[ { "id": 216772, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-001 - Sir Hug Cough-s China Military Correspondences - 1841-1843", "page_number": 256, "title": "CO129-001 - Sir Hug Cough-s China Military Correspondences - 1841-1843", "content_text": "\nCORRESPONDENCE RELATIVE TO \n\n13. You will take immediate measures for the preparation of this force, and for the hiring of transports for their conveyance. Being thus early instructed as to the amount of tonnage required, you will be enabled, we conclude, to engage a portion of it on moderate terms at Bombay, and to bring such transports round to Madras, in time to convey the reinforcements from thence to Singapore, by the middle of April. It is our earnest desire that the whole force to be sent from India and this country for service in China, during 1842, should be col- lected at Singapore by the second week in April; and we rely upon every exer- tion being made on your part to effect this essential object. \n\n14. We are led to think that, after making ample provision for the packet- service, you will have disposable in 1842, for service in China, the following wooden steamers : \n\nQueen. Tenasserim. \n\nSemiramis. \n\nEnterprize. Sesostris. \n\nMadagascar. Auckland. \n\nProserpine. \n\nCruizer \n\nMILITARY OPERATIONS IN CHINA. \n\nHerald Calliope Nimrod \n\nCaptain Nias. \n\nCaptain Herbert. \n\nCommander Glasse. \n\nLarne \n\nHyacinth \n\nFavorite \n\nChilders \n\nCommander Halsted. \n\nColumbine \n\nPylades \n\nModeste \n\nPelican \n\nCommander C. G. Napier. \n\nClio, or Pearl Algerine Cameleon \n\nOrdered from Rio to China. \n\nLieutenant Mason. \n\nLieutenant Hunter. \n\nSulphur Starling \n\nAnd the iron steamers: \n\nNemesis. \n\nPhlegethon. \n\nWe trust that you will take measures for having the whole of this force either in the Canton river or at Singapore, by the period at which we have directed the military force to be assembled there. \n\n15. We shall, on our part, take measures for despatching from this country, in December, direct for Singapore, the steamer \"Memnon,\" of 1,100 tons and 400 horse power, and every exertion will be made to despatch, at an carlier period than February (in which month she is now expected to be ready), the steamer \" Acbar,\" of 1,100 tons, and 350 horse power. This steamer will like- wise be sent direct to Singapore. The iron steamer \"Pluto,\" of 100 horse power, is now ready at Portsmouth, and will be at your disposal for service in will have for the ensuing cam- China in 1842. We expect, therefore, that you paign eight (and, including the “ Acbar,\" nine) wooden steamers, and four iron \n\nsteamers. \n\n16. As the service upon which the force will be in all probability employed will bring the ships into rivers where attempts may be made to burn them, you will provide every steamer, ship-of-war and transport, with such booms as she can conveniently carry. Each boom should have at each end a stout chain and hooks, that the several booms may be firmly joined together. Each vessel should have six light kedge or stream anchors, for the purpose of holding the booms; and for each anchor should be supplied 10 or 12 fathoms of light, but suffi- ciently stout, chain. The booms will probably be most conveniently carried by each vessel under her chains. No vessel, however small, should have a less length of booms than 60 feet. Thus each vessel will be able in a river to protect herself, and the booms of several vessels joined together will form a per- fect protection for them all. You will take care that each vessel has several spare boats. If we should find, upon inquiry, that you have not, or could not easily or in good time, provide a sufficient number of such anchors as we have described, we shall send a number of them to Singapore; but you will depend, not upon us, but upon yourselves, for providing them. Spare booms and anchors, with longer chains attached to them, should be sent for the service of Her Majesty's ships, which will require them in deeper water. \n\n17. We have ascertained that the amount of Her Majesty's naval forces to be employed in the China Seas in 1842, will be at least equal to that employed this year, and that the vessels despatched from England to relieve those now in the China station, which should come home, will be at Canton or Singapore by the middle of April. In the event of a larger force of Her Majesty's ships being required in 1842 than is employed this year, the Admiral will be authorized to detain the ships which would otherwise come home; but we do not apprehend the occurrence of this emergency. We enclose a list we have received from the Admiralty of the ships on the China station this year, and of such as will sail from hence this year in time for the commencement of the campaign of 1842. \n\nCornwallis Blenheim \n\nEndymion \n\nCaptain O. Richards, Flag Ship. \n\nCaptain Sir H. Senhouse. \n\nCaptain Hon. F. Grey. \n\nCaptain H. Smith. \n\nBlonde \n\nCaptain Bouchier. \n\nConway \n\nCaptain Bethune, \n\nDruid \n\nHerald \n\nSURVEYING VESSELS OF WAR. \n\nIn addition to which, the \n\nSpartan Harlequin Dido \n\nSerpent Siren \n\n2 Captain Belcher. \n\n1 Lieutenant Kellett. \n\nTROOP SHIPS. Jupiter and Rattlesnake. \n\n25 Sail. \n\nHonourable C. G. Elliot. \n\nCommander Hon. G. Hastings. \n\nCommander Hon. H. Keppel. \n\nCommander Searle. \n\nCommander Smith. \n\nMaking together 30 sail; which will sail before the end of December to relieve ships there, which latter may be detained if required. \n\n- No. 12.- \n\nP \n\nCopy of a LETTER from Lord Stanley to the President of the Board of Control. \n\nNo. 12. \n\nMy Lord, \n\nDowning-street, 2 November 1841. THE attention of the Government having been directed to the mode in which Lord Stanley to the official business connected with the war in China has hitherto been conducted, the President of it becomes my duty to inform your Lordship of the result of the deliberations of the Board of Her Majesty's servants, and to convey to you the signification of Her Majesty's 2 November 1841. \n\nControl, pleasure as to the course, in reference to this subject, which should be pursued for the future. \n\nThe late administration, at the commencement of the war, employed upon it a portion of Her Majesty's troops upon the Indian Establishment, a portion of military forces of the East India Company, and the naval forces stationed in the Indian seas, reinforced by the squadron at the Cape of Good Hope, to which were added some ships from England. \n\nThe Admiral, sent from the Cape of Good Hope, directed the naval and military operations, and, as first in the commission, the diplomatic negotiations also. \n\nThe Governor-general of India, having sent the troops from India, had naturally an influence, and exercised some authority, over their first operations. Stores were also furnished at the discretion of the Governor-general, the British Treasury engaging to make good the extraordinary expenses incurred on that account, and charged in the first instance upon Indian revenues. \n\nBut it appears further, that stores and provisions, and a small force of British artillery, have also been furnished from England, for none of which does it appear that official authority from the Secretary of State has been conveyed to the Boards of Admiralty and Ordnance. \n\nany \n\nAt a subsequent period, the power of negotiation has been transferred to a Plenipotentiary, acting under the instructions of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. \n\n596. \n\nC 2 \n\nHer", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-001 - Sir Hug Cough-s China Military Correspondences - 1841-1843.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 216882, "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": 90, "title": "CO129-002 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1843", "content_text": "Superintendent of the Trade of our Subjects trading to and from the Dominions of the Emperor of China, GREETING— \n\nGOVERNMENT EXTRAORDINARY. \n\nOATH. \n\n1, A B, do hereby swear that I will bear true and faithful allegiance to our Sovereign Lady WHEREAS, by certain Letters Patent under VieroRIA, Queen of the United Kingdom of Great the Great Seal of our United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, &c. &c., and that I will well Britain and Ireland, bearing even date herewith and truly, according to the best of my ability, skill, We have made provision for the Government of and understanding, and without fear, favour, ́or our Colony of Hong-Kong and of its Dependencies, affection, perform, do, and fulfil the duties and Now Know You, that we reposing especial trust and powers of a Justice of the Peace, over and and confidence in the prudence, courage, and towards all subjects of her said Majesty presently, loyalty of you the said Sin flexey PorTINGEL, or hereafter residing within, or resorting to, the of our especial grace, certain knowledge, and are Dominions of the Emperor of China---SO HELP anotion, have thought fit to constitute and appoint, ME GOD. and do hereby constitute and appoint you, the said SIR HENRY POPTINGER, to be the GOVERNOR and COMMANDER-IN-Cher in and over our said Colony of Hong-Kong and its dependencies, and of all day of Forts and Garrisons erected and established, or which shall be erected and established within the said Colony, for and during our pleasure -- \n\nAND WE DO hereby require and command you, the said Stu HENDY POFTINGER, to do and execute all things that shall belong to your said Command and the Trust we have reposed in you, according to the several powers and directions granted to, or appointed to, the Governor of ang sant Colony of Hong-Kong and its Dependencies, in and by the said recited Letters Patent bearing even date herewith, and the Instructions under our Signet and Sign Manual accompanying the same, or according to such further powers, instructions, and Authorities as shall froin tine to thine, or at any time hereafter be granted or appointed you, under our Signet and Sigh Manual, or by our order in our Privy Council, or by Us, through one of our principal Secretaries of State AND WE DO hereby require and command all Officers and Ministers, Civil and Military, and all other the inhabitants of our sald Colony of Hong-Kong and its Dependencies, to be obedient, aiding, arul assist- ing, to you the said Sin Haxey POTTINGER in the execution of this our Commission, and of the powers and authorities herein contained,-IN WITNESS whereof, we have caused these our Letters, to be made Patent. \n\nWITNESS Ourself, at Westminster, the fifth tay of April, in the sixth year of our Reign. \n\nBY THE QUEEN HERSELF. \n\nTrue Copy. \n\nEDMUNDS. \n\n! RICHARD WOOSNAM \n\nPROCLAMATION. \n\nHis Excellency SIR HENRY POTTINGER,. Bart, G. C. B., Governor of Hong-Kong, &c. &c.. is pleased to nominate and appoint the under- signed Gentlemen to be Her Majesty's Justices of the Peace, to hold and exercise lawful author. ity and power as such, over and towards all sub- jects of her Britannic Majesty presently, or hereafter residing within, or resorting to, lu Dominions of the Emperor of China; and to require, that previously to entering on the discharge of their functions as Justices of the Poare, they do respectively and individually take, and subscribe to, the annexed Oath, before any one of the under- mentioned Officers of her Majesty's Government, \n\nviz.. \n\nThe ASSISTANT and REGISTRAR to the CHIEF SUPERINTENDENT OF TRADE, &c. \n\ntc. \n\nThe CHIEF MAGISTRATE of Hong-Kong, The ASISTANT-MAGISTRATE of flong-Kong. The Barrish GOVERNMENT AGENT (Vice Con- \n\nsul) at Macao. \n\nGOD SAVE THE QUEEN. \n\nHENRY POTTINGER. Dated at the Government-House, at Victoria, this 27th day of June, 1843. \n\nat \n\nSworn before me \n\nthis \n\n1943. \n\n+ \n\nj \n\nHer Britannic Myjesty's Justices of the Peace in China. \n\n} ANDERSON, ALEXANDER BALFOUR, GEORGE BRAINĖ, GEORGE THOMAS BURN, DAVID' LAING\" CAINE. WILLIAM \n\nCOMPTON, CHARLES SPENCER, & DENT, JOHN Esquires \n\n} \n\nDRUMMOND, Hon, FRANCIS CHARLES DUDGEON, PATRICK DUNDAS, HENRY EDGER, JOSEPÅ FROST FLETCHER, ANGUS, \n\n1. \n\nGORDON. ALEXANDER THOMAS GIBB, JOHN DARBY GRAY, WILLIAM \n\nGRIBBLE, HENRY MARKER, HENRY\" ROBERT HILLIER, CHARLES BATTEN \n\n4 HOLLIDAY, JOHN \n\nJARDINE, ANDREW JOHNSTON, ALEXANDER ROBERT KERR, CRAWFORD \n\nLAY, GEORGE TRADESCANT LË GEYT, WILLIAM 'CAIRNES LIVINGSTON, WILLIAM POTTER MACKEAN, THOMAS WILLIAM LOCK- \n\nWOOD \n\nMALCOLM, GEORGE ALEXANDER MATHESON, ALEXANDER MERCER, JOHN AMBROSE MORGAN, WILLIAM MORRISON, JOHN ROBERT PEDDER, WILLIAM \n\nRICKETT, JOȚIN \n\nSCOTT, ALEXANDER \n\nSMITH, JOSEPII MACKRILI. STEWART. CHARLES EDWARD STEWART, WILLIAM STEWART, PATRICK \n\nTHOM, ROBERT WHITE, JAMES WILKINSON, ALFRED \n\nWISE, JOHN WOOSNAM, RICHARD, and YOUNG, PETER, Esquires. \n\n(By Order) \n\nRICHARD. WOOSNAM. \n\nGOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION, \n\nUnder Instructions from Her Majesty,s Gos vernment, the situation of DeryTY-SUPERINTEND- ENT OF TRADE, &c., is abolished from this Date. \n\nA. R. JOHNSTON, Esq., is appointed Assistant and Registrar to the Chief Superintendent of Trade, &c. \n\n[By Order] \n\nRICHARD WOOSNAM Government House, Victoria, \n\n26th June, 1843. \n\nThe following appointments by the Hon- ourable the Governor of Hong-Kong. Hr. &., are notified for general in- formation. \n\nLieut. Col. MALCOLM, C. B., [her Majesty's Sec- retary of Legation, to Officiate as Colonial Secretary to Governmicntë” și \n\nRICHARD WOOSNAN, Esq. to bo Private Secretary to the Honourable the Governor; and to off- ciate as Deputy Colonial Secretary, CHARLES EDWARD STEWARK, Esq., to be Trea- surer and Financial Secretary to Government. \n\nThe following Officers are under the new arrangements, confirmed in their respective appointments. \n\nJ. R. MORRISON, Esq., as Chinese Secretary to the Chief Superintendent, &c., and to officiate as such to the Government of Hong-Kong. Major WILLIAM CAINE, as Chief Magistrate of \n\nHong-Kong. \n\nCHARLES B. HILLLER, Esq., as Assistant Magis- \n\ntrate of Hong Kong, \n\nLieut. WILLAM PRODER, R. N., Harbour Master, \n\nand to officiate as Marine Magistrale. ALEXANDER T. GORDON, Esq., as Land Officer, \n\n&c. &c. \n\n[By Order,] \n\nRICHARD WOOSNAM. Government Honse, Victoria, \n\n27th June, 1843, \n\nI \n\nLicut. G. T. BROOKE, of H. 'M.'s 55th Regiment, having been placed at the disposal of Government by the General Officer Companding her Majesty's Land Forces in China, is appointed Miktury Secretary and Aid-de-Cung to the Honourable the Governor \n\n[By Order, \n\nRICHARD WOOSNÁM. Government Flouse, Victoria, \n\n27th June, 1843. \n\nPRINTED AT THE GAZEITE PRINTING OFFICE, QUEEN'S ROAD, VICTORIA, LONG- Kosu. \n\nGOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION, \n\nAn omission having inadvertently occur- red in the form of the Oath to be taken by Her Majesty's Justices of the Peace, appended to the Proclamation of the 27th of last month, the annexed amended form is now published for general information. 5 \n\nBy order, \n\nRICHARD WOOSNAM. \n\nGovernment-House, Victoria, Hong-Kong, July 10th 1843. \n\nOATH. \n\nI do hereby swear, that I will bear true and faithful allegiance to our Sovereign Lady VICTORIA, Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, &c., &c.; and that I will, well and truly, according to the best of my ability, skill, and understanding, and without fear, favour, or affection, perform, da, and fulfil the duties and powers of a Justice of the Peace, over and fowards all Subjects of Her said Majesty, presently, or hereafter residing in, or resort- ting to, Her Britannic Majesty's Colony of Hong-Kong and its Dependencies, or the Dominions of the Emperor of China,--SO HELP ME GOD. \n\nSworn before me, at \n\nthis 1843. \n\nday of \n\nPage 90Page 91", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-002 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1843.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 218684, "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": "CO129-006 - Sir John Davis - 1844", "page_number": 10, "title": "CO129-006 - Sir John Davis - 1844", "content_text": "ཀག - མཆོ \n\n+ \n\n5/ \n\nHarphany. \n\nThe Ford President \n\nForwardedh 1844 MR Smith 10 \n\nFEBY \n\nStephen to \n\nLorikawnley || /1 \n\n13.5 February 1844. \n\nMy Lord \n\nI have the honor to transmit \n\na \n\nto your Lordship the Draft of Commission proposed \n\nto be \n\ninen \n\nto \n\nJohn Frances Darvin Exquine, whom the \n\nIncen has been pleased to appoint to be Governor \n\nand Commander in andi \n\nin \n\nChief in \n\nthe \n\nover \n\nColony kong and \n\nof dong bany of its dependencies;", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-006 - Sir John Davis - 1844.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 223406, "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": "CO129-016 - Sir John Davis - 1846 [1-6]", "page_number": 368, "title": "CO129-016 - Sir John Davis - 1846 [1-6]", "content_text": "30 Holliday Wise C\n\n30 W. Pyke.\n\nI. &. Ballantine\n\nI. M. Hayrs Sir J. Cochrane\n\n&. Waller\n\nofficers of the dot. M. N. I.\n\n5 M Markivick\n\n100 Smith #Brimelove\n\nJaen soni\n\n10 Leut Wood. B. N.\n\nFor 25 pd\n\nJ. St. George. P. Marcussen\n\nfir\n\nfir 25\n\nS. Miller.\n\nfio\n\n10\n\nN. Burns.\n\n20 N. Quus.\n\nC. Smith\n\n10 G. Reope\n\nH. Cochrane.\n\n5 F. Friend\n\n24\n\nJ. Cairns.\n\n10\n\nJ. Parratt.\n\n12\n\nJ. Edwards.\n\nJ. F. Caldwell J. W. Reid.\n\nCast : Bruce. Pract.\n\nCommander Syster H. B3. H. Long.\n\nR.M. McKellar I. Raweterne.\n\nW. S. Parish.\n\nV. Slanter.\n\nC. show.\n\nC. Board.\n\nG. Brayson.\n\n5€. Wadmant.\n\n5 6. Quinland.\n\n20\n\nP. Dudgeon.\n\nst I. L. Mactican.\n\nje 100 Lt Wilson. R.M.\n\npo\n\n20 Bood C. Gutystaff.\n\nfro\n\nHon : M. Gan : Daguilar pd 100 H. B. Commelin. po\n\nA. Aríderacvé\n\nI. L. Fresh.\n\nA. Scott.\n\nR. Strachant\n\n50 L. Routh.\n\nJie 204. S. Carpenter.\n\nI. Funk.\n\n25\n\n10\n\n40\n\n10\n\nJ. W. North.\n\nM. Cooper.\n\nR. Lowrie.\n\nJ. B. Pain.\n\nD. Henne.\n\n1. Conner.\n\nC. 8. Coffin. St. Col: Tripp. Vesey & Co bot : Chesney\n\npo so\n\nFryer Kleme\n\n6. Jamcomb.\n\nBouller.\n\nJ. M Murray,\n\nHon.\n\nJu 10 Mrs Huline.\n\nG. B. Hoga 10 A. Lyce\n\npr 50 C. Aleure\n\nthe 24.\n\nG. M. Stewart\n\n50 R. Diggles.\n\n40\n\n10\n\n150\n\nfor 20\n\npo 100\n\n50\n\n2.0\n\nG. Balls. 10 J. M. Metcalf\n\n$34\n\nfre\n\n10\n\n6. H. Gibbone\n\npid 10\n\n10\n\nH. Mannl\n\nfed 10\n\nI. B. Write\n\nfed 10 fio\n\n10\n\nfd voo\n\n10 Z. Richardson.\n\nfor 50\n\n16\n\nbockerell &\n\n500 C. Moorhouse.\n\nfor 20\n\n200\n\nBell Co\n\n400 €. de Oladui\n\npr 25\n\n20\n\nW. Bell.\n\nG. Strachant\n\nJ. Frise\n\nfed so\n\n& Vindlay\n\nHatcher Larkins & Co po 100 6. Hindley\n\n25 J. A. Gibb.\n\n100\n\nG. F. C. Batemans. pr. 5 A. Shimmer\n\nF\n\n20\n\nJ. S. Gamet.\n\nW. Hutcrrison\n\nAkie Comprador por\n\npr 30 Cast: Frecar, Royserts.\n\n70-\n\nOswald. Disandt t\n\n10 J. Pett\n\n20\n\npr\n\n10 D:Cel: Farquharson\n\n20\n\nCapt. F. M. Edwards gêt 50 A. Boate.\n\nCapt. C. Edwards, 18th\n\nJ.\n\nL. C. Tebles.\n\nCast: Bruce, 18th\n\nJo\n\nR. Wilkinson\n\nFro 100\n\nJ. S. Ford. A. Griend.\n\n6\n\nR. Suglis\n\npo 200\n\npr 100 A. Pennsy\n\n25 A. HC. P. Edwards pe 25\n\nThri Mr Morrisons. fc 316 f. b. B.\n\nC.N. Burgess. p. 10 B.G.\n\nPhillips te leere.\n\nS. R. Cottond.\n\nW. Hay G. W. Frazer, - Jauneey.\n\nJ. Slegers.\n\nPo 10\n\npe 25 B. Butler.\n\n10 G. H. H. Gill,\n\n10 J. Robertson.\n\nfor 20\n\n20 Jamieson How the 50 f. 4. Edger.\n\nfir 50\n\nfor 20\n\nfer | 10\n\nvon How to for 100.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-016 - Sir John Davis - 1846 [1-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 224926, "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": "CO129-019 - Sir John Davis - 1847 [1-4]", "page_number": 196, "title": "CO129-019 - Sir John Davis - 1847 [1-4]", "content_text": "Return of repayments of Deposits.\n\nAvailable for public purposes during the year =\n\nIncome Tax, from the Civil Establishment of Hong Kong\n\n192\n\n1846.\n\nand H.M's Diplomatic Department Transferred to the Commissariat 1,050\n\nSuperannuation Contributions, From $C.. 113.\n\nDiplomatic Department in China, transferred to the Commissariat\n\nSums due to the Commander of H.C.M's:\n\nSteam Vessel Spiteful for the entertainment during\n\nthe passage from Bombay to Hong Kong of the E. the Governor, Alex. & Bruce and way-\n\non the\n\n(See and duty paid by T. A. & E. Shelley\n\nWarrant appointing him Auditor General of this Colony, transferred to the Commissarial\n\nPayment to Mr. Smith chief Clerk of the Colonial office\n\nPolice fund, paid for Clothing of the Police force...\n\n847 162\n\n173\n\n241 18 10\n\nTotal £\n\n2,324 14 7\n\nTwo thousand three hundred, and twenty four Pounds,\n\nFourteen Shillings, Seven pence sterling\n\n1847- 1847-\n\nVictoria, Hong Kong, January 10th.\n\nTrue Copy\n\n[signed] W. K. Wesley,\n\nColonial Secretary.\n\nActing Colonial Treasurer", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-019 - Sir John Davis - 1847 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 227551, "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": "CO129-026 - Bonham - 1848 [9-12]", "page_number": 245, "title": "CO129-026 - Bonham - 1848 [9-12]", "content_text": "238\n\nand officers, amounted to 26, 11 of whom were Europeans; 6 or 7 Europeans had carbines, and I think about half of the remainder had muskets; there were likewise 4 or 5 cutlasses. Before leaving I gave out rounds of ammunition, and I believe the Police had 20 rounds more. I placed Mr Caldwell in charge of one boat, Mr Ryan in charge of another; I went in the third; in my boat there were 8 in all. Two junks were pointed out to me as the two junks from which the stones were thrown at the Police-boat; mine was the nearest in-shore to the junks; my boat was the outside one. Mr Caldwell's boat was in the rear of mine; the other boat was in-shore. I steered alongside the outward junk. I felt the boat kept back; I could not get her wholly broadside on to the junk before arriving alongside. The people in the junks had fired large and small guns, I mean ginjals and matchlocks. I heard shots strike the water. This fire was returned by all the Police boats. I heard Mr Caldwell speaking in Chinese very loud, and answers apparently made from the junks. Finding the other boats did not get alongside, and that a determined resistance was made, I ordered my boat to be shoved off, and told the other two boats to fall back. After leaving the junks, they continued firing 5 or 6 shots from ginjals; I told the Police not to return the fire, and ordered them out of reach of the fire from the junk. Some of the Police had no ammunition this time; they asked me for some, as they were anxious to return and make a second attack; a European in my boat had no arms. At this time I was not aware of any accident happening to the Police force; I had seen a man in the water when alongside the junk, but believed him to be one of the junkmen; I had an idea of picking him out, but on looking round, found he had either sunk or was taken on board the junk. The time I was alongside I was about half a minute; my impression was that my boat was kept back either by spears or bamboos from the junk; I could not see them, as it was remarkably dark, the wind strong, and the sea high. I determined to go to H.M.S. Cambrian for assistance, and ordered all but four rowers into another boat; before going, I directed Mr Caldwell to go as near the sterns of the junks as he could with safety, and request them to give in; and that if they did not, I was going to the man-of-war, and they would run the risk of being shot. Mr Caldwell called to me from his boat, that the junkmen were determined to resist. I then pulled to the Cambrian. The two junks were pointed out to me by the third Police-boat that remained near. I had no Chinamen in my boat; nothing was said to the junkmen from my boat. I heard Mr Caldwell calling out loudly to the junk people before any firing. I had a lantern in my boat, which I shewed; the three boats were to leeward of the junks; my boat may have been about 100 feet from the junks while Mr Caldwell was speaking; lights were shewn from one Police-boat to another while directions were given by me. When I arrived on board the Cambrian, I saw an officer, and asked if he was officer of the deck; he answered, \"Yes.\" I said, as nearly as I can recollect, \"I am the Superintendent of Police, and have come to apply to the Commodore for assistance to capture two suspicious junks which had fired upon and hustled off the Police-boats.\" The officer asked me if that was the firing he heard; I told him it was, and he desired me to accompany him below. He went into the stern cabin, and shortly after came out saying assistance should be rendered; I remained on deck till the boats were nearly ready, and then went into my own boat and guided the men-of-war's boats to where the junks were lying, pointing them out to the officer who was in command of the party. When I arrived near the junks, being ahead of the men-of-war boats, I saw the two Police-boats lying within 150 yards of the junks; the Police were rowing in the direction of the junks. I ordered them to keep to the rear of me, and not to fire. It was lighter by this time; it was now about 12 o'clock; I saw the navy boats go alongside the junk, and heard the people in the junks as if cheering or making a great shouting; before the navy boats touched the junks, they were fired into. A volley was fired by the navy boats, and afterwards there were about 20 straggling shots, but cannot say exactly whether they were wholly from the navy boats or some from the junks; after these shots were fired the navy boats cheered and boarded; the noise on board the junk was when I first got near. I boarded after the man-of-war's men; nearly all the sailors and marines were in the junks; they were very crowded. I saw some powder thrown overboard, and heard the plunging as of something heavy into the water; none of the junkmen at this time were to be seen; many of the sailors were below searching; it was dark below; Police lanterns were got; I did not see the sailors using their cutlasses; I saw no Chinamen in the water. I sent Mr Caldwell's boat to pick up some men who I heard in the water. Constable Smith was, I think, in the boat. I should say that the first fire from the Police-boats (before the navy boats came) did not take effect on the junks, as I heard no cries from the junk after the fire. I told the officer I would take charge of the junks, and that if he would lend me a boat to take the prisoners on shore, I would take charge of them. He ordered boats for this purpose, and directed all his men to go into the boats and leave the junks, which they did. I remained about half an hour after this on board; I had a thorough search made in and round the junks. Boarding nettings were triced up in the junk; they were the ordinary make of fishing nets. I examined the boats in order to satisfy myself whether the boats were piratical ones or not; and I believe they are not piratical boats; one had a cargo of molasses, and grain, and physic; the other boat, the large one, was empty. I found 4 matchlocks and 3 ginjals in the two boats; one of the watchlocks was burst; there were more lanyards and ropes for other ginjals.\n\nQuestion by Mr Shurtred—Mr Caldwell does not speak the dialect of the junkmen, but he understands a little. I was about 100 feet from the junks at the time Mr Caldwell spoke to them; his boat was to the rear of mine about 10 feet; the wind was high; we were to leeward of the junks; my belief was, and is that the junkmen understood and answered Mr Caldwell. We have 11 men now at the Station from these junks—nearly all were wounded—21 were brought to the Station from the junks, and one was picked up dead on Monday. I consider I have power under clause 7 of Ordinance 14 of 1840, to board any vessel whatever in the harbour, either day or night—of course having a reasonable object in view. The Superintendent and Inspectors of the Metropolitan London Police have exactly the same power. I have frequently exercised this power both day and night.\n\nQ. Under all the circumstances of this case, considering the trivial nature of the original charge, and the slight resistance the junks could have afforded to such a force as you took with you, did you feel yourself fully authorised to call in the assistance of the man-of-war without a Magistrate's Warrant? A. I conscientiously believe that under all the circumstances of the case, notwithstanding its slight origin, that no other proper course was open to me. With reference to my authority to get the assistance of the Navy, any Constable has power to demand assistance in carrying out his duty. As regards myself, I am authorised as commanding the Police to apply for the assistance of the Naval power on such occasion. I considered an overpowering force would effect the object of capturing the junks without any resistance or consequent bloodshed. I was not consulted with reference to the force from the man-of-war. When a person makes a complaint at the Station, it is a matter of course that immediate attention shall be paid to the complaint, so that the parties offending may be forthcoming to answer it. It was not consistent with the Inspectors' duty to allow Mr Muir's complaint to stand over till next day without taking immediate measures to apprehend the offenders, or otherwise secure their attendance next day.\n\nQuestioned by Mr Cairns.—When you applied for assistance from the Naval Commander, did you consider these were trading junks or pirates?—My impression was that they were piratical junks, because I could not account for the resistance they made but under such supposition.\n\nBy Mr Shortrede.—Whose duty is it to board and examine these junks when they anchor in the Harbour?—I do not consider that any government officer considers it his duty to Board Chinese vessels in this harbour, with a view of ascertaining their characters generally, unless upon especial information or suspicion; and in such a case it is my duty.\n\nQ. Does it consist with your knowledge that men dressed as policemen, or with badges upon their arms calling themselves policemen, have scurried and robbed junks in the Harbour? A. There have been none to my knowledge since the increase to the water-police 18 months ago; before that there were two instances of robbery by violence in the Harbour by persons representing themselves as policemen, and two cases of extortion by threats by Chinese in the employ of the government. A case occurred in April 1847—there was an attack made by a lorcha manned by Chinese and Portuguese representing themselves as policemen, who robbed a junk off Jardine's of a considerable amount of property.\n\n(21)\n\nCHARLES MAY.\n\nFriday 20th October. Al-Tew states, was in charge of the largest of the two junks; the crew consisted of ten men altogether; there were no passengers. My vessel came from How-tong; we were here about 20 days; we brought salt and live pigs. On the evening of the 19th, Chinese month, about dark, while my boat was lying alongside of a small junk, a small boat came near the junks; I was in the cabin at the time, and heard a cry of thieves from the small junk. I came on deck; did not see the small boat, as it was so dark; the small boat went away; I then returned to the cabin, and did not come out of the cabin until 2 or 3 boats came near the junks; they came about half an hour after the first. I did not hear anything said by the people in these boats; the small junk fired 2 or 3 shots, I think at them; it was very dark at this time; the small boats fired at the small junk. After this a great many boats came; these boats fired at the small junk, and the people in them came on board and threw me and the other men into the boat. My tail was cut off by one of these men.\n\n(22)\n\nEDWARD COHEN sworn, I am an assistant at Messrs Phillips, Moore & Co.'s, in Victoria. On Sunday evening last, I heard firing on the water near our place; did not know what it was at first; but went down to the window below Aequi's in the Lower Bazaar. I saw several shots fired from or at a junk a short distance from the shore. The only expression I could hear was, \"See, a man overboard,\" or \"Here's a man overboard.\" I immediately heard a shot fired. Previous to this there were one or two volleys fired, and I could hear the balls whistling round our house.\n\nE. Cohen.\n\n(23)\n\nROBERT MCKENZIE sworn,—I am a constable; I was left in the boat with Sergeant M'Lean lying off the junks on Sunday night when the men-of-war's boats came, in order to pick up any Chinese we might see in the water. I saw no Chinamen in the water. I was in the boat, and a dog was thrown overboard from the small junk; I was about five or six yards from the junk; the dog was black; a shot was fired at it by a marine—saw his belt—the shot killed it. If there were any Chinamen in the water near the boat, I would have seen them. I heard firing on board the junks; by the sound it was firing down into the holds of the junks; we were then under the bows of the junk. The sampan was looted overboard from the junks either by the marines or sailors. I heard one of the officers tell the men to cease firing—this was after the firing into the hold.\n\n(24)\n\nR. MCKENZIE.\n\nTHURSTAN DALE sworn,—I was with Messrs Devan and Muir, and others on Sunday evening in their boat coming from the Tam o'Shanter; we left the vessel about half-past six in the evening; our boat, the wind being strong, came within about ten yards of two junks; we had to go past them to get ashore; the men in the junks made a noise; it sounded to me not as if they were pulling up their anchor or anything of that kind but seemed as if they meant it for us to keep off; that at least was my impression, although I did not know the language. One of our boatmen replied to the junk people; there was then a shout, or hurrah, from some of the party in the boat—I was in one, two, or three, may have joined in the shout; boatmen did not join in the shout.\n\nAfter this the junkmen I think called out something, after which a stone struck one boat. We then pulled ahead of the junks, and Mr Bevan wished to go on board the junks, to see what the stone was thrown for; He took hold of the boat's tiller, and put the boat's head towards the junks. The boatmen refused to go; I said it was no use—that it was better to come ashore. While this was going on, several stones were thrown at the boat; I don't remember that any of the stones struck our boat. We then came ashore, and I came up to the Police Office with Messrs Muir and Roose. I went down afterwards to my boat to see what the Police boats did; I waited for some time, did not see any of them, and came away and went home.\n\nExamined by Mr Morison.—The discussion that took place between Mr Bevan and myself about his going on board the junks was sufficiently loud for the junkmen to hear.\n\nTHURSTAN DALE.\n\n(25)\n\n[Lie-kip-ty, and Che-yeuk, both sworn in as interpreters, they having a knowledge of the Tin-chien dialect.]\n\nPoon-Chow sworn—I am a Lukong. On Sunday evening last some gentlemen came and made a report at the Police Station. I went with them and the police in the boat; Mr Ryan told me to go and tell the Captain of the junk to come up to the Station, to see why stones were thrown at the gentlemen. I went in the boat about thirty feet from the junk—this was about 7 o'clock in the evening, and spoke to them in Chinese [Here the witness was asked to say in Chinese what he said to the junkmen. The witness's answer was rendered in English by the two interpreters,\n\n\"Friend, I got something to say: I wish the Captain to come Ashore.\" (The original words were spoken in the Pokéen dialect) Further he said, \"This is a mandarin boat come to talk to him; and not to be afraid\" (This was also said in Fokeen. When I first spoke to the junkmen, I was as far from them as this is from Mr Holdforth's house (a distance of about two hundred feet.) [The witness here corrects himself, and says this was in reference to his second visit to these junks.] The junkmen the first time did not say anything to me; they then threw stones at us. First when I went, there was not much wind. [The witness is asked to point out, if he can, the distance he was at from the junks when he first spoke to them; and he points to a house distant about fifty yards.] then returned to No. 1 Station, and waited there. I went again in the Police-boat to the junks; and stood about a 100 feet from them. At this time there was not much wind; I do not know in what direction it was blowing. I spoke again to the junkmen this second time the same as I did on the first occasion. The people in the junk said to me, not to come near; if we did, they would fire. They said nothing else to me; I said no more to them, and then came ashore. They threw stones at us; none of them struck the boat. The first time stones were thrown—that is, when I went in the first boat—some of the stones struck the boat, and some of the crew were struck. I then came on shore, and waited in the boat. When Messrs May and Caldwell came, I went back in the boat again to the junks; Mr May's boat was first, next to the junks; I was in Mr Ryan's boat. I did not on this occasion speak to the junks; I do not know if anything was said in the other boats. At this time, the boat I was in was 16 or 18 feet from Mr May's boat and Mr Caldwell's boat was between us; I did not hear anything said from Mr Caldwell's or Mr May's boat to the junkmen. It was then blowing hard; there was no interpreter in Mr May's boat; we were then about 400 feet from the junks; they were making a noise on both the junks. The only words I heard were \"Kuk-chang p'la,\" which means \"Take gun and fire.\" My boat was close to Mr Caldwell during all this time; anything that was said by the junkmen I must have heard as well as Mr Caldwell. Each boat had a light, which they shewed to the junk. I then heard shots fired from the outward junk—they only fired at Mr May's boat; the boat I was in then fired. After the shots were fired, the junkmen said nothing to the Police. I then retired, and Mr May told us to wait until he went to the man-of-war; Mr May did not tell us to do anything while he was away, but to wait. Nothing was said either from Mr Caldwell's boat or the one I was in to the junkmen while Mr May was away, nor was anything said to the junkmen until the men-of-war's men fired. I did not go on board the junks until the sailors of the men-of-war left them.\n\n(26)\n\nKoo-CAP sworn.—By Mr Cairns—I never was in Hongkong before. I belong to the small junk. By Mr Shurtrede,—[The words which Poon-chow stated he used on Sunday evening to the junkmen he now repeats in presence of Koo-cap, who being asked through the interpreter, says \"I never heard these words before\" and being asked the meaning of the words, he says, they mean \"Friend, is the Captain on board?\"\n\n(27)\n\nWILLIAM PEDDER sworn,—I am the Harbour Master of Victoria, and Marine Magistrate.\n\nExamined by Mr Shortrede.—Do you recognise this Proclamation, (producing a Proclamation in Chinese, initialed by the Coroner.)—I fancy I do from the Stamp; it bears the Seal of the Marine Magistrate's Office. I do not read Chinese or understand it.\n\nDo you know the import of the Proclamation?—I think I do.\n\nCan you tell its import?—Yes; it is a proclamation from His Excellency the late Governor of Hongkong to all trading junks anchoring in the Harbour.\n\nFrom whom did you receive instructions to issue this proclamation?—From Mr Shelley for the Colonial Secretary, by letter dated 28th May 1846. I hold in my hand the letter I allude to; I produce the letter handed in the letter, which, at the request of the jury is read; as also the copy of the Proclamation accompanying that letter, the copies are annexed] Examined by the Coroner.—I distributed these Eighteen Copies of the Proclamation. After they were all gone I obtained more from Mr Gutzlaff the Chinese Secretary, by whom I presume they were originally prepared. I went on board the junks myself when I distributed them. I was requested to make them public, and left some copies at the Hong where the junkmen frequent, as also gave some to persons who traded with them; and made it as generally known as possible. I had it explained to the junkmen if people molested them, to secure them and bring them to me, or the Chief Magistrate, but not to hurt them.\n\nBy Mr Shortrede.—Has any subsequent proclamation upon this subject been issued to the junkmen by you?—No. I may add that it was the habit of boarding junks to ascertain if they have been molested by any body. My Chinese boatmen interpreted for me; I cannot say they were understood, but I should think they were, as the junkmen always seemed pleased.—I do not think I went on board either of these two junks in question.—On my visits to the junks I never heard any complaints.\n\nWILLIAM PEDDER.\n\nColonial Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 28th May, 1846.\n\nSIR, I am directed by His Excellency the Governor to transmit to you 18 Copies of the Chinese Translation of the enclosed Proclamation, and to request your compliance with the instructions therein contained, by occasionally boarding and furnishing each junk anchoring in this harbour with a copy of the same, for the information of the Masters and Crews. A few Copies should be posted up for general information.\n\nI have the honour to be, sir, your obedient servant,\n\nA. F. SHELLEY,\n\nfor the Colonial Secretary.\n\nLieut. W. PEDDER, R.N., Harbour Master.\n\n(True Copy,)\n\nWILLIAM PEDDER, Harbour Master, Marine Magistrate.\n\nHis Excellency the Governor directs, that the Harbour Master board all trading junks on their anchoring in the Harbour, and that a proclamation be issued to the following effect, and communicated to the masters and crews thereof:\n\nThat the port of Victoria is open to all junks and vessels without any anchorage fees or other dues; that they are at liberty to stay in it as long as they choose, and to depart when they like, without any molestation.\n\nThat the crews and passengers are at full liberty to communicate with the shore, and to deal in all articles with any person whom they may choose; but that they are not to buy Opium in a smaller quantity than one chest from any one but the Retail Dealer licensed by the Government. When they buy a chest of Opium, or any larger quantity, they may purchase it from any person.\n\nThat no person except the Harbour Master can board a junk or vessel without the consent of the master, unless he is armed with a warrant and accompanied by a constable.\n\nThat all complaints against persons unlawfully boarding or molesting vessels are to be made to the Harbour Master or the Chief Magistrate; and that the attempts of persons to extort money, or represent themselves falsely as possessing exclusive privileges of trade, and thereby interfere with the freedom of the port, are contrary to His Excellency's orders, and will be visited with severe punishment on being duly represented to the authorities above mentioned.\n\nColonial Office, Victoria.\n\nHongkong, 23d May, 1846.\n\n(28)\n\nJAMES LEGGE sworn,—I am a Doctor of Divinity, and attached to the London Missionary Society.\n\nExamined by Mr Shortrede.—Do you understand Chinese?\n\nCan you read this Proclamation? (producing the one identified by Mr Pedder. Yes.\n\nIs it the same I sent you yesterday?—Yes.\n\nHave you read it over?—Yes, I have done so carefully.\n\nHave you consulted any Chinese who are scholars as to the import of the third Regulation in this Proclamation? I have.\n\nWill you have the goodness to state your interpretation of the third Regulation alluded to, as well as the meaning attached to it by the persons you consulted?—This regulation consists of two parts. The first says the Harbour-master, and persons carrying Warrants, and Policemen, have power to board vessels. The meaning of the second part is not so plain; it was because I could not make it out satisfactorily myself, that I consulted Chinese scholars. Literally, it runs, \"If there be men, and the Captain does not want them to enter the vessel, then he may be able to obstruct and stop them.\" The difficulty lies from the form of the Chinese sentence in determining who are intended by the word \"men.\" I suppose it intended to mean \"other men\"—different from the Harbour-master and others mentioned above; but this is by no means clear, and a Chinese, in my opinion, would rather identify the word \"men\" with the Harbour-master, &c. Seeing the difficulty last night, I consulted a Chinese who at once knows his own and the English languages very well—Tsin-shen, an assistant in our Mission. He took the same view of the intention of the writer as myself, and laughed heartily at the composition. This morning, I consulted two other Chinese as to the meaning. The first is Sew-tsai, (that is, a literary graduate of the first degree,) and was the first in his class when he took the honour at his county examination in the Canton province in 1833. He supposed that the regulation empowered the Captain of the Vessel to resist the Harbour-master, the Warrant-bearers, and the Policemen; at the same time he did not seem to see the connection between the two parts of the regulation. The second person consulted is a respectable Chinese, who can read and write in his own language tolerably well, but makes no pretensions to being a scholar. He interpreted the clause in the same way as the other, and added,—\"So then the Chew-chow (this is the Canton sound of Tib-tchien) men, when they resisted the boats, had right on their side;\" but then he added—\"To be sure, when the boats came in the dark, it was according to regulation to resist them.\" I mention this last remark, because it confirms my own view of the composition of the regulation, that while Chinese naturally interpret it as those two men did, there is still something wanting to make that view of it certain, if it was the intention of the composer to convey that the word \"men\" was to be identified with the Harbour-master, &c. The meaning of this clause is not plain.\n\nJAMES LEGGE.\n\nCHARLES MAY further examined on the 21st,—To the best of my belief I never saw the Chinese notice (the one alluded to by Mr Pedder in his evidence) now exhibited to me, and I am certain I never saw any translation, or any letter of instructions on the subject in accordance with the Colonial Secretary's letter of instructions now read to me. (Here the copy of the letter of 28th May 1846, and instructions, annexed to Mr Pedder's evidence, is read to Mr May.) This is the first intimation I have had of Mr Pedder's instructions as to boarding junks in the Harbour. I know that there is a Police-boat attached to the Registrar General's Office, that daily boards Chinese vessels in the Harbour, under the Registration Ordinance No. 7 of 1846, sec. 2. If anything came to the Registrar General's notice as to any suspicious boats in the Harbour, the Registrar General, as joint Superintendent of Police, would consult with me on it. I did not hear anything about the two junks taken on Sunday evening, until Mr Muir made the charge against them.\n\nCHARLES MAY.\n\n(29)\n\nVERDICT.\n\nAn inquisition indented taken for our Sovereign Lady the Queen, at the House of the Central Police Station situate in Wellington Street, in the Colony of Hongkong, on the sixteenth day of October, in the Year of our Lord 1848, before Norcott D'Esterre Parker, gentleman, the Coroner of our said Lady the Queen for the said Colony, on view of the body of Niu-achiu and U-afon, then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of Andrew Shortrede, Foreman, John Cairns, and John Graham Morison, good and lawful Men of the said Colony, duly chosen, and who, being then and there duly sworn, and charged to inquire for our said lady the Queen, when, how, and by what means the said Niu-achiu and Uafoo came to their deaths, do upon their Oaths say, That U-ufoo and Niu-achiu, Chinese junkmen, came by their deaths between Sunday night and Monday morning the 15th and 16th of October 1848, from gun-shot wounds inflicted by certain seamen and marines unknown, acting under orders of their officers, who were instructed by the Senior Naval Officer on this station to aid the Police in capturing two junks anchored in-shore in the Harbour of Hongkong, the crews of which junks had been alarmed by boats coming alongside after nightfall, and resisted the authorities and others, under the impression that they were thieves; and such resistance as was offered on this occasion appears to the Jury to have been justified by the necessity for trading junks protecting themselves from being boarded by strangers and pretended policemen, as well as by the existing regulations of the Hongkong Government, issued to junks anchoring in the Harbour.\n\nThe Jury have considered it to be their duty to pursue the inquiry into several matters not immediately connected with the deaths of these two men, but the investigation of which may tend to prevent the recurrence of such disasters, and seems of importance to the reputation and prosperity of the Colony.\n\nIn witness whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said Jury have hereunto set their hands and seals this 21st day of October 1848, the day to which the Inquest was finally adjourned.\n\nN. D'E. PARKER,\n\nCoroner.\n\nAND. SHORTREDE, Foreman.\n\nJOHN CAIRNS.\n\nJOHN G. MORISON.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-026 - Bonham - 1848 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 228838, "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": "CO129-029 - Bonham - 1849 [4-7]", "page_number": 154, "title": "CO129-029 - Bonham - 1849 [4-7]", "content_text": "42\n\nThis brings me to the last question: whether a union of the naval victualling department with the Commissariat, would be practicable? a question which would seem to hinge upon so many collateral circumstances, that I feel unable, for want of sufficient information as to the nature and extent of the proposed duty, to submit a decided opinion with respect to it.\n\nFrom the large squadron of ships of war which may always be expected at this the head quarters of the Indian station, it may be inferred that the duty is very extensive; that it would require our full authorized establishment to carry it on; and that the capacity of our magazines would be inadequate to the maintenance of a proper stock of supplies, while those insecure ones now used by the naval storekeeper, are from one to two miles distant from us. At some stations, like, for instance, the Australian Colonies, all victualling stores are certainly supplied by the Commissariat for naval purposes; but the issues are confined to perhaps two or three small vessels in the course of a year, and conducted under the Commissariat regulations, which are drawn up with reference to military authority alone; while at this station there are now one line of battle-ship, one frigate, three war-steamers, four or five sloops of war, a store-ship, and one for hospital purposes, with a naval Commander-in-chief, who, together with the Lords of the Admiralty, might not in transactions of such magnitude and importance as must thus arise, like to depend altogether upon any department not under their own immediate authority and control.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed)\n\nJNO. W. SMITH, A.C.G.\n\nEXPENSE of the Commissariat Department at Hong Kong for one year.\n\nPay and\n\n43\n\nQUANTITY and Estimated Value of Provisions, Fuel, &c., in Her Majesty's Commissariat Magazines, at Hong Kong on the 31st March, 1849.\n\n \n Articles.\n Quantity.\n Estimated cost in sterling.\n \n \n Fuel, coal\n tons lbs.\n £. S. d.\n \n \n Provisions\n \n \n \n \n Salt meat.\n 63,550 lbs.\n 1,589 0 0\n \n \n Ghee\n 4,849\n 121 4 6\n \n \n Turmeric\n 6,584\n 54 9 0\n \n \n Arrow root\n 135.0.0.0\n 253 15 0\n \n \n Hospital supplies.\n \n \n \n \n Sago\n 1,509 lbs.\n 188 6 8\n \n \n \n 125\n 2 12\n \n \n Preserved meat,\n 3,691\n 184 11 0\n \n \n Soup concent. pts.\n 114\n 5 14 0\n \n \n Rum\n 222 gallons\n 20 7 0\n \n \n Vinegar\n 100\n 5 0 0\n \n \n Amounting to\n £2,424 19 4\n \n\n(Signed)\n\nCommissariat Office, Hong Kong,\n\nApril 10, 1849.\n\nJNO. W. SMITH, A.C.G.\n\n \n Rank and name.\n Pay and allowances of each individual for one year.\n Remarks.\n \n \n Assistant Commissary-General Smith\n £ S. d. 591 6 3\n In charge and general superintendence of department, with the preparation of all contracts both for commissariat and ordnance services; correspondence and negotiation of bills on the Treasury, to raise money for every public service in the colony, a very responsible and delicate duty, which in the last year ending 31st March has yielded a profit of £2,949 10s. 6d., or £1,164 9s. 3d. more than the whole expense of the department.\n \n \n Deputy Assistant Commissary-General Carpenter\n 317 7 0\n Sub-accountant in charge of the commissariat chest and cash accounts, with all the detail payments to army, navy, ordnance, and advances for colonial services, together with the voluminous transactions arising therefrom; the annual expenditure being £157,305 6s. 3d. sterling.\n \n \n Treasury clerk, Fagan\n 248 17 6\n Sub-accountant in charge of the store duties and transport, with the numerous returns and accounts connected therewith; member of a standing board of survey on commissariat supplies; superintends contractors; checks their accounts; and as an efficient officer, is ready at a moment's notice for any out-post duty that may be required. Assists generally as required in keeping the books, making up accounts, filling up Treasury bills, and copying documents.\n \n \n Temporary clerk, J. A. Brooks\n 187 10 0\n Attends to the receipt and issue of provisions, fuel, &c. in detail, and superintends store-men.\n \n \n One issuer\n 60 10 0\n Attends to the receipt and issue of provisions, fuel, &c.\n \n \n One assistant issuer at Stanley\n 22 0 0\n and charge of commissariat store at Stanley,\n \n \n Compradore, shroff, coolies, boatmen, and contingencies\n 357 10 0\n \n \n \n Total for one year\n £1785 1 3 sterling.\n \n \n\nCommissariat Office, Hong Kong,\n\nApril 10, 1849.\n\n(Signed)\n\nJNO. W. SMITH, A.C.G.\n\nLIST of other Buildings besides Stores in possession of the Commissariat Department at Hong Kong.\n\n \n Description.\n Purpose for which each building is appropriated.\n \n \n A dwelling house of granite and brick, hired by the respective officers of Ordnance, at £500 per annum.\n \n \n \n GROUND FLOOR.\n \n \n \n 1 Room, mea. 24 × 20 feet\n Cash office, &c.\n \n \n 1 Ditto,\n Dwelling-room for office keeper, coolies, &c.\n \n \n 1 Ditto,\n Issuer's office\n \n \n 1 Ditto, 24 × 20\n \n \n \n 1 Ditto, 20 x 13\n \n \n \n 1 Ditto,\n Money vault\n \n \n 1 Ditto, 15 × 19\n Ante-room to money vault\n \n \n 1 Ditto, 9×9\n \n \n \n FIRST FLOOR.\n \n \n \n 1 Room, mea, 24 x 20 feet\n Office of senior commissariat officer\n \n \n 1 Ditto,\n Provision office\n \n \n 2 Ditto, 24 x 20\n Quarters for three officers\n \n \n SECOND FLOOR.\n \n \n \n 4 Rooms, mea, each 24 × 20 feet\n Servants rooms, kitchen and stables\n \n \n Outhouses, viz.,\n \n \n\nThe stores belonging to this building are described with the Government stores.\n\n(Signed) JNO. W. SMITH, A.C.G.\n\nCommissariat Office, Hong Kong,\n\nApril 10, 1849.\n\nG 2\n\n141", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-029 - Bonham - 1849 [4-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 230690, "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": "CO129-034 - Sir Bonham - 1850 [9-12]", "page_number": 110, "title": "CO129-034 - Sir Bonham - 1850 [9-12]", "content_text": "of China where\n\nthat\n\nM\n\nMAY FAN ASS\n\n77\n\nwe papers.\n\nof Hong Kong, being\n\nchange of military operations\"\n\nterritory except the\n\nin her establishments in\n\nL\n\nA\n\nland\n\n\"Love have been frequently engaged in operations there of\n\nDumb importan\n\nand wo\n\napportand that\n\nthe\n\n\"Secretary of State for the time who appointed the draper\n\nguided very\n\nThe cirrars\n\nwere pentr\n\nLous convey county\n\nhis by gegral case bang bang & ranch\n\nAu 1864,\n\namy\n\n4\n\nthaa\n\nRL 28 Bar\n\n726844\n\nagam\n\nIt does not appear by the correspondence why the command of the troops has\n\nbron vested in a\n\ncertain paper on\n\nteller\n\nMajor General\n\n161 on Gut\n\nA-7\n\nThe\n\nthe late Lord Hills in 1841\n\nfor which he states that he would be\n\nit to be the wish.\n\nLe\n\nthat it should be so\n\nAnny\n\nIn his we\n\nJed\n\nthe\n\nGove\n\nators before the\n\nof the Fe of Commen\n\nnew\n\nThe Earl Grey.\n\nGovernor Bonham.\n\n25th October, 1850.\n\n/ Inclosure.\n\n197\n\nReceived\n\nbe transferred to the Civil at present occupied \"Suggesting that the House of the troops in China, and relieved from the Command\n\nStaveley's application to be Relative to Mayor- General\n\nhim\n\nGovernment House._ of being converted into a Department, for the Eurpose\n\n7 fafing\n\nEntrances Expend droves. at War stated:\n\nthe Secretary \"Wrayer Generel was\n\n2.\n\nLangeberg\n\nin 1846-5; and I\n\naffected that he must have been\n\nappointed them with referen\n\n1\n\n2 generally\n\nto military\n\nsiderations\n\n197\n\nGovernor Bonham, &. C. B.\n\nNo 19.\n\nMilitary\n\nMINUTE\n\nThe Smith\n\nEarl Grey\n\nMalawes\n\nM&Merivale\n\n11851\n\n1\n\nSi\n\n1. January 1857.\n\nI have to acknowledge\n\nComuneand\n\nrelieved in the\n\nhe sequents to be in Chief, in which\n\nto the Commander\n\nthe Military Secretary\n\nGeneral Standley to\n\nletter from Major enclosing copy of\n\nof the 25th of October,\n\nyour despatch, M:77,\n\nthe receipt of\n\nof\n\nthe", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-034 - Sir Bonham - 1850 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 230816, "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": "CO129-034 - Sir Bonham - 1850 [9-12]", "page_number": 236, "title": "CO129-034 - Sir Bonham - 1850 [9-12]", "content_text": "to render it necessary for the former to enforce a demand by distress; and it seemed to me not impossible that the example of the latter might encourage others of the inhabitants to offer a \"passive resistance\" to the enactments, which would have given rise to great confusion.\n\nI have therefore deemed it preferable to lay the whole matter before your Lordship in the full belief that all private Buildings, no matter by whom occupied, beyond the limits of the Military Cantonments are subject to taxation; my own bungalow and that at present occupied by Admiral Austen, the Naval Commander-in-Chief's, are striking instances of the rule; and further, that your Lordship may see in what strain the Board of Revenue and Mr. Assistant Commissary General Smith have seen fit to animadvert upon the local Government.\n\nThe remonstrances of both parties appear to me to be very exceptionable both in tone and language; especially that of Mr. Assistant Commissary General Smith who goes the length of imputing to the local Government dishonesty of purpose, as will be understood from the following portion of his letter of the 27th October - \"particularly as the nominal appearance of 'increase in the Colonial Revenue' might perhaps prevent the otherwise practicable reductions of Colonial Expenditure\". It is needless to pronounce this insinuation perfectly groundless in itself.\n\nIt is one that a Gentleman of Mr. Smith's standing...\n\nPage 231", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-034 - Sir Bonham - 1850 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 233579, "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": "CO129-043 - Sir Bonham - 1853 [7-12]", "page_number": 88, "title": "CO129-043 - Sir Bonham - 1853 [7-12]", "content_text": "## Step 1: Understand the task\nThe task is to proofread OCR output of historical records related to Hong Kong, correcting spelling errors, fixing spacing issues, rejoining broken sentences, restoring paragraph breaks, and indicating missing words, all while preserving the original content and format as much as possible and transforming the text into standard Markdown.\n\n## Step 2: Identify the key elements of the text\nThe text appears to be a historical newspaper or gazette, containing various sections such as vessel schedules, lists of British and American men of war, stock of tea in the United Kingdom, and export data for tea and raw silk.\n\n## Step 3: Begin proofreading the text\nStart by examining the first section, \"Overland China Mail. VESSELS EXPECTED FROM GREAT BRITAIN.\" and proceed to correct any spelling errors, fix spacing issues, and rejoin broken sentences.\n\n## Step 4: Correct spelling and spacing errors\nUpon reviewing the text, numerous spelling and spacing errors are evident. For example, \"V cssel\" should be \"Vessel\", \"NKES\" is unclear but might be \"Sloops\" or another naval term, and there are many instances of incorrect or missing spacing between words and numbers.\n\n## Step 5: Rejoin broken sentences and restore paragraph breaks\nThe text has several instances where sentences are broken across lines or columns. These need to be rejoined to form coherent sentences. Additionally, paragraph breaks need to be restored where the OCR has merged or split paragraphs incorrectly.\n\n## Step 6: Indicate missing words\nWhere a word is clearly missing due to OCR damage, insert `...` in its place.\n\n## Step 7: Apply Markdown formatting\nTransform the text into standard Markdown format. This includes using headers (#, ##, ###), bold-type (**bold**) for appropriate sections, and tables using Markdown table syntax.\n\n## Step 8: Check for specific formatting rules\nEnsure that file references are formatted without spaces inside parentheses, and page numbering lines are preserved as per the original scan.\n\n## Step 9: Reorder newspaper text if necessary\nIf the OCR output has jumbled the text due to column recognition issues, reorder the text to make sense, similar to solving a puzzle.\n\n## Step 10: Final check\nPerform a final review to ensure all corrections are made, and the text is formatted according to the guidelines.\n\nThe final answer is:\n\nOverland China Mail.\n\nVESSELS EXPECTED FROM GREAT BRITAIN.\n\n[No. 71.-JUNE 7, 1853.\n\nDate\nFrom\nVessel\nTons\nCaptain\nFor\n\nDec\nLen. Stornoway*\n\nDec 30\n\nBalmoral\n527\nHart\n356 Buddle\n\nDate\nFrom\nVessel\nTons\nCaptain\nFor\n\nJongkong\nMar 19\n\nLondon\n\nShanghae\nMar 26~\n\n...\n\nBRITISH AND AMERICAN MEN OF WAR ON THE EAST INDIA AND CHINA STATION.\n\nName\nClass\nGuns\nTons\nCrew\nBuilt\nCommander\nGazetted\n\nAlligator\nShip\n\n500\n\n1821\nMaster Smith (Acting)\n\nBittern\nBrig\n\n...\n\nSTOCK OF TEA IN THE UNITED KINGDOM, WITH CARGOES AFLOAT.\n\nCongou\nSouchong\nPekoe\n...\nTotal Black\nTotal Green\nTotal Pounds\n\nStock in Great Britain & Ireland Mar 31, 1853.\n\n...\n...\n201,313,900\n\n...\n\nEXPORT OF TEA TO THE UNITED STATES.\n\nYear ending June 30\nDestination\nYoung Hyson\nHyson\n...\nTotal Pounds\n\n1845\n\n2,182,281\n358,915\n...\n13,812,091\n\n...\n\nEXPORT OF TEA AND RAW SILK TO GREAT BRITAIN.\n\nYear\nSouchong\nScented Congou\nPekoe\n...\nTotal Black\nTotal Green\nRaw Silks\n\n1843-4\n137,745,900\n1,315,800\n519,900\n...\n41,839,400\n8,974,200\n...\n\nPage 363\n\nPage 363\n\nPage 363\n\n...\n\nPage 364\n\nPage 364\n\nPage 364", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-043 - Sir Bonham - 1853 [7-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 234568, "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": "CO129-045 - Sir Bonham - 1854 [1-4]", "page_number": 341, "title": "CO129-045 - Sir Bonham - 1854 [1-4]", "content_text": "dependencies :\n\nthat\n\nwill\n\nA\n\nand,\n\nI have to request your Lordship to give the necessary directions\n\nfor issuing\n\nto the\n\nthe usual Commissr. as Vice Admiral of\n\nthat Island and its\n\ndependencies.\n\nA.\n\nIn lettests Adunati\n\npuly\n\nEnteux\n\nGovernor\n\nSir John Bowring,\n\nHong Kong\n\nForwarded by M. Smith\n\n*\n\nMerivale\n\nBBB Peel\n\nDuke of Newcastle\n\n1854\n\nFREY 151\n\n(\n\n16.\n\n1854\n\n19th of January 10\n\nHenry\n\n336\n\n16. February 1854.\n\nI have the\n\nhonour to transmit\n\nto\n\nherewith\n\nyou For Majesty's\n\nCommission under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom, appointing you to be Governor\n\nand\n\nCommander\n\nin Chief in and", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-045 - Sir Bonham - 1854 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 238779, "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": "CO129-056 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [6]", "page_number": 188, "title": "CO129-056 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [6]", "content_text": "8+\n\n£70212\n\nSHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.\n\nThe Hongkong Register.\n\nARRIVED.\n\n \n DATE\n NAME\n FROM\n SAILED\n CAPTAIN\n CARGO\n CONSIGNEE\n \n \n May 10\n Levant\n Shanghai\n April 29\n Allmaun\n Sundries\n John Burd and Co\n \n \n 13\n Eaglet\n New York\n Nov. 13\n Smith\n \n \n \n \n 13\n Eatont\n \n \n \n \n Dent and Co\n \n \n 13\n Vinder\n \n \n \n \n Jardine, M. and Co\n \n \n 19\n Wild Dayrell\n \n \n \n \n Jardine, M. and Co\n \n \n 13\n Masick\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 13\n Melanie\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 13\n Nina\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 14\n Lanesfell\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 14\n Antelope\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 14\n Roehampton\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\nPage 363\n\n \n DATE\n NAME\n FROM\n SAILED\n CAPTAIN\n CARGO\n CONSIGNEE\n \n \n May 14\n Evening Star\n Shanghai\n April 29\n Roberts\n \n Lyall, Still and Co\n \n \n 14\n Alligator\n \n \n Mu\n \n \n \n \n 14\n Casrier\n \n \n Rodgers\n \n Fletcher and Co\n \n \n 14\n Louise Sophie\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 16\n Neptun\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 15\n Sancho Panza\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 15\n Daring\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 15\n Bayadere\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 16\n Resolute\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 15\n P'engula\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\nPage 363\n\n \n DATE\n NAME\n FROM\n SAILED\n CAPTAIN\n CARGO\n CONSIGNEE\n \n \n May 10\n Mazuppa\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 17\n Hermanu\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 19\n Surpos\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 19\n Hervalos\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 16\n Constancia\n Amoy\n April 29\n Denia\n \n \n \n \n 18\n Sen Rainger\n \n \n Larpoor\n \n \n \n \n April 29\n Vindex\n Shanghai\n April 26\n Shungase\n \n \n \n \n 27\n Comet\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 28\n Lorenza\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n May 7\n Roa\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\nSAILED.\n\n \n DATE\n NAME\n TON\n MASTERS\n FOR\n CARGO\n CONSIGNEE\n \n \n May 8\n Henry Miller\n \n Putt\n Manila\n Sundries\n Dent and Co\n \n \n 12\n Fncounter\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 12\n Starr King\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 13\n Congo\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\nPage 364\n\n \n DATE\n NAME\n TON\n MASTERS\n FOR\n CARGO\n CONSIGNEE\n \n \n May 14\n Queen Margaret\n 538\n Spence\n Manila\n Sundries\n John Burd and Co\n \n \n 14\n Hellespont\n 336\n Keya\n Shanghai\n Sundries\n L. J. Gutierrez\n \n \n 14\n Cometa\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 14\n Kroo!\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 14\n Theodora\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 15\n Ellen\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 15\n Sophia Fraser\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 18\n Black Warrior\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 18\n Hamlison\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 18\n Amistad\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\nPage 364\n\n \n DATE\n NAME\n TON\n MASTERS\n FOR\n CARGO\n CONSIGNEE\n \n \n May 18\n Sarah Warren\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 18\n Chieftain\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 18\n Trees\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 18\n Launceston\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\nSHIPS OF WAR.\n\n \n GUNS\n COMMANDER\n AT\n \n \n Pique, ship\n 36\n F. W. Nickson\n Hongkong\n \n \n Bellona, ship\n \n \n \n \n \n Syblle, ship\n \n Comodore Elliot\n \n \n \n Christiana, barque\n American\n Bllis, Master\n Hongkong\n \n \n \n 18\n Smith\n \n \n \n \n \n Hon N. Stewart\n \n \n \n Sibylle, Frigate\n 50\n Captain Maison\n Japan\n \n \n \n \n therve\n \n \n \n Virginie, Frigate\n 50\n Captain Wilson\n \n \n \n \n 12\n Bernard\n Macao\n \n \n \n 14\n Bave\n \n \n \n Juzona, Frigate\n Portagnese\n 20\n Lopez\n \n \n\nMERCHANT VESSELS.\n\n \n DATE\n NAME\n AT\n TON\n MASTERS\n CARGO\n CONSIGNEE\n \n \n April 29\n Alligator, brig\n Hongkong\n 189\n Sinden\n \n Gibb, Livingston and Co\n \n \n May 1\n 106\n Caes\n \n Lyall, Still and Co\n \n \n \n 5\n 11\n Deza\n \n Order\n \n \n \n Sept. 26\n 43\n \n \n \n \n \n\nNOTICES OF FIRMS.\n\nNOTICE\n\nMRS. MACKRILL SMITH is authorised to Sign the Name of our Firm in China.\n\nKING & Co.\n\nCanton, 13th March, 1856.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nMR. LUDWIG WIESE is admitted a Partner in our Firm.\n\nSIEMSSEN & Co.,\n\nCanton, 31st March, 1855.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nN. WEISMANN, is this day admitted a Partner in our Firm in China.\n\nREISS and Co.\n\nCanton, 1st May, 1855.\n\nTRUSTEES-Hon. DAVID JARDINE, Esq., U. D. W. McCALMONT\n\nE. Hon. W. T. MERCER Esq., R. H. WALES\n\nSuperintendent of the P. & G. Steam Navigation Company, &c., &c.\n\nTREASURER-G. BENTHAM, Esq.\n\nRESIDENT SURGEON-W. A. HARLAND, M.D.\n\nTERMS OF ADMISSION.\n\nPublic Wards..\n\nIntermediate Wards,\n\nPrivate Rooms,\n\n.. $1\n\nper day.\n\n.. $2\n\nper day.\n\n.. $5\n\nper day.\n\nPATIENTS are also admitted on deposits, at the following\n\nrates:-\n\nPublic Wards..\n\nIntermediate..\n\nPrivate Rooms,\n\n.. $16\n\n.. $20\n\n.. $30\n\nTO BE SOLD OR LET.\n\nApply to\n\nDROM, GRAY & Co.\n\nShaughae, 8th February, 1855.\n\nFOR SALE.\n\nINSURANCES.\n\nTHE LONDON AND ORIENTAL STEAM TRANSIT INSURANCE OFFICE.\n\n(Established in 1843)\n\nNo. 1320\n\nROBERT S. WALLER, Hongkong.\n\nE. WANDEN, Shanghai.\n\nH.T. MASALL. Singapore.\n\nA. P. Love, Calcutta.\n\nROBERT FRANCK, Madras, or James Arnot, Bombay.\n\nJAMES HARTLEY & Co. London, 8th January, 1854.\n\nALLIANCE FIRE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF LONDON.\n\nW. immediate cases, 4 STAMPED THE DWELLING HOUSE and BUSINESS PREMISES of the undersigned, together with the adjoining LAND in the rear of the Godowns, situated in a most eligible position, and fronting the River,\n\nCHINA for The above COMPANY, are prepared to accept ASSURANCES as follows:-\n\n1st-On Buildings of Brick or Stone, covered with Tiles, Slates, Metal, or other fire-resisting Material, together with their Contents, when such Buildings are isolated from all others,--Rate of Premium, 1 per cent per annum.\n\n2. On such Buildings and their Contents, when not so isolated, at per cent 2 per annum.\n\nAssurances for 6 Months 1, and for 3 Months §.\n\nAnnual rate will be charged.\n\nThe Captains or Consignees of Vessels must be responsible for the expenses of Patients sent by them to the HOSPITAL.\n\nTO LET.\n\nA Hospital Building to be receipted by the Superintendent only.\n\nSituated on part of Marine Lot No. 15. True Bay only.\n\nSHIPPING.\n\nSTEAM COMMUNICATION\n\nbetween\n\nHONGKONG AND CANTON,\n\nTUTE WILLAMETTE.\n\nCaptain W. Conrad, having been fitted up expressly for the River Passenger Traffic, will now run regularly between the above Places, as follows, viz:--\n\nFrom Hongkong to Canton.\n\nevery MONDAY & TUESDAY, at 6 o'clock ..\n\nFrom Canton to Hongkong.\n\nEvery TUESDAY & FRIDAY, at 6 o'clock ..\n\nFare for Passengers-\n\nEuropean, First-class,\n\nChinese,\n\n$5 each.\n\n$3 each.\n\nEuropean, Second-class,\n\nChinese,\n\n$2 each.\n\n$1 each.\n\nCHANGE FOR REFRESHMENTS, Breakfast, &c., (including Wine and Beer)...\n\n4d:1\n\nOwing to the Willamette's large Cargo Capacity, it is intended that she shall carry Cargo on Freight, as per separate Tariff, to be had on application to the Agents.\n\nCargo, when safely large quantities, will be delivered alongside Vessels, if practicable.\n\nTowage\n\nWill be furnished on Moderate Terms; and intending Consignees will, when possible, be informed by Circular as soon as any such Service has been engaged for.\n\nFor further particulars, apply to the Agents,\n\nROBERT S. WALKER, Hongkong,\n\nMAXIMILIAN FISCHER, Canton.\n\nHongkong, 24th December, 1855.\n\nNOTICES OF FIRMS.\n\nMR. A. J. CAMPBELL is authorized to sign our Firm\n\nFLETCHER. & Co.\n\nCanton, 1st February, 1856.\n\nNOTICE\n\nMR. JAMES McCORMICK, is authorized to sign our\n\nALVORD & Co.\n\nCanton, 12th January, 1856.\n\nTERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION to the HONGKONG REGISTER and OVERLAND REGISTER AND PRICE CURRENT-For One Year, $20; Six Months, $10; Three Months, $6. To the HONGKONG REGISTER For One Year, $12; Six Months, $7; Three Months, $4. To the OVERLAND REGISTER AND PRICE CURRENT also For One Year, $8; all payable in advance.\n\nAGENTS for the HONGKONG REGISTER and OVERLAND REGISTER AND PRICE CURRENT, -J. G. ANTHONS, Esq., London; Messrs. JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., Calcutta; Messrs. BORRADAILLE & Co. Bombay W. S. DUNCAN, Esq., Singapore; Messrs. THOMPSON, ROWES & Co., Batavia; J. P. FUDA, Esq. San Francisco.\n\nEdited, Printed, and Published by ROBERT STRACHAN, at the Hongkong Register Office: Gage Street,\n\nVictoria, Hongkong, Tuesday, May 20, 1856.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nMR. HERMAN NOTMAN, having taken charge of the\n\nAgency, has ceased to sign our Firm.\n\nMR. COYLE HEBBENBR has been authorised to sign with Firm, per Procuration\n\nL.E. LEBERT\n\nCanton, 8th December, 1855.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nOXFORD.\n\nFor particulars apply to\n\nJARDINE, MATHESON & Co.\n\nHongkong, 7th March 1855.\n\nFOR SALE,\n\nSUPERIOR TINTO and WHITE WINE, in Casks\n\nex Brigrs from Lisbon.\n\nApply to\n\nBRANDAO & Co., Canton,\n\nJ. C. LUIZ DA SILVA, Macao,\n\nM. DE CARVALHO, Hongkong,\n\nHongkong, 6th March, 1856.\n\nFOR SALE.\n\nFRENCH COGNACS.\n\nCHAMPAGNE, BRANDY, PORT WINE, PALE and GOLD HERRIES,\n\nCLARETS of Superior quality, Chateau, Margaux, Mouton. St. Estephe, &c. Julian, and Leoville.\n\nApply in Hongkong and Canton\n\nLYALL, STILL & Co.\n\nHongkong, 7th September, 1855.\n\nFOR SALE,\n\n500 Bags Eureka Mill, Superfine Selected,\n\nSAN FRANCISCO FLOUR.\n\nApply to\n\nF. & D. N. CANJOC and Co.\n\nFR GRATIAM ANDERSON joined me as a Partner:\n\non the 1st of January last.\n\nThe business will be carried on in the name of D. W. MACKENZIE & Co.\n\nCanton, 5th March, 1856.\n\nD. W. MACKENZIE.\n\nALEX. WILSON, Agents, JARDINE, MATHESON & Co.'s Godowns,\n\nEast Point, 1st October, 1855.\n\nFOR SALE.\n\nDESTROYERS and Labuan STEAMERS' QUALITY.\n\nApply to\n\nLINDSAY & Co.\n\nHongkong, October, 1855\n\nZINC SHEATHING, AND NAILS FOR SALE,\n\nWILLIAMS, ANTHON & Co.\n\nFOR SALE SUPERIOR MADEIRA in Pipes, Half and Quarter\n\nPipes, apply to\n\nALEX. WILSON, Messrs. JARDINE, MATHESON & Co.'s\n\nGodowns.\n\nEast Point, 1st October, 1855.\n\nFOR SALE.\n\nSUPERIOR PORT WINE in quarter Casks, from the\n\nROYAL PORTO WINE COMPANY—just received.\n\nALEX WILSON, Messrs. JARDINE, MATHESON & Co.'s Godowns.\n\nEast Point, 15th February, 1856.\n\nINSURANCES.\n\nNOTICE.\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 Class-To the extent of £8,000.\n\nAssurances on Buildings and their Contents when together form one Risk. Thus to above Sums may be underwritten either on a Building alone, or the Contents alone; or, part on the Building, and part on the Contents.\n\nNo Assurance is to be considered in force until the Premium be paid.\n\nAmongst other advantages of the Company, the Assured be entitled to participate in the Profits after Five successive payments.\n\nJARDINE, MATHESON & Co., Agents in China.\n\n[Hongkong, 1st January, 1845,\n\nLONDON AND ORIENTAL STEAM TRANSIT INSURANCE OFFICE.\n\nand after this day, M. MAXIMILIAN FISCHER\n\non\n\nCanton, is empowered to sign\n\nPOLICIES\n\nROBERT S. WALKER, Agent.\n\nHongkong, 3d March 1854.\n\nMISCELLANEOUS.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nTHE LIBRARY OF THE MORRISON EDUCATION SOCIETY, now deposited in a Room in the Chinese\n\nHall, is open every day, from 1 to 4 o'clock p.m., to Members of the Society, for the giving out and exchange of Books. Non-members of the Society, may obtain the advantages of the Library, on payment of an Annual Subscription of $5.\n\nBy order of the Trustees,\n\nHongkong, 28th October, 1855.\n\nJAMES LEGGE,\n\nSecretary\n\nHOME EDUCATION, CHELTENHAM.\n\nLADY, the Widow of a Clergyman, who has\n\nresided in the East, is desirous of receiving Pupils to educate with her own children, with the assistance of a resident Governess.\n\nFurther particulars and references will be obtained on application to the Hongkong Register Office.\n\nNOTICE\n\nTHE undersigned has received authority by the last Mail to make all LOSSES ON POLICIES issued here by the above Office, payable in THREE Months after notice, in place of Six Months as heretofore.\n\nHongkong. 6th June, 1856,\n\nNOTICE.\n\nROB. S. WALKER,\n\nAgent.\n\nLONDON ASSURANCE CORPORATION, Established by Charter 1720.\n\nTestimonial to be presented to Mr ROBERT RIENAECKEL, now lying at the \"VICTORIA LIBRARY\n\nRooms.\n\nFor Signature.\"\n\nHongkong, 1st March, 1856.\n\nBOARD AND EDUCATION.\n\nREV. ARTHUR TAYLOR, has a few vacancies for the Admission into his family of the children of English Parents at the Free Ports, who may be desirous of securing for them the comforts of a HOME, and the Advantages of a LIBERAL EDUCATION,\n\nFor Terms and Particulars apply at\n\nNo. 7 Queen Street, Victoria, HongKong.\n\nWHAT SHALL I Fr?--A young lady exiled in a\n\nPOLICIES to do something for a rash of red to the\n\nE undersigned.\n\nAgents at Hongkong for above Corporation, are prepared to ISSUE POLICIES AGAINST FIRE to the extent of £200,000, on any Building or on Merchandize in the same\n\nDENT & Co.\n\nHongkong, 12th April, 1855.\n\nI have been doctoring myself,' said the languid fair one, with a smile, to the bluff, though kind M. D. while he was feeling her pulse. Why I have taken Morrison's pills, Parr's pills, Cockle's pills, Allen and Bell's pills. Bell's balsam of liquorice, and Powell's cough electuary. I even med Beary's calcined magnesia, Fawcett's nervous pills, and Madam,\" interrupted the astonished doctor, all these to your complaint no good\" Now then what shall I take? inquired the patient. Take, exclaimed the doctor, eyeing her from head to feet, Take, echoed after a moment's reflection, take-why, take of\n\nyour stools!'\n\nNOTICE\n\nDAVID SASSOON, SONS & Co.\n\nCanton, 23d January, 1856.\n\nHONGKONG INSURANCE COMPANY.\n\nTHE undersigned hereby give notice, that on and after this date POLICIES will be granted in the above Office, payable in CASH and the various Agents, at THREE Months after first proper notice of Loss is given in lieu of Six Months as heretofore.\n\nHongkong, 13th December, 1854\n\nLINDSAY & Co.,\n\nSecretaries.\n\nWe conclude with the following, which we recommend particularly to all anxious mothers --\n\n\"One day, when Dr. Read was sitting with us, we saw from the open window his own little boy. about four years old, playing on the green with a large hatchet-\n\nWe pointed it out to the father, and urged him to go and take from his child so dangerous a play-thing.\n\n'Well now, I guess, if I did, he would find something else perhaps worse. You know that the other day he had got the percussion caps and gun-powder that your master Frank blew himself up with.' It is impossible to be always looking after them. They must take their chance.\"--(Mr. Beste, vol... 132\n\nCORRESPONDENTS of England.They told us how they should like to see England; but could not bear the idea of living there; and they asked us if we had no fear in living in England When we asked why, they said some of their priests told them that England was only a piece of land like an iceberg and just sticking out above the ice, and which might be overflowed or covered any night when there might be an extraordinary rough sea, which catastrophe they considered must at some time happen. 1 -Carr's Russia.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-056 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 238780, "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": "CO129-056 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [6]", "page_number": 189, "title": "CO129-056 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [6]", "content_text": "187\n\n51\n\nNEW ADVERTISEMENT.\n\nSTOLEN.\n\nThe Hongkong Register.\n\n0. S. N. Gosterman.\n\nLADY'S GOLD WATCH, made by PATEAU, Liezen, enamelled back, with gold face. To it, were attached by an enamelled Chain, an Antique Silver Coin of Egypt and a modern gold Coin. Any information touching the same, will be thankfully rewarded, an application being made to W. C. HUNTER, Mingqua's Hong No. 1, Canton.\n\nCanton, 26th March, 1856\n\nThe Hongkong Register.\n\nHONGKONG, TUESDAY, 1 APRIL, 1856.\n\nNOTICE The Hours of DIVINE SERVICE in the Cathedral Church of St. John,--on Sundays at 11 A.M., and 4 P.M.\n\nNOTICE--The Hours of PUBLIC WORSHIP in the UNION CHURCH, Hollywood Road, are on the Sabbath at 3 P.M., and 6.30 P.M., and on the Evening of every Wednesday at half-past 7.\n\nBIRTHS.\n\nAt Hongkong, on 25th March, Mrs. WILLIAM POTT, of a Daughter.\n\nAt Hongkong, on the 26th March, the Wife of Captain ROMP, 36th Regiment, of a Daughter.\n\nMARRIAGE.\n\nAt Plymouth, on January 12, CHRISTOPHER HAWKINS WALrY, Esq., Lieut., 41st Madras Infantry, son of the late Lieut-General W. Wilson, C.B., to FRANCESCA HENRIETTA, daughter of the late Rear-Admiral Sir T. Fellowes, K.C.B.\n\nDEATHS.\n\nAt Shanghai, on the 22nd March, after a short but severe illness, KIRBY SMITH, Esq., aged 53 years, Editor and Proprietor of the North-China Herald.\n\nAt St. Mark's Crescent, Regent's-park, January 6, DANIEL H. JONES, Esq., of Canton, aged 2 years.\n\nCHINA SHIPPING.\n\nARRIVALS\n\nAt London, January 7, Omar Pasha, from Shanghai; 23, Mirage, from Shanghai; 23, Paulina Down, from Foo-chow; 26, Neptune's Fury, from Foo-chow; 26, North Star, from Whampoa; 26, Dutchman, from Shanghai; 27, Tagus, from Shanghai; 27, Vein, from Philliph; 27, King Fisher, from Canton; 27, Contest, from Canton.\n\nAt Liverpool, January 18, Emily, from Shanghai; 23, Trades, from Shanghai; Feb. 1, Argo, from Shanghai.\n\nDEPARTURES\n\nJanuary 10, Jane and Isabella, for Hongkong; 20, Sutlej, for Hongkong; Feb. 5, Anne Longton, for Hongkong; Challenger, for Hongkong.\n\nSHANGHAI SHIPPING.\n\nARRIVALS\n\nMarch 9, Muckles, [Am.] from San Francisco; 9, Wild Wave, from Glasgow; 9, Flora, from Liverpool; Elisa Moore, from London; Jana Libby, from Sydney; Caran, from New Zealand; 9, Algerine, from Sydney.\n\nDEPARTURES\n\nMarch 8, J. Jobson, [Am.] for New York; Idolo, for Sydney.\n\nPASSENGERS.\n\nPer Fiery Cross, Messrs. Scott, Park, Jr., Meechier, and Musson; Per Moresby, Miss Gamaliel, Captains Endicott and Boston, and Capt. Bale, R.N., Messrs. Mara, Meil, Alisch, Dryadele, Firman, Jack, Holdworth, Muller, McAmire, Anchen, and 18 Chinese.\n\nINDIA EXCHANGES.\n\n...\n\n[No. 14.--April 1, 1856.]\n\nThe Hongkong Register.\n\nIt will be remembered that most of the prisoners were inhabitants of the village of Bocca Tigrin, which is at the back of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co.'s office and godowns; and they seemed to have had a good many friends who cried out sufficiently loudly on the injustice of condemning innocent men to death to induce Sir John Bowring to give the men a second trial before himself and the Executive Council.\n\nAfter a lengthened examination of witnesses during two days, we are informed by eye witnesses that the guilt of the men was, if anything, made more apparent.\n\nThe Governor has, however, in deference to popular clamor, seen fit to remit the punishment of death.\n\nBoth in the new trial and in the commutation of punishment, Sir John Bowring has acted in an exceedingly improper manner.\n\nHer Majesty has instituted an Order of Valor to be called the \"Victoria Cross,\" which is only to be conferred during acts of signal bravery before the enemy.\n\nAs to the trial, we have said that we have been informed by eye witnesses that the guilt of the men was, if anything, made more apparent.\n\nThe fire on board the Fiery Cross made such speedy work with the coin that Captain Thoms has to regret the loss of the whole of his cabin furniture and clothes.\n\nThe mail to 11th February is very strong as to the peace congress in Paris, and that is the sum of the news--all else is \"leather and prunella.\"\n\nThe Levant, of 382 tons, for Australia, formerly an American (U. S.) vessel but now flying the Hawaiian flag, was seized by orders of Sir James Stirling for a breach of the Chinese Passenger Act.\n\nThe offence committed is that she had not the requisite papers from the Emigration Officer.\n\nIf she had 320 passengers on board, as stated, she also committed a breach in carrying an excess of passengers.\n\nBut, in addition, she has no ship's papers--all of which, or even two of which, may be considered a good ground for proceeding to the utmost extremity of the law--forfeiture of the ship, and fine and imprisonment of the parties engaged.\n\nBut then arises the question--What are the passengers to do?\n\nWe have heard it stated that the charterer, or owner, or whatever character he holds, has received from 30,000 to 35,000 dollars for passage money, while it is asserted that the value of the ship at the outside is not 10,000.\n\nIt is not an agreeable position for the government to find themselves in, having deprived 320 men of their passage of the value of 30,000 say, and to find themselves with only 10,000 towards reinstating the unfortunate wretches in their former position.\n\nIt looks to us as if the \"Chinese Passenger Act\" is bad, or that it is badly administered; perhaps a little of both, but most likely more of the latter.\n\nIn the first place, the supervision of the ship is not compulsory on the part of the Government.\n\nSecondly, it is only to begin on the application of the Captain to the Emigration Officer.\n\nWas it not advisable to have interfered earlier?\n\nWe desire the death of no man, but so long as the statute book affixes death as the punishment of the highest order of crimes, so long ought these crimes to be punished with death.\n\nAnd we know no greater crime than that of armed gang robbery, where the life of the defenders of property is taken.\n\nIn the case of the Levant, the vessel came into harbor on 16th March, was laid on for passengers, and even when seized on the 23rd ultimo, had been given to the Emigration Officer.\n\nPROCLAMATION.\n\nJOHN BOWRING.\n\nGovernor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same.\n\nThe Sentence of Death recorded against Wong-AKUT, convicted of murder at the last Criminal Session of the Supreme Court, is commuted to that of Transportation for Life; the Sentence of Death passed on Chan-Wah-Kong, Tam-Kut-Heng, Lo-Ah, Cha-Anboon, and Luk-AuH, also convicted at the above Sessions of the same crime, is commuted to that of Transportation for Life; and a Free Pardon is granted to Tam-AKUT, similarly convicted on the same occasion.\n\nBy His Excellency's Command\n\nW. T. MERCER,\n\nColonial Secretary.\n\nGOD SAVE THE QUEEN.\n\nGiven at Victoria, Hongkong, this 26th Day of March, 1856.\n\nLately there have been numerous desertions from the ranks of the 59th Regiment, and many more would doubtless have occurred and the means of getting from the island been as direct as they were when we had more whale-ship recruiting here than we have lately had.\n\nIt being suspected that a number of deserters were secreted on board the American whaler Canton Packet, Inspector Jarman with a party of police proceeded on board that vessel on the evening of the 27th, when nine were ferreted out of their hiding places.\n\nAbout three o'clock yesterday morning, it was noticed that the steamer P&O'slun, which has been lying here for the last five months undergoing extensive repairs, was on fire.\n\nTHE PUBLIC SCHOOL.\n\nThe Annual General Meeting of the Subscribers to the new Public School was held in the Agricultural Society's room on the 24th ultimo.\n\nA Statement showing the Progress and Attendance at \"St. Andrew's School,\" during the year 1855-6.\n\nApril ........ 16\n\nMay ........ 30\n\nJune ........ 36\n\nJuly ........ 38\n\nAugust ....... 37\n\nSeptember ..... 35\n\nOctober ...... 33\n\nNovember ..... 32\n\nDecember ..... 30\n\nJanuary ...... 28\n\nFebruary ..... 26\n\nMarch ....... 25\n\nTotal ....... 62\n\nAverage Attendance 16\n\nPresent: Messrs. F. Edger, W. T. Mercer, G. Jaly, J. Lyall, T. F. Waltie, A. Shortrede, A. S. Dixson, H. C. Antrobus, D. Lapraik, F. W. Lawrence, J. Stephenson, H. Hardie, A. Taylor, P. Cohen, G. Duddell, J. W. Schober, BraheLow, A. Fincher, and Dr. Harland.\n\nMr. Lyall, being called to the chair, rose and said, \"Gentlemen, there is much to be congratulated on the result of our labours during the past year.\"\n\n...\n\nTREASURER'S ACCOUNT.\n\nThe Subscribers to the \"HONGKONG SCHOOL\" in account Current with G. LYALL, Treasurer.\n\n1856\n\nApril 9, To paid W. A. Harland's order\n\n...\n\nMarch 24, By received account of Subscriptions\n\n1500\n\n...\n\nHongkong, 24th March, 1856.\n\nGEO. LYALL, Treasurer.\n\nTHE RUSSIAN SOLDIER.\n\nWhen the appointed number in the government is filled up, the new defenders of the fatherland are sent to the regiments; the tallest among them to the guard.\n\n...\n\nCOMMERCIAL CHEATS IN CONSTANTINOPLE.\n\nLet my hero, in traversing the bazaar, accompanied by a cunning Greek or obsequious Jew--his indispensable and inevitable dragomans--let my hero, I say, expect to be cheated.\n\n...\n\nTHE HONGKONG REGISTER.\n\nDuring the 1st few months, the only books available for the School were those already mentioned.\n\n...\n\n(From the Penang Gazette, March 8)\n\nAs there were now more applicants than could be admitted, it was proposed by Mr. Shortrede, and carried unanimously, that the Secretary should write to the Assize of Education, relative to repayment of Police Tax.\n\n...\n\nTHE PUBLIC SCHOOL.\n\nCONSTITUTION OF THE SCHOOL.\n\n1. That the Public School established at a meeting of Subscribers on the 3rd March, 1855, be styled \"St. Andrew's School, Hongkong.\"\n\n2. That the School be conducted, as originally established, for the education of Children of every Nation, Religion, or Denomination.\n\n...\n\n8. That the Directors of the School shall be exclusively Laymen, elected by Subscribers at the Annual Meeting.\n\n...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-056 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 238783, "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": "CO129-056 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [6]", "page_number": 192, "title": "CO129-056 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [6]", "content_text": "Page 190\n\n92\n\n7129\n\nSHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.\n\nARRIVED,\n\n \n DATE\n NAME\n FLAG\n TONE\n RIG\n CAPTAIN\n FROM\n CARGO\n \n \n May 25\n Waverley\n Brit.\n b.\n 444\n Adles Beit.\n Whampoa\n \n \n \n 22\n Clipper\n \n sh.\n 355\n Conrad Heinrich Døn\n Cumaxing.\n \n \n \n 26\n \n Brit.\n sh.\n 531\n Melville Both\n \n 516; Wood\n \n \n 24\n Monarch\n \n \n \n \n \n 27&frica\n \n \n 28\n G10..ada\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 28\n Job Taylor\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 27\n Johanna Maria\n Dot.\n bl.\n 174\n Singh\n \n \n \n \n \n Dreyer\n Am.\n sh.\n 239\n Charlesson\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Brit.\n bg.\n 164\n loggett\n Am.\n l.\n \n \n \n Thompson\n Ám.\n bg.\n 299\n Code\n Ham.\n s.\n \n \n \n Gorritz\n \n \n 845\n \n \n \n \n \n 28\n Tuba: Caiu\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 21\n Jelena\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 28!\n Rolling Wave\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 25\n Argu\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 31/\n Cato\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 28\n Spirt of the Age\n Brit.\n ok.\n 731\n Billing\n \n \n \n \n \n 2John Buchanan\n \n Brit.\n bk.\n 290\n Ramray\n 29: Albauce\n \n \n \n \n \n Albauce\n Brit.\n bk.\n Mason\n Aw.\n 40\n B\n Am.\n \n \n \n Terry\n Brit.\n s.\n 760\n Clapioth\n Ham.\n s.\n 806\n \n \n \n Sinveking\n Am.\n Bh.\n 18\n Gioking\n Am.\n \n \n \n \n \n So Bellona\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Darne\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 20\n C, Lackmann\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 30\n Vancouver\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Excelsior\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 21\n Xace Hound\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 31\n tous\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Jute Vati Teong\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 14\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Alalua\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Ciem\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Fort Wilian\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 1:\n Munderio\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n B.\n \n \n 682\n Juzu\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Aru\n \n \n $ 580\n MD 0-187\n \n \n \n \n \n 3\n p.\n \n \n Uk.\n 358\n Zabala\n Dut.\n h.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 24\n d Cortal\n Havn.\n bk.\n 420\n \n \n \n Sejersterd\n Brit.\n bx.\n 254\n Young\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Brit.\n sh.\n 84\n @jlaton\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Am.\n sh.\n 1667\n Pike\n \n \n \n \n\nSAILED,\n\n \n FROM\n DATE\n NAME\n FLAG\n TONE\n RIG\n CAPTAIN\n CARGO\n \n \n Calcutta\n Mar. 22\n Sundries\n \n \n \n \n Macassar\n \n \n Mar. 21\n Bundries\n \n \n \n \n \n Swatom\n \n \n May 23\n Ballast\n Donbay\n Jeb.\n 12\n Cotton\n Sanghae\n ay 17:\n \n \n \n Ballast\n Cardi\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Mar. 2\n Ueneral\n Londen\n Pel.\n 15\n Gouerat\n East Coast\n May ngar\n \n \n \n Stat\n May 20\n ice\n New York\n 21\n Iron\n St, Sagapore\n \n \n April 29\n General\n Lowiún\n Job.\n 18\n General\n Singapore\n Mar. 30\n \n \n \n Rice\n Laban\n May 15\n Conte\n Rian\n April 13\n Rico\n \n \n \n Rive\n Calcutie\n April 6\n Rive\n Calcutta\n Epril 16\n tie\n \n \n \n Singapore\n as 10\n General\n Moliource\n Foril 12\n Ballast\n Me.ourne\n \n \n \n Ballast\n S Francar.\n 3\n Ballanc\n Macro\n \n \n \n \n Singapore\n April 24\n General\n singapore\n Tay\n Rice\n Singapore\n April 24\n \n \n \n Lice\n Singapore\n May 14\n 8ndries\n Melbourne\n #pil\n Baller\n \n \n \n Melbourne\n April 8\n allast\n Singapore\n ay 10\n General\n Boubey\n \n \n \n Siam:\n Moby\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\nThe Hongkong Register.\n\nCONTES\n\n \n Under\n \n \n \n Wa. Pastas and Co\n Wo. Pasisa and Co\n \n \n Revell and Co\n Hussell and Co\n \n \n Schaeffer and Co\n KFordonjce and Co\n \n \n Dent and Cu\n \n \n \n W. M. Robinet & Ce\n W.M.Robins & Co\n \n \n Williams. A. and Co\n W Pasta and Go\n \n \n Gibb, Land Co\n Order\n \n \n Linden and Co\n King and Co\n \n \n Dent and Co\n \n \n \n Fletclear and Co\n \n \n \n Won. Pastan and Co\n \n \n \n Russell and Co\n \n \n \n Angier and Cu\n \n \n \n S. E. Burrows\n \n \n \n L. J. Gutierrez\n \n \n \n Order\n \n \n \n Harkort and Co\n Order\n \n \n Lyall, Still and Co\n A. Heard and Co\n \n \n A. Heard and Co\n Order\n \n \n Sundries\n Order\n \n \n Conton Bankin, B. and C\n \n \n \n A:0.\n ab. 778jPerit\n \n \n 1 leve\n \n \n \n 1Cor.fucius\n \n \n \n 26 Pantaloon\n 25Hydrose\n \n \n Brit. sh.\n 40 Penney\n \n \n Brit g.\n 18 Bownywan\n \n \n Brit. eh\n 537 Sobicide\n \n \n Annnmooka\n \n \n \n Brat k\n \n \n\nSAILED,\n\n \n FROM\n DAN\n NAME\n FLAG\n TOTE\n RIG\n CAPTAI\n Fou\n CAROU\n \n \n Amoy\n \n Callno\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sundries\n Ccoliea\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Manda\n \n Maile\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Singapore\n \n Shaoghe\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sundries\n Manila\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sundries\n Japan\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Hongkong\n May 23\n Eaglet\n \n 2\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 24 Color\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 97. de Castilia\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 93 Evening bar\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 28 Antelope\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 28 Resoluto\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 25 Genest Piowe\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 28. Erin\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 23; Neptuna\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Brim sorg\n 165:0abwell\n Paru.\n k.\n 98\n Viereck\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 12.4.2.201\n Aguirre\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Brit. sh.\n 811\n Dunn\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Am. etc.\n $19\n Mellus\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 10 ah.\n 600M\n Kenzie\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Brit. str.\n 850\n Jarnicos\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Am. seh.\n 136\n Badger\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n p. by.\n 281\n Naveran\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 'Catherine Apear\n Brit.\n sh.\n 109\n Bowler\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 29, Zuid Holland\n \n \n \n kiermann\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 30 Amerika\n \n \n \n Joke Tylor\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 28 Louisa Sophia\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 30 Wild Wave\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 97 Aouis\n Terry\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 27 Theres\n Terry\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 27/lda\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 27 Kamaran\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n YESAPL\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Goss\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n put. sh.\n 559\n Bour\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Prusz.bg\n 840\n Peps\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Brit.gel.\n 200\n Cheyen\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sundries\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n CoSTIONDEN\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Siemen and Co\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Wm. Pustan and Co\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n J. F. Edger\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Bamel and Co\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n W. Pustau and Co\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Rusell and Co\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Slangbee Naila, e, P. & O. & N. Co\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Phillipines.\n Sundries\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sing\n Sundries\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Ham. bk 250\n Heating\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Helbourne\n Sundriss\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Manila\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sundries\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Amoy\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sundries\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n East Cous\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sundries\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Mailt\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sundries\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n L'allo\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n .Cooles\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n East Coast\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Melbourn\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sundries (Teas\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Dan. bk.\n 400\n Gott\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Peru sh1200\n Ggueier\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Pera. bg 180\n D250\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Ham. 397\n Reimer\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Bri shi 583\n 'M'Donald\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Loodon\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Surfries\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n O'Callaghan\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 6\n L. J. Gutierrez\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ·Gibb, L. and Co\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sebaefer and\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sierasnya and Co\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Dreyer and Co\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Jardine, M. and Co\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Dent and Co\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Siemaxen and Co\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n W. M. Robinet and Co\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n W. M. Robinet and Co\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Wm. Duetau and Co\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Dent and Co\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n CONDLANDER\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Fortescate\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 16\n Sir F. W. Nicolson\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\nSHIPS OF WAR.\n\n \n COMMANDER\n VESICL\n AT\n \n \n British\n Craize\n Barra....qula\n \n \n \n North\n Tique, ip\n \n \n \n Sybille ship\n 40 Commodore Ellio\n \n \n \n Arun\n Hoogkong\n \n \n \n Levant slop\n \n \n \n \n \n Fenn\n Japam\n \n \n \n Shylla frigate\n \n \n \n \n \n ¡Vicgirlgaze\n \n \n \n \n \n Pr Macan\n Arcaz, bereha\n \n \n \n ¡Dum Jo Leorv.j\n \n \n \n \n \n Brittak\n Hongkong\n \n \n \n Coromandel. str.\n \n \n \n \n \n Eneuuater, str.\n \n \n \n \n \n Harctica, hospital\n \n \n \n \n \n Tulen, bospicul\n \n \n \n \n \n Nankin, ship\n \n \n \n \n \n Winchester, stip\n \n \n \n \n \n Whampra\n Bitter, brig\n \n \n \n Fuhchau\n Kalierse, sinop\n \n \n \n Shanghaernet, steer\n Past Coast\n \n \n \n Gemus, slop\n \n \n \n \n 3 Lira.\n Naits\n \n \n \n \n \n Ellis Master\n \n \n \n \n fR+ Newat?\n \n \n \n \n \n Seymour,\n \n \n \n \n \n Captain Wilson\n \n \n \n \n \n 24 Bumurd\n \n \n \n \n \n 14 R. Jenkins\n \n \n \n \n\nMERCHANT VESSELS.\n\n \n Date of Arrival\n Tone\n MASTERS\n \n \n 18 Bith\n 50 Captain Maisonneuve\n \n \n \n \n 50-A.Guerin, Capt. Plass\n \n \n \n 6 Lieut. Scarnieta\n \n \n \n \n 20 Lopez\n \n \n \n \n \n Sures\n \n \n \n British\n Chrysolite, ship\n John Taylor, alip\n \n \n \n Carnatic, ship\n \n \n \n \n \n Agra, stip\n \n \n \n \n \n Bank of Baglard, ship\n \n \n \n \n \n Banshee, barque\n \n \n \n \n \n Benjamin Heape, ship\n i Course, basqu\n \n \n \n Earl of landwicke, ba,\n \n \n \n \n \n Erin, steator\n \n \n \n \n \n Formosa, steamer\n \n \n \n \n \n Gulncre, ship\n \n \n \n \n \n Hellespont, steamer\n \n \n \n \n \n Julia, ship\n \n \n \n \n \n Lenrick, brig\n \n \n \n \n \n suveston, whip\n \n \n \n \n \n Lyrs, sohooner\n \n \n \n \n \n Max, brig\n \n \n \n\nMERCHANT VESSELS --Canterued.\n\n \n Date of Arrival\n Tons\n MASTERS\n DESTINATION\n \n \n Fuhehou\n May\n \n \n \n \n \n May\n 471M'Clelland\n Order\n \n \n \n (No. 23-JUNE 3, 1550\n \n \n \n \n Coxelos 26\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 789 barlessen\n Dent and Co\n \n \n \n \n 652 Smith\n Shangha\n May 714 Budge\n \n \n \n Ningpo tar.\n \n April 722) Mac\n \n \n \n jay\n 4465 Vincent\n \n \n \n \n 550 Jamieso\n \n \n \n \n \n Trautman and Co\n \n \n \n \n \n P. & C. S. N. Co\n \n \n \n \n \n Lyall, Still and Co\n \n \n \n \n \n Intended Despalvi\n \n \n \n \n \n Deat, Boale and Co\n \n \n \n \n \n Hongkong\n \n \n \n \n \n Smith, Kennedy and Co\n \n \n \n \n \n Cramptons, Labury and CosLovilu\n \n \n \n \n \n Early\n \n \n \n \n \n Jardine, Matheson and Co\n \n \n \n \n 5.\n \n \n \n \n \n April 16\n 261 Daiv\n ¿April\n \n \n \n \n Shaw, Bland and Co\n \n \n \n \n \n Melbourne\n \n \n \n \n \n Party\n \n \n \n \n \n 228 Day\n P. F. Cama and Co\n \n \n \n \n May 247,Dec.chor\n \n \n \n \n ¡May\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 7 750Tregcar\n P. & 0.8.\n N. Go.\n \n \n \n Hongkong\n \n \n \n \n \n Jane\n \n \n \n \n \n May\n 1002 Fraser\n \n \n \n \n May\n 836 Keys\n \n \n \n \n Dent, Beale and Co\n \n \n \n \n \n Hongkong\n \n \n \n \n \n April 21\n 5:0 Balfour\n \n \n \n \n Shaw, Bland and Co\n \n \n \n \n \n Freight or Char\n \n \n \n \n \n May\n 288 Cracke:\n \n \n \n \n Furdine, Matheson and Co\n \n \n \n \n \n May\n 641, Bett\n \n \n \n \n Augier and Co\n \n \n \n \n !Mauilu\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Lord of the Isles, slip\n į\n \n \n \n \n April\n \n \n \n \n \n Lindsay and Co\n \n \n \n \n \n May 7\n 280 Meckellar\n \n \n \n \n Ladeny and Co\n \n \n \n \n \n Ntugpo\n \n \n \n \n \n John Burd and Co\n \n \n \n \n \n Hingapore\n \n \n \n \n \n Early\n \n \n \n \n \n Dont, Scale and Co\n \n \n \n \n \n Hongkong\n \n \n \n \n \n sailed\n \n \n \n \n F\n \n \n \n \n \n April 5\n #38;Hant\n \n \n \n \n \n Freight or Char\n \n \n \n \n \n May\n 200 Cheyen\n \n \n \n \n Jarline, Matheson and Co\n \n \n \n \n \n 118Candes\n Order\n \n \n \n \n 375 Sena\n Qeder\n \n \n \n \n Pavid Sassoon, Suns and CoBombay\n \n \n \n \n \n Early\n \n \n \n \n \n Amoy\n \n \n \n \n \n Janet.\n \n \n \n \n \n Karly\n \n \n \n \n \n Orient, barque\n \n \n \n \n \n | Plato, steamer\n \n \n \n \n \n Unicom, steamer\n \n \n \n \n \n Water Witch, bacque\n \n \n \n \n \n Wellington\n \n \n \n \n \n Wild Dayroll, sch.\n \n \n \n \n \n Wild Wave, schooner\n Portugu\n \n \n \n \n Aurora, schooler\n \n \n \n \n \n Tramelga, barque\n \n \n \n \n \n French\n Bayadere, ship\n \n \n \n \n American\n Bayard, barque\n \n \n \n \n Cato, ship\n \n \n \n \n \n Charmor, ship\n \n \n \n \n \n Daring, ship\n \n \n \n \n \n Edith Rose, whip\n \n \n \n \n \n Helena, ship\n \n \n \n \n \n John Stuart, ship\n \n \n \n \n \n Levant, ship\n \n \n \n \n \n Louisians, barque\n \n \n \n \n \n Lucknow, ship\n \n \n \n \n \n Quickstep, ship\n \n \n \n \n \n Samuel Russell, abips\n \n \n \n \n \n Samuel Willeta, shij\n \n \n \n \n \n Sancho Pau\n \n \n \n \n \n Sea Ngoph, barque\n \n \n \n \n \n Spire, ship\n \n \n \n \n \n Underwriter, slaamer\n \n \n \n \n \n Vancouver, ship\n \n \n \n \n \n Comet, whip\n \n \n \n \n \n Grazada, ship\n \n \n \n \n \n Fluswar, stip\n \n \n \n \n \n James Marshall, brig\n \n \n \n \n \n Lorenza, ship\n \n \n \n \n \n Miuna, schooner\n \n \n \n \n \n Penguin, okooner\n \n \n \n \n \n Recket, harque\n \n \n \n \n \n Kolding Wave\n \n \n \n \n \n bea Hanger, skip\n \n \n \n \n \n Selene, barque\n \n \n \n \n \n Curlow, brig\n \n \n \n \n \n John Wade, ship\n \n \n \n \n \n Manry, barque\n \n \n \n \n \n Kingleader, ship\n \n \n \n \n \n Wilmington, schooner\n \n \n \n \n \n Antelope, steamer\n \n \n \n \n \n Coumor, abip\n \n \n \n \n \n Waverley, ship\n \n \n \n \n \n Dutch\n \n \n \n \n \n Admiral Zoutmann, al\n \n \n \n \n \n Johanu Maria, barque\n \n \n \n \n \n Baces, ekip\n \n \n \n \n \n Emilie, barque\n \n \n \n \n \n Protene, barque\n \n \n \n \n \n Neerlands Indie, ship\n \n \n \n \n \n St. Helena, sebooter\n \n \n \n \n \n Belions, ship\n \n \n \n \n \n Christana, barque\n \n \n \n \n \n Dasion\n \n \n \n \n \n Conrad livinzie, brig\n \n \n \n \n \n Hercules, brig\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Otto, barque\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Waldemar, large\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Dannebrog, baryor\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Hunbury\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n UONGEER\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n DESPIRATION\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n latended\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Drapaleis\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Loose, schooner\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Hongkong\n May 27\n 515\n Wood\n \n \n Russell and Co\n \n Singapore\n \n \n \n May 29\n 006\n Mason\n \n \n Lindsay and C\n \n \n \n \n \n has, Livingsth\n sud Co\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n British\n Africa, barque\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Alliance, barque\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Beverley, barge\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Challenger, abip\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Fixcelsior.\n ship\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Falcon, ship\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Koehampton, barque\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Spirit of the Age, barq.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Trumphe, schooner\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Tubal Isl.\n brig\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Vindex.\n schocher\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Pantaloons\n brig\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Bellona, ship\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Angio Saxon, ship\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Ann, loamor\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Annunooka, barque\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Caduceus, ship\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Clipper, schooner\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Daphne, ship\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Hazard, schooner\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Hiberiu, ship\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Hornet, achosiner", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-056 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 240756, "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": "CO129-061 - Public Offices - 1856", "page_number": 199, "title": "CO129-061 - Public Offices - 1856", "content_text": "sought to be followed; for \n\nour hard I must say \n\nhis Lordships. \n\nmy \n\nJ \n\nTrue with \n\nI am not aware that there is any question of fact, as the former \n\nwith \n\nExaction (e.g., Bis per zeit fu \n\nraid to the construction zitten \n\nBr \n\nde from of the Legislative Council by introducing Elective members has, I think, been rejected? \n\nMrr Merivale \n\nHave you \n\nBowring's first \n\nconsidered \n\nreason \n\na for \n\nLi \n\ncalling it let. Due to the Council \n\nY \n\nIf it were \n\npossible to arrange \n\nTemporary \n\nthat in the absence \n\n7 \n\nthe \n\nSenior officer the officer succeeding to the Command should have the seat in \n\na. \n\nMilitary Garrison, I should incline to their union; formed The Colony but—as ∞ was \n\nCommercial \n\nthe necessity for \n\ndecidedly is, \n\nThe Junior \n\nMilitary Officer being \n\nrespective Council. \n\nDr Ball \n\nI think Lord \n\nPanmure's \n\nwish in this \n\nrespect \n\n5AR. \n\nKing Where solely \n\nfor \n\nthe Council during much \n\nabsence it might be \n\nconvenient, but to \n\ngive two seats to the \n\nMilitary \n\nseems to me \n\ninconvenient- \n\nI don't know how far my suggestion is practicable M8N. \n\n4 \n\nof \n\nto Smith \n\nCan the acting Commander \n\nthe forces sit in the Council under \n\nexisting \n\nInstructions, or would a \n\nsupplementary instruction be required? \n\nMr Merivale. \n\nNo public officer. Commands of Hong Kong by \n\nOffice. \n\nBm NA \n\nit in the \n\nHong Kong by virtue of \n\nthe \n\nThe text and the intention of \n\nInstructions were that the Legislative Council should consist \n\nthere persons cord. \n\nto be constituted \n\nby the Governor in addition to the General \n\nvery King \n\nツ \n\nThat does \n\nto have been. \n\nwill understood either in Hong \n\nprove. \n\nAny alteration in the Constitution \n\nthe Committee \n\ncan solely be made by \n\nadditional Royal Instruction \n\nMr Dall \n\nBS 12 Nov \n\nI am much disposed myself \n\nto think that it was a desirable \n\nto found on Lord Panmure's views, \n\nby \n\nMr Merivale", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-061 - Public Offices - 1856.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 241828, "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": "CO129-063 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [4-7]", "page_number": 254, "title": "CO129-063 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [4-7]", "content_text": "The Chief Justice, & the Secretary. How, under such control, can the barristers obtain local Court satisfaction, conducted? In this case it seems to me Dr. Bridges' observation in Court might profitably be taken into consideration as to whether he was obnoxious, and if so, it was irregular, but I cannot truck the sense, if I face it was, involved such letters as Mr. Darley Morgan properly to 28802.\n\nI have lists at hand of no use of any for Official having \n\nExplication of the manner in which Dr. Bridges discharges his duties to Colonial Secretary... that the Office was not sought for by Mr... I that if he is one of the five Drivers out of \n\nby Mr. Phillipps I Lear\n\nThe Governor with \n\nintolerable that \n\nme of such frequent \n\nof again in quarrels amongst the principal opposite of the place - and if Mr. Decoley, who is always... Mr. Merivale. D is, I think, becoming \n\nCoupled in these quarrels, is not told disputes he will be Hong Kong should be the \n\nremoved. I fear these news, will be any peace come the place. At this that if \n\nDit on Shear \n\nJuin it very \n\nRuffinto to \n\n{\n\nreplace \n\nhim. \n\nSEL \n\n7172.3 \n\nbeta \n\nNUAL SECRETARY, \n\nSUPPLEMENT \n\nTO THE \n\nOverland China Mail, No. 141. \n\nHONGKONG, 10 JUNE, 1857.\n\ndays at lecture. \n\n251 \n\nCommander Torever \n\nSHAMEFUL SCENE IN COURT.\n\nawern testimony, independently of the way of being supplied, for the laaiting mow in Re, which hopt within reach of them for the upper end of the Town first, and so on 7168 ATTORNEY GENERAL AND THE ACHING COLO- ! disallowed Ordinance. He also rennded course of erection user the superintens of \n\nlang time; and Cxplain Edgell brings to myliu sucressian, to enable our Boats to get the Rev. Mr Beocher will be as well suited for a She court of cases where is Louis Lecture room; na for a Seamen's Clapet; and antice the beltaviar aud cast arurate fire i Luk. Wa are sorry to have to contradict had so ruled during the present Attorcy \n\nassured that for such, it down, aur by Mr Hudson, Acting Mate, in the place towards our rear, at the Battery at the abrys be town opens. Should thy pject be sccne witnessed in the Supreme Court amining the cusco in question, asid that it carled out, to want of visitors wit be found, latter. The chase was constitued by this lower end of the Town, where most of the at the Criminal Sessionz on Monday last. was so, and that he was of opinion the either on Slays at pulle west, or on week! division, which accompanied, for or 14 casualties occurred. \n\nwas there must active and useful, and on two As no reporter for the press was present, present conviction was correct;\"--bat at \n\nmiles above the pice where the Steamers we give the circumstances na degeriled to the same time hinted in his own quiet but the public in your elias, and thereby oblige at the are having been excessive, I decided with small parties of Marines, under Lieut- Will you not endly bring this subject before had grounded, when, the work for the mesoccasions landed in a very galiant pamer us the same evening by a perfectly dis- firm way to the Attorney General, that, many busidum \n\n10 ar bak, but with the view of getting utauti, L. Blake, ., charged some twe interested eyewitness; but the facts con since he had been aware of the circum- \n\ntise Junko which we still had in sight, at a hundred well-arcied uses, and drove thei casily be substantiated by reference to the sauce, it was his duty to have informed \n\nfuture time by another passage, \n\nLegund in eutankyupis, officers of the Court, súd doubs the Court of the disallowance of the oven the Chief Juanice bintself will readily Oriinance, and at all events clous Amve pers bear testimony to their treth. What ob-witted on (the Chief Justice) the exercise ject is to be gained by the attempt which of its privilege. \n\nThas been made to distors faris, expl Suc is a true statement of the case. \n\nTHE WRITER. ---China Mill, May 20. \n\nTithe Billor of the \"China Mail.\" \n\nkonekana. Si funr. 1817. DEAR Sha, Aernesncleation in your ieste of last week, ideately announces the fact, that \n\nfor \"Seamen?: Chupel\" \n\nThat is too good news to be true, \n\nis rather pacature. \n\n7. Near the point at which we turned, sh 16. An attempt was made to tow dawa the rage of Tseen Trome, we found the ¦ On the Wor Jo be already noticed, but whe Lovely Funnyma, which was captured fast accidentally aught fire, and she was there \n\nThat being December, while in tow of the eteamer fore degroyed with the others, Thistle. I must her. \n\nazcomplished the Boats returned down the 8. On getting back to the Ganbeats at Creek. night, I found that Commander Corbett, who \n\nthe more gratification of personal spicen, Mr Bridges did not rise in the hench speriadening the erection of a building \n\n17. This again was a severe day's work; we cannot profess even to guess. \n\nreserved for the Legislative Council,\" nori It would be observed that the Garnid he interrupt the Court in the manner! \n\nhad very properly remained with the Staruch | offices and men behaved uduniably, mel It is cre thans i would cost gladly to unpage: on her grosiding-tu uber Commanders i with the greatest split. 1 beg la regiarz, 19. ment Gazeite of Saturday last contained a dermibed by those who were not precast, in ach duty, and, Providence promising notification of the disallowance by the land who therefore have been mishel as to us to be ; but the announcement above noticed \n\nhaving gone on had sent the Taflexible's ↑ you be able assistance. I reunived from Cap home government of Ordinance No. 15 of what actually took place; nor indeed would not crerzet su unimpeetart an error, \n\npaddle bos Boat after a Junk that tried to tain Edgell, and from Connraanders Forsyth, escape down & Creek to the right, and cap- Corbett, and Tammur, during the two days\" 1856,—* An Ordinance for amending the did he speak loud enough to be heard by were i aut continually died & Where in pune tured her. Commander Forsyth had return-perations. Their seat and antivity the last Law of Evidence and Triat by Jury, any one bat the Chief Justice; and, as Chapel lucated!\" A very aggravating question, ed with his party, and Lieutenant Deul, dey (as before) was exulated by the Officers The Fourth Clause of which is as follows: we sail before, the false accounts which by the way. It is like waking an old Earheler assisted by the Olheurs of the other Gunboats, of all ranka urder them, freie Lientenant \n\nIV. A Heather Withus, in any tour, or Lave been given of the occurrence can to be able to sewer the question. Beside this, Chinese having reruried to one of the Junks Cadet \n\nwhere a wife is, when he would give the world, bed secured or destroyed all the prizes. The Nares, the Senior Lieutenant, to the Javier before any porsan eupowered to administer an only have had their origin in spite or call, shall not be sworn either before er upon jealousy. \n\nstlecribers to the enterprise must wonder that below, she was recaptured by Mr Motioy, 18. Captain Edgell brings to my notice. giving his testimony, unless the said Court or \n\nthey have not been estigulted, according to the seed Master, with the Starting's and the active share taken by Livatenant Stanis Ju will be soon that though we defend rms of sulsoription. person shall third: fit so to direct; în which case the said winess shall be sworn according to his Dr Bridges from a false accusation, (and conscience, But every flatiren Witness shall, we should assuredly not attempt to de- butor the taking of his said evidence, baby, er ferd him were he in the wrong,) we have by the order of, the said Court or Person, duly refrained from any remarks on the style warned to speak the bruth, and informed of the of Mr Anstev's address, which, not lacing and worthy of being well carried cat. Hong-nsists of one beary Gun in the Baw, each day as a Volunteer, and made himself \n\npenalties to which, in case he whall not speak \n\n18 imply, therefore, to ease my own mind Hongkong's Bois. Lienterant Dent brought forth in the bone's Barge; and the sur- vices of Mr Hudson, Acting Mate of this to my notice the conduct of that Officer. and that of subsetilmes, that I trespass tuon your columns, and corect si error. \n\n9. lo all, 27 heavily armed Stake Borte Soip, 1 beg parisearly to notice. \n\nLieutenant Rd. Cox, of the 38th Regiment Their Armonétr Madras Risles, accompanied the expedition \n\nvery useful, \n\nin gnestini, 1 fiely Padors. 16 le a good idea, oupured or destroyed. \n\nThe mala idea suggested by the communication Celonging to the Admiral a Hay) were \n\nalways a more Shipping Fort. There ja to be a \n\nis not what it was five, or even two, yenas generally a fong 32 or 24-Peunder, with fum on the five years to sinne ty be expected to 6 fighter Guus; wol Vessel pulls about vell Bates change. This is not to be 40 nors. This servies was fortunately ac \n\ncity, here, miroving in numbers, but in fasellectual extrano; sand in is quite tinte tak one of the resued amusements suggeted by \n\nThe Waiter shoult to intradusal. \n\nthe truth, he will become liable; it being herely been present, we did not bear, bat which declared and enacted, that the pensities of Fer our informant states to have been highly jury stall be denied and taken to apply to False utbecoming, to say the very least of it\" Testimony given by any such witness, whether Sach violent ebullitions : a Court of Jus-jace and refined & vissy, a constantly improvize Botngslished with the loss of two men only sworn sworn, in any use where, if it as tice are disgreefel to all concerned, and given the same upon walk, ho would by law ! hare thereby becoine lisad to the same. \n\nought to he put a summery stop to by An inexcusable oversight, it seems, was the Chief Justice; and if how officers for \n\nget themselves, and use language aule- committed by the local government, in caring their official character, it is high Seatnen's Cliapol,\" I have an objset iu view caser (but not severe) of sun strike occurred \n\nUne or twa \n\nwonended. The day was excessively not, and I can speak ton highly of the spirit with which the men stuck to their ears, through a harder day's work than I have ever before Of course, in labouring be the stridslunent of witnessed under a tropical sun. \n\nbigher and an re important that suggested in the Gunboats. \n\nla commaneation of your last wack's co- alge hat hond, to his would picase we respondeur; but as Keligion tudi true Refinement \n\nnot having officially notified the Attorney General of the Ordinance having been time they were reminded of it, if not disallowed; but that Mr Anstey was aware utherwise, through the columns of the of it through the Gazette, he did not profom public press. We have witnessed to to dony. Notwithstanding the disalloway such recriminatory barangues Tat-mi dan tind she combined in my enter auce, he proceeded to try the case without terly, such as ne barrister, we feel assurul, piso. Respectfully, I am, Sir, swearing the witnesses a course in which would youture apen before the judges in | \n\nus will be shown, he was justified by the terms of a subsequent ordinues. Bat now for a description of what really did Denur in Court. \n\nEnglaud, and such as should not be per- witted bero. \n\n-China Mail, May 20 \n\nEVENING AMUSEMENTS.\n\nImmediately before the evidenes was closed, or at all events before the jury had We have mock pleasure in nesking room returned their verdict-our informant is for the following communication, and hope not certain which the Acting Colonial the proposal will meet with the courage- Secretary called to him the Crown So-mout it deserves:- \n\nlicitor, and pointed out that the Attorney To the Editor of the \"China Mail.\" General Lad, in not swearing the witness, overlooked the disallowance of the Ordi \n\nHosure, 28 May, 1857. \n\nJ. C. BEECHER. -China Maži, June 4, \n\nGAZETED NOTICKS, \n\nBar Haakons Cureras Garde, Func E. J \n\ntions more in detail. \n\n10. At daylight next morning the Steamers and ten pelas in tow, and attached with the proceeded down the frecks with the Boats Syble, the Second Bar. \n\n11. Further Arrangements were now made to follow up the War Boats that had o | away. I had already, the previous day \n\ntard to strengthen Commander Forsyth's \n\nSigned, \n\nTrae Extracts, \n\nC. ELLIOT, Commodat \n\nTien. S. MORRISDN. \n\nReturn of the Force engaged in the Brenpo Creek, on the 35th of Say, at the Capture ami Datraction of Chinese War Veste. Steam Tender Bunghong, Lieut. EL T. Dent. |trandat \n\nChili. Spain Tender Fir C. Forbet, „ Vine. fort Gunboat Startin \n\nVilliers. Siunach, \n\nWildman. Sybille. Launch-Lieut. E. Nee; Livut, Blake, a \n\nMr Price, Midaluperar. Borge, Mr A. 4. Brooke, Midshipman. Piankee-Mr. K. Hudson, Asing Mate \n\nGatter,—Mr W. Ht. De Burgly Midshipman. \n\n* \n\nhreat. Swale, n.. \n\nRaleigh. \n\nH \n\nCar-Commander Turner: Mr J. Forhess Assistant Solgeon; Mr Pilkington, Mid- shipman Launch,-iros. Goodenough; Lord Charles \n\nSet, Mulshipnot Pinnaco, Lieut. Grabara; Mr Dupries, Mil- \n\nskipman. \n\nTribune. \n\nGig-Capt. Tidgell; Mr E. Elwyn, Naval Cadet ; \n\nMe Childers, Midshipman \n\nBarge, Liat. Saniforth; Lieet Boyle; Me Harvey, Surgeon; Lieut. A. Ozxari, Volunteer, Lieut. Hichord Cox, 34th Regi- men: .N.I. \n\nshipman; My Rowe, Assistant Paymaster; My Hawkins, Naval Cadet, Cutter, Mr Yest, Midelima. Mir R. \n\nVerry, Gopurk \n\nstationed the Tribuné off Sawshee Chamel, ļaud 1 now moored the Inflexilie abreast of the Second Bar Creek, dowa which her Guð uld then range. From the knowledge I Exacts from a Despatch from Commodore now possessed respecting the various treels honourable C, G, J, 3. BLLC. from Escape Creek downwards, à considered dated wh May, 1857, to the addrees of, it possible to guard all outlets to the His Excellency Rear Admiral Rifer, and with a force of Bosts to sour Mona Sernions, K.C.B. \n\nSpottie, ED BAR, CARTON RIPER there wither to meet that fave or cetize th 4th May, 1867. wards the main River. Commander Forsyth Sia--It is a frequent subject for remark, that 1. 1 bad the honour to report to you \n\nwith his division tools up his station in Escape mance, and that a verdict ander the viral.ough there boarge uber of residents yesterday, that Her Majesty's Gauboats, Greek in the evening. cumstances would be illegal, and weight loud is this Colony fully capable of appreciating and į Tenders, and Ship Boats, captured or des- | 12. At daylight the 27th I proceeded the escape of the prisoners. Mr Cooper enjoying hitelary entertainments, there are no frayed about 40 Mandarin Junks (Suake up the Saws Channel as previously ar Turner thereupon crossed over to they may be destred. With the exeption of our big w to report the nature of the upitra-ers for 10 or 12 miles, 1 then sent the Bos Pintave, Livul. Normate; Mr Barker, Mid- suell emergituents to be enjoyed, however acheals) on the 25th and 27th Instant, 1anged, the Boats being towed by the Stean- Anstey, and told him what Dr Dridges had ceanna Ball, (from which andemment many said Mr Anstey, however, took no are restrained by Jack of invitation, utud others further notice of it, but on the verdict of by principle,) there is nothing to breast in upo 2. The Fleet of Juuks which formerly relivision, and desired Lieutenant Dent in the guilty being returned, instantly, as is in pleasure. In the cities of our native laude, navod to a position about five or six miles Pine, and go a short distance up the the dull Fouding of business and ucharrowing mained near the main euch of the tiver had unploy to false with him the Inferible's -Saraton, left the Court Dr Bridges then there are always relaxations to be fand in the up the Cree. As it was very doubtful; Sieoud Bar Creek (he succeeded in passing \n\nwork up to the Registrar's desk, and said form of Lesturda, Concerts, and such Wke, which whether our small Steemers mid to completely through into Escape Creek, and Gig-Commander Forsyth. emmething to the Chief Justice, in 50 real pleasures, and yet which at the samne \n\nthem, it was upeessary to have a sufficient \n\net Commander Forsyth.) Casting off from time, R. A. Deown, Acting Mate low tone as to be unbeard by our time tend to improve the said, and refine the Boat foren to follow up the Creek, iade the Steamers, the Beats pulled up ite Saw-Cutter-Lieut. Brock, Honourable A. Denison, informant, but which would appear to juller man There is rule which works bath \n\npendent of Ganhoat support. \n\nshore Channel, and we anon beard from the \n\nAnting Mate. have been of the same tenor no the mea ievestiors bebokens increasing refinement in the ways. While sa enlarged interest in such re- \n\n3. At daylight on the 25th, our Force was that foar of Sin Hop's retreating Squadron natives (who showed us every good feeling) sage delivered to Mr Anstey through recamanity, the encunmaging and fostering such in the Creek, and soon afterwards a Mandarin had on the 25th gone up to Tang Kons, Turner, for His Lordship sent for the interest, is one of the surest manus of bringing Fleet of about 40 Junks was observed moored and that there were other Mandarin Juuks Attorney General, and explained to him about an elevated public suliment. The mind what had been said. Mr Anstey there else the finer elepients will natally dissolve, and of a community, as well as the body, must be fed, upon expressed great indignation at the \n\ngrosser exuberatu enlund of the Evecative government, as represented by Dr Bridges and that they hud ant deigned to show him the despatiu disallowing the Ordinance, or even to commonlaste its tenor, except through the government notice open to all. Mr The peculiar organization of our society does within good tuge, she opened fire, and was Anstey further intimated the atunst con- pot were like me on supported by the Bustard and Starting Roman, and served the mastheads of the Return of the Force exprged on the 27th May, ut and denied the right of the Acting Culminature, that Ettle advantage is gained either—in others being at distant range. The War Junks. The Boats now gave way with tempt for the technical quibble started- \n\nBerad. \n\nJafazibie. \n\nStarboard Pale-Box Boat, Lisa Hanson fig,--Commander Crebert \n\nMr Barkle, Mid-biptnan. \n\nPort Pedule-Box Bat-Me . Sukee, Mid- shipman Me Magrudi, Assistant Surgeon, \n\nin good order across the stream. The tide there (I beg here to mention the very for the Juuke to escape, and although it made fter. Skinned Beal, Chaplain of this ship, who Finaceout. Bacon; Mr Teliasis, Mil- was a strong ebb, which rendered it less easy great assistance I have received from the \n\nwas good enough at my request to accom. pany me each day us Chiurse Interpreter; are in a great degree doe, as I had failed to to his aid the successes of the expedition \n\n1: is imprasible for human nature to thrive thread the way amongst the shoals \n\nnur progress slow, iz enebied us this better to \n\ndessert. The day demily of business, do not tend the leading Steuses as they approached, 4. A heavy fire from the Janks opened upon \n\nmigh & Bil. bo served up wokthly by way of i mn Book-keeping, Beefstenks, and Beer, even \n\na test men's heads, and surely the wist desails, but at too great a distice to tell with effect. \n\nof late dinners can have no such tendency \n\nand what is of this is so its \n\nShortly afterwards, as the Hoogkang got \n\nobtain an interpreter from Hongkong) \n\nBAI MAL \n\nPary \n\nPaddle-Box Boat,-Lient. Smith; Mr. Mayary, Assistant Surgeon; Mr Hayes, Midshipman. Punae, My Smith, Acting Mite! \n\n13. About 10 miles from where the Steam- Total Force of Boats with game-13 Cutters \n\ners were left, we opened the City of Tong \n\na will; and though the Junks were in sight \n\nand Gigs 7. \n\nthe Fedruction of Chinese War Boats at to those who visis or thuge who are visited: and, fire from the Junks then slackened, and they Secretary to appear in that court. If he Hence it occurs, that falls seven-tenths of our gut aulerweigh; some were soon afterwards \n\nTeung Konan. and his friends, said Mr Anstey, think me population are as entirely destitute of evening abandoned, and the rest plying their arsy two miles off, they succeeded in taking \n\nSplitte. them completely by surprise; the Bous, as unit to fall my functions, cere 19 another intent, na though; carb one wear ande resident endeavoured to escape op the treek. \n\nBarge,-Lieut. Naces; Mr Brooke, Midship- pon upon the island, Robinson Crusoe, Phillip \n\nthey dasked in, firing into a standi battery \n\nmare; Lieut. lake, R.M. before which they ear cito me, tribunal \n\na. The Stoners followed, thongh very Qar, or other more of all be survey slowly on account of the shoal wafer; the War Funky, eased them to be immediately \n\nwhich camanded the River, and into the pin Hudson, Acting Mate; Lieut gad les them there do their word! The \n\nNow tie ought Get so to he is a state of \n\nSwale, K.M. learned gentleman referred to cases report things sliko derimented to five rolny as a whole, Charles Forbes and Staunch grounded abandoned. The Jooks lay scattered along Cutter, Mr De Burgh, Midshipznali. \n\nely, then the Starling, and eventually the the whole length of the Town through which Hongkong ran ashore. The signal was 10- the River runs, and preparatious ware Bow and a general chase took place. The Junk mediately made for the Boats to go ahead, nede in destroy them with the exception of Cutter Commander Tour: Mr Forbes, Assistant Surgeon Mr Pilkington, Mid- one, the finest and heaviest grined War Junk ! force divided, the main body of about 15 non- I have seus in China, which I hoped to be Pisser-Lie Gralas; Mr Duries, Mid- \n\nshipmana. tiquing up the main channel were followed i uble to take away. by the Boats, doi by Captafa Edgell, who \n\nTribune. \n\n| cul in the Hangkang Register for Decom- | anod to the individuat elamuter of those who com \n\nber, 1851, and January 1832, and sou- \n\nprise it. The rond with feed on something, and tended that the court had power under there be no larless recreations to satisfy the if it cannot have wheat, it must take chat. If Ordinance 5 of 1858, § 4,* to admit un demand, then grosser indulgencies will be sought fun, which delar the character a surely as the * Every Court, \n\nor Officer \n\nGundide to take Adidas le 23 ant \n\nlet, Crli ur Orinatra”, where my porson concjælent to ) \n\nformer serve to elevate it. \n\nIs it not desirable, ches, to supply, so far \n\ngive pekline or make fidavit their shall refrs to¡ possible, some social entertainments, which may \n\nwarn fleista, may, at his reton, peralt floor intuest as we as elevate-which all appeal to \n\ncalthy appetite for wholesome and \n\nThere is els at talent, should think, f \n\nliar tu berku sa en Bueratina, or Staterof the better nature of murselves, and give na a his or her Farbbowonge by Una salat mračket, which sate Declarou or Hatement shall thenceforth leave the vanie force and affect in all repeat? usdila ne mer Hops * or Adavit (as the cause war vel to the live pur sworn to lài tho usual way, would save Bul: But no such permiator shall be granted in a person Who shall not have been fire, by the rail Court, Magli Hale, Commissioner, or Officer, duly warmer to speak \n\n15 Prath, and ladoled of the Fesultis, which lie m \n\nthe sunny, to carry through a rise of Lycan Lectures, which would be a credit to the place, and prove a saree of pleasure to our fellow citizens; and beside those wow pinong as, there \n\ndetached four Pines a Crook to the Chinese Tramps were not going quietly to 14. Et soon became apparent that the \n\nshipman. \n\nRaleigh. \n\nMr J. Phillipps, Ayting 24 Master, \n\nte fallone the sadler -ision: Com sabrnit to this proceeding without farther Gig-Capt. Figril; Ms W. Flwyn, Naval Cadet ; matcher Pureyth devonanied these Pires, resista ce, and the reck being arrow with Barge Lieut. Stanforth; Liest Ozcan, which suceredeit in capturing thasa all (ten Houses on either wids, they had every facility \n\nin amber). Commander Forsyth speaks to pick off war men. As we find passed up. | \n\nBanett, Acting Assistant Surgeon \n\nVownther, Lieut. Cox, 38th Regiment M.N.1. \n\nbighly of the gallant way the Horacf's Pin- only a few gingalls and matchlocks opened; Pinnace,--Hest. Norman; Air Barker, Mid- have, wnder Me R. A. Brown, Acting Minte, these increasing in number, presently gare! dashed in, wasupported by the other Boats, considerable ayaner, and it was necessary, which she fund distanced, against three of to keep up a continued tire with some of these heavily armed Janks which struck to the Bear's Guns, fresketry, and from the Tribune's Rucket Bost, which did good \n\nthe will ineste by making a False Fierlaan 544 345ly passing, bansient visitors, travel \n\ncat unor this risauce and furar, who shold of every part of the veld, who world her. floss he or she shali kuppen on he a busddigno) hare; gladly aid to entertain us by their obervations; \n\nWhat tlie \n\nsaid Court, Magidrato, Comeliner and at that is required would soon! to i Terved front a Religious or Contentious Bell that Beaking of a Vata is unlawful, \n\nellip; Mr Hawkins, Naval Cadet. Cutter-Lieut. Slowtherd; Mr Mangon, Mid- \n\nshipman My Verey, Gwner. \n\nInflexible. \n\nGig-Commander Corbett ; Mr W. Burney. \n\nbe a euit- 6. The main body, followed by Captain service, while other parties were employed | Starboard Uadille-Box Dou Lieut. Dacou: Mr that his or her Objection to take the Oath Ute all in which to hold such meetings Even Ragell, were soon beyond range of all, exept destroying the Junks, which compied some Buckle, Midshipman; Mr Magrath, Assistant \n\nthis desideratone, I ano gled to say, is in a fa, the Hornet's Rocket, Boat and Sybille's Pil- time, as it was cressary to burd' those at [ \n\nSargcom.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-063 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [4-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 248748, "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": "CO129-076 - Individuals - 1859", "page_number": 351, "title": "CO129-076 - Individuals - 1859", "content_text": " \n\nHong Kong Coffin 5007/579 Rebuson 5200/59\n\n346\n\nFresnor,\n\nFir Hercules G. R. Robinson 10.\n\n \n\nForwardtally FF Smith Men Hom wale B. Fortiorne\n\n1185\n\nWake of Rewearth 24.\n\nEntra\n\n25th June 1859\n\nI transmit to you herewith the Queen's Commission to you, under the Great Seal, as Governor and Commander in Chief in and over the Island of Hong Kong and its Dependencies, together with Her Majesty's Commission to...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-076 - Individuals - 1859.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 248796, "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": "CO129-076 - Individuals - 1859", "page_number": 399, "title": "CO129-076 - Individuals - 1859", "content_text": "the\n\nthese\n\ncommunicatio\n\nwho\n\nthe latest decision. But then decisions was unac...\n\nsie vols, six jubes.\n\nany\n\nCompensation Capt. Watkins the nupon werk compelled Caft. Watkins to return to England home to the Colonial office for redioss, alleging ich leave to place himself under An Occcelist t with your grave. I Shewing that the mustival Adviens. During his sufferings from The office of Marine Magistrate was otherwire tire causes, amounting\n\nto incapacity at libres\n\non his behalf without any compensation. Sie William Moles for writing. I affated or used to the Labouchon worth who was then Secretary of State for the Coloni\n\nLord. Fanling Depictment ordered a suitath rent to be paid prcision. But on a stron a remonstrance from him. But this reply not having been comonsenice hrs, having been transferred to the Indian 393 to Af Mr. Matkins, the latter wrote again to the juncil, refered the matter for Reconsideration Col? Jurusary. He finally discovered that Lord his Sumper Sie E. P. Leftton who adhered to Tohen Russell has written to Sir John Bowring empanied with to infor\n\nthe order of Sir bor Moterworth for por could I conceive any assignable reasons for so flagrant payment. But si John Bowring set at naught violation of a plain admitted contract between then orders, as he appear, froom the debates in head of a public Office and one of it's functionaries, Parliament, to have done in more important\n\nfor suct unworthy treatment of a veteran\n\nService mothers defecting a found Entrance into the finer of tank in the Majesty Babel Proties who mothers respecting a found Extrance into her from has served her Sovevige and coventry for two and. In fact it\n\nSignified to Caft. Wattions that it\n\nseal & ability would be the first time in which the Hong Kong if there the highest de commendations and\n\nfifty years Government would be beatin: I that they did not mean to be beaten. Accordingly misrepresent\n\nthe constart friendship of Sie Sydney smith, Lood tations of the Case were sent home, and M. Saumarez. Sie her Cockburen, Sir Thomas Foley. Sis\n\nLaboucher,\n\nno doubt beliving them, rescinded to! Williams, Sir Philip Duchen. Sie Fedin't Wann the previous orders of Lord John Russell & Sin in Charles Paget. Sie Hyde Parker. Die Deans Dunder tom Molesworth. The arduous duties of his officer\n\nother distinguished officers with whom he served,\n\nin being then without a deputy, this chife hack awr having been appointed by three Commander in Sick leave, and the trying nature of the king as the first Lient of their they thing. I\n\nillues & vecasioned the further the Commander &acting (aptain, & to whome formation of franicles under the Lids, which in Admiralty has accorded the Good Survin Green wit\n\nit was\n\neye\n\nto secure\n\nwith such comag\n\nPension\n\nHere is the proofread text in HTML format as requested:\n\nthese\n\ncommunication\n\nwho\n\nthe latest decision. But then decisions were unaccountable...\n\nsix vols, six jubes.\n\nany\n\nCompensation Capt. Watkins the upon work compelled Capt. Watkins to return to England home to the Colonial Office for redress, alleging leave to place himself under an Oculist with your grave. I Showing that the medical advice. During his sufferings from the office of Marine Magistrate was otherwise the causes, amounting\n\nto incapacity at large\n\non his behalf without any compensation. Sir William Molesworth for writing. I affected or used to the Labouchere worth who was then Secretary of State for the Colonies\n\nLord. Fanling Department ordered a suitable rent to be paid precision. But on a strong remonstrance from him. But this reply not having been commonsense hrs, having been transferred to the Indian 393 to Af Mr. Watkins, the latter wrote again to the council, referred the matter for Reconsideration Col? Jurusary. He finally discovered that Lord his Superior Sir E. P. Leighton who adhered to Then Russell has written to Sir John Bowring accompanied with to inform\n\nthe order of Sir George Moterworth for pay could I conceive any assignable reasons for so flagrant payment. But Sir John Bowring set at naught violation of a plain admitted contract between then orders, as he appear, from the debates in head of a public Office and one of its functionaries, Parliament, to have done in more important\n\nfor such unworthy treatment of a veteran\n\nService mothers defecting a found Entrance into the finer of rank in the Majesty's Babel Proteas who mothers respecting a found Entrance into her from has served her Sovereign and country for two and. In fact it\n\nSignified to Capt. Watkins that it\n\nseal & ability would be the first time in which the Hong Kong if there the highest commendations and\n\nfifty years Government would be beaten: I that they did not mean to be beaten. Accordingly misrepresent\n\nthe constant friendship of Sir Sydney Smith, Lord tations of the Case were sent home, and M. Saumarez. Sir her Cockburn, Sir Thomas Foley. Sir\n\nLabouchere,\n\nno doubt believing them, rescinded the previous orders of Lord John Russell & Sir in Charles Paget. Sir Hyde Parker. Die Deans Dunder to Molesworth. The arduous duties of his officer\n\nother distinguished officers with whom he served,\n\nin being then without a deputy, this chief hack award having been appointed by three Commander in Sick leave, and the trying nature of the king as the first Lieut of their they thing. I\n\nillness & occasioned the further the Commander & acting Captain, & to whom formation of franicles under the Lids, which in Admiralty has accorded the Good Service Green with\n\nit was\n\neye\n\nto secure\n\nwith such com...\n\nPension", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-076 - Individuals - 1859.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 249053, "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": "CO129-077 - Sir Robinson - 1860 [1-6]", "page_number": 243, "title": "CO129-077 - Sir Robinson - 1860 [1-6]", "content_text": "A Deed of Lease.\n\n1.5.0. 1356/22\n\nBetween Laou, wearing a decoration of the first rank, a Director of the Board of War, Censor of the night, Governor General of the Provinces of Kwang-tung and Kwang-si, on the part of the Chinese Government, and Harry Smith Parkes, Esquire, Commander in Chief of the same, on the part of the British Government, to hold in proof of the under-mentioned agreement.\n\nWhereas Kow-loon and its neighborhood situated in the sub-district of Kow-loon in the district of Sun-on, and consisting for the most part of barren hills that cannot be cultivated, has hitherto formed a place of resort for thieves and outlaws, who, availing themselves of the immediate proximity of the city of Victoria, constantly cross to Hongkong, and commit depredations in that settlement to the serious injury of British subjects who can obtain no redress against these marauders, Therefore Laou, the Governor General, and Harry Smith Parkes, the Commissioner, aforesaid, have Agreed and Determined that all that part of the Kowloon peninsula lying south of a line drawn from a point near to but south of the Kowloon Fort to the northern-most point of Stone-Cutters Island, together with that island, as shown in the accompanying map, shall be leased, as a preliminary measure, to Harry Smith Parkes, the Commissioner aforesaid acting on behalf of the British Government, in order that...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-077 - Sir Robinson - 1860 [1-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 249058, "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": "CO129-077 - Sir Robinson - 1860 [1-6]", "page_number": 248, "title": "CO129-077 - Sir Robinson - 1860 [1-6]", "content_text": "19.\n\n239\n\nA. Deed of Lease\n\nBetween Laow, wearing a decoration of the first rank, a Director of the Board of War, Censor of Right, Governor General of the Provinces of Kwangtung and Kwang-se, and Commander in Chief on the part of the Chinese Government, and Harry Smith Parkes, Esquire, one of the Allies Commissioners for the Government of the city of Canton on the part of the British Government to hold in proof of the undermentioned Agreement.\n\nWhereas, Tseem-Sha-tsui and its Neighborhood situated in the sub-district of Kowloon in the district of Sun-on,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-077 - Sir Robinson - 1860 [1-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 250490, "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": "CO129-080 - Sir Robinson - 1861 [1-3]", "page_number": 51, "title": "CO129-080 - Sir Robinson - 1861 [1-3]", "content_text": "Governor Sir Hercules Robinson\n\nAs\n\nThe Duke of Newcastle.\n\n/ Inncloure.\n\nA. b.\n\nReceived.\n\nProclamation, announcing\n\nForwarding Lord Elgin's\n\ntransfer of\n\nGovernment of Kowloon to the\n\nColony of Hongkong.\n\non 27\n\nNo. 8.\n\nGOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION. The following Proclamation issued by His Excellency The Earl of Elgin and Kincardine, Her Majesty's Special Ambassador in China, is directed by His Excellency The Governor to be published for the information of the Community.\n\nBy Order\n\nW. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.\n\nColonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 19th January, 1861.\n\nPROCLAMATION.\n\nBy The Right Honorable the EARL OF ELGIN AND KINCARDINE, K.T., G.C.B., Her Britannic Majesty's Special Ambassador in China, &c., &c., &c.\n\nWhereas, by a Convention between Great Britain and China duly executed at Peking on the 24th day of October in the year 1860, His Majesty the Emperor of China ceded to Her Majesty THE QUEEN of Great Britain and Ireland, and to Her Heirs and Successors to have and to hold as a dependency of Her Britannic Majesty's Colony of Hongkong that portion of the township of Kowloon in the Province of Kwang-tung, of which a lease was granted to Harry Smith Parkes, Esquire, C.B., a Member of the Allied Commission at Canton, on behalf of Her Britannic Majesty's Government, by Lau Tsung Kwang, Governor General of the two Kwang:-Now I, having received and publicly taken possession, on behalf of Her Majesty the Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, of the above described territory so ceded as aforesaid, and caused the metes and bounds of the same to be set out and marked, do hereby declare and proclaim that no Officer of the Emperor of China, now, has any right or title to exercise authority or control therein, or in connection therewith, but that the Government thereof, is now, and from henceforth will remain, vested in Her Majesty the Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, and Her Officers duly appointed, and subject to such laws and regulations as Her Majesty with the advice of Her Privy Council may ordain and direct; and by virtue of the authority in me vested I hereby declare and proclaim that until Her Majesty's pleasure can be known, the Government of the territory so ceded as aforesaid shall be administered by His Excellency Sir Hercules George Robert Robinson, Knight, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong, and Vice-Admiral of the same, with full powers to appoint all Officers and to do all other matters and things necessary for the due and proper Government of the said territory.\n\nGiven under my hand and seal at Hongkong, this Nineteenth Day of January, in the year of Our Lord One thousand Eight hundred and Sixty-one.\n\n(L.S.)\n\nGOD SAVE THE QUEEN.\n\n(Signed,)\n\nELGIN AND KINCARDINE.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-080 - Sir Robinson - 1861 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 252338, "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": "CO129-083 - Public Offices - 1861", "page_number": 163, "title": "CO129-083 - Public Offices - 1861", "content_text": "## A Deed of Sease\n\nBetween Laon, wearing a decoration of the first rank, Director of the Board of War, censor of Right, Governor General of the Provinces of Kwangtung and Kwangse and Commander in Chief of the same, on the part of the Chinese Government, and Harry Smith Parkes, Esquire, one of the Allied Commissioners for the Government of the City of Canton on the part of the British Government\n\nto hold in proof of the undermentioned Agreement\n\nWhereas, I seem sha Isiy's \n\n## \nKat. \n1684 \n159 \nforms of \nof the enactment. 10%) W. J. Bridges, \n116th November 1860 \n(Spire copy) \n\nمقدسه \n\n10%) Mr. S. Mercer, \nColonial Secretary \n\n3 page \nLeec \n\nPage 159 \n\nIt appears the text is jumbled and not in order. Here is a possible reconstruction of the first part:\n\n## A Deed of Sease\n\nBetween Laon, wearing a decoration of the first rank, Director of the Board of War, censor of Right, Governor General of the Provinces of Kwangtung and Kwangse and Commander in Chief of the same, on the part of the Chinese Government, and Harry Smith Parkes, Esquire, one of the Allied Commissioners for the Government of the City of Canton on the part of the British Government, to hold in proof of the undermentioned Agreement.\n\nWhereas, I seem sha Isiy's...\n\nThe rest of the text appears to be unrelated or out of order, containing what seems to be metadata or fragments:\nKat. \n1684 \n159 \nforms of \nof the enactment. 10%) W. J. Bridges, \n116th November 1860 \n(Spire copy) \n\nمقدسه \n\n10%) Mr. S. Mercer, \nColonial Secretary \n\n3 page \nLeec \n\nPage 159", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-083 - Public Offices - 1861.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 256676, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-093 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1863 [7-10]", "page_number": 34, "title": "CO129-093 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1863 [7-10]", "content_text": "JURY LIST,--Continued.\n\nSPECIAL JUROR.\n\nNAME.\n\nOCCUPATION AND RESIDENCE.\n\nSPECIAL JUROR.\n\nNAME.\n\nOCCUPATION AND RESIDENCE.\n\nJURY LIST,—Continued.\n\nNAME,\n\nOCCUPATION AND RESIDENCE.\n\nSPECIAL JUROR.\n\nNAME.\n\nOCCUPATION AND RESIDENCE.\n\nSPECIAL JUROR.\n\nSoermann, Auguste\n\nSpeechly, Samuel\n\nParker, Edward\n\nParker, Ebenezer Francis\n\nParker, M. D.\n\nParker, R.\n\nParkin, W. W.\n\nPattell, P. N.\n\nPearce, James W.\n\nPemberton, J.\n\nPepson, N.\n\nPereira, Jose L.\n\nPerkins, W. H.\n\nPestonjee, Barzinjee\n\nPhotographer, Staunton Street\n\nInnkeeper, Queen's Road\n\nMerchant, A. Heard & Co.\n\nShip Broker, Queen's Road\n\nClerk, J. A. Brooks\n\nMerchant, Olyphant & Co.\n\nBroker, Wellington Street\n\nClerk, H. Duddell & Co.\n\nAssistant, Johnson & Co.\n\nEllissen, G.\n\nEllis, P. P.\n\nElmenhurst, J. Henry\n\nElton, W. M.\n\nEmeny, William\n\nEndicott, Henry Collins,\n\nEscherick, J. W. H.\n\nFairley, Francis B.\n\nFalconer, George\n\nFawcett, J.\n\nField, T. T.\n\nFisher, S.\n\nForbes, Murdoch\n\nFoster, William Hammond\n\nFox, Samuel Crane\n\nFraser, John M.\n\nFreer, F.\n\nFreire, Francisco\n\nFrickel, Leopold\n\nMerchant, A. Ellissen & Co.\n\nAssistant, A. Heard & Co.\n\nClerk, W. Pustan & Co.\n\nMerchant, Arbuthnot Road\n\nStorekeeper, Wellington Street\n\nStorekeeper, T. Hurit & Co.\n\nAssistant, Smith, Kennedy & Co.\n\nClerk, Oriental Bank\n\nWatchmaker, D. Lapraik\n\nShip Chandler, Wellington Street\n\nAssistant, Smith, Archer & Co.\n\nClerk, Jürgens & Co.\n\nAssistant, Olyphant & Co.\n\nAssistant, Russell & Co.\n\nBroker, D'Aguilar Street\n\nClerk, P. and O. Co.\n\nClerk, H. Duddell & Co.\n\nClerk, Hongkong Club\n\nShip Chandler, Queen's Road\n\nJameson, Charles\n\nJohnson, Charles T.\n\nJohnson, Francis B.\n\nJohnston, William\n\nJorge, Honorato\n\nJukes, M. P.\n\nJürgens, Henry\n\nKentwell, Robert Henry\n\nKenward, Robert\n\nKerr, William McDermott\n\nKing, D. Jr.\n\nKing, W. D.\n\nKing\n\nKingsmill, Thomas\n\nKirby, William\n\nKoopmanschap, C.\n\nMerchant, Jameson & Co.\n\nAssistant, Johnson & Co.\n\nMerchant, Johnson & Co.\n\nSuperintendent Engineer, P. & O. Co.\n\nAssistant, Mercantile Bank\n\nAssistant, Jardine, Matheson & Co.\n\nStorekeeper, Queen's Road\n\nParker, C.\n\nInnkeeper, Queen's Road West\n\nDruggist, Victoria Harbour\n\nInnkeeper, Queen's Road West\n\nAssistant, Russell and Co.\n\nAssistant, Smith Archer, and Co.\n\nHotelkeeper, Oriental Hotel\n\nArchitect, Queen's Road\n\nAssistant, Jardine, Matheson & Co.\n\nMerchant, Koopmanschap & Bosman\n\nBookkeeper, Blackhead & Co.\n\nAssistant, Lindsay & Co.\n\nAssistant, Russell & Co.\n\nClerk, P. F. Cama & Co.\n\nPestonjee, Dhunjeebhoy\n\nPestonjee, Muncherjee\n\nBroker, Hollywood Road\n\nPetrie, David\n\nPorter, R. H.\n\nProbst, Theodor\n\nAssistant, Jardine, Matheson & Co.\n\nClerk, De Silver & Co.\n\nMerchant, W. Pustan & Co.\n\nMerchant, Bull, Purdon & Co.\n\nMerchant, W. Pustau & Co.\n\nClerk\n\nGassett, Edward\n\nGay, Arthur Q.\n\nGay, Charles\n\nGee, William\n\nGibb, F. M.\n\nGibb, Hugh Bold\n\nGibb, John Darby\n\nGibb, W. H.\n\nGifford, George\n\nGilfillan, James\n\nGlatz, Henry\n\nGondy, Peter\n\nGoodwin, Henry John\n\nGow, David\n\nGreen, J.\n\nGreen, W.\n\nGregory, John L.\n\nGrieve, F. M.\n\nGuest, W. S.\n\nGundry, A. A.\n\nGutierrez, A.\n\nGutierrez, M.\n\nMerchant, Wetmore, Cryder & Co.\n\nWatchmaker, Heertnani's\n\nAssistant, Wetmore, Cryder & Co.\n\nClerk, Emigration Agency\n\nClerk, Emigration Agency\n\nMerchant, Gibb, Livingston & Co.\n\nMerchant, Gibb, Livingston & Co.\n\nAssistant, Gibb, Livingston & Co.\n\nMerchant, Gifford & Co.\n\nClerk, Fletcher & Co.\n\nClerk, Glatz, Laminert & Co.\n\nClerk, De Silver & Co\n\nClerk, Y. J. Murrow\n\nShipbuilder, Harper & Co\n\nFarmer, Government Hill\n\nFarmer, Government Hill\n\nClerk, Glatz, Lammert & Co.\n\nVictualler, Lyndhurst Terrace\n\nAssistant, Holliday, Wise & Co.\n\nAssistant, D. W. Mackenzie & Co.\n\nClerk, P. and O. Co.\n\nClerk, P. and O. Co.\n\nGutierrez, Lourenco João\n\nGutierrez, Querino A.\n\nGutierrez, Venancio\n\nGye, J.\n\nHagen, Charles\n\nHaight, F. R.\n\nHaley, Henry T.\n\nHall, George H.\n\nHall, Stephen Prentis,\n\nHalkett, F. W.\n\nHalton, Eldred\n\nHammond, F.\n\nHandy, J. A.\n\nHarding, William\n\nHarley, Alexander\n\nHarris, William A.\n\nHarrison, George\n\nHarsant, F.\n\nHartmann, G. W.\n\nHaskell, F. H.\n\nHayes, J.\n\nHayward, J. W.\n\nHeard, George F.\n\nHeard, John\n\nHeermann, Luis\n\nHelland, George J.\n\nHenderson, James\n\nHenderson, W. J.\n\nHerton, E\n\nHesse, Theodor\n\nHigson, John F.\n\nHitchcock, E. A.\n\nHodge, Robert\n\nHolme, Ryle\n\nHolmes, George\n\nHook, J. S.\n\nHormusjee, Eduljee\n\nHow, A. F.\n\nHoward,\n\nHowell, Alfred\n\nHübener, Carl A.\n\nHudson, A. Rawlings,\n\nHudson, Charles W.\n\nHudson, J. Trevitt\n\nHunt, W. H.\n\nHunter, William C.\n\nHuntingdon, E. H. M.\n\nHyndman, Henrique\n\nAssistant, Gifford & Co.\n\nAssistant, Russell & Co.\n\nClerk, P. and O. Co.\n\nDispenser, Hongkong Dispensary\n\nAssistant, W. Pustan & Co.\n\nAssistant, Smith, Archer & Co.\n\nMarine Reporter, China Mail\n\nAssistant, Wetmore, Cryder & Co.\n\nShipbuilder, Queen's Road East\n\nAssistant, Olyphant & Co.\n\nMerchant, Gibb, Livingston & Co.\n\nClerk, Hall & Co.\n\nAccountant, Commercial Bank\n\nClerk, Dowra & Co.\n\nWatchmaker, D. Lapraik\n\nCookkeeper, S. C. Woodruff\n\nClerk, Oriental Bank Queen's Roud\n\nAsistant, Bourjeu, Hübener & Co.\n\nStorekeeper, Thos. Hunt and Co.\n\nClerk, Lane, Crawford and Co.\n\nAssistant, A. Heard and Co.\n\nAssistant, A. Heard and Co.\n\nMerchant, A. Heard and Co.\n\nWatchmaker, Queen's Road\n\nMerchant, John Burd and Co.\n\nForeman, McDougall and Co.\n\nAssistant, Gibb, livingston and Co.\n\nStorekeeper, Queen's Road\n\nMerchant, Queen's Road\n\nAssistant, Jordine, Matheson and Co.\n\nAssistant, Olyphant and Co.\n\nClerk, P. and O. Co.\n\nLakeman, Nicholas W.\n\nLambert, John William\n\nLambert, Robert Carr\n\nLammert, Gen. Reinhold\n\nLamond, William\n\nLamont, John\n\nLane, William\n\nLapruik, Douglas\n\nLapruik, John S.\n\nLawrence, George R.\n\nLaycock, Henry\n\nLevitt, William\n\nLinstead, Theophilus G.\n\nLockhart, A.\n\nLogan, James\n\nLow, Robert A.\n\nLow, Alexander\n\nLütkens, L. S.\n\nLynall, C.\n\nMacAndrew, James\n\nMacAndrew, R. A.\n\nMacDonald, Alexander\n\nMcDonald, J. S.\n\nMacDougall, Henry\n\nMacfarlane, Malcolm\n\nMackay, George McKnight\n\nClerk, Frickel & Co.\n\nClerk, P. & O. Company\n\nAssistant, Gibb, Livingston & Co.\n\nStorekeeper, Victoria Exchange\n\nBanker, Oriental Bank\n\nShip-builder, Aberdeen Dock\n\nStorekeeper, Queen's Road\n\nMerchant, D'Aguilar Street\n\nClerk, D. Laprik\n\nAssistant, Bull, l'ardon & Co.\n\nAssistant, Dent & Co.\n\nGodown-keeper, Walker, B. & Co.\n\nMerchant, Lindsay & Co.\n\nEngineer, P. and O Company\n\nEngineer, Queen's Road\n\nForeman, China. Mait\n\nBookkeeper\n\nMerchant, Shelley Street\n\nAssistant, Bank of India\n\nMackenzie, Donald Wm.\n\nMackenzie, James Joseph\n\nMacLean, David\n\nMacLean, George Francis\n\nMaclellan, D. W.\n\nMaclellan, John W.\n\nMacpherson, J.\n\nMagniac, Herbert\n\nMajor, E.\n\nMeyer, Edward\n\nMiller, M.\n\nMitchell, Richard\n\nMitchell, Robert\n\nMoore, Maurice\n\nMorgan, W. M.\n\nMorgan, Charles Henry\n\nMüller, A.\n\nMuncherjee, Pestonjee S.\n\nMurray, Andrew David\n\nMurray, Charles Wilson\n\nMurray, Mathew\n\nNeilson, A. B.\n\nNevin\n\nNisbet, Thomas\n\nNissen, Ferdinand\n\nNissen, Waldemar\n\nNoble, Henry\n\nNoble, J.\n\nNordaby, George\n\nNoronha, Jose\n\nAssistant, Jardine, Matheson and Co.\n\nAgent, Queen's load\n\nShip Broker, Gralium Street\n\nMerchant, F. B. Cama and Co.\n\nNorris, George A. F.\n\nNotley, W. H.\n\nMerchant, Johnson and Co.\n\nMerchant, Shelley Street\n\nAssistant, Wilkinson and Co.\n\nMerchant, Gilman and Co.\n\nAssistant, Gilman and Co.\n\nMerchant, Bourjau, Hilbener & Co\n\nAssistant, Gibb, Livingston & Co.\n\nAssistant, Gibb, Livingston & Co.\n\nAssistant, A. Heard & Co.\n\nAssistant, A. Heard & Co.\n\nClerk, N. Dous & Co.\n\nOrmiston, Walter\n\nOverbeck, Gustav\n\nOwens, J.\n\nOwen, William\n\nOzorio, Candido Antonio\n\nOzorio, Candido Julio\n\nAccountant, Oriental Bank\n\nMerchant, Lyall, Still & Co.\n\nAssistant, Lindsay & Co.\n\nBunker, B. of India, Australia, &c.\n\nClerk, S. P. Hall\n\nAssistant, Jardine, Matheson & Co!\n\nAssistant, Fletcher & Co.\n\nAssistant, W. Pustau & Co.\n\nPhotographer, Parade Ground\n\nClerk, Atkinson & Co.\n\nShipwright, Russell & Co.\n\nAssistant, Commission Agent, D'Aguilar St.\n\nStorekeeper, P. and O. Company\n\nClothier, Ladage Oelke and Co.\n\nBroker, Hollywood Road\n\nMaster Mariner, Ship John Adam\n\nMerchant, Birley & Co.\n\nSailmaker, Gilman Street\n\nPurdon, James\n\nPustau, William\n\nPatosm, R.\n\nRamsay, Alexander\n\nRangel, Floriano Antonio\n\nRay, J.\n\nRay, Joseph J.\n\nReddie, Robert Muirhead\n\nRegan, E. F.\n\nReid, D.\n\nRemedios, Boaventura\n\nRemedios, Geraldo dos\n\nRemedios, João J. dos\n\nReuben, Solomon\n\nReynolds, Thomas J.\n\nReynvaan, A. J.\n\nReynvaan, W. H.\n\nRickerby, Charles\n\nRickett, John, Jr.\n\nRidge, J. C.\n\nRivington, Charles\n\nRoberts, A. H.\n\nRoberts, John\n\nRoberts, John, Jr.\n\nRoberts, Thomas\n\nRodger, Alexander\n\nRogerson, Thomas\n\nRoney, R. C.\n\nRose, T.\n\nRosenthal, W. S.\n\nRosenthal\n\nRoss, Alexander\n\nRowett, Richard\n\nRozario, Marcos Calisto do\n\nRussell, Donald\n\nRussell, William F.\n\nRustonjee, Pestonjee\n\nRutter, Henry\n\nRyrie, Phineas\n\nSa, Francisco de\n\nSanders, F.\n\nSantos, Antonio dos\n\nSassoon, A.\n\nSassoon, Solomon D.\n\nSchaeffer, Hermann\n\nSchenck, W.\n\nSchmidt, C. W.\n\nSchmidt, W.\n\nScott, T. J.\n\nSeabra, F. A.\n\nSeth, Seth Avith\n\nMerchant, Olyphant & Co.\n\nAssistant, Hall & Co.\n\nAssistant, D. W. Mackenzie & Co.\n\nAssistant, Siemssen & Co.\n\nMerchant, Siemssen & Co.\n\nBanker, Agra Bank\n\nWatchmaker, D. Lapraik\n\nClerk, P. and O. Company\n\nClerk, Oriental Bank\n\nAuctioneer, Queen's Road\n\nAssistant, Walker, Borradaile & Co.\n\nBanker, Mercantile Bank\n\nMercantile Assistant, Dent & Co.' \n\nBoiler Maker, P. and O. Company\n\nHotel Keeper, Commercial Hôtel\n\nAssistant, Lyall, Still & Co.\n\nAssistant, Dent & Co.\n\nSherrard, Robert B.\n\nSharp, Granville\n\nSilva, F. A da\n\nSilva, D. A. da\n\nSlate, R. B.\n\nSmith, Caleb\n\nSmith, Frederick T.\n\nSmith, George\n\nSmith, J.\n\nSmith, R. B.\n\nSoares, Francisco de Paulo\n\nSpencer, D. A.\n\nSpencer, G. G.\n\nStanford, William K.\n\nStainmann, Oscar\n\nStephens, J.\n\nStewart, H. D.\n\nStill, Charles Frederick\n\nStiles, William\n\nStimsen, John\n\nStokes, G. E.\n\nStorey, James\n\nSteinkopff, Otto\n\nMerchant, P. & D. N. Camajee & Co.\n\nAssistant, Dent & Co.\n\nAssistant, Jardine, Matheson & Co.\n\nEngineer, P. and O. Company\n\nClerk, Glatz, Lammert & Co.\n\nMerchant, Holliday, Wise & Co.\n\nClerk, MacEwen & Co.\n\nEngineer, P. and 0. Company\n\nClerk, Lindsay & Co.\n\nAssistant, Do.\n\nMerchant, Gough Street\n\nMerchant, Moses & Co.\n\nMerchant, Pottinger Street\n\nClerk, Vaucher Frères\n\nShip Chandler, Queen's Road\n\nAccountant, Bank of Western India\n\nClerk, P. and O. Company\n\nAssistant, Holliday, Wise & Co.\n\nAssistant, Jardine, Matheson & Co.\n\nAssistant, Gilman & Co.\n\nAuctioneer, Wellington Street\n\nAuctioneer, Ďo.\n\nShipwright, West Point\n\nAssistant, Dent & Co.\n\nClerk, Bowra & Co.\n\nAssistant, Dent & Co.\n\nBoiler Maker, P. and O. Company\n\nCom. Agent, Blum, Brothers & Co.\n\nBlum, Brothers & Co. Foreman, Hall & Co.\n\nAssistant, Holliday, Wisc & Co.\n\nMerchant, Stephenson & Co.\n\nShipwright, Queen's Road West\n\nClerk, Thos. Hunt & Co.\n\nMerchant, F. B. Metta & Co.\n\nAccountant, Gough Street\n\nMerchant, Turner & Co.\n\nClerk, Lane, Crawford & Co.\n\nAssistant, Schaeffer & Co.\n\nAssistant, Bull, Purdon & Co.\n\nMerchant, D. Sassoon, Sons & Co.\n\nAssistant,\n\nDo.\n\nMerchant, Schaeffer & Co.\n\nClerk, Smith, Archer & Co.\n\nClerk, Frickel & Co.\n\nAssistant, Fletcher & Co.\n\nClerk, J. Logans.\n\nClerk, Augustine Heard & Co.\n\nBroker, Wellington Street\n\nMerchant, Staunton Street\n\nBroker, Caine Road\n\nStaunton Street\n\nAssistant, Mercantile Bank\n\nAssistant, Wetmore, Cryder & Co.\n\nMerchant, Smith, Archer & Co.\n\nAssistant, Birley & Co.\n\nAssistant, Smith, Kennedy & Co.\n\nClerk, Emigration Agency\n\nAssistant, Smith, Archer & Co.\n\nStorekeeper, F. P. Soares & Co.\n\nTalbot, Henry Eustace\n\nTalbot, S. H.\n\nTapp, W. H.\n\nTaylor, J. B.\n\nThom, William\n\nThomas, G.\n\nThompson\n\nThompson, L.\n\nThompson, George\n\nThomson, Gavin\n\nThomas, Louis\n\nThorburn, S. D.\n\nThorne, J.\n\nTillinghast, T. D.\n\nToms, Richard\n\nTorrey, Joseph William\n\nTownsend, John\n\nTrubsbaw, James\n\nTuring, Alexander\n\nTyson, George\n\nAssistant, Oxford & Co.\n\nEngineer, Queen's Road\n\nAssistant, Bull, Purdon & Co.\n\nBookkeeper, Bowra & Co.\n\nMerchant, Jameson & Co.\n\nAssistaut, Siemssen & Co.\n\nClerk, P. & 0, Co.\n\nAssistant, Turner & Co.\n\nStorekeeper, Dent & Co.\n\nMerchant, Lyall, Still & Co.\n\nClerk, P. & O. Co.\n\nAssistant, Lyall, Still & Co.\n\nForeman, Harper & Co.\n\nAssistant, Oxford & Co.\n\nVaucher, Albert Emile\n\nVickermann, W. H.\n\nVickers, J. M.\n\nVinton, William\n\nClerk, Lane, Crawford & Co.\n\nClerk, Morgan & Co.\n\nAssistant, Smith, Archer & Co.\n\nAssistant, Jardine, Matheson & Co.\n\nShipwright, Queen's Road West\n\nAssistant, Hull & Co.\n\nAssistant, Oxford & Co\n\nInnkeeper, Queen's Road\n\nAssistant, Gibb, Livingston & Co.\n\nWagner, Charles\n\nWalkinshaw, William\n\nWallace, Edward\n\nWallace, Thomas\n\nWard, J. G.\n\nWatmore, Robert\n\nWatson, Alexander S.\n\nWatson, James B.\n\nWatson J. C.\n\nWebster, James\n\nWeld, Daniel\n\nWelsh, David\n\nWetmore, W. Shephard\n\nWheeley, Alfred A.\n\nWhitley, F.\n\nWhite, Augustus\n\nWiese, Frederick\n\nWiese, Ludwig\n\nWilkins, George\n\nWilson, Alexander\n\nWilson, Edward\n\nWilson, G.\n\nWinniberg, Henry\n\nWilson, James\n\nWilson William\n\nWoodford, J. D.\n\nWoodin, Edward L.\n\nWoodruff, Samuel C.\n\nWoodward, R. H. S.\n\nWong Ashing\n\nWordsworth, George\n\nYoung, W. C.\n\nH. Jürgens and Co.\n\nAssistant, Turner & Co.\n\nAssistant, Wetmore, Cryder & Co.\n\nClerk, De Silver & Co.\n\nClerk, Lane, Crawford & Co.\n\nCommission Agent, Queen's Road\n\nCommander Fort William\n\nAssistant, Dent & Co.\n\nAssistant, Dent & Co.\n\nMerchaut, Russell & Co.\n\nMerchant, Queen's Road\n\nClerk, S. P. Hall\n\nAssistant, Gibb, Livingston & Co.\n\nClerk, P. and O. Co.\n\nPiano Tuner, Shelley Street\n\nMerchant, Turner & Co.\n\nClerk, D. Lapraîk\n\nAssistant, Jardine, Matheson & Co.\n\nAssistant, Olyphant & Co.\n\nAssistant, Jardine, Matheson & Co.\n\nDruggist, Queen's Road\n\nInnkeeper, Queen's Road\n\nClerk, Blackhead & Co.\n\nAccountant, Oriental Bank\n\nAssistant, A. Heard & Co.\n\nAssistant, Smith, Kennedy & Co.\n\nMerchant, Wetmore, Cryder & Co.\n\nAssistant, Dent & Co.\n\nClerk, P. and O. Co.\n\nBanker, Bank of India\n\nAssistant, Siemssen & Co.\n\nMerchant, Siemssen & Co.\n\nBilliard Table-keeper, Queen's Road\n\nStorekeeper, MacEwen & Co.\n\nClerk, Turner & Co.\n\nClerk, P. and O. Company\n\nStorekeeper, Queen's Road\n\nClerk, MacEwen & Co.\n\nClerk, MacEwen & Co.\n\nAssistant, Walker, Borradaile & Co.; Clerk, P. and O. Co.\n\nStorekeeper, Queen's Road\n\nAssistant, Smith, Kennedy & Co.\n\nPrinter, London Missionary Society\n\nAgent, G. Holmes & Co.\n\nJ. C. POWER, Acting Sheriff.\n\nRevised and amended, and the Special Jurors designated, by His Excellency The Governor and the Legislative Council, this 24th Day of February, 1862.\n\nL. D'ALMADA E CASTRO, Clerk of Councils.\n\nJack, John\n\nShipwright, Mr. Lamont\n\nPalmer, W. H.\n\nElgin Terrace", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-093 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1863 [7-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 261580, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-104 - Sir Robinson - 1865 [1-3] & Acting Governor Mercer - 1865 [3-4]", "page_number": 279, "title": "CO129-104 - Sir Robinson - 1865 [1-3] & Acting Governor Mercer - 1865 [3-4]", "content_text": "# Jn 275\n\nTo His EXCELLENCY SIR HERCULES G. R. ROBINSON, Knight, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies and Vice-Admiral of the same.\n\nThis Memorial of Residents in the Colony of Hongkong humbly Sheweth: That the Memorialists whose names are hereto subscribed respectfully lay before Your Excellency their anxious desire that the Law of Limited Liability of Shareholders in Joint Stock Companies as prevailing in England may be carried into effect in this Colony.\n\n2\\. Your Memorialists are aware that an Ordinance embodying this principle and described as the \"Companies' Ordinance of 1864\" was lately rejected on its second reading in the Legislative Council by a majority of one vote, but your Memorialists are led to believe that this circumstance simply arose from a misapprehension of the views held on this important question by the great majority of this Community.\n\n3\\. Your Memorialists are deeply interested in the prosperity of the Colony and are convinced that its welfare can be largely promoted by Joint Stock Associations formed for the purpose of carrying out such enterprises as cannot be undertaken by single individuals or by Mercantile firms. And your Memorialists clearly perceive that such combinations of private Capital can only be attained through the influence of a measure which will limit responsibility of Shareholders to a fixed extent.\n\n4\\. It is most respectfully submitted by your Memorialists that there always is in this place and in the neighbouring Ports of China a certain accumulation of private means not actively used in Commerce, and which could in many ways be advantageously employed were the desired Law in force. There is also a large stream of wealth constantly leaving China, some of which would assuredly remain here for permanent investment, by means of the facilities created under the operation of the said Law. An amount of outside Capital would thus be attracted to the Colony which would greatly stimulate its industrial character. It is moreover highly probable that nearly all the public Companies at the open Ports of China, would in course of time, avail of the privilege of registration in this Colony which would thus become the Official Head Quarters of many important enterprises, and attain a more eminent position in connection with the trade of China than belongs to it now.\n\n6\\. Lastly your Memorialists confidently believe that there is nothing exceptional in the character of Hongkong as a place of business, so as to render it unfit to possess the desired facility for local enterprise, and your Memorialists earnestly pray Your Excellency to consider with favour this petition, and again lay before the Legislative Council the \"Ordinance of 1864,\" together with this prayer of the Inhabitants that the said Ordinance may become the Law of this Colony. \"Companies' And Petitioners humbly pray, &c.,\n\nyour\n\nGeorge J. Helland.\nA. W. P. Kup.\nRichard Deacon,\nR. C. R. Owen.\nWm. Punchard.\nM. Poulson.\nH. Kiar.\nJames Purdon.\nJohn G. Purdon.\nT. Pyke.\nC. T. Smith.\nJ. B. Taylor.\nJ. Middleton, Jr.\nW. D. King,\nWin. Neilson.\nE. A. Hitchcock.\nMurdoch Forbes.\nE. N. Neilson.\nW. N. Olmsted.\nJ. M. Mar.\nW. Schmidt.\nErnest Major.\nWilliam H. Dagliesh.\nJosé Candido dos Remedios.\nH. A. Leiria,\nJames A. Taylor.\nW. R. Robertson,\nEdward I. Pollard,\nRobert S. Walker.\nWm. H. Notley.\nH. Kaiser.\nM. Brussel.\nJohn G. Hodgson.\nC. Bertrand.\nG. Carré,\nL. Petel.\nN. Caudray.\nFrancis Chomley.\nAlex. Turing.\nA. J. Ede.\nB. Kindersley.\nDuncan Davidson.\nF. J. Pereira.\nE. Wheeley.\nZ. Burton.\nA. Einbeke.\nEdmund Sharp.\nGranville Sharp.\nV. Kresser.\nV. J. Marrow,\nJames Kemp.\nGeo. Blakeway. G. Ellissen.\nJ. W. Torrey.\nH. Detmering.\nC. Budde.\nEdward Mellish.\nR. Rowett.\nW. Sheppard.\nA. E. Vaucher.\nC. W. Murray.\nJ. C. Baldwin. Francis Parry, Jamieson Elles.\nA. Coxon.\nW. Scott Riddell, Fred. T. Smith.\nE. Schütz.\nJ. Hart.\nF. Schütz.\nW. C. Young.\nJ. W. Maclellan,\nHenry Noble.\nW. Nissen.\nFrancis D. Fairley.\nJ. M. Vickers.\nWm. Brand,\nGeo. E. Stokes. G. Smith.\nH. Thorburn.\nWilliam Dick,\nD. W. Maclellan.\nW. J. Bain.\nC. J. Wilkinson,\nWilliam Snell.\nR. Schetelig, M.D.\nA. T. Carmichael.\nRuttonjee Manockjee. Rob. Guild.\nM. Pestonjee.\nDadabhoy Eduljee. Furdonjee Dhunjeebhoy. Muncherjee Cowansjee. Telanghir Pestonjee.\nCharles Jameson. B. J. Melita.\nR. S. Lungrana.\nDadabhoy Causjee Jutee.\nD. M. Lungrana,\nS. A. Subadar.\nD. Carsetjee.\nA. Byramjee.\nHormusjee Nusserwanjee Coope.\nArdasir Ichanghirjee.\nHormusjee Pestonjee. Pestonjee Dinshaw.\nE. P. Dhalla.\nP. N. Patell.\nP. Merwanjee Lunger.\nM. N. Mody.\nS. Rustomjee.\nBapoojee Pallunjee. Pestonjee Dajabhoy.\nK. M. Erance.\nEduljee Sapoorjee.\nCursetjee Jevanjee Mehta. Rustomjee Hormusjee.\nR. Pestonjee. Edulji Pallauji.\nO. Hoffman Barrows.\nPalanjee Framjee. Edalji Nassarwanji,\nH. B. Dantia.\nCowasjee Nesserwanjee. Dhunjeebhoy Cursetjee. Rustomjee Cowasjee,\nS. M. Metta.\nFramjee Bomanjee. Hormazji Edalji. Cursetjee Byramjee Bhabla. Eduljee Mendosjee. Essabhoy Fuzul\nA. Sapoorjee.\nR. Devjee. Framjee Sorabjee.\n\n(In Asiatic Characters.) Ameerodeen Abdoollatiff. Abdoolhoosain Abdoolally. Cassumazy Ameeraly. Eduljee Rustomjee.\nB. Cawasjee.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-104 - Sir Robinson - 1865 [1-3] & Acting Governor Mercer - 1865 [3-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 264797, "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": "CO129-111 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1866 [1-2]", "page_number": 179, "title": "CO129-111 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1866 [1-2]", "content_text": "## THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 3RD SEPTEMBER, 1864.\n\n### STATE OF THE WEATHER\n\n#### METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS TAKEN AT THE GOVERNMENT CIVIL HOSPITAL, VICTORIA, HONGKONG, FOR THE MONTH ENDING JULY, 1864.\n\n| BAROMETER | THERMOMETER (Fahrenheit) | WIND | RAIN | HYGROMETER | \n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | \n| STANDARD | ATTACHED | IN SHADE | DETACHED | IN SUN | IN WATER | COMPLETE SATURATION | DRY BULB IN SHADE | WET BULB IN SHADE | DEW POINT | VELOCITY IN INCHES COMPUTED |\n| 29.77 | 29.86 | 29.50 | 29.49 | 85 | Overcast and cloudy | 0.867 | 0.809 | 75.00 | 78.09 | 41.807 | 0.877 | 76.00 | 73.13 | 0.905 | 0.830 |\n| 29.90 | 29.80 | 29.56 | 29.50 | | Overcast and cloudy | 0.81 | | | | | | | | | |\n| 30.04 | 30.07 | 29.72 | 29.70 | 87 | Fine, but cloudy | 0.767 | 0.902 | 70.09 | 72.00 | | 0.742 | 0.760 | 70.09 | 71.09 | 0.30 |\n| 30.00 | 30.03 | 29.65 | 29.63 | | Cloudy, rain with strong breeze | 0.610 | 0.810 | 78.00 | 78.00 | | | | | | |\n| 30.07 | 30.06 | 29.62 | 29.55 | | Overcast, cloudy, strong breeze & rain | 0.657 | | | | | | | | | 1.10 |\n| ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... |\n| Mean | 29.91 | 29.52 | 29.49 | | | | | | | | | | | | |\n\nMean daily range of temperature........11.00 degrees.\n\nPage 320\n\n## IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONGKONG.\n\n### Between CHON AH KWEI, Plaintiff, and DAVID COWEN, Defendant.\n\nWHEREAS an action has been commenced in this Court at the suit of the above named Chon Ah Kwei against the above named David Cowen to recover Seven Hundred Dollars damages alleged to have been sustained by the Plaintiff by breach of contract on the part of the Defendant; and it being alleged that the said David Cowen does not reside within the Island of Hongkong or its dependencies a Writ of Foreign Attachment has been issued returnable on the Nineteenth day of September instant, wherein Adolph Bourjan, and Arthur Booth of Hongkong, partners in the Mercantile firm of Messrs. Bourjan Hübener and Company, and John Steward Lapraik, also of Hongkong, Merchant, and Thomas Bohner, also of Hongkong, Master Mariner, are Garnishees; Notice is hereby given thereof and that if at any time before final judgment in this action, the said David Cowen or any person on his behalf will give the security and notice and file the appearance or plea required by the Ordinance of this Island intituled \"An Ordinance to provide for and regulate Process in actions at Law against persons absent from the Colony,\" the said Attachment may be dissolved.\n\nDated this 2nd day of September, A.D. 1864.\nR. C. R. OWEN, Plaintiff's Attorney.\n\n### Between LOW ACHOW, Plaintiff, and DAVID COWEN, Defendant.\n\nWHEREAS an action has been commenced in this Court at the suit of the above named Low Achow against the above named David Cowen to recover Seven Hundred and Fifty Dollars damages alleged to have been sustained by the Plaintiff by breach of contract on the part of the Defendant; and it being alleged that the said David Cowen does not reside within this Island or its dependencies a Writ of Foreign Attachment has been issued returnable on the Nineteenth day of September instant, wherein Adolph Bourjan and Arthur Booth of Hongkong, partners in the Mercantile firm of Messrs. Bourjan Hübener and Company, and John Steward Lapraik, also of Hongkong, Merchant, and Thomas Behmer, also of Hongkong, Master Mariner, are Garnishees; Notice is hereby given thereof and that if at any time before final judgment in this action, the said David Cowen or any person on his behalf will give the security and notice and file the appearance or plea required by the Ordinance of this Island intituled \"An Ordinance to provide for and regulate Process in actions at Law against persons absent from the Colony,\" the said Attachment may be dissolved.\n\nDated this 2nd day of September, A.D. 1864.\nR. C. R. OWEN, Plaintiff's Attorney.\n\n### Between SIEW AU SHONG, Plaintiff, and DAVID COWEN, Defendant.\n\nWHEREAS an action has been commenced in this Court at the suit of the above named Siew Au Shong against the above named David Cowen to recover Six Hundred Dollars damages alleged to have been sustained by the Plaintiff by breach of contract on the part of the Defendant; and it being alleged that the said David Cowen does not reside within the Island of Hongkong or its dependencies a Writ of Foreign Attachment has been issued returnable on the Nineteenth day of September instant, wherein Adolph Bourjan and Arthur Booth of Hongkong, partners in the Mercantile firm of Messrs. Bourjan Hübener and Company, and John Steward Lapraik, also of Hongkong, Merchant, and Thomas Behmer, also of Hongkong, Master Mariner, are Garnishees; Notice is hereby given thereof and that if at any time before final judgment in this action, the said David Cowen or any person on his behalf will give the security and notice and file the appearance or plea required by the Ordinance of this Island intituled \"An Ordinance to provide for and regulate Process in actions at Law against persons absent from the Colony,\" the said Attachment may be dissolved.\n\nDated this 2nd day of September, A.D. 1864.\nR. C. R. OWEN, Plaintiff's Attorney.\n\n### Between TAM SING HIN, Plaintiff, and DAVID COWEN, Defendant.\n\nWHEREAS an action has been commenced in this Court at the suit of the above named Tam Sing Hin against the above named David Cowen to recover Seven Hundred and Fifty Dollars damages alleged to have been sustained by the Plaintiff by breach of contract on the part of the Defendant; and it being alleged that the said David Cowen does not reside within the Island of Hongkong or its dependencies a Writ of Foreign Attachment has been issued returnable on the Twelfth Day of September next, wherein Adolph Bourjan and Arthur Booth of Victoria in the Colony of Hongkong, partners in the Mercantile House of Messieurs Barjan, Hübener & Co., and J. L. Pereira also of Victoria, Merchant's Clerk are Garnishees; Notice is hereby given thereof and that if at any time before final judgment in this action, the said Ng Tuck Hung and Cheong Tai or any person on his behalf will give the security and notice and file the appearance or plea required by the Ordinance of this Island intituled \"An Ordinance to provide for and regulate Process in actions at Law against persons absent from the Colony,\" the said Attachment may be dissolved.\n\nDated this 27th day of August, A.D. 1864.\nHENRY KINGSMILL, Plaintiff's Attorney.\n\n### Between CHARLES WILSON MURRAY and ARTHUR SMITH, Plaintiffs, and LEONG A TOON, Defendant.\n\nWHEREAS an action has been commenced in this Court at the suit of the above named Charles Wilson Murray and Arthur Smith acting in the firm of Messrs. Birley and Company against the above named Leong A Toon otherwise Wing Cheung Loong to recover Four Thousand One Hundred and Eighty-nine Dollars and twelve cents for money alleged to be due by the Defendant to the Plaintiffs for goods sold and delivered by the Plaintiffs to the Defendant, and it being alleged that the said Leong A Toon does not reside within this Island or its Dependencies: Writ of Foreign Attachment has been issued returnable on the Nineteenth day of September instant, wherein Caleb Tongier Smith and James B. Taylor the resident partners in the firm of Messieurs Smith Archer and Company and George J. Helland and Antoine W. P. Kup the resident partners in the firm of Messieurs John and Company and A. Hew are Garnishees. Notice is hereby given thereof and that if at any time before final judgment in this action, the said Leong A Toon or any person on his behalf will give the security and notice and file the appearance or plea required by the Ordinance of this Island intituled \"An Ordinance to provide for and regulate Process in actions at Law against persons absent from the Colony,\" the said Attachment may be dissolved.\n\nDated this 3rd day of September, A.D. 1864.\nHENRY KINGSMILL, Plaintiff's Attorney.\n\n### Between LEE YING CHOONG, LEE CHUM, and LEE ACHEE, Plaintiffs, and 'NG TUCK HUNG, CHEONG TAI, and GEORGE G. COUSINS, Defendants.\n\nWHEREAS an action has been commenced in this Court at the suit of the above named Lee Ying Choong, Lee Chum, and Lee Achee against the above named 'Ng Tuck Hung, Cheong Tai, and George G. Cousins, to recover Fourteen Thousand Nine Hundred and Fifty-nine Dollars for money alleged to be due by the Defendants to the Plaintiffs for goods sold and delivered by the Plaintiffs to the Defendants and for money received by the Defendants for the use of the Plaintiffs and for money found to be due from the Defendants to the Plaintiffs on accounts stated between them. And it being alleged that the said 'Ng Tuck Hung and Cheong Tai do not reside within the Island of Hongkong or its dependencies a Writ of Foreign Attachment has been issued returnable on the Nineteenth day of September instant, wherein Adolph Bourjan and Arthur Booth, of Hongkong, partners in the Mercantile firm of Messrs. Bourjan Hübener and Company, and John Steward Lapraik, also of Hongkong, Merchant, and Thomas Behmer, also of Hongkong, Master Mariner, are Garnishees; Notice is hereby given thereof and that if at any time before final judgment in this action, the said David Cowen or any person on his behalf will give the security and notice and file the appearance or plea required by the Ordinance of this Island intituled \"An Ordinance to provide for and regulate Process in actions at Law against persons absent from the Colony,\" the said Attachment may be dissolved.\n\nDated this 2nd day of September, A.D. 1864.\nR. C. R. OWEN, Plaintiff's Attorney.\n\n## STEAM FOR SINGAPORE, PENANG, POINT DE GALLE, ADEN, SUEZ, MALTA, MARSEILLES, AND SOUTHAMPTON; also, BOMBAY, MADRAS, AND CALCUTTA.\n\nTHE `PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY'S` Steam-ship `ORISSA`, Captain HECTOR, with Her Majesty's Mails, Passengers, Specie, and Cargo, will leave this for the above places on Sunday, the 11th September, 1864, at 9 A.M.\n\nCARGO will be received on board until 5 P.M. on the 9th, Specie until Noon on the 10th: and PARCELS until 5 P.M. on the 9th.\n\nFor particulars regarding FREIGHT and PASSAGE, apply at the `PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY's` Office, Hongkong.\n\nContents and Value of Packages are required.\n\nA written declaration of the Contents and Value of the Packages for the Overland Route is required by the Egyptian Government, and must be delivered by the Shippers to the Company's Agents with the Bills of Lading, or with Parcels; and the Company do not hold themselves responsible for any Detention or Prejudice which happen from incorrectness in such declaration. Shippers of Cargo on the Company's \"C\" Bills of Lading are particularly requested to note the Terms and Conditions of Transhipment and forwarding of Cargo, with a view to the adequacy of their Insurance Policies in respect of the same.\n\nTHOS. SUTHERLAND, Superintendent.\n\nPeninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company's Office, Hongkong, 29th August, 1864.\n\n## COMPAGNIE DES SERVICES MARITIMES DES MESSAGERIES IMPERIALES.\n\n### Paquebots-Poste Français.\n\nSTEAM FOR SAIGON, SINGAPORE, POINT DE GALLE, ADEN, SUEZ, ALEXANDRIA, MESSINA, MARSEILLES. ALSO, PONDICHERY, MADRAS, & CALCUTTA.\n\nOn Saturday, the 24th September, at Noon, the Company's Steam-ship `CAMBODGE`, Commander De Bovis, with Her Britannic Majesty's Mails, Passengers, Specie, and Cargo, will leave this Port for the above places, in connection...\n\nAt Alexandria, with the Company's and the Austrian Lloyd's Mail Steamers for the Levant, Black Sea, Greece, Corfu, and Trieste: At Messina, with the Company's twice-weekly Mail Steamers for Malta and all the Italian Ports: At Marseilles, with the weekly Company's Mail Steamer for Valencia and by Railroad to Madrid.\n\nPassengers going to London are informed that the Company will convey, free of charge, from Marseilles to London, their Baggage to the extent allowed by the regulation.\n\nCargo and Specie will be registered for London as well as for Marseilles, and accepted in transit through Marseilles for the principal places of Europe.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-111 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1866 [1-2].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 265993, "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": "CO129-113 - MacDonnell - 1866 [5-6]", "page_number": 463, "title": "CO129-113 - MacDonnell - 1866 [5-6]", "content_text": "the straits, is another and larger village called Nam Shui, whilst on the \nSeaward face of the Smith island is a slightly larger place Called Mun Wan (文湾).\n\nBoth of these, especially the latter, were resorted to by the sea-going pirates for the disposal of their captured goods, which were conveniently transported to Whampoa in boats and thence brought to market for sale, whilst provisions were also obtained here by them. Black mail was also levied in the Straits on passing junks, for which this passage is the safest and most convenient for vessels plying down the Coast.\n\nA member of the Committee of gentry of the Hsiang Shan District boarded Commander Johnstone's gunboat. Officials supplied the Chinese with much useful intelligence. He stated, however, that there would be no likelihood of finding any piratical junks at Pakhoi, as the intended dispatch of gunboats had been talked of in the Chinese town at Hongkong for 4 or 5 days before and would immediately be known on Chu-shan. His surmise, in this respect, proved correct.\n\nWe left Sin Sai at 10 P.M. on the evening of the 30th, but owing to a break down of the gunboat's engines, we did not reach the islands until about...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-113 - MacDonnell - 1866 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 266558, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-114 - MacDonnell - 1866 [7-8]", "page_number": 451, "title": "CO129-114 - MacDonnell - 1866 [7-8]", "content_text": "COLONIAL ESTIMATES-HONGKONG.\n\nCIVIL LIST.\n\n(As per Ordinances No. 13 of 1860, No. 5 of 1862, and No. 2 of 1864.)\n\nCOLONIAL ESTIMATES-HONGKONG.\n\nB.\n\nAbstract of Sums required to defray the Expenses of the Colonial Government of Hongkong for the Year from 1st January to 31st December, 1867, shewing also the Amount expended for the Year previous to that in which the Estimates are prepared, viz.: 1865.\n\n446\n\nC.\n\nGovernor and Commander-in-Chief, $24,000.00\n\nBrought forward, $117,744.00\n\nChief Justice, $12,000.00\n\nColonial Secretary, $7,200.00\n\nJudge of the Court of Summary Jurisdiction, $7,200.00\n\nSUVERYOR GENERAL'S ESTABLISHMENT:—\n\n1st Clerk, $2,400.00\n\n2nd do., $1,440.00\n\nAttorney General, $4,800.00\n\nColonial Treasurer, $4,800.00\n\nMINT ESTABLISHMENT:-\n\nAuditor General, $2,400.00\n\nSurveyor General, $4,800.00\n\nSuperintendent of the Bullion Office, $3,840.00\n\nAssayer, $3,840.00\n\nMaster of the Mint, $6,720.00\n\nTwo Police Magistrates ($3,840 each), $7,680.00\n\nSuperintendent of the Coining Department, $3,840.00\n\nDo. of the Melting do., $9,840.00\n\nPostmaster General, $9,840.00\n\nRegistrar of Supreme Court, $3,840.00\n\nPOLICE MAGISTRATES' ESTABLISHMENT:\n\nColonial Chaplain, $8,840.00\n\n1st Clerk, $1,920.00\n\n25\n\nColonial Surgeon, $3,840.00\n\n2nd do., $1,440.00\n\nHarbor Master, $3,360.00\n\nRegistrar General, $3rd do., $960.00\n\n \n ITEM OF ESTIMATE\n SALARIES\n ALLOWANCE\n FIXED ESTABLISHMENT\n PROVISIONAL\n OFFICE CONTINGENCIES\n ESTIMATED POWER\n EXPENDITURE OF 1865 INCLUDING CIVIL LIST\n \n \n ESTABLISHMENTS\n $197,034.60\n $56,881.60\n $10,584.40\n $15,642.00\n \n \n \n \n \n PENSIONS, RETIRED ALLOWANCES AND GRATUITIES\n \n \n \n \n $9,439.13\n $2,140.00\n $1,810.63\n \n \n REVENUE SERVICES, EXCLUSIVE OF ESTABLISHMENTS\n \n $850.00\n $817.48\n $3,360.00\n \n \n \n \n \n Clerk of Councils\n $960.00\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n POST OFFICE ESTABLISHMENT:—\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ECCLESIASTICAL\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n GOVERNOR'S ESTABLISHMENT:----\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Assistant Postmaster General\n $2,400.00\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Clerk\n $1,440.00\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n CHARITABLE ALLOWANCES\n $400.00\n $300.00\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Private Secretary\n $1,200.00\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n EDUCATION, EXCLUSIVE OF ESTABLISHMENTS\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n SUPREME COURT:-\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Crown Solicitor\n $1,200.00\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n HOSPITALS\n $9,134.00\n $8,624.86\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Chief Clerk\n $2,400.00\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Deputy Registrar\n $1,920.00\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 1st do.\n $1,920.00\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Clerk of Court\n $1,440.00\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n POLICE\n $48,210.00\n $30,429.34\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 2nd do.\n $1,440.00\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Judge's Clerk\n $1,440.00\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 3rd do.\n $1,344.00\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n GAOLS\n $38,265.00\n $34,942.88\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n HARBOR MASTER'S ESTABLISHMENT:-\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n COLONIAL TREASURER'S ESTABLISHMENT:-\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 1st Clerk\n $1,920.00\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n MINT\n $19,150.00\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 1st Clerk and Cashier\n $1,920.00\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 2nd do.\n $1,440.00\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Accountant\n $1,440.00\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n RENT\n $10,410.00\n $3,408.66\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n REGISTRAR GENERAL'S ESTABLISHMENT :----\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n AUDITOR GENERAL'S ESTABLISHMENT --\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Clerk\n $1,440.00\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 1st Clerk\n $1,440.00\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n TRANSPORT\n $3,000.00\n $3,039.46\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n CONVEYANCE OF MAILS\n $124,800.00\n $97,125.32\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Carried over\n $117,744.00\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n TOTAL\n $157,104.00\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n WORKS AND BUILDINGS\n $90,100.00\n $300,859.06\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ROADS, STREETS AND BRIDGES\n $73,500.00\n $48,492.50\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n MISCELLANEOUS SERVICES\n $3,100.00\n $4,011.87\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n INTEREST\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n LAND AND HOUSES PURCHASED\n $2,132.84\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PENSIONS, RETIRED ALLOWANCES, AND GRATUITIES\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n SPECIAL EXPENSES\n $26,000.00\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n MILITARY CONTRIBUTION\n $94,000.00\n $72,000.00\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n TOTAL TO BE VOTED\n $828,201.60\n $937,805.24\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ALREADY GRANTED:-\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Colonel Caine\n $5,040.00\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n E. Michell\n $451.20\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Wm. Chapman\n $704.00\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n W. H. Mitchell\n $753.82\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n N'g Foong Shan\n $140.00\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Bishop Smith\n $1,440.00\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n C. St. George Cleverly\n $2,000.00\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Amount of Civil List already provided for by Ordinances No. 13 of 1860, No. 5 of 1862, and No. 2 of 1864\n $157,104.00\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Probable Expenditure on Pensions, Gratuities, &c., under authority of Ordinance No. 10 of 1862\n $12,000.00\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Amount to be voted as per present Estimates\n $828,201.60\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n TOTAL PROBABLE EXPENDITURE FOR 1867\n $997,305.60\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ESTIMATED AMOUNT TO COVER PENSIONS WHICH MAY BE GRANTED IN 1867\n $1,471.48\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\nNOTE.\n\nPublic Works,\n\nThe foregoing Expenditure may be classified as follows:-\n\nOrdinary Expenditure, $712,205.60\n\nMilitary Contribution, and Gun-boat, $120,000.00\n\nTOTAL, $997,305.60", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-114 - MacDonnell - 1866 [7-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 266872, "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": "CO129-115 - Sir MacDonnell - 1866 [9-10]", "page_number": 210, "title": "CO129-115 - Sir MacDonnell - 1866 [9-10]", "content_text": "C\n\nEnclosure in Governor Sir Graves MacDonnell's Despatch 132 of 27th September 1866\n\nTHE STAMP ACT, 1866. The following Memorial respecting the Stamp Act has been presented to His Excellency the Governor from the undermentioned firms and other residents at Amoy.\n\nTo His Excellency Sir RICHARD GRAVES MACDONNELL, K.C.B., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hong Kong.\n\nThe Memorial of the undersigned, Merchants and Inhabitants of the Port of Amoy.\n\nHumbly Sheweth,\n\nThat your Memorialists have seen with extreme regret Your Excellency's proposal for a Stamp Act for the Colony of Hong Kong, which they are of opinion is calculated to inflict great injury on the trade and all other vested interests of that Port.\n\nThat your Memorialists are many of them directly interested in the prosperity of Hong Kong, such as they are Bankers, Dock, and Insurance Companies, all of which must have suffered had the Stamp Act come into force, independently of the sharp commercial depression.\n\nThat your Memorialists would draw Your Excellency's attention to the fact that the trades of Amoy are intimately connected with that of Hong Kong, and anything which interferes with the trade of the latter must have an injurious effect upon that of the former; for example, all the Exchange business of this Port is done through Hong Kong, and nearly all the manufactured Goods, Foreign Cotton, &c., which are consumed here are received via Hong Kong, and they would respectfully state that the proposed Stamp Act will certainly prove a serious burden and obstacle to the continuance of such Trade.\n\nThat your Memorialists would, for the reasons set forth above, as well as for those more fully and emphatically expressed in the Memorial of the Hong Kong Community, in which they especially concur, respectfully beg of Your Excellency to abandon the Stamp Act in favor of some other mode of taxation less likely to press so grievously and vexatiously upon the trade of Hong Kong, as well as on that of Amoy and other Coast Ports in the South of China.\n\nDated at Amoy, September 6, 1866.\n\n[Signed by various firms and individuals, including:]\n\nEMAIL, BROWN & Co.,\nDAUVER & Co.,\nAmoy Dyeing Company, per J. CASS, Secretary,\nROBERT CRAIG,\nW. CUNNINGHAM JOHNSTON,\nMUNRO,\nF. MEYER,\nTAIT & Co.,\nELLIS & Co.,\nM. SMITH,\nBOYD & Co.,\nJONES CARNEGIE & SCOTT,\nJno. L. ANDERSON,\nJOHN C. MACKENZIE,\nDAN PEDDER,\nFRANK LEYBURN,\nC. & ROBERT WILSON,\nJ. H. MENZIES,\nWALTER G. H. CAPP,\nJAMES JONES,\nW. S. SIBBALD,\nOK HVAITE,\nR. KAISER,\nMAN WALK ZACHARIAH,\nA. LEIGH,\nA. M. DONALDSON,\nAUG. MULLER,\nH. A. PETERSON & Co.,\nH. G. HUG, GERARD & Co.,\nBELLAMY & Co.,\nJ. AYRES,\nWILSON, NICHOLLS & GILES & Co.\n\nCOLONIAL SECRETARY'S OFFICE, HONG KONG, 14th September, 1866.\n\nI am directed by His Excellency Sir Richard Graves MacDonnell to acknowledge receipt of your letter of the 12th instant, transmitting a Memorial of certain Merchants and Inhabitants of the Port of Amoy praying His Excellency \"to abandon the Stamp Act in favor of some other mode of taxation less likely to press grievously and vexatiously on the trade of Hong Kong as well as on that of Amoy and other Coast Ports in the South of China.\"\n\nHis Excellency is much concerned that such erroneous impressions should have alarmed the residents at Amoy, who do not appear to have been acquainted with the very simple and moderate scale of Stamp duties imposed by the revised Schedule of the Stamp Ordinance. It is unnecessary to remark that His Excellency does not believe that measure \"calculated to inflict great injury not only on the trade, but also on the vested interests of Hong Kong.\" If such had been his belief, he would not have proposed it.\n\nNevertheless, in the anxiety expressed by the inhabitants of Amoy as to the effects of a Stamp duty on themselves, and the mercantile interests of other Coast Ports, His Excellency sees an additional proof of the soundness of the Policy, which has not placed the new duty merely on the property of residents in Hong Kong, but has spread it as widely as possible over the general business and mercantile transactions of all who have dealings with Hong Kong as the main centre of those transactions and principal Commercial Depot of these seas.\n\nAlready Hong Kong alone contributes towards the Military protection of British interests and trade in China, and therefore, when her finances are embarrassed, has just right to expect that all who are commercially connected with her should contribute to such expenditure wherever it may be possible to reach them.\n\nHis Excellency has therefore sought to accomplish this by a Stamp duty, the only means compatible with the freedom of the port by which the Legislature here can reach parties who, though not actually residing in Hong Kong, nevertheless indirectly derive almost as much benefit from the establishment and maintenance of Hong Kong as if residing there.\n\nIt is quite true that the principle of a Stamp duty might be pushed injuriously far and become by its complications and heavy amount \"grievous\" and \"vexatious.\" It is not true, however, that such terms fairly describe the Ordinance recently passed, and His Excellency sees no just reason why the people of Amoy should assume that an equitable mode of taxation is likely to be carried either by himself or Her Majesty's Government to an extreme calculated to injure the interests which it is their duty to foster and protect.\n\nHis Excellency will feel obliged by your forwarding this letter as a reply to the parties who transmitted their Memorial through you.\n\nI have, &c.,\n\n(Signed) L. D'ALMADA & CASTRO, for the Colonial Secretary.\n\nTo GEORGE F. MACLEAN, Esq., &c.\n\nPage 210\n\nPage 211", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-115 - Sir MacDonnell - 1866 [9-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 273325, "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": "CO129-129 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [1-3]", "page_number": 134, "title": "CO129-129 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [1-3]", "content_text": "## War Department, Hong Kong, 4th October, 1881.\n\nI have again to call the attention of His Excellency, the Governor & Commander in Chief, to the manner in which seamen discharged at Shanghai are forwarded to this place for export: On the 2nd Ultimo I wrote to the Consul at that place, remonstrating against the sending firemen here for whom there was no employment at Shanghai, and pointing out to that Officer that there were greater facilities for destitute sailors in Hong Kong than Shanghai.\n\nstarted in the \"Glengyles\" with but a few dollars in his pocket.\n\nI have No. 112.\n\n(signed) Richard Graves Mac Donnell\n\n(Copies) \nTo \nThe Harbour Master, \nThe Acting Colonial Secretary.\n\n## War Master's Department, Hong Kong, 4th October, 1881.\n\nI have again to call the attention of His Excellency, the Governor & Commander in Chief, to the manner in which seamen discharged at Shanghai are forwarded to this place for export: On the 2nd Ultimo I wrote to the Consul at that place, remonstrating against the sending firemen here for whom there was no employment at Shanghai, and pointing out to that Officer that Hong Kong offers greater facilities for destitute sailors than Shanghai, and therefore, bringing this case to Your Excellency's notice, trusting that such directions may be given to prevent the recurrence of similar cases to that mentioned in Mr. Thanwell's letter.\n\n(signed) \nThe Harbour Master.\n\n(Copies) \nTo \nCCS Smith, \nActing Colonial Secretary. \nNo. 132.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-129 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 273900, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-130 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [4-5]", "page_number": 161, "title": "CO129-130 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [4-5]", "content_text": "## \n158\n\nIt is improbable that Her Majesty's Government intended that instructions should be transmitted from Canton and Foochow, through Pekin, for His Excellency's approval, especially as the latter place is one with which all communication is extremely difficult and uncertain during many of the year.\n\nI shall, however, not fail to observe that I myself was not acquainted with the decision of Her Majesty's Government, which reached me on the 22nd February. I lost no time in acquainting you by my letter of the 27th February.\n\nI have, &c.,\n(Signed) **Schardt Graves Mac Bennett**, \nGovernor and Commander-in-Chief.\n\nI have to transmit your letter to His Excellency the Secretary of State who will doubtless take such action as may promote the Public interests.\n\nI have only further to \nCopy) \n**Fair (Smith)**, Acting Colonial Secretary.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-130 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [4-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 274494, "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": "CO129-131 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [6-7]", "page_number": 129, "title": "CO129-131 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [6-7]", "content_text": "In `8342/58` 11.\n\n125\n\nHongkong. This seems longer- and I would earnestly press \nYour Excellency the expediency of repeating by the same means to attain at Macao a result \nrapidly achieved here.\n\n11. The doubts and objections which were natural before the experiment had been submitted \nto the test of actual experience are no longer applicable, when experience has \nwarranted the experiment by its success.\n\nI have, &c.,\n\n(Signed) Richard Graves Macdonnell \nGovernor and Commander-in-Chief.\n\nNo. 29.\n\n**GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION**\n\nThe following Report of the Harbor Master, with Returns annexed for the Year 1867, is published for general information.\n\nBy Command,\n\nColonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 7th March, 1868.\n\nSIR,\n\nCECIL C. SMITH, \nActing Colonial Secretary.\n\nHARBOR MASTER'S DEPARTMENT, VICTORIA, HONGKONG, 19th February, 1868.\n\n1. I have the honor to enclose the undermentioned Annual Returns of the Shipping and other matters connected with the Marine Department of this Colony.\n\n1. Number, Tonnage and Crews of Vessels, entered at Ports in Hongkong from each Country in the Year 1867. \nII. Number, Tonnage and Crews of Vessels, cleared at Ports in the Colony of Hongkong to each Country in the Year 1867. \nIII. Number, Tonnage and Crews of Vessels, of each Nation entered at Ports in the Colony of Hongkong in the Year 1867. \nIV. Number, Tonnage and Crews of Vessels, of each Nation cleared at Ports in the Colony of Hongkong in the Year 1867. \nV. Total Number, Tonnage and Crews of Vessels, entered at each Port in the Colony of Hongkong in the Year 1867. \nVI. Total Number, Tonnage and Crews of Vessels, cleared in 1867.\n\n| Return No. | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| VII | Return of Junks entered at the Port of Victoria from the Outstations of the Island and the Villages in British Kowloon during the Year 1867. |\n| VIII | Return of Junks cleared from the Ports of Victoria for the Outstations of the Island and the Villages in British Kowloon during the Year 1867. |\n| IX | Summary of Arrivals and Departures. |\n| X | Return of Vessels Registered at the Port of Hongkong, during the Year 1867. |\n| XI | Return of Vessels Registered and struck off in the Port of Hongkong during the Year 1867. |\n| XII | Return of Emigrant Ships cleared by the Emigration Officer, Hongkong, during the Year ending 31st December, 1867. |\n| XIII | Return of Vessels bringing Chinese Passengers to the Port of Victoria, Hongkong, from places out of China, during the Year 1867. |\n| XIV | Amount of Fees received under Ordinance No. 10 of 1860, in the Harbor Master's Department during the Year 1867. |\n| XV | Return of Marine Cases tried at the Marine Magistrate's Office during the Year 1867. |\n\n**SHIPPING**\n\n2. This is the first occasion on which the Arrivals and Departures of the Canton and Macao Steamers, and of the native Junks trading between this Port and the Ports of China, &c., are included in the Returns. The grand total, consequently, exhibits a very large increase on the Year 1866, of 21,337 Vessels with 1,612,672 tons entered, and 20,980 Vessels with 1,593,700 tons cleared, or that of Foreign trade, a grand total of 42,320 more Vessels with a capacity of 3,206,441 tons and manned by 602,781 Seamen were Registered in the books of this Office in 1867, than were noted in the preceding Year.\n\n3. It must not be taken that these figures indicate a positive increase to the trade of the Colony, but rather that recent legislation has, in addition to other important matters (hereafter treated of), enabled this Department to keep more detailed and accurate accounts than previously of the amount of trade actually being done between this Port and Foreign Countries. But extraneous to the tonnage thus added, there has been an increase in the gross trade of the Colony during the Year, amounting to 9,118 tons; this increase is in a great measure due to the establishment of the Pacific Mail Steam-Ship Company and to the increased Steam Coasting trade with China. There is a decrease of 29,484 tons, in the trade between this Port and British India, which is somewhat due to the Abyssinian campaign; Her Majesty's Government having engaged some of the Vessels, usually frequenting Hongkong, to carry Troops and Stores for the expedition.\n\n4. In view of the general unsatisfactory condition of the mercantile world, the Returns of Shipping, other than in Chinese bottoms, evince a better result than could have been anticipated.\n\n**JUNK TRADE.—“Harbor and Coasts Ordinance, No. 6 of 1866.”**\n\n5. It will be gratifying to Her Majesty's Government to know of the great success, which has attended the introduction of this very important Ordinance. Previous to, and for some time subsequent to its inauguration, it was surmised by many that the effect of this Law would be to drive the owners and Masters of Junks from the pursuit of a legitimate trade, to...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-131 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [6-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 277494, "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": "CO129-135 - Public Offices & Others - 1868", "page_number": 794, "title": "CO129-135 - Public Offices & Others - 1868", "content_text": "HONGKONG, 29TH JULY, 1867.\n\n日八十月六年卯丁治同 1137\n\nThe meeting of the Shareholders of the Hong-ong Hotel Company has been held, but nothing very definite transpired. prospects of the one were considered incongruous.\n\n3. The Governor does not feel called on again to discuss the question at length, as he is bound to give a direct denial of your assertion that the measure has been introduced in an underhand and un-English way. Such a statement is as untrue, as it is unreasonable to assert that a Law for licensing Gambling Houses will certainly lead to a large increase of Gambling.\n\n2. Because licensing Gambling Houses will certainly lead to a large increase of Gambling. The fear of the law, which is now a partial check, will be removed. The publicity of the present Court in dealing with piracy has rested additional powers in the Supreme Court.\n\nThe Governor has introduced an ordinance: \n\nThe French have annexed the remaining provinces of Cambodia.\n\nTHE \"GAMBLING\" REVENUE,\n\nShortly before going to press we received a printed copy of the subjoined correspondence between the signataries and His Excellency the Governor. The case is this: The Governor proposes to raise a revenue from Chinese gambling places, by licensing them, and he estimates the revenue derivable from that source from $250,000 to $300,000 per annum.\n\nThe memorialists object to licensing at all. There is a third party, including ourselves, who advocate licensing in order to give the power of regulating and controlling, but without any view to deriving pecuniary profit from, the vices of Chinamen. His Excellency Sir R. Graves MacDonnell, thinks, however, that it is perfectly consistent with the honour of the Crown which he represents that the expenses of its administration in Hongkong should be partially defrayed by what can be obtained from the public gambling tables of the Chinese.\n\nThere is no social or pecuniary necessity for such a very objectionable mode of raising money for the use of government here. His Excellency has committed a blunder. The Stamp Act is available honestly, and would yield more money than Sir Richard requires. Why he has preferred to trade upon the vicious propensities of Chinamen, instead of carrying out a law to which Her Majesty has assented, has yet to be satisfactorily explained.\n\nIt will be seen that Sir Richard, in his reply, mildly insinuates that it is not his intention to aid the general revenue by such means; and this may, perhaps, be regarded as a sign of repentance.\n\nMemorial of the Reverend Charles F. Warren and Others to His Excellency Sir Richard Graves MacDonnell, C.B., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Hongkong.\n\nSIR,\n\nLONDON MISSION HOUSE, HONGKONG, 24th July, 1867.\n\nAfter the recent interview of Messrs. Warren, Morris, and Turner, with Your Excellency, when you were so good as to listen to some arguments against the proposed system of licensing Gambling Houses in this Colony, and you intimated your intention of putting that system into operation; we desire respectfully to lay before Your Excellency the following objections, which we venture to beg your earnest consideration.\n\nWe object to, and feel in conscience bound to protest against, this scheme, for the following reasons:\n\n1. Because it has been introduced in an underhand and un-English way. It is included in an Ordinance for \"the Maintenance of Order and Cleanliness,\" a title under which no one would look for such a measure.\n\nThe clause affecting Gambling is worded ambiguously; but any plain honest man would interpret it as meaning the very contrary to licensing the evil.\n\nIt looks as if every care had been taken to blind-fold the public on this subject. There has been no opportunity of eliciting public opinion here; no opportunity of memorialising the Home Government in opposition to it.\n\n3. Because licensing Gambling Houses will never lead to the \"ultimate suppression\" of the vice.\n\nTo pretend the contrary would be the most barefaced hypocrisy. Every one who argues for the licensing, Your Excellency included, does so on the ground that suppression is hopeless.\n\nThe licensing will bring a large Revenue which the Government will not easily resign. But if at any time the Government does withdraw the licenses, the illegal Gambling will then be harder to put down than ever.\n\n4. We believe that a large proportion of the Chinese population of this place are opposed to this measure. Its introduction will have a seriously demoralising effect on the Chinese resident in the Colony.\n\nGambling is at present equally illegal by British and by Chinese law, in every part of the two Empires. Only last Year the Governor of Canton took stringent measures for the suppression of Gambling in that City.\n\nThe proposed measure will degrade both our civilization and our Christianity in the eyes of the Chinese people.\n\n5. We believe that the Government has no right to countenance and sanction vice.\n\nBy licensing Gambling Houses the Government will not only do this, but will actually protect and patronise that class of sharper who make Gambling their regular profession, and live by preying on the community, and (which is still worse) will itself take a share of their ill-gotten gains.\n\nFor the above reasons we are compelled, with much personal reluctance, to enter our earnest protest against this proposed measure.\n\nWe again thank Your Excellency for the patient hearing you gave to arguments against your policy and are sorry we are constrained to announce to you, that we cannot but take every possible measure, both here and in England, to obtain the reversal of this scheme.\n\nWe are, with great respect,\n\nYour Excellency's\n\nObedient humble Servants,\n\n(Signed,) CHARLES F. WARREN, C.M.S.\n\nJOHN PIPER.\n\nRUDOLPH LECHLER.\n\nJACOB LORCHER.\n\nDAVID B. MORRIS.\n\nF. TURNER.\n\nFrom Cecil C. Smith, Acting Colonial Secretary, to Reverend Charles F. Warren and Others.\n\nCOLONIAL SECRETARY'S OFFICE,\n\nHONGKONG, 27th July, 1867.\n\nGENTLEMEN,\n\n1. I am instructed by His Excellency Sir Richard Graves MacDonnell, to say that pressure of business has prevented his earlier acknowledging receipt of your letter of the 24th instant.\n\n2. His Excellency is obliged to you for bringing before him once more your reasons for condemning the policy of licensing Gaming Houses in this Colony.\n\nAt the same time he cannot help remembering that Three of your number, at a recent interview, quite failed to give any satisfactory answer to his arguments in favour of that policy and appeared entirely unprepared with any suggestions to meet acknowledged existing evils.\n\n6. Those efforts moreover drove the incorrigible and numerous Chinese Gamblers of the Colony to resort to secret lairs, to live in a perpetual defiance of the law, and thus established numerous rendezvous of the worst classes, where nine-tenths of the burglaries and daring crimes perpetrated were planned.\n\n7. His Excellency might of course have left matters in that state, which he presumes is what you would advise, or he might resort to the other alternative of the Ordinance for \"the better limitation and control of Gambling,\" which is the policy that he considers most consistent with his duty to maintain \"Order.\"\n\n8. Last Month the Colonial Press gave full publicity to the Governor's declaration in Council of his opinion that it would be wise to regulate what we could not suppress, and if publicity be \"un-English, and calculated to blind-fold the Public,\" you will find it in extenso in the reported proceedings of the Legislative Council of the 17th ultimo.\n\n9. His Excellency would have expected from the deep interest which you feel in the question that you would then have avowed your opinions.\n\nIt may be a satisfaction to you however to know that Members of Council, at least all the non-official Members, so far back as the passing of the Ordinance last year, were well acquainted with and entirely approved of the alternative given to the Executive, if the suppression of Gaming proved impossible.\n\nSuch also is the opinion of the most experienced residents here, men whose opinions are entitled to equal weight with yours, for His Excellency presumes that you do not claim a monopoly of either sagacity or virtue.\n\n10. You allude to the \"large Revenue\" which Gambling licenses will bring in, and some of your number have published letters imputing to the Government the most sordid motives.\n\nYour imputing such motives, when disavowed by the Government, gives them neither truth nor even increased probability.\n\n11. The Governor simply wishes to free Gambling from its present illegality so far as to break up the gangs of illegal Gamblers, whose cliques are now the schools and nurseries of crime, the continuance of ...\n\n789", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-135 - Public Offices & Others - 1868.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 279166, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-139 - Sir MacDonnell - 1869 [8-12]", "page_number": 200, "title": "CO129-139 - Sir MacDonnell - 1869 [8-12]", "content_text": "COLONIAL ESTIMATES—HONGKONG.\n\nCIVIL LIST.\n\nCOLONIAL ESTIMATES—HONGKONG.\n\nB.\n\n196\n\n9\n\n(48 per Ordinances No. 13 of 1860, and No. 2 of 1864.)\n\n$\n\n$ 2.\n\nAbstract of Sums, exclusive of Civil List and Pension, required to defray the Expenses of the Colonial Government of Hongkong for the Year from 1st January to 31st December, 1870, shewing also the Amount expended for the Year previous to that in which the Estimates are prepared, viz.: 1868.\n\nGovernor and Commander-in-Chief, $24,000.00\n\nBrought forward, $109,584.00\n\nChief Justice, $12,000.00\n\nColonial Secretary, $7,200.00\n\nJudge of the Court of Summary Jurisdiction, $7,200.00\n\nAUDITOR GENERAL'S ESTABLISHMENT\n\nClerk, $1,440.00\n\nPAGE OF DETAIL.\n\nESTIMATED FOR 1870 EXCLUSIVE OF CIVIL LIST AND PENSIONS, EXPENDITURE OF 1869 INCLUDING Civil List AND PENSIONS.\n\nAttorney General, $4,800.00\n\nSURVEYOR GENERAL'S ESTABLISHMENT\n\nColonial Treasurer, $4,800.00\n\n1st Clerk, $2,400.00\n\n$ C.\n\nC.\n\nAuditor General, $2,400.00\n\n2nd do., $1,440.00\n\nSurveyor General, $4,800.00\n\nTwo Police Magistrates ($3,810 each), $7,680.00\n\nPOLICE MAGISTRATES ESTABLISHMENT\n\nPostmaster General, $8,840.00\n\n1st Clerk, $1,020.00\n\nRegistrar of Supreme Court, $3,840.00\n\n2nd do., $1,440.00\n\nColonial Chaplain, $3,840.00\n\n3rd do., $960.00\n\nColonial Surgeon, $3,840.00\n\nHarbor Master, $3,860.00\n\nPOST OFFICE ESTABLISHMENT:\n\nAssistant Postmaster General, $3,360.00\n\nRegistrar General, $2,400.00\n\nClerk of Councils, $960.00\n\nClerk, $1,440.00\n\nSUPREME COURT:\n\nGOVERNOR'S ESTABLISHMENT:\n\nCrown Solicitor, $1,200.00\n\nPrivate Secretary, $1,200.00\n\nClerk of Court, $1,440.00\n\nJudge's Clerk, $1,440.00\n\nCOLONIAL SECRETARY'S ESTABLISHMENT:\n\nChief Clerk, $2,400.00\n\nHARBOR MASTER'S ESTABLISHMENT:\n\n1st Clerk, $1,920.00\n\n2nd do., $1,440.00\n\n2nd do., $1,020.00\n\n3rd do., $1,440.00\n\nREGISTRAR GENERAL'S ESTABLISHMENT:\n\n1st Clerk, $1,811.00\n\nCOLONIAL TREASURER'S ESTABLISHMENT:\n\n1st Clerk and Cashier, $1,920.00\n\nAccountant, $1,440.00\n\n2nd do., $1,200.00\n\nTOTAL, $138,104.00\n\nCarried over, $109,584.00\n\nCIVIL DEPARTMENTS:\n\nGovernor, $480.00\n\nColonial Secretary, $14,516.00\n\nColonial Treasurer, $25,559.55\n\nAuditor General, $28,878.85\n\nClerk of Councils, $4,620.00\n\nSurveyor General, $14,431.66\n\nMaster of the Mint, $12,447.00\n\nPostmaster General, $15,870.52\n\nRegistrar General, $1,086.21\n\nHarbor Master, $19,912.00\n\nCollector of Stamp Revenue, $4,460.00\n\nJUDICIAL DEPARTMENTS, $6,226.00\n\nREGISTRAR OF COMPANIES DEPARTMENT, $192.00\n\nECCLESIASTICAL, $1,134.00\n\nEDUCATIONAL, $9,200.00\n\nMEDICAL, $21,498.00\n\nPOLICE MAGISTRATES, $6,404.00\n\nPOLICE, $120,000.00\n\nGAOL, $45,523.00\n\nFIRE BRIGADE, $8,000.00\n\nPENSIONS, RETIRED ALLOWANCES AND GRATUITIES, CHARITABLE ALLOWANCES, $16,303.63\n\nTRANSPORT, $1,256.00\n\nWORKS AND BUILDINGS, $187,000.00\n\nROADS, STREETS AND BRIDGES, $41,000.00\n\nMISCELLANEOUS SERVICES, $27,800.00\n\nLAND AND HOUSES PURCHASED, SPECIAL EXPENSES, $1,500.00\n\nMILITARY CONTRIBUTION, $94,117.65\n\nTOTAL TO BE VOTED, $639,610.45\n\nPENSIONS, RETIRED ALLOWANCES, AND GRATUITIES.\n\n(Under authority of Ordinance No. 10 of 1862.)\n\nALREADY GRANTED:\n\nColonel Caine, $5,040.00\n\nE. Michell, $451.20\n\nWm. Chapman, $704.00\n\nW. H. Mitchell, $140.00\n\n'Ng Foong Shan, $1,440.00\n\nBishop Smith, $2,000.00\n\nC. St. George Cleverly, $1,280.00\n\nJ. C. Power, $960.00\n\nJ. J. Irwin, $3,240.00\n\nW. T. Mercer, $302.06\n\nJ. Thornton, $1,028.82\n\nAmount of Civil List already provided for by Ordinances No. 13 of 1860, and No. 2 of 1864, $133,104.00\n\nProbable Expenditure on Pensions, Gratuities, &c., under authority of Ordinance No. 10 of 1862, $18,000.00\n\nAmount to be voted as per present Estimates, $753.82\n\nTOTAL PROBABLE EXPENDITURE FOR 1870, $790,720.45\n\nThe foregoing Expenditure may be classified as follows:\n\nOrdinary Expenditure, $518,602.80\n\nPublic Works, $178,000.00\n\nMilitary Contribution, $94,117.65\n\nTOTAL, $790,720.45", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-139 - Sir MacDonnell - 1869 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 279198, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-139 - Sir MacDonnell - 1869 [8-12]", "page_number": 232, "title": "CO129-139 - Sir MacDonnell - 1869 [8-12]", "content_text": "COLONIAL ESTIMATES-HONGKONG.\n\nCOLONIAL ESTIMATES--HONGKONG.\n\nB.\n\n228\n\n9\n\nCIVIL LIST.\n\n(As per Ordinances No. 13 of 1860, and No. 2 of 1864.)\n\nGovernor and Commander-in-Chief,\n\n$ C. 24,000.00\n\nAbstract of Sums, exclusive of Civil List and Pension, required to defray the Expenses of the Colonial Government of Hongkong for the Year from 1st January to 31st December, 1870, shewing also the Amount expended for the Year previous to that in which the Estimates are prepared, viz.: 1868.\n\nBrought forward,.. 109,584.00\n\nChief Justice,.. 12,000.00\n\nColonial Secretary, 7,200.00\n\nJudge of the Court of Summary Jurisdiction, 7,200.00\n\nAttorney General, 4,800.00\n\nAUDITOR GENERAL'S ESTABLISHMENT:\n\nClerk, 1,440.00\n\nSURVEYOR GENERAL'S ESTABLISHMENT:\n\nColonial Treasurer, 4,800.00\n\n1st Clerk, 2,400.00\n\nAuditor General, 2,400.00\n\n2nd do., 1,440.00\n\nCIVIL DEPARTMENTS:\n\nSurveyor General, 4,800.00\n\nPOLICE MAGISTRATES' ESTABLISHMENT\n\nTwo Police Magistrates ($3,840 each), 7,680.00\n\nPostmaster General, 3,840.00\n\n1st Clerk, 1,920.00\n\nRegistrar of Supreme Court, 3,840.00\n\n2nd do., 1,440.00\n\nColonial Chaplain, 3,840.00\n\n3rd do., 960.00\n\nColonial Surgeon, 3,840.00\n\nPOST OFFICE ESTABLISHMENT:\n\nHarbor Master, 3,360.00\n\nAssistant Postmaster General, 2,400.00\n\nRegistrar General, 3,360.00\n\nGovernor, 480.00\n\nColonial Secretary, 25,559.55\n\nColonial Treasurer, 14,516.00\n\nAuditor General, 4,620.00\n\nClerk of Councils, 28,878.85\n\nSurveyor General, 14,431.66\n\nMaster of the Mint, 12,447.00\n\nPostmaster General, 15,870.52\n\nClerk of Councils, 100.00\n\nClerk, 1,086.21\n\nGOVERNOR'S ESTABLISHMENT:\n\nCrown Solicitor, 1,200.00\n\nPrivate Secretary, 1,200.00\n\nCOLONIAL SECRETARY'S ESTABLISHMENT:\n\nChief Clerk, 2,400.00\n\n1st Clerk, 1,920.00\n\n2nd do., 1,440.00\n\n3rd do., 1,344.00\n\nHARBOR MASTER'S ESTABLISHMENT:\n\n1st Clerk, 1,920.00\n\n2nd do., 1,440.00\n\nREGISTRAR GENERAL'S ESTABLISHMENT:\n\n1st Clerk, 1,440.00\n\nCOLONIAL TREASURER'S ESTABLISHMENT:\n\n1st Clerk and Cashier, 1,920.00\n\n2nd do., 1,440.00\n\nAccountant, 1,200.00\n\nTOTAL,. $133,104.00\n\nCarried over,.. $109,584.00\n\nRegistrar General, 8,412.00\n\n13,586.85\n\nHarbor Master, 15,990.80\n\n34,276.04\n\nCollector of Stamp Revenue, 4,450.00\n\n6,189.95\n\nJUDICIAL DEPARTMENTS, 9,226.00\n\n39,148.45\n\nREGISTRAR OF COMPANIES DEPARTMENT, 192.00\n\n102.00\n\nECCLESIASTICAL, 1,134.00\n\n4,768.58\n\nEDUCATIONAL, 9,200.00\n\n10,810.82\n\nMEDICAL, 21,498.00\n\n99,835.11\n\nPOLICE MAGISTRATES, 6,404.00\n\n17,591.88\n\nPOLICE, 120,000.00\n\n178,282.20\n\nGAOL, 45,523.00\n\n40,807.42\n\nFIRE BRIGADE, 8,000.00\n\n3,899.04\n\nPENSIONS, RETIRED ALLOWANCES AND GRATUITIES, 16,803.63\n\nCHARITABLE ALLOWANCES, 1,256.00\n\n350.68\n\nTRANSPORT, 3,500.00\n\n8,222.55\n\nWORKS AND BUILDINGS, 137,000.00\n\n100,614.08\n\nROADS, STREETS AND BRIDGES, MISCELLANEOUS SERVICES, 41,000.00\n\n27,800.00\n\n28,106.89\n\nLAND AND HOUSES PURCHASED, SPECIAL EXPENSES, 1,500.00\n\n6,195.68\n\nMILITARY CONTRIBUTION, 94,117.65\n\n208,144.80\n\nTOTAL TO BE VOTED, $639,610.45\n\n991,311.49\n\nPENSIONS, RETIRED ALLOWANCES, AND GRATUITIES.\n\n(Under authority of Ordinance No. 10 of 1862.)\n\nNOTE.\n\nALREADY GRANTED:\n\nColonel Caine, $5,040.00\n\nE. Michell, 451.20\n\nWm. Chapman, 704.00\n\nW. H. Mitchell, 758.82\n\n'Ng Foong Shan, 140.00\n\nBishop Smith, 1,440.00\n\nC. St. George Cleverly, 2,000.00\n\nJ. C. Power, 960.00\n\nJ. J. Irwin, 1,280.00\n\nW. T. Mercer, 3,240.00\n\nJ. Thornton, 362.60\n\n16,371.18\n\nESTIMATED AMOUNT TO COVER PENSIONS WHICH MAY BE GRANTED IN 1869, 1,628.82\n\n$18,000.00\n\nAmount of Civil List already provided for by Ordinances No. 13 of 1860, and No. 2 of 1864, 133,104.00\n\nProbable Expenditure on Pensions, Gratuities, &c., under authority of Ordinance No. 10 of 1862, 18,000.00\n\nAmount to be voted as per present Estimates, 639,610.45\n\nTOTAL PROBABLE EXPENDITURE FOR 1870, $790,720.45\n\nThe foregoing Expenditure may be classified as follows:\n\nOrdinary Expenditure, $518,602.80\n\nPublic Works, 178,000.00\n\nMilitary Contribution, 94,117.65\n\nTOTAL, $790,720.45", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-139 - Sir MacDonnell - 1869 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 279323, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-139 - Sir MacDonnell - 1869 [8-12]", "page_number": 359, "title": "CO129-139 - Sir MacDonnell - 1869 [8-12]", "content_text": "COLONIAL ESTIMATES-HONGKONG.\n\nCIVIL LIST.\n\n(As per Ordinances No. 13 of 1860, and No. 2 of 1864.)\n\nCOLONIAL ESTIMATES-HONGKONG.\n\nB.\n\nAbstract of Sums, exclusive of Civil List and Pension, required to defray the Expenses of the Colonial Government of Hongkong for the Year from 1st January to 31st December, 1870, shewing also the Amount expended for the Year previous to that in which the Estimates are prepared, viz.: 1868.\n\n354\n\nGovernor and Commander-in-Chief, Chief Justice,.. $ C. .24,000.00\n\nC\n\nBrought forward,. 109,584.00 12,000.00\n\nColonial Secretary,\n\nJudge of the Court of Summary Jurisdic-tion,\n\n} 7,200.00\n\n7,200.00 AUDITOR GENERAL'S ESTABLISHMENT:\n\nClerk,. 1,440.00\n\nPAGE OF DETAIL.\n\nESTIMATED FOR 1870 EXCLUSIVE OF CIVIL LIST AND PENSIONS.\n\nEXPENDITURE of 1868 INCLUDING CIVIL LIST AND PENSIONS.\n\nAttorney General, 4,800.00\n\nSURVEYOR GENERAL'S ESTABLISHMENT:-\n\nColonial Treasurer, 4,800.00\n\n1st Clerk, 2,400.00\n\nC.\n\ne.\n\nAuditor General, 2,400.00\n\n2nd do., 1,440.00\n\nSurveyor General, 4,800.00\n\n11\n\nTwo Police Magistrates ($3,840 each,) 7,680.00\n\nPOLICE MAGISTRATES' ESTABLISHMENT:-\n\nPostmaster General, 3,840.00\n\n1st Clerk, 1,920.00\n\nRegistrar of Supreme Court,. 3,840.00\n\n2nd do., 1,440.00\n\nColonial Chaplain,. 3,840.00\n\n3rd do., 960.00\n\nColonial Surgeon, 3,840.00\n\nPOST OFFICE ESTABLISHMENT:-\n\nHarbor Master, Registrar General, 3,360.00\n\nAssistant Postmaster General, 2,400.00\n\n14\n\n3,800.00\n\nCIVIL DEPARTMENTS:-\n\nGovernor,\n480.00\n20,550.55\n\nColonial Secretary, Colonial Treasurer, Auditor General, Clerk of Councils, Surveyor General, Master of the Mint, Postmaster General,\n14,516.00\n28,878.85\n\n4,620.00\n14,431.66\n\n12,447.00\n15,870.52\n\n100.00\n1,086.21\n\n19,012.00\n28,789.98\n\n44,449.63\n\n38,482.00\n82,088.47\n\nClerk of Councils, 960.00\n\nClerk, 1,440.00\n\n15\n\nRegistrar General,. 8,112.00 13,580.85\n\n16\n\nHarbor Master, 15,896.80 34,276.04\n\nSUPREME COURT:-\n\n17\n\nGOVERNOR'S ESTABLISHMENT:-\n\nCollector of Stamp Revenue, 4,450.00 6,189.95\n\nCrown Solicitor,.. 1,200.00\n\nJUDICIAL DEPARTMENTS, 9,226.00 39,148.45\n\nPrivate Secretary, 1,200.00\n\nClerk of Court, 1,440.00\n\nREGISTRAR OF COMPANIES DEPARTMENT, 192.00\n\nJudge's Clerk, 1,440.00\n\nECCLESIASTICAL\n\ndo., 1,134.00 4,768.58\n\n102.00\n\nCOLONIAL SECRETARY'S ESTABLISHMENT —\n\nEDUCATIONAL\n\ndo., 9,200.00 10,810.82\n\nChief Clerk, 2,400.00\n\nHARBOR MASTER'S ESTABLISHMENT-\n\nMEDICAL\n\ndo., 21,498.00 22,835.11\n\n1st do., 1,920.00\n\n1st Clerk, 1,920.00\n\nPOLICE MAGISTRATES\n\ndo., 6,401.00 17,691.88\n\n2nd do, 1,440.00\n\n2nd do., 1,440.00\n\nPOLICE\n\ndoy 120,000.00 173,282.22\n\n3rd do., 1,344.00\n\nGAOL\n\ndo.. 45,523.00 40,307.42\n\nREGISTRAR GENERAL'S ESTABLISHMENT:-\n\nFIRE BRIGADE\n\ndo., 8,000.00 3,899.04\n\nCOLONIAL TREASURER'S ESTABLISHMENT:-\n\n1st Clerk and Cashier, 2nd do.\n\n27\n\nAccountant, 1,920.00 1,440.00\n\n1st Clerk, 2nd do,, 1,440.00\n\nPENSIONS, RETIRED ALLOWANCES AND GRATUITIES, 16,503.03\n\n1,200.00\n\nCHARITABLE ALLOWANCES, 1,256.00 350.68\n\nTRANSPORT, 3,500.00 8,222.55\n\nTOTAL, $133,104.00\n\nWORKS AND BUILDINGS, 137,000.00 100,614.63\n\nCarried over, .$109,534.00\n\nROADS, STREETS AND BRIDGES, 41,000.00 57,829.40\n\nMISCELLANEOUS SERVICES, 27,800.00 28,106.89\n\nLAND AND HOUSES PURCHASED, 1,500.00\n\nSPECIAL EXPENSES, 6,195.68\n\n28\n\nMILITARY CONTRIBUTION, 94,117.65 208,144.80\n\nTOTAL TO BE VOTEd,, 639,616.45 991,311.49\n\nPENSIONS, RETIRED ALLOWANCES, AND GRATUITIES.\n\n(Under authority of Ordinance No. 10 of 1862.)\n\nNOTE.\n\nALREADY GRANTED:-\n\nE. Michell, $ 5,040.00\n\nW. II. Mitchell, 451.20\n\nBishop Smith, \n\nColonel Caine, \n\nWm. Chapman, 704.00\n\nAmount of Civil List already provided for by Ordinances No. 13 of 1860, and No. 2 of 1864,. Probable Expenditure on Pensions, Gratuities, &c., under authority of Ordinânce No. 10 of 1862,.... 18,000.00 Amount to be voted as per present Estimates, 133,104.00\n\n753.52\n\nTOTAL PROBABLE EXPENDITURE FOR 1870,.. 639,610.45 -$700,720.45\n\n'Ng Foong Shan, 140.00\n\n1,440.00\n\nC. St. George Cleverly, 2,000.00\n\nJ. C. Power, 960.00\n\nJ. J. Irwin, 1,280.00\n\nThe foregoing Expenditure may be classified as follows:---\n\nW. T. Mercer, 3,240.00\n\nJ. Thornton, 382.66\n\nOrdinary Expenditure, Public Works, 16,371.18\n\nESTIMATED AMOUNT TO COVER PENSIONS WHICH MAY BE GRANTED IN 1869, 1,628.82\n\nMilitary Contribution, $18,000.00 $518,602.80\n\n178,000.00\n\n94,117.65\n\nTOTAL,. $700,720.45", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-139 - Sir MacDonnell - 1869 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 282065, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-145 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1870 [6-9]", "page_number": 192, "title": "CO129-145 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1870 [6-9]", "content_text": "# COLONIAL ESTIMATES--HONGKONG.\n\n## CIVIL LIST.\n\n(As per Ordinance No. 13 of 1880.)\n\n### C.\n\n| Position | Salary |\n| --- | --- |\n| Governor and Commander-in-Chief, | $24,000.00 |\n| Chief Justice, | $12,000.00 |\n| Colonial Secretary, | $7,200.00 |\n| Attorney General, | $4,800.00 |\n| Colonial Treasurer, | $4,800.00 |\n| Auditor General, | $2,400.00 |\n| Judge of the Court of Summary Jurisdiction, | $7,200.00 |\n| **Total Brought forward,** | **$109,584.00** |\n\n## AUDITOR GENERAL'S ESTABLISHMENT:\n\n| Position | Salary |\n| --- | --- |\n| Clerk, | $1,440.00 |\n\n## SURVEYOR GENERAL'S ESTABLISHMENT:\n\n| Position | Salary |\n| --- | --- |\n| 1st Clerk, | $2,400.00 |\n| 2nd do., | $1,440.00 |\n\n# COLONIAL ESTIMATES-HONGKONG.\n\n## B.\n\nAbstract of Sums exclusive of Civil List and Pension, required to defray the Expenses of the Colonial Government of Hongkong for the Year from 1st January to 31st December, 1870, shewing also the Amount expended for the Year previous to that in which the Estimates are prepared, viz: 1869.\n\n### ESTIMATED FOR 1870 EXCLUSIVE OF CIVIL LIST AND PENSIONS.\n\n| Department | Estimated |\n| --- | --- |\n| Surveyor General, | $4,800.00 |\n| Two Police Magistrates ($3,840 each), | $7,680.00 |\n| Postmaster General, | $8,840.00 |\n| Registrar of Supreme Court, | $8,840.00 |\n| Colonial Chaplain, | $3,840.00 |\n| Colonial Surgeon, | $3,840.00 |\n| Harbor Master, | $3,300.00 |\n| Registrar General, | $8,860.00 |\n| Assistant Postmaster General, | $2,400.00 |\n| **CIVIL DEPARTMENTS:** | |\n| Governor, | $740.00 |\n| Colonial Secretary, | $13,070.00 |\n| Colonial Treasurer, | $4,880.00 |\n| Auditor General, | $7,162.81 |\n| Clerk of Councils, | $353.77 |\n| Surveyor General, | $14,687.00 |\n| Master of the Mint, | $100.00 |\n| Clerk of Councils, | $900.00 |\n| **GOVERNOR'S ESTABLISHMENT:** | |\n| Private Secretary, | $1,200.00 |\n| **SUPREME COURT** | |\n| Clerk of Court, | $1,440.00 |\n| Collector of Stamp Revenue, | $4,450.00 |\n| **JUDICIAL DEPARTMENTS,** | $9,948.00 |\n| Judge's Clerk, | $1,440.00 |\n| **COLONIAL SECRETARY'S ESTABLISHMENT:** | |\n| Chief Clerk, | $2,400.00 |\n| 1st Clerk, | $1,920.00 |\n| 2nd do., | $1,440.00 |\n| 3rd do., | $1,844.00 |\n| **REGISTRAR OF COMPANIES DEPARTMENT,** | $192.00 |\n| **HARBOR MASTER'S ESTABLISHMENT:** | |\n| 1st Clerk, | $1,920.00 |\n| 2nd do., | $1,440.00 |\n| **POST OFFICE ESTABLISHMENT:** | $34,134.00 |\n| Postmaster General, | $32,630.04 |\n| **REGISTRAR GENERAL'S ESTABLISHMENT:** | |\n| Registrar General, | $10,278.00 |\n| | $8,088.58 |\n| Harbor Master, | $28,447.60 |\n| | $30,815.86 |\n| Crown Solicitor, | $1,200.00 |\n\n### EXPENDITURE OF 1869 EXCLUSIVE OF CIVIL LIST AND PENSIONS.\n\n| Department | Expenditure |\n| --- | --- |\n| **CIVIL DEPARTMENTS:** | |\n| | $13,253.47 |\n| | $27,840.00 |\n| | $8,251.66 |\n| | $71.00 |\n| | $20,853.08 |\n| | $300.15 |\n| **POLICE MAGISTRATES' ESTABLISHMENT:** | $6,748.00 |\n| | $6,782.60 |\n| **POLICE** | $163,075.20 |\n| | $175,101.60 |\n| **GAOL** | $42,041.00 |\n| | $39,558.73 |\n| **FIRE BRIGADE** | $7,276.00 |\n| | $16,491.05 |\n| **CHARITABLE ALLOWANCES,** | $1,256.00 |\n| | $871.84 |\n| **TRANSPORT,** | $3,500.00 |\n| | $2,516.90 |\n| **WORKS AND BUILDINGS,** | $163,500.00 |\n| | $165,145.02 |\n| **ROADS, STREETS AND BRIDGES,** | $25,000.00 |\n| | $25,941.11 |\n| **MISCELLANEOUS SERVICES,** | $28,200.00 |\n| | $62,240.51 |\n| **LAND AND HOUSES PURCHASED, SPECIAL EXPENSES,** | $40,000.00 |\n| | $5,000.00 |\n| **MILITARY CONTRIBUTION,** | $94,117.05 |\n| | $90,819.14 |\n| **TOTAL TO BE VOTED,** | $764,464.45 |\n| | $756,800.84 |\n\n## PENSIONS, RETIRED ALLOWANCES, AND GRATUITIES.\n\n(Under authority of Ordinances No. 10 of 1862, and No. 11 of 1868.)\n\n### ALREADY GRANTED:\n\n| Name | Pension |\n| --- | --- |\n| E. Michell, | $451.20 |\n| Colonel Caine, | $5,040.00 |\n| Wm. Chapman, | $704.00 |\n| W. H. Mitchell, | $753.32 |\n| 'Ng Foong Shan, | |\n| Bishop Smith, | |\n| C. St. George Cleverly, | |\n| J. J. Irwin, | |\n| J. C. Power, | |\n| W. T. Mercer, | $1,440.00 |\n| W. Quin, | $2,000.00 |\n| J. Jarman, | $1,280.00 |\n| J. Thornton, | $960.00 |\n| | $3,240.00 |\n| | $900.00 |\n| | $665.90 |\n| | $862.66 |\n\n### ESTIMATED AMOUNT TO COVER PENSIONS WHICH MAY BE GRANTED IN 1870, $19,000.00\n\n## NOTE.\n\nAmount of Civil List already provided for by Ordinance No. 13 of 1860, $133,104.00\n\nProbable Expenditure on Pensions, Gratuities, &c., under authority of Ordinances Nos. 10 of 1862, and 11 of 1868, $19,000.00\n\nAmount to be voted as per present Estimates, $764,464.45\n\n**TOTAL PROBABLE EXPENDITURE FOR 1870,** $916,568.45\n\nThe foregoing Expenditure may be classified as follows:-\n\n| Category | Amount |\n| --- | --- |\n| Ordinary Expenditure, | $633,950.80 |\n| Public Works, | $188,500.00 |\n| Military Contribution, | $94,117.05 |\n| **TOTAL,** | **$916,568.45**", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-145 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1870 [6-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 282147, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-145 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1870 [6-9]", "page_number": 274, "title": "CO129-145 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1870 [6-9]", "content_text": "# COLONIAL ESTIMATES-HONGKONG.\n\n## CIVIL LIST.\n\n(As per Ordinance No. 13 of 1860.)\n\n| Position | $ |\n| --- | --- |\n| Governor and Commander-in-Chief | 24,000.00 |\n| Chief Justice | 12,000.00 |\n| Colonial Secretary | 7,200.00 |\n| Judge of the Court of Summary Jurisdiction | 7,200.00 |\n| Attorney General | 4,800.00 |\n| Colonial Treasurer | 4,800.00 |\n| Auditor General | 2,400.00 |\n| Surveyor General | 4,800.00 |\n| Two Police Magistrates ($3,840 each) | 7,680.00 |\n| Postmaster General | 3,840.00 |\n| Registrar of Supreme Court | 3,840.00 |\n| Colonial Chaplain | 3,810.00 |\n| Colonial Surgeon | 3,840.00 |\n| Harbor Master | 3,360.00 |\n| Registrar General | 3,360.00 |\n\n## Abstract of Sums exclusive of Civil List and Pension, required to defray the Expenses of the Colonial Government of Hongkong for the Year from 1st January to 31st December, 1870, shewing also the Amount expended for the Year previous to that in which the Estimates are prepared, viz: 1869.\n\n| Department | ESTIMATED for 1870 | EXPENDITURE OF 1869 |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| **AUDITOR GENERAL'S ESTABLISHMENT** | | |\n| Clerk | 1,440.00 | 1,320.95 |\n| **SURVEYOR GENERAL'S ESTABLISHMENT** | | |\n| 1st Clerk | 2,400.00 | 2,358.77 |\n| 2nd do. | 1,440.00 | 1,263.47 |\n| **POST OFFICE ESTABLISHMENT** | | |\n| Assistant Postmaster General | 2,400.00 | 2,251.00 |\n| Clerk | 1,440.00 | 1,071.00 |\n| **GOVERNOR'S ESTABLISHMENT** | | |\n| Private Secretary | 1,200.00 | 1,182.81 |\n| **SUPREME COURT** | | |\n| Crown Solicitor | 1,200.00 | 1,088.58 |\n| Clerk of Court | 1,440.00 | 1,315.80 |\n| **COLONIAL SECRETARY'S ESTABLISHMENT** | | |\n| Chief Clerk | 2,400.00 | 2,088.58 |\n| 1st do. | 1,920.00 | 1,759.85 |\n| 2nd do. | 1,440.00 | ... |\n| 3rd do. | 1,044.00 | 921.53 |\n| **REGISTRAR GENERAL'S ESTABLISHMENT** | | |\n| 1st Clerk | 1,920.00 | 1,782.00 |\n| 2nd do. | 1,440.00 | 1,380.04 |\n| **HARBOR MASTER'S ESTABLISHMENT** | | |\n| 1st Clerk | 1,020.00 | 958.73 |\n| **JUDICIAL DEPARTMENTS** | 9,948.00 | 7,588.40 |\n| **REGISTRAR OF COMPANIES DEPARTMENT** | 192.00 | 192.00 |\n| **ECCLESIASTICAL** | 14,292.00 | 11,759.85 |\n| **EDUCATIONAL** | | |\n| **MEDICAL** | 25,552.00 | 21,421.53 |\n| **POLICE MAGISTRATES** | | |\n| **POLICE** | 166,075.20 | 175,101.60 |\n| **COLONIAL TREASURER'S ESTABLISHMENT** | | |\n| 1st Clerk and Cashier | 1,920.00 | 1,782.00 |\n| 2nd do. | 1,200.00 | 1,080.04 |\n| **GAOL** | 42,671.00 | 39,558.73 |\n| **FIRE BRIGADE** | 7,976.00 | ... |\n| Accountant | 1,440.00 | ... |\n| **TOTAL** | $133,104.00 | $109,584.00 |\n\n## ESTIMATED EXPENDITURE FOR 1870 EXCLUSIVE OF CIVIL LIST AND PENSIONS.\n\nCarried over, $109,584.00\n\n## LAND AND Houses Purchased, SPECIAL EXPENSES, CHARITABLE ALLOWANCES, TRANSPORT, WORKS AND BUILDINGS, ROADS, STREETS AND BRIDGES, MISCELLANEOUS SERVICES, MILITARY CONTRIBUTION.\n\n| Category | ESTIMATED for 1870 | EXPENDITURE OF 1869 |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| LAND AND Houses Purchased | 29,256.00 | 1,256.00 |\n| SPECIAL EXPENSES | 3,500.00 | 3,500.00 |\n| CHARITABLE ALLOWANCES | 16,491.05 | 871.84 |\n| TRANSPORT | 2,516.90 | 2,516.90 |\n| WORKS AND BUILDINGS | 171,600.00 | 165,145.02 |\n| ROADS, STREETS AND BRIDGES | 25,000.00 | 25,041.11 |\n| MISCELLANEOUS SERVICES | 96,700.00 | 62,240.51 |\n| MILITARY CONTRIBUTION | 40,000.00 | 5,000.00 |\n| **TOTAL TO BE VOTED** | 785,714.45 | 756,000.84 |\n\n## PENSIONS, RETIRED ALLOWANCES, AND GRATUITIES.\n\n(Under authority of Ordinances No. 30 of 1862, and No. 11 of 1868.)\n\n| Name | Amount |\n| --- | --- |\n| E. Michell | 451.20 |\n| Colonel Caine | 5,040.00 |\n| W. Chapman | 704.00 |\n| W. H. Mitchell | 758.82 |\n| 'Ng Foong Shan | ... |\n| Bishop Smith | ... |\n| C. St. George Cleverly | ... |\n| J. J. Irwin | 1,440.00 |\n| J. C. Power | 2,000.00 |\n| W. T. Mercer | 1,280.00 |\n| W. Quin | 960.00 |\n| J. Jarman | 3,240.00 |\n| J. Thornton | 660.00 |\n| **ESTIMATED AMOUNT TO COVER PENSIONS WHICH MAY BE GRANTED IN 1870** | 10,000.00 |\n\n## NOTE.\n\nAmount of Civil List already provided for by Ordinance No. 13 of 1860, $133,104.00\n\nProbable Expenditure on Pensions, Gratuities, &c., under authority of Ordinances Nos. 10 of 1862, and 11 of 1868, $10,000.00\n\nAmount to be voted as per present Estimates, $780,714.45\n\n**TOTAL PROBABLE EXPENDITURE FOR 1870** $837,818.45\n\n## The foregoing Expenditure may be classified as follows:\n\n| Category | Amount |\n| --- | --- |\n| Ordinary Expenditure | $617,040.80 |\n| Public Works | 190,000.00 |\n| Military Contribution | $19,000.00 |\n| Other | 94,117.65 |\n| **TOTAL** | $837,818.45 |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-145 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1870 [6-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 282360, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-145 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1870 [6-9]", "page_number": 487, "title": "CO129-145 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1870 [6-9]", "content_text": "479\n\nAn irregular fringe surrounded the boiling mass of water; the spray in many instances went up sheer forty or fifty feet on the houses fronting the Praya; and the wild, crest-ed breakers bore possibly a wilder appearance than they have assumed for very many years.\n\nFrom the direction of the wind and other indications familiar to the nautical observer, it is presumed that the typhoon now honoring us with a call sprung into existence somewhere on the Coast of Japan. Being of enormous calibre and travelling very slowly, it made its way southward to the eastward of Formosa and entered the China seas through the Bashoe Channel. The course it was taking would have brought the centre nearly directly over Hongkong, but it is supposed that, impinging on Formosa, it received a cant which threw it out of its direct course, and fortunately for us, it passed to the eastward, though quite close enough to be pleasant.\n\nMr Hook's cargo boats rode out the gale hopefully in the earlier part of the day; but as the gale rose to its greatest height, masts were cut away, and at last they got adrift onto the Bund. The scene at this stage was a most exciting one. A crowd of residents, a number of soldiers, and a few policemen had assembled opposite Messrs Smith Archer's building to assist in getting ashore the crews of these unwieldy craft. By means of ropes and other appliances, all were landed from one boat; and during this difficult task, one of the 75th men fell or was swept amongst the debris close to the sea wall. Amongst the blinding spray, the poor fellow was rescued from what must have been a certain death, amid the general plaudits and congratulations of the assembled crowd. The soldiers, police, and residents worked at this stage with a right good will and were amply rewarded for their heavy drenching by the salvage of a goodly number of native men and women. It was curious to note the strong desire evinced by the natives to salve their goods and chattels; and one female refused to leave the boat until a resolute boatman got back and fetched her away in a very plucky manner.\n\nAbout three o'clock, the squalls appeared to lose in violence; but as the table given below will show, the barometer still continued to fall:-\n\n| Date | Time | Barometer |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Sept. 26 | 9 a.m. | 29.06 |\n| | 2 p.m. | 29.39 |\n| | 3 p.m. | 29.35 |\n| | 4 p.m. | 29.33 |\n| | 7.5 | 29.23 |\n| | 8 | 29.25 |\n| | 9 | 29.25 |\n| | 10 | 29.23 |\n| | 11 | 29.17 |\n| | 12 m. | 29.08 |\n| | 1 p.m. | 29.07 |\n| | 2 | 29.05 |\n| | 3 | 29.04 |\n| | 3 | 29.00 |\n\nThe lull was only the usual precursor of a change of wind and indicated that the centre of the storm was in our immediate vicinity. About 4:30, the gale recommenced, the wind coming heavily and steadily from E.S.E.; the glass has (as we go to press) evidently reached its lowest point - marking 29 on Falconer's standard glass - and shows symptoms of a rise. The height of the gale, therefore, has yet to come.\n\nThe Praya Wall, from Lane Crawford and Co's to the extreme west, is a mass of ruins; in some places cavities have been eaten out to the depth of from four to eight feet. To the westward of the Harbor Master's Office, great damage has been done both on shore and afloat. The streets are strewn with tiles, and a large number of Chinchew and coasting junks are piled upon the rocky beach outside the Bund.\n\nThe trees near the German Club have been dismembered, and others elsewhere have been torn up by the roots. The Public Gardens have been slightly damaged, and several trees on the Parade Ground and at Fedder's Wharf have also been broken or blown down.\n\nThrough the courtesy of the Police, we are informed that no telegrams of particular damage at the outstations have been received at the Central Station.\n\nThe damage to the Foreign shipping is inconsiderable, but the native craft have suffered severely. The greater part of the damage done was between the P. & O. Godowns and the Gas Works, where the sunken and disabled craft are numerous. The loss of life, though considerable, bears a small proportion to the number of lives in actual jeopardy. The wrecks of Chinchew junks and Macao and Canton Passage boats, many of them laden with valuable cargo, which strew the shore at the Westward, are painful to witness.\n\nMessrs Hook and Sons lost seven Cargo boats (six on this side and one at Kowloon) valued at about $9,000. The yacht Nemea was so badly damaged that she is not considered worth repairing. The large guano lighter belonging to Mr Tejerina was driven on the rocks opposite Ordnance Yard and is badly damaged. The schooner Gaviota, belonging to the same owners, was only saved from wreck by sacrificing her masts. The American ship Naples drove from her anchorage athwart the bows of the Colonial steamer Victoria, carrying away the bowsprit of the latter and doing her some other slight damage. The gunboat Bouncer dragged some distance but brought up without damage. The steamer Fizz was in great danger at one time but was saved without injury. The screw of the Delaware fouled with the chain of the Dong Wue and still remains in that condition.\n\nThe steamer Kinshun left Canton at her usual hour yesterday morning (26), but the wind rising rapidly and the glass falling, her commander judged it more prudent to run in at anchor under shelter, which he did at Chun Pih, where she lay until 6 this morning (27), when steam was got up, and she arrived at her wharf at 11:30 of that forenoon. No damage of any great amount was...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-145 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1870 [6-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 282525, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-146 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1870 [10-12]", "page_number": 163, "title": "CO129-146 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1870 [10-12]", "content_text": "# COLONIAL ESTIMATES-HONGKONG.\n\n## B.\n\nAbstract of Sums exclusive of Civil List and Pension, required to defray the Expenses of the Colonial Government of Hongkong for the Year from 1st January to 31st December, 1871, shewing also the Amount expended for the Year previous to that in which the Estimates are prepared, viz: 1869.\n\n## CIVIL LIST.\n\n(As per Ordinance No. 13 of 1860.)\n\n| Position | Salary |\n| --- | --- |\n| Governor and Commander-in-Chief | $24,000.00 |\n| Chief Justice | $12,000.00 |\n| Colonial Secretary | $7,200.00 |\n| Judge of the Court of Summary Jurisdiction | $4,800.00 |\n| Attorney General | $4,800.00 |\n| Colonial Treasurer | $4,800.00 |\n| Auditor General | $2,400.00 |\n| Surveyor General | $4,800.00 |\n| Two Police Magistrates ($3,840 each) | $7,680.00 |\n| Postmaster General | $3,840.00 |\n| Registrar of Supreme Court | $3,840.00 |\n| Colonial Chaplain | $8,840.00 |\n| Colonial Surgeon | $3,840.00 |\n| Harbor Master | $3,300.00 |\n| Registrar General | $3,360.00 |\n\n## ESTABLISHMENTS.\n\n### AUDITOR GENERAL'S ESTABLISHMENT:\n| Position | Salary |\n| --- | --- |\n| Clerk | $1,440.00 |\n\n### SURVEYOR GENERAL'S ESTABLISHMENT:\nNo details provided.\n\n### POLICE MAGISTRATES' ESTABLISHMENT:\n| Position | Salary |\n| --- | --- |\n| 1st Clerk | $1,920.00 |\n| 2nd do. | $1,440.00 |\n| 3rd do. | $960.00 |\n\n### POST OFFICE ESTABLISHMENT:\n| Position | Salary |\n| --- | --- |\n| Assistant Postmaster General | $2,400.00 |\n| Clerk | $1,440.00 |\n\n### GOVERNOR'S ESTABLISHMENT:\n| Position | Salary |\n| --- | --- |\n| Private Secretary | $1,200.00 |\n\n### SUPREME COURT:\n| Position | Salary |\n| --- | --- |\n| Crown Solicitor | $1,200.00 |\n| Clerk of Court | $1,440.00 |\n| Judge's Clerk | $1,440.00 |\n\n### COLONIAL SECRETARY'S ESTABLISHMENT:\n| Position | Salary |\n| --- | --- |\n| Chief Clerk | $2,400.00 |\n| 1st do. | $1,920.00 |\n| 2nd do. | $1,440.00 |\n| 3rd do. | $1,344.00 |\n\n### HARBOR MASTER'S ESTABLISHMENT:\n| Position | Salary |\n| --- | --- |\n| 1st Clerk | $1,920.00 |\n| 2nd do. | $1,440.00 |\n\n### REGISTRAR GENERAL'S ESTABLISHMENT:\n| Position | Salary |\n| --- | --- |\n| 1st Clerk | $1,440.00 |\n\n### COLONIAL TREASURER'S ESTABLISHMENT:\n| Position | Salary |\n| --- | --- |\n| 1st Clerk and Cashier | $1,920.00 |\n| 2nd do. | $1,440.00 |\n| Accountant | $1,200.00 |\n\n## TOTAL CIVIL LIST\n$133,104.00\n\n## PENSIONS, RETIRED ALLOWANCES, AND GRATUITIES.\n\n(Under authority of Ordinances No. 10 of 1862, and No. 11 of 1868.)\n\n### ALREADY GRANTED:\n| Name | Amount |\n| --- | --- |\n| Colonel Caine | ... |\n| Wm. Chapman | ... |\n| W. H. Mitchell | ... |\n| Ng Foong Shan | ... |\n| Bishop Smith | ... |\n| C. St. George Cleverly | ... |\n| J. J. Irwin | ... |\n| J. C. Power | ... |\n| W. T. Mercer | ... |\n| W. Quin | ... |\n| J. Jarman | ... |\n| J. Thornton | ... |\n\n### ESTIMATED AMOUNT TO COVER PENSIONS WHICH MAY BE GRANTED IN 1871\n$19,000.00\n\n## ESTIMATED FOR 1871 EXCLUSIVE OF CIVIL LIST AND PENSIONS.\n\n| Department | Estimated for 1871 | Expenditure of 1869 |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| CIVIL DEPARTMENTS: Governor | $740.00 | $353.77 |\n| Colonial Secretary | $11,150.00 | $18,258.47 |\n| Colonial Treasurer | $4,940.00 | $7,162.81 |\n| Auditor General | ... | ... |\n| Clerk of Councils | ... | ... |\n| Surveyor General | ... | ... |\n| Master of the Mint | $33,004.00 | $32,530.04 |\n| Postmaster General | ... | ... |\n| Registrar General | $11,298.00 | $8,088.58 |\n| Harbor Master | $20,047.00 | $30,815.86 |\n| Collector of Stamp Revenue | $4,450.00 | $3,880.55 |\n| JUDICIAL DEPARTMENTS | $9,918.00 | $7,588.49 |\n| REGISTRAR OF COMPANIES DEPARTMENT | $102.00 | $102.00 |\n| ECCLESIASTICAL | $1,134.00 | $1,110.00 |\n| EDUCATIONAL | $14,292.00 | $11,750.35 |\n| MEDICAL | $24,816.00 | $21,421.53 |\n| POLICE MAGISTRATES' POLICE | $6,748.00 | $5,782.00 |\n| POLICE | $172,305.20 | $175,101.00 |\n| GAOL | $42,011.00 | $89,558.73 |\n| FIRE BRIGADE | $7,270.00 | $16,401.05 |\n| CHARITABLE ALLOWANCES, TRANSPORT | ... | ... |\n| WORKS AND BUILDINGS | $119,000.00 | $185,145.02 |\n| ROADS, STREETS AND BRIDGES | $31,000.00 | $25,041.11 |\n| MISCELLANEOUS SERVICES | $29,000.00 | $62,210.51 |\n| LAND AND HOUSES PURCHASED | $5,000.00 | ... |\n| SPECIAL EXPENSES | $94,000.00 | $90,819.14 |\n| MILITARY CONTRIBUTION | $1,250.00 | $871.84 |\n| | $4,500.00 | $6,516.90 |\n\n## TOTAL TO BE VOTED\n$680,870.80\n\n## NOTE.\n\nAmount of Civil List already provided for by Ordinance No. 13 of 1860, and No. 11 of 1868 | $133,104.00 |\n| --- | --- |\n| Amount to be voted as per present Estimates | $680,870.80 |\n| Probable Expenditure on Pensions, Gratuities, &c., under authority of Ordinances Nos. 10 of 1862, and 11 of 1868 | $19,000.00 (estimated) $5,040.00, $704.00, $753.32, $140.00 (already granted) |\n| TOTAL PROBABLE EXPENDITURE FOR 1871 | $838,974.80 |\n\nThe foregoing Expenditure may be classified as follows:\n| Category | Amount |\n| --- | --- |\n| Ordinary Expenditure | $594,074.80 |\n| Public Works | $150,000.00 |\n| Military Contribution | $94,000.00 |\n| **TOTAL** | **$838,974.80** |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-146 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1870 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 284773, "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": "CO129-150 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1871 [5-6]", "page_number": 217, "title": "CO129-150 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1871 [5-6]", "content_text": "## THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 2ND JUNE, 1866.\n\n### THE MAGISTRACY, 17th May, 1866.\n\nIt is with much regret that we feel ourselves compelled, after due consideration, to call your special attention to the matter contained in certain passages of the Report of the Commissioners recently appointed by His Excellency the Governor to inquire into the existence of an Epidemic in the Colony stated to be Yellow Fever, which appeared in the Government Gazette of Saturday, the 12th instant.\n\nWe refer to the statements reported to have been made by Mr. Ellis, Inspector of Nuisances.\n\nThat Mr. Ellis had, while under examination, thought proper to call in question the discretion which the Magistrates had exercised in the issuing of Summonses, and in the amount of penalties which were inflicted on conviction, we were already aware. But, considering that such allegations were among the class of privileged communications, and not upon oath, it was deemed advisable by us to take no official notice of them.\n\nThe position of affairs, however, is materially altered when the allegations are embodied in an Official Document, and the case assumes a still graver aspect when that Document is made a public one.\n\nHolding these views, we think that unless some notice is taken by us, the Report will continue a standing charge, which if unnoticed would appear to be unanswerable, of the inefficiency of the Magistrates for the time being in dealing with the class of offences referred to,--the suppression of which affects, more or less, the whole Community.\n\nWe cannot conceal our surprise that the Members who formed the Commission, one of them, too, being an Officer of the Civil Government, should have gone so far as to accept unquestioned Mr. Ellis' statement contained in the last sentence of the second paragraph of his evidence.\n\nOrdinary courtesy, we should think, would have dictated an application to this Court for the verification or otherwise of a charge made against the Magistrates by an Inspector of Police.\n\nMr. Ellis' evidence, however, unconfirmed and uncorroborated is published, and is virtually accepted by the Commissioners as containing the prime reason for the dirty state of certain portions of the City.\n\nIt is not for us to comment on the propriety of the Commissioners in allowing an Inspector of Police to censure the Magistrates as is done in this case, but we cannot refrain from expressing our opinion that if Inspectors of Police are to be permitted to make such charges against the Magistrates, and no steps be taken to require them to prove their statements, not only will our Court be brought into contempt, but discipline will be at an end, and the anomaly will arise of the discretion of the Magistrates being gauged by the opinions of the Inspectors of Police.\n\nWe shall, however, avail ourselves of this opportunity to give an unqualified denial to the statement made by Mr. Ellis that there is a difficulty in obtaining Summonses. From the Return enclosed, it will be seen that, since the 1st of January, 1866, 1,073 Summonses have been issued at the complaint of Mr. Ellis, and that fines to the amount of about $500 have been imposed by the Magistrates; how in the teeth of this Mr. Ellis has the hardihood to state that he is \"unable to do his duty,\" we confess we are at a loss to conceive.\n\nHad the Report been intended for the Executive Government alone, we could not, unasked, have called attention to it; but when it becomes an Official and public Document which will go home to the Secretary of State for the Colonies, besides being published in the local papers, we feel ourselves bound to protest against the charges made against us, and beg that the proper steps may be taken to lay the facts in a true light before the Home Authorities.\n\nIt only remains for us to request that you, Sir, will be good enough to lay this letter before the Governor. His Excellency will at once perceive the unpleasant situation in which we are placed in consequence of the publicity given to the charges made against us by Mr. Ellis; particularly, as by the publication of his evidence in the Gazette, these charges have apparently received the sanction of the Government.\n\nWe feel that these accusations are unwarranted; we have, to the best of our ability, endeavoured to discharge our duties, and we very respectfully claim from His Excellency the means of publicly refuting charges which are as serious as they are unwarranted.\n\nWe have, &c.,\n\n(Signed)\nJOHN C. WHYTE.\nCECIL C. SMITH.\n\n### Statement of Parties Summoned to the Police Magistrates Court, charged with permitting Dirt, and offensive matter to remain exposed in the immediate vicinity, &c., of their dwellings.\n\n| Month | Summoned | Appeared | Discharged | Fined |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| January | 144 | 140 | 16 | 124 |\n| February | 77 | 72 | 11 | 61 |\n| March | 133 | 131 | 72 | 50 |\n| April | 416 | 389 | 80 | 309 |\n| May | 303 | 293 | 39 | 254 |\n| Total | 1,073 | 1,025 | 218 | 807 |\n\n## THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 2ND JUNE, 1866.\n\n### MAGISTRACY, HONGKONG, 25th May, 1866.\n\nHis Excellency would suggest that the experience thus gained might be a valuable guide to the Magistrates, and he is convinced that timely severity would prove the best policy for preventing the hours of business in the Court being occupied by Nuisance cases. The Chinese are shrewd enough to perceive when it is really their personal interest to save their money and their liberty by obeying the Law in the first instance.\n\nHis Excellency thinks, moreover, it is a great mistake of a Magistrate to decline putting the existing Law in force, because he thinks, whether rightly or wrongly, that its provisions are either harsh or impolitic. He is not responsible for those provisions, and he is sworn to administer them.\n\nHe has ready access to the Executive and can at all times suggest alterations, where his experience leads him to see the way to improvement. Meantime, however, if he has no doubt of the facts submitted, His Excellency thinks he ought not to discharge those guilty of infringing the Law.\n\nIt is a policy, which defeats its own object, and His Excellency thinks it also wrong in principle.\n\nIn these questions of Nuisances, the Public have a heavy interest at stake in this climate. His Excellency hopes soon to improve the Law, but certainly it will not be in the direction of rendering it less severe.\n\nI have, &c.,\n\n(Signed)\nW. T. MERCER,\nColonial Secretary.\n\nJ. C. WHYTE, and CECIL C. SMITH, Esquires,\nPolice Magistrates.\n\n### MAGISTRACY, HONGKONG, 25th May, 1866.\n\nSIR,-We have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter `No. 306` of the 19th instant, in which you inform us that the publication of the evidence appended to the Report of the Commissioners was the result of an oversight. We regret, however, to find that there is nothing in your communication from which we can infer that it is the intention of His Excellency the Governor to comply with the request contained in our letter of the 17th instant, and give publicity to our denial of the truth of the statements made by Inspector Ellis. We therefore feel constrained to address you again on this subject, and most respectfully, to solicit from His Excellency further consideration of our request.\n\nIn our letter to you of the 17th instant, we not merely gave a positive denial to the charges made against us, but forwarded a Return with which His Excellency has been pleased to express his satisfaction—which shewed that the allegations of Mr. Ellis were unfounded. Under these circumstances, we ventured to hope that the Governor would, in justice to us, have published our letter, and we now beg to lay before him briefly the reasons which induce us again to urge our former request.\n\nThe charges are of a serious character, and from the mode of their publication, have apparently received the sanction of the Government; if unnoticed, they cannot but be supposed to be true, and will naturally have the result of seriously impairing the consideration due to the Office we hold in the Colony; while we are unable to take any steps publicly to justify ourselves. Moreover, our prospects are liable to be injuriously affected; we cannot reasonably hope for promotion in the service, if charges of the nature made against us by Inspector Ellis are forwarded to the Home Authorities, and our denial of them be not also transmitted.\n\nOn these grounds, we venture to appeal to the Governor, trusting that he will not refuse us the means of vindicating our character. It will always be a source of gratification to us to merit the approval of His Excellency, and any suggestions made by him will ever be received by us with the deference due to them: in dealing, however, with the cases which are brought before us, we deem it our duty to endeavour conscientiously to exercise the discretion with which we are invested.\n\nIt is not our intention to make any imputations against Mr. Ellis; but you, Sir, know sufficient of his character and antecedents, to enter into our feelings on finding that so much weight is attached by the Governor to unsupported charges made against us by him; and the statements of his experience put forward as a valuable guide to the Magistrates.\n\nWe have, &c.,\n\n(Signed)\nJOHN C. WHYTE.\nCECIL C. SMITH.\n\nThe Honorable W. T. MERCER,\nColonial Secretary.\n\n### COLONIAL SECRETARY'S OFFICE, HONGKONG, 26th May, 1866.\n\nGENTLEMEN,-I have the honor to acknowledge your letter of yesterday in reply to mine, `No. 306` of the 19th instant, and to state that His Excellency the Governor will publish the Correspondence that has resulted from the publication of the Sanitary Commission Report and Evidence.\n\nAt the same time, I am directed to point out that my letter of the 19th gave no intimation of SIR RICHARD MACDONNELL'S satisfaction at the Returns forwarded by you, except as evidencing recently an increased disposition to apply the Law; nor is it at all obvious that those Returns completely refute Mr. Ellis' views.\n\nI have, &c.,\n\n(Signed)\nW. T. MERCER,\nColonial Secretary.\n\nJ. C. WHYTE, and CECIL C. SMITH, Esquires,\nPolice Magistrates.\n\n### COLONIAL SECRETARY'S OFFICE, Hongkong, 19th May, 1866.\n\nGENTLEMEN,-In reply to your letter `No. 21` of 17th instant, I am directed to explain that His Excellency the Governor, when directing the publication of the report of the Commission, had not intended to publish the evidence appended thereto, and its publication was the result of an oversight during the press of business at the closing of last Mail.\n\nHis Excellency is glad to perceive from the return which you have sent that the proportion of cases in which you thought proper to apply the existing law has lately increased.\n\nBy Order,\n(Signed)\nW. T. MERCER,\nColonial Secretary.\n\n### GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.\n\nAt the request of His Excellency Vice-Admiral KING, C.B., Naval Commander-in-Chief, the following Hydrographic Notice is published for the information of Mariners, and others whom it may concern.\n\nHis Excellency sent for Mr. Ellis that he might explain his statements made to the Commission, and he has repeated that Mr. Whyte has more than once objected to his bringing before the Bench so many poor persons, and that he was thereby discouraged from doing his duty.\n\nHe has also explained that although the number of fines inflicted appears large, the amounts in almost all instances are extremely small.\n\nHe states that in consequence of recent increased severity on the part of the Magistrates, the lower classes of Chinese are beginning to take more pains in keeping their premises clean.\n\nColonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 29th May, 1866.\n\n(Signed)\nW. T. MERCER,\nColonial Secretary.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-150 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1871 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 287282, "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": "CO129-156 - Sir MacDonnell - 1872 [1-3]", "page_number": 377, "title": "CO129-156 - Sir MacDonnell - 1872 [1-3]", "content_text": "4184\n\nthong tang\n\nNo 95 Q. 27th February. 1872.\n\nGovernor\n\nSir Richard Graves MacDonnell\n\nto\n\nK.C.M.G., &c., &c.\n\nThe Right Honorable\n\nThe Earl of Kimberley\n\nLegislative Council\n\nAppointment of Acting Members of\n\n2 Officials 2 Unofficial.\n\n(1 Enclosure)\n\nReturn\n\nof Members and a Deputy 1872.\n\ncomposing the Legislative Council\n\nNames.\n\nHis Excellency\n\nSir Richard Graves MacDonnell\n\nK.C.M.G.\n\nPresident.\n\n \n Date of Appointment\n Date of Confirmation\n Other Civil or Military Office\n \n \n The Honorable\n \n \n \n \n Henry John Ball\n \n \n \n \n The Venerable\n 14 April\n Ex Officio Colonial Chaplain\n \n \n Wheeler\n 1863\n \n \n \n \n 11th\n \n \n \n The Honorable\n \n Ex Officio Governor and Commander-in-\n \n \n John Smale,\n \n Chief, and Vice Admiral.\n \n \n \n \n Since there of Acting Chief Justice, vice The\n \n \n \n \n January 1872.\n \n \n The Honorable\n 16\n Ex Officio Acting Colonial Secretary and\n \n \n Cecil Clementi Smith\n 1872\n \n \n \n The Honorable\n \n \n \n \n Thomas Child Waller\n \n \n \n \n The Honorable\n \n \n \n \n Charles May\n \n \n \n \n The Honorable\n July 18th\n Justice of the Peace\n \n \n Phineas Ryrie\n Nov. 1867\n 1847\n \n \n \n \n My Receipt\n \n \n The Honorable\n \n \n \n \n William Keswick\n \n \n \n \n The Honorable\n Septemba 1\n Jany 1 Queen's\n \n \n Amy Lister\n 1869\n \n \n \n The Honorable\n 26th February\n 1872\n \n \n James Greig\n \n \n \n \n Council Chamber,\n \n \n \n \n The Honorable J. Gardiner Austin,\n \n absent on leave.\n \n \n 26. February\n Ex Officio Acting Attorney General, vice\n \n \n \n The Honorable Julian Pauncefote,\n \n absent on leave.\n \n \n 26. February\n Ex Officio Acting Treasurer vice The\n \n \n \n Honble C.C. Smith, Acting Colonial Secretary\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Vice The Honorable N. Rowett, absent on leave.\n \n \n \n \n Vice The Honorable Amy John Ball, Acting Chief Justice.\n \n \n Misunderstanding acting\n \n \n \n \n Class of Council.\n \n \n \n\nHongkong, 26th February, 1872.\n\n1868 Justice of the Peace.\n\n1 Queen's Warrant", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-156 - Sir MacDonnell - 1872 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 287406, "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": "CO129-156 - Sir MacDonnell - 1872 [1-3]", "page_number": 501, "title": "CO129-156 - Sir MacDonnell - 1872 [1-3]", "content_text": "No. 50.\n\nGOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.\n\nDuring the month of February, is published for general information.\n\nThe following Table of Meteorological Observations taken at the Government Civil Hospital\n\nBy Command,\n\nColonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 9th March, 1872.\n\nActing Colonial Secretary. CECIL C. SMITH,\n\nRECEIVED\n\nMAXI 1872\n\n14\n\nMeteorological Office: 501\n\n116, Victoria Street, London, SW.\n\n13.\n\nMay, 1872\n\nI am directed by the Commander of the Meteorological Office to acknowledge\n\nthe receipt of your letter of the 11th instant, enclosing Meteorological Observations taken at Hong Kong in February last, and at ... in January last\n\nfor which I am directed to return you their best thanks.\n\nYour obedient Servant,\n\nRobert Holl, Director\n\nColonial Office", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-156 - Sir MacDonnell - 1872 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 287888, "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": "CO129-157 - Sir MacDonnell Acting Governor Sir Kennedy - 1872 [4-5]", "page_number": 458, "title": "CO129-157 - Sir MacDonnell Acting Governor Sir Kennedy - 1872 [4-5]", "content_text": "by\n\nbo\n\n7\n\n456\n\nto\n\nto\n\nPeking instead.\n\nInstead of being sent to your Legation. However, I shall feel obliged by your informing me of the manner in which the expenses are to be recovered, as since the removal of the Consular Auditor from this Colony, there is no longer any Office in the Colony to which application for payment in such cases can at present be made.\n\nI have …\n\n(Signed) Richard Graves MacDonnell, Governor & Commander in Chief.\n\n(Signed) W. M. Deane (Smith?)\n\nActing Colonial Secretary.\n\nFrom Mr. Haberton, April 15th, 1872.\n\nBritish Legation, Peking, April 23, 1872.\n\nReferred to His Majesty's Consul at Kanagawa.\n\nYour despatch of the 28th ultimo on the subject of the reimbursement to the Colony of Hong Kong of the expenses incurred for maintenance of prisoners sentenced by the Consular Court.\n\nHis Excellency,\n\nSir R. G. MacDonnell, Knt., C.B.,\n\nGovernor and Commander-in-Chief.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-157 - Sir MacDonnell Acting Governor Sir Kennedy - 1872 [4-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 287945, "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": "CO129-157 - Sir MacDonnell Acting Governor Sir Kennedy - 1872 [4-5]", "page_number": 515, "title": "CO129-157 - Sir MacDonnell Acting Governor Sir Kennedy - 1872 [4-5]", "content_text": "25.\n\nof which will be laid before Her Majesty's Government without delay.\n\nI have little to add to what I have already personally communicated to you, beyond again expressing my very great regret for proceedings which it is my duty to prevent and for the recurrence of.\n\n(Signed) A. E. Kennedy, Governor and Commander in Chief.\n\n4 True Copies)\n\nSmith,\n\nActing Colonial Secretary\n\n513", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-157 - Sir MacDonnell Acting Governor Sir Kennedy - 1872 [4-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 288581, "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": "CO129-158 - Sir Kennedy - 1872 [6-8]", "page_number": 526, "title": "CO129-158 - Sir Kennedy - 1872 [6-8]", "content_text": "C.S.O.N 2071-\n\nHong Kong, 9th July, 1872 (Received 10th July)\n\nMesser Jardine Matheson & Co\n\nto\n\nActing Colonial Secretary Hon'ble Cecil C. Smith,\n\nHong Kong Pier and Godown Co\n\nExplain the damage likely to result from the construction of the Pier belonging to this Company and protest against its completion on the present plan.\n\nEnclosure Nos in Correspondence from Sir Arthur C. Kennedy's\n\nE2 Inward 9782 of 15th August, 1872.\n\n(Copy.)\n\n9966 / J 2 = 514\n\nSir Arthur Edward Kennedy, K.C.M.G., C.B.,\n\nGovernor and Commander in Chief...\n\nNo... of 1872.-\n\nAn Ordinance enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof to Amend Ordinance No 11 of 1871.\n\nWhereas it is expedient to amend the Hong Kong Pier and Godown Company's Ordinance (No:11 of 1871) with the view of making provision for the passage of boats under and through the Pier now being constructed.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-158 - Sir Kennedy - 1872 [6-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 288837, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-159 - Sir Kennedy - 1872 [9-12]", "page_number": 210, "title": "CO129-159 - Sir Kennedy - 1872 [9-12]", "content_text": "816\n\nTHE LONDON AND CHINA TELEGRAPH.\n\nhowever, and the daily business which is doing for manufacturing wants is at firm rates. In Canton Silk there have been sales at 178. to 173. 6d. for fair to good market Tsatlee, with certainly more general inquiry for this Silk, very few importers, however, are found willing to accept these rates. Japan Silks remain firm at last quotations, and Deliveries are fairly good, without any new movement of interest. being from 1st to 13th inst:-China, 974 bales; Canton, 308 bales; Japan, 263 bales; Bengal, 276; total, 1,819 bales.\n\nLONDON QUOTATIONS-Nov, 15.\n\nCurss.\n\nTsatlee, No. I\nRed Peacock\n305. 6l. to 31s. 6d.\n\nYuenfas and Hatnin, Nos. 1, 2, and S\nTaysaam\n29s. 6d.\n\nKeying, Nos. 1, 2, and 3...\nLong Keel\n24s. 6d. to 24s. 9d.\n\nChinese Throwns\n\n23s. 0d.\n\n20s. 0d.\n\nMaibosh and Siuchu, Nos. 1, 2, and 3\n\n24s. 0d. to 25s. 6d.\n\n25s. 0d. to 30s. 0d.\n\n28s. 0d. to 24s. 6d.\n\nJAPAN.\n\nIdah, No. 2\n\n20s. 0d. to 27s. 0d.\n\nSodai, No. 2\n\n24s. 6d. to 25s. 6d.\n\nOshtu, Nos. 1, 2, and 3...\n\n25s. 0d. to 30s. 0d.\n\nKochin, No. 2...\n\n28s. 0d. to 24s. 6d.\n\nElchizen\n\n20s. 6d. to 24s. 0d.\n\nMashta\n\n20s. 0d. to 23s. 0d.\n\natehoji...\n\n20s. 0d. to 24s. 0d.\n\nCAMPHOR.--China has slightly declined; of 176 cases offered in the public sales about half has been sold at £3 15s. 6d. to £3 16s., and a small business has been done privately on corresponding terms.\n\nCARDAMOMS.-There has again been an absence of business in Ceylon.\n\nCocoa Nuts.-The market for Cochin has been firm, and sales of fine have been made at £38 15s. both privately and at auction. Ceylon is steady at the previous value; viz., £33 10s. to £35 15s. per ton.\n\nCEREALS. The market continues very dull, and there are no transactions to report.\n\nCotton. The advance reported last week is maintained, about 500 tons having changed hands at 20s. to 22s. per cwt.\n\nDRAGON'S-BLOOD.-Little doing; 29 cases lump offered in public sale were retired.\n\nEBONY.-Ceylon is still very scarce, no part of the supplies reported to be afloat having yet come to hand. Good quality is still quoted £24 per ton, but no transactions are reported.\n\nESSENTIAL OILS.-Aniseed steady; about 100 cases sold privately at 9s. 8d. down to 9s. for a few cases, since which it has slightly rallied, and there are buyers at a shade advance; 13 cases at auction retired. Cassia very firmly held. Nutmeg firm; 6 cases sold at 9d. Citronelle again dull. Cinnamon: Fine, scarce, and wanted. per oz. Lower, and dull: 75 cases at auction, only a few sold at 2¼d. per oz. Lemon Grass: Value nominal, and difficult of sale; 40 cases retired.\n\nGUMS.--Benjamin: Siam quiet; 20 cases at auction retired; Sumatra also quiet; of 62 cases offered, one-half sold; 2nds, dark to fair, £7 2s. 6d. to £8 2s. 6d. Copal: Cheaper and very dull; 80 cases offered and retired; small sales privately at 80s. per cwt. for good. Damar Quiet and cheaper 150 cases sold at 53s. 6d. per cwt. for good clean, but rather dusty and yellow. Gamboge: Quiet.\n\nGUTTAPERCHA.-Market dull; 648 packages at auction nearly all sold; close reboiled and part genuine, 1s. 6d. to 1s. 6½d., mixed with fine white, 1s. 4d. to 1s. 4½d.; white fair to good clean, part barky, 1s. 1d. to 1s. 3d.; close reboiled and part perished and weak, 1s. to 1s. 0¾d.; Sumatra, barky and part loose, ¾d. to 1s.\n\nHEMP. The market for Manila continues weak, the supply being still considerably in excess of requirements; the small business done establishes a light decline in prices. Of 1,992 bales offered in public sale yesterday the bulk was bought in, fair to good raping at £47 to £48 10s.; about 200 to 300 bales sold damaged third to first class at £44 to £47, fourth class, £42 10s. to £43 5s.; inferior sound at £44 5s. to £44 15s. per ton.\n\nHIDES. At the last sales, somewhat contrary to general expectation, there was a fairly active demand for East India Hides for both home use and export, and rather over three-fourths of the quantity offered was disposed of. Former prices were well supported for nearly all descriptions, and for some of the most desirable piles of Dacca and North-Western slaughtered an advance of ½d. to ¾d. per lb. was paid. Singapore and Penang realised about former rates. Singapore and Penang Buffalo were in full demand, and generally brought full prices; Calcutta and Java were mostly bought in.\n\nHORNS.-Siam Buffalo firm at the last quoted rate, viz., 36s. 6d. to 39s. 6d. per cwt. for 3 lb. to 4 lb. Horns. Ceylon Deer also firm.\n\nISINGLASS.-The market continues firm, and at auction of 4 cases offered, a few only sold at 2s. 8d. to 2s. 9¼d. for middling Pipe; 10 bales Manila purse sold at 6d. to 8¾d. per lb.\n\nINDIA-RUBBER.-The market is very quiet, and in the absence of transactions of any importance prices are unaltered.\n\nJAPAN WAX.-There is but little doing, but the market is firm, and prices are well maintained; small sales of fine saucers are reported at £4 18s. per cwt.\n\nMusk.-Market steady: 51 caddies Tonquin at auction sold; fair selected, well-shaped pods part horny 34s. to 34s. 6d.; and rough and badly, fair middling 17s. 6d. to 18s.; 19 tins Grain sold, fine at 56s. to 57s.; dark at 48s. to 48s. 6d. per oz.\n\n[Nov. 18, 1872.]\n\nPEPPER.-Black has been very dull, and there have been only small sales, chiefly of Singapore, at 6d. to 6¼d., at which the market closes. White is also cheaper, having been with an extremely dull tone, quitted at 1s. 0d. to 1s. 0¾d.\n\nPLUMBAGO Ceylon of fine quality is very scarce, but mixed is dull of sale; 133 barrels in auction sold; dust, good and very good at 12s. to 13s. 3d. per cwt.\n\nRATTANS are scarce, and supplies would realise high prices.\n\nRHUBARB The market for China is steady but quiet; of 126 cases offered three-fourths sold; sundried root fairly trimmed and fresh small to large, 2s. to 2s. 4d.; duller coat and more mixed in size, 1s. 8d. to 1s. 11d.; inferior, 10d. to 1s. 2d. per lb.\n\nRICE Although there is no activity in the demand, there is a steadier tone observable in the market, and better prices have been obtained, especially for floating cargoes. On the spot Askoolie has been sold at 10s. 4½d. to 10s. 6d., old Necransie at 8s. 6d. cash, and Moulmein at 9s. 6d. ex quay. The floating cargo per Surrey, 1,200 tons Rangoon, has been sold at 9s. 6d. continental terms, the floating cargo, per Voltri, 760 tons Necransic, arrived off coast, sold at 9s. 3¼d. for a near continental port, and a floating cargo of 750 tons Moulmain at about 9s. 3d. ex ship.\n\nSAGO.-Market very quiet, and little business done. Of 897 bags offered, half sold at 16s. 6d. per cwt. for good small, and 17s. 6d. to 18s. for good large.\n\nSAPAN WOOD.-Manila and Siam steady; 55 tons Manila sold at auction at £8 2s. 6d. to £8 7s. 6d., for good wood, some damaged. Ceylon firm and in demand, but no offers have been made during the fortnight.\n\nSHELLS.-No business since the sales of the 5th inst.\n\nSPICES.-Chunamon: There is a steady demand for Ceylon and a moderate business doing at previously ruling prices. Cassia Liguea: Quiet; 400 cases unworked at public sale retired. Buds: Quiet. Cloves: Amboyna firm; 2 cases good sold at 8¼d.; Penang steady; of 13 cases at auction, 3 cases fair sold at 1s. 4d. to 1s. 4½d. per lb.; the remainder common retired. Mace: Steady. Nutmeg: Cheaper; of 450 packages at sale, a large proportion sold; 87's to 77's, 8¼d. to 8s. 7d.; 90's, 3s. 2¼d. to 3s. 3d.; 116's to 108's, 2s. 9¼d. to 2s. 10¼d.; but a large proportion common, shrivelled and worm-eaten sold at low rates.\n\nSoy.-Ching in very flat, and of 100 casks offered at auction only a few sold at 1s. 9d. per gallon. Japan: No business done.\n\nSTICKLAC.-Siam firm; 82 cases at auction sold at £4 8s. 6d. to £4 9s. for good quality.\n\nSTAR ANISEEDS.-Market quiet, and there are no transactions to report.\n\nTAPIOCA.-The market has been quiet, and closes dull. Of 8,000 bags at auction one third sold; Singapore at 2¼d. to 2½d. per lb. for middling to very good, and Penang 2¼d. to 2½d. middling to fair.\n\nTIN has declined £2 to £8 per ton, but the market closes steadily; quotations are: Straits, on the spot and afloat, £140; Banca, £155; Billiton, £146 per ton.\n\nARTICLES OF EXPORT.\n\nMANCHESTER GOODS.\n\nThe advance in the Bank rate to 7 per cent. has increased the dullness prevailing at the close of last week, and the sales effected since the 8th inst. have been extremely limited. At the close the market is without improvement in demand, and may be reported with a tendency of prices in favour of buyers.\n\nWidth...\n39 in.\n\nQuality...\nNo. 4.\n\nWeight..\n\nGRET SHIRTINGS,\n38-39 Yds.\n\n8.8.\n8¼d.\n\n9d.\n9¼d.\n\n9½d.\n9¾d.\n\nWidth....\n39 in.\n\nQuality...\nNo. 1\n\n8s. 6d.\n\n820\n\nGIBRALTAR\n\nMALTA............\n\nTHE LONDON AND CHINA TELEGRAPH.\n\nOVERLAND ROUTE....\n\nThe PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY book Passengers and receive Cargo and Parcels by their steamers for-\n\nALEXANDRIA.)\n\nAden\n\nBOMBAY\n\nGALLE.....\n\nMADRAS\n\nCALCUTTA\n\nPENANG\n\nSINGAPORE...\n\nCHINA\n\nJAPAN\n\nAUSTRALIA\n\nNEW ZEALAND\n\n(Cargo only)\n\nTrieste\n\nFrom\n\nFrom Southampton-calling at Brindisi.\n\nAncona)\n\nEvery\n\nThursday\n\nat 2 P.M.\n\nEvery\n\nFriday.\n\nEvery Monday,\n\nat noon.\n\nNov.\n\nNov. 15.\n\nNov. 4, 18,\n\n& Dec. 2,\n\nat 2 P.M.\n\nat noon.\n\nat 3 A.M.\n\nThursday\n\nFriday.\n\nNov. 29\n\nNov. 21,\n\nat 2 P.M.\n\nat noon.\n\nMonday, Dec. 2.\n\nat 1.\n\nAnd all Ports at which the British India Company's Steamers call.\n\nAn abatement of 20 per cent. from the charge for the Return Voyage is made to Passengers who have paid full fare to or from ports eastward of Suez re-embarking within six months of their arrival, and 19 per cent. to those re-embarking within twelve months.\n\nThrough Tickets to Brindisi can be obtained of LEGEAU and Co., &, Baliter-street, B.C. (South Italian Railway Office).\n\nFor Rates of Passage Money and Freight and all other information, apply at the Company's Offices 122, Leadenhall-street, London; or Oriental-place, Southampton.\n\nOVERLAND ROUTE VIA MARSEILLES-MESSAGERIES MARITIMES DE FRANCE, CANNON-STREET - FRENCH MAIL STEAMERS LEAVE MARSEILLES (via\n\nON THE FOLLOWING SUNDAYS, at 8.0.) 10 A.M.-\n\nAva... Ponnai\n\nPriho\n\nMeikong\n\nSindh...\n\nProvence\n\nNov. 10\n\nNov. 24\n\nDec. 8\n\nFor\n\n...\n\nDec. 22\n\n...\n\nJan. 5\n\n...\n\nJan. 19\n\nAden, Galle, Singapore, Batavia, Saigon, Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Yokohama.\n\nThe steamers of the 24th Nov., 22nd Dec., and 19th Jan. connect at Aden with the steamers for Bombay and Mauritius.\n\nThe steamers of the 10th Nov., 8th Dec., and 5th Jan. connect at Galle with the steamers for Pondicherry, Madras, and Calcutta.\n\nFor Alexandria and Naples.. Every Thursday (noon)\n\nSaturday, &\n\nConstantinople\n\nAlgiera\n\n+7\n\nThe Company's weekly steamers to Alexandria connect at Alexandria with the English mail steamers from Brindisi to Bombay.\n\nFor Passage, Freight, or Information, apply to the Company's Agent, 97, Cannon-street, E.C.; G. I. FLETCHER and Co., Liverpool: at the Offices of the Messageries Maritimes of France in Paris, Lyons, Bordeaux, and Marseilles; or to SMITH and Co., Rotterdam.\n\n* Passengers eastward of Suez securing their Berths in London are entitled to the conveyance of their luggage free to Marseilles.\n\nPENANG, SINGAPORE,\n\nand JAPAN, The following high-classed SCREW STEAM and SAILING SHIPS will\n\nbe despatched as under:-\n\nDestination.\n\nLast\n\nClass.\n\nDock.\n\nShipping\n\nday.\n\n39 in.\n\n39 in.\n\n10\n\n23\n\n16\n\n5\n\n4\n\n7\n\n0\n\n7\n\n0\n\n17\n\n7\n\n8\n\n13\n\n8\n\n1\n\nCount\n\nPrice......\n\n12 x 9\n\n12x12\n\n14x13\n\n14 x 18\n\n14x12; 14x12½\n\n16x16\n\n16x15\n\nPH.D. 68.444.\n\n7s. 1d.\n\n7s.\n\n7s.\n\n7s. 1¾d.\n\nWeight...\n\nCount\n\nPrice......\n\nWeight...\n\n4\n\nCount...\n\nPrice......\n\nWidth\n\nQuality....\n\n# 1\n\n16x15\n\n16x15\n\n8\n\nN\n\n9\n\n0\n\n$\n\n4\n\n9\n\n4\n\n70\n\n16x16\n\n16x18\n\n17x17\n\n19x10\n\n12x8\n\n32x32\n\na.\n\n7d\n\n8s.\n\n10s.\n\n10s.\n\non.\n\n18.\n\n4¾d.\n\n10s.\n\n6d.\n\nPeng, Sing..\n\n49/50 in.\n\n34 in.\n\n60 in.\n\nHg. Kg.\n\n& Shanghai, via S.C.\n\n35\n\n36\n\n39\n\n45\n\n46\n\n49\n\n56\n\n59\n\n*\n\n0\n\n3\n\n◊\n\n00\n\n10\n\n0\n\n10\n\n0\n\n11\n\n0\n\n12\n\n0\n\n14x10\n\n14x12\n\n16x15\n\n16 x 18\n\n14x10\n\n16 15\n\n16 x 15\n\n16x15\n\n10x15\n\nAT\n\nTo Naukin 8.8.\n\n10\n\n9\n\n10\n\n11\n\n12\n\n14\n\nA1\n\nShanghai\n\nCarmarthen-\n\nSWID\n\nNov, 25\n\nSWID\n\nTo follow\n\n3d.\n\n9s.\n\n4½d.\n\n10s.\n\nd.\n\n12s.\n\n6d.\n\n10s\n\n10¼d.\n\n12s.\n\n4¾d.\n\n13s.\n\n6d.\n\n14s.\n\nd.\n\nT-CLOTHS.\n\nWidth\n\ndz in.\n\n36 in.\n\nWeight\n\n6\n\n0\n\n8\n\n0\n\n7\n\n0\n\n6\n\n0\n\n7\n\n0\n\n8\n\n0\n\n8\n\n4\n\nCount\n\n14x18\n\n15 x 15\n\n15x15\n\n18x18\n\n18x18\n\n18x19\n\n18x18\n\nPrice\n\n15s.\n\n10¼d.\n\n8s.\n\n9d.\n\n6s.\n\n10¾d.\n\n7s.\n\n4½d.\n\n8s.\n\n4½d.\n\n8s.\n\n7½d.\n\n6s.\n\nhrI._4_5,\n\nફત\n\n7s.\n\nd.\n\n7s.\n\n4d.\n\n8s.\n\n0d.\n\n9s.\n\n0d.\n\n9s.\n\n8d.\n\n2.\n\n4.\n\n8.\n\nd.\n\nChina Grey Shirtings, 84 ½ lbs. (Eagle Chop)\n\nMaddapoliams .......\n\nLong Cloths\n\n9\n\nY\n\n3\n\n7\n\n10\n\n3\n\n9\n\n*\n\nB\n\nWhite Spot Shirtings ...\n\nBrocade...\n\nDamasks\n\nnominal)\n\ndo, do.\n\n11\n\n...\n\n11\n\n9\n\n21\n\n0\n\nNos. 28-32\n\ndo.\n\nNo.40\n\ndo. (mock)\n\nNo. 40 Mule Twist\n\nNo. 30\n\n4o.\n\nCotton Yarn Water Twist), Nos. 16-24\n\nChina...\n\nX\n\n0 to 1\n\n1\n\n2 to 1\n\n3\n\n1\n\n2 to\n\n1\n\n24 to 1\n\n24\n\n1\n\n0 to 1\n\n2\n\n...\n\nChin-Kiang,\n\nF.A.\n\nshire 1\n\n14 yr.\n\nB.I.D.\n\nWith des.\n\nYokohama\n\nDenbighshire\n\nAl 15 yr.\n\nE.LD.\n\nWith des\n\n* And to Japan if sufficient inducement offers.\n\nExcellent accommodation for first-class passengers.\n\nFor Freight or Passage apply to Nonnis and JOYNER, 126, Bishopsgate-street Within, E.C. (corner of Cornhill).\n\nO TEAM TO BANGKOK\n\n(Crossing the Tar) Via the Suez Canal, with all possible despatch, calling at Tanjong Pagar Wharf, Singapore.\n\nthe new, powerful, first-class screw steamer KROMATAH, 805 tons, 180-horse power, nominal, W. B. HAFFENDEN, Commander\n\nSouth West India Docks, Splendid accommodation for passengers\n\nFor Freight, Passage, or further particulars apply to SMITH, SON, and COLE, 12 George-yard, Lombard-street, London, E.C.\n\nJAPAN AND CHINA. Great Mail Route via New York and San Francisco.\n\nTHE\n\nPACIFIC MAIL STEAMSHIP COMPANY, under their new arrangement with the United States Government, despatch the following magnificent STEAMERS, OF 3,000 tons burden and upwards, with Mails and Passengers, from San Francisco, on the 1st and 16th of every month, for Yokohama, Hiogo, Nagasaki, Shanghai, and Hong Kong, connecting at Hong Kong with the Peninsular and Oriental Line, for Ports in India;-\n\nAcopilen\n\nJanan\n\nGreat Republic\n\n| Abaddon\n\nColorado\n\nChina\n\nCosta Rica\n\nTies\n\nConstitution\n\nNew York\n\nGolden Age\n\nOre-ronian\n\nAriet\n\nReturning from Hong Kong on the 12th and 27th of every month\n\nThe Pacific Mail Steamship Company's steamers also leave New York on the 10th, 20th, and 30th of every month for San Francisco, via Panama calling en route at Kingston, Jamaica, and ports along the North Pacific coast.\n\nFor rates of fare from England, which include railway transit across the American continent, and other Information, apply to H. STARR and Co, Agents, 27, Moorgate-street, London.\n\nTNION PACIFIC RAILWAY.-\n\nTHROUGH LINE from NEW YORK to SAN FRANCISCO.\n\nSan Francisco 18 days from England.\n\n***......\n\nin $8\n\nJapan\n\nChing...\n\nin 44\n\n기\n\n\"\n\n**\n\n**\n\nNew Zealand in 42\n\nAustralia......\n\nin 47\n\nPassengers for California and Intermediate points on this road are now booked through from England at the established rates of fare; and from San Francisco to Japan, China, Australia, &c., by the magnificent steamers of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company and United States, New Zealand, and Australian Mail Steamship Company,\n\nFor Rates, Tickets, &c., apply to H. STARR and Co., Agents, 22, Moorgate-street, London,\n\nROUND the WORLD in NINETY\n\nA DAYS, by Steam and Rail, by Land and Sea,\n\nvia North America. Japan China, Sandwich Islands, New Zealand. Australia, Ceylon, India, Egypt, and Continent of Europa-By authority of the various mail steamship and railway lines comprising the above rates, FIRST-CLASS PASSAGE COUPON TICKETS are now issued for the ROUND JOURNEY, either by way of Japan and China or New Zealand and Australia, at one reduced and inclusive\n\nfare.\n\nThe route will be over the Great Union and Central Pacific Railway to San Francisco, passing through some of the grandest and most interesting scenery in the world. From San Francisco the tourist will be taken to Japan and China by the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, or to New Zealand and Australia, by the United States, New Zealand, and Australia Mail Steamship Line, and thence by the Peninsular and Oriental Company, via Galle, Madras, Calcutta, and Bombay (over the Grant Indian Railway) to Southampton, or London, via Brindisi,\n\nThe journey may be broken at any point, and resumed at pleasure\n\nFare, via China, £21; via New Zealand and Australia, £197.\n\nFor further particulars apply to H. STARR and Co., 22, Moorgate-street, London. Agents Union and Central Pacific Railway, &c.\n\nCA\n\nNow ready (November issue).\n\nNASTLE LINE OF STEAM PACKETS for PENANG, SINGAPORE, HONG KONG, SHANGHAI, JAVA, and JAPAN. The following high-classed and full-powered STEAMSHIPS will be despatched as under:\n\nSteamer.\n\nClays.\n\nGlenroy\n\nClentyson\n\nGordon Castle......\n\n100 AL\n\n100 AT\n\n100 A1\n\nGlengyle\n\n100 A\n\nDruminona Castle.\n\n100 A1\n\nBraemar Castle...\n\n100 AL\n\nCawdor Castle......\n\n100 AI\n\n100 A\n\nFloors Castle\n\n100 A1\n\nGlenartney\n\nTons.\n\nDock.\n\nTo sail,\n\nPort\n\n[Nov. 18, 1872.]\n\nOBERTSON and Co.'s\n\nof STEAM and CLIPPER SHIPS.\n\nSkip.\n\nClass\n\nDock.\n\nTo sall.\n\nBombay and Kingston.sa\n\nGoast Ports via S.C....90 A1\n\nSingap. and\n\nSaigon\n\nChas. Collet\n\n3.3rds\n\nPen.. Sing.\n\n[SWID\n\nNov. 21\n\nSWID\n\n¡With des.\n\nLL.1\n\n190\n\nAi 1.\n\nKg.\n\n& Sylvia, 8.8.\n\n3-5rda\n\nShanghai...\n\nvia S.C...\n\nLI\n\nSWID\n\nNOS.\n\n-\n\nYokohama.\n\nTulking......A\n\n14 yr.\n\nSWID\n\nWith des.\n\ni\n\nFor Fraight or Passage apply to York Chambers 55, King-street, Manchester; or to 16, Orange-court, Liverpool; or 5, Newman's court, Cornhill, London, B.C.\n\nPENANG, SINGAPORE, CUINA, AND JAPAN,\n\nD\n\nPort.\n\nHE following SPLENDID First-class STEAM and CLIPPER -SHIPS will be despatched as under :--\n\nShip.\n\nTo sull.\n\nClass.\n\nDock.\n\nShanghai\n\nSir Lancelot\n\nA1\n\n26 ye\n\nE.LD.\n\nWith des.\n\nDo...\n\nMaitland...\n\nA1\n\n14\n\nB.I.D.\n\nWith des.\n\nHong Kong\n\nUndine\n\nAL\n\n16\n\nTEID.\n\nWith des.\n\nJashepherd\n\n19 yr.\n\nSWID\n\nTo follow\n\nYokohama\n\nDenka........\n\nA\n\n17 yr.\n\nE.LD.\n\nWith des.\n\nDu...\n\nEliza Shaw\n\nAi\n\n17 yr.\n\nE.ID\n\nTo follow\n\nHinge.....\n\nHanover.....\n\nAX\n\nII ye\n\njW.I.D\n\nWith des\n\nPen.. Sing\n\nH.K.. Shag\n\n& Yoko\n\nFlintshire,\n\n2.3.100\n\nAL\n\nJE.I.D.\n\nDec. 5\n\nFor Freight apply to Kutztor, MARTIN, and Co., 10, George-yard, Lombard-street, E.C.\n\nSteam via the Suez Canal. To sail on the 25th Nov,\n\nFOR\n\n208\n\nSINGAPORE, YO-KOHAMA, and HTOGO (with liberty to call at Hong Kong), the splendid full powered screw steamer DUNA. 100 A1, 852 tons register, 150- * horse power nominal; Victoria Docks, Cargo deliverable at Japan without transhipment.\n\nFor Freight, apply to D. R. MacGREGOR, Esq, owner, Leith; to SMU, SENDTUS, and Co., 33, Gracechurch-street; or to Sax, MARTON, and Co, 2, Royal Exchange-buildings, London, EC.\n\nFOR Tanjong Pagar, SINGA. PORE--The following VESSELS\n\nare now on the barth in\n\nAuriga......\n\nGlenroy, s.s....\n\nLONDON.\n\n[Tons]\n\nBrokers.\n\nTo Sai\n\n18\n\nWright Bros. & Co.\n\nNov. 16\n\n2,500\n\nThos. Skinner & Co.\n\nNov. 20\n\nChin-Kiang, s.s.\n\n1,000\n\nNorris & Joyner...\n\nNov. 25\n\nKromatah.\n\n8.5........\n\nRosedale\n\n803,\n\nSmith, Son, Cole\n\nDes.\n\n1\n\n40\n\nWright Bros. & Co.\n\n¡Dec. 12\n\nLIVERPOOL.\n\nDeucalion, s.s.......\n\n1,506\n\nAlfred Bolt\n\nNov.20\n\nSarpolon, s.s.\n\n1,519\n\n......\n\nDec. 3\n\nSenle of wharf and dock charges may be had on application to the Company's London Agents, Mesars. MACTAGGART, TIDMAN, and Co., 34, Great St. Helens, E.C.\n\nST. JOHN'S CATHEDRAL,\n\nHONG KONG,\n\nCOMPLETION FUND.\n\n2,100\n\nSWID\n\nNov. 25.\n\nJUST before embarking from Hong\n\n2,200 (SWID |To follow\n\n2,000\n\nSWID ! To follow\n\n1,700 !SWID To foliow\n\n2,000 (SWID To follow\n\n2,200 (SWID To follow\n\n2,200 18 WID To follow\n\n2,000 (SWIDTo follow\n\n2,000\n\nSWIDj To follow\n\nFor Freight or Passage, apply to THOMAS SKINEE and Co.,, East India-avenue, London, EC.\n\nTEAM VIA THE SUEZ CANAL to PENANG. SINGAPORE, HONG KONG, and SHANGHAI; taking cargo for transhipment to Java, Japan, o., at through ratos at shippers' rak. Last shipping day, 25th November. The new and splendid fail-powered screw steamer CHIN-KTANG, 100 AL 1,220 tons gross; 800 tons net register: 160- horse power nominal. J. HOGG, Commander: Sonth West India Doeks. This magnificent steamer, just bailt by Messrs. C Mitchell and Co., Walker-on-Tyne, expressly for the China trade, bide fair to be one of the fastrat in the trade. Has splendid accommodation for first-class passengers,\n\nFor Freight or Passage apply to the owners, WATTS, MILBURN, and Co., 85, Gracechurch-street, F.C.; or to Norma and JoYVER, 126, Bishopgate-street Within, E.C (Corner of Cornhill).\n\nAll Packages must be marked distinctly with port of destination,\n\nKong, on Tuesday. Nov. 16, 1849, HRH the DUKE OF EDINBURGH was graciously pleased to lay the first stone of a choir for this, the moth Church of the Diocese of Victoria. The cast of the fabric has been shared by the Executive Government and the local community; and it is proposed, by a general sebseription among former residents in and visitors to China, to uravide the necessary furniture and Ettings Should suficient funds be raised, it is proposed to erect a stone palpit.\n\nThe Committee will gladly receive and forward any special gifts with which they may be eutrasted. This schone having receive the cordial approval of the Colmus Chaplain and the Trustees, is circulated by\n\nthe Executive Committe\n\nThe Rev. IV. R. BEACH, HA., Chaplain to the Forces, Canon of St. John's Cathedral, Hong Kong, and late Colonial Chaplain. CHAS. 8. GEORGE CLEVERLY. Esq. ROBERT S. WALKER, Esq. Hon. Treasurer,\n\nthe follies.\n\nBerkenhau.\n\nS.E. HERBERT LAURENCE, Esq., Hon. Secretary\n\n1, Royal Exchange-buildings.\n\nE.C. P.O. Orders to ba made payable at Cornhill, E.C.\n\nPristed for the Proprietorsby WooFF ALL and KINDER Milford-tane,Strand, W.C., and published by James WEST, at the Office of the LONDON AND CHINA TELEGRAPH, 2, Cowper'a-court, Combill, in the parish of St. Michael's. in the City of London. Monday, Nov. 18, 1879.\n\nPage 210\n\nPage 211", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-159 - Sir Kennedy - 1872 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 288877, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-159 - Sir Kennedy - 1872 [9-12]", "page_number": 250, "title": "CO129-159 - Sir Kennedy - 1872 [9-12]", "content_text": "248\n\n0\n\nC\n\nHaving\n\nCommunicated to the Government of Her Majesty the Queen, I have now the honor to convey to you a request from Her Majesty. The \"King of Cambodia, our high friend, has been made aware of the honor intended, but which in accordance with the imperative Rules of the Public Service of Great Britain, we are prohibited from accepting.\n\nI trust you will fully explain to His Majesty that this decision has been arrived at in accordance with a stringent Rule applicable in all similar cases, and not from any want of respect for His Majesty, or insensibility of the high honor which His Majesty proposed to confer upon some of Her Majesty's Servants.\n\nI have to,\n\n(Signed.) A.L. Kennedy,\n\nGovernor and Commander-in-Chief.\n\n(True Copy)\n\nSmith\n\nActing Colonial Secretary.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-159 - Sir Kennedy - 1872 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 288956, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-159 - Sir Kennedy - 1872 [9-12]", "page_number": 329, "title": "CO129-159 - Sir Kennedy - 1872 [9-12]", "content_text": "Donghong, 24 July, 1872.\n\nJamis Riddie, a Lunatic from Shanghas.\n\nRemarks by the Acting Attorney General as to\n\nthe action of the Shanghai\n\nAuthorities in the case ...\n\nPage 327\n\nDr Adams to Acting Colonial Secretary?\n\n...\n\nSir,\n\nNo 4.\n\nSeamen's Hospital,\n\nHong Kong, 25th July, 1872.\n\nI have the honor to bring\n\nto your notice that on the evening\n\nof the 21st instant,\n\nthe Commander of the S.S. \"Ancon\" brought to\n\nthis Hospital a person named\n\nJames Reddie, of unsound mind,\n\nfrom under a Warrant signed\n\nby the Hon'ble Edmund Hornby, the Chief\n\nJudge at Shanghai. I admitted\n\nhim. The Hon'ble\n\nb. Smith, Acting\n\nColonial Secretary.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-159 - Sir Kennedy - 1872 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 289092, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-159 - Sir Kennedy - 1872 [9-12]", "page_number": 465, "title": "CO129-159 - Sir Kennedy - 1872 [9-12]", "content_text": "sympathy and \n\nCopy \n\noperation in \n\npreventing this Colony from being \n\nmade a sink to which destitute \n\nbad characters are to be \n\ntransferred from the Treaty Ports \n\nNevertheless, even if such a course were sometimes necessary under certain exceptional circumstances I need hardly add that I ought to be first communicated with that steps might be taken through the proper department of this Government \n\nfor \n\nexercising a careful surveillance over those whom it had been found necessary to send here. \n\nI have to \n\n(Signed) A K Kennedy, \n\nGovernor & Commander-in-chief \n\nOfficiating Consul, Shanghai to Acting Colonial Secretary \n\nNO 3427 \n\nPage 463 \n\nBritish Consulate, Shanghai, \n\n14th November, 1872 \n\nI have the honor to acknowledge \n\nreceipt of your \n\nletter of the 9th Instant and to express my \n\nsurprise \n\nthat His Excellency The \n\nGovernor of Hong Kong should \n\nhave \n\nassumed, as he \n\nappears from \n\nits terms to have done, that I \n\nshould have been in \n\nany way \n\na party to the deportation of criminals \n\nor others to Hong Kong without \n\nThe Honorable \n\nCecil Smith, \n\nActing Colonial Secretary, Hong Kong", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-159 - Sir Kennedy - 1872 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 290641, "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": "CO129-162 - Sir Kennedy - 1873 [1-3]", "page_number": 282, "title": "CO129-162 - Sir Kennedy - 1873 [1-3]", "content_text": "I beg to inform you that this man (Cory) will be received on board the \"Inno\" for passage, and that he should be sent to her on the forenoon of Monday May the 10th instant.\n\n(Signed) Ehes F. Shadwell, \n\nRear Admiral and Commander in Chief\n\n(True Copy)\n\nfein & Saith, \n\nActing Colonial Secretary.\n\nCaptain Baird, H.M.S. \"Juno\"\n\n\"Juno\" at Hongkong, \n\n10th February 1875.\n\nI certify to have received Edward Jones, Private 1/10th Regiment (who was tried for murder and found \"not guilty\" on the ground of insanity) for passage to England to be detained in a boat specially set apart for such criminals.\n\n(Signed) I. R. Baird, \n\nCaptain\n\n(True Copy)\n\nfein & Saith, \n\nActing Colonial Secretary", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-162 - Sir Kennedy - 1873 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 290889, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-163 - Sir Kennedy - 1873 [4-6]", "page_number": 56, "title": "CO129-163 - Sir Kennedy - 1873 [4-6]", "content_text": "returned from a four days' cruise, having visited the places named in your letter, from Chung Chow towards the West and Mirs' Bay towards the East -- Acting Commander Licken reports all quiet in those localities and that he fell in with no vessels of suspicious character.\n\nWith reference to this matter, I have further to inform Your Excellency that I have taken the opportunity of the Gun-vessels or boats under his orders going out for gunnery practice for them to visit the localities referred to in letter before mentioned.\n\nI have to,\n\n(Signed) Chas. J. Shadwell,\n\nVice-Admiral and Commander-in-Chief.\n\nTrue Copy)\n\nJ. Smith,\n\nActing Colonial Secretary.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-163 - Sir Kennedy - 1873 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 292467, "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": "CO129-165 - Sir Kennedy - 1873 [10-12]", "page_number": 476, "title": "CO129-165 - Sir Kennedy - 1873 [10-12]", "content_text": "# GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION\n## No. 180.\n\n472\n\nThe following Report of the Marine Court of Inquiry into the Loss of Life arising from the Casualty to the British Steamer **Glenlyon**, Official Number `68,010`, off the South Coast of China, is published for general information.\n\nBy Command, \nColonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 20th November, 1873.\n\n**FINDING OF THE COURT**\n\n**CECIL C. SMITH**, Acting Colonial Secretary.\n\n1-We find that the British Steamer **Glenlyon**, Official Number `68,010`; 1,373 registered tons; **JOHN TEMPLETON**, No. of whose Certificate of Competency is `20,767`, Master, left Singapore with from 2,500 to 3,000 tons of cargo, and about 280 Chinese Passengers, bound to Hongkong.\n\n2.--We find that there were no spaces below appropriated to the Passengers or their baggage.\n\n3.-We find that the **Glenlyon** was licensed at Singapore to carry three hundred Passengers, the accommodation for whom, according to the License, was the Upper Deck.\n\n-We find that the **Glenlyon** met with a very violent storm on the 30th ultimo, at about noon, in Latitude 15.46 North, and Longitude 112.36 East. The storm lasted until 6 A.M. of the 1st instant. During this interval of time the ship was, from being very deeply laden, and from her peculiar construction-one of great length and disproportionate breadth-in great peril of foundering.\n\n5.-We find that during the storm three Chinese met their death from exhaustion or from injuries received from the washing about of the baggage; one Chinese jumped overboard; and one Seaman, **GEORGE KAY**, was washed overboard when at his duty at the relieving tackles.\n\nIt is in evidence that one Chinese, after the vessel's arrival at this Port, stabbed another Passenger and then made his escape by jumping overboard.\n\nIn the Chinese evidence it is stated that some of the Passengers were washed overboard, but their number is not known. This evidence is, however, of so uncertain a nature, that no reliable conclusion could be come to on this point.\n\n6.-We find that the Master and Chief Officer, under the circumstances, did all they could to secure the safety of their Passengers by ordering them to be provided for in the Saloon, Ship's Forecastle, Chart Room, Engine Room, and similar places; and that the majority of the Passengers were provided for in this way.\n\n7.-We find that the Crew received compensation from some of the Chinese for the accommodation their Forecastle offered, but it does not appear that this had any influence on the alleged Loss of Life, as many went into this space without paying anything.\n\n8.-We find that the Chief Engineer most improperly permitted the Engineers and Firemen to receive compensation for sheltering Passengers in the Engine Room.\n\nThe Court regret having been unable to ascertain with more exactness than they have, the number of Chinese that were actually lost on the voyage. Had the Passengers been counted on going on board at Singapore, the Court's finding on this head would have been more satisfactory.\n\nThe License issued at Singapore is attached to the Minutes. It is unsigned and has an erasure changing Two hundred into Three hundred Passengers as licensed to proceed. The Master in his evidence states that the License is in the same condition as when he received it.\n\nThe Court thinks it their duty to state that it is to be regretted that any deeply laden ships proceeding on similar voyages should be allowed to carry unsheltered or deck passengers.\n\nGiven under our Hands at Hongkong, this Fourteenth day of November, 1873.\n\n**Confirmed,**\n\n**C. May**, First Police Magistrate.\n\n| Name | Position |\n| --- | --- |\n| H. G. THOMSETT | Nay-Lieutenant, R.N., Harbour Master, &c. |\n| H. Lowcock | Un-Official Justice of the Peace |\n| R. H. CAIRNS | Government Marine Surveyor |\n| SETH DOANE | Commanding British Steam-ship \"Mikado\" |\n| A. E. KENNEDY | Governor and Commander-in-Chief |\n\nEnclosure Mr. 2 in Governor Sir Arthur I Connedy's Despatch No `268` of 25th November 1873.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-165 - Sir Kennedy - 1873 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 294354, "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": "CO129-168 - Sir Kennedy - 1874 [9-12]", "page_number": 324, "title": "CO129-168 - Sir Kennedy - 1874 [9-12]", "content_text": "## 320 \n## 14157 \n\nOn this Station; and also that the Pelew Islands are not within his jurisdiction, the Commander in Chief is unable to detach any vessel for their conveyance to their own Country.\n\nI have &c.\n(Signed) John Parish, Commodore,\n\n(True copy)\n \nActing Colonial Secretary.\n\n(Copy)\n\nHonorable Cecil. C. Smith.\n\nActing Colonial Secretary\n\nSir,\n\nHaving command of a British vessel that is chartered for Pellew Islands, the Spanish Consul protests against my leaving direct for the above place. You will kindly inform me if I will violate the laws by leaving this Port and not clearing at the Spanish Consulate.\n\n&c. &c.\n(Signed) Daniel D. O'Keefe,\n\n(True Copy),\nActing Colonial Secretary.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-168 - Sir Kennedy - 1874 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 296035, "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": "CO129-170 - Sir Kennedy - 1875 [1-3] -- Acting Governor Austin - 1875 [3-6]", "page_number": 497, "title": "CO129-170 - Sir Kennedy - 1875 [1-3] -- Acting Governor Austin - 1875 [3-6]", "content_text": "morning, about three hours after..... the Bombay, and her Commander sent an Officer at once offering any assistance he could possibly render.\n\nAs however the Bombay was just preparing to take the \"Gwalior\" in tow, Captain Haselwood did not consider it necessary to avail himself of his kind offices beyond requesting him to remain until they were fairly under weigh by the live steamers. This was courteously complied with, and he proceeded on his return voyage after exerting them a few miles.\n\nI have to: (signed) A. McIvers\n\n(True copy), \nJ. Smith \nActing Colonial Secretary.\n\nSuperintendent. \nGovernor.\n\nMang trong 1.49 No 6.927\n\nNo. 49 \nDate. 1875 May\n\nLoft previous Paper. Letter to Agents 20/12/75\n\nNO.\n\n**(Subject.)** \n**DESPATCH.**\n\nRECEIVED 489 \nC.O. 21 JUN 1875\n\nPlans of Civil Hospital are forwarded together with Report of Surveyor General We Farfelis.\n\n**(Minutes.)** \nWR June 21 \n6621/6\n\n...is now prefaced; whether it is of any use. \nMy Meade \nI understand that W. Ammanney has already protested with this matter. \nIt is a question whether to write to the Architect and ask for an explanation's remarks, or whether the work of designing should be in the sense of critical...\n\n| 5-H | 5 6876) |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-170 - Sir Kennedy - 1875 [1-3] -- Acting Governor Austin - 1875 [3-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 296402, "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": "CO129-171 - Acting Governor Austin - 1875 [7-11] -- Sir Kennedy - 1875 [12]", "page_number": 133, "title": "CO129-171 - Acting Governor Austin - 1875 [7-11] -- Sir Kennedy - 1875 [12]", "content_text": "43\n\n(12)\n\nLai Tin was then cited by Landstein and examined in open Court.\n\nLai Tin refused to sanction the agreement and claimed that it had been entered into by Ho Man Tsung without authority from Government. The steamer Dang Wee was sent to Hongkong to undergo certain repairs, and according to the report of the Commandant and his assistant received by this Government, the steamer was seized on account of money due by Un Tak Hau to the Firm of Landstein & Co., and the repairs to the steamer were in consequence stopped. I sent a despatch to Your Lordship, also one to H. E. the Governor on the subject, which I presume were duly received.\n\n12. The agreement being disputed was not insisted on by Mr. Kingsmill as binding on the plaintiff Landstein, and the order which discharged the Dang Wee from the attachment ceased to be in force and the Dang Wee is now in the custody of the sheriff as security to the plaintiff Landstein.\n\nOfficers on board the said steamer Dang Wee secretly became security for him without the knowledge of this Government. In the 1st moon of last year, (February, 1873), this Government sent the steamer Dang Wee to Hongkong...\n\n13. I have to add that under present circumstances every ship and all merchandise of H. M. the King of Annam that shall come to Hongkong will be seizable to secure to Landstein the payment of such amount as he shall be able to prove in the Supreme Court to be due to him, Landstein, from H. M. the King of Annam.\n\nIt is now more than a year ago, and the steamer has not yet returned. In the 4th moon of this year, (May and June), a gentleman agent of the Firm of Landstein & Co. came to this country and claimed a large sum of money - the matter was made known to the King who ordered an official to proceed to Hongkong with Un Tak Hau and Lai Afai who were to take with them several thousands of dollars and there to settle the claim with the Firm of Landstein & Co., so that the Dang Wee may be allowed to return for public service.\n\nIf, as is deposed to, the Commodore said to have been sold to H. M. Tu Duc and the Dang Wee which H. M. claims to have given up to him, be the same vessel, then it is clear that H. M. Tu Duc has possession of a steamer once the property of Landstein, and as it is not alleged in the letter to the Governor, or to the Chief Justice that the price for the Commodore has been ever paid, then it would seem that H. M. Tu Duc has the steamer of Landstein in his possession and that the price for it ought to be paid.\n\nThe Government was informed that the Firm of Landstein & Co. had acknowledged payment of $24,603, but that the sum of $150,000 was still due, and that the firm would not allow time, that they demanded that $75,000 should be paid at once, and desired that the deputed officer should be security for the balance. This surely cannot be just, why should a Government steamer be seized for a private debt, the steamer was seized because the debtors could not be found, but now they are forthcoming and are willing to pay their debt. If Un Tak Hau and Lai Afai are willing to pay a further sum of $20,000 or $30,000 when they return to their country and the balance when they have coined money, this appears to be very fair.\n\nA like remark applies to the account current for goods supplied. If H. M. has received them, there may be questions between H. M. and his servants as to them, but if these articles reached H. M. Tu Duc, it would seem but justice that H. M. should pay Landstein for them. It is quite open to H. M. to prove that he never received the goods or that the prices charged were too much or that Landstein is not entitled to payment for reasons to be shown, but until such reasons shall be shown, why should not H. M. Tu Duc pay to Landstein the sum claimed?\n\nSir,\n\nI have the honor to be,\n\nYour most obedient and humble Servant,\n\n(Signed) W. H. ALEXANDER,\n\nRegistrar.\n\nHis Excellency,\n\nThe Minister of the Mercantile Marine of the Kingdom of Annam.\n\n(APPENDIX H.)\n\nThe Minister of Mercantile Marine of the Kingdom of Annam makes this communication to His Lordship the Chief Justice of Hongkong and begs his perusal of the same. In former years, the steamer Dang Wee belonging to this Government proceeded to Hongkong on public business...\n\nThe official who was deputed to settle the matter wrote and informed this Government that the Firm of Landstein & Co. had...\n\nThis Government asks and will deem it a great favour if your Lordship will order the firm of Landstein & Co. to accept Un Tak Hau and Lai Afai's payment and to allow them to pay the balance when they have made money in trade, and will kindly order the steamer Dang Wee to be released so that she may return for public service and save this Government further unnecessary expense.\n\nThis is my prayer. An answer to this despatch will much oblige. In conclusion, I beg to tender my best compliments.\n\n15th day of 8th Moon, 27th Year of Tu Duc.\n\n(25th September, 1874.)\n\nSealed with the seal of the Minister,\n\nPrinted at the Daily Press Office, Hongkong.\n\nSir,\n\n24,1829-\n\n75-\n\n130\n\nAttorney General's Office\n\n22nd May 1875.\n\nI have the honour to return herewith your minute of the interview between yourself and the Annamese Mandarins upon the 3rd of May, and in obedience to His Excellency's commands conveyed in your memorandum of the 16th of May, I beg to submit the following report upon the whole case.\n\nThe short facts are that on the 13th of October 1873, a suit for an alleged debt was commenced by writ of Summons against the King of Annam. On the 14th of October, the Dangwee was attached in the hands of her Commander...\n\nThe Honorable Cecil C. Smith\n\nActing Colonial Secretary", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-171 - Acting Governor Austin - 1875 [7-11] -- Sir Kennedy - 1875 [12].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": 299533, "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": 370, "title": "CO129-176 - Public Offices & Others - 1876", "content_text": "364\n\n326\n\nTHE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 21ST AUGUST, 1875.\n\nexecute all and every the said powers and authorities, until Our further pleasure shall be signified therein, and according to such instructions as Our said Governor may receive, and such further instructions as such Lieutenant-Governor, Colonial Secretary, or other person as aforesaid, may receive from Us, either under Our Sign Manual and Signet, or by instructions under the hand of one of Our Principal Secretaries of State.\n\nII. And whereas, by Our said recited Letters Patent, We have (amongst other things) given and granted unto Our said Governor full power and authority, as he should see occasion, in Our name and on Our behalf, to grant certain pardons to offenders in the manner and on the terms therein mentioned. And whereas it is expedient to authorize and empower Our said Governor, as he shall see occasion, in Our name and on Our behalf, when any crime has been committed within Our said Colony, to grant a pardon to accomplices, not being the actual perpetrator of such crime, who shall give such information and evidence as shall lead to the apprehension and conviction of the principal offender.\n\nAll persons called upon to be obedient, aiding, and assisting to the Governor.\n\nIII. And We do hereby require and command all Our officers and ministers, civil and military, and all other the inhabitants of Our said Colony of Hong Kong, to be obedient, aiding, and assisting to such person as may, in the event of the death, incapacity, or absence of the Governor of Our said Colony of Hong Kong, assume and exercise, under the provisions of these Our Letters Patent, the functions of such Governor.\n\nIV. And We do hereby reserve to Us, Our heirs and successors, full power and authority, from time to time, to revoke, alter, or amend these Our Letters Patent as to Us or them shall seem meet.\n\nPower reserved to Her Majesty to revoke, alter, or amend the present Letters Patent.\n\nNo. 148.\n\nIn Witness whereof We have caused these Our Letters to be made Patent. Witness Ourself at Westminster, the Eighth day of June, in the Thirty-eighth year of Our reign.\n\nBy Warrant under the Queen's Sign Manual,\n\nC. ROMILLY.\n\nGOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.\n\nThe following Return, received from Mr. JOHN JACK, of the quantity of Spirits distilled at the Hongkong Distillery, is published for general information.\n\nSpirits manufactured during the Quarter ending 10th August, 1875, ...\n\nBy Command,\n\nColonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 16th August, 1875.\n\nNo. 149.\n\nGOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.\n\nGallons. ... 26,840.\n\nCECIL C. SMITH,\n\nActing Colonial Secretary.\n\nThe following Order made by His Excellency the Administrator in Council under \"The Hongkong Lighthouses Ordinance, 1873,\" is published for general information.\n\nBy Command,\n\nColonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 19th August, 1875.\n\nTHE LIGHTHOUSES ORDINANCE, 1873.\n\nNo. 17 OF 1873.\n\nORDER\n\nCECIL C. SMITH,\n\nActing Colonial Secretary.\n\nMade by His Excellency the Administrator in Council, this 19th day of August, 1875.\n\nBy virtue of the provisions of the above-mentioned Ordinance, it is ordered,—\n\nThat the River Steamer Ichang belonging to the China Navigation Company, Limited, be exempted from the payment of Light Dues so long as she enters the waters of the Colony by day.\n\nH. ERNEST WODEHOUSE,\n\nClerk of Councils.\n\nApproved in Council,\n\nJ. GARDINER AUSTIN,\n\nAdministrator and Commander-in-Chief.\n\n1\n\nNo. 150.\n\nTHE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 21ST AUGUST, 1875.\n\nGOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.\n\n327\n\nThe following Particulars and Conditions of Sale of Crown Land by Public Auction, to be held at British Kowloon on Monday, 30th August, 1875, at 4.30 P.M., are published for general information.\n\nBy Command,\n\nCECIL C. SMITH, Acting Colonial Secretary.\n\nColonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 20th August, 1875.\n\nParticulars and Conditions of the letting by Public Auction Sale, to be held on Monday, the 30th August, 1875, at 4.30 P.M., by Order of His Excellency the Administrator, of Two Lots of Crown Land in the Dependency of Kowloon for a Term of Fourteen Years.\n\nPARTICULARS OF THE LOTS.\n\n \n LOCALITY\n No. of Lots\n Registry No.\n N.\n S.\n E.\n W.\n Contents in Square ft.\n Annual Rent\n Upset Price\n \n \n Tsim Tsa Tsui,\n 1\n No. 59\n 200.0 feet\n 200.0 feet\n 320.0 feet\n 320.0 feet\n 64,000\n $29.38\n $20.00\n \n \n Yan-ma-ti,\n 2\n 54\n 300.0 feet\n 328.01 feet\n 600.0 feet\n (421.0 feet\n 182,306\n $83.78\n $05.00\n \n\nCONDITIONS OF SALE.\n\n1. The highest bidder above the upset price shall be the Purchaser, and if any dispute arise, the Lot shall be put up again at a former bidding.\n\n2. No person shall at any bidding advance less than $5.\n\n3. Immediately after the fall of the hammer, the Purchaser shall sign the Memorandum of Agreement hereinafter contained for completing the purchase according to these conditions, and shall within Three Days of the day of Sale pay into the Colonial Treasury the full amount of Premium at which the Lot shall have been knocked down.\n\n4. The Purchaser of the Lot shall be entitled to and shall execute on demand a Lease from the Crown of the Piece or Parcel of Ground comprised in such Lot for 14 Years terminable at the expiration of 7 Years, to be computed from the 25th day of June, 1875, at such Annual Rental payable half-yearly on the 24th day of June, and the 25th day of December in every Year as is specified in the Particulars of such Lot hereinbefore contained; and such Crown Lease shall be subject to and contain all Exceptions, Reservations, Covenants, Clauses, and Conditions inserted in the Crown Lease of Garden Lots in the Colony of Hongkong.\n\n5. The Purchaser of the Lot shall pay to the Surveyor General on behalf of Her Majesty The QUEEN, a Fee of $5 upon the execution of the Crown Lease thereof.\n\n6. Should the Purchaser neglect or fail to comply with these Conditions, his Premium or any portion thereof which may be paid shall be thereupon forfeited to Her Majesty, who shall be at full liberty either to enforce the Sale, or to re-sell the Property at such time and place, and in such manner as to Her Majesty shall seem fit, and in case of a re-sale the increase, if any, of the Premium or Purchase Money shall be retained by Her Majesty, and the deficiency, if any, and all Costs and Expenses shall be made good by the defaulter and be recoverable as liquidated damages.\n\n7. Possession of the Lot sold shall be given to the Purchaser, and deemed to have been taken by him on the day of Sale.\n\n8. The Purchaser of the Lot shall within One Month from the day of Sale mark out the boundaries of his Lot by fixing granite boundary posts, of not less than 9 inches square, at each angle of the said Lot.\n\nMEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT BY THE PURCHASER.\n\nMemorandum that the person whose name is hereunder written has been declared the highest bidder for the Lot described in the foregoing Particulars of Sale and hereunder specified opposite to his said name and signature and does hereby agree to become the Lessee thereof under and subject to the foregoing Conditions of Sale and on his part to perform and abide by the said Conditions.\n\n \n Number of Sale and Registry Number Lots\n Description of Lot Purchased\n Amount of Annual Rental\n Premium at which Purchased\n Signatures of Purchasers", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-176 - Public Offices & Others - 1876.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 299534, "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": 371, "title": "CO129-176 - Public Offices & Others - 1876", "content_text": "365\n\n328\n\nNo. 151.\n\nTHE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 21ST AUGUST, 1875.\n\nGOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION. The following Notices to Mariners are published for general information.\n\nBy Command,\n\nColonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 20th August, 1875.\n\nCECIL C. SMITH,\n\nActing Colonial Secretary.\n\nNOTICE TO MARINERS.\n\nBEACONS INNER ROUTE AND TORRES STRAITS.\n\nThe following is a list of the Beacons erected in Torres Straits and the Inner Route thereto. Those which are Red and Triangular are to be left on a vessel's Starboard hand, when bound southwards; and those which are Black and Square, on her Port hand.\n\n \n Red and Triangular.\n Black and Square.\n \n \n Hope Islands.\n a Reef, north-west end\n \n \n b Reef, west end.\n e Reef, north end.\n \n \n e Reef, west side.\n d Reef, centre.\n \n \n Point Lookout.\n Sand-bank dry, with rocks E.S.E 2 miles from Point Lookout.\n \n \n Cole Islands and Howich Groups.\n s Reef, west side.\n \n \n Princess Charlotte's Bay to Fair Cape.\n r Reef.\n \n \n d Reef, east end.\n e Reef, centre.\n \n \n f Reef, centre.\n Heath Rocks, centre.\n \n \n Chilcott Rocks, centre.\n e South-west end.\n \n \n g South-west end,\n i West side.\n \n \n m West side.\n No. VI. Reef, west side.\n \n \n No. VII. Islet, west side.\n Reef in 13° 18' 30\" S. lat., west side.\n \n \n tt Reef, west side.\n v Reef, south-west end.\n \n \n v Reef, centre.\n e Reef, north-west end.\n \n \n Middle Reef, south end.\n Eust elbow of Eastern Reef.\n \n \n Piper Islands.\n h Reef, south end.\n \n \n k Reef, islet north-west end.\n Cape Grenville to Port Albany,\n \n \n V Reef, north-west end.\n X Reef, north-west end. Z Reef, west end.\n \n \n Prince of Wales' Channel.\n Ipili Reef, centre.\n \n \n North-west Reef, Hammond Rock bearing S.W.\n Ince Point, E. by S. 4 S.\n \n\nThe beacon on the south-east end of the Piper Island Reef has been cut down by the natives.\n\nUpon the eastern end of a. Reef, to the westward of the Flinders Group, is a second and smaller beacon to the northward of the main beacon, which will assist in distinguishing the reef.\n\nThe beacon originally erected on in. Reef near Young Island, having been placed on sandy bottom, has been washed down. When re-erected, it will be placed on Young Island.\n\nDepartment of Ports and Harbours, Brisbane, 23rd June, 1875.\n\nNOTICE TO MARINERS.\n\nG. P. HEATH, Commander R.N.,\n\nPortmaster.\n\nSHOAL OFF MONKHOUSE POINT, INNER ROUTE TO TORRES STRAITS,\n\nOn the edge of the 3 fathom line off Monkhouse Point, as shown on the chart, a Shoal Patch exists, with not more than 9 feet upon it at ordinary low water springs. The Pilot at the Endeavour River places it in the following position, viz. 1—\n\nMount Cook (Summit), W. by S. 4 S.\n\nGrassy Hill (Lookout House), N. W. by W. ¼ W.\n\nRocky Islet, S. E. by S. ½ S. southerly,\n\nThe water for some distance in-shore is from 3 to 6 feet deeper than on the shoal, and to the eastward, the bank extends from it about 1 cable, carrying from 15 to 18 feet of water, which then deepens to 4, 6, and 7 fathoms as shown on the chart. Vessels will be clear of this danger and of the edge of the bank, while keeping Rocky Islet open of Walker Point, and of the rocky point to the southward.\n\nG. P. HEATH, Commander R.N.,\n\nPortmaster.\n\nDepartment of Ports and Harbours, Brisbane, 11th June, 1876.\n\nCould ensAQ\n\nfrom this measure, and\n\nI believe I may say\n\nthat the\n\narrangement\n\nby which the Administration has hitherto devolved on the General Officer in Command, holding as he did a recognized and independent position, has not been unsatisfactory to the Colony.\n\nI may remark, that at Singapore, a Station included in this Command, the Senior Military Officer succeeds in the absence of the Governor.\n\nIf however, it is thought inexpedient that the General Officer Commanding should receive the Commission, I beg to submit again that he should also cease to be a member of the Council.\n\nThey disclaim, as far as possible, personal bias in these remarks,\n\nbut", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-176 - Public Offices & Others - 1876.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 301236, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-179 - Governor Hennessy - 1877 [9-12]", "page_number": 364, "title": "CO129-179 - Governor Hennessy - 1877 [9-12]", "content_text": "## \n15. The area of sheltered water enclosed would be fifty-eight acres, but what is equally important, there are also twenty-six acres of sandy foreshore well adapted for beaching purposes.\n\n16. The deeper portions of the area between the Breakwater and low water mark will suffice to accommodate all cargo lighters and the sampans of deep draught that have not fled to the Kowloon side of the Harbour and which would, under all circumstances of weather, remain at anchor; while through the shallower space between low and high water marks and through openings in the present old ruined Causeway, wide channels may be dredged giving access to the beaching ground.\n\n17. The Causeway will form a second line of defence against the surf, and afford still greater security to the smallest boats.\n\n18. The site of the Breakwater is shown in the accompanying drawing stretching easterly in the direction of the granite quarries for a length of 450 yards from a point nearly abreast of the corner of the Sugar Refinery sea wall. At each extremity, openings one hundred and thirteen yards wide, are left for entrance and exit, and for the free passage of the tides which, if more seriously impeded, might promote the deposit of silt.\n\n19. Leaving the description of the necessary works to the proper professional quarter, we would conclude by recommending the site as the only one on this side of Victoria Harbour adapted to the formation of a sufficiently large basin.\n\n20. Although the situation is unfortunately not only to windward of the boat population, but also somewhat distant from their haunts, we consider these defects might be met by the regular institution of Government storm signals giving the people timely warning of the approach of danger and the opportunity to take refuge against it.\n\n21. We have also carefully considered the necessity or otherwise of a shelter at Yau-ma-ti or other point in the Peninsula of Kowloon, but as we find the boat population of the latter have already several natural havens and inlets offering fair security against South-West winds, the only ones that can affect them, we are of opinion that a second Harbour of Refuge at British Kowloon is not, at least for the present, a public requirement.\n\nWe have the honour to be,\n\nYour obedient Servants,\n\nSir,\n\nJ. M. PRICE.\nJ. DIXON, R.N.\nH. G. THOMSETT, R.N.\nS. ASHTON.\nJ. P. McEUEN, R.N.\nR. MCMURDO.\n\nReferring to paragraph 20 of this Report, I desire to call attention to a Notification in the Government Gazette of the 4th August last instituting a storm signal by hoisting Drums at the Harbour Office and Police Hulk, and firing a gun when bad weather is apprehended.\n\nThe Honourable CECIL C. SMITH,\nActing Colonial Secretary.\n\nH. G. THOMSETT,\nHarbour Master.\n\n\"AUDACIOUS,\" AT HONGKONG,\n4th November, 1877.\n\nSIR—I have read the enclosed Report on the creation of a Harbour of Refuge for native boats at Hongkong with great interest. The reasons for preferring the proposed Breakwater at the Causeway Bay site to the two Breakwaters at Kellett's Island appear to me to be very cogent, and I have little doubt but the Causeway Bay scheme is the better of the two.\n\nThat there is no shelter for the large floating population of 12,000 persons, and that great numbers of them are drowned whenever a typhoon reaches this Island, viz., about on an average every 3 years, is a sufficient justification for the outlay, which I hope to hear will soon be undertaken.\n\nI brought the subject before the Island Authorities in a letter dated 9th March, 1877, enclosing one from the late Captain BAX of H. M. Ship Sylvia. The Chinese and Japanese are ordinarily very careless and indifferent to life preservation; the example we would set them by erecting this Breakwater for the preservation of Chinese lives and property will be appreciated.\n\nI have the honour to be,\nSir,\nYour Excellency's obedient Servant,\nA. P. RYDER, Admiral, Commander-in-Chief.\n\nHis Excellency JOHN POPE HENNESSY, C.M.G.,\nGovernor and Commander-in-Chief,\n&c.,\n&c.,\n&c.,\nHONGKONG.\n\n## MINUTE\n\n163\n15447\n\nMr. Round 4th Jour 7\n\nMr. Bramston.\nMor. Malcolm.\nMer. Meade.\nMr. Herbert.\nMr. Lowther\nLord Carnarvon.\nMr Meade.\n\n5\n\nThis is what I understood\n\nyou being MR\n\n2:52-5 July 1877\nsection on\n\nGentlemen,\n\nAnswd 2770=\n(1144)\n\nCo.n° 14-17 dept 1877\n(167) (15/0457)\n\nh2 163 - 22 A plans & printed act; Lory:\nb\n362\n\n9 January 1877.\n\nI am directed\nthe Parl of Camarion\nto transmit to you for\nCopies\nyour consideration\nof correspondence between the Governor of Hongking and his Lordships relative\nto the construction of a\nproposed breakwater for\nthe protection of the Junt\nBpulation of Victoria Afiniex typhoon\n\nLord Camaroon understand that in his John loode's\nAbsence from England.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-179 - Governor Hennessy - 1877 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 301348, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-179 - Governor Hennessy - 1877 [9-12]", "page_number": 476, "title": "CO129-179 - Governor Hennessy - 1877 [9-12]", "content_text": "# PAPERS LAID BEFORE CONTAGIOUS DISEASES COMMISSION.\n\n## COMMISSION BY HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR.\n\n[L.S.] **J. Pope Hennessy**\n\nWhereas during the progress of a Coroner's Inquest held at Hongkong by **JAMES RUSSELL**, Esquire, Coroner for the Colony of Hongkong, and a Jury of three persons, on the 17th, 18th, 19th and 29th Days of October, A.D. 1877, concerning the death of a certain woman named FUNG-A-SZ, alias A-SAU, evidence was laid before the said Coroner and Jury concerning certain practices connected with the operation of the \"Contagious Diseases Ordinance, 1867,\" and the suppression of unlicensed Brothels: And whereas the said practices were for the first time brought to my knowledge by the said evidence: And whereas the Jury aforesaid appended to their verdict at the above Inquest a special finding which, among other matters, contained the following recommendation, viz.:\n\n\"The Jury aforesaid would strongly recommend that the whole system of obtaining convictions against Keepers of unlicensed Brothels be thoroughly revised, as the present practice is, in their opinion, both illegal and immoral,”\n\nAnd whereas for the furtherance of public interests, and with a view to such revision, it is expedient that certain enquiries and investigations should be made touching the operation of the said Contagious Diseases Ordinance generally, and especially as to the regulations and machinery in force for the suppression of unlicensed Brothels: And whereas such enquiries and investigation will be most conveniently prosecuted by means of a Commission: I, **JOHN POPE HENNESSY**, Companion of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, do hereby under my Hand and the Seal of the said Colony appoint you The Honourable **WILLIAM KESWICK**, Unofficial Member of the Legislative Council, **THOMAS CHILD HAYLLAR**, Esquire, one of Her Majesty's Counsel for the Colony of Hongkong, and the Reverend **ERNEST JOHN EITEL**, Master of Arts, Doctor of Philosophy, to be a Commission for instituting and prosecuting all needful or proper enquiries in that behalf, and to take evidence in the premises, and to report to me all evidence so taken by you, and also your opinions thereon. And I do hereby require you to commence your enquiries forthwith, and to proceed therein continuously, and to make your report to me as aforesaid with all reasonable despatch. And I do hereby empower you, during the course, and for the purposes of your said Commission, to demand and obtain access at all times to all Papers, Records and Documents relating to the subject matter of the said Commission being in the custody and under the control of the several Public Departments within this Colony. And from time to time to call before you and examine all persons superintending or employed in or under any of the said Departments. And I do hereby charge all Persons in the Public Service to be aiding and assisting unto you herein. Given under my Hand and under the Seal of the Colony of Hongkong, at Victoria, in the said Colony, this Twelfth Day of November, A.D. One thousand Eight hundred and Seventy-seven.\n\nBy His Excellency's Command,\n\n**CECIL C. SMITH**,\nActing Colonial Secretary.\n\n## PROCEEDINGS OF THE INQUESTS.\n\nCORONER'S OFFICE, HONGKONG, 30th October, 1877.\n\nSIR—I beg to forward, for the information of His Excellency the Governor, two inquisitions taken by me yesterday in the cases of two Chinese women who were killed by falling from the top of a house in Peel Street on the night of the 16th or morning of the 17th instant. One of the women died on the spot, whilst the other lived till the 27th instant, when she died in the Government Civil Hospital. In calling attention to the special finding of the Jury, I should like to add a suggestion in reference to what are termed smoke-holes.\n\nInspector LEE stated that he had been on the roofs of many houses, and that he had never seen any in which the smoke-holes had not some protection in the shape of a parapet except those of houses 42 and 44 Peel Street.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-179 - Governor Hennessy - 1877 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 303746, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-184 - Governor Hennessy - 1879 [1-5]", "page_number": 338, "title": "CO129-184 - Governor Hennessy - 1879 [1-5]", "content_text": "# THE CHINA MAIL.\n\n## HONGKONG, FRIDAY, MAY 2, 1879.\n\n### GENERAL GRANT IN HONGKONG.\n\nThis morning at eleven o'clock, General Grant attended at the United States Consulate and received a considerable number of ladies and gentlemen who were desirous of having the honour of being introduced to him. The Consul, Col. Moneby, and his clerk Mr Rickards, saw to the proper formal introduction of each presentee, and everything passed over most successfully and quietly. The Consulate was adorned with flags. Outside were displayed the Stars and Stripes, and the Peruvian flag; and in the entrance hall were displayed the American flag and the Peruvian, with the Portuguese and Italian flags on either side of the doorway.\n\nThe American Consulate is at the same time the Peruvian Consulate. Over the doorway leading to the reception chamber were the English and American flags. In the reception room, the Russian and German flags were hung. The reception did not last long, less than an hour being occupied altogether. The following is as complete a list as could be obtained of those who were present. If any names are unwittingly left out it is entirely the blame of those who failed to leave their cards — G. Holcombe, Esq., Charge d'Affaires, Peking; Bishop Raimondi; Hon. Acting Puisne Judge, J. J. Francis, Esq.; Hon. the Acting Attorney General, J. Russell, Esq.; Rev. Dr. Eitel, Inspector of Schools; Dr. Chalmers, Canton; Judge Denny, U.S. Consul, Tientsin; Hon. W. Keswick; Hon. K. Ryrie; Dr. Lochhead; Commander Perkins, and F. D. M'Ewan, U.S.S. Ashuelot; W. Reiners, Russian Consul; A. G. Romano, Portuguese Consul; Dr. Wm. Eastlake; Frank W. Eastlake; E. Sharp; R. H. Sandeman; J. N. Jameson; W. H. Forbes; J. M. Forbes, Jr.; Geo. Murray Bain; B. Chatterton Wilcox; C. L. Gorham; A. F. Smith; H. H. Nelson; C. Vincent Smith; John Kyle; H. Dickie; L. Mallory; W. W. Battles; Geo. H. Wheeler; T. Thompson; B. M. Blanchard; W. Dolan; Commissary J. Macfarlane; F. D. Sassoon; Q. C. Williams, Swatow; H. Deacon; W. H. Ray; W. Spratt; M. E. Manook; R. D. Mehta; F. Abella; A. Ahlmann; I. Hopplus; Albert Gultzow; Fred. Rickards; Capt. Hayden (Sea Gull); Mr Reinor (Sea Gull); Capt. Brothhurst (Coran); Capt. Means, Mrs Means and family; Capt. Johnson, Mrs Johnson, and family; Capt. Holmes and Mrs Holmes; Capt. Call and Mrs Call; Capt. Evans; Capt. Lunt; Capt. Hutchinson; Capt. Clough; Capt. Lewis; Capt. Tapley; Capt. Mansen; Capt. Smith; Capt. Wass; Capt. Windsor; and the following Chinese—Leung On; Wong Yik Pun; Tang Kau; Tam King; Fung Tang; Chun Poh Yeong; Chu Siu; Fung Ming Shan; Lee Pun Chi; Yu Chong. General Grant, his son Lieut.-Col. Grant, and Mr Russell J. Young, who accompanied him, after the reception proceeded to Government House to tiffin, and spent most of the afternoon there. During the afternoon Messrs. Roberts and Shorter, the billiard players, had the honour of playing at Government House, before His Excellency and General Grant, the ladies, and the other members of the party. The Governor and General Grant drove round the town in the course of the afternoon.\n\nTo-night, a dinner will take place at Government House, when about twenty guests will be present. Mr and Mrs Robert Hart, who proceed to Shanghai to-day by the French steamer, were among the guests at Government House last night. To-morrow night a State Dinner will be given, when about forty guests will be present, all official guests appearing in full uniform. The Band will be in attendance, and a reception will be held from 10 till 12; when the brilliant lighting up of Government House Gardens will add additional beauty and attraction to this evening's entertainment. Half way up the hill, in Wyndham Street, a capital transparency portrait of General Grant, with on the other side the British and American flags, has been exposed every night, lighted up brilliantly, and has attracted much attention. The lamp is shown over the house of Mr Moore, an American.\n\nGeneral Grant is a man in appearance about fifty years of age, although actually seven years older, having been born in 1822, 27th April. He looks uncommonly fresh in spite of the tear and wear of War's alarms, and the worrying and trying boredom of being lionized as he has been for the past six months or more. He is rather under than over the average size, has a fresh ruddy face, and brown hair of a grayish hue. He is evidently a man of most unassuming manners and most dogged resolution, and when he gets into his favourite attitude, crossing his knees and leaning slightly forward, with his cigar in his hand, he recalls to one's recollection the five or six hundred portraits we have all seen of him, either during the war or the term of his double presidency.\n\nIn conversation he is a willing participator, and talks genially and pleasantly.\n\nPage 333", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-184 - Governor Hennessy - 1879 [1-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 303747, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-184 - Governor Hennessy - 1879 [1-5]", "page_number": 339, "title": "CO129-184 - Governor Hennessy - 1879 [1-5]", "content_text": "# THE CHINA MAIL.\n\n## HONGKONG, MONDAY, MAY 5, 1879.\n\n### GENERAL GRANT IN HONGKONG,\n\n#### GRAND STATE DINNER AND RECEPTION AT GOVERNMENT HOUSE.\n\nOn Saturday evening a grand State dinner was given at Government House by the Governor and Mrs. Hennessy, in honour of General Grant; and afterwards a reception was held, which was one of the most brilliant and numerously attended that ever took place within these walls.\n\nThe following were the guests at the State Dinner:\n\n| Guest | Title/Position |\n| --- | --- |\n| General and Mrs. Grant | |\n| The Duke of Magliano | |\n| Don Giulio Grasioli | |\n| Hon. A. E. Borie | |\n| H. E. the Major General and Mrs. Donovani | |\n| The Chief Justice Sir John Smale, and Lady Smale | |\n| Commodore Smith, R.N. | |\n| Hon. J. Russell, Acting Attorney-General | |\n| Hon. P. Ryrie, MLC | |\n| Hon. J. M. Price, Surveyor-General | |\n| Hon. M. S. Tonnochy, Acting Colonial Treasurer | |\n| Mr. Chester Holcombe, U.S. Chargé d'Affaires in China | |\n| Lieut.-Col. F. D. Grant, U.S.A. | |\n| Lieut.-Col. and Mrs. Geddes, 27th Inniskillings | |\n| Captain Kasama, Japanese Navy | |\n| Commander Perkins, United States Navy | |\n| Commander Paul (H.B.M.'s Consul, Manila) and Mrs. Pauli | |\n| Mr. Tara Ando, Japanese Consul, and Mrs. Tara Ando | |\n| Commander Von Schuckmann, German Navy | |\n| Captain Kerr, 27th Inniskillings | |\n| Lieut. Drummond, Scots Fusilier Guards, A.D.C. | |\n| Dr. J. M. Keating | |\n| Mr. C. V. Creagh | |\n| Mr. J. Russell Young | |\n| Mr. J. Pitman | |\n| Mr. G. De Champeaux | |\n| Mr. Han Hap | |\n| Mr. Ng Choy | |\n| Major Palmer, R.E., A.D.C. | |\n\nThe following ladies and gentlemen who had received invitations were, from various causes, unable to attend:\n\n- Bishop Burdon and Mrs. Burdon\n- Bishop Raimondi\n- Hon. H. W. Marsh, Colonial Secretary, and Mrs. Marsh\n- The Hon. I. B. Gibb\n- Colonel Moaby, U.S. Consul, Hongkong\n- Mr. Lincoln, U.S. Consul at Canton, and Mrs. Lincoln\n- Surgeon-Major Hungerford\n- Rev. R. Bayward Kidd, Colonial Chaplain, and Mrs. Kidd\n- Dr. Frederick Stewart\n- Captain Muskett, Army Pay Department\n\nThe following programme was played during dinner:\n\n1. Grand March, **David** \n2. Overture, **Absalom**, Longhurst\n3. Selection, **Das Nachtlager Kreutzer**\n4. Valse, **Kübezahll**, Flotow\n5. Selection, **in Granada**, ... Coote\n6. Polka, **Telephone**, Werner\n\nAfter the toast of **\"Her Majesty the Queen,\"** which was duly honoured in the usual way, the band playing **\"God Save the Queen,\"** His Excellency said:\n\nThe Governor of this Colony has from time to time had the privilege of welcoming, in the name of the whole community, distinguished visitors. One of the children of our Queen has been residing in this house, and my immediate predecessor entertained here a son of the Emperor of Russia. But I believe the young princes would be themselves among the first to say that the man whose health I am now about to propose, is the most illustrious guest that ever sat at this table. I do not refer so much to the military achievements which will for ever rank the name of Ulysses Grant with those of Washington, Wellington, and Napoleon, but to those other achievements, indicated by Lord Beaconsfield, when he truly said that the future of civilization is indissolubly bound up in the future of the United States - those other achievements, accomplished by the toleration, resolute strength, and love of justice of the statesman, when the sword of the soldier was laid aside.\n\nTwo years have gone since he first saw, at Yok harbour, the shores of the British Empire. During that time he has visited the Old World, breathed the Scotch air of his ancestors, and passed on from point to point of Queen Victoria's dominions; and now, on leaving this Island and crossing the Pacific to his own home, he is about to part with that Empire throughout the whole of which he has been received with one long ovation of respect and affection. As the Queen's representative, and in the name of every one in this Colony, I thank him for giving us this opportunity of showing him that we all appreciate his character and career.\n\nWill you forgive me, ladies and gentlemen, if I presume to add that there are one or two personal reasons also why it affords me peculiar pleasure to see General Grant at my table. During the whole of those ever-memorable years, from the day when he drilled his company of volunteers at Galena, to the capture of Richmond and the surrender of the rebel army, I was in a small way mixed up in public affairs in England, as a member of that assembly the power of which, for good or evil, is not confined within the bounds of England's Sovereignty. It is now a matter of history that in both Houses of the British Parliament there were friends and foes of Freedom, but we may recall with pride the fact that two men so diverse in person and disposition and party relations as John Bright and Benjamin Disraeli, were sagacious enough to know that the honour of their own Country and the welfare of the World were associated with the cause for which Ulysses Grant was contending.\n\nWhilst Bright was repairing the blunders of one or two eminent men of the Liberal party, the great Conservative Chief was, to my own personal knowledge, labouring night and day to counteract unreasoning prejudice amongst his own followers, and it is ever to me a source of intense satisfaction that, though in a very humble way no doubt, I was one of those members of the House of Commons who loyally supported his prudent and patriotic policy.\n\nBut this is not the only personal reason that is present to my mind to-night. I am a citizen of Cork. I come from that corner of the Old World, nearest, and not less dear, to the United States; and on behalf of my fellow citizens I now assure General Grant that in no part of the civilized globe would he have received a heartier welcome, if he had honoured us with a visit, than in my native city.\n\nI now invite you to drink his health, and will ask you not to forget the charming lady at my right, and her family; for, within the last few minutes, a telegram has reached them from London, announcing the birth of a grand-child, so that General Grant, though still comparatively a young man, younger indeed to-day than Washington when he first became President, has, as a grandfather, added another little link to unite the two countries together. I give you, with all my heart, the health of General Grant.\n\nGeneral Grant, in reply, said:\n\nI am very grateful to you for your kind address, to which I would be happy to respond, but there is so much personal and flattering to myself that I find it impossible. It is only a continuance of the kindness that I have... \n\nPage 334", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-184 - Governor Hennessy - 1879 [1-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 303751, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-184 - Governor Hennessy - 1879 [1-5]", "page_number": 343, "title": "CO129-184 - Governor Hennessy - 1879 [1-5]", "content_text": "# The Daily Press\n\n## HONGKONG, MAY 13TH, 1879\n\n### DEPARTURE OF GENERAL GRANT\n\nAt ten o'clock yesterday morning a deputation from the Chinese community, consisting of Messrs. Ng Choy, Leung On, Fang Tang, Hop Koe, Ho Amei, Lee Sing, and Chong Tsin Yeong, waited upon General Grant at Government House, to present him with an address previous to his departure.\n\nHis Excellency the Governor introduced the deputation to General Grant, and the Hon. A. E. Bois, Colonel Mosby, and Major Palmer, A.D.C., were also present.\n\nMr. Ng Choy, who had been deputed to present the address, began by saying a few words regretting that, owing to the time necessarily taken in preparing it, they had been unable to wait sooner upon the General for the purpose of presentation. He then handed him the address and read the translation of it, as follows:-\n\n**(Translation)**\n\nTo General Ulysses S. Grant, late President of the United States of America and Commander-in-Chief of the United States Army.\n\nOn the occasion of your honouring Hongkong with your presence we, the undersigned, on behalf of the Chinese Community, approach you to give you a hearty welcome and beg to present to you an address expressive of our high esteem and respect for you.\n\nDuring your Presidency, your great name and noble qualities were well known far and wide, and by the carrying out of laws and respect from you commanded admiration from all classes of people under your rule, we have been delighted to learn that in international questions you have shown a spirit of impartiality and fairness, treating Americans and Foreigners alike, and the Chinese who have been trading in the United States have sung, and continue to sing, praises of the many good actions done by you while in office. We had longed to see you, but being far away we were hitherto not permitted to realize our wish. Now that you have honoured us with a visit, we avail ourselves of the opportunity to present you with a scroll inscribed with these four words \"Benefit to Chinese People\" which we hope may serve as a souvenir of your interview with the Chinese Community of Hongkong.\n\nNg Choy \nO Man Chai \nKwok Aubeong \nChing Sing Yeong \nWong Kwau Tong \nLoong On \nKon Moon Walt \nChum Sui Shug \nSee mee Sang Kai \ning Sart Yeong \nYo Wni San \nPan Fong Poo \nPow Chung Hung \nCha Sit Chuen \nPoon Chi Kai \nLee Sing \nHo Amei \nLeo Tuck Chong \nFung Tang \nChow Shing Lam \nTung Ting Kam \nLoo Lai Pang \nWong Yu Yee \nLee Pun Chee \nSay Yeon Man \nMing Koo \nTung Tack Chan \nLai Hong Chunan Yuen \nCheong Wing \nWing Mow Cheong \nChong Woo Chan \nLong Cheong Chan \nWing Cheong Chan \nYa Sang Cheong \nMee Fook \nMesa Cheong Wo \nKwan Choong Lung \nTeu Cheong Lang \nKwong Lee Cheong \nWing Cheong Phing \nTon Hing Lung \nKwong Man Fung \nChun Wing... Wo \nHee Chong Ching \nChoy Chong Lang \nKwong Yuen Tai \nWing Wo Yuan \nWo Kee Chap \nKwong Sun Lung \nYow Hing Chong \nKuni Chong Tai \nWing Chong Kut \nTrong Chong Lung \nTuck Wing Ynen Lang \nTai Yuen \nKwong Tong Sang Wo \nKwong Hip Wo \nTai Chuca \nWing Yoe Yuon \nKee Kee \nin Trong Tai Chong \nKwong Nam Hing \nLing War \nTack Lung On \nKwok Nam Ping \nHoong Chenk Won \nChow Chec Tin \nLook Me Kui \nChai Leong Hing \nChun Heong Poo \nPang Kee Chow \nChun Kun \nChung Yust Kai\n\nGeneral Grant, replying, said - Mr. Ng Choy and Gentlemen, I thank you for this valuable address. It will be kept by me as a pleasing memento of the Chinese community of Hongkong. In other colonies during my recent travels I have also met countrymen of yours, and I have found the rulers of those colonies recognising your good qualities of frugality, industry, and enterprise. Such qualities go far to account for the prosperous condition in which I see you all here. I am now leaving Hongkong to visit your country, and I am sure I shall see much that will be very interesting to me. For this handsome address I must again thank you most sincerely, and I shall never forget the kindness shown to me by the people here. I wish that prosperity may continue to be enjoyed by you.\n\nAt the request of His Excellency the Governor, Mr. Ng Choy introduced the other members of the deputation to the General.\n\nThe deputation then withdrew. The address, which was sixteen feet long by four feet wide, an extremely handsome scroll, was embroidered in gold on a strip of crimson satin about ten feet long, with a rich deep border, exquisitely embroidered. The characters are written in Chinese. On the top of the scroll is written the address, on the right side is General Grant's name in Chinese, and on the opposite side are the signatures. In the centre are four large Chinese characters, viz:- \"Wai Kap Wa Man\" (Benefit to Chinese people.) The scroll was packed in a teak wood box.\n\nIn response to the invitation of His Excellency the Governor, the officials, naval, military, and civil, as well as a large number of the general community, assembled shortly before eleven o'clock a.m. at Murray Pier to see General Grant and party embark for the U.S.S. Ashuelot. There were present the Chief Justice (Sir John Smale), His Excellency Major-General Donovan; Commodore Smith; the Hon. W. H. Marsh, Colonial Secretary; Hon. J. Russell, Attorney-General; Hon. M. S. Tonnochy, Acting-Colonial Treasurer; Hon. J. M. Price, Surveyor-General; Hon. P. Ryrie, Hon. W. Keswick, and Hon. H. B. Gibb, Members of the Legislative Council; the Acting Puisne Judge; Hon. C. B. Plunket; Colonel Geddes, 27th Regiment; Colonel Sherwin-ton, Assistant Commissary-General; Colonel Moore, Commissary-General of Ordnance; Colonel Mosby, U. S. Consul; Mr. Taro Ando, Japanese Consul; Captain Kasama, H.I.J.M. corvette Nissin; a good sprinkling of naval and military officers and a number of the residents. The police, under Captain-Superintendent Deane, lined the road from Government House to the pier, upon which was drawn up a company of the 27th Inniskillings with their colours and band. Punctually at eleven o'clock the General and his party, with His Excellency the Governor and Mrs. Hennessy, arrived at Murray Pier, when General Grant gave his arm to Mrs. Hennessy while the Governor escorted Mrs. Grant to the head of the pier. The guard of honour presented arms, and the band played as they passed. Arrived at the steps, the General and his party exchanged adieux with those present, and as they stepped into the Government launch Mr. Hennessy called for three cheers for General Grant, which invitation was warmly responded to, and one cheer more for Mrs. Grant added. His Excellency the Governor, Mrs. Hennessy, Colonel Mosby, Major Palmer, R.E., A.D.C., and Dy. Paymaster Eastlake accompanied the party to the Ashuelot. As the launch steamed away from the pier the band of the 27th played their Farewell March to Gosport, which included \"Over the Sea\" and \"Good bye, Sweetheart.\" On passing the Spanish gunboat Marques del Duero, and the German corvette Luise, the marines on both vessels were drawn up and saluted the launch, the band on the Luise playing \"Hail Columbia.\" Captain Mortimer L. Johnson, the new commander of the Ashuelot, received the General and party on board and conducted them to the hurricane deck, where there were in waiting Mr. and Mrs. Forbes, Admiral Polo (Spanish Navy), Captain Sobering (H.I.G.M. Navy), Dr. Von der Horck, and Mrs. Eastlake. After the final farewells had been taken, the Governor, Mrs. Hennessy, Colonel Mosby, and Major Palmer left in the Government launch. On His Excellency leaving the Ashuelot he was saluted by that vessel. The Ashuelot shortly afterwards left for Swatow.\n\nMr. Afong, the photographer, has taken an excellent view of the embarkation.\n\nPage 338", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-184 - Governor Hennessy - 1879 [1-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 304588, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-185 - Acting Governor Marsh Governor Hennessy - 1879 [6-12]", "page_number": 531, "title": "CO129-185 - Acting Governor Marsh Governor Hennessy - 1879 [6-12]", "content_text": "# BANQUET AND RECEPTION AT GOVERNMENT HOUSE\n\nHis Excellency the Governor and Mrs. Hennessy entertained the following guests at dinner in the evening at Government House:- Professor Nordenskiold, Captain Palander, R.S.N. Vega, His Excellency Major-General Donovan and Mrs. Donovan, Chief Justice Sir John Smale and Lady Smale, Commodore Smith, R.N., Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Marsh, Mrs. Pollock, Hon. J. Russell, Hon. P. Ryrie, Hon. M. S. Tonnochy, Colonel and Mrs. Geddes (27th Inniskillings), Surgeon-Major Max Grant, Mr. and Mrs. Taro Ando, Mr. F. D. Sassoon, Lieut. Bove (Vega), Dr. Almquist (Vega), Lieut. Nordquist (Vega), Lieut. Hovgaard (Vega), Dr. Stuxberg (Vega), Lieut. Drummond, A.D.C. to the General, and Mr. C. V. Creagh, Acting A.D.C. to the Governor.\n\nThe following, to whom invitations had been sent, were unable to attend -- Right Rev. Bishop and Mrs. Burdon, Right Rev. Bishop Raimondi, Hon. W. Keswick, and Col., Mrs., and Miss Hall. The band of the 27th Regiment was in attendance and played the following selection, under the direction of Herr Werner, bandmaster: Overture... \"Fra Diavolo\" Auber, Polka \"O Katchke\" Stasey, \"Swedish Air\" Anon., Selection \"Beatrice di Tenda\" Bellini, Valse \"First Roses\" Werner, Jun., Reminiscences of Ireland... Godfrey.\n\nAt the close of the dinner His Excellency the Governor proposed the toast of \"The Queen,\" which was most loyally received, the band playing the National Anthem.\n\nImmediately afterwards His Excellency rose and said- Professor Nordenskiöld: In the name of my Sovereign, Queen Victoria, I have the honour to welcome you and your companions to Her Majesty's dominions.\n\nSix centuries ago Marco Polo came from Europe to China. Two centuries later, the Portuguese crossed the Indian Ocean, entered these seas, and landed within a few miles of this Island, and subsequently the direct voyage across the Pacific was undertaken. The nineteenth century can now add to the roll of its triumphs the fourth and final route from Europe to Asia. It is our privilege to-night to behold the illustrious man who has done this-who left Europe fifteen months ago and is received by us after sailing through the Arctic Seas and accomplishing the North East passage. No generation to come can witness the completion of a voyage rivalling this. We be bold as it were in this remote outpost of Europe the writing of the last words in the last chapter of heroic maritime discovery.\n\nI congratulate the Sovereign of Sweden on the gallantry and success of His Majesty's sailors, led by Captain Palander and the officers of the Vega; I congratulate that great republic - the World of Science - on the achievement of one of her choicest citizens, Professor Nordenskiöld. Ladies and gentlemen, let us drink his health and that of his companions.\n\nHis Excellency's toast was received with enthusiasm, and the band played the Swedish National Air.\n\nProfessor Nordenskiold then rose and replied in Swedish. He has favoured us with the following translation: I have to thank your Excellency, on behalf of my comrades and myself, for the kind words you have used in proposing our healths, and the ladies and gentlemen present for the kind manner in which they have received the toast. Already to-day, in another place, I have had to thank the Inhabitants of Hongkong for the handsome way in which the Swedish expedition has been received in this Colony, and I then stated our visit here would be one of the pleasantest remembrances of the Vega's voyage. To your Excellency's guests on the present occasion I beg to repeat the same thing, but especially I have to thank your Excellency for the munificent hospitality you have extended to myself and Captain Palander at Government House, where we have been guests during our stay here. I now beg to propose the health of His Excellency the Governor and Mrs. Hennessy.\n\nThis toast was duly honoured.\n\n## Reception\n\nHis Excellency the Governor and Mrs. Hennessy held an \"at home\" and a brilliant and numerously attended reception after dinner, in honour of their distinguished guests. The following received invitations:\n\n### Officials and Military Officers\n\n| Name | Title/Position |\n| --- | --- |\n| Hon. C. B. Plunket | Acting Puisne Judge |\n| Captain Superintendent of Police | |\n| Postmaster-General | |\n| Harbour Master | |\n| Colonial Surgeon | |\n| Inspector of Schools | |\n| Acting Registrar-General | |\n| Staff Commander Heather, R.N. | and officers R.N. Yard |\n| Lieut.-Commander Annesley | and officers of H.M.S. Vigilant |\n| Lieut.-Commander M. L. Bridger | and officers H.M.S. Sheldrake |\n| Commander A. L. Douglas | and officers H.M.S. Egeria |\n| Lieut.-Commander W. Nowell | and officers H.M.S. Foxhound |\n| Don. F. Alarcon | and officers of H.C.M.S. Vencedora |\n| Deputy-Inspector-General Breen | and officers Royal Naval Hospital |\n| Captain Palmer | H.I.C.M.S. Peng Chan Hai |\n| Captain St. Clair | Brigade Major |\n| Captain Barton | A.M.S. |\n| Colonel Stuart | and officers R.A. |\n| Officers | 27th Inniskillings |\n| Lieut.-Colonel Shervinton | and officers Commissariat Department |\n| Commissary-General Moore | and officers Ordnance Store Department |\n| Captain Muskett | and officers Army Pay Department |\n| Deputy-Surgeon General Mackinnon | and officers Army Medical Department |\n| Rev. J. Henderson | Acting Military Chaplain |\n| Mr. J. Fleming | P.W.D. |\n\n### Ladies and Gentlemen\n\nMesdames Armstrong, Anton, Ayres, Arnhold, Murray Bain, Ball, Barff, Belilios, Beyer, Bowdler, Burnie, Bird, Brereton, Breen, Caldwell, Clouth, Coughtrie, Coxon, Crawford, Dunn, Deave, D'Almada & Castro, Edge, Eitel, Eastlacke, Ede, Fleming, Ford, Grobien, A. Hancock, Hanlon, Hauschild, Hazeland, Heaton, G. Holmes, Hurton, Jackson, Johnson, Kier, Kerr, Lister, A. P. McEwan, J. P. McEuen, A. J. May, Murray, Musso, Neate, Newton, Plunket, Piercy, J. H. dos Remedios, Robinson, Ridgway, Rogers, Romano, J. A. dos Remedios, St. Clair, E. Sharp, G. Sharp, Squier, Stephens, Sangster, Seth, G. L. Toudin, Thevenin, Thomsett, Vaucher, Vägel, Vernon, Wilcox, Wilson, Wharry, Windram, M. Young.\n\nMisses Caldwell, Johnston, Rogers, Robinson, Rowe, Shervinton, Thomsett, Wells, Walker.\n\nMessrs. E. Barghignoli, Dr. Chalmers, E. Davys, J. C. Edge, Dr. Eitel, F. B. Heroo, R. Lechler, B. Lemonnier, E. Klitske, B. Vigano, Doctors Eastlacke, Von der Horck, Lochhead, O'Brien, Clouth, Rogers, Wharry, Gomes, Young.\n\nMessrs. E. Alford, A. F. Alves, P. M. Alves, J. M. S. Alves, E. J. H. d'Aquino, F. H. Arjanee, J. M. Armstrong, J. R. Anton, W. M. B. Arthur, S. Ashton, H. Arnold, J. Arnhold, J. L. do S. Aivoa, J. Abraham, G. M. Bain, J. D. Ball, Barff, F. W. Barff, Battles, Beart, Belilios, Boris, Beyer, Blackwell, Blogg, Bottomley, Bowdler, Burnie, J. A. Barretto, Blanchard, von Bobers, Botelho, Boyd, Braddon, Bird, Brereton, Brooke, Ban Hap, W. A. Caldwell, Chastel, C. P. Chater, Cheyne, Cohen, Cope, Coughtrie, J. H. Cox, Coxon, Crawford, Cottell, A. L. Carvalho, J. A. de Carvalho, Chapuis, G. C. Cox, Corrales, Chamberlain, G. de Champeaux, Cuff, Chan Afook, Ching Ayu, Chan Soy Sang.\n\nPage 529", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-185 - Acting Governor Marsh Governor Hennessy - 1879 [6-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 305790, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-188 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [5-6]", "page_number": 12, "title": "CO129-188 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [5-6]", "content_text": "# THE HONGKONG Government Gazette EXTRAORDINARY.\n\n**報特門轅港香**\n\nPublished by Authority.\n\n## VICTORIA, MONDAY, 10TE MAY, 1880.\n\n**日二初月四年辰庚日十初月五年十八百八千一簿六十二第**\n\n### No. 19.\n\n**號九十第**\n\n## PRINCE HEINRICH OF PRUSSIA AT GOVERNMENT HOUSE.\n\n**子世理開國布大署督總港香在**\n\n### UNVEILING THE PORTRAIT OF THE PRINCE CONSORT.\n\nOn the 7th of May, His Excellency Governor Sir John Pope Hennessy, K.C.M.G., and Lady Hennessy gave a State luncheon in honour of His Royal Highness Prince Heinrich of Prussia, who, with Baron von Seckendorff, had been for some days on a visit at Government House. Later in the afternoon a large number of the community attended an \"At Home\" and were presented to the Prince.\n\nThe guests who had the honour of meeting the Prince at luncheon were: His Honor the Chief Justice Sir John Smale, and Lady Smale, Commodore Smith, R.N., H.M.S. Victor Emanuel, Hon. Colonel Hall, R.A., (Commanding H.M. Troops), and Mrs. Hall, Captain McLean, H.I.M.S. Prinz Adalbert, Captain East, R.N., H.M.S. Comus, Hon. Captain Denison, R.N., H.M.S. Encounter, Commander Koester, H.I.M.S. Prinz Adalbert, Commander Schering, H.I.M.S. Luise, Deputy Surgeon-General Mackinnon, C.B., Deputy Inspector-General Breen, R.N., and Mrs. Breen, Lieutenant-Colonel Geddes, 27th Inniskillings, and Mrs. Geddes, Hon. E.L. O'Malley, Attorney General, Hon. M.S. Ton-Nocar, Colonial Treasurer, Hon. Ng Choy, Member of the Legislative Council, Major Papillon, Commanding Royal Engineers, Major Huskisson, Military Secretary, Major Hales, 27th Inniskillings, Mr. Kempermann, Vice-Consul for Germany.\n\n**擊許第二十七髒步兵遊擊希大德副領事鉗歐參贊展次首照小王親夫先主君英大者港數師世讌頗員天建子港貝弁紳商敬謁世子世子蓋世子偕同男爵數天是日嚥罷下午香師建訥停驂督經已布署星水代燕男開國制提方家軍督兼總英英五月初七日理水陸軍務水師提督總督香港等處地方兼夫人大英以馬內利兵船總統史總管香港營參府兼議政局員何與其奶奶大德亞伯兵舶總統大英諸客赴席陪世子同享福宴者有若廉訪師大人與其客頌揚大布國開理兵參將紀與其奶奶律政司兼議政局員柯庫務司兼麥大人督理營醫副醫官卑與其奶奶第二十七營步與其夫人在署代國家歌武士兵舶參將伊大英演觀打兵舶參將田大德亞定例局員湯定例局員伍叙軍工遊巴罃務處遊他伯兵舶參將蓋大德魯衣士兵參將佘總管醫官**\n\nThe translation of the Chinese text is not provided as per the instructions. The text is preserved as-is.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-188 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 305848, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-188 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [5-6]", "page_number": 70, "title": "CO129-188 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [5-6]", "content_text": "26\n\nGaol are however being prepared.\n\n16.\n\nI enclose in accordance with your instructions a copy of a report from the Superintendent of the Gaol explaining what is actually done with a prisoner after the Governor has signed a Deportation Warrant or a Conditional Pardon. I have the honour to transmit also the copies of the despatches you ask for, that is Lord Carnarvon's despatch No 51 of 18th May 1877 and Sir Arthur Kennedy's No 214 of 18th December 1876.\n\nI have the honour to be, Sir\nYour Most Obedient humble servant,\nW. M. Deane\n\n## \n67\n\nExtract from Minutes of Executive Council held on the 24th July 1875.\n\nPresent:\nHis Excellency John Gardiner Austin, Administrator and Commander-in-Chief.\nThe Honourable Cecil Clementi Smith, Acting Colonial Secretary.\nThe Honourable John Bramston, Attorney General.\n\nHis Excellency then submits to the Council a minute from the Honourable the Attorney General regarding the line of conduct to be pursued in the case of prisoners who on the expiration of their term...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-188 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 308059, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-192 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [1-4]", "page_number": 49, "title": "CO129-192 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [1-4]", "content_text": "## 46 \n2. \n## 44 \n### Intimations. \n**THE CHINA VIEW.** \nChowder was claved tho putti! \n### Visitors' Column. \n**THE CHINA MAIL.** \n### Hongkong Rates of Postage. \n(via June 26, 1889) \nLal Parki Yest \n1. Small Parodia to seat by Port because any of the Fest Calle Chips We have instituted sa na experiment or Japan, as well 10 Mac VAITATS COLs, which we trust In the fallowing Statements and Tables boi, papi, Peus Ma widely-express gret at this dis will prove succesfe, and be found use the Ratas are given in sends, sal ww, for anal not excel the falieving doo \n\n1 wat rond 1 fotoop, izuno of Notes nervul. To it will be legsted fruta time Lettere, per half cher, for Book ads, & foot meg, nor web us than is plage is fumuaporation to tre such itsuse of information, fists, Pavere, por tres cuces. \n\nNewspapers o \na over four modes in weight wil be 20 cele per, which wel indude Bilar in objout and style, bob slightly tables and other intelligence is ec \n### Registration \nThe parcele s bully modified in wartado detail. \nsuured likely to prove vaatle to per charged as doubla, teable, ✯e, az i some taxing through the City, and cave map bo, but eveli papers or pacicate or ne say be rout at Book Rats. Two in euoneetion wiza we bave opered | Snappere arust not be folded together as Horn. AND BUSES, norunything whatever beismerted SELECT Damron, applicatos for enrolment sacept koná sice Epplements. \ner of this \n**THE CHINA REVIEW OF Roles and cries on the Far East, ia auded at fu tervals of two mumus, each numbar ou taining about 60 ev \net 60 nav pages, all cated with lible, photos, wonderia, be, bead the papare pubished demand, and the insulation justify, Jaiza Ditter. \nsuberitiva la vixed at $16.50 p \nd \nPrintad \nto which we are now ready to secure, der say, bowser, bo endload, if the wind be paid at Pack Kate. Price Cur rent may be paid either as Navapapam or List of Public Buildings. \npaid per san payable by on-residents Governant House, North of Public in Hinges, half-pearly in naprawne. \nThe patristica indledes papers riginal and selected inpun dia Arts and Seisces, Snogy, Folklore, Deugrupiy, History, Ilustre les Man Anu Cus- ton, Natural \nKeligion, do, C., \n### Gardens \nCits find. Library (8,000 volumes) and \nMuse-Free. \nPublic Gedens, a bontifully picturesque \nretreat and of great interest. \nBuake. \nComp by do not bear Pique annity, aos prone bough \nclosed it day bear this spook! accores. \n27, PADE, OTANING TO Luman, but \nany parzel was ered by danion of the Possier tiesā. \n2. The following went be mated Patcula insasiuni, packed as paciented, or liable to be \nGlass, Teguida, \nazglasite butee Matchca, Ladigo, u 10, Kent, \ndegrees to des Fish, Game, Fruit, Vestby to - Helyi bo \nthe up rectar of an actual or pramazal sorteo fire or injet i trans spousal, ach tha deeds, copied music, e. The obarge on Si \n### No. 5892,- (CTOBER 21, 1880. \n**Merchant Vessels in HongCong Harbour** \nExcburies of cats Arrivals and Departures reported lo-lay, \nTorillaz fading the position of 207 renal in the Harbour, the Anchorage is divided inte sigal Boetius, vammancing at (trend Indai. Vasole neuer the Hongkong shere are marked A, use the Kowing shore k., azri those in the body of the Shipping or midway between each shore to masked c., in conjunction wild the Sguroa denoting the mentions. \n2. From Gas Works to the Novelty Iron Worke \n### Section \nB. From P. and D. Co.'s Office to Peddar's Wharf. \n7. Feur Nare! Yard to the Fiez. \nbox \n### RC 20957. \n1. From Great island to the Gas Worka \n6. From Fadder's Wharf to the Naval Yard \nFrom Novelty Iron Works to the Harbour dater's Dœfice. From Earbuds Master's to the P. and 0. Ou.'s Ģice. \n8. From Pitta East Prist. \n---- \n### Captain. \nStig and Date of \nVoices or ease. \nDestination \nHig. \nArrival \n8. E'stonls will as a general rela be for aided by Ferate Ship not by Coutras Mall Packet. The Port Ofs coserves se umelon, and it clearing devory in caves! tight of electing shopperty for tran tiles tumber of parcela is spel as to retard Esceipsatser correspondens. My responsi \nthan \nfor backs, but, whatever the weight of packet contafting ay parally witte of Chen Jesus, Mungulia, Tibet, the Tue Clock Tower, Queens Road Cen-pap, it will wet be charged fo Easter Anipeg and the \"Her set. \" tral, in be with Pedder's Whis \nThe sender of Rey Recieved generally, we defaike list of abjects General Fost Office, Hoaghong Chung it alt a Row \npon which coexitations we oogmcılalış \n### German Club, Spreme Court, de, invite is ismægurated, \nwww.bor. \nwillia a stone's throw Chinese Ladin. Grigal contributions in French, Get parish, Italian Tor Lagitan Club and hazy, Sbellay St. tugasza, are sourschi Bednars freveramets Offices, the Sacrorerint, &o., \nnear the holic Gorders. \nare as to premat a rohtut \nthat of the most rout \nwere bearing on Chine ccatism, fines \non paying an extra fea of o cente. \nbacopted with regard to any fartel, bet the Region wil see the The limit of weight to Books and Com reial Pages to Foreigu Foes basical any bat a very reale per- 61ba Pallares for web offices are limited tablity of lon to sed must uns exced these \nubevenue: 3 inch by itches by \n### St. Jou's Cathedral (Anglia), \nzun J'orade Gromm sidention is plac paid to ibu Review Roman Catholic Caredral, Welling \nSweet. \ndepartures \nther as \"Nous\" head reinross being \n### Notes and Bepiter \nclamited tegen Church, Higin Street. given, when furnished, so previous Nožni B1. Peter's Neuenburch, West Print or Carles, as are also close queries which St. Joseph's (KC) Char), Ganian though any for Informativas, furolabı, aven Road, Bear Kenney for \nor orphed details reneeming the at-Tapetance Hull, erisly adapted for \nb. It le sirable to make his Questo proper as brist and as mnoh to the possiblə \n| \n### The China Beine \nkm July and August, 1876, is band. Is anys the forty-two anya wary acut into uosipato for the best pap on the advantages of Curiality ter \ndavelopment of Sale All car lesen ed preistes khoi là entenciou to this svorkuly enterprising Revie. It is a sig pagod, bi-menthly, repertory of watch low are sestaining shoot China *IN incture of hiero Ponizy in vaja volumen is sure workh the pries of the žievis, kūr dress China Now, Hongnny-Northern | Ürisian únicate (U.B.) \nber \nanen, Qusar's Load Eust \n301- West B \nພະນ \n### R. E. A. and Chiny Colegraph Co., and \nthe Great Northe Pergraph to,, Marion Hose, Gong's Hand.\" tascais hall, Zedand Street. \n### Victoria Recreation Cank---Bath house! \nsea last-wuse, ke,-Praya, beyond the Gecket Ground, beside the \"City fie!! \nhe Baracke and Narat med Military \n### Store \nparkerenk Je to the wird, and cover a koga area. \n### Stores, Books, &c. \nincles. \n.. means No Registration, \n### Countries of the Pata! \nUnion, The Union may be taken to conspelar Keops, net foreign passione in Ama, Japan, W. Africa, Harpt, Mauritius, all \nN. Amenca, Mexic, aleator, Caři, \nVal' Nas \n4. The public re cantined at tu persaud \nfound the facts with a Period Hurope, d, which dres not exist \nthe Bochung \nbabe Java \nHout countries to which Hongkong wards Carespondenou Laylax juin Gerd Fodic or ng \nbeat to du so, it resory that the Kang-bhi ..... following lost nicely \n...Wooney \n... Rondeli \n### 3 Wantry Amal, 5079 |CM. \n«Oschen ... Brit. \n### Betmarks \nK'leon Dout Fontan lo \n6. Poincisosh Leat \n502 Sept \n### BiB \nskr. 1700 k. \nJaGibb, Livlegatoa de Ca 20e, M. 3. A. Da \n### Apertalian Porta \nJardine, Matteson & Co. \n21 Russel & Co. \n2. \n19 \n18th Hang SIA Dat 1512 Oct \nstr. 137.5.& po Dock Un \n231 Octo \n843 e 140. 31. Co. \n1057 Ooi. 23 Gae. P. Starons à . \ndewchang Holhor, & \n### E-MITTIT \nat daylight \n¡Holbow, An, \nShanghai \nCo-murtos \n¡Tag Prive \nSAM1979 \nAversich \nDiGlavo \nUhy of Tokia. \n8 citurroy Brit. \n6 h Hall. \nBrit. \n### Deronsite.....n an \nF \nHot... \n5 baner \nPolesen.....Chi \n2 bittidor ...Onwlo \nlamer. \nDutch est. \nChola uch \netr. \n### JOEL \n74 Opt. Wildongian Lapralk & Cu \nKumes Porta \nloon Desk \n*Path, dayligas \nne Deck \nMarvelja \n. Maasz \n7 Romedios & Co, \n¡Manila \nPo-day \nJBut \n741 Dot, \n21 Samen & Co. \nthaoghal \nSenhue. \n„ider. \n69 Oct \n14:3bsamaau & Ca \n298 Oct. \n2020, M. 8. N. 06 \nShanghai \nBrit. \n65% O \n2030, R. Bierros & Co. \n933 Out \n18 Koan Fat Hong \nBangkok \n23rd inel \nair. \n48 Mar. \n24 China Traders unorance Co. \nate. 1039 Chut. \n17P. 20. 8. N. Cn. \nki Yokohama \n80 ct \nrides, R. Sisroun de Cu. \nJaustralian Porte \n24th fant \nstr. 388 Oct \nKinging. \n1. No Letter Facket, whether to Young... Brit. \ncan be said! \nFrail, forn, Vesiesals, 21 Argentine registered or \nRepabli, da bilan, with all jewels, precies tee, or a thing ticking Hondure, Bermuda, Disa, Fren, Netherlands, Portuguese peroral ya, is hakka to C4 l'acker \nTrakia, Guiana, ¦ for Postmeni: ABERYS Palicum \nsuŭ Spanish Colonies. \n### Countries or 13 the Union-The chair? \ncountries kod in the Caion are the AP tralasian Greop \n### Postage to Vaior Countries. \nGeneral, by any mouku some \nLuton, \n30 cents per or conis cal \n10 cents. \nZacuta cact \n2 suis par Scu \nation, Post Carda, east-wpens \nBooka, Paikuras and i \nCom Papare, There is no ekarzome restrauted erro. apadne wishin the Petal Taka. \n### J'idge to No Union Countries. \nHawaiian Kingdom \n### Omeral Gutter \nHesier, Tailor, \nSebata orientai tiacural contains the fol- lowing notice of the Chius Fuziotela \nthe title of a puestion, \nly reached as from Boug.-T. N. Discoll, dû and 47, 1ks lately 2 kang, whers has been set on fuck an in Quears Road, by special appeiztruant sen.8 zenperea cartingallon of Sous and to E. Ma Limeriu on China and Japan, the extinction \naf which chefui saxial a year de kwu sgu kak \nand segraded in Europe as well \nEn China Thmpresest publisation, judging, \nby the river now tntire us, la intended to! \n### Cleozomerers, Watches, Jowellery, \nLestor \nBordo Patt \n### Nore. \n+ \ndisps and Chr. FALCONELLO, West Judice (Non Unit, Burias, Queen's itoad Control. \n### Costa Rica, Grenc, Now Graula, Nicaragua, 'ze, Paragliay¶. \nItegistration, Newspape \n### American and Buglich Stores, Books, \nscopy & positian, as tegendu Chitand send speeindly selected Cigars-Mac Deighbouring countricovnat elmila \nto that which has keen fed in Tadis by the \nCatania Niet ut proat dayrus of ut \nEF, FRICKEL & Co. \n### Aerial Newers and cheng Ra-Book \ndi fattura, \nOF \nFue. \n10 \njuline, \nFeride!! \n2. This Regulaties panjabies the condit¦ Sea Gu of Excieraz of dutiable setincs, unless this Sunda quantity one best small na to make the Tiales \nample of no valge. \n### Wolle........ \nê. The firoits of reight alumed are si \n### Budowa -- \nBook and Papem to Britan úton | \n5 s; to the Cortinant, Au, Patton to Britist, Offer, Slox if wit \n### Bailing Vosk \nSbEepkias B \nHajdoná \nVincar.......... jammander \nAgnes Mair's Love ...........Br. \nsh \n458 Bapt. 190. M. 5. N. Co \n851 8epk, \n200. M. & N. Oo \n131ayar U. \n27 Carlowite & Co. \nout intrinsic value; to the Chularity flee Book Servier. ! 14284z. 27! Vezel & Co. \nda, 8 OF. \n3 kidones ..........Port. sh, 602 July Ale H. Safthe Packer Amur, sh \n### Sidemcy \nfor the loss of a legineral Letto Apala \nThomsen alt 3:0.50. fazer umaśžer, bgę, „skátamora......Amer. Contabriacal! \nAmer faulsen Dan. \n### The Post Offint \nta noy legally naposafts | Che Bitte for the wife delity of Regatora cress Camere \nunderco, has benyoforth it elit to prCurs pared to make gooch the acabaria of Dagmar \nwo lost while eng lash Do ina-wners of 319, în vari Kami. --------------- \n### Florum Alghingale \nà adolulɲin .............. Falt bye. Ford \n2 Borgwards.. \nC, Rovided \n1. That lies daly observed at the condivista në Registration requir \n2. has the fat is securely welos \nia Numably by -- \n### Orders \non the United Kingdom, \nUp to 18 ent \nיז \nار \nM54 \n£).......... \n72 \n### Land \nIntercamslal Ordan. \nUp to $5 or A...... \ni \ntor 10....50 \n- of Money Draer Offces in th \nUnited Kingdom may be unsalted ar \nbe exprezed by the der, here all longkong Shangh \nceraspondanes is invclubly deliver m 6.Names must be given in full (except \nLa metre plans of babes. \nwhen there is more than we \n### Boxholders \nwho desire e tu mad Cizen- | \nbe given if the order be rosed (a 26, Dividend Warts, Inexations, Cards, but the anal the Pago el t \n### Lobaques \ndew, all of time acme weight, to address are rose). It can then be paid, Hong, Bangkok, or the Furia of Chirs through Bank, and may afterwards in! and Japan, may sliver them in the Postpally crossed in ang Bank. Office stamped, the postage bring then \n### batch \nmust constat of at least ten \n### Fach \nhas signed it in the proper plans. \n### Buzholders \nmay also woad Vatterordor en be traced in anus \n### HONGKONG, MAULU \nAND CANTON RIVER \n### STEAMERS. \n### Nama \nTONE Captois \nJohaug \n760 Ogatun \nKiu Bhan \n40% \nKia Ki \n61 \nHentai, \nHayiand \nKlong-ping \nB Indu \nPovah \n1500 Carg \n110 \nLatovener \nSir J. Jaejoption! 154 \nSpark \nTong Ting \nWhile Gland \n314 Depre \nLiners \nB \nEw Bok Tong \n1200 \n250 \nM. Marble \n### CHINESE \nQUN-VESSELS \nIN CANTON WATERS, &C \n### Naste \nTrace Aus \nH. r. \n### An-lau \nChuu- \nDalterfold and Swira Cbro-ko \nK., D. & M. B-boat Co. Obing-ou T., C. & M. & string p \nC. M. & & Co. \n### Chau-tong \n5., UM, 6-bout Co.-le \nK. Acheng & Sonz \nE., C. & M. & boat (to \nC. M. 8. 7, Qu \n### Peng-chou-ba! \nQUAD2.06 Shum-i \n20 Benog, A. H. Q. & M. 8.bast Ce. 50-ang \n180 BE \nYOUSO NEIPPING IN PORT, \n### She \nanes places in the mane way. Eu-ok pasment of s additional comedia. Pater \n### In \ncase of low of an order, pesadly for Symphe \nvelopes vcntaining Patterns may be wholis i stopping Pade to the Br \ncloned if the nature of the contents be fast \nw tho like, Sheldraks \nfor Timasto Geriam brig \n### VSN-UPAWASH \nK. Achwong & Su \nKing-kw \nKinogahow \nLin-yen \nTalag \nChioge \nBritish \nFroueb \n| 2829898398889 \n### Commander \nJ. Godsli \nSlewati \nA. Walker \nChirrem Admini \nA. Gercenta \nChae A' Ho \nO. 1 Falaser \nPing Tre \nJ. H. Wade \nJ. B. Marry \nChing \nErd \n### MUNONANT \nHALLĀKU PANİKES \n### Blue \nJacket \nProcura \nForward Flo Fodvig \nKir \nMary \nMattie Macleay \nPaul Jooen \nSin of the North \nD. Maria de Molna \nGarooding Motate Nanacacy \nAroedown l \nfor Mauila \nBritish hargne \nSauce brig Brilled bacque Hele bu Brabr Slam \nbrig \nfor New York \na kerge Jock \njarital brig Bettiah barte \nSuanish cncratite Runboat 1. M. correcta \nV. 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When the \nNothing in Shin Sonlosteronta private sycəm\" \" share la se auch thing a Pamel Post order in oues paid no ipreter sinim cars buiomed \n\" \n### STREET \nDONE. \n### Sale \nof Hire for stint Ocalier. \n19 \n### DUG \nDay.......0$ 0, \n### One \nout,NATES \nKit \nthe boys bale in Fact pricala \nto Auro de Math rombie and dis entertaina \nprinterent sta danand by pazeistent attoripis i Hoarder dan be paid until she advice Fei Yuen \nto soud amali valuabin for through the relation to it has been eautyed. \n### Fancy \nWork, and similar preunia are con \n### Pat \nFast Carion Artiolar of Drew, \nfinaly wing refuse, the sandam having \noften spent more in Portage us \navo veil the traight by seamer. \n• Made out ou s printed fora which is zroglind¦ Bue-Jun \ncowbio. \n### Harding \nNot Local Oudere un Shanghat are draws at 2 put \nrefond can be unde an auch parcels of the vale of Stamps abliterated before tho nors of the coutente was discovered. \ni dor \n- nice to pile, d \nla cate for Arening z the tested Ning- \n### Ani \nin er et hanghai. \n### On \n14, 1880. \n**MEJUKANT ETRAMNER** \n### American \nVazion \n#Slut Left park oz andved at HauzkoHR \n### Printed \nand prebilahed by Gao, Muanat Baig, at the China Mail Olian, Na 2, Wyndham First, Hangkeng. \n### Excentive \nCouncil \n### Present \nFriday, \n122nd October, 18 \n1880. \n### this \nExcellency. Governor Sir John Pope theverry : 2CM tj. The Honorable Is Acting bestowish hentary Dr Sudrick Stewart: The Honourable The Attorney General Edward Houghton Ornellay \n### The \nHonourable Johor Macrails. Bios. \ntheent. \n### His \nExcellency Major General. Emraison-Courseranding Troops. \n### The \nCouncil meets this \n### Summons. \n### The \nMinutes \nSeptember \nday \nat 5 Rite. by special \n### Council \nheld + \nthe 18th \nELL \nare read and confirmed). \n### The \nfollowing letter from major General Bousoon!", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-192 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 308266, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-192 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [1-4]", "page_number": 256, "title": "CO129-192 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [1-4]", "content_text": "251\n\nof judging a most efficient ship for the object for which Her Majesty's Government have sent her to this Colony, that is for harbour and Colonial Defence. For that object I believe her to be of more value than a regiment of soldiers.\n\nI enclose for Your Lordship's information an account of the trip and gunnery practice extracted from one of the local newspapers.\n\nIn addition to the Naval Commander-in-Chief on the Station, Admiral Boyle, there were present Commodore Smith, Captain Cleveland of the \"Iron Duke\" and the principal gunnery Officers from the large fleet now in harbour. Major General Donovan was represented by his Aide, de Camp, Captain Barton.\n\nI should be glad if Her Majesty's Government would allow me to take steps, in concert with the Naval Authorities on the Station, to have a permanent crew put on board her and properly trained. For this trial trip the crew was borrowed from the \"Iron Duke\". If this were done, I should probably be able, after consulting with the Officer in Command of the Troops, to recommend the removal of a wing of the European regiment stationed in", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-192 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 308267, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-192 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [1-4]", "page_number": 257, "title": "CO129-192 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [1-4]", "content_text": "C. O.\n\n252\n\nin \"Hongkong\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nMy Lord, Your Lordship's Most Obedient\n\nHumble Servant,\n\nMyreffumency.\n\nThe Daily Press.\n\nHONGKONG, JANUARY 8TH, 1881.\n\nGUNNERY AND STEAM TRIAL OF H.M.S.WIVERN\"\n\nBY OUR SPECIAL COMMISSIONER.] The Wivern, 4, ironclad turret ship, in charge of Commander John G. Jones, was taken outside for a gunnery and steam trial on Thursday morning. Governor Sir John Pope Hennessy went out to witness the target practice, and His Excellency was accompanied by Admiral Coste, C.B., Commodore Smith, Captain Cleveland, Flag-Lieut. W. H. Maitland-Dougall, and Captain Barton, A.D.C. to the Major-General Commanding; and a number of gunnery officers from the fleet now in harbour. Mr. R. H. Sleeman, Inspector of Machinery; and Mr. George Fitzgerald, Chief Engineer of the Iron Duke, were also present, but the engines of the Wivern were in charge of Mr. L. M. Gresw, Chief Engineer of the ship.\n\nIf there is one thing more than another which your \"Commissioner\" regards with a fixed and inveterate antipathy, it is getting up in the middle of the night. Under the impression that there was some connexion between ships and tide, and remembering the copy-book text which averred that the latter \"waits for no man,” I gave orders to be called at six a.m., and was punctually roused out at that ghostly hour. There were few things stirring but the cooks and beasts; two dissipated-looking sparrows had apparently been making a night of it somewhere, and eventually found their way into my verandah, and an asthmatical coolie was dragging his weary limbs down the road as if nine men held him and one drove him; and notwithstanding that my faithful domestic had administered a skilfully compounded \"eye-opener,\" that operation had to be repeated before I could fully appreciate the situation. Somebody, somewhere, has written, \"Night is the time for rest,\" evidently knowing nothing about getting up in the middle of it to go on a steam trial. However, preliminary difficulties surmounted, I got to Peddar's Wharf, and soon after ran the gig alongside the gangway of the ironclad which was about to go on the cruise referred to above.\n\nI almost feel that the Wivern is an old acquaintance, as I used to pass her daily in going from Liverpool to the Cheshire shore at the time she and her sister ship—now the Scorpion, at Bermuda—were lying together in the Sloyne, in the custody, if I remember rightly, of Captain \"Jacky\" Paynter, of the Revenge. These two vessels, popularly known through a clever cartoon in Punch of that period (1863), as \"the Laird's rams,\" were no doubt built for the Confederates, although it was stated they were intended for some Eastern, not Western, navy; their names, too, tended to confirm a belief in their Eastern destination, as they had been christened El Tousson and El Monacir. Soon after their construction in Laird's yard, at Birkenhead, and just before they were ready for sea, strong representations were made by the Government of the United States, which resulted in the vessels' detention in the Mersey by the British authorities, and after lying there some considerable time they were eventually purchased by our Government.\n\nThe invention of the cupola or turret principle, as applied to war ships, is credited to the late Captain Cowper Coles, who made known the merits of this form of vessel in 1855; but it was not until 1861 that the Admiralty could be prevailed upon to regard the system in a favourable light. In the following year, however, the turret was adopted by Ericsson when he built the Monitor for the United States Government during the Civil War, and she gave a good account of herself in the memorable action with the Merrimac, just after the latter vessel had succeeded in effecting the destruction of the Cumberland and Congress.\n\nAlthough seventeen years old, the Wivern is in an excellent state of preservation, nothing about her presenting that perishing appearance noticed in some ships even though they may have seen but little service. This will probably be accounted for by reason that she was originally well built, both in respect to the work and materials put into her, and that she has been well kept; added to which £30,000 was spent upon her not long since in giving her new boilers and decks, having forecastle and poop built, cabins fitted, and bilge keels placed upon her. Although, of course, the Wivern is a long way behind the terrific engines of destruction of more recent times, she is a fine addition to the China command, and properly manned should be a real protection to this harbour and Colony. She presents the least possible target, answers her helm most readily, has no top-hamper, possesses many water-tight compartments, and not a man need be exposed in working her big guns in action, as she has steering gear below and a bullet-proof tower for the officer directing the movements of the vessel. With all those immense advantages, it must be apparent that in the duello there is no craft of any nationality in the Far East that would have any chance with her. In addition to her fighting power, she is formidable as a ram, as she has four or five feet of spur; and on a recent occasion when I saw her in dry dock, I was surprised to find that she was rather a pretty model below the water-line. The Wivern is 220 feet long, with a beam of 41 feet, and in commission has a complement of 150 men; and, with stores, provisions, and ammunition on board, to fighting trim she has a mean draught of 17 feet.\n\nSoon after His Excellency the Governor arrived on board, the ship's head was laid to westward and she proceeded under easy steam down the harbour and out through the Sulphur Channel; and on arriving off the south-east point of Lamma Island the steam trial commenced. The working of her machinery was highly satisfactory, and going down with the wind eleven knots were got out of her with 69 revolutions; after being brought head to wind and going back over the same course, a similar result was obtained; and later, with 70 revolutions, a slight improvement upon eleven knots was made.\n\nThe Wivern's armament consists of four 12-ton guns, Woolwich pattern, two in each turret; four Nordenfeldt guns, two on the forecastle and two on the poop; a Gatling gun, mounted on a carriage fit for shore fighting, but the gun can be readily detached and hoisted into a cutter for boat service; there is also a 9-pounder for the latter kind of work. In addition to this she carries the formidable Whitehead fish torpedoes, containing a charge of 33lbs. of gun-cotton, and spar torpedoes with 35lbs. of the same explosive. The projectiles for the 12-ton guns are of several kinds—empty common shell, weighing 237lbs.; Palliser chilled shot, of 250lbs., and Palliser chilled shell, of the same weight, but containing a bursting charge which explodes immediately it has contact with the object, besides these are case-shot and shrapnel. A full charge of powder is 30lbs. rifle large grain, and a battering charge 50lbs. pebble. The mechanical appliances adopted in loading and working these guns are such as to enable the gunners to fire with great rapidity, and the result is that a tremendous weight of metal can be poured into an enemy's ship in an incredibly short space of time. But of modern weapons, probably less is generally known about the Nordenfeldt gun than any other. The first ship in the British navy which received a Nordenfeldt gun was the Comus, now in Hongkong Harbour, followed by the Northampton, 12, double-screw armour-plated ship, and", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-192 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 321788, "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": "CO129-209 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [5]", "page_number": 201, "title": "CO129-209 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [5]", "content_text": "198\n\nSurrun\n\nLi\n\nnot avth to request the Officer\n\nCommanding to support the cucarers of\n\nSurrument,\n\nand\n\nbound to speak\n\nbe\n\nThe feels herself\n\nif be\n\nor vote against them.\n\non undesirable conflict crises. It has\n\ntemporarily been found preferable that\n\nthe Colonial government should have\n\nthe advice of the Commander in\n\nthe\n\nOffice\n\nWith these modifications, in §. Arwen's\n\nReform Bill will not do a\n\nrenteral to any As he has found\n\nthat he proposes.\n\ndo well to fur\n\n1/2\n\ndgaite\n\nigre.D.\n\nharm\n\nGood.\n\nhritic Expectations,\n\nmost of\n\n[ I am not sure\n\nas & the Gennar\n\nhe has been bad & Expect\n\nthe Executive Council, but that be saith\n\nnot take part in the proceedings of\n\nrepontain council; they not of can trace\n\nreference &tter persunt feuera\n\nperson would express concurrence\n\nJum\n\nquinn hat it ri un desirable\n\non\n\nThe fully fecakt\n\nin brei.\n\ncipple that the brief justice should sit\n\nin a denial hesistations where\n\npuent member of qualified perr\n\nin otturied without hemm\n\nor\n\na\n\ncan\n\nbut bean the\n\nC.) in the Council. — Ees, this seems\n\npresent C. J.\n\n*\n\nIf the treasurer is also mutter por\n\nthee Official list (see page 43 of despalet /\n\nthen will remain 6.\n\ntorder\n\nngth. D\n\n6 ofpicit\n\nmembers\n\nAnd\n\norder to retain\n\nA\n\nmajority of fnial\n\nthe or\n\nI would drop and on 5. Brwen's proposed\n\nIn Peace, Sho\n\nhoenice\n\nthe frestices 9\n\n1\n\nthom\n\nto Chamber f\n\nof Commerce.\n\n7\n\nhealt\n\nwhich\n\nCommanding -\n\ntool the seat in the Leg. Council taste to Streit\" has the & & them is that Downing some personal ofcction to him, especially the all- of the iffin Commendary sets in\n\nstaten mences of.\n\nthe other peal Crown\n\nCrionies. Perhaps \"primaple should fin\n\nway here,\n\ncomet him\n\nNo Which Il. J Reerst full\n\nI D\n\nbut\n\nI would drop out one of the unofficials the hominated by the] hasaber of fommerce instead of dropping the momince of the Justices of the Pences. They will for rather a capel\n\nI themed give senere Austatuary bepilation format.\n\nshmable\n\nSargent\n\n2 seat in them.\n\n\"Let out in his dy palin\n\nleem the wise and\n\nwill dis f. Bowen proposals\n\nThe m\n\ndifficulty of appearn the want of fit men\n\nAv", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-209 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 323132, "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": "CO129-211 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [8-9]", "page_number": 489, "title": "CO129-211 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [8-9]", "content_text": "Viceroy for aid, and he called upon the few Chinese troops who had been sent to drive off the mob in very strong terms, charging them with cowardice. After this time the Viceroy sent a large number of troops, which filled up the point, and kept the mob out of the place. I counted eleven houses destroyed by fire, but I am told there are thirteen, besides four others only looted. There could be no efforts made to check the flames. There were no engines, for the Chinese burnt down the engine house and destroyed the engines.\n\nAt five o'clock a meeting of the residents was held at the Canton Club, Mr. Daval, the president of the Club, being appointed Chairman, to take into consideration measures for the defence of the Settlement. Herr Von Ketler, the German Vice-Consul, was appointed the commander of the residents' forces, as he had seen some active service as a German officer and was the only one who had seen real service. There were three officers under him, viz., Mr. Von Pustau, Mr. Rocher, and Mr. Dunt, who had command each of a division, and these divisions took alternate watches of three hours each for patrolling the Settlement from nine o'clock.\n\nI was in the first watch, that of Mr. Von Pustau, and everything was quiet all the night through on Shameen, but while I was on duty I heard firing going on somewhere in the city, the cause of which I do not know. During Monday a great number of Chinese troops arrived in the Settlement, and at nine o'clock in the evening many Chinese gunboats arrived and placed themselves round Shameen, whilst watch boats kept any mob from crossing the creek. The camp of the troops was pitched upon the Bund, which they almost filled.\n\nThe next morning a feeling of security succeeded to the anxiety which prevailed before, and the ladies and children came ashore to their houses; some whose houses were burned came on to Hongkong by the Honam, whilst others will come on to-morrow. I don't think Mr. Sebruynter is seriously hurt. He was wounded with small shot, being struck on the forehead, the back of the head, the left arm, right wrist, and stomach. There were no medical instruments available to extract the shots, all having been destroyed, but the doctor thinks the wounds are not serious.\n\nI was with him before leaving, and he appeared to be pretty well, and was about writing a lot of correspondence for the mail. It is believed that the shots were fired by a Chinese soldier. The Chinese soldiers seemed to take a lively interest in the welfare of the mob on Shameen, and they let all of them escape. The only ones captured were seven we seized, four of whom made good their escape, whilst the other three made some escapes and were re-captured.\n\nThere is a strong feeling in the settlement that if there had been an English gunboat there, the whole damage might have been prevented. As we were on the way down we met the gunboat Swift on the way to Canton, she was going at a very great rate. The Espoir we saw taking shelter from the weather.\n\nMr. Brocklemann, of the firm of Messrs. Pustau & Co., gave us later on a very complete description of the affair, but as it travels over the same ground as the preceding narrative, and corroborates it, we will only give that part referring to what occurred while Mr. Schwemann was on board the Hankow, and such extra particulars as he gave.\n\nMr. Brocklemann said: Just before half-past eight this morning, Mr. Raven, of the Ice House, who lives in the same building as I do, called to me over the banister as I was dressing that he had just heard from his compradore that a Chinaman had been kicked overboard from the Hankow and drowned at 5.30, and that a Chinese mob had assembled, being then engaged in firing the Custom House. I went to the verandah and saw the smoke rising from the two steamer wharves, which were then on fire.\n\nI went downstairs at 8.40, and then saw the first Chinese crossing the bridge into Shameen. We wanted to look after some books in the house, but as there were some ladies in the next house who needed protection, three of us got together, one with a cane, another with a dagger, and another with a revolver, and tried to drive the crowd back on the front row.\n\nThere were about a hundred men there then, but we succeeded for a short time, and then we went to the middle row, keeping near our own place, and the crowd was soon increased to 250 men, as they came pouring over the bridge, the gates of which they had opened. They drove us back for a bit, and this kind of thing kept on till about 9.30, when some 50 Chinese soldiers came across the bridge which leads from the city to the middle of the Settlement.\n\nOf these 25 stayed on the bridge to prevent any more Chinese from coming over, and 25 more came on to Shameen. However, they were a wretched lot, miserably armed, and were utterly afraid to attack the mob. They seemed to have no leader and would do nothing without the co-operation of the Europeans. They just followed us about, and did nothing, the only good being the guarding of the bridge.\n\nWe took some of their bamboo spears away from them, and found them useful to use ourselves, as revolvers and small things were of no use with the crowd. The few Europeans drove back the mob three or four times, and if we had had any support from the Chinese soldiers we could have kept them back, but we were unsupported, and the soldiers were firing behind us, and so we retreated, and the crowd chased us to the middle of the Settlement.\n\nThey then broke into the house of Messrs. Thomas, Rowe, and Smith, and though they looted it, they did not at that time set fire to it. The Consuls warned us not to shoot any of the natives, and we heeded the caution. Mr. Brocklemann here went on to deal with the banding together of the residents armed with the weapons supplied by Mr. Butler, and their successful attack on the crowd.\n\nHe said that from 8.30 a.m. the Consuls had sent to the Chinese authorities for assistance, and had received word back that there were 200 to 300 men on the other side of the creek who did not dare to pass over unless they had support from the Shameen side, and so Mr. Mollendorf arranged this party of attack.\n\nMessrs. Thomas, Rowe, and Smith's premises were the first fired on Shameen, this being done at ten a.m., and the outbreaks followed quickly. The crowd, according to this gentleman's computation, numbered about 700 at this time. The Consuls had a consultation at three o'clock as to whether the Hankow was to be kept at Canton or sent to Hongkong, and they decided it would be well for it to remain until the drowned Chinaman was removed, and that the Portuguese watchman charged with causing his death should not then be taken away for fear of further inflaming the mob.\n\nMr. Brocklemann said he saw the bodies of three Chinese killed by firing, which went on pretty briskly after the decision to resist the mob by force, and he understands that about 20 dead bodies were carried off by the mob.\n\nANOTHER ACCOUNT,\n\nEarly in the morning some of the foreigners were informed by their servants that a Chinaman had been kicked to death by a watchman on the Hankow and that there was a disturbance, but no particular alarm was felt at the time. Soon after eight o'clock, however, the mob appeared off Shameen, but the constable stationed at the bridge kept the gate closed and refused to allow them to pass.\n\nMr. Woodruff, the Commissioner of Customs, left his house in his chair with the intention of passing through the crowd to the Custom House, but on reaching the gate he saw that it would be unsafe to go on. As things were then looking very threatening, the ladies at the London Mission House were taken on board the Ningpo, which was lying off the Concession.\n\nOn seeing this party passing towards the water the mob set up a yell and began throwing stones, but fortunately none of the missiles reached far enough to do any injury, and the party got safely off. By this time the alarm had become general, and the other ladies and children were taken off to the steamer. Few if any waited to pack up their clothes, but went off simply with those they had on at the time.\n\nMeanwhile the crowd, which had been increasing in numbers and violence, burst open the gate and swarmed on to the Concession. Had there been any organised and properly armed guard at that time, however small, it is thought the Chinese would not have ventured to cross. There being nothing of the kind to deter them they rushed on...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-211 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [8-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 327313, "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": "CO129-219 Foreign Office 1884", "page_number": 101, "title": "CO129-219 Foreign Office 1884", "content_text": "# CONFIDENTIAL\n\nPrinted for the use of the Foreign Office. January 1884.\n\n`C. 0. 3747`\n\n**RECP**\n**REGP 4 MAR 84**\n\nHER Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Empress of India, and His Majesty the King of Corea, being sincerely desirous of establishing permanent relations of friendship and commerce between their respective dominions, have resolved to conclude a Treaty for that purpose, and have therefore named as their Plenipotentiaries, that is to say:\n\nHer Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Empress of India, Sir Harry Smith Parkes, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Knight Commander of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Her Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to His Majesty the Emperor of China;\n\nHis Majesty the King of Corea, Min Yöng-Mok, President of His Majesty's Foreign Office, a Dignitary of the First Rank, Senior Vice-President of the Council of State, Member of His Majesty's Privy Council, and Junior Guardian of the Crown Prince;\n\nWho, after having communicated to each other their respective full powers, found in good and due form, have agreed upon and concluded the following Articles :-\n\n## ARTICLE I\n\n1. There shall be perpetual peace and friendship between Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Empress of India, her heirs and successors, and His Majesty the King of Corea, his heirs and successors, and between their respective dominions and subjects, who shall enjoy full security and protection for their persons and property within the dominions of the other.\n\n2. In case of differences arising between one of the High Contracting Parties and a third Power, the other High Contracting Party, if requested to do so, shall exert its good offices to bring about an amicable arrangement.\n\n## ARTICLE II\n\n1. The High Contracting Parties may each appoint a Diplomatic Representative to reside permanently or temporarily at the capital of the other, and may appoint a Consul-General, Consuls, or Vice-Consuls, to reside at any or all of the ports or places of the other which are open to foreign commerce. The Diplomatic Representatives and Consular functionaries of both countries shall freely enjoy the same facilities for communication, personally or in writing, with the authorities of the country where they respectively reside, together with all other privileges and immunities as are enjoyed by Diplomatic or Consular functionaries in other countries.\n\n2. The Diplomatic Representative and the Consular functionaries of each Power and the members of their official establishments shall have the right to travel freely in any part of the dominions of the other, and the Corean authorities shall furnish passports to such British officers travelling in Corea, and shall provide such escort for their protection as may be necessary.\n\n3. The Consular officers of both countries shall exercise their functions on receipt of due authorization from the Sovereign or Government of the country in which they respectively reside, and shall not be permitted to engage in trade.\n\n## ARTICLE III\n\n1. Jurisdiction over the persons and property of British subjects in Corea shall be vested exclusively in the duly authorized British judicial authorities, who shall hear...\n\nPage 107", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-219 Foreign Office 1884.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 345753, "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": 152, "title": "CO129-250 - Acting Governor Barker - 1891 [6-8]", "content_text": "# SUNDAY LABOR IN HONGKONG HARBOUR.\n\nfrom the Chamber of Commerce and the leading merchants were certainly not of an encouraging nature. He consulted both the Governors when they were in England, in order to ascertain whether any compromise could be effected, but he regretted to say that he found no compromise was possible. He was distinctly opposed to compulsory legislation on this point—viz., forcing against the views of the unofficial members legislation by an official vote. The case of Australia, which had been referred to, was very different. In the first place, as in other colonies where there was a Custom-house, Sunday labour could be prevented indirectly by closing the Custom-house, but in Hongkong and Singapore, Custom-houses did not exist. He was not aware that in Australia any Act prohibiting Sunday labour was in force. The working men themselves had declined to work on Sunday, and indirectly secured for themselves freedom from work on that day, but he was not aware that there was any direct legislation on the point. He did not think anything could be done in this particular branch of labour unless it could be obtained by the voluntary unanimity upon the subject of the members of the Chamber of Commerce and the leading merchants in the colonies, and of the leading merchants here who had partners or agents in the colonies. In that way pressure might be put on local legislatures, and ultimately some measure might be introduced which would put an end to Sunday labour. But at present he did not think there was that feeling in the colony which would justify compulsory legislation.\n\n## THE EARL OF HARROWBY \nsaid that he did not see why legislation on this subject should be possible in Australia and not in the Crown colonies. He would suggest to his right hon. friend, that he should address inquiries to the Governors of all the colonies, Crown and self-governing, as to the existing practice. The feeling among the seamen was rising very high on the question of Sunday labour.\n\n## LORD KNUTSFORD \nsaid that he should have great pleasure in adopting the suggestion of the noble Earl.\n\nThe subject then dropped.—*\"Times,\" London*.\n\nSent in to Governor, November 9th, 1888.\n\n## To His Excellency Sir WILLIAM DES VEUX, K.C.M.G., Governor and Commander-in-chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same.\n\nWe, the undersigned, employed in connection with the shipping in the port of Hongkong, ashore or afloat, respectfully beg Your Excellency's consideration to the following facts:- \n1. Hongkong, with the exception of Singapore and Penang, is the only port under the British flag where Sunday labour in the shape of discharging and loading cargo is permitted without any restriction. \n2. The necessity of a seventh day of rest has for centuries been recognised by the laws and customs of our own Country.\n3. Although the absence of restriction on Sunday work in this port presses very hardly upon us, as it deprives us of that which Englishmen have learnt to look upon as their just right, we are, nevertheless, powerless from our position to do otherwise than submit.\n4. Whereas in some cases the Shipping Owners at home do not encourage or absolutely prohibit the working of their ships on Sunday, we are practically compelled to work in this port, on account of the excessive competition.\n5. The Sunday labour shows a tendency to increase. And thus not only are officers on board ship deprived of their day of rest, but also many of us are compelled to work in our offices ashore and elsewhere all the year round.\n\nHaving regard to these facts, and bearing in mind that restriction would be by no means unprecedented,—witness for instance intermediate ports of call in Australia and Coast ports in China,—your petitioners humbly submit that the time has now arrived when some decisive step may be taken, and respectfully solicit that their day of rest may be assured them by legislation or otherwise.\n\n(Over 600 signatures of masters, officers, and clerks engaged in Shipping offices).\n\n# SUNDAY LABOR IN HONGKONG HARBOUR.\n\n## BRITISH MERCANTILE MARINE OFFICERS' ASSOCIATION.\n\n[Reprint from *\"The Hongkong Telegraph\"* of the 8th September, 1890.]\n\n### THE PRESIDENT ON THE SUNDAY Labour QUESTION.\n\nA special meeting of the British Mercantile Marine Officers' Association was held at the Marine Hotel, Praya West, on Saturday evening, the 6th instant, when Captain Samuel Ashton, the President, delivered a very interesting address upon the much-vexed question of Sunday labour. There were present, in addition to local members of the Association, representatives of the Australian and Shanghai Officers' Associations.\n\nThe Secretary, Mr. Chesney Duncan, having read the bye-laws respecting the conduct of meetings, and a list of those who had been appointed, by ballot, members of the General Committee—\n\nCaptain Ashton, who on rising was greeted with hearty applause, said—Gentlemen, to-night I am going to give you my ideas upon the much-vexed question of Sunday labour on board ships in this harbour, a question which the Rev. A. G. Goldsmith has striven so hard to settle in a manner beneficial to all seafaring men. I, myself, believe in the fourth Commandment, and I think that those who rigidly obey it will be healthier, wealthier and wiser in the end. I intend to review this question to-night in all its bearings, in as far as I am able to. The question has become one of great, and I may say burning, importance not only to us out here but also to thousands of our fellows at home. I've already said that the Rev. Mr. Goldsmith has worked very industriously with a view to causing a cessation of needless Sunday labour in this port of Hongkong. He drew up a lengthy petition upon the subject, and obtained the signatures to it of the great majority of captains and officers frequenting this port, as also the autographs of a great number of residents on shore. This petition he presented to our Governor, Sir William Des Voeux, and from what we now learn by recent home advices, it is patent that Sir William has given the matter his earnest consideration. According to these advices, we find that Sir William Des Voeux has been in communication with the Secretary of State for the Colonies, Lord Knutsford, as also with Sir Cecil Smith, the Governor of the Straits Settlements, who, by the way, is well-known to all old residents of this Colony. I am quite sure that these experienced statesmen have thoroughly weighed this important question—But—a question which seriously affects every member of this Association.—notwithstanding all that has been done, we find that their Excellencies have come to the conclusion that it is not wise to introduce compulsory legislation at the present time. This is a great disappointment to us as a body of officers, for we reasonably expected, or rather hoped, that our appeal would result in decisive and much-to-be-desired action by Her Majesty's Government. However, the reverse is the case, and as obedient subjects of Her Majesty we must virtually abide by their decision, although differing from them in our opinions. Now, Mr. Goldsmith having done his utmost, backed by the unanimous approval of British officers, we consider that we have a right to do the best we can for ourselves—joint action having failed—this Association having been formed with the express object of maintaining the proper dignity of the profession and improving the condition of its members, morally, socially and intellectually. I say again, we, as an Association of certificated British officers, have a perfect right to do the best we can for ourselves.\n\n### How to Act.\n\nI counsel you to discuss amongst yourselves the advisability of asking your owners to give you extra (double) pay for extra labour on Sunday. I consider you have a right to do so. Not that you wish thereby to put this extra pay in your...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-250 - Acting Governor Barker - 1891 [6-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 346092, "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": 491, "title": "CO129-250 - Acting Governor Barker - 1891 [6-8]", "content_text": "There ought to be a depth of about on this spot. Soundings 10. Fathoms draught was 22 ft 6 in. to 23 ft. at apt. Our Fa... and ... could be judged accurately. I have &c. \n) W. M. Smith. \n... engines since that date no ... way ... stopped, and more water ...\n\n## Commander Hastings, \n### Acting Harbour Master.\n\nAfter discharging cargo in this port, a thorough examination has been made inside, also outside by a diver without detecting the slightest sign of any damage.\n\nIf some people on board thought that we had experienced an earthquake shock, but as I myself was under the impression that the ship had touched grounding, I therefore bring this to your notice.\n\nFor your information, the night was clear as day, and distance could be seen. \n\n486 \n| col | col |\nNo table data available, continuing with text.\n\nRevised to proper Markdown and following the format rules:\n\nThere ought to be a depth of about on this spot. Soundings 10. Fathoms draught was 22 ft 6 in. to 23 ft. at apt. Our Fa... and ... could be judged accurately. I have &c. \n) W. M. Smith. \n\n**Commander Hastings, \nActing Harbour Master.**\n\nchocked engines since that date no way stopped, and more water ...\n\nAfter discharging cargo in this port, a thorough examination has been made inside, also outside by a diver without detecting the slightest sign of any damage.\n\nIf some people on board thought that we had experienced an earthquake shock, but as I myself was under the impression that the ship had touched grounding, I therefore bring this to your notice.\n\nFor your information, the night was clear as day, and distance could be seen.\n\n486", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-250 - Acting Governor Barker - 1891 [6-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 346896, "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": "CO129-251 - Acting Governor Barker - 1891 [9-11]", "page_number": 500, "title": "CO129-251 - Acting Governor Barker - 1891 [9-11]", "content_text": "# & L(121)-16857-6000-7-91\n\nToverno\n\nNo.\n\nBarker 363\n\nDate.\n\n1891. Nov: 10.\n\nLast previous Paper.\n\nGov. Bahamas Tel for con? [mf.] Conan No. 3. 30 Feb. 2.75 1990. 27\n\nNext subsequent Paper 176/97\n\nsong song No. 24053\n\nThe names of (Subject.)\n\nC.O. 24053\n\n**REC? DESPATCH.**\n\nRed 15 DEC 91 496\n\n1. Thomson ~ Commander Hastings submitted for the Appointment of Superintendent of the Paol.\n\n**(Minutes.)**\n\nM- Meade To the Private Secretaries.\n\nIt would probably be well to consult M Heming about this the filling up of this appointment. I think it is held by a cadet, and, unless there is reason to the contrary, presumably this is to be held by the senior cadet who wishes to hold it. Sexcombe Smith, for I suppose would have applied if he had wished for the place. I think that, though M. Thomas has done well in the acting appointment, it would not be fair to put him over...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-251 - Acting Governor Barker - 1891 [9-11].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 354467, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-263 - Acting Governor Barker Governor Sir Robinson - 1894 [5-8]", "page_number": 201, "title": "CO129-263 - Acting Governor Barker Governor Sir Robinson - 1894 [5-8]", "content_text": "402\n\nTHE HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS AND\n\nThere were then under treatment, thirteen cases on the Hygeia, and fourteen at Kennedy town, making a total of 27, as against 41 on the previous day.\n\ndying there after an illness of 24 hours. The symptoms were almost identical with those of the plague, and there is only too much reason to believe that this is the commencement of the disease in the hitherto uninfected eastern district. The agent of the Messageries Maritimes Company issued the following express on Wednesday: To order to avoid sanitary difficulties in further ports the steamer Oceanien, leaving at 2 p.m., will take neither passengers nor cargo.\n\n18th May: The continuation of the rain on Thursday was hailed with great satisfaction, and both plague and water famine, from which we have been suffering, will doubtless in a few days entirely disappear. There is some indication that the plague is already abating and that the conditions favourable to its development having been removed by the rain, the port will soon be declared free from the disease. The total number of deaths reported from noon on Wednesday to noon yesterday was 20, of which 2 occurred on the Hygeia, 9 in Kennedy town Hospital, and 9 in outside districts. There were only 10 new cases yesterday, 3 being admitted to the Hygeia, and 7 to the Kennedy town Hospital. 44 cases are at present under treatment,\n\nThe following circular has been issued by the Sanitary Board for the guidance of all concerned, and has been circulated among the police and sanitary officers:\n\nObservations to be made by officers conducting house to house visitation:\n\n1. See if the patient is feverish. \n2. Look for swellings (buboes) under the arms, on the groin, on the neck, above the elbow. \n3. Observe if the patient has an anxious expression and if he is walking with a tottering gait.\n\nThe rainfall registered to 10 a.m. on Wednesday, for the preceding twenty-four hours, was 0.26 inch, and for the twenty-four hours ending 10 a.m. on Thursday 2.23 inches. There were heavy showers later in the day.\n\nOur Saigon correspondent telegraphs that Hongkong has been declared an infected port and vessels arriving at Saigon are subjected to six days' quarantine.\n\nPRECAUTIONS AT MACAO.\n\nThe following order is published in the Macao Boletim Oficial:\n\nBubonic plague having appeared in epidemic form in the neighbouring ports of Canton and Hongkong and causing a considerable number of deaths amongst the Chinese population of those two cities;\n\nAt the Police Court on Tuesday there were several cases of failure to report the occurrence of the disease, and doubtless a few convictions and fines will make landlords more alive to the vital necessity of bringing the cases to the attention of the authorities without the slightest delay. Ning Kin and Lan Chuk, widows, the occupants respectively of Nos. 72 and 74, Market Street, were charged by Inspector Quincey before Mr. H. E. Wodehouse with neglecting to report the outbreak of plague in their houses. The Inspector stated that he visited the places and found men suffering from the disease, whom he had removed to the Hygeia. The symptoms were very pronounced at the time and there would be no difficulty in identifying the disease. His Worship fined the first defendant $2 or fourteen days' and discharged the second. Lai You Chang, a teacher, for a similar neglect in respect to a case at 10, Wai Tak Lane, was fined $5 or in default 14 days' imprisonment.\n\nThe fire engines on Tuesday were engaged in flushing the sewers and drains of the Taiping-shan district from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. The water was pumped from the harbour by the floating engine up to the Hollywood Road level and from thence to the China Road. A good quantity of water was used. This operation will be continued to-day.\n\nDepartmental orders have also been issued calling upon the Chinese to keep their houses clean.\n\n19th May. It is regrettable to have to report that the plague has again increased and that both the numbers of deaths, admissions, and cases are larger than those of the previous day. It will be remembered that the returns on Thursday on the face of them showed a gratifying diminution of the disease, and the copious downfall of rain continuing it was confidently and naturally anticipated that this diminution would be even more pronounced yesterday. The official returns, however, up to noon on Friday show that in the twenty-four hours 25 deaths occurred, 7 were from noon on Thursday on board the Hygeia, 9 at Kennedy town Hospital, and 9 outside, as against a mortality of 21 on Thursday. The new cases were 29, viz, 12 on the Hygeia and 17 at Kennedy town, being an increase of 19. The total number of cases under treatment is 56 against 44 at the last report. This increase is not regarded by the authorities in a serious light, and no apprehensions are entertained that the disease is baffling the exertions made to stamp it out. In fact, the medical officers take a hopeful view and feel sure that the worst is now past. The increase is ascribed to the complete organisation which is operating for the detection of cases. On Friday twelve men from the Royal Engineers and twelve from the Shropshire Light Infantry were enrolled as special sanitary officers, which makes the staff numerically strong and adequate to the necessities of the work to be done. The house to house visitation is divided into sections, and it is almost impossible now that cases of plague can pass undiscovered.\n\nThe Manila authorities have prescribed 15 days' observation on all vessels arriving from this port.\n\nAt the Magistracy on Friday a hawker was charged with failing to report a case of plague which occurred in his house on the 17th inst. Defendant pleaded that he could not leave the premises, but Commander W. H. Hastings, before whom the case was heard, imposed a fine of $50 with an alternative of two months' hard labour.\n\n21st May,\n\nHaving received the advice of the Provincial Sanitary Board:\n\nI hereby order:\n\n1. That the supply of water to the public by boats stationed along the Praia Grande and in the inner harbour be continued with the greatest regularity.\n\n2. That the drains be flushed daily, especially in the districts occupied by the Chinese population, and more particularly the districts of Volong, San-kin, Sa-tong, Patane, Mong-ha, and the village of Barra.\n\n3. That the pavement of the slaughter house and its appendages be daily washed with salt water.\n\n4. That on the arrival of any vessel from Canton or Hongkong, including the steamers and launches of the regular lines, an officer of the Sanitary Board shall inspect the passengers, and especially the Chinese passengers, to ascertain if any of them are suffering from the bubonic plague or exhibit suspicious symptoms.\n\n5. That the commandant of the water police shall give the necessary directions in order that lorcha or other boats from Hongkong or Canton may not land any individual suspected to be suffering from the disease; and any case presenting its symptoms shall be detained on board until examined by an officer of the Sanitary Board, who shall be immediately informed.\n\n6. If any passenger be found to be suffering from bubonic plague, whether on board steamers or launches, such passenger shall not be landed; and if any case of the disease be found on a sailing vessel or boat propelled by oars the vessel shall be immediately to be immediately towed out of the harbour, and removed by a copious rainfall we may confidently anticipate the speedy disappearance of the evil result.\n\nGovernment Palace, Macao,\n\n15th May, 1894.\n\nThe Governor of the Province,\n\nJose M. da Horta e Costa.\n\nwork of soaching and disinfecting the localities\n\nfor development it was hoped that in a few days such an appreciable conquest of the disease would be achieved that no further danger need be anticipated. A certain section of the Chinese have now, however, attempted to frustrate all these efforts, and are determined to assert aggressively the ignorance and stupidity which peculiarly belong to the multitude of the natives. It will be remembered that one of the first acts of the permanent committee was to order the removal of all patients from the Tung Wah Hospital to the Hygeia, and the next wise edict was that no patients were to be sent there, but removed direct to the bulk. There was at the time much grumbling and opposition to this course, the patients themselves, with the instinct of their race, objecting, sometimes violently to their removal to the Hygeia and their treatment by Western skill and science. It appears that this feeling of resentment has been simmering and increasing during the past few days, and on Saturday it broke bounds and completely disorganised the work of cleansing, disinfecting, and investigating, which was in progress. Mr. Lau Wai Chuen, a member of the Sanitary Board and also Chairman of the Tung Wah Hospital Committee, has, with an intelligence which unfortunately does not belong to all his countrymen, lost the Government his hearty co-operation in the measures they have taken. Some of his colleagues on the Hospital Committee, however, imbued with anti-foreign feeling, have resisted this policy, and by their influence have created a strong opposition among the native population to the work which the authorities are prosecuting with such vigour.\n\nMay 24, 1894.\n\nCHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT.\n\n198\n\n4.3\n\nAnother case occurred yesterday among the Portuguese community, the patient being taken to the Hygeia.\n\nSingapore has imposed nine days' quarantine, including the time occupied by the passage, rioting, the Government having met the Tung Wah Hospital Committee in their demand that there be no further danger of a renewal of the.\n\nMEETING AT THE TUNG WAH HOSPITAL\n\nA largely attended meeting of Chinese was held on Sunday at the Tung Wah Hospital, there being present about seventy members of the leading firms and some four hundred others. The Captain Superintendent of Police and the Colonial Surgeon attended the meeting.\n\nMr. Lau Wai Chuen occupied the chair. He said that many people had preferred a request that persons suffering from the plague should be allowed to be conveyed to Canton, if their relatives so desired, by special launches.\n\nThe Captain Superintendent of Police replied that he was instructed to state that information had that morning been received from Canton that the officials there would not allow persons suffering from the disease to be landed there. Mr. Lau Wai Chuen interpreted Mr. May's reply to the meeting, who received it with strong marks of dissatisfaction. Mr. Lau Wai Chuen, endeavoured to maintain order and said he would personally apply to the Government here and the officials at Canton in relation to the matter. He suggested that they should send a petition to Canton signed by all the leading firms of the colony.\n\nYesterday morning the sanitary officers reported a house supposed to be empty and made the horrible discovery that there were five corpses on the premises and four very serious cases, all exhibiting pronounced symptoms of the plague.\n\nYesterday morning one of the turnkeys in the Victoria Gaol reported himself sick and Dr. Marques, suspecting from the symptoms that the man was suffering from plague, sent him immediately to hospital. A prisoner in the gaol, who had been convicted for not reporting a case of plague, was also removed to the new Chinese Hospital for treatment.\n\nThe arrangements for the burial of victims of the plague do not appear to be quite satisfactory. A good deal of delay takes place before the bodies are interred, separate graves having to be dug in a rather rocky and refractory soil. The squatters on the land contiguous to this cemetery have petitioned the Government on the matter. Evidently a more suitable site ought to be selected.\n\nOn Saturday many of the houses visited were blockaded and the sanitary officers stoned, and in the afternoon all attempts to continue the house to house inspection had to be discontinued, the work being rendered exceedingly unsafe and difficult. A mob also collected at the Po Leung Kuk office and broke the windows, but was dispersed by the police before doing further damage. On Sunday, while a meeting at the Tung Wah Hospital was in progress, Mr. Lau was hurriedly sent for, news arriving that his hong was being wrecked. When Mr. Lau left the building he was surrounded by a howling mob of Chinese and had to be escorted by police to his residence. Mr. P. R. May, Captain Superintendent of Police, grasped the situation at once and sent a mounted contingent of armed Sikhs to the district, the presence of which fortunately prevented further disturbances.\n\nThe Government have so far met the Chinese opposition as to assent to the establishment of a temporary hospital under the management of the Tung Wah at the Glassworks, Kennedy town, to which all patients will be removed and where they will be treated by native practitioners, and the use of the Hygeia for the reception of plague patients will be discontinued.\n\nOn Sunday the house to house inspection was recommenced, the officers being protected by a strong police guard.\n\nSome cases have been reported on the mainland and proclamations have been issued prohibiting the immigration of Chinamen from Hongkong. At Haiphong several persons have fallen victims to the disease.\n\nThis suggestion was unanimously agreed to. The Captain Superintendent of Police said that rumours were current that people not suffering from the disease had been taken to the Hygeia and the Kennedy town Hospital, people who were not sick at all, but this could be at once disproved if any of those present would go with him to examine the patients, when it would be seen they were all sick people suffering from the plague. If those attacked were not segregated it would be impossible to prevent the spread of the disease, and he referred to the visitation of the plague in England two hundred years ago and the great mortality it caused. He suggested to the Chairman that he should advise the people that they should avoid overcrowding in their dwellings, and then the number of persons attacked by the disease would decrease.\n\nCONFERENCE AT GOVERNMENT HOUSE.\n\nAn important conference was held yesterday at Government House for the purpose of discussing the new turn events have taken and considering the course of action to be adopted in the immediate future. His Excellency Sir William Robinson presided, and there were also present H.E. Major-General Barker, Hon. J. H. Stewart Lockhart (Acting Colonial Secretary), Hon. N. G. Mitchell-Innes (Colonial Treasurer), Hon. Ho Kai, Dr. P. B. C. Ayres (Colonial Surgeon), Mr. F. H. May (Captain Superintendent of Police), Mr. J. J. R. Crook, Dr. James, Francis Q.C., Mr. J. A. M. S., Dr. Lan Wai Chuen. The meeting lasted for some time. The first business was the consideration of representations by the permanent committee of the Sanitary Board as to the inadequacy of the number of sanitary officers.\n\nApplication was made for the enrolling of 400 assistants for the work of cleansing and disinfecting.\n\nAt this stage of the proceedings a petition was presented from the residents in East Street complaining of the treatment they had received at the hands of the sanitary officers, entering their houses unexpectedly and frightening the children. The petitioners asked that attention should be given to this matter.\n\nAt this time news arrived that a mob was attacking Mr. Lau Wai Chuen's establishment in Bonham Strand, the Tung San Wo, and\n\nOn Sunday night everything was quiet and it was hoped there would be no renewal of the disturbances.\n\nThe decrease in the number of cases reported for the twenty-four hours up to noon on Sunday is, it is to be feared, due to interruption of the inspection rather than to any actual diminution of the disease.\n\nA notice was subsequently issued by the Committee of the Tung Wah Hospital stating that the Government has consented to allow all patients suffering from plague to be treated by the doctors of the Tung Wah Hospital. The notice also informs the people that they need not be alarmed by the visits of the sanitary officers, as any one found to be suffering from plague will now be removed to the Tung Wah's branch hospital instead of being taken to the Hygeia.\n\nAt the Police Court on Saturday there were some more cases of failure to report outbreaks of plague. Wong Chan, a married woman, was so charged. P.S. Moffat said that he visited the house of the defendant No. 64, First Street, at 11 a.m. on the 18th. In the first room visited he found a man lying dead, and another man (the husband of the defendant) was very ill in the same apartment. In another room in the Cookhouse he discovered a woman very ill lying under a bed, and in the cockloft a girl was seriously ill. All, both the dead and the living, had the symptoms of bubonic plague. Defendant pleaded that she was a very poor woman, and was fined $5, which she paid. Chan Chol, a shopkeeper at No. 6, Hung Lane, off Queen's Road West, was also charged with concealing a case. P.S. Smith said that he went into the premises and found a man suffering from plague. There were a number of persons present, who ran away on his arrival. A like fine was imposed.\n\nWe have heard of a somewhat curious case in connection with the plague. A few days ago a coolie was charged with cutting and wounding a companion and the hearing of the charge was remanded for a week by the sitting Magistrate, bail of $250 being allowed and procured. The following day the unlucky coolie was seized with the disease and died on board the Hygeia.\n\nThe Spanish Consul received the following official telegram despatch from Manila at 9:53 a.m. on Saturday: \"Hongkong has been declared an infected port, and vessels from thence are subject to fifteen days' quarantine.\"\n\nInformation has also been received that a proclamation will be issued to-day addressed to the Chinese explaining the objects of the preventative measures now being prosecuted and calling upon them to co-operate therein and assist the Government.\n\nMr. May stated at the meeting yesterday that he and his assistants had been welcomed and not obstructed in the different houses visited.\n\nThe following are the returns for the twenty-four hours to noon yesterday:\n\nHygeia, Kennedy town Hospital, City, Total, Decrease.\n\nAdmissions: 2, 3, 0, 5, \nDeaths: 3, 2, 0, 5, \nUnder treatment: 26, 20, 17, 63, 28\n\nThe Government, we understand, is fully prepared to support the permanent committee of the Sanitary Board to the utmost. There is a suspicion that jealousy between different sections of the Chinese is at the bottom of the recent disturbances and ill-feeling.\n\nTHE DISTURBANCES-POLICE COURT PROCEEDINGS.\n\nMr. H. E. Wodehouse was yesterday morning engaged at the Police Court in hearing several cases arising out of the disturbances in Chinatown reported in yesterday's issue.\n\nYesterday Yea Kay, a hawker, was charged with behaving in a disorderly manner in Po Yan Street.\n\nPage 403\n\n...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-263 - Acting Governor Barker Governor Sir Robinson - 1894 [5-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 360075, "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": "CO129-271 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1896 [1-4]", "page_number": 271, "title": "CO129-271 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1896 [1-4]", "content_text": "## Conviction of Three Russian Officers\n\nAt the Police Court yesterday, before Mr. T. Sercombe Smith, Baron Graevenitz, a lieutenant on the Russian man-of-war Vladimir Monomach, Lieutenant Epanchine, and Lieutenant Strannolinsky, of the same vessel, were charged with unlawfully trespassing in the field works at Hougham Dock Fort for an unlawful purpose, and being in possession of sketches and sketching materials on Sunday, the 16th inst.\n\nHon. Commander W. C. H. Hastings (Acting Captain Superintendent of Police) conducted the case for the prosecution, and Mr. V. J. Deacon represented the three defendants. Considerable interest was manifested in the case, and several officers of the Garrison were present in Court. Mr. St. C. Michaelsen, the Russian Consul, was also in Court and sat next to Mr. Deacon.\n\nMr. Deacon - Before the prosecution commences their case, if it is to proceed, I take the earliest opportunity of making a statement.\n\nHis Worship - Do you submit to it all?\n\nMr. Deacon - I admit every fact, but not the offence.\n\nHis Worship - Do you admit that they were in possession of sketching materials?\n\nMr. Deacon - Some sketches were found on one of them, certainly.\n\nHis Worship said unless Mr. Deacon had something to say in mitigation of the offence, the case must proceed.\n\nMr. Deacon - I was really going to give the version of the officers as gentlemen and leave it to you.\n\nHis Worship - I shall hear the evidence first.\n\nMr. Deacon - We must go on in the usual way, then.\n\nHis Worship - Yes.\n\nThomas O'Toole, acting bombardier, R.A., was called and said - On the morning of the 16th instant, about 11 a.m., my attention was drawn to three men trespassing on Government property outside the Kowloon Dock forts. I saw one with an opera glass, which he was using in the direction of the forts. Another gunner, a private, and I went to them. I took their names and brought them down to Hougham police station. They were about forty yards from the observing station.\n\nHon. Commander Hastings - They were in the field?\n\nWitness - Yes.\n\nHon. Commander Hastings - Had they passed any notice board?\n\nWitness - Oh, yes, two of them.\n\nHis Worship - What were those boards?\n\nWitness - One of them had upon it, \"War Department Property. No admittance\".\n\n| Questioner | Question | Witness Response |\n| ---------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |\n| Mr. Deacon | What do you mean by field works? Were the defendants actually within the fortifications? | They were between the bridge and the range fire observing station. |\n| | Was there any gate or door or anything through which they had to pass? | No. |\n| | Was it all open? | Yes, it was all open, but notices were posted up... |\n| | You know the road that leads up to the Docks from the town below? | Yes. |\n| | I think that branches off to the right and left close by the forts? | It does. |\n| | Now up to the junction of the roads there is no notice at all? | There is one notice just before you come... |\n| | Now just think. | ...to the junction. |\n| | Where? | At the beginning of the road. |\n| | What do you call the beginning of the road - the foot of the hill? | That is the foot of the hill; it is just before the junction. |\n| | You say it is just before the junction; I want to know exactly where it is. | Yes, it is at the foot of the hill. |\n| | What is on that notice board? | It is a very large notice board. |\n| | What is on it? It might say anything. What is it? | I do not know what is on that notice board. |\n| | Is it a War Office notice board? | I know it is. |\n| | How do you know that? | ... |\n| | What is on the other notice board? | \"War Department Property. No admittance.\" |\n| | Which of the roads is that notice on - the one to the right or the one to the left? | It is on the right going through the junction. |\n| | Now bear in mind this: we have come up from the village to the hill. | ... |\n| | Is the notice on the left or the right road? | It is on the right road; it is just at the junction. |\n| | This is rather important. Just make a little sketch of it on some paper. | (Witness, with the aid of a stick, a pencil, and his left hand, described the position of the roads.) |\n| | Did you see them pass that notice? | No. |\n| | As a matter of fact didn't you see them go up to that notice, look at it, and turn back again? | No. |\n| | You have told us of two notices - one at the foot of the hill and one at the left of the road. Is there one on the other road? | I cannot say. |\n| | When you first saw the defendants where were they standing? | They were standing at the foot of the hill to the left of the fort, looking towards it. |\n| | Looking all around, I suppose? | Looking direct at the fort through opera glasses. |\n| | They could not all have looked through the opera glasses. Only one you mean? | Only one. |\n| | Which one? | I cannot say. |\n| | Did you see them looking all around, or only at the fort? | Only at the fort. |\n| | Were they looking over the harbour or anywhere else? | I did not see them. |\n| | What you call the field work is really open to everybody. There is no wall to pass, or gate, or door? | No, there is not. |\n\nGunner Morris Langan said - About eleven o'clock on Sunday morning a Sikh called my attention to three men. They were then on the hill side, which is part of the field works. One was looking through a pair of opera glasses. They afterwards went into the road.\n\n| Questioner | Question | Witness Response |\n| ----------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------- |\n| Mr. Deacon | What do you call a field work? Just describe it. | A field work is land used for British works... |\n| | ...and near this spot there is a pedestal for range finding. | |\n| | What is your recollection of the notices there? How many are there? | There are a good many all round. |\n\n## Enclosure\nGC35\nREG 20 MAR 93", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-271 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1896 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 361362, "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": "CO129-273 - Governor Sir Robinson & Others - 1896 [10-12]", "page_number": 222, "title": "CO129-273 - Governor Sir Robinson & Others - 1896 [10-12]", "content_text": "The \n\nBall \n\nMessrs. Jameson. We whether not Cadets are also candidates for the Inspectorship of Schools [ref deep on 24511] that the Governor on receipt \n\nAssuming Of bir despon \n\nany \n\nreasur \n\n23512 does not cer \n\nto modify \n\nhis recommendation, \n\nM. Brewin for that post, \n\nMusik, \n\nwe may \n\n?Approve his proposal to appoint \n\nW. Percumbe Smith to be Treasurer, \n\nM. Thomson \n\nI M. Brewin \n\n(when \n\nPostmaster General, \n\nInspector of Schools \n\n5. Eital retires); \n\nad \n\n? Add that he will presumably recommend W. Buckle, who has \n\nand that \n\nalready acted in the post of Asst. Col. Secretary, for that vac. \n\nas there is \n\napparently \n\nto \n\nvacancy; \n\n200 \n\nHongking \n\nthe remaining officer available for the rema vacancy of Aust Registrar General, it appears & the Lects of Stah desirable that it should be offered to some \n\nsees no objection Officer in the Thaits service, Vauthing Sie W. Rolinen, if he \n\nto multe ash bin (. Mitchall recommend some thaits officer for this post. \n\nSug2 Jan 1897 \n\nAsst. Harbou Zfice \n\nholds \n\n[Commander Hastings, Master, at $3000, which we wish to abolishen. \n\nCAL \n\nVacancy, \n\nbut I doubt if he would do for any of the above posts] \n\nI quite agree with the above but as \n\nSpectorship the Dr. Spector chip of Schools would \n\nreja ds \n\nask \n\nthe \n\ngavenn \n\nis work \n\nenough \n\nwhether he is quite satisfic that there??20 \n\nto take one man's Mineir suggesting \n\n& should apport \n\ntime \n\nfull \n\nthat; imen \n\noffertanity of, he should take leave to England and New gain acquaintance with the latest phases of \n\nschool examination. \n\nC.Pd. \n\n2. Jan \n\nM.H.J. Wilsda \n\nLook at these papus, please. in connexion with the \n\n• \n\nNames mentioned. I send on to hit Bramston \n\nI think the only doubtful point \n\nwith your \n\nrements. \n\nTo whe should be Inspector of Schools. I am \n\n• \n\npersonally \n\nstingly in favour ga cadet the Foranor strongly \n\nMr Bromsten \n\nrecommen.. one- \n\nM- Brewin \n\nC.P.Dr. Jan \n\nI has nothing today. \n\non this, as with all the persons named \n\nwainted \n\nI am unasy \n\nbut on general gronds \n\n50 \n\nI should have thought that possibly some one mightham bean finned more fitted than It Brewin for \n\nspecially technisat \n\n& fort Inspector of schools! I quiti aper bolts Mr Lucas \n\nCad \n\nShop \n\nas to the desirability of promoting endet on all ordinary occasions, but is it accepted that a \n\nis necessarily fitted to perform functions. as of every kind? No debt the foreina in strongly recommend Mr Brewin, but it is wident's contemplatio by but duces that he has something to learn, before he will be \n\nfully qualified for the port. \n\nKFW \n\n211197 \n\nто \n\nar a \n\nprinciple \n\n24371", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-273 - Governor Sir Robinson & Others - 1896 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 365669, "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": "CO129-281 - Governor Sir Robinson & Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [1-3]", "page_number": 4, "title": "CO129-281 - Governor Sir Robinson & Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [1-3]", "content_text": "Despatch \n\nNo \n\nDate \n\nGov. Sir W. Robinson KCMG \n\nHong Kong \n\n1898 Vol I Contents \n\nSubject \n\n690 \n\nfi \n\nTime Rectioning \n\n2 \n\n7 \n\n3 \n\n8 \n\nExtension of leave \n\nJ. D. Ball \n\nWife \n\nMaintenance of w \n\n+build \n\n4 \n\nto \n\nGratuities \n\nMemorial \n\nJ \n\n\" \n\nApplicatio \n\n1 \n\nCay \n\nTel. \n\nq \n\n11 \n\n12. \n\n$ \n\nTel \n\nmy \n\n12 \n\n14 \n\n18 \n\n# \n\nTel \n\n25 \n\n18 \n\n26 \n\n19 \n\n+1 \n\n20 \n\n↑. Warren1 \n\n1 \n\nNew Gourma \n\napplication of \n\nMis Nolan \n\nCheung Ho \n\nHP. Toother for promotion.. \n\nCommander Hastings for transfer. \n\nSpirens Divans \n\nNew Government offices. \n\nCapital Sentences \n\nExecution \n\nLearn to Miss G. Brookes. \n\nPlague \n\nCadets \n\nLean to \n\nM. J. 1.5. Lockhart \n\n& \n\n12 \n\nConf \n\n\" \n\n23 \n\n28 \n\n24 \n\n31 \n\n25 \n\n27 \n\ncay May Gene. W Black CB. \n\n28 \n\nT \n\nFeb. \n\n29 \n\n4 \n\n30 \n\nCouncil's farewell to Governor \n\nApplication of \n\nMr Justice wise for transfer \n\nMy S. Lockhart \n\nSanicis \n\nq Application of \n\nMr T Sercombe Smith for \n\nA \n\nReformatory \n\nPeusin \n\nMv \n\n9. \n\nD. Mushinnett \n\nPuisne \n\nJudgeship \n\nDisturbance in Philippine Islands \n\nAdmunistratia. \n\n4 Sevemment \n\nTreasury Balances \n\nCase \n\nJJ. \n\nWitchell", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-281 - Governor Sir Robinson & Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 365730, "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": "CO129-281 - Governor Sir Robinson & Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [1-3]", "page_number": 65, "title": "CO129-281 - Governor Sir Robinson & Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [1-3]", "content_text": "## \nrapid increase in the extent and virulence of the plague had disorganised all labour, and rendered it difficult for the Committee to get the dead removed from the hospitals and properly disposed of with the means at their disposal. You succeeded in at once introducing order and regularity into the service, and in effecting very considerable economies, and from that time forward the Committee were relieved from all troubles and under no anxiety as to the dead.\n\nThe Permanent Committee have further to thank you for undertaking, at their request, the general supervision of the men of the Royal Navy and others employed in the launches and at the fires along the Praya, established for the destruction of rubbish removed from the houses in the city.\n\nThe Permanent Committee are sending a copy of this letter to the Colonial Secretary for submission to His Excellency the Governor.\n\nI have, &c.,\n\n(Signed),\n\nJNO. J. FRANCIS, Chairman.\n\nCommander William C. H. Hastings, R.N., &c., &c., &c.\n\n## HONG KONG\n25th September, 1895\n\nDEAR SIR,-On behalf of the Plague Recognition Committee, we have great pleasure in asking you to accept the accompanying Medal as a slight token of the gratitude of the people of Hong Kong for the services rendered by you during the plague of 1894.\n\nDRAFT.\n\n## \nWe are,\nYours faithfully,\nA. COXON, Chairman,\nVICTOR H. DEACON,\nT. SERCOMBE SMITH,\nHonorary Secretaries.\n\nTo Honourable Captain Hastings, R.N.\n\nHONG KONG, January, 1895.\n\nTo Commander WILLIAM CHARLES HOLLAND HASTINGS, R.N.\n\nSIR,-At a Public Meeting, presided over by His Excellency Sir William Robinson, Governor of Hong Kong, held on the 27th September last, at the City Hall, it was unanimously resolved that the services rendered to the community during the recent visitation of plague by those who assisted in its repression were worthy of public recognition, and a large and influential Committee, representing all sections of our community, was appointed to give effect to that resolution.\n\nOn behalf, therefore, of that Committee, and in the name of the community, we beg to tender to you the community's deep and heartfelt thanks for the services which you rendered to the Colony in her hour of trial, by your constant presence in the stricken district whilst the plague was raging there, to superintend and carry out the arduous duties relating to the removal and interment of the dead, and by assisting the local authorities by every means in your power to arrest the fatal progress of the disease.\n\nWe have the honour to be, Sir,\n\nYour most obedient servants,\nEDW. J. ACKROYD, Chairman.\nVICTOR H. DEACON,\nT. SERCOMBE SMITH,\nSecretaries.\n\nDUBLIN: Printed by ALEX. THOM & Co. (Limited), 87, 88, & 82, Abbey street, The Queen's Printing Office.\n\n## \nI have the honour,\nto acknowledge the\nreceipt of your despatch\nNo. 9 of the 12th of January last, transmitting\nan\napplication for\ntransfer to Africa or\nelsewhere\nfrom\nCommand Hastings, Assistant Harbour...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-281 - Governor Sir Robinson & Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 366626, "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": "CO129-283 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [5-6]", "page_number": 35, "title": "CO129-283 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [5-6]", "content_text": "## add thr-Johnson's proposals \n\nae records salaries 717 \n\n[dan apaise there haft there papan then a ~ J. Lucas long time.] strongs in favour of Hastings for bommander the Police Mapstray. He is an older man than S. Sercombe Smith, has been longer in the Colonial Service, and is at present atrofaction filling the acting appointment & the at of all. \n\nHe has been repeatedly promised consituation when Mr. Soshen has finally retired. \n\n33 am inclined to think that we had better wait to table we the new appointments taritory before making there appocitmak. Othercise I quite agres with Mi Johnson.\n\nM Capt. Hastings Harbour master. Why should he be given came to be Assistant a magistincy in preference to a man who has entered the service by regular competition with a view to such forts & who have shown special aflitade for the work? But there must be an opening for Capt Hastings in connexion with the leased teritory of wait a while. See `16089` for p 2 comotion opportunit Di caurred.\n\nA high opinion of him & has written JLAKA. J $ mag be worndend cappon for promotion If the taking By tire new territory mean that another Police Magistrate will be required, it will be making In Sexcomb Smith wait. piti. his move little longer for Lord Ampthill M: Wingfield M. Wodehouse has not 16 4/7 yet.\n\nThere CPL I would 20 July 1920/7 that we shall not have to wait long? 424 no papers with the abuit Mr Wodehous. It is clear from the minutes that Mr Wodehouse has not returned and it is therefore unwise to decide upon a successor, but I think that det dercombe buck who has qualified himself for a legal appointment to be a legal afpointment by studying law and getting called to the Bar and has discharged with general salesfaction the Puise Just should be Megoried, te lupt Stasting, who thruste th an excellent officer, has no special Qualification for fullgar posts.\n\nI can barely think that a single Police Magistrate can suffice for a long time. A peater amittion wihabitants.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-283 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 366627, "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": "CO129-283 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [5-6]", "page_number": 36, "title": "CO129-283 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [5-6]", "content_text": "and I am convinced that under such circumstances \nthe duties must be performed in a more or \na rigorous regime perfunctorily \nhe probably should wait until the anxoviation of the need \nbut I fear that we are beset by organizing the Magistrical staff \nand firing \n\nThe \n\n# \n\nman \n\nthe salary \n\nMarch \n\nS \n\nValaries \n\n1 March stand ans \n\n1-4-20 \n\ndis 14 Blake has framed the post and car \nEw to pr \n5017 \n\n叻 \n\n\nNo. 134, \nsir, \n34 \n12708 \n\n**Government House, Hong-Kong, 6th May, 1898.**\n\n08:142 \nthe May 1898 Aprill, \nwith reference to my despatch No.108 of 7th ultimo, I have the honour to transmit for your consideration \napplications from Commander Hastings, R. N., Assistant Harbour \nMaster, and Mr. T. Sercombe Smith, Colonial Treasurer, for the \npost of Police Magistrate in anticipation of Mr. H. E. Wode- \nhouse's retirement on pension.\n\nCommander Hastings has been acting for Mr. Wodehouse as Police Magistrate since 26th February last; he is giving general satisfaction in the office; he is painstaking and industrious and has good sense which enables him to carry on the office almost free from appeals. In \ngiving this opinion I have consulted the Chief Justice, \nAttorney General and the Puisne Judge.\n\nMr. T. Sercombe Smith, the Colonial Treasurer \nand at present the Acting Colonial Secretary, is a man of considerable force of character and is above the average in \npoint of intelligence; the memorandum No.1 attached to his application shows you his antecedents and his qualifications for the office.\n\nThe Right Honourable \nJoseph Chamberlain M. P. \n&c. \n&c. \n&c.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-283 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 366628, "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": "CO129-283 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [5-6]", "page_number": 37, "title": "CO129-283 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [5-6]", "content_text": "## 26th April, 1898\n\nThe Chief Justice speaks in very high terms of his qualifications for judicial office, and I believe that neither he nor Commander Hastings would find any difficulty in doing the work of Police Magistrate single-handed.\n\nI think it only right to mention that both the Chief Justice and the Attorney General are of opinion that the work here requires 2 (two) Police Magistrates to perform it and are both strongly in favour of the appointment of a second Magistrate to avoid delay and give the Magistrates time to mature their decisions, and in this trying climate to admit of sometimes one being absent.\n\nIn case Mr. T. Sercombe Smith be chosen for the appointment of Police Magistrate, I forward an application from Mr. A. M. Thomson, Postmaster General, to be appointed to the office of Colonial Treasurer. As he is a clear-headed, clever man of business and has had already considerable experience in the office of Colonial Treasurer in which he is now acting, I recommend him for this appointment if it becomes vacant.\n\nI also forward applications from Mr. A. W. Irwin, Inspector of Schools, and Mr. A. Chapman, Assessor, for the post of Postmaster General in case it should become vacant by the transfer of Mr. A. M. Thomson to the Colonial Treasury.\n\nI can speak less from personal knowledge of these two gentlemen and therefore refer you to their records rather than give an opinion which would be without value.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-283 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 366635, "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": "CO129-283 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [5-6]", "page_number": 44, "title": "CO129-283 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [5-6]", "content_text": "## Letter \n\nThe Permanent Committee have to express their warmest thanks to you for the very able manner in which you carried out the duties entrusted to you during the recent outbreak of plague in Hong Kong. The rapid increase in the extent and virulence of the plague had disorganised all labour, and rendered it difficult for the Committee to get the dead removed from the hospitals and properly disposed of with the means at their disposal. You succeeded in at once introducing order and regularity into the service, and in effecting very considerable economies, and from that time forward the Committee were relieved from all troubles and under no anxiety as to the dead.\n\nThe Permanent Committee have further to thank you for undertaking, at their request, the general supervision of the men of the Royal Navy and others employed in the launches and at the fires along the Praya, established for the destruction of rubbish removed from the houses in the city.\n\nThe Permanent Committee are sending a copy of this letter to the Colonial Secretary for submission to His Excellency the Governor.\n\nI have, &c., \n**(Signed)** \nJNO. J. FRANCIS, Chairman. \nCommander William C. H. Hastings, R.N., &c., &c., &c.\n\nHONG KONG\n\n## Enclosure 2 \n\nHong Kong, \n41 \n12703 \nColonial Secretary's Office. \n2nd May, 1898. \n26 \n\nDear Sir,—On behalf of the Plague Recognition Committee, we have great pleasure in asking you to accept the accompanying Medal as a slight token of the gratitude of the people of Hong Kong for the services rendered by you during the plague of 1894.\n\nWe are, \nYours faithfully, \nA. COXON, Chairman, \nVICTOR H. DEACON, \nT. SERCOMBE SMITH, \nSecretaries. Honorary \n\nTo Honourable Captain Hastings, R.N.\n\n## Letter \n\nI have the honour to ask Your Excellency to recommend me to the Right Honourable the Secretary of State for the Colonies for appointment as Police Magistrate in the event of that office being vacated by the retirement of Mr. H. E. Wodehouse, C.M.G., on pension.\n\nHONG KONG, January, 1895.\n\n2. I enclose two memoranda, the one containing a statement of my services, the other dealing with the question of the salary of the post.\n\nTo Commander WILLIAM CHARLES HOLLAND HASTINGS, R.N.\n\nSIR--At a Public Meeting, presided over by His Excellency Sir William Robinson, Governor of Hong Kong, held on the 27th September last, at the City Hall, it was unanimously resolved that the services rendered to the community during the recent visitation of plague by those who assisted in its repression were worthy of public recognition, and a large and influential Committee, representing all sections of our community, was appointed to give effect to that resolution.\n\nOn behalf, therefore, of that Committee, and in the name of the community, we beg to tender to you the community's deep and heartfelt thanks for the services which you rendered to the Colony in her hour of trial, by your constant presence in the stricken district whilst the plague was raging there, to superintend and carry out the arduous duties relating to the removal and interment of the dead, and by assisting the local authorities by every means in your power to arrest the fatal progress of the disease.\n\nWe have the honour to be, Sir, \nYour most obedient servants, \nEDW. J. ACKROYD, Chairman. \nVICTOR H. DEACON, \nT. SERCOMBE SMITH, \nSecretaries.\n\nDUBLIN: Printed by ALEX. THOM & CO. (Limited), 87, 88, & 89, Abbey Street, \nThe Queen's Printing Office.\n\nI have the honour to be, \nSir, \nYour Excellency's most obedient Servant, \nDercomb's la[u]rett \nOfficer Administering the Government.\n\nHis Excellency ...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-283 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 367767, "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": "CO129-285 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [9-10]", "page_number": 176, "title": "CO129-285 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [9-10]", "content_text": "# \nI agree personally at the election of Smith for the post.\n\nMr Lercourt.\n\nMr Thomson's promotion must depend on the manner in which he has discharged his duties, which prevents officers from doing some work.\n\nThe point for your decision is whether the appointment of another Police Magistrate is to be submitted to Mr. Sercombe Smith.\n\nYou may also think it convenient to decide now whether, in the event of Commander Harting being appointed, it would avoid having the papers before you again.\n\nM. I. Smith's affair and decision by Withing & for Commander Stetting's promotion.\n\nI think (C. Horkys) his claims have not been put together properly.\n\nFrom Mr Wodehouse.\n\n| Name | Salary Range |\n| --- | --- |\n| Hati Darba | $6000-$1200 |\n| Lice Necuali altadel | $4800, $5760 & quarters, $6300 |\n| Her Thomson | $4440 |\n| Mr. Brewin or Commander Hardrings | $4200-$5400 |\n| Ir Wright | |\n| Mr Lockhart | $4200-$5400 |\n| Mar Sercombe. Semitte | |\n| Mr May | |\n| Head of Virloin Coll: Mr hirolle | $4200-$5400 |\n| Mr Messer | $2400 - $3600 |\n| Mur Buckle | $2400 - $3600 |\n| he. Dyer Ball | |\n| Mr Northcolan | |\n| Diputy I of Police Me Gadeley | |\n\nSeen & 22/12\n\nPage 1270 B \n\n31/12 \n\n07 \n\n225011 \n\n$5760&quarters \n\n6300 \n\nho change \n\nK \n\n171", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-285 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [9-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 369183, "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": "CO129-287 - Public Offices & Others - 1898", "page_number": 359, "title": "CO129-287 - Public Offices & Others - 1898", "content_text": "# DOMESTIC\n\nSir,\n\n## Inclosure 2 in No. 1\n\n**Commander Smith-Dorrien to the Commodore at Hong Kong**\n\nWuchow, July 14, 1898.\n\nI HAVE the honour to report that I arrived here on the 13th July, and beg to forward the following facts which I have gathered from Her Majesty's Consul at this port (Mr. Hosie) as to the rebellion which has taken place in the Kwangsi Province :-\n\n1. On the 28th June the city of Yung Hsien, situated 70 miles south-west of Wuchow, fell into the hands of rebels, and was sacked. Next day the large market town of Tung Hsu and district city of Peilin was taken and departmental city of Yulin. These cities are situated in the richest agricultural area of Kwangsi. The origin of the outbreak is attributed to scarcity caused by the export of rice, for which these districts are famous.\n\nThe rapidity with which city after city has fallen gives rise to the belief that it is more than a local riot. The number of the rebels are here estimated as from 10,000 to 20,000, though this number is probably exaggerated. It is anticipated that they will march westward to Nanning, or else northward in direction of Kuilin.\n\n2. The following Chinese troops have been sent to the front:-- \n| Location | Number of Troops |\n| --- | --- |\n| Koachow | 2,000 |\n| Canton | 1,000 |\n| Kuilin | 200 |\n\n3. Wuchow is protected by 200 Chinese soldiers, mostly unarmed. Hundreds of volunteers have been enrolled, and these men, armed with lamps, horns, whistles, and a few old rifles, assemble every evening and patrol the streets. Such a sight is almost incredible. The city wall is being repaired. On the 7th July some headless bodies were seen floating down the river, six of them being picked up here and buried. Much panic has existed in Wuchow, and hundreds of Chinese have left for Canton. There is a small guard of soldiers on top of a hill on the look-out for the rebels advancing, though the chief fear of the authorities here is a rising amongst the rowdies of the town, which might take place in case of rebel successes.\n\n4. I am given to understand that the arrival of Her Majesty's ship \"Tweed\" has greatly calmed the minds of the people. I propose remaining here for the present till authentic news comes from the area of disturbance.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed) A. H. SMITH-DORRIEN.\n\nP.S.-The following news has just been received: Hsing Yeh was captured by the rebels on the 9th July. Siege of Yulin has been raised. Kiu, on the left bank of the West River, is threatened. 1,000 troops have moved forward to defend Kiu. 1,000 troops have occupied districts of Yung Hsien and Ting Hsu. District city of Peilin has been retaken. Rebellion has been instigated by Secret Society called the Triads. It is reported that Pinglo and Yungan are disaffected, and that they are preparing to join the rebels. One headless corpse floated past the ship this afternoon, 6 P.M., 14th July.\n\nA. H. S.-D.\n\nPage 350\n\n## Confidential Paper\n\n| Reference | Date |\n| --- | --- |\n| `10570` | 15 SEP JB |\n| `20576` | 898 |\n| | 13.9.98, 12/9, 12.19, -10-12-07 |\n\n**Subject:** Portuguese Entres...\n\n(Minutes.)\n\n...reportery general opinis...\n\nMr Lucas\n\nThe Lisbon press have accepted ...excention with good grace.\n\n...to be said...\n\n2. 6. M. Palk\n\nC.Pd.\n\natonce accepted Ozons's \"There is no more...\"", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-287 - Public Offices & Others - 1898.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 369427, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-288 - Public Offices & Others - 1898", "page_number": 15, "title": "CO129-288 - Public Offices & Others - 1898", "content_text": "# THE BATTLE OF SULPHUR CHANNEL.\n\n10 -\n\nthe attack he was about to make with Commodore Dolland had been in constant communication with the General, who now expected a diversion by the Navy, and as no other attacks had been developed, prepared to take the offensive and assault with all his reserves.\n\nAs a fact, the fast Russian steamer Harbarovsk, of 905 tons, Capt. Kitaeff, with 750 men of the Nerchitinsk regiment aboard, accompanied by the Torpedo Destroyers Borgo and Revel, under Lt.-Commanders Ptachimoskey and Troyaa, had, passing well to the Westward of the Little Ladrones, suddenly appeared off the Chinese Customs Station at Chung Chow in the Macao Passage.\n\nThe Commodore was playing whist aboard the Victor Emanuel at 11.10 p.m., when Mackie's letter was delivered to him. De Horsey of the Plover, his own Commander (Naylor) and Barlyou Cellairs, his torpedo lieutenant, were of the party. The Wivern had only the week before had her half-yearly commission and cruise, so she was coaled, but her provisions and ammunition had been returned into store.\n\nLanding a hundred and fifty soldiers, they took possession of the Station and seized the two armed Customs launches, the Chop Sing and Hai Kwan. The Chop Sing was sent to cruise off Green Island, where, even if she had been observed, she would be recognized as a Customs launch and would excite no suspicion—it being the usual cruising ground for watching for opium smugglers from the Colony.\n\nNaylor and his ship's company were at once sent off to the Wivern, off the Torpedo Depot, to get up steam, and seamen and stokers from the Plover sent to man the Tweed. Lt. Flumer was sent down to the town to get hold of any large launches that had steam up (fires being out in the Dockyard boats) to tow the Wivern and Tweed across to the Man-of-War anchorage to facilitate putting their ammunition on board. Brice-Prowne, the Lieutenant of Marines, was ordered to parade his men and proceed to the scene of action. The Plover's Marines were to join his party. Cellairs and his two torpedo gunners (Smith and Tanyard), as well as the Gunner of the Victor (Larka), proceeded to the Torpedo Depot.\n\nProceeding with all despatch, the Harbarovsk and two Destroyers, going North of Lantao, stopped at 9.30 p.m. off Cap-sui-moon. That station was also seized and held, with two hundred men; the two armed launches Kose Shui and Fun Say being taken possession of. Pushing on to Chin Wan Bay, the Destroyers ran alongside and captured the Feihoo, Chinese Revenue Cruiser, whilst the Harbarovsk went in as close as the water allowed, and with the aid of native boats quickly landed 300 men to cut the land lines and patrol the short strip to Tolo Harbour.\n\nHaving dropped her men, the Harbarovsk, accompanied by the Feihoo, the Revel, and Kow Shui, proceeded for Green Island about midnight, sweeping well round to the Westward. The Fan Son was left at Cap-sui-moon to bring to everything that passed. The crews of all the junks, boats, etc., there being landed on the island, the vessels were scuttled. The Borgo, as soon as the Feihoo had been seized, proceeded just full speed up the River, and about 15 miles above Deep Bay ran alongside the Fatshan (Capt. Dick) and Powan (Capt. Goggin) and captured them.\n\n11 -\n\nLeaving prize crews on board, the Pasig and Tai On were similarly seized, about two miles farther up. Leaving her prizes with orders to follow as fast as they could, the Borgo returned at her utmost speed to rejoin her consorts at the rendezvous off Green Island.\n\nA third Destroyer, the Soeaborg (Lt.-Comr. Chriptovitch), had accompanied the large troopers, keeping about a mile to the eastward, and so had not been seen and reported by Meugena and Hazeland. This vessel had seized the armed Custom's launch Kaipan Lu off Stanley, and with her had remained patrolling the mouth of Deep Water Bay to cover the troopers. Each transport had moreover carried two second-class torpedo boats, which had been hoisted out before a troop-boat was lowered.\n\nMajor Findley, R.E., as soon as he had sent arms and ammunition up by tram for the Engineers at Mount Austin, betook himself to his station in the West, and as soon as steam could be raised in the Solent, with Tundall and Standardman, and several passenger launches, was busy laying mines. Mugent, Johnson, and Rabber, with the Miner, and other launches, had gone to their stations at Lyeemun and Stonecutters, and were similarly employed.\n\nThe Harbour was ablaze with lights. Steam had been got up for the dynamos, and the search-lights were playing in all directions. The merchant ships were all getting up steam; before, however, they could move, Lieut.-Commdr. De Horsey, and Sub-Lt. Dayley, with a first sufficient force, were sent round all the foreign vessels by the Commodore's orders to disable their engines by taking off their eccentric straps. The sailing ships had neither crews on board nor sails bent.\n\nIt not being known yet what nation or nations were making this treacherous attack on us, the Commodore swore all should suffer alike. British vessels, under the directions of the Queen's Harbour Master Staff Commander Jones, and the Master Attendant of the Yard (Commander Harnot Enderson), were being moored in tiers in Wanchai, as close in as the depth of water would allow. Nine German, one Swede, and two Chinese, three Japanese, and two Norwegian steamers were left at their moorings. Neither Frenchmen nor Danes were in the port. The native craft were making over to Sam Shui Po as fast as they could.\n\nNo launches were allowed to leave, all being requisitioned for Naval and Military use. Naylor was ready to start by 2 a.m. in the Wivern, with Flumer in the Tweed, Cellairs in a launch, with two second-class torpedo boats broad on each bow, about a quarter of a mile off and a cable apart.\n\nThe Feihoo lay with a kedge down about a mile S.S.W. covered by Green Island from Stonecutters, with the Borgo on her starboard, and Revel on her port quarter well aft and almost astern, and two second-class torpedo boats at anchor as close as they could get to the rocks under Mount Davis, just round S. and E. of the range-finding staff.\n\n14 -", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-288 - Public Offices & Others - 1898.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 370881, "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": "CO129-290 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [1-4]", "page_number": 482, "title": "CO129-290 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [1-4]", "content_text": "Take no\n\nAlem for\n\nPrinters\n\n472\n\nThe Chinese\n\nof her mission, Commander Kelby showed great presence of mind\n\nunder very difficult circumstances.\n\nThe \"Whiting\" reached Tolo Harbour at 9 a.m.\n\nand anchored at a distance of a little more than 2 miles from\n\nthe point where the matsheds were situated.\n\nThe party had disembarked at 9.45 a.m. and marched\n\ned at once along the north shore of Tolo Harbour for Tai\n\nPo Hu which was about 4 miles distant and which was reached\n\nat 10.45 a.m.\n\nOn seeing our approach many of the villagers\n\ntook refuge in the hills, but some of the elders of the village\n\nand the custodian of the Temple in the village were brought\n\nto the Temple and questioned. Their names are as follows:-\n\nPang Ah Fung (彭亞風) of Lung Kong (龍江)\n\nTsu Fuk (徐福) of Kam Kau Lek (金狗瀝)\n\nCheung Ng (張五) of Tung Kun,\n\nLeung Nam (梁南) of the Wing Shing shop (永盛號)\n\nin Tai Po Hu.\n\nChung Ah Shing (鐘亞成) of the I Hop (怡合) shop\n\nin Tai Po Hu.\n\nChan Fuk (陳彩記) of the Cheung Shu Tau Village (茶坑林村)\n\nLo Kim Lau (盧儉) of the Kwai Shin District black-\n\nsmith in Tai Po Hu.\n\nChan Tsoi Ki's son of the Pau Chung Village (碗窰船湾)\n\nHo Luk (何六) of the Shek Ku Ling Village (石古領村)\n\nIt was ascertained from Chung Ah Shing that the\n\nvillages of Tsa Hang, Lan Tsun, Un Iu Shun Wan, Cheung Shu Tan,\n\nPay Chung", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-290 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 379619, "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": "CO129-303 - Public Offices & Others - 1900", "page_number": 572, "title": "CO129-303 - Public Offices & Others - 1900", "content_text": "## Letters of Appreciation for Commander William Charles Holland Hastings, R.N.\n\n### Letter 1: From the Permanent Committee of the Plague Committee\n\nThe rapid increase in the extent and virulence of the plague had disorganised all labour, and rendered it difficult for the Committee to get the dead removed from the hospitals and properly disposed of with the means at their disposal. You succeeded in at once introducing order and regularity into the service, and in effecting very considerable economies, and from that time forward the Committee were relieved from all troubles and under no anxiety as to the dead.\n\nThe Permanent Committee have further to thank you for undertaking, at their request, the general supervision of the men of the Royal Navy and others employed in the launches and at the fires along the Praya, established for the destruction of rubbish removed from the houses in the city.\n\nThe Permanent Committee are sending a copy of this letter to the Colonial Secretary for submission to His Excellency the Governor.\n\nI have, &c., \n(Signed), \n**JNO. J. FRANCIS**, Chairman, \nCommander William C. H. Hastings, R.N., &c., &c., &c.\n\nHONG KONG \n25th September, 1895.\n\n### Letter 2: From the Plague Recognition Committee\n\nDEAR SIR--On behalf of the Plague Recognition Committee, we have great pleasure in asking you to accept the accompanying Medal as a slight token of the gratitude of the people of Hong Kong for the services rendered by you during the plague of 1894.\n\nWe are, \nYours faithfully, \n**A. COXON**, Chairman. \n**VICTOR H. DEACON**, \n**T. SERCOMBE SMITH**, Secretaries.\n\nTo Honourable Captain Hastings, R.N.\n\n### Letter 3: From a Public Meeting\n\nHONG KONG, January, 1895.\n\nTo Commander WILLIAM CHARLES HOLLAND HASTINGS, R.N.\n\nSIR--At a Public Meeting, presided over by His Excellency Sir William Robinson, Governor of Hong Kong, held on the 27th September last, at the City Hall, it was unanimously resolved that the services rendered to the community during the recent visitation of plague by those who assisted in its repression were worthy of public recognition, and a large and influential Committee, representing all sections of our community, was appointed to give effect to that resolution.\n\nOn behalf, therefore, of that Committee, and in the name of the community, we beg to tender to you the community's deep and heartfelt thanks for the services which you rendered to the Colony in her hour of trial, by your constant presence in the stricken district whilst the plague was raging there, to superintend and carry out the arduous duties relating to the removal and interment of the dead, and by assisting the local authorities by every means in your power to arrest the fatal progress of the disease.\n\nWe have the honour to be, Sir, \nYour most obedient servants, \n**EDW. J. ACKROYD**, Chairman. \n**VICTOR H. DEACON**, \n**T. SERCOMBE SMITH**, Secretaries.\n\nDUBLIN: Printed by **ALEX. THOM & Co. (Limited)**, 87, 88, & 89, Abbey-street, The Queen's Printing Office.\n\n### Letter 4: Porthminster Hotel Correspondence\n\nPorthminster Hotel, \nSt. Ives, Cornwall. \n1 Nov. 1900\n\nMy dear Marsh,\n\nWill you kindly read over the enclosed and let Johnson and Ommanney see it. Capt Hastings is a good officer but there are others who would come before him for St Vincent.\n\nYours sincerely, \n**C.P. Lucas**\n\n### Porthminster Hotel Advertisement\n\n**PORTHMINSTER**, \nST. IVES, CORNWALL. \nNATIONAL TELEPHONE. \nNo. 8.\n\nBOATING, \nGOLF. \nMANAGERESS: \nMiss A. MULLARD. \nSEA FISHING, \nBILLIARDS.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-303 - Public Offices & Others - 1900.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 381034, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7]", "page_number": 562, "title": "CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7]", "content_text": "ENCLOSURE 3.\n\n557\n\nC.O.\n\n20147\n\nColonial Secretary's Office.\n\nHongkong, 18th June, 1901.\n\n10 AUG 1901\n\nWith reference to your letter of the 2nd ultimo, relative to the suggested transfer of Naval Establishments at Hongkong from their present position to Kowloon, I am directed by His Excellency the Governor to transmit for your consideration the enclosed copy of a report which Commodore Powell has made on that subject to the Commander-in-Chief, covering a report of Mr. Ordish, Superintending Civil Engineer.\n\nHis Excellency will be glad to have the benefit of your observations on both these reports.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour most obedient servant,\n\n(sd.) P. Sercombe Smith.\n\nActing Colonial Secretary.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 383893, "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": "CO129-309 - Public Offices & Others - 1901", "page_number": 429, "title": "CO129-309 - Public Offices & Others - 1901", "content_text": "G\n\nrapid increase in the extent and virulence of the plague had disorganised all labour, and rendered it difficult for the Committee to get the dead removed from the hospitals and properly disposed of with the means at their disposal. You succeeded in at once introducing order and regularity into the service, and in effecting very considerable economies, and from that time forward the Committee were relieved from all troubles and under no anxiety as to the dead.\n\nThe Permanent Committee have further to thank you for undertaking, at their request, the general supervision of the men of the Royal Navy and others employed in the launches and at the fires along the Praya, established for the destruction of rubbish removed from the houses in the city.\n\nThe Permanent Committee are sending a copy of this letter to the Colonial Secretary for submission to His Excellency the Governor.\n\nI have, &c.,\n\n(Signed),\n\nJNO. J. FRANCIS, Chairman,\n\nCommander William C. H. Hastings, R.N., &c., &c., &c.\n\nHONG KONG\n\n25th September, 1895.\n\nDEAR SIR,--On behalf of the Plague Recognition Committee, we have great pleasure in asking you to accept the accompanying Medal as a slight token of the gratitude of the people of Hong Kong for the services rendered by you during the plague of 1894.\n\nWe are,\n\nYours faithfully,\n\nA. COXON, Chairman.\n\nVICTOR II, DEACON,\n\nT. SERCOMBE SMITH, § Secretaries.\n\nTo Honourable Captain Hastings, R.N.\n\n \n Honorary\n \n\nHONG KONG, January, 1895.\n\nTo Commander WILLIAM CHARLES HOLLAND HASTINGS, R.N.\n\nSIR--At a Public Meeting, presided over by His Excellency Sir William Robinson, Governor of Hong Kong, held on the 27th September last, at the City Hall, it was unanimously resolved that the services rendered to the community during the recent visitation of plague by those who assisted in its repression were worthy of public recognition, and a large and influential Committee, representing all sections of our community, was appointed to give effect to that resolution.\n\nOn behalf, therefore, of that Committee, and in the name of the community, we beg to tender to you the community's deep and heartfelt thanks for the services which you rendered to the Colony in her hour of trial, by your constant presence in the stricken district whilst the plague was raging there, to superintend and carry out the arduous duties relating to the removal and interment of the dead, and by assisting the local authorities by every means in your power to arrest the fatal progress of the disease.\n\nWe have the honour to be, Sir,\n\nYour most obedient servants,\n\nEDW. J. ACKROYD, Chairman.\n\nVICTOR H. DEACON,\n\nT. SERCOMBE SMITH,\n\nSecretaries.\n\n426\n\nJUNIOR UNITED SERVICE CLUB\n\nLONDON, S.W.\n\n10/5/01\n\nDear Mr Luers\n\nHerewith I take the liberty to enclose copy of my letter offering ... port in S. Africa before ... in Cox. It should not come to you officially.\n\nThe difference between full pay and pension pay shown is due to the former being calculated at 4%, the latter at 3 1/8.\n\nYou are good enough to ... on the 19th ...\n\nDUBLIN: Printed by ALEX. THOM & Co. (Limited), 87, 88, & 84, Abbey-street, The Queen's Printing Office.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-309 - Public Offices & Others - 1901.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 384458, "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": "CO129-310 - Acting Governor Major Gen Gascoigne - 1902 [1-4]", "page_number": 335, "title": "CO129-310 - Acting Governor Major Gen Gascoigne - 1902 [1-4]", "content_text": "No.1234:\n\nSir,\n\nEnclosure No. 2 to Despatch No. 97 of the 12th March, 1903.\n\n331\n\nCommander-in-Chief, China Station, 21st February, 1903.\n\nIn reply to your letter No. 313 of 15th instant as to the firing of salutes on Sunday, I am directed by the Vice-Admiral Commander-in-Chief to say that the Senior Naval Officer present has no authority over Foreign ships of war in the waters of Hongkong and that it would be contrary to well-established international procedure for a Naval Officer to make representations to Foreign Navies as to their methods of carrying out ceremonial observances.\n\nI am to add that the Vice-Admiral fully concurs with His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government as to paragraph 2 of your letter, and believes that the only way of ensuring the discontinuance of saluting during the time mentioned is by making a Harbour Regulation to that effect, observing that such Regulation if made would probably have to be promulgated amongst Foreign maritime nations by diplomatic means.\n\nI have etc.,\n\nE. Harrison Smith,\n\nSecretary to the Commander-in-Chief.\n\nHonourable\n\nThe Colonial Secretary,\n\nHongkong.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-310 - Acting Governor Major Gen Gascoigne - 1902 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 388157, "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": "CO129-316 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [1-4]", "page_number": 333, "title": "CO129-316 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [1-4]", "content_text": "317 \n\n## Part IV. \n\n**RIGHTS OF BUILDING AND ADJOINING OWNERS**\n\nSections 236 to 250 define the rights, privileges and liabilities of adjoining owners in regard to footings, party walls and other party structures, and are taken bodily from Part VIII of the London Building Act, 1894, (57 and 58 Vic., Cap. CCXIII.)\n\n## Part V. \n\n**ARBITRATION**\n\nSections 251 to 254 prescribe the manner in which the amount of compensation payable by the Crown for loss incurred under this Ordinance shall be arrived at—the principle recognized being that of arbitration with an appeal to a Judge in Chambers.\n\n## Part VI. \n\n**CONTRAVENTIONS AND PENALTIES**\n\n## Part VII. \n\n**MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS**\n\nAppeals to Governor in Council, Application of Ordinance and Preservation of existing rights.\n\n## SCHEDULE A. \n**Enactments repealed**\n\n## SCHEDULE B. \n**Bye-laws**\n\nCommon Lodging-houses, Offensive trade premises, and Opium Divans are required to be lime-washed quarterly instead of half-yearly.\n\nDrains passing under a building shall be of cast iron coated inside with Dr. ANGUS SMITH's patent composition or other material approved of by the Board. All openings in walls for the discharge of drainage shall be protected by fixed gratings.\n\nMarket stalls are required to be cleansed twice daily instead of once.\n\nThe Regulations made under the Rats Ordinance have been incorporated in this Schedule.\n\nFebruary 16th, 1903.\n\n## SCHEDULES C-L. \n**Rules and Regulations**\n\nFRANCIS W. CLARK, \nMedical Officer of Health.\n\n6 \n\nEnclosure 4 to Despatch No. 116 of 325, the 10th March, 1903.\n\nTo His EXCELLENCY, \nMAJOR GENERAL SIR WILLIAM JULIUS GASCOIGNE, K.C.M.G., Officer Administering the Government of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies, Commander-in-chief and Vice-Admiral of the same.\n\nThe Humble Petition of the Chinese Community of Hongkong.\n\n**RESPECTFULLY SHEWETH**\n\n1. That your Petitioners are Chinese Merchants, members of professions, traders, mechanics, artisans, labourers and others constituting the Chinese Community of the Colony of Hongkong.\n\n2. That your Petitioners (who constitute the vast majority of the Colonists of Hongkong and upon whose efforts the success of the Colony largely depends) have for years past carried on peacefully their various vocations and trades in this Colony, and have long enjoyed the puissant protection of the British Flag and lived under the equitable dispensation of British law and justice.\n\n3. That relying confidently upon fair and impartial legislation in this British Colony as well as upon an equal administration of its law and equity, a large number of your Petitioners have invested their earnings and wealth in the landed property within its jurisdiction, while many of their compatriots in the mainland opposite, inspired by the same confidence and reliance, have laid out much of their capital in the purchase of its houses and tenements.\n\n4. That on the 7th day of July, 1902, a Bill entitled \"An Ordinance to consolidate and amend the Laws relating to Public Health and to Buildings\" was read a first time in the Legislative Council of this Colony, which Bill contains some two hundred and seventy-six sections, and either wholly or partially repeals no less than twenty-four previous enactments, but although it affects very materially the interests of the Chinese, no translation of it into the Chinese language has yet been made.\n\n5. That besides seeking to consolidate the existing laws relating to Public Health and Buildings, the Bill purports to have for its principal object the further improvement of the general sanitation of this Colony, in the endeavour to effect which latter purpose many drastic and altogether unprecedented and unwarranted clauses have been introduced, which if passed into law, would not only entail great and serious loss and sacrifice, but would leave the individuals suffering the same without reasonable and adequate compensation.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-316 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 390377, "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": "CO129-319 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [10-11]", "page_number": 652, "title": "CO129-319 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [10-11]", "content_text": "## 57\n\n**Commander-in-Chief. China Station.**\n\n**23rd March 1903.**\n\n645\n\nSir,\n\nWith reference to report made yesterday as to a case of assault by Police Constable 45 on a Chinaman by Vice Admiral Sir Cyprian Bridge, I am directed by the Vice Admiral to say that he will not be able to attend an investigation of the case at the Police Station this forenoon as he desires to obtain legal assistance for the prosecution of the constable, but that you shall receive a further communication on the subject as soon as possible.\n\nI am,\nSir, your obedient servant,\nsd J. Harrison Smith.\n\n(Bd.)7.\n\n**Secretary to the Commander in Chief.**\n\n## Notes on back of letter.\n\n* Brought before me today and remanded. 23.3\n* Brought up again and remanded in Looker's presence 24.3\n* I have not asked the Admiral to attend. J.L.\n* 12.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-319 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [10-11].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 390541, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-320 - Governor Sir Blake Acting Governor May - 1903 [11-12]", "page_number": 94, "title": "CO129-320 - Governor Sir Blake Acting Governor May - 1903 [11-12]", "content_text": "# Extract from Hong Kong Daily Press\n\n## THE DEPARTURE OF SIR HENRY BLAKE\n\n### HONGKONG'S FAREWELL\n\nAfter five years of administration of the government of Hongkong, His Excellency Sir Henry A. Blake, G.C.M.G., departed on Saturday to take up the Governorship of Ceylon. The farewell greeting that he got from the community of the Colony was such as to leave a lasting memory in His Excellency's mind of the feelings of respect and affection with which he is regarded by the people of this Colony. Unfortunately, the weather was not auspicious, for it rained steadily all day long and the streets were ankle-deep in mud. Sir Henry Blake was accompanied by Lady Blake and Sir John Keane, A.L.C. The party left Government House shortly after eleven o'clock, in chairs, and proceeded to the City Hall where a large assembly of the citizens had met to present His Excellency with a farewell address. Afterwards, they proceeded to Blake Pier and went by launch out to the P. & O. s.s. Malta by which they are to journey to Ceylon.\n\n### ADDRESS AT THE CITY HALL\n\nFor the occasion, St. Andrew's Hall had been decorated with palm, ferns, and flowers under the superintendence of Mr. W. J. Tutcher of the Botanical and Afforestation Department. A raised platform was placed at the upper end. The Governor's party rode from Government House to the hall by way of Albert Road, past the Government offices into and down Garden Road, and across Queen's Road. The route was lined by the Indian soldiers of the 110th Mahrattas and 93rd Burmas. On arrival at the hall, His Excellency, accompanied by Lady Blake and Sir John Keane, took up his central position on the dais, the assembly standing up meanwhile. When seats had been resumed, His Honour the Chief Justice, Sir William Goodman, wearing his robes, entered by the side door, accompanied by the unofficial members of the Legislative Council and the committee of the Chamber of Commerce as follows: Sir Paul Chater, Hon. Gershom Stewart, Hon. C. W. Dickson, Hon. Dr. Ho Kai, Hon. Wei Yuk, Messrs. E. A. Hewett, D. R. Law, N. A. Siebs, A. G. Wood, J. R. M. Smith. Among others present in the hall were the Puisne Judge (Mr. A. G. Wise), the Colonial Secretary (Hon. F. H. May, C.M.G.), Hon. L. A. M. Johnston (Acting Colonial Treasurer), Hon. Sir H. S. Berkeley (Attorney-General), Hon. W. Chatham (Director of Public Works), Hon. Basil Taylor (Harbour Master), Hon. A. W. Brewin (Registrar-General), Dr. J. M. Atkinson, Colonel L. F. Brown, Colonel Birdwood, Colonel Wylly, Major Dopping Hepenstall, Messrs. C. A. Tomes, H. W. Looker, H. P. Tooker, A. Ramjohn, M. S. Northcote, H. N. Mody, A. G. Romano, Consul-General for Portugal; T. Liebert, Consul for France; E. Hamman, Consul for Belgium; L. Volpicelli, Consul-General for Italy; E. Mnelle, Consul for Peru, C. Clementi, H. W. Slade, E. H. Sharp, K.C., B. Layton, J. Hastings, H. J. Gedge, K. F. Johnston, Major Radcliff, M. W. Slade, E. A. Hewett, P. W. Sergeant, B. James, Bishop Piazzoli, Rev. Father Beaublat, Procureur des Missions Etrangères; Rev. Fathers Spada, de Maria, and Gabardi, Messrs. Ho Tang, Ho Fook, Ho Kom Tong, Chan Siu Ki, Yong Won Chang, Leung Pia Chi, Taung Shi Kai, Wong Kom Fuk, Lo Koon Ting, Fung Wa Chun, Lo Cheung Shiu, Lam Chi Fung, Chun Law Hung, and Ian Chu Pak; and a good proportion of ladies.\n\nAs the deputation entered the hall, the whole assembly rose to their feet.\n\nSir William Goodman then addressed His Excellency as follows: - Your Excellency,--- We have met here this morning to present to your Excellency an address from the people of this Colony expressing, now that you are about to leave us, their appreciation of your work here as Governor and their hearty good wishes for your success and well-being in the future. I feel it a great honour to have been specially asked to act on this occasion for those who have signed that address, representing, as they do, not only the British residents but also the various nationalities which go to make up the general community of Hongkong;\n\nof 254 November 1987. 5727 \nand in their name, I will ask your Excellency's permission to read that address and then to add a few words by way of personal expression.\n\nSir William then read the following address: -\n\n**To His Excellency Sir Henry Arthur Blake, G.C.M.G., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies and Vice-Admiral of the same.**\n\nYour Excellency, - We, the undersigned residents of Hongkong, on the eve of your departure to take up the important post His Majesty has been graciously pleased to confer upon you, desire to express our appreciation of the valuable services rendered to this Colony during your Excellency's term of office here. The administration of a Crown Colony at a distance of more than ten thousand miles from the mother country cannot, even in ordinary times, prove an easy task. We realise that the difficulties attendant upon a peaceful and successful government of this Colony were increased during the earlier period of your Excellency's tenure of office by the disastrous outbreak in the neighbouring Empire, and we are glad to think that at this critical period the government of the Colony was in your able hands.\n\nIt is impossible in the brief space afforded us by an address to go into detail as to the various phases of your Excellency's administration, but we would specially refer to a few of the more important.\n\nDuring your term of office, the boundaries of the Colony have been extended from 27 square miles to 400 square miles, an increase which naturally adds largely to the work of administration, and we rejoice to feel that the disturbances and resistance met with in taking over the New Territory were promptly and decisively overcome, and that the population have since maintained a peaceful and contented attitude, indicating the satisfaction they feel with the system of Government it has fallen upon your Excellency to introduce and administer for the last five years.\n\nThe projects for the erection of various urgently needed public buildings, notably the new Post Office, have been accelerated through your Excellency's personal endeavours.\n\nAmong other questions which have engaged your Excellency's attention has been the extending of the road-system of the Colony, and in particular the opening-up of the New Territory by the construction of the main Tai-po Road.\n\nThe proposed Praya East Reclamation Scheme, the immense importance of which your Excellency was prompt to recognise and strongly advocated, has up to the present been found impossible of execution owing to difficulties with certain of the authorities in England, but we trust that your efforts to secure this desired expansion of the city will ultimately be crowned with success.\n\nThe burning question of the site for the Naval Dock Yard has been dealt with so recently that it is unnecessary here to go into details, but the protest made by the Colony against the Admiralty scheme was warmly supported by your Excellency, who fully recognised the injury it would entail upon the City of Victoria. In this connection, we can assure you that the earnest endeavours made by your Excellency to induce the Naval Authorities to reconsider their adverse decision, and thus secure for the city an unbroken sea-front and its legitimate expansion, will be gratefully remembered.\n\nThe last and most important act of your Excellency's administration in this Colony has been the founding of the Hongkong Improvement Trust, which we are convinced will have far-reaching effects and will confer upon the Colony incalculable benefits which will last so long as Hongkong continues to be a centre for trade in the Far East.\n\nIt is, however, when we consider the health of the Colony, on which our prosperity so vitally depends, that the debt of gratitude which we owe to your Excellency becomes most manifest.\n\nThe all-important question of the Colony's water-supply has occupied much of your attention, particularly the most necessary works which you have inaugurated at ...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-320 - Governor Sir Blake Acting Governor May - 1903 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 394390, "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": "CO129-325 - Public Offices & Others - 1904", "page_number": 380, "title": "CO129-325 - Public Offices & Others - 1904", "content_text": "The Mercantile Marine Service Associatio\n\nthese appointments the Colonial Office will bear in mind\n\nthe special experience and qualifications of Officers of\n\nthe Merchant Service.\n\n•\n\n377\n\nIncorporated by Special Act of Parliament for conserving the interests of the British Merchant Service, and promoting the general improvement of nautical men by education, wholesome laws, obtaining redress of wrongs, procuring employment and caring for the helpless and aged, and by every possible means seeking the welfare of the Service, &c. &c.\n\na Guinea, Associates, One Guinea; Annual Subscription—Commanders, One Guinea; Officers, Half\n\nReporter Five Shillings (Post Free).\n\nLORD CLAUD J. HAMILTON,\n\nLORD BRASSEY, K.C.E\n\nJ. H. STOCK, ESQ., M.P.\n\nLORD KELVIN, L.L.D., PRES, R.S.\n\nDAVID MACIVER, ESQ., J.P., M.P.\n\nSAMUEL SMITH, ESQ., M.P.\n\nRALPH NEVILLE, ESQ., K.C.\n\nTHOS. B. ROYDEN, ESQ., J.P.\n\nR. P. HOUSTON, ESQ., M.P.\n\nCHAS MCARTHUR, ESQ., M.P.\n\nSIR ELLIOT LEES, M.P.\n\nAUSTIN TAYLOR, ESQ., M.P.\n\nSIR JAMES LYLE MACKAY, K.C.I.E.\n\nWM. WATSON RUTHERFORD, ESQ., M.P.\n\n16\n\nHonorary Members.\n\nSIR JOHN A. WILLOX, M.P.\n\nJOSEPH HOULT, ESQ., M.P.\n\nW. F. LAWRENCE, ESQ., M.P.\n\nT. P. O'CONNOR, ESQ., M.P.\n\nREAR ADMIRAL E. P. H. FRANKLIN.\n\nTHE CHAIRMAN OF THE MERSEY DOCKS AND HARBOR\n\nBOARD\n\nTHE CHAIRMAN OF THE LIVERPOOL STEAM SHIP OWNERS'\n\nASSOCIATION.\n\nTHE CHAIRMAN OF THE SHIPOWNERS' ASSOCIATION, LONDON.\n\nTHE CHAIRMAN OF THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.\n\nTHE CHAIRMAN OF THE LOCAL MARINE BOARD\n\nCAPTAIN HENRY TOYNBEE, F.R.A.S., F.R.G.S.\n\nAfrican Steam Ship Company\n\nAspinall, J., Son & Brooke\n\nBalfour, Williamson & Co.\n\nBuring Brothers & Co., Limited.\n\nBibby, Frank, Esq.\n\nBooth, Alfred, Esq.\n\nBowing, W. B., Esq.\n\nBrocklebank, Sir Thos. Bart., J.P.\n\nBrocklebank, Ralph, Esq., J.P.\n\nBurton, Miles Kirk, Esq.\n\nBagheli Bros. & Co.\n\nCearns & Brown\n\nCory, John, Esq., J.P., Cardiff\n\nCory Alderman B., Cardiff\n\nCatesworth, Lyne & Co.\n\nElder, Dempster & Co.\n\nElkington & Co.\n\nHonorary\n\nFarnworth and Jardine\n\nFernie, David, Esq., J.P.\n\nGibbs, Antony, Sons & Co.\n\nGracie, Beazley & Co.\n\nGraham, Rowe & Co.\n\nGraves, W. S., Esq.\n\nGruning & Co\n\nGunston, Sons & Co.\n\nKatton & Cookson\n\nHerron, John & Co.\n\nHeynen & Paterson, Tampico,\n\nMexico.\n\nHill & Sons, Charles, Bristol\n\nHolt, Alfred, Esq.\n\nHolt, Philip H., Esq.\n\nHornby, H. & J., & Co.,\n\nHoulder, Bros. & Co.\n\nHughes, John W., Esq. (Messrs.\n\nT. & J. Harrison)\n\nCouncil.\n\nIsmay, Imrie & Co.\n\nJohnston, Win., Esq.\n\nKellock, C. W., & Co\n\nKilley, G. D., Esq., J.P.\n\nLaird Brothers, Limited\n\nLamport & Holt\n\nLockett, John, Esq.\n\nLyon, Comber & Co.\n\nMuco & Sons\n\nMcInnes & Son\n\nMacIver, Charles, Esq.\n\nMacIver, Henry, Esq.\n\nMoss, James, & Co.\n\nNeuts, A. J., & Son, Ostend\n\nNickels, J. T., & Co.\n\nPacific Steam Navigation Co.\n\nPakenham, M., Esq., Bath\n\nPetley, Capt. J. W., I.S.S.\n\nCalcutta\n\nPotter, G. Herbert, Esq.\n\nRankin, Gilmour, & Co.\n\nRathbone Brothers & Co.\n\nSandbach, Tinne & Co.\n\nShannon, Capt. J. W.\n\nSinclair, A., Esq.\n\nThompson, Anderson & Co.\n\nVictorian Stevedoring Co.,\n\nMelbourne, Victoria\n\nWebster, Capt. J. K.\n\nWeir, Thomas, Esq., Shanghai\n\nWhitwill, Mark, Esq., Bristol\n\nWood, J. M., Esq.\n\nTo serve Three Years.\n\nBird, Capt. C.\n\nBrocklehurst, G. W., Esq.\n\nBrown, R. J., Capt.\n\nCameron, J. G., Capt.\n\nCuff-McCulloch, E., Esq.\n\nCollings, E. J., Capt.\n\nCunningham, A. L., Capt.\n\nDutton, T., Capt.\n\nGordon, A., Capt.\n\nHave, J., Capt.\n\nHely, J. S., Capt.\n\nKesy, J., Capt.\n\nExecutive\n\nLanglands, George E., Capt.\n\nLapage, W. P., Capt.\n\nMoore, W. H., Capt.\n\n(Commander R.N.R.)\n\nOwen, W., Capt.\n\nPeel, F. B., Capt.\n\nRoberts, J. H., Capt.\n\nStock, J. H., Esq., M.P.\n\nCouncil, 1903-1904.\n\nTo serve Two Years\n\nBatchelor, J. W., Capt.\n\nCarson, John, Capt.\n\nChellew, T. H., Capt.\n\nCochrane, W., Capt.\n\nFreeth, E. H., Capt.\n\nHampson, R. Alfred, Esq., J.P.\n\nHayes, R. W., Capt.\n\nHeidy, S., Capt.\n\nKilley, C. J., Capt.\n\nMcAdam, J., Capt.\n\nMcKay, Horatio, Capt.\n\n(Hon. Lieut. R.N.R.)\n\nPritchard, T. B., Capt.\n\nBoyden, T. B., Esq., J.P.\n\nStewart, W., Capt.\n\nSumner, James, Capt.\n\nVaughan, Jas., Capt.\n\nWade, W. S., Capt.\n\nWatt, H. F., Capt.\n\nWallace, W. S., Capt.\n\nTo serve One Year.\n\nBremner, A. W., Capt.\n\nChubb, E., Capt.\n\nFoster, M. H., Capt., A.I.N.A.\n\nFreeman, E. W., Capt.\n\nBry, W. C., Capt.\n\nGardiner, J. T., Capt.\n\nGordon, J. B., Capt.\n\nHamilton, John, Capt.\n\nInglis, R., Capt.\n\nIsmay, J. Brace, Esq.\n\nKing, J. W., Capt., A.I.N.A.\n\nMcAuley, J., Capt.\n\nMacMahon, C., Capt.\n\nMcKay, Alex., Capt., F.R.G.S.\n\nMcRay, J., Capt.\n\nMurray, P. D., Capt.\n\nPurdy, T., Capt.\n\nRowe, T. Y., Capt.\n\nTrenery, J., Capt.\n\nWatt, J.B., Capt.\n\nWalker, I., Capt.\n\nCaptain M. H. FOSTER, A.I.N.A., President.\n\nJ. A. STOCK, Esq., M.P., Hon. Treasurer.\n\nO. P. GRYLLS, Secretary.\n\nCaptain J. KEAY, Vice-President.\n\nMessrs. W. H. COCHRAN & CO.,\n\nMessrs. WHITLEY & CO.,\n\nMessrs. THORNELY & CAMERON, and Mr. A. A. MILLER, Solicitors.\n\nBankers: BANK OF LIVERPOOL (LIMITED)\n\nTELEPHONE No. 690.\n\n....\n\nI\n\nam,\n\nSir\n\n3\n\nYours\n\nfaithfully,\n\nColCavalla\n\nSecretary.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-325 - Public Offices & Others - 1904.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 397472, "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": "CO129-329 - Governor Nathan - 1905 [7-12]", "page_number": 766, "title": "CO129-329 - Governor Nathan - 1905 [7-12]", "content_text": "# Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce, \nHongkong .... 15th December 1905. \n\n**FREED** \nC. O. \n2625 \nREG: 24 JAN 20 \n762 \n\nI have to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated 6th instant (No. 3546/05/0.0.D.), enclosing copy of a letter addressed by the Merchant Shipping Guild to the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies in which adverse criticism has been passed by the Guild on the manner in which the Port Authorities of Hongkong have behaved in their official relations towards the shipping community. \n\n2. In view of the comments already made by the Government in connection with the \"Wing Chai\" case, it is for the Commander of this Chamber to deal with that question as raised by the Merchant Shipping Guild.\n\n3. The Guild has however brought further complaints against the Port Authorities and, in support of the charges made that \"British Shipping and Merchant Vessels\" are unnecessarily harassed and interfered with by the \"Authorities at the port\", quotes instances where the Captains of two British vessels were fined for letting their steam whistles blow at 4 o'clock in the morning in Mirs Bay and another case where a Merchant Captain was prosecuted for anchoring in Junk Bay. \n\n4. Your letter under reply has dealt so fully with the above cases that but little remains to be said. The conditions of the port of HongKong are far removed from those of the largest shipping port in the ...\n\nT. T. SERCOMBE SMITH, \n**COLONIAL SECRETARY**", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-329 - Governor Nathan - 1905 [7-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 404094, "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": "CO129-332 - Public Offices & Others - 1905", "page_number": 356, "title": "CO129-332 - Public Offices & Others - 1905", "content_text": "TELEPHONE NO. \n4868 CENTRAL, LIVERPOOL. \nOFFICIAL. \n\nThe Merchant Service Guild \n(CAPTAINS AND OFFICERS) \nCO. \n36193 \n# 001 051 \nMSC \n354 \n\nADDRESS TELEGRAMS DOLPHIN, LIVERPOOL. \nSECRETARY: CAPT. JOHN G. MOORE. \nThe Arcade, Lord Street, Liverpool. \n\n9th October 1905. \n\nThe Under Secretary of State \nColonial Office, \nLondon, S.W. \n\n24716/1905. \n\nSir, \n\nI beg to inform you that your letter of the 21st July covering copy of Despatch from the Governor of Hong Kong with regard to the case of Captain Bell Smith and to the constitution of the Marine Magistrate's Court in that Colony has received the careful consideration of the Guild. \n\nTo refer to the second paragraph of the Report of the Governor of Hong Kong, we observe that he does not consider the Police Court prosecution of Captain Bell Smith as parallel to cases heard before the High Court in Admiralty Jurisdiction. \n\nIt affords considerable satisfaction to know that, in the Marine Court at Hong Kong constituted under Section 19 of the Merchant Shipping Ordinance, it is customary to appoint three Masters of the Mercantile Marine as Assessors. As the principle is recognized in the Marine Court, the Guild feel that it should equally so be recognized in the Police Court where cases affecting merchant ships occur, and where seafaring technicalities are bound to arise. \n\nReferring to the third paragraph of the Governor's Report, it appears that Captain Barnes Lawrence, before whom the case of Captain Bell Smith was tried, holds a Master's certificate and has served in the Mercantile Marine. Captain Barnes Lawrence, being a retired Royal Naval Commander, the Guild were under a wrong...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-332 - Public Offices & Others - 1905.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 405837, "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": "CO129-335 - Governor Nathan - 1906 [8-10]", "page_number": 379, "title": "CO129-335 - Governor Nathan - 1906 [8-10]", "content_text": "375\n\nFather to ... His admitted that are ...\n\nmust indians to recommend.\n\nI further post The field scho... Estety\n\nThe verstist man we is nove too fastile. I have que as in fromming legal\n\nmans in the Colonial Service consider that there are objections to appo...ntary L-Such a post Dr Sicombe Smith, the treat crtually practised at\n\nCandidate, who has nam... the Vas. but I have commander huis for the vent Purse [adga dip of the Stents Settlement. 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He has\n\nPage 376\n\n \n(empty page content)\n\nPage 377", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-335 - Governor Nathan - 1906 [8-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 408950, "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": "CO129-340 - Governor Nathan Acting Governor May - 1907 [4-6]", "page_number": 16, "title": "CO129-340 - Governor Nathan Acting Governor May - 1907 [4-6]", "content_text": "19\n\nthe duration of which is to be 30 years.\n\nThe construction is to be under the direction of a Chinese Managing Director with whom are to be associated a British Engineer-in-Chief and a British Chief Accountant. The agreement provides that a further one for the joint working of the British and Chinese sections of the railway should be arranged between the Viceroy of Canton and the Governor of Hongkong. Negotiations for this further agreement were not started before the end of the year,\n\nThe Final Loan Agreement for the Canton-Kowloon Railway also lays down that \"it is understood that the Chinese Government will not build another line competing with this railway to its detriment.\" In this connection it may be mentioned that a proposal of the Chinese authorities to build a line towards Amoy which for some 40 miles must have followed approximately the same course as the Canton-Kowloon Railway called forth considerable opposition from Hongkong where it was held that the construction of such a line was contrary to the preliminary agreement of March 1899.\n\nWhile the survey work on the British section of the Canton-Kowloon Railway was being completed in the early part of the year construction was proceeding on the line between Tai Po and Lo Fu ferry under the Public Works Department and by the end of April about 24 miles of bank had been formed not including, however, any bridge or heavy earthwork. On the 23rd March Mr. W. G. Eves who had been appointed by the Consulting Engineers—Sir JOHN WOLFE BARRY & Co.,—to be Chief Resident Engineer, arrived in the Colony and took charge of the work being assisted by an engineering staff of one executive and four assistant engineers who arrived subsequently. During the Summer sickness among staff and workmen and some difficulties with labour delayed the progress of the work which consisted at first in preparing for the piercing of the tunnel through the Kowloon Hills. By the end of the year quarters for staff and labourers and work-shops were completed on the South but were still under construction on the North side of the tunnel. A store yard, with arrangements for landing plant and material, had been formed at Tai Kok Tsui and connected by about 3,000 yards of temporary metre gauge railway with the South face while a service road some 1,500 yards long formed with part of the existing Public Works Department road a communication to the North face from a temporary landing place at Lok Lo Ha in Tide Cove. As regards permanent work, by the end of the year a heading had been started from the open at either end of the tunnel but in neither case had advanced more than a few feet inside what will be the ultimate tunnel face. A shaft 90 feet deep had been sunk 330 feet inside this face at the South end and headings commenced in both directions from it. Another shaft to be 268 feet deep, 5,100 feet from the first, and 1,350 feet inside the North face, had been decided on but not yet started. At the end of the year work was also proceeding on 4 bridges South of the tunnel and on 2 North of it in the Shatin Valley. A considerable portion of the earthwork for about a mile on either side of the tunnel and about that between Tai Po and the Lo Fu ferry had been completed. The reclamation for the station site in Hung Hom Bay had been put in hand. The total expenditure that had actually been incurred by the 31st December was $599,546.\n\nTurning to the minor incidents of the year and reverting to commercial matters it may be mentioned that with a view to making Hongkong products better known in England and also to assisting the general trade of the Colony, collections of specimens of its manufactures and also of the various articles which are included in its export trade, have been sent to England to constitute a permanent exhibition in the Imperial Institute buildings at South Kensington.\n\n23\n\nIn the Colony itself two exhibitions were held which it is hoped will be repeated annually. On the 1st and 2nd February the new Horticultural Society, revived on the lines of the old Society which organised annual flower shows from 1873 to 1883, successfully held its first show in the Botanical Gardens. On the 1st, 2nd and 3rd November an \"Arts and Crafts exhibition collected in the City Hall some good specimens of local photography, needlework, book printing and binding, and domestic furniture and some fine pieces of pottery and other works of art lent by European and Chinese Residents.\n\nAn interesting event in the early part of the year was the visit of the mission with H.R.H. Prince ARTHUR of CONNAUGHT at its head, which was conveying the Garter to H. I. M. the Emperor of Japan. The mission was in Hongkong from the 9th to the 13th February. In March advantage was taken of the presence of a Japanese squadron to return some of the hospitality that had been shown in the previous Summer to the British fleet in Japanese waters, and of the visit of the French squadron of the Far East to bear witness to the cordial understanding between England and France. In September a Joint Naval and Military Committee under the presidency of Sir JOHN OWEN, K.C.B., visited the Colony for the consideration of certain matters connected with its defence.\n\nChanges during the year in personnel outside the Colony but closely affecting it were the substitution of CHOU Fu formerly Acting Governor-General Liang Kuang for Ts'en CH'UN-HSÜAN as Governor General Liang Kuang, and the appointments in May of Sir JOHN N. JORDAN, K.C.M.G., to replace Sir ERNEST SATOW, G.C.M.G., as Minister at Peking, and in April of Mr. R. W. MANSFIELD, C.M.G., to replace Mr. J. SCOTT as Consul-General at Canton. During the year the British Naval and Military Commanders were both changed. Vice-Admiral Sir ARTHUR W. MOORE, K.C.B., K.C.V.O., C.M.G., succeeding Admiral Sir GERARD H. U. NOEL, K.C.B., K.C.M.G., as Commander-in-Chief of the China Station in March and Major-General R. G. BROADWOOD, C.B., following Major-General V. HATTON, C.B., in command of the Troops in South China in December.\n\nReference has already been made to the lamented deaths of Bishop HOUAR and Capt. BARNES-LAWRENCE. The latter has been succeeded as Harbour Master by Commander B.R.H. TAYLOR, R.N. On the 31st October, Sir HENRY S. BERKELEY, Kt., K.C., retired from the office of Attorney General, Mr. W. REES DAVIES, who did not arrive in the Colony before the end of the year, being appointed to succeed him. In the Legislative Council Mr. E. A. HEWETT on the 30th April succeeded Mr. R. SHEWAN as elected representative of the Chamber of Commerce and on the 1st June, Mr. W. J. GRESSON of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co. took the place of Mr. C. W. DICKSON of the same firm as a nominated member. Mr. E. OSBORNE temporarily relieved Mr. G. STEWART in a similar position when the latter went on leave early in the year.\n\nOn the 15th December, Mr. F. H. MAY, C.M.G., who had arrived from England a week previously took over the administration of the Colony on my having to proceed on short leave to Java for the recovery of health. Mr. SERCOMBE SMITH who had been acting as Colonial Secretary during the whole period of Mr. May's absence from the Colony served in the same capacity on the latter assuming the charge of the Government.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nMy Lord,\n\nYour Lordship's most obedient, humble Servant,\n\nM. Nathan\n\n13", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-340 - Governor Nathan Acting Governor May - 1907 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 416024, "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": "CO129-351 - Public Offices - 1908", "page_number": 189, "title": "CO129-351 - Public Offices - 1908", "content_text": "186\n\n2\n\n(c.) September 7 (by the Governor-General, in colloquial): Exhortation against opium smoking and foot binding.\n\n(d.) Undated (Prefect and Magistrate): Forbidding poppy growing.\n\nOfficial action: In the city the Local Government has opened one refuge and five dispensaries; the gentry, one refuge and one dispensary. The opium dens have been closed in the city, and opium shops and opium smokers registered.\n\n\"As to whether it has been thorough I cannot say, but something has been done.\"\n\nCh'uching.\n\n(a.) August (Governor-General's Proclamation): Younger men allowed six months to break off opium; older men, one year. Those over 60 years of age to be exempt from control. All opium dens to be closed; licensed opium shops to be opened. Curative medicines to be approved by the lead Bureau. Amount of poppy to be planted to be notified beforehand; after three years cultivation must cease.\n\n(b) September (Prefect): Similar to (a).\n\n(c) October 1 (Prefect): No one allowed to sell prepared opium. This year only one-third of last year's poppy crop may be sown; officials must be notified. Opium dens are to be closed; no opium utensils may be sold.\n\nOfficial action: A Head Bureau has been established.\n\nPingyi.\n\n(a.) Undated, but issued about August 28: All opium dens to be closed in half a month.\n\n(b.) Sale of opium utensils forbidden.\n\n(c.) September 20 (Governor-General): Against opium smoking and foot binding.\n\nOfficial action: A show of closing opium dens on the 8th September, but smoking still continues more or less secretly.\n\nKueiyang.\n\n(a.) Undated, but issued about September 29: Sale of opium pipes, lamps, &c. and preparing of crude opium in shops and on the streets is to be prohibited; anyone offending to be severely punished. To take effect from the 7th October.\n\n(b) October 27 (Governor): No opium to be grown on Crown lands; if this involves loss to tenants, then rents are to be reduced. On other lands poppy crop to be diminished by one-tenth yearly. Growers to report to the opium refuge (\"ch'ih-yen hui\") and obtain certificates.\n\nOfficial action: Previous Proclamations concerning closing of opium dens and control of sale of opium have been partly carried out. The dens were closed on the 10th July, and in September a limited liability Company for sale of opium was established under official sanction, with, it is said, 20,000 taels capital. Mr. Cecil-Smith was told (October) that the Company was trying to buy in as much opium as possible to sell to retail dealers.\n\nIn the Ting-fan Department a Notification was issued by the Magistrate on the lines of the Governor's Proclamation of the 27th October. \"Here in Kueiyang nothing has been done, so far as I can ascertain\" (4th December).\n\nAnshun.\n\n(a.) September: Recites Imperial orders for suppression of opium, and exhorts to cease from smoking and poppy-growing. Offers remission of taxation on public lands not planted with poppy.\n\nOfficial action: (Not stated.)\n\nTushan.\n\n(a.) Undated, published about the 30th September: Gives gist of Emperor's Edict regarding the cultivation of opium.\n\nOfficial action: All yamên assistants are to either break off opium or to retire. (Otherwise nothing seems to have been done.)\n\n3\n\n2. Attitude of Local Officials and Gentry.\n\nYunnan-fu.\n\nThe gentry are reported to be pleased at the movement, and the Magistrate is said to have broken off the habit. A large number of the officials, gentry, and people have given it up. Over 3,000 are taking medicines at the dispensaries. Money is being subscribed by the gentry and others to purchase medicines for sale at less than cost price, or to be given away.\n\nCh'uching.\n\n\"Our Prefect unfortunately smokes opium, and up to the present\" (2nd October), \"as far as one can learn, has no thought of giving it up. Very few, if any, as far as I have heard, of the gentry have given up smoking opium; this is scarcely to be wondered at when the Prefect does not. The tenor of their talk is very unhopeful.\"\n\nPingyi.\n\n\"On the whole favourable. Three have given up the habit\" (December).\n\nKueiyang.\n\n\"Reported that the new Prefect is an opium smoker. Military officers are breaking off by order of the Commander-in-chief.\"\n\nAnshun.\n\nNo remarks.\n\nTushan.\n\n\"The Commander-in-chief for Kueichow has just\" (September) \"had all the officials under his jurisdiction in this part of the province to an examination in the Prefecture, in order to discover who are addicted to opium smoking, and adopt stringent measures for their reform. The Prefect, the Magistrate, and several other prominent men are giving up their opium; some are almost finished with the medicine, but others are not so far advanced.\"\n\n3. Restriction of Area under Cultivation.\n\nYünnan-fu.\n\nPractically all the ground is now (26th December) planted with other crops.\n\nCh'uching.\n\nIn some districts inquiry is being made as to how much each family is going to plant this season. No attempt is made at restriction, beyond the three years' rule. Owing to high price of cereals a great deal less opium was planted last season.\n\nP'ingyi.\n\n\"The feeling among those appointed to investigate into land under cultivation is that the task of gradual reduction along the lines indicated to them is next to an impossibility. It has been suggested that it would be comparatively easy to totally forbid opium growing in the entire district.\" \"The work of investigation has just\" (1st October) \"been allotted to men in the various districts, who have, as far as I can learn, done nothing as yet.\n\nLast winter about one-third of the old poppy ground was planted with other crops, the people fearing official displeasure.\" \"There will probably be a great falling off in the amount of the ground planted with opium\" (December).\n\n[2889 g-1]\n\nB 2\n\n\"There", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-351 - Public Offices - 1908.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 420682, "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": "CO129-358 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [10-11]", "page_number": 572, "title": "CO129-358 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [10-11]", "content_text": "The Governor and Committee then crossed the square to the shrouded statue of the Princess of Wales, which was next to be revealed. All round the enclosed statue were squads of the Buffs, and in close vicinity were the Hongkong Volunteers, who were in charge of Captains Andrews, Wolfe and Craik.\n\nThe enclosed square from which the unveiling ceremony was conducted was occupied by His Excellency the Governor, Major General Broadwood and Commodore Lyon, and by Mr. H. N. Mody, the generous donor of the statue. Mr. H. N. Mody said:-Your Excellency, Ladies and Gentlemen, It is with the greatest pleasure that I now call upon your Excellency to unveil, and take over for the community, the statue of Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales. The embellishment of the very few open spaces we possess in this Colony is, I think, an object worthy of the attention of those who have the good fortune to be able to take hand in doing so, nor can this object be better attained than by the erection of statues of those to whom we owe allegiance, devotion and love. It was, therefore, with the greatest pleasure that, on the opportunity being afforded me to do something in this line, I offered, subject to the sanction of His Majesty Our King and to the consent of the Royal Personage immediately concerned, to present to the Colony the statue you are now about to unveil. His Majesty's sanction was readily granted, and Her Royal Highness very graciously consented to give the necessary sittings to Mr Wade, the sculptor selected whose works of art are numerous and well known, and I am given to understand he has produced a very speaking likeness, which it is now my proud pleasure to present to this Colony. We may well be proud of the fact that we hold the honour of possessing the very first statue of our Gracious Princess that has as yet been erected, though one is now being prepared for India. Like our present Gracious Queen, the Princess of Wales has always shown a keen interest in all works of mercy and charity. Long may she be spared to do so. With these few remarks I now ask your Excellency to unveil the statue.\n\nHIS EXCELLENCY said Mr. Mody, Ladies and Gentlemen,-The addition of this statue of H.R.H. the Princess of Wales completes the group which forms our \"Royal Square,\" and so soon as the building sheds, which I regret will still for some time disfigure it, are removed, this Square will form a worthy and dignified approach to the Colony from the sea. The statue has been presented by Mr. H. N. Mody, who is ever ready to come forward to promote the welfare and add to the beauty and utility of the Colony, in which he has spent the greater part of his life. In the name of the Colony I thank him for his generous gift. Of Her Royal Highness and of the Prince of Wales it may be said that no prospective King and Queen of England have ever travelled so largely and seen so much of the British Empire as they have. It is significant of the increased importance with which the British Colonies are now regarded by the Mother country that their Royal Highnesses should thus have made themselves personally familiar with the sister nations whose destinies are linked with those of the British Isles, and with the Colonies, which, like Hongkong, are so important to the trade and to the naval supremacy of Great Britain. We are also proud that our future Queen will be the first for many centuries to be British-born. May Their Royal Highnesses be spared by Providence long lives, so that in due course they may reign over a united and loyal and patriotic Empire! At the request of the generous donor I now unveil the statue, and present it in his name to the Colony to which in so many ways he has been a benefactor.\n\nA bugle then sounded, the shroud enclosing the statue fell, and four Union Jacks were run up to the corner poles of the scaffolding which had enclosed the Princess. The band then played, a royal salute was given and all hats were doffed to the revivified Princess.\n\nTHE MARCH PAST.\n\nHis Excellency the Governor, the General Officer Commanding, the Commodore and the General Staff then mounted the steps of the Queen's Statue to view the march past,\n\nThe Union Jack Was unfurled on the flagstaff, and naval gunners near Queen's Statue Pier fired a salute. The booming of the guns and the cheers of the spectators proved a hearty \"Health to His Majesty,\" and the troops started on the march past.\n\nThe Bluejackets, with their machine-like evolutions, well filled the premier post in the pageant, while the marines took second place with no less distinction. Then followed the Royal Artillery, the H.K.S.B.R.G.A., the Royal Engineers, the Buffs with their historical colours, the Volunteers, the Mahrattas and the Rajputs, the two latter displaying banners which have earned the adoration of all Britons.\n\nTHE NAVAL REVIEW.\n\nThe end of the march past concluded the proceedings in Statue Square, and the spectators then wended their way to the Naval Yard. The impassable gates of this usually secluded quarter were thrown open, and a large crowd of spectators filled the compound to witness the evolutions of the first defence of the Empire. Those in charge of the parade were Commodore Lyon, Commander J. Nicholas, H. M. S. Flora, Commander Smith H.M.S. Monmouth, Commander Acton, H.M.S. Tamar, Commander Pyke, H. M. S. Monmouth, Lieut. Chilcott and Lieut. Dukes Hughes.\n\nA bugle call announced the arrival of H. E. the Governor at the Naval Yard, simultaneous with which the big Union Jack at the saluting base and the two White Ensigns were unfurled. A royal salute followed, and then his Excellency inspected the bluejackets and marines.\n\nPage 563", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-358 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [10-11].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 420689, "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": "CO129-358 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [10-11]", "page_number": 579, "title": "CO129-358 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [10-11]", "content_text": "Commodore Lyon, Capt. J. Nicholas, (H.M.S. Flora), Captain Smith (H.M.S. Monmouth), Commander Acton (H.M.S. Tamar), Commander Pike (H.M.S. Monmouth), and First Lieut. Hughes and Second Lieut. Chilcott.\n\nThe tars formed up in smart style on the ground, and both they and the Marines lined up two deep. His Excellency inspected the lines, and also the guns placed on the harbour wall. It is, we understand, four years ago since a naval review took place at Hongkong, and it is to be regretted that they are not more frequent. Besides giving the general public an idea of the efficiency of our Navy, such exhibitions as that given yesterday help to cement the feelings between the civilian and the sailor more closely together. This was clearly evidenced yesterday, as on several occasions the patriotism of those present found expression in repeated applause. The sight was indeed a fine one, and the tars showed themselves to be exceptionally efficient in their duties. Their marching was excellent, and the smartness with which the firing parties acquitted themselves was loudly applauded. Commander Pike gave the necessary words of command. A Royal Salute was fired, after which the yard resounded with three hearty cheers from the men. The march past in extended column was a splendid sight, the men then forming into two compact squares. During the review, the guns from which the Salute had been fired headed the march, and lent additional splendour to the whole scene.\n\nParties were afterwards entertained on board the warship in the dry dock.\n\n575", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-358 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [10-11].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 424004, "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": "CO129-364 - Public Offices & Others - 1909", "page_number": 137, "title": "CO129-364 - Public Offices & Others - 1909", "content_text": "# Testimonials for Walter Meredith Deane\n\n## Letter from BROOKE ROBERTSON\n\nVery truly yours,\n\n(Signed)\nCaptain Superintendent of Police,\nTo W.M.Deane, Esqre.,\nHong Kong.\n\nI can testify to the high state of discipline and efficiency to which you brought the Police Force from the time you took charge of it, until I left in 1878, and can testify to the exceptional powers of organization required to effect this due to its peculiar constitution.\n\nI am,\nBROOKE ROBERTSON.\n\n## Letter from SIR RICHARD GRAVES MAC DONNELL, C.B., K.C.M.G.\n\n(Copy)\n\nMy dear Mr. Deane,\n11, York Terrace,\nRegent's Park,\n24th May, 1880.\n\nAs I learn that you intend becoming a candidate for the Chief Constableship of Lancaster, it may perhaps serve your interests to have some certificate from myself of your services from 1866 in Hong Kong, where I was till 1872, the period during which I was Governor of that Colony. As Head of the Police, you had in a great measure to establish that force, or rather to remodel it, and adapt it for the discharge of its very varied and important duties, amongst different nationalities and under circumstances of great difficulty. I can testify to the amount of success which attended your efforts, especially as your Police numbered over 700, comprised many elements difficult to work in union - but above all, I have pleasure in being witness to the energy and zeal which marked all your efforts, whilst as a Magistrate, you were uniformly painstaking and just as well as highly competent.\n\nSeeing that your position in China was highly honourable, trustworthy, and lucrative, I presume you only seek an office here for your best interests.\n\nBelieve me to be,\nVery faithfully yours,\n(Signed)\nRICHARD GRAVES MAC DONNELL.\n\n## Testimonial from CECIL CLEMENTI SMITH, Esquire, C.M.G.\n\nMr. Walter Meredith Deane held the appointment of Captain Superintendent of Police, Hong Kong, whilst I was Acting Colonial Secretary in that Colony for nearly five years. He performed the duties of his office with marked ability, tact, and discretion, and to the greatest satisfaction of the Government. His experience in handling his men often proved of great importance in preserving law and order under trying circumstances, while the assiduity with which he tracked out cases of serious crime had a most excellent effect on the Criminal Classes. Mr. Deane took over the Police Force in a very unsatisfactory state, and he brought it into being one of the most efficient and trustworthy Forces in the East.\n\n4th February, 1884.\n(Signed) CECIL CLEMENTI SMITH, C.M.G.\nColonial Secretary, Straits Settlement\n\n## Extract from Hong Kong Government Gazette, 17th Sept. 1881, p.845\n\nProceedings of the Legislative Council.\n\nThe Governor informs the Council that he is about to proceed to the North on six weeks' vacation leave, and that during his absence, the Government will be administered by the Acting Colonial Secretary (the Honourable M. S. Tonnochy) and that the Acting Colonial Treasurer (the Honourable V. M. Deane) will officiate as Colonial Secretary.\n\n## Memorandum\n\nThe Police Force that I have had the honour to command for over seventeen years consists of some seven hundred men, and has to carry out every kind of Police work, such as Town, Country, Harbour, and Coast, and Mounted duties.\n\nFrom the returns contained in the Blue Book, it appears that, in 1881, 6,696 cases came under the cognizance of my department, and that 7,442 prisoners were arrested. In the course of my services, I think I may safely assert that there is scarcely an offence known to Criminal Law that has not been dealt with.\n\n## Testimonial from SIR CHARLES SHADWELL, K.C.B.\n\n(Memorandum).\nGREENWICH.\nJune 26th, 1880.\n\nI have great pleasure in stating that Captain Superintendent Walter Meredith Deane had charge of the Hong Kong Police during the time that I was Commander in Chief of H.M's. Naval Forces on the China Station, from December 16th, 1871, to February 1st, 1875, and that during that period, his duties being performed with tact and discretion, the relations existing between the Police and Naval Authorities at Hong Kong were always of a satisfactory nature, and characterised by harmonious co-operation for the benefit of the Public Service.\n\nGIVEN under my hand this 26th day of June, 1880.\n(Signed) CHARLES F. P. SHADWELL,\nAdmiral late Vice Admiral, and Commander in Chief,\nChina Station.\n\n## Testimonial from SIR A. RYDER, K.C.B.\n\nPortsmouth.\n\nCaptain Deane was Head of the Police Force whilst I was Commander in Chief on the Chinese Station for three years, 1875-7, and his services were very useful in many ways; I could always rely on his assistance whenever required. The order maintained in the Colony by the Force under Captain Deane was admirable.\n\nJune 21st, 1880.\n(Signed) A. P. RYDER,\nAdmiral.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-364 - Public Offices & Others - 1909.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 429322, "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": "CO129-373 - Public Offices - 1910", "page_number": 59, "title": "CO129-373 - Public Offices - 1910", "content_text": "[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\n58\n\nAFFAIRS OF CHINA.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n[29199]\n\nNo. 1.\n\n[August 11. 20647]\n\nSECTION 1RECO\n\nREG916 SEP 10\n\nMr. Max Müller to Sir Edward Grey.—(Received August 11.)\n\n(No. 241.) Sir,\n\nPeking, July 26, 1910.\n\nI HAVE the honour to report that His Majesty's vice-consul at Chungking informed me by telegraph on the 14th instant that he had received a letter from the Taotai, which was sent at the instance of the Viceroy, stating that, if it was necessary for His Majesty's gunboats to cruise, they were only allowed to do so below Chungking, and could not be permitted to visit the Yang-tsze ports above that place.\n\nMr. Langford Smith replied that His Majesty's ships were allowed to cruise both above and below Chungking by virtue of article 52 of the treaty of Tien-tsin; that these were the instructions which he had received from His Majesty's Minister; and that he was therefore unable to take any other view. On the Taotai arguing the matter, Mr. Langford Smith repeated his former reply. He further informed the senior naval officer that there was no necessity to modify the programme for the summer cruise, which was planned exclusively for visits to up-river ports.\n\nOn the 18th instant His Majesty's consul-general at Chengtu telegraphed that he had received several letters from the Vicer...\n\nOn the 20th July, I instructed Mr. Wilkinson to act in strict accordance with the instructions contained in Sir J. Jordan's despatch No. 10 of the 30th August, 1909, a copy of which was sent to you in his despatch No. 304 of that date, and of which the terms were approved by your despatch No. 311 of the 19th October. At the same time, I requested him to approve Mr. Langford Smith's attitude.\n\nOn the 22nd instant I received a note from the Ministers of the Wai-wu Pu, in which they argue that although article 52 of the Tien-tsin Treaty permits British ships of war to visit all ports in China, places on the inland waterways are not treaty ports, and if foreign gunboats suddenly proceed thither their visit is sure to cause alarm and suspicion, and perhaps arouse a feeling of hostility among the inhabitants. Wai-wu Pu, who appear to have confused His Majesty's ship \"Widgeon\" with His Majesty's ship \"Woodcock,\" conclude by requesting me to request the latter to return at once to Chungking.\n\nI have addressed a note to the Wai-wu Pu in reply, informing them of the view held by His Majesty's Government that British warships have the right, in accordance with article 52 of the treaty of Tien-tsin, to visit all Chinese ports, whether opened by treaty to foreign trade or not, and that I am therefore unable to comply with their request. Copies of the correspondence with the Wai-wu Pu are transmitted herewith.\n\nIt appears from a despatch which I have received from the Commander-in-chief, China Station, that the local Chinese authorities have recently made similar difficulties in regard to the cruise of His Majesty's ship \"Moorhen\" to the ports on the Upper West River, and have protested against her visiting Liauchow, Nanning, and Pose. I enclose copies of Vice-Admiral Sir A. Winsloe's despatch and of the reports of the commanding officer of His Majesty's ship \"Moorhen,\" annexed thereto.\n\nI have informed Sir Alfred Winsloe fully of the action taken by His Majesty's Legation and consular officers to assert the rights of His Majesty's ships to visit the ports of the Upper Yang-tsze.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nW. G. MAX MÜLLER.\n\n[2862 -1]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-373 - Public Offices - 1910.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 448902, "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": "CO129-413 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [8-10]", "page_number": 151, "title": "CO129-413 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [8-10]", "content_text": "149\n\nmessage to the Fire Commander East asking for instructions as to what I should do if she didn't stop, as I thought it as well to do so. I received a reply that I was to fire another round across her bows and if she didn't stop then, I was to fire a round at her upper hamper. As she failed to stop when the third round was fired across her bows, I fired the fourth round at her bridge. Still, she made no attempt to stop and I received another message from the Fire Commander East to fire another round at her upper structure. This I did and the ship immediately hove to. I should think that about two minutes must have elapsed between the firing of the third and fourth shots and about three minutes between the firing of the fourth and fifth shots.\n\nAccording to the orders laid down, I should have been justified in firing lyddite shell at the ship after the first shot had been disregarded, but all the five shots were plugged shell.\n\nCaptain W.P.A. Hattersley-Smith, R.G.A. \"On the 12th August, 1914, at about 4 p.m. I was on the Lyemun Artillery Parade Ground which is over a mile from the Pakshawan battery by road, when I saw that the battery were firing at a ship entering the harbour. Then the third shot was fired I ran down to the Battery and as I reached the outside of the battery the fifth round was fired. I estimate that it took me 4 or 5 minutes to get down and that this time elapsed between the firing of the 3rd and 5th rounds.\n\nThe", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-413 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [8-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 448903, "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": "CO129-413 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [8-10]", "page_number": 152, "title": "CO129-413 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [8-10]", "content_text": "150\n\nThe evidence of Lieut. Brewster and Captain Hattersley Smith are read over to the Master of the \"Shikoku Maru\" who states that in his opinion only about 2 minutes elapsed between the firing of the third and fifth shots.\n\nThe Court are of opinion that the examination battery were justified in firing and that the fault lies with the Master of the \"Shikoku Maru\".\n\n(sgd) F.J.Moberly, Lieut-Col.\n\n25th Punjabis, (President)\n\n(sgd) M. Blackwood, Lieut. Commander R.N.\n\nMembers\n\n(sgd) J.B.F.Currie, Major R.G.A.\n\nI fully concur. A Master Mariner like Masuda Kumasaburo is a positive danger on the high seas.\n\n(sgd) F.H.Kelly, Major-General,\n\nCommanding Troops, South China.\n\nHongkong, 14th August, 1914.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-413 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [8-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 448916, "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": "CO129-413 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [8-10]", "page_number": 165, "title": "CO129-413 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [8-10]", "content_text": "Page 11\n\nwater about 30 yards in front of the S.M. The first shot was fired at the range of 1800 or 1900 yards. She was getting fairly near the entrance. By the time the last shot was fired she was very close. The S.M. did not stop; so I fired a second shot, after about two minutes interval, also in front of the bows. She still failed to stop. I when firing the second round immediately ordered a message to be 'phoned to the fire Commander. I received a reply. I then fired a third shot. This shot was fired also in front of the bows of the S.M. I then fired a fourth shot. I judge that it went over the bows of the ship. Between the third shot and the fourth shot there was not any great time possibly two minutes. She still came on. I fired a fifth shot\n\nafter receiving a further message from the fire Commander and this time at the bridge of the S.M. The fifth shot struck the ship a few feet above the water line. She then hove to at once, blew three blasts on her whistle and hauled her flags down. Her actual range when the last shot was fired was 876 yards from the battery, that would be within 400 yards of the entrance to the Lyeemun Pass. All the shots fired were plugged shell. Lyddite Shell would have been much more destructive.\n\nsd. R. E. Browater,\n\nad. J. R. Food\n\nLt. R.F.\n\nP.M.\n\n...\n\nPage 13\n\n4. Wilfred Percy Ashley Mattersley-Smith (sworn) Captain R.G.A. on H.K. 124 August about 4 p.m. I was in the Lyemun Artillery Parade Ground, which is about half-a-mile from the Pak Sha Wan Battery. I noticed that the battery was firing at a ship entering the Harbour. I ran down from the parade ground to the battery starting to run when the third shot was fired. My impression was that the ship was trying to block the Lyemun Pass. As I reached the outskirts of the battery the fifth round went off. I should say that the time between the third round and the fifth", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-413 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [8-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 463511, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-435 - Governor Sir May & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1916 [9-11]", "page_number": 603, "title": "CO129-435 - Governor Sir May & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1916 [9-11]", "content_text": "# HONGKONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL\n\n## Moorings in Victoria Harbour\n\nRegarding Financial Minute 27, recommending a vote of $35,000 for the raising, renewing and re-arrangement of moorings in Victoria harbour.\n\n**Minute**\n\nHIS EXCELLENCY said--With regard to Financial Minute No. 27 I would like to say a few words. The sums asked for are required to complete the payments for the purchase of the buoys and moorings in Victoria Harbour and for raising and renewing some of them.\n\nMembers will remember that I addressed the Secretary of State on this subject in August, 1914, and received his approval of the scheme on the 6th October, 1914. The correspondence is printed in Sessional Paper No. 17 of 1914. Owing to financial reasons the carrying out of the scheme was postponed during the first half of last year, but in October last I was able to report to the Secretary of State that the revenue receipts were so satisfactory that I had sanctioned the carrying into effect of a portion of the scheme involving the purchase of twenty C-class buoys at a cost of $85,000, and the relaying of some of them in the coal and rice anchorages at a cost of $5,000. A sum of $140,000 was also provided in the estimates of the current year for the purchase of further buoys and moorings and a sum of $10,000 for relaying some of them. The scheme has now been satisfactorily completed at a total cost of $252,437. With this sum 45 moorings have been purchased as compared with an estimate of $250,000 for 40 moorings. Great credit is due to the Acting Harbour Master (Commander Beckwith) and the Acting Assistant Harbour Master (the late Lieutenant Davey) for this successful result, but I would remind you that the suggestion to acquire the moorings was first made by Commander Basil Taylour in the year 1902. The sum of $30,000 now asked for is to complete the sum of $252,431 referred to and to provide a sum of $2,539, which will be used, in addition to the $5,000 for other charges, to complete the work of raising and renewing moorings.\n\nTHE COLONIAL TREASURER seconded, and this was agreed to.\n\n## Hon. Mr. Pollock, K.C., and the Government Civil Hospital\n\nHON. MR. H. E. POLLOCK, K.C., asked the following questions:\n\n1. With reference to the new allocation of Sisters in A Block of the Government Civil Hospital, which was made by His Excellency the Governor at the last meeting of Council on the 3rd August, will the Government answer the following questions, namely:\n - (i). Did not Sister Kelsey, pursuant to permission granted prior to the said Meeting of Council, leave this Colony on long leave, on the 9th August?\n - (ii). Have not the services of one of the Private Nurses been requisitioned for private nursing, so as to render her unavailable for Hospital work? During what dates between the 3rd August and the date of these Questions (21st August), have the services of such Private Nurse been required for private nursing?\n - (iii). On what dates between the last Meeting of Council (3rd August) and the date of these Questions (21st August) have there been two Sisters on duty in the morning in A Block, namely, one Sister on each floor?\n - (iv). On what dates between the said dates has there been a Sister on duty, attending to the operating theatre exclusively?\n - (v). Is not Sister Gorham, pursuant to permission granted to her prior to the said Meeting of Council, due to go away from the Colony on long leave on the 30th August, 1916?\n - (vi). When will Sister Sloan complete her present current period of 1 years' Service?\n - (vii). Have the Government secured the service of any, and, if so, what Sister or Nurses since the last Meeting of Council?\n - (viii). Has Sister Jacobs resigned from the Government Hospitals Service in this Colony?\n\n2. With reference to the re-arrangement of the Staff in B Block of the Government Civil Hospital, which was announced at the said Meeting of Council, under which re-arrangement the nursing of patients in B Block is left entirely to Probationers and Japanese Nurses, will the Government state the respective lengths of Service of the Probationers who are left in charge of B Block? And will the Government also state whether such Japanese Nurses, and, if so, how many of them possess a sufficient knowledge of English, written as well as spoken, to render them independent of the aid of an Interpreter into English, in the discharge of their duties? Are the Japanese Nurses in charge of the wards in B Block or are the Probationers in charge of such wards?\n\n3. Was not the stock of drugs and disinfectants kept in store at the Government Civil Hospital considerably reduced by the present Principal Civil Medical Officer before the War?\n\nTHE COLONIAL SECRETARY replied as follows:\n\n1. \n - (i). Yes.\n - (ii). One of the private Nursing Sisters went out to a case on 3rd August and remained with the case until the 12th September. \n - (iii). From August 15th to 21st.\n - (iv). From August 15th to 21st.\n - (v). Yes. Sister Gorham was granted leave to go as soon as she desired to do so and she went on the 8th September.\n - (vi). Sister Sloan completes four years' resident service on the 13th December. She does not know at present whether she will go in December or later.\n - (vii). The following Nursing Staff have been engaged since 3rd August:\n - (a) Mrs. McEwen was taken on as a temporary maternity nurse on the 21st August. \n - (b) Mrs. Birnie was taken on on the 16th August as a temporary sister. She resigned on the 20th September.\n - (c) Mrs. Churchill was taken on on the 8th September as a temporary sister.\n - (d) Miss Halley joined as a temporary sister on the 18th September. \n - (e) Mrs. Fraser joined on the 2nd October as a temporary maternity nurse.\n - (f) Two Japanese Staff Nurses joined on the 6th September.\n - (viii). Miss Jacobs was transferred by the Colonial Office to the Federated Malay States while on leave.\n\n2. Probationer Nurse Smith appointed 1st November, 1915. Probationer Nurse Roberts on the 12th November, 1915, and Probationer Nurse Meadows on the 4th April, 1916. As to the knowledge of English possessed by the Japanese Nurses the Superintendent writes as follows: All of them possess quite a fair knowledge of writing English and are able to do so intelligently. Nurses Mishima, Sakamoto, and Tsuchimoto understand spoken English quite well, but the other two not quite so well. They all have some difficulty in reading the written language. At present they do require some amount of interpreting, but I have no doubt they will improve with daily practice in hearing and in speaking the language. Under date of the 8th of September the Matron reported as follows: I find they are improving daily and their nursing is excellent. I am quite satisfied with their progress. The last two arrivals are very good indeed and speak English quite well; they both appear to be well-trained nurses. Dr. Moore expressed his opinion to me that the nursing has been done quite satisfactorily in B Block by these nurses.\n\n As regards the nursing generally in B Block, Under date of 20th September the Superintendent of the Government Civil Hospital reported as follows: \"I have no adverse criticism to make on the work of Japanese Staff Nurses and Probationary Nurses. I know of no instance in which patients have not been properly nursed.\"", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-435 - Governor Sir May & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1916 [9-11].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 481087, "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": "CO129-456 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1919 [10-12]", "page_number": 324, "title": "CO129-456 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1919 [10-12]", "content_text": "GOVERNMENT HOUSE, HONGKONG. 10th December, 1919.\n\nReferring to previous correspondence on the subject of applications under the Wireless Telegraphy Ordinance for permission to erect and use private wireless telegraph installations, I have the honour to inform Your Lordship that I have received an application from Mr. R. Melville Smith to erect and use at his residence on the Peak a small Wireless Telegraphy Receiving Set and a small Wireless Telegraphy Transmitting Station for power not exceeding 150 watts for experimental purposes only.\n\n2. I am informed by the Commander-in-Chief of the China Station, whom I consulted on this matter, that there is no purely Naval objection to such an installation in peacetime but that the erection of isolated small power stations is strongly to be deprecated. It is probable that stations such as Cavite in the Philippines may be opened shortly for commercial purposes and it is therefore doubtful whether the possible reception of market quotations by a single individual is desirable.\n\n3. I have the honour to enquire therefore what policy His Majesty's Government wishes to be carried out.\n\nTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE\n\nVISCOUNT MILNER, G.C.B.,\n\n&c.,\n\n&c.,\n\n&c...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-456 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1919 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 485122, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-464 - Public Offices - 1920", "page_number": 64, "title": "CO129-464 - Public Offices - 1920", "content_text": "61\n\nC\n\n58758\n\n..S\"Tamar\" at Hong Kong.\n\n31st October 1920.\n\nNo.915/020/B.S./1.\n\nSir,\n\nREC REG DEC 20\n\nre-\n\n2.- Visit of Crown Prince of Rumania. Prince Carol of Roumania arrived at Hong Kong in s.s.\"Madras\" on the evening of the 10th June. I accompanied His Excellency, the Governor on board s.s. \"Madras\" and returned with him to await the arrival of the Prince, who came ashore about 6.0 o'clock with several members of his staff.\n\nHe was received at the Pier by His Excellency, and, after inspecting the Guard of Honour provided by the 2nd Battalion of the Wiltshire Regiment, drove to Government House, the streets being lined by Seamen and Marines from the Fleet and troops of the Garrison.\n\nHis Highness and his staff subsequently attended a banquet at Government House and left the same evening for Canton, returning on the morning of the 12th June, shortly before the \"Madras\" sailed for Shanghai.\n\nThe Health of the Colony has been satisfactory. There have been 191 cases of notifiable disease of which 90 were plague, 54 typhoid and 21 Cerebro-Spinal Fever, and of these latter all but 8, 25 and 0 were Chinese cases. Deaths per 1000 were 23.8, 20.6 and 19.2 during June, July and August for the whole population.\n\nFour deaths have taken place at the Naval Hospital, which has been much occupied, use has been constantly made of the Naval Sanatoriums at the Peak by Officers and Ships' Companies and I consider them a valuable adjunct to the Hong Kong Naval Establishments.\n\nI have the honour to be, Sir, Your obedient Servant,\n\n(Bad) W Bowden Smith\n\nCOMMODORE.\n\nThe Commander-in-Chief •\n\nH.M.Ships and Vessels,\n\nChina Station.\n\nThe Secretary of the Admiralty.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-464 - Public Offices - 1920.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 486576, "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": "CO129-466 - Individuals - 1920", "page_number": 255, "title": "CO129-466 - Individuals - 1920", "content_text": "#mo8\" \nto grivalget erit not \n13Å ‚ØGEL „0095 eat to Berit podra) a \ntrið grinas“ bra \". wagen, in Ar. ce \n2 taom a KUR VISTATO atvine 1Zīda de 3 Beit \nJa to produeil et qnidodmola väleird z \nanrejser doe ik al ‚roduis Iman \n*azvalq enci\n\nShe put a cat into the servant's trousers, then tied up both ends of the trousers with pieces of strings, and finally held up a stick to strike the cat. \nNaturally, it felt so painful that it jumped up and down, and scratched the servant's legs with its claws. Consequently, the servant was badly hurt.\n\nThis letter is dated Jan. 26th, 1920. \nThis woman was indeed malignant.\n\nDen: 2 mi (248 \nsonnabre unedito to 11850 AUTO PHay at ɑvotimo and t \nwo gnidles amu Bbva t dadh mi toitdue on wi czarn \n'W BIA: Jom ¡mwo «led Ja ,mozɔ [stiza Tint met mned, de *34* ~j maxið ezor Tinezeri sekoynidaik sa mga mano neby \nsInruaxe \nxea red to admadi.\n\nuj Na 3 zo hili að ghofed ad Suron s VOL STE NO To ess! \nM SIM to tuum and cl **I a. bedjutiíorg mmers/8 Jou \nro Crapoo' que omne.\n\nhe turf Br 12 A How to brzebnad \n200 Jan Jer „IANMITT \nfo\" \n300 gnot at berlin«! 650h 12 23.10 sena tua no s \ns Glynozódj a vď neðáhow medial a \nTom Ifiv san a ɛorm Juổ„10% balionor ad maɔ Bisið: bao fr \nTO Elbenih jedzen \nTO AJAJK • + \nISC GOBY Zn grant \nwol to moitabup a 11 oz yas d \nbom-fanli \nbrea I perunna ka \n\nTHE STAD: Jato sit brozen sai en (3) Lomt 3 oya Cruey OS Lare Umolet alt må grill am. I #A\" \nadengimaa Miŋ mis! Sure? #Igorą sans \n:: Fre constina Ivig mini athy merke to \nYabm 1000 sit JAL jod to sinod 3 estað of AVALON 16mnib Iace- \n1 \nIra o \nΤΟ TEATRO TE \nly el...IUR 2.79 \n*t aft \nhad od Jork en \n\nWith reference to cases (1)(2)(3) may I be informed if the girls in question were removed from their owners? \nAlso in Case (2) as this does not appear to have been a marriage case, was the go-between prosecuted and punished as a go-between, irrespective of whether there was fraud involved or not? \n\nMay I call your attention to your letter of April 16th, in which you say: \"The girls are absolutely free in law as against purchasers and in cases of ill-treatment they are removed\". \n\nWith reference to case (4) are you aware of the high regard that is felt for Miss Pitt and her work, in which case would you carefully consider her statements? \n\nWith reference to case (5) would you please note that the girl was brought from Canton to Hong Kong to be sold, thus emphasising the fact that these girls are brought from the mainland into Hong Kong.\n\nWith reference to case (6) would you please note Mr. Smith's (the Magistrate) remarks regarding legislation. \nAnd are you sure that nothing has been done by the Hong Kong Government to stop these disgraceful scenes? \nMay I also be informed as to whether the Contractor concerned was ever found and prosecuted, and if not what was the difficulty in doing so? \n\nWith reference to (7) \nAre you aware that practically every reform and every attempt on the part of the Sanitary Board to ameliorate the conditions of children in Hong Kong has been systematically thrown out by the Legislative Council? \n\nWith reference to (8). \nMay I draw your special attention to the italics which are those of the Chinese writer, and to his allusion to Hong Kong? \n\nWith reference to (9) \nWill you carefully consider this letter which was a perfectly voluntary one, and written by an ordinary everyday Chinaman who no doubt knows things as they actually exist.\n\nSystemally, may I draw your attention to the fact that both Mr. Lau Chu and Dr. Pearce, Medical Officer of Health who support the system, are both connected with the Hong Kong Government.\n\nH.L. Haalewood, \nLieut. Commander R.N. (Retired)", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-466 - Individuals - 1920.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 490702, "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": "CO129-472 - Others - 1921", "page_number": 395, "title": "CO129-472 - Others - 1921", "content_text": "## PROGRAMME (continued)\n\n-2- \nHONG KONG \n392\n\nMeeting at Dr. Rickling's. Mrs. Rolfe addresses drawing-room at Hallam.\n\n### Monday, January 3rd (contd.)\n\n| Time | Event | Person |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 4 p.m. | Conference with medical practitioners | DT |\n| 6 p.m. | 1st lecture in Teachers' Course | |\n| 6.30 p.m. | Firet 2 reels of `GIFT OF LIFE` shown | |\n| 7.15 p.m. | Address to Anglican clergy at the Bishop's house | Mrs. Rolfe |\n| 9 p.m. | Mrs. Hickling takes Commissioners to see one of the licensed houses districts | Mrs. Hickling |\n\n### Tuesday, January 4th\n\n| Time | Event | Person |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 9.30 a.m. | Interview with Mr. McPherson, Secretary, Y.M.C.A. | |\n| 10.50 a.m. | Interview with Mr. Braga | |\n| 12 noon | Meeting of Executive Committee of Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce | |\n| 3.30 p.m. | Mothers Union Meeting, Helena May Institute | |\n| 5.30 p.m. | Dr. Hallam Conference with medical practitioners | Dr. Hallam |\n| 9 p.m. | Mr. Braga takes Commissioners to see another of the licensed quarters | Mr. Braga |\n\n### Wednesday, January 5th\n\n| Time | Event | Person |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 10.15 a.m. | Interview with Attorney General, Mr. Kemp | |\n| 11 a.m. | 2nd lecture in Speakers' Course at the Institute | |\n| 12.50 p.m. | Interview with the Harbour Master, Commander Beckwith | |\n| 2.50 p.m. | Dr. Hallam inspects the Tung Wah Hospital | Dr. Hallam |\n| 3.30 p.m. | Interview with Executive Committee of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce | |\n| 5.15 p.m. | Mrs. Rolfe addresses drawing-room meeting at Mrs. Wyndham's | Mrs. Rolfe |\n| 6 p.m. | Mrs. Rolfe addresses drawing-room meeting at Mrs. Parr's | Mrs. Rolfe |\n| 7.45 p.m. | 2nd Teachers Conference. Last two reels of `GIFT OF LIFE` shown. Interview with Miss Pitts | |\n\n### Thursday, January 6th\n\n| Time | Event | Person |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 11 a.m. | Interview with Commodore Bowden-Smith | |\n| 11.30 a.m. | 3rd lecture in Speakers' Course | |\n| Afternoon | Dr. Hallam inspects Kwong Wah Hospital. Dr. Hallam inspects Chinese Dispensaries | Dr. Hallam |\n| 5.30 p.m. | Men's meeting at Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce addressed by Dr. Hallam | Dr. Hallam |\n| | Mrs. Rolfe inspects Women's Prison | Mrs. Rolfe |\n| | Parents conference at Kowloon British School addressed by Mrs. Rolfe, `END OF THE ROAD` shown | Mrs. Rolfe |\n\n### Friday, January 7th\n\n| Time | Event | Person |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 10 a.m. | 4th lecture in Speakers' Course | |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-472 - Others - 1921.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 491300, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-473 - Individuals - 1921", "page_number": 293, "title": "CO129-473 - Individuals - 1921", "content_text": "FROM 1921 Langley. FOR CIRCULATION:- Mr. Mukerji HONG KONG DATE 2 Dec. SUBJECT RF C.O 00364 REC 5 ECL 290 Mr. Grindle Sir H. Lambert Sir H. Read Sir Masterton Smith, Mr. Wood Mr. Churchill\n\nPrevious Paper applies for shake, that has been retired owing to personal reasons on the part of Commander Beckwith.\n\nMINUTES Gov 51630 Ansd 18.12.21 Caty 443- Cons 14 Dec 21 Subsequent Paper 2142487 (377300) Wt. 4710/19 Gp. 163 40000 5-21 W&S Ltd.\n\nCopy to Cur for Canton rpat his compensation at Funding Gor & Cay hat member of the Dept and him koustub lis of his lecta, that the Dept does not Convida that pastual intermens a by shelbeere ending the receipt of the bow's reply Hem is Cons 16/12 41. nearly 42. nothing about his warn be described Dr for Damil Son's def says aliment ... My alafu alive 4 for this \"very deaf\"\n\nPage ...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-473 - Individuals - 1921.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 491471, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-474 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1922 [1-4]", "page_number": 12, "title": "CO129-474 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1922 [1-4]", "content_text": "HONGKONG DAILY PRESS,\n\nCADET'S SUDDEN DEATH. THE LATE MR. PERCY BURN.\n\nMr. Percy Burn, cadet in the Hongkong Government service, died suddenly at the Government Civil Hospital on Wednesday night. He felt unwell during the day and obtained leave of absence from his duties; in the evening he became worse and was taken to hospital by ambulance, in practically an unconscious condition. He died soon afterwards and the cause of death is stated to be acute malaria.\n\nMr. Burn lived in solitary bachelor quarters in Kennedy Road; he was of a reserved disposition and had few intimate friends. Educated at Oxford, he held the B.A degree, and those with whom he came in contact in the performance of his duties formed a high opinion of his intellectual powers. Mr. Burn arrived in the Colony in December, 1912, and, after learning Cantonese, he was attached, in March, 1915, to the Imports and Exports Department, passing his final examination in that year. After a period of leave he went to the Supreme Court as Deputy Registrar and Accountant and a month ago was appointed assistant to the Secretary for Chinese Affairs and Deputy Registrar of Marriages. Mr. Burn was only 32 years of age.\n\nThe funeral took place last evening at Happy Valley. The Rev. V. H. Copley Moyle, M.A., conducted the funeral service. Amongst those who followed the body to its last resting place were:- Captain Neville, A.D.C., representing H.E. the Governor, the Puisne Judge (Mr. H. H. J. Gompertz), the Colonial Secretary (the Hon. Mr. Claud Severn), the Attorney General (the Hon. Mr. J. H. Kemp, K.C.), the Secretary for Chinese Affairs (the Hon. Mr. E. R. Hallifax), the Colonial Treasurer (the Hon. Mr. Mel. Messer), the Director of Education (the Hon. Mr. E. A. Irving), the Captain Superintendent of Police (Mr. E. D. C. Wolfe), the Crown Solicitor (Mr. G. H. Wakeman), the Local Auditor (Mr. H. R. Phelips), Mr. J. R. Wood, Lieut. Conway Hake, R.N.R., Mr. A. Dyer Ball, Mr. H. A. Nisbet, Mr. T. M. Hazlerigg, Mr. W. Schofield, Mr. A. E. Wood, Mr. N. L. Smith, Mr. H. Green, Mr. G. R. Sayer, Mr. S. B. B. McElderry, Mr. O'Sullivan, Mr. E. L. Stainfield, Mr. M. Akbar and Mr. Khan.\n\nWreaths were sent by:-The Government of Hongkong, the Interpreters and Translators of the Supreme Court, Chinese Staff of the Secretariat for Chinese Affairs, Chinese Staff of the Imports and Exports, Bailiffs of the Supreme Court, Government Audit Department, Sir William Rees Davies, Mr. H. H. Gompertz, the Hon. Mr. E. R. Hallifax, Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Wakeman, Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Taylor, Mr. and Mrs. A. Denison, Mr. and Mrs. Constantine John Hammes, Messrs. C. F. Mason, J. Scott Harston, F. X. d'Almada e Castro, A. E. Wood, H. A. Nisbet, L. E. S. Hodge, C. D. Melbourne, J. A. E. Bullocks, W. Schofield, J. B. Thomson, T. H. G. Brayfield and Commander C. W. Beckwith, R.N., Lieut. Conway Hake, R.N.R., and Messrs. Dennys & Bowley.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-474 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1922 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 491629, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-474 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1922 [1-4]", "page_number": 170, "title": "CO129-474 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1922 [1-4]", "content_text": "Similar to those in force during the war,\n\nand measures will be taken to deal with any emergency that may arise. No report of any disorder has been received.\n\n1921\n\nFROM\n\nBy the Commander-in-Chief\n\nJicho\n\n1\n\nFOR CIRCULATION:--\n\nMr.\n\nMr.\n\nMr. Grindle\n\nSir H. Lambert\n\nSir H. Read\n\nBird, Masterton Smith.\n\nMr. Wood\n\nMr. Churchill\n\nHong Kong.\n\nDATE\n\n5th March.\n\nCo 103\n\n10484\n\nRead 6 MAR 22\n\nSUBJECT\n\nSinne at Hong Kong.\n\nPrevious Paper\n\nMINUTES\n\nfov 9822\n\nFars? Expy to DAI\n\nJ.N.L\n\nCypher tel & For 1.3.22\n\nM\n\nConf. A.FF\n\n1.0.7.\n\nD. M.O.\n\nSå A Smelom\n\nA\n\ntake copy for sis AMMY.\n\nSuch\n\n6/2/22\n\n03\n\nмо\n\nxo. 7 Conf. 6 March:\n\nSubsequent Paper\n\n10887\n\nMo\n\n18 March for 12024\n\n(x) (877300) W. 4710/1P Op. 163\n\n40000 5.21 W&8 Ltd.\n\nThis has already been in connection with the question of this afternoon. A statement is being made as regards Deuch... to Peace, but he said the ... I see. A letter has been sent from the directions has his cousin after 3/22 at our office.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-474 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1922 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 493246, "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": "CO129-477 - Public Offices - 1922", "page_number": 154, "title": "CO129-477 - Public Offices - 1922", "content_text": "devoted himself unsparingly to the protection of the British interests committed to his care, and in his relations with the naval authorities, the foreign community and the Chinese officials he has upheld the best traditions of His Majesty's consular service in China,\n\n(Copy to Tokyo and Commander-in-chief.)\n\nI have, &c.\n\nB. ALSTON.\n\nP.S. Since writing the above I have received from the Commander-in-chief a despatch covering reports from the newly-arrived Senior Naval Officer in the Yang-tsze, Rear-Admiral Maclachlan, and from the commanders of the river gunboats who were present during the mutiny at Ichang, testifying to the courage, resourcefulness and devotion to duty of Mr. Smith,\n\nIt gives me great pleasure to be able to include a copy of Sir A. Duff's despatch in this report.\n\nB. A.\n\nSir,\n\nEnclosure 4 in No: 1.\n\nLieutenant-Commander Harrison to Rear-Admiral Maclachlan.--(Through\n\nH.M.S. \"Grat.\")\n\nH.M.S. \"Teal,\" at Ichang, October 8, 1921. I HAVE the honour to forward the attached letter from Lieutenant-Commander A. G. B. Wilson, D.S.O., for very favourable consideration.\n\nAlthough my acquaintance with Mr. J. L. Smith has been comparatively brief, I have already learnt to recognise his sterling qualities. His straightforward advice and sound judgment have been of the greatest value to me whenever I have been at Ichang.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nJULIAN HARRISON.\n\nYour Excellency,\n\nEnclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\nAdmiral Sir A. Duff to Sir B. Alston.\n\nCommander-in-chief's Office, China Station, December 1, 1921.\n\nI HAVE the honour to forward herewith, for your Excellency's information and any action you may think fit, the accompanying correspondence regarding the conduct of Mr. J. L. Smith, His Britannic Majesty's consul at Ichang,\n\nI have, &c.\n\nEnclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\nA. L. DUFF.\n\nSir,\n\nEnclosure 5 in No. 1.\n\nLieutenant-Commander Wilson to Lieutenant-Commander Harrison.\n\nH.M.S.\"Searah,\" at Ichang, October 8, 1921. I HAVE the honour to submit that, though aware of the fact that it is outside my authority to report on His Britannic Majesty's consuls, I would like to express officially, through you, my appreciation of the invaluable advice and assistance given me by Mr. J. L. Smith, His Britannic Majesty's consul at Ichang, during the recent difficult situation created in this area by the Hupeh-Szechuan war, the 1st September to 8th October, He has throughout been fearless and untiring in his devotion to the interests, not only of the British, but of the entire foreign community, and has conducted all matters connected with the Service in a thoroughly loyal and admirable manner. I also share in the high respect felt by all foreigners here for his personal courage, shown on many an occasion, and I would submit that he has deserved some official recognition of his extremely efficient and zealous services.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nA. G. B. WILSON.\n\nRear-Admiral Maclachlan to Sir A. Duff.\n\nH.M.S. \"Bee,\" at Shanghai, October 25, 1921. THE attached letters are submitted with a view to the name of Mr. J. L. Smith, His Britannic Majesty's consul at Ichang, being brought to the notice of the proper authorities, should you think fit.\n\nI do not yet know Mr. Smith personally, but it would appear that his conduct is worthy of recognition.\n\nSir,\n\nC. MACLACHLAN,\n\nSenior Naval Officer, Yang-tsze.\n\nEnclosure 3 in No. 1.\n\nLieutenant-Commander Hastings to Rear-Admiral Maclachlan.\n\nH.M.S.\"Gnat,\" at Kuikiang, October 18, 1921. WITH reference to the attached correspondence, I request the honour to add my appreciation of the assistance and the invaluable help given to me by Mr. J. L. Smith (His Majesty's consul, Ichang) both during and after the looting of that city in June last.\n\nIn the midst of chaotic uproar and of a mob of marauding, mutinous soldiery, his cool, sound judgment on the main issues of the situation never wavered.\n\nIn conclusion, I would like to express my admiration of his never-failing resourcefulness and of his personal courage shown during the looting, and to submit that his valuable services deserve some official recognition.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nCOSMO HASTINGS.\n\n(No. 29.)\n\nSir,\n\nEnclosure 6 in No. 1.\n\nConsul Smith to Sir B. Alston.\n\nIchang, July 18, 1921. IN my despatch No. 19 of the 10th June, I mentioned, in the last paragraph, that the outbreak of troops on the 4th of that month had led to a renewal of the agitation, reported in Ichang despatch No. 28 of the 27th December last, amongst native merchants for the establishment of a foreign settlement here.\n\nOn the 13th June three members of the gentry, Ch'en Chung ch'üan, Ma Shao wen and Huang Kung shen, who stated that they were representatives of the gentry, merchants and students of Ichang, called on me. They told me that a mass meeting was to be held the next day to discuss what steps could be taken to ensure some security for life and property in Ichang in the future; their idea was the establishment of an international settlement, to be run jointly by Chinese and foreigners on the lines of the \"Chefoo International Committee,\" which deals with municipal affairs; they had called to ascertain my attitude to the proposal. Having in mind the instructions contained in your despatch No 4 of the 9th February, to extend encouragement to the scheme, I answered generally that I should be glad to support, in principle, any reasonable project which would ensure greater security for life and property here. I could not, however, commit myself to supporting a scheme until full details of it had been communicated to me.\n\nA notice, bearing the names of seventy-seven persons, amongst whom were many leading members of the gentry, merchants, compradores of foreign firms, &c., in Ichang, had been issued calling a public meeting; this proposed the establishment of municipal Government here on Chefoo lines and the organisation of an international corps of volunteers, of which Chinese would be members. The meeting at which there was a large attendance was duly held; the proposals were unanimously agreed to, and a committee of some seventy persons, divided into sub-committees to deal with different\n\n[7844 f-3]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-477 - Public Offices - 1922.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 493252, "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": "CO129-477 - Public Offices - 1922", "page_number": 160, "title": "CO129-477 - Public Offices - 1922", "content_text": "4\n\ndevoted himself unsparingly to the protection of the British interests committed to his care, and in his relations with the naval authorities, the foreign community and the Chinese officials he has upheld the best traditions of His Majesty's consular service in China.\n\n(Copy to Tokyo and Commander-in-chief)\n\nI have, &c.\n\nB. ALSTON.\n\nP.S. Since writing the above I have received from the Commander-in-chief a despatch covering reports from the newly-arrived Senior Naval Officer in the Yang-tsze, Rear-Admiral Maclachlan, and from the commanders of the river gunboats who were present during the mutiny at Ichang, testifying to the courage, resourcefulness and devotion to duty of Mr. Smith.\n\n5\n\nEnclosure 4 in No. 1.\n\nLieutenant-Commander Harrison to Rear-Admiral Maclachlan.--{Through H.M.S. \"Graft.\")\n\nH.M.S. \"Teal,\" at Ichang, October 8, 1921.\n\nI HAVE the honour to forward the attached letter from Lieutenant-Commander A. G. B. Wilson, D.S.O., for very favourable consideration.\n\nAlthough my acquaintance with Mr. J. L. Smith has been comparatively brief, I have already learnt to recognise his sterling qualities. His straightforward advice and sound judgment have been of the greatest value to me whenever I have been at Ichang.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nJULIAN HARRISON,\n\nYour Excellency,\n\nEnclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\nAdmiral Sir A. Duff to Sir B. Alston.\n\nCommander-in-chief's Office, China Station, December 1, 1921.\n\nI HAVE the honour to forward herewith, for your Excellency's information and any action you may think fit, the accompanying correspondence regarding the conduct of Mr. J. L. Smith, His Britannic Majesty's consul at Ichang.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nA. L. DUFF.\n\nSir,\n\nEnclosure 5 in No. 1.\n\nLieutenant-Commander Wilson to Lieutenant-Commander Harrison.\n\nH.M.S. \"Scarab,\" at Ichang, October 8, 1921.\n\nI HAVE the honour to submit that, though aware of the fact that it is outside my authority to report on His Britannic Majesty's consuls, I would like to express officially, through you, my appreciation of the invaluable advice and assistance given me by Mr. J. L. Smith, His Britannic Majesty's consul at Ichang, during the recent difficult situation created in this area by the Hupeh-Szechuan war, the 1st September to 8th October. He has throughout been fearless and untiring in his devotion to the interests, not only of the British, but of the entire foreign community, and has conducted all matters connected with the Service in a thoroughly loyal and admirable manner. I also share in the high respect felt by all foreigners here for his personal courage, shown on many an occasion, and I would submit that he has deserved some official recognition of his extremely efficient and zealous services.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nA. G. B. WILSON.\n\nRear-Admiral Maclachlan to Sir A. Duff.\n\nH.M.S. \"Bee,\" at Shanghai, October 25, 1921.\n\nTHE attached letters are submitted with a view to the name of Mr. J. L. Smith, His Britannic Majesty's consul at Ichang, being brought to the notice of the proper authorities, should you think fit.\n\nI do not yet know Mr. Smith personally, but it would appear that his conduct is worthy of recognition.\n\nSir,\n\nC. MACLACHLAN,\n\nSenior Naval Officer, Yang-tsze.\n\nEnclosure 3 in No. 1.\n\nLieutenant-Commander Hastings to Rear-Admiral Maclachlan.\n\nH.M.S. \"Gnat,\" at Kuikiang, October 18, 1921.\n\nWITH reference to the attached correspondence, I request the honour to add my appreciation of the assistance and the invaluable help given to me by Mr. J. L. Smith (His Majesty's consul, Ichang) both during and after the looting of that city in June last.\n\nIn the midst of chaotic uproar and of a mob of marauding, mutinous soldiery, his cool, sound judgment on the main issues of the situation never wavered.\n\nIn conclusion, I would like to express my admiration of his never-failing resourcefulness and of his personal courage shown during the looting, and to submit that his valuable services deserve some official recognition.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nCOSMO HASTINGS.\n\nEnclosure 6 in No. 1.\n\nConsul Smith to Sir B. Alston.\n\n(No. 29.)\n\nIchang, July 18, 1921.\n\nIN my despatch No. 19 of the 10th June, I mentioned, in the last paragraph, that the outbreak of troops on the 4th of that month had led to a renewal of the agitation, reported in Ichang despatch No. 28 of the 27th December last, amongst native merchants for the establishment of a foreign settlement here.\n\nOn the 13th June three members of the gentry, Ch'en Chung ch'üan, Ma Shao wen and Huang Kung shen, who stated that they were representatives of the gentry, merchants and students of Ichang, called on me. They told me that a mass meeting was to be held the next day to discuss what steps could be taken to ensure some security for life and property in Ichang in the future; their idea was the establishment of an international settlement, to be run jointly by Chinese and foreigners on the lines of the \"Chefoo International Committee,\" which deals with municipal affairs; they had called to ascertain my attitude to the proposal. Having in mind the instructions contained in your despatch No. 4 of the 9th February, to extend no encouragement to the scheme, I answered generally that I should be glad to support, in principle, any reasonable project which would ensure greater security for life and property here. I could not, however, commit myself to supporting a scheme until full details of it had been communicated to me.\n\nA notice, bearing the names of seventy-seven persons, amongst whom were many leading members of the gentry, merchants, compradores of foreign firms, &c., in Ichang, had been issued calling a public meeting; this proposed the establishment of municipal Government here on Chefoo lines and the organisation of an international corps of volunteers, of which Chinese would be members. The meeting at which there was a large attendance was duly held; the proposals were unanimously agreed to, and a committee of some seventy persons, divided into sub-committees to deal with different...\n\n[7844 1-3]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-477 - Public Offices - 1922.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 493522, "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": "CO129-477 - Public Offices - 1922", "page_number": 430, "title": "CO129-477 - Public Offices - 1922", "content_text": "# 7\n\nI\n\nto seamen, it might have lent to the strike a semblance of an economic grievance, but pressure was gradually brought to bear on all other trades, until orders for a general \"walk-out\" on the morning of Farol.) 6 were given. Attempts have been made to describe this as a voluntary display of sympathy on the part of those concerned. Nothing can be further from the truth. As evidence of the falsity of this pretension\n\nI will cite the case of my own servant for Shameen was also involved\n\na native of Chekiang, who has been with me for twenty-two years, and who certainly had no sympathy either with seamen or Cantonese agitators,\n\nUnder a threat that he and his family of five would be assassinated, unless he quitted my service, he would, unless a settlement had been arrived at, have had to leave the island. So it was with the great majority\n\nof the servants of Hongkong. Forced to leave their employment, in many cases without money and without the means of finding shelter, they had\n\nno alternative but to try and find their way out of the Colony. During the exodus they resisted the police and some unfortunately found their death - house servants and cooks, who had nothing whatsoever to do with the seaman's strike, but who had been intimidated and hounded out of their employment by the unscrupulous agents of the Kuo kin tang, to whom, as I have stated above, the ultimate responsibilities for their death belong.\n\n11. As agitators must live and, so far as I can gather, must live well, agitation must from their point of view continue and their dupes supply them with funds. (The seamen having obtained an increase of wages, were at once called upon to pay the major portion of such increase into the party funds, a demand which led to disruption). But to allow irresponsible and in some cases criminal, agitation to be carried on unchecked is what no self-respecting Government can put up with, nor any civilized community tolerate. That even in Canton this is realised would from a recent newspaper report, according to which Your Excellency and the Garrison Commander were said to be devising means for preventing mobs from storming police stations and rescuing prisoners.\n\n12. I have gone into this question perhaps at undue length, but what I have written is merely a reiteration of what I stated verbally to Genoa Ch'en, when discussing the Shameen affair with him, and he was inclined to agree with much of what I said.\n\nA continuation of resistance to lawfully constituted authority on the part of an ill-informed and illiterate mob is inimical to the best interests of both Chinese and foreigners, and once a Government allows itself to be mounted on the back of a communistic tiger, a descent from the animal's back is by no means easy.\n\nI have etc.\n\n(sd) J.W. Jamieson,\n\n*1922\n\nCIRCULATION :-\n\nMr. Beechot\n\n30.\n\nMr. Grindle\n\nSir H. Lambert\n\nSir H. Read\n\nSir J. Masterton Smith\n\nMr. Wood\n\nMr. Churchill\n\nPrevious Paper\n\n44743\n\nSubsequent Paper\n\n53714\n\nVVL 30617–90. 00,000. 11, TA\n\nHONG KONG\n\nDATE.\n\n16 October 1922,\n\nSUBJECT\n\nREC\n\n51564\n\n(REL OCT 22\n\n429\n\nat\n\nSwatow\n\nDestruction by Tidal Wave\n\ncopy desp. for sim minister Peting,\n\nMINUTES\n\n? Put bez.\n\n19/1\n\n101\n\nr", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-477 - Public Offices - 1922.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 493726, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-478 - Public Offices & Others - 1922", "page_number": 117, "title": "CO129-478 - Public Offices & Others - 1922", "content_text": "1922.\n\nFOR CIRCULATION :—\n\nMr. Eller\n\nMr. grinet 25\n\nSir H. Lambert\n\nSir J. Masterton-Smith 25\n\nMr. Inskip, Mr. Vod\n\nMr. Churchill\n\nHONG KONG\n\nDATE 14 May\n\nSUBJECT 25048 114 REC 25 A22 HEC\n\nMui Tsai System Case of Cmdr & Mrs Haslewood.\n\nTo ask the Lord Privy Seal, whether he is aware that the Governor of Hong Kong requested the naval authorities at Hong Kong to restrain the wife of Lieutenant-Commander Haslewood, then superintendent of the chart department from advocating publicly the prohibition of the mui tsai system, and that the Commander-in-Chief thereupon tried to bring pressure to bear upon Mrs. Haslewood through her husband to desist from her public advocacy of a measure which has now been substantially adopted by His Majesty's Government, as evidenced by the proclamation in Hong Kong that slavery is not allowed to exist in the British Empire and that therefore mui tsai are not the property of their owners; and whether, in view of all the circumstances, the Government can make some amend both to Lieutenant-Commander Haslewood and to Mrs. Haslewood. [Monday 29 May]\n\nFor oral reply.\n\nI understand that a similar subject has been asked for by the PM's P.S.\n\nLe Stephenson\n\nRotterd...\n\n...\n\nSubsequent Paper 27997\n\n(372807) Wt. 20ŠIŤA/30 Op. 183 5000 11-21 W & S Ltd.\n\nFun within the measures...\n\nthe Reghin whicle (17325) :wt. Adunk apred, slightly cased 5 references to the article.\n\n...\n\nJ.G.25.5.15.\n\nPage ...\n\n(No further text is given, assuming \"Page ...\" is a placeholder for page numbering information, typically found at the bottom or top of a page.)", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-478 - Public Offices & Others - 1922.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 494012, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-478 - Public Offices & Others - 1922", "page_number": 404, "title": "CO129-478 - Public Offices & Others - 1922", "content_text": "C 21155\n\nRESS REJ 5 MA 22 R(Hong Kong 397\n\n(THIS DOCUMENT IS THE PROPERTY OF HIS BRITANNIC MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT).\n\nSECRET\n\n+ 1.0.0. 25th. Minutes.\n\n(FINAL COPY).\n\n# COMMITTEE OF IMPERIAL DEFENCE\n\n## IMPERIAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMITTEE\n\nMINUTES of the Twenty-fifth Meeting held at No.2, Whitehall Gardens, S.W., on Thursday, March 30th, 1923, at 3:0 p.m.\n\nPRESENT:\n\nThe Rt. Hon. Sir Henry Norman, Bart., M.P. (in the Chair)\n\nThe Rt. Hon. F.G. Kellaway, M.P., Postmaster General,\n\nCaptain H.K. Kitson, R.N., Admiralty,\n\nLieut.-Colonel H. Clementi Smith, D.S.O., War Office.\n\nLieut.-Colonel L.F. Blandy, D.S.O., Air Ministry.\n\nMr. E. Twentyman, Representing the Treasury,\n\nMr. R.C. Barker, C.I.E., India Office.\n\nMr. F.J. Brown, C.B., C.B.E., General Post Office,\n\nMr. R.A.C. Sperling, C.M.G., Foreign Office.\n\nMr. E.J. Harding, C.M.G., Colonial Office.\n\nMr. C. Hipwood, C.B., Board of Trade.\n\nThe following were also present:-\n\nMr. V.H. Eccles, D.Sc., F.R.S.,\n\nCaptain J.A.V. Echevarri, Air Ministry.\n\nLieut.-Colonel Sir R. Chancellor, K.C.M.G., D.S.O.,\n\nCommander H.P. Eccre, D.S.O.\n\nSecretary.\n\nAssistant Secretary.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-478 - Public Offices & Others - 1922.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 494177, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-478 - Public Offices & Others - 1922", "page_number": 569, "title": "CO129-478 - Public Offices & Others - 1922", "content_text": "562\n\nat the same time that \"The elders of the Po Leung Kuk\" (a Chinese Society for the protection of women and girls, which was responsible for the exposure of practically all the cases of cruelty,\n\nthe publication of which has formed the real strength of the abolition movement) \"are much hurt in their minds at the monstrous\n\ncharges which have been made against them.\n\nThe Anti-Mui-Tsai Society, to which the memorandum refers, is of very recent formation, and certainly contains fewer prominent Chinese than the Mui Tsai Protection Society, which until the recent decision supported the system, and which was formed as a direct outcome of the offence given by the methods of the abolitionists.\n\n5 Mr. Lau Chu Pak, who was a much respected member of the Chinese community, was no doubt consulted by the Governor, in common with many other prominent Chinese. Whether or not he kept concubines is neither here nor there. Concubines hold a recognized position in Chinese life, and\n\nin Chinese eyes there is nothing in the least\n\ndiscreditable in keeping them.\n\n6\n\nThe Colonial Office would be interested\n\nin hearing details of any effective attempt\n\nin any part of China to put down the Mui-tsai system. It is true that articles have recently appeared in the Canton press attacking the system in Hong Kong; but these are discounted by the fact that they were admittedly inspired by the Government of Sun Yat Sen, which is hostile to the British in Hong Kong and would seize any opportunity to embarrass them.\n\nDRAFT.\n\nMr.\n\nMr.\n\nMr.\n\nMINUTE.\n\nMr. Davis.\n\nSir G. Grindle.\n\nSir H. Read\n\nSir J. Merton Smith.\n\nMr. Wood.\n\nMr. Churchill.\n\nA\n\n7\n\nWith regard to the letter to Commodore\n\nGurney, the Governor has reported that he\n\nkept no copy of it, but that to the best of\n\nhis recollection it called attention to\n\nthe letters written by Mrs. Haslewood and\n\nto her husband's encouragement of her,\n\nenquired whether such conduct was in\n\naccordance with Admiralty regulations, and\n\nended with a suggestion that the Commodore\n\nshould endeavour to prevent an officer\n\nholding His Majesty's Commission from\n\ncountenancing offensive attacks on the Chinese\n\ncommunity.\n\nthe termination of Lieut-\n\n8 The circumstances attending Commander\n\nHong Kong appointenant\n\nHaslewood's resignation can only be dealt\n\nwith by the Admiralty.\n\n\"am sending them a\n\ndoubt\n\nthey\n\ncopy of this correspondence, and no\n\nwill communicate with you direct.\n\n4\n\nOn the general question, it appears\n\nthat the Governor, who could not be aware\n\nbeforehand of the view which would be formed\n\nby the Secretary of State, and who was entitled\n\nto his opinion as to the balance of advantages\n\nin maintaining or abolishing the system of\n\nMui Tsai, was entirely justified in his\n\nthe methods of attitude towards Mrs. Haslewood's agitation,\n\nsuch and that the epithets such as \"cowardly\",\n\n\"unmanly\", and \"un-English\", with which the\n\nmemorandum is besprinkled, are out of place. It is surely beyond argument that a Governor\n\nwho at a critical and dangerous time finds\n\na servant of the Crown or a member of his\n\nfamily stirring up a movement which is\n\nintensely offensive to the native community\n\nWith", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-478 - Public Offices & Others - 1922.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 494178, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-478 - Public Offices & Others - 1922", "page_number": 570, "title": "CO129-478 - Public Offices & Others - 1922", "content_text": "is not only entitled to take steps to put a stop to his activities, but would fail in his duty if he did not do so.\n\nServants of the Crown, especially in mixed communities and in critical times are bound to observe at least that minimum of abstention from agitation on controversial topics which is imposed on officers of the Navy and the Army and the Civil Service in this country at all times. Sir Edward Stubbs would have been well within his rights if he had addressed an official remonstrance to the Naval Authorities.\n\nOut of consideration for Commander Haslewood, he took the milder course of conveying a private warning to them. He is ill-repaid by this personal attack on him for doing his plain duty to the Colony and the Government.\n\nYours sincerely,\n\n(Signed)\n\nFROM\n\nCO 563\n\nCO 1922\n\nHONG KONG,\n\n2104\n\nTRE-\n\nREC 13\n\nTo Malcolm Delevingne\n\nDATE: 11th Jan.\n\nFOR CIRCULATION:—\n\nSUBJECT: Mr. Collins.\n\nMr. ...\n\nMr. Grindle\n\nSir H. Lambert\n\nSir H. Read\n\nSir J. Masterton Smith\n\nMr. Wood\n\nMr. Churchill\n\nPrevious Paper: 63490/21\n\nCoffy\n\nFor Decret do fam\n\nLF\n\nAndd 2 may 2:0) goof 1964ssen\n\nOpeine Sungghing\n\nLettre from the British Commandant, Nagaonki Stating grounds for suspicion that a British Junke Open Ships is being used\n\nThe ...\n\nA China\n\nMINUTES\n\nThe Bessett has pointed out to me that any paper containing information regarding the ... of opine Smiggling registered sunet.\n\nCopy of his Mr. Delevigne's letter & Euch. to Gov. Seuch you.\n\nLF. 116/1.\n\nAt once\n\nSubsequent Paper: 70 2086 (*1401) Wc 2017–58. 80,000 112, T.S\n\nPage 570\n\nPage 571", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-478 - Public Offices & Others - 1922.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 494235, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-478 - Public Offices & Others - 1922", "page_number": 627, "title": "CO129-478 - Public Offices & Others - 1922", "content_text": "J.\n\nFROM\n\n1922\n\nLangley La\n\nFOR CIRCULATION\n\nMr. Stubbs\n\nMr.\n\nMr.\n\nMr. Grindle\n\nMr. Davie:\n\nSir H. Lambert\n\nSir H. Read\n\nSir J. Masterton Smith\n\nMr. Wood\n\nMr. Churchill\n\nPrevious Paper\n\n17148\n\nHONG KONG\n\nDATE.\n\n22 May, 1922\n\nSUBJECT\n\nReinstatement\n\nCa 621\n\n24725\n\nREC! Reado 23 MAY22\n\nRequests interview.\n\nMINUTES\n\nMy Lamping called to see me today.\n\nHe was very fair, stated sort of undoubtedly definite defence after this from conversation ordinary line. He is quite satisfied in his own mind that Commander Beckwith is responsible for his detriment & suggests certain insufficient grounds, that he ran counter to his money-making schemes connected with opium smuggling in which...\n\nPage 2\n\nFED 08\n\nAnsd\n\nSubsequent Paper (1401) WL 20617-19. 80,000. 1121. TA\n\nSeemed uneasy as with him.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-478 - Public Offices & Others - 1922.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 497255, "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": "CO129-483 - Others & Individuals - 1923", "page_number": 501, "title": "CO129-483 - Others & Individuals - 1923", "content_text": "## DRAFT\nthat he had undertaken there on behalf of the shipowner, and refuted any representations that might be made to the contrary. He stated that the Commander-in-Chief might wish to make some concession to the shipowner, but that this would require the Admiralty's approval after consultation with the Foreign Office.\n\nAt long last, it was observed that the shipowner had received less favourable treatment than shipowners whose vessels were requisitioned by the Commander-in-Chief.\n\nThe Hon. H. J. Bushe stated that if representations were to be made, they should be delegated to someone who was familiar with the matter.\n\n(Signed) H. J. READ \n9 AUG.\n\n## MINUTE\n13 Aug. With reference to my confidential letter of the 7th instant, 190, on the subject of the Indemnity Clause, 19, I have seen Mr. Davis, Sir G. Grindle, Sir H. Read, Sir J. Masterton Smith, and Mr. Ormsby-Gore.\n\nI am to transmit to you a copy of a letter from Mr. C. L. Hattridge concerning the difficulties of the Municipal Council, Shanghai, affected by the stay of certain vessels.\n\nThe allegation was made that 141 cases of ... were stayed at the request of the Consul.\n\nAusd 53538 (15754)\n\n## File References\n`GR1178/1922/32(III)` \n`XCR(85)72` \n`Emmeno 7720`\n`Duke & Dickett & ...`", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-483 - Others & Individuals - 1923.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 500069, "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": "CO129-488 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1925 [1-7]", "page_number": 473, "title": "CO129-488 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1925 [1-7]", "content_text": "For the present have every confidence in your ability to deal with a difficult situation.\n\nI am consulting advisers about a crisis. `Gov24005/25 1tk` TAT 30.6.25\", 30.6.35 Parkin 30 \n\nHey. \nSir J. Shuckburgh, \nBir O. Davis, \nSir G. Grindle, \nMasterton Smith, \nOrmsby-Gore, \nMr. Amery.\n\nalotto 5. v. Iches fr. P.S. Affany wilkin DRAFT. (el (conf code) coded +Jaul 4.35 pm 1.9.25\n\nGov Hongkong \nYour tel 26 Janu \n460 \nC. D. R 2 JUL \n\nabo 29223 below. \nWorthing \nwas likely to send a message. To P.S. Almy. \nAdmy \nCruise cannot promise view clarifying of unprotected port or distribution of ships left to discretion Commander-in-Chief with whom you are in touch.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-488 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1925 [1-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 500222, "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": "CO129-488 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1925 [1-7]", "page_number": 626, "title": "CO129-488 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1925 [1-7]", "content_text": "## THE CORONET \n\n### THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, JULY 10TH\n\nThurs. to Sat., July 9th to 11th, at 2.30, 5.15, 7.15 and 9.15 \n\nWILLIAM DESMOND IN \"STRAIGHT THROUGH\" \nWANDA WILEY IN \"GETTING TRIMMED.\" \nOUR OWN TOPICAL.\n\n## QUEEN'S THEATRE\n\nTo-day at 5.15 p.m. and 9.15 p.m. \nLON CHANEY IN \"THE NIGHT ROSE\" IN SIX PARTS. \nSaturday, July 11th. \nLILLIAN GISH IN \"THE WHITE SISTER\" IN ELEVEN PARTS. \nTO-DAY TILL SUNDAY. At all Shows. \nWILLIAM DUNCAN AND EDITH JOHNSON IN \"THE FIGHTING GUIDE\" (IN SEVEN REELS), \nADDED ATTRACTION: \"A GAME LADY\" (COMEDY IN TWO REELS) AND TOWN TOPICS.\n\n## WORLD THEATRE NOTICE\n\n#9 \nWe beg to advise our Customers that we are well Stocked in all lines of various French Provisions. We have recently Received Large and Well Selected New Stocks. \nCome and Select your Menu from us \nMAGASIN GÉNÉRAL, The Corner Shop, Phone 3312. Beaconsfield Arcade.\n\n## [101 \nTHE NAME MOUTRIE ON A PIANO IS A GUARANTEE OF RELIABILITY. \nEASY TERMS ARRANGED. \nS. MOUTRIE & CO., LTD., CHATER RD.\n\n| Ad | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| 117 | CABLES. EARLIER CABLES THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY. |\n\n## POWERS AND CHINA. PROFUSION OF QUESTIONS IN COMMONS\n\nLONDON, July 8th. In the House of Commons at question time Mr. Austen Chamberlain declared that no proposal for severance of diplomatic relations with the Soviet Government was under consideration by His Majesty's Government. The Diplomatic Body at Peking was considering a joint reply to the fourteen points contained in the Chinese Government's note. He was not aware of any conflict of opinion between the Powers with regard to the reasonableness of the demands.\n\nMr. Beckett declared that the American Press widely stated that the American representatives were willing to accept, but that the British delegates were holding out. Mr. Chamberlain deprecated being called upon to answer questions with regard to information supplied by the different presses of the world, and emphasised that he was not aware of any conflict between the different Governments.\n\nReplying to Mr. George Lansbury, Mr. Chamberlain said that Russia was not represented on the Commission of Enquiry at Shanghai because Russia was not one of the Treaty Powers.\n\nReplying to Mr. Robinson, he said that no proposals had been received from the Government of the United States for convening an International Conference for the purpose of removing the special privileges of certain nationals in the treaty ports of China and giving the Chinese nation unrestricted control of the import duties.\n\nReplying to Mr. Ammon he said that the Government was not prepared to follow the example of Germany, Austria, and Russia by renouncing extra-territorial privileges in China. Pending the result of the present consultations between the Treaty Powers he was not in a position to add anything to his statement of July 1st.\n\n## GERMAN LOANS. UNPOPULAR DECISION BY THE REICHSTAG\n\nBERLIN, July 8th. The Committee of the Bourse has decided to close the Exchange to-day, as a protest against the decision of the Revaluation Committee of the Reichstag to differentiate between old and new holders of paper mark State Loans and grant the latter revaluation only 2 per cent., compared with 12.5 per cent. for old holders.\n\nAll other German exchanges closed also. Bankers and financiers generally are of opinion that it will be possible to parry out much differentiation and anticipate that German securities abroad will be adversely affected thereby.\n\nThe Bourse Committee consider that such a differentiation will destroy confidence in German loans. The Committee decreed that until further notice, quotations of the loans of the Reich and Federal States and towns be struck out of the list.\n\n## THE SUBMARINE CABLE. INTERESTING FILM SHOWN IN LONDON\n\n## SWATOW AFFAIRS. COMMUNAL KITCHEN IN KAKCHIOH\n\n[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] There has been boycott of British trade since July 1st. The office staffs of all British concerns left on July 4th and the crews of all British motor-boats are on strike. Europeans, however, are in many cases keeping the motor-boats going.\n\nBeyond the attempt to interfere with trade everything is quiet and there have been no attacks on foreigners other than those reported previously.\n\nA communal kitchen is being maintained in Kakchioh and provides two meals daily for the twenty residents there. H.M.S. Bluebell makes all the bread for them and the bluejackets have been doing some of the washing and assisting in the preparation of the meals ashore.\n\n## SEARCHERS FILMED. TO BE USED AS CHINESE PROPAGANDA?\n\nSpecial Constable Smith, who was in charge of a squad of Sikhs searching vehicles on Thibet Road, Shanghai, is wondering whether the police activities, which drew a large crowd on this occasion, are to be featured in some Chinese film drama or will be used for propaganda showing the foreigners' interference with the rights of Chinese in the Foreign Settlement, says the Peking and Tientsin Times.\n\nAs the foreign constable and his men were holding up some rickshas, a motor, the number 4743, came upon the scene. The driver promptly put on the brakes, and calmly sat back in his seat and watched events while the occupants of the car proceeded to film it! Before the amazed constable could inquire of the motorists as to what their intentions were, the car drove off again.\n\n## HOME CRICKET. OXFORD v. CAMBRIDGE\n\nLONDON, July 8th. The inter-Varsity match, Oxford against Cambridge, played at Lords, was drawn. Oxford batted first and made 350, Stewart Brown scoring 56 and Guise 58. Cambridge then went in and made 409, the principal scorers being Duleep Sinhji 75, Crawley 98 and Enthoven 129. The last-named player scored 104 last year and has thus equalled William Yardley's inter-Varsity record of scoring two centuries. Yardley's centuries were made in 1870 and 1872. Oxford's second innings had produced 214 for six wickets when time was called, Brown scoring 69, and Holmes 60 not out.\n\n## SINGAPORE BASE PROGRESS\n\nLONDON, July 8th. In the House of Commons, replying to Commander Kenworthy, Mr. Bridgeman described the progress of work on the new dockyard at Singapore in preparation for dredging work for the berth of the floating dock on arrival of the dredging fleet in November.\n\n## FIGHTING IN MOROCCO. RIFFS PREPARING OFFENSIVE\n\nLONDON, July 8th. \nPARIS, July 8th. \"The Romance of the Submarine Cable,\" a film illustrating the fascinating story of the manufacture, laying, repair, and everyday work of the cable, was exhibited by the Eastern Associated Telegraph Companies after luncheon at the Savoy Hotel presided over by the Vice-Chairman, Mr. J. C. Denison Pender.\n\nA message from Fez says the French evacuated two advanced posts after destruction of defences northward of Wezzan. A later despatch reports that the Riffs mustered ten thousand rifles in the Wergha region where they are endeavouring to win over tribes. The enemy is apparently aiming at a new and intensified offensive against Fez from the north to the south.\n\nThe film gives many instances of the everyday life of the Eastern Company's staff ashore and afloat, and the complicated machinery employed for covering the core of the cable is shown in all its processes.\n\n## THE COAL CRISIS. MR. BALDWIN HOPEFUL\n\nLONDON, July 8th. In the House of Commons, questioned regarding the coal crisis, Mr. Baldwin said that he thought it was clear that the possibilities for negotiation were not yet exhausted, and appealed to both sides to explore every opportunity for a settlement.\n\nHe disagreed with a Labour member who declared that the deadlock was complete.\n\n## FLYING RECORDS\n\nAMSTERDAM, July 8th. Mynheer Grase, the chief of the scientific section of the Fokker aeroplane works, flew a standard Fokker D.XIII machine of 450 h.p., with Napier Lion engine, 100 kilometres at an average speed of 260 kilometres per hour, and 200 kilometres at an average speed of 265 per hour, with a load of 500 kilogrammes. These feats are believed to be world's records.\n\n## 'SOCCER IN AUSTRALIA. ENGLISH TOURISTS WIN AGAIN\n\nNEWCASTLE, New South Wales, July 8th. The English Association Football team beat Newcastle by 3 goals to 1.\n\n## FRANCO-SIAMESE TREATY\n\nPARIS, July 8th. The Foreign Affairs Committee of the Chamber adopted a report concluding in favour of the ratification of the Franco-Siamese Treaty.\n\n## FALL FROM WINDOW. BEAUTIFUL BARONESS KILLED AFTER DANCE\n\nNEW YORK, July 8th. Baroness Helen Zurmuehlen, who is understood to have come from Java, fell early this morning from her seventh floor apartment at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel and was killed. The accident was apparently due to the heat wave. The Baroness had been dancing and had stepped to the window to get a breath of air, when her friends were horrified to see her topple over and fall to the roof of the Japanese garden far below. Her diamond ear-rings were dashed from their settings as she fell. She should have sailed on the Berengaria to-day to join her husband who is believed to be in the Dutch diplomatic service. Prior to her marriage, the Baroness was the beautiful Miss Helen Carruthers, of San Antonio.\n\n## U.S. HEAT WAVE. NINE DEATHS IN TWO DAYS\n\nNEW YORK, July 8th. The East United States are in the grip of a heat wave from which at least nine deaths have taken place in two days. Violent thunderstorms have only temporarily relieved the sweltering millions. The temperature at Washington yesterday was 105 degrees Fahrenheit.\n\n## SAAR BASIN LOAN\n\nNEW YORK, July 8th. The complete success is announced of the four million dollar seven per cent. Saar Basin Loan, offered here and at Chicago at $97.\n\n## LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD.\n\nL. C's are clearing out their stock of Aertex Underwear at reduced prices - $3.00 per Garment.\n\n## GAUNTIE HATS. HOSE AND SOCKS\n\nThe Ideal Hat for Sportsmen. Price $7.50 \nThe Ideal Summer Sock-Light Weight-Silk Mixture in Drab Brown and Grey Shades. $1.75 Pr. \n6 Prs. $10.\n\n## GENTLEMEN'S OUTFITTERS. LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD.\n\nGOLF HOSE and KHAKI SHORTS.\n\n## E. MERCK, Darmstadt. WORKS CHEMICAL ESTABLISHED 1668\n\n\"MERCK'S\" Products are second to none for Purity and Reliability. \nSole-Agents:-BORNEMANN & Co., HONGKONG, ASIATIC BUILDING. C. 4567\n\n## NEVER GOES ON STRIKE! THE DECCA\n\n$35.00 AT ANDERSON'S. EXCLUSIVE AGENCY FOR VAN RAALTE MILANESE \nVests $6.25 & $8.25 ea. O.S. $6.50 & $8.50 ea. \nKnickers to match $8.25 $8.50 $11.00 \nTeddies $8.50 $11.00 $11.00 \nSILK UNDERWEAR. \nA New Delivery of White Dresses Just Received. 600", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-488 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1925 [1-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 500247, "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": "CO129-488 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1925 [1-7]", "page_number": 651, "title": "CO129-488 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1925 [1-7]", "content_text": "## THE CORONET \n\n**THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, JULY 10TH, 1925** \n\nThurs. to Sat., July 9th to 11th, at 2.30, 5.15, 7.15 and 9.15 \n\n**WILLIAM DESMOND** \nin \n\"STRAIGHT \nTHROUGH” \nand \n**WANDA WILEY** \nin \n“GETTING TRIMMED.” \nOur own topical. \n\n**QUEEN'S THEATRE** \n\n66 \n\nTo-day at 5.15 p.m. and 9.15 p.m. \n**LON CHANEY** \nin \n\"THE NIGHT ROSE” \nin six parts. \n\nSaturday, July 11th. \n**LILLIAN GISH** \nin \n\"THE WHITE SISTER\" \nin eleven parts. \n\nTO-DAY TILL SUNDAY, At all Shows, \n**WILLIAM DUNCAN** \nand \n**EDITH JOHNSON** \nin \n\"The Fighting Guide\" \n(in seven reels), \nAdded Attraction :- \n“A Game Lady\" \n(comedy in two reels) \nand \nTown Topics. \n\n**WORLD THEATRE** \n\nNOTICE. \n89 \n\nWe beg to advise our Customers that we are well stocked in all lines of various French Provisions. We have recently received large and well-selected new stocks. Come and select your menu from us \n\n**MAGASIN GÉNÉRAL**, \nThe Corner Shop, \nPhone 3312. \nBeaconsfield Arcade. \n\nThe name **MOUTRIE** on a piano is a guarantee of reliability. Easy terms arranged. \n**S. MOUTRIE & CO., LTD.**, Chater Rd. \n\n[CABLES. EARLIER CABLES THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] \n\n## POWERS AND CHINA. \n\nPROFUSION OF QUESTIONS IN COMMONS. \n\nLONDON, July 8th. In the House of Commons at question time Mr. Austen Chamberlain declared that no proposal for severance of diplomatic relations with the Soviet Government was under consideration by His Majesty's Government. The Diplomatic Body at Peking was considering a joint reply to the fourteen points contained in the Chinese Government's note. He was not aware of any conflict of opinion between the Powers with regard to the reasonableness of the demands. \n\nMr. Beckett declared that the American Press widely stated that the American representatives were willing to accept, but that the British delegates were holding out. Mr. Chamberlain deprecated being called upon to answer questions with regard to information supplied by the different presses of the world, and emphasised that he was not aware of any conflict between the different Governments. \n\nReplying to Mr. George Lansbury, Mr. Chamberlain said that Russia was not represented on the Commission of Enquiry at Shanghai because Russia was not one of the Treaty Powers. \n\nReplying to Mr. Robinson, he said that no proposals had been received from the Government of the United States for convening an International Conference for the purpose of removing the special privileges of certain nationals in the treaty ports of China and giving the Chinese nation unrestricted control of the import duties. \n\nReplying to Mr. Ammon he said that the Government was not prepared to follow the example of Germany, Austria, and Russia by renouncing extra-territorial privileges in China. Pending the result of the present consultations between the Treaty Powers he was not in a position to add anything to his statement of July 1st. \n\n## GERMAN LOANS. \n\nUNPOPULAR DECISION BY THE REICHSTAG. \n\nBERLIN, July 8th. The Committee of the Bourse has decided to close the Exchange to-day, as a protest against the decision of the Revaluation Committee of the Reichstag to differentiate between old and new holders of paper mark State Loans and grant the latter revaluation at only 2 per cent., compared with 5 per cent. for old holders. \n\nAll other German exchanges closed also. \n\nBankers and financiers generally are of opinion that it will be impossible to carry out such a differentiation, and anticipate that German securities abroad will be adversely affected thereby. \n\nThe Bourse Committee consider that such a differentiation will destroy confidence in German loans. The Committee decreed that until further notice, quotations of the loans of the Reich and Federal States and towns be struck out of the list. \n\n## THE SUBMARINE CABLE. INTERESTING FILM SHOWN IN LONDON. \n\nLONDON, July 8th. \"The Romance of the Submarine Cable,\" a film illustrating the fascinating story of the manufacture, laying, repairing, and everyday work of the cable, was exhibited by the Eastern Associated Telegraph Companies after a luncheon at The Savoy Hotel presided over by the Vice-Chairman, Mr. J. O. Denison Pender. \n\nThe film gives many instances of the everyday life of the Eastern Company's staff ashore and afloat, and the complicated machinery employed for covering the core of the cable is shown in all its processes. \n\n## THE COAL CRISIS. \n\nMR. BALDWIN HOPEFUL. \n\nLONDON, July 8th. In the House of Commons, questioned regarding the coal crisis, Mr. Baldwin said that he thought it was clear that the possibilities for negotiation were not yet exhausted, and appealed to both sides to explore every opportunity for a settlement. \n\nHe disagreed with a Labour member who declared that the deadlock was complete. \n\n## FLYING RECORDS. \n\nAMSTERDAM, July 8th. Mynheer Grase, the chief of the scientific section of the Fokker aeroplane works, flew a standard Fokker D.XIII machine of 450 h.p., with a Napier Lion engine, 100 kilometres at an average speed of 266 kilometres per hour, and 200 kilometres at an average speed of 265 per hour, with a load of 500 kilogrammes. These feats are believed to be world's records. \n\n## 'SOCCER IN AUSTRALIA. \n\nENGLISH TOURISTS WIN AGAIN. \n\nNEWCASTLE, New South Wales, July 8th. The English Association Football team beat Newcastie by 3 goals to nil. \n\n## FRANCO-SIAMESE TREATY. \n\nPARIS, July 8th. The Foreign Affairs Committee of the Chamber adopted a report concluding in favour of the ratification of the Franco-Siamese Treaty.--Reuter. \n\n## SWATOW AFFAIRS. \n\nCOMMUNAL KITCHEN IN KAKCHIOH. \n\n[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] There has been a boycott of British trade since July 1st. The office staffs of all British concerns left on July 4th and the crews of all British motor-boats are on strike. Europeans, however, are in many cases keeping the motor-boats going. \n\nBeyond the attempt to interfere with trade everything is quiet and there have been no attacks on foreigners other than those reported previously. \n\nA communal kitchen is being maintained in Kakchioh and provides two meals daily for the twenty residents there. H.M.S. `Bluebell` makes all the bread for the bluejackets have been helping them and doing some of the washing and assisting in the preparation of the meals ashore. \n\n## SEARCHERS FILMED. \n\nTO BE USED AS CHINESE PROPAGANDA? \n\nSpecial Constable Smith, who was in charge of a squad of Sikhs searching vehicles on Thibet Road, Shanghai, is wondering whether the police activities, which drew a large crowd on this occasion, are to be featured in some Chinese film drama or will be used for propaganda showing the foreigners' interference with the rights of Chinese in the Foreign Settlement, says the `Peking and Tientsin Times`. \n\nAs the foreign constable and his men were holding up some rickshas, a motor car, No. 4743, came upon the scene. The driver promptly put on the brakes, and calmly sat back in his seat and watched events while the occupants of the car proceeded to film it! Before the amazed constable could inquire of the motorists as to what their intentions were, the car drove off again. \n\n## HOME CRICKET. \n\nOXFORD v. CAMBRIDGE. \n\nLONDON, July 8th. The inter-Varsity match, Oxford against Cambridge, played at Lords, was drawn. Oxford batted first and made 350, Stewart Brown scoring 56 and Guise 58. Cambridge then went in and made 409, the principal scorers being Duleep Sinhji 75, Crawley 98 and Enthoven 129. The last-named player scored 104 last year and has thus equalled William Yardley's inter-Varsity record of scoring two centuries. Yardley's centuries were made in 1870 and 1872 Oxford's second innings had produced 214 for six wickets when time was called, Brown scoring 69, and Holmes 68. \n\n## SINGAPORE BASE PROGRESS. \n\nLONDON, July 8th. \n\nIn the House of Commons, replying to Commander Kenworthy, Mr. Bridgeman described the progress of work on the new dockyard at Singapore in preparation for dredging work for the berth of the floating dock on arrival of the dredging fleet in November. \n\n## FIGHTING IN MOROCCO. \n\nRIFFS PREPARING OFFENSIVE. \n\nPARIS, July 8th. A message from Fez says the French northward of Wezzan evacuated two advanced posts after the removal of stores and destruction of defences. A later despatch reports that Riffs mustered ten thousand rifles in the Wergba region where they are endeavouring to win over tribes. The enemy is apparently aiming at a new and intensified offensive against Fez from the north to the south. \n\n## FALL FROM WINDOW BEAUTIFUL BARONESS KILLED AFTER DANCE. \n\nNEW YORK, July 8th. Baroness Helen Zurmuhlen, who is understood to have come from Java, fell early this morning from her seventh-floor fashionable apartment at the Carlton Hotel and was killed. \n\nThe accident was apparently due to the heat wave. The Baroness had been dancing and had stepped to the window to get a breath of air, when her friends were horrified to see her topple over and fall to the roof of the Japanese garden far below. Her diamond ear-rings were dashed from their settings as she fell. She should have sailed on the `Berengaria` to-day to join her husband who is believed to be in the Dutch diplomatic service. Prior to her marriage, the Baroness was the beautiful Miss Helen Carruthers, of San Antonio. \n\n## U.S. HEAT WAVE. NINE DEATHS IN TWO DAYS. \n\nNEW YORK, July 8th. The East United States are in the grip of a heat wave from which at least nine deaths have taken place in two days. \n\nViolent thunderstorms have only temporarily relieved the sweltering millions. The temperature at Washington yesterday was 105 degrees Fahrenheit. \n\n## SAAR BASIN LOAN. \n\nNEW YORK, July 8th. The complete success is announced of the four million dollar seven per cent. Saar Basin Loan, offered here and at Chicago at $97. \n\n| Ad | Price |\n| :------------- | :-------- |\n| Aertex Underwear | $3.00 per Garment |\n| Hat (Fine Soft Felt) | $7.50 |\n| Ideal Summer Sock | $1.75 Pr. |\n| Holeproof Socks | 6 Prs. $10 |\n| Golf Hose and Khaki Shorts | - |\n\n**LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD.** \nGentlemen's Outfitters.\n\n\"MERCK'S\" Products are second to none for Purity and Reliability. \nSole-Agents:-**BORNEMANN & Co.**, HONGKONG, ASIATIC BUILDING. \n\n## DECCA \n\n$35.00 at **THE DECCA** and **ANDERSON'S**. \n| Item | Price |\n| :------------ | :---------- |\n| Powell Vests | $6.25 & $8.25 ea. O.S. $6.50 & $8.50 ea. |\n| Knickers to match | $8.25 |\n| Teddies | $8.50, $10.50, $11.00 |\n| A New Delivery of White Dresses Just Received | - |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-488 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1925 [1-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 500467, "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": "CO129-489 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Sir Clementi - 1925 [8-12]", "page_number": 178, "title": "CO129-489 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Sir Clementi - 1925 [8-12]", "content_text": "## Confidential\n44708\n\n**C. D.**\nGov. 41606/25 HU\nR 22 SEP\n\n### Draft\n\nI we are to transmit to Zone Commander, draft copies of this despatch with the Gov. in connection with the proposal to abolish the post of Senior Inspector of Schools.\n\nThe disp. of the Gov. referred to in Tel. for further consideration is being sent out with a Letter from Jatif Asst. Sec. & a Memo.\n\nEnclosed: copy of Memo.\n\n| Date | Name |\n| --- | --- |\n| 7/9 | Cassian |\n| 11/9 | Bor. Fal. |\n| 18/9 | (NOIL on file 19894) |\n| 19/9 | Waskin |\n| 22/9 80 | Kemin |\n| | Er. Strachey |\n| | T. Shuckburgh |\n| | Mr. O. Davis |\n| | Sir G. Grindle |\n| | Wilson † Masterton-Smith |\n| | Mr. Ormsby-Gore |\n| | Mr. Amery |\n\n24 Sept: 25.\n\n182 \n\nPage 45 \n\n`GR1178/1922/32(III)` \n`XCR(85)72` is not present in the original text, hence not included.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-489 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Sir Clementi - 1925 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 501133, "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": "CO129-490 - Public Offices - 1925", "page_number": 160, "title": "CO129-490 - Public Offices - 1925", "content_text": "to say the American had driven her out.\n\n(Gd) A.E. SMITH\n\nCommander-in-Command.\n\n157", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-490 - Public Offices - 1925.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 524217, "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": "CO129-523-8 Hong Kong Flying Club 21-12-1929 - 8-1-1930", "page_number": 7, "title": "CO129-523-8 Hong Kong Flying Club 21-12-1929 - 8-1-1930", "content_text": "# THE FLYING CLUB.\n\n## INAUGURATED AT CITY HALL MEETING.\n\n### GOVERNOR ON FUTURE FAR EAST AERIAL DEVELOPMENT.\n\n### OFFICERS APPOINTED.\n\nSpeaking at the inaugural meeting of the Hongkong Flying Club yesterday, His Excellency the Governor said the Government was determined to leave nothing undone to assist Hongkong in becoming one of the best air-ports in the Far East. He said the possibilities of aviation in China were limitless, and referred to early days of travel in the country when journeys through the provinces occupied months. He had heard it said that a German company contemplated an air service from Berlin to Peking in five days. If Hongkong could connect with such a service in two days such developments would completely revolutionise life in the Far East.\n\nResolutions were passed at the meeting forming the Hongkong Flying Club and authorising certain officers named below to proceed generally with its organisation.\n\n## OBJECTS OF THE CLUB OUTLINED.\n\nThe meeting was held in the City Hall, His Excellency the Governor presiding. Others present were the Hon. Mr. W. T. Southorn, Commodore R. A. S. Hill, H. E. Major General J. W. Sandilands, the Hon. Mr. H. T. Creasy, the Hon. Sir Henry Pollock, the Hon. Mr. W. E. L. Shenton, the Hon. Sir Shou-son Chow, the Hon. Dr. R. H. Kotewall, the Hon. Dr. S. W. T'so, the Hon. Mr. J. P. Braga, the Hon. Commander G. F. Hole, Sir Robert Ho Tung, Colonel L. G. Bird, Professor Middleton Smith, Captain K. V. B. Benfield, Wing Commander A. H. S. Steele-Perkins, Mr. E. I. Wynne Jones, Mr. R. Vaughan-Fowler, Lt. Commander W. B. Keith, Mr. A. W. Summers, and Mr. A. Ritchie. There were also about fifty prospective members of the Flying Club present, including two ladies.\n\nHis Excellency the Governor was accompanied by Captain F. G. Sillitoe, A. D. C. Addressing the meeting he said.-\n\nGentlemen,-We are met here this afternoon, in order to constitute a Flying Club in Hongkong. It is a great pleasure to me to preside over a meeting held for this purpose, and I am exceedingly glad that the Club is to be constituted before I leave Hongkong. The objects of the Club are as follows:\n\n1. (a) To provide flying instruction;\n\n(b) To create air-mindedness in this Colony;\n\n(c) To make better known in the Far East British flying machines and British methods of flying;\n\n(d) To provide the necessary training for the nucleus of a Volunteer Air Squadron;\n\n(e) To provide another opportunity for social intercourse between all communities in this Colony without distinction of race or class.\n\n## Government Determination.\n\nHongkong is already the greatest shipping-port in the Far East, and the Government and the people of this Colony are determined to leave nothing undone which may assist Hongkong to take its rightful place as one of the best, if not the very best, of the air-ports in the Far East. The Hongkong Government, with the full support and encouragement of His Majesty's Government, has now almost completed the construction of the Kai-tak aerodrome at the head of Kowloon bay. We are also about to erect, again with the assistance of His Majesty's Government, a suitable hangar in this aerodrome, capable of housing not only the flying machines of the Royal Air Force, but also those intended for commercial aviation and for the use of the Flying Club.\n\nMoreover, the Hongkong Government attaches so much importance to the establishment of a Flying Club in the Colony that the Legislative Council has voted $60,000 as an initial grant to the Club and has also undertaken to pay the Club an annual subsidy of $30,000. These votes have received the approval of the Secretary of State for the Colonies, and we are met today to inaugurate the Club, so that it may be in a position to commence work early in next year.\n\n## Possibilities in Far East.\n\nThe Great War, and still more the years subsequent to the Great War, have demonstrated the immense possibilities of aviation, both military and commercial. Hitherto the Far East has in this respect lagged behind; but the opportunities here are infinite, and I am confident that from small beginnings we shall lay the foundations of very important aerial developments.\n\nWe hope that in this matter we shall have the co-operation of China, who is our nearest neighbour, and not only of China, but of Japan, the Philippine Islands, Macao, Kwang-chouwan, French Indo-China and Siam.\n\nI do not, of course, suggest that members of the Hongkong Flying Club will at the outset wing their way all over the countries I have named; but the remarkable achievements of airmen and airwomen in Europe suggest that in the near future flights from Hongkong may be made quite often along the whole west coast of the Pacific, and even further still.\n\nPage 2\n\nThe possibilities for aviation in China appear to me to be limitless, for aviation has begun at a time when the Eighteen Provinces possess very few railways, in comparison with their size,—some of them none at all.—when scarcely any trunk roads suitable for motor traffic have been built, and when the lawlessness ashore and piracy at sea suggest that the air may be a safer medium of transport than land or water.\n\nThe club would be registered with limited liability on the lines of other clubs in the Colony and the membership would be irrespective of nationality, being subject only to the votes of the members of the committee. The experience by the formation of a Flying Section, and to offer facilities for sport and social intercourse.\n\n## The First Officers.\n\nThe Hon. Sir Henry Pollock proposed \"that the undermentioned persons shall be the first members of the General Committee and are authorised to take such steps as may be necessary for the preparation of the memorandum and articles of association of the Club and the bye-laws, and that they are authorised to proceed with the organisation of the proposed Club.—\n\nPresident and the Government Representative would be nominated by His Excellency the Governor.\n\nWing Commodore.—The Hon. Mr. W. E. L. Shenton.\n\nNaval Representative.—Lt. Commander W. B. Keith, R. N.\n\nMilitary Representative.—Capt. K. V. B. Benfield, D.S.O., M. C., (G.S.O. III. China Command.).\n\nRoyal Air Force.—Wing Commander A. H. S. Steele-Perkins, O.B.E., R. A. F.\n\nGovernment Representative.—The Hon. Commander G. F. Hole, R. N. (retired).\n\nHonorary Secretary.—Mr. A. W. Summers.\n\nHonorary Treasurer.—Mr. A. Ritchie.\n\nClub Captain.—Mr. E. I. Wynne-Jones.\n\nCommittee.—Mr. R. Vaughan-Fowler.\n\nA Picture of Olden Days.\n\nI can remember how toilfully, years ago, I made my way on foot and on horseback through most of the Eighteen Provinces of China. The various journeys occupied months—one of them almost a year.\n\nBut now a flight from Hongkong to Peking should easily be made in two days. A flight to Ch'eng-tu Szechuan, or Lanchou-fu Kansu should take no longer; and a flight to Hankow or Yunnan-fu might be made in a day.\n\nI have heard it said that the German Lufthansa contemplates a flying service from Berlin to Peking in five days. If from Hongkong we can connect with such a service in two days, the journey to England would take little more than a week. Such developments will completely revolutionize life in the Far East and will bring the mother country much closer to Hongkong and, as I hope, thereby assist our people better to understand Hongkong and to give Hongkong larger measure of their interest and support. The best way for us to assist in such developments is to create air-mindedness in this Colony, and the best way to create air-mindedness is to form a Flying Club.\n\n## Preparatory Work.\n\nThe preparatory work for the formation of a Hongkong Flying Club was largely done by Mr. Vaughan-Fowler, whose unbounded enthusiasm and wide experience as an airman has enabled us to present to you today an attractive scheme for its inauguration.\n\nI have appointed the Honourable Mr. W. E. L. Shenton to be the first Wing Commodore and President of the Club, and I now invite him to explain to you in outline the proposed draft constitution of the Club. You will then be asked to approve of these proposals in principle and to appoint a committee to work out the necessary details.\n\n## Club Organisation.\n\nThe objects of the proposed club were outlined by the Hon. Mr. W. E. L. Shenton who said that the details of the organisation would be worked out by the Committee. The objects of the Club, he said, were to teach the principles of flying, to offer the Government trained pilots and engineers in the event of an emergency, to gain aerial experience by the formation of a Flying Section, and to offer facilities for sport and social intercourse.\n\nMr. Summers had offered his services as secretary and Mr. Ritchie had undertaken the duties of Honorary Treasurer until the club was a going concern.\n\n### Forms of Membership.\n\nDealing with the membership of the club, the Hon. Mr. Shenton said there would be flying, subscribing members and also or associate honorary members. The former would pay a larger entrance fee and subscription and would be called upon to sign a declaration. This was in consideration of the financial assistance received from the Government, which naturally desired to secure the services of the club in the event of a crisis.\n\nProposing a vote of thanks to His Excellency the Governor, the Hon. Mr. Shenton said that he was sure the club would be a successful one. Replying, His Excellency expressed thanks and wished the Hongkong Flying Club every possible success in the future.\n\nThe form of declaration similar to that adopted by other flying clubs and provided that in the event of the Governor declaring a state of emergency, a flying member placed his services at the disposal of the Government, subject to any obligations which may attach to him as a member of the Flying Club.\n\nHe added that the entrance fee for flying members would be $30 and that for subscribing members $20. The former would pay a monthly subscription of $5 and the latter $3.\n\nIt was the intention of the Government to give special facilities to members of the Hongkong Volunteer Defence Corps who would be given free instruction in aviation on terms to be decided by the Governor in Council. The Committee would draw up rules and regulations to control flying and for the conduct of the Club generally.\n\nThe Hon. Mr. Shenton then proposed that the Hongkong Flying Club be formed, Mr. R. Vaughan-Fowler seconding. The motion was carried unanimously when put to the meeting by His Excellency the Governor.\n\nPage 8", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-523-8 Hong Kong Flying Club 21-12-1929 - 8-1-1930.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 525450, "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": "CO129-525-3 Estimates 1931 and other financial papers 16-1-1930 - 1-9-1932", "page_number": 343, "title": "CO129-525-3 Estimates 1931 and other financial papers 16-1-1930 - 1-9-1932", "content_text": "HONG KONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.\n\n29\n\n26th February, 1931.\n\nPRESENT:-\n\nHIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR (SIR WILLIAM PEEL, K.C.M.G., K.B.E.);\n\nTHE HON. THE OFFICER COMMANDING THE TROOPS, (COLONEL R. B. COUSENS, D.S.O.).\n\nTHE COLONIAL SECRETARY (HON. MR. E. R. HALLIFAX, C.M.G., C.B.E.).\n\nTHE ATTORNEY GENERAL (HON. MR. C. G. ALABASTER, K.C., O.B.E.).\n\nTHE SECRETARY FOR CHINESE AFFAIRS (HON. MR. A. E. WOOD).\n\nTHE COLONIAL TREASURER (HON. MR. C. McI. MESSER, O.B.E.).\n\nHON. MR. H. T. CREASY, C.B.E. (Director of Public Works).\n\nHON. MR. E. D. C. WOLFE, C.M.G. (Inspector General of Police).\n\nHON. COMMANDER G. F. HOLE, R.N. (Retired) (Harbour Master).\n\nHON. DR. A. R. WELLINGTON (Director of Medical and Sanitary Services).\n\nHON. SIR SHOU-SON CHOW, KT.\n\nHON. MR. W. E. L. SHENTON.\n\nHON. MR. J. OWEN HUGHES.\n\nHON. MR. J. P. BRAGA.\n\nHON. MR. S. W. TS'O, O.B.E., LL.D.\n\nHON. MR. C. G. S. MACKIE.\n\nHON. MR. J. J. PATERSON.\n\nMR. N. L. SMITH (Clerk of Councils).\n\nABSENT:-\n\nHON. MR. R. H. KOTEWALL, C.M.G., LL.D.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-525-3 Estimates 1931 and other financial papers 16-1-1930 - 1-9-1932.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 530400, "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": "CO129-533-9 Revision of Tobacco Taxation system 17-2-1931 - 13-11-1931", "page_number": 11, "title": "CO129-533-9 Revision of Tobacco Taxation system 17-2-1931 - 13-11-1931", "content_text": "# HONG KONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL\n## 26th February, 1931\n### 29\n\n**PRESENT:-**\n\n* **HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR** (**SIR WILLIAM PEEL, K.C.M.G., K.B.E.**)\n* **THE HON. THE OFFICER COMMANDING THE TROOPS** (**COLONEL R. B. COUSENS, D.S.O.**)\n* **THE COLONIAL SECRETARY** (**HON. MR. E. R. HALLIFAX, C.M.G., C.B.E.**)\n* **THE ATTORNEY GENERAL** (**HON. MR. C. G. ALABASTER, K.C., O.B.E.**)\n* **THE SECRETARY FOR CHINESE AFFAIRS** (**HON. MR. A. E. WOOD**)\n* **THE COLONIAL TREASURER** (**HON. MR. C. McI. MESSER, O.B.E.**)\n* **HON. MR. H. T. CREASY, C.B.E.** (**Director of Public Works**)\n* **HON. MR. E. D. C. WOLFE, C.M.G.** (**Inspector General of Police**)\n* **HON. COMMANDER G. F. HOLE, R.N. (Retired)** (**Harbour Master**)\n* **HON. DR. A. R. WELLINGTON** (**Director of Medical and Sanitary Services**)\n* **HON. SIR SHOU-SON CHOW, KT.**\n* **HON. MR. W. E. L. SHENTON**\n* **HON. MR. J. OWEN HUGHES**\n* **HON. MR. J. P. BRAGA**\n* **HON. MR. S. W. TS'O, O.B.E., LL.D.**\n* **HON. MR. C. G. S. MACKIE**\n* **HON. MR. J. J. PATERSON**\n* **MR. N. L. SMITH** (**Clerk of Councils**)\n\n**ABSENT:-**\n\n* **HON. MR. R. H. KOTEWALL, C.M.G., LL.D.**", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-533-9 Revision of Tobacco Taxation system 17-2-1931 - 13-11-1931.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 531643, "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": "CO129-536-1 Estimates- 1932 3-9-1931 - 16-6-1933", "page_number": 135, "title": "CO129-536-1 Estimates- 1932 3-9-1931 - 16-6-1933", "content_text": "SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1931.\n\nCHINA UNITY.\n\nOrders to Wind Up Canton Government?\n\nSOUTH'S OPTIMISM.\n\nAnticipating Nanking negotiations for peace, making preparations for the dissolution of the Canton Government on November 1.\n\nCanton officials are said to be of success the\n\nNanking, Oct. 14.\n\nGovernment organs for the control of narcotic drugs are to be established by the Ministry of Interior, according to a resolution adopted at yesterday's meeting of the Kuo-Wa-Hui-I (State Council) pursuant to a recommendation from the National Opium-Suppression Commission.\n\nThe Wah Kiu Yat Po, which publishes a message to this effect from Shanghai, says that Canton Government departmental heads have been instructed to proceed with the work of winding up their departments within two weeks' time.\n\nThe unfinished work of these departments will be transferred to Nanking, where it is expected that several of the high officials of the Southern Government will be invited to administer departments in the new Government.\n\nSouthern Optimism.\n\nThe establishment of the proposed new organs is expressly provided for by Regulations governing the Control of Narcotic Drugs recently promulgated by the National Government.\n\nThe main function of these new organs will be to see that narcotic drugs are limited to scientific and medical uses and that the sale of narcotic drugs devoted to purposes other than the authorized ones is strictly suppressed.—Kua Min.\n\nTHE DRUG TRAFFIC.\n\nChina Makes New Plans for Suppression.\n\nNanking, Oct. 14.\n\n...\n\nSCIENCE CONGRESS.\n\nScientists to be Invited to China.\n\nTHE TSANG FOO VILLAS MURDER TRIAL.\n\nDISCHARGE OF TWO DEFENDANTS YESTERDAY AFTERNOON.\n\nVICTIM'S TERRIBLE INJURIES.\n\nTwo of the twelve defendants in the Tsang Foo Villas murder trial were discharged in the course of yesterday's proceedings before Mr. Fraser at the Kowloon Magistracy.\n\nThe evidence given against these two men was such, his Worship said, that no jury would convict.\n\nEvidence given of the injuries received by the Japanese showed that the bodies in all cases were mutilated.\n\nThe injuries received by the amah of sixteen were particularly brutal.\n\nFURTHER DECISIONS TO-DAY?\n\nRACIAL VIRILITY.\n\nSir L. Hill on Birth Control.\n\nSURNAMES.\n\nOur Own and Other Peoples.\n\nDOWNFALL OF EMPIRES. CURIOSITIES OF ORIGIN\n\nAt the annual conference of the Sanitary Inspectors' Association at Bridlington, Sir Leonard Hill, in his presidential address, said that the sanitary inspectors' Association at Bridlington, Sir Leonard Hill, in his presidential address, said that the birth rate was now the subject of intensive propaganda among the masses of the people, and the no-child or one-child home was becoming the rule.\n\nAlthough the unskilled continued as yet to breed more than the skilled, birth-control was practised in every class of society.\n\nIn consequence, between 1921-31 the population of Great Britain had increased hardly more than in the 10 years 1911-21, which included the War, when about a million young men were killed and several millions listed and were taken away from family life.\n\nThe infant mortality rate had fallen from 167 per 1,000 births at the end of last century to 60 in 1930, but the saving so effected compensated very little for the enormous drop in the birth rate.\n\nThe annual increase of births over deaths per 1,000 living was 12 at the end of last century, and in 1929 it was under three, so very shortly the population would be stationary; the proportion of older persons increasing as children became scarcer.\n\nThree children per family were required to make good the losses and keep up the population.\n\nOne-child families meant halving the population—\n\n(By Walter G. Bell, in the Daily Telegraph).\n\n\"John ate chyldren.\" So he did, did he? A husbandman was this John; one goes out to the Fen country around Huntingdon for \"Richard ate Forty\"—a ferocious monster when at table.\n\nReading old documents from days when villeinage flourished in England, one experiences shocks like these not infrequently.\n\nThen consciousness comes that all that is meant is \"at\" or \"off,\" and the ogre is really the quite inoffensive John at Chiltern.\n\nThe other is of Ford—to find him you at the ford.\n\nSpelling was apt to vary with each clerk who wrote, and much corruption crept in.\n\nBut can one account by geography alone for \"Thomas atte Hell,\" a Suffolk man? He was the man at the hill.\n\nBARONET WITH A WHIP.\n\nFined for Striking Two \"Noisy\" Young Men.\n\nROADSIDE GATHERING.\n\nSir Christopher Furness, Bart., of Netherbyres, Ayton, Berwickshire, was fined 10s. at Eyemouth on a charge of assaulting two young men by striking them with a whip.\n\nMr. A. Carnegie, prosecuting, said that on August 14, at night, a band of young men were congregated on the road between Eyemouth and Ayton.\n\nOne started to play a mouthorgan and the others started to dance, and no doubt they were a bit hilarious.\n\nSir Christopher approached them and struck George Todd Dougal, of Eyemouth, across the back with a whip.\n\nThe others, with the exception of George Collin, also of Eyemouth, ran away, and Sir Christopher struck Collin across the face with a whip.\n\nFor the defence it was submitted that Sir Christopher was ill and that the noise had so upset him that he had impulsively sought his own remedy.\n\nThe chairman said that this mitigated very much the seriousness of the offence, but there was no excuse for Sir Christopher taking the law into his own hands.\n\nSir Christopher is 31, and the third baronet.\n\nHis father, Sir Stephen Wilson Furness, succeeded Sir Christopher Furness, who was Chairman of Furness, Withy and Co., Ltd., and Liberal M.P. for Hartlepool 1910-14.\n\nAt this juncture, Mr. White-Smith asked for Richard\n\nOur forenames are mostly much older than our surnames.\n\nWhen the Domesday Book accounts for some 283,000 inhabitants in all of England that was surveyed—it sufficed to indicate John by his place of residence, or as John the son of Richard, or very frequently John the servant of his named master; often, too, as John Sessmith, distinguished by his trade.\n\nSince names of persons are of first importance, and their indication is no longer so simple as this, whom he succeeded in 1914, was\n\nLegal Attitude.\n\nOdd that while names are supremely important in the transaction of life, the law has paid little or no head.\n\nIt will offend a man's title to his own name when there has been fraudulent misuse, but in nothing else.\n\nMen and women may call themselves just what they please, change their names as often as they like; the law is not concerned.\n\nCustom ordains that on marriage a woman shall adopt her husband's surname, signing her patronymic at birth and on the marriage register, but there is no legal enforcement of it.\n\nThe first witness called yesterday was Dr. J. Smalley, who testified that certain Japanese were admitted to the Kowloon Hospital on the night of September 26.\n\nThe first to be admitted entered the hospital at about 11 p.m. and the last one at about 12.45 a.m.\n\nIn all cases, the Police brought in the arrested.\n\nThe eighth was arrested in a hut in Po Kong Village at about midnight.\n\nHe had a wound on his head, which he said he had received from the military.\n\nWitness examined Shiro Yamashita, the boy of four, whose skull was fractured.\n\nThere were multiple injuries, and although he was conscious, he was obviously dying.\n\nNothing could be done for him and he never recovered.\n\nHe was about 60 feet from the gate of Tsang Foo Villas.\n\nThis man was arrested about ten minutes after the eighth defendant was arrested.\n\nNiyoji Yamashita, the boy of nine, had multiple injuries, his skull and left thigh bone being fractured.\n\nHis condition was very bad.\n\nHe was given medical treatment, but passed away at 1 a.m.\n\nSumiko Yamaguchi, the Japanese amah of 16, had multiple injuries including a scalp wound, while her skull was fractured.\n\nShe had many bruises all over her body.\n\nDr. Smalley then described her other injuries.\n\nHer wounds were inflicted by blunt weapons such as sticks or poles.\n\nMiyo Yamashita, the old lady, had a fractured skull, while two irregular lacerated wounds were growing up in Africa with education of the native races.\n\nAlleged Street Incident.\n\nA Chinese constable, B632, said he was on duty between 6 a.m. and 10 a.m. outside Tsang Foo Villas on September 27.\n\nWhilst he was on duty, he met with three men, of whom defendant was one, talking near the wall of Tsang Foo Villas.\n\nTwo policemen had been posted there.\n\nEn-vene Chen asked why ten\", Tsai Yuan-pei, C. C. Wu (Western Hills clique) conferred to represent China at the Fifth Convention of the Pacific Conference to be held next May in Canada.\n\nSince the institute has been designated to represent China at the fifth convention, a preparatory committee of 11 experts has been appointed to attend to all preliminary matters.\n\nMr. Ewen cites the case, in the year 1857, of a Mr. Bedbug who changed his name to Bowditch.\n\nA Satisfactory Conclave.\n\nShanghai, Oct. 22.\n\nMarshal Chiang Kai-shek and Messrs. Hu Han-min, Wang Ching-wei, Sun Fo, Li Chi-sen, Li Shih-shan, Tsai Yuan-pei, C. C. Wu (Western Hills clique) conferred yesterday morning for two hours.\n\nThe entire peace mission proceeded to the residence of Mr. Hu Han-min immediately upon their arrival and it was while there that Mr. Wang Ching-wei and the peace delegates will leave for Nanking immediately after a meeting with General Chiang Kai-shek.\n\nStatements of Defendants.\n\nThe 12 defendants made various statements to Mr. Whyte-Smith, A.S.P., and Sub-Inspector Murphy.\n\nMr. Whyte-Smith said that was all the evidence against this defendant, your Worship.\n\nHis Worship said that the evidence is such that no jury would convict.\n\nHe accordingly discharged the sixth and twelfth defendants.\n\nThe fourth defendant said he went so near to Tsang Foo Villas because he saw his brother had been injured and he went inside the house to see what was going on.\n\nThe fifth defendant, a boy of 15, said he was there to pick him up.\n\nThe sixth defendant, another boy of 15, said he had nothing to do with the murder.\n\nThe seventh defendant referred to a bandaged arm.\n\nThe eighth defendant, who was arrested in his hut that night, said he had never been out of his hut that evening.\n\nThe ninth defendant, who was represented by Mr. F. X. D'Almada, Sr., said he knew absolutely nothing.\n\nThe tenth, eleventh, and twelfth defendants made the same statement.\n\nTo Leave for Nanking.\n\nNanking, Oct. 22.\n\nMr. Wang Ching-wei and the peace delegates will leave for Nanking immediately after a meeting with General Chiang Kai-shek.\n\nCanton's Reservations.\n\nCanton, Oct. 22.\n\nInterviewed as to the reliability of the report that the Canton Government will be wound up within two weeks' time, a certain member of the Council has remarked that this is premature.\n\nThe Government is still uncertain whether the overthrow of dictatorial government will be effected, and the Canton Government must remain until this end has been attained.\n\nConditional Dissolution.\n\nCanton Army Changes.\n\nGen. Yen Yin-nai, Commander of the 1st New Division has tendered his resignation, and asked for troops to be disbanded.\n\nThe Government has decided to comply.\n\nGen. Ye will be reappointed as a staff officer.\n\nGen. Chan Chatong has decided to enlarge the Peace Preservation Corps into a brigade with Mr. Chan Chang-po as commander.—Rensha.\n\nMr. Eugene Chen.\n\nCanton, Oct. 22.\n\nAn extraordinary session of the Kuomintang C.E.C. to-day formally appointed Mr. Eugene Chen as delegate to the Shanghai peace parley.\n\nMr. Chen will take a leading part in discussing Sino-Foreign relations, particularly Manchurian affairs.—Central Press.\n\nAll the Talents.\n\nShanghai, Oct. 22.\n\nGood progress is being made by the leaders representing the various factions of the Kuomintang for the formation of the new National Government at Nanking representative of \"all the talents.\"\n\nIn this connexion, Mr. Wang Ching-wei, the Kuomintang Leftist leader, who is heading the Canton peace mission of five members, conferred yesterday morning for two hours with Mr. Hu Han-min, the leader of the Nanking Conservatives.\n\nThe entire peace mission proceeded to the residence of Mr. Hu Han-min immediately upon their arrival and it was while there that Mr. Wang Ching-wei and the peace delegates held a lengthy discussion of possible cases, but as a critic has pointed out, the name appears to have had little or nothing to do with either \"shake\" (verb) or \"spear.\"\n\nMASSAGE.\n\nMR. & MRS. Y. MORI,\n\nCertificate.\n\nHolder of Japanese Government Certificate. Sprained Ankle and Wrist opp. \"South China Morning Post.\" 4, Wyndham Street. (1st floor). Telephone 26051.\n\n\"SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST\" is always on sale at SELFRIDGE'S London, W. 1.\n\nPage 15\n\nPage 15\n\nPage 15\n\nPage 16\n\nPage 16\n\nPage 16", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-536-1 Estimates- 1932 3-9-1931 - 16-6-1933.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 535489, "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": "CO129-541-2 Estimates 1931 14-10-1932 - 19-7-1934", "page_number": 81, "title": "CO129-541-2 Estimates 1931 14-10-1932 - 19-7-1934", "content_text": "HONG KONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.\n\n12th July, 1934.\n\n65\n\nPRESENT:-\n\nHIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR (SIR WILLIAM PEEL, K.C.M.G., K.B.E.).\n\nHIS EXCELLENCY THE OFFICER COMMANDING THE TROOPS (MAJOR-GENERAL O. C. BORRETT, C.B., C.M.G., C.B.E., D.S.O.).\n\nTHE COLONIAL SECRETARY (HON. SIR THOMAS SOUTHERN, K.B.E., C.M.G.).\n\nTHE ATTORNEY GENERAL (HON. MR. R. E. LINDSELL).\n\nTHE SECRETARY FOR CHINESE AFFAIRS (HON. MR. N. L. SMITH).\n\nTHE COLONIAL TREASURER (HON. MR. E. TAYLOR).\n\nHON. MR. E. D. C. WOLFE, C.M.G., (Inspector General of Police).\n\nHON. COMMANDER G. F. HOLE, R.N., (Retired) (Harbour Master).\n\nHON. DR. A. R. WELLINGTON, C.M.G., (Director of Medical and Sanitary Services).\n\nHON. MR. R. M. HENDERSON, (Director of Public Works).\n\nHON. SIR WILLIAM SHENTON, KT.\n\nHON. MR. C. G. S. MACKIE.\n\nHON. MR. R. H. KOTEWALL, C.M.G., LL.D.\n\nHON. MR. J. P. BRAGA.\n\nHON. MR. S. W. TS’O, O.B.E., LL.D.\n\nHON. MR. T. N. CHAU.\n\nHON. MR. W. H. BELL.\n\nHON. MR. J. OWEN HUGHES.\n\nMR. R. A. C. NORTH, (Deputy Clerk of Councils).\n\nMINUTES.\n\nThe Minutes of the previous meeting of the Council were confirmed.\n\n100", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-541-2 Estimates 1931 14-10-1932 - 19-7-1934.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 535498, "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": "CO129-541-2 Estimates 1931 14-10-1932 - 19-7-1934", "page_number": 90, "title": "CO129-541-2 Estimates 1931 14-10-1932 - 19-7-1934", "content_text": "HONG KONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.\n\n12th July, 1934.\n\n65\n\nPRESENT:-\n\nHIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR (SIR WILLIAM PEEL, K.C.M.G., K.B.E.).\n\nHIS EXCELLENCY THE OFFICER COMMANDING THE TROOPS (MAJOR-GENERAL O. C. BORRETT, C.B., C.M.G., C.B.E., D.S.O.).\n\nTHE COLONIAL SECRETARY (HON. SIR THOMAS SOUTHORN, K.B.E., C.M.G.).\n\nTHE ATTORNEY GENERAL (HON. MR. R. E. LINDSELL).\n\nTHE SECRETARY FOR CHINESE AFFAIRS (HON. MR. N. L. SMITH).\n\nTHE COLONIAL TREASURER (HON. MR. E. TAYLOR).\n\nHON. MR. E. D. C. WOLFE, C.M.G., (Inspector General of Police).\n\nHON. COMMANDER G. F. HOLE, R.N., (Retired) (Harbour Master).\n\nHON. DR. A. R. WELLINGTON, C.M.G., (Director of Medical and Sanitary Services).\n\nHON. MR. R. M. HENDERSON, (Director of Public Works).\n\nHON. SIR WILLIAM SHENTON, KT.\n\nHON. MR. C. G. S. MACKIE.\n\nHON. MR. R. H. KOTEWALL, C.M.G., LL.D.\n\nHON. MR. J. P. BRAGA.\n\nHON. MR. S. W. TS’O, O.B.E., LL.D.\n\nHON. MR. T. N. CHAU.\n\nHON. MR. W. H. BELL.\n\nHON. MR. J. OWEN HUGHES.\n\nMR. R. A. C. NORTH, (Deputy Clerk of Councils).\n\nMINUTES.\n\nThe Minutes of the previous meeting of the Council were confirmed.\n\nPage 90\n\nPage 91", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-541-2 Estimates 1931 14-10-1932 - 19-7-1934.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 536136, "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": "CO129-542-10 Mui Tsai system- correspondence from private individuals 13-1-1933 - 11-12-1933", "page_number": 16, "title": "CO129-542-10 Mui Tsai system- correspondence from private individuals 13-1-1933 - 11-12-1933", "content_text": "## J.B. Athens\n\nIn a letter from Mr. Lancaster Smith, whether there is **DESTROYED UNDER STATUTE**.\n\nA fancaster switch, and at 19.00 on 16 engines substance C an what the writer says.\n\nMr. Lancaster Smith's letter is a reproduction (almost word for word as fair as I remember) of parts of the leading article of the working issue Shire Slave Market News, a copy of which was sent to us (20) & returned to him in (21).\n\nI presume that \"T\" Atkins' officer reference means Commander A. Haslewood. But no reference to them seems to be required in the reply of which I submit a draft for consideration.\n\n15/11/33 | 15.11.33 | Wrote to W. Atkin accordingly.\n---------|----------|--------\n24. To gathering vrs | 16/11/33 | at once (27 anon.) 15/11/33 tend.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-542-10 Mui Tsai system- correspondence from private individuals 13-1-1933 - 11-12-1933.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 544413, "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": "CO129-547-2 Appointments to Executive and Legislative Councils 25-1-1934 - 28-12-1934", "page_number": 28, "title": "CO129-547-2 Appointments to Executive and Legislative Councils 25-1-1934 - 28-12-1934", "content_text": "## Enclosure No. 2\n\n**LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL**\n\nHis Excellency the Governor (**Sir Z. Peel, K.C.M.G., K.B.E.**).\n\nHis Excellency the General Officer Commanding the Troops (**Major-General C. C. Borrett, C.B., C.M.G., C.B.E., D.S.O.**).\n\nThe Honourable the Colonial Secretary, (**Sir W.T. Southorn, K.B.E., C.M.G.**).\n\nThe Honourable the Acting Attorney General, (**Mr. R. E. Lindsell**, since **Mr. C. G. Alabaster, K.C., O.B.E.**, went on leave).\n\nThe Honourable the Acting Secretary for Chinese Affairs, (**Mr. N. L. Smith**, since **Mr. A. E. Wood** went on leave).\n\nThe Honourable the Colonial Treasurer, (**Mr. E. Taylor**).\n\nThe Honourable **Mr. J. D. C. Wolfe, C.M.G.**, (Inspector General of Police).\n\nThe Honourable **Commander G. F. Hole, R.N. (Retired)**, (Harbour Master).\n\nThe Honourable **Mr. R. M. Henderson**, (Director of Public Works).\n\nThe Honourable **Dr. H. B. A. Moore**, (Acting Director of Medical and Sanitary Services, since the temporary absence from the Colony of **Dr. A. R. Wellington, C.M.G.**).\n\nThe Honourable **Sir W. J. L. Shenton, Kt.**.\n\nThe Honourable **Mr. C. G. S. Mackie**.\n\nThe Honourable **Mr. K. H. Kotewall, C.M.G., LL.D.**.\n\nThe Honourable **Mr. J. P. Braga**.\n\nThe Honourable **Mr. Ts'o Seen-wan, C.B.E., LL.D.**.\n\nThe Honourable **Mr. Chau Tsun-nin**.\n\nThe Honourable **Mr. W. H. Bell** (since **Mr. J.J. Paterson** went on leave).\n\nThe Honourable **Mr. J. Owen-Hughes** (since **Sir H.E. Pollock, Kt., K.C., LL.D.**, went on leave).", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-547-2 Appointments to Executive and Legislative Councils 25-1-1934 - 28-12-1934.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 544418, "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": "CO129-547-2 Appointments to Executive and Legislative Councils 25-1-1934 - 28-12-1934", "page_number": 33, "title": "CO129-547-2 Appointments to Executive and Legislative Councils 25-1-1934 - 28-12-1934", "content_text": "# LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.\n\n33\n\n**His Excellency the Governor** (Sir William Peel, K.C.M.G., K.B.E.).\n\n**The Honourable the Officer Commanding the Troops** (Brigadier Gawaine Basil Rowan-Hamilton, D.S.O., M.C.).\n\n**The Honourable the Colonial Secretary** (Sir Thomas Southorn, K.B.E., C.M.G.).\n\n**The Honourable the Acting Attorney General** (Mr. R.E. Lindsell).\n\n**The Honourable the Secretary for Chinese Affairs** (Mr. N. Lockhart Smith).\n\n**The Honourable the Colonial Treasurer** (Mr. E. Taylor).\n\n**The Honourable Commander G.F. Hole, R.N. (Retired)** (Harbour Master).\n\n**The Honourable Dr. A.R. Wellington, C.M.G.** (Director of Medical and Sanitary Services).\n\n**The Honourable Mr. R.M. Henderson** (Director of Public Works).\n\n**The Honourable Mr. T.H. King** (Acting Inspector General of Police since Hon. Mr. E.D.C. Wolfe went on leave).\n\n**The Honourable Sir W.E.L. Shenton, Kt.**\n\n**The Honourable Mr. C.G.S. Mackie.**\n\n**The Honourable Mr. R.H. Kotewall, C.M.G., LL.D.**\n\n**The Honourable Mr. J.P. Braga.**\n\n**The Honourable Mr. Ts'o Seen-wan, O.B.E., LL.D.**\n\n**The Honourable Mr. Chao Tsun-nin.**\n\n**The Honourable Mr. W.H. Bell** (since Hon. Mr. J.J. Paterson went on leave).\n\n**The Honourable Mr. J. Owen-Hughes** (since Hon. Sir H.E. Pollock went on leave).\n\nMr. R.A.C. North (Deputy Clerk of Councils).", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-547-2 Appointments to Executive and Legislative Councils 25-1-1934 - 28-12-1934.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 544427, "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": "CO129-547-2 Appointments to Executive and Legislative Councils 25-1-1934 - 28-12-1934", "page_number": 42, "title": "CO129-547-2 Appointments to Executive and Legislative Councils 25-1-1934 - 28-12-1934", "content_text": "# LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.\n## 42\n\nHis Excellency the Governor (Sir W. Peel, K.C.M.G., K.B.E.)\n\nThe Honourable the Officer Commanding the Troops, (Brigadier Gawaine Basil Rowan-Hamilton, D.S.O., M.C.)\n\nThe Honourable the Colonial Secretary, (Sir T. Southorn, K.B.E., C.M.G.)\n\nThe Honourable the Attorney General, (Mr. R.E. Lindsell)\n\nThe Honourable the Secretary for Chinese Affairs, (Mr. N.L. Smith)\n\nThe Honourable the Colonial Treasurer, (Mr. E. Taylor)\n\nThe Honourable Commander G.F. Hole, R.N. (Retired), (Harbour Master)\n\nThe Honourable Dr. A.R. Wellington, C.M.G., (Director of Medical and Sanitary Services)\n\nThe Honourable Mr. R.M. Henderson, (Director of Public Works)\n\nThe Honourable Mr. T.H. King, (Acting Inspector General of Police)\n\nThe Honourable Sir W.E.L. Shenton, Kt.\n\nThe Honourable Mr. C.G.S. Mackie\n\nThe Honourable Mr. R.H. Kotewall, C.M.G., LL.D.\n\nThe Honourable Dr. Jose Pedro Braga\n\nThe Honourable Mr. Ts'o Seen-wan, O.B.E., LL.D.\n\nThe Honourable Mr. Chau Tsun-nin\n\nThe Honourable Mr. W.H. Bell\n\nThe Honourable Mr. J. Owen-Hughes", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-547-2 Appointments to Executive and Legislative Councils 25-1-1934 - 28-12-1934.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": 544655, "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": 43, "title": "CO129-547-8 Piracy- case of Rex v. Chung Tam Kwong 22-3-1934 - 14-12-1934", "content_text": "## Piracy in International Law\n\nThe law of piracy is based on the law of nations and reference to the law of England. It must be carefully noticed that the municipal policy of a particular state may treat as piratical acts (e.g., the slave trade) which do not bear that complexion by the law of nations. Piracy in international law is commonly defined by writers as the offence of depredating on the seas [Bynkershoek adds \"or land\" (Quæst. Jur. Pub. lib. i, c.xvii). The extension is reasonable when the acts are performed by persons descending on the land from the sea.] without being authorised by any sovereign state, or with commissions from different sovereigns at war with each other. [Wheaton (ed. Phillipson), p. 204 cf. the various authorities that are cited in the American case, United States v. Smith (1820) 5 Wheaton, 157]. But both this definition and that of Sir Charles Hedges are too narrow, in that they imply that animus furandi is essential; whereas the essential characteristic of piracy is that the acts complained of are done without the authority of a sovereign state or a politically organised society, and for private ends, and 'robbery' or depredation is not necessarily an ingredient of the offence. As Sir L. Jenkins has it: [Works, vol. ii, p. 714: cited Wheaton, l.c. p. 205n] \"The law distinguishes between a pirate who is a highwayman and sets up for robbing, either having no commission at all or else hath two or three, and a lawful man of war that exceeds his commission\".\n\nThe definition given above makes it impossible to treat as pirates the bearers of letters of marque. A tendency has been shown from time to time to extend the definition so as to comprehend such persons, but however objectionable the practice of issuing privateer commissions to foreigners was (for privateering has been abolished by the Declaration of Paris, 1856), the bearers were clearly not pirates, insomuch as they had behind them a politically organised and responsible society.\n\nThe doctrine above set forth was much discussed in the case of The Huascar. In 1877, in the course of a revolution in Peru, the crew of the Huascar seized the vessel and committed acts of violence on some British steamers. The Peruvian Government by decree repudiated all responsibility for the acts of the ship. Under these circumstances, the British commander in the Pacific, regarding the acts of the Huascar as piratical, engaged her in an indecisive encounter. The Peruvian Government then made a demand for satisfaction on the untenable ground that the acts of the Huascar did not amount to piracy. Piratical in the vulgar sense they certainly were not, but they were most clearly so within the meaning of international law. So far from there being a responsible, there was not even a belligerent society behind the vessel. She stood completely alone [Parl. Papers, Peru, No. 1, 1877].\n\n### Phillimore's International Law 2nd Edition Vol. I, p. 411\n\n\"CCCLVI. To whatever country the Pirate may have originally belonged, he is justiciable everywhere (a); his detestable occupation has made him hostis humani generis, and he cannot upon any ground claim immunity from the tribunal of his captor. With professed Pirates (Lord Stowell says) there is no state of peace. They are the enemies of every country, and at all times; and therefore are universally subject to the extreme rights of war (b). The Pirate has, in fact, no national character. captures made by them affect ownership, the rule of law being that a piratis capta dominium non mutant. Piracy is an assault upon vessels navigated on the high sea, committed animo furandi, whether the robbery or forcible depredation be effected or not, and whether or not it be accompanied by murder or personal injury\".\n\n## RECORD\n\nCase for the Secretary of State for the Colonies.", "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": 545617, "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": "CO129-549-17 Harbour ferry- increase in estimate for improvements 20-8-1934 - 20-8-1934", "page_number": 5, "title": "CO129-549-17 Harbour ferry- increase in estimate for improvements 20-8-1934 - 20-8-1934", "content_text": "# HONG KONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL\n\n9th August, 1934\n\n83\n\n## PRESENT\n\n- **HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR** (**SIR WILLIAM PEEL, K.C.M.G., K.B.E.**)\n- **HIS EXCELLENCY THE OFFICER COMMANDING THE TROOPS** (**MAJOR-GENERAL O. C. BORRETT, C.B., C.M.G., C.B.E., D.S.O.**)\n- **THE COLONIAL SECRETARY** (**HON. SIR THOMAS SOUTHORN, K.B.E., C.M.G.**)\n- **THE ATTORNEY GENERAL** (**HON. MR. R. E. LINDSELL**)\n- **THE SECRETARY FOR CHINESE AFFAIRS** (**HON. MR. N. L. SMITH**)\n- **THE COLONIAL TREASURER** (**HON. MR. E. TAYLOR**)\n- **HON. MR. E. D. C. WOLFE, C.M.G.** (**Inspector General of Police**)\n- **HON. COMMANDER G. F. HOLE, R.N., (Retired)** (**Harbour Master**)\n- **HON. DR. A. R. WELLINGTON, C.M.G.** (**Director of Medical and Sanitary Services**)\n- **HON. MR. R. M. HENDERSON** (**Director of Public Works**)\n- **HON. SIR WILLIAM SHENTON, KT.**\n- **HON. MR. C. G. S. MACKIE**\n- **HON. MR. R. H. KOTEWALL, C.M.G., LL.D.**\n- **HON. MR. J. P. BRAGA**\n- **HON. MR. S. W. TS'O, O.B.E., LL.D.**\n- **HON. MR. T. N. CHAU**\n- **HON. MR. W. H. BELL**\n- **HON. MR. J. OWEN HUGHES**\n- **MR. R. A. C. NORTH** (**Deputy Clerk of Councils**)\n\n## MINUTES\n\nThe Minutes of the previous meeting of the Council were confirmed.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-549-17 Harbour ferry- increase in estimate for improvements 20-8-1934 - 20-8-1934.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 547965, "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": "CO129-553-10 Urban Council- re-organisation of the medical and sanitary services 8-3-1935 - 31-7-1935", "page_number": 22, "title": "CO129-553-10 Urban Council- re-organisation of the medical and sanitary services 8-3-1935 - 31-7-1935", "content_text": "Enclo. No 2\n\nSee pp 7, 8, 79.\n\n22\n\nHONG KONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.\n\n10th January, 1935.\n\nPRESENT:-\n\nHIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR (SIR WILLIAM PEEL, K.C.M.G., K.B.E.).\n\nHIS EXCELLENCY THE OFFICER COMMANDING THE TROOPS (MAJOR-GENERAL O. C. BORRETT, C.B., C.M.G., C.B.E., D.S.O.).\n\nTHE COLONIAL SECRETARY (HON. SIR THOMAS SOUTHORN, K.B.E., C.M.G.).\n\nTHE ATTORNEY GENERAL (HON. MR. C. G. ALABASTER, K.C., O.B.E.).\n\nTHE SECRETARY FOR CHINESE AFFAIRS (HON. MR. N. L. SMITH).\n\nTHE COLONIAL TREASURER (HON. MR. E. TAYLOR).\n\nHON. DR. A. R. WELLINGTON, C.M.G., (Director of Medical and Sanitary Services).\n\nHON. MR. R. M. HENDERSON, (Director of Public Works).\n\nHON. MR. T. H. KING, (Inspector General of Police).\n\nHON. SIR WILLIAM SHENTON, KT.\n\nHON. MR. R. H. KOTEWALL, C.M.G., LL.D.\n\nHON. MR. J. P. BRAGA.\n\nHON. MR. S. W. TS'O, O.B.E., LL.D.\n\nHON. MR. C. G. S. MACKIE.\n\nHON. MR. T. N. CHAU.\n\nHON. MR. W. H. BELL.\n\nDeputy\n\nMR. R. A. C. NORTH, (Clerk of Councils).\n\nABSENT.\n\nHON. COMMANDER G. F. HOLE, R.N., (Retired) (Harbour Master).\n\nHON. SIR HENRY POLLOCK, KT., K.C., LL.D.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-553-10 Urban Council- re-organisation of the medical and sanitary services 8-3-1935 - 31-7-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 547977, "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": "CO129-553-10 Urban Council- re-organisation of the medical and sanitary services 8-3-1935 - 31-7-1935", "page_number": 34, "title": "CO129-553-10 Urban Council- re-organisation of the medical and sanitary services 8-3-1935 - 31-7-1935", "content_text": "14\n\nEquals Two 8.\n\nSee pp 15-22\n\nHONG KONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.\n\n24th January, 1935.\n\n22.35\n\nPRESENT:-\n\nHIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR (SIR WILLIAM PEEL, K.C.M.G., K.B.E.).\n\nHIS EXCELLENCY THE OFFICER COMMANDING THE TROOPS (MAJOR-GENERAL O. C. BORRETT, C.B., C.M.G., C.B.E., D.S.O.).\n\nTHE COLONIAL SECRETARY (HON. SIR THOMAS SOUTHORN, K.B.E., C.M.G.).\n\nTHE ATTORNEY GENERAL (HON. MR. C. G. ALABASTER, K.C., O.B.E.).\n\nTHE SECRETARY FOR CHINESE AFFAIRS (HON. MR. N. L. SMITH).\n\nTHE COLONIAL TREASURER (HON. MR. E. TAYLOR).\n\nHON. COMMANDER G. F. HOLE, R.N., (Retired) (Harbour Master).\n\nHON. DR. A. R. WELLINGTON, C.M.G., (Director of Medical and Sanitary Services).\n\nHON. MR. R. M. HENDERSON, (Director of Public Works).\n\nHON. MR. T. H. KING, (Inspector General of Police).\n\nHON. SIR HENRY POLLOCK, KT., K.C., LL.D.\n\nHON. SIR WILLIAM SHENTON, KT.\n\nHON. MR. R. H. KOTEWALL, C.M.G., LL.D.\n\nHON. MR. J. P. BRAGA.\n\nHON. MR. S. W. TS'O, O.B.E., LL.D.\n\nHON. MR. C. G. S. MACKIE.\n\nHON. MR. T. N. CHAU.\n\nMR. R. A. C. NORTH, (Clerk of Councils).\n\nHON. MR. W. H. BELL.\n\nABSENT:-", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-553-10 Urban Council- re-organisation of the medical and sanitary services 8-3-1935 - 31-7-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 548003, "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": "CO129-553-10 Urban Council- re-organisation of the medical and sanitary services 8-3-1935 - 31-7-1935", "page_number": 60, "title": "CO129-553-10 Urban Council- re-organisation of the medical and sanitary services 8-3-1935 - 31-7-1935", "content_text": "HONG KONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.\n\n24th January, 1935.\n\nPRESENT:-\n\nHIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR (SIR WILLIAM PEEL, K.C.M.G., K.B.E.).\n\nHIS EXCELLENCY THE OFFICER COMMANDING THE TROOPS (MAJOR-GENERAL O. C. BORRETT, C.B., C.M.G., C.B.E., D.S.O.).\n\nTHE COLONIAL SECRETARY (HON. SIR THOMAS SOUTHORN, K.B.E., C.M.G.).\n\nTHE ATTORNEY GENERAL (HON. MR. C. G. ALABASTER, K.C., O.B.E.).\n\nTHE SECRETARY FOR CHINESE AFFAIRS (HON. MR. N. L. SMITH).\n\nTHE COLONIAL TREASURER (HON. MR. E. TAYLOR).\n\nHON. COMMANDER G. F. HOLE, R.N., (Retired) (Harbour Master).\n\nHON. DR. A. R. WELLINGTON, C.M.G., (Director of Medical and Sanitary Services).\n\nHON. MR. R. M. HENDERSON, (Director of Public Works).\n\nHON. MR. T. H. KING, (Inspector General of Police).\n\nHON. SIR HENRY POLLOCK, KT., K.C., LL.D.\n\nHON. SIR WILLIAM SHENTON, KT.\n\nHON. MR. R. H. KOTEWALL, C.M.G., LL.D.\n\nHON. MR. J. P. BRAGA.\n\nHON. MR. S. W. TS'O, O.B.E., LL.D.\n\nHON. MR. C. G. S. MACKIE\n\nHON. MR. T. N. CHAU.\n\nMR. R. A. C. NORTH, (Clerk of Councils).\n\nHON. MR. W. H. BELL.\n\nABSENT:-\n\nPage 60\n\nPage 61", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-553-10 Urban Council- re-organisation of the medical and sanitary services 8-3-1935 - 31-7-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 548198, "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": "CO129-553-3 Anti-piracy measures 7-3-1935 - 4-11-1935", "page_number": 16, "title": "CO129-553-3 Anti-piracy measures 7-3-1935 - 4-11-1935", "content_text": "Present: \n\n16\n\nDE ON ANTI-PIRACY\n\nKALTY ON 24TH JULY 1935.\n\nCaptain H.D. Pridham-Wippell.\n\nG.V. Kitson, Esq.\n\nG.E.J. Gent, Esq., D.S.O., M.C.\n\nW. Graham Esq., M.B.E.\n\nDirector of Operations, Admiralty.\n\nIn the Chair.\n\nForeign Office.\n\nColonial Office.\n\nCaptain H.B. Pope.\n\nCommander E.M.C. Abel-Smith.\n\nCommander E.W. Bush, D.S.C.\n\nBoard of Trade.\n\nBoard of Trade.\n\nN.A.D., Admiralty.\n\nN.I.D., Admiralty.\n\nCommander E. Dangerfield, S.D., Admiralty.\n\nS.H. Phillips, Esq.\n\nC.G. Jarrett, Esq.\n\nMilitary Branch, Admiralty.\n\nMilitary Branch, Admiralty.\n\nThe Meeting had under consideration the report and recommendations of the Commander-in-Chief, China, arising out of the piracy of the S.S. TUNGCHOW in January 1935, which had already been under preliminary examination by a small Admiralty conference.\n\nThe Chairman opened the discussion of the various questions involved by indicating the tentative conclusions arrived at by this preliminary conference.\n\n1.\n\nSearch of Passengers.\n\nIt was agreed that owing to the practical difficulties in the way of a satisfactory search, either on shore anywhere outside Hong Kong or on board ship after embarkation, the most that could be done / would", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-553-3 Anti-piracy measures 7-3-1935 - 4-11-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 548233, "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": "CO129-553-3 Anti-piracy measures 7-3-1935 - 4-11-1935", "page_number": 51, "title": "CO129-553-3 Anti-piracy measures 7-3-1935 - 4-11-1935", "content_text": "INTER-DEPARTMENTAL CONFERENCE ON ANTI-PIRACY MEASURES HELD AT THE ADMIRALTY ON 24TH JULY 1935.\n\nPresent:\n\nCaptain H.D. Pridham-Wippell, Director of Operations, Admiralty. (In the Chair)\n\nG.V. Kitson, Esq., Foreign Office.\n\nG.E.J. Gent, Esq., D.S.O., M.C., Colonial Office.\n\nT. Graham Esq., M.B.E., Board of Trade.\n\nCaptain H.B. Pope, Board of Trade.\n\nCommander E.M.C. Abel-Smith, N.A.D., Admiralty.\n\nCommander E.W. Bush, D.S.C., N.I.D., Admiralty.\n\nCommander E. Dangerfield, S.D., Admiralty.\n\nS.H. Phillips, Esq., Military Branch, Admiralty.\n\nC.G. Jarrett, Esq., Military Branch, Admiralty.\n\nThe Meeting had under consideration the report and recommendations of the Commander-in-Chief, China, arising out of the piracy of the S.S. TUNGCHOW in January 1935, which had already been under preliminary examination by a small Admiralty conference. The Chairman opened the discussion of the various questions involved by indicating the tentative conclusions arrived at by this preliminary conference.\n\n1. Search of Passengers.\n\nIt was agreed that owing to the practical difficulties in the way of a satisfactory search, either on shore anywhere outside Hong Kong or on board ship after embarkation, the most that could be done would...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-553-3 Anti-piracy measures 7-3-1935 - 4-11-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 548352, "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": "CO129-553-4 Proposed appointment of Housing Commission to investigate congested areas 18-1-1935 - 4-9-1935", "page_number": 17, "title": "CO129-553-4 Proposed appointment of Housing Commission to investigate congested areas 18-1-1935 - 4-9-1935", "content_text": "Page 568\n\nTHE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, MAY 10, 1935,\n\nTHE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, MAY 10, 1936.\n\n669\n\nNo. 2.\n\n[L.S.]\n\nPROCLAMATION.\n\nW. PEEL,\n\nGovernor.\n\nBy His Excellency Sir WILLIAM PEEL, Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hong Kong and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same.\n\nWHEREAS by the second section of the Commissioners Powers Ordinance, 1886, it is enacted that the Governor in Council shall have power to nominate and appoint Commissioners under the Public Seal for the purpose of instituting, making, and conducting any enquiry that may be deemed advisable and for reporting thereon:\n\nAND WHEREAS the Governor in Council has deemed it advisable that a Commission be appointed to enquire into the housing difficulties in Victoria and Kowloon with special reference to overcrowding and its effect on tuberculosis and suggest steps which should be taken to remedy existing conditions.\n\nNOW I, Sir WILLIAM PEEL, Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, the Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hong Kong and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, hereby appoint-\n\nThe Honourable Mr. N. L. SMITH,\n\nThe Honourable Mr. R. M. HENDERSON,\n\nThe Honourable Sir W. E. L. SHENTON, Kt.,\n\nThe Honourable Mr. R. H. KOTEWALL, C.M.G., LL.D.,\n\nMr. W. J. CARRIE,\n\nDr. G. W. POPE, L.L.M.R.C.P., and S.I. (Ireland), D.P.H.,\n\nDr. LI SHU-PAN, M.B., Ch.B., D.T.M. & H., F.R.C.S.,\n\nMr. G. G. WOOD.\n\nto be Commissioners for the purpose of instituting, making, and conducting such enquiry:\n\nAND I do also appoint the said Honourable Mr. N. L. SMITH, to be Chairman of the said Commissioners:\n\nAND I do also appoint Mr. W. H. OWEN, to be Secretary to the said Commissioners:\n\nAND I do further, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, order and direct that the said Commissioners shall have all the powers, rights, and privileges set out in the third section of the said Ordinance:\n\nAND I do further require the said Commissioners, to report to me their findings and their recommendations in the matter of the said enquiry at as early a date as possible.\n\nGiven under my hand and the Public Seal of the Colony at Victoria, Hong Kong this 10th day of May, 1935.\n\nBy Command,\n\nW. T. SOUTHORN,\n\nColonial Secretary.\n\nGOD SAVE THE KING.\n\nPage 669\n\nNo. 2.\n\n...\n\nPage 18", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-553-4 Proposed appointment of Housing Commission to investigate congested areas 18-1-1935 - 4-9-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 548405, "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": "CO129-553-5 Japanese activities in Macao and Canton 31-1-1935 - 22-11-1935", "page_number": 50, "title": "CO129-553-5 Japanese activities in Macao and Canton 31-1-1935 - 22-11-1935", "content_text": "- 2 -\n\n50\n\n46)\n\nEnclo. No.6.\n\nfrom His Majesty's Government for protection in the case of political interference.\n\n3.\n\nIn this connection I would invite attention to His Excellency the Naval Commander-in-Chief's Secret telegram No.390 of 29th March, 1935, to the Admiralty and to Sir William Peel's Secret telegram No.83 of 6th April, 1935, regarding the guarantee required. While there was at no time any suggestion that the guarantee should be given by the Colonial Government in its own capacity this Colony, as the portion of the Empire nearest to Japan, is very much interested in seeing that the Japanese do not obtain a base of operations so close to Hong Kong, and I believe Mr. Grayburn's statements as to the pressure put upon him by the Service representatives in the Colony to forestall the efforts of the Japanese to obtain control of the Waterworks to be correct. The words in the first and second lines of the draft form of guarantee \"at the request of certain officials of the Government of Hong Kong\" are not strictly correct and the words \"at the request of certain officers of His Majesty's services in Hong Kong\" would seem to fit the circumstances more correctly.\n\n4.\n\nIn the circumstances I would ask that Mr. Grayburn's request for a guarantee from His Majesty's Government of indemnity in the event of political interference may receive favourable consideration.\n\n5.\n\nAn extract from the Boletim Oficial of Macau of the 27th July, 1935, referred to in the proposed guarantee is enclosed.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour most obedient, humble servant,\n\nNL\n\nSmith's\n\nOfficer Administering the Government.\n\nPage 50\n\nPage 51", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-553-5 Japanese activities in Macao and Canton 31-1-1935 - 22-11-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 549263, "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": "CO129-554-8 Administration of the Government during Governor's illness 13-9-1935 - 1-11-1935", "page_number": 8, "title": "CO129-554-8 Administration of the Government during Governor's illness 13-9-1935 - 1-11-1935", "content_text": "Page 75\n\nNo. 570.\n\nBY AIR MAIL.\n\nRECEIVED 13 NOV 1958\n\n1\n\nx\n\n14\n\n8\n\nGOVERNMENT HOUSE,\n\nHONG KONG.\n\n1st November, 1935.\n\n12\n\nSir,\n\nI have the honour to confirm my telegram No.270 of 1st November, 1935, reporting my resumption as from that date of the Administration of the Government, and the re-appointment of Mr. D. W. Tratman to act as Colonial Secretary.\n\n2. Mr. N. L. Smith resumed duty as Secretary for Chinese Affairs at the same time.\n\n3. A copy of the Government Gazette Extraordinary of 1st November, 1935, is enclosed.\n\nI have the honour to be, Sir, Your most obedient, humble servant,\n\nW. T. Southorn\n\nOfficer Administering the Government.\n\n6\n\nTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE MALCOLM MACDONALD, M.P., &c., &c., &c.\n\nE\n\nPage No 50.\n\nM\n\nVol. LXXXI.\n\nDIEU ET MON DROIT\n\nThe Hong Kong Government Gazette Extraordinary Published by Authority FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1935.\n\nThe following Notifications are published.\n\nBy command,\n\nD. W. TRATMAN, Colonial Secretary.\n\nCOLONIAL SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT.\n\nNo. 836.—It is hereby notified that the Honourable Sir WILFRID THOMAS SOUTHORN, Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, and Companion of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, resumed duty as Colonial Secretary on the 1st November, 1935, and thereupon took the prescribed oaths and assumed the administration of the Government of the Colony by direction of His Majesty's Secretary of State for the Colonies and by virtue of the provisions of the Letters Patent passed under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom constituting the office of Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hong Kong and providing for the Government thereof.\n\n1st November, 1935.\n\nD. W. TRATMAN, Colonial Secretary.\n\nPage 9\n\nPage 9\n\nPage 9\n\nPage 10\n\nTHE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, NOVEMBER 1, 1935.\n\nAPPOINTMENTS, &c.\n\nNo. 837.-His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government has been pleased to appoint Mr. DAVID WILLIAM TRATMAN, C.M.G., to act as Colonial Secretary, with effect from this date.\n\n1st November, 1935.\n\nNo. 838.-His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government has been pleased to appoint Mr. ROBERT ANDREW DERMOD FORREST to be Principal Assistant Colonial Secretary and Clerk of Councils with effect from this date.\n\n1st November, 1935.\n\nNo. 839.-His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government has been pleased to appoint Mr. HENRY ROBERT BUTTERS to be Deputy Clerk of Councils, with effect from this date.\n\n1st November, 1935.\n\nNo. 840.-His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government has been pleased to appoint Mr. JOHN HENRY BURKILL LEE to be his Private Secretary, with effect from this date.\n\n1st November, 1935.\n\nNo. 841.-His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government has been pleased to appoint Lieutenant (Local Captain) WILLIAM JOHN ROTO CRAGG, 1st Battalion, The Lincolnshire Regiment, to be his Aide-de-Camp, with effect from this date.\n\n1st November, 1935.\n\nNo. 842. His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government has been pleased to appoint the following officers to be his Honorary Aides-de-Camp, with effect from this date:\n\nLieutenant MERVYN MUSPRATT-WILLIAMS, 1st Battalion, The Lincolnshire Regiment.\n\nLieutenant STEPHEN EVERARD SKEY, 8th Heavy Brigade, Royal Artillery.\n\nLieutenant ROBERT CORADOC ROSE-PRICE, 2nd Battalion, The Royal Welch Fusiliers.\n\nSubadar-Major LALL KHAN, 1st Battalion, 8th Punjab Regiment.\n\nSubadar-Major WARIS KHAN, Hong Kong and Singapore Brigade, Royal Artillery.\n\nRISALDAR MIRAN BAKSHI, I.D.S.M., Hong Kong Mule Corps.\n\nLieutenant JOHN ROBERT CROSSE HAMILTON, Royal Engineers.\n\nLieutenant CLIVE CHARLTON GARTHWAITE, Royal Artillery.\n\nLieutenant CHARLES CECIL STANLEY GENESE, 2nd Battalion, The East Lancashire Regiment.\n\nCaptain THOMAS ADDIS MARTIN, Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps.\n\n2nd Lieutenant HENRIQUE ALBERTO DE BARROS BOTELHO, Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps.\n\n1st November, 1935.\n\nPrinted and Published by NORONHA & Co., Printers to the Hong Kong Government.\n\nPage 10\n\nPage 10\n\nPage 11\n\nC. O.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-554-8 Administration of the Government during Governor's illness 13-9-1935 - 1-11-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 549683, "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": "CO129-555-2 Estimates 1936 30-8-1935 - 29-1-1937", "page_number": 92, "title": "CO129-555-2 Estimates 1936 30-8-1935 - 29-1-1937", "content_text": "There was some disagreement between the Hon. Sir William Shenton and the Hon. Mr. R. H. Kotewall regarding the question of the use of surplus balances for the purpose of balancing the Budget, the former expressing the opinion that the Government was already encroaching too deeply upon these reserves, while the Hon. Mr. Kotewall held the view that more use should be made of them.\n\nThe general tenor of the speeches was one of satisfaction as to the policy of the Government.\n\nAt the conclusion of the business, appreciation was pressed by His Excellency, by the Hon. Sir Henry Pollock on behalf of the Unofficial Members, and by the Hon. Mr. S. W. Ts'o on behalf of the Chinese community, of the services rendered by the Hon. Mr. R. H. Kotewall during his twelve years as a member of the Council, and regret was expressed at his resignation.\n\nRegret was also expressed at the impending departure of Lieut.-General O. C. Borrett, who leaves for England on Saturday.\n\nHis Excellency the Officer Administering the Government (Hon. Mr. N. L. Smith), presided, and there were also present:\n\nHis Excellency the General Officer Commanding the Troops (Lieut.-General O. C. Borrett, C.B., C.M.G., C.B.E., D.S.O.);\n\nThe Colonial Secretary (Hon. Mr. R. A. D. Forrest, Acting);\n\nThe Attorney General (Hon. Mr. C. G. Alabaster, K.C., O.B.E.);\n\nThe Secretary for Chinese Affairs (Hon. Mr. E. H. Williams, Acting);\n\nThe Colonial Treasurer (Hon. Mr. E. Taylor);\n\nHon. Dr. W. B. A. Moore (Director of Medical and Sanitary Services, Acting);\n\nHon. Commander G. F. Hole, R.N., (Retired), (Harbour Master);\n\nHon. Mr. R. M. Henderson (Director of Public Works);\n\nHon. Mr. M. J. Breen (Postmaster General);\n\nHon. Sir Henry Pollock, Kt., K.C.;\n\nHon. Sir William Shenton, Kt.;\n\nHon. Mr. R. H. Kotewall, C.M.G., LL.D.;\n\nHon. Mr. J. B. Braga, O.B.E.;\n\nHon. Mr. S. W. T'so, O.B.E., LL.D.;\n\nHon. Mr. J. J. Paterson;\n\nHon. Mr. T. N. Chau;\n\nMr. A. W. G. H. Grantham (Deputy Clerk of Councils).\n\nPROMISE OF ECONOMY\n\nIt is satisfactory to note that, for the time being, no new taxation is being imposed, and we are glad to see that the Government is reducing the charges for excess water. It is also satisfactory that, notwithstanding the need for drastic economy, Queen Mary Hospital is being vigorously proceeded with, whilst the 75-foot road from Causeway Bay to Ming Yuen (now known as King's Road), the Central British School and the new Kowloon Magistracy will be completed next year.\n\nToo Many Regulations Regarding retrenchment of staffs, we are glad to learn that the Government is carefully considering whether it is absolutely necessary to fill up posts as vacancies occur. Our staff of Civil Servants is a very large one, even after making the fullest allowance for the fact that the Government has also to perform the duties of a Municipality. Indeed it is considered by some that we have too many Regulations in this Colony and too large a staff of subordinate officers fussing about and worrying people. Also the prevalent notion that Police Officers and Sanitary Inspectors acquire merit by prosecuting people is apt to render the Government unpopular and to make the man in the street consider that we could do with fewer of such Officers.\n\nCity Development Under Public Works Department, we agree that in these times of depression, it is advisable to retain as many employees as possible on a temporary basis. In regard to Government House and City Development, we consider that the Government is wise to call a halt for the time being, to a scheme of this expensive nature which originated in more prosperous times.\n\nWith reference to the Shing Mun Dam, we note with pleasure the highly satisfactory progress which has been made, enabling some water to be impounded from the first of last month. We congratulate Mr. Gifford Hull and his staff, upon being so well forward with this important scheme.\n\nShing Mun reminds us of the excellent anti-malarial work which has been done by Dr. R. B. Jackson and his Staff not only in that neighbourhood but also in the Peak District which is now more free from mosquitoes than it has been for very many years past. Also much good anti-malarial work has been and is being done in Kowloon Tong, Stanley, Shek O and elsewhere.\n\nA full report by Dr. Jackson on anti-malarial measures during 1934 appears on pages 116 to 158 of the Report of the Acting Director of Medical and Sanitary Services for 1934, and induces us to urge that, if possible, more money should be devoted to anti-malarial work than is at present included in the Estimates for 1936.\n\nWe trust that the forthcoming cemetery extension at Hammer Hill will, in the course of the next ten years, enable the Central Cemetery at Kowloon to be released for building and other development purposes, a very necessary step forward in the town-planning of Kowloon.\n\nStrong Protest\n\nThe Unofficial Members now proceed to deal with one part of the Colonial Secretary's Budget speech, to which they take the strongest exception. The passage in question reads as follows: \"In spite of all this, however, the Government would be failing in its duty if it did not contemplate in advance the steps that will have to be taken in 1936 if there should either be a sharp drop in the dollar rate or a serious decline in revenue or possibly both. As I have said, no additional taxation has been imposed in the existing circumstances; but it is as well that a warning should now be given that this may be necessary if the state of the public finances in 1936 should show some serious deterioration. It is considered that a temporary levy on all Government Salaries, both dollars and sterling, may be necessary before the end of 1936 in the circumstances referred to, and that the Secretary of State has already given his sanction to make action on these lines.\"\n\nThe Colonial Secretary moved the second reading of a Bill intituled \"An Ordinance to apply the sum not exceeding Twenty-three million eight hundred and forty thousand and sixteen dollars to the Public Service of the year 1936\". The Colonial Treasurer seconded, and the Bill was read a second time.\n\nAddressing the Council, the Hon. Sir Henry Pollock said:-Your Excellency, As the Senior Unofficial Member I have been asked by my colleagues to express our joint views upon the Budget for 1936. At the outset we congratulate the Colonial Secretary and Mr. Grantham (whose impending departure from the Colony we very much regret) upon the able and clear statement which has been laid before us regarding the Budget. We also thank the Colonial Treasurer for his lucid and informative Memorandum on our financial position, and the Director of Public Works for his notes on Public Works Extraordinary for 1936 and also for the information which he and his Staff kindly gave us in Public Works Committee.\n\nThe Estimates contain little contentious matter, and it is fully realised that, in view of the estimated revenue for 1936 being so much lower than that for 1935, it is essential that the Government should refrain from starting expenditure on new Public Works of magnitude. At the same time we regret that many useful Public Works, over 100 in number, in the list marked \"considered but not included in the draft estimates\" (with which the Government kindly supplied us) have had to be postponed owing to present financial stress.\n\nWe approve of the additional Police defences which are being erected on the frontier and of the extra police engaged for that purpose. We agree to the new posts in the Treasury and to the proposed Aviation Meteorological Officers for the Government Observatory, and, on the ground of economy, we agree to the proposed engagement locally of ten Asiatic Sanitary Inspectors, to replace sterling-paid Officers. We approve of the two new postal kiosks and of the improved postal deliveries in outside parts of the Colony, and also of the short-wave telephone transmitter which was recommended by the Economic Commission.\n\nSalary Facts\n\nIn support of this contention of ours, we beg leave to remind Government of certain facts, which preceded the considerable increase in salaries which came into force on the ...\n\nPage 92", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-555-2 Estimates 1936 30-8-1935 - 29-1-1937.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 550485, "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": "CO129-556-17 Appointments to Legislative Council 4-12-1935 - 31-12-1936", "page_number": 47, "title": "CO129-556-17 Appointments to Legislative Council 4-12-1935 - 31-12-1936", "content_text": "Enclosure No. 2.\n\nLEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.\n\n47\n\nHis Excellency the Governor,\n\n(Sir Andrew Caldecott, Kt., C.M.G., C.B.E.).\n\nThe Honourable the Officer Commanding the Troops,\n\n(Brigadier Hugh Garden Seth-Smith, D.S.O.) since the\n\nabsence of Major-General Arthur Wollaston Bartholomew, C.B., C.M.G., C.B.V., D.S.O.).\n\nThe Honourable the Acting Colonial Secretary,\n\n(Mr. Roland Arthur Charles North), since Sir Wilfrid Thomas\n\nSouthorn went on leave.\n\nThe Honourable the Attorney General (Mr. Chaloner Granville\n\nAlabaster, O.B.E., K.C.).\n\nThe Honourable the Acting Secretary for Chinese Affairs,\n\n(Mr. William James Carrie), since Mr. Roland Arthur Charles\n\nNorth became Acting Colonial Secretary.\n\nThe Honourable the Colonial Treasurer (Mr. Edwin Taylor).\n\nThe Honourable Commander George Francis Hole, R.N., (Retired),\n\n(Harbour Master)\n\nThe Honourable Dr. Arthur Robartes Wellington, C.M.G.,\n\n(Director of Medical and Sanitary Services).\n\nThe Honourable Mr. Thomas Henry King (Inspector General of Police).\n\nThe Honourable Mr. Arthur George Warnham Tickle (Acting Director\n\nof Public Works), since Mr. Richard McNeil Henderson went on leave.\n\nThe Honourable Sir Henry Edward Pollock, Kt., K.C., LL.D.\n\nThe Honourable Mr. Ts'o Seen-Wan, C.B.E., LL.D.\n\nThe Honourable Mr. Chau Tsun-nin.\n\nThe Honourable Mr. John Johnstone Paterson.\n\nThe Honourable Mr. William Henry Bell.\n\nThe Honourable Mr. Lo Man-kam.\n\nThe Honourable Mr. Stanley Hudson Dodwell.\n\nThe Honourable Mr. Antonio Ferreira Batalha Silva-Netto, since\n\nMr. José Pedro Braga, O.B.E., went on leave.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-556-17 Appointments to Legislative Council 4-12-1935 - 31-12-1936.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 550513, "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": "CO129-556-17 Appointments to Legislative Council 4-12-1935 - 31-12-1936", "page_number": 75, "title": "CO129-556-17 Appointments to Legislative Council 4-12-1935 - 31-12-1936", "content_text": "Enclosure No. 2.\n\nLegislative Council of Hong Kong.\n\n75\n\nHis Excellency the Governor (Sir Andrew Caldecott, Kt.,\n\nC.M.G., C.B.E.)\n\nHis Excellency the General Officer Commanding the Troops\n\n(Major-General Arthur Wollaston Bartholomew, C.B.,\n\nC.M.G., C.B.E., D.S.O.)\n\nThe Honourable the Colonial Secretary (Sir Wilfrid Thomas\n\nSouthorn, K.B.E., C.M.G., LL.D.)\n\nThe Honourable the Attorney General (Mr. Chaloner Grenville\n\nAlabaster, O.B.E., K.C.)\n\nThe Honourable the Secretary for Chinese Affairs (Mr. Norman\n\nLockhart Smith)\n\nThe Honourable the Colonial Treasurer (Mr. Edwin Taylor)\n\nThe Honourable Commander George Francis Hole, R.N. (Retired),\n\n(Harbour Master)\n\nThe Honourable Dr. Arthur Robartes Wellington, C.M.G.,\n\n(Director of Medical and Sanitary Services)\n\nThe Honourable Mr. Richard McNeil Henderson (Director of\n\nPublic Works)\n\nThe Honourable Mr. Thomas Henry King (Inspector General of\n\nPolice)\n\nThe Honourable Sir Henry Edward Pollock, Kt., K.C., LL.D.\n\nThe Honourable Sir William Edward Leonard Shenton, Kt.\n\nThe Honourable Mr. José Pedro Braga, C.B.E.\n\nThe Honourable Mr. Ts'o Seen-wan, C.B.E., LL.D.\n\nThe Honourable Mr. Chau Tsun-nin.\n\nThe Honourable Mr. John Johnstone Paterson.\n\nThe Honourable Mr. William Henry Bell.\n\nThe Honourable Mr. Lo Man-kam.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-556-17 Appointments to Legislative Council 4-12-1935 - 31-12-1936.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 550516, "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": "CO129-556-17 Appointments to Legislative Council 4-12-1935 - 31-12-1936", "page_number": 78, "title": "CO129-556-17 Appointments to Legislative Council 4-12-1935 - 31-12-1936", "content_text": "Enclosure No. 2.\n\n78\n\nLegislative Council of Hong Kong.\n\nHis Excellency the Governor (Sir Andrew Caldecott, Kt.,\n\nC.M.G., C.B.E.)\n\nHis Excellency the General Officer Commanding the Troops\n\n(Major-General Arthur Wollaston Bartholomew, C.B.,\n\nC.M.G., C.B.E., D.S.O.)\n\nThe Honourable the Colonial Secretary (Sir Wilfrid Thomas\n\nSouthorn, K.B.E., C.M.G., LL.D.)\n\nThe Honourable the Attorney General (Mr. Chaloner Grenville\n\nAlabaster, O.B.E., K.C.)\n\nThe Honourable the Secretary for Chinese Affairs (Mr. Norman\n\nLockhart Smith)\n\nThe Honourable the Colonial Treasurer (Mr. Edwin Taylor)\n\nThe Honourable Commander George Francis Hole, R.N. (Retired),\n\nHarbour Master)\n\nThe Honourable Mr. Richard McNeil Henderson (Director of\n\nPublic Works)\n\nThe Honourable Mr. Thomas Henry King (Inspector General of\n\nPolice)\n\nThe Honourable Dr. William Brownlow Ashe Moore, O.B.E.,\n\n(Acting Director of Medical and Sanitary Services during the temporary absence of Dr. Arthur Robartes Wellington, C.M.G.)\n\nThe Honourable Sir Henry Edward Pollock, Kt., K.C., LL.D.\n\nThe Honourable Sir William Edward Leonard Shenton, Kt.\n\nThe Honourable Mr. José Pedro Braga, O.B.E.\n\nThe Honourable Mr. Ts'o Seen-wan, C.B.E., LL.D.\n\nThe Honourable Mr. Chau Tsun-nin.\n\nThe Honourable Mr. John Johnstone Paterson.\n\nThe Honourable Mr. William Henry Bell.\n\nThe Honourable Mr. Lo Man-kam.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-556-17 Appointments to Legislative Council 4-12-1935 - 31-12-1936.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 550523, "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": "CO129-556-17 Appointments to Legislative Council 4-12-1935 - 31-12-1936", "page_number": 85, "title": "CO129-556-17 Appointments to Legislative Council 4-12-1935 - 31-12-1936", "content_text": "Enclosure No.2.\n\nLegislative Council of Hong Kong.\n\n85 END\n\nment\n\nHis Excellency the Officer Administering the Government\n\n(Sir Wilfrid Thomas Southorn, K.B.E., C.M.G.)\n\nHis Excellency the General Officer Commanding the Troops\n\n(Major-General Frank Staniford Thackeray, D.S.O., C.B.,\n\nA.D.C.)\n\nThe Honourable the Acting Colonial Secretary (Mr. David\n\nWilliam Tratman)\n\nThe Honourable the Attorney General (Mr. Chaloner Grenville\n\nAlabaster, O.B.E., K.C.)\n\nThe Honourable the Secretary for Chinese Affairs (Mr. Norman\n\nLockhart Smith)\n\nThe Honourable the Colonial Treasurer (Mr. Edwin Taylor)\n\nThe Honourable Commander George Francis Hole, R.N. (Retired),\n\n(Harbour Master)\n\nThe Honourable Mr. Richard Macneil Henderson (Director of Public\n\nWorks)\n\nThe Honourable Dr. Arthur Robartes Wellington, C.M.G., (Director\n\nof Medical and Sanitary Services)\n\nThe Honourable Mr. Thomas Henry King (Inspector General of\n\nPolice)\n\nThe Honourable Sir Henry Edward Pollock, Kt., K.C., LL.D.\n\nThe Honourable Sir William Edward Leonard Shenton, Kt.\n\nThe Honourable Mr. José Pedro Braga, O.B.E.\n\nThe Honourable Mr. Ts'o Seen-wan, C.B.E., LL.D.\n\nThe Honourable Mr. Chau Tsun Nin.\n\nThe Honourable Mr. John Johnstone Paterson.\n\nThe Honourable Mr. William Henry Bell.\n\nThe Honourable Mr. Lo Man-kam.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-556-17 Appointments to Legislative Council 4-12-1935 - 31-12-1936.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 550948, "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": "CO129-557-5 Estimates 1937 19-8-1936 - 7-8-1937", "page_number": 69, "title": "CO129-557-5 Estimates 1937 19-8-1936 - 7-8-1937", "content_text": "## EXCESS WATER RATES \n\nCouncillors present were: \n\nHis Excellency the Governor (Sir Andrew Caldecott K.T., C.M.G., C.B.); \nHis Excellency the General Officer Commanding the Troops (Major General A. W. Bartholomew, C.M.G., C.B.E., D.S.O.); \nThe Colonial Secretary (Hon. Mr. R. A. C. North); \nThe Attorney General (Hon. Mr. C. G. Alabaster, K.C., O.B.E.); \nThe Acting Secretary for Chinese Affairs (Hon. Mr. W. J. Carrie); \nThe Colonial Treasurer (Hon. Mr. E. Taylor, C.M.G.); \nHon. Commander G. F. Hole, R.N., (Retired) (Harbour Master); \nHon. Mr. T. H. King (Inspector General of Police); \nHon. Dr. A. R. Wellington, C.M.G., (Director of Medical and Sanitary Services); \nHon. Mr. A. G. W. Tickle, (Director of Public Works, Acting); \nHon. Mr. J. J. Paterson; \nHon. Mr. J. P. Braga O.B.E.; \nHon. Mr. S. W. Tso, C.B.E., LL.D.; \nHon. Mr. T. N. Chau; \nHon. Mr. S. H. Dodwell; \nHon. Mr. M. K. Lo; \nHon. Mr. M. T. Johnson; \nHon. Mr. A. W. Hughes; \nMr. D. M. MacDougall (Deputy Clerk of Councils). \n\nThe Colonial Secretary moved the second reading of a Bill intituled, \"An Ordinance to apply a sum not exceeding Twenty-five million five hundred and eight thousand two hundred and sixty-nine Dollars to the Public Service of the year 1937.\" \nThe Colonial Treasurer seconded and the Bill was read a second time.\n\nAddressing the Council, the Hon. Mr. J. J. Paterson said: Sir, Since Sir Henry Pollock made his Budget speech last year, Your Excellency has arrived in this Colony and the Unofficial Members wish that your advent could have coincided with a greater measure of prosperity in the Colony you have to govern, a wish Your Excellency probably shares. It remains for the Unofficial Members to assure you of their understanding of the difficulties all those who may be charged with the administration of this Colony must be faced with today and to wish Your Excellency and Lady Caldecott a very hearty welcome.\n\nWe join with the Colonial Secretary in expressing our gratitude to Messrs. Tratman and Breen for all they have done for Hongkong and with him we wish them every happiness in the future. We congratulate Mr. N. L. Smith and ourselves on his promotion and appointment to this Colony. In the absence of Sir Henry Pollock I have been asked by my colleagues to make some general observations on the budget for 1937 and on events leading up to it. It's usual to congratulate the Colonial Secretary on the excellent manner in which he has presented his Budget; on this occasion we can do so with more fervour than usual, the memorandum he has had prepared together with those of the Colonial Treasurer and D.P.W. are admirable. We wonder, though, whether the formula adopted for the Public Works Department, where items of expenditure are discussed across the table, could not be extended to other spending departments.\n\nDollar's Decline \nPerhaps I may be forgiven if at the outset I refer to exchange. Since Sir Henry Pollock spoke last year we have seen the rate slide steadily to its present level, one at which we are very closely allied to the Standard Dollar and which most of us consider the proper thing to be. But because of this descent, Government's immediate finances have suffered. Perhaps I am being blatantly hindwise when I say that to some extent this loss might have been avoided. Government was in an invidious position; it must have known to about what level the Hongkong dollar was headed. The Unofficials knew nothing; they did, however, ask that, so far as was possible, sterling commitments (salaries excepted) be covered and they remark rather sadly now that it was Unofficial money. Or at least it originally was the property of the taxpayers of Hongkong.\n\nBut I believe the fault to be deeper than in these recent years. Government has always argued that its policy was never to fix, that whether one settled or did not settle the years would strike a balance. And so they would if nobody had fixed the dollar, but had the other plan been adopted, always to settle, Government could in the past have known exactly at any given time what its commitments were and expressed them in the coin of the Colony. More recently, the taxpayer would have been saved a lot, perhaps more correctly in the light of the present Budget, the motorist and the Civil Servant.\n\nThe Retrenchment Commission dealt with the settling of exchange in paragraph 5 of its Report on the Treasury. Government cannot say it wasn't told!\n\nSalary Cut \nWhich brings me to the salary cut. While I remark rather sadly that such blisters are no new things among the Unofficial community, this in no way dampens the enthusiasm with which the ninety and nine welcome the sinner into the fold, especially as those of the mercantile community who can look to benefit from Provident Fund or similar scheme appreciate that if the details given recently in a local paper of the \"Widows and Orphans\" be true, or anywhere near true, then, and not forgetting pensions, widows and orphans are in possession of a very bad bargain - one that would make an insurance man shudder.\n\nAs the cat is now out of the bag, may we ask Government to issue a statement showing how this Fund has operated in the past and how it is proposed to carry it on in the future, for I can assure you, Sir, that if in the sober world of business, so far removed from High Olympus, any employer of a large staff tried to drive so hard a bargain, he could never hope to keep his people contented.\n\nAs an illustration I think I'm correct in saying that a bachelor, though he may have subscribed to the Pool all his life, yet only gets back half his subscription on retirement or his estate that half on death. Or, more accurately, his estate does not benefit. I do not see why bachelors should be penalised.\n\nPerhaps the answer is this, that this Fund was started by private enterprise when such things were by no means common and when modern and more or less established procedure had not been laid down. Had management of the monies been left to the beneficiaries, no doubt the rules would have been brought up to date, but Government sequestered the proceeds, despite Unofficial protest and rude people say used them to build the Kowloon-Canton Railway.\n\nAbuse Needs Correcting \nThe Unofficial Members fully realise that in starting this hare they may be adding to the expenses of this Colony if that portion of the balances required cannot be earmarked to this end, but, in common fairness, they feel they must emphasise and ask for the correction of an abuse. That this may not be easy, we admit, but at least the beneficiaries of a subscriber from now on should in every case get out the money put in, with reasonable interest.\n\nLiability for this Fund is not shown in the Colony's accounts, though the Directors of public and private companies are forced very properly to declare the \"true and correct view of the state of Company's affairs\", including contingent liabilities, and Government might well remember the parable of the mote and the beam.\n\nIt must be remembered, however, that a great number in this community have no pension and Provident Fund; any provision they can make must be by their own efforts, not easy in these days.\n\nLetters have appeared in the Press which seem to suggest that Hongkong is in process of cutting European staff to below those levels usual in other Crown Colonies. I think I'm correct in saying that, so far from this being the case, Government merely is in process of coming on to parity with them, and has quite a long way to go yet.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-557-5 Estimates 1937 19-8-1936 - 7-8-1937.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 552060, "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": "CO129-558-8 Revision of salaries 19-8-1936 - 11-2-1937", "page_number": 61, "title": "CO129-558-8 Revision of salaries 19-8-1936 - 11-2-1937", "content_text": "# March 27, 1936 \n\n## CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT \n\n## GOVERNOR'S SYMPATHETIC VIEW \n\n### THOSE PRESENT \n\nThose present at the Council Meeting included: \n- His Excellency the Governor (**Sir Andrew Caldecott, Kt., C.M.G., C.M.E.**); \n- His Excellency the General Officer commanding the Troops (**Major General A. W. Bartholomew C.B., C.M.G., C.B.E., D.S.O.**); \n- The Colonial Secretary (**Hon. Sir Thomas Southorn, K.B.E., C.M.G.**); \n- The Attorney General (**Hon. Mr. C. G. Alabaster, K.C., O.B.E.**); \n- The Secretary for Chinese Affairs (**Hon. Mr. R. A. C. North**); \n- The Colonial Treasurer (**Hon. Mr. E. Taylor**); \n- **Hon. Mr. G. W. Tickle** (Director of Public Works); \n- **Dr. A. R. Wellington** (Director of Medical Services); \n- **Hon. Commander G. F. Hole, R.N., (Retired)** (Harbour Master); \n- **Hon. Mr. T. H. King** (Inspector General of Police); \n- **Hon. Sir Henry Pollock, Kt., K.C.**; \n- **Hon. Sir William Shenton, Kt.**; \n- **Hon. Mr. J. P. Braga, O.B.E.**; \n- **Hon. Mr. T. N. Chau**; \n- **Hon. Mr. J. J. Paterson**; \n- **Hon. Mr. W. H. Bell**; \n- **Hon. Mr. M. K. Lo**; \n- **Mr. H. R. Butters** (Deputy Clerk of Councils). \n\nThe **Hon. Mr. R. A. C. North** and the **Hon. Mr. G. W. Tickle** both took the Oaths of Allegiance, and assumed their seats as members of the Council. \n\n### MUI-TSAI PROBLEM \n\nThe **Hon. Mr. Jose Pedro Braga, O.B.E.** pursuant to notice, asked the following questions: \n1. Will the Government communicate to the Council any information in its possession concerning the telegraphed report, dated London, March 6, 1936, that **Mr. J. H. Thomas** has decided to despatch a Commission of Inquiry from Britain to Hong Kong to further investigate the mui-tsai system? \n2. Will the Government inform the Council whether: \n - (a) the report is true; \n - (b) if true, at whose expense the Commission will be proceeding to Hong Kong; and \n - (c) if it be at the Colony's expense, will His Excellency the Governor forthwith protest against the imposition of any further expenditure on local taxpayers in the presence of the Colony's unbalanced Budget for the current financial year? \n\n### THE ANSWERS \n\n**Sir Thomas Southorn** answered the **Hon. Mr. Braga's** questions as follows: \n(1) The report is correct and the Honourable Member will be already aware that the Secretary of State has appointed **Sir Wilfrid Woods**, **Miss E. Picton-Turbervill**, and **Mr. C. A. Willis** to be members of the Commission. No information has been received as to when the Commission will arrive. The proposal to appoint a Commission was referred to this Government and was considered in Executive Council where the view was taken that the first conclusion of the Report of the recent Committee on Mui Tsai in Hong Kong (`Sessional Paper 8/1935`) rendered it desirable to welcome a Commission if one should be appointed. \n(2) This Government will certainly be expected to contribute a share of the cost. \n(3) For the reason given in the first paragraph of this reply, the Government is unable to protest in the manner suggested. \n\n### HON. MR. LO'S RESOLUTION \n\nThe **Hon. Mr. Lo Man Kam** then rose to move the following motion: \n\"That in the opinion of this Council the Colony cannot afford to maintain so large and costly a Civil Service as now exists, and that the Government should take immediate steps to effect all possible retrenchments in the same.\" \n\nIn moving his resolution, the **Hon. Mr. M. K. Lo** said: \nYour Excellency, - In rising to move the Motion which stands in my name, I crave indulgence to a new member attempting his maiden speech, and this indulgence is all the more necessary because I fear I will have to take up some twenty minutes of this Council's valuable time in saying what I desire to say in support of this Motion. \n\nThe view asserted by the terms of my Motion is that the Colony cannot afford to maintain the existing Civil Service, and I will at once proceed to set out shortly the grounds on which this view is based. \n\nIt might have been thought at one time that one of the alleged differences between public and private finance is that, whilst in private finance outlay must be gauged and conditioned by income, in public finance the reverse is the case, in that after the expenditures are fixed, it is the duty of the Legislature to provide the revenues. But this alleged difference is generally regarded as illusory and unsound because the State, like the individual, must in the long run cut its coat according to its cloth, and persistent violation of this principle must eventually entail the same consequences, alike for State and individual. I unhesitatingly accept the validity of this principle. \n\nWhat, then, is the present financial position of the Colony? \n\nThe **Hon. Mr. N. L. Smith**, as Acting Colonial Secretary, in the course of his extremely able and lucid Budget speech on September 12, 1935, after stating that it was anticipated that the estimated revenue for 1936 would be about a million and a half behind the 1935 revised figures, summed up the position as follows: \n\"As a result of all these economies, the gap between Revenue and Expenditure has been considerably reduced, but with the dollar rate taken at 1/8d, which seems a prudent figure, there will still be a deficit, after allowing for the surplus balances as mentioned, of about $830,000. The exact figures are Revenue $26,671,845 plus Surplus Balances (in excess of ten million dollars) $2,095,789 - total $28,767,634; Expenditure $29,598,148.\" \n\n### MUST GO ACCORDINGLY \n\nPausing here, I should like to state that, in my humble opinion, the normal revenue of just over twenty-six and a half million dollars must be regarded as representing the cloth according to which Government must cut its coat, for I do most respectfully agree with the views recently expressed as to the inability of the Colony to stand the strain of extra taxation, and particularly by **Dr. R. H. Kotewall**, who spoke in the last Budget Debate as the Senior Unofficial Chinese Member of this Council, that the Colony \"is already taxed to capacity, if not beyond it, and any new tax-burdens may be the last straw.\" \n\nI therefore take the figure of $26,671,845 as representing the normal revenue for 1936, and the figure of just over twenty-nine and a half million dollars as estimated expenditure for 1936. \n\nThe total expenditure includes the items for Military Contribution...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-558-8 Revision of salaries 19-8-1936 - 11-2-1937.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 552265, "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": "CO129-559-13 Sir A. Caldecott- visit to Canton 13-9-1936 - 26-11-1936", "page_number": 40, "title": "CO129-559-13 Sir A. Caldecott- visit to Canton 13-9-1936 - 26-11-1936", "content_text": "# Enel. No.H.\n\nExtracted from the \n**SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST** \ndated \n6th November, 1936.\n\n39\n\n## C.N.A.C. PLANE \n## GOVERNOR WELCOMES FIRST ARRIVAL \n## INITIATES SERVICE TO HONGKONG \n## SIX PASSENGERS\n\nCarrying a full load of six passengers, a China National Airways Corporation flying boat arrived here yesterday at 2.45 p.m. and inaugurated the regular service between Shanghai, Hongkong, and Canton. It took off again for Canton at 2.40 p.m. after picking up three passengers here.\n\nHis Excellency the Governor, Sir Andrew Caldecott, the Hon. Commander G. F. Hole, Director of Air Services, Mr. A. J. R. Moss, Superintendent of the Airport, and a fairly large crowd welcomed the plane on its arrival, and later Mr. Dai Enki, Manager of the C.N.A.C., entertained the Governor and a few friends at a cocktail party in the lounge at Kai Tak.\n\nAt 2.30 p.m., His Excellency and Commander Hole arrived at the airport and were welcomed by Mr. and Mrs. Moss, who escorted them to the slipway at the water's edge where a full view of the plane's landing could be secured. Before the grey and yellow Douglas Dolphin flying boat appeared in the south-eastern sky, a crowd of over 50 people had gathered.\n\n### Cocktail Party\n\nRunning right on schedule, the plane appeared at 2.40 p.m., circled the airport to come into the wind, and landed on the sea just off shore. It was a perfect landing and with a very short run which took the plane right up to the mooring buoy.\n\nThe passengers, including Mr. Dai Enki and Mr. Bixby, Far Eastern representative of Pan-American Airways, were transported from the plane to the slipway, where the Governor, Commander Hole, and a few friends greeted them. The party then went to the lounge where a cocktail party had been arranged by Mr. Eddy of the Peninsula Hotel for Mr. Dai.\n\nThose present at the party included Sir Andrew Caldecott, Captain Cragg, Mr. and Mrs. A. Moss, Mr. Nelson, Commander Hole, Hon. Mr. J. J. Paterson, Mr. H. R. Butters, Mr. Curtis, Mr. Nixon, Mr. Randle, Mr. Y. J. Neyle, and Lt. Smith. His Excellency toasted the Chinese Posts, and Mr. Dai responded by toasting the Hongkong Posts.\n\n### The Passengers\n\nPassengers aboard the plane when it arrived included: Mr. Dai Enki, Manager of the C.N.A.C., Mr. Harold Bixby, of Pan-American Airways, Captain A. R. Williamson, O.B.E., D.S.C., Marine Superintendent at Shanghai of Messrs. Jardine Matheson and Company, Mr. M. Roux, of the Akskania Works, Berlin, Mr. T. M. Wong, and Mr. Van.\n\nMr. Roux is leaving Hongkong today on the `Dorado` for Penang, where he will transfer to the K.L.M. plane and fly back to Europe. He has flown here from Azaka, Japan. He flew from Azaka to Manchukuo, then to Peiping, to Shanghai, and thence to Hongkong. He plans to fly all the way back to Germany.\n\nThe three passengers who left here for Canton were Mr. F. A. Pollock, and Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Littig.\n\nPiloting the plane yesterday was Captain C. G. Sellars, one of the C.N.A.C.'s veteran pilots, who has already called in at Hongkong with C.N.A.C. planes nearly a dozen times. \"It was quite a routine and uneventful flight,\" he said. \"Calling here makes no real difference to us who pilot the machine except that our scheduled arrival at Canton is put back about half an hour.\" The assistant pilot was Mr. Paul Chen.\n\nPassengers aboard the plane declared that the trip was an excellent one and very smooth practically all the way.\n\n### Little Mail\n\nStrangely enough, philatelists did not seem to be particularly enthusiastic about sending letters by this first plane, and there were only about ten kilos of mail from Shanghai for Hongkong. Hongkong sent about 12 lbs. to Canton.\n\nAmong those present at the Airport to welcome the plane were:\n\n| Name | Designation/Association |\n| --- | --- |\n| His Excellency the Governor, Sir Andrew Caldecott | Governor |\n| Captain W. J. R. Cragg | A.D.C. to the Governor |\n| Hon. Commander G. F. Hole | Director of Air Services |\n| Mr. A. J. R. Moss | Superintendent of Kai Tak |\n| Mrs. Moss | |\n| Hon. Mr. J. J. Paterson | |\n| Mr. H. R. Butters | Post Master General |\n| Mr. Nixon | Director of Posts in Canton |\n| Mr. S. Randle | Superintendent of Mails |\n| Mr. E. Nelson | Assistant Superintendent of Kai Tak |\n| Captain R. H. Bateman | Marine Superintendent of Messrs. Jardine Matheson and Co. |\n| Mr. Curtis | Imperial Airways |\n| Mr. F. O. Butler | |\n| Mr. L. G. Frost | |\n| Mr. B. Greenburg | Local manager of M.G.M. |\n| Mr. Talon | M.G.M. |\n| Mr. V. J. Neyle | Far East Flying Training School |\n| Lt. P. Smith | Far East Flying Training School |\n\nTraffic arrangements were made by Mr. W. La B. Sparrow, A.S.P., Chief Inspector F. E. E. Booker, and Inspector F. J. Portallion, Ag. Sub-Inspector A. R. Brittain, and Traffic Sergeant W. MacHardy.\n\n### Shanghai Departure\n\nShanghai, Nov. 5. The first regular Hongkong-bound C.N.A.C. plane departed at 6 a.m. today and is due in the Colony at 2.45 p.m.\n\nThe passengers include the C.N.A.C. Manager, Mr. Dai Enki, and Mr. Bixby of Pan-American Airways. - United Press.\n\n### Films Aboard\n\nMr. B. Greenburg was one of the persons most interested in the arrival of the plane, for aboard it was the film for \"Piccadilly Jim,\" an M.G.M. production which is due to be shown at the King's Theatre and which would not have arrived here in time had it been sent by ship.\n\nPage 40\nPage 41", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-559-13 Sir A. Caldecott- visit to Canton 13-9-1936 - 26-11-1936.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 552731, "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": "CO129-560-15 Traffic of arms to China 18-2-1937 - 15-11-1937", "page_number": 52, "title": "CO129-560-15 Traffic of arms to China 18-2-1937 - 15-11-1937", "content_text": "# COPY FOR REGISTRATION\n\n## CYPHER TELEGRAM from the Governor of Hong Kong to the Secretary of State for the Colonies.\n\n52 \n205 \n\nDated 8th November, 1937, \nNo.270. \nReceived 7.53 a.m. 8th Nov. \nApt to wo. \n+1 \n\nAddressed to the Secretary of State for the Colonies No. 270, of the 8th November repeated to Nanking Telegram No.54 Tokio No.39 Commander in Chief Telegram No.21 copy Commodore and General Officer Commanding. Tokio telegram No.638 to the Foreign Office.\n\nI instructed Smith to interview Japanese Consul General yesterday with the express object of rebutting mischievous attacks and misconceptions appearing in the Japanese press. Subjects of discussions were (a) Munitions entering China via Hong Kong: (b) Assembly of aeroplanes destined for China. As regards (a) points were (1) Traffic is still legitimate (2) railway statistics show volume inconsiderable (3) Origin of recent consignments not British but principally German and Italian.\n\nAs regards (b) None permitted since the outbreak of hostilities. Consul General undertook to represent these points strongly to Tokio.\n\n0000 \nCopy to `F.O.` (207), `W.O.`, `A.M.`, `Admy`.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-560-15 Traffic of arms to China 18-2-1937 - 15-11-1937.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 553558, "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": "CO129-561-10 Estimates 1938 2-9-1937 - 23-9-1938", "page_number": 152, "title": "CO129-561-10 Estimates 1938 2-9-1937 - 23-9-1938", "content_text": "# Enclosure 5.\n\n## HONG KONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.\n\n### 13th October, 1937.\n\n**PRESENT:-**\n\n* **HIS EXCELLENCY THE OFFICER ADMINISTERING THE GOVERNMENT** (MR. N. L. SMITH, C.M.G.).\n* **HIS EXCELLENCY THE GENERAL OFFICER COMMANDING THE TROOPS** (MAJOR GENERAL A. W. BARTHOLOMEW, C.B., C.M.G., C.B.E., D.S.O.).\n* **THE COLONIAL SECRETARY** (HON. MR. R. A. C. NORTH, Acting).\n* **THE ATTORNEY GENERAL** (HON. MR. C. G. ALABASTER, O.B.E., K.C.).\n* **THE SECRETARY FOR CHINESE AFFAIRS** (HON. MR. E. H. WILLIAMS, Acting).\n* **THE FINANCIAL SECRETARY AND COLONIAL TREASURER** (HON. MR. S. CAINE).\n* **HON. MR. R. M. HENDERSON** (Director of Public Works).\n* **HON. MR. T. H. KING** (Inspector General of Police).\n* **HON. COMMANDER J. B. NEWILL, D.S.O., R.N., (Retired)** (Harbour Master, Acting).\n* **HON. DR. D. J. VALENTINE** (Director of Medical Services, Acting).\n* **HON. SIR HENRY POLLOCK, KT., K.C., LL.D.**\n* **HON. MR. J. J. PATERSON.**\n* **HON. MR. CHAU TSUN-NIN.**\n* **HON. MR. LO MAN-KAM.**\n* **HON. MR. LEO D'ALMADA E CASTRO, JNR.**\n* **HON. DR. LI SHU-FAN.**\n* **HON. MR. M. T. JOHNSON.**\n* **HON. MR. E. DAVIDSON.**\n* **MR. A. G. CLARKE** (Deputy Clerk of Councils).", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-561-10 Estimates 1938 2-9-1937 - 23-9-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 554424, "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": "CO129-562-19 Historic relics- two silver trowels presented to cathedral and Zetland Lodge by O.S. Clevely 3-3-1937 - 19-4-1937", "page_number": 10, "title": "CO129-562-19 Historic relics- two silver trowels presented to cathedral and Zetland Lodge by O.S. Clevely 3-3-1937 - 19-4-1937", "content_text": "## Dear Smith,\n\n3rd March, 1937.\n\nGent by Air Mail (of Friday 5th March)\n\nThe Prime Minister's Principal Private Secretary at 10 Downing Street, (i.e. Cleverly) is a grandson of C. St.G. Cleverly who was Surveyor-General in Hong Kong circa 1850. There have descended to him various trophies, etc., which his grandfather brought back from Hong Kong, and amongst these possessions there are two presentation trowels, as follows:-\n\n1. A silver trowel with carved wood handle bearing the following inscription:- \n\"Presented by Sir J.F. Davis, Bart., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Hong Kong, His Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of the trade of British subjects in China to Charles St. George Cleverly, Esquire, Surveyor-General, on the occasion of laying the foundation stone of the Church of St. John at Victoria on the 11th day of March, 1847.\n\n2.\n\nThe two trowels are in the Cupboard in Rm 64 \nN.L. SMITH, ESQ.\n\nPage 10 \nPage 11", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-562-19 Historic relics- two silver trowels presented to cathedral and Zetland Lodge by O.S. Clevely 3-3-1937 - 19-4-1937.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 555099, "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": "CO129-563-16 Sino-Japanese War- attacks on shipping 6-9-1937 - 13-11-1937", "page_number": 58, "title": "CO129-563-16 Sino-Japanese War- attacks on shipping 6-9-1937 - 13-11-1937", "content_text": "# PROCLAMATION\n\n**Officer Administering the Government**\n\nBy His Excellency NORMAN LOCKHART SMITH, Companion of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, the Officer Administering the Government of the Colony of Hong Kong and its Dependencies.\n\nWHEREAS by the second section of the Commissioners Powers Ordinance, 1886, it is enacted that the Governor in Council shall have power to nominate and appoint Commissioners under the Public Seal for the purpose of instituting, making and conducting any enquiry that may be deemed advisable and for reporting thereon:\n\nAND WHEREAS by the thirty-ninth section of the Interpretation Ordinance, 1911, the word \"Governor\" includes the officer for the time being administering the Government:\n\nAND WHEREAS I with the advice and consent of the Executive Council have deemed it advisable that a Commission be appointed to enquire into and to establish the facts in relation to the alleged sinking of certain fishing junks the survivors of which were brought into Hong Kong on board the S.S. \"Scharnhorst\" and S.S. \"Kaying\".\n\nNOW I with the advice and consent of the Executive Council hereby nominate and appoint\n\n* His Honour Sir Alasdair Duncan Atholl MacGregor, Chief Justice,\n* The Honourable Commander Joseph Bernard Newill, D.S.O., R.N. (retired), Harbour Master,\n* Mr. John Alexander Fraser, M.C., temporary additional Judge of the Full Court,\n\nto be Commissioners for the purpose of instituting, making and conducting such enquiry.\n\n1 \n57", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-563-16 Sino-Japanese War- attacks on shipping 6-9-1937 - 13-11-1937.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 555316, "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": "CO129-563-17 Sino-Japanese War- attacks on shipping. For extracted photographs see CN 3-12 27-9-1937 - 17-1-1938", "page_number": 166, "title": "CO129-563-17 Sino-Japanese War- attacks on shipping. For extracted photographs see CN 3-12 27-9-1937 - 17-1-1938", "content_text": ".901,\n\nO. J. REGY \n\nNo. **SECRET**. \n\n**AIR MAIL**. \n\nCopy to: B.E.Tokyo.\n\n75 \n178 \n2. apat \n\n**Commander-in-Chief**. \n\nSir, \n\nGOVERNMENT HOUSE, \nHONG KONG. \n\n10th November, 1937. \n\n43 \n\nWith reference to Mr. N. L. Smith's secret telegram No.257 dated 27th October, 1937, I have the honour to forward three advance copies of the Report of the Commission on the alleged sinking of certain fishing junks.\n\n2. I see no reason for not accepting the conclusions reached by the Commission.\n\nI have the honour to be, \nSir, \nYour most obedient, humble servant, \nGovernor, &c.\n\nTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE \nW.G.A. ORMSBY-GORE, P.C., M.P., \n&C., \n&C., \n&C.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-563-17 Sino-Japanese War- attacks on shipping. For extracted photographs see CN 3-12 27-9-1937 - 17-1-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 555359, "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": "CO129-563-17 Sino-Japanese War- attacks on shipping. For extracted photographs see CN 3-12 27-9-1937 - 17-1-1938", "page_number": 209, "title": "CO129-563-17 Sino-Japanese War- attacks on shipping. For extracted photographs see CN 3-12 27-9-1937 - 17-1-1938", "content_text": "## No. SECRET.(2)\n\n**AIR MAIL**\n\nCopy to: B.E.Tokyo.\n\n**Commander-in-Chief**\n\nsc.\n\nSir,\n\n74\n258\n\n**GOVERNMENT HOUSE, HONG KONG.**\n\n10th November, 1937.\n\nEncl.No.1.\n\nEncl.No.2.\n\nCopy of 2 and wording photo. to F.O.\n\nWith reference to the correspondence resting with Mr. N. L. Smith's telegram No.257 of 27th October, 1937, on the subject of the investigation into the alleged sinking of certain fishing junks, I have the honour to forward in original a photograph with certain relevant endorsements.\n\n2. The circumstances in which this photograph came into the hands of this Government are set out in the enclosed short memorandum which has been prepared by the Attorney General; it is unfortunate that Captain Leknes apparently put his own convenience before the common interest by refraining from producing the photograph before the Commission and by sailing from the Colony before effective use could be made of it.\n\n3. Although the corroboration afforded is of some importance I am reluctant to depart from the strict law of evidence and do not propose to give the photograph the same publicity as will be accorded to the Commission's Report. I conceive, however, that you may be glad to be aware of its existence.\n\n4. This despatch will go by the same air mail as ...\n\n**THE RIGHT HONOURABLE**\n\nW.G.A. ORMSBY-GORE, P.C., M.P., \n&C., \n&C., \n&c.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-563-17 Sino-Japanese War- attacks on shipping. For extracted photographs see CN 3-12 27-9-1937 - 17-1-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 555620, "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": "CO129-563-2 Pharmacy and Poisons Ordinance- 1937 31-5-1937 - 6-1-1938", "page_number": 8, "title": "CO129-563-2 Pharmacy and Poisons Ordinance- 1937 31-5-1937 - 6-1-1938", "content_text": "# No. 13.\n\n## PROCLAMATION\n\nWHEREAS by the twenty-eighth section of the Pharmacy and Poisons Ordinance, 1937, it is provided that the said Ordinance shall come into operation upon such date as the Governor by Proclamation may appoint:\n\nNOW I, Sir GEOFFRY ALEXANDER STAFFORD NORTHCOTE, Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hong Kong and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, do hereby PROCLAIM and APPOINT that the said Ordinance shall come into operation on the first day of January, 1938.\n\nGiven under my hand and the Public Seal of the Colony of Hong Kong, this 29th day of December, 1937.\n\nBy His Excellency's Command,\n\n**GOD SAVE THE KING**\n\nNE Smith \nColonial Secretary.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-563-2 Pharmacy and Poisons Ordinance- 1937 31-5-1937 - 6-1-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 555890, "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": "CO129-564-10 Aeroplane assembly depot- proposed establishment 7-9-1937 - 14-1-1938", "page_number": 34, "title": "CO129-564-10 Aeroplane assembly depot- proposed establishment 7-9-1937 - 14-1-1938", "content_text": "CYPHER TELEGRAM from the Governor of Hong Kong to the Secretary of State for the Colonies.\n\nDated 8th November, 1937. Received 7.53 a.m. 8th Nov.\n\n54.\n\n34\n\nNo. 270.\n\nAddressed to the Secretary of State for the Colonies No. 270, of the 8th November repeated to Nanking Telegram No.54 Tokio No.39 Commander in Chief Telegram No.21 copy Commodore and General Officer Commanding.\n\nTokio telegram No.638 to the Foreign Office\n\nI instructed Smith to interview Japanese Consul General yesterday with the express object of rebutting mischievous attacks and misconceptions appearing in the Japanese press. Subjects of discussions were (a) Munitions entering China via Hong Kong: (b) Assembly of aeroplanes destined for China. The regards (a) points were (1) Traffic is still legitimate; (2) railway statistics show volume inconsiderable; (3) Origin of recent consignments not British but principally German and Italian. As regards (b) None permitted since the outbreak of hostilities.\n\nConsul General undertook to represent these points strongly to Tokio.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-564-10 Aeroplane assembly depot- proposed establishment 7-9-1937 - 14-1-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 555903, "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": "CO129-564-10 Aeroplane assembly depot- proposed establishment 7-9-1937 - 14-1-1938", "page_number": 47, "title": "CO129-564-10 Aeroplane assembly depot- proposed establishment 7-9-1937 - 14-1-1938", "content_text": "53548/17.5\n\nCYPHER TELEGRAM from the Governor of Hong Kong to the\n\nSecretary of State for the Colonies,\n\nDated 8th November, 1937.\n\nReceived 7.53 a.m. 8th Nov.\n\n44\n\n47\n\nNo.270.\n\nAddressed to the Secretary of State for the Colonies\n\nNo.270, of the 8th November repeated to Nanking Telegram No.54\n\nTokio No.39 Commander in Chief Telegram No.21 copy Commodore\n\nand General Officer Commanding.\n\nTokio telegram No.638 to the Foreign Office\n\nI instructed Smith to interview Japanese Consul General\n\nyesterday with the express object of rebutting mischievous\n\nattacks and misconceptions appearing in the Japanese press.\n\nSubjects of discussions were (a) Munitions entering China via Hong Kong: (b) Assembly of aeroplanes destined for China.\n\nAs regards (a) points were (1) Traffic is still legitimate\n\n(2) railway statistics show volume inconsiderable (3) Origin\n\nof recent consignments not British but principally German and Italian. As regards (b) one permitted since the outbreak\n\nof hostilities.\n\nConsul General undertook to represent these points\n\nstrongly to Tokio.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-564-10 Aeroplane assembly depot- proposed establishment 7-9-1937 - 14-1-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 555907, "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": "CO129-564-10 Aeroplane assembly depot- proposed establishment 7-9-1937 - 14-1-1938", "page_number": 51, "title": "CO129-564-10 Aeroplane assembly depot- proposed establishment 7-9-1937 - 14-1-1938", "content_text": "CYPHER TELEGRAM from the Governor of Hong Kong to the \n\nSecretary of State for the Colonies, \n\nDated 12th November, 1937. \n\nReceived 10.36 a.m. 12th November, \n\n53548|1|37. \n\nMOST SECRET. \n\nNo.276. \n\nAddressed to the Secretary of State for the Colonies \n\nNo.275 of 12th November repeated to Nanking No.55. Tokio 41 \n\nCommander in Chief No.22 Shanghai No.135 Mr. Howe copy to General Officer Commanding, Commodore Officer Commanding \n\nRoyal Air Force. Summers of the Gloster Company arrived \n\nyesterday and six mechanics due 21st instant, Nine crated \n\naeroplanes also arrived and eleven reported to be due shortly: their description in your despatch of the 18th August confidential makes clear that though unarmed they cannot be regarded otherwise than as military machines falling within \n\ncategory of vessels of war. Summers has no written instructions but states that the Foreign Office assured him that \n\nassembly in Hong Kong would be allowed. I cannot reconcile \n\nthis with the terms of your telegram No.188 secret. \n\nIn the circumstances I propose to provide no facilities for assembly and to prohibit the use of the \n\naerodrome for that purpose pending further instructions from \n\nyou. Size of crates permits of transit by rail to Canton \n\nand I shall not of course take any action to prevent such \n\ntransit.\n\nSmith's despatch, First portion of (corrupt group) telegram No.169 \n\n19/7230/1/37 \n\nwith which I agree refers. As this is a matter of Imperial \n\npolicy I should be glad of definite instructions at an early \n\ndate.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-564-10 Aeroplane assembly depot- proposed establishment 7-9-1937 - 14-1-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 556674, "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": "CO129-565-9 Amendment to Letters Patent relating to Governor and Commander-in-Chief 5-10-1937 - 9-5-1938", "page_number": 15, "title": "CO129-565-9 Amendment to Letters Patent relating to Governor and Commander-in-Chief 5-10-1937 - 9-5-1938", "content_text": "Jak\n\nC. O.\n\nMr. A.W.A Smith.\n\nMr. Megson. 3/5\n\nMr. Gent.\n\nSir H. Moore.\n\nSir G. Tomlinson.\n\nSir C. Bottomley.\n\nSir J. Shuckburgh.\n\nPermt. U.S. of S.\n\nParly. U.S. of S.\n\nSecretary of State.\n\n3/5\n\n3/5\n\nAnse\n\nSir,\n\nyou\n\n3\n\n21\n\n53864/38.\n\n3 file\n\n15 May, 1938.\n\nI have etc., to transmit to you herewith:\n\n(a) Letters Patent passed under the Great Seal of the Realm dated the 30th of April, 1938, amending Article XVI of the Letters Patent of the 14th of February 1917, constituting the Office of Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hong Kong and its Dependencies, and\n\n(b) Additional Instructions passed under the Royal Sign Manual and Signet dated the 30th of April, 1938, to the Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hong Kong and its Dependencies.\n\n2. You will observe that both these Instruments will come into operation on a specified date.\n\nNo.\n\nDRAFT. CONSON.\n\nKONG.\n\n123.\n\nGovernor.\n\n(Original Letters Patent & 6 prints R.89 will supply.)\n\n(Original Additional Instns & 6 prints R.89 will supply.)\n\n(2 drafts.)\n\nFURTHER ACTION.\n\nCopy for R.89. R.89.\n\n(*801-150) Wt. 13952-47 10,000 6/37 T.S. 695 (*1632-150) Wt. 32179-71 20,000 12/37 T.S. 695", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-565-9 Amendment to Letters Patent relating to Governor and Commander-in-Chief 5-10-1937 - 9-5-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 560599, "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": "CO129-570-7 Sino-Japanese War- attack on shipping 21-3-1938 - 18-11-1938", "page_number": 30, "title": "CO129-570-7 Sino-Japanese War- attack on shipping 21-3-1938 - 18-11-1938", "content_text": "SECRET\n\nCopies to B. A. Shanghai No. 35.\n\nB.A. Tokyo No. 49. Commodore, Hong Kong,\n\n(for Commander-in-Chief).\n\nSir,\n\nGOVERNMENT HOUSE,\n\nHONG KONG.\n\n19th September, 1938.\n\nI have the honour to refer to Mr. N.L. Smith's telegram No. 196 of 18th September, 1937, regarding attacks by Japanese naval forces operating near Hong Kong waters on Chinese fishing vessels, which have their base in this Colony, and to forward for your consideration the accompanying summary of fishing junks and cargo boats based on Hong Kong, which were molested, damaged or sunk by Japanese hostile action during the first six months of this year.\n\nCopy to F026.\n\nAcknowledged\n\n2. Whilst there may conceivably be some justification for this war on the cargo vessels in pursuance of a policy of blockade, though in this respect also the onus of verifying the nationality of a junk it is proposed to attack must rest with the ship making the attack, the wanton destruction of peaceful fishing vessels would appear to have none whatever; the effect on this important local industry has been disastrous, causing the laying up of the larger junks, restricting the range of the smaller to territorial waters where only the smaller varieties of fish are to be found, impoverishing the fisherman, and seriously interfering with\n\nTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE\n\nMALCOLM MACDONALD, M.P.,\n\n&c.,\n\n&c.,\n\n&c.,\n\nPage 30\n\nPage 31", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-570-7 Sino-Japanese War- attack on shipping 21-3-1938 - 18-11-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 561154, "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": "CO129-571-11 Sino-Japanese War- Japanese attacks on the south; fall of Canton and Hankow and visit to... 6-10-1938 - 5-1-1939", "page_number": 153, "title": "CO129-571-11 Sino-Japanese War- Japanese attacks on the south; fall of Canton and Hankow and visit to... 6-10-1938 - 5-1-1939", "content_text": "# Enclosure No.4\n\nHong Kong, October 28th, 1938.\n\n153\n\nI have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of the note dated October 27th and wish to confirm that Major S. Matsutani has paid courtesy calls to His Excellency the Governor and Their Excellencies Commander-in-Chief of the British Navy, Sir Percy Noble, and Major-General A.W. Bartholomew, on behalf of His Excellency Commander-in-Chief of the Japanese Army in South China.\n\nIt was my great pleasure to introduce Major S. Matsutani to Their Excellencies. On this occasion, he has expressed to Their Excellencies personally and unofficially his readiness to convey to Tokyo any complaint or opinions on the expedition of the Japanese troops to South China which Their Excellencies have in mind.\n\nAs His Excellency the Governor expressed, any matter concerning the relation between Great Britain and Japan and affecting this district, will be officially taken up between His Excellency and myself, I yesterday transmitted to Tokyo the desires which His Excellency the Governor had expressed to us.\n\nHowever, such a personal acquaintance of Major S. Matsutani with Their Excellencies will contribute indirectly very much to the promotion of the friendly relations between this Colony and Japan.\n\n## \n\n2. As to the note made by His Excellency, the Commander-in-Chief of the conversation, which took place with Major S. Matsutani subsequently, I wish to state that we did not take any minute for the conversation was quite informal and unofficial. However, through the kindness of His Excellency in sending us a copy of notes, we could clearly understand what the Commander-in-Chief had in mind. His Excellency was so eager to have the Pearl River opened that he would even run a certain risk on the river.\n\nThe Hon. Mr. N.L. Smith, \nColonial Secretary, \nHONG KONG.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-571-11 Sino-Japanese War- Japanese attacks on the south; fall of Canton and Hankow and visit to... 6-10-1938 - 5-1-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 561994, "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": "CO129-571-8 Sino-Japanese War- fuel storage 10-1-1938 - 9-3-1938", "page_number": 6, "title": "CO129-571-8 Sino-Japanese War- fuel storage 10-1-1938 - 9-3-1938", "content_text": "# HONG KONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL\n\n9th March, 1938\n\n## PRESENT:-\n\n* **HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR** (**SIR G. A. S. NORTHCOTE, K.C.M.G.**)\n* **HIS EXCELLENCY THE GENERAL OFFICER COMMANDING THE TROOPS** (**MAJOR GENERAL A. W. BARTHOLOMEW, C.B., C.M.G., C.B.E., D.S.O.**)\n* **THE COLONIAL SECRETARY** (**HON. MR. N. L. SMITH, C.M.G.**)\n* **THE ATTORNEY GENERAL** (**HON. MR. J. A. FRASER, M.C., Acting**)\n* **THE SECRETARY FOR CHINESE AFFAIRS** (**HON. MR. R. A. C. NORTH**)\n* **THE FINANCIAL SECRETARY** (**HON. MR. S. CAINE**)\n* **HON. COMMANDER G. F. HOLE, R.N. (Retired), (Harbour Master)**\n* **HON. MR. R. M. HENDERSON** (**Director of Public Works**)\n* **HON. MR. T. H. KING** (**Commissioner of Police**)\n* **HON. DR. P. S. SELWYN-CLARKE, M.C., (Director of Medical Services)**\n* **HON. SIR HENRY POLLOCK, KT., K.C., LL.D.**\n* **HON. MR. J. J. PATERSON**\n* **HON. MR. CHAU TSUN-NIN, C.B.E.**\n* **HON. MR. LO MAN-KAM**\n* **HON. MR. S. H. DODWELL**\n* **HON. DR. LI SHU-FAN**\n* **HON. MR. M. T. JOHNSON**\n* **MR. B. C. K. HAWKINS** (**Deputy Clerk of Councils**)\n\n## ABSENT:-\n\n* **HON. MR. LEO D'ALMADA E CASTRO, JNR.**", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-571-8 Sino-Japanese War- fuel storage 10-1-1938 - 9-3-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 562298, "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": "CO129-572-10 Rent Commission 14-3-1938 - 7-6-1938", "page_number": 80, "title": "CO129-572-10 Rent Commission 14-3-1938 - 7-6-1938", "content_text": "## PROCLAMATION\n\nBy His Excellency Sir GEOFFRY ALEXANDER STAFFORD NORTHCOTE, Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, the Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hong Kong and its Dependencies and Vice-Admiral of the same.\n\nWHEREAS by the second section of the Commissioners Powers Ordinance, 1886, it is enacted that the Governor in Council shall have power to nominate and appoint Commissioners under the Public Seal for the purpose of instituting, making and conducting any inquiry that may be deemed advisable and for reporting thereon:\n\nAND WHEREAS I, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, have deemed it advisable that a Commission be appointed:\n\nA. to inquire into and report upon:\n(1) the prevalent charges for rent in the towns of Victoria and Kowloon, having regard to their rise and fall during the last ten years, and\n(2) the extent to which and the manners in which tenants and landlords have been and are being affected by the sudden growth of the population of Hong Kong since the beginning of Sino-Japanese hostilities last year;\n\nB. to receive oral and written evidence upon the foregoing issues;\n\nC. to make such relevant recommendations as may commend themselves to members.\n\nNOW, I, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, hereby nominate and appoint:\n\n* Mr. Walter Schofield,\n* Mr. William James Lockhart-Smith,\n* Mr. Robert John Minnitt\n\nto be Commissioners for the purpose of instituting, making and conducting such inquiry.\n\n**Governor**\n\nPage 80\nPage 81", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-572-10 Rent Commission 14-3-1938 - 7-6-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 562302, "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": "CO129-572-10 Rent Commission 14-3-1938 - 7-6-1938", "page_number": 84, "title": "CO129-572-10 Rent Commission 14-3-1938 - 7-6-1938", "content_text": "## Enclosure No.1.\n\n97\n\n**PROCLAMATION.**\n\n[L.S.]\n\n**G. A. S NORTHCOTE, Governor.**\n\nBy His Excellency Sir GEOFFRY ALEXANDER STAFFORD NORTHCOTE, Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, the Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hong Kong and its Dependencies and Vice-Admiral of the same.\n\nWHEREAS by the second section of the Commissioners Powers Ordinance, 1886, it is enacted that the Governor in Council shall have power to nominate and appoint Commissioners under the Public Seal for the purpose of instituting, making and conducting any inquiry that may be deemed advisable and for reporting thereon:\n\nAND WHEREAS I with the advice and consent of the Executive Council have deemed it advisable that a Commission be appointed:\n\nA. to inquire into and report upon:\n(1) the prevalent charges for rent in the towns of Victoria and Kowloon, having regard to their rise and fall during the last ten years, and\n(2) the extent to which and the manners in which tenants and landlords have been and are being affected by the sudden growth of the population of Hong Kong since the beginning of Sino-Japanese hostilities last year:\n\nB. to receive oral and written evidence upon the foregoing issues:\n\nC. to make such relevant recommendations as may commend themselves to members.\n\nNOW I with the advice and consent of the Executive Council hereby nominate and appoint Mr. Walter Schofield, Mr. William James Lockhart-Smith, and Mr. Robert John Minnitt to be Commissioners for the purpose of instituting, making and conducting such inquiry.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-572-10 Rent Commission 14-3-1938 - 7-6-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 562474, "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": "CO129-572-16 Proposals to prevent wastage of water 30-3-1938 - 15-9-1938", "page_number": 4, "title": "CO129-572-16 Proposals to prevent wastage of water 30-3-1938 - 15-9-1938", "content_text": "# HONG KONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL\n## 15th September, 1938\n\n## PRESENT:-\n**HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR** (**SIR G. A. S. NORTHCOTE, K.C.M.G.**)\n**HIS EXCELLENCY THE GENERAL OFFICER COMMANDING THE TROOPS** (**MAJOR GENERAL A. W. BARTHOLOMEW, C.B., C.M.G., C.B.E., D.S.O.**)\n**THE COLONIAL SECRETARY** (**HON. MR. N. L. SMITH, C.M.G.**)\n**THE ATTORNEY GENERAL** (**HON. MR. J. A. FRASER, M.C., Acting**)\n**THE SECRETARY FOR CHINESE AFFAIRS** (**HON. MR. R. A. C. NORTH**)\n**THE FINANCIAL SECRETARY** (**HON. MR. S. CAINE**)\n**HON. COMMANDER G. F. HOLE, R.N. (Retired), (Harbour Master)**\n**HON. MR. R. M. HENDERSON** (**Director of Public Works**)\n**HON. MR. T. H. KING** (**Commissioner of Police**)\n**HON. DR. P. S. SELWYN-CLARKE, M.C., (Director of Medical Services)**\n**HON. MR. J. J. PATERSON**\n**HON. MR. CHAU TSUN-NIN, C.B.E.**\n**HON. MR. LO MAN-KAM**\n**HON. MR. S. H. DODWELL**\n**HON. MR. LEO D'ALMADA E CASTRO, JNR.**\n**HON. DR. LI SHU-FAN**\n**MR. B. C. K. HAWKINS** (**Deputy Clerk of Councils**)\n\n## ABSENT:-\n**HON. SIR HENRY POLLOCK, KT., K.C., LL.D.**\n**HON. MR. A. L. SHIELDS**", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-572-16 Proposals to prevent wastage of water 30-3-1938 - 15-9-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 563033, "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": "CO129-573-3 Asiatic Emigration Amendment Ordinance 1938 20-4-1938 - 9-9-1938", "page_number": 6, "title": "CO129-573-3 Asiatic Emigration Amendment Ordinance 1938 20-4-1938 - 9-9-1938", "content_text": "## PROCLAMATION\n\n**G. A. NORTHCOTE**\n\nGovernor,\n\nWHEREAS by the third section of the Asiatic Emigration Amendment Ordinance, 1938, Ordinance No. 2 of 1938, it is provided that the said Ordinance shall not come into operation until His Majesty's confirmation of the same shall have been proclaimed in Hong Kong by the Governor :\n\nNOW I, Sir GEOFFRY ALEXANDER STAFFORD Northcote, Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hong Kong and its Dependencies and Vice-Admiral of the same, do hereby PROCLAIM that it is His Majesty's pleasure to approve and confirm the said Ordinance.\n\nGiven under my hand and the Public Seal of the Colony of Hong Kong, this 31st day of August, 1938.\n\nPublished by His Excellency's Command.\n\n**N. L. SMITH**\n\nColonial Secretary.\n\nGOD SAVE THE KING.\n\nPage 6", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-573-3 Asiatic Emigration Amendment Ordinance 1938 20-4-1938 - 9-9-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 563258, "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": "CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938", "page_number": 18, "title": "CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938", "content_text": "# Oral Answers\n\n## HOUSE OF COMMONS\n\nMr. E. J. Williams: Will the Minister publish a White Paper indicating what precisely the Board proposes to do?\n\nMr. Brown: I have laid the instructions of the Board in the Library.\n\n## STATISTICS\n\n66. Mr. Shinweil asked the Minister of Labour the number of persons unemployed; and whether the Government have any schemes in contemplation for the provision of useful work?\n\nMr. E. Brown: At 12th September, 1938, there were 1,798,618 unemployed persons, aged 14 and over, on the registers of Employment Exchanges in Great Britain. As regards the second part of the question, I have nothing to add to previous replies on this subject.\n\nMr. Davidson: Will the right hon. Gentleman try to obtain the figures taking also into account the figures of the unemployed now under unemployment assistance relief?\n\nMr. Brown: That is a matter between the health services and my own Department, but I should like to see the question in precise terms on the Order Paper, and then I will do my best to give what information I can.\n\nMr. Davidson: Does the right hon. Gentleman realise that these figures added to those of the registered unemployed are the only honest figures of unemployment in the country?\n\nMr. Brown: That is not so. A great many of those who registered are in the figures.\n\nMr. Lawson: Is the Minister not aware that the situation is getting worse in many of the heavy industry areas, and that there are great numbers of men who have been out of work for many years? Cannot the Government do more in this matter?\n\nMr. Brown: The Government are doing a great deal. I cannot accept the hon. Member's statement that the situation is gradually getting worse. During the last two or three months there has been some improvement, although there have been some variations.\n\n## PROPOSED FORTH ROAD-BRIDGE\n\n68. Mr. Pethick-Lawrence asked the Minister of Transport whether he is now prepared to reconsider his decision with regard to the Forth road-bridge?\n\n67. Mr. Mathers asked the Minister of Transport when it is intended to reconsider the question of making a substantial grant towards the erection of the projected Forth road-bridge, near Queensferry; and what are the conditions precedent to such a grant being made?\n\nThe Minister of Transport (Mr. Burgin): I have nothing to add to the statement which I made on the Motion for the Adjournment on 29th July, 1938.\n\n## FOREIGN BROADCASTS\n\n70. Mr. R. Gibson asked the Postmaster-General whether the broadcasts to Germany and Italy by the British Broadcasting Corporation are to be continued; and whether he has any statement to make regarding an extension of such broadcasts to include other and, if so, what languages?\n\nThe Postmaster-General (Major Tryon): It is proposed to continue for the present the broadcast news bulletins in French, German and Italian which were recently introduced. In addition, news bulletins have been broadcast for some months past in Spanish and Portuguese for South America, and in Arabic. There is no present intention of adding other languages.\n\nCaptain Sir William Brass: May I ask whether these broadcasts are given by natives of the country to which the broadcast is sent?\n\nMajor Tryon: Not necessarily.\n\nMr. Lees-Smith: Will the Postmaster-General bear in mind that a good many of the comments sent to Italy and Germany are so sparse and scrappy that they really give little information of what is happening in this country?\n\nViscountess Astor: Is it not true that the broadcasts to Germany have done a great deal, but that we must give them on a wave-length which will reach the smaller sets of the poorer people in Germany?\n\nMajor Tryon: These matters fall within the responsibility of the Governors of the British Broadcasting Corporation and I shall be happy to convey to them the views of hon. Members.\n\n## CHINA AND JAPAN\n\n1 NOVEMBER 1938\n\n72. Mr. Paling asked the Prime Minister whether he has any statement to make with regard to the situation in China?\n\nThe Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Butler): After a lull during the summer, the Japanese in September commenced a converging movement from North and South with the object of taking Hankow. By the middle of October these operations had developed into a serious threat to the Chinese lines of communication, and in consequence the Chinese forces evacuated Hankow, which was entered by the Japanese on 25th October. I am glad to report that no loss of British life or damage to British property occurred, and in this connection my Noble Friend would like to pay a tribute to the Acting Consul-General at Hankow and Rear-Admiral Yangtse, who were chiefly responsible for bringing the foreign areas safely through the crisis. In South China the Japanese landed a force at Bias Bay, north-east of Canton, which met with little opposition and occupied Canton on 21st October. The occupation of these two important cities by the Japanese has naturally not been without its effect on British interests in South and Central China. The situation, however, will be closely watched, and appropriate measures are being and will be taken as occasion requires. It is too early to assess the effects of the events in question on the future course of hostilities, but there appears to be no immediate prospect of a cessation of fighting.\n\nSir P. Harris: Are the Government doing anything to protect British interests and to see that the open door is maintained?\n\nMr. Butler: Yes, Sir.\n\n79. Mr. Vyvyan Adams asked the Prime Minister whether any measures are in progress or contemplation to concert collective measures against Japanese aggression upon China?\n\nMr. Butler: No, Sir.\n\nMr. Adams: Is it too late for the Governments to consider the proposition of a collective refusal of Japanese imports?\n\nMr. Butler: I must refer the hon. Member to the full reply I gave to the hon. Member for Consett (Mr. David Adams) on 6th October.\n\n## CZECHOSLOVAKIA\n\n73. Mr. Noel-Baker asked the Prime Minister whether he has any information to give the House as to the position of affairs in Czechoslovakia?\n\n84. Lieut.-Commander Fletcher asked the Prime Minister whether he has any statement to make on the visit of Lord Runciman to Czechoslovakia and on the position in that country?\n\nThe Prime Minister: I would refer the hon. Members to the full statements on the Czechoslovak question which I made in the course of the Debates on 28th September and at the beginning of last month. As regards developments in the situation since the House adjourned, I would ask hon. Members to be good enough to await the statements which will be made in the Debate this afternoon.\n\nMr. Noel-Baker: Is the Prime Minister aware of the decision of the International Commission in Berlin that movable property taken from the Sudeten country after 20th September must be returned, and does he consider that this decision is in accordance with the terms of the agreement?\n\n86. Mr. Arthur Henderson asked the Prime Minister whether he can make a statement on the international guarantee in respect of the present frontiers of Czechoslovakia?\n\n87. Miss Rathbone asked the Prime Minister how the matter now stands with regard to the proposed guarantee of the new frontiers of Czechoslovakia and whether he is in a position to issue a White Paper showing the limits of the frontiers, the condition of the guarantees, and any steps that have been taken with a view to checking threats to the security of that State?\n\nThe Prime Minister: I have at present nothing to add to the statement on this subject made by my right hon. Friend the Minister for the Co-ordination of Defence on 4th October. The question of issuing a White Paper on the subject will not arise until the new frontiers of Czechoslovakia have been finally settled after the conclusion of the present negotiations between that country and Germany, Hungary and Poland, and the completion of the formal instrument of Guarantee.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-574-13 British capital for China- Prime Minister's statement 5-11-1938 - 5-11-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 564605, "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": "CO129-576-10 Estimates 1940 6-10-1939 - 22-10-1940", "page_number": 188, "title": "CO129-576-10 Estimates 1940 6-10-1939 - 22-10-1940", "content_text": "# HONG KONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL\n\n131\n\n12th October, 1939.\n\n## PRESENT:-\n\n* **HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR** (**SIR G. A. S. NORTHCOTE, K.C.M.G.**)\n* **HIS EXCELLENCY THE GENERAL OFFICER COMMANDING THE TROOPS** (**MAJOR GENERAL A. E. GRASETT, D.S.O., M.C.**)\n* **THE COLONIAL SECRETARY** (**HON. MR. N. L. SMITH, C.M.G.**)\n* **THE ATTORNEY GENERAL** (**HON. MR. C. G. ALABASTER, O.B.E., K.C.**)\n* **THE SECRETARY FOR CHINESE AFFAIRS** (**HON. MR. R. A. C. NORTH**)\n* **THE FINANCIAL SECRETARY** (**HON. MR. S. CAINE**)\n* **HON. COMMANDER G. F. HOLE, R.N.** (Retired), (**Harbour Master**)\n* **HON. DR. P. S. SELWYN-CLARKE, M.C.,** (**Director of Medical Services**)\n* **HON. MR. C. G. PERDUE** (**Commissioner of Police, Acting**)\n* **HON. MR. A. B. PURVES** (**Director of Public Works**)\n* **HON. SIR HENRY POLLOCK, KT., K.C., LL.D.**\n* **HON. MR. S. H. DODWELL**\n* **HON. MR. CHAU TSUN-NIN, C.B.E.**\n* **HON. MR. LO MAN-KAM**\n* **HON. MR. LEO D'ALMADA E CASTRO, JNR.**\n* **HON. MR. A. L. SHIELDS**\n* **HON. MR. T. E. PEARCE**\n* **HON. MR. LI TSE-FONG**\n* **MR. C. B. BURGESS** (**Deputy Clerk of Councils**)\n\n209", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-576-10 Estimates 1940 6-10-1939 - 22-10-1940.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 564662, "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": "CO129-576-10 Estimates 1940 6-10-1939 - 22-10-1940", "page_number": 245, "title": "CO129-576-10 Estimates 1940 6-10-1939 - 22-10-1940", "content_text": "# Previous Ingenuity\n\nThose present at the meeting were: **His Excellency the Governor (Sir G. A. S. Northcote, K.C.M.G.)**. \nThe Acting Officer Commanding the troops (Brigadier A. B. Thom-on). \nThe Colonial Secretary (Hon. Mr. N. L. Smith, C.M.G.). \nThe Attorney General (Hon. C. G. Alabaster O.B.E., K.C.). \nThe Secretary for Chinese Affairs (Hon. Mr. R. A. C. North). \nThe Financial Secretary (Hon. Mr. S. Caine). \nHon. Commander G. F. Hole, R.N. (Retired), (Harbour Master). \nHon. Dr. P. S. Selwyn-Clarke, M.C., (Director of Medical Services). \nHon. Mr. T. H. King (Commissioner of Police). \nHon. Mr. A. B. Purves (Director of Public Works). \nHon. Sir Henry Pollock, K.T., K.C., LL.D. \nHon. Mr. S. H. Dodwell. \nHon. Mr. Chau Tsun-nin, C.B.E. \nHon. Mr. Lo Man-kam. \nHon. Mr. Leo d'Almada e'Castro Jr. \nHon. Mr. T. E. Pearce. \nHon. Mr. A. L. Shields. \nHon. Mr. Li Tse-fong.\n\nAgainst Income Tax\n\n266 \ncharter money which for a big ship amounts to hundreds of dollars. In London, charter parties require a 6d stamp for each signed copy. \nThe Chinese Chamber of Commerce hold similar views which have been expressed by my Unofficial colleagues and enquiries made from merchants, Bankers, and people in many walks of life, make it clear that public opinion is almost entirely against Income Tax. \n\"Salaries here are admittedly higher than at Home--they have to be, but house rent is not deductible from income for tax purposes. \nIt would probably be surprising to find how many families with children to educate and provision for make to retire must economise in every way to get along. The imposition of an Income Tax would mean in many cases an adjustment of salaries in our favour of raising a War contribution by other means. \n\"The Committee of the Chamber of Commerce proposed other taxes to cover producing about $5,200,000 to local defence and a contribution to the Home Government. These taxes may not be free from criticism, but they deserve careful examination as they have the great advantage of costing practically nothing to collect. \nOne objection, I believe, to the alternative taxes proposed by the Chamber of Commerce and the Chinese Community is that they do not get at unlimited partnerships and salaried employees, including Government Servants, but if this cannot be accomplished, I believe a request for voluntary contributions would meet with an immediate response. \n\"I firmly believe there is no unwillingness to pay towards the cost of the War. \nImportant Objection \nNo Compromise \n\"The very able speech of the Hon. Mr. C. B. Burgess (Deputy Clerk of Councils) impressed me as one of no compromise. Nothing but the Income Tax will do, all arguments against it are torn to shreds. \nH.E. The Governor.--When I adjourned Council a week ago, the Hon. Mr. Shields, who had been speaking, made a request that he be allowed to continue his speech today. I was disposed to consider that request and as the standing orders might cover it, I therefore call upon Mr. Shields to continue his speech. \nHon. Mr. Shields: \n\"We British are credited with being experts in compromise and the middle course, but there is no confirmation of this in the Hon. Financial Secretary's speech. He set out to confound the opposition to his pet tax and may have done so entirely to his own satisfaction, but the people who must pay the fiddler, apparently still dislike the tune. \nThe Hon. Mr. Caine dealt with the vexed question of evasion. \n\"If Income Tax should prove to be 50% ineffective, would he propose to discontinue it after an expensive department had been set up to collect it? \n\"So many objections have been made to Income Tax that I need not say more than that the Hon. Financial Secretary seems to be ploughing a very lonely furrow. A perusal of all that has been said in this debate leaves one with the same impression as the proud Mother whose son had joined the Army. She turned out to see his Regiment on the march and was surprised to find that they were dismissed in cavalier fashion, the alternatives for providing a contribution to the Imperial Exchequer which had been put forward by representatives of many interests. \nThe Unofficial members who preceded him were against it, and the business community, bankers, investors, manufacturers, etc. should swallow the distasteful draught and believe it to be less harmful than any other nostrum which they prefer to try. \n\"In comparing taxation in Hong Kong with other places, one has only to examine the high cost of living here to find that one of the contributory factors is the high price of land. \nThe Financial Secretary ably handled the case for Government, but Government is the ground landlord and the high price it obtains for land has to be paid for ultimately by the tenants. Land sales have been an important item of Revenue. Rents, which are based on a return on the investment in land and buildings, are also the basis of assessment. \nIt was said that when land in the business centre was $60 and over per square foot, it was dearer than land in Lombard Street in the City of London. I admit the value of the dollar was higher than at present. I make this assertion, Sir, as I imagine it prompted your statement that Government did not intend to use the Official majority to put through a measure which the people believed to be detrimental to the welfare of the Colony in order to provide a gift from these people to the Home Government. \nRents of private dwellings are higher than in England, which is partly due to the cost of preparing sites, the charges for sewerage and water connections, permits for access over Crown Land, etc. \n\"The long list of Government charges for permits, stamp fees, etc., must be considered. Many things, for instance, are estimated to produce about $40,000 in the 1940-41 budget. A charter party signed in Hong Kong is taxed at 15 cents per $100 of the charter money, which for a big ship amounts to hundreds of dollars, with no return. \nAN EXPLANATION \nThe Financial Secretary. I rise not to make another speech but to ask Your Excellency's permission to make a personal explanation with regard to the speech I made at the last meeting of the Council. \nThere was a sentence in that speech which could conceivably have been interpreted as imputing improper motives to members of this Council. I said that if suggestions were made that Income Tax should not be introduced in this Colony \"because it would not be quite 100 per cent effective, I could not but suspect that they covered some other motives.\" \nIt was not in my mind to suggest that any Member of this Council had opposed Income Tax principally on that ground. In fact, I had in my mind, when saying those particular words, criticisms to that effect in the Press. \nI had stated at the beginning of my speech that I proposed to deal with Members' comments as well as remarks made by the Press, and I wish to make it clear that it was very far from my thoughts to suggest that any Member of this Council had any other motive but the best interests of this Colony. \n(Applause).\n\nAs you are aware, the General Committee of the Chamber of Commerce held a meeting and after discussion and consideration, they decided unanimously against Income Tax. \nThey recommended other alternatives which had also been carefully considered, and gave their opinion that the proposal to raise three million dollars for local defence and seven million dollars as a grant for war purposes was too high, as it would be detrimental to the welfare of the Colony if such a large sum was taken out of the Colony, giving, for instance, a man at Home paying £40 per annum for a house in the suburbs with taxes at three times the rate in Hong Kong, the equivalent of $960 per annum or $80 per month. \nWhat can he get in Hong Kong for that rent, inclusive of the present 17% rate? \nI have not been able to get an official copy of your remarks, Sir, but I believe I have correctly interpreted them in my own words. \nHon. Sir Henry Pollock.-On behalf of the Unofficial Members of this Council, I should like to thank the Financial Secretary for the statement he has just made. \n(Applause).", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-576-10 Estimates 1940 6-10-1939 - 22-10-1940.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 567116, "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": "CO129-579-7 Sino-Japanese War- shipping on Pearl River 4-1-1939 - 9-6-1939", "page_number": 72, "title": "CO129-579-7 Sino-Japanese War- shipping on Pearl River 4-1-1939 - 9-6-1939", "content_text": "CLOSURE BC. 4 in Canton Deep the No. 40 of 20/2/39 to ... HANCHAI\n\n79\n\nWith reference to my telegram No. 4 of February 19th to you, Hon Sir,\n\na meeting was held at Government House at 10:30 a.m. on February 15th at which the following were present:\n\nH.E. the Governor (Sir Geoffrey Northcote)\n\nCommander-in-Chief (Admiral Sir Percy Noble)\n\nChief of Naval Staff (Commodore A.F. Beal)\n\nCommodore, Hong Kong (Commodore Licken)\n\n(Hon. Mr. J.J. Pownall)\n\nColonial Secretary (Hon. Mr. N. Smith)\n\nAttorney General (Mr. J. Fraser)\n\nConsul-General, Canton (Hon. Mr. C. MacDonald)\n\n(Hon. Dr. P.H. Chau)\n\n(Hon. Commander A.B. Hole)\n\nThe Colonial Secretary initiated proceedings by stating that after reading my telegram he thought that as few difficulties as possible should be raised.\n\nWays and means were discussed.\n\nIt was eventually decided that the Japanese proposals as contained in my telegram B. No. 4 of February 7th would be generally accepted subject to modifications in regard to point 2, in paragraph 4.\n\nAn undertaking to be given by the Master, or alternatively the completion of a form instead of the guarantee, must be given within the time limit.\n\nFurther details are contained in the attached paper in Tablo \"(A)\".\n\nThe form referred to in that paper is the form which was presented to the Master in the case of the 'Suzan Maru'.\n\nIt is the form usually filled in by passenger ships and it is not surprising that it caused Japanese 'heartburnings'.\n\nThe agreement with regard to paragraph 4 mentioned above also deals with point 3 in that paragraph of the telegram under reference.\n\nThe Japanese points about quarantine and store lists are acceptable to H.M. Government.\n\n17.2.39", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-579-7 Sino-Japanese War- shipping on Pearl River 4-1-1939 - 9-6-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 568878, "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": "CO129-582-7 Taxation 6-6-1939 - 5-2-1940", "page_number": 54, "title": "CO129-582-7 Taxation 6-6-1939 - 5-2-1940", "content_text": "Those present at the meeting were: His Excellency the Governor (Sir G. A. S. Northcote, K.C.M.G.).\n\nThe Acting Officer Commanding the troops (Brigadier A. B. Thomson).\n\nThe Colonial Secretary (Hon. Mr. N. L. Smith, C.M.G.).\n\nThe Attorney General (Hon. Mr. C. G. Alabaster, O.B.E., K.C.),\n\nThe Secretary for Chinese Affairs (Hon. Mr. R. A. C. North).\n\nThe Financial Secretary (Hon. Mr. S. Caine).\n\nHon. Commander G. F. Hole, R.N. (Retired), (Harbour Master).\n\nHon. Dr. P. S. Selwyn-Clarke, M.C., (Director of Medical Services).\n\nHon. Mr. T. H. King (Commissioner of Police).\n\nHon. Mr. A. B. Purves (Director of Public Works).\n\nHon. Sir Henry Pollock, K.T., K.C., LL.D.\n\nHon. Mr. S. H. Dodwell.\n\nHon. Mr. Chau Tsun-nin, C.B.E.\n\nHon. Mr. Lo Man-kam.\n\nHon. Mr. Leo d'Almada e Castro Jr.\n\nHon. Mr. T. E. Pearce.\n\nHon. Mr. A. L. Shields.\n\nHon. Mr. Li Tse-fong.\n\nMr. C. B. Burgess (Deputy Clerk of Councils).\n\nTo\n\nH.E. The Governor: When I adjourned Council a week ago, the Hon. Mr. Shields, who had been speaking, made a request that he be allowed to continue his speech today. I was disposed to consider that request and as the standing orders cover it, I therefore call upon Mr. Shields to continue his speech.\n\nHon. Mr. Shields: Hon. Mr. A. L. Shields: Your Excellency, I am glad to have the opportunity, owing to the adjournment of the debate on the War Budget, of considering the speech made by the Hon. Financial Secretary in support of the Income Tax measure proposed by Government, in which he dealt with the storm of disapproval from all sections of the community as voiced by the Unofficial members of Council, who preceded him.\n\nThe Financial Secretary handled the case for Government but dismissed in cavalier fashion the alternatives for providing a contribution to the Imperial Exchequer which had been put forward by representatives of many interests. The goodwill and co-operation of the people in a matter of this kind are important, if not essential to the carrying out of Your Excellency's laudable desire that Hongkong should do its bit towards financing the war.\n\nI make this assertion, Sir, as I imagine it prompted your statement that Government did not intend to use the Official majority to put through a measure which the people believed to be detrimental to the welfare of the Colony in order to provide a gift from these people to the Home Government.\n\nI have not been able to get an official copy of your remarks, Sir, but I believe I have correctly interpreted them in my own words.\n\nAs you are aware, the General Committee of the Chamber of Commerce held a meeting and after discussion and consideration, they decided unanimously against Income Tax.\n\nThey recommended other alternatives which had also been carefully considered, and gave their opinion that the proposal to raise three million dollars for local defence and seven million dollars as a grant for war purposes was too high, as it would be detrimental to the welfare of the Colony if such a large sum was taken out of the Colony, giving no return.\n\nThe Chinese Chamber of Commerce hold similar views which have been expressed by my Unofficial colleagues and enquiries made from merchants, bankers, and people in many walks of life, make it clear that public opinion is almost entirely against Income Tax.\n\nIndications are not lacking that the Unofficial members of this Council are solidly against Income Tax, but I believe they will be as solidly in favour of raising a War contribution by other means.\n\nThe Committee of the Chamber of Commerce proposed other taxes to produce about $5,200,000 to cover local defence and a contribution to the Home Government. These taxes may not be free from criticism, but they deserve careful examination as they have the great advantage of costing practically nothing to collect.\n\nGovernment may suggest other alternatives which will satisfy the community and for these reasons, Sir, I would urge that the terms of reference of the Taxation Committee now sitting be broadened to include the examination of alternatives.\n\nThe very able speech of the Hon. Financial Secretary impressed me as one of no compromise. Nothing but Income Tax will do; all arguments against it are torn to shreds; the business community, bankers, investors, manufacturers, etc., should swallow the distasteful draught and believe it to be less harmful than any other nostrum which they might prefer to try.\n\nWe British are credited with being experts in compromise and the middle course, but there is no confirmation of this in the Hon. Financial Secretary's speech. He set out to confound the opposition to his pet tax and may have done so entirely to his own satisfaction, but the people who must pay the fiddler apparently still dislike the tune.\n\nIn comparing taxation in Hongkong with other places, one has only to examine the high cost of living here to find that one of the contributory factors is the high price of land. Government is the ground landlord and the high price it obtains for land has to be paid for ultimately by the tenants.\n\nLand sales have been an important item of Revenue. Rents which are based on a return on the investment in land and buildings are also the basis of assessment. It was said that when land in the business centre was $60 and over per square foot, it was dearer than land in Lombard Street in the City of London. I admit the value of the dollar was higher than at present.\n\nRents of private dwellings are higher than in England, which is partly due to the cost of preparing sites, the charges for sewerage and water connections, permits for access over Crown Land, etc.\n\nA man at Home paying £40 per annum for a house in the suburbs with taxes at three times the rate in Hongkong (say 50%), pays the equivalent of $960 or $80 per month. What can he get in Hongkong for that rent inclusive of the present 17% rate?\n\nThe long list of Government charges for permits, stamp fees, etc., must be considered. Many things, from permission to work a steamer on Sunday to permission to park a car in Duddell Street, have to be obtained by permit at a price. Great ingenuity on the part of successive Colonial Treasurers has been displayed in finding these methods of increasing Revenue.\n\nOfficial signatures, for instance, are estimated to produce $40,000 in the 1940-41 budget. A charter party signed in Hongkong is taxed at 15 cents per $100 of the charter money, which for a big ship amounts to hundreds of dollars. In London, charter parties require a 6d stamp for each signed copy.\n\nSalaries here are admittedly higher than at Home - they have to be - but house rent is not deductible from income for tax purposes. It would probably be surprising to find how many families with children to educate and provision to make for retirement must economise in every way to get along.\n\nThe imposition of an Income Tax would mean in many cases an adjustment of salaries falling on the employer, who would also pay tax on his business profits and still have to compete with merchants in other ports for the trade of China.\n\nOne objection, I believe, to the alternative taxes proposed by the Chamber of Commerce and the Chinese Community is that they do not get at unlimited partnerships and salaried employees, including Government Servants, but if this cannot be accomplished, I believe a request for voluntary contributions would meet with an immediate response from many who would contribute according to their means.\n\nI firmly believe there is no unwillingness to pay towards the cost of the War.\n\nAn important objection to Income Tax is that Home Government will have to refund such a large proportion of the total collection that the net contribution to the United Kingdom may be greatly reduced, and to get that, everyone will suffer a big disturbance in paying and reclaiming, and the net result may not be worth it.\n\nThe Hon. Mr. Caine dealt with the vexed question of evasion.\n\nIf Income Tax should prove to be 50% ineffective, would he propose to discontinue it after an expensive department had been set up to collect it?\n\nSo many objections have been made to Income Tax that I need not say more than that the Hon. Financial Secretary seems to be ploughing a very lonely furrow. A perusal of all that has been said in this debate leaves one with the same impression as the proud Mother whose son had joined the Army. She turned out to see his Regiment on the march and was surprised to find that they were all out of step with her Peter.\" (Applause).\n\nAN EXPLANATION\n\nThe Financial Secretary.—I rise not to make another speech but to ask Your Excellency's permission to make a personal explanation with regard to the speech I made at the last meeting of the Council.\n\nThere was a sentence in that speech which could conceivably have been interpreted as imputing improper motives to members of Council. I said that if suggestions were made that Income Tax should not be introduced in this Colony because it would not be quite 100 per cent effective, I could not but suspect that they covered some other motives.\n\nIt was not in my mind that any Member of this Council had opposed Income Tax principally on that ground. In fact, I had in my mind when saying those particular words, criticisms to that effect in the Press. I had stated at the beginning of my speech that I proposed to deal with Members' comments as well as remarks made by the Press, and I wish to make it clear that it was very far from my thoughts to suggest that any Member of this Council had any other motive but the best interests of this Colony. (Applause).\n\nHon. Sir Henry Pollock.—On behalf of the Unofficial Members of this Council, I should like to thank the Hon. Financial Secretary for the statement he has just made.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-582-7 Taxation 6-6-1939 - 5-2-1940.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 569330, "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": "CO129-583-19 Administration of government 19-5-1940 - 22-5-1941", "page_number": 38, "title": "CO129-583-19 Administration of government 19-5-1940 - 22-5-1941", "content_text": "COLONIAL OFFICE\n\nCOLONIAL OFFICE.\n\nDOWNING STREET, S.W.1.\n\n27th June, 1940.\n\n38\n\nThe Governor of Hong Kong, Sir Geoffry Northcote, had to leave in the middle of May to take a period of rest and holiday at home on the urgent advice of his doctors. He has not yet arrived here, but may be expected in a week or two now. The Acting Governor at present is the next man in the Civil Administration of the Colony, Mr. N.L. Smith, the Colonial Secretary, who has spent his working life in the Civil Service in Hong Kong and has much valuable experience of local administrative affairs.\n\nBut the Colony is facing a defence situation of some gravity, and it has been urged upon me by the Naval Commander in Chief and the General Officer Commanding, whose China Headquarters in both cases are at Hong Kong, that Smith's qualities have not been shown to be of a type required in a Governor in face of the present needs.\n\nI have decided that I must accept this advice and in consultation with the War Office I am proposing to submit the name of Major-General E.F. Norton, C.B., D.S.O., M.C., who is at present commanding the Western District in India, to be sent to administer the government of the Colony at the earliest possible date. He can be released at once and can travel by air. N.L. Smith will on his arrival then revert to be Colonial Secretary and his advice and experience on the civil side will, of course, remain available to General Norton. The latter will need to be given the temporary rank of Lieutenant-General while he acts as Governor and Commander in Chief at Hong Kong, and I am writing to...\n\nThe Right Honourable\n\nWinston S. Churchill, C.H., M.P.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-583-19 Administration of government 19-5-1940 - 22-5-1941.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 569332, "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": "CO129-583-19 Administration of government 19-5-1940 - 22-5-1941", "page_number": 40, "title": "CO129-583-19 Administration of government 19-5-1940 - 22-5-1941", "content_text": "940\n\n29th June, 1940.\n\nI enclose for submission to His Majesty for signature a dormant commission to provide for Major-General B.P. Norton, C.B., D.S.O., M.C., who is at present commanding the Western District in India, to take over the administration of Hong Kong at the earliest possible date in the Governor's absence.\n\nThe Governor of Hong Kong, Sir Geoffry Northcote, had to leave in the middle of May to take a period of rest and holiday at home on the urgent advice of his doctors. He has not yet arrived here, but is expected in about a week from now. The Acting Governor at present is the next man in the Civil Administration of the Colony, Mr. N.L. Smith, the Colonial Secretary, who has spent his working life in the Civil Service in Hong Kong and has much valuable experience of local administrative affairs.\n\nBut the Colony is facing a defence situation of some gravity and it has been urged upon the Secretary of State by the Naval Commander-in-Chief and the General Officer Commanding, whose China headquarters in both cases are at Hong Kong, that Mr. Smith's particular qualities have not been shown to be of a type required in a Governor in face of the present needs.\n\nThe Secretary of State has decided that he must accept this advice and after consultation with the Secretary of State for War and with the approval of the Prime Minister, Major-General Norton has been chosen to take over the administration of the Colony. He can be released at once from his duties in India and can travel to Hong Kong by air. On his arrival, Mr. Smith will revert to his normal duties.\n\nThe Right Honourable\n\nSir Alexander Cadogan,\n\nG.C.M.G., K.C.B., M.C.\n\nColonial\n\nPage 40\n\nPage 41", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-583-19 Administration of government 19-5-1940 - 22-5-1941.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 569333, "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": "CO129-583-19 Administration of government 19-5-1940 - 22-5-1941", "page_number": 41, "title": "CO129-583-19 Administration of government 19-5-1940 - 22-5-1941", "content_text": "Colonial Secretary and Mr. Smith's advice and experience on the civil side will, of course, remain available to Major General Norton. Major General Norton will be given the temporary rank of Lieutenant-General while he acts as Governor and Commander-in-Chief at Hong Kong.\n\nYours sincerely,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-583-19 Administration of government 19-5-1940 - 22-5-1941.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 569337, "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": "CO129-583-19 Administration of government 19-5-1940 - 22-5-1941", "page_number": 45, "title": "CO129-583-19 Administration of government 19-5-1940 - 22-5-1941", "content_text": "45\n\nhas been urged upon the Secretary of State by the Naval Commander-in-Chief and the General Officer Commanding, whose China headquarters in both cases are at Hong Kong, that Smith's qualities have not been shown to be of a type required in a Governor in face of the present needs.\n\nThe Secretary of State has decided that he must accept this advice and after consultation with the War Office and with the approval of the Prime Minister, Major-General Norton has been chosen to take over the administration of the Colony. He can be released at once from his duties in India and can travel to Hong Kong by air.\n\nSmith will, on his arrival, then revert to be Colonial Secretary and his advice and experience on the civil side will, of course, remain available to General Norton. The letter is being given the temporary rank of Major-General.\n\nYours sincerely,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-583-19 Administration of government 19-5-1940 - 22-5-1941.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 569342, "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": "CO129-583-19 Administration of government 19-5-1940 - 22-5-1941", "page_number": 50, "title": "CO129-583-19 Administration of government 19-5-1940 - 22-5-1941", "content_text": "(*3950—150) Wt. 46262-29\n\n30,000\n\n3/39 T.S. 695\n\nC. O.\n\nMr. Gent.\n\n26/6.\n\nMr.\n\n•\n\n53614/40 Hong Kong\n\n50\n\nЛ\n\nMr.\n\nSir A.Burns. 26/6. Mr. A. J. Dawe.\n\nSir H. Moore.\n\nX\n\nMijeffries 27/6\n\nSir G. Tomlinson.\n\nSir J. Shuckburgh.\n\nPermi. U.S. of 5.27.6.40\n\nParly. U.S. of S.\n\nSecretary of State.\n\nDRAFT.\n\n127.6\n\n·\n\nTHE RIGHT HON. WINSTON S. CHURCHILL,\n\nC. H., M. P.\n\nFURTHER ACTION.\n\nCopies to W.O., Admiralty and I.O. with P.S.'s letter,\n\nwh, and, be marked 'confidential'\n\nFor signature by the S. of S.\n\nDowning Street,\n\nJune, 1940.\n\nThe Governor of Hong Kong,\n\nSir Geoffry Northcote, had to leave\n\nin the middle of May to take a\n\nperiod of rest and holiday at home\n\non the urgent advice of his doctors.\n\nHe has not yet arrived here, but may\n\nbe expected in a week or two now.\n\nThe Acting Governor at present is\n\nthe next man in the Civil\n\nAdministration of the Colony,\n\nMr. N. L. Smith, the Colonial\n\nSecretary, who has spent his\n\nworking life in the Civil Service\n\nin Hong Kong and has much valuable\n\nexperience of local administrative\n\naffairs.\n\nBut the Colony is facing\n\na defence situation of some gravity\n\nand it has been urged upon me by\n\nthe Naval Commander in Chief and\n\nPage 50\n\nPage 51", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-583-19 Administration of government 19-5-1940 - 22-5-1941.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 569343, "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": "CO129-583-19 Administration of government 19-5-1940 - 22-5-1941", "page_number": 51, "title": "CO129-583-19 Administration of government 19-5-1940 - 22-5-1941", "content_text": "51\n\nthe G.O.C., whose China Headquarters are in both cases at Hong Kong, that Smith's qualities have not been shown to be of a type required in a Governor in face of the present needs.\n\nI have decided that I must accept this advice and in consultation with the War Office I am proposing to submit the name of Major-General E. F. Norton, C.B., D.S.O., M.C., who is at present commanding the Western District in India, to be sent to take over as Acting Governor and administer the government of Hong Kong at the earliest possible date. He can be released at once and can travel by air.\n\nN. L. Smith will on his arrival then revert to be Colonial Secretary and his advice and experience on the civil side will, of course, remain available to General Norton. The latter will need to be given the temporary rank of Lieutenant-General while he acts as Governor and Commander-in-Chief at Hong Kong, and I am writing to the Secretary of State for War on that point.\n\nI shall be grateful to know that you approve my submitting General Norton's name to the King as a matter of urgency.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-583-19 Administration of government 19-5-1940 - 22-5-1941.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 570686, "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": "CO129-585-3 Sino-Japanese conflict- shipping 17-1-1940 - 13-11-1940", "page_number": 14, "title": "CO129-585-3 Sino-Japanese conflict- shipping 17-1-1940 - 13-11-1940", "content_text": "SAVE HAND\n\n14\n\nNo. 48 (28/90AB/1940)\n\nCopies sent to: Tokyo No.283 Foreign Office No.434 Commander-in-Chief No.27 Diplomatic Mission No.396 Swatow No. 18 Canton No. 46.\n\nLetter from Dr. K Okazaki to Mr. Blunt of 11.7.1939.\n\nLetter to Dr. K. Ukazaki from Mr. Blunt of 14.7.40.\n\nSir,\n\nBRITISH EMBASSY,\n\nSHANGHAI.\n\n31st May, 1940.\n\nI have the honour to refer to despatches Nos. 23 and 28 of the 31st March and 18th April addressed to me by His Majesty's Consul at Swatow (and sent direct to Hongkong as Swatow despatches Nos. 13 and 18 to the Colonial Secretary respectively) on the subject of the restrictions imposed on British shipping at that port.\n\n2.\n\nIt will be observed that in reply to his representations Mr. Hall has been informed by his Japanese colleague that there is no immediate prospect of the reopening of the port to trade and that the present position is governed by an \"agreement\" concluded in Canton on the 11th July 1939 whereby restrictions are imposed on British steamers entering Swatow similar to those regulating the entry of Japanese transports into Hongkong.\n\nCopies of the documents which Mr. Takai has in mind are enclosed herein. It will be seen that they do not in fact constitute an agreement in any sense.\n\nThe position is rather as follows.\n\nN.L. Smith,\n\nEsquire,\n\nOffice Administering the Government,\n\nHONGKONG.\n\n/3.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-585-3 Sino-Japanese conflict- shipping 17-1-1940 - 13-11-1940.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 571644, "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": "CO129-586-8 War Taxation 2-2-1940 - 11-5-1940", "page_number": 118, "title": "CO129-586-8 War Taxation 2-2-1940 - 11-5-1940", "content_text": "# HONG KONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL\n## 14th March, 1940\n\nPage 128\n\n**PRESENT:-**\n\n* **HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR** (**SIR G. A. S. NORTHCOTE, K.C.M.G.**)\n* **HIS EXCELLENCY THE GENERAL OFFICER COMMANDING THE TROOPS** (**MAJOR GENERAL A. E. GRASETT, D.S.O., M.C.**)\n* **THE COLONIAL SECRETARY** (**HON. MR. N. L. SMITH, C.M.G.**)\n* **THE ATTORNEY GENERAL** (**HON. MR. C. G. ALABASTER, O.B.E., K.C.**)\n* **THE SECRETARY FOR CHINESE AFFAIRS** (**HON. MR. R. A. C. NORTH**)\n* **THE FINANCIAL SECRETARY** (**HON. MR. H. R. BUTTERS, Acting**)\n* **HON. COMMANDER G. F. HOLE, R.N. (Retired)** (**Harbour Master**)\n* **HON. MR. T. H. KING** (**Commissioner of Police**)\n* **HON. DR. P. S. SELWYN-CLARKE, M.C.** (**Director of Medical Services**)\n* **HON. MR. A. B. PURVES** (**Director of Public Works**)\n* **HON. SIR HENRY POLLOCK, KT., K.C., LL.D.**\n* **HON. MR. J. J. PATERSON**\n* **HON. MR. LO MAN-KAM**\n* **HON. MR. S. H. DODWELL**\n* **HON. DR. LI SHU-FAN**\n* **HON. MR. A. L. SHIELDS**\n* **HON. MR. W. N. T. TAM**\n* **MR. C. B. BURGESS** (**Deputy Clerk of Councils**)\n\n**ABSENT:-**\n\n* **HON. MR. LEO D'ALMADA E CASTRO, JNR.**", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-586-8 War Taxation 2-2-1940 - 11-5-1940.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 572124, "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": "CO129-587-7 Telephone Amendment Ordinance 1940 9-4-1940 - 16-4-1940", "page_number": 30, "title": "CO129-587-7 Telephone Amendment Ordinance 1940 9-4-1940 - 16-4-1940", "content_text": "# HONG KONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL\n## 28th March, 1940\n\n### PRESENT:-\n\n* **HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR** (**Sir G. A. S. Northcote, K.C.M.G.**)\n* **HIS EXCELLENCY THE GENERAL OFFICER COMMANDING THE TROOPS** (**Major General A. E. Grasett, D.S.O., M.C.**)\n* **The Colonial Secretary** (**Hon. Mr. N. L. Smith, C.M.G.**)\n* **The Attorney General** (**Hon. Mr. C. G. Alabaster, O.B.E., K.C.**)\n* **The Secretary for Chinese Affairs** (**Hon. Mr. R. A. C. North**)\n* **The Financial Secretary** (**Hon. Mr. H. R. Butters, Acting**)\n* **Hon. Commander G. F. Hole, R.N. (Retired)** (**Harbour Master**)\n* **Hon. Mr. T. H. King** (**Commissioner of Police**)\n* **Hon. Dr. P. S. Selwyn-Clarke, M.C.** (**Director of Medical Services**)\n* **Hon. Mr. A. B. Purves** (**Director of Public Works**)\n* **Hon. Sir Henry Pollock, Kt., K.C., LL.D.**\n* **Hon. Mr. J. J. Paterson**\n* **Hon. Mr. Lo Man-Kam**\n* **Hon. Dr. Li Shu-Fan**\n* **Hon. Mr. A. L. Shields**\n* **Hon. Mr. W. N. T. Tam**\n* **Mr. C. B. Burgess** (**Deputy Clerk of Councils**)\n\n### ABSENT:-\n\n* **Hon. Mr. S. H. Dodwell**\n* **Hon. Mr. Leo d'Almada e Castro, Jnr.**\n\nPage 30\nPage 31", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-587-7 Telephone Amendment Ordinance 1940 9-4-1940 - 16-4-1940.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 572356, "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": "CO129-588-15 Hong Kong Naval Volunteer Force and Hong Kong Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve- annual report 16-7-1941 - 25-11-1941", "page_number": 16, "title": "CO129-588-15 Hong Kong Naval Volunteer Force and Hong Kong Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve- annual report 16-7-1941 - 25-11-1941", "content_text": "# THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JULY 11, 1941.\n\n## PROCLAMATION.\n\n### No. 5.\n\n[L.S.]\n\n**G. A. S. NORTHCOTE,**\nGovernor.\n\nWHEREAS by regulation 26 of the Regulations of the Hong Kong Naval Volunteer Force it is enacted that (without prejudice to any powers that may be exercised by His Majesty or by His Majesty in Council or by the Governor or by the Governor in Council) the Governor may, in case of great national or local emergency or in case of actual or apprehended invasion of or attack on the Colony, or in case of serious local disturbance or in case it may be desirable to take precautions against the possibility of serious local disturbance, by Proclamation call out the Hong Kong Naval Volunteer Force or any portion or members thereof for actual service:\n\nAND WHEREAS it is also enacted by the aforesaid regulation that the period of such service shall continue as long as the Governor may consider necessary and shall end only by order of the Governor:\n\nNOW, THEREFORE, I, Sir GEOFFRY ALEXANDER STAFFORD NORTHCOTE, Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hong Kong and its Dependencies and Vice-Admiral of the same, deeming that such calling out is necessary and shall be continued for the present, DO by this Proclamation CALL OUT all the members of the Hong Kong Naval Volunteer Force for actual service until my further order.\n\nGiven under my hand and the Public Seal of the Colony of Hong Kong this 11th day of July, 1941.\n\nPublished by His Excellency's Command.\n\n**N. L. SMITH,**\nColonial Secretary.\n\n**GOD SAVE THE KING.**", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-588-15 Hong Kong Naval Volunteer Force and Hong Kong Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve- annual report 16-7-1941 - 25-11-1941.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 573355, "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": "CO129-588-5 Appointments to Executive and Legislative Councils 20-11-1940 - 30-7-1941", "page_number": 15, "title": "CO129-588-5 Appointments to Executive and Legislative Councils 20-11-1940 - 30-7-1941", "content_text": "# Enclosure No. 1\n**C. S. O.**\nL.F. 90b.)\n(L.S.)\n15\n\n(Sd.) G. A. S. NORTHCOTE,\n**GOVERNOR, &c.**\n\nBY VIRTUE OF THE POWERS vested in me and in pursuance of instructions received from His Majesty the King through the Secretary of State for the Colonies, I, SIR GEOFFRY ALEXANDER STAFFORD NORTHCOTE, Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hong Kong and its Dependencies and Vice-Admiral of the same do by these presents appoint you **SIR VANDELEUR MOLYNEUX GRAYBURN, Kt.,** to be an unofficial member of the Executive Council of the Colony of Hong Kong subject in all respects whatsoever to the provisions of His Majesty's Letters Patent bearing date the fourteenth day of February 1917 constituting the Office of Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hong Kong and its Dependencies and of any other Letters Patent of His Majesty adding to, amending or substituted for the same and of any Instructions from His Majesty under His Sign Manual and Signet for the time being in force.\n\nGIVEN under my hand and the Public Seal of the Colony at Government House, Victoria, Hong Kong, this 22nd day of July 1941.\n\nBy Command,\n(sd.) N. L. SMITH,\n**Colonial Secretary**", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-588-5 Appointments to Executive and Legislative Councils 20-11-1940 - 30-7-1941.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 573358, "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": "CO129-588-5 Appointments to Executive and Legislative Councils 20-11-1940 - 30-7-1941", "page_number": 18, "title": "CO129-588-5 Appointments to Executive and Legislative Councils 20-11-1940 - 30-7-1941", "content_text": "## Enclosure No. 1\n**(L.S.)**\n\nBY VIRTUE OF THE POWERS vested in me and in pursuance of instructions received from His Majesty the King through the Secretary of State for the Colonies, I, **SIR GEOFFRY ALEXANDER STAFFORD NORTHCOTE**, Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hong Kong and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same do by these presents appoint you **SIR ROBERT HORMUS KOTEWALL, Kt., C.M.G., LL.D.**, to be an unofficial member of the Executive Council of the Colony of Hong Kong subject in all respects whatsoever to the provisions of His Majesty's Letters Patent bearing date the fourteenth day of February 1917 constituting the Office of Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hong Kong and its Dependencies and of any other Letters Patent of His Majesty adding to, amending or substituted for the same and of any Instructions from His Majesty under His Sign Manual and Signet for the time being in force.\n\nGIVEN under my hand and the Public Seal of the Colony at Government House, Victoria, Hong Kong, this 9th day of July 1941.\n\nBy Command,\n(sd.) **N. L. SMITH**, Colonial Secretary.\n\nC. S. O. \nL.F. 90b.\n\n18 \n(sd.) **G. A. S. NORTHCOTE**, GOVERNOR, &c.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-588-5 Appointments to Executive and Legislative Councils 20-11-1940 - 30-7-1941.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 573362, "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": "CO129-588-5 Appointments to Executive and Legislative Councils 20-11-1940 - 30-7-1941", "page_number": 22, "title": "CO129-588-5 Appointments to Executive and Legislative Councils 20-11-1940 - 30-7-1941", "content_text": "**(L.S.)**\n\n## Enclosure No. 1\n\n99\n\n**(Sa.) G.A.S. NORTHCOTE**\n\n## Governor\n\nBY VIRTUE OF POWERS vested in me, I, SIR GEOFFRY ALEXANDER STAFFORD NORTHCOTE, Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, the Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hong Kong and its Dependencies and Vice-Admiral of the same, do by these presents appoint you EDGAR DAVIDSON provisionally, and subject to His Majesty's pleasure, to be temporarily an unofficial member of the Legislative Council in the place of the Honourable Mr. S. H. Dodwell, who is temporarily absent from the Colony.\n\nGIVEN under my hand and the Public Seal of the Colony, at Government House, Victoria, Hong Kong, this 17th day of July, 1941.\n\nBy Command,\n\n**(sa.)**\n\nN. L. SMITH,\n\n## Colonial Secretary", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-588-5 Appointments to Executive and Legislative Councils 20-11-1940 - 30-7-1941.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 573366, "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": "CO129-588-5 Appointments to Executive and Legislative Councils 20-11-1940 - 30-7-1941", "page_number": 26, "title": "CO129-588-5 Appointments to Executive and Legislative Councils 20-11-1940 - 30-7-1941", "content_text": "## Enclosure No. 1\n\n**(L.S.)** \n26 \n\n**(sd.) G.A.S. NORTHCOTE** \nGovernor.\n\nBY VIRTUE OF POWERS vested in me, I, SIR GEOFFRY ALEXANDER STAFFORD NORTHCOTE, Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hong Kong and its Dependencies and Vice-Admiral of the same, do by these presents appoint you ANDREW LUSK SHIELDS, provisionally and subject to His Majesty's pleasure, to be temporarily an unofficial member of the Executive Council in the place of the Honourable Mr. Stanley Hudson Dodwell who is temporarily absent from the Colony.\n\nGIVEN under my hand and the Public Seal of the Colony, at Government House, Victoria, Hong Kong, this 8th day of July, 1941.\n\nBy Command, \n**(Sa.) N. L. SMITH** \nColonial Secretary.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-588-5 Appointments to Executive and Legislative Councils 20-11-1940 - 30-7-1941.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 573370, "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": "CO129-588-5 Appointments to Executive and Legislative Councils 20-11-1940 - 30-7-1941", "page_number": 30, "title": "CO129-588-5 Appointments to Executive and Legislative Councils 20-11-1940 - 30-7-1941", "content_text": "## \nS. O.\n\n(C.$,0.-)\nL.F. 90a.\n\n(sd.)\nG.A.S. NORTHCOTE\n**GOVERNOR, &c.**\n29\n11\n\nBY VIRTUE OF THE POWERS vested in me and in pursuance of instructions received from His Majesty the King through the Secretary of State for the Colonies, I, **SIR GEOFFRY ALEXANDER STAFFORD NORTHCOTE**, Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hong Kong and its Dependencies and Vice-Admiral of the same do by these presents appoint you **DUNCAN JOHN SLOSS, C.B.E.** to be an official member of the Executive Council of the Colony for so long as you shall hold the appointment of Censor, subject in all respects whatsoever to the provisions of His Majesty's Letters Patent bearing date the fourteenth day of February 1917 constituting the Office of Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hong Kong and its Dependencies and of any other Letters Patent of His Majesty adding to, amending or substituted for the same and of any Instructions from His Majesty under His Sign Manual and Signet for the time being in force.\n\nGIVEN under my hand and the Public Seal of the Colony at Government House, Victoria, Hong Kong, this 31st day of May, 1941.\n\n> \n\nBy Command,\n(sd.) N. L. SMITH\n**Colonial Secretary.**\n\nPage 30\nPage 31", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-588-5 Appointments to Executive and Legislative Councils 20-11-1940 - 30-7-1941.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 573371, "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": "CO129-588-5 Appointments to Executive and Legislative Councils 20-11-1940 - 30-7-1941", "page_number": 31, "title": "CO129-588-5 Appointments to Executive and Legislative Councils 20-11-1940 - 30-7-1941", "content_text": "## \nC. S. O. \nL.F. 90a.\n\n(Sgd.) \n**G.A.S. NORTHCOTE** \n**GOVERNOR, &c.** \n30\n\nBY VIRTUE OF THE POWERS vested in me and in pursuance of instructions received from His Majesty the King through the Secretary of State for the Colonies, I, **SIR GEOFFRY ALEXANDER STAFFORD NORTHCOTE**, Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hong Kong and its Dependencies and Vice-Admiral of the same do by these presents appoint you **JOHN ALEXANDER FRASER, M.C., ESQUIRE** to be an official member of the Executive Council of the Colony (Intd.) G.N. for so long as you shall hold the appointment of Defence Secretary Hong Kong subject in all respects whatsoever to the provisions of His Majesty's Letters Patent bearing date the fourteenth day of February 1917 constituting the Office of Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hong Kong and its Dependencies and of any other Letters Patent of His Majesty adding to amending or substituted for the same and of any Instructions from His Majesty under His Sign Manual and Signet for the time being in force.\n\nGIVEN under my hand and the Public Seal of the Colony at Government House, Victoria, Hong Kong, this 31st day of May 1941.\n\nBy Command,\n(Sgd.) **N. L. SMITH** \nColonial Secretary.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-588-5 Appointments to Executive and Legislative Councils 20-11-1940 - 30-7-1941.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 573373, "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": "CO129-588-5 Appointments to Executive and Legislative Councils 20-11-1940 - 30-7-1941", "page_number": 33, "title": "CO129-588-5 Appointments to Executive and Legislative Councils 20-11-1940 - 30-7-1941", "content_text": "# No.122.\n\nMy Lord,\n\n30 OCT 1941\n\nGOVERNMENT HOUSE, HONG KONG, 10th June, 1941.\n\nWith reference to Lieutenant-General E.F. Norton's despatch No.473 of 20th November, 1940, I have the honour to inform Your Lordship that, since Your Lordship's sanction to the retirement of Commander G.F. Hole, R.N.(Retired), has now been conveyed in Your Lordship's telegram No.453 of 23rd May, 1941, I recommend that the temporary appointment of Mr. William James Carrie, Chairman, Urban Council, as an official member of Legislative Council should now be made definitive and to request that His Majesty's pleasure in the matter may be ascertained.\n\nI have the honour to be,\nMy Lord,\nYour Lordship's most obedient, humble servant,\nN.L. Smith\nColonial Secretary\nfor Governor.\n\nTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE LORD MOYNE OF BURY ST. EDMUNDS, D.S.O.,\n&c.,\n&c.,\n&c.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-588-5 Appointments to Executive and Legislative Councils 20-11-1940 - 30-7-1941.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 573376, "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": "CO129-588-5 Appointments to Executive and Legislative Councils 20-11-1940 - 30-7-1941", "page_number": 36, "title": "CO129-588-5 Appointments to Executive and Legislative Councils 20-11-1940 - 30-7-1941", "content_text": "## G. A. S. NORTHCOTE \n**Governor.** \n35 \n\nBY VIRTUE OF POWERS vested in me, I, SIR GEOFFRY ALEXANDER STAFFORD NORTHCOTE, Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hong Kong and its Dependencies and Vice-Admiral of the same, do by these presents appoint you JOHN PENNEFATHER PENNEFATHER-EVANS, provisionally and subject to His Majesty's pleasure, to be a Member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong.\n\nGIVEN under my hand and the Public Seal of the Colony, at Government House, Victoria, Hong Kong, this 16th day of April, 1941.\n\nBy Command, \n(Sd.) N.L. SMITH \n**Colonial Secretary.**", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-588-5 Appointments to Executive and Legislative Councils 20-11-1940 - 30-7-1941.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 573379, "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": "CO129-588-5 Appointments to Executive and Legislative Councils 20-11-1940 - 30-7-1941", "page_number": 39, "title": "CO129-588-5 Appointments to Executive and Legislative Councils 20-11-1940 - 30-7-1941", "content_text": "# Enclosure One.\n\n**G.A.S. NORTHCOTE,**\nGovernor, &c.\n\n38\n\n**BY VIRTUE OF THE POWERS** vested in me and in pursuance of instructions received from His Majesty the King through the Secretary of State for the Colonies, I **SIR GEOFFRY ALEXANDER STAFFORD NORTHCOTE**, Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hong Kong and its Dependencies and Vice-Admiral of the same do by these presents appoint you **JOHN JOHNSTONE PATERSON** to be an unofficial member of the Executive Council of the Colony of Hong Kong subject in all respects whatsoever to the provisions of His Majesty's Letters Patent bearing date the fourteenth day of February 1917 constituting the Office of Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hong Kong and its Dependencies and of any other Letters Patent of His Majesty adding to amending or substituted for the same and of any Instructions from His Majesty under His Sign Manual and Signet for the time being in force.\n\nGiven under my hand and the Public Seal of the Colony at Government House, Victoria, Hong Kong, this 6th day of April, 1941.\n\nBy Command,\n(N.L. Smith)\n**Colonial Secretary**", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-588-5 Appointments to Executive and Legislative Councils 20-11-1940 - 30-7-1941.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 573387, "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": "CO129-588-5 Appointments to Executive and Legislative Councils 20-11-1940 - 30-7-1941", "page_number": 47, "title": "CO129-588-5 Appointments to Executive and Legislative Councils 20-11-1940 - 30-7-1941", "content_text": "# ENCLOSURE ONE\n\n**G.A.S. NORTHCOTE** \n**Governor**\n\nBY VIRTUE OF POWERS vested in me, I, SIR GEOFFRY ALEXANDER STAFFORD NORTHCOTE, Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hong Kong and its Dependencies and Vice-Admiral of the same, do by these presents appoint you STANLEY HUDSON DODWELL, provisionally and subject to His Majesty's pleasure, to be an unofficial member of the Executive Council of Hong Kong.\n\nGIVEN under my hand and the Public Seal of the Colony, at Government House, Victoria, Hong Kong, 26th day of March, 1941.\n\nBy Command, \n**(Sd) N.L. SMITH** \n**Colonial Secretary**\n\nPage 46", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-588-5 Appointments to Executive and Legislative Councils 20-11-1940 - 30-7-1941.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 573395, "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": "CO129-588-5 Appointments to Executive and Legislative Councils 20-11-1940 - 30-7-1941", "page_number": 55, "title": "CO129-588-5 Appointments to Executive and Legislative Councils 20-11-1940 - 30-7-1941", "content_text": "# Enclosure No.1.\n\n**Copy**\n\n(sgd) E.F. Norton \n**Officer Administering the Government**\n\nBY VIRTUE OF THE POWERS vested in me and in pursuance of instructions received from His Majesty the King through the Secretary of State for the Colonies, I, **LIEUTENANT-GENERAL EDWARD FELIX NORTON**, Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Companion of the Distinguished Service Order, Military Cross, Officer Administering the Government and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hong Kong and its Dependencies and Vice-Admiral of the same do by these presents appoint you **LEO D'ALMADA E CASTRO, JUNIOR**, to be an unofficial member of the Legislative Council of the Colony of Hong Kong subject in all respects whatsoever to the provisions of His Majesty's Letters Patent bearing date the fourteenth day of February 1917 constituting the Office of Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hong Kong and its Dependencies and of any other Letters Patent of His Majesty adding to amending or substituted for the same and of any Instructions from His Majesty under His Sign Manual and Signet for the time being in force.\n\nGIVEN under my hand and the Public Seal of the Colony at Government House, Victoria, Hong Kong, this 17th day of January, 1941.\n\nBy Command, \n(sgd) N.L. Smith \n**Colonial Secretary**", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-588-5 Appointments to Executive and Legislative Councils 20-11-1940 - 30-7-1941.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 573400, "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": "CO129-588-5 Appointments to Executive and Legislative Councils 20-11-1940 - 30-7-1941", "page_number": 60, "title": "CO129-588-5 Appointments to Executive and Legislative Councils 20-11-1940 - 30-7-1941", "content_text": "## Enclosure No.1\n\n(Signed) E. F. NORTON.\n\n**Officer Administering the Government**\n\nBY VIRTUE OF POWERS vested in me, I, **LIEUTENANT-GENERAL EDWARD FELIX NORTON**, Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Companion of the Distinguished Service Order, Military Cross, Officer Administering the Government and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hong Kong and its dependencies and Vice-Admiral of the same, do by these presents appoint you **LI TSE-FONG** provisionally and subject to His Majesty's pleasure to be an unofficial member of the Legislative Council in this Colony.\n\nGIVEN under my hand and the Public Seal of the Colony at Government House, Victoria, Hong Kong, this 17th day of January, 1941.\n\nBy Command,\n\n(Signed) N.L. SMITH.\n\n**Colonial Secretary**\n\nPage 60\nPage 61", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-588-5 Appointments to Executive and Legislative Councils 20-11-1940 - 30-7-1941.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 573403, "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": "CO129-588-5 Appointments to Executive and Legislative Councils 20-11-1940 - 30-7-1941", "page_number": 63, "title": "CO129-588-5 Appointments to Executive and Legislative Councils 20-11-1940 - 30-7-1941", "content_text": "# LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL\n\n## OFFICIAL MEMBERS\n\n| Name | Date of Original Appointment | Date of Last Re-Appointment | Date of Expiry of Appointment |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| **His Excellency Sir Geoffry Alexander Stafford Northcote, K.C.M.G., President** (On leave) | | | |\n| **His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government Lieutenant-General Edward Felix Norton, C.B., D.S.O., M.C., Acting President** | | | |\n| Edward Grasett, C.B., D.S.O., M.C. | 24th June, 1937 (Date of Commission) 28th October, 1937 (Assumed Office) | 30th June, 1940 (Date of Commission) 6th August, 1940 (Assumed Office) | |\n| Arthur | 10th December, 1938 | | |\n| **Honourable Mr. Norman Lockhart Smith, C.M.G.** | | | |\n| **Honourable Mr. Chaloner Grenville Alabaster, O.B.E., K.C.** | Ex-Officio | | |\n| **Honourable Mr. Roland Arthur Charles North** | Do. | | |\n| **Honourable Mr. Henry Robert Butters** | Do. | | |\n| **Honourable Commander George Francis Hole, R.N., (Rtd.)** (On leave) | Do. | | |\n| **Honourable Mr. William James Carrie, (Acting)** | Do. | | |\n| **Honourable Mr. Thomas Henry King** (On leave prior to retirement) | D | | |\n| **Honourable Mr. Cecil Graham Perdue, (Acting)** | Do. | | |\n| **Honourable Dr. Percy Selwyn Selwyn-Clarke, M.C.** | | | |\n| **Honourable Mr. Alexander Bruce Purves** (On leave) | | | |\n| **Honourable Mr. Henry Joseph Pearce, M.C., (Acting)** | | | |\n\n## UNOFFICIAL MEMBERS\n\n| Name | Date of Original Appointment | Date of Last Re-Appointment | Date of Expiry of Appointment |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| **Honourable Sir Henry Edward Pollock, Kt., K.C., LL.D.** (On leave) | 19th February, 1931 | 26th November, 1936 | 26th November, 1936 |\n| | 17th January, 1929 | | 14th November, 1940 |\n| | 23rd October, 1934 | 21st September, 1940 | |\n| **Honourable Mr. Thomas Ernest Pearce, (Acting)** | 3rd March, 1938 | 7th July, 1939 | |\n| **Honourable Mr. John Johnstone Paterson** † | | | 19th May, 1940 |\n| **Honourable Mr. Stanley Hudson Dodwell** † | 17th January, 1906 | 27th September, 1940 | 15th March, 1934 |\n| | 15th March, 1934 | 6th April, 1936 | 17th January, 1940 |\n| **Honourable Mr. Lo Man-kam** + $ | 4th October, 1935 | | 16th January, 1944 |\n| **Honourable Mr. Leo D'Almada e Castro, Jr.** | | | |\n| **Honourable Dr. Li Shu-fan** | Do. | | |\n| **Honourable Mr. Andrew Lusk Shields** + | 18th October, 1938 | | 14th March, 1942 |\n| **Honourable Mr. William Ngartse Thomas Tam** | 3rd December, 1939 | | 5th April, 1944 |\n| | 17th January, 1937 | 15th March, 1938 | 3rd October, 1943 |\n| | 6th April, 1940 | 16th January, 1941 | 17th October, 1942 |\n| | | | 2nd December, 1943 |\n\n## REMARKS\n\nThe Colonial Secretary, the Financial Secretary, the Director of Public Works, and all the Unofficial Members of the Council are Members of the Finance Committee.\n\nThe Director of Public Works, the Financial Secretary, and all the Unofficial Members of the Council are Members of the Public Works Committee.\n\n§ Member of the Standing Law Committee.\n* Nominated by the Justices of the Peace.\n Appointed by the Governor.\n Nominated by the Chamber of Commerce.\n\nOn ceasing to be H. M., C. P., D. M. S., and D. P. W., respectively. \n...... \n62", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-588-5 Appointments to Executive and Legislative Councils 20-11-1940 - 30-7-1941.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 573406, "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": "CO129-588-5 Appointments to Executive and Legislative Councils 20-11-1940 - 30-7-1941", "page_number": 66, "title": "CO129-588-5 Appointments to Executive and Legislative Councils 20-11-1940 - 30-7-1941", "content_text": "# Enclosure No. 1.\n\n65\n\n**(Signed) E.F. NORTON.**\n\nOfficer Administering the Government.\n\nWHEREAS it is provided by Clause two of the Instructions under the Royal Sign Manual and Signet to the Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over the Colony of Hong Kong and its Dependencies bearing date the fourteenth day of February, 1917, as amended by the Additional Instructions bearing date the thirtieth day of April, 1938, that the Governor in pursuance of Instructions from His Majesty through one of His Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State may, from time to time, by an Instrument under the Public Seal of the Colony, appoint an additional official member of the Executive Council of the Colony:\n\nNOW I, Lieutenant-General Edward Felix Norton, Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Companion of the Distinguished Service Order, Military Cross, Officer Administering the Government and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hong Kong and its Dependencies and Vice-Admiral of the same, in pursuance of Instructions from His Majesty through the Secretary of State for the Colonies, do by these presents, and subject to His Majesty's pleasure, appoint you, Captain Alfred Creighton Collinson, Royal Navy, Commodore in charge of Naval Establishments, Hong Kong, to be an additional official member of the Executive Council of the Colony.\n\nGiven under my hand and the Public Seal of the Colony at Government House, Victoria, Hong Kong, this twenty-seventh day of November, 1940.\n\nBy Command,\n\n**(Signed) N.L. SMITH.**\n\nColonial Secretary.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-588-5 Appointments to Executive and Legislative Councils 20-11-1940 - 30-7-1941.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 573409, "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": "CO129-588-5 Appointments to Executive and Legislative Councils 20-11-1940 - 30-7-1941", "page_number": 69, "title": "CO129-588-5 Appointments to Executive and Legislative Councils 20-11-1940 - 30-7-1941", "content_text": "## \n(Signed) E. F. Norton.\n\n**Officer Administering the Government.**\n\n68\n\n**BY VIRTUE OF POWERS** vested in me, I, **LIEUTENANT-GENERAL EDWARD FELIX NORTON**, Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Companion of the Distinguished Service Order, Military Cross, Officer Administering the Government and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hong Kong and its Dependencies and Vice-Admiral of the same, do by these presents appoint you **WILLIAM JAMES CARRIE**, provisionally and subject to His Majesty's pleasure, to be temporarily an official member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong.\n\n**GIVEN** under my hand and the Public Seal of the Colony, at Government House, Victoria, Hong Kong, this 14th day of November, 1940.\n\n**By Command,**\n\n(Signed) N.L. Smith.\n\n**Colonial Secretary.**", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-588-5 Appointments to Executive and Legislative Councils 20-11-1940 - 30-7-1941.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 577124, "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": "CO129-591-16 Liberation of Hong Kong- arrangements in the event of the collapse of Japan 3-8-1945 - 1-8-1950", "page_number": 42, "title": "CO129-591-16 Liberation of Hong Kong- arrangements in the event of the collapse of Japan 3-8-1945 - 1-8-1950", "content_text": "(This is an unparaphrased version of a Secret cypher message and unless it is marked O.T.P. (One Time Pad) the text must first be paraphrased if it is essential to communicate it to persons outside British and United States Government Services.)\n\nOUTWARD TELEGRAM\n\nWR.222/4/20, OFPHER (TYPEX)\n\nFROM: 3.0.\n\nTO: CANADA AUSTRALIA NEW ZEALAND SOUTH AFRICA\n\nデ 41 R.D. (GOVT.) #1 (Sent 9.00 p.m. 19th Aug, 1945.) ! 37. IMPORTANT D. No. 1504 TOP SECRET.\n\nHy telegram 18th August D, No. 1497. Hong Kong United States President has replied to Prime Minister that from United States standpoint, there is no objection to surrender of Hong Kong being accepted by a British officer provided that full military co-ordination is effected beforehand by Britain with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek on operational matters: General MacArthur will be instructed to arrange for surrender of Hong Kong to British Commander whenever such co-ordination is effected, United States Secretary of State has informed Mr. T.V. Soong-\n\n22 Prime Minister has replied that he is arranging for instructions to be given to British Service authorities accordingly and that His Majesty's Ambassador Chungking is being instructed to inform Chiang Kai-shek that this is being done.\n\nCopy to: Foreign Office SPECIAL India Office relevant Office\n\nSir B. Newton. General Jacobson. Private Secretary, Sir A. Cadogan. Mr. J. C. Sterndale-Bennett.\n\nMr. C.B.B. Heathcote-Smith. Private Secretary. Vx. 0.3. Genú.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-591-16 Liberation of Hong Kong- arrangements in the event of the collapse of Japan 3-8-1945 - 1-8-1950.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 577126, "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": "CO129-591-16 Liberation of Hong Kong- arrangements in the event of the collapse of Japan 3-8-1945 - 1-8-1950", "page_number": 44, "title": "CO129-591-16 Liberation of Hong Kong- arrangements in the event of the collapse of Japan 3-8-1945 - 1-8-1950", "content_text": "4.3 \n\nand we regard it as a matter of principle that, irrespective of operational theatres, wherever the Sovereign power has sufficient forces available, it should resume its authority and accept Japanese surrender in its own territory. Moreover, as we were forced to relinquish possession of Hong Kong to the Japanese, it is a matter of military honour for us to accept Japanese surrender there. We shall, however, welcome the presence of a representative of the Generalissimo in Hong Kong on the occasion of our acceptance there of Japanese surrender.\n\nWe are informing the United States Government of the Chinese memorandum and above reply.\n\n5.\n\n6. At the same time, the Prime Minister is asking the United States President, in order to obviate any possibility of misunderstanding about Hong Kong on the part of the Japanese Commanders concerned, to instruct the Allied Supreme Commander to order the Japanese High Command to ensure that the Japanese local commanders in Hong Kong shall surrender to the Commander of British Naval Forces on his arrival.\n\nCopy to:-\n\nCabinet Offices\n\nForeign Office\n\nIndia Office\n\nColonial Office\n\nSir E. Bridges\n\nMaj. Gen. E.I.C. Jacob\n\nP.S. to Secretary of State Sir A. Cadogan\n\nMr. J.C. Sterndale-Bennett Mr. C.B.B. Heathcote-Smith.\n\nP.S. to Secretary of State\n\nMr. G.E.J. Gent\n\nPUBLIC\n\n34\n\nRECORD\n\nOFFICE", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-591-16 Liberation of Hong Kong- arrangements in the event of the collapse of Japan 3-8-1945 - 1-8-1950.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 577348, "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": "CO129-591-18 Liberation of Hong Kong- arrangements for Japanese surrender 15-8-1945 - 19-4-1946", "page_number": 106, "title": "CO129-591-18 Liberation of Hong Kong- arrangements for Japanese surrender 15-8-1945 - 19-4-1946", "content_text": "point out that we are unable to agree that his claim to delegate power to accept surrender is in accordance with Allied arrangements.\n\nSupreme Commander, General MacArthur, has received instructions from the United States Chiefs of Staff to arrange for the surrender of Hong Kong to a British Commander to be nominated by Admiral Fraser, subject only to the completion of military co-ordination between the Generalissimo and ourselves on operational matters in connexion with facilities which we have undertaken to grant through the Hong Kong area for the assistance of the Chinese and American forces in China.\n\n(b) We would nevertheless like to settle this question in complete agreement with Chiang Kai Shek, since we attach the greatest importance to our good relations with China.\n\n(a) We hope therefore that he will not press his claim to delegate his authority in this matter, but will waive it by unilateral action in favour of the Commander of the British force. We sincerely hope that he will decide to take this course, in which event we on our side would take an early opportunity to make an appreciative public reference to his gesture.\n\nIf Chiang Kai Shek cannot be persuaded to act as suggested in paragraph 3 above, His Majesty's United Kingdom Ambassador has been authorised to suggest the following compromise:-\n\n(a) Admiral Harcourt (the British officer in Command of the British Force) on behalf of His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom should accept surrender jointly with a British Officer (preferably General Hayes) acting on behalf of Chiang Kai Shek.\n\n(b) Any other Allied representatives present would then sign as witnesses.\n\nCopy to:-\n\nCabinet Offices\n\nForeign Office\n\nColonial Office\n\nJ.C.C.\n\nSir E. Bridges, General Jacob, Mr. V.V. McVittie.\n\nP.S. to S. of S.\n\nSir A. Cadogan.\n\nSir B. Newton.\n\nMr. C.B.B. Heathcote-Smith, Mr. J.C. Sterndale-Bennett.\n\nMr. G.E. Gent.\n\nP.S. to S. of S.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-591-18 Liberation of Hong Kong- arrangements for Japanese surrender 15-8-1945 - 19-4-1946.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 577430, "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": "CO129-591-18 Liberation of Hong Kong- arrangements for Japanese surrender 15-8-1945 - 19-4-1946", "page_number": 188, "title": "CO129-591-18 Liberation of Hong Kong- arrangements for Japanese surrender 15-8-1945 - 19-4-1946", "content_text": "188\n\n2\n\nto remain in the positions occupied at that time. No ship, vessel or aircraft is to be scuttled, or any damage done to their hull, machinery or equipment,\n\n3. The German High Command will at once issue to the appropriate commanders, and ensure the carrying out of any further orders issued by the Supreme Commander, Allied Expeditionary Force, and by the Soviet High Command.\n\n4. This act of military surrender is without prejudice to, and will be superseded by, any general instrument of surrender imposed by, or on behalf of, the United Nations and applicable to Germany and the German armed forces as a whole.\n\n5. In the event of the German High Command or any of the forces under their control failing to act in accordance with this Act of Surrender, the Supreme Commander, Allied Expeditionary Force, and the Soviet High Command will take such punitive or other action as they deem appropriate.\n\nSigned at Rheims, France, at 0241 on the 7th day of May, 1945.\n\nOn behalf of the German High Command:\n\nJODL.\n\nIn the presence of:\n\nOn behalf of the Supreme Commander, Allied Expeditionary Force:\n\nW. B. SMITH.\n\nF. SEVEZ, Major-General, French Army (Witness),\n\nOn behalf of the Soviet High Command: SOUSLOPAROV.\n\n3.\n\nCommander, Allied Expeditionary Force, and the Soviet High Command prepared, with plenary powers, to execute a formal ratification on behalf of the German High Command of this act of Unconditional Surrender of the German armed forces:-\n\nChief of the High Command; Commander-in-Chief of the Army; Commander-in-Chief of the Navy; Commander-in-Chief of the Air Forces.\n\n(Signed) JODL, Representing the German High Command.\n\nDated 0241, 7th May, 1945, Rheims, France.\n\n(6)\n\nHeadquarters, 7th May, 1945.\n\n(Translation.)\n\nThe Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces.\n\n(In replying kindly quote file number, date and summary of contents.)\n\nempower Field-Marshal Keitel as Chief of the Supreme Command of the Armed Forces and Commander-in-Chief of the Army, General-Admiral von Friedeburg as Commander-in-Chief of the Navy, Colonel-General Stumpf as representative of the Commander-in-Chief of the Air Force, to verify the unconditional surrender of the German Armed Forces to the Commander-in-Chief of the Allied Expeditionary Force and to the Soviet Supreme Command.\n\nDONITZ, Grand Admiral.\n\n(Seal)\n\nSupreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Force.\n\nSerial 1.\n\nOrders by the Supreme Commander, Allied Expeditionary Force, relating to Army and Air Forces under German Control.\n\n1. Local commanders of Army and Air Forces under German control on the Western Front, in Norway and in the Channel Islands will hold themselves in readiness to receive detailed orders for the surrender of their forces from the Supreme Commander's subordinate commanders opposite their front.\n\n2. In the case of Norway the Supreme Commander's representatives will be the General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Scottish Command, and Air Officer Commanding 13 Group R.A.F.\n\n3. In the case of the Channel Islands the Supreme Commander's representatives will be the General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Southern Command, and Air Officer Commanding 10 Group R.A.F.\n\n(Signed) WALTER B. SMITH,\n\nDated 0241, 7th May, 1945, Rheims, France.\n\n(5)\n\nFor the Supreme Commander, A.E.F.\n\nUndertaking given by certain German Emissaries to the Allied High Commands. It is agreed by the German emissaries undersigned that the following German officers will arrive at a place and time designated by the Supreme\n\n(7)\n\nAct of Military Surrender.\n\n1. We the undersigned, acting by authority of the German High Command, hereby surrender unconditionally to the Supreme Commander, Allied Expeditionary Force, and simultaneously to the Supreme High Command of the Red Army all forces on land, at sea, and in the air who are at this date under German control.\n\n2. The German High Command will at once issue orders to all German military, naval and air authorities and to all forces under German control to cease active operations at 2301 hours Central European time on the 8th May, 1945, to remain in the positions occupied at that time and to disarm completely, handing over their weapons and equipment to the local Allied commanders or officers designated by Representatives of the Allied Supreme Commands. No ship, vessel, or aircraft is to be scuttled, or any damage done to their hull, machinery or equipment, and also to machines of all kinds, armament, apparatus, and all the technical means of prosecution of war in general.\n\n3. The German High Command will at once issue to the appropriate commanders, and ensure the carrying out of any further orders issued by the Supreme Commander, Allied Expeditionary Force, and by the Supreme High Command of the Red Army.\n\n4. This act of military surrender is without prejudice to, and will be superseded by, any general instrument of surrender imposed by, or on behalf of, the United Nations and applicable to Germany and the German armed forces as a whole.\n\n5. In the event of the German High Command or any of the forces under their control failing to act in accordance with this Act of Surrender, the Supreme Commander, Allied Expeditionary Force, and the Supreme High Command of the Red Army will take such punitive or other action as they deem appropriate.\n\n189", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-591-18 Liberation of Hong Kong- arrangements for Japanese surrender 15-8-1945 - 19-4-1946.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 577452, "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": "CO129-591-18 Liberation of Hong Kong- arrangements for Japanese surrender 15-8-1945 - 19-4-1946", "page_number": 210, "title": "CO129-591-18 Liberation of Hong Kong- arrangements for Japanese surrender 15-8-1945 - 19-4-1946", "content_text": "VK. 222/- \n\n魚\n\n(This is an unparaphrased version of a Secret cypher message and unless it is marked O.T.P. (One Time Pad) the text must first be paraphrased if it is essential to communicate it to persons outside British and United States Government Services.)\n\nCYPHER (TYPE)\n\nOUTWARD TELEGRAM\n\nFROM: \n\n0.0.\n\nTO: \n\nCANALA\n\nAUSTRALIA\n\nNEW ZEALAND\n\nSOUTH AFRICA\n\n(GOVT.)\n\n7!\n\n(Sent 9.35 p.m. 2200 Aug., 1945.)\n\nR.D.\n\n211\n\nIMMEDIATE\n\nD. No. 1523\n\nDOP BROPHA\n\nJapanese Surrender.\n\nWe learn that General Macarthur as Supreme Commander for Allied Powers is making following arrangements:\n\n26th August. Advance party arrive in Japan by air and Naval forces enter Tokyo Bay.\n\n29th August. Air and sea landing in Japan begin and continue for several days.\n\n2nd August -> 2nd September. Aboard United States battleship in Tokyo BAY, S.C.A.P. will receive from duly authorised representatives of Japanese Emperor, Government and General Headquarters (a) proclamation signed by Emperor of Japan (my telegram D. No. 1473) and (b) Instrument of Surrender (my telegram D. No. 1444) to be signed at that ceremony. Immediately following formal surrender the two documents referred to, together with General Order (my telegram D. No. 1472) will be promulgated throughout Japan and Japanese-controlled territory and to Japanese people and Japanese-controlled armed forces wherever situated.\n\n2. S.C.A.P.'s intention is that arrangements for surrenders to theatre commanders should be deferred until after signature of main instrument as above.\n\nCab. Off.\n\nP.O.\n\n1.0.\n\n0.0.\n\nSir R. Bridges\n\nMaj. Gen. E.I.C. Jacob P.S. to S. of S.\n\nSir A. Cadogan\n\nMr. P.C. Sterndale-Bennett\n\nMr. C.B.B. Heathcote-Smith P.S. S. of S.\n\nMR. R.S. Cent.\n\nPage 210\n\nPage 211", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-591-18 Liberation of Hong Kong- arrangements for Japanese surrender 15-8-1945 - 19-4-1946.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 578608, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-592-10 Future Policy in Hong Kong- Port Administration 10-4-1946 - 15-4-1947", "page_number": 2, "title": "CO129-592-10 Future Policy in Hong Kong- Port Administration 10-4-1946 - 15-4-1947", "content_text": "C.).\n\nA.\n\nMy Smith\n\n2\n\nMo Colman has arrived. I may request\n\nThese papers\n\n18.3.46.\n\nThe arrival of Mr. Colman coincided with your personal note to me mentioning Sir Mark Young's wish for further consultation on the subject of the projected Port Trust.\n\n2.\n\nAfter a full discussion with Mr. Colman,\n\nI suggest, subject to your agreement, the following programme:-\n\n(a) The London Advisory Committee, which has been in suspense pending Mr. Colman's return, to be notified of his arrival and advised of a further meeting about the end of this month or early April;\n\n(b) The draft Ordinance which Mr. Colman has been preparing to be put into shape and duplicated and circulated for discussion at that meeting;\n\n(c) A preliminary discussion (as you suggest) to be arranged at which Sir Mark Young and yourself would see Mr. Colman, Mr. Melmoth and myself, with Mr. North also present; perhaps Sir Mark will suggest a date suitable to himself about the end of next week (I am booked for the afternoons of Monday 25th and Tuesday 26th);\n\n(d) Mr. Colman wants to see two important Hong Kong Government officers viz. Commander Jolly (Harbour Master) and Mr. A. Nicol (Port Engineer); but this must, I think, await", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-592-10 Future Policy in Hong Kong- Port Administration 10-4-1946 - 15-4-1947.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 578749, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-592-10 Future Policy in Hong Kong- Port Administration 10-4-1946 - 15-4-1947", "page_number": 143, "title": "CO129-592-10 Future Policy in Hong Kong- Port Administration 10-4-1946 - 15-4-1947", "content_text": "CONFIDENTIAL\n\nMinutes of the Third Meeting of the Hong Kong Port Consultative Committee held at the Colonial Office at 2.30 p.m. on 17th April, 1946.\n\nPresent:\n\nMr. N.L. Smith, C.M.G.\nChairman\n\nMr. R.A.C. North\nMr. S.H. Dodwell\nMr. A. Lang\nSir John Masson\nMr. C. Wurtzburg, M.C.\n\nMr. C.J. Colman, Chairman-designate of the Hong Kong Port Trust, also attended this Meeting.\n\nMr. W.J. Keswick and Mr. G.W. Swire sent messages regretting that they were unable to attend the Meeting.\n\nMinutes\n\nWith the consent of the Meeting the minutes of the second Meeting held on the 13th December, 1945, which had been circulated to the members, were taken as read.\n\n2. Harbour Master\n\nThe Chairman said that Commander Jolly, the present holder of the post of Harbour Master, was, of course, the officer chiefly affected by the proposal that a Port Trust be set up. Commander Jolly had been specially selected for the post and was very highly qualified. It was understood that the Harbour Master would in any case no longer carry on the duties of Director of Air Services, which was to become a separate appointment.\n\nCommander Jolly had seen the Memorandum on the re-allocation of the Harbour Master's functions, had commented on it, had discussed the matter with Mr. Colman, and had agreed that the \"Board of Trade\" matters should not come under the control of the Port Trust. The Chairman said that he thought that there were three possible courses of action with regard to the future employment of Commander Jolly.\n\n(a) That he be appointed officer in charge of a Marine Department if one were set up to control the \"Board of Trade\" functions not taken over by the Port Trust.\n\n(b) That a new appointment be made by the Hong Kong Government in charge of those residual functions and that Commander Jolly be appointed a Principal Officer of the Port Trust.\n\n(c) That Commander Jolly should somehow combine the posts of Head of the Government Marine Department and of Port Officer in the Port Trust.\n\nIn the course of the general discussion, it was said that it was not unusual, in ports where a Trust was in being, for the Principal Surveyor of Ships and the Shipping Master to control separate departments, but that in some circumstances it might be desirable to have these departments...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-592-10 Future Policy in Hong Kong- Port Administration 10-4-1946 - 15-4-1947.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 579342, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-592-4 Reports on current situation- Police 14-11-1945 - 1-7-1946", "page_number": 21, "title": "CO129-592-4 Reports on current situation- Police 14-11-1945 - 1-7-1946", "content_text": "Date. District. 8.12.41. Guards Office. Time.\n\n6. 8.12. 41 21 10.00 11.00\n\n1 3 Europeans, 29 Russians, 1 Indian Inspector, Chinese Interpreter, about 55 Indian Special Guards, about 900 Indian and Chinese Government watchmen and in addition 7 Russian and 47 Chinese Anti-sabotage guards, set free by the cessation of guarding of shipping in the harbour. These details were employed during the war as follows:-\n\n \n Europeans\n Russians\n Indian Special Guards.\n Indians and Chinese Watchmen.\n \n \n Administration and supervision. Duty at Government House, Hong Kong & Shanghai Bank, Government Treasury at Windsor House and South China Morning Post offices, Japanese Consulate, Police Headquarters before and after transfer to Gloucester Building and reinforcements to Eastern and Shaukiwan divisions.\n \n \n \n Employed under the Russians and also guarding Central Magistracy.\n Guard duty at \"Protected Places\" Food Control and Military godowns Banks, large and important business premises and Government buildings and offices.\n Fifty Indian watchmen originally to be allocated under the Internal Security Scheme to the Naval Dockyard as reinforcements to the Dockyard Police but not actually required were employed with the 47 Anti-Sabotage guards and about 20 Police Reservists for duty daily at the various Food distributing centres in Central, Western and Eastern divisions.\n \n\nSpecial Branch officers sealed the Japanese Consulate General and completed internment of Consular Officials and staff under Police Guard at No.7 Conduit Road.\n\nChief Inspector Smith after handing over charge of the P.T.S. to Sub Inspector Baker took up duty with the Senior Superintendent of Police, Kowloon. His chief duty was to assist in sending and receiving telephone messages. He states he experienced very great difficulty in getting on to required numbers as both incoming and outgoing lines were extremely overloaded.\n\n2nd Assistant Superintendent of Police, Kowloon took up post at Yaumati as No.3 Sub Area Commander. He completed arrangements for Police in his Sub area to go to dispersal points.\n\nIn spite of two Police foot and one mobile patrol constantly out on duty in the district big crowds, many persons with no hope of obtaining the required permission, gathered outside the Y.M.C.A. office used for issue of cross harbour passes and required special action in the way of dispersal and control throughout the day. This action had to be repeated on the 9th.\n\nSenior Superintendent of Police, Kowloon, took post at A.R.P. Battle Headquarters, Kowloon Godowns, henceforth described as Kowloon Police Headquarters.\n\nSquads sent out to control crowds in rice shops in Hollywood Road, Des Voeux Road, Bonham Strand East and Queen's Road Central.\n\n \n 1\n 50.\n Special Branch.\n 10.00\n 51.\n \n \n Kowloon A.R.P. Battle H.Q.\n 52.\n Yaumati.\n 10.00\n 53.\n \n \n Tsim Sha Tsui.\n 54.\n Kowloon Police H.Q.\n 10.15\n 55.\n \n \n Emergency Unit, Hong Kong.\n \n\nPage 21", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-592-4 Reports on current situation- Police 14-11-1945 - 1-7-1946.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 579354, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-592-4 Reports on current situation- Police 14-11-1945 - 1-7-1946", "page_number": 33, "title": "CO129-592-4 Reports on current situation- Police 14-11-1945 - 1-7-1946", "content_text": "Date. • District.\n\n11.12.41 Emergency Unit,Kowloon.\n\n \n Time,\n \n \n \n 18.\n Kowloon Police H. Q.\n \n \n 19.\n Sham Shui Po.\n \n \n 20.\n Kowloon Police Headquarters.\n \n \n 21.\n Kowloon Brigade H. Q.\n \n \n 22.\n Kowloon Police Headquarters.\n \n \n 23.\n Sham Shui Po.\n \n \n 24.\n Kowloon City.\n \n \n 25.\n Sham Shui Po.\n \n \n 26.\n \n \n \n 27.\n \n \n\n18. A number of calls were received to deal with rice riots. Senior Superintendent of Police, Kowloon, was handed minute from Commissioner of Police by Mr. Eager, Deputy Commissioner of Police Reserve, confirming that the evacuation would almost certainly take place later in the day and emphasising once again the Commissioner of Police's previous orders that instructions to evacuate would be given the Senior Superintendent of Police, Kowloon, if possible but if communications broke down he would have to use his own judgment to ensure main body of Police getting away in safety.\n\n10.30 Inspector Saunders again went to the World Pencil Factory in the Castle Peak Road and was told by the Royal Scots that the enemy were \"just around the corner\". (N.B. There is a sharp hairpin bend at this point.)\n\n10.30 Senior Superintendent of Police, Kowloon, summoned Messrs. Searle and Booker, Assistant Superintendents of Police, Nos. 4 and 3 Sub Area Commanders, to Kowloon Police Headquarters and handed them written orders concerning the evacuation of Kowloon likely to take place at any time thereafter and consequent manning of the Star Ferry and Vehicular Ferry barricades when it did occur.\n\n11.00 After hearing certain arrangements made for the Military withdrawal Sub Inspector Brittain informed the Senior Superintendent of Police Kowloon by telephone of the apparent serious position stating that he could get no definite information regarding it or need for Police evacuation. He asked the Senior Superintendent of Police, Kowloon, if he (the Senior Superintendent of Police, Kowloon) could ring up Command or Brigade Headquarters to ascertain the true position.\n\n11.00 Sub Inspector Brittain, Police Liaison Officer Kowloon Brigade Headquarters rang up and stated that preparations were apparently being made to evacuate Brigade Headquarters, that the position seemed serious but that he could not obtain any instructions. The Senior Superintendent of Police, Kowloon and Chief Inspector Smith in turn tried to get into touch with both Brigade and Command Headquarters without success several times.\n\n11.00 Inspector Saunders was informed by No.3 Sub Area Commander that evacuation might be ordered during the day.\n\n11.00 Inspector Post, Divisional Inspector Kowloon City was instructed by No.4 Sub Area Commander to remain in station until further orders in case instructions were received to evacuate.\n\n11.15 L.S.A.115 Watson reported that Royal Scot Officers at the World Pencil Factory had informed him that the enemy were then in Cheung Sha Wan. The Divisional Inspector, Sham Shui Po, informed the Senior Superintendent of Police, Kowloon, of Sergeant Watson's report and the general situation and asked if he was to evacuate the station. He was instructed by the Senior Superintendent of Police, Kowloon, to remain till further orders as he (the Senior Superintendent) could not give orders to evacuate the stations till he had received the same from the Commissioner of Police.\n\n11.30 The Divisional Inspector, Sham Shui Po, rang up Kowloon Police Headquarters.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-592-4 Reports on current situation- Police 14-11-1945 - 1-7-1946.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 579355, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-592-4 Reports on current situation- Police 14-11-1945 - 1-7-1946", "page_number": 34, "title": "CO129-592-4 Reports on current situation- Police 14-11-1945 - 1-7-1946", "content_text": "Date,\n\nDistrict.\n\nTime.\n\n19.\n\n12.41\n\n-234 उस\n\n28.\n\nPolice Training School.\n\n29.\n\nKowloon Police Headquarters.\n\n30.\n\nMong Kok.\n\na second time and asked permission to evacuate the station immediately stating that Japanese were approaching Sham Shui Po Barracks. The Senior Superintendent of Police, Kowloon, told him to hang on and await further instructions.\n\n11.30 (?) Fifty to sixty men were seen on the hills round the Police Recreation Club in Boundary Street signalling with white flags and hand mirrors. Police opened fire but the signalling continued. Men on numerous new houses in Boundary Street and Playing Field Road were also observed making signals. A loud explosion was then heard apparently coming from the main gate of the Police Training School in Prince Edward Road. Several British soldiers were seen loading their rifles and then running in the direction of Kowloon City. These soldiers, who had been standing just opposite the main gate of the Police Training School in Sai Yeung Choi Street, were attacked by a crowd of Chinese with hand grenades.\n\nSub Inspector Baker, Assistant Principal Police Training School, rang up the Senior Superintendent of Police, Kowloon, and was ordered to evacuate from the Police Training School. (This account is furnished by Sub Inspector Baker.) Sub Inspector Baker rang up and Chief Inspector Smith answered the telephone. Chief Inspector Smith was informed by Sub Inspector Baker that Japanese in plain clothes were engaged in street fighting all round the Police Training School. Hand grenades were being thrown everywhere, and that evacuation, he, Sub Inspector Baker, considered should take place immediately. He added that if they did not get away at once, Police would not be able to get away at all. The Senior Superintendent of Police, Kowloon, took over the telephone, was given similar details, and ordered evacuation from the Police Training School, telling Sub Inspector Baker to come to the Kowloon Godowns. The Senior Superintendent of Police, Kowloon, tried to get in touch with No.3 Sub Area Commander but failed. (It is to be noted that this account differs materially from Sub Inspector Baker's, but the Senior Superintendent of Police, Kowloon, and Chief Inspector Smith, who both heard his report, are satisfied that this is the correct substance of the report made.)\n\n11.45 (?) Police personnel from the Police Training School and to Sham Shui Po were observed passing the station in lorries. They called out that they were proceeding over to Hong Kong. Shortly afterwards, several shots were heard coming from the direction of the Prince's Theatre. P.S.A.24 Alexander was sent out to investigate. On the way there, he met a party of Royal Scots under a Corporal who informed him that a fairly large number of Japanese in plain clothes had emerged from the nullah in Nullah Road and were firing from there. He was also informed that Japanese troops were making their way along the railway line. He returned to the station and reported to Sub Inspector Collins. A lorry and bus were then loaded up with Police and station property and were just moving off for the evacuation of the station when Sub Inspector Bradsell returned from Yaumati, where he had been on duty interviewing the Sub Area Commander.\n\nSub Inspector Bradsell was informed by several European Police that the Japanese were in Nullah Road. Mong Kok Police carried on with the evacuation of the station and proceeded to Yaumati, where they reported to the Sub Area Commander and were instructed to proceed over to Hong Kong by the Vehicular Ferry. It is not remembered who gave the order to evacuate Mong Kok, but Sub Inspector Collins...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-592-4 Reports on current situation- Police 14-11-1945 - 1-7-1946.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 579357, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-592-4 Reports on current situation- Police 14-11-1945 - 1-7-1946", "page_number": 36, "title": "CO129-592-4 Reports on current situation- Police 14-11-1945 - 1-7-1946", "content_text": "Date. District. Time.\n\n33. Sham Shui Po. 11.45 to 12.30\n\n34. Kowloon City. 12.00\n\n35. Sham Shui Po. 12.30\n\n36. Kowloon Police Headquarters. 12.41\n\n36 state that he had been informed that the enemy were still held in the hills he found the telephones to be dead.\n\nActing Sub Inspector Wallingford reported that the Officer Commanding the Royal Scots' position at the junction of Tai Po and Castle Peak Roads had informed him that the enemy were in the world Pencil Factory and that a detachment were cutting through Cheung Sha Wan Road to take Sham Shui Po Camp. The Officer stated that the British troops would fall back slowly towards Tsim Sha Tsui taking up positions for street fighting on the way. Acting Sub Inspector Wallingford then returned to his post. L. S. A. 115 Watson and L. S.A.114 Ross were posted at Sham Shui Po Camp to watch for the enemy's advance. L. S. A. 7 Dempsey shortly afterwards reported that firing was taking place between the Royal Scots near the Tai Po Road and the enemy on the hillside above the Basel Mission. Further information was received that heavy firing had been heard coming from the vicinity of the Police Training School. L. S. A. 136 MacPherson reported that the enemy were above So Uk Village and the Tai Hang Rubber Factory. Rifle and Machine Gun fire was by now intermittent.\n\n(Inspector Saunders, Divisional Inspector Sham Shui Po state that he endeavoured to keep the Senior Superintendent of Police, Kowloon and his Sub Area Commander informed of the situation as often as possible but it was very difficult due to the heavy overloading of the telephones.)\n\nThe telephones were discovered to be out of order. The telephones were found to be dead. Inspector Saunders, Divisional Inspector Sham Shui Po, could get no contact with Kowloon Police Headquarters or with his Sub Area Commander, so in view of the previous evacuation of the Police Training School, of which he learnt when he rang up the Police Training School to enquire from them their situation shortly before they moved off and the local situation he gave the order to evacuate the Station on his own initiative.\n\nOn the way to the Vehicular Ferry it was noticed that troops were in position at street junctions in Sham Shui Po ready for street fighting.\n\n12.30(:) The Senior Superintendent of Police, Kowloon, rang up the Commissioner of Police and reported the situation at Sham Shui Po, Police Training School and Mong Kok, and received instructions to evacuate Kowloon combining phases \"A\" and \"B\". (Kowloon Police transport evacuate to Hong Kong and Kowloon Police main body evacuate to Hong Kong together.) The Senior Superintendent of Police, Kowloon and Chief Inspector Smith both tried in vain to get in touch with the Yaumati grouping line, and also Sham Shui Po, both on the public and Government lines. Sham Shui Po telephone bell rang but no answer was obtained.\n\nThe Senior Superintendent of Police, Kowloon, gained the impression that the enemy had probably already captured Sham Shui Po and that the Yaumati telephone clerks had absconded. He had previously prepared with assistance from Chief Inspector Smith two sets of orders for each station covering the two evacuation movements, phases \"A\" and \"B\" separately. These were now scrapped and he wrote out new orders, covering evacuation in one stage, instructing Officers in Charge of Stations that immediate evacuation should take place and that they were to go in an orderly manner as quickly as possible to the main gate in the Kowloon Godowns near Haiphong Road. He called the despatch riders waiting in", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-592-4 Reports on current situation- Police 14-11-1945 - 1-7-1946.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 579394, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-592-4 Reports on current situation- Police 14-11-1945 - 1-7-1946", "page_number": 73, "title": "CO129-592-4 Reports on current situation- Police 14-11-1945 - 1-7-1946", "content_text": "APPENDIX A.\n\n71\n\n1.\n\n2.\n\n3.\n\n4.\n\n5.\n\n6.\n\n7.\n\n8.\n\nLIST OF OFFICERS FURNISHING REPORTS FROM WHICH THE DIARY HAS BEEN PREPARED\n\nMr. G. S. Wilson (i) Assistant Superintendent of Police, New Territories, 8/12/41.\n(ii) Assistant to Mr. W. P. Thompson, Superintendent of Police in charge of Hong Kong Divisions, 8-25/12/41.\n\nMr. L. H. C. Calthrop (i) Senior Superintendent of Police, Kowloon, 8-11/12/41\n(ii) Assistant Senior Superintendent of Police, Defence, 11-25/12/41.\n\nMr. L. A. Searle, Assistant Superintendent of Police,\n(i) No. 4 Sub Area Commander 8-11/12/41\n(ii) No. 1 Sub Area Commander (apart from Central Police Station) 12-25/12/41.\n\nMr. F. E. Booker, Assistant Superintendent of Police,\n(i) No. 3 Sub Area Commander, 8-11/12/41\n(ii) In charge of the Special Constabulary, & Air Raid Tunnels, 12-25/12/41.\n\nMr. W. R. Scott, Acting Deputy Commissioner of Police.\n\nMr. W. La B. Sparrow, Senior Superintendent of Police, Defence.\n\nMr. H. W. Heath, Assistant Superintendent of Police,\n(i) Assistant to the Deputy Commissioner of Police, 8-12/12/41\n(ii) No. 2 Sub Area Commander 12-21/12/41 & 24 & 25/12/41.\n\nMr. E. C. Luscombe, Assistant Superintendent of Police,\n(i) In charge Regular Duty Work, Hong Kong, 8-20/12/41.\n(ii) No. 2 Sub Area Commander 21-24/12/41\n(iii) No. 2 Sub Area Assistant Commander, 24 & 25/12/41.\n\n9. Mr. G. R. Wright-Nooth, Assistant Superintendent of Police,\n(i) No.1 Sub Area Commander (apart from Central Police Station) 8-11/12/41\n(ii) No. 1 Sub Area Assistant Commander, 12-25/12/41.\n\n10. Mr. F. W. Shaftain, Assistant Superintendent of Police, Director of the Criminal Investigation Department.\n\n11. Mr. A. R. S. Major, Superintendent of Police, Director of Special Branch.\n\n12. Mr. W. R. Chester Woods, Acting Assistant Superintendent of Police,\n(i) In charge Police Food Control, 8-25/12/41.\n(ii) Adjutant Police Reserve, 8-12/12/41.\n\n13. Chief Inspector A. W. Smith, Assisting the Senior Superintendent of Police, Kowloon, 8-11/12/41.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-592-4 Reports on current situation- Police 14-11-1945 - 1-7-1946.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 579395, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-592-4 Reports on current situation- Police 14-11-1945 - 1-7-1946", "page_number": 74, "title": "CO129-592-4 Reports on current situation- Police 14-11-1945 - 1-7-1946", "content_text": "14. Sub-Inspector A. R. Brittain, Police Liaison Officer with Kowloon Brigade Head Quarters, 8-12/12/41.\n\n15. Chief Inspector C. Rozeskwy, No. 3 Assistant Sub-Area Commander, 8-11/12/41.\n\n16. Sub-Inspector B. G. Baker, In Charge of the Police Training School, in the absence of Chief Inspector A. W. Smith, Principal, 8-11/12/41.\n\n17. P. S. A120 Riddell, Officer-in-Charge, Emergency Unit, Kowloon, 8-18/12/41.\n\n18. Sub-Inspector G. C. Taylor, (i) Traffic Sub-Inspector, Kowloon, 8-11/12/41. (ii) Attached to No. 2 Station, 12-25/12/41.\n\n19. P. S. A135 Carruthers at Kowloon City Police Station, 8-11/12/41.\n\n20. Sub-Inspector T. H. Daly at Kowloon City Police Station, 8-11/12/41 In the absence of Inspector Post, Divisional Inspector.\n\n21. Sub-Inspector H. J. Kelly, Officer-in-Charge, Lung Hom Police Station, 8-11/12/41.\n\n22. Inspector W. A. Russell, (i) Divisional Inspector, Yaumati, 8-11/12/41. (ii) Assistant Divisional Inspector, Eastern, 12-25/12/41.\n\n23. Sub-Inspector S. J. Bradsell, Officer-in-Charge, Longkok Police Station, 8-11/12/41.\n\n24. Sub-Inspector T. Collins, at Mongkok Police Station, 8-11/12/41.\n\n25. Acting Sub-Inspector P. Delahunty, at Mongkok Police Station, 8-11/12/41.\n\n26. P. C. A24 Alexander, at Mongkok Police Station, 8-11/12/41.\n\n27. Inspector J. R. MacWalter, Divisional Inspector, South, 8-11/12/41.\n\n28. Inspector R. Cunningham, Officer-in-Charge, Criminal Investigation Department, Kowloon, 8-11/12/41.\n\n29. P. S. A185 Galvin, Officer-in-Charge, Tai Kok Tsui Police is likely \"Tai Po\" but kept as original, Police Station, 8-11/12/41.\n\n30. P. S. A36 MacHardy, (i) Officer-in-Charge, Cheung Chau Police Station, 8-11/12/41 (ii) Officer-in-Charge, Upper Levels Police Station, 16-25/12/41.\n\n31. L. S. A154 Harris, Officer-in-Charge, Green Island Vital Post, 8-13/12/41.\n\n32. Mr. W. H. Bailey, Officer-in-Charge of the Green Island Magazines under the Harbour Officer, 8-13/12/41.\n\n33. Inspector S. C. Saunders, Divisional Inspector, Shum Shui Po, 8-11/12/41.\n\n34. P. S. A203 Groves, (i) Officer-in-Charge, Tsuen Wan Police Station, 8&9/12/41. (ii) In charge Kowloon City Pier, 11/12/41.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-592-4 Reports on current situation- Police 14-11-1945 - 1-7-1946.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 579397, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-592-4 Reports on current situation- Police 14-11-1945 - 1-7-1946", "page_number": 76, "title": "CO129-592-4 Reports on current situation- Police 14-11-1945 - 1-7-1946", "content_text": "APPENDIX \"B\"\n\nExtracts made from reports of certain officers summarising important Police aspects of the Siege.\n\n74\n\nMr. L.H.C. Calthrop, Senior Superintendent of Police, Kowloon, in commenting on events taking place before the evacuation of Kowloon adds:- (i) Telephonic communication throughout the period of the war whilst Police were still in Kowloon was appalling and became even worse on the morning of the 11th December. It often took literally hours to get on to the required number. Throughout the morning and afternoon of the 11th December both Chief Inspector Smith and myself tried repeatedly to get into touch with Brigade and Command Headquarters without success, except in the single instance quoted in the Diary under Entry No.7 of the 11th December. (ii) Kowloon Brigade Headquarters found little time to provide adequate liaison in the shape of information to the Senior Superintendent of Police, Kowloon. Sub Inspector Brittain, the Police liaison officer, was given very little information. When the Senior Superintendent of Police, Kowloon, rang up Kowloon Brigade Headquarters he was referred to Command Headquarters, or vice versa, (when he rang up the latter).\n\n2.\n\nChief Inspector Smith in commenting on the same events agreed with the above and adds a further comment:- \"I heard that street fighting had occurred outside the Alhambra Theatre after Police had arrived at the Kowloon Godowns on evacuation from stations and I understood that this report was made earlier.\"\n\n3.\n\nMr. A.R.S. Major, Director Special Branch states that:- \"The chief work of the Special Branch during the war was (i) dealing with applications from or on behalf of European enemy nationals for release. About eleven males and ten females were so liberated. (ii) Investigation of reports concerning fifth columnists and raids in connection thereto. Frequent allegations from outside sources that signalling was going on were received by the Special Branch but none were found to have any foundation. (iii) The Director Special Branch attended frequent conferences in connection with (a) Fifth columnists, (b) Chung King representatives and (c) Triad Societies, (iv) Requests from the Japanese Consul General.\"\n\n(2) He further states:- (i) Hill Crest, the Headquarters of the Special Branch was hit repeatedly by shells and near misses by bombs. (ii) Telephonic communication was bad. (iii) Difficulties were experienced in keeping the Chinese staff together as they complained that their families could not obtain rice. Only a small proportion remained working until the end of the war.\n\n4.\n\nG. S. Wilson, Assistant Superintendent of Police, and assistant to Mr. W. P. Thompson, Superintendent of Police, in general charge of Hong Kong Stations, states that:- \"Throughout the war continuous reports were received by Mr. Thompson and myself of (i) serious food queue riots reported by the Food Control but these were greatly exaggerated except at Shaukiwan where several rice shops were looted by workmen from the Taikoo Docks, encouraged by Triad Societies. The headquarters of the Shaukiwan Triad Society was successfully raided by Police, (iii) Fifth columnist activities were reported by telephone on numerous occasions and almost invariably found groundless.\"\n\n(2) He further states:- \"Food control arrangements broke down. Police and their families were not fed properly. The Public were not served fast enough. Rice shops had to be opened forcibly by the Police. Other food shops were allowed by the Food Controller to remain closed.\"\n\n5.\n\nMr. H. W. E. Heath, Assistant Superintendent of Police, No.2 Sub Area Commander reports:- \"There was no looting on any big scale. Many reports of signalling by Fifth columnists were received by Police but most of them were found on investigation to be groundless. I can only remember three cases of any foundation. (i) One man was arrested in Wanchai with a mirror in his possession suspected of having used it for signalling. He was sent to the Criminal Investigation Department, Police Headquarters, for further investigation. (ii) A man was seen waving a white piece of cloth on the hillside at Shaukiwan and was arrested. He claimed to have been merely dusting the cloth, a flour sack. He also was sent to the Criminal Investigation Department, Police Headquarters for further investigation. (iii) One Indian soldier was seen by Inspector Russell signalling with a mirror at the...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-592-4 Reports on current situation- Police 14-11-1945 - 1-7-1946.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 579575, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-592-6 Reports on current situation- including weekly intelligence reports 18-9-1945 - 20-12-1945", "page_number": 117, "title": "CO129-592-6 Reports on current situation- including weekly intelligence reports 18-9-1945 - 20-12-1945", "content_text": "117\n\nNOTE F\n\nPublic Relations. Having been briefed by Mr. Stanley Smith before I left as to possibilities of assistance from here, I discussed the publicity situation with Brigadier MacDougall. He wants any film projectors and news-reels or documentaries which Mr. Stanley Smith can spare. Mandarin \"dubbing\" is good enough but he is less interested in film with English sound tracking. Film strip projectors and film strips would also be useful but Cantonese speakers would be required either from China or trained in Hong Kong by one of Mr. Smith's men.\n\nAs to representatives of the Chinese Ministry of Information and of the Ta Kung Pao for Hong Kong, the Brigadier is generally in favour of their going in. The Ministry Representative must however consider himself as under the general control of the Liaison Officer who is to be the Chinese Government's official representative in Hong Kong. The Administration want to establish this official as responsible for all Chinese official organisations in the Colony; and I told both the Brigadier and the Commander-in-Chief that I thought this to be a proper course. The Ta Kung Pao man may go in as soon as he can get his papers in order and I think he might get a lift by R.A.F. from Kunming and a letter of introduction from Mr. Stanley Smith. Hong Kong should be notified of his name etc., before he leaves.\n\nI gather that each of the service authorities has its own Public Relations Office but that the C.A. Department are too short-handed to provide an effective service to press-men and the like. It is, however, important that Hong Kong be presented to the outside world in general and to China in particular as a progressive place and a small unit to handle press-men and publicity is urgently required. Brigadier MacDougall asked whether Mr. Stanley Smith could himself go down to advise on this. I said that owing to Ministry moves in China this might be an awkward moment for Mr. Stanley Smith; but that I thought either he or a member of his staff might be spared for a short visit. There may be enough men in the Hong Kong newspaper offices to run a small press relations office under Brigadier MacDougall's direct control and I think a visit is desirable.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-592-6 Reports on current situation- including weekly intelligence reports 18-9-1945 - 20-12-1945.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 580452, "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": "CO129-593-3 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45 12-1-1946 - 27-10-1946", "page_number": 143, "title": "CO129-593-3 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45 12-1-1946 - 27-10-1946", "content_text": "# APPENDIX A\n\n# HONG KONG UNIVERSITY ADVISORY COMMITTEE\n\n# LIST OF COMMITTEE PAPERS ISSUED UP TO 1ST JUNE, 1946\n\n29\n\n156\n\nKUAC 24.\n\nHKUAC 25.\n\nNote on salary scales by Mr. Sloss.\n\nHKUAC 26.\n\nHKUAC 27.\n\nHKUAC 1. Copy of letter dated 9th November, 1939, from the Secretary of State for the Colonies to the Governor of Hong Kong.\n\nHKUAC 2. Report by the 1943 Advisory Committee on Hong Kong University and the Higher Educational Institutes in Malaya and Hong Kong. The Future of the Hong Kong University-Memorandum submitted by the Colonial Office to the Far Eastern Committee of the War Cabinet. Observations regarding the possible reconstitution of the University of Hong Kong by Dr. Gordon King, F.R.C.S., F.R.C.O.G. Former Dean of the Medical Faculty of the University.\n\nHKUAC 3.\n\nHKUAC 4.\n\nHKUAC 5.\n\nHKUAC 6.\n\nHKUAC 7.\n\nHKUAC 8.\n\nHKUAC 9.\n\nHKUAC 10. HKUAC 11.\n\nHKUAC 12.\n\nCopy of a letter dated 30th August, 1945, from Professor Percy Roxby of the British Council in China.\n\nCopy of a letter dated 22nd August, 1945, from Dr. Joseph Needham, Sc.D., Ph.D., F.R.S., Head of the British Scientific Mission in China.\n\nExtract from a letter dated 31st July, 1945, from Sir Andrew Caldecott, K.C.M.G. Former Chancellor of the University.\n\nCopy of a telegram dated 30th October from Dr. Gordon King now a member of the Civil Affairs Branch of the Military Administration in Hong Kong.\n\nA note by Professor K. H. Digby, Professor of Surgery and Senior Member of the staff of the University, which was read to members and staff in Stanley Internment Camp.\n\nExtract from a letter by Professor Digby.\n\nCopy of a resolution passed at a meeting on the 21st November, 1945, of graduates and past students of the University in Hong Kong.\n\nA later Memorandum by Dr. Gordon King dated 8th December, 1945, on the reconstitution of the University.\n\nHKUAC 13. Summary of Recommendations contained in the Report of a Committee appointed by the Chancellor in 1939 to consider the Development of the University.\n\nHKUAC 14.\n\nHKUAC 15.\n\nNote by Mr. D. J. Sloss on the University of Hong Kong.\n\nExtract from the Directive on Education issued to the Chief Civil Affairs Officer for the period of the Military Administration in Hong Kong.\n\nHKUAC 16. Note by Sir George Moss in expansion of his remarks at the first meeting of the Committee on January 18th.\n\nHKUAC 17. Telegram dated 28th January, addressed to Mr. D. J. Sloss by the Commander in Chief, Hong Kong, Admiral Sir Cecil Harcourt.\n\nHKUAC 18.\n\nHKUAC 19.\n\nHKUAC 20.\n\nHKUAC 21.\n\nHKUAC 22.\n\nHKUAC 23.\n\nPart A. Extracts from a lecture given by Professor W. J. Hinton on April 2nd, 1941, to the Royal Central Asian Society in London on \"Hong Kong's place in the British Empire\".\n\nPart B. Extract from letter dated 22nd January, 1946, from Professor W. J. Hinton to Mr. C. W. M. Cox referring to the lectures quoted above.\n\nFurther note dated 25th January by Sir George Moss in support of his view that informal or diplomatic approaches should be made to discover the extent of the support of the University which might be expected outside Hong Kong.\n\nExtract from the Report of the 1937 Committee (which met in Hong Kong under the Chairmanship of Mr. N. L. Smith to investigate the financial position and advise on the future of the University) in connection with the possibilities of local specialization.\n\nBrief note by Mr. Sloss on the Libraries of the University.\n\nSummary of recommendations contained in papers already circulated for the extensions and development of the University in academic matters.\n\nExtract from a Report dated December, 1945, made by Dr. A. G. H. Smart late Chief Adviser to the Secretary of State for the Colonies on his visit to the Far Eastern Colonies.\n\nExtracts from the 1937 Committee's Report on Hong Kong University in regard to the matter of salary scales.\n\nNote of the present and proposed Staff of the University.\n\nDr. Gordon King's suggestions for the reconstruction of the Medical Library of the University.\n\nHKUAC 28. Extract from a letter dated 24th February, 1946, from Professor Roxby of the British Council in China to Miss Ruston (See also HKUAC 5).\n\nPlan of the proposed degree in Social Sciences.\n\nHKUAC 29.\n\nHKUAC 30.\n\nHKUAC 31.\n\nHKUAC 33.\n\nNote by Mr. D. J. Sloss on the administrative machinery of the University of Hong Kong as established under an Ordinance passed in 1911 and last revised in 1937.\n\nNote on the proceedings of the first five meetings of the Committee.\n\nExtract from a letter dated 30th March, 1946, from Dr. George Yeh, previously Professor of English at the National Pekin University and now Head of the Chinese Ministry of Information in London.\n\nHKUAC 34. Suggestions by Professor Hinton for alterations in the Constitution of the University of Hong Kong.\n\nHKUAC 35.\n\nResolution passed by the Shanghai Branch of the Hong Kong University Alumni Association.\n\nHKUAC 36. Extract from a letter from Dr. Gordon King to Miss Ruston dated 23rd March, 1946.\n\nHKUAC 37. Extract from a letter dated 24th April, 1946, addressed to the Colonial Office by the Chairman of the University of Hong Kong Medical Degrees Emergency Committee. (Mr. T. M. Hazlerigg.)\n\nHKUAC 39.\n\nHKUAC 40.\n\nHKUAC 41.\n\nComments on HKUAC 34 by Professor G. M. Forster.\n\nMemorandum by Professor F. Redmond of the Hong Kong University, on the future of the Faculty of Engineering.\n\nNote on Basic and Overseas Pay and Family Allowances.\n\n# APPENDIX B\n\nThe following persons kindly attended meetings of the Committee and gave evidence.\n\nSir Mark Young, G.C.M.G. Governor of Hong Kong.\n\nBrigadier D. M. MacDougall, C.M.G. Chief Civil Affairs Officer during the Military Administration of Hong Kong.\n\nProfessor T. Redmond. Professor of Engineering of Hong Kong University.\n\nMr. C. P. Fitzgerald. Of the British Council.\n\n(Regional Officer for China.)\n\n(32226) Wt. 23066-4903\n\n300 8/46 D.L. G. 373\n\n187", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-593-3 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45 12-1-1946 - 27-10-1946.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 580851, "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": "CO129-593-6 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45- Advisory Committee papers 1-1-1939 - 31-12-1946", "page_number": 6, "title": "CO129-593-6 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45- Advisory Committee papers 1-1-1939 - 31-12-1946", "content_text": "# \n6 \nHKUAC \n10 \nHKUAC \n11 \nHKUAC \n12 \nHKUAC \n13 \nHKUAC \n14 \nHKUAC \n15 \nHKUAC \n16 \nHKUAC \n17 \nHKUAC \n18 \nHKUAC \n19 \nHKUAC \n20 \nHKUAC \n21 \nHKUAC \n22 \nHKUAC \n23 \n-32- \n\n## Extract from a letter by Professor Digby.\n\n## Copy of a resolution passed at a meeting on the 21st November, 1945 of graduates and past students of the University in Hong Kong.\n\n## A later Memorandum by Dr. Gordon King dated 8th December, 1945 on the reconstitution of the University.\n\n## Summary of Recommendations contained in the Report of a Committee appointed by the Chancellor in 1939 to consider the Development of the University.\n\n## Note by Mr. D.J. Sloss on the University of Hong Kong.\n\n## Extract from the Directive on Education issued to the Chief Civil Affairs Officer for the period of the Military Administration in Hong Kong.\n\n## Note by Sir George Moss in expansion of his remarks at the first mooting of the Committee on January 18th.\n\n## Telegram dated 28th January addressed to Mr. D.J. Sloss by the Commander in Chief Hong Kong Admiral Sir Cecil Harcourt.\n\n## Part A. Extracts from a lecture given by Professor W.J. Hinton on April 2nd 1941 to the Royal Central Asian Society in London on \"Hong Kong's place in the British Empire\".\n\n## Part B. Extract from letter dated 22nd January, 1946 from Professor W.J. Hinton to Mr. C.W.M. Cox referring to the lectures quoted above.\n\n## Further note dated 25th January by Sir George Moss in support of his view that informal or diplomatic approaches should be made to discover the extent of the support of the University which might be expected outside Hong Kong.\n\n## Extract from the Report of the 1937 Committee (which met in Hong Kong under the Chairmanship of Mr. N.L. Smith to investigate the financial position and advise on the future of the University) in connection with the possibilities of local specialization.\n\n## Brief note by Mr. Sloss on the Libraries of the University.\n\n## Summary of recommendations contained in papers already circulated for the extensions and development of the University in academic matters.\n\n## Extract from a Report dated December, 1945 made by Dr. A.G.H. Smart late Chief Advisor to the Secretary of State for the Colonies on his visit to the Far Eastern Colonies.\n\n/HKUAC 24", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-593-6 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45- Advisory Committee papers 1-1-1939 - 31-12-1946.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 581044, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-594-1 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45- Advisory Committee report 29-3-1946 - 3-7-1946", "page_number": 35, "title": "CO129-594-1 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45- Advisory Committee report 29-3-1946 - 3-7-1946", "content_text": "# \n\nHKU 16 \nHKUAC 17 \nHKUAC 18 \nHKUAC 19 \nHKUAC 20 \nHKUAC 21 \nHKUAC 22 \nHKUAC 23 \nHKUAC 24 \n\nNote by Sir George Moss in expansion of his remarks at the first meeting of the Committee on January 18th.\n\nTelegram dated 28th January addressed to Dr. D.J. Sloss by the Commander in Chief Hong Kong Admiral Sir Cecil Harcourt.\n\n## Part A \nExtracts from a lecture given by Professor W.J. Hinton on April 2nd, 1941, to the Royal Central Asian Society in London on \"Hong Kong's place in the British Empire\".\n\n## Part B \nExtract from letter dated 22nd January, 1946, from Professor W.J. Hinton to Dr. C.G. Cox referring to the lectures quoted above.\n\nFurther note dated 25th January by Sir George Moss in support of his view that informal or diplomatic approaches should be made to discover the extent of the support of the University which might be expected outside Hong Kong.\n\nExtract from the Report of the 1937 Committee (which met in Hong Kong under the Chairmanship of Mr. N.B. Smith to investigate the Financial position and advise on the future of the University) in connection with the possibilities of local specialization.\n\nBrief note by Dr. Sloss on the Libraries of the University.\n\nSummary of recommendations contained in papers already circulated for the extension and development of the University in academic matters.\n\n## Extract from a Report \ndated December 1945 made by Dr. A.G.M. Smart, late Chief Adviser to the Secretary of State for the Colonies on his visit to Far Eastern Colonies.\n\nExtracts from the 1937 Committee's Report on Hong Kong University in regard to the matter of salary scales.\n\nNote on salary scales by Dr. Sloss. Role of the present and proposed Staff University of Hong Kong.\n\nHKUAC 25 \nHKUAC 26 \nHKUAC 27 \nHKUAC 28 \nHKUAC 29 \nHKUAC 30 \n\nDr. Gordon King's suggestions for the reconstruction of the Medical Library of the University.\n\nExtract from a letter dated 24th February, 1946, from Professor Roxby of the British Council in China to Miss Ruston (See also `HKUAC 5`).\n\nPlan of the proposed degree in Social Sciences.\n\nNote by Mr. D.J. Sloss on the administrative machinery of the University of Hong Kong as established under an ordinance passed in 1911 and last revised in 1937.\n\nHKUAC 31", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-594-1 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45- Advisory Committee report 29-3-1946 - 3-7-1946.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 581288, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-594-2 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45- Advisory Committee report 1-7-1946 - 19-8-1946", "page_number": 22, "title": "CO129-594-2 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45- Advisory Committee report 1-7-1946 - 19-8-1946", "content_text": "# APPENDIX A\n## HONG KONG UNIVERSITY ADVISORY COMMITTEE\n### LIST OF COMMITTEE PAPERS ISSUED UP TO 1ST JUNE, 1946\n\n| Ref. | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| HKUAC 1. | |\n| HKUAC 2. | |\n| HKUAC 3. | |\n| HKUAC 4. | |\n| HKUAC 5. | Copy of letter dated 9th November, 1939, from the Secretary of State for the Colonies to the Governor of Hong Kong. |\n| HKUAC 6. | Report by the 1943 Advisory Committee on Hong Kong University and the Higher Educational Institutes in Malaya and Hong Kong. |\n| HKUAC 7. | The Future of the Hong Kong University-Memorandum submitted by the Colonial Office to the Far Eastern Committee of the War Cabinet. |\n| HKUAC 8. | Observations regarding the possible reconstitution of the University of Hong Kong by Dr. Gordon King, F.R.C.S., F.R.C.O.G. Former Dean of the Medical Faculty of the University. |\n| HKUAC 9. | Copy of a letter dated 30th August, 1945, from Professor Percy Roxby of the British Council in China. |\n| HKUAC 10. | Copy of a letter dated 22nd August, 1945, from Dr. Joseph Needham, Sc.D., Ph.D., F.R.S., Head of the British Scientific Mission in China. |\n| HKUAC 11. | Extract from a letter dated 31st July, 1945, from Sir Andrew Caldecott, K.C.M.G. Former Chancellor of the University. |\n| HKUAC 12. | Copy of a telegram dated 30th October from Dr. Gordon King now a member of the Civil Affairs Branch of the Military Administration in Hong Kong. |\n| HKUAC 13. | A note by Professor K. H. Digby, Professor of Surgery and Senior Member of the staff of the University, which was read to members and staff in Stanley Internment Camp. |\n| HKUAC 14. | Extract from a letter by Professor Digby. |\n| HKUAC 15. | Copy of a resolution passed at a meeting on the 21st November, 1945, of graduates and past students of the University in Hong Kong. |\n| HKUAC 16. | A later Memorandum by Dr. Gordon King dated 8th December, 1945, on the reconstitution of the University. |\n| HKUAC 17. | Summary of Recommendations contained in the Report of a Committee appointed by the Chancellor in 1939 to consider the Development of the University. |\n| HKUAC 18. | Note by Mr. D. J. Sloss on the University of Hong Kong. |\n| HKUAC 19. | Extract from the Directive on Education issued to the Chief Civil Affairs Officer for the period of the Military Administration in Hong Kong. |\n| HKUAC 20. | Note by Sir George Moss in expansion of his remarks at the first meeting of the Committee on January 18th. |\n| HKUAC 21. | Telegram dated 28th January, addressed to Mr. D. J. Sloss by the Commander in Chief, Hong Kong, Admiral Sir Cecil Harcourt. |\n| HKUAC 22. | Part A. Extracts from a lecture given by Professor W. J. Hinton on April 2nd, 1941, to the Royal Central Asian Society in London on \"Hong Kong's place in the British Empire\". |\n| HKUAC 23. | Part B. Extract from letter dated 22nd January, 1946, from Professor W. J. Hinton to Mr. C. W. M. Cox referring to the lectures quoted above. |\n| HKUAC 24. | Further note dated 25th January by Sir George Moss in support of his view that informal or diplomatic approaches should be made to discover the extent of the support of the University which might be expected outside Hong Kong. |\n| HKUAC 25. | Extract from the Report of the 1937 Committee (which met in Hong Kong under the Chairmanship of Mr. N. L. Smith to investigate the financial position and advise on the future of the University) in connection with the possibilities of local specialization. |\n| HKUAC 26. | Brief note by Mr. Sloss on the Libraries of the University. |\n| HKUAC 27. | Summary of recommendations contained in papers already circulated for the extensions and development of the University in academic matters. |\n| HKUAC 28. | Extract from a Report dated December, 1945, made by Dr. A. G. H. Smart late Chief Adviser to the Secretary of State for the Colonies on his visit to the Far Eastern Colonies. |\n| HKUAC 29. | Extracts from the 1937 Committee's Report on Hong Kong University in regard to the matter of salary scales. |\n| HKUAC 30. | Note on salary scales by Mr. Sloss. |\n| HKUAC 31. | Note of the present and proposed Staff of the University. |\n| HKUAC 33. | Dr. Gordon King's suggestions for the reconstruction of the Medical Library of the University. |\n| | Extract from a letter dated 24th February, 1946, from Professor Roxby of the British Council in China to Miss Ruston (See also HKUAC 5). |\n| HKUAC 34. | Plan of the proposed degree in Social Sciences. |\n| HKUAC 35. | Note by Mr. D. J. Sloss on the administrative machinery of the University of Hong Kong as established under an Ordinance passed in 1911 and last revised in 1937. |\n| HKUAC 36. | Note on the proceedings of the first five meetings of the Committee. |\n| | Extract from a letter dated 30th March, 1946, from Dr. George Yeh, previously Professor of English at the National Pekin University and now Head of the Chinese Ministry of Information in London. |\n| HKUAC 37. | Suggestions by Professor Hinton for alterations in the Constitution of the University of Hong Kong. |\n| HKUAC 39. | Resolution passed by the Shanghai Branch of the Hong Kong University Alumni Association. |\n| | Extract from a letter from Dr. Gordon King to Miss Ruston dated 23rd March, 1946. |\n| HKUAC 40. | Extract from a letter dated 24th April, 1946, addressed to the Colonial Office by the Chairman of the Hong Kong University Medical Degrees Emergency Committee. (Mr. T. M. Hazlerigg.) |\n| | Comments on HKUAC 34 by Professor G. M. Forster. |\n| HKUAC 41. | Memorandum by Professor F. Redmond of the Hong Kong University, on the future of the Faculty of Engineering. |\n| | Note on Basic and Overseas Pay and Family Allowances. |\n\n## APPENDIX B\n### The following persons kindly attended meetings of the Committee and gave evidence.\n\n| Name | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| Sir Mark Young, G.C.M.G. | Governor of Hong Kong. |\n| Brigadier D. M. MacDougall, C.M.G. | Chief Civil Affairs Officer during the Military Administration of Hong Kong. |\n| Professor T. Redmond. | Professor of Engineering of Hong Kong University. |\n| Mr. C. P. Fitzgerald. | Of the British Council. (Regional Officer for China.) |\n\n`(52226) Wt. 23066-4903 300 8/46 D.L. G. 373` \n28 \n36", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-594-2 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45- Advisory Committee report 1-7-1946 - 19-8-1946.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 581307, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-594-2 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45- Advisory Committee report 1-7-1946 - 19-8-1946", "page_number": 41, "title": "CO129-594-2 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45- Advisory Committee report 1-7-1946 - 19-8-1946", "content_text": "## \n### Board should hold its General Schools Examinations in Hong Kong in June and July of this year. \nThe Matriculation Board has been most generous with its help in allowing adjustments in its syllabuses to fit the special conditions in Hong Kong and in giving the Hong Kong University the benefit of its vast experience and of its admirable machinery of examinations.\n\n(e) Staff: Already in Hong Kong are the Professor of Gynaecology, with whom, for the carrying through of certain refresher courses for students who took their final medical examinations in China, are associated officiating professors of medicine and surgery, members of the Civil Medical Department of the Colony; a senior lecturer in Physics who is to be released from Civil Administration duties as soon as the University can use his services, and some Chinese assistants. The Professors of English and Economics have sailed for Hong Kong to reopen the University office and to make provision for certain parts of the teaching. The professorships of Chinese, Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics, Pathology, Surgery, Medicine, Civil Engineering, and Education are vacant. The filling of these posts is left to the action of the University Council when it is reconstituted. Inquiries for suitable candidates are continuing in the United Kingdom. Attempts are being made to fill, at an early date, the vacant Lectureships in Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Biology, History, and English, either in London or in China. The appointments will in the first case be for three years, the minimum time for which it is thought that men could be recruited. Long-term appointments are left for the consideration of the appropriate University body when it is reconstituted.\n\n76. We approve the action that has been taken by the Provisional Powers Committee as appropriate either to the restoration of the University or to its replacement by a series of professional schools. With the arrangements it has made and with the staff both existing and under recruitment, it will be possible in the last months of 1946 for a minimum of higher education to be offered to meet the insistent demands of the officials and public of the Colony. We are convinced that no further action can be taken until a decision is reached on our main recommendation concerning the future of the University. While there is uncertainty whether the University is to be restored or not, it is not possible to make additional arrangements for higher education in the Colony, either in the sense of further restoration of the University or in the sense of preparing substitutes for the University, such as professional schools. We would give as an example of the present dilemma the impossibility of recruiting senior staff for the University. Posts, both teaching and administrative, are now vacant. It is impossible to recruit for these posts on long-term appointments until candidates can be informed of the kind of institution to which they would be appointed and the nature and quality of the work they would be asked to do. In the present acute shortage of academically qualified persons for higher education posts in the United Kingdom or overseas, it is obviously impossible, even if it were desirable, to find senior staff for short-term appointments in Hong Kong. Any further development, however, of higher education in Hong Kong, beyond the emergency arrangements already made, depends on the appointment of senior staff.\n\n77. We are therefore unable to suggest any further action that can be taken until a decision is reached on the main recommendation for the revival of the University. We wish to stress the urgency of the need for that decision in the interests of the Colony itself.\n\n| Ref. | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| HKUAC 7. | Extract from a letter dated 31st July, 1945, from Sir Andrew Caldecott, K.C.M.G., Former Chancellor of the University. |\n| HKUAC 8. | Copy of a telegram dated 30th October from Dr. Gordon King, now a member of the Civil Affairs Branch of the Military Administration in Hong Kong. |\n| HKUAC 9. | A note by Professor K. H. Digby, Professor of Surgery and Senior Member of the staff of the University, which was read to members and staff in Stanley Internment Camp. |\n| HKUAC 10. | Extract from a letter by Professor Digby. |\n| HKUAC 11. | Copy of a resolution passed at a meeting on the 21st November, 1945, of graduates and past students of the University in Hong Kong. |\n| HKUAC 12. | A later Memorandum by Dr. Gordon King dated 8th December, 1945, on the reconstitution of the University. |\n| HKUAC 13. | Summary of Recommendations contained in the Report of a Committee appointed by the Chancellor in 1939 to consider \"the Development of the University.\" |\n| HKUAC 14. | Note by Mr. D. J. Sloss on the University of Hong Kong. |\n| HKUAC 15. | Extract from the Directive on Education issued to the Chief Civil Affairs Officer for the period of the Military Administration in Hong Kong. |\n| HKUAC 16. | Note by Sir George Moss in expansion of his remarks at the first meeting of the Committee on January 18th. |\n| HKUAC 17. | Telegram dated 28th January, addressed to Mr. D. J. Sloss by the Commander in Chief, Hong Kong, Admiral Sir Cecil Harcourt. |\n| HKUAC 21. | Part A. Extracts from a lecture given by Professor W. J. Hinton on April 2nd, 1941, to the Royal Central Asian Society in London on \"Hong Kong's place in the British Empire.\" Part B. Extract from letter dated 22nd January, 1946, from Professor W. J. Hinton to Mr. C. W. M. Cox referring to the lectures quoted above. |\n| HKUAC 22. | Further note dated 25th January by Sir George Moss in support of his view that informal or diplomatic approaches should be made to discover the extent of the support of the University which might be expected outside Hong Kong. |\n| HKUAC 23. | Extract from the Report of the 1937 Committee (which met in Hong Kong under the Chairmanship of Mr. N. L. Smith to investigate the financial position and advise on the future of the University) in connection with the possibilities of local specialization. |\n| HKUAC 24. | Brief note by Mr. Sloss on the Libraries of the University. |\n| HKUAC 25. | Summary of recommendations contained in papers already circulated for the extensions and development of the University in academic matters. |\n| HKUAC 26. | Extract from a Report dated December, 1945, made by Dr. A. G. H. Smart, late Chief Adviser to the Secretary of State for the Colonies on his visit to the Far Eastern Colonies. |\n| HKUAC 27. | Extracts from the 1937 Committee's Report on Hong Kong University in regard to the matter of salary scales. Note on salary scales by Mr. Sloss. |\n| HKUAC 28. | Extract from a letter dated 24th February, 1946, from Professor Roxby of the British Council in China to Miss Ruston (See also `HKUAC 5`). |\n| HKUAC 29. | Plan of the proposed degree in Social Sciences. |\n| HKUAC 31. | Note by Mr. D. J. Sloss on the administrative machinery of the University of Hong Kong as established under an Ordinance passed in 1911 and last revised in 1937. |\n| HKUAC 33. | Note on the proceedings of the first five meetings of the Committee. |\n| HKUAC 34. | Extract from a letter dated 30th March, 1946, from Dr. George Yeh, previously Professor of English at the National Pekin University and now Head of the Chinese Ministry of Information in London. Suggestions by Professor Hinton for alterations in the Constitution of the University of Hong Kong. |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-594-2 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45- Advisory Committee report 1-7-1946 - 19-8-1946.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 581391, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-594-2 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45- Advisory Committee report 1-7-1946 - 19-8-1946", "page_number": 118, "title": "CO129-594-2 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45- Advisory Committee report 1-7-1946 - 19-8-1946", "content_text": "# 145\n\n## HKUAC 10 - HKUAC 21\n\n-32- \n\n**Extract from a letter by Professor Digby.**\n\n**Copy of a resolution passed at a meeting on the 21st November, 1945 of graduates and past students of the University in Hong Kong.**\n\n**A later Memorandum by Dr. Gordon King dated 8th December, 1945 on the reconstitution of the University.**\n\n**Summary of Recommendations contained in the Report of a Committee appointed by the Chancellor in 1939 to consider the Development of the University.**\n\n**Note by Mr. D.J. Sloss on the University of Hong Kong.**\n\n**Extract from the Directive on Education issued to the Chief Civil Affairs Officer for the period of the Military Administration in Hong Kong.**\n\n**Note by Sir George Moss in expansion of his remarks at the first mooting of the Committee on January 18th.**\n\n**Telegram dated 28th January addressed to Mr. D.J. Sloss by the Commander in Chief Hong Kong Admiral Sir Cecil Harcourt.**\n\n## Part A\n**Extracts from a lecture given by Professor W.J. Hinton on April 2nd 1941 to the Royal Central Asian Society in London on \"Hong Kong's place in the British Empire\"**\n\n## Part B\n**Extract from letter dated 22nd January, 1946 from Professor W.J. Hinton to Mr. C.W.M. Cox referring to the lectures quoted above.**\n\n**Further note dated 25th January by Sir George Moss in support of his view that informal or diplomatic approaches should be made to discover the extent of the Support of the University which might be expected outside Hong Kong.**\n\n**Extract from the Report of the 1937 Committee (which met in Hong Kong under the Chairmanship of Mr. N.L. Smith to investigate the financial position and advise on the future of the University) in connection with the possibilities of local specialization.**\n\n**Brief note by Mr. Sloss on the Libraries of the University.**\n\n## HKUAC 22\n**Summary of recommendations contained in papers already circulated for the extensions and development of the University in academic matters.**\n\n## HKUAC 23\n**Extract from a Report dated December, 1945 made by Dr. C.H. Smart late Chief Advisor to the Secretary of State for the Colonies on his visit to the Far Eastern Colonies.**\n\n## HKUAC 24", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-594-2 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45- Advisory Committee report 1-7-1946 - 19-8-1946.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 581399, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-594-2 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45- Advisory Committee report 1-7-1946 - 19-8-1946", "page_number": 126, "title": "CO129-594-2 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45- Advisory Committee report 1-7-1946 - 19-8-1946", "content_text": "# PART II. ARGUMENT IN SUPPORT OF THE RECOMMENDATION.\n\n## ORIGIN AND PRESENT POSITION OF UNIVERSITY.\n\nThe then Governor, Sir F.D. (Patès not present in this context but Lugard is mentioned) Lugard, The University of Hong Kong was created in 1911 mainly by the efforts of Lord Lugard. It incorporated the existing College of Medicine, which had been founded in 1886 by Sir Patrick Manson and Sir James Cantlie. The purposes of the University were defined in the Ordinance of 30th March, 1911, as \"the promotion of Arts, Science and Learning, the provision of higher education, the conferring of degrees, the development and formation of the character of students of all races, nationalities and creeds, and the maintenance of good understanding with the neighbouring country of China.\" In September 1941, the University included Faculties of Arts, Science, Medicine, and Engineering, and had a student enrolment of approximately 600, of whom about 120 were women.\n\nAt the outbreak of the Pacific war, a small number of the students were granted war-time degrees, and the others were given certification of their completed studies. Nearly two-thirds of them succeeded eventually in reaching Free China, and most were enabled to continue their studies in Chinese Universities and colleges, partly as a result of arrangements made by a member of the University staff who escaped internment to organize the work. The buildings were severely but not irreparably damaged. Almost all equipment and fittings were destroyed or looted, but the contents of the libraries have survived nearly intact. Through deaths, retirement, or other causes, only 1 out of the pre-war total of 41 senior posts on the staff are occupied; and loss of posts previously held by Europeans only are now occupied.\n\n## NEED FOR A BASIC DECISION\n\nBy terms of reference, the Committee was invited \"to Make a recommendation as to whether the University as such should continue to exist.\" The Committee had urgent requests for the early re-opening of the University from the Commander-in-Chief, Hong Kong, from the Chief Officer of the Civil Affairs Administration, from Sir Mark Young shortly before his departure from the United Kingdom to take up his duties as Governor, from leading Chinese residents in the Colony, and from associations of old students. It was evident that a decision to close the University would cause bitter disappointment, and the government naturally was reluctant to contemplate such a drastic course. Nevertheless, the Committee realized that an occasion... \n\nPage 25\n\nIt has been estimated that the figure of 600 students in 1941 would be larger than now due to the influx of refugees from China.\n\nWe have, in accordance with our terms of reference, prepared proposals for restoring higher education facilities in Hong Kong. Such action on emergency proposals as has been possible without prejudice to the major decisions on the ultimate fate of the University has already been taken. Further action, however, which is becoming increasingly urgent, cannot be taken until a decision is made on our main recommendation.\n\nSMITH \n... \nThe \nfc Clay \n153 \n\nQua \nShoss \nTeporte \nesary for \nALLISO \nto Zastoralion \nthe se J \n\nhas no clear contextual relevance and appears to be OCR misreadings or unrelated text fragments.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-594-2 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45- Advisory Committee report 1-7-1946 - 19-8-1946.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 581429, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-594-2 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45- Advisory Committee report 1-7-1946 - 19-8-1946", "page_number": 156, "title": "CO129-594-2 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45- Advisory Committee report 1-7-1946 - 19-8-1946", "content_text": "-32- \n183\n\nExtract from a letter by Professor Digby.\n\nCopy of a resolution passed at a meeting on the 21st November, 1945 of graduates and past students of the University in Hong Kong.\n\nlater Memorandum by Dr. Gordon King dated 8th December, 194 on the reconstitution of the University.\n\nSummary of Recommendations contained in the Report of a Committee appointed by the Chancellor in 1939 to consider the Development the University.\n\nNote by Mr. D.J. Sloss on the University of Hong Kong.\n\nExtract from the Directive on education issued to the Chief Civil Affairs Officer for the period of the Military Administration in Hong Kong.\n\nNote by Sir George Moss in expansion of his remarks at the first meeting of the Committee on January 18th.\n\nTelegram dated 28th January addressed to Mr. D.J. Sloss by the Commander in Chief Hong Kong Admiral Sir Cecil Harcourt.\n\n## Part A\nExtracts from a lecture given by Professor W.J. Hinton on April 2nd 1941 to the Royal Central Asian Society in London on \"Hong Kong's place in the British Empire\".\n\n## Part B\nExtract from letter dated 22nd January, 1946 from Professor W.J. Hinton to Mr. C.W.M. Cox referring to the lectures quoted above.\n\nFurther note dated 25th January by Sir George Moss in support of his view that informal or diplomatic approaches should be made to discover the extent of the support of the University which might be expected outside Hong Kong.\n\nExtract from the Report of the 1937 Committee (which met in Hong Kong under the Chairmanship of Mr. N.L. Smith to investigate the financial position and advise on the future of the University) in connection with the possibilities of local specialization.\n\nBrief note by Mr. Sloss on the Libraries of the University.\n\nSummary of recommendations contained in papers already circulated for the extensions and development of the University in academic matters.\n\nExtract from a Report dated December, 1945 made by Dr. G.H. Smart Tate Chief Adviser to the Secretary of State for the Colonies on his visit to the Far Colonies.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-594-2 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45- Advisory Committee report 1-7-1946 - 19-8-1946.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 581522, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-594-3 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45- Advisory Committee- minutes of... 18-1-1946 - 9-4-1946", "page_number": 90, "title": "CO129-594-3 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45- Advisory Committee- minutes of... 18-1-1946 - 9-4-1946", "content_text": "## \n\nvery first priority in the re-occupation of Hong Kong.\n\nSir Humphrey Prideaux Brune said that if it were only a question of the Medical College he imagined that the Commander in Chief would press for this. Mr. Cox thought there would also be pressure from the Director of Education.\n\nMr. N.L. Smith said that for the training of teachers a course had been agreed to by the new Northgate Medical College. Mr. Sloss thought that if materials and labour could be obtained, the Medical College could be patched up in time for September of this year.\n\nReturning to the matter of medicine Mr. Sloss said it was impossible to get into a Colonial Medical Institution at the present time and that most Universities in this country will be in the same position as far as medicine is concerned. He stated that it would not be difficult to arrange for students in their last two or possibly third years to be dealt with at the teaching hospital, or Clinical Hospital, and he was adverse to admitting any first year-students until it was seen whether they could be given preliminary training.\n\nDr. Kauntze asked how many students there would be in the Clinical year. He said there was only a very small remnant of students and we had got about 4/5ths of students into China but a number fell out for various reasons, and there might be about 30-40 students who have reached the clinical year whose courses have been broken. The Chairman asked if there were any two or three-year students in Hong Kong. Mr. Sloss said he had dealt with all students who came to England; all were non-Chinese. They were placed in English schools. Any nucleus would be people who had taken the course 4, 5 or 6 years' ago and had done nothing since. Mr. Sloss thought they should start again at the beginning.\n\nSir Humphrey Prideaux Brune asked whether those who had completed the course in China, would be fit...\n\nPage 90\nPage 91", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-594-3 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45- Advisory Committee- minutes of... 18-1-1946 - 9-4-1946.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 581592, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-594-3 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45- Advisory Committee- minutes of... 18-1-1946 - 9-4-1946", "page_number": 160, "title": "CO129-594-3 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45- Advisory Committee- minutes of... 18-1-1946 - 9-4-1946", "content_text": "# HONG KONG UNIVERSITY ADVISORY COMMITTEE\n## Confidential\n### DRAFT MINUTES OF THE FOURTH MEETING OF THIS COMMITTEE\n\nHeld in the Conference Room at the Colonial Office, Dover House on Monday, March 11th, 1946, at 2:30.\n\n**Present**\n\n| Name | Title/Position |\n| --- | --- |\n| Mr. C. Cox | (in the Chair) |\n| Mr. Walter Adams | |\n| Mr. E. Burney | |\n| Mrs. L. Forster | |\n| Professor W.J. Hinton | |\n| Dr. Kauntze | |\n| Sir George Moss | |\n| Professor L.M. Penson | |\n| Sir Humphrey Prideau-Brune | |\n| Mr. D.J. Sloss | |\n| Mr. N.L. Smith | |\n| Miss A.M. Robertson | |\n\nBrigadier D.M. MacDougall, Chief Civil Affairs Officer of the Military Administration in Hong Kong, was present during the earlier part of the meeting.\n\n**Apologies for Absence**\n\nApologies for absence were received from Dr. Channon, Sir Herbert Eason, Mr. A. Morse, Dr. Priestley, and Dr. Venn.\n\n1. The draft minutes of the last meeting were approved.\n\n2. Mr. Sloss reported that a telegram had been sent to Hong Kong asking for plans of the site of the University if they could be found.\n\n3. Mr. Sloss also reported that Professor Redmond had been unable to get a passage from Ireland but would appear at the next meeting of the Committee to discuss the case for or against the retention of the Faculty of Engineering.\n\nThe Chairman invited Brigadier MacDougall to speak about opinion in Hong Kong on the re-opening of the University. Brigadier MacDougall said that he wished to plead for the earliest possible re-opening and that in this, he expressed the views also of the Commander-in-Chief and the Governor, Sir Mark Young. It was partly a matter of prestige and partly to arrest the drift of Hong Kong students to universities in China. If this meant a certain improvisation, he thought nevertheless that an attempt should be made to open the University in the Autumn of this year. Many of the Chinese universities in what had been Occupied China were already open.\n\nMr. Cox thought that as secondary schools in Hong Kong had...\n\nPage 160\nPage 161", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-594-3 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45- Advisory Committee- minutes of... 18-1-1946 - 9-4-1946.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 581599, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-594-3 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45- Advisory Committee- minutes of... 18-1-1946 - 9-4-1946", "page_number": 167, "title": "CO129-594-3 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45- Advisory Committee- minutes of... 18-1-1946 - 9-4-1946", "content_text": "# HONG KONG UNIVERSITY ADVISORY COMMITTEE\n## Confidential\n### DRAFT MINUTES OF THE FOURTH MEETING OF THE COMMITTEE HELD IN THE CONFERENCE ROOM AT THE COLONIAL OFFICE, DOVER HOUSE ON MONDAY MARCH 11TH 1946 AT 2.30..\n\n**Mr. C. Cox (in the Chair)**\n\nMr. Walter Adams \nMr. E. Burney \nMrs. L. Forster \nProfessor W.J. Hinton \nDr. Kauntze \nSir George Moss \nProfessor L. M. Penson \nSir Humphrey Prideau-Brune \nMr. D. J. Sloss \nMr. N.L. Smith \nMiss A.M. Ruston \n\nBrigadier D. M. MacDougall, Chief Civil Affairs Officer of the Military Administration in Hong Kong was present during the earlier part of the meeting.\n\nApologies for absence were received from Dr. Channon, Sir Herbert Eason, Mr. A. Morse, Dr. Priestley and Dr. Venn.\n\n1. The draft minutes of the last meeting were approved.\n\n2. Mr. Sloss reported that a telegram had been sent to Hong Kong asking for plans of the site of the University if they could be found.\n\n3. Mr. Sloss also reported that Professor Redmond had been unable to get a passage from Ireland but would appear at the next meeting of the Committee to discuss the case for or against the retention of the Faculty of Engineering.\n\n4. The Chairman invited Brigadier MacDougall to speak about opinion in Hong Kong on the re-opening of the University. Brigadier MacDougall said that he wished to plead for the earliest possible re-opening and that in this he expressed the views also of the Commander in Chief and the Governor, Sir Mark Young. It was partly a matter of prestige and partly to arrest the drift of Hong Kong students to universities in China. Even if it meant a certain improvisation, he thought that an attempt should be made to open the University in the Autumn of this year. Many of the Chinese universities in what had been Occupied China were already open.\n\nMr. Cox", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-594-3 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45- Advisory Committee- minutes of... 18-1-1946 - 9-4-1946.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 581607, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-594-3 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45- Advisory Committee- minutes of... 18-1-1946 - 9-4-1946", "page_number": 175, "title": "CO129-594-3 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45- Advisory Committee- minutes of... 18-1-1946 - 9-4-1946", "content_text": "# KONG UNIVERSITY ADVISORY COMMITTEE\n## **Confidential**\n### 173 C\n\n**Present**\n\n## DRAFT MINUTES\n### THE FOURTH MEETING OF THE COMMITTEE HELD IN THE CONFERENCE ROOM AT THE COLONIAL OFFICE, DOVER HOUSE ON MONDAY MARCH 11TH 1946 AT 2.30 P.M.\n\n**Mr. C. Cox (in the Chair)**\nMr. Walter Adams\nMr. E. Burney\nMrs. L. Forster\nProfessor W.J. Hinton\nDr. Kauntze\nSir George Moss\nProfessor L. M. Penson\nSir Humphrey Prideau-Brune\nMr. D.J. Sloss\nMr. N.L. Smith\nMiss A. M. Ruston\n\nBrigadier D. M. MacDougall, Chief Civil Affairs Officer of the Military Administration in Hong Kong was present during the earlier part of the meeting.\n\nApologies for absence were received from Dr. Channon, Sir Herbert Eason, Mr. A. Morse, Dr. Priestley and Dr. Venn.\n\n1. The draft minutes of the last meeting were approved.\n\n2. Mr. Sloss reported that a telegram had been sent to Hong Kong asking for plans of the site of the University if they could be found.\n\n3. Mr. Sloss also reported that Professor Redmond had been unable to get a passage from Ireland but would appear at the next meeting of the Committee to discuss the case for or against the retention of the Faculty of Engineering.\n\n4. The Chairman invited Brigadier MacDougall to speak about opinion in Hong Kong on the re-opening of the University. Brigadier MacDougall said that he wished to plead for the earliest possible re-opening and that in this he expressed the views also of the Commander in Chief and the Governor, Sir Mark Young. It was partly a matter of prestige and partly to arrest the drift of Hong Kong students to universities in China. Even if it meant a certain improvisation, he thought that an attempt should be made to open the University in the Autumn of this year. The Chinese universities in what had been Occupied China were already open. Many of...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-594-3 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45- Advisory Committee- minutes of... 18-1-1946 - 9-4-1946.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 581614, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-594-3 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45- Advisory Committee- minutes of... 18-1-1946 - 9-4-1946", "page_number": 182, "title": "CO129-594-3 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45- Advisory Committee- minutes of... 18-1-1946 - 9-4-1946", "content_text": "# HONG KONG UNIVERSITY ADVISORY COMMITTER\n## Confidential\n\n### DRAFT MINUTES OF THE FOURTH MEETING OF THE COMMITTEE HELD IN THE CONFERENCE ROOM AT THE COLONIAL OFFICE, DOVER HOUSE ON MONDAY MARCH 11TH 1946 AT 2.30.\n\n**Mr. C. Cox (in the Chair)**\n\n* Mr. Walter Adams\n* Mr. E. Burney\n* Mrs. L. Forster\n* Professor W.J. Hinton\n* Dr. Kauntze\n* Sir George Moss\n* Professor L. M. Penson\n* Sir Humphrey Prideau-Brune\n* Mr. D.J. Sloss\n* Mr. N.L. Smith\n* Miss A. M. Ruston\n\nBrigadier D.M. MacDougall, Chief Civil Affairs Officer of the Military Administration in Hong Kong was present during the earlier part of the meeting.\n\nApologies for absence were received from Dr. Channon, Sir Herbert Eason, Mr. A. Morse, Dr. Priestley and Dr. Venn.\n\n1. The draft minutes of the last meeting were approved.\n\n2. Mr. Sloss reported that a telegram had been sent to Hong Kong asking for plans of the site of the University if they could be found.\n\n3. Mr. Sloss also reported that Professor Redmond had been unable to get a passage from Ireland but would appear at the next meeting of the Committee to discuss the case for or against the retention of the Faculty of Engineering.\n\n4. The Chairman invited Brigadier MacDougall to speak about opinion in Hong Kong on the re-opening of the University. Brigadier MacDougall said that he wished to plead for the earliest possible re-opening and that in this he expressed the views also of the Commander in Chief and the Governor, Sir Mark Young. It was partly a matter of prestige and partly to arrest the drift of Hong Kong students to universities in China. Even if it meant a certain improvisation, he thought that an attempt should be made to open the University in the Autumn of this year. Many of the Chinese universities in what had been Occupied China were already open.\n\nMr. Cox", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-594-3 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45- Advisory Committee- minutes of... 18-1-1946 - 9-4-1946.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 581620, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-594-3 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45- Advisory Committee- minutes of... 18-1-1946 - 9-4-1946", "page_number": 188, "title": "CO129-594-3 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45- Advisory Committee- minutes of... 18-1-1946 - 9-4-1946", "content_text": "## HONG KONG UNIVERSITY ADVISORY COMMITTEE\n\n**Confidential**\n\n### DRAFT MINUTES OF THE FOURTH MEETING OF THE COMMITTEE HELD IN THE CONFERENCE ROOM AT THE COLONIAL OFFICE, DOVER HOUSE ON MONDAY, MARCH 11TH 1946 AT 2.30 p.m.\n\nPresent:\n\n* Mr. C. Cox (in the Chair)\n* Mr. Walter Adams\n* Mr. E. Burney\n* Mrs. L. Forster\n* Professor W. J. Hinton\n* Dr. Kauntze\n* Sir George Moss\n* Professor I. M. Penson\n* Sir Humphrey Prideau-Bruns\n* Mr. D. J. Sloss\n* Mr. N. L. Smith\n* Miss A. M. Ruston\n\nBrigadier D. M. MacDougall, Chief Civil Affairs Officer of the Military Administration in Hong Kong was present during the earlier part of the meeting.\n\nApologies for absence were received from Dr. Channon, Sir Herbert Eason, Mr. A. Morse, Dr. Priestley and Dr. Venn.\n\n1. The draft minutes of the last meeting were approved.\n\n2.\n\n3. Mr. Sloss reported that a telegram had been sent to Hong Kong asking for plans of the site of the University if they could be found.\n\nMr. Sloss also reported that Professor Redmond had been unable to get a passage from Ireland but would appear at the next meeting of the Committee to discuss the case for or against the retention of the Faculty of Engineering.\n\n4. The Chairman invited Brigadier MacDougall to speak about opinion in Hong Kong on the re-opening of the University.\n\nBrigadier MacDougall said that he wished to plead for the earliest possible re-opening and that in this he expressed the views also of the Commander in Chief and the Governor, Sir Mark Young. It was partly a matter of prestige and partly to arrest the drift of Hong Kong students to universities in China. Even if it meant a certain improvisation, he thought that an attempt should be made to open the University in the Autumn of this year. Many of the Chinese universities in what had been Occupied China were already open.\n\nMr. Cox suggested that as secondary schools in Hong Kong had been closed during the occupation, the number of suitable entrants for the University would be small.\n\nBrigadier MacDougall agreed but said that there were a number of Hong Kong students who had attended schools in Free China.\n\nMr. Sloss thought that it was probable that very few of these could be ready for university studies.\n\nSir George Moss...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-594-3 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45- Advisory Committee- minutes of... 18-1-1946 - 9-4-1946.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 581624, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-594-3 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45- Advisory Committee- minutes of... 18-1-1946 - 9-4-1946", "page_number": 192, "title": "CO129-594-3 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45- Advisory Committee- minutes of... 18-1-1946 - 9-4-1946", "content_text": "# HONG KONG UNIVERSITY ADVISORY COMMITTEE\n## Confidential\n### DRAFT MINUTES OF THE FOURTH MEETING OF THE COMMITTEE HELD IN THE CONFERENCE ROOM AT THE COLONIAL OFFICE, DOVER HOUSE ON MONDAY, MARCH 11TH 1946 AT 2.30 p.m.\n\nPresent:-\n- Mr. C. Cox (in the Chair)\n- Mr. Walter Adams\n- Mr. E. Burney\n- Mrs. L. Forster\n- Professor W. J. Hinton\n- Dr. Kauntze\n- Sir George Moss\n- Professor L. M. Penson\n- Sir Humphrey Prideau-Bruns\n- Mr. D. J. Sloss\n- Mr. N. L. Smith\n- Miss A. M. Ruston\n\nBrigadier D. M. MacDougall, Chief Civil Affairs Officer of the Military Administration in Hong Kong was present during the earlier part of the meeting.\n\nApologies for absence were received from Dr. Channon, Sir Herbert Eason, Mr. A. Morse, Dr. Priestley and Dr. Venn.\n\n## 2\nThe draft minutes of the last meeting were approved.\n\n## 2.\nMr. Sloss reported that a telegram had been sent to Hong Kong asking for plans of the site of the University if they could be found.\n\n## 3.\nMr. Sloss also reported that Professor Redmond had been unable to get a passage from Ireland but would appear at the next meeting of the Committee to discuss the case for or against the retention of the Faculty of Engineering.\n\n## 4.\nThe Chairman invited Brigadier MacDougall to speak about opinion in Hong Kong on the re-opening of the University.\n\nBrigadier MacDougall said that he wished to plead for the earliest possible re-opening and that in this he expressed the views also of the Commander in Chief and the Governor, Sir Mark Young. It was partly a matter of prestige and partly to arrest the drift of Hong Kong students to universities in China. Even if it meant a certain improvisation, he thought that an attempt should be made to open the University in the Autumn of this year. Many of the Chinese universities in what had been Occupied China were already open.\n\nMr. Cox suggested that as secondary schools in Hong Kong had been closed during the occupation, the number of suitable entrants for the University would be small.\n\nBrigadier MacDougall agreed but said that there were a number of Hong Kong students who had attended schools in Free China.\n\nMr. Sloss thought that it was probable that very few of them could be ready for University studies.\n\nSir George Moss...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-594-3 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45- Advisory Committee- minutes of... 18-1-1946 - 9-4-1946.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 581628, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-594-3 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45- Advisory Committee- minutes of... 18-1-1946 - 9-4-1946", "page_number": 196, "title": "CO129-594-3 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45- Advisory Committee- minutes of... 18-1-1946 - 9-4-1946", "content_text": "# HONG KONG UNIVERSITY ADVISORY COMMITTEE\n## Confidential\n### DRAFT MINUTES OF THE FOURTH MEETING OF THE COMMITTEE HELD IN THE CONFERENCE ROOM AT THE COLONIAL OFFICE, DOVER HOUSE ON MONDAY, MARCH 11TH 1946 AT 2.30 p.m.\n\nPresent: -\n**Mr. C. Cox (in the Chair)**\nMr. Walter Adams\nMr. E. Burney\nMrs. L. Forster\nProfessor W. J. Hinton\nDr. Kauntze\nSir George Moss\nProfessor L. M. Penson\nSir Humphrey Prideau-Brune\nMr. D. J. Sloss\nMr. N. L. Smith\nMiss A. M. Ruston\n\nBrigadier D. M. MacDougall, Chief Civil Affairs Officer of the Military Administration in Hong Kong was present during the earlier part of the meeting.\n\nApologies for absence were received from Dr. Channon, Sir Herbert Eason, Mr. A. Morse, Dr. Priestley and Dr. Venn.\n\n## 2. \nThe draft minutes of the last meeting were approved.\n\nMr. Sloss reported that a telegram had been sent to Hong Kong asking for plans of the site of the University if they could be found.\n\n## 3. \nMr. Sloss also reported that Professor Redmond had been unable to get a passage from Ireland but would appear at the next meeting of the Committee to discuss the case for or against the retention of the Faculty of Engineering.\n\n## 4. \nThe Chairman invited Brigadier MacDougall to speak about opinion in Hong Kong on the re-opening of the University.\n\nBrigadier MacDougall said that he wished to plead for the earliest possible re-opening and that in this he expressed the views also of the Commander in Chief and the Governor, Sir Mark Young. It was partly a matter of prestige and partly to arrest the drift of Hong Kong students to universities in China. Even if it meant a certain improvisation, he thought that an attempt should be made to open the University in the Autumn of this year. Many of the Chinese universities in what had been Occupied China were already open.\n\nMr. Cox suggested that as secondary schools in Hong Kong had been closed during the occupation, the number of suitable entrants for the University would be small.\n\nBrigadier MacDougall agreed but said that there were a number of Hong Kong students who had attended schools in Free China.\n\nMr. Sloss thought that it was probable that very few of these could be ready for university studies.\n\n/Sir George Moss", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-594-3 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45- Advisory Committee- minutes of... 18-1-1946 - 9-4-1946.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 586022, "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": "CO129-602-5 Limits of territorial waters 27-10-1949 - 9-12-1949", "page_number": 6, "title": "CO129-602-5 Limits of territorial waters 27-10-1949 - 9-12-1949", "content_text": "M.01906/49.\n\nMilitary Branch,\n\nAdmiralty, S.W.1.\n\n9th December, 1949.\n\nDear Radford,\n\nSince I wrote my letter of 8th December we have received C.in C. F.E.S. 071501/December. A reply should be made to Commander-in-Chief with the least delay, as he may be faced with an operational problem in Hong Kong waters without notice. We are considering the enclosed draft. I should be grateful if you and Coates, to whom I am copying this letter, could let us have your agreement to it as soon as possible.\n\nYours sincerely,\n\nC4H Cards-\n\nR.E. Radford, Esq., Colonial Office,\n\nChurch House\n\nGt. Smith Street,\n\nS.W.1.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-602-5 Limits of territorial waters 27-10-1949 - 9-12-1949.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 589185, "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": "CO129-608-7 Future policy- Report on Port Administration by Sir David Owen 24-2-1941 - 24-2-1941", "page_number": 109, "title": "CO129-608-7 Future policy- Report on Port Administration by Sir David Owen 24-2-1941 - 24-2-1941", "content_text": "APPENDIX I (D.3)\n\n112\n\nCONFIDENTIAL\n\nMinutes of the Third Meeting of the Hong Kong Port Consultative Committee held at the Colonial Office at 2.30 p.m. on 17th April 1946.\n\nPresent:\n\nMr. N. L. Smith, O.I.G., Chairman\n\nMr. R. A. C. North\n\nMr. S. H. Dodwell\n\nMr. A. Lang\n\nSir John liasson\n\nMr. C. Wurtzburg, M.C.\n\nMr. C. J. Colman, Chairman-designate of the Hong Kong Port Trust, also attended this Meeting.\n\nMr. W. J. Keswick and Mr. G. W. Swire sent messages regretting that they were unable to attend the Meeting.\n\n1. Minutes.\n\nWith the consent of the Meeting the minutes of the Second Meeting held on the 13th December, 1945, which had been circulated to the members were taken as read.\n\n2. Harbour Master.\n\nThe Chairman said that Commander Jolly, the present holder of the post of Harbour Master, was, of course, the officer chiefly affected by the proposal that a Port Trust be set up. Commander Jolly had been specially selected for the post and was very highly qualified. It was understood that the Harbour Master would in any case no longer carry on the duties of Director of Air Services which was to become a separate appointment.\n\nCommander Jolly had seen the Memorandum on the re-allocation of the Harbour Master's functions, had commented on it, had discussed the matter with Mr. Colman, and had agreed that the \"Board of Trade\" matters should not come under the control of the Port Trust. The Chairman said that he thought that there were three possible courses of action with regard to the future employment of Commander Jolly.\n\n(a) That he be appointed officer in charge of a Marine Department if one were set up to control the \"Board of Trade\" functions not taken over by the Port Trust.\n\n(b) That a new appointment be made by the Hong Kong Government in charge of those residual functions and that Commander Jolly be appointed a Principal Officer of the Port Trust.\n\n(c) That Commander Jolly should somehow combine the posts of Head of the Government Marine Department and of Port Officer in the Port Trust.\n\nIn the course of the general discussion it was said that it was not unusual, in ports where a Trust was in being, for the Principal Surveyor of Ships and the Shipping Master to control separate departments, but that in some circumstances it might be desirable to have these departments constituted as separate sub-sections in a single department of the Government distinctly outside the sphere of activities of the Port Trust.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-608-7 Future policy- Report on Port Administration by Sir David Owen 24-2-1941 - 24-2-1941.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 589495, "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": "CO129-608-7 Future policy- Report on Port Administration by Sir David Owen 24-2-1941 - 24-2-1941", "page_number": 420, "title": "CO129-608-7 Future policy- Report on Port Administration by Sir David Owen 24-2-1941 - 24-2-1941", "content_text": "R. A. C. North\n\nCONFIDENTIAL\n\nMinutes of the Third Meeting of the Hong Kong Fort Consultative Committee held at the Colonial Office at 2.30 p.m. on 17th April, 1946,\n\nPresent:\n\nMr. N.L. Smith, C.M.G. Chairman\n\nMr. R.A.C. North\n\nMr. S.H. Dodwell\n\nMr. A. Leng\n\nSir John Masson\n\nMr. C. Wurtzburg, M.C.\n\nMr. C.J. Colman, Chairman-designate of the Hong Kong Port Trust, also attended this Meeting.\n\nMr. W.J. Keswick and Mr. G.W. Swire sent messages regretting that they were unable to attend the Meeting.\n\nMinutes\n\nWith the consent of the Meeting the minutes of the second Meeting held on the 13th December, 1945, which had been circulated to the members were taken as read.\n\n2. Harbour Master\n\nThe Chairman said that Commander Jolly, the present holder of the post of Harbour Master, was, of course, the officer chiefly affected by the proposal that a Port Trust be set up. Commander Jolly had been specially selected for the post and was very highly qualified. It was understood that the Harbour Master would in any case no longer carry on the duties of Director of Air Services which was to become a separate appointment.\n\nCommander Jolly had seen the Memorandum on the re-allocation of the Harbour Master's functions, had commented on it, had discussed the matter with Mr. Colman, and had agreed that the \"Board of Trade\" matters should not come under the control of the Port Trust. The Chairman said that he thought that there were three possible courses of action with regard to the future employment of Commander Jolly.\n\n(a) That he be appointed officer in charge of a Marine Department if one were set up to control the \"Board of Trade\" functions not taken over by the Port Trust,\n\n(b) That a new appointment be made by the Hong Kong Government in charge of those residual functions and that Commander Jolly be appointed a Principal Officer of the Port Trust,\n\n(c) That Commander Jolly should somehow combine the posts of Head of the Government Marine Department and of Port Officer in the Port Trust.\n\nIn the course of the general discussion it was said that it was not unusual, in ports where a Trust was in being, for the Principal Surveyor of Ships and the Shipping Master to control separate departments, but that in some circumstances it might be desirable to have those departments...\n\nPage 420\n\nPage 421", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-608-7 Future policy- Report on Port Administration by Sir David Owen 24-2-1941 - 24-2-1941.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 590322, "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": "CO129-610-2 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University 9-1-1948 - 18-1-1949", "page_number": 124, "title": "CO129-610-2 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University 9-1-1948 - 18-1-1949", "content_text": "28\n\n# APPENDIX A.\n\n## HONG KONG UNIVERSITY ADVISORY COMMITTEE\n\n### LIST OF Committee Papers Issued UP TO 1ST JUNE, 1946.\n\n130\n\nHKUAC1. Copy of letter dated 9th November, 1939, from the Secretary of State for the Colonies to the Governor of Hong Kong.\n\nHKUAC2. Report by the 1943 Advisory Committee on Hong Kong University and the Higher Educational Institutes in Malaya and Hong Kong. The Future of the Hong Kong University-Memorandum submitted by the Colonial Office to the Far Eastern Committee of the War Cabinet.\n\nHKUAC3. Observations regarding the possible reconstitution of the University of Hong Kong by Dr. Gordon King, F.R.C.S., F.R.C.O.G. Former Dean of the Medical Faculty of the University.\n\nHKUAC4. Copy of a letter dated 30th August, 1945, from Professor Percy Roxby of the British Council in China.\n\nHKUAC5. Copy of a letter dated 22nd August, 1945, from Dr. Joseph Needham, Sc.D., Ph.D., F.R.S., Head of the British Scientific Mission in China.\n\nHKUAC6. Extract from a letter dated 31st July, 1945, from Sir Andrew Caldecott, K.C.M.G. Former Chancellor of the University.\n\nHKUAC7. Copy of a telegram dated 30th October from Dr. Gordon King now a member of the Civil Affairs Branch of the Military Administration in Hong Kong.\n\nHKUAC8. A note by Professor K. H. Digby, Professor of Surgery and Senior Member of the staff of the University, which was read to members and staff in Stanley Internment Camp.\n\nHKUAC9. Extract from a letter by Professor Digby.\n\nHKUAC10. Copy of a resolution passed at a meeting on the 21st November, 1945, of graduates and past students of the University in Hong Kong.\n\nHKUAC11. A later Memorandum by Dr. Gordon King dated 8th December, 1945, on the reconstitution of the University.\n\nHKUAC12. Summary of Recommendations contained in the Report of a Committee appointed by the Chancellor in 1939 to consider the Development of the University.\n\nHKUAC13.\n\nHKUAC14. Note by Mr. D. J. Sloss on the University of Hong Kong.\n\nHKUAC15. Extract from the Directive on Education issued to the Chief Civil Affairs Officer for the period of the Military Administration in Hong Kong.\n\nHKUAC16. Note by Sir George Moss in expansion of his remarks at the first meeting of the Committee on January 18th.\n\nHKUAC17. Telegram dated 28th January, addressed to Mr. D. J. Sloss by the Commander in Chief, Hong Kong, Admiral Sir Cecil Harcourt.\n\nHKUAC18.\n\nHKUAC19.\n\nHKUAC20.\n\nHKUAC21. Part A. Extracts from a lecture given by Professor W. J. Hinton on April 2nd, 1941, to the Royal Central Asian Society in London on 'Hong Kong's place in the British Empire'\n\n23\n\nPart B. Extract from letter dated 22nd January, 1946, from Professor W. J. Hinton to Mr. C. W. M. Cox referring to the lectures quoted above.\n\nHKUAC22. Further note dated 25th January by Sir George Moss in support of his view that informal or diplomatic approaches should be made to discover the extent of the support of the University which might be expected outside Hong Kong.\n\nHKUAC23. Extract from the Report of the 1937 Committee (which met in Hong Kong under the Chairmanship of Mr. N. L. Smith to investigate the financial position and advise on the future of the University) in connection with the possibilities of local specialization.\n\n29\n\nHKUAC24. Brief note by Mr. Sloss on the Libraries of the University.\n\nHKUAC25. Summary of recommendations contained in papers already circulated for the extensions and development of the University in academic matters.\n\nHKUAC26. Extract from a Report dated December, 1945, made by Dr. A. G. H. Smart late Chief Adviser to the Secretary of State for the Colonies on his visit to the Far Eastern Colonies.\n\nHKUAC27. Extracts from the 1937 Committee's Report on Hong Kong University in regard to the matter of salary scales.\n\nHKUAC28. Note on salary scales by Mr. Sloss.\n\nHKUAC29. Note of the present and proposed Staff of the University.\n\nHKUAC30. Dr. Gordon King's suggestions for the reconstruction of the Medical Library of the University.\n\nHKUAC31. Extract from a letter dated 24th February, 1946, from Professor Roxby of the British Council in China to Miss Ruston (See also HKUAC5).\n\nHKUAC33. Plan of the proposed degree in Social Sciences.\n\nHKUAC34. Note by Mr. D. J. Sloss on the administrative machinery of the University of Hong Kong as established under an Ordinance passed in 1911 and last revised in 1937.\n\nHKUAC35. Note on the proceedings of the first five meetings of the Committee.\n\nHKUAC36. Extract from a letter dated 30th March, 1946, from Dr. George Yeh, previously Professor of English at the National Pekin University and now Head of the Chinese Ministry of Information in London.\n\nHKUAC37. Suggestions by Professor Hinton for alterations in the Constitution of the University of Hong Kong.\n\nHKUAC38. Resolution passed by the Shanghai Branch of the Hong Kong University Alumni Association.\n\nHKUAC39. Extract from a letter from Dr. Gordon King to Miss Ruston dated 23rd March, 1946.\n\nHKUAC40. Extract from a letter dated 24th April, 1946, addressed to the Colonial Office by the Chairman of the University of Hong Kong Medical Degrees Emergency Committee. (Mr. T. M. Hazlerigg.)\n\nHKUAC41. Comments on HKUAC34 by Professor G. M. Forster.\n\nHKUAC42. Memorandum by Professor F. Redmond of the Hong Kong University, on the future of the Faculty of Engineering.\n\nHKUAC43. Note on Basic and Overseas Pay and Family Allowances.\n\n# APPENDIX B.\n\nThe following persons kindly attended meetings of the Committee and gave evidence.\n\nSir Mark Young, G.C.M.G. Governor of Hong Kong.\n\nBrigadier D. M. MacDougall, C.M.G. Administration of Hong Kong. Chief Civil Affairs Officer during the Military\n\nProfessor T. Redmond. Professor of Engineering of Hong Kong University.\n\nMr. C. P. Fitzgerald. Of the British Council. (Regional Officer for China.)\n\n(52226) Wt. 23066-4903 300 8/46 D.L. G. 373\n\n1237", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-610-2 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University 9-1-1948 - 18-1-1949.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 590345, "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": "CO129-610-2 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University 9-1-1948 - 18-1-1949", "page_number": 147, "title": "CO129-610-2 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University 9-1-1948 - 18-1-1949", "content_text": "HKUAC 1.\n\n28\n\n# APPENDIX A.\n\nHONG KONG UNIVERSITY Advisory Committee\n\nLIST OF COMMITTEE PAPERS ISSUED UP TO 1ST JUNE, 1946.\n\n122\n\nCopy of letter dated 9th November, 1939, from the Secretary of State for the Colonies to the Governor of Hong Kong. HKUAC 2. Report by the 1943 Advisory Committee on Hong Kong University and the Higher Educational Institutes in Malaya and Hong Kong. The Future of the Hong Kong University--Memorandum submitted by the Colonial Office to the Far Eastern Committee of the War Cabinet. Observations regarding the possible reconstitution of the University of Hong Kong by Dr. Gordon King, F.R.C.S., F.R.C.O.G. Former Dean of the Medical Faculty of the University.\n\nHKUAC 3.\n\nHKUAC 4.\n\nHKUAC 5.\n\nHKUAC 6.\n\nHKUAC 7.\n\nHKUAC 8.\n\nHKUAC 9.\n\nHKUAC 10. HKUAC 11.\n\nHKUAC 12.\n\nCopy of a letter dated 30th August, 1945, from Professor Percy Roxby of the British Council in China.\n\nCopy of a letter dated 22nd August, 1945, from Dr. Joseph Needham, Sc.D., Ph.D., F.R.S., Head of the British Scientific Mission in China. Extract from a letter dated 31st July, 1945, from Sir Andrew Caldecott, K.C.M.G. Former Chancellor of the University.\n\nCopy of a telegram dated 30th October from Dr. Gordon King now a member of the Civil Affairs Branch of the Military Administration in Hong Kong.\n\nA note by Professor K. H. Digby, Professor of Surgery and Senior Member of the staff of the University, which was read to members and staff in Stanley Internment Camp.\n\nExtract from a letter by Professor Digby.\n\nCopy of a resolution passed at a meeting on the 21st November, 1945, of graduates and past students of the University in Hong Kong.\n\nA later Memorandum by Dr. Gordon King dated 8th December, 1945, on the reconstitution of the University.\n\nHKUAC 13. Summary of Recommendations contained in the Report of a Committee appointed by the Chancellor in 1939 to consider the Development of the University.\n\nHKUAC 14. HKUAC 15.\n\nNote by Mr. D. J. Sloss on the University of Hong Kong.\n\nExtract from the Directive on Education issued to the Chief Civil Affairs Officer for the period of the Military Administration in Hong Kong. HKUAC 16. Note by Sir George Moss in expansion of his remarks at the first meeting of the Committee on January 18th.\n\nHKUAC 17. Telegram dated 28th January, addressed to Mr. D. J. Sloss by the Commander in Chief, Hong Kong, Admiral Sir Cecil Harcourt.\n\nHKUAC 18.\n\nHKUAC 19.\n\nPart A. Extracts from a lecture given by Professor W. J. Hinton on April 2nd, 1941, to the Royal Central Asian Society in London on \"Hong Kong's place in the British Empire\".\n\nPart B. Extract from letter dated 22nd January, 1946, from Professor W. J. Hinton to Mr. C. W. M. Cox referring to the lectures quoted above.\n\nFurther note dated 25th January by Sir George Moss in support of his view that informal or diplomatic approaches should be made to discover the extent of the support of the University which might be expected outside Hong Kong.\n\nHKUAC 20. Extract from the Report of the 1937 Committee (which met in Hong Kong under the Chairmanship of Mr. N. L. Smith to investigate the financial position and advise on the future of the University) in connection with the possibilities of local specialization.\n\nHKUAC 21. HKUAC 22.\n\nBrief note by Mr. Sloss on the Libraries of the University.\n\nSummary of recommendations contained in papers already circulated for the extensions and development of the University in academic matters. HKUAC 23. Extract from a Report dated December, 1945, made by Dr. A. G. H. Smart late Chief Adviser to the Secretary of State for the Colonies on his visit to the Far Eastern Colonies.\n\n7773\n\n29\n\nExtracts from the 1937 Committee's Report on Hong Kong University in regard to the matter of salary scales.\n\nHKUAC 24.\n\nHKUAC 25.\n\nNote on salary scales by Mr. Sloss.\n\nHKUAC 26.\n\nNote of the present and proposed Staff of the University.\n\nHKUAC 27.\n\nDr. Gordon King's suggestions for the reconstruction of the Medical Library of the University.\n\nHKUAC 28. Extract from a letter dated 24th February, 1946, from Professor Roxby of the British Council in China to Miss Ruston (See also HKUAC 5). Plan of the proposed degree in Social Sciences.\n\nHKUAC 29. HKUAC 30.\n\nHKUAC 31. HKUAC 33.\n\nNote by Mr. D. J. Sloss on the administrative machinery of the University of Hong Kong as established under an Ordinance passed in 1911 and last revised in 1937.\n\nNote on the proceedings of the first five meetings of the Committee. Extract from a letter dated 30th March, 1946, from Dr. George Yeh, previously Professor of English at the National Pekin University and now Head of the Chinese Ministry of Information in London. HKUAC 34. Suggestions by Professor Hinton for alterations in the Constitution of the University of Hong Kong. HKUAC 35.\n\nResolution passed by the Shanghai Branch of the Hong Kong University Alumni Association.\n\nHKUAC 36. Extract from a letter from Dr. Gordon King to Miss Ruston dated 23rd March, 1946. HKUAC 37.\n\nHKUAC 39.\n\nHKUAC 40.\n\nHKUAC 41.\n\nExtract from a letter dated 24th April, 1946, addressed to the Colonial Office by the Chairman of the University of Hong Kong Medical Degrees Emergency Committee. (Mr. T. M. Hazlerigg.) Comments on HKUAC 34 by Professor G. M. Forster.\n\nMemorandum by Professor F. Redmond of the Hong Kong University, on the future of the Faculty of Engineering.\n\nNote on Basic and Overseas Pay and Family Allowances.\n\n# APPENDIX B.\n\nThe following persons kindly attended meetings of the Committee and gave evidence. Sir Mark Young, G.C.M.G. Governor of Hong Kong.\n\nBrigadier D. M. MacDougall, C.M.G. Chief Civil Affairs Officer during the Military Administration of Hong Kong.\n\nProfessor T. Redmond. Professor of Engineering of Hong Kong University.\n\nMr. C. P. Fitzgerald. Of the British Council. (Regional Officer for China.)\n\n(52226) Wt. 23066-4903 300 8/46 D.L. G. 373", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-610-2 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University 9-1-1948 - 18-1-1949.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 590574, "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": "CO129-610-3 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University 15-2-1949 - 7-2-1950", "page_number": 144, "title": "CO129-610-3 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University 15-2-1949 - 7-2-1950", "content_text": "28\n\n# APPENDIX A.\n\n## HONG KONG UNIVERSITY ADVISORY COMMITTEE\n\n### LIST OF COMMITTEE PAPERS ISSUED UP TO 1ST JUNE, 1946.\n\nHKUAC1. Copy of letter dated 9th November, 1939, from the Secretary of State for the Colonies to the Governor of Hong Kong.\n\nHKUAC2. Report by the 1943 Advisory Committee on Hong Kong University and the Higher Educational Institutes in Malaya and Hong Kong. The Future of the Hong Kong University-Memorandum submitted by the Colonial Office to the Far Eastern Committee of the War Cabinet. Observations regarding the possible reconstitution of the University of Hong Kong by Dr. Gordon King, F.R.C.S., F.R.C.O.G. Former Dean of the Medical Faculty of the University.\n\nHKUAC3. Copy of a letter dated 30th August, 1945, from Professor Percy Roxby of the British Council in China.\n\nHKUAC4. Copy of a letter dated 22nd August, 1945, from Dr. Joseph Needham, Sc.D., Ph.D., F.R.S., Head of the British Scientific Mission in China.\n\nHKUAC5. Extract from a letter dated 31st July, 1945, from Sir Andrew Caldecott, K.C.M.G. Former Chancellor of the University.\n\nHKUAC6. Copy of a telegram dated 30th October from Dr. Gordon King now a member of the Civil Affairs Branch of the Military Administration in Hong Kong.\n\nHKUAC7. A note by Professor K. H. Digby, Professor of Surgery and Senior Member of the staff of the University, which was read to members and staff in Stanley Internment Camp.\n\nHKUAC8. Extract from a letter by Professor Digby.\n\nHKUAC9. Copy of a resolution passed at a meeting on the 21st November, 1945, of graduates and past students of the University in Hong Kong.\n\nHKUAC10. A later Memorandum by Dr. Gordon King dated 8th December, 1945, on the reconstitution of the University.\n\nHKUAC11. Summary of Recommendations contained in the Report of a Committee appointed by the Chancellor in 1939 to consider the Development of the University.\n\nHKUAC12. Note by Mr. D. J. Sloss on the University of Hong Kong.\n\nHKUAC13. Extract from the Directive on Education issued to the Chief Civil Affairs Officer for the period of the Military Administration in Hong Kong.\n\nHKUAC14. Note by Sir George Moss in expansion of his remarks at the first meeting of the Committee on January 18th.\n\nHKUAC15. Telegram dated 28th January, addressed to Mr. D. J. Sloss by the Commander in Chief, Hong Kong, Admiral Sir Cecil Harcourt.\n\nHKUAC16.\n\nHKUAC17. Extracts from a lecture given by Professor W. J. Hinton on April 2nd, 1941, to the Royal Central Asian Society in London on Hong Kong's place in the British Empire.\n\nHKUAC18. Part B. Extract from letter dated 22nd January, 1946, from Professor W. J. Hinton to Mr. C. W. M. Cox referring to the lectures quoted above.\n\nHKUAC19. Further note dated 25th January by Sir George Moss in support of his view that informal or diplomatic approaches should be made to discover the extent of the support of the University which might be expected outside Hong Kong.\n\nHKUAC20. Extract from the Report of the 1937 Committee (which met in Hong Kong under the Chairmanship of Mr. N. L. Smith to investigate the financial position and advise on the future of the University) in connection with the possibilities of local specialization.\n\nHKUAC21. Brief note by Mr. Sloss on the Libraries of the University.\n\nHKUAC22. Summary of recommendations contained in papers already circulated for the extensions and development of the University in academic matters. Extract from a Report dated December, 1945, made by Dr. A. G. H. Smart late Chief Adviser to the Secretary of State for the Colonies on his visit to the Far Eastern Colonies.\n\nHKUAC23.\n\n29\n\nHKUAC24. Extracts from the 1937 Committee's Report on Hong Kong University in regard to the matter of salary scales. Note on salary scales by Mr. Sloss.\n\nHKUAC25. Note of the present and proposed Staff of the University.\n\nHKUAC26. Dr. Gordon King's suggestions for the reconstruction of the Medical Library of the University.\n\nHKUAC27. Extract from a letter dated 24th February, 1946, from Professor Roxby of the British Council in China to Miss Ruston (See also HKUAC5).\n\nHKUAC28. Plan of the proposed degree in Social Sciences.\n\nHKUAC29. Note by Mr. D. J. Sloss on the administrative machinery of the University of Hong Kong as established under an Ordinance passed in 1911 and last revised in 1937.\n\nHKUAC30. Note on the proceedings of the first five meetings of the Committee.\n\nHKUAC31. Extract from a letter dated 30th March, 1946, from Dr. George Yeh, previously Professor of English at the National Pekin University and now Head of the Chinese Ministry of Information in London.\n\nHKUAC32.\n\nHKUAC33. Suggestions by Professor Hinton for alterations in the Constitution of the University of Hong Kong.\n\nHKUAC34. Resolution passed by the Shanghai Branch of the Hong Kong University Alumni Association.\n\nHKUAC35. Extract from a letter from Dr. Gordon King to Miss Ruston dated 23rd March, 1946.\n\nHKUAC36. Extract from a letter dated 24th April, 1946, addressed to the Colonial Office by the Chairman of the University of Hong Kong Medical Degrees Emergency Committee. (Mr. T. M. Hazlerigg.)\n\nHKUAC37. Comments on HKUAC34 by Professor G. M. Forster.\n\nHKUAC38.\n\nHKUAC39. Memorandum by Professor F. Redmond of the Hong Kong University, on the future of the Faculty of Engineering.\n\nHKUAC40. Note on Basic and Overseas Pay and Family Allowances.\n\n# APPENDIX B.\n\nThe following persons kindly attended meetings of the Committee and gave evidence.\n\nSir Mark Young, G.C.M.G. Governor of Hong Kong.\n\nBrigadier D. M. MacDougall, C.M.G. Chief Civil Affairs Officer during the Military Administration of Hong Kong.\n\nProfessor of Engineering of Hong Kong University.\n\nProfessor T. Redmond.\n\nMr. C. P. Fitzgerald. Of the British Council. (Regional Officer for China.)\n\n(52226) Wt. 23066-4903 300 3/46 D.L. G. 373", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-610-3 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University 15-2-1949 - 7-2-1950.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 593789, "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": "CO129-616-1 Correspondence on the production of a Cantonese-English dictionary; Report on a tour of South East... 1-1-1946 - 31-12-1947", "page_number": 77, "title": "CO129-616-1 Correspondence on the production of a Cantonese-English dictionary; Report on a tour of South East... 1-1-1946 - 31-12-1947", "content_text": "## 2. \n\n### (a) REPRESENTATIVES OF SERVICES\n\n| Name | Position | Location |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Bartholomew, Air Commodore | Air Attaché | Nanking |\n| Dalrymple-Smith, Captain | Naval Attaché | Nanking |\n| Field, Brigadier | Military Attaché | Nanking |\n| Hopkinson, Commander | RN | Shanghai |\n| Parrott, Captain | Resident Naval Officer | Shanghai |\n| Stewart, W/Car | Assistant Air Attaché | Shanghai |\n\n### (b) CIVILIANS\n\n| Name | Position/Organization | Location |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Aldington, G. | Counsellor, Consulate-General | Shanghai |\n| Boyce, J.R. | Consul-General | Peiping |\n| Cassels, W. | Hongkong & Shanghai Bank | Shanghai |\n| Ch'en | Professor, President of the National University | Nanking |\n| Chu | Vice-Minister of Education | Nanking |\n| Copland, Professor | Australian Minister | Nanking |\n| Dean | Butterfield & Swire | Shanghai |\n| Finlay-Andrews | Butterfield & Swire | Shanghai |\n| Fitzgerald, C.P. | British Council | Nanking |\n| Freeman, A. | US Consul | Peiping |\n| Fu Shih-nien, Professor | Academia Sinica | Nanking |\n| Gray, S. | Hongkong & Shanghai Bank | Shanghai |\n| Han Li-wu, Dr. | Vice-Minister of Education | Nanking |\n| Headley, G. | British Council | Nanking |\n| Hu Shih, Professor | Chancellor, Pei-Ta University | Peiping |\n| Keswick, J. | Chairman, Chamber of Commerce | Shanghai |\n| Lamb, L.H., O.B.E. | Counsellor, Chinese Secretariat, British Embassy | Nanking |\n| Roxby, Professor P.M. | British Council | Nanking |\n| Rigney, Rev. H.W. | Rector, Catholic University | Peiping |\n| Reifler, Dr. | Department of Chinese, Aurora University | Shanghai |\n| Stevenson, Sir Ralph | British Ambassador | Nanking |\n| Wu, Dr. K.C. | Mayor | Shanghai |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-616-1 Correspondence on the production of a Cantonese-English dictionary; Report on a tour of South East... 1-1-1946 - 31-12-1947.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 594669, "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": "CO129-618-4 University of Hong Kong- conversion of Tung Wah Eastern Hospital into a teaching hospital 17-2-1949 - 27-9-1949", "page_number": 24, "title": "CO129-618-4 University of Hong Kong- conversion of Tung Wah Eastern Hospital into a teaching hospital 17-2-1949 - 27-9-1949", "content_text": "# APPENDIX A.\n\n## HONG KONG UNIVERSITY ADVISORY COMMITTEE\n\n## LIST OF COMMITTEE PAPERS ISSUED UP TO 1ST JUNE, 1946.\n\nHKUAC 1. Copy of letter dated 9th November, 1939, from the Secretary of State for the Colonies to the Governor of Hong Kong.\n\nHKUAC 2. Report by the 1943 Advisory Committee on Hong Kong University and the Higher Educational Institutes in Malaya and Hong Kong.\n\nHKUAC 3. The Future of the Hong Kong University - Memorandum submitted by the Colonial Office to the Far Eastern Committee of the War Cabinet.\n\nHKUAC 4. Observations regarding the possible reconstitution of the University of Hong Kong by Dr. Gordon King, F.R.C.S., F.R.C.O.G. Former Dean of the Medical Faculty of the University.\n\nHKUAC 5. Copy of a letter dated 30th August, 1945, from Professor Percy Roxby of the British Council in China.\n\nHKUAC 6. Copy of a letter dated 22nd August, 1945, from Dr. Joseph Needham, Sc.D., Ph.D., F.R.S., Head of the British Scientific Mission in China.\n\nHKUAC 7. Extract from a letter dated 31st July, 1945, from Sir Andrew Caldecott, K.C.M.G., Former Chancellor of the University.\n\nHKUAC 8. Copy of a telegram dated 30th October from Dr. Gordon King now a member of the Civil Affairs Branch of the Military Administration in Hong Kong.\n\nHKUAC 9. A note by Professor K. H. Digby, Professor of Surgery and Senior Member of the staff of the University, which was read to members and staff in Stanley Internment Camp.\n\nHKUAC 10. Extract from a letter by Professor Digby.\n\nHKUAC 11. Copy of a resolution passed at a meeting on the 21st November, 1945, of graduates and past students of the University in Hong Kong.\n\nHKUAC 12. A later Memorandum by Dr. Gordon King dated 8th December, 1945, on the reconstitution of the University.\n\nHKUAC 13. Summary of Recommendations contained in the Report of a Committee appointed by the Chancellor in 1939 to consider the Development of the University.\n\nHKUAC 14. Note by Mr. D. J. Sloss on the University of Hong Kong.\n\nHKUAC 15. Extract from the Directive on Education issued to the Chief Civil Affairs Officer for the period of the Military Administration in Hong Kong.\n\nHKUAC 16. Note by Sir George Moss in expansion of his remarks at the first meeting of the Committee on January 18th.\n\nHKUAC 17. Telegram dated 28th January, addressed to Mr. D. J. Sloss by the Commander in Chief, Hong Kong, Admiral Sir Cecil Harcourt.\n\nHKUAC 18. \n| Part A | Extracts from a lecture given by Professor W. J. Hinton on April 2nd, 1941, to the Royal Central Asian Society in London on Hong Kong's place in the British Empire. |\n| Part B | Extract from letter dated 22nd January, 1946, from Professor W. J. Hinton to Mr. C. W. M. Cok referring to the lectures quoted above. |\n\nHKUAC 19. Further note dated 25th January by Sir George Moss in support of his view that informal or diplomatic approaches should be made to discover the extent of the support of the University which might be expected outside Hong Kong.\n\nHKUAC 20. Extract from the Report of the 1937 Committee (which met in Hong Kong under the Chairmanship of Mr. N. L. Smith to investigate the financial position and advise on the future of the University) in connection with the possibilities of local specialization.\n\nHKUAC 21. Brief note by Mr. Sloss on the Libraries of the University.\n\nHKUAC 22. Summary of recommendations contained in papers already circulated for the extensions and development of the University in academic matters.\n\nHKUAC 23. Extract from a Report dated December, 1945, made by Dr. A. G. H. Smart late Chief Adviser to the Secretary of State for the Colonies on his visit to the Far Eastern Colonies.\n\nHKUAC 24. Extracts from the 1937 Committee's Report on Hong Kong University in regard to the matter of salary scales.\n\nHKUAC 25. Note on salary scales by Mr. Sloss.\n\nHKUAC 26. Note of the present and proposed Staff of the University.\n\nHKUAC 27. ... \n\nHKUAC 28. Dr. Gordon King's suggestions for the reconstruction of the Medical Library of the University.\n\nHKUAC 29. Extract from a letter dated 24th February, 1946, from Professor Roxby of the British Council in China to Miss Ruston (See also HKUAC 5).\n\nHKUAC 30. Plan of the proposed degree in Social Sciences.\n\nHKUAC 31. Note by Mr. D. J. Sloss on the administrative machinery of the University of Hong Kong as established under an Ordinance passed in 1911 and last revised in 1937.\n\nHKUAC 33. Note on the proceedings of the first five meetings of the Committee.\n\nHKUAC 34. Suggestions by Professor Hinton for alterations in the Constitution of the University of Hong Kong.\n\nHKUAC 35. Resolution passed by the Shanghai Branch of the Hong Kong University Alumni Association.\n\nHKUAC 36. Extract from a letter from Dr. Gordon King to Miss Ruston dated 23rd March, 1946.\n\nHKUAC 37. Extract from a letter dated 24th April, 1946, addressed to the Colonial Office by the Chairman of the University of Hong Kong Medical Degrees Emergency Committee. (Mr. T. M. Hazlerigg.)\n\nHKUAC 39. Comments on HKUAC 34 by Professor G. M. Forster.\n\nHKUAC 40. Memorandum by Professor F. Redmond of the Hong Kong University, on the future of the Faculty of Engineering.\n\nHKUAC 41. Note on Basic and Overseas Pay and Family Allowances.\n\n# APPENDIX B.\n\nThe following persons kindly attended meetings of the Committee and gave evidence.\n\n* Sir Mark Young, G.C.M.G. Governor of Hong Kong.\n* Brigadier D. M. MacDougall, C.M.G. Administration of Hong Kong. Chief Civil Affairs Officer during the Military Administration.\n* Professor T. Redmond. Professor of Engineering of Hong Kong University.\n* Mr. C. P. Fitzgerald. Of the British Council. (Regional Officer for China.)", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-618-4 University of Hong Kong- conversion of Tung Wah Eastern Hospital into a teaching hospital 17-2-1949 - 27-9-1949.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 594835, "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": "CO129-618-7 Port Adminstation Inquiry Committee- report and minutes of meetings 1-1-1945 - 31-12-1946", "page_number": 105, "title": "CO129-618-7 Port Adminstation Inquiry Committee- report and minutes of meetings 1-1-1945 - 31-12-1946", "content_text": "# APPENDIX I (D.3)\n\n**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\nMinutes of the Third Meeting of the Hong Kong Fort Consultative Committee held at the Colonial Office at 2:30 p.m. on 17th April 1946.\n\n## Present:\n\n| Name | Designation |\n| --- | --- |\n| Mr. N. L. Smith | O.M.G., Chairman |\n| Mr. R. A. C. North | |\n| Mr. S. H. Dodwell | |\n| Mr. A. Lang | |\n| Sir John Masson | |\n| Mr. C. Wurtzburg | M.0. |\n\nMr. C. J. Colman, Chairman-designate of the Hong Kong Port Trust, also attended this Meeting.\n\nMr. W. J. Keswick and Mr. G. W. Swire sent messages regretting that they were unable to attend the Meeting.\n\n## 1. Minutes\n\nWith the consent of the Meeting, the minutes of the Second Meeting held on the 13th December, 1945, which had been circulated to the members, were taken as read.\n\n## 2. Harbour Master\n\nThe Chairman said that Commander Jolly, the present holder of the post of Harbour Master, was, of course, the officer chiefly affected by the proposal that a Port Trust be set up. Commander Jolly had been specially selected for the post and was very highly qualified. It was understood that the Harbour Master would in any case no longer carry on the duties of Director of Air Services, which was to become a separate appointment.\n\nCommander Jolly had seen the Memorandum on the re-allocation of the Harbour Master's functions, had commented on it, had discussed the matter with Mr. Colman, and had agreed that the \"Board of Trade\" matters should not come under the control of the Port Trust. The Chairman said that he thought that there were three possible courses of action with regard to the future employment of Commander Jolly.\n\n(a) That he be appointed officer in charge of a Marine Department if one were set up to control the \"Board of Trade\" functions not taken over by the Port Trust.\n\n(b) That a new appointment be made by the Hong Kong Government in charge of those residual functions and that Commander Jolly be appointed a Principal Officer of the Port Trust.\n\n(c) That Commander Jolly should somehow combine the posts of Head of the Government Marine Department and of Port Officer in the Port Trust.\n\nIn the course of the general discussion, it was said that it was not unusual, in ports where a Trust was in being, for the Principal Surveyor of Ships and the Shipping Master to control separate departments, but that in some circumstances it might be desirable to have these departments constituted as separate sub-sections in a single department of the Government distinctly outside the sphere of activities of the Port Trust.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-618-7 Port Adminstation Inquiry Committee- report and minutes of meetings 1-1-1945 - 31-12-1946.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 598829, "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": "CO129-626-5 Crown Lands 1-1-1950 - 31-8-1951", "page_number": 3, "title": "CO129-626-5 Crown Lands 1-1-1950 - 31-8-1951", "content_text": "10\n\n18\n\n54349/50\n\nYour Ref: 2/3171/47\n\nHONG KONG\n\nNO 84\n\nCOLONIAL OFFICE,\n\nTHE CHURCH HOUSE,\n\nGREAT SMITH STREET,\n\nLONDON, S.W.1.\n\n29 March, 1950\n\nSeparate\n\nSir,\n\nWith reference to my telegram No. 412 of the 23rd March, I have the honour to transmit to you one sealed copy and six prints of Letters Patent, dated the 16th March, passed under the Great Seal of the Realm, amending the Letters Patent of the 14th February, 1917, constituting the Office of Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hong Kong and providing for the Government thereof.\n\n2. I have to request that you will be good enough to acknowledge the receipt of this despatch and its enclosure, and report to me the date on which the Letters Patent are brought into operation.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour most obedient,\n\nhumble servant,\n\n(Signed) J. GRIFFITHS.\n\nGOVERNOR,\n\nSIR ALEXANDER GRANTHAM, K.C.M.G.,\n\netc.,\n\netc.,\n\netc.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-626-5 Crown Lands 1-1-1950 - 31-8-1951.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 598846, "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": "CO129-626-5 Crown Lands 1-1-1950 - 31-8-1951", "page_number": 20, "title": "CO129-626-5 Crown Lands 1-1-1950 - 31-8-1951", "content_text": "Wt. 23364/655. 8/47. 50,000. S. & S. Ltd. Wt. 35802/701. 12/47. 50,000. S. & S. Ltd.\n\nC. O.\n\nMr.\n\nMr.\n\nMr.\n\nMr.\n\nA.W.A. Smith.\n\n20/3\n\nHall. 23/3 ffs\n\nDRAFT.\n\nHONG KONG.\n\n8.4.\n\nNo.\n\nGOVERNOR.\n\nLetters Patent. (H.243B will supply.) (2 drafts.)\n\nFURTHER ACTION.\n\nPermt. U.S. of S. Parly. U.S. S.\n\nYour Reference.. Secretary of State. 2/3171/47. (*Attached draft.)\n\nAsk\n\n(!!)\n\nsir,\n\n54349/50. C. D. R. 24 MAR 8. 27-\n\n293 10 19 March, 1950.\n\nWith reference to my telegram No. 412 of the 23 March I have etc. to transmit to you one sealed copy and six prints of Letters Patent, dated the 16th March, e, passed under the Great Seal of the Realm amending the Letters Patent of the 14th February, 1917, constituting the Copy for H.243B.\n\nOffice of Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hong Kong, and providing for the Government thereof.\n\n2. I/\n\nPage 20\n\nPage 21", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-626-5 Crown Lands 1-1-1950 - 31-8-1951.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 598849, "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": "CO129-626-5 Crown Lands 1-1-1950 - 31-8-1951", "page_number": 23, "title": "CO129-626-5 Crown Lands 1-1-1950 - 31-8-1951", "content_text": "DRAFT & RECORD COPY.\n\nMr. A.W.A. Smith.\n\nThe Church House,\n\nGt. Smith Street,\n\nS.W.1.\n\n10\n\n54349/50.\n\nMarch, 1950.\n\nG.-in-C. (One sealed & one plain copy.)\n\nSir,\n\nI transmit to you herewith copies of an Order of the King in Council approving the Draft of Letters Patent amending the Letters Patent of the 14th February, 1917, constituting the Office of Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hong Kong and its Dependencies and providing for the Government thereof, and I have to signify to you His Majesty's pleasure that you prepare for His Majesty's signature a warrant to the Lord High Chancellor authorising him to pass Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the Realm in the terms of the said Draft.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour most obedient, humble servant\n\n(signed) James Griffiths\n\nTHE CLERK OF THE\nPRIVY COUNCIL", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-626-5 Crown Lands 1-1-1950 - 31-8-1951.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 598864, "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": "CO129-626-5 Crown Lands 1-1-1950 - 31-8-1951", "page_number": 38, "title": "CO129-626-5 Crown Lands 1-1-1950 - 31-8-1951", "content_text": "54349/50\n\nMy Lord,\n\nTHE CHURCH HOUSE,\n\nGREAT SMITH STREET,\n\nWESTMINSTER, S.W.1.\n\n22 February, 1950\n\n37\n\nI have the honour to transmit to Your Lordship\n\nthe Draft of Letters Patent to be passed under the Great Seal\n\nof the Realm, amending the Letters Patent of the 14th\n\nFebruary, 1917, constituting the office of Governor and\n\nCommander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hong Kong and its\n\nDependencies, and providing for the Government thereof.\n\n2. I have to request that Your Lordship will submit this\n\nDraft for the approval of the King in Council, and that two\n\nsealed copies and six plain copies of the Order in Council\n\napproving the Letters Patent may be supplied for the use of\n\nthe Colonial Office.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nMy Lord,\n\nYour Lordship's most obedient, humble servant,\n\n(a) A. J. Paskin\n\nJ.P.\n\n(For the Secretary of State).\n\nTHE LORD PRESIDENT\n\nOF THE COUNCIL.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-626-5 Crown Lands 1-1-1950 - 31-8-1951.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 598866, "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": "CO129-626-5 Crown Lands 1-1-1950 - 31-8-1951", "page_number": 40, "title": "CO129-626-5 Crown Lands 1-1-1950 - 31-8-1951", "content_text": "Wt. 23364/655. 8/47. 50,000. S. & S. Ltd. Wt. 35802/701. 12/47. 50,000. S. & S. Ltd.\n\nA.W.A. Smith.\n\nHall. 17/2\n\nC. O.\n\nMr.\n\nMr..\n\nMr.\n\nSidebotham\n\nMr.\n\nC. D\n\nn\n\n7.\n\n20 FEB\n\n17/20\n\nB.\n\nPermt. U.S. of S.\n\n54349/50.\n\n39\n\nParly. U.S. S. (C.D. TYPE ON DESPATCH PAPER DOUBLE SPACING.) Secretary of State.\n\nMr...\n\nDRAFT.\n\nTHE LORD PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL.\n\n(R.243B WILL DESPATCH.)\n\nYour Reference...\n\nFOR SIGNATURE BY AN ASST. UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE.\n\n22-February, 1950.\n\nDraft Letters Patent. (Prints available.)\n\nNote for the S. of S. (Attached draft to be copied 4 copies.)\n\n(3 drafts.)\n\nFURTHER ACTION.\n\nMy Lord,\n\nI have the honour to transmit to Your Lordship the Draft of Letters Patent to be passed under the Great Seal of the Realm, amending the Letters Patent of the 14th February, 1917, constituting the Office of Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hong Kong and its Dependencies, and providing for the Government thereof.\n\n2. 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