea that he had not yet built up an effective machinery for the control of immigration. To this request His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government acceded, minuting “It would be a mistake to start until the measure can operate effectively\". On 18th December the Chinese Chamber of Commerce suggested a further postponement until after Chinese New Year, which this year was in the last week of January. This suggestion was strongly opposed by Mr. Forrest, and it is not, we suggest, unreasonable to presume that Government therefore took it for granted that Mr. Forrest had got together a staff and devised an office system adequate to the calls which, in view of the experience gained since 18th November, he might anticipate would be made upon it when the legislation should come into force on 14th January.\n\n10. The congestion which had been evident ever since the office opened in November became still greater after 15th January, and the conditions under which Mr. Forrest and his staff had to work must have been well nigh intolerable. Office accommodation was so scanty that there was barely floor space for the members of the staff, not to mention the large numbers of insistent applicants who freely moved about the office, and very long hours of incessant work had to be put in by everyone even on Sundays and public holidays. There was little likelihood therefore that any radical change in office system or routine could be expected at a time when no member of the staff had a moment to spare.\n\n11. With this brief historical introduction we pass to our specific terms of reference, of which we propose to deal first with (3) \"The adequacy or otherwise of the financial system instituted in the Immigration Department\".\n\n## Financial System\n\nIt must have been manifest to anyone that the application of a system of control on immigration by means of the issue to approved applicants of permits against payment of fees must involve at least a simple system of book-keeping and the co-ordination of accounts. It must have been equally obvious to anyone with experience of the Government system of accounting that, inasmuch as the Department handled large numbers of audit-numbered documents, registers would be required to ensure that the movements of these documents were recorded and their safe custody thereby ensured. There is nothing in the requirements of the approved system of immigration control that calls for any involved system of accounting. In these circumstances Mr. Forrest's attitude to this most essential form of financial control is to us incomprehensible. On 31st October Mr. A. J. C. Taylor of the Accountant General's office minuted to Mr. Forrest giving details of the various simple books and registers which he recommended should be kept in the new office. Mr. Forrest made no effort to have the books printed, being convinced, he has told us, that they could not be got ready in time. At a later date Mr. Forrest devised a system of accounting for the Macau branch office which is based on Mr. Taylor's recommendations, yet at no time did he make any effort to institute any adequate system in his own office, at least until early February, 1941.",
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        "content_text": "## \n13. Mr. Forrest has told us that his failure was due, firstly, to his belief that the system which had long been in force in the passport control branch of the Police Department would be sufficient for the new Department, with some slight extension and enlargement, and, secondly, to his inability to get from the Treasury the trained shroffs he required. The passport control branch had been taken over on 18th November, and the system, suitable no doubt, and adequate for such a small self-contained branch, was vainly endeavouring to adapt itself to the manifold calls which the public was making on the Immigration Department. We find it difficult to accept Mr. Forrest's first explanation, not only because it must have been clear from the very outset that no such accounting system, operated by one shroff and one clerk, could possibly cope with the requirements of a large and very busy office, but also because on 29th November, after eleven days' practical experience of the adequacy or otherwise of the passport book-keeping system, Mr. Forrest wrote a minute to the Honourable the Colonial Secretary in the course of which he said:-\n\n\"The immediately urgent work of purely administrative type to which I should be devoting my attention but which is being all but completely neglected, comprises, I conceive, the following:- \nfinancial control and office routine.\"\n\nAs regards his second explanation, we concede that Mr. Forrest had desperate need of additional shroffs and that trained and experienced shroffs were hard to come by, but we cannot agree that the lack of such officers is any excuse for the failure to provide for the new Department at least a proper system of accounting and records.\n\nIf such a system had existed, but the staff, through overwork or lack of experience, had failed to keep the books up to date, there would have been much force in this argument. In the circumstances which Mr. Forrest permitted to exist, it is beside the point.\n\n14. It is understandable that the officer who on 29th November made so full a confession as to the absence of any accounting system in his new office should on 4th December seek a month's postponement of the commencement of the Ordinance. That any officer, having got that further period of grace, should during it neither arrange for an adequate system of book-keeping nor assign an accounting officer in his department to supervise the work of the shroffs is intelligible only on the assumption that the officer regarded his responsibility for large sums of public moneys as comparatively unimportant. That the same officer, having still taken no steps to institute any accounting system, should oppose the suggestion for further postponement suggests an attitude of mind which we are quite unable to comprehend.\n\n## \n44\n\n15. On 16th February, 1941, Mr. Forrest wrote to the Honourable the Colonial Secretary: \"An accounting system has just been finally drafted\". That was approximately three months after the opening of the office to the public, and one month after the Ordinance, with the full approval of Mr. Forrest, had been brought into force and effect. When questioned by our Chairman on this minute, Mr. Forrest said:-\n\nQ. In the minute that you have just quoted to us of 16th February, you make the statement \"An accounting system has just been finally drafted.' \nA. The word \"finally\" was perhaps a bit too strong; that was drafted by Mr. Taylor, who was brought in from Taipo for the purpose in February. He told me he had sketched out a system.\n\nQ. If we omit that word, \"an accounting system had just been drafted\"? \nA. Yes.\n\nQ. And that was months after your appointment? \nA. Yes.\n\nQ. And considerably after this revenue-earning department had been opened to the public and was functioning? \nA. Yes.\n\nQ. Did it not occur to you that it was a remarkable state of things? No means of ascertaining what the financial position of the department was? \nA. Yes. The department was in a rotten state: a state which was quite unparalleled. That there was no means of ascertaining the financial position of the department, I deny.\n\nQ. We have heard from Mr. Pudney and Mr. Barton and Mr. Pollard that it may be possible to ascertain it, but it is not readily ascertainable?",
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        "content_text": "## \nA. That is correct.\n\nQ. You say that on the 4th December you wrote to the Colonial Secretary and asked if the commencement of the Ordinance might be deferred?\n\nA. Yes.\n\nQ. And it was postponed from the 17th December until 14th January?\n\nA. Yes.\n\nQ. And your reasons for that was that your preliminary spade work was not completed?\n\nA. Yes.\n\nQ. Did that preliminary spade work include devising an accounting system?\n\nA. I had far too much to do.\n\n16. Mr. Forrest as from 1st December had among his staff Mr. A. J. G. Taylor of the Senior Clerical and Accounting Staff whom Mr. Forrest himself describes as one of the best accountants in the service. He made no attempt to utilize Mr. Taylor's services as accounting officer until after Mr. Barton, Mr. Pudney and the Auditor, Mr. Pollard, had successively reported on the financial chaos which reigned in the office. Mr. Taylor was brought into the head office a few days before the end of January and when he appeared before us on 25th March he was unable to explain to us what rudimentary system of book-keeping or records had been in force as the whole of his time had been occupied in instituting a system of accounting for deposits received and repaid. Before Mr. Taylor came into the head office there had been no deposit ledger kept, though the aggregate of deposits received and repaid was a very large sum indeed.\n\n17. Much has been said during our public inquiry about the deposit system and the inadequacy of the imprest account. The arrival in the Colony of large numbers of Chinese who were without any immigration papers, the paramount necessity to clear ships without avoidable delay, and the natural reluctance to saddle the shipping company with the responsibility for repatriating all such passengers made the introduction of a system of deposits inevitable. The fact that many such passengers had no Hong Kong currency further complicated the situation. It was unavoidable that the officers of boarding squads, though unsecured, should have to handle very large sums of money in all sorts of currencies. No one could accurately estimate just how much money would be taken in by way of deposit or how much would have to be refunded on any particular day or on any voyage of a ship. In such circumstances we do not regard as heinous Mr. Forrest's expedients to find the cash which had to be got to satisfy depositors, nor the fact that perforce his officers had to handle large sums though financially unsecured. Such situations are apt to arise when a new system is enforced, and until some suitable arrangement could be made for collecting deposits before passengers embarked for Hong Kong some such expedient had to be resorted to in order to avoid protracted delays.\n\n18. Summarizing our conclusions on this term of reference we are satisfied that there was no adequate financial system instituted in the Immigration Department; that Mr. Forrest was aware of this fact, as shown by his minute of 28th November and inferentially by his applying on 4th December for a postponement of the commencement of the Ordinance; and that, well aware as he was of this very serious flaw in his machinery, he appears to have regarded it as a matter of little or no moment.\n\n## The Agency System.\n\n19. We turn now to the fourth of our terms of reference the agency system instituted by the Immigration Department.\n\n20. When a system of control necessitates the completion of long and apparently complicated forms by unintelligent and illiterate members of the community it is not surprising that, in aid of applicants for permits, there sprang up a multiplicity of agents who, for a consideration, held themselves out as able to obtain permits expeditiously and with the minimum of trouble to the applicant. With such a little gold mine in view it is only natural that many of these agents were found to be corrupt and inefficient, or that they should seek to cloak their inefficiency by attempting to bribe officers of the department. The Immigration Officer had no option but to recognize the fact of these agencies. He went further, rightly, we think, and extended recognition to some while blacklisting others. Troubles, however, still arose and Mr. Forrest was at his wits end for a solution. Mr. Kobza as from 20th November had operated a photographic studio in the Immigration Office (that was one of the recommendations of the Middlebrook report) and on 1st December he applied for a monopoly not only of the photographic work required but also of the completion of application forms. That application was refused on Mr. Forrest's recommendation. On 11th December Mr. Forrest had reconsidered the matter and strongly advocated the grant of a monopoly, The question was referred to the Governor in Executive Council, and the decision there taken was that the proposed long term monopoly should not be granted, but that there would be no objection to the selection of a few authorized agencies by the method of tender on short term contracts. That was on 24th December, 1940, and Mr. Forrest was present at the meeting of Council and further had the decision conveyed to him on 27th December. What happened after that may best perhaps be told in Mr. Forrest's own words:\n\nOn 1st December, 1940, I had written to Government deprecating strongly the grant of a monopoly; the minutes extracted from `E.S.O. 2868/40` are already in the hands of the Commission. Before 11th December I had come to the conclusion that I was wrong in the attitude which I had taken on the question of a monopoly and had approached Government with the recommendation that tenders be asked for the combined monopoly for the photographic and clerical assistance in connexion with the department's work; I defended my new position before Executive Council on 24th December but the decision was adverse; I was however left with the discretion to treat with agencies on such terms as I might think desirable. I might add on that point the fact that the complete meaning of the Executive Council's decision, which I had at first interpreted as meaning that I was not permitted to establish anything in the way of a general agency, was explained to me in a meeting with His Excellency the date of which I cannot for the moment quote, but which the present Colonial Secretary will remember as he was also present. The meeting took place in Government House.\n\nAs matters became worse, I determined on the course of cancelling all recognitions already granted to agencies, and then inviting the agencies still in good standing to ask for recognition again on new and stricter terms. A copy of the new terms of recognition I shall submit; the conditions as now imposed deal with three principal things the method of submission of applications (so devised as to prevent as far as possible competition between agencies, with the resultant temptation to bribe my staff, as had already been done); restriction of the charges to be made for their services; and supervision of their practice by the General Agent. As a pendant I at the same time made with the latter a contract, already referred to by the Accountant-General in terms of disapproval which incline me to the conclusion that he had completely misinterpreted its scope. I lay before the Commission a verbatim copy of that agreement. This new system has apparently been the cause of more criticism than any other one detail in my administration. The criticism began almost immediately after the coming into operation of the new agency system, and was first voiced in an article in the Chinese press signed with the name of a person who had just previously tried to bribe one of my staff to secure help in obtaining the general agency for himself. Thereafter the criticism became anonymous, but its perennial source in the ranks of those whom I have elsewhere called disappointed racketeers may be legitimately inferred from the fact that Government is called upon to close down an institution to which no one resorts except voluntarily, and which will, as a commercial venture, itself apply the closure if it is, as alleged, inefficient and incapable of real service to the public who go to it. Ignorance may excuse some of the attacks on the system; but my conviction that most of it is motivated by loss of opportunities for racketeering amounts to a moral certainty.\n\nTo summarize the advantages to the public, to my department, and to Government of the General Agency system, it is sufficient to say that charges to the public were reduced, standardized and controlled; that photography was made reliable and guaranteed as regards suitability; that overcrowding and over work in my office were reduced, though far from being abolished; that a measure of control over the operations of agencies was established, so that it was at length possible to prevent the more flagrant malpractices, such as corruption of my staff with a view to securing priority of treatment, and the selling of false evidence; that the method of submission of applications was concentrated and coordinated which made possible the introduction of a system of complete records of applications from the time of their making until the time of issue of the completed document demanded; that provision was made for supply of photographic facilities at spots where facilities were necessary because of incoming passenger traffic, but where owing to the sparsity or irregularity of such traffic a photographic studio could not be established on the basis of isolated commercial prospects.\n\nTo offset these advantages I know of one disadvantage only, and that one which I did not think should be regarded seriously from the standpoint of administration. 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        "content_text": "28 \n\n119 \n\nof my newly acquired staff; its subordinate officers seemed reluctant to explain their methods to my examining officers, and there was constant wrangling over the use of launches. The last feature has come to a head in a departmental inquiry which is, I believe, now proceeding. Whatever be the reason, whether the passing from their hands of passport control was felt as a loss of prestige, or because they were themselves, as is quite probable, embarrassed by the increased demands for use of their launches, there is little that can be said for the attitude taken.\n\nStill less can be said of the co-operation of the Treasury. I was so far from unwilling to accept guidance on methods of accounting that frequently, before my official appointment, and almost daily after the opening of the office, I was in contact with one or other of the senior officers of that department; there are still in existence account books of a form devised by them, and I gratefully acknowledge Mr. Burton's assistance in lending more suitable furniture for my shroffs. Mr. Fudney paid fairly frequent visits to my office, and was well aware of the harassing conditions under which I was working; when it was apparent to him that all was not well, helpful advice, let alone concrete help, simply ceased. There is no hint in his reports which have been brought before this Commission of his knowledge of the almost insufferable conditions of my work; he indeed recommended that ledgers and other books should be kept, but though he himself was the officer ultimately responsible for proper keeping of Government accounts, I cannot find that he ever represented to Government in aid of my own requests the urgent need of a trained accountant to put my accountancy into order which, as he was well aware, I had neither time nor staff to do myself. He did not offer to lend, nor regret his inability to lend, such an officer from his own department, nor suggest to me a suitable person to be engaged for the purpose, though I may presume he was better qualified to recommend an accountant than I was. The only suggestion bearing on this problem emanating from the Treasury was made on about 15th January, 1941, when he recommended that Mr. A.J.O. Taylor, transferred to my department as an A.C.O., should be called in to put my accounts in",
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        "content_text": "-39- \n\nThat which had been used in the passport office? \n\nExactly, an extension of that. \n\nHad you ever told Mr. A.J.C. Taylor that his suggested books would not be suitable? \n\nA. That I cannot recollect. \n\nOne moment before I come to that, may I pursue the last subject. You have told us that you asked for and obtained further time from the 17th December to 15th January, and I suggested to you that the Governor and others who were mutually interested imagined that by that application you meant that by the latter date the I.O. would be able to function effectively. \n\nNow, on the 18th December, you will remember the Chinese Chamber of Commerce pressed for a further postponement? \n\nA. Yes. \n\nAnd that you strongly opposed it? \n\nA. Yes. \n\nWas that not liable to give the casual reader the impression that you were quite satisfied that by 15th January everything would be ready to go ahead? \n\nA. To casual readers, but I don't think it necessarily bears that interpretation. \n\nWhat other interpretation would you place on it? \n\nA. That I was anxious to see the department in full function before I could come to grips with the problems of what was required. There must, you knew, be many problems that you would have to come to grips with, but surely the problem of the institution of a suitable form of accounting and book-keeping should not rank as one of the problems you would have to face? \n\nThere is no different form of book-keeping required here from that in other departments, in the Post Office for instance, which you well know? \n\nA. The Post Office, which I well know, bears the closest analogy to the case in my office. \n\n130",
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        "content_text": "## \nMr. Brown: The Treasury has no responsibility? \n\nMr. Sydney: It is responsible in that it must report all shortcomings in that way to Government. Colonial Regulation 189 (1): \"to see that a proper system of account is established in every apartment of the Colonial Government\", and 190; \"The Treasurer\" (that is the Accountant-General in this case) \"will report to the Colonial Secretary any material irregularity in connexion with the public accounts that may have been brought to his notice\". Beyond that I have no power to select staff or dismiss staff or even to reprimand staff for not carrying out its duties. Even in my own department my disciplinary powers are somewhat limited and subject to...\n\nWhen would you report? Would you be called upon, or would you choose a time? \n\nAs soon as it came to my knowledge I would report.\n\nThis did not come to your knowledge until some time after the Department had been opened? \n\nA. My first report to Government was dated—it is in my evidence—it was early in January; and on 16th January, the day after the Department opened to the public, I sent Mr. Barton as my representative to inspect the accounts. At the same time Mr. A.J.C. Taylor visited the office, and as a result of the disclosures made then I immediately reported to Government in the terms of my first minute to Government which is in `0.9.0. 2067/11`.\n\nMr. Forrest: Is that the day after the Department opened or the day after the Ordinance came into force? \n\nWhen the office was opened.\n\nQ. That was in November. What happened between that time and the time when the Ordinance came into force? Was not cash being received then? \n\nA. Cash was being received for permits and at that time, in order to assist the Immigration Officer, I even agreed to allowing certain monies which he had received, as he stated this morning,",
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        "content_text": "#46 \n167 \n\nYou can take your time over it.\n\nMr. Forrest:\n\nC.\n\nA.\n\nIf you give me a note of the questions I will get that.\n\n(2) The number of completed applications handed in by all the ordinary agencies taken together?\n\nA. Those during the same period? None, except those that come by way of the general agent.\n\n(3) The number of completed applications which have been received by the Immigration Office from the public without the intervention of the general agent or of any other ordinary agencies, from the time the Immigration Office commenced business?\n\nA. I can get those figures if you give me a note of the questions.\n\nChairman: Thank you.\n\nMr. Taylor, there is an...\n\nMr. Alexander James Gourley Taylor, Assistant Immigration Officer. Chairman: As Mr. A.J.G. Taylor is here perhaps it would be convenient if he gave us some information. Unfortunate but unavoidable conflict between your own three initials and the similar three initials of another accountant officer of renown. So if you don't mind I will refer to you, when I remember to do so, as \"the accountant\". You were Accountant in the Supreme Court until the end of November?\n\nMr. Taylor: That is true.\n\nYou went to the Immigration Office on 1st December, and we have been told by Mr. Forrest that, owing to your Volunteer duties, you did not actually assume duty there until 10th December.\n\nI went to the New Territories on 1st December, 1940, and, as you will understand, it was a case of flitting and I had to set up in a new house, and I didn't do much immigration work before I went to camp on the 3rd. So it was the 10th I really began.",
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        "content_text": "# \n\nChairman: \nWe have been told there was no deposit ledger. \n\nMr. Taylor: There was not. \n\nA. The deposits were supported only by the counterfoils of receipts given to the depositors and possibly, in addition, by the lists of depositors and deposits which supported paying-in vouchers, those lists being taken from the counterfoils of the receipts. \n\nAt a certain time the Crown kept a book of all the monies he received and paid into the Treasury, including deposits? \n\nHe had a record of many... I am speaking about deposits only... he received from the S.I.O's and paid in, but whether this is a full account I have not been able to ascertain. \n\nThat manifestly could be no more than a record of the amounts which S.I.O's say fit to pay to him. \n\nYes. The subsidiary record of what each S.I.O actually received you have not yet come across... \n\nNot in all... Another book was kept of money received by an I.O. I understand he did this, put down for the first two or three days the amount and against the amount the day, the deposit receipt numbers; but in certain cases he only had the S.I.O's name with the amount of money. There the difficulty comes in of allocating the amounts to the different deposit receipts. \n\nCould it be fair to say the result of your inquiries since 1st February is that no proper or full system of accounts had been in force in the Department? \n\nI would much rather say no perfect system of accounts. We will work backwards. To what extent was it imperfect? \n\nWe have now a record book which shows the deposit number, the name of the person and the amount received, refunded to him or forfeited. There was no book to show that before and we had to find out one or the other by a process of elimination. \n\nWould it be unfair to say that that is far from perfect? \n\nIt is far from perfect but under the conditions under which they...",
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        "content_text": "ト(ハン \n\nHarli \n\n4 \n\n19/ \n\nofficials still in Hong Kong are under surveillance and have to behave themselves. Immediately after the surrender, gambling was rife but it was shortly, a few weeks afterwards, stopped, presumably under the influence of local people who seem to be working for the common good. English street signs have been obliterated. According to Japanese sources, they are going to make Hong Kong like Japan. They want the people to live on rice and beans. It will always be a Japanese naval base. Nevertheless, a German Gestapo man remarked in Hong Kong that the Japanese would never have got where they were if it had not been for the Germans. He believed that the Europeans were finished in the Far East.\n\nPRISONER FORCES.\n\nInterned at Shanshuipo.\n\nCan receive parcels. Relations, friends, and wives send in sugar, jam, bread, canned meat, candy, clothes, shoes. Men are fed on rice and soya beans, sometimes meat and vegetables. There was an outbreak of cholera. Rumours that Eurasians and Portuguese will be released, but no definite news.\n\nMISCELLANEOUS.\n\nNo red rice in Colony. (Note, I take it this means the unpolished rice containing the B vitamins.) Many people died of starvation soon after the surrender. Portuguese people in bulk were sent to Macao, where the Portuguese Govt. is maintaining them.\n\nReported that French will be sent to Indo-China. Great decrease in population; streets not so crowded. Air raid sirens used as time signals in Kowloon. People not allowed on streets after dark; Japanese fear guerillas in New Territories and keep a check-up on inns. Armed robbery attacks are serious; the robbers get away before the Japanese soldiers can come. Reported that much arms and ammunition are loose in Hong Kong. Strict searching at H.K. side of Star Ferry. Economic Dept. made a list of contents of safe deposit boxes in H.K. Bank and Bank of East Asia; nobody was allowed to remove anything. Nurses in Medical Dept. sent out to give cholera injections. Even inexperienced first-year medical students are allowed to give injections at the suffering and expense of patients. Now nobody is allowed to proceed to Macao without permission of Portuguese Consul. Chinese are landed at an island opposite Macao. All club houses looted, even to floorboards and doors. Flour now released to the public at fifty cents per catty per head at markets. Generally, today there is more law and order. Wherever Japanese are, it is peaceful. Food problem, money problems ever on the minds of people. Very difficult for Europeans to leave Hong Kong, but very easy for Chinese. Chinese are afraid of robbers. People get the news from London and San Francisco by radio, wherever they have a radio and electricity, and pass it on amongst one another.\n\nThere were only two pure Portuguese families in Hong Kong. The rest are Eurasians, Portuguese by nationality.\n\nPART II.\n\nTHE AMERICANS AND THEIR CAMPS.\n\n(A) Letter from R.B. SMITH, Tee Tsong Tobacco Distributors Ltd., Chungking, dated 30.4.42.\n\n\"Then I saw the three escapers; they told me the American Internees had organised a good Committee headed by Bill HUNT (now at Stanley) and TAYLOR (Stabilisation) assisting, with Sub-Committees; the Americans have pooled their resources, bought food and medicines, built a Community Kitchen, offered to build one for their cousins, turned down; they have a post-office, etc. The query was why didn't the others do likewise? There are some very unedifying tales going round about them, the others among our friends. Food is difficult in H.K. Plenty of vegetables, but scarcity of meat. Philip said they'd lived...",
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        "content_text": "TOP SECRET\n\nSir G. Gater.\n\nSecretary of State.\n\n帆\n\nThe S.O.E. Organisation keeps closely in touch with me in respect of their activities and operations in the Far East, and Colonel Taylor, a Senior Member of their London office, has recently come back from a prolonged tour in India and China where there were recently important conferences between representatives of the British and United States clandestine organisations and the American and British Military Commanders.\n\nThe British S.O.E. operations in S.E.A.C. territories, including Malaya, are smooth sailing and have achieved an advanced stage. In Hong Kong and Borneo, however, they are outside a British operational sphere, and their position is more delicate.\n\nIn Borneo, however, they have a close working agreement with S.O.A., which is the Australian counterpart. This position is facilitated by the fact that General MacArthur himself has something of a dislike of the American organisation O.S.S., and prefers to use an ad hoc para-military organisation of his own in the operational areas of S.W.P. Command in which he is interested, viz. the Philippines, thus allowing S.O.A. a pretty clear field in Borneo, of which they have taken every advantage.\n\nIn Hong Kong there has admittedly been an unco-ordinated collection of activities by various British, U.S. and Chinese organisations, none of them very effective with the exception of B.A.A.G., which was originally organised from Hong Kong as a British organisation to facilitate",
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        "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案",
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        "document_key": "CO129-592-10 Future Policy in Hong Kong- Port Administration 10-4-1946 - 15-4-1947",
        "page_number": 211,
        "title": "CO129-592-10 Future Policy in Hong Kong- Port Administration 10-4-1946 - 15-4-1947",
        "content_text": "54\n\n235\n\nagainst delays in the handling of goods, due in part to inadequate or unsatisfactory equipment, in part to the congested conditions of road and rail transport in and about the docks, and deficient cross-river communications, in part to the limited hours normally worked by dock labour, and in part to customs and practices of the Port which tend to retard the free flow of traffic. Some of these factors are, while others are not, within the control of a dock authority. From the comparisons furnished with pre-war continental ports, there is no doubt that their cumulative effect is very serious, and that great economies would be capable of achievement if all the agencies concerned co-operated in meeting the criticisms. Credit is due to the Clyde Trust and to certain shipping and stevedoring companies for the increased mechanisation achieved during the war by the provision of quay cranes, mobile cranes, mechanical trucks, etc. By the continuance and intensification of this policy the turn-round of vessels and the despatch of cargoes can be further expedited, and greater use thus made of the existing quayage.\n\n(166) We desire to lay special emphasis upon the widespread complaints against the inconvenience and inadequacy of road communications, especially for cross-river traffic, and upon the importance of this single factor for the attractiveness and efficiency of the Clyde ports. Central and local road authorities have so far done little to indicate that they realise how great are the direct and indirect benefits to be attained from the provision of a first-class system of roads for the service of the dock areas, with sufficient free and efficient vehicular ferries and adequate radial facilities from centre to circumference on both sides of the river. For the further developments to be expected in the Shieldhall area and in the lower reaches such improvements will be indispensable. We are glad to be able to state that this matter is engaging the attention of the Clyde Valley Regional Planning Committee who share our view that the matter is of the first importance.\n\n(167) As regards the lower reaches of the river and estuary the framing of a master plan for long term development is necessarily dependent at the moment upon the outcome of the proposals now under consideration for the establishment of a naval base. If, as we hope, this project is adopted, it will necessarily form the focus of development not only in the estuary but in the adjoining industrial centres, and it will go far towards solving many problems in planning the future of the lower harbours and their hinterland.\n\nSUMMARY OF MAIN RECOMMENDATIONS\n\n(168) We conclude by summarising the conclusions we have arrived at in answer to the second branch of our remit. They are:\n\n(1) That it is no longer compatible with the most efficient operation, or the best expansion and development, of the ports and navigational facilities on the Clyde that they should continue to be administered as in the past as separate and unrelated undertakings:\n\n(2) That the time is now ripe for bringing the river and estuary as far down as the Cumbraes under the full control of a single unified authority, consisting of 21 members chosen as indicated, and that this authority should also enjoy certain limited powers in the lower estuary:\n\n(3) That the unification should be effected by public legislation providing on the lines proposed (a) for vesting the constituent undertakings in the new authority; (b) for the determination by an arbitration tribunal of the amounts of the transfer considerations, if any, and for the issue by the new authority to the expropriated interests of stock in satisfaction of the transfer considerations; and (c) for conferring on the new authority certain powers in relation to undertakings not comprised in the initial transfer and to present or projected undertakings in the lower estuary.\n\n55\n\n236\n\n(169) In parting with this investigation, in the course of which we learned much of the work of the Clyde under war conditions, we cannot conclude without paying our tribute of admiration for the outstanding services rendered to the national interest and the cause of the United Nations by the Clyde Port Authorities, Port organisation, and workers throughout the critical years when the Clyde and the Mersey were the main arteries for the supply of Great Britain with foodstuffs and raw materials, and the shipment of munitions to the forces overseas. For a long period the Clyde ports worked intensively under adverse conditions day and night, and displayed a resiliency and a reserve of power and endurance for which the nation should be permanently grateful, and which augurs well for the prospects of the river and its ports in the years to come.\n\n(179) We desire to record our indebtedness to the Regional Port Director for Scotland and his staff for their assistance at every stage of our investigation, to the Clyde Navigation Trustees for so courteously facilitating our river inspections, and to our Secretary, Mr. McLarty, for his unfailing efficiency and industry.\n\nJuly, 1945.\n\nWe have the honour to be,\n\nYour obedient Servants,\n\nT. M. COOPER. ROBERT LETCH.\n\nROBERT TAYLOR,",
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        "document_key": "CO129-596-4 Hong Kong University- Apprenticeship scheme 4-2-1947 - 3-9-1947",
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        "title": "CO129-596-4 Hong Kong University- Apprenticeship scheme 4-2-1947 - 3-9-1947",
        "content_text": "## \nJun 16 \n`11007/13501` \n22 \n\nFrom Galsworthy \n\nYou may care to glance at Titchener's minute above. \n\nNotes \n\nI agree with lut Titchener's views on the merits of your minute. I think the policy papers under the present registration, personal files, require... \n\nand I take it we can remain... we open up the bodies when they ... \n\nwith regard to the last sentence of yours, will they ... \nas Geographical department have gone so far with the arrangements, please complete them, especially as you have already... \n\nyou have contacts with F.B.I. and can therefore more easily take the necessary action required para 6 g (17). \n\nV. Jenkins (F.B.I) \n23 Miss B. Ching (F.O). \nMr. Bryant \nAlhaman. \n16/7 \n16-7-47 \n\nI have at last succeeded in linking up with this file the letter and enclosures from the F.B.I. at (21), which I had sent over to you separately. I should be grateful if you would kindly take up further the income tax question as quickly as possible (in this connection please see paragraph 3 of my minute of 7th July) and then let me have the papers back for consideration of Nos.20 and 22. \n\nTrans: `11007/12501` \n24 \nS. J. Taylor \n4.0. Jenkins (F.B.I) \n\n## \n25 \nS. J. Taylor \nMr. Chamier \nAnralswarty \n19.7.47. \n19-7-47 \n1-8-47 \n\nThese papers have now come back to me from Mr. Bryant, and we have to take action on No. (22), with reference to para. 4 of our savingram to Hong Kong at No. (17). If you agree, I suggest we should send a savingram to Hong Kong as in the draft opposite. I should be grateful if you would kindly insert the reference to the savingram in paragraph 4 of the draft: the savingram in question is registered on `11007/12468` and `11007/13501`. \n\n## \n6.8.47 \nhuiss Whyle \n\nDelay is much regretted but is due to both the files in question having been lost temporarily. \n\nI suggest reference to the ... in marked ... \n14 S",
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        "document_key": "CO129-623-2 Rubber Industry- report and correspondence on the labour situation 1-12-1950 - 31-3-1951",
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        "title": "CO129-623-2 Rubber Industry- report and correspondence on the labour situation 1-12-1950 - 31-3-1951",
        "content_text": "4. Gordon Taylor\n\nMr. Emanuel.\n\n8/7. refd. 14.12.502\n\nI discussed this with Mr. Grimwood at the Hong Kong Office to-day.\n\nI gather that the importations of Hong Kong rubber footwear have fallen off considerably, partly because of the mild winter last year, and the consequent overflow of stocks to this winter. Apart from that, the figure of five million pairs, said to have been shipped to the United Kingdom in the first six months of this year, is thought to be an exaggeration.\n\nDealing with the points in paragraph 4 of the record as they occur, the position is as follows:-\n\n(a) The Hong Kong factory, which closed recently, was forced to do so, partly because the proprietor had been gambling in rubber and had come unstuck. Provided the Hong Kong manufacturers are able to retain their market in the United Kingdom, there is no reason to suppose that other factories will have to close;\n\n(b) The proposed diversion of these exports to other parts of the Commonwealth is not a matter which can be decided by Government action. India and the other countries of the Commonwealth can please themselves whether or not they import Hong Kong footwear, and there is no reason to suppose that the Hong Kong manufacturers have not already sounded the Commonwealth market;\n\n(c) B.S.I. standards are already being employed in Hong Kong in a number of industries. They have not yet been applied to the rubber footwear industry, but I was assured that the allegation that the Hong Kong products are inferior to those of the United Kingdom is not altogether true. I was shown a pair of rubber boots for children which had been produced by a Hong Kong firm alongside a similar article which had been produced here for export to Hong Kong. It was quite obvious, even to the uninitiated, that the Hong Kong article was very much better in finish and design;\n\n(d) There is no truth in the suggestion that H.M. Customs have favoured imports from Hong Kong. As you may have heard, the import of Hong Kong shirts has been held up very badly, owing to the necessity of checking the Empire content for Customs purposes. The same applies to rubber footwear. In spite of the hold-up and the embarrassment to importers who have had to deposit the whole price of the goods beforehand, the Customs have not relaxed their standards and have, indeed, engaged extra staff to enable them to carry out the investigation as quickly as possible.\n\n(e) There is, of course, a trading season, so far as the retail trade is concerned. The winter is naturally the time when people buy wellington boots and overshoes, but there is also the summer trade in beach shoes and an all the year round sale of ordinary canvas gym shoes.\n\nMr. Grimwood had not very much to say about the possibility of the British and Hong Kong manufacturers being able to get together. The opinion of those merchants who handle Hong Kong imports of these goods is that the United Kingdom industry could not by itself satisfy the demand. I imagine that the kind of agreement which the United Kingdom people would favour would be one which sought to cut down the quantity of",
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