[ { "id": 217064, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-002 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1843", "page_number": 272, "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,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-002 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1843.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 224150, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-018 - Others - 1846", "page_number": 56, "title": "CO129-018 - Others - 1846", "content_text": "House of Common Admiralty\n\nAgen\n\nBoard\n\nof the Art 829 Victoria Cap. 89. - for the Registering of British Vessels it is enacted that the persons authorized and required to make such registry,\n\n: Grant such Certificates, shall be the several persons, hereinafter mentioned and described (that is to say)\n\nThe Collector and Controller of Her Majesty's Customs in any Port in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and on the Isle of Man respectively, in respect of Ships or Vessels to be there registered -- The Principal Officers of Her Customs in the Island of Guernsey or Jersey together with the Governor, Lieutenant, or Commander in Chief, of those Islands respectively, in respect of Ships to be there registered --\n\nThe Collector and Controller of Her Majesty's Customs of any Port in the British Possessions in Asia, Africa and America, or the Collector of any such port at which no appointment of a Controller has been made - in respect of Ships or Vessels to be there registered. The Collector of Duties at any Port in the territory under the Government of the East India Company, within the limits of the Charter of the said Company, or any other person of the rank in the said Company's service of Senior Merchant, or of six years standing in the said Service, being respectively appointed to Act in the execution of this Act by any of the Governors of the said Company, in respect of Ships or Vessels to be there registered; and -\n\nThe Collector of Duties at any British Possessions within the said limits and not under the Government of the East India Company, and at which a Custom House is not established together with the Governor, or Commander in Chief of such Possession, in respect of Ships or Vessels to be there registered.\n\nWith reference to the latter Clause of the above quoted Section of the Registry Act it appears to us that it was not intended that \"Collector of Customs\" should be the Officer to join with the Governor or Lieutenant Governor in granting Certificates of Registry at the places therein adverted to, inasmuch as the Clause refers to places at which \"a Custom House is not established\" and We would therefore submit to your Lordships whether the power was not intended to be delegated to the Collector of any local duties which are payable at such places - and if such should be your Lordships' opinion We do not see any objection to the Governor, in conjunction with the Collector, (if there be any) in Hong Kong granting Certificates of registry in respect of Ships or Vessels to be there registered.\n\nCustom House\n\n[(signed) Thos Freemantle & Dawson 21 Aug 1845]\n\nJ. Lushington J. Goulburn\n\nForeign Office\n\nHome Office\n\nTreasury", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-018 - Others - 1846.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 298640, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-174 - Sir Kennedy - 1876 [4-8]", "page_number": 563, "title": "CO129-174 - Sir Kennedy - 1876 [4-8]", "content_text": "561\n\nA report made by the Acting Attorney General to whom the papers were referred, it appears that there were certain informalities in the proceedings which necessitated the discharge of the men until the proper documents could be obtained from Manila.\n\nThe Report of the Acting Attorney General points out the nature of these informalities which were such as to preclude all possibility of the case being tried here, and accordingly directed the men to be put on remand until Her Majesty's Acting Consul at Manila could be communicated with and the informalities be corrected.\n\nUnfortunately, however, the President of the Naval Court, The Honorable E.S. Dawson, R.N., Commander of Her Majesty's Ship \"Dwarf\", has since left Manila, and this circumstance, combined with the difficulty which the Acting Attorney General apprehends there would be in obtaining such evidence as would justify the Magistrate in convicting the men, has compelled me, though with great reluctance, to release them, and I have caused Her Majesty's Acting Consul at Manila...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-174 - Sir Kennedy - 1876 [4-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 299183, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-176 - Public Offices & Others - 1876", "page_number": 22, "title": "CO129-176 - Public Offices & Others - 1876", "content_text": "DOMESTIC.\n\nOffice or Individual.\n\nHong Kong No. 13639\n\nProceedings before\n\nDate.\n\n1876\n\nNov 13\n\n(Subject.)\n\nRECEIVED\n\n14 NOV\n\n1876\n\na Naval Court at Manila, under Presidency of Commander Dawson of \"Dwarf\"\n\non 3 Seamen of the \"Frederick.\"\n\nHas been brought to notice by Lt. Leade, and Commander Dawson has been informed of the irregularity of\n\nthe preceding\n\n(Minutes.)\n\nA Branch Copy of this and 13078\n\nSend copy of this and 13078 to the Governor for his information\n\nin continuation of 135 of the 28th Oct.\n\nGUR. Nov 15\n\n(6 rms. 7 | 76-11 & 81845)\n\nTo\n\nOct. 17.\n\nSo found. Drafted you minute on 12203 meant to have been read but read the correspondence. G.F.D. [16.11.76]\n\nNo sure to send to G.O: now I think to form Put 4.? 8.16.11. alone Mutt N...\n\nPage 20\n\n \n \n\n \n\nPage 20", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-176 - Public Offices & Others - 1876.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 299184, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-176 - Public Offices & Others - 1876", "page_number": 23, "title": "CO129-176 - Public Offices & Others - 1876", "content_text": "LMM\n\nRECEIVED\n\n14 NOV 1876\n\nAdmuriati\n\n13634\n\n21\n\n13 November 1876.\n\nBLde\n\n13075\n\nfir, letter with reference to your Barque \"Frederick\" of the Instant, inclosing Trad 76 for the perusal of the Commissioners of the Admiralty & in relation of the proceedings papers taken before a Naval Court held at His Consulate Manila under the presidency of Commander the Hon: E. S. Dawson officiating Naval Officer upon 3 seamen of the Barque \"Frederick\", I am commanded by their Lordships to acquaint you\n\nThe Under Secretary of State for the Colonies, Colonial Office", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-176 - Public Offices & Others - 1876.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 299185, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-176 - Public Offices & Others - 1876", "page_number": 24, "title": "CO129-176 - Public Offices & Others - 1876", "content_text": "22\n\nfor the information of the Earl of Carnarvon that the Finding of this Naval Court has already been sent to the Admiralty by the Board of Trade, and that their Lordships had ordered Commander Dawson to be informed of the irregularity of the proceedings.\n\nThe papers inclosed in your letter are herewith returned.\n\nI am, Sir,\n\nYour obedient servant,\n\nShanTALL (likely \"Shantall\" is a name and should be kept as is or corrected to a more plausible surname if context allows, but based on the rules, minimal alteration is preferred)", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-176 - Public Offices & Others - 1876.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 299225, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-176 - Public Offices & Others - 1876", "page_number": 64, "title": "CO129-176 - Public Offices & Others - 1876", "content_text": "If Ricketts January had been at Manila, he is a Law; it is not likely to occur elsewhere.\n\nI have stood hand from done after I were acknowledgly, saying the Governor, that he have discharged men and disciplined impfen from Manila: as for cops des patit sacland In answering the Governor approve his action. The B. of Trade has probably interfered with the kids.\n\nRs.12/10. To proceed Appois och 13 2.0. 13.0-\n\nJ. wrote als & the Ruding Ht. die). Panchten Came voer & I tobel Nie The Pamper's of May Mineti: which stopped them writing bus.\n\nG 75. 144/10.\n\nAny further communication on this subject should be addressed to--\n\nTUE ASSISTANT SECRETARY,\n\nMARINE DEPARTMENT,\n\nBOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL GARDENS, S.W.\n\nAnd the following letter and number should be quoted in the communication, and marked plainly on the outside of the envelope, viz.\n\nM. 13373\n\nBoard of Trade;\n\nWhitehall Gardens,\n\n10th October 1876.\n\nI am directed by the Board of Trade to transmit to you, to be laid before the Earl of Carnarvon, a copy of the Finding of a Naval Court held at H. M. Consulate Manila under the presidency of Commander the Storb E. S. Dawson of H. M. Ship \"Walert\", upon three seamen of the Barque \"Frederick\" who were charged with a murderous assault upon their Captain.\n\nThe Under Secretary of State Colonial Office.\n\nIt will be seen that two of the ...\n\nPage 363\n\nPage 363\n\nPage 363\n\nPage 364\n\nPage 364\n\nPage 364\n\nI've made the following corrections:\n1. Corrected spelling errors (e.g., \"han occurrere\" to likely \"occur\", \"acknowlly\" to \"acknowledging\", \"des patit sacland\" is unclear but left as is due to uncertainty, \"Jovernor\" to \"Governor\", \"Ruding Ht.\" is unclear, \"TUE\" to \"THE\", \"transunt\" to \"transmit\", \"Funding\" to \"Finding\", \"Cammander\" to \"Commander\", \"Storb\" is unclear, \"waref\" to \"Walert\" as it seems to be a ship name).\n2. Fixed spacing issues and removed extra spaces.\n3. Rejoined broken sentences where possible.\n4. Restored paragraph breaks to improve readability.\n5. Indicated a missing word with `...`.\n6. Applied Markdown formatting is not used as per the final instruction; instead, HTML is used with `` for paragraphs.\n7. Preserved original page numbering lines as per the instructions.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-176 - Public Offices & Others - 1876.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 299229, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-176 - Public Offices & Others - 1876", "page_number": 68, "title": "CO129-176 - Public Offices & Others - 1876", "content_text": "5.5:\n\nLeopy M 18973.\n\n12283\n\n76.\n\n65\n\nAt a Naval Court held at\n\nHer Britannic Majesty's Consulate\n\nManilla on Wednesday,\n\nthe 23rd of August 1876.\n\nPresent.\n\nThe\n\nCommander the Honorable Edward Stanley Dawson H.M.S. \"Dwarf\" President\n\nWilliam Harry Harvey Reg.: H.M. Acting Consul Manilla\n\nNavigating Lieutenant Edmond Evans Greaves. Her Majesty's Ship Dwarf.\n\nMr. Eugene Thebaud Master of the British Steamer \"Esmeralda\"\n\nMr. Bernard Francis Meyer Assistant Paymaster in charge\n\nHer", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-176 - Public Offices & Others - 1876.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 299230, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-176 - Public Offices & Others - 1876", "page_number": 69, "title": "CO129-176 - Public Offices & Others - 1876", "content_text": "Page 66\n\nNew Majesty's Ship Dwarf black of the Court.\n\nThe Court in pursuance of an order from Commander the Hon: Edward Stanley Dawson Her Majesty's Ship Dwarf senior Officer at Manila proceeded to try James Brown AB., John Battle AB. and Robert South AB. of the British Barque \"Frederick\" on the following charge preferred against them by Mr. Patrick Keating master of the said ship.\n\nFor that they the said James Brown AB., John Battle AB., and Robert Smith AB. of the British Barque", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-176 - Public Offices & Others - 1876.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 344264, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-248 - Public Offices & Others - 1890", "page_number": 262, "title": "CO129-248 - Public Offices & Others - 1890", "content_text": "It is requested that in any further communication on this subject the under-mentioned letter and number may be quoted, and the reply addressed to \n\nThe Under Secretary of State for India, \n\nIndia Office, \n\nWhitehall, S.W. \n\n21249 \n\nIndia Office, \n\n31st October 1890. \n\nI am directed by the Secretary of State for India in Council to acknowledge the receipt of your letter dated the 22nd instant, enquiring, with reference to a communication received from Commander Dawson, R.N., as to the effect and working of an Order issued in Bombay in 1882 with the view of restricting Sunday labour in the harbour. \n\nIn reply I am to state that from the number of cases of Sunday work reported to have been allowed in each year it would appear that the Order has produced a distinct effect, though not so great as at first seemed likely. \n\nShould Commander Dawson be disposed to examine the figures in detail, I am to suggest that he should be invited to call at the Revenue and Statistics Department of this Office. \n\nThe Under Secretary of State, \n\nColonial Office. \n\nF 20334. 6 rms,-8/90. L. 1650, \n\nI have the honor to be \n\nSir, \n\nYour obedient Servant, \n\nLaw Officers \n\nTreasury", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-248 - Public Offices & Others - 1890.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 344266, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-248 - Public Offices & Others - 1890", "page_number": 264, "title": "CO129-248 - Public Offices & Others - 1890", "content_text": "Town of information & not for that of Commander Danson; I am bound to state that this horostings would be much modified if Visconal Cross would cause him to be furnished with a table of the number of cases in each year since the passing of the Order.\n\nIB J&L(1211)-6577---8000-6-90 dice or Individual, Edia Afric Date. 1890\n\nPrevious Paper. Hong Kong No. 21957 (Subject.) Sunday Labour 261 DOMESTIC. C. O. 21957 REC? REG II VOV 90 Law Officers Return of cases of Sunday work in Bombay Harbour 78-9 £28 (Minutes.) M. Meade This certainly does not show much diminution of Sunday labour arising from the Bombay rule.\n\nhd 1270 Put by \"Qu). nnw. Esh 11:11-20 Allow Nov 13 K13/11 subsequent Paper", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-248 - Public Offices & Others - 1890.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 344719, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-248 - Public Offices & Others - 1890", "page_number": 717, "title": "CO129-248 - Public Offices & Others - 1890", "content_text": "310 Sunday Labour on English Vessels in Crown Colonies. [Oor., the Stanley Exhibition which you have arranged for Sundays, May 18th and 25th, and to beg that the matter may be reconsidered.\n\nThe Missionary Societies who have so largely contributed to the Exhibition, as well as certain individual members of your Committee, cannot but feel acutely the fact that they should have any part in, or responsibility for, such a serious and inexcusable misuse of the hours of the Lord's day as your arrangements indicate.\n\nIt does not diminish from the responsibility of your Committee that in this arrangement you are \"following the example of other galleries.\"\n\nIt does not diminish from the evil of any course of action that in pursuing it we follow a multitude.\n\nGod's Holy Day of Rest is not intended for such secular uses as those to which you propose to devote it.--I am, dear Sir, your faithful servant.\n\nYour Secretary, after consultation, was able to assure the Managers that the Church Missionary Society and other exhibitors would withdraw their goods if the Sunday opening was carried out. The information reached your Committee too late to intervene effectually as to the first Sunday, May 18, but, before Whit-Sunday, the following circular-letter settled the matter:-\n\nVictoria Gallery, 207 & 209 Regent Street, W.\n\nMay 21st, 1890.\n\nSir, In deference to the wishes of the Missionary and Lord's-day Observance Societies, it has been decided to cancel the Private View for next Sunday, the 25th inst.\n\nWill you kindly notify this to any friends to whom you may have sent cards?--I am, Sir, your faithful servant,\n\nEDWARD LE, Hon. Sec.\n\nApplications for Literature have been received from 258 persons, residing in all parts of the country; and, in response, many thousands of tracts, pamphlets, and books have been scattered abroad, dealing with numerous aspects and developments of the Lord's-day question. This extensive circulation of the Society's publications has been almost entirely gratis.\n\nTo meet the constantly multiplying assaults on the Lord's-day and the perverse ingenuity of anti-Sabbatic arguments, it has been recently necessary to produce many new tracts and leaflets. Some of them are mentioned on the cover of this Occasional Paper. Complete lists can be had on application to the office.\n\nTo increase the acquaintance of the people with Lord's-day questions, and to influence them in the right direction, grants of books have from time to time been made to various free libraries. The Committee have recently purchased considerable numbers of copies of standard works which, in addition to the volumes in their own catalogue, they propose using in this way.\n\nSUNDAY LABOUR ON ENGLISH VESSELS IN THE CROWN COLONIES OF HONG KONG AND SINGAPORE. The Committee have endeavoured, and sometimes with marked success, to stop Sunday work in harbours at home and abroad, and they have given much thought and care to the question as affecting Hong Kong and Singapore. In association with Commander Dawson of the Missions to\n\n1890.] Sunday Labour on English Vessels in Crown Colonies. 311\n\nSeamen, the Seamen's Chaplain at Hong Kong, and others, they have brought the question before Government, Parliament, and shipowners.\n\nThe Committee have recently received the following important document on the question from Hong Kong, and are trying to further the wishes of the Bishop of Victoria and others who sign the letter.\n\nHong Kong, July 30th, 1890.\n\nThe Secretary, Lord's-day Observance Society.\n\nDear Sir, We should feel it a great kindness if you would bring before your Committee the following facts with respect to the Sunday labour in the British Crown Colonies of Hong Kong and Singapore.\n\nThey are probably already known to you, and we are most gratefully aware that the subject has received your earnest attention. But we feel, at the same time, that a communication direct from us may lead you to give still more consideration to the matter; and we fervently hope that your powerful co-operation, together with our own constant agitation, may eventually result in the mitigation of the evil against which we both so emphatically protest.\n\n1. Sunday labour on board ship in discharging and loading cargo is the invariable rule in the ports of Hong Kong and Singapore. This is partly due to the fact that these are \"free ports\"; and hence there being no custom house officials to claim their day of rest, as, e.g., in the treaty ports of China, and almost every other port in the world--Sunday labour is carried on because there is no one in a position to resist it.\n\nNecessarily, a great hardship is imposed upon the officers and men on board ship, as well as upon an increasing number of clerks ashore, who are gradually being deprived altogether of their day of rest.\n\n2. In the year 1888, a petition embodying the above facts was signed by 579 captains, officers, and engineers in the port of Hong Kong, and by 64 residents ashore, including Lloyd's surveyor, the marine surveyors, the wharfingers, head dock men and the majority of the clerks in the shipping offices.\n\nThis petition was addressed and presented to H.E. the Governor, Sir William des Voeux. But H.E., in consequence of the unsympathetic attitude of the local Chamber of Commerce, replied that, though personally willing to assist the petitioners, and not wishing to close his mind to any suggestion for accomplishing the desired object, he at the same time declined to do anything at present.\n\n3. The question has since been referred home, and Admiral Field, M.P., brought the subject before the House of Commons in May last.\n\nLord Knutsford has very kindly taken the matter up, and signified his intention of conferring with the Governors of Hong Kong and Singapore respectively on the matter.\n\nAs yet, however, to the best of our knowledge, nothing has been done. We beg to submit to you the importance of keeping the matter before the public generally, with a view to legislation being enacted to place a binding restriction on Sunday labour in our Crown Colonies.\n\nWhat can be done in Bombay and in the Australian ports, not to mention our neighbouring Chinese treaty ports (in which latter a great deal of unnecessary labour is prevented by only a small restriction in the shape of a money permit), can be done, we are convinced, in these Crown Colonies.\n\nAccording to our judgment, an ordinance absolutely prohibiting Sunday work on board ships of every nationality--so far as coaling and cargo is concerned--except in cases of absolute necessity, is the only effective measure to be adopted. Cases of absolute necessity could be provided for similarly to the manner adopted in, e.g., Bombay. When such necessity exists, work could be permitted on payment of a certain sum, calculated according to the ship's registered tonnage at the rate of a day's demurrage,\n\nPage 311\n\n...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-248 - Public Offices & Others - 1890.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 344793, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-248 - Public Offices & Others - 1890", "page_number": 791, "title": "CO129-248 - Public Offices & Others - 1890", "content_text": "place them at\n\nOh\n\ndisadvantage\n\nin competing with rivals in trade whether foreigners or English;\n\nso that\n\nO\n\ngeneral measure would\n\nbe fair to all alike.\n\ncordial thanks\n\nvery lordship for the very\n\nWith\n\nto\n\nyour kind\n\nattention\n\nyou\n\nhave so\n\nfreely\n\ngiven to this great grievance of\n\nseamen,\n\nI have the honor to be\n\nYour\n\nMy Lord\n\nobedient servant\n\nMe Dawson\n\nCommander R.N.\n\nThe Right Honble\n\nThe Lord Knutsford G.C.M.G.\n\nThe Secretary of\n\nState\n\nfor the Colonies\n\nDRAFT.\n\nIn Under S. State\n\nIndia Office\n\nD\n\nAkay\n\n787\n\n20172\n\nD.S.\n\n22 Oct. 90\n\nMINUTE. 19 Oct.\n\nSir,\n\nMr. John 21\n\nMr.\n\nHanfield 21\n\nMr. Wingfield.\n\nMr. Bramston.\n\nMr. Meade.\n\nSir R. Herbert.\n\n217\n\nBaron de Worms.\n\nLord Knutsford.\n\n8.21249\n\nCommander Dawson 14\n\nOct.9°\n\nCircular 31 July 1890\n\nI am directed\n\nby Lord Knutsford to\n\nlay\n\nrequest\n\nbefore\n\nViscount Cross!\n\nthe Enclosed copy\n\nof a letter from Commander\n\nW. Dawson, R.N., relating\n\nto the question of\n\nlabour in the Harbour\n\nof Hongkong, in which\n\nwith reference\n\nis made", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-248 - Public Offices & Others - 1890.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 345775, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-250 - Acting Governor Barker - 1891 [6-8]", "page_number": 174, "title": "CO129-250 - Acting Governor Barker - 1891 [6-8]", "content_text": "# SUNDAY LABOR IN HONGKONG HARBOUR\n\n## THE HONGKONG JUBILEE, 1841–1891.\n\nThe Right Reverend Bishop Burdon delivered the following address at St. John's Cathedral on the 21st of January, 1891, on the occasion of the Special Service held in connection with the celebration of the Colony's Jubilee:\n\n### WHAT WE HAVE DONE,\n\n\"It is too late now even to ask the question whether England was right or wrong in taking possession of this island fifty years ago. Whatever may be said of the morality of those old wars, we have a right to claim that we have more than justified the act by returning to China something vastly more valuable than we took. We took a treeless, barren, useless Rock, the abode of a few hundreds, or at most of a few thousands of Chinese fishermen, ready on occasion to exchange their peaceable occupation for piracy, and we have long since made it a security of peace with China and a profitable home for tens of thousands--at the present moment two hundred thousand--of Chinese who have been attracted hither by the abundant means of obtaining a livelihood and even wealth under the security of a just and stable Government. We have illustrated at China's own doors, without the aid of the Chinese classics, the fabled times of their early hero-emperors, when the people came of their own accord to settle under their rule.\n\nBy our public works we have provided employment for hosts of China's poor who could at best have eked out but a miserable existence in their own land or might have perished in the frequent floods and famines to which China is unhappily subject. We have, by our educational institutions, government and private, given an impetus to, if we were not the first to introduce, a desire for something more than the study of the Chinese classics. We have thus awoken something like new hopes in the heart of this old country, while we have at the same time been a means of physical benefit to vast numbers of its population.\n\n### The Necessity for Sunday Rest.\n\nIn one of the early Debates in the House of Lords with reference to our occupation of Hongkong, one speaker pointed out--I forget the words, but this was their substance--that by raising a sort of English town on the side of this mountain island, we should, by our roads, our drainage and our houses, be presenting a model for imitation by the Chinese in their own land. But China's genius, for the present at least, does not lie in road-making or drain-making, or even in seeing the necessity for providing light and air in their dwellings; and hence the aspiration expressed by the noble lord has thus far not been realized. But he was on the right tack, nevertheless, when he suggested that a bit of English civilization should be planted here which might provide lessons for the Chinese to be learned in due time. There are parts of that civilization, not actually physical, and yet leading to physical benefit, which it would have been well if we had introduced from the commencement, and which it is not too late to introduce even yet. One of the most prominent of these, more noticeable in England by foreigners than elsewhere, is the English Sunday Rest. There can be no doubt of the benefit of it to our own people. We have only to look at the Chinese to see the evil of the utter lack of it. Strong and patient in labour as the Chinese are, they have neither the healthy mental nor physical tone of our own people. Other causes are of course at work, but this of unresting toil, so far as the labouring classes are concerned, has set its mark on their faces and their minds. Should we in this Christian colony, where the Chinese as a rule are in far happier circumstances than in their own country, allow the same unresting toil to continue? Is there no possible way out of the difficulty? I cannot and will not believe it. China is not a country much given to imitation, but there's no telling what effect would have been produced if from the first the Sunday rest had been established here for all ashore and afloat. It would at all events have been a striking proof to the Chinese from Canton to Peking that we care for something else beside buying and selling, and it would probably have had more effect on the nation than all our public works put together. The Chinese here who are released from work on the Sunday evidently enjoy the rest, and there must be many among them who do lose some cents over it. \"Amid all the wisdom and charity of this community, some means might be devised by which this essential feature of English civilization could at last be established here, for the good of many of our own people as well as for that of the Chinese labourers. Union of all will do it, and by doing it we shall be setting an example of English civilization that will tell for good on far more than those immediately affected.\n\n### Our Responsibilities.\n\nJubilees come and go, leaving behind them the lesson for all: No man liveth to himself. Our Jubilee would be no cause of rejoicing, if it contained no record of good work done. All life's duties honestly attempted, some good actually accomplished, won though it may be out of our very mistakes and failures--this must be our record. High principles and aims, right thinking and right doing--this must be the character of the life we are to live, not for self but for others. Across the wide reach of nearly five and thirty years I seem often to hear the echo of Lord Elgin's words, when he was addressing the tea merchants of Shanghai, reminding them that the responsibility of those who have a faith that reaches to Heaven is vastly higher than that of those 'whose faith does not rise higher than the Earth.' In our life, commercial, social, personal, with such a faith as ours, we all can, if we will, successfully fight life's battles, do life's duties, and at length win life's crown in an eternal jubilee.\n\n## THE MISSION TO SEAMEN ON THE SUNDAY LABOUR QUESTION.\n\nWe have received the subjoined letter from London direct, and publish it with pleasure as it affords us great satisfaction to find that the objectionable maintenance of old-time slavery is receiving such consideration from the classes injuriously affected, as must inevitably lead to a general recognition of the right of mankind to one day's rest in every seven. With a strong backing at Home, throughout the Australasian Colonies and India, there can be no doubt whatever of the local Marine Officers' Association succeeding in winning for themselves that right which has been too long denied them--**REST ON THE SEVENTH DAY**.\n\n### MISSION TO SEAMEN, Strand, London, W.C.\n\n16th January, 1891.\n\nTO THE EDITOR OF THE \"HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,”\n\nDEAR SIR,-I have the honor to inform you that the Committee of \"The Missions to Seamen\" have received many and strong complaints from captains, officers and crews of British merchant ships, and from clergymen and other friends of sailors in various foreign and colonial ports and in H.M.'s possessions abroad, especially from Hongkong and Singapore, as to the prevalent practice of working cargoes in such harbours on what ought to be the day of rest, and the consequent cessation of worship on the Lord's day on board the ships in which this labour takes place.\n\nThis is a fruitful source of unhappiness, discontent and demoralization on board ship, preventing many respectable English seamen from continuing in such trades, their places being filled by foreigners, including Africans and Asiatics, whose foul lives still further debase moral conduct under the British flag. To their honour, some shipowners and merchants forbid this working of cargoes on board their ships, and give their officers and crews the day of rest when in port; yet this individual action places these few owners at a pecuniary disadvantage in competition with their less considerate rivals in trade. In many trades, though, this demoralizing practice does not obtain.\n\nHappily, also, there are many foreign and colonial ports in which the Sunday working of cargoes is either expressly forbidden, as in some Australian and New Zealand ports, or is greatly diminished by the operation of a tax on Sunday working of cargoes, as in Bombay harbour; or is very seldom practised, as in Scandinavian waters.\n\nThe Missions to Seamen are universally investigating and considering this matter, with a view to officially suggesting that the restrictive rules found to operate beneficially in some harbours might be more generally enacted.\n\nHongkong, February 1891.\n\nYours faithfully,\n\nWM. DAWSON,\nCommander, R.N.,\nSecretary.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-250 - Acting Governor Barker - 1891 [6-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 345779, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-250 - Acting Governor Barker - 1891 [6-8]", "page_number": 178, "title": "CO129-250 - Acting Governor Barker - 1891 [6-8]", "content_text": "# Enclosure 2.\n\n## Colonial Secretary's Office: 2nd December, 1890.\n\nSir,\n\nI have the honour by direction of the Officer Administering the Government, with reference to previous correspondence, to transmit to you, for the consideration of the Chamber of Commerce, a copy of a letter from Commander Dawson R.N. to the Colonial Office on the subject of **Dunday Labour** in the harbour of **Hongkong**.\n\nThe Secretary \nChamber of Commerce", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-250 - Acting Governor Barker - 1891 [6-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 345780, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-250 - Acting Governor Barker - 1891 [6-8]", "page_number": 179, "title": "CO129-250 - Acting Governor Barker - 1891 [6-8]", "content_text": "has been sent to his Excellency for consideration \n- and report, I am to state that his Excellency will be obliged for any observations thereon which they may be pleased to make to your Chamber.\n\nI have the honour to be,\nW. M. Deane\nActing Colonial Secretary\n\nDir. 176\n\nEnclosure 3.\n\nGeneral Chamber of Commerce,\nHongkong, 15th Dec. 1890.\n\nI have the honour to acknowledge receipt of your letter No. 3222 of 2nd inst., handing copy of a communication from Commander Dawson, R.N., on the subject of Sunday labour in this harbour, on which you desire my Committee's views.\n\nIt may be within your knowledge that this matter has recently been the subject of careful consideration,\nW. M. Deane\nActing Colonial Secretary", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-250 - Acting Governor Barker - 1891 [6-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 345781, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-250 - Acting Governor Barker - 1891 [6-8]", "page_number": 180, "title": "CO129-250 - Acting Governor Barker - 1891 [6-8]", "content_text": "177 \n\nconsideration by this Chamber. The labour side of the question having been forcibly put before the members of the Committee at an interview with the delegates of British Mercantile Marine-Officers Association held on the 17th October - After careful consideration of the case in all its bearings, the enclosed letter dated 31st October addressed to the President of the British Mercantile Marine Officers Association by the Chairman of the Chamber is attached. To that letter, the reply attached dated 10th November was received. From these communications, you have in full detail the opinions of the Committee, and the present position of the matter.\n\nI am to add that Commander Dawson and those who take the labour side of the question - from the way in which they discuss the subject - would appear to suggest that the alleged grievance of Sunday labour is one that affects such members of a particular body continuously every Sunday in the year, the same as if that section of the community were resident and on each seventh day, the labour of which they complain. Such is not the case.\n\nPage 180 \nPage 181", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-250 - Acting Governor Barker - 1891 [6-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 345783, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-250 - Acting Governor Barker - 1891 [6-8]", "page_number": 182, "title": "CO129-250 - Acting Governor Barker - 1891 [6-8]", "content_text": "body of local shareholders \ninterested in the Coast \ntrade fleets, \nand that \nhome interests do not \npredominate to the \nextent Commander Dawson \nintimates.\n\nI have r...\n\n27 F. Henderson \nDecretary\n\n## Enclosure 4.\n\n179\n\n**Nemorandum** \n**Sunday Labour in Stangsting Harbour** \n\nBeyond the fact that it \nseems unnecessary, \nthere is no objection to the \nstoppage of Sunday \nlabour on board vessels in Stangsting harbour, always provided \nthat all vessels, including \nChinese craft, are placed \non the same \nfooting.\n\nThe reasons \nfor placing \nall vessels of European \ndesign \non the same \nfooting are obvious and call for \nno special notice, but as junks, it is necessary \nto say \na word. It seems at \nfirst sight as if it would not \nmatter...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-250 - Acting Governor Barker - 1891 [6-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 348023, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-253 - Public Offices & Others - 1891", "page_number": 465, "title": "CO129-253 - Public Offices & Others - 1891", "content_text": "## DRAFT\n\nThe Secretary to the Missions to Seamen\n\n(1) Mercantile Marine\n\nMINUTE. 20 June Mr. Johnants July X Mr. Ebden 4 \n| Date | Name |\n|-------------|-------------|\n| 20 June | Mr. Johnants|\n| July X | Mr. Ebden |\n| | Mr. Wingfield|\n| | Mr. Bramston|\n| | Mr. Meade |\n| | Sir R. Herbert|\n| | Baron de Worms|\n| | Lord Knutsford|\n\nHey 72377 \n462 \n\nSir,\n\nD.S. 6 July 91 \nI reply to your letter of the 18th ulto.\n\nSee also `13498` \n(I have drafted this in exact terms of the answer given in the case `12849`)\n\n15 \nI am directed by Lord Knutsford to inform you that his Lordship proposes to communicate with the Governors of those Colonies in which Sunday labour appears to be not ...\n\nand working cargoes is still carried on in fourteen of the smaller colonies, viz. - Singapore, Penang, Labuan, Western Australia, Beyli, Mauritius, St Helena, Gambia, Gold Coast, Sierra Leone, Barbadoes, St Vincent, Jamaica, and Gibraltar.\n\nThe Committee of the Missions to their Seamen would venture to express earnest hope that your Lordship will be enabled to adopt such measures as will lead to the passing of enactments in these Colonies similar to those in more important Colonies, or to that about to be enforced at Hong Kong.\n\nWith the grateful thanks of Seamen, the Committee are very cordial.\n\nI have the honor to be \nYour obedient servant \nThe Right Honble Lord Knutsford Secretary of State for the Colonies Downing Street S. W.\n\nMo Dawson \nCommander R.N. & Secretary \n\n13 \n\nThe Cloissions to Seamen \n\nPage 363 \n\nThe Missions to Seamen \n`XCR(85)72` \n`GR1178/1922/32(III)`", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-253 - Public Offices & Others - 1891.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 348032, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-253 - Public Offices & Others - 1891", "page_number": 474, "title": "CO129-253 - Public Offices & Others - 1891", "content_text": "471\n\nIt is stated at Hong Kong, that the two councillors have had some personal disagreement with the late Governor on quite other subjects, & that this after-thought, which took thirty-five days' incubation, is rather intended to gratify personal animosity against his Excellency than to advance the cause of good government.\n\nWithout committing ourselves to any opinion on such matters, we trust your Lordship will not be deterred by the joint letter from continuing your kind efforts to relieve sea officers & men under their labour of the injustice in certain Crown colonies of being forced to labour at unnecessary cargo work on Sundays, & to relieve considerate ship-owners who do not enforce such labour from the disadvantage under which their just action places them relatively to those rivals in trade who do rob their officers of their weekly day of rest when in harbour.\n\nIt is of China Mail & the Express, uphold, against the joint letter, both the ordinance, & the passing, -5 stating that other important Acts had been similarly passed at one sitting, that full notice had been given that the Bill would be brought forward, that several years' public discussion had preceded its passing, that the Act itself is generally approved, & that even the two remonstrant councillors themselves have not a word to say against the Act.\n\nWith very many thanks for your Lordship's kind interest in the matter, I have the honour to be, My Lord, Your Obedient servant, Mu Dawson, Commander, R.M.\n\nThe Right Honourable The Lord Knutsford, The Secretary of State for the Colonies, Whitehall. S.W. Secretary", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-253 - Public Offices & Others - 1891.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 348101, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-253 - Public Offices & Others - 1891", "page_number": 543, "title": "CO129-253 - Public Offices & Others - 1891", "content_text": "540\n\ndas Fier.\n\nKowlooning\n\nQ\n\nunder\n\npossibility\n\nsuch labour.\n\nThe\n\nquestion\n\nquestion Came\n\nIng notice on more than one\n\n77\n\nrecasting while admin\n\nThe\n\nministering of Hong Kong Ordering the\n\nVermoe of last year when I formed\n\nthe\n\nopinion, which I still entertain,\n\nthat it would be desirable to\n\nput some restrictions on the\n\nLabour\n\n\"unrestricted Sunday Labour\n\ncarried on for the Colony\n\n3.\n\ncertain\n\nThere\n\ndifficulties\n\nALL\n\nis doubt\n\nin doing.\n\nby reason of the large Chinese\n\npopulation which exists\n\nin the\n\nColony\n\nAccount\n\nWhether\n\nbeing\n\nbeing\n\nde Custom House at the But\n\nbut I cannot think that these\n\ndifficulties\n\nare\n\naltogether insurmountable.\n\nI would not advocate\n\npassing\n\nLaw prohibiting\n\nit prefer to work on\n\nbut I do\n\nnot see why certain ku increased\n\nchanges should not\n\nSunday\n\nfor\n\nLabour be, according\n\nto the letter paragraph\n\nCommander\n\nbeen done in\n\nplace\n\ndelivery\n\nDawson's letter, has\n\nBombay, which\n\nalso be possible to\n\nit also\n\nEight\n\nSome restrictions on the\n\nLabours\n\nof clearances by the Master to Vessels\n\npreparing", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-253 - Public Offices & Others - 1891.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 356145, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-265 - Public Offices & Others - 1894", "page_number": 422, "title": "CO129-265 - Public Offices & Others - 1894", "content_text": "## DRAFT\n\nThe Albissions to Seamen has taken some active interest in this matter for many years; Officers, Engineers, and sailors look to this society to represent to the Secretary of State the great deprivation under which they suffer, which practically compels them to unnecessarily work cargoes on Sundays, & prevents their joining in the usual public worship of Almighty God on the Lord's Day on board their ships.\n\nI have the honor to be \nMy Lord, \nYour obedient servant, \nIn Dawson \nCommander, R.N. \nSecretary.\n\nThe Right Honorable \nThe Marquess of Ripon \nThe Secretary of State \nfor the Colonies.\n\n## MINUTE\n| Name | Date |\n| --- | --- |\n| Mr. Wilson | 13 Jan |\n| Mr. Lucas | 15 |\n| Mr. Fairfield | |\n| Mr. Wingfield | |\n| Mr. Bramston | |\n| Mr. Meade | |\n| Mr. Buxton | |\n| Marquess of Ripon | 1 Janson 1894 |\n\nIn reply to your letter of the ...th instant, I am directed by the Marquess of Ripon to acquaint you with the request to inform the Committee of the Missions to Seamen that the Regulation of the Hong Kong Government, dated the 28th of Last October relative to Sunday Labour on certain ...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-265 - Public Offices & Others - 1894.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 395311, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-326 - Foreign Office - 1904", "page_number": 648, "title": "CO129-326 - Foreign Office - 1904", "content_text": "CONTRABAND OF WAR,\n\nAt Thames. CHARLES BOTHWELL, ADAM LAUDER, PAYER SHEHAN, and JEREMIAN SHEEN, able seamen, were summoned before Mr. Mead for combining to disobey the lawful commands of Captain G. W. H. Lauder, master of the steamship Agincourt. Mr. Dawson Miller prosecuted; and Mr. A. Nelson defended.\n\nMr. Miller said the proceedings were taken under section 223 of the Merchant Shipping Act. On April 22 the defendants signed to sail on the Agincourt for a period not exceeding two years, and to keep within the limits of 75° north. The vessel left Barry with a cargo of Welsh coal on April 8, the expected destination being Hong-kong. On June 27 they arrived at Singapore but the owners of the vessel, Messrs. Lloyd and Co., in the meantime having seen certain notices in the newspapers that mines were floating about in the neighbourhood of Hong-kong, decided on sending the vessel to Nagasaki, direct.\n\nThe men refused to go in the ship to Nagasaki, and their alleged reason was that the vessel carried contraband of war, and consequently they were not bound under the articles to proceed on the voyage. Some time after the Agincourt was wrecked. The log-book showed that the defendants had combined to disobey lawful commands and impede the navigation of the vessel. Nagasaki was clearly within the limits in which the vessel was to trade. There was nothing illegal in carrying contraband of war. He submitted that under the contract the men were bound to go on.\n\nMr. Nelson—My clients signed on at peace risk and peace pay, and they did not expect to carry contraband of war. \"Welsh coal,\" by the Tsar's proclamation, had been declared contraband of war, and for carrying a similar cargo the Knight Commander and other vessels had been sunk. Mr. J. Lloyd, of the firm of Lloyd and Co., Leadenhall-house, said that his brokers told him his position with regard to under-writers was a doubtful one, and against that he lodged a complaint with the charterer. He afterwards declined to run the blockade to Vladivostok. He did what was safest in the interest of the £45,000 he had at stake. He got 15s. per ton.\n\nMr. Mead—You might have declined to go to any belligerent port? The witness said he could not, and was making a safer voyage in going to Nagasaki, as that was the last port that would be attacked by the Vladivostok squadron.\n\nMr. Mead—But you could have repudiated the agreement altogether if you were justified in varying the voyage from Hong-kong to Nagasaki? By Mr. Nelson. Floating mines were let loose in May, and suspicions were aroused that they might get down to Singapore. The Japanese were paying more than £1 also for steam coal, and his vessel was insured against war risks. He gave no instructions that the men were to be prosecuted at Singapore.\n\nMr. Nelson said that there was no case for him to answer. Nagasaki was a belligerent port. Welsh coal was contraband of war, and consequently the men were not obliged to go on with their agreement. When a vessel carried contraband of war and was subject to capture the master was not bound to compel the men to go on.\n\nMr. Mead thought that the owners were bound by the clause in the agreement, and when the seamen were informed it was not intended to go to Hong-kong that agreement came to an end. The men were not bound to go anywhere else without a fresh agreement. The owners had no just cause not to go to Hong-kong, and the danger of mines was too remote. He was justified in that opinion by the fact that the officers and men did not refuse to go to Hong-kong. The men had good reason to refuse to go to Nagasaki, and the summonses would be dismissed. He allowed 25s. on each summons.\n\nPage 6HH G", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-326 - Foreign Office - 1904.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 483082, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-459 - Individuals - 1919", "page_number": 505, "title": "CO129-459 - Individuals - 1919", "content_text": "1\n\nOf anders\n\n+\n\n16 February 1919\n\n408\n\nREC\n\nRFC 11 TA 19\n\nSix referring to my application for appointment to a post as the Harbour Master &c. of the smaller Eslablishes, I have the honour to forward herewith, for attachment to the Save, a copy of a letter I have now received from Admiral Lord Beresford in support of my application.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour obedient Servant\n\nBasil Dawson\n\nCommander RN\n\nHarbour Master &c.\n\nHongkong", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-459 - Individuals - 1919.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 515975, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-511-3 Sale of site at Kowloon to Messrs. H. Ruttonfee and Sons 3-4-1928 - 3-4-1928", "page_number": 4, "title": "CO129-511-3 Sale of site at Kowloon to Messrs. H. Ruttonfee and Sons 3-4-1928 - 3-4-1928", "content_text": "## MISSIONS TO SEAMEN IN HONGKONG INCORPORATION\n\nNo. 10 of 1919.\n\n### Power to acquire and hold property.\n\n5. The corporation shall have power to acquire, accept leases of, purchase, take, hold and enjoy any lands, buildings, messuages or tenements of what nature or kind soever and wheresoever situated, and also to invest moneys upon mortgage of any lands, buildings, messuages, or tenements, or upon the mortgages, debentures, stocks, funds, shares or securities of any corporation or company, and also to purchase, acquire and possess steam-launches, boats and other goods and chattels of what nature and kind soever.\n\n### Power to dispose of property.\n\n6. The corporation shall further have power by deed under its seal to grant, sell, convey, assign, surrender, exchange, partition, yield up, mortgage, demise, re-assign, transfer or otherwise dispose of any lands, buildings, messuages, tenements, mortgages, debentures, stocks, funds, shares or securities, steam-launches, boats or other goods and chattels, which are for the time being vested in or belonging to the corporation upon such terms as to the corporation may seem fit.\n\n### Vesting in Corporation of lands etc. now vested in Trustees.\n\n7. The leasehold premises situate, lying and being within this Colony and known as Kowloon Inland Lot No. 632 with the erections and buildings thereon and the appurtenances thereto now vested or purporting to be vested in the Right Reverend John Shaw Burdon, Doctor of Divinity, Bishop of the Church of England, residing and officiating in Hongkong, William Dawson, Commander in the Royal Navy, Secretary of the Mission to Seamen's Society, 11, Buckingham Street, Strand, in the County of Middlesex, England, and the Reverend Alfred Gurney Goldsmith, Master of Arts, Chaplain to Seamen in the Port of Hongkong, Trustees of the Kowloon Institute for Seamen and Soldiers, and the leasehold premises situate, lying and being within this Colony and known as Marine Lot No. 295 with the erections and buildings thereon and the appurtenances thereto now vested or purporting to be vested in the Right Reverend Gerard Heath Lander, Doctor of Divinity, Lord Bishop of Victoria, who has declared that he holds the same as Trustee for the Missions to Seamen, and all moneys, securities for money, goods, chattels and effects whatsoever within this Colony, the property of the Trustees of the Kowloon Institute for Seamen and Soldiers, or the property of the said Missions to Seamen in Hongkong, or purporting so to be, are hereby transferred to and vested in the corporation, but subject as regards the said leasehold premises to the payment of the rent and the observance and performance of all the covenants, conditions and reservations contained in the Crown leases under which the said premises are now or may hereafter be respectively held.\n\n*As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1924.*\n\n8. The corporation shall have full power and authority generally to maintain and carry on the Missions to Seamen in Hongkong and to decide all matters connected therewith.\n\n### Use of seal.\n\n9. All deeds, documents and other instruments requiring the seal of the corporation shall be sealed with the seal of the corporation in the presence of the Bishop or (in the event of the Bishop being absent from the Colony) of the Chaplain and shall also be signed by the Bishop or in his absence by the Chaplain.\n\n### Custody of seal.\n\n10. The seal shall be kept in the custody of the Bishop or, in his absence from the Colony, by the Chaplain.\n\n### Saving of rights of the Crown and of certain other rights.\n\n11. Nothing herein shall affect or be deemed to affect the rights of His Majesty the King His Heirs or Successors, or of any bodies politic or corporate, or other persons except such as are mentioned in this Ordinance and those claiming by, from or under them.\n\nPrice 10 cents (Hongkong Currency). To be purchased from Messrs. NORONHA & Co., Government Printers, Hongkong, and from the Crown Agents for the Colonies, 4 Millbank, London, S. W. 1.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-511-3 Sale of site at Kowloon to Messrs. H. Ruttonfee and Sons 3-4-1928 - 3-4-1928.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 544654, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-547-8 Piracy- case of Rex v. Chung Tam Kwong 22-3-1934 - 14-12-1934", "page_number": 42, "title": "CO129-547-8 Piracy- case of Rex v. Chung Tam Kwong 22-3-1934 - 14-12-1934", "content_text": "## Record\np. 2.\n\n2 (b) The facts proved in the case were as follows:-\n\nOn the 4th January 1931 on the high seas the prisoners were cruising in two junks. The prisoners were subjects of China and the junks were Chinese vessels. One or more of the prisoners were in possession of firearms. The prisoners pursued and attacked a cargo junk which was also a Chinese vessel. The master of the cargo junk was alarmed and attempted to escape. A chase ensued during which the prisoners came within two hundred yards of the cargo junk. The chase continued for over half an hour, the vessels preserving this distance. Shots were fired by the attacking party. While the chase was still proceeding the s.s. Hang Sang approached and subsequently also the s.s. Shui Chow. The officers in command of these merchant vessels interfered and through their agency the prisoners were eventually taken in charge by the Commander of H.M.S. Somme which had arrived in consequence of a report made by wireless. The prisoners were then brought to Hong Kong and indicted for the crime of piracy.\n\n(c) Upon the hearing of the aforesaid question of law reserved, the full Court of Hong Kong (Wood acting C.J. and Lindsel J.) in answer to the aforesaid question so reserved held that robbery is necessary to support a conviction for piracy. The judgment of the said Court will be found in the Hong Kong Law Reports Volume 25 at pages 33 to 47.\n\n3. It is respectfully submitted that actual robbery is not an essential element in the crime of piracy and that a frustrated attempt to commit a piratical robbery constitutes piracy jure gentium: that the essential characteristic of piracy jure gentium is that the acts complained of are done without the authority of a Sovereign state or a politically organised society or are done for private ends and \"robbery or depredation\" is not a necessary ingredient of the offence and that any unauthorised act of violence committed by a private vessel on the high seas against another vessel with intent to plunder constitutes piracy jure gentium.\n\n4. In support of the said contention the following (amongst other) authorities will be relied upon:-\n\n(i) Oppenheim's International Law 4th Edition Vol. I, §272. \"Piracy, in its original and strict meaning, is every unauthorised act of violence committed by a private vessel on the open sea against another vessel with intent to plunder (animo furandi). ... Therefore several writers (Hall, §81; Lawrence, §102; Bluntschli, §343; Liszt, §36, iv; Calvo, §485) correctly, I think, oppose the usual definition of piracy as an act of violence committed by a private vessel against another with intent to plunder. But yet no unanimity exists among them concerning a fit definition of piracy, and the matter is therefore very controversial. If a definition is desired which really covers all such acts as are in practice treated as piratical, piracy must be defined as every unauthorised act of violence against persons or goods committed on the open sea either by a private vessel against another vessel or by the mutinous crew or passengers against their own vessel. [The conception of piracy is discussed in The Republic of Bolivia v. The Indemnity Mutual Marine Assurance Co. (1909) 1 K.B. 785].\"\n\n(ii) Smith's International Law 5th Edition pp. 139, 140. Pirates are sometimes described as hostes humani generis, a description which is, however, not entirely accurate, as the term pirate is applied to those who commit acts of war against one state only, without themselves deriving authority from any state. In this case other states do not as a rule interfere unless directly affected; but, in general, pirates are justiciable, as Sir L. Jenkins puts it, being reputed out of the protection of all laws and privileges in what parts soever they are found [Works, Vol. II, p. 714]. Sir Charles Hedges, Judge of the High Court of Admiralty, in his charge to the grand jury in 1696 [R. v. Dawson (1696) 13 St. Tr. 454] gave the following definition of piracy:—\n\n\"Piracy is only a sea term for robbery, piracy being a robbery within the jurisdiction of the Admiralty. If the mariners of any ship shall violently dispossess the master, and afterwards carry away the ship itself or any of the goods with a felonious intention in any place where the Lord Admiral hath jurisdiction, this is robbery and piracy\". This definition, which has been cited with approval in the Privy Council [Attorney General for Hong Kong v. Kwok-a-Sing (1873), L.R. 5 P.C. 199. Various definitions were examined in The Republic of Bolivia v. Indemnity Mutual Marine Insurance Co. (1909) 1 K.B. 785] was made with particular ...\n\n## RECORD\nCase for the Secretary of State for the Colonies. \n53", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-547-8 Piracy- case of Rex v. Chung Tam Kwong 22-3-1934 - 14-12-1934.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 544668, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-547-8 Piracy- case of Rex v. Chung Tam Kwong 22-3-1934 - 14-12-1934", "page_number": 56, "title": "CO129-547-8 Piracy- case of Rex v. Chung Tam Kwong 22-3-1934 - 14-12-1934", "content_text": "## No. 2\n**Judgment of Wood, Acting C.J. delivered 1st April, 1931** -continued.\n\n10 ment of the Privy Council in **The Attorney General for the Colony of Hong Kong v. Kwok A Sing** (supra at p. 199), from which judgment I quote the following opinion of the Judicial Committee:-\n\n\"They see no reason to doubt that the charge of Sir Charles Hedges, Judge of the High Court of Admiralty, to the grand jury, as reported in the case of **Rex v. Dawson** (13 State Trials, 454) and which was made in the presence and with the approval of Holt C.J. and several other common law judges, contains a correct exposition of the law as to what constitutes piracy jure gentium.” He there says \"piracy is only a sea term for robbery, piracy being a robbery within the jurisdiction of the Admiralty\".\n\n\"If the mariners of any ship shall violently dispossess the master and afterwards carry away the ship itself or any of the goods, with a felonious intention in any place where the Lord Admiral hath jurisdiction, this is robbery and piracy.\" The standard forms of indictments contained in Archbold's Criminal Pleading include an allegation of stealing. In the records of this court there are two interesting indictments to which I have drawn attention. They are connected with what are locally known as the Sunning and the Haiching piracies. Both indictments were laid under 1 Vict., c. 88, s. 2, which deals with certain violent acts connected with the crime of piracy. The distinguishing feature between these two occurrences was that in the case of the Sunning the prisoners succeeded in dispossessing the master and obtaining control of the ship (which was subsequently retaken from them by the gallant action of the ship's officers), while the attack upon the Haiching was foiled and the attackers at no time controlled the bridge. The indictment in connection with the Sunning was filed in March, 1927, and that in connection with the Haiching in February, 1930. Both indictments were filed by the present learned Chief Justice, Sir Joseph Kemp, who was then Attorney General. He charged the first set of prisoners with \"Piracy with assault with intent to murder\". In the particulars of offence he set out the acts of violence and after so doing proceeded \"and then and there committed the crime of piracy in respect of the said ship by stealing with force and violence the said ship\". By way of contrast the later indictment alleged \"wounding persons on board a ship with intent to commit piracy\" and the particulars of the offence corresponded with this statement. It would thus appear that at the time when these two indictments were drafted, the draftsman gave effect to the opinion that the stealing of the ship constituted an essential element in the crime of piracy.\n\n1st April, 1931 -continued.\n\nLeaving the records of the courts, I now come to the consideration of the term \"piracy\" as it has been used in the statutes dealing with piracy (other than municipal piracy). It was not necessary for the learned Attorney General to argue, nor did he do so, that cruising with a piratical object by itself rendered a pirate liable to be punished by international law in national courts. Still less that the status and reputation of a pirate was such as to render him amenable to this court. It has been agreed by the learned Attorney General, in presenting the view of the crown, that in order to constitute the crime of piracy for the purpose of these proceedings, there must have been present not only a piratical mind, but also a piratical act. The enquiry necessitated here will seek, in the language of the statutes, to ascertain the nature of the requisite act; and for the purpose of the question of law here under consideration, the issue has been narrowed to discussion whether violence for the purpose of robbery is by itself enough or whether further a completed robbery is required. This enquiry may be usefully prosecuted by study of statutes passed in England to supplement the common law relating to piracy. That not every piratical act brings the offender within reach of the common law may be inferred from the language of \"An Act for the more effectual suppression of Piracy,\" 11 William III, c. 7, s. 8, which provides: \"If any commander or master of any ship shall in any place where the Admiral hath jurisdiction turn pirate and piratically and feloniously run away with his ship... he shall be adjudged, deemed and taken to be a pirate, felon and robber and being convicted thereof according to the directions of this Act shall have and suffer pains of death as pirates, felons and robbers upon the seas ought to have and suffer.\" By the same section it was provided also that \"If any person shall lay violent hands on his commander whereby to hinder him from fighting in defence of his ship and goods committed to his trust or that shall confine his master or make or endeavour to make a revolt in the ship he shall be similarly punished. The legislature here declared certain acts to be piratical in character and yet at the same time found it necessary to provide by statute for their punishment. It is even more interesting to note that in the Piracy Act, 1721, 8 George I, c. 24, s. 1, it was enacted that \"In case any person or persons belonging to any ship or vessel whatsoever, upon meeting any merchant ship or vessel upon the high seas or in any port, haven or creek whatsoever, shall forcibly board or enter into such ship or vessel and though they...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-547-8 Piracy- case of Rex v. Chung Tam Kwong 22-3-1934 - 14-12-1934.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 } ]