[ { "id": 264794, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 176, "title": "CO129-111 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1866 [1-2]", "content_text": "# THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 3RD SEPTEMBER, 1864.\n\nment to be accumulative or not, at the discretion of the adjudicating tribunal), for any British subject, within any part of China, to assist either the existing Chinese Government, or any or either of the different factions then engaged, or who might be thereafter engaged, in opposition to the Government, by personal enlistment in the service of either of the said several parties, or by procuring other persons to enlist in such service, or by furnishing, selling, or procuring warlike stores of any description, or by fitting out vessels, or by knowingly and purposely doing any other act to assist either party, by which neutrality might be violated; and that the tribunal for adjudicating on offences, of the description intended to be thereby dealt with, should consist of a Consular Officer in charge of a Consulate, and two Assessors of Her Majesty, resident within the Consulate;\n\nAnd whereas it is expedient that the said Ordinance of the seventeenth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, should be explained and amended, and that further provisions should be made to prevent the participation of British subjects within the dominions of the Emperor of China, in acts of war or rebellion against the authority of the said Emperor; Now, therefore, Her Majesty, by virtue of all powers enabling Her in this behalf, is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:-\n\n1. Nothing in the said Ordinance made and passed on the seventeenth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, shall extend or apply, or be deemed to have extended, or to have been applicable, to any British subject, who, at any time heretofore may have assisted, or may hereafter assist, the Government of the Emperor of China, by the means in the same Ordinance mentioned, or otherwise howsoever, by or under the leave or licence of Her Majesty, or by or under the authority of any Order of Her Majesty in Council, at any time heretofore made, or to be hereafter made.\n\n## No. 139.\n\n2. If any subject of Her Majesty, within any part of the dominions of the Emperor of China, shall, at any time after the publication of this present Order, in Her Majesty's Colony of Hong Kong, levy war, or take part in any operations of war, against the Emperor of China, or aid or abet any persons who are or who may be engaged in carrying on war or rebellion or insurrection against the said Emperor, in carrying on such war or rebellion, or insurrection, such person shall be liable to the several penalties mentioned in the said Ordinance of the seventeenth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, and shall further be liable to be sent out of the dominions of the Emperor of China; and in case of his afterwards returning within the same, shall be liable to be proceeded against and punished, and to be again sent out of the said dominions, and so from time to time, in the same manner, in all respects, as is provided by the said Orders in Council of the thirteenth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, and the twelfth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, respectively, concerning the persons liable to be sent out of the said dominions under those respective Orders.\n\n3. Every person offending against this present Order may be proceeded against in the same manner, in all respects, as is provided by the said Order of the thirteenth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, concerning persons offending against any rules or regulations duly made, under and by virtue thereof, by Her Majesty's Superintendent of British Trade in China for the time being.\n\nAnd the Right Honourable Earl Russell, and the Right Honourable Edward Cardwell, two of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, and the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, are to give the necessary directions herein, as to them may respectively appertain.\n\n## GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.\n\n**ARTHUR HELPS**\n\nThe following Circular from the Right Honorable the Secretary of State for the Colonies, covering the new Instructions issued by the Royal National Life Boat Institution for the Restoration of Persons apparently Drowned, is published for general information.\n\nBy Order,\nColonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 29th August, 1864.\n\n**CIRCULAR.**\n\nW. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.\n\nDOWNING STREET, 20th June, 1864.\nSIR,-I transmit to you, herewith, a copy of a letter from the Secretary to the Royal National Life Boat Institution, with copies of new Instructions which have been issued by that Institution, for the Restoration of Persons Apparently Drowned.\n\nI have been informed by the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, that the Medical Director-General of the Navy has given it as his opinion that the Instructions in question are valuable, and that they have been circulated in the Royal Navy; I have therefore no hesitation in giving to these Instructions the circulation desired by the Committee of the Institution.-I have the honour to be, Sir, your most obedient humble Servant,\n\n**EDWARD CARDWELL.**\n\nGovernor SIR H. ROBINSON,\n&c. &c. &c.\n\n(Copy.)\n\nMr. Lewis to the Secretary of State for the Colonies.\n\nROYAL NATIONAL LIFE BOAT INSTITUTION, 14, JOHN-STREET, ADLEPHI, LONDON, 26th May, 1864.\n\nSIR, I am directed to transmit to you a few copies of the new Instructions issued by the Royal National Life Boat Institution for the Restoration of the Apparently Drowned.\n\nThese Instructions are the result of extensive inquiries which have recently been made by the Institution amongst medical men, medical bodies, and coroners throughout the United Kingdom.\n\nThe Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty have ordered 1,000 copies to be circulated throughout Her Majesty's Fleet, and the Commodore Controller-General of Coast Guard has also requested 2,000 copies to be supplied for distribution throughout the Coast Guard Service.\n\nThe Committee are desirous that these directions should be known throughout the British Colonies, and they would therefore feel much obliged if you would do them the honour to direct that the accompanying letters, containing packets of the same, be transmitted to the respective Governors of the Colonies.--I have, &c.,\n\n(Signed)\n\n**RICHARD LEWIS,**\nSecretary.\n\n# TREATMENT OF THE APPARENTLY DROWNED.\n\n## ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION.\n\nINCORPORATED BY ROYAL CHARTER. -SUPPORTED BY VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTIONS,\n\n**PATRONESS.-Her Most Gracious Majesty the QUEEN.**\n\n## DIRECTIONS FOR RESTORING THE APPARENTLY DROWNED.\n\nThe leading principles of the following Directions for the Restoration of the apparently Dead from Drowning are founded on those of the late Dr. Marshall Hall, combined with those of Dr. H. R. Silvester, and are the result of extensive inquiries which were made by the Institution in 1863-4 amongst Medical Men, Medical Bodies, and Coroners throughout the United Kingdom. These Directions have been extensively circulated by the Institution throughout the United Kingdom and in the Colonies. They are also in use in Her Majesty's Fleet, and in the Coast-guard Service.\n\n### I.\n\nON THE SPOT,\n\nSend immediately for medical assistance, blankets, and dry clothing, but proceed to treat the Patient instantly in the open air, with the face downwards, whether on shore or afloat; exposing the face, neck, and chest to the wind, except in severe weather, and removing all tight clothing from the neck and chest, especially the braces.\n\nThe points to be aimed at are-first and immediately, the Restoration of Breathing; and secondly, after breathing is restored, the Promotion of Warmth and Circulation.\n\nThe efforts to restore Breathing must be commenced immediately and energetically, and persevered in for one or two hours, or until a medical man has pronounced that life is extinct. Efforts to promote Warmth and Circulation beyond removing the wet clothes and drying the skin must not be made until the first appearance of natural breathing. For if circulation of the blood be induced before breathing has recommenced, the restoration to life will be endangered.\n\n### II.-TO RESTORE BREATHING.\n\n#### TO CLEAR THE THROAT-\nPlace the Patient on the floor or ground with the face downwards, and one of the arms under the forehead, in which position all fluids will more readily escape by the mouth, and the tongue itself will fall forward, leaving the entrance into the windpipe free. Assist this operation by wiping and cleansing the mouth.\n\nIf satisfactory breathing commences, use the treatment described below to promote Warmth. If there be only slight breathing or no breathing or if the breathing fail, then-\n\n#### TO EXCITE BREATHING-\nTurn the Patient well and instantly on the side, supporting the head, and-\n\nExcite the nostrils with snuff, hartshorn, and smelling salts, or tickle the throat with a feather, &c., if they are at hand. Rub the chest and face warm, and dash cold water, or cold and hot water alternately, on them.\n\nIf there be no success, lose not a moment but instantly\n\n#### TO IMITATE BREATHING-\nReplace the Patient on the face, raising and supporting the chest well on a folded coat or other article of dress.\n\n| Action | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| Turn the body | very gently on the side and a little beyond, and then briskly on the face, back again; repeating these measures cautiously, efficiently, and perseveringly about fifteen times in the minute, or once every four or five seconds, occasionally varying the side. |\n| Pressure on the back | Make uniform but efficient pressure with brisk movement, on the back between and below the shoulder-blades or bones on each side, removing the pressure immediately before turning the body on the side. |\n\nBy placing the Patient on the chest, the weight of the body forces the air out; when turned on the side, this pressure is removed, and air enters the chest.\n\nThe first measure increases the Expiration, the second commences Inspiration.\n\n**The result is Respiration or Natural Breathing;—and, if not too late, Life.**\n\nWhilst the above operations are being proceeded with, dry the hands and feet; and as soon as dry clothing or blankets can be procured, strip the body and cover, or gradually reclothe it, but taking care not to interfere with the efforts to restore breathing.\n\n### III.\n\nShould these efforts not prove successful in the course of from two to five minutes, proceed to imitate breathing by Dr. Silvester's method, as follows:-\n\nPlace the Patient on the back on a flat surface, inclined a little upwards from the feet; raise and support the head and shoulders on a small firm cushion or folded article of dress placed under the shoulder-blades.\n\nDraw forward the Patient's tongue, and keep it projecting beyond the lips: an elastic band over the tongue and under the chin will answer this purpose, or a piece of string or tape may be tied round them, or by raising the lower jaw, the teeth may be made to retain the tongue in that position. Remove all tight clothing from about the neck and chest, especially the braces.\n\n#### TO IMITATE THE MOVEMENTS OF BREATHING-\nStanding at the Patient's head, grasp the arms just above the elbows, and draw the arms gently and steadily upwards above the head, and keep them stretched upwards for two seconds. (By this means air is drawn into the lungs.) Then turn down the Patient's arms, and press them gently and firmly for two seconds against the sides of the chest. (By this means air is pressed out of the lungs.)\n\nRepeat these measures alternately, deliberately, and perseveringly, about fifteen times in a minute, until a spontaneous effort to respire is perceived, immediately upon which cease to imitate the movements of breathing, and proceed to INDUCE CIRCULATION AND WARMTH.\n\n### IV. TREATMENT AFTER NATURAL BREATHING HAS BEEN RESTORED.\n\n#### TO PROMOTE WARMTH AND CIRCULATION.--\n\nCommence rubbing the limbs upwards, with firm grasping pressure and energy, using handkerchiefs, flannels, &c.: [by this measure the blood is propelled along the veins towards the heart.]\n\nThe friction must be continued under the blanket or over the dry clothing. Promote the warmth of the body by the application of hot flannels, bottles, or bladders of hot water, heated bricks, &c., to the pit of the stomach, the arm-pits, between the thighs, and to the soles of the feet.\n\nIf the Patient has been carried to a house after respiration has been restored, be careful to let the air play freely about the room.\n\nOn the restoration of life, a teaspoonful of warm water should be given; and then, if the power of swallowing have returned, small quantities of wine, warm brandy and water, or coffee, should be administered. The Patient should be kept in bed, and a disposition to sleep encouraged.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-111 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1866 [1-2].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 353829, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-262 - Governor Sir Robinson Acting Governor O-Brien - 1894 [1-4]", "page_number": 219, "title": "CO129-262 - Governor Sir Robinson Acting Governor O-Brien - 1894 [1-4]", "content_text": "C.O.\n\n2999\n\nRed 19/7/94\n\n217\n\n\"Imperieuse\" at Hongking\n\nSecret.\n\n15th January 1894\n\nSir,\n\nIn reply to your letter of the 9th Instant I have the honour to inform you that I have directed Commodore Boyes, as Senior Naval Officer on the recently reconstituted Defence Committee, to fill up the information required so far as it applies to Naval Defence.\n\nI would call attention to par: 1. of my letter of the 24th January 1893 on this subject.\n\nHis Excellency\n\nSir William Robinson, K.C.M.G.\n\nGovernor\n\nHongkong", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-262 - Governor Sir Robinson Acting Governor O-Brien - 1894 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 354731, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 465, "title": "CO129-263 - Acting Governor Barker Governor Sir Robinson - 1894 [5-8]", "content_text": "Case it\n\nArrangements were made for Chinese Doctors to examine and treat cases under the supervision of the Colonial Medical staff and a Naval Doctor (8299xxy). It was deemed advisable to give the Chinese Doctors a free hand at first - In any case it was difficult to persuade the Chinese to report cases of sickness, and their foolish and violent prejudice against Western Medical help was quite sufficient to induce them, as they certainly did for the first fortnight or three weeks, not only to secrete their sick but often to destroy their plague-stricken friends and relations after death.\n\nIt was under these circumstances that the necessity for a rigorous house visitation became most apparent to the Civil and Naval Authorities, and the Military, Major-General Barker and Commodore Boyes, at the suggestion of the Government, rendered every possible assistance in this direction. Naval and Military Doctors were furnished, and at least 300 men from the Shropshire Regiment, and officers and men from the R.E. and R.A. detachments, amongst others, were detailed for the duty of house visitation and for cleansing and disinfecting the houses in which cases of plague had occurred.\n\nAt this time, about the 21st May, the greatest dissatisfaction was shown by the Chinese Community with regard to the methods of visitation being employed. Complaints were heard that the privacy of women's apartments had been violated, that homes and children were being \"frightened out of their wits\" by the daily visits of the Military and Police, and then it began to be rumoured that the \"Foreigners\" had sinister and unspeakable designs on the women and children. I found, however, that these complaints were exaggerated and that the majority of the Chinese, after being made to understand what the object was which the Government had in view, did not object to the visitation but were insistent that their houses should be visited and disinfected and cleansed when necessary.\n\nPage 461", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-263 - Acting Governor Barker Governor Sir Robinson - 1894 [5-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 355441, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-264 - Governor Sir Robinson & Public Offices - 1894 [9-12]", "page_number": 426, "title": "CO129-264 - Governor Sir Robinson & Public Offices - 1894 [9-12]", "content_text": "Enclosure 2. 421\n\nMinute by Commodore Boyes, RN.\n\n655\n\nYour Excellency.\n\nI am of opinion that the \"Jai Ynew\" having hoisted colours when the \"Forfar\" fired a blank (they are described as otherwise) has no ground for complaint as a British ship, she being at the time of ... unknown nationality.\n\nThere is no law, international or other, that I know of, compelling a merchant ship to show her colours to a man-of-war of a foreign ...\n\nIt is however customary and sometimes advisable to do so. As regards our ships, Article 93 \"Queen's Regulations and Admiralty Instructions\" directs \"should a ship or vessel belonging to any of His Majesty's subjects, including Colonial ...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-264 - Governor Sir Robinson & Public Offices - 1894 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 355442, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-264 - Governor Sir Robinson & Public Offices - 1894 [9-12]", "page_number": 427, "title": "CO129-264 - Governor Sir Robinson & Public Offices - 1894 [9-12]", "content_text": "422\n\nColonial Merchant vessels refuse to show her national colours to one of Ster Majesty's ships, the name of the master or owners of the vessel are to be ascertained and one or more affidavits of the facts are to be taken on the best evidence before a Consul or other competent authority and transmitted to the Admiralty with a full report of the circumstances of the occurrence. It will be seen by the above that the showing of Colours by a British merchant ship to a British warship is to be regarded as obligatory. Foreign Governments may be presumed to have issued similar Instructions for the guidance of their officers. The firing of a blank by a warship has various significations dependent on circumstances. Amongst others, it calls attention to a signal, irregularity, or conviction.\n\nI do not consider that it is to be regarded as a demand to \"Heave to\", unless the ship has colours hoisted. The object of the signal was evidently to ascertain the nationality of the \"Jailfeen\". This enquiry is more usually made by a flag signal, as per the Commercial Code.\n\n(80) G. Boyes.\n\n27.10.94\n\nCommodore\n\nEnclosure 3.\n\nMinute by the Attorney General\n\nI quite concur in His Excellency's view as to the answer to be returned. It appears to me that all that can be said is that the French method was adopted as the less courteous of two methods.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-264 - Governor Sir Robinson & Public Offices - 1894 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 355472, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-264 - Governor Sir Robinson & Public Offices - 1894 [9-12]", "page_number": 457, "title": "CO129-264 - Governor Sir Robinson & Public Offices - 1894 [9-12]", "content_text": "Enclosure 2\n\nThe Daily Press.\n\nHONGKONG, December 6th, 1894.\n\nTHE GARRISON AND THE PLAGUE.\n\nTHE GOVERNOR PUBLICLY THANKS THE PLAGUE WORKERS.\n\nYesterday morning the members of the Garrison who assisted in the work of combatting the recent plague were paraded on the Cricket Ground for the purpose of receiving from H.E. the Governor a public expression of the thanks of the community for their gallant services.\n\nPromptly at half-past ten the men of the Shropshire Light Infantry, the Royal Engineers, the Medical Service Corps, and the Royal Artillery who took part in the plague work assembled on the Parade Ground, and having been formed into six companies, marched down to the Cricket Ground, headed by the Band of the Regiment. Forming into double line at 10.45 they stretched across the Cricket Ground, facing the pavilion, with the Band in the rear. There was a large attendance of the public to witness the ceremony, and the occasion was graced by the presence of a number of ladies.\n\nAt a quarter to eleven H.E. the Governor and H.E. Major-General Digby Barker and their staffs arrived and were received with the usual salute, after which they marched across the field and passed slowly in review the entire front line and returned between the front and rear ranks. At 11.10 the members of the Legislative Council arrived and joined the Governor's party in front of the pavilion. Commodore Boyes was also present. His Honour Mr. E. J. Ackroyd, Acting Chief Justice, the Chairman of the Committee appointed to decide on the form the public recognition of the plague workers' services should take, represented that body.\n\nThe troops having been formed into three sides of a square, the Acting Chief Justice explained the purpose of the gathering and H.E. the Governor addressed the men.\n\nThe ACTING CHIEF JUSTICE (Mr. ACKROYD) said—Your Excellency, our presence here to-day is one of the results of the public meeting held in the City Hall, under your Excellency's presidency, in September last. At that meeting it was resolved that the services rendered to the colony during the plague epidemic which raged here a few months ago were worthy of public recognition, and a large and influential Committee was appointed to carry out the wishes of the meeting.\n\nThat Committee having carefully considered the great assistance which the colony had received in its time of distress from the military were desirous that each of the officers and men who had been engaged in plague work should receive some mark of the Colony's recognition and appreciation of their services and that a record of the same should remain in the Regiment and at the Hongkong Mess of the R.E.\n\nThey therefore decided to award certain medals and pieces of plate, which I need not detail as your Excellency has a full list of them. The Committee very much regret that it has been impossible to get these medals struck here or to procure at once suitable pieces of plate, but all the necessary orders have been given and we hope to be in possession of these in two or three months.\n\nThe Committee also suggested that your Excellency should be asked to publicly thank the officers and men of the Shropshire Regiment and other corps for their services. As I have already said, we regret very much that we are unable to present the medals and pieces of plate to-day; their absence naturally deprives this ceremony of something of its interest and importance.\n\nIt therefore only remains to me as Chairman of the Committee to thank Your Excellency for your kindness in accepting our suggestion, and attending here to-day, and to ask your Excellency on behalf of the community of Hongkong to convey to the officers and non-commissioned officers, and men of the garrison who volunteered and took part in the plague work the hearty thanks of the community for their devoted and valuable services, to express our sincere and best wishes for their prosperity, and assure them that we shall follow with the liveliest and most grateful interest their future career and welfare.\n\nHis Excellency said—Gentlemen, non-commissioned officers and men, I have been asked to thank you publicly on behalf of the community for the valuable services which you rendered to the Colony during the plague. I do so with great deal of pleasure. Your conduct during that trying period was courageous, charitable and even noble. It properly elicited from the Government and from the community of Hongkong feelings of admiration and gratitude.\n\nYou may depend upon it that the residents of Hongkong will never forget the gallant Shropshire Boys and their comrades in arms who came to their aid so nobly at that critical time. (Applause). It is their wish that you should not forget them, and therefore they desire to make some suitable acknowledgment of your services.\n\nI will now read to you a list of the presentations that will be made: In memory of your gallant Captain Vasey, who laid down his life for others, it is intended to erect a tablet or window in St. John's Cathedral and a gold medal will also be sent to his sorrowing mother. (Applause).\n\nTo your gallant Colonel, Colonel Robinson, a piece of plate will be presented. (Applause). Another piece of plate will be presented to the Officers' mess. Gold medals will be presented to the following officers—Major W. Maclaughlin, Captains G. U. L. Buchanan, H. B. Walman, and E. Howell, Lieuts. R. A. Jordan, J. A. Strick, and E. B. Luard, and Second Lieut. W. J. Robinson. All these officers were at work from the beginning of the epidemic.\n\nGold medals will also be given to Major A. F. A. Lyle, Capt. J. G. Forbes, Lieut. J. C. Wilson, and Second-Lieut. R. T. Carreg, of the Shropshire Light Infantry. To your Sergeants' mess it is intended to present a silver shield. To the Companies will be presented a cup for competition at football, and to each of you men will be given a silver medal.\n\nThe community has also subscribed for a piece of plate for the R.E. Mess, and a separate piece will be given to that gallant Royal Engineer, Lieut. Boys. (Applause). The piece of plate to the mess will bear the names of Capt. W. R. Stewart, Lieut. P. B. Molesworth, Lieut. R. H. H. Boys, and Lieut. Kelsall.\n\nI regret that these pieces of plate and medals are not completed, but I shall have much pleasure in forwarding them to you in a few weeks' time. As I have already said, they are presented to you by a grateful community. In the name of the people of Hongkong I thank you again for your courageous services.\n\nWe are sorry to part with those who are shortly going to leave us, and we wish you health, happiness, and good fortune in India or in any other station to which you may be sent. (Loud applause).\n\nColonel ROBINSON—Your Excellency, on behalf of all the officers, non-commissioned officers, and men, present and sick, I thank you for the very kind words you have used. When we were asked to help the Colony and the men were informed that their services might be required, there was not a single man in this Garrison who would not have stepped forward to give his assistance.\n\nWhen I called for volunteers from my own regiment, there were so many that I had not to touch a single man in garrison or regimental employ; and when cases of plague occurred among the workers this did not deter the men, who came forward as readily as ever.\n\nI thank Your Excellency for your kind words and for your kindness in coming here and the community for granting these medals, which, I am sure, will be highly valued by every man in my regiment.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-264 - Governor Sir Robinson & Public Offices - 1894 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 355637, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-264 - Governor Sir Robinson & Public Offices - 1894 [9-12]", "page_number": 623, "title": "CO129-264 - Governor Sir Robinson & Public Offices - 1894 [9-12]", "content_text": "14468\n\nIn any further communication on this subject, please quote\n\nM 607%\n\nand address letter to\n\nThe Secretary,\n\nAdmiralty, Whitehall,\n\nLondon, S.W.\n\n \n\nC. O.\n\n14468\n\nRECEIVED\n\nREC 18 AUG 14\n\nAdmiralty,\n\n14th August\n\n1894.\n\n0.7545 August 1894\n\n618\n\nI am commanded by My Lords Commissioners of the\n\nAdmiralty to request\n\nyou will inform\n\nThe Secretary of State that the Commander-in-Chief\n\nof\n\nthe China\n\nStation, in a letter dated 8th ultimo,\n\nNo 287, from Japan,\n\nhas reported that\n\nThe Plague at Hong Kong\n\nhas shown\n\nlittle reduction in virulence\n\nand that Commodore Bayes,\n\nwhile doing everything in his power to assist the Colony, is taking\n\nall requisite precautions to prevent the spread\n\nof the pest to the Service afloat, in which he has been hitherto successful.\n\nI am,\n\nYour obedient Servant,\n\nR. D. Brday.\n\nColonial Office.\n\nNo. 3.\n\n82915\n\n~16.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-264 - Governor Sir Robinson & Public Offices - 1894 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 356570, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-266 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1895 [1-3]", "page_number": 101, "title": "CO129-266 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1895 [1-3]", "content_text": "C.0.98\n\nSub-enclosure 2 2519!\n\nREC REC 03 95\n\n**Commodore Boyes to A. E. the Governor**\n\n26th December, 1894.\n\nSir,\n\nOn behalf of the members of the HongKong Golf Club I have the honour to submit their request to be allowed to build a Club House at the Happy Valley on or adjacent to the site now occupied by the present Matshed, the use of the ground being granted at a nominal rent.\n\nThe desirability of having a suitable club house is a want that has now become apparent - Golf having become a permanent addition to the recreation of the European Community, and I therefore hope that Your Excellency...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-266 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1895 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 360672, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-272 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1896 [5-9]", "page_number": 163, "title": "CO129-272 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1896 [5-9]", "content_text": "## Unveiling Ceremony of Queen Victoria's Statue\n\nThe City Hall, and other buildings on the Praya were crowded with spectators, while great masses of spectators were seen outside the enclosure right back to Queen's Road. It is computed that fully fifteen thousand spectators witnessed the unveiling ceremony. The military, to the number of considerably over two thousand, were placed in position to receive His Excellency, the colours of the Hong Kong Regiment being placed at the entrance to the passage down the ranks at Wardley Street.\n\nAs far as the contour of the ground would allow, the troops were drawn up in line formation (open order), commencing on the right with the Royal Navy; then followed the Royal Marines, Royal Artillery, Hong Kong Artillery (Asiatic Companies), Royal Engineers, including Chinese Company, Hong Kong Regiment, and the Rifle Brigade. The Field Battery of the Hong Kong Volunteer Corps and a Battery of Asiatic Artillery were accommodated on the Cricket Ground, and the Hong Kong Maxim Gun Company and the Maxim guns of the Rifle Brigade and the Hong Kong Regiment were drawn up near the Praya Reclamation Office.\n\nRepresentatives from every Regiment in the Colony were arranged with very pretty effect at the base of the statue.\n\nA few minutes before 6.30 the blast of a bugle announced the arrival of H.E. the Governor. The Governor, accompanied by Captain Sterling, A.D.C., and his native Aide-de-camp,—preceded by Captain A.P. Weiman, A.S.C., who acted as orderly officer—walked through the ranks, the whole of the troops shouldering arms. The troops were in command of Colonel Anstey, Commanding Royal Engineers, in the absence of Major-General Black. When His Excellency reached the Grand Stand, the Royal Standard was unfurled on the flag post at the Grand Stand. His Excellency was received by the Hon. C.P. Chater, as Chairman of the Jubilee Committee, and was escorted to the platform in front of the statue by the Hon. J.H. Stewart Lockhart, Colonial Secretary (Hon. Secretary to the Committee), Hon. Dr. Ho Kai, Hoa, T.H. Whitehead, Hon. E.R. Belilios, Commodore Boyes, R.N., Mr. F.R. Waymouth, R.N., Mr. T. Jackson, Mr. A.P. MacEwen, Mr. J.J. Francis, Q.C., Mr. H.N. Mody, &c., &c. Upon arrival at the platform, Mr. Chater called upon His Excellency to unveil the statue, the spectators on the Grand Stand standing with uncovered heads whilst the speeches, unfortunately inaudible beyond a small circle, were being delivered.\n\nThe Hon. C.P. Chater said: Your Excellency: As Chairman of the Jubilee Committee, and on behalf of the Community of the Colony, I have the great honour of asking you to meet us to-day for the purpose of unveiling the Statue of Her Majesty Queen Victoria. I need not enlarge upon the interest, the fervent and loyal interest, which the residents of this Island take in this ceremonial. I need not state that we are met together to discharge a most unusual and exceptional function. I need hardly remind you, sir, that the event which has given birth to these proceedings is one which, only a few years ago, stirred to the depths the hearts of the British race in every quarter of the world, for was not that great the Jubilee of Our Most Gracious Sovereign? If any proof were needed of the feeling which dominates us at this moment, I would ask you to look at this concourse of Her Majesty's subjects, gathered here to offer their loyal and respectful homage to the Throne. I would ask you to look at the Representatives of the other Powers, who, with fellow-subjects of theirs, who are resident here, have come to do honour to this auspicious event.\n\nYour Excellency, as we all know, Her Majesty's Jubilee occurred in the year 1887, and it will perhaps be not unfitting if I mention the reason why this Statue has not been erected before. It was not because Hong Kong was one whit behind other British Colonies in wishing to prove its dutiful regard for Her who reigns over us; it was not because we did not desire to have in our midst a Memento of the Ruler to whom we owe allegiance. No, Sir. It was because we recognised that such a Statue as this should be placed in an appropriate and conspicuous spot, a spot worthy, if that could be so, by its very position to do honour to the occasion, and until this great work, this reclamation on which we are now standing, was practically finished, we had no such place to offer. Under your Government, this portion of the reclamation has now been happily accomplished, and here in this commanding position, in the best part of this City, named after our Queen, we feel that our Statue could find, in all this Island, no more ennobling site.\n\nSir, with the exception of Newfoundland, which was occupied about 1500, it was not until the early part of the 17th century that Great Britain first began to colonise in earnest. Thenceforward, however, down to the present time, Colony after Colony was acquired, changed by the test existing to-day, her earlier acquisitions were, in the nature of things, comparatively unimportant; but England's Colonies have strengthened with England's strength, and grown with her commercial prosperity and power, until, one Possession after another emerging from its incipient doubts and difficulties, they have gained their present status, and culminated in forging the magnificent chain, which, starting from the Mother Country, now girdles the earth with British soil. Of this chain Hong Kong forms one of the links, a strong and a lasting one, we may be permitted to hope, and to those assembled here, and to you, Sir, as their Governor, it cannot but be interesting to remember that, after Her Majesty's accession to the Throne, this was the first Colony that Great Britain acquired.\n\nYour Excellency, it is not possible to predict from the shadows which the future is casting before what Hong Kong will yet develop into. It is not possible to surmise with any accuracy the part which will ultimately be allotted to her to play in the international theatre of the world. These questions lie in the womb of the future, and the future alone can answer them; but that she is destined to be always an important factor in both Imperial and local concerns, I for one have no doubt whatever. Such is her natural position, lying, as she does, on the fringe of the adjacent Empire; such is her mercantile value, being, as she is, the Eastern gate through which must pass the commerce of the West, that it is hardly too much to believe that she must of necessity always constitute an element to be carefully and fully weighed.\n\nGreat and important movements have lately taken place in the Far East, possibly greater and more important changes yet are even now in contemplation which will enforce the gravest attention of Diplomacy, and Her Majesty's Government, in its decision upon those events, in its determination of the path to pursue, can hardly omit Hong Kong from its serious consideration. In saying this, I do not forget that her place in the Colonies of the Crown, if won in some part by her own vigour, is largely due to her standing in line with those other Colonies which together constitute the Brotherhood known to-day as Greater Britain.\n\nSir, in the evolution of time, generation will succeed generation in Hong Kong, new firms will arise, new projects will be formed; new personalities will seek to advance the Colony's influence and promote her enterprise, long after names, familiar enough now, have vanished into ...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-272 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1896 [5-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 454384, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6]", "page_number": 598, "title": "CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6]", "content_text": "# 30 K.W. Wireless Installation for Hongkong\n\nWith reference to the telegram dated 3rd February 1915, from the Secretary of State for the Colonies to His Excellency the Governor to the effect that a 30 K.W. Wireless Telegraph Station will be erected as soon as possible on Stonecutters Island for Naval purposes, and Commodore's instructions of the 12th instant re connecting this Station by suitable means of communication to the Commodore's Office, the following proposals are submitted:\n\n1. Two leads of pattern 841 A submarine cable will be laid between Stonecutters Island and the Mainland at Kowloon. This cable with the junction boxes at its terminal will be supplied, laid, and maintained by the Dockyard. There is a large stock of this cable available locally due to the mining reserve of which it formed part being abolished. The estimated cost of this work is Labour £40, Material £100.\n\n2. The remaining connections between the Stonecutters Wireless Telegraph Station and Commodore's Office will be best and most economically provided under the Agreement with the China and Japan Telephone and Electric Company, Limited, using their existing system. These will comprise a short land line from the telephone instrument to the submarine cable; a land line mainly underground from the Kowloon end of the submarine cable to Kowloon point; a submarine cable across the harbour to Hongkong Island, and a land line to the Commodore's Office.\n\n3. The charges for the work in paragraph 2 will be £6.0.0 (Six pounds) per annum for the instrument and lines at Kowloon and Stonecutters, and £45.0.0 (Forty-five pounds) per annum for the direct line reserved exclusively for Admiralty use between Kowloon and the Commodore's office. These prices are in accordance with the Telephone Agreement and 75% of the cost of similar services.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 492975, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-476 - Acting Governor Claud Severn & Governor Sir Stubbs - 1922 [8-12]", "page_number": 328, "title": "CO129-476 - Acting Governor Claud Severn & Governor Sir Stubbs - 1922 [8-12]", "content_text": "THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.\n\nHIGH CLASS ENGLISH and AMERICAN CONFECTIONERY including Chocolates, Caramels, Almonds, Bonbons, Nougat Peppermint lumps.\n\nElegant Boxes, Rush Hampers & Gilt Baskets.\n\nA.S. WATSON & CO., Ltd.\n\nTHE HONGKONG DISPENSARY.\n\nPhone Central No. 16.\n\nEstablished 81 Years.\n\nJust you and a Victrola\n\nWhen you are all by yourself, with no place in particular to go and nothing in particular to do, what a joy it is to get into your big arm chair and let the world's greatest artists entertain you on the Victrola!\n\nWith a Victrola and Victor Records in your home you have always at your beck and call the music you enjoy best.\n\n'Come in and let us show you the Victrola you would like for your home. S. M. OUTKIE & CO., LTD.\n\nSole Distributors.\n\n\"HIS MASTER'S VOICE\"\n\nNEW SEASON'S FRUITS.\n\nDel Monte, White Cherries $12, Black Cherries $11, Loganberries $11, Strawberries $13, Apricots, No. 1, $71, White Cherries No. 1 $11, Pineapple, No. 2... $37, Chivers Black Currants $11, Southwell's Rhubarb $11, Del Monte Asparagus $13, S. & W. Asparagus Tips $11, Del Monte Brussel Sprouts $90, Spinach.. $60, Royal Taste Artichokes............ $1.00 per tin, $1.05 per bottle, $0.80 per tin, $0.50, $0.55, $0.50, $0.75\n\nLANE, CRAWFORD, LTD.\n\nSODA FOUNTAIN AT CAFE WISEMAN. SUNDAES, PUNCHES ICE CREAM SODAS ALL FLAVOURS.\n\nBEST SERVICE, HIGH QUALITY, LOW PRICES.\n\nLANE, CRAWFORD, LTD.\n\nYALE\n\nA great benefit conferred upon a key-carrying race when Linus Yale, Jr., discovered that in order to have a strong lock it wasn't necessary to carry a big key,\n\nThe Telegraph.\n\nHONGKONG, 30th Sept., 1922.\n\nROADS IN CHINA.\n\nSATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 30.\n\nDAY BY DAY.\n\nTHE LINE OF LEAST RESISTANCE LEADS DOWNWARD AND THE LINE OF MOST PERSISTENCE LEADS UPWARD.\n\n1922.\n\nBetween Ourselves By Robt. MacWhirter.\n\nIf a body were to judge correct bouquet, tells them what fine fellows they are, and what a fine thing freedom is, especially for Queen's College aquatic sports being held in the V.R.C. bath on Friday next. Mrs. Severn is to distribute the prizes.\n\nAn occasional visit to a writer in the Bystander. Mr. M. E. F. Airey has been appointed to the St. John's Cathedral Church Body in place of Commodore Bowden-Smith.\n\nThe Canton teachers are not satisfied with the offers made to them by the authorities and threaten to strike on October 1st.\n\nA matshed occupied by quarrymen at Futaufat village, Shaukiwan, caught fire from an unknown cause yesterday and was burnt down. The loss of property belonging to the ten men who lived in the structure is valued at $100.\n\nA Chinese was taken to the Government Civil Hospital yesterday suffering from the effects of being knocked down by a motor car at the junction of Pokfulum and Queen's Road West.\n\nA Ricketty Entente.\n\nSo long as the nations of Europe have known the futility and ruin of war; they decided to try peace. They discuss; they agree; then up goes the ballyhoo and the war game starts again.\n\nChan's Apologia.\n\nGeneral Chan King-ming's apologia, a summary of which we published yesterday, is such a document as we would expect from such a man, who, we are convinced, has acted during the recent troubles in Canton with moderation.\n\nHis Excellency the Officer Administering the Government has been pleased to learn that Mr. Mishel Piastro, the Russian violinist who will be remembered by his former visits here in 1915 and 1918, is again with us for a few days.\n\nThe Yearly Invasion.\n\nWhat of the League of Nations? What of disarmament? What of the limitation of armament? I ask you. For what? To help the Greeks who dissolved a democratic government under President Venizelos and called the autocratic Constantine from exile to rule them? Or to punish the Turk?\n\nA coolie was knocked down at the junction of Pokfulum and Queen's Road West by a motor car yesterday and had to be removed to the Government Civil Hospital.\n\nThe Bar Island Light has been re-exhibited since 23rd September.\n\nLieut. Col. A. Delacombe, D.S.O., having departed for the United Kingdom on 27th instant, is struck off the strength of the Command accordingly.\n\nThe Uncertificated.\n\nHow naive is the thing which was shown recently by the London County Council when it decided that a hundred unqualified girls should be drafted into the infant departments of the London Schools, this being considered the easiest branch of education.\n\nDefinite Aims.\n\nIt is clear from the concluding part of General Chan's manifesto that he has very definite aims in view for the future.\n\nA theft occurred aboard the s.s. Ducas yesterday, the cabin window of the chief engineer being entered, money and jewellery of the total value of $503 being stolen from a drawer which was broken open.\n\nCaptain Paulen Ducas, of the steamer Ducas, was similarly victimised, a sum of $130 being stolen in his case.\n\nMusic-lovers in Hongkong will be pleased to learn that Mr. Mishel Piastro, the Russian violinist, is passing through the Colony on his way to America, where he has had a successful stay of several years, giving concerts in all the principal cities and earning appreciation.\n\nMr. Piastro has been persuaded to give a recital in the City Hall on Wednesday afternoon next, when he will be assisted by Mr. Harry Ore.auctioning\n\nThe Macao Affair.\n\nMainly Historical.\n\nWork done in the infants department is the foundation of educational work in the senior departments. To trust that foundation to unskilled and unqualified persons is to endanger the whole super-structure and is false economy.\n\nI've often wondered if a branch of our National Union of Teachers out here wouldna' do a lot o' good in the matter of our children's education.\n\nUnhappily, a change for the worse has to be recorded. Dr. Wang was called away from Shanghai in connection with the retrocession of Tsingtao.\n\nIt is inferred from the Foreign Commissioner's letter that the terms proposed by Canton are stringent.\n\nNow it is stated by that journal that the acerbity engendered by the deplorable disturbances has had time to modify itself, a settlement ought to be practicable.\n\nMeantime we await with interest an official statement of the conditions.\n\nContinued on Page 7\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/CO129-476 - Acting Governor Claud Severn & Governor Sir Stubbs - 1922 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 } ]